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T lI-WE'EKLY EDITLON.} WlNNSRO, S. C. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 17OL. 3. NO. 1 !IIE Cil'llR TELEGRAMS, of Cc IMPORTANT l;SSIO. 0 OF 'lHE POT- G TAJf CO.1.11TTEE. What Is Intended by tho Investigation. 01 [ Mot the er ok'n* lferud. j se This cipher despatch business a1 seems likely to prove a boomerang l to the Republicans. The Pottor coumlittee iai:, by a curious chanco, ri almost completed to.-day the die - r covery which alonie was worth d making--of who stole the despatch es and how they vero stole and E given to the public. C The evidonce to-day shows that til the tolograplh company carefully w collected the political depatches from all part. of the country and accunulated them in Now York. On the persistent demand of Con- t gross they brought them to Wash.- h ington, on the 17th of January, 1877, in a trunk. Mr. Whitney, supoerintendlenit at Washington took out of this trunk 300 despatch es for the Morrison committee and a number for the Morton Senate f committee, the latter relating to I Oregon. The remainder, number ing 29,275, wero then sorted and' arranged according to locality, and it appears that out of the wlole number 9,000 were fro:n Indianapo- I lis alone. On the 25th of Jantiiary Mr. Whitney, on the demand of 1 Senator Sargent, of the Morton Commit tee, surrenrerd all those le.ipatches to Mr. Burbank, Senator Morton's brother-in-l.aV, and the clerk of his cowmmni;,iee, and there elided the responsibility of the telegraph;company, whlich,it appoars, with one exception, noted below, to have note .1 with entire fairness. The testimony goes on to show that the lespatches remained in tho Senate coml:uittoo until the 14th of March. Meantimo the Field coml mittea had come to an agreement that nlOithe.r thle desp-ltchesi nor the bank accounts should be used or inlvestigated, and it occurs at onco to everybody that the Ropubli'ans would not have mlade such an agree - I mnt hAd hey blieved their own hands clean. On the 14th of Mu ich the telegraph company got permis, aion to recover their despatchos. Burb:Ank, Sen itor Morton's brother in-law, surrendered to Mr. \Vhitney the trunk said to conttin them all, and ho forwarded thom to New Ycrk, where they were destroyed last spring, having, it is s:iid, been forgotten meantime and romained locked up in the trunk. At this step of thec; examination, Mr. Evans, a Republican membor of C.ngress from i l'iana, was ex aunined. ie- l admitted that h k.tow one George ialloak, formerly moes senger to S;ena'to' Morton's commit tee, bnt now cflnsul at Cologne. It is curiousi tm;i.Bullock w,v: apploit Cd to his ioaslshXiip '.izd went aLbroad about the time the Potter committee wvas formed. Mr. Evans admitted that tile nighlt before But1..I lock left hero for Germany lhe hand ed Evans a bundle of papers wvhich Bullock said lie got in tile Morton committee room and which were important. Evans further admitted receiving a .lctter from Bullock, dated November 18, 1878, in which Bullock wrote that lhe saw by the papers that a great stir was created by the publication of the cipher despatches, and thlat tiler. wvas to be an investigation as to whiero they were got. He suspected that they wvere the papers lie ha 1 hi mdold t' Evans, "and which you handed to William E. Clhandlor'," and lie urged Evans to go to Chandler at once and p)rovenit him from mention ing Bullock's name in connection with them, because of the trouble and disgrace it wvould bring on him. Evans said, however, that he did not hand tile papers to Chandler, but to Brady, Second Assistant Postmastor General (an Indiana man,) and Brady wiill to-morrow have to say what lie did with them. Brady was a protege of Senator Morton. Thus the despatches are at Iast traced, and it is found that the S messenger of the Morton committee had as imnportplnL a sharro in their theft, and that lhe is now consul of Cologne as so many other persons disreputably connected with the Republican manipulation of the P'residenti election, have been re warded with public office. But this is not all. The officers of the telegraph oompany, being askced, admitted that certain do snatchea wern withdanm by orern Mr. Orton, president of then mupLly, and that they were be ,eein Tynor Assistant P'ostmnastor onoral ; Mr. John V. Fonter, of dianapolis, and Soeretary Chand. e. They ntunberd six or eight e oach side. Two persistent arches were mado to got them all, iA they wero collected and with 'awn by orders of Mr. Orton, sent a letter which was burned by his rection. According to the memo r of the witnesses those despat.ches )lated to what one of them called a rty political transaction-the sale two positions in tho Interior epartmnut for $5,000, t, ho tra ns rred to Indiana, to bo used in tho ctobe' campaign. Aside from lose, sixteen other tlospatehes were ithdrit:;n from the Washington Ilico by Mr. Orton's order, but of iOso no particulars are as yet pub c. It is not necessary to ask after .is why no Republican despatches ave appeared, but to-day's tosti lony leaves a number of prominent ion in a very awkward position. MRS. SENATOR BR UCE. (B3a11imiore Amiicirt:a, IA-m. 2r,.] Ever sinceo the colored boenator ril Mississippi, Mr. Bruce, 1rought his bride to the capital Vashington society has directed a urious gazo upon Mrs. Senator 3ruce and wvonderod what part she cvould take in the social life hero. here was no inconsiderable fear in oeno quarters that a grave social Lustiol had ar-iSOin, which would1 aot only creatO much1 unpeasan - ess but might bring out tho "color ne" in an awkwar i relief. Tho ocial rank of a Uaii,ed States +onator is not to be disregarded ; nufeo tile postion occied by afr'.. Bruce was felt to be a deiic;,te one hat called for consaninuco tact in -icognizig it. Two months have ):assed, however, ant there is not a 'ilpple upon the social current. The ppreheusions of well meaning )ersons have disappeared, and yet 1Irs. Bruce has been receivod as a neuber of Vashingon society, and ior bearing emphatically approved hereby. This result has been argely brought about by the level leadedness of the colored Senator iimself. Speaking incidentally of ,'' matter to you correspondent r'esterday lie showed how easily vas his life made clear of social mntanglements. Said lie :-'The iocial question has never been a natter of concern to me since I was Aectod to the Senate. When I 1am11o hero I. n:de lup my mind to et the society question adjust itself vithout any of my intervention. I 1ave never attemptlod to force my way into society, and in letting things take ticir natural courso I mivi never hllLd a particlo of trouble. [ believe that it is only the one who iceks trouble from the 'color line' that finds it ; and, dismissing all deas on the race question from my nlind, I fild my social passes ~unoothly and pleasant ly. Thme senator's good sense in the mfattor iaving long beeni known by his solleagues, eveni when lie was a )achelor, his card basket was tilled with as many cardls of invitaition, p~ossibly, as any distinguished per son here. When Mr's. Bruce took, up her residence hero the first person to pay her social respects to bhe bride wvas the wife of the President. She wvas so much pleas 3d with Mr's.'Bruce's ladylike bear Eg that she repeated her' visit, and then soon followved nearly all of the Sonators' and a large nuamber of rembers' wives. Of course, the Dabinet ladies were not behindhaind in their respects, and, as is tile 3ustom here, after the wvife of the Secrotaruy of State had by eanlling formally inducted Mr's. Bruce inato Washington society visits became genieral-s3o much so in fact that' time has not allowed of their beingt reopaid1. Every one wvho has called at Senator Bruce's residence, at No. 909 M street, where lie has recently removed from College Hill, speaks in glowing terms of his wife. 11er beauty and accomipli shmeonts are both praised, and oven those who went to see her, more to gratify a love of curiosity than anything else, accord her a full mood of praise. Mr's. Bruce beoOre her marriage wvas Miss Josephine Wilson, daughter of Dr. WVilson, a wealthy resident of Cleveland, Ohio. .She graduated with high honors at the Cloveland High School, and speaks Ffrenohi and Gorman fluently. She is of' fine presence; her complexion is a rich olive ; her hair jet black, silken in quantity and lustrous in liue; eyes are full and dark, and teeth perfeot. There is a grace in her movements that any lady reight be proud of, and, better than all, there in at quiet digniity in her manners that bespeaks the perfect lady. She resembl)les, clcosely what we all m1agino a beautiful Sp.mi.si lady to )b, and no one cognizant of her birth could trawe any signs of A.frican blood. I have oft en heard in tho South that thoso signs were mnmistakable, add no matter how fair in colplexion and how far re- } moved from the pe gro, the marks of Afi icai blood \Voro al ways visii!e. i\fr1. Bruceo puts, such theories to Iliiht. Senator Bruce is of the :!olor designateld in the South as I "sadll colored," nd is a two hun, Llred and fifty po !or. Tl1 t BOOK F,U ORMON. A. Wonderful hoax nC How it Origi nal d. "The Book of 1 ralon," or I[or mlon Bible, which caseph Smith, the founder of Miirmo ism, claimed to have receivcd dit c t from an angel of the Lord, was, y as he said, a record writton u11en gold plates eight inches lung bi seven wide, a little thinner than rdt:marv tin, and bound to'gether y toreo rings rtmlining through th whole. As this record was engrave in a langu rge known as the refor c:d Egyptian, it was not translated t the illiterate Joseph, and so t 'o tratnspareut stones, anciently c led the Urim amd Thurium, sot 'i silver bows after tho manner of >ectaclos, were handed down at t o same time. Theso made the gold a plats in telligible, and sitti g behind t blanket hung across his room to kee) the sacred records from pro fane eves. Jos3)h SCpith real oit' the 3ook of Mormon," or Golden Bible, while a disciple, Oliver Cowdery, wrote it down. It was pr:nted in 1830, in a volume of several Iiundred pages, and the signaturo of Covdery and two oth eri appended as testimony of its genuineness. Latu;r, d3mith a:id the three witnesses quarreled ; the latter renounced Mormonism and avowed O1h0 falsity of their testi mnv. Another intimate of Smith's teal itied that the Mormnon founder had acknowledged to him that the records and b IokI ve c all a hoax. The tmithi ver known among their neighbors in Palmyra and Wayne counties, N. Y., where Joseph grew to manhood, as per son1s who avoided honest puirsuits, and engaged chiefly in digging hidden treasures, stoaling sheep and robbing their ne:glbors' hen roosts, and accounted falso, inmimor al and fraudulent characters, of which Joseph was said to be the worst. Nevertheloss, Mormonism grow and flourished, though it was proven that tho real author of the Mormon book was Solomon Spald ing, a quondao preacher and erratic literary genius who lived in Conucant, 0., in 1809, and wrote a romantic eaccount of the peopling of Amemeica, tracing the American Indians to the lost tri)cs of Israel. He entitled his work "Manuscript Found." in.d further increased its interest by ai fictitions account of its discovery in a cave in Ohio. Ho laicod the man.ulscriptin a~ rinn oflco at Pittsburg with which Sidney Rigdon, ani atccomlico of S mit h's, was connected. Rligdlon copied it, ofton mentioning the fact himself ; and wThen .the "Book of Mormon" made its apearanco, ai comparison of the twvo revealed their almost exact likonomss, wi Lh tihe exception of the pious Oexpressions aduded to the latter. The M,ormon Bible traces the origiun of the American Indian to Lehi, a Jew, wvho lived in Jerusalem (600 B. C. In obedience to dhivino instriuctior, lie found in America a nowv Jerusa lom, and, d*ying soon after his arrival, tihe diissen sions among his sons8 resulted in the supremacy of tile younger, Nephi, andl t.hoothiers. for their rebelliousness, were con ded to hmave dark skins, and "be come an idle peop)le, full of mischief and subtlety, seeking in the wilder-. ness for beasts of prey." Nophi became the father of a race of primitive kings, wh1o kept their records upon01 golden plates, and finally one of their descendants, Mormon by name, gave his namie to the religion which Joseph Smith left his sheep-stenling and treasure-, digging to proach to the world. It used to be the patchwork quilt, but nowv it is a feather cloak. T1his particular feather cloak is in St. Louis, and is composed of 88,961 feathers, furnished by qtiail, wild duck and prairie chicken. The cost is $500. Cloaks of a -feather flock together. Pay y'our subscription to .the Mam nW Mana BIV-A--JRAC. "Life is reel," to the spinner. Ex-croscents-Tlie old moons. Did you ovor boar a peachblow ! Always in fashion-Tho letter F. Always "at hone"--The life prisoner. A paying tellor-Edison's phono graph. Thero aro 948 paper mills in the United States. Driod :poles are used for dessert at all swell parties. Now York car horses on an avor ago last only four years A paper that is always full of good points-a paper of noodles. To remove paint from door posto, back up against it when it is fresh. A young man vwith his first goatee may be said to have a tuft time of it. Fashion ito:n ; This season, as last, lamps will be trimmed with siears3. There is in the Ohio lunatic asy u a young lady *who'is heir to $700,000. Thore wore 103,015 bankruptcies in the U.tited Statos while the law was in forco. Up to the prosont time over 20,000 silver mines havo been loca tod in Arizona, In the hurly-burly of life, it is we.l to avoid sitting down on a tlmroo -legge I cimir. Anl o-..ugo says "on an average at r mim , ;annually eight bushels of If there be "no foundation for the stori;s," what's to becomo of the rest of the hou.ie ? Any body can catch a cold now. The trouble is to let it go again like the man who caught the boar. The value of the packing boxes manufactured in the United States in the year 1878 exceeded $1,000, The Brazilian government has granted a privilege to a gentleman for the ttmanufacture of paper from the wild fig tree. When your captious neighbor tells yoa there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure he is himself a knave. Phosphorescent paper, writing or print on which can be read in the dark, is the substance of a late Eu ropean invention. Boiled onions are prescribed in England for a cold in the chest, and onions, either cooked or raw, for chrome rheumlatismn. A Frenchman haa, invented an ap, plratus by means of which tele praphlic muosssges in the actual handwriting of the writer can be sent. Moro noble horses are to be seen in New York's business streets than in any commercial or p)olitical cap ital of the Christian world.-a'cri> nor's. M iother (noticing her son's greedi noss)-"Gorg,you should always could e:t a little more." Son--"I do, mother'' An obvious improvement on Shakspeare ; "Cry havoc, and let loose the eats of wvar. They will be more likely to come up to the scratch than dogs will. A wveathor- prophet is the only man who never guts discouraged. If he hits tihe caso0 once in lifty times, he is percfectly satisfied there is a great future in store for him. "Miy dear," said a wvife to her husband, "1 really think it is time we had a greenhouse." "Well, my love, paint it any color you please red, wvhito or green will suit me. Burdette, the Hfawkeyc man, is lecturing on the "Rise and Fall of the Mustache." He gives an illus tration of his subjet every time he takes a bite out of a pumpkin pie. There is now living in the prey ince of Ontario, Canada, a Catholic priest name(d John Macdonald, who is ninety-seven years of age, and has been more than seventy years in the priesthood. The remains of huge glaciers have been discovered on the east side of WVind river peak, Wyoming Territory, and on the east base of Fremont's peak. Prof. Fy. V. Hay don thinks that on the west.side of Wind river a gigantic glacier once existed eighty miles in length and twelve in breadth. GE.NERIAL GOSSIP. Captain French, of the Seventh Cavalry, asserts that during the heat of the Custer massacre fight General Reno was hidden away somewhere. In his journey toward Tashkend the Amer is preceded by nine ele phants and two thousand horses, carrying his women, treasure and baggage. Governor Roberts, of Texas, wil not order an election to fill the va-. cancy in the Forty-fifth Congress, caused by the death of Gustav Schleichler. He thinks that the session is now too short. The German societies of New York are to receive the remains of Bayard Taylor on arrival with ap proprilte honors. The remains are to lie in state at the City R%ll and the societies are to sing a dirge over the body Bishop Chatard is annoyed by the rumor that he probably will succeed Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinati. He tolls the Indianapolis Evening News that in all likelihood Arch. bishop Purcell's tenure of office will expire with his life. A Cornell professor lecturing on the efiect of the wind in,some West orn forestq, remarked : "In travel" ing along tha road I even sometimes found the logs bound and twisted t o. gether to such an extent that -a mule couldn't climbover then, so I went around." General Longstreet's salary a postmaster of Gainesville, Ga., wil be $1,100 a year-a larger sum than he received as lieutenant general of the Confederate States. He thus gets more for licking postage stamps than for licking-as a rebel would say-than for licking Yan kees. Little Willie Anderson limped into the witness-box in the Louis ville Court on Thursday, and swore that he saw his father, Robert An, derson, kill his mother. Willie isa eleven years old, a small, lame, pale faced child, of such intelligence that. his testimony was admitted without. hesitation. There is talk and trouble in In-. dianapolis because wine was used and used freely at the Washington club house in the dinner given to celebrate the seventy-second birth day anniversary of Governor Wil liams. The temperance peopl'e throughout Indiana are - censurmg the once steady Blue Jeans. Edg ar Wyatt, who was the central figure in the story of "The Moon shine Mlan," published in Harper'* Weekly, killed William Pffanz, his passistant, in Hart county, Ky., the other day. Wyatt was United Statea Special Bailiff. He lost one eye in crusading against illicit distillers, and in real life, as well as fiction, is a character. The hand that rocks the cradle, is the hand that moves the earth. 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