carolina watchman wkkklv vol xix salisbury n c novlmi.lb is 1861 nu.miskr v 1 1 bruner ruitoh m proprietor ofall men thai have brought contempt in time past upon the judicial oflice the voice of history has pronounced jeffries to be lhe vilest in a position of all others tin in st sacred whose every surrounding should have inspired a love of truth he deliberately perverted the judicial office and made it an engine of oppression par v rancour and base subservienqy tokinglv power were the motive thai imp lied a i degradation for which history can find tin parallel but the faun of jeffries ha lt lasi been lmuicil van keei lorn sup plies one who starling with uie satin in tention to become a scoundrel and toper ert justice in tlm interests of tyranny and ate h .- eclipsed even jeffries in the bold ness nf his villainy and the audacity of his outempt for the public opinion of the | orld i ms creature is judge grier of the i nit i sia supreme court who has just gone through the farce f trying for piracy william smith a citizen of tbe '. • ' infi lei 1 ' states in the l jircuil t ourt 1 ir the eastern district of pennsylvania the northern papers supply us with the httrg s of the two judges and tbe verdict he i n_v . < iri r went through his part 11 re of tbat attention to foi m and . i he politic tribute v hich m acconi i ish . -.- itindrel always renders t.i virtue perhaps his protou pe jeffries would \ have displayed in like case but we must remember that jeffries lived in a ruder . sv in 1 men w m straight to their ob - .. it bout wasting much time in hypoc risy grier proceeded first gravely to iletine lhe crime of piracy quoting win a 11 - the one of various m-t of lon uss which appeared tinust convenient lo - i , viz the lav ol 15th ma . 1820 ilis learning on this subject we i 1 pent we take sitr.pl his final definition that piracy consists in " depre ti or neai the sea without autbori 11 mv 1 riirce or state it was not difficult to show that the n of ank 0 malice — one of the brave . wl . have b u ne our flag upon the ' mder the regular authority of the 1 otifederate government — had f n con cerned in 1 depredation in or mar the 1 ' 1 his much we suspect w as conce th a or plainly proved on the trial of lhe ! mt was lhe act w ithi mt that au 1 ty from stat which distinguishes between lawful warfare and piracy '. here - the point cf the case in order to ac . the purposes of judicial murder to which grier meant to make himself a party ..-■ is compelled to deny that the ' out lei it government can in called a ii tells ll that '• it does not a that every band 0 conspirators who a iv combiue together for the purpose of or revolution or overturning the government of a nation of winch they •> ••!'■ citizens or subjects becomes ipso ' a _ parate and indi pendent m.-tn i 1 i il family u nations vve shall nol stop to chop logic with one tn thus impudently pervert the facts what is the power !,,- thus i ms ■ •■ band of cotisp r itom .' " a con federacy of eleven slates wuh n jtopula ■ leu millions with a standing ai mv tiuiul o hundreds of thousands by the sion i l be oii'-my and flushed wilh i ch have 1 uilg all over the world with a country equal to j di j rope wilh a jurisdiction cheerfully i "_. ../.] all through it domain with a regula government organized in ill its epartmi its wilh a navy wilh a ostal l ■■ . with a fiscal system with a credit - qual to that of it adversaries ' 1 ure at i .-_. power ten times a , a that with which our forefathers : ihe contest with greal britain i ti 1775 lt nu in be 1 -, power and an or ! ganized government constitute a stale - hat rule is mexico or sardinia or or greece to be considered j ui vi - il to i.-sue li iters ol marque and the ' 011v rate states excluded '. by whal is - ng does it follow that persons act nn i r tlieir authority can legally cap j ure 011 the high seas uud our citizens be \ ng ispiiatesi nay if power and pres . v arc to determine the case why may • ; we relying upou our many victories id the insulting presence of our hosts al ' within the sight of the yankee capi 1 proceed to hang in chains the villains ht but the other dav upon our coast who had started with the avowed object of j ' •' g n tbe property of our people " on or near the sea ?" but our pennsylvania jeffries informs s tbat a " successful rebellion may be ; ' mm i a revolution that it may exercise he privilege of sovereignty after and not efore the government from which it sep arated hall recognize its success until then tin courts ofthe i'liiteil stales " can ' v lew iihim in rebellion again-i tbem in no other li^ht tiiaii as traitors lu their coun try a principle which would ft collise doom to the halter every prisoner so far taken in this war it this be true doctrine we should like to know why it is that the yankee govern menl has nol put upon trial tor their lives the men taken at lintterns nnd rich moun tarn i if tiie consent of tbe hostile gov criiuieiit is necessary for a rebel govern insnl to ismic ns letters of marque aad to i'oiniiiission us armed vessels upon the ■ mm then greal britain in the war of the revolution would have been jus titled in hanging by the yardarm even one of onr sailors captured by their cruisers including ' john paul ones and his officers yet this . haughty power never unsullied to exercise such right minder whether judicial or otherwise is not popular uny where save i among the thugs nml lhe yankee alter such an infamous charge from grier an.l one of a similar cliaracter by ' ins associate < ' idwalader the jurj found ] ••' v rd cl of guilty a a matter of course li all an liour whs petit iu apparent delib eration vvu are told that the prisoner was ordered to stand up and look upon the perjured jurors who sat upon his life as ihey gave their verdict but thai hel did not blanoii al iln ordeal no sur rounded l.v in enemies amidst a people thirsty lor his !> p....i did thev bul dare to lap it cut off from his friends and home convicted by a corrupt and perjured court ol a crime foreign lo every instinct of his nature with a dungeon and the gallows before him amid all thatcould appal the hum ni soul he - in undaunted an imated by the proud consciousness lint be had done bis duty to his <•■ nml 1 v a ml in thai sib nt dungeon to whii h tyranny has consigned him he inaj rest -. cure and i'i ai l ss 1 li . u mies hate much bul they fear more the scriptures t.dl us thai "• veil the devils believe and itemble not 1 hair of his head will tl 5 dare to injur hull well do they km m i •■ earful retribution ihal would follow it they were to carry oul iheir infamous pro gramme the public opinion of europe the horror of all * ibristendom at a ci so monstrous would of itself deter them ' but there is more than this to inspire them to an unwilling compliance with the laws of civilized war or all the crimes they h iv ■■ c immrtli d in ihis in . a iu of our soil for tin iunooenl blood thai has been sheil for ih houses that have been burned to lha ground tor the property thai has la-en devastated for the famlies thai have been turned out beggars uikui the world for their cruelty to prisoners u..l their in sults to ladies for their outrages upon the honour of helpless women tha judgment of the south is beginning to take a tone wbich no government will be able to re sist the conviction is growing upon thel minds of the people that a nation ol rob i bars and pirates desi rve no quarter r.-sttve nml impatient there is a present acquiescence in lhe humane policy of the ' confederate govern ment tlow long it will be endure i while the enemy prose cutes the war upon the theory that we are ' ut of the pile of civilized war we will j not attempt to predict i>u a single spark will light lhe sun ui i 111 ir into a 1.1 tz lei the convicted " pirat " al i hilade.phia be executed und it is sate to predict that j the law of retaliation will not 1 limited to man for man it is by no means im probable that the people will then insist upon it as a fixed rule ll sl not one ol the brood of murderers and ravishers now prisoners or hereafter to become such hall be spared from tin bnme nd um nis doom to which a southern man has been con signed for lighting the battles of his na tive land richmond examiner the yankees not all out of the coun try yet — immediately after the battle of of manassas when it was announced that gen beauregard's horse had been killed under him by a shell on lhe batl le field liiere appeared in lh newspapers of au gusta georgia a paragraph stating that a " magnificent gre btalliou had arrived there for the ' reiieral presented lo him by in unknown hand it now appears that litis grey stullion wh ch was shown tn au ohj.ct of great curiosity lor several weeks iu the blieets of augusta waa a complete sell for having passed gratis on all th railroads to that point undercover , f being a pre nt to general beauregard be was finally sold to the highest bidder so that south carolina has still the right of claiming to be the tirst and only state which bas presented thst officer with a war hois we will rdd here that tin one be lost was of ltoswcll's celebrated stable and be died yauie to the last charleston courier w ll the whole cans of the war is to be analysed we must minis say the north " crners have tin right od their side i'or the southerners have destroyed without " provocation a mighty political fabric and have impaired the glory and strength of the american republic this is thu sentiment and tlm utterance of tlm london times it is the mosl remarkable declara tion that has occurred smc 1m commence ment of the american revolution of 1861 tin south bave not iln rigbl on their side ; indus their proceedings has destroyed j ilu mighty political fabric the glory and strength of the american republic the logic of the tunis j as had as its statement of the issue can make it great ness and glory and union arc the sutnmuni bonum and every insult and wrong and ; grievance and ignominy must be in me i with in order to preserve the integrity of the existing establishment that was not the doctrine of i77n tbe integrity of the british empire wa then regarded as of less consequence than th freedom of the british subject nor wis ii tlm doctrine oi 1812 foi thin tin idea was that the ii imn ot american commerce was of more mom nt than th supremacy of brits isb rule upon the sea much less was it the doctrine of hampden and y_nk in 1688 for tin word tlnn vva perish lhe i mar chamber perish parliament perish prerogative perish charles the f.kst perish everything but let british freedom prevail it isa grovelling a sordid an utilitarian a mosl un british idea of the times that freedom i not to in preserved lest empire union magnitude greatness hall perish lh question between north ami south l 5iiiij.lv a question between freedom and slavery lhe times taking a downing street view t the case cousiders it a mere question of material power we tell that mil ami we declare before all tbe w'-ild that id consider it a n^ked question if servii ude tr ind ] tidi nee wu pass over the thirty eai crusade of the north againsl the institutions of the souih we ignore the fact ihat th whole burden of their literature and their intellectual effort tor thirty years has been t biing the in stitiitions and tin character of tin south in i disrepute i fore the world what evor evil opinion i entertained iu any quai li r f i li . irth against the people ul the si in hei u i i n'v has been the inculcation of ur affectionate fellow-citi zens ■ i * i north it u :• are the oppro li'.ctn ai i tin t'.iv un abomination f good people every where it i to our breth n i of the north that we owe th fact ; tur unless tin -•' co patriots ol ours hail !.>■ ' siirr.-d themsi ue in all seasons good and evil vo make the world hate and abhor us ve should ti"t have been so misunderstood and il judged passing bv these old scores of systemat ic detraction libel aid lander we have ] only to rcf.-r tu th proceedings of the lasi ! tw iv months to vindicate the action of iln south have we ti"t seen in this pe riod the election and installation of a pres ident pledged to aggressive measures against mr domestic institutions backed by a parly that ha obtained control ut the government i the triumph ol aeon stilutioual party however sectional or howev r obnoxious t the sentiment of the south could never have produced a polio uf resistance un her pari lint tin triumph of tbe j'.l.-n-k republican party of the north was the triumph of a party which proposed to violate the constitution and to deprive the south of her coiistitutiona rights by force of mere majority power 1 ins intention was asserted not by a ma jority of the peoj lu of the unii n « would have somewhat ameliorated lin bit tern ess of lhe insult hut by the mere ma jority of a ci mtn illing -• . tion the mu joritv which elected lincoln was nol u majority of the union but only a minority composed of tlm bitterest auemies of the i lonstitulion it v as t he mi re majoril v of a section ol that section in which tl . disciples of a law higher than th < v:i'-ti tution had succeeded alter man years ol agitation and falsehood in prejudieing tin popular mind against the constitutional in stitutions of i he si ulli the deliberate and declared purpose i i 1 ■• al o iiii n section ut i he < jonfedei a > was to overthrow ami crush out a consti tutional institution of the south taking tbem at their own word ami obeying the mere instinct uf sell preservation the south determined t separate itself from the federal union in doing su it sim ply took tin majority section at its word ihat section had boasted its determination io carrv out thu principles of the irrepres sible conflict it had elected as its agent in this work a man who had been ilm earliest and the most latitudinous in the announcement of this purpose cou ( pled with his announcements of abstract i principle in this respect tbia man lincoln i had ventured upon a series of overt acts indicating a settled purpose to carry his principles into practical operation it whs in view of this settled and openly de clared policy of the north that the con federate states took tin step necessary lor \ her protection freedom and independence tlm south would have been glad to pre serve the integrity of the american re public th.-y would bave suffered every other injury and wrong to avoid tlio rttp ture but when the sacrifice of their equality in tbe union their independence and freedom as a people was demanded 1 they bad but one alternative open to tbem ami that was leoession war and liberty i hese go hand in hand and she will never regret ber action — richmond examiner how bomb shells are made the manufacture of bomb shells is very interesting tbe shell is first filled with old fashioned round leaden bullets mell ed sulphur is then poured in to fill up tbe inters ces and hind the bull is in one sol id mass ; the shell i then put into a kind of latin ami a cylindrical hole of the ex act i ot the orifice of the shell is bored through the bullets and sulphur this cavity is filled with powder even with the interior edge of tbe orifice a 8 inch shell of the kit d here described hold ing half a pound the fuse fitted into tbe orifice is a recent belgian invention made ol pewter and resembles tbe screw cap used tot tlm patenl fruit cans an examin ation ot this pewter cap hows however that it is made of two hollow dies of metal screwed together and filled with meal p w der a numberof fine holes are drilled in the lowet disc while the outer disc is en tiro and mark with figures in uie circle 1 2 •'«. 4 in vis state the lmll is water proof when taken for use the gunner hv means of a small bteel instrument scoops oul .-'. portion of the outer soft met al surface and lays bare the charge of com position pow r below it it the shell is desired to explode in one s ■ ml aft i leaving the lt 1 '". tbe scooping i mad on figure 1 ; if in two seconds on the figure 2 and bo on tbe idea being thai the shells of this description shall first strike the object aimed at and do exe cution as a ball and then explode sending it bullets foiward as it another cannon located al the point where flight of the shell i arrested large shells of eight or ten inches arc filled with powder only and bursting do execution by means of tbeir fragment tin se large shells arc generally fired by in in of a fuse of meal powder extend ing through « brass plug screwed into the un nth of the shell in belli casts the lii-c is tired hv the ignition of the charm - - c uf the gun c nfel)erate tax ( lne of our subscribers has written to tis to know if it is true that the confederate tax is lo be paid in gold or silver we ii.-iv examined lhe act carefully and find no such provision iu it the act simply provides ihal on lhe isl day uf may next the collectors shall proceed to collect the lax we preaume thai treasury note ol the confederate states winch will be abundant bv that lime and the notes of uii i or of lhe soundest hanks will li received by the government ue agree wilh our correspondent that it would !„• impokhible lo collect the tax m gold and silver the iinpn -• • m referred lo by our cor respondent lilts licit tie been caused s a iiii-a prehension ol lbe 24th section ol i li act which provides that any stale mav avoid the tax collector and save tun pei cciiiiim on ihe amount assessed and due from the slate bv paying through its own i'lcasiiii r iii treasury notes or in spe ci ii or before the isl day of april next the auioiuil assessed as aforesaid rut stitndui .'- the instruction issued by the secreta ry i tie i reasury sin - the tax must be i . . i | in loin or treasury notes i he in struciioiis m tin report ought to be chatig ed ami ih iovernmeiit might afford lo lake the no'es uf solvent banks one o is certain every body can't get com or tie.i-iirv notes — charlotte dem a liberal patriot — in the washington n c dispatch we find thanks returned to mr burkins who resides near pactolus i'm county for kindly entertaining 200 horses and 17 men free of charge on tbeir route from granville connty to wash ington this was doing things oil a libe ral scale fa jbservi r keep moving don't give up if you happen to fail in anything you undertake try it again try it a hundred times if you don't sue i ceed before and all through some negli gence and oversight of your own i km't throw down your oais and drift stern fore must because the tide is against you the tide don't nlvvays run one way never anchor because tbe wind don't happen to be fair 15 it to windward and gain all you can until it changes if you get to the bottom of the wheel hang on never think of letting go the next turn will bring you on top are you in debt don't let time wear off tbe edge of the obligation economise work harder and spend less and hurry out does misfortune overtake you don't sit down and mope and let her walk over you pul oil mure team drive ahi ad and get oul of the way f y ou met ob stacles iii your path climb over dig under 1 or go around them never turn back it is sturmv to-day you don't better matters by whining and growling be good na ture.1 lake il easy the un wiil shine to morrow do you lose a few dollars by a bad speculation never think of collecting a corouer's jury about ymir dead body if you are a mechanic don't refuse to work these hard times because vou can't get the high rate you could last year that only helps to make thcin harder for your self ami everybody else better lake a dollar or two liss than be idle 1 on't put uu ihe sulks and lung face because money i not so plentiful as usual such a course won't add a single dollar tu he circulating medium keep in good bumor laugh yourself and do something to makes inkers laugb there's mure health in one good inarty laugh than in a dozen glasses of rum be happy and imparl happiness lo others keep moving look aloft be as prin lent as you please hut don't bleach out your hair and pucker your face into wrinkle ten years ahead of time by a self inflicted tit of dismals 71n \ anket fleet if is surprising that wc receive no definite information of the number of the fleet which is ud port royal it has been reported in tin eastern part ofthis state that the great republic the largest hip uf the fleet tour-masted and measuring 235g tons was ashore near rlatteras hut the report is nut confirmed so far she i said tu have had 1000 horses ii board at washington city on the 3d in-t it was reported that is ofthe ll.-.-t had been wrecked hut there appears tu have been no information al all on which the report was founded — fay ob server shipment of cotton — we rejoice to see that the georgians have sent a load uf 1800 bales of cotton tu liverpool in the british steamer bermuda the same which ran the blockade sum weeks ago and brought in such a valuable cargo of military stores — we hid feared from the tone of tbe south ern papers ihat they would refuse to alio w england tu have any cotton su a tu force a recognition of the confederacy such , r i policy wou!,l he calculated to make eng land uur rn my ami therefore vve aie glad to seel practically repudiated un tbe very i'n-t opportunity — fay observer age 1><i|;s not eurt it mr roberi ramsey last week presented um family with a gallon of home-made mo lasses manufactured by him three years ago of the sugar cane and if anv thing the quality of the article which isverysu perior vve would sav had been improved by age mr ramsey will make a large quantity of the article this year iredell express howie knives not used a correspon denl writting from leesburg s,-i bowie knives were nol used though the cavalry under ( apt ball who had dismounted ami were fighting on foot used tlieir re vs iv wil h considi rable effect i have in ml several a ceo tints of rencontres with the bayonet bul probably no mon than two or tine actually took place the 1 ankees ran before our boys could gel wil bin perforating distance s.\i.t am soap we understand thai a house in peters burg is holding a large auantity of salt which cosl not more than si per s.-u-k at u5 per sack and a large quantity of soap at 1 8 cent per lb w hich cosl tbem 4 cents per ii w ho ar those thrifty and jxttri otic gentlemen i \\ ill sum uf our former fellow-citizens ofthe cockade tell us