The Columbian fountain., 1846-07-16
NEWS ITE MS.
What is It but Map of busy life,
Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns p CotopsT

its nuctuauons, ana ITS vast concerns 'S SoeoPs'.
METHODIST PRoTEsTANT CHURoH.-Ihe
SLaUs Question. I'm consequence ol me aclion
of the late General Conference OF the Metho-
dist Protestant Church, on the slave question,
10 number of the members OF the Cincinna.i,
Batavia and Buford circuits, held conven-
ton on the 2Oth ult., at which resolutions
were unanimously adopted, disappearing the
action of the conference on SAID question; re-
| commenting to the quarterly conference OF
the several circuits and stations of the Ohio
! annual conference TO take into consideration
the propriety Of Withdrawing fellowship from
| the slave holding portion of the church, and
of instructing the delegates to the next annual
conlererence accordingly. They also resolved
tLat in case the Ohio conference refused to
withdraw, they should withdraw themselves.
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KILLING OFF THE DRUNLARDs. .---Deaths by
ntoxlcation or intemperance are more common
this season than we ever remember to have no
tced before II is probably owing 10 the bad
quality Of the liquor sold by most dealers, be
ing nothing than the poisonous alcohol itself,
favored or colored 10 represent the genuine ar
lcles; or it may be owing to the new license
laws, which prohibit the sale Of liquor IN small
quantities, and thus compel drunkards 10 carry
home more than enough to kill them.-N Y.
Sun.
TEMPERANCE MEETIaG-A very interesting
Temperance meeting was held in Parrot's
Woods Oh Sunday afternoon, which was at
tended by numerous and highly respectable
congregation OF our citizens. Rev. Henry Sill
Ger addressed the assembly as did Dr. Walsh
Of Washington, in effective style, in defence Of
the principles Of total abstinence. Mr.. Wm
Edes also, in extending the pledge to those
present, accompanied The act with brief ex-
hortation-Geo .adpocate
SPLENDID METEoR.-The Baltimore Patriot
of Tuesday, says:
A large and very brilliant meteor passed
a,hWart the heavens over our city last night,
from southwest to north east. Its light for
the moment was powerful. An unsual mum
Der OF shooting stars as they are termed, was
also observed during the nighY
The .sNews," published at Fairfax Court
House, (Va.) states that there are large num-
Der Of persons from the Northern States, now
in that country, looking for locations 10 suit
them. Four farms, Of 200 acres each, had
been sold to them.
PIN MAKING.-A London paper says that
a new machine for The making Of pins has
Just been completed. 1t is>called sThe Regi-
na." Strings Of wire enter it upon, the one
side by thousands, and almost Immediately ap
pear at the other, as pins in the most perfect
| form, terallally headed and pointed 10 de-
gree Of perfection defying microscope power
to detect fault in shape and finish. The
sticking Of the pins into the paper is likewise
completed by the same machinery in an in
credlbly regular and rapid order
"PosTIvFLY SHocKING"-T village OF
Hampstead Branch has lately had its morals
dreadfully shocked by the conduct of two mar,
ried women, named Flowers and Jones, who
eoped from their husbands on Thursday last,
with two Lotharios, named Huestis and Hud
son, and went into private lodgings somewhere
in this city. The husbands followed them,
but we believe did not discover their hiding
place Mrs. Flowers is only Is, and has been
three years married. and Mrs. Jones is "a.
They are said TO be exceedingly pretty women.
~ Y Mirror.
DAILY PAPERS IN VILLAGEs.-An ambitious
movement has been made, praiseworthy in It's
enterprise, 10 establish daily papers in villages
Some have succeeded, but several have failed.
| The Catskill Messenger tried the experiment
| OF issuing paper twice week. but was COM
PEELED TO fall back upon the weekly.-.N York
| Sum-
AccIpENr.-One Of the crew of the steamer
James l.. Day, at Mobile, had his arm blown
off by the accidental discharge of cannon
which he was loading, to fire salute, on the
4th.
CRoPs.-All over the world the crops pro-
mise abundance In this country. our crops
will be double the usual amount, and il is said
that wheat in the extreme west will be sold al
80 cents per bushel, and other kinds of grain
in the same proportions! w Y. Sun.
REvoLUNIoNARY SOLDIER GoNE.-Pres-
colt Bush, native of South Carolina, and
soldier of the Revolution, for whom the Legis
lature of this State made a special provision al
its last session, that he should receive his pen
sion by his attorney, died on the 23d uIt, aged
90 years, at Stewart co. Georgia.
SHOCKING The Cherokee Advocates SAYS
that Ton Starr and Two other men lately wenl
to the house of an old man named Babridge,
killed him and a Cherokee named Sides, and
then kidnapped their slaves.
L. |. Foster, young student of Medicine,
committed suicide at Columbia, Tenn, on the
39lh ult. His uncle and father a short time
before had killed lhemseles.
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HEALTHY-There were but two deaths in
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