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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. Dr;
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sahjcct to, such as dysentery,
diarrhcea, summer complaint, etc.
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