Carolina Watchman

              terms o the carolina watchman i two dollars in advance.and two dollars and fifty cents : i ihe end of the year n\i subscription received for a less time than one year ; unless paid for in advance n subscription discontinued but at the option of the editors until all arrearages are paid tek3is ok advkrt1s1ng ( ne dollar per square for the firs insertion and twenty i f ..■ cents for each continuance court notices and court orders will be charged 25 per cent higher than the above rates a deduction of 33 1-3 per cent will be made to those . ertise by the year \ advertisements will be continued until forbid and rged t accor lingly unless ordered for a certain nu:n i - f times 1 ■ letters addressed to the editors must come post i paid i ensure attention the cause if there is one thing above another for which we love the washingtonian cau.se it is for its basis ; for its foundation it amis not upon the statutes framed by pan it docs not depend upon the expla nations or arguments of lawyers it asks > not for decisions of judges it seeks no ■ verdict from a jury but on the itnmuta i 7 c laws of right nnd wrong written by j creatolr on the tablets ofthe hearts of j men it stands ; and conscience all power \ i il conscience is the advocate who ap plies and the judge who decides upon the ; arguments adduced by the washingto ! nians iu favor of their pledge the washingtonian asks no protection from the law lie stands upon higher round he is protected by principle '' lie is protected by his pledge and the arm of his maker who so long as he places : his trust in im will never suffer that pledge j to lose its efficacy or its power what is it to the washingtonian or to j the washingtonian cause whether the license laws are constitutional or not what is it to him how lawyers argue or low courts decide '. nothnig — absolutely nothing he has never had assistance j from the law — except to send him to the house of correction and thus j lunge him into the abyss of degradation destroy his little remnant of self-respect and by em bittering bis already wretched feelings of contempt for himself and haired of others place him fari her from reformation he has never employed the law in his labor of love in persuading his wretched inebri ate brother to forsake tho ways of sorrow and again become surrounded with friends and again resume his place i:i society the washingtonian has never required the aid of the law in persuading the mod erate drinker to pause for a moment and survey the progress he has already made imm the path of sobriety and look into the dreary waste of intemperance which stretches its dark and gloomy pathway bo ' fore him nor has he required its aid i to persuade the young man to shun as he i should shun disgrace and dishonor which ; ever lies surely and inevitably in the wine , though ever so beautifully shielded from view and presented under however fasci nating circumstances neither does the law aid the washingtonian to awaken the attention of fathers and mothers and sis i : tersand brothers to the great claims which - total abstinence has upon all and every * one in that capacity in preserving the so cial and domestic happiness of the human family from being entrenched upon cur tailed destroyed ' the washingtonian finds no necessity > for calling on the law to aid bim when he : presents before the people the fact that to lol abstinence from intoxicating drinks pre vents pauperism wars riots murders i ' thefts robberies bankruptcies prostitu tion and all the black catalogue of crime , at which humanity starts back appalled and the mention of which blanches her i j beaming face with deadly paleness no aid of law is required here ; conscience comes in play ; it convicts them of hein ! i us sin in not signing the pledge and giv 1 1 ingall their influence lo the cause of to j 1 tal abstinence conscience in its opera 1 1 tion takes away the disposition to do wrong ' and with thai disposition the man is pre j ' pared now to do right and a fervent la ' j borer is gained of what matter is it j then to the washingtonian what the de j ' sion of the supreme court may be ? — xone wc if the court says the laws are unconstitutional cease to pointouttheevils , of intemperance i shall we if a decision '*- given in favor of the rumsellers cease ' to persuade the inebirate to reform the , moderate drinker to pause in his career , ,!.''' youth to beware of the lirst glass , o ivillxot | with cod for our support ; with the ■ pledge for our shield : with truth for our | i guide : w ith appeals to the hearts and con ! i ces of men for our weapons we will i < march forward with our white banner of 1 total abstinence floating over our heads ' cheered on our march by the music of the ' song of the reclaimed inebriate by the j glad joyous laugh ofthe wife and the hap ; v carols of the children to reform our \ glorious land the decision of no earthly ' court can intervene between the wash j ngtonian and his end in view all law j [ r no law at all can advance or retard us ; ] not one whit we do not stand trembling , 01 fearful of anv thing that mortal man : - can o or say ; our leader is one before . m aom the wisdom of man is foolishness i who'-outol the mouths of babes and suck « tings perfects praise who taketh the ' weak and foolish of this world to confound ' the mighty | • onward washingtonians faint not and ' war not thunder forth the truth speak ! faithfully and fearlessly tothe consciences ! j l men ; be earnest and cease not for one , moment in your labor of love and your efforts of righteousness cur movement , depends not upon that man or men whom : john tyler or 1 times k polk or any other ' weak erring frail fallibile mortal mav ] place upon the bench ofthe supreme court ! ' of the cnited states for a few days or a cw years we cannot be thrown flat j upon our backs our hands and feet tied ' so that wc cannot move or stir if the li 1 cense laws of this state are pronounced unconstitutional therefore forward look | not behind nor to the right or to the left one instant but press onward for the re demption of mankind personal effort and faithful earnest seeking to bring men to a sense of their personal danger and their duty to themselves and their relatives and friends and the great family of hu man kind will accomplish the ends ofthe washingtonian reform and as we were blessed in the outset by these exertions so will we be now by a renewal of the same efforts let others tremble as they will ; let them fear as they may ; let their movement de pend upon judicial decisions whether it advances or retrogrades ; that will not ef fect our movement ; as we sow we shall reap ; and let us be earnest in sowing good seed and we shall reap an abundant harvest forward ihen to the contest ; love faith and charity our motto truth and persuasion our weapons the victory must and shall be ours [ boston i vashington ion nestoria a friend of ours has received letters from xestoria in persia to the 2*2d of november ; — wc are indebted to him for some interesting items of information concerning the critical po sition of the american missionaries have been laboring there when this mission was established some years since he english maintained a splendid embassy in persia in order to conciliate that government and thus oppose a barrier to the anticipated encroachments of russia upon the british indian empire her invasion of af ghanistan which formed so romantic a chapter in her 3'astern history was prompted by the same motive a purpose to seize and become master of the passes through which alone the russian designs could be carried into execution from a variety of causes however aud owing chiefly to the disavowal by russia of any such intention as was imputed to her by british jeal ousy england was induced to give up afghan istan and to withdraw her embassy from per sia which thenceforth came under russian in fluence a russia ambassador took up his residence there and being a zealous protestant extended his protection to the american mission about a year since chiefly in consequence of the controlling influence of the russian ambas sador the jesuits were expelled lor the third time from among the nestorians the french officer who solicited the recall of the jesuits this application being opposed firmly by the russian ambassador was denied ; and the french officer then demanded that they should be impartially just and send away the protest ants to this it was answered that the rea son for expelling the jesuits was because they were making proselytes : but that the american missionaries were not exposed to the same charge seeking merely to revive the piety and learning of the nestorian church : and there fore could not be disturbed the frenchman affirmed on the contrary that they have been proselyting from the nestorian church and so licited an examination of the facts a commission was accordingly appointed which repaired to oroomiah and took the testi mony of natives summoned before them by this testimony the charge was not substantiated but it was believed that a report unfriendly to the mission had been made by the com mission and signs of hostility had been exhibi ted by some oi the russian otficials mr per kins connected with the mission had set out for teheran in order to learn the actual state oi things and take such steps as should appear on examination to be necessary — 2v y courier jf enquirer a romantic story — a circumstance which has afforded ample material for the gossips of southwark pa has occurred within the last few davs a gentleman resident in the south wark-bridge road has been for a considerable time in the habit of attending a coffee-house in cannon street city ; and whether or not par ticular attentions were paid to the damsel in waiting the result was that she fell desperately in love with her customer affection ripened into positive madness and the poor girl intent on never losing sight of her passion followed hit from day to day and even during the night never allowed vigilance to cease several times on his way homeward the gentleman al luded to has encountered the fair damsel on southwark-bridge and threats have been held out that unless some proof was given that her love was reciprocated she would terminate her existence by leaping from the parapet on one occasion she attempted to carry her threat into execution but was prevented by the gentleman it appears that at a later hour of the night she tendered her money to the toll-keeper with a view of passing through but her request was refused an intimation of her intention to com mit self-destruction having been previously giv en on thursday some circumstances transpir ed that made it apparent that if precautionary measures were not taken the worst might be expected and the girl was given into the custo dy of the police shortly afterwards she ap peared before mr alderman chaliis at guild hall and was sent to giltspur street compter where she will remain until her tit of love shall have subsided or until some security shall be afforded that a similar course of conduct shall not be repeated 4 full rigged ship was lying at cincinnati on the 1st inst she was filed out at marietta and destined to liverpool or any other part of the world she was built three hundred miles above cincinnati and will descend only fifteen hundred miles before she is worked by the ocean tide she attracted a great deal of notice the cincinnatians are talking of freighting vessels from that port direct to liverpool ct a ship canal across the american isthmus has long been the dream of eu rope and america and various have been the schemes for relaxing the dream thus far without effect but there is now in london a senor gary from mexico who having full authority from his government to undertake the work and large conces sions in his favor in the event of success has caused an accurate survey to be made of the main route for such a canal hav ing previously decided in favor of that of tehuantepec he is now soliciting the aid . of english capital and enterprise to ena ble him to carry out his vien*s at the isthmus of panama the distance between the two oceans is only forty miles and this would seem prima faciei to deter mine that as the spot for undertaking the canal an accurate survey of this route ; has been recently executed under the or ders ofthe french government the re sult is not known but is supposed to be unfavorable even if there be no insur mountable objection in the formation of the ground it is known that the approach from the ocean to the isthmus is so shal low as to prevent vessels of any size from hearing the hind but a ship canal must of necessity have harbors at each end of sufficient draught of water to enable ves sels to continue their course from europe or america to the pacific wifhout break • ing bulk this one defect therefore con demns the short route of panama more over the whole region is unhealthy to a degree deadly lo european life the next and more feasible project is , by the way of nicaragua the distance there from sea to sea is ninety-five miles but the larger portion ofthe space is oc cupied by lakes leon and nicaragua the deep river of tihitapa which connects the two lakes and the ample bed of the san juan which pours the waters of these lakes into the atlantic the climate is healthy the soil fertile and the population not deficient but the physical obstacles arising from rocky falls in the river and the number of locks that j would be requisite to descend from lake 1 leon to the pacific which lies 157 feet ' below present so many difficulties as to turn attention to the third route especial ly when to these considerations is added another startling fact disclosed long ago by humboldt " there is not on the face of the globe another spot so thickly studded . with volcanos as that part of america which lies between the 11th and 13:h de grees of northern latitude nicaragua is embraced within these parallels and volcanos with their offspring (?) earth quakes are as is readily perceived of bad augury for canal making and keeping the isthmus of tehuantepec is in breadth in a straight line from the mouth of the coatzacoalcos on the atlantic to the paci fic 130 miles the line of the proposed canal would lie between 10 deg 3 min's and 17 deg north latitude a great por tion of the southern side is occupied by lagoons and extensive plains and on the atlantic side the coatzacoalcos can be rendered navigable as its mouth is more i than a third of a mile wide with never less than twenty-one feet water iu the bar indeed according to balbi " it is the finest port formed by an one ofthe rivers that discharge into the gulf of mexico not even excepting the mississippi on the pacific a harbor equally good could be constructed in the lagoons of tehuantepec — where the depth of water varying from 15 to 18 feet can be readily increased by dredging — the bottom being mud and shingle j the isthmus of tehuantepec is remark ably healthy — produces fine timber — and is capable of sustaining a numerous pop ulation the route therefore of tehuantepec is that adopted by m gary — the surveys have been accurately and carefully made — the entire practicability of the underta king at reasonable cost not in any event to exceed seventeen millions of dollars been demonstrated and appeal is now made to the capitalists of england to com plete it we are sure that the united states can not be indifferent to a scheme which looks so practicable and of which the conse quences would be of at least much impor tance to them as to all europe together and hence although we have before allu ded lo the matter and to m gary's agen cy we have condensed the above addition tional facts from a recent number of the foreign quarterly review — v y cou a calculating lover — a young man in an adjoining town says the cliicoga democrat was mightily smitten by the beauty of a yonng lady whose father had a suit at law which must forever make or break him and popped the question she answered him in tbe atiirma live and was expressing a desire for immediate marriage when he thus interrupted her i can have the refusal of you for six months can't i .'"" an english vessel arrived at barbadoes on the 10th ult from the island of ichaboe with out one pound of guano she reported that there were about 2o.000 tons of guano at icha boe — which would be taken away by a fourth ofthe vessels left there it has been decided in the new york supreme court that a boarding house keeper is not re sponsible tor articles belonging to boarders sto len from the house except they be specially left in the cease ofthe keeper ofthe house an enraged elephant from tuc sew orleans eee of march 10 we learn bv a gentleman who came passenger last evening on lhe steamer princess from baton rogue that the large male elephant of messrs hopkins & co.'s menagerie on saturday morning killed the person who had been for some length of time employed to take charge of it it appears that the two elephants and a cam el had been sent in advance of the other animals en-route for clinton the female elephant and the camel chained together when about four miles from baton rouge the male elephant refusing tocrosssasmall bridge the keeper who was on foot pro cured a horse one which the elephant was not accustomed to for the purpose of driving it over and in attempting to mount the horse shyed and threw the man in the road the elephant immediately rush ed upon him caught him upon its tusks and threw him forty or fifty feet in the air which was repeated a great number of times the tusks frequently passing through his body it then carried the body from the road towards the woods tossing il in the air at intervals until it fell between two fallen trees which saved it from fur ther violence the infuriated animal then returned lo the road where the female el ephant and camel had been chained to a tree by another keeper and rushed upon them his tusks passing through the camel knocking down the female and breaking the chain in two the enraged animal then made off towards the woods carry ing the camel by its trunk and throwing it at intervales in the air with its tusks the other portiou ofthe caravan now com ing to the bridge the elephant returned and made demonstrations of an attack upon it when firearms were brought into requisi tion a number of shots were fired upon it but without any effect word was then sent to the united states garrison and some thirty or forty ofthe soldiers were sent to despatch it with their muskets the neighbors also turned out with their rifles and shot guns and some fifty or sixty shots were fired into or rather upon him for the balls were frequently flattened up upon striking and fell to the ground at length it was determined upon to send to the garrison for a field piece to despatch him when one of the keepers procuring a spear mounted a horse and succeeded in wounding the elephant until he caused it to scream with pain and finally to yield fo subjection when it was driven off with the balance of the animals this is the same animal which killed one of its kee pers some two or three years ago at al giers opposite this city and was only stay ed from further mischief after fourteen shots had been fired into it the wfi^at insect — a correspondent of the new york mirror gives the following account of an occurrence which came un der his own notice and which may serve to throw some light upon the nature and character of that plague of farmers the wheat insect he says — in the spring of 1844 i placed a bag containing half a bushel of white flint wheat in a seed drawer under glass and near the furnace of my green house on the o.h of march is 15 i opened the bag and to my surprise found thousands of living insects such as are now presented you — some were on the point of leaving the kernel others were just commencing to cat through and many were perfectly formed and running about in all direc tions six years ago i was in the habit of soaking my early grains in salt brine for the purpose of destroying the egg of the insect which 1 assured my neighbors much to their amusement and unbelief was ensconced in the kernel now by accident the fact is made manifest the insect would not have appeared until june perhaps had the wheat been sown tbe warm situations it occupied in the green house brought it thus early to maturity norlh carolina scenery — we arc satisfied that our state is less known abroad than any other in the union and one of the reasons is the most interesting portions of it arc not visited by strangers at aii and but too rarely by oiir own citizens a correspondent describes in this paper some of the scenes with which our state abounds and the grandeur of which would com pensate an european tourist for all bis trouble and expense iti reaching it the new york ers almost run mad about the wild and beautiful scenery ofthe north river when it is nothing like s j grand romantic or beautiful as tbat ev erv where to be met with among our own moun tains let the traveller in search of health or the picturesque go to our extreme western counties drink the crystal water that gushes and flows ia sparkling extacy around and he will wonder that western carolina dues not be come the summer resort of ail the invalids and fashionables of the union — rua igh register wanted from 10 to 154)00 fret of walnol or cherry plank for which a li>cral cash price will be paid jan 14 1-45 d watson stationaeir ox hand a superior article ol letter paper ru'.e !. and glazed foolscap account and note paper : also qoilb st<>p pais snper mack ink red do letter stamp'.w^-r sealing wax c.,&c t:*'0 j b enniss from lhe chahotte journal ] the ball in motion y e invite attention to the proceedings ofa meeting ofthe citizens of this county held in this place on saturday last rela tive to making exertions to have the branch rail road continued from camden to charlotte we know of no enterprise that could suggest itself to the minds of our citizens that would have so beneficial an effect on the prosperity of charlotte and western north carolina as the accomplishment of this undertaking we are therefore not surprised at the zeal manifested by many at this time although we were aware at first of the benefits to be derived by our citizens by speedy communication with charleston yet we thought to start the project now would be rather premature ; but upon reflection and ascertaining the deep interest felt by many citizens of s carolina iu the success ofthe scheme we believe that the pres tit is as propitious a time to bring the subject before the peo ple as any that couid be sell .- fed the undertaking at first thought seems io be one of great magnitude and i i huge in appearance a to make many shrink from engaging in the work but wh n wc see what has been accomplishe 11 i ther sec tions of ihe country by persevering indus try why cannoi lhe same be carried to a successful termination by us there is nothing to prevent it but apathy and tbe want of proper exertion ot our par we therefore call upon all of our citizens to lay their shoulder to the wheel and the work will be complete i ■ tbe question may naturally arise to our agricultural friends what benefit are we tt derive from the success of the road '. we answer much very much all know what it costs to take a load of cotton to the nearest market it generally takes from g to 8 days — this a >*'*: perday would be at the lowest calculation 818 to a load of cotton to market which at the pre sent price of the article makes a great in road into the amount received now if a rail road was v operation here a bale of cotton could be sent io charleston for a mere fraction of what it would cost ;!;<* planter to take i then anoth r n ivan take to be derived by the planters is the facility they would have of sending off at little cost of trans hike surplus produce of corn oaf s hay c and this easy access to market would cause a cor responding exertion to produce many ar ticles which planters are now deterred from raising from inability to sell and there are other advantages which would grow out of the success ol this underta king which cannot be estimated until the road is in full operation and from which all would be benefitted as an encouragement to our agricultu ral friends to engage in the undertaking cheerfully we will state a little incident that came to our knowledge the other day a gentleman took stock to a considerabl • amount in the raleigh and gaston rail road which is nowinsolvent and although the stock may be a loss yet by the saving in the expense of getting the produce of his farm to market and bis ability jo take advantage of the rise in the market he has been benefitted by that road and may not the like result accrue to our far mers in the saving of expense and the ad vantage of getting the highest price in the market although the stock should not yield any thing we hope then our ag ricultural friends will come to the aid ot the undertaking if you have nol m agree to pay in work so that tbe gi boon shall not be withheld from us rail road meeting in pursuance of previous notice,a ber of the citizens of mecklenburg as sembled in the court house in charlotte on saturday the i5lh in .'. on motion of jos ph \\ . hampton the meeting was organized by the appoint ment of tli hon wm davidson as chair man and i c j fox secretary jos il wilson esq then rose and a i dressed tbe assembly a short time expla natory ofthe obj ts of a:.r meeting an ! concluded by offering the following re - lutions which were unanimously adopted : resolved that we view the propose i project ofcontinuingthe branchtrail road from camden to charlotte a an t :;* r pri~e of vast and incalculable importance not only to the people of mecklent county but also to the whole of westi i north carolina resolved that viewing the importance ofthe enterprise we deem it advisable to have a meeting of the citizens of ?\! lenbursr to be held on tuesday of our en suing april court : and we also suggt st to the citizens of the adjoining counti -. who feel an interest in tiie completion of the wotk to boid similar m ctings as soon as practicable and cu-c'ierate with us iu our labors resoloed that the chairman appoint a committee to consist of maj li mor row f h maxwell richard peoples thomas i grier jos f gillespie a b davidson tho m kernes col jno e stitt col j w potts c b mcginniss capt john walker thos l bntcjuson h wr alexander and e oates l^s whose duty it shall be to issue notice for an april meeting resoloed that the chairman appoint a corresponding committee often persons to invite such gentlemen of charleston and elsewhere as mav feel an interest in the accomplishment ofthe enterprise to attend our april meeting and interchange views with us on the subject ; and also to correspond wiih the friends of the road in other counties and urge them to act in concert with u resolved that the proceedings of this meeting be published in the papers of this town with a request to the other papers in western x carolina and the charles ten mcrcnry and courier tocopv the same wm davidson chairman c j fox secretary i.i obedience to the 4th resolution the chairman appointed the following com mittee of correspondence viz james w osborne jos il wilson jos w hamp ton g w caldweil james h orr w w elms wm j alexander 11 b wil liams w f davidson r c carson the madisoaian seems to be on its last legs according to that paper says the baltimore patriot tbe official organ is not yet selected and the madisoaian suggests that il.e fortunate press should propose arrangements which would be satisfacto ry to unsuccessful candidates — in other words buy them out the organ of the defunct tyler party is willing to go away from washington in reasonable terms and it thinks tha the polk organ ■ can af ford to extend a liberal indemnity to it for so doing — esp cially as there are to be chosen printers to both houses of con ss *. an ! there will be also the census printing at the close of mr folk's term which the madisoaian alleges •• will n mount 5o between one and two hundred thousand dollars w ht ther the polk organ will deem the tyler organ i ient importance to buy it c remains to be seen — but the of fer to sell on reasonable terms shows that the tyler party isdead and is cha racteristic enough begging fora burial at the public expense a whig collector it i vv.h great ; ' asure and not nlto 7 r without pride that we point theat tcntion of our readers to the following ev idence of the honesty and fidelity in the discharge of his public duties in an ex collt • :*. f the port of new york remov ed from oflice by the late administration without notice and upon no other eauso than the s ion that he was at heart a wine jycrf int tee r di .. mk.vt c ' ■ jlefs office march 5,1845 sir — your at f the customs em bracing during your official term nearly fifty milli 11 : . -. . i your accounts for your o ffici ;! em iluments uplothe 7:h july 1844 the period when your official •'•> a collector terminated have been adjust i at the tn asury and a bal ance of 3 51 found to be due to you from tbe united states i have requested the collector of new york to pay that sum to your order which order having been charged to von yoor acennnts as collec tor ofthe port of new york bave l>eeu this day finally closed on the books of tho treasury very r spectfully j w mcculloch to edward 7 ;.: is ii ... li'i collector neic york sai committee — mr c iss was in caucus placed at the head f the com mittee on foreign relations but be j>o;-i livelv declined to accept : mr woodbury also at first refused to serve at the head of the finance committee but was at length induced to forego bis objections — neither of these genlemen are exactly satisfied with the influences which now control this administration — v 1 . cuu the g tbe continues the proscriptioe process it comes out stronger let it says u proscribers in proscribed — and not o the tips b i the tya too in this way the a of both the honest parti in the country would be righted the globe is evidently bent upon wgemer ed sweep and we learn that it will be strongly backed and ur'_r<-d on by tht pur ty--ialex.g .. t':ir loco foco convention which as .* \ • 7 ille on the i'.b instant nominati i the hon aaron v brown as party for the oiiice oi govci th n -.-. ', _ - ii il ft tim f atur .'! r ■■ •.'.- ''.-. i come off over the i -.: a c :. - i *■ ■• ti maj next mile beats between ti \ / south i going on m t the firleit on the pari of t • 10 ha already i v • expect letters to-day . savannah which will definitely arrange the matter so th - v ill have only to make . for tmm^lv 7 7 is prime molasses fl 7 \*. «):. uu do ted rice 150 s *• - porto rico sugar sd -- ( je 150 tin mow ball potatoe :, ■ .. . v .- is prin • f •■«'.-- michael brown >: "' b :. 1845 ti't.i dr j g ramsay havp " ■"*? i dr it t dmmmkim **_*___* 7 :.-...- ad mm i iif .!..!. si mmkkial h -■■.■ ■ i , ■ . npi*<j bv - 7*17 the carolina watchman ( new series rulek s-rss | number 48 of volume i brunei & james ) > " keep a check rrox all your editors jf proprietors v jsi safe •> salisbury n c march 29 1845