The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1842-05-21
THE NEWS.

They are Dragging Of the receipt Of fine
fresh North River shad at Detroit 10 the
nearest point Of The Hudson, is about 700
miles.
This General Council Of the most i'm
por,ant Of the civilized tribes Of Indians, W as
10 assemble at the creek Council Ground
on the 9Th inst.
About seven hundred loafers. whisky sell
ers, e., have been removed from the
Cherokee couutry by the Indian agent.
A gentleman of Charleston had green
corn on his table on 30lh ult, grown in his
garden in that city.
Whiskey is in selling Cincinnati at tell cents
gallon Itis perfect drug in the market.
1t is said that the dice of the sun, for the
first time in is years is without spots.
Letters received at New Orleans;
states that 1000 Indians Of Liban tribe
supposed TO be engaged in Texan service,)
had beeu several days in the neigh
borhood Of Metamoras. They had killed
number of the Mexicans.
The Erie Pa.) Observer says, that nat
ural Gas Spring has been discovered on the
farm of Mr.. Stewart Chellis, in Harbor
Creek township, in that county. II is rep
resented to be very strong, and burns eqr al
to any artificial gas.
The Alexandra Gazette says: I'VE
continue to receive. from all the adjacenl
counties in Virginia and Maryland, the
most gratifying accounts Of the present ap
pearancs and prospect of the growing crops
The Iudian Cenireville Reporter say.
the wheat crops never looked better thar,
this season. There is twice the quantity
growing as in any former year,
Some of the Judges in hicago are adopt
ing the following rue:-'No Attorney shall
be heard in thisC Cour, whilst having cigar
iu his mouth
Through the whole country, especially in
The Southern States, the high how OF the
water course, and destruction of bridges
have been unparalleled during the season
just past. At some places in Alabama, Post
raos.--- have -eY.-.ed -friiu,us Tor month
together, all owing to high ,0aier and des
truction Of bridges,
Five thousand dozen Of eggs were re-.
Gently put up in barrels, St. Louis, Mo and
shipped for New Orleans They were
purchased in 81, Louis, a. five cents per
dezen.
A store and lot Of ground,2o by 100 feet,
a. the corner of Wilson'S Lane and Dock
Square, Boston, was sold on Monday for
The SUN Of fifteen thousand eight hundred
dollars nearly eighty dollars per square
foet'
Nothing sets up woman's spunk like
calling her ugly--she gets her back up
like cat when a strange dog comes near
her, she is all eyes. claws and bristles,
Prince Frederick, son of the Arch Duke
Charles, of Austria. is about TO visit the
United States.
With regard 10 the use of Tobacco. in
France, the Paris correspondent Of the
Madsonian writes as folows:-'To give
you an idea of how the French smoke and
snuff, (they don't chew, i mention that the
annual receipts from the government mon
oply of the manufacture and sale of tobacco
amount TO 65 millions of france
The number of petitioners for the benefit
Of the Bankrupt Act in New York in April
was one hundred and twenty one. Whole
number from the commencement, fifteen
hundred and three
j. E. Tayler, President of the Branch
Bank Of the State of Georgia,and formerly
Mayor of Macon, absconded some time ago
under the charge of embezzling a large sum
of the money Of the Bank, whchhe had but
recently sworn 10 BE safe in its vaults. The