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STVUIKll, JWGV8T 10, 1843.
TFOU PHES1DENT,
JAMES BUCIIA3TAX.
(Subject, to the decision of a National
Convention.)
DEMOCRATIC
COUNTY MEETING
' The Democratic Electors of Columbia
county are rcqueitod o meet in County
Meeting, on
Saturday the 10th day oj August
next, at 1 o'clock P. M. in Bloomsburg, at
the house of Charles Doebler, for the pur
pose of electing a delegate to the Conven
tion to be held at Harrisburg, on the Sth of
September next, to nominate candidates for
Canal Commissioners and appoint Con
ferees to selct a Senatorial delegate, for this
senatorial district.
STEPHEN BALDY.
DANIEL-FORNWALD,
CHARLES F. MANN,
CHARLES KAHLER,
JAMES O. SPROUL.
democratic Standing Committee.
July 31, 1843.
HARVEST HOME
AT ORANGEYILLE, Col. Co.
A Harvest Home will be held at the
house of I. C. Johnson, in Orangevillc, on
Saturday the 20lh day of August, inst. -The
following committee oi arrangements
has been appointed:
Orange E. Q. Rickets, E. Lazarus,
Daniel Fbrnwald, Jesse Coleman,. Peter
Hayman, John B. Edgar.
CattqwiesaQ. D. Lieb.
Hemlock 1, Mcfteynolds.
Brier Creek L. L. Tate.
Greenwood G. W. Morris.
Jackson Irani Den.
Fishing Creek John Lazarus.
Sugafltaf Ezekiel Cole.
Medisan Thomas Funston. ;
Dirry eal M'Cay; ' ' ! ,
jRoaringCreekCo. M, R. Hower.' "
EfoorttL. B. Rupert. "
Montour John Dielerich.
jfctmejfone John S. Folmer.
Vklley 'John Moss.
Liberty Hugh McElwrath.
Mahoning Chatles Conner. '
The' following gentlemen were appointed
& committee of invitation, L. B. Rupert,
E.. G. Rickets, E. Lazarus, J. McRey
nolds. A general invitation is given to the cili
zeriB of this anil the adjoining counties tc
attend. A number of distinguished gentle
tleraen from other counties are expected to
be present, end several addresses may be
expected.
August 8, 1843.
We ire requested by the friends of
Removal generally, to announce DANIEL
SNYDER, as a candidate for re-eloetion to
the Assembly at the October election. And
we are gratified in be:ng able to say that
Mr. Snyder, has consented to this use of
his name; provided the Removal conven
tion should sanction it.
Aug 191842.
TEMPERANCE MASS MEETING.
We are requested to mention that a Tem
perance Mass meeting will be held in the
erove near the school house; on tho. land
of Daniel Smith, near New Columbia; in
this county; on the 31st day of August,inst;
commencing at 10 o'clock, in tho forenoon,
A general invitation is given to speakers.and
all others to attend.
In another column will be found the
proceedings of a removal meeting, held at
Rhoisburg. These proceedings breathe the
light spirit, union and harmony for tho sake
of the question. Let the same spirit char
acterize the friends of Removal eyery where
and the Danville faction will findj that (heir
money ,the potency of which they haye here
tofore boasted so much of, in enabling them
Ho prevent justice being done to the
county, will net. avail them much longer.
The Real Estate left by the late Jacob
Ridgway Jo, the City and County of Phila
delphia; is assessed at the sum of 9877,-
993.
HARVEST HOME CELEBRATION,
AT 6RANEGEV1LLE,
Notwithstanding the sneers of the Ant
masonic editor of the Danville Intelligencer
is likely to bo a good affair, and will al
tended. Numbers from different section,
of this county, at well as from the adjoin
ing counties, and several gentleman from
abroad, have?signified their intention of
being, present. Our worthy host, Mr.
Johnson is making arrangements to accoi
odato all who may come, and all who are
acquainted with his method of doing busi
ness, need no assurances from us, and to
others we will say their best expectation
will be realizodi Come than,one and all,and
mingle your congtalulatlons for the boun
teous harvest that has just been gather into
your granaries..
The water was again let into the the
North-branch canal on the Oth inst. and yet
loaded boats cannot yet float.for the want of
water, tho supervisor not being able to bill
the canal; in consequence of the miserable
piece of patch, work repairs above the
guard lock, at Nanticoke; to effect which
was the pretended object of letting out the
water. We under stand that these repairs
have cost the state several thousand dollars,
while thoy are more than useless, in conse
quence of the ignorance displayed by the
supervisor in their construction. There is
secret history, about this'job at Nanticoke
ItAl ntA mon tiarn nftnv fat? A an nnnnrinniltf
and some others that wo have in our minds
eye.
HARVEST HOME.
A Harvest Home will be held at Orangc
ville, Columbia county, at the bouse, of 1.
C. Johnson, oh Saturday the 27th inst.
Wc understand it is got up for the purpose
of soft soaping tho self-styled Col. Tale ti
Co. We wonder if the. Col. will be there,
dressed in soldiers clothes Danville
Jnt.
When we first cast our eyes on the above
paragraph we were led to believe - that the
old editor of the Intelligencer, wa6 at home
in person, but when it occurred to us that
he was a ubiquous being, and might possi
bly have the power of infusing into another
his contemptible meanness of disposition to
disDaraon eve.ry thine that eminaled from.!
the upper portion of the county, or that was
not conntenanced. by the Danville faction,
e came, to the conclusion that he was
probably in body still at Harrisburg, but
speaking in Danville through his amiable
anlimasonic organ, J. Jones, Such being
the, fact, it accounts for the appearance of
the above ill-natured paragraph in the Intel
ligencer, so .well calculated to show oC the
rancorous'feelings engendered in the breasts
of the whole Danville, faction against the
friends of Removal, and any village located
within the interest. '
Specie never was so plenty in Boston as
at the presen time. For several years
past the average amount of specie in the
vaults of the Banks has been about three
and a half millionc -now it is said they
have neatly eight millions. Money can be
had on good securiticsor 3J per cent.
A vessel of 1250 tons, called the Queen
of the West, and said to be the largest
merchantman ever built in this country ,was
launched at New York on Saturday last.
She is pronounced a splendid specimen of
of naval arcbitecturo. Tho Yorkers gen
erally do up their work about light.
Oliver Cromwell was born on the 3d of
September on that day fought his three
great battles of Maraton Moor; Worcester
and Dunbar, and on that day died!'
STATUE OF WASHINGTON.
It is stated in the New York Express
that a pedestal composed of two blocks of
beautifully hammered Quincy granite, the
base one weighing fifteen tons and the die
twenty three tons, has recently been for
warded from Boston to Washington, upon
which is to be placed Greenough'a Statue
of Washington. On the die pat t is taste
fully wrought the following appropriate
sentiment: 'First in war, first in peace.and
first in the hearts of bis countrymen.'
Wheat is selling at Pittsburg, at
dollar twenty-five cents per bushel.
ouo
Notice has been given that a charter will
be asked for a new batik al Schuylkill
Haven, at the next Legislature. Capitol
$209,000.
ROHERSBURG
REMOVAL MEETING.
A large and respectable meeting of the
citizens of Greenwood and Fishing Creek
townahips,convened at the house of 'George
W. Abbotl.in Rohersburg, on Friday even
ing, the ilthday of August, 1843,agrecably
to public notice. The meeting was called
to order by appointing, Jonathan Lemon,
President frilham Mather and Richard
Haycock, Vice Presidents, and George W,
Abbott and John Parks Secretaries. The
object of the meeting having been stated, it
was liesolvca, to appoint a committee oi six
to draft a preamble and resolutions expres
sive of the sense of the meeting. Where
upon the chair appointed the following
gentlemen to that committee John Staley,
Charles W. Former, Nicholas Kindt, lsasc
R. Kline. William Edgar and James Dewitt,
who, having retired a short time, returned
and leported tho following preamble and
resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted.
Whereas The time has come when the
voters of this county are called upon to
make nominations lor candidates to fill the
different offices of this county, and whereas,
parly politics have given place to a more
important question as it relates to this coun
ty.evcn the removal of the connty seat from
Danville to a more central position, we
therefore, citizens of Greenwood and Fish-
ing Creek townships, adopt this plan to set
forth our views as regards the removal party
in general. First; we believe that neither
of the four townships lying npoh the head
waters of Fishing Creek, has had the honor
of giving a Sheriff to the county ol Colum
bia, for which reason wo claim, in the pres
ent csnvass, the privilege of having a candi
date chosen Irom one of these four town
he beijig a removal man.
Secondly, we assert, that - as we have
heretofore urged and sustained the removal
csuse in this county, we still stand firm in
the same good cause.
Therefore Resolved That we view any
attempt made to distract the minds of the
removal party from their main object, by
party politicsas being detrimental to the
best interests of a large majority of the vo
ters of this county.
Rtsolved That we recommend tho for
mation of a removal ticket independents
political consideration, outsat the same time
giving each political parly "a share of the
candidates in the ticket thus formed.
Resolved That as our enemy is a subtle
one, we recommend a union of action, as
there is a union of interest in the removal
cause.
uesoivea that Daniel Snyder, our
Representative in the Slate Legislature for
the three last sessions, has stood firm and
unwavering, and honestly maintained the
best Interest' of his constituents, for which
he merits our warmest approbation, and we
nereny recommend him as the man of our
choice for member, of the next Legislaure
irom tins county.
Resolved That as Bloom has had the
Treasurer and member of the Legislature
for the last three years, she cannot reason
ably expect the sheriff this year, aflho she
has two candidates in the held.
Resolved That notwithstanding we have
set lot tn our claims, we are pledged to sup
port the whole removal ticket when fairly
formed.
Resolved That a commitlee of three be
appointed to, watch the movements of the
Danville faction, to report to call meetings
and take every honest measure to support
me removal cause.
On motion it was Resolved That John
Staley, Jonas Hayman and Charles W.
Fortncr be that committee.
Resolve d Thai the proceedings of this
meeting oe signea oy me oiucers anu puo
lished in the Columbia Democrat, Blooms
burg Register and Columbia Enquirer, and
all other papers friendly to the removal
cause.
JONATHAN LEMON; President;
William Matiier, y. P,,.f,
Riqhahd Haycock, $
George W. Abbott, ?
Johtv Parks, f Secretaries.
Committee of Vigilance
JOHN STALEY,
JONAS HAYMAN.
CHAS. Y. FORTNER
IMPORTANT IF TRUE.
I he Courier de Lyons states that water
pipes of thick glass, covered with a coating
of bitumen joints, are being manufactured
at River de Gler. These pipes will' it is
asserted,bear higher degree of pressure ihan
those or cast iron, and are 30 per cent,
cheaper. Should this sort of pipes come
into use, it will affect the increased demand
for the metal for iron ships.
Mr. AUnson M. Clark, of Swanton,
Vermont, announces in the St. Albana
Republican that he has shaared from a full
blood merino buck, the growth of one year
lacking tour days, thirteen pounds and ten
ounces of good clean wool; also fiom a full
blood merino ewe, which has a lamb 8
pounds.
A HALE OLD MAN.
The English papers chronicle the fact of I
a man aged eighty live, who walked 48
. - . . .
in twelve hours, including stoppages: This
is a lesson for some of our effeminate young
ton the dotMB'u bEfaotfiiAf:
Mr. Editor: Haying been called a few
weeks ago, a considerable distance up the
North branch1 of the.Susquehanna. and sev
er before having beqn through the riorthetn
part of the stale;! was agreeably disappoint
ed as regards the country and its inhabi
lants. Tho scenery along that noble stream
which as it winds its course around the hills
with their lofty precipices on one side and
the fertile valies, interspersed with villages
and cultivated farms on the other, form a
most beautiful landscape. After leaving
Northumberland, the first town is Danville,
the seat of iustiee for Columbia county; a
pleasant nine town; situate uii uiu uaun m
, .11.... . i i. r
the river, contains some nanasome uweu
ings, Court House, several Foundries, three
or four houses for public Worship, an Acad
emy, feraalo seminary itc,
Its locatien howover is far from being a
good one, as regards (he public business of
the county, ueing oniy me wiuui oi me n
ver from Northumberland county, and but
a few miles distant from the scat of justice
for that county. I am informed lhat it was
fixed upon as the scat of justice through the
management of some two or three individu
als who owned considerable properly within
its boundaries;and contrary to the wishes of
a large majority of the residents oi the county
On the east side ol the river ind eight
miles above Danville is Catiawissa, a small
but apparently thriving place;audfour miles
above that on the west side is Bloomsburg,
about one mile from the river, and not far
from the junction of Fishing creek with the
North Branch. This creek runs a few hun
dred yards west of the town; and is a noble
stream, with plenty of water power tor iron
works or lactones of any kind, and would
be a desirable situation for capatilisls to em
especi
Inexhaustible
mines of ore throughout that whole icgion.
1 he town of Bloomsburg 1 would say
contains something upwards of one hundred
dwellings, four houses for public worship, an
Academy, several dry goods and grocery
stores, three hotels, one or which is a spa
ciotis three story building and kept by Mr.
Charles Doebler, a gentleman well qualified
for the business, and provided with all the
good things which tend to the comfort of
his guests.- uis table is turmshed,with the
delicacies of the season, and the weary ira
veller may here find a comfortable resting
place, and will always find mine host of the
"uloomsburg House" at home readv to
wait upon any person who calls, loafers
excepted.
The situation of Bloomsburg is pleasant
being on the south side of a gentle rise of
ground, descending gradually to the North
nianch Uanal, and from thence to the river
and being nearly in )he centre of the county
would appear to. rpnder it the most proper
place Tor the seat or justice. It appears lhat
the citizens ofjhe county have kept a con
tinued opposition to its present location, and
bill alter bill, by one or the other branches
f the Legislature have been passed at dif
rerent times, tor Its removal; but have al
nereioiore laueu, it is saiu oyne uniair
. . - r r -. . - i i c.i - i-
representations and sympathetic appeals of
the citizens oi Danville, to the members of
the legislature. During the last session a
bill for the removal passed the lower house
by a large majority, and was defeated in the
senate by the opposition of the senator from
the county; under the vert specious pretext
ot a division ot the county, in which (Ui
one measures me ami removals umieu, as
the only means of caving them from defeat
1 he removal men 1 find are again in the
field and intend selecting a representative
in order to make it a test question; and
theieby shew b'oyond a doubt, that a large
majority ol the inhabitants are decidedly in
favor ot removal. The removal of the seal
of justice to a more central part is a matter
ot which the people ot Colnmbia county
may justly demand as a right, to which
ihey are entitled, and which ought to be
granted, them by any legjsletive body acting
lor the general benehl oi the people,
snotuo suppose one glance oi mo eye; on
the map of the county; would convinco any
candid man that the public buildings of the
county are now, and always have been in
the wrong place; and the sooner they ate
removed, the sooner an act of justice will
be done to the people. If it was wrong to
have them placed at Danville ' at first, no
subsequent act could make it right for thei
continuance.
VIATOR,
PERILS OF TRAVEL
During twenty five years of steamboat
navigation, on the Western waters, from
1816 to 1841, two hundred and twenty
eight accidents have occurred, causing tho
loss of 1700 lives! Of these accidents, 99
were explosions and collapses;28 by fire;25
by shipwreck, Irom gales, collisions, die
32 from snags and sawyers, and 24 from
different and unknown causes.
GEN. JACKSON'S FINE.
:lhe Mississippi Legislature has passed
resolution s pronouncing mo senlenco o
Judge Hall, imposing the. fine on Genera
Jackson, unjust and illegal and instructing
uieir uepreseniaitves anu senators in Uon
gress to urge tho passage of a law for
re
lunuing it, with interest.
They measure milk by the bushol in Miss
issippi. A letter published in an agricu
tural paper says, that at a recent cattle show
in that Stale, a cow waa rliihii,l nih;ni.
I gave one bushel and two quarts of milk per
CCtlMBIA CtititfV tltit SOCta
. 'ETY.f . .
At a meeting of the cit izens of Columbia
county ( interested In the Bible cause, in thp
Lecture Room of IKS Presbyterian Churdu
at Danville on Monday the 7th day of Au
gust, 1843.
The Rev. Mr. Ever was called to the
chair and E. If. Conkling appointed See
retaiy. t
The meeting being opened with pravtr
by the RevMr. Hand; the Rev. J. V,
Dale, general agent of the Pennsylvania
Bible Society Btated the object of the meet
ing, Uliu oiici melting QUlllB IlllcrcSling
statement in regaid to the progress of the
Penna' society, in supplying every destitute
family in the State with a cony of the Holy
Scriptures; presented the following plan of
Uonstitution lor a Uolumuin bounty Iliblo
Society, which was unanimously adopted:
CONSTITUTION.
Art 1st This Society shall be railed the
Columbia county Bible Society, auxiliary
to the Pennsylvania Bible Society
Art 2nd It shall be the object of this
ociety to distribute the sacred Scriptuies
without note or comment, in Columbia co.
and to aid the Penna' Bible Society with its
urplus lunds
Art 3d, Any person may become a
member of ibis Society, 'by paying into its
Treasury any sum; andtvery ' member of
an auxiliary Society shall be a member.anil
entitled to all the privileges of the County
Bible Society
Art Sth The officers of this Society shall
be a Fresident, three Vice Presinents. a
teasurer, a corresponding and recording
Secretary, and Manages, together with
one manager from each auxiliary Society.
They shall meet at least once in threo
months, make by laws for their own govern
men' and fill vacancies in their own num
ber Five, shall ba a quorum to transact
usiness
Art 5th The annual meeting of tho So
ciety shall be held on the last Monday of
December, when the proceedings of the
year shall be reported and ofticcis for the
ensuing year chosen
Art 6th No alteration shall be made in
this Constitution except at an annual meet
ing, by a majority or members present
1 lie loitowing gentlemen were unani
mously elected officers. of this Society
President sv Mr. EYER
Pice Presidents Jesse Bowman," ff'm.
McKelvy, Alex, Montgomery
Jrcasurer m u uner
Corresponding Sccrelary-i G D Leib
R ecording Stc'y E !p Conkling
Managers Rev Mr Hallidav, Rev Mr
Swartz, Rev MrBahl.J C Giici, Win
Jenniscn
Some remarks being made in reference
to the des'tituiionin Columbia 'tounty, it
was unanimously
Resolved That from the fact already-
developed, we are led to suppose that from
400 to 600 families in this County, have no
male and to supply the destitution $300
will be needed, therefore
Resolacd That we will adopt immedi
ate measures to raise the necessary fund
for purchasing the Bibles necessary fuc
distribution
On Motion adjourned
E. W. CONKLING, Secy.
Life in New Orleans A flatboatman.in
buying a bowie knife from a pedlar on the
Levee, yesterday, exposed the contents o"f
his purse, which were a laipe lot of pure
Mexican 'castings A parcel of fellows,
who are ever prowling about.seeking whom
they may fleece, having seen it, laid their
plans instantly and at once to submit him to.
process of abstracting, which were, to accost
linn, nay, embrace him; as a recognized
friend, and while one elapsed him in trans-
i- r f.i II.. . .1
pun ui micuuiv iccugnuion, ine otneis
were to deprive him of his change It ap
pears they had strong consiiiutional scrup
les against one man possessing the purse
and the sword or the bowie knife which;
as an offensive instrument is the same, or
a great deal more so.' Accordingly, one of
the gang rushed up to him and accosting
him wilh a 'What! my eyesl eh itis'nt
I'm blest but is though! Why how are Bill?
grasping him round the body and the
arms at the same time;as a bear would
grasp Us adversary. The other members
of the gang losl no time in disencumbering
him of his specie; but before they succeed
ej; his companion in arms contrived to
loosen his arms;and then he drew his arms;
the bowie knife with which ho saved his
siver,and literally fought his way on board
nis natooai; when he said. A. Teller gets
acquainted in New Orleans with the mean,
est flung fellers in all creation.
The Missionary Society of the Melho-,
cim episcopal unurcn, according to the
24th Annual Report, have 325 missionaries
employed, and of these 250 are engaged in
tho home fit-Id, this side of tho Rocky
Mountains. Of these 20 are among the
Germans,10 among the Indians, 55 omong
the slaves of tho South, and about 135 'in
the destitute portions of the regular work.'
The 'foreign fields' aro Oregon, Texas,
Liberia and Buenos Ayres. In Oregon,
7 clerical & 11 lay rpissionaris are employ
ed. The laymen'are teachers, physicians
farmers and mechanics. In Liberia theie
are 27 missionaries, none of wbomars
laymen. The residue of the missionariei
are in Texas, with tho exception of onff
minister, who is. stationed at Buenos Ay?
res,