term of the watchm t m su!>?f*i'.:i*n.|*'t vcar u dollars payable in k.!v.i:i-e ut if noi paid in advance two dollars hud fifty ctt will !"■ charged hvnr.ti<_mevt inserted at 1 for the first and 25 cts h<r each subsequent insertion court orders charged ft per ct higher than these rates a liberal deduc si i to those who advertise by the year to the editors must be postpaid fcevjewof tiie career cha racter and services of j zachary taylor he iimir-li-ij from the north american nnd 17 states gazette philadelphia ] his early~hjstory ■ the presentation of the name of gen pt lor as a candidate for the high office president of the united states and the h^jusual circumstances attending his nom ination with its cordial acceptance by so large a portion of the people as a candi , ate free from any of those ultra party edges so usually exacted from competi rs for lofty public positions render it bually interesting and important to un rsfand the whole inner framework and the mind the character the prin jk>les private and public of a man whom rerwhclmin public sentiment seems al jady to have pointed out as the next fief magistrate ofthe republic the best the fullest and the most sat actory exposition of all these particu ir will be found in the simple narra c of some of the most important and blliant achievements of his life his realities speak iu his acts ; and his acts ve been always great ones his spirit j^fc mind his sentiments both moral and his whole character are expres id with a grand iucidness on what is iw the recorded page of hi suntry's story antl to those acts and that histo we would commend all free citizens of e united states who before casting iaeir votes in the approaching election . ould know his qualifications and pecu ' bar fitness to occupy worthily the chair yce so beneficently lilled by the father ' m his country ■ the character of taylor is one that \ th kindles the heart and satisfies the dgnient it opens scenes of glory upon every american can ponder with mboud satisfaction ; and with none the less , ■ probation that amid them all the chief i ad ruling actor in every scene in a plain pirn frank unaffected dcar-headed.kind startetl american citizen who reconciles } ■<■ lofty merits ofthe hero with the sim i mv virtues of a true republican ■ general zachary taylor comes from a • inly and patriotic stock worthy to give * president to the united states ilisfa mer a son of the ancient dominion a i neighbor and friend of washington com hiandetl one of the virginia regiments du jingthe revolutionary war.through which [ wc fought with honor before the revo lt fttion however in his early youth he had i ft-oved his courage and lhe true ameri oh spirit of adventure by exploring the ' n*st mysteries of the great mississippi r malley — then a howling wilderness pas red by the buffalo and roamed by the fcvage red man 1 leaving his brother surveying lands on tbe site ol the present city of louisville t sphere he was soon afterwards slain by be indians richard the bravest adven rer of the day proceeded on a solitary rjkpcdition of discovery westward as far | fpthe mississippi liver : whence itis said ircly alone he made his way safely ck to virginia through the unknown ■ ids of tennessee at the close of the evolutionary struggle in the year 1785 m went a second time to kentucky to pftvisit it to pass bis life among the scenes tallowed by his brother's blood he went as an emigrant with a wife and three children ; of whom the youngest born in orange county virginia on tin 24th of november 1781 and then less than a year g]il was zwuuiv twi.uk a true child of ac border reared amid the perils and ivations antl severe labors of every kind which they encountered who in that day claimed the desert from the barbarian pnd founded the institutions of freedom in ac depths of the forest i it was in this hardy school that taylor required the education and qualities the iimple habits and manly virtues which ave at length lifted him up to view as ne of the renowned men of the world nd commended him to the confidence of mwenty millions ol american freemen as vorthy to serve them in the executive yhair as the representative < f their sov ereignty where is the man to found worthy of the honor did the fa aher who so anxiously guarded his little aniily through tin dangers ol the " \\ il llerness road to kentucky or the mother : sfc'bo bore the youngest born in her arms aflream in the fearful night watches of the jfcvoodiand camp that the helpless infant lilumberinu on its bed of leaves should fftfter the long interval of sixty-three years attumble the pride of mexico at buena vista and return from that field of fame flo rule three years later a mighty repub lic which at the early day of that jotir ley had no constitutional existence ? no t was that providence alone which fore fcees and directs the affairs of men that prepared the extraordinary destiny of the little wanderer ; and even president math a relative of the family when in 1808 he sent a lieutenant's commission to zachary then a young kentucky farmer whose elder brother lieutenant taylor had just died n the army only deemed that he had secured to the country the devoted service of another member of a family thirty-seven years more were yet to roll before the eyes of men n could be competent to read the horoscope tf of the young subaltern of the 7th regiment i * of united states infantry lieutenant taylor commenced service ■ under the command of general wilkin { son at xew orleans whence having ■ been prostrated by yellow fever he was ■ transferred to the northwest where he the carolina watchman betwer k james i -,,-,_,„•, { " kcu a c«kk itox ill your editors 4 proprietors v rulers -._-__-_____.__, i new series "" gen'l harrison \ volume v number 15 salisbury n c thursday august 10 1848 served under general harrison up to the close of the war of 1812 it was in that year he was made a captain and placed in charge of fort harrison on the wa bash ; where commanding a petty garri son of fifty men of whom two-thirds and himself with them were rendered nearly helpless by fever for it was a very un healthy post surrounded and attacked by an overwhelming force of savages he en joyed the first opportunity of proving thai his fate was a charmed one and that it was his particular lot to fight and prevail over \ superior numbers he never has gone ! into battle except against the greatest odds ; and he has never come out of bat ' tic except as a victor old sylla the fa mous roman general who was always victorious believed ihat his prosperity a rose from a special luck or good fortune ; and he called himself felix the happy or fortunate the same surprising suc cess has heretofore always marked the career of taylor who however assumes no surname but leaves all to his country men who have already decided lo call him — not taylor the happy or fortunate — but taylor the next president we want a man of liappt fortunes to preside over the affairs of the republic uut let us observe how these happy fortunes be gan at fort harrison defence of fort harrison fort harrison was a mere stockade or block-house fort designed for defence a gainst indians containing barracks store : rooms a guard-house c but without artillery or any other better means ot re sisting a siege than muskets and the de termined resolution of a young command er incapable of fear ; and whose own sickness with extreme bodily debility — the weakness and for a time the conster nation ol his force — the presence of ter rified non-combatants — " nine women and children — the number of his foes — the exposed position of the fort remote from all succor — and let us add the recollec tion of a young wife and child for tay lor had married in 1810 to whom his thoughts on that dreadful night must of ten have wandered — failed to drive him from his balance " my presence of mind said the young captain in his despatch to general harrison did not for a moment forsake me jt was 11 o'clock on the night of lhe 4th of september 1812 — hostile indians were around in unknown numbers two young men had been shot tut scalped the evening before at a little distance from the fort and their bodies found and brought in that morning in the evening a parly ot thirty or forty in dians made their appearance attempting the treacherous stratagem of a flag of truce — which did not however deceive the cautious taylor — and proposing a con ference next morning captain taylor prepared for the pretended conference by immediately inspecting the arms of his men serving them with sixteen rounds of ammunition and setting a guard of six privates and two non commissioned offi cers all that he could for he had only " ten or fifteen men able to do any thing at all the others being sick or convales cent we copy the words of his despatch and ordering one of the non-commissioned ollicers to make up for deficiencies in the guard by walking the rounds all night " to prevent the indians taking any ad vantage of us provided they had any in tention of attacking us at eleven o'clock he was awakened by a musket shot ami rushing from his bed he discovered that the attack had been begun by several hundred indians — that the fort was in flames — and ihat his men overcome by the horror of their sit uation and the shrieks of the women and children were completely paralyzed by terror so that two of them and " two of the stoutest too leaped tin pickets in an unavailing attempt to escape iu this des perate conjuncture every thing depended upon the courage and resources of a poor sick youth who had never been in battle but to whom and to whom only all look ed for protection here in this little be leaguered post on that night of terror flashed out the lineaments of that cha racter which lately shone so gloriously with a matured grandeur at buena vista as calm as resolute as quick in expe dients as ready in their execution the young captain exhibited all the traits of the illustrious general it was the flames which caused the panic ; they were ra pidly opening a pathway to the fierce be siegers ; but it was a single block-house only which was ou lire ; and it was equal ly possible as he perceived to arrest the conflagration and to provide a new bar tier behind the burning block-house the suggestion and the orders of capt taylor immediately inspired the soldiers with new life ; " aud never said he " did men act with more firmness or desperation some clambered to the roofs throwing them off amid showers of bullets and ar rows so as to intercept the flames which were thus soon subdued ; others wrought at a temporary breastwork so that when the block-house fell the savages found themselves repelled from its ashes by a new wall of defence as high as a man's head whence came the flash and balls of american rifles in short the indians tierce and numerous as they were were ballled repelled defeated ; and at six o'clock in the morning abandoning their expected prey they fled from the ruins ot j fort harrison as the legions of santa ] anna fled in after years at buena vista from the wrecks of the few shattered re giments and broken battalions which made up the petty but invincible army of him who saved fort harrison in both these battles the first and the last the smallest and the greatest fought by taylor he displayed precisely the same qualities calm fortitude perfect equani mity constant presence of mind great caution unconquerable resolution and the secret power of imbuing his followers with his own courage which made both though fought under desperate circum stances victories we shall find these great military qualities exhibited during his whole military career and we shall find other qualities and analogous though diverse united and co-operating with them under other circumstances which com bine to form the elements of a great cha racter equally adapted to the successful rule of an army and the administration of a state the battle of okeechobee for twenty years succeeding the victo tory of fort harrison — that is from 1812 to 1832 zachary taylor though still serving in the army may be said to have returned to the life and resumed the hab its of a simple citizen fortune offered him no further opportunities of victory because none of battle during the re maining term of the british war and after that came a long and happy period of profound peace in which the repub lic waved in prosperity and the duties of ' the soldier were to garrison posts to watch ' the frontier to open roads of communica tion in the newer states and territories — employments presenting none of the as ! pects of war and not altogether incom patible with the enjoyments of civil soci ety and domestic happiness under such circumstances and amid such avocations general taylor was always able to pre serve unchanged the manly habits and na tural traits of his early life ; and the events of the mexican war have made all aware that even in the camp the character of the citizen in him has never been lost in that of the military man the year 1832 was the period of the black hawk war in which taylor led a \ regiment in the battle of ihe bad axe — ! the only battle he has ever fought in which he did not command from 183g to 1840 he was in florida engaged in the semi , nole contest in which the decisive victory of okeechobee on the 25th of'december 1837 obtained for him his brevet of brig ; adier general and the conduct of the war as commander of the florida troops du ; ring the two last years that he remained in the territory we do not know that the battle of okeechobee though inter esting enough from its fierce and sanguin ary character and the brilliant success that crowned it and though pronounced by general jesup then general taylor's superior officer in his despatch as " one of the best fought actions known to our history ought to detain us from the re view of the far more important conflicts of the mexican war in which the great qualities of taylor were so signally and so suddenly made manifest to the union in the determined spirit however with which he set out upon a march of one hundred and fifty miles disregarding all the impediments of a country impassable to artillery and in action of cavalry re solved to storm the savages out of their swamps and hammocks he exhibited the same energetic will afterwards so strik ingly illustrated at palo alto and la palma as well as a system of tactics per haps caught in his boyish days in ken tucky from some of those rugged hunter heroes of the indian wars from whom as tradition has it he acquired his first les sons in the military art there is or used to be a story told in the west of a certain character a famous indian fighter and scout long remembered under the nick name of captain dudley bulger derived from a circumstance which we are going to mention who used lo belong to the country about salt river the very region in which the elder taylor had established his family this worthy in his capacity of scout accompanied general wayne in the expedition against the northwestern indians in 171)1 ; and on the eve of the battle of the fallen timber coming in with the latest report of the position of the indian army strongly posted among thick ets and down-fallen trees was admitted into the general's tent at the moment of a council of war when wayne who had doubtless formed his own resolution was about to demand the opinions of his offi cers some advised one and some ano ther method of attack until all had spo ken ; when wayne perhaps for the hu mor of the thing turned suddenly and demanded the opinion of the scout ' w7hy general replied the intrepid scout " if you axes me what to do i should say just move ahead and bulge right over them !" — a sentiment highly approved by mad anthony who accordingly charged the indians out of their lair with bayonets ; and so to the great delight and immortal honor of his adviser " bulged right over them il was the " bulging system of tactics which colonel taylor chose to employ against the seminole indians at the okee chobee ; and this too iu the face of ob stacles greater and far more formidable than those encountered by wayne at lhe fallen timber the long forced march brought his command of about eight hun dred men in view of the seminoles post ed in great force in one of those ham mocks or island groves rising out of deep swamps with which florida abounds those serboniflti bogs amid which three hundred years before the chivalry of de soto melted away horse and man in the vain effort to reduce the fierce ancestors of the seminoles to the spanish yoke — the swamp surrounding the hammock of okeechobee was three-quarters of a mile wide " totally impassable as taylor him self says for horses and nearly so for foot — a wilderness of mud and water and thick saw grass five feet high and deep creeks and quagmires extending as far as the eye could reach ;" and behind this desperate approach lay the savages in the gloom of the hammock covering and commanding every step with their rifles nevertheless colonel taylor had made up his mind ; he does not seem to have thought it necessary to call a coun cil of war he had marched one hundred and fifty miles to find the indians and he had them before him he made his dis | positions therefore without delay and proceeded to execute his plan of battle which was to '• bulge right over them into the swamp ! march — charge ! first line second line — firm and steady ! right through bayou & quagmire ; right through the sudden hurricane of indian bullets and the storm of triumphant war-whoops answered by the splash of the death-fall and the dying groans of men mingling their blood in the pestilent pools gentry down mortally wounded thompson dead van swearingen brooke and canter dy ing : nearly one hundred and forty officers and men among the killed and wounded the charge was still pursued the marsh was passed and in three hours the whole force of savages fighting with uncommon ! ferocity was driven at the point of the ! bayonet from the stronghold marched over — utterly routed and shattered to pieces — | and the victory of okeechobee won it was under the circumstances of the seminole war a highly important success of the consequences of which in breaking the spirit of the indians and disposing them sooner or later to make peace tay lor must have been immediately conscious read his dispatch however for a picture of the feelings natural to a victor on such an occasion ! well it is and long has been before the people of the united states the battle is described the sue ! cess recorded but not one word of pride and triumph ; no indulgence of a single feeling of elation : the thoughts of the vie ; tor run only on his killed and wounded — ' the loss of his dead the sufferings of his bleeding followers " here says the vie i tor his heart full only of this melancholy theme " i trust i may be permitted to say ; that i experienced one of the most trying periods of my'life and he who could have ; looked on it with indifference his nerves must have been differently organized from my own besides the killed there lay one hundred and twelve wounded officers and soldiers who had accompanied me ' one hundred and forty-five miles most of the way through an unexplored wilder ness without guides who had so'gallant ly beaten the enemy under my orders in his strongest position and who had to be conveyed back through swamps and ham mocks from whence we set out without any apparent means of doing so no : the feeling that breaks out here — the first feeling — is not that of gratified ambition but the tenderest humanity to which the nerves ofthe brave old soldier are pecu liarly organized and it was here a mong the hammocks of florida as in the pitched fields of mexico that his acts de clared the sentiments which he has since proclaimed to the world in words " that the joy and exultation of the greatest vic tories — we use his own language spoken in december last at new orleans — are ; always after the heat and excitement of the battle ; and that war after all is a great calamity and his the greatest glory who can terminate it humanity is indeed one of the first one of the most striking and one of the noblest ofthe attributes of general zach ary taylor to be continued the compromise bill quite contrary to our expectation up on the introduction into the senate ofthe bill generally called the compromise bill from its leaving the question of free soil in the newly acquired territories of cali fornia and new mexico as well as in oregon to the derision ofthe inhabitants and finally of the courts of law of the united states that bill after having passed the senate on coming up in the house of representativesyesterday recei ved at once the coup de grace by a vote of 112 to 98 in a full house it was or dered to lie upon the table from which it will not be taken up during the present session of congress our columns being so much pre-occu pied we defer till our next paper the ex pression of the thoughts to which this un anticipated event gives rise national intelligencer gen cusbing it is said will be the demo cratic candidate for governor of massachusetts from the wilmington journal north carolina regiment the list of the n carolina regiment taken lrom lhe muster rolls has been furnished us by adjutant j b whitaker and we hasten to ' spread it before our readers as we know there are many of them extremely anxious to know the fate of friends and relatives who went to mexico the six companies enumerated below ai rived at smithville in 12 days from new or leans on monday last under col paine ma jor wilder paymaster has been endeavoring for some days past lo make the necessarv mo nelary arrangements for paying off the regi ment on wednesday morning he went lo washington for this purpose and will not pro j bably be back before monday or tuesday — so ihat the regiment will not be discharged before wednesday or thursday the troops are in fine health and are anx ious to get home the remaining four companies a b k and g arrived at old point on saturday last . it is still a matter of doubt whether ihey will be dis charged there or ordered round to smithville cabarrus company company c commanded by capt area officers martin shive captain died 15ih aug i 17 h a area captain present x slough lt do j blackwelder lt do a b pharr lt resigned psivates barnhart george k present blackwelder j a do ballard john do burmingham alexander do blackwelter riley do caricher moses k do cline burton do caricher wiley do cauble john m do dorton james do davis rolin do faggart daniel e do green david do gorrel john r do hartsel joshua do hudson william j do hunnycut leonard do hartsel edmund do hudson richard r do hudson james do irby john da johnson mccainey do kinally pa do little martin c do lefler william do long jacob k do morris john do mitchell volentine n do martin isaac a do mason john do moring william p do morton stephen g do powers james do penninger henry d page james do ross william do roark robert do seamone george do smith valentino do stough william do stewart james do troutman simeon do tucker timothy do discharged brandy john n discharged june 1-17 cress giles nov 24 1817 lamb john oct 12th 1647 miller daniel march 24lh 1848 cra'.on henry loft without leave died braswell briant 22d july 1617 eddleman adam sept 12th 1847 fry joseph m july 9th 1647 , flowers enoch march 24th 1847 garris william july 7th 1847 heathcock john k aug 19th 1647 j klutch daniel c oct 18th 1817 luton john july 8ih 1647 mcduffie william june 3d 1847 penninger james p april 3d 1-17 scott uriah oct 8th 1847 slough martin march 26th 1 17 sloop a n aug 19th 1647 turner h p aug 1st 1-17 privates present ephraim tucker wm tarlton joseph b todd martin vanderberg s winckott john i f walkins wm c watkins wm rinstaft john swink kirby j m died 8th aug 1817 present — a joiner pc area l a melchor j n brown i goodman j b douglass cavaignac the richmond whig ofthe 22d inst says : — m f gaillerdet formerly editor of the cou rier des etats unis still corresponds from pa ris wiih that paper his letters are frequently filled with malter of deep interest and are in general more trustwoilhy lhan the majority of the correspondence from the same point from the fact that he is a frenchman himself and can more readily than a foreigner appreciate the feelings of ihe french people we are glad to see that he entertains a very high opin ion of the justice and moderation of lhe distin guished citizen stands at the head of this arti cle he says of him after having mentioned that he had been unanimously appointed presi dent of lhe ministerial council and had formed his cabinet if the noble character which de veloped itself in gen cavaignac during his dic tatorship of danger does not belie itself during the several months of his ministerial pre.iden cv it cannot be doubted ihat he will be chosen president ofthe republic at the fir.t elections tbe 23d of june will have been for his politi cal fortune what lhe 13th vendemiaire was for , _—__■_» that of bonaparte but here in all prohabili ty the comparison will end ; br cvnipntc is an upright and conscientious republican he will save the republic which he anarchist and radicals would have destro}ed bey„nd tho reach of hope high as is the character here given of gen cavaignac however it will depend on ihe disl position of the people ihem-elve whether ho shall turn out a washington or a bonaparte m g speaks thus o the aspect of paris : u i should sav something of the present ap pearance of paris of the innumerable a with which its walls are indented of the deep wound ill ted on some of its noblest monu menis ol the melaticholv spectacle presented by the purs of the vanquished of the crowd o prisoners which fill ,_,. dungeons o over lowing ofthe corpses which are continually pa«»nglo lhe cemeteries ; ofthe wounded who fill the hospitals the number ol i..s_r gents is estimated al 10 000 that of ihe prison ers at 7000 bat ofthe killed at 4000 and that ol the wounded at 6000 1 should also relate the bloody episode of a desperate struggle which took place at night on be place du ca rousel between certain prisoners and a portion ol the nation i guard but mv letter hits al ready attained its prescribed proportions newspaper postage tbe article in oar last number on this subject lias raided quite a hornet's nest about our rats wc have received three long epi-llcs from as many postmasters one postage not paid all contending for the riglit to charge postage on tbe ia te under 30 miles from this place these three epistles all refer to the 13th section of the act of tbe 3d of march 1817 as conclusive on the subject this section is copied by the trio of our infor mation as if tbey supposed tbey possessed the only three copies of the act extant now can either of these postmasters if it were to save their necks from tbe hal ter tell from this section or act what rates of postage tbey are to charge do they charge 1 cent 2 cents 5 cents or 10 cents for if the act and section referred lo es tablishes no rates and it does not why may they not charge one sum as well as another the article at the beginning of " the book headed " rates of postage is not au act of congress and therefore confers no authority the act of 1825 to which we are cited by one of our correspondents which may be found on the 23d page ol ' the book was repealed by the act of the 3d of march 1845 and is of no more force than if it never had been enacted the act of the 3d of march 1817 as before stated establishes no rates of postage nor does it repeal the rates established by the act of the 3d of march 18 we can not therefore retract the advice given last week to our subscribers to refuse to pay postage on tbe gazette at ollices under 30 miles from this place we have no doubt but our postmasters think they are in the right but that does not make them so ah we ask is justice even handed justice cher aw gazette another broken sword we see a little item travelling the rounds of the democratic press which makes lafayette say " when he wan ted a thing well done lie always sent a butler to do it we do not know nor do we much care to what breed of butlers this recently invented saying of the illustrious old frenchman has reference ; one thing is as clear as mud it had no allusion to the present nom inee for the vice presidency when did lafayette want a thing done by any of the butler family ? during the revolutionary war we suppose of course now according to his biogrnphy the democratic candidate for the vice pres idency was born the very year the rev olutionary war ended we should like to know what use old lafayette had during bis arduous campaigns for a ba by not oltl enough to wear breeches it must have been somebody else that done up things so elegantly brown william's mother would hardly trust him out at so early a period of bis precious existence very few boys have ever been found travelling so tar in advance ofthe man — columbus enquirer singular discovery in missis sippi the louisville journal in a n cent ar ticle says : in the southwestern part of franklin county mi there is a platform or floor of hewn stone neatly polished some three feet under ground it is about one hundred and eighty feet wide it ex tends due north and south and its surface is perfectly level tbe masonry is said to be equal if not superior to any work of modem times the land above it is cultivated but thirty year ago it was covered with oak and pine trees measu ring from two to three feet in diameter it is evidently of very remote antiquity as the indians who reside in the neighbor hood had no knowledge of its existence previous to its recent discovi ry nor is there any tradition among them from any idea ofthe object of the work or lii peo ple who were its builders there is also a canal and well connected with if but tbey never have been explored a sub terranean passage may be underneath farther exploration may throw some light upon its origin one of mr cass admirer calls him a great michigander ! anothersays that he gallantly surrendered to the brit ufa in the war of 1812 ' louisi di journal m tjor general butler the democratic candidate for the vice pi e.ideiicy has ar rived in washington city