THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT.
Vino-rn wItboct run "
WPrntlhlYtJlPItlTj 13, 1830.
' SCPTo our Patrons
No. CQ will complete one year since
1hc ' Columbia Democrat" came into the
liands of tlio present publisher; and to such
as have complied with the terms of publica
tion, his thanks are due, 03 they have as
sisted to lighten the burthen of a printer's
ttoubres, which are, at best, almost too
"heavy to bo borne." Those who have
rot, will confer a favor, not only on the pub
lisher,, but. on his creditors, by handing over
the readv in duo season.
REMOVAL.
The Office of the 'Columbia. Democrat'
is removed into the building opposite Su
Paul's Church, Main-street.
MILITARY APPOINTMENTS.
The following list of Stall Officers have
been appointed for the 71st Reg. 1st Brig.
8th Division of Pennsylvania Militia, and
are to be obeyed and respected accordingly.
ALEXANDER McCARTY, Adjutant.
ALEXANDER EMMET, Ser. Mujer.
MILTON KERR, Quarter Master.
THOMAS H. SWADY, Surgeon.
D. W. MONTGOMERY, 5 aur- Jutaa'
CHARLES KAI1LER. Drum Major.
JONATHAN FORTNER, Fife Major.
Those persons heretofore holding these
offices, will consider themselves as super
seded by the above appointments.
ma TiiEw Mcdowell, coi.
Several banks in Georgia, illssissippi,
and Michigan have again suspended specie
payments. It is rumored that the New
York Uanlis, in secret caucus, have also re
solved to suspend. Notwithstanding this
ruinous policy of deranging the business of
the country to fill their own coffers with
usurious interest, is pursued by the banks,
yet we have men among us, and those too,
who claim to belong to the democratic par
ty, who are straining every nerve to locate
one of these leeches within the bounds of
Democratic Columbia. Will it be permit
cd? We think not:
Some four weeks since great excitement
was created in Wilkesbarre, by the attempt
of an abolitionist to promulgate his mis
chievous doctrines in that quiet community;
and the excitement was greatly increased
by the indictment of twenty four of the
citizens of that Borough for parti
cipating, in what the abolitionists termed a
riot, but what we should denominate an act
of pure justice to any individual who will
set at defiance the expressed will of a com
.munuv. even 10
41 Hiding on a Hail."
Unfit seems by the following article from
the Advocate, that the gentleman prosecutor
has thought that discretion was " the tielter
part of valor,1' and therefore not appear be
fore the -court to support his charge " for
viilirwrtiv irtmniil(inn. Whplhnrnn rv.imn
to this conclusion through a desire to avoid
taxing the liberality of the citizens for a
not; out we. mum tnai me warm wcawier
must have admonished him that an overcoat
would not feel very comfortable.
The Affair of the Uth and 12. tilt.
A bill of indictment for liot was preferred
and found on Thursday last, againt 21 of
our citizens as principal aiders ami abettors
of the transactions of the 11th and 12lh of
March in this Borough. On Saturday 19
. i i :i i.-r .!, .,.. .,.,,1
pear and stand trial. On Monday afternoon
the prosecutor, at the solicitation of a num
ber of respectable citizens, declined to ap
pear, and the Prosecuting Attorney, with
the annrobation of the Court, entered a not-
It proscqm,hn defendants were discharged,
and theie the matter rest!."
Unwards of two thousand barrels o
Hour was sold at Wheeling, on the loth ult
Tho American Farmer states that n crop
of'tho Jiorua iluliicaulis trees, which was
raised in North Carolina, and Irousht to
Baltimore a few days since, was sold for
tl- ty thouisnd dollars
,GENTLEMENS MAGAZINE.
We have just received tho April number
of ttiis valunblemiscellaneou9 ilfonthly.nnd
it far surpasses any of its predecessors in
interest and variety. It is embellished with
a fine steel engraving, representing an alli
gator defending tho carcase of a dead ele
phdnt from the avtacks of the vultures, be
sides containing two other plates. This is
one of the most valuablo and cheap miscel
lanies now published, some of our most
able writers are contributors to Its columns,
and we cannot too often recommand it to
the attention of the public.
The number of daily papers published in
Philadelphia is fourteen weekly seventeen
and monthly periodicals fourteen.
Theroarc said lo be no less than 150 pa
triots still remainingunder sentence of death
at Kingston, Upper Canada.
The Connecticut Election has terminated
in favor of the whigs.
Governor Fairfield, of Maine, is up again
for re-election it is thought there will bo
no opposition to him.
The April Court for Columbia County,
commences its session at Danville, on Mon
day next.
Presidents of the United Stales. Ez-
President Jackson completed his 72d year
on the 15th of March, having been born on
the 15th of March, 1707 General Wash
ington died in his GSlh year John Adams
in his 91st Thomas Jefferson in his 8 1th
James Madison in his 80th and James
Monroe in his 73d Ex-President John Q.
Adams is now in his 75th, and Mr- Van Bu
ren is 5G, or thereabouts-
Important if true. Wc learn by a gen
tleman direct from Brunswick, Maine, says
the Bcstou News, who arrived in this city
last evening, that an express passed through
that place on the day our informant left,
from the frontier, with a message to Gov.
Fairfield. The report runs, that the docu
ment contained intelligence, that an invasion
of the disputed territory by a large armed
foicc of the English look place, and drove
off our land agent with the civil force sta
tioned there to protect our rights, took pos
session of all the timber belonging to us,
and killed two of our men !
A new Fanny Wright has sprung up in
New York. Mrs. Rose, a Polish woman,
divorced from her husband, doubtless for
sufficient reason, is lecturing on Sunday
evenings at lammany null. ne is oppo
sed to marriage, and all such monopolies,
to tiicir fullest ezlenb
The Columbus Democrat thus briefly
sums up (under the head of " matrimony
and its awful consequences,") a few of the
most important events in the life of a cili-
sen of that place. He was married on
Tuesday evening I on Wednesday evening
his bride presented him with au heir I on
Thursday he got drunk I and on Friday he
was committed to Jail of Lowndes county
for debt ! t Facts beat this who can !
It appears from the report of the Board
of public works lor Illinois, that the inter
nal improvement system in that state em
braces 1312 miles of rail road, estimated to
cost SI 1,000,000. The canal fiom the Il
linois river to lake Michigan will cost seve
ral millions, audit ha3 been in rapid pro
gress for sonic time.
Spring Business. It is said that a much
larger amount of business was done, during
the month ot March, by sonic ol the pun
ciplc houses in Market street, than during
the same month lor several years past.
Pouhon.
The New York Canals are lo be open
cd on the 20th of this mouth; moio than a
month later than tho Canals of Pennsylva
uia.
The first native born citizens of Ohio,
John Mcintosh, is now 49 years of ace.
Ho was born in a fort, near tho mouth of
the Muskingum. JiO I There arc now live
thousand scholars in the schools, between
the ages of 4 and 21.
Two Americans named Graham and Bai
ley, have been confined in jail at Niagara
lor enticing souuers 10 ucseri.
Louis Philippe was described as in much
difficulty at the last dates irom Paris.
A few inches of snow fell at Montreal,
on the evening of the 28th ult.
A mad dog was seen in the neighborhood
of Germautown a day or two ago.
The Mayor of Detroit having moved in
to tho suburbs out of the limits of tho .city.
an uiereoy lonetwa m omce,
The Baltimore papers of yesterday an
nounce the death of Ilezthiah Niks, Esq.,
long known as tho editor of Nilo'o Regis
ter.
It is said that five dollar notes of tho Gi-
rard Bank, altered to tens, are in circulation
in this city.
The prohibition law airainst Kduor. limit
ing the sale of spirits to 15 gallons', wetot
into force in Massachusetts ron Mtfnday.-
The Boston Courier says it is totsumpttut
ry and aristocratic to be enforced; allowing
the rich wine, and debarring the poor from
spirits.
Suicide A woman named Lvdin Simn-
son Rundoot, committed suicido in New
iorkafew days since by taking aisenic.
She was induced to the fatal act, by tho
brutality of a drunken husband, who beat
her until she escaped from him and conceal
ed herself in the cellar where she remained
all night, and next morning took a teaspoon
inn oi u i e poison.
Horrible. A female in fairfux county,
Va. is said lo have been arrested last week,
on charge of killing her two children by
throwing them into a well.
Erskine gave a very lively illustration of
the text, " Union is strength," when ho said
of a place where he had slept very ill, that
if the (leas had been unanimous they would
have lifted him out of bed.
Islands of fee. Capt Pell, of the Havre
packet Utica, arrived this morning, reports
that on the 21st March, in lat. 44,45, lonir
48, he fell in with large quantities of ice,
in fields and bergs, the former in great ex
tent, and the latter of mountainous dimen
sions. He ran southward 90 miles and
westward 100 miles through these fields
and islands of ice, some of the latter being
from one to two hundred feet in height.
N. Y. Com. Adv.
HYMENIAIr.
MARRIED In Mount Pleasant, on
Thursday afternoon last, by the Rev. Mr.
Diakc, Mr. Abraham IV. A'. Kline, to Miss
Rebecca, daughter af Mr. Peter Omak, all of
that township.
In Bloomsburg, on the same day, by tho
same, Mr. If 'iUinm Miller, of Mount Plea
sant, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Mr
Peter Everett, of Madison-
AtFarlow's Grove, M(.rccr county. Illi
nois, tin the 7lh tilt. Doctor Jasenh S.Maus
of Mackinaw, Tazewell county, Illinois, to
Miss Suian Boon, daughter of Mr. James
lioon, of the former place, and all formerly
of this county.
On the 11th instant, by the Rev. William
J. Ever, Mr. Daniel Lea, to Miss Ilebccca
olumbach, both of Cattawissa
OBITUARY-
DIED On the 5lh instant, at Wilkes-
barre, after an illnes of onlv half an hour.
Mrs. Sarah Helme, wife of Oliver Helme,
jr. of that place, and sister of Rev. G. C
Drake, of this town, aged 27.
COXMUNICATED.
DIED On Sabbath afternoon, March
31st. at the residence of his father in Bloom
township, Mr. CHARLES M'CLURE,
aged 20 years, after a protracted illness.
Having given evidence of an interest in the
peace speaking blood of Jesus Christ, death
was no doubt, a joyful release, to his long
fettered soul; yet affection prompts tho its
mg sigh, while tears of regret bedews his
remains. This is ihc third time, within a
few years.that his afflicted family have been
called to follow a beloved child to an early
grave; yet they sorrow not as those who
have nit hope. Let this he their consola
tion, the prospect of being resuscitated, a
redeemed family around the throne of love,
LIST OF LETTERS
Remaining in the Post Office at Blooms
burg, April 1st, 1839.
Allen Ebenczer Petrikin, Wihslow.&co
llrmk Joshua Quick Rozctta
Biggs Potef Riigglcs Ziba
Coleman Jesse Rieherd John
Ever Jacob Rupert & Barton
Fry Jacob Squire Ebin 2
Gruber John Smith Daniel or
Girton Matthias George Smith 2
Haley John Slroup Jotham
Harday Arthur Stetler Samuel
Hardman Jacoby Stadler John
Howell Sarah Ann Stetler John Esq.
Htimhaeh Henry Swaby Thos. M. D.
Daniel JemUon Jeybcrt Barnard
Ikeler Andrew Esq.Schrem Nicholas
Kitner John Taylor Polly or
Krum Henry Winnegar Abraham
Mendenhall John Unaneh Philin
Mehelt Daniel
iVelick Peter
Abuscr Joseph
Vanhorn John
Wctzier Jacob
Wagoner Catharine
May yriinhafcl
Winters Lewis Clino
Aendcnhall Lydia Wellino Russel
Petrikin XV.U.M.D. Washington Charles
Petrikin B. F. Witte Godfrie
fried
Prentiss Noah, WillitsThnmas
B. RUPERT, P. M.
Persons calling for letters on tho above
iirt will please say lhey are advertised.
THE subscriber grateful for past favors, returns
hU sincere thanks to his numerous friends
and customers, and would now inform tliem, that
ho has just received from New York, the Report of
the
New ITork & London
Fashions,
TOR TUB SriINO XXK SUMMtH OT 1839,
together with the drafts of tho numerous changes,
loth as regards tho style of Making and Trimming,
ns well as Cutting garments. Ho is therefore ful
ly prepared now to turn out work, in the most hupc
rior style of cut and workmnnBhm .and resrwrtrjitlv
solicits a continuance of public favor.
BERNARD RUPERT
Bloomsburg, April 13.
liist of Causes
For Trial at April Term, 1839.
Margaretta McDonald et al vs.- Josenh
Mans.
Alexander Montgomery vs. Jonathan
Lodge et al.
Jacob Lescnrinnct al vs. Henry Fisher's
Adm.
Adam Crtill vs. Henry Easton et al.
William Adams' Administrators vs Marv
Adams et al.
Mary Slrawbridgo vs. Jesse Funston.
A. & E. Eves vs. Joseph Pursel.
David Davis vs. Isaac Davis.
Polly Ilartman vs. Michael Hartman's
Executors.
Andrew Eves vs. Joseph Cavence et al.
Mary Campbell's Administrators vs. Ja
cob Shoemaker' Executors.
David B. Inman vs. Joseph Fulmer.
Philip Stetler vs. Noah Drake, et al.
Archibald McCall vs. Abraham Goulder.
ct al,
Grand Jury
For April Term, 1839.
Briercrcek Gcorire Kelchner. James
Evans, Robeit McCurdy.
n..., : !,. i ,r... . . t . .
juaivieau uamei vougiu, jacoo let
ter. Deny Robert Clark, Benjamin Buck.
Greenwood Abraham Moore, Ezra
Eves.
Limestone David Krownover, Joseph
Dean.
Madison John Christian, James Allen,
Daniel Welliver.
Mahoning John Blue, Michael Gricr,
Joseph Maus, John Dean, Win. Cook.
Montcur George II. Willitts, Peter Ru
pert. Liberty John McWilliams.
Sugarloaf Reuben Davis.
Hemlock Charles Ilartman.
Traverse Jury.
Bloom John R. Moyer.
Briercreek JohnBowman.ThomasCox,
.baton llowmaii, John Connor.
Cattawissa Casper Ilartman, C. A.
Brobst.
Dei ry Jonathan Lodge William M
Brailey, James C. Sproul, John Stanner.
Fishing Creek Abraham Robbins, Dan
iel Stucker.
Greenwood Charles Eves, William
Shultz, John Hess, jr.
Hemlock William Girton, Daniel Moy
cr, Adam Slroub.
Liberty James McMahon, William
Campbell, James Perrv, Robert Carr.
Limestone David Davis, James Cald
well.
Mifflin Henry Harregar.
Monteur Thomas Ilartman.
Madison Richard Demolt, John P
Eves.
Mahoning Henry Sechlcr.
Mt. Pleasant Isaac Musgrove, Jacob
senile.
Roaring Creek John Bear, Daniel Kel
ler.
Sugarloaf Benjamin Petemian, Oorne
lious Coleman.
GROUND
Fur
PLASTER
Sale.
The subscribers having taken the Grist
Mill, lately owned by Mathew McDowell,
have on hand about
GROUND PIiASTEK,
which they will sell on reasonable terms.
MELICK & BROWN.
McDowell's Mills, April 0, 1830.
ESTATE OF ERR HARDER,
late of Cattawissa township deceased.
"jfoTotiro is hereby given that letters of administra
tion on the above mentioned Estate havo been
granted by tho Register of Columbia county to the
subscriber rcsidingin Cattawissa. All persons having
demands against said Estate will please present them
and those indebted to said Estate will make imme
diate payment to
EZRA S. IIAYHURST, Adm.
Mach23 1889.
re Hilt
Trintcd at this Office. '
TRAEE I-TRADE ! TRADE
A FIRST RATE
XZrccdin? Marc,
For Trndo forn good IToric, or a 2 yoar old bowa
Colt. Tho Mare- is gentle and quiet, and world
well oillicr In mnglo or double harness.
D. S. TOBIAB,
Bloomsburg, Mar$h 0,
'IS hereby given to nil who ar indebted to t
subscriber, cither no Hook, Notes, or Judgements on
Dockets;. that they must come forward atid sottle olT
their respective dues between now and the first day
of Fcbuary, 18l!9, or they wifl be bovcrely dealt
with- DANIEL GItOSS.
Illoomsburg Dec 29th 1838. 3filh
FOPw SALE,
VERY CHEAP,
A Dearbon Waggon,
Almost New and a
One Horse Sleigh.
Enquire of PHILIP STETLHH.
Bloom, March 9, 1830.
N Tuesday the 12th inst. between Blooms
burg and Espytown, or in Bloomsburg, a
WAMjBT POCKET BOOK,
contain'ng One Jf) Vullar Bill on tho Schuyl.
kill Bank of Philadelphia, and one 5 Hollar ltlll
on the Exchange Bank, Pittsburg. The subscri
bers name is written in the Wallet in four or six,
different places. Tho finder shall be liberally re
warded by leaving the above wallet with C. Doeblcr
in Bloom, or by delivering it to the subscriber in
Danville. TJ. j. ALWOfin.
Danville, Feb. 25, 1839.
Notice
ALL persons within tiie bounds of the 71s
rtegimcnt of Pennsylvania Militia, who hava
wijr uviuuiuKagainKois as urigaue inspector of thn
I?t Brigade, 8th Division, are requested to present
Ihcni to me for settlement, at the house of William
lienry, in Danville, on Monday, tho 15th day of
April next, being first day of Court week.
DANIEL FULMER.
Limestone, March 15, 1839.
100 LA130EIS,
50 MASOIVS,
50 CABPEITEES,
ARE wnnted upon Bridges No. 1 and , on.
the Cattauma and Little Schuylkill Rati
Road. Crpenters that are acquainted with fram
ing and raising Lattice Work Bridges will rcceivo
good wages. From 14 to 50 dollars per month
wilt be paid. The country is Tery healthy.
SCHUYLER, FRICK &. Co.
JOHN F. MANN & Co.
March 9, 1839.
The Miltonian, Milton, will give the aboro thre
insertion! and charge this office.
o all persons not to jmrchasoixPTotefor tho turn
of oks iiB.ioiJi) noLum itiven bv ma to
Alexander McCrty, due the first of April 1839 an
the said note was fraudulently obtained of me, and
I am determined net to pay it unless compelled by
law. GEORGE RICE.
Bloom, March 33 183?.
DYER3 OPEN YOUR EYES.
BENGAL Indigo; Spanish do. Verdigries, blus
Vitrial; White do. for sale cheap and good, at,
tlie Bloomsburg Wire House, by
B. S. TOBIAS.
LlJE SMALTZ, White Fretting, Iceland
.Moss lor consumptive People; cegars, Com
mon, Spanith aud Ilalf Spanish; and a thoutand
hcrarticles too tedious to monuon, for sale at
Tobias' Health Emporium.
White kalian Blullicrry,
FOR SALE AT
TOHT.1S' JXE.ll.Tir IMFORXR.fr,
IN BLOOMSBURG.
NIGHT CANDLES,
By the Box, and one box will last a whole
yoar. For sale by
Tobias' HerJtb" Emporium Bloomsburg
IVHYWIhL YOU DIE.
INDIAN SPECIFIC.
Certain Cure for the following complaints
Cold', coughf, asthmas, consumrtions. snil.
ting of the blood and all disorders of tho breast and
lungs. It is extracted, from herbs, roots plants nod
flowers, by n Phjrician who resided upwards of four
j cars among the different tribes of North American
Indians, and with unwocried diligence used every
moans in his power, to acquire knowledge of tho
different remedies, ufed by them for the cure of con
sumptions mid complaints of the breast and lungs
to which they are more subjected than any other nal
Hon, on account of thu mode of living, nnd being
exposed to the inclemency of all weathers. Tha
above mrdiriuo for tale at
Tobias' Health Emporium iu Bloomsburg.
FOR SAE BY
D. S. TOBIASAgcnt.
Bloomsburg, June 23, 1839.,
GLAD TIDINGS'!
Also,
RED LINIMENT.
BROWN'S JLOTrOW,
T5TB EC COMMENDED by Doet, Wilson a,
J3 Q certain euro for Kheumati.m. Also.
eccommcndcd by Doct. Davis, of Philadelphia,
for hofollowingcomplaints. Rheuraatifin, VVpalc
nesa and stiflhejia of tho Jpinta, &r. For sale at'
7cfT, HcrM Emporium, Rhomsburg