The Columbia Democrat. (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, February 13, 1841, Image 1
THE CmrWBII PEMOCKAT. I have iworu upen tho Altar of Gotlj (sternal hostility to ercry form of Tyranny over tlio Bllild faf' Man." Thomas Jefferson. taana PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY lit WEBB; ui u- 1 Volume IV. BLOOMSBURG , COLUMBIA COUNTY PA. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1841 Number 42 OFFICE OF THE DEMOCRAT, OrroitTB St PAUt'fl ClIimCH, MXlN-ST. TAe COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT will be published every Saturday morning, at TWO DOLLARS per annum, payable half yearly in advance, or Two Dollars Fifty Cents, if not paid within the year. jVb subscription will be laktnfor a shorter period than six months ; nor any discon tinuance permitted, until all arrearages arc discharged. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding a square will be conspicuously inserted at One Ddllar for the. first three insertions, and Twcnlij-fivc cents for every subse quent nscrnon. pj made to those, ivho advertise by the yean IETTERS addresstd on bitsiness, must be post paid. Front itio ICnlckerijockori Oft at tlie hour when evening throws Its gathering shades o'er vale aiul hill, While half the sceno in twilight glows, And half in sunlight glories still : The thought of all that we have been, And hoped and feared on lifo'elong way . Remembrances of joy and pain Corao mingling With the close of day. The distant scent) of Youth's bright dream The smiling green, the rustling tree, The murmur of the grass'fringed stream, Tho bounding of the torrent free) The friend, whoso tender voice no mors Shall sweetly thrill the listening ear, The glow that Love's tint vision wore, And Disappointment's pangs aro here. Sut soft o'er each reviving scene The chastening hues of Memory spread; And smiling each dark thought between, Hope softon3 every tear we shed. 0 thus, when Death's long night comes on, And its dark shades around me lio( May parting beams from Memory's sun Blend softly in my evening sky ! man coj'jsf.ctiow BY F. S. OSOOOD. 11 1 grant him good and handsome, dear, This charming Julian Stanley; A genius and a hero too, And courteous as he's manly. 1 own his heart a generous one, And rich in warm affections, "None fcnow him but to prainohim," love: But has ha high connections ? " He has, the highest I" Jane replied, With smiles and blushes blended. "Ah! then all's right !" her crony cried, " Who are they I how descended I" His kin aro all the great and good I He's linked with them forever, By Sympathy the only tie, That Death will fail to sever, And higher still his noble mind, His pure and true affections, Have won for him a homo in Heaven: Thenars his "high connections." An Honorable Example. Tho follow ing we find in the tho Maysvillo Eaglo. It u reUted of Mr. Craddock a member of the Kentucky Senate from the counties of Hardin and Meade : "Sir," said Mr- C, What I have said here to day was said in a rough way, and if it has wounded a Senator, I hope he will attribute it to no unkind feelings, but to my want of the polish of education. Sir, your Superintendent of Common Schools has maid, that there ore many men of family in this Commonweailh, who can neither read nor write, and it is but true, my own mar riage bond has my mauk to it, and my son, wlit now sits in tho other House, was a lout boy when I learned to write." . Mr. C. is now not only a respectable ,iHnalor, but a good lawyer. What more lleod ho sniil in liia nmiiu 1 - i - yu. Tho face of truth is not less fair and beautiful for all tho counterfeit vis- on which have been nut on her. A MELTING STORY. No other class of men in any other coun try possesses that faccteoua aptness at In flicting a good humored revenge which seems to be innate with the Green Moun tain boy. Impose upon r injufo a Ver montcr, and he will soem tho drollest and best nalurcd fellow you ever knew in your life, until suddenly he pounces upon you with somo cunningly devisod offset for your duplicity and even while he makes his vic tim smart to the cote, there is that manly open-heartedness about him Which infuses balm even while the wound is opening, and renders it quite impossible that you should hato him, however severe may have been tho punishment ho dealt out to you. These boys of the Green Mountains seem to pos sess a natural faculty of extracting fun from every vicissitude and accident that the chan ging houra can bring; even what aro bitter vexations to others, these happy fellows treat in a manner so peculiar as completely to alter their former character and make them seem to ub agreeable, or at least en durablei which was beforo in the highest degree offensive. Another man will repay an aggravation or an insult by instantly le turning injury, cutting acquaintance and shutting his heart forever against the offen .1 I. ... - tr . .... ucr; uuia v ermemer, wun a smilo upon his face, will amuse himself with obtaining a iar keener revenge, ciacking a joke in - - I l i suiii;iusion,anb maKing nis lormer enemies forgive him and even lovo him after tho chastisement. One winter evening.a country slore-keop cr in tho Mountain State was about clos ing his doors for tho night.and while stand ing in the snow outside, putting up his window shutterB, he saw through the glass a lounging worthless fellow within, grab a pounu of Iresh butter from tho ehelfand hastily conceal it in his hat. W The act waa no pocner lotdiJ ii.mt. i venge was hit upon and a very few moments found tho Urecn mountain store-keeper at once indulging his appetite for fun to the fullest extent, and paying off the thief with a sort of toituro for which he might have gainod a premium from the old inquisition.' 'I say, Seth,' said the stoore'kecpor.com ing in and closing tho door after him,slapp- irg his hands over his 8houlders,and stamp ing the snow off his shoos. Seth had his hand upon tho door, his hat upon his head and the roll of new butter in his hat, anxious to mako his exit as soon as possible. 'I say Seth, sit down; I reckon, now, such an K-TAiwial night as this.a lectio somothtng warm wouldn't hurt a fellow; come and sit down.' Seth felt very uncertain; he had tho but ter and was exceedingly anxious to be off, 'our. the temptation of 'something warm, spdy interfered with his resolution to go. This hesitation however, was soon settled by the right owner of tho butter taking Seth by the shoulders and planting him in a seat close to tho stove, where he was in such a manner cornered in by barrels and boxes that while the country giocer sat beforo, there was no possibility of his getting out, and right in this very place, sure enough, tho stoor-kcoper sat down. 'Seth, we'll have a little warm Santa Cruz,' said the Green Mountain grocer,-as he opened the stovo door and stuffed in as mar.y sticks as the space would admit. 'Without it you'd freeze going home such a night as this.' Seth already felt the butter settling down closer to his hair, and jumped up declaring he must go. Not till you havo something warm,Selhj come, I've got a story to tell you, too; sit down now.' and Seth was again pushed into his seat by his cunning tormentor. Ohl its tu darn'd hot here,'said tho petty thief, again attempting to rise. 'Set down don't be in such a plagey hurry,' retorted the grocer, pushing him back in his ciair. 'But I've the cows tu fodder, and somo wood td split, and I must bo tinued the persecuted chap. Bgolll,' con- But you mustn't tear yourself away.Seth in this manner. Set down! let tho cows tako caro of themselves; and keep yourself cooli you appear to bo fidgety!' said tl:o ro guish grocer with a wicked leer. Tho hcxl thing was the production ol two smoking glasses of hot rum toddy, tho very sight of which, in Seth's present situation, would have made tho hair stand erect upon his head had it not been well oiled and kept down by the butter. 'Seth, I'll give you a toast nOw,arid yoU can butter it yourself,' said tho grooer.yet with an air of such consummate simplicity that poor Seth still believed himself unsus peeled. 'Seth here's here's a Christmas goose well roasted and basted, cht I tell you, Seth.it's the greatest eating in creation. And, Seth, don't you never use hog's fat or common cooking butter to baste wilhj fresh pound butter, just the same as you see on that shelf yonder, is the only proper thing in natur to baste a goose with como take your butter I mean Seth, your toddvi Poor Seth now began to smokb as woll aa to melt, and his mouth was as hermeti cally sealed up as though he had been born dumb. Streak after streak of tho butter came pouring from under his hat, and his handkerchief was already soaked with lh greasy overflow. Talking away as if noth ing was the matter the grocer kept stuffing the wood into the stove, while poor Seth sat bold upright, with his Stack against the counter, and his knees almost touching the red hot furnace beforo him. 'Darnalion cold night this,' said tho gro cer. 'Why, Seth, you seem to perspire as if you was warm ! Why don't you take your hat off! Here, let me put your bat away 1; No ' exclaimed poor Seth at last with a spasmodic effort ts get his tougue loose, and clapping both hands upon his hat, 'No! l must irot lei mo out. i aim .it me go ! A greasy cataract was now pouring down tho poor fellow's face and neck, and soaking into his clothes, and trickling down his body into his very boots, so that ho was literally in a perfect bath of oil. Well, good night Seth,' said tho humo rous Vermontcr, 'if you will go;' adding as Seth got out into tho road, 'neighbor, I reck on the fun I've had out of you is worth ninepencn, so I shan't charge you for that pound of butter.' N. 0. Picayune, GREAT MEN ARE GENERALLY FARMERS. Georqe Washington, the father of in dependence, and great benefactor of his race, when public duty permitted, devoted all the energies of his well balanced mind to the improvements of agriculture at Mount Vernon, Virginia, where he died. He cor responded with Sir John Sinclair, and oth er distinguished husbandmen of tho ago, upon various improvements indispensable to good farming. Somo of his agricultural epistles have been persovcred as everlast ing monuments of his goodness and great ness. John Adams, the second President, and in the language of Mr. Jefferson, " the great pillar and support in the Declaration of Independence, and its ablest advocate and champion on tho floor of the hoiue," was a farmer in Quincy ,Masiachusclts. Thomas Jefferson, the third President, died a farmer at Monticello, Va. James Madison, tho fourth President, was a great admirer of agriculture. Jamks Monhoe, tho fifth President, was a good farmer, and a very correct justice of the peace in the county of Loudon, after his retirement from the Presidency. John Q. Adams, the sixth President of the United States, was and is a farmer at Quincy, near Boston. Andrew Jackson, the seventh President, is a farmer in our immodiate neighborhood. His " Hermitage" plantation is one of tho roost beautful situations in tho United States, and were he to quit cotton, read agricultural papeis a little more, and study carefully tho improvements nature suggests in this coun try, his indefatigablo exertions oven in his old age, would make him a first rate farmer, Martin Van Bumsn, tho oighth Presi- denti is a farmor at Kinderhook; an excel lent judge of aheep, and successful wool grower. William Hknry Harrison, the ninth President elect, of the Union, is a (armor, and a first rate wheal grower, at North Bend, Ohio. An overwhelming maioritv of the voters of the United States are practical far mers, and it is out of the question to think of any other man being President but a far- inert Agriculturist, From the Picayune. MULLINAVAT ItACES. A STORY OF THE WIDOW II00AN S COW. The following story was told a few even ings since by an Emeralilor to one of his companions, tlia latter ot whom is some thing of a turfman and had that day been to the Louisiana Course and witnesseed a very interesting race which ho was bragging a- bout. Arrah, bo aisy Pat wid yet sthories iv yer great reees wid Sary Bladen an' Grey Medoc, an' Boston an' Gann, an' all the rist iv yer nags an' crealhurs, whin all iv them would bo nothing intircly, kimparcd wid the racing animals iv ould Ireland, that'll r'm their two mile an' three quarters in half the limf, an' thin tossli of aglasshov whis key wid the company. Shlop a bit till I light me pipe, an I'll infarm vd iv a race that'll bate this coumhry or anny other. Yo see the boys iv Mullinavat had jial rethurncd from the Limerick races, whin what should inter their heds but to mck up a race jisi to plaze (ho girls an' be way iv making a little shport; but thcro was no race horses tu be had) no, tho diva the one. Well) is conscquince iv having raed all the arfangemints widout thinking iv the horses at all at all, the boys were forced to tek Lrr rv. 0'Uorntuli ould Jarru!.hprse. ,.an'tho Widtly Hogan'a cow. Uch 1 tnat was me cow for ye; sure, she'd outrin tho divil an' all his imps in tho bargain anny day an' thore wasn't a sowl in MullinavaU nor twin ty miles to the back iv that, barrin' tho Wid dy Hogan, could como up wid her. Well, the performanshis iv the day begun wid a fut raco iv a quarther of a niilo hate, which was beautifully coutisted betwane Pat Mc Guiro an Micky Coggins tho shoemaker, an' no doubt but Micky would iv won, if Pat hadn't run agin hlmjist afther thoy shtarted, whioh Micky resinted and shlruck Pat a blow untlier the leg, an' thin kem three rounds aich. fair play, the last ov which settled poor Micky intirely. Thin the fut race being ower, tho ' Sprig iv Shil- lelah,' as a signil for shtartin' an' off they wint, Laity mounted on his ould baste an tho Widdy Hogan ashtrldo tho coW, wid all the boys iv Mullinavat a rinnin' after thim for tho baro life. Fat' an' bo jaibers ! but the bitting rih high that timo. Twinty to ono on tne vviuuy.' 'jjone, siz mo praisht. I'll wager yees a tin month ould pig agin a couple iv murphies on the horse,' sed Barney Maloncy. Done, siz Pal Mc- Guiro. Mano timo away they wint amidst tho shouts iv the boys. ' Och, whack ! go it Widdy.' ' Don't bo bate by a cow, Lar ry,' an' so on, till the cow, catching a sight U the horse passing her, (for the ould crea thur had his lame leg greased an but in or thcr, and wint shmart,) shtuck her tail in the air an' mod at him full tilt, an' het him a blora that sint him an' Larry, ono bo tho other, nate an' comfartable on the grass, whilst tho Widdy kep on.till the md iv the coorse, an' thin kem shport. '1 ho boys pu led the ould bourse wid turf, an' Hairy pil led it back at thim; an' wid that they pilted one another till it was all, Phililoo ! Tar rinages I Shtand claro 1 Away wint turf, an' murphies, an' shillolahs; off wint boas, an' bang wint shillelahs on tile hids, "an' mathurs wint to a great height whin the girls interfaredi tho ould piper shtarted a jig, an' from fighlin' they all wint to daneiu'. The boys broouhed a barrel iv whiskey, and a nailer shindy niver occurred in Mul linavat from the time iv Methuselum to this i day; atld the Wlddy ivery year, immediate u fiher the Limerick races, kapcs.up the art niversiry in thb oiltd cowi SPINOLOGYi In those days, when boarding schools fdr young ladies ate devoted to the fashionable! ologies of the day such as tihoncology, or nithology, Ichthyology, zoology and such like, we propose an additional science, a3 a finishing touch to young ladies education! viz: Spuidlogy. Our grandmothers of oU den timo, who made good wives, tot patri otic men that achieved our indopendencoi know how to spin. They were too expert at wcave-ology; and as to cook-ology, nond of tho learned ancients could go ahead ot them. As a consequence of all this, they enjoyed good health, and sUch things ae dyspepsia and consumption wcro seldom known. But in modern times those scien ces, so honorable to the matrons of tho Rev olutioh) havo gone out of date. A lamenta bio degeneracy .both physical and moral has followed. Then the country had womenj now we havo none. Females havo all Vim od ladies. If our faahionabia schools cnhhbt ho ill duced to establish departments in spinologyi weaveology, and the like, wo would sug gest that some matrons if a number quali fied for tho business ball bs found) should go into our cities and towns, anil set up splnhing schools to teach young ladies not hoW to spin street yarn this art they luvo generally aohieved already but good substantial wool and llnneh, in a work-wo manlike manner. This should bB prepara tory to High School for teaching the healthy and ingenious art of Weaving and they have become proficients at both a good knowledge of Cookology should entitle thorn to a regular diploma, with tho hono rary degree of F. Wi Fit for Wives. Maine Cultivatott A BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE. "irraTecenrspeecrrBrxrxaonncinr- wtntr- ladies of Kilkenny he makes use of the fol lowing language, as beautifully cxpresscd;ai it is original in conception. Mr. O'Connell is at this time tAe orator of tho World and Freedomj and may bo said to be a living impersonation of Eloquence. Unlike al most any other; he is at homo in every cir cle; and whether pouring his polished peri ods and nervous invective into thB startled ear of the House of Commohs, or dealing in good'huraofed slang and familiar doublo en tendres in the presence of the workmen of Cork, he is alike in every place. Wo can conceive no richer treat than to hav heard him deliver this exquisito passage. Observo the fine figure in italics. During tho lengthened period of ray ex islenco I have been in many relations with the higher and nobler sex. I am a grand father, and know what it is to lovetand how sweet it is to hoar tho chirping of a grand daughter to an old man's car. One of mind tho eldest, is a bright eyed girl, just enter ing into all the happiness which lifo can give to a young heart bearing its first affec tions, and a kindlier glow never warmed my heart than when sho clasps the neck of her grandfather. I did enjoy tho affections of a sister, who loved mo more than I de sorved, and when I could not love her half so much as I do now. I wept ovai tho grave of my sainted mother, who early in structcd and brought up my infant mind to the possibility of failure, but the impos sibility that the lessons I received could tar nish the morals or virtue of her son; and I do sincerely believe that, when at her last expiring breath her sainted soul poured forth a bloasing ou my head, what ever success I havo had through life was owing to tho efficacy of her last pleasing though melat.cho.ly lesson. I havo had tho pledges of a wedded love in those daughters whonit pcthaps, with tho eratic instinct uf paternal iifiVclion, I have deemed the faireah as they certainly are among the gentlest of the aexj I have beon a happy husband did I say I. have been t Oh, no I am her husband nillthe eruve is between us but thi link that binds our souls is immortal, niut.