■imr- m-rr,- , ti-im-T, ' ' ' 1 ' ""'I ll' il'll ' 1 V ' if 1I II '' "| jfj " ~ THE STAR OF THE NORTH 7 E. ,W. Weaver Proprietor.] VOLUME 2. THE STAR OF THE NORTH It published every Thursday Morning, by R. W. WEAVER. OFFICE— Up stairs in the New Brick building on the south side of Main street, third square beloit Market. TERMS TWO Dollars per annum, if paid within six months from the time of subscri bint;; two dollars and fifty cents if not paid within the year. No subscription received for a less period than six months: no discon tinuance permitted until all arrearages are ■ paid, unless at the option of the editors. 'ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding one square, will:be inserted three times for one dollar, and 'tVertty-five cents for each additional insertion. 'A liberal discount will be made to those who ad vertise by the year. THE UN rausE aorta.' The following, written by EPES SAROEANT. was selected by four of the committee ap pointed to decide upon the prize song, but they yielded their opinions in difference to Mr. Benedict, who preferred Bayard Taylor's, so says the New York Mirror: Salutation to America. I .and of the beautiful, land of the free, Of en ray heart had turned, longing to thee ; Often had mountain, lake, toirent and stream Gleamed on my waking thought, crowded my dreain j Now thou receivest me from the broad sea, Land of the beautiful land of the free! Fair to the eye, in thy grandeur thou art; O doubly fair, doubly dear to tho heart! For to the exiled, the trodden, the poor, Through the wide world, thou hast opened thy door j Millions crowd in, and are welcomed by thee— Land of the beautiful, laud of the free! Land of the Future! Here Art shall repair— Kinder thy gale than her own Grecian air! Since her true votaries ever have found Lofty desert by America crowned! Where, in her pride, should she dwell but with thee ? Land of the beautiful, (and of the free! Sculpture for thee shall immortalize Form ; Fainting illumine, and Poetry warm; Music devote all her fervors divine To a heart service at Liberty's shrine Till all thy gifts doubly precious shall be, Land of the beautiful, land of the free! Hail! then, Republic of Washington, hail! Never may star of thy Union wax pale! Hope of the world ! may each omen of ill Fade in the light of fhy destiny still; Time bring but increase and honor to thee, Land of the beautiful, land of the free! The Song which did not take the Frize. * OP-ERRATIC SONG FOR THE PRIZE. To be sung by the Night-in-a-gule. BY LITERATRE. Characters, Costumes , Night-in a-gale, short (town petticoat, wooden shoes and ruffled cap j red neckerchiof crossed in front, tied behind. Barnum.— German buckskin tights, bluck ; red vest, bell buttons, Hungarian cap, wood saw, moveable sleeve to his vest, no coat. Doorkeeper —(With sinister look) dressed *ns a Jew pedler. Introductory by Barnum. Oh ! welcome, thrice welcome ! Thou dear little Maid, With a voice like brass, copper and tin, To the land of the Eagle And good gingerbread, Shout and sing 'Mid the welcoming din. Chorus by the Doorkeeper. Night in a-galo, the songstress! And the monstrous South Sea Cow ! Wat figures all full dress, Park-a sea* in front row- Walk in, plenty of room. Oh, happy the moment, O er the waves thou didst come; Wasn't you sea-sick a little or more ? Do they livgi well on ship-board 1 At the wavii were you frightened! And didn't you wisn you's ashore. Chorus by Barnum. Ain't she pretty t ain't she witty ? Crikey! can't sha Dutch and sing 1 When she smiles, eh ! In her wiles, eh ! Won't she catch us all-[ciing-ciir<n rises. Songstress-[" makes hsr manners," and sings] Mine Fadderland I leave to home, And comes to Yankee's land-e, To siug der terve il Yankee song Ter Yankee Doodle Dandy. Chorus by the Pit. flooU! boots 1 hustle 'em out! Peanuts! Crackers! Candy ! Loafers! Niggers! elap and shout. And—Yankee —Doodle Dandy 1 Songstress. I'sch been a maidle Ditcher gal, Wast sing on ebber land-e, An besser den der town ish—ish— Ish Yankee Doodle Dandy! iy Worth Telling Again.—When Nicho las Biddle—familiarly called Niok Btddle— was connected with the U 8. Bank, there was an old negro named Harry who used to be loafing around the premises. One day, in social mood, Biddle said to the darkey— "Well, what is your name, my old friend?" "Harry, sir—ole Harry, sir," said the oth er, touching his sleepy hat. "Old Harry!" said Biddle, "why that is the name that they gave to the Devil, is it no* 1" "Yes, sir," said the colored gentleman, "sometime ole Harry and •sometime ole Nick." ])iti * |3T Wealth, in many eaaes, creates more wants than it supplies. BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1850. The Mistake of Night. Queer thinge occur 'amid the blaze of noon,' but queerer still take place among the stilt hours of the night. The following, for instance, is one of the queerest in the catego ry and as Watts says. 'The deeds of darkness we have done, Must all appear before the sun.' It may not be quite improper to make it public, positive that the parties therein con cerned will not objeot thereto, as their iden tity must remain a mystery to the inquisi tive. It was upon a public occasion, when all the hotels in , call the placewhat you will were filled from lop to bottom. Land lords economized room and space with ama zing cunning, packing as fnany as thtee fat men in a bed, on a dog-day night too, or on the floor in such copious confusion as to make (he property of certain sets of limbß to particular body a serions matter of doubt. Boniface's could not put out a single individ ual, but be eruld put him away some how or other. One of these good natured hosts, however, was sadley perplexed where to lodge [a par ticular friend. He could not, consistently with correct notions of amity, run a pole out of the window and request his friend to roost for the night as a Kentucky landlord is re ported to have done when pressed for room ; and it was only after a good deal of calcula tion that a bright and generous idea came to his and his friend's relief. 'My old woman's gone to see her folks,' said he, 'and won't come home till to-mor row—now you take my bed, for I shan't have occasion for it seeing I must attend the folks and keep them ar chaps, scattered on the dinner hall floor from fighting. Accordingly the guest took r possession of Boniface's bed—sunk up to his nose amid the feathers, and soon went to the land of Nod, thanking his stars for having escaped from the confusion below. Had he known what some poet had written, with a chuckle, smothered in his two pair of pillows, he might have exclaimed, In this tumultuous sphere for the unfit, How seldom art thou found, tranquility He slept and snored, but it was for a little while only. An intruder appeared, and he woke with the inquiry. "Who's that?" 'lt's me, old man—go to sleep again,' but don't take up all the bed ' 'lt ain't your old man,'said the stranger, whose nose by the way singularly resembled that of Boniface, whose wife the reader has already guessed to be the now comer. Be j ing very bashful, the poor fellow drew the clothes over his head, and in smothered tones besought the landlady to clear right square out. 'Jest as I expected,' exclaimed the old wo man, 'drunk again when the house is full of folks what can steal, rob and murder the hull on us,' and she proceeded to the bed side, and groping in the dark ; contrived to uncover the unfortunate man's head and then he had to 'lake it' in every sense of the word. Being a bachelor he had merely heard of a matrimonial combing down of the locks, but his experience of the opera tion so far ontstripped his conceptions that be bellowed murder most lustily. 'Cry murder and raise the hull house will you ?' cried the landlady, shaking her vic tim's scalp from the root almost. 'Let me go—shouted the man, 'I ain' 1 yer man—Murder! Murder!' The last yell wrung bj the intense pain from the greatest power of the sufferer's lungirtbrought Bonilace and a'posse to the door. A general rush was made to the a partment and the matter was soon explained amid the shouts of the assemblage. 'Now, whispered the jolly landlord, in his friends ear, when leading him to liter, 'just think bow I've got to be put through.' ty A Young Beauty beheld one evening two horses running off at locomotive speed with a light wagon. As they approached, she was horrified at recognising, in the oc cupants of the vehicle, two gentlemen of her acquaintance. "Boys, boys!" she screamed in terror, "jump out—quick—jump out—especially George." It is needlrss to say that her sentiments as to "George" were frcm that time forth no secret. Ey "First class in geography, eland up- W here's Europe V "Europe, air, is southwest of London, and is connected with the hyppopatomus by the equinoxical line which is made faet to the Tower. It was discovered by the Straits of Magdalin, what Moses found in the wilder ness eating quails, and which was bounded by north longitude more nor half way a round." "That will do. Now go home and put your hat in aoak, for if your imformation ov er cornea to a head, your clothes wont fit you." iy The following query is put by a cor respondent of the New York Gazette: "la a lady riding on horseback on the left of a gentleman on the right tide *" The answer is thus given : "It is supposed that when a lady gets on the aide she wishes to be, she is on the right side." iy We do not see that Mr. Clay, in his northern tour is kissing, as heretofore, the crowds of women that flock to see him. We suppose he is sick of omnxbuesing.—Southern Prtte. V '•< ' •- . ■&*„ * AN INSTRUCTIVE SKETCH. BY MRS. SIUOCRNEY. It is the duties of mothers to sustain the reverse of fortune. Frequent and sudden as Ihey have been in our own country, it is im portant that young females should possess ipme employment, by which they might ob ain a livelihood in case they should be re duced to the necessity of supporting them selves. When females are suddenly reduc ed from affluence to poverty, how pitiful, contemptible, it is to see the mother despon ding or helpless, and permitting her daugh ters to embarrass those whom to assist and cheer. £ "1 have lost my whola fortune," said a merchant as he returned onescrening to his home; "we can no longer keep our We must leave this large ho&. AheTjlFrfl dren can no longer go to Yesterday I was a rich maiMm-day, there is nothing I can call my own." "Dear husband," said the wife, "we are stiU rich in eaoh other and our children. Money may pass away, but God has given us a better treasure in these active hands and loving hearts." "Dear father," said the children, "do not look so sober. We will help you to get a living." "What can you do, poor things?" said he. "You shall see! answered several voices. "It is a pity if we had been to school for nothing. How can the father of eight chil dren be poor f We shall work and make you rich again." "I shall help," said the young girl, hardly four years old. "I shall not have any new things bought, and I shall sell my great doll." The heart of the husband and father, which had sunk within his bosom like a stone, was lifted up. The sweet enthusiasm of the scene cheered him, and his nightly prayer was like a song of praise. They left their stately house. The ser vants were dismissed. Pictures and plate rich carpets and furniture were sold, anil she who had been the mistress of the mansion shed no tears. "Pay every debt," said she ; "let no one suffer thtough us, and ure may be happy." He rented a neat cottage, and a small piece of ground, a few miles from the city. With the aid of his sons, he cultivated veg etables for the market. He viewed with de light anil astonishment the economy of his wife, nutured as she had been in wealth, and the efficiency which his daughters soon ac quired under her training. The eldest instructed the household, and also assisted the young children—besides, they executed various works, which they had learned as accomplishments, bt# which they found could be disposed of to advan tage. They embroidered, with taste, some of the ornamental parts of female apparel, which were readily sold to a merchant in the city. They cultivated flowers, sent bouquets to market in the cart that conveyed the vegeta bles ; they plaited straw, they painted maps, they executed plain tteedie-work. Every one was at her post, busy and cheerful. The little cottage was like a bee-hive. "1 never enjoyed such health before," said the father. "And I was never so happy before," said the mother. "We never knew how many things we could do, when we lived in the grand house," said the children, "and we love each other a great deal better here. You call us your little bees." "Yes," replied the father, -'anil you make just such honey as the heart loves to feed on." Economy as well as industry Was strictly observed; nothing was wasted. Nothing unnecessary was purchased. The eldest became assistant teacher in a distinguished i seminary, and the second look her place as instructress to the family. The dwelling, which had always been kept neat' they were soon able to beautify. Its construction was improved, and the vines and flowering trees were replanted around it. The merchant was happier under hia woodbine covered porch in a summer's evening than if ho had been in bis showy dressing room. "We are now thriving and prosperous," said he, ''shall we return to the city t" "Oh no," was the unanimous reply. "Let us remain," said the wife, "where we have found health and contentment." "Father," said the youngest, "all we chil dren hope you are not going to be rich a gain; for then," sheaddfti, "we little ones were abut up in the nuraety and did not see much of you or mother. Now we all live together, and sister, who lovea us, and we iearn to be industrious and useful. We were none of us happy when we were rioh, and did not wojk. So, father, please not be rich any more." THESE CBXT PIECES. —These coins are to be paid out at the mint in exchange for for eign tilver only, and small denomina tions. So aaya the KB. —The government makes enough profit on the new coinage to allow them to exchange the new ■coins for the old foreign ones, dollar for dollat. TV In 1618, Henry Dow WM ohosen Town Clerk of Hampton, N. Hampshire.— Since that time the office has been held in the family, and held by himself and descen dants 120 years. He held it hiraaelf 21 years to begin with. We oall the Dow fam ily, a family of old Hunkers. Tralli ud Rgfct—God Juripttr Country. SIDNEY SMITH ON PROGRESS. It is of some importance at what period man is born. A young man, alive at this period, hardly knows to what improvements of human fife he has been introduced; and I bring before his notice the following eigh teen changes, which have taken piece in England since I began to breathe the breath of life—a period amounting now ttf nearly seventy years. Gas was unknown; I grop ed My way about the streets of London, in all but lh# utter darkness qf a twinkling Oil lamp, under the protection of watchmen, in their climacteric, and exposed to every spe cies of insult. I have been nine hours in sailing from Dover to Calais, before the in vention of steam. It Utflhwia nine hours to go from Taunton to Bath, and now I can go in six hours from Taunton to London f In going from Taunton to Bath, I suffered be tween 10,000 and 12,000 severe contusions, before stone breaking Macadam was born. I paid £ls in a single year for repairs of car ciage springs on the pavement of London ; and now I glide without noise or fracture on wooden pavements. I can walk, by the as sistance of the police, from one end of Lon don to (he other, without molestation; or i( tired, get into a cheap cab, instead of those cottages on wheels, which the hacknay coaches were at the beginning of my life. I had no umbrella. They were little.used and very dear. There were no water-proof hats, and my hat has often been reduced by rains, to its primitive pulp. I could not keep my small clothes in their proper places, for braces wero unknown. If I had the gout there war no colchicum. If I was bilious, there was no calomel. If I was attacked by ague, there was no quinine. There were filthy coffee-houses instead of elegant clubs. Game could not be bought. Quarrels about uncommuted tithes were endless. The cor ruption cf Parliament before reform, infa mous. There were no banks to receive the savings of the poor. The peor laws were gradually sapping the vitals of the country. Whatevet miseries I suffered I had no post, to whisk my complaints, for a single penny, to the remotest corners of the empire. And yet, in spite of all these privations, I lived on quietly, and am now ashamed that I was not discontented ami u'terly surprised that all these changes and inventions did not occur two centuries ago. I forgot to add, that S3 the baskets of stage coaches, in which lug gage was rtien vsuimt, usa tiu springs; yuui clothes were rubbed to pieces, and that even in the bett society, one-third of the genteel at least, were always drunk. Remarks on the Small Note I.atv. BY WM. M. GOUGE, _ ' 22 Of the Treasury Department, Washington To THE EDITOR OF PITTSBURG MORNING POST : Sir: It is said that while the law prohibi ting the circulation of small notes is general ly observed in Philadelphia, it is generally disregarded in Pittsburg. This ought not to be. The law ought to be universally obeyed, if "not tor worth, for conscience sake." If each individual yields obedience to the laws only so far as he conceives such obedience cohductive Jo his own profit or his own interest, there is at once au end to all orderly government. Private cupidity, it must be admitted, af fords strong inducements to many to break this law but private cupidity is not the rule of right. "I can see no difference," says One man, "between a paper dollar and a silver dollar, one will go as far in the market as the oth er." Well, neighbor, as a mere circulating medium there is not much difference be tween them, so long as the paper is at par with specie. But it sometimes happens that papet is at pat at eight o'clock in the morn ing, and at noon at 20 per cent discount. But, money is not a mere circulating me dium. It is also a standard of value, and the commodity of contracts* Have you studied it in these respects? If you have not. you are not qualified to judge of the reasons that induced the Legislatnre to pass the act prohibiting the circulation of small notes. You think it will drive trade from Pitts burg. Herein you are mistaken. The trade between different parts of the country does not consist in an interchange of bank notes or specie, but an interchange ot the pro ducts of industry. A change in the medi um from paper to specie, will not, In the least, diminish the amount of this trade- You think the law will make money scarce, Herein, also, you are mistaken. For every paper doller it drives ont of circu lation, it will supply a specie dollar. There is but one way in which an industrious com munity can be deprived of its just share of gold and silvqy medium; and that is by the use if paper. There ia but one way in which this gold and silver oar. be brought back, and that is by driving the paper out of circulation. The law of 1828 acted like a charm. The small notes of the distant banks disappear ed; and silver took their place. Prognosti cations were made then, as they are made now, of scarcity of money and loss of trade, but not one of these prognostication were verified. Similar laws passed by Virginia, Afery land and other States, produced a slmlar effect.—Wherever such laws were small notes disappeared, and eilvePQ|H their place. It is very true that Pennsylvania does nqt * now occupy the.high moral attitude that she did in 1828. She has now sanctioned the issue of "relief notes," and when the re ceipt of one species of small notes is au thorized by law, it may be diffioult to dr'.ve other species of small notes out of circula tion. Still the difficulty is not insuperable, and if newspaper editors, arid others who write for the newspapers, will only do their duly in showing the people the true charac ter of the law, it will produce as beneficial effects Us did the law of 1828. Some of the working Men Of Philadelphia, a, (in which city I then resided,) estimated the advantages they gained by the passage of the law of TB2B, as equal to ten per cent, on their incomes. Before that law was pas- were paid their wages m the small notes of the banks of other States, and could make their purchases at the stores only at which such notes were received. After the law was passed they, were paid their wages in silver, could go to all the stores, and pur chase wherever they found goods the cheap est. Before that law was passed, some of those who employed working men, used to take the money they received in current busi ness, and exohange it at the broker's for de preciated paper, wherewith they paid their journeymen and their laborers. The poor working man ought not to be paid in a medium which, though now at par with silver and gold, may, if he keeps it a week or a month, lose one half of its value. Bank notes may be very convenient in a large commercial transactions, but WML WAGES OF LABOR, IN EVERY TRY, OUGHT TO BE PAID IN GOLD SILVER. Between bank notes of small and denominations, there are distinctions wflH ought to be generally known. Bank notes of the denomination of less than five dol lars take the place of silver. Bank notes of the denomination of from five to twenty dol lars take the place of gold. Bank notes of the denomination of fifty dollars and up wards, take the place of private bills of ex change. The higher you raise the denomi nation of bank notes, the less objectionable they become. Bank notes of large denomi nations seldom pass into the hands of any except those who are qualified to judge of the ability Of the banks that issue them.— Bank notes of large denominations, moreo ver. perform but ajmall circuit, before they return to the banks that issue them, and thus have their value tested. While bank notes of small denominations may remain out for months and years, and the insolvency of the bank that issues them fail to be made known, only because the notes are never presented for payment. It will be chiefly the working men Of Pennsylvania that will be beneftued by cau sing silver to take the place of small notes. But the benefit will not be confined to them. The bank themselves will derive no small advantage from the measure. Let a panic occur, when the smaller channels of circula tion are filled with paper, and a demand for specie will arise, which may drain the banks of much of their treasure. But fill novV the smallef channels of circulation with specie, antfthe banks will be placed in a relatively safe position. It is au excellent sign to see a considera ble current of gold and silver flowing daily into tho vaults of tho banks, and another current of equal amount flowing out. It shows that the due relations .between the mediums of wholesale and retail trade are properly maintained. 6uch a current and a counter-current shall we have in Pennsjlva nia if the law for suppressing small notes is rightly enforced* Washington City, August 28th, 1850. questions for the Rochester Knockers. Will Saltpetre explode on its own hook a lone? Who struck the lamented William Pat terson ? How are you ofi for soap 1 Can you account for the rqilk in the cocoa nut ? How did it kim there ? What's the price of putty 1 How long will it be before that good timdl comes, which has been so long coming?) What was the secret of Lord Byron's wife leaving him, and why did his Lordship im bibe gin? How many broken-hearted men are there now in California, utterly cursing the hour they ever heard it named ? What is your opinion of the guilt of Ham let's maternal parent ? Do serpents his? Is it advisable to go it while you're young? Is theie a warm place down below for wicked people; and, if so, when are you going back to it ? Is this a great "ked'ntryand, if so, what will it cost to fence it in f Will Paine'a invention enable one to light one's pipe at a pump f Eh ? iy A buffoon having offended his sover eign, the monarch sentenced him to death. The Culprit, in his great terror, fell upon hie knees aud cried for mercy. "I will extend to you ho other mercy," said the monarch, ''than permitting you to choose what kino of death will you die. De cide immediately, for I will be obeyed." "I adore your clemency," said the crafty fester, "I choose to die of old age." ( yi JSF WE'TI just made a new ROLLER. THE SCHOOLMARM>S SECESSION. In silence all the urchins sat Like onions "drilled in rows, When off her chair the schoolma'rt gol. Whilst all the rows arose! Her youthful Platos each in torn By schoolma'm's lore are fed. Ami juve'nile Senators here learn That l e-d spells lead I "Now silence all!" Minerva cries, "Stand up and spell, John Shedd," In squeaking tones John straight replies, That r e-d spells read!" "Does it, indeed! you stupid elf, You know it is not so; I taught you that to spell myself— IfcfptiQt t-o-e- spell tow f" Ann Bird comes next—"Pot down yonr And spelt what'eryou choose[hook Then Ann responded with a look, That "u-s-e spelt ewes!" "Ah, me ! in rain" the teachet sighs, "These buds I strive to rear; For ert they up from shoots arise— They always leave this ere! "And though in forms I keep their forms — For life their minds to form — i How shall I all their faults reform, When they're not uniform Yet more she spoke —"l'd tire never, Nor doubt nor sorrow feel, -If once I had a hub forever, A fel'ow for my weal I "So farewell, schooL^U^|M|MUMttffij ('erawMimat^^^^^ww^nislove^ be—rfrs-missed !" Cf The Keystone thus rebukes those "Whig" sheets, who are forever clamoring against our "tree trade tariff:" Our present tariff yields an annual reven ue of over MO,000,000; which is an enor mous tax paid by the citizens of the United Statbs into the national treasury. tjf this the portion paid by the people of Pennsylva nia is over 93,000,000. and yet the North A merican and other whig papers call it a "free trade tariff!" If a "fYeB trade tdtlff" yield $30,000,000 ayeir, what would be the pro duct of a revenue protective tariff adjusting onlhe whig plan 7 And if a lax, oT thirty per cent, upon the consumer, fot the benefit of the manufacturer, be insufficient, what additional amount would the modest monop olist desire the government to impose f But besides this vast sum of $30,000,000 paid to the government, Our Manufactures, undercover of the duty upon importations, charge thirty per cent, more than they could obtain for their articles under a true system of free trade. By this ptdcess the consu mers are more than doubly taxed—for eve ry million they pay the government, tbey pay from one to two millions to tho manu factures. Though all these taxes are paid voluntarily—though in theircollection no tax gather is seen—yet were they removed by the adoption, in reality, of the system which the whigs says prevails at present, the mas ses would find their expenses largely reduc ed and their accumulation vastly increased al the end of every year. Impost taxes are easily collected and ex cite less discontent than any other; but there is no method of raising revenue for the sup port of government so expensive and so [in jurious to tho trade and prosperity df dur country. It is resorted to by large sums for squandering can ba filched from the pock ets of people without their knowing it. Members of congress would look more to e conomy, if the taxgather had to call direct ly upon their constituents to pay their appro priations. Insolvent Decendents. The following important act, allowing wi dows and children of insolvent decendents to retain property to the amount of S3OO, exclu sive of the amount of property which is now by law exempted from levy and sale ►upon execution, was assed at the last ses sion of the Legislature: SECT. XXV Horeaftet the Widow or chil. drea bf any decedent, dying within this commonwealth, it the said descen dant shall have left a Widow of children who were residing Within at the time bl his death and the [estate be insufficient to pay his debts, exclusive of the amount of property uOw by law exempted from levy and sate upon an execution against a dsfctor, may retain either real or personal property belong- I ing to said estate to the value of three hun dred Hollars ; and the same Shall not be sbld but suffered to remain fot the said widow and family; and it shall be the duty of the executor or administrator of such descen ' dent, to bava the said property appraised in the same manner provided in the act pas sed the ninth day of April, A. D., 1849, an act to exempt proterty to the value of three hundred dollars from levy and sale on exe cution and distress for rent: Provided, That this section shall not affect or impair any lines for the purchase money of such teal estate; aud the said appraisment, upon be ing signed and certified by appraisers, and approved by the Orphan's Court, shall be filed among the records thereof. President Napoleon has been turned oat of a ball room in France. [Two Dottars per Anna an NUMBER 35. From th' Vcnn.tylvanian. Mini's Kebuke of ir,e I'siiienable World. Pttnch, wh6 i ii of jester for the whole world and the i*ert of mankind, will soon bo gin to srrenin with laughter at the exhibi tion in New Vork, where 'JENNY LISD is now the ideal and the god. "Let them lattgli that win,'' is a homely adage, had when the New Yorkers realize How much they have hit—not in five dollar gold pieces, for fash ion might put thefii into &. worse place than into BARNUM'S coders—but as a people WHO boast of discretion and good sense, they* will begin to recoil and to review the ridicu lous spectacle in which lliey are now play ing so prominent a part. New York is a great city, and it is greater in nothing than in its contrasts. Rich, impulsive, and to the last degree, liberal, it is cdristanlly allowing itself, or those who speak tor it, to perpe trate some piece of absurdity which, wheri the fit is over, they are among the earliest to repent of, and to resolve against ip the fu ture. It feasted DtcKEhs, and was lauglieci at for it bv that hedrtless writer; and now we see it iii paroxysms over a singer, whci does not pretend to Ihe intellect of FANNY ELI.SI.EH, another popular favorite, and wHrt is herself heartily ashamed of her worship pers. Somo years ago, or more, the gre.-it philanthropist, RODERT OWEN, came to New York, without, being heralded, though it was known whenjie bait arrived; and ha passed on his errand of good, un un'lonorei'> The Hungarian pal ; a few months since, were recei it is true, so far as evanescent hosl cottld go, but when it was announl those glorious men were poor, the pockets of the fashion and wealth clos d like the gates of death, lind those who are now lavishing gold pieces Upon. JENNY, froze up into statues.—When the Mexican war was over, the same feeling made it almost impossible to oollect money though to feed and clothe the soldiers' widows and orphans. A bitter bittor commentary upon-this is tho pteserit profuse extravagance manifested for a single singing woman, whose hightlycoiti pcnsation is equal to tbe half yearly salary of our President, and whose musical words are paid for In tributes of gold. But we did not sit down to write a ser itidn, ttr to attempt a satire. We intended simply to call attention to tlie manner in which the amiable Swede has rebuked the frilly and rtic extravagance of tier adorers. Her gift lo iKe New York Charities—a gift of SIO,OO0 —'he earnings of a single night— liowever it may bo otherwise construed, was a severe rebuke of those who throng to Iter concerts, and bid away her tickets as if they wefe so many admissions to the skies. She has said, by that act of quiet and grace ful benevolence, to her admirers; "You are forgetting the starving poor in your midst. You forgot those who fought for your honor in Mexico. You neglect those who labor to save your property and your lives. Y'ou do not remember the sick and the needy; the want that crouches under your palaces ; the . misery that toils 10 koep up life; the orphart j that struggles to eat the bread of virtue, and I to be able to defy the tbmpter. All these ! you forget, and I, a weak woman from Stockholm, a foreigner and an alien, am grateful to be enabled to remind jjou of your duty to yourselves by your generosity to mr;" Highly Operatic. The Chicago Journal tells the following laughable story of an enthusiastic gent who went one evening to see the opera there, ami who distinguished himself during the per formances by clapping his hands, ami voci ferating furiously, "llravo!"—"Btavissimo 1" at everything that came off, fforri the rise of the curtain toils tall:— Presently, like an electric shock came the cry of 'fire!' The audience started suddenly for the door though their retreat was checked to gobd order by Mr. Rice, the manager, who was On the stage at the tifae. Then all was confusion, and each member of the cbrt pany, in endeavoring to save the property, &0., oi the profession, was rushing backward and forward in every direction across the stage. Meanwhile our friends outside had missed their comrade, and thinking perhaps thai he might have bedri injured, one of them step ped up into the box, just as the fire was bur sting through the end of the building in futi volumes, and Rice crossing the stage with it side scene On his fshouldef. theri kit Mr. L., iolitery and atone, In the Front seat, in per fect ecstacies at the performance t shouting bravo I •=bravo !—a most splendid imitation of a Jbre I i—-has not said Optra since. BP* In France, the people Are beginning to' agitate the question of the Presideecy, fc'r (he next term. Louis Napoleon has been making a tour through the country. In some places he is very welt received, but in oth ers he ta met with decided marks of dtaijr. probation. It is said that Prince de Joineville, a sßn' of Louis Philtippe will be a prominent elu cidate for the Presidency in the year 1852, *■ - " Some of tht growers of strawberries for the London market have as many as $5 acres of the iantLplauted with the fruit. Under the sew constitution of Kentucky, (he Stale election occupy but one day, .in stead of three,aa formerly.
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