Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 5, 1873, Page 2

W THE CUICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1873, NEW YORK. The Greeley Will Case---Cu- rious Facts Connected With It. The Beecher-Tilton Scandal--- Edwin Booth as Brutus. DPramatic and Journalistic On-Dits. From Our Gizn Corresnondent. Nw Yous, Jan. 30, 1673, Tho legal attempt to invalidate tho last will of Horace Greeley continues to attract much at- tention, sad clict 1auch comment,—mainly be. causa nobody knowa who the'contestants are. THE GAKELEY WILL CASE. Onowonld savpase, in & case of this sort, that tho first thing to bo discovered would be the names of the persona bringing action, and their relations to the deceased. Here, howoser, & snit as been going on formore thana month; and yot the counsel for the plaintiffs keops them out of sight, and seems to represent himself alone. Ho claimod, ot first, that he eppesrod in behalf of Gabriells Greeley; but, on his making this snnouncement, she roso in Court and emphat- jcally denied it. Bince then, he has held his peace in regard to his clionts, and rofuses, at least negatively, to introdnco them to the pub- lic. Every ono of the persons intcrested in Alr. Greeley's first will has, T think, denied having any inclination or intontion to break the last ; and still the contostants’ connsel continues the suit agif he had alegion of adherents behind him. . Theevidenco of Mr. Greeley'sintimate personal friends, lately ndduced boforo tho Surrogate of Wostchester County, is conclusive that the Iamented jonrnalist hed been deranged some Eime previous to his death. It is vory clear now that his defeat had an extremoly depresaing, s well a8 distressing, influence on his mind. Ho veas entirely consciontions in tho courso he had taken, and, believing himsoll altogether in the xight, he had entire faith that tho peoplo would eustain the cause ho g0 strenuously advocated. When they failed to do 80, and eppeared to Te- buke the Tribune chief for his honest convic- 3 ; tions, he was troubled beyond measure. His eupremo sensitiveness grow morbid. Without the least rozson, ho dospaired of himself, his newspaper, and the Republic, and, though ho was often perfectly lucid ond characteristically sagacious, - ho was over return- ing tothoidea that he was ruined. Poor old man! thero is something particularly sad and touching in tho Iast dsys of hislife, when, in spito of his waning and wandering intellect, he was constantly concerned . ebout tho welfare of others, but entirely indifferent to himselr, s THE FIRST AND SECOND WILLS. L All of Mr. Greeley's intimato friends, thongh Ahey aro indignant at tho unknown partios tiy- inz'to break bis lastwill, regard his first as much more in consonance with .his feeling and charac- fer. They do not hesitate to say that Le would not have made the will of November if he had been m Lis right mind, * as - thers wes no reaton for 'his leaving his whole proparty to his " elder dsughter, in trust for his *gecond, 2nd cancelling ks bequests o charitable dnstitctions. They oven think, and upon good ounds, that the will now in dispnte was nob w0 up by him, but merely copied and signed. ith his pame. Dregent indications are, that tho 15t instrument will be set aside in favor of the first, and, perhaps, by that time, we shall know SD0en rhat nra o litigeats the sccretive Jww- yér represents. ¥ i -~ . THE TWO VANDEREILTS. 4 . The report is again revived that Cornelius Van- derbilt, unde ing that Mr. Greeley's cstate, whon elflod, would scarcoly Ioxvo Lis danghterd independent, has signified bis willingncss to Pey over _tho smount - of his _soms (Comnelivs, Jr.,) indebtedness to the founder of the Zribune. This report rests on no Basis whatever. Tho Commodore, long ago, per- emptorily rofused to discharge any of his son's ‘obligations, snd ia not the man to bs better than hisword, It ie now affirmed that the younger Venderhilt, instend of borrowing, &8 is goneraily thonght, $13,000 or £14,000 of Mr. Greeley, bor- rowed four or five ‘times that sum through a eries of years, and never returned s penny. Why tho great journalist honld have kept his purse open to this perpetusl borrower is ona of tho mysteries that will never be revealed. THE GREAT DRAMATIC ARTIST. This is the last week of Edwin Booth’s series” of representations at his own theatre. Bineothe 20th inst., ho has been personating “ Brutus” in John Howard Payns's tragedy, and_it i8 gen- Lorally concaded Lo be ons of his~ grandest parts. The play itself is & composito of seven others Zounded on the samo historic inc:donts ; and yet. 3t abounds in striking pusesges and eitustions, which Booth superbly illustrates and illuminates by tho fire of his genius. | “Payne's Brutts " wes ono of the older/Booth'a famous characters; but, a8 I remember, it was pot c4 ll equal to 'his Son's portrayal. = Edwin Booth's ** Brutus™ i tho porfection” of art, and, For that reason, appears 8o spontancous_and “patural that no one thinks of it as acting, Each #ime I sce him on the stage, he imprasses me mcre and more as tio foremoet tragedien of Lis Xime. Such chastity and finish, and yot such in- #ensity and olectric powes, ILave nover witness- ‘ed in any other person. ~Thero aro few roles more - dificult, varied, and oxacting tnsn < Bratus.” . From feigning tho fool, the surer 40 concesl bis . lofty sim, 'ho rises to the dignity of = a patriot, the glory of -a military chieftzin, and the honor of 3 Consul. Then comes the awful struggle be- tweon duty to Rome snd love for his son, than which nothing. grander-Las bgen witnessed on sny stage. 1tis 50 deeply tragical asto bo pain- lu{ o ono can behold b without foeling that thearlist suffers all that he embodice; 69 com- pleteis his mastery of art. ‘The passiors sway &nd shake him, 63 & tempest does a reed. His eye Lindles ; his veing swell; Lis heart throba ; fiis wholo being i8 nglow with his inspired gym- Polism; and, when b axclaims, at the last, with ench matehloss majesty and melancholy, * Jus- tico is_satished .and Rome s free!” end ~sinks - fo - the carth, I defy pny . eympalotic person {0 rosist the pang {he raiedian fnpars. I can well un- darstand how Edwin Beotl, after aay one of his t perforrisnces, is 5o ncarly, ezhusted that Bl eas hirdly drng himaclt to bis epurtments, T should think asingle impersonation of “Brutus™ would make him 6ld; would consoms the firc of his spitit ; wate tha fir of Lis being. Noother,| actor s Lalf o real, magnoticy sud vahomcat, reat gad 50 natural, easy, and Aniskod withal. 28 Lis roputation is fo-dey, it will Lo far greater licn the dark cartain his descznded upon the East act of tho tragedy wo call Lifo. THE HOXELESI WAN OF MOME. You 'are aware that the citizens “of Prooklrn, or rather ‘tho members of tho Faust Ciub, ere rsising money for 2 statue to Payne, to bo placed in Prospect Park. In convereetion with somo of them recently, I weos surprised to’ find that all they knew of Payno waa, that be had writton * Home; Sweet Home." They were entirely unewarc that the Irric was_composed as one of the songs for his musical drams of. * Clari ;" and that, when he wrote it in Paris, ho had not tasted food for JForty-cignt hours. They bed forgotien that ho made his first fame as an actor ab the old Park Theatre here, and won the greencst of leurcls in England, while 'stiil a youth, in the pact of “Young Norval” They reflected posterity, which ‘will remember John Howard Payuo a3 the author of “Iome, Swcet Home,” who, mever baving had o home, was “compatent to trest the thome eloquently, be- «cause it was ideal. THE NOTORIOUS BEECITR-TILTON SCANDAL = ottt okity which exists on the part of the public in xegard to matters they havo no concern in. No- ‘body seems to believe Woodhull end Claflin’s story, for thoy have long bzen luown ns the mostshamolezs of blackmailers. Butso much has been said, and so many versions have been given of the painfal affair, that Theodore Tilton has +ut last concluded, it is Eaid, to publish a full end explicit account, showing the cxsef manner in ‘which the scandal gained currency. 1t would seem #hst thore has boca 2 vust amoant of maliguant invention in the matter, and that o few eimple Zacts have been outrageorly distorted to mive color to unwarrzntable deductions, It i8 a pity that mch unscrupulons und dosigning creatures s Woodhull and Cladin should be abls to mwake +the indignation of tho virtnous, or excito the curiosity of tho vicious. But they havo cer- tainly done 50, and it may be well, therefore, that Milton’s card should ba printedin order to gllay forever thissoiled rad unwholesome ghost. A brosd 2ad self-contained mind can ecarcely - If these political el: cnn;sr_ehend why n community should be inter- estod in tho strictly privato alfairg of three or four men sand women, _whelover the state of their morals; 'and yet breadth 2nd self-containment are invariably confounded with the very opposite condition of things to that which they ara suro onght Lo exist. THE REFORTED LEASE OF BOOTH'S THEATRE. The story that Jarrett & Palmer, of Niblo' have leased Booth's Theatro, has been auth tatively denied; and yet it is reafiirmod. Tle £ole foundation secms tobe, that those mantgers have taken umbrage at A. T, Stowart, who owns their playhouse, becauso ho has advanced the rent sinco its rebuilding. They had not taken & Dew lease, preauming that it would be continued on the same terms as tho old one. They have been lookir:g out for another theatre, and have mada a lLiboral proposal to Boofh, which, however, lLe does mnot feel justified in accopting. Spectacles and ballets aro very good in their way; but the finest Shakspoarean. thea- tro in the world doos not scem to be quite tho plece for their representation. Do let us have, out of the meny, oue_classic playhouso, where we may breathe tho pure air of the drams, un- ;ex:d Dy tinsel and unawed by gyrating sasw- lust. BALMAGTNDL. It is £ald that the Tev. Moses Coit Tyler is to become thoe editor-in-chief of the Christian Union, in place of Rov. Henry Wazrd Beacher, who bias tenderd bis resignation. Tho now Tribung building, 18 it now appears to bo decided, will bo crcctad In tho -epring of 1874, ot o contemplated cost of 8500,000. Wall streat s rorely in nead of @ corner in ctocks, having nsed its Lest endeavors to that end ever sinco Chiristmes. Somo of the largost operators havo succeeded again and again in al- most establishiug & corner, when ono of tho pres arranged bricks would fall and knock down all the rest. . Two of our largest piano fifins here aro Toput~ ¢d to spend not _less than $250,000 each per an~ num in advertising and in commigsions on sales. In no banch of tride is there such active rivalry &s in pianos. 5 p A roligions (theological) morning daily, of quarto form, s talked of 28 ono of the unborn cntorprises of nevspaperdom. Tho experienca of the World should bo suflicient to diecourago such an attempt. CoLSTODN. TP AMERICAN CITIZENS. To the Eiiitor of The Chicago Tribuns : Again demagogues are trying to array the Germans sgainst 1o and ordor and the consti- tuted aunthorities, with special rcfnrnncu to our worthy Mayor, Joseph Medill, for most properly exercising, in tho prosent emergency, the pow- ers to him legally delogated. No doubt, at the bottom of all this aro the Liquor Leaguers and gamblers, united, and making common cause. Did it ever occur to these loud-mouthed bum-. mers, when bellowing for the rights and customs of tho Germans, etc., that & German, s o Ger- 1man, has no vote or voico in our afairs, and in reference to our municipal Government aod laws, cnly American cilizens,~1 use the torm in its fullest sense,—bave tho rights pertaining to tho shaping, amonding, or ropealing tho same? ters insist upon the con- ceived rights of their constituents as Germans, then they must petition to tho Lmperds of Ger- many, in Germany, as subjects thoreof the; belong,—not to our body politie. If tiis class of people call themsclves American citizons, -and ere such in faet, theu ihey must be bound by tho laws and customs that be, until legelly changed. Tell them that beforo the lew we know no Germans in_this couniry. Hero we are all American cif govorned by American laws and castoms; (ho subjects of either Gennany, or any other coun- tr¥; wo do mot recogniza as having & right to in- terfere in our laws or customs. ith Amerlea: i ns of foreign birth, it i3 olherwisa. Thel rights and privileges aro tho same as tho na- tives, bul not any more. But they must prosent themselves a8 Awnerican citizeus, end not in tho name of the nationality to which they once bao- longed, and which they have foresworn, for thera. is still cnough American pride left to pre- Sent .iho customs, . laws, and ueages of other nationalitics’ from being forced upon us by o emall minority, undor tho threat of. withdrawing their voting capital from the party or persons who will not aceede to their: demands. And it is time that ths dangerous aud pernicious practico of pandering fo tho projudices or desires of the foroign, and espe- cially German elemont, in order to control their votes, ceased. It is hizh time that every official 2nd good citizen felt fhis, and scted accordingly, and thereby nullify ths rmount of votiug capital demngogues and German news- per controllers possess of tho so-called ¢lement. Becauso Germany haa certain usages or customs is no reason why Americans and others must accept them. Neither is it true that’ in Germany beer or other saloons aro apea on Sunday. It is false, and every German knows that in all parts of Germapy, during the timo of Divine service on Sundey, ail galoons and beer-honses are by law prolubited from being open, and are closed ; and in Boms parts only era open’ Sundiy afternoons, and yet thoy—tho Liquor Leaguers—havo tho audacity to insist that in America_(against the wishos of tho ma- jority, for they dare not._allow the question to coms to a popular vote), they ehall havo tho wholo Sunday, becauso whora they come from they aro allowed balf tho Sunday in which to get ; and this they ask a3 Germans. Well g Germans, we must refer them to Emperor Will- iom. If they ask as Americen citizens, we rofer them to American laws, which all Ameriean citi- zons must obey, and the law says szloons znd tippling-louses must bo closed on_ Sunday. TEcre aro_tbousands of Amarican citizens of Germen birth in sympathy with Mayor Medill, end 1 sm o of them, tho mouthings of cortain German demogogues Lo the contrary notwith- standing. Ay A, P.8.—Next fall the onc-fifth German vote, of which Tesing can at least got a8 many es ho got a8 caudidete for Lienienant Govoruor (seven), can on fheir minovity principle clect him hlayor. This is tho way for them to intro- duco reforms, CARD FROM@ F. R RUTLER. To t!.c Editor of The Ci : Sta: Aliow me, through tke columns of Trz Turmox, to defend my reputation agsinst the reports which appeared in this morning's issuo of "Tuz. Cirtcaao Tripuxs and Times, in reiation to the part I took at tho Burlington Hull meet-| ing last evening. In ths short address which I mads before the meeting, I dase any citizen to assort truly that I expreased oo word derogatory to tho clisracter of auy American citizen, claim- ing, ey I do, o respect for law and order., I traly claim thoso prorogatives which beloag to every citizen—the right to oxpress bis honest convictions ; that righe I claim, and that- right I chcerfully nccord o overy man, who Dolioves as I do fu tho principles establishod by. the Sege of Monlicallo. I have lived in this country for twenty-two yosre, during which period T havo endcavored to enhonce Lhe crodit of my 2dopted country Ly sustaining the Govern- ment in every emergoucy where tho fealty of her subjects was necessary. Respectfully, F. R. Burice, Lete Commander Co.B, Second Massaschu- sctin Cavalry, U. S. 2 Cu1CAGo, Feb, 4, 1873 A Swindling Clergymsn, From the Loston Juurnal. “Rev." John Hutchingon, who was mentioned incur Saturday’s despatches as having beon arrested in Now York on s chiarge of swindling, bas led a curious carcer. In IS71 he was on- guged to supply the pulpit of St. James Episco- pal Church In this eity, for the winter. Inciden- tally ho mentioned to s lady in the parish tho unfortunate condition of his quondam parish- ioners in Riverjohn, N. 8., who Lo said wero greatly imposed upon by provision deslers; and added that ho had helped them by buying pro- dnce forthem. Flo was confident ho had peculiar faculty for this busincss, andif backed by some* capitalist, was sure ho could make money. Iis shure of tho profits would accrue to his parish. The lady in question intrcduced him to Ir. Allon, at ono time » dealer in_produse, end at present sexton in St. Paal's Church. Hutchin- son told plausible storics of - success in similar ventares, aud referrod Mr. Allen to several well- knovn gentlemen in this city. After making inquiries of theso parties Mr. Allea enberked in the cnterprise, mortzaging a house which ho owned in ordor to procuro 31,200 whiclt, sum hie in- trusted to dutchinson. Hutchinson then depart- odfor Nova Scotia, and nothing was heard from him for a long_time, until at lengtha small in- Ficnlarly bad turkess was received 2 on concluded that he knew ess. He thercfore wrote that , snd received a cordial invi- tationto do g0, Atrivingat Picton, N. 8., March 11, 1§72, he found that Hutchinson bad disp- ehred, leaving beaind him a large number of snbt!, pmong them $50 due for.the wretched turkeys he had shipped to Boston. - Hutchinson afterards wont to Now York, Philadelphis, and Swodeborough, N. J., ead was arrested by & de- tective ot the latter piaco, st thoclose of church servico Fridsy. P, THE MELLIER PAPER PATENT. It3 Extension---Scope of the Patent, and Suits Under It How Its True Character Has Been Concealed. Proposed Amendment of the Pat- ent Laws. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Stm: Refe:ring to your recent articlo on the wood-papor patent-oxtension, I beg leava to offer a fow remarks on tho subjoct, with whick I Liappen to be intimately acquainted. ‘Tho Mollier patent for o cortain process for the manufecture of white pzper from straw was granted by the United States to M. A. C. Mellier, May 26, 1857, for fourteon yoars fromi the 7th of August, 1354, tho dato of his French patent for the same invention. Ho alto obiained o similar patent in England. THE EXTENSION. An extension of the patent was applicd for just beforo it expired, and tho Acting Commis- sioner granted the application ; but it has been held by Juldgoe Woodruff, Judgo of tho Cir- cuit Court of the United States for the Southern Districc of New York, that tho exiension was invalid, becsuse the order for tho extension was not duly mado before the patent had expired. No eppeal has yet been takon against that decision, nor has any application yet been mado to Congress toremedy the defect ; but such application will doubtless ‘e mado if the Supreme Court skell, on eppeal, sustain the decision of the Court below. Intho meantime, tho case is kept in donbt and uncer- tainty. ‘The proposcd act to which your article rofers does not appeer to be applicablo to this case. Tt suits tho purposo of tho patentees to keep up show of claim on their patent, s most people will submit and pay them s royaliy rether then bo dragged into a Yrigation lasting just so long as the plaintiffs choss, No importance has oyer been attached in England or France to the elleged inyention of Mellier. It Las never been racognized in eitlier of thess conniriax as Laving sy merits whatover. TIE WATT & BURGESS PATEST: The American Wood-Paper Company, the cwn- ors of theso patents, purchased the Mollier pat- ent gomo yours ago, but that Compzny held it to bo of gecondary importanco, and as entirely sub- ordinato to tho patenis granted by the United States, on July 18, 1854, to Messrs. Watt & Bur- gess, of England, for making paper pulp from wood and other fibrous vegetablo substances. "Thoso gentlomon &lso obtained patents in Eng~ iand and France, similar to their American pat~ ent, but have failed to obtain any racoguition of thelr merits in those countries, up to tho pros- cut timo. THE REISSAC SYSTE. . Dy virtuo, howover, of the Reissac system in this country, they, by repeated amendments of their Americen patent, finally gob it into such & shape 23 to claim o monopoly of the process of ‘making paper pulp by boiling fibrous vegetzbl substances in caustio alkoli, under a pressure of steem at near or above 300 degrees Fehrenheit, —sucl process consisling of & singlo chomical stage. Dy this mancuvering, thoy appropriated. znd edopted the more recent discoveries and in- ventions of othors, which, under the Teissuo deception, were mado io appear as their own in: vention, and 28 of tho date of the origiaal patent. As 1o such trick could bo played by them in Englaud or France, they never got & poany for thoir patents there, buk theso patents heve long &ince boon consigned to oblivion, 3 ECOPE OF THE MELLIER PATENT. Tho Mollicr pateus 15 elso for single-stago chemical process’ for meking papor-pulp from siraw by Lolling It in caustio-alkell of & cortain swangth (between 2 and 8 degrees Resumor) under s joam prossuro of mot loss than 70 pounds to the squero inch. & SUIT8 OX THE MELLIER PATENT. Notwithsiending the fact that the Mellier 22d Watt & Burgess patents conflict with each other, the American Wood-Paper Company, couple them togother in the: ssme euit, and, failing on their principal ground, tho wood-pulp patcate, they fall beck on tho Mellier patent. Thoy brought asuit in tho Circuit Coart of the District of Pennsylyania against Heft and others, which was decided by Judgo Grior, of the Supremo Court of tho United States, and Judge Cedwal- Iader, District Julge. Thoso Judges agroed that fho Watr & Burgess patents wero utterly. ¥oid, (Lo reissued patentsnop being for tho eama invention s tho original palent,” Judga Grier held that the Jellier patent also ‘was void for want of novelty and merit, The bill was there- foro dismissed. _ A moot case was then devieed, and the boforo- mentioned cazo was_appealed to the Supremo Court of the United Statos, but the appeal was dismiescd, o3 it was shown to the Court by Benjamin F. Butler that tho dofondants had becomo joinily interested with tho plaintiffs in tho patent, tho subjcet of the suit, sud that the further prosecution of the, caso was mainly for’ tho purpose of gelting up & sham fight in Court. Anothier suit 15 now ponding on sppeal in the Supreme Court of tho United Btates: The Amezrican Wood-Paper Company vs. The Fibre- Disintegrating Company,—thio rccord in which caso containg_ovidence showing that, after the introdnction into this country of tho closed revolving pulpiog. boilor .called the Spoford boiler, paiented by Spofford in this country in 1310, it was the common practico here to raduce verious refractory vogetablo fibrous substances— sucl 23 cotton-ecoda, rope, ctc.,—to papor-pulp by boiling them in thoso .boilers withi cautic al- kali, using n stcam pressura of 60 pounds and upwards. - Toiseloo proved in that ccso that very find white paper Lad bosn mado in tho yoar 1845 (about), from straw, by Lemucl Wright, an American, at bis papor-mill in Chaltard, Glou- costersire, Englaad. Tuis paper wes oxhibitod st (1o London Exhibition in tho yoar 1851, and & prizo was ewarded forit. It was very Strpg paper, ead beautifolly whito, snd made wiolly fromstraw. Woghttook out patents in tho United Stafes snd Lngland for his process. At the date of the Mellier patont, thoro was absolutely no noveliy whatover in the procoss of boiling stras in a close boiler with caustic allali, under’ high stesm pressire. Nor does tho petent allege or claim that there was any novel- 1y in thet. ” Tho sllegad: novelty conaistod, firat, in tho uze of & paculiar form of boiler (which i not usedatiall); ead, second, in tho use of & pro- cess of bolling glra¥ in czustic alkali under s etoam pregsura of £ot lesa than 79 pounds to tho incy, in n eolution of caugtic alke spoaifiod-strergth. 3 . The counscl for tho Wood-Peper Company took tho groand that it was tnew thing fo uso oaly o single-§lage chemical procoss; that tho uso of steum pressuro below 70 pounds was an infringoment; and that it did ot signify what the strength of tha chemical solution miglt be 5 algo, that tho vord “straw” included all brous Vegeteblo substences. 1lenco, thoy, and the experts called in Lehnlt* of th:o plaintifls, inslsted that Wright's process, which w25 prior to Mollier's, didnot invalidate Diellier's patent,.because Wright nsed #100 chem- ical stages,—i. c., he' first boiled the straw in a solution of lime, bruisedand washed it, and then nt the propared material in a close boiler, and oiled it with caastic alluli udder pressure, in boilers made to bear 100 pounds pressure, It is now acommon practico to have two or more stages, chemioal and mechanical, in tho roduc- tion of straw or wood to pulp preperatory to bleaching,—oxperience having proved that.tha ‘theory of the Mellier and Watt & Burgess pateats is a fallaey, It is now known, end gen- erally recognized, that tho stratw, or other ibrous substance, ghomld mot bo treated &t onco with ‘strong caustio glkali in 8 closo boiler, but should Do prepared for thopplication of that chomicel; that tho principal part of the cxtrancous sud wortiless matterin the stfaw noutralizos the alkali, sod should be climinated beiuro the introductioa of the material into tho closo boiler with the caustic PRETLNSIONS OF TIE PATENTEES. The Wood-Pager Company have, novertheloss, contrived to hoodwink . the paper-makers end the public generally, and havo succoeded in can- cealing the fact a3 to the truo character aad limits of those patents. They huve sctup the protenso that tho manufacturo of white paper from straw wes -2 novelty. The paper-makers did rot know that, by adopting a process of tvo or moro stages, which is vastly superior to el lior's single-stage process, they would defeat ea- tirely the pretensious of ihat patent. INTEODTCTION OF THE MANUFACTURE. As to tho assertion that the owners of the Mellier patent were the first to introduce into this country the manufacturo of whito paper from straw, the fact is, that that manufacturs was but of little, if aay, practical importaace until tke Southern Rsbellion czused 2n imme- diate risa in the prico of rags. That stimulated tho manufacture of white paper from etraw, and of = certain- 1ed to a graat varioty of improvoments in ma- chinery and processes adspted to tnat end. HECESSARY REFORE IN THE PATENT LAWS. This caso shows clearly the necossity for o reform of ;tho patont-laws,. 1¢, for example, the partics interested in resisting tho claims of this vo_brought & suit, snd push to ‘meaniug and extett of the pat- ess would soon Lave been But no one, atent conld L ho teat Lk ¢ cat, its harm: demonecrated. under the exist- ing laws, could do this. Each bad to walt to be nttacked, and the owaers of this patont conld hold it fn errorem over tho paper-taakers, aud bring suits apon it whon and whare it pleased, taking what time they pleased, and, in case of an adverse decision, procrastin- eling an-appeal for many yeart.' Of course, many partios would rather submit their claims than contest them under these circumstances. Vory faw, if any, conld collect together tho necesary ovidence showing what hed been done abroad and in this country prior to the grant of the Mellier patent. It was found to be cheaper {o yield tothe demandsof tlo Wood Paper Compeny than to persiet in dofending them. Tho monufactiring intorests of this coun- try aro eubjected to manifold blackmailings on & gigantic scale by moans of pafonis which could not withstand an atteck in Court, but which now, by reason -of bribery nd doeaption, aro mudo to yield their owners immensa revenues. Tt often happens, too, that cuterprising pao- plo rro desirous of catablishing new manu- factures or improvements therein, but are pre- vouted from 8o doing by the existenco of pat- ents, the validity of which thoy cannot test ox- copt'by setting up an establishment to bo at- tached when the patentees may choose to do so, and upon which they ean keop up a litigation for years, without bringiug it to auy definito con- clusion. Thy truo remedy for thess evils is to bo found by ellowing any party who chooses to do so to file u bill in any of the Circuit Courts of tlio Unitcd States to sst nside. any patent. The owners of patents ought to be ready to_defond them whenover they may bo ettacked. Very froquently the case may dopend upon o simple point, easily made, aud quickly disposed of. 1t i5 often now argued that the public have assonted to a patent, whoreas, in truth and in fact, the public hayo had no way to expross their dissent. Under tho Jaw as'it stonds at prosont, it is generally understood that uo direct attack can bo mado upon & patent, oxcept et tho instance of a party who claims a similar patent, —i. e., ofier tho declaration of aun interference Dy tho Patent Oftice. Another oxception, hotw- ever, has boon recently recognized, viz.: bill in chancery in the naturo of a scire facias, Dbrought by tho Attorucy Goneral of tho Gnited States to supersodo o patont obrained by sirand. Tho proposed amondient would be of the utmost importanco,—far more important than any amondment ever iutroduced in: tho patent- laws sinco the first cstublishment of the Patent Ofiice. It would scattor to the winds all the patent , humbuga and cheats; would re- iove the mannfactures an cowmmerco of this country from o fearfal incabus; and -would give confidence to thomeands of enterprises which ere now entiroly prevented by means of false pratonces. In the absence, however, of such reform, every white straw papec manufceturer, nnd overy pub- lisher and consumor of paper, should, withont delay, make common cause with and assist thoso who &ro now defonding against the claims of the American Wood-Faper Company, uuder thoir famons or infamous Mellier patont. They should not wait to be sued. Tho Krsl casc hoard Ly the Supremo Court, if properly prosentod, would be the last as to that patent. ‘The man- ufocturer would then bo eaved from the payment of rogalty, the defence from an oxpeusive law- Buit, uad the public would get t:.lmn‘}cv p:}per{\: 157 Calumot avenue, Ciicago. LYNCr-LAW, Hanging of an Incendiary. Boonvillc (Jun, 30) Despetch to the St. Louis Republi- = can. A decidedly cold drive of some fifteon miles, more or less, this moraing, landed your corre- spondent at ' Arrow Rock, tho scone,of Tuesday -night's bangiog business, In order that the maiter may be tho moro fully understood, it will bo well to refer briely to coriain evonts that havo transpired within mouth. On tho night of the 23th of. Decomber 8 largo portion of Arrow Rock was destroyed by ire, thero existing ab tho timo but faint sus- spicion that it was the work of an incondiary, Tho origin of the fire was unknown, tho general bolief being that it broko out in {ho barber shop end ealoon, combined, of 5 negro barbor nsmod Reuben Elder, he, 28 it was subsequently leerned, going homs pretty druak that might, sud legving » largo firo blazing sway in his stove. Timo passed on, aud thoao of the burncd- out morchants who coald gecure now stores did 60, a2 tho town was fast Zalling back into its old wags, whon, withoat tho slightest warning, camo = timo of 'horror mever to bo forgotten Ly the goad people of Arrow Rock. Tho night of -Mouday, tho 13th inst., wes ro- marksbly dark snd stormy, tho winds blowing, 8s tho sailors sny, “great guns” Midnight ceme, and in gll _tho placs thero was but ‘oma light bLurding, sad that, most providentially, in tho ouice of a gentleman of nerve and grest forco of character—Dr. Hunt. Strango as it is to rolato, thab mosb dreaded of all econrges, tho sm2il-puX, saved tho peoplo, for had not the doctor been deeply en- gaged in studying medical authorities s to the B itase that i Tk Taad its appearanss thore, thao prababilities uro ctrong that the acendiaries d Lavo secomplishod. their helliah desizn. To bo brief, o discovercd oao flro ozly to Fus it out in timo to discover anothor, ard yot another, and yet another, four in ll. - 5 0Oa ths followirg day o larzo meoting of the citizoxis waa Leld, at which a Committee of ten of tho lealing mon wero sppointed, tholr duty to bo the forroting out of the fire-fionds, Theso gentlowen at_onco cormonced their work, and in sceret session oxaminad every max in tho en- tire fown. In tho languege of éne of tho Com- mittce, tho end was a3if the roof of every hoage had bca lifted the might of tho fire, tad notes talion of tho whoreabouts of every min, womaa, and child. Having sccared clucs that left no donbi as to tho gdilty parties, tho nost thing was to sccuro ths miglt sort of a maa o work mup' theso clues to such tzngi- blo shapo 83 to fsten the clutchen of tho luw upon tho eriminals. A ‘decision had boen arrived at, to send to St. Louia for 3 detostive, . _when, just at this opportuna moment, thero ar- rivediipon tho gcene, the vory man, abovo cil others~ dovoutly prayed for—Capidin H. E. Palmer, special agent of the Home Insurance Compuny of New vork, and located at Pletis- mouth, Nebraska—he having visited Arrow Rock on business connccted with hts Company. To lum the Committoo at once stated theic progress, | and requestod him to work tho matter up. Do~ claring that, in Lis opinion, the facis war~ ranted the belief thot the right men had boen “spotted,” ho immediately seb out to ehadow tho suspected men. Making thoir nequaintanco, ho speedily wormed himself into their good graces, and in drinking, smoking, and otherwise mancutering, ho in s Ay broughit overything to 3 foeus. He arrived intown Mon- day Dizht, and before midnight Taesdey, Swin- ney, Coiner, and Elder wers all three errested, Coiner was first to_undergo the inquisition of tho Committeo, which, together with 6 large number of citizens, sssembled in Dr. Ishe's storo lata Tucsday night. After having been promieed - protection, Coiner commenced_ Lis startling co.ifession, To substantizta hia fright- ful disclosures, the miserable wretch mentioned cert=in incidents of the night of terror, proving to Dr. Hunt and others that hiscenfession wag in detail an honest one. Next Swinney was Brought in, ‘and then came & most oxeiting tirme, for lie was & men of .ron norvo end undoubted cowrage, Most emphati- cally protesting his innocenes, he wa3 confront- o with Coiner, aad to his (Coiner'e) statement he gavo the lie direct. . 2futaal crimization fol- Towed, tho result baing tho confession of Swin- ney, which, it should b stated, was rot credited by oven his own friends, who knew Lim to Lo a vindictivoman, ° sion of Swinney's testimony, ‘Eider wes brought in, but no confession or miseion of importanca beyond what was stated by the othertwo could be obtained. - It wasuow &oclock Wednesdsy morning, and the meeting prepared to edjourn. Swinney was started out under strong guerd. Coiner and Elder followad w00 after. Those who subsequently saw Swin- | ney alive ara £s close a3 the grave a3 to what ce- curred up to the time ke was strang upio a treo, It was hinted that ho met his death with most Temarkable fortitade, but besond this the most persistent inquiry on the part of your corre- spondent availed nothing. At 10 o'clock yesterdsy morning another lacge mooating was held at the school-house, &5 which the question as to the course of action in the cases of Coiner and Elder, whowero then closely guarded in a secure place, was discussed. The utmost good order and decorum was displayed, all the speakers advocating the giving up of the prisoness to tho legal ofticiuls of tho connty. To the credit of the pcople of Arrow Rocik—for cer- tainly credit is due to them for coolness in such fiory timez—a resolutionwas passed by unani- mous vots to tarn over the men to the cara of the law and which resolution was forthwith car- ried info cxecution, and this ofternoon Coiner and Elder etaried for Mareball, to bs taken thenco by the Sheriff to Lexingtén jail for safe- keeping. Previons to their depa respondent interviewed Co ing to be yucstionod to any c: THE MODOC WAR. Tull Deteils of the Lova-Bed Buattle. Repulse of an Indian Sortie. ‘Flho LavasBed Zattle. Yrela, Cal. (Jan. 25), Correapondence of the San Fran- . ciseo Chronic! From lotters received from tho fzont, and from intorogting dlails published in the Yréka Union of to-day, L am ensbled to furnish the Chromicle readors with tho following dotailed account of tho battle of tho Lava Bod, which was fougkt with such disaetrons results to our arms on Thureasy and Fridsy, tho16th and’ 17th instans : 3 The **lava bed,” or the lava country, ie immo- distely et tho south eud of Tule Lake, and is of thio width of the lako from east to west, nnd is from ton (o fiftcen miles in length from the lako southward. Tulo Laito is from twalve to fifieon milos in langth from north to south, and ten_ or twelve miles wide from oast to west. Its north- ern shoro corresponds very nearly with tho Cali- foruis end Oregon line, 80 that the wholo, or nonrly the whole, of tho leko isin Califarnia. Jack’ camp occipios s position on the morthern or lako border of the lavn bed, nad about equi distant from its easicrn nnd western linea. The troops operating ngeinet him have been gathored into (wo camps, one at tho sontheast anglo of the laka, within ‘s short distance of tho lako, aud probably not over five or six miles from Jack's camp, and nearly duo east from it ; tho soldiers gathered Liero wezo under command of Captein Darnard. ‘ho other csmp was ot Van Dromer's, distait from Jerk's camp somo fifteen or sixtoen milos, und noarly due weat of it. This cemp js soparated from the lake and tho lava couutry by a considorable mountain ridge, which has t0 bo crossed in reashing thom. "Tho ridgo is casily esconded -from the west, but its eastern faco is abrupt, being brokeu ' into somo threo eucceesive terraces, waich Lave in most places perpendicular walls of rock, over which 1t is impousiblo to pasa. It will bo seen from tho above scont that the three camps— the two of troops and Captain Jack's—lic 1 & lino cast end wost, Captain Jack's occupying & position dircetly botween tho other two. It is to bo remarlod hero that tho campa of the sol- diers could commnnnicato With cuch other only Dy a dotour around Tule Lako to_the north, or arourd tho lava country, by the Tickner road to tho eonth. Tho routo around tho Lako by Lost Tiver was solocted for this purposo, &3 being but little, if euy, further, acd being le2s exposed to attacky froni marauding bands of Indiana. General Wheaton, Commander of the Depart- ment of the Lakes, who is_dirccting in porson the prasent campeign, having comploted all_his arrangoments for an attack, fised on Thursday, tho 16(h, for the movermont to begin. Tho plan of attack determined on cmbraced tho move- ment of tho troops under Eamard from tho east, simultaneous with tho march of thosoat’ Van'Bromer's from the west. Goneral Wheaton bad his headquartors at Vaa Dremer’s. On Monday, tho 13th, ho despatched ordars to Cap- fain Burnard Lo bieak camp on Tharsday morn- ing and movo toward Jack's camp and eecure s ‘position as near it as possible; to Loid it daring the night, und commonco &n attack on him eazly Friday morning ; informing him that the forces at Van Bremor's would move simultanoously from that point; would also camp Thureds: sht a5 near 23 possiblo fo Jack's camp, on would attack him Fridey morning. It\was ox- pected that Jack's warsiors, attacked thus sim- ulianeously on both sides, wonld b quickly de- moralized, and, in their confusion aad attompls to0 escupo, would by killad or captureds Czptain Barnard's cownmand consisted of ono company from Cawp Bidwell and one from Fort Klamath, rewforced, wo understand, by a num- Ler of Kiamath Lake Indiaus, in all over one bundred mea. _According to’ orders, he maved on Thuraday. Ho had not procseded far, how- ovdr, when tho Indiaus began to disputo his ad- vance, and ail Thureday afternoon ho had closo and Bard fighting. Mo succeeded, howover, in taking and holdivg a position near Jack's camp. Tho troops at Camp Vaa Bremer conaisted of iwo companies of izfantry from Lort Vancouver, numberiag shout ninoty men, undzr command of IMajor Mason; one campany of cavalry from Camp Wasnor, numbering about forty-ive Ten, under Colone! Porry;_two companics of Orogon voluntears—Captaiu Kelly's and Ceptain Apple- gate's—under com:uand of General Rows; and an improvized company of volunicers, ealisied for tho Lattlo, with Jobn A. Fairchild as Captain &nd Georgt W. Roberts as Licutenant. Ganeral Wheaton wa3 in command of all tho forces in tle field, acd Colonel Green had command in the feld of tho forces moving from Van Bre- mer's. Tig movement from Van Bromer's commenced at 9 o'clock on the morning of Thursdsy ; rations for threo days were issued ; tho troops marched 1t sud moved dircetly azross tho mountain towards Jack'a camp, Tho supjlics, blankots of soldicss, Lowitzors, etc,, wero takien in wagons which bad to mako & detour to tho north, and then got no nearerto Jack's camp than the Towest terraco on the castern glope of the moun- tain, o8 described ebove: The troope, coming direétly over tho mountain, hed arrived at this point at 1 o'clock in the_afternoon. Here they wWaited for the wagons, which did .niot arrive till about dark. Tho whole fores oncamped on this terrace Thuraday night. No sooner Liad General Wheaton reached the summit of the mountain of bis march over than ho sww tho error he had _probubly committed in issuing tho ordor for {his movement. On tho wost side of the mountain tho wholo week up to Tlorsday morning hal been perfectly clear, withont the eign of fos, which was tho case on that day, elvo, when 116 troops started on thoir march. As edon, however, 13 thoy Teached the summit and looked over into tho valicy of tho Inko and tho Juve bed, nothing but deap, denso, impenetrable fog greeted thcir vision. - Of courac, if tho same fog shonld continue on Fri- day, tho hut for Tndizna in_the lave bed would o liko tho “hunt for needles i o baystack,” except that tho latier is merely uscless, while the former would bo fallof danger a3 well. But if a0 crror bad Leen committed in iseuiug tho order, it was too late tocorrect it now. Barmard Dind oboyad the order, snd was already in hot couflict with Jecls, as tho rattlo of tho musketry which now reached the GeneraPs ears toatified. - o could not bo left to maintain the strogglo alone, nor could word bo got. to_Lim to discon- tinuo the fight, and fail Luck to his camp, except st tho exponso of a day’s time. Besides,’ who could sell but tho fog which was donse and penotrablo ou Thursday eveaing might be dis- porsed to the four wiads beforo Friday morning. _ Friday mornizg brokio with the fog a8 donse a8 it was tho night bofore. About 6 o'clock a. m. tho troops began to wead thoir way down the steap precipice, on the Lrow of which they Lad camped over night, and to'tha foot of which ex- tonds the famous *lova bed.” But what counds are theso which, this early in the moraing, como rolling up nod 2ute their eass, ont of tho thick, convolving fog beyond 2 Quicker and moro dis- tinct they become! They tell but one atory, and that = story which cannot bo misunderatood ! Captain Barnard has already commenced tho hat- tle, o, attacked by Jack, is giving battlo in return.’ Now is 1o tuno for delay, Colonel Groen's_ troops, . having reached tho borders of tho - *lave bed,” aro formed in lina_ of battl, and ordered to advanco. Cap- tain ~ Tairchill's Company s sssigned the extremo left,on the lako shore ; the infantry, under Major Maton, are formed on his right; then come the Oregon volunteers, bwo coumpa- nics, whilo Colonel Pozry’s dismounted cevalry form the extremo rigit. Witk tholine thus form- ©d, the ndvanc over the rocks and through the chasma of the “lava Led” is coramenced. They aro allowed to proceed without hindranca from Captain Jack or any of his myrnidons, until they came within about & mile and a hzlf of his camp. Then the Indiaus, from within the fog and behind rocks, began to send at them the missiles of death. Tho soldiexs, however, seo no Indians, oxcept when o5o riscs from behinda Tock, fires, and is_instantly lost again in the friondly, dll-cveloping fog. Tho' soldiers in roturn can only firs Into the fog out of which the Indian came, and into which again ha instantly disappeared. 4 The howitzers, howaver, wera not fired till af- ter the baitle had raged for some time, and one goldier had been Iulled and several wounded. The line was yeformed while the batile was -in progress, Captain Perry being ordered to dou- blo back and take a position next to Fairchild's company. To effcet & junction with Colomel Barnard they lad to pasa sround a bluff of Tocks, where they were exposed to a mercilesa firo from the Indinns. Fairchild's company had the_edveaca. At o ceriain point, where tha leaden rain fell fastest, Jerry Crooks and Nate Beswick foll wounded; to leavs them wasto surrender them to the mercy of sayagea. Fair~ child told his men that they must bo removed, if the wholo company should be shot down in the oitempt. Thero was 4 emall cove in the Tocks, by dropping_iato whick Fuirekild 2nd his men were protected from tha bullets of the In- dians. Thoy dragged into this also the wounded, 80 that they wors out of range of tho cne my's balls. Wiile enjoying comparativo immu- nity from danger in this shelter, they were enabled aldo to compel tho Indiens 1o feep to their sheiter in the rocks. It wes thus that AMasjor Mason's and Captain Pesry's troops were enablod to pass the pofnt and join Colonel Bar- nord in comparative safety. -Captain Perry. in ‘passing this point, took shalter with Fairclild's men, aad it s when he passed out to join Barpard that-he-was wounded. Barnard mado au sttempt to advance o forco s0 as to driva back tho Indiany, and hold them at bay till Fair- child’s cowpany.should. complete. their passaze throm.a to his command, end sacuro their unded: The affrt, howover, was abortivo, 0 in'this recess the men were compelled to lie flat on the ground smong tha rocks to kcop out of the range of the bullets of Jsck's mon. It woa whilo Iying in this -way that George Roberts was shot. * The failuro of tho attempt | of Colonel Barnard to bring them rolief. mads it necessary for them to continuo thoir position on tlio ground in the rocks till night cama on, when they took their wounded and mado their way to Colonel Barnard’s command. . 1t would seem from the length of time delayed, ostensibly for the arrival of tho howitzers, that much roliancs must have been placed in the exo- cution thoy wonld do. In this fight they were Tardly used, and sore wholly nseloss. For this, Loivover, two reasons ara given, cithor of whicl would seem quito satisfactory. Ono is, that owing to the donsity of the fog it was impossiblo 10 sea whero tho Indians were until within a few rods of them, and that consequently sny efforts to ehiell thom must Lave proved whally aportive; tho other is,.that it, being_from tho same causo imposiblo fo seo Captain_ Barnard's forco, there | ‘was as much danger of doing excaxition on them with tho howitzors s on Capiain Jack's war- riors. Some eight shots woro fired from tho hovilzers immodiately after forming in battlo line, not, howover, 50 much with_tke idea of hurting Jack as notifying Bamard of the force advaneing to his support. The lina continaed to_sdvance, suffering mora or less casunltios, tho fighting bocoming 21l the while moro contifiuous and sovere, till the brink of tho chasm was resched in whicl Captain Jack has his stronghold, This chasm, or fissure in th | surface of tho earth, extends, it secms, entiroly throngh the lava bed, from its northern border on the Tako to a mountain of rocks and scoria at its southern extremity. Wedo not_know that any whito porson has over thoroughbly explored it.” Wo do not supposo they haye. It is known, nowever, that it varies greatly in ita dimonsions, at dilferent poiats ; somo_places it is but o fow feot neross and o fow feot deop; 8t others it is twenty, thirty, or even fifty across, and as many” in depth. Portions of it tre_open, while other parts aro arched with rock, thus forming it into" subteriancan cavern. Here is the central, and tho roughest part of the lava bed, and horo Jack has lis stronghold, Coloncl Green's troops reached the brink of {he chasm, and attempiad to chargo it; but such was the storm of bullots that came ont of the fog that enveloped it, that tho troops faltered in dismay ot tho concealed denth that awaited them. Tho attempt to drivo tho Indians from thia chasm +was sbandoned, and orders issned to concontrato tho forces on tho ke shore with the view of forcing & passage through to Barnard's com- mand. s ¥ It had now * got to be along in tho afterncon: Tha t¥o portions of the force fighting Indians had boen engaged within a miloor two of cach other for soveral hours, but s no communica- tionhad passed. betweon them, neither know tho situation of tho other, nor what advan- fagen thoy bad gained, if tuy, ovor the com- mon enemy. Before' tho battle had com- monced _arrangements. had boen made for communicating between the forces to tho east and .thoso ,west of Jack's camp, by means of siguels, but tha fog had put a0 offectual stop to all’ intcrconree in this way. |. Hence tho determination on the part of General Wheaton to establich, if possible, communica- tion with Captain Barnard by the lake shore. In the oxecution of this purpogo Captaia Fairclild'a force was placed in the ndvence. It was soon discovered that the carrying out of tho order was full of danger. A point of rocks projected into the lake, immediatoly under which Colonel Greon's troops must pass to reach Captain Bar- nard's command. Tho point was completely en- yelopad in fog, and alive with Indians, who could shoot .with _gix-shooters those passin; around its baso, -However, notwithstanding the’ danger of passing this point, Firchild's com- pany passed it, although four-of thom ware. wonndad ; also Major Mason's infaniry and Colonel Perry's dismounted cavelry, Colouel Perry was_woundod in both the arm snd hip while pasaing. : b 7 i) Shortly beforo sundown the fog liftod a little and tho sun shono out for.a fow minntes, dur- ing which_the Signal Corps got to work, and General Wheaton was cusbled to learn from Ceptain Barnard what had been done on tho cast side of Jack's.camp, and: ke knew from his own observation what had -been done on-tho |- wost, As the rosult of this information he or- dored Captain Barnard_to withdraw his force, | take s position he could hold during the uight, and return to his campon the following day. The troops still on tho west sido of Jack's camp, embracing tho Oregon Volunteers and a portion of Colonel Perry's dismounted cavalry, withdrew aad returned to their camp of. the night previ- |. ous. Thps ended tho long-looked-for battlo of tholavabed. . .+ : ho troops whicl retiired thia way ot thio end of the fight on Friday, reached their camp at Van Dremor's late Saturdsy evening. Those | which fell back in the .opposito direction reach- d's ed Captain Barnard's camp, near Louis Lan ranch, at-about 3 o'clock_Satarday afternoon. Colonel Green atd Major Mason, both of whori passed nround tho . Iodian-clsd point - of rocks and. joined Barnard, started- from Bar- ard's camp for Van Bremer's via Lost River, at 4p. m. Saturday, and arrived there before day on Sucdsy morning. Thoy - brought. intelligence with regard to tho casualties in Barnard's com- mond; lso a note from: Fairchild, giving the altios smong his men—for all Lis’ wounded received their wounds in passing tho point to join Barnerd. . : B Boporta recaived up to ho time Ticknor left for Yreka mado the killed s follows : Regulare, eighit; Orogon Volunteers, two—total, ten. Tha names of the voluntecrs.wore Frank Trimble and 1. R. Brovm. - The wounded: Regulars, twenty- fivo; Volunteers, four—all in Fairchild's cor- mand. Tho following wera the wounded in Fairchilds company: Jorry Crooks, thigh broken; @. W. Roberts, struck witha glancing shot on the forehead, and supposed to bo woanded mortally; Nato Buswick was shotin tho thigh, aud Jud Small in the sholder. Ono reg- ular of Perry’s compauy was left wounded on the fleld, but Le was not abandoned till after one of his comrades had been killed and two others wouudad in vain efforts to recover-him. This oceurod whon tho attompt was made:to charge tho chasia. H . . ‘Thoro was a fall corps of surgoons, with neces- 8ary assistants, on the field, and tho wounded .| wore promptly nttended to. After the batile | flmly iwere taken to Fort Klamath, where they will of course receive such professional and- other services as their cages may require. Tho number of Indians with, Captain Jack can only bo conjoctured, as but fow Indians wero secn during tho battls, on account of tho density of the fog. Dut judzing from ths extont of ter- ritory over which the battle raged, uad the amount of resistance whick thay opposed to the advance of the troops at all points, it is cstimat- ed that there conld not have been less than 200 Indians engagod. If-this is notsn exaggerated oetimato, Juck must have been largoly reinforead sinco Lo first took up his - quarters in the:‘lava bed,” At that time, oven after he was jained by the Hot Creck band, tho highost estimate did not placo his force above fram 65 to 75 warriors. Bat no doubt tho slight success he had achisved even boforo the late battle, joined with the tardy move- ment of the troops emplosed ngeinst him, had encouraged tho neighboring tribes to join. him, already predisposed in most instances to do o, and restreined only by fear of an adverse issue of tho contest. Thera can be no doubt, however, that he bed received largo acceasions to his fight~ ing strength from other tribes. And the rosnlt of the battle on the 17th will no doubt cause mauy more Indians from all the neighboring tribes to join him. —_—— Rcpalse of an Indian Sortic. Yreka, Cal. (Jan.23), Despatch to the San Francisco 3 Chronicle, The entiro Modoc force, undor Captain Jae] mado a sortie on Baturday, the 25th instant, an attacked Coptain Bernard's camp, st .Louis Land’s ranch, at the’ southeast point of Tale Lake. The fight began sbout daylight, and lasted several hours. .Berpard’s camp is the easternmost post, and.is entirely out of reach of any roinforcements. The force is composed of 100 men 2nd 25 Klamath Indians.. Captain Jack attacked about daylight with- hia whole force, but Bernerd's men” gallantly held_their ground, and, after a sharp three hours' fight, beat off tho Indiang. The :soldiers escaped scot freo, not even getting & ecratch. Captain Jack lost ono man killed and three wounded, and, besides this, lost all his horses engaged in tho fght, some 'fifty or sixtyin number. The In- ns dismounted to fight, and then,when forced to - retread, wera ' obliged to.leave their ponies behind them. Thoso wero all captured by Cap- tain Bernard's commana. This is the first snc- cess on our gido in the Modoo war. Captain Boruard is au old Apache Sghter and knows what heisabout. It is safe to eay that Captain Jack -will in future let him alone.” There were about 100 men engaged on each side, and the victory on our sido, therefore, is ‘the more complete from the fact that the forces met on-even terms. General Gillem, Colanel of the First Cavalry, sccompanicd by Lientenant James Rockwell, of his stafl, arrived hero to-dsy. The Goneral is to take command of ell tho forcoa operating sgainst the Modoca. suro. offered for salo for £10,000. an incipieat conflagration with Shehad heard that fircmen used “hose” Im stopping fires, and is now satisfiod that they &16 tho proper thing. - _— COLONEL A. M. YORK. The Man Who Killed Pomersy, From the” Lucrence (Ran.) Journgl - A very gonoral interest 1s folt in kndwing morg abouta man who hns so_suddenly assumed aues a prominent position in the kistory of Kansse It gives us plozsure bo gratify this Lindablo co: Tiosity by presenting the following ‘brict biog, Bl of Colonel Yors: © * " ¥ el Lioges. o was_bora at Byron, Ogle County, Miroi July 7, 1833, and is secordingly in, his’a'sgh;:::’ Ho'was educated ac Rock Kiver Seminary, iy, Morzis, Illinois. He studiod law with & p, Light, ono of the best Inwyers in that past of tho ’'State, ot Oregon, I, and sy admitted to tho bar in 1861, cominencing pracs tice in the same year at Lanirk, Carroll Conaty, I He entered tho army, Soptémber, 1963, ms 4 privston Company I Xinoty-second Regiment lincis Volunteer Infantry. Upon the organizs. tion of the regiment he was alectodr%emua Licatenant. In April, 1863, he was promoied to First Lieutensat, aud was with the Kinety. socond through all its_engagoments nnfil aeay the battle of Chicksmaugs. Ho was pro- moted by Adjutant - Gonoral Thomas Lieutenant Colonel ' of the Fif. toonth Unitod States Colorsd Infantry, and placed on the statf of Msjor Geroral C. 5 Fisk. @ remained upon detzched duty until the close of the war, and was mustered out of servico in April, 1863, In June, 1866, he settled ai Shelbina, Sheiby Couuty, Mo., and engaged in the practics of law with Colonel J. W. Shafer, Tho following year 1o and his partner oatablishod the first Bepub- licun paper in that county, tho Shely Ct Herald. He remisined thoro uutil tho. Brown for Governor. Ho wont to Tndspandence, Moatgomory Couz. ty, Kau., in Decomber, 1570,and in company with . T. Yoo, the present publisher, and L. W. Hamphrey, establishod the South Kansas Troy une. ot Indopendence. York himself did not remove to Kansas nntil the noxt summor, and in tho fall of 1871 oponed s law. loan, &ad colles tion offico, with L, U. Humphroy, a% Independ. ence, and still continues in that business. - ‘Last spring, ho rotirod from tho South Kansas Tribune, and disposed of Lis interest to George W. Burchard, the present editor. L TLast fall ho was nominated, withont. solficts- {ion apon hia part, by tho Rapublicsn party of Afontzomery and Wilson Countics, for tha posi- tion ho now holds. < . He hasalvays boen o Republicas of the rad. ical type, and never votod any other than a Ro- publican tickot. - He had been a member iz good standing of the 2. E. Church sinco 18 years old. ~Ho bas 2 wifo and two childron. 3 Colonel Yorkis o inan of. medium height, spare built, 5o opon, frank countenancs, a cleah biag eye, and of pléasing and popular sddress, ' That Lia is a man of nerve and resolution, bis rezent courso at Topeks shows, That he is » conscien- tions, honorable, high-mindod, and 50od man we Lin7e every roason o belicvo. = ER e e © ITEMS AT LARGE. A Colorzdo youth lately died from the bite of s skuak. —A nimblo woman, 197 yeass old, does house work aod rans- on’ errands for s living in Los Nietos. Cal. —An Ghio poet, has ground oat a pocmlst of thirty-six_stanzas “To the Memory of Edwin Sir Bu ver Litten.” —A California widow just bofcre committing icido wroto £ o friand taat ¢ 1t neanly Koted er to leavo her poor chiliren.” mbers of cattle nnd eheop ara ropasted dying in Susquohanna County, Pa., from what is belioved to bo hydrophobia. = .. —Tho Glasgow (Ky.) Times sayigthat thereia living in that State a geatloman who was mar- ricd by the sams ministoroach time, in the sama houso, and married four sisters. —)rs. Mzlone, of 3econ, Ga., has wound up housokeaping by throwing ono of her childre into tho fire, fattening anolher by sitting onit, and caving in her buaband's head with a club, —It has boen decided to hold tha Eightoenth Acnual Convention of tho Young Meo'3 Clris- tian Association of the-UnitedStaterand British Provinces at Ponglikeopsio the coming summer. - —irs. Huggert and Kurth, the pecsons whe Jointly drow the $29,000 prizo in tho Harmonie Boclety lottery, becme uprosivusly dusarderly after their return to Cleveland, and wera fined 850 each,-on Thursder. "—The Tows City Zepublican_ vouches for the truth of tho story ths: a Bangor, Macshall County, man_recontly sold his ¥ife 'to anotker mz for & suit of _clothes, and forced her to rec- ognize tho sele. Which is probably the best use 10 ever put ber to. SEu —The papers at- Nebrasks City aro still agitat- ing tho question whether it is beat to build a dis- tillery there. Tho Press thinks that “unfriendl Tegielation” is likely to bo hed in this Stz while the Chronicle ‘wants to have the distillery ercoted. y MMcCue, of Janesville, Wis.. surcly cannot sigh for her rights. She fell to, the other day, and Beat Mac in tho most namercifal mn ner, and followed up tho chastisement by hsv- ing tho poor fellow arrestod. His difficalties had but just commenced, for the Justice fined hio $50 and copts for the broach of the poaca come mitted by her. —At_Elko, Nov;, last weck, s Mrs. Chester emused horsolf by throwing vitrol into the faze of James A. McLaughlin, who, in conseguence, will honceforth meandor through life with ooly one eye. Not haviug $1,000 tho woman is ow in jail, whera she will remain, unless secured by gome Boston lecturing association. —Ttis related of the late 3r. Butler, of Provi~ dence, B.I, that howaseo obliging as tore- open his store ono night solely to supply little rl with 3 spool of thresd which she wantel e incident took wind, brouglit him s largerm of cnstom, and he died a millionaire, after sub- seribing 910,000 toward founding a hospital for the insane, » —A San Diego letter, of Dec. 27, states that tho schooner Cygnet, of Santa Barbara, Captain Kimberly, forty-two tons register, went norh Iast spring into the Ochotsk Sea and loaded with oil. On her return ehe encoantered hesvy Testhor and wes blown among s group of islands north of Japan. Here ehe discovered & many sen otters-that sho threw overboard her cargo of oil and loadod with otter skins. Th cafgo she ran into Yokohams, whoro it was dis- ‘posed of for $25,000, after which she retummed for znothor lot. g 4o=Tho Cuncinnati Gaznte sdopta theelght-psge form. —Waorcester, Mass., is going to put in a strong lection of claim for the location of the new State prison. = —The Driving Park Associntion of Fulton County, IIL, has succumbed to a-financial pree its property cost £10,000 and is mo¥ —Degr, lately brought into Tronton market, show signs of having their feet frozen. This astonishes the old Southeast Missonri sportamsn, who never remembera 8o cold & Wil boing experienced. *0r 88 ia nOW. —A young lady in Towa recently whipped oat er stocking. —A Washington corrcepondent says a French milliner, at the aristccratic Arlington Hotck in that city, doals in_reads-mado drcases, varying in prices from 8600 to £1,000, and receivess large custom. —A Lafasotto gentleman, sttached to wheel ‘barrow, in which was a half barrel of soft soap, ‘became alarmed at the near approach of a trair, and pitched over a twenty-foot em He is now the cleancst man in Lafagetto. * —The Boston Post thinks that ““School of Journalism” at Yale College is a success, bocsase an Tows editor has written to the President for a couple of graduates as zoon as they are “turned ont."" Salary 36 s week. - ¢ —Xcw Haven has a Board of Aldermen, 87 the Danbury News ; continuing: “That is buten Italian on Monday brought Danbury 2 board of angels, and angels aro better thad Aldermen, if they don’t dress as well.” —A Goorgia editor, friendly to Mr. Stephens, 2ay8 of another Georgia oditor who does not ke him: “Ho may tlwow himself back on his hind legs and barkat r. Steplions until hislust] Iungs ose 85 dry 0 his chuclle-bead is empty, —~The coolest man _yet dr.scove:pdxsbew& stopped a train on the Pennsylvania Rosd tb0 other night by swinging a lantern, and bz the fireman some currency, roquested kim ¥ :ring down & quarter of s ponnd of finecat - —Sinco tho “Threo wiso mon of Gothals thero havo been nono to compare with, (222 until recently three men in Vermillion Coustty Indians, walked & half mile barefoot in thomd} fora wager. Two of them lost their toes, the other won & pound of tobsoco. } —A o tefal contemporary, evidently edited b1 a bachelor, uses the foilowing elaborato g:; phor: “I have seen lovers look intoeachol eyes with that sublimely silly expreasion c! e teristic of such unfortunates, pomewbat 1k itoous, appealinglook of a forlorn calf b:ma m:fii the rzin,” This expression en paten —APmem man had hesrd it intimsted % the street, the ofier day, thst ho was henpecksd- Ho went Bome and thrashed his wife, 1013 77 two or throe of her best dresses, opened 2 T doors and windows in the house, and eat in tho parlor with his fcet on tho centre-aly among a collection of choice books, and ST his pipe. Ho thinks the world is conyinced 89 that he is boas of that rancho. | | | l i 1 ‘i i i i