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Newspaper Page TextTHE WASHINGTON GAZETTE. BY'JAS. A. WRIGHT AND HUGH WIESOf: THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE. TERMS.—Three Dollars * year iu advance. fc# No Subscriptions taken for a shorter time than six months. NATURAL RESOURCES FOUND IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Few know the east wealth which lies undeveloped in South Carolina, and one of the advantages which the changed condition of things must bring to us is the developement of these Sources of wealth. The iron ore ol Spartanburg is well knowo to be the fioest io the United States. Our entire up-coun try abounds with iron and gold, and when we get into the Blue iiidge Mountains, lead and popper is found in abundance. Coming lower -down the country, we finds deposits which are perhaps equally valuable, and which are now being more or less de veloped. The entire region of coun- try drained by Horse Creek and its tributaries possesses inexhaustible de posits es the finest kaolin, burrb stone, with ocbre of all colon, frotn the deepest red to the ligbteit green * The pure kaolin ot this region is now in great demand, and those engaged in the business are not able to fur nish all that is wanted; and tho price at which it is sold in tho North leaves, .We are informed, a very largo profit to those owning the works. Tho South Carolina Porcelain Manufac turing Company are now the largest shippers of kaolin, though several other parlies are engaged in the trade. Most of it that is now shipped goes down Big Horse Crock to the Savan nah River, and thence to Savannah by steamers, whore it is loaded into schooners mW sent North. Sumo oi it comes over the South Carolina .Railroad to Charleston and is from here sent North. Few of our people knovk to what extent this trade has been pushed, and that South Carolina kaolin is now regularly quoted in tho manu ■fktturcr»' prtoo l auof the Northern cities, and yet we are quite sure that the trade is but commenced, and that it will not only be used to much greater extent in the United States but must become an article of export to Europe, and even now it can be profitably sold in Liverpool, and or ders from England are now here lor shipments to be sent out to that coun try. A few casts of it wore sent to England and France last Summer, to be made up into crockery, and the samples of which have been returned to the shipper, oro very beautiful. Tho reports of manufactures are very favorable, and they say that for certain styles of wares, it is su perior to the celebrated Staffordshire clay, but for the coarser wares it is too fine, and to nuke them, must be mixed with other clay. On a recent visit to this section, we examined the deposits of ochres, kaolin and burrb stono on tho Kul mia Mills property, and we confess our surprise at the extent of these materials. We were shown a deposit of kaolin almost as pure and white as snow, and covering a tract of coun try as large as half the oity of Char leston. The stratum varies from five to twenty seven feet in thickness, and is large enongh to supply the wants of the world for generations. Another of the natural resources of the State, the immense deposit of bone and phosphates on the banks of the Ashley River, near Charleston, apart front its intrinsic value derives addi tional interest from the fact that wo owe the knowledge of it to tho scien tific acquirements and indefatigable research of a South, Carolinian, and one, too, who has beeu for years, prom ineully connected with one of our principal institutions of learning. How this deposit came tor be made is an interesting scientific question ; bnt the facts which more immediately concern us now are first, that this de posit, which is inexhaustible, furnishes tho raw material, out of which may be manufactured a fertilizer equal in quality to the best Peruvian guano and that can be supplied to the agri culturist at incomparably lower rates; and second, that a company with a large capital has been formed for the expreea purpose of manufacturing this fertilizer, and its affairs aro un der tho direction of Professor F. S. Holmes, the gentleman who made the discovery, assisted by Dr. Pratt, who rendered the Professor material aid in his researches. That sure means of wealth should have remained so long* undeveloped is a reprohob to us as a people, aDd we trust that the necessities ot the times win now force us into a diver sity oj employments, which will r.o longer let such great interests sc main dorujfmt. And that the time has com* when they will be made to con tribute their proportion to the future prosperity and wealth of South Caro lina. The United States is now supplied with milestones and with ochre from France, and for these two articles alone we pay to France yearly over $4,000,- 000 in gold, and yet we have both ar tides in great quantity and of equal H not superior, quality ou Corse Creek. _ __ __ The South has vast resources, and if -svwvrooM onty use them property* we need not fear for the future- Un equal taxation and bad government may prevent our immediaie prosperi ty; but we look upon such influences as but-temporary, and the time must come when tho great natural resour ces will be brought out, and restore to ni mou than we have lost.— Chip ttston SPEAK TO THAT YOUNO HAN. So the Spirit said to good Deacon H ono morning, as he noticed a strange youth enter tho Sabbath school. Tho ynnng man had a pleasant, open face, and a full, frank eye, which glanced rather sadly arcund, as if seeking a friend. I will wait awhile, thought the deacon, and not bo too officious. Just then the superintendent goes to tho stranger and leads him to tho claßsof Deacon II I shall have to speak now thought the deacon. Why am 1 so loth ? After welcoming tho now scholar, who seemed to boa stranger to the city, tlio leader said, “Have you any friends here?” "Not one’’ was the reply. “Yes, 1 left a widowed mother in my country home." “1 do not mean her," said the dea con. “You have a bolter friend— your Savior. Do you know him ?” A sad shake of tho bead was the only answer. “My young friend, you will need Christ in this wicked city. Will you ■not seek him, oven on this- first Stb bath in the city ?” “I will try," he answered. Then the good deacon tried, in a few earnest, loving words, to point out the way to Christ. “Thank yoo,” said tho young man as b« left the Sabbath-school. “I will remember your words.” “I shall pray for you said the dea con. “God bless you.” In a few days the stranger was a brother beloved in Christ, and a fol low-laborer in overy good work. In a few months ho had left his clerk ship and entered a neighboring college to prepare for the gospel ministry. In a few years ho stood in tbe sab bath-school, where be had once been a stranger, and told in eloquent words of tue way in which lie had been led. “The faithful words of Deacon H ,’’ be said iD conclusion, “were blessed to my conversion. I was longing for a friend, and he held np Christ to me. Continue to seek out the young men, my friends, when they come as strangers in your midst.” A low weeks more and afarge com pany were assembled in the city, to witness the ordination a of missionary to tbe far East. There lie is still labor ing, winning many beatben soul# to Christ. Wilt there not be stars in the deacon’s crown of rejoicing? Deacon H—- still labors in tho same Sabbath school, and has long since learned ever to obey the Spirit’s voice when it says, “Run speak to that young man.” When the celebrated Patrick Hen ry, of Virginia, was near the close of his life, and in faeble healtb, be laid bis band on tbe Bible, and ad dressod a friend who was with hirn : Here is a book worth more than all others printed, yet it is my misfortune never to have read it with proper at tention until lately.” About tbe same time be wrote to bis daughter: “I have heard it was said that Deists have claimed me. Tho thought pained me more than the appellation of Tory; for I consider religion of iu finitely higher importance than poli tics, and I find much cause to reproach myself that I have lived so long and given no decided public proof of my being a Christian. WASHINGTON, WILKES COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 31,1868. I IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES IN JERUSALEM. A Correspondent of the London j Times writes to that paper ■an inter esting letter from -the Holy Land, in relation to the scientific explorations now being made in that country through the aid of a large fund ex pressly raised for that purpose. After referring to interesting results ob*- tattled in jpATion* places, tbe writer continues: But, perhaps, the Randcrful discov mw and around Jerusalem wiH Create a won a deeper feeling of interest in tho midst of tho These have already been sketched in tho reports published from time to time in your columns. Tbeiremp'ottance to tho biblioal arch aeologist oaa scarcely bo over estima ‘feaue can not but feol that the great vexed questions of the topog' raphy of the Holy City and its sacred monuments aro on the eve of solution. In common with many others, I have been watching with tho most intense eagerness every fresh'stage in the ex cavations, as it corroborated some farq,, jn history or illustrated some statement in tho Bible. Tbe oourses. of threo ancient city walls, so Huin utely described by Josephus, are now being gradually traced. The exact sites of tho most hallowed spots od earth—tho Holy Sepulcher and tho Jewish Temple—aro in a fair way of beln'g determined. The colossal foundations of the Temple wall, in which are “stones of ten cubits and atones of eight cubits," laid by Solonuffi or his successors on the throne, are now boing laid bare at tho enormous depth ol ninety feet and more benoath tbe surfaeo. The bridge that once spanned tho ravino between the Pulace on Zion , and the Temple of Moriah is now proved to have been upwiyd of one hundred and fifty feet high. If this bo ns it soems, tho “ascent” to tho house of the Lord which Solomon Bbowed to tho Queen of Shoba, we can wonder that on seeing it “there was no m &t ■ ‘ pirit in her*" The “piuriacle of tbo Temple," on which the tomptor plac ced the Savior, has just beeu uncov ered to its base, and is found to have an elevation ol ono hundred and thirty-six feet. Tho statement of Josephus is therefore no exaggeration: •‘lf any ono looked from tho battle rnonts into tho valley ho would be gid die, while his sight could not roach to such an immense depth.” Sec tions of the ancient wall of Opbei have been exhumed, showing that, as Josephus says, it was joined to the south-east anglo of the Temple. Aquaduots, cisterns, and rock-bewn channels and passages have also boon discovered within and around the Hararn, throwing now light on the building, tho arrangements, and the services of the Temple. The great work of a complete ex ploration of anciont Jerusalem is thus fairly aDd auspiciously commenced. The opportune visit of the Sultan and Grand Vizier to this country, and the representations made the latter by the Archbishop of York, followed up, as they have been, by tbe onergy, tbe wisdom, and tho tact of Lieutenant YYurren and his admirable staff, have smoothed down Moslem prejudice, re moved local opposition, and thus brought about opportunities fox ex cavation and exploration l " such as aovar occurred before; and, besides large numbers af Arab laborers bavo been trained to the work, and are eager to be employed ; and tho exact points lor successful exploration are now well known. Biblical scholars are anticipating.with deep interest full discoveries. . Susan and her Rose.— Susan Taylor was a very discontented girl ; .she was never pleased with anything; always looking out for what was dis— agreoablo, and not for what was pleas ant in anything. She was going away from home, and her grandmotbor asked her if she would have a rose to slick in the bosom ot her dress, so, being fond of flowers she told her that she would like to have one. Away went her grandmother, with h&r cane in her hand, into tbe garden and gathered the finest roses that grew there. There were two buas grow ibgon tbe same stem with the rose, | and the leaveswereas frosh and green as tbo leaves of a rosebush could be. You may suppose that Susan was a little surprised when her grandmoth er clipped of the rose, tho two buds and the green leaves, with her scissors and offered Susan Taylor the stem alone all otvered with thorns. ’'** “O grand mother this is not a rose. -Do you think I will stick that ugly stem in mr dress, without a single flower or upon it? No, that 1 never will.) You do not deserve to have rosea! growing in your garden, if you spoil them in this way.”." “Perhapi not,” mildly replied bes grandmother; but there aro otboi people in t|io world besides me, who spoil their roses.” “Then,” laid Susan, “They must bo very silly poaple." “I think ar>, too," replied her grad mother. “And now I will tell you the name of one of them. It is Miss Susan Taylor.” She reddened to her very ears, while her grandr.folher said, “It has pleas ed God, Susan, to mark your life with many blessings, miug ed with a few cares. If, then, you most wilfully despise yew comforts, aud repine over your tVOnbfcs, what is this but trowing away the flowers and green leaves of your lifo, aud sticking the thorns in ytftir bosom t” Who is like Susan Taylor? HOBFITALITY. Bayard Taylor thinks, “man is naturally ;>n hospitable animal,” and describes the difference botweon tho natures cf English, French and German : > You arrivj in England a stranger, and presont a letter of introduction to some gentleman. His reception strikes you us jcold and formal; ho makes no sptjeial offers of assistance, and you areiinclined to suspect his acquuintancßwill boos little service. By and by however, you find that ho has been ailAntly interesting himself in your belia.f. He has remembered wishes that you have carelessly utter ed, and priyured yon opportunities for rcalizing’ftbem; the want of de monstration iias been more than com pensated by Mdfa service. Jn find just tho reverse.. Nothing, .he impressment, with wiMj'sjs* * «vfc:vrce!v.ed- Hs&y I thing is *1 your disposal; you will' make tho man happy by tho freest use of time and trouble. Neverthe less, you must beware of taking those offers literally, unless you are pre pared for disappointment. Tho out gush of bonevolcnce has exhausted the capacity for action. A few elo gant cards aro exchanged, and there the matter rests. In Germany wo have the modium betwoen extremes—a genial, cordial manner, moderato proffers of sorvieo and conscientious performance there of, whenever it is needed. Acts of kindness betwoen strangers aro more common than in almost any civilized country. I once stopped for a night in a country inn, in a remote part of Bavaria. The delegato of tho Log ativc Chamber in Munich bad just been elected by the people of the dis trict, and they gave him a furewoll banquet that evening. In tbe midst of solemnities I was politely invited to attend; a place was made for mo beside tho President; the principal personages presented were described and then introduced, and before tbe meeting closed, I received an iuvita tion to spend a few days at a neighbor ing castle. Yet I was convinced that not one of the assembly hud any knowledge of me, further 1 was an American traveler. There is a custom in Spain which always scorned to mo to be the per - section of hospitality. A Spaniard for instance, on entering a case where ho is accustomed to take his refresh ments will notice a stranger present — possibly a foreign traveler. Calling ono of tho waiters to him he quiotly pays the stranger’s bill, takes his own ice or chocolate, and goes away with out evor have spoken to tbe man he has surreptitiously entertained. When the unconscious stranger calls for his bill bo is astonished to find that he owes nothing. In travelling by dil igence from Mexico to Vera Cruz, I found it impossible to pay for meals at hotels on tho road; someone of my follow passengers had always done it in advance. One of them, a Por tugese gentlemen afterwards visited me in New York, bringing with him a quantity of the choicest Havana cigars as a present. If I ever visit tho banks of the Tagus, I hope to find him still living. In the remote part of Sweden and Norway, where there aro no accom modations for travellers, tho clergy men are always expected to entertain them. This .is sometimes a heavy tax upon eoroo members of that ill paid class, bnt it is cheefully endured from a sense of duty. Few houses indeed are closed against tbe stranger, ar.d the poorest host often declines taking paymont. I often made a journey through France, under cir cumstances which compelled me to lodge in the humblest cabarets; and although a few sous were required for food and lodging, yet honesty, the simple _ kindness of tbe peasants, tbe little attentions they aro so careful in paying, were grate ful examples of the hospitable spirit. I half suspect that “the rude Corin thian poor," who Against the houseless strmgsr shuts the door existed only’ in Goldsmith’s imagina tion, or that ho generalized from a single unpleasant personal experience, (a habit, by tho by, to which most men are addicted.) Tho Corinthians tire rude, certainly, "but no branch of the Sclavonic race is inhospitable. In tbe stagnation of China, tho milk of human kindnoss has grown somewhat stale, yet even there a cer tain form of hospitality is kopt np however the spirit maybe lack ing. DR. WAYLAKD IN THE CLASB-BOOM. Although patient to a provorb of all discussion in tho reoitation-roora which promisod to benofit tho class, or to develop, in any degree, their lovo of truth; and although singular ly tolerant of dullness and slowness of comprehension, if there were also any ovidonoe of a siucere desire to improve, yet he never encouraged unprofitable debate. He seemed, by almost, unerring inetinot, to know when questions were asked from a desire to save some unfutthful class- mate from exposing his want of prep aration, or to afford the inquirer an opportunity for persona! display. He had also unusual sagicity in detect ing the prospect of useless discussion, and in such cases novor hositaled to nroUMQv.tr 1!..,! I !,c - ho declined the eballongowcrij ‘often equivalent to an argument. A skeptical student, promising him self the pleasure of a prdlong"d con trovers. , once informed tho President that he had been unable lo discover any evidence that tho Old Testament was inspired. “For instance,” said hfe, “take the book of Proverbs Cer tainly it needed no inspiration to writo that portion of tho Bible. A man not inspired could havo done it as well. Indued, 1 have often thought that I oould write as good proverbs myself." “Very well, my son; per haps you can,” was the prompt reply. “Suppose you make the experiment. Prepare a few proverbs, and read them to tho class to-morrew. The next.” It is hardly necessary to add that tho attempt to rival the wisdom of Solomon came to abrupt and in glorious termination. Again, when asked if “ho considered dancing wrong,” be answered, “Not much time for this sort of thing in this world, my son. Tho next.” On another occasion, when ho had been impressing- upon bis Class tbo importance of avoiding ail literature which was licentious in its character and demoralising in its tendency and urging his littlo audience to keep their hearts pure and free Irom all taint of evil thoughts, ho was mot with tho ~tiiqfjl rj,‘ “W.iH Dean Swift wrong, then, when he said, ‘A nice man is a man of nasty ideas’?” Look ing at his young friend with that pleasant and almost quizzical expres sion of faco which alt bis old pupils so weH remember, he asked, in return, “Well, my son, what kind of a man was Swift? Is he a very safe guido to "fdTTOw in such-matters ?” At an other time he lecturing on the weight oi ovidencp furnished by hu man testimony. Ho was illustrating its authority and sufficiency even for tbe establishment of miracles. A member of the class, not entirely sat Lfiud of the correctness of the teach ing, suggested a practioal application of the doctrine-: “What would you say, Dr. Way-land, if I stated that, us I was coming up Coll >ge Streot, I saw tbo lamp-post at tbe corner dance ?” “I should ask you where you hud been; my son,” was the quiet reply, in tho instructor's gravest manner,— Memoir of Dr. Wuyland. Millard Fillmore, is reported to be writing a history of his Presidential administration, to be published after his death. VOL II—NO. 41. THE HEAD AND HEART. Here is a beautiful thing from the pen of Mrs. Cornwall Baron Wilson: “Please my lady, buy a nosegay, or bestow a trifle,” was tbe address of a palo, emaciated looking woman, bol ding a few withered flowers in her hand, to a lady who eat on the beaoh at Brighton, watching the blue waves of the receding tide “I have no half pence, my good woman/’ said tbe lady, looking up from tho novel she was reading, with a listless gaze: “if I bad, I would give them to you.” *|l am a poor widow, with three holpless children depending, on me; would you bestow a trifle to help us on our way’?” “I told you 1 bad no half-pence,” rei terated the lady, somewhat pettishly; plieant turned away, “this worse than tho streets of London: they should have a police on the shore to prevent such annoyance,” were tho thoughtless dictates of the bead. “Mamma, said a blue-eyed boy who was lying on the beach at the lady’s feet, flinging pebbles in the sea, “I wish you had a penny, for the poor woman does look hungry, and you know wo aro going to have a nice din ner, and you havo promised me a glass ot wine.” The heart of tho lady an swered tho appeal of her child; and with a blush of shame crimsoning her cheek at the tacit reproof his artless words conveyed, she opened her reti cule placed half a crown in his tiny bajids and in auother moment the boy was bounding along the sands on his emu dos mercy. In a few seconds he returned, his eycb sparkling with health and beauty, “O! mamma, the poor woman was so thankful; she wanted to turn back, but I would not let her; ami she said, God bless tho nolle lady, and you, too, my prett *mb; my children will • now have bread for these two days, and we shall go on our way rejoicing.” Tbe eyes of tbe lady glistened as she heard the recital of her child, asd her heart told her that its dictates bestowed a pleas could nevor bestow. Concerning Happiness.— Happi ness may’be defined as a posssession ever sought, but seldom caught. So far from being properly classified as subordinate to life and liberty, it ia cludes both these conditions. Fanuie Fern discourses vory philososhically on its relation : “I solomly aver that the moment any-hody tries to do or say a good thing, that moment he shall never be delivered oi it, but shall only experi ence threes of mortal pain trying. If you build yourself a beautiful house and make it a marble of taste and convenience, in ono of its lovoly cham bers shall your dead bo laid ; and you shall wonder heartsick away from it, to rid yourself of a phantom that will always follow you, till you turn boldly and faco it, with a strong heart accept its company. “This incessant striving to be hap. py 1 Never, never shall mortals be so, till they have learned to give it over. Happiness comes. It will not be dial. Ungod. It glides in only when you have closed the door, and turned your back upon it, and forgot it. It lays a soft hand upon your face, when you thought to be alone, and brings a joy- ful flush of surprise to your oheek, and a soft light to your weary eye, and ineffable peace to your soul. “Old stagers know tbut the way to be happy is logive up all attempts lo bo so. In other words, the croam of enjoyment iu this life is always impromptu. The chunce walk, the unexpected visit, tbe unpremeditated journey, the unsought conversation or acquaintance.” When persons are prevented from sleeping by a slight hacking cough, sleep is sometimes induced by having two pieces oi muslin, say six inches by four, and three or four folds thick, to be used alternately thus; Have a saucer at band, half filled with al cohol, dip one of the cloths into it, then press it out, so as not to dripple and lay it across the chest, tbo upper edge of the cloth ranging with tho collarbones; let it remain five minu tes, then put on the other, alternating thus (by tho nurse") with as little mo tion or noising possible, the patient being on his back in bed composed for sleep. ' Rev. Hanry Quigg, lato of the As sociate Reformed Church, was install ed pastor of Bethany Presbyterian Church, Newton county, Ga., Dec. 15.