The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-01-13

some poor colored people, nhabl,lng low ground
in the vicinity of Cincinnati.
W II California il admitted into the Union
why can't the inhabitants yore Because they
are all miners
W The Legislature Of Louisiana have oppro.
priated 81 900 to support public schools fer free
children Of color.
| (EJ- The Park Theatre at Now York will be re-.
built The contracts have been "signcd sealed
snd delivered" and the work commenced
VI A Locomotive with AGAR full of managers
| and editors, passed over The first eight me1 OF
the Chicago aud GaIena Railroad on the 22d ult
0rJ- Gen. Taylor writes that he will he IN Lon
isvilIe, Ky, on the l4th or 10Th OF February, on
his way To- Washington.
Or Hon Levi Chamberlain, has been nomna-
ted as The Wing candidate for Governor of New
Hampshire, at the election in March next.
Or Green the reformed Gambler, is about to
publish paper in the city Of New York, called
the National Guaro.
Co Why is Victoria twice the salur her Uncle
Wll'lem ever was; Because he was only royal
tar, aud she S a royal t0T.tav.
W. The New York papers are anxious 10 have
the United States erect mint on the spot aleiy
occupied by the Park theatre.
G5- The printed indictments against Mr.. Duffy,
Of the Irish Nation, measures about one hundred
feet in length,
VI Morse's line Of Telegraph now runs from
New York direct to Philadelphia The wires are
carried acloss the Hudson at Anthony's Nose.
o. Mr.. Jacob Throp. Of North Haven, caught
in the river in that town, Oh the 18th ult shsd
weighing about lbs.
~ The Legislature of New Hampshire has
passed a plurality law Tor he election OF Mem.
bers of Congress and Presidential Electors.
Of Book Keeping will not receive much atten.
ton in California at present; pocket account
will be the only popular one. Pockets should be
lined with sheet iron.
G1-The culture the grape is pursued in Cali.
fornla with much succe's The wine made there
from IS said to be excellent, resembling the light
German Wines.
% DR.. Franklin, in speaking Of education,
says: "i man emplis1 his purse into his head,
no one can take it from him."
~ THE Lower Glasses -Uho are
They? The toiling millions, the laborng
man and woman, the farmer, the mechanic,
the artisan, the inventor, the producer! Far
from it These are natures nobility
Gods favorites-the salt of the earth.-
No matter whether they are high or low in
station, rich or poor in pelf, conspicuous or
humble in position, they are surely the 'up-
per circles" in the order of nature, what
ever the fctcious distinctions of society,
fashionable or questionable, decree. II
is not iO,C--it is the duty, privilege, and
pleasure for the great man and the whole
,souled woman, TO earn what they possess.
to work their own fortunes. Some may
rank the classes already alluded to as only
relatively low, and in fact the middle clas-
ses. We insist they are absolutely the
very highest. If there is a class of human
beings on earth, who may properly be de.
nominated low, it is those who spend with
out earning, who consume without produ-
cling, who dissPate the earnings of the
fathers or relatives without doing any thing
in aid of themselves.