ACTlON'OF THE 'PEOPLE. 1
On the lGth lilt, a meeting of about
20,000 of the citizens lo'f Philadelphia as
scmblcd in Olcl Independence Square, to
adopt measures in regard to tho present
state of moneyed affairs in this country. A
number of spirited resolutions,, condemna
tory of tho course adopted by tho Banks in
suspending specie payments, and against
the illegal coursiS pursued by different cor
porations in issuing small notes, were unan
imously adopted; and a committee appoint
ed to hold correspondence with the banks
of the city and county on the subject of re
deeming their $5 bills with specie. The
committee addressed a letter in conformity
with these instructions; which was replied
to in a general answer, adopted by a meet
ing of the officers of the different bunks, Iri
which they express a determination to ail
here to their iion-rcdoiription of their own
notes in specie. An adjourned meeting,
quite as numerously attended an the prima
ry one of the 15th, was hold on the 22d, at
the same place, and Ihd correspondence
presented and read. Tho puerile answer
of the shavers was rcceivcu with that con
tempt and disgust which might naturally
bo expected; and a number of resolutions
wore accordingly adopted, demonstrating
'the honest and fearless course which should
bo pursued by those who wear no Rank
fetters. We subjoin the following, not
havinir room for the entire proceedings:
Resolved, That this communication of
the Banks is equally unsatisfactory, in pre
senting to our citizens no plan for the pre
servation rif a lawful circulating uu'uium of
less than Five dollars; tuat is their rcltml to
redeem their five dollar notc, and their re
fusal at tho same time to iasite the smaller
denominations of specie currency, we can
66 ridlhing but a determination to deluge
this whole neighborhood with spurious and
constantly depreciating paper tickets, made
in notorious violation of the law, and liable
to be easily counterfeited, lost and destroy
cd.
Resolved, That while we totally disap
prove of the existing system of banks, cor
porations and monopolies, which has been
allowed to irrdw up in this Commonwealth,
to the destruction of honest labor, and the
violation of private industry and right, we
f;
. i . . t ., , .1 . ; . r .
'Ci ucmanu inai inc provisions o existing
aw's calculated (though in our opinion,
quite insufficiently)) to restrain these privi
leged institutions within some bdundsi shall
be maintained. That these laws do posi
tively require every Dank to redeem its
notes in Gold or Silver, or if it cannot do
so, that it shall cease to issue any more of
its depreciated paper, and take immediate
steps for collecting its property, and pay
ing its notes. We call upon the banks to
do this. That those laws do positively for
bid any dividends to be made among the
Stockholders, till all their notes arc redeem
ed in specie. Wo call upon the Hanks to
remember this and apply all their profits td
pay their notes. That those laws do post
lively forfeit their Charter, unless they re
sumo specie payments in ninety days. We
call upon the Banks to remember this, and
honestly apply themselves so to do. That
those laws do positively forbid the issuing
or circulation of any paper ticket, as circu
lating medium, under live dollars. We call
Upon the Banks and all Corporations to re
member this.
Rcxolved, That a committco of one hun
dred bo appointed by the officers of this
meeting, for the purpose of ascertaining the
most prompt and nronfir mode of proceed
ing against individuals and corporations for
violating tho laws prohibiting the issuing
ana circulating ol small bills, to correspond
with our friends in other portions of the
L TTnltn.l Qi.i,, ... i..i. ..li i i . . :..
win.u rjiuia, 11 UltlU Ull lUUUl 1IIUU3U1C3 111
enforcing the Banks to pay their Ave dollar
notes, and to perform such other duties as
they may deem proper and necessary in the
present emergency.
SHIN-PLASTERS.
The corporations of Lancaster, Carlisle
I Harrisburg, &c. &c. havo commenced issu
ing these illegal rags the latter of which
nearly equals the amount of its present debt
$15,000. A correspondent says "the
Banks are gathering up every Gold, Silver.
and Copper coin." The same also informs
Us that "John Smull has issued a consider
able amount, which proved "no oo," and
burlesque was got up,' of which the follow
ing is a copy. It is enclosed in a border,
and reads thus :
This will entitle the hearer to twentv-five
cents, on demand, in the hones of old staire
itorses, or Jiarnson-Antimasonic-JSanlc
rr rr .1 . . " . i.
Jyitig'Ritner-Velo stock.
BIG ROCKFISII, Market sn.
There is, a "P. S." attached to it, whie
wo omit ; but the following fleecinc? en
dorsemcnt prnaments tho back of each of the
now issues. Qoiito symbolical !
Good for its value.
JOKATIIAN PUKKIK, ESQ
The vacant square opposite St. Charles
i licatra, Wow Urlcans, sold on the first in
slant for more than half a million of doli-ir.i
WEST BRANCH BANK:
On Tuesday last the stock in this new in
stitution was to have been sold at public
auction in Williamsport. We have no
doubt but' every share brought more than
a price, notwithstanding the panic and
pressure amongst tho very men who will
most probably be tho buyer?. The capi
tal is S200',000 one half of which must be
paid in cash to commence operations.
We understand that William F. Pack
er Esq. will be chosen as Cashier. He
is certainly competent, and his pleasing
manners and persevering habils of industry
and enterprise will render hint auscful offi
cer to the Bank. Wo presume Gen. An
thony will be Presidents
'N AILED TO THE COUNTER."
Our readers will probably recollect the
report so checrihgly circulated by the op
position prints, that Gen. Jackson had lost
a large amount of money by the recent
failures in New Orleans. The following
comes front the "New York Courier and
Enquirer," a violent Bank paper; and as
the report was merely originated to create
an impression that this veteran patriot was
extensively engaged in stock-jobbing, it
carries a complete refutation to all the ca
lumnies, by exhibiting his irresponsibility
in any pecuniary shape, either by specula
ting, or shaving, or the most remote con
nection with Banks or their agents.
"It affords us pleasure to say, that the
minor of General Jackson's having a draft
protested m this city, or ol Ins losing a
large cum of money by the failure of Yeat-
man, Wooddi Uo., ol Washville, or in any
other way, is utterly without foundation.
Wo have seen a letter Jrom the old Gener
al, in which he says, that for twenty years
ho has not drawn a draft upon any person
whatever; that he is no way responsible to
the amount of a dollar, lor any person or
persons, except for the purchase of two or
three slaves by his adopted son; and that
all the rumors m relation to his d raits, his
endorsements and his losses, are entirely
falscand without the shadow of foundation
in trtitli.
JUNE
Is certainly the month of flowers this
year, as summer has just commenced, and
warm weather been thoroughly established)
The trees are in their full dress a profit'
sion of gay flowers arc every where scat
tcrcd around us and soft copious showers
are rapidly forwarding the growth of vege
tation.
"Now genial suns and gentle broczes reign,
And summer a fairest splendours deck the plain:
Exulting Flora views her new-born rose,
And ull the ground with short-lived beauty glows.'
It js pleasant now to take recreation in
the country-to enjoy the profusion of fra.
grance arising from tho flowers of the clo
vcr and thrj honey-suckle. The longest
day in the year, or summer-solstice, comes
on the 21st of this month, when twilight
continues almost from the rising to the set
ting of tho sun. Gooseberries and currants
ripen about the latter end of the month; and
wc can tickle our palates, and oven satisfy
our appetites, with the products of our gar
dons provided our wives understand hor
ticulture, and are not afraid of being sun
burnt. In fact, like the Bean season de
scribed by Thompson
"Look let us walk
Where tho brcezo blows from yon extended field
Ui Dloisom a Herbage. Arabmcannot boast
A fuller gala of joy. Uian, liberal, thonco
Breathes through the sense, and takes theravish'd
sou).
JCyThere is not much news, unless we
would notice all tho robbeiics and murders
from Maine to New Orleans, as is usually
done by "tho largest papers in tho United
States." Bank notes arc considered trash
by some folks the Whigs are pleased at
tho scarcity of gold and silver our fanners
are busily engaged in their honest and hon
orable vocations the City shavers are
cheating the Widows and Orphans who
have made them agents and no sensible
person Will take shin-plasters in exchange
for his ware, his merchandize, or his ' la
bour. There is plenty of water in the ca
nal; and, from all accounts, thcro is at this
timo more specie in America than at any
fanner period.
Benefits of Banking. A firm in New
York conuflenced business two years ago
with a capital of $5000, and failed a week
or two since for EIGHT HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS,
In Vicksburg, Miss, a lot which was
purchased twelvo months since for $9000,
recently sold for $90,000. And a lot ad
joining tho doppt which was bought two
years since for $3000, was lately sold for
ijn0,000,
Sitlllnir nf the Tndentiidcnee..'Vie. U.
S. ship-Independence, Capt. Nicholson,
having on board Hon. Geo. M. Dallas, Min-
lsicr to St. Petersburg-, got under way on
Saturday mornirtgabout half past 10 o'clock,
and went to Bca with a fine S. W. breeze.
She discharged .her. pilot, Mr. Wilson,
about noon
The Blairsvillc Record states that Mr.
Jas. Thompson, who was accidentally poi
soned in tins city, a short time since, was
1'ost Master at Indiana, m this btate, and
was here lor the purchase of roods. He
has left a wife and foUr children.
The cornmittce appointed by the .last
Legislature, to inquire into the cvil3 of
Fadtorv Labor, after a session of two weeks.
in Philadelphia have adjourned to moot in
rittsburg on the 8th ol this month.
Counterfeiters. Philander Warden,
keeperofa public house in Chatham Square,
N. Y., and Thomas Reynolds, and Win.
Glcason, were arrested by Homan, Gilt
Hays, and Sparks, on suspicion of bein
concerned with a cans: in passing forced
bills of the Delaware and Hudson, Ithica,
and Amherst Banks. Thev are all in prison
lor lurtucr examination.,
Murder. Two men named Tcmpleton,
father and son, were killed in Laurens Dis
trict, S. C, May Bill, by a negro belonging
to jonn ljoycc, usq. lie nad run away
and was detected stealing provisions from
the house- df Mr. Tdmpleton, and when
attacked feu on the father and son with a
knife.
Professor Rogers, is now busily engage
in making a ueolojncal survey of the state
of Pennsylvania. A report will probably
uc maue to our next lerns a'vr1!.
It is stated m the Norfolk Beacon, that
the Presidency of the' Navy Board at Wash
ington, has boon tendered to Commodore
Warrington, now oti the Norfolk station
Intelligence to Tiirfmtn. Mr. Tatter
sail, .of London, has 'sent, over a beautiful
gold whip, to the South' ' Carolina Jockey
Club, which is to be, run" forever the Club's
course, upon the'priricTpfcs.oftho whip races
in England. Mr.. Tattcrsnll's two sons
visited Charleston;? at the- late Fcburary
meeting ol the LUubv. Jind.wc- arc led to be
lieve from the terms,a.ccompanying the gift
that they were much,.plcased with the hos
pitality of the cilizens.
"Want thome maple thugar?" said a little
lisping urchin dropped in yesterday with
basket full of maple's'tigar jimcracks. "W
just do, my lad what' do you ask?"
thilling a' hukl" J'Who rti&de it?"
.1 .1 T .1 I 1 . ...
A
iy
limner liiuninua ana sue tola mo to civ
the head cater in the'printmnoffith a goth of
a great gou." "un she (did,(did she! well
if she's as sweet as hej sugar, she's one o
the finest condimcntsfih creation." "Ycth
em" "And telUiei'that'somc lover of sweet
things will soon ovirl'ake iher!" -"Colli
the'th cotch'd and'.goinJ to b& notched next
week to Jim BameyiV JIc laid' upon the-
.1 1 - - l .1 1
uiuiu u mumping great, piece oi tins conge
nial nectar and honey, made in the shape of
o linn, niifl ! 1 1 I .t. i '1-1.
u iiviu., uuu tuiuauuu m lllli IWinKUllg Ol
bedpost. Miss Saccharine Dulcissima Lu
cinda, wc owe you one; Northern paper
Jill rides have exceptions? Two wins
kcrcd dandies, with hair long enough on
ineir upper lips to maKC a grenadier's cap
went the other day to the Academy of fine
arts. On reading the inscription over the
uoor "no dogs admitted, the lorcmost turn
cd to his friend and wittingly observed
'You must go back, Fred, you seo they don'
admit you.' "O, don't be frightened, gen
iiuinun, saut tne uoor-Kccrjer. "von mnv
both como in, the regulation does not extend
In n.inn.'..
1 "I owo my success in business chiefly to
'you, said a stationer to a paper maker; as
.they were settling a larg'p 'account; "but let
me ask how a man of your caution came to
give credit freely to a beginner with my
slender means?" "Because," replied the
paper maker, "at whatever hours in the mor
ning I passed to my business, I always
observed you without your coat at yours."
The Grand Duke of Florence, who is
rather an unsociable person, was, not long
since, told that the American minister had
sent up his card and waited an audience.
The Duke went immediately to receive
tho illustrious stranger, and indulged him
with a very long interview. What was
his rage, on learning that his visitor was
only an itinerant Yankee clergy man who,
by adding "American Minister," to his
Down cast cognomen, forced himsfelf when
ever ho chose, on the petty Princes and
small Dukes of Italvi
Hard Drinking, A lady in Boston, a
fevjdays since, in a quarrel with a drunken
husband accused him of drjnking up his
pick-axe on one day, and Tils saw and, wood
horse the next.
The Experiment irt quickwitted yan
kee from the Green mountains, arriving in
thii city with three thousand ono dollar bills
has sold them at three per cent, premium!
It is stated in a New Orleans paper, that
there is not a single house of worship in
all Texas. It may with truth be"eaid, there
is not another place under Heaven where
they arc moro needed
coed
"j i q q q
SIFSCSlBHIPEo
Office of the Sun,
Baltimore, May 28
VERY IMPORTANT FROM WASH
INGTON
Letters were received in town to-day
from Washington city, which state that a
Cabinet council was hastily called last eve
ning, in consequence of intelligence having
been received at the Department of State,
that Mexico had formally declared war a
gainst the United States. We know not
what to make of the story. The most rea
sonable conclusion that wc caniuihri at,
however, is that the letters of Which we
speak are of the "baseless fabric," of most
of the missive Which are received from the
capital. It is possible that tho story is cor
rect: but it appears to us almost incredible,
that Mexico should adopt such a step,
without first resorting to ncgociation. If
she has declared war, she certainly must
have an ally. A lew hours will either prove
or disprove the story.
OBITUARY.
"In the midst of-life wc arc in death."
DtED. On Monday last, in Ibis village,
Mrs. SARAH BOMBOY, consort of Mr,
Nathan Bomboy, aged 25 years leaving
four young children to mourn her loss;
On the same day of pulmonary consump
tion, Miss DEBORAH DIEFFEN
BAUCH, of this village, in the 20th year
of her age.
On Tuesday lastj DAVID PETRIKIN
GEARHART, son of Widow Gearhart, of
this place, aged 1 i years.
In Danville on Saturday the 20th inst.
Mrs. CATHARINE REYNOLDS, con
sort of Daniel Reynolds, aged 21 years.
In Roaring Creek, on Friday the 19th
inst. CASPER RHODES, aged 74 years,
t month, and 9 days, and for forty years
past a respectable citizen of this county.
To the Electors of Columbia county.
ITELLO W-CITIZENS : At the solicitation of
many friends throughout the county, I oiler
in self as a candidate for the ollicc of
at the ncxt.Gcneral election, end would feel grateful
for your support. JOHN FltuIT.
Madison, June 3, 1837,
To the Electors of Columbia county:
ELLOW CITIZENS: At the solicitation of a
number of my friends I have been encouraged
to oiler myself as li (Januiuate lor tne olhce ol
S5IERSFF,
at the ensuing General Election. If I should be so
fortunate as to obtain a majority of your suffrages, I
pledge myself, to far as my abilities will admit, to
perform the duties of the oflico with integrity and
humanity,
PETER KLINE.
May 20, 1837.
SHERIFFALTY.
To the Electors of Columbia county:
IJELLOW CITIZENS: At the urgent solicit
tions of numerous friends, I offer myself as a
candidate for the office of
SHERIFF.
Should I be so fortunate as to receive' a majority of
votes, and procure my commission, I pledge myt elf
to oxecute tho duties of the oiiico witn tidclity and
impartiality.
May 13, 1837.
EL1AS McHENKY.
Valuable Real Property
iROPOSALS will be received by the subscri
ber, at his residence m Espytown, until the
fourth dau of July next, for renting, for ono or
more yoars, the follow ing property, to wit:
A Good Farm,
situate in Bloom township, about two and a half
miles from Bloomsburg. Also, a
sa-is5 iUrulUiiAiM 1 MILL.
i ?1 TTITI ATT I 1 YfM H fTT V
situate on said farm, together with a FULLING
MILL AND FACTORY, on the same premises.
Also, a
DWELLING HOUSE,
AND
u
STORE HOUSE,
with necessary out-buildings; in Bloomsburg, now
in tho occupancy of Mr.- C. V. Fisher.
(C'Tlie preference will be given to thoso who will
rent tho whole' property. Possession given on the
first day of April noxt,
N. B. Under the present Lease tho Mm will bo
put In good order, and kept so!
JOHN barton;
Espytown, April 29, 1637.
JOHN S. INGRAM,
iIITOlBSyJE'ir AIT
TENDERS his professional services to the citi
zens of Columbia county. He will feel gratc
mi tor business entrusted to his care. Office in the
samo building with tho 'Columbia Democrat,'
niooBjhburg, May, 1837,
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