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Show MODOC MATTERS. TIuh Mudnc husinenH U a Had one, and ovcry f'rculi iriHtallmeDt of'DuWBin-flronncrt of'DuWBin-flronncrt tlio feeling of liuiijiliation. Wo aro told by tlio dispatches received yea terday that tlio Modocs have bcon ro-puliicd ro-puliicd ! A Hiuall band of half starved HavacH, nuriibmuK at firat bowo sixty warriorw, and of whom enough havo been reported killud at different lituca to count up more than tlio ootire quiii-brr, quiii-brr, attack a iWeo of United SlatcH troops sent against thcin and that ban been threatciiiDfj thoir ulterand tweedy extermination lir weekn; and we aro informed, in a sort of exulting manner, tliat tho tow (tavaea havo been re puted I ilut heforo thin repulse thry N had aucucded in fitampediop; tho cattle of tho command, and in killing, as at first reported, four floldicra aod one Warm Spring Indian; and, though we aro told that they wcra driven to tie timber, a Dumber of mules and a Modoc Mo-doc tent hoi rip; captured, no mention is made that any of Ihcm wore killed. A still later telegram, received last night, reduces tho killed to one soldier and ono Warm SpriDg Indian, with oight soldiers and ono Indian wounded, some scrioualy; and tho last having einoo died of his wounds. Tho Modocs aro roported fleeing, starving, starv-ing, thoir ammunition exhausted, and thcmsclvoE almost .. thoronghly demoralized. Yet captain Jaok and soma thirty-Qvo of his warriors actually attacked tho troops before whom be was reported fleeing, stampoded thoir animals, killed threo men, wounded a number of others, and retired before hH opponents without losing a man, so fur an reported. This is humiliating; and it is all the more bo to note the stress laid upon tho acts of, and tho importance import-ance attachod to, tho Warm Spring Indians. Tho Modocs are "fleeing" this time, as roported, to the stronghold strong-hold from which they massacred pooi Thomas and bin men ; a stronghold whence, competent authority ban said, a thousand men could not dislodge ten of them, if they hud ammunition and provisions; and it is difficult to say what their resources may bo. In fact it is within tho bounds of probability that they only "fled" from thatstrODg-hold thatstrODg-hold to seoureafrenh stock of supplies, and that tho next wo hear o' them may bo anoihor ambuscade. Wo repeat., tU Mudoo business is a sad ono, and bai unquestionably been bungled from tho start. How many lives of bravo men aro to be sacrificed in it before tho end is roadbed ? |