Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1877 — A Dramatic Scene. [ARTICLE]

A Dramatic Scene.

The correspondent of the Manchester Guardian gives a vivid description of the scene in Nicsies when the Montenegrin flag fluttered out from the staff of the citadel. Men, women, and children thronged into; the streets; the wounded hobbled out on their crutches from the hospitals; everybody who liad a gun or pistol ibid it off', mid those who hadn’t relieved their feelings by singing national hymns and embracing one another at the chorus; war dances were danced in the squares, the venerable Metropolitan and his priests looking on, and over all this uproar rose the booming of cannon and the steady clang of tlie cathedral arid monastery bells. “It is the wild, reckless delight of so many children,” writes the correspondent, “and is inconceivable in a civilized country.” But tlie Montenegrins have reason for rejoicing. They have been trying to drive the Turks out of Nicsics for centuries, and now, after half a dozen costly and unsuccessful sieges, they have done it.