A Colored Orator

The Studente' Leoture Association have an excellent list of lecturers for their course this winter. The first lecture will be delivered in University Hall, on Saturday evening of this week, by Hon. B. K. Bruce, the colored ex-senator, from Mississippi, on the "Race Problem." Mr. Bruce was bom a slave in 1841 in the state of Virginia; at en early age he moved to Missouri and thence to Mississippi ; his education in boyhood was limited, but a course at Oberlin College, supplemented subsequently by the services of private tutors and a habit of persistent study, has made him a scholarly and thoroughly posted man. By his shrewd business tact he has amassed an ampie coinpetency to keep him in his oíd age. Early in life he displayed a taste for politics, and at the age of thirty-one he was elected a matnber of the U. S. Sénate to succeed Jefferson Davis; at ihe expiration of his term he was appointed by President Garfield Ragister of U. ö. Treasury, wbich office, lor more than four years, he adminstered with the greatest tidelity and ability. The career of this gentlemen presents some remarkable features, and consists of a series of honorable successes which read like a romance.