Who hnil fallen in defence of the country, ti was to applied, tis I havo reason to believe; bnt Major Davczac can tell, you moro particularly what was dona with if 'Connected with the history of this causo I would give you somo interesting facts, slibwing the motives and feelings of Judgo Hall; but I am too feeble to write, and I have no disposition now to rovivo charges which can have no effect upon tho judgo merit which posterity will form from the records; Although the Judge violated orders and fled from tho defence of the oily, and, in his proceedings against me for attempt, committed blunders which were extraordinary, if not criminal, it was not in my nature to broolc over them after the brilliant closo of the campaign, and, hearing aflerwrd3 lhat he manifested con trition and repenlonce; I cheerfully forgave him. 'The Judge's character, however, should be out of thejfiuestion in ibis case;or n tleast I have no desire to assail if The great point is thin. Ought not Congress lo inter pose and return a fine, imposed;as mine was; for the performance of an act which was indispensable lo the safety of tho country? And if not, will not the precedent prejudice the public interest in a similar emergency, should ono arise! Can it be expected that a general will take a high and necessary reponsibility for tho safety nf his country, if he is insulted, fined, or imprisoned by a mistaken or vindictive judjje, -whoso fiat, under an erroneous view of what is duo to forms of law. cannot be changed by legis lativo power? Thanking you again, for your generous sympathies, I remain your friend ANDREW JACKSON. 'Hon L- F- Linn-' "TIlCTtt W1TU0CT FEAll D32aSGS!IT3nB 3 S.1TUUD.1Y, JTUJVE 11, 1812, FOR PRESIDENT, (Subject to the decision of the National uonvcmion.j MILITARY ELECTIONS. On Monday Inst the elections throughout this Brigade took place. Robert II. Hammond, of Milton, was re-elected .Brigadier Gencralnnd Colonel Jackson McFaddcn, ofLcwisburg; Biigade Inspector, Hiram R. Klino wasolectcd Colonel.and Michael R. Hnwor re-cleetcd Lieutenant Colonel, of tho 71st Regiment. Michael C. Vimcc, Major of tho 1st, and Abraham Troxell, of tlio 2d, BaUlion in W,. Imvr. received thofirst number of tho 'Wash- iuotokian, a i cmpcranco paper puuiisueu ai Harrisburg, by John S. Ingram, at two dollars per year. It is needless to say lo moso acquaimeu wun him that it is well got up, and ably conducted. In gram must certainly be classed among the thorough go-ahead boys. He has driven steam rowxn un til ho burst hia toiler, and is now advocating WA Tr.n rown. You aro right, John. Watku row- r.n is far preferable to steam, and much ciikaveiii whilo it is lofs liable to explosion. Wo shall now cxpoct a puff from our fr end Ingram for tho Fish ing creek water power.Moy be that ho will includo theinou-r nsusitir, if he has discarded tanza. The Louisville Advertiser says; A few days ago in Hardin county, a i,in;., ,n r.iru.Haliln niiizen was seized by tho constable for debt, end adver- tised for sale. The people of that neigh- hnrhnnd had ntodeed themselves not to bid off property solu on execution, un that account; when tne Uay oi paie arriveu, none of them attended. A minister of the uospei wno ueiongs io anouu-r semuinciu a man who prolosses lo leacn mo precepts of the christian religion, camo to tho placo of sale. He was the only bidder. He bid just onk-bit, and the cow, a very valu able one, was struck off to him at lint price. He drove the cow home, paying for her just twelve and a half cents.' FROM PROVIDENCE, The Providence Journal of Monday says i'l'lio General Assembly will meet at Newport three weeks from this day. From tho disnositisn of both houses wo entertain no doubt that if things remain quiet the General Assembly will pass an act calling nnuthcr Convention toframo a wrtten Con jilituiion for tho Slaio. and that the basis of . . the sum-ago, in voting for delegates to .,.!. finnvnminn. will he enlamed to the 'limits proposed in Mr. Jackson's bill m..,i ... ,r vir Krion last held in this Ex-President Van Buren' Hia re ception at Louisville, Ky; was very flatter ing'indeod. He was mot about, six miles out of town by a body of citizens estimated at a hundred to ono hundred and fifty some in carriages and somo on horseback. Hero ho tookja seat in a private carrriago drawn by four elegant bays, a conveyanco provid ed for him by tho citizens, and conducted to the ciljr. On a;riving at the boundary lino ho was received by a largo concourse uf people who had long waited his arrival. Q. Durncan, Esq., distinguished lawyer and a whig, addressed the Exprcsident in n elo quence, welcoming him, in the namo of the people, to liouisvile. To this Mr. Yan Buren replied in his usual appropriate and happy style. A procession of the Military and citizens then formed, more than a milo long, and proceeded through the principal streets to tho Gait House, whero apartments were provided for Mr Van Buren and Mr. Paul ding, by tho Young Men's Democratic As sociation. acmj.M j i i limn m Mr. Van Buren arrived at Lexington,Ky on the 20th of May. He was met at tho city limits by the military companies and citizens. On his arrival at the point desig nated for hie reception, R. N. Wicklifie, ad dressed him 'in behalf of tho Democratic citizens of Lexington and Fayette;' and Mr. V. B. made n brief response. He rode in an open barouche, Col. R. M. Johnson sit ting upon tho same scat with him. Mr. Van Buren subsequently visited Mr. Clay; at Ashland. A meeting in favor of General Cass for the Presidency, is about lo be held in New York. Threo hundred and six of the U. Slates troops, lately attached to the forces in Flor ida, have left for New York. Tho7th in fantry was still in active pursuit of Ocleachee and his band of Creeks. Nothing more has yet been heard of tho Creeks engaged in the lato attack on Lieut. Baker's party. Their'iiiimber was from ten to fifteen. Tho most authentic accounts agreo that' there aro now not more than 25 warriors north of tho Withlacoochce; and about tho same num ber south of it. Tho number of Somioles, Tallahns3es9; and Mickasucksios, (warriors) orj the original inhabitants of tho territory at the beginnning of Vho war, is now reduc ed lo Moelve. The war now prosocuted is against the Creeks. Thrilling Incident. Tho New York Era ofSaturday says: 'On Thursday even ing, as tho celebrated wild beasts perform ing with his animals at tlio uowery l nea ire, uiu licuji.uu onu mu igu. an extra incident to tho performance by a regular set too WllllO DneSDacIl was la Hie cage with them, which camo near costing the latter his live. Driesbach had succeedeU m sealing the comuals, one ol which, me Leopard, ho caused lo leap upon his shoul ders, when the Tiger made a spring upon him also, and buried his teeth and claws into tho tho unfortunate tanner's face and head, tearing oft a portion of Ins lace in a m9st shocking manner, and dovormg him with blood. Tho indomitsble courage and aUUreis ot tlio neroic uerman, uou., - never more conspicuously displayed than upon this occasion: aim so ouecuy uiu u subdue the enraged animals, even while in the most imminent peril, thai some part of the audience were not awaio oi u ol tlie aeciuent. gatnwsssass Enormous profits from some of the fjJ England. 'Ys increased con sumption of gas in all metropolitan cities.the vast number of steam ship of war, sailing to and from tho ports of tho old world, and upon the sea in every clime, has caused an immpnstn n ml nermament demand for soft coalSi AJ ex(ra number of i,and3 havo been employed in all tho piincipal collieries and the proprietors of the best coal-helus m the territory of Great Britain aro heaping up princely fortunes, from the profits of their business. We have hoard of ono in dividual, who has mado between four and five millions, during a fow years past from ho mines owned by himself alone. (Boit. Traveller. Tho Lancaster Bank, the Farmers' Bank I .i n ... T.,V nnj finliimriln' mo uerua ooumj wu, - Bank and Bridge Uompany, navo resu.veu unanimously lo resume specie payments on all their liabilities on the first of September npxf Vetv finod. Sale of good bacon were made at Cincinatl last week, .at 1 1-2 a I 14 cent per pound. Pork is down sure enough. Catholicism. Tho Corner stone of a now German Catholic church was laid at Pittsburgh, a few days since, The church is to bo one hundred and filly feet in length, an d seventy-one wide, is to have a steeple one hundred and seventy-four foot high.jPitts burgh is a groat p'.aco for churches. There are about fifty in tho two adjoining cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, about one chnrch to every 700 inhabitants. That speaks well (or the public morals, Chicago. Eight year ago Chicago was a willderii2ss,with only it military garrison, kept up by the United States to serVe as a check to aborigines. Tho following ex tiact from a memorial addressed ,to Cong ress by the Common Council ofTChicago shows what it is now: 'Tho lasF census rates tho inhabitants of this city between 5 and C000. The avcrago import trde is ever SI. 500,000 annually, whilo that )f our ex ports has readied, within tho dresenl year, $313,302.' Loveand Suicide. Tne '?hiledslphia Ledger States that on last Saturday after noon, a yovng woman but n few weeks married, the daughter of a rich farmer in the vicinity of Quakertown, in Bucks county committed suicide by hanging herself to a limb of an apple tree, near thrdwolllnghouse. It appears that a short timtaincc she was married, through the influohccaof her father to a young man, while at (the same time she was afl'eblionalely devoted to another. Disappointed lovo is asjigned as the cause ot trio rasli act. reparations were being made by her li'usband lo take her in a fow weeks to his own domicil-This act no doubt hurticd on jtho melancholy vent which has unquestionably caused no small degree of grief anctt sorrows among tho relatives and friends of the deceased, One of tho iron slearaboats intended for the coal trade on tho Delaware and Raritan canal, wasjatsnched at New York, on Wednesday week,. She is furnished with Erricson propellirs, and is of two hundred and thirty tons. Three moro of tho same siz aro on ipe stocks for tlio same purpose. i The steamer 'Troy Tuesday morning at left Now York on 'seven o clock, and reached Albany, ono hundred and sixty miles, at ten minutes before four o'clock in the afernobl Sho made eight landings, and the Albaiv papers cstimato her speed at nineteen kites an hour, The selectmen of IJ ii, IVlnssacl.uscIs, havo issued a card, dec ring that 'that there is not ono word oftru'lin the report' that a scholar in school in thi town was lied up by his heels and whipfl to death. Kkoston, Juno 1 INDICTMENTS FCR TREASON. i The Supremo Court oihis Stale mot at Kingstone on tho 31st ullNathan F.Dixon Esq. was appointed altoriv general prolcsi in ho absence of Uon. kecne. Bills of indictment for tre&stin wci found against Joseph Gavitt, of Charleston, aud Sylves ler Himes, of North Itinirdn. members of tho General Assembly unfj- the Peonlo'a Constitution; Capiaes, nutnablo forth with svero issued imocdiatjy against both. Dutee'J. Pearce, Jsq., 0 Newport o lected lo the Legislate, tintcrlhe People's Constitution, resignejhis sell a fow days since. , James Smith al liawhn Brtnsh, indicted uctis on thb Stoninglon for placeing obsiructis rail road, pleaded nclguilty.l This man stated in his oxamin jn, prelious to his commitment, that homo onlfroni Now York with Thomas j Dorr, a(id said that he was a buttender. (o was convicted, and sentenced lo three vb imprisonment. Tho Miners' JouJ slate that the re ceipts for passengerierchandisc, &c. on the Philadelphia, Ming and Putlsvile Railroad, dnring ihenth of April amount ed to nearly twentyiusand dollars, -i The Fayetleville C. Observer says: Col. William Haik, of Monroe coun. ty. has sent us a sre of new flour tho firs) we have hear this year. Tho wheat was sown oifo I8th of October, 1842, threshed on 51st, ground on the 22d, and inmarkel to 33d; The chartist petition lately presented to the British Parliamcn, is said to have been signed by three milltions of persons. - Tho whole number who onjoy tho right ofeulTrago in Great Britain is probably considerably less than dno million. And for those, tho representation is so unequal that probably threo hundred thousand overrule the threo millions; or ten times their num ber, and deny them all participation in he government. The whigs and lories combino in Eng laud, as in -this counjry in refcrenco to Rhode Island, in viewing the mass of man kind as made only to toil, to bo taxed, and to fight for their masters. Tho standing army there, being much larger than here, they am ab?o to enforce their dedpoiitism more pormanent than'their co-workers arc like to do in the United States. Pennsylvanian. Steam Boat Peat' t Hunt; The Steam boat Corsair, arrived on Thursday night from Galena, relates a curious incident, In the Ohio River belew, they espied a large Bear swimming tho river. The mato and his campanions put off in a skiff with a determination to capture Bruin. The gentleman however rmdo a vory sturdy resistance. At length they fixed a rope around his head and cattied the other end lo tho Stermboaf Then began a pretty littlo scene. The Steamboat proceeded on, and Mr. Bruin followed exnecessilalei He was soon hauled in, when his first proceeding was to climb the upper deck, and put to flight all the loungers in' those regions. The end was, ho was killed, and proved to bo quito a magnificent fellow . Cin' Chronicle. By the latest arrivals from Texas it is announced that tho citizens rf that Repub lic aro in favor of an invasion ef Mexico. Tho Jail of Vandalia, Illionis, was broken open on the night of lGlh ult, and the only prisoner, a female, was released, by some gallant friends- Tin Preach crop of East Jerssy hat been oMnly cut off by tho lato fiosls, 'PI li7. T" uuiu la m itJ present time, in a poor houso in England wan ,vh0 was onco worth 400,000. Eleven prisoners escaped from the jail of tho sccoud municipality at New Orleans.on the night of the 18th ult. by undemanding tho walls. A mine of tin oro has been discoverod on ?.,,, il. ....:... :.. i.i .i . jiiuiu uiuuiiiiiiii, in iiuains rouuiy in tills Whitney, of New York, is said to bo the second richest man in American. His proporty is oaiiniated at $10,000,000. The Moblo Herald of the 23d ult, elates that the negroes concernedin ;ho murder of lato Walter R. English were hung, a uay or two before, without trial' Somo Yankee editor says' ho liked to died a lafin' to see a drunken chap trying to pocket the shadow of a swinging" sign, which he mistook for a pocket handker chief-' 7dl swimming, Tho Duchess ol Cheveronx! who wa3 for the first limo al tho court of England in 1G33, swam across the Thames in a frolie, near Windsor. BITITAI&Y. DIBD In this town, on Saturday Inst. ELI ZAUETH, daughter of Doct. John Kamsay, aired 2 years aim nine months, On Sunday last, JANE, daughter of Mr. John McKride, aged 17. In this township, on Tuesilav last, Mrs. HAMPTON, consort of Mr. William Hampton. agcu auout u. On Tuesday last, vcrv suddenly, at Williams burg, Mr. GEORGE WILLHKLM, a foreigner, aged about 30. PPJCES GTOSIE1TT9 At Bloomsburg, Pa. ( Corrected FPechly.) Wheat, , si io Rye- 00 Corn,- 50 Cloverseed,. .5 00 Flaxseed, .1 25 Butter, Oals, Eggs, Tallow,- 10 40 8 8 I 50 Lard,. Dried Apples,- iVnvV YORK Atfl) PriiXADELPUtf c incus, WELCH &, MA1T1T PROPRIETORS WILL BE EXHIBITED AT Bloon.sburg, on Friday. June 10, 1842 AT 2 O'CLOCK, T. M. In announcini: this extensive Establish ment, the proprietors are gratified in having it in their power to assure' the public that their Company stands UNRIVALLED in the WORLD, combining the largest num ber of superior Trained .Arabian Horses, together with, a Company of Ladies and uenuemcn oi tno nrst talent that can ba produced oither in Europe or America. Among whom aro Mr- C, J. ROGERS. Mr. GEORGE CADWALLADER, Mr. GEO. SWEET, nir.w.ituwAKU.Mr. KISLEY & SON, Mr, DICKINSON, Mr, JENNINGS, Mr HILSIE, Mr. PAMER, airs. J. SMITH Mrs. WELLS. Misses LOUISA WELLS AMELIA WELLS.IMARY WELLS, Mas ters uj.ujnhuY, COLEMAN, CUES NUT and CHAMBERS, Clowns Messrs. WELLS and WILLIAMS of COOKS AMPHITHEATRE. The Exhibition will bo accompanied by a SPLENDID BAND OF MUSIC! CONSISTING OF BIB MEMBERS, Admission Boxes, 50 Cents Pitt, 25 Cents. For particulars of performance, set bills uf the day. At Private HE Subscriber offers for sale his largo TWO STORY BRICK 7?R A vWTKHMsr? v iuujiw iaiiViytDtsJiaq situated on Main-street, Bloomsburg, Col. co. Pa, It has beenkept as a Tavern for tho last 13 years, and U well calculated for a Store and Tavern, being CO feet front, and GO back, with stabling for 50 hor ses, and a good well of wator. It U a corner lot, CG feet front aud 314 back. ALSO A half lot near the above, with a FRAME BARN ALSO A half acre lot with a new JFESAIyIE J JSOSE, and eight or ten bearing APPIiE TE8EES, good fmit upon it, situated btt 3d street. ALSO AH acre lot at BLOOMSBURG BASIN, on which is a TWO STORV and a WILUIF. ALSO 9 12ths of an undivided IJ aero lot fronting 1st st and Greenwood road. This Lot is well calculated to divide into building LOTS. Tho abovo property being situated in tha centro of tho IRON REGION OF COLUMBIA COUN TY, is well worthy the attention of tho CAPI TALIST. It will bo sold together or separately, lo suit pur chasers. DANIEL GROSS. Bloomsburg, Nov. 21,1817, Susquehanna Hotel, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA. CHARLES HARTJUAW O) E8PECTFULLY informs his friends and 1. tho public, that he has purchased tho- above largo and commodious well known House la'clv occupied by Samuel A. Brady, and having newty fitted it up, and furnish d with Entire New fur niture, is now prepared to cntcrtciic nil who may call on him in tho best manner. As h'w V..VU will al ways ho prpvided with tho choicest of Liqu y and his TABLE with the best iho vouutry mar' t af- for Is, ho ll.Uters hhnsell he whall bo able ( general satisfaction to all who may fvor him their custom. ,vo k l.ll asp iriirrs,ffc. mm Ciittawisfj, Msy 164'i.
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