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THE S1RN CAROLINIAN.. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING AsJ-H'JOIL 331211 AIKD aD32331 W fflAS&PfQ'Ti EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. .JVi6ci- 15, TWtuiic 1G : SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA, SEPTEMBER 12, 1835. vmocv fomAeSmumS 797. TIlC Western Clirolilliail. BY ASII13CL SMITH &. JOSEPH W. HAMl'TO-V TERMS OF I't BLICATION. 1. The Western Carolinian is published every S i- ; again set out in a North East direction, crossing tlrday, at Two Dollars per annum if paid in advance, the Labaca, Xavidad, and Coloral rivers to San or Ivo Dollars anJ Fifty Cents if not paid before the I-VIiM?, the capital of Austin's Colony on the Uio expiration of three month J. j Brasses. Here, after a separation of 19 days, we a. No piper will be dont.nuod until a 1 arreragesa met wU, I ! , ,j, i(lwortlU, who h:l l lieen await are paid, unless at the discretion ot the Ivli tors. . . . :j. 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Bat when disappointments comic, Ami the world begins t0 steal All thy spirit's early bloom. Then its value thou wilt feel! To thy chamber, still ami lone. Fly and search this sacred pnge, When earth's bl mdisbments are gone, L'very grief it will assuage! CIomj thy door against the din Of worl ly folly worldly fear Only let the raiiance in Ofench heavenly promise here! W?i -n thy bruised spirit bends 'X nth th'- weight of sorrow's chain. When of all life's summer fiends, Not one llittcrer shall reniiin; Iiy this u iciioa to the wound Of thy smitten, bleeding breast Here the balm is found That can yield the weary rest! . Nor alone in hours of woe Search the Scriptures,' but while joy Doth life's bhsdfu! cup o'er flow, l!e it oft thy swe-t ernuloy ; So. remembering in t'.v inulh l-m wfiose spirit lig'its erch page, Thou s ialt have abundant proof 1 will iot f r r,t t':i' -.' i'ru.n an Ali-fiina I'uytr. TLA A--. Near Xe.ma, June 10, 1635. Mr. Editor: Having returned from Texas, whither 1 was sen, lit company witli Mr. iloliius worlii, by a respectable number of the citizens ot Greene county, to iooU into the quality of the soil, ; the laws, religion, vVc, and t. report as to the prac- j ticabdily and cxM.dieuey of emigrating theieto, I I submit the following Report: We left Xenia on the J3d of March, accouijKinied by Mr. Dean, a id t reached .Ne Orleans on the 7th of April. Ou j the Otu we left New Or.eaus on board the Orig ' Koxana ; on the lOtii passed the b r at the mouth j of the Mississippi, dismissed the Pilot, and set sail for Mata-orda, winch wo reached, with some dilh- cultv, oa the l?th. Matagorda, (from whence our obseration comuienceuj is a small town witn a population of about 100, and is situated at the junc tion of the Uio Colorado, w ith the Hay of Matagor da. Here .Mr. Holhugsworth and myself parted, he, in company with six or eight others, having an Ox wagon along with them, proceeding North for fan Felipe, and Mr. Dein and I going down 1 he Day westward, in an open boat about 00 miles; all of us having been unable to procure horses at Ma tagorda. Leaving the Day, we proceeded up to Coroi.qua liayou, to a place w here we expected to procure horses ; here, too, we were disappointed ; b procuring an Ox Cart we journeyed westward to the Navidad, a small river which empties into the Labaca river, which again empties into the Day of Matagorda. At this point, four days after leaving Matagorda, having hired a man tbr the purpose, we procured two poor, little, sore-kicked horses, on which, at best, we could trael only about 20 miles a day, but making icootlen spurs, with stout hickories in our hands, we again set our faces westward. Passed the Labaca to the Gaudaloue: thence, in a North West direction, up said river, and through M- de Leon's Colony, to Gonzales, in Do Witt's" Grant. The population of this town, which is als small, does not much exceed that o! Matagorda. Lea ing here we proceeded along the St. Mark's river to the residence of James George, (formerly of f Lis county) and thence to the frontier, I L. t a company sufficiently largo to insure safety i among the Indians could not Im found. Returning and having rested ourselves tor three tl lys, and having, mean-while, procured better horses, we "'i " "'cu " ii.io.um. n . -uj has a population of about 00. '; remained here two days, ard bidding Mr. Hollingsworth farewell, started in a North East direction through the coun frV) crosjSn the Brasses, Trinity, X aches, and A .m0 rivers to Naco,,doches : and thence, cross- ,ho g. o NatchitlK.hes , the tilte of Louisiana, which place we reached on the Jlst ol ' .May, having been IJ1 davs in the Province of Tex as, and having travelled, North and Mast, a distance of about 700 miles. From lied river to the Xaches, a distance of about 140 miles, the country is rolling, the soil sandy, and timb?red w ith pine, and well watered. (), the water courses f hr soil is of a better quality, the watercourses ihv s ul is of a fitter quality, and ., ro, as j,rut brick, yet very prtMluctive m a good season ; but will not stand a drouth. From the iSach'-s to the (audaloiiite the low lands on the . Mr" r-am.H ure ... . ric. oiuck s.u, umu suoj-e, to inundation: but the country I etveen the two . . ... . . 3 A , , rivers is principally prairie, or post o;ik barrens: , -. .! . 1 . -. ' . , ,. ' tlie soil ot the prairie frenucntlv of a gcKMi ipiahtv, i 1 - ttlOUtl generally t OO Said, U 11(1 tlKlt of the MSt j oak barrens genenlly unfit for cultivation of .ihv ! ki'id wiiatever. Timln'r is .-carce from the Natch- e-i w-stward, as fir as the Uio dd Foite, one twen tieth part, perhaps, ;dv of the land liiig covered with ti udior, and that of a very inferior quality, three fourths of it not yielding more than one rail cut to the free, and that very knotty. The trees are principally oak, such as we have in Ohio, with the iddition of live 0,1k, which grows along the waf 'T courses, covered w ith Spanish moss hanging almost to the ground. The f'ice of the country is level from th C ilf to fii distance of 50 or 00 inib's north, w here it becomes rolling or undulated, and continues so to the mountains: springs are ve ry scarce in the table lauds, but the rolling lands are letter funii-hed with springs and streams f r machinery. The wat r generally is of a muddy appearance, yet even when it is stagnant and warm, it tasts pleasant and sweet; and what is worthy of notice, it never has the green slime ujo:i its sur face which covers stagnant water in warm weath'T with us. The products of the soil are cotton, corn, rye, ats, ami sweet potatoes. Cotton is the prin cipal article of export, and is produced very exten sively, and of a ;HK quality, supctior perhaps to any that is grown in the United States. The soil, though rich, produces but about 130 bushels of corn to the acre, and that is very much injured by the weevil. Sweet potatoes of a very superior qualit y are produced in great quantities; ste-ck. hors -s, mules, cattle, sheep, and hogs are raised in any quantities; ami w ithout grain or salt ; the cattle be ing very large, fit, mid beautiful, deriving their f Md only from the grass which grows luxuriantly on the prairies. The climate is very warm, the mercury having ranged from N'J to (j'Z legrees Fahrenheit's ther mometer, from the J5rd to the 0th May in the shade. The climate is such as will not agree with the Northern man, f r he loses something like one half of his bo lily strength and vigor, contracts a lazy indolent habit, Inith of body and mind, and loses much of that cheerfulness and vivacity which are so essential to good health, good feeling, and good society. The rivers Sabine, Naches, Brasses, Colorado and (Jaudalu!e, with soui" improvements, may lie navigated with keel or steam boats during a part j of th" vcar. on', and some of them, erhaps, two f hit idred mile up from their mouths. The governments of the ei.untry is in a very tin- setll- ! condition, there leiiig C"Mti iul broils a id ' disturbances, and not merely of w .r Is, as in the j United States, but of blows ; and the victors lear ruJf. When I left Texas there had Ik'cm a requi sition of men by the governor to sustain himself , and the Congress in some act reacting the ditri- j bution of lands; but the pe ,pe would not go, say- ing the act was unconstitutional, and as they were not compelled to go they refused to take any part in the matter. Slavery is absolutely prohibited, yr-t slaves are lougbt and s,,I. there with th" same freedom, and as openly as in any part of the United States. The j grown slaves are held by indenture during life, and! the you-sger ones are charged tor tneir maintenance and clothing during the whole time ol their mino ritv by their masters; and while they are working out this debt, another still greater is contracted, which likewise must lo worked out, and so on : they being, in fact, slaves all their lives, though no minally free at 21. The same is true of the Spa niards, and thv are held by their lirethern in as abject slavery as is any negro in the United States. As to religion the constitution establishes the Catholic as the religion of the country, though by a recent law other religious denominations are pro tected and sulF'red to workship God in their own way. Flections are, by law, held on the Sabbath, arid new laws on that day are published to the peo ple assembled fir the purosc, and their public sa'es and festivities are on that day. There is no person authorized to solemnize marriages but a priest or the established religion. In 'he eastern part of Texas there is no resident priest, but the circuit of the Province is made once or twice a year bv one from an adjoining province, who mar ries folks in squads according to the laws of the land. Dut the laws provide that the parties may, in the alsonee of the priest, agree to marry, and, entering into IkhvIs to that effect, which are filed with the proper officer for saP keeping, they live together as man and wile, and mon the arriv d of the priest the marriage is duly snlenmizrd. Should the parties, however, become tirod of the matri- tnonial state, they may go forward, and lifting their bonds, the connection and the contract are both dis solved at once. As to lands each man having a family, obtains a league of land, which is 4,141 acres, provinced. The Empressarrio and a Commissioner (both ofticers ot government) certify as to bis character and in tensions of becoming a citizen. This certificate is carru'tf to the siirvevur. wlio n.i in n ooliiie iiirier ! and it is then his duty to lay oi to the applicant the land to which his certificate entitles him, for which land the applicant, at the end of six years, must pay to government from 30 to 40 dollars, ne ver exceeding 50. A single man, on the like cer tificate, obtains one-fourth of a league, which is 1,11 1 acres ; and provided he marries, he gets the re maining three-fourths. Marrying a native Mexi can entitles one to a greater quaunty than a league of land, but how much more I do not now remem ber. Kvery one obtaining land from the govern ment is obliged to take an oath to support the con stitution of the country, must reside within its limits six years, and must make some small im provement upon the land, builing a but, and plant ing si crop: however, that land may be had of a settler, without being obliged to take the oath: but the oath must be taken to entitle one to the privi leges of citizenship. The length of this communication must le my excuse fr not entering more into particulars than I have done at present. Geo. TOWNSLCV. From the Sashville Rr publican. PPvROCEEDLNCJS OF TiIK ANTI-MARRY1NG SOCIETY. Dechration of Independence of the Young Men and Bachelors nf Nashville, assembled at Celibacy Hall, read and unanimously adopted by the Society : W hen, in che course of human events, it lccouies J necessarrv f .r the Bachelor ,,f the rmniiMimtv- to I dissolve thes.K-ial kinds that have hitherto connect-! 1,10 Coi,rt ut lia' mother country was a scene worth a t d them with the Fair Sex and to assume, in j voyage across the Atlantic to witness : fashionable circles, the AJigeand nnmarruil station ! In Iu:.e, 17S-", John Adams, the first Minister to w liich, by the laws of reason, they are entitled Pieuijx.tcntiary from the United States to the a decent resject lr the opinion of the married , Court of London, had his introductory audience jKirt of society co:njels them to declare the auses j with King George the Third. An event so extra which urge them to secede from the empire of love, i ordinary, with circumstances so novel to us in Ame and to rally around the standard of their inherent ! rica, led Mr. Adams to narrate the particulars, in freedoin and natural independence. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created unmarried ; that they an? endowed by nature with the unalienable right of re u lining "7 in a state of single blessedness until they are dis posed to encumber themselves with the appendage of a wife. Then, to secure this right, all Dichelors should Ik; so firmly united in their common cause as steadftstly to ro-ist the multiphd and insidious attacks of the fair the ancient enemy of man's native freedom. Custom and the manners of the age would, in deed, dictate the propriety of that domestic relation which in all previous ti.nes has received the sanc tion of the world and the approbition of society. Hut when a long series of Halls and Parties, of winning smiles, ami killing glances, pursuing inva riably the same object, evinces a design to marry us against our will, it is our right, it is our duty to break the silken chains which 44 fancy weaves for love," and which the imagination teaches us so fond ly and so familiarly to embrace; and to provide for our future safety and security in the 44 hall of celibacy " the abodi of freedom and the home of cace. The history of the present race of ladies, in this place, is one of related encroachments up n the rights of Hachelors ; tending directly to involve them in absolute despotism to prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. They have refused their assent to offers of mar riage the most wholesome and necessary for the interests of particular individuals thereby mani festing a disposition to exercise the re'o power; wit! w hich the unjust custom of society has clothed liiein to the direct injury of fallen man. Triey have refused their sanction to the marriage of others of the community, unless they could re linquish their right of choosing wives fir them selves; a right inestimable to all v ung men, and formidable to matchmakers and old maids miiv. They have called together large meetings of the sex at places where our attention would Ik directed to the beauty f their ersons and the glitter of their dress, for the sole purpose of exciting our im agination, and kindlling into a flame the dying sparks of our love. They have ridiculed and sneered at individuals repeatedly for opposing, with manly firmness, these encroachments upon the rights of unmarried men. They have endeavored to increase the population of this State; tor this pur pise, procuring the Le gislature to reduce the moderate tax upon marriage licenses. They have kept among us a multitude of dandies to perform th se services which men would be so proud to render. They have a fleeted to render the female indepen dent and superior to the male portion of the com munity. They have combined together to subject us to petticoat jurisdiction a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and repugnant to the laws of nature. For taking into favor large bodies of dandies. For protecting them by their smiles and influence from the just ridicule to which their breaches of decorum and good manners subjected them. For forcing some of our acquaintances to marry against their will. Fr carrying us to all the balls and parlies, to be. danced to death in order to retain their fivor. For interfering in many cases with the rights of husbands exciting their mothers and sisters to re sist their lawful lords and masters ; and causing to be inflicted, on many of our married friends, the horrid curtain lecture, a species of punishment more formiable to husbands than the dungeons of the inquisition. For siiseiiding the free will of bachelors, and de claring themselves invested with full pwers to ne gotiate marriages in all cases whatsoever. They have abdicated their authority over us to which we were so willing to submit, by declaring us tit subjects for the attacks ot all old maids and marriage seeking spinsters in the community. They have constrained our fellow-men, taken cap tive by them, to war against their brethren. l or this purpose inciting them to dwell on the ; happiness of married life, which happiness it is well known is founded only on the assertion of hen-peck ed husbands. Against these attacks we have often petitioned f )r redress. Nor have we been wanting in our at tention to the ladies. We have warned them, from time to time, that we would not wed against our wills and contrary to our better judgements. We have reminded them of our uniform gallantry and love. We have appealed to their nobleness of soul and conjured them, by the marriage ceremony, to let us choose for ourselves, but they have been deaf to the voice of reason and love. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which urges us to this declaration : and hold them, as we do the rest of womankind, enemies to our peace and quiet, ami the industrious promoters of marriages and curtain lectures. We, therefore, the Young Men and Bachelors of Nashville, do ordain and publish this our Declaration nf Independence, in support of which we mutually pledge our lives, and our rights to marry. Signed, for and in lehalf of the Anti-Marrying Society, at Ce!ilacy Hall assembled, the 30th Janu ary, 183.3. DICK MAURY-ALL, President. Tom Court-all, Secretarj-. FIRST MINISTER FROM THE UNITED STATES TO GREAT BRITAIN. The following narrative will be interesting to those of our readers who have not met with it. The intro- duct ion of the first minister from the rebd Colonies to a letter to an intimate friend, and was kept private till after his death. It was thus: 4 At one oc!ek on Wednesday, 1st of June, the master nf ceremonies cailed at my house, and went with me to the Secretary of Slate's Oshce. in Cleve land row, where the Marquis of Carmarthen re ceived, and introduced me to Mr. Frazier, his un der Secretary, w ho had leen, as his Lordship said, uninterrupted in that office, through all the chan ges in administration for thirty years, having first been appointed by 4ie Earl of Holderness. 44 After a short conversation upon the subject of importing my effects from Holland, which Mr. Fra zier himself introduced, Lord Carmarthen invited me to go with hi in in bis coach to Court. When we arrived in the ante-chamber, the master of the ceremonies introduced, him, and attended me while the Secretary of State went to take the commands of the King. While I stood in this place, where it seems all ministers stand uoon such occasions, alway s attended by the master of ceremonies, the rMm was very full of ministers of State, Bishops, and all otiier sorts of courtiers, as well as the next room, which is the King's bed-chamber. You may well suppose I was the f cus of all eyes. I was re lieved, however, from the embarrassment of it, by the Swedish and Dutch ministers, who came to me and entertained me with a very agreeable conver sation during the whole time. Some other gentle men, whom I had seen before, came to make their compliments, too, until the Marquis of Carmarthen returned, and desired me to go with him to his M;ijetv. 1 went with his lordship through the le vee room into the King's closet. The door was shut, and I was left wit!i his Majesty and the Se cretary of State alone. I made the three reve rences: one at the door, another about half way , and another before the presence according to the usage established ut tiiis, and all the northern courts of Kurope, and then I addressed my self to bis Ma jesty in the following words: 44 Sire: The United States have appiinted me Minister Plenipotentiary to y our Majesty, and have directed me to deliver to your Majesty this letter, which contains the evidence of it. It is in obedi ence to their express commands, that I have the honor to assure your Majesty of their unanimous disposition and desire to cultivate the most friendly and liberal intercourse lietween your majesty's sub jects and their citizeos, and of their best wishes for your majesty's health and happiness, and for tiiat of your family. 4iThe appointment of a Minister from the Uni ted States to your Majesty 's Court, will form an epoch in the history of England and America. 1 think myself more fortunate than all my fellow citi zens, in having the distinguished honor to be the first to stand in your majesty's royal presence in a diplo matic character; and I shall esteem myself the happiest of men, if I can be instrumental in recom mending my country more and more to your Ma jesty's royal benevolence, and of restoring an en tire esteem, confidence, and affection; or, in better words, the old good nature and the good old hu mor, between people who, though sepirated by an ocean, and under different governments, have the same language, a similar religion, a kindred blood I beg your majesty's jiermission to add, that al though I have sometimes before been instructed by my country, it was never in my whole life in a manner so agreeable to myself." " The King listened to every wort I said, with dignity, it is true, but with apparent' emotion. Whether it was my visible agitation, for I felt more than I could express, that touched him, I can not say; but he was much affected, and answered me with more tremor than I had spoken with, and said : 44 Sir; Tho circumstances of this audience are so extraordinary, the language you have now held is so extremely proper, and the feelings you have j discovered so justly adapted to the occasion, that I IlllKt fliot I ..1.. , l i i,.ui m. uui uiiiy icucut; iui pleasure ino assurance of the friendly disposition of the United States, but that I am glad the choice has fallen up on you to be their minister. I wish you, sir, to believe, and that it may be understood in America, that I have done nothing in the late contest but what I thought myself indispensably beund to do, by the duty which I owed to my people. I will Joe frank with you. I was the last to conform to the separation; but the separation having become in evitable, I have always said, as I now sav, that I would be the first tomeet the friendship of "the Uni ted States as an independent power. The moment I see such sentiments and language as yours pre vail, and a disposition to give this Country the pre ference, that moment I shall say Let the circum stances of language, religion, and blood have their natural and lull effect." 44 1 dare not say that these were the king's pre cise words; ami it is even possible that I mav have, in some particulars, mistaken his meaning," for al though his pronunciation is as distinct as I ever heard, he hesitated sometimes between the mem bers of the same p-riod. He was, indeed, much af fected, and I was not less so, and therefore I can not be certain that I was so attentive, heard so clearly, and understood so perfectly as to be confi dent of all his words, or sense; and think that ail which he said to me should, at nresent. he kett cret in America, except his Majesty or his Secre tary oi date snouid judge proper to report it Tins I do say, that the foregoing is his Majesty's, meaning, as I then understood it, and his ova words, as nearly as I can recollect them. 44 The King then asked me whether I came last from France, and upon my answering in the affirm. alive, he put on an air of familiarity, and smiling, or rainer laugning, said. 4 there is an opinion among some people that you are not the most attached of all your countrymen to the manners of France.' I was surprised at all this, because I thou ght it an indiscretion, and a descent from his dignity'. I was a little embarrassed, but determined not to deny truth on the one hand, nor lead him to infer from it any attachment to England on the other. I threw off as much grav ity as I could, and assun:ed an air of gaiety, and a tone of decision, as far as was de cent, and said, 4 That opinion. Sir, is not mistaken ; I must avow to your .Majesty,! have no attach ment but to my own country.7 The King replied, as quick as lightning, 4An"hoaest man will never have any other." 44 The King then said a word or two to the Secre tary of State, which being between them, I did not hear, and then turned round and bowed to me, as is customary with all kings and princes when tiiey give the signal to retire. I retreated, stepping backwards, as is the etiquette ; and making my his" reverence at the door of the chamber, I went away. The master of the ceremonies joined me at the mo ment of my coming out of the king's closet and ac companied me through all the apartments down to my carriage." A HINT TO MOTHERS. There are many things which are better left to chance : precaution is sometimes more mischievous than negligence. The late Sir W C was one day expected at a large dinner party , at "7" 's 1,1 Kusse'd square. The worthy Haronet's nose, it will be remembered, was, to say the least of it, remarkable. Before the company were assembled, Mr. M suggested to his la dy, that, upon this particular occasion, it would be safer that little Alfred should not (as at other times) be introduced along with the desert after dinner ; for that he, the said Alfred, a fine cnild of seven years old, having a propensity to make observations upjii all personal defects or deformities, from a pimple to a hump, from a crooked finger to a cork leg, might possibly say something not altogether agreeable to Sir W ' . 44 Leave that to me," said the lady ; 44 I'll contrive it nicely." According ly, she proceeded to the nursery and thus addressed the little gentleman: 44 Alfred, my dear, we have a gentleman coming to dinner to-day who has a monstrous ugly nose. Now, if you will promise to be a very good boy , and not m ile any observa tions upon i, you may come down after tlinner, and you shall have an orange. But, remember the nose !" Master Alfred aeceeded to the terms of the treaty, and, in due time, was ushered into the di-ning-room. After the lapse of a quarter of an hour the young gentleman, finding the reward of his forbearance still in arrear, took advantage of a dead pause in the conversation, and cried out, from the further end of the table, 44 Mamma, is it time noia for me to have the orange you promised me, if I didn't say any thing about "that gentleman's mon strous ugly nose V Progress of Improvement Wisdom and knowL edge increase wonderfully among the present gene ration of men in comparison with the ptst. For. merly, the hill of political fame was of steep ascent, and a journey to the summit cost labor. Energy, and talent, and preservance, and diligence, and ho nesty were the only assistants which a man could, depend upm to help him along. Now, a little su perficial know ledge, a good supply of cunning, a belief "that all is fair in politics," a firm faith in the saving power of 44 regular nominations," and withal, a well-curried hobby, is all that is necessa ry; and a man frequently finds himself at the top of of the ladder, wondering how the d I he got there. Prevalent causes of Crime. 1. Deficient education early loss of parents, and consequent neglect. !?. Few convicts have ever learned a regular trade; and, if they were bound to any apprenticeship, they have aban doned it before the time had lawfully expired. 3. School education is, with most convicts, very deficient, or entirely wanting. 4. Intemperance, very often the consequence of loose education, is a most appalling sourc of crime. 5. By preventing intemperance, and by promoting education, we are authorized to believ that v. e prevent crime in a considerable degree.
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