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THE ASHBDRN ADVANCE.
II. I). SMITH, EDITOR.
DU.taL 31 AGE’S S 15 K 310 N
The Eminent Divine’s Sunday
Discourse.
Subject; “Self-Slaughter”—A Terrible
Denunciation of Snici<lo~A«g:m8lnatiou
, Of Others n Mll<l Crime Compared Witli
of Yourself.
Tr.xr: “Do thyself no harm.”—Acts
1C; 28.
Hero is n would-be suicide arrested in
his deadly attempt. He was a sheriff, and,
self according to the Roman punishment law, a bailiff him¬
must suffer the due aa es
years, and if the prisoner breaking jail was
t h e" Sheriff mu sf s uffer *ca p it a Pnuids h mont 1
eans&saS ssteissix
U freo° and* 11 waking'oift of°u
aru the sheriff,
’ have‘nlr^vay" real
were to die for preaching Christ, and
izingtlmthe must therefore die, rather
than go under l he executioner’s axo on the
morrow and suffer public disgrace, resolves
to precipitate hisown decease. But before
the sharp, keen, giittering dagger of tho
sheriff could strike his heart, one of the un-
loosened prisoners arrests tho blade by the
command, “Do thyself no harm ”
In olden times, and where Christianity
had not interfered with it, suicide was
considered honorable and a sign of cour-
Demosthenes poisoned himself when
told that Alexander’s ambassador had do-
manded the surrender of tho Athenian
orator. Isocrates killed himself rather
than surrender to Philip of Macedon.
Cato, rather than submit to Julius Ciesar,
took lus own life, and three times after his
wounds had been dressed, tore them open
and perished. Mithridates killed himself,
rather than submit to Potapey, the con-
fjueror. Hannibal destroyed his Hfe by
poison from his ring, considering life un-
bearable. Lyeurgus n suicide Brutus a
suicide. After the disaster of Moscow,
Napoleon always carried witli him a prep-
aration of poison, and one night Ids
servant heard the ex-emperor arise, put
something in a glass and drink it, and
soon after the groans aroused all the at-
tendants, and it was only through utmost
medical skill that he was resuscitated,
Times have changed, yet the American
conscience needs to be toned up on the
subject of suicide. Have you seen a paper
in the lJiSt mouth that did uot announce the
passage out of life by one’s own behest?
Defaulters, alarmed at the idea of exposure,
quit life precipitately. world Men losing large
fortunes go out of the because they
cannot affection, endure earthly domestic existence. infelicity, Frus-
trated dys-
Peptic impatience, anger, remorse, envy,
jealousy, destitution, sufficient misanthropy, for aro
^considered ing from this life by Paris causes by abscond- lauda-
green,
num, by belladonna, by Othello’s dagger,
by halter, by loap from the abutment of a
bridge, by firearms. More cases of felo
de se in the last two years than in any two
years of tho world’s existence, and more
in the last month than in any twelve
months. Tho evil is more and moro spread-
lug.
A pulpit not long ago expressed somg
doubt as to whether there was really any¬
thing wrong about quitting this life when
it became disagreeable, and there are
found in respectable which circles people apolo¬
getic for tlie crime Paul in tho text
arrested. I shall show you before I get
through that suicide is tho worst of alt
crimes, and 7 shall lift a warning unmis¬
takable. But in admit the early that part of this ser¬
mon I wish to some of the best
Christians that have over lived have com¬
mitted self-destruction, hut always in de¬
mentia, doubt and notposponsible, abbut their eternal I have felicity no
more
than I have of the Christian who dies in
his bed in the delirium of typhoid foyer.
While the shock of tho catastrophe is very
great. I ehargo all those who have had
Christian friends under cerebral aberration
stop off the boundaries of this life, to have
no doubt about their happiness, Tho dear
Lord took them right out of their dazed
and frenzied state into perfect safety. How
Christ fools towards the insane you may
knqw from the way He treated the de-
moidac of Gadara and tho child lunatic,
and the potency with which Ho liushod
tempests either of sea or brain.
Scotland, the laud prolific of intellectual
giants, had none grander than Hugh Miller.
Great for science and great for God. He
was an elder in St, John’s Presbyterian
Church, He came of the best Highland
blood, and was a descendant of Donald
Roy, a man eminent for piety and the rare
gift of second sight. His attainments,
climbing up as ho did from tho quarry uud
the wall of the stone mason, drew 'forth
the astonished admiration of Bucklandand
Murchison, the scientists, and Dr. Chal¬
mers, the theologian, and held universities
spellbound while he told them the story of
what ho had seen of God in “The Old Red
Sandstone.” That man did more than any
other being that ever lived to show that
the God of the hills is tho God of the Bible,
nnd he stuck his tuning-fork on tho rocks
of Cromarty until ho brought geology aud
theology accordant in divine worship. His
two books, entitled “Footprints of the
Creator” and “The Testimony of the
Rocks,” proclaimed the banns of an over-
lasting marriage between genuine science
nnd revelation. Qn this latter book hp
toiled love'of day and night.through could lovo not of naturo sleep
and God, until he and he found
and his brain gavo way, was
dead with a revolver by his side, the cruel
instrument having had two bullets—one
for kim and tho other for the gunsmith,
who at the coroner’s inquest was examin-
ing it aud fell dead. Huvo you any doubt
of tha beatification of Hugh Miller after
his hot brain had ceased throbbing that
Winter night in his study at Portobello?
Among the mightiest of earth, among the
mightiest of heaven,
No one doubted the piety of William Cow-
per, the author of those three great With hymns, God,”
“Oh, For a Closer Walk
“What Various Hindrances We Meet,”
“There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood”—
William Cowper, who shares with Isaao
Watts and Charles Wesley the chief honors
of Christian hymnology. In hypochon-
dm he resolved to take his own life, and
rode to the River Thames, but found a man
seated on some goods at that very point
from which he expected to spring, and
rode back to his home, and that night
threw himself upon his own knife, but the
blade broke; and then lie hanged himself
to the ceiling, but the rope broke.
While we make this merciful and right-
eous allowance in regard to those declare wore
plunged into mental incoherence, I
that the man who, in the use of his reason,
by his own act, snaps the bond between his
body and his soul, goe 3 straight into perdi-
tion. Shall I prove it? Revelation 21,8-
"Murderers shall have their part in the
Jake which burneth with Are and brim-
ASIlBURN, WORTH CO.. GA.. FRIDAY. JULY 2>. 1898.
Stone.” Revelation 22, 15—“Without are
dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers
ami murderers.” You do not believe the
New Testament? Then, perhaps, you ' bo-
iieve the Ton Commandments: “Thou
shait not kill.” Do you say that all these
passages refer to tlie taking of the life ol
other:;? Thou I ask you if you are not as
responsible for your own life ns for tho life
of others? Clod gave you a special trust in
life, and made you tlie custodian of your
life, und He made you the custodian of no
other life, lie gave you as weapons with
which to defend it two arms tostriko down
assailants, two eyes to watch for invasion,
and a natural love of life which ought ever
to be on the alert. Assassination of others
is a mild crime compared with the assas-
,s|miHn» of yourself, because in the latter
I—*w—q>A« tretl5 5 ? 5 JS s
2d“to ° n t0 G °' 1 ‘ Ud '
ortinarymurder of
To show how God the Bible looked
HrS-SSsii “T Wib'h
IntuTeJnsteXf on"n,l'or° Here",Ta sVrandeTlng manT/o
^eTksliis ^hen ^St^^aVhlTand
Xnu that servant declined then the giant
the hilt of his sword in the earth
the shuro point sticking andoxpires-’-the uoward and he
throws his suicide! body onlt cow-
ard, the Here is Ahitophel, tho
Maohiavelli of olden times, betraving his
best friend, David, in order that lm may bo-
come prime minister of Absalom, and join-
ing that fellow in his attempt at parricide,
Not getting what ho wanted by charge of
politics, he takes a short the cut out or a dls-
graceful life into suicide’s eternity,
There lie is tho ingrate!
Here is Ablmolech, pratically a suicide,
He j s w ru an army, bombarding a tower,
when a woman in the tower takes a grind-
stone from its place and drops it upon his
head, and with what life he has left in his
cracked skull ho commands his armor-
jest bearer: “Draw thy sword and slay me,
men say a woman slew me.” There is
ids post-mortem photograph in the Book of
Uarnuel ' ike
But hero of this group is Judas
Iscariot. ffini Dr. Donne says ho was a mar-
t yr, wo have in our day apologists for
him. And what wonder, in this day when
W o have « book revealing Aaron Burr as a
pattern of virtue, and in this day when we
uncover a statue of George Sand as the
benefactress of literature, and in this day
when there aro betrayals of Christ on the
part of some of His pretended apostles—a
betrayal judas so black it makes the infamy of
Iscariot white! Yet this man by his
baud hung up for tho execration of all
a *s In’ Judas Iscariot
the good men and women of tho Bible
j ef t to God the decision of the earthly
terminus, and they could have said with
Job, who had a right to commit suicide if
any man over had, what with his destroyed
property and his body all aflame with in¬
sufferable carbuncles, and everything gone
from his homo except the chief curse of it,
a pestirerous wifo with and four garrulous peo-
ho pie sits pelting him heap of comfortless ashes scratching talk while his
on a
scabs with a pieco of broken pottery, yet
crying out in triumph: “All the days of my
appointed time will I wait till my change
comes.”
Notwithstanding the Bible is against this
evil, and the aversion which it creates by
the loathsome aud ghastly spectacle of
those who have hurled themselves out of
life, and notwithstanding Christianity is
against it and the arguments and the use¬
ful lives and the illustrious deaths of its
disciples, suicide it is is « fact tho alarmiugly What patent
that on inoroaso. is
tho cause? I oburgo upon infidelity and
agnosticism this whole thing. If there be
no hereafter, or if that hereafter bo bliss¬
ful without referonoe to how we live and
how we die, why not move back the fold¬
ing doors between this world and the
next? And when our existence hero be¬
comes troublesome why not pass right
over into Elysium? Tut this down among
your most solemn reflections. There has
never boon a case of suicide wiiere the
operator was not either demented, and
therefore irresponsible, or an infidel. I
challenge all the ages and I challenge the
universe, There never has bfion a
case of self-destruction while in full
appreciation of his immortality and of the
fact that that immortality would ho glori-
ous'or wretched according as ho accepted
Jesus Christ or rejected Him.
You say it is a business trouble, or you
say It is oleotrieal currents, of It is this, or
it is that, or it is the other thing. Why not
go clear baok, my friend, and acknowledge
that In every case It is the abdication of
reason or tho tuaching of infidelity, which
practically says: “If you don’t like this
life got out of it, and you will land either
in annihilation, where there are no notes
to pay, no persecutions to suffer, no gout
to torment, or you will land where there
will be everything glorious and nothing to
pay for it.’.’ Inlldelity has always beon
apologetic forself-immolation. After Tom
Paine’s “Age of Reason” was published
and widely read there was a marked in¬
crease of self-slaughter.
A man in London heard Mr. Owen de¬
liver his Infidel lecture on socialism, and
wont home, sat down, and wrote these
words: “Jesus Christ is one of the weakest
characters in history, and the and Bible then is shot the
greatest possible David deception,” words:
himself. Hume wrote these
“It would be no crime for me to. divert tho
Nile or the Danube from Its natural bed.
Whore, then, can be the crime in my divert¬
ing a few drops of blood from their ordin-
ary channel?” And having written ■ a
essay he loaned it to a friend, the friend
read it, wrote a letter of thanks and admir¬
ation, and shot himself. Appendix to the
same book.
Rousseau, Volt aire, self-immolation. Gibbon, Montaigne,
were apologetic for Infl-
delity puts up no bar to peoplerushing Theyteaoh out
from this world into the next.
ns it does not make any difference how you
live here or go out of this world; you will
j U nd either in an oblivious nowhere holds or a
glorious somewhere. And infidelity the suicide,
the upper end oi the rope for
and aims the pistol with which ft man
blows his brains out, and mixes the strych-
nine for the last swallow, If infidelity
could carry the day and persuade the does tna-
Jority of people in this country that it
not make any difference how you out
of this world you will lrfhd safely, the
Potomac would be so full ol corpses th#
boats would be Impeded suicide in their pistol progress, would
and the crack of the s
be no more alarming than the rumble of a
street car.
I have sometimes heard it discussed
whether the great dramatist was a Cnrlg-.
tian or not. Ho was a Chr.^ian. in his
last will and testament he commends his
soul to God through the sacrifice of Jesus
Christ. would .. be .
Would God that the coroners
bravo in rendering Irresponsibility the right yeidiet, they and
when In a case of say:
“While this man was demented he took his
life;’’ in the other case say: Having rciad
infidel books and attended infidel lectures,
which obliterated from this man’s mind all
appreciation self-slaughter!” of future retribution, ho com¬
mitted
Have nothing to do with an Infidelity so
cruel, so debasing. Como out of that bad
company into the company of those who
believe the Bible, Benjamin Franklin
wrote: “Of tilts Jesus of Nazareth I have
to say that tho system of morals He left,
and the religion He has given us are the
best things the world has ever seen or is
likely to see.’’ Patrick Henry, the electric
champion of liberty, says: “Tho book
worth all other books put together is the
Bible.” Benjamin Rush, the leading phys¬
iologist and anatomist of his day, the great
medical scientist—what did ho say? “The
only true and perfect religion is Christiani¬
ty.” Isaac Newton, tho leading philoso¬
pher of his time—what did he say? “The
aublimest ophy philosophy Gospel.” on earth David is the Brewster, philos¬
of tho
nr the pronunciation of whose name every
scientist the world over bows his bead—
David Brewster, saying: “Oh, this religion
has been a great light to me, a very great
light all my days.” President Thiers, the
great French statesman, acknowledging
that ho prayed when ho said: “I invoke
the Lord God, in whom I am glad to be¬
lieve.” David Livingstone, aide to con¬
quer tho lion, able tocouquer tho panther,
able to conquer tho savage, yet conquered
by this religion, so when they Hint him
dead they dud him on his knees.
Salmon 1’. Chase, Chief Justice of tho Su¬
premo Court of the United States, appoint¬
ed by President Lincoln, will take the wit¬
ness stand. “Chief Justice Chase, ideaseto
state what you have to say about tho book
commonly called the Bible.” The witness
replies: "There came a time in my life
when I doubled the divinity of tho Script¬
ures, and I resolved as a lawyer and judge
I would try tho hook an I would try every¬
thing else in the court-room, taking evi¬
dence for and against. It was a long and
serious and profound study, and using the
same principles of evidence do in In this religious
matter as I always secular matters, I
have come to the decision tiiat tho Bible Is
a supernatural book, that it has come from
God, and that the only safety for the human
race is to follow Its teachings,” “Judge,
that will do. Go out back again to your
pillow of dust on tho banks of the Ohio.”
Next I put upon the witness stand a Prosi-
dent of the United States-John Quincy
Adams. “President Adams, what have
you to say about the Iillde and Chris¬
tianity?” The President replies: "I have for
many years made it a practice to read
through tho Bible once a year. My cus¬
tom is to rend four or five chapters every
morning immediately after rising from my
bed. It employs about an hour of my time,
and seems to me tho most suitable manner
of beginning regard the day. In wliat light so-
ever we revelation, the Bible, whether with
reference to to history or to
morality, it is an invaluable and inex¬
haustible mine of knowledge and virtue.”
“Chancellor Kent, what do you think of
the Bible?” Answer: “No other book
ever addressed ttseif so authoritatively
and moral so pathetically to the Judgment and
sense of mankind.” “Edmund
Burke, what do you think of the Bible?”
the happier and the better man for such
reading.”
Young men of America, come out of the
circle of infidels—mostly made up of
cranks and inbecllos—into tho company of
intellentuai giants, and turn your back
on an infidelity which destroys body and
soul.
Ah! Infidelity, stand up and take thy
sentence! In the presence of God, angels
and men, stand up, thou monster! Thy lip
blasted with blasphemy, they cheek scarred
with uneleanuoss, thy breath foul with the
corruption of tho ages’ Stand up. Satyr,
filthy goat, buzzard of tho nations, leper of
the centuries! Stand up, tbou monster,
Infidelity. Part man, part panther, part
reptile, part dragon, stand up and take
thy sentence! Thy hands hast rod witli the
blood in which thou washed, thy feet
crimson with the human goro through
which thou hast waded, stand up and take
thy sontenoe! Down with time to tho pit,
aud sup on the sobs and groans of these
thou hast destroyed, and let thy music be
tho everlasting miserere of those whom
thou hast damu«d! I brand the forehead
of infidelity with all the crimes of self-im¬
molation for tho last century on tho part
of those who had their reason.
My friends, if over your life, through its
abrasions arid its molestations, should
seem to be unbearable, ami you are tempt¬
ed to quit it by your own behest, do not
oon.'dder yourself as worse than others.
Christ Himself was tempted to east Him¬
self from the roof of the Temple, but as
Ho resisted, so resist ye, Christ came to
medicine all wounds. In your trouble I
prescribe life instead of death. People who
nave had It worse than vou will ever have
It, have gone songfully God on their way, K«-
memborthat keeps the chronology of
your life with as much precision as Ho
keeps the chronology of nations, your
grave as woll as your cradle. Why was it
that at midnight, just at midnight, that tho the de¬
stroying ungei struck the blow set
Israelites free from bondage? The four
hundred and thirty years were up at twelve
o’clock that night. The four hundred and
thirty years were not up at fdeven, and one
o’clock would have been tardy and too
late. The four hundred ami thirty years
were up at twelve o’clock, and the de¬
stroying pngel struck God thu blow, and Israel tho
was free. And knows just
hour when it is time to lead you up from
oarthly bondage. By His grace make not
the worst of things, but beat at thorn. It
yog must take the pills, do not chew them,
Your everlasting reward will accord with
yapr earthly perturbations, chain gold just ns heavy Cains
gavo had to been Agrippa chain a of of For us ask¬
as a iron. the
ing you may have the same grace that was
given the Italian martyr, Algerius, who,
down In tho darkest of dungeons, orchard dated of tho his
letters from “the delectable
Leonine prison.” Ami remember that this
brief life is surrounded by a rim, a very
thin, but very important rim, and close up
to that rim is a great eternity, aud you had
better keep out of it until God breaks that
rim and separates this from that. To get
rid of the sorrows of earth, do not n^sh
into greater sorrows. To get rid of a swarm
of summer insects, leap not into a jungle
of Bengal tigers.
There is a sorrowless world, and It is so
radiant that the noonday sun is only the
lowest doorstep, and the aurora that lights
up our northern Heavens, confounding
astronomers as to what it can be, is the
waving oi tne Banners or me procession
come to take the conquerors home from
church militant to church triumphant, and
you and I have ten thousand reasons lor
. ,,,
teney. All our sins slain by Christ who
came to do that $hhm, V? want to go la
the*clang fivIn J of'the Bepufchral «i'v 6 anmi*’th«'n
gates behind
us will he overpowered by the clang of the
opening of tlie solid pearl before us. <>
S^C^iS?I«?Vc5lstlM'sdMtfi” burial, 1
Christian a a Christian’s rumor-
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Twelve Thousand People Were
Witnesses of Great Event.
* Mail Americans Yellei Tliemselves Hoarse ffitli
Delimit as Old Glory M Rod Do,
AFTER SURRENDER GEN. T01! A IAS SWORD WAS
RETURNED BY GEN. SIIAFTER.
The City Is Left Temporarily In Possession of Its Municipal
Authorities, Subject, to Uontrol of General McKihben.
Shatter Cables Washington. ,
An Associated Tress dispatch from
Santiago under date of Sunday at 1
o'clock p. in , says:
The American llag is floating in tri-
uniph over tho governor h palace at
Santiago ” do Cuba.
General McKibbin lias been appoint¬
ed temporary military governor.
It was amid impressive ceremonies
that the Spanish . . troops , laid , . , down , their ...
arms between tho lines of the Spanish
and American forces at 9 o’clock Sun-
day J morning, General Shatter and
the American division and brigade
commanders and their staffs were es-
corted by a troop of cavalry, and Gen-
e ral Toral and bis staff by 100 picked
hiqn. trumpeters on both sides ea-
luted with flourishes.
General Shatter returned to General
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been handed tho American eonimnn-
der. ,
Our troops, lined up at, the trenches,
were eye-witnesses of the ceremony.
General Shatter and his escort, accom¬
panied by General Toral, rode through
the city, taking formal possession.
The ceremony of hoisting tho stars
and stripes was worth nil the blood
and treasure it cost.
A concourse of 12,000 people wit¬
nessed the stirring and thrilling scene
that will livo forever in tho minds of
all the Americans present.
A finer setting for a dramatic epi¬
sode it would be difficult to imagine.
The palace, a picturesque old dwelling
in tho Moorish stylo of architecture,
faces tlic Plaza de la lteinn, the prin¬
cipal public square. Opposito rises
the imposing Catholic cathedral. On
one side is a quaint, brilliantly painted
building, with broad verandas—the
club of Han Carlos—on the other a
building of much the same description
— the Cafe de La Venus.
Across the plaza was drawn up the I
Ninth infantry—headed by tlie Sixth
cavalry band. In the street facing
the palace stood a picked troop of the
Second cavalry, with drawn sabers,
under command of Captain Hrett.
Massed on tho stone flagging between
the baud and the line of horsemen
were the brigade commanders of Gen.
Shaftcr’s division, with their staffs.
On tlie red-tiled roof of the palace
stood Captain McKittrick, Lieutenant
Miley and Kieutenant Wheeler; ira-
imrnediately over them, upon the
flagstaff, tlie illuminated Spanish arms
and the legend, “Viva Alfonso XIII."
All about, pressing against the veranda
rnilH, crowding tlie windows and doors
and lining the roofs, were the people
of the town, principally women und
non-combatants.
THE FEVER STATUS.
Sixteen New Cases Among Troop* mill
One Death.
The war department at, Washington
posted tlie following at 10.30 a. m.,
Sunday:
SnioNEV, via Hayti, July 10.—Stern¬
berg, Washington: Sixteen new eases
past twenty-four hours, one death.
Sanitation measures rigid.
GBEENIiEAF,
“Chief Surgeon.”
CERYEKA AT ANNAPOLIS.
lie and Other Spanish Officers Quartered
I n llistorie Town.
Admiral Cervora, the recent corn-
marnler of the Spanish squadron
™ <*• w» e »,
about forty Spanish officers, were
transferred to Annapolis, Md., Satur-
,!f iv and are now prisoners of war
within the historic precincts of the
United States Naval Academy.
The auxiliary cruiser St. Louis car-
tied the foreign prisoners up Chesa-
peake buy. A tew of the Spaniards
were dressed in the Spanish uniform,
but most of them were rigged out
wholly or in part in duck uniforms
that had been furnished them by
American officers.
As the chimes of the old cathedral
rang out tho hour of 12 the infantry
and cavalry presented arms. Every
American uncovered his head and (lap-
lain McKittrick hoisted tho stars and
stripes.
As tho brilliant folds unfurled in a
gentle breeze against a (luckless sky
tho cavalry band broke into the strains
of “The Star Spangled Banner,” mak¬
ing tho American pulse loap aud the
American heart thrill with joy.
At the samo instant the sound of
the distant booming of Captain Cap-
rou’s battery, firing a salute of twon-
fy-ono guns, drifted in. When tho
music ceased, from all directions
around our line eamo floating across
tho plaza the strains of the regirnoutal
bands and the muffled, hoarse oheers
of onr men. The infantry came out
to “order arms” a moment later, after
tho (lug was up and the hand played
“Bally ’Round the Flag, Iloys.”
Instantly General MoKinbin called
for three cheers for General Shatter,
which were given with groat, enthusi¬
asm, the band playing the “Stars and
Stripes Forever. ’’ Tho ceremony over,
General Shatter and his staff returnod
to the American lines, leaving tho city
in tho possession of the municipal
authorities, subject to the control of
General McKibbin.
Official Notice From Sluifter.
The war department posted tho fol¬
lowing at Washington at 5:15 p. m.,
Sunday: 17.—-Ad¬
“Santiago de Cuba, July
jutant General United States Army,
Washington, D. C.—I have tho honor
to announce that the American flag
has been this instant, 12 noon, hoisted
over tlie house of the civil government
in the city of Santiago. An immense
concourse of people present. A squad
of cavalry and a regiment of infantry
presenting arms and band playing
national airs. Light battery fired
of twenty-one guns. Perfect
order is being maintained by munici-
pal government. little
“Distress is very great; but
sickness in town. Scarcely any yellow
fever. A small gunboat and about 200
seamen left by Gervera have surren¬
dered to me. Obstructions aro being
removed from month of harbor.
“Upon coming into the city I dis¬
covered a perfect entanglement of de¬
fenses. Fighting as the Spaniards did
the first day it would have cost 5,000
lives to have taken it. Battalions of
Spanish troops have been depositing
arms since daylight in armory, over
which I have guard. General Toral
formally surrendered tho plaza und all
stores at 9 a. m.
“W. B. Shafter,
“Major General.”
DESTROYED SPANISH GUNBOAT.
Cruiser New Orleans I'lay* Havoc With
the Antonio Lopez.
Advices from St. Thomas state that
tlie United States cruiser New Orleans
Saturday completely destroyed tho
Spanish gnnboat Antonio Lopez, whose
captain recently ran his vessel ashore
at Kilinas, near San Juan do Porto
Kico, upon being chased by American
vessels, while attempting to enter Han
Juan with a cargo of provisions and
war material.
THE LIST OF CASUALTIES
Since Onr Troops Flrtt Landed on Cuban
Boll —A Remarkable Showing.
According to advices from Gon.
Shaftcr’s headquarters, the final report
«~.«.i««i» <*. <* >•»<-
ed in Ciibu three weeks ago has been
forwarded to Washington. It shows
an aggregate of 1,041 officers and men
killed, wounded and missing. The
killed number 24G, of whom twenty¬
ono were officers; wounded, 1,584 of
whom ninety-eight were officers, and
j missing, eighty-four, of wounded whom none
j were officers. Of the only
sixty-eight have died.
Colonel Pope, the surgeon-in-chiof,
says this is a remarkably small nura-
her of fatalities.
VOL. VI. NO. 50.
Leaves Siboney
With Troops.
Arrangement* Are Planned to
Make the ('ninpiiign a (Juick
and Decisive One by Use
of Large Force.
A Washington special says: After
three days’ consultation between the
president, Secretary Alger and Gen¬
eral Hrooke, during which there was
frequent communientioiiB witli Gen¬
eral Milos at Siboney, the details of
tlie l’orto Kican expedition were per¬
fected and the expedition itself was
got under way. General Miles, with
some artillery and troops, sailed Mon¬
day for Porto Rico on the converted
cruiser Yale, to bo followed quickly by
an army of 110,000 men.
There are some notable differences
in tho plans for this expedition and
for the stalely naval pageant that Hail¬
ed away from Tampa under General
Shaffer's command to attack Santiago.
First, there will be practically no
naval convoys, the navy department
having declared that they are unneces¬
sary as there is not u Spanish warship
in the West Indies that dare trust its
Ivow out of port.
In the second place, tho expedition
does not start from one point, but will
be divided among soveral ports, thus
preventing tho tremendous congestion
that was encountered at Tampa in tho
effort to start tho big fleet. Lastly,
there will he no effort made to get tho
ships away together, hut the transports
will be allowed to find their own way
to their destination without concerto i
movements.
General Miles leads tho way. lie
lmd been promised by the president
that he should go to Porto Kico and
the promise was redeemed whom tho
Yale headed from Siboney for Porto
Kico, Hill) miles distant. General
Hrooke will he tho senior officer in
Miles’ command and upon him will
fall the responsibility for the execu¬
tion of the details of his superior’s
plans.
The point chosen for the landing is
kept secret, as tho general will land
before the full body of the expedition
is at hand and it is consequently not
desirable that the enemy should lie
able to assemble a superior force to
meet him. Tlie distance from Charlos-
ton, whore tho first, body of troops for
Miles’ expedition starts, is more than
double the distance from Santiago to
l’orto Kico, so that the transports
which sail from the former city can
scarcely reach General Miles before
the early part of next week. These
Charleston troops are tho First brig¬
ade of tlie First division of the First
army corps and aro commanded by
Brigadier General George II. Ernst.
The brigade comprises tho Second
Wisconsin, Third Wisconsin and Six¬
teenth Pennsylvania regiments.
Campaign Will lie Short.
The purpose of Secretary Alger is to
make tlie Porto Kican campaign a short
one. An overwhelming force will bo
thrown upon the island, and it is pos¬
sible that a bloodless victory will be
achieved when the Spanish become
convinced that they have no reasona¬
ble chance to resist successfully.
The expedition is to comprise 30,000
men at the start, and it will be swelled
soon to 40,000, and if necessary to
70,000 men, the equipment of volun¬
teer forces having now progressed so
well as to warrant the statement that
that number can Vie ready for service
in Porto Kico within a very short
time.
NOT ALLOWED TO LAND.
The Quarantine Officer at Newport News,
Va., Kilters Objection.
The United States transport Seneca
arrived in Hampton Roads Monday af¬
ternoon with ninety-nine sick and
wounded soldiers from Santiago. In
view of the prevalence of yellow fever
at Santiago, Dr. Pettus, the United
States quarantine officer, refused to
permit the sick and wounded men to
be landed;
It is understood that they will be
taken to New York. Dr. Pettus says
that no yellow fever has developed
among the patients aboard, but it is
understood that there are three suspi¬
cious cases ou the vessel.
