whfinft u trcmand&tts and irresistible 1 every of tho Americari troops, forced m to reireat again and agin, tearing the fund 'strewn with the dead and the dying! a. eir, lie was there : and he needs no ilificates to pYowe that hb tear there. e proofs are to be seen in hit limping It smd scarred and battered frame. But leu him again tlio honored recipient of gratitude ol his tollow-ment havinir fen five times elected the Governor of his Stive State. And I sec liim now; old, Eir-woni, anu uccrepu; qui not too oia ?ak and debilitated as ho itto como for- a i i t-.i... i nrd and leave his fat-distant home for his lontry s sake. This is the soldicii" IAs Mr. Howard said this, ho laid his End upon the whitened locks of tlio vets Carroll ! 1 he feeling may be imagined f-it cannot bo described. Every delegate that vast body rose, and a bright tear ficklcd down tho cheek of the old warrior Ihile one cheer upon another, from the cry couls ot those present, repaid the elo uont Speaker. This is a Democratic enthusiasm. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT. 8.1 TUHO.1 V, JUJS'E 13, 1810. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 1840. For President, MARTIN VAN BUREN. For Vice President,. RICHARD M. JOHNSON. AND TUB CONSTITUTIONAL TREASURY. ELECTORAL TICKET. -e t..j: . UUUi U. iililfbK, Ul ivciawaii;, j 1 Uol. John l liompson 2 Benjamin Mifllin Frederick Stoevcr 3 Mm. H. Smith 4 John F. Stcinman John Uowlin Henry Myers fi Daniel Jacoby 5 Jesso Johnson 7- JapMi Atili 12 Frederick Smith 13 Charles M'Cluro 14 J. M. Gemraell 15 G. M. HoIIenback 1C Leonard ffoutz 17 John Hortonjr. 18 William Philson 18 John Morrison 20 Westly Frost SI Bcnj. Anderson 22 William Wilkina 23 A. K. Wright 24 John Fimllcy 25 Stephen Barlow S Geo. Christman v vm. oiiscner in Wnrv Tnlillir 1 Henry ljogan GLORIOUS NEWS THE QUESTION SETTLED. Bar Iron made from iron smelled in an Anthracite Furnace. Tuesday the Oth inst. was a proud and glorious day for Pennsylvania. It decided the long mooted question of BAR IRON being made from iron smelted in an AN THRACITE FURNACE. The trial was made at the Caltawissa Forge, in tho pres ence of several gentleman, with iron from the Roaring Creek Anthracite Furnaco, madorom the poorest Bloomsburg ore, and succeeded beyond the utmost hopes of eve ry one. A bar was forged inle6s time than it usually takes to manufacture charcoal iron, and sevcial articles made from it, among others the most difficult, horse nails, and what is more, a fish hook, with which a- tout two dozen of trout wero caught on the name day, by Col. Joseph Paxton. The iron is toft and malcable, and is pronounc ed by Mr. Beidleman, of this place, who lias worked some of it, and who is a good judge, to be the best he ever saw, and ca pable of being used for any purpose for which iron is adapted. On the same day, some of the pig iron from the same Furnace was converted into castings, at the foundry of Mr. Maus, in this place, and succeeded to admiration. It flowed more free, and made softer and smoother castings than char coal iron and it was pronouncod by Mr. Maus to ho superior to Scotch pig iron. Thus, has the great desideratum been set tled beyond doubt or controversy, that bar iron, and that too, of the best quality, can be made out of Anthracite iron, made from Bloomsburg, Columbia county, ore. The march will now be onward, onward, until the iron and coal tegions of Pennsylvania, will become the richest portion of the Uni ted States. Our neighbor in Danvillo appear to grow rabbid m warm weather approaches. We have heard several 'reason given for this soro affliction, but none more probable than the one given by a friend at our elbow the fear of being drowned this fall by the rhhinj Creek water power. "THUT1I WITHOUT Kill " ROARING CHEEK ANTHRACITE FUHNACEt This Furnace whicH went into operation about four weeks since, still continues in the full tide of euccessfull experiment, an swering tho most sanguine expectations of all interested. It is turning out about 00 tons weekly, of pig iron of the best quality. The success of this experiment opens a new era in tho prosperity and business of Columbia county, as well as the whole state of Pennsylvania. Having Iron Ore, Anthracite Coal, and Limestone in abund ance, with WATER POWER sufficient to drive thousands of Furnaces, tho time must be short, when Pennsylvania clone will bo table to supply the market of the country, and thus stop tho exportation of millions yearly to foreign countries, for this necessary article. At the time the Furnace started) wo gave a brief description of it; but having met with the following letter from Mr. Farquhar, tho Pottsville Em porium, we republish it with pleasure, as giving a more full and interesting account of tho completion and success of this Furnace. From the Pottsvillo Emporium. Roaring Creek Iron Works, ? May 20, 1840. $ John S. Ingram, Esq. Dear Sir: Our Anthracite Furnaco, (tho first for smelling iron with anthracite in Columbia county,) went into blast on Monday, the 18th inst. and thus far, every thing has worked to our entire satisfaction. No charcoal whatever has been used, ox cept'a few bushels to start the fire, and no scrap iron has been put into the furnace, so that all tho iron made is exclusively from the ore. The furnace was put in blast at half past four, on the morning of the 18th. On the 19th, at G A. M. tho first casting was made, and produced very fair iron. Up to this time, we have mado 14 castings of upwards of one ton each, (averaging the number of castings.) This, considering that the furnaco is new, and tho hearth cold and damp, is doing very well for the first week. This improvement was made by your enterprising and indefatigable fel low citizen, Burd Patterson. Esq. who has been the " great head and front" of all the iron operations in Columbia county. The coal used here is from Wilkesbarre. and tlio oro from the " Patterson Mines," at Bloomsburg. I will give you a sketch of tho size of our Stack, &c : Stack, 30 feet base; height, 31 feet; width across the bosclies, 0 feet ; size of hearth, 2i feet by 3 feel in the square, 7 feet long in the bottom, and 5 feet High. The casting house is GO by 80 feet. Here the coal and ore arc always kept dry, there by saving much fuel, -and producing a more uniform working cf the furnace. The stock house is attached to tho h rid go house by largo sheds,. so that tho fillers of the furnace aio always protected from bad weather. The water wheel is 20 feet high, and 8 feet in the clear; it is a pitchback w'ieel, with 7 feet head. Tho blowing cylinders aro 40 by 72 inches, and are capa ble of blowing into tbe furnace, with the power here used, 4300 feet of the blast per minute nearly double the amount re quired for our (utnace. The hot blast arrangement is perhaps one of the best in use. It consists of four chambers, each coniaining twelve pipes, and the blast passes from chamber to cham ber, till it passes through forty-eight pipes, and out into the furnace. The heated air will melt lead, and the furnaces are capa bio of healing tho blast to 800 degrees nearly two hundred more than is used by Mr, Ciane, in Wales ; his blast being heat od only to 012 degrees. We havo had, as yet, none of the vexations of bad machine ry that attended your experience at Potts ville, as tho power used hero is exceeding ly simple in arrangement; yet of great strength. Our wheel has not been stopped since we wont into blast. The water pow er hero is ono of tho best in the state. The stream Roaring Creek is a never failing one, and has a fall on the property attached to the works of more than fifty feet. I lnve now completed my part of the undertaking the erection of the works and have given up tho charge of them to Dr. A. Stoinbcrger, who has leased them fot a t:rm of years. Mr. Per ry has been engaged by him to blow the furnaco for ono year. Thus you see I have, according to your request, given you all the minut'uu of our operations. To Burd ratterson, Esq. must we giro the credit of putting the ball in motion in the valley of the Susquehanna, and I assure you it will bo hard to " slop that ball." 1 hope now, that tho experiment has been so fairly tested, that you will soon make a be ginning in the iron legion ol bhiiyllcill It CO II f .1 it know of no location where money could be more profitably invested in the anthra cite iron business, than in the coal and iron region of Schuylkill county. There you havo tho best coal known for tlio manufac ture of iron, and an abundancu.of excellent ore, and then nil the facilities both by rail road and canal, for transporting tho manu factured article to market. I am entirely of the opinion that iron will be made most profitably in the coal region, for from tliu raw material to the nail, the coal will be found to be tho heaviest article, and in the manufacture of iron, transportation is al ways considered tho heaviest item in the bill of expense. Mr. Perry says the white ash coal that he worked at Pottsvillo is the best fot smelting iron he ever met with, and much supeiior to the coal from the Wyoming Valley; and he also says tho finest body of oro he ever ceo is that noar Mincrsville, opened by R. C. Hill, Esq. The Messrs. Careys have also a very fine body of iron ore at St. Clair, which is said to bo superior, both in quantity and quality, to any in the coal region of Schuylkill county- Surely, with such an abundance of ma terial, of the best quality, every inducement is held out to persons about entering the iron business, to vis't the coal and ore re gion of Schuylkill county, and see for ihemBelves the many advantages and facili ties for making iron that the coal region af fords. Among others, wo should not for ect the Machine Shops of Messrs. Hay wood & Snyder, and Pomroy, whore they aro prepared to mako all tho machinery no cessarv for anthracite furnaces. The coal region of Schuylkill county is destined at no distant day, to be ono of the largest manufacturing districts in the Union. Tlio times may keep her back fur a while, but they cannot slop it. Theso aro my wews, hastily thrown together. I may bo wrong, but I think I am right. Very respectfully, EDWARD Y. FARQUHAR. The Editor of the Danvillo Intelligonccr, in publishing tho above letter, with his usu al characteristic liberality and fairness, makes the following generous and candid remarks : " It will be observed that Burd Patterson, Esq. is named by Mr. Farquhar, as tho " great head and front of all tho iron ope rations in Columbia County." Those who have embarked so largely in the iron busi ness in this region, and Know most about it, seem williuu to concede to Mr. Patter son the honor claimed for him, as being tho greatest Anthracite pioneer. It will likewise be obcorved that Mr. Farquhar snvs he is "entirely of tho opinion that iron will be made most profitably in tho coal region," arid that ho knows of "no Io cation where monoy could bo moro profita' blv invested in tho Anthracito Iron business than in the coal and iron rcjjinn of Schuvl kill countv." And the Miners' Journal printed at Pottsville, in Schuylkill county, savs that Mr. Farquhar "intends to mako his residence among us, and hopes to put up similar works in our own region, in which wo trust ho mayuo speedily engaged." Now we sincerely wieh our Schuylkill neighbors all the prosperity that their minerals and transcendent local advan tages can give them, and join in tho hope that Anthracito Furnaces may multiply and projper, in their region whero enterprise,' ikill, and courage, surmounted every obsta cle, and bore off the palm, in furnishing ir refutable proof that excellent iron can be successfully and cheaply, madovvith anthra cite,. But we are somewhat 'disinclined' to concur with Mr. Farquhar, in the opinion that "iron will bo made moBt profitably in tho coal region." Else why did Burd Pat terson, Esq. of Pottsville, becomo tho "great head and front" of all tho iron ope rations in Columbia county ?" Why has George Patterson, of Pottsville, chosen Danville as the scite for a largo end splen did Anthracito Furnaco, which he will now have in blast in a few days ? Why has Biddlc, Chambers & Co. selected Danvillo as the scite for the immense works creating and projected by them ? Why is it that we have five Anthracite Furnaces, we may say already, in this vicinity, ono in blast, two just ready to go into blast, and the stacks of two others going up, while at Pottsvillo, where the superior advantages are so mag nificicnt and transcendent, the foundation for a second stack or Furnace is not laid. Why is that Haywood & Snyder, of Potts ville, the wealthy, discerning, and enter prising proprietors of the Steam Engine Manufactory, at that place, havo broken ground at Dsnville.ono hundred nnd seven ty by lorty feet in extent, for the election of a building in which to manufacture Steam Engines and other Machinery ,-it this place? v uy is tuat the l-arrandsvillo Uompany who have their oro mines in Columbia county, and their iron works in tho coal re gion of the West Branch, havo suspended operations ! For the present wo will not increase or extend these highly important aim interesting inquiries, nor aro we capa bio of answering ihcm to the satisfaction of somo of our esteemed neighbors in ad joining counties ; so we will closo this, as wo havo heretofore done other paragraphs on tne same subject, by cordially and earn estly inviting all capitalists about entering into tlio iron business, to go and see, and como and see, all tlio solid and inflattd ecitcs lor such cosily works ; bo iiinuisi live, scrutinize closely, ascertain the exact cost of building material, ore and coal at each ecilo,tho quality of the oro, cipher the I vr It r n it n tr i It r ffft -i A no a nnil 1 I " UVIU UU IV till lUUIUtlllU hUi(? AUU MJUlt IU .... , ,', ,,, cate, but not till then.' It will bo evident to every one upon read ing tho above, that the Editor harbors no feelings of envy or jealously towards oith er Bloomsburg or Pottsville, no fears that tho "inflated" and gourd like growth of tho works in Danville will be eventually eclips cd by the splendid establishments that are about being built, both at Bloomsburg and Pottswille; upon a " solid" and permanent basis. Oh, no, he displays no such nar row, sordid and contracted views, IU ts above such " tall and lean" notions. If anv further ovidehcb is wanting to be sat isfied of his disinterestedness, read tho fol lowing closing section of the above article. If this does not display feelings perfectly in keeping with tho whole editorial career of the writer clearly showing that he en tertains no unkind feelings towards any portion of the county, particularly tbo up per and middle section, then wo acknowl edge, that for once, we aro mistaken. Even tho five voles are not remembered. "By tho way, and before we closo, a few questions to our near neighbors, who are intent upon pursuing the old-fashioned water power road to wealth and importance and who, without any just cause or provo cation, occasionally accuso us ot selfishness in noticing the progress of tho iron busi ness, when the truth is, we arc desirous to aid !u advisine the public cf tho march of such improvements, let them be located where they may, while the papeis printed in a neighboring village in Ibis county, are so very generous, magnanimous, and pub lic spirited, that up to this lime, they even withhold tho fact from tlio readers of the columns of their papers, that there u any oro in the vicinity of this place or any iron works eroded or projected, at Danvillo ! Now we havo repeatedly noticed tho erec tion and improvements to tho Bloomsburg Iron Foundry, conducted by Mr- Mans, with heart-felt approbation and pleasure; wo havo admitted, and promulgated the fact, that ore of the best quality abounds in tho vicinity of Bloomsburg; that tho mines in that vicinity were opened and worked for years, in advanco of any openings in this vicinity ; the oro being taken to the Caltawissa Furnace, on Caltawissa Creek, to tho old Roaiing Creek Furnace, to Foun dryvillo Furnaco, near Berwick-, to Far- randsvillc, the Juniata, and other places. But without further picfacc, let us come to the catechism; and as our Bloomsburg noijjhbors have for yeais been blowing their 'horns, sounding their buglc3, and beating their biggest drums with violence, to spread tho tame ot their transcendent water pow er, how comes it that Burd Patterson Esq (tno most observing, bold and sagacious, tho "great head and front" of tho iron ope rations uercaoouts, wno owns oro mines at Bloomsburg,) erected his Furnace on the opposite sido of iho river, and almost eight miles from Bloomsburg, on Roaring Creek? Ait. rarquuar truly says, tuat "in tlio man ufacture of iron, transportation is always considered the heaviest item in tho b.ll of expenso." Then why did Mr. Patterson seek for a good, safe, and never-failing wa ter power, eight miles from his mines at Bloomsburg, if the water power of the risking drcck, adjacent to his mines, is as valuable anu matctiiess as it is cracked up to be by Die process or local newspaper in nation '! It is estimated that tho new Fur naco at Roaring Creek will turn out fifty tons of pig metal per week, and that it will consume 125 tons of ore per wcok. Now notwithstanding "transportation is always considered the heaviest item in the bill of expense," Mr. Patterson has located his I'urnsco so that his oro will have to be hauled eight miles in wagons, on a road which it will keep n team busy to mako one trip per day. Why.is this ? Why is all the ore oi the Bloomsburg mines taken to the water power of Roaring Creek, Cat tawissa, Briar Creek, and other places ? Will the tall and lean, or fat and lazy, pro phets and Solomons, who conduct the Bloonfsburg papers, answer theso ques lions,? Or will they meiely continue to strut, puff, swell, nnd make "much ado a bout- nothing," as usual 1 Wo do not ask hum to tako any notice of the vast improve ments going on about Danville that would be asking too much for such a source, but wo would Iiko to explain the abuvo enquir ies, without noticing the fact that the towns of Danville, Ualawissa, Berwick, Orange- ville, Mifllinville, aye, and even the vicin ity of Mooresburg, aro lapidly shooting ahead of the town that is porpelled by the greatest and best water power in Creation always excepting the Falls of Niaga ras Now to the task imposed upon us in tho ahove. We shall not however, notice his ering and invidious remarks in relation to Mr. Farquhar and of the Pottsvillo re gion. Wo shall leave them to our friends in that section, who aro perfectly capable of defending their own position and " trans nendant advantages," which nature, and their own exertions, has given them over inflw ted, bubble bursting, and scene shifting scites. They can fully appreciate his " en vious feelings" and great exertions to puff into notice his own vicinity, at the expense of those situations which are in every point of view, as much above it, as light is abovo darkness. Honorable emulation, in any kind of bu sincss, is highly commendable, and praise worthy, and ol course should bo encour aged by all good citizens, and wheu wo published an article somo months since, un der the caption of " Come and See," we had no other object in view, than placing the advantages of our section of tho coun ty, for tho manufactory of iron in its prop or light before the public. Wo thought we had as goud a right to do this as the ftditor of tlio Danvillo Intelligencer, who had set us the cxamplct Bui it seems wo were mistaken; for it brought down upon up tho jibes and jeers of tho lank man of the Inlelligcnccr, nnd ho has suffered no op portunity to pass since without speaking in detision of " water power'" in this neigh borhood, and of the business and prospects of tlloomsburg. It appears to haunt him by night and by day, lilto Macbcth's ghosts. He considers it a deslrnctico engine placed abovo him, to destroy all his hopes of the anticipated greatnes of the growth of Dan ville. It is said that ho has been known, to cry out in his sleep, 'curse tho Fishing Creek " water power," it has blasted my hopes, nnd defeated my calculation," Out of pity to his feelings therefore and to save' him, if possible, from becoming entirely deranged on this subject, wo will hereafter seldom refer to our " water power." It needs neither puffing, blowing, nor swell-' ng from steam or wind to render it tho' best scito for Anlhraailo Furnaces in tho state of Pennsylvania. But wfiy, says our near neighbor, has jjt not been used. Tho answer is plain and easy to be given, by all who do not possess the same feelings of en vy and prejudice as the man who blusters so much below. The land in tho neighborhood of Fishing Creek, for miles upon each sido cf it, is a rich fertile country, and has been mostly cleared of its timber, consequently char coal could not bo procured, without great expense in transportation, so much so, that it would render the manufacture of iron an unprofitable concern. Not so, with tho country in the ncighborhod of Roaring Creek, Caltawissa Furnaco, Mooresburg and Danville. In their immediate neighbor hoods there are thousands of acres of moun tainous land uncultivated and uncultivatable,. covered with wood which has induced all those heretofore engaged in tho iron busi ness, to locate themselves in their immedi ate neighborhood. It was this that induced. Burd Patterson to locate himself at Roar ing Creek, and also at Danvillo. The two Furnaces were both first built to use char coal but the success of thc Anthracilc Fur uace at Pottsville, induced tho change of those slacks, the one before it had been put in operation, and tho latter after having worked a short time. Tho scene is now changed. Charcoal p is no longer to be used. Anthracite takes its place, and Fishing Creek '"water pow er" will soon be brought into successful ' competition with any other power that can-." be operated with, notwithstanding the con tempt with vhich this steam man profess- . cs to treat it. We say professes, 'because wo arc satisfied that it is mere jealousy and envy through fear of tho superior advanta ges that Fishing Creek possesses over Dan villo for tho manufactory of iron; that indu ces him to publish such tirades against its capacity to do business. " Butlet us sco with regard toFishingCrcck, whether it is such a miserable Etrcam as is represented by him. It passes some thirty miles, after it enters this county, through a most fertile portion of it, and lias upon its banks an immense quantity of timber of all descriptions, which can be floated down it. Within a distance of about six miles from whero the Cttnal crosses it, there ore 14 waler powers, with from rime to twenty- five ieet fall to each. On tho banks of tha Creek thus far, that is to Orangcville, and wo know not how much further up, there is an abundance of iron ore, of tho very best quality. On the pioperty belonging to the "Bloomburg Rail-road Iron Company ,,K Fishing Creek Ma a fall of thirty-four foot, twenty-five feet of which may be need at one placo for blowing furnaces; and, by a measurement made of tho waler flowing in the stream when it was lowest last fall, it was proven, after throwing off one half for extreme droughts, leakage of the dam &c, u power equal to an eighty horse stcami engine of Bolton & Watt's standard could- always be commanded for blowing furna ces. The power would bo vastly moro during tho greater part of Iho year, which. would be applicable to rolling mills or other manufacturing purposes; in addition to. which the remaining nine feet of fad can bo commanded at a point a short distance bo low the scite proposed for the Furnaces, which will be sufficient for rolling heavy bar iron at all times, In addition to this, wo have in our immediate vicinity, the stream of Little Fishing Creek and Hem lock Creek, upon both of which are several mill scites with water and fall sufficient to blow ono to two Furnaces each throughout tho year. A
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