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ter ms of the watchman *. dollar in ad ince,and two dollars and fiftj cents _ thi i "- '■■'' v,'ar v rription received for a less time than one year . i for in advs . . , so subscription discontinued t al the option oi tat rearage are paid tl rms 01 advl rtis1-w5 ,- , firsi insertion und twenty ' i'i dollar p r sqi ire lor i " ■'■is for each c uitinuan e cou ...... mil be charged 2o per v r j i-.'l per cent will w made to those ivhoad , , ,., be continued uni to t>id and :. ss ordered fora certain num i ,- letters a idressed to the editors insist come post paid to ei ition lieut fremont's expedition we find tlio following notice of this expedi tionjust returned to st louis in the daily mis an : the party it will be remembered left this city on the 13th of may 1843 — very nearly fifteen months ago — and by the latter part of thai month ihey had passed the western boun dary of missouri and launched out into the prai ries i lcavingthe frontier in ih beginning of june and travelling along the line ofthe kansas riv er the part reached the rocky mountains ear jy in july and occupied that month in exploring the head oi tin arkansas al theclose of the i month they crossed the mountains and contin ! uing their way to the westward had reached lhe great salt lake in the beginning of sop j ember no human being had ever before vis j ited the island ol this celebrated lake — and a w weeks were spent in exploring its unknown t aters,and in surveying the adjacent country i'd - latter part ofthis month found thorn at fort hall where the winter set in early with a se .,...■snow storm on the 19th pursuing their way t the oregon road they peached the falls ol the columbia early in the month of november l aving his party here mr fremonl proceeded by water to fort vancou i i*r at which place he arrived at the commence j menl ofthe rainy season on the 25th of no vember in a snowstorm they left tho '• ijalls " on their homeward rout intending to return by ' iv ofthe ivlauiet and mary's lake no in terruption in tin form of difficulties occurred to i impede their march until they passed the kla met lake in the middle ol december when their course to the southward and eastward was barred by parallel ranges of snow and volcanic i mountains in the valleys of which hoy were forced constantly to the southward making lit | tie or no easting they travelled in this way along the eastern j base of the great california mountains whose j peaks rise seventeen thousand feet above the sea encountering ninny hands of indians of a very wild character and sonic ol whom had ne i ver before seen a while man towards the ; end ol january their animals feet had become i so much worn by the ice and rocks that they were scarcely able to travel and provisions had begun to fail as the country had been found desfiti ci game — the indians subsisting on ii ool and seeds they were now be ll ■.". leg and 39 deg parallel iuinio thc spowy range of california hr i , nl determined to attempt to cross this - and i f r • a way to the settlement on the ba . ofsan francisco the mountain is here one hundred and fifty miles broad and on its upper ! regions the snow was from live to twenty feet : deep they wen occupied nearly a month in crossing it bui finally succeeded and early in ; march exchanged the snow of mid-winter lor the verdure ol perpetual spring in the valley ol the li.or sacramento the party were cordially received and hos j pitably entertained at his residence near the ba uf san francisco by john a sutler esq prefecl ofthe frontier of california here they remained some time to recruit : and at the end i march resumed iheir homeward journey — flu proceeded several degrees to the south ward in re-cross the mountains and passing overthe california deserts by the span-trace reached brent's fort by tin way of the head waters ol the arkansas on the first day of inly j and the frontier of missouri on the last of the same mouth pratt another specimen of war tlie siege of saimh-issl saragossa says vaughan possessed verv i slender resources to sustain a siege its forti ! hcations consisted merely of mud walls it was destitute ol heavy artillery and without troops at could undertake sorties the arragonese did whist they could to place their troops in a state ol defence tliey tore down the awnings from laeir windows and formed them into sacks j which they idled with sand and piled up before ! every gate in the form of a battery digging round each of them a deep trench the grench invested the city closely and scarcely a day passed without a sanguinary con flirt between the parties aboul the last day of june a powder magazine in the heart uf the city blew up and nearly a whole street was re duced to ruins the inhabitants had scarcely recovered from their consternation and from h»e labor of extricating their fellow-citizens from 4e ruins when the french opened a destructive jn upon the city i defeated in all their attacks hey invested it on every side and on the ni«ht tfthe 2d ot august bombarded it with greatfu *?• a foundling hospital which contained the s'ck and wounded caught fire and was consum ed during this dreadful calamity the exer is et even description of people were almost paralleled all attention to private properly 8 abandoned and every body was seen hast ening to the relief of tie sick and ol the help -"' children : but in this act of humanity none **? conspicuous ,;,.,„ ti.t women uj)0 pasted in iheir humane exertions equally un > bunted by the shot and shells ofthe enemy and james ofthe buildiug before them nothing in the course ofthe siege more em ssed the inhabitants than the accumulation . d,r de.ad>and the apprehension of the disor * which must result from it to an arra esc it was almost certain death to appear jdlc ot the street and the expedient . '""<' to was to push forwarf ho frr;ioh h -. with a rope attached to them amidst , ;■nd dying to bring the bodies in for ie,r office and the pity of their own ance t'''1 them n seneral n'»i annoy ctio__a--*_i ns evil arising trom the putre g oi dead bodies xvas prevented for ***,.,?" w*tho most sanguinary conflict to|toiru"ued from street to street trom house died bv ik r°um t0 roora ti!1 thc i':lcp occ | ne.2 f edei7 v,as gradually reduced to «** if part n1 illc ci,-v the f°ss ot "■"'"'" fc«s vc as vl '" ,,,> is very great the carolina watchman7 brunei k james > . f " kr.ep a check upon all yocr ed/.'ors 4 proprietors i is safc ( new series r r*™eerty | number 18 of volume i salisbury n c august 31 1844 power to live or die the most singular instance of the power of , i the will over the junctions ofthe body and ta . ken altogether perhaps tho most remarkable . i case on record being supported by the testimo i ny of unquestionable authority is related by dr | gheyne in his " english malady it is the case ofthe hon col townsend who for many years had suffered frum an organic disease of ! tin kidney by which he was greatly emaciated he was attended by dr baynard cheyne and mr skrine ; and these gentlemen were sent for i one morning to witness a singular phenomenon j_v told hem lie had lor some time observed an 1 odd sensation by which if he composed himself lie could die or expire when lie pleased and by an effort come to life again the medical at tendants were averse in this weak state to wit ness the experiment ; but he insisted upon it and the following is dr cheync's account we all three felt his pulse lirst it was dis tinct though small and thready and his heart had its usual beating ile composed himself on his back and lay in a still posture some time : while 1 held his right hand dr baynard laid his hand on his heart and mr skrine held a clean looking-glass to his mouth i loundhis pulse sink gradually till at last i could not teel any by the most exact touch jjr baynard could nut feel the least emotion in his heart nor mr . skrine the least soil of breath in the bright mir ror he had held to his mouth ; then each of us by turns examined his arm heart and breath : but could not by the nicest scrutiny discover the least symptoms of life in him vve reasoned a lung time about this odd appearance as well as we could and all of us judging it inexplicable and unaccountable and finding he still contin ued in that condition we began to conclude that in had indeed carried the experiment too far . and at last were satisfied he was actually dead j and were just ready to leave him this con | j tinned about half an hour by nine o'clock in the morning in autumn as we were going away we observed some motion about the body and upon examination j found his pulse and the motion of his heart gradually returning he began to breathe gent ly and speak softly ; we were astonished to the , las degree at the unexpected change and al j ter some further conversation with him and a : niong ourselves went away fully satisfied as to all particulars of this fact but confounded and puzzled and not able to form any rational scheme that might account for it lie afterwards call ed or his attorney added a codicil to his will settled legacies un his servants received the sacriment and calmly and composedly expired about live or six o'clock that evening his body was examined and all the viscera with the ex ception ofthe rightkidney which wasgreatly dis eased were found perfectly healthy and natural this power ofthe will to die or live al pleasure is perhaps one ofthe must remarkable phenom ! ena connected with the natural history of the hum-in body burton alludes to cases of the j same kind und reports that the celebrated car dan bragged he could separate himself from his senses when he pleased celsus makes refer ; ence to a priest who possessed the same extra : ordinary power — pettigrew on superstitions connected with medicine an awful situation — a thrilling ad venture lately happened toabridal party visiiiiii the mammoth cave kentucky the parly consisted ot the bride and groom the bridesmaid the brother of the groom and guide after entering the cave ui<l traversing that portion mostfre , quented which occupied many hours a violent storm arose accompanied by hea vy showers oi rain there are several rivers in the cave which rise rapidly and overflow and they unaware of this cir cumstance got inlo a boat for the purpose of crossing one of lhe rivers by some accident the boat was upset and they pre cipitated into the stream and as if to render their situation more terrifying the torches were extinguished and the match es wet surely nothing but the interpo sition of divine providence could have extricated them from a situation of such ; imminent peril the groom in this try ing sil nation proved a hero the thought of parting with his wilt to whom he had been only that morning united nerved him to exertion action and enterprise hag if there be no object dear to the heart to which they are directed lie succeeded in rescuing his bride and her bridesmaid from deep water and then stood on a tot tering rock holding with one hand to a projection above to steady himself and supporting his wife by the other arm — lie had in the meanwhile consigned her companion to the care of his brother the groom remained in this painful position some time with the water rising upon them the guide a colored man de serves much credit for his exertions lie reached the opposite bank righted the boat and rowed across to them steered by iheir voices and thus landed them safe ly ou dry ground they had not vet how ever escaped till the dangers but were cold wet and shivering with the prospect of remaining in that situation lt was im possible they could find their way out of this intricate labyrinth without lights and they had no reason to expect assistance from without it being customary for par ties to remain a day within the cave — fortunately for them the people at the mouth of the cave seeing the danger and fearful of imprudence oa iheir part sent additional guides wilh torches this aid arrived most opportunely for their suffer ings and fear had induced them to per suade the guide to find the way out in the dark by creeping slowly on the ground while they followed in a line holding on to each other when the lights reached them they were discovered approaching a precipice and but a few yards distant j from it the shark and the gold spectacles the narrator once sailed on board a ship he said in which there was a very near-sighted passenger who always wore a pair of gold spectacles he had forgotten to provide himself with a second pair before he left and being a man of nervous temperament he was perpetual iy worrying himself with the idea that by some i accident or other he should lose the only ones he had during the voyage and thus be left for sometime in a most unpleasant predicament not being able to see a yard before him without th assistance of glasses many and dire were the j accidents which he was sure would happen to him in the state of semi-blindness to which he would be reduced when the barnacles were gone in fact he would be afraid to venture on deck being certain to walk over board or fall , down the companion adder and how he should ever get into the boat which was to take him ashore when the ship arrived at her destination he knew not one day they were becalmed near the line and a large shark was seen by the | officer on watch just under the stern all the passengers our near-sighted friend among them rushed aft to see the monster taken a baited hook having been immediately put overboard ; in the scuffle which took place every one striv ing to get a good position down dropped the spectacles from his nose ; the shark seized the ; glittering prize and as if satisfied with his ac quisition retired under the counter refusing the j most tempting baits that were successfully of fered to him during the day towards evening i a breeze sprung up and away they went at nine j or ten knots an hour the nervous man was i now in the situation whicli his morbid fancy ! had so often presented to him and the first part ' of his presentiment having come to pass he felt : like a doomed man and seemed to wait the ful filment ofhis destiny which he had persuaded himself was either to break his neck or be i drowned he locked himself up in his cabin ! became moody and reserved and busied him self with arranging his papers and making va rious preparations for his end the captain and others became seriously alarmed and attempted i to rally him from his monomania but all to no ! purpose ; he shook his head mournfully when they attempted to laugh him out ot it and so lemnly made answer that time would show he t was a doomed man the wind about the line j seldom lasts long ; and after live or six days fair sailing during which they sailed eight or nine hundred miles the favorable breeze died away the heavy sails again flapped idly against the masts and again the usual listlessness which . attends a perfect calm at sea crept over the minds of every one on board one ofthe mid ; shipmen who had gone aloft to see if he could descry a sail or any thing else on the vast ex panse of water on which they lay like a log sang out that a shark was close to the vessel i again every body was on the qui vice a hook j was soon baited and thrown over and this time i greedily snatched at by john shark he was soon hauled on board and the business of search ing his locker commenced with the usual curiosi ty the first thing they pulled out were the gold spectacles ! they were speedily taken down to the hypochondriac below and the change which the sight of them made on him was mi i raculous he felt he said just as a man would who with the rope already around his neck is reprieved at the gallow's foot and at once sha king off the fit of despoddency and apprehension ; which had clung so closely to him he joined heartily in the laugh which his former fears now raised among his fellow voyagers i give this story as i had it and leave the reader to judge for himself how much of it is true in a shark which we caught we found a newspaper of later date than any we had on board and which was dried and read by all of us not hav : ing been at all injured by its adventures it must have been dropped from some other ship and swallowed by our eccentric friend — green wood's narrative of the campaign in afghan istan eastern parable a man was travelling in syria leading his camel by the bridle suddenly the animal is seized with a panic of fear — he raises himself with impetuosity foams and bounds in a manner so horrible that his master abandons him in anguish and tries to save himself he perceived at some distance from the road a deep stream and as he still heard the fearful neighings of the camel he sought a refuge there and fell over the precipice but a shrub held him up he clung to it with both hands and cast on every side his anxious eyes above him is the terrible camel of which he does not lose sight for a moment in the abyss below is a dragon who opens his monstrous jaws and seems waiting to devour him at the side of him he per ceives two mice the one white the other black who gnaw in turn at the root ofthe shrub which serves him for support the unfortunate man remains there frozen with terror and seeing no retreat no means of safety suddenly on a little branch of this shrub he discovers some fruit at j that moment he ceases to observe the rage of the camel the jaws of the dragon the frightful activity ofthe mice he reach es out his hand towards the fruit he ga i thers it and in the taste forgets his fears i and his dangers ' do you ask -\\ ho is this madman who ; can forget so quickly a moral peril ? — learn then friend that this man is thy self the dragon of the stream is the ever open abyss of death the camel repre sents the sorrows of life the two mice ! who are gnawing at the roots of tin shrub are day and night and in this situation the fruit of pleasure attracts you you forget the anxieties of life the threaten ing of death the rapid succession of day and night to seek the plant of voluptu ousness on the borders ofthe tomb ludicrous transmutations of names the following amusing story is told by mr livingston in his admirable answer to mr jefferson's defence of his conduct to mr l for ousting him from lhe posses sion of the famous butture at xew i or leans purchased by mr livingston from gravier it is intended to show how by translations and re-translations a trouble some word may be made to mean any thing an unfortunate scotchman whose name was ferguson was obliged in pur suit of fortune to settle among some ger mans in the western part of xew york they translated him literally into german and called him feuerstem on his return to an english neighborhood his new ac qaintances discovered that feuerstein in german meant flint in english they re-translated instead of restoring his name and the descendants of ferguson go by the name oi flint to this day i ought however to except one of his grandsons who settled at the acadian coast on the mississippi whose name underwent the ' fate of the rest of the family ; he was called by a literal translation into ! french ' pierre a fusil and his eldest son returning to the family clan underwent another change and was called peter gun '" the case of the unworthy irishman mr o trotter is not so remarkable but it is sufficiently ludicrous he started out upon his travels as mr o'trotter in scotland he was called mr mctrotten in england he was accosted as mr trol tingliam arriving at paris he was saluted as m trottignac and in another part of france m trollincille he went to ita ly where he was addressed as trotlim ' ; thence to holland where he became van trotten ; subsequently in germany he was designated von trotten in poland it was trotttnski ; in russia trottingoff and when at length he reached the ce lestial empire the chinese immediately transformed his plastic name into trottin foul another instance of the curious chang es to which names are incident in their passage from one language to another is thai campbell derived from the french beauchamp through thc itali.an campo , hello so duponceau is in english bridge water m arkansas insects — the last arkansas traveller tells a good story of a citizen of that state who while on board a steam er on the mississippi was asked by a gen tleman " whether the raising of stock in arkansas was attended by much diliicul ty or expense ?" " oh yes stranger — they suffer much from insects " insects .' why what kind of insects pray " why — bears tatamounts wo ties and sigh like insects the stranger stopped farther inquiry nor did he deem it necei sary to explain to the arkansas some passages in goldsmith's natural history terrific flea — the editor of the cin cinnati commercial threatens another ed itor that if he ever circulates another par agraph against him he the said editor of the commercial " will put a ilea in his ear the whisperings of which will sound louder to his guilty heart lhan would the instantaneous and combined detonation of all combustible nature a chance for single gentlemen — low ell is said to be the greatest marrying place in the country there are thousands of factory girls pining there with small for tunes for husbands there were 334 un ions among them during the year ending april 30 temper — the first & most important fe male quality is sweetness of temper hea ven did not give to the female sex insinu ation and persuasion in order to be surly : it did not make them weak in order to be imperious : it did not give them a sweet voice in order to be employed in scolding nor did it provide them with delicate fea tures in order to be disfigured with anger the sabbath — it is getting to be fash : ionable with the steamers rail cars pas sage boats ccc to observe the sabbath the fashion has been growing on us for some years ; and as it is a good fashion and altogether in accordance with the spirit of the age it will undoubtedly be come universal lines just commencing may now very safely begin right it would be easier and more reputable to anticipate the fashion a little than to be driven by it when it becomes irresistible — iy }'. jour com advertise advertise 1 1 — there is one way of attaining business — publicity — ad vertisement the newspaper is the fly-wheel by which the motive power of commercial enterprise is sustained and money is the steam by which tha advertising is kept ! i going — blackiooods magazine extracts from ax address delivered by r m harrison of washington city before the miss meeting in hagcrstown maryland it is pleasant al all times fellow citizens to retire from the din and bustle ofa metropolis to the solitude of the distant mountains there is something in their silent recesses and lofty heights that soothes expands and elevates the heart oi man but just at this time it is really relieving to turn away lhe weary eyes from thc dull and gloomy scenes of washington and res them upon your verdant hills and valleys and upon the bright and beaming countenances of your free and happy yeomanry it is uot un known to you that the last house of represen tatives by si course of legislation that has no i precedent or parallel in all the previous history of the country inflicted a blow upon the pros perity ofthe district of columbia from lhe dis astrous effects of which nothing but a radical change in the councils of this nation can relieve it and why was this blow inflicted why have these oppressive and harrassing mea sures been adopted in regard to the people of whom that house of representatives were the constitutional guardians for no other assign able cause than the known and avowed opposi tion of a large majority of that people to the reckless and ruinous policy ofthe locofoco par ty this has been the head and front of our offending and for this have we been made to fee the keenest edge of the sword of power but although we have been persecuted we are not prostrated we stand erect ; we speak and act like freemen ; we have public meetings like yourselves ; we have our clay clubs and our liberty poles pointing towards heaven alike the token ofthe triumph and the emblem ofthe purity ofour cause we sing rejoice and give praise in the midst of our adversity and now my friends aud fellow-citizens in leaving this beautiful region of country perhaps never again to lay my eyes upon the lovely and picturesque objects of nature which surround me ; never again peradventure to slake my thirst in the pure waters which gush in ever-living streams from your rocks and your mountains ; never more to see the friends amongst whom 1 spent my youth in the full and free enjoyment of their civilities their kindnesses and their ardent attachments and who after years of absence i see now be fore me ; in taking leave of you all let me con jure you in the name of our common country and its glorious constitution and bv iho consid eration you owe to that illustrious patriot upon whose strong arm ihey have both leant for sup port in the day of their greatest trial relax not the mighty efforts which are now beinji made to save and restore lhe country : be not lulled into a fatal security by the bright and animating prospects that are every day opening around you : fight with oven the shadows that are flit ting before you : cease not [ entreat you to la bor in this season of prosperity grateful for what we have achieved : let it not be forgotton that it was not achieved without labor and if we desire to preserve what we have so nobly won and gain a final and glorious victory we must con tinue to labor on every thing that american patriots hold dear and sacred depends upon the result ofthe present contest if if should turn out contrary to all expectation and to every sign ofthe time and despite of the prayers of the good andgreni of the land that henrv clay of kentucky shall il in being elected thief magistrate ot this union ! would not give a but ton tor whatever of national honor national dig nity constitutional law and constitutional free dom shall thereafter remain amongst us tlie louisiana senators sustained — one ofthe most important features ofthe late whig triumph in louisiana is that the course of the enlightened and inde pendent whig senators from that state on the texas question has been thorough ly sustained by their constituents and the people at large they both voted against the treaty of annexation : aud lb letter of mr alexander barrow in opposition to it was one of the best reasoned and most influential documents xvliich ihe discus sion of this question called forth the legislature is whig by a decisive majori ty this our opponents after all their various fictionsfrom dayloday have been forced to admit the new issue there fore has availed to the extent of just no thing at all ; and the new york evening post the most candid as it is in all points the most respectable organ of democracy in the union is perfectly correct in admit ting that " the result of lhe election shows ihat . a large portion of the people of louisiana are not friendly to the immediate annex ation of texas had the legislature been against us what an uproar we would have had in the locofoco clubs ! what a cry from eve ry locofoco clique ! what a clamor from locofoco journal about the senators who mis-represented their constituents ! — but j they are nobly sustained ; and locofocoism here has not a word to say about lbe tex as question in louisiana — 7\ash banner a teetotal whig town — the village of bloomingburs fayette county ohio containing several hundred inhabitants with several churches stores mechanics shops aud taverns has none — not one lo cofoco in it what is equally creditable there is not in the town or its neighbor hood a dram-shop doggery grocery tavern oranv other place where intoxicating drink can be had as a beverage ! ! and scarce ly less creditable there may be seen in the several parts of this town three tall ash flag poles from which float banners in scribed clay and fretiftgkuysen harry of the west pick your flints ; go il hol's 500 majority for fayette short chapter on the tariff dcp it is estimated that it requires over one million of foreigners to man ufacture the foreign articles annual ly consumed in lhe united states now it follows that we of tbis country subsist or support directly or indirectly that num ber of subjects ofthe various monarchies of europe the money which they get for their labor goes mainly into the pock ets of the foreign agricultural producers lbe farmers in the united states cannot compete wilh these foreign agriculturists because ofthe cost of transportation and the onerous nature of their corn-laws — now if this oik million of foreigners were transferred to this country or what would be still belter if one million of our own people were withdrawn from agriculture and employed in manufacturing all this money would remain in our own country and a very large proportion of it would lind its way inlo the pockets of the farm ers and of others who would i\vd this mil lion of operatives of course this would add just so much to our national wealth and the general prosperity of our people let us reduce this to figures these ope ratives would earn at a very moderate estimate li'.i l-'.i cents per day or 8100 per year their whole earnings would then be about equal to our present im ports or 100,000.000 one half of which at least would go to lhe agricultural pro ducers of this country instead of finding its way as at present inlo the pockets of foreigners this would greatly increase the demand for agricultural products and if the one million of men a before slated were withdrawn from agricultural labor the amount ofthose products would be di minished and there would necessarily be a corresponding advance in their price this money then kept in our own coun try would find its way into every depart ment of industry benefiting the land-hol der the mechanic as well as the laborer in every branch of business here then is the whole1 policy of lhe tariff as contended for by the whigs — they go for the protection and encourage ment of the domestic laborer instead of the foreigner — for the support of our own people and those who choose to come a mong us in contradistinction to the pau pers of europe this is whig policy and we submit it to true hearted americans to say which party they will sustain savannah republican from the richmond whig of august 17.a tyler's last card we have heard it mysteriously hinted that tyler had yet a las card to play — some new thunder which even locofoco ism could nol steal from him as it did that of texas and which would prove anni hilative of everybody's pretensions to the presidency but his own we confess we had not the ingenuity to form any plausible guess whal ihis new mine might be thus lo be sprung sudden ly upon lhe country by so accomplished an engineer ;\< the captain and which was to hoist into mid air both \\ hig and loco we exhausted our powers of con jecture and guessing in vain and even came to the irreverent conclusion that if ever man had placed himself in a position to be utterly impotent either for good or evil mr tyler was thai mau we presume thai the following para graph gives a clue to lhe nature of the mysterious hints we have heard and pre pares us for the explosion which is to fol low : from the baltimore patriot " rumor " a letter was received ties morning at the san office trorn vvashington.-et.-tins in substance thai al a meet ing of the cabinet yesterday it had been determined upon to call m extra session ol c in ir i further stated thai england has taken tlie 4,000.000 loan of mexico for the purpose ol faiilitnliiii i war between th two governments this is given as a reason for c;iliin the extra session '• the washington papers are silent upon the subject and we ar uot disposed to give much i ,•■lil lo the ru mor lie as no man can say vh'ti ariea jolni tyler may not commit there may be truth in it a persccuti tl man : new mode of court ship — a mr casey who lives out west recently testified in court thai the widow manning who was desperately iu love with him ** not only asked him to marry her but when he refused she followed him and chucked bricks al him and played va rious games of that sort poor mr 7—r\l news extraordinary — kalh r prcmalu ■>■. — we v the follow ing !>;•■e of intelligci e f<>r the information ofour readers frum a little pa per published in w innsboro in thi state : columbia ( finm victory — tho charleston courier sends us the result of the n nth carolina election hoke the democratic candidate is elected by a majorily of 300 over graham the whig no minee the camel is the only animal thai cannot sv im it is an extraordinary lad thai the mo ment they lose their footing in a stream ihey turn over and can make u i cflbrl to prevent themselves from being drowned devil's wages — ll w is statedinthe house of lords recently thai oul ofthe 114 houses of ill-feme in one pint of london nearly all were owned and rented oul bj the dem nnd chap ter of westminister i'fi a man in baltimore has married a miss tongue many men have married into the tongue familv : but this daring individual has taken a wile who is all tongue — reckless fellow ! the qucni and ihe jeweller . — the following is the copy of a note sent by anna queen ol james 1 to geoige hcriot the we.iliio jewel lcr — " ane presept of thu queen georgd hs-riatt i earnestlie dissyryoue present the sendmetuahuudrethepuudes vith all expedi tion becaus i maun besl mc aw ay pr > ntie anna it 4 new article of export one hundred bales north riverhay have been purchase m new york or shipmeul to ureal br am l»i 8ays the shipping list w««tfc»jnj shipment of hay ever made to great br taid from this country to france parcel ave been sent occasionally for a jear or two past
Object Description
Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1844-08-31 |
Month | 08 |
Day | 31 |
Year | 1844 |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 18 |
Technical Metadata | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, PA. Archivial image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from microfilm at 400 dpi. The original file size was |
Creator | Bruner and James, Editors and Proprietors |
Date Digital | 2008-10-30 |
Publisher | Bruner and James |
Place |
Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, United States |
Subjects |
Newspapers on microfilm--North Carolina. North Carolina--History--Sources--Periodicals. |
Type | Text |
DCMI Type | Text; |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The August 31, 1844 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | The SA of NC considers this item in the The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers. by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers.; |
Language | English |
OCLC number | 601553333 |
Description
Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1844-08-31 |
Month | 08 |
Day | 31 |
Year | 1844 |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 18 |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
Technical Metadata | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, PA. Archivial image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from microfilm at 400 dpi. The original file size was 5067225 Bytes |
FileName | sacw03_018_18440831-img00001.jp2 |
Creator | Bruner and James "Editors and Proprietors" |
Date Digital | 2008-10-30 |
Publisher | Bruner and James |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The August 31, 1844 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | Public |
Language | eng |
FullText |
ter ms of the watchman *. dollar in ad ince,and two dollars and fiftj cents _ thi i "- '■■'' v,'ar v rription received for a less time than one year . i for in advs . . , so subscription discontinued t al the option oi tat rearage are paid tl rms 01 advl rtis1-w5 ,- , firsi insertion und twenty ' i'i dollar p r sqi ire lor i " ■'■is for each c uitinuan e cou ...... mil be charged 2o per v r j i-.'l per cent will w made to those ivhoad , , ,., be continued uni to t>id and :. ss ordered fora certain num i ,- letters a idressed to the editors insist come post paid to ei ition lieut fremont's expedition we find tlio following notice of this expedi tionjust returned to st louis in the daily mis an : the party it will be remembered left this city on the 13th of may 1843 — very nearly fifteen months ago — and by the latter part of thai month ihey had passed the western boun dary of missouri and launched out into the prai ries i lcavingthe frontier in ih beginning of june and travelling along the line ofthe kansas riv er the part reached the rocky mountains ear jy in july and occupied that month in exploring the head oi tin arkansas al theclose of the i month they crossed the mountains and contin ! uing their way to the westward had reached lhe great salt lake in the beginning of sop j ember no human being had ever before vis j ited the island ol this celebrated lake — and a w weeks were spent in exploring its unknown t aters,and in surveying the adjacent country i'd - latter part ofthis month found thorn at fort hall where the winter set in early with a se .,...■snow storm on the 19th pursuing their way t the oregon road they peached the falls ol the columbia early in the month of november l aving his party here mr fremonl proceeded by water to fort vancou i i*r at which place he arrived at the commence j menl ofthe rainy season on the 25th of no vember in a snowstorm they left tho '• ijalls " on their homeward rout intending to return by ' iv ofthe ivlauiet and mary's lake no in terruption in tin form of difficulties occurred to i impede their march until they passed the kla met lake in the middle ol december when their course to the southward and eastward was barred by parallel ranges of snow and volcanic i mountains in the valleys of which hoy were forced constantly to the southward making lit | tie or no easting they travelled in this way along the eastern j base of the great california mountains whose j peaks rise seventeen thousand feet above the sea encountering ninny hands of indians of a very wild character and sonic ol whom had ne i ver before seen a while man towards the ; end ol january their animals feet had become i so much worn by the ice and rocks that they were scarcely able to travel and provisions had begun to fail as the country had been found desfiti ci game — the indians subsisting on ii ool and seeds they were now be ll ■.". leg and 39 deg parallel iuinio thc spowy range of california hr i , nl determined to attempt to cross this - and i f r • a way to the settlement on the ba . ofsan francisco the mountain is here one hundred and fifty miles broad and on its upper ! regions the snow was from live to twenty feet : deep they wen occupied nearly a month in crossing it bui finally succeeded and early in ; march exchanged the snow of mid-winter lor the verdure ol perpetual spring in the valley ol the li.or sacramento the party were cordially received and hos j pitably entertained at his residence near the ba uf san francisco by john a sutler esq prefecl ofthe frontier of california here they remained some time to recruit : and at the end i march resumed iheir homeward journey — flu proceeded several degrees to the south ward in re-cross the mountains and passing overthe california deserts by the span-trace reached brent's fort by tin way of the head waters ol the arkansas on the first day of inly j and the frontier of missouri on the last of the same mouth pratt another specimen of war tlie siege of saimh-issl saragossa says vaughan possessed verv i slender resources to sustain a siege its forti ! hcations consisted merely of mud walls it was destitute ol heavy artillery and without troops at could undertake sorties the arragonese did whist they could to place their troops in a state ol defence tliey tore down the awnings from laeir windows and formed them into sacks j which they idled with sand and piled up before ! every gate in the form of a battery digging round each of them a deep trench the grench invested the city closely and scarcely a day passed without a sanguinary con flirt between the parties aboul the last day of june a powder magazine in the heart uf the city blew up and nearly a whole street was re duced to ruins the inhabitants had scarcely recovered from their consternation and from h»e labor of extricating their fellow-citizens from 4e ruins when the french opened a destructive jn upon the city i defeated in all their attacks hey invested it on every side and on the ni«ht tfthe 2d ot august bombarded it with greatfu *?• a foundling hospital which contained the s'ck and wounded caught fire and was consum ed during this dreadful calamity the exer is et even description of people were almost paralleled all attention to private properly 8 abandoned and every body was seen hast ening to the relief of tie sick and ol the help -"' children : but in this act of humanity none **? conspicuous ,;,.,„ ti.t women uj)0 pasted in iheir humane exertions equally un > bunted by the shot and shells ofthe enemy and james ofthe buildiug before them nothing in the course ofthe siege more em ssed the inhabitants than the accumulation . d,r de.ad>and the apprehension of the disor * which must result from it to an arra esc it was almost certain death to appear jdlc ot the street and the expedient . '""<' to was to push forwarf ho frr;ioh h -. with a rope attached to them amidst , ;■nd dying to bring the bodies in for ie,r office and the pity of their own ance t'''1 them n seneral n'»i annoy ctio__a--*_i ns evil arising trom the putre g oi dead bodies xvas prevented for ***,.,?" w*tho most sanguinary conflict to|toiru"ued from street to street trom house died bv ik r°um t0 roora ti!1 thc i':lcp occ | ne.2 f edei7 v,as gradually reduced to «** if part n1 illc ci,-v the f°ss ot "■"'"'" fc«s vc as vl '" ,,,> is very great the carolina watchman7 brunei k james > . f " kr.ep a check upon all yocr ed/.'ors 4 proprietors i is safc ( new series r r*™eerty | number 18 of volume i salisbury n c august 31 1844 power to live or die the most singular instance of the power of , i the will over the junctions ofthe body and ta . ken altogether perhaps tho most remarkable . i case on record being supported by the testimo i ny of unquestionable authority is related by dr | gheyne in his " english malady it is the case ofthe hon col townsend who for many years had suffered frum an organic disease of ! tin kidney by which he was greatly emaciated he was attended by dr baynard cheyne and mr skrine ; and these gentlemen were sent for i one morning to witness a singular phenomenon j_v told hem lie had lor some time observed an 1 odd sensation by which if he composed himself lie could die or expire when lie pleased and by an effort come to life again the medical at tendants were averse in this weak state to wit ness the experiment ; but he insisted upon it and the following is dr cheync's account we all three felt his pulse lirst it was dis tinct though small and thready and his heart had its usual beating ile composed himself on his back and lay in a still posture some time : while 1 held his right hand dr baynard laid his hand on his heart and mr skrine held a clean looking-glass to his mouth i loundhis pulse sink gradually till at last i could not teel any by the most exact touch jjr baynard could nut feel the least emotion in his heart nor mr . skrine the least soil of breath in the bright mir ror he had held to his mouth ; then each of us by turns examined his arm heart and breath : but could not by the nicest scrutiny discover the least symptoms of life in him vve reasoned a lung time about this odd appearance as well as we could and all of us judging it inexplicable and unaccountable and finding he still contin ued in that condition we began to conclude that in had indeed carried the experiment too far . and at last were satisfied he was actually dead j and were just ready to leave him this con | j tinned about half an hour by nine o'clock in the morning in autumn as we were going away we observed some motion about the body and upon examination j found his pulse and the motion of his heart gradually returning he began to breathe gent ly and speak softly ; we were astonished to the , las degree at the unexpected change and al j ter some further conversation with him and a : niong ourselves went away fully satisfied as to all particulars of this fact but confounded and puzzled and not able to form any rational scheme that might account for it lie afterwards call ed or his attorney added a codicil to his will settled legacies un his servants received the sacriment and calmly and composedly expired about live or six o'clock that evening his body was examined and all the viscera with the ex ception ofthe rightkidney which wasgreatly dis eased were found perfectly healthy and natural this power ofthe will to die or live al pleasure is perhaps one ofthe must remarkable phenom ! ena connected with the natural history of the hum-in body burton alludes to cases of the j same kind und reports that the celebrated car dan bragged he could separate himself from his senses when he pleased celsus makes refer ; ence to a priest who possessed the same extra : ordinary power — pettigrew on superstitions connected with medicine an awful situation — a thrilling ad venture lately happened toabridal party visiiiiii the mammoth cave kentucky the parly consisted ot the bride and groom the bridesmaid the brother of the groom and guide after entering the cave ui |