Carolina Watchman

              re_ms.---t-.vo dot um per annum in advance **' " at$l ppr square for the first a„jv ""• conrt r xrrh lof the steamship later from europe j 01 itti > • • : ■ the s a arrived at boston on ._.■:. ihe 18th u,tim she brought 1 13 passengers among whom are the hon washington irving wm.shaine and b mainer bearer of despatches and also the celebrated cruikshank the cari caturist & ■■ joseph henry who fired at the king of france has been sentenced lo thegallies for life the bank of england has lowered their rates to 3 per cent the grain crops of england have been gathered and will be an average yield — potatoes everywhere will be a failure on the first inst there was a fair de rpar.d for good western canal flour at 26s 6d to 28s per bbl the wheat mar ket has been fluctuating it advanced 4s per quarter on the 2ith nit and a further ri.se took place subsequently the weath er changed for the better permitting the agriculturists to secure crops purchas ers were reluctanl to operate and business was dull on the hist august wheat de clined 2s per quarter below the rate cur rent on that day week on the first there wasa fair demand for wheat at former prices indian < lorn was held at 21s to 3 per quarter there was much enquiry for this article and a firm ai limerick has sent orders for a do zen cargoes ti since the 28th ult has been ve ry animated large lots taken at a quar ter of a penny advance in price on some qualities the advance is fully thonall descriptions this was occasioned by the accounts brought by the hibernia that the crop would be late no change in tobacco flour was in demand at havre sales have been made at 32f and if to arrive tin british iron trade has improved i:i consequence of tbe passage of the new american tariff the american provision market is in a buoyant - parliament had been prorogued on the 28th ultimo her b m ship of the line america had arrii'ed in england w ith 80,000.000 in spe cie collected on ilic west coast of mexico and in peru and chili conservative presidenl and vice presi dent of the french chambers have been elected by large majorities the queen of spain is to marry her cousin the duke de cadiz eldest sun of hon francisco duke de monfpensier at the cape of good hope on the 18th of may ten thousand caflfres who had swarmed around fort peddie were dis persed by artillery and rockets leaving a large number of dead the firing having frightened the cattle which were gather ed beneath the walls of the fort for pro tection they broke loose and 4000 or 5000 were captured by the allies on the i mb of june a thousand caffres were surprised between two parties of tin ijiitish they defended themselves gal lantly but several hundred of them were galloped over and cut down in retreat united states and mexico on the 28th ultimo parliament was pro rogued by commission the royal speech contains nothing remarkable thequeen expresses great satisfaction lhat the ore gon question has been amicably set tied and great regret at the recurrence ofthe fail ure ot the potato crop " which will cause a serious deficiency in the quantity of a material article of food it appears from the following report of a highly interesting debate in the i)u<e commons on the 24th of august that great britain some time since made over tures towards mediating between this country and mexico and recently repeat ed the offer in a more direct form lord george 1 i : n rixt-k calle i the attention ofthe house to ihe pi - - ite of affairs be tween -.:• 1 nited stale and mexico this c°11 '''• •' greal interest in mexico mas much as our an rts ,„ it amounted to 500,000 a year as ihe british capital invest ed in its mines amounted to al least 10,000 wo.andasthe public debt ol mexico to this country amounted to nearly as m id more war therefore between the united states nnd mexico must be extremely injurious to british commercial interests and if it should end ._ loe conquest of mexico by the united states he feared that tbe british debt in mexico would follow the fate ofthe debts owing by the uni ted state themselves to this country besides '' the united states became masters of mexico they would in consequence of their having al ready annexed texas to themselves stand at once in fronl and rear of our west india colo d.,es he then entered into a history of ihe va rious aggressive measures by which the united es had first of all annexed texas and bv nichihey we now attempting to amies mex unless there was an end w the war now existing between mexico z la,,ed states by tho firm and earnest ration of this country it would lead to re ajs°tlx un[aforab '° british interests he jsk hat,here never was a ease of more un st*____t agc_ression lhan that of he united les pon mexico an j that the annexation of the carolina watchman bruner & james ) editors 4 proprietors $ " ke a all your n »„„._.___, \ mm seile gen'l harrison ( number 23 of volume hi salisbury n c friday october 2 184g texas was the test for president ofthe united state at the last presidential election so would the annexation of california if not of the entire of mexico li the test at the election of presi dent in ihe year 1848 in gaining possession of mat amor os the i nited had gained the key to central mexico and were thereby enabled to introduce iheir manufactures into it without pay men of any duties they had thus won pos ses-ion ofthe commerce of mexico which was in itsell a serious blow to the commercial and manufacturing interests of great britain af ter several remarks on the unjustifiable charac ter of the means by which the united states were working out their schemes of territorial aggrandizement he asked lord palmerston tu explain the exi-:i:i state of our relations wilh mexico ami pressed upon him at the same time the expediency of our taking some immediate steps to prevent the annexation of mexico to tin united suites and to put an end to the hos tilities now prevailing between these two coun tries he reminded lord palmerston that on the 29th of june last the then minister of the crown had told the house lhat the packet w inch sailed on ihe 2d of june had taken out an offer of mediation on the part of this country to the government of the united slates now it was stated by the official organ ofthe american go vertiment that no such offer of mediation had been signified to or made bv mr pakenham our minister at washington he concluded by asking lord palmerston what was ihe true late ofthe case with respect to this offer of media tion ? viscount palmerston : i shall have great pleasure in giving my noble friend an answer to the question he litis put i trust however that the house will think i am pursuing that course which is most befitting the positijn 1 hold i i do not follow my noble friend in those observations which he has made upon the past : transactions between this country and ihe uni ted slates mexico and texas concerning the relation to that country with tex;:s and the an nexation of texas to the united states these atv matters which belong to past periods the facts are historically known and it is nut i think necessary or useful for me at present to express any opinion upon them hear hear sir my noble friend has expressed opinions as to the injury which must accrue to british in terests from the war now going on between mexico and the united slates i entirely con cur wilh my noble friend that in the present state of international relations in the civilized world it impossible that any great war can be earned mi between any two considerable and independent states without that war affecting prejudicially the commercial interests of ali oth er countries which may have relations of com merce wiili the two contending parties and in prop m ii as commerce is freed from all those restraints which u-ud in limit and circumscribe its extent in that proportion will it be the inter est ol ul nations that peace should universally prevail hear therefore i do look with greater satisfaction upon the progress which has lately been made by those docilities of extend ed commerce which appear tu me to afford ad ditional security for the maintenance of peace all over the world cheers 1 ihink however my noble friend has in some degree exaggerated the facilit with which in his opinion ihe unite i slates may establish their authority and dominion over ihe ter ritories of mexico those territories are vast in their extent and in proportion tu their vastness is enhanced the difficulty of carrying on military operations of tin aggressive charac ter within iheir limits that country is occu pied by a very large population of frome'ight to ten millions of inhabitants of a race different from ihe people ol tie i nited states of a reli -': :| different from ihe religion of the united states and though i mighl be easy fur the u states to incorporate with th union a country like texas filled and inhabited almosl entirely by i nited slates settlers the question i can assure my noble friend ami ihe house becomes r different when it applies to the annexation often itoi ies much more thickly peopled and in habited by a race different in those two respects from the race which wishes tu possess them i will however say nothing which shall in any ■'• ffect that character of impartiality which bi fits a governmenl that offers its modi ation between contending parlies le:\r hear my noble frit nd d ubts the accuracy of the statement which was made by he ma jesty's late government with respect to the of fer asserted tu have been tendered by them of mediation between the two parties ' amglad in justice to our predi cessors that my noble iriend has enabled me to set that question ri«ht the facts are shortly these : li is perfectly true a asserted by the right honorable baronet at the head ol her majesty's government that an i ffer wa5 made to the united slates and also communicated to mexico which her majesty's late government understood and meant to be an offer of mediation that offer was 1 think properly conveyed in term which left great lat itude of interpretatien lothe < .' ivernmentol the i nited stale ( rp isitton o ith respect to the i nited stat -.- was al that time not tbe position t unbiassed impartiality which befits the char acter of a mediator the question between this country and the i nited states with respect to the oregon terri tory had not at that time been finally settled — it was possible notwithstanding the negotia tions then going on that that question might have assumed a character which would have di vested great britain of ihe quality of impartiali ty which should have belonged to a mediator if that discussion had ended in a rupture be tween great britain and the united slates our mediation of course between the united states and mexico would been out of t lie que lion — lie fl'er therefore which was made to the u - was in effect this : that if the united estates were disposed to accept the mediation of reat britain thai mediation would be frankly r,i and endered i think that was going ;':' far :'- n ;':" hen existing state of things the government nf great britain could properly liave gone 1 he government ofthe u states mwever considering what 1 have already sta ed with respect to the posijion in which the oregon question had placed great britain to vards the i nited states did not think it cxj.c i client to express any wish upon the subject and ; therefore no answer was sent it being under stood by the government of the united states that the communication was not one which ne cessarily required an anwer that they were left at liberty to act upon it if they pleased but that no umbrage would be taken by this country il they abstained from taking any steps consequent upon it i had however an interview not long ago with mr mclane the american minister who i am sorry to say was obliged on account ol his health to retire from his post here and re turn to the tailed slates i am sure every bo dy who has had ihe good fortune of knowing that distinguished man will greatly regret that ihe two countries have lost the benefit of his servi ces here as the organ of communication between the two governments hear hear i am satisfied that whoever the united states may think fit to send in his place no man can be sent who can have at heart more strongly than he has the maintenance of good relations between the united states and england or who can be pos sessed in a higher degree of all those qualities which might enable him to carry that wish in to effect hear hear i found from mr mclone that such as i had described had been the understanding of the u slates ; and as fortunately ii has fallen to my lot since 1 have held the seals ofthe foreign de partment to exchange with mr mclane the ratifications of a convention with the u states for the settlement of the oregon question i on the part of her majesty's gore rnincrj have in slructcd mr palcenham now to male the renew \ ed offer of mediation in a shape that shall re quire an answer from the i nited states a cor responding communication has been made to the government of mexico and therefore the oiler having now been made to both the con tending parties it will depend on the answers we may receive to these communications in what degree the government of this country may he successful in bringing to an amicable settlement a difference which i am sure all the well-wishers of both mexico and the united states would rejoice to see terminated there is another point i think of some im portance as illustrative of general principles — that the united states having found themselves engaged in a war with mexico which involved the necessity cf great additional expenditure military and naval and finding that their reve nue was insufficient to meet the increased de mand bethought themselves how that revenue might be increased what was the step which the united states took for that purpose .' that step was to lower the duties on imports they said these high protective duties might be all ve ry well in time of peace when the revenue is ol less object to us but we must abandon them now that the commencement of war required a greater augmentation of our resources that circumstance is a strong illustration of the truth ol those doctrines which go to show that free dom of commercial intercourse not only condu ces to the developement of the commercial in dustry of a country but to the surest foundation of an augmenting and prosperous revenue — cheers mr d'israeli considered the reply of lord palmerston to be any thing but satisfactory — !!•• insisted on the necessity of our arresting in a determined spirit the s}stcm on which the 1 nited stales wen acting — a system which menaced at once our ninth american and our v est india colonies and evinced a disgraceful desire for universal empire mr r>i:i;.v\i expressed his satisfaction at ihe speech ol lord palmerston and contended that xve ought to wait and sec what answer would be returned by the united states to his last com munication mr w \ k i:i.i:v said he considered iiie speech of lord palmerston to be ihe speech of a peace ful minister he was delighted to hear that the noble lord was anxious for the restoration of peace between the united states and mexico and hoped that he would not change his policy here the discussion dropped the riot on the rio grande an e are happy to learn from the subjoined ex tract of a letter to the new orleans delta that col bakek who was so severely wounded in his humane efforts to quell she disgraceful riot which recently took place on the rio grande between two companies of georgia volunteers i likely to recover from his wound the let ter in describing tho ii.it which it attributes wholly to the oiiects of whiskey savs : *•('.>!. baker had just returned with a com pany of his regiment from the burial of one of their number and hearing the riot still progres ing on the steamboat he ordered his company and one other to follow him to the boat with the view of quelling ii in his attempting to do so one i.i the officers attached to the georgia com panies engaged in ihe melee at once attacked him with ins sword they had been engaged but a lew moments when some cowardly villain among the rioters lired a pistol at him which passed through ike thick part of his neck from behind into bis mouth knocking out one of his teeth such is ihe report to me this morning from the assistant surgeon of his regiment the wound is not this morning considered mor tal although last evening i did not suppose he would be alive at this time he is more com forlablo than couki be expected and we now en tertaiii ik doubt thai he will recover in addi lion tu uoj biker copt roberts was slightly wounded by a pistol shot capt post acting commissary slightly • seargent helm of com pany c badly wounded a bail passing dhectlv through his body corporal ursary very slight ry private dillon mortally wounded with a bav onet he probably will not live the dav out privates ii martin stewart shepherd and lee all slightly wounded this constitutes as far as can be ascertained all who were wounded in the third regiment of illinois volunteers and w\e acted under the command of col baker in the efforl to suppress this disgraceful and unpar donable riot how many are killed and woun ded among the two companies who were engag ed in the riot on the corvette i cannot ascer tain wiih sufficient certainty to venture any statements world temperance convention there were present at the world's tem perance convention recently held in lon don twenty eight delegates from the i ni ted states among these were elihu bur ritt the learned blacksmith the rev lyman beecher of cincinnati henry c wright esq of pennsylvania and other distinguished philanthropists the rev john marsh secretary of the american temperance union says in a letter to deacon moses grant of boston that the proceeding were marked bv much talent a letter was received from edward c delevan esq of albany x y recom mending a worlds"s temperance union this suggestion received great attention but no plan was adopted the matter was finally disposed of by the passage of a resolution moved by joseph silk buck ingham esq and unanimously adopted appointing a special committee to open correspondence with the state temper ance societies of the british dominions and other parts of the world in order to ascertain how far a world's temperance union would meet their approbation and to what extent they might be disposed to contribute for its support interesting reports were read showing the progress of temperance principles in england ireland and america the following resolutions prepared by the uev'd john marsh of new york were adopted by the convention with but one dissenting vote : that in the opinion of this convention as a means of extending the temperance reformation the following truths should be spread throughout the world and that temperance men and temperance orga nization be exerted to give them the widest possible eitention that alcohol the intoxicating princi ple is a subtle poison at war with the physical intellectual social and religious interest of men " that it is generated by the process of fermentation and is the same though ex isting in different degrees in cider wines and malt-liquors as in distiled spirits that it is a perpetual fountain of dis ease poverty crime temporal and spirit ual death never needful or useful to men in health in any clime or any employ ment " that total abstinence from it as a bev erage is the only true principle of the temperance reformation the only hope forthedrunakrd and of security for others that the whole manufacture and sale of intoxicating drink as a beverage though a source of revenue to govern ment is a manufacture of human miserv and highly injurious to the souls and bo dies of men and should not be licensed more than other moral evils by human governments " that the word of god often prescribes total abstinenee to avoid existing evils and that the spirit of christian love directs us to shun wine or anything whereby our brother stumbleth oris offended or is made weak " that a voice comes up from even part of the globe calling upon kings and all who are in authority upon reflecting and influential men of all climes upon parents teachers of youth medical me ministers of religion and all who love their race to put forth the hand and stay the plague which is filling our world with woe andnvhich unless checked will con tinue to sweep thousands of succeeding generations prematuerly and wretched to eternity dcr3 at the late temperance conven tion in london doctor beaumont physi cian of bradford next addressed the meet ing all were not aware he said that in toxicating liquors of every kind were of necessity unwholesome for it was impos sible they could be otherwise — hear hear he defied contradiction on the point for no medical man has ever ex amined the subject in the way it ought to be examined without coming to this conclusion • ' • alcohol must pro duce carbon in the stomach and exhaust oxygen and therefore must necessarily inflict the most serious injury upon the person who partook of those drinks he hoped that the medical public would be henceforth the great teacher of teeto talism.anu that there would be no necessity for further complaint against them for their indifference to this question — cheers poisoning vs eating — we all know that the inhabitants of yew zealand and many other islands in the pacific ocean are cannibals that is thev feed upon hu ; man flesh a yew zealand chief main . tained that be had a great title to his land ] because he had eaten the former owner ! now this is about as fair as is the title ol grog-sellers to their property the ve ry best claim^hey can urge is that they have poisoned the formrr owners out of ] this a grave question arises viz : whether s t is not worse to poison people and then i ake possession of their property than nerely to e.\t them and take possession ! ye maintain that poisoning is the worse i ecidediv — tern advocate = henry clay on protection to american labor messrs albro hoyt & co of elizabeth town n j manufacturers of oil cloth tooiv measures and obtained without the knowledge of mr clay the precise di mensionsof the hall of the ashland hoi selected one of the floor cloths finished and fashioned it exactly to ii and tl despatched it to its destination accompa nied by a brief letter in which they ask mr clay's acceptance of that specimen of american manufactures in token of their sense of his " many and great pu services and of •• gratitude for his pow erful advocacy ofthe interests of a can labor — bait pal the oil cloth reached its destination safely and its reception is thus acknowl edged by mr clay : asiilaxd 10th sept 1846 gentlemen i received yourfavor of the 10th ult several weeks ago and i have within a few days past safely received the piece of floor ( il cloth to which it refers which you have kindly presented to me to cover the floor of my hall it came in perfect older having been put up with remarkable can it now occupies the place for which it was designed and is greatly admired for the solidity of the fabric and the taste and beauty ofthe brilliant colors which adorn it it would successively compare with any piece oi floor oil cloth manufactured in foreign countries or at home that i have ever seen 1 beg your acceptance of my cor dial thanks and grateful acknowledg ments lor ii ou done me the favor to present this valuable article as you are pi to state for my " many valuable and great services and as a token of your gratitude for my " powerful advocacy ol the interests 0f american industry i am happy gentlemen thus to have secured your approbation in looking back from my retirement upon mv pub lic career then is no part of my pub exertions which j contemplate with more satisfaction than the support which throughout the whole of it i constantly zealously and faithfully gave to the in dustry of my own country its prosperity or adversity has been as infallibly mark ed by the adequacy or inadequacy of pro tection as the thermometer indicates heat or cold 1 believe that the system of pro tection notwithstanding the opposil n which it has often encountered has push ed the nation forward hall a century in advance of where it would have been il the doctrines gf free trade had always pre vailed in our public councils whethei it will be pushed back again to tin sami or any other extent by the tariff recently established which ha - g il to subvert the previous system and to embody those doctrines remains to be seen j ■ that 1 seriously apprehend great in the general business of the country and ultimately to ihe vcveuce of ihe govern ment if there shall not be a large tion to the amount of our : tat ion _. the treasury must experience ; large deficit if tl uld be an addi tion sufficient to compensate the red of duties the increase must be by an equivalent increase in the value o our exports or the balance must h • ad justed in specie 1 have notthe rem expectation th tt we shall be able to i payment by additional exportati products ofthe country yve in the w i it do not believe that the relaxation in the british system ol restriction is g ...._- • create any considerable di surplus of our agricultural produce w shall 1 fear be constrained to res tl i other alternative in the event of s of importations and pa . the precious metals i need not du commercial disorder the ei in every department i . wide spread i sioned by a constant exj in large amount we have had ence enough oi these fatal consequences whenever protection of our own ind . ■ has been in till ie • views 1 may be entirely mistaken ft may turn out that portations crease ; ' ■ prosper ; an i that th . - vernn v if re and prosperity ofthe ever comic or prevail 1 shall h most happy to find thi i and that i have errone usly entertain lave so lo i_r si • d in every contingency _ v our a imj iuccess ot your b md for yo i - lerity la - ' - your friend and o ii clay me srs albro hoyt &. oct the asl gh herald says i jurke of the army is now recruiting for ervice in ibal rand ... bj county there i l_o an officer at i i a reat number of borses are dying on l _ stand x y from s vo wbidi.no to le ahlc i j-'lt *-':- r i -—^«_____^ r . 1^mm g __^__| we lav observed in several whig papers says the national intelligencer adurmsitiooto advocate r.s a candidate for the next presides ey the hon joax m c_a_t_c of delaware » statesman well meriting tiie honor we be liere ihe movement originated with a news i^r published in delaware which las placed he mm , f m c ros at the head f its colun lential candidate but it injustice to mr ctatton t0 lnfei mce that the use of his name in this way has been made with lis knowledge an ! j . barton on the contrarv we lave reason to know and wc eel author tvl '/> - g -• mr fi.wt,,n foeliaga are on,1 - ceding tbatittshis sole ambiti a and aim to serve bis country with itsandenergcsinhis r of the united stales : while as a good ciliw i j whig le will al he the election ltc whom the whig party in its wisdom at its own good time may select as the i st ma iceandtheee the richmond whig has the following re ' remarks in relation to the re to of the river and u arbor bill by mr p«dk : •• i p ■'•'- ; lo the river and harlior bill was the item for tbe improvement of the bar lor of st !. uis which mr douglas of illinois a friend oi a 1 | as unconstitutional ■' :'- st l lis r publican states that since ne i ■>»••'■ at ■-.-. tbe president has expressed himself to a citizen of st louis warm frien l0 ie t.f that he lad no constitutional objections to tle appropriation for that harbor on tbe con trary that he is satisfied that an appropriation ought to he made for its improvement and that he will himself recommend it at the next ses sion of congress it is unfortunate that tho president did n tie the items in the rit er and harbor hill to which he objected on con st,*u foi one we cannot con ceive why a harbor en ihe lakes may not he im proved by the g \ eminent if it he con itional to improve a harbor on the mississ ippi it lie tie lent thinks lhat then is an essi ; . difference however we hope le will in his next message favor the country with a disse is we should like with which he can ** split :: • ••■" twixl - - l.uost side he may be equal to the task but we think that h's .'. i he t llluch even for the acuteness of mr calhoun mr hayicood end tin standard each successive number of the stand ard for weeks has contained labored and bitter articles against mr haywood for resigning his seat in the senate the spirit of those articles may be gathered from the co g | aragraphs of a long '■*■■'■ nd of the lglh in stant : - we feel that we have already ex hausted the patience of our readers on this subject : and with a w words we will conclude our remarks for the present r if'1 not in our humble o pinion . , .„ i single im port .' made in his address : cer tainly we ha ard of the first i >.-. i it who thinks he has and what is e we do not believe there are one bun i men in the entire state who unqual ifiedly approve his course the demo crats say he was t to in h pendeut for them the whigs say he was not • ,. ugh so for them : aid between tin two parties ha v . neglected his country | arty lie ) dual 1 o life in bim as we had frequentlj commended mr ii i wood foi | up tr the day when he phi aitor to bis par ty we 1 to ollir bim '!» the ii pirif otic or two '• nain in pri vate life 1 — for sfep on the :!■ orof the sen ate hereafter to think more of and less of yourself the imble ol political life is too '■ temperament and bar or a *'• better — '" and attend to j : an i then what those . the md min ions j.-i _ inds ol sorrow can neithei iway /. _ rs of fhe •• liberal tariii net as the is had the trade there is here whi and : aim rican opera en . of that ly work and bui i be e it de . h an act - uccil .•• citizens of the i ... ■ • s ites — this ■•• l express the ch of the l'.ii as well as the broa be a an . a ■ british i in <■'. i being jut o ti and hi not tor 12