Carolina Watchman

              m y i doixaks pi r annum in advance f 1 *^ sequent insertion conrt or 25 p tcenl higher i v j-.-\vs of the press j t h tal h register of feb id captain long's defence .. •• s disbuty watchman " contains a of three columns and upwards pur ine a defence ol capt u w loxg n against lhe charges of culpabilily in of his company we have read capt logo's defence and we lhal while we believe him entirely • vvin appropriated any portion of his own use as has been et ihe causes assigned for his resig ihe disbanding of bis company are ttisfactorj — arising as he him out of lhe dissatisfaction mani ■ his men upon iheir arrival at char cause tlw were nol furnished with 1s of rendering themsclves_o»i/br/._:i7e with ihe - watchman printed of which it is presum qnainted with all ihe matters con ;, this affair that the force ofthe cir ■ forth in liii defence : ' seemed company to lie sufficient cause fu dis thoujjh it must he admitted by all .,..,,. adequate for discontent yet it . m embered tbat he nature of the ser was one made up of priva l sacrifices that extend to life -,*.> believe thai <!' c whole bhtnie of this mat eria in mr polk's administration and too jell censure cannot be bestowed upon lhe h^ijora gorernment for its gross and wilful , fligence in providing suitable and ample ac tion for tie troops called for bom n tteville i lb_erver of feb ul thk rowan company lin long has published in the salisbury . man l i'riday v hat we consider a com . ndicatioii of himself and even of his : disbanding we have not room for ien which is long aud received by - mail lj.it its substance is that ,_ d al charlotte on the 6tb jan'y his vt.iliv poor snd poorly provided with - snd without camp cquippagc ; but titi r tn assurance from tin war department a j their arrival at the place of rendezvous ... mid receive 821 for clothing and 50 — . v every 20 miles travel instead of ■ miscs being fulfilled there was no of ■■•• iere lo muster tin-in in and no money for itou and wiiliin the next *.•) days more than ,, the entile company were attached with ss pneumonia and other dangerous dis >:■ -. wing lo bad accommodations and the . - , ni the ea son tie u s officer did nol an ive here lomus n in and provide for iheir wants till the 1 — 20days aflei lhe company reached char l before which lhe men had disbanded in : of capt long's order in the mean leir expenses at charlotte amounted to ban lhe 710 received from lhe state i ■■' i apt long with lhe unanimous approba te ise v ho w ere thev paid those ex with lhat fund as ar as it would go and anil balance still due he borrowed and paid hour opinion this statement completely ex mtes the captain il'tint the men and throws ■ ime on capt long's political friend the > v rtlarj of war fai mers journal of feb ju .' h r e find in the last " watchman " a long 1 1 planatinn from capt r w long of rowan company — made lor the purpose of • iiing himself from certain libellous charg trcdagainsl him in connection with the ling of the company he commanded — ■« anonymous charges were to the elll-ct he cap had received and retained tnds lhe state's money of the appro won for he hen tit of the volunteers and *' tlso blameable for the disbanding of the '• ill v t our inability to give the statement ■ ■• ihis week a our columns were pre ied but will insert it in our next it shows wtsand figures the utter falsity ofanyebarge - having privately used or retained the pub aey nnd gives an account ol every dollar ; ; r ed and paid out '•"" disbanding ol the companv was unior and much lo be regretted the public h . lj ge of the causes from the statements cl - bine certainly they were subjected to v hardships and beyond question if the i propria ion had been promptly made company ordered tothe proper rendez v'ihnhigton in the lirsl instance noth e kind would have happened * * * * ding to our iuformalion on this subject ays discussion ofthe appropriation bill gislature was not at all embarrassing long as lie found no difficulty iu pro a plenty of good provisions upon ofthe money to he forwarded upon the if the resolutions c and if the tes officers whose duty it was to mus d provide for lhe company ha 1 acted ly as they were notified there could n nu objection to charlotte as a place wous save the exposure of men to the > of a false notion of independence — ffcmtax ''■>" gre osb tough patri t ol feb 20 e rowan disbandment 11 r.w long has published in the nan a ca j explanatory of tbe causes '" o the disbanding of his company s lo his showing and he gives certiti eral ofthe otlicers and men all the j received was disbursed for the ' l e company and he had to pay 0 addition out of his private purse v mustering the men into service dissatisfaction and impa les as a prime cause of their de ri in t n '"" lor bas attributed to his sti|t a c ? nducl a considerable agency hcev | wu '' *" w muc b justice it is for "% • published together with fur to disclose vve could wish i ' dest construction on lhe whole iffirxer & james &> . ktif a cnr.ck upon all yocf editors 4 proprietors is saf { tfew secies rulers do this ■- li gtrit.harr ( number 43 of volume iii sal.1sburv n c friday february 20 18 il since the above v is in type we received the wilmington journal containing the following communication from lieut s l fremont : letter from liettt s l fremont from th • wilmington journal of feb 19 v.'ii..mi.\(;t(.x x c 18th feb 1-47 to ihr editor of lhe journal : my attention has been called m a commttni cation from r w long lale captain of the rowan volunlcers in which he censures the war department for not having provided suita ble accommodations dr his men at charlotte and attributes the disbanding of his company entirely t this circumstance i have simply to stale that i did not receive any official information of a separate rendcz vous at charlotte until late in december and lhat 1 immediately addressed a note to the gov ernor asking him when and how many com panics of volunteers would be at that place i'be governor's reply was received in january and ! immediately despatched an agent to char lotte to provide subsistence __••., for these men this agent was taken sick in fayetteville and was compelled to return without a dav's de lay i despalched the medical office r dr south gate of the army with my clerk to examine the men and to provide subsistence e for sucli as might be received into service — and on the 20th of january — lhe ear est po-sible mo ment at which i could leave tins rendezvous — i started for charlotte hut owin o bad roads and breaking down of stage coaches i did not reach that place until lhe 2gth la salisbury i learned lhat capt l.'s com pany had dispersed and afier leaving that place tor charlotte i was overtaken by one of his lieutenants who sla'ed lo me that capt long had drawn the state funds and paid off his bills — giving a small sum to his men — and then told them that they might go " where ihey pleased or word to that effect these remarks of the lieutenant were confirmed by one ofthe com pany who was then in the stage i was also informed by many persons in charlotte that capt long provided wretched quarters for his men ; that ihey were without blankets or nearly so and further and worst of all he held his dead quarters one mile or more from his company and that no officer was near enough lo command or care for it tbn would be a highly unmilitary proceeding with regular troops — and with volunteers ought alone to have produced lhe result that has been wit nessed with his company why did apt long disband his men after receiving tbe slates'mo ney which was for the sole purpose of subsist ing tliem until mustered into the service of lhe i niled stales in consequence of the absence ol so many officers i have been required to mus ter supply and equip the entire regiment at two separate rendezvous some three hundred miles from each other with what success i leave for others to decide if i have not been able lo he at both places al the same moment i bave ideavored to do ju-tiee when i have ber-n'preseut s l fremont mustering offi-.-er n c volunteers tbese articles are always furnislied by tiie volunti er who receives * money allowance for them anti-rentism the following picture of one of the coun ties in the slate cf new york in whicli anti-renlism prevails is presented in the albany telegraph : the finckle — one of the filicides of colombia couniy whose squatting propen sities we have noticed before is now in possession of a farm of 200 acres of excel lent land from which he raised last year 2000 or 3000 bushels of oats besides other grain ( f this farm he took forcible pos sesion and refuses lo pay rent for it to the owner thereof it seems hardly possible that such outrages can be tolerated in a civilized community in one of the oldest and best cultivated countries in the most powerful state in the union yet such is the fact as we are assured by gentlemen of the highest character in the countv of columbia vve will also stale on the same authority that the anti-renters generallv of that county are at this very time more bold more unscrupulous and more deter mined in their resistance to lhe laws than they were two years ago in this couniy also an equally deplora ble state of things exist farm rents can not be collected and even the merchants of this cily experience great difficulty in collecting iheir accounts in the anti-rent towns the character of society in the anti-rent region is demolished resistance to the laws in one case lea is to a general disregard of all laws and of every princi ple of order the spirit of anarchy runs riot the cultivation of the soil and the regular pursuits of life are interrupted the vital power of the dol — a dos be longing to mr m clark of franklin mass disappeard suddenly and myste riuously on the 22nd of december last'and was not seen or ik ard from until the 17th january when he was discovered floating on a piece of the broken curb in an old well and taken out alive in this cheer less and pitiless condition the dog had re mained twenty seven days — the coldest of the winter wiih nothing to support nature excepting water he had gnawed the curb considerably in several places boston chronolype telegraph across the atlantic a memorial was presented lo the senate on saturday ask ing a charter for a company to connect the at lantic shores by means of lhe magnetic tele graph the memorial asserted that lhe object would soon he accomplished if the charter was granted the capitulation of monte rey the question which has been lately raised about the propriety and expedien cy of the capitulation granted by th com manding general at the capture oi mon terey is effectively settled beyond all fu ture doubt or qupstion by the letter of col jefferson davis of the mississippi volunteers to which with the clinching appendant statements ol general worth and ceneral henderson in the following columns we ave pleasure in directing the attention of our readers official papers and letters from the union of wednesday night vicien-ia tamauupas mexico jan <>, 1847 to tiir editor of the union — dear sir after much speculation and no little mis representation about ihe capitulation of monterey 1 perceive by our recent news papers that a discussion has arisen as to who is responsible for that transaction — as one of the commissioners who were entrusted by general taylor with lhe ar rangement of the terms upon which the city of monterey and its fortifications should be delivered to our forces i have had frequent occasion to recur to the course then adopted and the considera tions which led to if my judgment after the facl has fully sustained my decisions at the dale of the occurrence and feel ing myself responsible for the instrument as we prepared and presented it to our commanding general i have the satisfac tion after all subsequent events to be lieve that the terms we offered were ex pedient and honorable and wise a dis tinguished gentleman with whom 1 acle.l on lhat commission governor henderson says in a recently published letter idid not at the time nor do i still like the terms but acted as one of the commission ers together with general worth and co lonel davis to carry out general taylor's instruct ions we ought and could have made them surrender at discretion tfce from each position taken in the above paragraph i dissent the instructions giv en by general taylor only presented his object and fixed a limit to lhe powers of his commissioners hence when points were raised which exceeded our discretion they were referred to the commander but minor points were acted on and finally submitted as a part of our negotiation wo fixed the time within which the mex ican forces should retire from monterey wc agreed upon the time we would wait for the decision ot the respective govern ments which i recollect was less by thir ty-four days than the mexican commis sioners asked — the period adopted being that which according to our estimate was required to bring up ihe rear of our arm with ihe ordnance and supplies necessary for further operations i did not then nor do i now believe we could have made the enemy surrender al discretion had j entertained the opinion it would have been given to the commis sion and to the commanding general and would have precluded me from signing an agreement which permitted the garrison to retire with the honors of war jt is demonstrable from the position and known prowess of the two armies that we could drive the enemy from the town ; but the town was untenable whilst the main fort called the new citadel remained in the hands of the enemy being without siege artillery or entrenching tools we could only hope to carry this fort by storm af ter a heavy loss from our army which isolated in a hostile country now number ed less than half the forces of lhe enemy when all this had been achieved what more would wc have gained than by the capitulation ? ceneral taylor's force was too small to invest the town it was therefore al ways in the power of the enemy to re treat bearing his light arms our army poorly provided and with very insuffi cient transportation — could not have over taken if they had pursued the flying ene my hence the conclusion that.as it was not in our power to capture the main body of the mexican army it is unreasonable to suppose their geueral would have sur rendered at discretion the moral effeci of retiring under the capitulation was certainly greater than if the enemy had retreated without our consent by this course we secured the large supply of ammunition he had collected in monterey — which had the assault been continued must have been exploded by our shells as it was principally stored in the cathe dral which being supposed to be filled with troop was the especial aim of our pieces the destruction which this ex plosion would have produced must have involved the advance of both divisions of our troops : and 1 commend this to the contemplation of those whose arguments have been drawn from facts learned since the commissioners closed their negotia tions with these introductory remarks i send a copy of a manuscript in my pos session which was prepared to meet such necessity as now exists for an explanation of the views whicli governed the commis sioners in arranging the terms of capitu lation to justify the commanding general should misrepresentation and calumny at tempt to tarnish his well-earned reputa tion and for all time to come fo fix his truth of the transaction please pu this in yonr paper and believe me your friend & •. jefferson davis memoranda of hit transactions /'..■ .;• • ion icilli /.'/■ cftpilulation of m capital of nucvn leon m cico by invitation of genera ampu lia c manding fhe mexican army gen t ac i mpanied by a number of hi i proceeded on the 24th september 1848 to rt bouse designated ns the phi which general ampudia requested an in terview tiie parties being ci general ampudia announced as oflicial information that commissioners from the l'nited states had been received by lhe government of mexico and that the or ders un ler which he had prepared to de fend the city ol monterey had lost their force by the subsequent change ol his own government : therefore iv asked the ference a brief conversation between the commanding generals showe i views to he opposite as to leave little rea son to expect an amicable arrang . between them general taylor said be would no <;. !; lv to receive such propositions as general ampudifi indicated . hie ofgeneral am pudia's parly i think the governor ofthe city suggested the ap ointment ofa mix ed com nission this was acceded 1 gen w g worth of the united states nrmy gen j pinckney henderson of lhe texan volunteers and col jefferson da vis n the mississippi riflemen on the part of gen taylor and gen j ma ortega gen 1 rcqucna and senor the governor m ma llano on the part of gen ampudia were appoint <!. gen taylor gave instructions o his commissioners which as understood for they were brief and verbal will be best shown by the copy of the demand which the l'nited states commissioners prepared iti tbe conference-room here incorporated copy of demand by u s commissioners '• i as the legitimate resnlfrof iheope rations before this place and the present position of the contending armies we de mand the surrender of tbe town the arms and munitions of war and aii other pub lic property within the place " u that the mexican armed force le tire beyond itie rineonada linares and san fernando on the coast 111 the commanding general el the army of the united slates agrees that the mexican officers reserve their side arms and private baggage and the troops be allowed to retire under their officers wiih oe.t parole a reasonable time being al lowed to withdraw the force iv the immediate delivery of the main work now occupied to the army of the united states •• \ . to avoid collisions and for mul convenience that the troops of the united states shall not occupy the town until the mexican forces have been withdrawn ex cept for hospital purposes,storehouses c " \ 1 the commanding general of the united states agrees not lo advance be yond the line specified in the second sec tion before the expiration of eight weeks or until the respective governments can be heard from the terms of the dem were reft by the mexii an commissioners whodrew up a counter proposition of which i only recollect that it contained a permission to the mexican forces to retire wiih their arm this was arged as a mailer of soldierly pride and as an ordinary c esy we had reached the limits of our instructions and the comm:->:on rose to report the disagreement upon returning to the reception-room after the fact had been announced that the commissioners could not agree upon terms general ampudia entered at length upon the question treating the point of disagreement as one which involved lhe honor of his country spoke of desire for a settlement without further bloodshed am said he did not care about the pieces of artillery which he had at the place — gen taylor responded to the wish to a void unnecessary blood-lad it was a greed the commission should reassemble and we were instructed to concede the small arms and i supposed ihere would be no question about the artillery the mexican commissioners now urged that as all other arm had been recognized it would be discreditable to the artillery if required to march out without anv thing to represenl their arm and stated in an swer to au inquiry that tbey had a batte ry of light artillery manoeuvred and e quipped as such tin commission ag ruse and reported the disagreement on ihe point of artillery gen taylor bearing that more was demanded than the middle ground upon which in a spirit of generosity he had agreed to place the capitulation announc ed lhe conference at an real and rose in a manner which showed his determination to talk no more as be crossed the room to leave it one of the mexican commis sioners addressed him and some conver sation which i did not hear ensued — gen worth asked permission cf general taylor and addressed some remark to gen ampudia the spirit of which was lhat which he manifested throughout the negotiotion viz generosity and leniency of bl . ssjon n as i d : . ipitulation wereagi upon after a •• - gain re paired lother be mv rs ; y . wi re tardy in . . ex . n — '! he 7 :.. g this session al ■ taj lor for his . lia gen t to me the to him anu ! n ish copy wiih ampudia and - tayl :' sig v e th might countet . ■ re tained by * gen an not sh as - ers 1 ts vt been sell from the e g worth was < [_ i n«g . ) , •"- *"'. men two ul respond an i he i knot (■•:,_ :,.;. li : the next mo omission • ; again th . as had been often done bt t0 gain *■ lo the com pact i . . -.. • had at 1 , dopted tiie wi ; 1 . on hi lieu of surrenelcr ; they now v h iiute stipulation for jt finally be came neces try to ma ry de mand for tie immediate signing ot lhe eng aud the iii ie the commis '■■:.<■:- ■ the spanish instrument first signed by gen j ;., pre of his commissioners the translation of our own instrument « -.- gen taylor and menl wa ■ complete a to i'm cute ti m ich h i ii v uc tion of article . capitulation copy oi which is h ambiguity there may be in the language u-ed there was a pel , ding by the commiss . both sidt < as to lhe intent of iie parties the distinc tion we t . . light artillery e quipped a . design ed for and u fi | 1 an ! ; being the armat i / ofa fori was clearly it was c prehended on lred i the . that repeatedly ih rled their pos -('"-! said they had one batti ry of li conformity of opinion es . our commissioners iq on et ■ •<■ which was finally adop ■ '. thai ! consi in their sphere jointly and severally re sponsible for each yarticleof capitulation if as originally viewed by gen \\ o th our con gov ■. legre to consul . . we mav con gratulate ourselves up mthe partwe '. taken if oi n i ■.. -• . ii .-. . . remain lo me as a deliberali ■ capitulation ga hich could ■ followed of d it it was in the powt r of the my to retreat and lo bear wiih bim his i arms ai . a was contemplated in * r granls were ■ ble in a c . and which it cost magnai give the above rt lo generals 1 rection and ad pre sentation of i by a st events art • memoi v fi - .. je ' men ( a p , oct 7 is 16 the above is a coi rt cl statt mi nt ol lea ling facts connected lions referred to ac _ lo mv recol lection it is however proper that 1 should further state lhat my first impi i sion was that no better terms tha - i first proposed on the pari of i v ha en and j - • h to general taylor when j fo -| posed to \ ield to the requi of gen i ampudia and at the i as my opinion that tbey woi i ted by him before we left i eral taylor replied that he » i uh risk where it could be a thai i-'*l wished to avoid th -' o\m and that he was i government would oe i terms given by tbe capitulation ana in-b itig myself persuaded of that fact i yii i h ed my individual views and wishes a h under lhat conviction 1 hali < ver he i'e.i.;_\bb to defend tiie terms ion 1 . p tn n e v j 1 1 i n i > erso.n . ■ maj gen com the texan voluuletrs.m i not only conns lhe opportun in-chief,d v ken '•-• l ter as did rv iv m itary and *- ; ** i ready at all to defend and un tj acl ipation of ibecon dts the tn u-credit i nli - for - and w j worth . . : -"•'•' u vision 12 1 16 -. t ofthe eitv of mont . leon a commis i-worth of the ui s ales an y ; g yv -- . 1 davis of irt of mdios-in chief lhe i ii i si ■'■ - f | i < . era l o of the army ol •:• m innel m llano ' : leva leon o:t tle part of senoi general don pedro ampu . t iic t ol m a - place ata the rstei - di oth '.:..!< rui.-n i to the i art . rc es be al in io wit : i i accoutre h -: the cavalry iheir arms and ac i i *' s \\ i;!i twenty i ■ art i thai th ■ mexican arne.1 forces i ■ b.-yot.d the i by the pass i 1 ' the rmconadar the city ot linares and i i i i ! orrow i h •'• i i '' i ■ mexican forces have withdrawn i ge purposes ■ art 6 that tie f.r of ihe i h - advance heyon i in the ihi j ar re the i h be h property to be h vud over a;;d l*e i *-***■ coui h lhe tw i armies i . lhe mean i of any ol reding articles sball h solved by an equitable construction i :' liberality lo the re i h art 9 that lhe mexican flag when lhe citadel may be saluted by i own batter ■ w j worth h brig u s artnv ■ j i'.v y henderson h i jen . t ■, \ olunteers ■ jefferson davis h col mississippi riflemen ■ u m ortega i manuel m llano ■ ap'ved pedro ampudia ■ z taylor h a comman ling i lieut w p i h mr davidson who held i a 1 nissioo it ca . i . i la.-t i men on i u i leers lie li no d ubt did ev i ery ling in his pow er o keep i iey had separ i bringing i i work i avail an com i the i as a pri i vate stand i wi r i spirit and . - appoint taincy in one of the new d to be thou mr rich ard in political views we wish him suc ss . attaining a position which may in • the sacrifice w i at nut nomination th hon j •!>.- u ii lb s was nomin . ed b crats in the mis souri le of jliesfhi for il . pn sid al of the i oiled slal ?. \ whi meeting in th s tei om j.cin a for the same office | rltihi'ion ■ ■ ' a few . i in ••-- _ ■ « ■*- " instmilted along lies of teleg "■ ' u '>' .' new v.-y and p pituboije a distance . i ' !,,! . v niile l>y the vires and m - ' :';,! k.ilil detent i .,.- it nn i * * on ?' ni ' ! "! this short space of lime hy ll ■*■ | the response