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ton.
The Charleston Mercury of yesterday,
speaking of the late attack on Fort Wag-
ner, admits that our forces held their posi-
ton in 'front.' over two hours under gall
ing fire. The account 4ays the lombard
met was terfifc-Uur men being amply pro-
tectcd by bomb proofs.
Cincinnati, July 29th.-John Morgan,
with the officers who were captured with
him, arrived here last night. One hundred
and ffty-s six of his officers, who had been
confined several days, have been sent to
Fort Johnston Lake Erie.
The Death Of Statesman.
John j. Crittenden, the celebrated Ken
tuckian, died on Sunday morning, July
28th, at Frankfort, Mr.. Crittenden was
born in the year 1885, in Kentucky, where
he has always lived. He was educated as
a lawyer In 1916 he was elected to the
Lower House of the State Legislature, and
for several years he was its speaker. He
was sent to the U. S. Senate in 1917, and
during the two years that comprised the
short term for which he was elected he
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was complimented by a nomination from
President John Quincy Adams to the Su-
preme Bench, but the Senate refused to
confirm him. From 1885 to I841 he was
again in the U. S. Senate, but then re-
signed to accept the position of Attorney
General in President Harrison's Cabinet
When Harrison died, and John Tyler sue
ceeded him but refused to wear the mantle
Of his predecessor Crittendcn resigned, hav-
ing no such fear as worried Webster, who,
asking "Where shall l go:" concluded
alone of all the Cabinet to stay where he
was Henry Clay, after the passage of the
tariff act of 1912, took his leave of public
life and the Senate and Crittenden was
chosen his successor. He remained now
in the Senate until l848, VIXEN the Wings
elected him Governor of kentucky. From
midsummer Of 1850 till Pierce was elected
President, he was in Fillmore's Cahinet.-
Afterwards he was reelected to the SEN
ate, and held his seat till the expiration of
his term, March 1, 1861, when Garret Da-
Wis succeeded him.
Crittenden was a man abounding in traits
that endeared him to the public-lond Of a
good story, genial and whoc-souled in his
manner, eloquent in debate and thoroughly
American in his style of thought and ex-
preston. He was originally Republican
Of the old order, then a Wing, then an
American" then Compromise Peace
man, always and to TIE last for the Union
In his latter days peace became very dear
to him. He was for peace when the Polk
people we're shouting "Fifty-four forty or
Fight" for peace even at the expense of
admitting Kansas by Toombs's bill, though
against her admission under the Lecomp-
ton Constitution, which he held to be a
fraud for peace by compromises with the
South in 1861, long after the South had
determined beyond all peradventure that
there should be no peace unless the North
would submit to the dismemberment of the
Union rather than declare war. He urged
the adoption Of amendments to the Consti-
tuition, which would declare Congress to
have no power to abolish slavery in the
District Of Columbia, so long as it existed
in Virginia and Maryland and no power to
abolish slavery in any Of the places Of its
special jurisdiction within the Southern
States. In the last hours Of the 36th Con-
gress, he labored zealously for the appro-
val by the Senate of the Peace Conference
proposition. Mr.. Crittenden was q mem
Der of the Border State Convention, where
he still urged compromise. He was elect
ed to the House Of Representatives for the
37th Congress. Here he offered a resolu-
ton to the eject that the object of the war
was the maintenance Of the supremacy Of
the Constitution, the preservation Of the
Union and the rights of the several States,
and that SO soon as they were obtained it
ought to ccase-whch the House adopted
He took ground in 1862 against the eman-
cipatiou of the slaves in the district of Col
umbia, on the ground that the agitation of
the slavery question was irrelevant to the
great issues of the day Lover Of peace as
he was, he lived long enough to see that
there were worse things in store for us
than war unless we accepted that Ills
family was divided. He has a son in each
army, and each Major General The 10y
al son commands the left of Rosecrans' ar
my; the rebel is most famous for his re-
treat or flight from Mill Spring carly in
the history Of the war The old man
leaves a name, which in Kentucky will
long be coupled with that of Clay, and
while in cultivation and requirements the
two remarkably differed, the people of the
Union will coltinue to associate them as
both eloquent, noble men, and both ex-
ceedingly sanguine Of the virtue of a COM
promise. IS. r. Bulletin.
THE SoURcE OF THE N1LE.-After near
ly century of explorations, and the sacr-
flee of numerous valuable lives, the source
of the Nile has at last been discovered by
two English travellers, Speko and Grant
A letter from Egypt says the returned ex-
plorers give this information:
That the Nile springs from lake, named
Victoria, which they profess to have circum
navigated, and found to be very extensive.
that Kondogora is deg. (less some min
utes) from the equator in the northern hem
isphere, at about the same latitude south
of the lake, which, they say, is the source of
Babriel- Biad, or White Nile. They started
from Zanzibar with 20 men of these only
7 remain The number was greatly di
minished by desertion; others were lost by
sickness and casualties They had TO
fight their way 20 reach White River,
but relate marvellous things ot the sub
equatorial regions, and above all report large
ouantities of ivory