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WEDNESDAY, - OCTOBER 10,1877.
EDITORIAL NOTE#*.
Mr. Schurz, if 8 disposed, can retori
upon Mr. Conkling for his •‘insurgent'’ at- ,
titude.
Donn Piatt wants the scalps of Generals
Marct and Ingalls. He charges gross
corruption and ojjirs to prove it.
Mr. Stephens still thinks that Grant
meant well in his Presidency, but grew
reckless. Hates not only means well, but
will avoid Grant’s recklessness.
Mr. Wm. B. Ahtor is threatened with
consumption, and so, to avoid it, if possible,
has built the finest yacht in the world for
Winter cruising in Southern localities.
Wm. H. Vanderbilt is one of the Re
publicans who proposes, in a public meet
ing, to rebuke Coskling. His late lament
ed father was, we believe, a Democrat, so
called.
Thf. President of a Chicago Savings
Bunk would not go to jail quietly until the
myrmidons of the law promised to let him
attend divine service three times on the
Sabbath.
“Mr. Piatt is a person predisposed to
throw mud,’’ says the New York Tribune.
True, hut what a target for his expertness
in that line you fellows have for many
years afforded him. _
New Orleans papers of the Ist inst
announce the sudden and unexpected death
of Mr. George Jonas, for eighteen years
President of the Canal Bank of that city.
lie was one of the best of men.
According to a Glasgow correspondent,
Grant begins the morning with half an
hour for prayer. Maybe so. But most
persons believe that the matutinal cocktail
antedates the heavenly petition.
The Crown Prince of Germany is cred
ited with a large suggestion—that Alsace
and Lorraine tie surrendered to France for
more milliards, the fortresses lie dismantled
ami revenge indefinitely postponed.
The Boston Traveller reports that a lady
in that city procured a permit for the burial
of her pet dog in Mount Auburn Cemetery,
through a physician's certificate that “Leo
Gilman died of spinal meningitis.”
A Frenchman, who attempted to solve
the problem of life, gave it up thus: When
I lost my wife every family in the town
offered me another; but when I lost my
jiorse no one offered to make him good.
TnE notion is largely entertained that
( Vink lino is simply preparing the way for
Grant's candidacy in 1880. The American
people may have the sublime pleasure of
“sitting down” upon Ulysses at the polls.
Con k lino and Fenton split on Grant
the former supporting and the latter oppos
ing the Administration. Now they split on
Hates, exactly reversing their former po
sitions. Whew! How things do whirl
nliout ill this world 1
A Baltimore minister consulted a law
yer “as a friend and a member of his con
gregation,” but the lawyer sued him and
made him pay a fee of fifty dollars. Which
proves that tie minimis nan curat lex some
times fails of application.
The Cincinnati GaetUe reports that over
fit),ooo Bibles have been bought by Russian
soldiers from the British and Foreign Bible
Bociety since the army crossed the Pruth.
Whilst the amiable Cossack is studying how
to lead a better life, along comes a blithe
some L'ashi Bazouk and takes it. No cards.
It is estimated that twenty thousand oil
•wells have thus far been dug in Pennsylva
nia and West Virginia, Ht an aggregate cost
of $192,000,000. They have yielded about
88, 000,000 barrels of oil, valued at the wells
at $:iOO,000,000, or $ t 00.000.000 at the sea
board.
Nome persons think that Mr. Conkling
was put up to his Rochester fandango by
Tildkn and Hendricks. This is all non
sense. My Lord Uoscok would not accept
a suggestion from Omnipotence, or play
second fiddle to the Angel Gabriel. Af:er
forming him there was hardly vanity
enough left to patch anybody’s else’s panta
loons.
Tim Nashville American shows that a
damper lias been thrown upon the promised
revival of prosperity in Northern trade by
several bad failures, and adds: “We lic
lieve the South has reached the bottom, and
more than that, has attained to the condi
tions of a solid prosperity and begun to ad
vance. If there is no more turning of the
screws, and no more forced resumption, the
South will go forward.”
—
At Monroe, La., a paper called the Elec
tric Letter is published. The print is a fae
simile of the. chirograpliy of the editor. It
is written with an electric pen, and then as
many impressions as are needed are taken
with a duplicating press made for the pur
pose. The local news, advertisements and
daily telegrams are given quite fully. If
some editors were to adopt that plan their
l>apers would resemble an order from the
Sultan prohibiting the killing of Russian
Generals. Think of Mr. Stephens issuing
liis wisdom on the electric plan !
Blaine once thought Conkling a “tur
key-gobbler" and said so in a speech. But
now
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Diaz dot's not seem to cam much tor
“sacred soil,” when cattle thieves are in
question.
Donn I’iatt says that General McClel
lan fought the battle of the Nihil, at which
Nihil fit.
Senator Morton frets if the papers do
not come regularly and is deeply interested
in everything but base hall items.
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Indian speeches are racy always, because
your Spotted Tail or Red Clovd speaks
out in meeting what he really thinks.
Wilkie Collins suffers from “gout in
the eyes” and lives in a dark house. It is a
great feat to write novels with gout in the
eyes.
Mr. Henri Wattkrson, who is lectur
ing the press on a want of dignity, wel
comed the President to Louisville as "a
whole souled hair-pin.” Gosh!
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Jere lU,Ack will “make Roinehowl”when
he tackles Wells and Anderson this week
or the next. Jkkh has bought anew scalp
ing knife and sharpened it on a brickbat.
The technical definition of “friction,”
when a place burns down mysteriously, is
said by tbe adjustor to be “the result of
rubbing a st,ooo policy on a SOOO house."
Mr. Dana still insists that hostilities on
the Rio Grande will commence when the
Indian war shall have petered out. May
be so. But when is the Indian war going
to peter out *
A French boot-maker, priding himself |
on his knowledge of English, inscribed ;
above liis shop door tills inscription: “Re
pairs hung witli stage coach.” He meant
“ Repairs executed with diligence.”
The parngrnphist of the Courier-Journal
sheds tears because Mr. Tweed, in his ven
erable age. is called a prevaricator and liar
by so many people who once enjoyed his
“swag” and proposed to erect a statue to
him.
The weakness of the workingman's
movement in Baltimore is supposed to be
the handicapping upon it of professional
politicians and defeated and decayed candi
dates, who never did an honest day’s work
in their lives.
Blaine greets Conkling through his
organ, tbe Bangor Whig, as follows : “It
is enough now to know that the Republi
can Convention of the Empire State has
emulated the ‘stalwartness’ of Maine and
lowa, and refused to hoist tlie ‘Stars and
Bars’above the flag of the Union to ‘con
ciliate’ the gentlemanly white leagues and
rifle clubs of the South.”
Senator McDonald, the Democratic
colleague of Morton, called on the sick
Senator and offered to pair with him when
ever he could come within the limits of the
District of Columbia. That was cbivalric,
but it may not have been wise. It is to be
feared that Senator McDonald will find
himself, a well man, completely neutralized
by a moribund politician.
WAK’I VIIDSITUDE*.
We have read of several battles in
Bulgaria where the soldiers suffered so
much from heat that they were over
come and fell on the field from sheer
exhaustion. If this was one of their
Bummer affliction*, they have the pros
! pect of putting in a Winter on the Dan
ube, where the rigors from cold will be
equally severe. A British Consular re
port states that in thirty-seven years
prior to 1873, there had been bat eight
Winters in which that stream did not
freeze over. Tbe valley of the Danube
s exposed to severe northeast winds
which sweep through it, chilling the
resident, and which would be decidedly
uncomfortable to dwellers in tents.—
Ronmania and Bulgaria are so far de
solated that they can no longer be de
pended upon for food, and with the
frozen river between them and their
sonrc'sof supply, the prospect of “short
commons” would be anything but en
couraging to the Russians. But as the
Russian Generals are preparing to go
into quarters during the Winter months,
there is no escape from the threatened
and privations. They can be
but little worse, however, than several
divisions of the army have already en
countered
A neglected hero.
Rip Van Winkle, on his return to life
and the village of Falling Waters, found
occasion to repeat the old, old story that
“we are soon forgotten when we are
dead.” He found out likewise that
there sometimes comes a death before
death-utter neglect and forgetfulness.
Such a caso was that of Captain John
Wilson, of the brig “Minnie Scbseffer,”
who twenty years f go, at great peril of
his life, rescued, in mid ocean, from the
British steamer “Connaught,” 601 hu
man beings, who but for him would
have found watery graves. Some months
ago Capt. Wilson’s story was retold in
the New Orleans press, and for the pur
poses of charity. He had grown old,
poor and sick, and needed many things
which are called the necessaries of life.
These appeals did not, we believe, pro
duce much fiuit, except in a very few
casep, and likely enough the people who
helped him most were nearly as wretch
ed as himself. Now he is dead, and at
rest, God grant! It may be sup
posed that the British Queen or her
Government would have done some
thing handsome for Captain Wilson.
She did something, but it was not band
some. The Courier-Journal tells the
story and points the moral thus: “Her
Britannic Majesty bestowed upon Capt.
Wilson the almost incredibly munificent
sum of £oo,oos—which looks much more
queenly than when written briefly £s—
yet they say he died poor ! That a
man with brains enough to command a
brig should liavo been so reckless as to
squander all that money in tbe brief
space of twenty years, is one of those
things which most men find it difficult
to believe without hiring help. The
Queen will no doubt bo much mortified
to hear that Captain Wilson died in ac
tual want in spite of all she had done for
him. She must feel that she lavished
wealth upon him in vain, and that if
with that wealth she had established a
home for superannuated sea captains it
would have been much better spent. ”
We do not like to hear these things of
the imperial lady whom Mr. Tennyson
has conseorated in song, Mr. Etartb
eulogized in camp-meeting oratory, and
the British Parliament enriched with
bundled* of millions of gold—glitti ring
gold.
A REMINISCENCE OF LEE,
A correspondent of the Chicago Times
writes from San Antonio, Texas, some
verv pleasant letters. Before leaving
that place he states that he called upon
John Twomo, the Irish-American bank
er, who wus born in Cork nearly seventy
yoars ago, and who still retains, ileppite
of fast crowding age, tho strength and
virility of manhood's prime. Around
his table have sat the most famous men
of this and the last generation—sol
diers and statesmen, orators and poets.
He has known the victor of San Jacinto
and the hero of Buuena Vista. JjEE
and Lomi.stbeet.Magruder and Thomas,
Joseph E. Johnson and fighting Phil
Kearnet -the paladins of the North
and of the South Ji.avo shared his hos
pitality and have honored his oharao
ter. Ho has bundles of letters from
those celebrated men, and among them
the valedictory of Robert E. Lee, when
that immortal soldier, then Colonel of
the Second Cavalry, bade farewell to
Sau Antonio a few days after "the Lone
Star State” voted ,herself out of the
constellation of tho Unvfl. The docn
ment has never been puhufiJlfid, and is
as follows :
At Mrs. Southerland's, Southerlands Springs,
Texas, February 19, 1861.— My Deab Mb.
Twomo : I stopped at jrpur door this morning
to bid yon farewell, bat foil (Unwilling to re
new the pain I folt last evening. I will, there
fore, at this distance, say adieu to you, Hr@.
Twohm and Miss Kate, and wish you all overy
happiness aud prosperity. I desire also to
thank ytu for yemr kindness in taking charge
of my animals, and yon to sell tho horse
at once, for I fear he will give you trouble,
unless you think he may be of some service to
you. Of the rest take what you wish, and dis
pose of what you may not require, when con
venient. Give the good mother of tho or
phans a “sheep horse" (the mother so pro
nounced the word cheap, being a foreigner),
uav all charges, and, if there itt a*iy ,balance,
remit to me at Washington City. I do not
think I made any definite request of Mr,
Vance to send some furniture I left at his
store to the auctioneer for sale. Will yon
remedy my neglect when you see him? And
now. having closed my business, I will say how
sad I felt to-day. nuder the circumstances, at
earing Ban Antonio, especially as lam unable
/0 a tingle good that will result from the step
taken by the State • hut. as “ has been permit
ted by a k ! nd Providence. I hop* it will even
tuate in her ultimate benefit.
Again farewell, ltemptuber me to Mayor
Larkin. Very truly yours, Tee.
There were many men like Lee who
feared the worst and hoped the best. It
may not be apparent now what good oc
curred from secession and war, bat
future generations may experience it.
Some of our brethren contend that the
trne spirit of the Republic was preserv
ed by war. in that it fought through
centralization in all of it& hideous
shapes and thrust it away for many
vears to come, at least. It is the work
of God to extract from seeming evil sub
stantial good. Nothing coaid have been
more savage and revolting than the
French Revolution, and yet that agita
tion, bloody and barbarous as it was,
destroyed,the relics of the Feudal eys
tem in France, restored the land to the
peasantry and made the country really
great, because reposing upon tbe patri
otism of a peop’e who owd the soil.—
Such a people may be defeated, insulted
and conquered, but the seminal princi
ple of glory and wealth can not be
trampled out by the armed heel of mere
brute force. By the same right, the
South may one dsy know and feel and
appreciate the good in a straggle that
produced a Lee and Jackson for ever
lasting honor in the Pantheon of Fame.
Swindlehtbst is the appropriate name
of a London abstractionist.
Morton has another resemblance to
Jorr Baostock, in being “tough, devilish
tough.”
The European steamers, this season,
carried from New York alone 81,000 pas
sengers.
Washington journalism is styled
“cheap, changing and vagabondish,” by
Mr. Samuel Bowles.
A native Indian paper, the Salabha
Samachar, is eloquent in its denuncia
tions of flesh eaters and wine bibbers.
English food, it says, produces unnatu
ral heat. It has proved particularly in
jurious to the Bengalees, according to
this authority, inasmuch as it teads to
induce hypocrisy, aggravate gluttony,
and finally to cause premature death.
To suppose that it imparts physical
strength or inspires the heart with valor
is altogether a mistake.
THE RUSSIAN CAMPAHIN.
The Russian campaign for 1877 is pro
bably over. The season is now so far
advanced as to render future operations
exceedingly unlikely, if not impossible.
Heavy xains have rendered the roads im
passable, and snow has already fallen in
the Balkan mountains. The campaign
thus closes if not disastrously at least
most unfortunately for the Russians.
Since the crossing of the Danube they
have met with reverse after reverse, and
are not relatively so well off in men and
material as they were when the contest
begar. Their losses must have been im
mense—much greater than those of the
Turks who were fighting behind entrench
ments, in passes, and almost always
upon the defensive. The campaign has
been a failure, and that very fact will
militate against tbe idea of peace. The
Russian arms must win a decisive vic
tory—must demonstrate their superiori
ty-before the Czar can well consider
any proposition for a suspension of hos
tilities, come from what source it may.
We look, therefore, for another year of
war, at least, in Europe ; and the next
campaign may result far difierently than
the one just closed.
VITAL NTATISTICS OF MASSACHU
METTB.
The annual report concerning the
births, deaths and marriages in Massa
chusetts for the year 1876 has just been
published. The number of birthp,
deaths and marriages are all decreased
from those in 1875. There were 42,149
births during the year, or ono living
ohild to every forty persons, and com
parative statistics show that the birth
rate is below the healthy normal condi
tion of a well-ordered community. The
birth-rate was the lowest in the sparsely
settled counties, four children to one
thonsand being born to the inhabitants
of the ten largest cities in excess of
those in the country. The percentage
of foreign parentage has been reduced.
In the ten cities it was 172 to every 100
of native parentage, with 52 of mixed
parentage to the 100 of native. In the
rest of the State tbe proportion was 78
of foreign-born parentage and 26 of
mixed parentage to every 100. In some
of the cities the contrasts are very re
markable. Thus, in Fall River there
were 436 children born of foreign parent
age to every 100 born of native.
The total number of marriages was
12,749, a number less by 914 than in
1875. This great decline in the mar
riage state is attributed partly to tlie
commercial depression, and in part to
an imperfect registration, growing out
of the indifference of clergymen and
town officials to comply with the law.
The number of deaths was 33,186, a
number less by 1,792 than in 1875,
showing that there have been no sweep
ing disasters by infectious diseases. A
progressive increase in the mortality at
tributed to apoplexy, paralysis and in
sanity, is noticeable. Diphtheria has
shown a remarkable rise in mortality
sinoe 1872, when it was nineteenth in
the list of diseases, and is now second
only to consumption, Pneumonia has
also been very fatal. An increase in
mortality from abortion is also notice
able, and it is shown that ante natal in
fanticide is often fatal to the mother.
Of the 1,500,000 of people living in Mas
sachusetts in 1876, eleven persons who
died daring the year, eight females and
three males, are said to have reached
and survived the age of one hundred,
but the evidence of accuracy is not al
ways trustworthy. Ten of the eleven
are registered as married and one as un
known.
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NEXT!
Our brethren East and West have had
and are still having a run of sensations
in the way of forgery, defalcation and
kindred crimes. Tho barber’s cry of
“next!” is the order of the day. Tbe
very latest, at this writing, is William
0, Gilman, who, like nearly all the rest,
bore what the world calls “a good char
acter” and thereby possessed opportu
nities for swindling beyond the majority
of mankind. We are informed that he
is bnt 32 years of age. He comes from
one of the oldest and most respectable
New York families. His father, from
whom be inherited his business, was a
gentleman of the strictest probity, a
man of wealth, moving in the best so
ciety, and an exemplary Christian. He
died thirteen years ago, leaving Wil-
LitAjjf a snug fortune in cash and real
property, ’file young man was reared
under rigid [religious injjnenpes, and
up to the present time gaye every evi
dence that tbe seed thus sown had borne
good fruit. His credit was unquestioned
on the street for almost any amount.
He led a retired life, seemingly devoted
to his family. He had no vices what
ever, SC Jar as known; did not indulge
in gambling of gfifiking, was not given
to loose society, displayed no “fast”
propensities of any kind. He one
of the prominent members of Rev, Dr,!
Uodghton’B church, tho Superintendent
of its Sunday School, and was otherwise
among the forenuiot deeds of piety.
Rev. Dr. Thompson, oif the Tgbei'oqcle,
married his sister. In bis personal re
lations ho was genial and modest, and
universally liked. He conducted his
business In a seemingly conservative
manner, and was apparently thriving. It
was not known, por is it now, that he
ever speculated to the amount of a dol
lar, or that his financial affairs had ever
become jn any way embarrassed.
It is remarks&le, viewed as a social
problem, why so very uM+g of the ras
cals developed within the past eigiii or
ten years, in polities and finance, have
been accounted religious men and men,
too, without any known vices. It is
singular, tao fjiat so many forgeries
have been successfully perpetrated upon
otherwise shrewd busine** men in tbe
most slipshod and olamsy manner. Im
mense advanoes seem to have beep
made, pf late years, in hypocrisy “a *
fine art. We rispet but thiDk that re
ligion and morality arc assumed by the
modern scamp as a part of his general
plan. But what scandals do such clever
and artistic rognes bring npon the
church (Mid upon society ! Voltaire
and Tom Paine do tmt do half the barm
in their writings that one first class “de
veloper” does in his novel methods of
“stealing the livery of Heaven to serve
the devil in.”
The torment of the British capitalist
is where to get a safe 4 per cent, invest
ment. Let him come South.
£x Gov. Drx, who is supposed to have
eoM cpt of Noah’s ark, can still kill six
out of a possible seven ducks on the
wipg.
The new Senator from Missouri, when
the emergency is great, oan swear like
the army in Flanders, ft would not do
for him and Senator Batard to lock
horns.
Major George D. Tillman, of Edge
field, is in the city. We hope to greet
torn very sqon as one of South Caro
lina’s Congressmen. He is contesting
Smalls’ seat and should get it.
The most successful employer of the
‘grayer test” who has recently appear
ed in this country is without doubt the
Rev. George Mhuaha, of England. He
has been for many years engaged in car
rying on immense charitable institutions
at Bristol, and he avers that he has got
the means needed for the purpose, not
by asking benevolent people for them in
the usual way, but solely and simply by
praying to God for help when he wanted
it. In answer to these prayers dona
tions have been sent him; and he has
thus raised, he says, altogether, $3,750,-
000, of which $300,000 came in dnring
the past year alone. This is certainly
extraordinary, but the negligence of
hundreds of thousands of poor people,
who do not think it worth while to fall
to incessant praying as a means of ob
taining wealth, is satisfactory proof that
his statement is aooepted with same con
sideration for attending conditions of a
not purely spiritual nature.
GEORGIA ANTIQUITIES.
Ancient Tumuli on the Ocenee River.
About a mile and a half north of the
Fontenov Mills in Greene county, and
lee&ted on the left bank of the Oconee
river, are* three tumuli snrronnded by
traces of extensive and long-continued
inhumations. The largest i3 situated
rather more than one hundred yards
east of the river, and rises forty feet
above the level of the valley. In gen
eral outline it may be described as a
truncated cone. Its apex diameters,
measured north and south and east and
west, were respectively sixty-five and
sixty-eight feet. At the base, however,
the flanks are extended in the direction
of the east and west. To such a marked
degree is this the case that there ap
pears a difference of thirty-five feet be
tween the base diameters running north
and south, and east and west, the for
mer being one hundred and thirty-three
feet, and the latter one hundred and
sixty-eight feet. At the centre of the
top may be seen a circular depression,
some twenty feet wide and two feet
deep. Toward the north the brow and
face of this tumulus are quite precipi
tous.
When first observed by the European,
this monument was covered with a
growth of trees as dense and seemingly
as old as that of the circumjacent low
lands. As the neighboring fields were
cleared, this mound was also denuded
of its vegetation and cultivated with the
hoe, its rich surface yielding generous
harvests both of corn and cotton. Al
though now overgrown with brambles,
weeds and small trees, which materially
retarded minnte inspection, it appeared
quite probable, from the scars on the
surface of tbe valley in the immediate
vicinity, that some severe freshet, years
ago, had impinged upon the northern
base of this mound and carried away
a considerable portion of its northern
fiauk.
Rather more than one hundred yards
to the north of this tumulus, and trend
ing to the northwest, is an irregularly
shaped excavation—at present from ten
to fifteen feet deep and partially filled
with water—from which the earth used
in the construction of these tumnli was
obtained.
As yet no attempt has been made to
open the large mound, but against its
eastern face the overflowing waters of
the Oconee at one time dashed, wearing
it away for some distance and leaving
there a perpendicular front of ten feet
or more. Here were disclosed human
bones, the skeletons of dogs, and
large beads made of the columns of
the strombus gigas. If this partial reve
lation be accepted as indicative of the
general contents of the tumulus, it
should be classed as a huge grave
mound. We decline, however, adopting
this conclusion without further investi
gation. It may be that the remains and
relics there unearthed belong to later
and secondary interments. Instances of
this sort, as wo well know, are of fro
quent occurrence.
Two hundred yards to the south is an
elliptical gravo mound, not more than
four feet high, but covering a consid
erable area. This structure, in the di
rection of its major axis, is about one
hundred and fifty feet long. Its minor
axis is two-thirds less. The surface and
neighborhood are littered with human
bones, sherds of pottery, fragments of
pipes, shell beads, mussel shells, a.d
various relics.
Across a shallow lagune, and two hun
dred and fifty yards southeast of the
large tumulus, is a third mound, well
preserved, ten feet high and quite level
at the top. In every direction, except
where it looks toward the north, its
sides slope gently. Having been con
stantly cultivated for many years, this
structure has encountered no inconside
rable waste. At the base, its north and
south diameter was one hundred feet.
Measured at right angles, the other
diameter was eighty-eight fret. Similar
admeasurements across the top indi
cated fifty feet and forty feet. To the
east, west and south are traces of spurs
or graded ways for facile ascent.
This mound occupies a central and
commanding position, in the midst of a
fertile allqviai field of fifty acres. Al
though its poptejits are ppknown, we
conoeived the impression that it was
designed as an elevation for a chieftain’s
lodge.
Some of the Spanish historians men
tion the existence of artificial tumuli,
flat on their tops, and located uear the
banks of streams and in rich valleys,
which, they state, were erected for the
purpoge of sustaining the houses of
chiefs shd their families. At the foot of
suoh a structure a square was laid out-,
around which were built the dwellings
of the principal men of the tribe. Out
side roso the wigwams of the common
people. A disposition to place the resi
dence of the chief in a commanding
position—thus elevating liis abode above
the lodges of his subjects—and a desire
to contribute to his comfort and secur
ity, are suggested in explanation of the
expenditure of so m ne h labor.
Around the base, and for a consider
able distance on every hand, are traces
of primitive occupancy, all persuading
us of the fact that in former times this
tumulus was surrounded by the dwel
lings of peoples who had hero fixed
their homes.
Tbe space adjacent to the large
tumulus, to the extent of some four
acres, appears to have been largely‘if
not exclusively dedicated to the pur
poses of sepulture. Every freshet which
sweeps over this area nncovers human
skeletons disposed in every direction only
a few feet below the surface. So
thoroughly and frequently has this terri
tory been torn by freshets, that it has
lost its original level, and now exhibits
on every hand deep furrows, heaps of
broken pottery, quantities of human
bones, and fragments of various articles
of nse, sport and ornament. The freshet,
of 1840 was the first, as far as we can
learn, which in a marked manner in
vaded the precincts of this ancient
burifl-grpnnd. Upon the subsidence of
the waters many were attracted to the
spot by tbe multitude of'teju> yojte ves
sels, human bones, shell-beads; pijj’e’6,
discoidal stones, grooved axes,
celts, and other objects of primitive
manufacture. One gentleman collected
nearly a quart of pearls which had been
perforated and “tforu as beads. The
plantation negroes themselves
with clay pipes there unearthed. In the
possession of not a few of them were
strong clay vessels, thence obtained,
which they used for boiling soap, etc
Larg- and other objects of
special interest y.epe secured by the cu
rious and carried to their Uuuies, where,
for a season, they formed matter lor
speculation and idle talk, and in the end
were either lost or broken. Subsequent
inundations have brought to light simi
lar proof? of sepulture and early manu
facture, but tins tre ßfi, n ß house has
been so often visited and y&rcfully
searched that its* present yield falls fhr
short of that which was encountered
when the Harrhon freshet invaded this
place of the dead.
It U a sad fact that the denudation of
the banks of these Southern streams and
the destruction of extensive forests in I
reducing wild lands to a at&te of culti
vation have ployed tips proximate
causes C* serious injury ip, and often of
the total demotion of many prominent
and interesting abori^” Structures.
“Before these fields were shorn and “'led)
Full to the brim our rivers flowed.”
Limpid then, with constant yolumes
they pursued their accvulomed chan
nels. Subsequently, becoming Li?bid
with the red soil washed from the slopes
of an hundred hills, and no longer fed
with regularity by well shaded and pare
springs, bat at one time enfeebled by
droughts and again engorged by tor
rents, these streams have for many
years been liable to sudden and vio
lent flnetnations. Multitudes of mar
gatifereus unios, npon whose flesh these
primitive people fed, from whose inner
wall* and embrace were obtained sup
plies of pearls, and from whose irides
cent shells ornaments were fashioned,
have been torn from their habitats by
unruly currents and violently imbedded,
beyond life, in sand banks and deposits
of mud. The stable bottoms upon which
they rested and multiplied have been
rendered uncertain and unwholesome;
and thus it has oopac 1° P ass that a
marked extinction of such animal life
has been caused. Fishes, too, and
turtles are far less numerous than they
were iu those early days.
The rapid precipitation of yolumes of
water from bald territories giyes rise to
freshets which, overleaping tixa estab
lished river banks, chafe against struc
tures in the overflowed valleys origi
nally secure from all danger of this
sort. Primitive bnrial places, grave
monnds and j&opnments have in this
manner often been rudely torn asunder,
and the surfaces of valleys dedicated to
sepulture, sport, and habitation, scarred
almost beyond recognition. This work
of disintegration and obliteration is
steadily progressing. In some locali
ties—within the memory of the living—
angnst monamente have entirely dis
appeared, while the configuration of
others has been so marred that the
present ruin conveys no intelligent im
pression of the original structure. Such
tribute does an untamed past pay to an
all-subduing present.
In view of these changes, and of other
injnrions influences engendered by a
civilization generally careless of these
early monuments, accurate, speedy and
intelligent observation of the location
and characteristics of these primitive
structures becomes imperative if we
would know and interpret them aright.
On the right bank of the Oconee river,
abont a mile and a half above its con
fluence with the Appalachee, situated in
the low grounds of the plantation of
Thomas P. Saflold, Esq., is a circular
earth work some twenty feet high, and
covering abont the eighth of an acre.
The sides are sloping, as in the caso of
other conical monnds along the line of
this river, but the peculiarity which dis
tinguishes it from its companions is that
aronnd the apex stout earth-walls were
raised to the height of several feet, thus
causing a depressed or guarded top.
Near the banks of the Appalachee
river, in Morgan county, may still be
seen occasional, artificial pits, some four
feet in depth and six feet or more in diam
eter. Upon removing the debris of leaves
and earth with which they are filled,
their bottoms and sides indicate the in
fluence of long-continned and intense
fires. Fragments of pottery also occur
in them. It wonld seem that they con
stituted a sort of rude oven in which the
Indians baked their clay vessels.
We might multiply instances of tn
muii still extant in tbe valleys of the
Oconee aEd its tributaries, but having
already described and figured those iD
East Macon and its vicinity,* enough has
probably been said to convey an intelli
gent idea of the aboriginal monuments
of this section of the State.
Charles C. Jones, Jk.
Augusta, Georgia, October 1, 1877.
♦Antiquities of the Southern Indians, p. 158,
et seq; New York, 1873.
THE CAMPAIGN.
Tke Nenatorsbip.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
The announcement in your issue of
the 3d inst. that Hon. Josesh B. Cam
ming would accept the nomination to
represent this District in the next Sen
ate was received with pleasure by many
citizens. His willingness to accept the
nomination, with the announcement that
he will not seek the office, furnishes a
strong reason why the nomination should
be tendered to him. It shows that he has
proper conceptions of office and this is
an indispensable qualification to public
station. Public office is a grave, sacred
trust, and he who regards it as merely
the spoil of the dominant party or the
means of personal honor and promotion
is unfit to discharge its duties and un
worthy to be trusted with its powers.
The true position is that tbe citizen
should even at a sacrifice of personal in
terest be willing to serve his country
and at the same time spurn with unut
terable scoru ths unscrupulous practices
of the place hunter. This is the atti
tude of Major Cumming towards the of
fice for which he has been named. To
this highest of all qualifications for of
fice he adds every other that is necesas
ry to fit him to represent us in the Senate,
fie has had experience as a member and
Speaker of the Lower House and
this gives him attainments that cannot
be acquired in any other school. He
knows the wants of the city; experience
on a farm he is now conducting fits him
to represent the important agricultural
interests of the District; his familiarity
with the principles and practice of taw
eminently qualify him to represent that
profession, and his liberal, comprehen
sive and statesmanlike views on the sub
ject recommend him to every friend of
popular education. He is capable of
wisely shaping tbe new order of things
required by the adoption of another
Constitution. Richmond county makes
another contribution to the history of
the State, and presents as qualified to
represent us in the Senate of the next
General Assembly her worthy son, a
gentleman fit to occupy the highest
station in the District or the State,
Hon. Joseph B. Cumming. Civis.
Tlie House of Representatives.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
I respectfully present to tho Demo
cratic party of Richmond county, to
represent us in the next House of Repre
sentatives, the name of Mr. H. G.
Wright. As one of the proprietors and
the editor of a leading journal of the
State and tbe South, this gentleman has
attained a reputation that few men of his
age have enjoyed. His familiarity with
the history of the State; his knowledge
of the wants of the people and his rare
intellectual capacity qualify him to know
what is proper legislation. Though not
a practitioner ho is well versed in the
fundamental principles of law ftt)d his
large experience in considering, his
quick perception in comprehending and
his sound judgment in determining the
gravest questions < f government, will
rank him among the ablest men of the
General Assembly. He has served the
party with unswering fidelity and emi
nent ability. Let us, in recognition of
his services, hoDor the tried and true
Democrat, and the vigilant, faithful and
able defender of the publip interests, by
tendering him the nomination.
Citizen.
FOR TIIE SKNATH.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
I am glad to see, in a recent issue of
your paper, that the name of Hon. H.
C. Foster is recommended for the posi
tion of State Senator from this District.
From my knowledge of the sentiments
of the people in t|)6 ooqntry fiistrigts, I
am convinced that a more satisfactory
selection of a candidate could not be
made. His legislative experience, high
moral character and acknowledged abil
ity would ensure a faithful and efficient
discharge of the duties of his office, and
the interests as well as the reputation of
the Eighteenth District would, I feel
assured, be entirely safe in his hands. I
hope he will be nominated and elected.
Countryman.
RAILROAD CONVENTION.
Spartanburg Via Laurens to Augusta—Busi
ness Changes.
S. C., October 1877.
Editor Register :
The railroad convention to-day was
largely attended by delegates gud citi
zens. About 150 delegates were in at
tendance from Laurens, Spartanburg,
Edgefield, Aiken and Abbeville. Dr.
John A. Barksdale, of Laurens,presided,
and discharged the duties of President
with marked ability and courtesy, show
ing biottelf a good parliamentarian and
holding the sometimes fiory debaters
well in hand. J. L. M. Irby, lisq., was
Secretary. The many friends and ad
mirers of that veteran soldier and states
man, M. L. Bonham, were gratified at
seeing him once more in Laurens, and
at listening to his encouraging yoptjs.
Hon.’ GeOigu paljas 'filffian sound
ed a bugle blast of d’efiapfc wpkte
sition to monopolies that moved the
heart of every listener. Lieutenant-
Governor Simpson spoke for Lanrens,
and was greeted, both on rising and on
concluding, with a heartiness of ap
plause tbai. attested the full sympathy
and approval of his auditoiry. fjon. R.
P. Tood and others made eloquent ad
dresses—notably 11. D. Cunningham,
Esq., of Waterloo Township, and J. A.
Mood, Esq., of Dial’s Township. The
meeting continued to about 4 o’clock, p;
m., and IvaS atipnqea r large crowd
of spectators. At the'teonalUEioic, ibe
Convention, by a vote nearly nnanimons,
adopted resolutions introduced by Lieu
tenant-Governor Simpson, declaring for
I the route from Spartanburg via Laurens
C. Ninety-Six and Edgefield O. H.
to Ahgusta,-mu ie.claring in favor of
taxation ah tbe jttTbpipat mesil? of
building the road. Qur P a '
pers may PORtinue jto ignore this pro
ject, but it is fast B b9P e ; an<J
wdl, ere long, be an accomplished fact.
FRANK [LESLIE’S CREDITORS.
A Commission Appointed to Manage the
Business.
New York, October^.— of
the creditors of Frank Leslie report in fa
vor of managing .the business by a com
mittee of five, composed of the principal
editors. Thejhusiness considered a
paying ono. Mr, Jjeslie iiad drawn very
largely upon thp'rpsgprgm* gf estab
lishment, the amoant being about ob,-
000 per annum, whinb, in their judg
ment, was in excess of the The
business had also been pondjmtejl jg a
very extravagant manner.
The committee thought that in three
years the indebtedness could be paid off.
The plan proposed is that Mr. Leslie
should have supervision of the business,
and be allowed twenty per cent, of the
profits as a salary, eighty per cent, to be
divided pro rata quarterly among the
creditors. About one hundred creditors
were 'epreseuted or present, and the re
port of tha committee was adopted
unanimously. The Manage
ment consists of ex-Gfoy. Bite, of Mas
sachusetts; Wm. H. Parsons, Johhßal],
Edward Goodwin, jr., and Win. B. Wil
son.
Seoaton Wlimb Teri £******.
At the close of the present Congress
in 1879 the terms of the following Sena
tors will expire : Spencer, Rep., Ala
bama, Qorsey, Rep., Arkansas; Sargent,
Rep., California, Chaffee, Rep., Colo
rado; Barnnm, DemV, 'Cosn.ootiout: Co
nover, Rep,, Gordon, Dem.,j
Georgia; Oglesby, Rep., Illinois; Mor
ton, Rep., Indiana; Alison, Rep., Iowa;
Ingalls, Rep., Kansas; McCreery, Dem.,
Kentucky; Dennis, Dem., Maryland,
Bogy, Dem., Missouri: Jones, Rep., Ne
vada; Wadleigh, Rep,, Hew Hampshire;
Conkling, Rep., New York; Merrimon,
Dem., North Carolina; Matthews, t Rep.,
Ohio; Mitchell, Rep., Oregon; Cameron,
Rep., Pennsylvania; Patterson, Rep.,
South Carolina; Merrill, Rep., Vermont;
Howe, Rep., Wisconsin. The Louisiana
seat now in controversy becomes vacant
in 1879. Of the outgoing Senators
eighteen are Republicans and six Demo
crats.
■ *
Rome holds a County Convention on
tbe 29th, and advises a district gather
ing in the Forty-second.
SOME OF OUR SENATORS.
THE LEADERS ON EITHER SIDE
AND HOW THEY DIFFER.
Old and Mew Faces— The Marked Men from
the South and West.
[Correspondence of (he Graphic.}
Washington, September 16. —1f Oliver
Perry Morton dies, tbe Republicans in
the Senate will have lost their balance
wheel and will work at zig-zags. He is
the author and promoter of more great
measures than any man who has been
identified with American legislation.
Since he has been in the Senate nothing
of moment has succeeded without his
aid ; everything of moment that he has
opposed has failed. A chronic invalid ;
a man whose physical life has been a
torment for twelve years ; who has not
drawn a breath without pain for that
long time, he has been the Hercules to
hold up the Republican world when the
knees of Atlas have been staggering.
He is like nothing more than the great
balance-wheel of an engine. The force
may have originated in an abstract mo
tive ; other men may have supplied the
material and the minor parts of the ma
chinery, but MortoD, when he has en
gaged himself, has been the receptacle
of all the force, and by constant, even
revolutions, has expended that force
upon the object sought until it has been
accomplished. There is no man now
in the Senate who can take his place.
There is no man living who can fill it.
It is said that Governor Williams will
send Dan Voorhees here to supply the
vacancy, if Morton dies, until the Leg
islature of Indiana can elect Hendricks.
Compared with Morton, Yorhees is an
idle ranter. He is eloquent, but vapid;
his tongue is louder than his mind.
Morton is not eloquent. He uses too
simple phrases when he speaks. En
deavoring to convince, not to impress,
appeals to the sober reason and not to
the senses.
Conkling is the next greatest man to
Morton, of the Senate, but his strides
are too long for the oi barbaroi to fol
low him. He is too lofty to lend him
self to the common df tails of legisla
tion. A great speech; a sublime apos
trophe never passed a bill; no great idea
was ever moulded into a fact by the use
of a few exquisite paragraphs. Nobody
ever goes to Conkling to say, “I wish
you would help me with this bill.” No
body ever attempted a measure without
making that request of Morton.
Edmunds has a shrewder mind—a
“larger head”—than either Morton or
Conkling, but he is one of the kind that
tears down so much that people don’t
help him when he wants to build up.
Anthony and Morrill always stand by
Edmunds, and second his motions, but
that is very little service when the rest
of the Senate are against him. Ed
munds looks a hundred years old, when
his age is less than half that. He looks
like St. Jerome, and when in repose
folds his hands across his breast as if
he were accustomed to hold a skull un
der them.
Great things are expected of ex-Jus
tice Davis. No man was ever half so
wise as he looks. After the Sergeant
at-Arms had surveyed him and made a
chair to fit his flue proportions, he con
templated the Senate with the eyes of
a man accustomed to see through
things.
“Call me Judge,” he said, when I ad
dressed him once as Mr. Senator. “Call
me Judge. I’ve been called Judge for
twenty-two years, and bv no other name
would I smell as sweet.”
The bench was irksome to Judge
Davis. He was getting fatter and stupid
er every year, and he knew it. So he
was glad that the Legislature of Illinois
sent him to the Senate. They could not
have sent a better man. Ho will not be
so useful to his constituents as Logan,
but will be of more service to the coun
try. Logan was a better man than most
of his friends knew; a better man than
those who don’t know him will believe.
But he was a ohronic growler, unless he
was in a fight and then his Irish pulse
beat contentedly. Logan neverjdid less
than he promised. He would always do
more. During the tiresome Senatorial
contest in Illinois last Winter General
Grant said:
“I hope Logan will be elected. He
has an ugly temper, but y.ou always
know where to find him. He is the
surest man to his friends I know.” But,
as I said, Judge Davis will be of more
service to the country. He is able, judi
cial and probably knows more law than
any man in the Senate except Edmunds,
perhaps. His political position is in no
doubt; he defined it clearly before he
left Washington last session. He will
sqpport the President,
Booth, qf California, is a man that will
oome out prominently some day. He is
0001, calm and contemplative. He is
too indifferent to be warmly prejudiced
for or against anything, and is accus
tomed to look out of impartial eyes.—
There is a great deal of latent ability in
him, also, and when he exhibits it he
will astonish people. Booth is dilettante.
He has handsome hands, and wears them
gloved. Hi? clothes fit hint too neatly
to alfow hf® tp do any' heavy lifting, but
he is of that material that he will take
off his coat when he gets interested.
Booth and Oglesby have formed a re
markable intimacy. Remarkable, be
cause it would seem to a third party that
they should repel each other, not at
tract. Oglesby is crude and boorish; he
takes a pride in it. He says “Illenoy”
and swears in the presence of such men
as Frelinghuysen and William A, Wheel
er. Jfooth things profanity vulgar, and
has as delicate a sense of propriety as
an old maid boarding school teacher.
But the two men are inseparable. They
walk to the Capitol arm in ar® every
morning, and ride home together at
night in the sa®e carriage. Qne will
wait an' hour for breakfast if the other
is late, and that is a test a matrimonial
attachment won’t stand.
From the new men that the South has
sent to the Senate muoh is expected.
They are a better class than have come
from there since secession, and nearly
all of them have been chastened by fire.
Lamar, Hill, Morgan, Garland and Har
ris are all triumphs of the lost cause.
Each one is the best of the native class
in his State, and each believes in the
divine right of the States. Lamar and
Hill are the ablest and best known. The
former from his long prominence in the
House of Representatives, the latter
from his debate with lllaine over the
bleached bones of Andersonyille.
Hill is ijqeijay spirit, seldom sits in
his own sqat, and is given to pacing the
floor like a man with a burden on his
mind. This is also a characteristic of
Ohristiancy. Hill and Christiancy re
semble each other, except that the form
er has three or four more inches in
length of spine. Bothhaverouud should
ers" and' failed gray eveq. They trim
their whiskers alike, atuf are given to
clasping their hands behind them. Hill
is pathetic; Christiancy is judicial.—
Hill is a dreamer; Christiancy a student.
Hill is brilliant in debate; Christiancy
writes everything ho speaks and reads a
fHe minutes a.gnment from manuscript.
Lamar is nervous' and "vehement.
When he makes a speech he exhausts
his physical energy by violent gesturing
and too mnch shaking of the head. His
body is hinged at the base of the lumbar
vertebrce, and he doubles himself up at
the end of e?£fy sentence. He is ti-ou
bleu T'tfi'a cjiaease of tne
he suffers horrors sometimes. fjjften
after speaking he has ah attack of ver
tigo' ftf§ W jii a collar loosened
and be laid out with poftpreMgg op his
head. He is politic, but cqrsed with an
ugly temper. Interrupt him in a speech,
and he flies into a passion; let him
alone, and he will sing the song of a
seraph.
Last Winter, at one of the Democratic
caucuses, Lamar was urging his party to
support the Electoral bill. A drunken
Virginia Congressman reproached him
with dishonoring his party.
‘‘Take him away.” cried Lamar, “take
hint aw a#. wF FH fcijl him,”
And he wo*jld have jdilpd him fiad 1 16
Opt been taken away.
Latqar is forever preaching about po
litical aiUße?ity ( and bewailing the hy
pocrisy of the times, wh en he is himself
an outrageous hypocrite. He is like
Ethan brand, in Hawthorne’s story, the
man who sought through all the earth
for the unpardonable sin, and at last
found it, in his own heart.
Senator Hamlin called on President
Hayes at the close of last session. Said
he:
“Mr. President, I don’t like to see
you tablag Lamar and Hill to your
bOypm. They are as wicked rebels to
day Its evo* khs?y v’ere, and are bam
boozling foil. ” n ’- x -
“ I don’t think so, Senator,” replied
the President. “I have seen a great
deal of Mr. Hill and Mr. Lamar lately,
and I like them.”
“I know that," said Hamlin, “ an’ I’ll
be if it’s any credit to you.’’
Hamlin is the relic of the Ben Wade
class of men in the Senate. Honest, but
intolerant. Zach Chandler was another
of the class.
Gordon, from Georgia, is a man of
more resources than any of his col
leagues from the liouth. He is able,
energetic, self-possessed, ingenious, and
a man of affairs. He had a little danghter
born on the day the troops left the State
House in South Carolina. He named
her ‘.‘Carolina,” and the child died.
Garland, the new Senator from Ar
kansas, looks like the priests that yibert
puts on his pictures. Tall, well fed,
fond of spirits, a round, close shaven
face, red and pulpy. He made a good
Governor and will make a good Senator.
Morgan, of Alabama, and Harris, of
Tennessee, are little men with unob
trusive gray moustaches. Morgan has
no particular record, but Harris is iden
tified with the histories of the State of
Tennessee, the late Confederate States
of America, and the last conquest of
Mexico. He has cut a wide swarth in
his time, and the Democracy have great
expectations of him in the Senate.
The event of the next session of the
Senate will transpire when Blaine and
Stanley Matthews meet. Blaine has cut
switches enough to give Btanley a drub
bing. Matthews is a strong debater,
but whether he can stand Blaine’s pugi
listic oratory is doubtful. Since Mat
thews undertook to steer the ship of
State, he has done some things that he
will have to explain and defend, or
Blaine will make him ridiculous.
WARREN COUNTY MATTERS.
| Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist ]
Warrenton, October 3. —The visitor
to the town of Warrenton cannot fail to
be impressed with the good order that
everywhere prevails. At the last Spring
term of the Court I observed a new
made grave in the Court House yard,
with an inscription on the headboard,
“John Barleycorn died February Ist,
1877,” and this event has furnished a
commentary upon the subject of tem
perance more potent than all the elo
quence of the forum or the pulpit. A
year or two ago a lady could not risk
herself on the streets, on public occa
sions, and gentlemen of refinement and
culture were disgusted at every corner
of the streets with the noise and pro
fanity of drunkenness. Drinking, quar
reling, cursing and fighting was the
order of the day. The jail was full of
criminals, and the Court House crowded
with such business.
But what a change has come over the
town. Now, ladies and gentlemen can
go at any hour of the day or night, and
none dare to molest or make them
afraid. Warrenton is one of the most
orderly towns in the State of Georgia,
and as a result people are flocking here
to trade from all the surrounding coun
try. Stores are large and full of goods,
and trade is brisk. Business is largely
on the increase, and it is thought wiil
go one hundred and fifty thousand the
present over any former year.
The crops of corn and cotton are not
so good, owing to the Summer drouth,
and the yield of each will be much less
than an average.
This county will go for the ratification
of the Constitution, and for Milledge
villo as the capital. The Hon. George
F. Pierce, of Hanoock, addressed a large
crowd in the Court House to-day on the
the great issues before the people. If
we are to return to the principles of
our fathers—to that economy, justice and
moderation, which characterised them—
we should go back to Miliedgeville. If
the halls of legislation in Miliedgeville
were good enough for Cobb, Meriwether,
Jenkins, Berrien, Dawson, they were
good enough for us. He could not think
of wringing from the poor people of
Georgia to enrich the millionaires of At
lanta. He thonght the resolutions of
the City Council of Atlanta were not
worth the paper they were written on.
She had fooled the people once; they
were sufficiently warned on that subject.
He exhorted them not to saddle them
selves and their posterity with such a
debt as would be incured by voting for
Atlanta.
His speech was received with great ap
plause. This county is unanimous for
Miliedgeville. Veritus.
T CorrcspondenceChronicle andConstitutionalist ]
Warrenton, October 4.—A recent
journey, meandering by tho country
roads, through Richmond, Jefferson,
Burke, Glascock and Warren, to this
point, gives us a fair idea of the crops
for the season, and the general report
is disheartening. Rains have been par
tial, drouth has cut short cotton, corn,
Spring oats, potatoes and turnips. The
majority of planters report less than
half crops of cotton and corn, especially
in upper Burke, Glascook and Warren.
Sowing Small drain
Liberally will help to remedy the de
ficiency, both by affording Winter pas
turage for cattle and horses, thus saving
grain and increasing milk and butter.
An abundant fruit crop will afford furth
er help, and many new orchards are
bearing abundantly in neighborhoods
where they never paid much attention
to the apple crop before. Glascook is
an isolated inland eouuty, and the lands
are not considered rich, but its popula
tion and productivenss are increasing,
and many thrifry farmhouses and pleas
ant country homes are springing up
around them. Laboring in a healthy
region with their own hands, everything
about them shows the purpose to live at
home and within themselves.
Tkplr Flap 118 and Cuttle
At once excite attention, and on lands
no better than their neighbors who buy
corn to make cotton. They have cotton
for a surplus crop, and sow rye in Sep
tember and October, and a Winter graz
ing oat. These green crops feed their
stock, and give them May butter in the
Winter; and then they have choice to
turn under the green crop in February
as a fertilizer, or take off the stock when
grass comes, and they still oan harvest
the grain. Some sowed rye as late as
November last year, and said it was
worth to them s2l) per acre. The
Chronicle and Constitutionalist is an
institution among them, and with the
most of them is the only secular paper
they sea or care for. They generally
favor the new Constitution ; don’t care
for homesteads, other than they oan
build, and prefer Miliedgeville for the
capital. Heavy raiqs haye fallen at last.
More anon. ' Viator.
UEqaoiA CAMPAIGN.
Macon says she don't want the capital.
Greene county proposes to vote for
Mi Hedge vilje.
Newton county Democracy seem slow
about moving.
The 29th promises to be the dark and
bloody ground.
There is an unmistakable intention all
over the State to preserve intaot party
organisation.
The Atlanta Constitution wants to
hear the name of the man likely to over
top Hcrschel V. Johnson. “If he is
taller, socially, professionally or politi
cally than Gov. Johnson, we want to ad
mire him.”
Governor Colquitt filled the seat of
the late Barnard Hill by the appoint
ment of Col. W. D. Gricp, of ffoqston
county. The qpppinteq is a soq-in-law
and partner of that y£ppn*blp lawyer,
Gen. Eli barren.
ThepQngtftvtwn will probably agree
with us that the proper man to tackle
Hon. Wat Tuggle on the capital ques
tion would be Col. Joe Warren, of
Chatham. Col. Joe owes the Hon. Wat
ty one, anyhow, on his railroad bill.
A correspondent of the Greentsboro
Herald puts the Sonatorship between
(Jordon and Brown, “present chances
favor 'Gordon, but Brown is awful in a
long race, and may come in a week or
two ahead, and for him that is a long
way.”
Says the Macon hdeyraph: “With
due deference to the genius and appo
siteness of many of Mr. Q inahl’s stric
tures upon the new Constitution, we
consider Mpyetj labor lost' at this
stage of the proceedings; for be has
failed to show that the old instrument
is as yood."
The Montezuma Weekly says: “The
property in Atlanta ia valuable and will
sell well whether the capital be placed
there cr not. Then let the capital go
back to tho ’ ihoqse of onr fathers,’ that
we may beautify and adorn the old
homestead, make it lovely, attractive,
and increase its value.”
Thp Savannah dfewi says; “Atlanta
can give nothing but ‘property’ under
the new Constitution, and it is an un
deniable fact that there are citi
zens of that place who propose to
enjoin any further expenditure by the
city in furnishining a Capitol for the
State. As there is no legal contract in
the matter, the injunction will hold good
in the Courts.”
This is not bad: “The Central Geor
gia Weekly, recently moved to Macon,
favors Mmadgevitfe. Weekly is
destined to be a power in the land ?”
Augusta Chronicle. “Suppose it favor
ed Atlanta; would there be any chance
for if to be a power in the land.”— f>a-
Qrange Repartee. “W® think not, be
cause in that event it would advocate
the wrong cause, aDd oppose the inter
ests of the people. If the Weekly will
always espouse the right cause, which it
is pledged to do, it is reasonable to sup
pose that it will be a ‘power in the
land .'"—Weekly.
THE WAR 0-\ THE THIEVES.
ReqnUitlons for Sooth Carolina Fnitlvi
From Jantlee—Senator Patterson’* De
fenne.
Columbia, October a— the
law officers of the State a*e very quiet
the impression prevails here that requi
sitions have been issued for Senator
Patterson, ex-Treasarer Cardoza, ex-
Fiftaucial Agent Kimpion and others,
upon the indietraents recently found
against them by the grand jury. Jlimp
ton is said to have disappeared from
New York. Cardoza is in Washington,
but neither he nor Patterson will return
to South Carolina for trial unless by
compulsion. Patterson has employed
Mr. Cook of Washington, as his coun
sel, and will take the ground that as
United States Senator be has the same
privilege 83 a Minister of the United
States, and that having been elected and
commissioned as Senator subsequent to
the tiia® l** B offenses are alleged to have
been committed, be cannot be brought
to Columbia for trial until his term o
office expires. If this plea should fail
he will fall back upon the expedient of
disputing the validity of Hampton s
title to the Governorship,which he hopes
will delay matters and perhaps transfer
his case from the State to the Federal
Courts.
MORTON AND JEFF DAVIS.
DID THE WAR (GOVERNOR HAVE A
80IJR APPLE TREE ?
An Incident for Oliver’s liiogrnpliy Makers
—ContlletlDg Opinions ns lo What He
Meant.
[Atlanta Constitution J
The protracted and evidently last ill
ness of Senator Morton, of Indiana, has
set the newspaper sketch writers all over
the country to picking up material for
the obituary and biographical notices
that are to accompany the announce
ment of his daily expected demise. We
have one to offer which should not be
lost sight of by these historians.
“The White Elephant.”
A distinguished Northern statesman
in writing to Andrew Johnson wheu
President and just after the bailing of
Jefferson Davis, referred to that distin
gushed State prisoner and congratu
lated Mr. Johnson on his “happy rid
dance of his white elephant.”
It will be remembered that while Mr.
Davis was in prison in Fortress Monroe
he was a source of very great anxiety,
not only to President Johnson but to
the Federal judiciary and the leaders of
the great Bepublicau party. The man
ner in whioh to dispose of him was a
constant question of debate with them
and it is certain that no two of them ful
ly concurred in their estimate of what
would be justice in his ease. The Ameri
can people looked auxiously to see how
“traitors were to be punished and trea
son made odious,” and who were ever
ready to be made responsible for the
fate of Jefferson Davis. Europe looked
on to see the end of “the great rebel,”
and to judge of our honor and maguami
ty by this unparalleled occasion and its
incidents.
The War CJorernor Appears
Upon the scene of this juncture and in
this connection. At this time ho was
Governor of Indiaua, and not regarded
as a man of such violent hates and des
perately revengeful character as ho has
been iu the light of his higher station
and the influence of his greater power.
Among the papers of tbe late Presi
dent Andrew Johnson, are the originals
of tho following papers, which are true
copies. The first is a telegram, as fol
lows:
Murton to Johnson.
Indianapolis, November 14, 1865, }
10:30, a. m. )
Received 1:15, p. m.—cipher.
Ilis Excellency, Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States :
If there is no question of jurisdiction
in tho way, Davis can be indicted and
tried in Indiaua as the rebel army, live
thousand strong, under the commund of
Gen. Morgan, iuvaded the State.
Tho Court and grand jury are now in
session, and if Davis will be sent here
for trial, in case ho is indicted, he will
be indicted. There will be no difficulty
in getting a jury that will do justice to
the Government—and to Davis.
O. P. Morton,
Governor of Indiana.
To this startling proposition to shoul
der “the white elephant” and relieve the
Government of all further anxiety on
his account, President Johnson made
the following cautious reply :
Johnson to IHorton.
[Cipher.] Washington, Nov. 14, 1865.
Gov. O. P. Morton, Indianapolis, Ind.:
Jurisdiction is one of the questions
which has been much in onr way, The
place of trial must bo determined here
after. If the Court and jury find true
bills against him it would not interfere
with a trial at any other place. Bills
have been found against him at some
two or three places in Tennessee, and in
this District. Andrew Johnson.
We do not know whether Morton went
further in tho matter and had, or at
tempted to have, bills of indictment pre
ferred against Davis or not, but it is
very apparent from the tone of his tele
gram, and particularly his last sentence,
that he was anxious to get his bauds
upon Davis.
What Was Ills Object t
We once asked the ex-Presidpnt what
Morton meant by his telegram ?
“I suppose,” replied Mr. Johnson,
“he thonght I wanted Davis huug ”
That Mr. Johnson did not want Davis
hung, and the reason why he did not,
we may make plain at another time.
General Robert Toombs, reading this
telegram, was of opinion that Morton
was then fully informed as to Mr. John
son’s intended policy toward tho South
and sympathised with it, and sent the
telegram in the hope that Mr. Johnson,
before the assembling of Congress in
December, would accede to the propo
sition and turn Davis over to the Courts
of Indiaua and thereby relieve himself
of the “white elephant” and Congres
sional interference on his account.—
General Toombs seemed to think that
Morton, at that time, would have quiet
ly let the law take its course, whatever
the result to Davis, and that result
General Toombs thought would have
been acquittal.
It may be proper to say that General
Toombs' idea of Morton’s agreement
with Mr. Johnson’s Sonthern policy is
fully borne out in a strong and lengthy
letter written by Morton from New
York on the of I'eoember, 1865, to
President Johnson, fully endorsing his
message to Congress and his annonneed
policy for restoring tho country to its
normal condition.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, upon
the other hand, is of the opinion that
the telegram was a plain business propo
sition to gee away with Davis by a quick
and certain process, commonly called
“hanging by the neck until you are
dead, dead, dead !”
Other distinguished geutlemeD, in
cluding Postmaster-General Key, lean
to the one or the other of these opinions.
Wo leave it to Senator Morton’s bio
graphers and the reader to judge what
the true purport of tho telegram was,
but again we ask:
“Did the war Governor havo a sonr
apple tree ?”
LOST IN THE MISTS.
Further Particular!* o(' Wrecked Jlunnu
chuMctlM—Tl\c. PusNcngerM Safely Landed-**
the Wreck Occurrcsd—Heavy F\ui* In
the Sound,
Pboviohnoe, R. 1., October 6 —Tho
passengers of the stranded steamer Mas
sachusetts arrived at Stoningtou at mid
night.
The officers of the Massachusetts re
main on or near the stranded steamer.
Passengers, however, agree pretty well
upon the following story; The Massa
chusetts left New York at five o’clock,
Thursday afternoon, with 150 passen
gers and a large freight. The day was
stormy, and the violence of the storm
increased as the boat went down the
Sound. By eleven o’clock a terrible
gale was blowing. It is reported that
the captain said lie had lost bis lights.
The fog was sq thiok that nothing could
be seen, and the whistle was blowing in
cessantly. About 11:30 the engines were
stopped a few minutes. Then the boat
went ahead slowly, when the engine
stopped. In half a minute more there
was a terrible crash, quickly followed by
two more. Some passengers were thrown
from thir berths by the shocks.—
The terribly frightened people poured
out of the state rooms. In a few minutes,
at most, every passenger had on a life
preserver, and was waiting for the
worst. It was so dark absolutely tkat
nothing could be seen. The wind howl
ed so that conversation was almost in
audible, while above all fwas the inces
sant thump and sound of heavy grind
ing, which all knew was eating out the
bottom of the boat. The gelding on the
state rooms began to fall down, and in
some of the state rooms the berths even
fell to the floor, so much was the boat
spread. Tbe ropes which held the chan
deliers in the main saloon had snapped
like pipe etOffia, and oiecss Cif the side of
the boat been nyokun away. The
water was rising in the forecastle, and
the deck hands set to work to lighten
the boat. Overboard went cotton,whisky,
sugar, until at least half the cargo was
in the sea. The other half was kept in
to balance tbe boat. Thus the night
wore away, and it was a night which the
passengers will not soon forget.
YEW.OVV FEVER.
Nine New Case* at Feroandlna—Three
Deaths at Port Royal Yesterday.
Jacksonville, October 5 —No death
at Fernandina to-day; three new cases
reported—Capt. March, of the schooner
Emma McAdams, is reported to be
dying. Dr. Simmons, of Charleston, ar
rived at Fernandina to-day. Mayor Kid
dle is improving.
Three deaths from yellow fever at
Port Royal-to-day. Up to this time
there have been 36 casks. •• • 1
IN THE LAND OF LIBERTY.
Two Georgia Murderer* Encnpe from Jail in
K Atlanta.
---*4r
Atlanta, October 5. —Henry Shaw,
wife murderer, and Gds Johnson, one
of the most notorious murderers in
Georgia, both under sentence of death,
burrowed out of jail here last night and
made good their ; escape.
On the'Tollet Tattles
Of the beau monde that delightful and
healthful elixir, SOZODONT, is always
found. There is nothing comparable to
it for rendering the teeth spotless and
preventing their decay. Those who use
it exhale fragrance when they open their
mouths. t
People around Hamilton favor Mil
leJgevrlle.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Newberry his a singing class.
Fairfield is not yet rid of rabies.
Typhoid fever is quite prevalent.
Judge Northrop has been qualified.
Wofford College opens encouragingly.
Orangeburg hopes to get up a fine
fair.
Burglars are prospering in Spartan
burg.
Laurens is determined to build that
road.
Several bridges in Edgefield need re
pairing.
Columbia Theological students play
croquet.
Newberry is bound to have another
railroad.
Charleston exhibits an oil painting 300
years old.
Spartanburg is organizing a cavalry
company.
Baltimore will exhibit articles at the
State Fair.
Two deaths Wednesday in Charleston
of apoplexy.
A Creedmoor target has been brought
to Columbia.
Anew colored company has been or
ganized in Newberry.
Judge Melton never applied for the
District Attorneyship.
The mountain excursionists commence
to pour into Charleston.
Mr. Thos, M. Woods, of Chester,
died Friday of typhoid fever.
Moses Darby, a colored centennariau,
died recently in Chester county.
A Charleston family were made very
sick from eatiug dressed poultry.
Mr. Geo. W. Williams is building a
handsome residence iu Charleston.
Tho Edgefield Baptist Church has
called Rev. Mr. Hunley, of Virginia.
Judge Carpenter will continue his
residence and praotioe of law iu Colum
bia.
Tho new Presbyterian parsonage at
Aiken is rapidly approaching comple
tion.
A malignant type of diphtheria pre
vails among tho colored people in Char
leston.
A colored boy was caught in a gin
gearing iu Chester the other day and
killed.
Edgefield is determined to begin her
end of tho Spartanburg aud Augusta
Railroad.
Judge L. C. Northrop, the newly ap
pointed District Attorney, has entered
upon his duties.
Edward J. Maxwell, Esq , it is said,
is likely to be appointed to tho deputy
district attorneyship.
Edgefield has two gentlemen on tho
Governor’s staff—Col. J. R. Abney and
Col. J. H. Cheatham.
Fx-District Attorney D. T. Corbin, at
last accounts, was flourishing at tho
Grand Hotel iu Paris.
Mr. Johu Cranston, formerly of Au
gusta, will practice law at Langley, and
not at Aiken, as stated.
Charleston longshoremen amuse them
selves once in a while, getting up little
“wows and wumjuses.”
Col. D. Wyatt Aiken, member of Con
gress, has loft for Kentucky, from wheuo
he will go to Washington.
It is reported that the Air Line Rail
road will soon put on a double day train
from Charlotte to Atlanta.
A gentleman shot in the space of tww
hours, seventeen ii'arsh hens iu tho
marshes about Charlestoff.
Bethel Presbytery will meet at Con
cord Church, near Woodward’s, during
the second week in October.
Gov. Hamptou has been invited to de
liver an address before the Agricultural
Society of Maury county, Tenn.
The Governor has appointed H. D.
Evans Trial Justice in Aiken county,
vice W. St. Julien Yates, resigned.
Capt. Geo. B. Lake becomes traveling,
soliciting, collecting and corresponding
agent for the Edgefield Advertiser.
Profossor Meroier Brown will deliver
a lecture in Edgefield next week, enti
tled “D. D.” or tho “Devil’s Doings.”
The Tax Payer , published in OraDge
hurg, and edited by James S. Heyward,
Esq , is the latest in journalistic realms.
The Edgefield Advertiser brings for
ward tho name of Ev Gov. M. L, Bon
ham for the State Supreme Court va
cancy.
It is thought that tho Hon. W. D.
Porter, of Charleston, will be o laced
upon the Supreme Bench of the United
States.
The Columbia Register says : “Some
not very wholesome papers for certain
Democrats havo been scared up in the
committee room.”
Rev. J. B. Seabrook, Rector of St.
Mark’s Church, Charleston, and Super
intendent of the Public Schhols of that
city, is ill with paralysis,
A crowd of roughs iu Columbia are
in tho habit of crowding around the
Opera House doors aud impeding the
entrance of ladieß and gentlemen.
Percy Beard, Esq., was bnried Mon
day in Columbia, being the first citizen
soldier who has been buried with mili
tary honors in Columbia since the war.
The Columbia Phoenix says that there
is enough material before the Legisla
tive Investigating Committeo to keep
them at work at least eighteen months
longer.
W. H. Bellinger, Esq., of Blackville,
S. 0., has been appointed a Trial Jus
tice, in place of Mr. James Thomson,
resigned.
All the Georgetown county offices, ex
oept the Probate Judgeship, are vacant
because the parties elected to them have
been unable to procure the necessary
bondsmen.
The Greenville Daily News increases
in size and gets ready for another cam
paign of usefulness. The News is one
of our sprightliest and most valued
Carolina exchanges.
Says the Edgefield Advertiser: “Joe
Henderson, the negro man condemned
to death, has had his sentence com
muted by Gov. Hampton to imprison
ment in tho penitentiary.”
The Adjutant and Inspector General
has disbanded the negro militia com
pany of Aiken, having been requested
to do so by its Captain, Peter Waggles.
Their arms, 63 in number, havo been
turned over to the Palmetto Rifles.
Captain James F. Izlar has been ap
pointed Brigadier Geaeral of the Third
brigade South Carolina Volunteer Infan
try-comprising tho counties of Aiken,
Barnwell, Beaufort, ColletoD, Edgefield
and Orangeburg, with headquarters at
Orangeburg.
The Charleston News and Courier
soys: “Col, Wade Hampton, Jr., son of
Gov. Wade Hampton, has been nomi
nated, without solicitation, by the Dem
ocrats of Washington county, Missis
sippi, where he is engaged in planting,
as a candidate for tho House of Dele
gates. Col. Hampton was at one timo
an aide upon the staff of Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston.”
FOR GRANT IN 1880.
How (lie Old Dlixtrict King Hope to Renew
Their Plundering.
"Washington, October I.—Sundry de
velopments to-day leave no doubt that
the old District Ring, and very little
outside of the old District Ring, stands
behind tbe present management of the
National Republican. Robeson lent
the use of the mortgage ho held, and
Shepherd, Kilbonrne, Babcock, and
other lesser members of the ring are
variously interested in the purchase.
Since last December, Murtagh has lost
very nearly $20,000 in the Republican,
and has been forced to raise money for
current expenses through the most ruin
ous expedients. His old friends have
had no mercy on him, but have used
him and squeezed him to suit their own
purposes. Their present purpose in
securing the paper, there is reason to
1 elieve, is a hope that they may be of
service in presenting tbe nomination of
Grant in 1880. A glance at tho saluta
tory will show that it is largely devoted
to a popular treatment of the labor
movement, and Grant, it will be noticed,
has taken pains during his English
visit to put himself in the attitude of a
friend of the workingman in more
wiys than one. That the old ring,
who found him a zealous friend and
useful chief, still hopes to renew the old
plundering under his leadership has
! long been an open secret, and this, it is
fair to believe, is a step in that direction.
Meanwhile, there is to be no open rap
ture with tho Administration jnst at
present. Clapp, the nominal owner,
called on Hayes to-day to renew the
promises of his salutatory in somewhat
warmer phrases. For a fortnight past
Clapp has been in extreme anxiety lest
tbe editor of the National Union should
precede him in this visit and get a little
better claim on Government patronage.
The Country to the drenideot.
[New York Worbl ]
There is 1 an" old "story of a traveler
sitting at a Western hb'tel tabid. Ha
ordered beefsteak for breakfast, and
the waiter presently brought a small
piece on a large plate. Tho traveler
turned it over, inspected it carefully,
then said to the waiter : “Yes, that’s
the kind; how go and get me some a a
soon as you can.” That is whit tile
country is saying to tbe President. It
has been looking at the little dish of
civil-service reform he has brought, and
it likes it. Now it wants enough for a
square meal, and it would like the
President to know that ijt has waited i
good while, aiid is hungry. ' J
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