The Columbia Democrat

To the Editor of the Columbia Democrat.

SIR--One of the objects within the legitimate province, as well as desire doubtless, of your press to promote, is the advantage of the pleasant village in which it is located. Here are interests which are of a strictly village character, those, in which the community, as such, are concerned. To secure them, it is as requisite to commit them to a proper superintendence, as that individual affairs, to be prosperous, should be taken care of.

This makes it necessary, that proper persons be raised up and clothed with authority, to whom these public village interests may be committed, and by whom they may be managed.

What are more particularly in view in the present article, are the repairs of the streets and alleys--and preserving them in a state of cleanliness.

Let the fact be borne in mind, that the main road, and two branches running but a short distance through the town, make up the extent of highway, subject to repair by the supervisor; and these repairs are all that Bloomsburg receives in consideration of the road taxes levied upon its inhabitants.

Further; it is not known by the writer that there is in this industrious, thriving and generally healthy village, a single person receiving benefit from the taxes levied for the poor. If so, all raised within, are expended without the town limits.

Were an arrangement, then, to be made, by which taxes levied, should also be applied within our town; if our alleys, as well as our principal road, could be kept in repair; if some attention could be bestowed upon the place to beautify and adorn it, by persons whose public duty it should be;--then its inhabitants, it is thought, would certainly find the ultimate advantage, in the attraction of new residents, the consequent increase of business, and the necessary demand for, and erection of, new buildings by which the town would be adorned and enlarged of course.

And is not the suggestion worth something that it would brighten still more the prospect of attaining the object so much at heart, the establishment of the seat of Justice, in what would then be, still more than now, the beautiful and delightful town of Bloomsburg?

The objects proposed, may be accomplished, by incorporating the town. There is a law, it is believed, not repealed, authorizing an application to the County Court, who, with the concurrence of the Grand Jury, are empowered, to grant charters to towns. Who then will sign a petition?

June 27, 1838.