Carolina Watchman

              ix american home dv rev albert barnes ri , following eloquent and truthful . 0f an american home from a ser 1 j)v the rev albert barncs^cannot be 1 without bolh pleasure and profit — pis indeed admirably drawn flow many tender and beautiful con otions enter here into the meaning of the ce s.—aowie .' it is not merely tiie place of r kjrth ; nor the place where our father 1 d mother — out brothers and sisters live t j not merely the place where we have ;,',,, trained and where we sported iu i : it is not that our house is more ful or splended than can be found n 0ther lands ; it is not that we are cloth j*n tine linen and fare sumptuously ev fn da — but it is that there clusters a ;!) american home what is rarely fevertobe found in any other habita tjon0fman all homes in our hind are nor indeed precisely the same — but . a beau ideal which easily conveys ibe conception and which will find its original in thousands of abodes in this lie and not often in the older por tjons ol the world — rarely except in our 0wn native land il is the abode of liberty xhe father is allowed to pursue his own plan fer the good ofhis family and with bis sons to labor in what profession be cbooses and toenjoy the avails of his own labor the results of his toil are not lia ble to be torn away by rapacious officers government ; nor is he subject to the will of another as to the amount of labor which he shall perform or the kind of employment which he shall pursue he may purchase a field as his ow n — he may plant or sow or build where and what k chooses and there undisturbed he may lie down and die // is the abode of neatness thrift and competence it is not lhe wretched hut ofthe greenlander or be caffrarian or the underground abode nt the kamschatkan or the style of lhe hottentot // is the abode of intelli gence we associate with the w*ord in stinctively the idea lhal those who reside ibere can read : thai they have the bible ; that they are nol strangers toother books md olher modes of transmitting thought they are acquainted with the constitution of their country ; ihey know their rights as citizens ihey know the value ofa vote ; hey know where to find redress if ihey are wronged — ihey feel sure lhat it they are wronged they will have redress it is the uhtleofcontt nttnt nl and peace thc bond that unites all is love and mutual respect a fatherand mother an respected obeyed and loved they have intelligence and virtue which constitute a claim to respect and they have laid the foundation for this in the careful training of their children // isllu abodt of kindness there is kind ness to each olher and to all who have a claim to compassion the poor neighbor has a share in the sympathy existing there and is sure thai he slmll not be sent emp ty away // is the ali-odc of safely on my own father's house which has stood now for nearly half a century there has never been a lock or a bolt nor when i ft alone as it litis often been has it in any way been secured against robbers — and yel it has never been ent red for an evil purpose if to ihese things as they might be expanded and illustrated you tt'ere to add lhe idea of religion — of the blessings of the gospel in the purest form known since apostolic times producing kindness contentment and ponce — sus taining the soul in adversity and in pros perity leading the heart up to god with ltaliitulc ; inclining his daily worship in the habitation and the ordering of the plans of life in accordance with princi ples of religion you would have comple ted the image of an american home such is the home that is loved — that werevertto with pleasure when far a way and when we are tossed on ihe bil lowsof life ; and that we love to revisit again after we have been absent many years and it may be added it is in such i borne and in the strong attachment which is formed for it that tlie stability of ii institutions lies you have an in soluble hold on the virtue and good con duct of your sons as long as home is what it should he and as it shall seem to them inn there or when abroad to be the most pleasant spot on the earth our strength as a people is there our hopes j""e there the foundations of the repuh bcresl there we have no arithmetic to press the value of this silent influence ora year or even for a day who can eh how much the dews that fall around ur dwellings at night are worth some fe since an ingenious utilitarian attempt to estimate the value in this country th national wealth of a single day's liine : but our arithmetic is not well adapted to such things there are inllu ' ces collatoral unobserved or remote the dew-drop and tin sun-beam and be training in a virtuous home which 5°u cannot bring wilhin the compass of ur calculations printing tt /< graphs — professor house e ingenious electrician and inventor of '•;** magnetic printing telegraph is ma tong extensive arrangements to manufac tore his printing telegraphs and put up for transmitting intelligence to any ntofthe ('. s he has just completed ne ol his magnetic printing telegraphs 0r a company in england to be used on one of the great thoroughfares of thatcoun tr his telegraph perhapswill take the p1 in a very few years of all the old e'egraphs on the irrc-it routes of europe ow usm the variations of the nee e as a mode of registering the intelli gence in this of professor house there fe no needles nor arditrory signs to give le intelligence transmitted but a simple v beautiful contrivance which prints off ~ dtelligence as fast as a man can read jtl lhe letters of the alphabet the carolina watchman bruner & james _ tx 7 s _» -, ■„, } " keep a check upon all your kditors cf proprietors i safe „ ( new series rulers do this a_jd liberty 1 gen'l harrison ) number 28 of volume ii salisbury n c november 8 1845 from the fayetteville observer inffersoll'a history of the avar we have been so much interested in such extracts as we have seen from the above work that we are concerned to find it assailed in various quarters for inaccu racies some of them of so gross a nature as to expose the author to thc imputation of " malignity towards the dead with all its imperfections however which can be corrected we think it will prove a valuable contribution lo history thc boston daily advertiser thus a muses itself with one of the errors — " ir insrersoll in his history ofthe last war has fallen into a very singular error in his account of the barbarities commit ted by the indians on our frontiers he quotes a revolutionary document which he gives at length thisis taken from al mon's remembrancer and is he well says so disgusting as to seem almost incredi ble the document in question purports to be a letter from captain gerrish ofthe new england militia accompanying eight packages of american scalps taken from the indians on an expedition to canada with tlie scalps he sends a letter from james crawford an english emissary to the governor of canada giving a minute description of lhe scalps and the emblems on them denoting the manner in which they were taken but this elaborate and curious account of atrocities which mr ingersoll has printed as history is neither more nor less than a burlesque written by dr franklin when in paris and printed at a private press as an imitation of the ** boston chronicle the piece is writ ten in the style of swift's proposal for eating irish children and defoe's short est way with the dissenters and is fully equal for grave irony to either of those productions and the dissenters actual ly fell into the same error with regard to defoe's jue d'esprit that mr ingersoll has in this of dr franklin's taking it as a serious proposal to hang all the dissenters mr ingersoll is more credulous than the irish bishop who said there were some things in gulliver's travels that he could nol swallow ll is almost incredible that mr ingersoll should be such a govemouche as to swallow the luxuriant enumeration of enormities but so it is he omits one of the finest touches at the conclusion probably because it was not in almon — it is as follows — " it is proposed to make them up in decent little packets i e the scalps seal and direct tbem one lo the king containing a sample of every sort for his museum one to the queen with some of women and little children tlie res to be distributed among bolh houses of parliament a double quantity to the bishops the whole production may be found in sparks's works ol franklin vol v page 125 where we advise mr inger soll to look and see what history is made of com stewart has exposed a more seri ous class of errors — errors affecting his own and com bainbridge's well-earned lame and which there is no excuse for since com s furnished him with the ac tual facts and when he heard that they were misstated in the forthcoming vol ume he wrote to ingersoll remonstrating but received for reply the assurance that if he would wait until he saw " the vol ume of his earnest effort to elevate the american navy and commodores bain bridge and stewart as two of its glorious founders by the exploits of the war of 1812 he would be convinced that any disparagement of either of them was a thought never harbored yet when the volume appeared com s found the fol lowing passages : — it was the mere remonstrance ofa cou ple of naval officers against being deprived of tin ir livelihood which prevented the flag so gloriously triumphant in every sea from being veiled before that of great britain ifce stewart had built a privateer called the snapper eventually commanded by captain peregrine greenland captured as soon as she cleared the delaware capes in that privateer if deprived of the au thority to go forth in trijrates these gen tlemen proposed to seek their fortunes on the ocean serving each rotation as cap tain or first officer // was uot with them therefore malter of mf re national charac ter nor were they to be moved entirely by puerile or unselfish considerations — they wanted fortune as well as fame liveli hood besides distinction if thc navy was laid up ihey saw their occupation ronc for all advancement anl all acquisition com stewart declares and establishes by sutlieient proof that these statements do him and com bainbridge gross injus tice lie shows that they had both then recently realized ample fortunes and stood in no need of such inducements he goes on to detail at great length circumstan ces of peculiar interest connected with that eventful period which we will briefly mention not having room for his whole statement it appears that at the declaration of war on the isth of june 1812 it wasde termined by president madison and his cabinet then consisting of mr monroe secretary of state — gallatin treasury — hamilton navy — and armstrong war — to keep all our ships in port for the dou ble purpose of protecting the cities against attack and of securing the ships them selves against capture by the so much more powerful naval force of great brit ain this remarkable decision which now appears so indefensible and which if persisted in would have deprived us of the chief glory and advantage of the war com s thinks was sustained by weighty reasons though he and com b labored so earnestly to have it revoked — we had but eight frigates and a few sloops of war brigs and schooners mount ing in all only 412 guns whilst great britain had one thousand ships of war 283 of them ships of the line in all mount ing 10,000 cannon spread over the whole world sustained by constant practice and the proud feeling that they were mistress of the seas having vanquished every pow er with whom they had come in contact on that element these considerations united with an ignorance of the capabili ties of our own navy and a prudent fear lest a false step at the outset might involve a loss of character and endanger the suc cess of the war had determined the pre sident and his cabinet to lay up the ships and to wage the war by land against the canadas which it was believed might ea sily be conquered and held until peace when they might be surrendered to eng land as an equivalent for her abandon ment of the system of impressment of a merican seamen c the two commodores arrived at wash ington two days after war was declared and immediately called at the navy de partment where the saw the order then just prepared to com rodgers not to leave the port of new york with the ships under his command the remonstrated most earnestly first with the secretary and then with the president who says com s listened to what was said then rising he addressed mr hamilton and said they ought not to despair of our na vy ; that though its numbers were small and ever had been still its conduct in the revolutionary war and since admonish ed them that it would do its duty " yes sir we said " it will ;"' added with the energy his encouraging words inspired '* be assured that eight encounters out of every ten with any thing like an equality of force will result in victories for our country hut sir we do not say that we may not lose our ships by being captured the numbers of the enemy so vastly ex ceed our own that afier a suceesslul en counter on our part fresh ships may come up while ours are in a crippled state and capture them and retake their own to these remarks mr madison replied '* it is victories wc want ; if you give us them and you lose your ships afterwards they can be replaced in others he then informed mr hamilton that he would assemble his cabinet at eigiit o'clock lhat evening and submit the subject for their reconsidera tion with the new information he had re ceived from us late that evening we awaited mr hamilton's return lo his house lie informed us to our extreme disappointment that all change in the dis position of the vessels of war had been overruled — mr monroe being the only member of the cabinet on that occasion who advocated thc ships being sent to sea com s goes on to describe the deep mortification of himself and his compan ion at this result and the further elforts they made by a strong written remon strance to the president but all wiihout avail it was in this state of things that bainbridge proposed if the ships were to be laid up to resign his commission and go to sea in a privateer wliich stewart and others were building and which was captured on its first cruize stewart losing si 1,000 they wanted active service and to annoy thc common enemy as much as possible at length com s got permission to take the brig argus one of com rodg ers's ships and proceed to sea at once to scour the west india islands of their coast ers and commerce before the british could hear of the declaration of war he post ed oil to new york but found that rodg ers with all his ships had put to sea be fore the order came requiring him to re main in port in the mean time com bainbridge remained at washington and finally prevailed in getting orders for the ships to go to sea these facts are sus tained by a letter from the then chief clerk of the navy department who was familiar with the circumstances com stewart relates the following in teresting incident : — it was late at nisiht in december 1812 that midshipman hamilton arrived with the flag of the macedonian and despatch es of com decatur announcing the cap ture of that ship he sought his father the secretary ofthe navy at a ball with which the citizens of washington were then honoring me in return for one pre viously given by me on board the con stitution the secretary introduced lhe flag of the macedonian and it was spread on the floor ofthe ball-room the presi dent permitted the secretary to read a loud the despatches of decatur and then made the remark to the assembled com pany which has been recorded of him in dr harris's work : ii is to commodores bainbridge and stewart that wc owe these victories it teas at their instance and strong soli citation that thc ships were per 1 mitted to go to sea and cruise.7 com s says that congress exhibited great reluctance even after some of the most splendid naval victories to appro priate money for adding to the navy and he relates the following curious incident on the 30th november 1812 a bill ' providing amongst other vessels for lour seventy-four gun-ships passed the senate i by a large majority in the house of rc i preventatives it met with great opposition ; and the seventy-fours were stricken out j by a majority ot three votes on thisoc '■ casion mr john c calhoun who board ■ ed at the same house i did when he re ■ turned from the house of representatives ' suggested th idea of putting congress in \ a better humor with the navy this sug \ gestion i promptly acted on and a ball ; and party were given on board the con i stitution then lying off greenleaf's point ! all appeared highly gratified mr cal i houn took advantage of this and called for ; a reconsideration which was carried and i that portion ofthe bill relating to the se ! venty-fours was reinserted and finally car \ ried by a majority of six votes perhaps mr ingersoll will credit me also with a ] want of those ships for the purpose of plun i der as a set-off for the 83,500 three 1 years pay the expense of the ball true i this would have been a strange bribe for ! a poor navy captain who wanted bread and fortune since the above was in type we have i seen with surprize and indignation the following which we extract i from the baltimore tatriot ingersoll's history of the war mr charles jared ingersoll a native : born citizen of pennsylvania is the man who holds the opinion " that if he had been old enough to have taken part in the revo lution he would have been a tory and he is the man who holding this opinion no doubt honestly did not hesitate to avow it when charged with it ; and with a frankness in which hardihood and self satisfaction were principal ingredients added that he should never regret that opinion we believe he has never disa vowed or retracted it the albany eve ning journal well says — " whatever may be said of him and his course in other respects his whole life has been consistent with that declaration — ii is maturity has fully vindicated his youth ful predilections if he was not old enough to oppose the establishment of republican institutions he may console himself with the reflection of having contributed iarge . iy to their desecration but an ordinary man might have found his gratification in desecrating the institu tions without libelling the men of ihe re public mi ingersoll is not oue so to be gratified he has recently written what he calls a " history of the late war with england in which the men who took part in the events of that time and who are now alive are greatly bepraised even though they be in politics never so much opposed to the author of the praise he did not venture to slander the living but he could not forbear traducing the dead on page 190 of his work he thus speaks of general harrison — " thus closed the military career of william henry harrison who afterwards served as a member of both houses of congress on a foreign mission to colom bia in south america which he solicited was elevated from thc clerkship of a court in cincinnati to presidency and after our short month of treacherous triumph in that office crowned his good fortune by prema ture death in the presidential mansion — the house was thronged with people even the chamber in which he died not free from idle intrusion he expired with in coherent words of patriotism on his lips before difficulties and distractions to which his administration was inevitably destin ed leaving the world with rmst men of all parties inclined to think well of his character to magnify his virtues extenu ate his foibles regret his death and cele brate his memory this is the true falstaff courage an inferior animal kicking a dead horn but the man who is slandered will not find his peaceful rest in the grave disturbed by his outpouring of malignity and the people of the united states who bowed down their i heads and acknowledged that the taking away of gen harrision even at the ; hreshold of his presidential career was a national affliction — they will not be slow to conclude that what in him excited mr ingersolfs ire was his viriues and patri otism — virtues which mr i could not even affect and a patriotism which he had ne ver ceased to hate from the day when he declared himself a tory the albany evening journal therefore well concludes that little confidence will be placed in a work ostensibly written to commemorate the events of a war ihat occurred more than thirty yews ago but which thus reaches forward to assail and calumniate with all the rancor and malignity of a partizan the character and memory of that beloved soldier statesman and pat riot william henry harrison from the greensboro patriot a venerable scrap " the mutilated joeuinent copied below found among the old paper ol a gentleman ot a neighboring county waa perhaps the earliest declaration ofthe american colonial congress of ' the causes and necessity of taking up anus dated a year before the declaration of inde pendence it is a noble sample of the times not being ■ embodied in any of onr popular histories of the revolu ! tion any of our editorial brethren who could procure it ! entire might by giving it space do their countrymen a ! service and gratify their patriotic pride the fragment in oir hands is printed on a slip by itself unconnected , with the newspaper from its shape in its torn condition we judge we hive about three-fourths of the document i the document which accompanies the above i paragraph in the patriot says the national in telligencer of the kith uit is signed by john hancock president attested by charles thomson secretary and dated philadelphia j july g 177*3 it i entitled " a declaration ; * by the representatives of the united colonies of north america now met in general con grcs3 at philadelphia setting foith the causes ' and necessity of their taking up arms as the editor of the patriot appears to be uunaware of ihc origin and occasion of this an cient document it mav be acceptable to him * ' i and perhaps to oihers to learn something of its i history this declaration of july 177o was i the most important and one of the best known public papers of its time it is to be found in many collections of revolutionary documents ' in one of which ii now lies before us in extcn i j so belonging to ihe valuable antiquarian libra j ry of our friend and neighbor p force esq to whom we are indebted lor some historical j notes connected with the paper in question which may refresh the memories cf many of i our readers in relation to some important inci j dents of lhat heroic age on thc 15th of june 1775 the continental congress " resolved that a general he appoint ; ' ed lo command all the continental forces rais ' ed or to bo raised lor tlie defence of american liberty general washington was ap pointed the same day and received his commis sion of general and commander-in-chief on the 17lh he left philadelphia on the 21st of june ; arrived at cambridge massachusetts anti as sumed the command there r.n the 3d of july which date his first general order bears tlie provincial army previously under the command of general ward before boston now became the continental army it was in justification of this ihat the congress published the declar ation now brought to notice by the greensbor ough patriot on the 23d of june a committee of five mem ! bers of the congress mr j rctledge mr w livingston mr franklin mr jay and y.r johnson was appointed to draw up a declaration to be published by general washington on his arrival at the camp before boston the committee the next day report ed a declaration which was read and deba ted and after some time referred fir further con sideration lill monday next the 26th when it was aoain considered and after some debate recommitted : and mr dickinson and mr jefferson were added to the committee the declaration was again reported on thursday the gih et july ; when alter further debate it was adopted and entered at length on the jour nal of the congress it was read before the army at cambridge on saturday the 15th of july the reading of this declaration at cam bridge and at prospect hill was thus noticed at the time : " last saturday july 15th tbe several regi ments quartered in this town cambridge be in f assembled upon the parade the reverend dr langdon presideni of the college read to them a declaration by lhe representatives of the united colonies oi north america now met in general congress at philadelphia set lino forth the causes and necessity of their ta king up arm it was received with great ap plause and the approbation of the army with that ofa great number of other people was im mediately answered by three huzzas his ex cellency the general with several other gener | al olbcers kc were present on the occasion on tuesday morning tbe 1-m.i according to orders issued the day before by major gen eral putnam all the continental troops unl r iii immediate command assembled at pro cl hill when the declaration of tho continental congress was read ; after which au animated and pathetic address waa made bv tho rer mr leonard chaplain to general putnam regi ment and succeeded by a pertinent prayer when general putnam gave the signal and the whole army shouted their loud amen by three cheers ; immediately upon which a cannon was tired from the fort and the standard lately sent to general putnam was exhibited flourishing in | j the air bearing on one side this motto an appeal to heaven and on the other side 1 qui transtulit slls!illet the whole was conducted with the utmost decency good order and regularity and the uni versal acceptance of all present : and philistines on bunker's hill heard lhe shout of the isra j elites and being very fearful paraded them | selves in battle array this declaration was circulated throughout america in newspapers and pamphlets an ; answer to the declaration appeared in a pamph ! let of ninety-two pages entitled the rights '. of great britain asset ted against the claims of america : being an answer to the declaration of ihe general congress this answer was printed and liberally distributed both in great britain and america at the instance it was said ofthe british government at least eight editions of the answer were printed ill eng land and one in america in 1775 a m eric an in stitute the closing ceremonies of the eighteenth annual fair of lhe american institute took place in new york on friday the 24th uit in presence of a large assemblage of people gen tallmadge delivered the closing ad ; dress in the evening amongst other thing he alluded to lhe farmers and gardeners1 con vention where all but five states of the union were represented ; and how important lhe agri cultural produce was to this country a few years ago ami we had to import all our iron lead c besides 15,090 000 of silk annual ly in a i'nw years more going on as we have gone and we should have to import not a dol lar's worth the importance of the proteclivs policy was : demonstrated a iow years ago it was made the boast that southern states exported 8">3 j ; 000,0011 of raw colton and we had to buy all the articles manufactured abroad from our own raw material look at lhe transition produced by a due protection to american industry — | massachusetts at tlie last census alone pro '; duced 92 ood 000 now she produces 120 000,000 new vork in l342 shipped from albany of agricultural produce only 94000 j 000 ; now she produces over 8110.000 000 ! even pennsylvania depressed and disgraced ; as she appeared to be by opening up her in ; creased internal resources sent out in is 13 not j less than 1,208,000 tons of coal ; in 1844 she j sent 1,651,000 tons ; and up to this date in 1*45 1 she had sent out 1,800,000 tons all anthracite exclusive of 600 000 tons of bituminous coal the result has been that she has paid the inter est of her debt the result to this state has been that instead of paying 15 a ton we now ! pay but 5 ; and this alone in the quantity of | coal consumed here has made a difference of 25,000,000 in our expenses thus above all j the charm is broken — the rubicon is passed i wc have declared we will live by ourselves and , it is the duty of iovernment to protect us gen t continued for two hours to exhibit : the fruits ol american genius under the foster ing protection of the tarifl he stated lhat 2*2,000 articles had been exhibited at the fair and that the average receipts the first week for entrance was 91,000 a day this week a little less the advance in skill and improvement over the last year was al least fifteen percent the awards of thc institute this year were thus summed u\t : 31 gold medals worth 8110 80 silver " " 900 139 silver cups 410 138 volumes books 200 400 diplomas 187 total 2,109 0c a tariff meeting was held at the ex change hotel pittsburg on tuesday 27th ull the hon thomas burnside presided reso lution were passed in favor ofthe tariff of 1842 and it was determined to hold a tariff convention at holiidaysburg on tlie 12th of november tie pittsburg gazette adverts to the proceedings thus : the t;u ill meeting the proceedings of which appear in another column was gotten up under locofoco auspices for ihe purpese nf sa ving pennsylvania from the disastrous effects of lhe late election and fr m the fatal consequen ees of a course of policy which they were so active in bringing about it is a spontaneous testimony to lhe propi iety importance and wis dom of llio whig party and of tie whig tariff of is wrung bv stem necessity from men whose efforts on lhe stump and through the press have tended to endanger tie very meas ure thev now i compelled to endeavor to sus tain there were one few whigs present who doubtless fell it their duty to make any per sonal sacrifice of feeling to sustain our great interest but we cannot conceive how these locofoeos could have looked them in the fire and have asked them to join in sustaining a ta riff which they the locofoeos had so energeti cally labored to destroy icpthe milledgeville recorder of the 21st ultimo says : •' one of our friends of thi cily has made a trial of the tobacco culture to the extent of some seven or ei-,'!;t acres he sow ed the real cuba seed and has given it his per sonal attention and rate and will wc under stand realize folly all his expectations in rela tion to it he makes from to 1000 lbs to the acre i appearance is altogether equal in the opinion of those who have seen it.tothe cuba tobacco ; and the ease with which it has been p duced places that part of the experi ment beyond doubt the tobacco sold in hogs heads would we presume pay double and more to the band than cotton pays and if further pre pared before being sold manufactured into ci gars for in*t-_..ce the product will we presume be multiplied fourfold f*the washington union of the 24th uit says it is reported and believed that mr cal hoi-n will return to ihe senate of the united states at the next session of congress