The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1840-01-11


portef,) For the information of our friends
at distance, that the banks Of Philadelphia
are about to resume. No time however,
as yet, has been agreed upon. They, Of
course, discount very little, and yet money
cannot be said 10 be in very great des
mand.
A joint resolution has been introduced
into and passed by the Lower House Of
the Tennessee Legislature, to compel
the banks 10 resume specie payments FORTH
with.
The mormons, having been driven from
Missouri, have settled in Illinois on a tract
Of land which they have purchased at tho
head of the Des Moine rapids Of the Mis-
sissippi. They have laid ont town which
is called Nauvoo. A deputation of three
persons Of their fraternity has been des-
patched 10 Washington to petition Con-
gress for relief on account of losses expert
enced by the Missouri tronbles. PerSecu-
tiOn in their case has had its usual effect in
strengthening those who are its victims.
The mormon sect has increased largely;
and i! is said that many families Of respect
obility and influence in the adjoining coun-
ties have united themselves with this new
denomination.
A female is now living in Roxbury,
Mass, at the age of 70, who has spent the
whole Of her life there, and never had the
curiosity TO visit Boston OF 10 approach it
nearer than the view which is afforded at
the top of Parker's Hill, near the foot Of
| which, in the house Of the late Gen. Will
| lam Heath and his defendants, she had re-
sided as domestic since the age Of seven.
A horned frog IS stated to have been
brought from Fort Towson, by Lieut.. Will
| lott Martin, of the Sd infantry, as a present
from All officer stationed there, to Col. Hook
of Washington. The BODY resembles that Of
frog, and is about the same size, but the
skin is like that of the lizard-scaly-an
has tail half as long as the body, tapering
10 point.
In New Orleans, it is the custom to farm
out the markets annually. The beef mar
ket of that city has been rented for the pres
year for $54, 900, being $3l00 more than
last year, and the vegetable market for the
same period for $4,000, being an advance
of S2700.
Twelve hundred passengers arrived a.
Texas in three days, with the intention Of
settling permanently in that country. 1t is
estimated that thirty thousand emgrants
have arrived at Galveston alone. during tho
past season.
Among the Chartist prisoners recently
arrested in Wales, was an American, who
is said TO be qaack doctor, called Israel,
and who was thought TO be deeply concern
ed in the reasonable plot TO overturn the es-
taplished institutions Of the country. He
is ninety-thieeF Fears old, and is a remarka-
bic shrewd mand
The bank Of Wisconsin is " done" On
the 2d inst, the Sheriff Of Green Bay took
the keys and sent the cashier, clerks and
all, about their business. Cause, The in
ability or unwilingness to cash $500 OF
their issues.
Ten thousand hogs were for sale in Co.
iumbus county, Indiana, on the llth inst.
1000 only had been sold, and they at So Sc
to SO tao hundred, nett. No advance ex.
pecied on these prices.
The condition of society in Portugal,
particularly in the large city Lisbon, mus,
be dreadful indeed. From an official re.
. turn published in the Diario, it appears that
! during the months of April, May and June,
OF 1899, 2779 crimes were known TO have
been committed in Lisbon, Of which 33G
! were assassinations. During the three fol
i lowing months, there were l70 assassina
. lions.
A bill 10 provide against the suspension
d by the Banks Of South Carolina, is before
c the Legislature of that State. 1t provides
for the payment of seven per cent, inter
est by the suspended bank, on The whole a
:, mount of notes in circulation, monthly state
:, ments of its condition, and forfeiture O
9 charter for refusing compliance with tn
provisions of the bill.