1 have sworn upon tho Altnr or God, otorual hostility to ovory form of Tyranny over the Ml ml of Man." Thomas JoUcmon II. WEBB, EDITOR AND IPKOPEIETOH. VoUiuue Vill. SiLOOMSIDURW, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA. SATJJEtllJAY, DKCEMRRBl 7, 1844. Number 33a OLTICK OF THE DEMOCRAT ori-osiTi: St. Pawl's Ciiuiicii, Main-st TEP.MS : The COT.UMIU'JI DEMOCllJTwiU b published every Saturday morning, al TIl'O 1)0 L I. Ji IIS per annum payable half yearly in advance, or Two Dollar J'ljty tent s,ij not paid wit tun the year Vo subscription will be taken for a .shorter period than nix months: nor ami discon tinuance, permit teU,until all arrearages are Uiseiiargul. finVIiRTISEiMEXn. not cxcee.dinn square, will lie conspicuously inserted at One Dollar for the first three insertions, and Twenty-five cents for every subse quent nscrtion. CT"fl liberal discount made, to those, who advertise by the years f. UTTERS addressed on businvts,mus be post paid. POBTRYo TO MAItY. I1Y S. D. ANDIIIISONJ. My love for thee id like ihe light That falls upon a summer night, So pure mill deep and passing bright It shines upon my heart, Mwy. It takes a part from every thing Of joy ami beauty, like the spring That feeds upon the flowers thai cling To it, as 1 to iht'G, Alary. Thy image has become the slar, Se,en through tho mjniH nf life afar, A tnusii! 'mid iho unless jar Has ever been thy voice, Mary. A blissful spot iti memory's dream, Like rays of sunshine on the stream, To guide nic with its richest gleam To happiness and hope, Mary: It makes a cadence in the son,'. A smile amid tin happy throng, A gushing joy so lull and strong Heats ever with my pulse, Mary. That secret tone goes murmuring hy A3 winds into a summer sky, Or harp notes when at eve, they die Upon the listener's ear, Mary. I look upon thy memory As stars upon the silent sea, And ;vatch as calm and liemblingly The tides of thy pure heart, Mary. Ami as upon the sea girl shore, They wash and wash Ibrevermore, So sets within my soul's deep euro The stream of love for thoe, Mary. You gave to life a deeper flush; And waken'd to a wilder gush lopes that had ditd upon the blush Withnut thy smiles of 3c.riiin.Mary, And though il may he idle all, As spreading flowers upon pall, Slill shall thy name be magical When linked with love and thee, Mary LINKS. BV ANNA WIIAtlTON, On ! not in graveyards rank and close U ithttt the noisome town, pii! not in gloomy cloisters dark Would I at death lie down. Give mo a bed in open field ' Heneaih the breezy sky, Where flowrcls bloo.n anil forest wave, And waters murmur nigh; Where greenly springs tho early grass, And bilds.sire on ihe bough, Anil early winds are out at play, There let ine slumber low! ON AN INFANT. Em: Sin could blight or Sorrow fade, Death came with friendly caro, Tho opening bud to Heaven conveyed; And bade il blossom there, If nn anv occasion your wife should claim lo you, 'Now ihuinble over Iho crad dlo and break your neck, dor don I you do it, Hive tho Countersign. The New Or'eans Oresccnl lolls the fol lowing good one which is highly credilulih to the Tcxian's knowledge of military tactics: At the Wolf Hunter's camp, neat Carpus Christi, in Texas, tho guaid qui night saw somebody a liltle way off, ant! hailed him. 'Who's there?' No answet slill. 'Who's there, 1 saj? Whoever you be, if you don't advance ant! say Texas, I'll blow' Texas, ihcn, said tho other, if that' ah you want.' 'Well, why didn't you sat it snonerf We recollect a similar instance it Windsor, Canada West dirreetly oppo site to Detroit, during the distuibatres in thai country. The colored people hat' formed themselves into a regiment rum inonly known as the 'Queen's lllacl Guards ' One of them being stationed a a sentinel on a ecrlain t.ight, heard some body coming, Now this somebody hap penei! to be a Yankee, and a spy. 'Who in tla r?' inquired the guard. 'A friend,' was the answer. 'Gib de countersign." 'Plague lake your countersign, you black ion of a gun.' 'Gocramighty, you no g i I do countersign I'll shoot you.' 'You gel out, you concealed ihurideibolt, shoot si royalist, wou III vou? Won i n t' von ook prcttj (' 'Den say U'iloriuV ll'igtoriu in'.' uestruclion lalie yo. 'Pass,' and tin Yankee did pass into the very he.irt of lit c enemy's camp and brought back an abnnd nice ul'iuforination to the patriots. W II AT 1 hIKE TO SEU. I like to sec a woman out in the nnrniup picking up chips to build a lire, and her bus baud in bed; it shows she thinks more foi him than she does for herself. '1 like to see a merchant and rncchani iseep lliclr shop iloors and windows closer until the sun is an hour high; it shows thai they are independent, and ask no favors ol ihe customers. 1 like lo see young women walkitiglln truet on Sunday in their silks, with holei m their stockings; il shows that they an mure attentive to things above than be IIW. I like to see men crowding around tin ".i r room Monday morning before sun rise, il shows their anxiety to get al their week't employment in good season. I like lo sue women send their bullet h oarkel in a dirty i luth; il shows economy is it saves washing. 'Scared to Death and Tickled toV Jemima! marm, what d'ye think Sal told Ned Hobbles hsl night, when ho was a parkin' her?' 'Shut up, child what arc you talking about?' No, but I hern her, I did. She told Ned Hobbles she kinder fell ' Hush, you liltlo rascal! Hush, or lake your scalp off!' and poor Silly looked as red as n boiled lobster. Oh, it out, S,d. I will tell. She told Ned Hobbles sho kinder fell scared to death and thklcd tuV Ned Hobbles got llio milieu next lime .died. A nilivc of the E.unrland Isle was asked how he could loll when a man was drunk Faith,' answered Pat, 'I'd never bo after .I ., .i savini? a man was ilrunK ai an, wnnoui i saw him Irving to light his pipe at a pump.' I feel lo hzy lo work,' said a loafer, and 1 have no lime lo play, I think I'll go to bed and split llio difference. A rorjuetle is a rose from which ever) hwer plucks a leaf the. thorns are reserved for her future husband 'I say, Snooks, did you hear Doctor Racor laal nigh?' 'No, What did !io spoak about?1 About fivo minutes.' Absqual, Snooks. The Louisville Democrat intimates that five women of llio lown, dressed in male latlitcj voted at the lato clt'ciion, THE BRILLIANT LOCKET. IJV J. IJ. CAIU'ENTKIl. CHAPTFft I Il was in the autumn of iho yeai 1800 when the republic at my under Ney, iMoreau, Limb, Cyr, nod oilier ol II bravest generals, was pursuing Us vicio i loin career, anil laying waste some ol i he-most important towns in Germany, die circumstance which wo are about lo relate look place. The frequent want of stores; ammtin 'ion aod money, in the republican ar (i i os ami ihe hone of plunder then so fiequently held out eto the French sol lief, as the reward of victory, caused iio inconsiderable alarm in the breast.1' if Ihe morn peaceable inlxiiiilants of 'hose places which were considered lilt y lo become Ihe theatre of hostilities. Among these, the inlnbiianis of. German lown of consideiable import nice ind which lor distinction we will call Ehrislten had ample reasons foi heir misgivings ihn daily, almost hour. ly; approach oi the 1 t ench being ex, peeled. The family of Paul Kinmiver,a mor- ehanl citizen of greal weal'li. was a- mongsi those most ag'taied hy Ihe afllic nig intelligence. Hi, household con--isled of his wife, an only dni)ghter,anl i few domestics in whom ho could plact 'otifidencn. Mis daiighlei was t he sprint; which regulated every action of the merchant's life; she was ihe apple of hi. ye, Ihe sunshine of his shady places, i' was for her he had accumulated hi. wealth, that her rare heau'y might win with it a btalion of rank and influence: mil now the hope of a whole lifotim miirht h( ivrpplml - r l;r t, ! 1 1 1 s wife was the first lo suggest ', dan for Iho r.ooeiMlmeol of their ireas ires. The mansion was siltaled neai ihe extiemily of Ihe town, and from i' i secret passage communicated with inwer in Ihe garden adjoining; fron hence in the evening, a man might ea sily steal tinperceived lo the adjicent voods; and there she proposed ihat ill net chant should, at night lime, bun us treasure; or, at any rale, that li .hould proceed through the foi est ani eposite il wi'ti a ri'i.iitnn wi;o was i be misted, who would ool be supecie' f possessing so much wealth, and wl). tsided about I wo tlay' journey fron he p'ace. For a lime Paul K timayer tesilei1 Vf-ry importtioiiy of hi' wife. Win votild piotee.i litem should the anlieipa I'd attack lakf place in his ahs"iice? The (lomesiics were old and infirm, Hi'' hey would l,o loo much alaillleil foi i heir own safely to cire much for otheii so akin lo them. Hit' when his wife spoke upon tho future; when she im pressed on him Ihat it wis wealth onl ihat would he required of them, soil hat, deprived of lhat,all lor which lhe had so long struggled would he scatter ed in a moment, Ins resolution gave w.iy. I go,' he said, 'and leave you in the tiust of One whose all nowi tfol hand will protect you; unless indeed, in his infinite wisdom, he deems it filling thai the innocent should fall as an example ind terror lo the guilty.' Collecting all that was mo?t valuahle int.1 a small packet, as the evening ap proached, the merchant was prepared It depart. One jewel only remained be hinil il was his own miniature, set In a blockei, with diamonds of great vaiue. It was his wedding gift lo Amelia, anil with it ho hesitated to pail, and he phi cetl it again around her neck with the same fervor and alieclion that he tell when he first presented it. To her am io his dauuhler. Iho namesake of her mother, he gave some necessary ilirec tions for their welfare during Ins ahsoncr and taking nn alfeclioiiate farewell, h lenatte. unknown to anv but (hem- selves. It was on Ihe evening of iho fourth day afier Ihe merchant had departed J . . . . I'll that Iho roll ol Ihe dtums, ine snrni( voice of the trumpet calling toarms,and the lumull among lite inhabitants with out, proclaimed to Iho inmates of the mansion that the enemy wa lati op. nroachinii. The town was, indeed, filled with Austrian troops, hut these had been so often and lately harrasied nd defealed by the victorious arms of the French, that il wob not without rca. son llio citizens felt strong misgivings in Ihni.. ..r.ul!c A chanco of the merchant beinc ena li hied lo reach his house, or even lo ob tain admittance within (ho lownprevt ous to llio termination, was now entire ly shut out. The wife had hut little doubt ihat his reputed wealth would not permit Ihe house lo pass unmolested; and after causing all Ihe doors to be bar ricaded, and the windows and shutters H'cuel, sho proceeded, with her dauh er, io the innermost apattmetit of the mansion. CHAPunu ii. On Ihe return of (he merchant, the French army was evacuating the plice, carrying with ihem the trophies the) Had wrested from Iheconqjered Auslri ins. and a large supply of stores and plunder from the devoted lown. Paul' heart died wtlhin him as he slealthilj entered ihe suburb", and proceeded to wards Ihe place of his own residence. Within the lown all was confusion ind dismay; hero were open storehouses ' ifleil of Iheir contents, the very floors torn from iheir lunges; there, the dim gardens of the richer classes broken lown and trampled over; in Ihe mar ket places were groups of the middle mil lower classes, loudly complaining of Ihe excesses of both Aim tin and France. Still Paul stopped nol lo join in the general onicry; his only anxiety' was his own home. At length he reach ed his dwelling. Willi what a ping of intense anxiety he rushed through i'ip ipeti portal! I ite servants Had evt lenlly lied; the slairs bore the muks of heavy footsteps. Paul slopped not lo examine them, or he would hive seen hat ihey were dneed with gorp. With Ihe speed of ihoughl ho rushed oto their accustomed .silling room, and 'here a horrid spectacle awatied him - - - he hear'; one hand had fallen hick a flo protect her from Ihe attack of Ihe isas,in, while iiir other grasped lightly i few links of the slight gold chain It. vhich hid been attached ihe diamond no. inted pni'Tiit. Ol hi d nighter i hern were no lrac.es Lou My did he cill, aod wildly did In eek first in his own house, and thei 'trough the whole lown, until it wi vhispcred dim id ihat he was mud; nd so, for a lime, he was; hut anxiety hrotighi weariness and repose led to te flectiou. How deeply Paul Kinmayer reproach ed himself foi not taking ihe mioiatiin villi nther v ilu ibles, need not ho relile . ...i i. . 'r, .nice lie nine iiounieii mat ins wile esistance lopail with it had led to tin filnl (Mtavltophe. One ledeeiniog tho I inly dished across his mind, that hy it HIH11P3' i indeed she had not shared he fite of her mother he might be nahled to discover the missing fhuightei I'd this end he resolved to devote the whole of his future existence; anil aflei hp funeral of his wife, he disposed of his house, the wreck of his household odds, and prepared to travel, wilhir. he. knew not, hut any where to fly fiorn Iho scenes where all his hopes of patih- 'y hanii'liie, had been blighted by tilt iitthlpss hands of the destroyer. " And these." he said, as he turner) from his native town nnil home, "ihes' ne the deeds perpetrated under the sa cred bannpr of liberty ! Alas! how is the divine aid ilntto defect alcd ! How link', hut the name exists in the hlood hirsiy dynasty of France !" CHAI'TEH in. Shall we follow ihe steps of Paul Kin mayor for twelve yeais? Shall we le lato how he travelled in strange lauds, oven in Ihe wake of the French army sometimes in disguise how minuie,bir yet how cautious were Ins enquiries, anil alas! how ftuiiless! Shall we nay how iho hale man grew grey and feeble, though half a century had passed ovei his head, in scarcely more lhan a titln of one. No : for wa could relate noth ing thai would interest Ihe reader nothing hut tho patient suffering of a be reaved man, hoping, hut hopeless, seek ing.but finding no); until il almo9l seem ed ihl ihn faculties of the wanderet ceased lo embrace tho object of bin mis sion; hut Ihey did not they only slum bered. It was something beyond twelve years after Iho scene related in our sec ond chapter look place, that n Fiench officer was reciting in one ol the princi pal cafes of Paris, to an eager crowd of istoners,thc particulars of ?n inglorious relreal from Russia, of which ho was n.,u f , I, . C II. ui iuc ico auiviviira ins age cool I not have exceeded thirty; but the dread- nil Hardship ol ihe Russian campaign had told feai fully unott his hardened features. War, however, had nol t.im- ed, hul had evidently added lo, a nalu .oil., r 1: 1 . 1 -j iiitutiuus uijpusiiioo ; lor tie w.i detailing, with savage satisfaction tlx horrid lot merits of the eiiemv. alrnadv forgetful of the scverilies he"had just es caped, and to which to many of In. comrades had fallen a sacrifice." Among those who listened most at tentively, was a stranger, who sal, al most unnoticed, smoking in an obsctin corner of the room ; an involuntary ex pression of disgust al lenglh beirayen him, and all-eyes were immediately turn ed to where he sal. " I'll wager a Napoleon," said tlx ifficer.'lhal the old Gt man never smel powder but on a review day, and nevet saw more smoke lhan ihat which nro eeded from his own meerschaum." " Heller if othets weie like me .- wlu, remembering only thai they arc sol diet urgcl thai Ihey are men." " flow," exclaimed the officer, start i"g on Ins feet, 'uch seniiments hen ne dangerous, but you Germans are ve- mystical. However, I'll till you n ueiunti auveniure, so, garcon, jinoihfti lioitle of roioroli, aod then " Do you happen to know the Ger man town of Ebristien c inquired the officer. The dull eye of the siranger seemed n'uldeiily lit with a liquid fire, as ho an swered io the affirmative. " It was my first csmpiigu,".coniiipU ed the other; my father had been out if (he brave he meant oneof the mos hlood lliiiMyJ leaders of Ihe revolution. Ills iiilluence ohlained for me a commi sion and, ct owned with sucees.l found .1 : ft-- - -1 . ' 1 motion In the aclimi 1 alluded to w vere allowed but two hours lo mak pillage we could in the town of Ehtis tcirt hefoii; we. proceeded onwud k greater mid more gloiious victories. Well, iheie was a jewi Her ol giem wealth, whose house, which was pointer tiul to me hy an Auxliian prisoner, i entered, but in which neither j-wel-nor put table valuables could we find. The servants fled on oui first endance he wife and daughter alone remained. The latter had locked themselves in room, which we soon hue si open; lemanded of them ih' ir valuables; tlx 'iiimpet had already soundrtl To Ixusi' and I was preparing to have the Iihusi when a gold chain around the neck ci the ehh r female attracted my attention rix'to as ;tl Inched to it" " A portrait ?" asked the siranger, ii .1 lone of ill-concealed anxiely." 'Dim' interrupt me,' aid the narrator, Mix iory is droller lb m many woUd ima i llll'. The blood of Ihe stranger came and went rapidly, and pulling down his pipi he was obst 1 veil for the moment, feeling lhonl his pockets,! if in eaich of some missing article. " You're right, il was a portrait, and to a mo! valuable selling. Provoked at obtaining no booty, I demanded it ol hei ; she should ha ve had Ihe worthies mini'ituie, but she wis obstinate. J ried to force il fiom her, but she resis led; nay nioie.sht: died lo seize a pislol roni rny bell, arid in the heat ol my pas ion 1 stabhrtl her." "Iliveyoti that poi trait s'ill ?" asked tho German. 1 have, though il ha been laket trom ihe siting, in which one of m own now gliders. You said yon knew Eliritliiu. " I did, years ago." "And probably the original of ihi uicturu f" said ihe officer, producing it. " Well, well !" " Ah ! is he alive ?" " He is lo be the tftvenger!'' Am before a movement was ubseiveil hy ih. Iij standers, Paul Kiomayer had, will fatal precision, levelled u pistol at tlx branch oliicer, ami shot him in tlx breast. CHAPTER IV. Mortally wounded, but not dead, Ix who hid braved Iho heal of an hunijr' bailies, and whom death had spared th.i he might make a more sititiblo- mom ment for his guilt, wa carefully ien. ed to a more firivaio np.it 1 aicnl. " Paul, who might havo escaped n the confubiun, did not attempt to do so; . e . i ..'"" ,v". 01 COtHSG TaKCIl 1010 CUMO dv, and ii.circeraled in one of the dun geons of the police. ' Tile following morning he was led foith for examination; Ihe of fallen officer, he was told, would be his acctt ser. Hut he-walked with a firmer step Jnd a lighter hoart than usual. One portion of his mi-sion had been accom plished, he had avenged his wife's mur der, hill he had found no traces of his daughter. On reaching thft placo of examination he was commanded lo stand forth, a shriek a long agnnizmg shriek was heard, and ihe prosecutrix fell senseless n the floor. Restoratives were applied, and her recovery ihe cause of her agitation was ppareni. " Il is my father," she said, and hreik iog through :he crowd, she again fell senseless in his arms. The impetus of her fall caused a lock t to drop from her bosom, wher it vi, slill su'pendetl by a chiin. Puu lvmmayer snalched it up. Yes it wal he same ihe same circlet of ringletss hut now it contained the portrait , whom? of his daughter's husband 'he murderer of his wife. Passing her to one of the attend mis, the old man smole his breast, and called aloud in his trouble "Was it for this thou wetl preserved, my beautiful my pure?" In consequence of Ihe slate of ihe wit 'ics-j, the examination was postponed, rxl the same evening tho dying- man n quested that the prisoner together with the chief of the police, might ai- end him. On their arrival, life was ebbing fat. The confession of ihe officer was brief, he fidmilted the murder of Paul's wife, and the justice of his tetrijuiiion. Iio altnoit a child, was carried away by the, o-immon suldiers lo the rear of the army hat hie was forced from the apartment previous lo; and knew nothing of her nxiiher ' fate, and lha ropening of hi c, he had hrr conveyed to Paris, and dup-ieil at his own charge. Wih x 1 yeats her loneliness increased, and be knowing him ob a benefactor, a al i'oniicd Ai many him. This confession was attested and for ward'd 10 the Ernpeinr. Meanwhile the friends of the ofli er came fot ward as pros- uints, his wife refusing to do so. Tho iini 'dcr in the latter case was fully ptoved uid 1'iul was sentenced lo death. On the morning appointed fur his execu ton he was repiinved, and suffeied lo enter 1 monastery, where he soon sunk under a irokeii heart. With his wealth, which was considera te, he founded a covenant for Ihe 'Sisters d Mercy' and in the still beautiful abbess t hose piety and benevolence so ninny havn s ith justice, lauded and admired, may. Im lUcovered the unfortunate daughter of Paul K tin may er. A SERIOUS QUESTION. A child was left upon a gentleman' thu r step in Rochester, N. Y so mo as since, nicely packed in a bosket. and with it a note, containing ten dol- Ins and these worth, 'Wore will be nl when this is exh-uisled.' I Ins gentleman aUs which, 7nore money, or more babies. VERMONT LEGISLATION. The Legislature of Vermont, now in session, has passed an act for the geolo- iical survey of the Slate; one abolishing he militia system, so far as regards iho -nrnlled militia; an act relating to deal rs i 1 spiriltios I quors, lo innkeepers, ic , providing for iho oloction of thiee Commissioners in each rouniy, in tlm mouth of January, to havo control of he subject of license; an act modilying he act of 1512, lelative to capital pun slimem,' so Ihat sentence of death should nol he executed short of nno year, and making it ihe duty- of Ihe Judge lo order execution williin three months after the year. 'I meant to havo told you of that hole '' said a man 10 a friend, who stumbled into i pit full of water. 'No matter now,' sajs the piher. blowing ihe water from his mouth. I have found it.' Scarce. ''VI iio are you going!' 111 quired Jack ol.ntt ai qnaininncci 'To sen a friend.' 'Well I'll go with you, for If never saw one yet I'
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