s-t of the cabolixa watch-ian '*"■' . ., ,,..; year two dollars payable in i paid in advance two dollars . i1)si rted nl ni for the first and 2o cts , ntinseriion courtordera cent higher than ihese rates alib . .,■ who advertise by the year he post paid yi*ij)!ural plan of benefoience bj ,.,.-,. v'l harris chapter ii et which guide in reducing the i . i **■— ' scriptural plan lo practice .-, ow suppose that the child of god vincetl ihat the foregoing is tbe scrip nian of beneficence has retired to iiiral h , • , , . • solemnly to adopt this plan and his ci • , ' ' i termine the details of its application mself vve direct his attention to io in''1 three principles which should guide him i , the aim of ail business mast be to cud this aim must give simpli | unity to the entire life proper | is to be sought not as the chief end but « a means of doing good the christian • to ask " what part ol my income , , [ consecrate to cod's service ?" by , ..„ vfrv act of becoming a christian he ited aa lu cod's service in doing he has only to ask what part he to this particular way of serv charitable gifts — in order that .,,/,. property may accomplish most . . ory he is to remember that :- principle is to regulate every i the conduct of business every new jse.every investment every expen ; thai he is not at liberty to appro i dollar in any way except as he : that by so appropriating it he can st to glorify god he is not to think ng aside a certain proportion for god and doing what he pleases with the • resl : he is to devote all to god's service ; bo i expend invest or give it in such pro ; ns as will effect most for that end the law of systematic benevolence therefore does not forbid spending money on ourselves educating children laying imething for the future it does not : rbid acquiring property ; we may make the live founds ten we are even requir ed so to do serving god in the act not in business serving the lord — but no act ol acquiring or spending mo ney can be justified unless it appears that ly it lhe most can be accomplished for gutl's glory the bible everywhere exhibits busi nessas wholly subservient to this great whether ye eat or drink or what soever ye do do all lo the glory of god seek ye first the kingdom of god it - that christians are stewards hav ing uut llie talents which god has intrust ed to ihem to be increased for him the requirement sell that ye have and give i it*similardirection given by christ : young ruler cannot mean less than worldly business and possessions we lo be entirely subservient to doing gooil benevolence then must be not only sys tematic hut systematizing pervading md regulating the whole business — aow is it possible to be seeking first the kingdom of cod when practically the controlling nim of all the transactions of cosiness is to make money ; when giving othe treasury ol the lord is only occa lotial and secondary seldom occupying i'honghts called forth perhaps only oucitation ; trilling it may be in a 1iu and determined only by the im e convenience of tbe moment it " lie steward of an estate should '"■•- income to himself making only monal and trifling gift to the fam the absent owner nay leaving its tars to suffer without caring for their s itis reversing the sentiment of umhle suppliant <• the dogs eat of rumbs which tall from their master's • ai giving the crumbs to the mas vhi,e the gs eat at the talde view of this principle let the chris deci'*e whal part of his income the w'onof god's glory and the advance io his cause require him to expend f and ins family what part to st,what part to give .' ■'* ( hristian will recognize the du "'"/. does he say " i give uls convenient !" this language 1 ailierent meanings on different s m do not lind it convenient to p w"li the most costly or evetrthe jurtful luxuries some do not find we*t to give half as much in a ( * "*}• spend on a single article of 0r in the indulgence of a single 10us habit the bible does not say ( as much as is convenient but lfucb as i you is the necessity ' njnia is too plainly revealed to p_k ou«hl ll™t scriptural law of nence can be obeyed without it dst°b 0nl iterated in direct com ,;; ut ls woven into all the inspired spirit r?pf!cung lhe christi l«fe lllf breathed on the cross is u,asih spirit which must breathe lhebirb0,eehurch if the church s withi °( christ christ's heart ln u sending to the remotest i ihe carolina watchman j j muner ) / " keep a check t;ro ai.i vour editor j proprietor ) rul__s t«m,!s \ series gen harrison ( volume viii number 5 salisbury n c thursday june 5 1851 defining their position on monday last as we have previous ly stated after the city hall bell had been rung almost hoarse a few scattering members of the democracy assembled and passed a series of ilesolutions one of which is as follows resolved that wc approve of the course of the di mocralic partv on lhe slaveri ques tion the gieat and paramount question of lhe day and one on which depends tbe perpeluity ut the l uioii c this is indeed rich .' " we approve the course ofthe democratic party on the slavery question !"— what that course has been and what their position now is it won 11 take a conclave of the wisest of the eastern magi to define ! where shall we find lhe true democratic course on the subject of slavery 7 to which of their political high priests are we to appeal for an exposition of their views shall we apply to martin van curen and his sat ellites sumner hale chase rantoul durkee and others who belong to the " higher law wing of lhe party and who regard slavery as a curse a are we to look to dickinson cass hol|lton doug lass and others who voted for lhe com promise — that •* odious submission meas ure which " degrades the south and rob bed us of our rights as the true expoun ders of the course of the democratic parly on the subject of slavery ? or must we go a little farther on towards fire heat and call up the fanaticism of davis rla it and quitman as the mirror in which these self same democratic principles referred to in the wake resolutions may be found reflected in all their hot qualities ? if any man wore to start out to find the course ofthe democratic party on the subject of slavery he would soon be in the condition of a pilot in a thick fog a long way out at sea without rudder or compass ! whoever attempts such a dis covery will be more puzzled than ever those were who searched through lhe wilds of southern and western forests for the fountain of perpetual youth or the philosophers ever were in their gropings in the dark recesses of an obscure science for the imaginary philosopher's stone " we approve the course oj the demo cratic party on the subject of slavery — what course ! are they for the compro mise or secession or abolition who is to point out that course and lead them into it ? it is well known that there was no harmony in the ranks of the democra cy in the last legislature on this subject they had a large majority but they could pass no one set of resolutions * some were for secession others against it some advocated non-intercourse others de nounced the passage of any such law as a violation — most gross violation of the constitution there was no union no harmony amongst them they could a gree upon no plan no set of preambles no particular course ! their leaders wero pulling each other by the ears the whole session on this subject and at the same time storming at the whigs for not doing something though they were powerless the course of the democratic parly on the subject of slavery ! what barefaced conceit and presumption ! ever since they foisted that arrant traitor to the con stitution van buren on the south hy crying out here is a northern man with southern principles their course has been a devious and zigzag one they have tacked with every breeze fraterniz ed with men of all principles formed coalitions with secessionists and abolition ists as might best suit their purposes and aims ; and now we are told with an air of superiority that the course of the de mocratic patty on that subject tleserves commendation we again ask to whom are we to look for the true faith ? to cass to davis to van buren to ilantoul or to whom ! to wilmot himself the ve ry man who boasts of having made more noise in his day and generation against slavery than the most successful of abo litionists we would advise the wise men who drew and reported the resolu tion to which wc have referred to recon sider the matter and vindicate their cha racter for statesmanship they will be laughed at by the veriest mincompoop that ever lived ! many think that they were actually poking fun at the meeting i it really looks very much like it — ral rt gister sixty-five americans imprisoned — we learn by a telegraphic dispatch from new ■ orleans that advices have been there re ceived of the steamer gold hunter which left san francisco on the 2'-2d of march last for tehuantepec to the effect that the gold hunter had violated the maritime laws of mexico by landing her passengers in number sixty-five without the requisite previous permission and that the passengers had been imprisoned by the mexican authorities and were confined at the date ofthe advices received no oth er particulars are given great speed — the new locomotive ad dison gilmore now runs daily on the day express train between worcester and springfield and fully sustains the expecta tions of its constructors on a straight road it would easily drawa passengertrain a mile a minute one day last week it brought a train from worcester to spring field o miles in one hour and twelve minutes and on another day did up the fif teen miles from palmer to springfield in 10 minutes — springfield republican the berharn poor ivory carvers have prepared many beautiful works lor the great exhibition the english it is said would see with surprise the rough and primitive tools with which this beautiful work is executed the feet of the work men have lhe dexterity of another pair of hands as ihey make use of them in picking up their toois etc limb the throbbings of its own love he who is not thus " in christ and imbued with his self sacrificing love is none of his the christian then must make his appropriations to charity in the spirit j which says '• what things were gain to ; me those i counted loss for christ - here however every christian is left to the decision of his own mind guided by the rules and animated by the love of christ the following fact shows wes i ley's practice : " in 1775 the accountant ' general sent him a copy of the excise or j d«-r for the return of plate : ' rev sir as i the commissioners cannot doubt but you have plate for which you hitherto neglect j ed to make entry etc — to which he wrote this memorable answer : sir i have two ! silver tea-spoons at london and two at bristol this is all the plate which i have j at present and i shall not buy any more '■ while so many around me want bread ! normand smiih of hartford deeming his house too expensive to be consistent with j his rules of christian benevolence deter i mined to sell if an account was pub j fished in the newspapers a few years since ! of a man who lived in a garret on bread and water that he might have the more ! to give the writer knows a minister j and his wife who lived without many ofj the comforts of life for the same object admit that some have gone to an extreme but is not this nobler and more accepta j ble to god than to goto the extreme of indulging self without any denial ? and where one goes to an extreme in this di j rection are there not thousands in the churches who have never learned by ex j perience what self-denial is ? and which j is most like him who had not where to i lay his head ? as to the extent to which self denial must be carried " let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind ;" ts to its necessity to full compliance with the scriptural rule of benevolence letev ery one heed the saviour's words " if any man will come after me let him deny himself and it is to be supposed that the rich are not excused from the duty nor debarred from the privilege more ; than the poor 3 the christian will regard his chari i ties however great as the discharge of art obligation the right to give or with hold at pleasure belongs to god alone — to his creatures god says ye are not your own ;" and emphatically to his ran somed children '* ye are not your own ; ye are bought with a price the very i beginning of the religious life is an act ; of entire consecration to god the chris j tiatrs profession is a constant proclama ; tion to the world ihat the claim of him j who bought him with his blood covers his estate his faculties his all " what hast thou that thou didst not receive therefore ransomed sinner whatever i thou givest thou dost but render unto god the things that are god's so paul felt : " i am debtor both to the greeks and to the barbarians but why a debtor rather than a giver because he was not his own but bought with a price so are we all debtors to the ignorant the wretched and depraved of whatever na tion ; and when we pay into the lord's treasury for their benefit must say " oh lord our god all this store that we have i prepared cometh of thine hand and is all j thine own hence the terrible declara tion of god — not against those who gave nothing but against those who gave what was of interior value — " ye have robbed god to cause the trees to thrive young trees will not thrive if the grass is allowed to form a sod around them they should therefore be kepi clean and the earth mellow to the distance of three or four leet around them and every au tumn some well rotted manure should be dug in around each tree and every spring lhe bodies of the apple pear plum and cherry trees and others that it is particu larly desirable to promote the growth ot should be brushed over with common soft soap undiluted with water this treat ment will give to the trees a thriftiness surpassing the expectation of any one who has not witnessed its effects prince on horticulture institution for the deaf and dumb gov reid has appointed jeremiah nixon esqr ol this place a director of the north carolina institution for the deaf and dumb in place of l o'b branch esq who declined the appointment the board ofthis institution now consists ot the fol lowing gentlemen alfred jones esq president ; and dr w r scott dr w h mckee w w vass.s vv whiting sam uel 11 young and jeremiah nixon es quires — the north carolina slar how to get a farm about eiofht years ago a dutchman whose sole english was a good-natured yes to every possible question got em \ ployment as a stable man his wages six ' dollars and board that was thirty-six dol i lars in six months for not one cent did he ! spend he washed his own shirt and ! stockings mended and patched his own ' breeches and laid by his wages the j next six months being now able to talk good english he obtained eight dollars a i month ; and at the end of six more had : 848 ; making in all for one year 84 j the second year by varying his employ j ment — sawing wood in ihe winter work ' ins for the corporation in the summer and making gardens in the spring — he laid by ■ a hundred dollars and the next year one j hundred and fifty five dollars ; making in ! three years three hundred and ninety-nine ' dollars with this he bought eighty acres of land it was as wild as when the deer lied over it and the indian pursued him how should he get a living while clearing it thus he did ii he hires a man to clear and fence ten acres ; he himself remains in town to earn j the money for clearing behold him al i ready risen a degree he is an employer ; in two years time he has twenty acres j well cleared a log house and stable and money enough to buy stock and tools he j now rises another step in the world for ■ he gets married and with his ample broad j faced good natured wife he gives up the j town and is a regular farmer in ger j many he owned nothing and never could own any thing his wages were nominal ' his diet chiefly vegetable and his prospect ! was he should he obliged to labor as a | menial for life barely earning a subsist ence and not leave enough to bury him ! in five years he has become the owner in j fee simple of a good farm with comforta ! ble fixtures a prospect of rural wealth an i independent life and by the blessing of i heaven and his wife of an endless poster j ity two words tell the story — industry i and economy these two words will make any man rich indiana farmer mormons in st louis the st louis republican of the 11th instant states that two hundred mormons left that city on the day previous for salt lake via council bluffs one-fourth of the party are from lhe eastern states and the remainder from england and wales the republican also states that the numerical strength of the mormons in that city is much greater than would at first be imagined it is the great tho roughfare for those moving westward — there are now in the city about three thousand english mormons they have no church but attend divine service twice each day at concert hall and they cel ebrate their feasts and perform their de votional duties with the same regularity if not in the same style as their brethren in the valley they have also theatrical performances especially for members of their own persuasion the spring mor mon emigration for this year will soon close the last ship load consist of sev eral hundreds started from liverpool some thirty or thirty-live days since and is expected to arrive daily there are now in england and wales from 80.000 to 100,000 persons of the mormon persuasion who are patiently biding their time and chance i'or a vovage to the mormon home in salt lake valley they are aided in their efforts by well organized societies and agencies they are mostly persons ol limited means how ever and twenty years hence probably they will not all have reached our coun try the inpouring during the coming fall will probably be unusually large st louis herald needle manufactory — the newark daily advertiser says the only needle manufactory in this country is in that city established by a gentleman from man chester england the manner of mak ing needles is described as very interest ing — some sixteen different processes be ing necessary for their completion the wire from which they are made is im ported from england it iscut into lengths sufficient for two needles each and after being rubbed straight they are pointed upon a stone at the rate ot one hundred per minute they are then stamped with impressions preparatory for the eyes i which are punched by a press at the rate ; of fifty a minute and strung upon wires and placed in another machine to be filled and fashioned into the forms of needles the hardening is now done by a hot fur nace and they are afterwards tempered straightened and gathered into bunches of about 50,000 each which are saturated with oil and emery tied in a cloth and placed in a trough with a heavy plank moving backward and forward over them i so that al'ier some nine days chafing in ! this manner they are relieved of imper j fections and rendered smooth enough for | the final polishing the temper is then taken out ol the eyes and they are drilled to prevent their cutting the thread ilt/er's challenge — tom kennedy of old ken tuck says he will except torn hyer's pugilistic challenge for one thou sand dollars lie says he is a poor me chanic he had better therefore stick to his work and not disgrace his calling mcbride sent off from what has already been made ' known by resolution of the late public | meeting and otherwise the reader is pre ! pared to hear that the excitement in this \ county in relation to the abolitionist ' preachers from ohio has come to a head a large company some two hundred it | is said intercepted mcbride last sunday morning while on his way to a preaching appointment at sandy ridge in the yves \ tern part of this county and after conduct ! ing him over the line into forsyth exact ed from him a written pledge under for !. feiture of 81000 to leave guilford and the ' state by the ensuing saturday to day . never to return nor send back into the state any publication whatever on the sub ject of slavery and one of his friends a man of substance in the county gave a written promise as surety that his pledge ! should be fulfilled he is therefore doubt less by this time on his way back to ohio | from the sensitive state of the public mind in consequence ofthe agitation of this matter and the fanatical pertinacity ' with which mcbride continued his oper i ations in the face of warning a violent re \ suit was apprehended and seemed almost inevitable but a firm and efficient direc ! tion was given to the affair without per j sonal violence or abuse by the presence ' and efforts of some of the first citizens of the county through their representation j of consequences which had become inev j itable should he prove obstinate and doubtless perceiving unfavorable auguries in the aspect ofthe crowd by which he was surrounded he pledged himself without ! delay to every thing they desired his co adjutor adam crooks we learn stated to | the committee of the public meeting who i gave him also notice to leave that he did not preach in guilford county his field of labor we presume being in counties be low it will be a most gratifying thing to see the public mind ofthe county which has been so unhapily agitated by the presence and purpose ol these unwelcome mission aries — now settle down to its accustomed tranquility greensborough patriot plank road meeting at a meeting of the citizens of cheraw and its vicinity held in the town hall on 1 the 26th instant maj a macfarlan was called to the chair and ii mclver ap pointed secretary the chairman an nounced the object of the meeting to be : the consideration of the propriety of uni \ | ting with the citizens of north carolina in the construction of a plank road from [ cheraw to centre n c | the meeting then on motion of dr t j e powe resolved unanimously that it ' j is practicable and expedient to construct a plank road from cheraw to some point < on the north carolina line near wright's i folly on motion of d malloy esq resolved j unanimously that a committee ol five be . appointed by the chairman to confer with i the citizens of north carolina upon the j subject of constructing such a road and | report to an adjourned meeting of the j town and vicinity ; the chairman then announced that the ' following persons would constitute the ] committee viz : d malloy esq j a david esq dr thomas e powe j a , inglis esq and maj j a moore j a inglis esq then stated to the ; meeting that the legislature of this state at its last session passed ai act author izing individuals upon the observance of , certain requisites therein contained to j form themselves into plank road compa i nies and receive their charter immedi ately upon a compliance with such requi ; sitions thereby obviating the necessity of waiting for an act of incorporation by the legislature and upon his motion the meeting resolved unanimously that • the committee already appointed by this i meeting be requested to advertise and take such other steps as are required by | the act of the legislature of this state passed at its last session preparatory to ! the formation of a company for the con struction of a plank road from cheraw to some point on the north carolina line near wright's folly with a capital of twenty-five thousand dollars on motion of dr t e powe resolved that the chairman of this meeting be re quested to call a meeting of the citizens of cheraw and the surrounding country as soon as the committee shall signify their readiness to report on motion of d malloy esq resolved that the proceedings of this meeting be published in the cheraw gazette and n c argus the meeting then adjourned a macfarlan presd't h mciver sec'y cheraw may*27 1851 it is the opinion of a goodly number in this region that a plank road from this place to gold hill would pay a splendid dividend if the people below bring a plank road from cheraw to centre it j wili put a ball in motion here — no other more important matter claiming their at tention at the time the methodist church case.—thu case is opened in the united stales district conn n york before judges nelson and belts the court room was crowded and several medio disl clergymen were present the following is an accurate i hough brief statement of tin case : the rev francis harding a slaveholder ofthe slate ot virginia was suspended by lhe baltimore conference which was held about a year previous lo lhe general conference of 1844 for his connection with slavery the action of this body was afterwards confirmed by the general conference which also sus pended bishop andrew from the performance ot his official duties because of his holding slaves whom he had obtained possession of by marriage and of his refusal to liberate ihem ' in consequence of the course taken by lhe general conference the southern delegates de clared that a continued agitation of tliis sob ject would compel them either lo abandon the slave states or separate from lhe north the southern delegates afterwards agreed upon what was called a plan of separation and a southern convention held on the ir return home resolved to establish a separate organization : but the northern conference which had posses sion of the funds refused to ive any share of them to that division of the church which now became known as lhe south methodist church afier this refusal southern commissioners were appointed by lhe general conference south to inslitute ihis suit for recovery of be tween seven and eight hundred thousand dob lars the amount claimed by them as part own ers of the general fund previous to the separa tion and which is at present invested in lhe melhodist book establishment of ohio new york and the charitable fund of philadelphia the counsel employed on lhe part of lhe plaintiffs are mr d lord and reverdy john son and for the defendents messrs ieorge wood and rufus choate mr thomas l.w ing has also been retained as counsel for the plaintiffs this trial is still going forward when concluded we will give our readers lhe result of it it is a matter which concerns the whole country and one in which every southern man especially must take a deep interest singular and affecting case on the first of march 1813 a small drawer disappeared from the secretary of mr william cornad williamson grant eounly ky it contained money just received lor a lot of cattle ! and valuable notes and papers it w"as sup posed to be stolen ; and the theft was charged upon clary a slave whom he had raised from infancy to womanhood her master and mis ! tress thought she had shown signs nf guilt aud i threatened to extort a confession she did con fess she took it and told successively differ ent places where it might be found but ihese latter statements proved false her master j then sent her to lexington and had her sold \ nothing was heard of the money or drawer until the 2d of april instant 1851 — more than eight years afterwards — when mrs conrad found the drawer with all its contents entire behind some other drawers in the secretary where it had slipped by accident mr c has published a statement of the above acls and says that he has no doubt now lhal he himself in haste and by accident thrust the drawer in to this place where it was found his object in making the publication does honor lo his heart as a kind master and we give it in his own words : " my desire now first of all is to make known and as far a possiple restore lo clarv a hear ty acknowlcdment of her innocence and ac quiital of guilt charged in the above case : if living i pray thai she may have it read to her if not living i feel this is due her dust and in jured name and next i wish to correct the impression of her guilt and leave iu iis room innocency and acquittal in lhe minds of all who have heard far and near of the circumstances and lastly ihat tin perusal ol ihis narrative may have the happy influence on ail and espe cially upon masters lathers and molhers that ihey may not hastily charge rrime or threaten and thereby save ihemselves from ihe deep re gret and grief have to feel and family connee | ted with me in a postscript m c begs the favor of the owner of clary or of any person who may know to address him a leter and inform him whether she may he found frankfort ky com masonic college — the rev mr archer agent ofthe grand lodge of his slate to visit the various subordinate lodges and procure subscriptions for the erection and endowment of a masonic college at oxford is now trav elling in this section ofthe stale he visited golden fleece lodge in ihis place on monday night last and addressed the brethren upon ih subject of his mission which address is highly spoken of by all who heard it we are pleased to learn that not withstanding the modern age of the milton lodge and its desire to build itself a ball it subscribed 50 per annum for live con seculive years and in addition some of lhe members made individual contributions we are informed that the agent gives a very flat tering account ofthe prospect ofthis noble in stitution — in some instances he has obtained more than 81000 from a ingle lodge we nre requested to state that should anv member of golden fleece lodge feel disposed to contribute individually lo this noble enter przie he can do so through the w ma-ter david patterson esq ofthe lodge — milton chronicle progress of the short dress movement we find the following in the boston trav eller : a new york house has recently transmitted an order to paris for an in voice of dress goods with a deep border on the side these goods are intended for ladies short dresses and the width of the cloth will comprise the length of the skirt 1