Carolina Watchman

              carolina watchman wkkhbv vol xx salisbury n c november 17 1862 m'ml.kl 26 r j i.imwkk i:ih_ck ami ri-i.riu ion music i r.iieated to thr sail bury brass kami nv a krikn we ilmuk the ruble gen you s lum-hil hearts ' thai liri-athe upon this lov-iy moonlit night an offering so grand and pare and sweet i mow thrilling strains inspire ihe uat'ning ol a nd now iii melting si in if 1,-iiilerm-hs flu soften uetnvtettl <»■ * • 1 1 1 1 v o'er th h urt like th-wh of warmest iov on grateful mowers \ gilt .•!' mil-ic ih n gift i'l soul t nsks u welcome nf those thoughts sublime viui reelings deep which onlv live ami j low within ihe higher fiiirer chambers of the mind sure if there he an angel bright and lair t memory she visits us on wings • if sacred pleasure — breuthi iff no huh , l-'or never does the heart recall past hours more vividly and ttinr.iin.'lv thnn wh^n l moves thein ihrough dc«r musi'-'s m.iiric charm and there is precious hope in music too fur it proclaims thai ilier is much ot'joy and bleating for the faith fill heart evn here ' ami like a prophecy inspired of heaven it speaks of strains lhat float from golden wires ! upou ihe pur , ambrosial air ol love la that all-trhirious world where ev'r harp ud ry heart are nnr iu harmony if praise to hun v-ik loves and reigns forever nov 6th 1862 stonkwall jackson a poet doubtless it will surprise many to h-arti that the iuolitrasive and ha jy warrior stouewull : i k ksoii is a poet of no little ability nud that among the busy scenes n arduous dtttiee of ' amp he has found leisure to gtatify his taste ior the beautiful io liie ra tare the following i lilies were wtitteu while jackson was an artil ' lery tricer in mexico duriag the war betweeu ! he uuiied states and thai country : i my w_k ami child the tau'jo beals — the lights are gone the caniji irotiud in slumber lit s the night with solemn p.-iee moves nn t ie shaiiows thicken o'ei ihe ski ; hut sleep my weary eyes hath town and sad uneasy thoughts arise i think of thee oh iearesl oiih whose love my early life haih hl-ast — 1)1 thee inn him — onr baby son — who slumbers on tliv gentle breast i god ofthe lender frail 11(1 lone oh guard tint tender sleeper's real and hover gently hover near to hor whose watchful eve is wet i'o mother wifi — the doubly dear i u whose young heart have freshly met i'wo streams of love so deep and clear a id cheer hor drooping spirits yet nov while she kneels before thy throne ' oh teach her ruler of ihe skies thai while by thy behvst alone earth's mightiest powers fall or rise no tear is wept tu thee unknown no hair is lost no sparrow dies that thou can'st stay the ruthless hands of dark disease and sooth its pain 1'h.u only by thy stern commands the battle's lost the soldier's slam — rii.it from the distant sea or land thou bring'st the wanderer home ain ■ iui when upon her jkiiow lone her tear-wet cheek is audi pr-..t may happier visions beam upon the brightening current of hei breast no frowning look nor augrj lone disturb the sabbath of her rest whatever fate those forms may show i-uved with a passion almost wild — by day — by night — in joy or woe — uy fears oppressed or hopes beguiled n n every dauger every foe oh god protect mj wife and child affairs at pensacola — it has been ascertained tlml 5,000 of the y;-ti!._e soldiers have been removed from ti icil.'i florida but to what ttoint is tint known smuts have been i-m.uttly scut our and tliey report ! nu superior force t if tiie enemy n i lie iiiiiinliin.l ( m i spedition to ! u is penuauola rei-tiu«.'d in the qi ' of bacon tiou^li for ten days rations to all our 1'nrct.s in that sec i('ti nut inn since u party of van i kee abolitionists went io the resi lence of gen morton formerly t 1 nited states congressman and car i d off fourteen of hie slaves reported arred of ben wood — i ib stated that the abolitionists have arrested and imprisoned the ion lien wood democratic candi date for cougresa in the 4th district new york eity dis outspoken truths were vju much for the tyrants to swallow extortion nu i;i}n-r in ( ',, nt ___\ x i .|, i inn il ,.\. iuiti..i in to than the countryman i \' 1 itfllvvt ii ul l i an i uli|ihl il'.ii.ilili mii r mmiii in mill ii liow ; ever i li.ivc see 1 1 in.w uti.-nv futile it not harmful ims been my own den uncial ion mid ihal __ tl r__s o n talis tin ilo miliject wli i brads tins article qetice h.r sniiie iriutit.m past th coin try man has cased tu detiuuuce extortion ami lie c use lie m*v h is unable to do justice and secondlv i arouse im ims wen ihnl | tins denunciation < i extortion in general | terms without p«.i_ti_g nr what ex tor | tion is i a llul an u 1 1 h rt 1 1 1 ■ v effect upon itir people our p.-ii ir hhv m,,i i 0 |„.|,.. v ,. that ill | high ii'i'is constitute extortion this is j hn iiniil being id ■ s .■• i'".,i instance a i \\ days hgo j bought of _ 1.--ms carter & i llarve in iiiiiii,iii n boll nt osnaburgs i lor wli icli j t in 55c a yard i also en | gag.*d a keg or two ol nails ami agreed ! lo pay 4jh e.p<f.ti w was nut tins i the io isi onirageoiis extortion i far from l it instead of being extortion 1 lie lie vv ! ilie usual percent was iml hindi upon thei articles messrs carter i harvey had i paid 5uc p.-r yard for ili.ii osliaburgs and j joc p.-r ioiind for nails which latter ihey had ol mined from th messrs enham who pul themselves to considerable liicoti lenience to obtain them for the ncc<immo dal ion of our people and could havo sold iln-ni for much more in atlanta through winch place they were brought from cooii ei s iron w nt ks into tins eonntrv than the price ml which tin sold them lo mes n i.'ai im „- harvey imii to return lo iht subject messrs carter __: harvey in selling iheir nana burgs and nails at 55c and 35c 5 or j tiiti.-s tlie amount they used lo bell ihem im were dot so much guilty of extortion ns tbey were when they used to sell tbem at the dd prices tor i dare sa ihey do not make so great a profit nu as thev did then vot our people will purchase such articles at the prices mentioned and 1 1 1 1 n iv there y wonderful extortion in it — they don't remember iliat everything is bearing a high price now they do not remember lhat what thev have to sell brings a high price too and that they are not only willing to receive but actually demand a high price for it what do we country people m_ji onr jeans our wool stripes our butler our chickens our eggs our tallow our candles at it is a poor rule that won't work both ways but people are not disposed to let ii work both ways everybody wishes to be n extortioner but nobody desires to be an extortionee everybody wishes to sell his neighbor his goods and chatties at four or rive hundred thousand prices but il makes him as ' mad as blazes if his neigh bor oilers to sell inm anything at more than oue half what it cost a case in point occurred with the countryman a few days ago having pa triotically determined that i would not raise any more cotton cor sale during this war it 1 ever do 1 concluded 1 would open a little hatshop aud make it answer tiie place ot my cotion crop a far aa i could j>ut wool is enormously high great j ehosapbat .' how high who hats have to be high too or else they will have to be tuadeot something else besides wool i but ray bands haven't learned the secret i yet now here was a case that troubled ' me very much indeed i was making nothing to sell had to buy a great manv things aud pay war prices for them all wool half meet with ready sale and to support my family i thought i would em j ploy hail is and get them to manufacture these articles but they will sell so high j you will be called m extortioner — ' ves i dread lhat but my necessities are imjic j nous iu their demands — so i concluded | i would exchange a wool hat for 2 pounds ol woo the old rule used lobe 1 pounds ot wool in exchange for u wool hat now says i ' i've got the iiiing all right ; do extortion now ; only half price 1 one of my iii mis a fanner as well as myself tu l me at crooked creek church ' mi country mail said he several per sous were standing around — ' i've got some wool i want made into hats what will you make them for — two pounds j of wool will make aud pay fora wool hat j sanl 1 with becoming meekness at the idea i of my telling hats so cheaply : ' a wool . hat us..d to be exchanged for 4 pounds of wool — now 1 charge only __ — unit's till 1 ! want ' lint mr countryman your price for hats is very high two pounds of wool are equal to 4 and that's enormous for wool bats ' did you say you had some wool ?" ves ' what did you sav it was worth f 1 two iliillars a lott-ltl 1 1 wl*|l i i an ill'iii ! i uiak i h j very cheap with h litti h-lp frtmi vim ; sell un your wihii hi 10c mid i will make j your hats at 20c 1 ' ' lllll i-|.-,.li wool alwa v vt'oilll 4(lc a pound 1 ' v rv well : sell t»i y.iiir wottl tl 40c ainl i will make vniir lints at mil ••.' the inugti was hfthiitftl m fiierid mnl in bad io iclil tlie point inn he imn tmi ! yet yield i ine bis won al 40c and i have not concluded lo btise mv valeiilhliulih or the price of my hat either upon tin idea tlmt be or any one else will ,|,, ,,,. t||j b i t only one case in point there nr mill ioiis nf olbem icvei \ iiodv ii i'xi..iliti in mn m'iim ut the wiiid but iidbody wisliei lo be extorted upon let onr peoj.le come back from tlieir | whiideriiigfi ttud consider wlmi fxturlioti i i if ihey will only lake a reasonable it-id l uliscltisll view of the mll.jia.t lllel'e will il.t in so much iiiurintiriiiir and fomplhitit — he who is really an extortioner specula tor or engrosser should be denounced lie who sells or manufactures for a fair truth unci thus adds to the mercantile or manufacturing facilities yf th land for supplying the ece_siii of life deserves your thanks rather lhan voin curses the cott ii tn nm u i b ii hill on tun tiers s-u.e__h.kei and own ' crs of factories * * * * * j .'.. l.n there arc manv icr«.ns who j are dot o.-ii'i'is agents or employees of ihe troverniuent v.-i who nre doimr intieh tu oppress the people and . tj rich themselves : by treble prices such as shoemakers tan j ners superintendents and owners of facto j ties and manufacturers ami artizans of all ! kinds all such men are not onlv practi ! cal enemies to our success in this struggle i but are acting ill direct bad faith to the j government and are subject to punishment j these men are exempted from the inilita j ry service llul this exemption is not for '' the benefit of individuals but for the pub ! ttrtiovd all thus situated therefore who i act for iheir individual gain violate the j true intent of the law aud are expressly subject to be at once conscribed and never more to be exempted ! the law provides j tbat seventy-five per cent on the est of production shall be lhe extreme limit of the prices chargad various pretexts and schemes are being already resorted tu lo magnify apparently i the cost oi production or to mistily the j calculation in the mind of the eop!e | under this law neither the cosl of living j nor the interest un capital invested from i any part of the cost of production these are provided for in the seventy-five per cent profit allowed and the provision is ample and eorichining — more really than ought to have been allowed whal is the cost of production on a pair of shoes ? it is the price paid for the raw hide — the expense of tanning it — and the hire of the operative who makes the shoes let it be remembered that the hides : which are tanning and which are to make the shoes for tiie coming winter were bought at comparatively low prices the j present pi ices ul hides and leather consli tute nu part of the cost ot lhe production ; of shoes made irom hides or leather bo'l nor have the tanners the right to charge present prices for the leather made of hides , bought at lower prices heretofore what is tbe cosl of production of a yard of cotton goods ? it is the cost ofthe col ton and the actual expenses incurred in running not making or pulling tip tho machinery and the wages uf the operatives let it be well remembered thai much of the cloth now being made and which will i used during the ensuing winter is manu . factured of cotton bought at low prices — the present price of cotion i no part of i tiie cost of producing a yard uf cloth from colton bought during lhe winter and spring ; now past every operative has a personal interest in seeing to it that tln law is not violated i for if one superintendent or officer of a factory or other establishment nhall violate this law every person engaged aboul tin establishment is subject to conscription al once and without remedy ! so every man woman and child in tin land is interested in reporting violations of this law for ii is t ' pn - . nt them from be ing oppressed na well us to prevent the guv •■ eminent from being weakened that the i law has been enacted various method have been resorted to | with a view of securing high prices and escaping public odium the most com i inon has been to offer goods for sale at uuctiou this is at firsl view a plausible scheme of extortion it puts the whole honest community government included iu tho hands of speculators put all ir the power of the felon eons counterfeits and secures i o the owners iln onlv ohjeel real ly intended — high inns wit/wot odium i iin must all !»• slopped now for more than 75 per cent on lb cm f produc tinii whether al auction or otherwise is a * iolalioli uf the law i a substitute for shoes — an ex poiii'iici 1 citizen ims culled our at tention to hi ( . subject f t ust . ( f cowhide moccasins as a substitute for slii.es ho states tlmt when lie moved to tbe mississippi fifty veurs ig.i rn shiios en tn ik lunl f the negroes ami they made iheir own ui t ihis material winch answered lhe purpose its .. ell as the more elaborately hindu article nnd in some respect lietfer the process is simple lake i green cowhide or one well soaked with the hair on which is to gn next to the foot pur the fn.it ijuwii firmly upon it and cut out the pattern desired make the necessary holes along the edges and lace it with a thong of the same material ut thu heel and up tin instep let it dry upon the foot nnd itac uoinmoda e itsell perfectly to the shape of the latter while it is suffi ciently substantial for all kinds of travelling and its elasticity is pre served by use socks should be put ui when ir is made though it can be worn without ami such al lowance be made un shrinking so as fo avoid too tight a fir the moc casin it is scarcely necessary to ob serve adapts itself to tbe shape of the foot and the lit is perfect it outwears leather and is nor hard as some might appose but quite the reverse if desired it can he half soled with the same material the hair lining give the advan tage of warmth so that socks when not to be had can be better die pensed with when moccasins are used than if shose were worn j he gentleman to whom we are indebted for this suggestion says that he has mentioned the subject to soldiers who are very much pleased with it and says there is no reason why soldiers should go barefoot while so many hides are thrown away in camps mobile register 31 ore of jj idler the beast — minis ters a rrested for not praying for lincoln butler the beast has arrested and sent north three ministers in new orloans for ! omitting in their service the prayer for " the president of the unitedstat.es the new orleans delia gives the following ac count ofthe nrrest of one ofthe three the liev 1 ir • rood rich : i n stindav last he church was opened i as usual for divine service the robed pastor was there in his desk and a large > am fashionable congregation filled the pews there were presenl too several iiimv officers and among them maj geo t '. strong general butler's adjutant gen eral the " ceremonies rolled on and on and finally the major discovered that the minister had omitted the prayer for the president ofthe united states a hymn was chaunied and hen tbe audicne knelt as if to indulge in silent prayer while ( 1 1 ongregation wen in this attitude ma jor strong rose and aid to the minister — ; " wait one minute sir with the sud denness of emilt surprised the congrega i lion stood • rect awe tricben nnd the la ' dies flocked round the major who was at ■ lii.-d iii citizen's clothes and shaking their very huge fists at bim characterized him in such teiin as ob you monster of cruelty and then turning lo lbe livid i minister cried out goodby — " good i.v ;" and nine of them ejaculated wildly '• he's going off to prison again ihey |' turned upon lhe officer who looked calmly upon the madi ess of the matrons and mai : ■ ii and in conceit once more bawled out . oh you monster of cruelty ; you'll never disturb i in heaven cood for the governor vi learn thi governor vance said recently that he had determined that not another tiil should he run iu the state during his term lie thinks as all other honest pcopl . do that bread is better than whisky let specu lation and extortion be put down and let the people do their duty as the iovemor is doing his and we can neither bestarved nor subjugated — daily progress from the richmond eteaminer one ofthe strangest of the many re markable exhibitions of popular senti ment which this war has mades h tbe lit tie sympathy offend ir ken,,i r k v and ami maryland to our armies which recent ly in large force visited those states looking busk without the allti-ionsofen thnsia.m a ,.„. demonstration made in thoses.aies mpr^hieeof oiirannv and estimating the at thcr proper worth we '"'«' forced to confess thai tl,e v were feeble that they horded s no considerable „,.,.' t«rm aid and but liul moph , ,. iu .„ ' ■>">'., kmptv bi.r.absand waivinrr f flag in sight of our ain.ies „,„( p j htv lel.ers im leimile sy tiipnhizers are not quite sufficient testimonies 0 f souihern patriots and devotion when our sr nnes crossed mto maryland and k'entuckv they expected something more than that ladies should wave pocket handkerchief at the and that a few hundred men should join their standards rigged for a m m hunt and willing o play the part of tancy soldiers for two or three weeks i hey expected that large bodies of recruits would flock to their standards tlmt th people ot kentucky and maryland would risk both property and life in redeeming th.-mselves iroir a tyranny which had spared then it neither and which it might well be supposed bad become ut terly intolerable * * * the facts show tbat neither in mary land norjin kentucky did our armies find any substantial encouragement in acces sions to ih forces or in contributions of material aid the display of verbal sym pathy in these states was doubtless abun dant enough but it lacked the fulfill ment of action the people were quite willing that we should emancipate ihem ■ they prelerred the south to the north but they were not prepared for a mere preference to risk life and fortune this is iprobably the chief cause of the cau tious reception given to our armies in maryland and kentucky the dread of \ aukee vengeance and love of property were too powerful to make them risks against these in favour of a cause for which they had a mere preference without anv attachments to it higher than those of sel fish calculation * * ft -* s the only just explanation that can be furnished of the abject attitude of these states is that having taken the first steps of submission to a pitiless despotism they have been easily corrupted into its sub jects it is wonderful how easily thespir it of a community is crushed by submis sion to tyranny ; how the practice of non resistance makes of men crawling crea lures the mistake is in making the first step of submission ; when that is accom plished demoralization becomes rapid and the bravest community sinks into emascu lation under the experience of tion-re uislance to the rule of a despot men be come timid artful and miserly ; they spend their lives in consulting the little ends of personal selfishness this corrup tion in maryland and kentucky has gone on with visible steps their history is a lesson which this country my well reiiiein her of the fatal consequences of anv sub mission to despotic will however spe cious its ph-n it undermines tbe virtues of a people and degenerates at last into scr vile ncquiesence in its fate rass him round llr richard a ro___ell of mecklenburg county has sold it large crop oi wheat to bis neighbors for seed at 2 per bushel while it could command 3.50 to 4 at his door he refused to let speculators have a bushel at $•__. — the charlotte democrat says this gentleman has two sons in the army vvhat a spectacle it would be to see a nation of such men ! and who believes that mr rozzell does uol f 1 1 himself a richer man in the true sense oi the term than if he bad forced 4 per bushel for bis wheat out of the necessities of the people . state journal complimentary to john mitchell — \ complimentary ball and supper will b given this evening at the i hdavar house corner of gary and fourteenth streets to john mitchell the irish patriot who ar rived in richmond from the north a few weeks since several well known citizens of rich mond will be present and the occasion will iucludo patriotic sentiments songs tc rich examiner