From Iho Ohio Statesman.
BROTHER JONATHAN'S
'Gveat Ploughing Match.
Th': annals of agriculture coutain no cx
"n pic of a ploughing match equal to that
Which I propose 10 rive a brief descrip
tion. 1
"o'-I ifainVnan, familiarly known as
" -it, Sam, has an extensive farm con
"tsK.g of twenty:.ais fields; ho is in the hab
it 01 leasing it out hv a vote of his eons ev
ery four yoarsj and for a number of years
pfst. it hua been in the tenure of the Demo
ratki family. The reason assigned for
this is, that the members of tint family are
mostly (rood farmers. For eight years it
-. "ntd by old Andrew, the farmer of
and at present it is held by old
.... . farmer of New York. The
t'pdt ral family who contend thai they havo
n i deep interest in this farm, inasmuch as
'hat they possess at least two-thirds of the
wealth and capital by which it is operated,
liave long tried to gel some one of their
family into its general suporlntondency; but
Uncle Sam's son's have hitherto rejected
their application, on tho ground they were
too fond of embellishment and display and
instead of improving the soil, would spend
thirtune in erecting "light houses to the
" gaudy buildings, and laying it oft" in
flower, gardens, orange groves, and so
forth.
In this state of affairs, the Federal fami
ly bcesmo greatly exasperated, and sworo
that unless some one of thoir family should
bo placed at the head of the farm, itw affairs
would go to ruinin other words, that they
would use their wealth and capital to the
oarangoment of its concerns. This alarm
ed some of Uncle Sam's sons, who.wilh all
their patriotism, havo some seeds of avarice
in their hearts, and would sooner tho farm
should have a bad tenant than get out of
jneket money thomselvcsjaccordin.ijly some
of them evinced a disposition to favor tho
Federal family "at least for ono term." It
Was last agreed that to test the claims of
tho two families to the reputation of good
farmers, a Plooghing Match should be had
on the farm: tli at onnh fnmilir alinnlil .Un.a
its plotiphman.aud the family whose plough
team and work, should prove to bo the best
upon a fair public trial, should havo tho
management of the farm.
i Jus proposition delighted the Federal
fat
Jt iuuv wen; ai onco tnrown into ac-
tucies of joy; some tore the rufflos from
nioir sains, and Hinging them on the
ground, with their castors and British
broad-cloib.crying out "lit there Aristocra
cy till after the election," others moved
out of their splendid mansions, whose vaul
ted codings wore hung with silk, and rusli
caled in log cabins; instead of pointer dogs
and spaniels, they fondle tame racoons;
some who daily fecstcd on the choicest vi
ands and quafled sparkling champaigno in
prtvale,nov tirade a merit of publicly mun
ching corn cakes and guzzling hard cider;
while others, throwing by their silk gloves
thrust their delicate hands into vulgar buck
skin mittOBs, and went to chopping down
buckeye trees to be manufactured into polit
ical flag-staffs. Meanwhile tho Democratio
famtly manifested no kind of anxiety about
the ovent, as farming and ploughing was
no novelty to thorn, and waited the day
appointed with tho utmost composuro,
and without any extraordinary prcpau
tion. When the day arrived, the whole Feder
al family were in the field. Their team
consisted of a huge English bull, as blank
as jet called " Abolition'," and a large En
glish cow, which they named "U. S.
Bask." The yoke looked well, but upon
close examination, it was found to consist
of a kind of timber called "National Debt,"
covered with gold leaf; it was inscribed
"Modern Whiggery." The beam of the
plough was a hollow piece of a soft and
pliant texture, callc.il "Non-committalism."
The poiut or contre was inscribed with tho
word "Panic," and tho mould board was
covered with pieces of paper ealled "Post
Notes." Instead of a chain, (hey had a
thick ropewhich they said was very strong
Bfwi wi 01 a son ot stun denominated
"Confidential Comtnitlces." The driver
held a goard, bearing this motto: " The
time for reason and argument is gone
by."
The ploughman soon made his appoar
anro, surrounded by a best of bank officers,
brokers, speculators, panic breeders and
office hunters. No was a spare built weak
ly old man. about 70 years of age. Ho
had on an old coat which ha wore twenty
yors rifiro, and which fit him vary well,
manufactured of real ololh; and lined and
facod for this occasion with a flimsy kind of
Muff called "British "VYhiggery." His hat
was half military, and on the "tip" was
endorsed "Answer to tho Oswego fc Lou
isvillo Committees." Upon his arm
hung a canteen labelled "Hard Cider."
Whon he placed himself between tho
handles of the plough, a hum of murmur
ran through the family on account of his
.'. i intirmilins, but they wero mi mi si-
Jcweil by the knawmg ones, who eaid ho
would have "plenty of good help from the
of I Federal phalanx."
The Democratic team now appeared up
on he rround, followed by a throng of
plain, hard-fisted men, who looked as
though they had been used to such sport.
The ploughman was a close-set Dutchman
born and reared on hit daddy's farm at Kin
derhook, and the way ho brought his team
on the ground was-.tha. right way. Two
fine prancing liorsts, called Liueutv and
Equality, iftcely harnessed, stood before
tho plough, that made tho farmers eyes
glisten to look upon. The beam was made
of sissoned hickory, and inscribed "Tun
Constitution;" the coulter consisted of a
kind of stuff called "Free Suffrage;" the
share was 'Spkcik.' and the broad side was
mado of "Fixed Principles."
All preliminaries being arranged, the
woid was given, and the teams started.
The bull and cow worked together remark
ably well, and if it had depended on them
alonc.thcy would perhaps have been turned
up in some sort of way. But thu plough
proved to he defective in many respoct6jthe
boara turning and twisting in every direc
tion, made the furrows crooked, and the
"panic" cutter sometimes running in vsry
deep, at other times sliding over the surface
without making any impression. Beside
the ground was strewed with a kind of
stones called "Republican principles,"
which, whenever tho plough struck one of
them, was sure to flirt it, or ra-ko it leap
out of the ground, and tip the ploughman
over.
The soil consisted chiefly of two sorts,
Republican ground and Ariatoeratio ground,
with here and there a little admixture at
both. In plouehinrr the eastern fields tho
Federal team got along tolsrably well, the
bull and cow nullinrr strong, and whim ihe
plough struck upon republican ground, the
lamuy lolloweU with a Until ot mattock,
called "Reg'stry law, Alien law, & Proper
ly Qualification," with which thev scarificil
tho surface. Hero, too, the Democratic
team did first rate work as far as it went,
but in consequence of tho numerous " Imr
rollings," that had been lately made, it
could not work to the createst advantage.
But when the mid-lands wa; enlnrsil imnn.
it was then that lha Domocratic team began
to go ahead. Never was work done quick
er and better never where furrows straigh
ter in short the whole of N. Ynrfc. tT.
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Vir-
ginia.were tiniFiicu beloro the Federal team
could "mark nfl" Km! " Tl. N,.,.il,.
VB. v- III U 1111,1 II
and Southwestern lands were then entered
upon, through which tho Democratic team
worked its way with the utmost case and
regularity, the teamster, Martin, ailrar.'.inc
the universal admiration of ever beholder,
for his frank and straight forward course.
On this ground, tho black bull begui to give
out, and finally laid down and refined to
budge snowier step, whereupon tho Fodeial
family resolved to supply his placo with
a colt called, "Cotton Speculation," in the
hope of being able to do some work; but
tho colt having never been tried before they
put a boy on his back named Nickey Bid
die, as Tip had never been used to plough
with any thing but "horned cattle."
But tho troubles of the Federal family
had began and there was no telling where
thoy would end. Thoir rope began to un
twist, their plough had become blunt.wlulst
all the time the Democratic team was push
ing ahead, following by plaudits of Uncle
Sam's children. After these lands had hpnn
finished by the Democratic team in the ve-
rv befit fitvla. it r.nnli! Ua Ai!lv r.u-:,i
how tho match would' terminate, and' many
oi me leucrai umiiy began fast to lo3e their
tempsrjbut as (ho Western lands were yet
to bo ploughed, they rallied their spirits for
another effort. The colt was turrsed out
and the bull again yoked up, ss the plough
man preferred that kind of team. But hero
the cow gave signs of failing, and it was
tho opinion of the doctor that she had symp
toms ol the murrain, as she had for some
time ceased to give milk, or in other words
had "impended payment." Tho bull,
feowcver.stood his ground very woll though
it was seen he had lost much of his strength
sinca ho lofi the eastern lands. Old 'hp
did his boat to hold tho plough, and kept
his eye all tho timo fixed upon tho rope,
refusing to answer a question duiing the
wholo operation, "cither fn fr!,,
foe." After scratching along over the west
in a bungling manner wild a small log cabin
perched upon the plough beam to keep tho
cutter in tho criitiml. ihcv ctmr.!.- nnr.
place where an immense quantity of public
stores wero deposited, called "Fort Stop-
iiciiKuii. xiere mo ploughman suddenly
let go the plough, and seizing a torch
which some ono carried, pushed toward
the stores and attempted to sot them on fi.ro.
This was happily pfovented by a littlo
fellow named Croghan, which so onraged
old Tip, that he immediately broke Vis
long silenco, oxolarming, "T resign!" and
talcing to his ieela, trotted off to North
Bend.
All was now dismay and confusion in the
muiiy sumo lonoweu tno plough
man, crying, "Go it Tip," others screamed
out "the cider is sour," whilo others
gathered round the cew, as though sha was
aote ro aiturti 6ome relief; but to add to
their grief, she seized with a sudden mala
dy.and after floundering a while; sho"6urs
ted. l he bull was thsn unyoked, which
was no sooner done, than to tho amaze
ment of overy beholder, he bounded liko a
deer over the plain, to Iho cry of "Come
it Tyler," and clearing Lake Erie, ho made
u luuguiciii on tnc uanaua shore.
The fow members of the Federal family
that lingered on the ground, now formed
themselves into a nrocessinn. and hmo;..
their banners, determined to make a decern
retreat. JJanial Webster placed himself ut
ineir neau, ana alter a short speech,
which he boasted of the rapid advance
Whig principles, proposed to carry their
;'7ioM" to tho banks of Slate, creek, rais
ing hia arm and his voice, ho exclaimed
"and then, my friends, we'll row to the
neau waters ol alt river, and in the next
freshet we'll come down upon these rarfcally
Democrats liko a torrrnt 1"
The Democrats were now left in posses
sion of ti c farm, having done three-fourths
of the work in tjio best stylo. In fact the
horses, iho plough, and the ploughman,
were in as good cor.dition aficr thu contest
as before it commenced. Thoy wero ac
cotdingly declared the victors, tho best far
mers, the bdfct ploughmen m short, the
real bono and siuuw of the farm.
PLOUGH BOY.
.tOTEMBHEETBES
Most Infdmowt Business. At a meet
ing of die abolition Society in Now York,
according to tho New York Herald, a Mr.
Galushur, developed the infamy of certain
renegades who went from this country to
tho World's Convention. He Stated, says
the Herald, that at tho world's Convention
the principal Directors of iho East India
Company had attended and pointed out that
the only means to d.slroy slavery in the
southbir. states of North America, was to
encourage, by every means, the cultivation
of cotton, by free lab or, in tho East Indies.
That convention solemnly plodged them
selves (Americans and all) to do all that
they could by speaking, writing, travelling,
exhorting and spending all their money
to destroy tho cultivation of cotton in the
south, and to encourage the growth of it in
the East Indies. He said that tho East In
dia Company had begun this systom .and in
tended to carry it out on a vsry large scale;
that all the wealthy men of England and A
mericHiis (meaning Abolitionists) meant to
support this movement; that it was a righ
teous competition; that the Convention
would endnavor to suppress tho purchase
of cotton from thu United States; anil that
the abolitionists of America would huln
them to sustain this point in every possible
way.
John C. Clark grt: it tip. Tho Nor-'
wich (Chenango county) Journal, says :
John C. Clark has written a letter to a
friend in this county, stating in substance a?
follows : That no dependence can bo pla
ced on Virginia for Harrison; that iho pros
pect in Ohio for Old Tip is discouraging;
that theie is no hope of saving Pennsylvania
or Georgia; lhaL ha bad-sundry misgivings
about New York;alo, that he hated to sco
Chenango county go for Van Buren, but
feared, it wouhl do so that all that "can be
done iu the promisca.is to keep up og cabin
appearances." New Era.
Singular freak of an American Sailor
-On Tuesday evening as tho Philadelphia
American linur, was entering tho locks of
tho Si. Kalherine's dock, a female about 30
years of age attempted to cross the 1-ridgo
over the lock, and whi. h was on the swing
at tho time " '.ft ihc vosse.l in. In leaping
from one part of dm brid-i to tho other.sho
unfortunately fall into ilie water, which in
that part is 2G fact deep, llei clothes sup
ported her for a whorl lime, and she was
cauaht hold of with a siaffhv ono of the
lock men, and no doubt would havo Jseon
Man safely Uriisrerred to land, had not a
sailor on hoard the l'hilailelphia who had
observed the accident, immediately diveatod
himself of evorv narticle of elaihin.r. nnt
jumped in after her, swea ing th it no mie
snouiu save her but hnntoit. Upon rising
to tho surface of tho water, he swam im
mediately to tho female, and selling her
free fro the staff, look h er nut inln l tin ri.
ver, and brought hsr round to St. Cathe
rine s stairs, whore ho allowed her to go on
shoro. The sailor swam back to his eliiti.
playing the mot astotijehing amies iu thu
water, annual the shouts and laughter of tho
SDCdalors.
Horrid Massacre countlc ts linen (Jfr.
troyed. 3omo queer fishes wero found in
the garden at Willow Grove whon th ft urn.
ter was drawn off. But the queerest thiiif'
that occurred'there or any where, within
litis vicinity latclv. was tlin InliHmm
sacreof a legion of bats, which were dis
covered nested in tho roof and caves of iho
house. A net was placed at a hole which
was their entrance, and tho bats wero bea
tsn out of the house into the net. The net
was filled a dozen times, and wholo bushels
of these creeping birds, these flying rats,
wero thrown into the river. A whole m..
tion of the vespertilio was exterminated.
If. O. Pk.
"Old Woman taid !" Mr. Doxey,
the officer employed to lako tho census of
Kings county, informs the Brooklyn News
that ho met at the reiidenee of Mrs. Maria
Stilwcll, at Gravesend, a colored woman at
the advanced ago of one hundred and thir
teen ! She appears to be in pnrfect health;
eats, drinks, and sleeps well- She per
forms all her duty as a domestic with aston
ishing energy and ar.tiviiy. Slio says she
can milk tho cows as readily as she could a
hundred years ago 1
Rightly Named. The vote of the coun.
ly of Daviess, Illinois, was 1005 Demo
crat to CJ7 Federal. The gallant D.uiesa
yielded his life at Tippecanoe to save the
army which was put in jeopardy through
the follyfof Harrison. Tim county of J0.
Daviess dotis honor to his uaiuo, and. we
see it staled every surviving relative of tho
patriot is in favor of Van Huron.
A Bouncing Jljtl, A Mr. Campbell
Stewart, pf La ttxahge, .Tennessee, offers,
under his own signature, in. the Wenum
Whig, a bet of 10,000 on Martin Van Bu
ren'a re-election. '
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT.
"TBUTB WITHOUT IKAll "
S.1TUKUJ1Y, SE1T12J:BEEI 12, lr10.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 1840.
Fou PnnsiDr.NT,
VAN BUREN.
Foil Vice PnissiDLtrr,
RiCI-IAitD M. JOHNSON.
AND Till!
CONSTITUTIONAL TREASURY.
CQinS"Tlf WICKET,
SENATOR.
SAMUEL, P. HEABXjEY'
ASSEMBLY.
DANIEL. SNYDER
COMMISSIONER. CHRISTIAN WOL.F
TREASURER. LEONARD B- RUPERT
AUDITOR. JOSEPH CRAIG
SHERIFF. CORONER.
AHJ3RBW EKE1LER.
I'O THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF
PENNSYLVANIA.
Tho Central Committee takes this oppor
tunity of apprizing ihcir democratic breih-
ern throughout Pennsj Ivania, that having
received intelligencn of the death of Col'.
John Thompson, of tho 1st district, Phila
delphia county, one of tho candidates' for
elector on the democratic ticket, they havo
appointed GEORGE W. SMICK, Esq.,
of said district, to fill the vacancy, and havo
obtained tho required written pledge of Mr.
S., in caso of his election, that he will vote
in the Electoral College for MARTIN VAN
BUUEN as President, and RICHARD M.
JOHNSON, as Vice President of tho Unt
ied Slates.
Thoy also beg leavo to apprize their
friends, that ALL the candidates on thu de
mocratic electoral ticket have given similar
pledges, as required by the democratic 4th
of March Convention.
The following may bo relied on as a cor
rect list of the names transcribed from tho
signatures of the candidates themselves.
Editors of newspanors and those bavin
caro of tho printing and distribution of tick-
els, will do well fust to compare them with
this list, as tho names at the heads of manv
of the democratic newspapers are inaccu
rate.
ELECTORAL TICKET.
Jamiis Clahkc, of Indiana, . ,
Gr.o. U. Lr.iPi:n, of Delaware, 5 ,JC""'r,J'
1 Georga YV. Smiek 12 Frederick Smith
S Uenhmin Mifflin
13 Charles M'Olure
Frederick Stoover
3 It m. II. Smith
4 John r. Etcinman
John Uowlin
Henry Myers
6 Duniel Jucoliy
0 J can Johnson
7 Jacob Alio
8 (iloo. Cliristman
3 Wm. Plioem-r
10 Henry Ueliull'
M J. M. Ctuimcll
15 G. M. llollcuback
1G Leonard J'foutz
17 John Hortonjr.
18 William J'hilijon
1G John Morrison
20 YVeetly Froft
21 lienj. AinliTson
22 William WilUna
23 A. K. Wright
21 John Findley
25 Stephen Batlow
1 1 lienry Logan
JOHN C. BUBHEH.
James Peacock, ) 0
E. W. Iluttrr, 5 Soetri(r.
It is with pleasure that wo announce that
tho repairs on tho North Branch Canal, now
buing made, arc in a rapid state of forward
ness, and that no doubt now remains of
their being sufficiently completed by thr.
first of Octobor, at farthest to let in iho wa
ter. It is due to Col. J. M'Fadden the enter
prising contracter of Lock, No. 1 to men
tion, that ho has entirely completed his con
tract, with tho exception of a few feet of
coping, which would have been laid ere
this, had not the difficulty of procuring tho
stonn prevented. It is also due to him to
say. that, although he h.s done his work
rapidjv, (it b-ing but a few day over two
months since he first broke ground,) it has
beou done in a workmanlike nauuer,.ind as
far a we can loam, lo thp cniir;safirauiioii
of tho Engineers. ' ' ;
THE BUBBLE BURSTING.
Wo understand that Messrs. Chambers,
Biddle, & Co., who have been otae-arm,! ii
erecting iron works, at Danville, have con
ciuueu to mum their Rolling Mills at Wilkes,
barro and have purchased two tract3 of hod
at that place whereon to erect their works.
Thus wo see tho promises of the Dr.ri'
villo folks, to havo two Rolling Mills in op.
oration this fall at that placo, have all disip,
pearod in moonshine : llic one buildm
erected a year ago for & Rolling Mill, rc"
mains in statu quo," and is likely t() re
main so. However, it answers vaiy well
for iho Danville Band to practice in, f(,
which purpose it is now tucd, but whether
it pays the owners for tho amouhtexp.- '
in its erection, we aro tiuabls to answ,.
The othor Rolling Mill was never comment
ed, and tho gantlcincnn engaged in t, n un
dertaking havo discovered rather loo late,
that Danvillo does' not possess all i0E8
" transcendent" advantages claimed far it
by the " Intelligent."
A writer in the Blooinficld, (Pa.) Per. v
Freeman, speaking of the different facation'i
for "the manuractuto of Iron, says, in regau
to Bloomsburg and Danville " i'l.D Win
power of Fishing Creek, and its explicit
ore, give Bloomsburg a decided advnmajjn.
At Danville, they must work nniiiuly h
stoam, this will add 25 per cent to the man
ufacturing of a ton of iron, and this is a dis
advantage, for which a compensation h to
be found, if found at all, in iho ore being
close to tho canal." Again tho same wri
ter sayc : "The cone.lusiohu we havo arriv
ed at is.that there may be. many situations on
the SMisquennnna where iron can be rnana
faciured cheaper than at Danvills.If the uni
ted expenso of fuel, power and transporta
tion is less at Iluriisburg, than Danville, it
is then the superior situation, and ho of ev
ery other place."
By the above will be seen ihc viaw taken
by persona nt a distance, who are entirelv
disinlercated in the matter.
Now with regard to " power, fuel, aad
cost of tranportation," wc have a few words
lo say in relation to Bloomsburg.
The water of Fishing CrecK is known
to be superior to any in this leclien of tho
stale, and ia capable of driving all iho ma
chinery ucccsjary for a largo iron establish
ment, and il is an established opinion, thaS
water power is much superior 10 steam for
all manufacturing purposes, being less t,.v
pensive, and less liable to getting out of or
der, With regard to tho fuel, Bloomsburir nos-
se6C3 a decided advantrjo over Danville,
in being 12 miles nearer the coal mines than
(hat placo.
The Bloomsburg ore is universally ad'
milted by all practicable ' ircn men" to be
Iroin 20 to 30 per cent, better than the ors
at Danville, and in proof of the fact,
can state, that there has been more 'iron
make at the Roaring Creek furnace, (where
they nse Bloomsburg ore,) for tho tiri.e ah:
has been in blast, and from the sin" quan
tity of ore, than at any anthracite farnancn
of hersizo in tho United Slites.
The location of Bloomsburg posse??;?
these advantages over Danville the or; i;
of a much superior quality, ihe excJieni
waior power of Fishing Creek, and ibe fu
el 12 miles noarer than at Danville.
Thus in overy view, LlMiu'iuig, lias
tho decided advantage, fin if it should I"
found more profitable to locale tl.p lial'ia
Mills at Wiikeabarie, tha.e will he n
of 24 miles in transportation uf '
dowu and tho metal -p. r: f. .-. -i'yi. '
they erect their furnaces there, ihoy will
como t Uloomaburg for their qiu,?.". iho3e
who purchaso i(, te take Lthtw, wilt s'ways
give a decided prefaropco to tno Bloemo'
iurg ore, as tho difference in u.c Ji.
will ho more than made up h t'.ie dier ice
in qiuiity. These am stubborn iacL-, -i.J
cannot be got over by paper calculation.
Bloomsburg wast end will go ahead, and
will be tho centre ol the iron business nt Co
luitibia county, and we v. ill jos Danville
sunk into its foimcr insignificence. If Dan
ville possesses all the advantage claimed
for it by the Iulelligencr, why is it i...it nu
citizen of Danville has cer "mborkcJ in
the iron business thpre ? Why is it that
thoy suffer strangers to eomu in and beir
oil' the piiza ? Why is it that John C. Bo- '
who owned the property on which tV
" Danville Furnace" was erected, should
luvo told it to Mr. Patterson, ami t:
gone to Shainokin end put up or.s of the
largest siaekn in tho statu f T.No answer
is olwioi:, th,.y knew loo well tho quality
and extent of tho ore, and they were in the
habit of seeing iron manufacturers passing
their town daily, and eoraing to Bloomsburg