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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
BY'JAS. A. WRIGHT AND HUGH WIESOf:
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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.