THE STAR OF THE NORTH. a. IF. two t rofHelorO Truth hud IKb)—Oil and rar looutrj. Two IttlUrit per Annua. YOLUM E 2. THE STAR ' OF THE NORTH Is pulMsed every Thursday Morning, by R. W. WEAVER. QFFtCK Up stairs in the New Brick building ee the south si de of Main street, third square below Market. TERMS -.—Two Dollars per annum, if paid ■within s'x mouths from the time of subscri • two dob'ars and fifty cents if not paid within the year No subscription received for a less period tl.ian 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 twenty-five cents for oach additional insortion A liberal discount will be made to those who ad vertise by the year. A Wery Grave Hexortatlon. I believe you isn't married, Ned? You does'nt know the sweets Yat \V aits upon that happy stale, Ven man and voman meets, 1 he bu.sani'j varm emotions, Ned, qChe di'ods"withiti the eyes ; The nir ß vash'd things, the darn'd stocktns, Xad a.'l tliem tender tiea , "on don't km™ vat it is, Ned, \ *ile lying in your bed, } re on caret voman's torin, To fta. break(ni f things is spread. Vile t. 'on't vant tO <? el U P> Ned i feels so n.'' e ' The kiver <. uke And she says, -> o i|, er slico' And this here.l Vile the fire-is burning And all upon the chat..' - Your linen and your drawt. ' Is hanging up to air, . I axes every heart, Ned,. Vat isn't made of steel, *..'•• If they ken gaze upon that fire, And not A varmtng feel ? Oh ! wery few, indeed, Ned,. Knows ven they're truly happy; Ven the baby is fetch'd in, Ned, "To kiss its lazy papy! You little tency, petify thing—? 1 Its mammy—turn and eat her ; You bessed babe—it was so thweet It thouldn't be no thjveeter- _ You <fod, a blessed angel, you— It pulls its pappy's hair! Take fingers out of nappy's cup— Don't cry then, Thweelest—there. Oh, fi! to spill all pappy's tea? You naughty, ducky, tlandy, Owny, dony, voguey, pogney, Thweet as eugar-candj." . Oh, Ned! there are some moments ven The sternest hearts will quiver; Fust let that baby spill your tea, Vile you're beneath the kiver, Vun.little Sland.within your hair, The .t'other in your cup; v Don't vonder if we sometimes feel As ye coukl "eat 'enf up." From the Dublin University Magazine. ! LAY UP T Ut FAMINE. THE IRISH HUSBAND TO IIIS WIFE. Bright was your blue eye, Kathleen, Smooth was your suuny brow, • On that fair mom, my Kathleen, When you breathed your briual vow. Joy wove his choicest treasures round us; Peace came with all hdr smiling train; Mirth ih his magic circle bound us, Whence fled the .phantoms, Grief and Pain. . Few years have passed, my Kathleen, Since you breathed your bridal vow, Hope standing o'er us,. Kathleen— O God, to see you now ! To.see your blue eye waning, waning, Tosee your brow seam'd with pain, To see gaunt Hunger's red tooltj drawing, The life blood from each throbbing vein! Fair was our first born, Kathleen, As it hung upon your breast Oh ! weep not, weep not, Kathleen, Why mourn its speedy rest ? And tell me not its smiles would lighten The pangs that revel through this heart Say, how could smiles its youth cheek brighten, While Famine struck with venom'd dart? Our last, our youngest, Kathleen, Forgive this struggling tear— Its sinking cries, my Kathleen, Ring ever on my ear. OGod, to hear its plaintive wailing, To see your look of daric despair, V hen the" mother's fountain failing. Its lips convulsive drank-but air) Rest on this bosom, Kathleen- All, save your love, is fled ! Ha, what—my wife! my Kathleen! Fiend, Pempter,.she's not dead ! Stare not with those eyes so blindly, Fan me with thy gentle breath, Speak ! even coldly or unkindly- Kathleen, Kathleen, is ibis death ? An Old Man's Advice. Never attempt to strike the guilty, whore, by a misdirected, or too hasty blow, the in qoC?nt, tjjp gallant, and the good may suffer. —Never*.'<? rr ut P t 10 a villain > if Y OUf _ . „ -?e "likei." to injure those . efforts in doing so u.™ ' , who have been the unsuspecl! n ß U I j his artifice. Never wager a larger £Wm luff" you carry in your pocket. Never shake hands with a man if you are not really glad | to see him. Never forget when you meet, to I j recognise your frrends, and be even more |J careful to offer yodrsalutatfou to those that are poor. Never quarrel without a sufficient t- cause, but if it be necessary to keep up a qoarrel, theft see that quarrel firmly put to #n end. Never betray .confi dence ol*>fty kind, but rove particularly that of a woman. .'*• •• W A Gentleman in the vicinity 1 of Boa ton, lately invested 839 in cigars, to be sent to California; By the last steamer he re ceived the following; "Youi cigars (throe thousand) are sold, aud brought <450. BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1850. | How a Model Artist won an Heiress. BY M. G. LEWIS. "Desirable piles," such as suit "fast young men," are hard to find, and when found QfV ing to the great competition, a devilish sight harder to win; to prove this we will relate our own experience, for the benefit of all "laying for piles." Not being 'manor bom,' not heir to a mai den aunt, gouty uncle or rich governor, and feeling a predisposition to circulate the "filthy lucre," instead of circulating ourselves for it, we early began to look for specks, percenta ges and safe operations. After weighing the pros and cons, we concluded to take a hand in the game of matter o' money (matrimony) and play to win ; therefore considered an in dividual about our size in one of the liyme niai scales to be weighed drawn by an 'angel' with a sufficient pilf, Having "set our nags," we determined to fly high, make or break, do or die, and 'stand ' up to the rack' in spite of landlords, flash tailors, wash women, cruel fathers, fighting brothers, or rich rivals, remembering that Washington was one a boy. Anticipation's better than participation, 'faint heart never won fair lady,'and determining that if we should fail twenty times, to 'never give it up so,' but 'try, try again,' for always "There's a good time coming boys, Wait a little longer." VVe stuck to the text for several years, ex ercising talents enough to send a man to Congress, make a respectable hero in an over true tale, a s!ar lawyer, or keep a ras cal out of the States Prison. first turned Jew; was Jeicvd by a Jewess; I secede J 10 Methodism aud shad-USlhcd I coats; a l'.ake cut us out; was converted uj' Catholicism,' found the'needful,' went to (*re church; whirled into the Quaker ranks; said .'liee and thou found the old one a dead shave; landed a.mong the Dunkards; wore a long board ; talked Dutch ; had too sharp a nose and couldn't come in ; and last ly pitched into the Mormons:, hnd a good , time generally, but found the 'root of all e vil' scarce in that pious community. We now gave up religion, as we found by dear experience that it would not pay ; cour - ted boarding school misses ; serenaded rich 'vidders ;' eulogized belles in poetical col umns ; flirted at the springs, aiiu nattered, admired, loved, and proposed to daughters innumerable. We did not come off boot less in tlie game, as we have had rings, af foctiops. gifts. bouquets, billet douxes, val entines, hearts transfixed by darts, keep sakes, vows, protestations, sweet smiles, ! soft glances, stolen kisses, and moonlight | meetings enough to satify all the lovers in a ! large country. The 'consummation dovoutedly to be wish ed' was always knocked into a 'cocked hat' by a cross lather, kicking brother, fighting rival, covenant visit to relations, or by our crawfishing, whenever we found the pile with too largo a divisor, dependant upon the demise ot a hale, hearty o'.d one, doubtful or non est', for we had no idea of trying a doubtful experiment, objecting in toto to- de voting the remainder of our span to the rais ing of Berkshires, Doikings, Durhams and Cherubs ; the latter, suckers, the raw materi | al from which grow men with patched pants and milliners. At last the 'time and tide' cams along and we jumped fnlo the flood ia. a manner never dreamed of in our philosophy. We met a quondam friend at the- races, one Ben Kinyon, who had lately doubled himself and estate by matrimony. Being up for 'Cowes and market,' we accepted a seat in his were soon posting along after a spanking pair of bays, three minute nags. Near sun-down we arrived at his 'box,' where we found his bride and a visiter ab sent. Leaving Ben to superintend his bays, we retired to our room, and finding it fitted up in modern style, witk baths, &c., we were soon luxuriating hydrophatically. While thus a 'Model Artist,' enjoying the balmy freshness and coolness of the evening* we noticed a cross the hall, the door of the library open, and abstractly walked therein. Becoming deeply engaged, we entirely forgot our Ad | amized appearance, till we heard female voi ces approaching in thd hall; there was no chance for escape, no behind "tho dqor, cub by holes or fig tress, whereby to hide. our selves—what a fix for a modest man ! Standing on the shaded side of the room were Plaster of Paris statues of Venus, Her cules, Diana, Jove, &c., which Ben had late ordered, and which had been unpacked, and set up during (he ftbseqce of his lady. As quick us thought WQ sided up to Jove t drew back one of ourpedal extremities, ex panded the chest, folded the arms acrcss it, threw back the head with a stern expression of tho phiz, rolled up the eyes and stood as firm as the rock of ages. ..Tlie dim shadows of 67e2' D S enveloped us with a ljazy .light, that broke iiift distinction of .outline,iiitl the soft tints of flesh 6.7<1 blood, antf so confoun ded'the real with the ideal, that we flattered ourselves that we should pasß - muster and make a very respectable statue. How short-sighted iftjnan ! : In came Ben's lady with her companion to view the statuary. t "How beautiful in this soft, mellow light— A they look Ukajtviiig figures!" exclaimed the visiter.' ' ... We involuntarily tolled an aye and thought 'how beautiful'of her..... • ' Yes;splendid speciiitecs of the antique,' answered the other. "Here is Jove, ready to hurl his thunder bolts." > . "And Juno—how queenly." "This (tapping me with a fan) must be Adonis—although the design looks new." "What an expressive cast of the face." "Symmetrical neck and superb bust." We felt flattered. "Lame! did you ever!" "No, I never." "How very unartislical." "Yes, very. Who ever saw the arms of a statue folded across the chest ?" "It shan't stay a minute here. Ben bought it IJ plague me." "But is a fine specimen except that, what muscular power, strength and action, and littleness of form." "But it shan't stay," interrupted Ben's bride as she called a couple of black waiting women, ordering them to set us carefully in to the rubbish room, and then starting with her companion, (who cast back many a lin gering look,) to give Ben a Caudle Lecture. "He'd be pert lookin' ef he' only colored,', said one of the ebonys, examining us. "Yah, yah—efhe's ali"e he'd be sum punkius,' answered the other. "Missus sez we must be werry keerful, not to break none ov the pints off.'.' They crossed hands, and lowering us be tween them carried us gently along. "He's verry warm." "De rays ob de sun comcemtrate on his body." "Wat's dat? I smells de stateary's bref." "It's a d d lie," we ejaculated uncon. sctously. Ktr whop come we in contact with the hall floor. Ker tumble heels over head, pitched the yelling ebonys down stairs ! We gather ed ourselves; gathered Hercules, and laid fii.'O where we had been dropped, bolted in to oui 1 roOm and habiliments, and in two minutes and a i'alf was on the sofa, snor ing. No sooner done than thet whole household came to the top of the stairs. "Dare him lies, massa—him swore lilf.e eb ryting," groaned the trembling, nose flatten ed, and face battered ebony, shrinking back, j "Hercules, you have got a bad name," chuckled Ben, walking up to the statue, a- j mused; though he couldn't account for the various stories. "Don't know what ye calls him, he's de chap watdid it,' said the other curly head at the top of the stairs. "Some mistake," muttered the bride, ap proaching, then looking into the library ; "I can hardly believe my senses." "I never heard the like," sighed the visi or ; "Adonis is gone." "Dis'ere is no more de chapwatwe drap ped, den a niggeres a white man." The party retired to tell witch stories, ghost tales, and ponder over the mysteiy, except Ben; who, after restoring Herculus to his for mer position, came and commenced shaking us, with— "Wake up ! Have you heard any noise?" ''No—sleep cannon proof—what's up ?' rubbing our eyes. "It took noise enough to wake, you, to start a regiment of soldiers. Wife has the head-ache. What do you say to a bacelor set down, with a few bottles of champe to assist digestion ?" "Don't dodge the question." Under the mellowing influence of the 'rosy god,' Ben peached the mysteiious secret— which we cleared up under the express con sideration that it should be kept. We were introduced to the ladies the next morning, and saw by the twinkling of eyes and rosy blushes that the secret had been kept^—circulating. Sufficient is it to say that the young lady who admired us as a statue, admired us much more in propria persona ; that 4|w had many charms, not the least of a hundred thousand dollars; and that in fond weeks we sent the printer a cake with a wed ding notice. Reader at the present time there's (talk f of our tunning for Congress) a pearly arm on our shoulders, a little alabaster hand playing in our lock*, a roguish face with black eyes, rosy cheeks, and ruby lips bending over us (an explosion like unto a cork popping from a beer bottle) "You are real naughty to tell a bout it. — Albany Dutchman. Marry!*#. "If ever you marry," raid an uncle, ''let it be a woman who has judgment enough to superintend the work - nough to dress herself; .pride enough to wash herself before breakfast ; and sense e nough to hold her tongue when she has noth ing to Bay." W Jenny Lind, before her departure from Philadelphia, gave three thousand dollars to the ftfnd for the alleviation of the sufferings of those who were turned out of house and home, or who lost protectors, by the late great fire in that city. • BT At a fancy ball, in Louisville, one of the guests appeared in the rfliaracter - of a census taker. He had hisshedule with him,' and caused much amusement by his ques tion as to the age, wealth, he., of all the pretty ladies. 3" The children of fugitive slaves, bom in free States cannot be made slaves by fixer I owners of parents. The (tonstitution only de-1 rhands the restoration of such persons as have neaped from slavery. • * Judge Grier's View of the Fugitive Slave law. The following is Judge Griet'tr letter in re ply to Charles Gibbons, giving a sound and sensible view of the much abused Fugitive Slave law. It will be read with interest and satisfaction. PHILADELPHIA, Oet. 25, 1850. Dear Sir—My official engagements have hindered me from giving that prompt atten tion to the contents of your letter of the 22d instant, whicti it would otherwise have re ceived. Until informed by you I was unable to ap prehend what possible cause could be as signed for the unmgjsUjod denunciations with which the act concerning fugitives from labor, passed at the last session of Congress, lias been received by so many persons in the northern- portion of the Union. Although it would be improper for jne to volunteer extra judicial opinions upon dpubt ful questions of construction of a public sta tute, yet if any opinions expressed "by the court on the late case of Henry Garnett, or which, though not then expressed seem to me incapable of dispute, can have any ten dency to correct misapprehensions and ca!m the public agitation on this subject, I am perfectly willing to state them. In the case of Garnett, the warrant issued by the Court was fotrtided on the affidavit of the alleged owner of the fugitive. But "on the trial or hearing," before the Court, after the arrest, this affidavit was not received in evidence, nor did the counsql for the clai mant insist that it should be received. The claimant had wholly neglected to make the proper proof, before.Hflipe-Court or Judge in Maryland, to establish the fact, that he was owner of a slave, or person held to labor, and what was the name, age size, and other marks, of such person ; and that the person so described had escaped. Not having a vailed himself of the privilege and facilities given him by the act of Congress for this purpose, we decided that he must be bound by the common law rules of evidence, as in other cases, where a title to property has to be established before a Court. We refused to receive the parties in interest as witnes ses, and wi'Js, and other documents of title, unless properly proved. The act contemplates a trial and a decis ion of the Court or Judge, Involving ques tions both and fact, and unless the rules of the common law"as td evidence be followed, when not dhanged by statute, the tribunal -would be without rate, gurrncU ( u[l- ly by caprice, or undefined descietion, Which would be the exercise of a tyranical, not a judicial power. It is the duty of the Judge who exercises it, to render equal justice both to the claimant and the person claimed, if evidence were heard on one side only, and that too, without regard to any rule or prin ciple known to the law, gross oppression and wrong would flow from it. Free men and citizens of Pennsylvania might be kid napped into bondage, undor forms of law, and by the action of a legal tribunal, sworn to do justice to all men. This much ma ligned law not only gives a "trial," before a legal tribunal, before the claimant can be authorized *.o carry the alleged fugitive out, of tho Stale, but it takes away from the pris- j oner no riuht .which he would have enjoyed before this act of Congress was passed. It; all cases of evidence estab | fishing the offence, and the escape of the person demanded, is usually made in the country from which the person demanded has escaped, and is necessarily ex-parte, and the chief questiou to be described by the tri bunal before whom he is brought, previous ly to making an order for his extradition, is only the question of identity. The party I demanded has a right, of course to show that he is not the person described. But if -he be the person dfNcrjbed, Ire has no right a joryjlrial, as to the question of flßTcaifoin, the aountrv to which he has es ; napSHVIl* qtMHon rff identity, and whelh j er claimed ift such a one as the treaty between ths two dountr'es requires to be delivered up, has always been tried sum marily and withouiatho intervention of a ju ry. No complaint hjuaver been made when white men have beeu sent to Europe, on a demand for their extradition, without giving them a jury V greater privile ges in this mattVrlqAld be granted to col ored persons, is not easily perceived. The Slate of Pennsylvania guarantees a jury tria to her own citizens, or to persons who are Charged with committing an oflence within her borders, Fugitives from an other State have on such rights. The government to which the fugitive belongs, it is to be pre sumed will do justice to its own subjectr or citizens, and whether thtty do so, or.' not. ,1s no concern of ours. However individuals may fancy they/lave a mission to rectify all vrrpngs on the face of the ea'rth, the State of Pennsylvania does not feel herself bouftff to 'the Quixotic enterprise of avenging UIPJJp* pressiftn of serfo in Russia or slaves in QftOf gia. This act of Congress does not require that a judge should, without trial, surrender a citizen of Pennsylvania to a kidnapper. The provision, "that in no trial on. heating, under this act, shall theltestimony of such fugitive be admitted iu evidence,'" is n6 more than the enactment of an establisLed principle of the common law, than no man shall be witoeaam fit* Own causjU If this provision were not in the act,' I would no ( receive the (eetimony of the pfispner to prove that he was not thft perstm described, or that he was a free mail.. It would -be a -temptation to petjury which no - tribunal should permit to be presented to any man . No lawyer would urge, before a Court, such an absurd construction of the act of Con gress, as, that it means that no evidence should be heard on the part of the alleged fugitive. If such were the intention of the legislature, it was easy to express'it in une quivocal terms. In truth there is nothing e qutvocal in the language of the act; —it for bids the judge to hear the testimy of the fu gitive, but not the testimony of disinterested witnesses. It almost seems, that nothing but a desire to tender the law odious, for the sake of political agitation could never have led to so gross a misconstruction, and so great a libel on national legislature. It bos been objected also to this law, that it suspends the habeas corpus —inasmuch as -it enacts that the certificate of the Judge, or Commissioner, "sha'l be conclusive of the right of the persons in whose favor granted, to remove such fugitive, and shall* prevent all molestation of such person or persons, by any prpcess issued. by any Court, Judge, Magistrate, or other person whomsoever." But this ia a mistake. The truth is, that this provision of the lew, forbidding the testimo- the fugitive to be received, and forbid ding interference-by other process, after a certificate, is but an enactment of an estab lished principle of the common law, added through extreme caution, but wholly unne cessary. "The writ Of habeas corpus is un doubtedly an immediate rerrledy for every il legal imprisonment; but nd imprisonment is illegal when the process is a justification ol the officer ;• and process, whether by writ or warrant, is legal, whenever it is not defec tive in the-frame of it and has issued in the ordinary course of justice, from a court or magistrate having jurisdiction of the subjeot matter."—(Commonwealth vs Lecky,-1 Watts; 67.> , A person held as a fugitive under the cer tificate of a judge or magistrate, under this act is legally imprisoned, under process "from a court or magistrate having jurisdic tion," and cahnot be released by any other court or magistrate, on W writ of habeas cor pus or homine replegiando. The act of 1798 lias no such provision as that which is the subject of complaint in the present case; yet in the c&se of "Wright vs. Deacon, (5 Sergt. and Rawle 62.) the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania decided that a certificate under that act was a legal warrant to remove the fugitive to the State of Maryland, and r.o writ of homine replegiando would lie from a .StAte Court to try the question of freedom ; and that a writ, issued under such circum stances, was "in violation of the ConstritU lion of the United States." The chief difference between the fugitive act of 1850 and that of 1798,, is, that the former allows a warrant to be issued by a Judge, aud the arrest to be made by a pub lic officer, and imposes more stringent pen alties on those who interfere, by, violence, to prevent the execution of legal process Those who believe that the constitution and laws of their country should be regarded and obeyed, have no ground of complaiht, and those who do not, will continue to rail at both, as usual. I am happy to say that my brother Kane fully concurs with me in the views I here express. I am, very respectfully, yours, &c., &c. R. C. GRIEH. To CHARLES GIBBONS, Esquire. AN INDIAN'S RECEIPT. —Joe Scoabasin, a Penobscot Indian, not long since, was sued for thu.sum of 85, by ji white man, before Squire -Johnson. On the day of trial, Joe made his appearance and rendered the re quisite amount, for debt and costs, and de manded a receipt in full. - - "Why, Joe, it is not usual; it is unneces sary," saii' the squire. "Oh yes, me want 'urn receipt, sartain." ' "I tell you Joe, that a receipt will do you no good." "Sartin, Squire, I want 'cm." do you wart it for, Joe!" "Oli, s'pose me die and go to heaven then they say, 'well Joe Scoabasih, you owe "any man now ?' Then me.say not, 'Very well, did you pay 'cm Ben Sanbers?' 'O yes, me pay 'urn.' 'Well, then, show 'cm receipt.' Then mc have to run all over h—l to hunt up Squire Johnson." MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY.— An old plft-. , lure represents a king in state with a label, 'T rule for all " A bishop with the legend, 'T pray for all." A soldier with tfie motto, '4 fight for all," and a foVnir drawing forth Reluctantly a purse, with the inscription, "I pay/or all." ' .• • EF MORE NON-INTERCOURSE —The medi cal students of Columbia, S. C., the number j of fifteen, have resolved ' not to attend med. - real lectures to any Northern institution." | Jost as you please, sirs. - n " tST The ladies of Cincinnati have been holding a temperance Convention, and a mong other proceedings, tesolvpd to collec, and publish the'names of womdn and chit urea tpacfe destitute by drinking. Go ahead. GT 91.123 votes more were polled at the last Presidential election m Pennsylvania than at the recent election. IT The New Yortt bay Book Mtya that Batonrn has Bennett, of the New York Henl4,-%hbet . \ SONG. There is a name, which on my lips, Though seldom breathed, forever dwells, Like hidden music rocked to sleep Within the ocean's painted shells. There is a bright but pensive eye, Which ever on my pathway sliinos As dav and night and gentle stars Look down and light the darkest mind. A voice whose tender accents sound As if it were the soul which spake: And of that voice, the lightest tone Doth in my heart wild echoes wake. And this is love, the only one Of Eden's torn and trampled flowers, Which sheltered by some angel's wing, Still lives to bless this earth of oursr From the Pennsyluanian. A Honey Moon Inchteut. The interference of a police officer was called for yesterday, at the rftsider.ee of Mr. Felix M. Baker, in Pine street. The circum stances are worth telling in methodical order. Mr. Baker, a bald-heeded gentleman of five and-forty, was married two weeks ago to Miss Sarah-Garvin of thirty; "and upwards." The young couple were very comfortably situated; snug house—nice furniture—hand some income. . (Mr. B. is a senior mercan tile clerk, with a good salary.) Two weeks of rapture passed—behold Mr. and Mrs. Ba ker seated sido by side on a sofa, in the par lor, arranging their plans for the future. The expected responsibilities happened to be the leading topic. Mrs. I). ■ I hope the first may be ' a boy- Dear little fellow ! I seem to .see him now, tumbling about the carpet and kicking up his Innocent heels like a blessed lambk-tn ! He sVall have your name, my dear; Felix ! it sounds eo beautiful and romantic. Mr. B. Thank you, my love. 1 wished to have him named Felix; very glad to hear that we agree in everything. I'll teach him sortie aanusing tricks—see if I dop'ti . I'll make a man of him before ho's six old. Won't I, my dear? Mrs B. To-be-sure you will, darling. He shall learn to read and write belore he leaves off His petticoats. I know he'll be precocious. Mr. B. That he will; and he shall learn to smoke a segar as soon as he is weaned. It looks so manly to'see a little toddling fel low puffing away at a real Havanna- All promising boys loam to smoke early. I smoked in my second year. Mr* B. yd rather he should not smoke, my dear—it's a very nasty practice. Mr. B. A nasty practice, my love ! How can that be ? /smoke, you know. Mrs. B. Yes, I know you do, Mr, Baker j and it is the only imperfection ill your char-' acter. Mr. B. I consideflrone of my most grace ful accomplishments, madam—and I've re solved that every son of mine shall learn to smoke, the very first thing, Mrs. B. And I've resolved, sir, that no son of mine shall learn to smoke at all. Mr. B. [ With exciteihent ] - I'm very glad that you mentioned it, then,-for it is right that we should come to ait understanding on the subjeot. I'll let you know that lam master in my own house. Mrs. B. I'll let ydu know that ydil are not ; my master, you ugly old tyrant. Mr. B. Say 6uch another word, yotl sau cy jade; and I'll turn you out df doors! Mrs. B. Touch me, if you dare, you 1 cowardly old villain. Help! murder I tilur der!! Mrs. B. (alls into "violent hysterics." Ser-1 vants rush in. House-maid, supposing that Mrs. B. is assassinated by her husband, flies ' to the front door, ar.d repeats the cry of "murder." Great crowd collected. Mr. B. taken in charge by a deputy marshal of po lice. Explanation at the Mayor's office. Mr. B. is bound over to be of good behaviour towards Mrs. B.—which will insure a quiet house for the balance of the honey-moon. And here was rather a bad matrimonial fra cas, all about smoke. W. Listen ! Ladies, to Peter Pipains. I wish that I was married, I'm tired of this life; I thmk that I will turn a page, and try togql a wife ;. for 0 ! for all poor mor tals renowned in song or ditty, the bachelor who lives alone, most of your pity! Some call their wives extinguishers,-'(would not be po with me; for I am quite extin guished now, .at least I'm out you'll see; quite out of cash, and so of course 1 am without a friend ; I'm out of credit and of coats, and no one wants to lend. I'm friend ly to the married state, although its full of care, Its best to have a kind of helpmate though joys mnst be but rare. If is not good to live alono, with scarceji friend to greet, I'm sftre the bliss of wedded life, must be by far more 'sweet.! JPll marry! yes my mind is fixed, Ladies! so here's a chart ce, I'm rather young and .handsome too, can sing-a song and dance; I'm worth whole cart loads of "true love," and of dimes a bout a score, all which I freely offer you sorry I've roth ing more. Pray-do not keep 'nre wailing, for mine's a desperate case ; if no success attends me here, I'll try-some other place.—Come, and I'll take yon as you are, with faults and foiblesin, if but one item you will bring, that is—a little Tin. 'r* . * v. -. '' ' - CT Thelre-are Conventions now in ses sion in Vitginia and Indiana,. to form pew. , Constitutions lor those Stamps. Ohio has a | a Contention elected for the same purpose. NUMBER 41. A LETTER TO COUNTRY GIRLS BY MRS. SWISGHELM. DEAR GIRLS:—It is a long tiino since I have written to you, ami all this time you have been making your dresses just as you used to do, with a bug straight seam under the arm. No; it is not straight, but in the form of an inclined plain, or what carpenters call a bevel, and presses your sides into tho shape of a funnel. You have all heard a bout the Greek Slave, and know it is a mar ble statue, to show n most perfect and beau tiful form, and I wish you qould all see it. Hie outside of the sides are two hollow curves, as graceful as the undulation between two waves, or the bend in a willow wand. Every one bos a shape more or less liko this, accordingly as she is more or less beau tiful, graceful and natural; and it is not-sin gular-that afior the Creator hns given you a form of beauty—of undulating outlines and graceful, sweeping curves, you should sot yourselves deliberately lo work to manufac ture yourselves into sharp angles, and straight, stifT outlines, with no more preten sions to grace than the sides of a Dutch churn ? J his you neaily alf do, and you do . it by the shape of that seam under your arm. You saw it in a regular slope from the arm. | pit to the bottom of the waist, and that is as long as it can possibly be made. This makes the smallest part of your body Delow tho * ribs—that is, you squeeze in the muscles and flesh where there'are no bones lo resist the force, and so crowd your liver until' it cannot act; and you grow yellow, bilious, nervous—ugly as sin, oven in your faces. It is very strange, that you can be so foolish— that any one can deliberately ruin her own i health for the privilege of looking ugly. -It L does make me uervous to 6ee a woman on | the street, with this light place below her j ribs, atid her way wagging, like the limb of a supple Jack ! 1 have grown so desparate ly disgusted with this way of making dress es, by seeing great, ugly ignorant, vulgar girls waddling among the pots and wash tubs, with their apron strings drawn around below the ribs, and tied until they looked like a wool-bag tied with a cord in the cen tre. It is very strange that any one haying pretensions to gentility— to say nothing of good sense—would be caught dressed in a way that proclaims to every one her ignor ance of the laws of physiology—of the fillets of grace and symmetry, and of all taste for the painting and statuary of . Greece mid Home. I never see a woman dressed so, but tho first thought is: "Wonder if that wo man can read?" It is a sign of ignorance, and nothing else can be plead in extenuation of such folly 1 United States Senator. The sterling Democratic editor of the Pitts burg Post has the following sound views up on the result of tiie late electiou : '■There is another important matter settled we contend, by the result of the late election; and that is, that Pennsylvania shall have a Radical Democrat in the United States Senate. In every county in the State, so far as our knowledge extends, this issue was fairly made by the Democracy before and aftel the meeting of the County Nominating Conven tions. In most of those Conventions rcsolu tions were adopted, instructing the candi dates of the party to support the Caucus Nominee'' for U. S. Senator. J>lany of the Conventions passed Resolutions expri ssly instructing the candidates not to vote fcr tfiat Conservative Whig Hanker Simon Cameron, under any circumstances, for U. S, Senator. These expressions of tho Democracy we re gard as binding and obligatory upon every Representative elected by our Party in the State. We cannot for a moment believe that a single Representative; elected by the Dem ocratic Pa-ty, will so far forget himself as to betray and insult his constituents 'by voting for such an uupiinciplcd politician as Camer on. In the ranks of the Democrats, we have plenty of men whose political princi ples are above .'suspicion—mon of exalted views and national feelings—men of high intellectual capacities and unspotted Demo cracy. Give us such a man for U. S. Senas tor, and the influence of tho old Keystone State will again be felt thrbughont the coun TEJR.*. . '.. . ~-L And again the editor says: '•"If any professing Democrat in. the legis lature should so far forget himself aslo vote for Cameron, wo'would advise tiim at once to hang a millstone around his neck and jump into tho Susquehanna. J/ij political grave is made. DOWN EAST GIRLS.-— The Belfast Journal In "cracking up" the down east girls, says: "We can show you some specimens down east, who have not been deformed by liver squeezers nor tight -shoes, fattened after the manner of Hotentots, or starved a la mode In cities. They have grown up according to organic'laws, dieted on beef stake and corn bread, exercised as the Greeks used to; are up and coming tike a flock of patridges with a ppinter among 'em ; can wash the tea things, go out and milk the cow, and jump over a five rail fence wijh the pail full and ' never spill a drop. Needn't rap; we have seen 'em do it<|' . A pbetie youngman in writing of his la dy love, says, t-her feoe is a tamp pf alabas ter, lit up ..with pleasant thought*" What an interesting light to write by, espe- T cially if she would allow you to pnnctuete with kisses. Take away the sugar, Jim.
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