Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-02-28
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The order suppressing the Richmond
Eraniner has been revoked, and the
publication Of that paper will be res um-
ed.
AT the borough election in Honesdale
Wayne county recently, the entire Dem
ocratic ticket was elected by an average
IN crity of 25 10 4s Last year the Re-
publicaus carried the borough by fifty
majority.
The Democracy of Fayette county
hayo called a meeting at Uniontown on
/ tuesday evening of the first week of
March at the court house, 10 endorse
President Johnson's reconstruction pol
icy.
ARrtMUs Ward recently lectured in
New Orleans for the benefit of the fami-
| lG of Jefferson Davis. The opera-house
was not on'y crowded but many persons
| bought tickets who could not attend
The receipts were very large.
Mr.. Seward was in the United States
House of Representatives on Friday,
conferring with The New York delegation.
He is said to have been severe Oh tho
radicals.
TIE Prince of Wales has sent
handsome bridal present to Mrs Henry
Johnson, nee Harriet L,ne, in acknowi-
edgement Of the courtesies rendered him
at the White house while tha: lady pre-
sided there.
! SIGNS OF THE TIMEs-A correspondent
Of the Erie C6SsrUer from Wayne says
{ The election 10 this town went of last
! Teusday. J he town usually has gone
three fourlhs Republican at this time iD
.ome offices it has been a tie the largest
majority being seven. There was gen.
eral turnout on bothsides If Congress
phould sit until next election the Demo-
Gratis will number two thirds of the vo-
ters.
"HURRA FOR SCoFFY. For one,
do not care whether the Legislature er-
dorses our action on the District suffrags-
bill or net. l voted for it because il bad
the sanction of my own Judgement and,
1 thought of my constituents. .'-lNr. SEQ
field 10 Tie editor Of The DfcKedn Coun-
ty Miner.
Henry Ward Beecher, in an addres
delivered at the Academy of music, in
Brooklyn, on the evening of the 10Th
inst, declared positively in favor of
J President Johnson's veto message, be-
,uss be says he is opposed to placing so
much power in the hands of the execu-
live, and because he desires the states
lately in rebellion to be reinstated in the
rights and powers of other States in the
Union.
BUTTER AND PoTAToEs.-A roll of
ebo ha IL
of which was mashed peach blue potatoes
covered on the outside with thin layer
Of butter. The purchaser found no fault
with the contents, then there was butter
sufficient to fry the potatoes I; but he Ia
mented of the price of forty cents per
, pound, which he had paid for it.
WHAT A CHANGE.-Ii is rot yel nine years
ego that Sumner and the whole opposition
20 the Democratic party were engaged in q
scheme so 10 amend the Constitution of the
State Of Massachusetts as 10 disiranchise for
two years naturaized white foreigners
They proposed 10 prevent naluralized
lrishmen or German from voting even after
he had become a citizen oil the United
States when Democrats appealed to the
Constitution, Mr.. Sumner and his friends
: pointed TO The reserved right OF the Com
monweath 10 regulate vcting as The Stare
saw fit.
Nh Sumner now proposes TO give 10
Southern negroes what he labored
. to withhold from white Europeans. We
: might say this is shameful but that would
g I've TO forget what excellent reasons Senator
Sumner has for scorning his own blood
, PiHsburg Post.
: MORE LOYALTY. The private sec-
retary Of Go,enor Stone of Iowa has been
indicted for embezzelment and forgery
connected with the public funds of the
I state. This is one of the "patriots" who
has been so extremely "loyar" that be
snufTed treason" even in the balmy
southern breeze.
ToTAL ECLIPSE OF The MooN.-March is
10 close oUt as did January, with nights
made beautiful BY full moon. The alma
nae Tells Us that on the evening OF March
3Oth there will be total eclipse OF ihe
neon. The time will be very favorable for
observation as i, begins at five minutes past
nine o clock is at It's total al twelve minutes
past len and begins TO disappear al fifty-one
minutes past eleven. Ii is visible through
out the United Saes.-E1