The star of the north. (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, September 05, 1850, Image 1
THE STAR OF THE NORTH. .f.r y .-j|—- —— 'ftisy T ajiaMite — 11 i • ^ —~ ■ ■ ■- ■■ ■ rj —-— 1. a. a.,,., ' _ [Two W. p.r Ad.um. VOLUME 2. TIIB STAR OF THE NORTH Is 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 below Market. TERMS :—Two Dollars per annum, if paid w.thin six months from the time of subscri bing ; two dollars and fifty cents if not paid withiu the year. No subscription received for a less period than six months : no discon-" tiniiauoe permitted until all arrearages are paid, ffnless at the option of the editors. A DVERTISV. MiiNTs not exceeding one square, will be inserted three limes for one-dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional insertion. A liberal discount will be made to those who ad vertise by the year. THE Princeton Magazine, a new recruit to - the standing army of "the powers that be" opened its first fire upon the insurgent spirit of reform in tho following dash at Political j and Industrial Socialism. The Reconstruction of Society. A PATRIOTIC BONO. AlK.— The University of Gottingen. . I. When others, once as poor as I, Are growing rich because they try, While my capacity and will Give ine a taste lor sitting still ; • When till around me are at work, While I prefer to act the Turk, Or spend in drinking or at play The greater part of every day: And. as the upshot of it, feel That I must either starve or steal : The only remedy I see For such abuses is the re construction of society, Construction of society. 11. When others know whig 1 know not, Or hear in mind what I forgot An age ago, and dare to speak In praise.of Latin and of Greek, As if a tongue unknown to ine, Of any earthly use conld he; When book worms are allowed to rule | in University and School. While I, because I am a fool, Or happen by the merest chance, To have learned nothing save to dance, j Am set aside, or thrust away, Or not allowed to havo my say, The only remedy 1 see For much abuses, is the re construction of society, Construction of society. • - 111. . 1 When judges frown and parson*aguJl, Because a gentleman makes hold" To laugh at superstitious saws, And violate oppressive laws: When pinching want will not atone For taking what is not your own ; When public sentiment proscribes The taking of judicial bribes, And with indignant scorn regards The gentleman who cheats at cards ; When men of wit no longer dare To tell a lie, or even swear; 'I lie only remedy I see For such abuse, is the re construction of society, Construction of society. IV. When, after turning round and round, And occupying every ground, As preacher, poet, rhetorician, Philanthropist and politician, Ascetic, saint and devotee, Geologist and pharisee, ] seen in vain to gain respect My founding a new-fangled sect, And find the world so cAulious grown, That I must be the sect alone; The only remedy I seo For such abuses, is the re- Construction of society, Construction of society. V. When over and above the scorn Of lrten, wh'n h leaves me thus forlorn, 1 find an enemy Within Who (lari/h to talk to ine of sin, And whispers, even itt my dreams, That iny -disorganizing schemes | Can never conjure blue k to white, Or clearly provo that wrong is right, A nuisance that can never cease Till conscience learns to hold its peace, And men no longer can be awed By apprehension. 1 ! of a God— An! those are griefs for whieh I see No solace even in the re construction of society. Construction of soc.ely. Democratic State Central Committee. At a meeting of tho Democratic Stato Central Committee, held at MCKIBBEN'S Ho tel, Philadelphia, on Wednesday evening, the 21st of August, JOHN HICKMAN, Esq., PF Chester county, Chairman, and EDWARD MAYNARD, Esq of Tioga, Secretary pro tern., the object of the meeii.'ig ha-ring been sta ted, aud the subjoined Addres." read by the Chairman, it was unanimously adopted. AN DREW MILLER and WILLIAM DEAL, Esqrs., of Philadelphia county, were appointed addi tional members of the subcommittee an nounced at the last meeting. There were present representatives from Chester, Mont gomery, Bucks, Tioga, Philadelphia, and Lancaster. The folloivfrtg is the Address adopted by the Committee : A DDR ENS OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. FELLOW CITIZENS: —The approaching e lection for Slate officers, and for members of the Legislature, and representatives in Con gress, according to an honored custom, calls upon the Democratic Cantral Committee of Pennsylvania to add a few words on the iss ues involved in tho coutSChnd on the gen eral aspect of tilings throughout the country. It has been well said that the Democratic party of the country never occupied a high .er or more enviable position than at the present time Out of power at Wash- BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1850. ivgton and at Harrisburg, its measures have, nevertheless, vindicated themselves by the most triumphant results, while the general policy of Democratic administration is the pole-star by which even the whigs guide their shattered barque, and by which alone they are enabled to keep themselves from political shipwreck. A little more than a year of, experience of a Whig national administration, has furnish ed to history another Interesting and valuable example. Coming into power with a huzza, and elated at the prospect of contin ued rule, the Whig leaders themselves were among the loudest to rejoice—however all may have regretted that tho immediate causo should be the sudden death of Uener 'al TAYLOR —aII the termination oT *a Ifegen j cy, the members of which, going into place | amid boasts of ability/experience aiuXSlates manship, remained in office only long e nough to make themselves universally odi ous. Every department of the general gov ernment. under their influence, gave, (lu ring that period, melancholly evidence of the incapacity or unworthinoss of its Secre tary. On the other hand, our foreign rela tions were conducted in a manner to cover the whole country with ridicule, and with such blundering awkwardness as to extract even from the representative of that foreign nation, which sympathises most with Feder alism, the remark that it was weak and un popular. The Treasury Department, not withstanding the intellectual giant, .as ho was called, at its head, did nothing, during the same spaco of time, but establish the fact that the Secretary, in his-war upon the system of his preJecessor, had forgotten the plainest rules of political economy. In an other remarkable instance, we saw one mem ber of the same Regency urging a claim a gainst tiie government, for an exorbitant sum of money, most of which he received himself, having just driven a Hard bargain with his client, and then obtaining the aid of his colleagues in carrying it through its va rious processes, without law, in defiance of law, and in utter disregard of the whole course of the government in similar cases. To complete the striking picture, Congress, by a decided vote, including several inde- I pendent Whigs, rebuked the Regency that ! had supported the claim, and had agreed to i its payment in terms of the several repre- [ henion. The Regency left office amid i general execration of their conduct, and at | a moment when other developements were ! "bout to be imtde, proving still further their uulfliies'' to conduct the affairs of a Repub lican Government. It i- a fact that speaks loudly of the incon sisteucy of our opponents, and of the tri umph of Democratic measures, al the same lime, llial while the last Whig Slate Con vention refused to nominate Mr. STROHM, for Canal ■ Commissioner, because of his vote against a just war—tho war with Mexi co—Mr. FILLMORE, the new Whig Presi dent, at ffrst entirely overlooks Pennsylvania in his choice of Cobinet officers, ar.d con fers the Treasury upon CORWIK, wiiose oppo sition to the same war was so bitter and so uncompromising, that Mexico elevated him into one of her thousand gods, and the A mcrioan sohlier* burnt him in effigy onj die very field where he wished they might re ceive a welcome with bloody hands & hos - pitable graves. We refer to this significient history of ver y recent events, with no desire to revive un pleasant recollections, but to show the peo ple of Pennsylvania—First, how utterly un fit the Federal party are '.o administer the laws: Secondly, how inevitably their false and fictitous course before every election covers them with disgrace, when they get into office : And. thirdly, to place in con trast with their doctrines of expediency aud extravagance, the plain, practical, popular, and comprehensive creed and conduct of Democratio administrations. It is in view of these facts, now a part of tho history of the country, that we think that every Dem ocrat lias occasion to be proud uf the posi tion tho National Democracy occupies at a time when placed in a temporary minority. Under these auspices, the Democrats of Pennsylvania have gone into the present canvass, with renewed courage and coiifi dence. They feel ilia t their cause is right and just ; and they instnetively recall the Whig pledges and promises which preceded the electiou of 1848, and compare them with the proscriptions and persecution that (Save since broken and trampled them under foot. Convinced at the moment these pro fessions were maoe, that they never inten ded to be fulfilled, they have no regret now, save that those who aided to defeat the Dem ocracy less than two years ago, should have only been convinced of the faithlessness of those they confided in, by the melancholy failure at Washington/to which we have re ferred. Have not the members of the great Democratic party, therefore, profound cause for congratulation, amid the general feeling which holds up to the imitation of ourrulers, the enlightened example of Democratic ad minislratioqs? It was under the impulse of such feelings as these, that the Democratic State Conven tion which assembled at Williamsport the 29th of May laßt, placed in nomination the several candidates for State offices, whose names you find inscribed on all your ban ners. These candidates deserve the suppoit of the people of Pennsylvania. Two of the officers to be voted for, have just been made elective by the Legislature, thus imposing an enlarged responsibility upon the citizens in the discharge of hi* elective duties. From similar causes, and the rapid growth and widely extending interests df our State and nation, have our elections, year after year, brought with them an increased im portance and additional risks, lest'our people should fail properly to appreciate and Vigi lantly to defend their liberties. We point with prtde, fellow citizens, to the workings of our republican system, and the official conduct, severally of those Democrats who have been chosen to fill our places of trust, especially since the election of ilia lament ed Francis R. Shunk. The policy of Gov ernor SHUVK'S administration was tho salva tion of Pennsylvania; and has been an ex ample to all others, which it would be mad ness in them not to follow. The high-soul ed independence and stern integrity of that Executive, and the strict responsibility to which every officer of bis administration was held, soon led to those great results, and to the establishment of the admirable system from which so much that was bene ficial to the State has flown. The course of the same statesman-like Governor on the subject of Ranking, may alwaysbo profita bly referred to and imitated.. Where is there, in this broad Union, a .system of public works more economically and more indefa tibly conducted ? The revenues of the State improvements, and the expenditures neces sary to keep them in repair, constitute an ex hibit into which tho Democratic party might fearlessly challenge investigation. Under Democratic administrations no greedy Gal phin are found among the honest men who control your public works, audit your pudl io accounts, or pay out your public monies, forgetting all law and all propriety, in the anxiety to fill their prickets wiih dishonest gains. Democratic policy, and Democratic integrity, lifted off the load of debt which had been piled upon Pennsylvania by the GALPHINS that ruled and ruined in the ad ministration of JOSEPH RITNER. NO longer is our fair fame outraged by the apprehen sion of repudiation. No longer are the State improvements used for personal and party purposes. No longer are the Canal Com missioners engaged in gambling for votes j with the people's money, in establishing "missionary funds," to reward political e- j missaries, or in openly corrupting the ballot boxes.—'The Jeffersonian doctrine of eco nomical expenditure, honest agents, and low salaries,has never been more successively tried than by the Democratic party of Penn sylvania. We appeal also to our fellow citizens, and especially to our Democratic party, to keep constantly in view the great importance of electing honest and well tried men to repre sent us in the State Legislature; men who will advocate the usages which have made glorious principles triumphant; who will participate in the regular party Caucuses j and who will sternly abide by the nomina tions made by the majority A United ?ta es Senator is to be elected in January for six years next ensuing the 4th of March, 1851, and it is due to our State that such a Demo crat shall be chosen as will prove to be equal to the lofty responsibilities of the position, and a faithful representative of the well known opinions of the Democratic party. It must not be forgottfen, fellow citizens, that however ample are the causes pleading in favor of the success of the Democratic party and however odious the political prin ciples to which we are all opposed, victory cannot be obtained without a vigorous and harmonious effort on our part. Do not let us suppose that the Whig party is disorgan ized by recent events and recent exposures. We have seen a majority of Whigs on the floor of Congress voting to sustain the GAL PHIN infamy; and we must not be astonish ed to see the Whig leaders in our Stale, try ing, in the face of recent occurrences, to ob tain the mastery in the coming contest. It is now, as it always has been, a contest be tween the antagonist parties, between the friends of Aristocratic doctrines and expen sive government, and the advocates of Democratic doctrines, and a frugal govern ment; and, however, disastrously the for tunes of the day may eventuate to the first, it will retain enough of its ancient vigor to contend against the last at every fitting op portunity Therefore, fellow Democrats, we invoke you to harmony and concert. In several of the counties differences exist which pru dence and patriotism may soon compose Will not our political friends in those coun ties pause and ponder upon the importance of sinking all personal differences for the good of the common cause. Remember if these feuds are left opening and festering, you may have Whigs in your State offices; a Whig United States Senator; and a Whig Congressional delegation, which in the event of the next' Presidential contest going into the house, would throw the vote of Demo cratic Pennsylvania agaiust the Democratio candidate. How utterly humiliated those will be, who, failing to exercise a disinter ested spirit, may aid to give victory to our adversaries, in the hour of Demo cratio defeat may be held justly accountable fdPthe fatal consequences! We again in voke our political brethren to exercise all piudence and care—we invoke all candi dates to remember that the cause is higher than mere men—and, if our counsels shall be heeded, me may look forward for a tri uraph worthy of the best days of the glori ous.Democratic State nf Pennsylvania. JOHN HICKMAN, Chairman, EDWARD MATNARP, Sec'y pro. tem. 17* If you lie upon roses when young you will lie upon thorns when old. Early day* of Silas Wrlght-Aq iLcident A friend, who was an acquaintance of the late Hon. Silas Wright, related to us an anec dote of that distinguished man which he re ceived from his own lips, and as we have never seen it in print, (although it may have been,) we give it to our readers. Mr. Wright left his home at an early ago to "seek his fortune," having byway of earthly possessions, a fine horse, saddle and bridle, a pair of saddle bags, a small store of clothing, and five hundred dollars in mon ey, which was in bills, and deposited in his saddle bags. He took B westward course, and in travelling one day, he overtook a man with a wagon nqd furniture, and an old span of horses, apparently emigrating. There was nothing particularly attractive at first view, in bis person or equipage, but upon closer inspection, Mr. W., discovered the daughter of the emigrant.a most beautiful young lady, evidently refined and intelligent. They journeyed onward toward Geneva, chattering cosily together, when suddenly the old gentleman recollected that he wish ed to get his money changed at the Geneva Bank, and to enable him to reach that place before the close of the bank hours, he pro posed that young Wright should take his seat beside the beautiful daughter, allow him to mount Wright's horse and hast in forward. Ardent, and half smitten by the charms of the young lady, Silas gladly ac cepted the proposition, and leaping from his horse, allowed the old man to mount and make off with all his earthly possessions, money inclusive, without a second thought. "Rapidly the hours of Thalaba went by," while these two young and gifted beings pursued their course, (quite leisurely it may be surmised) towards their journey's desti nation. On arriving at Geneva, Mr. Wright drove to the principal tavern, and left the lady, but then for the first time, a shade of anxiety crossed hi* mind for the safety of his fine horse and his money. Ho went to all the other public houses, but could hear of no such man as he described ; he beat up to the quarters of the cashier of the bank, and learned to his additional concern, that such a man had called at the bank, ami en deavored to get some money changed, which he had declined doing, as the notes which were offered were counterfeit! Our future slateman then came to the conclusion that he had mada a cfooked startjn life. About fifty dollars worth of old furniture, a ililipi daled wagon, and a span of worn out hor ses, for a wardtobe, a fine horse, and five hundred dollars 1 Aye; but then there was the pretty daughter,—but her hi could not keep as personal property, without her own consent, and without money he hardly wanted a wife. He was at his wits end, and had just Con cluded to make the best of a bad baigain, when the old man made his appearance, wi'h horse and money all safe. It turned out that the money which the cashier had thought to be counterfeit was not so, and the mistake bad given the oIJ man the trouble to go to some distance, to find an acquain tance ; who might vouch for his respectability in case of trouble, and this occasioned his mysterious absence. Tit the sequal, the beautiful daughter became afterwards the wife of the future statesman Detroit Ad vertiser. SHAVING IN SPAIN.— An Irish gentleman travelling through Spain, went into a bar ber's shop to get shaved. The man of foam with great obsequiousness, placing his cus tomer on the chair, commenced operations by spitting on the soap and rubbing it over the gentleman's face. "Blood an' 'ounds!'' was the exclamation of the Irishman—"is that the way you shave a gentleman I" at the same time preparing his wrath to ever turn the wig minister. "It's the way we shave a gentleman, Se nor." "Then how do you shave a poor manV' "We spit on his face and rub the soap o ver that," was the Spaniard's reply. "Och, then, if I remember nothing of Spain but the one thing, it will be the Span ish barber's distinction." And so saying, the Hibernian rose, paid the demand, and departed. PUTTING THE FLIES TO ROOST. —In one of the Toledo hotels, a stuttering little waiter and the block cook were at sword's points, and the only end for which Jack, the waiter, lived was to paster the cook. A few days since, when the air was scorching, and flies in the dining room were more pldr.ty than candidates at a free democratic convention, word was sent to the cook thai Jack wanted him. He hurried up with—"Well, salt, what do you wantl" "Why, cook," replied Jack, "yob see the f-f flies b-bother me s-so I c-ant set the Lia ble, and as you're s-so d-d-duced b black I Want you to cast a sh-shade over the r-room and they'd t-think it wits night and g;g-g-go to roost!" EPIGRAM on the fashionable mode of la dies wearing watches in their bosom: Among our fashionable belles. No wonder now that time should Huge;; Allowed to place his rude two hands Where uo one else dare place a finger. 17* A Country youth who had returned home Irom a visit to the oity, was asked by his anxious dad if he had been guarded in his conduct while there. "Oh, yes," replied the ingenious lad, "I was guarded by two constables taost of the time." The Modern PUlpit. It seems to us that theology is last falling behind the other professions, in regard to the character and intelligence demanded in its professors. Depth, comprehension, a large knowledge of life, skill in dissecting evi dence and motives, a general force of be ing which never yields to moral or intellect ual timidity, are not now insisted upon as necessary to the clergyman. The toleration awarded to feeble sermons Is the sharpest of all silent etaires on 'the decline of divinity. Forcible men, possessing sufficient vigor and vitality to ' 'get along in the world " rush almost universally into the other professions. Law iiiid.poliliqyrin ffltl*cd<lntry, draw into their vertex hundreds of scholars who ought to be preachers of God's word botli to law and politics. If youth of education does not evince enough understanding to sift ev- , idence or tear away the defences of a so phism—if he lacks sufficient nerve to badg er a witness or ampule a leg, his "parents think him eminently calculated for that oth er profession, whose members are to scatter the reasonings of Hume and Diderot, to smite wickedness in high places, to lay bare the baseness of accredited sins, to brave with an unflinching front the oppression of the selfish and the strong, and to dare, if need be, all the powers of earth and hell in the cause of justice and truth. This, we need not say. is all wrong. If the powers of darkness and delusion are strong in all the strength of bad passions and sophistical vices, let them be opposed by men whose spirits are of the "greatest size aud divinest mettleby men who have the arm to smite and brain to know; by men whose souls can thread al! those mazes of deceit through which sin eludes the chase of the weak in heart and the small in mind. With out force of character, there can be no force of impression. Words never gush out with peisuasive or awful power from a feeble heart.— E. P. Whipple. Music OF THE PACIFIC.—NO one can be in Monterey a single night, without being star tled and awed by the deep, solemn crashes of the stirf, as it breaks along the shore. There is no continuous roar of the plunging waves, as we hear on the Atlantic seaboard; the 6low, regular swellss—quick pulsation of the great Pacific's heart—fall inwnrd in un broken lines, antF fall with "Single grand crashes with intervals of dead silence be tween.—They may be heard through the day, if one listens, like a solemn under tone to all the shallow hoi&es of the town ; but at midnight, when all else are still, these sue- 1 cessive shocks fall upon the ear with a sen sation of inexpressible solemnity. All the air, from the pine forest to tho sea, is filled with a light tremor, and the intermitting beats of sounds are strong enough to jar a delicate ear. Their constant repetition at last produces a feeling something like terror. A spirit worn and weakened by some scath ing sorrow, could scarcely bear the reverber ation.—Taylor's Califprnia. THE HOME OF TASTF.. —How easy it is to J be neat?—to be clean ! How easy to ar range the rooms with tho most graceful pro priety ! How easy it is to invest our houses with the truest elegance ! Elegance resides not with the upholsterer or tho draper; it is not in the mosaics, the carpe tings, the rose wood, the mahogany, the-candolabra,.or the marble ornaments, it exists in the spirit pie siding over the chambers of the dwelling. ' Contentment must always be most graceful; it sheds serenity ovet the scene of its abode; it transforms a waste into a garden. The homo lighted by these intimations of a no bler and brighter life may be wanting i n much whicn the discontented desire ; but to its inhabitants it will be a palace, fai outviw mg the oriential in brilliancy and glory i — ■■ ■ SALLY you seem to be ignorant in 1 geogra phy I will examir.e you in grajpniar. Take the sentence, "marriage is a c ivil contract." Parse marriage. "Marrigge is a noun because it's a name. And though Shakespeare asks what's a name, and says that a rose by any other name would smell as swoet, yet marriage being a noun, and therefore a name; shows that the rule established by the Bard of A von has at least one exception. For mar riage certainly is of very great importance, and being a noun and therefore a name, er go, there is something in a name." "Good!— Well, what is the case of mar riage?" "Don't know, sir." "Decline it, and see." "Don't feel at liberty to decline marriage after having made Billy the promise I jliave Bad rather .conjugate." What female recluse is that whose name, read backwards and forwards the same? Nun. Whai lady like designation is that which is spelt backwards the same ? Mad am. What lady's natne is that which is spelt backwards Bnd forwards the same? Eve. What lime is that which if spelt back wards and forwards is the same? Noon. What portion of a young lady's dress is that which spelt bockwards and forwards is the same? Bib/- 17* Western editor declares that some of the young women who pass his village in the arks, on the river, are perfect divinities. He means, says a northern paper, arkangets. Want of Conrage. Sydnejt Smith, in his work on moral phil osophy, speaks in this wise of what men lose for the want of a little brass, as it is termed: "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained in obscurity because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if they could only have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame. The fact is, that in order to do any tning in this world worth doipg, we must not stand shivering ard thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. It will not do to Jjfe perpetually calculating risks, and adjust ing nice chances; it did all very well be fore the Flood, when a man could consult his friends upon an intended publication for a hundred and fifty years and then live to see its success lor six or seven centuries af terwards, but at present a man waits, aud doubts, and hesitates, and consults his broth er, and his uncle, and his first cousins, and his particular friends, till one fine day he finds that he is sixty-five in years—that he has lost so much time in consulting first cou sins and particular friends, that he has no more time left to follow their advice. There is such little lime for over-squeamishness at present, the opportunity so easily slips away, the very period of life at which a man choo ses to venture, if ever, is c oonfincd, that it is no bad rule to preach up the necessity, in such instances, of violence done to the feelings, and of efforts made in defiance ! of 6trict and sober calculation." TIIE FATE OF GENIUS. There is in Boston a man of sixty years of age, who gradualed at the University al Dub lin, Ireland—was admitted, at 22, as a Sur geon in the British army, and in that capa city visited this country with the English ; was present at the destruction of the public houses, stores, &c., at Washington city; has been in India with the British army ; has been present during his service as a surgeon, at over four thousand amputations, and fif teen severe battles; was shot twice, perform ed surgical. -OjiataUens on -three hundred wounded generals, sevgn colonels, twenty captains, and over eleven thousand officers of smaller grade, &c. Has dined with two kings, one empress, one emporof, the sultan, a pope, innumerable generals &c. Has held the largest diamond in his hand known in the world, except one. Has had the British crown on his head. Has been married threo times, father to eleven children, all of whom he survived. Broken down by disease, lie could no longer practice his profession j too poor to live without employment, and too proud to become a pauper, he sailed in an emigrant ship to this country three years a go; and this man of remarkable adventures; classic education, master of four languages, sixty years of age, poor, old, and decaying, is now peddling oranges and apples iii the streets of Boston I—"W c know what we are —verily we know not what we may be !" 17* Sheridan was never free from pecu niary embarrassments. As h was one day hacking his face with a dull razor, he turned to his eldest son (who was a chip of the old b.ock,) and said, "Tbm, if you open any more oysters with my razor, I'll cut you off with a shilling." "Very well father," re torted Tom, "but where will the shilling come from ?" FISHING. —The act of a fool of one species, trying to deceive a fool of another, not al ways successful however. STUPID FELLOW. —One who allows his tongue sdme rest in the course of twenty lour hours. FRIENDS. —Your daily associates, who will do anything but assist you in distress. Low CREATURE.—A beautiful modest girl,- who is 100 poor to dress in tho extremity of the fashion. OLDJMAID, —A lady who has attained the age of twenty-lour or five, without having married a fool, a knave, a gambler or a drunkard. Gen. Lrimere tells a good story about T.J. j Fox Alden. Mr. Alden stopped at the bridge toll house one day, and inquired: ' How much do you charge, sir?" "You may pass on ; we don't charge Preachers, replied thejcolleetor. "The h—ll you don't! exclaimed Aldan looking wildly;". An extraordinary surgical operation was lately performed, which was the complete removal of the patient into another world. The physician it doing well. a "I'm glad this coffee don't owe ine any thing," said a financier at breakfast.— "Why?" grumbled his wile. "Cause I don't believo it would ever settle." ■ There were over 30,000 births last year hi Paris, of which 12,000 were illegitimate. Very nauty place, that Paris. Why is a dentist likely to be a melancho ly map? Because he always looks down in the mouth. NUMBER From the Tioga Eagle. LEGISLATION—LABOR. What is called the circulating medium of tho country, is at all times a subject of vi tal interest to the community at large, but peculiarly so now, in consequence of the act of Assembly prohibiting the circulatiou of bank notes of a less denomination than five dollars, and whieh act takes effect on the 21st inst. We deem it peculiarly un fortunate for this section ol the State, the passage of said act, but as it is the law of the Commonwealth, we all must shape our business to enable us to live up to ils full re quirements. There seems to be a class of persons who look geherally to legislation to remove all fi ancial an! business evils. Yes, * es, say they, procure an act of Assembly for this thing, and an act for that, and so on. 1 he thing is done if the Legislatnre pass an act. Do not sensible men know that legis lation can never pay debts, as governments are not money making but money consu ming machines. It is said that there 'are more enacted in the United States in one j ear, than in all the rest of the world Ninety-nine in a hundred of these laws are private acts- granting to certain individual* advantages nnd privileges not enjoyed by the rest of society. The worst feature of litis kind of legislation is, that the honest and industrious are much more rarely tho re cipients of these legislative bounties ihan the cunning and the idle. The great and frequent evil arising Irom legislative attempts to pay debts, is that they transfer the burden of debt Irom one 6et of men to place it with accumulated weight on the shoulders of another set. It may be seated as a proposition universally true, that legislation never relieves the pecuniary embarrassments of one individual, except at the expense of the community. Nay more the community always pays more in ,av ll'-P 'be benefitted individual gets by way df i-elief. The very indirection in which such/ partial legislation is alway* shrouded, greases the weight of the lax, whilst it ofceures the iniquitous operation of the laws. The manufacturer gets hardly half the tax paid by the" consumer under a protective tariff. The Sloclfc-heldeps get muchiless than half of tho tax levied by a Bank under its charter. Internal Improve ments Universally cost the country twice as much as they benefit the peculiar erection in which they are located. This legislative mode of paying debts or relieving embar rassments by transferring them, is then more iniquitous in reality, though less odious iu form, than open confiscation of property or cancelling of debts.—The process of relief will swallow up the estate of the bankrupt and leave nothing for his creditors. Obvious as thhse truths are, or at least ought to be, we continually hear a large and intelligent paity in this country railing a gainet Government for not relieving the country from its embarrassments, and cry ing aloud for that very partial legis'atiou which relieves one set of men at the ex pense of another. If this system of legis lation is ever countenanced t>y the people, we hesitate not to say, that wc shall not onlv be badly governed, but worse governed than any nation on earth. The recipients of legislative bounty would be infinite in num ber aud insatiate in appetite, for no sooner would one swarm be gratified than a new one would diise to ask fdr favors, bounties and taxation for their exclusive benefit. Tho quiet pursuits of industry would be aban doned, when men found whilst were at work their more fortunate neighbors, by besieging legislative halls, were appropriating by law the produce of (heir sweat and toil. A gov ernment so conducted rrtust soon come to an end, for none would labor when the fruits of their labor were to be given by law to the cunning aud idle. A people majr continue to bear the burden of an hereditary nolilily trenched round with exclusive privileges, because such no bility is always comparatively few In num ber and moderate in its demands; but to bear a constantly shifting, constantly recruit ing privileged class, with cormorant appe tites and Hyena-like propensities, is more than human nature is qualified for. Labor and Economy, and labor and econ omy alone, can relieve the country from its embarrassments. It is a laW of our nature onateil by our Maker, that man shall earn his bread by the "sweat of his brow"— h law which no legislative legerdemain cart suspended of repeat.—Nb mattct how bad the currency is, if a man labors hard and makes more than he spends, ho will* grow rich, if lie is not over-taxed to pay other people's debts. No matter how good (tie currency is, tho idle and extravagant will be come pob'r. 17" The fallowing daguerreotype of ins Satanic Majesty is said to have actually been gitren by a negro preacher in Virgin ia to his colored brudderin. 'Stan 'side trig gers, luf ine tell you, I hab a dream and see de debil. He hab an eye like de moon ; he hab a nose like a canoe ; he hab an' ear same as a bacca leaf, he hab a shoulder (ike de Bine Ridge, and he hab tail hke do rain bow. Pharisees and Saducets.—We little thought that anything pleasant could be made out or these two sects, but an aunt of ones haa told us that one day meeting Leigh Hani, she, ia order to excuse her gravity said—"l am very lad you see (Sadueee.) The cour'ly wit re plied, in order to compliment her beauty— "You are very fair I see! (.Pharisee.)