Carolina Watchman

              t(11sh of thc watchman „ becrintion per year two dollars payable in f°r nce but if not paid in advance two dollars jfiftv ets will be charged n '.'->' n m inserted at 1 for the first and 27 ets ach subsequent insertion court orders charged r lt i higher than these rates a liberal deduc 0aio those who advertise by the year rs to the e litors must be post paid cheap'fotcash ha i ims cbump . „., ... new york and phlladel a*.;,r : -« k°f spring vxd summer goods i jcti they are determined to sell aa low os any house i carolina consisting ol all kinds of jadiesand gentlemen's dress goods of the latest and . which have been selected wnh great care and bought at the very lowest cash prices for ladies wear beautiful silk lustres mode cashmeres colored do 5trjped do mou eline de lanes silk and worsted lustres cheni alpaccas bl'k and col'd merinos plaid giufhams french do shawls gloves ribbons fine _ jnen cambric hand'ffs bonnet silk velvets ad hosiery for gentlemen's wear french and english cloths french cassimeres fyddo t tncy do wool tweed kentucky janes ker n vesting cut velvet do plain satin do :,:,, also brown and bleach'd drills do whitney blankets hats a caps boots fe shoes des a genera stock of hardware and cutlery groceries crockery e those wishing to buy goods we respectfully invite their attention tothe above stock as we arc determined not to '■ any wood grove rowan co oct 26 1848 iy25 785 packages vw spring \ snmme goods for 1849 ! the ib - : bers have received and opened decided ly the largest cheapest and most desirable stock of french english and american fancy and staple dry goods that haa ever been exhibited in the state also pana ma leghorn tarapico calitornia and fine fashionable silk and beaver hats french lace pamelo leghorn and english rock chip bonnets boots kid slippers and oat hoes carriage and saddlers trimmings smith and car penters tools li irdware and cutlery while lead linseed gperoi and tanners oil coach and cope varnish 8 by 10 and 111 by 12 glass rifle and masting powder quicksilver alining i&ooc sole harness and upper leather fine french and phil adelphia call skins hog and lining do travelling trunks and carpet bag s two k<*iys printer's ink all wool and wool and cotton carpeting 30 hour and 8 day clocks warranted good and cheap screen aire ami bolting ( lollis all nos ! .__> ttol funs corn and grass scythes casl steel hoes tin plate mackerel no i 2 and 3 brown re | fined und loaf sugar rio and java coflee gunpowder j and hyson teas syrup new orleans and cuba molasses rop orchard grass and clover seed horse shoe and i and sweed iron nails a very large stock of rolled and i hammered iron and castings casl steel hoop and sheet i d thousands of other articles their stock is full and compli te and styles most beautiful and neat the above goods were bought for cash in xew york and philadelphia previous to the advance of prices and are now offered al wholesale and retail for cash lower than they have ever been sold in salisbury all cash dealers country merchants peddlers economist fashion able young gentlemen and the lathes particularly are ivi ted call and examine their iarge and thej feel confident the goods and pri ces will give satisfaction to all jenkins & roberts salisbury april 5 1849 8/48 n b all persons indebted to ihe late lirm of jen biles and 1 11 jenkins st co by note or book ■ iunt are requested to pay the same mi or before aexl august conrt as longer indulgence cannot be given j april 5 1849 j ii jenkins cape fear stemboat company of fayetteville a.\n wilmington abe running stt amer goo graham 20 inch draft tow dual mike brown telegraph gen tailor till above boats run regularly between fnyette i le and wilmington at the late reduced rates ol freight and are us well prepared for the speedy and safe rtation ol goods up and down us any line on the river thankful for the last year's business we solicit aeon , ■ and increase for the future all goods con igned to j & vv l mcgary wilmington n.c will l't forwarded free f commission all produce from the country sent to w l mcga ry fayetteville will 1 shipped to where desired free of commission in all cases we give ili earliest informa : uc arrival and departure of goods ci mnications addressed to j & w l mcgary w lmington,and w l mcgary fayetteville will meet pith attention w l mcgary agent jan 20 1849 ly39 ihe undersigned having commodious ware houses nt the river and having been long engaged iu the for warding busin wnl receive and forward all goodssent tu his address at the usual commission jan 1849 w i mcgary come and buy bargains ! ' carriage uv\hactory ti1i undersigned having formed a co-partnership in theabove business respectfully invite public atten tion to their establishment and to their supply of superb carriages barouches rockaways buggies c c ■ lightness beauty of design manner ofexecu t,on»!ind excellence of material cannot be surpassed by j*°rk in the southern country '•'''.• have in their employ a large number of excellent workmen their blacksmiths wood-workmen trim s.anj painters are all men of experience and have *■* equals as to skill in iheir several departments repairing done on very short notice work done f^p for cash or approved notes or countrv produce ta n in exchange overman brown c co y feb 8 1849 lv-40 sichy wine aud tallow candles i ' s i received a large supply of tine tallow can dles also an excellent article of sicily ma pra or white cooking wine.manufacturedforcook gpurposes expressly brown & james iry.oct 12 1848 23 l\f imtakv and masonic gloves * porsale by j h enniss h»ory dec jl 1848 33 the carolina watchman bruner & james ) / kehp a check tton all voir editors 4 proprietors ) ruleks . new series do this and liberty is safe < gen'l harrison ( volume vi number 2 salisbury n c thursday may 17 1849 thc women of he revolution in publishing the following tribute lo ; the patriotism of the ladies of north car olina during the revolution we take oc \ casion to express an earnest desire that ; gentlemen in mecklenburg rowan ire i dell c would even at this late day take some pains to examine any old records of correspondence and to commit to wriling any traditionary evidence likely to throw j light on the important events of that pe ; riod there is the more need of this now since it is estimated that messrs bancroft and sparks may possibly in the forth coming histories decide adversely to the genuineness of the mecklenburg declar ation of may 20th 1775 there are ma ny causes which will make such a deci sion peculiarly ungrateful to north caro lina even though the equivalent resolve of the 31st may 1775 be prominently ad mitted as they must be to be beyond doubt authentic — fay observer for the observer tiie ladies of n carolina du ring the revolution among the many revolutionary docu ments which have survived to the present time none demand more special attention than those which follow in their con test for civil and religious freedom our forefathers were animated by a spirit which has called forth universal admira tion undoubtedly this spirit was pro duced by many co-operating causes — but among its many supports a very promis ing place must be given to the lively pat ! riotism ofthe ladies of that time they who bore their parts in the council cham : ber and on the battle field were sustain i ed by the assurance that at home bright j eyes and warm hearts were deeply inter ested in their success for in those days i sisters urged on their brothers — maidens j sent forth their lovers — mothers contribu ted sons and wives gave up their hus bands to the cause of their country and of their god in vol i of american archives can be found the following '* association sign ed by lifty-one ladies of edenton n c oct 25 1774 as we cannot be indifferent on any ; occasion that appears to effect the peace and happiness of our country ; and as it has been thought necessary for the public good to enter into several particular re solves by a meeting of members of dep uties from the whole province it is a duty that we owe not only to our near and : dear relations and connections but to our selves who are essentially interested in j their welfare to do every thing as far as lies in our power to testify our sincere ad herence to the same ; and we do there fore accordingly subscribe this paper as a witness of our fixed intention and solemn determination to do so the existence of this paper makes us deeply regret that no one has yet discov ered copies of the associations of the ; ladies in the counties of mecklenburg and rowan for they would be wreaths of immortal honor to their signers the ladies of edenton applauded the resolves of the lirst provincial convention which met at newbern aug 21 1771 before collision had taken place between the colonies and great britain but the la dies of mecklenburg and rowan showed that even bloodshed and the loss of the . defenders of their firesides could not frighten them from giving an earnest god speed you to the signers and to the supporters of the mecklenburg de | claration a notice ofthe first ofthe fol lowing papers can be found in dr foote's " sketches of n carolina the present is supposed to be the first publication of the proof of the existence of lhe second we leave the young men of our own time to judge what effect these declarations of independence from tory sweet hearts must have had on the heroes of 7g we are indebted to the patriotic researches of dr joseph johnson of charleston s c for the following editorial article it can be found in the south carolina and a merican gazette no h)8 friday feb 2d to oth 177g " a north carolina correspondent who signs himself " philogune informs us that the young ladies of the best fam ilies in mecklenburg county in n caro lina have entered into a voluntary asso ciation that they will not receive the ad dresses of any young gentleman of that place except the brave volunteers who cheerfully served in the expedition of south carolina and assisted in subduing the schovolite insurgents : the ladies being of opinion that such persons as la : zily stay basking at home when the im portant calls of their country demand their military service abroad must cer tainly be destitute of that nobleness of sentiment that brave manly spirit which qualify the gentleman to be the defender and guardian of the fair sex our cor respondent adds this is the substance of the association ; and we hear that the ladies in the adjacent county of rowan have desired a similar association to be drawn up and prepared immediately for signing the " schovolite.insurgenls alluded to in this declaration seemed to have been the royalists who lived in the fork between the broad and saluda rivers in s caro lina william h dayton and the rev william tennent visited this district in 1775 and invited its settlers to join the large majority of their countrymen in de fence of their common rights but part ly through zeal lor their sovereign and tartly by thc management of ambitious and misguided men these royalists took ; up arms against the cause of the colonies ' late in the fall of 1775 the provincial congress sent a force under the command | of col richardson and col thompson against these insurgents and completely subdued them among the troops in this expedition were nine hundred men from n carolina sent forth by the combined energy of love and patriotism this ; association of young ladies must have been signed very late in 1775 or early in 1770 the ladies in rowan county imitated the example of the ladies in mecklen i burg by signing similar associations ac cording to the expectation of philogune although we have not even the substance of their declaration except by inference yet we have sure evidence of the manner in which the old men of 7g received these j expressions of sympathy in their efforts j in the manuscript record of the proceed ing of the committee of rowan county there is the following entry under the date may 8 1770 ! a letter from a number of young la ; dies in the couniy directed to the chair man requesting ihe approbation of the committee to a number of resolutions en closed entered into and signed by the same young ladies being read resolved that this committee pre sent their cordial thanks to the said young ladies for so spirited a performance ; look upon their resolutions to be sensible and polite — that they merit the honor and are worthy the imitation of every young lady in america the committee adjourned to commit tee in course sam'l young ch'n wm sharpe sec'y the document from which this extract is made was brought to light by the rev air rockwell of iredell county — to whose praiseworthy zeal in hunting for revolu tionary papers we are under many obli gations the publication of these asso ciations renders entirely reasonable the untiring exertions of the people of meck lenburg and rowan counties in behalf of their country which earned for their homes that honorabie distinction " the hornet's nest c p the camanche indians the cherokee advocate of the oth uit has the following : " a deputation of camanches who late ly came in to see and ask the advice of their ' red brethren the seminoles had a friendly talk with the seminoles at the house of the polite and efficient seminole agent mr du val on the gth of march wild cat told the camanches that the whites were a great and powerful people and it would be better for the camanches if they would be friendly with ' uncle sam as he had once been at with them you had better go home and raise com and slock as the seminoles do and be frendly with all nations he wild cat | hoped that peace would soon be establish ed over the whole world the prairies the camanche said whatever his friends told him to do he would do the camanches were sorry for what they had done and would be friendly with the whites and those who were going across the prairies to the big waters should be safe from the depredations of the ca manches good news this for the cali fornia emigrants but if the camanches keep their ' talk no better than the uni ted states have their treaties with the cherokees this profession of friendship will be all talk gen van rensselaer — this veteran 74 years of age with seven balls through his body left washington on friday morn ing last at 0 o'clock and arrived at the city hotel in this city the same day at half past 9 o'clock p m as fresh and active as when he led our troops to battle on the heights of queenstown his health seems as perfect as it was forty years ago — and we trust he may long live to show his friends and countrymen the three com missions which he received from the hands of washington — n y express 9th uit touching expression — a certain lady had two children girls both young and nearly of the same age but the elder one by some whim or accident possessed all the mother's affections ; there was none for the youngest nothing but harsh ness very lately the mother fell sick and was confined to her bed while ly ing there she heard gentle steps approach ing it " is that you my child said the sick woman '* no mamma naively and softly said the resigned one " it is me /" most parents and all mothers will un derstand this simple answer i national courtesy and hu manity the national intelligencer of the 3d inst says : happy are we and happy must be all our whig associates to find the president of our choice in the outset of his administration employed in the exchange of good offices and courtesies with our transatlantic brethren of the anglo-saxon race instead ofthe very dif ferent position held towards them at pre cisely the same period ofthe last admin istration thanks to the right sense of the body of the people of this country fop the blessing of this change in our public policy ; and thanks above all to the over ruling providence which crowned with success the exertions by which that change was brought about ! we have not a reader we are satisfied 1 be he either whig or democrat whose feelings will not be moved by the appeal both eloquent and affecting by lady franklin to the president which with his reply through the secretary of state will be found in the preceding columns of our | paper of this day with one accord we ' feel sure they would respond to such a ■ letter addressed to them — to such a stri i king illustration of woman's love and her ' conjugal devotion — that they would re ; fuse to her earnest supplication nothing within their rightful authority to grant such a response has the president made | with a promptness and a cheerfulness of | will which adds grace to the act and as ! the first public act so to speak of his in i tercourse with the exterior world cannot i fail to be unanimously applauded by his countrymen highly interesting correspondence letter from the lady of sir john frank lin to the president of the u states bedford place loxdo.v ) april 4 1849 j sir : i address myself to you as the head of a great nation whose power to j | help me i cannot doubt and in whose dis . ! position to do so i have a confidence which ' i trust you will not deem presumptuous i the name of my husband sir john franklin is probably not unknown to ! you it is intimately connected wiih the j ' northern part of that continent of which ! i the american republic forms so vast and conspicuous a portion when i visited : the united states three years ago a | mongst the many proofs i received of re ! i spect and courtesy there was none which ! touched and even surprised me more ihan > the appreciation every where expressed j j to me of his former services in geograph | ical discovery and the interest felt in the : i enterprise in which he was then known j i to be engaged the expedition fitted out by our gov i i eminent for the discovery of the north | west passage that question which for i three hundred years has engaged the in \ terest and bafiled the energies of the man of science and the navigator sailed un ; der my husband's command in may 1845 the two ships erebus and terror contained 138 men officers and crews and were victualled for three years — they were not expected home unless sue cess had early rewarded their efforts or ■ some casualty hastened their return be i fore the close of 1847 ; nor were any tid j ings expected from them in the interval but when the autumn of 1847 arrived without any intelligence of the ships the attention of her majesty's government was directed to the necessity of searching for and conveying relief to them in case of their being imprisoned in ice or wreck ed and in want of provisions and means of transport for this purpose an expe dition in three divisions was fitted out in the early part of last year directed to three different quarters simultaneously viz : first to that by which in case of suc cess the ships would come out ofthe po lar sea to the westward or behring's strait second to that by which they entered on their course of discovery on the eas tern side or davis's strait and third to an intervening portion of the arctic shore approachable by land from the hudson bay company's settle ments on which it was supposed the crews if obliged to abandon their ships might be found this last division of the expedition was placed under the command of my hus band's faithful friend the companion of his former travels dr sir john richard son who landed at new york in april of last year and hastened to join his men and boats which were already in advance towards the arctic shore of this portion of the expedition i may briefly say that the absence of any intelligence from sir john richardson this season proves he has been unsuccessful in the object ofhis search the expedition intended for beh ring's strait has hitherto been a complete failure it consisted of a single ship the plover which owing to her setting oil too late and to her bad sailing properties did not even approach her destination last year the remaining and most impor tant portion of thc searching expedition consists of two ships under the command ; of sir james ross which sailed last may j for davis's strait but did not succeed owing to the state of the ice in getting | into lancaster sound till the season o operalions had nearly closed these ships '■ are now wintering iti the ice and a store i ship is about to be dispatched from hence ' with provisions and fuel to enable them to stay out another year ; but one of ihese ! vessels is in a great degree withdrawn from active search by the necessity of watching at the entrance of lancaster : sound for the arrival of intelligence and , instructions from england by the whalers 1 have entered into these details with a ! view of proving that though the british government has not forgotten the duty it i owes to the brave men whom it has sent on a perilous service and has spent a ve ry large sum in providing the means for their rescue yet that owing to various | causes the means actually in operation for this purpose are quite inadequate to meet the extreme exigence of the case ; : for it must be remembered that the miss ing ships were victualled for three years only and that nearly four years have now elapsed so that thc survivors of so many winters in the ice must be at the last ex i tremity ; and also it must be borne in mind that the channels by which the ships may have attempted to force a passage to the westward or which they may have ; been compelled hy adverse circumstances to take are very numerous and complica ted and that one or two ships cannot pos sibly in the course of the next short suin i mer explore them all the board of admiralty unuer a con ; viction ot this fact has been induced to offer a reward of 20,000 sterling to any j ship or ships of any country or to any ex | ploring party whatever which shall ren i der efficient assistance to the missing j ships or their crews or to any portion of i them this announcement which even if the sum had been doubled or trebled would have met with public approbation comes however too late for our whalers which had unfortunately sailed before it was issued and which even if the news \ should overtake them at their fishing 1 grounds are totally unfitted for any pro i longed adventure having only a few months provisions on board and no addi tional clothing to the american whalers both in the atlantic and pacific i look with more hope as competitors for the prize being well aware of their numbers and strength their thorough equipment and the bold spirit of enterprise which animates their crews but i venture to ' look even beyond these 1 am not with out hope that you will deem it not unwor thy of a great and kindred nation to take up the cause of humanity which i plead in a national spirit and thus generously make it your own i must here in gratitude adduce the < x amnle of the imperial russian govern ment which as i am led to hope by his ex celleny the russian ambassador in lon don who forwarded a memorial on the subject will send out exploring parties this summer from the asiatic side of beh ring's strait northwards in search of tie lost vessels it would be a noble specta cle to the world if three great nations possessed of the widest empires on the lace of the globe were thus to unite their efforts in the truly christian work of sav ing their perishing fellow men from de struction it is not for me to suggest the mode in which such benevolent efforts mighl best be made i will only say however that , if the conceptions of my own mind to which i do not venture ts give utterance were realized and that in the noble com petition which followed american sea men had the good fortune to wrest from us the glory as might be the case of solv ing the problem of the unfound passage or the still greater glory of saving our adventurous navigators from a lingering fate which the mind sickens to dwell on though i should in either case regret that it was not my own brave countrymen in those seas whose devotion was thus re warded yet should i rejoice that it was to america we owed our restored happi ness and should be forever bound to her by ties of affectionate gratitude i am not without some misgivings while i thus address you the intense anxie ties of a wife and of a daughter may have led me to press too earnestly on your no tice the trial under which we are suffer ing yet not ire only but hundreds of oth ers and to presume too much on the sympathy which we are assured is felt beyond the limits of our own land \ et if you deem this to be the case you will still find 1 am sure even in that personal intensity of feeling an excuse for the fearlessness with which i have thrown mvself on your generosity and will par don the homage i thus pay to your own high character and to that of the people over whom you have the high distinction to preside 1 have the honor to be sir with great respect your obedient servant jane franklin i beg to annex some explanatory pa pers ni notice of the expeditions of discovery ami search now in he arctic xseas in the year 1845 her majesty's govern ment sent out an expedition for the pur pose of discovering a northwest passage between the atlantic and pacific oceans along the northern coast of america or between davis's and b^h ring's straits the expedition consisted of two ships the " erebus and the **- terror under the command of sir john franklin and capt ctozier ; the complement of officers and men in the two ships being about one hundred and thirty-eight they were vic tualled for three years their instructions were to proci d to bdiiin's bay atid ;.- soon as the ice per mitted to enter lancaster sound and ; proceed westward through barrow's strait in ibe latitude i f about i degs until they reached i longitudi . i cape wal ker or about 98 leg west ihey wrre then to use even effort to penetrate south v ls and westwards wards behri strait and it was in ibi pat greal st difficult ,.,: . . ..,;, if liit se proved t he tnsuri next directed to return to b ' , . tnd pr red northward i y •' channel between i . n ai '. ( 3 1>i ■ ids,comm nly called " .,,. ; ,_** . * provided it appeared op nnd ice it is evident that thi i ability lo fi - low either <_:' hesr courses must httve de pended upon local . rcums'ances of which we have no cognizance the discovery ships sailed om eng land on the 19.h of may 1s and were last seen on the 20th of july ot the same year in latitude 71 des 4s north tude 00 deg 13 west fastened to a i berg waiting for lhe opening of the ice to cross into lancaster sound these ships have neversince been heard of and it is for the purpose ol relieving them and at least of ascertaining iheir fate tbat in 1s4s her majesty's govern ment again fitted out an expedition it was in three divisions the lirst in point of time consisted of a single ship called the plover comman ded by capt moore which left england in the latter end of january lm the pur pose of entering behring's straits on the westward passage it was intended that she should arrived there in the month of july and having looked out lor a winter harhor should send out her boats north ward anti eastward in which directions the discovery ships ii successful would be met with unfortunately lhe plover never even approached last year trie place of her destination and whatever search she may yet be able to make has to be accomplish ed this summer the '* herald survey ing vessel iu the pacific has orders il pos sible to supply her with additional stores the second division of the expedition was one ofthe boats to explore the coast of the arctic sea between the macken zie and coppermine rivers from he 135th to the 115th degree of longi together with the south coast ol wollas ton land it being supposed that if sir john franklin's party had been con pel led to leave the ships and take to their bo its they would make for this coast 1 he non-arrival by this time april is 111 of an express from sir john richardson proves that his last summer's search was fruitless the third portion of the expt ition o search consists of two ships tbe cn er prise and the investigator under the command of sir james ros and captain bit d u bich sailed in may 1848 for lancaster sound the were last he i of on thi h of august last when they were at lite en trance of this sound sir james ross intend • ' to proceed in the enterprise ireful examining shores of lancaster sound and barrow's strait on his way io melville island dr to banks land and then e to send cut ex ploring parties in boats his second ship the i ivestigato u i der command of capt bird ppe io have received ins ictiot - fn i s . jas ross to watch lancas soui 1,1 the purpose both of comm t \ i the whaling ships from engl i id thi man r and of looking out for stragglers from tlie erebus and terror should any be en deavoring to reach the neiyhburhoud of the fishing grounds from the late period of ihc season h m ever at which the enterprise and inves tigator reached lancaster sound il al culated that they can scarcely have had more than a fortnight for tin ir operations during the last summer and thus a wide field of search remains open during the approaching season for which however the means at present in activity are by no means adequate it is the general be lief of those officers who have served in the former arctic expeditions that the discovery ships " erebus and *' terror whatever accident may have befallen them cannot have wholly disappeared from those seas and lhat some traces of their fate if not some living remnant of their crews must eventually reward the search of the diligent investigator it is possible that they may lie found in quarters the least expected : but in the lirst instance the attention of hips en gaged in the search should be directed to the quarters pointed at in lhe admiralty instructions given to sir john franklin and especially to the channel leading out of barrow's strait to the north t_fe chief of these is that called wellington slraif which it is probable sir james ross has not yet explored and where if entangled in the ice and exhausted for want of pro visions,their condition must be in the high est degree dangerous it is also verv desirable that the coasts of boothia and north somerset shoul ! be carefully examined as well as th ofthe golf of boothia and reg nl - inlet and the coast eastward of the coppi i ne te great fish or back's river **~' •./•'«/ sounds and inlets north and wesi . i baf fin's bay which are supposed to co nu nicate with wellington ci we-t some of these parts n ex plored by boats or und parlies is . all ibat part also unprovided r vb u lies between mackenzie rivei and i > cape to the west