MINTED AND PUBLISHED BY II. WEBB; Volume I?. BliOOMSBUKGf ''COIiOTmiA (DOMTY, PA. SATIHS-iPAY", OCTOBER 27, 1838" ; Wumiifer br. . OFFICE OF THE DEMOCRAT, 'Next door to Romson's Stage Orncc. The COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT will be published every Suturduy morning, at TWO DOLLARS per a'finum, payable 'half yearly in advance, or Two Dollars fyty Cents, if not paid tuithin the year. "No subscription will be taken for a shorter period than six months ; nor any discon tinuance permitted, until all arrearages are discharged. ( "AD VER TISEilENTS not exceeding a square will, be 'conspicuously inserted At One Dollar for the first three insertions and Twenty-five cents for every subse quent nsertlon. Id" A liberal discount made to those wlo alvcrlise by the year. LETTERS, addressed on, business', must be post paid. AGRICULTURAL. From llio Gennessco Famlcr. WHEAT WORM; No apology can bo necessary for introdu cing this subject so frequently into ,tlio col urns of the Farmer. The extent of the in terest involved iri the progress of York, and witnessed the quantity of wheat annually sown in this district. We make the follow ing extract from the Seneca Observer, for the purpose of calling the attention of farm ers to the statements made in it, and par ticularly the one that the ttorm continues its ravage.1) after the wheat is ripe and put in the barn- , , .-.. We have had the impression, in common with mest others, that after the berry had become hard, the ravages of the worm ceas ed or was only continued on such kernels as were attacked before the wheat had be come ripened. Wo have within a few days examined wheat in which worms yerc touna m aounuance, and coitiu nna no er nels injured, except such as form their shrunken and palo appearance had evident ly suffered when in this milk, or before the berry had become ripe. Tliat the loccvil, he product of the bug, destroys the grain in the mow or the crauary, is well known; but that the worm, the product of a fly, does the same, we think requires further exami nation and proof before it is fully admitted. Should Erich prove to be the fact, it would indeed prove to be art alarming feature in tho history of the wheat worm. At the east, where its ravages havo been tho most extensive and the longest continued, we havo never heard any apprehensions of in inry after tho wheat had ripened and was gathered. We have instituted some exper iments having a bearing on this matter, and we hope farmers generally will lend their :,! ;n ninxiilntinnnr tliis noint. Is not the till All i hoiso snoken of occasioned by the crawling of the worm and the rustling of the chaff, rather than by its feeding? and does not the pressure in the mow of wheat cause the sDeedv death! of faf the greater part of the worms in the gathered grain? It is well irnnivn iVmt when wheat, is threshed immediately after gathering, the worms will be many times more nnmerous' than in the same wheat, ifleft in tho barn for ono or two months before 'threshing "It is curious as well as alarming to ob servo the operations of this destructive worm. It commences its work early, and continues it late. When in tho field, it can bo beard making a noise much resembling iw nf iIip silk worms while oatincr. After it commences it devours with all greediness until tho crop is gathered; and, what is still worse, and perhaps not generally knoion it continues its work of destruction, after the crop is gathered. Of this fact there can now bo no doubt. It has been witnessed by many of tho most observing farmers of bur neighborhood. This insect can be heard in tho mows, and stacks, and on examining the lioads of wheat, they aro' found to con tain many of these dostroycrs. This is the more alarming to tho wheat grower, as it is licit to impossible for him to thresh out his rrain as soon as harvested, owing to tho other necessary labor that is pressing upon him at this season of the year tho comple tion of his haying, and tho preparing of his allow ground fo'f another: crop. Yet ho must thresh his wheat orlooso a goodly por tion of what has been gathered." Wo do not allow ourtelves to indulgo in the gloomy anticipations of tho concluding paragraphs of tho article in tho Observer. Wo remember that when the Hessian ily became so destructive, and its ravages ex tended so rapidly, many were found who fancied that wheat could never again bo grown in the UnitcdJStates Such predic tions have been utterly falsified by the ovent; and such we doubt not will be tho result in regard to the grain worm. As yot wo see ho reason for deserting the fair fields of Western New York, or abandoning the cul ture of wheat. Partial failures may indeed be expected; but the beautiful wheat that finds its way in such quantities to our mar kets affords conclusive proof that our fields yet yield their increase, and that Provi dence has not'eoased its kindness and its blessings. MSSCESsEaANSOtJS. A NIGHT WITH THE FIENDS. Founded oh fact. ' , BY THEODORE 3. FAY. I would have given woilds to recall the action. I had no excuse. It was a deed done with my eyes open. The beggar who steals to save his wife and children from starving, has the sympathy of the judge who condemns him and the homicide, whose crime is committed in a gust of passion, may find consolation in repentance, and in the consciousness of the infirmity of human na ture. RIen sin fibm ignorance, from temp tation, from want of experience. I had perpetrated this deliberately, with my eyes open to the cosbquences. I knew the na ture of what I was doing! There was nd , ----- i -; t, OJ i explain it on tho grounds ol innate depravi ty. I, who professed a scorn of wrong who was accustomed to self-examination and self-discipline who knew what guilt was who felt, while I did it, that I was laying tip a stdre of repentance I had yield ed, and I regarded myself with contempt anu horror. Nothing could bo more pleasing than the sp.nno in which this incident took place. It was at a ball, amid music, dancing, and pictty women. All the elements of happi nesa seemed to ha around. as 1, happy i No. Remorse filled my bosom. I'folt that I had recorded in the book of fate a deed not to be erased from which was to spring shame and suffering. I felt like tlic ghost of "buried Denmark" . '.Confined to fast in fires, Till tho foul crimes, dono in - my days of nature, Aro burnt and purged away.1" Night came. Night! At this mysteri ous period, the guilty havo a foretaste of their punishment. In summer I should have gone out and walked till morning. .But it was a cheerless November night, l went to bed; In a little while a sort of oblivion descended upon me, faintly lighted with im ages of the gay scene whero I had spent the evening, and where I had unlortunateiy laid this sin upon my soul. My imagina tion retained a dim sense of music and dan cing, and careless voices, and flashing light, till their repeated and repeated impressions pained mo; and over the whole, mysteri ously and darkly, like a clould, or an im pending danger, lay the definite conviction and shame of that act a sense of remorse, apprehension, guilt, and folly, from which I strove to recoil and creep away, and hide myself in sleep, or even death. And, in those vague moments, wavering between the real dud tho unreal, grotesque beings, whose shapes were drawn in lines of light upon tho black air, darted around, and made faces at me, and held a sort of devilish revel over my torments as I lay powerless on my RnMi visitations micht como to a UUblX is-hw.- -V dead man in his coffin. And a power seem ed whispering. 'This it is to commit a sin!' 'I did not think of it,' said I; 'I could not help it.' And for a moment, this seemed a triumph to mo, and I shouted the fact sturd ily in the faces of the fiends, and I called tho good angels to help mo, a poor, misused mortal, set upon in this fashion by a parcel of infernal devils, llut a voice, after a pause, answered, as if with a silent smile, 'You knew wliat 'you did!-yoi gratified your wish you agreed to pay the price you scorned consequences you have no excuse you aro bought and sold-you are ours!' And I answered, ''it is true? and strove to hide myself. I would havo crawled into any cave; and rill the while the dancing went on, and tho music played ono continual tune and gay crowds moving and bowing a- round, and beautiful female faces, with ra diant smiles and careless words, came and went in throngs and masses, with a floatiiiff change and a mocking contrast. Then I felijabruptcdly off a precipice startedand awoke. I groaned aloud. The chamber wab lighted by the faint beams of a night lamp, casting grotesques and giant shadows upon tho walls and ceilings. There was some thing unearthly about them. I had not thought tliat chairs and tables those home ly and familiar objects could look strange and impressive. There wa3 a bar lvimr huge and black across the room a massive semi-circle, broken by an angle of the cor nice, appeared like a segment of Saturn's belt arid a rugged profile! that frowned like the spectre of some giant, held fortli threatening arm, and impressed mo with a solemn sense of the monstrous and tlic preternatural. And soon, amid these huge shadows and that deathly silence, (broken only by a sound from some warping pannel, or, per haps, a wall settling more heavily into its foundation, secret tokens of time, Unheard by the sleeping millions around,) the fatal act which had marked my past evening, ap peared before me like a ghojipects of life 1 tj it 1 ' 'i'.: i 1 1, n n it -nrrr ' m v prpseilieu UieiuuuivcB, nzr i "v pillow and strove to sleep. All that I had ever done wrong, or unkind, or doubtful, sat.around my bed like a company of devils, each event converted into, a iicnd, anu at tho head of this agreeable levee the deed of yesterday, a mocking, heartless demon, and then came the dancing and that old tunc a gaini , At length this awfiil ordeal wa3 varied by a gleam of comfort. Somcththing which re solved itself at last into a soothing and most gentle spirit, seemed to steal in unobserved among th"i3 set of chattering devils, and whispered in my ear : Patienco, mortal, and receive th'i3 hour as a lesson. You shall not sink beneath your burden, but you must bear it yet a lit tle longer! When the' cock crows your persecutors will disperse. Take care you do not put yourself in their power again. The earth is inhabited by two races man a traveller on his way to heaven, but sore hpsct bv the other" face, the devils. There is but one method of escaping fnese gentle men, who now crowd your chamber so hi lariously. It is by following the ways of right and wisdom. They have, compar atively, no power over those charmed paths butit'is the condition of your existence that when you err, you aro exposed to their mischievous malice. Indeed each error creates its own tormentor. Each man, ac cording to his deeds, is honored with a rot inue of these dlsagreeblo companions, who acquire more power the moro they gain. They retire from around you during the day to watch the effect of new temptations, as an angler keeps himself concealed to catcli the fish; oven, when hooked, gives him the lino in order to plunge tho barb the deeper into his victim. In crowds, in mo ments of passion, and times of pleasure, they leave their prizo apparently free; but in solitude, illness, and during the night, thov assume their dominion; and wo to him who becomes entirely their slave. As for vou. you havo committoed aii action for tvliirl vmi must b'car the penalty. Yield with patience and bo wiser to-morrow. Tho face of my instructress was near me as sho spoke, and alio kissed my forehead Then came the dancing and tho old tuno, and tho crowds aed tho demons, and in tho pressuro I was nearly suffocated, Strug' gling, attempting in vain to call out, I was at the point pf dissolution, when, id fright ful convulsions, I once more awoke. ,At that instantjthe cock in (ho neighboring barn- ard gave a sudden loud, and exultant crow, and I distinctly heard the slapping of the fellow's wings. It Was followed by tlic cheerful cry of a milkman. A taint silvery light, fell upon tho wall through tho open ings In the shutters and curtains. The night- amp burned lower and yet more dim Sat urn's belt was scarcely visiLlo opposite the pitcher-handle! The huge bar had lost its sharp outline, but retained enough to identify it with the poker, and the frowning giant had dissolved intb.tho outlines of an old robe dc chambre, carclqssly flung over the bacK.of a chair. Blessed human shapes, all after the unearthly imagc'3 of night. 1 turned over with a sonso of safety, of be ing among my fellow creatures, and on the arth again, of having expiated my crime, arid of having now life before mo to try a new tho path of virtue and wisdom, and so fell into a quiet sleep. 'But what was tho crime 1' demanded my wife when I read tho essay.. 'The reader will know it,' caid I. 'Not at all,' said she. 'I assure you I lave not the slightest idea of it.' 'Let them guess then !' said I. , 'They will think you havo been robbing the maii,' said she, 'or committing murdqh What is it you havo done to bring on your- clf such terrible torments V 'I drank three cups of strong tea ." said with a blush! 'Arid it serves y ou perfectly right! said my wife, with a look of indignation. Tho first jump of the first flea was two hun dred times its own lcnght, as it was thq last summer. That concubinal sinner, tho ursine sloth, who scorns at all the anathemas against polygamy, kept ten or twelve wives, before Io3ca was born, as he will when wc are forgotten. Thcro was iron enough in tho blood of the first forty-two iricn to make a ploughshare, and thcro.is to-day, from whatever country or men you sc'icbj. Tho lungs of Abel contained a coil of vital matter 150 feet square, as mine; and tho first in-, spration of Adam consumed 17 inches of air as do thoso of every adult reader. Tho rat and the robin followed the fobtseps of Noah, as they do ours; flaylcy. , in WMLlTfi) fp vest, n F N ATU RE . ten times, tho tcrms.of Jjio material -rovead Hon are unaltered, uoes Airicajuuuo.-. thousand ruleless languages ? Docs Asaia forsako her venerable iounges ? is Ameri ca, the modern Babel, forming a new race of languages, from refuse of the old families, Nature changes not hers; she owns no au-1 thority, she suffers no provincialism in her universal speech. Tho larks now carol the same song and the same key as when Adam first tuned his enraptured ear to catch tlic moral. The owl first hooted in B flat, and it still loves the .key, and screams thro' no other octaves. In the samo key nas ever ticked the death watch; while all the three noted chirps of tho cricket have been iri B, since Tubal Cain first heard them in his smithy, or the Israelites in their aeh ovens. Never has. tho buzz of the linat risen above tho secdnd A, nor that, of the house fly's ir sunk below tho first F. Sound had at first the samo connexion with color as it has now; and the right angle of life's inci dence might as much produce a sound on the first turrets of Cain'3 city, as it is now said to do on one of tho . Pyramids. The tulip, in its first bloom in Noah's garden, emitted, heat four and a half degrees above tho atmosphere, as it doc3 at the present day. The stormy petrel as much delighted to sport amongst the first billows which the Indian ocean ever raised as it docs now. In tho first migration of birds they passed from isorth to south, and then fled over tho nar- . .1 'ii ii.: rowest parts of the seas, as mcy wm mi autnmn! Tho cuckoo and tlic nigntingaie first benan their song together, analogous to the beginning o! our April, in uio uaya hi Nimrod. Birds that lived on flics laid blu ish cen in the diys of Joseph, a they will two thousand voars hence, if the sun should not fall from his thone, or the earth not break her harness from tho planetary car, The first bird that was paged oftner eung m tidacrio than its natural sprit. Pm-ils li-!vi pvnr frown edirewavs to the ocean stream. 8,280,000 animaculm coul n well live in a drop of water in tho days All flvinff insects bail nn their coats of mail in the days of .Taphct ovor which havo ever waved tho plumes of more gaudy feathers than tho peacock ever dronnod. The bees that at ontecl r.vo ne first houoy, made their combs hexagonal and tho first house fly produced 20,0S0,320 eggs in one year, as she does at present A true Gentleman. A true gentleman is God's servant, tho. world's. master, and his own man his virtue is his business his study, his recreation cont'endness his rest, and happiness his reward God is his fatiicr, and the Church is his mother tho Saints his brethem, all that need him his friends, and Illjaven his inheritance Reli gion his mistress, Loyalty & Justice his two maids of honor, Devotion his Chaplain, Chastity his chambcrlian Sobriety hia butler, Temperance, his cook jlospitality his housekeeper, Providence h'i3 steward,. Charily Ijis treasurer, Piety his mistress of the house, and Discretion his porter, to le( in and out as is nibst fit. Thus is the whole, family made of virtues, dnd he is the ,lruq master of tho. family.. Hois ncccssiatcd to' take tho world in his way to Heaven, but h? walks through it as fast as he can but all his business by the way 13 to make him self and others, happy. ( Take hint all in two words,' he is a man and a Christian. Christian Masai :tne. . t OJl.aTT,!..,:,,.,! travellers, and whose laihenienucaw. : in tho courso of his life visited behind him tho. red in 1822, various countries, and has left mnnv works' of crrcat interest. About beginningof the present century lie travencu through Russia, Egypt, and Palestine, eve ry where making such observations on tno character and manners ol. tnese nations aa might havo been expected from a gentleman of refined feeling and a scholar When in Palestine, ho visited Jerdsalem, Nazareth, Bethlehem, and the Lake of Genneseralh,, near which ho enjoyed an opportunity ol conversing with a party of Druzes. Almost . every traveller in Syria has given us soma new particulars reapeinig ur.a cuhum nle. "They are," saya UinrK, "ine moat extraordinary people on' earth singular, in, . the simplicity of their lives; by their filnc; . nlcaiity and virtue. They only eat, wnat they earn by their own labor, and preserve at this moment lhe superstitions brought by the Israelites out of Egypt! What will bq t J '. mi . 1 your surprise to learn, that every uiursaay ihoy clevato the molten call, ueiora wnicu. they prostrate themselves, anu naymg pai their adoration, each man selects a win. from amongst the women present. Iho calfis of gold, silver or bronze. This, is exactly that worship at which ftloscs was, inccwad in descending- from Sinai. Tho cow was tho Venus of tho Egypttaj'' ad, , of course tho calf was a cupid, before which " the sacrifices, so offensive to Moses wore, , held. For it is related that ihoy set up a" molten calf, which Aaron had made irovn the earrings of the Israelite women, demro which similar sacrifices wera made. .. And cerlainjy tho Druzes on Mount'Lebanon arts ' detachment of tho ppstmity o lliosc isra- elites who arc so often representor in scrip- iuro as deserters irom wo.iruu iani wmu back into thti old superstition and pann' worship of the country' from fhonee .tho came, t took every Wothod 'necessary ,'tnj ascertain tho truth of this relation aijuj, 1 send It to you as ono of tlioliighes sntiqu ties, and most curious relics of remote wliich has yet been found on earth. 'f ' .' ; SRWP,..(Wii,;lJj.1!1i One of tho New Orleans popfjBittP a rumor that a Texas loan or.fauuu.wt had been obtained in the United State
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