Carolina Watchman

              .-■ i d ars—pnya - • two dollars -■•■'-' i . i_e<l ileduc • v l of the telegraph / • _■• • • '""• i"!,iors ' tin bract old chief strip i 1 /.._• portion or i . ni ( '. //-.. nship telegraph ( apt . . i at the levee yesterday santiago which place she int by in arrival we matamoros flag of the h and 29th of august and also a ,_- h tter from our valin <'. i orrespondi nt m greene — 1 a number of extracts from well as an important order ._ . j • : .■ gen t.i lor will be found in nns the news by this arrival is intei esting and w iii no doubt s il with anxiety by our readers ui bay lor and his party who were | in have keen cut oil by the ene u'-iv arrived at cerralvo rders of the general government t d to the ordering off of ( en . sts reflections w inch • •• happy to commit to paper ipation of our column pre from doing so we can only now american people will hold ■ - at washington to a strict r thus overslaughing — ■ sht in the man w ho has in of his country's glory i '■ i ou daily xalional ... santiago aug 29 is 17 the opportunity afforded by ro enclose you the general ling the troops on this line ii perceive that the long agony is - esident polk 1ms al last mus . enough lo put his official between l he jaw s of the old lion il hist stripped and the i len ! aside to rusticate or chafe on a never had it fallen to ihe • of petty intriguers to re long in ti state of suspense so and perplexity so cruel to pros it taylor without making the idal to themselves has been a imount in their opinion to boundaries tariffs and liliy i low they im r succeeded mswered by the courtly mr nous rt ri ims i send you a sketch of the disposition of ops to remain in garrison on this which you will perceive what would been lhe force with which gen ']'. . ild have been able to march to s.an hole force now on this hue is i _' thi force it takes 55g8 for gar scorts i.e leaving but 3832 to o \ era ( i u from this latter such troops now here as i ri hi in i ./ out al the time the i t from oliieial authority that i li'itu's force was 10,000 which i posed the country to murmur at his i ig let the union and the i i rulers look at the result and see ni make the people believe that i irj ol general taylor was not iheir i uw to be spared from leduc ( ihioand indiana i . meats 1 company of t and two of indiana • i ttoops and ha\"s tex i giment not yet arrived say 2000 i e been gen j - grand in tiding army i th which to march upon a i tified city of 60,000 souls in i nvirons 1832 h.e father ritchie will not see this i r . for 1 know and respect his sen ■ d fear the official thunder m shell he arms himself from adj - r jones oflice there is some [ ■ •■ justice in this expo jj ivir own act has compelled ihem i usively that gen taylor force to advance and ta intimations of the union to that false and unfounded w truly yours green b ibution of forces on the line of the i after the departure of the fl w under marching orders for ye b - comp 1st irt'v men 1 1 1 b > l ' lili do iui fl 1 do 2d do 93 b '' "' "' 1,,,!l inf i mt'cl vol 511 12 5 do5of3ddrag 1 of 4th ■ art'y 1 mounted vols 1133 b 4 comps 16th inf 403 fl il do 604 rj ' monterey ."> ni irt'y *,» 2nd drug l h . mounted vol 413 42 comp 2191 i *' arters ak.mv of occupation i ■ *••_- near monterey aug 16 47 $ b f've companies of the 10th infan b r he colonel will proceed to ■ jj"s and relieve the ohio regiment mm jtfets ow in garrison there the m j^'iit will then proceed t 0 fira ■ '<-. r u be hhd read >- to embark in hi in i tbe reffi ig compa b h r under lieutenant colo n andt 1 hun ' s corn p«nv of ar captain heed's company ofj t b "_[ li —^ at^4 k m — * ._""_ w tj 3 y " • brunei & james . editors s proprietor ( " ba ' t " °**° "" v '"« ' i "• \ rulers { new series do tnts an ltrfrty is tktt *' j gert'l harrison / number 21 of volume it salisbury n c , thursday september 23 1817 i oxas cavalry wiil form tin garrison of camargo and its dependencies relieving the other troops now on that duly . ii — the indiana regiment of volunteers proceetl to brazos island and will then with the lino regiment embark for vera cruz brig..geu lane will lake com mand of these regiments at the brazos and conduct them to tln-ir destination iii — six companies of the joth regi ment under the colonel will take up the line of march for monterey when thev will relieve the present garrison compos ed n s.x companies of the massachusetts regiment tin remaining four companies under the lieutenant colonel will in like manner relieve the battalion of the mas sachusetts regiment at cerralvo the troops thus relieved will proceed to tbe brazos and be there concentrated under the command of col wright iv — flic 13th regiment will proceetl to tiie brazos as soon as practicable after the companies of the massachusetts regi iin-nt now at cerralvo shall have passed down iln river v — brig gen cushing will take up the line oi inarch not later lhan the 22d instant wiih capt davis light battery company b 4th artillery lie will pro ceed to tin brazos when he will bring under his orders the 13lh regiment and massachusetts regiment and thence con duct his entire command one battery and two regiments to vera cruz \ i — brig gen hopping will remain in command of the district of the upper bio grand and will establish his head quarters when he may select should it in found necessary to retain the gener al hospital at mier a sufficient guard will be furnished for iis protection and also a •- 1 1 f i i c i < * 1 1 1 force of medical officers and attendants must be detailed from the regiments which leave their sick great care will be taken to furnish descriptive rolls of all attendants and patients thus detached colonel belknap is especially charged with the regid enforcement of ibis ordi . vii — col hays with his command of texas horse will march for the brazos and ihere embark for vera cruz in con formity wiih lhe instructions issued to him hy i in war i department \ iii the above movements will be executed with tbe least possible delav — the quartermasters and other staff de par i in nts will furnish the necessary trans portation ami otlnr facilities for the pur pose by order of maj gen taylor vv vv bliss ass't adj gen passive obedience we do not think says the alexandria gazette the public litis as yet sufficiently examined and condemned the course sketched out originally by 1 esident polk in his message to congress and since fol lowed assiduously by the government offi cial journal aud its affiliated presses in relation to the imputation of moral treason on those who presume to differ with the executive with regard to the war with mexico or any war into which the coun try may be hastily or injudiciously plung ed it was a new discovery here or at least the first introduction ofthe old eu ropean doctrine of •' passive obedience into the polities of ihis couniry and the author should have till the credit due fo this imprint mint upon even the arbitrary notions of one of his illustrious predeces sors what had been long since exploded in england and is now not fashionable in france i.s revived on republican amer ica and the chains with which power would hind the thoughts and the free o piuions of men merely attempted to he concealed with empty and vain pretences so flimsy that all must see the galling iron beneath it is not a light thing that this attempt should now have been made it shows the effrontery as well as the wickedness of power if it is allowed to pu 0 e hon orable men under the ban because thev do not think and wil not say that the ex ecutive was right in bringing on this war with mexico and for refusing to unite in lauding the motives and conduct of those who were instrumental in afflicting us with iis evils it will be a very easy step to proceed a^'little further in the down ward course of despotism and introduce something slill more stringent to curb the freedom of speech if not the right to think a sedition law is nol far off when the leaders of a dominant party have the au dacity to anathematize those who do not acknowledge fealty to an administration because that adminstration is conducting a war in which it has involved the coun try and what more monstrous than the as sumption thus made by the administra tion and its journals ! they confound the government with those who execute the laws — and raise up presidential preroga tive as the object of homage and submis sion they place a bit in the mouths and a rein upon the tongues of the people and their representatives because war ex ists there must he silence — the silence of despotism ! is this a doctrine to be preach ed before and enforced upon a free coun try ? instead then of tamely submitting to the denunciations a_d imputations of the administration let those assailed turn up on their accusers anil whilst vindicating the rights of the people to think what they please and say what they please,concern ing the conduct of public affairs in war ns well as peace charge home upon them the fact of attempting to revive at borne tli odious principle of passive obedi ence to power the f.ditor ol th democrat in avow ing himself in favor of conquering and an nexing all of mexico has merely adopted what is now understood to he tiie object of this war and the cherished purpose of the administration after protesting that the war was not waged for conquest the editor of the government organ has at length grown bolder than he formerly was and declared that if we do not subjugate and annex mexico the war will prove an •* utter failure and all the victories we have gained will only render us ridiculous in the opinion ofthe world other loco foco editors like our neighbor of the de mocrat emboldened by the example of the government editor have taken the same ground until it can scarcely be doubled that it is the intention of a large proportion ofthe locoloco party to bring into this confederacy all of mexico with all her vile ignorant and lawless popula tion amounting to seven or eight millions of souls this infamous scheme of c in quest and approprial ion of national wrong and robbery — the most magnificent wick ed and heaven-defying scheme that ever disgraced a government professing to re spect the principles of honor and justice — is gaining ground alarmingly in high and low locofoco quarters and it cannot longer be doubted that a hot and perilous struggle will be made to accomplish it we know that the magnitude of this scheme will cause many persons to doubt whether it is seriously entertained by the administration we do not pretend to say that mr polk has all along had his cupidity fixed on such an enterprise al though there are many circumstances which strongly sustain the supposition that it has long been secretly entertained by the administration our rulers begin to despair of bringing mexico to adopt the terms they wish her to accept and being unwilling to relinquish any portion of the conquests made by our armies have probably concluded that the best me hod will be to conquer all of the territory and liol*l military occupation of it until the people ofthe united states can be induc ed to favor the annexation of the whole of mexico — louisville journal volunteering the military spirit seems to be as active as ever in kentucky only a short time litis elapsed since the requisition on the governor of that state for two more regi ments of volunteers was received bv thai ollicer and yet we hear of live companies having been reported to him for accept ance on thursday last viz two from fay ette county two from franklin and one from owen six or seven companies were in course of organization in louisville on the other hand we observe that governor brown of mississippi has found it necessary to issue a proclamation to the people of that state informing them that on the 2.3d ulliino the time appointed for completing the five companies to form a battalion of volunteer riflemen some time ago called for by the president of the i nited states only one company had bt t n reported and urging the different military divisions of the state to furnish their re spective quotas as speedily as possible not delaying beyond the 25th of the pre sent month the governor thinks that the delay in furnishing these troops from his state is attributable to an idea on the part of the people that to raise a single battalion was so light a matter that no effort was necessary he hopes that ac tive exertions will now be made to fulfil the requisition — nat tut the national intelligencer says — a gentleman who has just arrived in wash ington from the white sulphur springs \ irginia informs us that himself and a number of other gentlemen were in mr clay's room a few minutes titter he bad heard ofthe death of the lamented gov ernor wright mr clav was deeply af fected and paid a touchingly beautiful im promptu tribute to the honored dead by alluding to his generous nature uncom promising integrity accomplished powers in deb.ate and bis eminent public servi ces though policall opposed these dis tinguished statesmen in their frequent ami unrivalled discussions ol great nation al questions in ihe senate of the uniied nates ever maintained towards each oth er the highest respect and the warmest feelings of attachment honoiable alike to the living and the dead is the incident here related and we have pleasure in giv irfg it to our reatlers it is supposed that about 37 or 38 mil lions bushels of grain were sent from the u s to great britain from the 1st of sep tember 184(5 to the early part of last month this was worth at a fair aver age about forty-five millions of dollars the traveller statesthat the boston i ron company have such a demand for their railroad lion that they are obliged to keep iheir works in operation night and dav thev have just closed a contract for 50,000 tons nova scotia coal great failure i.n new york currexpandence of thr baltimore american new york sept 9 4 p m then was much gloom to tiny among bust nes.s men caused by the failun of ml ssrs prime it aril se co for v hut amount is not known nor is it thought that they themselves know it is said that they were offered 500,000 il they would agree to go on ; i>u1 that they de clintd it the statements which came out by liie late steamer caused a run upon the house l>y depositors and creditors lo such an extent as t.i induce them in top at dice the ilure of such a house necessarily cre ated considerable panic ii wall street the new york express uf thursday after noon says — the stoppage ofthe extensive firm of prime ward k co has very naturally caused a gen eral sul.jcct of conversation in wall stree — we are happy to say however tbat the firm of john ward & co will not be affected by the same although mr ward is partner it both firms the firm of john ward <\_ co will he dissolved by ihe withdrawal of mr ward and all their engagements be fulfil ed a new firm will be established composed oflhe other mem bers oflhe house who will go on with the bu sitiess none of the bills of prime ward & co have yet come back but it is anticipated that they will be ret r „ e d by the next steamer it is also bel.eyedthat the stoppage will not bring down any other house the new york commercial of thursday af ternoon has the following article : the failure of one of our largest private bank - i i ing houses ihe name of which has been a tow er of strength heretofore and that of an indi vidual member ol another house ofthe firsl class were announced in wall street this morning causing considerable sensation it is intima ed how truly we know nol that the stoppage ot the former was occasioned by lhe private depositors wilh lhe house calling tor their funds added to embarrasments caused by the non payment of bills drawn upon the other side of il.e atlantic since the above was put in type we have received the following circular new york 9th sept is 17 dear sir — we regret lo inform you that ow ing lo lhe recent failure of some of our curies pondents in europe on whom we have a large amount of hills remaining we feel it is incum bent upon us both from a sense of duty and as an act of prudence to suspend payments \ ery respectfully yours prime ward & co a new york idler in the philadelphia in quirer says : there is considerable excitement in wall street lo i\,iy caused by lhe suspension of the linn ol prime ward c co one of our oldest wall street houses it is supposed it was caused l.y the failure of giles son __ co of england extensive corn merchants the prox imate cause of iheir suspension was ihis : they were employed by jacob little to purchase se ven thousand shares of norwich stock and thev found themselves unable to make good the mo n ey they frankly said they were unable lodoso and gave the name of their principal lr one hour mr little succeeded in raising 300 000 dollars the whole amount of the stock but lhe excitement it nccosioned him was more than his system could stand for as soon as he met the obligation he lain in the course ofthe afternoon messrs prime ward vs co is sued their circular announcing lhe suspension another new york letter in the philadel phia american says — the all engrossing topic of the day in wall street has been the suspension of the house nf prime ward cc co this important house has been obliged by the stoppage of several corn houses in louden to suspend payments a a matter of prudence their liabilities are be tween one and two millions of dollars their assets must be large as several of lhe partners are wealthy and ihey have a huge amount of produce in england the head of the house mr john ij ward is also of the bouse of john ward c jo which will go on weakened of course to the extent of mr ward's interest in it which is involved in the fate of the other house it is not supposed that the house can in any event pay less than 7 cents on lbe dollar and should ciles son z co and alexander <_. co pay what they assert they can prime ward s.v co will undoubtedly pay every liiiiiii and exhibit a large surplus messrs barings are probably the largest creditors as they have protested a large amount d p w <_: o.'s hills the failure has produced naturally a greal deal of excitement in the monied circles the great fall in norwich yesterday eleven per cent may be traced ultimately to this stop page mr secretary buchanan says thr phil adelphia news has received a very se vere and mortifying rebuke from his own party and in the place where his ancient residence was fixed the locofoco con vention of lancaster county assembled in lancaster city some days ago and form ed the ticket for the coming election a series of resolutions were also adopted in which polk shank longstreth zc were lauded to the skies and among them was the following : resolved that the democracy of lan caster county have full and continuetl con fidence in the hon james buchanan the favorite son of pennsylvania the talent ed and indefatigable secretary of state for his able administration of said depart ment one of mr buchanan's oldest friends col keah frazer rose up immediately af ter its ing read and in language not at all courteous to mr buchanan declared his opposition to it great was the as tonishment of some of the secretary's pe culiar friends and tln-ir anger was strong and frothy but it availed nothing for the resolution was postponed and mr buch anan stands condemned by the very men who not long since lauded him as worth v ol being chief of the nation the lancaster intelligencer has an ed itorial article relative to the resolutions and proceedings but it does not utter a word concerning the rough treatment of " pennsylvania's favorite son " potomac the washington correspon dent ofthe baltimore patriot in his letter of the 10 h instant says : — •• yon w \\] u \ ) . serve from an article in the • union a few evening's since that the administra tion counts upon keeping gen taylor in the ield whether he will or no until the war is up or at least until ihe next presi dential election shall be over ! the i'l ion would like to know bow gen taylor can come home wiihout leave no matter how badly he may have been treated any more than either of the subordinate offi cers under him ! the • union would al so have the people to know that the pre sident is the only commander-in-chief re cognized by the constitution and the laws ! the idea probably is that if gen taylor ' a u <. be kept in the field he will be apt to tjechne being a candidate for the presi dency nevertheless general taylor will pro bably make a trip to tbe united states in the course of the next thirty davs _ gentleman from kentucky informs me that lie saw the general's overseer in ken tucky a week or two ago and learned that a letter had been received by him irom gen taylor stating that he would return to the united states some time in september according to thegivingsout ofthe " union he has not yet asked leave of absence oi tht only constitutional com mander-in-chief and will no bc very apt to obtain it if he does ask ! there have been as i learn ten addi tional clerks recently appointed in the pension oliicc from lhc~l,,:r,i.r advocate messrs editors i ---.- it stated in a st louis paper that a sheaf of wheal was this season grown from a single kernel of seed on lhe farm of mr sappington near that city con tabling serenty stalks that is certainly a ve ry extraordinary yield any where out if wis consin ; hut as some evidence f what nature and art have done and are doing for our hi-di ly favored state or rather lerrdory as we are doomed yet fo style it although possesing all the elements lo constitute a commonwealth of'great er population and resources lhan either rhode island delware arkansas florida iowa or i'exas each of which is a sovereign state of this i nioti i will ins nn you thai mi henry m speed pulled from a field cultivated by him on the farm of philo white in the adjoinin town of mount pleasant a hunch of rye con taming ninety odd stalks the product ofoneker nil oj seed ' this most extraordinary product of a single grain of rye looked indeed like a sheaf and although lbe kernels in the whole hunch were not counted there must have been at a moderate estimate not far from kill — showing a yield ot fin thousand fold a few quarts ot sueh seed would be sufficient to sow an acre instead of a bushel and a half the quan tity commonly used vv july 24 l847 tiik portsmoth ro\d we understand that the boston capitalists who purchased the portsmouth road a month or two since have sold out to another compa ny and that the idea of improving that rs-ad and forming a connection between it and die raleigh and gaston road has been abandon ed these facts !. ive come to us only in the form of rumor and therefore we du not vouch lor their correctness should tbey however urn out to he true the i-esu.t will le that our communications with petersburg alone will have to continue and ihat lhe prospect of an extension .* from this place will he to some extent ohscur ed we reiied iu a great degree up n the en ergy and foresight of these boston capitalists not only for a connection wiih portsmouth and norfolk hut for a continuation ol the line to camden hut under this new view oflhe case with tne portsmouth r»a ! sold out and lhe idea ol improving and extending il abandoned wiih the raleigh and s.i--on road ui a consiauly liiiiing condition and with hut little disposition among our citizens generally lo undertake with their means alone any further improve ments we confess we see but hide hope at present for lhe success ofthe metropolitan line that here will be and at no distant day a line through lhe slate uniting the great routs of ihe north and south and c mmanding theiravel of the interior we have do doubt ; and just now we have no hesitation i saving fortune seem to sit upon the manchester line al any rate while it is but natural ihal we should de.-ire ml see our own section prosper and would prelerm the roule which might promise to make raleigh ■ a depot of irade and a thoroughfare ot travel ■ still we have astrongaftaebmeut br wilmington h as indeed for all portioosof the good old state h and would encourage its enterprising citizens h in all laudable etl.its to promote their pn.sper-h ilv and augment their wealth bol will a lineh of rail r«»ad to manchester of itself he h valuable to the pes pie wilmington a they sup-h p,,s e i will thev in a word succeed in ma-h king that place what tbey desire it lo t — al great and leading market town for lhe state — mm without tapping western carolina by lhe vs-aym of faieiteville or raleigh h raleigh standard ■ l.tii carolina novel we learn , % procnaot mrssro il-i \. ., -, ,. r k a nt . w tbe m .-■'. and 1 guly ..,.; r , ..... .. v - mi of ihe best crit ics in america amoagm others b i * v gusw-ou sutr.or of poets an_l poetry of america ic fc , i a ■ ligenoos scenes i m va - 1 bave r-irv .. continues mr 6 a r and it is .*. and in -.- a sens . -- vv • \. rth 1 s will stand b . „,,. id ahs*n the book is . ni a '■'•'• we « :,- amt all jsatrssnizr it /.'-.' register a genuine yankee •* halloo my good friend can von in form me how fnr it is to the next lion jonathan started op leaned on bis hoe handle — rested nne foot on the gambril of his sinister leg and replied halloo yourself how ifdut wal i guess 1 can taint near so ar as it used to be before they cut the door ol the woods away — then it was reckoned four miles but now the sun shrivels up the road and lit don't make morn lew the lirst house bvou come to is a barn and ihe next is a ihay stack : hosklin's house is on beyond h.ou'il be mire to meet bis gals before you bg.t there — tarnin rompin critters they h plague our folk more'n a little his sheep i gits into our orchard had sets the dog barter the sheep and me arter the gals — ■ and the way he makes lhe wool and 1 the ■ petticoats fly is a sin to snakes ■ h 1 see you are inclined to he facetious ■ young man pray tell me how it happen ■ ed that one of your legs is shorter than the ■ other i i never lows ny body to meddle with liny grass tanglers mister hut seein it's you ll'li tell you 1 was born so at my ticlar irequesl so that when 1 hold the plow i lean go with one foot in the furrow and itother on land aud not lop over besides in convenient when i mow around a hill i " very good indeed — how do your po htatoes come on this year p h they don't come on at all — i digs em lout and thar's a tarnation snarl on em in i * hill h " hut they are small 1 perceive h " es i know it vou see we planted h>omewhoppin'blue noses over in that patch ■ there and they flourished so al fixedly jhat ■ these stopped growin just out of spite he c.tuse they ktiow'd they couldn't keep up !" i " you appear to be very smart and i should think you could afford a better hat than the one you wear i " the looks ain't nothing — it's all in the ■ " \ ou have lived in these parts some time i should guess .'" " 1 should guess so tew i was born'd and got my brotin up in this ere house — hut my native place is down to pordrank ■ " then you say it's about three miles lam a half to the next house i " yes sir twas a spell ago — and i don't it's grow'd much shorter since csond bye to ye — that's a darn slick mare ■ ol progress of astronomical discovery — ■ in 1600 seven bodies were known fo f.e ■ long to our system — the un and mpon ■ m.-rcui-y venus mars jupiter ami s.tt lurti iu 1700 there had been added ♦•!«•- i ven namely lour satellites of jupiter live ■ of saturn the earth itself which was ■ fully recognised as a planet and ha keys ■ c'iimef though the prediction had not been ■ verified in 1 •**•<><. there had been added i nine namely uranus with six satellites iwith two satellites of saturn william lllerschel left the solar system half as i luge again in number of bodies as be i found it since 1800 there have been i added nine namely vesta the one yet i i.tiihristened hencke's astnr juno i ceres pallas neptane encke's comet land biele's comet if m lassell should i be right in what be suspects to be a sat lellite ol neptune for nine we must read i ten — nston transcript ■ mr clay has been nominated for lbe presi ■ dency by lie democratic whig voting men's ■ ienera committee of new i the fol ■ low ing is tbe re_oluti'.ii : ■ resulted that in 1 1 _ - * designation of tbe •>•'. ■ son for the whig candidate for the approaching ■ ranvass we have encountered no embarrass ■ menls have met wiih no discordant opinions ■ and for that bigb-and solemn trust wt il it«-t ■ hesitate again to i " or bshields the much-lot ig-bonored nam lot henry clay i arrow heads have lately been found in the bnighborhood of the sin thsonian institu i tion where the ground has been excavated ■ the red man formerly had h - • re bor his wigwam but seiei • pos i session ofthe soil g thereon i her temple i roblxsoiv & i:i.l)!{i:i)s i new york circus iry m im i jl 31i and houses i salisbury saturday ocl bei 2d i i tanee the iiiiini m-i < aval-cade _■ i ■ new > ma : t1fi 1 ' ream « ' 1 re iiov ki:i:v th ti is v • for 1 . 1am lot nt •■ 1847 — 1 ' "-• i • ■ j : ai concord on tu -