Tuid "tret m m m ..i huvu sworn ui,m tlio Altnr of Uuil, eternal hostility to eicry form of Tyranny otcr the Minil of WauhJdft? MINTED AN J) PUBLISHED BY H. AVEBB. Volume BSI. BLOOMSBURO, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA. SATURDAY, WOFEMBBR 16, 1839. Number 39. " .. i . . . '4. OFFICE OF THE DEMOCRAT, flr-posm: St. Paul's Cnuncii, Main-st. TERMS : 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 ivithin the year. JVb subscription will betaken for a shorter period than six months; nor any discon tinuance permitted, until all arrearages are discharged. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding a square will be conspicuously inserted at One Dollar for the frst three insertions, and Twenty-five cents for every subse quent nsertion. CpA liberal discount made to those who advertise by the year. LETTERS addressed on business, must be post paid. The annexed feeling and beautiful lines jt arc said to liavo been written by a young English lady, who had experienced much affliction. Tliero is a devotcdness, a spirit of religion running through it, which can not fail to touch the most obdurate heart. Hartford Mirror. Jesus I my cross have taken, All to leave, and follow thee; Naked, poor, despised, forsaken Thou, from hence, my all shall bo ! Perish every fond ambition All I've sought or hoped, or known; Yet how rich is my condition God and heaven arc all my own ! Let tho world despise and lcavo me They have left my Saviour too : Human hopes and looks deceive mo. Ihou art not Iikejhem untrue; tVnd whilst'Thou sbalrsmile upon raef uou dl wisdom, love anil might, Friends may hate, and foes may scorn me , ' Show Thy face and all is right. Go. thon earthly fame and treasure Come disaster, scorn and pain; In thy service pain is pleasure; With thy favor loss is gain; I have called Thee Abba, Father I have set my heart on Thee; ' Slnrins mnv howl, nnd clouds m:iv trnthnr I i - j ' o I All must work for good to me ! I Soul ! then know thy full salvation Rise o'er sin, and fear, and care; Joy to find in every station, Something still to do or bear ! Think what spirit dwells with iheo Think what heavenly bliss is thine; 'Think that Jesus died to save thee Child of Heaven, canst thou repine ? Hasto thee on from gnco to glory, Armed by faith, and winged by pray'r ! Heaven's eternal day's before thee God's own hand shall guide thee there; oon shall closo thy earthly mission, Soon shall pass thy pilgrim days, Hope shall change to glad fruition Faith to sight, and pray to praise ? From tho Tanner's Cabinet. FRUIT TREES. Those who love good fruit should annu ally devote a small portion of their time to producing and perpetuating tho trees that produce it. The apathy of many to this very interesting subject can scarcely be ac- oounted for on any other principle than that of excessivo laziness or cxtrcmo stupidity. "Where tho male portion of a family can't muster courage or industry enough to pay reasonable attention to this impor tant matter, it is hoped tho females will look to it, and then the trees will soon begin to blossom and bring forth fruit, for I have sel dom seen an intelligent, active femalo un dertake any thing useful, without the fruits of her labor soon becoming apparent. I saw the present season a number of nour ishing young fruit trcos which were engraft by tho " pood man" of tho farm reflecting great . redit on her for her industry, pise- voranco and skill as a cultivator of fruit trees. Tho stones of peaches and plumbs, and the seeds of apples or other fruits should be planted either in drills or in the places they are designed permanently to occupy before thoy become dry; they vegetate bet ter and more certainly than when kept over winter to be planted in the spiing. The right season to plant the stones or seeds is when the fruit is ripe and it will bo found they will more certainly vegetate and ac quire a larger growth the first season. Plant a few stocks each year, be careful to engraft ori lioculalo them when of proper size with tho best varieties, protect them from the cows and horses till they grow out of their teach and you will not have to com plain of a lack of good Fuurr. USE OF COAL FOR SWINE. A Western farmer, in a Southern paper, recommends charcoal in fattening hogs. After giving his hogs a small quantity dai ly, say two pieces to each about the size of a hen's egg, they discontinued rooting were more quit and appeared to fatten faster. He omitted the coal a few days, and they commenced rooting; he gave it again, and they ceased to root. He supposes that the coal corrects tho morbid fluid in tho stom ach, which incites them to root in deep in search, of fresh earth. Cunningham, in his " Two Years in New South Wales," says " I had often heard it among sailors that pigs would fat ten on coals, and although I had observed them very fond of munching up the coals & cinders that camo in their way,still I con ceived they might relish them more as a condiment, or medicine, than a food tlill I .was assured by 'wealthy friznd of mine, lon in command.of a ship;-that, ho once knew of a pig being lost for several weeks in a vessel ho commanded, and it was at last found to have tumbled into the coal hole and there lived all that period without a sin gle morsel of any thing to feed upon but coals; on being dragged out it was found as plumb and fat as if it had been feeding on the most nulricious food. Another friend told mo of a similar case, which case came under his observation, and although these may be solitary instances, yet they may serve, at least to show the wonderful facili ty which the stomachs of certain animals possess of adapting their digestivo powers to such an extraordinary species of food, and extracting any nourishment therefrom. Cincinnati Chronicle. HUMOROUS. Jl mad Preacher. A circuit preacher in Alabama recently had his dander raised be cause his employers undertook to lessen his his salary from $10 to $35 per annum. " My hearers," said he, if you expect mo to preach for $35 a ycar.you aro most d ly mistaken. Before I'll do it, you may go to the devil your own way. I see you aro all hell bent ! An Enviable Disease. An Irish peasant found a neighbor of his one night lying speechless by the side of the road, and see ing an acquaintance pass by, addrosscd him as follows : " Paddy, come hero, sure here's Miko Murphy in tho ditch, as dead as a door nail. This quarter of an hour I've been shaking him and tho devil a foot does he wag at all." " Mike Murphy dead I" said the other, 11 oh botheration to ye, I'll engage he's not dead; suro diu't he could his hig this morning !" Ori going to him, and finding him only dead drunk, ho exclaimed, " Ily St. Patrick, I wish I had only half his dis ease." My dear Madam' said a doctor to his patient, I, am truly gratified to see you in life. At my last visit yesterday, you know I told you, you had bbt six hours to live. Yes, Doctor, you did; but I didn't take the dose you left.' From the Uoston Wcefcly Magazine. MOTHER COULTER'S COFFEE PARTY. A HISTORICAL REMINISCENCE. Every body is familiar with tho events of the Boston Tea-Party. Our hisiorians have all recorded it, and our orators have celebrated it, and our poets havo sang its praises. But there was a counterpart to this, not quite so momentous in its conse quences, nor so solemn in its preceedings, which historians havo omitted to record, and which orators havo not condescended to eulogize. The cent to which wo al lude, happened in the year 1779, and was stigmatized as Mother Coullci's mob, after tho name of tho principal heroino in tho transaction. With more deference to tlie leader and her followers, however, it might bo termed, somewhat significantly, mother Coulter's Coffee-Party. Tho following is an account of tho events which led to this memorable incident. In tho year 1770, during tho distresses of the American revolution. It was recom mended by Congress, that the people of the different States assemble in conventions, for tho purpose of regulating tho price of provisions. The object of this recommen dation of Congress was to prevent all that monopoly and unjust speculation which are very likely to happen during a time of fam ino or scarcity of produce. Similar con ventions were held in Paris, for the purpose of establishing what was called a muximum of prices. Tho fir3t maximum in Franco was fixed at a convention held on May 4th, 1793, and the second on September 11th, of tho same year. .The firet regulations. iiicviKu uiiij turn aim nour, oui-iney were finally extended to all other articles' of con sumption, on tho 22d of Febuary, 1791. This maximum was repealed on tho 24th of December, 1791, after the complete downfall of the Jacobins. These facts are mentioned only to provo that our ancestors were not behind tho spirit of the age, when they undertook, in this somewhat anti-republican, manner, to legislate upon matters whieh, as modern experience has ascer tained, are better regulated when they are left free. Various conventions wore accordingly as sembled for thi3 rather high-handed purpose The first was held at Concord, in this Stale on the 14th day of July; 1779, for carrying into effect the measures recommended by Congress. At their meetings certain arti cles of merchandize and country produco were named, and prices affixed to them, and it was unanimously resolved that these should be the highest prices for which they wero to bo sold. Other towns immediately followed tho example of Concord, and a dopted, without much alteration, the reso lutions which were passed in that conven tion. At a legal meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of tho town of Boston, by adjournment, at Faneuil Hall, Monday, Au gust ICth, 1779, the Honorable Samuel Adams, Esq. moderator, the committee ap, pointed to fix the prices of sveral articles mentioned in the resolves of the Concord convention, made their report. They re ported that whereas tho goods and wares imported from Europe, were so various in their kinds and qualities, as to render it quilo impracticablo to dctcrmino tho exact price at which every article ought to be sold it was icsolvcd that all holders and retailers of European wares and merchandize should from that time forward, sell all articles at twenty per. cent., or one-fifth part less than tho prices at which the same articles were sold in the month of July last. A committee of thirteen was likowiso appointed, with whom might bo lodged complaints of all violations and evasions of tho resolves of tho convention. Tho com mittoo was empowered and directed to in quiro into all such complaints, and to pub lish the names of all those who upon good and satisfactory evidence, might be convic ted of violating or evading these resolves, as enemies to their country, that they might bo dealt with according to their demerits. Not only was tho maximum price of provi sion established by this body, but that of labor likewise, whieh was the highest cither to bo demanded or givon. It was voted, moieovcr, that a violation of these resolves, in the present situation of public affairs, was " a crime of tho deepest dye." Any person or persons who should violate them in any way, either by buying or selling, except in those places whose inhabitants had not yet adopted tho measures, were to bo exposed to infamy, according to tho u nanimous resolves of tho convention. The penalty assigned them was to have their names published by the committee of thir teen," in the Boston newspapers, " lhatlho public, knowing the facts, might abstain from all trade and conversation with them, and the people at large inflict upon him that-punishment luhich such wretches de serve .'" These are the very words of one of the resolutions, and are plainly an en couragement of mobs and Lynch law. A fino specimen of tho wisdom and modera tion of our ancestors ! It should, moreover, be deemed infamous for any one to trade or hold any intercourse or conversation with such persons. It was likewise voted that tt was the duty of every citizen to keep a vigilant eye upon hi3 neighbor, that any infringement of the reso lutions aforesaid might be prevented. The committee further reported that the inhabi tants, in all their perchases of meat, buy by the pound and not by the quarter, as the latter mode was an inlet to great eva' sions, and might elude the salutary purpo ses in view, Such were tho additional re solves of tho convention after thev had fiX' TJipflees'xif all articles ormcrchandizo and produce. ' It may well be supposed that such laws met with no verv cordial approbation a- mong the merchant aud large dealers. A great deal of violent opposition was made to them by many individuals in different parts of the country. Among tho disaffected was a merchant of tho town of Boston, an exten sive importer of goods, named Thomas Boylston. He is said to nave ucen a very honorable and upright citizen, a warm friend to the revolution, and a well-wisher to the political cause of the young republic. But the proceedings of tho convention affected hia interest very seriously; he became greatly exasperated ; immediately shut up his stores, and declared his intention of selling nothing at all hereafter, until the maximum laws wero annulled. Ho was steady and unalterable in his purpose, and being one of the most noted merchants in tho place, his resolution occasioned a great burst of indignation among the people. Mr. Boylslon, among other articles, had considerable quantities of coffee in his store which was, at that time, in great demand. The imposibility of obtaining this article by purchase; no less than tho unpatriotic reso lutions and obstinacy of the owner, particu laily excited the indignation of certain wo men of tho town of Boston. They imine diately determined to punish the offender, agreeably to tho implied recommendation in that clause of ono of the convention re solves, which says in relation to such per sons, " that the people at large may indict upon them that punishment which such wretches deserve." The most prominent individual among theso indignant women, was ono Mother Coulter, who Kept a sai lor's boarding house. Sho was a woman of verv masculine habits, and great bodily strength, and agreed to lead the women, if they would assomblo and take satisfaction. She assombled them together, accordingly and stirred them up to inflict punishment upon this rebellious merchaut. They re solved, with her for their leader, to break open Mi. Boylston's store, and take forcible posession of tho coffee. " Tho men," ex claimed Mother Coulter, " havo had their tea-party, aud now tho women will have their cofl'ec-party !" In complianco with Mother Coulter's re commendation, the women assembled at ono o'clock at noon-day, at the Faneuil Hall, where the trucks wero usually drawn up. Alter receiving their intrnetions from their leader, they took possession of tho trucks, with Mother Coulter at their head, and drove onward to the store of Mr. Thom as Boyhton. Upon their arrival, they bat tered open the doors by force, took quiet possession of tho coffee, and ihcn proceed ed back to Franouil Hall. At ihe head of the procession might bo seen Mother Coul ter, sitting upon a hogshead of coffee on ono of the trucks, flourishing her wh.p, and urging them forward to glory and revenge. Upon their arrival at Faneuil Hall, the con tents of the bags and hogsheads were taken out and distributed among tho applauding multitude. All this ontragcous transaction having" been dono in accordance with tho implied recommendations in tho resolutions of tho convention, met with but little public dis approbation. No pubu'c measures wero used to compensate Mr. Boylston for his losses; and tho whole circumstances of the proceedings of the mob and of the conven tion, may afford aomo evidenco that public morals have undergone a little improvement since that time, and that legislators havo grown somewhat wiser. Mr. Boylston was highly indignant at this outrage, and resolv ed forthwith to quitthe'eountry which affor ded no protection to his property. He look leave of America very shortly, and depar ted to England, taking with him his family and all his personal property. There he spent the remainder of his days; but con tinued, notwithstanding, a friend and bene factor of tho town of Boston, and left it several largo donations for various charita bleljurp.oses an( public institutions. canInfTsagTcity In Youatt's Humanity to Brutes, is the following anecdote of a Newfoundland dog: " A vessel was driven on the beach of Lydd, in Kent. The surf was rolling furi ously eight poor fellows wero crying for help but not a boat could be got off to their assistance. At length a gentlemen came on the beach accompanied by his Newfound land dog. He directed the attention of the animal to the vessel, and put a short stick into his mouth. The intelligent and cour ageous fellow at once understood his mean ing, and sprang into tho sea, and fought his his way through the wave3. He could not, however, get closo enough to tho vessel to deliver that with which he was charged, but tho crew joyfully made fast to a rope anoth er piece of wood, and threw it towards him. Ho saw tho wholo business in an instant; ho dropped his own piece, and immediate seized that which had been cast to him, and then with a degree of strength and deter mination almost incredible, he diagged it through the surf and delivered it to his mas tor. A line of communication was thus formed, and every man on board was res cued from a watery grave." A little boy, three years of age, was ask ed who made him ? With his l'ttle hand a foot from the floor, he artlessly replied 1 God made me a little baby so high, and I grew the rest. Tahc care Bachelors. Smokers should never carry loco-foco matches in 'their vest pockets. A young fellow recently on a courting expedition, clasped his 'dearest' so significantly at parting that he ignited the matches in his pocket, burning oil' one of his whiskers, and singed the lady's eye brows. An odd sort of a genius having slopped in a mill, was looking with apparent astonish ment at the movements of the machinery whem the miller, thinking to quiz him, as ked him if lie had heard the news ? Not as I know on' said Jonathan, 'what is ill' ' Why' said the miller, 'they say tho de- vil is dead,' By jings !' he exclaimed 'is he ? who t:nds the mill J1
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