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The Jesus Sentinel Office in the Jesup House, fronting on Cherry street, two doors from Broad St. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, ... BY ... TANARUS, P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid,) One year $2 00 Six months 1 00 Three months 50 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion $1 00 Per square, each subsequent insertion, 75 jat“Spfccial rates to yearly and large ad vertisers. 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.