Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1877, Page 1

—— N g, T D Jo A VOLUME XXXIL HOLIDAY GOODS. CHICAGO, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 26, 1877. considerable Infantry m;(ng along the Brestovaee 1 found the troops in winter hats, and each eotdier provided with & sheepakin jacket, which can be worn under the regulatifon over- cnat, The Roumanians are strong! in double liner. second line are models of field engineering, with every appliance to stand a elege. Fort Alexan- der,” under tho command of Maj. Maceov, is the most perfect earthi-work on the line of cir- The Ronmanlans and Turks are within conversing distanice on the two crests of the Urayitza ringe, where their lines face each other down to the polnt where the Bukova ravine turns to the southward and separates the Grasitza and Oponetz ridge; then they both mount the tend to the Vid, ;l';‘llnllnl ‘was origina) | we insisted that, althongh Egypt might in ali home matters be indepcrdent of tho Sultan, ity ruler shoufd Constantinople FOREIGN. WASIINGTON. The dams on the Tatchenitza and Gravitza Creeks have been closed, and no water now reaches Plcyna from any slde except the Vid, where the river’s course Is within range of the allied picket-line, The dams will close the mills upon which Osman depends for flour. Deserters state that Osman Pasha fells his men not to b uneasy, as he has a subterranean passage rcady to enable them to make thelr escape when the place can be held no longer. The ronds are gencrally in good condition, and the trooos around Pleyna are well hutted. Dec. 1.—The first day of wintor was ushered In by 8 Jenso fog, followed about 11 by a heary Durinz the carly part of the day there was very llitle firing, hut at 8 this cannonade opened aronod the continted . {nceseantly for a shiort time, during which timo several thousands of shiclls were thrown Into the Turkish lines. It was the heaviest ertillery fire since the tom. mencament of the slege, and the smoke of the guns added to the foz hns rendered the night 80 intensoly ark that it Is utterly {m- to sco snything, the men and officcrs belng obligod in going about thelr own to-night would certatnly pi which no descriptfon could do fustiée, Turks and Rassians would soon hecome 8o hopelessiy mixed up that there could be no firlnz without cnual risk to fifend and foe; and ([ the Mosicms devoted themselren 1o running away instead of stopping to fight, it fs extremely probable that the larger portlon would s 8hould Osmian Pasha attempt a sortie, he would in all probability abandon his artillery and train. giving his men as mauy days’ rations as licy could convenfently carrv, make the at- temint to eave the greatest by a political tle. The result has been that Ezypt has been drained of her money to suj gance of Turkish Pashas, Sul and that, at this very moment, Egyptian felishs are dying on tne Danube fu order to sustain a cause with which they are In no way concerned, while Russia, Although she does not wonsider it politie to use it, bas an undoubted casua belll against Egyot. ‘The country of the Pharachs has heen Inhab- fted for many thousands of years by a patfent, hard-working and simple race, whose sole aspi- ratlon is to he allowed Lo til) jts fertilc 2ofl and to be granted a portion of the result of thelr just and enuitabte Government would satisfv nlf thefr yearninge. Thero ean be no question that the entire population of Egqvpt would not only welcome, with ope Rrms, our presence in the country, but thatit would be an unmized blessing to them. then, wouald oppose 1t1 The Khedivel This is very doubtful, * An arraugement micht cosily he ‘made with him which would satisfy him. He has already larga cstates, which would be- come more valusble by our occupa country. and he might he granted the tribute now pald to Turkey, which, of course, would lapse, just as the tributo paid by Roumania and Hervia to the Porte will lapse. Return of Senator Butler, of South OOKS. DYV?}MQ.B‘,M@ 00, Carolina, to Washinge ly tho extrava- ns, and eunuchs, Sickening Tales of Death from the Charnel House of Plevna. Revengofal Intentlon ot Senator Pattorson to Refuse to L DMMQN»]?WS Altver, DIAMONDS. Thousands of Wounded Pris- oners Left Unattended at the Bortie. The intention of the Rou- to {solate the Oponets which is separafed from the reat of the n positions by the Gravitza and Bukova and starve out the garrisnn, when they would have been able to render Flevna untena- ble. The necessity, however, uf protecting the Russtan right forced them to extend thelr left to Gravitza, and this left them without snfli- ent disposable troops to fsolate Oponetz. fita Idea of the Roumanians was s good one, as the Oponetz height, althouzb the most com- oint around Plevna, was the least )y earthworks of any polot on Osman Deserters coming §oto the Roumanian lnes repeat the rad tale of short rations, Threewho arrived yesterday brought thelr morsels of bread which were toserve for twonty-four bours’ o saldj the pleces were not so Blaine and Conkling to Feast Together in Token of Reconcilia- shower of rain. afternoon a hea Cor. State & Monroe-sts, : whole line, an DBENTISTS. Best Set, $8.00. DRS. MoOHESBNEY, PioesUoid bitng. Tomort tates. DIAMONDS, WATCHEES & JEWELRY. 4. LIPM.AN OLAHE AND MONROE-BTS. Tho Fearful Mortality Which Has Resunlted Sinco the Surrender. Our Correspondent Relates the Sorrows of Foolish Woman-Clerks. Important Military Achieve- ment of the Despised ) Servians. Thelr Natural and Ensy Descent into uce n confusion to the Maclsirom of Public resiatance would be of little avail, not find oue ringle E, dtian to support him, and It is evident that the safety of the British Empirc must not be endangered becausa one ‘Turk is not prepared to give up what he fancles *to be his right to govern several inillion Egypt- 1aus who would gladly berid of him, were It cousidered advisable, the Khediye, ine stead of being replaced, might be put in the same relation with the Kings of Bavarinaud Baxony are tothe E; As to Europe, not one would object to our dealing with Egypt, as scems best to us, with the exception, perhaps, ot Italy, and It is nedless to may that we ms laugh at the objections of Italy. have, for the nonce, hecome scnsible, and haye othier matters nearcr home to_think about than tn run alter the mirage of influence whero they have nontercste. (Germany, Austria, and Rus- sia bave aiready told us that they have no sort of reazon to care whether Egvot belongs to ua or to Turkey, cxcept that they regard ita con- nection with'the latter country aa compromising Awske, then, Disracll, Beaconsfleld, or by what othier name it mar pleasc you to be knuwn Within six days of the fall of Kars troops should have been underonders fromIndla and from England for Exypt. Prime Minister of Eogland, and clear your mind of all hazv nonscosy respecting thie misalon aod the position of the Semitic rave, You hold a briel for us, and not (for Moham- medans or for Jows. The futurs of your race may be an interesting subject for your sophical muaings. The future of tbe Emplre {s the material fact which now vonedrns licy, ns yet, bas_been the accident of sn accident. You have blustercd, and when your blusterlngs have been of no avall yout have cringed. . No words can better do justicoto the courage, endurance, aud self-denlal of Osman Pasha’s They have immortalized Plevnas but a8 for thelr commander, although the tenacity of 8 bull-dog, Le owes hi tlon as a General tothe mistakes of hislenemies. Had the Russlans left Plevna masked by in- trenchmients on the holghits of Pelisat and ! the lins of the Om The Complete Investment of Erzeroum Momenta= rily Expected. The Natural Hatred with Which the Average Woman Pursues ETATS. MACKBENZIEB, 163 IADIBON.AT. PARISKID GLOVEDEPOT, D4 NTATR-ST, ble ¢ A Qiftboth ‘}:5'?:.'."%?56,‘,;“““ los PIANOS AND ORGANS, W R EATL, Cor. State and Adsma-sts. NOTES AND NEWS. SOUTIT CAROLINA. Apertal Dirsarch 16 The Chicngs Tridune, ‘Wasnixgrox, D, C., Dec. 25.—Secnator But- ler pas returned here, and s onoof the very few Benators admitted to ses Patterson, Democrats are becoming much exercised at the prospect of o thorough investigation of Bouth Carolina matters In the Scnate, and transactions at homne dearfng upon theso matters, Senator Patterson cxpects to leave for Pennaylyania for long absence as soon as he can travel, and, as the Hepublicans show sigus of pursuing him his friends say he will refuse to palr, and leave tho Republicans in the mioority, provided Conover sticks by But- ler,as It 1s expected he will. Al indicatlons bere now show that thls questlon will become & very exciting one before the Senate settles it BLAINE AND CONKLING. The Post announces that the friends of Blane and Conkling have becn in consultation, and, in order to cement more frmly the friend- ship lately renewed by thelr chiefs, have con- cluded to givea grand reconciliation banquet upon thelr return to the city. 18 “sun MascoLixe! Disparch to New York Sun, Wasnrvaron, D. C., Dec, 22,—~The Hon, A. 10 the Commissiancrs of the District of Columbia, whose opinion was asked by the Commissloners whether they can law- int & woman o Notary P'ublic, has a declrion that they cait do so. Riddle ndgs: *‘1n the statutes, where the mat sex Is not atherwise declarced, §8 tho prououn ha to be taken to refer only tos malel Mav uot this secming fale guise bewora by a wo- man without a violation of faw or decorum of Man. sccording to the dictionaries, al- ‘ways cmbraces womal, and there Is amnple au- thority that lic very oltca sustains sotmo rela- The word /ie In Federal law covers the appointment of women as ‘department clerks and Postmasters, Aer,” Mr. Riddlg suys, * theu women canpot be punished under laws for treason, criminal cor- respundence with foreymn powers, acallug in ramaral literature or wbortlun muedictnes, for embezzlement, robbing ost-Utlice property, or ‘l.nudu'l_om votlog, unless to the eyo of law she ahe, Mr. Riddle says that many fudicaal decisfons imply thal when . paualt, disability tmposed, masculine jironouns include ‘womet, but when o benetit fs offered or 3 prive Hlege bestowed, thoy mean man alone: but avery writer on Eaglish law bolda that statutes Imposlug penaity must be strictly construed to exclude every person and thing not within but those conferring beno- mpress of Indinas the Closing Scenes in the Great Series of possible number of Events in and About The Russians hase succeeded In briny uantities of artillery ammunitiou to their ficld icpots duriog the fine weather of the last two It thelr commissariat sup well arranged as the anmunition ueation about their ability to malntain the sleze of Plevns to the end of Osinan Pasha's stock. of stores. ‘Tha Russian eoldicrs havo excellent huts for winter quar- ters, the roofs helng covered with sods, cement- ed together with the viscous clay fonnd every- where around I'levna, 8o as to be perfectly wa- terproof, and _the interiors are well provlded with straw, Each hut has a fireplace and chim. ney, and, aa thera {a plenty of fucl fn this part ulgarin, the soldicrs are vomfortable enough when not In the trenches. It Is cxccedingly difficult for a correspondent to watch the slege operations around Plovns, ns the poeitions are 8o continually obscured by To-day I hiad a fruiticss ride in the raln to tho Breatovee Ifnes, as upon arrival the miat bad hecome so thick that it was impossible to sec fiity yards in front. Theeo mists and showers of ‘rain follow the heavy salvoes of ar- tillery mo regularly that it is almost impossihle not toattribute them to the violent disturbance of the atmospherc caused by the bombard n loads of wounded arrived hero rom the scenc of Gourko's opera- tions suutheast of Orkhanie. The rain ccased at 1 this afternoon, but as T am writing, at 7 Lo-night, it has begun sgain In a dismal way, rendenng the darkness still moro inteusc, it such a thinj lery and rifiesare quiet, and a gloomy silence reigns supreme around the trenches of Plevna. 2.—As tho fog dlsappeared and the night beeame starlight the artlllery of the whole line ovencd at once with a_salvo, and the firing con- tinued by sectfons and by batteries at frequent Intervuls uncll daybreak, when a’ general bom- bardment begun east of the Vid, and continued ‘The sun shone bright and warm, and the atmosplere hns © 1i1], and as this has been the first really clear doy around Plevns sinco the rostric- tlons upon correspondents were reinoved, 1 was ablu to oltaln a very interesting view of the Ployua basin, Witha powerful tield could ses that there wore nbout 300 cattle graz- ing upon the hillsides, and that there wero nu- merous objects, which, in the dim light en- voloping Osman Pasha's lines, wers naturall) aken for cattie; in fact, I tool them for ruch at rst, but, after several houra' careful watchiog, found they wero tent toj ing above ridges and other inanimate which vever changed positlon. The atmos. phare was beautitully clear to-day, and [ could scethat the pasturago fnsfde Osman's lines was Plovna {taclf is really but little injured when the number of ehells fired tato it ‘The Turkish lincsaround Plovna rosembla the rim of an irregular-shaped basly, with the Grayitza Creek making deop in- dentatlons lntivosldes of it; conscquently,when tho atmosphero is a8 clear as {t was to-d observer standing upon the Russian tions near Radichevo can see the whole interfor of the Moslom position, with all tha camps and The more I seo of the Ilovna sitions, the less 1 csteom Osman Pasha'’a mill- ary sclence, and the generslshbip of ths Kus. siais in making Osman and his fortifications Had the Urand Duke commanding-in- r strategy, Osman would i earthworks, have been compelled to 1 tack in the open, with the chance of losing bis anny. When the war [s over and European ex- perts examine the theatre of war in But, awn fully convinced that their verdict w respond with the opinigns shove expressed. 1 discovered to-day for the first time some in- terlor lines of rifle-trenchesand several redoubits built on the inside slope of Lo basin, th Turkish camps and Luts sfe lu fuil view, and 1t 1sa forciblo commentary on artiliery fire that theso habltations have not been rendered un- Between Radichovo and Plevna tho lines are now very near together, and the con- Rreater part of the dsy and night; but, as sides are excellently protecied, the Sring nmounts to_nothing mors than a waste of am- The caunonading continued to-dsy e shots until 4, when it ceased for the The first Turkish rodoult southot Plevaa replied to the Russian fire from two guns, most of tho shells exploding. watched the firing from tho batteries and the trenches, and never saw a eingle man carried to ‘tha rear on the Ri ns they are to-lay; orif ne lu July what they have Ostnan Pasha would have Leen known as the General who was caught in his Lovatz I8 & much stronger and Practically, It 1s h the Russians had osition than Plevna. 8, and it threatens the Russian line between Tirnova and Bhipka Pass. Iteits agalnst the Balkans; consequent! oven country in the rear by which be surrounded ns P rond through the Trajan Paes for fta supoly, and it is imuch nearer the Turkish Plevna. In tnaking the latter placo his cita- Lovatz an outwork, Osman has dona eXuctly the reverse of what ba should bave done. 1113 tores 1s too smsll Lo hols lines of Plevna; consoguently thé allles have commanding positlons ona while his army. acrest line of the Lovatzsmphitheatrd no encmy could gain a fouthold within at: distance of Ins position. filted with water. An Appeal to the British Pre- mier to Seize on THE SITUATION, THE BERVIANG, [By Cadle to The Chicago Tridune.] | Loxpon, Dec. 26—4 a, m.—The Servians havo takon Akpalanka, on the Bofia road, after eight hours of fighting, and are ad. vancing on Virot. Sevors weather prevails over tho whole seat of war. is frozen over, and part of the bridge has been carried away at Ibraila, SEWING MACHINES. ° 111 STATE-BT. Rememoer that er conteaved at UOLDBMID'E, BircREL 8 e Slmonds The Marvitza dam s It crosses tho valley about +1,000 yards weat of the Villageof Graviiza, It will prubably soon ba blown up, snd the water let loose to sweepaway tho mills on thisrivulet. A heavy satvo of artitlery was fircd at half- past 9 last night, aud to-day a scattering bom- ardment has been kopt up, which censed at nightfall. The Infantry treuches coustructed vy the Russlans as their grand guard fino spectmens of military cugincering. are revetted with sods, well di mauy places furnished with shelter for the men st bohind the ditch, which is on the inslde. It about elght feet wide, thiee feet deep, and slopes upward and backward to tho nutural sur- ‘There i8 a banguctte on the WHERE TO BUY HOLIDAY 500DS FURNITURE. FURNITURE! you and us. Your deep snow has impeded tho Russian opera. tions against Erzeroum, but an sssault will soon be made. We want no protocols no compromiscs nor conventions, n _an acc—to use the words of Prince Blamarck—of bloot and fron. Thesafe- of our Emplire must rest upon no treatics it may be broken, and upon no pledires that may bo evaded. and neither upon the good falth nor the good will of forelzn natlons. we want Indla to remnin under our rule we must hold vur communications with Tndia with We must, in truth, 11al? teasnres are no measures. comes tnto the next Euro) Armenis as a portion of tho freo passage of the Bosphorus to her ships existing fact, wo must appear with Eeypt garrisoncd by a British force. thén e In s position to treat cither upon the Lasis of uté jussidetls, or upon the statu guo ante betlum In respeet to Armenln, the Bosphorus, ‘0 Russian ** sccomnplished facts? complisied facts,” G. Riddle. attorne Ohristmas festivitios take precedsnce of everything, and the war is temporarily for- iy i ) toterfor slope for the Infantry, an rlses about five feet abova the natural level of the ground, where tho trunches arc very near The top of the parapet is coyerod ‘with Inrge sods, forining looplioles for thorifles, and protecting the be the last redoubts pullt by the Ri an gincers on their reserve lno ara cxecedingly well constructed, and are very strong, Turkish infantry trenches are sunk deeper foto the carth than the Russians, and, therefore, do @ barrier agafust n sud- den ruab, although they are dosigned to with- stand urtillery ire. A wooden bonsc Isin prog- 088 of conatruction at Bogot for the residence of tho Grand Duke Nicholas, DISRAETI! AN AFPEAL TO THE DRITISH PRAUN-MINISTER TO GRAB EGYIT. an Condress, with WAR TELEGRAMS, er possessions, aud B7. Parensnuro, Dec. 25.—An officlal tel- egram states that a sudden driftiog of icoon the Danubo has torn away the bridgo at Ibrall. ARusslan steamer {s frozen in, and unable to approach the bridge. The Grand Duke Alexia announces that communication cannot be re- stored for the present. 226 & 237 BTATE-ST, New and elegant designs at lower prices for CASH than ever before. Weare determined to sell our Retail Stock If prices will If Le does not Include wo mm!?obvow English GREAT BRITAIN. THE BREADSTUFPS REVIEW, Loxpoy, Dee. 83.—The Mark Lane Ezpres, this week, in its rcviow of the British corn saya; *“Tho aspect,of tho winter-sown wheat plant givea riso to no complaint, but jts t00 rapid development may reuder it more sen- sitivo to the mction of frost lster on. In the preaent scarcity of roots and winter f{odder, the weather and the greenness of tho pastures are 1avorablo for stock-farmers. ‘Iho approach of .ho holldays bas uxerclsed the usual quleting eflect upon the graln trade, and businesa has been confined totho supply of the Immediate requirements of millers, and, asarule, priccsare falrly sustalued. Largo ‘arrivals of Amerlcan graln from the Atlantle ports in & fow fnstances slight reduction, been scarcely quotable, and, a8 tho Baitic ports are now closed, there Is no nlteration {n Russian whent. Btockson hand are large, and imports from Indis show no dimunition, while export movements contiouc falrly active, and ahealthy tone animates the market 10 malze, Luat week's inding have been fully supported. Barley and oats nave given way slightly," FRANCE. PROCENDINGS AGAINAT THE MACMAUOXITES. Panis, Dec, 25—\, Dufaure, Presldent of the Councll, has ordered proceedings begun in re- gard to electoral offcuses, so that offenders caunot plead delsy in fnatituting the prosscu- nol present so atrony rjury, counterfeiting, Panis, Dec, 25, ~Tho Temps, alluding to tho 0 malls, theft of report that active intercourse hos been golng on between Paris and London with a viow of es- tablishing an undetstanding on the Esstern question, says it I8 perfoctly certain the French Qovernmont does not Intend departing from its attitude of reserve to play an actlve partin Eastorn affalrs, VICTORY FOR THR SERVIAKS. BRLORADE, Dec, 25.—The Bervinus, Monday, after cight hours of severe fighting, captured Akpalanks, togother with thres Krupp guus and n large quantity of ammunition aud pro- The Turks lost maoy killed and somo 18" denounced or a CIANPAGNE WINES, A year ago Conservatives wagged and sald that thelr great mystery man, who has not only the destintes of thelr party, but of the British Emplre in his bands, was only walting 1intll other natfons had sbuwn thefr cards n ro. gard to the Eastern questlon to do something which would surprise the world and greatly It was dafly and mystoriously hinted that this something would assume the form of a cluscr conuection between this coun- try and Egvpt. In our Eastern policy we have floundered ter- ribly. If the Husslans advanco to Adrianople, the Greeks will push forward (nto Thossaly and Roumells, whils Bosola and Bulguria will hecome do facto Independent of Turkish rule. The end of the war will flad Turkey doprived of Armenis, the Ruaslan of-war allowed to pass through the Bue- phorus, snd the European provinces of the Sultan cither absolutely independent of him or united to his throno by a rope tade of Musco- yitosand, Wo may regret thia; we may pro- test agminst ft. Dut tho stern realitics of war are not altered by regrets or by protests, There bave been moments when we might have pre- vented it, but we haye allowed theso moments toalip by. Even now, If we were to make the retention of Armenia by Kuss!a or the passago of Russtan shipa of war through the Hosphorus 1L, we might, perhaps, avert these dan- ut no one can beliove for, & moment that we coutemplate this manly 1s taken Intoaccount, Ty reach of thelr spirit. Ho uites the uction of the Fresident i appoluting women Post- masters and clerks and the Suprems Court of the District In admitting women to tho Bar as precedents to ba follawed. Mra, Marilla M. Ricker, sssocla woman lawyer here, has, upon t| made applivation to the District Co: Dennison, to be appointed Notary, (nissiuticr has refused, notwitbsianaing Mr. Riddle’'s opinfou, to grant her petition, Sue ‘proposes to ga to Congress tor rellef, PRINCE MILAN , was present yesterday, when the bombardment of Nisch begun, Erzrroux, Dec, 25,—The Rusaian lines have: been pushed forward, and Erzeroum is almost lovested. Russlan iofantry Is massed In the northern part of the piatn. The bombardmont of the town and a consequent interruption of telegrapbia service aro imninent. chief pursued the pro; have remained bebin WABHINGTON MEN AND WOMEN. Bpectal Correspundencs of The Tribune, ‘Wasuixaroy, . C., De¢, 22.—Ouco upon s time there was a nay who, returning from his daily uccupation, aod belng hungry and impa- tient, as hungry men are apt to be after long fasting, insisted that dinocr be served at once. Iils orders not being obeyed immediately, he demunded the reason of thedelay, and was told that thero was no bread fn the house. bread 1" shouted the augry man, graclous (men never use strunger expresslons, of coursc), is that all you're walting for? Bring ou your dinner, and wake tne some tosst," And the day came du which I was to write o socloty letter for Tnix TRinuNe, and 1 satdown, pen fu haand, and stared blankly at the wall, and wondered how I should make teast without any bread, For thers are uo parties or recep- tions, and all of the cotertalnmnents have boen written up, and the SUPEEB QUTFITS ON TUR DRIDXS-TO-BE arg not yet on exhibition, aud the weds future, the uew mewmbers have been interviowed aud talke FOR RENT DESRABLE OFFICES IN THE TRIBUNE . BUTLOING TO REINT. Apply L RoMiggénPQnXVd_s_'ng. EDUUATIONAL, RAGINE GOLLEGE. The College and Grammar Behool will reonen Jas, 17, sndcloss June 38, For catalogues and fulf (nforma- Loxpox, Dec, 25.—A dlapateh from Athens atates that demonstrations {n favor of war took placo on Monday among soldiers and clyilians at Lames, on tho frontier. of Krupp guos hasg started for Chalics. War becomes more probable overy day. It.is com- monly believed that the Cabluet besltates to sdopt any declded pollcy before the meeting of the British Pacllament. COMMENT AND IXVESTIGATION. Pants, Dec. 25.—Much comment has becn caused by a decres signed by Preaident Mac- Mahon cashiering the Captafu of the regiment of tho llne ot Limoges who, on the 1uth inst., when orders wers recelved to prepars to march 1o Parls, declared he would not abet a coupd’ etat. Radical journals state that the troops at Ltwoges were supplied with ammunition and two daya' ratlous, and held in readiness to start It ie probable that on the reassem- bling of the Chamber of Deoputies a motion will be inads for a committee to inquire wheth- really been given for s coupd’ Lowpox, Dec. 25.—A correspondent tele- graphs that Gen, Skobeleff, with a divislon of {nfantry, two regiments of cavalry, and half a brigade of arilllery, has oocupied Trajan, near gors to our Emplire. Under theso circumstances it behoovos us to consider what ateps we intend to take to render our comunications with India secure, Undera new condition of things Turkey will retain tn reality nothing beyond Coastantinople and Asia Minor. A Russiau army will be ableat uny timo to descond uponr Syris Rusglan fleet will emergy from the Dardapetl ears our cntiro diplomacy has been de- to warding off the posaibility of the. contingencics, and we have alre; * What wo ouzht to do frequently told us, Wae ought, if the outworks of the defenses of our ling ol with Indis uave fallen, to strengtheu our ugoan the line of communication leself. Buez Canal {s the koy of thess communications, ptisthe lock in which this key hus To allow the Russiaus to retain Arwenis, and to enjoy the frea For thres hours I A correspondent, writing from Plevna, atates that when the Turks mado thelr sortle, they lett thousands of sick and wounded astarving and unsttended, These unfortunates remained 1n this state three days, and hundreds of them Over a thousand lave beou already burled sud about 100 corpses come from tha Undoubtedly maoy who were nut quite dead haye Leon burled, ‘Thoso killed in batties were unburled the 17th. The Turkish prisoners aro encamped among thom, snd aro almost starving. Pleyna 18 one vaat charnel-house, surpassing In borror anything imaginable. The Turkish re- the ‘Tutcheultza ravine are unlojured—in ~fact, the tho guns on the Russian height o! arothe only ones battered to pleces. Thisis now the weakest polnt ot the Turklsh line, aud Iwould flot besurpriscd to see It broken and carried very suon, a4 ttio Russians aro driving a redan-shaped scries of tren the enemy’s defenses, osted ftself tomo to-day that sman Pashs are much weaker in numbers than is genorally suppused. Thirty- with five oflicgrs, captured on tlie wrived here ay. thom wers barefooted stood in the cold, clammy 1 could not but wonder where those ch been supplied to every man, and which wero telegraphed about from the Turkish slde to & London jourusl had Very fow of thein had overcoats, It ls sheer cruelly to keep brave men this season of the year without coverinz for thelr feet, and with nothing but = thin, ragzed uniform for the protection of their bodie: As the weather Lecomes coider aud colder, difficult to obtain, the Hulga- rians betray their churacter of extortionale robbers more clearly. Ono of them chiargos the soldiurs one francs per basket for last yoar's straw for thelr beds,—a basket holds two bush- ¢ls,—and he whines over them as bis brethrea all the time be is robolug Lls liberators. countrymen are fully from Armenls, ‘and & REV. JAMES DaKOVEN, D. D., - — Racine, Wis. er au order had ———— A Hoston Woman as » Letter-Writer, A communication to the Boston Advertiser save: “The ‘Post-Office’ at the Old South Falr, which sdded such s fund of cnjoyment to occa- swnal visitors and its dally patrons, drew a koudly sum into the treasury, ters were coutributed from” ons inlod, with avordance of all personality, yet in u style so versatile that evon intimatuTriends of the author could uot guess the writer of letters received. Thuy came from distant clussic wpots, from dwollers beneath the se ble apot in und sround ’riuce Blamarck has all about their private affairs, and given thefr pudigree, and all particulars of those who areun. married aud do or do not wish to remain in that blissful condition. ruaterlal cadaver for somo of the corrvspond- cots to dlssect, and the rellsh with which many of them set ebout the task {s a curfous study to thoss who don't enjoy that sort of thiue. It secins to be taken for grauted that the feolings of & man who has burricd & wife, or favorite cbild, or met with any other' milsfortune, ars common property, to be dragged about sud slupg over the shoulder of some valu 1diot, or ploged upon the headllzht of svue intellectual locomotivo as a passport 1o the favor of the av- crage fournal,—a sort of ** ses-what-I-can-find- out "-ativeness mnot very palatable to peo- wholesalo stock in communication Bacques Each new arrival ls a Manufac- turing Co., b ] Buchiannst, Dec. 25.—Nicholas Golescos, the famous Roumanian statesman, is dead. with u lesser Tur- y suicidal, Hather than restore ta to the Knights of Malta, wo refused to withdraw trom that island, on the pies that Na- ilson had galned such accessfous of territor: list our pledge to do sohad become fnvalld. Tue treaty of Amiens was broken., sud we leaded the supremo law of the salus popull, Pitt_smiled when tho then Emperor of lussia offered to send a garrisor Malta. Englsnd held Malt: Minfater preferred to fncur tho dangers of war rather thau to withdraw frown tho fulun anticipating the f' MacMahon, & p! test Miolster of Engl connection of Egypt Koy, 1s stmpl from eyery concelvas uston, and {n mao) was minglod wit| Loxpox, Dec, 2.1t 1s fully oxpected that ‘Woolwich will shortly receive an extenslve or- Returos wero forwarded lust week to tho War ofice showing the number of guns snd amount of ammuonition and stores each depart- ment can produce at short notlce. PLEVNA, . TER LAST DAYS OF TUR SIXGN. . Correpondence London Telsgraph. HzADQUARTEES ARuY O¥ Buraaxs, Bocor, Nov. 80.—Last night aboutd another gencral salvo of artlilery ran around Plev: followed by scattoring - rifie-shots where the lpes spprusched each other. This frregular fusflade contipued, with few futervals, ail through the night. Bome Turkish soldiers came fn durlog the afternoon of yulup‘hy, who stated that thero was pleaty of {ofautry ammunition {n Plevos, but very hittle for the artillery; that the sup- plles wero stored {n the Bulgarian churchos; sud tbst tho sick and wounded wers quar- tered in Bulgsrian houses. When asked if there weroany English officers serviog with Osman, they replied, * Not one. They stated 1bat no moat rations are uow served out to the 1roops, that the bread rations formerly weighsd half an oks cach day (about one and a quarter pounda), that §t was then reduced to a litre, then to seventy-five drams, and that for tho last four days tbey had recelyed only lndian corn to FINANUSAL. South Park Bonds. 1878, will be patd ab cago, OF a1 the Amer- ew York, upon pre- eterminstion to fnd the writer, and ch efforts only left the authur's o the background and led up to co Everybody asks, Who wrote themi ¢ & very lsrge shire of this fun and finstruc- tion we arv ludebtod tu the samo haud who, in wrote the famous 000 lotters for the r-4il Mouument Fair ‘Post-Otllce.’ And, as uo cupies were then savod, this last supply for the *Old Bouth Post-Ofiice’ were all new aud written In three weeks, incredible as it may seem. And as tho efforts of this inatron yesrs alded lo reariug the cap-stone of Monument, 50 may ber present Jabors _result in saviug South Meuting-house. 0 to occup: and forage more and the l'rlmz weatation, on aflatier mllul}ll.- Treasurer Bouth Park Cow: MONEY toLOAN BY JOSIAR IT. REED. No, 30 Nessa-st, . Y., bTfl on IMPROVED CHICAGO plications received and . And these writers are the onvs who al- ways Bud the ladics of newly-arrived familles so “beautlfal and sccomplished,” tho children #listle fairy-like darliugs," and the mesculing clement, particularly if e be tn thematrimonial market, ‘‘a very wodel of gruce and elegance.'t When Lhe axes azo all ground, or the would-be grinder falls {u appropristing the Cougressional muscly to bils or ber use, thea . A BATTERY OF ANOTUER 80RT 1s openod, and the aversge member or Senator 1s declared to bo & woll tu sheep's clothing, snd all woll-regulated familles ary advised to bave nothlng to dowith bim, That Congressmen are by no means models of virtue uad proprioty, we are compelled to admit upon good and sutliclent testimony, but that they are poor, pltiable, vie tlnlzed martyre and salnts depicted o the fol- lowiug extract from a letter of Mary Cluwwer, your correspondeat {s scarcely willing to credit: 1t ts rather the fasbion to spesk of Bouators aad wolves who go prowling ula el J'y rests of M e which embodics wuch Were Mr. Pitt Piime to-dsy Egypt would al- ready be within the orbit of the Britlsh Emplre, for Mr. Pits was, like rince Bismarck, s states- man with imperial mstincts. ests of his countr chu straws, bo dld not conditional neutrality, bul aad determination, fu wauner most unconstl- Tha adhercnts of the *‘perish India " school of politics are perfectly logical fu t! mination not to move a tinger 1o prevent India, or rather our rule over Indls, from pel Fortunately they are but fow in number unfortunately, thers scem to bs simong us who reaiize what steps ouzbt taken to sccurs to us our teuura of powerin i Accordlng to our hamble opinlou, Ej «sn open sod sbut 1 Ei We cannot allow this door to anyesother hands than ours, now that those d who would deprive us of the territories to whil () The connectlon of 5 cqual to biin in'every The most astonlshiug pars of the bus- howaver, Is tho paticuce with which the ns subinit to belug plundered Ly the peo- have come tu free, more especiall a good pary of the prod- hauds really belougs to k. . Dxc. 8.—Another flug day has much improved leben took cisrge ho caused the bridges to be put in repair, but they ure again in such & bad state that I never cross one ol them without a feeling of epprehension that s leg or two of my horse will be lefs in 1t 28 4 monument to the M Depart- ment, which actually copstructing a Where the iuter- i many & brlck of the Old were coucerned Le did uot lumo himself upon & hio acted with enery, mptly attended Lo H. A HURLBUT, 76 Randolpb-st. COUNTY ORDERS And City Vouchers Bought By e m— AT CT Of COm@merce. ber of Commerce. ——— CUomparative Value of Woods. It 1s agreat convenlencota know thecom . tive value of diTerent kiuds of wood for luel, i3 regarded as the bighest standard of our forest trucs,’ sad calllng that 100, other trees whl compars with it fur re value as fuel for buuss Lurposes as fullow, Shcllbark bickory, 100; piguut hickory, oak, &; white ash, 77 78 whito bazel, 74; spplu-tr white beech, 85; black virch, bard maple, 803 white clm, wild cherry, 553 vellow piue, 84 butternut sod white birch, 1t s worth bearing in m! that {8 woods of the same specice thers laa eat difference, according to the yoll oo which A treo that grows on a viet, low, d will bo less s0lld and less dursble for tuel, and thereforo of & less value than a tree of tho same kind that grows oa s d, poor sofl. T toe ordiuary purchaser vak isoak aud plus Is pive, but forbowe usethe tree grown ou dry uplund aud stundwg apart frowm othors 1s worth 8 great deal wore. Shellbark bickor, STOCKIOLDERS MEETING, BTOCKIOLOELS MERTING, e Corlegy Tosn, £o8 Wwhen the holes become 80 plentiful Y S, £ v t“l::f:'uov canuot cross the structure without falling through it. The transport train 10 and out of the ditch unsil it is full wagons, wheo, perbaps, the Engin rtment will make & mighty eSort aod flll up No wan who has not fol- Congresaman as rov sbout seekiog whom th exceptional cases, ihis s the op] uite ready enough to he beautiful destroger cries, **Eat mel Eat mol" But, at loast, In Wushington thoy have Dot Lo surn aside for sucn food Wi ress comes & wwsll azwy of women, whose sntire usiness It ls Lo prey upon wuu. They fvod du the committue- ulow," they write @ holes with atraw. tompted and to lowed the Russlag army has auy ad what mighty chasms can be crossed wagoos when the bridges are broken and thero s Do straw or brushwood al band towead them. ted the Rovwaniun Uncs to-duy between Gravitza and Bursurly, where thoy crosicd the GHATES AND NIANTELS. o L AT PANTEEN try blongod to the' Mamelukes. Thoy wera practically independeat. Mobamwed Alf con- o was & Turkish Pasha, but be We, ln coujunc- Taln, Gold aud Nickel trimmed, sod BLATE MANTELS, P ROBASCO, & HUMNEY 0¥ nUATEST. ‘The weather was warm $o-day, but foggy. A scattering artillery fire bas beeu malntalned sought to found an empire. throughout, sad at b this afternoca there was tion with Russla, interfured to preveus this, and 7 TRALN Yy JENTS. o strange Bonators.’snd members letters of decay ana invitation,—til} many a man who sert his Besrth with no more thoaght of evil than the wife he le’tat home comes to be ashamed to look her and his children In the face. Siniaeverywhere. Lint nowhere {¢ iL no Insidions, rocrot, and wide. fpreading ns ft fs {n a capital, inatinctirely and onfairly men hate comé o assnclate politics with encha class of women, as §f politice, or anything elae, were aaght to them but miniatara of’ thets plensure And gain, Thesa women do not **vote, ' Tor are they distarbingly strong-minded. Thig covert, unhallowed power of women holding governing men to thelr loweat parsions i preciacly what gives ta the hizh claim of ansallied woman- ‘hood {ts most putent claim to consideration. IT 18 A LAMENTABLE fact thiat ther are women whoso pens aro dip. ped in the gall of bitterness whenever they write of thelr awn gex. The author of the abuve has not been ane of those, and it wan therefora with no_lttle surprise that I found lier name at- tached to an article reflecting so severely nuon Jromen, It is n serious mistake to declare that ! the beautiful deswoyers try ‘Ent me.' M Heoutiful destrogers never flud 1t necessary to 22k to ba eaten, “There are plenty of **hangry, Tovin wolvea.” both in Washington and out- e of {ts borders, who never wait for such In- Tgations, As tothe swnll army who f""{, upon dese fechio Nrtle political 1ambs, 1 think 1t would be w difficult matter to rafse & very forundablo array of those who make such pur- suits their sole business. Much ol the.scandal an gossip which has made this city an offenso in the nostrils of the publfc has ;ircwn out of the tamiliaritles of roine of the public men with the lady elerkn in the various Bareans connected witls tlic Yovernment. That such scandals had sone guod basls is scarcely denled by any intelli- gent person, but ghat such s state things Is at all general, 8 not only quite a serious error, but & positive absurdity. There are doobtless mnany wosen who "me{ upon men,” but thiey are not vontined to Washington by any inecang, nor are they more numerous here than In other large places whero public bustucas (s done. There are in this city many thousands of women and girls who have becn for yesrs cmn- vloyed in the Depnrtmients, and are wholly de- {'S‘""“"‘ upon their ecarnings for their subport. With every outyoing offlcial sume WOMAN'A * POLITICAL INPLURNCE " comes tuan end, for appointinents are made entirely by favor, Many of these ladles are tho wives and daughters of furmer politicians, or of eoldicrs who hy devotlon to their country de- prived thelr dear anes of thelr support and pro- tector, O course the new member, or Yenator, or head of Department has A' favorites, and it becones a necessity for these women to seck new {rfends vn whoin thiey may rely, ro that fn casc of a discharge of employes they may have * some power on wiich to depend for a reinatates ment. ‘lo make new acquaintances es tnc{ cume In s, therefore, a part of the demand ol thio uecaston, Not many months since a young Indy made some statements to one of hier friends which strikingly flfustrato the case in hand, and her story wifl tell tholibstory of nany, 'fhcrc are womenallover this broad tand, who, if they dured speak, woulit sorruwfuily say, **Thlsis myown expericnee.’ A young, pretty, and preposscss- Ing eirl found hersell without fricnds or sup- vort, and rs she bad been tralned up carefully and well educated, a position tn one of the De- artments wus proposed, Her pretectors had ch taken from lier Ly the Confederate huliet, The little property lcft to the family was ex- hausted, and alic must hersell sunply her daily wants., Bne did not like to call upon the Con- gressuian, althongh she knew hin varr well, but wrotea letter in which she made known her situation. No auswer vame, and # sho cailed, “The mun looked up from lis dry business let- ters, and tho pretty, pleasant faco was much miore to his taste than the documents, nnd com- mittees, and financial questions. flo promised to use fifs influcnee to ootain for her the poals tlon she asked. And WOULD SIHE COMN AGAIN, and he would tell her of his sucess, Yes, she will, but when ahie gous {t fs with a heavy neart, for 3 sromon's feara arc always greater than her hopes. But her heart {s lightencd and tears ot delight il the pretty uyes, when ho tells her that she shall have the alm-c. And shio Is so liappy, and gucs home thiukine how good be s, and_sitg will beso attentive to hor dutics and stiow hint how much she apprectates bis kinds neas. By ond by they nieet in the cortidor, ur on the street, and her face brightens when she sees him, ond sho is s0 glad to meet bim, and tells hiin so, aud her honest delight sud gratl tude s so grateful to the urn who {s avcrbure dened with political trickeries, and the knowle eidgo of men hought and sola ke a0 nany eat- 1le, that be finds & gonulne rellof in her childish conversation, aud almost hefors he s awars has prumised tocall upon her, and noun finds thug to make the promise good. Sha isaogliad to see him, aud ho would bo lcws than & inan wers he lu&uduwnl to bier preference, AUALY AND AGAIN IIE CALLS, until some malicious guukr makes sumae Inalnu. ations, and at the next vall sho s in tears, for ey aro talking about ter, and what shail rlie dot Nc tells hor that ho smust not coms there any more, but he cannot give up their friendship, and will she walk some timu on a certaln street, or in tho public gurdeo, and he will sce her **just a llttlo while.” And the walks aro repeated, aud in the long summer twilights they wandor throngh the beautlful parks, and she tells him all of her sorruws, und friefs, and what sue hopes for, and how glad stie will be when the - brighter davs come, and how much ale has to thank Alm for, Aud he tells her that hs ts not very happy at homa, that thers are mauy reasous why it “fs not by a weans an fdeal howe to him, and how mu tho world looks to bim since ho has 1ound such a dear little friond who I8 su earncat and slncere. Aund some of those evenings, under tho pines or the maples, words are spoken that neithor over dreatned of saying, and. there are demone strations of affection, with a great deal of souf in them, too] for u wian, tuless o he w doubly- dyed villaln, caunot resist the impulss of such oeaslons and act the lle any mors than he cau smile a licarty, genial smile while his heart {a 1ull of bitterness. ~ And s the days zo by time and place are nut wanting, wud the s old story Is tolil of “the lvve that sauct things, and the spirltual kinship whicn th world can neyer uiderstand,” aud the same old sceno [ enacted over sgatan, TILA STORY 18 700 OLD and needs not to b ropeated here. Then there are yegrots, and n[:nn-nnmwu' and reproschics perhaps, lor the child (for sho 1s notlifor elss ‘whatever muy bo her yrars) Is anxjous and un- lupby, and the Intervals botween his visitsseem au ugo, By and by ho gets decpar into bushiess and his calls must be pustponed, and alter nwhilosho wfinu fmpatient and chides bim for lis neglecefand wnat sho calls s Indiffer- ence, and her worda hurt him, for his knows ha I8 In the wrong, and no man can endure censure frun & woman ho cares fur, and whea ha i zane she sobs hcrself to sleep, awakening In the wmorning only to repeat thy wretchednenss, ‘That eveniug {s but & umrln ol imany that {ollow, until tired of explaining, and coaxing, ho ceases his vislts altogether, and more thau likely plays tho same drama clsewhere, with ‘-;lzmu equally unfortunate circuwatancs to favor. m, Es I yeuture tho mssertion that not one fn w thousand of thess entangloments ks the resuly af detiberstion. There gy bu villlans—thero doubtless are many—who aru un thy lookout for new sensations, buttuat any reputable class uf busiuess or public men ke thesy vices & subject of study and deltberation, aud & matter of plsn aud cold-blooded calculation is, In my oufuion, among the mosy absurd of ideas, while, that the average Covgressuan has *no mere thought ot ¢vil thau tue wity ho left at homu? bl:,mrldwuluu to bo for & moment consid ered, Any good judge of hunen uaturo will scarcely fmagina thai the politidan who has goup through tho many sfages of prowoifon usuul belure reackilng Congrtasional tionors can Lave come up to this poiut aud retalued that virtuous . fonoconce usually expected of “the wife ag bowe.” That MANY INREQULAK DELATIONS MXIsT, tha commuuty well Koows, but thug they are more pumerous hiere than tn other lange places or are brought about solvly by thls smali ariny of Wowen wou come from sbroad to attach thewmaelves to the Congressloual body like so wapy lecches, 8 & statement which witl, I think, bear fovestigation, Women sufiiviently advanced (b sin to propose and carry out such Defarious schoules are npot apt to be quuted very high in the market, und tao funoceut and virtuous are uot gencrally fu that busivess. Aen will awear cterual fideilty until thefr objec is attaived, and then thelr word is but s band of struw to be bruken at thelr own porjured pleas- ure. That an funocent gist ever makes the trep - advances fu these cades {s very lmprob Men aro almost {uvariably the leaders {n affalrs. 1 Whoever heard of a lady of 40 or 60 years, high'social position, with “wualth, elégance, a fatully about Ler sud houors crowniug her slver bairs, whoever heard of such a perion riskiog her nfed uock or hyr venerablaboues, o trisking about some park, or by-street, of Over uucvou pavemeuts, o pursult of sowe dl‘r‘nuy yaush o 1t And when did euch uity nver sib down t0 fugict love dittics to.the swoet chlld, .