THE STAR OF THE NORTH. *• W. Wover Fr.prirtor.J Truth and Right—Cad and anr Chantry. "Two Itollarh par Annua. VOLUME 3. TUB STAB OF THE NOBTII Is published every Thursday Morning, by R. W. WEAVER. . OFFICE—Up stairs in the New Brick biiilding on the south side of Main street, third square beluxo Market. TERMS —TWO Dollars per annum, if paid w.thui six months from the time of subscri bin"' two dollars and lifty cents if not paid witfnn the year. No subscription received for a less period than six months: no discon, tinuance permitted until all arrearages arc paid unless at the option of the editors. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding one square, will be inserted thrco times for one dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional insertion A liberal discount will be made to those who ad vcrtise by the year. WE WATCHED HER BLS^ATIIING. BY TOM HOOP. We watched her breathing through tho night Her breathing ftdfl and low, As on her breast the wave of life Kept heaving'to and fre. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As wc had lent her half our powers, To cko her being out. Our hopes belted our fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; Wo thought her dying when wo slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her eyelids closed ; she had . Another morn than ours. Freedom of the Press." Around hor waist I put my arm— It felt as soft's a cako. "Oh, dear!" says she, "what liberty You printer men do take!" " Why yes, my Sail my charming gal; (I squeezed her some, I guess.) " Can you say aught, my chick, against ' The Freedom of the Press!' " 1 kissed her some—l did, by gum- She colored like a beet; Upon my living soul, she looked Almost too good to eat! I gave her another buss, and then, Says she, "I do confess I rather, sorter, kinder like ' The Freedom of the Press!' " From the Albany Dutihman. . IIOU SUE CAUGHT HIM. BY BLONK. UP, whoso business or pleasure called liirti to travel northward from this "auncient cittye" in the year of grace, 1813, will re collect, that what was thought to be a long day's drive brought him to'a placo, where, among other edifices, where to bo found a " white meeting house," two or three stores, and as many houses. There Mrs. Duncan owned and occupied a snug little cottage—and though she duly lamented the decease of her fist love, silo would have rejoiced, like many another widow, "to better her lonely condition." Doctor Van Brunt had annually, for sever al years, shaken off the dust of nis city la bors, and "ruralized" at the aforesaid vil lage—always incognito, so far as his profes sion—had a man, Elijah—a horse and chaise was neat and dapper in his appearancei and was evidently "well to do." Ho and his man Elijah, his horse and chaise, ar rivod at Major Porter's about as regular as tho summer solstice. For three or more seasons, the doctor had caqglit trout with '•Cousin Billy," in the Owl Kill—had shot pigeons at Barber's hill—had admired fast horses at tho "Checkered House"—had smoked with Esq. Wendell—had drank gin with Jim Peters, and taken Aunty Beebee's butternut pills "as a wonderful prcsarvative of a city nan's health," and all this time no one suspected that he had, or had not a pen chant towards anything feminine—yet every body knew he waft a bechelor. Mrs. Duncan determined to bring him to be an humble worshipper at hor shrine.— At church, when the Doctor was present (and his regard for holy things always en sured his attendance) she twiddled her fan; dropped her parasol; mislaid her hymn book (and found it again;) adjusted and re adjusted her veil; looked "awfully provok ed" if a sudden dropping of rain had oc curred on tho outgoing of the congregation, especially if the doctor was near, and was sure to ask for au umbrella, whon perhaps r.ot one rould be found in the assemblage. If on other days, she happened to be going over 'from Dorr's corners to Yn Vechten's,' her shoe would untie, juvt while passing Major Porter's and the doctor sitting on Ihe stoop "inhaling his Havannah," and thon— (all Albany's nico young men know how gracefully a lady does up some misadven ture iq her apparel)—"what a strange man," said t0 herffelf, he will not tee me!" , But an undercurrent war running, ttnw the fates seemed to have let loose, for her especial benefit. The doctor's man Elijah hail somehow made an acquaintance with Mrs. Duncan's maid, Rebecca. llow it came to pass that Mrs. D. ovetheard what was said by Elijah to Rebecca, one evening, I being an Odd Fellow, cannot of course disclose—<but she heard. "Rebecca that ere cough o' yourn is certainly troblous. I haint been so long in the egress of the doc tor's sanctimonium without exercising my inlellectuary emorgoncies; so ylo you take pulris andy 1 dram, Oxy Borix, similar the same, and squeels, half an ounce, and that will coassiate your cough simultanerously." " Aha!" said Mrs. Duncan, "then Mister Van Brunt, is Doctor Van Brunt 1 Ahem 1" The next Sabbath, the Rev. Robert Chap man was usually diffusive; his sermon on that particular dny, reached "ninctocnthly," BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTYJPA., a XHURSDAY, JULY 3, 1851. NUMBER 23 whereas, he therefore seldom got beyond thirteenthly—the benediction was pronounc ed—tiie congregation by this time a Icctlc anxious for creature comforts, hurried out of the house of God, I had almost said "in hot haste.'' The doctor, ever grave in his move ments, made way for many a rustling dreßS, many a hurley man, and many a "little fel low," when a scream ! —a lady prostrate on the ground ! It was the widow ! In an in stant he had her in his arms and assisted her to rise. She could not walk a single step, she knew she could not—she knew she had broken her ancle—sho was so lame all over —what could she do I" The doctor forgot his incog, (who would not) and with the utmost care helped her home. * * * * And surely there never were so pretty a foot and ancle, subjected to the view and careful .handling of an anxious physician, than on that occasion—just the brightest black eyes that ever shone, sparkled through a misty light of tears, which the pain had called up from the crystal fount, as they were beseechingly turned upon the doctor, when the inquiry plaintively fell from her lips—those nch, ruby, luscious lips!—in tones that none but a woman can utter J "Doctor, will you not come to morrow and re new the dressings?" Four months after, 1 saw in the County Post—Married at, &c., by tho llev. Mr. Chapman, Dr. A. V. 8., to Mrs. H. D., &c. The sprained ancle was all to make be lieve, but the doctor nevei thought 60. I.nbor the Source of all Wealth. That labor is the legitimite source of all wealth is a truth that few, save those inter ested in robbing labor ol its just reward, pre tond to gainsay. One of the favorite stiata gems resorted to by men who seek to live and grow rich by the sweat and toil of the laborer, is to pretend that they feed and clothe the working people; am! in order to deceive those whose misfortunes it may bo to have been brought up in ignorance, we hear them frequently ask the, "how would the laborers live did we not spend our money in consuming the produce of their labor?" Unfortunately for the "toiling mil lions" tho erroneous idea that money—gold and silver—is paramouet to labor and should be regarded as the basis of wealth, prevails to too great an extent among them. The Phil adelphia Ledger speaks thus forcibly and logically Upon ' thb subject : " Perhaps On no subject of popular knowl edge has the ingenuity of acquisitiveness tqjren more advantage of the credulity of ignorance than on the subject of what con stitutes the basis of wealth, and here in Phila delphia where we have no 'gold diggings' but the workshop of the mechanic, the ar tisan and the manufacturer, it is of much moment that cleat !y defined ideas should ob tain on a question so constantly appealed to as a guide to human action, on a principle of cumulative fortune. "If a cargo of 'gold dust' arrives every mouth exclaims "ah ! taore of the basis of wealth." The dust is a very good auxiliary to labor, but it is not "ihe basis of wealth" any more than the ' bushel measure" that portions out tho po tatoes can be counted as the potatoes them selves. Labor only is the " basis of wealth" and gold is only valuable, intrinsically, as it is susceptible of labor, but conventionally it becomes more valuable as a medium of exchange, by which it becomes the equiva lent and representative symbol of wealth If any house in Philadelphia was constructed of gold, and the people all idle, it would be the poorest spot or. the earth, as California was before the emigrant went there With their labor, and which labor has now made it rich. Trite as the truth is, imagination in flamed by passion too often loses sight of this vital principle* that labor is the basis of all wealth, for even Nature works." Ashamed of it. In a letter written by the poet, VVordsworlh, to an American, immediately after making his respects to the Queen, on the occasion of his accepting the ofTico of poet-laurcate, oc curs this passage: "The reception given me by the Queen at hfer ball was most grticious. Mrs. Everett, tho wife of your minister, among many oth ers, was a witness to it, without knowing who I was. It moved her to the shedding of tears. This effect was in part produced, I suppose, by American habits of feeling, as pertaining to a republican government. To soo a gray-haired man of seventy-five years of age, kneeling down in a largo assembly to kiss the hand of a young woman, is a sight for which institutions essentially demo cratic do not prepare a spectator of either sex, and must naturally place the opinions upon which a republic is founded, and the which support it, in strong con trast with ft government based and upheld as ours is. lam not, thoiVfore, surprised that Mrs. Everett was moved, as siiC herself de scribed to persons of my acquaini.'>ce, among others, to Mr. Rogers, the poet." A man, seventy-fivo years of ago, kneel ing down and kissing the hand of a woman ! It is one of the mysterious phenomona in nature—that of such low servility, such self annihilation, in the presence of tilled great ness. Wordsworth, by the above, seemed to have been a republican in spirit even at seventy five years of age. A SILENT MEMBER.— OId John Adams, in his autobiography says of Mr. Thomas Jef ferson : "During tho wholo time I sat with him in Congress, I novor hoard him utter three sentences together." TIIE EXEMPTION I.AW--TIIE CRED IT SYSTEM. In a suit in th'c court of common pleas of Philadelphia Wunty to recover property sold by tho sheriff alledged violation of the pro vision of threo hundred dollar exemption law, Judge Parsons is tepresented to have said that "All the laws that had been passed by the legislature for a number of years back, to protect a poor man were a retro grade from civilization. Formerly a poor man could get credit; now he could get none. Nobody would trust him." With all due deference to the better judgment of Judge Parsons, we think he is wrong in his opinion of the effects of the throe hundred dollar law, and the law abol ishing imprisonment for debt (which we suppose is included in the measures he al ludes to) upon the interests of the poor man. We admit that there are cases in which credit is desirable and necessary for the poor man, and that there are also cases in which he is deprived of it by the operation of the laws in question, but as a general rule) de privation of credit is, in our opinion, an ad vantage rather than an injury to the poor man. "Man wants but little here below," and none but those who have tried it are aware of how little a man can get along upon who limits his expenditures to his ac tual wants. This the poor man who has no credit is compelled to do, and gets along, if not so comfortably af he might upon a larg er income, much more independently, aye and in the end more comfortably than he would do by seeking to increase his income by the use of his credit, but in reality only increasing his wants and anticipating future earnings, which when the time comes for their receipt and necessary expenditure, are already appropriated. To the business man the credit system is unquestionably beneficial, when used and not abused as it too often is; but our own experience is, that to the working man, the day laborer, the journeyman mechanic, to any one who works for day wages, it is much more likely to prove injurious, and that the less they have to do with it, the bet ter. The very assertion (no doubt of its being a (act that) the enactment of the laws abol ishing imprisonment fol debt and exempting a limited amount of property, the bare ne -cessaries ot life, from execution and sale, operates to prevent the poor man from ob taining credit, should show him the nature and operations of that credit, and of tho friendqjiip of those who will only credit him od such conditions. We could not easily be persuaded to re gard that man as n friend, or a* doing n friendly aot, who would allow us to purchase from him on credit, articles either of real or imaginary necessity with the determination if we should be unable to pay at the stipula ted time, to raise the money by stripping our home of'its comforts, taking the beds from under our wife and children, and the bread from their mouths, or failing in this, to compel payment by consigning our body to a prison. Far lrom it; but on the contrary, when tho means are used that often are used, to induce men to contract debts, by the purchase of articles that are not neces sary, by the assurance that "the seller don't want money," relying upon the strong arm of the law to enforce payment when he does want it, we look upon the seducer as the poor man's worst enemy, arid the laws that aid him in the enforcement of his claims as relics of barbarism, thftt should not be suf fered to disgrace tho statute books of a free people. "Owe no man anything" was the wise injunction of the great apostle, and well would it be ii all who acknowledged Its inspired source would obey the precept. For the working man, the cash system is the best, the only safe system, and it would be well if those who profess so much regard for his interests and desire so ardently to be considered his Only friends, would turn their attention to the advantages he would derive from its adoption, instead of plun dering htm of half his earnings by means of orders, trade prices, semi-occa sional payments, and Ihe other machinery of the credit system. Cash payments and soutid currency will conduce more than any thing else to the comfort, prosperity and in dependence of the working classes. Paid for theit labor in cash they will purchase What they want, and only what they want j Upon the best terms, if paid in a sound cur rency, which they can lay by with an as -1 surance that it will not depreciate ot become worthless in a day, a month, or ft year. A shinplaster currency has Ihe sartie ef fect in leading'the poor man tO dissipate his earnings that the credit system has ; in the one case he is induced by the desire of pos session, which ho is tempted by the cupidi ty of the vender to gratify, to anticipate his earnings, and for the possession of that which* he does not really need, dopriving himself at a future day of the ability to procure that, for want of which himself and family must i suffer privatiOn; and in the other case ho purchases an unuece#aty article, that he may have some value for that which ho fears will prove valueless before he has oc casion to spend it necessarily. The legislature of Michigan, we believe, have abolished all laws for the collection of debts, and we are of "opinion that they have done wisely. The great blowing of the credit system is the impetus it gives to busi ness, the facilities it affords for increased production, and over production appears to bo the very " error of the times," the fruit ful cause of all the evils that oppress labor and impoverish capital. II tho effect is re- ally so injurious, the cause can not be bene- I ficial. We do not believe that the rapid in crease of the comforts and necessaries of life is necossarily an evil; the evil lies only in iheir imperfect distribution; but we do believe that the desire for, in the disposition to expand all kind of business operations, to multiply factories, furnaces, forges, and even farms, needs no artificial or legislative stim ulus, but that the interests of all concerned would be ultimately enhanced by occasion ally putting on the break, as the action of the legislature of Michigan will most as suredly do.— lhrrisburg Keystone. Parts and London. The London journals groan, and tho Paris journals chuckle, that the visiters at the World's Fair add nothing to Londo*, count nothing there, spend nothing ; but go over to Paris, frolic, speid, make mergy, dance, and sing. The lodging bouses of London are vacant. The theatres and places of a musement are leaner and larger than ever. No eagles, no duoats-fcg Loots, no sequins, no thalers, no Fredtsrios, ho rupees, spent in London ! All the gold goes over to Paris, and the visiters in London live with the strictest economy on bread and tea, beel steaks and mutton-chops, in tho porter-hou ses, drinking only beer, and poor at that. The West Bnd is lined yet with placards of lodgings to let. Thus London, calculating upon such an immense influx of immigrants as would overwhelm even her capacity for entertainment, has been disappointed throughout. Paris reaps whatever there is of profits from the World's locomotion. This is not surprising. London, to a stran ger, is sad, sombre; and a stranger feels there as if he were in a forest of men, wo men, and children, who have no more sym pathy with him than if he and they were trees. Paris, on the contrary, is life-like, and has a gray, jcvial air. The people are out of doors. You meet them in the shops, in the refectorios, in the public parks, every where, in short, and they prate, chatter, and gabble, so that you soon feel as if you were at the world's home, and not as an outcast among mankind. Paris knows how to be agreeable to strangers; but London has noth ing for them at all, except the subaquean Tunnel, the Tower; as of an Herculaneurn —gloomy St. Paul's or Westminster. The living eights that keep a homeless rilan alive are few and far between, or else invisible ; while in Paris the dead is something, but the living is more than something— ALL. London, if you can open its doors and get inside of it, is, no doubt, a charming place, for there is a home (so it is said) there ; but a stranger seldom o£.never gets into i', and so it does him no good. In Paris there is no home, such as is known in London or New York ; but the theatres are home—the res taurants are home—the Boulevards are home —the Champs Elysees arJhome—and hence, as home is in the street, everybody is at home. So people go to London, but stop in Paris.— New York Express. Force of Habit. A late numbA of Chambers' Miscellany contains an article on Law's famed Missis sippi Scheme—a bubble which involved thousands in ruin in France and England. Speaking of the sudden accumulations of fortune which attended the speculations in Mississippi shares, the writer gives the fol lowing anecdotes, wElch illustrate the force of habit: "So sudden and rapid was the rise of the price of shares, that enormous fortunes were made in the course of a few days. Many instances are recorded of persons in the low est tanks ol life suddenly realizing great wealth, due night, at the opera, all eyes were attracted by a lady in a magnificent dress, sitting In a *ery conspicuous position; and no one Could make out who she was, till a young lady whispered 16 her mother, 'Why, it's our cook, Mary !' And it proved to be so ; Mary had been speculating, and become rich. A footman had speculated so successfully as to be able to set up a car riage of his own ; but when entering it for q the first time, the force of habit was so strong that he mounted into his accustomed place behind, excusing himself, as he jump ed to the ground again, he was trying how many lackeys would have room to stand on the board. Mr. Law's coachman had made sUch a fortune thafhe asked his discharge, which Mr Law gave bim, on condition that before going he should supply him with an other coachman as good as himself. The roan brought two coachmen next day, re commended both as excellent drivers, and asked his master to' ohoose one, as he meant to engage tho other himself. Another spec ulator, finding himself u rich man, gave or-' ders to a coachmakor for a magnificent new berlin, leaving 4,000 livres as a deposile. The coachman inquiring what arms were to be put on the carriage, 'Oh, the finest—the finest by all means !' said the fortunate man- One Brignaud, a baker's son, having acquir ed an enormous fortune, and wishing to have a superb service of plate, went into a goldsmith's shop and purchased the whole collection of articles exposed for sale at 400,800 livres!" QT "Many a young lady who objects to be kissed under the mistletoe, has no objec- I lions to bo kissed under the rose." A stupid I compositor once made,an error in the above, rendering it so as to say "has no objection to being kissed under the nose." STUFFING.— "BiIIy, my boy, can't you eat a little more "Well, 1 don't know but 1 could, mother, if 1 stoon up." • ] She never comes to breakfast. in curl-pa pers. She does not grumb'.e if her husband biings a friend to dinner, even if "there is nothing in the house." She does not re monstrate if her husband puts his feet on tho steel fender, or cry if he does not wipe his feet on the door mat. She Subscribes to no circulating library' and if sho reads a novel she falls asleep over it. She is proficient in pies, and has a deep knowledge of puddings. She never talks politics; or "wish that she was dead," or "a man or slam the doors, or shut herself up in her bedroom on the plea of "nervous headache." She is vory slow in tears, and a stout heretic as fo hyster ics. She allows a dog to be kept in the house. She goes id church, but not to criti cise the bonnets. She is not above descend ing into the kitchen to get "something warm" for supper. She allows a fire in tho bedroom on a wintry night. She has a quick eye for dust, but does not martyr her husband with a continual complaint abont 'he servants, nor worry herself to death for a man in livery or a page in buttons. She can walk, and without thin shoes, or a Jeames to follow her. She prefers table beer to wine, and does not faint at the idea of grog, in fact, faint at all. She never sees that it is necessary to go out of town "for the dear children's health." It is true she follows the fashions; but then at several years' dis tance. She has the smallest possible affec tion for jewellry, and makes the sweet chil drens' frocks out of her old dresses. She is never "delicate." and would scorn to send for the doctor because Bhe is "a little low." She never tells her husband when any of her friends have got a new bonnet, or ex claims with enthusiasm that she "saw such a lovely cashmere in the city yesterday," and then rhapsodise on the smallness of the price. She never opens her husband's let ters, anJ preserves her wedding gown with a girlish reverence. She is not miserable it she stays in town on the Ascot Day, nor do penance in the back parlor if she dees not go out of town when tho season is over. She mends stockings and makes unexceptiona ble preserves and pickles. She does not re fuse to go out with her husband because she hasn't a gown. She asks for money sparing ly, and would sooner "eat her head off than make anything out of the housekeep ing. She always dresses for dinner. She never hides tho la'ch-key. She rareiy flirts, and it makes her 100 giddy to waltz, even with an officer. The Model Wife sits up with her husband to the most unmatrimoninl hours ; and still she does not look black, or say "He's killing her," though she should bring daylight in with him, or even come home with the "milk." She hangs over the little bit of fire, watching the mantle piece clock, alarmed by every sound, jumping at every cab, shiver ing and sleepy, her only companions during the long night the mice in the cupboard, or a stray black beetle, and her only occupa tion the restless fear lest her husband should not come home safe. She cries sometimes, but never before him ; and above all—hear it all ye Wives—she does r.ot Caudle Lec ture him when she gets him inside the cur tains and knows there is no escape for him ! Tiie Exemption Laiv. In the Court of Common Pleas, before Judges Campbell and Parions, the case of Winchester vs. Costelio, attracted considera ble attention.—lt appears thkt the goods ol the defendant in the above case, were levied on by the Sheriff, in execution for a debt, and not beir.g of the value of three hundred dollars, were exempt by law from levy and sale On execution. The defendant, before the goods were sold, waived the benefit of the law exempting them from safe, and the Sheriff proceeded, and Bold them under the execution. Afterwards, antl before the Sher iff had paid the proceeds tn the plaintiff, the defendant retracted his waiver, and claimed the proceeds. The Sheriff paid the proceeds into the Court, and the plaintiff took a rule on defendant to show cause why he should not take the money out of Court. During the argument, Judge Parsons remarked, that— All the laws that had been passed by the Legislature for a number of years back, to protect men, were a retrograde lrom civiliza tion. Formerly a poor man eould get credit, but now he could get none. Nobody would trust him. To which Wm. S. Pierce, for the defen dant, said—l have ever believed, and do still believe, that an honest man, where he is known, can always get credit, and that the exemption laws are no disadvantages to the poor man ;—and I have a case now parlicu ly in mind, oucuring in the Orphans' Court where a poor debtor, having died, the widow and family of little children of the debtor, were not thrown out penniless and helpless upon the world, as they would havo been, but for the benefit of tho Act of Assembly exempting 8300 worth of property for their benefit. I know th'rtt creditors have rights, and I respect their rights, but tho law does and should throw a shield around the poor debtor and his family to protecf them from the grasp of relentless and inexorablo men. The case was held under advisement.— Pnmsylvaman. THE TURK! —Brown, of the Indianapolis Sentinel, is a proselyte to the short dress movement; but he thinks there is no use in cutting off any of the lower end ; all that is needed is to hitoh 'em up—so as to cover the upper end. WOHAm RIGHTS. | Mrs. Swfsshetm, who attended the Wom an's Right Convention, at Akron, in debating the subject of the equality of the sexes, says: " The physical right to be taken care of is one of 'woman's rights' that we will never yield. Our physical weakness will ever be our strongest argument for claiming all legal, intellectual and moral powers of defence. In an intellectual or moral war we ask no quarters on account of womanhood ; but of every man we m'cet we claim physical pro tection, just because he is a man and we are women. As to meet in convention to discuss woman's right to engage in any oc cupation for which she has a capacity, it is sheer nonsense. There is no law to prevent women following almost any business, and why do they not take their right to work at anything they please ? Mrs. Coe urges that woman have a right to be captains ot ships! Well, why are they not captains? If we believe it right, and thought we had the ca pacity we would soon command a vessel, and no doubt but the world would acknowl edge our righf to do so. It would have ta ken a deal of talk to convince the world that Joan of Arc and JACIELLO had a right to be soldiers, bul without auy argument on the subject they prove their title to a niche itr the warrior's temple of fame. "A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full Of weeds." —and a woman of that kind is very much like him. There is no use in claiming rights for those who do not use them, those who do, should just take them." "In Time of Peace prepare for War." A young lady of wealthy parentage, a fledgling from one our fashionable boarding schools, a type of modern elegance, was re cently united by the silken ti'o of matrimony to a gem of a beau. The rtihmmas and papas on both sides being surrounded by all the concomitants of luxury, and the many agreeable little paraphernalia bespeaking the possession of "tho dust," determined to get a fine "establishment" for the young couple and, accordingly, they were 'fixed' in a mansion out Walnut street, on "the West End." A lew days after this, ft school compan ion of oUr heroine called upon her, and was surprised to find so many servants about the house. "Why, Mary," said she, "what, in the name of sense, have ybu so many people about you foH" "Oh!" replied Madam, "we l.avn't any more than we want. , There is but one cook, one chambermaid, two house girls, one housekeeper, and—a— child's nurse. I'm sure are not too many!" "Ha! ha!" said her friend, "what do you want with a child's nurse! Oh ! that is too funny." "Well, we havn't any immediate use for her, but then, when we were married, Charles said that we would want one, and you know "its not always best to leave things be until the last moment." I'pon hearing this anecdote, it is said that Mrs. Partington clasped her haads, foiled up the whites of her eyes, and expired. Dr. Quiz, who was called in instantly, said, that as she had breathed her last breath, he didn't think sho could recover.— Philadelphia Herald. INCONSISTENCIES. —A famous portrait of St- Peter represents hint as holding a bunch of keys, every one of which is on a modern plan, and marvellously like the C'htirch keys now in use. Within the past three or four years, a popular religious Magazine was embellished with a plate representing the departure of the Pilgrims from a harbor in Holland, and among the shipping in tho har bor, was a steamboat in lull blast. Une of the last instances, is that of a showman, who ] was exhibiting a picture of Daniel in the Lion's den. He said:—"Ladies and gentle men, there is Daniel in the den of Lions. These are the Lion 9, that is Daniel, whom you will easily distinguish from the Lions, by his having a blue cotton umbrella under his arm." NOT RAADIND FAR ENOUCH. —A member of the Society of Friends, happened one day to meet two Oxford scholars. Ono of them remarked that they would havo some sport with '-Broadbrim," and immediately gave him a "slap" on the cheek, saying, "Thou Quaker, it is written, 'lf dnb emite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the oth er also.'" Thou hast not read far endtigh,'> said the Quakor; "turn thou Over the other leal, and there thou will And that 'With Whatsoever measure thou meetest, it shall be measured to thee again," at the same time giving the Oxonian a "whack" that sent him reeling to the other side of the road. THE nocToa WHO FORGOT HIS ERRAND.— In lha biography oi Hannah More jost publish ed it is related that when about sixteen, a dangerous illness brought her under the care of Df. Woodward, a physician of eminence at that day, and distinguished by his correct taste. —On one of his visits, being led inlo conversation with his patient on subjects of literature, he forgot the purpose of his visit in the fascination of her talk ; till suddenly recollecting himself, when he was half ways down stairs, he cried out, "Bless me! I for get to ask the girl how she was," and return ed to the room exclaiming, "how are you to day, my dear child ~ From the Albany Dutchman. Crumto for all . Kinds of Chickens. The more intellectual a man is, the more he loves nature. There is a charm about green hills and solitude, as attractive to geni - us as it is to yellow birds. We care not how worldly a man's pursuits may be, if he has "a soul above buttons," the tight of a clover field will do him as much good as it dbps milk-cftns. Although Bentham spent a whole life wrangling about tariffs and treacle, poor laws and penitentiaries, there was no man moro alive to the beauties of a flower. When oppressed with low spirits or bores, he would not only send his troubles "to grass," but wonld go there himself. In the midst of bloom, he'd bury his depression ; and would find in the music of a meadow, not only the £cnlenl;nent of the lark, but its joyousners and hilarity. To cure the blues, one bite of sod is worth all the physicians in the world. Try it on. A western editor thus sums up the peculi arities of a cotemporary ; He is too lazy to earn a meal, and too mean to enjoy one- Ho was never generous but once, and that was when he gave the itch to an apprentice boy. Of his industry, he says, the public may be the better judge, when he states that the only day he was ever worked, was the day he mistook castor oil for honey.—Com plimentary that. May, with its blue weather, blooming hills, and vocal forests, is once more among us. Now bobolinks feel the tender passion, and inspired caty-dids serenade their lady loves from nodding apple trees. About these days, while trousers and sentiment supercede the blue noses and thick boots.— Buds and bosoms begin to swell—while all creation takes te love, clover and chnuubi ality. Great invention tbat string. Well it is. COURTING. —Aa institution made up of Hutes and moonlight— a period that brings dis cretion to a full stop, and marks with a star tne morning of onr hopes. Courting con verts women into angels, mouths into honey comb—the heart becomes a great hive of sweets—while kisses are the bees that keep up the supply. Again we ask, did you ever hold the head of a blue-eyed girl. | THE GULLOWAV I'llX. —This is the name of a new pill just patented for the cure of the rash in all its various forms—beginning with bargain. General agents, Gag St Gargle Broad way, N. York. ProoJ of its Efficacy. —The Uev. Dr. Nasal, of Wheesy Valley, some twei months since) thought he could improve Milton by re-wri ting the sixth book of Paradise Lost. He took two of the above pills, and has never entertained the opinion since. Other proofs equally astonishing, may be seen by calling on the agency. N. B. Gag & Gargle are in no wijjr con nected with Flumix Bitters, cr the Tombig by Ointment. To preven, mistakes, look at the Cork. A friend, ir. sppaking of the courts of Cal ifornia, says they know but one law, and that's the law of self-defence—a statute which Is governed by one set of "reports," those which are issued by Hifle, Revolver & Co. RATHER EQUIVOCAL. —Dobbs says the ladies of Mexico are the most virtuous in the world until they are tempted—while the men would soon be numbered among the most hones, if travellers would only cease to carry money about their persons. A now tragedy has just been written for the Troy Theatre. It is called the "Benight ed Cobbler, or the Haunted Pegging Awl." It was written by the author of Sherry Cob blers. People who lack money, are always sup posed to lack merit, while they are some- I times questioned even as to their morality. As Tom Hood forcibly expresses it—people of afiluenco knows no difference between those who are naught and those are naughty. Dobbs once boarded with a woman "so stinay of her sugar," that when she stewed a quart of gooseberries, ihey seemed sharp ened to a pint. A gardener in California has scCceeded in | raising a pclalSe that weighs i 4 pounds. I Such a "Murphy" should be "transmitted, j unimpaired, to posterity." "THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS" —This is what a bean pole of a girl said, when she lied on a forty pound bustle. The following advertisement was handed in yeßterday : LEFT HOME —On Monday last, Phillip, son of Michael Maloney. tio was dressed in courderoy, with light blue eyes, eight years old, with stripes down the legs. Hair Brown, and answers to the name of "Phil." Any person Knowing where he is will please send word to his father—in the yaller house Ca nal St. Smithers wants to know why his wifo is like a baker who is making a two cent pie. Qive it up ? ■ , Because she is "growing a little Somebody will have to hold Smithers, or ha will kill himself, some day, dangerously. "Doctor, do you thiak a thin shoe is bad for consumption ?" "Not at all, my love—it is what it lives on The doctor rathet had her that time. is the only European State un represented at the World's Fail,
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