The New York Herald Newspaper, April 20, 1873, Page 11

aE oe TE The Modoc Chief Outmancu- vres the Army. —_—--—_—_ STRATEGY OF THE SAVAGE. jAn Extensive War on the Setilers Apprehended. REINFORCEMENTS FOR GILLEM Death of John Schonchin by a Peace Policy Bullet. aaa {EXCITEMENT AT TULE LAKE Alarm of the Citizens and Butchery Expected. COURIERS AFRAID TO TRAVEL. The Indians Supposed to Have } Left the Lava Beds. CAVALRY IN PURSUIT. ‘The War Department in the Dark and Anxious for News. GENERAL SHERMAN ANGRY. | Me Says Bah! to the Soothing System Statesmen. | THE KIOWAS AND COMANCHES. | Rar in the Southwest and the | : Herald's Prophecy Fulfilled. re San Francisco, April 18, 1873, x ‘The latest despatch from Yreka to-night says Rhat eight Moaocs are known to have been killed the fight yesterday. The cavalry and their itm Spring Indian allies, mounted, have been ‘Furnished with three days’ rations and sent in pur- Bult of the Modocs in a course southeasterly from She lava beds. WHAT JACK MAY DO. It is feared that Captain Jack's band will divide ‘Pp and do great damage to tne settlers. , A party will leave Yrekain the morning to re- { sover Eugene Hovey’s body and some to join the wavalry in pursuit of the savages. THE PEACE MAN’S BULLET. A captured squaw says that John Schonchin, who ‘Was wounded by Commissioner Meacham, died of his wound. i] Whe Army Despatches Brief and Worth- less. WasuinarTon, April 19, 1873. ‘ The War Department, this morning, received two brief despatches frem General Schofield, dated the ‘15th and 17th, but they contain nothing new in ad- | dition to the press accounts of the fight with the ‘Modocs published this morning. i LATER. | @he Whole Country Alarmed—Reinforce- ments Going Forward. San Francisco, April 19, 1873. | Acourier arrived at Yreka at three o'clock P. M,, ‘but brought only government letters. ‘The whole country is alarmed, and couriers re- ‘@ase to come ont or go tn, fearing the Modoce and ‘the fate of Hovey at their hands. | News ts anxiously looked for. It is feared that | Jack's band has escaped from the lava beds. General Schofteld is sending forward reinforce- Mente with ail possible despatch. ; DATENSE EXCITEMENT IN TULE LAKE COUNTRY. ‘There was intense excitement in the settlement Of the lava bed and Tule Lake country. The mur- @erof Hovey, which occurred within a mile of the place, by a party of Modocs, indicates. the escape @fsome of Jack's warriors. Messengers have been Sent in every direction to warn the settlers, . LATEST FROM THE FRONT, Movements of Troops—Fears of a General Outbreak. San FRANCISCO, April 19, 1873, Despatches from Reading, Cal., this evening, @ay that Colonel Mendenhall’s battery, with two officers and sixty men on foot, and Captain Has- Wrouck’s battery, with three omcers and seventy- ‘#hree men mounted, accompanted by a battery, left at one P. M. to-day for Fort Crook, in the Qortheastern part of the county, about eighty-fve @iles from that point. There are FEARS OF A GENBRAL INDIAN OUTBREAK {n that country should tne Modocs make their ‘ escape to that section. The troops will be ready to pursue the Indians and protect the settiers, «4 daily line of couriers will be established. THE KLAMATH INDIANS POSTED, A despatch just received from Yreka is as fol- lows:—“' J. K. Luttrell arrived last night frem Or jeans Bar. He says the Indians on the Klamath @nd Salmon Rivers seem to be fully * posted on the Modoc war, and even bet ter than the whites. One Indian told him that he haa seen @ Modoc, who had told him all about the fight. It is evident that Modoc run- hers have visited all the tribes in Northern @ali- fornia and Seuthern Oregon. The people of Kla- math and Dei Norte counties, however, apprehend . ho outbreak at present. . Thirteen armed citizens left for the front this * Morning to bring in the body of Hovey? STORY OF A RELIABLE GENTLEMAN. From & strictly reliable gentleman who nas been through the lave country, we learn there is a large Cave six miles froma the late Modoc stronghold, in ® southeasterly course, the direction takan GENERAL JACK, | dy the Indians, The cave will be harder to approacly and = will” protect them much better from — shells; is amply supplied with wood, but, according to his recollection, ia nearly half a mile from water. There are a great many lesser caverns and crevices, but ne water. He believes it is almost certain the Modocs, or a portion which succeeded in escaping, now occupy this atronghold, The Modocs are believed to be running short of provisions and ammunition, and are evidently much demoralized. WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST. The following despatch was published in the Evening Telegram of yesterday :— Wasutnaton, April 19, 1873. Press despatches are far in advance of the omcial news received at the War Department, and up to noon General Sherman has received only the ac- counts of the first and second day's fighting. When asked if the troops had behaved as gallantly as he expected he replied, with a nervous twitch of his body :— “Gallantly! Of course they did gallantly, What else would you expect? That is what they are Paid for, but lam uneasy, The red devils have es- caped and have no doubt scattered like partridges, fleeing to the mountains to evade the army.” “Iu is rather serious business,’ said your corre- spondent, “The country will begin to think so before we get through with the Modoc campaign. The Kiowas and Comanches are getting ready for a raid into Texas, and just as sure as the grass grows the army will have desperate work in that part of the country, Why, just now, when the President and Interior Department are asking the Governor of Texas to release the murderers Santanta and Big Tree, comes a report to me from the Inspector ot the Department of Texas, advising that the Comanches and Kiowas are already to raid Texas under the expected leadership of these savage In- dians, and those preparations going on, too, while a delegation of the tribe is waiting for the release of the prisoners, with no end to their promises to forever live in peace and behave themselves. Bah! on such a policy.” The General resumed his writing, his face betray- ing angry emotions at the condition of affairs on the border, In another part of the room sat Acting Secretary of War Robeson, with his spectacies adjusted for long range. In reply to the question whether any news had been received from the front he blandly answered :— “Not a word, sir; not a word, sir, more than is printed in the San Francisco despatches to the morning papers. Don’t know anything more than you do about what has been done since Thursday.” Which information was supplemented by your correspondent with a “Good morning, Mr. Rebe- son.” THE INDIAN QUESTION. General Sherman on the Proper Treatment of the Savages. Personal Experience in the Indian Territory— The Army Should Have Charge of the Tribes—Citizens in the Territories Should Have Protection—Sound Views Ably Expressed. The following letter from General Sherman, written to a friend in Washington, will be read with the deepest interest at the present mo- ment:— HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON, D. C., April 17, 1873. Dear SrkR—I have your letter of this date, and am unwilling in a private letter to express my opinions on all the questions you make. The army has no “policy” about Indians or any- thing else. It has no voice in Congress, but ac- cepts the laws as enacted and the interpretation thereof by the proper officials, and executes them with as much intelligence, fidelity and humanity as any other body of citizens. From the organization of the government up to 1850 the Indians and Indian Bureau were under the War Department, 80 that nearly all the civilizatien and Christianiza- tion of the Indians thus far accomplished occurred under army supervision. To-day, in case an Indian suffers @ wrong, 1 believe he will be more likely to appeal to the commanding officer of the nearest military post than to his own agent; for in the one he sees with his eyes the evidence of a force to compel obedience, whereas in the other nothing of the kind. In like manner 1 believe the annuities to treaty Indians would reach the parties in interest quite as surely through army officers as through civilians, And when Indians have committed depredations—as is very commen—and the annui- ties are chargeable with the amount of damages, such stoppages could more safely be made by acom- manding officer having soldiers at his back than by an agent afraid of his 1ife—as too many of them are and have reason to be. The present Indian agents, aga class, are very good men; but they lack the force, the power, which savages alone respect. ‘The existing policy, usually called the peace Policy, is to gradually assemble the wandermg tribes on reservations, with boundaries clearly de- fined, and then, through ctvilians, to instruct them in agriculture ang the ruder arts, and educate them as far as possible. To this I think no army officer objects. And further, when the Indians leave their reservations to steal, murder and plunder, they fall under the jurisdiction of the army. This is the theoretical condition of things, but it would require ten times our present army to make a cor- don around the reservations, 80 that murders are done, the stealing of cattle, horses, &c., perpe- trated, and the Indians quickly escape to their reservations, where the troops cannot follow them; so thatJn fact these reservations help them in their lucrative business. Iam safein saying that half the horses and mules now owned by the Kiowas, Comanches, Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Sioux, &c.—si! treaty Indians, all at peace, with agencies and annuities—bave been stolen irom the United states or from citizens. I have myself seen, at the Kiowa and Comanche agency, and at several of the Sioux agencies, horses and mules branded U. 8, led up to be packed with annuity goods, and I never heard of an agent demanding the restitution of one for that reason; and though murders are of frequent occurrence, Ido not hear of the murderers being surrendered, as is required by the treaties. Again, though the Sioux and Cheyennes are at peace, the | army has to.send escerts with all trains and par- | ties ef surveyors who go rightfully to work within the berders of such States as Kansas and Nebraska, as though actual war existed. AllI will venture to assert is, that the army hasa much more dif- cult task now than if we were actually at war, and could anticipate depredations and follow the perpe- trators to their very camps, as I did in the case of the Kiowas two years ago. Then the Texas people were constantly complaining that the treaty In- dians were depredating on their property, killing their people and taking refuge on their reserva- tions, I would not believe’ it until 1 went in per- pes bg ~ actually near by when Satanta killed teamsters in Texas, one of whom was found burned, tied at the Wagon wheel, and a few days after he came to the agency at Fort Sill, boast. ing of the deed. With the 4pproval of the agent, Mr. Tatum, J arrested him and two others and sent them to Texas for trial. Now J am told that Satanta isto be turned loose again, although I believe he has committed fifty murders, and has notoriously violated every promise hitherto made, No general rule will answer for the government of every tribe, but each must be treated according to their conduct, and I think the army oMcers are better qualified to judge than the average of citi- sens, though 1am by no means anxious that this disagreeable duty should be imposed on us, If the Christian agents can better control the wild say. ages, I wish them all success, but surely the white people who ventare into the wilderness to labor and toil are entitled to the protection of their Uyea | I know it feel the greatest interest, although it is the exclu- sive privilege of Congress to devise the best means to secure this end. Many good peopte residing east of the Allerhanies mistake the character of the emigrant population who have of late yeors broaght millions of acres under cuitivation and produced Aity or sixty mtl- lions of doliars of gold and silver, where, twenty years ago, a white man dared aot venture. These beople are the e Kind as settled Ohio, Indi ana aud fowa; they are as good as we are, and were we in their ateod we would act justas they do. because i have been ene of them. They uow pay their full Share of taxes and contribute to our pational wealth and power. As a rule the emigrants do object that the Indians should for- ever remain non-producers, beggars and rovbers, 1f not worse. If the Indians are willing to work, a3 they used to im the gold mines of California, nobody will prevent them. So to-day, if the Cheyennes, Arapahoes and Kiowas wiil utilize the beautifal pastoral land assigned them in raising stock, they will soon become the richest people in the South- west; but this they have not done, and it looks as though they never will, And the question will surely arise, and that very soon, how long must the government continue to clothe and feed them without any assurance of self-support? The pres- sure of white sevtlements on the borders of Indian reservations 1s nothing new. It has gone on for two hundred years, and must go on, and the Indian must conform. In some instances they will do it without resistance, in others they will resi! na 1n some cases injustice will be done ; but surely our government can never admit to practice the prin- ciple that one wrong justifies another; and a. greater, that because the soldiers in New Mexico chase and kill a few Cheyennes near Fort Bascom, who are more than a hundred miles off their reser- vation to steal horses, they can go and Kill the sur- veyors near Camp Supply engaged in a lawful sur- vey; and because “Whistler” has been killed by some murderer on the Republican, they mus? de- mand of the government an indemnity in ponies, else his death must be avenged on any stranger. These are not supposititious cases, but cases ac- tually pending, and illustrate how far we have thus tar progressed in the great work of civilization. .The affair with the Modocs is not regarded as an exceptional case, nor has it any connec- tion whatever with the affairs of the Apaches, Sioux, Cheyennes, Arapahoes and Kiowas, that wander over a region of coantry four or five times as great as the whole State of California. The Mo- docs are a small remnant of what used to be called Pitt River Indians or Rogue River Indians, with whom there have. been several wars. They are famillar with the habits and customs of the whites, have seen gold dug from the canyons of their mountains and have participated in it; have seen the wild valleys where they used to hunt and fish converted into prosperous farms and ranches, but in this they seem not to have imitated their white neighbors. Whether they have sustained wrongs or not ts not in question, but they have taken ref- uge in a natural fertress, have defied the civil and military agents, and lastly, under a flag of truce, killed General Canby, whe was their best friend; and this was not an isolated fact, for avout the same time they decoyed Lieutenant Sherwood within reach of their rifles at another and distant Part, and also stealthily attacked Colonel Mason’s camp on the opposite side from that where Gen- eral Canby and the Peace Commissioners were shot, All the Modocs are involved, and do not pre- tend that the murder of General Canby was the individual act of Captain Jack. Therefore the order to attack is against the whole, and if all be Swept from the face of the earth they themselves have invited it. The place is like a fortress, and during an as- sault the soldier cannot pause to distinguish be- tween male and female, or even discriminate as to age; as long as resistance is made death must be meted out, but the moment all resistance ceases the firing will stop, and survivors turned ever to the proper Indian agent. This whole matter must be left to the officers on the spot, and these must be sheltered against the howl such as followed Major Baker after the Piegan attack, as also Gen- eral Custer after his attack on Black Kettle’s camp. There is not much danger of too much harm being done. To be effective and exemplary the blow must involve the terrible; enough to impress the kindred tribes of Klamaths and Pi-Utes. T believe the civilians and soldiers wish the same end, and, in fact, do not differ much as to the pro- cess, All Indians must be made to know that when the government commands they must obey, and until that state of mind is reached, through persuasion or fear, we cannot hope for peace. Tam yours, with respect, W. T. SHERMAN, General. SATANTA AND BIG TREE. Governor Davis Declines to Liberate the Kiowa Murderers Just ket=The Legis- lature of Texas Will Have Something to Say. WASHINGTON, April 19, 1873, Superintendent Hoag forwarded to the Indian Bureau in this city a copy of the following de- spatch received by him:— AvsTIN, Texas, April 14, 1873, Letter received. Would prefer to delay release of Indians Satanta and Big Tree until 20th May, when Legislature will have adjourned, and I cam visit Fort Sill myself. EDWARD J. DAVIS, Governor. This despatch is in answer te a request from Friend Hoag to Governor Davis, asking for the re- lease of Satanta and Big Tree, tne Kiowastand Co- manches having returned all their white captives and stolen property. 7 THE PACIFIO OOAST. Faneral of Dr. Thomas—Suicide of Lieutenant Dennison—A Murderer Exe- cuted. San FRANCISCO, April 19, 1873. General Cantiy’s funeral took place at Portland to-day. The funeral of Dr. Thomas was attended by an immense concourse of people. General Schofield and a jarge number of military officers attended; also the members of the Masonic fraternity. Lieutenant E. Dennison, of the United States steamer Saranac, shot himself in the head at noon to-day. He was the son of ex-Postmaster General Dennison. His Domestic dim- culties are the cause given for the suicide. The murderer ef W. J. Donehue was executed at Red Bluffs to-day. THE WEATHER. Wark DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasninarton, D. C., April 20—1 A. M. Probabilities, The barometer continue to rise on Sunday over the Middle and Eastern States, but fall somewhat in the Southwest; for the lake region, Middle and Eastern States partly cloudy and clear weather, with northwesterly winds; for the South Atlantic and Eastern Gulf States clear weather, rising temperature, southwest and westerly winds; for the Southwest falling ba- rometer, rising temperature, easterly winds and increasing cloudiness, possibly with rain. Cautionary signals continue at Eastport, Me. Current reports are very generally missing from the Nerthwest, the upper lakes and the Pacific coast stations, The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last year, a8 indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s harmacy, HEKALD Building :— 1872, 1873, 62 45 1872, 1873, last year Average temperature fo 8AD RUNAWAY AOCIDENT, FREEHOLD, N. J., April 19, 1873. Miles Cooper, a respectable farmer, fifty-five Years of age, living two miles from here, was killed last night by his team running away. When found his was entangled yradprnga' HH ae th the wagon and ¢ . ‘This estimate underrates their atreng SUNDAY, APRIL 2U,,-1873.—QUINTUPLE- -and ‘property, and it is natural that they should AN INDIAN MOSES. The Existence of a New Religion Among the. Indians Deadly to Civilization, “The Death of General Canby the Fulfilment of Nature's Propheoy”—The Prospects of a General Indian War—The Strength of the Indian Nations. Wasuinaron, April 14, 1873, To THE Epiror OF THE HBRALD:— The events of the past few days are my justifica- tion for asking your serious consideration of the views herein presented as to the probabilities of a general Indian war west of the Rocky Mountains. The report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1872 makes the following estimates of the num- bers of Indians in these several States and Terri- 22,000 12,000 14,000 5,800 32,412 11,300 ++ 97,512 The present seat of war is on the line between Oregon and California, and the Indians are but a handful, yet they have succeeded in killing the only man in the army they feared, except Crook, and they know he is too far off and too busy to inter- fere. WAY CAPTAIN JACK KILLED GENERAL CANBY. To any one acquainted with the present temper of the Pacific Coast Indians the reason for the massacre of General Canby by Captain Jack is eb- vious. A belief exists among the tribes and bands in the States and Territories heretofore named that the time of their deliverance from the demination of the white race is clese at hand. It has long been predicted by the old warriors and their medicine men, and within the last three years has gained an almost universal acceptance. When questioned, however, by those sustaining official relations with them most of the Indians deny any knowledge of these beliefs or traditions, Nevertheless the fact that the belief has become almost universal is well known to all intelligent men having friendly relations with the Indians, On page 363, Commissioner's Report for 1872, are some statements on this subject, by N. A. Cornoyer, agent in charge of the Umatilla Reservation, Oregon, to which Superintendent T. B, Odeneal, of Oregon, at the conclusion of his repert (on page 362, same book), makes the fellowing reference :— A STRANGE AND DANGEROUS RELIGION. The Indians mentioned py Agent Corneyer in his report as being on the Columbia River, num- bering, in his opinion, two thousand, are a source of considerable anneyance to the agents at Warm Springs and Umatilla. ‘They have a new and peculiar religion, by the dectrines of which they are taught that a new God is coming to their rescue; that all the Indians who have died hereto- fore and who shail die hereafter are to be resur- Tected; that, as they then will be very numereus and powertul, they will be able to conquer the whites, recover their lands and live as free and un- restrained as their fathers lived in olden times. Their model of a man 1s an Indian; they aspire to be Indians and nothing else. About tour hun- dred of them belong at Umatilla Agency, one hun- dred at Warm Springs and the remainder in the Territories of lIdaho and Washington, I understand that repeated ineffectual efforts nave made to induce them to return to their reservations. It has not been practicable fer me to confer personally with them. It is thought by those who know them best that they cannot be made to go upon their reservations without at least being intimidated by the presence of a mili- tary force. WHO SHALL BE THE INDIAN MOSES? This belief, substantially the same as officially stated above, has led the Indians in that belt of country situated east of the Cascade and west of the Rocky Mountains to longingly look for the coming of their deliverer and to hail all unusual q@atural occurrences as indications of his speedy advent. No chief knows but that he may prove to be the chosen one, and Captain Jack in his success will be greeted as such by great numbers of braves. The same idea that inspired the first gun of the rebellion, namely, to “fire the Southern heart,’ actuated these Indians. The treacherous assault in which General Canby was sacrificed would never have been made had not Captain Jack and his associates been guaran- teed the co-operation of the great tribes of all that section, It was the one thing needed to fire the Indian heart. The fact that General Canby and other men were slain 1s as well known te-day to the Indians about Fort Benton as to the people of Yreka. The earthquake which shook Oregon and Washington Territory last December was accepted by the Indians as prophetic of a great event in eir favor. This bloody massacre will be to them the fulfilment of Nature’s prophecy. Such is the meaning of the lava bed catastrophe. OTHER CAUSES OF WAR. First—Settiers have come into these sections in a@rapidiy increasing ratio for the past five years. No Indian consenting to a treaty understood that he was to be confined to a reservation. On the contrary, it was always expressly stipulated that he could hunt, fish and gather roots and berries everywhere, except on private property. The ex- ception had no meaning for him in those days when white settlers were few, and he consente But the tides of emigration have overflowed and touched the edges of the reservations. If he goes off in any direction he trespasses and the eden settler complains to the agent. The treaty Indian is conscious of an uncomfortable restriction, which is daily grewing worse. The greater freedom of the non-treating tribes makes his own bond more galling. is @ constant topic of conversation among the trines and their speech-makers draw vivid pictures of the freedom of their ancestors before any ‘“Bostons” found their way to that coast. THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF WHITE OUTLAWS. P attered among all these tribes are white men with squaw wives and haif-breed fami- lies, who profit by such relations. Too many ef these men are desperadoes of the worst kind, who forteited the society of their kind and were forced to seek Indian shelter and associates. \ To all such men a general Indian war means rich plunder and abundant gratification of vengeamce and lust, and they are artiul and persistent in fanning it to a flame. : Third—As bad as the last named, more numer- ous and more subtle, are the illicit Indian traders, supplying whiskey, guns, ammunition and other things, and encouraging their customers in the idea of a speedy dgliverance from the white race. THE PEACE POLICY REGARDED AS A JOKE. Fourth—The Indians have no faith in Americans, and believe that all official promises are alike. While under President Grant’s system there are few frauds practised upon them, and they receive, in fact, everything jor which the appropriations provide, they (smarting under past wrongs) look upen the present liberality as a shrewd bribe to keep them quiet under the increasing restraints to which relerence has already been made, and they accept the goods, but mistake the motives ef the givers. . A BETTRR FRONTIER DEFENCE NEEDED. Fifth—There are comparatively few soldiers west of the Rocky Mountains coi d_te the forces formerly stationed on that ceast. The number of fgolated settiers is very large, and there are almost countless herds of horses, sheep and cattle entirely unprotected. The Indians are better sup- tied with good arms and ammunition than ever | fore, and have an abiding faith in the truth of their ‘dreamers’’’ prophecies. They believe that the time appointed tor their redemption is'at hand. | ‘These five reasons are sufficient incitement to the savages, but there are others that will proba- biy hasten a general war, | HATE WHICH NEVER DIES. All over the Pacific Slope are multitudes of men who burn for revenge upon red men. Some lost near relatives or frien others have been driven from wes by them. Still others, a numerous class, hate them instinctively, as men doe rattlesnakes, and their destruction. LOVE OF MONEY. Hundreds of men in safe places hunger fer the fat contracts which an Indian war engenders, and will resort to any method to bring it on. These | several classes of citizens will not wait for declared hostilities, but will avail themselves of the intense popular feeling caused by the recent massacre to gratify their thirst sor blood and plunder, by attack- ing even peaceiui Indians when they see an oppor- tunity. This will compel even the well-disposed tribes and bands to take arms in self-detence, and the end no one can foresee. THE SAVAGES WILL UNITE. It has been stated that the savage population of the two States and four Territories named is about one bundred thousand, There is no danger ofa | revelt amoug those of Puget Sound. They were so _ | severely punished some fifteen years ago that they will never again, as tribes, e fein war. Butin case of & eneral uprising they would send across the mountains about sixteen hundred young men to take part with the O’Ranagaus, Klicketat and other warlike tribes. Military men familiar with these people make the following estimates of their war strength:— ‘Weshingten ‘erritory (East), alded by British Columbia Indiane from above Colville Young braves irom Puget Sound. nD. shows & very there, well mounted and well armed, there is 00 military organization to prevent them from swoop- dowa upon the defenceless settlers and perpe- trating those nameless horrers which blacken the pages of all our frontier history. THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT MUST INTERFERR. It is the duty of the government te exert every energy to punish the guilty and protect the inno- cent, whether Indian or white, and to set in oper- ation at ouce such gene as WLI best accom- lish this work, Especially shoula immediate of- cial warning be given to the settfers on the fron- ters to organize for mutual defence, and to estab- Usha system of watchfuiness against apy sudden outbreak. This ounce of prevention overlooked, aad sao gare wit be ooasiy tn seat ure, misery and orewarned ts forearmed, . S, PARDEE. CUBA. Spanish Report of a Severe Battle and Defeat of an Insurgent Foree, Twenty-five Men Killed and Many Wounded— Tho Abolitionist Movement—Black- mail and Gambling. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. HAvaNa, April 17, 1873, An oficial telegram announces the defeat of the insurgent band of Calixto Garcia on the 15th by the Spanish troops. General Riquelme states that twenty-ene insur- gents and four Spaniards were killed and thirteen Spantardsa wounded. ABOLITIONISM. The Junta appointed to superintend the partial abolition under the laws of 1868 met yesterday. BLACKMAIL AND GAMBLING, Two gemsdarmes have been arrested and im- prisoned in Cardenas, charged with an attempt to extort money frem planters by violence. The police of Cardenas have arrested a number of prominent citizens of Cardenas for gambling. Among the number was the principal Judge of the city. OCEAN TRLEGRAPHY. The steamship Dacia, with the new Key West cable on beard, is expected hore dally. WASHINGTON. WasHrnarton, April 19, 1873. Senator Boutwell and Phelps, Dodge & Co. Senator Boutwell, who was at the Treasury Department to-day, emphatically contradicted the recent statement by Phelps, Dodge & Co. that the sum of $271,000 was forced out of them by way of compromise in their recent diMeulty with the Department. He said when the charges of fraud were brought against that firm they filed a statement at the Treasury asserting their innocence, and offering to pay the $271,000. Mr. Boutwell, who was then Secretary of the Treasury, declined to receive the money, and notified the firm that the Courts were open, and if they were innocent of the charges they should go into Court and prove their imnecenee. Upon this notification they with- drew the assertion of their innocence, and it was then thelr offer to compromise was entertained. The Department in no case ac- cepts money of any party charged who claims to be innocent, being allowed by law to compromise with offenders only after guilt is admitted, and it was on this distinct understanding that the com- promise with Phelps, Dodge & Co. was made. Never while Boutwell was at the head of the Treas- ury Department was any compromise made witn persons who claimed to be innocent. The New York Central and Collector Bailey. Under Sheriff Brandt to-day offered the com- plaint and other papers in the sult of the New York Centraland Hudson River Railroad Company vs. John M. Balley, United States Collector for this district, for file in the County Clerk’s office. The Deputy County Clerk deciined to receive them on the ground that the case had been trarsferred to the Circuit Ceurt. AN OIL TRAIN OW FIRE. Collision on the Lake Shore Line—Thire teen Loaded Oil Cars Destroyed. CLEVELAND, April 19, 1873. The second section oil train on the Franklin branch of the Lake Shore Railroad ran into the Tear of the first section, near Hadley station, last night, resufting in the wrecking of one locomotive the burning of thirteen loaded oil cars, the caboose and a wagon Toad bridge half a mile dis- tant, which caught fire from the burning oil float- ing down the stream. The conducter of the train was slightly burned about the face and hands. THE GRAPHIC, The novel experiment of publishing a daily illus- trated paper in this city is already one month old, and the Datly Graphic bas thus far met with a success unprecedented in the history of the New York daily press. The venture was.a success from the very first, whick is something that could hardly be said ef any other dally paper that has ever started here. Allef them have had to struggle up from small beginnings, through all sorts of difficulties. We know what atime Ben- nett had with his Herald, what a joe Greeley had Total warriors....... with his Tribune, what trials Raymond had with the stockholders of the Times, and what fortunes were sunk inthe World before it was got on its feet. We know how many attempts to establish daily papers have failed, though they had money at thelr bask and pdt men to ash them. But the Graphic was launched under fortunate circum- | breeze, amd has been sailing | stanoes in a Uy along gaily ever since, Llearn that the daily sales have reached as high as 20,000, and on an exciting , Such as that of the Foster execution, they go | pr still higher. Even thus far it has very nearly paid its epee The concern has an abundance ef capital, sixty per cent of which was paid in at the start; but jar more tham this will be expended, if | [, necessary, tor the enterprising capitalists who | have formed the combination are interested in the | paper. A full page picture of the Graphic can be made in an hour, or more rapidly T.—Correspondence of nt The Old Insect Banes Are Played Out. The only standard article recognized by housekeepers as certain’ death to every specter of Insect vermin. is Lowe o INSECT DESTROYER. KNOWLES’ BEL- Pollak’s Meerschaums. The finest assortment constantly on hand. Stores Jobn street, four doors west of Nassau, and 1,109 Br: way, between Repairing done. Boi A.—The Most Tasty for gentlemen's wear is PENSCHEID, 118 Nassau street. A-—Herring’s Patent HAMPION SAPES, 221 and 282 Brond way, corner of Murray street, md Graceful Hat A—Who Wants a Hat Go To Dougan, | 7 Manufacturer, 102 Nassau, corner of Ano strect. jar: "» Gold Seept: | A.—Smoke Surbrug’s jom eptre, a | BR 0 eng 4 pure and delicious Tobacco, Depot 151 Fulton street. A.—Dr. Fitler’s Rheumatic Remedy and office, 21 John street, Sold by all druggists. Depot | Advice gratis daily, and circulars free. Among the tters Now Stirring the minds of the people 1s, the new methad of curing Rup- ture, The ELASTIC TRUSS retains the Rupture aben- lutely, in spite of the most violent exercise ; 1s worn with ease and comfort night and day, and not taken off at all till a cure is reached. Sent by mail everywhere by the ELASTIC TRUSS COMPANY, 683 Broadway, New York, who send circulars free on application.—New York Inde: pendent, April } a Angeliqu ay are tha oo) ‘ietor id nufactur are the sole proprietors and manufac’ OBERIS 2 CO., Place Vendome for the Teeth and ums. 635 road wa ers. Paris agents, ROBER' A—Lace Curtai at Manufacture price; closing stock profits saved. ECKER & CO., 810 Broadway, oppostte Tenth street, A.<It You Are Afflicted with Soreness, bit t the Head, consult Dr. B. 0. Pian to Poot rah w York, and be cured. A.—For Moth Patches, Freckles ren aen PREYS MOTH AND FRECKLE LOTION is reliable and harmless. Sold by druggists everywhere. Depot, 49 Bond street, New York. ‘Who Have Applied at Their Drug- Sis TON RERTORER AMPRIGA, No. % for. the Huir tee safully, by. sendint this office can ascertain the ag ate ir wiintt Cage | in mae |, can suppl Lil le fing directly with this establishment and ae ret the eta gol mg ees Leite ation seaeR Ee A—It You Have consult Dr. B. GO. PERRY. ToRe wie coreg si pealp liom of the street. — formidable foe. Scattered here and { than the same | measure of type is ordinarily “set up’ in a daily | the Cincinnati Com- | rth and Twenty-fith sirects. | anufactured and sold by ES- | A.—-I€You or Wour Children Are Aw Royed with. Dy M Dd cr PEERY Bond street, New fork” Coes De. Bs A.—-Farniture—Spri: Goodsand cheap. @ L. Rew Styles; New 4 0O., 72 Broadway, Braunsdort & Metz Have Removed thoir large stock of frst class CABINET PURNITURE, , from 125 Rivington street to their new Seventh avenue, near Batcheior’s Hair Dye— "he Bost in the world. The only trae ant perfect dye All lat sellig a e ‘oe Booth’s Otd Tom London G in Canes and casks, in bond and duty paid, for sa sole agouls JOHN OSBORN, SON & Co., Beaver street New York, oe ed Joints—Alt CHARLB, 7 Untow Corns, Bunions, Enlar Discases of the Feet cured by Dr. square. Century Whiskey—A Pure, Old, Mcllow Whiskey, suitable for invalids or comnoiseurs Ask Your druggist or grocer for it. Exercise.—To Be Vigorous, Strong and healthy, free trom indigestion, dyspevsiae: 46, and ow Joy life, go to JOHN WOOD'S GYMNASIUM’ Twenty: eighth street, near Fifth avenue. Open day and evening. For Restoring Pertectly the Original color of the Hair, effectuatly checking and preventing its falling off, dispersing dandcu® and ing the RESTORER AMBRICA NO. Zia without an equal. Gentlemen's Dress Hats of Best Stylee and quality at manufacturer's prices. P. ERNENWEIN, 143 Nassau street, near Spruce. Golden Hair.—Barker’s Aurora, Harm- rhanges any hair to golden; $2 50. way, near Thirty fourth street. Ladies and Others Requiring the Ser Ticesofs capable and responsible lawyer, Who requine No (ees in advance, learn of one by addressing H. A. ©., DOX 2,376 Post ol Look Out For Impostors. The great demand for TIN-LINED LEAD PIPE fas excited the cupidity of certain parties, who are at- tempting to palm upon the public a Lead Pipe mere! washed with tin tor Ti ed Loat ipo; the eheme a: easily detected, as our Tin-Lined Lead ry Block Tin Pipe heavily coated wit ad. Cireul and sample of pipe sent by mail free, Address COLWELI SHAW & WILLARD, Manufacturing Company, 21% Centre street, New York. Also manufacturers oF block tin tim, pig tin, pig lead, lead pipe, Orders dited at sight, at ‘the lowest market rates. Lung Complaints, Bronchitis, Asthma, 4c., are speedily relieved, and, if taken in time, perma. nently cured, by Dr. JAYNE'S EXPECTORAN. You will find it also certain remedy for Coughs and Golda Maillard’s Celebrated Vanilla Choco= LATES for family use. Fifth Avenue tio road way, Madison square, and also for sale by all firstclasa grocers. Missisquol.—The Waters of This Sprin, have cured thonsands afflicted with Cancer, Scrotula, Bright's Disease. A trosh supply just recenvea. ‘JOHN F. HENRY, No. 8 College place. Mrs. M. G. Brown’ ip Renovator.” Sei Best in the world. Sold by druggists. Depot, Ol Boee street, Pp oth r Richard’s Eye Water.<Use m Sold by all druggists, Depot, 51 Bout stroat. Rupture Still Lien iy Treated at MARSH & CO.'S RADICAL CURE TRUSS office, No. 2 Vesey street; also Silk Elastic Belts, Stocki nee Caps, Anklets ac. A Indy in attendance to walt’ upom ladies in priva: ooms. Royal Havana Lottery Extraordinary. SE ONE PRIZE IN EVERY SEVEN TICKETS, WILL BE DRAWN ON APRIL 23, 187% 100 Fay ital Priz ‘apital Prize 1 Capital Prize 2 Capital Prizes $25, 50, 4 Capital Prizes $10,000 cach, 404 12 Capital Prizes $5,00 cach... 60,000 469 Prizes $50) each........ 284,500 1,607 Prizes amounting to.. 165,590 2,007—Prizes amounting to. + $1,200,008 Prizes paid intorination furnished. Orders filled. Highest rates paid for Spanish Bank Bills, Government Security, &c., &o, TAYLOR & CU., Banker: 16 Wall street, Now York. Royal Havana Lottery.—The Extraor= dinary drawing takes place the 224 insly J. B, MARTI. NES ‘ oO Bankers, 10 Wali street* Post office box 4 w York. 5. O. P. Brandy, Old, Mellow and Relia- ble. Purchased entire invoice at half its value, and at $7 per gallon, or £ 50 per full sized bottle, Estab! 1363. H. B. KIRK & CO., 6) Fulton street, The Popularity of Kearney’s Buchu is unequalled by any remedy that has ever beer to the public for treed Disease, Gravel, Dropsy, Dia- betes and Kidney Diseases, in every stage, as it gives speedy relief and has no equal either in quality or - tity in the world. Ask for KEARNEY'S. Take no other. Depot 104 Duane street. Sold by druggigs everywhere. The Whitney Sewing Machine.—Per- fection at last; the result of 2) years practi 0 simple and pertect Iu its operation that It gives uuprecedentad satisfaction; runs so easy that a single thread of No.8 cotton will propel it; yipight needle and shuttle, WHITh oO NEY SEWING MACHI Broadway, The Gracfenberg mpany, HAVING REMOVED TO & READE STREET, FROM 139 WILLIAM STREET, RESPECTFULLY INVITE INTELLIGENT INVESTI. GATION OF THEIR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC SINCE THE YEAB 138, DURING THAT PERIOD OF TWENTY-FIVE YRARS THE REMEDIES ISsUKD FROM THIS OFFICE HAVE MET WITH MARKED FAVOR FROM THE rROres. HE SION AND THE SCIENTIFIC AS WELL A! POPULAR, BUT, AS TO INTELLIGENCE, NONE THE LESS DISURIMINATING, CLASSES. URGING THE MERIT OF ALL OUR MEDICINES FOR THE VARIOUS AILMENTS THEY ARE DB- SIGNED TO TOUCH, AND KNOWING THAT PRAISE OF ANOTHER SPICUOUS UPON OUR LIST, ATTENTION I8 CAI TO THE VEGETABLE PILLS AND CATHOLICON. “THE GRAEFENBERG COMPANY'S MARSHALL CATHOLICON” “4 (A Distinctive MARK OF OUR OWN EXCLUBIVE REPAKATION). Id THE, ONLY REMEDY OF TS NATURE NOW BEFORE THE COMMUNITY. IT If ESPECIALLY DESIGNED FO! bist 4 RELIEP F THE MANY DISEASES —WHIC! iN Ti VARIED FORMS ATTACK THE VI’ AND THE LIFE OF S80 MANY THOUSANDS OF OU! COUNTRYWOMEN, AND, INDEED, iE WOMEN, OF ALL NATIONS, AND FROM WI{OSB INSIDIOUS WORKINGS IN ANY CLIMATE OR U RR ANY = DITIONS OF LIFE, NEITHER OLD NUR YOUNG, RICH NOR POOR, CAN ESCAPE. TO THE YOUNG APPROACHING WOMANH TO THE MATURE AND TO THE MATRON ADV, TO OLD som, THE CATHOLICUN IS OF & MABLE VALUE. COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF VEGETABLE INGRE- '§S POSSESSING EACH TI ST By EN ALL RE. OT A RESTORATION 0} 1 D ALLEVIATE SUFFBRING IN THE FAC TY ARE, THROUGH PROFESSIONAL PRIDE, AVERSE TO ‘AND CONDEMN POPULAR Re DIES OF ANY SORT; BUT IF RELIEF FROM i RING CAN BE OBTAINED OF WHAT CONSE- E THE SOURCE? HAVE SUFFERED BY SOLELY RELYING THETR, FAMILY | PHYSICIAN | SKILLED, HAVE FOUN RELIEF fn HE USE OF FE “GRABFENBERG COMPANY'S MARSHALL'S ATHOLICON” HAD THEIR PREJUDLOBS NOT PRE- NTED AN OBSTACLE. WE MAVE INDISPUTABLE PROOF THAT PHYSI- CIANS, OF HIGH CHARACTER AND LARGE PRAC- TICE USE OUR CATHOLICON IN THEIR PRESCRIP- TIO. AND FROM SOME WE HAVE CERTIFICATES SETTING FORTH THE FACT. 1K GREAT NUMBER OF CAS) UNDER OUR EFFICACY OF Mi: LE. TO CONFIDENTLY AND CONSCIENTIOUSLY RECOM- for infants. DELLUC & CO. | | “CARLETON'S NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION.” preparatory to removal; several | eYD) | community i ‘The Uluvtr | N It | Dickens. Almost anyone can spare the B} MEND IT AS A PEARL OF GRBAT PRICE. Wine Growers’ Company Cognac, in nd and duty paid, for sale by sole SON & CU., 45 Beaver street 0 agents. JOUN OSBORN, NEW PUBLICATIONS. (juAwuBS DICKENS’ Works. A NEW EDITION, numerons editions of the works of crenteat of knglieh Novelists there has not been aaat how one that entirely satisfles the public der 2 Without ¢% option they each have some strong tive vbjeotice. A new edition W. CARLETON & Itis known ad : ular his week, howover, o mpletoly satisly the pop New York, whic! The size and form are most convenient for holding. The type is entirely new and of a clear and opem, character that has received the approval of the reading her poptlar works. ons are: by the original artists chosen Charles Dickens himself, and the panee, printing, binding are of the most attractive and substantial character. his beautiful new edition will be completed In twenty Yomes—one novel each month—ai we extremely Teasonabie price of $1 0 per volume. Now is the time to subscribe for this su rh set of are the howe ‘mall hm month tor a stand ook, and tn @ short time become the owner of the enuire set’ Tt cab be had Of ail booksellers and newsdealers im the United States. 0 hing specimen of type, sized tion, and ayectinen copios of “Pickwick Papers,” now, ready, a lai by mall, postage tree, on De of price, . , CARLETON & CO., et deere a "SS TRAY: AROUND THE WORLD —' STi oaition of 25,000 copies of this remarsaie, not supply the earliest orderaefour RF alton ie tor coplee thin work of agencies Hg peeved to, the Dpublishera D. ‘ABEERUON & eae avd Gl Broadway,