Carolina Watchman

              * i '* u watchman ,'..;,.,,., er year tw i dollars payable in . i a ivance two dollars i ; ■ thefi t.nndsacts isertion courtorders ese rales a lib ivenise by the year ■ r litor ■ i ' : ' ! - commuhications i this columbia n , i of jloty jt effulgence of morn ' .: i ih ■ glad story : i re freedom w a ■ » j s i is are i i i er in feh'umpb it's waving r [ hi pe of the world strang jl . wide ocean i for freedom in vain ! ■ zkn rm e i , li ... -.'. ar's wild commotion may soon i us i ' ' carnage again vile as i treat with derision care it demands g 0it1 istic's unholy ambition ,■ der with impious hands si raxger ! south still complaining ' i ... northern aggression her peace still annoy ' zen iuth truth and justice dis j e to destroy . ::. : ow im ans by secession ir forefather's sealed ! i ind *•-• ii ihern aggression _\ ; |, | .-;■. lheii im have fully revealed ■ ii gut w ], : ■ tir flag when you sever ' v iii ;■ ;;,,. . zee unsullied in fame .' 7 f.n \,, ; \,, ; lei ' i'i pi rish forever i ned in blood lei it perish in flame ! e i 11 ingeil |; - v pe thai a nation so glorious ird the rich treasure their ancestor's won citiz •> \ es , long may our e igle our eagle victorious gaze in proud triumph on victory's bright sun stranger may god in ins mercy rescue you rum danger dispel ill dark omens and banish your gloom citizen come under our b inner nh wandering stranger i l ; .'-.- in the blessings of freedom and home ! iredell county g c m for the watchman the hoss-fiddle some nights ago 1 hi ard a sound which raised mo from my heel-tap i thou as i r rained the ground old n t ick is in a steel-trap my pantal is were strongly strapp'd ( r else depend upon it i'd soon have been beyond the track of hulley's long-tailed comet upon a " sober second thought i fean d thai shaver's animals wen or still uncaught ; perhaps a horde of cairn 1 ad ■:.'. en us from < h a war-hoop telegraphical — it echoed round in lion . . and sounded no-ways laughable the • salisbury folks who heard the sound with proper circumspection turned out in order to put down a in ction jin when they found that all was well their courage fell to zero : the darkies all w deathly pale and so lo j.'tl every hero it seems the folks of salisbury had r ral putnam a ho with the wo for using up his mi so w hen ihey in eai ful sound there truelj n as \ lurm in i . they took theirtrustj rifles down to shooi the howling varmint now mark how slight he circumstance will 611 the folks wilh terror or bristle up combativeness like biddies in a mirror it beems that some salisbury men are : i of fun and so they •-/ v-iikidiine to i • hers run it's right i none know win n iheir labors hut then it's wrong in doing so to frighten all the ;;• ighbors isy non-i script i listu bs the rites of moi i k tflict with any tis hoped when the voting nun shall nerd anol provemeut '. .'. id : : — 1 r to be n ki i ■ d up at night b • on might make n man a m ai fright to death the women ii a w ■ the sec ind verse arc the lr vr in the poss ii i shaver esq 11 a w i ob the watc vman r editor — to strengthen and expand l e faculties of the mind to improve the ■ art * and fit the soul for light and immor •*%, to teach how to think and what to k in order thereby to perceive lhe re lation we sustain toward cod our coun ■ r y and our neighbors to point out with ■ nie grity and wisdom the duties of life ** at we may be enabled to perform them h cheerfulness and fidelity is a task h ch experience has taught is more oft en attempted than accomplished at the nsent time the instruction of youth is ' j ° much imbued with the hotbed system ' cation is too often thought completed et » it has hut commenced knowledge * sacrificed fur show and ornament we ; nntirip fi i to at tat a xi 4 rrrtit c 4 tit alljjj villivlljli^tl 1 aluitihaiii j j bruner / / " keep a check upon all your eli or sf proprietor ) rulers doxhts.^ltbkk^ss j ser1es ' gen'l harrison ( volume viii number 10 salisbury x c thursday july 10 1851 expect too much in too short a time the frail flower will wither at the first wintry blast the sturdy oak which has heen long in growing will withstand the winds and rains for centui ies unless a teacher is messed wiih line common or it should he uncommon sense and i.s gifted with more than ordinary moral courage he i.s soon persuaded to adopt some of ihe novelties of the day to " keep the word of promise to the ear ol his patrons " ami break it to their hope lie soon finds it much easier to float clown the stream quietly than to stem the cur rent lie soon feels that it is more pleas ant to flatter than correct and particular ly it his services are more appreciated and his reward i.s greater in proportion to his skill hy puffing and dissimulation to con ceal ignorances which should lie removed alone by a strong will controlled by an enlightened understanding and an honest heart '* to teach the young idea how to shoot " is at best a thankless(il should he an hon orable oliice few are qualified mental ly and morally to undertake its pleasing but solemn responsibilities impressions which for good or evil are to last forever should never he made by the ignorant by inexperienced and above all by the disso lute tin caprice of parents who exhi bit sagacity in the ordinary ati'airs of life will too often permit any and every one to tinker the minds of their children and too frequently such parents mourn over the mental and moral wrecks caused in part hy their own criminal negligence that the times are disjointed no one can doubt who has closely watched the ricketty movement ofthe social machine and notice the ineffectual efforts to patch it up much of the evil of the day 1 sin cerely believe is produced by the feeble discipline and imperfect teachings of our schools the stream of learning it is true now covers a larger surface than formerly but it has less depth we have more smatterers hut fewer scholars we have more hypocrisy and less religion my object however is not to dwell on evils or suggest remedies it is to pay what is rare in these lavs a sincere tri bute lo solid learning unohtrusive piety and modest worth lt is to bring to the notice of the public the female school but recently commenced in moeksville under the supervision of the rev edward west mr west graduated with the first distinction at drown university rhode island lie is a teacher by profession — his diligence in the discharge of his du ties is worthy of all commendation liis patience is unwearied his acquirements solid more for use than show and his dis cipline mild and parental it is difficult to speak of such a man as he deserves if learning without pedantry if piety with out pretension or moroseness if to act the christian and gentleman at all times and all places can command success then surely he will not be permitted to strug gle on in his vocation unchecked unap preciated and unrewarded he certain ly will never lift the trumpet to his own mouth and sound his own praises some stranger hand must weave the garland to decorate his modest brows ! 1 lately attended an examination of his pupils their orderly deportment and proficiency in scholarship gave the most satisfactory evidences of the zeal and qualifications of their worthy tutor one young lady was examined sparsim on the orations of cicero and the correct ness of her translation and parsing would be no discredit to any collegian a " td rather car.ry it than thai mo ther should — going from market the other day we observed a very small boy who gave no special indication by dress or face of other than ordinary sensations or training in life carrying a basket that was so heavy as nearly to bear him down beneath it we observed ** my hoy you have a heavy load " yes said he " but i'd rather carry it than that mother should the remark was one of a na ture we love to hear but we do not know that we should have thought enough of it to have chronicled it had we not seen across the street a highly accomplished young lady playing the piano while her mother was washing the windows we have no reason for forestalling the reflec tions and comparisons of our readers on the facts ii haling gazette an amiable sentiment — the boston post says that at a recent rantoul free soil festival the following words were used in one of tbe speeches •• //' a slavi hunter come to my house i would kill him take the constitution for his winding shut and bury him in hell mary slocumb in mrs ellet's '• women of the revolu tion " are many interesting sketches of female valor and intrepidity the fol lowing incident relates to a lady of north carolina mrs slocumb her maiden name was hooks ; she was born in the county of bertie in itu'o she was pres ent at one of the bloodiest battles of the revolution where the united regiments of col lillington and caswell encountered mcdonald at moore's creek we will give a part ofthe story in her own words the men all left on sunday morning more than eighty went from this house with my husband and i slept soundly and quietly that night and worked hard all the next day ; hut 1 kept thinking where they had got to — how far : where and how many of the regulars and tories they would meet and 1 could not keep myself from the study i went to bed at the usual time but still continued to study as i lay — whether waking or sleeping i knew not — i had a dream ; yet it was not altogether a dream she used the words unconscious ; ly of a poet not then in being i saw distinctly a body wrapted in my husband's guard cloak — bloody — dead and others dead and wounded on the ground about > : him i saw them plainly and distinctly i uttered a cry and sprang to my feet on the floor ; and so strong was the impres sion on my mind that i rushed in the di '■ rection the vision appeared and came up ! against the side of the house the fire in the room gave little light and i gazed 1 inevery direction to catch another glimpse : of the scene i raised the light every i tiling was still and quiet my child was i i sleeping but my woman was awakened by crying out or jumping on the floor if . ever 1 felt fear it was at that moment — j : seated on the bed i reflected a few mo j ments and said aloud i must go to j | him i told the woman i could not sleep j and would ride down the road she ap j j peared in great alarm ; but i merely told 1 her to lock the door after me and look af ter the child i went to the stable sad dled my mare as fleet and easy a nag as ever travelled ; and in one minute we j ; were tearing down the road at full speed i | the cool night seemed after a mile or ! ! two's gallop to bring reflection with it ; ! ] and 1 asked myself where i was going ; and for what purpose ? again and again ' i was tempted to turn back ; but 1 was '[ j soon ten miles from home and my mind hecame stronger every mile i rode 1 ' should find my husband dead or dying i was as firmly my presentiment and con viction as any fact in my life when day ! broke i was some thirty miles from home \ ', 1 knew the general route our little army expected to take and had followed them i without hesitation after sunrise i came upon a group of women and children standing and sitting by the road side each one of them showing the same anxiety of i mind i felt stopping a few moments i inquired if the battle had been fought they knew nothing ***** again i was skimming over the ground through a country thinly settled and very poor and swampy ; but neither my own spirits nor my beautiful nag's failed in the least ; we followed the well-marked trail of the troops the sun must have been well up say eight or nine o'clock when i heard a sound like thunder which i knew must be cannon it was the first time i ever heard ! a cannon i stopped still when presently the cannon thundered again the battle was then fighting w 7 hatafool ! my hus band could not be dead last night and the battle only fighting now ? still as i am so near 1 will go on and see how hey come out so away we went again fas ter than ever ; and i found by the noise of guns that 1 was near the fight again 1 stopped 1 could hear muskets i could hear lifies and i could hear shouting i spoke to my my mare and dashed on in the direction of the firing and the shouts were louder than ever the blind path i had been following brought me into the wilmington road leading from moore's creek bridge a few hundred yards below the bridge a few yards from the road under a cluster of trees were lying per haps twenty men they were the woun ded 1 knew the spot ; the very trees ; and the position of the men i knew as if i had seen it a thousand times i had seen it all night ! i saw all at once ; but in an instant my whole soul was centred in one spot ; for there wrapped in his bloody guard cloak was my husband's body ! how i passed the few yards from the saddle to the place i never knew i remember uncovering his head and see ing a lace clothed with gore from a dread ful wound across the temple i put my hand on the bloody face ; twas warm ; and an unknown voice begged for water i brought it ; poured some in his mouth ; washed his face ; and behold ! it was frank cogdell after binding up the wounds of several soldiers her husband who had been in j pursuit of the enemy came up and we may imagine his surprise at seeing his wife whom he had but a day before left sixty miles distant she remained during ; i the day rejoicing with the victors and j 1 ministering to the wounded and at mid ! nisht again mounted her mare and start : ed for home they wished her to stay : until morning and they would send a par ty with her but she told them no party could keep up with her so hastening back she returned to her home and child which she reached in safety though mrs sloclumb could ride a horse shoot a pistol or take part in many masculine employments she was not in attentive to more feminine duties she carded spun wove cut and made all the clothes worn by her husband during the southern campaign ; and the material of her own dress was manufactured by her own hands horace greely in his last letter from london pays the following tribute to the shilling visitors ofthe great exhibition : the exhibition has become a steady business-like concern the four shilling ; daysiof each week are improved and en ' joyed by the common people who quietly put to shame the speculation of the aris tocratic oracles as to their probable be havior in such a magazine of wealth and splendor — whether they might not make a general rush on the precious stones gold and silver ware and other valuables here staring them in the face with often but a single policeman in sight — whether they might not refuse to leave at the hour of closing zc c the gates are sur rounded a little before ten in the morning ' by a gathering deepening crowd but all j friendly and peaceable ; and when they open at the stroke of the clock a dense ', column pours in through each aperture each paying his shilling as he passes no tickets being used and no change given — the holders of season jurors and exhib itors tickets have separate entrances — and proceed as smoothly as rapidly — within half an hour ten thousand shill '■ ings will have thus been taken ; within ; the next hour ten thousand more ; thence j the admissions fall off but the number ranges pretty regularly from forty to ; fifty thousand per day making the daily receipts from 8l0,000to 812,000 in the same letter ii g says : 1 presume the concern which paid a high price for the exclusive privilege of ministering to the physical appetites with j in the crystal palace and he states sells i wretched viands will make a fortune by j it though the interdiction of wines and | liquors must prove a serious draw back \ it must try the patience of some of the i visitors to do without their beer or ale 1 from morning to night and if you leave . the building on any pretext your shilling is gone every actual need of the day is provided for inside even to the washing of the face and hands price 2d but night falls and the gigantic hive is de serted and closed leaving its fairy halls its infinite wealth its wonderous achieve ments whether of nature or of art to darkness and silence of course a watch is kept and under pressing and peculiar 1 circumstances work has been permitted ; but the treasures here collected must be guarded with scrupulous vigilance if a fire should consume the crystal palace ; the inevitable loss must exceed one hun dred millions of dollars even supposing that a few of the most precious articles should be snatched from the swift destruc tion ten minutes without wind or five . with it would suffice to wrap the whole immense magazine in flames and not a hundredth part of the value of the build ing and contents would remain at the j close of another hour the following french post office leg end may take rank with the best fish sto ry of the century a letter was dropped into paris office directed thus : to my mother france the distribu tors and subordinates not knowing what to make of so laconic n address referred it to the postmaster general now is it possible that there's such a fool in france mused that officer if there is he must come from the loir etcher for that's the department that produces all the fools and there his mother must live so the letter was forwarded to the loir et cher the clerks and postmen being as puzzled as their brethren in paris handed the missive to the chief officer of the district now is it possible that there's such a fool in france if there is he must be a resident of the commune of barcasson where all the fools come from — his moth er must live there the postmaster of carcasson was as much astonished as he of paris at the stupidity of the writer but ultimately concluded that if there was such a fool in france it could be r.o other than jean brainsappy whose mother lived in a little brown house on the corner — the letter was sent to mrs brainsappy and turned out to be in reality from her affectionate son jean the french post al revenue was increased five cents by this act of perseverance in tracing up my mother what would mr brady do if such a direction was submitted to him for adjudication — correspondence of 2 i express a good wife — when a daughter re marks — " mother i would not hire help for i can assist you to do all the work of the kitchen set it down that she will make somebody a good wife — uncle sam j from the journal of commerce capture of a sea serpent capf rtcharn burr late of the brig long island stated the following particu lars to one or more of the marine survey ors of the port of new york on his last arrival which however was some time since lie is now absent on a trip to the eastward when he returns we are prom ised an interview with him and an extract from his log book capt burr states that when in lat 8 deg north and long 21 or 22 west on his passage from the isle of sal cape de verds to rio grande there being a dead calm a shoal of singular looking fish ap proached his vessel a very large one which he took to be the mother of the small ones appeared to be about l'ju feet long and its body as large as the lower mast of a ship of 500 tons moving to wards the brig she came at one time within about 20 feet she would raise her head 10 or lv feet out of the water look around on the objects presented then settle her head and body under water and move on of the small ones there were 120 to 150 they were steering to the eastward some of the small ones came quite along the side of the brig — capt burr having a pair of five prong granes on board seized it and struck it into the neck of one of the smallest but in attempting to haul the prize on board the body parted from the head the granes having cut the back-bone oil and fell overboard the head was saved and put in salt lor presevation it is now in the possession ofthe marine surveyors : and a queer concern it is the head proper back to the gills is 13 inches long the mouth or muzzle is a compromise between that of a sucker and a common snake — it has no teeth and if it ever had a tongue that unruly member is now missing its gills are very large and powerful and its mode of securing its prey was evidently hy suction the eyes are large one on each side and ten inches back from the muzzle from the muzzle back to within an inch or two of the eyes the size of the proboscis or whatever it may be called is nearly uniform say an inch and a quar ter in diameter in its diminished condi tion : but where the eyes are inserted the diameter is about two inches and in creases back to the extremity of the gills just behind the gills are two fins one on each side and at that point commences what may be called the body of this only about four inches are preserved enlarging to the point where the granes broke it asunder the entire length of the head including this small section of the body is 17 inches capt burr thinks the portion of the body which feli oil was 15 or 10 feet long at least and its largest diameter 5 or 0 inches there was no back fin the tail was not seen the entire casing of this strage fish or serpent as the case may be is much harder than common bone : and we can easily imagine that in a full grown subject it would be bullet proof lt is however much hard er at top and on the sides than beneath the capacity of the gullet as well as the absence of the teeth shows that this ani mal like the land snake is in the habit of swallowing its food in the gross wiihout mastication of the mother snake about forty feet was seen above the water at once these gentle reader are the facts as they are given to us mr burr is said to be a man of excellent character whether what he saw was a family of sea-serpents or not the reader can judge as well as we the part above described is before vour eves and can be seen by any one who pleases at the olli:e of the marine surveyors if it is not a part of a voting sea serpent what is it ? will the natu ralists tell us it is evidently a water animal ; else what is the u<p of gills and fins we have never seen the like of it before ; and we understand the old salts are equally at fault in regard to it about the eyes we are told it resem bles a certain species of alligator but the mouth is entirely unlike that of the alligator ; the long proboscis or snout does not belong to the alligator ; and on the whole it clearly belongs to a different family capture cf a sea-cow — messrs clark andburnham lately succeeded in captur ing a sea-cow near jupiter inlet florida the animal was caught in a net was a male and nine feet three inches in length they succeeded in taking it alive and shipped it to charleston for exhibition it was very wild when first captured but soon became quite tame and ate freely of grass k.o its tail is in the shape of t fan and is two feet five inches broad — it has no hind feet : its fore feet are simi lar to those of a turtle and it has nails like those ofthe human hand but no claws its mouth and nose resemble those of a cow it has teeth on the lower jaw but not on the upper a female was also taken but it was so large and becoming entangled in the net made such desper ate exertions to escape that the captors were compelled to shoot it they pre served the skin however which was fif teen feet long — irving age a ladv on a cold morning seeing all lhe win dow and blinds/of a wealthy bachelor's room thrown wide open inquired the reason ot it — '• oh said he " it is merely to let ui my only sun and airs wmmmmm 1 1 i ■ ■ y ■ ■ ■ . ■ - r , mm^m from the charlotte journal the non-descrfpf editor turn ed historian mr bolton tba nondescript editor : as you tire wont to dub bim of lhe net in a vain attempt to recommend ibe •• mecca of bis falbers lo lhe sympathies of north caro 1 i nia ns tells a bislorico-romantia story in bis las issue which 1 dcnilil nol will till ail our bo j som to overflowing with gratitude the story | is lold it must he confessed in a slip shod style and is prefaced by a long stale lecture the sum and substance ol which every partner more ; forcibly expresses by lhe pal old saying ihat one good turn deserves another but lhe sto ry when you do get al h is about as follows i'hal in 1711 or 1712 certain tribes ol indians rose againsl lhe whiles setlled alongthe hanks oftar river in north carolina they made free use ol the usoal weapons ol iheir ferocious warfare — he lorch — the tomahawk — the scalp mg knife and '• non descripl asserts upon the veracity ol a irue historian lint ihey were even cruel en ugh lo kill ■* inofltensive and help | less children !' : grievously did those tusca i rora barbarians answer iur iheir unheard-of atrocities ! 15m north carolina was pro irate — flat ol her bark paying taxes lo great brit ain and utterly incapable of making an effort in hehall of her suffering people on the banks of lhe poetic tar great bulain loo took the taxes — but didn't move a ti:i»r to die relief of her loyal province — we musreay here by way ol parenthesis thai great britain wasn't a whit less cruel lhan lhe indians and we wonder it didn't occur lo north carolina about that time in exercise her " reserved right oi seceding — we go on with the story in this hopeless coir dition when the eye of greal britain refused lo pity and her own arm was loo weak to save south carolina " hound to north carolina on ly hy lhe tie ol neighbor generously brought assistance and protection she sent up a body ol white and native friendly indians and this motley troop of chivalry really did won ders they killed 300 tuscarora men — look 100 more prisoners and lots o piun ler includ ing no doubt any quantity ol woman and chil dren they repeated the same destructive ope ration until there was not a tuscarora " living and kicking lo tell the sad late of his exter minated race i here endeth the first lesson ! now " non-dnscript puts the case morn pointedly viz mecca assisted the old north ' stale nearly a century and a hah ago against an insurrection of ihe indians : therefore the old north state is bound lo go down and aid mecca iu her contemplated insurrection against her own government i lhat it .' i advise •■ non descript ere he writes ihe second part ol his histoty to inform bims9lf somewhat in regard lo tie 1 time when mecca had a separate . existence and became bound to north caroli na only by the lie of neighbor is it possible , he can he so ignorant of that home of bis falh : crs to which we tear he is making such slow progress as not to know that in 1711 it formed a much a part of lhe proprietary government ol north carolina as his present homo does . part ol'lhe state government oi north caroli 1 na ? my information is that north and south j carolina were embraced in the charters of carolina ol march jl 100 and june lit hit by charles the second ; that ihey remained under one proprietary government ceased and the royal government began ; at which time a separation took place and the chivalry went out irom us and became " bound only by lhe lie of neighbors 1 incline to think conse quently that gov craven as the sworn repre senlative ol the loafs proprietors did in 1711 or 12 nothing more lhan what every sworn executive of every government is obliged lo do namely : to put down insurrection within his territory whether raised by while men or indians yet gov craven is lustily praised though lie succeeded and succeeded loo by em ploying kindred blood against kindred blood — indian again i indian mr fillmore is lusti ly denounced though he has not even made a threat except against massachusetts — for which he has had the advocates of " indivisi ble sovereignty about his ears the fact is ihese " pilgrims to mecca and the resident inhabitants thereof are so full of gall and wormwood towards north carolina ihat they can'l bul how it on ihe most indif ferent occasions they openly and in lhe ve ry face of the highest proof deny ever having had any connexion wilh us to hear ihem talk south carolina or carolina as ihey are loud of calling her is the only holy ci'y — ihe mother of all slates — raised them up from in fancy educated them protected them fought ; iheir battles and paid oui countless mi lions lor hem without any adequate return yet hard ly are these false words of matchless arro jjanee cool on iheir lips ere ihey cry — and even in their crying show the aulhoi ilative pet | ulance of conceit '* come and help us !" is this ihe way to win sympathy .' is this ihe way to procure co-operation .' north carolina admit a no superiority in her refractory namesake ei ther in respect ol a or services lo our com mon coun'ry she has always done ber own voting and her own fighing by the one she has n it only given hei citizens a larg 1 a have ever yet fed but she has saved hersell from lhal precipice <■! si ite ishouor or political de*lruc lion over which ihe chivalry is now banging by lhe other she has given to history ihe names ofg lilford and mecklenl irg an 1 ecured ihe just boast that on let ■ il wa st lyed — and ef fectually stayed — the tide of t ryism which had overrun south carolina and which threat ened io deluge vi.h disaster the struggle for independence in lhe s hern stales north caralina will continue lo do ber own voting and her own fighting there were no tears shed al our sep trali n in l'i 29 the separation was law.'/lv effe t i ii ■ •'*' l ' : ""' t quit following her political jacks with a lantern yeas after vear ti'.iuj loco rce others into lhe quagmires wh - e - • our sepa ration a few n ' will certainly be • with tpa — bu they'll be tears of joy the chivalry while ihey ahuse us for not help ing ihem to cut iheir own throats are appre bensive lhal nitih carolina will join an alii ance of virginia and tennessee lo keep ihem from reaping the reward of their madness — the chivalry are very much out of it we do not intend lo afford them the means of taking their own lives because ihat would be criminal and we are - submission ists to ihe law ii it this much north carolina and georgia loo we think for ihey are equally interested in i<j moving contagi ius distempers as far as possi ble from their | ple will promise viz that if south carolina will go out oftbe l m mi and behave herself out of doors soberly as i ir i n iv-five years she has not done inside ihey will kindly and at the sa •' ne conscien , scruples look ■• nolenl unconslitu i„na lyol her out going and firmly withhold themselves from any attempt io bring her back for possibly lha attempt like gov ciavens