Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1838-04-28

community VITA le-aed arrangements tor d1i0r
what Is never to he done ul M.. Bitd1's bank /,
adopted by the government
\ part Of ihc French squadron has sailed from
Vera Cruz; destination unknown. The British
packet Lord Melville, sailed from Vera Cruz .or
England with upwards - 100000 in specie.
The Brush naval commander IN the Pacific
has got INTO some difficulties with the CHILEAN 70
yernment touching the extent to which blockades
can be enforced on neutral commerce.
THE senate Of Michigan have by unanimous
resolution, voted their thanks to Cen Scott lor
his prompt and energetic conduct in preserving
peace on the the frontier, and sustaining the neu
trallty Of the United States during the late Cana
dian troubles.
When the 0Phclia snagced and sunk 10 or Il
miles this side Of Tuscaloosa, negro man be-
longing 10 the captain was drowned. 4 large
portion OF The cargo of the Ophela was salt,
which will Of course be lost. We understand
that this boat had been thoroughly repaired during
the last lll, and that tins was her first TIP from
Mobile ths season, Exertious are making
to raise the boat, and we hope they viii be sue
| cessiul.
The remaas of MAJOR Nuns Jemison, who
fell in the battle of Clonotosassa, in Florida,
have been dislnerred and carried to Tuscaloosa.
The Raleigh Register says that the state
House, in the course OF erection in that city, is
progressing with rapidity. 1t is to be magnf-
cent edilice, SSS0,000 having been already ex-
pended on ii and some thirty or forty thousand
doIla;s more being required TO complete it.
The steamboat l.clorc, sunk few days since
just below Fort Games, her way to Columbus
This is the first accident Of Importance that has
occurred on the Chattahoyche this season.
Mobile Adr.
There are three Race Courses in N. Orleans
the Eclipse, the Metauc, and the Louisiana
There is Race Course at Veasco, (Texas)
and another about being established about six
miles from tina, place, on the plantation Of Col W..
A. Wharton.
For Cleaning Bedsicads. -ScaH with boiling
vinegar and brush over with this mixture, II pint
of achohol do spirits Of turpentne and half an
ounce Of camphor mixed together. This, if thor
oughly performed, is pronounced mialIblo-" not
a bug will ever appear in the house again, unless
brought in other bedsteads.'
Great excitement prevails at Cincinnati on the
subject of coffee houses. A powerful combna
ton has been formed oput them down by ON
impotence of the ballot box, In Consequence
the newspapers are teemng with the subject
and several public meetings have been held and
spirited resolutions passed.
A girl in Salem, wac was about to gei married
for fear she should not be as successful as her
mother had been at pulling halr with her husband
-practced so much upon her own head, that
when she appeared before the bridal altar, she
was as badheaded as fighting cock.
TINE Millions q money for an inch Of
Tine was the cry of Queen Elizabeth when she
lay on her dcarh bed What a warning TO those
who dare waste hours Of their precious existence.
MoDEsrY,--" | can't speak in publc--neyer
done such thing in all my life SAID chap the
other night at public meeting, who had been
called upon to hold forth, but if any body in
the crowd VIII speak for me, III hold his hot.'
N. 0. PieGyme.
The young ladies' Of Kenncbunk eat India
rubber to make them dance light--ib.
EARLY DIsADvAHTAGEs.
II learned grammar says William Goblet,
"When was private soldier on the pay Of six
pence day. The edge"of my berth, Or that Of
my guard bed, was my seat to study in; my knaP.
sack was my book case, and Bit Of board lying
in my lap was my writing table. had no money
to purchase candles or oil IN winter time it was
rarely that conld get any light but that of the
fire; aud only my turn even at that. To buy a
pen or sheet Of paper, was compelled to fore
90 some portion Of my food, though in state of
half starvation. had no moment Of time that
could call my own; and had to read and write
amidst the talking, laughing, singing, whIstng,
and bawling Of at least half a score Of the most
Of men, and that too in the hours Of
their freedom from all control. And say if l.,
under circumstances like these, could encounter
and overcome the task, is there, can there be in
the whole world, youth who can find an excuse
for the nonperformancel"