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his two dollars per annum in advance tfertiseinent inserted at 1 per square for the first fs5 cents gw each subsequent insertion court or ... per cent higher action o 3.tj per cent will be made to those rrtise by the year _, .. w fob the watchman r tr8ct of a letter from a midshipman n the u s navy to his friends in sur y county n c dated i s frigate savannah i hilo byron's bay island of hawai owbykee september 23 is 4 > ..} fr.tr you may think me trespassing vour patience but before i close my i must give you a description or more properly a few words expressing as tra>l can my feelings on visiting the volcano of kilanea distant from this jjce forty miles two parties from our ship have visited it and o:i the return of last party of which 1 was one we ■bight hon lord george panlct mderof h b m ship can's port ni!i his officers on their way to the \ ol . you will no doubt recollect that he individual who took possession of . island a short lime since but getting oil the trad again and must iwledge in troth that my incapacity the subject justice almost prevents e from attemptjbe it yet friends always liberal allowances the lirst thing jone in undertaking such a laborious . is to make suitable preparations c roust employ two good stout kanak ts the natives are called one tocar -. your change of clothing both as re liickness and dryness for after leav nzthe valley tbe air gets cooler the high ascend and rains continually the anak.ka carries your part of the '• provi ion and brings back speci is of lava ivc — all this they carry in calllbashes ballanccd ou a lind of which they place across the shoul each person in addition tolhissup - b if with a bundle ol sandals made of raw-hide for the purpose of tieing bottoms of his shoes the whole jour to be math over sharp pointed la ura consequently a pair of common shoes i soon wear out tiie first day you ir one continuous mass or bed of .:!', which is now grown over with trt.t of every kind deep ravines cress your path every half mile some of which ue nearly perpendicular through which i foaming stream of water fre quently 30 or 10 yards with having to be passed over by swiming and making trope fast to a tree on each side done by your rvanakka you then plunge in pull yourself across at night your faithful guides kill a pig turkey cc digs a hole in the ground or calmed lava heats it puts them in covers all over with a leaf resembling the leaf of a horse had r which they lay on some hot rocks ing on a quantity uf earth or line red lava in a short time yon have meel nicely cooked the ba nance you ily imagine a mat braided from kind of leaf serves for a bed whicli after the fatiguing days walk is enjoyed ixury and promotes sleep the se !.-.\ we spenl in ascending the moun tain of mauria-kea on the summit of . js the hone of i ilo the goddess of volcano \\ <• passed over a country too i t me to give an intelligible idea of frequently we would come to a precipice ■r which a good sized stream of wafer was pouring some of which never reach ed the bottom in the fall it becomes first loam then mist or spray which soon be - so light as to ascend again to the mountain side in numberless beautiful rain-hows and again is replaced in the clouds and again and again descends — nn approaching the crator the earth trem bled and frequent shocks were l it every step appearing to be uncertain and treach erous the whole heavens in the direc tion ofthe voleano were splendidly lighr fd it seemed to impart fire to the rolling sand though at the distance of forty - from the ship the darkness of night is rendered almost as light as day — i when we arrived near the mouth of the crator the earth was much heated antl tap chasms broken all around through which isst.ed hot sulphurious smoke and n almost suffocating and was it not l<»r tlio wind blowing always in tin same lirection the crator could not be safely approached by keeping to the windward be smoke much of the smell is avoided ilie crator is jl miles in circumference id said to be 3000 feet deep we spent the mo of the night in gazing at the most sntnblimely awful of ail cod's works — osl of the crator is now empty at the u is the burning lake if ft re ami in : ii is about four miles long and loree miles wide and is continually aa mo throwing up vast quantities of meir wlava rolling tossing and darting in ml kinds ol fancied shapes against its mack and gloomy sides the suffocating sn._ke of lire and brimstone ascending up i asingly iu vast and immense volumes head the description of and you have -• early the next morning after our arri vve commenced onr descent into the the first descent is about 700 feet van angle of go degrees requiring the neatest caution in placing your vveight 0:1 the jostling lava ; after this is accom plished you have a smooth sheet of crus ** lava lo walk over about one mile ur throwing out smoke and hot steam on every fissure two other descents jlrnilar to the first are to be made and u lind yourself standing immediately on •** brink of the raving hike — not a word pokea or a thought interchanged — all ta"d and gaze and feel as though they in the very jaws of h — 1 the heavy j£«ed mass rolls from side to side - like vef,eaitia tempest new openings and lr*s are continually spouting out from ei side — rivers of red looking lava are jpetually winding through and chang es places until some subterraneous pas e allows it to pass off it is supposed the carolina watchman bruner & james ; r t c r • 1 keep a check pox all yuur editors oc proprietors \ is safe ( new series ri.-i.ebs do this a-d liberty < _ ______„ gen'l harrison { number 41 of volume jl salisbury n c friday february 6 1846 into the sea all hands now much fright ened at its suddenly rising about three feet our kanakka's dropped their calli bashes and left us to carry our own speci mens they suppose that'the goddess pa lo was insulted at our not making some offering to her as they did we obtain ed some of her hair which is found on the sides of the crator immediately above the lake i send you inclosed a specimen of it we spent one day in examining the banks of sulphur and other minerals which surround the crator they are all verv hot and throw off clouds of smoke were it not for the rush of fresh air to supply the place of that which is displaced liy heat no pei son would ever descend into tiie cra tor a constant gale of wind is continually blowing and rain falling 1 have many specimens of lava and oilier things which 1 will try to carry home i must come to a close and leave you to imagine the rest we ill got back without serious injury some had sore feet some caught cold and some got burnt c e_c the br i dal eye reported f>,r the philadelphia saturday courier a legeno from george lippard ese fourth lecture on the " romance of the revolution delivered fief are the will nun wirt inst ale on thursday — dec 13 1845 this legend was introduced by the ! ecturer as a contrast to one of his il lustrations of ihe hero woman of the revolution which we will give next week i'he time ofthis legend was the early part ofthe war in 1776 during arnold's com mand near fort edward on the hudson river one summer night the blaze of many lights streaming from the windows of an old mansion pcerched yonder among the rocks and the woods flashed far over the dark waters of lake champlain in a quiet and comfortable chamber of that mansion a party of british officers sitting around a table spread with wines and vivands discussed a topic of some in terest if it was not the most important in the world while the tread of the dancers shook the floor of the adjoining room yes while all was gaiety antl dance and music in the largest hall of the old mansion whose hundred lights glanced far over lhe waters oi champlain — here in this quiet room with the cool evening breeze blowing in their laces through the opened windows hen this party of british officers had assembled to discuss tlieir wines and iheir favorite topic th topic was — lhe comparative beau ty of the women ofthe world •' as for me said a handsome young ensign 1 will match the voluptuous forms and dark eyes oi tally against the beauties of the world !"' and i said a bronzed old veteran who had risen to n colonelcy by his long service and hard fighting and ] have a daughter there in england whose blue eyes and flaxen hair would shame your tragic beauties of italy into very ugliness " i have served in india as you all must know said the major who sat next to the veteran and 1 will confess that i nev er saw painting or statute much less liv ing woman half so lovely as some of those hindoo maidens bending down with wa ter lillies in theirhands bending down by the light of torches over the dark waves of the ganges and thus one after another ensign col and major had given ther opinion until that young american refugee yonder at the foot ofthe table is left to decide the argument that american — for 1 blush to say it — handsome young fellow as he is wiih a face full of manly beauty deep blue eyes ruddy cheeks and gloss brown hair that american i.s a refugee and a captain in the british army he won the handsome scarlot coat the glittering epaulette lace ruffles on his bosom and around his wrists come captain pass the wine this way shouted the ensign pass the wine and decide this great question ! — which are the most beautiful the red cheeks of merry england the dark eyes of italy or the graceful formsof hindostan the captain hesitated for a moment and then tossing off t bumper of old ma deria somewhat hushed as he was with wine replietl : " mould your three models of beauty your english hiss your italian queen your hindoo nymph into one and add io their charms a thousand graces of color and form and feature and 1 would not com pare this perfection of loveliness for a sin gle moment with the wild artless beauty of an american girl the laugh of the three officers for a mo ment drowned the echo of the dance in the next room " compare his american milk-maid with the women of italy ?" •• or the lass of england !" or the graceful hindoo girl !" this laughing scorn of the british offi cers stung the handsome refugee to the quick '• hark ye !" he cried half-rising from his seat with a flushed brow but a deep and deliberate voice " to-morrow i marry a wife an american girl ! to-night at midnight too that american girl will join the dancers in the next room yon shall see her — you shall judge for your selves ! whether the american woman i.s not the most beautiful in the world !" there was something in the manner of tbeyonng refugee more in the nature of the information that arrested the atten tion ofthe brother oflieers for a mo ment they were silent " we have heard something of your marriage captain :"' said the gay ensign " but we did not think it would occur so suddenly ! only think of it ! tomorrow you will begone — settled — verdict brought in — sentenced passed — a married man ! bu tell me how will your ladye-love be brought to this house to-night ? 1 tho't she resided within the rebel lines ?"' j " she does reside there but i have sent a messenger — a friendly indian chief on whom i can place tbe utmost depen dence — to bring her from her present home at dead of ni_.hr through the forest to this mansion he is to return by twelve it is now half-past eleven !" '■friendly indian !" echoed the veteran colonel ; '• rather an old guardian for a pretty woman ! — quite an original idea : of a dae una i*vo\v !" " and you will match this lady against all the world for beauty ?" said the ma jor " yes ! and if you do not agree witii me this hundred guineas which i lay upon lhe table shall serve ' our mess for wines for a month to come ! — but if you do agree with me — as without a doubt you will — then you are to replace this gold with an hundred guineas of your own '• agreed ?" it is a wager chorussed the colonel and the two oilier officers i and in that moment — while the door way was thronged for fair ladies and gay officers attracted from the next room by the debate — as that young refugee stood with one hand resting upon the little pile of gold his ruddy face grew suddenly pale as a shroud his blue eyes dilated until they were each encircled by a line ofj while enamel he remained standing there as if frozen to stone " why captain what is the matter cried the colonel starting up in alarm > " do you see a ghost that you stand gaz ing there at the blank wall the other officers also started up in a ; latm also asked lhe cause of this singular demeanor but still for the space of a mi nute or more the refugee captain stood there more like a dead man suddenly re : called to life than a living being that moment past he sat down with a cold shiver ; made a strong effort as if to ' cammand his reason ; and then gave ut terance to a forced laugh ha ha ! see how i've frightened you he said — and then laughed that cold un natural hollow laugh again ariel yet half an hoar frum thai time he freely confessed the nature of the horriet picture which he had seen drawn upon that blank wainscotted trail a if by some su l>i rnalural hand but now with the wine cup in his hand he turned from one comrade to another uttering some forced jest or looking to wards the door way crowded by officers and ladies he gaily invited them to share in this remarkable argument which were the most beautiful women in the i world ? as he spoke the hour struck twelve o'clock was there and with it a footstep and then a bold indian form come urging through the crowd of ladies thronging yonder door wav silently his arms folded on his war blanket a look of calm stoicism on his brow the indian advanced along the room and stood at the head of the table there luas no lady wiih him h where is the fair girl ? she who is to hhe the bride to-morrow .' perhaps the in hdinu has left her in the next room or in hone of the other halls of the old mansion her perhaps — but the thought is a foolish hone — she has refused to obey her lover's h request — refused lo come to meet him ! h there was something awful in the deep hsilei.ce that reigned through the room as it he solitary indian stood there at the head hof the table gazing silently in the lover's hface h *• mliere is she _*"' at last gasped the re hfugee *• she has not refused to come h'feil me — has any accident befallen her hbv lhe way i i know the forest is dark hand the wild path most difficult — tell me hwhere is the lady for whom 1 sent you in hto the rebel lines h for a moment as the strange horror of hthat lover's lace was before him the in hdinn was silent : — then as his answer hseemed trembling on his lips the ladies in hyonder-way the officers from the ball-room hand the party round the table formed a hgroup around the two central figures — hthat indian standing at the head of the htable his arms folded in his war blanket h — that young officer half rising from his hseat his lips parted his face ashy his hclenched hands on the dark mahogany of hthe table h the indian answered first by action hthen by a word i first the action : slowly drawing his bright hand from his war blanket he held hit in the light that right hand clutched hwith blood-stained lingers a bleeding scalp hand long glossy locks of beautiful dark hhair h then came the word : " young warri hor sent the red man for the scalp of the hpale-i'aced squaw ! here it is !'' yes — the rude savage had mistaken his message ! instead of bringing the bride to her lover's arms hi had gone on his way determined to bring the scalp of the victim to the grasp of her pale face en emy not even a groan disturbed the deep silence of that dreadful moment look there ! the lover rises presses that long hair — so black so glossy so beautiful — to his heart and then — as though a huge weight falling on his brain had crushed him fell with one dead sound on the hard floor lie lay there — stiff and pale and cold — his clenched right hand still clutching the bloody scalp and the long dark hair falling in glos>y tresses over the floor ! this xvas his bridal eve ! now tell me my iriends you who have heard some silly and ignorant pretender pitifully complain of the destitution of le gend poetry romance which character izes our national history — tell me did you ever read a tradition of england or france or italy or spain or any land under the heavens that might in point of awful tra gedy compare with the simple history of daciel jones and jane m'grea ? for it is but a scene from this narrative xvith xvhich you have all been familiar from childhood that 1 have given you when that bride-groom flung there on the lloor with the bloody scalp and long dark tresses in his hands arose again to the terrible consciousness of life — these words trembled from his lips in a faint and husky whisper " do you remember how half an hour ago — 1 stood there — by the table — silent and pale and horror stricken — while you all started up round me asking me what horrid sight 1 saw ? then oh then 1 beheld the horrid scene — that home yonder by the hudson river mounting to hea\-enin smoke and flames ! the red forms of in dians going to and fro amid flame and rnoke — tomahawk and torch in hand ! — there amid dead bodies and smoking em bers i beheld her form — my bride — for whom 1 had sent the messenger — kneeling pleading for mercy even as the tomahawk crashed into her brain 1 as the horrid picture again came o'er his mind he sank senseless again still clutch ing that terrible memorial — the bloody scalp and long black hair that was an awful bridal eve '. the magnetic telegraph — great improve ments it seems are about lo be made to this wonderful invention which is destined to anni hilate space md bring our expansive country into one community the new york journal f commerce says '• improvements in the practical working ofthis new agent are con : stantly presenting ihemselves especially is his believed to he true in reference to the quantity of matter that may be communicated in a given time by means of abbreviation and well digested arbitrary signs a stenographic system has been prepared and will speedily be put to press by whicli intelligence may be transmitted by telegraph as rapidly as it fulls from the lips of a speaker or from the pen of a rapid writer the long-talked of ball ofthe secreta ry of state came ofton friday night last it was a brilliant ball unable to accom j modate his numerous friends at his own house ?*,!". buchanan invited them to meet him at carusi's saloon xo effort was spared to gixe comfort beauty and brill auce to the scene the supper room xvas adorned with the flags of other nations united with our own it is estimated that then xvere from 1.200 to j,50i persons present — among whom xvere many la dies from other place's foreign ministers members of the cabinet members of con gress strangers as well as citizens it xvas one ofthe most splendid balls whicli ever xvas given in washington it not the hmost splendid it was truly the ball ol ithe season — union i~825 reward i ij ana way from the late george miller in row h _ _. nn county sis mi i s south of salisbury some time the month of july last a bright mulatto rl nam irl harriet having purchased the said girl i w the ahove reward for her apprehension and delivery to h me in the said county of rowan four miles southwest h salisbury it is believed that she is now i'i the coun h'y of davidson randolph or chatham passing herself inn douht as a ivee girl she has a small scar over one < f lo-r eyes and a tire brand on h-r thigh and is a little across the nose she is about 1 years of age ht'.vr feet two inches high and stout built i w a reward for her delvery to nie or h_u lur her coo in some jail so i can get her again letters . tiie subject addressed to me at salisbury wilt be attended to ■henry millet december 13 1845 — tf33 l~drs p & a m henderson i || avlng associated themselves in the prac tice of mkph ink ofier tlieir professional to the public 65 office in the brick opposite the roxvan hotel — 45 — 4 4t i want li bio kio coon and fox sklns i 1 0-ooo rabbit and otter do i 5.-000 mink and muskrat do ■brown __ maxwell h salisbury jan 2 1**46 2m36 i "~ all kinds of blanks h neatly printed and for sale at this office from the richmond tines the resultofthe foreign news vi c yesterday expressed the opinion that the intelligence last received from great britain although eminently satisfactory s to the c n ciliatory disposition of public sentiment there gave no indication of a willingness to abate the demands the ii . ; t i ii government in the oregon controversy one great essential to a fortunate termination of the difficulties which nnw exist iielween the two countries is the mutual desire to settle them iti t spirit of fairness ami peace the pacific tone . f the british press and its fa vorable interpretation ofthe message ofthe pre sident is satisfactory evidence that one of th * parties is actuated by ihis desire it remains for the government of tic united states to ex hihit a similar itit an 1 the peaceful determi nation of ihe issue will not be lefi in doubt dut if the measures which have been pro posed in congress apparently under tbe sanc tion of the pn si become tbe policy of ihis country we perceive nothing in the expressions of llu briii.-h journals to warrant the belief that war can he avoided we have not found the remotest intimation ihat great britain ought to yield to the exclusive claim set up by mr polk to the whole of oregon up to '>[- 40 on the contrary most of the journals treat this claim very much as if it lad nol been made with se rinusness they seem to regard ji .._ theli<mil of one of those comprehensive allegations re sorted to in pleading by whicli fur example a litigant claims hia acres of land whet be hopes to get only 100 as to the entire - irrender of lhe british claim it does not seem to have been thought worthy of consideration let us recall a few of their expressions : the times not by any means as our nei_!t bors of the whig seem strangely to supp the exponent oi the mini-try i'ut nevertheless ibe most important paper in the kingdom and tin best indicator of public sentiment remarks upon reading mr polk's narratve of the ne ro tiation that the president takes great credit to himself for having made an offer thai he ac knowledges to be less than what the british government has repeatedly declined and ii iicules his apology to " his democratic suppor ters " for this proposal the same journal says : that use i'nited stales should think to strengthen their claim with strong language is in conformity with many examples the re jection of the offer of mr polk which had heen " already twice refused appears in the estima tion of lhe times to he nothing more than what was to have heen expected : and in another ar ticle quite as important as that which we have published a partition on principles of equal benefit and advantage " i approved hut it is declared that the americans have no exclu sive right of sovereignty the chronicle the organ ofthe whig partv treats of mr polk's recommendation as insane counsels but does not believe that congress will make provision for giving them effect if it make such provision war is regarded as a ne essary consequence the london sun savs the proposal of mr polk to a-sert a right at tbe end of the year's notice to the whole of oregon is treated with ridicule in lhe city the john bull another important journal ob serves : " the eventful continuance of r*er*ee depends upon two ontingencies only the one whether congress w r;int tu the jn lenl the necessary power for carrying rat his policy ; lh_e other whether tbe british ti . nent will r sition.and submit id the washington cabinet : ihe latter we venture to predict svill not take place but we feel less assured respecting he course which ci>!u,*rrss may pursue this extract expresses in our apprehension concisely and correctly the general views ofthe iress and we presume of th government it leaves the issue with the united stales if hey consent to compromise there is no neces sity no disposition for war : but if thev resist with mr polk war is unavoidable we deem it important to express distinctly this opinion as to tbe character nf tbe late intel ligence from j rea britain because we believe there is danger that the evident s irit uf concil iation manifested by all the pies may be too strongly counted upon by those in this country whose warlike propensities tin iti inverse pro portion to the pugnacity of their adversaries — we apprehend the gratifying declarations from neat britain that " war is too monstrous to be thought of lor a moment mav be so presumed upon by the host of bravos in our p:i!iii coun cils as to involve us in measures *» bich will ex cite very different language and action whilst therefore we rej dec at the friendly temper of our adversary in this controversy we fear that it may induce many who would be deterred by a mote hostile aspect of aiiitirs to fall into the support of precipitate mi asures another consideration i not to le overlook ed the pacilic construction of the message was chiefly induced not y a conviction of the necessity of yielding to tbe exclusive demands of mr pulk bu by a general satisfaction at his policy of reducing the tariff one of the • declares : " if oregon i the bane free t is the antidote ofthe message undoubti div the competition of american manufactures fi .- tered by the present tariff has be n of - injury to british interests and i prospect i ;' removing that comp tilii u by a repeal i act of i-^.j i a subject of sincere congratu lation and affords a re_it inducement to peace we are glad that the probability of adopting a measure which we believe would be destruc tive to tbe internal prosperity of this country has had one beneficial effect on its foreign re lations icit we are by no means prepaied to say that this important law ought to be sacri ficed to avoid a war with great britain it congress be so unwise as to repeal it and d«i not barter it away hy treaty fir a slice of ore gon and a repeal of the british corn laws wc shall be pleased be the establishment of pi ice a its result but as to p!ightin the faith ot this nation in a permanent contract with the manufacturers of great britain called a com mercial treaty to restrict its imposts within the limits of free trade we should deem the sur render ofthe whole of oregon or a war to oh tain it a preferable alternative the two subjects of oregon and the tarif hive no natural connection and we tiust,thej will not be foiced into an unnatural one for th settlement ofthis difficulty which can he eu.i ly adjusted by negotiation mi its own merits — all that is necessary is to stop ihis cry for the whole of oregon and a compromise may be effected we are glad to perceive that the lon don times in an article of january 3.1 revi.xv ing the diplomatic eorrespondeucc has so far abandoned its usual style of scandalous de i ntinciation of ihis country as to consider tbe tet ms of an equitable adjustment and earnestly i to recommend that the brpish minister on whom it s.ivs " now devoh s the duty of ma king fresh prop - government of the united stailes should renew or his part lhe offer math .' > england by mr gallatin tu the presidency and under i '. direction oj mr ." it adds thai proposal was to take the i!>;h degree as lar a the sea as the boun dary line reservingto great britain yan c\>u vt r"s island t!:e harbor of st jtian de euea and ih free navigation of the .'. itimbia if such a proposal wen now made w'e trust there ■... ■•■no hesitation ia acceding ii from i . r s s t.ll.es commercial t!ie pasl year has been , ne i f extraordion ry vicissitudes in it . |_ | . .. ..,_„ in its social and polh [| . pened iousty th e v -. . . . .. . em ploymeul was abundant capital . eo:i prevailed and the n ■v v ; ked harm uious political econi . ool l in pointing unectioa which exists hi iv .. , | ihe gen eral uosperily ofthe i nd undeniably no better period for exempli ing the truth of the axiom coo i be adduced than lhe twelve months ii.-!i are ti -.-. swallowed up in the wi n i of time the in ••■:_ ihe po sition of affairs al i . pening and the close of the year i indeed strikiug it marks the tiau siti ry n tture of the tenure j which our 1 are sti ted s in tl . -,. in the commerci 1 u rid it n found that • ites the true poetry ■i . ul as we cannot al » ■.• s s > the . tishine lhe besi policy mav !•;' io combine it a best •• can with the mora sober aud subdued tints that meet us on our w;.v the cotton it . . ; the year has ex perienced the mutations lo which we allude the instability lo which ..'! things subluii uvare i1 cl there xvas an excel em business do ing iti lhe greal staple i;i the earlier month : he : rice il not high or hopeful was uniform au i th la . with the enconrag '"" i - against ; ssmo iin pri re al i is • eriod and for some time after ibe . onsumptiou was great er lhan any tonne time iu our commercial history the public prosperity was so buoyant that capitalists sought out new bel is^of investment and the rail wav mania sprung up with a li.-rce ness which has never had a pat lel and it is to be hoped xvill never again find imitation — the elements gave lhe alarm they drench ed th field with superfluous moisture : and the confidence which i j gave way on the slightest appearance of danger alarm succeeded — a panic followed — and beginning with lhe stage of lhe share market it ultimately reached ei gl - pn uiicr — forc ed on him a reluctant resignation and tor a lime reduced the executive machinery to a dead lock ths history ol the pri . and lhe vary ing appearances of physi . from the beginning of the pasl lo the ci lumencemenl of tbe present year i iu i ol the history ol the cotton trade so true i is thai commerce and manufactures depi ud upon lhe seasons but with an ever-changing climate like our how weak how puerile to depend upon such a con tingency ! the mosi ample details will he found in o.!r crowded columns relative to lhe j • rimer ial movements of the year in this place we an do little more than 1 i , i'he total consumption of t hon in 1 15 was i 396 220 bales againsl 1,3-2,231 bales of tho • liiier year the average weekly consump ion in 1844 was 25,237 :;> 184-5 27j8t7 this result houe v con ey an idea of ihe acth i j which prevailed dor ngtbe m st exciting part of tbe past ir — hat portion of it when the national pulse beats iigh \\ ben the young iotous through he veins and a i w - - • dine the tinder trade like m -• h.-r branches ■-' '' ■'•*'!• •' - en in a excited and upon he whole in a s leof progn ion the import - . cor jt xceeds i j 92 | y r ner ye ir in our it _ • n provt i ti ir ide we . .) .., notice the ibsen f that l ' - s ';'" ' . _ a i trkct i'i has i -. ith respi i i ■- .' - . ■tin inat nti 0 *.. ih *.'. hieh it is cu :. f ;. ti t ■■iness in tl in inner . . c _. ; a r.t hem to v are design ■1 or make up iheir i - penalty ii neg i h c co rn . i i r • tianspir * peel io i he mar - but rv this i fbl - ibsequent i _ . hov.ever h tn causes irrespect i pr.rties till presidents message tl > first mess _ i polh te con gress has ■supposed a greater am unl a england than any similar d cumenl f the a mei ican ! nion has .•• u -. public _• tore . i :---. tinned abood • th ppess nnd ei-eni ing time of tbe ministerial ; by the in tance - with the i nited ates and sl jtion even iti the ab ne of the pre . views \\ ell lhe message ram • to hand it the ordi nary course by tbe ship sea which made an excellent passage f was generally under stood we mav state in mis pi ice.thal the steam ship which left bo-ton oe the 1st of december conveyed a copy of the message to mr mclftna
Object Description
Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1846-02-06 |
Month | 02 |
Day | 06 |
Year | 1846 |
Volume | 2 |
Issue | 41 |
Technical Metadata | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, PA. Archivial image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from microfilm at 400 dpi. The original file size was |
Creator | Bruner and James "Editors and Proprietors" |
Date Digital | 2008-10-30 |
Publisher | Bruner and James |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The February 6, 1846 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | Public |
Language | eng |
OCLC number | 601553088 |
Description
Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1846-02-06 |
Month | 02 |
Day | 06 |
Year | 1846 |
Volume | 2 |
Issue | 41 |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
Technical Metadata | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, PA. Archivial image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from microfilm at 400 dpi. The original file size was 4875641 Bytes |
FileName | sacw04_041_18460206-img00001.jp2 |
Creator | Bruner and James "Editors and Proprietors" |
Date Digital | 2008-10-30 |
Publisher | Bruner and James |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The February 6, 1846 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | Public |
Language | eng |
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his two dollars per annum in advance tfertiseinent inserted at 1 per square for the first fs5 cents gw each subsequent insertion court or ... per cent higher action o 3.tj per cent will be made to those rrtise by the year _, .. w fob the watchman r tr8ct of a letter from a midshipman n the u s navy to his friends in sur y county n c dated i s frigate savannah i hilo byron's bay island of hawai owbykee september 23 is 4 > ..} fr.tr you may think me trespassing vour patience but before i close my i must give you a description or more properly a few words expressing as tra>l can my feelings on visiting the volcano of kilanea distant from this jjce forty miles two parties from our ship have visited it and o:i the return of last party of which 1 was one we ■bight hon lord george panlct mderof h b m ship can's port ni!i his officers on their way to the \ ol . you will no doubt recollect that he individual who took possession of . island a short lime since but getting oil the trad again and must iwledge in troth that my incapacity the subject justice almost prevents e from attemptjbe it yet friends always liberal allowances the lirst thing jone in undertaking such a laborious . is to make suitable preparations c roust employ two good stout kanak ts the natives are called one tocar -. your change of clothing both as re liickness and dryness for after leav nzthe valley tbe air gets cooler the high ascend and rains continually the anak.ka carries your part of the '• provi ion and brings back speci is of lava ivc — all this they carry in calllbashes ballanccd ou a lind of which they place across the shoul each person in addition tolhissup - b if with a bundle ol sandals made of raw-hide for the purpose of tieing bottoms of his shoes the whole jour to be math over sharp pointed la ura consequently a pair of common shoes i soon wear out tiie first day you ir one continuous mass or bed of .:!', which is now grown over with trt.t of every kind deep ravines cress your path every half mile some of which ue nearly perpendicular through which i foaming stream of water fre quently 30 or 10 yards with having to be passed over by swiming and making trope fast to a tree on each side done by your rvanakka you then plunge in pull yourself across at night your faithful guides kill a pig turkey cc digs a hole in the ground or calmed lava heats it puts them in covers all over with a leaf resembling the leaf of a horse had r which they lay on some hot rocks ing on a quantity uf earth or line red lava in a short time yon have meel nicely cooked the ba nance you ily imagine a mat braided from kind of leaf serves for a bed whicli after the fatiguing days walk is enjoyed ixury and promotes sleep the se !.-.\ we spenl in ascending the moun tain of mauria-kea on the summit of . js the hone of i ilo the goddess of volcano \\ <• passed over a country too i t me to give an intelligible idea of frequently we would come to a precipice ■r which a good sized stream of wafer was pouring some of which never reach ed the bottom in the fall it becomes first loam then mist or spray which soon be - so light as to ascend again to the mountain side in numberless beautiful rain-hows and again is replaced in the clouds and again and again descends — nn approaching the crator the earth trem bled and frequent shocks were l it every step appearing to be uncertain and treach erous the whole heavens in the direc tion ofthe voleano were splendidly lighr fd it seemed to impart fire to the rolling sand though at the distance of forty - from the ship the darkness of night is rendered almost as light as day — i when we arrived near the mouth of the crator the earth was much heated antl tap chasms broken all around through which isst.ed hot sulphurious smoke and n almost suffocating and was it not l<»r tlio wind blowing always in tin same lirection the crator could not be safely approached by keeping to the windward be smoke much of the smell is avoided ilie crator is jl miles in circumference id said to be 3000 feet deep we spent the mo of the night in gazing at the most sntnblimely awful of ail cod's works — osl of the crator is now empty at the u is the burning lake if ft re ami in : ii is about four miles long and loree miles wide and is continually aa mo throwing up vast quantities of meir wlava rolling tossing and darting in ml kinds ol fancied shapes against its mack and gloomy sides the suffocating sn._ke of lire and brimstone ascending up i asingly iu vast and immense volumes head the description of and you have -• early the next morning after our arri vve commenced onr descent into the the first descent is about 700 feet van angle of go degrees requiring the neatest caution in placing your vveight 0:1 the jostling lava ; after this is accom plished you have a smooth sheet of crus ** lava lo walk over about one mile ur throwing out smoke and hot steam on every fissure two other descents jlrnilar to the first are to be made and u lind yourself standing immediately on •** brink of the raving hike — not a word pokea or a thought interchanged — all ta"d and gaze and feel as though they in the very jaws of h — 1 the heavy j£«ed mass rolls from side to side - like vef,eaitia tempest new openings and lr*s are continually spouting out from ei side — rivers of red looking lava are jpetually winding through and chang es places until some subterraneous pas e allows it to pass off it is supposed the carolina watchman bruner & james ; r t c r • 1 keep a check pox all yuur editors oc proprietors \ is safe ( new series ri.-i.ebs do this a-d liberty < _ ______„ gen'l harrison { number 41 of volume jl salisbury n c friday february 6 1846 into the sea all hands now much fright ened at its suddenly rising about three feet our kanakka's dropped their calli bashes and left us to carry our own speci mens they suppose that'the goddess pa lo was insulted at our not making some offering to her as they did we obtain ed some of her hair which is found on the sides of the crator immediately above the lake i send you inclosed a specimen of it we spent one day in examining the banks of sulphur and other minerals which surround the crator they are all verv hot and throw off clouds of smoke were it not for the rush of fresh air to supply the place of that which is displaced liy heat no pei son would ever descend into tiie cra tor a constant gale of wind is continually blowing and rain falling 1 have many specimens of lava and oilier things which 1 will try to carry home i must come to a close and leave you to imagine the rest we ill got back without serious injury some had sore feet some caught cold and some got burnt c e_c the br i dal eye reported f>,r the philadelphia saturday courier a legeno from george lippard ese fourth lecture on the " romance of the revolution delivered fief are the will nun wirt inst ale on thursday — dec 13 1845 this legend was introduced by the ! ecturer as a contrast to one of his il lustrations of ihe hero woman of the revolution which we will give next week i'he time ofthis legend was the early part ofthe war in 1776 during arnold's com mand near fort edward on the hudson river one summer night the blaze of many lights streaming from the windows of an old mansion pcerched yonder among the rocks and the woods flashed far over the dark waters of lake champlain in a quiet and comfortable chamber of that mansion a party of british officers sitting around a table spread with wines and vivands discussed a topic of some in terest if it was not the most important in the world while the tread of the dancers shook the floor of the adjoining room yes while all was gaiety antl dance and music in the largest hall of the old mansion whose hundred lights glanced far over lhe waters oi champlain — here in this quiet room with the cool evening breeze blowing in their laces through the opened windows hen this party of british officers had assembled to discuss tlieir wines and iheir favorite topic th topic was — lhe comparative beau ty of the women ofthe world •' as for me said a handsome young ensign 1 will match the voluptuous forms and dark eyes oi tally against the beauties of the world !"' and i said a bronzed old veteran who had risen to n colonelcy by his long service and hard fighting and ] have a daughter there in england whose blue eyes and flaxen hair would shame your tragic beauties of italy into very ugliness " i have served in india as you all must know said the major who sat next to the veteran and 1 will confess that i nev er saw painting or statute much less liv ing woman half so lovely as some of those hindoo maidens bending down with wa ter lillies in theirhands bending down by the light of torches over the dark waves of the ganges and thus one after another ensign col and major had given ther opinion until that young american refugee yonder at the foot ofthe table is left to decide the argument that american — for 1 blush to say it — handsome young fellow as he is wiih a face full of manly beauty deep blue eyes ruddy cheeks and gloss brown hair that american i.s a refugee and a captain in the british army he won the handsome scarlot coat the glittering epaulette lace ruffles on his bosom and around his wrists come captain pass the wine this way shouted the ensign pass the wine and decide this great question ! — which are the most beautiful the red cheeks of merry england the dark eyes of italy or the graceful formsof hindostan the captain hesitated for a moment and then tossing off t bumper of old ma deria somewhat hushed as he was with wine replietl : " mould your three models of beauty your english hiss your italian queen your hindoo nymph into one and add io their charms a thousand graces of color and form and feature and 1 would not com pare this perfection of loveliness for a sin gle moment with the wild artless beauty of an american girl the laugh of the three officers for a mo ment drowned the echo of the dance in the next room " compare his american milk-maid with the women of italy ?" •• or the lass of england !" or the graceful hindoo girl !" this laughing scorn of the british offi cers stung the handsome refugee to the quick '• hark ye !" he cried half-rising from his seat with a flushed brow but a deep and deliberate voice " to-morrow i marry a wife an american girl ! to-night at midnight too that american girl will join the dancers in the next room yon shall see her — you shall judge for your selves ! whether the american woman i.s not the most beautiful in the world !" there was something in the manner of tbeyonng refugee more in the nature of the information that arrested the atten tion ofthe brother oflieers for a mo ment they were silent " we have heard something of your marriage captain :"' said the gay ensign " but we did not think it would occur so suddenly ! only think of it ! tomorrow you will begone — settled — verdict brought in — sentenced passed — a married man ! bu tell me how will your ladye-love be brought to this house to-night ? 1 tho't she resided within the rebel lines ?"' j " she does reside there but i have sent a messenger — a friendly indian chief on whom i can place tbe utmost depen dence — to bring her from her present home at dead of ni_.hr through the forest to this mansion he is to return by twelve it is now half-past eleven !" '■friendly indian !" echoed the veteran colonel ; '• rather an old guardian for a pretty woman ! — quite an original idea : of a dae una i*vo\v !" " and you will match this lady against all the world for beauty ?" said the ma jor " yes ! and if you do not agree witii me this hundred guineas which i lay upon lhe table shall serve ' our mess for wines for a month to come ! — but if you do agree with me — as without a doubt you will — then you are to replace this gold with an hundred guineas of your own '• agreed ?" it is a wager chorussed the colonel and the two oilier officers i and in that moment — while the door way was thronged for fair ladies and gay officers attracted from the next room by the debate — as that young refugee stood with one hand resting upon the little pile of gold his ruddy face grew suddenly pale as a shroud his blue eyes dilated until they were each encircled by a line ofj while enamel he remained standing there as if frozen to stone " why captain what is the matter cried the colonel starting up in alarm > " do you see a ghost that you stand gaz ing there at the blank wall the other officers also started up in a ; latm also asked lhe cause of this singular demeanor but still for the space of a mi nute or more the refugee captain stood there more like a dead man suddenly re : called to life than a living being that moment past he sat down with a cold shiver ; made a strong effort as if to ' cammand his reason ; and then gave ut terance to a forced laugh ha ha ! see how i've frightened you he said — and then laughed that cold un natural hollow laugh again ariel yet half an hoar frum thai time he freely confessed the nature of the horriet picture which he had seen drawn upon that blank wainscotted trail a if by some su l>i rnalural hand but now with the wine cup in his hand he turned from one comrade to another uttering some forced jest or looking to wards the door way crowded by officers and ladies he gaily invited them to share in this remarkable argument which were the most beautiful women in the i world ? as he spoke the hour struck twelve o'clock was there and with it a footstep and then a bold indian form come urging through the crowd of ladies thronging yonder door wav silently his arms folded on his war blanket a look of calm stoicism on his brow the indian advanced along the room and stood at the head of the table there luas no lady wiih him h where is the fair girl ? she who is to hhe the bride to-morrow .' perhaps the in hdinu has left her in the next room or in hone of the other halls of the old mansion her perhaps — but the thought is a foolish hone — she has refused to obey her lover's h request — refused lo come to meet him ! h there was something awful in the deep hsilei.ce that reigned through the room as it he solitary indian stood there at the head hof the table gazing silently in the lover's hface h *• mliere is she _*"' at last gasped the re hfugee *• she has not refused to come h'feil me — has any accident befallen her hbv lhe way i i know the forest is dark hand the wild path most difficult — tell me hwhere is the lady for whom 1 sent you in hto the rebel lines h for a moment as the strange horror of hthat lover's lace was before him the in hdinn was silent : — then as his answer hseemed trembling on his lips the ladies in hyonder-way the officers from the ball-room hand the party round the table formed a hgroup around the two central figures — hthat indian standing at the head of the htable his arms folded in his war blanket h — that young officer half rising from his hseat his lips parted his face ashy his hclenched hands on the dark mahogany of hthe table h the indian answered first by action hthen by a word i first the action : slowly drawing his bright hand from his war blanket he held hit in the light that right hand clutched hwith blood-stained lingers a bleeding scalp hand long glossy locks of beautiful dark hhair h then came the word : " young warri hor sent the red man for the scalp of the hpale-i'aced squaw ! here it is !'' yes — the rude savage had mistaken his message ! instead of bringing the bride to her lover's arms hi had gone on his way determined to bring the scalp of the victim to the grasp of her pale face en emy not even a groan disturbed the deep silence of that dreadful moment look there ! the lover rises presses that long hair — so black so glossy so beautiful — to his heart and then — as though a huge weight falling on his brain had crushed him fell with one dead sound on the hard floor lie lay there — stiff and pale and cold — his clenched right hand still clutching the bloody scalp and the long dark hair falling in glos>y tresses over the floor ! this xvas his bridal eve ! now tell me my iriends you who have heard some silly and ignorant pretender pitifully complain of the destitution of le gend poetry romance which character izes our national history — tell me did you ever read a tradition of england or france or italy or spain or any land under the heavens that might in point of awful tra gedy compare with the simple history of daciel jones and jane m'grea ? for it is but a scene from this narrative xvith xvhich you have all been familiar from childhood that 1 have given you when that bride-groom flung there on the lloor with the bloody scalp and long dark tresses in his hands arose again to the terrible consciousness of life — these words trembled from his lips in a faint and husky whisper " do you remember how half an hour ago — 1 stood there — by the table — silent and pale and horror stricken — while you all started up round me asking me what horrid sight 1 saw ? then oh then 1 beheld the horrid scene — that home yonder by the hudson river mounting to hea\-enin smoke and flames ! the red forms of in dians going to and fro amid flame and rnoke — tomahawk and torch in hand ! — there amid dead bodies and smoking em bers i beheld her form — my bride — for whom 1 had sent the messenger — kneeling pleading for mercy even as the tomahawk crashed into her brain 1 as the horrid picture again came o'er his mind he sank senseless again still clutch ing that terrible memorial — the bloody scalp and long black hair that was an awful bridal eve '. the magnetic telegraph — great improve ments it seems are about lo be made to this wonderful invention which is destined to anni hilate space md bring our expansive country into one community the new york journal f commerce says '• improvements in the practical working ofthis new agent are con : stantly presenting ihemselves especially is his believed to he true in reference to the quantity of matter that may be communicated in a given time by means of abbreviation and well digested arbitrary signs a stenographic system has been prepared and will speedily be put to press by whicli intelligence may be transmitted by telegraph as rapidly as it fulls from the lips of a speaker or from the pen of a rapid writer the long-talked of ball ofthe secreta ry of state came ofton friday night last it was a brilliant ball unable to accom j modate his numerous friends at his own house ?*,!". buchanan invited them to meet him at carusi's saloon xo effort was spared to gixe comfort beauty and brill auce to the scene the supper room xvas adorned with the flags of other nations united with our own it is estimated that then xvere from 1.200 to j,50i persons present — among whom xvere many la dies from other place's foreign ministers members of the cabinet members of con gress strangers as well as citizens it xvas one ofthe most splendid balls whicli ever xvas given in washington it not the hmost splendid it was truly the ball ol ithe season — union i~825 reward i ij ana way from the late george miller in row h _ _. nn county sis mi i s south of salisbury some time the month of july last a bright mulatto rl nam irl harriet having purchased the said girl i w the ahove reward for her apprehension and delivery to h me in the said county of rowan four miles southwest h salisbury it is believed that she is now i'i the coun h'y of davidson randolph or chatham passing herself inn douht as a ivee girl she has a small scar over one < f lo-r eyes and a tire brand on h-r thigh and is a little across the nose she is about 1 years of age ht'.vr feet two inches high and stout built i w a reward for her delvery to nie or h_u lur her coo in some jail so i can get her again letters . tiie subject addressed to me at salisbury wilt be attended to ■henry millet december 13 1845 — tf33 l~drs p & a m henderson i || avlng associated themselves in the prac tice of mkph ink ofier tlieir professional to the public 65 office in the brick opposite the roxvan hotel — 45 — 4 4t i want li bio kio coon and fox sklns i 1 0-ooo rabbit and otter do i 5.-000 mink and muskrat do ■brown __ maxwell h salisbury jan 2 1**46 2m36 i "~ all kinds of blanks h neatly printed and for sale at this office from the richmond tines the resultofthe foreign news vi c yesterday expressed the opinion that the intelligence last received from great britain although eminently satisfactory s to the c n ciliatory disposition of public sentiment there gave no indication of a willingness to abate the demands the ii . ; t i ii government in the oregon controversy one great essential to a fortunate termination of the difficulties which nnw exist iielween the two countries is the mutual desire to settle them iti t spirit of fairness ami peace the pacific tone . f the british press and its fa vorable interpretation ofthe message ofthe pre sident is satisfactory evidence that one of th * parties is actuated by ihis desire it remains for the government of tic united states to ex hihit a similar itit an 1 the peaceful determi nation of ihe issue will not be lefi in doubt dut if the measures which have been pro posed in congress apparently under tbe sanc tion of the pn si become tbe policy of ihis country we perceive nothing in the expressions of llu briii.-h journals to warrant the belief that war can he avoided we have not found the remotest intimation ihat great britain ought to yield to the exclusive claim set up by mr polk to the whole of oregon up to '>[- 40 on the contrary most of the journals treat this claim very much as if it lad nol been made with se rinusness they seem to regard ji .._ theli |