Carolina Watchman

              '"' '. : >;;,,„ advance two dollars um i " ' i *% for the first and 25 cts jqu"nii«rtion courtorder " "".' than these rales a l.b l r ho advertise by the year . « -.-''•"- === rilf * g „ register re tk1butivb justice * remembered thai e called lon , a few issues past to the c „ bu l from ibe sovereign lon , jco jsm in ibis state published . the 26th ult '[ saunders in addressing : ,'• u convention on monday ! m ' k .,. r was to be iu ihis city on ! . ."_ when he expected io he absent ; '.'„,, jesire lo misrepresenl him j if he would siaie distinctly | l m*a*j for t against free suf i '"' whether he was/oroi againstlbe t m ihe nexl legislature i / ;' |. « hei her he was j ,„ open unrestii'ted conven ' .,! i a majority ol ihe peoplf of j ■ , whether he was for c iging ■ ..,. of tepresentation in sen j f commons 1 ii not what he j for or ial arrogance of his card | if struck every body but not j i se — i'or they knew the man ; ( j •• absent on the 4'h of ever a mim wa answered .•.." he was lie sent out bis ; l ,_[,(• demanded an answer and j ., and a.s to its " distinctness ! id or foe cmild for a moment i vver from all accounts since ; ' ,,„! h certain mr wright of ohio ei minister to unfortunate spain i a castigation after ex i graphic manner the inconsis political tetgiversaliotis and d hankering of the " ex-min . mr kerr passed on we learn to .. i of the principles which were ne years since by this same i on the subject of constitu j m such principles then put g directly at war with those ,, now professes to entertain h-t ii not he forgotten that sir oracle j ni a speech to the " young americas ibe locofoco convention that met on • hh ult in which he laid down the :;,' lor their special benefit the and ourselves published an j iracl rom that speech in it was the fhe issue presented by the late whig ! nuitum againsl any amendments of | ition through the legislature \ i fur an open convention to be called ' ; a majority was an issue icepted ; anil he challenged i d bearer to the charge he \ m proclaim us upposition to in maple t first place then here is a barefaced lhe position assumed liy the fiigl'arty in their convention they al the will of the majority j j declared that ir/te never amendments im leclare in favor ot an open conven j de to the stale constitution i feted bi convention of till mi the federal basis and i in favor of submitting it to i say whether thn wished such t culled or not to amend the * ei minister is opposed now to ; ' -' he wishes of the 1'eople on i question of amending the or calling a conventi he v upon such a course with holy yet aa was shown by mr journal of the last legis j '.'•'! for a bill introduced by ! ■ lo take the sense ol the l'eo j g a convention on the led ' 1 an such inconsistency be otherwise than with contempt s of a man who would own words and attempt to dnciples which he avowed ; hs since entitled to res '* tin leader and almost ctator of the locofoco party carolina ! ! i not half we have already hlicthe ex-minister's views 15 * s --'.'>\ when under in influ iul enthusiasm he thought ( ' w ere all in all and should s carried out in the mat , a tering il h j r government but ;'" chapter in lhe life of the "'" s fruitful of inconsistencies kerr it will be seen called 1 commented on with power ,;; c j it is this 1 of those who were amending our state constitu i hls place and messrs w c°t jr r m pearson thos "*• oaunucrs were appoint pe o prepare an address lo 0flhe state on the 18th of * hal committee issued along nomh ' om which mr - kerr v c j er t>f ex,rf c!s which told <, t ; r '^. with much effect on the e ftsk attention to the fol i ie a ma j ri y the ght t0 retnote to deny this i the carolina watchman j j bruner ) r " keep a check ri»ox ai.t voce editor o*j proprietor ) rcleks ( new series do this and liberty is safe < gen'l harrison [ volume ix num ber 7 salisbury n c thursday june 17 1852 n»hl is to argue against the very foundation j principle of all popular government j re tained in ihe front rank of our owu declaration of rights and in lhal of every olher slate iu j the union thai in the concerns of thi life all j power and sovereignty reside in the people — they can alter iheir government when ihe please whenever indeed the happiness and prosperity of the larger number imperious demand a change herein they are fhe sole \ rulers and sole judges no limit has l-een set : to their authority but that which the almighty has imposed that they shall exercise it in jus tice and equity this may he denounced but ! il is lhe doctrine of fr>-p american institutions it is the doctrine of the revolution it is the republican doctrine of this country !" again but these objections pass a sentence of condemnation on the declar j ation of independence ant the principles ! of the american revolution and when we deny this right of a majority of the people to remodel their government it j leads to the much more monstrous conclu sion that a minority — that one man — may perpetuate the most intolerable system of ' tyranny over the rights of the majority — ; may usurp all the powers of the govern ! ment and leave the majority with no ; rights but to practice the virtues of tame and quiet subjecls the people cannot fail lo reprobate a principle of opposition that leads us to such conclusions sover eignity a power which binds all others yet it is restricted by no other and bound by no forms must reside somewhere in this country il is lodged with a majority of the people such were the opinions entertained and published by the ex-minister in 1833 did his association with the dilapidated monarchy of spain alter bis views and drive him to those doctrines which he has recently put forlh and which if ever sanc tioned and carried out will in the lan guage of his address lead to the most intolerable system of tyranny over the rights ofthe majority and to the usurpa tion of all the powers of government by the minority ? a fit leader he of the loco loco party and a most admirable expoun der of democratic doctrines satan sent out to preach morality ! but we will not pursue this subject any farther for the present we do not know j in truth so far as the ex minister to unfortunate spain is concerned whether j the play is worth the candle he thought j proper to make an uncalled for attack on mr kerr before lhat gentleman had an opportunity to give his opinions tothe pub lic when he had no chance to answer tbe misrepresentations contained in tbal at tack the poisoned chalice has been com mended to the lips of the " ex minister his own battery has been turned upon him with powerful effect his tergiver sat ions have been exposed his incon sistencies have been laid bare his self ish mania for office his cormorant appe j tite for place to the exclusion ol every ; body else young and old has been held up | to public odium it he thinks he can gain j anything in such a controversy he may go on his way rejoicing from the fayetteville observer the locofoco candidate for president the agony is over and gen franklin h pieice of new hampshire is lhe locofoco candidate lor president of the united states ! that this will take the public liy surprise even his own parly is perfectly manifest we suspecl that the nomination was made in a fit of dc-meralion after three days incessant vol ing iu lhe course of which we do not know how o'.ien the votes were taken up to lhe evening of friday lhe second day ol the vol | ing thirlhv-three votes were taken in no one of which did gen pierce receive a vote so litile lorce was he thai not a single one ol his own party thought ol him not even the dele gates from his own state during two whole days and thirty-th.ee votes on the next day be was nominated there were many ebbs and flows of lhe popular current during those three days cass and buchanan were the prominent and favorite candidates these gave way gradually to dou.-las who after enjoying the prospect for a brief space fell to rise no more all the other nags to use a sporting phrase were no where marcy butler houston lane dickinson dod»e and weiler all had a few friends irom 1 io"27 but no one of them ever got above lhe latter figure gen pierce has been in both houses of congress we believe where he made no fig ure he was afterwards appointed by mr polk brigadier general in the mexican war what he did there if any thing does no at this moment occur lo our mind though we shall doubtless hear enough of il in a few days ve cannot of course say whether he will prove a strong candidate or a weak one one thing is very certain he was strong with his party if he should prove to have popularity u will be of a negative kind we suppose not such as , polk's however for he was " oung hickor | ry " the neighbor and l.iend and designated , candidate of » old hickory this gave him a power which gen pieree will lack we sus pc there is one fact which may have assisted to make this unexpected nomination it was i proclaimed in the free soil papers ofthe north that none of " capt scott's men lhat is none of those who answered capt scott's questions | in favor of the compromise and the fugitive law rould get the nomination and so it has cass and buchanan and douglas | rcy and houston and lane and dick nni dallas c all answered thai they j .* ij-tain these measures and ihey are accordingly all laid on the shelf pierce did not answer at all ; — and pierce is nomi i nated .' more lhan this : the convention steadily ] refused to adopt any platlurm ol principles un j iii alter the candidate was nominated mr i dobbin ii will he seen rriide a speech in fa ! vor of the platform first aud the candidate af ■ terwards — the candidate to suit the platform not the platform to suit the candidate hut his voice was unheeded he was rather too bon j est for ihe limes the committee was ready to report the platform but the convention ! would not hear it ! we write in greal haste ; and have compil ed with as much care as lime and space would , allow an account of the proceedings of lhe convention up to fiiday night to which we j reler the closing scenes are not yel receiv ed — ihe fact of lhe nomination having come by telegraph p s we have telegraphic despatch inform ing us lhal it was on the 49th ballot that pierce was nominated also lhal wm r king of alabama was nominated for vice president — j no particulars of the nomination the following table shows lhe vote in de tail : — c „ !** m . c votes 5 2 >. 2 . c o j ty 0 m a j w u *-" 5 *-* e r a *** ° 2 co a o « a s a j g 1st bal 116 93 20 27 8 13 2 2d " 118 95 23 27 6 13 1 3d " 119 94 21 26 7 13 1 4ih " 115 89 33 25 7 13 1 5th " 114 88 34 26 8 13 1 gth " 114 88 34 26 8 13 1 7th " 113 88 34 26 9 13 1 8th " 113 88 34 26 9 13 1 9th " 112 87 39 27 8 13 1 10th 111 86 40 27 8 14 1 11th " 101 87 50 27 8 13 1 12th " 98 68 51 27 9 13 1 13th " 98 88 51 26 10 13 1 14th " 99 87 51 26 10 13 1 15(h " 99 87 51 26 10 13 16th " 99 87 51 26 10 13 1 17th -' 99 87 50 26 11 13 1 18th ** 96 85 56 25 11 13 1 19th " 89 85 63 26 10 13 1 20th " 81 92 64 26 10 13 1 21st " 60 102 64 26 9 13 13 2-2d " 43 104 77 26 9 13 15 23d " 37 103 78 26 10 13 20 24th •• 33 103 80 26 9 13 23 25th " 34 101 79 26 10 13 24 26th " 33 101 80 26 10 13 24 27th " 32 98 85 26 9 13 24 28th " 28 96 88 26 11 13 25 29th ** 27 93 91 26 ' 12 13 25 30ih '* 33 91 92 26 12 13 20 31st " 64 83 92 26 9 — 17 32d " 98 74 86 26 8 — 1 33d " 123 72 60 25 6 1 besides the above on the first ballot wei ler of ohio received 4 votes and was ihen dropped on lhe first 8 ballots dodge had 3 votes and was then dropped and on every ballot except the 1st and 4tb dickinson re ceived one vole from florida the vole of norlh carolina was given en tire for buchanan on the first 8 ballots then 9 n i»an and 1 for douglas on the next 1 1 then 8 for buchanan and 2 for do l'ias on 3 ballots then 7 and 3 on two hallo afterwards g lo 4 as far as we have beard false charge and false issue the raleigh standard finding it rather an uphill business to contend against the republican principle of a convention of the people endeavors to evade the ques i tion by starting a false issue he has gut | astride the question of a change of basis ( and bids fair to ride his hubby to death in j a short time he ; s trying to create the ! impression in lhe east that mr kerr and the whig party are in favor of this change i and expects amidst the cry of slavery j agitation change of bassis c to with draw public attention from the humbug j gery of gov reid but this ruse will fail — the whigs will not be caught nap ping neither the whigs nor their can didate for governor are striving for a change ofthe basis — and the democratic \ papars know it they feel it is a losing j game they are playing against the con vention principle and that defeat awaits ! them unless they can avoid it by some j such false charge the whig party has never taken a po sition in favor of a change of the basis of j representation we know there are some ( whigs in the west — and as many demo j crats — who go for this measure but as a ; party we are opposed to disturbing the i compromise between the east and the • west we are opposed to sectional agi tation ; we only contend now for the rights of the whole people if the constitution ; must needs be amended we contend it is the right ofthe people to do it in conven tion as far as this part of the state is con cerned—immediately in this vicinity — we ', know there is strong opposition to chang j ing the basis no one here thinks of such a thing the standard may frighten a few old women with tbis great bug-bear j his imagination has conjured up but he j can't impose upon the voters east or j west with such humbuggery he may ; tell it to the marines but tbe sailor's won't believe it the charge of slavery agitation against the wbigs rather sas j picious coming from the standard who bas done more to keep up such agitation in national contests than all the wbigs in north carolina put together this ! makes one involuntarily think of the im i pudent rogue who cried out when pursu j ed stop thief !' — concord mercury brazil and the am azon taking its rise in tbe higher regions of bolivia under the nameof the apurimac ' and flowing north into eucador until it is joined by the vast bodies of water drained from the slopes of the andes tbe great river amazon flows eastward to the sea and falls into the atlantic by an outlet of two hundred miles in width lis braches are navigable steams of length varying from a few hundred to two thousand miles passing like tbe parent river through tracks of country loaded with the verdure of the tropics receiving these tributaries in greater abundance even than our own : miss — not loss than two hundred smaller streams being reckoned as tbe number — the amazon has by means of one of them a navigable communication with the ori noco the madeira has a current of 2 500 and the negro of 2.000 miles the cassaquire a branch of the negro is also an arm of the orinoco one great river thus contributing to swell the bulk ofthe larger facilitating intercourse and plac ! ing in the possession of man a great high i way ready formed by nature theaiea ; of valuable lands which is drained by | these interlacing water courses cannot be i less than two millions of square miles — ,' of necessity much of it now lies unpro j ductive yet not barren because of the natural wealth so profusely showered up { on the climate of the equator a new field oi commerce is open to our enter ! prise a commencement has already , been made to this end thinking men have matured projects looking forward ; to great results in view of the vast ad j vantages that may be derived from unre j slricted mercantile intercourse between the richest province of south america j and the atlantic ports of the u states the investigations ol lieut maury su ! perintendent of the national observatory j at washington have been directed to the j subjects of the winds and currents ofthe | ocean ; his results are remarkable he finds by comparisons of the logs of sailing < vessels and from atlantic ports that the true outlet of the amazon is not at the line but above it toward the florida pass a vessel sailing from the mouth of the amazon does not sail directly info the j ocean but meeting the southeast trade i winds which compel her to pass around i to the northward and westward until ! the parallel of twenty five degrees or 30 j degrees is gained by this time the out • ward hound amazonian is ofl ihe ameri i can coast there is no other way in , which he can steer the land south of | the mouth of the amazon prevents his ' proceeding immediately southward nor i can he pursue a directly eastward course j because of the set of the winds and cur j rents conspiring to oppose him no ! chance offers but a northeasterly route j which necessarily throws up as it were a j surf commercial enterprise at our very \ doors years of mercantile speculation have allowed this tempting opportunity to pass unimproved the time has now come when a new order of things is pro mised lieut maury proposes in a memorial to congress which we publish entire in another column that a line of sfeam com munication be opened between some southern atlantic port and the port of pa ( ra iu brazil para is a port of consider ; able importance even now and situated at the outlet of the amazon would soon command a lucrative trade a direct communication between it and some cen tral port like norfolk already in close connexion with now york would save , our merchants the labor and expense of transmission by way of england to rio janeiro a practice too commonly adopted because of the length of time consumed in a sailing voyage hence to rio our commerce with brazil is already greater i than with any other country except eng land and france her imports from the united slates in 1835 amounted to 2 608,656 and since that period they have annually increased our exports thither in 1850 and 1851 were s3.752.01 6 and the imports hither were sl 1,525 301 it is needless to argue the importance of keeping up a steady increase in this re ciprocal system of exports and imports — brazil produces sugar coffee chocolate salt nitrate of potash gold diamonds to paz beryl tourmaine amethysts and pre cious commodidies almost innumerable ; her agriculture is not perfect it needs tbe incitements of commerce and internal j facilities : with an open line of communi j cation from the amazon to lhe coast em j igration must pour in and the resources ofthe country be developed in all their richness the cattle trade of the region is a peculiar feature of its natural advan ges ores of iron and copper laid idle for years must start into circulation and em ploy the minds and hands of working en ergetic men the spice trade tbe traffic in lruits exportation of animals all prof fer opportunities of profit waiting the turn of the tide to become productive \ tew ing the question in these lights the impor tance of the contemplated enterprise be comes so plainly manifest tbat it can scarcely fail to take the attention and in ( vite the scrutiny of the commercial public j n y times a terrible crime — criminals convicted the maysville ky eagle of the 26th ultimo has an account of the conviction of four murderers who killed a man and his wife our readers will remember the horrid murders committed in the latter end of february last on the persons of justice brewer and his wife in greenup county these deeds were perpetrated by a band of desperadoes four in number three of them named clarke and one named hood they blacked their faces and far in the night proceeded to the premises of their victims going into the poultry house they set the hens to squalling by which trick mr and mrs brewer were enticed out ofthe house mrs b went out first in her night gown fo protect her chickens from the fangs as she doubtless thought of wild beasts of prey liitle dreaming that they were prowling in human form and that herself and husband were the objects of their bloody hunt mr b followed immediaitely and both were set upon and beaten to death with heavy clubs-he being killed outright and she left for dead tho she lingered insensible and speechless till next morning their poor little children five in number the oldest but eleven years old unconscious of the horrid tragedy by which they were plunged into the miseries and sorrows of orphanage slept undisturb ed till morning \\ hen missing their pa rents they wandered to the houses of the neighbors in search of ihem this awak ened suspicion and alarm and soon lhe people of the country round about were roused the first party arriving at the house found the prostrate bodies where the assassins left them — the husband dead and stiff the wife only exhibiting signs of life by an involuntary contraction of her lower limbs at eleven o'clock that mor ning her sufferings ended with her life antecedent circumstances furnished j ground of suspicion that john collins a near neighbor of brewer was thc instiga tor if net the actor of the tragedy a chain of circumstances slight indeed in their origin but corroborated and strength ened until they amounted to proofs clear and conclusive fixed the eye and thc hand of justice on collins and his accompli ces to make a brief story of the evidence collins purely out of malice had induced the three clarks and hood by threats and bribes to undertake the murder one of , the clarks was a son in-law of collins — two of lhe clarks were brothers the third a cousin and hood we believe a relative one of the clarks and hood are lads a i bout seventeen years of age these four were the parties actually engaged in the murder — the malignant but cowardly col lins the planner of the wicked conspiracy purposely remaining at home because he foresaw he would be charged with the murder a part of the scheme designed to provide for collins's security was that the young men should leave their hats with collins which would make it neces sary for them to return to bis house and by this they would lie able to testify that collins was at home on the night of the murder the plot did not probably con template that suspicion would light on thn young men coliins and his four accomplices were indicted and he and turner clark the one who wielded the murdemusclu'o were tried before the greenup circuit court last week these two were convicted of mur der and sentenced to be hung on the 25th of june next there was no time fo try the other three before the term of the court expired and they will remain in jail ironed and guarded fill the next term the circumstances establishing the con spiracy bet ween coll ins and the four young men were so convincing that we under stand each of them except collins made full confession even before the trial a narrative of the evidence in this case would furnish a chapter of circumstantial evidence perhaps as marvellous but at ( the same time clear and conclusive as ever was detailed the very plot of the conspirators designed to hide their crime served to develop their guilt it was a i fine illustration of that remarkable pass age where shakspeare makes hamlet congratulate himself on the contrivance of i the play by which he expected to expose j the occult guilt " of the king in one scene of it : i have hearl that guilty creatures sitting at a ; ay i have by the very cunning of ihe seer i been ?' uck so to tiie boo i that preset ri y they have proclaimed iheir malefactions : for murder though ii have no tongue will speak wilh most miraculous org.-rn i a new idea in agriculture — the steward on board a u s steamer in tbe go ha pro duced several crops of excellent potatoes by tbe following mode of cultivation " he procured a common crockery crate a bundle of straw and a few eyes of lhe poiaioe i and went to work farming it on board ship ! — the process for colfuraliufc them is ihis :— fill your crate with al'ernaie layers of straw and the eyes ofthe potaioe commencing at the bot torn with a laver of about mi inches in depth of straw and then a layer of ihe eyes the eyes being placed about two inches apart over lhe surface of ibe straw then another layer ol straw on the lop keep the straw always moist and in about two months you will have about si4 worth of sound good potatoes of lhe first water l exemplary punishment 9e sweaf ing we understand has become so crying an evil in our courts of justice that judge caldwell who presided in the courts of this district during this spring circuit has made it a prominent subject iu bis charges to the grand jurj at person court we are informed a man by the name of mitchell was indict ed for an assault upon samuel draper — draper was prosecutor and swore to cer tain matters which several witnesses subsequently called to tbe stand proved to be utterly false the judge conse quently ordered the sheriff to lake dra per in charge un'.il he should give bail for his appearance but being unable to find bail he was committed lo prison — the next day he was brought out and put upon bis trial and convicted the sen tence pronounced upon him was severe but no doubt just : it was to stand in the pillory one hour receive thirty nine lash es stand committed until tie next court again receive thirty-nine lashes and be fined live hundred dollars at alamance court we also understand a man brought up to answer a charge on the sta'e docket committed similar of ietice and was forth wiih or*red into the custody oi tbe sheriff by thewudge upon giving bond for his appearance to the next court his trial was postponed li our county courts would but second the efforts of this just judge and give over to the severities ol the law all who shall in like cases offend such examples might soon be given as warnings to evil doers that falsehood would be banished irom our courts and justice be permuted to flow in purer channels — hilhbon lie cor der charleston hospitality — undei ibis caption we fiind the subjoined paragraph in the provi dence ii i journal " the meinliers of he ol 1 school presbyter an general assembly which met at chaiiea lon spoke in the highest terms f the generous and coidial hospitality of th;ii city to those who have tested ii no terms of praise will seem too warm in charleston *' stranger is a holy name a man lakes you by the hand at a tir*-t introduction with you mu?i dme with me lo-dav ; where shall i end my carnage lur youi ah if their politic were not uobltl their wine what a ciiy ii would be . . j the curculio a correspondent ofthe boston journal says lake cotion bailing t ihree circles six lo twelve inches apart around your plum trees and these will catch lhe curculio he caught silly in the fi r t circle in twenty-lour hours in lhe second circle bnt few had been caught in be third circle scarcely one got so high he found ihis a sure preventative and got lots of fine ums last year lor the firs time for many year he furihcr recommends keeping the ground tree irom windfalls as thev contain the maggot which goes into the ground to ma ture itself o'meagher there are prepara;ions making in various quarters to exlend a courteous welcome to this distinguished irish exile he is said to be the verv first of the living orators ol ireland which is no small praise — as no country has orators superior to ireland if we except our country which we are in duty bound lo do — we believe he will receive the attentions which admiration for his genius and character ought lo inspire — but we trust there will be no non sense aboul ** intervention " in bis speeches or in the replies to them valley of the amazon about a twelvemonth since lieut hernden of the i'niied slates navy was deputed by the department to make an exploration of the greal river amazon from i's sources in the mountains of peru to its junction with the atlantic at para brazil thi duty has since been pei formed lt ii having reached para and joined there the 0 s brig dolphin he made the voyage down ihe amazon in a bail canoe and almost entirely alone a lar^e collection of specimens gathered during he exploration have already reached new york the result of his research es are to h g;\en to li.e world in a tutlh com ing vola-nim night mare the way to raise ti.i-i animal i very simple : fifteen ml re bed time cut op one doz en cold boiled potatoes add a few slices • fcold boiled cabbage wilh five or six * ickled cucum bers eal heartily and wash down wilh a pint f brown stout undress and jump into bed lie flat upon your back an i in about half an hour or thereabouts you will dre^n the devil is sitiing on your chest wilh the bunker hill monument in hi i ip a woman in the field — li is stated in some of ihe pennsylvania papers lhat ihe women's |{ iajh's convention v*.i.im 1 i assembles in het-t ■ re-mr pennsvhrania on the 1st ol june will nominate a candidate lor lhe presidency ll ihe lady should be young and handsome we would ii gi*re much for the chance ol ihe old fogey candidates — baltimore cltj per the shadrach rescue case — in the u s circuit curt al bo*ion on ihe 1 inst tha juries were dismissed by jud^e sp rap tie until friday on which day it v>.*s expected lhal iho persons charged wiih a ling in ihe re-cue ot ihe limiive slave shadrach minnijcm will be put on°trial the ca*e of elizui wright lain edilor of lhe c '■'• '*> assigned »* ibe first in order and il is ar lhal be will iiiansg**i his own defence judge cuitis is ei;>ected lo preside during the trials dhow ned on sunday evening whilst bathing ehas evans apprentice boy on boaid the br bn,j laiimer capt llojd has used evc-ry exertion to obtain lhe body but so far has not succeeded wilmington journal a sure daguerreotype a woman's heart is the only true plate for a man's likeness an instanl gives an impres sion that an age ef sorrow aud change cannot efface two wives in a day — mr nahum thomas of this town was yesterday divorced irom his wife by the supreme court and last night he was married to mrs abby kcmpton p/y mouth rock