CoMMfeiti V I have sworn upon tlio Altar of Cud, eternal hostility to every form of Tyranny over tlio Mind of Man." Thomas Je.TerkOn Volume TUB. BLOOMSKURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA. SATURDAY, OCTOaiKfifc 2G3 1844. .VmatJier -27V1 OFFICE OF THE DEMOCRAT oi'rosm: St. Paul's Cnimcir, Main-bt TERMS : The CO I. UMMJ1 DEMOCRAT will be published even Saturday morning, at 'rim DOLLARS tier annum nuuublt half ylarly in advance, or Two Dollun T.Vf... ', 1 flint Vint il mfflt if tirtll Aro subscription will be taken for a shorter ihnn monthsi'nor anu discon tinuance permitled,until all arrearages arc discliargia. AD VER TI SEMENS not exceeding a square will be conspicuously insertcdat One Dollar for the first threcinsertions, and Twenty-five cents for every subsc- .....,. inorinii h r liberal discount made to those, who advertise, by theycam LETTE IIS addressed on busitiess,muxt be post paid. POETRYo The Texan Banner. Air "Dan Tucker. TI18 'Aco of'I'runips' will have lo wail Before he gels the vote ofthe Empire State! Ami not withstanding the aid of 'Jan' He'll get 'rowel up' in Michigan. Huzza! w'll raise the Tex in Bintiei From pine clad Maine in Alabama! This whole coon force will shortly know 'Phut they'r 'gone coons' in O, II. 1. 0. And 'they'll never be able tosiand the fire Of 'Old. Virginny neber lilt!' Huzza, &c. Anil now, 'Old Hurt)' take a rnre. Or yon'l not get even little Delaware! And 1 do not think yon can safely count Upon the vote of 'Old ViirtMnn.vr,' Huzza, &c: Old Illinois is true as steel; And Mi.souiu made ilia old coun fqucel! Whilst Alabama has indeod Safely got the 'varmint' trtcd Huzza. &c, The NbwIIampshiiic boys without a doubt, Will douse the fires of whiggery out, Whilst gallant, democratic Main. As she's done before, will do again! Huzza, Sir.. The same 'old conn' is taken ill, -He took a large dose of the Texan Pill I Says he, 'This medicine will kiB me soon, 1 feel it in my bones that 1 am.a gone coon' Huzza, &r. 'Old Harry's' had a lengihen'd phiz, Eyer-since die siar of Texas 'nz' Says he, My star's in il d bad luck, 1 shall lose the vole of 'Old Kkntuck!' Huzza, &c. In spite of the Devil, or the man in the moon, W'll set a trap that will catch this coon, And when he'd in, he'l squeal and swear, And call for help on .'ho 'Buckeye Bear.' Huzza, &c. And whon he's skinn'd wo'll examine his hide To see if his principles are 'wool dyed;' Or if he's play'd double lo the Nonh and South, And blows hoi and cold fiom tho selfsame mouth, Huzza! we'll raise the Texan Bannor From pine-clad Maine to Alabama I 'Coffee, which do you link de mnse use ful of (In planenis-dp sun or moon!'1 Well,' Sainbn. 1 link do mnon orter to lake de fus rank in dat ar' tickler.1 'Wha, wha.why you link no, UnlTecr 'Well, tell you kaze she shines by .night, when wo do want light, and dn sun shines by day when do notr 'wen, uun, you is uc urealcHl n'mirer I knoso on dai's a real fac' T II 15. P A L M . , " So important is the Data Palm to th Arabs thai they fancifully invested il with i dignity approaching to that of man, am of language. The fable that the younp trees woo each other with llie tsiidcrness of human love, and that truly virtuous adept, in the knowledge of the secrets of naturi may, with lime and study, attain lo tin knowledge of this language and understand the morals and the wis lorn of these vegeta hie sagcB. The last of such favored adepts was the learned Doctor Abraham Oaon. who died about ihe year 1510. Thu Ma hommetlan traditions hac handed main marvels concerning the Palm! among thi reel is one which mum have been borrow I'd from one of the aporniplial grupel of Ihr Infancy of Christ. The stnrv it. an follow..; When the Vitgin Mary was on her va "o Jerusalem to be registered, she laiutcd and grew sick at the foot of a Palm,is aged lhai the crown was dead, and there lemair. ed nothing hut the bare trunk, She had nc sooner sat down at its root, however, than clear spiink ol water swelled out from be ncath the withered Palm, the branches shot foesh and vigorous from the blacked stem; the fruil budded, formed, and ripened; tin whole graceful plane bowed down befor her and celestial t oiccs were heard, saying 'Drink, eat, and reficsh thine eyes1' Thus waB the virgin mother comforted, and there did she bear her divine con Whoever was the author of tlii fable must have been well acquainted with the Greek story ofthe flight of Iiitona to Deloif, where she gave birth to Apollo and Diam under a palm, whence the tree was consecrated lo Dia'na. It i said that Tlu'seus first carried the Palm to A ihens from Delos, when he returned in In umph frurn his victory uver.ihe.Muiiil'.ur The mainland ol Greecw was never favor able to the Palm, though seveial of llic (7ieek islands were aihrnfd with it. Even in the south of Italy they have always beet are, though they aro not scarce in soim parts of Sicily. INear Uenoa, there is . narrow warm, sandy valley, full of Palms tut they are demimnive in growth anil uu Vuiifiil, being cultivated only foi the saki I' the leaves which are annually sent to tin Pope's chapel at Rome, when they an blessed, and distributed by iho cardinal and oiher dignitaries, in sign of the niumpl of iho chnrch. Callcou's Heibar Sent.- ire. HEM ED Y FOlt LYING. A good story is (old in an English abou trick practised upon a Chinese silversmith hy the captain of a ship. Tom Workwell was the name of a silversmith, and the rap tain suspecting his friend Tom, in making some spoons to his order, had played him a trick commo.i h China, of adding no small portion of lu'.enague lo the uitial portion ol alloy, taxed him with ihe cheat, which he denied, with the strongest asseverations ol his innocence. - The captain then told him lie had bro't with him a famous water, call ed lie water.which being placed on the ton gue of a person suspected of telling an un truth, if the case were so, it burned a hole; if otherwise the party obcapcd with liouoi and unhurt. Tom thinking it a trick, readi ly consented, upon which, with much form, a single drop of acquafortis wns put on hi. tongue; he instantly jumped about the room in violent pain, crying nut, 'Veiy Irue, hall tutenague,' in hopes that the ionfeting the fact might slop Ihe progress of iho lie watar which, from the pain ho felt, hu had some reason to think possessed tlio qualities as cribed to it. Several Europeans who were present, and had bought difl'erenl pieces ni plate from him, put similar questions lo him and ho confessed it had been his aonstani and uniform practice to add & largo quantity of lutonague to every article made at his shop, for which! during his continuance ol pain, he promised ample reparation. A voiing Irishman who had mariiril whon ho was about nineleen years of age complaining of the difficulties to which lii- early murnago hud subjected him, said In would never marry sd young auntn if In lived lo bo as old as Metliueulah! BRIDGET PAT II LOW. A TALK. ( Concluded:) The good old prebend was ubsnnl from Lmcolu; so it was only fiom poor blind Saul she could ho low a scanty sum. which sum was the inoio needful, as she hid lo travel out ofthe high road o a liUle town whrro her dearjbrolliei Tom now lived. lie had ran away from lioinu soon afltr Hi idget hail left, and f er many ops and downs in those few yuais' was now become liaif clerk hall servant in ihe homo of a country altor iey. II s inline was mo;e pisMve than hit of I! id get's, more yielding, less uu rgi-iie : Having been from childhood weak in body, he had scarcely bellereU 'lis condition in changing one scene ol Imdufiy for another. In ihe litllu par lour of ihe country inn his long sad tale of pisMVu siillering was told lo Ihe sis- tei'if ear. II she wepl, it was but For a no m ntj'hen talking chcei fully of whai tne lumre should he how they would rtoik ingnther, how Ihey would be dear friends, how ihey. in London Would have one common home, antl asking nothing from the world, still pay to i one never-f tiling drill of cheei fulne.- inu sympathy j how they would do al this they said so many tunes, that the supper grew cold, anil poor feehlo Tom laughed oiiliight. Tuey patted thai riuiiimei's niglii;there waacornforl when Budget piomissd that a letter should come u o i. She did not even hint Iht joy Hint tdiould he in it. Once more in London she begin thai vry wek lo build a homo for Tom. By a little help from her Long Acre friends she -procured some few pupils, wh io parents being ambitious lo adorn their parlour walls at the cheapest rale, had their children initialed into the niy. nriis of art al sixpence the lesson. Sixteen lessons a week made eight hilling little enough lo exist upon; ml it yet hiied a iot?m and brought read, anil something like the corn,ciouc less ol independence: 'l nigh', loo. here were houis lo work in uid thei. he practice of wood engraving wen1 iimbly on. In returning hom once a week from i distant part of London, Budget had lo taps in an obscure slreet an old book 4 1 a 1 1 . She kOdielimes s'oppetl to look u,)on il;she always Uid so when he had -n upon it an old thumbed copy ol B-rvv':ck's British Buds. In those rar ec s, that never were surp is-sed, one who knew all the dilh.-uliies of i In il l found infinite delight. Sie wa oh lerved one evening hy a genilem an who hid come up to the hooksiall some min uets after Bridgel like her, too, he was curious in art, and wondoied what thi.k young poor clad female could find of in icrets in one or two small piciured pa ges, not ha.tily turned over, but dwel upon Hint:, iinnuie aner minuie. lie 'ol!owe ,bit her l'ghl slep soon left hoi la i' hi; In ml: he camu again iheie site was-, on iho same day week, with thai tamo old thumbed Beiwick. Week went by in ihid manner, till the s'a'l keeper, remembering her ofien-tcen face, hid her -buy or else not touch Ihe books again;' and B.idget, crcping a way like one guilty of a misdeed, sa not (hat Ihe curious gei Uti on had bo't i he books, and now followed her with poedy fool. This lime lie might hav found her home, but that, in a street leading into Ilolborn, some papery fell fiom Iho liltlo roll of drawings she car riedsho Monpod lo pick litem up in Ilu moment of glancing at them she va. Inst lo siuhl. Now that night labor had made hei somewhat proficient in the an, Mie tried lo get emjiloymini; hut for weeks with out success. Specimens sent in lo en- gravcis weie returned, letters to pub lishers unheeded; letters or specimens from Long Acie were of a surely inad missible. The master who had laughl her was dead. Al last there was poin ted out lo her an advertisement in one of the daily papers, thai engravers upon wood wcic wan led lor Ilu; riens of a cheap publication. Thfit was reloionce ton pei i-oii nl whom niniget Imi! luanl; In -o, sending first Im pi i mi-Mi.i., sin .sln. i u 1 1 lid need I o the ad Vt it .s i A-'j i I'm iIIii-umiumi w f rln " i , m ii pluctd in hei hand. Wl.n. the uuvg came out visibly from the paper, Ihe ad vertiser, shaking his head said he would consider. This cousideiation look some wetks, meanwhile a leepless pillow was that of poor Bridgel. At last the answer came; he would employ her,hii al a very moderate remuneration. Yei here was hope; cleir as the noonday' sun; here was the tirl origin lieaUeii dtop in the cup of self-helper, hete was hope f.-ir lorn; here matter lor the prom nod hitler. I he work done, the rernu nuiation crning in, the fr union cani-c; new yet humble rooms weie lured, sec ond hand furniture bought piece, by piece; and irwas a proud night when. alone in her si. II chamber, the pool Lin coin gin thaukeu Heaven for its hoi) mercy. The proverb tells us that good fortune H never single handed. On Ihe morrow il was a wet and rainy day Budget, n passing into Spring Gardens ob-eiv- sd thai the stall of a poor lame apple woman hid been partly overturned by some unle urchins. She slonned in helji the woman, and whilft so doinu, f very tat old gentleman came up, and looking, very quietly remit kd in asm of audible whisper to himself. (Jui ion- very curtou! Ibis same very lithe aci f mercy first inltoduced me to mv e,xc I- lent '1 om ay ! ay ! Tom's gone; iheie Liin,l such another fron Ea'stcheap lo Clielsea.' The name ol Tom was music lo Bridg et's ears. The old gentleman had mnv ed away; hut following quickly, Bridget addrcsed him. ' I have a brother;' sir, whose name 'Tom, 'interrupted ihe old gentleman , liuu me my lom seqial; anil 1 11 sj something to juu. Here is my dddr ss. He 111 i list a caul into Bridget's hand, anil went on. Here was a lomanlic omen of i nod lor Tom ' ... That s!ime'nighl the letter was indited Two days after, I he country wanon de posited Tom in the great city. An hour ifier lit- s tl at Bridget's hearih. 'Tins night repays me for all past soi ow,' snd the sister, as shu sat h ind in land by her broihei's side. 'Years ago in those lonely winter nighis,someihinj: ike a dream of this same happy horn vould come befors me. Indeed it did. lear rdm,' Each thing within those same tw( narrow rooms had a history;ihe cuckoo clock itsell would have furnished mat'er for a tale, Ihe six chairs and llie one la- de were prodigies. On Ihe morrow Tom, cuided by tin address, found out Ihe office, of the fat old gentl-man, who. being a bachelni and an attorney, held pleasant chanihei!- lo Clemen. s Inn. Whether induced hv lorn' appearance or his name, wr know not, inn ihe old gentleman, aiiei certain inquiries at the coachmaker's in Long Acre, took Tom for his cleik,at a salary of six shillings a week. Wo mils! now allow weeks lo piss b In llie meanwhile Bridget's work in creased, though not the money paid foi it. Yel out of these same earnings a small sum wag laid hy, for what our Lin coin girl breathed to no living ear.Abou' his lime better woik was heard of, hu ipplication for il, through tho person who employed her, filled; how, she knew not. If I had a friend, she said, I mighl succeed; and though Richard has passed me in ihe si i eels unheeded, . i i mill 1 will make one last appeal lo him. She wenl, not in rags, but decently at tired. i'l'liat on are rich, and above me in ciicunislaiicps. I know, Richard,' shr humbly said; 'hitherlo you have scotnee io own one so poor; but as 1 have nevei wronged you or your name, you will perhaps say that I am your sister?' 'I madeyour forluno once,' hu bitter ly answered, 'of your honest purposes since then I know nothing. Fur tin rest, it is not convenient for a man in my condition lo have pauper friends you have my answei.' 'Brother,' she said, as she obeyed tin haughty gesture lhat signaled her lo leave the room, 'may you regret Ihi wouU yot: hsveso harshly spoken. Foi the test, believe mo 1 shall yet succeed, in spite of all this opposition.' Tho peaco of Brtdgel's home was now broken hy weekly letters from Lincohi for loan of money, whch applications ii ucreS(.lul lor a lew limes, only r'he lotteis molt 'in and ir3r-i I i' . U, (tie m anils, in- n.i-i'' ii 0 r 1 -r . ' . i. - Huh Rich-ru, Uici dm out Vtl ter's evening in the study of a ci'kb. a led author throe gentlemen. The one was Ihe author himeif,as wulelv know. for his largn human lovipg heart a fm Ihe books he had written. Ho had now been for some days translating a child'. 'lory from Iho German, a sorl of spirit ual child's book, like the Story wnhou 111 lll'UI, 'Were this book illustrated bv om who had the game self helping soul a ils auihor, the mine instinctive feeling.' said the translator lo one of his friends, 'it would indeed be priceless. I 'have snmolimesthouglit none but a woman could calch Ihe simple yet dceprnal.ernal leeiing that lies in these same pages; bui vneie is ' I here is a woman Capable of Ibis,' said one ol Iho friends, lurniu'n lo th nithor; 'beyond all doubt cup.ilile.Luol Here.' He drew forth from a pocket book th verv pipers which two )eais bofor Bridget had lost. 'You say true,' answered the Iransla tor; bui what is this; it seems like th copy of some carved fuliane, some ' ' This mut he Bridget',' interrupted til- oilier cuc.st, leaning across the tab! wnii noxious lace (for it was no other I I , . . T nan me miusier prenenu;; see it is, yes, yes, a copy of the antique carving Horn llie minster wall. Good Ihinc liivi- been said in Lincoln of I his Bcidi; ;el,l ui the father would never tell. whet e she was ' The enthusiastic old gemlomati now eut. ied into a long detail of .Bridgel'.. youth, which, coupled with the old geir ''(in mi's story, left no doubt that the peeper into the thumbed copy of Bst- wick and the Lincoln girl were one and tlirf same. Next day anx'ious inquiries were su on fool respecting Bridget, but without it i i-. 3.. r i..;- i ; .uo-c'. i iicii Tfixni wetii uy, Miu It ihe meanwhile the German book could find no (it illusliator. But at lam th woodcuts in the cheat) periodical for which Bridget engraxed Were remaikei ipou. Ihe man who hail I he name ol ileum uotii tne arnsi anu rnnraver wa-i tpplied lo, and he agreed to furnish lln desired illustrations. A few were sent in surpassing the authus hopes; but t. jii ay leaf, a graceful touch, hi ought ti memory the hand of Budget, let sin hould not be heard of, though the old Lincoln gentleman was indifiiigiblo ii uis ii q.in ies. Al length one night ihe prebend and 'lis friend were lemming along tlx Snand in a westerly direclioo, when bj Si. Clement's Dunes they ohni rved ' very fal old gentleman creepini; -low 1 along ihe pavement, whilst a d'niioui'nt you'h kejit watch and guard, now Huh i f . i i .... now ion, as either side stemed likely lo ho jostled by some rode pnspr-by. 'You shall go no further,' at lengil -aid the old genii-man, slopping shoe not an inch farlhei.' Go! give my In; lo your sis'er, you dog, and say that nave to thank her for introducing to mi i second incomparable torn. But the boy was so far incomparable. that, heing wilful and obstinate, he vou d see the old gentleman safe with in iNew Inn, which was near at hand; and ihe menus, wailing o;itside. stayed till Ihe boy returned, lor his voice had brought to thu prebend's ear of Budget. ine) loiiovveu nim into ijong Acre, iq wo pair of mair, where,lifting tho laid he ptebend beheld the same Bridge whom he had known at Lincoln, "wlnli his companion recognised, in tho samr person, her whom he had followei t ears ago. A good fire biri.t upon ih neur h, Tom's lea ready, his shoes anu . i. n r . i . . "is coai o tne uie, lor tne nighl was wet, and Bridget her.Hf 1 u-ily al work upon the illustration ol Ihe German so ty. Happy was iho meeting betw o the old man and her he almost thought lis child; strange ihe felines of th gentleman who had bought the tliumbo Berwick, and hoarded those poor draw ngs. We have not room jto tell th joy of lhat nig' I. From this hour Bridget bad worths friends. Thu moriow brought thesis' ter of the one who hail remembered Bridget al the bookstall. Ho was the same rich merchant who so unknpwing ly hid praised Bridget's first woik and aci ol mercy. When hu hoard from the worthy coachmjker lhat story who, he knew from Tom what a sister B idg e w whtrv Mi -il l r.r-h'nd I Hi V I. i I ' I 1 .. , . . ' Uil.l u. illd ii i3 It a k tp-.-i all manner of graceful acts wcr.3 pei formed, all manner of miml .illre.l; but nothing could shake Bridu- iie.p.ng resoivo', no promwes .Mince her lo quit her humble lru,iinti lorn; the only help she akfd w8 that f woik to bo done. Tn n'v:n, piebend, roturnini: lo Llncohf. -. nuch of Budget, which uood' i-A..n p lotlunc coming to her lWr's t!i,.,', (,Q presently resolved Tas his Wlf. ,V-Q ....... dead to make one home serve for hhn selfand Biidgt. So comini: to Lun- lon, he was soon comfortable : exactine- money, craving for delicacies, not .'car ing nowtney wer! to be n-ormvd. iili .'heir once hippy home became o'ie of misery to loin and Bridget. ' " " Moi.'ths wenl by, often during wHle!, tl was meiey to escape to the home of lei kind eny friends, even for a few ours. Th house that thcr occupied n summer time it w3 n-jw'lhat season -rwas situated a few miles from town, n I heru one evening the rich merchant k"d Bridget to be his wife. You might live vo regret marriage .vith one so poor as mvself, sir,'wss he answer; -you who could a.k the hand of iadies of wealth and beauty.-' Wealth of money, Br dgel, but not with ihy wealth 0r soul. Money "is a advantage which the many have; but I.O'Olr-m of self help in women is rare i. . I ufuaiHu tew are so willing lo be se.lf helpers, h ja I w,o will he m uie . tV; having you. I know thai u...., would prove il. Come, my home must be yours.' - Bridgel did al last consent, but with a 'eser vation which must be yet a secret. Whatever was ils purpose, it was a V.. solve nol to be shaken, hut as lime won, on, many were the protestations Bgains' uis resom un. At Itngih, aher days n.tr wrrlt-or ij..i,rt:5-itiltf tai)or;27rTTrgt', i-ktd the old prebend and the meivhant o meet her at the chambers of Tom's naster. They did so. Tom was there is well ai the fat old aenlleman, the one ooking sly because he knew the t,eciei ! the other wondcringly. The old geu- leman signed some papers, whi;h m, Ul clerk aitc8ted; then 2?ridgei, draw t'g forth a purse of gold, laid the fpew ipt'n the parchment ot Tom's indenture s ariivkd clerk , This was my reservation, this mv xcicl. As I have now shown myse f n humble loving sister of this dear Tom, so I am now willing to become Ihe wife.' A week after, Bridget stood as the wife if the rich city merchant by the niter of Lincoln minster ; and dear as the nmrrlage ing was on lhai day, was the gilt nf ild thumbed copy of Berwick's jB.;tih birds. Habits of self-help, like all good il ii-g. irs endurina. Bridget as the wife mid moth er, is still the same, fciinp' no opjortiniity of self culture, no power of being the host teacher to ner children. 'IV m is at this titno n quaint bachrnrsit tirney, having sueceeded to the snug pr"r lice of the fat gentleman. That there es.sis hi tucen him and Bridgel a rare & enduring love, we need not make record. Of the death of the father we rired not "peak. Over llie selfishtif ss, the pride of die elder brother, we will draw a veil, fur the memory of good is better than thn mem ory of evil, Biidgei had triumph engi.gh in ihe fruition of honest labor. MESMERIZING A HORSE-SOME THING RICH! The other day, the erew of tho Wapll.i in St. I.ouis, were completely nonpiusiti' t hy a fractious horse which they we.u i-.i deavnring lo get on hoard. Mr. Eiiot magnetizer, was requested to operate i -i we aro happy to learn, dif so with inwmv ale r ffeot. Simp v luokina the annn-i! ii .he face, making a few passes dor u Ii iosb, and with perhaps, n genllo '0 u iois'-', Iho sonsitivn creature beenni" ,. 'eclly docile, and walked alorl w th -t ivcn onr.e saying iiei-'i! At l&st su s i St, Louis ptijiur. Morning How beautiful i thn riiv of Nature Irnm her dark slumbers in ih irnis nf Night ! what an iniai'o nf llie dawn nig of eternal life lo tho etnariaiod tpitil titer the shallow ol n gmva! Jlnw a iod how great, how wish n the Almighty Au thor o I" all. who plants in the if annus, ncl n h? Kirieni.; v t'nt i-Hstmea ofHIm wnr'd; I ii ns of Natort ; tl.ti ; d Ins ,.) - - mil Mi'ssiM I
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