The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1859-08-04

Tile Chances Of Donytas.-The st. Louis
Democrat contains Il long and carefully consd
cred leader on the prospects Of Douglas for the
| Presidency. Alter promising that an ambi, ions
politician, like sick physician, is Il bad Judge
OF ms own case, the writer sprcu!at fol.
lows:
Possibly political party may he suddenly rev.
ol"liomzed. Nations may, We know, ut no
historical precedent be crt. To authorize
Tile same assertion OF party organizations We
grant the matn'ial drmncrul,c Party: hut the
| change was NOT sudden but gra,lual-r,ut nprn
I but etenlthy aud insrduous. The unc.enn spir.
Its entered i'll disguise. and though The trausfur.
| Ii'atmn, or rather transmutulion is complete
| the process by which il was effected was slow
aud Intermittent. For this reason the fables
Which describe m.tauInI h.,ses fail To SYMBOLIC.
the tanemntalion OF the old democratic par,y
The fair woman writing into serpent. or the
| obnoxious marital stricken by nh angry god into
some abl"rrrd shape was the work of n mu-
rnent' The adoption Of the Douglas platform.
aud The nomination of Dougias llirIl>rlf by the
Charleston Convention, would he n change as
radical and sudden. but whether for the belt er
or wo's: we do not undertake TO decide. We
do not believe il is nny degree prob BILE The
southern delegates will never consent 10 the rail-
tica,Ion "i squa,tcr sovereignty. Ten thousand
protests against that principle have BEEN pu, on
| record by the South.
We may be trid that tn. speciality OF tho
Douglas cree! is not sqnatter but popular suv-
-teigniy; But II i: against The speciality itself,
as exp"nnicd and enforced BY its accredited an .
thor, tina, The South protests. The Thing itself it
ID, aud not ITS nnnIe which the slave States alb
lior und rrpudiate.
Douglas is identified with tho principle of
sqnalIer sovereignty beyond the power of sepa-
| ration. The South is IrreconcilahIy opposed to
| that principle; aud as the Sout, dicturea the
platforms OF th" National Democracy. we can-
| rot discover how it is to he Incorporated in the
Charleston platform. Certainly the northern
| delegates will constitute M ,jnrity OF that body
but granting their undivided sympollly with
Douglas, yet any uttarnpt to exercise their sec.
| tional prrponderance would be followed by the
| immediate secession Of the southern delegates
This. We opine. would i,e the coup de grace TO
Douglas schemes f'r til" Presidency.
Let us now suppose that vague, obscure reso.
luiions are adopted. the question arisea, What
candidate will he associated witt, theln7 No.
Douglas. because his nomination, on any inds.
finite platform, would be the triumph If squat.
ter sovereignty. The man s the beat int erpreia,. i.
tlon of the p atform. The South will certainly
not yield the substance after refusing to WELD
| the formula; and lhe South. under the two thirds
rule, can defeat any candidate who may be pre-.
srnted by The North. By some revolutionary
movement, the slave States could not prevent
the adoption Of northern platform. Under
established rules they Gun prevent the nomne-
ZION OF 0onglns, or any other candidate who is
| odlous 10 them.
Tile Mammoth Cave Omidone-D. l.. Talbot
makes the following comparison between the
Wyandotte and the Mammoth Caves: r" Wyan.
dotte Cnve. one Of the most extensive and re.
inarkable in the world, is situated in Crawford
County, Indiana, about twenty five miles below
New Albany. OH Blue River have called il a
remarkable cave The " ammo.h Cave Of Ken
lucky has hitherto been designated as the great
est known cave in tho world. 1t NAV starIle
Your scientific readers to hear me assert the
fact, there is one slalagmile alone in Wyandoito
Cave more massive than all the stal,g,uItes
and stalaclities in Mammoth Cave put to-
gether.
This cave have surveyed and mnpped a
distance Of twenty miles in length, and ,here
are numerous avenues. ! have never penetrated
to their end although l have visited the cave,
for scientific aud other purposes, over a dozen
differ ent tunes spending OIL one visit four days
and nights within it's darksonie halls Tho Nam.
moth Cave is distinguished more kr it's vustnrss
than it's beauty the Wyandotte for it's great ex.
tent, its mammoth hall. its lofty ceilings, reach.
ing frequently to the height Of 287 feet. and
especially for its numerous and beautiful atural
fountains, which almost continually meet the
aye in every direction. A portion Of this cave
has heen known and visited for over forty wears.
This portion is about three miles in length
and is termed the Old Cave. In 1850 q new
door from within the Old Gave was discovered,
which extended the caves united TO about twelve
miles In extent. In 1883 a still newer discovery
Of ingress was accidel tally nsde which has ad.
ded eight or ten miles thereto. and disclosed
plan Of formation . more extensive aud moro
besutiful NhsnNs"y' hssstofore knS~n. THIS
cave contains syssy kind Of fornnatioa peculiar:
to tho Mammoth and other caves, besides some
v.rv sseulisr and unique formations tound snly