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              l^0^^z r tlsolwl uakiima.v ■ 1'u .•■ * i i lars payable in - r r n 0 a?v a n^two y dol!a ra iftorthefiret.andaocto sertion courtordcrs rtha „ these rates a lib ertise by the year , mus tbeposu»hd _____ . thc watchman unmmalcules i which flows in the veins ol am j seems to be a uniformly red _ nail red globules float ■ | called serum in dif globules differ both in fig in man und all ani he r i young ihey are per ierica i j birds and fishes ng spheroidal form in the elerol the globules is , s andih part ol an inch vs dial in a drop of blood which . ended from the point ofa -, r e must be about 1.000,000 of ■ buleaare lhe animal king ; . whose whole bodies are - animalcules have been dis | magnitude is such that 1,000 , n0 | exceed the bulk of a grain j j-el each ol these creatures is j mhers as curiously organized , .. rest species ; they have j i fe ... motion and are endued wilh . i„ci in the liquids in which .. observed to move with as ; and activity ; nor are tneir mo luitous but evidently governed lion to an end they use n which they derive ntitri re furnished with a diges they have great muscular ■ furnished with limbs and mom h and flexibility they aie sus same appetites and obnoxious i 1 * -: ii lhe gratification of which h the same results in our own mzani observes that certain an ui others so voraciously that they come indolent and sluggish by of ihis kind ii they be confined , . | water so as lo be deprived of all . heir conditiou becomes reduced ; they ; spirit and activity and amuse he pursuit o the more minute h are supplied to them ; they i without depriving them of life : ofthe microscope the one has moving in the body of the other j nances are not matters of i ;- observation they lead us lo hc what parts are necessary lo produce must we not conclude that these - hearts arteries veins muscles -. .. rves circulating fluids and . • nt apparatus ol a living or ind if so how inconceivably th - ■ pails be ! if a glubiiln arsihe same propoition to their i lobule of our blood bears to whal powers of calculation can • notion of its minutenes lardner the watchman coal sines exist in almost every i extent and form one oi the - ms oi national wealth and - 1 i england not less than 6,000 il are yearly raised from the imbet land and durham ; at ley will be exhausted in about - ' in south wales however is a 00 square miles with 23 beds iss is 95 feet ; and this will 2,000 years more in great il 15,000 steam engines are in op : coal wilh a power equal mum of men the ma by this power has been suppos • etween 300,000 0h0 and men by direct labor i id contains coal fields so ed states and the provin ind new iirunswick in coal field covering more iare miles . i coal field extendinjr from ■ *■> ma is 720 miles long and - 00 square miles the . which is 360 miles long i square miles another 150 miles long and covers ' miles still further west in : lowards he rocky mountains vast extern not to mention - - in eastern virginia jl ' and massachusetts aud north parts of ihese fields the - of lhe beds ot coal is not ; and even single beds occur thick in whatever else v tails her coal can never steam will make it available hitchcock's geology is said to he louis na srjmme 1,800 officers oat of ' french army are to he dis le>'are suspected ; the french st0 be extended to the rhine 0 be kept quiet by the possess u d the i\il e piedmont and '" go to austria ; meek sax n.v to prussia and tur p e < w h constantinople to ' f ra > vaillant is said to have 7'ber officer that belgium i forthwith charleston sj i ( c«y 0 | u j contains 43,120 square e country may at all conlenl > °- any plot of v c j.^.n.g,h ala fat 196 feet bj the carolina watchman j j briber ) > " keep a check upon all tour editor f proprietor ) rcleks ( new seeies do this and llbf.rtvis safe < gen i harrison [ volume ix num ber 8 salisbury n c thursday june 24 1852 major jack downing account of the \ democrtic national convention baltimore saturday night } june 5 1852 \ to joshua downing esq postmaster downingville state of maine dear uncle joshua the job is done and it's been about the toughest week's work that ever i did i've sweat like a tiger all the week and i'm as hungry as a bear ; not but what there's been vittles enough plenty of it and good too and a plenty of liquor too more than the i maine liquor law could upset and spill in ! six months ; but the trouble is we had so ; much to do we couldn't get time to eat i guess i've made out to ketch a lunch of a few mouthfuls about twice a day and i got a chance to sleep upon an average about two hours a night after i've writ ' this letter to you i mean to turn in and ! sleep over till monday and then streak it ! home and help get up the mass meeting to ratify the nomination — the ratification of downingville must be a roarer you better be getting things ready for it till ■ i come i wish i could give you some idea of the week's work we have had here i've worked in the logging swamp and know what tis to handle logs and j pile em on the bank and roll em into the river ; and i've worked on burnt fields in clearing up and know what lis to chop j and pile from monday morning till satur day night ; but i declare to man this has been the tuffest week of logrolling i ever see but i don't begrudge the work a bit we've made such a nice job of it and saved the country we've put life into the democratic party again that we thought last fall was dead as a door-nail we've killed oft abolition we've choked to death secession and gin freesoil the fits ; and i expect we've thunderstruck whiggery so that it never'll get over it we've got the democratic party fairly on its legs again standing on the good old platform that gineral jackson left it on that is agin the bank agin the tariff and agin internal improvements and now we've nothing to do but go ahead but i must tell you something about the duins i couldn't get in as one ofthe regu lar delegates from maine because the president said my name wasn't on the list but as soon as i told him i was the dele gate from downingville he took me by the hand and says he all right major downing i'm very glad to see you here you can come in as a supernumerary and you can do a great deal more good than if you was a regular delegate for you can go round quietly among all the delegates and help to make em harmonize ; there's a great deal of that work to be done be fore we can get along and i don't know of any body that can do more in that line than you can in fact major if you hadn't been sent as a delegate from down ingville you would readily be admitted j to take part in the proceedings of the con | vention out of respect for the great servi j ces that you rendered gineral jackson in the times that tried the souls of demo crats so i went right in and took hold and went to work there was an awful jam ; it seemed most impossible to do any ! thing but i off coat and elbowed my way through em from one end of the hall j to tother ; and 1 pretty soon got the swing ; of it so i could tell where to pull and , where to push and where to put under the handspikes and lift and when the members got up to make speeches and got to talking too much or talking the wrong way i knew jest when to take hold of their coat tailsandpull down on to their | seats and sometimes i had to go into the gallery too to keep the people straight ' up there and in spite of all i could do ihey would sometimes hoorah and hiss in : the wrong place so you may judge i've j had my hands full all the week but i was determined to have a nomination if i worked my hands off up to my elbows it was very hard to get a nomination this time and if i hadn't been here though i say it myself i don't believe they would a got one at all the first real hard piece of sledding we j come across was the platform business that is to say the question whether we ; should go to work and make a platform j first or take right hold and to nominate first it was a knotty question and seem ed to bother some of the members a good deal mr nabers and mr wise and some others insisted upon it that we \ should begin at the foundation and make j a platform first for the democratic party ; to stand on and then make a candidate to lit to it no work would ever stand well unless you begin at the bottom and lay a good foundation first here's a dozen parties here every one fighting for ; their particular candidate and one hop ■ ing to get the nomination as long as that hope lasts it will hold em all togeth er and we can make em all work to help build a platform but the moment one gets the nomination the rest will all fly oft in a tangent ; there will be no more working on a platform and your candi ; date will be le 1 1 standing upon nothing j but mr soule of lousiana and gov ; floyd of virginny rowed jest as hard , t'other wa they declared we never j could make a platform first if we un j dertook to go to work upon it now every one of the dozen parties would be pulling and hauling agin each other and each one hewing and cutting and carving to ! make the platform to suit his own candi ; date in that way we never could make j a platform if wo should work from the i first of june to the end of time the fact is the platform must be made for the country ; that is for the democratic par ' ty and not for a candidate as soon as the candidate is ketched and haltered and tied to a stump we can all set down calmly and work together and make a platform to suit the whole democracy — the dispute went on pretty high nearly all dav and was got over at last by a sort o mise to have the platform and the nomination both going on together — ! so a committee of one from each state was appointed to go to work and build the ! platform while the convention went on to nominate ; then as soon as the candidate was nominated the platform could be all ready to set him right on to it then come the nominating and that was all an up hill business for about three j days and two or three nights it was found on the first pull that the old fogies was a good deal too strong for young america and there hadn't been so many old fogies in the field we should a got a ! candidate the first haul gineral cass and mr buchanan each started with a . very smart team mr cass was a little ' ahead and he kept the lead for about twenty pulls and we thought by sticking to him like wax we might be able to get him over the hill but his team begun to i lag after ten or a dozen pulls and now at ! the twentieth pull it seemed to be slowly i backing down hill and thebuchanan team struggled up and got ahead then we i thought we better hitch on to buchanan j and may be we might fetch him over the hill we spurred up for a few pulls pret ty well but didn't get near to the top be fore the buchanan team got stuck and then begun to back down the hill and all we could do we couldn't start it ahead again but the cass team which had backed down almost to the bottom ofthe hill after resting and breathing a little now took a fresh start to come up at that we hitched on again and determined if possible to shove him over this time — we whipped and spurred and pulled and pushed and hollered and screamed and the team hauled well the old ox bows creaked and we begun to think we should reach the top but when we got about two thirds the way up team got stuck agin ; and though it took eight or ten smart pulls after this it didn't get any higher but every time backed down j a little it was pretty clear after this that it was j gone gooso with the old fogies we j hadn't no hopes of em any longer if the j cass and buchanan teams could a been | hitched together they would a walked j over the hill as easy as a cat could lick i her ear but there was so much quarrel j ling among the drivers that this couldn't j be done every driver was proud of his own team and would stick to it and have j nothing to do wilh tother the virginny delegation went out a good many times to consider of it and makeup their minds and every time they come in they march , ed right up and took their stand by the 1 buchanan team they stuck to that ! team without flinching for thirty-three j steady pulls ; and for the last ten or fif | teen pulls i couldn't think of nothing else ] but " old virginny never tire but there was a good many others stuck it out full as long and some a good deal longer than old virginny before they gin up we tried a few pulls with the marcy team and a few with the butler team but it was no go we became satisfied there wasn't an old fogy in the field who could ever reach the top of the bill we be j gun to look round now to see how young america was getting along the douglas team was made up most ; ly ol young steers ; and it was a pretly smart team well trained and pulled well but it wasn't equal to the old fogies for a heavy pull ; it hadn't so much bone and sinew and bottom howsomever it made a pretty scratch of it and kept gaining gradually up the hill ; so we thought we would take hold and give young ameri ca a boost and see if we couldn't get a candidate that way to tell the truth we begun to feel rather streaked for fear we shouldn't get a candidate at all and felt willing to hitch on to most any thing but the best we could do with young america we couldn't get only about half way up the hill before the steers begun to back down agin and we see twas no use i they couldn't come it well there we was all in a fix we couldn't see no oth er chance ; we'd got to go without a pre sident because we couldn't nominate a candidate one of the members actually fainted away here and all of us felt a good deal womblecropt and down in the mouth but " old virginny never tire ;" and when we was all hitchin on round for the thirty-fifth pull old virginny marched into the field with a bran new team every body started and cried out what team is that ? what team is that ? . and when they heard the answer the franklin pierce team ol new hamp shire they wouldn't hardly believe their . own ears but it was a fact and virgin j ny drove the team one pull all alone — j then one or two others hitched on with ; her and tried eight or ten steady pulls — i all of us looked on and watched lhe work 1 ing ol that team at last folks begun to 1 make up their minds that that was the team to pull and straighten out the de mocratic traces and with proper help it might be got over the hill old north carliner hitched on and georgia hitched on and tennessee hitched on and by-and by there was a general race all over the field to see who should hitch on first it didn't make no odds who old hunkers and barnburners and freesilers and ab olition and union and secession.and state rights and old fogies and young amer ca all run helter skelter and hitched on to the pierce team that team i tell ye went up the hill like smoke some of the states run till they was almost out of ., breath for fear they shouldn't hitch on be fore the team got to the top of the hill — but they all made out to hook on and every state was " in at the death and ready to jine in the general hoorah after this we hadn't no more difficulty ; everything went as regular as clock work the master told us we had read and spelt well and we might all go cut till lour o clock so we went out and took a little bit of spree and then come in and took ' hold and worked together jest like broth ers and hauled mr king right up to the , top of the hill in two pulls and made him vice president then the committee brought in the new platform and we all danced on if in the crowd and confusion we couldn't see what it was made on but we was told it went agin the bank and agin the tariff and agin internal improvement and was a first-rate platform ; so we all jumped on and said it couldn't be no better p s i've telegraped to gineral pierce to save the doningville post office for you so you may feel easy on that score i remain your loving nephew major jack downing faust of wittenberg and i fust of mentz it were well if writers on the origin of ( typography would obey the injunction of j s;r thos browne who thought it not in j expedient for those who seek to enlighten • mankind on any particular subject first to ' acquire some knowledge thereof them i selves so that the labor of readers should ' not so generally be profitless in an arti j cle by bishop mcllvaine and another in ■ frazer's magazine by an anonymous con tributor the exercise of necromancy is imputed to fust the inventor or supposed inventor of printing nine of every ten i persons who write anything on the subject | fall into the same error they have some j thing always to say of fust and the devil ; curious anecdotes to rehearse of the multi plication of copies of the scriptures in pa ris and elsewhere ; spells and incantations by the inventor of the " black art to de i scribe etc but this is all induced by ig j norance of the facts john fust the putative inventor of print j ing was a shrewd silversmith and we j suspect a knavish one for without having anything to do with the invention of the ■ art preservative of arts he managed to rob another of the credit and profit of it ! he was however never in paris he was never in his lifetime accused of the exer ■ cise of magical arts ; he simply endeavor ed to make as much money as he could | in germany by underselling the copyists in , the book market all stories in which necromancy is attributed to him or to any ! other printer ; all accounts of the opposi j tion of the priest to typography as an in fernal invention ; in fine the popular ! idea of fust and the devil is a modern contrivance and originated in this man ner some bookmaker about the year 1880 undertook to write a history of printing he had an indistinct recollection of prof faustus ofthe university of wittenberg and in his book blended as many of his adventures as he could remember with the memoirs of john fust the printer ; and from that day a succession of ignorant chronicles have considered two men of totally different characters living at dif ferent times as one individual faust the necromancer was born in the duchy of weimer in 14g1 twenty five years after the printer is understood to have died lie is mentioned by me lancthon wierus and many other contem poary writers and was probably in his time not jess distinguished as a magician than agrippa or albertus mugnus it is related of him by godwin that he was in his youth adopted by an uncle dwelling in the city of wittenberg who had no children here he was sent to college and was soon distinguished by the great ness of his talents and the rapid progress he made in every species of learning that was put before him he was destined by his relative to the profession of theology ; but he is said ungraciously to have set at | naught his uncle's pious intentions he went through his examinations with ap plause and carried off all the first prizes among sixteen competitors ; he therefore obtained the degree of doctor in divinity but his success only made him proud and headstrong he disdained his theologi cal eminence and sighed for distinction as a man of the world he took his degree as a doctor of medicine and aspired to celebrity as a practitioner about the same lime he fell in with certain cotem poraries of tastes similar to ins own and uociated with them in the study of chal dean greek and arabic science ol i strange incantations and supernatural in , fluences in short uf ail the arts of a sor , cerer having made such progress as he could by dint of study and intense application he at length resolved to prosecute his pur poses still further by actually raising the devil he happened one evening to walk in a thick dark wood within a short dis tance from wittenberg when it occured to him that that was a fit place for exe cuting his design he slopped at a soli tary spot where four roads met and made use of nis wand to mark out a large cir cle and then two small ones within the larger in one of these he fixed himself appropriating the other for the use of his expected visitor lie went over the pre cise range of charms and incantations omitting nothing it was a dark night between the ninth and tenth hours the devil manifested himself by the usual signs of his appearance " wherefore am 1 called 7 " said he and what is it that you demand v " 1 require rejoined faustus that you should sedulously at tend unto me answer my inquiries and fulfill my behests immediately upon faustus pronouncing these words there followed a tumult over head as if heaven and earth were coming together the trees in their topmost branches bended to their very roots it seemed as if the whole forest were peo pled with devils making a crash like a thousand wagons hurrying to the right and left before and behind in every pos sible direction with thunder and light ning and the continual discharge of great cannon hell appeared to have emptied itself to furnish the din there succeeded the most charming music from all sorts of instruments and sounds of hilarity and dancing next came a report as of a tournament and the clashing of innum erable lances this lasted so long that faustus was many times about to rush out of the circle in which he had inclosed himself and to abandon his preparations his courage and resolution however got the better and he remained immovable he pursued his incantations without inter mission then came to the very edge of the circle a griffin first and next a drag on which in the midst of his enchantments grinned at him horribly with his teeth but finally fell down at his feet and extended his length to many a rood faustus per sisted then succeeded a sort of fire works a pillar of fire and a man on fire top who leaped down and there imme diately appeared a number of globes here and there red hot while the man on fire went and came to every part of the circle for a quarter of an hour at length the devil came forward in the shape of a gray monk and asked faustus what he wanted faustus adjourned their further confer ence and appointed the devil to come to him at his lodging he in the mean time busied himself in the necessary preparations he entered his study at the appointed time and found the devil waitin for him faustus told him that he had prepared certain articles to which it was necessary that the demon should fully accord — that he should attend him at all times when required for all the days of his life ; that he should bring him everything he wanted ; that he should come to him in any shape that faustus required or be invisible and faustus should be invisible too whenever he de sired it that he should deny him nothing and answer him with perfect veracity to everything he demanded to some of these requisitions the spirit could not con sent without authority from his master the chief of devils at length all these concessions were adjusted the devil on his part also prescribed his conditions that faustus should ad jure the christian religion and all rever ence for the supreme god ; that he should enjoy the entire command of his atten dent demon for a certain term of years ; and that at the end of that period the dev il should dispose of him body and soul at his pleasure the term was fixed for twen ty-four years that he should at all times steadfastly refuse to listen to any one who should desire to convert him or convince him of the error of his ways and lead him to repentance that faustus should draw up a writing containing these particulars and sign it with his blood that he should deliver this writing to the devil and keep a duplicate of it himself that so there might be no misunderstanding it was further appointed by faustus that the devil should usually attend him in the habit of a cordelier with a pleasing coun tenance and an insinuating demeanor faustus also asked the divil his name who answered that the was usually me phistophiles numerous adventures of faustus are related in the german histories it is said that the emperor charles v was at ins pruck at the time when faustus also re sided there his courtiers informed the emperor that faustus was in the town and charles expreesed a desire to see him he was introduced charles asked him whether he could really perform such wondrous feats as were reported of him faustus modestly replied inviting the em peror to make a trial of his skill " then said charles of all the eminent persona ges i have ever read of alexander the i great is the man who most excites my curiosity and whom it would most gratify my wishes to see in the very form in which ! be lived faustus rejoined that it was i out of his power truly to raise the dead but that he had spirits at bis command i who had often seen that great conqueror ; and tbat faustus would willingly place him before the emperor as he required — ; the emperor promised compliance af ter a few ceremonies therefore faustus ' opened a door and brought in alexander exactly in the form in which he had liv ed wiih the same garments and every circumstance corresponding alexander made his obeisance to the emperor and walked several times around him the queen of alexander was then introduced in the same manner charles just then recollected be had read that alexander had a wart on the nape of his neck ; and with proper precautions faustus allowed the emperor to examine the apparation by this test alexander then vanished as faustus was approaching the last year of his term he seemed resolved to pamper his appetite with every species of luxury he carefully accumulated all the materials ot voluptuousness and mag nificence he was particularly anxious in the selection of women hvho should serve for his pleasures he lind one en glish woman one hungarian one french two of germany and two from different parls of italy all of them eminent for the perfections which characterized their dif ferent countries at length he arrived at the end ol the term for which he bad contracted with the devil for two or three years before it expired his character gradually alter ed he became subjeet to fits of despon dency was no longer susceptible of mirth and amusement and reflected with bitter agonj on the close in which the whole must terminate he assembled his friends together at a grand entertainment and when it was e.ddressed them that this was the last day of his life reminding them of the wonders with which he had frequent ly astonished them and informing them ; of the condition upon which he bad held this power they one and all expressed the deepest sorrow at the intelligence — , they had the idea of something unlawful in his proceedings ; but their notions had been very far from coming up to the truth they regretted exceedingly that he had not been unreserved in his communica tions at an earlier period they would have had resource in his behalf to the means of religion and have applied to ' pious men desiring them to employ , iheir power to intercede with heaven in his favor prayer and penitence might have done much for him ; and tlie mercy ' of heaven'was unbounded they advis ed him to still call upon god and endea vor to secure an interest in the merits of the savior faustus assured them that it was all in vain and that his tragical fate was in evitable he led them to their sleeping apartment and recommended to them to pass tbe night as they could but by no means whatever they might happen to hear to come out of it ; as their interfe rence could in no way be beneficial to ; him and might be attended with the most serious injury to themselves they lay still therefore as he had enjoined them ; but not one of them could close his eyes between twelve and one in the night they heard first a furious storm of wind round all sides of the house as if it would have torn away the walls from their foun dations this no sooner somewhat abat ed than a noise was heard of discordant and violent hissing as if the house was full ofall sorts of venomous reptiles but which plainly proceeded from faustus chamber next they heard the doctor's room door vehemently burst open and cries for help uttered with dreadful ago ny but in a half suppressed voice which presently grew fainter and fainter then everything became still as if the ever lasting motion of the world was suspen ded when at length it became broad day j the students went in a body to the doc : tor's apartment but he was nowhere to i be seen only the walls were found smeared with blood and marks as if his brains had been dashed out his body was finally discovered at some distance from the house his limbs dismembered and marks of great violence about the features of his face the students gath ering up the mutilated parts of his body afforded them private burial at the tem ple of mars in the village where he died sharks a party of young gentlemen of this city started yesterday morning at live o'clock on a shark-catching excursion in the harbor and were fortunate enough between lhat hour and noon to take three off castle pinckney while feeding on the carcass of a dead horse one measured nine feet six inches another nine feet and the third eight feet the same party cap tured also a clam cracker of unusually large dimensions — char courier death from lightning during the thunder storm that visited our city and neighborhood on monday afternoon last four negroes engaged in bringing a fleet of lumber through wappo cut were struck by the electric fluid two of whom were stunned while the others were in stantly killed by the severity of the shock char courier w r king thirty six years ago voted in the house of representatives for a bank of the united slates the identical monster over which nicholas unfile for a long time presi ded — baltimore pali tot the resolutions adopted at baltimore de clare lhat congress has no power to charier a ! u s bank and that such an institution is one j of deadly hostility to the best interests ofthe ! country gov reid denounced the bank | with equal earnestness in his speech here — which is the tr ie demcocratic doctrine ? mr i kind's or gov reid'o fay observer