1 COLVUBIA DEMOCRAT. ' tfcTT I havo sworn upon tho Altar of God, eternal hostility to every form of TyraO? over tho mind of Man." Thomas Jefferson PItlNTED AND PUBLISHED BY IL WEBB. Volume "Vff. BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA. SATURDAY, JULY 23, 18455. Number IS. THE 0IT1CE OF THE DEMOCRAT, Opposite St. Paul's Cituncit, Main-st The COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT will be published every Saturday morning, at TWO DOLLARS per annum, payable halj yearly in advance, or J wo JJollara Fifty Cents, if not paid within the year, JVb subscription will betaken for a shorter period than six months; nor any discon tinuance permitted, until all arrearages are discharged. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding a square will be conspicuously inserted at une Dollar jor the Jirst three insertions and Twcntu-five cents for every subsc qitent nscrlion. CJA liberal discount made to those who advertise by the year, LETTERS addressed on business, must be post paid. From tho Lady's Book for July, 1842. THE EJECTMENT. AN IRISH 'SKETCH FROM LIFE.' BY MRS. S. C HALL LONDON. Pkhhaps il proceeds from our having 'Inhabhiveness' largely developed that we nre led so completely lo sympathise with those who aro compelled under any circum stances to quit their homos. Even if 'a flitting' bo premeditated under tho most pleasant prospects, there is always some things to regret the discomfort, the bustlo the leave taking' are all sad enough, no mat ter how brilliant the anticipated futtiro may be there is something really melancholy in parting cither from what has been the abode of joy, or sorrow, for both equally, in our opinion, endear a locality. A change of residence is ahvay an inconvenience to the rich, but to the Irish poor it is fre quently "oiily a change from tho misery of a wretched hovel" to the exposure and starva tion of the high -roads- We witnessed a a harrowing scene of this description which we cannot easily forgct.and it is one which my American readers will imagine over drawn, no matter how we tell the story. We had sent the carriage on and wcro proceeding on foot, a practice which ena bles us lo convorso with the peasantry, and increases our enjoyment and information. It was a fine clear evening; the sun was sink ing behind the lichly wooded slopes of this most beautiful country; the aii was full and balmy; lha rail was croaking along the hedges and tho thrush singing those rich and varied melodies which art can neither imitate nor teach. A lane, or as the Irish so prettily call in, a bohreen' branched off from the high road, and some noble old trees had interlaced their arms abovo it, so as to form a succession of living Gothic nrches.lhe moat perfect and picturesque we had ever observed. The elevated inclo Ktires ol'ilowets and purple foxglove with fairy like etips, and tho sparkling leaves iind knotty (wistings of sly Robin run-the hedge, mingled with the tasseled mead ow sweet and broad leaved dock all beautiful according to their kind: then there wore occasional breaks amid tho sunlight, so bright before its close, darted the most vi vin light, showing the sylvan tracery to the best advantage. It was altogether so ex quisite a bit of light and shado that it was not until we had looked at it for some time that wo perceied three little children hud dled up together at tho slump of an old thorn tree, a few yards down the lane; the eldest a giown up girl suppoited a sleeping in fant on her knoe; llin third whose costume was slight as it is possiblo to fancy, crying bitterly, and in his fruitless attempts to dry Iiis tenrs, hsd smeaied his face over so to give it tho appcaranco of a mask. His trouble was of that nature which in England would bo alleviated by bread and butter, and cured by bread and sugar; but the grief that c.iused emotion in the eldest girl was altogether different, it was such as strong women hardly bear. Her features were hardened into the expression of des pair, and what is mure at variance with the first hours of youth, sullen despair. An old blind dog sat at her feel with his head n her knee, his thick sightless eyes up turned to her, while she stroked '.his head mechanically and with out uttering a word. ,Lct me go back Esseyl let mo go back, just for a minute, and I won't cry out; do let mo, and I'll be as ood gooldj. will said the boy. The girl mado no rop'.y, but clutched his shoulder in her hand, and held him fast. Thero was a strong resistance on Ihe boy's part, but it did not continue long for ho agreed to keep still if she'd 'looso her hold, which she did though her hand still remained on his shoulder. Wo wero so interested in tho girl's sor row that wo endeavored to alleviate it by kind words, and inquired if 'any of her people were ill.' Then she burst into tears and tho hardness which rendered her ex pression so painful to look at, relaxed. 'Thank you kindly for asking only the trouble, ma'am, is hard on us this evenin', we're turned out, we.lhat never let llid win ter gale run till summer, that for all wo took out of '.he bit of land put double in it, and did with half feedin sooner than wrong the earth that gave us that came We're turned out this blessed evenin' to wander the world, or to starve in Navin to dio away from tho light of the heavens, and the fresh' "air, anil tho fields oh, there's no usi in talking but my heart, will burst, il will burst open in mo if I think of the cruelly of the world. How can my father live in town where there are hundreds of men strong an' ablo to work as he? What can ho get to do there? If they'd let us build a sod house by the side of the load itself, in tho place where ho'sknown, he could get work among the neighbors-bin that spoils the look of the country they say I. Och hone? sure tho-starving look of the poor spoils il worse.' 1 'Ye'r crying worse than me.Essey now,' said the urchin, 'and you promised mother you'd keep in the tears: let me go seo if sho's crying still.' iStay whero you are, Jimmy my boy there's a good child; mother can boar it better when she does not seo us. Oh, I could beg the world's bread for her,' from door to door, though until this blessed hour let us suffer as wo would, wo never asked charily from man or mortal; but I could beg, starve(that's easy enough)or die for my own darlin' mother, if God leaves her wilh us but he won't; death was printed in her face (his morning; she'll die from me: oh, Holy Vargin, hear my prayer this evenin', and if one must go, take me, Holy Queen of Heaven, and leave her with her husband and her helpless childern.' The poor girl sank upon her inees, still pressing the infant to her heart, and wo walked on, deeply anxious to ascertain Ihe truth of so sad a statement. A turn in the lane brought us opposite to what had been a nesting of three or four cottages; the great er number had been dispossessed of their inmates a few months before, as was evi dent from tho length of time the walls had been uncovered. The one farthest off was tho present scene of distress. Two men were busied in unroofing tho small dwel ling, while two others wero evidently pre. pared to meet any outbreak on the part o, il.. . . ' ine iuio icnant, or ti is mends, several of the latter were assembled but for the most part seemed rather bent on consoling than defending. Thoro was tho usual scene of confusion, but it was evident that tia eject. me nt had been served upon a cottage pos sessed of mi.ny comforts. A very pale fra- gilo wo nan was seated upon a substautial clump bedstead with her hand closely pres. sed against her side, as if in pain while tears flowed down Ser cheoks. Chickens of various sizes were crowded in an ancient coop, and a stout little pig had a sougan fixed to his leg, to prepare him for tho road. Stools and iron pots, a dressor, delf and wooden ware, were scattered about, and a serious looking cat was seated on the top of a potato basket, as if uncertain whether tho esteem she was held in would compel her friends to forego tho superstition and carry her with them littlo thinking that i they had no alternative but exchango the freo air for a wretched room in wretched Navin which it was not likely they could long keep. 'It's Larkins' own fault, I must vay that when ithe lease of his little placo dropt ho would'nt take. No' for an answer but would keep possession, and wonder at his doing so, ami ho so weJJ learned.and bright at every thing,' said one of Ihe men. My own fault?' repeated a strong, hag gard looking person advancing, while the group of countrymen to whom ho had been speaking made way for him. 'Who says it's iny own fault you! -sir, I was born under that thatch, that now you stand on; my father and grandfather held the bit of land and we paid for it at the highest, and to the last farthing.' 'That ye did, poor man God help you!' said many a voico in tones of tho deepest sympathy. 'I, with evciy hard working soul on tho estate, got notice lo quit; becauso the agent wants it to be clearer? of men that it may feed beasts, I had acted all my lifo like a manjl had tho facling-s of one; I lovod ever y stick of thorn blackened rafters. My fath ers own hands mado tho bed that poor broken-hearted woman is silting on; on it I was born and on it she brought mo five chil dren. Tho bees that are now singing in (he bushes came from the ould stock; and father's mother, ilat they are bringing out now has sat upon that stone bench for six ty fo'uryeats.' A very venerable woman had just been carried through the flakes of falling thatch into tho open air; she seemed hardly .con scious of what was going forward and yet she gazed around her and from one to anoth er, with an anxious look. Well; we know all th'at'said the first speaker; and you ought to know that I'm only doing ray duty and you ought to have sense; the gentleman's land is his own, and if he'd rather feed cattle for the market than have tho place broke up in little farms, sure it's bis own land, not yours; he lets you take every stick that you like away.' 'The law, only a bastard law after all for the poor,' said Larkins, 'give mo them.' 'And he pays you for your crop.' 'And that he cant help cither. 'And yet granny there would not leave till the roof was off. Suro any how the gentleman had a right to do what he liked with his own.' 'Ho had not!' exclaimed the peasant, firmly planting his foot on the ground; and unconsciously assuming an attitude that would have added dignity to a Roman sen ator. 'In tho sight and light of Almighty God, no man having plenty has a right to say (o another, 'Go out and starve' starvo as I shall, and all belonging to me; starve and beg and beg and starvo till my bones whiten through my skin and I die asoth ers'in this country have done before ine; on the road Oh my Grd! if ho had given me a piece of mountain or a piece of bog, and time to bring it round, I'd have worked, as I havo dona all my life a.id that's saying enough for it. Does ho call to mind.thnt the tenant's duly is lo pay, and tho land lord's lo protect? Does ho say as a Christ ian that any man has a right lo turn over scores of his follow creatures io starvation when they aro willing lo be his slaves for food and raiment? for what moro have any of us? Wo lay by nothing and have noth ing lo lay by yet we pay our rent- Will any of you say that God intended that?' 'Then why the devil' Johnny Larkihs, my jowol!' said a light concentrated fellow walking up to the excited speaker; why don't you lot us starvo them all out nt onct? Sorra a better sport we'll desiro, and its under her roof ye'd be rtow if yo had let us take just ono good heary fling at thorn ' 'I never broKe the law in my life, James replied Larkim. 'Sorra a bettor ve're off than them thai did,' answered James, stepping back in a most discontented manner.Two women were comforting tho poor man's wifo in the best way ihey should and another was busied in adjusting a bed on a small car upon which they mtendetl to place tho old woman so as to remove her comfortably. The landlord's agents, in this apparently most unfeeling proceedings seemed resolved not to desist until the roof was entirely removed. 'I wish, a lannan, ye'd bo said and led by us,' urged ono to Mrs. Larkins who was rocking herself, as the wind rocks a freo that has been more than half uproated. 'What good can staying here do you, dear? Sure ye'll stop with us as long as ye like before ye go into tho close town and ycr breathing so bad and ye so weak.' 'If they had only let me dio in il.' an swered the young mother, whoso weak trembling voice recalled her child's opinion so feelingly expressed a few minutes before 'that death was printed in her face' 'It wouldn't have been long. Where's tho children!' Suro ye seut them rftvay, they were crying so.' 'And where's JohnI 'Is the sight leaving your eyes that you can't seo hm forenit you, dear?' aswored the woman, at the same lime looking anx iously in her face. 'John, darling!' she exclaimed fervently. In a moment her husband was by her side. ''lhoro s a change over her!' whispered the woman to tho young rain who had pro fered to tko Ihe law id his own hands ' 1 here s a change over her run for the priest if ye love your own soul. Even the man who had been so busy wnn inc rooi paused, and the silence was only disturbed by the prolonged whistle of a distapttblackbird. 'John my blessing my pride the only lover I ever had-you'll forgive any hasty word Ispoke.woun't yo, my jewel?'. Ye never did, darlin,' answered Ihe poor fellow; ,but what's over dear? what ails you? What ails her, neighbors? Great Quen of Heaven, what ails my wife? 'Whisht dear!' she said and raising her hand to his face alio pressed his cheek stil closer to her awn. 'I've been sickly a long time John, and was going fast, better I should die bofore we gol into the town I mttst have died you know. Four face is very thin darlin ulready. Oh may the holy saints lave ye as ye are that I may know ye in heaven Cut I would any way spake to mo my bird of blessings! kiss rao dear and let me lay ray head on yer bare breast. Neighbors, ye'll 1 ook to him and the poor motherless chil dren. Oh then has any Christian sent for a priest, that I may not die in my sins!' 'It's only a faintness my jewel.' said the husband; 'it's nothing else fetch her a drop of water' She drank eagerly, and then nestled her head as a child would in its mothers arms. 'Oh I was sinful,' murmured tho man 'to rebel while my angel was left rae I'll never say a word again if the Lord spares her pray for her, good friends-' There was not to use a honestly phrase 'a dry eye' in the circle that formed round them; even the minister of a law as cruel as its enforcers sympathized with the poor man's agonySuddenly tho old woman, who had been forgotten in the fresh excitement pushed the littlo crowd to tho right and left wilh her long lean arms, stood like a spec tre in tho midst her white hair streaming from beneath her blacft hood aud the wrinkles in her sharp fao thickened by a maniac smile 'I ask her pardon,' sho said courtesying as deeply as tho infirmities of extreme age would permit 'I ask yor pardon but I don't rightly understand this is it a wedding or a beir'ing. 'Look! leok!' exlaimed Larkins. ono look in Mary's face I feel as breath passed right into my heart.' She was dead upon his bosom' 'Some if her Growth of fiilits. RochesUr, N. Y-, now unmbers 20,000 inhabitants. In 1817 its entire voting inhabitants consisted of 32 all told. STARTING CHILDREN IN THE WORLD. Tho following extract from the works of a living writer, is replete with sound philosophy and common sense. It is well worth the attention of parents: 'Many and unwise parent labors hard and lives sparingly enough to give his children a start in the world as it is called. Setting a young man afloat wilh monoy left him by his relatives, is liko tving bladders under tho arms of ono who cannot swim; ten chances to one ho will lose his bladders nd go to tho bottom. Teach him to swim and he will never need the bladders. Giva your child a sound education, and you havo done enough for him. See to it that his morals are pure, his mind cnljivatcd and his whole nature made subservient lo the laws which govern man and vnn have given what will be of more value than the wealth of the Indies. You have given him a start which no misfortune can do- prive him of. The earlier you toach him to depend npon his own resources tho bet ter. REMARKABLE MAGNETIC ROCKS: The following interesting facts arc delail- cd 5y the Vickburg Whig: Near the iron mountains in Missouri, there is a ledge of some extending for a half a mile in length, and several hundred yards in with. This stone is very strong ly impregnated with magnetic properties.so strongly so indeed, that it is impossible to ride a well shod horse over it. A gentle man having his horso newly shod onco attempted il but before he had made tw 'revolutions' his. horse 'was brought up standing perfectly&ftijl. In vaitrourfravi eller arged hisg-allant'steek forward persu- ation and force proved equally futile, until his pa.tience becamo exhausted and he sent for a blacksmith. The son of Vulcan soon arrived and found the horso standing still, and lo all appearance as immovable as tho rock of Gibraltar. Various oxpedienla were resorted to to relieve the horse but all failed. Thero he stood, and to all appear ances, was likely to stand, with his feat literally glued to the solid and impervious rock. At last tho blacksmith's oyes glis tened, he laid it sure smithy for his shoeing tools, which were soon forthboming. when the proceeded, with all possible despatch to unclinch the nails which bound the hor ses shoe to his hoofs! One by ono tho nails wero unclinched,lhe whip wis applied to the horse, and as the last nail gave way he escaped with a bound but left his shoes welded to the rock. 'I never did see such a wind and such a storm' said a man in a coffee room 'And piay, sir inquired a would-be-wit, 'since you saw tho wind and lha storm, what might their color be?' 'The windiue and the storm rose,' was tne ready rejoinder. Horrid Depravity A Western paper tells of a gun which upon being discharged not only kicked its owner over, but kopt kicking him after ho was down and, adds the paper, would probably have kicked him lo death, had it not been fur the timely arri val of assistance. Apprentices. Oh, you're a 'prentice'.' said a littlo boy tauntingly to his cainpanion the other day. '1 ha other looked proudly round, and while fire of injured pride and tho look of pity wero strangely blended in. his countenance, was Franklin!' cooly answered. 'So, 'Boy, what is your name?, Robert, sir' 'Yes that is your Christain name, but what is your olher name!' 'Bob, sir.' Do mako yourself at home, ladies, said a lady to her visiters one day, 'I am at homo myself, and I wish you all werp, 'I have a great ear, a wonderful ear.'saida musician, in the course of conversation, So has a jackass!' was the abrupt ejacula. lion in reply.
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