THE COLUMBIA. DEMOCRAT.
"TKOTU WISUOtT FEAR '
SJ-TUJSU.1V, SUPT.ttJtEit 11, 18:J9.
f RESIDENTIAL ELECTION 1840.
Fou President,
MARTIN" VAN BUREN.
For Vice President,
RICHARD M. JOHNSON.
AND THE
CONSTITUTIONAL TREASURY.
The Rt Rev. Bishop Ondcrdonk, Avifl
preach at the following places in Columbia
county, at the times stated :
Bloomslmig, Wednesday, Oct 9th, Morn. & After.
Oct 10th
Oct 11th
Oct 13th Morning
Jerseytown, Friday,
Sugar Loaf, Sunday,
Orange ville,
Evening, 7 o'c.
Dcrry,
14th Afternoon 2 o'clock
The other papers in the county aio
tie-
tired to copy.
We pronounce VALENTINE BEST a
LIAR, and shall continue to do so,'until he
either proves true, or acknowledges tho
falsity of, the assertion made in an extra
Intelligencer, which he, tho past week, was
hawking about 4he county, like an itinerant
slanderer, that we, " last fall, in company
with a highly respectable and popular land
lord of Bloomsburg, went to the house of
John Robison, and joined with the said land
lord, in urging Air. Kobison to come out
in oppssition to the democratic candidate,"
as we declare the assertion to be a willful,
deliberate falsehood on the jiart of Valen
tine Best, and uttered ly ;liira for tho ex
press purpose of personally injuring our
selves and the "highly respectable and pop
ular landlord," to whom he refers. We
never did, either, by ourselves, or in compa
ny with the landlord, nor did the landlord
while in our company, ever urge John Rob-ison,-or
any other person, to come out in
favor-oT Bowman, in opposition to the de
mocratic candidate; and wo challenge the
High Priest and Grand Master of Somer
sets to prove his assertion or acknowledge
himself a CONVICTED FALSEFIER.
But why are we, and the " highly respect
able and popular landlord," at this time
singled out for his abuse? Simply because
tho " landlord" was a candidate for nomina-
tion in opposition to his favorite bank can
didate, and that wc lent our humble cid in
assisting to procure his nomination and that
of Jacob Eyerley. This of itself, is enough
to open the flood-gates of his wrath, and in
duce him to write and publish a column of
falsehoods and abuse. If such stniT is cal
culated to recommend him as a public offi
cer, to the democracy of Columbia county,
we are mistaken in their character and
more especially to the friends of removal,
whom he denounces as a set of Pirates.
But it is in complete character with the
detestable and dishonorable mode of politic
al warfare which he has hetelofore prac
tised. To slander and defame every man
who would not lend a hand to advance his
ii. :rest and that of the Bank Junto of Dan
ville, has always been his creed; and there
is hardly a democrat in the county who has
tak"n an active part in politics, lhathasnot,at
flume time, come in for a share of his abuse ;
nd had nil the personal and political ene
mies mat lie Jus made in the county, con-gr-ga'.ed
in "Bloomsburg to oppose his nom-
inntion, as he asserts, he would have been
much more disheartened and chagrinned, if
possible, than he was when tho convention
refused to place him singly upon the ticket
The convention were willing, how.ever, that
lie should bo placed there in company with
Mr. Eyerley, that ho might learn how
much regard the democracy of the county
lmve for the low, vulgar, slanderous abuse
that ho has heretofore heaped upon them; es
yer ally those of tho upper portion; and
that they might also teach him, that the vi
. ' poison is a healing balsoin compared
to the infectious matujr with -which the en
venomed shafts of tlm slandercr aro tipped
For the last two days the weather haB
been cxtretnly cold, and much fears aieon-
tertatued that the "cold snap" will material
Jy injur the crop of buckwheat.
Tho contemptible, snivelled nosed whi
ning booby of the Berwick Sentinel, who
was imported into the county by the bank
junto of Danville, to do their dirty work in
tho upper section, -and who, through their
instrumentality, obtained tho office of collec
tor of that port, (a station for which he is
wholly incompetent,) to pay him for hand
ling the filth which they were ashamed to
touch, publishes a pretended statement of
our defalcation to tho Post Offico Establish
ment, for tho want of something better, to
gratify the malice and hatred of the bank
junto towards us, for exposing their villainy
at tho county convention. A transaction
which originated out of a disputed claim be
tween us and that establishment, and which
has long since been adjusted. This is in
perfect keeping with them. When we en
listed in the defence of the rights of tho up
per townships, against the unprincipled pro
jects of tho bank junto, and exposed their
nefarious scheme of dividing the county, we
expected to have all tho hell-hounds and
miserable tools that they could hire in and
out of the county, pouncing upon us, with
all the vile vituperative slang that malice or
ingenuity could invent; therefore, we arc
not surprised that they now let loose their
dogs of war, when they find the people are
aroused at the wrongs and insults that have
been heaped upon them for years, and more
especially within a few months past. They
find it necessary to turn tho current of indig
nation that swells tho bosom of the people
at their acts, hence their base and slander
ous attacks upon us at this time. But it
will not all do. The people too well un
derstand their rights to be any longer kept
in bondage, or compelled to pay tribute to
the junto of Danville, by such base and
slanderous attacks upon an individual and
upon themselves, as the junto have this
week sent forth through that ignorant, sim
ple, foolish tool whom they have nominally
placed at the head of the Berwick Sentinel.
A man who can neither write or spell ten
words correctly, and much less cast the toll
upon a ton of merchandise, and who is de
spised by all who know him as a nuisance
in society, and avoided for the same reason
that they would avoid a skunk the more
you handle him Me more you slink. But
he is a fit associate for the bankiles, gam
blers, liars and seducers, who have associ
ated together to destroy us, and to oppress
the upper townships; for should they all be
tumbled into a barrel of feathers, you would
hardly know which to pull out first, so near
allied are they in kidney and kin. Go on.
Pour out the vials of your wrath upon our
humble heads, it will neither turn us to the
right or the left, or make us falter in our
task of showing you up in all the deformity
which nature and your own vile dispositions
have clothed you- We shall continue to
lash the rascals naked through the world,"
until justice is satisfied, by the people of
the county receiving their equal rights of
which they have been so long deprived.
The H.P. and G.M. of Somersets says he
always goes the whole figure.' True, true
to the letter, and ho does not slick at trifles
in deciding upen which figure to play. He is
as often found on one side of the board as the
other, but always where self-interest dic
tates. During the last twelve years he has
as often opposed as he has supported the
regular nominations of the party; never sus
taining a friend to the removal when he
could avoid it; but yet he asks this same in
terest, which ho has so often opposcd.abus
ed and insulted, to vote for him for the of
fice of Prothonotary. Will this interest
put an extra weapon into his hands that he
may the more readily cut their throats here
after. We cannot believe it.
To the. Editor of (fie organ of the Dan
ville Dank Junto.
Did you not acknowledge that Daniel
Snyder had a majority of the delegates in
the convention, but that his friends could
not cope with the Bank Junto in manage
ment, because you was too old a soldier!"
Did you not, the past week, acknowledge
it as yom belief, that a bargain was made in
favor of Colt, with tho delegates from Cat
awissa? and did you not, at the same time,
denounce one of Coil's firm and particular
friends because you was not included in
the bargain !
And did you not declare, that had you
been in Danville on the day of the delegate
election, that Wm. Donaldson should not
have been a delegate, because you knew ho
would not do any thing to advance your in
erest!
We find in the proceedings of the coun-l
ty convention, as published in the Danville
Intelligencer the following resolution :
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innn Ma , TV 1
is ,! JrZl t ' vT, nonm,.ate,d or
didatM
d.date for I rothonotary.
I his resolution was never read or passed
in convention. It was written bv a snecta-
tor, handed to a member, and by him given
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to another, from whom it went to the Prcsi-
I
dent without any acknowledged father. The
I'resident was so much ashamed of the con
tents, and of the spurious manner in which
it was handed him, as no one would stand
god-father to the little bantling, that he
would neither present it. to the convention
or allow any one to read it. A proposition
was made after the first ballotting for Pro
thonotary, however.to allow both candidates
to be placed upon the ticket, which was a
dopted
But this would not suit the views
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of tho " whole fiuure" man as it wnnli!
compel him to place the name of J. Ever-
ly, in lus columns; to avoid this, he must
neads falsify the records, and strike his
name from the, ticket, to advance his own
interest- Whom " God wills to destroy,
he first makes mad."
Wo were highly gratified at tho appear
ance in our villago on Tuesday last ef tho
Danville Rifle Company under the com
mand of Capt. Brandon. They were
met at the canal by the Bloomsburg Artille
ry, and escorted into town, when, after par
ading through Main street, and performing
various military evolutions, with correctness
and precision, that done credit to the dis
cipline and spirit of the company, halted
at the house of Mr. Docblor. After dinner
they again showed themselves in our streets
much to the gratification of our citizens.
About 3 o'clock, they were re-escorted to
their boat by the Artillery, and set sail ior
their home, amid tho cheers of both com
panies, leaving a favorable impression on
our citizens, and more especially upon their
military brethren.
Guard College. A correspondent of
tne JJaily Advertiser gives the following de
scription of the edifices connected with this
iustitution : " The college is on an emi
nence about equi-dislant from the Sehuyl-
kill and Delaware rivers. To buildings
of the five are erected, and tho walls of the
large edifice, which will be in the centre,
are up. 1 he buildings are of white mar
ble, and they -will bo the most splendid of
any Hung in this country. The pillars of
the largest will cost, it is said, half a mil-
ion of dollars, tho cost of each being 810,-
000. They are about sixty feet high, and
the diamater of their base about ten feet.
The rooms in this building are, I should
judge, fifty feet square. The partitions be
tween the rooms are more than t!irf fV.Pt
thick. From the top of this edifice, where
temporary seats have been orected, you
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iivu.i iuw ui mo wuoie city ana the sur
rounding county. The Pcnitentiarv is imme
diately before you the Schuylkill and the
Water Works on your right and the Del
aware on vour left."
The Journal of Commerce has the fol
lowing remarks upon the duel, or rather
should be called murder, which deprived of
life one of tho most tatented&amiablo mem
ber of the last Congress. Tho sentiments
have our concurrence :
" This duel, (of Graves and CilM hor-
rible as it was, has done crcat nood. It has
brought out public opinion.and branded ev-
cry man who was engaged in it with a nub.
lie disgrace which can never be wiped from
his character. I his stern nnhlin mml
nation will hunt the guilty actors in that
hoi rible affair to their graves, and we trust,
prevent members of Congress from ever
daring so again to insult their constiuents
and tho nation."
Trenton Encampment. 0t hundred
and fifty regulars from Governor's Island,
New York came as far as New Brunswick,
u;r uciuic juaictu.iy, (in ineir way to tho
encampment at Trenton, by the morning
line, thev there left the
their line of march at about 12 o' clock noon
and probably reached Princeton the same
evenincr, and unless the stnrm nru.n.,i
arrived at Trenton yesterday. The troops'
now at the encampment number about
luuu. genera, OCou is also there, and on
. ucou-y rcv.u-vcu mem. it was a beatiti-
iiii I . ; ,,,u1,c,ml,03'"g
......... jr r.uo ? arc miormcu was rare v
it ever witnessed m this section of the Uni-
Z r,n,;";U tl,at G6neral Scott
will remain at the encamDment fnr nri
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S.trv ISl J n ."I50"'1 ? wltness-ng
military display probably could n( ot.i .. -
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f p.! i 0.C.U?SI0? than durlns 1,18 8tay
of General 8ott for the purpose.-TYmw-j
WASHINGTON COUNTY MURDER
Arkansas July 27.
. .Wc Ba,."or ,t,ie ow,uff particulars of
l"ls atroclous homicide, frem a leltor from
Washington county, publtshcd in the Bates
News, or the 13th instant:
"The most horrible murder, ever perpe-
tratedinnChrUtain countrywas commit-
. . Battirj..v c' , M.
Wm Wriirht and four nfhis rliililrffn. Mm
Wrieht siatci that soon after rctmnir to
t t t.t a .
bed, she heard tho sound of horsemen ap-
P.roacl,inS the house; her timidity suggested
4lif nnnr. lan.inn Ihnt Hint, ..ii,i l.n
tile indians She awoke her husband and
lit u iviitiiwii .mi. ,ii,y Iiliuilb uc HUB
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communicated her fears, and both arose.
Mrs. Wrinlit throiKrh n pr.irlf liv dm ilnnr
n 13 -i' t-wui,
discovered three men walk up to the door.
Une asKei; n no could stay all night ( Mr.
Wright answered yes, and opened the door.
The robbers at that mement seized and
slabbed him to death. Mrs. Wright fled
out of tho back door. A daughter (perhaps
the eldest,) rushed out by the assassins,
while yet butchering Her lather. Air. Wright
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uuiug uesjju.ciicu, mu uciius cuwirncnccu
slaughtering his defenceless children. They
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sirucK out me urains oi a c imam, on.i le
door, and run their Bowie knives tlirnurh
the bodies of threo other children, as thuy
reposed in the embraces of a sweet sleep.
The fourth, a little boy of 10 or 12 years of
ace. with a Ion;? heavy blade, the demons
at a blow separated the crown from the mass
of his head, striking him into Kfni!iliiv
but not into death, as they supposed. For
tunately, two other children sleeping in an
outer apartment where not discovered.
Also littlo Moris escaped their observation.
This little child of the lender noc nf iv r
seven years only, had been placed at the
bad; side ol a trundlcbcd, thus hiding from
the eyes of the murderers Little Morris
was awake, and with tho wisdom of matur
cr year?, lay in breathless stillness eyeing
from beneath folds of the het fn
sliango deeds of murder robbery and ar
son.
"From this intelligent child we learned
that every eye beneath this ill fated roof, as
they supposed, had been closed in death,
and every tongue silenced for ever, the rob
bers prnccded to plunder the house of all the
monoy, set it on fire and galloped off. Lit
tle Moris after satisfying himself that the
murderers were gone, moved fiom his hi
ding place, and commenced with astonish
ing intelligence to rescue all from the ruins
of tho inpidly advancing flames. He ran
and awoke his little sisters and hurried them
out of the burning dwelling returned and
found his wounded brother restored to con
sciousness. His feeble strength being une
qual to his weight, Morris threw his aims
around the shoulders of his almost murder
ed brother, and tenderly drew him beyond
the influence of the increasing fire retur
ned, caught up the infant, and finding it
lifeless gently laid it down a few paces from
the door, on tho breast of the father. Ho
then essayed to return for tho lifeless bo
dies of the others but the fire having now
wrapped the door in flames forbid his en
trance. Seeing his angel like purpose thwar
ted, he with his little sisters and brothers.
sought such a resting place as a houseless
farm and cleai sky afforded. The daugh
ter that escaped at the outset, look refuge
in the rye field. Mrs. Wright made her way
a mile and a half or two mles barefooted
and in her night dress to her friends."
COL. HARNEY AND THE INDIANS.
Col. Iltirnoy, for whose safety apprehen
sions were entertained, arrived at Key Bis
cayne, in the steamboat Ciucinatti, with 17
or 18 soldiers, the remnant of the Caloosa
hatchie massacre. Col. II. had returned
from hunting, slep soundly till he was a
woke, near daylight, by the report of the
arms. He could make no defence, for his
men were e.ther dead or dispersed, and the
savages were pursuing hotly. He, with
one man fled in a canoe, and was afterwatds
joined by a few more, who escaped by
swimming. Ho returned at night, and
found somo bread left by the Indians,
which served him and his companions till
they were fallen in with by the Cincinnati.
ChittoTustenuggoe and Sam Jones, then at
Key Btscayne, deny all previous knowledge
of, or participation in the affair. Thoy say
Jhoso who did it were Spanish Indians.
Thoy say they aro willing to abide by the
treaty and are ready and anxious to go with
Col. H. and aid in taking vengeance on the
perpetrators of the inassacie: an offer
which Major Bennett, Paymaster of the
U. S. Army, who brought the above intel
ligence to St. Augustine, thought would bo
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uwcpwu.iroria.
Jl Hank Attached. .The Essex Bank,
at Guildhall, Vermont, has beer, sued by
the person who obtained its charier, who
has attached tho safe and its contents. Mr.
Swan, a broker in New York, has also sued
it for refusing to redeem ils bills. Its de
posits are removen, it is said, in loto, and
the sheriff has recorded their amount on the
back of his writs, as being 13 slicks of seal
ing wax, 819,41 in Specie, and two or
three old blank books,
bosses;
It is noticed in several papers that the
State of Indiana has recently lost a larne
sum oi money uy tne fund uommission
ers. The C nc nnat Ifamibl mi, tnin
the current renori. that t , enmm!,,.,.
placed bonds of the Slate to the amount of
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v,uvu,vuv ni mu nanus vi a uruitur, signeu
Und executed, and the broker was to obtain
a. t. u. i. , . , . ,
tne luiius. ii luuuiD nc uiu so anu laueu,
and left lho FuHd Commissioners an empty
bag to hold. ffaWwow Patriot,
f-ifcinMio Orleans. 1f i ..f....
are the gavtat peoplo on t
will, morVvariciy oF life nd mn,u"lm;m'
any other city present, Jn LW ts l'n
are the dullest The mono ony of , V"
ence caused by the very ccntml i . i x"1'
i only variedy thevT ,
scenes it creates. Wo proceed m. "
cue, tho relation of wlcli 5 led 1??,
t.rou?h our hearts, and .Irirk'hTf.J'"
chain" by which we are strongly bou
tsure ly must have ih.illed lheKrl o
beholder with suddon horror. hff
Dr. Lambeit, an excellent a's Wei
eminent French physician in ihi. I u. "n
les that during his frcquenta rides t l l
the different streets, hi, attention ha Ct
always been attracted as he paw.,1 a
where a poor family lived. The f2 2
consisted of a man and his wife, both S
young and the Utter good Iooki J tt
lllllo infant smiling in boautv, and about!!
months old. Ho V led to"
from the appearance of content that IUej
there, and their being frequently on t ,t
banrjue le before the hu,e. After' the few
ct m, he Mil saw them for somo d,"r
happy as usual, but at length ..mj1Mj , '
from the accustomed place." This he did
for two days, until on the third, feeling .
easy for thorn, ho stopped his gig befor.
the house; alighlcd-ripped at the di"
No one answered; silence was in tls ma:
sion. Ho pushed open.tho door and wm
m. I here lay the husband and wife 0
the floor, both dead of the fever, and the
former decaying. The child was alive and
with its little arms around the dead mother's
neck, vainly trying t draw the sustaining
fluid from tho breast. Dr. L says that
miliar as he is with srenee of death, nothinr
before has ever shocked his feelings to half
the extent. Willi a praiseworthy henoro
Icnce he has taken measures to have the in
fant protected. Such is "life m New Or
leans." N. Orleans Times'
Slippery W omen. The aboriginas 0r
Ilaytt believed that wherr men were a lonr
time destitute of women, but happening to
wander near a small lako, they eaw certain
animals among the branches of the tiew
which proved to bo women. Thoy
tempted to catch them but found ft impos
sible to get any hold of them, as they wer
as slippery as eels. At last they employed
a number of men whose hands had been,
rendered rough by a kind of a leprosy, and
who succeeded in catching four of them
by whoa the world was peopled. Ther
seems to be an idea, as well among aavagei
as civilized men, that woman is'rathei a
slippery animal, Cm Sun.
A memorandum on the margin of the
Buflalonian of September 4. svn- A n,
Great Western, the largest boat hut ono of
all that sails on the inland waters of the
United States, was leaving Detroit, she
was discovered to be in flames and wasVur
ncd all but hull and engine, which may be
rebuilt. She was commanded by Captain
Walker who commanded tho ill-fated
Washington, which was burnt last sum
mer." The Great Wcslsrn was n most
splendid boat, built in the style of the Mis
sissippi boats, with high pressure engines.
She cost over 8100,000- She was 800
tons burthen.
fjVcfo York Jour' of Com,
Revolutionary relic. Rhode Island
boasts of a rnusket and a sword, that are a
mong the interesting of our revolutionary
relics. Tho first blood drawn from tho
veins of a British, ofliccr'in that groat quar
rel,' said Mr. Tillinghast, Providence, in an
eloquent address before a band of our sur
viving vctrans of '70, was drawn by a shot
from a Rhode Island musket upon our
own waves, within sight from the tower of
that temple where we have, this morning,
hoard tho scenes and principles of the revo
lution so eloquently reviewed by the oralor
of the day. The owner of that musket
still lives in honor amongst us, still charac
terized by that native resolution, which the
lapse of sixty-seven years from that time has
not been able to extinguish or abate. The
first sword that waved in triumph upon the
surmounted rampart of Yorktown, was a
Rhode Island sword. The owner of that
sword, as he clambered up the work, receiv
ed upon his hands and arms the stabs of the
bayonets that wero aimed at his life, and,
having gained the summit, and planted him
self firmly thero, ho lifted his sword aloft
in his bleeding hand, and called aloud to his
fiiends and foes, ' Captain Stephen Onlay'
company forms here.
The Mormons, We are informed that
tho Mormon missionaries held a two Jays
woods meeting in Uwchlau township
Chester county, on Saturday end Sunday
last. What strange infatuation will soiz
tho Inains of men when heated by the plau
sibilities of deluded fanatics 1 We go by
heart and soul for religious toleration; but
we aro pained to see reasonable men aban
doning tho sheet anchor of their salvation,
to lay hold f the miserable impostures or
at best delusions of Joe Smith- llllago
Record.
The supply of tho articles of tobarco and
rum for the use of seamen of the British
Navy, for this year, amounts to forty thou
sand pounds of tho former, and tw'o hun
dred aud thirty-five thousand gallons of tha
latter. They are 20,000 ?eainon among
whom the rum is to be divdid, making near
twelve gallon to each man.