The Columbian fountain., 1846-03-05


ca Wild pe popular u England, and adds:
he middle class regard the mighty trans
atlantic Republic not only with admiration.
but with pride. Is a.magnifcent demonstra-
tion ofthe progressive energy and self-govern-
ing power Of their own victorious race"
DEATH OF JERSEY BLuEs.-The New Jer-
sey papers announce the deaths oftwo more
veterans OF the Revolution -AbJah Harrison,
aged 96, and jeremiah Howell, in his 99th
year. AhM bF
GREAT LAND SALEs.--Gerrl Smith, OF Pc
tersborough, (N. Y. offers to sell his immense
landed property at auction, in the months Of
June, July, and August next. The lands lie
in forty-fye Of the ffty-nine counties OF the
State of New York, and comprise about $50,
600 acres. The auction will be held at fifteen
different places, on as many different days.
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BRITIsH VESSELS FOR THE CoLUMBIA RIVER.
The Glasgow Courier mentions report that
the British ship "America," SO guns, com.
John Gordon, with a,steamer and brig, had
I been dispatched by Rear Admiral Sir George
Seymour 10 the Columbia River, Oregon; and
the ship Grampus was about to be sent there
j Immediately on the alteration Of her magazine.
a Later accounts from New Orleans say that
thirty liyes-twice the number formerly stated
were lost by the collision Of the Congress
and .Saladin. The report ofthe latter boat says
that about fifteen or twenty deck hands and
fremen were drowned, end about ten badly
scalded All who were scalded were taken to
Vicksburg and placed in the hospital there.
MIR. David Hall, first engineer, and two fire.
men Of the Congress, died on their arrival at
Vicksburg.
MR. Editor: In looking over the advertise
ments in your truly good paper the other day,
which informs us, amongst other arrangements
of the College,that there is a "Church and
Bible class on the Sabbath" and that great at
tention is paid to the morals of the students |
have not seen in the advertisements Of any Of
our Colleges, that they have Total Absti-
nence Society connected with them. Perhaps
they consider it too small a matter to notice.
! can assure them that many parents would re-
joice to know that they had society of the
kind connected with their college, and that all
the professors were practical teetotallers; for
parents begin to find out that where the profess
sors Of colleges are wine bibbers and brandy
tipplers, that although they have no particular
chair appropriated 10 drunkenness, yet they
graduate more drunkards than of any other
science. know one or two colleges, not one
hundred miles from this, where the professors
drink their beer, wine, and brandy, and one
half their graduates die drunkards. Can it be
otherwise Professors may preach, and lecture
their students on the subject, but ifthey set the
example themselves, and on the 4th OF July,
Commencement day, Washington's birthday,
and other days, give dinners 10 which they in
vi,e the learned and wise of the land, and fur
nish intoxicating liquors, (call it the juice Of
the grape if you please, it always has brandy
enough in it 10 produce intoxication,) and
these learned and wise characters add their
sanction to the practice of drinking and drunk
enness, in the presence Of the students, de-
pend upon it,, many Of them will follow the
example Get them, and become drunkards.
Let the professors of colleges look 10 this thing.
The people are waking up to the true interest
of their sons, and and would sooner have them
but halfeducated, than run the risk of having
them made drunkards. A. FATHER.