X f 71 o 1M ddq "I hare worn upon the Altr of noil, eternal hostility t every form of Tyranny over the Mind of Man." Thomas Jaireman If. WEBB, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. --.US (km J(Bini(i)(Bi Volume VIII. JV ?ti.. I-..J-t - OFFICE OF THE DEMOCRAT rP..sirK Sr. Paul's Church, Main-t. iijXTAi. i Ae iv.. v'""'"'"'" , Vim DOLLARS ver annvm payable. .'i n.lvnnre. or Two Dollar r pi . if not vaid within the year. V i" A'o subscription will be taken for a shorter. timorf Man ae inonin;nowuy " tinuance permitted, until all arrearages are discharged. anrpnriSFAlEXS not exceeding square will be conspicuously inserted al Ote Dollar tot liujirsi iirtewcor,...., , and Twenty-five cents for every subse cuent nserlion. i&rl rfweotiM nad to those, who advrrtise by the year LETTERS addressed on business jnusi be post paid. POETRYa jV IBS. m. rulilinhfd by lteinicjt. HURRAH FOR THE TEETOTAL MILL. .Two jolly topers once sal in an In". Discussing the rneiin of Brandy and Gin; Said one to the other, 'I'll tell you what Bill I've been heariae.M day.of the Teetotal Mill You must know that this comical mill hat-j . been built , Of old broken casks, when the liquor's been spill; Yrt.i an nn some steas. anil when ad "thr b- -i - 1 door-sill, You've a p iper to sign at the Teetotal Mill, . You promise.by signing thi papei (I think,) That ale, wine, and spirits you never will drink) , : You give up (it they call it,) snch'rascally r ill. ' ' ; And inen y9 " 'be Teetotal Mill, There's wicel nb tnitt ihat ikey call 'selfdeniil.' They turn it s hit just to give you a trial; Old clothes are made new ones, and il you've been ill. You are very soon at the Teetotal Mill.' nill listened and wondered, at length hr cried out, Why. Ton, if ii'g true, what you're tell inc about What fools we must be, be here sitting still, Let ns go in and look al the Teetotal Mill,' They g-znl with astonishment; there ennift a man, With excess it disease his visage, was wan: lie mounted the steps, signed the pledge with good will, And went fur a turn in the Teetotal Mill, He quickly came out the picture of health And walked briskly on to the highway w wealth; And, as onward he pressed, be limited mil still, 'Success to the wheel of the Teetotal Mill!' The next that went in were a mm ami wife, For many long years they'd been living m strife; lie had beat and abused her, and swore In would kill, But his heart look a turn in ihe Tcutota Mill, And when he came nut how altered was he, Steady honest, and sober how happy was she; They no more contend, 'no you sha'nt,' 'yes, I will.' They were blessing together the Teetotal Mill, Next rame a fellow, a grim as a Turk, To cure and to swear Kremed his princi pil work, He (wore ih.ii meriting liif skin he would. fill. And ditiuk ns he was, he reeled into the mill, And whit he saw there I never could (ell, Bi:l his conduct was changed, and bis lan guage as well; I caw, when he turned round the brow of he hill. That he knell and thanked God for the T.ct t I Mill. IJLOOMSIMIIK The poor wrre made rich, ihe weak were n.adeHo.g, The shot was made short, and the pursi was mailt! long, These miracle, pnzzclcd both Thomia anil At length they wenl in fur a Hint in ihi Mill luila time after, I heard a great shout. 1 turned round toaee what trie noise was about; A fl..g vas conveyed to the top of a hill, And a crowd, amongri which weie boll Thomas and bill, Were shouting, 'lluirah for the Teetotal Mill ' HUB.1--" From the New Yoik Mirror. A TALE OF TRUTH. On the plains of Stillwater lived s revolutionary veteran and hie lull family i w f-& an only son, a sprightly lad ot sixteen. A small plat ol groiinn imply served iheir limited wants, ami i. "little all" il ws for, sheltered by c muz I iti le col, from wintery storm anil II summer' heat, fed by healthy imlus tiy, the) parsed alone; Hie vne of life in simple, solid, ''.sweet cnnlenl."' Il--rf, with an hones', trateim pri-ie, aid tne old man behold his coiiniry rapidly ris inijr'in national piety and physical splen lor lo a pet rlcss rank amonn Ihe king loms of the earth, and here he eouk. 'tave spent the few remaining ly Iff for bim, had not the death ot his wife, md the fmure welfar- of lii son openei1 i new and wide field for exertion. II knew tint his much loved son wag goo "o be left ;n I hi mercenary world with nit an earthly gmrdian or support and e felt ihe imperious call of duly t him settled in life if possible, ere hf hould be gathered to hig fathei s. One plan alone seemed probable li uccced which was .to avail himself of i liiherto neglected military land liile. This title covered a lare trad gome vhere in lh eastern part of Kentucky; ut from ihe altetcaiion of names, hi vas unable to iell its precise siiuaiion le, however, resolved to search for il, it all hazards and accordingly sold hi li ifing estate, paid hia dehig and set fin v 1 1 on foot with all the firmnesi of orn mured lo toils- and liard.ihips from in r'nc v. Fir one motn"nl we will paint to out ndvcg the lovely larid.iraie, with il kirted foiesi-ils uirling rill, its lowing cow and bleaiing sheep on yonder hill, md at the fool ine circumscribed col t n'1, ihe home of ihe old p;itrio', and near il Ihe giave of his wife; ilu-n be iiold the father, sou, and faithful dog bidding the whole a silent, and lasting farewell. The father tvag leaving the field of li lury, and tin remains of his partnei: -ii these two I ht re associated she recol li ciiong of his dearest sublunaiy joys he viriU'-s and aff-ctior.s ol his ilt-pnei' vile, and the futt radiation fiom tin -nn of American liberty. Whatever exciiemenl shook him in- ernally, his leatiirtg wore Hie asjucl o lirm hia't reo!v: Not so ihe son; in that grove and b t'.Mit hibtiling i ill he and his 004 had gamboled away many a vernal holiday. In that diar native hut, oil had he he. iui'ed a Ions' wintei'g evening,hy listen .njjto his f.ithei's leg'tids of the old wai or conned over his prayerg from ihi noutli of his sainled inotlu r; he wf uow in leave them forever. His ingen 1 os soul withtred al Ihe thouihl. From this circle all hig joys & sorrow. ijpiung beyond i',all was vacuity. 1 lit lounlain of youthful hope and buoyanci wag closed' and tears fl nved in their na tive exuberancy ag he turned and le( Ihe cottage of Sill water plains. Tin y bent their way to the neans branch of the Alleghany,nn which they emhaiked in an open boat, penny less, & with a small store of enables. One stormy evening, in the month of Nov ember, ihev tied 1 heir canoe lo a tiet; and made iheir way lo the nearest dwel ling which proved 10 be the habitalioi ofan unfeeling planter. He luined 1 deaf ear to Ihe claims of patriotic age and shut his doer upon ojr shelterless wanderers! Ingratitude overcame tin veteran who had scorned the froslf ol '75, and but for his son, he would have COLUMBIA COLKTY, unk under the weight of big misfor - lineK, They passed ihe nighl in one of the ilanler s birng, hungry, wel and cold, n a oed of straw ! Al the dawn of day mr travellers gel forward t Ihe nex village, and obtained breakfas. They found ihemselves in Kentucky, on out f thoge exlenstve alluvial bottoms. iK'culiar to the great W estern riverg ol iNoith America. On taking his tittle lo a lawyer, thi ld gi-nilemen found lo his astonighmeni Uai it was a wealthy plantation, and what must have been hts feeling on find ing il to be occupied by ihe same hru ish nabob who, li e night preceeding Irove him and hig suuei ing child from his door. The wretch in his turn was forced In bg, for he had not enough to pay hi rent 'which had been amassing for lln 1 1st twenty yeais: yet with more rfJTect. i'or he wag allowed to apend the rtmaio- ler of his days on ihe plantation. IJ. 1 LUS...J Russia mid Kritaiii, An overruling Providence provideh ureal means lor great exigencies. I aised up the Romans to conquer anil :iviliz" Kurope. Il brought down upon time the iSonh' rn barbarian, in sweep away its rottenness, and build on its 1 . . . ottiidaiions a h'gher civiliziiion. i 4.1s raised up England to create United Slates, and thus es'ablish a reservoir f om which slreamg of frei'dom can flow 10 all parts of the worirl; and it ha raised up Uuigia to s'op the aggregsgion md punish Ihe crimes ofLnghind, and prepare Asia for the reception of those 'ice principles which ihe Americans ire preparing for the whole wot Id. We have already gaid that Ivhm-i and 1'Jog land are antg'itiis's. W'e now say ths Kiigsia & Ihe United Suits aro co-operators Jlussia seeks dominion and powor. It grasiig the Turkish IJmpiie, Northern md Middle Aia, and India. Happy or m mkind will be, ihe day when Ihem onqoeslg are achieved ;for iheir achieve ment will rescue one pot lion of man kind from ihe stupil'ymg barbarism ol ite Tiirks.snd another fiom the corrupt ing degrading civilization of Ihe Eng land. The Tin kg paralize and blighi vhatever they louch. The English stabltsh iheir own civiliziiion upon the uin and ex'inction of all whom they conquer. The Engligli have conquered Iddu, and if they can retain it, will ventuilly h"H il wuh English civili.i ion. Hut through what wrong, wha: oppression, what crime, what m srry v 1 1 1 this be accomplished? (Ji'iieinmn jf Hindoes must be degraded by vice 01 xier initialed by famine, before 1 he Hm luo can be imbued with Ihe htglic Yemen's ol English character, or the Hindoo race can be substituted by tin Anglo-Saxon. Hut Kussia civili.-s whatever it conquers. It does rio',lik Eugland,dcsiroy for tbepu-pisa of raid ing civilza ion upon iis ruing. It civil ize as us prncct es, and sbetlg us tm p'oving iiifluence upon whaipver it ouches. And degpotiom is Heaven'? jreai instiuinenl for Ibis purpose, foi while il has revealed federal democracy md condemned monaichy for civilizi- inn, it h-s always used lcSolisin as tin neans of civilizing barbarism. Kussia began with I'elet the Ores nd as Moseg was inpired, and lh ,iviour sunt. and M iriiu l.tnht r raied ip, so w, s I'cier, made great, great u ligign, gte-t in wil,for the rt-dempiioi if mi 11 kind fiom eitoi and wrong. H found Kussia a few b r amus province inhabited by a forociuus nobility and ai nslaved and degraded populic, and uiounded by the military adveniurerf ol Sweden, the faeiious Uibulent, an- rchicol banditti of Poland, toe stup Ty ing fanatics oi Turkey, and Ihe sivge iiu rounets 01 miu'tie tia. ne in his countiy the eh ments of a great nation, and 111 civiliziiion the only means of their developemnn'. He saw m commerce ihe great civilizer, and hr resolved on having seaports, ships and commercejand as a first step, he founded a reapoit for the scat of his government Having forced a commercial road from the Baltic into the Altic, he told h successors to march southward till they reached the Mediterranean through Constantinople, and eastward till they achieved what Alexander, attempted, 1 lie conquest of India. And he told Ihem to civilize as they marched, to sweet sway every institution that interfered PA. SATURDAY, FICH.iUAUY 8, 1815. jwiih human progregg, to raise the slave to freeman, and reduce Ihe noble lo 'il equal. & niogt intelligntly,perever 'isgly, Ins thig policy been pursued by nis succesgorg, till ihe Russian Govern. netit is now doing more for ci vilizalion md fieedom than any other in Europe?. And it will accomplish these great de- 'gn It is Ihe instrument raised ui by Providence lo prosTale thehltghling ula ol IWahomedanism, and to sweep uolatry liom India. Excepting Austria. nor.tai.rg Ihe last of feudal slavery, and 7 government hag been striving, ever gince Peter, left Ihe legacy of his wise nd benevolent policy, to free and edu cate the slaveg. Russia aims al India, and will reach 1; and when its flig is spread eastward jf (he Indies. iheBiitish Empire will vanigh from lhal morning snn. And before ihe Russian march will flee Mahomedanim, supergtiiion, monopoly, nd lha tyranny of ihe merchant prine iver Ihe conquered vassal. And such jovernmenl lears our democracy! And will league with Britain lo prostrate it! government coveting he richest pnr ion of Ihe British empire, preparing tin iwn subjeeU for freedom, and seeing in n the most powerful auxiliary against IJnlish monopoly . seek, the alliance of itg enemy lopiostrale its friend! AN INCIDENT. We copy the following stirring incident from the Middlesex Standard, edited by JjMfG7 Whittier. 'Some five or six years eince a gentle man and his wife -were passing down 'lite Mississippi rivet, on their way to New Or Jeans. Their fellow pissenprrs were near ly all slaveholders, or citizens of slavelinlil tug states, and the convereation, in the in tervals of card palying, was mainly direct ei against the northern abolitionists. While hey were silting on deck, guirg at the strange and gloomy scenery rf the 'failtei of waters,' thev were accosted by one ot the passengers, 'is your name G ?' Il is,' said ihe gentleman 'Are yot from Ohio?' 'I am 'The inlet ngatnr turned away, and soon the new spread over the boat: 'An aholitinnbl 01 board!' They were al once surrounded b an angry and furious crowd many ol them fearfully excited by liquor. Pistol' were flourished and bowie knives drawn. Sunie of the more cool nml deliberate pro nnsrd tha a Lynch YpiiiI should be held: mil with some difficulty a ling was formed md a red. faeej jlave driver pioclaiinet! judge. A eomtniiiee of twelve was select en n act as nrvinen. n was tree. pie;inr.ed. lie avowed himself an abolt lionist, and requested permission to explain his principles, lie was listened to will' manifest impatience; and iho conintiiier were ordeted lo retire before he had cm :'uded his defence They soon returned and pronounced their ver.licl' They found liim guilty of being an abolitionist, am1 reenmmentled that he should have the alier native of quietly walking overboard or id igning a eoiiipleie recantation of his ami slavery dortiine In conformity with tlii- 'UTt ilol derision, a paper was iImum up md presented for his signature, with tin threat ol immediate death in rune of his refiisitl. Il was a trying 1110 ncnl fur the shol. ittoniHt I houghi.1 ol home, and its old I'oiiiliHi faces crowded upon bis brain Life is always sweet, and especially i i1 '0 to the young and healthful, happy it heir unnhilled and glad hopes. His you 11 f A-ife was at his side, Itorrot stricken by thi finger which menaced her husband. Be tore him er8 fierce anil siern faces and brandished weapon beneaih him rolled lie black waters of the river. 'Sign tint nd you are sifa,' said the spokesman 0 lite mub. His human spitil wavered foi in instant as be turned his agonized gaz upnn his wife. Bui hi beter nature Iri tnphed. ' Take it back and dyour worst ha answered; '1 cinnoi make shivery right evn to save mv hf.!' 'Thank God! my husband, exelsimid his wife, clasping him in hsr arms, 'lei us di together;' The words aid manner of the noble woman overawed the assassins. One nf the most violent of ihoin spiang lorward and thieatetied to blow out thej'No sir, I never fi?h in shallow wat r.' brain of ihe first who should venture in I MV hands on her or her husband The wi-es and daughters nf ihe slaveholders who ha hitSerlo kepi silence now interfered the Lyr.rh court was dissolved and during the remainder of the yoyage, (he Iwn abolition tsts were treated with marked rpsnenl I'lte story, substantially as we have given i'-- il, W8S related to a friend of ours by one of the passengers, who bad himself parlici paled ir. Ihe Lynch court.' Widower Smith asd Widow Jones Widower Suiiilj'g waggon slopped one morning before Jones' door, and he gave the usual country signal that he wauled somebody in ihe house by dropping the einj, and selling double, with his elbows in big knees. Out tripped the widow as lively ss a cricket, with a tremendous black ribboi, nn her snow-white cap. 'Good morning' was soon said on both sides, and the widow wailed for what was farther to be said. 'Well,. Ma'am Jones, perhaps you don'i ant to sell one of your cows.no how, for nothing, any way, to you?' 'Well, there, Mr. Smith, you could'ni have rpoke my mind belter. A poor, lone w.uiiHn, like, does not know whal to do with so many miters, and I should be glad to trade if we can fix it.' So they adjourned lo the meadiiw, farmer ttiniih looked al Roan then at the widow at the Downing cow and at the widow again ami so on through the whole foity 'he same ."all was made every day for h week, but farmer Smith could not deride w'hjch cow he wanted. Al length. on Satur day, when widow Tones was in a hurry to tjct through with her baking, for Sunday, mil had 'ever so much' to do in the house 48 all fanners' wives and widow havt on Saturday, ebe was a little impatient Farmar Smith was as irresolute ns ever. 'That 'ere Downing cow is a pretty fair ,-riiiir but he slopped to glance at ihe .vidow's face, and ihen walked round her ot the widow, bul the cow. ' That 'ere. short horn Durham is not iad looking beast, but I don't know' mother lonk al ihe widow. The Dowr.ing row I knew before thr ue Mr. Jones bought her ' Here ht dghed at the allusion lo the late Mr. Jones; She sighed, and looked at each other. L was a highly ineresiing moment. 'Old Koan is a faithful old nnh-b, fe so ir Hriinlle hut I have known better. Along slaie followed 1119 pee-h i!n o.itisH was geiung an k ward, at last Mrs initlt broke out 'Lord! Mr. Smith, if I'm the ono yon 'vant, do say so!' The intentions of the widowei Smith t lie widow Jones were duly published lln h Xt day, hs is the law and fliMocn in lass;iciuctis; anil a soon as ihey were out puliliidied,' they were married. LOST BOY FOUND. Exlraonliiiai v Romance, A roues iinpcleiii nl the II i r 1 ford Times gives an Ciouol of ihe lo.s and lecovcry of n boy who was tinlen by the Indians from he town H Jacksoo Michigan, in 1S37, md was recoveied by his father, Mf 1111ni Filler, aboti; 1I19 first of ihi iieseni month, in Gieenville, Ct., in the employ of a citizen, lo whom In hnd nbiiifl hv the Oveiseers iienliced if the Poor of Albany, N. V. Aflei vandering about with the Indian family visiting various cities and towns be 'ween Wisconsin and Gonueciicul. be was tsken from tbpm in Albanv, C. Y. hi 18-13, anil placed in the Almshouse 10 the ground thai he was a white child itolen from hid parents. Bui the Indi ms refused to reveal his nsme or when ue came from. His father came from Michigao lo visit his relatives in Con necticut this wiiiier, and while ther beard of ihe bay, whom he recognized once ss his son. Ilw mother died soon after lie was carried off by the Indians. I really rsnnot sing, believe ins, st','was tis tply c f s young lad y to an emp'y fop. 'I am raiher inclined to believe, madam. that you are fishing for complements.' :Vllllllicr 42a LEGAL ELOQUENCE. G-ntlemen of the jury Can you for ai) instant suppose that ruy i lionl here, a man who has alters sustained a high depreda-, 11011 111 society, a man you all on you sua. peel esteem for his many good iiuautiiieg ves, gentlemen, a man what nvci drinks more than a quarl of likkcr a day, can vou.. I ay, for so instant, suppose that this erp man would bo guilty or' hooking a box of pcreushum caps! Rattlesnakes and toon- king forbid! Picter to yourselves rentle- men, a teller. fast aeep in ,i J(0g Cahii with his innocent wifo and orphan i!iildten by his side, all nature hushed in deep re pose, and nought to be hcatd but the mut lering of the silent thunder, and the Indler- ing of bull frogs, then imagine to yourself a ellow gneaktne un to the door like able hyena, softly entering the dwelling of he peaceful and happy family, and in (lie nnst mendacious and dastardly manner. nooking a whole box of percuahum! Geo ilemen, I will not, I cannnt dwell upon the monirosiiy of such a scone! My feelings, turn from such a picter of moral turpentine, like a bif wood.ihuck would it.rn from my dog Rose! I cnnnol for an instant fi arbor die idea ihat any man in these diggins.much less ere man could be guilty of committing in act of jucIi raulankerous & uiifxlraiiiplejj discretion. Ind now gentlemen, afier thig era brief view ol the case.lel me entreat you lu make op your minds candidly and impartially &j iive us such a verdict a we might reaon ibly stispcci from RU(,f, , enlighieiif4 ami uiiolenble body of our fuller riiizeng, r. membering that in the language of Nimrod, who fell in the battle of Bunker Hill, il is belter that ten men escape, lather than one guilty one should sufTer. Jutlge give us a chew of lobacco. iNpuri couiusiiip. The chief of die Indian tnte now at tho iheaire.last nighl explained.io he'eMgregt. 11011 assembled, the Indian mode of coutt ihip and proposition of marrirge. We ere iold thai the young brave, after looking wr.ong the wigwams and deciding io which one his heart, or his interest, is de positrd. takes his flute and placing himself before ihe door, plays a tune. His serenade brings lorth the maiden squaws, who stand and 00k at ihe lover until he picks op s'irki and cast ihem towards the females, Jf ihey LUie girls, not the sticks smile and do tiling more ihe proposition is accepted. If not the sticks are cast back ihe brava ,-oes off with a flat refusal and plays his dole for the edification of some squaw wliu v 1 1 1 not throw his sticks back. This, iho nterptetcr who told the story, thinks, is a ntii h belter mode of courtsltip than ours. I'lii! white people,' says he,' court a year r mote and then separate which custom involves a loss of time and, to nne of lha mi lies, of heart also.' Why rsnnot our attain beaux and belles adopt the Indian mode with a litile refinement lo make it ii ized. Let the swajn p..y his guitar 'encath the laltico of his I idv If aim J - - - hrowg a wash baniii upon bis head lie rosy onsider himself discarded. If 0 A accep: .l. The Portland Bulletin w!s a good story if a certain good Deacon, whose hat blw iir and led him a long race aflei il through, he street" Al length the Deacon became exhausted in the race,snd pulled up against 1 posl by die sidewalk. A gentlemen came along, lo whom the Deacon sddresscd him sell thus; 'My friend, I am a Deacon, and 11 is very wrong lor roe 10 swear, you wi! nereiore greatly ob.tge me tf you just d q hat for me. MAYING IT LIGHT, An atiorney, about to furnjsb a bill of costs: was requeued by his rlient.a baker: to make it ss light ss posible.' 'Ah!' replied the atiorney , 'iliare what von racy say to your foreman; but it'a net he way I make my bread.' 'William,' said a ratpenter to his sppren ice, 'I'm going away to day and wint you o grind all toe tools.' 'Yer, nr Tha 'arpentei came home at night. William ha' you ground a'l the tools rigl.i sharp.' All but the handsaw,' said Bill: 'frovldn't get quite all the gpa out of ibn!'
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