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VOK XXY-NO 26. INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY FEBRUARY 7'" 1876 WHOKE .NUMBER 1,838

.For the Fentlnel.l WHEN MOTHER COMBEü MY IIA IB. mmmm . ' ' - ' When Memory , with gentle hand, , Hm led me IQ that foreign land .. Of childhood days, I long to be ( ' , Agiin the boy oa bended knee. With heal abow, and drowey amlle Hid in a mother's lap the while, With tender touch and kindly care. She bends above and combs my hair. i Ere threats of lime, or ghosts of cares. Had paled it to the hoe it wears, Its tangled threads of amber light Fell o'er a forehead, fair and white, Tkat only kne n the light caress Of loving hands, or sudden press Of kisses that were s ited there. The time when mother combed my nalr. But it last gleams of gold have slipped Away : and Sorrow's manuscript la fashioned of the snowy Drow Ho lined and underscored now That you, to see it, scarce would guess It e'er had felt the fond caress Of loving lips, or known the care Of ttose dear hands that combed my hair. lam so tired! Let me be A moment at my mother's knee ; One moment that I may forget The trials waiting tot me yet; One moment free from every pain O! Mother! Comb my halragain! And I will, oh, so humbly bow. For I've a wife that comb it now. For the Sentinel. DEEM ME NOT COLD. ." .. I.' 1 can not, dare not tell thee, How deep within my heart. The ceaseless tide ol passion flows. That looks can ne'er impart; I fear to ask thee, e'en to goess How crimson love has grown , Nor would I dare confess to thee, How mach I am thine own. Coro Jio. ir. 0 5, do not deem me strange and cold , For that is only outward show ; My pent-op love Is wrought with pain. My burning tears, in secret flow. 1 care not what the world may say, I'll ne'er reveal my silent woe, O! darling, do not deem me cold. For thou art all I love below. Coro MiO. LOUISVILLE, KT., Feb. 5, GLEAMS OP GOLD.

THJ BLACK BILLS BONANZA PLENTY CF GOLD AND A SPLENDID COUNTRY. The Omaha Bse of recent data says: This morning Mr. Peter McKay, formerly sta tion agent at Cheyenne, arrived from the Black Hills. He reports the creeks all frozen Bolld, except Spriog creek, and that all mining operations have been suspended until spring, excepting the Allen and Mon tana Mining companies, located on Spring creek, where the volume of water is bo great ' that they are able to keep at work washing gold, and they are making as high as 20 a day to the hand; they average fully f 10 a day to the man. He says that all throughout the hills there are hundreds of miles of creek banks, and none of the m bat will yield from $5 a day and up war is.' He reports that so far but few very rich diggings have been found, bat all are paying well. The discoveries on Whitewocd creek are each that $5,000 Is the price named for claims of 300 feet. Deadwood creek is particularly rich in gold. Mr. McKay will return at once to the hills, where he will make a permanent home. He says that the country is the most beautiful he has ever aeen A PERFECT GIRDED OF EDEN and that nothing can be more lovely than the plne-walle 1 parks and the grand beauty of the forrt-clad mountains, which tower above the prairies of the valley. He says it would be a magnificent agricultural coun try, and he will take with him a large quantity of heeds. Wm. G. Holling, Omaha's exmarshal, Is the big man of the hills, bat has sold out to the Northern Pacific, and is advocating that route, although it is several hundred miles further irom the end of the railroad to Custer City than via. Cheyenne and the Union Pacific. He says the Associated Press is working for the Northern Pacific route. The best road irom Cheyenne is byway ol Old Woman's Fork, instead ol Pollock's Cut-off, which has been generally nsed. He says that the present route can be shortened at least fifty miles; that the route via Bismarck will be wholly impassable In the spring on account of the stickiness of the alkali lauds, but that the Cheyenne route is now in perfect order and is so the year round, with plenty ol wood and water, good grass, and no obstacles ol any kind. He has seen several parties, who bad to fight their way into the bills, that came by the way of the northern route, but THERE IS NO DANGER WHATEVER from the Indians ol the Spotted Tall and Red Cloud reservations. He met several men going Into the hills anaccompanied, bat he considers that traveling alone is sim ply a temptation for the Indiana to makefet tacks. He counted one hundred and fifty one men, six women and a saw mill going into the bills from Cheyenne. One mill is now in operation at Caster City,- where windings are going np with great rabidity There is, he says, do danger from want of food, for the mlcers can dig enough to Day what they want, and the coun wy is teeming witn game. A man can go one mile and a hall from . Hills City and kill a deer in an hour at anytime. jrrovisions are now plenty, aad the supply is far in excess ol the demand. Carpenters are more needed than anything elBe. Per sons going In should have about Ö0 in money or provisions, and a supply of coarse. warm clothes, so as to be able to put up meir jocnut ana open their claim without having to spend too much time in tending ana making coaia from deer bides. He aays 60,000 men can make five dollars a day curing me coming summer by working in the diggings. He says that crime is almost unknown, the people now in the hills beleg vi m uewer ciass man ne ever saw congre gated in a new country. The following is given as a Cincinnati Yiew of inside secrets at "Washlngtoc "Blaice and Morton may mutually destroy each ether end prepar3 the way for some 0119 else. The pergonal struie for advantages win sun go on between tre-j), and sy neither will consent to aeppt thQ vicepresidency. It -will probably eud In the tiefeat oftotn. Ids bre tbattfce third term ticket ol Grant an 1 Uiyea will be presented, nd If Grant finds it will not b9 accepted he will withdraw bis tame and iuake it Washburn and HayeV From these observations it would Beem tlat the wind at Washlogon 1 decidedly setting westerly.

II0JIE COItllESPONDKECE.

SCENES . IN THE SENATE. MORTON'S MAJE3TIC MANNERS. BETIIsa UP THB PINS FOR IN DI AN A PERILS OF THE PAGES BIO BOY, BURBANK PEN PICTURES OF SENATORS. (Special Correspondence o f the Sentinel. J Washington, Feb. 4, 1S70 I have become accustcme-J to running across Indianians and especially those of republican prcclivlties about the Ebbltt House. This hotel is Mr. Morton's home in Washington. Tfce departments are filled with Indiana republicans and a9 iu their native homo. they answer every beck and call of that rapidly fadjng statesman, It is owing to him, directly or indirectly, that so many Uocslers are located here, and they show to him that same disgusting servility that raarka their lile in Indiana. A few nights, sinca going into the Ebbltt House, I noticed an unusually large number of Morton proselytes grouped about the office. The old and young henchmen were there, the former in readiness lor carrying out the orders of their imperious leader, and the latter foreordained servants of the mighty man awaiting instructions to go on some errand out of town. Back Terrell, the chiet retainer, was there, and he, with ex-member Tyner, now an assistant postmaster-general, were marshaling those ol a higher standing in Morton's confidence lor a meeting in Morton's room. In a few minutes these naif dcaan faithfuls proceeded up stairs Into the presence of their king. They do his bidding, knowing that he cares nothing for them as men but only for their ns9 to him. This was a meeting to set to work the combined forces of . MORTONI3M IN INDIANA, In smothering the avowed and rising opposition in the hitherto truly loyal ranks. Morton is fully aware that there has existed for some time an unexpressed and strong opposition to his overbearing rule of his party in Indiana. His hope was that there would be no incentive to start this strong feeling into motion. Seeing that great danger was upon him he called his confidential man, Terrell, to Washington, and the result of the meeting the other nijjht will be the notification to all of bis dependents in Indiana to work np Morton sentiment, and thus, 11 possible, drive back the opposiDg element Dy bull strength, as is his custom. Terrell is still here having himself filled with orders to be disseminated throughout the state, and then to go to Cincinnati to work in anticipation of the convention. Speaking of Morton's imperious manner with his menials, reminds me of the personal' bearing of senators while in the Senate, ä study that I have made for weeks past. It is in trie little courtesies there that to a great extent gives one a more intimate knowledge of the character of some of the famous men. In their treatment ol the paes there is a fine opportunity for a study ol this kind. Morton will snap his finger, or make a sound with his lips halt like a whistle, as if vexed that one ol the boys had not anticipated bis desires. Each of the boys who are grouped on the steps around the president's chair, when not attending a senator, look hastily at one another as it to see if some one else is not going in answer to the call of THB "CROSS SENATOR," as they call him. This causes a delay, and Morton shows the vexation, as he does many tioiea during a day's session at little matters. He claps his hands loudly, not caring how much he may interrupt his next senator, if he happen to be speaking. One of the unwilling lads then gees slowly up to within a few steps of him. He looks into the boy's lace in that unfeeling, cold-blooded way ol his, tells the half terrified page, in a short, abrupt manner, his wish. Between bis terror and, the unintelligibillty to him short order, the boy feels that to attempt to carry the instructions with only an indistinct knowledge of them would be a Iobs of time, as be would probably make a mistake, and then to have tomeet the wrath of the disliked senator would be like being forced to make a hall dozen swallows ol very bitter medicine. So he hesitates and asks for information, thinking that be will take the whole dose at once. Tnis actually makes Morton, angry, and he catches hold of the boy's arm, pulls him down close to him and gives his order in language which, can be hrard through the chamber, shaking his head, as be is wont to da when excited, in the way of emphasis. Finally, th9 poor lad finishes the task, as it is to him, and goes to his fellows to be looked at sympathetically. Some of them, when they hear Ms signal, and it 1 easily recognlzab.e to the ear, will dart suddenly lor a door, as it on an errand for another senator. One lay I counted five ol them doing this, and as they passed Morton's desk he reached out to catch them, bat they were too sharp tor him. He does not use the boys maca as his body servant, private secretary, clerk of his committee, and tissue paper holder, BURBANE, lsgeaerally at his side. Barbank is a relative, and at one time was governor of a territory, but bis capacity lell short of even the -very light duties of that poitl0a, and now he Is known in the galleries as "Morton's big boy, Barbank." He is as large as Morton, and looks as old with his big round bald head. You bump against him at all corners about the capitol. One minute he is hurrying through the halla and the next he is at the side of Morton's desk with his lips .fairly In i Morton's ear. If Morton wishes to reply to some one on the floor be fretfully and roughly pushes bis very connaenuai servant to one side, and scrambles np on to his trapeze, which Is stationed at the side of his desk, to reply to tue senator who happens to be speaking. ine servility 01 " Dig boy Burbank" at such a moment as this ' is disgusting in the extreme. - JONES, OF NEVADA, never has to call twice for a page. They know he is rich and kindly of manner and a ball dczen run to his side, lean filially in front of him on his desk, listen attentively to his instructions, and scamper off on the message. Bayard is a favorite of theirs, as he is witn all the employes of the Senate, betause he is always pleasant and forbearing, if forbearance Is required. Thurman, that true American is, probably the most general iavorlte in the Sonate, so iar as his personal manners are concerned . In debate be will pun when others pun, and'' do it as gracefully as any senator, bat when hot shot is senf, the well-to-do, farmer-looking, old man wipes his mouth with his red bandanna, and always give aa good as sent, and generally a iiitie better. He is kind and courte.ms to all. Not so in the bowing and tcraping rranner, but be has that Western bembomtnie, which is much more msnly, to my mind, than the observance ol the strict rules ol red tape etiauette. as eo generally observed In Washington. HAMLIN OF HAINE Is one of the mcst pleasant, even tempered senators in the Senate, and never in con

versation or in .debate eays anything which in itself or In the manner of its utterance could injure the most sensitive feelings. Con kling is quiet and is conspicuous only in discussion. Sherman has a tired look at

all times and even when making one of his authority quoting speeches he has the same wearisome expression of countenance. He sits next to MortoD, but unlike that person he moves about but little, and engages in conversation only when approached. Frelinghuysen always baa . a smile on his lace like that which follows a weil ecjoyed dinner. He spends ruost of his time during the eession moving about and conversing with brother senators. West is the meanest looking man on the floor and it is claimed they do not misrepresent him. Web, A HOOSIER NIMROD. s CL03E QUARTERS WITH BRUIN.; : A BOONS COUNTY MAN IN THB ROCKY MOUNTAINS HIS FIGHT WITH A BEAR HB VINDICATES OLD INDIANA EXCITING TALB OF ,1 SUCCESSFUL HUNT. (The following letter, which equals the best ol hunting romances and is yet trutjhlul, was written as private correspondence to Mr. C. Daily, ol L9banon, and by him kindly furnished lor publication to the Senttneh) . , Apachb Valley, Jan. 22, 1876. I am stopping this winter. In the Apache valley. It Is located 100 miles south of Pike's Peak, 30 miles north of the Spanish peaks, and east ol Greenhorn mountain, 40 miles from the railroad and 10 miles from a postofilce. I am on the bank of a baaatlful brook ol clear, pare water. The bed ol this creek is 15 or 20 feet below the surface of the valley, and exposes to view some ol (he ruins of an ancient city. The southern outer wall (the only one I have examined) runs due east and west, is very high, and perfectly impenetrable. The streets, all that I have noticed, run north and south, are about 100 leet wide, paved with dretsod stone, cut In oblong squares, and fit together with such perfect exactness that I sometimes think they are the ground floors of what have been magnificent mansions or palaces lastead of streets. But, as yoa are one of the fixtures ol Lebanon, what are you caring about an ancient city away out here in Colorado 20 leet under - ground? S3 I will Juat drop this, and write about something tnat will interest you. This - 1 . GREENHORN MOUNTAIN . is a spur ol the Rocky Mountains, about 50 milos long, rery high and rugged. It takes its name irom its peculiar ox-horn shape, and being covered with a thick growth of evergreen timber. It is very notorious for its abundance cf game, such as bear, deer, elk, bison, Rocky Mountain sheep, etc , etc. I will Just give yoa a minute account of my first and as yet only hunt in this mountain. Two miles below me on the creek live two old hunters, one by the name ol Weaver and the other Howell. They claim to have been chums of old Kit Carson. Jast above me lives a man by the name ol Whitman. He, too, is a nimrod. They three had fixed a day to go to the mountain on a hunt, and invited me to accompany them. Not having laid in my winter's meat. I readily consented, tbey furnishing me with arms and ammunition. So, early on the morning of the day fixed found us lour seated is a two horse wagon, armed and equipped as the law direct?. Driving rapidly toward the loot ol Greenhorn, where we landed about 10 o'clock a. m., partook of a hearty lunch, and sallied forth in quest of prey. It not being considered safe for a man to hunt alone at that season of the year, we divided into parties of two, Howell and Weaver starting to the left and Whitman and I to the right. I being termed a tenderfoot by the old banters, was admonished should I by any accident get separated from my comrade and run across a bear, not to shoot unlets I was close to a tree and knew I could climb out of his way before he could reach me, aJi;ol which I assented to, thinking at the same time I would be likely to shoot at all the bears I would see that day. Well, I hunted to the right ol Whitman, and was to keep a little behind and in sight ol him, which I did for a while, but became careless, and finally lost him entirely. I aw a great deal of elri?, but no game, bscame very leg weary, and sat down to rest. Guess I had been there near half an hour when along came a deer and stopped about sixty yards from me. I raised my gun and fired. It made a few jumps and tumbled over dead. I reloaded my rifle, and was in the act of starting up to it when I happened to look on to the left and saw A HUGE BEAR passing along in the direction where the deer lav. I instantly looked around for a tree, but there was none near except a few scrubby cedar and pinnyan, none of which were mach, if any, higher than my head I kept perfectly still, and as he neared me be seemed to grow in size until I though he was as big as a young elephant. By this time I had fullv made no My mind to; 1)1 low the instructions of the old hunters. He kept on his course until he came right up to the dead deer, stopped, seemed, to smell of it, then picked it up apparently with the same ta?e a cat would a rat, and started off. This was m re than I could stand. My blood began to boll, and I was fighting mad In an instant. I leveled my rifle, took good aim and fired. At the crack or the gun he dropped the deer, whirled round and fcame right towards me like a perfect tornado. I commenced jamming in another cartridge and may be said over a short prayer. When 1 bad my;gun already for another ahot I looked up,and, good heavens 1 there he was within ten feet 01 me. Ears back, MOUTH OPEN AND BYES LIKE FIRE. I just tell yoa , Cal., if all the demons of hell had been let loose en me I would not have felt any more as though my days were ended. But there was no time to be lost, If I thought about aim at all, it was to shoot him in the mouth. I fired, dropped my gun, and I whirled to see what my legs would do lor me, Out before I could take a single bound, din, the old devil took me in the back and, sent me kiting away down the side of the mountain, bot I lit running. When I had got about three or f.iur hundred yarda from where I started, I happened to think I had a navy revolver In my bait, I Jerked it out, cocked it and ventured to look back to see bow near he was upon me, and to my utter astonishment and gratification I saw him lying quietly riht where I stood when I soot. 1 stopped, my nerves relaxed and I eat down on the ground, almost as helpless as a baby; hadn't been there but a short time, when tuy friend Whitman, being attracted by the reports of my rifle In such quick succession, enme hurrying up to see what was the matter. I told him he wai a little too late, the fan was all "over. We then wa.'kod up, aud, sure enough, there the monster lay sprawling right on top of my can, as dead aa a .door naii. Wny couldn't

I have known the " result of my last shot sooner and saved the mortification of ' SHOWING THB WHITE FEATHER? . . . . This part of the story I might have left out; but I know you are such an old stickle for the truth, I thought I had .better give you all. Whitman tells that when he came up I was on my knees offering up a solemn oath never to shoot at another bear; but I wasn't doing any such thing.; On examination, afterward, it was.' found trat my first shot took effect where it didn't spoil the bide; the last, Instead . of : bitting in tbe mouth, entered about-tbe sticking point, ranged back and bursted bis heart wide opn. We tten went and brought the deer down by the side of bruin.' It was a beautiful doe of tbe black tail tribe. These deer resemble tbe common deer, only they are black on tbe belly and underside of tbe tail, instead of wbite, and are one-third larger, may be onehalf. We then went to camp, or rather to the wagon, partook of some refreshments, changed our pipes, and while we were smoking Weaver and Howell made their appearance. Weaver bad skilled a large black tailed buck and Howell had mortally wounded an elk, but it got sway from him". We then went and brought the buck down, threw him in tbe wagon and started lor the bear and doe, cut four good stiff skids, drove to the loot of the bill, rolled bruin down, then up the skids into the wagon, threw in tbe Joe, then set sail for our respective ranches, where we landed at rather a late hour in the evening. Now, in conclusion, jast let me say that my ranch is well supplied with venison and bear meat, and I am no longer called a tenderfoot, but recognised among the bravest and most 1 successful . hunters ol tbe Apache valley. Hoping that I shall be able to write you a bigger hunting story next time, I remain- ,- Yours truly, , 1 ' . . R. Newell. P. S. Now. Cal.. you may think this a big

hunting story, but Us nothing. Whit man and a man by the name of Morris went back right where we stayed over night and killed eighteen deer and three bears. They, too, got in close quarters with a bear. Morris lost the seat of his breeches, and Whitman got the calf of hia leg chewed up a little, but is convalescent. THE AGE OF GIANTS. A CURIOUS NARRATIVE. . DISCOVERY 07 ANOTHER MAMMOTH CATS NEAR COLUMBIA, KT. THREB HUMAN SKELETONS OF EXTRAORDINARY PROPORTIONS FOUND IN A 8UBTXRRANEOU8 VAULT. The Columbia correspondent ol the Courier Journal contributes the following curious narrative ol recent discoveries below that town, in the state of Kentucky : About the middle ol the past week, two young men named White, while idly wandering in a large tract of wild, dense forest, in the southeastern part of oar county, discovered what they supposed to be a sink-hole or fox den, and with that idea proceeded to explore it. After asllt tie trouble in making their way through the entrance, tbe cave (for such it proved to be) became large enough to admit of their walking upright. They bad proceeded thus in this passage probably one hundred and fifty yards when they emerged into a large and picturesque gallery, the beauty and grandeur of which will rival that of the old Mammoth itself. The room, according to their calculations, is about 150 by 100 leer, and abounds In all the varieties of the stalactites and stalagmites. But 'tis not the things that we naturally expect to find in caves that I wish to mention particularly, but the carious remains that were discovered therein. In the northeast corner of the first gallery (for there aie five, ol which I will hereafter speak), about fiye feet from the ground, they noticed some strange characters or hieroglyphics neatly carved in the wall, which, upon close examination, proved to L a THE HEAD ROCK OF A VAULT. A few minutes prizing served to loosen this and disclose to view tbe Interior of an Inclosure in the solid rock of about five by ten leet, which contained the remains ol three human skeletons, which measured eight feet teven and a half inches, eight feet five inches, and eight leet four and three-quarter inches in length respectively. Tbe beads were laying toward the east, each body parallel to the other. Bsside them lay three txxipc, what.looked to be swords, but were so "decayed that upon being touched immediately crumbled k dnstj After examining tbe remains closely, but finding nothing that would serve to throw any light on the question as to who and from whence they are, they closed the vault, but, in doing so, knocked their torch out which they bad contrived before entering, leaving them in anything but a pleasant predicament. Alter searching some time lor their lost treasure, tbey concluded to try to escape by feeling their way out; but in this they made tbe matter worse. They stated that alter leaving the first large room they struck a good BiE9d branch, and continued following it until forced to turn into another passage the stream disappearing suddenly in .,1 A HUGB PERPENDICULAR GULCH which led them into another spacious hail, the size of which tbey believe to be quite as great as ibe first. Out of this second Open ing, and through what they conceived U5 be three others similar at least in siz3, their way seemed to gradually ascend, nntil their hearts were made glad by the discovery of light abra J, and finally emergei irom their ugly confinement through a hole about midway the cliff of Russell's creek, having been confined in their subterranean discovery over 38 hours. The whole country thereabout is rile with speculations concerning the Interesting discovery, and numbers of cltlzsns will visit it as soon as the Messrs. White finish their work of rendering the entrance less difficult to pass. The above is a correct account and may be relied on, as the young men are of unimpeachable veracity. Witn a party from town, yourcorre spondent will , start in the morning to further explore, and, should new curiosities present themselves, will give yoa the then account of an eye witness. . " . , It has been estimated by a gentleman closely identified with the Moody and Sankey meetings in Philadelphia, that at the eighteen Sunday meetings held there, there were present 223.000 persons; at the forty weekly evening meetings, 320,000; at Üie fifty-six noonday meetings, 200.000; at, the fourteen Bible readings, 70,000; at forty-eight young men's mretiogs, 21,000; at thirty-fix young women's meetings, '10.000; and at thirty-six uin's and women's afternoon meetings, 20,000. Thta Rive a total of SG9,000 persons; and it is thought that tbe mwjtings for boys, lor parants, and others, will make tbe total attendance 75,000. It is estimated that 3J9,000 ainerent persona heard the evangtliäta. ., . ... " The wife of W. W. Borden, assistant state' geologist, has Just been granted a decree of divorce irom her busband by the Clark county Circuit Court.

j THE WINTER OF DISCONTENT.

The Liberal leaders and the Rank ' and File of Indiana Repnbli- : canism in Rank Rebellion ' Against Morton. SOME SENTIMENT-ON THE SUBJECT. PRESIDENT HARRISON'S GRANDSON THE COMING jaX-THE CANDIDATE OF INDIANA ' AND OHIO IN THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATINO ' CONVENTION SENATOR M0RT0N'8 ECPPCRTPRS' TACTICS EXPOSED. The New York Sun of Friday gave putlicity to the following Irom an Indlanepclls correspondent: The state campaign committee of the republican party in Indiana is composed mostly of political manipulators and local office seekers, and its chairman is Col. Tom Brady, a vehement Morton worshipper !ate consul to St. Thorrta, and now supervisor of corn Juice in the South. This committee met secretly and issued a call for the state convention for Febrcary 22. Instantly a will of complaint went np Iroua everv corner of tbe state, "That is too soon," "It a trick for Morton' "Why make tbe campaign bo long?" and similar grumblings were heard on all sides, and were found in tbe local papers not run by postmasters. 'What does this discontent signify ?'? That question came in whispers Irom the ringmasters ol the Morton movement. "It portends a heretofore undemonstrated undercurrent ol opposition to Morton for the presidency." That was the only answer possible. Morton's unsatisfactory position on the finance problem, his HOBBY OF THB GOBY UNDERGARMENTS and ' his palpable Intriguing for the nomination lor tbe presidency, added to his physical disability of a permanent character, have conspired to create a widespread opposition to his presidential aspirations. The late coupling of his name with the St. Louis whisky-tax robbery as a beneficiary through a campaign fund and the later Indictment and arrest of Holloway, superintendent of the Indianapolis postotfioe aad brother to Morton's brother-in-law, Willram R. Holloway, postmaster here, have added largely to the hosts of Morton's Republican opponents in the state. Morton as governor during the war wielded a power that made him strong, and his word was law. lie has been the generalissimo in tbe political campaign since, and the little bsnd ol political manipulators and federal officeholders who have been his special body guard have learned to count on tbe republican vote ol IndUna as an affair of their breeches pocket. Bat he would not have been re-elected to the United States Senate in 1872-3 except bv a treasonable sacrifice of bis party's candidate for governor, Gen. Tom M. Browne, one of tbe ablest, purest and most eloquent republicans in the state. Browne made a thorough campaign of the state against Mr. Hendricks, and bis friends think he would have been elected but for THB CONSTERNATION OF MORTON and his men, who cried in excited whispers, through the agency of the fifteen hundred postmasters and several hundred other fed eral officeholders in the state, "Swap on governor for votes lor our legislature men." When the campaign ended, and it was discovered that all the republican candidates on the state ticket except Tom Browne were elected, and the legislature was unexpectedly republican, a large body of astonished friends of the defeated general began casting about lor an explanation ol the strange result. It was unaccountable 00 any hypothesis applicable to general politics. Nothing peculiar in the campaign having a direct bearing on the case was at first visible. Investigating tbe vote in detail it was found that in close legislative districts, where the republican candidate was successful, invariably the vote lor lien. Browne was behind in precise proportion as tbe legislative candidate's vote was ahead. And in all such cases tbe triumph upon tbe dead body of Browne was a gain for Oliver P. Morton. For nearly four years tbe discovery ol this duplicity and treason of Morton and his adherents baa operated in poisoning the blood of tbe party against him. It is a virulent poison", and has come to the surface. Hundreds of men of Influence and force in tbe party are quietly exerting that INFLUENCE AGAINST THB SENATOR, As a sample of this antagonistic party, and as indicating its character, and suggestive of its influence and power, I need mention only the names of Gen. Benjamin Harrison, Gen Ttos. M. Browne, Major Jonathan W. Gordon, and Judge (Gen.) W. Q. Greshsm. These gentlemen are leaders in the republican party. Gordon and Harrison reside here, Browne at Winchester, on the extreme eastern border of the state, and Greabam at New Albany, opposite Louisville, wheie Speaker Kerr ' lives. Gen. Browne was United States district attorney lor Indiana prior to his candidacy for governor in 1872, against Hendricks; and Gresham is here most of the time as United States district jacLe. Geo. Harrison is a grandson of , President Harrison, and great-grandson ol tne uenjamin Harrison who was one of the original signers ol the Declaration of Independence. Major Gordon is an eccentric genius, a fine criminal lawyer, and an eloquent orator, and was speaker of the Indiana House ot Repreaentatlves a few term? ago. Thöse opponents of the pretentions of Morton. are men of high s anding, and as able as they are pop ular. They hav been prominent in all ihe campaigns of their party, and have wielded equal influence in its council?. Each has been trusted by tbe party, and advanced to a 'high and honorable positioo. Go into every corner of the state, among the leaders ot the party, and you will find men of the same crass as thoss named, who OPENLY OR COVERTLY OPPOSB MORTON, and are thorongly disaffected against him as a presidential candidate. There la no disguising this iact. Discerning people see it, feel it; and tbe manipulators of the Mor ton movement are of all men most certainly a ware of lt. "Wedeapise Morton we can never advocate or vote for blra for president but bow can we utilize our opposition and make It effective bn the coming national convention?" This question is asked by thousands of TcyaTTepubllcans, and seems to nave found a solution. The scheme of the Morton men was this: Convene thettate convention, secure as large a soldier element as possible, have the war feeling worked up to as "high a- pitch as possible by harangues from war heroes, frequently re ef to the great Avr governor, Morton, then, in a frenzy ol "too-raw," rush through pell mell nimlDK resolution. unanimously in dorsing .Morton for tbe presidency! - That plan will be strictly ad fie red to. But it may find an impediment or two. The opposition to Morton only wanted some accept able man to concentrate on. Tbey have found him in the person of Gen. Ben liar rlaon. Ills friends say all manner of good

things of him. "His name will be a tower of strength in Indiana and the West," save one. "-It will be a relighting of tbe camp flies of 1840," responds another. "Hiscau didacy would revive the enthusiasm of the times of Tippeccanoe and Tyler too, and he would sweep Indiana and Ohio by f welling mJritife," crif s s third, and so one hears wherever he listens. It is no twenty-four hour jokp, this announcement of little Ben Oarr'.scn for a p.ceLlential possibility. Obbertaat persccs see distinctly that the opposition to the despotic sway 1 Morton in Indiana republicanism is crystalJzin. It has a rallyipgpolntnow,anokjc a definite purpcs-3. No earthly power can resist it. The spell cf Morton ism, which Las controlled tbe republican party for 15 years, is broken. The 22d of February convention may possibly indorse him ia a cut-arid-dried fashion, lor it will be a convention moved by Morton iracbinery, but tbe Bm Harrison movement will ex?rt its tolling, iuflaerca. IfarrJsDu's ' friends erithnsiaaUcally asert that be would poll 5,000 more votes id Indiana than Morton could.

A LOSING HORSE. THAT'S THE KIND OF AN ANIMAL MORTON IS. A PRESIDENTIAL INTRIGUE MACHINATIONS OF THE BRISTOW JEWELL FORCES IN THB SOUTH THE TREASURY AND POSTOFFICB TICKET. The Washington correspondent contributes the cbjoined to the New York Herald ol Wednesday, and the ßentinel submits the same for the edification ol the friends of Senator Morton: The following extracts irom a private letter, written by a prominent Georgia republican, have been handed to the Herald by parties in this city iaterestedin pushing tbe claims ot an aspirant to presidential honors having much to fear from tbe use of federal official positions in tbe manner and ' on behalf of tbe partit a bslow described. The value of the communication, . however, lies outside of the mere Interests ol contending factions and sbosrs tbe reality of the danger to which the people are exposed by tbe use to which federal patronage can be put in pushing the claims of candidates "by. order" Irom Washington, or the other headquarters of daring intrigue)1: The letter ia dated Atlanta, in tbe last days of January. The extracts ere as follows: MYou ceedn't be afra'd that Grant is going to carry this etat or tbe Bolld South in tbecational convention. It looked so awhile ago, and there are s:ill plenty of third termers, but Senator Morton, of Indians, is at work very busily in some quarters. In Mis&issippl he has tbe promise ol Governor Ames's support, if he can, for his part, keep Ames at the bead of the party, and he has za!ou? friends and agents In other states. You probably saw the efiectof their effjrts in the way in which the national committee was swayed the other day in Washington. BUT EVEN MORTON IS ONLT A LOSING HORSE. If zsal and pertinacity and considerable opportunity can do anything, it begins to bo clear that the Brlstowacd Jewell ticket will carry a considerable Southern force to the convention so considerable, indeed, that the Southern third termers will make but a moder te array. Marshal Packard, ol Lou isiana, the head of the Southern third term movement, is an adroit and able wire puller, and he is working in every direction ana in every way, and it is said he is not averse to -aa alliance with the Morton forces, considerirg tbat Morton has no chance.anci that he may Bareiy promise mem bis aid ir tfcey will help him first. But tbe most notable phenomenon in our politics not only in Georgia, out an inrousn ine soutnern sta'es at prt seut is the cffjrt in progrees to securo delegates to tbe Republican National Con vention for the toint ticket of Brls'.ow end Jewell. Whether these gentlemen aro cognizant of all that ij going on, certain it is that the subordinates in tbe treasnry and pobtoffice departments are working for this particular end. I am old In my knowledzs of Southern politics, and I well remember tbat Peter G. Wsshineton. as earlv as 185S-9, when he was assistant secretary of the tressury, began to peregrinate and calculate for the nomination of Mr. Sscretary Guthrie as tne de-nocratlc presidential candidate in 1S60. He was aided by all that the postoffice department could then do, under Aaron V. Brown. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. Again a Kentucky aspirant to the presi dency has the patrocase of tbe treasury de partment in his bands tenfold as great as in Guthrie's day and again he has the postoffice department as a corps de reserve, and both departments are flung into the contest in a way which Guthrie and Brown, with their old fashioned democratic notions. would never have permitted. Jadging by the general experience about here, no reve nue officer visits Washington in these days irom tbe Southern states without be log interviewed. Instructions have been given to ail tne internal revenue officers of this state. Isham S. Fanning, collector of tbe Augusta district, boasts quite openly, I am told, that they (1. e., reve nue otneers) nave set tula state tor Bristow and Jewell, and that nothing can undo the work. Jewell's Interests lor tbe vice-presi dency ara being carefully pnarded by Chtmberlain, the revenue supervisor ot this district, comprising esveral states. It is said tbat Jewell insisted on having some one in tbe revenne department on whom he could personally depend, and so, by SOME SHIFTINGS OF SUPERVISORS last year. Chamberlain, formerly a special agent of the postoffice department, w aa appointed supervisor, and, gossip hereabout says, for the special benefit of the postmaster general first, and for the Interests of the revenue social. Bat the wiiie corps of postoffice special agents in the South are busy in their manipulation, and, with that happy accord which should always characterize tbe different departments ol a great government, tbey are in absolute barmony with tbe treasury agents. In all my political life, cow a long one.I have never known any such attempt as is now being made to placeofficials over the heads of the people and to dictalr delegates to a nominating convention tbrouzh the influence of executive patronage. One little Incident which was related to me recently, however, has a bad significance.' A gentlemsn from the South happened in one of the Washlniton hotels to express a preference lor Mr. Brlstow and he was at once cordially Fc!zd by on f hi hearers and iaken to Mr. Barnhatn, theassistant, secretary r.f tbe trersary. He attorward said that be understood Mr. Barnheni. ln his own vernacular, to be the Uneerman' ot the private ana eonnaen:si committee or tbe treasury department is running the Brlstow machine.' that i 'It Is reported that a company has been formed, whose "object is to ' buy up the Wabash fe Erie canal, when sold at auction on the 24th Inst., at Terre Haute.