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"'" "ifcrwu. of t lie Watcliman. c ,wri?rion, per ye nr,Two DoM.ARspayble In 'i r ''Out if no paid in advance, Two dollar -i'fiftct: Willi' c!t;.rged. .t it(MiiTted at 1 for the first, and 25 cfs r 1 8MV,'nt insertion. -Court orders chirged i er ft WgHer than these rates. , 1 A. liberal deduc 'Lltl who advertise by the year., -IitTS 10 EJi,or' mB81 be P8t Pa,J , " ' i "5 CAROLINA WATCHMAN. : f. : "i - ! ' n Vntl WljO OF NORTH CAROLINA READ THIS 1 , raise Tro.m three to fifteen bbsbels of corn to the acre, read J yPer. hsri vou ivWt believe ir. It does look almost incfrdible, but there is no donbt of its truth.f Perhaps you will say ah, Jvenluckyj.Und is better than ours There . n0 Jouht of that either ; but it has been puide o -by) nice cultivation. You are as t means itn farmer, and " s manufacturing manure. . A I- : 1 z " - - : " ' - .... . f .'i f j j - " ... - - y, r ., ' " ,;.T;j;BBUNER';ri ') ' i'iitvriii' ,' 1 . ( - NEW SERIES '-yEdilor Sf: Proprietor. :. jV . -f"-.. s?- jj. pjf i&rrto... ( VOLUME VII NUMBER 20. - SALISBURY, N. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1850. - " ' ploughing, &c, are also within your reach- Arid yet, many of you, have your barns oh the top of a hill, with neither pit nor pen, for saving manure How many of .puscrapeipver your fields with half moon shovels, anu loosen jusi aoout as mucn sou as a good rain can wash off clean. But iris not worth while" to talk, and those yiho believe nothing they see in nevvspa- pers, hau as wen noi reau me lonowing : . ASTONISHING YIELD OF CORN. We clip' Ihe following from the list of premiums, &ic.,Wwarded at the Lexington, (Ky-jFairit , Corv. Vied, per acre, of ten acres ; pre- bium to? James Matson, of Bourbon ; certificate to Peter Pean, of Clarke. Nin entries. 1 nc Kiiiu.vviu aic nit; iUiiniiir:s raiscu by the -several persons who contended for Bbla. 37 37 27, 33 21 21 Bush. 4 4 Qt. 1 per acre. J. Million,. of Bburbon, Ptrr IVan. of Clarke, S.!H. Chrw,of Fayetie, J.' Hutf he rnft.f 'Bourbon, A Vinmter. ftf Fayette, 21 3i Ai IMtfea of Bourbon, 21 2 " T.. W. HorkaJf y. of Clarke, 20 I)r. B. W. l)udly ,of Fayette, 20 " II. Varnon, of Bourbon, 19 3 Thirty-se.Ven barrels are equal to 185 bushels of "shelled corn. Consequently, Mr. Matsons field has produced the as tonishing quantity of 189 bushels and one quart per acre, "or 1,890 bushels and 10 quarts upon 10 acres, -vl his surpasses had better take care how she mounts the nigger nowor the coat tails of some of her Quakers will stand out as straight as their fronts. Petersburg Intelligencer, " . From the Fayetteville Observer. THE PROSPECT MORE "AND MORE GLOOMY. I ) 1 Our readers know with what strong jj af. feet ion we cling to.ilie ukion, and how entirely we are convinced that the peace, the prosperity, the power, and the gloryof all iu parts,1, de. pend on preserving ti unbroken. Indeed! the very, existence u( a system of republican gov ernment is involved in the existence of the Un- ion. i ne worst species oi war tnat ever pe vailed, a war of fanaticism on the one hand, and ot outraged rights on the other, wilt in evitably and instantly result from dissolution. We leave Jhe imagination to fill up the! picture of horrors which wilhfollow. Even noW, whilst the Union exists, it is a constant topic of dis cussion, which section will have lbe power to injure the other the most by separation I( it be so now, what will be the feeling and the del when we are divided ? Entertaining such views, we have been i,the earnest and unwavering advocate of compro- rnise and conciliation. WeThave been the more anxious on the subject because we thought that the only disunionist were at the South that any reasonable plan of adjustment would satis fy the usually cool and calculating people of the North and that it was here alone that the dan ger existed. We rejoiced at the adoption by Congress of what we deemed, on the whole, a reasonable compromise ; and we trusted that good feeling would be restored. And so it wouldhave been but for the most unexpected and Outrageous conduct oi many people at j the North. They have set about to nullily'the on ly one of the series of acts which has the least practical effect in favor of the South.; They repudiate the solemn obligation of the 'Consti tution, and of the law passed in pursuance of it. That law disclosed the fact that thousands of fugitives have been harbored in the? North ern cities, to sav nothing ot those scattered CJ ,7 r about the country. These have been allowed to arm themselves, have been encouraged to .L J.-.L .L . f .1 ' l claimant was committed to prison for perjury, tons is beyond the chance 0f repeal, counsels and Jones went on his way rejoicing. After lhe imposition of the Wilrriot proviso, and says : laying in jail four days, the claimant was re. The laws organizfng; the Territories of leased on $1000 hail."-, " New Mexico and Utah are happily open to We think it highly ptbbabld that these old amendment. New Mexico should be admitted residents in Pittsburg' are of the class whose immediately as a Slate, which will put an end testimony can be bought very low, and that the bona fide owner of the negro has been de frauded out of hist right, and incarcerated in jail besides. So also in the Philadelphia case, probably. " The claimant failed to make out his case." He may thank his stars that he, too, was not committed for perjury, as a warn ing to all persons in like cases offending. The Washington Union says, We confess we were grieved and surpris ed to read in a respectable Ohio, paper, that the democratic members of Congress elected from that State would probably support the re. peal of the fugitive slave law. ; We can hardly permit ourselves to believe that it is possible ; we fancy there must be some mistake on the subject." The case at Detroit, of which we have here tofore given some account, was finally settled by the owner getting 8300, (after paying the to agitation in that quarter. The prohibition of Slavery in the Territory of Utah will quench a fire-brand which will never cease to blaze as long as that question is undecided." In addition to this evidence we quote from the address of a Democratic leader who makes the following urgent appeal, whilst he gives an historical statement, no doubt perfectly new to Southern Democrats. Mr. Tompkins loquitur'. Are you prepared, fellow Democrats, to show your disregard of truth, honor, and com mon humanity ? For did you not, in 1848, pro. claim that you would advocate the cause of free-soil for free labor and freemen?' Will you now violate the sacred principle of truth, by action at variance with that assertion ?" We find next, a nice account of a Democratic convention in Wisconsin. After nominating " a Free-soil candidate for Congress," the con vention passed a number of resolutions in fa- expenses of the suit.) This sum was perhaps vor "of free-soil, Internal Improvements, land acre. L t r t anytning wjb ever nearu oi in me way oi resist to the death the execution of the law. raising corn. Mr. Pean, it will be seen, The consequence is, that in two cases only fell behind Mr. M. only one quart to the have fugitives been restored under the law but two out of the thousands who are notori ously harbored among them. Among the recent signs which tend to a fa tal issue of this question, we may enumerate the following : ! At the Presbyterian Synod held at Pittsburg, Penn., on the 17th instant, "a memorial: from the session and congregation from Pittsburg and Heaver was presented, praying the Synod to give an expression of opinion against the rugitive Slave Law. The memorial denounces it as injurious. Amotion was made to post pone the matter indefinitely, which was lost SOUTHERN DIRECT TRADE WITH i: ENGLAND. The New York Herald states that sev. eral persona from the Southern States went out in, the last steamer lor jtne pur pose of making some-new commercial ar rangement fn England, by whicB a direct trade may he. opened between the South and the traperor burope. ' southern capi talists are largely interested in this move- ment, and IJieir, agents will etlect, douDt- only one in favor of postponing ' less, some measures ot great importance The Rev. Proctor Smith, Campbell and The cause! of such -enterprise, (remarks others made flaminn speeches against the law. the Herald,) On the part 6f the South, ii to They pronounced it a subversion of morality be traced t the ibelligerant attitude of the N and oppressive. They said they would go to Northern Sjates, which are chasing a po litical abstraction, to end in" a most de plorable overthrow of our commerce. The people of tne South are quite active in deeds, as those of the North are in words ; and this-action, on their part, is but the . sign and symptom of other movements ; which will Lassuredlv ensue if the anti- slavery agitation is continued-among us. We are sure of it Richmond rimes, JL U- : THE-RIGHTCOURSE. A Savannah correspondent of the Bal timore Sun says: "I may mention as one of the fruits of the slavery agitationrthat a" coasting schooner was launched in Charleston a few days ago, which is the first of a series of vessels which are to be built in that State for the purpose of ren dering her'people independent of North ern shippers. A similar enterprise is now in progress in this cityy A . number of Kentlemenjiere arc engaged in building a steamer foj" the Florida trade, all the ma terials of which are to be of Southern growth and manufacture. Every stick of timber, every pound of iron, and article of furniture, s well as the mechanics who are buitdirtg it, belong to the South, and to this State especially. This is but the be ginning of3the end." . We rejoice to hear it. Go ahead. Ev ery vessel! thus built, every blow thus struck for Southern industry, is worth "an army wittubanners." Rich. Republican. i THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL PRE SIDENT FILLMORE. . Should the Fugitive Slave Bill be re sisted at the North, and, the authorities of the United! States be overpowered, it will be a clear-case of nullification of an act of Congress passed in compliance with the Constitution. President Tillraore has ta ken the opinion of the Attorney General of the United States, who declares the law to. be Constitutional, and the President showed his concurrence in that opinion by signing thi bill. What, then, will be the duty of thf President ?. Simply this: If the law is successfully resisted or nullified, St will be ibe duty of th& President to or der the Arjny and Nav to vindicate the .supremacy of the Constitution and the laws. The army would march intrj the riotous cities and the Pavy would block ade their jliarbors. If these forces should prove insufficient to en orce the law, the TresidcntHvill have t call for volunteers, nd the South will sqrid as many as he ants.' Ve can, theiefore, desist from tJsing words of persuasion with the North ern rebels' nnd get reai y to lick them into . good behWiour. Pentlsylvania- went in, in a horn, upon whiskey Wcea and she the Penitentiary before, obeying such a law. Great excitement prevails in the Convention. A committee composed of a majority ; of per sons opposed to the law was appointed ,tb re port on the subject." j M Here we have a large body of Ministers of the Gospel, and Elders of a Church, throwing the weight of thetrpowerful influence against the constitution and the laws I We j suppose they think they are doing God service by I such conduct ; and so we suppose did the men who hanged the gamblers at Vicksburga fe years ago. In our opinion the Pittsburg Presbytery is guilty of the greater, sin of the two; j Again: A Party of Thirteen fFugitive Slaves passed through Tamaqua, Schuylkill county, Pa., on the 19th instant, en route for Canada. The next day they were followed bv two individuals, who, engaging the assistance of a constable, followed on in their pursuit J The pursuers succeeded in overtaking the slaves at Wilksbarre ; but oirtn to the strong erpression of feeling manifested by the people in thir fa vor, TIlEyr WERE FORCED TO BEAT A HASTY retreat. The constable was induced to fol low them under the impression that tbey were -horse-thieves, bat on learning otherwise, he refused to render any further co-operation. Phila. Ledger. . j Once more : At Philadelphia, on the 18th inst., a large crowd of colored persons assem bled in front of the court house, to await the decision of Judge Grier in the case of the ne. gro man named Henry Garnet, arrested under the fugitive law, and claimed by Mr.l Thomas P. Jones, of Cecil county, Md. f ' ; After a patient examination of the case, the Judge decided that the claimant had; failed to make out his case, and accordingly discharged the prisoner. On coming out of the! court house. Garnet was received by his colored friends with joyous exultations bordering on a riot ; so much so that the Mayor begged them to desist. They disobeyed his request! when the police interfered and a violent collision en. sued between the officers of the law., and the negroes. In the fight one of the police had his finger nearly bitten off by a colored man. Finally the crowd was dispersed, and three of j the ringleaders were arrested and held to bail in one thousand dollars each to answer for a violation of the'law. A committee then proceeded to canvass the city to get assistance in the publication of cer tain incendiary Tesolutions regarding the fugi tive slave law, which the responsible papers refuse to publish, considering thern riotous in tendency, and subversive of law and order. The following we copy from the New York 'Express ; -' 1 ' Another case under the Fugitive Laves. A. Southern man at Pittsburg who came to arrest a slave, named Jones, who swore that the ne gro whom he pointed out had been his slavo two yearVsince, but had run away, who claim ed his delivery up to him by the "commission er," was thwarted in his purpose under the law. He got hold of the wrong man, for, all the old residents in Pittsburg knew that Jones had lived in that city for over twenty yearsi The bait the value of bis property. And it was raised by subscription, ' not a real noisy aboli tionist subscribing a dollar." The Whig convention at Utica, N. Y. a convention called solely because the former Convention at Syracuse had endorsed Seward's course, and for the purpose of repudiating that endorsement, met and adjourned without say- ing one word about the Fugitive slave law, though it approved of the other compromise measures. This omission is a fearful sign that the law cannot be sustained in that great State. Another of equally evil portent, is the letter of Mr. Hunt, the candidate of that convention, in which he declares that the law " could not have been well consid Jred, and heeds essential modification" a declaration at war with the well known fact that the bill was before Con gress for months, was fully discussed, and ma ny votes taken on proposed amendments, j The conclusions to which we are forced, by these and many other signs at the North, con trary to our original and strongly cherished hope and belief, are, that the lam cannot be sus tained ; that, even if it be not repealed, it cannot be enforced. In the few cases where the courts and officers will do their duty, mobs, black and white, stand ready to defeat their action, or to deter the owner from invoking it. Well, what then is to be done ? We do not hesitate to say, that the Union I cannot sfand and ought not to stand, if this, the only one of the series of measures which is of any real value to the South, is either repealed or nulli fied. To say nothing of the baseness of al lowing a series of acts to be passed, with the understanding that they were each and all part of a compromise of conflicting claims, and then that the stronger party should stand to all that hadV been conceded to itself and repeal the only one it conceded to the other party to say no thing of this, the South has a constitutional right to this law, and to its faithful execution a right which neither its honor nor its interest will permit it to relinquish at any hazard, even of disunion itself. It is with great reluctance that we have ad mitted the above conclusions. They are, how. ever, forced upon usby the state of things at the North, and it is our duty to let our readers at the south see, as we see it, wnat ts going on there. If Southern papers have any leaders at the North, we would add, that it is due to them to be warned ot the fatal tendency of their movements. retorm, cheap postage, homestead exemption, free. trade, and direct taxation. The conven tihn also expressed itself in favor of Thomas Hart Benton for the next Presidency, and in to opposition to the fug it ive slave law " Add to this the secret nomination of Martin Van Buren for the Presidency, and the deter mination ot all the recently elected Locofoco Members of Congress from Ohio to repeal the Fugitive Slave Law, and one would think, that unscrupulous as they generally are, Locofoco Presses would cease their attempts to manu facture capital out of Whig Abolition sympa thies. One would think that they would now at least follow the advice bf the Union, and "drop party warfare" until the Union is saved. FayettevUle Observer. Sincd the above was in type we are glad to see that a movement is on foot in New York to hold a great meeting of all classes and all parties, to express the feeling of that city in favor of a faithful observance of the law. This step is advocated by the Express, Courier and Enquirer, and Mirror, (Whig papers,) the Jour, nal of Commerce, and Herald, (Locofoco,) and is bitterly opposed by the Tribune, (Whig Ab. olitionist,) and the Evening Post, (Locofoco Abolitionist,) which threatens those merchants who sign the call for the meeting with the loss of the ' custom of the free soil people of the North ! But the proposition meets with such genera fkvor that in the whole length of Broad street only two persons refused to sign it, in Exchange Place only one, and in Pine street only two. Total five, in three business streets. Three more were met with in a portion of Broadway, which was canvassed by the same gentleman. This is certainly gratifying. But as to New York city, we never had any doubt. The peo. pie of that city are too well informed ot the actual condition of things at the South, to be humbugged by-brawling fanatics. They have too many personal friends at the South to al low themselves to be arrayed against us on so vital a point. And their own interest, the pros perity of their great city, is too largely depen dent oncontinued friendly intercourse with the South, to admit of a moment's doubt as to their course. It is the interior of that State, and nearly the whole of the other Northern States, that seem unsound, and bent on forcing a re. peal or nullification of the law, and along with it, a repeal of the Union! From the FayettevilU Observer. LOOK OUT FOR THE SCOUNDREL. Owing to the great extent of our territory, and the sparseness of our population, the most ordinary rogues are often able to impose suc cessfully on the community. But the plausible and accomplished seldom fail under any cir cumstances to practice successfully their dis honest arts. One of the most specious and art ful of the profession has just , been compelled to leave this place, where he has been staying two weeks, and deceiving many persons. He calls himself Lieut. Don Carlos Valencia, of the 4th Regiment Lancers of Puebla, Mexico ; claims to be son of Col. Valencia, and nephew of Gen. Valencia of Mexico. He professes to have served through the whole of the last war, and claims to have received several honorable wounds. His appearance is very prepossess ing his carriage erect and military, his dress outwardly neat, his manners, especially in the company of ladies, gentle, refined and insinua ting. He is about 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, has rather pale or dark complexion, black hair and eyes, good teeth, small feet and hands, and wore when here a moustache and small impe rial. He speaks English fluently, and with a foreign accent, and is about 25 or 26 years old, though be says he is only 21. He has three scars near and under right side of the chin, which he says are bullet marks, and a bullet scar on the left thigh.! He seems to suf ter from hemorrage of the lungs, caused, as he said until detected, by an unhealed wound in one of them He also affects to be deranged at times, and counterfeits admirably the ravings of insanity. He also uses opium freely. He is remarkably fluent and ready in conversation and quite interesting as a narrator of adven tures. He was fully identified just before he left as the same person who, as an exiled Cu ban, insinuated himself into the confidence of some of the good people of Newark, Del., and afterwards absconded with a watch and money. He is an exceedingly plausible and artful fel low, and well fitted to impose on even the least credulous. He wore, while here, a pair of black pantaloons, with a red and gold stripe on the outside of each leg. Let the public look out for him. He was started to Raleigh from here, and probably go to Charleston, as he had tickets to that place. Editors of newspapers will do well to introduce this enterprising gen tlemen to the public. FAYETTEVILLE. some pumpkins" 'Worth a million and a half of dollars had fought his way through the whole of the Mexican war, and sought the homble reputation Even at the cannon's mouth." He could beat Othello all to smash telling of his " hair breadth 'scapes, in the imminent deadly breach" " the battles, seiges, fortunes that be had passed." He was a protege of Gen. Scott also, and had lived in his family since the war. And our wonoVf-loving cits, like the gentle Desdemona, "these things to hear would seri ously incline." There was no one like Don Carlos. Merchants would leave their counting houses, clerks their counters, doctors their pa tients, lawyers their clients, and militia majors their studies, to congregate and sit with him at the corner of the Hotel, or gallant him to see the arsenal, &c. At last it become rumored that the young gen- j tleman was in love with a young heiress on a visit to our town. , Love soon cracked his brain and he was coufined to his bed. The Doctors were called in, who examined his wounds, and his other dangerous symptoms, and pronounced him in a very precarious situation. He would sometimes rave like a maniac, and sometimes whine like a love-sick maiden. Every morning you could hear some one of the enraptured citizens enquiring How is the Don, this morning 1" Oh," (says one who had-set up all night with him) he is very bad off. He was out of his head all night last night." (Yes, thinks I, and out of pocket too, I guess.) 44 Well, what does the Doctor think 1 Has he dressed his wound ?" 44 No, he wouldn't allow it to be dressed, nor would he take his medicine. The Doctor says he is very bad off." 44 Poor fellow. Does he still go on in that crazy way ?" 44 Yes ; he is all the time talking like he was in his regiment, giving orders to his men then speaking to his superior officer then he will draw his sword to fight a duel with somebody he thought insulted him. He would rush at a carpet bag and plunge his cane at it. Then he would call Pedro and tell him to black his boots. Sometimes he would spit up blood, and then go into spasms, and the Doctor would think he would die." 4 Poor fellow." This game was- played for a week, and our hero visited a very amiable family one evening, and was taken sick there. There lay the strength of the game. Of course, the family, taking bis rank, family and fortune into consideration, paid him every attention, and as he grew worse, ha deemed it to be pr jaept to make a Will, in which he willed all his effects to 44 his soul's adored." At last, on Saturday night, the bubble burst ed, and very extensively bespattered with its vile contents our hospitable friends, who had been so anxious to sustain the reputation of Fayette ville for hospitality and attention to distin guished strangers." The above extract from the Observer gives the denouementto this most ridiculous affair. It was equal to the old play of " A bold stroke for a wife." The 44Don" played the part of Colonel Feign- torn hungry cattle upon fresh pea vines,: If yori have not bogs enough this year to - make your meat, look out now for a sop- i ply before they are put up to fatten;' You 1 can raise nork , better than you can bay i it with cotton. ' ; ; . k Fruit Trees. Do not forget that this Is ;1 the best month in theyear to order fruit trees.. . Do not try for'a great assortment, j botjust a few of the choicest kinds. Col. Carter and Di Cloud, of Macon county, Ala., have growing upon their farms native winter apple that is perhaps supe rior to any other. - It isworthy of notice) i at the South. It is probable; that Dr..j Philips, of Hinds county, JNIiss.; also I h as , it ; at any rate, he has got the best assort- 1 ment of fruit trees in the South that wo know any thing about. American Agri ultunst. Speaking of fruit trees we would re mind Farmers and others in this part of the country, that Charles Mock, Esq.' of Davidson county, has a very extensive ' and valuable variety which be sells on reasonable terms. He has for many years been engaged in the. nursery busr ness takes great pride' in it, and has spared neither labor nor expense to pre- pare himself to meet the demands of too ' publicTfor fruit trees, shrubbery' and flow- ers. His post-office address is Fair Grove. ' i - Davidson co., N. C. well, 44 up to nature" as Shakespeare says. His motto was Now fame, title and fortune, come in play, A thirty thousand pound girl leads the way." To crown the joke, after the fellow was ex posed, and while the duped ones were venting their anathemas on his 44 devoted bead," he was asked by a very venerable old gentleman, if he came to Fayetteville thinking the people here were green"! The man sniggered in his sleeve, and told them he should not have come had he not been invited ! We must however, do our fellow citizens the justice to say that others have been duped by this millionaire as effectually as they were. Fay. Carolinian PUMPING A LAKE DRY. Dr. J. V.C. Smith, the editor of the Bos- ton Medical Surgical Journal, who is now on a visit to Europe, gives an interesting description in bis editorial correspondence ' from Holland, of the manner in which the Lake of Haarlem is being - drained by steam engines, and its water sent to the sea : i Six miles from Amsterdam is the in- and lake of Haarlem, 21 miles long hyll in width, which, three hundred years ago. was found to be perceptibly increasing by A shooting its waters further and further. and covering up the land, threatening the j first commercial port of the realm -with j destruction by flowing in upon its bainkrf IT. ... 1 . . . -.- . ' anous scnemes ai tuat remote epocn ; was devised by able' counsellors to stay I the threatening danger. Three Dutch e!n- gineers, of acknowledged ability, proposed L draining off the water, first "raising it by wind mills. They are entitled to remem- - brance from having suggested the plan adopted in 1839 for averting an impend- j, ing calamity. ' ;1 - Seven years since, delay being no long- j er safe, a canal was dug around the whole circumference of the lake, averaging 200 ' feet in width by 10 deep. Three monster engines are housed on, the sides of the;, lake, some six or eight miles apart, each ' moving eight monstrous pumps.- All the pistons are raised at once, at evcryrevo-' lution of the machinery raising ; 15JQ00 1 gallons of water, which is emptied into the canal, whence it is hastened on by a fourth engine faster than it would otherwise move to the Zuyder Zee, and thus it reah-r es the sea fifteen miles distant. In April, ! 1819, the pumps, worked by three of tho' mightiest steam engines perhaps e ver con structed, were set in motion, and up to this! date, July 25th, have lowered the contents! of the lake seven feet. By next April, it, is anticipated that the bottom will be fair- : ; ly exposed, and all the water conveyed away irom this ancient basin. All tnis is executed at the expense of Government. . Northern .Locofocos The only true friends of the South. The following sy nopsis of recent demonstrations! of Locofoco sentiment at the North, furnishes a singular commentary upon the praise whieh has been lavished upon the alleged loyalty of the North ern Democracy. It shows, that however treach erous and disloyal are many Northern Whigs, treachery and disloyally are by no means con fined to that party, but on the contrary tbey are vices equally fashionable if not more in vogue among Northern Democrats. It shows also, facts for which we have long contended, that lor tne deieat ot me anoutionists, and lor re spect to the Constitutional rights of the South, we rmist look exclusively to neither party, but to the moderate men of all parties. The New York Post, one of the leading or gans of the united Democracy of that State, regretting that 14 the act of Congress mutilat ing New Mexico and offering Texas ten mill By the above it will be seen that some mem bers of our community hare been most decent ly humbugged. We were at the Market House one morning trying to buy a tripe, or a shin of beef, when an ancient carriage came along, with two mules drawing it, and a number of trunks be hind ; the whole looking like such a thing as a traveller might expect to meet on the 44 pam pas" of South America Inside were too la dies and two gentlemen. The vehicle halted at the market house a few moments, and the passengers were accosted by a reverend gen tleman well known for his urbanity. All that was not very strange ; but during the day, as we were passing along the street, we heard some urchins talking about 44 a live Mexi. ... r l . l . J F can tnat was at ni rs. mown s noiei; ana soon ai. ter we discovered apparently a young Spaniard with mustache and other fixings a-la-militarie, and three very amiable citizens of our town in a very pleasant conversation, playing the a- Lgreeable. We passed on land said nothing. Sunday morning, going to the post office, we taw auite a bevv of the voung 44 bloods" about Fayetteville, all gathered around the live Mex ican, and he spinning his yarns with great de liberation. Never wishing to thrust our humble self in to the company of great ones or as the vul gar about here say, "lAe big bugs" we did not dare approach him, hut went up to our of fice window and satisfied our curiosity with a peep. It soon became apparent that the young man in moustaches was no bug eater. A r there was no one to let the people know how great a man he was, he did not lei his extreme mod. esty at all interfere with the business d making himself known ; and it was soon noised over the town that a man had arrived who was WORK FOR NOVEMBER IN THE SOUTH. This is a busy month in all the cotton and sugar States. As the laborors are proverbially careless we bespeak most earnestly the attention of masters and managers to keep a sharp lookout for fire. In no other way can you be insured a gainst the entire destruction of a whole crop. Use no other light about the gin house than a wire lamp. Have your gin provided with water boxes, that prevent all danger from friction. In a few years you will be able to buy gins that are su perior to the Whitney gin, and entirely free from danger of taking fire. They are already invented. Cotton Presses.-Have you ever thought that the presses now in general use are not what they should be ? There are bet ter ones. Look to it. We can cite you to one planter, (Col. Hampton of South Carolina) whose bales never need repress- W - a V mg. It would cost you no more to uo them right in the first place, than it does to make the miserable packages you now do. , Then how much you would save. Cotton Baskets. What are you going to do when all your basket timber is ex m. - ft - nausted as it soon will be in tact is, in some places ? Will you send North for them? Well, we can supply you; but you had better plant and grow timber the osier willow, for instance. Look to it this month. Cotton Seeds. Do not neglect this all important matter. ' Look what the Proutt and Hogan seed has come to by careful se lection. There is no need for you to pay a dime a seed to get a good article if you will only select it yourself a few vears. Feeding Stock Pea Fields. This is the month more than all others that cat tie and hogs die from eating peas. Be careful and feed your bogs well with corn and salt slops before turning theni in. Salt and feed your cattle well. Do not AWFUL DISCLOSURES AND SUB ORNATION OF PERJURY. 1 On Saturday last, some very alarming disclosures took place in reference to a" concocted plan about to be carried' into effect by firing a manufactory situated up town, on which was an insurance effected tn tbp Amnnnt rf ft lf tWO Knt in fet lh stock on the premises would not amount to much over 83)00. The owner of the' premises has heretofore borne an unex' ceptionable character, which gives the case considerable more importance. It seems that as far as we are. able, to ascertain, the proprietor of the factoryaf ter effecting the insurance, proposed to a certain man the plan'of firing the premis es, for which he was to have 81,000, to swear, after the property was burned, that the amount as represented on the policy of insurance was correct. However, it was necessary to have a second .witness, corroborative of the same facts, and for that purpose, or in order to obtain a wit ness suitable to their wishes, a bill of goods was purchased at a store in -Maiden Lane, and the clerk, on calling up. for the payment of said bill, was exhibited the premises, and finally the proposition was submitted to him, telling him that inUhe event of a fire he would be wanted to swear that, on that day, be saw 800 . bar rels of valuable material.. amounting, to f over and about the amount of insurance : for which service he was to receive 2000. "Well, but," said the clertf, nbere appears to be a number of families residing all , around, and lives may be lost when this inflammable stuff is in flames." fNo matter for that," said the proprietor; fso much the better, Suppose thirty or forty lives are lost; why, the public sympathy will be so great that tbey will lose all sight of the fire." These last cool," calculating remarks, appeared to chill the clerk's veins with horror, and after a short period of conversation on the matter, the clerk left, remarking that be would think of the pro position, and let him know. He did think of the infamous design, but instead of en- tering into the wicked compact, be at once laid the whole facts before the insurance company, who, we understand, are now in vestigating the whole matter. Theevi dence in the case has been placed before1 our energetic magistrates, and should the testimony make out a case of felony, com ing within the meaning of the statute law, a warrant will certainly be issued for the arrest of the guilty parties. N.tYork' Herald. i -'
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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Nov. 7, 1850, edition 1
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