The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1839-07-13
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT.
lB11OOZlSIBUDG 8
SATURDAY; JULY I3, 1880.
appointments by the GoUernor.

cA AOAbOA OG Ids lS1Ds
appointments by the GoUerRor.
Be'9anai7 Patton, ir.Esq. President Judge
Of the 9th Judicial District, consisting of
the county of Allegheny; in place of r.
B. Dallas, resigned.
James N. Porter, Esq. President Judge of
the 18th Judicial District, composed of
the counties of Dauphin, Lebanon and
Schuylkill, in the place of Calvin Blythe,
resigned.
John z. Smith, Esq. of Btrks county, In
spector of flour in Philadelphia, in the
place of George Smith, resigned.
Benjamin Champneys Esq. to be Pres
iden Judge of the second judicial district
consisting of the county of Lancaster, in
the place of OriStus Collins, REMOVED
by the Supreme Court.
HszEssvE-aSgxzz7gs.
A right feeling is beginning to be felt
and expressed, among all classes of people,
in opposition to the increase of bank char.
ters. Indeed, so general has it become,
that even the wings find themselves COM
PEELED to follow the wake of popular opin-
ion, and acknowledge that we have already
more banks in existence, than is necessary
for the solid and substantial business of the
country and we should not be surprised if
they found it necessary 10 come out in favor
of the special deposit system before the next
Presidential election. As an evidence OF
the change of opinion among the wings up
on the subject, we copy the following ar!i-
Gle from the Bucks County Intelligencer,"
the leading Wing paper of that county. 1t
contains truths that every elector should
ponder upon, especially at this time when
charters for two Shaving Shops are asked
for TO be located in this county, and severaI
others in the adjoining counties.
SPECULATION.
"There is. no speculation in those eyes,
which thou dost glare with" said Macbeth
to the Ghost of Banque; but that was in old
times, long before Bank Stock was run after
or the MUrus Multicaulis fever RACED.
Whether it would be correct to tell even a
Ghost such things now might perhaps adj
NIT OF an argument. There is in these
"latter days" blind speculation abroad
that dashes into every bubble as it rises for
moment to the surface, however evane-
scent may be lis nature. Man is naturally
an anti-hard-work animal, and we are all
too ready to embark heedlessly in some pa
tent laboI-savlng scheme, newly invented
for getting rich. The old-fashloned way
OF acquiring wealth, by industry, temper
ance and economy, is despised, in these
modern days of new inventions. Every
thing must be done at blow-every thing
must 60 by steam. The road to riches
must be rail road or no one will make an
effort to reach the place of destination. The
| consequences we have before our eyes, in
the disasters that are continually happening
around us, and shaking the community 10
its centre. Yet we will not learn wisdom;
but take fresh start after the next ignis
latuus that shows itself. We have dailv
proofs of the creduity Of the public, and
| VI ITO DltICi llhltos III lllS SuCCGSSIVe eXDlO
sions that are taking place throughout the
country among the Banking Institutions OF
the day. Scarcely has the excitement
caused by one blow up subsidized, before an
other follows suit. One dav we hold a
note of an Institution, whose promises to
pay are considered as good as gold and
on the next perhaps it becomes so much
waste paper. A few individuals associate
together for the purpose of specializing, and
it generally happens, that banking powers
are resorled TO for eiectng the object-that
is, to enrich the spectators. BoIers are
forthwith sent to the seat of Government
to gouge an act of incorporation out of the
Legislature. Ii succeeds, and the bubbles
rises to view beautiful as dream and bright
as the tints of hope can make it. Like a
floating island, it emerges at once from no.
thing, TO be firm foundation whereon to
build the superstructure of fortune and
wealth. The capital stock is capitaI Joke
formidable indeed on paper; but visible
perhaps no where else. Bauk notes are is
sued without stint-the land is filled with
| what seems To be money. and evarVv ono