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terais^fthe watchman two dollars in advance and two dollars and fifty cents the end of thc year so subscription received for a less time than one year dess paid for in advance vo subscription discontinued but at the option of the tors until all arrearages are paid terms of advertising per square for the firsl insertion and twenty or each continuance otices and court orders will be charged 25 per ier than the above rates ition of i 1-3 per cent will be made to those advertise by the year ., , vll advertisements will be continued until forbid and 1 for accordingly unless ordered for a certain num ol times ' i ■letters addressed to the editors must come post 1 io ensure attention a buying forest the following account of a burning forest ls ken to audubon the american ornithol jst v a hunter in the back woods at whose in he passed the night it is a difficult thing sir to describe ; but i 11 do my best to make your time pass pleas e'v we were sound asleep one bight in a in about a hundred miles from this when out two hours before day the snorting of the rses and the lowing of the cattle whicli i had i_rr in tbe woods suddenly awakened us i iii my rifle and went to the door to see what ast had caused the hubbub when i was uck with the glare of light reflected on all • trees before me as far as i could see thro • woods my horses were leaping about irting loudly and the cattle ran among them | th tln-ir tails raised straight over their backs j going to the back of the house f plainly ; ird the cracking made by the burning brush j od and saw the flames coming toward us in i ir extended line i ran to the house told . wife to dress herself and child as quickly as sible and take the little money we had ile i managed to catch and saddle the two i horses all his was done in a very short ie for 1 guessed that every moment was pre us t us \\ e then mounted and made off from the fire i wife who i.s an excellent rider stuck close me my daughter who was then a small ud i took in one arm when making off as j iiii i looked back and saw the frightful blaze _ close upon us and had already laid hold of house by good luck there was a horn at hed to my hunting clothes and i blew it to ng after us if possible the remainder oi my e lurk as well as the dogs the cattle foi led tor a while but before an hour had claps they all ran as il mad through the woods — ii that sir was the last of them my dogs i,though at all other times extremely tracta . run after the deer that in droves sprang up fore us as if fully aware of the death that _ so rapidly approaching v\r heard blasts from the horns ofour neigh rs as we proceeded and knew that they were he same predicament intent on striving to utmnsi to save our lives i thought ol a large e some miles off which might possibly ick the flames ; and urging my wife to whip her horse we set oil at full speed making best way we could over many obstacles ed on purpose to keep up the terrific tire 1 advanced with a broad front upon us ly this time we could feel the heat and we e afraid thai our horses would drop every ant * singular kind of breeze was pass heads aud the glare ofthe atmos ■ver the daylight i was sensible ntness and mv wife looked pale ' ad produced such a flush in the i s face that when she turned toward either is our grief and perplexity were greatly in ased ten miles you know are soon gone i mi swift horses ; but notwithstanding this ni we reached the borders of the lakes cov d with sweat and quite exhausted our hearts ed us the heat ofthe smoke was insuffera . ami sheets of blazing lire flew over us in a oner beyond belief we reached the shores fever coasted the lake for a while and got ml on the lee side there we gave up our ses which we never saw again down mig the rushes we plunged by the side ofthe ler and laid ourselves flat to wait the chance escaping from being burned or devoured — ie water refreshed us and we enjoyed the iness ln went the fire rushing and crushing thro woods such a sight may we never see ! ie heavens themselves i thought were frigbt fi lor all above us was a red glare mixed lli clouds of smoke rolling and sweeping '»}'. our bodies were cold enough but our ids were scorching and the child who now mod to understand the matter cried so as iirlv to break our hearts the dav passed on and we became hungry wy wild beasts came plunging into the wa beside us and others swam across to our '' and stood still although faint and weary tanaged to shoot a porcupine and we all tast its flesh the night passed i cannot tell you *'. smouldering fires covered the ground j ca c ' j the trees stood like pillars of fire or fell ss each other the stilling and sickening oke still rushed over us and the burnt cind ! and ashes fell thick around us how we ! through that night i really cannot tell for lit some of it i remember nothing toward j rning although the heat did not abate the ! ike became less and blasts of fresh air some es made their way to us a'hen morning came all was calm but a dis \ 1 smoke still tilled the air and lhe smell seem j worse than ever we wfit now cool enough i shivered as if in an ague tit ; so we remov i truni the water and went up to a burning :. where we warmed ourselves what was become of us 1 did not know my wife hug d the children to her breast and wept bitter ; but god had preserved us throughout the i r*t of the danger and the flames had one 8*>s0 1 thought it would be both ungrateful to "'■and unmanly to despair now hunger ** more pressed upon us but this was easily i uedied several deer were still standing in '. e ater up to the head and i shot one of them mip ol its flesh was seon roasted and after l'ng it we felt wonderfully strengthened d , . .' 5 i dy this time the blaze ot the fire was beyond lr slj,'ht although the ground was still burning n,any places and it was dangerous to go i fig the burnt trees after resting awhile ; id t ' ', imniing ourselves we prepared to com | nee taking up the child i led the way ertho hot ground and rocks and alter two and nights during whicli we shift besl manner we could and at last j hard wood sywch had been free soon after we came to a house j were kindly treated for a while — | ii sir i have worked hard and con j *% as a lumberer but thanks be to god ! rc ye are safe sound and happy — american \ rmhobgy the carolina watchman i bruner & james 1 „ > " keep a check upon all your editors sf proprietors \ s safe ( new series rulers do tins axd liberty 1 geril harrison { number 22 of volume i salisbury n c september 28 1844 == the crater of lua pele in the island of hawaii we soon arrived on the ledge which appear ed like a field of ice breaking up in the spring it varied from five hundred to two thousand feet in width and then abruptly terminated in craggy and overhanging precipices which had splitand burst in every direction from the action of the fire beneath the main body of the crater had settled down from the black ledge in some pla ces gradually until its own weight burst it vio lently from the edge leaving gaping chasms the sides of which were intensely heated : at others it appeared to have sunk instantaneously tear iiit away and undermining the ledge and leav ; i ino precipices of two hundred feet in height j the greatest depth was about two hundred and j fifty feet the lakes cones and forges remain i ed but were emptied ot lava and quiet emitting nothing but smoke excepting a lake at the south western extremity of which a bend in the ledge hid from our view all but the rising flames — evidently a short time betore the ledge had been overflowed as the lava was piled in mass j es twenty feet high or more on its outer edge \ gradually decreasing in height as it rolled in ' immense waves from it ; and without doubt the whole mass had been raised as we could ' now stand upon it and pluck ferns from the | bank we walked round the crater on the i black ledge endeavoring to find a place where ' it would be practicable to descend but the banks were ever where too much broken up to admit of it independently of that they were so heat ed that the brink could only be approached in a ' few places and these only at great risk it was cracked into great chasms from a few feet to a rod in width to which no bottom could be j seen and in places large masses had swollen j up and hen tumbled in like the bursting of an j air bubble or the failing in of a vast dome — i the hollow echoing sound beneath our feet i showed the insecurity of where we trod and the liability to giye way and precipitate us at any j moment to instantaneous death ; and i must confess that it was with fear that i walked alum i this path nf destruction on the surface of the j ledge thc rock was black and very visicular i but as it descended it grew more compact and i became ofa white or leadish color from all , these pits and chasms a white flickering flame , ascended so hot in one place where we at i tempted to cross as to singe the hair from our i hands and scorch our clothing nothing but a j precipitate retreat saved us from being envel i oped in flames the hot air would frequently j flash up from the fissures without warning and it required much caution and agility to escape from it the thermometer over one fissure rose to one hundred and sixty-two degrees ; on the ledge five hundred from the brink three feet above the ground ninety-seven degrees ; on i the lava at the same place one hundred and twenty-three degrees ; two feet above a fissure one hundred and forty-eight degrees ; eighteen i inches below the surface it rose instantly to ! one hundred and sixty-six degrees continual heavy explosions were occurring on the sides sounding like muffled artillery throwing up stones ashes and hot steam two hundred feet or more into the air and rending away the banks tumbled large masses of rock into the crater beneath indeed the whole black ledge appeared like a mere crust the igneous action ' beneath having eaten away its support and which the slightest shock would precipitate in to the gulf beneath and thus restore the crater to its ancient limits having reached the south era extremity we obtained our first view of the lake the light of which had attracted our atten : tion the previous night it was several hun dred yards in circumference and in the most sunken part of the cauldron the lava was twenty feet below its banks a liquid body boil ing bubbling and dashing in great fury oc casionally it would become encrusted over and then red streaks would shoot rapidly across its ! surface leaving a momentary glimmer like that of meteors in the centre the lava was tossed high in the air with a puffing spluttering noise ' like the blast ofa heavy bellows mingled with the roar of surf its color was livid much re sembling clotted blood of which the whole might be taken for an immense hell-brewed cauldron and the unearthly noises for the moans of agon ' ized spirits and the fiendish cries of their tor mentors tin effect upon the imagination was powerful and the reality horrible beyond de scription — janes scenes and scenery in the sandwich islands an important change has lately been made in thc turkish law respecting apos tates f'-om the mahomedon religion the law formerly punished such apostates with death but the ambassadors of england and france have frightened the ottoman government into a relinquishment of the law at least so far as those are concerned who have passed from christianity islam ism and seek to return those who have been born mahomedans are not we pre sume relieved from the bondage of the ' law remarkable repeating watch — in the j academy of science at st petersburg in i russia is a repeating watch about the size of an egg within is represented the redeemer's tomb with the stone at the ! entrance and the sentinels ; and while a spectator is admiring this curious piece of ; mechanism the stone is suddenly remov j ed the women enter the sepulchre and the same chant is heard which is perform j ed in the greek church on easter eve a hunter in extreme peril the most interesting hunter's story i have ! ever heard was told me by our host mr perci i val who has followed the forest chase from his youth in 1807 he was on a trapping expedi tion wilh two companies on the washita when they left him to kill buffalo bear and the larger game and he remained to trap the streams for heaver he had not met with very good suc cess and had been without meat for about 24 hours when turning a small bend of the river he espied a noble looking old male buffalo lying down on the beach having secured his canoe he crept softly through a cane brake which lay between the animal and himself and fired the shot was an indifferent one and only wounded the animal in the side but it roused him and having crossed the river he soon laid down — this was about noon when the animal having again grazed was resting himself in a cool place percival now crossed the river in his canoe and got into the woods which were there very open and somewhat broken by little patch es of prairie land a very frequent occurrence in these parts of arkansas where forest and prai rie seem to be contending for the mastery but the bull being suspicious rose before the hun ter came near enough to him and took to the green woods percival was an experienced hunter ; he had killed several hundred buffaloes and knew their tempers in every sort of situation he knew that the animal when in large herds was easi ly mastered and was well aware that when a lone he was sometimes dogged and even dang erous ; he therelore followed his prey cautious ly about a mile knowing that he would lie down again ere long . the buffalo now stopped per cival got within fifty yards of him watching an opportunity to strike him mortally ; but the beast seeing his enemy so near wheeled com pletely round put his huge shaggy head to the ground before his fore feet as is their custom when they attack each other and rapidly ad vanced upon the hunter who instantly fired and put his ball through the bull's nose ; but seeing the temper he was in and knowing what a serious antagonist he was when on the offen sive he also immediately turned and fled in running down a short hill some briars threw him down and he dropped his gun — there was a tree not far from him of about 18 inches diameter and every thing seemed to de pend upon his reaching it ; but as he rose to make a push for it the buffalo struck him on the fleshy part of the hip with his horn and slight ly wounded him before however the beast could wheel round upon him again he gained the tree upon which all the chance he had of preserving his life rested a very few feet from this tree grew a sapling about four or five inches in diameter a most fortunate circum stance for the hunter as it contributed material ly to save his life the buffalo now doggedly followed up his purpose of destroying his adver sary and a system of attack and defence com menced that perhaps is without a parallel the buffalo went round and round the tree pursuing the man jumping at him in the peculiar manner of that animal every time he thought there was a chance of hitting him ; whilst percival grasp ing the tree with his arms flung himself round it with greater rapidity than the animal could follow him in this manner the buffalo har rassed him more than four hours until his hands ■became so sore with rubbing against the rough bark of the oak tree and his limbs so fatigued that he began to be disheartened in going round the tree the buffalo would sometimes pass between it and the sapling ; [ but the distance between them was so narrow ! that it inconvenienced him especially when he | wanted to make his jumps ; he therefore fre i quently went round the sapling instead of going ! inside ot it the time thus consumed was pre cious to percival — it enabled him to breathe i and to consider how he should defend himself after so many hours fruitless labor the bull seemed to have lost his pristine vigor and be came slower in his motions he would now make his short start preparatory to his jump only at intervals and even then he jumped doubtingly as if he saw that percival would a void his blow by swinging to the other side it was evident he was baflled and was consider ing what he should do still continuing in his course round the tree but in his slow manner he at lengih made an extraordinary feint that does honor to the reasoning powers of the buf falo family he made his little start as usual and when percival swung himself round the bull instead of aiming his blow in lhe direction he had been accustomed to do suddenly ti rned lo the side of the tree where percival would be brought when he had swung himself round and struck with all his might the feint had almost succeeded ; percival only just saved his head and received a severe contusion on his arm which was par alyzed for an instant he now began to des pair of saving his life ; his limbs trembled un der him he thought the buffalo would wear him out and it was so inexpressibly painful to him to carry on this singular defence that at one time he entertained the idea of leaving the tree and permitting the animal to destroy him as a mode of saving himself from pain and anx iety that were intolerable but the buffalo just at that time giving deci ded symptoms of being as tired as himself now stopped tor a few minutes and percival took courage remembering that he had his butch er's knife in his breast he took it out and be gan to contrive plans of offence ; and when the bull having rested awhile he re-commenced his old rounds percival took advantage ofthe slow ness of his motions and using a great deal of address and management contrived in the course of half an hour to stab and cut him in a dozen different places the animal now became weak from the loss of blood and although he continued to walk round the tree made no more jumps contenting himself with keeping his head and neck close to the ground this closed the conflict for it enabled percival to extend his right arm and give him two deadly stabs in the eyes nothing could exceed the frantic rage of the unwieldy animal when he had lost his sight he bellowed he groaned he pawed the ground and gave out every sign of conscious ru in and immitigable fury he leaned against the sapling for support and twice knocked him ! self down by rushing with his head against the ! large tree the second fall terminated this ! strange tragic combat which had now lasted nearly six hours the buffalo had not strength to rise and the conquerer stepping up to him and lilting up his nigh shoulder cut all the flesh and ligaments loose and turned it over his back he then after resting himself a few minutes skinned the beast took a piece of the meat to the canoe made a fire broiled and ate it featherstonhaiigh | rage for the ridiculous a fashion always becomes more fash ionable as it becomes more ridiculous — people cling to it as they pet a monkey for its deformity the high head dresses of france which must have been a burthen made the tour of europe and endured throughout a century the high heels which almost wholly excluded safe walk ing lasted their century the use of pow der was universal until it was driven from france by republicanism and out of eng land by famine the flour used by the british alone for whitening their heads was calculated to amount to the animal provision for five thousand people snuff had been universally in use from the mid dle of the seventeenth century : and the sums spent upon this filthy and foolish in dulgence the time wasted on it and the injury done to the health if they could all have been thrown into the common form of money would have paid the nation.al debt of england the common people have their lull share of this general ab surdity the gin drank in england and wales annually amounts to nearly twen • ty millions of pounds sterling a sum which ' would pay all the poor-rates three times ; i over and turned to any public service ' might cover the land with great institu tions ; the principal result of this enor mous expenditure now being to fill the population with vice misery and mad j ness — bletckwood astonishing effect of electricity in curing hysterical lockjaw — the following account of the efficacy of this astonishing remedy we should do wrong in withholding though it should never again prove effective we have the ac count from some friends who chanced to be pre sent and saw the patient eating the first meal she had taken in five days a few minutes after the spasm had ceased she had been previ ously nourished by drawing milk through the apertures ofthe closed teeth through which the edge ofa knife could be passed with the great est difficulty the young woman was thus af fected in consequence of exposure to cold and fatigue and was completely recovered by the electro-galvanic apparatus applied to both an gles of the jaw the machine had not made forty revolutions when the jaw opened to its full and natural width we learn that it has been successfully applied for many nervous dis eases ofthe eye ; also in a case of poisoning by laudanum where two entire ounces had been swallowed in this case the patient was re vived by the machine and collapsed alternately during tive hours the intervals becoming short er till speech was re-established curvature ofthe spine has also yielded to its power in deed its proper application is as varied as diseas ses of general debility and irregular nervous ac tion — journal of commerce extensive renunciation of idolatry in india from the latest intelligence received at the missionary rooms the population of southern india seems rapidly advancing to a point where the renunciation of the foolish degrading and unsatisfying rites of idolatry will be very frequent under date of march 14 1844 the bishop of madras says that ninety six villages in the province of tinnevelly have recently come forward unsolicited and utterly a bolished their idols requesting to be taken under christian instruction one of the english missioneries at an earlier date says that he had within the two proceed ing months received seven hundred na tives under his care and from a very recent letter of one ofthe missionaries of the american board it appears that al though there has been no movement of so decided a character in the territory em braced within the plans of the madura mission many things are exceedingly hopeful ; and that could laborers now enter this field in requisite numbers there would be no doubt of soon gathering an abundant harvest — n y jour of com a whisper lo a wife — study your hus band's temper and character ; and be it your pride and pleasure to conform to his wishes check at once the first advances to contradiction even of the most trivial nature beware of the first dispute whatever might have been concealed as a delect from the lover must with grea ter diligence be concealed from the hus band the most intimate and tender familiarity cannot surely be supposed to , exclude decorum let your husband be dearer and of more consequence to you than any other human being ; and have no hesitation in confess ing those feelings to him the indians at war the st louis republican of the 31st ult says : — " we learn from a gentleman from the missouri that a battle took place 3 or four weeks since on the indian territory between a ' party of the sacs of the missouri and a party of pawnees the latter had eight men killed and the sacs one the sacs returned to their village with five scalps the pawnees stole five horses from their enemy and thus brought on the fight mixing soil — a correspondent of the springfield mass republican states that mr john moore of west springfield has made a successful experiment in the ap plication of clay upon grass lyid of a dark heavy soil last fall he carted on clay to the amount of forty loads to the acre — left it in heaps exposed to the frost till spring ; when being dry and partially pul verized it was spread the expense of digging carting and spreading was ten dollars to the acre the grass before the experiment was nearly all sedge it is now changed no seed being put on to red and white clover mixed with hard grass worth double the former crop in quality and increased in quantity thirty per cent a similar experiment was made in the same lot upon a light dry gravelly soil which produced no ctlect whatever thk immexsitv or numbers — we never hear of the wandering jew says the spirit of the time but we mentally inquire what was the sentence of his punishment 1 perhaps it was calculation perhaps be was to walk the earth until he counted a trillion but will some folks say be could soon count that number we fear not suppose a man to count one in ev ery second of time day and night without stop ping to rest eat to sleep it would take him thir ty-two years to count a billion or 32,000 vears to count a trillion what a limited idea we generally entertain of the immensity of num bers ! tote-s-iffl mm from the new york c<*urier k enquirer of wednesday arrival of the britannia — eisht days later the britannia capt hewitt arrived yesterday at boston in twelve and a half days from liverpool we are indebted to harnden & co for charles wilmer's american news letter of 14th inst and an extra from the boston daily advertiser the french squadron had followed up the attack on tangier by the bombard ment of mogadore the queen of spain and her court bave returned to madrid tbe two queens made their entry into the capital at three o'clock in the morning in spain and other parts ofthe contin ent the belief is general tbat the affairs of morocco will lead to a war between the great powers and in germany it is even rumored that an alliance offensive and defensive against france has already been formed between great britain and russia the opinion of the english judges in the case of o'connell was read in the house of lords on the 2d inst confirming the judgment of the irish court of queen's bench though they were of the opinion that pa ; of the counts in the indictment were bad the lord chancellor after the judges had read their opinions rose and said the case before them was one of the greatest importance ; he therefore moved that its further consideration be adjourned until wednesday next lord broughman — and the opinions of the judges be printed in the meantime the lord chancellor — yes certainly the consideration of the judges opinion was then postponed until wednesday next battle ix morocco the following telegraphic despatch has been received at paris from marshall ba geaud : marseilles aug 22 5 p m the governor general of algeria to the minister of war : ritouac of kondiat abderraham 14th having marched upon the morocco ar my which became daily more strong and menacing to algeria i came up with it at two leagues in front oi its camp it as sumed the offensive with 20.000 horse at the moment the heads of our columns were crossing the islay we were sur rounded on all sides we gained a most complete victory our infantry which stood most firmly and a little lot of our cavalry fought with the utmost bravery they successively captured all the camps which covered a space of upwards of a league in extent eleven pieces of ar tillery 16 stand of colors 1,000 to 1,100 tents among which was that of the em peror's son his parasol the insignia of his command all his personal baggage a con siderable quantity of warlike stores and an immense booty remained in our power the enemy left about soo killed on the field of battle our losses although se vere are light when we consider the im portance of the battle which we call the battle of islay the journal des debates on giving the former despatch says the height of kondiat abderraham which was aeces sable to both parties is a hill in the front of the camp of lalla ma_rrina half way to ouchida in the most advanced post on the algerian frontier in its frot-t runs a rivulet called the oued islay which forms a boundary prince d'joinville's despatch from moga dore steamboat plcton ) mogadore august 17 s i arrived befere mogadore on the 11th inst the weather was extremely bad and during several days we remained at anch or before the town without having been i »■!— — ■r — , , able to communicate even amongst our selves notwithstanding we had let out 200 fathoms of chain cable our anchors broke like glass ' • in fine on the 15th the weather having become moderate i took advantage oflhe change to attack the town the ships of the line jemappes and tri ' ton proceeded to take up a position oppo j site the western batteries with orders to batter them and to open a fire against ihe j rear of the marine batteries the snffi en j and the belle poule took their station ia rthe northern channel it was one o'clock p m when our movement commenced the moment die arabs saw the ships approach the town all the batteries com menced firing we waited to return the fire until each vessel was at his po at half past four the tiring began lo slacken ; the brigs cassard volage and argus then entered the harbor and placed themselves close to the batteries of the island with which they exchanged a pretty brisk lire at last about half past live the steam rs carrying 500 soldiers entered the channel and placed themselves inthe intervals tbat separated the brigs and a landing was immediately effected the island was defended with the cour age of despair by 320 moors and kabyles who composed the garrison a gnat number were killed ; 140 who had relired into a mosque ultimately surrendered our losses on that day amounted to 1 1 killed and 04 wounded the island once taken we resolved ij destroy the batteries ol ihe town lacing the roads which had been already great ly damaged by our artillery b was in dispensable to render them altogether un available to the enemy yesterday accordingly 300 men were landed under the protection of the cross fire of three steamers and two hriirs ; tin y experienced no resistance we spiked and threw several iruas into the sea and carried away ot hers : the powder maga zines were hooded : finally we brought off or sank all the boats in tin harbor i think we mi_rht have penetrated at the time without any danger into the interior of the town : but this would have been a display without any object or any other result than useless pillage 1 consequent ly desisted and returned with the truoj on the island and ordered the crews ou board their respective ships 1 am now en_ra_r d in establishing n garrison of 500 men in the island the occupation of the island without the blockade of the harbor would be an incomplete measure i accordingly comply with your ord rs by shutting up th harbor oi mogadore the town is at the moment 1 write on fire plundered and ravaged by lhe ka byles of the interior who after driving out the imperial garrison have taken | session of it wr have just received on beard the briti>h consul hi family and a li v eu ropeans i will not close my despatch withoul mentioning the services rendered i ■;. cv ry person under my orders during tiie j - sent campaign everybody served with a zeal inspired by the ardent love i his country its honor and intersets and with an absolate devotion !<> the service ofthe king receive m le ministre the avv;;r;ii,ce of my respect f 1 >'< hileans u extract from a privcct letter tnrifli i !■■mogador dated 17m " r-joire at the brilliant lete sur cess which bus just crowned the efforts ofour young and brave admiral tbe standard ol france boats over the j land of magador : it has floated over the pri al ba:teri«-s which defended soocrah on tin sea side tlm batteries arc annihilated ?!.,-> cannon are spiked torn from t'_<-ir ci-.l ._-. •_> or scattere.l n the shore pro hie tire has protected us against dan gers greater than those of the com — tigers arising from the sea which here ris - into t billows hurling themselves with _ up on this inhospitable coast \\ mnc-h fatigue an.l anxiety during the 1 ith 12th 13th an 14'.h '• tbe attack upon th island has cost us ir i nv brave ji tie prince was seen marching without arms at the bead ofthe attack ing columns while the kitie.i and wounded were falling around bim this brilliant courage this general self-devotion inspin - with jus pride all his brave companions in arms t is now believed that the retin me hemet aii originated in displeasure at the op position offered bv ibrahim a ::<! the council t a measure on which tli pasha had resolvt !. and that he was induced to return only by tho with drawal of that opposition we learn from alexandria that he tyue and snoke appeared in the offing on tbe r>:!i t au gust and alter learning by signal from the gey ser that every thing was tranquil they immedi ately sot sail on their return t bei r<ait whero their presence i m aelikelyto be required fat the captain pasha appearetoconteropwe a long stav in svria with ile ottoman squadron ba taken up his quarters ii shore at beyrout on the 4th ult the anni\*r-;trv ofthe il pendenoe of america the t tie and tie belvi dera hoisted the american flag al the main and at noon the tyne captain glascock as senior officer fired a royal salute the turks followed tho example s i them but they could not help observing thai itwas in gularthat the english should rejoice tl the n versary from recent disclosures in the lettercarri - ' office it aoponrs that the carriers employed in the deliver'v of loner i.-i the w esters r,i-;.-,.*t ..._ lond..n ha'-.e been forsome time in lhe habit ot openin letters directed to noblemen geutie men and others r..nnected with tie sporting world with lhe view of disposing 1 tie ml rma tion thns obtained for pecuniar consideration it is certain that letters both inward a:.d out ward have been thu treated and after "■- copied either delivered or forwarded as the case might be it is bo proved that bets i large amount bave been made by the par * implicated the letter carrier who del-yeied the letters of lonl george benfinck nd j one who delivered those oi mr tattersatt nav been suspended
Object Description
Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1844-09-28 |
Month | 09 |
Day | 28 |
Year | 1844 |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 22 |
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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 |
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Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The September 28, 1844 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
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Language | English |
OCLC number | 601558839 |
Description
Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1844-09-28 |
Month | 09 |
Day | 28 |
Year | 1844 |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 22 |
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Creator | Bruner and James "Editors and Proprietors" |
Date Digital | 2008-10-30 |
Publisher | Bruner and James |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
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Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The September 28, 1844 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | Public |
Language | eng |
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terais^fthe watchman two dollars in advance and two dollars and fifty cents the end of thc year so subscription received for a less time than one year dess paid for in advance vo subscription discontinued but at the option of the tors until all arrearages are paid terms of advertising per square for the firsl insertion and twenty or each continuance otices and court orders will be charged 25 per ier than the above rates ition of i 1-3 per cent will be made to those advertise by the year ., , vll advertisements will be continued until forbid and 1 for accordingly unless ordered for a certain num ol times ' i ■letters addressed to the editors must come post 1 io ensure attention a buying forest the following account of a burning forest ls ken to audubon the american ornithol jst v a hunter in the back woods at whose in he passed the night it is a difficult thing sir to describe ; but i 11 do my best to make your time pass pleas e'v we were sound asleep one bight in a in about a hundred miles from this when out two hours before day the snorting of the rses and the lowing of the cattle whicli i had i_rr in tbe woods suddenly awakened us i iii my rifle and went to the door to see what ast had caused the hubbub when i was uck with the glare of light reflected on all • trees before me as far as i could see thro • woods my horses were leaping about irting loudly and the cattle ran among them | th tln-ir tails raised straight over their backs j going to the back of the house f plainly ; ird the cracking made by the burning brush j od and saw the flames coming toward us in i ir extended line i ran to the house told . wife to dress herself and child as quickly as sible and take the little money we had ile i managed to catch and saddle the two i horses all his was done in a very short ie for 1 guessed that every moment was pre us t us \\ e then mounted and made off from the fire i wife who i.s an excellent rider stuck close me my daughter who was then a small ud i took in one arm when making off as j iiii i looked back and saw the frightful blaze _ close upon us and had already laid hold of house by good luck there was a horn at hed to my hunting clothes and i blew it to ng after us if possible the remainder oi my e lurk as well as the dogs the cattle foi led tor a while but before an hour had claps they all ran as il mad through the woods — ii that sir was the last of them my dogs i,though at all other times extremely tracta . run after the deer that in droves sprang up fore us as if fully aware of the death that _ so rapidly approaching v\r heard blasts from the horns ofour neigh rs as we proceeded and knew that they were he same predicament intent on striving to utmnsi to save our lives i thought ol a large e some miles off which might possibly ick the flames ; and urging my wife to whip her horse we set oil at full speed making best way we could over many obstacles ed on purpose to keep up the terrific tire 1 advanced with a broad front upon us ly this time we could feel the heat and we e afraid thai our horses would drop every ant * singular kind of breeze was pass heads aud the glare ofthe atmos ■ver the daylight i was sensible ntness and mv wife looked pale ' ad produced such a flush in the i s face that when she turned toward either is our grief and perplexity were greatly in ased ten miles you know are soon gone i mi swift horses ; but notwithstanding this ni we reached the borders of the lakes cov d with sweat and quite exhausted our hearts ed us the heat ofthe smoke was insuffera . ami sheets of blazing lire flew over us in a oner beyond belief we reached the shores fever coasted the lake for a while and got ml on the lee side there we gave up our ses which we never saw again down mig the rushes we plunged by the side ofthe ler and laid ourselves flat to wait the chance escaping from being burned or devoured — ie water refreshed us and we enjoyed the iness ln went the fire rushing and crushing thro woods such a sight may we never see ! ie heavens themselves i thought were frigbt fi lor all above us was a red glare mixed lli clouds of smoke rolling and sweeping '»}'. our bodies were cold enough but our ids were scorching and the child who now mod to understand the matter cried so as iirlv to break our hearts the dav passed on and we became hungry wy wild beasts came plunging into the wa beside us and others swam across to our '' and stood still although faint and weary tanaged to shoot a porcupine and we all tast its flesh the night passed i cannot tell you *'. smouldering fires covered the ground j ca c ' j the trees stood like pillars of fire or fell ss each other the stilling and sickening oke still rushed over us and the burnt cind ! and ashes fell thick around us how we ! through that night i really cannot tell for lit some of it i remember nothing toward j rning although the heat did not abate the ! ike became less and blasts of fresh air some es made their way to us a'hen morning came all was calm but a dis \ 1 smoke still tilled the air and lhe smell seem j worse than ever we wfit now cool enough i shivered as if in an ague tit ; so we remov i truni the water and went up to a burning :. where we warmed ourselves what was become of us 1 did not know my wife hug d the children to her breast and wept bitter ; but god had preserved us throughout the i r*t of the danger and the flames had one 8*>s0 1 thought it would be both ungrateful to "'■and unmanly to despair now hunger ** more pressed upon us but this was easily i uedied several deer were still standing in '. e ater up to the head and i shot one of them mip ol its flesh was seon roasted and after l'ng it we felt wonderfully strengthened d , . .' 5 i dy this time the blaze ot the fire was beyond lr slj,'ht although the ground was still burning n,any places and it was dangerous to go i fig the burnt trees after resting awhile ; id t ' ', imniing ourselves we prepared to com | nee taking up the child i led the way ertho hot ground and rocks and alter two and nights during whicli we shift besl manner we could and at last j hard wood sywch had been free soon after we came to a house j were kindly treated for a while — | ii sir i have worked hard and con j *% as a lumberer but thanks be to god ! rc ye are safe sound and happy — american \ rmhobgy the carolina watchman i bruner & james 1 „ > " keep a check upon all your editors sf proprietors \ s safe ( new series rulers do tins axd liberty 1 geril harrison { number 22 of volume i salisbury n c september 28 1844 == the crater of lua pele in the island of hawaii we soon arrived on the ledge which appear ed like a field of ice breaking up in the spring it varied from five hundred to two thousand feet in width and then abruptly terminated in craggy and overhanging precipices which had splitand burst in every direction from the action of the fire beneath the main body of the crater had settled down from the black ledge in some pla ces gradually until its own weight burst it vio lently from the edge leaving gaping chasms the sides of which were intensely heated : at others it appeared to have sunk instantaneously tear iiit away and undermining the ledge and leav ; i ino precipices of two hundred feet in height j the greatest depth was about two hundred and j fifty feet the lakes cones and forges remain i ed but were emptied ot lava and quiet emitting nothing but smoke excepting a lake at the south western extremity of which a bend in the ledge hid from our view all but the rising flames — evidently a short time betore the ledge had been overflowed as the lava was piled in mass j es twenty feet high or more on its outer edge \ gradually decreasing in height as it rolled in ' immense waves from it ; and without doubt the whole mass had been raised as we could ' now stand upon it and pluck ferns from the | bank we walked round the crater on the i black ledge endeavoring to find a place where ' it would be practicable to descend but the banks were ever where too much broken up to admit of it independently of that they were so heat ed that the brink could only be approached in a ' few places and these only at great risk it was cracked into great chasms from a few feet to a rod in width to which no bottom could be j seen and in places large masses had swollen j up and hen tumbled in like the bursting of an j air bubble or the failing in of a vast dome — i the hollow echoing sound beneath our feet i showed the insecurity of where we trod and the liability to giye way and precipitate us at any j moment to instantaneous death ; and i must confess that it was with fear that i walked alum i this path nf destruction on the surface of the j ledge thc rock was black and very visicular i but as it descended it grew more compact and i became ofa white or leadish color from all , these pits and chasms a white flickering flame , ascended so hot in one place where we at i tempted to cross as to singe the hair from our i hands and scorch our clothing nothing but a j precipitate retreat saved us from being envel i oped in flames the hot air would frequently j flash up from the fissures without warning and it required much caution and agility to escape from it the thermometer over one fissure rose to one hundred and sixty-two degrees ; on the ledge five hundred from the brink three feet above the ground ninety-seven degrees ; on i the lava at the same place one hundred and twenty-three degrees ; two feet above a fissure one hundred and forty-eight degrees ; eighteen i inches below the surface it rose instantly to ! one hundred and sixty-six degrees continual heavy explosions were occurring on the sides sounding like muffled artillery throwing up stones ashes and hot steam two hundred feet or more into the air and rending away the banks tumbled large masses of rock into the crater beneath indeed the whole black ledge appeared like a mere crust the igneous action ' beneath having eaten away its support and which the slightest shock would precipitate in to the gulf beneath and thus restore the crater to its ancient limits having reached the south era extremity we obtained our first view of the lake the light of which had attracted our atten : tion the previous night it was several hun dred yards in circumference and in the most sunken part of the cauldron the lava was twenty feet below its banks a liquid body boil ing bubbling and dashing in great fury oc casionally it would become encrusted over and then red streaks would shoot rapidly across its ! surface leaving a momentary glimmer like that of meteors in the centre the lava was tossed high in the air with a puffing spluttering noise ' like the blast ofa heavy bellows mingled with the roar of surf its color was livid much re sembling clotted blood of which the whole might be taken for an immense hell-brewed cauldron and the unearthly noises for the moans of agon ' ized spirits and the fiendish cries of their tor mentors tin effect upon the imagination was powerful and the reality horrible beyond de scription — janes scenes and scenery in the sandwich islands an important change has lately been made in thc turkish law respecting apos tates f'-om the mahomedon religion the law formerly punished such apostates with death but the ambassadors of england and france have frightened the ottoman government into a relinquishment of the law at least so far as those are concerned who have passed from christianity islam ism and seek to return those who have been born mahomedans are not we pre sume relieved from the bondage of the ' law remarkable repeating watch — in the j academy of science at st petersburg in i russia is a repeating watch about the size of an egg within is represented the redeemer's tomb with the stone at the ! entrance and the sentinels ; and while a spectator is admiring this curious piece of ; mechanism the stone is suddenly remov j ed the women enter the sepulchre and the same chant is heard which is perform j ed in the greek church on easter eve a hunter in extreme peril the most interesting hunter's story i have ! ever heard was told me by our host mr perci i val who has followed the forest chase from his youth in 1807 he was on a trapping expedi tion wilh two companies on the washita when they left him to kill buffalo bear and the larger game and he remained to trap the streams for heaver he had not met with very good suc cess and had been without meat for about 24 hours when turning a small bend of the river he espied a noble looking old male buffalo lying down on the beach having secured his canoe he crept softly through a cane brake which lay between the animal and himself and fired the shot was an indifferent one and only wounded the animal in the side but it roused him and having crossed the river he soon laid down — this was about noon when the animal having again grazed was resting himself in a cool place percival now crossed the river in his canoe and got into the woods which were there very open and somewhat broken by little patch es of prairie land a very frequent occurrence in these parts of arkansas where forest and prai rie seem to be contending for the mastery but the bull being suspicious rose before the hun ter came near enough to him and took to the green woods percival was an experienced hunter ; he had killed several hundred buffaloes and knew their tempers in every sort of situation he knew that the animal when in large herds was easi ly mastered and was well aware that when a lone he was sometimes dogged and even dang erous ; he therelore followed his prey cautious ly about a mile knowing that he would lie down again ere long . the buffalo now stopped per cival got within fifty yards of him watching an opportunity to strike him mortally ; but the beast seeing his enemy so near wheeled com pletely round put his huge shaggy head to the ground before his fore feet as is their custom when they attack each other and rapidly ad vanced upon the hunter who instantly fired and put his ball through the bull's nose ; but seeing the temper he was in and knowing what a serious antagonist he was when on the offen sive he also immediately turned and fled in running down a short hill some briars threw him down and he dropped his gun — there was a tree not far from him of about 18 inches diameter and every thing seemed to de pend upon his reaching it ; but as he rose to make a push for it the buffalo struck him on the fleshy part of the hip with his horn and slight ly wounded him before however the beast could wheel round upon him again he gained the tree upon which all the chance he had of preserving his life rested a very few feet from this tree grew a sapling about four or five inches in diameter a most fortunate circum stance for the hunter as it contributed material ly to save his life the buffalo now doggedly followed up his purpose of destroying his adver sary and a system of attack and defence com menced that perhaps is without a parallel the buffalo went round and round the tree pursuing the man jumping at him in the peculiar manner of that animal every time he thought there was a chance of hitting him ; whilst percival grasp ing the tree with his arms flung himself round it with greater rapidity than the animal could follow him in this manner the buffalo har rassed him more than four hours until his hands ■became so sore with rubbing against the rough bark of the oak tree and his limbs so fatigued that he began to be disheartened in going round the tree the buffalo would sometimes pass between it and the sapling ; [ but the distance between them was so narrow ! that it inconvenienced him especially when he | wanted to make his jumps ; he therefore fre i quently went round the sapling instead of going ! inside ot it the time thus consumed was pre cious to percival — it enabled him to breathe i and to consider how he should defend himself after so many hours fruitless labor the bull seemed to have lost his pristine vigor and be came slower in his motions he would now make his short start preparatory to his jump only at intervals and even then he jumped doubtingly as if he saw that percival would a void his blow by swinging to the other side it was evident he was baflled and was consider ing what he should do still continuing in his course round the tree but in his slow manner he at lengih made an extraordinary feint that does honor to the reasoning powers of the buf falo family he made his little start as usual and when percival swung himself round the bull instead of aiming his blow in lhe direction he had been accustomed to do suddenly ti rned lo the side of the tree where percival would be brought when he had swung himself round and struck with all his might the feint had almost succeeded ; percival only just saved his head and received a severe contusion on his arm which was par alyzed for an instant he now began to des pair of saving his life ; his limbs trembled un der him he thought the buffalo would wear him out and it was so inexpressibly painful to him to carry on this singular defence that at one time he entertained the idea of leaving the tree and permitting the animal to destroy him as a mode of saving himself from pain and anx iety that were intolerable but the buffalo just at that time giving deci ded symptoms of being as tired as himself now stopped tor a few minutes and percival took courage remembering that he had his butch er's knife in his breast he took it out and be gan to contrive plans of offence ; and when the bull having rested awhile he re-commenced his old rounds percival took advantage ofthe slow ness of his motions and using a great deal of address and management contrived in the course of half an hour to stab and cut him in a dozen different places the animal now became weak from the loss of blood and although he continued to walk round the tree made no more jumps contenting himself with keeping his head and neck close to the ground this closed the conflict for it enabled percival to extend his right arm and give him two deadly stabs in the eyes nothing could exceed the frantic rage of the unwieldy animal when he had lost his sight he bellowed he groaned he pawed the ground and gave out every sign of conscious ru in and immitigable fury he leaned against the sapling for support and twice knocked him ! self down by rushing with his head against the ! large tree the second fall terminated this ! strange tragic combat which had now lasted nearly six hours the buffalo had not strength to rise and the conquerer stepping up to him and lilting up his nigh shoulder cut all the flesh and ligaments loose and turned it over his back he then after resting himself a few minutes skinned the beast took a piece of the meat to the canoe made a fire broiled and ate it featherstonhaiigh | rage for the ridiculous a fashion always becomes more fash ionable as it becomes more ridiculous — people cling to it as they pet a monkey for its deformity the high head dresses of france which must have been a burthen made the tour of europe and endured throughout a century the high heels which almost wholly excluded safe walk ing lasted their century the use of pow der was universal until it was driven from france by republicanism and out of eng land by famine the flour used by the british alone for whitening their heads was calculated to amount to the animal provision for five thousand people snuff had been universally in use from the mid dle of the seventeenth century : and the sums spent upon this filthy and foolish in dulgence the time wasted on it and the injury done to the health if they could all have been thrown into the common form of money would have paid the nation.al debt of england the common people have their lull share of this general ab surdity the gin drank in england and wales annually amounts to nearly twen • ty millions of pounds sterling a sum which ' would pay all the poor-rates three times ; i over and turned to any public service ' might cover the land with great institu tions ; the principal result of this enor mous expenditure now being to fill the population with vice misery and mad j ness — bletckwood astonishing effect of electricity in curing hysterical lockjaw — the following account of the efficacy of this astonishing remedy we should do wrong in withholding though it should never again prove effective we have the ac count from some friends who chanced to be pre sent and saw the patient eating the first meal she had taken in five days a few minutes after the spasm had ceased she had been previ ously nourished by drawing milk through the apertures ofthe closed teeth through which the edge ofa knife could be passed with the great est difficulty the young woman was thus af fected in consequence of exposure to cold and fatigue and was completely recovered by the electro-galvanic apparatus applied to both an gles of the jaw the machine had not made forty revolutions when the jaw opened to its full and natural width we learn that it has been successfully applied for many nervous dis eases ofthe eye ; also in a case of poisoning by laudanum where two entire ounces had been swallowed in this case the patient was re vived by the machine and collapsed alternately during tive hours the intervals becoming short er till speech was re-established curvature ofthe spine has also yielded to its power in deed its proper application is as varied as diseas ses of general debility and irregular nervous ac tion — journal of commerce extensive renunciation of idolatry in india from the latest intelligence received at the missionary rooms the population of southern india seems rapidly advancing to a point where the renunciation of the foolish degrading and unsatisfying rites of idolatry will be very frequent under date of march 14 1844 the bishop of madras says that ninety six villages in the province of tinnevelly have recently come forward unsolicited and utterly a bolished their idols requesting to be taken under christian instruction one of the english missioneries at an earlier date says that he had within the two proceed ing months received seven hundred na tives under his care and from a very recent letter of one ofthe missionaries of the american board it appears that al though there has been no movement of so decided a character in the territory em braced within the plans of the madura mission many things are exceedingly hopeful ; and that could laborers now enter this field in requisite numbers there would be no doubt of soon gathering an abundant harvest — n y jour of com a whisper lo a wife — study your hus band's temper and character ; and be it your pride and pleasure to conform to his wishes check at once the first advances to contradiction even of the most trivial nature beware of the first dispute whatever might have been concealed as a delect from the lover must with grea ter diligence be concealed from the hus band the most intimate and tender familiarity cannot surely be supposed to , exclude decorum let your husband be dearer and of more consequence to you than any other human being ; and have no hesitation in confess ing those feelings to him the indians at war the st louis republican of the 31st ult says : — " we learn from a gentleman from the missouri that a battle took place 3 or four weeks since on the indian territory between a ' party of the sacs of the missouri and a party of pawnees the latter had eight men killed and the sacs one the sacs returned to their village with five scalps the pawnees stole five horses from their enemy and thus brought on the fight mixing soil — a correspondent of the springfield mass republican states that mr john moore of west springfield has made a successful experiment in the ap plication of clay upon grass lyid of a dark heavy soil last fall he carted on clay to the amount of forty loads to the acre — left it in heaps exposed to the frost till spring ; when being dry and partially pul verized it was spread the expense of digging carting and spreading was ten dollars to the acre the grass before the experiment was nearly all sedge it is now changed no seed being put on to red and white clover mixed with hard grass worth double the former crop in quality and increased in quantity thirty per cent a similar experiment was made in the same lot upon a light dry gravelly soil which produced no ctlect whatever thk immexsitv or numbers — we never hear of the wandering jew says the spirit of the time but we mentally inquire what was the sentence of his punishment 1 perhaps it was calculation perhaps be was to walk the earth until he counted a trillion but will some folks say be could soon count that number we fear not suppose a man to count one in ev ery second of time day and night without stop ping to rest eat to sleep it would take him thir ty-two years to count a billion or 32,000 vears to count a trillion what a limited idea we generally entertain of the immensity of num bers ! tote-s-iffl mm from the new york c<*urier k enquirer of wednesday arrival of the britannia — eisht days later the britannia capt hewitt arrived yesterday at boston in twelve and a half days from liverpool we are indebted to harnden & co for charles wilmer's american news letter of 14th inst and an extra from the boston daily advertiser the french squadron had followed up the attack on tangier by the bombard ment of mogadore the queen of spain and her court bave returned to madrid tbe two queens made their entry into the capital at three o'clock in the morning in spain and other parts ofthe contin ent the belief is general tbat the affairs of morocco will lead to a war between the great powers and in germany it is even rumored that an alliance offensive and defensive against france has already been formed between great britain and russia the opinion of the english judges in the case of o'connell was read in the house of lords on the 2d inst confirming the judgment of the irish court of queen's bench though they were of the opinion that pa ; of the counts in the indictment were bad the lord chancellor after the judges had read their opinions rose and said the case before them was one of the greatest importance ; he therefore moved that its further consideration be adjourned until wednesday next lord broughman — and the opinions of the judges be printed in the meantime the lord chancellor — yes certainly the consideration of the judges opinion was then postponed until wednesday next battle ix morocco the following telegraphic despatch has been received at paris from marshall ba geaud : marseilles aug 22 5 p m the governor general of algeria to the minister of war : ritouac of kondiat abderraham 14th having marched upon the morocco ar my which became daily more strong and menacing to algeria i came up with it at two leagues in front oi its camp it as sumed the offensive with 20.000 horse at the moment the heads of our columns were crossing the islay we were sur rounded on all sides we gained a most complete victory our infantry which stood most firmly and a little lot of our cavalry fought with the utmost bravery they successively captured all the camps which covered a space of upwards of a league in extent eleven pieces of ar tillery 16 stand of colors 1,000 to 1,100 tents among which was that of the em peror's son his parasol the insignia of his command all his personal baggage a con siderable quantity of warlike stores and an immense booty remained in our power the enemy left about soo killed on the field of battle our losses although se vere are light when we consider the im portance of the battle which we call the battle of islay the journal des debates on giving the former despatch says the height of kondiat abderraham which was aeces sable to both parties is a hill in the front of the camp of lalla ma_rrina half way to ouchida in the most advanced post on the algerian frontier in its frot-t runs a rivulet called the oued islay which forms a boundary prince d'joinville's despatch from moga dore steamboat plcton ) mogadore august 17 s i arrived befere mogadore on the 11th inst the weather was extremely bad and during several days we remained at anch or before the town without having been i »■!— — ■r — , , able to communicate even amongst our selves notwithstanding we had let out 200 fathoms of chain cable our anchors broke like glass ' • in fine on the 15th the weather having become moderate i took advantage oflhe change to attack the town the ships of the line jemappes and tri ' ton proceeded to take up a position oppo j site the western batteries with orders to batter them and to open a fire against ihe j rear of the marine batteries the snffi en j and the belle poule took their station ia rthe northern channel it was one o'clock p m when our movement commenced the moment die arabs saw the ships approach the town all the batteries com menced firing we waited to return the fire until each vessel was at his po at half past four the tiring began lo slacken ; the brigs cassard volage and argus then entered the harbor and placed themselves close to the batteries of the island with which they exchanged a pretty brisk lire at last about half past live the steam rs carrying 500 soldiers entered the channel and placed themselves inthe intervals tbat separated the brigs and a landing was immediately effected the island was defended with the cour age of despair by 320 moors and kabyles who composed the garrison a gnat number were killed ; 140 who had relired into a mosque ultimately surrendered our losses on that day amounted to 1 1 killed and 04 wounded the island once taken we resolved ij destroy the batteries ol ihe town lacing the roads which had been already great ly damaged by our artillery b was in dispensable to render them altogether un available to the enemy yesterday accordingly 300 men were landed under the protection of the cross fire of three steamers and two hriirs ; tin y experienced no resistance we spiked and threw several iruas into the sea and carried away ot hers : the powder maga zines were hooded : finally we brought off or sank all the boats in tin harbor i think we mi_rht have penetrated at the time without any danger into the interior of the town : but this would have been a display without any object or any other result than useless pillage 1 consequent ly desisted and returned with the truoj on the island and ordered the crews ou board their respective ships 1 am now en_ra_r d in establishing n garrison of 500 men in the island the occupation of the island without the blockade of the harbor would be an incomplete measure i accordingly comply with your ord rs by shutting up th harbor oi mogadore the town is at the moment 1 write on fire plundered and ravaged by lhe ka byles of the interior who after driving out the imperial garrison have taken | session of it wr have just received on beard the briti>h consul hi family and a li v eu ropeans i will not close my despatch withoul mentioning the services rendered i ■;. cv ry person under my orders during tiie j - sent campaign everybody served with a zeal inspired by the ardent love i his country its honor and intersets and with an absolate devotion !<> the service ofthe king receive m le ministre the avv;;r;ii,ce of my respect f 1 >'< hileans u extract from a privcct letter tnrifli i !■■mogador dated 17m " r-joire at the brilliant lete sur cess which bus just crowned the efforts ofour young and brave admiral tbe standard ol france boats over the j land of magador : it has floated over the pri al ba:teri«-s which defended soocrah on tin sea side tlm batteries arc annihilated ?!.,-> cannon are spiked torn from t'_<-ir ci-.l ._-. •_> or scattere.l n the shore pro hie tire has protected us against dan gers greater than those of the com — tigers arising from the sea which here ris - into t billows hurling themselves with _ up on this inhospitable coast \\ mnc-h fatigue an.l anxiety during the 1 ith 12th 13th an 14'.h '• tbe attack upon th island has cost us ir i nv brave ji tie prince was seen marching without arms at the bead ofthe attack ing columns while the kitie.i and wounded were falling around bim this brilliant courage this general self-devotion inspin - with jus pride all his brave companions in arms t is now believed that the retin me hemet aii originated in displeasure at the op position offered bv ibrahim a :::!i t au gust and alter learning by signal from the gey ser that every thing was tranquil they immedi ately sot sail on their return t bei r |