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BY E. B. MURRAY ?fe CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 6, 1884. VOLUME XIX.-NO. ?U SV? CHRISTMAS EVE IN A SE CLUBED HOME. \frt Emma Stroud, of Havana, Ala., in Charleston Weekly ?few?. lu 18G2 I waa living with my husband nd children nu Walnut Bayou, about welve miles from Vicksburg, Miss., and ve miles from the Mississippi Uiver, non alter Grant's arrival in front of 'kk*bur? he commenced cutting his anal, which was not far from my home, ho cannonading from the batteries at i irk-burg jarred thc windows of my onie, and the morning drums could be ??tiiictly heard. We lived in constant read, lor wc hourly expected a .visit rom sonic scouting party eent out from Vir encampment ulong the canal. I had carefully hid away all the lire rms in our possession, consisting of a hot gu il and it brace of lino pistols. My usband was greatly attached to his gun, mich ho called "Old Betsey," and had rdered that it be hid where no Yankee nhl lind it. One evening a crov . of Federal Hol lers surrounded the house, and rushing to my room, with pistols in banu, emanded all the firearms on the prent 's. . . . . "Take all you can find," I said, feeling rtain that they would not find any. The /.ouse was thoroughly searched, nd they were about to leave when a ankee, who waa prowling around my ack yard calling nie, asked where my oultry yard was situated. 'You can hunt for it," I answered, piting a little angry an I thought about y chickens, which bc would probably n fiscale. Me dashed oil" to hunt the yard, and ftcr au absence of several minutes rfc rncd, not bringing'with him the chick ns, as 1 expected, but dear me ! "Old elsey" and the pistols. "Your ducks and turkeys sit on formi ablc eggs," he said, with a comical grin n his swarthy face. I told him that I only wished every uthcrn turkey, duck, chicken and hen uld hatch Buch "eggs," and that eacL ic could bo made useful in killing a aukce, adding that I was ready to Ht ml such a hennery when it was started. I had secreted tho pistb'ls Under ? sit ig turkey hen, lifting up the straw of e nest, and under it placing the pistols, placing the eggs and turkey. I en vol ed "Old Betsey" in a blanket, and laid r quietly to rest under a long row of eke1 nesta. My plan of concealment uld have been a success, but for the acuery of my dinning room servant, o had watched me, and revealed the ding place to tho Yankees. After some months of constant visita II by scouts from Grant's army, my sband proposed that wo leave our ine, take our slave? that were left, and vc thirty miles further west, toa plan tiuu owned by us and managed by an erseer. Consenting at once, the move s made, and we found ourselves snug , and to all appearances safely, en nced in our new home on Bear Lake, ich was ten miles distant from Milli ti's Ileud ou the Mississippi River, e did not think the Yankees would er find us in that wilderness-looking uutry. WELCOME VISITOBS ON OOBISTMAB EVE. We bad been living in our happy se Rion only a few months, when on the rlstuias evening of 1862 my daughter d myself weut to visit a neighbor ross the bayou. A slave of mine fer (1 us across in a skiff, and immediate returned home, with instructions to ' urn for us later in the evening. .As wero returning home we could not lp feeling joyous, for it was one of iRC beautiful evenings that are peculiar our Southland. We had no thought the sorrow aud fear awaiting us at nie. My husband bad remained at me; my only sou was in the army, e were surprised to find our BkitT ailing us, but no servant with it, and youngest daughter understanding the ring of boats put ua safely over, ming the house I Baw the yard full of nkees, and aa I entered the gate my k came running down the walk, cry aud greatly excited. 'Master bas been carried off, God ows where, bv some Yankees," she lairned breathlessly. Imost paralyzed with fear, I tottered the steps of my house, for I feared my band would be killed. I know what launch Rebel he was, and that be did hesitate to express himself "freely on subject, and I kuew that no torture Yankees could invent would make take the oath of allegiance to the leral Government. intering the house I found trunks ken open, drawers pillaged, furnituro ned over, in fact, everything scattered und, while the Yankees hunted for ney aud jewelry. My pantry was bed of all my Christmas cakes, my ry of milk and butter, my smokehouse all its meat. We bad just slaughter forty-nine bogs, and every pound of meat was taken. appealed to an officer in the yard, o was drinking whiskey with my ves, to protect myself and daughters ta the insults of the drunken crowd, replied with a terrible oath, "that it not his business in the South," jpro ng women and children, turned away in otter misery. No to call upon for aid, myself and gluers alone, and entirely nt the mer f this uncivilized drunken crowd of hundred soldiers and nearly a thou d negroes from adjoining plantations J were going.along with them. Going s cavalryman belonging to Captain utgornery'a command, I Inquired why husband bad been carried away. Oh ! he will be back soon ; they only t him to take the oath." well knew that if his return depend on his taking the oath be would never o back. . HE GALLANT FEDERATJ OFFICER. t was aeveral miles to the nearest hbor'e house, and I was afraid to go Hr at night while the road was filled h soldiers. Therefore, clasping my dren in my arms I kneeled down in piazza and . prayed, as I bad never e before, that God would not forsake in my trouble. Scarcely had- the sr passed my lips when sn officer op to the gallery. Bowing politely, ?"ked if the soldiers were troubling It was now nine o'clock at night, lina instinctively that the officer was ?end, I excitedly told him of the con t of his men. Dismounting, he ediately ordered every Yankee out of house and vsrd Into the road. Then mg himself nn the gallery, he re ned until the entire command had cd. The division was composed of thousand infantry, ?ne hundred and cavalry, and several batteries of lery, all under the command of Gen. 'ridge, of Kentucky, They were ?ng towards Delhi, burning railroad ge? and Confederate cotton, of which o were several thousand hales stored y not far from our home. * Col. Brown, of the 2d Iowa Regiment was tho oflicor that was BO kind to us! He depreciated the manner in which his army treated Southern people, aud stated to me that if ho had known the South had to bo conquered by such cruelties as ne had seen iuflicted on defenceless old men, women and children, he would nev er have enlisted for tho Union. His whole demeanor indicated his refined sensitive feeliugs, which were shocked at the lawless plundering propensities of bis army, which he was powerless to con-1 trol. This man was as brave as he was 1 noble, for be was subsequently killed on tho lnzoo River while leading his men in an assault upon a fort. The next evening nw husband return ed home. The joy felt by all in being together again Boon made us forget our harsh treatment. He hod been hurried before the officer at Milliken's Bend, who insisted that he tako tho oath. This he politely refused to do, at the same timo declaring hjs.allegiauce to the South, for \ he had sent his son to the army and nil his sympathies were with the confedera cy. As the old man warmed up with his subject he informed the officer that "he would die before he would swallow that 1 oath." Although treated with kindness by the commanding oilicer, he was dis missed and sent homo on foot, this officer keeping his horse, which was a fine spirited animal. After thia adventuro wb decided to move further west, although my husband dish .ed so much to abandon his planta tion, for he knew his dwelling houses wouid be burned in bis absence. Late in the spring of 1863 we determined to send the most valuable of our slaves to Texas, believing implicitly that the South would he victorious. The bottom lands of the Mississippi were entirely covered in water, and to move required a number of flat boats and skills. These were built and everything made ready for the move on the following morning ; still the secret had been kept from the negroes. The night before the contem plated move my husband called up his foreman, Reuben, iu whom he had the greatest confidence, and explained mat ters lo him, at the same time asking his assistance in getting the negroes away. "Dat is right, Mars Alf," Reuben re plied, "I will do niv best for you." My husband informed me of his con versation with Reuben, but I could not sleep, as I believed something would go wrong before morning, and I bad ex fressed my belief in Reuben's treachery, accordingly awaited ?nxipualy hf thc early morning for the servants to come and kindle fires, commence house clean ing and breakfast. No one came and my husband called our waiting giri, but no reply. DESERTED HY TIIEin SERVANTS. "Yes, they are gone, and I knew it," I said. "You knew the cow ale the grind stone," my husband answered, laughing ly, hurrying on his clothes. Going down along the negro quarters he found them deserted-nota negro was to he seen anywhere. Returning hurri edly to the house he rushed - into our room. "Wife! wife!" he exclaimed, "every negro is gone to the Yankees." Woman like, I could not resist the temptation of saying a word. "Who believes now that the cow atc the grindstone?" "Oh 1 wife, out opon that 'grindstone.' What shall wo do?" Tho poor man v. as greatly distressed, as he could not bear for any one to even hint that Blavea would leave him, he being an indulgent, kind master, treating them ns children. I threw my arms .und him, and told him we could work, auu still be happy, without the negroes that it was only a question of time, when they would be free, and that the present was a good opportunity to begin to learn to wait upon ourselves. After Reuben's conversation with my husband the previous evening, the color ed traitor had collected all the negroes DH the plantation and explained to them "master's move," at the same time advis ing them to take the boats and make all meed to their "deliverers"-the Yankees. Filling the boats with their household goods, men, women and children, pushed across the inundated field's to Milliken's Bend. I afterwards learned that moat of them died of disease while living with their "deli vetara." One orphan girl about eight years of age was sleeping in the house. My little daughter, being attached to her, claimed ber as ber wait ing maid and would not allow ber to remain in the quarters. The negroes left ber in their flight. After the storm came the calm, and we busied ourselves about some breakfast. My husband cut some wood and started a tire in the stove. My daughter, Miss rradewell, and her grandmother, Mrs. Tray wood, refugees slaying with us, and myself, marched in a body to the kitchen, ind, by exercising our combined culinary knowledge, prepared a breakfast, but it was not worth bragging about, as we were hungry, and we ate in silence this our first meal prepared without ibo assistance af any "Aunt Chloe." THE MIDNIGHT RAID. Our slaves, after reaching "their friends," the Yankees, informed them ?hat "Old Master" had lots of silver and io\d hurled under the "big hous*," and hat "Old Miss" had a bnBhel of silver ware hid in the house. So much glori )us information aroused their thieving acuities, and visions of "boxes of gold" loated through their brains. Accord ingly, armed with guns and pistols, a party of twenty "Union soldiers," accom panied by a crowd of negroes, stole nwaj Trora their camps at night to attack om jld man and his family and make theon .disgorge" their gold. It was past mid night and ali wore sleeping uncousciout sf any danger when these "brave men' noiselessly surrounded the house, placing guards, at every window' that no on? might escape. Three of them stood al the front door, which they kicked fun ously, yelling at us, "Wake upi yoi confounded Rebels, and open the door Wake upi or we will kick it down! Startled out of sleep and frightened be yond physical control, I hurriedly tbre? a wrapper around myself and attemptet lo light a candle. My band trembled BI violently, however, that I failed to toucl the wick with my match, while the Yan kees, kicking and cursing at the door threatened to boret it open. My HUI daughter, seising a match, with a stead; band succeeded in making a light wbei we opened the door. The Yankee cursed us for keeping , them waiting s long In tho dark. They then instant!; rushed into my bedroom, and with pis lois against my husband's forehead de maoded his money. I am now seventy-five years of age still the scene that night in my bedrooi ia indellibly photographed in my men ory. Mrs. Tray wood and her gram laughter, a young lady of eigbteei myself and ray children, ail dressed i aur night garments, and wlth-bare fee for the Yankees did not give a raoraei for dressing; my husband, in hiB nigh clothing, seated on the bedside, his grs bairs, his defiant eye, and three powe fol "Union soldiers" swearing th< would "blow his brains out" un.le? ? handed over his money, complete the picture. Threats, however, failed to make my husband tell anything. Our keys were demanded, and if not instant ly given trunks, drawers, wardrobes were brokoii open, and beds tumbled on tho floor, and carpets ripped up, iu fact every portion of the house was searched where they thought treasure might be hid. A Yankee stood guard over .us while this search was made.. Menu timo a crowd of negroes and Yankees were under tho house digging for the hidden "gold" and failing iu their search the Yankees assembled on the piazza and, after consultation, ordered my husband lo bo brought out. I knew what they now intended to do if he went alone. They had determined to hantf him until he did tell. I gave the order lo mee to the piazza and all went, my husband surrounded by live females who were willing and determined to suffer with him. Reaching the gallery, we seated our selves together and waited the Yankees' movements. Tho moon was shining in all her beauty full upon us, and I have often thought our white garments in that moonlight made us such a "phantom party" that tho raiders were overawed ami conscious-stricken. At length our "spectre brigade" was marched back to my room. * Grandma Traywood, old and feeble, sank into a chair, and ber watch fell from ila hiding place. I instantly seized it and put it back, but the keen eye of a Yaukee saw me and he demanded that the watch be given to him. Gisadma Traywood refused. Calling other Yan kees to h istance, three Biuecoats I .^rounded grandma, while one of them proposed to search the "old woman." A NOBLE AND FEARLESS GIRL. At this moment Miss Lizzie Tradcwell sprang to her grandmother's side. Her eyes flashed defiance, while her attitude iud gestures plainly showed she was in sensible to fear. With withering words jf contempt for the wretches before her, die dared them to touch grandmother. Tho appearance of this noble girl, so rraud Sn tho defence of her aged relative leut a thrill through every heart and twed the ruffians into silence. With )owed heads they walked out of the .oom. Day was dawning when the 'aiders left us for their camps. It is impossible at this day for thone vho did not suffer such things to under* itand our true condition. We were a ?arty of five females and oue old man, l?verai miles from any neighbors, with nit a firearm of any kind on the place, ?ompletely at the mercy of a band of lesperadoes, who could have murdered is without being punished by their ifficers. After this experience we determined o send our daughters to Munroe, fearing mother visit, when wc might not get oil' o easily. Some friends offered to assist is in moving ; but this was impossible, LS we had cattle in tho swamps, and there vere no wagons to haul our furniture ; io we decided lo remain. My husband left in a few weeks with lia cattle for the West, leaving me alone villi the little negro giri thar. I have neniinned ; and oue morning while lusily engaged in my work three burly legroes forced themselves into the house ind demanded this little girl. I refused o give ber up and they cursed rae, and noving away said they would go across be lake for nome Yankees, and would elura and burn my house. An Irish nan, a hermit, lived back in the swamp me and a half miles, and I decided to arry the girl to bim. Hand in haud we rent through fields covered with weeds .bout six feet high until the hut was eached, when leaving the girl I returned mme alone. As l neared the house I peeped eau iuusly around, looking for the Yankees. crept behind the outhouses, every m? nent expecting to be cdiot ; slill I deter ained to enter my house and boldly talked in. Nothing had been molested n my absence. I remained alone that light, feeling secure in God's protection. MOVING AGAIN. Unable to bear the loneliness of my ituation I decided to move again, al hough my husband had not returned nd there was not a human being or a lorse to help me. Taking a large sheet emptied the ?*c o tenta of several trunks nlo it until ii I??-* so full I could scarcely ie the corners. Taking it on my bead nd then on one side, then the other, I arried this hujre bundle .two miles' brough fields and woods to the house of , neighbor who had taken the oath, and -ho had not been molested by the Yan :ecs. This neighbor stated that while iis oath forbade bim assisting Rebels, till he would care for my goods if I muid bring them to bis house. He imncd me nn old horse, which 1 moan ed without a saddle, and returned homo, letermined now to move in earnest. All lay long I went backward and forward, ike Crusoe to his ship, and by night I lad carried my clothing and feather beds o my Union neighbors. Next day two ranken deserters came to my Union leighbor, riding some of the poorest nu lea that could be found in the parish, k gentleman friend learning my condi ion, kindly procured a wagon and with he deserters' mules hitched to it we oaded what I bad brought on my pack lorse the day before, and, seated on the op with my little negro girl, we bade idien to my home and drove towards )elhi. All of my furniture, which was 'sluable, was left behind. Nearing Delhi, I met my husband in be road, returning from the Weat, I hail never forget how he looked. Stop dog his horse by the wagon, ho. looked ip in my face without speaking a word. Jreat tears were rolling down bis fur owed cheeks, and extending his hand, iis voice trembling with emotion, he poke : "Thank God 1" he said, "we are out ol be Yankees' clutches." Mounting the tagon we went along telling each other di our troubles. We grew merry after s ew miles' ride, for we were now once nore breathing freedom. At Delhi we elegraphed to friends in Munroe of om ?ming, and the cars soon carried us tc mr daughter's and a warm welcome from neilds who awaited us. For months I bad been under cootia ted excitement, which kept me from inking under my troubles; when thii incitement was gone I fell sick, and foi nontbs 1 was kept in my room. A SCENE OF DESOLATION. After the surrender we made prepara ?ation to return to our home on Walno Bayon, near Vicksburg. Wa fount lestruct ion from Delhi to Vicksburg, an< be owners scattered. Nearly ever loose on Walnut Bayou had been burned ind there was not a fence rail to be eeen I cannot describa my emotions whei ?ve reached what bad once been bo borne. Tall weeds grew in the yard, am mly the fallen brick remained to marl the ruins. Not a borne of any kind wa lo bo seen-all bod been destroyed. Th cavalry horses had broken down m ibrubbery, while my shade trees ha been split into firewood. It was nseieai however, to cry over the destruction, an pitching our tent io the yard we oona ino need lire anew-hoping and trustin in thc same God who had so often care for us. Not a foot of lumber could be had will which lo build. Hut fortunate ly Gran, had left piles of hewn logs, which 'vere intended for bridges, and these II.y husband collected and soon erected a "log cabin," which waa very comfortable. Tho farmers of Madison Parish were generally wealthy men, having good homes filled with elegaut furniture. Whenever this furniture was left by tho fleeing owners it was seized by tho Fed erals. Tho Mississippi Hiver furnished easy transportation to the Northwest. In my musings I often picture to myself a "sweet Western girl" entertaining ber beau with music ou a piano which shu boasting!y says "Papa captured in the war," while her mother dashes around in a damask lined carriage that was once a Rebel's property, nud the little children of thc bravo Union soldier nestle togeth er on n confiscated mahogany bedstead. SoinO may say, "Ob ! those were only camp-followers and bummers who pil laged your private residences." Not withstanding, thc pulpit, the press, pub- ' lie sentiment urged and applauded every indignity that was heaped upon us. Thoso I nion officers who devastated our fields and burned our cities have beeu rewarded with honors and princely emoluments of office, while others who were gentlemen aro forgotten. A lady, while visiting Minnesota with her husband some few years sinco, met a mac, holding au important office, who boasted of the part be took io burning Delhi and the private residences on Wal nut iiayoU. His recital of how be made "Ibo Rebel? scamper" seemed to afford him intense pleasure. After listening quietly for a time with suppressed indig nation to his adventures, she informed him that her homo was in Madison Par ish, and then giving him her opinion of Yankee raiders in n style that only an "unreconstructed" Rebel woman is capa ble of doing, left bis presence. Thia lady was the little girl whose steady band made n light when tho midnight raiders came to my house. We have years ago forgiven all who wronged us, but do not ask us to forget. For Th? terrible |>a*l Must ever ho uurs while lifo shall last : Ours witt: ?la jcac' los-uurs with iii pain Ours willi ita bret blood shed like rain Ila nazriflccx, all made In vain. KorgelT Never!" Animal Propensities of Mankind Ver sas Improvement of Stock. Spartanburg Sjxirtaii. A familiar sight in a barn-yard on the introduction of a new animal to the herd is to see all the herd first scent and then critically view the new-comer; next in Drder ali the herd take a turn in horning the new-comer and tho fracus ends with i promiscuous horning among all the herd. After all is quiet it will be seen ;hat the new-comer baa a few friends and nore are added daily until the new-corn ir becomes "one of us." In general urning the herd-Ibis is thc brutish iropensity of animals. When a man jrings a new breed of stock to tbe leighborhood and a great many people :all to take a critical view of the new :omer while a number of bis neighbors lave staid at home and formed their )pinions and set themselves to horning be new enterprise with tho dissenting visitor, who bas merely seen the new stock. At the next gathering of the leiahbors the paw mock is made the ?ubject for ali the cheap wit and the en ertaining gossip on this subject and is equaled only by the promiscuous horning tmong the herd in tbe barnyard. This s the animal propensities yet tobe found urking in some of the specimens of nankind. A cow gets her head fastened under .be barn and bawls out, or a pig gets bis lend in tho crack of the fence and iqueals out. Immediately all thc herd 'ushea upon tho poor unfortunate victim bat is soon to bc gored or trarapelcd to lentil, unless by chanco rescued by Hie >wner. Thia .is also another brutish iropeuuily of auimals. Au enterprising nan starts new machinery or some other ?ii ter prise involving a considerable imount of money und for the want of patronage, (which in all probability has jeeu kept away by prejudice) "squeals nit." a little. All his creditors immedi itely pounce upon, gore and trample the in fort unate victim nut, unless by chance ie is rescued by a friend. This is another Illustration of the animal yet in man kind. A bog will trample under foot aod lestroy unnoticed the most beautiful lowers in a meadow, simply because hey are not good to eat; this Is ?he an mal that is in the hog. I Baw a embie coking couple step up to a pair of beau ifni Pheasants on exhibition and ask tin iwner if they were good to eat. The >wner replied that he hardly thought o' tating a pair of birds whose selling valui vus ?50, and tho old.man's reply wat hat he "amt got no use for them things' -thia is the hog that is mankind. The moral of the foregoing, is thai nankind io of a higher order than othei m??ala mid is susceptible of highest levolopment. Barbarism is his lowes .tate and progress in.all ita improvement in his only safegard against a deat standstill. Let the farmer's watch won >e onward and upward in all things tba lave any show of progress. Improvet >reeds of Btock and improved machiner] md implements and modes of farm i nj lever did any country any barm. If om ?reed of stock does not suit you, there i >lent* to choose from, and the same ma; M raid of machinery. Do not denouno my thing that bas a semblance of im irovement in it. Some farmers wb laed to laugh at the idea of riding an nowing and reaping or plowing, are not toxiously seeking these luxuries of tb ige and I now BOO a number of peopl j reeding Jersey cattle that stood a rou n )ur Jerseys only a few years ago an ridiculed them and their owner. On nan told me that be bad a cow that orri :ost him $15, that he would not give m for one of my '$200 Jerseys. Now th I tame man is injoying a hot Jersey fevei vitb a nice nerd of Jerseys. What mange time does make. J. C. STBIBLISO, Pendleton, S. C. - If evils come not, then our fears ai rain ; and if they do, fear but augmen the pain. - A Washington correspondent < Lhe Neust and Courier says : Vice-Pre ?dent Edmunds is very much pleas? with the course of events, and airead ais friends are claiming that he will 1 Dominated at Chicago on th? first balle New York having declared for bim strongly is considered the best indicati? af popular sentiment in bis favor, at especially since the Empire State is be the battle-ground of tbe campaig A Representativo from Pennsylvan who has hitherto been outspoken I Blaine, said to-day that the-recent ct toon in Pud-, in which Blaine was tatoo with "Mulligan Letters"- and other chi mes, bad done tbe greatest barm sin tjie campaign began. With' Edmur and Lincoln for tho ticket the Reput can? could wage an, aggressive fig whereas with Blaine they would have be on tbe defensive, and already t latter's chances are waning. SELLIN? OUT TO SPAIN, A Grave Cintren Agnlunt Arthur ami hit Cabinet. NEW YOKK, April 28.-The New York Tribune of Tuesday morning will contain the following letter : To I he Editor of the Tribune : Sir Having resigned my position as Consul General to Havana. I beg leave to state my reasons for thia act. Under our Democratic system even the Government is a me nable to those whom it represents, and thc subordinate whose charge? of delinquencies in his superiors are disre garded may appeal to his countrymen to secure their rights in Iiis own. Wo aro even now approaching thc moment when the present Administration in to ask for a verdict upon its Course. The time is therefore fitting to throw some light upon the conduct of one of tho departments which compose that Administration. On February 1?G and again on March 22 iust 1 addressed tho President, protesting against the action of the Stale depart ment in persistently screening corruption, and at the same lime negotiating an inju rious und improper treaty with Spain. On April -Ith, having received no reply beyond a bnro acknowledgment, I tele graphed to the President requesting to be ordered to Washington to subordinate ray charges. To this also I received no reply. On April 9, I again telegraphed in these words : "i have the honor to tender my resignation to take effect imme diately, uuless I can be ordered to Wash ington tor purposes already explained.'' I then received a dispatch by cable from the secretary of State announcing that tho President did not think it advisable IJ for me to return to Washington ns my | J services were required at Havana. I immediately replied: "I request you to say to the President '.'nat I am unwilling to servo undera department whoso policy I disapprove and which I consider has treated mc with injustice mid indignity. I tender ray resignation to lako effect . immediately." To Ibis I got no reply, ' and "gain telegraphed to the President : ! '"I shall appeal to the people to-morrow \ unlc-.s 1 hear from you." Within twenty four hours the answer came : "Resigna- ! lion accented BH requested." I now charge the Stato department with grave dereliction frort pdblio duty, * with gross and continued neglect of 1 injuries and insults put upon -\mericau 11 citizens, American seamen and A nerican Irado in tho Island of (Juba, wi . a vieil* r leting and ignominious policy, requiring B jften to bo stimulated into the defence ? ir protection of Americans, and oven of 1 tometimes resuming au honorable and - becoming position, abandoning it as a ? -LIIc before the resistance of Spain, and .' fielding moro than once just before , spain bad acceded to its just demands. *. [ charg? it with negotiating a cummer- * :ial agreement with Spain so manifestly : mproper and ill-considered that in six . veeks after it was signed it had to bo ibnudoned and a new ono concluded, iu e vhich two of the original Heven articles 0 vero omitted altogether, while two of the 1 > the rs must be' submitted to thc decision 81 ?f tho Spanish Corte? not yet el'cted. I R diarge that tho stipulations of this agree- ?, neut aro injurious to the interest.-! and ?onor of the country nud a reproach to 8 ta diplomacy, for it provides that the Jnitcd States shall abandon to Spain *!' luties amounting nnually to $6,000,00*0, vhilo Spain ?ives up lo us only $1,700,000 1 a return-. It provide? that American :ustombouso olhcinls shall report to . Spanish consuls in order j enable the Jaban authorities to enf< co rigorously heir exactions on our own trade, and . his as lt stands ia the whole of the agree* 11 nent to-day. I charge that this agree- ? nent was in reality a treaty and not sub- 1 nitted to the Senato in accordance with V be Constitution, but under pretence that t was a "commercial agreement." Im- ? lortant stipulations with n foreigu gov irmneut were entered into without the auction of that brauch of the Legislature u vhose consent is indispensable. I' Two important provisions in the treaty if Jauuary 2d were thus altogether i 1 lo- . ;al and unconstitutional-one stipula- ?' ing as I have shown that "tho custom- j' louses of tho United States shall furnish . o Spanish consuls, whenever they may equest them, cerlificatea of cargoes of ugar and tobacco brought from the 81 Antilles, and the other, far more grave, 0 istablisbiog perfect equality of treatment ic'ween Spanish Providences and the " Jnitcd Sutes, and removing all extra ? luties or discrimination not general as to ? ?ther countries having the treatment of , nost favored nations. J1 The Executive bad no more right to r nake this engagement without the sanc i?n of tbs Senate than I bad. I charge c .hat this agreement was scrupulously ? concealed in all its pointa from the chief epresentative of the Uuitcd States ou n .be Island which its stipulations almost n delusively affect, ulthough private par- 0 des and iutereslcd individuals were e aken into the confidence of the depart- t nent and repeatedly consulted aa to its provisions : that though tho tor ', W?H r{ reely circulated in lithograph, no hint a >f its progress was given to the oflicer nore closely concerned in its provisions r ban any other servant of the Goveru- 0 nent, and who ought to have been able 0 ind who was able to furnish information, fl vi thou t conaidei ing which it should never r lave been concluded. { I charge the department simultaneously .villi those other delinquincies, with' a icreening and supporting a corrupt con- t miar clerk, whom I repeatedly reported f br violation of orders, gross insubordi* lation and abstraction of public and t mvate moneys. These accusations, i light times presented, remained utterly t innoticed officially for four months until a he day when I left Havana. A private t etter, it is true, extorted an evasive \ eply from the secretary of State in t March, defending the delay and announc- t ug a further postponement, and after I sad resigned a decision waa hurriedly r forwarded to me, dated April 7th, but g nailed April 12th, endorsing this clerk ipon his own statement that be was i nno- % .ent, without receiving the proofs I bud t Mit red or allowing me to be heard in e person, a decision which I venture to say ? .viii be pronounced by either Congress r ir the Courts to contravention of law, t ustice and propriety. I charge that Lhese coincident circumstances make it imperative upon the depaitment to prove that no connection exists between them, md to show why it neglected American . Interests and American sufferers. Why , it negotiated a hasty and injurious t.eaty without submitting it to the Senate? Why it concealed that negotiation from " tho officer who shonld first have been ' consulted in regard to it? Why for months it failed to notice accusations of 1 corruption repeatedly pressed upon its attention, and ii nally dismissed them j without calling witnesses or considering evidence ? Whether these were all parts of one deliberate scheme and what was the reason for this course ? I hold my*. < self ready to substantiate overy one of i those charges, and I call upon the State 1 department to publish every dispatch < that bas passed between itself and me ( since November 28 last, the date of my 1 arri-al at my post, without one word I omitted or one word mutilated. I declare I : of my own knowledge that no legitimate 11 interest, public or private, can suwer from11 tim freedom, nod that no ono will bo linrt except those- who should not be screened. I am, sir, your obedient retvant, ADAM BAHDKAU. New York, April 28, 1884. Startling Calculations. Of tho dimensions of beaven, Kev. C. Durham says, in tho Haleigh Biblical Bc* corder ? Some years ago I preached two seriuoha on "Heaven." In the preparation of one of theso, I was led to study tho fol IOW?UK scripture, vir..: 'And ho meas ured tho city with the rod, twolve thou sand furlongs. Tho length, and tho height of it are equal." Itev. 21 : 16. I confess 1 was greatly astonished, bewil dered, and lost in tho calcul?t inn beforo nie. I got a new "book a few days ago "Hatch's Hand-Honk and Kvery-Day Encyclopedia1'- rind in lt I find tho cal culation given as follows: "Twelve thousand furlongs, 7,920,000, feet, which hoing cubed, 49?,793,08S,O00, OdO.OOO.OOU cubic feet. Half ol this wo will reserve for tho Throno of God and tho Court of Heaven, and half of tho balance for streets, leaving a remainder of 124,198,270,000,000,000,000 cubic feet. Divido this by 4,009, the cubical feet in a room nix teen feet square, dhd there will bo 80,821,843.760,000,000 rooms. We ?silt now supposa tbs world always did ?nd always will contain 990,000,000 in habitants, aud that a generation lasts for ?3? years, making in all 2,970,000,000 jverv century, and that thc world will itand 100,000 years, or 1.000 centuries, uaking in all 2,970,000,000,000 inhabi ;ants. Then supposo there are one mildred worlds equal to this in number >f inhabitants and duration of year*, miking a total of 297.000,000,000,000 lemons, nnd Ibero would ho moro than a mildred rooms sixteen feet square for ?aeh person." Wonderful j Wondorful ! 1 Wonder ul I I 1 Doe? it not give io iorrtc passa ges in God's word new interest and >owcr ? "I go to prepare a place for you. t'et there is room. Compel them to como u, that my house may bo filled." "Eye lath not eeoc, nor ear hoard", neither mve entered into tho heart of rmn, the binga which God hath prepared for thom hat lovo him." Is Heaven unlimited, ml the atonement limited 7 Dr. James Boyeo, of Erskine Semina y, recently delivered a locture to the tudents o? ibo ,''Exodus* of the Children if Israel from Egypt and their wander* ngs in the Wilderness for forty tears." toe feature of enc discourse that claimed special attention from the audience was a ut cr which the speaker read from tho War )epartmertt at Washington, addressed by Ldjutaut General R. C. Drum to Hon. >. W. Aiken, furnishing some informa ion solicited by Dr. Hoy ce. In reading lie figures of tho Adjutant-General, just ouble them nearly, and you will have orrect numbers, as this ollicor did not otirely understand Dr. Boyce's first uc8tion. In tho Exodus the fact is Lated that 000,000 men besides children nd also a mixed multitude went up out f tho land of Egypt. The figures as icy are in this letter, are startling and tiow what an amount of water nnd food ad to come from this Wildoruess to jstain this host. ' ".o following is Gen. )rum'a letter: Fon. D. W. Aiken, Haute of Bepressnta livet ? Dear Sir-Referring to the letter from :ie Rev'd Mr. Boyce, which you referred J me requesting answers to the questions aerein submitted, relative to matters icident tn the Exodus of the Children f Israel, I'have the honor to submit tho >llowing answers, made on a moderu asia, which I hopa will enable Mr. loy ce to gain, by deduction, such in for latinn as may be useful in completing is lecturo on tho subject. First-"If tho men ot war in a com amity bo given what will the entire opulation be, supposing tho Children of srnel numbered 2,400,000?" Thc entire population in this country s seven times as great as its arms bear [ig population. On this basis the mim er of the Children of Israel capable of earing armH would have boen 342,857. - Second-"How much ground would arvo for camping purposes for an army f the siro of the Children of israel 5'* To camp an army of 342, 857 men muid have required about 13} Bquare liles, taking as a basis that it requires 00x481 paces for a regiment of infantry ,000 strong, or about 25 acres. This, owe vcr, does not take into consideration be space necessary between camps of egiments. Third-"If in marching order in one olumn how many miles in length would hat column be?" The length of such a column (342,857 ?ten) marching by lours, tin moderu for nation, would be about 71 miles. This f course would bo considerably shorten d by increase of front as the forma ion no doubt was in those days. Fourth-"Tho daslv rations necessary at such an army, masing the estimate on , modern babis ?" To give the two principal parts of the ation will probably answer the purpose f Mr. Boyce. The amount of fresh neat and bread necessary to feed an rmy of 342,857, would be, per day, fresh neat 428,590 pounds; bread 885,714 toondi. 7V/?A-' If they had to depend on for ging how much of a well settled couu ry would be necessary to furnish such braging fM For an army of 842,857 men to march hrough a country and subsist by forag ng it would be necessary that the force >e divided Into as many as eight or ten eparate columns and the country hrough which the march is to be made vould have to be well settled and highly ?roduetive and fully 100 miles in > read th. Sui h-"How many wagons wonld be equired to transport the baggage, rations md sick of such an army ?" It would require at the rate of three vagons to 1,000 men for the baggage bis would make a train of 1,028 wagons, ind it would require 271 wagons to trans lort ono day's rations of meat and bread, ind 1,086 ambulances for the sick. Very espectfully vour obedient servant, R. C. DBCM, Adjutant General. - "Is your sister in, Johnny ?" "She s. She's in the parlor waitin' for you. Say, what'll vcr give me if I tell you ?bat she said last night when yon went iway?" "I'll give yon ten cents." "All right. Thank yer. Well, I guess she's t-goin' to be awfnl kind tojyou, and feed rou **eU when you git married, cause she ?id you had mighty high notions about rourself and your folks, but she would nnko you eat humblo pie for it when ibo's your wife." - The officer who opens the Court is salted the "crier." On one occasion the ?id officer had lost his wife, who had led iim an uncomfortable life, and he was of ?ourso absent from his post. When the Doutt came in, the Judge, as usual, said, .Mr. Crier, open the Court." A young, facetious lawyer addressed tho Court as followa: "May it please your Honor, Mr. B. cannot cry to day ; he has lost his wife." lill: HLAIil SCHOOL BILL. Text of the Dill an lt l'nsseu the Senate. Tho Blair bill, aa it pnssed the Senate, is as follows : Jit it endcfcd by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America io Congress aesembled, That for eight years next after the passage of this Act there shall bo annually appro* printed from tho money in the treasury tho following sums, to wit : Tho first year the sum of seven million dollars, the sec ond year the sum of ten million dollars, tho third year the sum of fifteen million dollars, tho fourth year tho sum of thir teen million dollars, tho fifth tear the sum of eleven million dollars, thu sixth year tho sum of niuo million dollars, tho seventh year thu sum of seven million dollars, tho eighth year tho sum of five million dollars ; which several sums shall bo expended to seen rn tho benefits of common-school education to nil the chil dren of tho school ago mentioned hero after living in tho United Slates. S KC. 2. That such money shall annual ly bo divided among and paid out in tho several Slates and Territories in that pro portion which the whole nu in ber of per sons in each who, being of the ago of ten years and over, caunot write, noars to tho wholo number of such persons in tbe United States; such computation ebal! bo made according to tue census of eighteen hundred and eighty, BEC. S. Tbat no State or Territory shall receive any of the benefits of this Act until tbe Governor thereof aball filo with tho secretary of the interior a state ment, certified by him, showing the char acter of tho commou-Bchool system in Torco in such State or Territory ; tho amount of money expended tberoin luring tho precediug school year in tho support of common schools, not includ ing expenditures for rent, repair, or oreo don of school-houses ; whether any dis -ri m i nation is made in the raising or iistributing of the common Behool r?vo lues or in the common-school facilities iflbrdcd between the vt hite and colored diildren therein, and, so far as practic able, tho sources from which such rev? tues were dorived ; the mannor In which ho same were appropriated to the use of be common Bcbools ; the number of vhito and the number of colored com4 non schools ; the average attendance iu tech class, and tho length of the school erm. No money shall be paid out tin ier this Act to any 8tato or Territory bat shall not have provided by law a lystem of free common schools for all of ts children of school age, without listinction of race or color, either in the nising or distributing of school revenues ir in tho school facilities afforded : Pro dded, that separate Bchoola for white ind colored children shall not be eon-* idered a violation of this condition; L'he eccrotary of the interior shall there ipon certify to the secretary of the reasury thc nnmes of the States and Territories which he finds to be entitled o share in the benefits of this Act, and dso the amount due to eacb. SEC. 4. That the umouut.so nppropri ted to cacti Stato and Territory shall bo Irawu from the treasury by warrant of he secretary of tho Treasury, upon the non th ly estimates and requisitions of the ecretary of the interior, as tho same may ie needed, and ?li nil bo paid over to such ifficsra ss shall be authorized by trio awa cf the respective States and Terri ories to receive thc Bame. SEC. 5. That the instruction in the om mon schools wherein these moneys ball be oxpended shall include the art >f reading,, writing and speaking the English language, arithmetic, geography, listory of tlie United States, and euch ither braucbes of useful knowledge as nay be taught under local laws. SEC. 6. lhe mouey appropriated and ipportioned under tho provisions of this vet to the use of any Territory shnll be pplied to thc uso of common and indus rial schools therein by the secretary of he iutcrior. SEC. 7. That tim design of this act not teing to establish an independent system if schools, but rather to aid for the time icing in tho development and mainto lance of the school system established by ?cal government, and which must event tally be wholly maintained by the States nd Territories wherein they exist, it is lereby provided that no greater part of he money appropriated under this Act hall be paid out to any State or Torrito y in auy oue year than the sum ex .ended out of its own revenues or out of Doneys raised under its authority in the .receding year for the maintenance of ommou schools, not including the Bums xpended in the erection of school-build ogs. SEC. 8. Tbat a part of the money ap lortioned to each State or Territory, not xceeding one-tenth thereof, may yearly ie applied to the education of teachers br the common schools therein, which um may be expended iu maintaining nstitutes or temporary training-schools, ir in emending opportunities ic. normal ir other instructions to competent aud uitablo persons, of any color, who are vi thou t necessary means to qualify them elves for teaching, and who aimil agree n writing to devote themselves exclu ively, for at least one year after leaving ucb training-schools, to teach in the ;omrnon schools, for ouch compensation is may be paid other teachers therein. SEC. 9. That no part of the educational und allotted to any State or Territory ball be used for the erection of school* louses or school-buildings of any desert ion, nor for rent of the same. SEO. 10. That the moneys distributed inder tba provisions of this Act shall be ! ised only for common schools, not eec arian in character, in the school districts >f the several States and Territories, in ucb way as to provide, as near as may . >e, for the equalization of school privi eges to all the children of the school age prescribed by the law of the State or Territory wherein the expenditure shall >e made, thereby giving to each child, vithout distinction of race or color, an squal opportunity for education. The erm "school district" shall include all sities, towns, parishes, and other terri to -ial subdivisions for school purposes, and ill corporations clothed by law with the lower of maintaining common schools. SEC. ll. That no second or subsequent illotment shall be made under this Act 0 any State or Territory nnless the Gov ernor of such State or Territory shall int file with the secretary of the interior 1 statement, certified by him, giving i leta!led account of the payments or dis bursements made' of the school fund ipportioned to bis State or Territory, iud received by the State or Territorial treasurer or officer under this Act, and rf the balance io tho hands of such treas urer or officer withheld, unclaimed, or for any cause unpaid or unexpended, and ! also the amount expended in such State or Territory as required by Section 8 of | this Act, and also of the number of public, common and industrial schools, the nuo> ber of teachers employed, the total num ber of children taught during the year and in what branches instructed, thc average daily attendance, and the relative number of ?hite and colored children, and the number of months In each year schools have been maintained .in each school-district. And if any State Territory shall misapply or allow to bo1 ruiBnpplied, or in any manner appropri ated or med other than for tho purpose heroin required, the funds, or any part thereof, received under tho provisiona of this Act, or shall fail to comply with the conditions herein prescribed, or to report as herein provided, through ita propor officers, the disposition thereof, and the other matters herein prescribed to bo so reported, such State or Territory ?hall forfoit its right to any subsequent appor tionment by vii tim hereof until the full amount BO misapplied, lost or misappro priated shall bavo been replaced by such State or Territory and applied aa norcia required, and until such report shall bave beeu made : Provided, That if the public schools in any State admit pupils not within tho ages herein specified it Bhnll not bo deemed a failuro to comply with* tho conditions herein. If it shall appear to tho secretary of tho interior that the funds received under tim Act for the preceding year by the State or Territory havo been faithfully applied to the pur poses contemplated by this Act, and that theeonditions thereof have been observed, then the secretary of tho interior shall il ist ri bu to tho uezt year's appropriation is berciubofore provided. Tho secretary [>f the interior snail have power to hear and examine any complaints of misap propriation or unjust discrimination in the use of the funds herein provided, and riiail report to Cougress tho resulta thereof. oi.c. \?. Tbat on or before tho first day ?f September of each year the secretary if the interior shall report to the Presf leut of the United Slates whether any ?5 ta to or Territory has forfeited its right 0 receive ita apportionment under this Act, and bow forfeited, and whether he las witbold such allotment on account >f such forfeiture ; and each State and Torritory from which such apportion neut shall bo withheld Bhall nave the 'ight to appeal from such decision of the lecretary of the interior to CongreBS. SEO. 13. That the secretary of tho ii tenor Bhall be charged with the practi :al administration of thia Act in tho Territories through the commissioner of education, who shall report annually to congress its practical operation, aud iriefly tbe condition of common and ndustrial education as effected thereby broughout the country, which report ball bo transmitted to Congress by the ecretary of tbe interior, accompanying he report of his department And tbe lower to alter, amend or repel this Act 1 hereby reserved. SEO. 14. That no State or Territory bat decs not distribute tbe moneys) aisod for common-school purposes (pially for the education of nil the chit? rcn, without distinction of race or color, ball be entitled to any of the benefits of bis Act. A Floreo ClaBh of Cavalry. As Boon as Col. Dearing moved out so a to threaten tbe Federal flank, Col. Vashburne charged bim witb his cavalry nd I never witnessed a handsomer barge than at tbis time led. Dearing let bim with the same undaunted, deter' lined pluck, and tbe most Bavago band-, j-hand fight I ever witnessed waa tho DBult. Dearing and Waabburne wete otb killed within three feet of each thcr. Whether they slew each other I annnt any, but many Lhink' they did. lol. Boston and Major Thompson were Iso killed in this cavalry fight and every nan In Woshburno'a command was killed, rounded or captured ; none tried to scape. I waa unable, from a wound eec i ved through my loft arm at Five 'orhii a few days before, from using my ubre, but during the fight I rode among ay men and encouraged them by my ircsenco, which was all I could do, and ..hilo I looked on I saw Major Jim Ireatbard, of the horse artillery, attack wo Federal captains, Breatbard with nstol and tba Federals with sabres, .'hey closed before Breatbard bad an op portunity to shoot, or if ho shot be miesed ila mark, and when I saw bim tbe Fed rals were cutting and striking at bim rith their sabrea and Breatbard waa ex- ' eedingly busy warding them off with his tistol. Their horses wero run against Ireatbard's and be waa tinnily knocked i fl" bia boree, and in falling his foot waa aught between bis horse and one of ino .'ederal captains* and pulled off one of Ja boots. Breatbard then shot and killed ne of the officers and Courier Scruggs ashed out from my side and killed tho tber, and in a moment Breathard was In he saddle again, with only ono boot, and ?jain joined in the fight.-Maj-Gen: otter tn the Phita. Weekly Time?. .- A prairie farmer reporta that a late dad-storm lifted about o vc ry thing from ils lands except the mortgage. - "I aim to tell the truth." "Yes," nterrunted an acquaintance, "and you re probably the worst shot in America." - A candidate with a healthy boom o-day may wake up to-morrow asd find t gone. Everything that runs by wind lower is liablo to such a collapse. - Laziness crows on people ; it begins n cobwebs and coda in iron chains. The nore business a man baa to do the more ie is able to accomplish, for he learns to conomize bbl timo. - He who would admonish others bould above all things, be careful of heir reputation and- sense of shame. Choy who bare cast off blushing sro loyond amendment. - Light-minded young thing in a lathing suit : "Surely, Aunt Margaret, 'ou'ro not going to wear your spectacles n to the water ! " Aunt M. "Indeed I am. Nothing shall indue? me to take off cnoth - ir thing." - A girl on exhibition at Chicago has en fingers on each hand. If she ever pta married and allows them to toy with, be hair of her husband in the usual n ari tal way his head is liable to grow >ald in a single matiuee. - What ia a dandy? A thing in lautaloons, with a body and two arms ; i bead without brains, and a cigar stuck n a bole in his face; tight boots; a icented, white baokerchref ; a standing . ?ollar; two brooches; and a showy ring >n his little finger, - "Let every person see if he can draw ? monkey, and then sign his name to the dip of paper," said a practical joker .at in evening company. The joker collec ted the slips, and the next day a leading ?Hiten, and candidate for the office of mayor, was horrified to see 'his sketch stuck up in the postoffioe with, hts otra autograph affidavit under it. - We cannot too strongly recommend onions for food. They are well-known to posees a very high degree of nutrition, besides having an important effect upon the secretions of the human system. When persons are affected with the pain ful cat-hoi Ls that are so common ic the Spring and 'Summer, silver akinned onions, freely eaten raw, fora week orso, will completely eradicate them. This ls ft simple remedy for what ls often a very paluful affliction, but lt is very effective, ano we have.oftou thought, that a few quarts of fresh onions would have been to Job a much greater comfort than his three friends.