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Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-11-24
MECHANICAL

Having established en- ofice at the clayton House
wi mngtcn- We would cordially invite patienis sat.
ferng from any form Of Chronie Dsease TO ca sna
success which has ani oFny followed This method
OF operating upon patients, We can sn9rd relief n
any CASE and cure the majority OF thOse that have
been given over Is beyond the reach OF medical AID
RHKuMATIsN, PARALYSIS NRuRALGIA, TIC
DOLORRA0X. EPILEPSY NESS
ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS,
Are among the diseases that can be successfully
rsstsd s.sss St ne Arms Tr ana ana %ss weak
yield readily 10 the method: shou2 generally re-
Earded in 'uIabe by the advocates Of the old ays-
IN proof Of the sncacy of treatment By the
''RquAliSer,"
LET FACTS SPEAK.
We are prepared TO furnish test mo ias from =
numher Of the citizens of Wilmington Fl Gu es eff
fected through our treatment, one OF which follows,
and many otherl which because OF the desire ex-
pressed BY PATIENTS, are not published bat can BE-
sianI practitioner but " establish permanent le-
gttimate business, and should be pleased 70 have
which is mechanical and something new 10 science
= medicine, or send stao for circular 10 Dr.
FrADtH, Clayton House, Wilmington, Del
FzsuhoNIAL
wilmington, Del, September s lsTs : had
Suffered for Eve weeks wit9 vsry severe attack Of
sciatic Rhsumati,m. the result of cold. For sew.
era. weeks vas en- ely helpless. consulted ply
o. aipe,en ar, & ~ me M loine NiIn0n.
not BE cured. HesrinR Of the qualizar used by DR..
frantA a. the Cayt1 House, cOncllftd to cousalt
bin. On crutehea, l msnsged, with considerable
dfculty to reach HE once where n my surprise,
After enc single trcafm MT, shu udered my cru eh-
e, and without any assistance walked home. After
the third treatment al within one week. l resumed
bnHinesA J. COLEMAN BASSAR,
No. 1915 Wes, ThiId slrseL
ASorHsR TEfTIHoEIAL
wilmington Del October 20, 1873 - was tAfen
several weeks aso with very severe attack OF
RAsumafisH4, the pain nom which was ex ruciA-
ung taAt fer three days and nights ecu not sleep.
At the recommendation OF N attending physcia
sent for tho fqIllLz Y. used by ur FrAItx, At the
Clayton House, aud am happ, TO say that expert
enced Immediate relief with the nrst treatment and
MS N. A CORsOS,
ostsn eodAw t99 Market Street
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-11-24
New York,

TWEED EsoroHr INTO oorRr FOB SENTENCE
NV YJHk, Nov p.
Tweed Was brought into Court this morning
for sentence. attracting Immense eroEis.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-11-24
KILkESGT0R. DKL.
Monday Afternoon. Nov. "a.
THE WHIPPING Posr ron cH1DBEN.


Even poisons have their uses for good, and
the system Of whipping, bad IS it is, may have
an atom Of value in it. We have recently con-
graduated the public on this fact But we can
not too strongly condemn that use which is made
OF the lash when it is applied to children. Two
boys, of only twelve or thirteen years, were
whipped on Saturday, for theft-two children
who had probably never hsd a moral training
which would restrain them from wrong doing, and
who were therefore neither justly responsible
for the full measure Of their offence, nor
it subjects for our extreme and degrading meth
oil of punishment There ought to be . House
OF Detention and Correction, for juvenile offsn.
dsrs, in this county. That children should be
placed amongst mature and hardened criminals
is wicked thing, for which Society itself de-
serves to be punished-and, in the just provi-
dence which overrules rs. doubtless is.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-11-24
Pratt's Astral OH.


srs sad o1Hnry store Ge- pes s. E1o.esle rates, N
AID gam cans o. ~ lie 1a-re- oy
{. FOSTER
Waoesale Agent for De.sEare
frol; AID v ~ streets. vi, e.
,7JENITI 8S At TOCR Own PRICES
I GOCLJ ! co, SCI tie Cheapest Furniture.
s-yl ID 20. sSl tas Best Furniture.
lol D g, ss-4 tss s--u1Eest Furniture.
col - 60 So. TIE aznds0nesi F1rEi:1re
COL - 20 hsve TIE 4ATsesi stock
ct ID o. have Al KINDS 81 F1rp.Ture,
ssul ID a Gu have he newest PEfsegLE.
Got - GJ. oaef BAfgA-nt.
III ID 4 CO. 51y al1 - l1s Ssh
irol ID ~. ASzys g.Ts Satisfaction.
gTJl D o. lave sr=st E1S a-izges IN NAuufA .
g1rrg.
GOuLD cos Furniture ls Ise most e!exanL
t1,'l - Y a.. 1sVs Pll-e AI-rndELA
GtL ID y Rave Er..-.- l--l >.l-aa,
eSl - Z O.. Lave t5zf s.--.S
GOULD %,
y. ; Cor. NINTH Ar NAREsT, Nos 81 and 5
~ SECOND =, go HA3EEr -, kad Si7
:. SSJ1l1 Sl-eri
PHrLAsELPEIL
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-11-24

LADIES!
HAIR RRAIDs. SWITCHES. from 81 up TO SO.
C6RLS fec. q.
WARRANTED RIAL HUMAN HAIR.
OLD SWITCHES, BRAIDs. CURLS, KTe. DYRD
IN ALL CoLORs.
OLD BAIR TAkRS IN EXCHANGE,
COMBINES hADS Up IN THIS VERY BEST WAY
AT SO. An OUNCE
LOUIS BALzB
1889 cHnrEur srREET. PHILADELPHIA.
GRAY RRAIDs,
% INCHES LONG, Wight, ~ OUNCES.
s60.
Braids - inches long weight tk ouncss.... . %
bfaids - incAes long. weight. ounces. -. 400
BrAids n inches long weight 3 ounoeA..... ace
Curs from - oenb upward,
WARRANTED ALL RIAL HAIR.
OoMBINGS MADE Up AT SOC. AN OUNCE
GERMAN HAIR EMPORIUM
No. 50 n. ElGHrH STREET, corner VINE,
octSS en- PHILADELPHIA,
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-11-24
Cry 6Ouas.

IVnS NINE DAYS WONDER.
EXTRAORDINARY TlhRs
DEMAND EXTRAORDINARY SACRIFICES.
Having on Noyem ler lst marked down TO Pa &c
Phi Is oar very iarse STOCK II ladies' GndorgAr-
ments, co.'s =, Panier Blstles, Ac We yield still
tn17er 70 the sxigelties Of the tines oy the CON-
mencemeut OF
NINE DAYS sALR AT FIX 4CTLv BALI THE
PhkS kNT hEDUC aD FhICRS
Which viii iHclude TWENTY Y-SEvRN siyies Of
Goods IN our line, al OF which indispsniiole TO
ladies wa.dr'be.
Thee styles of gDcds viii he offered every day ct
each ore, az HALP PRlCk No one klnd for more
tAan one day. In ell such sales will be coz
noei 20 iUited Quantities, and 70 cAah purchasers
OF other kinds goods during that asy. This un-
precedent. series If ryan sales viii continue for
NINE DAYS, commencing November A.h, with the
following bargains Tor Desdsy only:
q Bone French Woven Corsets price 81. 90, for %
centa.
Orucked Muslin skirts $40, for a. centa
Superior Qlslty Ch mises, s5s., for - centz-
one PalCS OSLt AT EACH SNORK
HIS CHEST Ut street,
lS3 y. EIGHTH Street.
And g. \. EIGHTH st
BARGAINS fot Wednesday VII. be in Wednesdays
LedSy. HaIch IN prngress Of III nine d ,ys won.
d-i, as Se aeni 70 Ter the greaisat oArg aims ever
sesh IN his or any otAer cit.
wE. t HOPKINS.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-11-24
on tha Rraakfaat.

-7ncheon- dinner AID s-qPe- ABE, LEA PER
EslNS oraes.s r. -E= SA--5 = pelEab.e.
JOHN DUSCAS'- sOS-. New York,
ort.'s-tye1d ARrnra 'af TIE Cniis1 sistsa
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-11-24
%. carNIn's s ELIHir "a Tat.

"a recozn=rled = rzgz.ar Sed!cA przcion-r
a1d sfs-r1E c-re E1zr4-.e-1 III O.1a. Cd1Ea- b.
q ztAy Z. A.t---A htp-l- -l.ls spitIiug 6.Jld Con
mi .5o4 aud D.. p uoLAry 4 Dp.Ainis ScrUfulk
LII Pv.-s- Dysp-is-a 40 Coax D. yssL;ery, Jho.
e7s-l1JEJ1s, ac.=ES El1 g. .iEe! ard oJNe! cOH-
P.-iS h.1n-y d.seas-s snd a. Affections Of the
gllA. OtEa-s-P-rfeet-! harm sss-fres .rom Nine
Ia o. A-eUA9-4c lT9Fe tles-f.eASAnI 70 lake and
never EroEl 10 Ai--FrlCe - Fer Eoiiie. Fp4
particulars S.i1 l-e1-l6 testimony aEd ceri,1cAtss
cent q Application A1iress I. ?. HYDR CO,
- seyeL.a Avenue. Nss ! lEA
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-11-24
seidlIt1 PnMdara.

seidlitZ Powders.
We call attention 10 o1r Seldltz Powders 90 uni
Tersaliy popular everywhere. They are msde Up
tresh and pure, ever! few days and ciaim them be
e1ual 70 any IN ae market, fuzzy up TO the s;sndRr I'd
To be good they must * fresh and pure. This ts
Aur special CLAIM 10 prove which they need only 70
oe u;ed. Don't IoFEe' TIE pA,e 70 get them, 81
FUSI EA'S DRUG STORE,
Front and West sTreetA
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-11-24
sprrtal 4utttfs.
The Fountain Syringe
- Il L F-A @ TIN

Tho Fountain syringe
SELF FAC TIN
TEE ADVANTAGES OF THESE sYRlNGzs
OVER OTHERS ARE.
ist, They are SCI acting, 10 pumping beng re.
7a!r,d.
-, Tee! a;e yaye.sss and c21noi get OF: q order
50, ley -a!ect 10 All, as b! ever o'asr E,ad ca
iaagsr.Hg tie patent, especially tie veIy Sex.
~, They have spr-nk.er ay,scAea fer sEA,
shower ostH t1I lie ae4d- Cleaning wo12ts u.o-Ts
&C, 81.
tn, T = r-sEs ne vsry eesi NAsAi D1aeae, and
answer ior uAly e:ses P-4 pJszs q. lie k.ua, 1-..-
-;ls' s!rngss DO loi
CALL AND SEE TEzX, At
3. s c. sHoEmAKER's.
NAszET STREET.
:e.s.:y lSs7.Tr-I Bras.Ss.
ErEusn Mustard
Pare EEz..sh YeloE Mrstsra. gruurd o. rrstr
--'e= -sFaF.nE 1t-a-tS VI: eXt = non Yal..-s
r.. . e1; a.;'sf 5 a1lds ext s'Tswe-rry, e;c. A.
TJSIzRs DsJG STORE
stl-i = .-s. sIr7sts
R.-ni1z;oa, -.
BARRIERS, At'enuon.
EAr-'e-s ----ss Hzzps tr-s.ss sp1nEas, supertoF
=! =. - - - f-ss, ? Eaets, and 81.
;-3t1l s1et A-.T, A.Szys -resh A-a l.saly Per.
'-i-e'l- h2Es-+s se2Ese1 q : 2a-ssAls a.
ETu-t AID v g. s:re=.a
N--1--s-q1- LesSsre.
DEI-AnE-PaI4 TILNISG-oS A BA-rI-
Il AJAS H-AI-A-AD.
DaL4sARB D,TISIoy.
DErlnE Ne Tern q CouEi a. Sev caste .1u.
Ie--Es sl-1ay. SlTetl ~ tt.E .s-s .ra.1s le.
s@se1 ;.'t, .--2s - 2a1 NeS CASTS vi rua As
leave wcr7.ly-o, =, Ssw caste :, ,2.ss.s.ss ant
= " 4. y; : t.ss .ad - P n.
Leave Se= caste 20! N..l.1fi-l s.: - AID s Is
a -, - 8 3 .ai az :. \.
r : \: n. i'A-l fr'll Wilmington. .2os ?, n.
caring tie session q i2= ecu
As eAits tEs!4 fso1 Ses tss,.e = = cave ID
lsfs-' a. !. . ?. n ADD uF.-k d=-s1i 81 = p n
Ao' s-1e AsN'Ei, S1TeE.nEs ldel-.
"Irs An III wI>p TH4T BLOWS
SOBuDI GuOD.7
Etg ~ naa lsi-. beze:' ELui.--. ~. clr.s.-E1s
=! lie largasi To! import - Use >sE
lo!G Ia -ls 70 sgd taer teSy s-ryed
sos q a-.t : An1 having au-EG; leAl-
=! toar hlrcrei .o;s A; = ie over
La p-.ee 0: tDpo!tstsa- soA.
La . sEi Toys 81 EA1.ssAis
CF rs'A- eau Gel faem a.
Panic Pr.ceS s;tse
II lcskR STORE ? DE- .AW SkE No. : Z a. ST
y b Al Sc. Ipys and Nases s; .sss ihAa RrT
store Ke@fsr pad for lis II ;1.s c..y
l9Va,lH JOIN :. EUTB THAN No {
OEICE.
Sa Soold CAL espec!z -EfielEo7 . ozr rev stylf
y p!cE1res o. "GRhAAN FISIrE WA.-h - A,
al I1k are E1rFsszd II tbs o. snE olner coau-TT
-Esany Go1sSL1s o. Ehic1 are u us ciiy Nd ~
tle!r 9uA-!ty We give genera reference.
Il. ) y. GARRETT
~ AArEes Steef.
- HADDoCk,
IL Piaia snd Decorative Plaaterer
90 y EST NINTH STREsT
WuN-NSToS, Dzl-
fUJo5hiaE Promptly s.feaded 10 fesanI
Ew CANNED TOMATOES, PEACHES. corn. lob.
~ SER. spi:s-- sa.non JasI received a.
JOS. JONES
F1ih Gzrke; SrrestA,
- SPICES.-Flre P=PpeT c.nnauoa a. sa.ca cloves.
- glaseF, mustard, tog sac !ow. a. i :. Foar5h
SIeei' J. Z HOUSTON, IN.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-11-24
Inc nev Remedy for Ruo,ur

A rn1st important Invention. SD " ne Elas-tc
--ss Co., NJ g. B-os1Wsy y. 1. cry. Il retains
h--t-re a1so-lIs T.! Z ease zoi c. = or u'Sai s1d
O.! az a.. ULleS AID 111e! a.. C.rcl sancss WIZ
e1i any sXs5 p.,oL shai=yrE Auy Cass and sagu.c
a-TsF b i4ken cf dur Lg the - time requisite 70
e1ect Permanent cure. sS=ni % mall. Clr.u-Ers
free Aly DglEglsi OF F1ys-. AZ ~ o.dsF Lais neE
TTEss foE !91 E4t-Jui charge.
-v-s 49, - a,w.r
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-11-24

Poui's Cs;t.e Powder, h. Il. q. Liniment Rsoerts
sr1oEocaaou- Ch,cEen or Poultry Powder and al
SsU1.nelI PateaI Aen ines In the market for sale
a. FUSI Ek'S DRUG STORE
Front and West sireeis
Wilmington
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-11-24
Tho Beck~ith $40 Portable Sewing


OF - DAYS triA,: Rs1y s1vA1tEzes over al Sans
tS@i-u1 szaraa;-51, - 81 rs:1l1s1 seat complete
E.ia t.. dlre-LQls- B--iSil SSWlnE EStnlne
Company, 81 B:psdssy Se~ IafE
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-11-24
EnRIIsh nustard
gsroers. At-epr,o,

bAr-'e-s c--.s sz4ps, tr-s1=s spaoEas, super.or
-at s-li- 80 e---s----. pass, ? T1sTs, and a..
- s-7r-1-s q cay, {; ye-y - prizes EAr
.-'t-ls'e se- A.T, A~Eys tress A-a 1-EAly per.
.-l-s'L b2E---s sc7H-.ei a. = 2a.5sals at
FJS-Eh'S bEtG STURE
ETc-t AID u rs- s;rze.s
v N.---- E-ql- ye aEsrs.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-13
Roman London.

Eighteen feet below the level of
Cheapside lies hidden Roman London,
and deeper even than that is buried the
earlier London of those savage chariot
GERS, who, long ages ago, bravely con-
frented the .legions of Rome. In near
Iy all parts of the city there have been
discovered tesselated payements, no
man tombr, lamps, vases, sandals, keys,
ornaments, weapons, coins and statues
of the ancient Roman gods. So the
present has grown up upon the ashes OF
the past Trees that are to live long
grow slowly. Slow and stately as an
oak London grew and grew, till now
nearly 4000,000 souls represent its
leaves. Our London is very old. Cen
turies before Christ there probably
came the first few half-naked fishermen
and hunters, who reared, with flint
axes and such rude tools, some misera-
bic hutG on the rising ground that,
forming the north bank of the Thames,
stones 10 the river some sixty miles
from where il Joins the sea. According
10 some, the river spread out like vast
Ike between the Surrey and the Essex
hills in those times when the half-savage
first settlers found the low slopes of the
faturs London places of health and de,
fense, and . vast and dismal region Of d
fen swamp and forest. The heFoism and
the cruei:;es. the hopes and fears OF
those poor barbarisns, darkness never
10 be removed has hidden from Us Tor
ever. In later days, moukish historians
wbom Milton aftarFards followed,
ignored these poor early relations o.
ours. and invented, as q more fitting an
cestor Of Englishmen, Brute, a fugitive
nepbew OF Eneas Of Troy. But, stroll
IN vhers we win, the pertiuacious saw
ace. with his limbs stained blue end bis
Hirt AZ red with blood, isa ghost not
easily 70 be exercised from The banks Of
ths Thames, and in some welsh Teins
H. Blood no dogbl aoEs sl thil very day.
ne founssr Of London bad 20 historian
70 record his hopes-a place Eaere olg
s.lmou we're 70 Be found, and plenty Of
giid boars Ears 10 be met With, vas
] probably bis highest ambiton. How be
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-13

From the Jackson Whig and Tribune. May lO.l
On Sunday evening last at old Cotton
Grove. while a party Of young folks were
being taught the art Of singing IN the
church at that place, a row occurred be-
tween a party Of young men, which re-
suited in a free fight and a wedding.
The battle was between Joe Lane, Stoke
Hutohins, I'D. aud Dick Jones on one
side, and Tobe, Frank, Pleas and another
Bumpass on the other The Lane party
held the battlefield after considerable
skirmish, the Bunpass party refreshing
h0meward. After this Joe Lane, while
at the house Of Mr.. Day, was informed
By his Alliance, Miss Birdie BumpRss
that Frank and Tobe Bumpass were
srmed with shot guns and coming to kill
him. Joe veat 70 meet the belligerents,
and sure enough found Tobe armed with
a gun-whom be promptly attacked, and
we are informed, handsomely thrsshed.
This seriops state Of Affairs complicated
loe's marital hopes. There he was ar
rayed in hostility against his afhancos .
folks, Ah5 haa actually cleaned out one
Of them. But he was equal to the occa-
sion, and told Miss Birdie that she could
choose right then and there whom abe
would serve" She promptly sspoused
the cause Of her lover. went With him in
search Of q pArson, and they we're mar.
ried next day. And thrs Joe Won
battle and bride; and nov We hope ell
parties will make friends, have = big
wedding dinner, invite us 10 help eat ~
snd be &c happy as The days are long
benoeforth and forever -r
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The Facts I'm Respect 10 the Sex of
UA tAN NNa VIVA bees.

-
0Flll NN1 NHl bees. iH
1T is only within few years that the
mystery of this singular domestic econ
omy has been really solved, A clergy
man in Silesia-Dzierzon-who was en-
gagged in raising bees FIRST announced to
the world and maintained that these
bees hold relations to each other of so
peculiar a character that when first
stated by him they appeared utterly in
credible to the scientific men of our day.
Dzierzon asserted that the queen had
the power OF laying eggs which never
produce anything but males, and that in
order to produce males these eggs must
be laid without fecundation; that the
working bees were females born from
eggs which had been formulated, but
that these females did not undergo a
complete development, remained in a
kind Of imperfect condition, and could
only be raised to perfect state under
exceptional treatment by peculiar
mode of feeding to which one of them
was submitted by the working bees when
the queen had been lost or perished, and
another must be supplied He main-
tanned further that the queen was the
product of fecundated egg laid in q
special cell, undergoing directly per.
feet development, and reaching sexual
maturity, the queen alone of all the
females being capable of population.
These statements were received with
doubt and almost with derision by inyes-
tigators until another gentleman engaged
in raising bees, Baron Won Werlepsch, re-
peated the investigation Of pzierzon and
satisfied himself and others that the new
theory was entirely in accordance with
his knowledge Of the economy of the
bee. But neither of these observers had
sufficient anatomical knowledge for the
scientific training needed to treat the
subject from the view Of natural history.
Two naturalists undertook to test the
matter. Siebold, one of the ablest inves-
tigators of the time, and Lenckart,
equally competent in such researches,
ascertained by careful investigation that
the whole theory of Dzierzon was in ac-
cordance with facts. What it isin detail
| will show in my next lecture. The bee,
however, and most ofthose insects known
as Hymenoptera, are capable OF pro-
ducing fertile offspring without fecunda-
ton. But their upfecundated eggs pro-
duce invariably males, and males only.
This process has been called Arrhene-
toky. Sicbold, extending his researches
to the phyllopods, family of crustacea,
has ascertHined that the females of these
crustacea, on the contrary, produce, In
successive generations, females and
females only. To this process he has
given the name of Thelytoky. Since
wo now know how under certain condi-
tions male offspring, and under others
female offspring may be obtained, have
no doubt that in course of time the re-
production of the domesticated animals
may be so Influenced as to produce at
will one of the other sex.-Prctessor
AgassiS. ti0aI ltHt 'sJ q
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-13
The LucoN piYoree.

A Chicago correspondent Of the Gin
cinnAti Commercial says; le.r.i sni
1t was suspected here that Christine
Nilsson had varioloid or smallpox
or spotted fever in Cincinnati two years
ago. But the Maehiavellian secrecy with
which the affair was managed, prevented
the very cutest Of our newspaper people
| from ever aseertaining what was the
matter with her. In ability to mind her
own business, Lucca fully equals, if she
does not surpass, her Swedish sister. But
Nilsson was content merely TO say meth
ing if she did not want TO tell the truth.
Her faculty Of diyersion, which CON
sisted in rollicking little laugh, a
shrug ef her shoulders, and remark
upon a subject five hundred miles of,
was very charming; and one always
forgave the offense in consideration OF
the delight of its committal. But Lueca
is not thus content. Lacking Nilsson s
electric quality Of mind Lucca decries
volatility, aud off the stage plays
Gretchen all the time. One conceives
her to be most unaffected, the simplest,
the most domestic of women. She looks
the true Teutonic type of wife and
mother. She said to one Of the edi-
tors here, II care nothing about
this applause, this stage gloryl / want
my husband, my child, my home" She
assured another that so tired was she of
the hollowness Of human admiration
and the tributes of the plebs, she would
positively leave the stage in another
year. "And, she added, !" / shall never.
sing again, except for my husband" In
an autograph book she wrote: Ny
home is my heaven-Paulne Lucca I"
And all this time not one word " as
breathed concerning divorced Nobody
suspected that the husband so gene
rously lauded, so gratuitously introduced
to the visitors acquaintance, was not
the husband in esse, bnt the Major in
possel Of course it is possible that she
is not the Pauline Lucca seeking divorce
from the Baron Won Rhoden. But there
is excellent reason for believing that she
is. Of course she may be suing for d.
vorce most righteously; but why should
she have carried stage artifice so far as
to render the announcement of the fact
so revolving to those whom she choose
to use as friends2 Whether or not it is
she who is being divorced, why she is
being divorced, and sundry other chap
ters of information relative thereto, you
may expect to learn shortly after the
weeks opera season here is closed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-13

One who knows the leaders Of the
Modoc rebellion against the authority of
the national government gives some in
terestlng facts in regard to the Modoc
Indians. 1t appears very strange to us
that the authorities, military and civil,
should allow Captain Jack to play !"
them as he has all winter. Jack and his
men have lived with whites since the dis
covery of gold in lS49. They can talk
good English, yet the Peace Commits
sioners must always have interpreters,
as they insist on talking their own lam
guage when holding council Captain
Jack is about thirty five years of age and
five feet six inches in hight, and weighs
not far from one hundred and fifty-fve
pounds Is rather morose in his looks;
sometimes dresses in good clothes and
bets his money on monte like o gem
tleman." Captain Jack has now depos-
tied, unless he drew it out recently,
about eight hundred dollars in the
Yreka bank; so you see he is not the
wild, untamed savage supposed. Al
though a full hlooded Indian,
yet he has associated with white
people for a SCORE Of years, and has
got Just enough civilization mixed
with his Modoc ways to make him the
most devilish desperate Of the age. 1t
is believed that he and his followers,
about sixty, left the lava beds on the
night of the murder, and are now away
in the mountains, and may not be found
for years. 1t is characteristic of an In
dian that, if he can kill great white
chief, he is then ready to die, and meets
death iearlessly.
The lava beds are on the line of South
ern Oregon, and about thirty miles from
Yreka, California. 1t is rough spurs Of
the Cascade mountains thrown up by
volcanic force, and it is filed with caves
and canyons so that Jacks retreat was
so nearly impregnable that the eptire
force of the United States troops of over
six hundred men we're unable to dis
lodge three score Of Indians. The bar
rem rocks run up from fifty to one hun
dred and fifty feet perpendicular, and
we can best describe it by having the
reader imagine an immense city built of
blocks Of lava, with streets and alleys
filed with caverns running through in
all directions, with knobs in various
shapes. These lava beds cover a coun-
try Of fifty or sixty miles. afflIf