THE STAR OF THE NORTH. R* W. Weaver Proprietor.] VOLUME 3. THE STAB OF THE NORTH Is published every Thursday Morning, by R.'W. WEAVER. OFFICE—Up stairs in the Neu> Brick building on the south side of Main street, third square below Market. TERMS : —Two Dollars per annum, if paid within six months from the time of subscri bine; two dollars and fifty cents if not paid witnin the year. No subscription received for a less period than six months: no discon linuance permitted until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the editors. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding one square, will be inserted three times for oue dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional insertion A liberal discount will be made to those who ad vsrtise by the year. From the New York lribune. A FACT. In his studio at Florence, Sat an artist, young and fair, Writing, by the waxen taper, Words to lighten lonely care. Suddenly he fell to weeping Rose and hurried to and fro; Then, returning to his table, Thus lie wrote, with soul aglow ; "Lady, would that I, a spirit, In the twinkling of an eye, O'er the wide and weary ocean, Unto you alone could fly. Be you waking, be vou sleeping, Lonely or in social cheer, I would breathe to you a wonder, You would smile and weep to hear. Five the weeks, this flitting moment, Since wc sat together last. And your eyes, in love and pity, On my longing face were cast; In your warm and soothing fingers Chilly hands were purely prest, And 1 lelt in such compassion. Wretchedness itself were blest. Long 1 gazed on yon in silence, Planting deeply ill my heart, Every look and line of tealure, With a lover's truest art; Much I wished 10 pour my feelings Forth in tears of sweet relief, But my soul was dark and stifled, Svuted the bitter fount of griet. Vainly, until now, my fancy Strove to see that look again; Still die misty changing image Came and went to me in vain ; Still a hundred other faces Intervened to vex mine eye, And my soul, with sorrow sinking, Would not weep. I know not why. Bet, to-night, my peri bad wandered From the duty o! tho day, And unconsciously was sketching RamldVti faces, in its plav ; Suddenly of you I pondered— Ah. some angel, present then, Breathed on me an inspiration, Guided my unwitting pen. There you were! the half shut eyelids, j Head inclined and turned aside, Rounded cheek and hatr so silken. Bounded lorehcad, high and wide; There the smile, serene, eternal : j There the glance that ne'er was cast Save by you—so melting, earnest— All, I wept, and wept, at last." Here lie dropped his pen in wonder, While a leeling. sweet and new, Like a sudden light and music, Thrilled his lonely beinir tnrough ; ; Aftei wards, a message told him, She, the loved one, died that night, j And he knew that then her spirit Flew to him with love and light. A SCENE ■A' Tin: PATENT OFFICE. " This improvement said my loquacious acquaintance, "will dispense with nine-tenths j of the wood now used, and will be consider- . ed in less than two years the wonder of tho | age." This remark was made lo me in the Patent j Office at Washington, by one of those ec i centric characters whose life had boen made by piling invention upon invention, all of which, as far as they were modelled and patented, were set up to be gazed at by the loungers who visit that great depositary of Ameiicar. genius. My acquaintance, unfortunately had spent I his whole life for his country, and not one , moment for himself. The fruits of his in- j (ellect, and the labor of his hauds, were urcry abundant all over the Patent Office, but at homo his wife was out of flour, and him self ami children in rags. The truth is, he .never had a moment's time to bestow upon his immediate wants, for science had taken him captive, and had driven him for more than thirty years urder whip and spur, through all mysteries of mechanism. He was a mere originator of complex machines bnt never carried anything into practical operation, as that was mere drudgery. In tV4M>on was poetry to him, but his mind was .satisfied, and his stimulus vanished, when jhe fully become convinced that his labors yvere successful. Niue tenths of the wood," said 1; "why ghat's nothing, you can't test your invention before the w.ood and stove will both be dis pensed with. This is a great age, sir, in mechanics, Twenty, thirty, forty years ago were great ages too, or were then so called. Jhe greatness of a people in any department pf science is determined by the advance of preceding generations, not by the perfection of the age itself, for we do not know what the point or perteption in science is, or where or when it may be found. Old Ben Frank lin, great as he was in his day, would, if be should suddenly appear among its, be a mere boy in his science." My acquaintance, however, who had by this time gtown warm upon bis favorite sub ject, opened upon me with his argument, in which he attempted to show that science had nearly reached perfection, that first princi- BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTYm*., THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1851. pies were all discovered, and that every ap plication ol them that were or could be use - ful to mankind, were already made ; in line that the intellect of the present generation would, in all probability use up all the ma. terial which nature has provided for it to feed upon; and scientific truths would be rolled up like an old .blanket, marked "de monstrated" and filed away for the inspeo : tion of fools that might follow after. While, listentening to this harangue, the walls around me began to expand wider and the oeiling above raised to an enormous I height, while through open doors or passages I saw room after room groaning with thous ands of models, until it appeared as though 1 were in a wilderness of miniature ma chinery. Very soon a very perl little gentle man, with a quick blaok eye, and a 'pussy' body arrajed in the queerest costume I ever saw, came bustling up to me, and asked me ' for my tickets, I involuntarily thrust ray band ; into the depth ol my breeches pocket, and ' pulling out a card, delivered it to him. After' looking at the card and then at me, and then at the card again, he burst out ioto a loud guffaw, that made the old Patent Office ring. " Why sir," said he, " this is no ticket. It is the business card of one John Smith advertising a patent dog churn of which he here says he is the real inventor, and it bears da'.e in the year 1850—nearly two hunded years ago ! The churn may be found in the room marked " Inventions of 1850/' but the man John Smith we liav'nt got. I don't much thiuk he is round above ground just at this time," said the little man, chuckling^ " But," said I, who arc you, if I am not John Smith 1" Were you not appointed by Fillmore, Secretary of the Interior and did I not put a word in his ear favorable to you?" 1 " Fillmore I a Secretary of the Interior ?" I exclaimed he; '' I appointed by Fillmore ! { why my dear sir I was appointed only two years ago—not two hundred ! —Chief of the Great Central Department, as the office is now called." While we were talking. Franklin, Adarr.s, Jefferson and Fulton, walked in and took seats, I knew Uncle Ben the moment I cast my eyes upon him. He was dressed in good old '76 style : —shoe buckles, breeches, que and double chin, that trsnquil counten ance just touched, without being destroyed, by comedy—were all there. Adatns and Jeflerson I had before seen, and they were a little more moderu in dress, but they both looked care worn. Fulton sat apart, and eyed the other three as though he had seen them somewhere, but yet could not call '.hem by name. The rather unexpected arrival of these gentlemen broke up the comment of my bustling interrogater, and one of those pauses occured which frequently do, upon the ap pearance of strangers. Uncle Ben asked Jefferson i? he would not like to more uj> to the fire and warm his feel ? " Fire?" said I, " fire 1 Why Uncle, there is no fire places now a days, stoves and hot air furnaces are all the go. The building is warmed by a great furnace, and two* miles of pipe that connects the heat to every room in it." "Not by a long way!'"—said my bustling friend— " not by a long way, Mr. John Smith. This tiumpery is all piled away among the inven tions of the years that were. These things belong to the age of your dog chum- Why gentleman," continued he, " have you never heard of the Great Southern Hot Ait Compa ny, chartered in 1860, whose business it is to furnish warm air from the South to persons at the North, price to families three dollars a year, all done by a gigantic under groi'nd tunnel, and branches worked at the other eud by an air pump! Have ycu never heard of this gentleman! Here we get the natural heat of the South, warmed by the sun ; none of stinking coal and wood gasses to corrupt and destroy it. And then the principle of reciprocity is kept up; for we send back our cold air in the same ; and so we keep up an equilibrium of the Union. Why, gentlemen, those stoves require con s'ant care. As often as every week it was | necessary to replenish them with wood or j coal. No!—no!—those improvements be- I long to the dark ages." " Bless me!" exclaimed Uncle Ben. "Im ; possible!" repeated Fulton. And so you I don't use the old Franklin stove any more?" i said Uncle Ben. " Perhaps he continued , a quiet smile playing over his face, as if he had intended a comical shot, "perhaps you don't use lightning now a-days either, and my-lightning rods of course belong to the dark ages too!" "We have the lightning, and liso it too, but only ono rod, built by the State, near its ceuire, which is so colossal and powerful that it protects 6very thing around it." And then the little fellow rattled on about the its* of lightning: how it wrote all over the world thu English language, until 1 verily believe that Uncle Ben, Fulton, and all set him down as the most unscrupulous liar that they had ever meth with.- " 1 think," said Uncle Ben, " that if I could go to Boston, I could convince myself of the truth of your asser tions, but as my time is very limited, I can not." " Send you there in five minutes by the watch !" answered the little man, "or if that's too soon in twenty-four hours. It re quires powerful lungs to go by balloon— time five minutes, departure every half hour. The magnetic railway train will take you through in four hours." " What!" said Uncle Ben, " is the old stage company en tirely broken up?" " Don't know what you mean by stages," said the little man, " but I will look for that word in the big diction ary." "Go by steamboat too everlasting slow—not over twenty five miles an hour well enough for freight, but passengers can not endue them; they go laboring and splashing along along at a snail's pace, and they are epough to weat out any man's pa tierce. Yet the*steamboat was the greatest stride ever made at any one time in the way l of locomoii'C"; and was very creditable to Fulton and the age in w?*®' l ved -' "That's admitting something," o".™* 001 Fulton, who sat like a statute, watching' the little man's volubility. " Men and their works," continued Fulton, " must be judged by the period in which they lived. Each improvement, as it succeeds the last, is aided by its predecessor, and altogether they make out the chain of scienoe." " But, said Uncle Ben, all this talk don't get me on my way to Boston. That is my birth place. I was there for the last time in 1763, and you know that according to the provisions of my will, there is more than four million pounds sterling of my money, which has by this lime been disposed of by the State somehow. Uncle Ben was always a shrewd fellow ir. the way of dollars and ceuts, and I could see he was very anxious about that money. " Oho !" said the little man, " so you are Ben Frank lin, and you are the old gentleman who left legacy. We've got a portrait of you up stairs, more than two hundred years old, and it does look something like you. Glad to see you ! You said something in your lifetime about immersing yourself in a cask of madeira wine with a few friends, and coming to the world in a hundred years again. These are your.friends, I suppose 1" "These gentlemen," replied Uncle Ben, " are John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, signers of the Declaration of Independence,*> "The other gentlemen, continued I, "is Robert Fulton, whom you have spoken ot.'' " Well, I declare !" ejaculated the little man "this is a meeting! But about that legacy, Uncle Ben, of yours! two millions has gone to build the Gutta Percha Magnetic Tele graph line, connecting Boston with London a rut Paris, two of the largest cities in the ! eastern Republic of Europe. "Guttaper cha! magnetic telegraph I— Republic of Eu rope !" repeated all of them. " All built under water, and sustained by buoys," con tinued the little man, and it works to a charm—plan up stairs in room 204—and can be seen in a moment, and as I told ycu be fore, it wtites the English language as fast as my deputy. Republic of Europe! ex claimed Jefferson again. " Yes sir," said the little man, " for more than a centuiy. No more thrones ; 110 more rulers by divine right; no more governments sustained by powder and ball; no lords or nobles; man is man, not merely oue of a class ol men, but individually man, with rights as perfect and powers as great as any other man. The principles, Jefferson, which you did not, create, but only asserted, hare prostrated j every arbitrary power on the face of the globe. Even the Jews, since their return to j Jerusalem, have organized a republican form of government, and have just elected Mr. Noah, President." " Well" thinks Ito myself, " that can't be Mordecai M. Nouh anyhow, for politics must have used up his constitution before this." But the little man, chattered away, and declared that Europe was divided into two republics, the Eastern and the Western; that Constantinople was the capital of the Western; that Asia and Africa wero also republics, until the three signers of the Declaration, perfectly wrought up in a phrenzy of joy, rose from their seats took off their hats, and swinging them around, gave " Three cheers for '76 and the old Army of the Revolution ! —and I verily believe Uncle Ben forgot all about going to Boston, for he did not allude to it any more in my presence. " Great changes these!" continued the little man, "from your days. But you must not think, gentlemen, that we have forgotten you while we have improved in wisdom and strength. Look here gentlemen," and he motioned us away, and leading on, he conducted us to an observatory on tho lop of the building. Such a prospect I never be fore beheld. Away, around on every side stretched a mighty city, whose limits the eye could not reach. Towers, temples, spires and masts, until they were lost in the distant haze. Canals traversed every street, and boats of merchandise were loading and unloading their freight. Steam carriages were puffing along the roads that ran by the canal, some filled with pleasure parties, and some laden with goods. Turning my eye to an elevation, I saw fifty-six gigantic monu ments, .whose peaks were lost in the sky, ranged in a line alike in form aud sculpture. '• These," said the little man, " were erec ted to the Signers of the Declaration of In dependence," and taking out his telescope, he handed it to Uncle Ben, who read aloud among the inscriptions the names, FRANKLIN, JEFFERSON, ADAMS 1 " But let us know what this is called?" inquired Jefferson. " Tnis, sir, is called Columbiana ; it lies on the west bank of the Mississippi, population five millions, acoor" ding to the last census." " But what sup ports it?" "Supports ill the great East Trade. That vessel down there is dire®' from Canton, by ship canal aeross the Isth mus. All Europe is secondafy to us now. No doubling capes as was done in your day Yonder stands the Capital, and the whole North American continent is annually rep resented there. The city of San Francisco alone sends forty four members. There," continued he, pointing his finger, " that bal loon rising slowly in the sky, has just started for that place, and the passengers will lake Troth art Rlffht—CM aid gw-Ctwtfry. their dinners there to-morrow." Jefferson asked the little man "whether the Federalists or Democrats were in power!" and I saw that Adams waked up when he heard the question. Don't know any such division, replied.he. The great measure of the day, upon which parties are divided, is the purchase ot the South American conti nent at five hundred million of dollars. I go for it; and before another year the bar gain will be consumated. We tiusf have ,ijwia territory—we havn't got half enough. Extern pr tern';:? ntion di ß"'y and importance. The old thirteen Statß# of . F°" r day was a mere cabbage-patch, and shod, have been consolidated into one State. Ten or twenty days sail ran you plump into a hostile port, and then you bad a demand for duty. Beside, conflicting interest always brew up difficulties, and then come treaties, and finally war, and then debt and at last oppressive taxation. Anationshould own all the territory that jbiliftf* f Fho ocean is the only natural boundary for a- people." Thinks I, you hare been a politician in your day, and I'll just engage you to correspond with a certain New York editor who shall be nameless, you strike of! the doctrine boldly- Uncle Ben told the little man after he closed, that a nation might "get so very ripe as to become a little rotten, and if he had no objection he would present him with the 'Sayings of Poor Richard.' " And suit ing the action to the word, he pushed his hand into his breeches pocket, and pulled out an almanac printed at Philadelphia, in 1732, and bowing handed it to him. The little man thanked him, end promised to deposit it in the Museum as a curious piece of antiquity. Getting somewhat anxious for a smoke I drew foith a cigar and 'locnfoco,' and rubbed tbe latter across my boot, which flashed out it's light in Uncle Ben's face. 'That is nice, exclaimed be; 'rather an improvement on the old siring, wheel and tinder plan.' 'Sim ple too, isn't it!' said I; 'and yet all the science of your day didn't detect it.' Just then I gave a puff which made Uncle Ben sneeze ; and he broke out iu a tirade against tobacco, that would read well. But I told him there wa* no use; men had smoked aud chewea the weed—would smoke and chew it, economy or no economy, health or no health, filth or no fiillh; and that in all probability the last remnant of the great American Republic, for succeeding nations to gaze at, would be a plug of tobacco; for 1 sincerely believed that a plug of tobacco would outlive the government itself. The little man proposed reluming inio the Patent Office, and exhibiting to us in detail the models of art there deposited. But 1 cannot weary the reader with what I there saw. The fruits of every year since the or ganization of the department, were divided into rooms, and indicated on the door by an inscription. There were thousands of im provements, in every branch of science, many of which were so simple, that I thought myself a fool that 1 did not discover them before. Principles were applied, the operation of which I now recollected to have often seen, but without a thought of their practical utility. I came to the conclusion that accident was the parent of more that I saw than design; 'for how,' reasoned I, 'is it possible that these pieces of machinery could otherwise have escaped the great men who have lived and died in ignorance of them !' By this time we were quite fatigued ar.d Uncle Ben complained a little ot the 'stone,' which he said he was subject to. The little man gave him some 'Elixir ol Life,' as he called it, being as he said the, 'an extract of the nutritious portion of meals and vegeta bles, purged from their grossness as found in their natural state,' and while we were sipping it, he launched forth upon its great benefit to mankind; the money that used to be expended in cookery and Iran sporlation— millions upon millions, the- great economy in time, formerly squandered in eating, eto., etc; aud he wound up with a eulogy by pre senting each of us with a bottle, which I carefully put away in ray pocket. Adams then rose up and saiif he must leave and Jeffei son said 'I have a word to say on my departure. There is one thing of more yalue than all I have seen, for it is the father of all; you should reverence it next to the CREATOR of the universe. Overlook it not in prosyerity, nor despair of it in adversi ty. It is the Union. Better perish with thi Union, than survive its ruin /' And in a mo ment Uncle 8911, Fulton, Adams, Jefferson, the little man, the apartments, wheels and machinery begun to rock,'and heave and fade, and finally dissolve and suddenly I 1 awoke ! It was a dream!—and there I sit, my tormentor affirming that his stove was perfection, that it would save thtee-founhs of the wood, etc., eto., until out of patience, I pronounced him blockhead, gave bim a kick, put on my hat and departed.—Knick erbocker. Gf Man may err and err and be forgiven ; but poor woman, with all his temptations and but half his strength, is placed beyond the pale of earthly salvation, if she but once be tempted into crime. Tainr just. How TO FLCASB YOUR FRICNDS. — Go tO Csl i forma—stay there twenty years—work hard —get money—save it—come homo—bring with you a load of wealth, and diseased lungs—visit your friends—make a will provide for them all— then die—what a pru dent, generous, kind-hearted soul you will be Stamp Speech of Ethan Spike, on the Dai> Her of a Dissolution ot the Union. The "honorable gentleman" having moun ted the rostrum, plunged into his subject in the following eloquent style, viz : . "Thunder and guns! whar are wa 1 .This area day for the eitizens.of Hornby, and if I want too modest, its a day and a half for all creation—including the rest of mankind, and the people gineralty ! The world, feller citizens, is a looking at us, an on the heter ogenous exertions of this here society hu man liberty depends, an hangs like a bur. dock to to boy's trowsis. Are we up to the crop ? Dus every indervidooal feel the res ! r, onsio". s . ,w the great criesis bearln' on him like a rial roeic oil * todo's back t Dus all feef like a young HakealaniunJ ,aa< V 10 take hold and choke the orrygone stables as in wormin' in to skweeza the daylights out 0! j our infant liberties! I answer— wc it I Let the hot-in-lates of the hull airth hear and tremble ! Feller citerzens, we have come up here— every man prepared to take his life in his trowsis pocket—to preserve the Union—that blessed Union—fit for, bled for, and died for, by our reverend posterity on the bloody fields | of Buenny Vistey, Yorklown, Madawasky, ; and Waterlieu. This here glorious Union, feller citerzens, is threatened within an inch of its life. By whom ! Why, by a set of , ons&rcumsized, mean, nasty critters, who can't depreciste this blessed purlaydium that provides every man a fig tree—ur.dor which j we sot an our fathers has sot, an no one darst! molest or skeer us. Feller citerzens : I'm for the Union ! Yes ! sir ! An though the hull world agin me, : though the devil jined in with the aberlish- j ionists. yet, as Webster said in his Newbur yport letter— Pue sat am, santa rairittima histo ra saere lex taxlionis, ecco signun et broada xy— though pelican towered on ossy, I'd file till i all was bl^v! [Hear! hear! and stompin ] Feller citerzens: The pint we've met here to consider is: Shall the Union be pre* setred—shall the star sprinkled banner still flount and Aouucu in the salewbriety of the onmitigated space of either—shall the Amer ican eagle—God bless him !—[atom pin by the men, and sobbin and sniffin by the wiin men,] —shall '.he American eagle continue to soar aloft an—an do as he darn pleases ? Or shall he be just moved up and broke in like a worn aout syder berril—your flag torn and slit like little Kphe Libby's trowsis over there by the winder—and the gloriu* fowl cf liberty plucked and picked like a thanks, given turkey ? Saints, ministers, elders, and