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terms of the watchman ir subscription per year two dollars-payable in ! a_vain*e but if not paid in advance two dollars ml tit'tv cts will be charged ._,.*■ibtemissm-m inserted at 1 for the first and 2 eta for each subsequent insertion court orders ch.rged 95 per ct higher than these rates a liberal deduc lion to those who advertise by the year liters to the editors must be post paid salisbury jam/iry 14 1850 the carolina watchman bruner & james / > " keep a check m-orr all rocr editors sf proprietors ) rule*s ( new series do tnu asd llbcktt is u_r < gen'l harrinn ( volume vi number 36 salisbury n c thursday january 17 1850 california newspaper — vve have before us several members ofthe " alta california bear ing date in october 1849 a weekly paper lublished at san francisco five columns to he age at 12 a year in advance 7 for six , months 84 for three months advertising is jone al s 4 for ten lines first insertion ; and 2 for each subsequent insertion the numbers before us are more than half filled wilh adver tisements and mu be worth to lhe editor each week the little pile of six hundred dollars — makiii-7 no allowance for judiciary notices which arc charged one third higher these jvertisements consist of merchants brokers com merchants lawyers doctors and me chanic notices ; and such oihers as are usu v found in city papers in lhe states thee numbers contain full reports of lhe ' proceedings ofthe lale convention for the form ation of t constitution for the stale of califor nia winch ihough not wilhout interest would n0\v be esteemed old fhc following editorial from the paper of the th october will be read with interest as giv jn a more simple description of climate busi ness c at san francisco than is generally found in lhe correspondence ofleller wi iters local matters october — we are gliding peacefully happi , |» midway along through the glorious calif or \ ita month of october we are prospering in business wealth and importance beneath se rene unclouded skies and as denizens of a ' ibriving sea-port city bustling in daily life un er a warm sun and in the enjoyment of pleas ant healthful breezes morning noon and night this is the month for forming ihose favorable irn j prensions of california which once received j are never eradicated even by the lough cold | um'.ier seasoning one gets by a year's resi j jence in san francisco no longer our citi j ren hasten within doors ere the day is half past ; o avoid the blinding sand and choking dust | iih which the air is filled and which whirls j i gusts through the streels as water rushes ' rough the sluiceway no more do evening j _{.(_ steal in and in that ill-protecting grey j get envelope the town while cold winds pen mate and bluster through lhe night ; nor does | morning sun now lend its warmth to dissi i jute the chill and heavy fog and secure for the ity an hour's respite of pleasant weather ere i dust v disagreeable noon comes on but j here wc are in the midst of oclobor with pleas mi manly faces surrounding us and lhe light forms of lovely women glancing down the streets snd in and out of stores achieving without a fear of rough winds their dearest pleasure that j tftbopping — while the gent ventures abroad in i rammer attire with white kids and fashionable i appointments lo witness the magician's wand i level old dilapidated structures aud send up | from iheir ruins good three story evidences of nf enterprise and wealth the wharves are heaped up with merchan dise the streets are lined with ponderous box > es and bales of is and somebody says to j he council not in a proper condition for win er rains while loaded drays block up lhe thoroughfares or by a lusty " look out from ( llie driver startle lhe looker-on and warn him tbat this is he age and place in which he musl keep stiring else be ridden down or goto the wall with the weakest the markets are well supplied with fruits of lhe country and the products of our vines — de licous grapes for which california can merilo ! tiously claim unexcelled qualities — are brot i id from the interior in great abundance speak ■i"g of dance a grand lancy ball came off the j oiher evening al the bella union which was well attended by the generality of ball going characters about town the steamer mint having commenced regular trips to sacramen to city on her hist brought into ihis market a ropply of fresh sacramento salmon which ve ij readily sold al one dollar the pound think ol this ye eastern epicures a single fish in california sold for forty five dollars ! the rainy season which may commence wall next month suggests to ihose owning perishable goods now exposed lo the weather ml a good shelter xvill soon be required ; and l sojourners in canvass houses lhat their roots nay need repair " to your tents o israel !" "" say once more can we not furthermore remind owners and sisters of vessels in this harbor that every pre sjlion should at once be taken to guard a linst lhe evil consequence of a norther — good berths should be early secured and suf dent and proper ground tackle brought into if otherwise the coming season of northers ill prove disastrous lo shipping iu the bay coroner's inquests — on the 2*1 insl joseph ■• fuller son of nathaniel fuller lale of st newtown mass passenger on the ship ckarlolle of boston committed suicide by wing his throat wiih a razor james brown of newburyport mass who aine here on the brig " charlotte aged aboul r'y years was found drowned on lhe 30th at clark's point in ihis city he board a">t the new haven lunch and had been suf iing severely from dysentery for some weeks beorge seaward tracy was found dead in appy valley on the morning of the 7th inst e jury lelurneda verdict lhat he came to his k"a,'i hy taking an over dose of opium and by ili-**>sure u,i die same morning an inquest was held ne body of kusiano figueroa found under ** rear of mills \* pence's store decease i 5 forme ly jn the mexican service and has ye or some weeks suffering from diarrbcea cl in accordance with the facts i n . he alternoon of the 10th francis krin t . le*j suddenly on board lhe schooner " odd ,";<' in the harbor te!jn ll'e 1 ith inst chas a c.urley esq a a-nd inquest upon the body of an english ' f inan named john denned aged about forty *,■'• *• n board the btitish barque win ' i s0 now in our harbor deceased had ■sufi*eijnj with intermittent lever but from jj.8 denuess of his death the jury returned a lcl of ** death from appoplexy si lm\na matters — a grand jury was in ses m judge geary's office on the 15th which , ned trup bi!ls against the following jacob van pell bcni barrv chas perkins james shepherd john j waters an drew mccall and joseph revey who were found in a tent where some stolen properly was buried emanuel monte alias berones charg ed with stealing some money the property of capt kemp ; henry peterson who was caught with a bundle of stolen properly under his arm by the police on one of trie sand hills on lhe mission road ; he is accused of having broken into a house at lhe mission dolores — several hills were postponed from the non at tendance of prosecutors and one against a sail or recently discharged fiom a vessel was ** ig nored ;"' he was charged with l.eingcoiieern.'d with the lent full of men indicted for larceny mentioned aboved james p howard esq is acting a9 prose ! cuting attorney ia the absence of mr mcalis ier who has been engaged in the trial of some sailors before a court martial on the frigate " savanah deranged — a genteel looking man calling i himself dr burton was arrested in happy | valley on tuesday with a loaded double bar j reled gun in his possession ; he was threaten i ing suiride and was evidently deranged nolher man whose name we have not | learned attempted suicide last week by violent | ly striking his head against the chimney ofthe station house he was laboring under mania polu not arrested — cerelia the chileno who killed a man on lhe night of lhe sth inst has j not yet been found as he is well marked ' a description of his person might lead to his j arrest communications for the watchman catlin and his horse on the prairie day by day i thus proceeded along the whole way thro waving grass and green fields occasionally dismounting and lying in tbe grass an hour or so uniil tbe grim shaking and chattering of an ague chill had passed off and through the nights slept on my bear skin spread upon the grass with my saddle for my pillow and my buffalo robe drawn over me for my covering my horse charley was pick eted near me at the end of his lasso which gave him room for his grazing ; and thus we snored and nodded away tbe nights ' and never were denied the doleful sere nades of lhe gangs of sneaking wolves ! that were nigbly perambulating our little : encampment and stationed at a safe dis lance from us at sun rise in the morning gazing at us and impatient to pick up j tiie crumbs and bones that were left when : vve moved away from our feeble fire that ! bad faintly flickered through the night i and in the absence of timber had been made of dried buffalo dung * * * i generally balled on the bank of some little stream at half an hour's sun where feed was good for charley and where i i could get wood to kindle my fire and wa j ter for my coffee the first thing was to ■undress charley and drive down his pick et to which he was fastened to graze over a circle that he could inscribe at lhe end of his lasso in this wise be busily fed himself until night fall ; and after my coffee was made and drank i uniformly moved bim up with his picket by the head so lhat i could lay my hand upon his lasso in an instant in case of any alarm that was liable to drive him from me on one of these evenings when he was grazing as usual he slipped the lasso over his head and deliberately took his supper at his pleasure wherever be chose to prefer it as be was strolling around when night approached i took the lasso in hand and endeavored to catch him but i soon saw tbat he was determined to en joy a little freedom ; and be continually evaded me until dark when i abandoned the pursuit making up my mind that 1 should inevitably lose him and be obliged fo perform the rest of my journey on foot ue bad led me a chase of half a mile or more when i left him busily grazing and relumed to my little solitary bivouac and laid myself on my bear skin and went to sleep in the middle of tbe night i awaked whilst i was lying on my back and on half opening my eyes i was instantly shocked to the soul by the huge figure us i thought of an indian standing over me and in lhe very instant of taking my scalp the chill of horror lhat paralyzed me for lhe first moment held me slill till i saw there was no need of my moving — that my faithful horse charley had played shy till he had rilled his belly and had then moved up from feelings of pure af fection or from instinctive fear or possi bly from a due share of both and taken his position with his fore feet at the edge of my bed wiih his head hanging direct ly over me while he was standing fast asleep my nerves which had been most violently shocked were soon quieted and 1 fell asleep and so continued until sun rise in the morning when i waked and behold my faithful servant at some considerable distance busily at work picking up bis breakfast amongst lhe cant-brake along ihe bank of lhe creek i went as busily at work preparing my own which was eaten and after it 1 had another half hour of fruitless endeavor lo catch charley whilst he seemed mindful of success the evening before and con tinually tantalized me by turning around and around and keeping out of my reach i recolltc'.td lhe conclusive evidence of i bis attachment and dependence which he | had voluntarily given in the night and i i thought i would try them in another way so i packed up my things and slung the | saddle on my back trailing my gun in my j bund and started on my route after 1 p bad advanced about a quarter of a mile ' i looked back and saw him standing wiih bis head and tail very high looking alter nately at me and at lhe spot where i had ; been encamped and left a little fire burn | ing in this condition he stood and sur { veyed the prairies around for a while as i continued on he at length walked wiih a hurried step to the spot and seeing everything gone began to neigh very vio lently and at last started off al fullest j speed and overtook me passing within a lew paces of me and wheeling about at a few rods distant in front of me trem bling like an aspen leaf i called him by his familiar name and walked up to him wiih the bridle in my hand which i put over his head as he held it down for me and ihe saddle on his back as he actually stooped to receive it i was soon arrang ed and on his back when he started off upon bis course as if he was well content ed and pleased like his rider with the manoeuvre which had brought us togeth er again for the watchman a dream while sunk in sleep me thought i was suddenly transported to some foreign land and i found myself wandering m in a se questered glen in the middle of a beauti ful grove of orange trees on which the moon was shining with full splendor and which were at the same time loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flow ers in this elysian retreat i found sev eral persons reposing in the arms of mor pheus ; and as the idea occurred to me lhat when men were buried in sleep their souls might take the opportunity to leave iheir constrained abode in the human frame and to range at will in space i thought 1 might be able to observe the different dispositions of these men by the actions ot their spirits when thus left to act freely i determined therefore to watch lor them in a short time as i thought one made its appearance like a meteor of a bluish color and of a globu lar form this after hovering a short time over the body it had left moved away to a distant part of the grove : and loitering about there among the trees for a short time as if in quest of something it dart ed off to the orb of the moon with the speed ol thought i kept watch of it while it revolved about that luminary a few times and ihen it darted off again towards the stars and disappeared in tbe regions of space ; i saw it no more but concluded lhat this was lhe soul of some high minded noble man who when awake was fond of rais ing his thoughts above the motives of im j mediate gain and present gratification — j thai he had been accustomed to expand ! his mind by contemplating the grand dis j plays of creative energy in the worlds ; above us but on attending again to the i men sleeping in the grove i saw the soul of another rise in the same manner simi j ilar in appearance but exceedingly small i so much so that while for a few minutes it wandered about among tbe branches of the trees as if uncertain what direction to take i almost lost sight of it : but shortly it rose a lillle above the grove and slowly moved in a horizontal direction ; until it came over an open place where j it suddenly dropped to lhe ground out of sight i hastened to lhe spot to learn the cause ; and found it was caught in a ut ile iin box in the bottom of which was a sixpence placed there as a bait which in this case was too successful it is true in general that vve are not surprised at al most any thing in a dream : but i could not but feel amazed even in sleep at a man who would sell his soul for a sixpence ! i began to think bow dishonest that man must me and to what low arts he would descend to make money but when 1 was musing on the subject some one called to me and i awoke somnus education among the ancient romans translated from tacitus de oratoribus chaps 28 j 29 " who knows not thai eloquence and other arts have declined from their ancient renown i not from the scarcity of men but by lhe indo lence of youth lhe negligence of pareuls the ignorance of teachers and lhe forgetfulness of the practice of antiquity ? evils which first | springing up in the cily next having spread through italy have already affected the provin j ces : ihough ihose which are al home are best known lo us i will speak ot the city and of our own peculiar faults which children imme dialely fall inlo and which are increased as they advance in age ; bul i musl premise a few things concerning the rigid discipline ol our an cestors in training and educating iheir children then each man's son born wilhout a slain was educated not in the trust of a hired nurse but under lhe care and affection of the moth er ; whose highest praise was to keep house and attend to the children some aged female relative was also chosen r,f known character and metals lo whom all ibe children of lhe fa ! mily w»-re intrusted ; and l»«*f.>re whom they i were not allowed to sav anything unbecoming j i nor to do what appeared base and not only j did she direct their studies and tasks with de i corum and respeel but also iheir sports and ! plays so we learn thai cornelia the mother i of gracehi aurelia the mother of cuesar and | atia the mother of augustus rendered their | children men of the first rank by attending to i their instruction their rigid discipline had j this effect thai lhe disposition of pach boy be ing sound and uneorrupt and nol perverted by any bad habit should acquire with undivided at i ten tion useful knowledge and ihen whether ) they were inclined lo a military life or thesci i ence of law or the study of eloquence to lhal j ihey devoted themselves entirely but now the new born infant is committed to a little greek | maid o whom is added one or two among the i men servants generally the most worthless and \ unfit for any duty of importance immediately ; the tender and unformed minds of the children ■are filled wilh all the tales and stories of these ; nor does any one in lhe whole house regard what he says or does before his infant master when even the parents themselves do not ac custom iheir lillle sons lo virtue and discretion but to jesting and shamelessness : by which gradually want of respeel and disregard both of themselves and of oihers creeps in now indeed the native and peculiar vices of this city seem lo me almost connatural ; such as lhe love of stage plays of shows and circus es : aud when the mind is occupied and filled with such things how little room is left for use ful studies ? how often can you find a man lhat will talk of anything else at home what oth er conversations of the striplings do we hear when we enter iheir school rooms even the teachers do not ofiner talk of anything else with their pupils for ihey obtain scholars not by good government and skilful experience hut by excessive courtesy and lhe arts of flattery thus we see what made great men at rome who raised her lo the greatest pitch of earthly greatness in eloquence arts and arms it was rigid menial discipline with all possible care of he morals of the youth : nor is it any wonder lhat when lhe practice of antiquity was forgotten ; and when corruption of morals be gan in the cradle : when lhe love of shows plays and circuses filled lhe mind in place of hose studies that fit it for the business of life that the legions of rome lhat had rushed to victory be fore were driven back wilh disgrace : lhat lit erature declined from lhe age of augustus ; and i lhat what rome once was she was no longer ; | from being lhe first of nations she took lhe low j est place history is our teacher and here is a lesson for us to learn tacitus study the wisdom of god in his works " at present we know of no secondary cause i that could have any influence in regulating the j respective distances of lhe planets from the sun : yet ihere appears a relation between lhe dis tances that cannot be considered as accidental this was first ohseived by prof code of ber lin comparing these with lhe actual mean '■, distances we cannot bul remark tbe near agree i menl and can scarcely hesitate to pronounce j lhat these mean distances were assigned acenr ding to a law although we are entirely ignor j ant of the exact law and of iln reason of lhal | law the relation here spoken of is as follows : if mercury's distance from the sun be called 4 and venus's 4x3 which is very nearly the proportion then 4x2x3 will be the earth's distance 4x22x3 that of mars 4*24x3 jupiter's 4x25x3 salum's and 4 x 2 6x3 ihai of uranus upon the discovery of lhe small planets their mean distance between mars and jupiter where it will he seen a term is wanting to make lhe series regular was found lo be nearly 4x2 3 x3 kepler had observed a progression but did not assign its law he remarked also lhat one term seem i ed to be missing bode assigned the particu lar law and noticed the apparently missing term the existence of a planet between mars and jupiter was accordingly suspected and at last to the astonishment of astronomers four little bodies looking like fragments of a planet i more than a planet were discovered at a dis ' tance from the sun so near lo that which had been suspected that their mean distance fills up its place in lhe series as well as that of any other planet jupiter's satelites and saturn's seem to be ranged around their primaries by similar laws — brinkley's elements of astronomy sections 114 and 115 kossuth's family advices from vienna by tbe cambria inform us that the liberation of kossuth's relations from prison is extended to bis children who were provided with a pro testant tutor his mother and sisters who have been dismissed from their prison at pestb are expected in vienna where it is believed they will apply for passports for turkey cassias m clay accpuitled — we learn from tbe richmond(ky chronicle that the grand jury of madison county alter an investigation ofthe foxtown rencoun ter in which cyrus turner was killed by cassius m clay failed to find an indict ment in the ease cooper miss lafayette and louis napoleon mr wiliis gives lhe following anecdote obtained in conversation with fenimore | cooper the author illustrative of the am ! bition of the present president of france ; the incident occurred in paris in 1832 i was calling upon lafayette one day , said mr cooper and was let in by his j confidential servant who it struck me | showed signs of having something lo con i ceal he said bis master was at home | and after a moment's hesitation made ! way for me to go on as usual to his pri ! vate room — but i saw there was some j embarrassment 1 walked in nd found j the general alone he received me with ! the same cordiality as ever but enquired ! with some eagerness who let me in and j whether i met an old acquaintance going out i told him that his old servant had j admitted me and lhat there was certain ! ly something peculiar in the man's man j ner but as i had seen no one else i knew nothing more '• ah said the general •' that fellow put him in the side room sit down and i will tell you prince louis napoleon bonaparte was here two minutes ago !" i expressed my surprise of course for | this was in 32 when it was death for a j bonaparte to enter france " yes continued the general " and he j came with a proposition he wishes to marry my grand daughter clementine unite the republicanists and imperialists make himself emperor and make my granddaughter imperatrice !"' and if it be not an indiscreet ques tion i said " what was your answer my | dear general v j " i told him said lafayette " that my i family had the american notion on that ! subject and chose husbands for them ! selves — that there was the young lady — he might go and court her and if she liked bim 1 had no objection mr cooper did not tell us for of course he did not know how the prince plied his wooing nor why he failed the fair clementine who thus possibly lost her chance of being an empress married | mons de beaumont and now represents i her rejected admirer as the french am i bassadress at the court of austria short j ly after tbis visit to lafayette mr coop | er was in london and mentioned to the princess charlotte the widow of the eld er brother of tbe present president of france this venture of prince louis into lhe den of the orleanists he is mad !" i was the only reply but the finger pos i of " that way madness lies does not al [ ways point truly at any rate there is a i certain " method in bis madness for the ' same match between imperialism and republicanism has been the prince's pur suit ever since and the chances are that he will finally bring it about — clemen tines and other immediate unbelievers notwithstanding news from europe arrival of the steamer cambria at boston the steamship cambria arrived at boston late on saturday night and her mails were brought by express train to new york city tbe advance in cotton which was re ported by lelegragb turns out to be a mis take during the week ending dec 7th here had been a decline of yd per pound and during the week ending dec 14th there was an advance of over that de cline ; leaving nevertheless an actual de cline tb of a penny since the previous steamer sailed • new rumors have i-prung up that a duty will be imposed on corn imports — it is said thut the premier lord lans down and discount palmers'on are re solved upon an 8s duty whilst other members of lhe cabinet adhere to free trade a rupture and a new coalition ministry is anticipated in some quarters the weekly news contradicts the above rumor sir i brunei the distinguished engineer of thames tunnel c died in london on the 12th of december in bis8ist year there was a good business doing and the market was steady english capital ists were taking considerable lots hungarian exiles for america — thir ty-five hungarian exiles having arrived from hamburgh at leith on their way to america a meeting of gentlemen was held on saturday in the chamber of com merce edenburgh for the purpose of adopting means lo raise a subscription to carry them forward to tbe land which ihey have chosen as their place of exile various subscriptions were announced and it was also intimated that at glasgow from whence they sail a promising sub scriptions list has been got up the ref ugees are principally military officers of rank spain royal prospects — a telegraphic des patch was received by the french gov ernment from madrid in the afternoon of wednesday announcing lhat ber yinjesly the queen of spain is enciente tbe de spatch was immediately after receipt communicated to the duke of sntomayor the spanish ambassador at paris the communication has been made in an of ficial form by her majesty's medical at tendants at madrid to the spanish gov ernrrrent whig coxvention although neither the exact time nor place fbi . holding a cunveulion lo noruii-ule a whig can { didate for governor have a y-i been delinite j y agreed upon we would lake the liberty of suggesting lo our whig frit nd in llie different ! sections of the slate the propriety f catling county meetings at such early peri.d ai any be mo«i convenient for tbe purp of appoint ing delegates i'he sea-mn for lue courts i corning on and the gathering of the people ai i the respective cuuniy 3e:i--i mn »'•_•■be avail ■ed of tiue there i ullks cr no i.e-e sity for j he immediate holding r.f a c<ar.ei.ti ,.-.. or fur j so protracted a campaign as in lhal event i would follow j but ihere i always so great a j difficulty in securing a lull representation on j account of the limi'ed time if holding prima , ry meetings thai ii would be « ll without j doubr to have the appointment of delegate ' mide in ample time the respective apnoin 1 lees will thus have al*>o fuller lime for making 1 arrangements to attend the convention wrier i ever it may be hoid.-n it is impoitanl that our f iet.fs should mu.h in this particular and i bat at ibe k ier linn we should have a full conven i thai lhu locofuco party \\ iii make a desperate aud i.e mendous effi.t to carry ll.e state :■* cb •- r : v foreshadowed ; but that they will be baffled and disappointed in the attempt need ho problemat ical l*i no one who has witnessed v bat !'•>* cor dial and united ro-nperaiioii <•:' lhe vi.i r.f north carolina can accomplish ! — raleigh re gister message of the governor of pennsyl vania — gov johnston dt-livered bis an nual message yesterday and from it we learn there will be a balance it tin state treasury at the end of the year 1s50 of about 8531.500 the sum of 371,000 has been added to the sinking fund during the year he recommends that lhe num ber of canal commissioners be increased to five to be elected by districts — and that the number ol banking insti tutions be restricted to the real wants of the people it is also recommended that the banks of the commonwealth be authorised to establish agencies or branch es iu one or more places wilh permission to issue notes under the denomination of five dollars to be based upon a deposite of state stocks in the band of the trea surer which are to be at all times liable for the redemption of the notes thus is i sued on the slave question gov john ston speaks the sentiments of a patriot when he says : — pet int when sectional interests and jealous ies contend for supremacy and sectional rights are to be determined ; when ques tions between states are controverted and disregard of national laws is mani fested ; in peace and war ; in prosperity and adversity ; in foreign or domestic dif ficulties the citizens of pennsylvania turn with abiding confidence lo ll.e na tional constitution neithet tbe thirst for power nor the phrenzy of parly nor the prostration of their peculiar interests can shake their allegiance to the national government or raise with ihem lhe trai tor cry of disunion — bait clip opinion of a competent jml^c upon the president's message from the lynchburg virginian of dei 31 the presidents message — tbe style is simple elegant and perspicuous tbe whole character of tbe document is in ac cordance with gen taylor's just concep tions ofthe functions of a constitutional president the patent democracy of tbe day who have no respect for a president whose bearing is not lhat of a dictator will smile contemptuously upon the simple recommendations of gen taylor he tells iu brief and explicit term what be has done and suggests such measures to congress as he thinks called for by the public interests it is the shortest mess age we have had since the days of mr madison — ind this is nut the least of its meiils his predecessor occupied as large a space in his last message in a po litical disquisition framed in a low par tisan spirit and violating the truth of his tory as much as it outraged the feelings of at least a moity of the people of the united states the union — the following lines by longfellow from his forthcoming volume of poems are quite apropos nt ibis time thou loo til on o ship < ■t slate ! sail on o union mro and gieat i humanity with ail its ft-ar wiih aii the hopes of future w*ars is hanging breathless on thj file ! we know what m;i-trr laid lb keel what workman wroughi thy ribs of steel who ma earh mast earh sail each rope what anvils ing whai hummers beat in what forge and what a heal were shaped tbe anchors of thy h"p ! fear not each sadden sound ami hock tis bul lhe wave md not the ro ; tis bul the llipi'in oi th sail and not a rent mad by the galr ! in spite of rock ami t-*inpc_t r.ur in spite of false li_;ht on ibe shore sail on nor tear lo biea*.t the sea ! our hearts our hopes are all with thee : ojr hearts our hopes oui prayers our tears ate all with thee — are all with ihee ' 4 great dice — the st lo*;is organ of the 22d instant tells the following a friend tells us thai in coming down the mis sissippi a short time ago on a steam boat one ofthe passengers one night at tracted his attention by exclaiming in his sleep i can beat that dive anyhow '.'' — our relater immediately looked towards the man when io ! he s^w him t.mble headforemost fiom his berth onto the floor there said t..e diver 1 touched bottom an\hovv."and then climbed up into his berth again without waking edward joy morris of pbildelphia re cently nominated charge to tinph ?. was today confirmed by the senate there are several nomina'ion before this b^dy fe»r v»ii,ir
Object Description
Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1850-01-17 |
Month | 01 |
Day | 17 |
Year | 1850 |
Volume | 6 |
Issue | 36 |
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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, January 17, 1850 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | Public |
Language | eng |
OCLC number | 601553036 |
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1850-01-17 |
Month | 01 |
Day | 17 |
Year | 1850 |
Volume | 6 |
Issue | 36 |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
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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, January 17, 1850 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | Public |
Language | eng |
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terms of the watchman ir subscription per year two dollars-payable in ! a_vain*e but if not paid in advance two dollars ml tit'tv cts will be charged ._,.*■ibtemissm-m inserted at 1 for the first and 2 eta for each subsequent insertion court orders ch.rged 95 per ct higher than these rates a liberal deduc lion to those who advertise by the year liters to the editors must be post paid salisbury jam/iry 14 1850 the carolina watchman bruner & james / > " keep a check m-orr all rocr editors sf proprietors ) rule*s ( new series do tnu asd llbcktt is u_r < gen'l harrinn ( volume vi number 36 salisbury n c thursday january 17 1850 california newspaper — vve have before us several members ofthe " alta california bear ing date in october 1849 a weekly paper lublished at san francisco five columns to he age at 12 a year in advance 7 for six , months 84 for three months advertising is jone al s 4 for ten lines first insertion ; and 2 for each subsequent insertion the numbers before us are more than half filled wilh adver tisements and mu be worth to lhe editor each week the little pile of six hundred dollars — makiii-7 no allowance for judiciary notices which arc charged one third higher these jvertisements consist of merchants brokers com merchants lawyers doctors and me chanic notices ; and such oihers as are usu v found in city papers in lhe states thee numbers contain full reports of lhe ' proceedings ofthe lale convention for the form ation of t constitution for the stale of califor nia winch ihough not wilhout interest would n0\v be esteemed old fhc following editorial from the paper of the th october will be read with interest as giv jn a more simple description of climate busi ness c at san francisco than is generally found in lhe correspondence ofleller wi iters local matters october — we are gliding peacefully happi , |» midway along through the glorious calif or \ ita month of october we are prospering in business wealth and importance beneath se rene unclouded skies and as denizens of a ' ibriving sea-port city bustling in daily life un er a warm sun and in the enjoyment of pleas ant healthful breezes morning noon and night this is the month for forming ihose favorable irn j prensions of california which once received j are never eradicated even by the lough cold | um'.ier seasoning one gets by a year's resi j jence in san francisco no longer our citi j ren hasten within doors ere the day is half past ; o avoid the blinding sand and choking dust | iih which the air is filled and which whirls j i gusts through the streels as water rushes ' rough the sluiceway no more do evening j _{.(_ steal in and in that ill-protecting grey j get envelope the town while cold winds pen mate and bluster through lhe night ; nor does | morning sun now lend its warmth to dissi i jute the chill and heavy fog and secure for the ity an hour's respite of pleasant weather ere i dust v disagreeable noon comes on but j here wc are in the midst of oclobor with pleas mi manly faces surrounding us and lhe light forms of lovely women glancing down the streets snd in and out of stores achieving without a fear of rough winds their dearest pleasure that j tftbopping — while the gent ventures abroad in i rammer attire with white kids and fashionable i appointments lo witness the magician's wand i level old dilapidated structures aud send up | from iheir ruins good three story evidences of nf enterprise and wealth the wharves are heaped up with merchan dise the streets are lined with ponderous box > es and bales of is and somebody says to j he council not in a proper condition for win er rains while loaded drays block up lhe thoroughfares or by a lusty " look out from ( llie driver startle lhe looker-on and warn him tbat this is he age and place in which he musl keep stiring else be ridden down or goto the wall with the weakest the markets are well supplied with fruits of lhe country and the products of our vines — de licous grapes for which california can merilo ! tiously claim unexcelled qualities — are brot i id from the interior in great abundance speak ■i"g of dance a grand lancy ball came off the j oiher evening al the bella union which was well attended by the generality of ball going characters about town the steamer mint having commenced regular trips to sacramen to city on her hist brought into ihis market a ropply of fresh sacramento salmon which ve ij readily sold al one dollar the pound think ol this ye eastern epicures a single fish in california sold for forty five dollars ! the rainy season which may commence wall next month suggests to ihose owning perishable goods now exposed lo the weather ml a good shelter xvill soon be required ; and l sojourners in canvass houses lhat their roots nay need repair " to your tents o israel !" "" say once more can we not furthermore remind owners and sisters of vessels in this harbor that every pre sjlion should at once be taken to guard a linst lhe evil consequence of a norther — good berths should be early secured and suf dent and proper ground tackle brought into if otherwise the coming season of northers ill prove disastrous lo shipping iu the bay coroner's inquests — on the 2*1 insl joseph ■• fuller son of nathaniel fuller lale of st newtown mass passenger on the ship ckarlolle of boston committed suicide by wing his throat wiih a razor james brown of newburyport mass who aine here on the brig " charlotte aged aboul r'y years was found drowned on lhe 30th at clark's point in ihis city he board a">t the new haven lunch and had been suf iing severely from dysentery for some weeks beorge seaward tracy was found dead in appy valley on the morning of the 7th inst e jury lelurneda verdict lhat he came to his k"a,'i hy taking an over dose of opium and by ili-**>sure u,i die same morning an inquest was held ne body of kusiano figueroa found under ** rear of mills \* pence's store decease i 5 forme ly jn the mexican service and has ye or some weeks suffering from diarrbcea cl in accordance with the facts i n . he alternoon of the 10th francis krin t . le*j suddenly on board lhe schooner " odd ,";<' in the harbor te!jn ll'e 1 ith inst chas a c.urley esq a a-nd inquest upon the body of an english ' f inan named john denned aged about forty *,■'• *• n board the btitish barque win ' i s0 now in our harbor deceased had ■sufi*eijnj with intermittent lever but from jj.8 denuess of his death the jury returned a lcl of ** death from appoplexy si lm\na matters — a grand jury was in ses m judge geary's office on the 15th which , ned trup bi!ls against the following jacob van pell bcni barrv chas perkins james shepherd john j waters an drew mccall and joseph revey who were found in a tent where some stolen properly was buried emanuel monte alias berones charg ed with stealing some money the property of capt kemp ; henry peterson who was caught with a bundle of stolen properly under his arm by the police on one of trie sand hills on lhe mission road ; he is accused of having broken into a house at lhe mission dolores — several hills were postponed from the non at tendance of prosecutors and one against a sail or recently discharged fiom a vessel was ** ig nored ;"' he was charged with l.eingcoiieern.'d with the lent full of men indicted for larceny mentioned aboved james p howard esq is acting a9 prose ! cuting attorney ia the absence of mr mcalis ier who has been engaged in the trial of some sailors before a court martial on the frigate " savanah deranged — a genteel looking man calling i himself dr burton was arrested in happy | valley on tuesday with a loaded double bar j reled gun in his possession ; he was threaten i ing suiride and was evidently deranged nolher man whose name we have not | learned attempted suicide last week by violent | ly striking his head against the chimney ofthe station house he was laboring under mania polu not arrested — cerelia the chileno who killed a man on lhe night of lhe sth inst has j not yet been found as he is well marked ' a description of his person might lead to his j arrest communications for the watchman catlin and his horse on the prairie day by day i thus proceeded along the whole way thro waving grass and green fields occasionally dismounting and lying in tbe grass an hour or so uniil tbe grim shaking and chattering of an ague chill had passed off and through the nights slept on my bear skin spread upon the grass with my saddle for my pillow and my buffalo robe drawn over me for my covering my horse charley was pick eted near me at the end of his lasso which gave him room for his grazing ; and thus we snored and nodded away tbe nights ' and never were denied the doleful sere nades of lhe gangs of sneaking wolves ! that were nigbly perambulating our little : encampment and stationed at a safe dis lance from us at sun rise in the morning gazing at us and impatient to pick up j tiie crumbs and bones that were left when : vve moved away from our feeble fire that ! bad faintly flickered through the night i and in the absence of timber had been made of dried buffalo dung * * * i generally balled on the bank of some little stream at half an hour's sun where feed was good for charley and where i i could get wood to kindle my fire and wa j ter for my coffee the first thing was to ■undress charley and drive down his pick et to which he was fastened to graze over a circle that he could inscribe at lhe end of his lasso in this wise be busily fed himself until night fall ; and after my coffee was made and drank i uniformly moved bim up with his picket by the head so lhat i could lay my hand upon his lasso in an instant in case of any alarm that was liable to drive him from me on one of these evenings when he was grazing as usual he slipped the lasso over his head and deliberately took his supper at his pleasure wherever be chose to prefer it as be was strolling around when night approached i took the lasso in hand and endeavored to catch him but i soon saw tbat he was determined to en joy a little freedom ; and be continually evaded me until dark when i abandoned the pursuit making up my mind that 1 should inevitably lose him and be obliged fo perform the rest of my journey on foot ue bad led me a chase of half a mile or more when i left him busily grazing and relumed to my little solitary bivouac and laid myself on my bear skin and went to sleep in the middle of tbe night i awaked whilst i was lying on my back and on half opening my eyes i was instantly shocked to the soul by the huge figure us i thought of an indian standing over me and in lhe very instant of taking my scalp the chill of horror lhat paralyzed me for lhe first moment held me slill till i saw there was no need of my moving — that my faithful horse charley had played shy till he had rilled his belly and had then moved up from feelings of pure af fection or from instinctive fear or possi bly from a due share of both and taken his position with his fore feet at the edge of my bed wiih his head hanging direct ly over me while he was standing fast asleep my nerves which had been most violently shocked were soon quieted and 1 fell asleep and so continued until sun rise in the morning when i waked and behold my faithful servant at some considerable distance busily at work picking up bis breakfast amongst lhe cant-brake along ihe bank of lhe creek i went as busily at work preparing my own which was eaten and after it 1 had another half hour of fruitless endeavor lo catch charley whilst he seemed mindful of success the evening before and con tinually tantalized me by turning around and around and keeping out of my reach i recolltc'.td lhe conclusive evidence of i bis attachment and dependence which he | had voluntarily given in the night and i i thought i would try them in another way so i packed up my things and slung the | saddle on my back trailing my gun in my j bund and started on my route after 1 p bad advanced about a quarter of a mile ' i looked back and saw him standing wiih bis head and tail very high looking alter nately at me and at lhe spot where i had ; been encamped and left a little fire burn | ing in this condition he stood and sur { veyed the prairies around for a while as i continued on he at length walked wiih a hurried step to the spot and seeing everything gone began to neigh very vio lently and at last started off al fullest j speed and overtook me passing within a lew paces of me and wheeling about at a few rods distant in front of me trem bling like an aspen leaf i called him by his familiar name and walked up to him wiih the bridle in my hand which i put over his head as he held it down for me and ihe saddle on his back as he actually stooped to receive it i was soon arrang ed and on his back when he started off upon bis course as if he was well content ed and pleased like his rider with the manoeuvre which had brought us togeth er again for the watchman a dream while sunk in sleep me thought i was suddenly transported to some foreign land and i found myself wandering m in a se questered glen in the middle of a beauti ful grove of orange trees on which the moon was shining with full splendor and which were at the same time loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flow ers in this elysian retreat i found sev eral persons reposing in the arms of mor pheus ; and as the idea occurred to me lhat when men were buried in sleep their souls might take the opportunity to leave iheir constrained abode in the human frame and to range at will in space i thought 1 might be able to observe the different dispositions of these men by the actions ot their spirits when thus left to act freely i determined therefore to watch lor them in a short time as i thought one made its appearance like a meteor of a bluish color and of a globu lar form this after hovering a short time over the body it had left moved away to a distant part of the grove : and loitering about there among the trees for a short time as if in quest of something it dart ed off to the orb of the moon with the speed ol thought i kept watch of it while it revolved about that luminary a few times and ihen it darted off again towards the stars and disappeared in tbe regions of space ; i saw it no more but concluded lhat this was lhe soul of some high minded noble man who when awake was fond of rais ing his thoughts above the motives of im j mediate gain and present gratification — j thai he had been accustomed to expand ! his mind by contemplating the grand dis j plays of creative energy in the worlds ; above us but on attending again to the i men sleeping in the grove i saw the soul of another rise in the same manner simi j ilar in appearance but exceedingly small i so much so that while for a few minutes it wandered about among tbe branches of the trees as if uncertain what direction to take i almost lost sight of it : but shortly it rose a lillle above the grove and slowly moved in a horizontal direction ; until it came over an open place where j it suddenly dropped to lhe ground out of sight i hastened to lhe spot to learn the cause ; and found it was caught in a ut ile iin box in the bottom of which was a sixpence placed there as a bait which in this case was too successful it is true in general that vve are not surprised at al most any thing in a dream : but i could not but feel amazed even in sleep at a man who would sell his soul for a sixpence ! i began to think bow dishonest that man must me and to what low arts he would descend to make money but when 1 was musing on the subject some one called to me and i awoke somnus education among the ancient romans translated from tacitus de oratoribus chaps 28 j 29 " who knows not thai eloquence and other arts have declined from their ancient renown i not from the scarcity of men but by lhe indo lence of youth lhe negligence of pareuls the ignorance of teachers and lhe forgetfulness of the practice of antiquity ? evils which first | springing up in the cily next having spread through italy have already affected the provin j ces : ihough ihose which are al home are best known lo us i will speak ot the city and of our own peculiar faults which children imme dialely fall inlo and which are increased as they advance in age ; bul i musl premise a few things concerning the rigid discipline ol our an cestors in training and educating iheir children then each man's son born wilhout a slain was educated not in the trust of a hired nurse but under lhe care and affection of the moth er ; whose highest praise was to keep house and attend to the children some aged female relative was also chosen r,f known character and metals lo whom all ibe children of lhe fa ! mily w»-re intrusted ; and l»«*f.>re whom they i were not allowed to sav anything unbecoming j i nor to do what appeared base and not only j did she direct their studies and tasks with de i corum and respeel but also iheir sports and ! plays so we learn thai cornelia the mother i of gracehi aurelia the mother of cuesar and | atia the mother of augustus rendered their | children men of the first rank by attending to i their instruction their rigid discipline had j this effect thai lhe disposition of pach boy be ing sound and uneorrupt and nol perverted by any bad habit should acquire with undivided at i ten tion useful knowledge and ihen whether ) they were inclined lo a military life or thesci i ence of law or the study of eloquence to lhal j ihey devoted themselves entirely but now the new born infant is committed to a little greek | maid o whom is added one or two among the i men servants generally the most worthless and \ unfit for any duty of importance immediately ; the tender and unformed minds of the children ■are filled wilh all the tales and stories of these ; nor does any one in lhe whole house regard what he says or does before his infant master when even the parents themselves do not ac custom iheir lillle sons lo virtue and discretion but to jesting and shamelessness : by which gradually want of respeel and disregard both of themselves and of oihers creeps in now indeed the native and peculiar vices of this city seem lo me almost connatural ; such as lhe love of stage plays of shows and circus es : aud when the mind is occupied and filled with such things how little room is left for use ful studies ? how often can you find a man lhat will talk of anything else at home what oth er conversations of the striplings do we hear when we enter iheir school rooms even the teachers do not ofiner talk of anything else with their pupils for ihey obtain scholars not by good government and skilful experience hut by excessive courtesy and lhe arts of flattery thus we see what made great men at rome who raised her lo the greatest pitch of earthly greatness in eloquence arts and arms it was rigid menial discipline with all possible care of he morals of the youth : nor is it any wonder lhat when lhe practice of antiquity was forgotten ; and when corruption of morals be gan in the cradle : when lhe love of shows plays and circuses filled lhe mind in place of hose studies that fit it for the business of life that the legions of rome lhat had rushed to victory be fore were driven back wilh disgrace : lhat lit erature declined from lhe age of augustus ; and i lhat what rome once was she was no longer ; | from being lhe first of nations she took lhe low j est place history is our teacher and here is a lesson for us to learn tacitus study the wisdom of god in his works " at present we know of no secondary cause i that could have any influence in regulating the j respective distances of lhe planets from the sun : yet ihere appears a relation between lhe dis tances that cannot be considered as accidental this was first ohseived by prof code of ber lin comparing these with lhe actual mean '■, distances we cannot bul remark tbe near agree i menl and can scarcely hesitate to pronounce j lhat these mean distances were assigned acenr ding to a law although we are entirely ignor j ant of the exact law and of iln reason of lhal | law the relation here spoken of is as follows : if mercury's distance from the sun be called 4 and venus's 4x3 which is very nearly the proportion then 4x2x3 will be the earth's distance 4x22x3 that of mars 4*24x3 jupiter's 4x25x3 salum's and 4 x 2 6x3 ihai of uranus upon the discovery of lhe small planets their mean distance between mars and jupiter where it will he seen a term is wanting to make lhe series regular was found lo be nearly 4x2 3 x3 kepler had observed a progression but did not assign its law he remarked also lhat one term seem i ed to be missing bode assigned the particu lar law and noticed the apparently missing term the existence of a planet between mars and jupiter was accordingly suspected and at last to the astonishment of astronomers four little bodies looking like fragments of a planet i more than a planet were discovered at a dis ' tance from the sun so near lo that which had been suspected that their mean distance fills up its place in lhe series as well as that of any other planet jupiter's satelites and saturn's seem to be ranged around their primaries by similar laws — brinkley's elements of astronomy sections 114 and 115 kossuth's family advices from vienna by tbe cambria inform us that the liberation of kossuth's relations from prison is extended to bis children who were provided with a pro testant tutor his mother and sisters who have been dismissed from their prison at pestb are expected in vienna where it is believed they will apply for passports for turkey cassias m clay accpuitled — we learn from tbe richmond(ky chronicle that the grand jury of madison county alter an investigation ofthe foxtown rencoun ter in which cyrus turner was killed by cassius m clay failed to find an indict ment in the ease cooper miss lafayette and louis napoleon mr wiliis gives lhe following anecdote obtained in conversation with fenimore | cooper the author illustrative of the am ! bition of the present president of france ; the incident occurred in paris in 1832 i was calling upon lafayette one day , said mr cooper and was let in by his j confidential servant who it struck me | showed signs of having something lo con i ceal he said bis master was at home | and after a moment's hesitation made ! way for me to go on as usual to his pri ! vate room — but i saw there was some j embarrassment 1 walked in nd found j the general alone he received me with ! the same cordiality as ever but enquired ! with some eagerness who let me in and j whether i met an old acquaintance going out i told him that his old servant had j admitted me and lhat there was certain ! ly something peculiar in the man's man j ner but as i had seen no one else i knew nothing more '• ah said the general •' that fellow put him in the side room sit down and i will tell you prince louis napoleon bonaparte was here two minutes ago !" i expressed my surprise of course for | this was in 32 when it was death for a j bonaparte to enter france " yes continued the general " and he j came with a proposition he wishes to marry my grand daughter clementine unite the republicanists and imperialists make himself emperor and make my granddaughter imperatrice !"' and if it be not an indiscreet ques tion i said " what was your answer my | dear general v j " i told him said lafayette " that my i family had the american notion on that ! subject and chose husbands for them ! selves — that there was the young lady — he might go and court her and if she liked bim 1 had no objection mr cooper did not tell us for of course he did not know how the prince plied his wooing nor why he failed the fair clementine who thus possibly lost her chance of being an empress married | mons de beaumont and now represents i her rejected admirer as the french am i bassadress at the court of austria short j ly after tbis visit to lafayette mr coop | er was in london and mentioned to the princess charlotte the widow of the eld er brother of tbe present president of france this venture of prince louis into lhe den of the orleanists he is mad !" i was the only reply but the finger pos i of " that way madness lies does not al [ ways point truly at any rate there is a i certain " method in bis madness for the ' same match between imperialism and republicanism has been the prince's pur suit ever since and the chances are that he will finally bring it about — clemen tines and other immediate unbelievers notwithstanding news from europe arrival of the steamer cambria at boston the steamship cambria arrived at boston late on saturday night and her mails were brought by express train to new york city tbe advance in cotton which was re ported by lelegragb turns out to be a mis take during the week ending dec 7th here had been a decline of yd per pound and during the week ending dec 14th there was an advance of over that de cline ; leaving nevertheless an actual de cline tb of a penny since the previous steamer sailed • new rumors have i-prung up that a duty will be imposed on corn imports — it is said thut the premier lord lans down and discount palmers'on are re solved upon an 8s duty whilst other members of lhe cabinet adhere to free trade a rupture and a new coalition ministry is anticipated in some quarters the weekly news contradicts the above rumor sir i brunei the distinguished engineer of thames tunnel c died in london on the 12th of december in bis8ist year there was a good business doing and the market was steady english capital ists were taking considerable lots hungarian exiles for america — thir ty-five hungarian exiles having arrived from hamburgh at leith on their way to america a meeting of gentlemen was held on saturday in the chamber of com merce edenburgh for the purpose of adopting means lo raise a subscription to carry them forward to tbe land which ihey have chosen as their place of exile various subscriptions were announced and it was also intimated that at glasgow from whence they sail a promising sub scriptions list has been got up the ref ugees are principally military officers of rank spain royal prospects — a telegraphic des patch was received by the french gov ernment from madrid in the afternoon of wednesday announcing lhat ber yinjesly the queen of spain is enciente tbe de spatch was immediately after receipt communicated to the duke of sntomayor the spanish ambassador at paris the communication has been made in an of ficial form by her majesty's medical at tendants at madrid to the spanish gov ernrrrent whig coxvention although neither the exact time nor place fbi . holding a cunveulion lo noruii-ule a whig can { didate for governor have a y-i been delinite j y agreed upon we would lake the liberty of suggesting lo our whig frit nd in llie different ! sections of the slate the propriety f catling county meetings at such early peri.d ai any be mo«i convenient for tbe purp of appoint ing delegates i'he sea-mn for lue courts i corning on and the gathering of the people ai i the respective cuuniy 3e:i--i mn »'•_•■be avail ■ed of tiue there i ullks cr no i.e-e sity for j he immediate holding r.f a c |