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■A - iffif t. Articles fer publtc^MB riaupld,V« writ- . im in ft oleftr, leg ibis h»j»d, ftftd on omy one resch os oft Pridftjr. TraTetein’ Q^ide.7 j £ ... WIUHKGTQN, COLIJMKA. INI) — RAILROAD. 1 OnnAL PAss>AaftB-J>ftrftftTMB>T, CoLomiA, 8.Cm August C, 1877. . -fTb* following Schedule will heoperftted o> •''f' sad ftfter this date.- m. . *•.• R*pr*m Trrnm- Daily. < , , •oiftft Bonn. “ liCftye Colambift , . Leave Florence >-*•— Arrive st Wilmiagteft N . •*' 1 . * ‘ ftemo eovrir. Leftve Wilmington . Leeve Floronoe * ^ Arrive »t Columbift » .ThisTralft is Feat oonn act lefts, all rail nnftec H 15 p. 2 40 s. m. 6 82 ft, ss. mM . Ur m3 8 00 p. m. 10 02 p. m. 80048 r and water Rnreetfnrctftw Fortsmhuth. Ptnp only al Eastover, Sumter, Timmonsville, Florence Marion, Fair Bluff, Whiteville sad Flemington. Through Tickets sold and baggage check ed to all principal points. 'Pullman Sleepers an night trains. Freifkt Trmin— days.) OOIKO NORTH Leave Colamhia .... Leave Fl< renee. . . . • Arrive at Wilm:ngtoft. . SENATOR BOTLER SPEAKS. HIS, ADDRESS T(J THE fEOPZE OJf • :;7! ; COLUMBIA'.' T - t j A Sharp ftaMinelfttion orrrMldeiitITaj.es «*» —The Real laafte in the Senatorli Straggle-Words of Coftasel Cheer to thr People of Sooth Ci matorial I and o{ rarcllnaj ■ [Special Dispatch to tba Newt aud Courier ] ^CosatmiAa, WednVnday, December 1JL—10 p. m.—Senator 1 M. a Bafi^r waft serenaded lieroto-nlght bynh®. mom-i bftraftf the Oeoeoal Assembly and other prominent citizens. A very large crowd gathered in front of the Wheeler House. Senator Butler was introduced hy*Stent: ColJfF. R.^CMUcurt And said * Ur F*LLow-cmzKN8: I thank youi moot cordially and sincerely for *blft loddeea. Twelv rtfurmur, trlthout ederi atybledl^ Why hare I dooe oof BeQ»uft*itbe'inter- It Was ridt congenial to my oatore, Ihavbno ambition for, th,® OOV 5 ^ whloh soVnea of that kind of abuse, aud do not think that anything ip giy past •history Jufttfllps it.' ButI take my eea without a-fdeHng *<!<’reBentment thoae^who hare 4000 jpfeAl^a^ofcs In justice. ^ahhUbftWPMteiwPlWS* 1 ^ 161 * 1 , bare been done me ia the past when-, ever a recollection or revival of them 'shall cdofliot with the, pedptd ofttilft Statb eommit care. I bare, eely thift aay whtbt I have determhfted.ildt,tafcri.be trayed hMo- pertrifthib at seated South CarollnL^ t» jrbeQ ah* wao 1a piX pe*l * should stand on ths rigbu, h the reapoqftlbiyty now tbs don at degradation •I eftft baly f romiaetagaln t of my feeble ability, I to do my doty, and that, Tkrtvfk " t ft EPgWTKiur®, Attflbg Hi yotfr State- House under the shadow and protec tion of Federal bayonets, pretended to •leet a® a representative from South Carolina in the United States Senate one D. T. Corbin. Seven days after- D*\ly. ncegrt &!«-(waH*, the 19th of December, the Legislature which now occupies the State-House, under the protecting mgis of the laws and the constitution of this 5 80 p. 4 SO a. 12 00 m. • ftOfNO SOUTH. Leave Wilmington. . • 2 90 p.m. Leave Florence ...... 2 85 a. m. Arrive as Columbia . . 10 10 >. m. Local Freight Train leavesColiiinblaTnee- 4ky, I’hurwiay and Saturday oaly, at 6 a. m. Arrives at Florence at S 80p. Hi. A. POPE, Q. F. AT. A. J. P.'DliVlNE, Saperintendeat. South Carolina Balh'oad. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. CftrcMBiA, /nljr 11,1877. Oa and after Htiflday, 15ih, PaMoagar Trains will run as fallows; roa Columbia, (Suaduy morning excepted), « Leave Charlestaft . . f> 45 a. ai. 8 16 p. m. Anive at Columbia. 12 16 p.m. 7 16 a. m.’ FOR at’CDRVA, (Sunday morning exeoptod). Leave Charleston . . 9 00 a. m. 7 16 p. pi. Arrive Augusta . , 6 10 p. w. 6 0-t a. m, raft cHaRi.nhton, (Saiaday maraing excepted). Leave Columbia . . 3 16 p m. 7 00 p. nr Arrive at Chariest •nlO 00 p. w 6 40 a m- Leave Augusta . . 8 30 a. m. B 15 p nr. Arrive Chiirleatoft . 4 20 p. m. 7 29 a.m. TheCantdrv-train will leave Camden at 7 80 a. m. on Mondays, Wednesdays atr-1 F idays, and evitut-ol at Ktngviile with the up passenger tram ior Columbia. Oft Tuea- days, Thuraday* and Saturdays it will con* im«T 111? iff grille wttlr down passenger 4rain from Colunibis And arrive at t .'nmdru at 8 p. n<. Connects daily wun trnins from nnd to Charleston. 8. S 8OL0M0N8, ’ SupcrHitendent. tacked m® when I wan disarmed and unable to defend myself, now that I their peer upon the am GREENVILLE AND COLUMBIA RAILROAD. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Passenger Trains run daily, Sundays ex cepted, c.nneumg nnh liia Etui ilx^-lrauta country, did me the honor to elect me to the Senate Of the United Statwu From that day 10 thl», from that day until the 2nd of December, 1877, h con test has been waged, which, for its bit terness and malignity, its falsehoods upon myself and the gtHwi people of South Carolina, has never been equaled in the aonaltt of our history. But on that morning of December it culmi nated in my bein^g sworn iu to the Hecate of th« United States, in stead ot D. T. Oorbiu. [Applause.] My filends, very grave onaappre bension has prevailed in the minds of aom® of the people of this State aa to the nature of that contest. It fcas been supposed by some that the question was whether I should be aworn ]n, or whether I should be sent back for re-election by the Legislature; but I say to yon that that w&8 Lot the aootest. If it had been, I should not have quietly submitted to the torrent of abuse, such as no man ever sub mitted to before. I should have re turned to the bosom of ray family.and friends, if that had been ths issuci Ijave allowed your representatlyee, the representatives of the people of South Carolina, to b.»ve decided in their dia- crstlon and wisdom whether or not I shottid be returned us your senator. No, my ftl- uds, Ule real issue was whether I sht-ul I be seated or Coibin. Some eay that this was impossible. That there was no law to seat Corbin ; le has no constituency aod no law. felt, my fiisuds and fallow-citizens, does a desperate radical majority, dwindling day by day out of existence, grossed Id warding d# tfc§ on the rights of myftifff, thyself, tfcosrofSouth was essential that those sentsd South Caroflnfc JUfTA*** OF THE GRBAT MIMSIA* VICTORY. , } .. ! Staging Tsws—The TurfM Losses Oriftia r»sh* Mortally Hounded- r Telegraphic dispatches bring os the toUJUfence of the wounding of Osman Pasha and -the fgH of Plevna. This, we judge, pradieally tennioates the War heiweeo BuasiS and Turkey, In lavorof th® former, j Although Tur- hUT hftff been dirfeated bpoverwheim- Jcg *u«bers and supertor faeilkit», the draperate bravery of the Turkish sol dier* throughout tbs unequal eoarttst — - T — can he referred to by tb stand eft with ohhrge of tnst duty, lehall <16 nothing; proper pride,. The defense of Plevna which wtlj bring,the blsftfc R shame toi by Omago Paaha is *ne of ths- sehlstr- snf mdh^r iroftna in'thCT State. T itaiee, who have cowardly a*, Xhank^rou alnoerely fox. Uw honor wf- this cordial welcome. I thank youaln- cerelyriot only for this cordial wel come, but piofoundly for the attention, which you have given me, and bid you good night.' [Prolonged cheeiing.] 3 on SeathCarolina Kailrg*d up an<l .luwn. tin and after Monday, July 11, tho fallowing will bo ike schedule : UP. Leavftfohimbia at - - - - 12 46 p.m. Leave Alston - 2l5p. m. Leave Newberry ----- 3 43 p. m. Leave Hodges - - . - - 6 jjO p. mi ve Belton - - - t - .« - 8 80 p. m. rive at Oreeavilio - - - 10 00 p. ffft DOWN. va Greenville at • « • 6 40 a. m. Leave Belton - - - . 7 20 ft. m. Leave Hodges - - - 8 57 ft. m. Leave Alston • • • • 1 05 p. m. Arrive ftt Columbift - - > 2 50 p. m. stop to ennstdvr qucriloos of taw -or t afur havkig passed through a®: ANDERSON BRANCH AND BLUE RIDGE —DIVISION. ut V SOWN. Leave Belton - Leave Aadereon Leave Pendleton Leave Penyville sj Arrive at Walhalla Leave Walhafla • Leave Perry ville Leave Pendleton Leave Andereoff Arrive at Belton Laurens Branch Trains leave Clinton at 9 A m. aad leave Newberry 8 p. m. en Tues day*, Thur-daye and Haturdaya.^ Abbeville Branch train connects at Hodge's with down and up tram daily, Kundavs ex cepted- * .THOMAS DODAMEAD,“ " General 'Superititend<at. Jam Nobton, Jr?, General Ticket Agent. ■ 8 80 p. m. - 9 20 p. m. - 10 10 p. m. • 10 40 p. m. - 11 15 p. m. • 4 25 a. m. ■ 6 fO a. m. - 6 40 a. m. 30 ft. m. 7 10 a. m. /•i r T. J. KENNEDY, t No 114 Church Street, Next St. Philipe, Chureh, Charleston, S Hone Shoer, Wheoiright —AMD— General Blac^uzuthui Builder of Carte, Drays, Wagon*, Ifrtidte, Ac. Jobbing promptly attended to. All ordera from th e Country will re ceive faithful attention. nov8-3m T* Mark waiter IROAD STREET, Market, AUGUSTA, GA. Monumenta, Tombatenea and Marble Worka GeaenRy uMMto QRDCtr A large •etacdoa alriffyf on hand ready jasd-delirMy. floor of the Senate I hope they will not repeat it.: [Continued cheering.] If they do re peat it, toko my word for it, I will give them a® good as they send. [Renewed cheering ] I will add that I can never consent to degrade myself to the level of brutality, cowardice and black guard Ism which characterized their conduct towaid me. I will oot detain you longer but to m^Ke one additional suggestion its to what, in tny judg ment, Is the cne thing needful for our whole people. Irrespective of race, c'ase, color or condition,for, in the dis charge of my duUes, I shall recognize no distinction. But if there is one thing more needful than another for the people of South Carolina to do, 1U is that all questions which prevent bet from resuming her natural relations to her sister States cf this great eonfed- eratlou shall be settled as speedily as possible. Her people aud all her in terests require the benign Influences of peace and quiet, and, as far as may be ooDstfteut with her future welfare, the forgetting of the grievances of the paet. Her ports require thd reviving iufluencee of foreign and domestic trade. Her rivers and harbors are en titled to the care of the general gov ernment and a proportionate share of the public appropriations for their im provement, and I shall Insist that no discrimination shall be made against her in this regard. There is one thing more, which pardon me for suggesting, that iu all of our dealings with each outer there should be a spit it of mu tual forbearance and toleration. There should be a rigid and uncompromising obedience to the only safe aibirratoonl between the people—the arbitrament of the l&w. 1 o that, and to that alone, can we submit with safety all our dis putes aod dift fences. This is the more important, nay absolutely ueces- Senator Patterson [8t. LbdU Pinpatch.] a. Bon. J. J. Patterson, whose nnmei haabetu^so familiar la connection with the late contest in the United States Senate, |s a native of tho State of Pennsylvania, having been born In Junlata county In 1830. Be was edu cated at Jefferson college (Canous- burg, Pa), and graduated in the class of 1848. Iu the some year he became editor of the Jurdata Sentinel, but in 189® bought the * Harrisburg Tele graph, paying one-third of the pur-, chase money in hand, and giving bis obligations for the balance. In the sprfng of 1854, before any of his obli gallons bad matured, bo sold the pa per for an advance of tf.OOQ aod left< Mi® city. The proprietors from whom be purchased Stained judgment against him for $4 822 30, bat/could collect nothing When hie father who, waa wealthy, dM,aJ few yearn after wards, they thought to make their ynffgmegt, but found that John had been too sharp for them, and had con fessed a Judgment in favor of Ida wife that was ahead"bf them. In I860 be settled with one of the creditors, tra ding him stock In a Philadelphia insu rance company for his shaie, which turned out to be a swlqdle and a fraud. He then played banker for some years, and worked his way Into the Legielaf ue, of whiqh he was a member from 1858 to 1861. Sod an active wire puller and manipulator for Simon Cameron. When the latter became Secretary of War, Patterson was made a paymaster in the army ; his nomina tion however, was not confirmed; as charges were mad*against him reflect ing on his honesty. In 1864 be was right ? Was there any law for the ad mission of Kellogg from Louisiana? It was a flagrant outrage on that gallant slater Stats of ours. There was no law for that, and none to seat Corbin ; but tell you that I know whereof I speak when I eay that the radical majority of the Senate had determined to seat Corbin ; and I now say with regret and reluctsaoe that th® man, whom I think am not stigmatizing too severely when I say that ha procured bid proe- enTposttion through fraudulent meth ods, thtefe the entire weight of bis ad ministration, backed by his friends, to perpetuate this outrage on South Caro- ina, and seat this man Corbin, of whom t has been- said that he -has drawn mbre tears aod pangs from the people of South Carolina than all others put together—seat him and perpetuate this outrage on South Carolina. And yet the President of the United States, pecsonally and through his friends, at tempted to do it. I say that I make this remark with some regret, because, in all that he was doing, or assuming to do, to help the South and the coun try, I felt bound to sustain him, al- rocured by was quite willing that be should atone for the crime of his party by a virtuous and ooneUtutlonal administration of the laws. Bat ffheq tbs supreme moment came and Its fssue was made squarely and sharply between the enemies* of constitutional liberty in South Carolina and its friends, fce threw his Weight in favor of the enemies of his country. And nori,- my friends, I have been placed In a position of comparative novelty. I have been thrown into an arena to which I am not accustomed. It la one of dignity and gravity aod of the greatest responsibility, and I meet this responsibility with th® gravest ap- ifiosions that I shall not oome up week. The Czar, after the surrender, placed his own carriage and escort at the disposal of Ostoan Pasha. Lompom, December 1L —The greatest excitement prevails here over the fall of Plevna and the capture Of Osman and hts army. Ths general tone of tho London press commenting on the fall: Is to urge the governmfnt to seize the present opportunity f 0 r mediation while It may not jet be tao late. Globe says tha$ after a resistance which challenged the admiration of the World, the impregnable fortress which Osman Pasha's genius created out of a small unfortified town has been com pelled to surrender. The defebstve power of the Porte Is temporarily ship wrecked by this tremendous disaster mail* Oft I Coot terftnilii tha writer. Set bu * Adjfsr 11 '** 1 IIOEEST JOHN. isg Served His Miratra sirs—The Charles!** ■NffSi Lit [Jmtrftri or < Nnv Yokk. December ft. - fho 1 Washington special tersoo |s fxtremeiy happy, he says, be has at lost bre ministration to him. For tear 1 bo has demanded to ba shout Federal appointments Carolina, bat the President refused to listen, or soeept bis until he took ground In tbe* 1 voting the admission of Gensr| T, ... The speech which he delivered meats of tho day, and long altar the oooqasrlog army of ibwsta will have been forgotten, the heroin and sol dierly defense of Plevna win remain bright In the memories of such as pre serve the record of events that serve to Illustrate a country’s history. [Bjr^alOeto the Journal of Oommrror] Comstantimoflz, December II —Be- onf Pasha has been appointed war min ister in place of Mnstspbn Pasha, who has been transferred to the command of the d vie guards. There Is great de pression here over the fall of Plevna. Hr. PrmumTRo, December 11.—There te great enthusiasm In this city over the Russian victory at Plevna. Bucharest, December ll.—Osman Pasha’s wounds are dangerons and It Is thought they may prove fatal In the surrender of Plevna forty thousand Turks were taken prisoners and four hundred guns ^rnfBtSTSOahdaof Russians. The inhabitants of Plevna were found jto be in a starving condi tion. The hoapitala are crowded and there are scarcely any surgeons In the place. The condition of affairs In the capttirejl city are described as pitiable. Lomdow. December 11.—A dispatch from Bucharest, says that the main object of the Basslan campaign In the Balkans having been accomplished, and the ultimate and Complete success of the Russians assured, the Czar has determined to return immediately to St Petersburg. The Turks In the battle before Plev na lost ten thonsand men In killed and wounded. The Russian - loss Is un known. .. —- - Another special dispatch from Buch arest says regarding the capture of Plevna, that the critical condition of Osman Pasha's army was certainly known at Constantinople, hence thete- oent effort of Suleiman Pasha to create a diversion to enable him to break out of Plevna, and the attempt of Mehemet All to assist him. The latter, however, failed to co-operate as Instructed, and he will be relieved of his command In a and it Iff Impoesifela .tg exaggerate the I the Senate a few days ago pr probable consequences that may fol- j he says, the desired effect at the Will low: Sofia must be captured soon. House,and the President cood and that accomplished ho important] dot to Ignore him any longer in obstacle remains to the rapid advance I king appointments in South J- ot the Rosslana to Adrianople. When I To-day the President transmitted the once the Russians are there the Porte | nomination ptCyru* H. Baldwin to be will be compelled to accept any terras ] coilector of customs si Charleston, dictated, or stake the very existence of ] Patterson says it U his appointment th® Ottoman Empire oa the defence of | and It Is pronounced by him to be a first Constantinople. It Is the duty of Min- class one. Baldwin is he says a per* ster Lsysrd to Impress upon tbs mind | sooa] friend and an uncompromising of the Saltan ths nqgent expediency of ] republican who lived [a Columbia, 8. giving weight to pacific councils before O, thirty-five years. I tell you sold the resources of the Empire ore utterly! Patterson if I dontget what I want* I uxhaueted. | will raise 4 row In the republican oamp ! j and they know It The Evening Tal- Balarles sf State Officer*. ^ [Newi Rbd Herald.] Attorney-General Connor has resign ed. The reason assigned Is that he eannot afford any longer to neglect his private bnstnesa. In other words he txrald not afford to loose three-fonrtbe or more of bis regular income In the patriotic duty of serving the State oh a beggar! y salary. When Csrdozo Was tried before the Legislature, several years back, he paid ten thousand dol lars. we are Informed, as attorneys' fees in that single case. What he and Smalls and Carpenter paid to their attorneys recently 4e do not know, bnt we feel assured that by the time the prosecution of all the thieves shall have ended, the fees paid to the defen- dams’ attorneys will amount to five or six times the annual salary of the At torney-General Yet It Is the doty of tbs Attorney-General to prosecute all these oases without any additional recompense. Besides this duty he is called upon, In performing the func tions of his office, to set as legal advl- egram's Washington special says there Is little reason to doubt that ths jai* diohuy proceedings against Psttaraow In South Carolina will not be poshed. It is stated by well Informed persona that Pattezsoo’s vou and efforts for Butler have secured Immnnlty for him. He wiU fcs released on ball from the Indictment which has been found against him, but his efforts for are not all that Is required of bint- I* is part of ths arrangement that ho shall, a few months benc\ resign hi* sent in the Senate, which'fcili then be filled by .the election of Wads Hamp ton. Patterson wtlt resign ostensibly for the reason that the democrat* have base given possession of the State by the Hayes’ odalnistiattoo, and that » democratic senator can represent them better than he can. \r Power cf the Band It may be going too fa; to say 1 ay be going a man may judge the character fellow man by the monoer hi which he “shakes hands.” But there is certainly ser to the Governor, the Secretary of j a significance In those busy members of State, the (Comptroller-General, the {the body which “be who runs • _ ' •'-A though his position was pr questionable means", and I IS* tgl» lour expecta tions, or prove equal to the require ment* of the position. J can only prpmlM that. In the discharge of my terrible an ordeal. Terrible, did Isay ? Why, when I look back and remember the scenes which we witnessed on these very street* twelve mantas ago, when almost the snapping of a finger would have precipitated bloody revolution and war, and when I remember how yte have posted through it all and what we have achieved without the shed ding of blood, loan ascribe it to no other influence but the special interpo sition of the great God of us all Man, it appears to me, is incapable of hav ing achieved such results alone. So far as I am concerned and those of us who happened to be thrown to the front, we were mere factors, mere Inci dents in the struggle. It was the great heart of the people of South Carolina rising and demending their rights- [Cheers.] The leaders, as they were called, were mere instruments. The people, rising as one man, solidly, Ir repressibly, carried the dayby stand ing unyielding, shoulder to shoulder. And let me commend to you for the future the lesson of ths past. We can only succeed hereafter by the same unanimity of action, and by frowning down absolutely all efforts at organ izing what are now termed “independ ent movemeata.” We must stand to gether. The Democracy of South Caro lina must ailign themselves in the most central, compact and unbroken affilia tion with the great constitutional par ty of this country, the National Democ racy. Something has been said in dif ferent quarters of the country about a sew party. A« a . matter of policy. It would he milHUtnmer made fas, politi cal suicide, nob that ths democracy is' about to achieve the control of the government, that we should attempt any new party In the South, to say nothing of principle. For three quar ters ot a century the democratio party has preserved, protected aod guarded constitutional and American liberty on this continent, and ws mast keep fully in accord with it, if we would expect to reap any of the benefits of the gov ernment. [Applause.] If you hod nominated to Congress, but. W oe- ^w days. Ostuau FffZhO, all keep steadfastly before me the honor and the welfare and the intereets of OUT grand oMOomssoawesmi. I have •at In the Senate of the United States hour after hour, day aftef d*yV and night of tar night, and submitted to in count of the chargee made against his integrity, was beaten by an altra-dem- ocrat, although the district had a re publican majority of 2,500. As execu tor of bis farther’s estate be was ac cused of trying to cheat tho other heirs and when obligod to settle his account, be |ook credit ^or a note of $2,000, purporting to have been made by his father to himself. In 1858. It was etaimed to be*'forgery, a charge be succeeded in defeating by means about as discreditable as the charge itself. He negt went to South Carolina, where he so manipulated the negro Legis- Jaturs, as to secure no election to. the Senate. Since that time hie oareer Is well known to the country. / "■ I ! 0.^0 I . The effect of the war on the London papers is the subject of an interest ing letter to the Toronto Globe from Its English correspondent. He says that the editors thought It would be short and sharp campaign, and so sent out armies of correspondents, with or ders to spare no expense in getting early and ooroplste reports; bnt the wa* pever took any hold upon the reading public, and the proprietors of newspapers are getting alarmed at the prospect of an endless succession of telegraph bills, for which there is no apparsot return ; consequently,reports are being cut down, and oorrespon- dents ordered home. The Daily News, he says, ba* felt the strain *o severely that it is falling behind In Its finknets, and It Is eves rumored in newspaper circles th aft Mr. Archibald Forbes’s atid- deu return from the seat of war Is mainly due to the necessity of curtail ing an expenditure tod heavy for the resource# of the paper. The corres pondent says further: "The New York Herald has recalled all It* war corres pondent# as not being worth their so*t. The Telegraph and Standard are drawing in their apodal IhtotU- geooe, And I expect that daring the enftplng winter the Times will be the resources cut off, his escape Impcssl bis, bis army starvlag, and perishing with oold, and no hope of snocor, com municated by letter with the Grand Dnkn Nicholas, commanding' ths in vesting forces; but the latter deoiloed to accept a letter, or receive the envoy, who was eeooned to the headquarters of Prince Charles, oommander-lo-oblef of the allied armies besieging Plevna. The letter contained a request for fav orable terms of capitulation, and that Oemsn Pasha be allowed to surrender his sword ft) the Grand Duke Nicholas. This being Impossible, the envoy re turned to Plevna. On Snnday .another desperate sorti was mad* oo/th* Rus sian right, in which Osman Pasha him self was badly wounded, aod about throe thousand Turks placed “hors de combat.” Nothing now remained but unconditional surrender, and thus closed one of the bravest defences of modern times. —i At 2 o’clock oa Sunday theTurkieh bugles sounded a retreat, the firing ceased on both sides, and the Russian victory was acknowledged. Aid for the wounded was given Indiscrimi nately to Turks and Busslanfe while negotiations were in progress, and by 4 o’clock the surrender was complete. To-day the Russians are engaged in oceupylng the forts and battortes and garrisoning Plevpa. Suleiman Pasha having sp^nt Sunday in inspecting the fortresses of Rustschuk and Varna has returned to Ahmedle, and ordered all cor reepondents to the rear. It is be lieved that he contemplated an active aggressive movement, but Mae fall of Plevna may cause him to fall back to ward Adrianople. The release cf one hundred and twenty thousand men under Prince duffles and the Grand Duke Nicholas for active field opera tions will make his position very criti cal. The montensgrins are gaining con siderable victories over the Turks, and the surrender of Antivan Is hourly .ex- Adjutant and lospeotor-Geosral, the State Superintendent of education, the dozen and one Investigating oommtt- teee, and any member ot the Legisla ture who wishes to draw np a bill for erecting a gate across a public road, or regulating the standard dogre*- stench that guano should emit, or changing the name of Peter Smith to Samuel Snooks. Such Is the wretched tangle Into which the radical Legisla ture got the law, that scarcely any question can be answered by any of the heads of departments at Colam bla without first consulting the Attor ney General. He 1* supposed to be a walking cyclopedia Of law, a complete digest of State reports, an infallible In terpreter of oraenlar legislative enact ments—a Job In patience and a Moses In meekness—all for twenty-one hun dred and odd dollars a year. Some Attorney-Generals would have been dear at nothing a year; bat both Gen eral Connor and Mr. Yomnans, who succeeds him, deserve a much higher rate of compensation. •* What Is true Of the Attorney-Gen dutien, tahall be actuated by bttt one •ingle principle, and that is to always seen what I have seen within the last two months in the dty of Washington, the disposition of tho radical revolu tionary element, you would stand ap palled and conld not be surprised at an^ aot of theirs 10 preserve their par- Mahon is addicted ty power. My friends I have bee* tfe- *nlt, contumely, abuse, mlerepreseuta- [ trayed into eaying much more tgou I he resolved to moke only paper which will go on with tta pected. The local Albanian authori- p resent system graphing.*’ of wlvtaegole tois- •4 -- f t-JH? - J ;A veteran, agqd 76, has been fined twenty dollars and sen*«te j ail for* D month-for Oaeartiogthatliarabal Mac- R was under Its baneful I ties at Hcntari, are seriously consider fng the advisability of asking the ia ter vent ton or mediation of Italy. Bucharest, December 1L—A Te Denm was sung here to Celebrate the ‘ oesian ffuoeess at Plevna, Gortsoha- koff and Basslan and Itoumaota% an- t tnthe, and uence when thorlties present. The Cfcar anAGetad- ohrkoff return to St. eral Is equally true of the other State offictftle. The State Superintendent of education', for Instance, should be oce of the meet eminent Instructors In the State, and bis peculiar and chief duties, M latd dowu In the law, are that he shall becontlnaaily travelling through the different oonotles, vtsltlng schools and Improving the system. Every day on such a tour costa about three dol lars. And yet, eighteen hundred dol lars n year Is offered an a eufflder.t inducement to impel any one compe tent for the task to abandon other dudes, support his family and travel a* he should, at least tiro hundred days In the year. ', Again, the State Treasurer is re quired to give an enormous bond ; and to bundle n mllloa and a half dollars a year; paid out In couotletir numbers ot warrants , requiring a complex system of book-keeping, and for tbts he re ceives a trifle over eighteen hundred dollars. 'S* Itls needless to enter further Into detail*. The salaries paid are too small to command first rate ability. If this parsimonious course is con tinned, ths result wilt be either that none but Incompetent parties will ac cept the offices, or that all the State officials wilt be taken from the city 0 Columbia, aod these will perform their public functions a* a sort of fifth wheel to their regular private business. Is an oldadage that the dearest go Are sometimes the law-makers m not read.” The creator of ’ Uriah Heap has taught us notlo trust the os of limp, moist band*, which close cor dially on nothing save their own pos sessions. "It is the tou^U of a hand at a greeting which warms or chill* hesrt. srd makes me know vr~f certainty how much or how little I shall like the person before me. II the fingers close about my own with a short, quick, convulsive grasp, I knofr will snap, ';§narl, and ft tmlly and that the least I hate to do owner of those wiery digits, the better off I shall be. I| a nervous oold band glides Into rny own, and seems disposed to He tbura, without life, I know at once tha 1 all my hap piness would bens Dotk ugta that aw ful pahn. But If the hand grasp* yours and holds It firmly, in strong, warm fingers, yon are safe In culttva ling the friendship of the owner These human hands! From the be ginning of life they play an impoi part. "All the greatness of the earth laid in the hollow of the band, books, the music, the ploturee, wonders of architecture, theintricade* of mechanism, the mysteries of and the government of the 00 with all their God-Itke beauties or, sound, symmetry, usefuln greesfon and wisdom, bay* kin wii a human band. The highest lions and realizations ot the brain brought to light through the 4 and the tenderest love and cha of the heart make the hand their pensator. They can be tender min- of comfort and pence, yet as ora'- d as full of venom as the bite of an asp: "And with all their power, with- all tbelr charities, their cruellies, tender touches, their mischief— are folded at last, and those speak of as tell of the dosing of and the folding of hand* os * our going away.'’-Exchange. Ok.vngf-bcko, December □rentable death occurred Mr. Elliot Robinson bejhtg He entered into a friendly with Mr. KF. Sinter, ridden by a colored I which Mr. Bobinson threw Mm njzifclag death H