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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. O, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1887. VOLUME XXII.?NO. 28. Tlt??H^'?OLUMN J. G. CLINKSCALES, Editob. The schools in Centerville Township will close, by order of the trustees, on the 28th insft Let the teachers take notice and make their arrangements to suit this action of the Board. Mr. W. P. Holland, principal of the Lebanon school, thought once of taking medicine as a profession, but, we learn, has declined the idea. We are glad to know that he is fully decided to continue to teach. Mr. Holland is doing a fine work there and has a bright future before him if he does not weary in well doing. Anderson County can not well afford to Io33 such teachers. Ls-t him stick. We are glad to be informed by the mail jaayg&ed us that to-day, January 14, the trSKees and teachers of Hopewell Township are holding a kind of town? ship convention at Midway. The whole day is spent in practical school-room work. It is a happy thought, and we can not too plainly express our regret at not receiving notice of it in time to attend the meeting. We trust our friends will-repeat the experiment, and that other townships will follow suit We hope one present will give us a full ac? count of the meeting in session to-day. We are glad to learn that the patrons of the Cedar: Grove School have made made much-needed repairs on the house. Miss Roberts; the teacher, now finds it more comfortable than formerly, but i says there is still room for improvement.' We trust the thoughtful ones of that sec? tion will carry on the good work until the house is thoroughly renovated aud the teacher and children made as com? fortable as they desire to be. I Miss Kose McNinch writes that the patrons of the Wbitefield School have made some repairs there, too; these are steps in the right direction, and such as require no great outlay of money. We do not plead- for expensive or elaborately furaised booses. All we want is comfort for the children. Times are hard, very j . hard, but plenty time and energy are }.wasted in this County to repair every dilapidated school-house in it without a moment's serious inconvenience to any body. We congratulate the people who have'so nobly respc led to the necessities of the Cedar Grove and Whitefield schools, and trust that the moving spirit may strike many other sections of the County. Mr. C. Merriweather, who was to have taken charge of the Male School at Wil liamston, has not put in appearance. - Mr. Merri weather is a fine teacher, and would, no doubt, build up a large school at Wilh'amBtoD. No man is willing, however, to take the risks necessary to be' taken there; The patrons are not j& much in earnest as they ought to be on fie subject of educating their boys. Their daughters have the finest facilities : their boys.seem to be neglected. In the day8 of John L. Kennedy and Wesley L9verett, the male school at Williamston was not surpassed in point of excellence by any in the State. Classical schools are more numerous now. If the citizens of that historic little town would keep a good male school, they must give it that attention and snpport it demands. Like every thing nowadays, it takes money to ran a good school; especially is this the case since classical schools have become so numerous. Where there is greater competition there must necessarily be closer attention and a hearty support from the local patrons of the school. Especially is this the case at Williamston . the town is sonall, and the local patron, age mnst necessarily be limited. Many years ago the school was supported, in a very large .measure, by patrons from a distance, the burden falling very lightly cpon the citizens of the town: things have changed, however?there is a good school at Belton now, a capital one at Piedmont, and another at Pelzer. This thing of building up large, paying schools, nowadays, is not what it's crack? ed up to be. Our people must learn to rely more upon their own resources, and not so much upon the reputation of the .teacher. Every town can have a classi? cal school, if it wants one and is willing to pay for it. That's the long and short of the whole thiDg?we have to pay foi what we get these days. So if the peo? ple of Williamston are relying upon the former glory of their school to educate their boys, let them go down in their old clothes for the loose nickles?that and only that will educate their boys now. Home, January 12,1887. Mr. Editor : I have been anxiously watching and hoping to find a word in your Column, the last few months, from some fellow-laborer. I hoped so that we might, in a measure, compare experiences since the opening of the present scholas? tic year, and during these latter hard days. By this means?giving out and imbibing, there might be a mutual gath? ering of momentum in the field for re? ceiving aod imparting knowledge. But I have looked in vain from such a source. I venture a few lines that Ibey may call out some one. We go back to express cur regrets in ? not having you, Mr. Editor, with us on the occasion of our little Xmas Tree at the close of our work before the Holi? days. We gave publicity, at that tirjo^j, to what forms a part of our daily engage? ment by entertaining our friends for a short time with some songs and a gem exercise. The school marched in a system? atic order to tbe second floor of our building, and formed a U in front of the tree. After a song, the name of each pupil was called, and on receiving a common gift from the tree, he would recite a gem of his own choosing, when the entire school would repeat it in con? cert. After this exercise, we had another song, then presented * special presents from parents. At this juncture your speech would hare been in order, and it was a good opportunity?most of the patrons were present. We were anxious for you to have been there that we might have had our "measures taken," then we would have expected you to come again. Our high resolve is to advance, and we think you could bave "issued the words of com? mand" with good effect. We rest much of a teacher's success beycnd the con? fines of the school-room, for, where there is a lack of manifest interest on the part of parents, those who are most closely re? lated to the pupils, the onward march in "the field of letters" is retarded materi? ally, despito the rallies and hurrahs of the leader. We can be and are encouraged; in? deed we congratulate ourselves and Hunter's Spring in this respect. By their fruits you may know them. After a call meeting, when the attention of the"patrons was directed to our neces? sities, plans were laid, the day set and the work completed. We are now meas? urably comfortable with signs of life about in the ring of the axe at our door (not the breaking of brush down in the woods,) and a crackling, blazing, home? like fire within. And our work magnifies. Thirty-five responded "present" at rool-call this morning, and oar ingenuity "buinp" waxes rapidly to its culmination. Then, as to ways and means you and yours are interested. With the late in? crease in numbers, ours (ways and means) are not sufficiently settled as to state satisfactorily. But we confess with can? dor, and we might say with pride, that routine work is waning, it must wane, and we repeat it, let it wane I We have some misapprehensions as to public opinion in this. 'Tis easy to follow a beaten track. The "old ruts" are hard to leave. Never? theless, we have a strong hope^ that we may steer the ship clear of the breakers. But before I cut myself out of an oppor? tunity to write again in the length of this, I forbear. Before closing, however, let me commend to the teachers a real help in The Teachers' Institute and Practi? cal Teacher, published by E. L. Kellogg & Co., 25 Clinton Place, N. Y. The subscription price, $1.25, can't be better invested. Send for a sample copy and be convinced. Come to Bee us and see how much we have to grow I ' 0. 0. Burriss. Suffering in Texas. Fort Worth,. Texas, January 5.? The following estimate of the number of sufferers from the drought in Texas by counties has been carefully made by the Fort Worth Gazette. In speaking of the situation the Gazette says: "The State of Texas and its people should face the truth in this matter regardless of tbe natural resentment at mischievous exag gerations. There is privation and want in certain counties that demand immedi ate relief, and the truth concerning it should be told in the interest of suffering humanity. Tbe truth will not only re suit in giving bread to those who need it, but it will extract tbe mischief from ex aggerstion. But for the wholesale false hood that people in Texas were suffering by .the hundreds of thousands, those who were actuated by selfish interests would not have been able to create the impres? sion that no suffering at all existed. There is suffering which imperatively calls for immediate aid, but it is limited to certain counties, and in these counties is due to special conditions." A. E. Hendry, County Judge of Palo Pinto County, and formerly member of the Legislature from Cherokee County, was in Fort Worth yesterday on his way to Austin in behalf of the sufferers. Judge Hendry admitted tbat be, with very many others, did not credit the first reports of the suffering in his own county, but when be took his place as county Judge the truth came to him in a way that left no doubt, and he wao astonished at the details of a want where very ex? istence he at first doubted. Judge Hendry was a participant in the Albany Convention. The statements from each county were submitted by county judges and commissioners, as the Albany Con? vention would entertain noue but official reports. Tbe best information as yet attainable by the Gazette puts the num? ber of destitute families as follows: Callahan County,.50; Parker, 100; Tay? lor, 200; Palo Pinto, 250; Coieman, 150; Jack, 300; Stephens,-350; Run? nels, 200; Jones, 225; Suackelford, 150 Haskell, 30; Young, 150; Brown, 400 Eastland, 500; Comanche, 500; Nolan 50; Fisher, 100; Erath, 150; Morien 10; Hardcman, 150. From several counties no figures have yet been ob tained. In the estimate given above the figures are in every county smaller than the number reported by the County Judge Convention at Albany, so there is no room for shrinking. Tbe Gazette laments the injury done the State by the greatly exaggerated reports, and it appeals to the people of tbe State and the State Legislature to provide tbe necessary aid at once. In concluding its appeal the Gazette says: "Strong men who would go away to other localities in search of work dread to leave wives and babies in their homes without bread. Men who have homes paid for grow desperate, and consider whether they shall carry their helpless family to the county site and leave them as paupers to be cared for while they seek work and money and bread wherever among other communities it may be found. All these counties are not suffer? ing in tbe same degree aud to the same extent, but there is general need, and in some privation so intense that without aid, without some recognition of common humanity, there may go out to the world a story of more bitter Bhame and greater hurt to the State than any which has occurred in the past." ? Fifteen years ago that portion of Washington which is now the center of fashionable residences was the favorite camping ground of Negro squatters. Some of the more frugal squatters purchased bits of ground a t a mare nominal sura which they cling to yet. What cost $100 at the time mentioned can now be sold for prices ranging from $15,000 to $20,000, according to location. One aged Negro woman, who still works by the day when she can get work, has been offered $14,000 for her little cabin and bit of grouud. As she would not know what to do with that amount of rmney should she accept the offer, she declines to part with her property. THE PLACE OF TORMENT. A Powerful Sermon by Father McCarthy at tho Cathedral. News and Courier, Jan. 6. The Rev. Father McCarthy, of the Jesuit Mission, preached at the Cathe? dral Chapel last night to an immense congregation. Every eeat was occupied, and several of those who came in after the services had commenced were obliged to stand uo. Father McCarthy is a re? markably eloquent speaker, a philoso? pher and a forcible reasoner. His discourse last night was on the subject of "Hell." He spoke for about an hour, duriDg which time he held the interested attention of the entire congregation. "Thus far," said he, "we have striven to arrive at a knowledge of the intrinsic malice of sin by examining it in itself, and gathering it from its consequences to the angels, to our first parents in tbe earthly paradise and in the earth sin cursed. We have seen what a heritage of woe they, in consequence, bequeathed to us and to their latest posterity ; how it arms Heaven and earth, the elements, his fellow-men against him; how it makes him the enemy of God, and dread? ful to say, makes his enemy tbe God who made, preserves and died for love of him. "We now come to deepen our knowl? edge of sin's malice by considering the hell created by God for the punishment of grievous sin unrepented of before death. Some even calling themselves Christians, and holding the Bible to be the rule of faith, nay the sole rule of faith, have come to doubt tbe existence of a place of torment in the after life, or, at least, to deny that the torments therein to be suffered will be of eternal duration. Some, too, who are not Christians assume, for the sake of argument, that the God of Christianity is possessed of the attributes of justice and mercy, and -hence infer the non existence of a hell) which they claim to be inconsistent with these attributes. Both these classes contend that it would be contrary to jus? tice for God to punish everlasting a sin committed in a moment, on account of tbe disproportion so evident between tbe offence and its punishment. They forget that even human legislation inflicts life? long punishment, and even takes human life for a crime committed in a few short moments against a fellow creature, and does not deem tbe penalty too great. "In the second place they lose sight of the infinite wickedness of a mortal sin, an infiniteness not derived from finite man who sins, but from the infinite majesty of tbe God against whom be sins; forget bow abyss calls forth' unto abyss?tbe abyss of man's nothingness and the deeper abyss of bis sinfulness, unto the abyss of God's greatness and goodness. Since man, being finite, is is incapable ot enduring a punishment infinite in its intensity, that it may not be altogether inadequate it must needs be indefinite in ita duration; nay, from this argument it will appear that the sinner, suffering eternally in hell, is unable to endure a pain equal to his demerit and sufficient to pay a forfeit equal to the demands of Divine justice. "As to the mercy of God, which be? longs (to God equally with His justice, it not only does not exclude the existence of a hell but demands it. God wishes man's love. 'Son, give Me thy heart.' He Bays. He calls Himself a God jeal? ous of. man's love, and in order to keep man loyal to His love deems it necessary to employ not only tbe blandishments of fatherly love, but tbe severity of a judge's threats. "Among these menaces none is so ter? rible as that of endless exclusion from His presence and endless suffering in the exile of hell. Many who would not remain bound to their loyalty to God by the golden chains of luve are held cap? tive to it by the iron chains of His holy fear. Let us illustrate this point. A pseudo-philanthropic sentiment has in our own time called for, and in some places obtained, the abolition of capital punishment. The result was tbe speedy and immense increase of murder, aud the same who petitioned for the doing away with tbe death penalty were forced to ask for its re-enactment, as necessary for the welfare of society, and even in the interests of those whom nothing, but the fear of forfeiting their own life could deter from the taking of tbe life of their fellow-men. If, therefore, very many are not hindered from tho commission of mortal sin and the loss of God's friend? ship by the fear of a hell, in which they firmly believe, how many would be held to it were this most efficacious deterrent taken away. Now, for the benefit of those who ac? cept the Scripture as the inspired word of God, it will suffice to recall to their minds that in the Holy Writ hell is spoken of as a place of torments, as a darksome place where there is no order, but where everlasting horror dwells; that it is a lake burning with fire and brimstone; the bell of fire, where tbe worm dieth not, &c, &c, &c. The pains of hell are of two kinds: The pain of sense and tbe pain of loss.. Some non Catholics have difficulty in believing in the existence of the former, forgetting that it is but reasonable that the body which shares with tbe soul siuful pleas? ure should also share with it the penalty thereof; and that as the glorified body of the just made perfect receives its hap? piness from the overflow of that with which the soul is flooded in gazing estat ically in the essence of God, so the body of the darned is to share according to the capacity of its nature the soul's pun? ishment. Moreover, this twofold pain of sense and loss is clearly pointed out in 'the words which our Lord declares. He shall, on the great judgment day, make use of in passing sentence on the repro? bate : 'Depart from me ye accursed into everlasting fire.' Tbe first half referring to the pain of los3, the second to the pain of sense. "A word, first of all, concerning the pain of sense. We are told in the holy writ that wherein a man has most offend? ed therein shall he be most grievously tormented. The eyes and ears and other senses used as tho instruments of sin shall have their appropriate punishment. St. Catherine of Sienna was given by God to aee for a moment the devil in bodily 8hap3 and so foul was ho and of such hideous mien that she declared that rather than look again upon him she would walk barefoot upon coals of living fire until the day of judgment. "Fancy how the ears of the damned will be pierced by the din of hell, the groans of agony, the sharp cry of pain, the shriek of despair, the criminations and recriminations of the damned, the horrible blasphemies uttered against God and his saints, the intolerable stench that shall constantly arise to poison the air, the burning thirst that shall torture the glutton and the drunkard, as we gather from-the parable spoken by our Lord of Lazarus and the rich man, who clad in purple and fine linen, fared sumptuously every day upon choicest viands and wines of rarest bouquet, and who having died, was, in the pregnant language of the Scriptures, 'buried in hell.' There he saw afar off Lazirus in the blissful repose of them that had died in the peace of the Lord, aud he begged Abraham to send the beggar whom he had driven from his door and allowed to die of starvation within tbe shadow of his mansion?the abode of plenty?to fetch him, not a brimming goblet of exquisite wine from hi3 well-stocked cellars on earth, not even as much water as could be brought in the hollow of his hand, but only a drop pendant from his finger tip, to relieve by even so little his burning thirst, because,'as be remarked, 'I am tormented in this flame.' You will observe that be says, 'in this flame,' for his body was plunged in fire as a fish in water, or as a bar of iron in fire that becomes ouc mass with it. This will give some idea, though faint, of the pain of sense to be borne by them who die in God's displeasure. Add to this that all this suffering is to endure for? ever. "0 ye voluptuaries! gross libertines 1 gluttons, drunkards, 'slothful, victims of self love who shrink from every least sufferiog and petty annoyancp, bow will ye be able to dwell in quenchless fire? "To some this may seem a dreadful picture, but what will they say when they are told that these are not the greatest sufferings inflicted upon the lost. The pains of sense fall immeasureably below those of loss. It is hard for us, so influ? enced as we are by matter, so clogged and blinded by the clay of our less noble part, to realize the agony that tbe soul will experience from the loss of God. But when our spirit will have been dis? embodied, wheu material influences will have ceased to fetter her, all her heaven born instincts will revive, and she will see the nothingness of creatures, and realize that God is all in all to her ; that in Him her happiness is placed, and that out of Him and alien from Him, she can never taste a moment's joy. She will be drawn towards Him by love's powerful attraction; that she will strive to soar, to nestle in His bosom forever. But, alas I this attraction, these yearnings aad longings after Him will bo forever thwarted. It is He that says to her, 'depart from me, your God, your only happiness. Depart ye accursed into everlasting fire, prepared not for you, but for the angel3 that were unfaithful to my love.' "The soul will theu be filled with hatred for God, will blaspheme His jus? tice that has pronounced such dread sen? tence upon it. His mercy, which, although it spared millions of others, will not spare it. Thus love and hate will forever contend for the possession of the lost soul, and their conflict will rend it and torture it forever. Memory will bring before it the unbearable thought that it has been d unned through its own fault, damned when it could have been saved by less exenion than was needed to bring about its endless loss. Tbe feel? ing takes possession of me that my lan? guage is colorless and void of strength, and altogether unfit to convey even the least adequate idea of the pains to be endured in bell. "Let one last word suffice: 'Just as eye bath not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the mind of man to con? ceive' what things God has prepared fir them that love Him, so eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor hath it entered into the mind of man to conceive what things God has laid in store for them who would not yield to His love, but persevered in provoking Him to indignation and wrath. A Sensitive Monkey, In the monkey's cage at one of the public resorts in this city is a very large and somewhat aged prehensile monkey. Owing to his age he is somewhat given to staidness, and, where younger monkeys are wont to prance about and cut up an? tics, he often retires into a corner to deeply ponder over some abstract prob? lem in monkey philosophy. Some time ago he contracted a skin disease, the rav? ages of which have sadly disfigured bis countenance. As it caused him little or no pain he paid little attention to it. The younger moukeys in the cage have guyed him occasionally, but he was in blissful ] ignorance of the cause of their jibes. For the last few days there have been several broken bits of looking-glass in 1 tbe cage, with which the younger mon? keys have been enjoying themselves. The old monkey at last had his curiosity aroused, and he slipped down, took a piece of the glass away from a smaller monkey and then climbed on to a perch in order to iuvestigate with becoming dignity. First he critically examined the back of the glass with a very know? ing look on his disguised face. Then ho turned it over. The moment he saw the reflection of his own countenance he came near falling backwnrd from the perch, while au expression of horror overspread his face. For a moment he was stunned. Theu he pulled his chin whiskers meditatively, and finally screwed up enough courage to look in the glass again. It confirmed all its worst suspicions. With a bowl he threw the glass from him and went raving about the cage. All the little monkeys were horror stricken, and kept out of the old man's way. After a while he got another pieco of glass, inspected his dis? figured countenance, and vainly tried to rub away the white spots. Failing in this, he gave up in despair, and again took to raving. He has refused to eat since he made the discovery, and will allow no one to look him in the face. Bii heart seems broken.? Chicago News. CONFEDERATE CASH. What Became of it After tho *tVnr. Washington, January 8.?The de? mand for certain Confederate States bonds, which a few years ago made them worth $13 a thousand, gave rise to a very general belief that there was in England a considerable sum of money which had belonged to the dead government. There is no doubt that when the war closed, the confederacy had money in England, in tbe hands of its agents and their bankors. What became of it? A few days ago, in the course of a conver? sation with General James Walker, of Virginia, I heard some statements on this subject which surprised me very much, and which may interest the read* ers of the Constitution. I do not pretend to give General Walker's exact language, but I am con? fident that every statement made by him is r?ported with substantial accuracy. As to general james walker himself, I need say nothing to command bim to credence. He is a native of Mis? souri, the son of a former treasurer of that State. He graduated with distinc? tion at West Point and entered the army about the time the Mexican war began. In that war he was distinguished as a gallant y< ung officer. When the civil war began he was a captain of artillery, He threw his fortunes with the south, and, by brave and successful service, rose to tbe rank of major-general. He enjoyed an intimate acquaintance with nearly all of the leading spirits of the confederacy, and is well known to officers of the old army and of the confederate array in all parts of the United States. This is what he says about the confeder? ate treasure iu England: j "Soon after the close of the war I left Havanna on a steamer for Liverpool. On board I met Judah P. Benjamin, whom I had known well for a number of years. During the voyage we conversed freely as to our plaus for the future. We had both risked our all with the cause then lost and the sympathy engendered by our mutual misfortune brought ns much closer together than we had been even in our hitherto intimate acquain? tance. I remember bow sorry I felt for Mr. Benjamin when he told roe tbat he had hardly a dollar in the world; that he was going to London to enter the practice of the law and that he hoped to get along through the influence of some strong friends in England. I considered myself comparatively fortunate. I was on my way to accept a salary of $G,000 a year from a large English commercial house. The first news I bad on my landing at Liverpool was that the house which made me the offer had failed. I had other friends there and found em? ployment. "About one year after Mr. Benjamin and I arrived in England the great bank? ing concern of Owen & Guiley, of Lon? don, went down. It had been long considered one of the stauncbest institu? tions in tbe money capital of the world, and its failure created great excitement. When a statement of its affairs was pub? lished I was surprised to see Judah P. Benjamin's name as a depositor to the enormous amount of 28,000 pounds sterling. I could not understand how my poor "companion du voyage" had accu? mulated such a property within one year, and when I met him I asked him about it, He told me that the failure of the bank was a terrible blow to him. He said he had, a short time before, received a large bequest from one Heiliger, who bad been confederate commercial agent at Nassau. Benjamin always stuck to his Jewish race with admirable fidetty, and through his influence Heilger had been sent to Nassau to represent the confederate government. Benjamin told me that Heiliger died without family and left him his entire fortune. "Mr. Collin McRae, of Mobile, who had figured in the confederate congress, was sent to Eoglaud during the war as financial agent of the confederacy. He was a man of decided ability and bad acquired large influence in London. "I knew there was money to tbe credit of the confederate States iu London, and after we bad been the: e some time Mr. Benjamin told me that McRae had in his possession some GO,000 pounds sterling, which had come to him in bis capacity as financial agent of the lost cause. He said tbat McRae had been to him to ask advice as to what he should do with this money, and that he had advised McRae to hold on to it for tbe present. About this time John C. Breckinridge arrived in England. A proposition was made to bim by Benjamin and McRae to join them and act as administrator of the effects of the defunct government. Gen? eral Breckinridge promptly declined to do so, but did accept six months7 unpaid salary as a confederate cabinet officer. Twelve thousand five hundred dollars, half a year's salary, was forwarded to Mr. Jefferson Davis, and I think all the mem? bers of his cabinet were paid in like pro? portion. "Associated with McRfte in the manage? ment of our finances there was Mr. Bul? lock, of Georgia, who had been largely instrumental in the equipraeut of "The Alabama." When the survivors of that famous cruiser escaped into England after the fatal battle with "The Kear sage," they were all paid in full. This was nearly a year before the cessation of hostilities, but "Tho Sheuandoah," which uuder the command of the gallant Waddell bad been playing havoc with Yankee whalers and shippers in the Pacific did not arrive in an English port until six months after the collapse of the confederacy. McRae paid off the officers and the entire crew from funds then in his hands. But he was very indifferent to the claims of the confederate officers who were then in England and who thought they were as much entitled to a share in this money as anybody else. I had not drawn anything from the gov? ernment for a year before the close of the war, and I presented my pay accounts to McRae. He said be would consult Mr. Benjamin on my case. When I saw him again he said Mr. Benjamin had advised him not to pay me. I finally got my money but I had to press McRae very hard for it. I happened to know of $100,000 which had been turned over to him after tbe war was over. "A man named Murreli who had been engaged in the manufacture of cotton in Arkansas, before the war, was sent by General Kirby Smith to Europe with letters of credit for one hundred thousand dollars to purchase cotton machinery, which he was to endeavor to get into the confeder? ate States. He had not accomplished his mission when the surreuder came, and he delivered the money in bis hands to McRae, as his superior financial agent, reserving only $3,000 to pay for his services, his expenses in Europe, and to take him home. I don't know what became of Murreli. With the 60,000 pounds sterling McRae had when Benja? min advised him to hold on to it for the present, increased by the $97,000 which Murreli turned over to him, he must have had a handsome balance after paying, the officers and men of "The Shenan doab," after sending the half year's salary to Mr. Davis and the members of his cabiuet, and after paying the two or three confederate officers in England, who were able to get anything from him. What became of this money I cannot say. I know that before McRae returned to America he became a banker. "During the war Mr. Benjamin had sent a man named Schultze, a Mobile editor of Jewish extraction, to London to establish an organ of the confederate cause. I hardly think Schultze made a fortune at that business. "A year or so after the close of the war, a bank was opened with offices in London and Bucharest by McRae and Schultze. Tbey conducted business on a rather grand scale for a while and then failed. "McRae finally returned to America and went to Honduras where, I believe, he died. Of Schultze'a fate I am igno? rant.* "Now most of these facts came under my personal observation, and of those of wh^i I do not know personally, I have to^Pidence which is thoroughly satis? factory to me." I asked General Walker at the conclu? sion of this narrative if he believed there was still any money in England to the credit of the confederacy. He replied : "No. I have no idea there is one cent. I know there was a big sum at the end of the war, but it has been absorbed in one way and another long ago." I give this conversation as closely to its original detail as I possibly can. It is a romantic story and contains some information which is new to me, at least. ? Washington Correspondence of the At lantd Constitution. Our Girls. The following from "Gilderoy" iu the Wesleyan Christian Advocate is too good to pass by. He says: And why not let our girls and women do much of the lighter work our boys are now doing? They can do this work just as well, or better than any of the boys. It won't hurt our girls, won't make them less sensitive, less modest, less religious, less prudent, less lady-like. It will make them healthier, wealthier, wiser, strong? er, more independent, more self-reliant, more economical?they will be better women, better wives and mothers and better members of society every way. Girls of this kind will make good help? meets, rather than helpeats, when they get married. Indeed they will iako care of themselves and not marry at all uulesa the boys move up a 'car length or two.' I confess to you, Doctor, tbe outlook for worthy husbands is not very promising in some parts of this country. If some of the young women marry, at all, they will havj to marry a nothing?a nobody or next thing to it. Some silly girls stick their bands in a 'jughandle' and call it 'husband.' A nice, pure woman cau't be happy in the relation of wife to a lager beer keg?she cau't. A woman ?a wife?ought to reverence her hus? band, and she will too. She will rever? ence him next to God, if he is a clean* nice man worthy of it. It is against na? ture, against the nature of a good wo? man?to revereuce an impure, worthless, besotted sort of man. That some good women are gentle and kind to dissipated, worthless husbands, grows out of the fact that they hope, down to the last day, that some change for the better will come over the men to whom they have tied themselves. They sit and long, and wait and pray for a change. Some of these prayers are answered while tbe wife lives, more are answered after the wife dies, and some not answered at all, neith? er in this world nor in the world to come. God will answer prayer, but God can't force a moral agent. That our sons and husbands, for whom we pray are not saved is not because God is not willing, but because they are not willing. No power iu heaven, earth or hell can force the will of a free agent?not even the power of God, nor the power of a good woman. This is one that is not controlled by power. This wife is will? ing and anxious for her husband to be saved, and God is willing and anxious to save him, but the husband 'will not have the man Christ Jesus to rule over him.' The trouble, the obstacle, is the man for whom Christ died and for whom the wife prays. Death of Dr. E. M. Seabrook. Richmond, January 3.?Dr. E. M. Seabrook, a native of Charleston, S. 0., and for four years during the war iu charge of the South Carolina division of the Chimborazo Hospital here, died in this city yesterday. Dr. Seabrook came to Richmond shortly after the breaking out of the war and v. as assigned the posi? tion named. As a surgeon in that fam? ous hospital Dr. Seabrook was known to thousands of old Confederates. He was. a skillful physician. At the close of the war the deceased decided to remain in this city of his adoption. At one time Dr. Seabrook was connected with the Ro? per Hospital in Charleston. At hhi request his remains will be buried in Oakwood Cemetery here among the ten thousand graves of Confederate soldieru who sleep the last sleep in that city of the dead. Dr. Seabrook was about 5li years of age. ? Subscribe for The Intelligence!?. Looking for the Leaks. Columbia, S. C, Jan. 9.?I had a talk on economy tbe other evening with Ex Governor Hagood. He had come up from Barnwell on a matter of private business and had a few idle minutes at the Grand Central Hotel. Of course in South Carolina this year all economic discussions begin with a reference to the achievements of our "Reform Legisla? ture." Ours did. Gen. Hagood said: "There is no room for retrenchment in tbe executive depart? ment. I was in the comptroller gener? al's office four years and know every salary, from 'Bill' Rose's up. You might scrape ?10 from his pay and a propor? tionate amount from the salaries of the clerks and State officers, and might re luce tbe.expenses a thousand dollars in this way, but it would impair tbe service. I'll tell you, as a newspaper man, that there is room for reform iu two depart? ments. The leaks are in the Lunatic Assylum and the Penitentiary. "Do you know bow many patients there are in the Asylum ? About 800, I suppose. When I was Governor I knew there were over GOO, and, as well as I can recollect, all but twenty five were sup? ported by the State. Such a proportion is ridiculous. Any one can see tbat paupers don't have a monopoly of luna? cy. It is evident that there are a great many people in the Asylum who have no right to be there at the expenso of the State. I thought over the matter very carefully when I was Governor, and came to the conclusion that tbe only way to compel those to pay who were able to pay was to make the support of benefi? ciaries a charge against the counties in? stead of the State. This would make the officers whose duty it iR to commit patients to tbe Assylum very careful as to whom they sent as beneficiaries. If they are solicited to send as a free patient one who is not an object of State charily they will be apt to remember tbat for every person obliged by such action several taxpayers will be offended. They will have to account for their actions to the people of their own communities. As it is now, the cost to the county is not directly known ; the county which sends many free patients fares as well as that which sends few, and there is no local responsibility. I made a recommenda? tion of this kind to the Legislature, but the change wasn't made. Some regula? tions wero enacted, but they have proved worthless. I was thought to be callous, bard hearted, a regular Gradgrind, but something of the kind will have to be done before the abuse of tbe State's charity can be reformed. There has been objection to the plan because of the alleged difficulty in making the levy for the different counties, but all tbat is necessary is that the apportionment of cost be made by tbe comptroller-general and the levy for each couuty embodied in the 'supply bill." "Now, as to the Peniteutiary: For j ten years we have had from 600 to 1,000 convicts under sentence, and yet iu only one year did the State receive any profit from their labor. Before the war your people and my people used to pay from $800 to $1,200 for such hands, support them and their dependent families com? fortably, and not only make a fine living out of the investment, but accumulate wealth. Yet these convicts are in a state of slavery even more absolute, and are disciplined with greater care and exact? ness. There must be something wrong when they cannot be made to earn at least their own living. If it were not for the stigma which would attach to con? vict ownership I would be willing to lease the whole Penitentiary. I could make ray fortune out of it. Why, I would pay now from $90 to $110 a year for convicts to work on my plantation in Barnwell, and feed them besides. That is what we are paying for free labor, with the risk of its leaving us at any time." "What is the remedy, General ?" "Let the superintendent be authorized to make contracts for work all over tbe State. Put him in a position where he can bid for the grading of a railroad on any other job of that kind. He can establish camps wherever the work is to be done, and have the convicts under tbe control of officers of the Penitentiary, ensuring them proper care and treatment. There ia nothing to prevent tbe estab? lishment of a dozen braucbes of tbe Penitentiary in different parts of the State. If there is work to be done in Colleton. or in Pickens, let safe stockades be built for the convicts, and put thera to work there." "Then you think that the Asylum and the Penitentiary offer the only field for any considerable reform V "Yes, in the State Government. But our county expenses are altogether too great. In Radical days the State levy used to be as high as ten or twelve mills We have cut that down to four and a quarter mills. Yet the levy for ordinary county purposes, which used to be about three mills in the worst days of Radical? ism, is just as high now. Why can't we reduce the county as -well as tbe State levy? We have too many county officers. The work is divided between a number of men who are generally poorly paid instead of being committed to a few well salaried officers, who could better perform it. But our whole county sys? tem is cumbrous and unsuited to the State. It is too expensive for a sparse population. "It reminds me," concluded the General, with a half smile and a humorous twinkle of the eye, "of a man's buying an elephant to draw a bull tongue plough". Now I must get a cigar." ?Correspondence News and Courier. ? A million a day is the income of the United States Treasury. Up to the year 1861 receipts at this rate for two months would have supplied all the require ments of the Government for a year. ? A genius in Troy has just invented a stove that saves-three quarters of the wood, while the ashes it makes pays for the remainder.?Boston Budge'. ? It is said the oak is creeping out into the prairies, and now covers thous? ands of acres where it did not grow forty years ago. ? It is said that letters are burned at the dead-letler office at the rate of 1,000 a year. mosby is mid. Because of an Attempt to Bribe Him. Washington, January 11.?The hot? test man in Washington to-night is Colonel John S. Mo9by, the famous ex confederate cavalry commander. Mosby is here adjusting his accounts as consul at Hong Kong, and trying to collect six thousand dollars which be claims the government owes him. He is also en? gaged in the preparation of a volume of war reminiscences, and has been delving extensively into the archives of tbe war departmept. While there this morning a clerk said to him : "Colonel, did.you! know there was an effort to buy you off during the war?" "What do you mean?" asked Mosby. The clerk then drew out a bundle of papers, from which be produced copies of two dispatches which made Mosby's eyes gleam with their old lime fire. These remarkable dispatches are as fol? lows : Headquarters Calvary Corps, June 12, 1863.?General R. Ingalls, Chief Quartermaster: Your dispatch received. Ask the general how much of a bribe he can stand to get Mosby's ser? vices? There is a chance for him, and just now he c- uld do valuable service in the way of information as well as hum? bugging the enemy. There's no news. The rebels are alike tbat boy the presi? dent tells about, who stumped his toe and was too big to cry. Birney is up A. Pleasanton, Brigadier General. Headquarters Army of the Poto? mac, June 12, 1863.?General Pleasan? ton : If you think your scheme can succeed in regard to Mosby, do not hesitate as to the matter of money. U6e your own judgment, and do precisely what you think best for the public inter? est. jRufus Ingalls, Brigadier General. When Mosby had read them he said : "This is infamous!" He then took copies of the dispatches* In conservation to-night he said he meant to go to the bottom of this busi? ness and to expose the slander on his character. He said be never dreamed of the existence of any such papers until to day, and that there never was the slightest hint in the nature of negotiation with Ihe northern army made to him during the war. The dispatches were written the day before Pope's disastrous defeat by Stonewall Jackson and Long street at tbe second battle of Bull Run, and it is believed emanated from Pope's headquarters. Pleasanton was then in command of the calvary in Hooker's division, and Rufus Ingalls was quarter? master general of the federal army. Only three days before Pleasanton and J. E. B. Stuart had fought the bloodliest cavalry engagement of the war at Brandy Station, in which neither side could claim the victory. Mosby bore a conspicuons part in that engagement, and that, at the time of Pleasanion's dispatch to Ingalls, Mosby was harrassiDg Hooker's rear. Hooker was on the north bank of the Rappabannock, and Lee was moving toward Pennsylvania, making his way toward Gettysburg, where three weeks later the confederacy received its death blow. Just at ihe time of this corres? pondence between Pleasanton and Ingalls, however, Lee's star was in the ascendant, and if Mosby had been willing to betray tbe confederate cause, it is not likely that he would have chosen such a time. His friends and comrades in Washington share his indignation at the insinuation that he was ready to become the Benedict Arnold of tbe confederacy, and express their absolute confidence in devotion to tbe lost cause. Just what course Colonel Mosby will pursue in this malter he does not indicate, further than to declare his intention to show tbe utter falsity of his imputation on his honor. General Pleasanton is living in Wash? ington in reduced circumstances. Your correspondent sought him to-night, to get his version of this remarkable story, but was unable to find him. General Rufus Ingalls is on the retired list of the army, and resides in New York. There may be some sensation developments In this matter within the next few days. Too Good a Preacher. "How do you like that new minister of yours ?" asked Deacon Snaggs of El? der Berry. "I'm afraid he's too powerful. We can't stand it." "How's that?" "Well, you see, he preached a trial sermon on salvation, and every unre? pentant sinner in the audience came up and joined the church. So we engaged him. The next Sunday he preached on tbe duty of marriage, and every old bachelor and widower in the congrega? tion hooked on to an old maid and was married before Saturday night. He got a five-dollar fee out of every couple. But the worst came last Sunday. He preached upon the duty of giving all to the Lotd, and I hope I may never die if two deacons didn't sprain their backs carrying arouud the contribution baskets, they were so loaded down with silver. When the congregation was dismissed it was just like leaving a faro bank?there wasn't a cent in the crowd. The house had all the money. We can't stand such eloquence." Girls With Bad Tempers. Above all things in the world I can tolerate most anything better than I can a girl that is ugly, saucy and unkind to ber mother, the best friend she has got on earth. Show me a girl that will fly all to pieces and talk ugly to ber mother, and I will show you a girl that is going to make it warm for her home some of these days. Be kind, amiable and gentle, and then when unkind words e.'cape your lips run right to mother and say, "Please forgive me; I didn't mean to do that. I kuow you are my best friend and wish mo better than anybody, and I am sorry in my heart that I said those things." If you can keep a girl in good humor she will do firstrato; but a mad girl will say almost anything. If ycur temper flies off, go and apologize for what you have done.?Sam Jems. ? Love is blind, but it generally pulls dowa tbe curtains, too. The Childhood of Christ? Lot us siugle out the boy, that we may try and see him as he was?afoot like bis brethren, small, growing, and there* . fore slender, says Gen. Lew Wallace, writing in Harper's Magazine of "The Childhood of Christ." His attire was simple; on His bead a white handker? chief, held in place by a cord, one corner turned under at the forehead, the other corners loose. A tunic, also white, cov? ered him from neck to knees, girt at tbe waist. His arms and legs were bare; on his feet were sandals of the most primitive kind, being soles of ox-bide at? tached to the ankles by leathern straps. ' He carried a stick that was much taller, than himself. Tbe old painters, called upon to render this childish figure on canvas, would have insisted upon distin? guishing it with a nimbus at least; some of them would have filled the air over its bead with cherubs; some would have had the tunic plunged into a pot of mad? der ; tbe very^courtierly among them would have blocked the way of both - mother and son with monks and cardi? nals. The boy's face comes to me very clearly. I imagine bim by ihc~roadside on a rock which he has climbed, the bet? ter to see the procession winding pictu? resquely through tbe broken country. His head is raised in an effort at far sight, The light of an intensely brilliant sun: is upon his countenance, which in gen? eral cast is oval and delicate. Under the, folds of tbe handkerchief I see the fore? head, covered by a mass of projecting sunburned blonde hair, which the wind; has taken liberties with and tossed into tufts. Tbe eyes are in shade, leaving s doubt whether tbey are brown, or violet like bis mother's; yet they are large and healthfully clear and still retain the par? allelism of arch between brown and upper lid usually the characteristic of children and beautiful women. The nose is of regular inward curve, joined pret? tily to a short upper lip by nostrils just full enough to give definition to transpa? rent shadows in the corners. The month is small, and open slightly, so that through the scarlet freshness of its lines I catch a glimpse of two whit9 teetbj The cheeks are ruddy and round, and only a certain squareness of chin tells of years this side the day the Eagi laid their treasures at his feet* Putting face and figure together, and mindful of the attitude of interest in what is passing before him, the lad, as I see him on the rock, is handsome and attractive. When the journey shall have' ended, and his mother made him ready for the court of the temple, he may ya&ti tify a more worshipful description; we may then see in him tbe promise of the Savior of men in the comeliness Of budding youth, his sad destiny yet far in the future. Be Kind to the Aged. The loneliness of age? How few think of this and treat with dne tender? ness and consideration those who have outlived their generation, and whose early companions and frienda have been, taken from them! Unable to engage in tbe activities of life tbey are no longer brought into contact and.sympathy with those around them, and the tie o^co-flf" mon interests and mutual dependence binds them together. Their views and tastes have naturally grown apart. They share little in common with others. The future of this life has nothing to inspire; their ambition or excite their hopes. What calls forth the energies of others has no inspiration- for them. They nec? essarily, to a great extent, live in a world of their own, with which those around them are not familiar. The com munings of their hearts are with the scenes of the past and the companions of other years who have long passed away. Lovers and friends have been taken from, them, and their acquaintance laid in darkness. The forms they admired and*; loved are gone, the eyes that looked voM theirs with the tenderest affection 'ami sightless, and the voices that cheered and: stirred their souls have long been silehtS Their early world of hope and life haB become a desolation, and they sit in*af| lence contemplating the ruin that hau been wrought. They have bnt little w interest them in this world. Who woulm not do what he can to cheer the loneM ness of age, to smooth their pathway,Ta? comfort them in their declining years ? : ?Metliodist Record. Farman's Compost. The Southern CuUivator*givea ?to-M lowing formula for a famous fertilizer is the cotton States; The materials of Furman's compos are barnyard manure, cotton seed, aci< phosphate and kainit. The proportioi are thirty bushels, each of the first tw> 400 pounds of phosphate and 200 poun< of kainit. These may be intimate! mixed at first, or put in alternate laye of cotton seed, phosphate and kain and manure and so on. The whole be well moistened and the mixing, the latter case, effected by cutting do? the mass clear through from top to b< torn. You could add to -a heap fro time to time, using always the same pr portions, but it is usual to make up ,aj of a given heap at ODe time. If tw heap is made in pens, as it should be with perpendicular sides and at leastpm feet high, and the compost covered^ top with 3 layer of lich earth ^**flflM thick, there is no necessity forpj rain, unless very excessive, will notniaj than keep the mass as moist as it shotda The compost should be put up at lea|j three weeks before it is to be applied,;! is usually done six to eight weeks in ad vance. ? It is reported that' 900 churches been destroyed during the past tell yean in this country on account of defective heating apparatus. And yet all tbis>j not warning enough to some boardt^ trustees to have their churches insarji To neglect to have a church ins?m shows such a lack of common busine* prudence that, when such a churcfaj burned, it is difficult to raise money a rebuild All our churches should be w Bured against fire in some responsibly company.?Religious Telescope, t^H ? Where was time raised? In tm lapse of ages. M