IMitiii i itnrt wm il m I sworn upon tho Altar' of God, eternal hostility to every form of Tyranny over the, Blind of Man." Thoma Jefferson. ' '' " '" '"' '"' . 11 1 1 1 ' - i' ' ' ...j r, ,. .. ,, Jlt ' PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY II. WEBB. ' ' Volume MI. BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, 'PA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21,1839. fcfmiibcr 34. It r J v . QFF1CE OF THE DEMOCRAT, OrrosiTE St, Paul's Ciiuncit, Main-st. 'The COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT will be published every Saturday morning, al TWO DOLLARS per annum, payable :half yiarly in advance, or Two Dollars Fifty Cents, if not paid within the year. 'jVb subscription will betaken for a shorter .period than six months; nor any discon tinuance permitted, until all arrearages are discharged. vJZ) VER TI SEME NTS not exceeding a square will be conspicuously inserted al One Dollar jor inc jirsi inrce insertions, find Tinrnhi-finc cents for evcru subse quent nsert'ion'. ICJA liberal discount made to those, who advertise by the year. LETTERS addressed on business, must be post paid. HONESTY. The bright jewel in tho diadem of honor is honesty. It is a fortune to poverty itself it is the saloguard of society, and tho best recommendation to the man of business. The responsible stations into which many are placed; are secured only by their integ rity and honesty. Theio i3 scarcely any situation .in life which does not afToid op portunities for violating this most important principle. The temptations of tho world are alluring; and without stern integrity on tho part of those exposed to 'them, they may be'induccd to overstep the bounds of recti tude. Tho clerk, in the counting-room, may, if so disposed, cheat his employer out of hundreds. The salesman has the same opportunities. Indeed, there .is no sphere oMife in which imposition ot this kind may -not be practised. Then, how important is it to all, and especially to young men who are dependent upon their own personal ex ertions for sustenance, to secure tho confi dence of others and above all things, estab lish themselves in the character of hones .ty ? Poverty is no disgrace, nor do we be lieve it a misfortune it is an incentive to action. When coupled with honesty and persevcrcncc, it is destined to rise in the 8cale of prosperity, just as suro as the gol den sun will rise in the eastern horizon af ter having sunk in the purple west. The young man has.becn thrown into the world, homeless rind friendless, has nothing to fear if he establishes for himself the charactci of honesty; while on the other hand, if he doss not, he has no guarantee from the loath some jungeon or the jail, the peuitentiary or the alms-house. Go where ho may his good or bad deeds will follow him. If he take with him his good ones, as virturo ac cords in unison with virtue, his prosperity is secure if his evil ones, as vice and mis ery equally unite, his downfall is certain. Everv dav's observation brings proof of the above fact. How often do wo see the young man who lays the foundation of his lifo upon the irrevocable principles of lion esly, rise like the Phoenix fiom its ashes, and live, enjoying the full confidence of the world, fanned by the salubrious and gentle breeze of happiness J He is taken by the liand, and nurtured in tho affection and rood will of others his services aro held -ft. ' as a treasure his superiois, in a pecuniary point of view, for whom he labors and up .on whom is his dependence, value him so highly that they cvon subject themselves to his judgment, keep a watchful eye to his interests, dread giving him ofleneo, and. to crown the vhop, he is frequently made co- mriitor in tiiitiiif'.!. This is a stroll" iiiccn , 'I " ' ' .live to voune men to be honest. The prin .ciplo is true and immutable, carrying with it tho combined evidence of past experi ence and the soundest doctrines of most philosophy. Sterne says the most accomplished way of using books is to servo them as somo do lords, learn their titles 'and then brag of their acquaintance. A number of young men at Portland. Me., are getting up a company lo go to the Person Tttrrhtiry, BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT. The creations of thoschulptor may moul der into dust, the wealth of the bard may wilhej the throne of tho conquerer may be shivered, by an opposing power, into atoms the fame of tho warrior may no lon ger be hymned by the recording minstrel the hope of youth may be disappointed but that which hallows the cottage and sheds a gloiy around the palace virtue shall never decay. It is celebrated by the angels of God it in written on the pillars of Heaven, and reflected down to earth. The rock-cracker, possesses it, is more no ble than the intriguing statesman. I would rather be in his place, I would rather have the "inward glory" with which the poor man 'is crowned,1 than overshadow the world with my martial banners . I would not exchange his lot for the reputation of a Raphael, the inspiration of Byron, the elo quence of a Mirabeau, or the intellect of a Bacon. I may be despised here but if I possess it, then shall I tower above them all when the guilty shall tremble in their se- cret places, as tho "heavens roll together as a scroll." Human Life. How truly does the jour ney of a single day, its changes and its hours exhibit the historv of humane life ! We rise up in the glorious freshness of a spring morning, i lie news ot nigut, tnose sweet fears of nature, are singing from each bough and leaf, and reflecting the bright and myriad hues of the morning Our hearts are beating with hnpe.our frames buovant with health. We see no cloud, we fear no storm, and with our chosen am' beloved companions clustering around us, we commence our journey. Step by step, the scene becomes more lovely, hour by hour oui hopes becomes brighter." A few of our companions have-dropped away, but" in the multitude remaining, and the beauty of the scenery, their loss is unfelf Sud denly we have cnieicd upon a new country the dews of the morning are exhaled by the fervor of the noonday sun, friends that star ted with us are disappearing. Some re main, but their looks are cold and estrang ed, others have become wca.iy and have laid down to their rest, but few faces are smilinir on us, and new hones beckoning us on. Ambition and famo are before us but youth and affection arc behind us. The scene is more glorious and brilliant, but the beauty and freshness of tho morning have faded, and forever. But still our steps fail not, our spirit fails not. Onward and on ward wc go, the horizon of happiness and fame raceless as wo advance to it, the sha dow begins to lengthen, and the chilly airs of evening arc usurping tho ferver of the noon day. Still we press onward, the final is not won, the hoaven is not reached. Tlie bright orb of hope that has cheered us on is sinking in tho west, our limbs begin to grow faint, our hearts to grow sad, we turn to gaze upon the scenes that we have pass cd, but the shaddows of twilight have in terposed their veil between us, we look a round for the old and familiar faces, the companions of our travel, but we gaze in vain to find them, we have outstripped them all in our race after pleasure and the phan thorn yetuncaught, in the land of strangers in a sterile and iuhospitsl country, the nighttime overtakes us, the .dark and torri ble nighttime of death, and weary and hea- vy laden, we lie aown to rest in the bed b the grave ! Happy thrice happy is he, who has laid up treasures in himself, for th distant and unknown to morrow. Chat I ton. wJn.i..J INTERESTING EXTRACT. " And this is the Dead Sea, and belo' these dark waters are fte sites, perhaps th ruins, of Sodom and Gomonah, such as when tho smoke of the conntry went up as the smoke of a furnace. There is a tal that nothing living, not even a bird, can ever cross this sea. But there is no nee of imaginary stories to heighten the desola- lion of the scene, and we, as well as othar mvellers, can testify to its inaccuracy by jour own observation. Wo believe, how er, that its waters are unfavorable to ani mal life ; and though a' shell or two may be occasionally picked up upon the shore, yet lese have been probably brought down by the Jordan. The water is excessively bit ter and nauseous ; and if additional evidence were wanting, we also could testify to iis great gravity, and to the buoyancy of the tuman body', when immersed in it. It is only by much exertions, and for a very short time, that any one, can get and remain below the surface, " We went from here to Jordan, and struck the river where tradition says the children of Israel passed over, when they first entered tho Land of Promise. On the west sido is a low bottom, and on the east a high sandy bluff, and the shores of the ri ver aro covered with aquatic bushes. The water was thick and turbid, and current rap d,-and too deep to bo sounded, "for Jordan overflowed all his banks all the time of har- vest." And here did cros3 the Jewish na tion, over this turbulent stream, "on dry ground, until .all ihe people ' were passed clean over Jordan." And wc followed their route to Jericho, tho frontier city of the Canaanites, where "the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the-ci ty, every man straight before him, and they tooK the .city. 1 here is no city now to take, nor are thero any walls now to fall. rhorc are but a few miserable hovels, made of rude stones and mud, and the ruined m walls of a building of tho middle ages where the wretthed Arabs burrow, rathei than live. Jericho' has disappeared as eom pletcly as her rival cities, which sunk be fore the wrath of the Almighty. And it re quires an effort to be satisfied that here the great miracle which attended the entrance of tlie Jews into Canaan Was' performed though' the truth of the denunciation is be fore the eyes of the traveller : 'Cursed be thc'inan before the Lord that raiselh up and buildeth this city Jericho." Ihus speaks Lewis Cass, American Minister at Paris, who, in August, 1808 stood upon the shore of the Dead Sea, tra versed the track-way of the Israelites thro the wilderness, and noted the place' of their passage across the Red Sea. VISITING IN ENGLAND None of the presentations of Americans to the royal family, this season, are quite equal to that of a Connecticut sailor as rcla ted by himself to his old acquaintances af ter his "return from his first voyage to tho father-land. Striped Jacket had been absent from Woodstock and his friends, for four months and on his return old and young flocked a round him lo inquire who and what he had seen. Stripe understood how to set off a thing or two as well as a. playactor and answered all inquiries of the gaping audience to their satisfaction. " Well did you see the king !" " Oh, yes, I saw him often 1" " And where did you see him ?" " Why, I met him in tho road at first an he ax'd me where I was from." . " And did he speak to you then I" " Law yes; ho invited me to his house palace they call it there." " Well, and did ye go 1" said a number of voices at once. " Yes, d'ye think I woul'nt go, when ax'd J" " Wei, and what did he say to ye ?" " Oh he ax'd me how I did, &c. ifcc." " Now Vhat did you say to him J" " Why, I said I come from the fre states, and I hoped to see his folks all well." " Yes; ho told the lad to make him half a mug of flp, for a friend had como a great wav sec him so he and I sois down and drinks it together," " Now do tell us, did you see the Queen and how was she dressed I" No, couln'dt see her, King mada her excuses, and said it was Monday, it was washing day with her, and aha was not fit to be seen in the forenoon. So way. I came a - A Parsons Toughert -Old Parson M. of , Worcester county, used sometimes to be absent on a missionary tour. Once on time, having just returned from one of these excursions, he found his congregation quite drowsy, and wishing ' to wake them up, he brqke off in the midst of his ser mon, and began to tell them of what won derful things ho had seeri in York State among other wonders he said ho had seen monstrous great mosihetoes so large that nany of them would weigh a' pound! file people were by this time wido awake ' Yes,"-continued parson M., " and more over they ate often known to climb up on the trees, and bark!" The next day one of the Deacons called upon him, telling him that many of the biethern were much, scandalized at the big stories he told the day before. " What sto ries 2" says parson M. " Why sir, you said that the moschetoes in York Slate were so large that many of them would weigh a pound I" " Well," rejoined the minister, I do really think that a great many of them would weigh a pound." "But," contin ucs the Deacon, " you also said they would climb up on the trees, and bark 1" " Well, sir," says parson M., " as to their climbing up on the trees, I have seenjthem do that haven't you Deacon ?" " O yes." " Well, how could they climb up on the trees and not climb on the bark ?" The Deacon was of course nonplussed. From the Pmnsylvanian The late elections have cauascd it to be generally conceded that the opposition to Mr. Van Buren in 1840, if an opposition can be rallied to take the field against him will be a mere formality to preserve some thing resembling party organization. Re cent events luve so' powerfully 'dd'mbnslfa ted the correctness of the principles suppor ted by, the democracy, that since the days of Monroe thero never has been a time when the anti-democrat and anti-administration feeling was more completely .subdued. The force arrayed against Andrew Jackson and so potently operative against Martin Van Buren at the period of his election and for a year or two afterwards, is do a great extent im merged in the ranks of tho demo cratic party, and where it still continues to mafce head, as for instance in New York its comparative weakness and rapid decrease of strength tells plainly enough what wi' be its fate next year. Even in Massachu setts, the stronghold, the Gibralter of feder al whiggcry; the opposition, if not com pletely prostrated, are so near it that their victoiy, should it prove such, i3 quite dis astruos in its effect as a total defeat would have been. In the midst, however, of a! this discomfiture and all these evidences of the irresistible popular tide now setting in favor of a divorce of bank and state, anu" th reform of banking system, it is amusing to observe that all our old opponents have not lost heart. The Herald and Sentinel of this city, for instance, walks cheerily over th fragments of its party ,and draws tho bright est omens from mishap. It yesterday fa vored its readers with an article announc ing the premonitorics of Mr. Van Buten' defeat next year in a style resembling Ion of former days, and with as much confi dence as if this were 1837 instead of being 1839, and as if the present bank suspension were producing effects similar to those of great panics and the suspension two years ago. With a buoyancy of spirit even ex ceeding that which the Inquisitor used to display under adverse circumstances, the Herald seriously announces that the next election will " send Mr. Van Buren home to Kinderhook as certainly as death follows a bullet wound through the heart I" It is certainly somothing to find that in the long line of opposition journals, in general so worn down by reverses and dejected by o verthrows, there is at least one to be found which feels inclined to raise a shout and clash its sounding arms, like tho Carlist, Cabrera who alone flaunts the standard of routed Conservation, and continues to fight las it were on his own hook, and merely tor t the honor of the thing. The Herald is of most happy comtitution if it is convince cd of the correctness of it own assertions! and has the honor to stand " solitary and a' lone" in its anticipation for 1840 zrjLH IM Terrible Earthquake in tiirriakWt have been favored, says the Madras Cou rier of May 0, with the folld'ving graphic" account of the effects) at Amarapoora, of the earthquake that was so severely felt there on the morning of tho 23d ult. and ivhich appears to have been of a most aw ful nature, involving considerable' loss of ife : "We have been Visited by a terribla earthqual-e hcrej About two on the 'morn ing of the 23d, wo were awoke by tho housa rocking to and fro in the most frightful manner. We had two tenlble shocks, with sevoral jolliers throughout the night and tho whole of the next day In the morning wo found every pagoda had been partly thrown down'not one standing whole. Every brick house in the place was rrforo or less dilapidated, some three or four'only being left standing, more or less damaged; and the others all down, burying many' people in their ruins. In one large brick house eleven persons were buriedj seven- killed, two much hurt, and two unhurt. Under every house some have been killed: twelve of thm in the Mussulman mosqud the whole of which buildmg came1 down. The earth opened in many places; many of which continue open, and are sufficiently la'rge to stow away a man of ivitf From all these rissiues a large quantity of water was thrown up. The river rose and flow ed upwards three times, and numerous wrecks were strewed along the banks- It appears to have done still more damage at Ava, where the palace is down,, arid many fissures opened in the; town. . Jot paCQ- , da is to bo secn on the Tsagain sido of tho river. An Armenian gentleman, Mr. Har apeit, was taken from out of the ruins of his house, his legs and arms crushed, and his chest broken : he soon-expired." The Ignited Horse. The actors in thfl recent cruel exploit of setting fire to a horse it Cambridge, with spirit gas, had toony up lo the tune of a cool hundred and trim mings. Something like a joke did grow out of tho barbarous transaction. The burn ing harness emitted a bright white flame, and an old lady, who had seen some notices of the painting of "Death on the Palo Horse," exclaimed, on seeing the frantic! horse dashing along in silver light "Mer cy on me! if there aint the Pale Horse they have been si owing in Boston. He has broke out of his stable, and is running to West Cambridge, like all natur' A Gentle Hint. "If I am not at Ufnrt from jhe party-to-night at 10 o'clook," saiii a husband to his better ar-d bigger half "don't wait for me." "That I won't," replied tho lady, sig nificantly, "'I won't wait bnt I'll come for you The gentleman returned at 10 o'clock precisely. A Strong Wind. A Tennessee pape? says, that John L. Wind, Esq. of Missis sippi, it is said recently ihrashed-threc men in four minuets. That wind must havd blown a strong hurricane at the time. Tho' chap could make a fortune in the West In dies by running an opposition against torna does' Friendship.- Friendship is a dangefom word for young ladies; it is love full fledged, and waiting for a day to fly. Matrimony, Matrimony is a medicina very proper for young men to take. It de cides their fata kills or cures. ' A gentleman being called on to subscribe to a course of lectures objected, "because,' said he, "my wife reads me a gratuous luc turo every eveninj;.
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