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tern f the watehiama bo i s i up'"1 l"'r r two dollars payable in bui it n 1 paid in advance two dollars | m an i fifty . ta will he charged h..vi::;nsem.:\ts inserted at 8 forthe first anil 2 cts ■for each 8ab3eqieni insertion court orders chaiged i ii er ot higher ihan these rates a liberal ilcjuc i uo.-i to i!i --■who advertise by the year r.etteks io the editors must be postpaid sklxth for busbands bt t p arthur i mrs lundy had been up half an hour u>y m nit various matters when mr m,iiiidy crept out of bed and commenced jlfu»>iii_r himself [ '• 1 wish you would gel mc some hot wa ter aggy ho said to his wife 1 must jlhavi myself this morning i mrs lundy was busily ei.gr.ged in ressing i little resisting urchin i ' yes dear she replied " in a moment and kepi on with her work intending to ftiisli dn ssin the child before she went wwii stair for the hot water * mr lundy waited about a minute and said a little impatiently 4 1 wish you would get it for me now j^gnes i can't finish dressing myself un til i shave mrs lundy ceased her work pot down the child and ;_.".: the hot water mr lundy in an ins shaving when half through he directs his wife to tell bill to lean the old boots as his new ones hurt vim ; completing his toilet he goes down to tbe reading room and reads his paper eight o'clock the breakfast hour arrives nd mr lundy is a punctual man but lundy has five children and herself lo get ready the baby cries will breaks his shoe string mary wants a sin ; and in quieting he first and helping ie others minutes fly all isdone mrs lundy proceeds to arrange herself when l_p conns mr lundy with good heavens agnes ain't you pressed yet .'" exclaims her husband com ing to tl chamber door with his watch in his hand * it is lea minutes pa eight ; bow i've been ready and waiting for jliiee ihan half an hour ll i .- along in a minute i've only r to put up and a dress to slip i ri-pht d mrs lundy silenced but not convinced the hus band goes grumbling down stairs and re [ ct.m.in ne.s walking the floor but with a avier and more rapid step ' go up and see il your mother isn't al most ready i'm in a great hurry this morning mr lundy says to one of the children alter the lapse of two minutes ahich seem lo the impatient man at least fi e • i'm coming he hears on the stairs om his wi i'm glad of if he rather gruffly re ponds * 1 knew your minute would'nt be mu'h less mian half an hour 1 wish you vculd try to be more punctual : this ever i fce;n hehind time annoys me terribly there are some meek words said about me time it tak .. to dress and see after so plain chiidrt n : but they make no impres sion whatever on the mind ot mr lundy they are uttered as a kind of excuse a:id he regards them as of no more account \ the sausages are done to dealh — the coll'ee is mere dishwater — mrs lundy is bidden to look after s trail the cook — she ! pleads hard work and then bill brings the new boots mr lundy scolds away 1 but at last the children get off to school and the ismn man proposes to start out ju m this moment be looks at his wife and sa\s are you not well agnes no she replies i've been suffering ith a dreadful tooth ache all the morn ing and i l.el as j every nerve in my bead were i li ' \\ hy du _ ou have lhat tooth out ? would not suffer as you do if i had to i have every tooth in my head extracted mrs lundy turns away with feelings of discouragement she is heavily bur den d and has no true sympathy mr lundy walks towards his store health iu every vein and vigor in every miisel ; and his wife goes wearily up to her chamber half mad with pain and ev ery nerve excited and quivering mr lundy dials with customers sells goods pays bills and does a good morn ing's husine.s and is ready with a good appetite for his dinner mrs lundy has to go to market and returns home worn nd exhausted then at twelve run in mag__v willie and mary hungry as they can be the poor woman does all she can well at half past one in stalks mr lundy — snah the cook was behind hand she let t lie lire go down — and din ner was not ready at the regular time she was in her chambei suffering pain ". • is it possible too bad i too had she heard him say as he paused on his way up stairs at the dining room door and saw that not even the table was set 1 wonder what good it is for a man to have i house of his own if he can't have ■things as he pleases - i declare agnes ! i'm out of till pa tieiu-i he said entering her chamber a few minutes afterwards ' i told you when 1 went ; way this morning lhat i wished dinner at the hour and there is'nt even a sign of its being ready it really looks as if it were done on purpose jtf if 1 had the cooking to do you should nev-i r wait a minute 15ut 1 can't always ma servants do as 1 please replied mrs lundy ■that's all nonesense i don't believe a^vord of it 1 wonder how i'd get along yifk my business i i were to let the clerks " do as they pvase 1 have a certain order m my business and every subordinate has his duties an i knows that they must be done reduce all your household in a hers ip alike ot'ih r and keep everyone strictly jw her duty and you'll have things right u not without '!; you had ignorant careless self blh-d girls to deal with instead of intel clerk you might line ii as difficult 9 i do to have all things iu order h*seiid them away if they don't do as the carolina watchman bruxer & james ) . „ . keep a check cpox all yocr editors y proprietors \ rulers ) new series do this and liberty is safe > gen'l harrison ) volume v number g salisbury n c thursday june 8 1848 you wish ill nnver keep a girl in ihe bouse an hour it she did'nt do every thing as i directed ' 1 ou don't know anything about it mr lundy it is easy to say send off your cook if she is ti-n or twenty minutes later with a meal or servos it up badly or dors any other tiling disorderly or objectiona ble but it is wots to have no cook than a bad one ; and as to good ones they are hard to be found mr lundy met this with our of his sweeping specimens of argumentation and completely silenced his wife ' but he said impatiently ' 1 can't wait your cook's movements my business has to be attended to and away he flounced from the house in ten minutes the bell rang tell sarah lhat mr lundy could'nt wait and that i don't want any dinner said mrs lundy to the waiter this is one day's history in mrs lun dy's life need we be startled when told that her husband was killing her by inch es ? adds the author but no one suspected this not even mr lundy himself the idea that he wits murdering his wife by a slow and cruel death would have shocked him ; and he would have felt the intimation of a thing as an unpardonable outrage and yet such was really the fact he was really mur dering her \ ear after year her duties and her toils increased the history of a day that we have given was an epitomed history of her life mr lundy wrapped up in his schemes of gain and rigid in his notions of order punctuality and formal proprie ties had no real sympathy for his wife and was ever complaining of the little irregularis incident to his household and ever adding to instead of relieving the oppressive wearying and ever recur ring duties that were bearing her down it was a common thing for himself ro bust and in high health to sit in his easy chair wilh dressing gown and slippers and ask his tired wife who could scarcely move without feeling pain to hand him this that or the other thing ; to ring tbe bell for the servant or even to goto iheir chamber and bring him something from a drawer to which he was not willing that a domestic should go meeker more patient more loving in her character grew mrs lundy bv'stif fering she was purified it made the heart ache to see icr moving by the side of her erect florid elastic treading hus band more like a pure shadowy form than a real substance ; and to feel assur ed that in a very little while the place that knew her and the children and friends who loved her would know her and love her no more > at last she died and six li'lle ones ere left without the affectionate care of a mo ther if her husband who wept so bitter ly o'er her too early grave did not mur der her we know not the meaning ofthe word murder when it was loo late he could remember her long suffering her patienc . her wrongs received at hishands but while she lived he was too selfish to appreciate or properly care for her husbands if you love your wives think of these things don't say lhat the story suits mr so-and so admirably look narrowly into your own sayings and doings at home and see if it doesn't suit you in more than one particular lamartine's polities in 1832 — n answer to lady hester stanhnpe ihe sister and in early iife tin secretary of the celebrated william i'ii ly when thai " eccentric personage told to him the distinguished pari le was hereafter to act on the world's great s'ngo and which she •* read in the slurs bv science cradled and still cherished in the east though at present losl in europe tin astonished poej disappointed the prophetess by assuring her lie was not like herself an aristocrat iain continued lamartine nr-iih.r an aristocrat nor a democrat i hive lived lon enough to have found on examining both side's ofthe medal of human nature that they are equally hollow my principles areas little aris tocrat as ihe reverse / am a man and an ex elusive advocate of any system lhat may tend t improve and perfect the whole man wbelh er he l,e horn at the top or at llu loot of the social seal 1 neither espouse the cause of tin people nor of i lie great ; but that of man kind in general ! i do not believe that aristo crat or democrat institutions possess the exclu sive virtue of rendering human nature perfect this virtue is only to he found in a perfect reli gion * * * * * * '• i belong * to the parti who do not desjiisc their inferiors in the social scale ; while ihey respeel those above ihem : whose wish he it a dream or not is to raise all men without rogtnl to the nature of the place they hold in the hirarchies of politics to the same degree of knowledge of liberty and of moral pet lection :! the w higs rnough orr defeated are sot vet subdued — washington union very true mr ritchie nor is this all they don't intend in he subdued they suf fered themselves lo he defeated in 1844 hy an overwhelming confidence in their strength and by not watching with sufficient vigilance the movements of tho enemy but they want to have a leader who whipped mr polk & cos cracked mexican gexer vi ami they won't fear ihe subordinates — rah igh register warrants jus printed on new type and on ex cellent paper for sale at this office rrom the inew york courier and enquirer from europe arrival of the hibernia the steamer ilibernia arrived at this port to-day at 10 o'clock we received i our papers immediately including lon don dates of the 13th inst the news is not of serious importance ; ; though of a good deal of interest in france everything is quiet a tern j i porary executive committee ol ftce mem ! , bers has been resolved upon and appoint . ed the list of members is published be low lemartine has lost ground in the as sembly as will be seen by the votes he \ received the fact is attributed to the ! i favor he has shown to ledru rollin an insurrection has occurred in rome ! , against the pope because he refuses to j declare w.-.r against austria a new ministry has been appointed in lombardy a decisive engagement ; j was daily expected between charles al , bert and the austrians at verona germany continues to be agitated on the prussian polish frontiers there j is still great trouble a series of severe | ; battles has been fought between the prus ! sians and poles — in which the former j were beaten with great slaughter the ' whole province of posen is in arms in england everything is quiet ireland is more tranquil trade in england has been good con sols on the 12lh opened at 84 to \,\ \ whence they declined to 83i for account ! they recovered however and closed at j i s3j to § for cash and 83 for time monet was plenty cotton has declined d on all qualities j under fair the imports had been heavy in flour there has been little variation j best western canal is quoted at 27s 6d i while middling qualities are sold at 25s j od to 20s gd the sugar market is stead the washington arrived out in 14 days and twenty hours the following extracts contain the lead i : ing items of general intelligence from the london times may 13 by electric telegraph a military insurrection took place at madrid on the 7th inst at 4 o'clock in the : : morning which was suppressed after a i ' sanguinary conflict which lasted several hours the number of dead was not known but it was considerably greater than in ' : the insurrection ofthe 20th of march among the killed was the captain gen j eral fulgosio brother-in-law of maria ; christina j | thirty-four of the prisoners taken — one \ ! half of them civilians the other half mil ' itary men — were tried and sentenced to ; death by a court-martial and were about to be shot when the post left the paris papers of yesterday an ! nounce the formation of the new ministry i for france : it consists of messrs bastide ' recurt cremieux carnot chanas flo con duclerc bethmont frelat mid ad ! , miral casy j ir was apprehended that an armed de ■; monst ration in favor of the poles would take place in paris this day ! some of the journals announced that the pope had been deposed and the re public proclaimed at rome but the news seemed premature boulogne may 11 an order has just come from paris to put the whole line of coast in a slate of defence and to mount guns on the detach j ed forts which are built a little way out : at sea the gates ofthe upper town are also to be repaired and fortified this looks like a preparation for war france the national assembly agreed on mon day evening to refer to a committee the ! nomination of the interim government the committee to consist of one member from each ofthe 18 bureaux the mem bers chosen showed a preponderance of the parly the committee yesterday gave in its report by the hands of m peupin one of its members it had agreed by a majority of 14 to 4 upon reporting that the assembly should elect directly by bal lot nine individuals to act as ministers wilh a president of the council without portfolio an animated debate followed the read ing of the report in the course of the debate ihe abbe lacordai re supported the republican list for ministers at length the president put the question and the mode of nomination proposed in the re port was rejected by 411 to 385 the se cond proposition was that the assembly should nominate an executive commission which again should nominate ministers and the third is that the provisional gov ernment retain office till the constitution is decreed m de beranger had resigned his seat in the assembly on saturday at the assembly which at its rising was adjourned till monday m de lamartine read the report of the pro visional government on the state of france the report met with great applause from : the assembly m ledru rollin followed \ in a long address in which he complained bitterly of the calumnious reports which had been circulated respecting him frotn these calumnies he vindicated himself professing that he held moderate opinions j his address produced a favorable impres ! sion on the assembled deputies on mon j day m gamier pages presented his fi nancial statement a letter from lyons says : the army of the alps have received the war equipment and mules have heen i purchased to convey the baggage gen | oudinot general-iu-chief has reviewed ; the troops and has gone to grenoble j where he has established his head quar i ters at lyons it is generally supposed the army will soon cross the frontier paris wednesday the national assembly after a con fused and agitated discussion last night agreed to the adoption of the resolution j in favor of an extensive commission of i government to be composed of live mem j bers the names to be balloted for on : the following day paris wednesday evening the assembly met to-day for the pur ! pose of balloting for the executive com \ mittee government m martin de strasbourg said that m j dupont de 1'eure had declared to him j that he would not act if nominated af ter some further conversation the assem i bly at half-past one o'clock proceeded to vote and the scrutiny was completed at ! four o'clock j the following is the result : number of votes 791 absolute majority 398 lamartine g13 ledru rollin 453 marie 702 gamier pages 715 arago 705 the president accordingly declared the i citizens lamartine ledru rollin marie ' gamier pages and arago members form ing the executive commission of gov 1 ernment m wolowski then brought forward his ! proposition for a committee to examine 1 into the state of the working classes but ' after having developed his views he ab i ruptly turned to the question of poland ; \ and was followed by m ducoux who de claimed about the state of their demo ; cratic brethren in germany italy and po i land m de lamartine in a few sentences from his seat observed how difficult it was for a government so formed and un ! der such circumstances togive such pledg ; es as were demanded ; they should recol ' lect the reserve imposed upon him but he would declare that should the moment for ' co-operation arise he would not forget i what was due to the french flag and most assuredly the conduct of 1831 would not be renewed in 1848 m montalem bert endeavored to obtain a more precise expression from the government ; but m de lamartine on an appeal to the cham ber was supported in his determination ' it was settled that a day should be ap pointed for an interpellation on the polish question the celebrated george sand was pre sent in the ladies gallery and attracted general attention the central committee of the nation al guard's democatic club have issued a most energetic protestation against the odious calumnies and provocations to ci vil war published by the clubs of blanqui and barbes to protect the deliberations of the as sembly it is understood that a battalion of each legion ofthe national guards is under arms and the mobile guard and military are kept in readiness to act at a moment's warning the committee de paris which pro fesses to be the organ of the clubs ridi cules the conduct ofthe chamber which is losing time in words while the reaction is gaining ground in europe declaring that the best eloquence would be the sound of the drum and calls for war a gainst prussia austria naples c ifcc the journal des de debats of thursday confirms the reports that pope pius ix is at present a prisoner in the hands of his unruly subjects being virtually confined to his palace rome has regularly re belled against him and the probability is that his holiness will be disposed of as a temporal prince in fact the entire ex ecutive authority appears to be exercised by the new ministry without any control on the part of the pontiff carlsri.if may 1 our city is still in a state of siege — six cannons mounted on ludswig's quay on the rhine — the citizens have received no tice of large billettings of soldiers being about to be imposed upon them and we are about to have a body of cavalry from hesse in addition to the infantry now here from the standard 12th italy her majesty's steamer porcupine arriv ed at malta on the ioth ult having left on the 27th very unexpectedly she brought despatches to sir w parker of a very interesting character they an nounce the despatch of 7000 troops from naples to lombard six fine war stea mers one brig two fifty gun frigates and a large transport are to convey them up the adriatic from one of the ports into which sea they are to march into lom bard a large squadron of cavalry and a field battery composed of some 20 pieces are also to follow in the same direction we learn from venice that zucchi when summoned to capitulate received the summons with a discharge of artillery making great slaughter of the corps which had advanced to palmanuova the en emy carried off it is alleged ig wagons of wounded the austrian lloyd under date of trieste may 3 announce that venice is ; declared in a state of blockade and that an austrian fleet is engaged in the main tenance thereof a letter from the camp of gen duran do announces that he has marched to pi ava at the head of 15,000 pontifical troops the epoca of rome of the 1st states from naples 29th ult that the people have proclaimed the son of ferdinand ii king other accounts from naples of the same date contain no mention of this circumstance the roman papers are up to the 1st inst the ministry had indeed accepted their portfolios again but had not an nounced upon what terms a deputation composed of pier angolo florentino pie trosterbini and the duke of rignano had been named by the people to wait upon the ministers and question them on the subject they received an evasive an swer which did but increase the popular excitement ; and serious consequences were apprehended the patria of florence ofthe 4th an nounces that a demonstration had taken place at leghorn against the ministers the day before the speedy convocation of the assembly was demanded the go vernor promised to forward the request of the people to the government constantinople april 27 this morning an important change of ministry has taken place mehemet ali pacha brother-in-law ofthe sultan a gen tleman well known in europe has been named grand admiral in the place of kalib pacha who is removed on saturday a prince was born to the sultan ; he has been named mahommed a'abid this is the second child our youth ful sovereign has had in the short space of seven days it is said that four other sultanas are expected to be confined a fire broke out on the 22d at arnaout keoy which consumed the whole villa ges—upwards of 100 houses 3 baths 2 churches and 2 mosques fell a prey to the flames business is a dead-letter credit shaken and money scarce the movement at rome we gather the following from the pri vate correspondence from rome publish ed in the constitutionel and dated 29th ultimo ' a violent manifestation is fo lake place this morning caused by the follow ing cir cumstance :— the pope although he has allowed a crusade to be preached up in his churches and troops to be sent to lom bard has not officially declared war a gainst austria ; the austrian ambassador still remains here and the papal nuncio at vienna ; nor have the diplomatic rela tions between the two courts been inter rupted in consequence of this doubtful position radetzky having made prisoners of some roman volunteers would not consider them as prisoners of war but shot them immediately one was hung to a tree with a placard attached to his body with the words in this way are treat'ed the crusades of pius ix ' the indignalion ofthe people of rome was roused by this act aud they proceed ed in a mass to the residence of the aus trian ambassador with the intention of taking sanguinary reprisals ' delegates from the roman clubs had formerly applied to the pope to put him self at the head of the italian league and declare war against austria ■notwithstanding the violent manifes tations which may be made i do not con sider the pope will formally declare war against austria his resolution on this point appears unshaken his plan will probably be to brand with reprobation in the most solemn and severe manner the infamous and trocicus conduct of radez ky and protest before god and the chris tian world again.t all the horrors com mitted by austria in defiance of all jaws human and divine it is expected that a document to this efiect will appear this evening in the ga zette civita vij.i iiia may 2 the ministers of tuscany and sardi nia have protested against the encyclical letter of the pope mamiani has an nounced to the people that the ministry continued with the exception of cardinal antonelli replaced by him mamiani the ministry has full power to decide up on temporal matters including war the ministry have promised to expedite the war and to co-operate with all the forces of the state in expelling the austrians the austrian minister will receive his passport nam caccialo the state of the continent the nomination of an executive directory of five by the national assembly on wed nesday in the manner stated seems to have surprised the press tho public and probably ihe parties chosen so far at least as respects the order in which they stand in the return the fall of m lam artine from the top which it was believed be would have occupied to nearly the lowest place on the list is the theme of comment in the whole of the paris jour nals of thursday for this apparent de cline of his popularity several causes are assigned the principal one is the solic itude he expressed that m ledru rollin should be named one of the executive and which it would appear very much dis pleased the majority of the chamber of whom previously he had been the great favorite a arago was on the occasion a sort ol neutral person and to him were therefore given the voles of nearly the en tire assembly those of ! s own friends and those ofthe two extreme parties the ultra and the moderate republicans the moderates would not vote lor m ludru rollin and the ultras would not give their suffrages to m lamartine such were the causes of the result of the ballot pesth may 1 some alarming reports have arrived here from banna and from croatia several districts inhabited by servants have roused the people who 1 have'proclaimed zarageorgiew ick kin the croatian jellochich has openly pro claimed a counter revolusion lie speaks of 100,000 croatians and soldiers on the irontiers who only wait the signal for him to re-establish in hungary the ancient state of things the emperor he says was forced to make the concessions which they have obtained from him and al though he has no order from the emperor he will restore to him his former power with which he was invested by god this news has placed ali the town in commo tion we hear every where that the country is in danger and the cry " to arms resounds on all sides indian war in oregon four battles the whites victorious massa ere of missionaries louisville lay 21 1s4s by the arrival of maj meek from the west we have late and must important news from oregon where all is confusion and bloodshed ! hetween the whites and indian four pow '■erful tribes have united and commenced a dead ly war four battles took place in january j in three of which the whites were successful in j heating their enemy five hundred whiles j fought a body of two thousand indians a whole ! day when the indians retreated afier wound : i"g a great number of whites on the 29th of november a most horrid and brutal massacre was committed by the cayuse indians at the presbyterian mission at the [ wallah-wallah valley dr while his man and wile with eighteen others were killed and sixty or seventy taken prisoners the houses ofthe missionaries and their neighbor ; were burnt to the ground the unfortunate prisoners were subsequently ransomed through i the agency ol peter sken ogden chief lacto ofthe hudson hay company major meek pushed up the river yesterday on his way to washington with despatches for the government asking for immediate aid on the part ofthe oregon set tilers the annual examination ofthe students of the greensboro female col lege closed on thursday afternoon in presence of a crowded assemblage of citizens and strang ers who manifested a hi^h degree of interest iu the exeicises six young ladies graduated on that occasion and their closing exercises together with the address delivered to them by president shipp were of a deeply impressire character leaving upon the minds ..;':!... intel ligent auditory an abiding sense of t impor tance of female education fo inded upon ihe re ligion ofthe bible paramount engagements in other duties pre vent a further notice ol the examination ibis week hut we shall do ihe suhject something more of justice in our next provided some per on better <; i ilified for the lask do not save us the labor — patriot ofthe 3d inst the domination cf maryland we call attention to the following article from the baltimore patriot the editois will gee dial we have already made tie proper conee lion \\ e stated the ca properly at lirst ; hut were induced by seeing it stated in a number of papers that mr clay hud received tbe nomi nation to alter our original statement when our correspondent suggested thai v were wron ilichm i nd whig the richmond whig has heen m in stating that that maryland de gates i national convention were not instructed to rote ! r gen taj !•■•-. the ■. •• jn sfructed to use iheir besl efiurts nomination of mr ( ". iy maryland hut on being . '• at anv • ol the pi _ of tbe < ' nvention ibai mr clay cann •' he nominated tbey are •• instructed lo i i of < jen taylor and tu use their besl efforts lo - the same we make tbis s'a'ement because ihe error oflbe richmond w big i material has i en adopted by others and may produce impressions tailoring j f.fraley -■■- ' lothrxg _> , he . v 1 1 . . vg to ' a 1 - f clothes ... 1 1 j just received a lai ( ibs i - l town & 1 mi .-:- i "•" warrants for sale at this office
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1848-06-08 |
Month | 06 |
Day | 08 |
Year | 1848 |
Volume | 5 |
Issue | 6 |
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Creator | Bruner and James "Editors and Proprietors" |
Date Digital | 2008-10-30 |
Publisher | Bruner and James |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
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Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The Thursday, June 8, 1848 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | Public |
Language | eng |
OCLC number | 601553194 |
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1848-06-08 |
Month | 06 |
Day | 08 |
Year | 1848 |
Volume | 5 |
Issue | 6 |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
Technical Metadata | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, PA. Archivial image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from microfilm at 400 dpi. The original file size was 5150236 Bytes |
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Creator | Bruner and James "Editors and Proprietors" |
Date Digital | 2008-10-30 |
Publisher | Bruner and James |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The Thursday, June 8, 1848 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | Public |
Language | eng |
FullText | tern f the watehiama bo i s i up'"1 l"'r r two dollars payable in bui it n 1 paid in advance two dollars | m an i fifty . ta will he charged h..vi::;nsem.:\ts inserted at 8 forthe first anil 2 cts ■for each 8ab3eqieni insertion court orders chaiged i ii er ot higher ihan these rates a liberal ilcjuc i uo.-i to i!i --■who advertise by the year r.etteks io the editors must be postpaid sklxth for busbands bt t p arthur i mrs lundy had been up half an hour u>y m nit various matters when mr m,iiiidy crept out of bed and commenced jlfu»>iii_r himself [ '• 1 wish you would gel mc some hot wa ter aggy ho said to his wife 1 must jlhavi myself this morning i mrs lundy was busily ei.gr.ged in ressing i little resisting urchin i ' yes dear she replied " in a moment and kepi on with her work intending to ftiisli dn ssin the child before she went wwii stair for the hot water * mr lundy waited about a minute and said a little impatiently 4 1 wish you would get it for me now j^gnes i can't finish dressing myself un til i shave mrs lundy ceased her work pot down the child and ;_.".: the hot water mr lundy in an ins shaving when half through he directs his wife to tell bill to lean the old boots as his new ones hurt vim ; completing his toilet he goes down to tbe reading room and reads his paper eight o'clock the breakfast hour arrives nd mr lundy is a punctual man but lundy has five children and herself lo get ready the baby cries will breaks his shoe string mary wants a sin ; and in quieting he first and helping ie others minutes fly all isdone mrs lundy proceeds to arrange herself when l_p conns mr lundy with good heavens agnes ain't you pressed yet .'" exclaims her husband com ing to tl chamber door with his watch in his hand * it is lea minutes pa eight ; bow i've been ready and waiting for jliiee ihan half an hour ll i .- along in a minute i've only r to put up and a dress to slip i ri-pht d mrs lundy silenced but not convinced the hus band goes grumbling down stairs and re [ ct.m.in ne.s walking the floor but with a avier and more rapid step ' go up and see il your mother isn't al most ready i'm in a great hurry this morning mr lundy says to one of the children alter the lapse of two minutes ahich seem lo the impatient man at least fi e • i'm coming he hears on the stairs om his wi i'm glad of if he rather gruffly re ponds * 1 knew your minute would'nt be mu'h less mian half an hour 1 wish you vculd try to be more punctual : this ever i fce;n hehind time annoys me terribly there are some meek words said about me time it tak .. to dress and see after so plain chiidrt n : but they make no impres sion whatever on the mind ot mr lundy they are uttered as a kind of excuse a:id he regards them as of no more account \ the sausages are done to dealh — the coll'ee is mere dishwater — mrs lundy is bidden to look after s trail the cook — she ! pleads hard work and then bill brings the new boots mr lundy scolds away 1 but at last the children get off to school and the ismn man proposes to start out ju m this moment be looks at his wife and sa\s are you not well agnes no she replies i've been suffering ith a dreadful tooth ache all the morn ing and i l.el as j every nerve in my bead were i li ' \\ hy du _ ou have lhat tooth out ? would not suffer as you do if i had to i have every tooth in my head extracted mrs lundy turns away with feelings of discouragement she is heavily bur den d and has no true sympathy mr lundy walks towards his store health iu every vein and vigor in every miisel ; and his wife goes wearily up to her chamber half mad with pain and ev ery nerve excited and quivering mr lundy dials with customers sells goods pays bills and does a good morn ing's husine.s and is ready with a good appetite for his dinner mrs lundy has to go to market and returns home worn nd exhausted then at twelve run in mag__v willie and mary hungry as they can be the poor woman does all she can well at half past one in stalks mr lundy — snah the cook was behind hand she let t lie lire go down — and din ner was not ready at the regular time she was in her chambei suffering pain ". • is it possible too bad i too had she heard him say as he paused on his way up stairs at the dining room door and saw that not even the table was set 1 wonder what good it is for a man to have i house of his own if he can't have ■things as he pleases - i declare agnes ! i'm out of till pa tieiu-i he said entering her chamber a few minutes afterwards ' i told you when 1 went ; way this morning lhat i wished dinner at the hour and there is'nt even a sign of its being ready it really looks as if it were done on purpose jtf if 1 had the cooking to do you should nev-i r wait a minute 15ut 1 can't always ma servants do as 1 please replied mrs lundy ■that's all nonesense i don't believe a^vord of it 1 wonder how i'd get along yifk my business i i were to let the clerks " do as they pvase 1 have a certain order m my business and every subordinate has his duties an i knows that they must be done reduce all your household in a hers ip alike ot'ih r and keep everyone strictly jw her duty and you'll have things right u not without '!; you had ignorant careless self blh-d girls to deal with instead of intel clerk you might line ii as difficult 9 i do to have all things iu order h*seiid them away if they don't do as the carolina watchman bruxer & james ) . „ . keep a check cpox all yocr editors y proprietors \ rulers ) new series do this and liberty is safe > gen'l harrison ) volume v number g salisbury n c thursday june 8 1848 you wish ill nnver keep a girl in ihe bouse an hour it she did'nt do every thing as i directed ' 1 ou don't know anything about it mr lundy it is easy to say send off your cook if she is ti-n or twenty minutes later with a meal or servos it up badly or dors any other tiling disorderly or objectiona ble but it is wots to have no cook than a bad one ; and as to good ones they are hard to be found mr lundy met this with our of his sweeping specimens of argumentation and completely silenced his wife ' but he said impatiently ' 1 can't wait your cook's movements my business has to be attended to and away he flounced from the house in ten minutes the bell rang tell sarah lhat mr lundy could'nt wait and that i don't want any dinner said mrs lundy to the waiter this is one day's history in mrs lun dy's life need we be startled when told that her husband was killing her by inch es ? adds the author but no one suspected this not even mr lundy himself the idea that he wits murdering his wife by a slow and cruel death would have shocked him ; and he would have felt the intimation of a thing as an unpardonable outrage and yet such was really the fact he was really mur dering her \ ear after year her duties and her toils increased the history of a day that we have given was an epitomed history of her life mr lundy wrapped up in his schemes of gain and rigid in his notions of order punctuality and formal proprie ties had no real sympathy for his wife and was ever complaining of the little irregularis incident to his household and ever adding to instead of relieving the oppressive wearying and ever recur ring duties that were bearing her down it was a common thing for himself ro bust and in high health to sit in his easy chair wilh dressing gown and slippers and ask his tired wife who could scarcely move without feeling pain to hand him this that or the other thing ; to ring tbe bell for the servant or even to goto iheir chamber and bring him something from a drawer to which he was not willing that a domestic should go meeker more patient more loving in her character grew mrs lundy bv'stif fering she was purified it made the heart ache to see icr moving by the side of her erect florid elastic treading hus band more like a pure shadowy form than a real substance ; and to feel assur ed that in a very little while the place that knew her and the children and friends who loved her would know her and love her no more > at last she died and six li'lle ones ere left without the affectionate care of a mo ther if her husband who wept so bitter ly o'er her too early grave did not mur der her we know not the meaning ofthe word murder when it was loo late he could remember her long suffering her patienc . her wrongs received at hishands but while she lived he was too selfish to appreciate or properly care for her husbands if you love your wives think of these things don't say lhat the story suits mr so-and so admirably look narrowly into your own sayings and doings at home and see if it doesn't suit you in more than one particular lamartine's polities in 1832 — n answer to lady hester stanhnpe ihe sister and in early iife tin secretary of the celebrated william i'ii ly when thai " eccentric personage told to him the distinguished pari le was hereafter to act on the world's great s'ngo and which she •* read in the slurs bv science cradled and still cherished in the east though at present losl in europe tin astonished poej disappointed the prophetess by assuring her lie was not like herself an aristocrat iain continued lamartine nr-iih.r an aristocrat nor a democrat i hive lived lon enough to have found on examining both side's ofthe medal of human nature that they are equally hollow my principles areas little aris tocrat as ihe reverse / am a man and an ex elusive advocate of any system lhat may tend t improve and perfect the whole man wbelh er he l,e horn at the top or at llu loot of the social seal 1 neither espouse the cause of tin people nor of i lie great ; but that of man kind in general ! i do not believe that aristo crat or democrat institutions possess the exclu sive virtue of rendering human nature perfect this virtue is only to he found in a perfect reli gion * * * * * * '• i belong * to the parti who do not desjiisc their inferiors in the social scale ; while ihey respeel those above ihem : whose wish he it a dream or not is to raise all men without rogtnl to the nature of the place they hold in the hirarchies of politics to the same degree of knowledge of liberty and of moral pet lection :! the w higs rnough orr defeated are sot vet subdued — washington union very true mr ritchie nor is this all they don't intend in he subdued they suf fered themselves lo he defeated in 1844 hy an overwhelming confidence in their strength and by not watching with sufficient vigilance the movements of tho enemy but they want to have a leader who whipped mr polk & cos cracked mexican gexer vi ami they won't fear ihe subordinates — rah igh register warrants jus printed on new type and on ex cellent paper for sale at this office rrom the inew york courier and enquirer from europe arrival of the hibernia the steamer ilibernia arrived at this port to-day at 10 o'clock we received i our papers immediately including lon don dates of the 13th inst the news is not of serious importance ; ; though of a good deal of interest in france everything is quiet a tern j i porary executive committee ol ftce mem ! , bers has been resolved upon and appoint . ed the list of members is published be low lemartine has lost ground in the as sembly as will be seen by the votes he \ received the fact is attributed to the ! i favor he has shown to ledru rollin an insurrection has occurred in rome ! , against the pope because he refuses to j declare w.-.r against austria a new ministry has been appointed in lombardy a decisive engagement ; j was daily expected between charles al , bert and the austrians at verona germany continues to be agitated on the prussian polish frontiers there j is still great trouble a series of severe | ; battles has been fought between the prus ! sians and poles — in which the former j were beaten with great slaughter the ' whole province of posen is in arms in england everything is quiet ireland is more tranquil trade in england has been good con sols on the 12lh opened at 84 to \,\ \ whence they declined to 83i for account ! they recovered however and closed at j i s3j to § for cash and 83 for time monet was plenty cotton has declined d on all qualities j under fair the imports had been heavy in flour there has been little variation j best western canal is quoted at 27s 6d i while middling qualities are sold at 25s j od to 20s gd the sugar market is stead the washington arrived out in 14 days and twenty hours the following extracts contain the lead i : ing items of general intelligence from the london times may 13 by electric telegraph a military insurrection took place at madrid on the 7th inst at 4 o'clock in the : : morning which was suppressed after a i ' sanguinary conflict which lasted several hours the number of dead was not known but it was considerably greater than in ' : the insurrection ofthe 20th of march among the killed was the captain gen j eral fulgosio brother-in-law of maria ; christina j | thirty-four of the prisoners taken — one \ ! half of them civilians the other half mil ' itary men — were tried and sentenced to ; death by a court-martial and were about to be shot when the post left the paris papers of yesterday an ! nounce the formation of the new ministry i for france : it consists of messrs bastide ' recurt cremieux carnot chanas flo con duclerc bethmont frelat mid ad ! , miral casy j ir was apprehended that an armed de ■; monst ration in favor of the poles would take place in paris this day ! some of the journals announced that the pope had been deposed and the re public proclaimed at rome but the news seemed premature boulogne may 11 an order has just come from paris to put the whole line of coast in a slate of defence and to mount guns on the detach j ed forts which are built a little way out : at sea the gates ofthe upper town are also to be repaired and fortified this looks like a preparation for war france the national assembly agreed on mon day evening to refer to a committee the ! nomination of the interim government the committee to consist of one member from each ofthe 18 bureaux the mem bers chosen showed a preponderance of the parly the committee yesterday gave in its report by the hands of m peupin one of its members it had agreed by a majority of 14 to 4 upon reporting that the assembly should elect directly by bal lot nine individuals to act as ministers wilh a president of the council without portfolio an animated debate followed the read ing of the report in the course of the debate ihe abbe lacordai re supported the republican list for ministers at length the president put the question and the mode of nomination proposed in the re port was rejected by 411 to 385 the se cond proposition was that the assembly should nominate an executive commission which again should nominate ministers and the third is that the provisional gov ernment retain office till the constitution is decreed m de beranger had resigned his seat in the assembly on saturday at the assembly which at its rising was adjourned till monday m de lamartine read the report of the pro visional government on the state of france the report met with great applause from : the assembly m ledru rollin followed \ in a long address in which he complained bitterly of the calumnious reports which had been circulated respecting him frotn these calumnies he vindicated himself professing that he held moderate opinions j his address produced a favorable impres ! sion on the assembled deputies on mon j day m gamier pages presented his fi nancial statement a letter from lyons says : the army of the alps have received the war equipment and mules have heen i purchased to convey the baggage gen | oudinot general-iu-chief has reviewed ; the troops and has gone to grenoble j where he has established his head quar i ters at lyons it is generally supposed the army will soon cross the frontier paris wednesday the national assembly after a con fused and agitated discussion last night agreed to the adoption of the resolution j in favor of an extensive commission of i government to be composed of live mem j bers the names to be balloted for on : the following day paris wednesday evening the assembly met to-day for the pur ! pose of balloting for the executive com \ mittee government m martin de strasbourg said that m j dupont de 1'eure had declared to him j that he would not act if nominated af ter some further conversation the assem i bly at half-past one o'clock proceeded to vote and the scrutiny was completed at ! four o'clock j the following is the result : number of votes 791 absolute majority 398 lamartine g13 ledru rollin 453 marie 702 gamier pages 715 arago 705 the president accordingly declared the i citizens lamartine ledru rollin marie ' gamier pages and arago members form ing the executive commission of gov 1 ernment m wolowski then brought forward his ! proposition for a committee to examine 1 into the state of the working classes but ' after having developed his views he ab i ruptly turned to the question of poland ; \ and was followed by m ducoux who de claimed about the state of their demo ; cratic brethren in germany italy and po i land m de lamartine in a few sentences from his seat observed how difficult it was for a government so formed and un ! der such circumstances togive such pledg ; es as were demanded ; they should recol ' lect the reserve imposed upon him but he would declare that should the moment for ' co-operation arise he would not forget i what was due to the french flag and most assuredly the conduct of 1831 would not be renewed in 1848 m montalem bert endeavored to obtain a more precise expression from the government ; but m de lamartine on an appeal to the cham ber was supported in his determination ' it was settled that a day should be ap pointed for an interpellation on the polish question the celebrated george sand was pre sent in the ladies gallery and attracted general attention the central committee of the nation al guard's democatic club have issued a most energetic protestation against the odious calumnies and provocations to ci vil war published by the clubs of blanqui and barbes to protect the deliberations of the as sembly it is understood that a battalion of each legion ofthe national guards is under arms and the mobile guard and military are kept in readiness to act at a moment's warning the committee de paris which pro fesses to be the organ of the clubs ridi cules the conduct ofthe chamber which is losing time in words while the reaction is gaining ground in europe declaring that the best eloquence would be the sound of the drum and calls for war a gainst prussia austria naples c ifcc the journal des de debats of thursday confirms the reports that pope pius ix is at present a prisoner in the hands of his unruly subjects being virtually confined to his palace rome has regularly re belled against him and the probability is that his holiness will be disposed of as a temporal prince in fact the entire ex ecutive authority appears to be exercised by the new ministry without any control on the part of the pontiff carlsri.if may 1 our city is still in a state of siege — six cannons mounted on ludswig's quay on the rhine — the citizens have received no tice of large billettings of soldiers being about to be imposed upon them and we are about to have a body of cavalry from hesse in addition to the infantry now here from the standard 12th italy her majesty's steamer porcupine arriv ed at malta on the ioth ult having left on the 27th very unexpectedly she brought despatches to sir w parker of a very interesting character they an nounce the despatch of 7000 troops from naples to lombard six fine war stea mers one brig two fifty gun frigates and a large transport are to convey them up the adriatic from one of the ports into which sea they are to march into lom bard a large squadron of cavalry and a field battery composed of some 20 pieces are also to follow in the same direction we learn from venice that zucchi when summoned to capitulate received the summons with a discharge of artillery making great slaughter of the corps which had advanced to palmanuova the en emy carried off it is alleged ig wagons of wounded the austrian lloyd under date of trieste may 3 announce that venice is ; declared in a state of blockade and that an austrian fleet is engaged in the main tenance thereof a letter from the camp of gen duran do announces that he has marched to pi ava at the head of 15,000 pontifical troops the epoca of rome of the 1st states from naples 29th ult that the people have proclaimed the son of ferdinand ii king other accounts from naples of the same date contain no mention of this circumstance the roman papers are up to the 1st inst the ministry had indeed accepted their portfolios again but had not an nounced upon what terms a deputation composed of pier angolo florentino pie trosterbini and the duke of rignano had been named by the people to wait upon the ministers and question them on the subject they received an evasive an swer which did but increase the popular excitement ; and serious consequences were apprehended the patria of florence ofthe 4th an nounces that a demonstration had taken place at leghorn against the ministers the day before the speedy convocation of the assembly was demanded the go vernor promised to forward the request of the people to the government constantinople april 27 this morning an important change of ministry has taken place mehemet ali pacha brother-in-law ofthe sultan a gen tleman well known in europe has been named grand admiral in the place of kalib pacha who is removed on saturday a prince was born to the sultan ; he has been named mahommed a'abid this is the second child our youth ful sovereign has had in the short space of seven days it is said that four other sultanas are expected to be confined a fire broke out on the 22d at arnaout keoy which consumed the whole villa ges—upwards of 100 houses 3 baths 2 churches and 2 mosques fell a prey to the flames business is a dead-letter credit shaken and money scarce the movement at rome we gather the following from the pri vate correspondence from rome publish ed in the constitutionel and dated 29th ultimo ' a violent manifestation is fo lake place this morning caused by the follow ing cir cumstance :— the pope although he has allowed a crusade to be preached up in his churches and troops to be sent to lom bard has not officially declared war a gainst austria ; the austrian ambassador still remains here and the papal nuncio at vienna ; nor have the diplomatic rela tions between the two courts been inter rupted in consequence of this doubtful position radetzky having made prisoners of some roman volunteers would not consider them as prisoners of war but shot them immediately one was hung to a tree with a placard attached to his body with the words in this way are treat'ed the crusades of pius ix ' the indignalion ofthe people of rome was roused by this act aud they proceed ed in a mass to the residence of the aus trian ambassador with the intention of taking sanguinary reprisals ' delegates from the roman clubs had formerly applied to the pope to put him self at the head of the italian league and declare war against austria ■notwithstanding the violent manifes tations which may be made i do not con sider the pope will formally declare war against austria his resolution on this point appears unshaken his plan will probably be to brand with reprobation in the most solemn and severe manner the infamous and trocicus conduct of radez ky and protest before god and the chris tian world again.t all the horrors com mitted by austria in defiance of all jaws human and divine it is expected that a document to this efiect will appear this evening in the ga zette civita vij.i iiia may 2 the ministers of tuscany and sardi nia have protested against the encyclical letter of the pope mamiani has an nounced to the people that the ministry continued with the exception of cardinal antonelli replaced by him mamiani the ministry has full power to decide up on temporal matters including war the ministry have promised to expedite the war and to co-operate with all the forces of the state in expelling the austrians the austrian minister will receive his passport nam caccialo the state of the continent the nomination of an executive directory of five by the national assembly on wed nesday in the manner stated seems to have surprised the press tho public and probably ihe parties chosen so far at least as respects the order in which they stand in the return the fall of m lam artine from the top which it was believed be would have occupied to nearly the lowest place on the list is the theme of comment in the whole of the paris jour nals of thursday for this apparent de cline of his popularity several causes are assigned the principal one is the solic itude he expressed that m ledru rollin should be named one of the executive and which it would appear very much dis pleased the majority of the chamber of whom previously he had been the great favorite a arago was on the occasion a sort ol neutral person and to him were therefore given the voles of nearly the en tire assembly those of ! s own friends and those ofthe two extreme parties the ultra and the moderate republicans the moderates would not vote lor m ludru rollin and the ultras would not give their suffrages to m lamartine such were the causes of the result of the ballot pesth may 1 some alarming reports have arrived here from banna and from croatia several districts inhabited by servants have roused the people who 1 have'proclaimed zarageorgiew ick kin the croatian jellochich has openly pro claimed a counter revolusion lie speaks of 100,000 croatians and soldiers on the irontiers who only wait the signal for him to re-establish in hungary the ancient state of things the emperor he says was forced to make the concessions which they have obtained from him and al though he has no order from the emperor he will restore to him his former power with which he was invested by god this news has placed ali the town in commo tion we hear every where that the country is in danger and the cry " to arms resounds on all sides indian war in oregon four battles the whites victorious massa ere of missionaries louisville lay 21 1s4s by the arrival of maj meek from the west we have late and must important news from oregon where all is confusion and bloodshed ! hetween the whites and indian four pow '■erful tribes have united and commenced a dead ly war four battles took place in january j in three of which the whites were successful in j heating their enemy five hundred whiles j fought a body of two thousand indians a whole ! day when the indians retreated afier wound : i"g a great number of whites on the 29th of november a most horrid and brutal massacre was committed by the cayuse indians at the presbyterian mission at the [ wallah-wallah valley dr while his man and wile with eighteen others were killed and sixty or seventy taken prisoners the houses ofthe missionaries and their neighbor ; were burnt to the ground the unfortunate prisoners were subsequently ransomed through i the agency ol peter sken ogden chief lacto ofthe hudson hay company major meek pushed up the river yesterday on his way to washington with despatches for the government asking for immediate aid on the part ofthe oregon set tilers the annual examination ofthe students of the greensboro female col lege closed on thursday afternoon in presence of a crowded assemblage of citizens and strang ers who manifested a hi^h degree of interest iu the exeicises six young ladies graduated on that occasion and their closing exercises together with the address delivered to them by president shipp were of a deeply impressire character leaving upon the minds ..;':!... intel ligent auditory an abiding sense of t impor tance of female education fo inded upon ihe re ligion ofthe bible paramount engagements in other duties pre vent a further notice ol the examination ibis week hut we shall do ihe suhject something more of justice in our next provided some per on better <; i ilified for the lask do not save us the labor — patriot ofthe 3d inst the domination cf maryland we call attention to the following article from the baltimore patriot the editois will gee dial we have already made tie proper conee lion \\ e stated the ca properly at lirst ; hut were induced by seeing it stated in a number of papers that mr clay hud received tbe nomi nation to alter our original statement when our correspondent suggested thai v were wron ilichm i nd whig the richmond whig has heen m in stating that that maryland de gates i national convention were not instructed to rote ! r gen taj !•■•-. the ■. •• jn sfructed to use iheir besl efiurts nomination of mr ( ". iy maryland hut on being . '• at anv • ol the pi _ of tbe < ' nvention ibai mr clay cann •' he nominated tbey are •• instructed lo i i of < jen taylor and tu use their besl efforts lo - the same we make tbis s'a'ement because ihe error oflbe richmond w big i material has i en adopted by others and may produce impressions tailoring j f.fraley -■■- ' lothrxg _> , he . v 1 1 . . vg to ' a 1 - f clothes ... 1 1 j just received a lai ( ibs i - l town & 1 mi .-:- i "•" warrants for sale at this office |