The Columbia Democrat. (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, May 02, 1840, Image 3

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    V fcVrtih Ur 3rUos?.tUt twfr.ly
r x Counterfeiters have Ijrfn arrested in
(';mrida: Application havirjg been made to
Xhe provincial authorities tttbt effect by
ihc Governor of Massachusetts. It seems
Mi
. . , .rMn.r lia. Iinn nr.
a liitaiKAaa fit rtntintfiffotlini IiaS UCCn eX I
v .,uo...v.o ... ww-.. , , .
icnmvdiy carried on in -
vrn,s anJi..SI,mecasef the imitationB were
mo good, as to deceive e-cn the bank
vers themselves.
iwmj mjiu till Ml
offi-
"Log Cabin) anilJford CWer."A. cor-
triDondeiit savs that ihe twaddle
o(
the
whin about "losr cabins and haid cider,
fpminds him of Nero fiddling while Rome
was burning. They liave pushed their la-
"voritw bank policy so far as to involve mul
titudes in irretrievable ruin.depnve laboring
men of employment, and reduce the prices
nf manv articles in many parts of the coun
try to a lower rate than itiey would ever
'have been if wejhad an exclusively metallic
cuirrenry; and now, instead of seriously
vnnceiving lu;w these evils can be allcviat
eil, and their recurrence prevented, they
lire amusing the sufferers by building ea
hins of logs, as children build houses of
cards, and giving the workingmcn glasses
-of hard cider to swallow.
Coutcn'pt for the people is deeply inroov
cd in tho veiv soul ol wlnggery, but cer
tainly it never manifested itself more open
ly than in this "log cabin and hard cider'
ibusiness." Globe.
M-asHHSssras!
AN IMPORTANT PARAGRAPH.
Tho following section of a law passed
by the Legislature before its adjournment is
one of much importance, particularly to
printers, nud is. calculated to prevent impo
sition and coircct abuses which have here
to fore been practiced to a great extent.
In all cases when any Shoriff, Prothon
otarv Register of Wills, or Clerk of Court
Shall be required by law, or an order of
court, to publish any notice in the newspa
pers, and is allowed by law or said order to
charge the expense of said advertisement,
it shall bo the duty of said officer to make
out a bill showing specifically the amount
actually paid for printing said notice; and if
said olhccr shall charge any other or great
er amount than actually paiu lor publishing
saul notice, lie shall be subject to the pen
jiliics prescribed by law for taking illegal
. fees, to be sued for and recovered in the
mode prescribed by the 20th section ol an
net entitled an act establishing a feu bill, pas
sed the 27th March, 1814; but subject to
the limitation contained in the 15th section
of tho supplement .to said act, passed the
22d February. 1821 : Provided. That the
'pVrialtyshall not take effeot until the 1st
day of August next."
Tlie act referred to is contained in Pur-
don's Digest? page 4l5r, from which we ex-
Uact the following :
" If any officer shall charge or demand
and tako any ol tho lees herein belore as
certained when the business for which such
fees are chargeable shall not have been ac
tually donoand performed; oi if any officer
shall eharge or demand any fee for any ser
vices other than those expressed heretrfore
Itv this act, such oflicer shall forfeit and pay
to the party injured FIFTY DOLLARS,
to be reeoverod as debts of the same amount
aie recoverable.'
SINGULAlfFoNOMANIA.
The Boston Mercant le JorjKl of Ust
week publishes a letter from North Brook-
(field, Mass., detailing the most singular rase
wof monomania, attempts at murder, and
ffubseaucnt suicide, which our coin ins have
nlironicled for a long lime past. The hero
f the traced v was a Mr.- Whipple Harden,
of HiookfielJ. llarllett was a miser, and
had two debtors iu Brookfiold,one of whom
owed him three and the other twenty-five
dollar. He tried to kill both for their nnn
payment, but iu one case was foiled by be
ing thrust out ol the door bclore he could
use his pistol. In tho other he tired at his
intended victim, Mr. Nathaniel Sipw, but
the pistol halt struck it button, and did small
iuinrv. Rarth'tt then drove to a field in
which he had previously deposited a loud
rVf dry wood. In his wagon was overy ar
ticle of his personal property.
lie took his horse ont of the shafts and
' Vitr.hed htm to the ffinco, put a buffalo skin
on him and returned to his funeral pile.
He plarcd himsolf in suoh a position as
that he thought he should fall on the wood,
"which he had set on fire, and on which ho
1md thrown all his properly. He then blew
his brains out with a pistol, but when he
fell he did not fall on the wood, as he inten
ded, hut felt' down by the side of it In
his xliuation he was found next day, with
one hand burnt off and one side of his face
burnt to a coal. It appears that his inten
lion wa3 to have destroyed himself and all
his property, even to the last cent. And
as his axo and "spear would not burn, he
sold them for money. In the ashes of the
fire were found about I t z. of melted sil
ver, and in his pockets 70 or 80 dollars in
hills, and his two watches. Three pistols
laid,by his 8ide,!taving provided one for Rice
one'far Stow, and one for himself. In the
fire were found the remains of-a stone jug-
The election for President and Vica Pres.
idetil'of the United States lakes place in all
the stalest in the courso of November next'.
DISASTROUS CONFLAGRATION,
IN KINGSTON, UPPER CANADA.
We have tills day to re'cotd another dis-
asirous mo in lungstoni unofcr Uanaua.
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iii.ii tuun iiiatc uu mv iiikiiv ui iriuuy i
ui ua neck, uunnc a vioieni aio oi winu. i
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All the larrm W9rTlinncri linvn hdon lvnt 1
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Pc.Pai places ol Dimness, ine on-
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arc from Sackett s Harbor and Rochester.
In addition to other property destroyed, all
the lurniture belonging to the steamboat
Great Britain was burned. There were in
all about SEVENTY-FIVE BUILDINGS
CONSUMED, and the loss is estimated at
HALF A MILLION OF DOLLARS.
many persons were iniured, and one
man, we understand, was killed. A tre
meudous explosion of gunpowder, which
was in one of the wharehouses, scattered
burning fragments far and wide.
An immense amount of property, wo un
dcrsland, was destroyed among which we
learn was about lu.UUO barrels Hour: one
schr. the Lord Nelson,' and one small
steamboat wero consumed.
The fire, is supposed by some, to have
originated from spuria blown from the cliira
hey ui the 1 elcgiaph into Mr. Counter s
warehouse. She comjnenced firing up a
doui o ciocK, ana witiun an uour ana a
hall sltcrwarus, the alarm ol are was giv
en.
fiESSBHBRmS
Honesty Poverty Rewarded. A gentle
man of Now York arrived at the Tiemont
House a day or two ago, on his way to
Lowell, and while in the city had occasion
to exchange some money. He placed the
bills in his vest pocket, and took the cars
for Lowell. When he reached there he
discovered that he had lost a five hundred
dollar bill. The loss seemed irrcpaiable
and he abandoned all hope ot recovering
the money. The gentleman returned from
Lowell, and was not a little surprised to
learn that a methodist clergyman, the Kev
r. u. 1'iercc, had been put in possession
ol his money by an honest orange seller,
named Uonuell, at the Lowell depot, who
had found it there, the gentleman having
dropped it while procuring a ticket for the
cars. I He first thing ttic gentleman did
Upon, getting his money back, was to pre
sent Uonneli with til ty dollars, and ho as
sured Connell besides, that if ever he was
thiown out of employment, he would at
ways find a friend ready to assist him.
lioston Alias.
legislative unanimity. it is hut very
seldom that we perceive in the proceedings
ol legislative body, an evidence ol that cor
dial unanimity which ought to characterize
persons holding the same opinions relative
to the great republican principle. There are
lorever some "crooked sticks," use Johny
Randolph for instance, who, if they did not
oppose every thing, could not live. The
members of tho Louisana legislature, fur a
wonder, however, were recently entirely
unanimous in voting on a subject which
came before them a circumstanre which
has hardly a parallel in the legislation of this
country. The proceedings upon the ques
tion are given in the Picayune :
"There was no dodging; no requests to
the honorable gentleman to postpone his le-
solution no logrolling; no lobbying; no
member stool up in his place to say that it
was a subject upon which he had not made
up his mind; no one wished for time to con
sidei; no one said the motion was brought
forward to servo a political purpose; no a
monuments were ottered; no substitute was
suggested; no constitutional objection w as
raised; no one said he would oppose it as a
whig measure, no one as a loco fuco; no one
called it a humbug, a wooden horse, a blind
or a hobbv; but all voting for it without a
dissenting voice it was a" "perfect straight
shoot." If there was any delay at all in driv
ing the motion through.it arose from the fact
that one gentleman was not fully awako at
the time.
"All that are in favor of this motion will
say aye," said the Speaker.
All said one. save one.
"Did you say no?" continued tho speak
cr, addressing tho gentleman above alluded
. . it-. - .1.- !.: I...
to, wno is generally in tun oppusiuun wnav
ever may he tho question.
"Yes 1 " said he, " I remared I had no
objection to voting for the resolution" he
havniff bv this time found out what it was
about.
I'erliapi the reader would, by this lime
ko lo know what it was about. It was a
resolution then, lo increase the payment of
members.
ssraasssfflH!
The Westchester Herald says : the L-ove
of Crotnn must have been literally alive
with fish nn Monday of last week; for wo
urn rri-ilihlv informed that our enlernrm-
inr fisherman, having their noils in that re
gion, caught in one net not less than eighty
hundred weight of fish 1 or about four tons,
of bass, shad.and a variety of other descrip-
tions.This is an extraordinary haul with us,
and ulioL'ethcr larger thin we recollect to
have heard uf nt this place before.
A FATAL DUEL.
Joseph II. Wade and R D. Robertson,
of Hinds county, Miss., and more recent
ly of Lnuiniana, met on the 8th inst , on
tho bunks of the Mississippi, a little above
Vioksburk, and killed each other in a duel.
io iii i
It is said that Miss Shirreff and Mr. Wil
son have each cleared from 910 to $ 50,000
since thpy came to this country.
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mxlH or twragtn iirupusiuun which
wag lately imruuiiceu mm tuu ouuuiu ui
r...t.. i.. I o r
IjOUtSallB, 10 eXietlU 1MB nglU 01 SUIiragB 10
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everv while male citizen ol lawlut age in
inat State, was voted down ftwv fog-co-
... flm-.on r,,fcrl;s, ,,,,,,,''
it, and every lJemocrat voting in Us fa-
vor.
The Buffalo Sun of last Satutday,saya
'Yesterday morning, at 4 o'clock,' some
mischievous person, by means of powder,
blew to atoms the celebrated monument, op
posite Lewiston, erected to the memory of
Uen. mock, w.c hopc lor our own cred
it, that this was not the work of aa Ameri
can citizen.
Henry Wild, a tailor who lived in 1C94
becamo in a few years while working at
his trade, master of tho Latin, Greek) He
brew, Chaldee, byriac, Arabic and Persian
languages.
Prai.ies onfirt ! Mr. Black, one of the
supposed "Whig" representatives in
Congress Irom ueorgia, has come out de
cidedly in opposition to Gen. Harrison, and
in favor ol iir. Van Huron lor tho I'resi
Uency.
The people of New Haven havo Toted
an appropriation of 95000 Tor the ornament
ing of their already beautiful burying
ground, on condition that an equal
sum be raised by subscription among; the
citizens.
A nan named Robet McBeatli undertook
to perfoim a surgical operation on one Da'
vid Hunter, at est. John, N. 15. a few days
since, and through his ignoranco killed his
patient. 1 lie coroner s jury leturned a
verdict of man slaughter against him, and
he Wos committed for trial therefor.
Tho price of tho faro on the rail road
from Boston to Dedham, (distance ten
miles,) was reduced, a week or two since,
from 37j cents to 20. Since the reduction,
the weekly receipts of the road have near-
doubled.
Royal Marriages. Until the wedding
of ictona, nearly eighty years have elaps
ed since the mamage of a sovereign has
been celebrated in England George III.
having been united to Uueen Uharlotte on
the 7th of September, 1761.
We learn by the Eastern papers that Pe
tcr Edos, the veteran printer, died at Ban
gor, Me., on the 20th tilt, at the advanced
age of 83. Mr. Edes, it is believed, was
the oldest printer in the United btates.
Till within a few years he resided in Bal
timore, and assisted his son, the late Col
Edes in his office, in the capacity of proof
leader.
It is stated that (lour has lately sold in
Texas for S100 per bbl. Corn for $14 per
bushel, and pork for 875 per hundred
Texan moneys of course, which is.a good
deal worse than the paper money ol the u
Statos.
The Dublin Total Abstinence Society,
commenced in November, has alread COOO
.members. The clergy throughout Ireland
are following the example of Father Math
ew, and placing themselves at the head of
the Temperance movement, rather ftiatn
aw, it is stated, had administered the pledge
to moro than a million of persons.
The Olloes and Ioways are dspredaling
on the horses and cattle of the farmers ol
Buchanan county, in the northwest part of
Missouri. Col. Kearnev, at Fort Leavens
worth, has despatched a squandron of 100
U. . Uragoons. unuer uapi. uoone, ir.
pursuit ; and Gen. Atchcson, of the m litia,
has been called upon to aid with two or
three companies of his division.
Jl Quaker's Letter, Friend John, I do
sire thee to be so kind as to go to one of
those sinful men in the flesh, called attor-
noys, and let him take out an instrument,
with a seal thereunto, by means whereof
he may seize the ou ward tabernacle of
George Green and bring him before the
lamb skin men at Westminster, and teach
him to do as he would be done by.
Thy friend, R.
Negro Cloth is manufactured iu the Pen-
Herniary at Baton Rouge, (La.) The lin-
seys manufactered there are said to be su-
perior to those at the norm, and that ine
cnnvictH will shortly be able to manufacture
2000 ynids per day,
A man named Taylor recently went into
the woods in Adams county, (Illinois,) to
cut limber; a log knocked him down and
rolled upon his thighs, holding him in that
position until he died, which, from appear
Unces, was not until several days after the
accident
Cincinnati Election. The late election
in Cincinnati, about which the Whigs have
boasted so largely, tutns out to be a hard
cider affair for the Whigs. In 1838 the
majority against Dr. Duncan in that city
was J217. In the late election taking the
candidalo for an office which was made a
tcsLnf party strength, the Whig candidate
opined a majority of 1051, showing a
jemocratic gain of 100. It is thus the he
ro runs at homo. Go it Tip. Come it
Tylct.
OBITUARY.
DIED In Hemlock on Thursday eve
ning, April 23d, MARTHA JANE, daugh
ter of Mr. Alexander Roat, aged one year
six months and eight days.
EPA'S' ENS IPIBHSJ-MBEi 2
Of alt kinds. Also BUTTER and
WOO received in payment for papers at
this oihee.
iySIMTARtf NOTICE.
nsTtHl) 1st DatUllion of tho 71st Regiment are
II notified to meet at OranceVillc on Thursday,
tho Slat day of May next, and tho Volunteer Com
panies attached thereto, to meet at tho same limo
and place.
The ZU llattallion ol tne 7ist uegiment, witn
tho Volunteer Companies attached, will meet at
Cattavvissa, on Friday, the 32d day of May. The
JattalUona will meet tor pdraUo atld inspection
with arms and accoutrements in goad druerat 10 o
clock. A. M.
As tUero is a prospect of War, the Colonel hopes
a military spirit will pervade uolli ellicers and men,
and should their country require it, they will be rca
ly and willing to servo her with promptitude and
honor.
It is expected that one or both of the Generals
will bo present.
XI. M'UUWtit.1. vol.
lUt Ilea. 1st Bris. 8th I). P. M.
Courts uf anneal will be held on tho second Mon
day of June, for the 1st j?attalhon at Orangcvillc)
and for the 3d Vattallion at Hearing orecKi
NOTICE
The Subscriber lias this day Waned to
Sedgewick Wells, of Dloomebufg, the fol
lowing property, viz : 12 chairs, 30 yards
carpetting, 1 copper kettle, 1 wash stand, 1
breakfast table, $ rocking cliaim, and said
S. Wells holds them on a Ibabe from me,
and in no other way.
THEODORE WELLS.
April 14, 1840.
CASTAS
IHE subscriber has for sale a CANAL tOAT
of about 50 tons burthen has bcCri ill use
one year, and would be sold on reasonable terms as
lo price and payments, or wouiu ibkc pay in oiono
Coal or in freighting produce to Baltimore or Phil
. ... . ; o i-
adelphia. Address the subscriber.
JVI. IHCDU W titilj.
McDowell's Mills, (Bloom,) Col. co. March 14.
The Wilkcsbarre Republican Farmer will please
publish the above three times, and forward their
bill to this office.
SCHOOL ELECTION.
NOTICE is hereby given, that an Elec
tion will be held at the house of Robert
Hagcnbuch, on
Tuesday the 5th day of May next,
to decide, by ballot whether the Common
School System shall be continued in tho dis-
. f Til t . I. n i L ... atnct
iriCV Ol U1UOIII, IUI U1U CllSUIllg IU1UC jsaia.
Commencinu between one and two o
clock in the afternoon.
CHARLES KAHLER,
Sec. B. Birector.
, Bloom, April 18, 1840.
Mew Store.
THE Subscriber would tespectfully inform the
public genrtijlly, that he has purchased the
Tlrirlr lfnnsn nn -rnrnerof tho Market sauare in
the town of Rlmsburg, late the estate of Henry
Giger, deceased,
TO WHICH HE HAS
REMOVED HIS
9
and thus pi'rmanentlr. as he hopes, established him-
EClf in bubVness in this tUct.' Ho has on hand a
neat and general ossortmcntioi
s. Liauors,
1B
which he offers ft.-jvi
at very reasonable rates,
forcaiUorcountijirje
jj g.hla eneW
1 He amder' 'l'1'
f-....1 ozv,
; and intends shortly to
ml, by new supplies from
for the liberal encourage-
mtit hn fifVuvfci.
Xlince his establishment in
( lfully solicits a continuance
Dloomh
I
of publ-
nnuo va JOHN HORTMAN.
hTa-.iS-',1840' 50-Gt
Bloom!
2000
PRIME PICIftLES,
For sale, or in smaller quantities. GllV
UCU Seeds from a POTATUIS down
to a MUSTARD SEED. Also, Two
MALLS, with IRON ami WOODEN
WEDGES besides a few Cablbngc
Heads !
ELI THORNTON.
Hemlock township, April 4.
Sometime last winter, near Bloomsburg
Basin, a
Los? Chain.
The finder shall bo reasonably rewarded
bv giving information to this office where
it may be found.
TnoSi'UrTfS FOR THE EXTRA GLOBfc'
The publication of the " Extiu Grons" will
commence early iu May, and bo continued six;
monllis; The first number will contain ine pro
ceeding of the Democratic Convention to be held
Id Baltimore the first week in May, to norhinatd
candidates for President and Vice President of the
United Stales.
TERMS i
For 1 c6pjr
' C copies ,6
13 " 10
" 2fi '5 20
And In proprotion for a greater number, (
Payments may bo Uansmittcd by mail, at our risk)
postage paid. The notes of any incorporated bank
in the United Slates, current in infection oi coun
try rthcro a subscriber resides, will be received.
But When subscriber cdn prdcuts the notes o(
banks In the Northern and Middle States, they will
please send them.
(j"I'o attention will le paid to any order un
less the money, accorfipanieeiti The low price fur
which we publish this paper t precludes credit, to
for any person to send an order to uSjhol accompa
nied by the money.
To insuro all the numbers, subscription should hi
here by the 15th May nt.it, at farthest.
IILiAlll & 111 V I..
Washington City, 16th April, 1840.
THINK AND ACT aUICK!
("fifllitj subscriber intending to close his business
In Hloomsbufrr atld mnVn out oftown, on tuo
first day of Apall, calls bp'oil all persons ihdebtcd to
him td come fdtwird and close their accounts before
that time, or th'ty Will be left with n justice to settld
according to law. KEUUEtf UUA1UUX.
March 81, 1840.
Sloomsburg Artillery
KE hereby commanded tb meet at BLOOMS;
BUltG, on
Monday, the 4th of May nextf
at ten o'clock, hi the forenoon, for company drill.
1 he Bloomsbufg Band are required td
meet with tllo colnpany:
Uy order ol the uommandanb
E. ARMSTRONG), 0. S.
April 18, 1840.
PUBLIC HOUSE,
THE Subscriber informs the publie that
He lias taken the well known
TAVERN
'STAND
lately occupied by Daniel Gross, in Blooms-
burg, Columbia county, and solicits a share
of public patronage. His BAR and LAR
DER will always be supplied with the best,
and having good stabling arid attentive host-
lers, he flatters himself that he shall bis ablo
1 In rrlltn e n i I nfl .tlnfl In oil Itrll n t4nt hall n
1 iu Eliu BaiiDigbuuu w uu nuv mo; VII
him.
E. HOWEL.
Bloomsburg, April 11, 1840.
NEW LANDLORD,
. Orangeville, Columbia County, Pa.
THE subscriber inform? the public, tha T
he has taken the above well known eland
lately kept by Samuel Richer, and invites
his friends and the public generally to giva
him a call. His
BAR
shall at all times be supplied with the best
and choicest of Liquors, and his
-LARDER
with all the choicest dclicaces of the season)
With geod attention in the house) and nt-
ientive hostlers, and good stabling) hopes td
merit and receive a share of public patron)
nSfl u ,
April 11, ifcUd.
INDEPEFBENCE.
THE celebrated and well bred korso
INDEPENDENCE, will be kept for ser
vice at the stable of the bubsenber, in
Bloomsburg, the ensuing season, to com
mence on the first of April and end on the
first day of July next, on moderate terms.
Bav, having a black list along his back, and
black legs, mane, and tail. He stands us
ing sixteen lt3hds night anu lor symetry
and movement, he can have but very few su
periors on this Continent. His former own
er kept him for the turf) on which ho nov
er lost a race, for six hundred yards, and a
quarter of a mife. He is well known in
tnis neighborhood to be a sure horse; and
his stock of more value, than that of any
other horse that has bfien kept in the county
for many years past; .
The Sire of INDEPENDENCE, was
the celebrated Imported hone, Printer, tho
swiftest horse, at that time, in the United
States. His Dam was got by the imported
horse Whipt Grand Dam, by the imported
horse Quicksilver; all first rate horses; that
wero tho noble progenitor's of what is now
considered, the best blood( and most valua
ble stock in Kentucky. t
NOAll S. PRENTIS.
Bloomsburg, April 7th, 1810.
Fresh Garden Seeds.
THE subscriber has just received n sup
ply of Ffesh Garden Seeds, from tho United
Society of Shakers in the state of New,
York, which aro considered Ilia best and
cheapest offereA,lo ,nc P"01'0-
v 1 1 JOHN R. MOYERi
March 21.