The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1839-12-21
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ing come from Green Bay IN his own wa.
gon, the first person wno ever came through
in This manner. Nights lie camped GU. on
the prsiries.
A chap who was convicted in Deiroi, for
voting illegally, SAID he voted in four wards.
merely to ascertain if the law was the sans
III each.
The cars from Philadelphia arrived at
Baltimore few days ago, in i've hours and
three quarters, from CITY to city.
We learn from the Columbia Spy, tbat
The locomotive engines have begun 10 run
on that part OF the railroad whch has lust
been constructed with view 10 avoid the
inclined plain al Columbia.
A woman recently died in Italy, at the
advanced age Of l43. Her eighth husband
survived her.
The Mormons are holding protracled
meeting IN Chester county. They have
made about forty converts in that vicinity.
At Brockyie, Indiana, on the morning
OF the 25lh ul!. thermometer Stood at 2 de.
grees below zero.
Fourteen daily newspapers are published
in New Orleans.
Tile New Orleans Courier states that the
yield this year OF the sugar caue, in the bs-
you LaiOurche district, lS prodigIous--bs.
ing two or three hugsheads per acre.
The Bay State (Bosiop) Demociat thinks
that there will be democratic majority of
ten in the House of Representative oil the
Massachusetts Legislature.
James LnnI, aged Is, has been sentenced
al Portland, Maine, to five years in the pen
llentary, for attempting violence OIL girl
named Jane Trip.
The Western Statesman, published at
Marshal, Calhoun county, Michigan, saws,
the Indians i'll Western Michigan disappear
ed some six or eight weeks since, and, upon
inquiry, we leaIn that they are and always
have been dissatisfied with some of the
treaties made by the general government
respecting their reseryalIOns-that they will
YET have lheni-ihaI all the warriors have
taken their rifles and gone to Canada.
The lady of man in Massachusetts pre-
senIed her husband will: three little boys on
Thanksgiving day Hadn't lie reason 10 be
lhankiui there wasn't any more OF them.
There arrived at Cleveland, Ohio, dur.
ing the present season, by the way OF The
canal, / 81 5, 900 bushels VI wheat and 264,.
S42 barrels Ot flour.
The N. >. True American of the goth
ult. says, during the present week near
len thousand persons have arrived in our ci-
ty. In the same time, about twenty thOus-
aud bales OF cotton have been reIeived.-
! The consequence is great sur, but we are
afraid but little real business doing.
Orrn Derby, broker, and George Har.
| lin, have been bound over for trial, al Niles,
| Michigan, for coming Mexican dollars.
number had been arrested, and were under
examination, the bogus machine" was
found, and two oil the clllZens had fled.
A letter from New Haven states chat a
process has been commenced on the part OF
The u. S. Bank of Pennsylvania, against
the New York, Providence and Boston
Railroad Co. by way Of foreclosure OF the
mortgage held by the Bank. The defend
ants are required TO file their answer on or
| DelOIe llIS lSb VI JdHudlN y HChl'
1t is the law Of Georgia, that in case OF
divorce the innocent party only has the priv
ilege Of marrying again during the life time
Of both parties.
Two boys named Mobbs, near London,
have lately discovered themselves 10 be
worth S5,000,000, by The finding OF their
Ialher's will, which had been concealed by
the executors, who bound them out to shoe
makers, and never told them of their Tor
tune, Of which they were too young 10
know any thing, al the time of their fathers
death.
In the United States Senate there are ~
democrats; 0 federalisis; and vacancles'
one in each of the following states New
| York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Delaware
r and Michigan.
A fiat boat which recently arrived at Mo-
bile with ffy-two hogs and six hundred
turkeys, sunk at the wharf, and llius drown
,, ed the hopes of the inhabitants OF noble
Christmas feast.
A convention Of the democratic party OF
. Franklin county, Ohio, held at Columbus