Carolina Watchman

              carolina watchman kkmi-wkkkly vol xix salisbury n c september 12 1861 number 38 il unnatural and artificial organization of the nortb is manifest even in our railway improvements tho roads in the missis sifi'i valley are made dol in opposition but tributary to the greal natural mihsih bipm river grand i ri nk the prom inent feature of our railways is ihat tbey run from the si h bo ird nortbwaid or southward except in a few cases where a iink it constructed to supply some through connection our roads do nol violate but i<*i-t na ture they are built by the natural lee trade south imi work honourably in uni son with nature and nature's highways the infuse nctivu life arid health into i the different parts f the south anj at trade is but the interchange of barter ami aa \ irginis grows or makes what louisi i ana and texas do not aud cannot and should no make ami as our inter tropical districts produce what the more northern tier of the ( jonfederale stati - ittnnol make but musl obtain we havo within ourselves a healthy basis of trade founded in lbe ' interchange of products tbe barter of t!i ' productions of one latitude fur those of another and if tomorrow lbe rest of the world i to relapse into barbarism or disappear from existence then would in no serious injury inflected on flu south thereby we have a trad within our - selves larger than that of all europe three hundred years ago we possess a land embracing latitude sufficient lo support an internal i terce ami a home civiliza tion equal to that wliich lias been al any lime possessed b egypt india or europe in these circumstances the state man the philosopher and political economist find ih source of our self sustaining wealth li this beautiful and beneficent order of nature which we have nol violat ed we are taught to realize the facl tbat if a wall should be reared around the con federate states our people would still thrive our industry sti i flourish and our internal trade continue in acti . it v next in importance lo king cotton is bis foster brother tbe father of waters placed in alliance at last wiih free trade and freed from the artificial bonds which the late 1 inion placed upon liis mighty flow the missinsippi will now increase the expense and cost ol c tnpelition by reduc ing the rate of freight j here will be i many deltas added to tbe oue at the lialize all the railroads from the atlantic and gulf board conv rging towards the m s>is j pi valley will he so many outlets of that trade which is yet but in its infancy wben the grass shall row in broadway and lhe j lain weeds choke up theai'i fical highways of tbe west opened at such cost in competition with tbe mississippi that mighty artery will continue to thiol with steady and eternal pulsations pouring along its tributaries uatural and artificial tbe life blood of a bealtby and vigourous commerce and industry founded in natural wants and an unrestricted competition tu write the history of the civilization uf great rivers would be to record tbe his tory of mankind uf the arts of scieuce of law and christianity it is a remarka ' ble fact strictly consistent witb the civil-1 ized effect uf unrestricted commercial in ' lercourse between peoples that in s.iiu , civilized china the rivers run east and west aii examination of the map shows that the lines of communication and phil i osophy ul intercourse between the people of the nui'lh and ihose of china are exact ly similar i deprived ul the impulse given ' tu their industry and foreign trade by tbe control o southern productions may not tbese puritans from natural causes relapse intu a simi civilized condition and exist under tlie dominion of military m indarios i in the presence of a sup nor race and a superior civilization is n uot highly proba ble that the inhabitants of the northwest will eseape by emigration to the j'acilic shore or folio winif the ire trade current of the lakes and lbe st lawrence seek safety and prosperity tliruiigli annexation to canada thus allowing the british terri torial wedge io be advanced iutu the heait of the american continent between the ohio and tho mississippi with its point at < alio '. however we mav speculate on such matters as thes u us not endanger our future peace the strength of our govern ment oi the sat i \ and order of our own peculiar civilization through a violation ol lhe laws of nature or tbe purposes of the almighty by conciliating any human pre judiee our course is plainly indicated and opened before us as by a pillar of fire our destiny is in nil'.st as is manifest the hand of the almiizlitv in all tlie circum stances of the peopling of this continent ; as is manifest i lis will in its geographical formation and as has i cen piamly mam fested by a providential intervention in all the events leading to and accompanying thia war the rule who ignores nature and nature laws is but lbe scourge of his people th public men who fall readily aud indolently into tbe wanton track of error ami weak human precedent are un lil to work out the deliverance of a chosen people or lay the organic law of a pre ordained nation rough hew ur human polity how we will there is a providence that shall shape its end at last the peo ple who attempted to luin the mississippi river up stream who aimed to thwart the purpose of the almighty by transforming a negro into a white man ;.< , ! who placed artificial and unjust restrictions upon com mercial intercourse and ihe harmonious and necessary operations of labour between the nations of the earth are ah ady con founded the way of southern deliverance and1 the path ol southern duty :- marked la tore ite hs pa i pa hi j as did open lhe wati rs ol the lh j si a |> lore llie child ( n of | .!,•,, j w hen tbey holding the ark of the coven ant ol thai divine law of social order i upon wl ich southern society rests this duy separated themselves from the egyp tians and discarded llieir abomin itiotis vve now in h'ui tain a god-ordained and primal institution we may indeed eu'in : i possess lhe mosaic law and mosaic civilization christianized let us not look hack or long for the anti-slavery heathenissh flesh-pots of egypt let us ! not set up in this our promised south ern land tin political or soda idols of the noi lb ' hn cause is not weakened be cans ih faith uf our peo le i sublimated into religion th re i a found ition prin ciple a deep purpose a divine instinct supporting the struggle of the free trade pro slaver south for son 7 freedom based on the laws of nature lt may be lli it to us and our children will be vouchsafed lhe realization of lhe promisi - of < rod it , may be that here in our land will be real ized ut last that perfect social order which i produce p a •■ on eai th and goi id will towards men it in ,\ :„• that in the \ midst ol each sout ei n camp there i a guardian angel of the i ird l t our pub lic men who plot and arrange their little schemes by gas gbt look up sometimes t i lbe stai s the fierce realities of war think onlv of the common hack neyed expressions which pass bo lightly between the lips when speak i i iff ofa great battle we talk ex ultingly and with a certain hre of u magnificent charge of^aspleh did charge yet very few will think ofthe hideous particulars these two i i ry words stand for the splen did charge is a headlong rush of men on strong horses urged to their t ful est speed riding down and over ! whelming an opposing muss of men | on foot the reader's mind goes no further being content with the in formation that the enemy's hue was " broken and gave way it does not lill in the picture to do so ef i'ectively we must think lirst of an ordinary individual run down in the jiuhlie street by a horseman moving at an easy pace the result is usu ally fracture and violent contusion we may strengthen the tones of the picture by setting this horseman at full gallop and joining to him a company of other living horsemen how will it then he with the unhap py pedestrian . so when the splen did charge has done its work and passed hy there wil he found a sight wry in ucli like the scene of a frightful railway accident there will be the full complement of backs broken in two of arms twisted wholly off of men impaled upon their own bayonets ol legs smash ed up like bits of lire wood ; ofheads sliced open like apples or other heads crunched into soft jelly hy iron hoofs of horses ol faces trampled out of iill likeness to anything hu man this is what skulks behind ua splendid charge i this ib what follows as a matter of course when our fellows rode at ihem in style and " cut them up famously again how often does the com mander writing home in his ollicial dispatches dwell particularly on the gallant conduct of captain smith who finding the enemy were " an noying our right a little got his gun into position and effectually held in check both expressions are fair drawiug-room phrases to be men tinned cheerfully by ladies lips it is as it were a few flies buzzing about onr riglit wing teasing and fretting out men and yet pro perly translated it signifies tins tlmt stray men ot that right wing are now and then leaping wilh n con vulsive stai t into tlio air as a mmie j bullet flies with sharp sting through their hearts ; that i tray men end deiily struck arc rolling on the grouud ; that a man here und there is dropping d wn quite suddenly with a shriek his lire lock tumbling from lus hand in short that ihere ia a series of violent death scries he ing enacted up aud down the lony i • lllie j lien comes the bayonet wounds jagged perplexing and painful now lias it heen flutist violently through iiie cl est and lungs and n t ' at the back and is as violently with drawn with a peculiar twist whence ; comes suppuration painful gasping ' for hrealh and all manner ol horrid i accompaniments now it has nn ; paled tlie intestines producing stiange complication mow it has pierced the lower extremity of the heart and ctirious to say ihe vic tim has lived live days the spine come in too for its share of injury a bullet skims through he bodv smashes the lower vertehre of the column uiakvs ihs escape ihe other side llie holies come awav in lit tle pieces the new mime ball has we aie told tiif useful property of shivering the hone into numberless splinters and fragments the con ical pom acts us a w dge and the scattering of the splinters adds much to the lnllainatio.'i so the dismal cal a loo ue runs ui j iie horrors ol war arc played out t the utmost on the hospital pallet when the theatrical business is ull over — a .. the year round notes of a traveller — under this head t g new hi i writes as ful lows to tbe louisville ken ( courier : — h is often assi i ted hy republican jour nals ihat lhe noith is a unit in favor of the war against the south nothing can be farther from the truth i have recent ly traveled over mosl of indiana illinois and lo.\a and ever place i have been 1 find soin opposed lo it and in some places large msjorilii - against it • and those states aie suffi ring a much from the stagnation i of trade as ibe souih possibly can they are calling il lincoln's war aud swear thei won't pay the tax some of their promi nent men are making bpeecbes against tbe war and if it lasts much longer ibere will be revolution in those states in places where a few weeks ago men dared not say anything againsi the war tbey now openly denounce it in the same terms that mr lincoln did the mexican war as being an unholy unchristian unjust abolition war mail of lh ill say 1 hat it thev ico u to fight they will bj-bl for lbe south and that ihey are in favor of letting tbe noah go iu peace i saw one democrat in iowa who said lie had six sons md inn one fool amongst tbein lie had volunteered and gone to m issi niri 1 h fact is messrs editors tbe lincoln government will be forced lo let the south go i he north is ruined now ; corn is only worth seven cents per bushel in iowa and illinois and every thing else in proportion i saw one steam mill in illinois run with com for i'm 1 as being cheaper than wood und it will be impossible lor the people to pay their taxes some of the northern i pie think licit tln-v can rest secure at home from the horrors ofthis war hut 1 know that there is not a town or hamlet in the whole north bul what will he visit ed witb the sword and torch if tins war goes oil i know what i sav — and tune only will verity my prediction resigned — col win johnston ofthis this place who lias held the office of com missary general of the state has resigned vve regret that mr johnston has found it necessary to resign ; and we sav so not merely for the purpose of complimenting mr johnston hut because we believe he was '• the riglit man in the iio lit place — industrious economical and always hav ing the interest ofthe state arid the wants ofthe soldiers in view his place will be hard to lill his other duties public and private requiring liis personal attention he was obliged to quit the service of tbe state tor the present — charlotte democrat tiik yankee rp-is<"-nlks iho yankee prisoners of whom there are now enough on hand to foi in bl vcral of the skeleton regiments so earnestly de manded by lincoln's unprincipled secreta ry of \\ 11 have increased o rapidly sine tlie hull \ hun of tho grand array as to require the almost undivided attention of an entire department which iheir neces sities have created i'f.waids of 1400 are now confined in the fi.e tobacco warehous es appropriated to their reception and few are fully aware of the trouble care and an noyaiiee which tiieir sate keeping devolves upon thos entrusted with that duty tlie vei j limited iiium ei of men allowed for guard sel ice at the several pi isons and the natural carelessness ot volunteers ia then peiiorimmce of the irksome duty ef sentinel 1 ave rendered absolutely necessa iv the most stringent rules not merely for lbe s cure keeping of the bf isbhers but for their comfort also perhaps ho one of these rules has excited more unfavorable comment than that excluding all idle visi tor from the prisons ; and *,, t it must ap pear upon the slightest reflection that its adoption and enforcement is essential to a necessary discipline and ihat fair dealing and duty requires that a general rule should be of general application it is a singular fact too that the great mass of visitois to the prisons are attracted thither solely through a moil id curiosity and the admission of such would be a nei d less imposition ol additional duties upon office ri whose lime and energies aie al ready fully taxed all ciicuiii tanc.s con sidered the admiral le inaiiiier in wliich general winder has acquit tei himself of au onerous and tli.mkie duly fulli entitles hun to the , edit whicli he baa already won in official circles notwithstanding the large number of prisoners but two have as yet contrived to escape ; and since tbe appointment of capt gib bes of mori in lo the po-l of plovost marshall not an escape has been attempt ed even i rider rules recently instituted by this vigilant officer all newspapers aro denied lo lhe prison rs the coffee and sugar with which they have heretofore beeli liberally supplied has a'-o been slopped a measure rendered necessary ly the scarcity "( those articles it is said lhal tbe pris oners will shortly be removed into the in ter ioi — rich a tid examini v miscellaneous the sword of commodore barron cap tured at fort haiteras bas been presented to president lincoln the navy i epartment has been official ly informed that lbe steamer harriet lane which grounded at cape llatt ras inlet floated off on saturdav but not until after capt paunce had thrown her guns over board the petersburg express says that thirty 32-ponnd rilled cannon and an equal num ber of gun carriages passed through that city on thursday destined for — important points not prudent to mention at the last accounts the lincoln forces in arms at jefferson city mo were 7,500 and reinforcements pouring in lln following ao said to be some of tbe principal productions of tortugns to w hich the mutineers in the federal army have lieen sent : lizzards snakes scorpions jiggers sandflies and large sized mosqui toes the austrians have an odd wav of in creasing lbe circulation of newspapers — the police i.reiitly closed ll coffee houses iu venice became tbey refused to take the \ eleli.l ( ia/.ette i ik tirsi election in the new territory of nevada as held on saturday last aug 81 in accordance with the proclamation of « lovemor nve important arrest — an individual hail ing from augusta georgia and who re gistered his name as win ii byrd reach ed this city yesterday morning from wash ingtoii and was arrested at the exchange hotel by a vigilant government detective on the charge of being a led ral spy up on the person ofthe prisoner were found a number of papers fee signed by genera scott and by camerou the yankee secre tary of w ar which prove him to have been up to aug the rj!st a clerk iu the war de departmeot at washington and a confi dential agent of the lincoln government among the documentary evidence thus ac quired are several passports privileging him to pass through the n ankee lines and free passes over the baltimore and ohio noi then central and i tl r western lines countersigned by cai . n p cl whose arrest may be an in ,. s been placed in pr per cusl i rthef i animation — richmm ., ,- .). l bruner editor and proprietor terms single copy 2,00 e copies 00 iv ii - i 15.00 ling ten in the same pro in . 1.50 each payment always in advance i im he ii t mond d.i y exam n sr it l an instructive rtudy to investigate the phil isophy or rather the error of tbe northern railway system like *• . . r i l i • ise at the north il rest upon at artificial and unnatural basis like everything else it the north it was reared upun the false idea "(' j el | •' il i union ninl tlie perpelu al taxation of the south for the len fit of die so-ca '•! free states like every thing else at th north this stupendous railway system iiiu-i tumble into ruins and remain a monument f northern follv ih<i strik tig ; uure of northern railways i found in the fact that thev are construct ed lo tun e.-.sl and west this longitu dinal characteristic brings them into con flict with the laws of nature and the natur al wants ..(' ii ide iiuer the operation t free trade the railroads of the north will be antagonized by the mississippi riv er ami its tributaries 01 the one hand and the chesapeake nutl its railway tributa ries oi the other the great lakes tind iug their natural water outlet through the st lawrence will acl as it were in alliance with th southern system und betwei u these two influences tlie atlantic termini system ol the vast irou highways west of the ohio will be grouud into powder iiie history of human civilization shows that commerce is always its handmaid if not its lender commerce is simply tbe interchange of barter nnd if tlie term may be us i is latitudinal tliat is it consists hi the exchange of the products ur industry : one clime or me latitude tor those of another to barter exchange or sell oue barrel of flour for another uf flour is not trade io exohange tbe wheat of illinois for tbe flour of ohio is not trade rhe exchange of lliu produois and indus try oi a given latitude for tin products and industry of the same latitude though transformed in shape by i manufacturing process is not trade and never cau be tnade th ■ source of wealth hence we find that a ■ . uliest dawn of civilization broke with genial beams upon the banks of those great rivers and the coastwise shores of those inland and cuter s run ning north and south examine the map of ili world and witness bow tbe great architect bas marked out tbe course of nature's highways all the great rivers of india asia proper and tbe nile which was tlie sou ice of tbe egyptian civilization run north and south thus connecting different latitudes and furnishing tbe high ways by which their mutual wants were supplied in europe we find with one famous ex cepiiou tlie samo natural order the great rivers of europe on tbe banks of which social ordei based on trade baa gradually developed into organized gov ernments •! v \ rth or south the danube ri • .-.,•. ption flows kast and w est ana is to day tbe line of barbarism in the heart of the ( m world tins stream has been utilized to some extent l.y a canal which connects its waters with tbe lib iue thus giving uninterrupted water communication frum tbe english channel to the black sea inland tbrouirb tbe centre ol europe iiut the uselessneas of the danube except as a through highway has already been demonstrated as well as its utter want of value to the world's com mei ce ibe ambition of russia has followed ihe southward flow of its great rivers rrance seeks through ihe zuez canal to realize lbe great latitudinal instincts ui trade and open a way by whicli the com merce of tho east may be tinned into the mediterranean sea looking to north america we find the same geographical and topographical configuration observa ble iu europe i he gn at rivers run north and south tho mighty mississippi prop er with its some at the i as of the rocky mountains iu the same latitude as new foundland flows southward marking a channel of 7,000 miles receiving tributa 1 iea embracing tbe wealth v tho continent bringiug to ibe south even the furs of lhe hudson bay company and bearing ou its bosom lhe ice of north-land at last amidst tbe sugar plantations of louisiana and the <■ . . • ■_■ u nhores and orange scent 1 ntmobph i of a tropical land empties us i waters and its wealth of trade into thi i , ,, dexico and that natural llll ' . ••'• hich is impressed upon ; s|j"l in striking contrast with :