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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
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[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