H ill Wa I have bworn upon the Altar of God, eternal hostility to every ri of Tyranny over the Blind of Man." -Thomas' Jcftcrsoh. ' if PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY II. WEBB. BliOOMSBURg, COLUMBIA COUNTY, JjA. SATURDAY, MARCH 2S, 1840. OFFICE OF THE DEMOCRAT, OrrosiTB Sti Paul's Oiiuncit, Main-st. E SUMS : STAc COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT loillbe 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. No subscription will be taken for a shorter jieriod than six months ; nor any discon tinuance permitted, Until all armiragta arc discharged! , flDVERTISKMUiSTS not exceeding a square will be conspicuously inserted at One Dollar for the first three insertions, and Twenhl-fivc cents for every subsc- . . r 1 .a 1 queni nscruom nucriu mxcuum made to those who advertise by the year. LETTERS addressed on busincssi must be post pa'uh Fioln tho New York Express; MR. JONATHAN SLICK'S NEW YEAR'S CALLS. Jonathan's ideas of the real difference be tween a real lady a House and Furni ture, and the House of a struck tip Par venue His ideas of Love and Ladies. I made a lccllo inquiry about how people did a New Year's day and found out that it was tho fashion to set out things, and treat every body that come to seo you. So ear ly, in tho morning I put on clean linin, to mako ray calls in. I hadn't but just got to thb door, when rny pusey cousin driv up; so I got into the carriage, and off wo went, down Broadway, at a smashing rate, till at last we stopped a foro ono of the neatest-looking houses that I'vo seen in York,; it watnt ciinckled and fineficd off with wood-wor,d and iron fen ces, but tho hull Was solid stun. The steps wcro mado of the same, with great stun sides a rolling down frorrt the door to the . jidcwalkj Tho door was sunk clear imp" the front there warnt no chunk" of siIveTln the middle, to write the owner's name on: so I s'pose he thought that every body ought know where a rale fashionable chap lives, without his hanging out a sign to tell folks. Jason was jist a going to givo the knob a twitch, but he seemed to remember and, scz hcj to the tall chap that had got -down Why dont you ring V With that the Tchap made a drive up the steps, and it warnt asecond afore the door swung open, and a nico old fellow dressed up as neat as a new pin, but without regimentals, stood inside. Arter making a bow, he opened a mahoga ny door, and vuado a little mtion with his hand, as much as to say walk in. Ja son ho kinder deemed loth to go in first; and arter all his money, I couldn't help but think the old feller ih tho hall Ibookcd as well, and acted a good deal more like a real gentle man then ho did. There's nothing like be 1 ing rich to get up a man's pluc'iS Arter fidgctting with Lis watch-seals a minute; Jase stuck up his head like a mud-turtle in tho sun, and In ho went. I followed arter as close as a bur to a ehesnutfor in my hull life I never felt so scared. The house didn't seem liko alias Miles' nor Cousin Bebce's nor yet like tny pascy cousin's. Coming from his house into that seemed like going tut of a blustering wind into a calm snow storm. Every thing was so Ieok and still that it didn't seem like any thing elso that 1 ever seo. Cousin Slick went in fussing along, and a tall, hafnsomc lady got up from h chair, whero sho sat by the firo, and cum towards us, Arter Jason had given her n little infonnalion about tho weather told her it was dreadful cold, soon, ho stepped Lack, end spreading out his lianas sort of liko his wife, sezs ho ' Mrs. this is Air. Jonathan Sliiik, "a voting relation of mine.' I declare It made my heart beat (o seu how nuriilv she smiled her eurchy was as soft and oasy as a bird sho didn't wrig elo up her shoulders and stick out her feet as some of tho rest on 'am did, jist seumod to droop down a liltlo easy and then sho asked U3 to sit d(own, and in losi than no timo wo felt as much to home as if we'd known her ever since she was a baby. In- j stead of b'eglning to give me a lot of soft soddor, as somo of tho other womin did, she just set in, and began to talk about old Con necticut, and sich things as she must a seen was likely to tickle me like all natur, and her voice was so soft, and sho kept a smil ing so, that I never foil so contented in my lifo as I did a talking with her. At last she. begun to ask Jason some ques tions about the-Western- country so 1 had a chanco to look about mo a little. Instead of being dressed out likb a thing sot up for a show, sho hadn't nothing on but a hand some silk frock and a lectio narrow velvet ribben tied round her handsome black hair, that was brushed till it looked as bright as crow's back; I never did seo any thing braided Up s6 nico as it was behind. She hadn't on iho least bit of gold, nor fur bcl ow3 of any kind only jist a leettle pin that glistened liko a Bpark of fire, which pinned tho velvet ribben jist over her white fore head, tt tally beats me to mako out why I can't tell you what was in the room, jist as I do about all tho other places; but some how it aint ea3y to tell the difference, for there was settees, nnd chairs, and tables, and curtains and so on but y it it warcnt a bit like any room l ever seo afore. There Warnt no glistening and shinning and gold and silver, but I couldn't get the no tion otit of my head, that every thing cost a good deal more than if thero had been ev er so much of it. Tho room seemed made exactly for the things that were in it; am! there Warnt a thing that didn't fit into its placo like waxwork. There was ono thing that looked awful handsome and it was rale ginuina loo; but at lirst 1 tlinuglit it was somo of these York-make-b'elicvers. It was a slim green tree, ccnamost tall enough lo reach my head, all blown out and civer- ed over with as much as twenty of the big gest and whitest roses I overdid sec. It was A0jj.ilibOJhhJLWiJWiulAaMnrldjivJi'jj. tho sun come Kinuer,solily through the cur tains down into the white posies, they stern cd to sort o' blush liko a pcachblow; yit they raly were as white, according to natur. as tho cleanest handful of snow you ever see; Thb tree grew out of a great marble flowerpot, and when I asked its name of tho lady, she looked as bright and sweet as one of the flowers, and told me it come from Jappan, away east. Thcro was somo pic lures hung agin the wall, that struck my cyo so that I couldn't keep from looking at 'em She seo hdiv I was took up, scz she That's a beautiful picture Mr. Slick; don't you think so 1 Thero is something in Doughtio's picters that I love lo look oni his grabs and hillocks look so soft and gicsn, he docs excel every American artist most certainly in his asmospher.' ' Wal, mam,' sez I, I aint no judgo of pictures, but sartinly to my notion, that does outshine cousin Jason's lions and roosters and croushongs all to nothing; it don't glis ten so much, but come how them great trees do look so nat'ral and cows lying down un der them so lazy;it ccnamost makes mo hum sick to go back to Wcathersfiuld when I sec it.' Hero Jasc trod on my too with his con srrned hard boot. .Wal, think, sez I, what Have I said now; and I looked right in tho lady's faco to seo if she'd been a laughing; but she looked so sweet .and unconsarned as would bo and, sez she, a getting up and going across tho room for Jaso mado a motion as if ho was in a hurry sez she, ' Let mo help you to somo cake and wine.' With that sho went to a tablo that had some decanters and wine-glasses on it, be sides a Info, of cako as white as the drifted snow. I sniggers, but it-did look as neat as a new pin. Thero was a heap of ralo flow ers and leaves, jist picked from tho bush, frtifrli and fair, twisted round tho edge of tho cake, and a lectio whlto sugar dovo lay smuggled down in tho middle. Cousin Jaso filed tho glasses, and he made a little Hpooi.h but KQinehow it didn't seomo as if I cfiuld go to talking soft sodder to that hand some crittoiv-sho looked so sweet yet pwiuiul. A 3 I did was jist to drink the wine, and then bend my head kinder Boftly to, try and match her curchy but if I didn't wish hot a happy now year in my hfcart, ra a lying toot, that's all. When wo went away, sho gavo us an invite to, come agaip, and sho was mortal pcrlitc to me. If I don't go it'll be because I'm afeard, for I don't know when I'vo taking such a shino to. any thing that wares petticoats; Just ai soon as I'd got clear of tho door, and Jaso had bjiwed and scraped himself out, wo gdt into the carraige again, and sez he Wall, cousin, how do you like Mrs. -?' Like her 1' sez 1, if I don't there's no snakes. She's none of your stuck up, fini- fled, huinburg critters, but a rale ginuine lady, and no mistake.' It s pity she hasn't moro tasto and em ulation to tlx up. her house,' scz he. ' Sho raly dont know how toj cut a dash, and yet her husband is as rich as a Jew.' 'Wal, raly, I dont no what to think of that,' scz I. 'Somehow when I seo every thing in a room kinder shaded off, ono co- our into another that's cnamost liko it, till the hull scctri to bo alike, jist as it is in that lady's room, it seems to take my notion amazingly. I can't tell why but it rnado mo feel as if the room had been made up into a big pictor and as it is in part, and I begun to think that' I was agoing to say something alfiied cutting about these stuck flashy houses and people that I'd seen here in York when tho carriage driv up to a nothcr door. In wo went, eat and drank, and then out agin ; and then it was riding from one house to another, and eating and drinking till it got ennjist dark, and I was clear luckertid out, besides beginning to feel wamble cropped n lcetle, with the heap of sweet tilings I'd becri a eating all day The Now Year day hero in York is sar tainiy as goou as a snow such lots oi gals aa a feller'HCow-nllC iiui!Biyclrnp--Jt,J'"nlivig' Dinner yet a York New Years, a good turkey with plenty of gravy and tatur. I swany howl wish I'd been a eating them things instead of this heap of tarual cake and sugar things I shan't feel right agin in a month, I'm sure on it. I guess you Wheather-ficld teetotalist3 would a started some to see how the young chaps begun lo mal o fence along the stun side-walks towards night; somo on'em were purty well over the bay I can tell you. I went to seo lots of women and pals, and cousin Mary among the rest, and arter cot bacli lo my otiico, I couluu t tret one wink of sleep. My head was chuck full gals all night such a whirring and burring as there was in my upper story vou never did know on, ever time I shut my oyes tho offico seemed chuch full of gals and fca thcrs, cut glass, till it-seemed if I would go crazy a thinking over -all I'd done; but the last thing that got my btain jist afoicldrop pod to sleep, was tho real lady, aud :ny pu cey cousin's stuck up wife. nut i can t slop io write you on alt my dreams that night. I don't think dougli nuts or sugar candies set well on the sto much, ana l don t thinic seeing so many gals sets well on my head. There Is a terrible all-ovcrisli sort ot a ieelwg in a young feller when he's been a cruising a mong tho gals all day, and comes hum and cuddles up in bed at night. When he gets ono gal stuck fast in his hoad and his hoart, as I had Judy White he's as qiiiot ad a kitten, and his head's a sort a settled ; but arter he's been a roving ovor the world as I am doin, his heart is rather lily, and there's nothing that sticks in except the drugs, tho puro essence sifting out all through. Getting in love is somewhat liko getting drunk, ths more a fuller loves the moro ho wants to and when tho hearts gets a going pitly pat, pitly pat, thero is such a swoll, that it busts up all tho stringe, so that it can't hold tho ralo grit at all. When Judy White fust took hold my arm, I give the coat slcevo a real hearty smack, where her hand took hold, and thai coat I really did love butler than any other I ever head on ; -but I novet( think the better 61 my yaller glover for shaking the hands of all the gals irt,York. I'vo only got Miss Miles out of my head, to get a thousand new shining faces in. Lord knows what'll become of rne, Par, if I go on to be bedivelled arter tho women, as I have been this new year's day. When a feller is mado any thing on by 'cm, he must havo been brought up un der eood preaching in YYcathcrsiield to stead in hero in York. I feel as if I should'n't be good for much afore long, myself.tho way I om going on, but to skeet up and down Broadway liko that era Count and to hang round gals' windows with fifes and bassoons, and drums and guitars at night. When they heigh ho mo so, there's no help to feeling icj wish all o ver. I cant iook full into a puriy girl's face all a flashing so, without being kind a dazzled and scorched. It warms me up in this cold weather, ami kindles such, a pulse in my heart, that the blood runs through it as hot as if it had run through a steamboat pipe. And then the all fired critters have so many sly ways coming over a feller with them arociinkum crankums of theirn,thatl don't think much of a man who can see their purty mouths work, and not feel his work too. If they sidle up, I cant help sidling too if I died and when them black eyes fall flash on mine, I wilt right down under'em as cut grass in Wealhersfield on a hot sum merday. it is nature all this, and I can t help it no how. uut you iinow, l'ar, l was Drought up under good preaching, and I now go to Dr. Spring's meeting always as strait ss Sunday comes round, and twice a day. If women do snarl up a feller's heart strings, though they keep him out of other Scrapes, any bo dy will tell you that. A man that is in love a leetle la not always a running into rum hole s, and other such places. He don't get gambling- and isn't a sneaking round at jiifrhis..,i.,t. Love, according to my notien on it, is a good anchor for us on this 'ero voyage of lifo 1 it brings us up so all standing when we put on too much sail. It puts me in mind, now I think on it,ourc cruise through Hell Gate in Captain Doolittle's sloop; for jist as the lido and wind was a carrying us on tho rocks, we dropt anchor and kept off. I look on tho uses of women putty much as I look on the freshet that in spring brings down tho Connecticut tho raal rich soil for the meadows in Weatherfield. They make a creat deal of splutter and fuss in their spring timo, with their rustles and their rib bons, and their flotillas, I know ; but then they light on a fuller for good, they aro tho raal onion patches of his existence. Put us togethcr.and the soil will grow any thing but keep us apart, and we are all thistles and nettles. from tho Statcn Islander. AN INCIDENT OF THE ItEVOLU TION. In the summer of 1779, during one of the darkost periods of our revolutionary struggle, in the then small villago of S- (though it now bears a moro dignified title.) in this stale, lived Judge V ,ono of the firmest and truest patriots within the limits of the ''Old Thirteen," and deep in the con iideuce of Washington. Like' most men in his times and substance, ho had furnishei himself with arms and ammunition, sufli cient to arm tho males of his household. Thcso consisted of himself, three sons and about twenty-fivo negroesi The female part of his family consisted, of his wifo, one daughter, Catharine, about 18 years of age, tho heroine of our tale, and several slaves In the second story of his dwelling house immediately over tho frontdoor was a small room called the 'armory,' in which these arms wero deposited and always kopt ready for immediate use. About tho timo at which wo introduced our story, the neighborhood of tho village was much annoyed by thenoc turnal prowlings and depredations of nume ous Tories. It was on, a calm, bright Sabbath after noon of the aforesaid summer, when Judge V. and his family, with tho exception of his daughter Catharine, and an old indis posed female slave, were attending Service in the village church. Not a breath disturb ed the serenity of- tho atmosphere not a sound profaned the sacred stillness of the day. Tho times were dangbrous.and Catha rine had locked herself and tho old slave itt the house until tho return otthe family frorrt ohurcli. A rap was heard at the front door. 'Surely,' said Catharine to the slave; Uho family have not yet como horned church cannot be dismissed.' The rap was repeat ed, I will seo who it is, said Catharine.asJ she ran up stairs to the armory. On open ing tho window and looking down, sho saw six men standing at ths fiont door and on tho opposite side of the street three of whom he know were Tories, who formely resid ed in the village. There names were Vaa. Zandt, Finly and Sheldon. The other three were strangers, but sho had reason to believo them to be of tho same political stamp, from the company in which she! found them; Van Zandt was a notorious character and the number and enormity of his crimes had rendered his name infamous in that vicinity Not a murder or robbery was committed within miles of S , that he did not get the credit either of planning or executing. Phe characters of Finly and Sheldon wore also deeply stained with crime but Yari Zandt was a master spirit in iniquity. Thd appearance of such characters; under siicrt circumstances, must have been truly 'alarm ing td a young lady of Cathanrie's ago if not to any lady, young or old. But Calharind possessed her father's spirit 'thd spirit of the times,' Van Zandt was standing on the stoop, rapping at the door while hi companions wore talking in a whisper' oh the side walk on thd oppbsile side of tits' street. 'Is Judgo V -at home V asked Vad Zandt, when he Baw Catharin0JittliQ mn? He is not,' said she. We have business of pressing impor tance with him, and if you will open thd door,' said Van Zandt,'&o will walk in and remain till ho returns. No.' said Catharine, ' when ho went td church, ho left particular directions not td have the doors opened until he and the fam ily returned. You had better call wheri the church is dismissed. ' 'No,' retorted the villain, 'we will enter now or never. 'Impossible.' replied she;'you cannot en ter until ho returns.' 'Open the door,' cried ho 'or we'll break it down, and burn you and the house up to gether. So saying, ho threw himself, with all the force he possessed, against the door, and at the same time called upon his com panions lo assist him. The door however resisted his efforts. ' Do not attempt that again,' said Catha rine, ' or you are a ueaa man, at tno samo time presetting from tho window a heavy horseman's pistol, already cocked. At tho sight of this foimidable wedpon, tho companions of Vad Zandt, who had crossed the ctrcet at his call, retreated. What?' cried their leader, 'you cow ards ! aro yoii frightened at the threat of a girl I' and again he threw himself upon tho door. The weapon discharged, and Vail Zandt fell. The report was heard at tho curch, and males and females at once rushed out to as certain tho cause. On looking towards tho residence of Judge V , they perceived fivo men running at full speed, whom the Judge's negrno3 and several others gave chase lo and from an upper window of his residence, a white handkerchief wad waving, as if beckoning for aid; All rushed towards the placo, and upon1 their arrival, Van Zandt was in the agonies' of death. He still retained strength to Ac knowledge that they had long contemplated robbing that house, and had frequently bgen concealed in the neighborhood for that pur pose no opportunity had offered Until thai: day, when lying concealed in tho -(roods; they had seen the Judge and his family gd ing to church? 1 v 1
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