"I have sworn, upon tho Altar of Cod, eternal hostility to-evert form of Tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson, MINTED AND PUBLISHED BY II. WEBB. Volume III. n7i IVumlicr 12. 1 fcOFFICE OF THE DEMOCIIAT, Oitosite St. Paul's Ciiukch, Main-st The COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT will be published every Saturday morning, at TWO DOLLARS per annum, payable half yearly in advance, or Two Dollars Fifty Cents, if not paid within the year. JVb subscription will be, taken for a shorter period than six months; nor any discon tinuance permitted, until all arrearages arc discharged. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding a square, will be conspicuously inserted at One Dollar far the first three insertions, and Twenty-five cents for every subse quent nscrl'ion. CTA liberal discount made tolhose who advertise by the year. LETTERS addressed on business, must be post paid. EASY JOS BRUCE. BY II. II. WUI.D. Ulrqs mc!' exclaimed .Mr. Joseph Bruce, or perhaps we should rather say Joe Bruce, ns he was a noble, easy fellow, nobody thought of allowing him more than half his name, or of anything else which belonged to him. ' T sec by tho paper that Hawk & Harpey have assigned. I meant to have secured my debt yesterday.' He left his coffee half drank, Mumbled over the thres hold, and went almost at a run to the count ing room of Hawk & Ilarpey. One half his speed on tho day before would have saved his debt : as it was, he was just in season to put his name at tho bottom of a dozen and a half prepared ones, to reccic ten per cent. He went back to his tinfin ished breakfast with what appetite he might. Why did you neglect this so long, Mr. Bruce V said his helpmate and comforter. 4 I -meant to have attended to it yesterday, my dear.' ' You meant '. Thai is always your way, Mr. Bruco. You carelessly neglect your (business to the last moment, and then. put yourself in a haste and neat-for limiting, my dear.' Uenllv. Mrs; Bruce' And it was really Mrs. Bruce, for few of the feminine, and none ol no masculine gender, could have kept pace with her. flftrtninlv. Easy Joe could not. The clatter nf a cotton mill would not have been a cir cumstance to the din she rcaiscd. Easy Joe pulled a cigar case out of his pocket clap ped his feet on the fender and it almost seemed that the nmoko rendered his cars imnorvious to tho blcatmgs of that gentle jamb, his spouse, so placid was his counte nance, as the vapor escaped in graceful vol- fi-nm his mouth. People overshoot the mark sometimes. Mrs. Bruce did- Had she spared her oration, the morning's loss would have induced her husband to have been punctual to his business, for one day at least. As it was he took the same pride in neglecting it under her lecture, that the Grand Nation took so long in refusing to pay tho claims of- our citizens. TtrooTo nwnv. Mrs. Bruce !' Breeze awav. Sir ! Breeze away ! I wish I could impart one tittle of my ener- ov to von. Mr. Bruce: 11 ' Bruce snraus to his feet, and crash came an elegant mantel clock down upon the hearth. 4 There, Mr. Bruce ! that clock has stood thcro three months without fastening;: single screw would have saved it; but' 4 Well, I meant to' You meant! Mr.Bruco low meant won't nav the damoae, nor Hawk & Ilai pey's ! You meant, indeed !' Bruce seized his hat and cloak' In few minutes he was on 'Change. Nobod could read in his face any traces of tho ma rimonial breeze, and nobody would suspeo from his countenance that Hawk & Harpey had failed in his debt. Easy Joo Bruce ! Well, Mr. Bruce, they've ro.utod him.' Who?' 4 Our friend Check. Pingrcc was cho sen President of tho Bunk, this morn ing, One vote would have stopped him.' 4 How delccdly unlucky. I meant to have been present to vote for Check my self 1 Never mind, Bruce,' said another. 4 You arc a lucky man. The news of the great firo in Speedervillo has reached town liy express, and 1 congratulate you that you was fully ensured.' Insured I my policy expired last week. I meant to have got it' reoewqd this morn ing.' Joo posted homo in no happy humor. When an oasy man is fairly up, ho is tho moel uneasy and unreaspnblo man in erea tiun, Mrs. Bruce, by staying at homo to hear you scold, I have lost thousands. I meant to have got insured this morning I did not; Speedcivillo is burned down, and I am beggar.' ' Wliy did you not do it yesterday, Mr. Bruce V i I was thinking of Hawk ili Harpey' Thinking ! Why did you not secure ourself V 4 1 meant to, but' ' But give inc no buts.' ' You arc in excellent spirits, Mrs. Bruce.' Never bolter. Vastly fine, madam. Wc are beggars,' Mrs. Bruce sat down, and clapped her feet on tho fender, after her husbi'ttid's manner in the morning. Wc are beggars, madam, bruce repeat ed. Verv rood I will take m-r cuitar, and on shall shoulder the three ch'ildrcu. We will plav; under Mr. Hawk's window first, then under Mr. Ilarpey b and then go beg our way to Speederviltcyto play to the ashes I what was once yourtactory which you meant to have insured. I should like beg ins 'f aH ibings You abominable woman ! I shall go mad. , Do not,I beseech you.Mr. Bruco ! Thcv put mad men in Bcdl.'tm.' Jruec sprang lor lli'f- door, ilis wife in terrupted him. 1 Hen';., Joseph, is a paper meant to nave shown; yon tins morning. ' A policy, and dated yesterday !' 4 Yes. You meant to get it renewed to day. I meant it shouh'l bu done yesterday, si 1 told vour cleric, lor vou, to do it. Am not an abominable woAiian I' ' When I said so, l wa3 in a pet. I meant i No more of that Josr.-ph. Now toll mo who i3 the first on Hawk & Harpey's as signincnt '. 4 Your brother.' v 4 His claim covers yoiji both.' 4 You are an angel," Mrs. Bruce ! Easy Jco become an altered man, and his wife was released IV'm her watch over is out dor business, S! died some years before him but we are h nlf inclined to sus pect, that after her death , Joe partially re uneeu into l--.rjdi..s'"ip Ja ;abit is a second nature. fJiotli were ourieu in the grave yard at Spe,edcrvillo, and our suspicions founded on so incthing like the following conversation win in took piacc uo tween the crave dipper and his assistant . 4 Where are we to dig Mr., unices grave;- 4 1 do not know exactly, llis will says next his wife.' 4 Where was she laid !' 4 That I don't know. Ea'ly Joe always said he meant to place an obolisk over her hut it nevei was done. From tho Hay Stale Deci pcrat. THE DEMOCRATIC tpLOCK 44 Here she goes there slut goes." The rood old fashioned famil V clock, like radical democracy, pursues her steady on ns ward course. 1 ho old luderal aristocracy gaze upon her with glazed eye? , ami in the bitterness ot tlicir souls, pom ting to tlio bright pcndulem as it vibratct li, cry out " Here she goes there she goc It is true the Federalists som .ettinos sue ceed in deranging her works, tht mi they aux iouslv watch hei motion; hopn in and pray ing sho may cease to move, mocracv artist is not slow to dis But the dc :ovor the in jurv. in the twinming 01 ano w 1 1 r . 1 10 he repairs tho damages, ana tne goon on regulator pursues the even tenor R democratic 'of her way and the astonished Federalists, disappoint ed, cry out 44 Here she goesV-lhere she troes." Now you sec the wholo fcdeibl clan busi W oiifafcd. calling in the aid of foieign in flupiifn in Blnn the democratic clock. The i.ionoved monstcr.mounted by 4401d Nick, iii-ilmrr. nnrrnntioii. art. and deception, all resorted to, to turn tho democratic clork from her perennial course; bull sho stems ihe power aud influence of thc'ir black art, and moves steadily and handsomely on, spreading happiness all around and ward ing all the rocus anu snoais 01 iuiiei.u vnijj. gcry. while tho poor souls looking at the pendulum in despair, exclaim y Here she goesthere she goes." I When tho British commenced depreda tions on our commerce impiciscd and brutally treated our seamen, and threatened us on all sides with destruction when our country bled at every pore; it wast then tho Federalists made another bold ri bhattho old democratic family clock. They poured in red hot, round head, chain, graAc, canis ter, and stand shot, into her worhs. She boro the siege, as sho over will, an il pursued her independent conrso triumphantly, and the traitors gave up in despair, cry ing 44 Here she goes there she goes?' Tho next attack tnado on tho demooptic clock, was by the Federalists spiritual guard. 44 0," said they, 44 she io the poor-! est, weakest, and most wretched piece of furniture in nil creation. Wo can soon put ler down and stop her eternal clicking. t it they went with their spiritual weapons. MichtV indeed was the onset. Heaven and earth were almost rent asunder in tha con flict. But they soon found tho machinery f the democratic time keeper as tough as Old Hickory; and, exhausted in their un- nstian warfare, they retreated to ttio tunc of 44 Here she goes there she socs." Now hear the squeaking voice of that tall man, dark complexion, sunken eye, and ercc look. He. lias trot the litiincy. ucar him blustering, threatening to stop tho pen dulum of all whopretimed to reinico at the glorious movement bf the old American democratic clock, over John Bull' inferior time pieces. Ho too w compelled to join the song ot triumph "Uicrc sue goes there she c-ocs." Now tho Federalists fescorated the cra dle of liberty by their tcli per cent rebellion id. J his was another ol incir contrivan- . . .1 t ; - i ... ...i .1. ecu to stop tne oui cicci;; uui wurii uiu workmen were there, the rebels backed out, weeping and crying1' Here she goes there she goes-" I Now they gather troops in tne Keystone State, to demolish t!c democratic lamiiy lock. But they find her works impregna te, and the rebel Kitncrilcs walk off the course with the 44 roaucs march, pointing to the shining pendulum of tho democratic clock, mournfully singing 14 Here she goes there site goes. In Virginia, too: 44 Aye,"said the Feder alists, chuckling, 44 now we'll clap a stop per on that old wagging democratic machine. J he LnmurCr after truth is with us. now wo ate a host. A mn too has suppcu uui ot the old clock; Hives has deserted tier. Let us throw tho old choker into lJavy Jones' looker." 4.4 Hold hold there ye full'destroycrs," crie3 the indrpenent En nuirer: 44 hands oh- 1 am set lor mc tie fence, not the destruction of the democratic clock." And tho Federalists and the con servatives of the Old Dominion, in despair, looked on the slcady movements of the peitdtihininand cried 11 Here she goes there she gor.i. Now there s a trcmmeniious breeze rais- ... the., 44 we'll shiver fhoi'fd lime to atoms. IjC, us send messengers to tne loumaiu 01 purity, the Boston Atlai, for tools tools. necessary to accomplish so desirable an ob ject." Now alius ready the war commen ces tho battle rages. Hip uemocrats mount their fury coursers, apply the 44 whip and spur, and drive the whole federal army up Salt River, where they are doomed to remain forever, singing Here she goes there she goes." Ah, poor Federalists, there 13 no reprieve. You have wasted your strcngh in folly. Yon may continue to war as long as you will; but you cannot harm the 0111 ocmociai ic clock. Sho speaks truth, and the lovers of truth will defend her. She is the per sonification of democracy, which is truth; and (ho truth will prevail against the assaults of the combined forces of traitors, rebf!?, mobiles and deceivers. Look 14 Here Site goes there she goes" and will keep going till every vestige of federal whigism is driven from tho land of freedom. HOW TO GET UP A BANK. The Bank Commissioners appointed by the Legislature of Michigan, in their lato report tell n curious story of the manner in which Ihe Bank of Oakland was established. It appears that one W. S. Stevens, the principal owner of ihe concern, borrowed $5,000 in specie of a neighboring bank and sent it to Oakland institution to bo duly credilcd by tho Cashier a3 capital stock paid in. Ho then immediately drew it out on his own account, and afterwards sent hirfld man with it to be credited a second tiiiia as na'ul capital. This manrovcr ho a gain repeated thus enabling tho cashier to eweur tint fifteen thousand dollars in specie had been paid in, and consequently, to set tho bank in operation. This accomplished, the $5,000 was restored to its original own nr. The abovo statement which is going the rounds of the newspapers, explains one of tho most approved mothous 01 getting up a bank or shaving institution, according to tho latest refinement on the great rroditsys leni It explains tho procegs wncruuy " individual without a bent, or a knot of such individuals clubbing their wits as a joint stock can mako it appear that they have thousands at tlicir disposal, and how upon that appeaianco, they may obtain and ap propriate thousands belonging to other peo ple. This statement explains the grand principle which lio3 at the root of the mat- wiiolu iViiiHnu trihe"aTt-n(Lru? old dnillnci ic clack in the rear. Of wlfat rejoicinjr ! How-sancnine of success! 44 NoW.V said ter. There may be variations in the mode of working it, but it '1 upon the foundaton that the patent exploding torpedo humbugs of tho time arc constructed. Tho promi ses of stockholders to pay Eland for cash the capital of tho concern is ink and paper its issues arc lampblack and paper, back ed perhaps, by the money beguiled from un wary dopo9itors, ar.d by the very small sums actually paid for stonk, the officers, directors, stockholders mombcrs of the lc- cis blurs who granted the charter or are wanted for future uso launch out in specula toin in purchase of fine houses, and in ex travagant living in all its varieties tho na bobs of an hour. Tho froz swells almost to the dimensions of an ox, until it so hap pen3 that depositors want their money a- "am, or some oilier oeniauu is nmue which cannot ho answered by lampblack and pa- and then well, what then! Why, the immense fabric crumbles at a touch dis-nlacc a single pin and the whole cslab lishmcnt collapses with a sighing puff which explains, its windy nature. 1 no sin ners escape, because may are parcel 01 our dearly beloved great credit anu iimnsu lia bility system the loscts weep tho public fume the mailer is forgotten, and we Boon wipe our eyes and submit to be gulled a ain iust as wc were gulled before. Would 15 J. . . 0 . . l.i: ui l. ,'ou checK enterprise ccpui sumiumig muuio n theroval road to wealth, without labor would you be so unfashionable as to patron ize industry and toil would you ask peo ple to be content with slow gains and sura in a world where one's wils form capital, and brass is the best circulating medium X Ridiculous! Why, upon the great system explained above, two boys locked up in an nraniv room made a shilling a piece by swopping jackets, and as they were lads of enterprise, it is supposeu mat even wimoi clothes, they could have made sixpense out of one another by hypothecation and stock notes, each "shaver ."landing in the altitude of an institution." Their fathers can be gin with nothing and surely their boys may work similar miracles upon a scale ada'pted to their capabilities. Venn. Early Commerce of Amtrica. 'Inter esting Tacts. Tho first decked vessel ev er built within the limits of the old. United r-,!s,zsi??e an the banks ot the 1 , , M of 1031. She was called a yent, ami Tier first vovafo was made throyn Hell Gate, into the Sound, and as far' East as Cape O... ' bv the inyard IV.sagc. it was in that Block I'lai'd was i'overed. Wi''mi the first 40 yeaPs-'l.nr the settlement of Massa chusetts, there were built in Boston and its vicinity, 7:30 vessels varying from G to 250 hrthnn. One of these the Blessing of the Bav, a bark of 30 tons, was built 11 l;:n. Tin celebrated English I'ainot and divine, Huge Peters, caused a vessel of 300 ions to bo constructed at Salem, in 1011. The first Schooner launched is said to have been built at Cape Ann, 111 1714. In 171-1, Connecticut had but two brigs,20 sloops and a few smaller crafi, employing but 120 seamen ; white Massachusetts, about tho same lime had 402 vesi-rb, the tonago of which was 25,100, and employed 2190 seamen. Tho first ensign ever shown by a regular man ol war, was rioisau 011 board 'the frigate Alfred, in the Dclewarc by tho hands ol Paul Jones, in mo laucr part of December, 1775. What this en sigu was is not precisely known, a3 the present national color.? were not formerly adopted until 1777. The first regular A merican cruizer that went to sea was the Lexington, a little brig of 14 guns com manded by Crpliiin John BaVry of Phila delphia. Sho sailed sometime in tho win inrnf 1775. Tho first American man-ol- war that ot to sea after the adoption of our present form of Government was originally an lndiaman, but was purchased by the government and converted unto a cruizor, having an armament of 21 guns. She sail ed in May. 1793 under command of Cap. tain Pviohard Dale, who was first Lieuten ant f tho Bon Ilotnmo Richard, when the ship'captured the Scrapis. Tha Constella tion was the first of new built vessels that went to sea, undflr captain Tiuxlon. Sho sailed in June 1703, plkl was followed by tho United Slates, and a little later by the Constitution, both iIipbo latter sailing in Ju ly tho same year. The first prize under our present naval organization was tho French privateer La Croyabic. Sho was a schoonor of 1-1 guns, and was captured by tho sloop of wai, Dele ware, Captain Deca ,. 'rim nhm-o historical facts wo have gleaned fiotu Mr. Cooper's excellent Naval lliMory of the United States. Dos. Tost. Tho town clerk in a ceruin town, where tho custom is, having published the bans of matrimony between tho two persons, was vory aptly followed by the clergyman reading the hymn, commencing, 44 Mistak en souls, who dream o haavon." HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Monday, June 24. Mr. IIEGINS from the committee to whom was referred the petition of contractors on the North and West branches of tho Pennsylvania capal, preferring certain charges againat the board of canal com miss'iousers, tlicir superintendents and engineers. ' " REPORT, That they, soon after thci appointment gave notice lo tho petitioners, as well as to the canal commi'sioncrs, that they wcrs ready to proceed with the investigation, and to hear 6uch testimony a3 might bo of fered in proof, or disproof of the charges contained in the petition. Tho petitiioners as well as the canal commissioners, attended several primary meetings of the committee. After tho committee had commenced the ex amination of witnesses, the petitioners ad dressed a communication to tho committee, declining to appear before them or to oner any testimony in support of tho charges which they had preferrcd in their petition. The committee deeming the chargos ot so grave and serious a character that, if true, they imperiously called upon the legislature to correct the abuse and relieve oppression, complained of, and that justice to the pub lic officers, against whom such serious ac cusations had been made, as well as to tho petitioners, demanded that the truth or falsi ty should be clearly established, resolved to proceed with tho investigation, in order that the house mifht be properly informed upon the cubjeet, and be enabled to act under stnndingly upon it. This course was earn estly requested by the canal commissioners that they might bo afforded an opportunity of vindicating themselves and their officers from the gravo charges which had boon made againsllhcm.aflccting their character as publics officers, ns well as calling in question, their moral integrity, and that the petition ers might also have" a lull lind fair opportu nity of substantiating their charges if true. The committee accordingly proceeded in. the investigation, and devoted to it as much time and attention as their other official du ties would permit. Fifteen of the petitioners appeared m 0 bedience to subprena, and wero examined, nelhii'r.-n- v-A5 wJi ?';-Din.-:stor3,wKO auc- ded and cross examined the witnesses. A. full and fair opportunity was afforded tho petitioners, and to all interested, to adduce, evidence in proof or disproof of the char pe',. The committee did not brin the inves tigation to a close until the end oflast week, and from the vnlumnious nature of On evi dence taken, and tho short timo necessarily allowed them for its examination, tho ses sion of the legislature being near its close, they are prevented from piepr.titig a min ute and detailed report, but will merely of fer a few brief remarks upon the charges, and tho evidence adduced in support of them. Tho first chargo contained in tho petition, is, that, 44 Since the prcsaiU board of canal 44 commissioners have come into office, their 44 engineers have refused for a vexatious 44 lpngth of time, to stake out work, and on 44 many sections still rofuic." It appears from tho testimony, that tho principal engineers upon the North and Went branches, repaired to their respective posts ns soon as practicable, after they had been informed of their appointment and im mediately up thoir arrival, formed their corps of assistant ongineuM and subordin ate? and proceeded without delay to per form the duties enjoined upon thorn by a res olution of the board of canal commission ers, of the lGth of March, 1839. This resolution embiaces a variety ol subjects in relation to the stale of the work, completed or in progress, to be enquired into by tho superintendents and engineers, and repor ted to the board, and required their wholo timo and attention for several weeks after they arrived oft their respective divisions. Mr. Foster, the principal engineer upon the Nnrtli and West branch, did not rccrivo tho notification of his appoint-nont until the 21 st of March, on account of tha failure of the mails, and was at the timo in the state of Kentucky. H hastenod with nil possible despatch to "his division, immediately after ho received tho nolicc, and arrived at To wanda on the 5th of April, and wai indus trioiiBlv and unremittingly engaged, together with his corps, in the discharge of his offi cial duties. No evidence w.v .given to sus tain this chargo in tho potition, but on tho contrary, a number of contractors proved that the engineers always expressed a wil lingness to stake out work, but in somo m 6tancas wero prevented from doiug so im mediately bv tho multiplicity of their otTi rial engagements, and the great amount of labor which they wore roquiruu m pL-uumi. Some lime naturally and necessarily elapsed between the departure of tho engineers and
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