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
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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