Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1837-09-23

and the way Eel, good wamt slow, tel youw
Boo, ror, rori--Since the departure Of Col.
Claiborne Coz Washington city, Il seems thas exc
" opposition editor IN Missisrippi, haze LEI hose
the Aoodgates Of abuse upon hun. Barking
dogs never bite'-- Grand Gulf .ldre,fissr.
The ray things are done in Eaglaad.--Wo
transcribe The following from late. Loudon pa
per:
MATRIMONIAL ALLiASeE.--A married gen.
tleman of the highest responsibility and connex-
ions, has opened two establishments at some dis
lance from each other called the "Alairimoniai
AlIance"--one of which is conducted by him.
self 10 give interviews to gentlemen, ana the
other by his wife, for the saole purpose, exc.u-
slyely for ladies'.
Sail in .Miehigdn.--We learn iiom the De-
troa Free Press, that the manufacture of sail,
Of good quality, has been commenced al a Ss.
line Spring, on the Maple river, about ten miles
above ITS mouth
Resumption Of Specie Payment n Y.
Journal Of Commerce says The Manhattan
Banks has resumed specie payment in part, or
rather gives out specie more freely than before.
II pays five dollar notes, and halt OF ten dol.aE
notes in specie, sc. Sc.
Dehcaty.--We have & volume before us,
written by an instructor, who says at is 4 deli
cate affair for young school-master 10 fog
young lady ,rho is Just 'riading up icsi."
The Boston Posi-, dunuing subscriber on O
bill Of tArcc years, received the following an.
swer
mo moncy--cun't pny--will pay in work
WHEN IN Boston-faed long time ago
thought you'd heard Of i IAN real type stick
er-any demands in that line l--Bcuer stop the
paper--cOn't pay tho postage"
Single blesscdnsss, are 72,o0o IN
married females in the city Of New York, torig
thousand ofwhom are over sixteen years os age
Fry unpleasant After eating hearty SUP.
per, TO take nap, and fancy ones self mud
turtle that had got on Its back aud could hot
turn over.
a good u.-- The Boston Post tells thcfo-
lowing allow do YOU like Crabbc's Tale r.
said oyc-makng swain 70 his dulcinea, ono eve.
nIng after finishing "'rales Of the Ilallr'---
"Nhy," she answered, III never cats any GRAF
tails, but am 'mnzlngy fond Of roasted hog iails'
Shade Of the departed One Of the couutsY
papers gives an account Of "a lounger in its edltc-
rial office, who had been in the habit Of sitting
there SO long, that when he died his shadow Was
found fixed upon the wall
An ARRAY took place in front of the Post OF
| fee, at Camden. South Carolina, On the 9TH ms
between MIR. Bronson, one Of the proprictors Of
the Camden Journal, aud Eldndge Brown, %
changed ut about ii'c PAGES, and The latter vas
killed on the spot.
Two thousand eight hundred bushels Of corn,
and five hundred Of oats, says the Wilmington
IN. c. ,3dreriisc, have been brought TO our
market from the Eastern counties, within few
days. The corn is sold at 81 70, and the oats
at IS cents per busbel.
It's stated that 1909 steam engines, to the
total power of 22.500 horses ale now at work
IN France, exclusive Of those on board Steam
boats. These engines are at work an average
Of l6 hours out Of tie "a, thus performing tho
daily work Of 450,00 laborels.
The N. Y, DAILY Express Of the illh inst,
says-"Our city beglns for about the first time
this season. TO be thropgcd with stiangers.--
The hotels now begin to show full tables. and
Broadway is fulI Of new faces. The visitors,
however are rather lookers-on than doeys in
Venice.
Earihquakc.--A shock Of on earthquake was
sonsbly Eel, in this place, on the evening Of tho
9Th inst at about ~ minutes past O'Clock II
was preceded by a~repon resembling distant
cannon, in a North Western direction. The i'm
preston is that the shock was much more Sc.
we're in the Fan Wesi.--F'orercc Ga-eHc.
.Murdcr.-Some time during the week pre-
vloui to the late election, an alteration occur
red between Austin Doddy aud Mr. Day, near
IL GIL, do ,t
which Doddy inflicted a blow upon the head Of
Day, which immediately caused his death Dod
I dy has thus far eyaded pursu-.Norg. 0bs.
Schoolnaster mantcd--Thc following is q
literal copy Of letter lately sent 10 medica
gentlemen: Ger. Yoc obIige If Joe kom TN
: me hey Bad kon IN Hin in my Bow HI
and hey lost my Happy Tight.
Il Disgusting erhibiiioa.--T proprietor Of
n western museum at Cincinnati, announces tn
}. the dead body Of Matthias Hoover, the murderel
who was recently executed ut that place. ha
been obtained and will be exhibited publicly. -
n Philadelphia Gazette.
.qrkaasas.-The Governor Of this State la
It issued his proclamation, conyening the Lcgisla
il ture on the hrst Monday in November lie as
J. signs as reason for this step that the State tau
d es are greater than necessary for the support ,
if government, and that the royisers OF the law "
m be ready to report by the time designated IN b
Of proclamation
Prices Of The "oiden tmes."--'Tho New 70,
,e Erpress states that in the year 1871, three Oft
v lots on which the Astor House now stands, VIC
iy bought al two hundred aud fifty dollars each
t. and few years earlier, any Of the land abe
n, the Park might have been bought ut about thu
h. hundred dollars per acre.
- The Virginia Springs.-Thero are about Al