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The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05
Morgan Hncbman, as UTtns,.

The SpuU of hs Times, of last Thursday
says, Morgan liinchnan was called, in the Dis.
u'ct Courts as witness to testify in relation to
certain property 10 which he had acted as the
'criyener. He gave his testimony with clearness
and precision, though, as is his usual manner,
with rapid articulation We opine the jury, on
lhat account, did not think hin insane. He was
dressed somewhat after the fashion Of the gay
Quakcrs
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05
Coming Elections.

Coming events cast their Shadows before"
-CampbeR
The election tor members Of the State LOgi'la-
hue s drawing near. The time for nominating
Ipa Candidates will soon he at hand The position
la which the Democratic Party were placed last
winter, Is sufficient 10 warn .hc Democracy 10 he
more upon their guard All those measures for
which We had been striving upon principle, were
nearly sacrificed to tupineness and loe.rolline
legislation There are a number Of election. for
Senators this fall, enough to change the com.
plexion Of that honorable body.
Ifthe people viii only ri'e upintheir strength,
,he country viii he in no danger Democrats, dp
you forget during the wiater, how tremblipgly
YOU watched the proceedings Of your servants at
Harrisburg, lesi they should trampe under foo,
the teachings Of our lansnod Skunk VIII you
nv. COW when you have the power and opror.
tunitv to compo'c this body that all your jner'qt.
will be safs in lbeIr hand.
The first point" .#riug attention is the selec
ton Of good, trge, honest and radical Democrats
Let them he men upon whom we can all urjle
For old Columbia County we do not fear. VII
oar Brethren throughot the State, profit by III,
lesson of last fall and winter, aud prevent by Il ell
votes the recurrence OF aucb another catasuophe'
nt The Legislature OF Massachusetts has p1's
ed law allowing married woman divorced IRON
lhsir husbands, to re.ume their maiden name.
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05
Taylor vs.. Washington.

The promise of the President to follow in the
footsteps oithe earlier Presidents, and the asser-
tions of his party friends, that he was as like
Washington as could be, are remembered by all
our readers.-We cannot show up the course OF
the present administration in a stronger light
nor expose the holIow.heared rasc aliy Of Tay-
lor and his Cabinet advisers, than BY tie inscr-
ton of the following anecdote Of Gen. Washing.
ton, taken from the columbus (MississippD
Democrat"
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05
.E'OlUntCer Election.

Capt EVANS R. BRADY, Editor Of the B,Odh'
vRLc Jf,rSonian, il a candidate for the Office Of
brigade Inspector in the Jetfersonian Brigade, at
the ensuing Septenne Election to he held on the
First Monday Of June. Capt. Brddy, isawOrthy
man and a brave soldier. We heartily wish him
success and doubt not, he will make as gallant an
Obcer, az. he is an able democratic Editor
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05
Chief ExeCutiOner.

A man be the name of FITz HENRY
WARREN, who run away from his creitors
in one of the Yankee States, and settled
down in dark spot among the Indians of a
Western State, is said to be the Chief Ex-
ecutioner at Washington. He is reported
tobe an expert hand in severing democratic
heads, and has conscience as long and re-
lentless as Danton's or Robespierre's of
French notoriety. Their day of joy will
he of but short duration. Justice will soon
over;ake such chaps.
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05
The S3OO Exemption Law.

Among the most important Acts passed
by the Legislature of this State, the Potts
vile Emporium says, is that exempting
from levy and sale on execution, properly
to the amount OF Three Hpndrcd Dollars
1t is humane, iust IN Its object, an4 cannot
but have Z eantsrl cfCr..
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05

r The following beautiful line, were
written by Lord Littleton, in l746, as al
inscription on monument erected by him
in memory of his wife. The monumen
stands in the church of Haglcy:
Made to engage all hearts, and charm all eyes;
Tho meek, magnanimous; tho witty, wise;
Polite, 81 all her life in courts had been;
Yet good as she the world had never seen:
The noble fire Of an exalted mind,
With gentlest female tenderness combind
Her speech was the molodiouS voice oilove
He, song the warblng Of the vernal grove;
Her eloouence was sweeter than her song,
Soft as her heart, and as her reason strong
Her form each beauty Of her mind expressed,
Her miud was virtue by the graces drees'd.
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05

MouRvrUL.-Tbe M,Hcy Ltnlmdyy, Of last
week, published by GEo L., j. PAINTER, ESQ.,
is clothed ia the habilaments Of mourning, over
the decease Of his excellent and amiable LAZY,
late citizen of Bloomsbury, whose death we an
uounc,d fortnight sIRcc,
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05

49, The York and Cumberland Valley
Railroad, to run from York to Harrisburg,
Is to be put under contract Immediately and
the work will be pushed to completion
with all the energy and despatch in the
power Of tho company.
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05

improvements, A, walk round town will crafty
and much astonish the observer at tho uReIamPled
progress of our local improvements. Buildings
are everywhere going up. We repeat the opinion
heretofore expressed, that Bloomsbury u i'm
proving with greater rapidity than any other vii.
lage in the North
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05

AN HONORABLE ERRoR.--In our paper Of last
week, by arrangement Of the types, we we're
made To say "aoRoM6ie," !" instead Of humble.
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05

T Specie is flowing into New York
from the West in considerable amounts.
The receipts are not less than half mil
lion per week. A large proportion of this
specie is foreign coin, including considera'
Bile silver.
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05
The News by the Cambria
a brCiG abstract

The foreign intelligence by The steamer Cam
bria is one week later, with London dates 10 The
18th, and Liverpool to the IAN, flouF mao
advanced. Ohio was selling at 2i' ga, 10 2's' --'
Phiadeldhia and Baltimore 2ls, The cotton
market was dull, and further decline from 81
to ID, per H. had been experienced. CohsoI'
62t England was quiet, but the prospect %
revival OF trade was not so halerIng. lhe ac'
counts of poverty and starvation in Ireland are
most deplorable. The death of Dr. Croly, by
cholera, is announced France was busy, prePa-
ring for her elections The troops in Paris were
suffering 81 dly from cholera. Count Monemo-
lin, the Spanish Pretender, had been betrayed
by peasant, and arrested by the authorities
A body of25O Londoners recently arrived at Par
is, on visit to the National Guard. Changer.
nier and Cayaignac are to be compimented with
| the grand Gordon of the Legion OF Honor
The people have gained triumph in Genoa,
and Tuscany is preparing to resist The encroach-
ments of Austria, Rome was quiet, though un-
settle, The pope was still al Gaea The town
of Brcscia has been captured by the Austrians
after great slaughterby the inhabitants. Genoa
had been bombarded End set on fire, but at the
last accounts, an armislice had been daclared,
with view to an arrangement Palermo and
! Venice were under blockade, the former by the
Neapolitans, and the latter by the AuStrians. A
Ssngunary battle had taken place in Catalonia
in which two generals were killed. A Danish
feet, in attempting to capture the fortress OF
Eckernford on the 5th inst, were utterly deea.
ted and line Of battle ship and lrigate lell in
| TO the hands of the former commander. The
line of battle ship grounded, and, taking fire.
exploded with 100 on board The King of Prussia
! has refused the imperial crown of Germany -
! The report of the defeat Of General BEN by the
| Russians, is contradictcd These are among the
prominent items, They seem quite enough for
one week The Old World, it is clear, is YET
undergoing the throes and spaSm OF re'olu
| tiOn.
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05

s~p The gold fever has reached Hond-
uras, and among those SLED is the son Of
the British Consul,
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05

rp The Siamese Twins, who have
been living some years with their wives
and children in North Carolina, are about
to emback for Europe, with view to con-
suit the most eminent surgeons on the prac-
ticability of an operation to divide the
ligament that binds them together.
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05
SATURDAY MORN, MAY 3, ls49.

Qq-V. B, PALMER, corner of Third and Ches-
mt Street, is an authorized agent for the CoLUM-
ETA DeMncp At, in Philadelphia.
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05

Knowledge under Difficulties. In the
far West printing paper is so scarce, that
newspapers are printed on pocket kand-
kerche(s. When subscribers get through
reading one number Of a publication. they
wash the rag and send it to the printer TO
be printed on for the next. A cOtempory
says, that he would not like to have his
writings sneezed at in this manner, and
that the sheet should be called the Nasal
Organ. We coincide entirely.
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05

Mrs. John Quincy Adam'.-We regret
to learn from the Washington papers that
the venerable relic of the younger Presld-
ent Adams still lies in a critical state at the
house of Mrs. Frey, in the Seven Build.
ings, where, two weeks ago, she was pros
trated by paralytic stroke. The left side
is said to be entirely dead. On Monday
she was somewhat easier in condition than
previouly, but cannot be removed to her
own house,
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05

CABINET DAYS, the Washington Wing
says, have been changed to Mondays, We'd
nesdays, and Fridays.
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05

Evlti, thought by farmers in Michigan
that the opening Of Spring finds the wheat
in poorer condition than it has been for
many years.
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05

o. The Legislature Of Massachusetts, has pass
ell law allowing married Woman divorced from
lhsir husbands, to re.ume their maiden nance
The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05

Som. things can be done as we'll as others
Robin Hood, the celebrated English Robber used
to divide among the poor, what he stole from the
rich. Rob Roy used to say
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-04-27

OF Those who wish to know how one
Free Soil editor can speak Of another, and
would learn something of the harmony exist
ing in the ranks Of that infant party. can read
the following Article from the "Ohio STAR:
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-04-27

follow the lead Of so weak, shallow and
foolish a person as the unfortunate editor
of the True Democrat has proved him
self to be, it will be when we have for.
gotten our manhood.
A Western Reserve Convention is de-
sirable-but the month of May in our APP
prehension is too early TO call it,. The
editor Of the True Democrat, with his
usual lack Of sense, wants to call a con.
vcntion in Nav, and another in June =
This is impracticable-bu this city bag
atellc thinks the farmers Of the Reserve
can run monthly into Cleveland, at his
beck.
The Free Democracy Of Portage. in
county convention assembled on the 29,h
ult., modeslIy recommended that Il Yves.
tern Reserve convention be held at
Cleveland in June mex not assuming,
like the s~elt-imporlaut and potent editor
Of the Democrat, to name Il day and is
sue a positive call. This. recommends.
ZION of the Portage county convention,
we know, meets the appreciation of Mr..
Giddings. and other Free Sellers. We
should rejoice TO have such a convention
held. Called under proper auSpicies, it
would be profitable.
We hope the truc Free Sellers Of Guy
ahoga county, will see to this matter
They are central and can appropriately
move in the premises, and can issue a
noiicet that will command confidence and
respect, and that will bring out good men
and true of the Reserve. who do not wish
TO be dupcd by anonymous, decoy no.
tees, issued by unauthorized, ~irresponsi-
bic, bastard Free Sellers.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-04-27
A new way TO Pay old Debts.

4 correspondent of The Memphis
(Tenn.) Enquirer recommends the sus-
pension of the laws for the collection Of
debts due Northern merchants, as Il
means of checking abolition encroach-
menls and preserving the Union from
dissolution! In reply TO the moral OBJ
%jeclions justly urged against This PROPOSE
ton, he says:
"a full answer 10 this is found in the
fact that commercial pressure has always
been held sufficient 10 justify the same
suspension without The Subsection of its
authors or benehciaries 10 imputalions of
dishonesty. If The purely financial mo.
tive of relieving pecuniary embarrass-
menl has justified stay Iaws in the past,
| confess my inability TO understand the
process Of reasoning by which it is pro-.
posed TO establish The dishonesty Of The
same laws nOw when Il higher object, viz:
The preservation Of The union, is the end
sought"
The Louisville Journal says it shall
by no means be surprised TO see this plan
of preserving the Union, by refusing 10
pay debts due honest men at The Nor.h,
pretty extensively adopted by the pinks
of Southern chivalry. Bui the Journal
adds that il is rather apprehensiye that
the non-paymenl ofdebls will soon come
to be regarded by these fellows as a pana-
cea-a remedy for all present ills and a
preventative Of all in the future.
DEATH OF A PRINCE IN 4 W~oRKHoUsE.--
The Liverpool papers announce that on
the 18Th of March, in the workhouse Of
st. Georges, in the East, died LOUIS
%CnRIsToPHE, the Soi-diSaH Prince OF
Hayri,
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-04-27

There seems to be a notion prevalent Of
late among Southern people that every Northi
ern minister is an AboIitionist. They better
understand there the requirements OF ChrIs-
tianity than the character of its teachers, Tor
the fear OF the SHAREHOLDERS, as 10 what these
teachers are, beirays their consciousness ot
what they ought to be. We have no doubt,
il the truth could be known, that this Rev.
Mr.. Gurley has been endeayoring with his
whole strength TO convince the brethren
among the Cherokees that the Methodist r.
piscopal Church North is as Pro-Slavery
now as she has been heretofore, and that the
division was d rash and uncalled for move
ment on The part of the southern section, de-
p%recated and commended against by the north
ern, and that the peculiar institution would
find in him o fast friend if he were permitted
to remain quiet. The disturbance, we ven-
ture to presume, is not of his seeking, but is
created by the fanatical PGo-Slavery people
who give every opportunity 10 widen the
breach between the North and the South
they should be thanked for that-and in their
blind zeal for southern rights, see an enemy
in every northern man.-.4. s, Standard.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-04-27

National Convention of the Friends of
Common Schools.

The undersigned, dceming tina, the
great cause of Popular Education in the
United States, may be advanced, and the
excrlions of its friends strengthened and
systematizcd, by mutual consultation and
deliboration, respectfully request the
friends Of COMMON SCHOOLS, and oflLni=
versuI Education throughout the Union,
10 meet in Convention, at the city of
Philadelphia, on Wednesday, the 22d
DAY Of August next, at 10 o'clock, A. NJ,
for the promotion of this paramount in
teresi Of our r publican Inslit Itions.
I'VE have not room for the names of the
many prominent friends of education in va
rious parts Of the Union which were appen.
ded TO the above call. Communications re.
lating 10 this matter, and intended for publ
cation, should be addressed 10 the Editor Of
the Cdsfei, Philadelphia; those containing
Suggestions in regard to the convention, oil
propositions to be laid before it, to Alfred E
Wright, Corresponding Secretary OF Com
miltee Of Arrangement.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-04-27
LamentabIe Loss.


On Sabbath afternoon, LIST inst, Messrs.
Mitchell. Thos. & Archibold Paul of the
city Of Wheeling, Va, met with Il most
serious loss, amounting TO the value of
three or four, or perhaps five thousand
dollars. The different items Of loss sus-
tanned are these by Mitchell, one wo-
man. BY Thos. Paul, one man and two
children. BY A. Paul, two women and
child; in all seven. 1t is said of
riches, that they take wings to them.
selves and fly away. This is an exam
pie of riches taking legs TO themselves
and waiking away. Who does not sym
pathize with these three unfortunate men
in their serious loss ! How could those
women and children, and that |ungrateful
man, be so cruel as 10 leave their "kind
masters and mistresses, whom they love
so much" and not give their owners a
chance 10 so much us make their own
money out o fthem ! And then, 10 make
the matter more aggravated, these chap
Ply and conlented" people went away in
broad daylight, and that en- Sabbath,
perhaps while their "kind masters" were
at church. What gross Sabbath viola
lions! Poor, deluded creatures! How
often have they been told, but they
needed not, that the slaves are better off,
better fed, better clothed, and more hap
Ply and contcnted Than the free blacks OF
Ohio What strange delusions the
sound Of liberty creates in the heads OF
Virginia slaves I! We c, only recon-
mend these three unfortunate men 10 the
tender ~sympalhies Of their own neigh
bors, in their own hospitable city.
W. have, in the above, given our rea-
ders the principal items, in this interest
ing fugitive case. The seven proceeded
to the ferry boat between Wheeling and
Marrinsyille, told The ferry man that they
would be returning soon, and to avoid
exciting his suspicion, paid their (erriage
for both going and returning. Soon they
were safe in Ohio. Not very long after,
the unhappy shareholders, finding no one
upon whom they could yent their rage
but the ferry man, sent Two sheritls after
him, with their pistols, 10 bring him 10
justice for allowing the slaves TO escape.
They proceeded upon the boat, and, with
out showing their warrants, after they
had seized aud malueated him, began to
drag him ashore. A number of enraged
men, near by, anne 10 his rescue, and
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-04-27

upon the sheriffs drawing their pistols on
The ferry mans defendants, the latter rail-
HE'D with revolvers. and told the sheriffs
TO Ego ahead" The officers then put
up their pistnlsa and showed their warrant,
when the ferry man accompanied them
and gave. bail for his. appearance. Be-
lore trial, however, it was found that %
a particle of evidence could be had a.
gainst the ferry man, who was ignorant
OF their designs, some of them having
passed over on former occasions, by their
masters consent. Our informant SAYS
thai great excitement prevailed Il length
OF time in the city, and in Martinsville,
where is a number of warm friends ofthe
slave.-New Concord Free Press.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-04-27
LIME S l.,

Written on the adoption of Pinckney's Resolutions,
in the House OF Representatives, and the passage
OF Calhoun's Bill of denominations" to a third
reading, in the Senate Of the United States.
Now, by our fathers ashes! where's-ihe spirit
OF the true-hearted and the unshackled
Comet
Sons of old freemen, do we but inherit
Their names %alonel
Is the old Pilgrim spirit qucnched within US!
Stops the proud manhood of our soul SO
low,
That Mammon's lure or Psriy's vile can win
To silence now
No. When our land to ruins brink is verging,
In Gods name let us speak while there is
time!
Now, when the padlocks for our lips aye
forging,
SILENCE Is CRIME
What! shall We henceforth humbly ask as
favors
Rights all our owni 10 madness shall we
barter,
For tTeacherons peace, the FREEDOM Nature
gayO US,
God and our charlerl
Here shall the statesman seek the free 10 fetler!
Here Lynch law light lis horrid fires on
high
And, in the church, their proud and skill'd
abetlor,
Make truth a lie !
Torture the pages of the hallow'd Bible,
To sanction crime, and robbery, and blood?
And, in Expressions hateful service, libel
Both man and God
Shall our New England stand erect no longer
But sIoop in crime upon her downward
way,
Thicker to gather on her limbs and slToppe,
Day after DAY
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-04-27
Gov. Ford aud the Governor of Va.

L
The election of Seabpry Ford was of It's
self an ample dishonor 70 the State of Ohio.
But this, it seems, is not enough. Instead Of
being content to pass through his Faction of
TWO years in the obscure insignifcance which
prudence dictated, and which would have
tended TO conceal his utter want Of qualih-
cation from view-at least from the gaze and
remark Of sister states-he has already com.
menc,d to Chamber up, a~wkwardly enough.
the mast so famous in prGverb. The result
was unavoidable. Some two months ago,
Gov. Floyd Of Virginia, forwarded a requisi.
ton TO Gov. Ford, for the apprehension Of a
fugitive from the former state, charged with
the commission Of a larceny. 1t was in the
accustomed form, and conformation strictly
to the constitution Of the United.Siaies and
The act Of Congress; and had the fugitive
been any tchife man, the requisition would
have been instantly complied with. But the
person described was a black, and Seabury
Ford, governor 'by courtesy" eager TO ex.
hibit his bitter and bigoted fanaticism, where
pa, ~ was not involved, instantly refuses, in
a manner utterly In keeping with his narrow
minded, ill-bred, pettifogging propensities.
and his utter ignorance and disregard togeth-
er, Of all the courtesies, of private as well
as official intercourse. In the true style OF
a Geauga county pettifogger before a justice
Of The peace within and for the state Of
'heeseuom' ana IN ooeo'ence TO his habits
carry acquired IN ,n's oeiee'ao'e schooi' ne
Graves over ana mes us oil Of exception TO
me s"Dle'enry q me Yladp't' IL reads twee'
u'euum, W"gn II snou'u nave Ieao I"eedie-
ace; uoV; rloyu procured an amoaVi' amen.
eeo aceoIn'ng " we exception 'aNeh' ana
oea"uIy roIu dga'h con'emP'uousiy ana IN,
so'"ogly refused compliance WIN me second
Iequls'',9n' again oolecnng 10 The sumeiency
Of ue amuaVi'' ana 70 ine wan! Of an 'ndict-
,ha, ,ha aIIsna,jon of 80; E ""o
raonis;,ion + r,h. 49, :" ,he
teassr~. ~ a JaNn, 1ne "nat