THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT.
"TllOTn WISUOUT TEAll
-PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 18AO.
Fon Pkesidcnt,
MARTIN VAN BUIlEff.
For Vice Pbesident,
RICHARD M. JOHNSON.
AND TUB
'CONSTITUTIONAL TREASURY.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Assembly,
WILLIAM COLT.
For Prothonotary,
. JACOB EYERLY.
for Register and Recorder,
PHILIP BILMEYER.
For Cammi3ioner,
JOHN DIETRICH.
For Treasurer,
JEREMIAH WELLIVER.
For Auditor,
JAMES DEW ITT.
As Valentine Best, contrary to tho un.in
luious direction of the County Convention,
has stricken Mr. Eycrly's name from the
ticket, we tako the same liberty with his
Tito Rt Rev. Bishop Onderdonk, will
preach at the following places in Columbia
county, at the times stated :
Blooms'bwg, Wednesday, Oct Oth, Morn. & After,
Danville, Oct 10th
Jerseytown, Friday, Oct lluV
Sugar Loaf, Sunday, Oct 13th Morning
Orangeville, Evening, 7 n'c,
Dcrrv. 14th Afternoon 2 o'clock
i Tho other papers in tho county ato de
eired to copy.
Then is not an Editor in the state who
is less scrupulous of publising a falsehood,
to subserve his ends, than the II. P. and G.
M.of Soraersets.and a man more abusive and
wreckless in his attacks on others. He
will call to his aid tho whole vocabulary of
the English language, to find words to vent
his railice and spite against every man
whom the Bank Junto cannot by threats or
promises, use as tools, aud wken this resort
fils, he will apply to a Lawyer or a Doctor
to help him out of his dilemma. With this
help, he is able oacs a year to make a real
fot too, with the additional assistance of his
former stereotyped edition of his vulgar
lang. Whenever those whom he attacks,
hand back to him some home truths, and
demand proof of his vile and slanderous
charges he will skulk, coward-like, behind
the bxcusb, " that if they ate not true, you
must prov them false." A more base and
detestable way of attempting to get clear of
the charge of uttering a falsehood can scarce
lv be conceived: and no one who has the
least regard for his word as a man, will ev
cr resort to it. It will be recollected that
,lwo weeks since, wc pronounced Valentino
Best, a liar, unless ho proved his assertion
that we, last fall, urged John Robison to
come out for Bowman. In answer, he like
an indicted felon, neither attempts to prove
his innocence, or confesses his guilt, but
calls upon us to prove that he has not told
the truth, and infers that wo are guilty be
cause we do not. This supterfuge, to clear
his skirts of a falsehood, is worthy of him
.self. Were we to attempt to prove tho false
.iiy of all the base aud malicious charges
1,-1 Uo nntt H'lnlr litntn think nmnor to
tlllUt 1IK uuu - i -, ,
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iiaoricate ana pudikh, ug.miBi ua
require mon time than we have to spare
from our ordinary business. Wo might he
travelling from D m to Barshcba to obtain
.certificates to' gratify their vit'ated and de
praved imaginations. Not having neither
:a Post-Office or a Congressional frank at
.our command we cannot transmit our docu
ments from one end of the country to the
orAer scot free, and havo them returned to
us for publication, by pimps, hired to do
our dirty work. , No, we have no such
means in our power, and our purso will not
.afford the expense we should be compelled
to incur, woro wo to adopt the same sys
tem to defend ourselves that they do to ob
tain materials, for, and beings to publish,
their attacks on us. Ho may utter his false
hoods of, " Absconding defaulter" as often
hereafter as lio pleasis through iis own pa
pers, or he may send them to Berwick and
have them ushered to the world by his hired
collector. We shall take no further notice
of them. Wo shall not hereafter discond
to notice his slang, but shall move on in the
oven tenor of our way. But before wo
take leave wo would advise him to place a
man at Berwick who has clean hands to
make falso charges against us one who
has not wrongfully taken extra toll from
poor boatman to enrich his own pockets, or
one at least who has wit enough to show
spme more plausable pretext for his fiauds
thau ignorance.
The Poor Mouse,
Week before last wo briefly reverted to
tho project of building a County Poor
House, got up by a few individuals in Dan
ville, to throw the expense of tho poor of
Mahoning upon the county geuerally. Wc
then expressed a belief that it would entail
upon the county a large annual expense, in
dependent of tho original cost of the farm
and buildings. Wo have since been con
firmed in this belief, by reading reports of
the Directors of the Poor House of Bucks'
county for the years 1835, 183G, and 1837,
furnished us by a friend.. It is now about
20 years since the first establishment of a
poor house in that county. They have a
farm of 3 or 400 acres, upon which has
been erected buildings. Notwithstanding
the original cost of the property has been
paid; yet tho yearly expenses of the estab
lishment aro continually increasing, as ap
pears from the following statements which
wc gather from the reports before us.
For the year 1835, it cost the county to
sustain the poor house establishment, inde
pendent of the income from the farm, about
1000.
In 183(5, 5500
In 1837, 0000
averaging about $.1tO per year for every
pauper remaiuining in the poor house on
the first day of January, of each year, inde
dependent of the interest upon the original
cost of the farm and buildings, When we
lake into consideration the fact, that in the
winter season, the number of paupers in the
house is much greater than in the summer,
the actual average cost will be increased
to more than $50, which is more than an
average cost of the paupers of Columbia
County' under the-prcaeul arrangement.
There arc items of expenses in the poor
house accounts of Bucks County which
help to swell up the enormous expenses
of the establishmel. and to which we should
be alike subject. We refer to the salaries
of the officers of the institution, and the ex
pense of transporting paupers to the poor
house. Tho average salarv paid to officers
and their assistants, is about 1000 dollars,
besides about 100 dollars paid to constables
aud justices for their services in carrying
paupers from the different townships to the
institution, as no pauper is received unless
brought by a constable, upon the order of a
justice of the peace; making the round sum
of nearly $1500 for salaries and fees
which is almost entirely dispensed with un
der the present system. Tuis, like the
other expenses of the institution, is equally
divided among the taxables of the county;
a township having no pauper pays an equal
pionortiou according to her assessment, as
tho one having twenty. From other coun
ties where Poor Houses are established, we
hear statements which show that they are
more expensive than the present mode,
but not having official reports, wo cannot
give certain statements from any other coun
ty than the above. But this is sufficient to
show the impolicy of our county enteiing
into an experiment which, to say tho least
will not decrease, if it does not increase,
their poor tax. Can it be that we arc bet
ter managers than the people of Bucks
c.ou!iiv,orinaiwcsnaunave ouicerswuo win
.i . i hi i n
bo more economical than theirs? They
have had the experience of twenty years,
aud yet their expenses increase every year,
Wo are to enter into it at a lime when the
county is already burthened with taxes in
consequences of building bridges, and other
expenses, and when, by so doing, wo near
ly double them, for years to como, and fas
ten upon the county a debt that will remain
a mortgage upon every man s farm; tho in
terest of which must be paid annually.
The poor arc now sustained with but
small tax jn most of the townships; so small
tliut it is hardly felt, but we venture to say,
that, should tho poor house law go into op
eration, their tax would be nearly threbled
Are the nconle prepared for this ? If not
let every man attend tho polls 3nd cast hi
vote against the law. Every exertion wil;
bo used by tho peoplo of Danville Id pro- J
cure its acceptance, It is for their interest,
and all who know them know that when
that is at stake, no pains or expense ate
spared. We again repeat, let no man re
fuse to vote, for ho who docs not voto a-
gainst it, adds to tho strength of its advo
cates. TICKETS against the acceptance of tho
POOR HOUSE LAW, will next week,
bo prepared, and may be had uponapplica
tion to this office.
The following article we tako from that
staunch democratic paper, the Harrisburg
Iron Grey. It gives a true picture of the
Danvillo Bank Junto, of whom ff'illiam
Colt is at the head. What democrat in the
county is prepared to elect a man to the
Legislature who will vote for this batch
of fifty banks.
FIFTY NEW BANKS.
Every democrat should recollect, before
he casts his vote for members of the Legis
lature, that application will be made next
winter lor more mart su ifcw UA1MK.S,
with a capitol over 7 MILLIONS ! 1 This
is a device brought up by the whies to de
stroy the democratic parly and give the vote
of the State to Henry Ulay in 1810. In
some counties dissatisfied politicians who
have acted with our party a short time, are
the applicants they know whul they are
to get, if successlul. A. few democrats
have given nolico of intended application
under a desiro to benefit tho towns thoy
live in, but at the bottom ol every bank may
be found the moving finger of the wings
Wc say, trust no man as a representative
who is in favor of establishing a new bank
no matter what his reason may be. Throw
him oflfand vote for a man opposed to this
scheme to break down Gov Porler and the
democratic paity Those complying will
combine all their interest and log roll so
that if one bank will pass, 50 will pass
Then beware of bank influence. It is cal
culated to ruin our country, and to mako
hewers ol wood and drawers nt water out
of farmers and mechanics. Iron Gray.
Can any one tell what has become of the
Berwick"Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of
.Columbia county," to be located any where1.
Wo do not see their notice in either of the
Harrisburg papers, in pursuance of the rc
quisitions of the constitution. Is it true
that it was a mere gull trap to make a diver-
ion in favor of tins Bank in ZJanville ?
lieauhhu Extract "in had im am
bitious, I should have sought an alliance
with that powerful institution (the United
States (jauk) which even now aspires to no
divined empire. It i had been venal 1
h on til of sold myelf to lis designs, had I
preferred personal ease, to the performance
ol my ardious duty, 1 should cease to mo
est it. In the history ol conquerors and
usurpers, never, in the tire of youth nor in
the vigor of manhood, could I find an at
traction to lure me from the path of duty;
and now, 1 shall scarcely find an induce
ment to commence their career of ambition
when irrav hairs and a decayed frame, in
stead of inviting to toil and battle, fall
me to' the contemplation of other worlds,
where conquerors cease to be honored, and
usurpers expiate their crimes. The only
ambition lean feci, is to acquit myself to
Him, to whom 1 muelsoon. render an ac
count of mv stewardship, to serve nn- fel
low men and live respected and honored in
the history ol my country. IVorthe ambition
which leads me on, to an anxious desire
and a fixed determination, to rcturnto the
people, unimpaired, the sacred trust they
have confided to my charge to hepl the
wounds ol the constitution, and to preserve
it from further violation, to persuade my
countrymen as far as I may that it is not in a
splendid government,supportedby powerful
monopolies and arislneraticial establishments
that they will find happiness, or their liber
ties protection; but in a plain system, void
pomp, poteclmg all and granting fa vors to
none; dispensing its blessings like the dews
of Heaven, unseen and unlult, saVo in the
freshness and beauty they contribute to pro
duce." Jackson.
Indenenpent 7'reasuni. What xsitX
1 . It is a matter strictly constitutional and
democrat.
2. It contemplates, as one of its essential
advantages, a reduction of the revenue to
the actual wanls of the goverment.
3. Its tendency will be to prevent an ac
cumulation of surplus treasury; for if the
moneys are not permitted to be used, it
will be the interest ol all to prevent an ac
cumulation. This is a cardinal principle
in the measure.
4. It will set the moneyed from the polit
ical nower of the countiv free.
5 It will disconnect the monies of the
National Treasury from the business of in
dividuals, and preserve them for the public
use
0. It w nrevent thn nub c money be
ing used in such a manner as to stimulate
to ovoraction in trade,' thereby tending lo
prevent panics and revulsions, which aflect
all classes of citizens.
7. It will place the rovenue cf ths coun
try under control of the agents and repr-A
setilatives ol the people,
Correspondence of the U. 8. Gazette.
THE BRITISH QUEEN.
New York, Friday, P.M.
The British Queen artived at this city at
about 2 o'clock this afternoon, bringing us
us London and Liverpool advices to the 2d
inst., a summary of the contents of which
1 iiutid you.
In consequence of the arrival of tho Brit
ish Queen, the sailing of the Great West
ern will be delayed until 3 o clock to-morrow
afternoon.
The intelligence from England as regards
b haarvest is most favorable. I ho weath
tho
er hau Been, Willi but lew exceptions, ex
ceeding fine throughout the week, and scarce
ly a doubt now existed, that the harvest
Would be abundant in quantity aud excellent
in quality. In money matters, however,
there appears to have been no improvement
ot any kind, as you will judge Irom the ex
tracts of the latest dates, which I have an
nexed. Cotton was active, but had decl'u:
ed l-8d per lb.
The affairs of the bast remain very much
as at our last dates, the I ivc Towers strength
ening themselves in the Levant.
Ou tho Gth, the rnnco do Jomville arriv
ed incoenito at Constantinople.
1 he ambassadors ot the hve rowers had
remitted to the Porte a collective note, to
engage it to suspend any definite arrange
ment mahomit All without their concur
rence. The Porte has acceptrd this medi
tation.
The Ambassadors hare communicated to
their respective Consuls at Alexandria the
step they have taken with the Porte, and
engaging them to inform iWchemil Ah,
Mehennt Ah expressed his regret that the
propositions lie had made had nut bctn ac
cepted, and again declaring that he could
not depart from them. He added that tie
only remained for him to wait to hear what
proposition the great Powers thought prop
er lo make to him
The positions of Ibrahim's are not chang
ed Irom those already known, and there
was no muntiou whatever of a movement
in advance.
The following was the latest from the
lurkish Embassy :
" Saturday Morning, 9h. 4om. A. M.
" Sir 1 am directed by our secretary to
give you the lollowing subaunce of a des
patch by a special courier from Paris, where
it arrived bv telegraph
" The Trench olhcer who was comrnis
sioned to claim the Turkish fleet, in the
name of tho five great power, has received
a flat refusal from Mehemit Ali, unless all
his cxoibiant demands are complied with,
:tnd the expenses he has been put to defray
ed by the Sultan,
1 have only to say that our worst antici
pattons are realized, In haste,
i our most obedient servant."
The Rni'lish und French' fleets' were at
anchor of) the Dardanelles at the latest dates
In Spain General, McDonald had gaintd
an important victory over Uabrera, m vaien
cia
Later dates from Canton state that all for
eigners were still prisoners, and business
continued suspended. Half the opium had
been given up, and the delivery would be
completed the end of April
7Vie Dead Alive. The following letter?
dated Holly Springs, Tennessee, August
22, W3S received by a gentleman at f heel-
Va. a few days since.
It is slated thai Jol. David Crockett, is
yet alive, and in Mexico, working in the
mines, There were two men, who were
known to be in the battle of Alamo, passed
through Memphis a few days ago, who say
they escaped from the mines in Mexico, and
that Crockett was certainly there these
men are known by some of the citizens ot
Memphis, to be men of respectability; these
meu went Irom Uiles county, l ennessee.
There is creat excitement in Memphis a
bout it. It will appear in a few days, and
if it is the case, there will at least leu ilious
and troops from Tennessee, volunteer in less
two wcefis. 1 am determined tu go.
Ilamet, General ff'ashinglon'a Slave.
It is iot generally known that the onlv
surviving slave af Gen. Washington is now
living in the city of Middletown in this,
stale. Hojs, according to his own ac
count, nearly one hundred years old; he
draws a nension from the Govermcnt for
his services in the revolutionary war, and
manufactures top drums lor his support,
He has a white wife and one child' Hi
hair is white with age, and hangs matted
together in masses over his chnuldrrs,
His height is about 4 ft 9 ins. He retains
a perfect recollection of his masaa and mi
sus ' ashiimton, and has several remem
brances of them, a mom: which is alofk ot
Gen. Washington's hair. He converses
freely in three or four different languages
1-rcnch, Spanish, and German: besides his
native African tongue. liarford (Cojwi)
Review.
Singular Circumstance. On Thursday
the 20th, a Mrs' Stone in Louisville, left
her child lyins upon the floor, while sho
went a few steps for a bucket of water.
Hearing a serf-am, she turned and saw a
hoc running across tho street drajrgin'r the
- child by Us loof ny the assistance oi
somo men who were passing by, tho child
was rescued without very material injury,
but not without some difficulty, as the am
mal seemed littio disposed to give up its
- prize, i no ciuia was auout eignt months
old aud entirely within tho door when sei
uy mo
donsmracti lo hum the Prlom 6ri6
day last week, while the Investigating Com
millce were in session, a plot to burn tho
Mount feasant State Aison was discover
ed, which) had it been carried into eflecti
might have proved fatal t every inmate ot
tho Prison. The plan of the conspirators!
was to fire the belfry of prison just previ
ous to the time of locking in tho pnonersj
and in conliision that would naturally onsu,
accomplish their object.
A convict in ona
of the shops waa lo furnish a convict iu ihd
ll'tll U-llll -I Qlraltttnti Kw Mrtiinli tt nm.)A
obin accesJ l0 tlio Ueu tit the prijoii;
,he convirt in the hall , d DreDartd ' 00t
supply of corabubtible materials, and with
these and a lamp he was to ascend lUu ailic
a little before night, fire them in such a man-; '
ncr that they would bum slowly, and then
returning, leave all fast behind him.
'1 he calculation was, that tho fira Would
be discovered just before tho men would brt
locked up for tho night, so that in the con-
lucion they might cut 'he horn nf the pris
on engine, (as had been done In a cae of
hre at the Auburn prison) and with many
others effect their escape. Had th whole
of this dia-iolical plot succeeded, exespt that
ine lire suouid tcrnam undiscoered until
the prison was closed; it is altogether prob-
aoic mat nearly every man confined ther.5;
would have been smothered to death, ss it
would have been impossible for the ftcenors
to lescue therm
The fellow who was to oxcciite the in
fernal deed, has confessed his guilt, and saysi
it was their intention, when the fire should
break out, instead of assisting to extinguish
the flames, to " tear down the prison u
they had done at Auburn !" Wetzhestcr'
Herald.
Jllrocious murder. Tho Vc7av ttiul.'i
Times of bst Saturday says: "It becomes
our painTul doty to record one of the most
horrid murders we recollect ever to havo
heard of m the annals of crime, which was
perpetrated near Ghent, opposite this place
on Monday last, by a negro slave, upon thci
person of his mistress, Miss T.-.b-.tha O
Neal. The cireumstnncs, vs.- ai can-
learn, were as fol.owa: Tho ngro wa
chopping wood some distance irom tho
house, when his mistress having o-n-aEi'jn
for his services about the farm yard; we iu
after him, and approachirt; tho place whsr
he was chopping, it appears from hie
wounds, received a blow on the side of her
head wilh tho pole of hi njre, and tke' in
fliclion of a gash in her neck, almost Sever
ing her head from her body. After accom
plishing the hclish deed, the negro deliber
ately walked to the house, as though nothing
had happened, took his dinner, aUU after-1
wards saddleded a horse, and ioce otl Un
suspected. The murderer was arrested oit
Thursday, Near Eaglo Creek, in Oweii
countu, and brought to Ghent, where hd
underwent an examination before Justice
Lindsay and Bullock, before whom ho con-
fesscd the deed, and was committed to jail
to await to his trial at the next term of uil
Carrol county Circut Court"
An Incident. An honest whig farmer
of the town of Brighton, which came to sea
the President, was heard to say after tha
interview "Fell, I havo heard Mr. Van
Knren accused of bain" an aristocrat, of
being an enmy to the middling classes of
society, and a arrogant oppressor of tho
people, of aping the manners of imperial
royality; but I am now satisfied that 1 havo
beeu decrived; that the self-coiibtituied. lea
ders of the whig parly have grossly slan
dered him. And if ever I live to give a-
nother ote, that vote shall be for Muia
Van Buren Rochester !) Ado
Children at School. The SecrcUry of"
the Americon Common School estimates
that there are in the United States 3,500,
000 children between the ages df 4 and 10
yearsj and that 900,000 of the number do
not enjoy the advantages of common
schools in the United States is estimated
80 C00. The number of teachers in thcid
sel'inols 95,000.
MARRIED On the 2Cth inst. by tho
Rev.JFilliam J.Eyer, Mr. Cu'ib Wo I vert
to Miss Ester JJaush, both of New Colum
bia. SUSQUEHANNA JL,IIVE.
njHLS line litucommenccdrunning regularly ba
j5 tweeu Wil!;rs-Uarre, Northumberland. WHU
lannpnrt, Harruburg t l'ilad.l rhi-i anil all inter'
csediato pluci. 'J'.ie Ji-jj.s icmc VliilUe3-Barrd
daily, ot 3 o'clock 1'. M. unit unie at Northumber
land iiisjtmaini'ig ut 7? o. U k A. M. and Harris
bur the fo'lowin? -v..-i.ii. t ut il o'i-lck; where pan
singers will remain Mr ui-i t, an ! t .itothe rail nud
cars at 8 o'clock; A. At. ami urrivo dl Philadelphia,
by 2 o'clock, 1. M. At IS'ortliuinlierland tho North
and West Branch boatts connect ; This lino arrives
at tho junction of the JimifU in time to comma
wilh ait tho western lines for Pittsburg,
Returning passengers by this line a ill leave Broad
st!CL-t, Philadelphia, evoy day nt a o'clock A. M.
and arrive at Ilarruburg nt 3 o'cloclv I'. M. North
um'jciUnd next morning 8 o'clock, Willianmport
by 7 1 M. anJwUkrs-Barreby 7 o'clock the follow
ing morninif through hi 48 hours.
To umlits moving wost this line tiler's grmt ed
vantage cliargoa iw freight ery moderate, and
person wilh titer families may rely upou Lavinj all
thiir goods taken with them,
Taroto Northumberland 2 00
" Williamsport 3 6
" Dunern'a Island 3 50
" Harrisburg ' 0Q
" Philadelphia , 8 0
For frciilit or li.issaso apply to
1 McC. GILCHRIST.
ThicnU lintel.
vViIkofBfirro,May 7 1839, tf J
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