THE REPORTER.
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.MILV 20. 1877.
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This subject is being discussed by a
number of ihc papers of the State, all
of whom appear to favor (he measure
and urge its adoption upon the next
Legislature. The subject of education
is one of vital interest to the prosperity
oi say people, and no other subject is
of more importance to the people of
North Carolina. It is a public shame
that thousands of our citizens, grown up
men and women, are to-day as ignorant
of letters as Ihey were at their birth ;
and thousands of o'lildren, capable of
great things in the future, are growing
up in tho same illiteracy that has blight
ed the lives of their parents and marred
the pr ispcrity of our State. Society
and oivilitation demands a new oondi
tion of thiugs. Half of tho vice and
penury that now afflicts community is
the outcrop and legitimate result of ed
ucational neglect. There is no greater
degradation lhan ignorance, and it is
the most prolific source of every descrip
tion of evil. No species of virtue can
flourish within tho shadow of its pres
ence, for the rank weeds of prejudice,
bigotry and vanity smother out of exist
ence the sentiments of true refinement.
But bow can improvement be effected .'
It is claimed that compulsory education
has resulted satisfactory in States where
it has been tried, and would oonfer great
beoufit. upon the people of North Caro
lina. We claim thatthe passage of such
a measure by the next Legislature, with
no other legislation in aid of education,
would be hurtful and unwise. Many
of our people are financially unable to
educate their children. The present
free school system is farcical and worth
less ; conferring no benefit upon children
and of no assistance to pifents. The
teachers, in some instances, are notori
ously incompetent, and often besotted
vagabonds, selected and employed by a
committee of- similar stripe, who aro as
ignorant of moral requirements as they
arc of the customs of the inhabitants of
the mooD. And these schools, such as
they are, are limited to only a few weeks
in every year. Such # management and
such a system is a disgrace to the Slate,
and should be abolished, even if the
people are allowed no olbef in its stead
There are people who would gladly
educate their children, but who are un
able to pay their tuition in a private
school. There are others who imagine
themselves too poor to spend money upon
the education of their children, but who,
nevertheless, can readily find a surplus
dollar or two with, which to buy whisky
or waste in other extravagancies. And
there are others still who regard their
children as stock property, the same as
their mules and cattle ; and they regard
their whole duty discharged when they
feed and olothc their children for their
labor. This class are generally poor and
uneducated; and they imagine that the
chief end of man, and the height of
human ambition, centers in a large crop
of tobacco. If a free public school was
established at their doors, they would
appreciate no advantage from it, and
without compulsion their childreu would
receive no benefit.
We do not wish to be misunderstood
as opposing compuLory education, or
claiming that the State has no duty rest
ing upon it in connection with this sub
ject. We do not favor a measure com
pelling the attendance of children to
subscription schools, when we know that
a large number of our people will be
utterly unable to meet the expense thus
incurred. It would be direct class leg
islation, and oppressive to the poorer
classes of our people. In fact, the poorer
the parent, and the greater the number
of his children, the more oppressive
would be the effect of such laws. But
it seems to us that the State has a duty
in this matter devolving upon it,and pa
triotism should compel its performance.
Let the State provide a general system
of free education, for all classes of chil
dren between prescribed ages, and then
we will welcome compulsory measures
No man should be allowed to deprive his
child of the advantages of an education
in order that a few pounds more of to
bacco may be produced upon the farm.
Society aud the' country should not thus
be cheated out of their claims upon the
rising generation; and the laws of the
State should come to the rescuo Let
the pj.iple have the advantage of a lib
er 1 school system, and then they should
be'compelled to educate tbeir ohildren
Nor do wo tucan to exclude the col
ored people from the advantages of this
system. They should have their free and
continuous schools for the benefit of tbeir
children. The errors to whioh they now
eling are more the result of ignoruuee
than constitutional depravity. Kduca
tion affords thaonly hope of their sue
cessful and intelligent citizenship. No
claw of onr people oan receive a full
benefit from any measure which does not
iuohidc the iuleresMt of all. We sin
cHSsly hope the" next General Assembly
will give the subject of a free school
system ts most serious attention.
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GENERAL A. .V. SCALES.
A correspondent of the Ualeigh Ob
server, writing from Newborn, pays glow
ing tributes to the character and quali
fications of our worthy member of Con
gress, Oeu. A. M. Scales, and urges his
claim to the Speakership of the next
House of Representatives. We believe
that DO truer man could be selected to
fill that responsible position, and that
few could fill it more satisfactorily to the
country. Wo endorse and concur in
the views of the correspondent, and re
publish them, knowing that they will be
acceptable to a Iflrge majority of the
people of Stokes. The writer says :
"We see that the name of this dis
tinguished, gentleman [General Scales]
is mentioned for the Speakership of the
next House of Representatives. He is
the very uian for the position. Cool,
sagacious, able and thoroughly informed,
be would bring an array of talents and
moral qualities to the management of our
political interests, which would at once
allay all anxiety and alarm, and reflect
the highest honor upon our galiant old
State We have knowo General Scales
ever since we studied law together at
Chapel Hill twenty-five years ago, and
we have always considered, after Wil
liam A. Graham, our safest and strong
est guide in all extraordinary political
emergencies. Why shou'd North Caro
lina not have the Speaker in the next
Congress? Her brilliant career in Con
gressional debate, her firm conservative
course iu the presence of recent dangers
and excitements, and her magnificent
triumph in tho last election, have ren
dered her conspicuous in the sisterhood
of States. General Scales will not only
dignify tho position of Speaker, but he
will make it a potential agency in the
great work of reconciliation and of
Southern development. Iu saying this,
we do not intend to subtract one particle
of credit from our other patriotic and
efficient representatives. We are proud
of them all. They are a body of men
who would ennoblo tho history of any
country or people. We simply mean to
endorse the designation of one of the
most gifted, reliable and devoted of the
number for one of the most critically
important stations in the Republio. By
all means let us have Scales."
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More Rascality. '
A recent dispatch from Columbia, S
C., say«: Joseph Woodruff, the Presi
dent of the Rrpuhlican printing compa
ny, which robbed the State of a large
sum of money, was put upon the stand
to day. There is a prevailing belief
that Woodruff, who is just now in a very
delieato and interesting situation so far
as his liberty is concerned, may turn
State's evidence upon his associates in
this big swindle. Some of the robbers
have left the State, and are doubtless at
this moment enjoying their iilgotten
gains in fancied security. Woodruff
being compelled to remain, it is thought
he will make a cleau breast of it. It
would be better for him if be should
Tbe evidence given before the committee
yesterday and to-day implicates D. T.
Corbin, better known io South Carolina
as "Munchausen" Corbin, formerly
United States district Attorney. In the
misappropriation of the State funds
knowu as the "Phosphate Royalty," to
secure his election as United States Sen
ator from South Carolina, Corbin, it is
said, gave each member of the Maokey
House two hundred dollars for his vote
to scud h m to the Uoited States Senate.
He was elected by that so called House
of Representatives, and went to Wash
ington and claimed his seat over M. C.
Butler, elected by the Wallace, or lawful
House. Corbin got wiad of tbe evi
dence wbioh would most probably be
given agaiost him, and on yesterday
sailed lor Europe. His splendid future
in the United States Senate, which was
sa lavishly boasted of by his political
friends here, will thus he cut short, aud
Butler will doubtless be seated.
There is, perhaps, not a man on the
face of the earth who, on beiug thrashed
at school when a boy, didn't promise
hioifccli that if he ever got to be a man
he would thrash the teacher in return ;
but DO boy ever kept sueto a promise,
except in a case related by the Detroit
Free Press. Thirty years ago a teacher
in Michigan struck a boy on tho hoad
with a ruler, and tho other day the boy,
grown to be a uian of forty, met the
teacbcr and requited the blow with
what is popularly known as "a genteel
thrashing" It that ruler bad been
heavy enoogb, and had been used with
sufficient force and frequency, the boy
would have forgiven, if he bad not for
gotten it, long before he reached the age
of forty.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From OojJOwn Correspondent.]
WASHINGTON, D. C.,)
July 19, 1877. J
The National Republican is suffi
ciently silly a» to say that the President ,
ex poets the Republican party will here
after carry sevcrul Southern States bo- i
sides those which were last Fall counted |
for Hayes. As there is hardly a oorpo
ral's guiird of white Republicans in any
of them, aud Fred Douglass says the
colored men, left to themselves, will in
evitably go with their old masters, the .
Republican'* assertion or Mr. Uayea'
belief would seem to be in direct oppo
sition to facts and probabilities. In so +
ber truth thero is no little hope among j
intelligent supporters of the Adminis- |
tration that any Southern State can be
carried this Fall, and the most that is
looked upon as possible is to prevent the
annihilation of its support in some of
the Northern States. Already tho tri
umphs of Hayesism is put, by its more
judicious friends, in the far-off tiooe-y-i
vaguely described as before the end of
the term. • f-k
The programmo of Southern travel of
Mr. Hayes aud members of the Cabinet
now includes, it is announced by author-1
ity, many short excursions North an 4
South, the headquarters being iu this
city.
A trial closed here last week whicb
has excited great local interest. Two
men had been arrested on the charge of
keeping a gambling house, and the place
was brokeu up by the police. This was
the result of an attempt made a year
since to put a stop to gambling. Finally
the jury returned a verdict of noL.
guilty ; and as the accused could prob
ably have been convicted if any of the
"profession" could have been, we may
consider it certain that punishment for
gambling with cards in Washington is
played out. Oa Monday Mr. Hayes
pardoned the only person e"er impris
oned here for "selling policy." While
these two facts are to be considered as
the end of legal interference with g imb
ling, the stir made has had the #ffect of
causing tha gamblers to be more guard
ed iu their manner of conducting busi
ness.
Various clubs have been organized in
which lovers of games may eojoy their
misery without polioe surveillance or any
interference whatever.
There have been published through
out the country, of late, reports of epi-,
demies in this city. These, it is certain,
are gross exaggerations. Our death
rate for this summer is large ; but, while
it seoms wrong to raise a "race question"
on such a subject at suoh a tiuic, a few
facts ought to be published. The mor
tality among the white people here is
less than that among white people in any
other city of equal size on the continent.
Deaths of negroes, especially young
ones, swell what would otherwise be a
low rate to what is certainly a large one.
The lower class of colored people die off
like sheep, owing to causes not perhaps
fully understood, but partly because of
the filth, irregularity and vice of their
manner of living.
General Howard does not seem to be
just the commanding officer to fight the
Indians. In the first place, the Generali
is constitutionally unable to believe any
thing bad of any one. He can find
more virtue in an Indian or an African
of the lowest class than history records
of all the Indians md Africans who have
lived. Neither has he any experience
ID Indian warfare. If the war is to
oontinue, the Government will probably
find its advantage in sending some other
oommander to the front. DEM.
Not Drunk, but Sleepy.
Stonewall Jackson slept a great deal,
though the men of his command believeiF
that he never took repose. Whenever
he had nothing else to do he slept, es
pecially in church He could sleep any
where aud in any position, on a chair,
under fire or on horseback. During a
night-inaroh lowa.ds Kiahinond, alter
the battlei l with McClellan, writes Col
onel Kyd Douglas, in the Penutyleania
Time *, "be was riding along with his
drowsy staff, nodding and sleeping as he
went. We passed by groups of men sit
ting along the roadside, aud engaged in
roasting new corn .by the fires made of
fcncc-rails. Oue group took us for cav
alrymen, with an inebriated captain and
one ol the party, delighted at the sight of
a man who had found whisky enough to
bo drunk, sprang up from the fire and,
brandishing a ro*»ting-car in his hand,
leaped down into the road and, seizing
tha General's horse, cried out, 'I say,
old fellow, where the devil did you get
your liquor ?' In an instant, as the Gen
eral awoke, the fellow saw bit mistake;
and then bounding from the road he
took the fence at a single leap, exclaiming.
'Good God, it's old Jack !' and disap
peared in the darkness."
Our Public Schools.
That the children of North Carolina
must bo educated is a proposition that
no man will now deny. The thing must
be done, aod the only question for ua to
consider is, how can it be done best,
quickest and cheapest ?
Our own experience, as well as that
of other States, tells us that it cannot be
accomplished by means of private schools.
Private schools and private academies
answer, perhaps, well enough for rioh
people, who care but little what the
education of their children costs them,
but for the great mass of the people
that great body of people who have to
pinch and save every penny to make
both ends meet—the system of private
schools will not answer, and the State
that relies upon it practioally shuts the
door of tho school-room to ninety-nine in
every hundred children within her
borders. It is through State aid and
through State machinery alone that
adequate educational facilities can be
afforded to tho children of our State.
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Public schools alone afford to the masses
1 The means to give their ohildren tho ed
ucation so neoessary to transform them
into good citizens, aod to enable them to
earn an honest living, for ohildren do
not become peaceable, law-abiding citi
zens if left to grow up in a state of na
ture. Education is as neoessary to the
growth of the citiien as food is to the
growth of the man.
Publio schools, then, we must have in
North Carolina, and in overy portion of
it. Nor can we be content with badly
organized, inefficient schools, with in
competent teaohers, for such schools as
these are perhaps dear at any price, but
we must have well organized schools,
conducted by good instructor*. In such
schools, aod in such alone will the tax
payers get the worth of their money.
There is one objection, howevrr, urged
against a well organized system of publio
schools that has some torce and srme
truth in it, but it is a force aud truth
that will satisfy the tax-payer and the
parent, and the Legislature as well that
the system ought to be adopted. The
objection is that the teachers oannot
make as much money under the public
system as they could under the private
school system. 'lt may be that this is
true, but we respectfully submit that the
great object aimed at to providing n
system of publio schools is not that
teachers may grow rich, hut that the
- children of the State may get the best
education at the lowest price possible
The objection, if objection it be, is no
objection to us. #
The time has come when North Car
olina must do her duty, aod her full
duty, to her ohildren, and welt may she
be willing to do it, for her duty to her
children is nothing but her duty to her
self — Raleigh Observer.
The Internal Revenue System.
The Hillsboro Recorder very sensibly
says "if the system cannot be repealed,
that is, the lovy of the internal revenue
tax, still it may be so modified as to be
effoctivo without being offensive. The
machinery may be changed, the present
instruments displaced The suggestion
lof Mr. Robbins is practical and wise.
I "Let the distiller [and the tobacco man
ufacturer too] list his products for taxa
tion to some official sitting at the court
house of his oounty, at certain stated
periods for this business, swearing to his
statement, and made liable for perjury
j for falsely swearing in regard to it, and
»for double tax for not listing."
Our people are not dishonest when
trusted, and we do not doubt double the
money would then reach the treasury,
h than is now suffered to reach it hrough
the hands of the present collectors."
Mullen for Consumption.
correspondent of the Plantation
writes as follows about the power of a
|Well known plant.
"I have discovered a remedy f.-r
consumption. It has cured
la number of cases after they bad com
menced bleeding at tho lungs, and the
flush was already on the check.
It is the common mullcn, steeped strong
and sweetened with sugar, and drank
Ireely. The herb should be gathered
Wore the end of July, if convenient."
This is going the rounds If the
reader will get the North Carolina Al
manac for 1876, he will find the recipe
in full. We know tho history of the
mullen cure John Satterwhite, Esq , a
clever and honest citizen of Graoville,
was ourcd by the use of mullen tea and
1 lightwood. The history of it first ap
peared in the Oxford Torch Light in
March, 1875. In March 1876, a fuller
statement appeared. Mr. Sattcrwbito
was cured in 1873, and is still living,
aged 66. So the Plantation's corres
pondent only "discovered a remedy for
pulmonary consumption" that was known
io North Carolina years ago.— Wilming
ton Star.
NEWS OP THE WEEK.
STATE NEWS.
Millard Oline, of Iredell county, son
of Benjamin Cline, was placed in jail
' last week for a forgery perpetrated upon
his father.
The Department of Jnstioe disavows
any intention of arresting Marshal Doug
lass of North Carolina. There is noth
ing to wariant proceedings against bin)
on file in tho Department.
Charlotte Observer : Three ohildren,
all aged about eighteen months, were
buried at the same time Sunday after
noon in the burying ground at Center
Churoh, in the southern part of Iredell
county.
Aft. Airy Watchman: We regret to
learn that Mr. Daniel Eldridge, a highly
respected citizen of this county, sud
denly dropped dead at his residence, in
the upper part of the county one day
last week. Mr. Eldridge was about 45
years of age, and leaves a wife and sev
eral children to mourn his loss.
Piedmont■ Press : Two convicts re
cently escaped the guard at Henry's,
and broke into a house near Turkey
Tail, Burke county, got citizens cloth
ing and carried off a number of other
artiolesof value. Soon after they were
in the house they were observed by Mr.
John Tato, the road master, aud after a
lively chase of three miles he and Mr.
Curtis succeeded in oapturing one, a
white man named Powers, who was in
for three years The other convict was
a negro aud was sentenced to ten years
imprisonment.
Dr D T. Boyntou.of Knoxville, Ten
nessee, tho newly appointed Commis
sioner of Pensions for this, with several
other States, arrived in the city yestcr
day morning and took rooms at the Yar
borough House. He comes to take
formal possession of the books and papers
of the late Commissioner Tourgoe, and
we suppose on nnd after this date our
State will be spared the affliction of
Tourgee, even as a Federal office-bolder.
Boyntoo is the son in-law of the late
Parson Brownlow—but his headquarters
are to be in Knoxville, Tennessee
Raleigh Observer.
Durham Tobacco Plant: Rev. J. B.
Martin, pastor in charge of the Flat
llivtr circuit, on his way from Fletcher's
Chapel to Chapel Hill, spent last night
in Durham, with Mr. J. S. Carr. Early
this morning Mr Martin repaired to tho
stables to look after his horse, when he
was bitten by a black spider. In a very
short lime the poison diffused itself over
the system of Mr. Martin, and he suffer
ed the most excruciating pain. Dr. Carr
was at once sent for, and all that medical
skill could avail was dune to relieve bis
sufferings.
Asheville itizen : Oar correspond
ent in Jackson writes us, that on Mon
day last A K. Taylor, Esq., a good oit
izen of that county, was in his field
hoeing corn, and about 11 A. M. an as
busMii in auibush tired at hiu back, the
ball passing through his left side between
the hip and the ribs It is thought that
the wound will not prove fatal. Up >n
inquiry two young men of the neighbor
hood were absent, gone to the mountain
to look alter stock. Suspicion seemed
to rest upon theui and the next morning
they were arrested, and alter hearing
before Justices Watson and Davis they
were held to bail to await trial at the
next court.
Charlotte Observer: On Tuesday
last, the dwelling of Mr James W. Ro
geis, who lives about 12 miles east of
this city near Hornet's Nest, was struck
by lightning, aud catching fire was en
tirely destroyed At the moment that
it was strnck Mrs Rogers was in the
garden, and there was no one iu the
house except a young baby whioh was
asleep in a cradle. As soon as tho mother
discovered what had occurred, she rushed
in the house to her infant, which she
found to be unhurt. Discovering that
the building wis then in flames, she oar
ricd the child aud its oradle into the
yard. The fire spr. ad so rapidly that
she only had time to remove one feather
bed from tho burning b'uilding. The
house and its contents were oonsumed
in a few moments.
GENERAL NEWS.
An onion weighing four pounds seven
ounces has been raised on Amelia Island,
near Fernandina, Florida.
Another outrage has been oommitted
upon an American vessel by a Spanish
cruiser off the coast of Cuba.
The Indian Chief Joseph, surprised
and killed thirty-one Chinamen near
Clear Water, Idaho Territory.
The promoters of the Liberian emi
gration scheme claim to have enrolled
the names of 2,500 colored persona in
Charleston and 30,000 in the State of
South Carolina who consent to emigrato
A portion of the command under
Gen. Ord crossed into Mexican terri
tory the other day and pursued and
caught a band of robbers who had be«n
preying upon American oitixens.
The whitea and blacks of the Ellen
ton district in Bouth Carolina, held a
meeting last week and passed resolutions
of peace and good will. The prosecu
tions in the State and Federal courts
will be stopped.
Chicago papers report the presence
there, and in oiher large oities, of Frenoh
agents contracting for provisions for war
purposes. Specific instructions sre given
as to how the food shall be paolced with
a view to its preservation, and easy trans
portaiien and distribution in rations.—
Enough food has been ordered to sustain
a large army during a long campaigo.
These operations are considered signifi
cant in tiewof the condidion of Western
Europe.
A gentleman living in Cottonwood,
CaL i few nights ago awoke from sleep
an J "aw his daughter, who was ft som
nambulist, passing through his akamber.
Fie stretched oal his hand and awoke
hor, when ahe suddeuly fell dead.
John Stone Pnllen, formerly a New
Orleans sugar merchant, member of the
Louisiana Legislature, and a Colonel in
the Confederate army, who loaned 8200,-
000 to the Confederate Government, am}
was beggared by the results of the far,
died in a wretched tenement in Grand
street, Brooklyn, last week, and was
saved from burial at the publie expense
by the oharity of his poor fellow-tenants.
He was born at Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
and was educated for the ministry, bat
on leaving college he embarked in the
sugar business.
O'Brien, foreman of the grand jury
which indicted the Louisiana Returning
Board, Rays that there only four Demo
cratic members on the jury out of ail
teen. Their action was entirely on their
own volition ; no prominent politician
appeared before the jury until summon
ed. Among the witnesses were Green,
ex secretary of the Board ; Blanchard,
ex-State registrar of votes, and several
registrars and clerks who had been oon
nccted with the manipulation. He says
there wag plenty of testimony, not only
from witnesses, but from documentary
evidence, to convict the Returning
Board, not only of fraud, bat of perjury
Bnd of altering public dooumenta. The
testimony is also stated to be very dam
aging toother prominent persons outside
ot the State.
POMTIOAI, NEWS.
The Republican party of Mississippi
has been disbanded. j
It is stated that Senator Conkling will
refuse to endorse Hayes' Southern policy
in the coming session of Congress.
The grand jury of New Orleans seems
to be a bigger thing than the late Eleo
toral Commission; it is going behind
the returns.
The Temperance party in Ohio havo
a full State ticket in the field. They
assert that the largest temperanoe vote
ever cast in that State will be polled in
October.
Washington dispatches report that
President Hayes has determined to rec
ognize Dial as President of Mexioo. It
is also said that Mexioo has made ar
rarigements to pay all just claims of our
citizens who have lost property by raid
ers from Mexioo.
A striking illustration of the hard
times among politicians as well as among
thcr folkb is afforded in the fact that
among the special polioe sworn in at the
Capitol the other day were two ex-Gov
ertiors, one ex Judge and one ex-Con
gressman, and several prominent State
politicians who have been hanging aboat
Washington lot months waiting for some
thing to turn up.
Gen. Wm. Mahone, one of the lead
ing candidates lor the Democratio nom
ination for Governor of Virginia, repre
sents himself to be earnestly in favor of
the publio school system of the State
and the preservation of its fund iutaot.
Especially does he think that the beat
interests of the State demand that the
large class of persons recently admitted
to the privileges of eitisenship should
receive careful and ample instruction in
every branch of learning that may fit
them for a proper discharge of its dutiea
and responsibilities.
FOREIGN N*Wf».
Italy has reoognixed Diaz as President
of Mexico.
CoLtinued fighting is reported at Mo.
nastir, Bjela and Coreat, between the
Russians and the Turka.
The campain in Asia Minor seems to
have resulted in the defeat of the Rua
sians, and will have to be fought orer
again. ■ )
Official dispatches leave no doubt that
the Turks, by force of superior numbera,
have driven the Rowans away from •
Kara and summoned Baysxid to surren
der. They have also made a successful
descent near Batons.
The Russians have occupied Tirnova
after a severe confliot. The Turka op
posed the invaders with their character
istio stubbornness, but the Russian cav
alry behaved splendidly, and the Turka
were compelled to evaouate the town.
The Rusaiana have advanoedaa far aa
Monastir in the direotion of, and twenty
five miles southwest of, Rataehuk. A
battle is believed to be imminent in thin
direotion. Russian detachments march
ing upon Selvi and Plavena, whieh are
unfortified, have burned four villagea be
tween these points. >'■ •
Pehth, July 18.—The passage of thn-
Balkans has produced the moet profound
oonstcrnation here. The Hungarian
journals energetically demand the linne
diate action of Austro-Hangary agaiaat
Russians. The simi-offioial organ* are
less caiphatio and urge dolay until after
the first decisive battle.
This last campaign has proved the
most disastrous to the Turks of any at
tempt they have ever made to ovsroome
the Montenegrins Prom the day thai
Suleiman Pasha and Ali Saib set oat to
effect a junotion and crush Prinoe Nik
ita's little army with their united foreee,
it has been one grand oarnag*. Out of
15,000 baahi baiouks who entered Mob*
tenegro with the Turkish army fully 11,-
000 are now dead or miasing. Thia la
independent of the loss among the reg
ular troopa, who formed the bulk of lha
army. There are 2,000 Turkish wounded
at Sentari, and 1,000 more are expected
to arrive.