"TIICTH WITUIIL'T Hull " (Tj-ThoRcv. Mr. Lightner,of Muncy.will preach in St. Fauli Church m this place ou Sunday thu atrtJan. tho 4lh Sunday after Epiphany; both Morning and evening. .rrUV tMfiUT TO TUP. HEMATflRI. AL DELEGATE THE DISORGAN IZED AND THE MEETING. At 111 time of the nomination of Mr. Frailoy the Senator having been conceded to Scuylkill, All Senatorial Delegates were, by mutual consent, to coino from Columbia during1 his term. Under this arrangement, Columbia had tho delegato in the slate con tention that noiniKaled Governor Porter, "end also in". the Convention to amend tho Constitution. In January previous to the 4lli of March Convention to nominate Pres idential Electors, Columbia county ap pointed a Senatorial Dolcgale in pursuance of tli is Agreement, but neglected to appoint eonfsrees, supposing it unncccsiiary. The ielegalo appointed did not Buit a certain liqus in th lowor pnrt of the county, whose principle havo always been, " rule or ruin," and a sohome was set afloat to cheat Columbia county out of her rights. A mill sserct meeting was got up in Danville irtd a set of pretended confereos were clan destinely despatched to Sohulylkill county, at tho head of trhich was John Rhodes. Tltay met a set of real confereos from that county; and thoro turned traitor to tho rights of this ami gave the delegate to Schuylkill. This delegate through their management wai admitted in the State Convention. By this act, the faith of Schuylkill was bro ken) and the agreement at an end, and Co lombia, county choatcd out of her rights. Those facts being known Co the late county Convention, the members were unanimous' ly of the opinion that Columbia county was noio entitled to the delegate The Conven tion therefore, passed the following resolu tion : Resolved That John G. Montgomery, II. Webb, Wm. Colt, M. Fornwald and Clurles F. Mann are hereby chosen confer ees, to meet similar number of conferees from the county ol bohuylkill, on Monday the 11 ih day of January next, at the house of Peter Kline, in Schuylkill county for the purpose of appointing a delegate to re present this senatorial district in the paid eonvention. And our said conferees are here by instructed 'to support the appointment of John Mcueynolds as the senatorial delegate to the said convention. Said conferees hav ing powers to supply any vacancy or vacan cies that nuy occur in their body. Tho abovo mentioned conferees met con ferees from Schulkil. The Schuylkill con ferees having como instructed to sustain John Weaver, and refusing to ro for any other man, in order to settle tho difficulty imicibly, the following resolution was in troduced and tnaiiimouily puscd : Resolved That John McRevnoId of Columbia and John Wearer of Sohuvlkill. nc uo eates to renreent tnis senatorial n;.i.:. .1... -'..- l- iti i I T - -: i .i. i.i. r m i. . Dominate :i f an(ll(l:(n fur finvrnnr. "O'lllMugiEi VI, iw -XIII W .TlUitrfll MUAfc IU Thus il was supposed tho difficulty was .:.-L. J i !. r ,L , .... "lorrai iricnus 01 democracy in uoin conn- cf the deleeatnf:- Hut not mi with n frttt iisanpointed and disaffected disoraanizers I. iU 1 I e . mi l .1 ... ,.v . . ni ni cntllDA 'Qffitnrn hit In Mn npiniiiri A linn Whtnlt lhn hai i.ivva tri thn n I -"iduii tit iiiwu niiion ni.tuu) iiiu J n uitM MailUUIlV Ul HIU U U III UWI il IU UUIIV mio uo pui wjcoparur, at tins important '"n oi nur aiuirs, ana me ngnu 01 uo Wt . i .1. .i 1411 If CaLHIItCUi IU iiUIIJ lilUll personal malice. Accordinirlv on Mondav ' ins nrst weo.K ot Uourl January is, n IttlOnn. rVl!nl!ttnr nilinn , nnalcrl n iuo ooutt noose iioor. NOTICE. "DEMOCRATIC MEETING. --WM(. V( WUlUllllJIilt ll WCUI( l(ib V IIUI rt houso m D.invillo, this dav, Jan. 18, two o'clock, for tho nurnoso of i JnHmHnir thn nomination t, Snnalnrin "iu iu inn 4in ni Ainrrii convenuo i 10 uiuaie a oamtiuatu tin tjovernor. MATV DEJ100UAT3. Jn. 1Q, 141." Soon after tho Cotut adjourned the hell ,nSi the clinuo assembled, and annoiulcd follnwlnrr- nfKna.ci Vlnnftnn Tlnul "?idont5 Martin Ilillmeycr, Isaac Woleli, Vice Pecsidcnls; and E. S. Hnyhursl and nonj;Rhddes, Secretaries. Tho object of the meeting having boon slated by tho choir, to be to take into considerntlon the right of Co lumbia county to the Senatorial delegate, a motion was made to adjourn, upon the ground that the question having been ami cably arranged by the legitimate agents of the party in tho district, no action of the meeting would be binding, but might tend to create disunion and disaffection in our ranks and Mieroore any action upon the sub ject, would bo unnecessary and highly im proper. Upon this motion sf vote was ta ken and decided in the negative by the chair. An amendment was then offered by Georgo Smith, '.o adjourn the meeting until Mon day, Jan. 25, 1841, which was corrieu. The meeting then adjourned.' On Monday the 25th,in pursuance of the adjournment, a large number of Democrats assembled, filling the Court House to over flowing. Tho President, Mr. Ueat, took the chair, and it boing nrccrtaincd that the Vice Presidents were not present, on mo tion, Jevi Disel end Michael Fornwald were appointed, and it also appearing that E. S. llayhurst, Esq. ono of the Secreta ries, was absent, John S. Wilson, was ap- j pointed. 1 he meeting being thus newly organized, J. G. Montgomery Esq. introduced tho fol lowing resolution, wh ch after some litto shuffling by ono or two individuals to avoid n direct vole upon it, was passed unani mously. Jicsolved That we approvo of tho ad ministration of Gov. Porter, and anxiously desire his renomination on tho 4th of March next. Mr. Montgomery, then introduced the following resolution: Jinolvcd That this me oting has noithpr the right nor the inclination to interfere with the selection of delegates to represent this county or senatorial district in the Stale Convention of the 4th of March next, the said delegates having been chosen according to the usages of the Damocrotio party. The resolution, was sustained by Mr. Montgomery, with a statement of facts, and noma very pertinent reman;?, i no main movers of the meeting, however, were ta ken all aback, they commenced floundering and flopping like hnngry porpoises, and racked their ingenuity to get rid of it. At length George Smith moved an amendment, that a committee of seven be appointed to prepare resolutions for the consideration of the meeting. This amendment was putdown by a large vote upon an amendment to the a mendment directing the question to be ta ken on the original resolution. The main question was then put, and the ayes thun dered through the house to such a degree that the disorganizes could only raise somo eight or ten feeble noes, and those appear ing1 to come from the disconsolate hearts of a prostrated fiction. Thus ended the meet ing, conceived, in sin, brought forth in tn iquity, but adjourned surrounded with aha! lo of glory. Previous to the adjournment of the meet ing, Mr. Montgomery introduced the fol lowing preamblo and resolutions which were unanimously adopted : Jl'hercns the manufacture nf iron from anthracite coal, in a conibustable, is no lon ger a subject of doubt or experiment, and that its substitution for charcoal rmtM effect a new era in Ihe iron trade of this cotinlrv and If'hercas, this profusion and inex haustible stores of this coal and its associa tion ir. many localities with bountiful de posits of iron ore, must secure to our Sidle a decided superiority in her manufacture of iron and aIu greatly to its available resour ces and lf'hereas our ontire country has hitherto been dependent, upon a foreign na tion for our supplies of rail road iron a mounting annually to millions. Resolved That the introduction of an thracite coal to the manufacture of iron in its various processes has made it practiblo with proper management, for the citizens of tho United btates to supply, from doinestio sources, iho iron roqttired for rail roads. flc-tolved That rail road iron cannot and will not lie made in the United States under oxistinjr Laws, and that a regard to the wel fare of tho country iniperioushj requires a repeal of ll;o act of Congress to release from duly iron proparod and actually laid on rail or inclined planes, approved the I4th day of July 1832, and that the same be made sub ject to the like duties of other wrought iron. Iltxolvfd That our reprcientatives in Congress bo and thoy ore hereby earnestly requested to use their influenco to procure tho repeal of tho Law refurrcd to. Philomatliian Society. THE Ladies (fc Gentlemen of Blooms burg arq respectfully invjled to attend a meeting of tho Society, at their room in the Acjidcmy, Saturday, this Evening, Jan uary 30th, at half past rt o'clock. Tho subject for that evening's discussion is tho following, " Is Universal Suffrage calculated lo perpetuate our free Institutions." j At a meeting of tho SUoniaburg Plillomarfi!an Society, on SalUrJay.ovening thn 23d itiet. Doctor Jouw ItiMiir delivered tho following Lecture, In pursuance, of a resolution of tho society St how I'uljlishfd. The subject which I hare choion for this evenings lecture is, THE MENTAL FACULTIES. All our knowledge is obtained through tho medium of the extemal senses: It is these senses that convey to tho brain tho different impressions mado upon them by surrounding bodies, but of thomaolves they would be inadequate lo give us any ideas, or to instruct the mind regarding the uni verse. It is necessary that the brain should take cognizance nf objects presented by the external senses before any perception or any idea of them can exist: It is the province of the mind to convortthe impressions con veyed to it into such ideas. All the operations in the mind are the ef fects of motions previously excited in the brain, and every idea and thought appears to depend upon a motion peculiar to iisolf: In a sound elate of the mind these motions are regular, and succeod impressions upon the brain villi the same cerlafnty and uni formity, thai perceptions succeed impress ions upon the senses in their sound state. Thu internal sensations, which consist of the numerous wants and apetilcs necesia ry for individual preservation and the pre servation of tho species, and the affective and emotive faculties or the faculties of the heart, it is not my intention to consider. further than that they influence man's dispo sition and direct his social existence. The investigation of these different mental and moral phenomena, was at one day, ardu ously purnued by men of splendid acquire ments to but little effect, and constituted what has been called psycology from a notion that they are exclusively the production of the mind. They have been considered as essentially distinct from matter or organiza tional! hence the appollation Metaphysi cian applied to such as did, in their inves tigations of these subjects, proceed beyond what was physical, material, or corporeal. There have been many opinions enter tained on tho subject of the mental faculties. But I will only advert to three which op pears to claim consideration. 1st That all tho mental phenomena are immaterial aud tho exclusive product of the mind 2nd That the sentient principle within us requires tne intervention nl an organ through which il acts. That mind has a dUtin:t na ture and is a distinct rcalitu from the body: that it is gifted with immortality, and that it is a something superadded to organization. 3d That mind is the resi'lt of organiza ion and consequently where organization is imperfecl.perception will be imperfect, & wrien sound ana vigorous), perception wilt be clear and ri.'orou. This is materialism which supposes a certain condition of mat?r capable ol thinking, te-isoning and under standing. The doctrine, that our intellectual and moral acts are superadded to organization. during life, and lhat there is an organ of the body concerned in their manifestation, is the one, which appears to mo most consist ent willi reason and analogy. If the menial and moral phenomena were the exclusive products of the immaterial principle within us, they .would be placed beyond the bounds of physiological inquiry, but there arn facts connected with the manifestation of the mind inexplicable under this view of the subject. An immaterial on spiritual principle ought io'be immutablejyet we shoulJ have to sup pose it capable of alteration; of growing with the growth of the body; aud of becom ing old with it; of being awake r asleep; sound or, diseased; in fact of adapting itself to tho uuierent states into which the body may be thrown. Understanding, memnry, imagination, passions, the principle of faith, with the moral faculty, conscience, and the sense of deity are the mental faculties, these arem nale and depend wholly upon bodily im pressions to producejtheir specific operations, which impressions are made through the medium of external senses; hence the neces ily for rhe sound integrity of those senses. It will bo admitted that the mental facul ties are acted upon and modified by the dif ferent states and conditions of the body. In the same individual the faculties vary accor ding to circumstances; they are not the same in tne child as in the arttiit, nor in the adult as in one in adranced life;in health as in disease; in wakening as in sleep. Du ring an attack nl lever they become tempo rarily deranged, and permanently so in all the varieties of insanity. Again if thess fac ulties were the exclusive product of the mind and of course not to be ascribed to diversity of organization we should hare to admit lhat c.-.cli individual hus a different immaterial principle and of course that there must be a many kinds as there are individuals. I his is a position which the advocates of the doctrine would not wish to assume. We may conclude, then, that the intellectual and moral faculties are not the exclusive product or the mind, but that they require the intervention of an organ. We observe, in different persons, these energelio princi ples differently modified or associated in every variety of combination; sometimes one of them, and sometimes another, and sometimes several leagued together, peculi arly active, and obtaining a mastery over the rest. And wo behold theso effects in different instances, from different causes; as peculiarity of temperament, peculiarity of climate, custom, habit, or education. And hence die origin of moral or intellectual character the particular dispositions and propensities of individuals or of whole na tions. Herice one man is naturally violent; and anbther gentle', one a prey to per'pelual gloom; and another full of hope and confi dence, one iia3cible and revengeful and an other all benevolence and good will, one shrewd and witty and another heavy and in ert. Hence the refinomeht and patriotism of ancient Greece; the rough hardihood of the Romans; and the commercial epirit of Carthage. I have observed that these fac ulties require the intervention jf an nnr.n. That that organ is tho braln.admils of proof. In the first place, then, they are the phe nomena of sensibilily.and hence we should be disposed lo refer them to a nervous organ; and being the most elevated phonomena of the kind,to the highest of the nervous organs. In the second place, inward feeling.indn ces its to refer them thither. Wo not only feel the process there, during medilation.but the sense of fatigue, which succeeds to hard study, is experienced there likewise. Again, tho brain must bo in a state of in tegrity, otherwise the faculties are deranged or for the time abolished. In fever the brain becomes affected directly or indiroctly, and the consequence is, perveision of th in tellect, in the form or delirium. If the or gan be more permanently disordered rs by the pressure of an exostosis or of a tumor, or by somo alteration in its stiuoture or functionsless appreciable in its nature insanity, in some of its forms may be the result. In serious nccidents to the brain, we ob serve the importance of that organ to the proper exercise of tho mental faculties most oloarly evinced. 1 will cite somo of the ac cidents or causes which effect the faculties. Ifu person receive a violent blow upon the head, it suspends ihe operation of the fac ulties for a time, and if the blow bo of suffi cient force to fracture the skull the conse quence of this may be depression of a por tion of bone, which exerts a degree of com pression upon the brain, or tho fraciure may cause extravasation of blood from some of the vessels of the brain, which ex orl a degree of compression of it. From the moment of the infliction of the injury tho whole of the mental and moral manifes tations are suspended, and do not return un till the compressing cause is removed. Many other positive arguments might be adduced to show that the brain is the or gan of the menu' faculties; but 1 will now bring forward ono or two from a host of negative arguments which go to prove the same position. It is well known that disease of other portions of the body.nnd ef the prin ciple perilous, may exist and pass on to a fatal termination leaving the mental faculties almost wholly unimpaired. Such is prover bislly the case wiMi phthisis pulmonalis or pulmonary consumption, the subject of which may be flattering himself with hopes of long life and devising schemes of future pleasure and agrandizoment until within few hours of his disolution. Such is th case with many of the organs attacked with disease, which.pass on to a fatal teimination without impairing the faculties of the mind which is conclusive evidence that the brain is the organ of the mental faculties, I will now attempt to show you that th mental faculties are not tho result of ort'ani zation,and I would preface my observations by obsorving that those who contend for that doctrine aie not deserving of the anathemas which have been directed against them on the score of irreligion. The charge would rather apply to those who could doubt the power of omnipotence to endow matter with such attributes. It is the doctrine of those who contend for the mental faculties being the result of organization, that they are pro portionate to tho number and perfection of the external senses. How will this stand the test of investigation?!! is known that ma ny animals havo the same number of senses as mm, and frequently have them more perfect; yet in none is the mental sphere co extensive. The idiot, too, has the externa senses as delicate as the man of renins and often much more so. Manv of those of the greatest talents have the senses extremely obtuce; and further we find that some of tho ordinary avenues to the mind may be cut off, as in the cafe of the child born deaf and necccssarily dumb, the ingenuity of thesci entitle philanthropist has devised modes of instruction by which their mental manius tations have been exhibited in the most grat ifying manner.and in one which proves that the sense ot hearing is not absolutely neces sary for the mental develnpement, and lhat its place may be supplied to a great extent oy tne proper exercise ol others. Again, those who have, from early infan cy, been deprived of the senses of sight and hearing, and who have been devoid of two of the most important inlets for the entrance ot impressions from the surrounding world. In such case it is obvious they are shut out from all instruction except what can be af forded by the senses of touch, smell and taste: yet oven here we havo the strongest evidence ol independent intellect. Uut cut off all the external senses and the mind would be enchained in a prison house of im penetrable darkness; without an nvenue for intellectual or moral light; inaccessible to ell but the eye of Omniscience. To conclude, in man the brain is moro complicated than in any other animal; his mental sphere is more extensive; he, alone posseses notions of religion and morality. On that assemblage of form and faculties which constitute humanity wo observe tho impress of Deity. Man in his elavated vo cation, is not only king of the universe but also destined lor a luture state oi existence, nnd.speclaijyfintenccl td live In itcWt Hence it was necessary that he should nof only have an intellect sufficiently exi6nivd to mako all nature more or less subject t hlm( but also a mind such that he might es tablish social relations with hie fellow. It was necessary that he should hav notions 6f tho just and unjust.acd be able id comprehend the khowlcdge of God; those sublime feelings which cause him so to re gulate his conduct as to maintain, with fa cility his mortal connections, and tn have? his name so registered that when the An ad or God shall unfnrl his teroll to ah assem bled universPfit shall appear upon the record! or trie redeemed. J he mighty and mysteri rious truth has been published by a voistf. from heaven; it is engraved on pages of adamant, and attested by the affirmation of the Godhsad. It tells us in words that cant lie, that tho mind or soul is Immortal frora its binhithatthe strong and inextinguishable" desire wo feel of future being is the true and natural impulse of n highborn inextinguish able principlejandthat theblow which pro trales the body ar.d imprisons It in the grave gives pinions to the soaring spirit and crowns it with freedom and triumphi Bu this is not all, tho same voice (ells us too that gross matter itself is not rieccessa rily corruptible; thai tho freedom and tri umph of the soul shall, hereafter, be extend ed to the body, that thie corruptible, shall put on incorrupiien.thi mortal.immorfality, and a glorious and beatified reunion succeed By what moans such reunion is to be. ac complished, or why such separation should bo necessary, we know not, for we know not how the union ,:s produced at first.' They aro mysteries that yet remain locked up in tho bosom of the great Creator, and areas inscrutable to the sage as to the inf age, to the philosopher as to the schoolboy; they are left, and perhaps purposely.to raak a mock at all human science;and while they1 form the ground work of man's futurejhapp'w ness, forcibly to point out to him that hif proper path lo it is .hrougg tho gate of ltU mauity. Good penmanship is an accomplishment that all, both male and female, should be possessed and it is one too thai all may1 attain provided they pay proper attention tot instruction under competent teachers. There are but few however, who attempt to teach it, who understand the principles, &Z the right method of imparling them to oth ers. Of those few, we esteem Mr MEfiir er, a gentleman who is now instructing tt class- in this village to the entire satisfaction of his employers and pupils. Wa hard been shown specimens of the progress ot his scholars, which far exceeded our belief, had wo not been satisfied that they were genuine' His own specimens of Penman ship are superior to any tvo havo Aver seen and we do not believe that they can be ex celled. We cordially recommend him to) thepatronage of the publici MittiscnoixT. The firmly of Mr. John Kncn of Brier Creek, has for Boveral weeks been afflicted with a fever of a very malignant character. A eon and daughter, William and Esther, and two other persons who had assisted them in taking care of tha sick, died vrilhiu a few days of each other. Anoth- er son, Samuel, who was very sick with the fever and aho delirious, took tho opportunity while tho watchers wcro in another room preparing noma medicine, about 3 o'clock, on Friday morning of1 last neck, tu leap from the window and run for tha river, distant about 100 rods, into which ho plunged, A moment after ho loft, his absence was discovered, and ho was traced to tho river, too lato to sava him from his melancliolly fate. His body was found ia tho afternoon a few rods below where he jumpt in, in about 10 feet wateri MARRIED At Mifllinville, on Tuee.- day last, by the Rev. G. C. Drake, Mr'.DAL TIS APPLEMAN, jr. of Hemlock, to Miss MARGARET AIKMAN, lately of Espylown. On Thursday evenincr last, by tl:e Rev G. C. Drake. Mr. JOHN WELLlVER of the state of New Jersey, to Miss ELI ZABETH.daughter of Mr. William Harnp. ton, of Bloom township, and grand daugh ter or tho late Rev. Caleb Hopkins, de ceased. In Rush township, Northumberland en. on Sunday evening last, by tho Rev. Mr. Louderbaueh, Mr. ROBERT B. CUTH- BERT, of Bloomsburg, to Miss SUSAN NAH WEAVER, of tie former placo- On Thursday last, by the Rev. D. S. Pobias, Mr. PETER JACOB Y of Hem- loch, to Miss MARY METILDA GRA HAM, of Orangeville. CURE YOUIt COUGH BEFORE IT 13 TOO LATE. KEMEMBER, delays aro danger ous. Thousand die annually fiom that dreadful dis ease rONSUMPTlON, which might havo boon checked at tho commencement, and disappointed of its prey,if proper means had been reaoital to. Tho very many who havo thus been snatched from lhat fjtitl ravager. by tho timely useof Dr. K WAYNES COMPOUND SYW OF WILD CHERRY. bear tcstamony to this day, announcing tho cure, tlio wondcrtul cures, periormeu ny uie uso or itus invaluable modicino. For sale at Tobias' Health Emponum Bloomibtif, ov.t, two, 1 A
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