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I J jol .the .Watclimaii. ,.. . riptlonVlper year;Two DoLUas-payablein ti .f not pai1 ia advance) Two dollars .'m, wilt be charged.; . .' (. -. ;- li b inserted at 8 1 for the firet.tnd 25 etar . ;..'t,.nt insertion. . Court orders ehnrged ? rt I, higher than these rates A liberal deduc- ?f!; tbi U advertise by the year W . lu. iMiiors mutt be DOBt DBld r I" l.r r. Ili -.ii&ET'i Sacred Sccnea and Characters. ELI. t.i was a high priest of faraelj possessing , -oodness of heart, but wanting firmness - .it r.furllna ' flit l..,lr vacillating ho appeals to me like '"e who would rather submit hi neck to the ex. Cnfliuoeri 'tie, than himself inflict! the bIowon tC9tfttj waj deserving his fate: This weak. n j of character was exhibited in the manner ' hicb he educated his! sons. (lie allowed ihrirbad aior to grow unchecked, jo that Ills cociscenec compelled hiirn to reprove )'iirn tneo J r " ! TxyylTY? U U7 H y 1 P j -11 P Nh V V7 V ? TV"- 1 1 H U 11 j ;Y JJ i n o V J. J. BRUNER, , Editor 4: Proprietor. i " Keep a cHEcx;tjroj all tocr ' RCLSRS. .A Do thts, akdLibekttis safe - Gem' I Harrisons NEW SERIES. . VOLUME VII NUMBER 10. SALISBURY, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1850. wMle he failed in energy tof enfi ebuiif ,1 wa ,De une culpatile, since, as bb priest, bis sons would necessarily them. i La Drioils. anu hence it became 111m to la .t' ilrntf AA nnl minitlRr with imiiiri hand. '. . J .r tki KnU'KVrr Ka lol (Ko! r nvil Ion. jancies hae' such scope, that, when they as turned ibi sscerdotal robes, they tjsed their of fee fur selfish ends, and' the gratification of 4hf k bass passions. When a rinant came to 0lfer a sacrifice, they appropriated a great part of ii I to themselves, and insulted the women iimbled at the door of rbe ternpHe. So gross ind oteii was their conduct, that the people tubed wh disgosl from the sacrifice, feeling ibat no good couia come irom sucu mercenary and brutal priests. These enormities were told m Eli;1butj-the doting' old mkn only said, Wbv dl ye such things T nay,.my ions, it is ' no jjood report rtiat 1 hear." A very safe re mark oi' bis, and no loubl fully Appreciated by bis. contemptuous! sonsi j ' I At length a man oi" God camie to Eli, and i 'placing' bf fore 'him his past conduct, and re- J cmjM4 m concise, but plain language, the I lulemrt obligitions that lay upotji him, and the . tin be had! incurred in not restraining his vj. j , cuius chiUieii, (ironounced the doom of utter j exteribinajHjn on his family. Not long after, jhe same oialediclion was uttered by th Lord to Samuel, to which the old roan txwfd his , bead, saying? "It is the Lord ; let him do what i - teerneth hjfnj good." lie had done wrong, and h! knew ii, a nd now he would meekly suffer the penalty of his deeds, j Time wore on, and at length war was declar. ed between the Israelites and Philistines, and 4 I battle was: fought, in which the former were ! beaten, with the loss of four thousand men. ? Attributing Iheir deleat to the. iabsence of the atk of the covenant, they sent or it, and Iloph- brand I'hlnehas, the sons of lli.of course ac , 'compsuied-itl. The tw armies lay opposite each other( awaiting each the onset ofhis a. Ugonisf, when the Israelites saw the ark slowly .. approaching oer the plain, the mercy seit ol wild gold glittering in the sunbeam. In a moment despondency gaye way to courage, despsir tu iriumph. and there went up a shout that rocked l&e inoutiuins. The ArkofGod! the Ark of ''God " rolled in uVep Hebrew ac cents irom lens of thousands of lips over thtt .field ol baijle, sending terror and dismay .to the ; jieari of the enemy. " .Whut shout is that ?" ranOom lip to Up, and when it was told that the irk off J he Lord was in the camp of Israel, they eiclaimed, " We are lost ? TLese are the mighry gda which smote the Ejryp'ians. and strewed t hi way (rom Egypt hither with the dead armies, and how shall we escape ?" Their leaders, however, encouraged them, saying, VtDe men,kand fight bravely. Will you be ihe Hebrew's lae, as he has been yours? Quit yourselves like men!" Rousing their courage by such appeals they' led them to th onset. What a terrific sight did the btile. fields of old p'resenJ Not in solid columns, flanked by clouds of (iavalary, and headed by fierce batte ries, did I aey advance slowly to the work of death; but ten limes ten thousand rushed sud. denly and .savagely upon each other's bosoms, and the battle became so many fierce hand to hand contests. Hence it was longer protract ed and more murderous than now. As these two immense hosts, like two dark clouds, closed on each other! the shout of each drowned ipr a moment the braying of trumpets 1 and clash jof instruments ojf music. : Straight 011 fbe.ark of God went thje Philistine thou-i I sands, bearing down everything before them. 'Israel saw it, and all over tjie tumultuous field j arose the Cry, To the rescue .'" Begirt with Atn thousknd foes, Ihe sacred emblem stood still on the plain, while that strong Hebrew sboul rolled like thunder to; the heavens, and . the countless masses went pouring forward:--Around the holy Shekinah swords dripping with blood flashed and waved, spears glanced, and banners rose and led. I he mercy. seat totter ed to and fro in the doubtful fight the cheru bim shook, while clouds of; dust rolled over the combatants, and all was rage, terrf, and con. fusion. AVicked but brave; Ilophrii and Phine . has, true & their sacred trust, (ell pierced with , a hundred: wounds, and boldest of Israel's war riors sealed their fidelity with their blood. Vain valor-j trampled under foot, Iwrne back ward by the on. rushing thousands, the. defend ers of the-ark broke and fled. With a shout that fell like a death knoll on Iheir brave spi ' it, the ir enemies seized the ark and bore it Iriumphantly away. Faint terror and utter des pair seized every heart the shriek rang out over the din of combat The ark is lost! 'the ark is'jfost " and that magnificent host, be his temples, but' still he sat like a statue cut from stones and listened; Hour afier hojr had worn heavily away4 but now, just as lb last sunbeams fell in a shower of: gold on bis vener able head, the sound of hasty footsteps smote hit ear. , Not the startled deer lifts; his head in more eager attitude than did that blind old man when first roused from his reverie by thai rapid tread, which his heart foreboded toa well brought heavy tidings. It was one of the) fugi lives from the battle-field, atill crimsornf with the slaughter his clothes rent, and dust pn bis head, and desoair in 'hi 9 eve. And lo! as he sped onward with the sad news, a cry of dis tiess and anguish followed him. Eli heard it, and asked its meaning. The next moment the messenger of evil stood before him, and cried, " I am just from the army, and all is lost. Is rael is fled before the Philistines, and be brav. est lie dead on the' field. Thy two sons, Hoph. ni and Phinehas, are slain, and the ark of God taken." Under the defeat ot Israel, the or'a patriarch bore firmly tp : even the death of his ..a. A 1 1 . . A'.A - - AWAf.n 'l .(.AI fir O m Q 1WU UIIIV SUU9 UIU I1UI PlltltiC HIS atru liaiuo , but when it was told him that the lark of All, of his God was taken, he fell dead to the earth all else could be; borne: the slaughter people, his own and his sons' death, were no thinn in comparison to the honor of his God. This last blow broke his heart as with fa sud den crash, and he died without uttering his sor row. Ah! whoi can tellr the tide of feelin that swept over him at the fatal news. That his sin should be visiied.on the people and his sons was natural the prophetic curse had prepar ed him for this : but that the honor of God, which was dearer to him than life, should suf ler lor his misdeeds, was more than tie cou bear. The curse had struck deeper tfian he had anticipated and in that day of terrible sus pense, and in that moment of .unspeakable an guish, he received; the punishment of a fond father but erring father. j Of a noble heart, full of all gentleness and love, pure and upright himself, yet he "did not fulfiLthe responsibilities of a parent. His de feots were rather mental than mora), and his crime consisted in not restraining others in stead of not controlling himself. All his thoughts, wishes, and desires were pure, but he refused to arrest the vices of his children. Too easy in his temper, and doting in: his af lections, be would not see the evil pe was bringing on them, on thespeopleon himself. Thus doethe fonduess of parents, when al lowed lo blind their eves to the faults of their offspring, or prevent them from punishing tiieir misdeeds and checking theif passions, always end in the misery of both. This is the lesson houses : a smart little Tillage has already grown up about the Colleges. The Faculty of the College consists of the President. Dr. Wil liamson, a graduate of our own College, and three professors. They have about sixty stu. dents. The College has existed about ten years. The class which graduated at this time con sisted of 14 members. They all spoke as tol. lows : . 1. J. Rumple, of Cabarrus, N.C. The Sal utatory Addresses in Latin. 2. C. C. Shive, of Lafayette, Miss. A Phi Iosophical Oration. 3. J. J. Blue, of Richmond, N. C. Litera ry Fame. 4. E. L. Burner, of Randolph County, N. C. The demands of the South on her educated sons. 5. J. A. Davis, of York, S. C The Influ ence of Accident on Human Destiny. 6. S. W. Douglas, of Chester, S. C The Rise, Progress, and Destiny of American Lib erty. u "S 7. J. A.; Gibson, Cabarrus, N. C. War and its incidents. 8. T. Grier, Mecklenburg, N. C The True Orator. 1 9. J. M. Hutchinson, Mecklenburg, N. C. The Genius of the 18th Century. 10. B. S. Krider, Rowan, . C, The Tomb;taketh not all away. 11. J J. S. McQiiio, Robeson, j N. C The Memory of Departed Worth. 1 12.1 W. A. Patton, Mecklenburg, N. C. Scotland. 13. T. A. Wilson, Mecklenburg, N. C The Result of Ambition. 14. H. T. Burke, Rown, N. C The Val- edictory Addresses. It is not at Davidson as it is with iis at the South Carolina College the Salutatory is not their first honor; the Valedictory, as it was formerly with us, is the first honor. I wish we could say, Presto.change, and go back, at least in this jrespect, to Dr. Maxcy s days. . I was much pleased with the young mens -a - exercises, lhey shewed tnal they naa Deen well taught, and were well informedt At a little after 3, P. M., to a crowd of audi. tory, I commenced my address on Public Speak ing, and held on for better than an hour. It was a subject I had thought much about, and of which, as is pretty generally known, 1 had a good deal of experience. 1 therefore ventured to speak ex tempore but I shall not thereby escape the labor of writing it out, as a copy has been requested for publication. At 7, P. M. the people agatn assembled, to hear men Temperance. 1 gaye them pretty 1 1 .i.wii.i imennVH to I., tunoht in ihl ,.hnter of history, mucn sucn a Drusning as mat 1 naa tne oatur it mnat he r(mlrisSeH .hat it i a fearful one. day before given the people at Bomar s Old with fearful warniniis. i .Meld, l hey nave a nne Uiyistonot tne fions C l . ? V 1 know of the desiirns of heav 1 ' icmperance ai jjavmson. fud we accompanied Alow little en, and how completely contradictory do they olten appear to passing events. Around that ark otuod the symbol ot love and mercy and for the silent tomb of the Son of God, who came to preach peace on earth, more blood has been shed than for any warlike ban. net that ever floated over a field of slaughter. The frightful wars of the Israelites, and the millions slain in the Crusades, to deliver the Holy Sepulehre, are strange facts in history. Yet the ordering of the one, and tbe permis . it . i f sion plan whose origin js perfect On Friday, the 9th, I went down to Char lotte, and spent the day with! my good friend, Dr. B. R. Dunlap and his interesting family. At night, 1 met the Sons of Temperance, and delivered before them and the citizens of Char lotte, a temperance address, as well as I could do. To-day, 1 came here, (45 miles.) I must now go back. 1 bad never been over the coun try from Spartanburg to Davidson, lo me, it was a most interesting, although tiresome ride. must perish and ought to perish. In the State ! convention, called to repeal the nullification ordinance, (February, 18331) though he -sub-mitted to the necessity, he did it with extreme ill grace was for keening tip the military or ganization of the State in anticipation of ano ther collision and boldly declared in that early day that he had no confidence in the Union. We mention this! as a. proof that Mr. Rhetl's dislike for the Union is an ancient and deep rooted feeling and that he has in the most ex cited times failed to get it endorsed by the peo ple of S. Carolina. 1 The particular incident to which you refer has some traits that may make it interesting to recall it. Mr. Rhett (who was then known as R. Barnwell Smith his name has been since changed) was a member of the convention from the parish of St. Bartholomew. When the report accompanying the ordinance repealing the ordinance of nullification was read in con vention, it contained an avowal of ardent at tachment to the Union." Mr. Smith (Rheti) rose in great excitement, and moved to have the phrase stricken out as t untrue" as respec ted him aud his constituents.1 He denied that . - - tney bad, or had any reason to nave, an ar dent attachment" to the Union. He said, "he would rather see the whole State, from Table Rock to Fort Moultrie, one military camp, than for the State of South Carolina to con tinue a member of the Union, such as it was then, and had been for the last ten years" from 1822 to 1832. The following scene then occurred, as we find it in a report of the proceedings of the convention : General James Hamilton, jr., attempted to rise, but gave the floor to Colonel Samuel War- ren, trom ot. James Santee, a revolutionary of ficer. Col. Warren, leaning against the table and supported on his crutches, said he understood the gentleman from St. Bartholomew (Mr. R. B. Smith) to ask when he was up, " where was the man in the convention who could place his hand upon his heart, and say that he was at tached to this Union ?" Mr. Smith. Ardently attached. Mr. Warren. 1 don t care what word you place there. I, for one, can place my hand upogrmy heart, (suiting the action to the word,) and can say that I am ardently attached to this Union. looked unconsciously downwards to the rem nant of his dismembered limb.) and will do it 0 again, whenever my services are required. The whole scene was one of deep and touch ing interest. Mr. Smith s motion to strike out the declar ation of attachment to-tbe Union was defeated by a large majority in a convention of the nul lifies ! Will he have more success now? We trust not we believe not. There is, we hope, enough of the spirit of-this revolutionary versing respecting the many memorable and wonderful rnenfubo were given to the world in the yeaf 17C0 Napoleon Wellington, Ldinton, t lton ; again, the greatest of these teas Fulton? said he. - it. was truly said, ana too world almosff even now; ackno wledgeiU ' w From the Lafayette La.) Republican. The South in Faror or the Union. The danger threatening the American Union has never been more imminent, than at the present moment The fimat- icism of abolitionism, and the madness of j Southern chivalry, are not now so fearful as the sectional snirit which brums to pervade the conservative portion of Con gress. It was expected by all that the sudden death of Gen. Taylor, would have awed both Houses of Congress into silence and have shut down the flood-gales upon intemperate discussion, which has so long embarrassed useful legislation, and sick ened the heart oi the nation by iis display of puerile abstractions and unnatural hos tility. Acknowledging the danger to our Union from prolonged agitation of a ques tion arraying the iSorth against the South in hostility, men claiming to be patriots, and pretending that they represent the peoplercbntinue to wrangle over imprac ticable schemes, daily increasing aliena tion of feeling, and strengthening section al interests and sectional jealousies, until the mind can scarcely foresee the dread ful consequences which may follow to the country and to freedom. Congress is the cause of the evil which threatens. The People have little sympathy with the fiery agitators. The masses desire the set tlement of the vexed question, lhey love the Union. Then tvill maintain it. South Carolina may raise the black flag of dis union, and call upon her sister slavehold- ing States to rally under its gloomy folds, under the pretence of defending Southern rights, but there will be no answering sig nal, no gathering of enthusiastic hosts. The Bonnet Carre Crevasse. A com pany of scientific gentlemen have' visited this point , lately from New Orleans. They found the crevasse one mile and a quarter, and covered with beds of, sand, very little water now running through it. At the highest point thevate,r4 was only 5j feet deep in the crevasse, and not with staneing the quanttty.of water and the . rapidity with which it. rushed through, no , channel was cut; the water merely carry ing away the soil and depositing heaps of 1 snnd in its placed The Crescent says that thirty-four small planters were driven oflT by the water. A, bar twenty feet high was formed by thej action of the. water, across the main river just below the ere vasse, and the opinion is expressed that a permanent dam would be formed across ihe main river, were this crevasse to be come permanent, which would e flee tu ally cut off! all trade to New Orleans. The Crescent says there are CIO negroes at work building a new levee across the 1 1 crevasse. lO3 How ihis little incident touches the heart ; A mother who was in the habit of asking her children, before thev retired at . night, what they had done during the day to make others happy, found a young twin ; daughter silent. The elder ones spoke i modestly of deeds and dispositions, found t ed on the golden rule, Do unto others as you would they should do unto you. 7 : Still the little bright face was bowed ! down in silence. The question was re-" ' pealed, and the dear little child said tim ; idly: "A little girl who sat by me on j the bench at school, had lost a baby brother. All the !time -she studied her : lesson she hid her face in her book and i cried. I felt so sorry that I laid my face on the same book and cried with her. Then she looked up and put her arms around my neck, but I do not know why she said I had done her so much good. 4 patriot left lo make even South Carolina heti tate Ions before she agrees with Mr. Smith (Rhett) that the Union is a failure, and disun ion a right and a duty. Upon Congress much, if not all depends. Let them give us such a settlement of these difficulties as moderate and Union-loving men can approve -Clay's bill or some other not 1 j: I...; of the other a re em,a lv oarta of that ff real H a noble grain growing country ; and when wo T a" 'ue u,sS.uuom8is. uPn or coo of the other, are equally parts ot that great . . . - JL, :fll, 't,lirno sealed, will be awed into silence at least, by wnose origin js perieci wisaom, ana.wnose . ..... Henry Cwy. The Village Record says: j " During the recent trying contest in the United States SenateAipon the Com promise Bill, the nation has watched with eager anxiety the course of the great statesman of Kentucky. In his advocacy of this measure, he has met the fierce de nunciation of the extremes of the North and South. In the North he has been I fought for it, arid bled for it, (and he doubted, perhaps vilified, by men who have been wont to look upon him as the true embodiment of Whig principles. If we have diflered from him, wc have not faltered in our confidence in the integrity and patriotism of the man. The Sun in its course through the heavens, is some times obscured by a passing cloud ; but ere long it bursts out once more, in un dimmed lusture a proof that the fault is with the eye of the beholder and not with that glorious luminary. So it is with Mr. Clay. " result will be the greatest good that could be accomplished. The maudlin philanthropist of the present day, like Eli of old, cannot look upon severity or death, and would much rather crime should go unpunished, freedom ffall, and justice be trampled under foot, than that men should be slain. I he se are they who would abrogate all law but that of kindness. To town, of, I suppose of 1.500 inhabitants, I ask- edmyself, in amazement, why Columbia, Fair- fieldf and Chester, did not prolong their Rail Road through York to Lincolnton ? If this bad been done, and Charlotte had been led to her natural connection with Camden, allN Carolina would have laid her treasures iii the lap of S. Carolina. The fields from Spartanburg to David- the loud, deep, and almost universal approval of the masses of the Southern people. we r t -." M IT. . II 1 1 r.i .L - them, the Old Testament is an antiquated book, 1.0 ro.ies,; are meraiiy puraena wiin meir dealings with wicked i ncn prouucis or corn. 1 suppose air. Burton, and the history of God's dealings with Ihen rather a curious relic of the barbarous past, than the stern Maker and Judge. r' and right action of their t LETTEFROM JUDGE O'NEAL. The followingjs an extract of a letter from Judge O'Neal, oT S. C, to the editdr of the Columbia TemperanceAdvocate, bearing date Aug. 10, 1850, touching his late visit to David son Collegel ? K j On Monday the 5th, the undersigned, leav. ing his wife and child at Chick's Springs, set out firr Davidson College, where he was charg ed with the delivery of an address,?on Com mencement day, ihe 8th of AugmfTby the Eu menean Society Passing byjSparanburg to Lincolnton, thence across the Catawba, at Beattie's Ford, he reached Davidson College the evening of the 7th, and fouiwd, to his amaze ment, that he had like to have oeen a day after the feast. Thai day had been spent in address 1 es, and he had been 'put in the it, as one of I the speakers. But not being there when call. 1 ed for, as you may well suppose, he did not then speak. It was, of Beattie's Ford, Catawba, would laugh me to scorn, if I said he would only make 40 bushels of com la the acre from his fields north of his residence, What a magnificent stream is the Catawba, at Beattie's Ford. Fully 400 yards you pass over a smooth, pebble-paved surface, about knee deep to a horse, and fancy, as you mount the bank, you have passed the stream; but in a few moments you find you are journeying over an island, 4nd on the other side of it, you have 100 yards more of water, of a similar kind, to pass. V When I reached the river, it was muddy as a clay-bole, and ifl had been alone, 1 should have paused until I could have got a pilot. I was, however, accompanied by a most intelligent and estimable friend, Mr. Sumner, of Lincoln ton, who, by his delightful way pleasant, and my stay 4 MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. ! A sad accident occurred in Pclham;i Niagara, District, on Friday last, which j which caused the death of two persons. j A pedler from the American side has been lately on a tour through the District I selling lamps of a newconstruction, which burn a fluid somewhat resembling turpen- j tine. A farmer's wife in Peiham pur-t chased one of these lamps, and shortly j after, while pouring some of the fluid into it, a spark happened to touch it, when it4 expioueu witn a tcrritic crash, covering her with the burning fluid. She ran from the house, but speedily fell wrapt in flame. Trio riAiteo l t i rVMiaiimorL xalcra a rwt a iiv iivugv bviiouuii'U - igv alia t c fine child destroyed who bad not time to escape. These are all ihe particulars, we,; have been able to learn, save that a war- rant has been issued for the apprehension of the pedler. Toren to Pa t.t Aug. 11. About two months since, or little more, had occasion to write some strictures, upon a Disunion Pamphlet, published at Columbia, S. C, in which we spoke decidedly and point edly against the sentiments therein expressed. That there was an almost universal dissent from, and condemnation of the views presented in that pamphlet by both political parties of this region, aud of this State, We have ihe best rea son to know. The Atlas of this city coincided with us, and gave an editorial article iu con. demnalion of the pamphlet. Mr. Rhett now comes out with precisely the same views, as those embodied in that pamph let, and if we can judge from an article in the last number of that paper, the Atlas endorses them in full. If those sentiments were wrong two months ago, what makes them right now ? Thev were aud are both for dissolution without an alternative. They go for it as the summum bonum the only thing!; They do not say, if the government does so, or fails to do so, then for dissolution. here is no " it a- 20 way agreeable. Charlotte 1 bad not seen in 27 years: Judge, therefore, my amazement, when yesterday the little village of former years stood before me, a town of 2 or 3000 inhabi tants ; her streets crowded with brick buildings every where cheering on its votaries to success. they bout it. They go for dissolution as a thing de sired, stating as their premises, that the evils 1 ! Mtf-vm r1 i r ns-l r C ssvt-i ni) A It I hiili Jill 1 1 Q 91. ni DaviHenn uvarv luiion. Is that the doctrine of the Atlas ? came a brd of fugitives, sweeping hilher andi so arranged, that a navel assignment! in.a legal lkil.. ...,L- n,.:n II it . 1 : 1 L. l 1 1 11 . it .1 however, as soon as he arrived i From Charlotte to Springs', the country is worn thither over the plain. How well thev fought. bow. freely they bled, we know from ihe fact tha: tfierrf fell of Israel that day thirty thousand footmen. j On - this same terrible; day of battle and of defeat, faf off in the beautilul plains of Shiloh, jat an old man Jy the wayside, listening ea gerly to every passing footstep. Bowed over his staff, with pallid cheek and lip, the venera ble high priest of Israel was gloomy fore bod. ings. The ark of God, the idol of bis heart, the more than this life,- had gone to the dread ful bajr!efield. Ab ! was the long-impending curse nor to be fulfilled; and the approaching Bght to be the one which should close on him , withered trunk, with! every gren branch lopped away ? Each passer by regarded the blind old man with words, which fell on unheeding ears. His heart wa far away with ihe host of Israel, and - the ark oj" God, and on bis dreaming, excited pirit, there .came the v noise of conflict and aounds of alarm. Thus he sat till evening ; , and as the glorious sun of Palestine stooped behind 'the western , bills, flooding the val 'ev ,heloW w'h beauty, his melancholy face took a fxpiession of. intenser anxiety. The gentle breeze lifted his thin silver locks from parlance, was made. He was to close the en- lire commencement on the 8th, atTf P. M. I have been in, and saw many a crowd, but nev. er saw I such an one as Thursday at Davidson College. - Ladies, young and mid. lit they vie -and well mig presented die-aired were there for beauty,! intelligence, and worth yith any in . t "I I I Y . ill a . me iana. j ror me wnote uatawba region. North and: South were represented. Ij You may well guesp, where, there were so many pretty gals, therej was no scarcity of boys. To these must be added the Pat res conscripli of all that region, 'fhe elders and preachers of the Pres byterians o whom this College belongs, were there in all their strength. Ii wa, indeed, a noble sight to see these Venerable! good men gathered togetber to watch over the school of . t . 1 . . i puy, ana spoKe cneermg tne prophets. f Davidson College is 19 miles north and west of Charlotte, and about 8 miles north and east of Beattie's Ford on the Catawba. It is beau- tifully situated, a grove of native oaks, east of the road from Charlotte and Concord to States. ville. The College building, two .and a half stories, two societies' halls of two stories, and five dormitories ol one story, all of! brick, con- stitute th el College buildings properl To these must be added the President's and two Profess- oui ana oesertea. Mr. oprings; place is as you would expect, a most beautiful aud produc tive plantation farm. Your friend JOHN BELTON O'NEAL. Will it come out with its usual boldness and advocate it? Until it does so, it can scarcely with any good grace think the Journal wrong in .cpmbatting such sentiments, found where they may be, or urged by whom they may be, especially when patriotic men of both parties , in Congress are trying to; settle matters arnica. bly and honorably in a ditlarent way believ. ing it can still be don. Ala. Journal. Somebody has revived the controversy, about the beginning of the century, by saying that Mr. Fillmore, who was born in 1800, is the first President of the United States who was born in the 19th century. Upon this another stoutly contends that the nineteenth century did not begin till, LJanuarv 1st 1801. and thus the old dis- cussion, on which so many words were 1 wasted about six months ago, is in a fair j way to be set agoing again. It occurs to us to mention a decisive j fact in regard to this computation, which determines it by competent authority, without reference to any principle of cal culation. From one fixed year astrono-. mers traced the number of years back to the one in which the Savior was born, and the principal of the calculation assum ed was that years should be numbered as current years, not years elapsed. Thus the Christian era, strictly speaking, does not date from the birth of Christ, but was the year within which. Christ was born. Extending the calculation further back, the same year after Christ, is coun ted as the year before Christ. There is no. year 0. The yerft! is counted in both directions; so that three years B. C. and three years A. D., are not six years, but only five years. When we speak of cen turies, therefore, since the Christian Era, we speak of the results, not of a re cord, but an astronomical calculation, of which it is a postulate that the year is numbered as current, not elapsed, and that the hundred is completed until the hundredth is passed. Picayune. 4 Monument to Robert Fullon. Near Troy. Indiana, is a bill which Fulton was fond of visiting, and at the foot pf which be and bis brother kept a wood yard, and sold wood to the steamers, the creatures of his genius, which navigaf ted the Ohio. He was fond of watching from this point, it is said, their progress and speed in the water ; and it has been selected by the admirers of his genius, ifi. the West, as a fit place to erect a monu ment to his memory. DEVIL FISH. I The Columbia Telegraph of Saturday, says ; Several Devil Fish appeared near' Georgetown, a fewdays since, and exci ted quite a sensation among the citizens of-that place especially the editorial and piscatorial portions. They were pursued but not taken in fact, we believe 4heV came nearlakifra their pursuers. Com- ciul. 51V. WHAT A MOTIVE. A female domestic, has been convicted at the Lincoln Assizes of attempting id poison her mistress, her confosjed motive &. .1 . ' neing trie getting a the Camily ! ijhe was sentenced h u ng. mmerc ial. A n?w lielli'wus Sect has arisen ?s lor tq, be in AD- AUTHOR OF THE NASHVILLE DRESS. The Charleston Mercury is mistaken in the feeling which it attributes to us towards Mr. R. Barnwell Rhett, the author of the Nashville Address.; We have not the slightest disposi- lion to carp at his opinions, nor to censure a gentleman for whom we have entertained not one personally unkind feeling ; but when be is brought up as the model of a politician whose opinions are calculated to strike at the Union, we feel it our duty ip look into bis patent-pa-pers. Is this ultraist the man who ought to instruct the SouthJI Tbe New Orleans Pic ayune devotes an article Jot him for the purpose of proving that he is not a recent proselyte to disunion in consequence of the slavery ques tion but that as far (back as 1833 he was an avowed disuniouist. The following from that paper may cast much light on the stream of his opinions : Union. L ' J hen Mr. Rhett was against all compromise as a delusion, and the Union as something that The Hon. John H. Lumpkin, late mem ber of Congress from the 5th Congression al District in the State of Georgia, in t letter to the editor of the Marietta Advo cate, says : j "lam one of those Who still think that the constitutional rights and honor of the Southern section of the Union may be maintained and preserved by a just and equitable settlement pf the questions in dispute between the two sections. And I am unwilling to countenance ihe idea that the rights and honor of the South cannot be main tainied and the Union of these States preserved. When my views undergo a change, and I come to the conclusion that a dissolution of the Un ion is the remedy left for the protection of the South, I shall renew my subscription to your paper, and read it with complacency if not with pleasure." j - Robert Fulton A Correspondent of the New York Courier and Enquirer, speak- i ing of ocean steamers, relates an incident in the history of steam which possesses no little interest. He thus tells it : 1 A gentlemen, now an honored Repre sentative in one of the Congressional Dis tricts, New Jersey, visited Robert Fulton, when he was in Paris. The man whose sia, in'consequetce-of the prea.cb.ings ofa man namecWJah wVhas written a new -book to tajte the pl.tcV of the Ivoran.t He is said fohave Jresfrfymade several ththand prosetpsand olpiten of these Babejs, as his foTfowers Xralfed; have beeiinMblicly beheaded by order of the Shahr3 i Mrtlirm iisp nt .V In minvMiAitl dit oidered stomachv a tea-spoon full of salt il & - tcnaiii tuic, in 111c iiuirui lircriJ4l tUIUg, . 1 .1 .1:. . .ij . . r tt !. i icrmeu cnouc, auu a re a spoon mm 01 sail 10 a, pint of cold water di ink it and go Jo bed J it is one of the speediest remedies known. 'J'be same avill revive a person rho seems akost dead from receiving a heavy faTVlj' j In an apoplectic fit no time shjfcuMbe lost in genius has made-a new. era in civilization, pouring down tali and wter, if sufficient sehsi occupied a small and obscure row. The bility remain to allow of swallowing ; if not. the head must be sponged wuh cold wateriun- Never plead guilty; of poverty. So far as the world is concerned, you; had better admit that you are a scoundrel. , .1 i - . embodiment'of the expansive power of steam-was confined within very narrow limits. Like Diognes in his tub, Fulton was almost lodged in.the circumference of a cylinder. On thewall of his habita tion" was sketched coarsely, but distinctly the plan of a steamboat. 'There,' said Fulton as he pointed it out to his visitor. there is your image of that which will yet traverse the river and the ocean And wherever he went, this image 01 the future he carried with him. If he 'did not sketch it on the wall, it was written in his mind. He saw it as he walked a long he thought of ithe dreamed of it and, at last, he acted on it. 1 recollect the distinct emphasis which Mr. Clay gave to the words, tvhen con- til the sense return, when salt will completely restore ihjpaiieqt from the lethargy. In a fit, ihe!ftet should be placed in warm water, with mnshftd added ; and the legs brisk ly rubbed, all bandage removed fior the nerk, -and a cool apartment procured if possible, j lo many cases of severe bleeding at ' the lungs, and when other remedies fail, Dr. Rush fnind two tea spoons full of rail completely stayed the blood. . L ' In toothache, warm sa't and waterela An the pan, and renewed, two or three times 'will relieve in mot cases. If the gums be affected wash the mouth "witb brine; if the teeib be covered wi'.b lariar. wb them twice a1 day with salt water. Scientific American. Use soft words and hard arguments.
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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