Carolina Watchman

              l^f^or the a_.0li watchhair i di llars payable in in advance two dollars red rl i nt 1 for the first nnd2 cts | ... is quern insi rtion courtoi lers rates a lib . a ivei tise by the year ■ iusi he posi paid _______ commuunoation man p ' j -.'. :. re a h i has . .: triumph i zealous in his ■ : quarter bul fird his armor i id with on nf ail the friv ... f the turns ol . heard ,. ; strained 1 laws d ::"-':' 1 the lav thai jim i ily . and i - ! . > away his liberty ? is -. ,- ol '!' npi rai ce like n . he can ; ii i them or lei it y . ' when he l a i m i !•• then voluntarily surren : use any al n more ii i . - ti rterred - djjc li.ni . - ol meat and drinks torefran ,' of the _ ces | : and all class s of our citizens i - praise the man who has reformed : nbling profan ■ sw aring sabbath ling i_c hut let a man onlv • tin from alcoholic stimulants : of ten lead him either dircct comm ■• - f irbidden ; and he is c mdemned by a med unworthy of coufi ciety f a poor degraded devoti c of ■ . ■■ that he will burst asun - i e bound him bo long and again lyn t !• mors li bs as death and th il men of whom wc might hope . ire so prejudiced — so unreasonable as h lhal iia quondum acted wrong and is uu ifidence of the community because he mber of the sons of temperance — is now a worthy and i ■ i •• inirabile dictu it is ev n so ! |. that b tizen to be disn spected con unworthy of the confidence of m •!) : s he to be deprived of places of profit t trust because he is exercising ins liberty iu carrying ire against a cruel tyrant ' is the devotee of be raised to honorable stations among men if temp irance to be hurled down like lu b throne unless he withdraw from the or l ilate his integrity ' are these lhe principles i the oppos rs of the temperance i j the inhabit ints of pan and patriots and t christians trem nur beloved < nun try " llm oh yon ace have a large amount of money i be iplied to some had purp ises i power you know wh don'l you initiate ■ - any money for it ! this ■ . aad i am afraid ther ■ is some iled al the bottom of it i-c ! to these i 5 reply thai the stockholders of had • mipanii s have a fund of money p ed to lli individual benefit of those . not condemn them as well as the of the lawyer and farmerabout the would be very applicable here joins a i livision of the sons of un as an i i tation fee own tl pp isers of the order do t ii - ra ice cause subj cts them to ilion then why should they com . idenl t > ever man unless he is e li iw the money which any 1 ; ive invested is distributed ' look at it be spent for regalia — something : a hall for their meetings something for ioks and the proci ed r from time to time in addition to r.aiu sum in sick led tosome thirty eral expenses fee now opposer " ll ' "■ ind is applied for no other purposes '' ' ned : and you can prove no n of it well but you ar suspicious . some unto irthy purpose " a s i : source of much misery to wh don'l yi u suspicion rail road and - i will the fable agaiu apply here ! mgerof those companies mak lieir money as there is ofthe sons of ihis question to all reasonable vi r fi :• themsclve ection will scarcely bear the i e among many of lhe opposers of nr order to sus irtse the cans of en ss by precept if noi by example '. ™ i admit that intemperance is an evil .. and ought to be arrested ;' . tl is the question : the sons : ill i.i their power to arrest it ; ". success h is crown 1 their efforts isandsofpo r degraded drunk rumental in making them soberand re 1 in you adopt any - ictive course of acoholic we advocate ' if you pan i ce iny own judgment and follow i can do this in the name of h a nn us until you have stronger evidence ■ had that our cans ■ is unholy and } you have already proclaimed a ns becaus : you imagine we have object in view ' do you condemn - i ,. nade sobermen oul of drunkards ' j ) u f , . .,.'.,' ■-• i cause in many cases we have ng accustomed to sorrow to shout for ..._./_ ' :' ndemn us for keeping men aloof from ivun i i fidious and evil enemy ' and in fine - for carrying on a bloodless warfare chief agents to ruin the happi and hereafter and now i would look at out cause we do not | mg like a perfectbody xo very far * this question and ask it in all shi nera"'"1 r v''llr:'::r agaiust e •"•*•• f c°ncerned what have done worthy or of the bitter persecution which is ! '' ll:1!:,!l years a n hijudea to heal the sick * _,.;. :• '" the captive and preach tocbief i balvation ;" the casts of israel mi'!°y lbs works were called the works j the carolina " watchman j j brunei i v " keep a check ton all your editor .)• proprietor ) rulers j new series do this axd llbei-.tvissafe < gen'l harrison ( volume viii number 6 salisbury n c thursday june 12 1851 ofthe devil ii wasarra gned by his own nation tried . 1 before a roman tribunal is worthy of death many false witnesses bore testimony against him and in the midst of that vast revengeful and per - - ut i throng only one could be found who had the courage to say " what evil has he done the sons of tempera nalized by some as " volunteers ol the devil's army is it because they aken by the haa - f d graded drunk ards treated them as brothers and gave them a broth j er's welcome ; led them into a divisiou room carried j them through a cours of beautiful and interesting cer . emonies warned them against the baneful influence of us liquors shown to them by precept and e j ample the happiness attending a life of temperance kepi a watchful eye over them till from the wretched outcasts ut bociety they are now sober worthy and respectable citizens is this a crime oh thinking ble man can you condemn us fur n conduct ai this .' what evil then have u e dun ? w .- profi ss to 1 ■ the friend i of moral and religious re !' irmation but we are condemned bv some as doing the ■ works of lhe devil we proclaim to the v.>rld that we have no secrets except one quarterly password to guard us from imposition but we are charged as holding our meetings in dms of treason for the purpose of over throwing the liberties if the country ! we wage a war ■ fare i;lr:iiiisi an agent of satan which has long stood as a barrier against tue benign influence and spread ofthe lisp in our benighted world and yet some of the j heralds of thai very gospel condemn us as disturbersof the churches and opposers of religion does such conduct as this become reasonable men ' does it be le patriots and especially christians .' ask that devoted wife once wretched-and deprived of all the comforts of home ; who now with tears of joy j can welcome to that home where plenty smiles around i her husband as her tenderest kindest friend what evil have the sons of temperancd done .' ask that fa ! ther or mother who have seen a beloved son hastening : to an early tomb and hoped for his reformation till re '., formation was hopeless ask them as thev now view that son rescued from danger aud rejoicing in the of the older love purity and fidelity what i they think of the order of the sonsof temperance | i know not what course others will continue lo pur sue but as for me lei my future destiny be what it may unless i see something among the order more worthy of condemnation than i have ever yet seen f shall not ' cease so help me heaven to use all my feeble efforts in advocating iheir cause g g m salisbury we reached salisbury at sun down and here we found all the •* noise and confusion " lo be expected in lhe principal inland town of our slate il was the court week hul there was much other buisiness done than the court had brought there the streets were crowded ' with wagons from a distance and strangers seemed arriving al ail hours and irom all : quarters there are a large number of stores here all well supplied with a great variety of goods and several wholesale establishments who propose furnishing lhe western merchants at northern pi ires the stores we were mosl familiar with wen ihose of messrs i_.\.\_s __ she_iw_l and mr myers sign of ihe red flag they seem to have consulted taste in lhe display as well as in the selection of their goods we visited thr large steam cotton factory of maxwell chambers in lhe limits of ibe town and wen much laken wiih lhe beauty ol lhe machinery the systemmalic arrangement ol ilu1 different branches and lhe order and pre cision maintained throughout there area large number of operatives say i aboul one hundred employed — and tin conse quence is a lame quanlily of cloth is annually turned oul which we presume meets wiih a ready sale at remunerating prices there are two hotels in lhe place — the prin cipal one he mansion house kept in line style by 1 ii t-.nniss esq and lhe oilier by mr robards a gentleman highly esteemed by his boarders there are a great many grog-shops and some of them the meanest looking holes in creation — lhe man lha could take a morn ing dram in some we saw must have a strong stomach a goodly distribution of camphor or chloride of lime would be well bestowed by lhe town council in company with our colemporary of the salisbury watchman we sauntered through lhe differenl streets and hough there were many old buildings we could not bul acknowledge that iheir unsightly appearance was in a ore at wav occasioned hy the contrast of lhe new and beautiful ones which have heen recently creeled a new life seems to have heen iiit'us ed into the people who talk of nothing now but lhe tail road ; we doubt whether many ofthem know or care who is iheit congresssional can didate our friend pointed oul lo us ihe differ enl residences of the prominent citizens bul we will only particularize he beautiful improve ments of judge ellis bx:rtio craige esq and n boyden j-si gentlemen well known in our community presenting quile a rural and commodious appearance lhe salisbury female seminary attracted our attention jusi enough in lown to in excluded from iis hustle we thought the place weii adopted to tin purpose i education the principal is lhe rev gilbert morgan a presbyterian minister who preached in lin colnton hist sunday and paid us a visit the presenl week mr morgan has matured a plan ofinslruclion which is highly recommend ed and has published a pamphlet explaining it at length it is written in good taste and musl go far lo recommend the author lo parents and guardians who may wish to give iheir daugh ters llo advantage of a good hoarding school education away from home though a perfect stranger we wore much pleased with salisbury and its public spirited citizens of lhe morals of the place we can only speak ofits numerous churches ; its beauli fully arranged masonic hall which occupies the upper story ofthe court house which was shown us by l blackmer esq — the odd , fellows hall to which we were introduced by mr palmer besides we were informed lhal there were two divisions of he sons ol temperance prospering finely there are many houses of ill lame but those pointed out , lo us were miserable cabins such as will al ways be found on the outskirts ol large towns the warmth of lhe weather the ihermome i ] i ler at 90 did noi prevent the ladies and fjenlle j men having a bail at the mansion house we rnprely peeped in and relumed to our room ! not lo sleep or il was immediately adjacent lo j terpsichore llali but lo lellect upon the limps i when we too were young and tripped it light ly wiih good dame langlois regardles of heat or cold aboul 1 o'clock our curtains were drawn noi like him who drew priam _ curtains lo lell him his home was burning lat irom it but lo lie handed a delicious gol let of iced cream cake dec a recompense we pre sume for the rest we lost — lincoln courier scriptural plan of benevolence by rev sam _. harris chaffer iii duty of systt malic benevolence inft recti j rum the nature aud motives of piety piety begins with a change of heart — the greater part of life is usually occu pied with the acquisition and use of pro priety a change of heart if real can not leave this principal part of life unaf fected the subject of it must be expected to show that he has iound a more valued treasure in heaven by his new aims in getting his new principles in using the treasures of this world if in that chief part of life occupied with gaining and using property the professed subject of a change consisting in placing the all'ec j tions on things above continue to show the same estimate ol property as the great j end to be sought the same eagerness in gelling the same tenacity in holding the i same sell-seeking in using it need it be surprising that his worldly competitors louht the reality of the change must not christ repel such professors with his own searching question " what do ye - more than others '." there is nothing less lhan absurdity in lhe idea of a change in which the man becomes a new crea ture in christ in which old things are passed away behold all things are be come new which yet does not carry a new spirit through the business and con secrate the property as well as the heart i to god — in which the theory is all for the glory of god ; the practice all for mak ing money religion is love and love is active 1 it is as natural for love to act beneficently as for a fountain to flow or a star to shine and its action is ungrudging unstinted delighting in toil for the loved object — witness for instance the toils of parental love can love to god and man be the very essence of the character while be neficent efforts are left to hazatd crowd ed into the by-corners of life supplied by chippings and rampants can love con trol the heart aud not control the action of the life christians are laborers together with god god is always giving if we labor with him we must labor in his work we must give god is love ; if we labor with him we must labor in the work ol love god would form us into his likeness ; to this end we are no sooner brought into his kingdom than we are put to doing his work jn revealing his will by inspired men in the conversion of every soul in the whole work of spreading the gospel through the world we discover this sub lime partnership in labor between god and his children behold then believer your sublime position working with god in delivering the woild from ruin to reclaim men to holiness is god's great work ; to it he has moulded his plans and for it ordered his providence since time began may you be a laborer with god and make that se condary which he regards as first ; pur sue without plan energy or steadfastness the object which he seeks with a stead fastness which knows no abatement a zeal which spares no sacrifice an outpour ing of treasure which arithmetic cannot calculate ? a laborer with god and yet ihat object to which with him the destiny of nations and the movements of heaven ly hosts are subordinate be with you se condary to money-getting to lurniture equipage — a mere appendix to business ? let the great lacf possess your soul with the fulness which its reality demands that vou are a laborer together with god and vou will lose sight of self in the great ness of man's salvation and instead of beneficence an appendix to business itself will become but a means of beneficence the cross oj christ urges to systematic benevolence " ye know the grace of our lord jesus christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor that ye through his poverty might be rich this is one of the most touching appeals to christ's sufferings yet paul wrote it expressly as a motive for taking up a charitable collection at corinth this beautiful sentiment in such a connection ! j may seem sadly out of place fo those who j j are wont to regard a charitable collection ; as an annoyance but it shows the apos tolic view of the connection of this duty j , with all that is sublime and affecting in ; the cross of christ the peculiar motive of christianity is expressed in the affecting words so of ten on ihe lips of jesus " for my sake blessed are ye when men shall revile 1 you and persecute you for my sake — i " hated of all men for my sake — '• hath j left houses and lands for my sake — ios < i eth his life for my sake he presents . this motive as effectual to induce the greatest sacrifices even of property and : life and it would seem that a sinner i pardoned through christ's blood could not : for very shame lift his eye to meet the melting look of his dying saviour if he : ; felt not the overcoming power of that ap . peal — if he could not like the apostle , ; say " 1 take pleasure in infirmities in re | proaches in necessities in persecutions,1 , in distresses for christ's sake •* what things were gain to me those i count loss i ; for christ in a world so intensely selfish it was ! needful that the cross of the divine re | deemer sacrificing himself to save trans ' ; gressors should stand in the centre ofthe j j dan of salvation : the first object which , ! greets the eye ofthe convert and the last j i which cheers the dying saint ; the source i of the christian's hope and strength thro i j all his warfare his joy on earth and the ! , anticipated theme of his everlasting song — that the great lesson of self denying ; all consecrating benevolence may always ; ! be before the view — that with every look j ! at the bleeding author of salvation may | fall on the soul with an eloquence too i deep for words the admonition " foras j | much as christ hath suffered for us in the ; ; flesh arm yourselves likewise with the ' ! same mind ;" " he that saith he abideth in ' j chi ist ought himself also so to walk even , as he walked if god himself were in our circumstan ces how would he measure his efforts i'or . i lhe good of men ? receive the answer ; : in the conduct of christ god manifest j ] in the flesh he would sacrifice his rich j i es and lay aside his glory ; he would con sume all his earthly existence ; he would lay down his mortal life to do them good i the first promise of the arch-deceiver was '• ye shall be as gods — ye shall be , come so by gratifying self christ has : uttered the same promise " ye shall be partakers of the divine nature ;" but ye shall become so by denying self " gratify self get and ye shall be as gods is sa tan's lie " deny self give and ye shall be partakers of the divine nature is christ's truth satan has blinded man kind by this lie so that they look for bliss and exaltation only by getting ; christ overturns this whole scheme and teaches to find godlike bliss and exaltation by eiving this is godlike in man to sacri fice sell for the good ol others that was the highest elevation of human nature when it was lifted on the cross in the blood of its own agony for man's redemption then human nature was exalted to parti cipate in t lie sublimest of all the displays of god's glory and there is no elevation of man to the godlike except as he is el evated to the spirit of the cross who then can imagine that he has been made by regeneration a partaker of the divine nature if he does not systematically de vote of his choicest treasures as god has prospered him for the good of men and how little even that gift appears in the light of the cross ; how little in contrast with the offerings of many who have laid down their lives for christ's sake ! thus systematic benevolence instead of being an isolated and uninteresting topic is seen to be a duty based on the very nature of piety and enforced by its most affecting motives distressing occurrence — another fa tal accident occurred on saturday even ing from the use of camphine three young ladies in the family of clement ramos an alderman of the first munici pality who resides on the bayou road were shockingly burned by an explosion of a can of camphine which set fire to their clothes blanche ramos the daugh ter?of alderman ramos died yesterday morning ernestine noe lies in a very critical situation while another young lady and a servant are much burned — this awful occurrence has plunged a large circle of friends into the most pro found grief while it should convince all of the great danger of using this most in flammable substance n o picayune j frem vie savannah republican a revolutionary incident colonel john white o the georgia line one ofthe most remarkable feats was performed by this brave oilicer that oc curred daring tbe whole period of tbe rev olutionary war it is related on the au thority of dr ramsay in bis history of lie revolution in south carolina col lee in his memoir ofthe war in ihe sou thern department—major jviccall in his history of georgia anil by major garden in his revolutionary anecdotes that while the allied army was engaged before savannah and while the siege was pend ing col white conceived and executed an extraordinary enterprise captain french with one hundred and eleven british regulars had taken post on the ogeehee river about twenty-five miles from savannah ; at the same place lay five british vessels of which four were armed the largest mounted fourteen guns and the smallest four col white with him only captains george melvin a c g elholm a sergeant and three men on the night ofthe 1st of october 1771 ap proached the encampment of french kindled many fires the illumination ol which were discernable at the british sta tion exhibiting by the manner of ranging them the plan of a camp to this strata gem he added another he and his com rades imitating the manner of the staff rode with haste in various directions,giv ing orders in a loud voice french be came satisfied that a large body of the enemy were upon him and on being sum rnoned by white he surrendered his de tachment the crews ot the live vessels forty in number and one hundred and thirty stand of arms col white having succeeded pretend ed that he must keep back his troops lest their animosity should break out and in discriminate slaughter take place in defi ance of his authority — and that therefore he would commit them to three guides who would conduct them salely to good quarters the deception was carried on with so much address that the whole ofthe brit ish prisoners were safely conducted by three of lhe captors for twenty-live mili - through the country to the american posi at sunbury the affair notwithstanding the high au thority above quoted bears so much the appearance of romance and ap proaches so near the mavellous as to be doubted by many to the present day the writer has in his possession an ori ginal documeuf which fully sustains the facts so far as relates to the capture of the vessels it is in the hand-writing of major win jackson who was the secre tary of the federal convention oi 1787 anil which the following is an exact copy : '• chas town april 1 1 1780 gentlemen : — please to pay to jacob read esq proctor in the cause of the captors and claimant for the vessels tak en in ogeechee river by col white twen ty-five hundred dollars being his i'eos in said cause for which i will be accounta ble i am gentlemen your most ob't serv'f vv jackson one ofthe agents of the army to messrs colcock a ( bbons vendue masters the order is enclosed in the hand-writ ing of gen bead who was a i states senator irom south carolina col white ati englishman by birth of irish paren'age was a surgeon in the british navy while on a visit to barba does he married a lady a native ol lon don to which place he soon returned ; and having acquired a fortune by his profes sion lie left the navy and embarked lor america und settled in philadelphia de termined to make it his future residence when the revolution commenced he took the oath of allegiance and entered the ar my as captain an 1 was soon promoted to the rank of colonel — his regiment the 4th georgia battalion being ordered to the south he was severely wounded at the assaull of the spring ilu redoubt on the uth of october 1770 where pulaski fell an i only nine da\s alter the capture of the french he succeeded in making his es cape from the british with col elbert and others — but his wound had so much im paired his health that he was obliged to retire from the army an died soon after in virginia from a pulmonary attack pro duced by fatigue and exposure t when aliens were required to take tiie oath of allegiance or leave the country col white replied that as he was not ea tin the bread ofthe king he did not con sider his allegiance to be due to him his daughler mrs hayden uow resides in this citv at the advanced age of 73 or 74 years she occupies the small cottage near the house of mrs gaudry on chipeway square we have seen tbe original order of which the above is a true copy it i in the hands of a friend who is not only perfectly ac quainted with the hand-writing of the au thor of if but equally so witn ihat ofthe endorser — eds he publican counterfeit — a very dangerous counterfeit was seen in this place lasi week in thf ban 1 of a tobacco wagoner who said be receeived it at the late fair at laurel hi i it wag a •-*■""''' xule ofthe bank ofthe male of north carolina fay observer short patent sermon bv uow jr the words of my text for ihis occasion are as follows : sweet spring i greet thee with a nptnroos kiss mv dear friexds : let us congratulate one another thai the cold hearted tyrant winter has been tinned out of office and is now slumbering in retirement among the icebergs of the north his measures were altogether loo destructive to the in terests ol lhe xorth and loo favorable to wards those of ihe south he took heavy responsibilities on his own boulders and therefore prostrated business flatter than a hammered sixpence he put a stop to all our inland navigation levied a grind ing tax upon the poor — buried the prosper ity of the country beneath the snows of usurpation and created banks alter banks to block up the honest yeoman's path to fortune but most of ihem have been run upon so often that they are trodden down if not annihilated forever , my friends setting aside all politics whether seasonable or unseasonable let us rejoice that the warmer milder and sun nier davs au beginning to peep through the vvindtattered curtain of april and that we shall soon get a smell at wm such o dors ih delighted the olfactoi iaof our first parents asthey sat weaving love knots in the gay bowers of flea or plucking lhe violets that surrounded the cradle of new born spring nature though compara tively dormant is not yet dead every day exhibits new symptoms of returning animation and you wili soon see her hab ited in ti new frock of green and with the young buds of promise reathed in her ring lets the infant blossoms that lead the floral year will shortly rear their tiny heads up on thi velvet lawns and laugh for joy at the glad prospect before them the little birds too will come anil cheer us with their enlivened caroling and every crotch et quaver and demisemiquaver in the un written music of nature will be run over by those feathered choristers of heaven with all tin exactness of a pocket organ soon lhe earth which has lately been a sepulchre for the dead will be converted into a garden ol life and industry da mask roses shall bloom upon a winter bar ren grave and green garlands hang upon every iea6ess bough 1 know that all these ihings must take place.nor i feel it m my fingers ends ami mv corns grow easier in the glorious anticipation ol being trod upon only by the satin slippers of flo ra instead of the iron heeled boots of bo reas my friends only mark the dilference between the natural and the animal world while the earth enjoys an animal renova tion and crowns herself every spring with the blooming chaplet of youth man frail man is hastening to decay no vernal morn sheds its freshness over the autum nal landscape of lift no balmy breezes can blow youthful vigor into the superannua ted system of age when the physical tree sheds iis verdure and the limbs become sapless and old it flourish no more — and when the vegetation oi the cranium is dried and withered in the december of time it can never sprout nor glow again until the soil is watered and enriched by the april showers of immortality yes my friends decay is written upon the fore heads of you all as plain as tiie heading of a theatre bill and you should consider yourselves particularly favored by a mer ciful providence thai you are permitted to behold the opening of another spring for my part i roll up my eyes in wonder and thus colloquize with my own mysterious self can it be possible lhal i am again to enjoy the maydays of another year how many limes more will spring spread her mantle between me and the grave ! — how many times more will yonder sod clothe it sell in green before it shall be upturn by the sexton's spade and planted upon my clay-cold bosom '. such questions as those you all ought to ask yourselves as well as i and live as though it were the last spring with which you are ever to be favored iu this changing sphere because every thing around you seems lively cheerful and young don't be bamboozled into the idea that the sands in the hour-glass id time have ceased a run — that you car linger upon life's flowery banks forever — and that you are now as near the dark portal ofthe tomb as you will be v lien another year roils round ah i ray friends you are all marching with a double quick step to wards the battle field of death : and when you and 1 shall have split ourselves upon the ground the earth will still be in her teens and the ia — ie spring will trip it over our graves with as lightsome a step as v hen she firs c nne dancing into the world with garlands gathered in the gardens of heaven mv dear friend i hail the approach of returning spi with rapturous de light and i have no doubt each do the same unless your souls are made itf of some such unelastic ingredients as mud molasses and meadow-mould i glory in its coming because t preaches moral ser mons to tiie heart more eloquent than my auctioneering irien ! col white ever dis coursed to a worldly minded and penuri ous congregation it tells us of the watch fulness the mercies and wise provisions of hun who feeds the young ravens and tem pers the wind to the shorn lamb and it says in plain english that man is not to lie forever frozen u;i m the wintry grave ; but to be thawed ou revived aud renova ted bv the gentle breeze of an eternal spring so mote it be there is likely says ihe new vork mirror to he a general nursling u in boston before ihree monlb com n und the negro cloths ' ol lowell the negro shoes ol lynn and the negro not ion ol new england generally re main dead in the • *> irehouses the jew's conversion society estimate tbat wiibiu ih lasi iwemy years 15.000 israelites have enihiaced the christian faith