Carolina Watchman

              car01ina watchman wehrly number 69 1 j bruner editor amd proprietor thi war mim be ended tit l union times of march 1st stye tins war mint be nettled somehow the world has he.n wa'tilig to heat these words lhe present moment is perhaps , rather earlier than any one expected but i already we catch the expected phrase borne in confidential whispers across the atlantic it has found birth in wall street it stirs gently in us cradle and it is swathed iu unconvertible rage no one yet dates to own it openly the thousands of vultures who are living upon their prey would scream horribly aud attack with , beaks and claws any one who should with out adequate power iulerferd wnh their j ! inyuel ; but still the ph ruse is heard and | it is growing int a more potent voici — j lu soihe way or other this war must be j settled " wait a while wait just ninety day ; and thu rebellion will n crushed is still the cry ; as it has been for tin ice ninety in 1 ,-, the ei of th contractors the gov i eminent officials the fanatics aud all who | find powet or profit or distinction in this i civil war tne merchants and bankers and trading classes have waited and what do they seel they see ihe atlantic cities withering from hour io hour thev seethe warehouses empty the larger dwelling houses untenanted property valueless ami trade d ing i twy see a wasteful ami cor rupt expenditure of half a million sterling very day and uu results except mi accel erated pace towards national insolvency and general ruin still thev h r told to wait aiiot her ninety days and all will be well il may be well for those smart ill dividuals who by thai lime will have a ilier.-d all tlu-y can hope to gain have re alized th.-ir plunder ami bilged it where waste paper is not a legal lender but will il be well wilh the owners of house property in lhe east who are now letting their stores rent-free to any one who will pay the rates will it be well with the poor ami thrifty producers of the west who are condemned by the constitution to be taxed in a ratio proportioned to popu lation ami not to propeny i will it be well with the holders of state bonds which were hitherto holding a respectable posi tion as securities but must now be over laid by the mountain of national debt ? will it be well either with the holders of the federal slate securities aud the posses sors of paper money who will look around in vain tor some sources whence iheir claims may be met and will awake to the i reality that their property is but an illu sion and a dream ? this is all that those who wait will ever see the very joy and exultation which the " successes of tin past few weeks have caused iu the north show how little the promoters of this war really expect that absolute conquest which they promise the capture of an earth work on the tennessee river even if it be followed by the capture of the stronger neighboring fort upon the river cotistan tiue is only one of the first of a long series j of military preparations lor a campaign in j kentucky and tennessee if lhe invaders i should obtain ihis suceees its use will be lo enable them to feel liie army which j has advanced through kentucky and lo | keep it in working order lor operating on ! a theatre 500 miles distant from the op i posing armies on the 1'oiomac a yeai of successes would only give them military j possession of iwo slates which were never among the most zealous in the southern ' cause as to the descents upon the coast tlu-y are annoyances rather than wounds ihey are but like the burning darts which the spaniard thrusts into tlie hanks .,(' a sluggish bull to sling him fiom his defen | sive posture a hundred such victories i anil such inroads as these tell notliiug to : wards the conquest of a country half as large as europe if lhat country be really earnest in iis own defence the southern stales before they revolted must have ex peeled all this a ml much more we have ! always iu europe given the north credit lor lirsl successes very greatly superior to ' these and have reckoned lhat their teal difficulties would only commence when ; they liad mastered lite great stragelic points throughout the south at the rale at which the war is now proceeding it will take not ninety lays but ninety years to crush ihis rebellion ;" and the respective grandsons of general mcclellan and gen eral be a regard may at last tight out the battle f.,r manassas vv all street begins to see all this more clearly it was worth a costly expe rirneni to retain that rich southern busi ness and new york will be hard put to it ither to win it back or do without it — but the ca-mtalisls have now come to llm conclusion that the game is m snd that the experiment is inns fig t.tit f t i..-i , hands tha suggestion t raise 1 60.000 000 yearly by ln.ct taxation does rml il.-.-cim tbcin tlu-y know very w.-ll that even il the sovereign peopl would submit lo endure a taxation ns heavy ns thai of england america could hoi continuously raise more than 10.000,000 sterling an nually the rough calculation has always been thut in capacity of taxation the pro portion between the two countries is that american dollars are equal to brtgiish pounds sterling if we raise 60,000,000 exclusive of our customs america proba bly could it'sbe pleased raise jo,o00,u00 or 10,0(10,(10(1 such a possible revenue i'vcii it it were based upon th wild impro bability that the west ru states will con sent to pay nny such taxes would be a ve ry poor security for hall the debt which has already accrued in this state of things the commercial adage " the first loss is the nest cornea into play an i the capitalists ot new york are now watching for the first opportunity when it will be safe to say openly litis war must be settled somehow lhe first loss is indeed bad enough there hi all the profits of the southern agencies gone i he coffers are all drained by a disastrous loan of many millions — having suspended specie payments of course ihey cannot borrow any money irom abroad ami they have a government so recklessly manufacturing paper money that i here is no hope of keeping up lor any length of time the delusion that it is of value still there would be some hope if they could stop where they n,,w are — peace might restore to them some trade relations with lhe south and while the more indolent southerners have wealth the sharp northerner may always hope that he will get some ot it how the frightful current expenditure can be stop ped or how the war can he settled it is perhaps premature to speculate nor do we venture to calculate lhat the power of capital is immediately fell as decisive on such a question america has such im perishable advantages in her great unbro ken wastes of fertile soil that no mere financial difficulties can strangle her she may borrow and repudiate over and over again ami ruin veiy capitalist she has and yet rise again and thrive but at such a crisis as this the interests of moneyed men are likely lo be of great influence up on events we are much misinformed if lhe opinion ofthe commercial body in the great cities of federal america has not re cently veered round and if there be not all up and down wall street a general dis gust and antipathy to that ninety days bill and a unanimous resolution to protest it when il next comes to maturity the newspapers and the war the virginia papers says the charlotie democrat are complaining of jrreat diffi culty in consequence of so many printers volunteering in the war and those who did not volunteer are called out with tho militia so lhat il is a hard matter to pub lish the papers al all it is proposed lo exempt the workmen on daily papers and there is no good reason why the workmen on weekly and semi-weekly papers should not also be exempted one is as necessa ry as the other — if anything the impor tance of the weekly and semi-weekly is greater than the daily for the former have it not in their power to make imprudent haste in divulging the plans or secrets of the army or government while at ihe same time they do as much good ami no doubt more in consequence of iheir larger circu lation in arousing ho people to action ll is probable that editors and printers who attend to iheir business properly see harder service than if they were in the war and one thing is very certain editors are not making any money out of the war but ou the contrary are losing by it i he richmond examiner remarks : — " it is almost impossible to k.-ep the neces sary force to write punt press ami mail the papers the army cutiiains mote prin ters reporter and journalists in pi..por tion to ib population engaged in such oc cupation than any two or three other pro i'cssioiis the trade in cold and silcer — tin new orleans vigilance and safety com mitten have passed a resolution denounc ing all that trade tu money to the injury of the confederate note as traitors ami such a course is urged on the mobile safe ty committee to adopt also since tin mobile safety committee adopted this course coin is in no demand and the last sale was at 20 per cent less than a week ago hat liu i:\ploits cf tapt john ii morgan snd his men we hare already given ■ brief secnnnl of some of the recti t exploits of the p-allenl and i intrepid c iviiher capl john ii morgan and his brave men in ihe vieioiiy of nahhville i ii is mpinilri.il belong a to major general h«r dee's command iind be was left in command of i be post it 1 tirlreesborn ai il i wati lithe move me is of lhe enemy i ou the 7lh instant in the afternoon c apl morgan lieut col robert wood wbo ac cnipiiuifil li i nt as mi amateur five of capt m s men tind ten rangers went eighteen mid s toward nashville avoiding tbe pike encamped ; thai night and early the next rooming entered the federal lines under the direction of good i guides they were forced to pass within half u mile of a dump of federal cavalry nnd cap ' lured five men uf the 13th ohio regimen col smith with iii ir enfield rifles continuing their march towards nashville they took post j tion near die lunatic asylum commanding u i j full view ufthe turnpike sunn a train of wag . ons with a guard appeared in right where i 1 upon ol wood the ctptain antl four of bis . men dad in united hiatesover-costs rode up slopped the trutn ciiptuted twenty-three pris oners and nutting loose the horses and mu'ei from the wagoiiw mounted the prisoners on them blld sent hem back to our men in the woods i i this operation was repealed uut il the prisoners numbered ninety-eight including an aid uf cicii i'amont antl sever i other ollicers j the prist i eis were divided into three squads j j under separate guards and nil started to return i to muttieesboto lieut owens and ten men . baring sixiy prisoners in charge were altuck ed und pursued by the 4tli regiment ohio t'iivalry the pursuit continued fifteen miles and the prisoners having been abandonee the lieutenant and six of his men eluded the suets by leaping their horses from u steep > o k | into the river und swimming across th . u einv declined to etnulale their dating example | tbe other four men to avoid capture turned ! into the woods and ul last accounts had not been beard from tbe enemy tired several shots at lhe party but without effect two officers among the prisoners resisted and were i shot col wood und fourteen men with ten pri . sutlers went across the country and passim i j within u mile ofthe federal navalry reached j '> the vicinity uf murfre short that night i capl morgan was returning alone towards ! murlreesboro and encountering u picket of six i men captured ihem und iheir arms i'iur is ' suid io iiave been accomplished in this inan ner lie discovered the picket in a house and having mt a federal uniform , or perhaps over ) coat assumed a bold from und ihe confident i air of u federal officer rode up to the picket and rebuking the officer in command lor not at lending properly io his duty ordered him to i give up bis anus which be did he then di rected him under penally of death to call out i the men one by one und surrender iheir arms | wtiicli wus done — and all surrendered one of j morgan's men named spalding joined him i with four other prisoners and they came up j i with col wood und his parly next morning j ! all returned to murlreesboro with thirtv-eighi ' prisoners who were sent qui to salisbury n i j cm for confinement tne fruits finally reaped from lhe expetli j i tion were thirty-eight prisoners und a large number of horses mules pistols sabres bur | ness saddles &(-., together wilh the knowl i edge thut the whole force of the enemy was ■ | about o.->,000 that they bad posted a regime ut i of cavalry about eitjht liles frotn nashville on i the m urfreesboro pike und gave no indica tions ofa further advance the above facts are gleaned from the hunts i villi democrat which paper learns lhat jen ! hardee has urgently recommended him for promotion to a colonelcy he merits and should receive il he is a son of mr calvin i morgan formerly of hunteville lale of lex ingtou kentucky — savannah news the rlockade to he raised — we have had exhibited lo us skeleton drawings and had giv en to us a description of a ram the const ruc i lion of one or more of which will shotlly be commenced at u confederate port which will prove nearly as much superior lo the virginia j — superior as she is — as lhat monster is to a . | wootlen ship it would be imprudent t give ; anything like a description of iius new ingen ! , iously devised and powerful und formidable , monster uf ihe sea while of far greater ca pacity superior strength and h.-avier arma ment it will draw less by one-half than the vir ginia and will prove invulnerable to attack ■ . while irresistible in attacking nothing that , is now known to naval architect ure that floats i upon tin in ean can withstand the shock of an encounter with this new crufi — nothing like it has ever been built with one like it in he i harbours of the five rsix pri ncipul seaports of the south the lincoln fleets must either leave the waters they infest or submit in the fate which overlook their consorts in hampton uoads in due time iis whereabouts and pow er will he made known by deeds thai will cheer the true sons of the south send lhe ollill ol death to the glory of lhe northern navy and startle ihe world with its wondrous exploits — j this is no fancy sketch — no empty boast the plan biis been approved by the government | and . ne or more wil be built immediately from i lie drawing we have seen nnd llieexplu nations we have had we pet ! confident thai ibis i new vessel will easily ac«-omplt*h all its invent ! or promises and prove u terror lo the navy of the lincoln government atlanta ga cun mohineallh h/itur/i °.">. proclamation by the governor — i reference to our advertising columns it will he seen thai gov clark has prohibited the exportation beyond lhe limits ofthe state of hit cotton nnd linen goods — including varus jeans linseys and hlankets except through the ot b-rs of lhe proper officers of the confederate states or slate govern ment — western democrat don't <■<> away dont si'lc late i hat u ih approach of ■ menaced dan ger persons who have the opportunity of lemoviiig iheii familita should wraulhenv i selves of thai opportunity is no mot than natural all lhe non-combattnnta lhal ran be removed lhe better—at least it can o in hat m but let all ih men who have an int test in the town in the coun try in the cause w h can aid in its defense slay ami share th n-.ks with their fellow citizens and do iheir duty to the best of tlieir ability whet'eser lhal duty may call them we know where duty does not call any man li does not call limi to in to make money out ufthe public distress to speculate upon tho food necessary for the support of families or the articles of weii in apparel demanded by decency and comfort then i ►, wryly no heaven for men who would persist mi doing so — liny suiely do nol care much for the coin try on tin nil ,„ which ll has pleas ed providence to cast linn lot since they cub hardly adopt a plan more likely lo injure its cjuise tliiiu that whicl they are pursuing from interested motive oh let tin son f thing sstt>jj bi th in town nnd country tor speculation and extortion is not con titled to residents of towns bv any means let us a-.si-t not ir to take ad vantage of each other wilmington jour nal the coming crops — we commend the fol lowtue sensible article lion tbe khreveport cazrlte lo tbe careful consideration of ilu.be tow bum it ik addressed tin question sug gested cannot in loo deeply weighed and llniss wbo respond unfavorably will not only be blind to their men interests pecuniarily speaking but wil 1 act injudiciously and blips irtoticully profit a nd put riot ism alike dictate lhat little cult n should be planted und that tbe cereal crops should receive general atten tion tbe iazettc says it is difficult to banjo ibe routine of culture du u plantation and it is natural to suppose lhal every pi ti titer knows disown business besl tbe bugge tions nf editors arc generally ireat ed witb indifference and ibeir beautiful tbeo j riesunls amuse ibe practical planter being t await that we cannot change ibe minds or alter the blnbb of onr planting renders we will state a few fuels tor their consideration : a large coiton cr«.p is already niude und it cannot be sold another crop would glut ibe markets of the world for several years uml re duce lite price almost une-nalf ' the border slave mates are laid waste and occupied by the enemy our unities caiinoi obtain supplies trom tb.it source the cotton slates wilh virginia mast feed our armies this year and ! perhaps next year thousands on thousands ] of laboring men will enlist tins spring leaving i iheir little farms deserted and iheir families i dependant upon the charities of iheir wealihy j neighbors to repel the invader we most have at least | 800,000 men including the mililia to feed and clothe such an army will tax the capacity j of every acre of laud and bring into uctive use j every spindle spinuiug-wlieel und loom it tbe i confederacy arres of a suspicious character — a man giving his name ns c g hell from maryland was arrested in this town last thursday and put in jail by order of the vigilance committee he came from lin : coin ton to ihis place and was making his , way south its he raid it is supposed that be i a lincoln emissary sent oui here to ( burn railroad bridges or seek information for the enemy it is fortunate thai h«j was jailed for the same lav two gentle j in ti iii ii\e.l here from abingdon va in pursuit of him for horse stealing lie , mole tbe imrse in a bi notion and sold him in lincolnton for 24 when charged , with lhe crime he confessed it but contend . ed that lis wa a southern mail in seuti metit he is no doubt a spy as ihose who examined him in jail are convinced he was sent li;ic-k to abingdon lo be tried and will be apl to bud a home in the 1'e-n ileiitiary no doubt llu ti are many such charac j t'-is lurking iii lhe south let everybody be on tin look out western democrat lead as l ad is now n r:io impor taut material to the < onfederate govern ment we would ruggesl to merchants and others having old a thesis that each one contains from one to bun or live pound ufthe article which l-lenned with little trouble nnd melted makes a very lair spec imen of head i here is also a large quan tit v im the various iron railing about the citv whieb the owners could spare wiih otu much loss or iniouveiiienoe and in nearly every house mote or less of it could be galh.-red up for use we have no doubt thiit in petersburg alone many tons could be secured every pound helps and might place a yankee hors du combat past t/irtn arotrnd '. — as an lllns(rat?t*i f the puit hj which the sotllhe til peopfe are neitiiit 1 we will relate the lollowme inchjeot given us bv n gentlftnan who oh mined it rvort n print cognisant of the font : ivw half grown la is were i m hilnfiiio ill the neigh bo rb nl of newbern n were discovered and accoated bv a var kee lieutertaat one of lhe boys won ll l it ps y c on his c.ip winch allrrtr t.il he \ nikee's attention and he inquir i.l i f the l.,,y what ib \ meant the lips replied : north carolina 1 whereupon th lieutenant ordered ptttn to remove rh<-m ihis the b.,y declined doing wlun he was again ordew'd in t.-tko the off nnd agaftt he refused to do so the lieutenant then remarked lhal he would take them oft himself ami wnain tbe act of disnrouin ing from his horse to do so when tire l.nv winked to ins com tittle w ho took fitsnientl ino an i in a moment lite o ins ,,( i 4 , 1 1 1 i m bo-.s were levelled al the heu.l of ihe yan kee officer ami he was commanded tnnni render seeing the nil r hopelessness of ins case and perfectly astotinded al lie spirit displayed hy lhe b..\s the yank ga\e up ins pistol nnd on being ordered to disino mil did so then lhe hoys se,-,ur i him and again placing him on his horse conducted him lo kiuslou where he was safely lodged in jail surely the lavs of the revolution ar bgaill upon s norfolk fai hook burning coft6h f — we lenm on tho best authority that 1 vy ton atkinson ksq of 1 in counly noith caroline has al ready bunted eight hundred iwlcs of cot ton on one of liis plantations rather that lhat it should remain liable to the plun dering raids of lhe enemy w lieu a mail thus voluntarily sacrifice over thirty thou sand dollars worth ol his own property trotn a sense of patriotic lnty he gltee the most convincing evidence lhal he he ionys indeed to a people who are terrible iu earnest and will shiink from no sacri fices of private interest that the cause may demand mr atkinson is not alone the patri otic planters pf pitt kdyecmihe and oth er exposed counties are dclei mined that none of their cotton shall fall into the hands of the invaders brooms an broom corn we find in the last number of lhe deaf mute casket the following on the subject of brooms and broom corn any one desiring seed or information on the subject of ruining broom corn should uhlresh iheir inquiries lo vv j palmer principal deaf awd dumb asy lum raleigh n c vvo receive a great many orders for brooms which we are unable in till this is owing to the great scarcity of materials especially hr ortt corn our farmers have always neglected tho cultivation nf this important product and we have heretofore been entirely dependent upon the north for u supply vve are pleased to learn that some of our furmers will rutee a crop this year because they ure heg-ining to fintl out ithat it will pay as well as tiny crop tbey can cultivate we used to pay from 5 to 7 cents per pound for broom corn north now we are paying our uu it turners from 8 to iu cents per pound we have lull directions for lhe cultiva tion of broom-corn which we will find to nny one desirous of gaining informal ion upon the sub ject we cen also procure needs for any one wishing lo plant a erop substitute for leathtr.-v\uri lias hern much talk about leather and the want thereof for h artless u-.-s lot the government a substitute hns been found so far as tea ses and chains are needed simple oak or hickory splits csfn be used for heavy or lioht loads we are assured that evefy part ofa harness even to bridle nnd collar can he mule from hickory or oak hj li ts — — f t bat i n proven that woo hoops can be successfully used iu hilling col ion in pl.-rce of hempen rope in fact un entire wagon harness which costs in loath r at thi time from forty to fifty dollars or more can 1 furnished onalino6tanv firm for a few dimes spiking runs — the confederates at roanoke island seem t have spiked their b*una well a correspondent of the new y'.ik i til une gives the following account ofthe manner in which it was dont < inly in forte blnnchnrd four guns snd klli two guns wen the vents slopped with mt t.-iil tiles wrought or even cu i nails being used m nil lhe other cases to draw these would have been an easy mat ter in itself bul he enemy hud taken the dditioii.il piectih'ioii of driving a shot home and wedging it in and even in ome cases of londing the gnn and wtsdging » shell fuse down half way the muzzb , so lhat in attempting to clear the piece thb shell would explode and burst it vol xix salisbury n c aprril 7 1862