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QTiio Rising and Setting of the Son, are arranged for each Saturday.
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KOLAB. JtSD JCKV.fl ECt,Il'SKS FOIt TJIE VE.lIt 1811.
There will be four Eclipses of tho Sun and two of tho Moon in 1841, viz :
1. An Eclipsa of the Sun will occur at 23 minutes past noon, on tho 22nd of Janua
ry, visible only in a small portion of the Southern Ocean.
2. A total Eclipse of the Moon on the 5th of February, in tho Evening.
3. Tho Sun will bo Eclipsed on the 21st of February, at 0 o'clock, 30 minutes in
the morning. This Eclipse Will be invisible to us, but visible in the Nortli Atlantic
Ocean. Iceland and East Greenland.
4. The Sun will be Eclipsed on tho 18th of July, at 9 o'clock 24 minutas in tho
morning; invisible here, but visible in tho Nortli of Europe.
fl. The Moon will bo totally Eclipsed on the 2d of August, in the morning, partly
visible.
0. Tha Sun will bo eclipsed on the 10 of August at 3 oclock in tho afternoon, invis
ible to us, but visible in tho South Pacific, and part of the Southorn Ocean.
8.1 TU11D-1 v, jr.ij'u.inv 10, imi.
Courts of Quarter Session and Common Pleas of Columbia county
Third Monday's of January, April, August and Novomber.
BOOK BIMMEIfcY.
THE undersigned having purchased tho
Hook-Binding established ill A1 iltou, in
forms the publis that ha is now prepared to
do all kind of Binding in the cheapest and
most substantial manner.
BLANK. BOOKS
Of all descriptions will be done to order
6t the shortest notice.
All kinds of country produce will be ta
kan in exchange for work.
II. L. DIEFFNBACH.
Milton, Dec. 5, 1810; 33
BV.V JUOO.V'S PIT.1SBS.
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7 23 4 37 New Moon 12 4 40 A
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7 25 4 35 Full Moor 28 1 31 A
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE
Is the Crst year after Bissextile or Leap Year, and contains 305 days, and tho sixty-fifth
of America Independence.
TAILORING BUSINESS.
E. HOWELL, Co.
Inform their friends and customers, that
they have removed their short into the build
ing next.ior to the office of tin Columbia
Democrat.ncarly opposite St.Paiil'fl Church,
Jaiii-strect,where they will at all times be
ready n receive orders for cutting and mak
ing all ki'.iJ' of garments, and tliev assure
.. " ... .'.-i.ii ... t i .i
U10 public " inn intrusion io uieiii,
ball bo donom & laSNionauio and workman
like manner.
N. B. Particular" attention paid to cut
ting.
. Blomosburg, Oct. 10, 1S10.
OUR OWN AFFAIRS. -Thrco num
bers more complete the third quarter of the
third year of the publication of the " Co
lumbia Democrat" undor our control, and
many of our subscribers nre in arrears for
the wlile time. The printer cannot live
on wind, nor will his paper makor take
promises for pay. Wo should like to play
a joke upon him, as well as on our other
creditorr, by paying them. Will our sub
scibors help us do it. That is the ques
tion. We shall bo at Danvilto, Court
weeks, and should liko to have a feiv dollars
handed to us for expense money.
ESHZSisaararasa
,THE LEGISLATURE.
Nothing, as yet, of consequence, has
transp'ued in tho Legislature. On Thurs
day of last week, George W. Hammersly
whig, was elcoted clerk of tho Senate, by
the following vote,
G. W. Hammersly 19
Heniy Buehler 12
Mr. Hammersly nominated Samuel W.
Pcaison of Somerset county as assistant
clerk, which was confirmed by tho Senato.
Samuel T, Williams was duly olectod
Sergeant at arms; and Joseph D. Wado
dtor keeper.
In tho Houso of Representatives Alexan
der Ramsey Esq. whig, was elected Clerk
of the house, who nominated David Todd
as his assistaut, who was approved by the
house.
Job. G. Patterson was elected sergeanl
at arms; and George Shaffer Joor keeper.
In tho Senate Elliot fc il'Curdy were
elected Printers of the English Journals,
Bibighause & Beoker, of the Gcrmal Jour
nals, and Henry Montgomery, of the Bills:
No Printer to tho Houso had been elocled
at the last date.
Bank Failure.'Vha Franklin Bank of
Baltimore, has, as our friend Ingram says,
" gone the way of all the living," or in
plain words, failed. Tho directors promise
to pay bill holders ia full, but it is like the
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for nothing.
As yesterday was tho day fixed by law
for tho banks to resume specie payments,
would not it bo well to refuse tu receive
small bills, of all banks, especially thoso of
iVaryland and New Jersey. It is tho only
way to get specie again into circulation for
change. They arc, at best worthless trash
many of them counterfeit, and many oth
ers upon broken and insolvent institutions.
CONFEREE MEETING.
At a meeting of tho Confeiees of Colum
bia and Schuylkill counties, held at the
house of Peter Kline in Barry township, on
Monday, Jannary 11, 1841, STRANGE
N. PALMER was called to the chair, and
HENRY WEBB, appointed Secretary.
John G. Montgomery, Houry Webb,
William Colt. Michael Fornwald, Charles
F. Mann and- Daniel Gross 'appeared sb
Conferees from Columbia county, and
Btrango N. Palmer, N. J.Mills.John Spohn
George Reifsuyder, George Seitzicger, and
Joseph Weaver Irom Schuylkill county.
After several ballotmgs, in which the
Schuylkill county delegation voted for John
Weaver, and the Columbia county delega
tion voted for John McReynolds, it was
Resolved That John McReynoIds of
Columbia and John Weaver of Schuylkill,
be delegates to represent this Senatorial
District in the State convention to be held
at Harrisburg. on the 4th of March next to
nominate a candidate for Governor.
Resolved That our delegates be instruc
ted to sustain tho nomination of David R.
Poiter.
Resolved That the proceedings of this
meeting be signed by the officers, and pub
lished iu tho democratic papers f the dis
trict, and at Harrisburg.
STRANGE N. PALMER, Pres.
Ur.nny Wkbb, Sec.
BSHSaSt33ta3M
Slate Treaaurer. The following named
gentlemen Wave been proposed by the feder
alists as candidates for tho office of State
Treasurer of this Slate; Joseph Hufliinglon,
Esq. of Armstrong. Win, Ayres, Esq. of
Dauphins Hon. S. D. Leib, n( Srhnylkill;
Dr. T. Whiteside, of Juniata; A!et. Piper,
of, Harrisburg! John Gillraoro, of Butlor.
THE FRESHET.
The last week in December, snow fell
in this neighborhood to tho deplk of about
12 inches, and gave every prospect of good
sleighing as tho weather continued very
cold until Wednesday, Janvary Cth, when
a sudden change took place, and a
rain set in, which continued two dnys, and
entirely mcltod the snow.' The streams in
this vicinity rose rapidly.but done but little
injury so fat as heard from nor has there
been much damage done oilher on the North
or WeslBvanch of tho Susquehanna. Thoy
havo not boen so fortunate, however, on
the Lehigh, Schuylkill, and Delaware.
Great damage has been done in those sec
lions, is will bo seen by the extracts which
we publish below. The Pottsvillo Empori
um says:
There is no estimating the destruction of
properly either in our Borough, in tho sur
rounding villages and mining operation, or
along the Schuylkill Canal. It will cost
hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair
tho canal; but the loss to them is not so so
rious in its effects as to the individual suf
fcrors. Sorcral of our Boatmen havo lost
their sole dependence, and many of our op
orators have had their boals and wharves
torn to atoms and made fcedeis to facilitate
the destiuction of property along the then
and now foaming Schuylkill. Wo cannot
at present give particulate. Tho Steam
grist-mill of Clemmins and Parvin, together
with their wharves sustained considerable
damage, but fortunately was not in blast.
Had the furnace been in blast it would have
proved a ten-fold more serious matter to tho
proprietors. The bridge across the Sohuyl
kill below Mount Carbon, and the bridge at
Port Carbon weto carried off; and the cov
ered bridgo on the Centre turnpike below
the Botough has been very much damaged.
Breaches in tho banks of tho Canal aro
not only numerous, but of great magni
tude, and several dams have been onlirely
destroyed.
The Mauch Chunk Courier gives the
following description of tho flood upon the
Lehigh.
On Tuesday evening the Cth inst. tho
weather had moderated to such a degree
that it snowed a little, and during tho night
it began to ram and continued with but lit
tle cesiation until Thursday evening. By
this time tho river began to rise rapidly.aud
the Mauoh Chunk Creek, which passes at
ono side of our village, having rose to such
an unusual height, overflowed its banks at
the uppor ond of Broadway and camodowu
tho street as if an ocean had been let loose
upon us, filling tho cellars and lower rooms
of nearly every house and store in the piece
and leaving no room for the citizens to pass
except by climbing along the sides of tho
moiliUaipa Mtliih !- - '
goods of our Merchants and tho furnituro of
the citizens before they had time to remove
thorn the streets and pavements aro com
pletely washed away in emno places to tho
depth of four and fivo feet and tilled up with
rubbish, gravel and stones ia others, and
tho desolating appearance of oar town from
tho head of Broadway down and along Sus
quehanna street is heyuud tho power of
the imagination to conceive or describe.
About 11 o'clock in the evening, tho water
in the Lohigh having rose several feet above
any former fieshet within the recollection
of our oldest inhabitants (every thing having
boen afloat from 8 o'clocft.) the guard bank
attached (o the first dam above this place
gave way, and the mighty waters came
down with the most tremendous and awful
destruction, sweeping every houso from tho
Northern Liberties, four in number, with
all their contents exr.opt tho families who
had fled to tho mountains; taking every
Boat in tho Pool, the Lohigh Go's, tutning
laythe and saw-mills, several thousand dol
lars worth of boat and other lumber, the
bridgo acioss tho river opposite tho guard
lock, and dashing on with irrststable fury
took the Boaver Meadow Railroad bridge,
and eveiy house but four along the river to
Lahighton, numbering thirteen in a distance
of four miles. But tha imagination is too
feeble and language to faint to describo the
scene of suffering and devastation that was
presented to our view when daylight ap
peared. Along the Railroad below the
narrowo wo see parents and children with
bleeding hearts and eyes tstreaming with
tears,slripped of every thing they could call
their own except the few articlos of clothing
that covered their bodies I A few rods from
tho foaming rapids wo bohold a father and
his two sons who had escaped by swim
ming to the shore, bowed down with inde
scribible grief at tho loss of his wife, two
daughters and son, who were swept off by
the destroying element. At tho Northern
Liberties our oyes meet nothing but ruin
and despair, and tho lower rooms ef every
ba lding along Susquehanna stiest are turn
ed as it were "initio out" carpets, chairs,
bureaus, and all kinds of furnituro ond
clothing literally n pile of ruins. All of tho
rooms in tho first story of Steadiruu's Ho
tel were floodpd to the' depth of five feet six
inc'io.-, a part of tho porch was uruck by
Col, Hillinan'n packet boat and carried a-
I way, atid tho desk in the Post Office room
was whirled out ihrough the window with
all the accounts, papers &e. by the dashing
current and lost his stuno stables next to
tho liver containing considerable hay, the
.ihctle and soveral carriages. were also swept
from their foundations and carried along
with the rest of tho ruins. It is impossi
ble to estimate any thing near tho truth the
amount of damage that our citizens tiat'n
sustained, every ono have, lost nioro or
less ami aolno eighteen or twonty familbis
within three miles ol our village aro loft'fliT
pendent upon tho mercies of tho more for
tunate, without house, bed, or provisions)
and three children o'f ono f:itniljf (iho uiotln.
or hardy oscaping with nn iiifmlt in her
arms) and the mother and three children of
another, havq polished in the flood as their
houses were borne down by its dreadful
course. To what extent the Lehigh Corn
pany's works are damaged wo would not
attempt to inako oven a guess. The Dams
& Locks are generally very much injured
and the guard banks attached to the Dams'
are in most every instance carried away, and
the Canol so far as wo ate able to learn,
has met with very serious damage. The
Bcavoi Meadow Company are also among
tho sufferers every bridge on their Rail
road between their machine Bhops on Black
creek and their depot at Parryvillo, together
with considerable of tho Railroad, trusscl
work, wharfs, and a very largo quantity of
stono coal have became a vicim and carried
away, Soveral houses and shops with all
tho furniture, and Mr. Anthony's store with
its entire stook of goods havo been swept
from Parryvillo. At Weispnrt seveul
buildings have also met with a similar fate,
and the samo disartrous results experienced
as far as wo have been abla to gain intelli
gence. Tho roads in almost every direction
havo been rendered impassible by tho wash
ing away of tho banks and filling up with
rocks, logs and treeB.
By papers received, since tho abovo was
in typo wo learn that the freshet has been
very oxtensivo and diastrous The Croton
River Water Works, neat Now Yoik, has
received great damage. The bridge which
has just been built at an expense of 185,000
dollars, and a Dam across Croton River,
have both been carried away. Three lives
we regret to eay, have been lost. King's
bridge, and pretty much all tho bridges, aro
also carried away.
Tho Trenton ( N J.) Gazelle of Friday,
states that tho Yardleville, Talorsvillc and
five other bridges over the Delaware, wero
swept away, and that the amount of'thar
property destroyed amounts to many thou
sands. At Easton the Delaware and Lehigh Riv
ers rose to about 35 feet abovo low water
mark. Tho bridges over the Lehigh at that
place, at P'rocmansburg, at Bethlehem, at
Allontown, at Brerys and at SigTried, hayo
all boen swept away The splendid bridge
on the Delaware at Rugelsville, eight miles
belew that place, buih 2 years since, tho
piers of which wero 30 feet above low' wa
ter. ! t wept away. Dwelling
houses, barns, stables, canal boats, store
houses, &c. &c, have been floated off and
destroyed and some lives lost. k
Tho canal basin is cut out. Tho canal
itself overflowed for miles and it is feared
that all tho aqueducts and culverts for many
miles down the rivor on the canal aro gone.
It would require prompt and immediate ac
tion to get the canal in navigable order by
Juno or July.
Tho Ohio people, aro petitioning Con
gress to remove the soat of government from
Washington city to Cincinnati.
AfARRIED On the I2th inst. by tho
Rev. William J. Eyer. Mr. DANIEL
STEIN, to Miss SARAH MENCU, both
of Roaringcreek.
By tho Rev, D. 8. Tobias, on tho Ctli
nlt. Mr. BENJAMIN L. HURST Engin
eer at the Hazellon Rail road, to Miss
FRANCES WAGANER of Wilkcabarrc,
both of Luzorno eounty.
HDE AliTH EBIPOMUM
THE Subscriber being in ill health and
unable to attend to the business offers to
sell at private sale his
APOTHECARY & DRUG STORE
situalod in the flourishing town of Blooms
burg. Columbia county, Pa. It is the only
complete establishment of the kind in
Bloomsburg, and tho subscriber is convin
ced, from experience, that there is not a
more profitable Apothecary shop for manv
miles around. Tho "Health Emporium"
is appointed agent for most of tho best Pa
tent Medicines in Pennsylvania and Now
York which agencies can bo continued.
'1 here is an Ico cellar attached to tho
store.
Any pcrfon purchasing ihe Ure will re
ceive any information from Ihe subscriber,
with regard to the businces that they mav
require.
Possession will be given at any time be
tween this and spiing.
DANIEL S. TOBIAS.
Bloomsburg, Col. co. Jan. 10, 181 1.
The Pottsvillo Emporium will publish
the above to the amount of two dollars, and
charge the ''Columbia Democrat."