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artjromcle anfc smttnrl. 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 ■ 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. - 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! - 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. m ■ m 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 leethina (Teething Powders) Cures Cholera Infantum, Diarrhoea, Dysente ry, Cholera Morbus, Colic, Thrush, Hives, Eruptions and Sores upon the Skin; Removes and Prevents the forma tion of Worms in children; Allays Irrita tion and Makes Teething easy and not a period of suffering and dread.