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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—W. H. Whaley.
Council men—T. P. littlefield, H. W.
Whaley. Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield,
Anderson Williams,
Clerk and Treasurer—O. F. Littlefield.
• Marshal—G x W. Williams.
COUNTY OFFCERS.
Ordinary—Richard B. Hopps.
Sheriff— John N, Good bread.
Clerk Superior Court—Benj. O. Middleton
Tax Receiver—J. C. Hatcher.
Tax Collector—W. R. Causey.
County Surveyor—Noah Bennett.
County Treasurer—John Massey.
Coroner—D. McDitha.
County Commissioners—J. F. King, G
W. Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, isham
Reddish.
COURTS.
Superioi Court, Wayne County—Juo. L.
Harris, Judge ; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor-
General. Sessions held on second Monday
itr*March and September.
Blattar, Pierce Cranty tafia.
TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—R. G. Riggins.
Councilmen —D. P. Patterson,J. M. Downs,
J. M. Lee, B. D. Brantly.
Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdom.
Town Treasurer—B. D. Brantly.
Marshal—E. Z. Byrd.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary—A. J. Strickland.
Clerk Superior Court—Andrew M. Moore.
Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd.
County Treasurer—D. P. Patterson.
County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson.
Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Pur
dom.
Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl
District, G. M., Lewis C. Wylly; 12:0 Dis
trict, G. M., George T. Moody; 584 District,
G. M., Charles S. Youmanns; 590 District,
G. M., D. B. McKinnon.
Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace,
etc.—Blackshear Precinct,sß4 district,G.M.,
Notary Public, J. G. S. Patterson ; Justice
of the Peace, R. R. Janies; Ex-officio Con
stable E. Z. Byrd.
Dickson?s Mill Precinct, 1250 District, G.
M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of
the Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W.
F. Dickson.
Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M.,
Notary Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of
the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, 11.
Prescott and A. L. Griner.
Schlatterville Precinct, 590 District, G. M.,
Notary Public, D. B. McKinnon; Justice of
the Peace, R. T. James; Constable,/ohr W.
Booth.
Courts—Superior court, Pierce county,
John L. Harris, judge; Snoen W. Hitch,
Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon
dry in March and September.
Corporation court, Blackshear, Ga., session
held second Saturday in each Month. Police
court sessions every Monday Morning at 9
o’clock.
JESUP HOUSE,
Corner Broad and Cherry Streets,
(Near the Depot,)
T. P- LITTLEFIELD, Proprietor.
Newly renovated and refurnished. Satis
faction guaranteed. Polite waiters will take
your baggage to and from the house.
BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Meals, 50 cti.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Nonthrni News.
A man near Griffin has written to a
man in Mason to know if he can sell
them a ear-load of oposums.
The beating rains nave greatly injured
cotton in southwest Georgia. Seed are
sprouting from that which has fallen on
the ground.
In the Bloodworth district of Irwin
county, Ga., twenty-four deaths have oc
curred within a radius of four miles,
mostly from typhoid fever.
A Richmond criminal who heard
Wm. M. Evarts speak at Lynchburg says
he didn’t utter a sentence that was shorter
than ten years.
Colonel John A. Brown, city engineer
of Mobile, died in Wilmington, N. C.,
Monday. He was a graduate of West
Point, and a gallant officer of the both
the U. S. and C. S. armies.
The Florida game law is said to have
worked admirably. Deer, partridges,
wild turkeys, etc., were never more nu
merous, and northern breech-loaders can
find plenty of work during the approach
ing winter.
The trial of the noted Texas desperado,
John Wesley Hardin, for the killing of
Webb at Comanche, resulted in his con
viction and sentence to the penitentiary
for twenty-five years. He has taken an
appeal.
Austin Gazette: The claim that the
umbrella china is of indigenous growth
in Texas, and that it was grown here, we
think is absurd. It has been grown east
of the river so far back the memory of
man runneth not to the contrary.
Austin (Texas) Gazette: Governor
Hubbard is alive to the importance of
providing a university for the blacks, and
will see to it that the project is suitably
executed. It must be good news for the
colored people to learn that they are soon
to be furnished with these high advanta
ges for education. We trust it may prove
a great blessing to them.
New Orleans Democrat: The theft of
lint and seed cotton in Caddo has never
been equaled. Buying this sort of cotton
is contrary’ to the laws and statutes of
the state, and yet the practice is alto
gether unexampled. On .Saturday morn
ing last Mr. Robert Valentine stopped
on his toll bridge, on bayou Pierre, five
wagons loaded with corn and cotton seed
and lint cotton, stolen from plantations
below the city of Shreveport.
KeliicJorm
There are about 75,000 colored Bap
tists in Mississippi.
VOL. 11.
Mr. Moody intends to hold revival
meetings daring the autumn and winter
in Vermont.
Woman suffrage, in a mild form, was
defeated in the Episcopal convention of
Illinois, the proposition being that
women who rented seats in church should
vote for wardens and vestrymen.
The pope replying to an address of the
Italian Roman Catholic doctors of med
icine, urged them to oppose the invasion
of materialism, and to attend, not only
the bodies, but also thte souls of their
patients.
The first American mission to Alaska
is instituted by the Presbyterian board
of home missions. The station is at
Fort Wrangel, among the Stiekane In
dians, who are a gentle race, and it is
thought amenable to morals and civiliza
tion.
The office of Camerlungo, when be
stowed upon one of the cardinals em
powers him to exercise the whole author
ity of the pope in the interregnum be
tween the death of the actual pope and
the election of a successor. The office
has just been conferred upon the Italian
Cardinal Ciovacol ini Pecci,who was born
in 1810, and is now looked upon as the
pope-maker. He is a thin man, with a
cold expression of countenance, a fine
habitual smile, almost ironical, and a
mixture of pride and acuteness, with a
very deliberate and somewhat abrupt
style of address.
The clergy of Philadelphia are still as
sailing the managers of the permanent
exhibition for opening the show on Sun
days. Sermon follows sermon on the
subject, and religious bodies pass such
resolutions as that “ this desecration of
the Sabbath by exhibition association
makes it the duty of Christians to with
draw their exhibits, and the duty of all
who respect the law of God and of the
state in relation to the Sabbath to refuse
to give their countenance or support in
any manner or measure to the exhibi
tion.” Another association tells the man
agers that they should “ consider
wliether in the late troubles that have
alllicted our state and country, the ca
lamities that have fallen on corporations,
the downfall of individuals that have
lieen conspicuous in connection with
Sabbatli desecration, they should not
hear the voice of God speaking in His
displeasure and saying to them, ‘ Re
member the Sabbath day to keep it
holy.’ ” The attendance at the exhibi
tion is every Sunday equal to the aggre
gate for the rest of the week, and the
managers show no sign of changing their
minds.
Ocncral.
Two hundred stem-winding American
watches have recently been sent to India
for railroad service.
Geno-al Sheridan considers the capture
of Joseph and his band of Nez Perces ex
ceedingly important, especially in its in
fluence upon the Oregon Indians.
The state debt of Wisconsin as is com
plied by the bureau of statistic at
Washington, is $:.!,2.)2,(>‘>7. The htnviest
state debt in the union is that of Massa
chusetts, which has reached the astonish
ing sum of over $33,000,000.
A report on the geology of Yesso,
recently published by Mrs. Lyman, the
director of the survey of Japan, estimates
that there 150,000,000,000 tons of work
able coal on the island. According to
this statement, the deposit is about two
thirds as large as that of Great Britain-
Albert Needling’s hat was found be
side a pond in Wareham narrows, Mass.,
a year ago, and in it a card on which was
written: “Mary, you have driven me
to suicide. Farewell.” Mary was his
wife. She wore mourning until she
learned, recently, that he was living in
Boston with anew wife.
The Deakin comic opera company, now
playing in San Francisco, consists of six
dwarfs, the tallestof whom is only thirty
four inches high, and a giant who is
seven and a half feet higfi. Commodore
Nutt and Jennie Quigley are the leading
performers, and they are said to be tal
ented enough to please, aside from their
littleness. “ Jack the Giant Killer ”is
the piece performed.
The Cincinnati Commercial prints the
following appalling figures: “As near as
we can ascertain, there are in the states
of Maryland, Virginia, North and South
Carolina, and Georgia, 80,000 more fe
males than males, in a total native popu
lation of three millions, and in New Eng
land a like over-plus of 20,000 in a native
white population of two and a half mil
lions. These facts indicate that we shall,
perhaps, by the time we write 1900, have
a two per cent, surplus of females as an
aggregate of the whole population (in
fifty millions one million).”
Every one knows about Vichy’s water,
but every one doesn’t know about Vichy.
It is a large, flourishing place at the ex
treme southern part of the department
of Allier, France, and stands on the south
bank of the river Allier, a tributary of
the Loire. The town is very well built,
and was immensely improved in the reign
of Napoleon 111. Most of the baths are
the property of the state, and eveiything
has been done to make the “ perfect
cure ”as pleasant as possible. In 1876,
3,408,000 bottles of Vichy water were ex
ported from the town.
The importance of the naval engineer
nowadays is illustrated in the case of the
new barbette ship Temeraire of the Brit
ish navy, which has thirty-four engines
on board, exclusive of the powerful pis
tons and cylinders that propel the pon
derous vessel. The capacity of these
alone is equal, it is said, to 7,000 horse
power. There are also feed engines and
starting engines, steering engines and cap
stan engines, engines to pump with and
engines to hoist with ; there are even en
gines to aid in working the guns, to assist
in torpedo services, and for turning the
magnet machine that gives out the elec
tric light.
Even if the democrats should not have
the upper hand, the senate this time is
certain to be a weak, irresolute body.
Torn, as it will be, by jarring factions,
all tending to build up democratic
strength, it will not be able to oppo-e
any effectual resistance to anything upon
which the democratic house may be
firmly bent. For the first time in a great
many years the house will come to the
front as the governing power. In the
contest with Andrew Johnson it stripped
itself of many of its functions, and laid
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1877.
them at the feet of the senate. Not one
of these functions has the senate ever
surrendered. But now the house is likely
to recover many of them in the very sin
gular turn which politics are taking.—
San Francisco Bulletin , Rep,
'■ 1 .
Foreign Items,
The Krishna shoal lighthouse, which
was probably the finest structure of the
kind in British India, has completely
disappeared, so that no trace of its site
can now be discovered. It was on the
Gulf of Martaban, in the province of
British Burmah.
The subterranean telegraph wires iu
(formally have proven highly satisfactory.
'The conductibility of the buried wire,
instead of decreasing, has, c-' the cun
trary, somewhat increased, and no fault
in the insultatiou has made itself appa
rent. It is believed that in the long run
the buried wires will prove the cheapest.
Posts and insulators, constantly demand
ing renewal, are thus dispensed with.
Gambetta has been sentenced to three
months’ imprisonment and to pay a fine
of eight hundred dollars for placarding
his recent address to the electors of his
arondissement. The printer of the ad
dress has been sentenced to fifteen days’
imprisonment and to pay a fine of four
hundred dollars.
THE W AH.
A French officer from the fronts re
ports hearing Gen. Ignatieff say, a short
time ago. “We wanted to drive the
Turks out of Europe, but things look as
if we should share that fate ourselves.”
A corres[>ondent of the London Times
calls attention to the fact that though
the Russians complain of Turkish atroci
ties, yet we do not hear of any prisoners
having been taken by the Russians at
Lovatz, where it is said all of the Turkish
wounded were slaughtered.
A Belgrade special says the cabitet has
unanimously and definitely agreed upon
the terms of an agreement with Russia.
This preliably refers to the agreement
concerning the subsidy of a million rou
bles to be paid Servia monthly from the
time her army is sent to the frontier.
Troops are continuously marching to the
frontier, ready for any offensive move
ment on the part of the Turks.
The Russians have commenced paral
lel before Plevna under the superintend
ence of Gen. Todleben. The heavy
masses of troops which are being sent to
Bulgaria certainly indicate their purpose
to prosecute active operations during the
autumn, as the Russians do not need
these reinforcements to retain their
present positions. A Belgade corre
spondent says he hears from a diplomatic
Kourca that the ixirte has demanded an
explanation regarding Servin's purpose
in arming and negotiating with Russia
and Roumania. The porte will be obliged
to send a.special comaiisspnier to Belgrade
lo inquire whether its Suezeram rights
are not being tampered with. All the
(irst-elass militia brigades, except those
of Belgrade, Sbabatia and Villae have
marched to the frontier. The second
class will follow in ten days. More
money and several hundred boxes of shoes
have arrived from Russia. The negotia
tions with Russia have at last come to a
satisfactory close, and the cabinet and
council have resolved upon warlike meas
ures, though not before tho middle of
November.
orisiiu.vs or tiik rurss.
New York Tribune: Wendell Phillips,
with a fortune of something like a half mil
lion, is a queer head of a workingman’s tick
et. But, as has been said, he isn’t to blame.
He didn’t earn it.
Lynchburg News, Dem.: This south
ern worship of Mr. Hayes and corresponding
slight of Mr. Tilden, history will record as
the first act of southern ingratitude, and
the first evidence of southern degeneration.
fSt, Louis Times, Dem.: RoscoeOonk
iing saw Ulysses S. Grant when lie went to
Europe,and don’t you forget it. Grant wisely
remains away. This is part of the plan, lie
is not needed in the early part of the action.
New York Hun, Ind.: Who is it that
is coaching Grant lor a third term? The
jiarty or parties would do well to cut down
his supply of Scotch whisky, and to look as
closely after his speeches in private as in
public.
Austin,(Texas) Statesman : There is
nothing in Mexico to steal, and one side loses
everything and gains nothing. If we win
Mexico, we will have won an elephant, and
to effect a conquest will cost 50,00.’ lives and
countless millions of money,
St. Louis Republican, Ind.: The
southern people, while maintaining an un
wavering allegiance to the onion, the con
stitution and the laws, will vote as they
please ; and they will not please to vote for
republican principles or candidates.
Richmond Whig, Dem.: The New
York democrats having secured all ihey de
sired in the way of subsidies to railroads,
now give notice that they are opposed to all
such legislation in the future. The sonth
will make a note of it to guide their future
action.
Atlanta Constitution, Dem.: The
three or four competitors of Mr. Randall
are in Washington, and each claims that he
either has a sure thing or the inside track.
Their victims will be astonished at the ease
with which Mr. Randall will succeed him
self.
Boston Traveller, Rep.: Now, suppose
we follow the example of the administra
tion with reference to the reform patent,
and suspend the midsummer madness about
“indorsing the policy” long enough to as
certain if anything has been accomplished
in the way of conciliation except total sur
render to the ex confederates.
Richmond Dispatch, Dem.: The
adoption of resolutions by eongress, ap
proving the restoration of the autonomy of
the southern states, the re-establishment of
the constitution, and the cultivation of har
mony and brotherly relations of the sections,
would be an event which should be generally
gratifying to the nation.
Washington Union, Rep.: The whole
secret of the president’s policy, over which
Mr.Tremain, at Rochester, uttered the loud
est and most eloquent growl, is simply to let
all acknowledged citizens nave the rights of
citizens, and submit quietly and loyally to
their administration, it they are ever able to
constitute one, as we expect them to submit
to ours, in the like event.
Baltimore Hun, Deni.: The present
era of good feeliog is especially favorable to
a return of confidence and a renewal of effort
in every field and channel of legitimate
industry and enterprise. The credit can not
be denied to President Hayes of having
recognized the significant e of the popular
vote in November, and by his mode of ileal
-with the southern states contributed
largely to bring about the present happy
result.
President’s Message.
Washington, October 16. —Fellow-
Citizens of the Senate and House of
Representatives: The adjournment of
the last Congress without making appro
priations for' the support of the army for
the present fiscal year has endered neces
sary a suspension of payments to the
officers and men of the sums due them
for services rendered after the 80th day
of J une last. The army exists by virtue
of statutes, which prescribe its numbers,
regulate its organization and employ
ment, and which fix the pay of its
officers and men, and declare their right
to receive the same at stated |>triods.
The statutes, however, do not authorize
the payment of the troops in the absence
of specific appropriation therefor. The
Constitution lias wisely provided that no
money shall be drawn from the Treasury
but in consequence of appropriations
made by law ; and it has also been de
clared by statute that no department of
the Government shall expend in any one
fiscal year,any sum in excess of the appro
priation made by Congress for that nsciil
year. We have, therefore, an army in
service, authorized by law and entitled
to he paid, hut no funds available for
that purpose. It may also be said as an
additional incentive to prompt action by
Congress, that since the commencement
of the fiscal year, the army, though
without pay, has been constantly and
actively employed iu arduous and dan
gerous service, iu the performance of
which both officers and men have dis
charged their duty with fidelity and
courage, and without complaint. These
circumstances, in my judgement,
constitute an extraordinary occasion
requiring Gongress to he convened in
advance of the time prescribed bylaw
lor your meeting iu regular session.
The importance of speedy action upon
this subject on the part, of Congress is so
manifest that I venture to suggest
Die propriety of making the
necessary appropriations for the sup
port of the army for the current year at
its present maximum numerical strength
of 25,000 men, leaving for future con
sideration all questions relating to an
increase or decrease of the number of
enlisted men. In the event of the redu-c
tion of the army by subsequent legisla
tion during the fiscal year, the excess of
the appropriation could not be expended,
and in the event of it * enlargement
the additional sum required for
the payment of the extra
forco could be provided in due time. It
would he unjust to the troops now In
service and whose pay is already largely
in arrears if payment to them should lie
further postponed until after Congress
shall have considered all the questions
likely to arise in the effort to fix the
proper limit to Hut strength of the army.
The estimates of the appropriations for
the supporsof the military establishment
for the fiscal year ending Juno 80, 1878,
were transmitted totlongrcss by the former
Secretary of the Treasury at the opening
of its session in December last. These
estimates, modified by the present Secre
tary so as to conform to the present
requirements are now renewed, am unt
ing to $32,486,764 08, and having been
transmitted to both houses of Congress,
are submitted for your consideration.
There is also required by the Navy De
partment $20,080,861 27. This sum is
made up of $1,446,888 16 due to officers
and enlisted men for the last quarter of
the last fiscal year; $811,953 50 slue for
advances made by the fiscal agent of the
Government in London for the support
oi tho foreign service, and $50,000 due to
the Naval Hospital fund, $150,000
due for arrearages of pay to officers,
and $45,219 58 lor the support of tho
marine corps. There will, also, he
needed an appropriation of $262,585 22
to defray the unsettled expenses of the
United States Courts for the fiscal year
ending June 80th last, now due to attor
neys, clerks, commissioners and marshals
and for rent of Courtrooms, the support
of prisoners and other deficiencies. A
part of the building of the Interior
Department was destroyed by
fire on the 24th of last month.
Some immediate repairs and temporary
structures have, in consequence, be
come necessary, estimates for which
will he transmitted lo Congress immedi
ately, and an appropriation of the renui
site lunds is respectfully recommended.
The Secretary of the T reasury will com
municate to Congress, in connection with
the estimates for the appropriation for the
support of the army for the current fiscal
year, an estimate for such other deficien
cies in the different branches of the public
service as require immediate action and
cannot without inconvenience he post
poned until the regular session, and take
this opportunity to invite your attention
to the propriety of adopting at your pres
ent session the necessary legislation to
enable the people of the United States to
participate in the advantages of the In
ternational Exhibition of the agricultural
industry and the fine arts which is to lie
held at Paris in 1878, and to which this
government has been invited by the gov
ernment of France to take part. This in
vitation was communicated lo this gov
ernment in May, 1876, by the Minister of
France at this capital, ami a copy thereof
was submitted to the proper committee
of Oongress at its last session, hut no
action was taken upon the subject. The
I repartmentof State receiver! many letters
from various parts of the country, ex
pressing a desire to participate in the Ex
hibition, and numerous applications of a
similar nature have also been made at
the United States legation at Paris. The
Department of State has also received
official advices of the strong desire on the
part of the French government that the
United States should participate in the
enterprise, and space has hitherto and is
still reserved in the Exhibition build
ing for the use of exhibitors
from the United States, to j
the exclusion of other |iarties
who have lieen applicants therefor. .
In order that our industries may lie ;
properly represented at the exhibition, |
an appropriation will lie needed for the
payment of salaries and expenses of Oom
missioners for the trans|iortation of gisafs
and for other purposes in connection with
the object in view, and as .May next is the
time fixed for the opening of the exhibi
tion, if our citizens are to share the ad
vantages of this International competi
tion for the trade of other nations the
necessity of immediate action is apparent
to enable the United States to co-operate.
In the International Exhibition, which
was held at Vienna iu 1873, Congress
then passed a joint resolution making an
appropriation of 4 . - 1 o, > and authoriz
ing tho President to appoint a certain
number of practical artisans and scien
tific men who should attend the exhibi
tion and report their proceedings and
observations to him. A provision was
also made for the appointment of a num
ber of honorary Commissioners. I have
felt that prompt action by Congress in
accepting the invitation of the Govern
ment of France is of so much interest to
the people of this country, and so suit
able to the cordial relations between
the Governn ents of the two countries
that the subject might properly be pre
sented for attention at vour present
session.
The Government of Sweden and Nor
way has addressed an official invitation
to this Government to take part in the
International Prison Congress to be held
at Stockholm next year. The problem
which the Congress proposes to study,
how to diminish crime, is one in which
all civilized nations have an interest in
common, and the Congress of Stockholm
seems likely to prove the most im|s>rtant
Convention ever hold for the study of
this grave question. Under authority
of a joint resolution of Congress,
approved February 16th, 1875,
a Commission was appointed by
my predecessor to represent the
United States upon thstOcension, and the
Prison Congress having been, at the
earnest desire of the Swedish Govern
ment, postponed to 1878, his Commission
was renewed by me. An appropriation
of SBOOO was made in the sundry civil
service act of 1875 to meet the expenses
of the Commissioners. 1 recommend the
reappropriation of that sum for the same
purpose, the foimer appropriation hav
ing been covered into the treasury;
and being no longer available
for the purpose without further
action by Congress, the subject is
brought to your attention at thb time
in view of the circumstances which
render it highly desirable that the Com
missioner should proceed to the discharge
of his important duties immediately.
As the several acts of Congress providing
for detailed reports from tho different
departments of the government require
their submission at the beginning of the
regular annual session, J defer until
that time any further reference to sub
jects of public interest.
[Signed] R. B. Hayeh.
KERN AN I UNA’S EEV ER.
The rnilNcs That l.eil ■ the IMutCUC—
A l.iKhl Mortality—''l he t'oiKllf lon
ol Ihe l*eo,le anil Their Wauls
—Kleven llamlre.l t'ases lo
Date.
Yesterday morning Col. J. N. Whitner,
brother of 001. .1. C. Whitner, of ourcity,
arrived here from Florida. He left Fer
nnmlinn some days ago, hut was in that
fated city during the fury of the scourge-
A reporter of the Constitution called
upon him at the Markham house and
had a conversation with him concerning
(he state of affairs in Fernandinu.
The city has a population of between
1,600 and 2,000 persons, probably the
larger portion being colored persons.
Many of the latter earn a livelihood by
the industries of the place anil by labor
upon the wharves, in stevedore gangs,
loading and unloading vessels, of which
a large number are engaged in foreign
trade from and to that port.
Heretofore Kornandina has been a
remarkable healthy city, and since its
foundation has never before been visited
by a yellow-fever scourge. The causes
for this fatal epidemic may be properly
traced to the unclean condition of the
southwestern portion of the city. Where
the disease first appeared the neighbor,
hoods were in so filthy a condition as to
sustain a very putrid atmosphere, most
inviting to the disease. This condition
was due to the fact that the present
municipal authorities,when they assumed
the care of the city, found its treasury
impoverished, and debt accumulated to
a heavy amount, and in their desire to
economize in city expenditures the
drainage of the city and sanitary regula
tions generally were neglected. The
usual result of such foolish, il not crim
inal negligence in the name of economy,
followed, and the city’s quarters became
the harbors of this malignant plauge.
Eleven hundred cases have been under
treatment since the disease made its
appearance, which number is fully two
thirds of the population subject to its
attacks. A number of citizens left the
city upon the intimation and assurance
that the disease was yellow fever, but
many who would have escaped were de
layed by a controversy between the two
leading physicians over the character of
the disease. One of them contended
shat it was yellow fever, while the other
st >utly denied .it, and it was not until
Dr. McFarland, the eminent physician
from Savannah, examined the body of a
deceased person and made an autopsy,
bv reason of which it was fully estab
lished as a case of yellow fever, that the
true condition of affairs was realized.
The disease made rapid progress, but
was singularly mild in effects, though
protracted in its operations upon the
systems of those attacked.
Out of the eleven hundred cases, only
fifty deaths have been reported, which is
a fatality of le?s than five |>er cent, of
the number seized with the sickness
This is a very small mortality, and shows
that the plauge has been general, but
not so virulent as was at first supposed.
Niarly all the white people in the city
subject to attack have already been pros
trated, and the, material upon which the
disease can feed in that direction is nearly
exhausted.
The ravages of the plague are now
rapidly taking in the colored people,
who of late years seem to have lost their
immunity from this scourge. Among
them it finds victims illy prepared to
fight the dreaded monster, and as a con
sequence there is reason to fear a greater
mortality among them. Trade is sus
pended, and the negroes are poor, and in
many cases paupers, to the extent that
even of the barest necessities of life.
When the scourge first appeared, Col.
Whitner says the authorities and people
were pretty well prepared to combat it,
but now there is immediate need for
pecuniary assistance and supplies, princi
pally to relieve, in the name of pure
humanity, the large number of destitute
and suffering colored people.
There is a charge made by some, though
Col. Whitner thinks it an uncharitable
one, that an officer, since deceased, we
believe, distributed supplies to colored
people not entitled to them and not resi
dent of the city, for political purposes.
It is very necessary that any relief to
be sent to Fernandinu, is needed right
now and it iH hoped that our people will
not hesitate io give a little from their
purses to relieve the suffering and ke :p
starvation lrom the doors of those to
whom disease has Drought not alone itts
own horrors. We [are sure the cry for
help will not go unheeded here —Atlanta
Constitution, 4th.
.KUO’S SURRENDER.
Deliills ol Ifle I.list llitlllc The Nnv
naes Arc-|>l an llticonilllloin,l Nlir
reinler.
The capitulation of Joseph and his band
of Nez I’erces occurred at two o’clock on
tho afternoon of the filth. The savages
gave up their guns and ammunition ;
passing in solemn review before General
Miles, and accepting an unconditional
surrender. The troops at once occupied
the Indians’ retrenchments, and the first
victory over the redskin during the past
few days was signalized. In a charge
upon tho Indian camp on the first day
sixty-four officers and men were killed
and wounded. After the camp hud been
surrendered, and the soldiers had secured
defensive positions, only four casualties
occurred. The soldiers closed in upon
the savages slowly but surely after .the
first day, all the time extending their
line of rifle-pits. It was the purpose of
Miles to lose no more men in the attack.
How admirably the plan succeeded is
already known. On the last day of tho
fight the troops had succeeded iu secur
ing a position which commanded the
stream which flowed in front of the rifle
pits occupied by the enemy, and had the
battle lasted another day their supply of
water would have been exhausted, and
surrender have become imperative. On
the fourth day of the fight, Joseph raised
a white flag for the third time, and,
through an interpreter, who advanced
toward his camp, offered to surrender
provided they were allowed to keep their
guns. Miles sent word hack that he
must surrender without any reserve, and
the buttle was taken up again. The
white flag was displayed again the fifth
and last day of the battle, when Joseph
appeared in front of Ids lines and ad
vanced to meet General Miles, to whom
lie tendered his gun. He was followed
by sixty warriors, who also turned over
their arms and shook hands witli Miles
as they passed. When the troopsentereil
the rifle-pits, forty warriors were dis
covered disabled Dy wounds. They were
removed to the camp-hospital, and re
ceived all the attention that was given to
the troops. The number of Indians
killed is not known, as they had already
buried their dead. It is supposed they
had an equal number with the soldiers.
General Miles left for Tongue river, tak
ing with him his dead and wounded and
the surrendered band. General Hturgis
did not arrive in time to take a hand in
the fight, and the glory of the magnifi
cent attack rests with Miles. General j
Howard, with an escort of seventeen men, j
arrived on the field on the, morning of [
the surrender. He left his small force of
infantry at the Missouri river, arid with j
this small esc >rt of cavalry proceeded to |
the scene ol die battle. I lie intrench- [
meets occupied by the Indians were
admirably constructed for defense. They j
occupied in all over one hundred and I
sixty iide-pits, which communicated J
with each oilier, so that assistance could '
I>. rendered, if necessary. The squaws j
fought by the warriors, took care of the
wounded, and buried the dead. When j
the history of the unparalh led march of |
the Nez F’eroes is written, they will be [
accredited with great gallantry in the j
field, and wonderful humanity. Their
defense could not have been excelled by
any body of men, nor their generosity.
Seven wounded men, iying under the
retrenchment during the entire battle
live to corroborate this. They took 1
away tliegurs and ammunition from the j
disabled troops, but did not offer to !
molest them. —Cincinnati Enquirer.
A wedding occurred recently in Ari- 1
zona, tin- surroundings of which are thus
pleasantly described by a correspondent:
“ The bride in white, the happy groom,
tiie solemn minister, the smiling parents,
and from twenty-five to thirty shoUguns,
standing against the will ready for use,
made up a panorama not soon to be for
gotten. No Indians admitted. No cards.
GRAVE AND GAY.
A Prnflioal FarfWfll.
Farewell, ray dearest—nevermore,
Hand clawped iu hand, shall we together
Roam o’er the breezy. hroad sea-tlowna,
All in the m rry soft May weather 1
Rut then this thought occurs to me:
’ f will save a ti ifle In shoe leather.
Farevtv.l; for Fate will hate It so.
Oh. fondest heart '--Oh, tenderest, nearest!
The hues of Spring have lost their glow—
The leaf—the leaf is at its searest.
I may not wed thee, sweet, just now
Dry goods and things are at their dearest.
Farewell, Beloved--thou art free;
A fearful dearth of funds have done It;
I’ll keep thee ever in my heart;
I’ll put thee in my choicest sonnet;
These will I. love—they little cost—
Not so a I’arisgown and bonnet.
And now we go divided ways;
Dead tnoke, that is all too certain,
I take no more stock in liouquetft,
Ron lions, hid! all t hat goes with flirtin’.
.So now I drop Love’s pretty theme,
And, so to speak, pull down the curtain.
— Baldwin's Monthly.
■ Like a morning dream, life becomes
more and mere bright the lenger we live,
and tho reason of everything appears
more clear. What has puzzled us before
seems less mysterious, and the crooked
pathH look straighter as we approach
end.
. . A young lady who was crossing a
railroad bridge located between Ann
Aibor and Cornwells, Mich., fell off, and
probably would have sustained serious if
not fatal injuries, if she Had not caught
by the bustle and hung herself upon a
spike.
. .The secretary of the English Peace
society declares that “ the cost of the
abolition of slavery in the United States
by war would have been ample, if ex
pended peacefully, to pay for the slaves,
educate the liberated slaves to boot, and
construct half a dozen Pacific railroads
and as many grand canals besides.”
.. A San Francisco audience remained
silent when Prof. Gunning said : “ Yes,
I believe Adam was a negro, and Eve
also; that tho common father of us all
was flat-nosed, thick-lipped and crooked
heeled. That he was cleanly or not, I
have no means of ascertaining, blit in
my theory of his color I believe myself
to lie right and challenge criticism.”
The Turkish method of reckoning
the days is a constant pitfall to European
editors who are not well versed in the
matter. In Turkey they begin each day
with the night before it. 'Thus Thurs
day begins with the sunset of Wednesday,
and Thursday night is what we call
Wednesday night. Those' who quote
the Turks verbatim with regard to any
night are apt to get]tangled„up in their
chronology.
A lather who does his duty by hi
children in a way which would have de
lighted Solomon recently heard a friend
say that those children had a scared and
far from cheerful appearance all the
time. “ I know it,” said tho honest
parent; “I know it, but what can I
do? 1 lick them from morning till night
to make them stop looking sad and
scared, and the more I lick them the
gloomier they look.”
|lndr Kray rloihl* bird* will d*r to Ring.
No wild, exultun! chants, bill §oft and low ,
IJ ruler gray clou<lm the young leaven week the
Him Ing.
And lurking violets blow.
A nil waves make Idle music on the strand,
And Inlnrirl Htroims have lucky words to flay,
And children’s voices Round across Ihn land,
A Itliougli the clouds he gray.
There’s n shin on the sea. It ih sailing to-night,
Sailing to-night.
And lather'd aboard, and the moon ia all bright
Shining and bright I
Dear moon! lie’ll be sailing for many a night--
Hilling fiom mother and me.
Oh! follow the ahlp with yourNllvery light
Ah father mhllh over the sou
—Joel Story, in St. Nicholas
.. Hoeiety gossip from Africa: “ Eight
more of the wives of Nosingela, king of
Naputa river, lately decamped, hut five
of them were caught in the bush and
taken hack, when he ordered them to he
strangled, which an eye-witness to several
of his executions states is done in the fol
lowing manner: A noose is made in a
piece of rope, which is placed around the
neck of the. victim. Gaffre* take hold of
each end, which they pull, while another
Gaffre on each side beats the rope with a
stick iu order to tighten it.”
..Gov. Wade Hampton makes jokes as
well as the president. At Nashville, one
day,Mr. Hayes stood erectin the carriage,
bowing to the shouting throng, and
steadying himself by a hand placed on
Hampton’s shoulder. In making a ges
ture he removed his hand, and, the horses
starting at the same moment, he wa
suddenly thrown down in the carriage.
“ Mr. President,” said Hampton, quietly,
“ if you want to stand firm, you must lean
on the south.” And the president
laughed.
NO. 9.
Sumter Might Have Been Si
lenced.
It is |>ertioent for me, professionally,to
remark that, bad the I edaral naval attack
on Port Sumter on the 6th of April, 1863,
been made at night, while the fleet could
have easily approached near enough to
see the fort—a large, lofty object covering
several acres —the monitors which were
relatively so small and low on the water
could not have been seen from the fort-
It would have been impossible, therefore
for the latter to have returned with any
accuracy the fire of the fleet, and this
plan of attack could have Deen repeated
every night until the walls of the fort
should have crumbled under the enor
mous missiles which made holes twe and
a half feet deep in the walls and shattered
the latter in an alarming manner. It
could not then have repaired during the
rlsy the damages of the night, and I am
cmfident now, as I was then, that Fort
| Sumter, if thus attacked, must have
been disabled and silenced in a few days.
I Such a result at that time would have
I Ireeu necessarily followed by the evacua
tion of Morris and Sullivan’s islands, and
soon after of Charleston it.-elf, tor I had
j not yet had time to complete and arm
the system of works, includ ng James Is
land and the inner harbor, which enabled
us six months later to bid defiance to
' Admiral Dahlgren’s wonderful fleet and
, Gilmore’s strong land forces —Gen. Beau-
I regard in Philadelphia Press.