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The Jesip Sentinel. Office in the Jesup House, fronting on Cherry street, two doors from Broad St. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, ... BY ... T. P, LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid.) One year ..$2 00 Six months I 00 Three months 50 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion $1 00 P* s r square, each subsequent insertion. 75 rates to yearly and large ad vertisers. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS, Mayor—W. H. Whaler. Councilnien—T. P. Lktlefield, H. W. Whaley, Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield, Anderson Williams, Clerk and Treasurer—O. F. Littlefield. Marshal— G. W. Williams. COBMTY OFFCEBS. Ordinary—Richard R. ITopps. Sheriff—John N. Goodbread. Clerk Superior Court—Benj. O. Middleton Tax Receiver—.l. C. Hatcher. Tax Collector—W. R. Causey. County Surveyor—Noah Bennett, County Treasurer—John Massev. Coroner—D. McDitha. County Commissioners—J. F. King, G W. Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, Ishara Reddish. COURTS. Superior Court, Wayne County—Juo. L. Harris, Judge ; Simon W. flitch, Solicitor* General. Sessions held on second Monday in March and September. Blattar, Pierce County Gap.. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—Andrew M. Moore. Councilnien—D. P. Patterson,J. M. Downs 1 J.'M. Lee, E. P. Brantly. i Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdom. Town Treasurer—B. I). Brantly. Marshal—E. Z. Byrd. COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary—A. J. Strickland. Clerk Superior Court—Andrew M. Moore. Sheriil—E. Z. Byrd. County Treasurer—D. P. Patterson. County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson. Tax Receiver and Collector—.l. M. Pur* dom. Chairman of Road Commissioners--H,si District, G. M., Lewis C. Wylly; 12;.o Dis trict, U. M., George T. Moody ; 58-1 District, G. M., Charles S. Youmanns; 59Q District! G. M., D. B. McKinnon. Notary Publics and Justices 0 f the Peace, etc.—Blacbsh'*ar Precinct . 584 district,G.M ' Notary Public, J, G. S. Patterson ; Justice of the Peace, R.. R, James; Ex-otlicio Con stable L. Z. Byrd. Mill Precinct 1250 District, G. M, Bo'rfiry Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of the /pace, Geo* T. Moody; Constable, W. F. r/ickson* , Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M., Jot&'y Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, H. Prescott and A. L. Griner, Schlattervillc Precinct, 560 District, G. M., Notary Public, D. B. McKinnon; .Justice of the Peace, X. P>. Mam ; Constable, John W. Bcoth, Courts—Superior court, Pierce couuty. T ohn L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitch, * -dicitor General. Sessions held first Mon dry in March and September. Corporation court, Blaclfshear, Ga., session held second Saturday in each Month. Police court sessions every Monday Morning at 0 o’clock. JBSDF HOUSE, Corner Broad and Cherry Streets, (Near the Depot,) T. P- LITTLEFIELD, Proprietor. .Vewly renovated and refurnished. Satis faction guaranteed. Polite waiters will take four baggage to and from the house. BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Meals 50 c 5 CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. Southern Itemit, Many families are said to be leaving Chicago daily for Texas and Florida. Probate .fudge Morrow, of Jefferson county, Ala., has been impeached for drunkenness. Hot Springs doctors board the trains before they arrive at the springs, and drum for customers. Every person who goes there is expected to be sick. Gov. Colquitt, in a recent speech at Columbus, deeply deplored the loss of independence and thrift by the farmers since the war. A red Irish setter dog, that cost two hundred pounds in Ireland, has just been received by the Nashville kennel club, to he prepared for the November field trial. Natchez Democrat : "On an acre of pine land at Alabama Furnace, Mr. Joseph Fmith raised 100 bushels of Irish pota toes. Before the potatoes were dug he planted corn between the rows, and the corn gives promise of at least fifty bush els. The potatoes brought $1 per bushel. The corn, at fifty cents a bushel, will bring $25; the crop from the acre realiz ing $125. This is equal to about three bales of cotton.” WEST. The election of J. C. Murphy, Demo cratic state -enatr.r from the north dis trict in ftan Francisco, is to be contested bv his Republican opponent, W. W. Mor row. The women voters of Cheyenne, Wy oming, hate given up trying to “purify the polls.” The rush and jam of men around the boxes have prevented many from voting, and now they have the exclusive use of the hotel reading room for that purpose. Two female judges of election are appointed to superintend the tyrxes. ' Two alleged counterfeiters, W. W. Hutchison, of Baltimore, and W. P. Funk, of AI US'/,, a, have been arrested at Tyrone. Hutchison was shot dead while endeavoring to escape. It is announced from San Francisco that the United States grand jury has found four indictments asainst Geo. M. Pinney and Rufus C. Spalding, late pay inspector, on charges o! conspiracy and fraud in issuing forged certificates for money against the government. It is telegraphed from Hazleton (Pa.) ile graijj Scnfind. VOL. 11. that 'he demand of the miner* who struck lor the restoration "t the wages paid last Msv and a percentage on any advance of ( o 1 above $3.25 at side, has been al lowed. The strike is ended. The Warm Spring Indians reported off their reservation and massacreing the whites, afe not the noted scouts who have served the government so long, and who figured in the Modoc war. The former are New Mexico and Arizona Indians, while the latter have a reserva tion,in Oregon. Special dispatches from Tucson, Ari zen la, to the San Diego, Cal., Union, re* port that the Warm Spring Indians, who recently left San Carlo3, have killed at least fourteen men and wounded eight. Three detachments ot Arizona- troops, and all those available in New Mexico are after the Indians. Major Tupper and command struck the Indians at Knight’s ranche anil killed forty. Stur gis, assisted by Howard’s cavalry uuuer Samord, had a fight in Canon Creek on the morning of the 14th. A number o! Indians were killed and many horses taken. The Crows got away with all the Nez Perees’ pack animals. ' They report that the River Crows from Muscle Shel 1 have headed off the Nez Perees, and arc driving them toward Gen. Sturgis. In two fights the Crows and soldiers have captured nearly 1,000 horses. ForeKgti Intelligence. It is probable that Osman Pash will be made minister of war. It is said that Suleiman Pasha’s force ten days ago was 42,000 men, with ample field artillery and mountain guns. It is announced from Havana that abiaut three thousand troops have arrived from Spain during the last ten days, landing at different points. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that the Russian police have discovered a Nichibst conspiracy to assassinate the Czar on the battlefield' A report says that the Czarowitch’s forces have been so weakened to re-inforce the Plevna army that they are no match for Mehemet Ali. The Russians are still in posse e sion of Grivica redoubt, which was under a con tinual heavy fire from the Turks. Til's redoubt was visited by Colonel Wellesly, who says it is heaped full of dead Rus sians and Roumanians. A native Hindoo, describing, in a let ter to the Times of India, some of the suffering incident to the terrible famine now prevalent there, tells of people eat ing the seeds of the bamboo and tamarind and the leaves of various forest trees, baited with a little salt and eaten with a coarse bread, three parts of which are dust arid chaff. “In some of the towns,” says the correspondent, “ the poor people lipk patfansbes. the leaves from which others have tftten their food, devour mango-peels and the rotten fruits cast into the gutter, and dispute the garbage of the city with its dogs.” <iieieral Note*. The Catholics have a misssionary force of 1,7000 in Hindeostan. Three counties of California have wo men school superintendents. The Baptists have tv/enty organized churches among the Creek Indians, most of which have Indian pastors. Ihirty Chinese merchants in San Francisco have united in an appeal to the board of education to have public schools opened for the instruction of Chinese youth. The clerk of the house of representa tives states that the democratic majori ty, according to the certificates now in, will be eleven. Gen. Gibbon telegraphs that Major Walsh was at Fort Benton a few days ago, and reported Sitting Bull was still north of the line, in British Columbia. Four convergent expeditions are now in the field against chief Joseph, and it is believed that the wily chieftain is being so hemmed in that escape will be impossible. According to the year book of the Trinity church of New York, the total amount of property held by the corpora tion is $7,000,000 ; the annual revenue is $500,000. A self-opening envelope, with a thread in the edge of the upper flap, by pulling which the envelope is quickly and neatly opened, is the newest invention in sta tionary. Cattle in the vicinity of Leavenworth, Kansas, have become infected with the Texas fever and are dying br dozens. The herd of Indian cattle by which the disease was propagated were shipped to St. Louis. Secretary Sherman received from New York, from an unknown person, $7,551 for an error in the income returns in 1865 and 1866 and omission in 1870, and placed the money to the credit of the conscience fund. Charges of converting United States moneys to his own use have been prefer red against U. S. Surveyor-Gen. Rollins by Senator Booth of California. The amount of his defalcation is said to be $3,000. The community of Adventists at Dan vers, Mass., convinced that Saturday is the proper day to observed as the Sab bath, have given notice that hereafter they will do no work on that day. Gen. Crook, a veteran and successful Indian fighter, says that the Indians are now as well armed with breech-loaders as the regular troops, and shoot better. The terrible loss suffered by Gen. Gib bon’s command in the Big Hole battle proves that the Nez Perces had excellent weapons, and knew how to use them. It is becoming painfully evident that Lo is no longer the simple child of the forest that he was in the days of Cooper. It is a great pity he was ever initiated into the mysteries of breech-loading rifles. It will not be a great while before the noble red man will be hankering after iron clad and Krupp cannon. In the late rifle-shooting at Oreedrnoor the Englishmen did far better than they ever did before, but that was not good enough to beat the Americans. The Englishmen scored 3 242 out fa possible total ot 3.6M0 points, while theAmermans scored 3,334, winning by f*2 points. The correspondent of the Toronto Globe in New York, in explanation of the Briti-h defeat, says: Sturgis writes under date of Muscle- •TESUP. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1877. shell, 16th, that in a fight on the 13th and the pursuits of the 14 and 15th, twenty dead warriors were foued, and he believes more were killed. He estimates their loss in wounded at sixty. Hiaown loss were French, Nicholson and Gresham wounded slightly, four soldiers killed and twelve wounded, several scouts killed and wounded, nine hundred horses dropped by the hostilea up to the 16th ami had dropped many of his horses. The com uiand had been living four days on mule’s meat. To prevent fires in the snow-sheds on the Central Pacific railroad, the magnates have devised a complete fire telegraph system with an alarm box every mile. Track-walkers patrol the road day and night. A lofty tower has also been erected on a mountain 10,000 feet high, commanding with telescopes a view of the line from Blue Canon to the summit, and from this observers will certainly watch the road, having telegraphic com munication with the fire train at Cisco, which is always ready to' set out for a conflagration. A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio, says: A cattle plague, thought to be a species of the Texas fever, has broken out among the cattle in the surrounding country. Texas cattle this year are covered with ticks of two varieties, the bite of which is poisonous to the blood. Many of the cattle are dying daily. Several cases of children having been poisoned by drink ing the infected milk have already come to the notice of the city physicians. The beef is affected by the disease, but can be easily detected by spots. The disease is said to be very infectious. A veterin ary surgeon who has treated about 40 cases says the symptoms with milch cows are first a falling oft of about half the yield of milk, then bloody passages of urine, and in a few hours death. He rec ommends as treatment, to wash the ani mal in a lotion which acts as a disinfec tant for the ticks and an antidote for the poison. Sflciiw and liiduHtry. The brandy production of North Carolina is immense. Over three hun distillers are registered in the internal revenue division about Statesville. The cotton-seed oil trade has increased greatly of late years. The article is largely shipped to F.urope, whence it is reshipped to this country in tbe guise of “ pure olive oil.” It has been proved in Nevada and other silver-producing states of the west that capital devoted to agriculture pays better and more regularly than if put into gsld and silver mines. The lead interests of Galena, 111., have been seriously injured by the su perabundance of lead produced in the reduction of Nevada and Colorado silver ores. The building has been completed and the machinery placed for anew cotton mill at Savannah, Georgia. It will have 7,300 spindles, and 123 looms, and will be exempt from taxation. Some Massachusetts capitalists are about to establish a manufactory of cot ton hosiery at Paducah, Kentucky. It is stated that this will be the only estab lishment of the kind south of Philadel phia. The emigration of carpenters from this country to England is managed under the auspices of an employers’ union at Manchester, who are endeavoring to break down a strike carried on by the English carpenters, and the demand for workmen from this country is therefore not a natural one. The poorer the quality of illuminating gas, the greater the velocity with which it rushes through the registering 'meter, so that the consumer pays a higher price in proportion to the deterioration of the article supplied to him. Nothing ad mits of greater fraud than gas manufac turing, and in nothing else is thejpublic so grossly humbugged. Quite a large business is done |in the exportation of white birch wood from New Hampshire forests to be made into thread spools. The firm of Coats & Cos., in England, uses very large quantities of this wood for their spools, and they find it superior to any wood they can procure in their own country. It is estimated that over a million leet were exported for this purpose last year, and the demand is increasing. ReliiCiotiM. A book with the curious title of “Jesus of Nazareth neither Baptized not Slain by Jews or Gentile,” by the Rev. George Bartle, I). I). D. C. L , has just been published at Liverpool. There are forty-three Protestant churches in San Francisco, and of the American population of 100,000 only about 15,000 attend church. The Cen tral Presbyterian church has been dis banded for want of sup/port. The beautiful Methodist church in Saratoga, N. Y., which cost over SI,OOO - is almost held in the grasp of the sheriff for a debt of $50,000, and will be actually in his grip ere long unless this sum or part of it is paid. The Jewish Messenger contains a lead ing article headed “Our Anomalous Condition.” The Jews, at present, it says, are without rule or order; their congregations legislate for their own small communities, while the collective body is permitted to run wild. Mr.jMoodyJhas decided to devote him self next winter of the salvation of New England. He says: “It has been laid on my heart that in this district was the place for labor the coming winter, but not until within a day ,or two. after praver, have I felt that I could decide upon this field. The Churchman formulates an opinion an church union as follows: “.Sects that approximate in everything but name, Bnd keep up distinction merely for the sake of being distinct, are nui sances. But when a distinction repre sents a principal, we say, stick to it till the principle is shown to be false.” The Church Union prophesies after this fashion : The church of the future will not be sectarian or denominational —it will be one body in Christ, and all its members will lie Christians. They will not call themselves by the names of men, or of ordinances; but all will be satisfied with that good old-fashioned name, Christian. The Pastor’s Reverie. The pastor sits in his eiay-chaii, With the Bible upon his kuee, From gold to purple the clouds in the west Aro changing momently; The shadows lie in the valh y balow, And hide in tne curtain’s told ; And the page grows dim whereon he reads, “ I remember the days of old.” “Not clear nor dark,” as the Scripture saith, The pastor’s memories sre; No day that is gone was shadowlea#, No night was without its stnr; But mingled bitter and sweet hath been “The hand that in love hath am tten,” he saithi “In love hath lound us up.” • Fleet flies his thought over many a field uf stubble and snow aha bloom, Ami now it trips through a festival, And now it halts in a tomb ; Young|aces smile in his revert* Of those that are young no more, And voices are heard that only come vVith the winds from n far-off shore. He thinks of the (lay when first, with feki And falter! rig lips, he stood. To speak in the sacred place the Word To the waiting multitude; He walks again to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise With many whose feet long time have pressed Heaven’s safe and blessed ways. He enters again the hotqee of toil, And joiiia in the homely chat; He stands in the shop of the artisan; He sits where tlie Master ant, At the pooriuan’s flieand the rich man’s feast. But who to-day are the poor? And who are the rich ? Ask Him who keeps The treasures that ever endme. Once more tbegreen and the grove resound With the merry children’s din ; He hears their shout at the Christmas tide, When Santa Claus stalks in. Once more he lists while the camp-fire roars On the distant mountain-side, Or, proving apostleship, piles the brook Where the fierce young troutliugs hide. And now lie beholds the wedding train Ti the altar slowly move, And tli© solemn words are said that seal Flie sacrament of love Anon at the font he meets once more The tremulous youthf il pair, With a white-robed cherub crowing response To the consecrating prayer. By the couch of pain he kneels again ; 1 Again, the thin hand lies Cold in his palm, while the last fax look steals iato the steadfast eyes ; And now the burden of hearts that break Dies heavy upon his own— The widow's woe and the orphan's cry And the desolate mother's moan. So blight and glad, so heavy and sad, Are the days that are no more. So mournfully sweet are the sounds that float With tli© winds from a lar-off shore. For the pastor has learned what menneth the word That is given him to keep— “ Rejoice with them that do rejoice. And weep with them that weep.” It is not in vain that lie has trod "I his lonely and toilsome way It. is not in vain that ho has wrought In the vineyard ell the day ; For the soul that gives is the soul that lives, And bearing another's load Doth lighten your own, and shorten the way, And brighten the homeward road. Rev, Washington Qlttddsn. Arrival of Stanley, (In- Great Ex plorer, on tlie West Coast . > — After months of anxious suspense,(lur ing which the gravest fears were enter tained lor the safety of the gallant ex plorer, the welcome news haH come that Henry M. Stanley, the special commis sioner of the New York Herald ?ud the London Daily Telegjraph, Lufarr..ed on the west coast in Afiicn, after A TERRIBLE JOURNEY ACROSS THE CON TINENT, Along the line of the Lualaba and the Congo rivers. Stanley’s letters are dated from Emb na, Congo river, west coast of Africa, August 10, and informs us that he arrived at that point on August 8, from Zanzibar, with only one hundred and fifteen souls, and in an awful condi tion from the long and terrible journey through the heart of the African conti nent. After completing the exploration of lake Tanganida, and settling definitely by actual survey the question of the out flow of the lake by what was believed to lie the river Lakuga, but which he has proved to be only a creek draining into the lake, except where the waters of the great inland sea attain an extraordinary lead. Stanley and his followers pushed across the county to Nyangwe, on the Lualaba. This was the most northerly point reached by Cameron when he at tempted to solve the mystery of the Congo, and its identity with the main drainage line of the Lualaba basin. Stanley left Nyrangwe on the 15th of November, 1876, and traveled overland through Uregga with his party. The task of PENETRATING THE UNEXPLORED WILDS that stretched before him to the west ward was calculated to impress him with a sense of danger that nothing but the stern call of duty and the promptings of ambitious resolution could overcome. He was about to plunge into a region where he would be as compeletly cut off from hope of succor, if fortune did not favor him in his journey, as if he was wandering on the surface of another planet. Alter an arduous march of many days, through a country filled with difficulties, and being compelled to transport on the shoulders of his men every pound of provisions and other stores necessary for the transcontinental journey, and beside carrying in a similar manner the sections of the Lady Alii* exploring boat, and the arms and ammu nition of the party. Stanley found him self BROUGHT TO A STAND by immense tracts of dense forests, through which all attempts at progress were futile. Finding that he could not advance along the lines he had first intended to follow, Stanley crossed the Lualaba and continued his journey along the left bank ol the river, passing through the district known as northeast Ukusa. On this route be endeavored to find an outlet westward, but the jungle was so I dense and the fatigue of the march -o I harrassing that it seemed impossible for ; him to succeed in passing the trernen ! dous barrier of the forest, 'lo add to trie horrors of his position in these central African wilds, Stanley found himsell opposed at every step by the hostile cannibal natives, who would not be paci fied, but whom he, after terrible struggles, finally repulsed He and his party took to canoes, and pushed down the river, replying with rifles to showers of arrows. In the midst of these successive struggles Stanley’s journey on the river was inter rnpted by A SERIES OF GREAT CATARACTS, not far apart from each other, and just north and south of the equator. To pass these obstacles lie had to cut his way through over thirteen miles of dense forest, and drag his eighteen canoes nd the exploring boat, Lady Alice, over land. This alarming labor entailed the most exhausting efforts, and they had frequently to abandon the ax and drag ropes for their rifles, to defend themselves against the continued assaults of the lies tile natives. After passing the cataracts, Stanley and his party had a long breath ing pause from the toil •! dragging their boats through the forest. They were also comparatively secure from attack and took measures to recruit their ex hausted strength, before encountering the. dangers of the journey westward. Although FIGHTING HIS WAV CONTINUOUSLY, .Stanley did not neglect the object of his journey, and found opportunity to note all the interesting changes and physical characteristics of the route. At two de grees north latitude he found that the course of the Great Lualaba sweived from its almost northerly direction to the northwestward, to the westward, and then to the south westward, developing into a broad stream, varying in width from two to ten miles, and choked with islands. In order to avoid the struggles with the tribes of desperate cannibals that inhabited the mainland oy each side of the river, Stanley’s canoe fleet, led by the Lady Alice, paddled along between islands, taking advantage of the cover they afforded uh a protection from attack. In this way many miles down the stream were made by the party unmolested by the natives. Hut this safety from attack was purchased by much suffering. Cut off from supplies in the middle of the great river, starvation threatened to de stroy the expedition. •THE MOST EXTREME HUNGER Was endured by the party, which passed three entire days' absolutely without any food. This terrible state o<‘ thingH could not be any longer endured, so Stanley resolved to meet his fate on llm mainland rather than by hunger on the river. He therefore turned his course to the lull bank of the Lualaba, and with the singu lar good fortune that has generally attended him, reached a village of a tribe acquainted with trade. These people had four muskets, which they obtained from the west coast. They represent in a degree the ADVANCE GllAltll OF CIVILIZATION toward the interior of the continent. They call the great river, Skuta Ya Con go. With these friendly natives Stanley and his party made" blood brotherhood,’’ and purchased from them an abundance of provisions, which were sorely ne.edc and by the famished exploring party. After a brief rest Stanley endeavored to con tinue his course along the left hank of the river, but three days after his departure from the village of the friendly natives he came to the 'country of a powerful tribe whose warriors were ARMED WITH MUSKETS. Here lor the first time wince leaving Nyangwe, Stanley had to contend with an enemy on an almost equal footing as to arms. He therefore prepared his party for the struggle, the is tie of which was decidedly doubtful. No Booner did these natives discover the approach of Stanley’s expedition than they manned fifty fourlargecarmoesandputoff'lrom the river bank to attack it. It was not until alter three of their men were killed that .Stanley desisted in his efforts to make the natives understand that he and his party were friends. He cried out to them to that affect; he offered them clothes and peace gifts, hut THE HAVA OKS KKKUHED TO HE CONUII,- IA I ED, And the fight proceeded with unbated fury. For twelve miles down the strug gle went on, and it proved to lie the greatest and most desperate fight on this terrible river. It was maintained by Stanley's followers with great courage and was the last save one of thirty-two battles fought since the expedition had left Nyangwe, The f.ualaba, which river changes its name scores of times, now hat it approached the Atlantic ocean became known as the Quango and the Sou re. As the river runs through the great basin which lies between twenty-six degrees, and seventeen degrees east longitude, it hag an uninterrupted course of over seven hundred miles, with magnificent affluents, especially on the southern side. Thence, clearing the broad belt of mountains between the great ba-in of tho Atlantic ocean the river descends by about thirty falls and furious rapids to the ereat river between tiie falls of /A-Ila and the Atlantic. Stanley's; losses During the long and terrible journey across the continent from Nyangwe h-.ve been very severe. The continuous fight ing in the forests and on the river re duced the expedition daily, until it le- came a question whether any of its mem bers would ever reach the coast. Stanley states iu his dispatch : “My grief is still new over the loss of my last white assistant, the brave and pious young fenglisliman, Francis Poeock, who was swept over the falls of Massasa on the 8 i of last June.” He adds “My faithful companion, Kalulnlu, is also among the lost. Stanley's narrow KM’APna On the Hame day that Pocoek was lost, Stanley, with seven men, was almost drawn into the whirlpools of tho Moa falls, and, six weeks later, himself, with the entire crew,of the Lady Alicq, were sWept over the falls of Mbclo, whence only by a miracle they escaped. The explorer writes: “I make the expedi tion from Borna by steamer to Oalinda, and proceed thence to St. Paul de Lando. Mr. Price, of the firm of Ffation & Cook son, of Liverpool, takes my letter to you via Angola. Henry M. Stanley.” THE WAIt IN IH'LGAKIA. ICiiNMlaiin not mw ltmlly lloitton, nf'tor all -B*r*|nrlin for Winter Qiiarf^rM. There is a eomi>arative lull in the oper ations at tlic seat of war. The bombard mentof Plevna is reported to hare ceased, though the Turks are yet firing occasion ally at the redoubt of Gravitza, which is still in possession of the enemy. In cast ing up the recent series of struggles in that vicinity, the English papers are in clined to admit that their first estimates of the result were incorrect, or over-esti mated somewhat. It in singular that the Daily News, the recognized organ of pro- Russian feeling, the paper that most loudly proclaimed that the battle ended in a Russian defeat, was led into the error by its own corres]>ondent, who left the field at the moment when the Russian prospects seemed most desperate. Hub sequent reviews of the engagement show that the Russian forces were not so un successful as supposed and suffered far fewer losses in men and guns than the Turku. On the whole, it in now consid cred hero that the content in still unde cided, and the heaviest and most decisive fighting is still to come. It is likely that the next battle of im portance will he fought near Biela. While the attack on Plevna has been turned into a regular siege, Mehemet Ali, with 125 battalions, 5) squadrons and i!H batteries, is closely approaching the |i sition which the czarowitch has prepared on the hunk of the Jantra. The force of the Ottoman General in this direction is more than 100,000, while three corps of his adversary cannot muster more than 66,00 c; but the czarowitch has the ad vantage of occupying earthworks and acting on the defensive, besides, he is in a position to readily receive reinforce ments. Mehemet Ali will meet a strong resistance if he attempts the offensive. The situation is lull of terrible interest. The Russians, contrary to the general expectation in England that the war would close by a single campaign, aie making ready to go into winter quarters. Supplies of warnfelotliing arc being lap- Idly forwarded from Bt. I’cicrsbu rg. To guard the passages across the Danube, strong bridge-heads arc being constructed at Matchin, Nikopolis, llirsova and >Si,-,- tova. The Russians will have an im mense advantage, occupying the interior |iosition between the divided forces of the opponents. The Times has pointed out that except as yet no Von Moltke had appeared, the Russian armies in Rulga tia are in much the same position as were those of (fermany in France when the Havanans were beaten and Aurelisde f'aladine was believer] to lie advancing to raise the investment of I’aris, when Prince Frederick Charles hurried bis battalions from Met/ and threw them between the French columns on the I/lire and the circle of troops which the crown prince held tight around the capi tal, relieving the army, driving hack the French, and Paris fell. Hut is there a crown prince or a Prince Frederick Charles in (lie armies of the czar? — Cincinnati Cnmmen ia. 1. A Story of Thud Stevens, Pierce M. B. Young, a recent repre sentative in congress from Georgia, was a con ederte general and a graduate at West Point. He came to Washington soon after the war, seeking to have bis disabilities removed. He is a fine, man- . ly fellow, and seems to have accepted ' the results of the war in good faith, lie 1 went to Tliad Stephens, and Thad began to play with him, as he sometimes did with those he intended to make his vic tims. He said: “ You are a graduate of ; West Point, I believe?” “ Yes. sir.” “ Educated at the expense of the United States, I believe, which you swore faith fully to forever defend.” ‘ Yes, sir.’ You went into the service of the infer- j nal rebellion?” ‘‘Yes, sir.” You were a brigade commander in the raid into 1 Pennsylvania which destroyed the prop erty of so many of my constituents? “ Yes, sir.” “ft was a squad of men under your direct charge and under your personal command that burned my roll ing null?” ‘ Yes, sir.” Young thought he was gone, but seeing that the old vet eran had come into the possession of the last fact, which Young did not dream he knew it was impossbleto deny the truth of his question. Thad roared out: “ Well, l like your and and impudence. I v II see that your disibililies are re moved. (rood morning.” And the next day the bill passed the house. GKAVE AND GAY. Ffinny 'ft Mud Fleur. Under the apple tree, spreading? and thick, Happy with only a pin and a stick, Qu the soft grasa in the Bbadow that lies, Otir little Fanny is raakina mud pies. On her brown Upron and brightdroopiug head Hhowerso/ pink and white blossoms are hhed : Tied to a branch that seems just meant for that, Djnces and flutters her little straw hat. Gravely she stirs with a seriouJ look, Making believe she’s n true pastry cook ; Sundry brown splashes on forehead inid eyes Wbow tnnt our Fanny is making mud p^s. Hut all the soil of he: innocent play Glean soap and water will soon wash away ; Many a piea-ure in daintier gaise Leaves dnrfcei traces than Fanuy’s mud pies. Dash, full of joy in the frnsjht summer dav. Jealously ch son the robins aw ay, Rarks at the squirrels, or snaps at the flies', All the whi'e Fanny is making n.ud pies. Dollies and playthings are all laid aw 7, Not to co.no out till tho next rainy day : Under the blue of those sweet summer skies Nothin-.' so pleasant as making rnud pies HliatMh SHU. . Master .lackey (inquiringly)— “Why don’t baby eat buns, aunty?” Aunt Singleton—“ Because she has no teeth, dear.” Master .lackey (audibly "Then why can't you lend her yours NO. 6. aunty ? You ain’t always using ’em. . . President Clark, of the Massachu setts state agricultural college, who recently returned from Japan, sayji: '‘The Japanese are a people able and witling'to do Tight.. 1 never saw a qnar rel in Japan, and never saw or heard of a Japanese student in America or Japan accused of immorality.” ..Sir Edmund Cox, the nmrteenth baionet, died last week in Quebec, at the age of eighty. He served many years ago in the eighty-seventh royal Irish fu siliers. A story is told of his vain at tempt to give the command for a fen tu joie to a equal of Canadian militia on tile queen's birthday—this was before the present militia system had been adopted lie stammered and got irremediably stuck ou “ Eire !” and after crying “F --f-f-f-f-f f—l” till he was red in the face, nobly surmounted thedifliculty by shout ing, “ Shoot, you foois—you know what I mean !” An Oakland huckster bought a fine mule at auction on California street last week. Ho paid $l4O for it, and chris tened it Martin Luther. After trying for three days to put its harness on from a second-story window, the owner resold it yesterday forsl4, on long time, under the style and title ’of “Bara. ” It was purchased by the city government, and will henceforth lie used to suppress riots. It is calculated that when backed gently but firmly into a mob the business-end oi this faithful animal will be equal to four Gatling guns and a howitzer.— torn Fran euro Paper. , There was an immense crowd at, the institute, in Paris, the other day to hear Alexander Dumas deliver his discourse before the academy on the Monthyon prizes this year, that of S4OO, was taken bv an old maid named Leocadie Lavarde, i who, obliged to earn every sou that she expends try the labor of her hands, has passed long years in rescuing, supporting and establishing descried and starving I children. She has carried on this charit able work for over twenty-one years, at first single-handed, hut latterly tho pub lic has taken au interest in her work and has come to her aid. A well-dressed negro applied to the lidgoof probate of Mobile for a tnarringe license. He "as asked how old his in tended was, and answered with great ani- ■nation, “.lust Pi, judge—sweet Pi, and the handsomest girl in town." The judge said he could not do it, as the law forbade him to issue license to any one under 18. “Well, hold on, judge,” ex claimed the man. ” I know dat dem girls am deceitful and lie about deir age. Hhe is I!) if a day.” “ Will you swear to it?” asked the judge. “ Yes, sah,” lie replied, and did. .“ And how old are you ?” said the judge. The chap looked suspicious, and replied, cautiously : “ Thirty-five,” and added: “If dat won’t do, judge, I’ve got more hick.” . “ Heaven iies about us iri our in fancy.”— Wonhvmth. And,on the other hand, the world lies about us when we grow older. Did our readers ever think how willing people are to speak just as bad as they can ol others, though when they themselves get into some little trouble, they are astonished i others speak of them, just as they have df ne of others all their lives. “ Olrcumstances alter cases,” and people seldo.ri think or other’s feelings, but are ready at all times to put the worst possible meaning to ; everything in speaking of the unfortu nate. While heaven may lie about us I in our infancy, everyone knows that almost everyone else is ready to lie about us as we grow older. Such is human nature, and such has it always been. What a world this would be would everyone mind his own business.” What a world would this lie would each have more charily, put themselves in their neighbor’s place, arid, when speaking of j others, tell the truth, neither adding to or taking from what they know is tmili. A Sunken Sepulchre. United States, District Attorney George M. Duskin, of the southern Dis trict of Alabama, is in Washington for the purpose of attempting to prevent a further destruction of the monitor Tc cumseh, sunk in Mobile hmbirin ! when Farragut captured the foris. it is understood that a wrecking company purchased the monitor some months aeo from Secetary Richardson, and, not withstanding the fact that 200 men areentombed therein, were preparing to blow her up for the purpose of securing the old iron belonging to the vessel. The facts in this case are that attorney Duskin, after the sale of the Tecumeeh, filed a hill in the circuit court of the United States to prevent the bell-boat wrecking company from blowing up the aunken vessel, and the court decided in favor of the hill filed. It is understood that the company have appealed to the supreme court of the United State®, end the district attorney will endea.or defeat their lurther action in the case,