The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-02-03

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lican takes up the Radical refrain where
Morton loft it in the Senate. few days
ago. and thus announces the issue to be
decided in the next election:
"In few months, the party will 90
into that great popular contest, the issue
of which will decide whether the ideas
that have governed the country during
its destiny for four years to come, or
whether it shall be turned over to the
gentlemen who we're in sympathy with
the late rebellion and who were bcaten
when the rebellion was beaten"
TREASURES AT THE BoTToM OF THE SEA.
Mention was made. some time ago, in
these columns, OF an expedition, in
which Connecticut men were interested,
and which was sent to South America
for the purpose Of obtaining q large
amount of treasure supposed to have
been sunk long ago in Spanish vessel.
MIR. Geo. W. Fuller, of Norwich, SUBJ
marine diver, went with the expedition
aud has returned, bringing many curio-
sites with him. Mr.. Fuller explored
the wreck at the bottom of the SEQ, and
found whatever of value there had been
in the vessel had been thrown off by the
explosion which sunk her, and that such
treasures now lay scattered aronnd on
the sea bottom. The Norwich BuNeiin.
in speaking of the matter, says:
'The wreck having been cleared with
ont result, about the first Of January the
bottom of the sea for great distance
was thoroughly dredged and tested.
The examination, carefully made, con-
vinoed Mr.. Fuller and the other officers
that great sums of money are actually
buried there. but that, in order to obtain
it, an entire new outfit must be made.
This could not be obtained in South
America. and the Nellie Gay, the cxpe-
ditiOn vessel, which was fitted for the
work OF breaking up the wreck, land, as
was shown, with the most successful ap-
paratus.) proving unsuitable for econo-
mical dredging, it was decided to send
her North, Mr.. Fuller going on in ad.
vance with six men. Since his arrival,
1t has been decided by the company to
proceed at once to tit out small suitable
vessels with the apparatus suggested by
past experience, and despatch them as
soon as possible to the Bay of Cnmana,
to dredge for coin. aud to tho Gulf Of
Cariaco to work tho famous pearl beds
in that vicinity. The right to the latter
has been granted the company by the
Government for six years, and they we're
thoroughly tested by Mr.. Fuller upon
his departure, number of fno pearls
and shells being obtained. together with
much practical information of future
value. The brig Nellie Gay, on her re.
turn to New London, will be Mt once fit-
ted for another expedition in search of
sunken treasure-one which has not vet
been made public, and the details and
circumstances of which are known by
but very few. Though the ultimate sue
cess of tho companys speculation is
somewhat delayed by the result of tho
last months work, it is mono tho less
considered merely matter of time, and
the hopes of a rich reward arc rs SAN
guine as over" ."-MuVorA Iin,es.
The Boston Post pays this tribute to
tho plnperlect rascnlity of M Ohio Con-
gtessmnn:
"The boldest man Of the ago il tho
Ohio Congressman who undertook to de-
fend tho carps!-5ag governments III tho
South. The impudouce that could ex-
cnse the lying, stealing, oppression that
have been pructiccd by the scoundrcls