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THE FAIRFIELD HERALD Published Every Wednesday at WINNSOR OI, S. C. 3r ]PESPORTES A W iLLIAMS. -o TERMS-IS A lVANCR. One Copy oneyear, - 00 rive " a, 4 1200 Ten " " " 2-360 New York ('orfespondenitn. N.w YonK. .prl 22, 1873. Mr. dilor: There is, in the public mind, ht all times a material desire to read, digest and ponder upon tvorything sensa tional, and I flhtter myself that a few "'pencillings by the waybide," from modern Sodom, would intorest your readers. I therefore, as the school )o.y said, when he wrote his first let ter, "I take my pen in liand," Ao. To do what ? To give you the news of the day, but nothing more.. Suf fieo it to say, I left home with the thermometer at 90 deg., I landed hore with a heavy whito frost, and have experienced some eight or ten days, with the thermometer ranging from 32 to 40 deg. Rain, s'oe, and snow for the last five (lays without intermission. Green peas $10 per bushol, and strawberries $1 per doz. en, aparrague $1 per bunch and rad iihes five cents each, and strange to say, fools enough to buy them as fast as they arc received from the South. Would to Iloaven, that every cotton pluntition were planted in vegetables at ,these figures, it would supersede the necessity of investing everything in cotton. At this season of the year the city of New York, as might be naturally expected, is crowded to its full ex. tout, too soon to leave for summer excursions, too late to %eek a South ern climate, everybody at home and it really seems to the writer, "every one seeking whom he may devour." .Money is, and ever has bevny the God of the Yankee. An, hour spent in the "cotton exchange," or in the "atock board," would soon convince a green. horn that your entire salvation de pended upon the amount of money you could raise before 3 P. M., with out the slightost regard to faith or repentance ; and if one half of the Now York biokers ever expect to re. alize a better situation after death in any other clime than New York, they hope to do to by oi extinguish-3r of ' margin upon "call." Vall ntreet has been a scene of extraor dinary excitement the past week. bloney commands three-quarters to one per cent per diem ; cotton flat and dull; trade moderate ; failures in every speculative line, frequent ; not loss than fifty millions lost and won im the part week. Buit what of it ? They have the money to loose, and I only regret td say a great portion of it comes from the hard earnings of the South. At present a few million 1ires look up all the available capi. tal, aind consequently restrict bank accomodations, and moderate men who speciltte, (and who does not in New York ?) "go by the board.'' So much fir tinant i-m ing. Anmong the mhany sensational items of thc (lay are licst, the Modoo war, every body wishes the Indian, Capt. J1ack, capt uredl an d brought to New York. }brnumiii would give ten thou sand (loll ara for h hisiie for just one mont h, anid then t urn him over to G en. Sheran. lluit from last ad vices, he will prove ton mnu.h for the War Depart lmen t. M uch hypocriti. cal sympathy was expected for the death of (Gen. C'anby. I am inolined to the opinion that the South will shed but few tears for his death, ro lt-ect inig upon his rule in South Caro.. hua. TPo which I say "so be it.."' Anuother- sensat ionalI is that ef the Stoigtonm Rail road, which managed to kill and cripple seime sixty-fouir passenge'(rs out (~oe hunmdred and~ six, but it is pard~ y bilown over. Nabody to bhLu nc. l'rovidene caiused it by sweeping away the bridge by a fresh. et whilkt the stat ion man was asleep, and on the last Sabibath seine fifty Suiierau sermons 1verie preachledl in .'rovidlence, New York an-l Boston, in miemoiry of the dead. Sundlry law * ut hiowever, are Mire to follow, and mian or ni ife will be fully' compensated by dai mmages. Another strong illus. I ration of the Yankee, love of mon 0*-. It is said that crime in all its forms was never miore rampant in New York than at the p-resent time, notwith staindling there are not less than thirty cases on trial for murder, and some eight or ten convictions and two proineint men senteniced to bo hung, among thiem E-d ward Stokes who abet the notoriou~ .Jimn Fisk, and for whose lpardon One hiuindrcd thousand dollars hais becen uflered . Mark thism prod ie. t io, muoney will tell, Stokes will not hang ! TPhe better classes of this great city truly need some legislation to protect their lives and property ngninst thme outrages daily anid nightly pe pertd even under tihe very noses of the polic. Quite a comnmotion is created by the Co tho lies to-day on a telegram ainnucing the deathI of the Pope of Rome, although denied in some of' the papers, it is said to be true and kecpt stecret to avoid 1.utblic agitation in regard to hi~s successor. It also rumored that thme great mer chant, A. T. S'ewart, is dying. He bas not less thuin twelve doctors now in consultation. If so-lie must surely (lie, without the benefit of clergy, but certainly for thme welfare of this great city, for it is said he leaves aboum forty miillions of dollars for oharita ble j~urposes. As an illustration of the moral cor. ruption of the people here, as well at Uf a eel tain party in the South, the Legislature of New York, now in session at Albany, h',ve discoVered in their investigation of the affairs of the Erie Railroad, that a oettain Jim Fisk, Pre.,ideut and of Jay Gould, Vice President, whde utillions out of their admiiaitration by buying and selling spurious stodk declaring divi. dends without tb funds tn iand to pay the satue legitimeely, and then selling out at a high igttre, That one lawyer for the party received a fte of fl11000, another on the other side, $35,000 to refuse to prosecute and moveral other pilinpa and setikore some $10,000, each to further their Cause all at the expense of the stookholders. Real estate continuos to advan V and improvements In the style of building continue to increase with the progress of the age. A vacant lot 105 feet front, on Broadway, sold yes terday at $3,000 per foot, ($315,000.) Some thirty vacant lots 105x25, five niles from the battery sold for $20, P!00 each. A single building in Wall street, that cost $300,000 to build, (the lot coot $1,00,000 alone,) rents for $80,000, yet this is but 6 per cent on the inventtuent. a southern visitor at this season of the year is favorably impressed with the stylo of dress which characterikes the people of a northern clime. The gentleinen ar Unifoimly attired in heavy overcoats of every variety and shade of coloring, thick heavy snow boots in many ensos worn on the out side of the pants. The ladies, or at least those who can affard it, are rigged out at a figure that would buy a good farm at the South, Shawls, furs and overcoata, costing as high as $300 to *1,500. The latter in despite of the weather, can be found promo na.ding Broadway froth l0a. in. until midnight, many of them popping in front of the hotels where the nen are to be found, gazing no doubt with delight, as they trip along, signifying by looks and similes to strangers, that an acquaintance can be found if do. sired. The equipage of the wealthy classes would equal if not surpass any. thing in Europe. $2,500 for a car riage, and double this amount in some instances for a span horses, all of which forebodes in my opinion a crisis in duo time, and certainly before a national debt of two thousand millions of dollars can probably be paid. The daily arrivals from all parts of the world are now estimated at not less than twenty.six thousand souls. I Lavo obly in met tho past week, but four from South Carolina, notwitstand. ing, so fur as regards social inter courso and high-toned honor, I would not hazard a dimo to exchange them for the one half of Manhattan Island. I hope "to live and die in Dixie," as Rgainst the people north of the I oto. nine, my motto is "Millions for de fence, not a cent for tribute." LOCOMOTIVE. WIN-SBom Wednesday Morning, April 30, 1873. R. MEANS DAVIS, Editor. g Correspondence, sollelted frota svery section Of the country. Our cohimns are open Wo all for a free dliscusslon of any prlnciple, theory or Ides, butt we are in ho way responsible for the views or opinions of correspondents. The Mod.os. Despatehes fromn the seat of war re port that.Captain Jack still continues to resist the powers of Uncle Sam. A few days ago we heard that he had been driven from the Lava Bed, and most aoon be captured. But it now appears that Captain Jack was only making a strategie move, and he has changed his base to another cover, fully as impregnable as his former lair. Although two generals, half a dozen colonela and majors, and a thousand subalterns and privates, with artillery, cavalry, and small arms in abundance, are pitted against seventy half starved savages all told, braves, squaws and pappooses includ ed, they have as yet effected nothing. Geon. Sherman thinks there will be some trouble yet, and declares him. self disgusted with the peace polioy. We arc disgusted not only with the peace policy, but the war policy too. Several years ago, it was stated, that every Indian killed coat the govern mont a million of dollars. The price has risen since then. A thousand boys in blat, after three months' campaign, hav, killed four Modocs; and a band of friendly Indians who are paid noth ing, haavo sicalped five mere. At this rate, in twenty-four month, more, the tribe will be exterminated, and Caop tain Jack, accompanid by Bogus Chauley, Shocknasty Jim, and El len's man will be sent to the happy hunting grounds, whore Agenats case from stealing and Modoes are at rest. The Ku Klux Tax. As is well known to all our taxpay era, the Comptroller.General levied a half mill tax on the property of the County for the support of the widows and orphans of the victims of' the bloody Ku Klux. But as yet we do not know who were victims. We have searched diligently for them, but in vain. The energetio Judge of I this Circuit aided us with every mean. in his power, and charged the Grand 1 Jury at last Cout to lnatho.. vie. time. The Grand Jury pesoed in all the dark omers of the Count examined wittesses, held constalt tion, and mad an elaborate repoi They could ohly discovr two tau der@ and neither of these could I oharged upon that terrible secret a ganization. As yet, no b&tnafide vi tims have been fotund, They eki only in the fettile imagination lawmakers and tax gatherers, and b Ing but baseless fabrics they can su sist on:more otherial diet than a ha mill tax. To what use) then, will tih mobey be applied 7 I)uriug the )a session of the Legislature, Mr, Mill introduced a resolutioni to refurd t1 tx I but no Attion was taken in ti ratter. The n hoy I- now in ti Treasury. one things we kno and some we don't know. We know we have paid over two tho sand dollars into the Truasut-y, at we dioIt know what has become of i It must go some whore, It wou aid considerably in paying the on standing school certilloatt,, that a so plentiful now. It might go great way in relieving the Cuun Comminsioners frot eubarramnci occasioned by levying an insufioie County tax. And it would also en ble the Comptroller-Oeneral to pu obase a One span of horses, or a su arban villa. It might-but we wi not enumerate the miany charitab purposes to which It tnight be devo Dd. The Taxpayers of Fairield a generous and kindhearted. The consider eharity one of tho cardin virtues. They only desire to kno whither their benifloence is directe Satified on this point, they ask n more. Mr. Comiptroller-Genreral, we ni Fou as a special favor to tull us if ye hare found shy victims, and if no where In that nmoncy i If there at ao viotimited widows and orphans Pairileld) give it to the sohool rhey are tieding funds badly. Or you do not believe ib ethools, apply to some other purpose. At any ra tend It somewhere, Don't keep yourself. Carryingoal to NeWoastle. An exchange states that the steat ship Great laitern lins been charte ed by a Cnpainy who conternpla literally "carrying coal to Newon ble." The first impulse of every ono r seivi ng this item of news is to Vic the speculation as excessively lI 3rous. The proverb "carrying coa to Newcastle," has for oenturics hee surrent, as expresling better th: anyth'ng else, the ide.t of add ing perfluity to excesi. And now we i. a company, in the very teeth of tl proverb, engaginig in tn oter prise a ways considered thre height of tol A company too, comiposed of shres yankees, men of husiness, nho nrev venture without a certainty of Mu oes. This specutlatlo. has in it hidden meaning of grave im port. tells of the decline <>f British weal and power, by proving the decline the sonrce of that wealth and powe The English have long been a ntie of shop keeper.. Their manufactur are the most important in the world and through these, Enigland has b come groat. Her chief resource, a her mines of tin, coal and iron ; wit cut these she would sink into insi nileoance. For years, dier sujpp'y coal has been failing, and now t| mines are nearly exhmausted. Ueone forth she muust obtain her fuel fre other countries. This will Iro a fat blow to her prosperity. The inreo ed price of coal will decrease the pt fits on manufactures ; andl the timie not far distant when Birmningba and Manchester will no longer be t great manufacturing centres, Liv< pool no longer the leading nmarkeit the world. Trade will mnove we, ward ; and when England shall ha become a second rate poer t United States will take her pla, Within our borders are found mnn ala of every description in the grei eat abundance ; lhere we have et sufficient to supply the world thousands of years ; and here we e raise every material necessary for t wants of man. The Atlantie'shore of the Unit States will be the future muanufce ing region of the world. In this (a lies the future prosperity of sou Darolins. Our lands are too steri to compete withm Mi'sissipypi hotter and Western prairies ; and the coo er we recognize this fact, thre bott for us. Millions of dollars run a nually into the Ocean, in our neglec ad water po.wer ; while wo imiport most every article of necessity1 (u ury. When European factories fail, our r ources *,ill be developed. Intmmigern ion will pour in, because there wi >O something to attract it. Om Realth and popul ation will1 ino.. . -- =- A AIL A o and we will be freed from this politi. * cal thralldom under which we are now groataing. r' The PulO sohools, e As the publie have been stirptlatud r- t the action of t oie schoo. Superin t0ndent 'a closing the Suhoolasin sev. oral townships, we will give some of the reasons *bich impelled hibi to take this course. In the first place, all the money due this County has not if been roe -ied. The appropriation i for Fairfield for 1878 is Avithin a fiaetion of savort thousand dollars, Srine time Pince Treasurer Cardosa sent up three thousand, to satisfy out. statiding certificates for 1872, as not a cent of the $6,000 due the County under Parkers matanagenent W is eVer received. The o certifleates woo paid at the rate of twenty-three cents d on the dollar. Last- week, Mr. Smith octived three thoubandt more dfur this year's certificates% Unrdona wishes the frAt installm.-ut to be credited on this years apportionment a but the ooicials here, huld that as y this was to extinguish claitus of last year, it must be ereditod on last t year's accouit. Unless this lattek' view o adopted, there will bn a defi it of about fout thousand dollar ; and the Schools inust be closed in con. scquence. I3ut the ohief blame for this state of affairs attaches to the Trustcba of the various townships. Many cf them neglected to proVide a local fund by submitting the question of a local tax. and f-irthernore tquan dered what money was duo from the State) by haVing entirely tbo Many schools. In one township last year there were three schools in about as many miles. Three good nchools are as many as each township can unin. tain. t, In s.Veral townships, the trUstees have dune their duty) and hchools will be continued the whole term. The B. trustees of this township especially if descire credit. Their State app.r. it tionment utnd locil asses.4nent amount e to two thousanol dollars. They have it three 1:hools inl fuccebftl operation, uo.dor counletent instructors, and are demonstrating what, can be done for eduoation with propor management. In other tounships, aff:A'rs have :e been badly managed. Teachers in One precinet are paid from the funds of another ; and no account ha. been taken of children attonding other sobools thatn their own. Each towni. iship must, pay for it. child en, " IeI ever they alttend. No wonder that dissa-t:sfaction exi.ts under this mis n manaoem(nt. Wo d rot lock fur I ert lion at fli at ; but we intsist that e ficials tnust profit by experience. e Supt. Crawford mUst. remove in competent trustces and appoint good onoes ; and we trust thot genat'lemmen d thus api.oin-ed will not refuse to ac rcept. The position involvo s resgomsi b ility, btno good citizen should s hiok hlis duty. The free school sye tem is one of the few wise and bcue h fl. nt pieces of legislation enacted by our lawgivers. Let the conservative r. eloment do all in their power to ren. der it a blessing. Education is an i mperative necessit y to every citizen of Southa Carolina, "irrespective of -race, color, or previnns condition." re The Ku Klux Tax. h. Treasurer Smith furnishes tis with g- the information we desired in a form of er article on the Kut Klux Tax, ie in te formis us that thme money thus raised e- Is nowv lying in~ the Counmty Treasury m, waiting for instructions as to what al musnt be done with it. Mr. Smith also .s- states that he received orders to remit o, the tax but not until most of jt lhad is been paid in. le collected none af m ter receiving instruoctions to that of. ic feet ; nor has it been charged on the r- delinquent tax executions. We are of pleased to hear that this money har ~t- not as yet been devoted to itmproper epurposes, and that the Comptroller. lGnrlhas acted honestly in the e. matter ; and we are now anxious that rin the present embarrassed condition t- of the County Treasury it shall no al 'longer lie idle. The act nuthorizin~ or the levy of this tax, provides that in in case there are no Ku Klux victims in me the County, it shall go to the school fund. An order should therefore be ed immediately Issued to that effect, be. r- fore any more schools are closed. et The (deliciency in this sear's appo.. h tionment, arising fromo paying ast he year's certificates, could thus be sup. '1s plied. )One thing is certain ; the money ~r must go somewhere. It must either be returned to the taxpayers, or de t- voted to educational purposes. The -. first alternative is scareely practica. >blo. Thel amount levied is compara. tively small, only half a dollar on 8- every thousand~ ; and it would hardly I be worth the trouble and expense 1l necesary to refund it to each person ir who has paid it. It abould be given .to free schools;. not nlyeause this IL A AmAM A N Al EI A method of disposing of it would be most cont*nient, but because these schools 'should be supported. Our Citidens, we believe, would be satibfied with this disposition, As the not do. olares that the proceeds of the Tait shall go to the schools, we do hot be lieve any further legislation is neces- I sary I and we -trust that Superinten. t dent Crawford will make a demand for this money, on the proper au thorities, without dblay. We will al so protiise to say nothing more on the subject to Comptroller General Hoge and Treasurer Cardoza, if they will apply this fund as the law pt-ovides, I The people do not object to paying just toes, but they do enriously oba jeot to paying taxes on any such pre. text as Ku Klux victims. They are willing to support institutions benefi. cial to the country. They will even r. pay a heavy tax without grumbling 1 when they see every dollar, paid initho trensury, promptly paid out again to a ho08t creditors. But they will not e suffer their money to be recklessly squandered, or looked up forever in the public coffers, Temperandok t In the brave days of old, when 11. a quors were unadulterated and men d drank in moderatiot, it was consider ed an offenso against the laws of hos " pitality not to have three or four de. t oantet-s of wines and brandies on every side board, One of the regu. t lar duties of the butler on festive occ P easions) was to go around and loose the neck cloths of guests as each roll. ad under the table. But thcsb orgies lasted fur only a night t and the next 0 day, every mai wer,t to work lt ' s.) soon as the art of ianufact uring liquors frum leather, fusil oil, aqua n fortis, and strychnine) was discovered, d this time-honored custom had to n cease. Liquor no longer preserved life, but destroyed it. The viler the y whiskey, the more depraved beosme the toper's appetite, the more inast ijible bi! craving. Then the evil of. f fects of intemperance were felt, and a decided stand was taken against it- b Over the whole cetintry were or. ganized temperance societies. There e met with great opposition at first ; 9 but they had able champions who bat. tIed manfully in thuir behalf ; and how they number their adherents ly I thousands. The move is a good one. ' Some persons can drink in modera. tion, but the majority of mankind cannot. Whiskey is a wily and in sidiuus enemy, and though the old to- t per may light It for a long time, it generally brings him down in the end. Legislation is powerless against in temperance, and generally has the effect of strengthening opposition. t, Public sentiment alone can regulau U this matter. Thie question "to drink,, or not to drink," must he deelded at the tribunal of each man's conscience. Temperance organisations are more k potent than prohibitory statutes, and ~ only through them can a successful stand be made againatthei aggressors f of old John Barleycorn- a The temperance mociety of this a town bus beenu productive of much f good, and we wish it a long and pros' perous career.e ----------------.- - C Miethodist Ahead. The latest sta tisticks ashow that in C the matter of churches and the value i of church property, Mlethodism loadsd anl other denominations ini this coun. 1 try. Our' churches number 21,000 C andl the property Is valued at $69,. * 844,131. i'he Baptists como next on C the roll with 13,000, and a church ' property valuation of $39,000,000. t The Roman Catholics have 3,800 churches valued at $61,000,000; ~ the Presbyterians 6,000 churches t valued at $48,000,000. Episcopalians ( 2,600 churcbes and $36,000 proper ' ty. The Congregationalist have 2,800 ~ churches valued at $25,000,000, and 8 the other denominations range he- I tween $5,000,000 and $14,00'0,000. . Thus Methodist provides her places of worship at an average cost of aboutt $16,000-which exbibits the two ex. ' tremies.p Two young ladies, one of whom is a named Annie, entered the store of an ( acquaintance the other day, and ob-: serving a kitten playing about thet roomi, Mliss Annie takes it up to fon. t die. "0, what a sweet, darling lit. e the kit ten,'' says sheo. "WVhat's its a Iname ?" "It I as not been obristene1 yet," remarked :he gentleman. '70, a the dear timg ! Do call it Annie, ( won't on "' ''Should be very ap .py to do so,'' said the gentleman, but t it is't that kind of a eat." Anniei dropped it instanter.a An old bachelor says, if a girl c wants to kntow when she looks most a charming in the men's nyes, it is when , she wecars a simple muslin dress, with a frill of lace round the neck and at ifi the wrists,and no ornaments but youth- d fulness. There are more people than I old bachelors that believe that. e Th~e Blrownvillo States is of opinion fi that the sale of kisses at fifty cents al apiece, to raise funds for gospel pur poses, should be sternly discounten- o: aneed. The States is right. They el are worth a dar piec- a bat Npw OI1LKANS, \ pril 26.-20,000 perans visited the seventh annual Sturo Fair. Jil Ns..i.:, A pril 20 -Belknap, Seridan n d ot::l -ire here. They leavo ),or ew Oreans (n.u1 ay toneingl ait G dvveston. Tori:44, A pril 2.Taeosfo n1anoho contradict lie reports of fodian trouibles. k.AX FrnacIvco, April 26.-Mra phy, who killed Murray five yeaf ago, was hasiged at.Stockton yestera day. "Where are the Modocs I" i still the conundrum. No fighting siftit last Wednesday. .JAL 'lonic, Apt il 26.-Ju the Ch' cult Court of Anne Arundell Couthty, at Anapolis, this mOrning, the Ease of the State against M' Isabeth f, Wharton, for attempt. to murder ME. gene Van Ness, was betriud by prose. outing Attorney Redell, with conselnt 4f Attorney General Syegter. This ends the fanotus Wharton trials. M1reis, April 26.-The Aemphis Life and General Insurance Bank, D. P. Molloy, President, has failed. Mtaritna, Ark., has been burned loss $50 000. From Washington, WA811NOToN, D. C., April 2. Owing to the Indian excitement the Government has withdrawn the appeal for the release of Santana and Big Tree, notwithstanding the Kiowas have complied with the conditions. Gueral Scofield, in a private tele. grain to-day, expresses great confi - donce In his troops. le is making every possible arrangement to render successful the movements against the the Modoos, who he believes are still itt the lava beds. A telegram from Governor Kellogg to the Attorney General, received to. day Is as follows : "iatters are quiet In Louisinna, with the exception of four or five parishes. My communi. cation to General Emery, requesting that troops be sent to these remote parishei, was with a view to prevent any possible outbreak. The state nent that isued commissions to fusion offiers in Grant Parish, or to any other tian those first commission ad, is untrue. The State taxes are being cAlected rapidly. Tax resist ing is breaking down. The colleo tions during the past thirty days ex ceed collections for same tim6 in any previous year. The amount of taxes and licenses eol lected in New Olearns during the first qtzarter of 1872, was one hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars. The amount collected first quarter of 1873, is two hundred and Ofty-four thousand dollars. We collected but little during January and February, owing to political difficulties." The Self-Constitted Look-Ont. There is a story of a passenger crossing on one of the steamers of a well-known line, whose' distmist was 'o grent that lie spent every night on deck, keeping watch forward. Dur ing the days he slept. One night thern enme a shout from the bows, where thin amateur stood, "Roek aheadl !" The) ship's look out had gone tosleep. The~ woch on deck were nalcep. The1I oflicer on the hi idge was asleep. Thel~y woke up with the ishout, anid whe~n ibey hadJ got thue helm bardi up, and the huge ship swunng Fullenily off' her Course, the startled passengers who thronged upon deck, saw the blac liffs of Cape Race glooming down on them within a biscuit's tots. My authority for that story, is one of the engineers of the ship in which the inoident oo. curred, - Treatlc Blurned.' A smiall trestle, abrut forty feat in length, on the Greenville and Colum bia Railroad, nine miles from Colum. bia, was destroyed, Monday, by aun accidental fire. Passengers were de tained about three--quarters of an hour, while baggage was being trans ferred over the break. The fire wasn caused by the burning of the grass in a neighboring field.--Ph eax. .FR AN NFOnT, April 22,-.The rjoting in this city .veiterday was caused by an advance in the price of beer. The disorderly doemonstrations lasted until midnight, and the troops were pelted with atones several times during the evening. Sixteen breweries were wrecked by the rioters, and there was much plundering. During the oonfiiot whiolh took place twelve persons were killed and forty wounded. One hun. dIred sand twenty of the rioters were ar. rested. One fact stands out prominent in connection with the great Atlantic ca lamity--that not a single woman or child was saved . We don't remem ber ever to have read of an instance of the kind. Weightead down by the terrible responsibility resting upon him, theo captain of the ill-fated vessel is said to have been tior. distressed at not saving a life of a single female than at anything else connected with the catastrophe. A carpenter in Seluma, Alabama, was ordered by lome rough. to leavethe city under penalty of being ahet, and on the third day after the warning they rode up and fired into the house. lie sent his family down in the cellar, took down his shot gun and began a battle that lasted fifteen minute., at the end of whioh one man was fatally and another severely wounded. The coroner's jury exonerated the carpen. The Vienna Exposition will cost nearly eight million five hundi-ed thousand .dollar.. It will require the contributions of twenty millions of looer-on in Vienn a o ae ay._ M -X Forrlipn Nrws. LONDoN, April 21 -A critical itt section plhnws the F'kt cable to 43 broken 2-0 miles froin the French oant. PAnis, April 26.-A dcpat-b frin Jadrid denies the proclamatiun of lie Cominure in that city. BxalJN, April 26.-Bisimarck's ill regislating the clergy passed the Ipper House. News lItinm. SAN FANtcisco, April 2. iround was oroken for the Texas and 'aoitlo itailroad yesterday at Ban )iego. There was a large assem Pluge. The Directors say the road rill be completed by 1876. The women and children of the fodoca were removed before the iasacre of the peaoe coin missionere. lodoce appear to be entrenched in a eighboring cave. Eleven dead and no live Modoo were found in the iva beds to-day, making sixteen lodoo warriors dead. Six soldiers ud one civilian were killed and leven soldiers wounded. When the cavalry returns the bdoes will be attacked where it is upposed they are, ' A dispatch dated the twentieth ays that nothing has traspired. The roups are waiting the return of the avalry and the Warm Spring In ians. LATa.-'The firing Is heavy and teady at the head of Long Cave, here the troops were attacked by he Indians coming down for water. NEw Yonit, April 22,-Twelve boneand emigrants arrived at thins --rt last weekt Chas. G. Ilamtpton was arrested rhile disposing of $50,000 in bonds, tolen from a Pitteburg merob ant. CINCMNNATI.April 22.-Thirtyanine f the forty-three s'okers at the gas rorks struck for more wages and few. r hours. Now hands are engaged. VASHINGTON, April 22.-There is othing late at the War or Interior epartuments from the Modoo war up oon to-day. 11oST4, April 22.-John A nderson, f New York, has deeded to Professor LgasaiZ the Penkise Island for the reposed national history school. LINco.x, April 22.-The first grain ir a week on the Burlington and lilsouri Road arrived to-day. ALBANY, April 26.-The canal will e opened on the lth of May. New Yonx, April 26.- 127 keep rs of sailor boarding- houses were in icted for violation of the new sbipp ig Act. Fifty-two were locked up or examinAtion. The Purchasing Committee of the ;oard of Indian Commissioners have ontracted for 1,508 dozen butoher nives and 120 skinning knives, mong other articles to be furnished ie Indians. Twenty delegates from. various rades unions in the United States et in seret isession .st evening, and Iter disouss'on, resolved to postpone ny attempt to cuforce the cigh i.hotir do till 1874. [he banik ntatement shiowa a pr.iin in .a reserve of over $50;0,0i0 ;loans crea-od $875,000o ; specie decreased 1 :5.000 ; legal ic i.drs incereased l ,000 00)0 ; dJga.ults in cre ased $l,. W0,000. Most of' theo sailor boarding..house eepce were retleased oni $5,00 Recorder Unckett has received more threatening letters. Hie has been >llowed by suspicious looking char etern. Stones and filth were thrown gainst the front of his house. The olice are on the alert. GI~IMArrowvn, On~o, April 2.-A stther, son and daughter were poison d ; it is supposed by arsenie in their affee. W AshttroN, A pril 26.-The ease f Mrs. Hlambleton, daughter of Mr. asley, of Georgia, was argued before ie Solicitor of the Treasury, E. C. anfiold. It involves 2,133 bales of otton, seized in the South west, bhioh were purchased withm the pro. seds of her fathmer's estate, which rain valued at $300,000. Mrs. 11am. leton was represented by Judge 'errepont, of New York, Judge ~ochrane, of Georgia,and Judge Nor. on, of this city. Gov. Bartley, of )hio, and Mr. Janin of Louisiana, epresentod other parties, who claim part of the proceeds, upon the round that some of the cotton was urchasod from them with CJonfeder to money. The Government was Lot "epresented by counsel, though lie law under which tshe proceedings rc had appropriates $20,000 for that urpose. Thte report of the Solicitor Annifeld is looked for with great nxiety, as the case will solve nearly very question involved. There arc 424,000,000 in the Treasury, subject o 1,243 claims legitimately before he Treasury D~epartment. The law arefully guards the Government gainst false claims, and the difficulty a increnased by carelessness, and in ome instances ritineaity on the part f cotton agents. Judge Loohrano aea close and logical annlysis of lie law and facts in the pending caso, n which he denounced the cotton gonts at the South as a gang of plun erers, and demanded, under the Act f May, 1872, that their plunder bould be restored to the lawful own rs. GorLassOno, N. 0., A pril 26.--The rost '%st night throughout the State sanaged crops and fruit generally. L is feared that the cotton planted is ntirely ruined. KNOXVILLEC, April 2.-A heay 'ost fell hero, reaches are killed Lid wheat injured. CINCIN NA TI. A pril 26...The strike fthe Crispina and gas men has aded. Snow in vaim,. pa.. ofe State.