Till: STAR OF THE NORTH. Jk W. Weaver Preprleler.] • VOIUME 3. TBS BTI W THE NORTH It published every Thursday Morning, by ■. W. WEAVER. OFFICE—Up stairs in the New lirick building on the south side of Main street, third square below Market. Terms 'Two Dollars per annum, if paid within six months from tholiinc ol subscri bing ; two dollars and fifty cents if not paid within tho yoar. No subscription received for a loss period than six months: no discon tinuance pormittcd until all arroaragos aro paid, unless at the option of tlio editors. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding ono square will be inserted throe times for one dollar,and 'twcnty-fivo conts for each additionl inser tion. A liberal discount will be made to those who advertise by the year. SONG FOB THE THINKERS. DV CHARLES SWAIK. Take the spade of perseverance, Dig tha field ot Progress wide, Every rotten root of .faction Hurry out and cast aside ; Every stubborn weed of Error, Every teed that hurts tho soil, Tares, whose very growth ia terror— dDig them out, whate'er the toil! riso! tho Philisrinos, Sampson, aro upon you! Giid on your armor to go forth to this new contest. Our motto from Lako Erio to the Delaware, streaming forth like a meteor on the troublod winds, lousing to action— let it bo anion and harmony in tho Demo cratic patty, tho strenuous defonco or Col- Biglor, and iba result wil bo coftain victory.'' Hand IngenuiMos. The Typo founding, when the motal has been poured into tho moulds, the workman, by a peculiar turn of tho hand or rather jork, causes the metal to bo shuken into all the minute interstices of tho mould. Tho heads ol certain kinds of pins aro formed by a coil or two of fitio w-iro placed at 000 end. This is cut off from a long coil lixod in a lathe : the worhmaa cuts olf one or two turns of the coil, guided entirely by his eye, and such is tha manual doxtcrity displayed in the operation, that a workman will cut off 20,000 or 30,000 heads, without paakiog a singel mistake as to the number of turns each. An expert workman can faslon from 10 to 15,000 of theae hoads in a day. In stamping the groovea in the heads of needles, the operator can finish 8,000 noo dlos on hour, although he has to adjust each separate wire at every blow. In punching tho oyo holos ot noodles by hand, children, who aro opora'.ofs, acquiro such doxtority, as to be able to punch one human hair and throad it with anothor, for tho amusomenl of j visitors! j In finally."papering" needles for sale, tho j females employed can count and paper 3000 an hour truth and Bight—Gad and ear Country. Annexation Oratory. WE tako tho following sam|do 'Of annex ation oratory from ftie Waverly Magazine: "Fellow citizens and horses! Hurrah ! —There's got to bo a war! I'm in for whipping Groat Britain right ofl, witHttUt sloping for complimonts!—Wo must hus tle the British lion heals over head out of the everlasting borders of this bore Western Continent! Hurrah for tho annexation of Canada ! Wo must hare the crittor, nock and hesls, if wo havo to wade in blood tip to our knees to pull it from the horns of John Bull ! We must do i: ! —1 repeat a gain, we must do it, if wo havo to drive thoir pick-ax of vongence cloar to tho han dle in Jonny's addlod brains! Wlior's tho possim whoso little sonl Uou't ocho thom sontimonts ? 110 ain't nowhere anil novdr was. Can't you and I, and ovcry ono of us rouse up tho wolf of human nalur till ho'll pay tho whole of Old England cloar down | bolow low water mark ? Yos, sir-oe ! Ev ory citizen of this tall land, from the owl on tho hemlock stab to tho Prasidont in his groat arm-chair, is in favor of this all-thun doring and liberty-spreading measure. Just let these idoos pop tho United States cran ium fairly, and see if an earthquake about bursting from twenty six millions of India rubber lungs, don't shake tho whole oarlh— 'crack Tho zenith,' and knock tho very polos , ovor !! I tell you thoro is nothing this side of tho mrilonium liko our own everlasting national institutions ! nor you can't scare up a fork of civilized beings, on the face of the whole universal tera firms, who know so well how te defend and spread them.— Wher's the Yankee who won't fight for his country within tltreo quarters of an inch of his life, if it 'trios his soul, yes and his up per leather, too ?—What's England I Why, it ain't nothing at all scarcely ! Undo Sam will tako it vot for a pockot handkorchiof to . blow liis noso upon wbon he gots a cold ! iWo aro 'hound to wako up snakes,' and no ' mistake. Let us onco got hold of this job in rijjjlt (JVUOst, with all of Uncle Sam's boys, and it >ve don't dig a hole as noneni ty with the spado o! /Ankoo spunk, and ■cream tho grcaso spots off tho lacd ot tho univorsat woild, and pitch thom and ever ond clear te tho bottom of tt, thon I am no 'two legged crocedilo !' Whon this Is dono, you will sco tlio groat roaring eagle of lib erty flapping his broad wings up Jand down the sides of tlio world, liko a big rooster crowing on tho lop of a barl ! 'Why you are already primed for theonsot all yon wont is a livo coal or two of firs dropped oik yonr .lo'vot-j hoods retouch you off!! Mdhinks the floshos of fire in your oyos to-day fore bode blood and thunder; only mind thai you don't flash in Tho pan. If you all do yorr bounded duty in this crisis, you'll ppil Tho tobacco juice of dctoTmination in John Bu-H'soyes till ho has tbo 'blind staggors,' whon you can tako hint by Tlio tail and sling Rim beyond All recollection !! Ilouso ye— rouso yo—let tho shout penotrate evory nook ond cranny of North America—from the tip top of tho Arctio regions clear to tho straits of Gibraltar, Canada, and tho United States forever. Begot in a war-whoop—horn in blood—cradled in thunder, and brought tip in glory! Lot's liquor!' W" A Convention of froo people of color is now in session at Indianapolis, and is oc cupied in deliberating upon various matters relating to tho interests of its constituents as a class. Thoro is said til exist an&dng Ud members a strong inclination to roraovo out of tlio Slate of Indiana te some other coun try, where llioy hopo to onjoy greater sociul advantages. After much debate, n resolu tion was adopted by a largo [majority, provi ding that should tho laws of tho Slate bo come so oppressive as to bo intolerable, thoy would recommend thoir peoplo te emigrate to Canada, Jamaica, or elsewhere, in pref erence te Liberia, against which there ap poars te be a violoct prejudice in the Con vention. .* Among tha countries spoken of for the purpose of migration, besides thoso men tioned, aro Mexico, New Cronada, and Cen tral America; but Canada is generally re garded as most eligible, on account of its accessibility. At last accounts the Conven tion had under discussion a rosolution some what contradictory to that which had just boon passed, as mentioned above*- It as serts, in substance, that the free negroes havo a right to remain, if they choose, in the United States, the land of their nativity, and it accordingly rocommonds them to stay hero and strivo for their moral, aocial, politi cal, and intellectual elevation. It was ox peotod that tho resolution would bo defeat ed.-- Exchange. GETTING A WEDDINO COAT. —Among tho anecdotes detailed by Or. Dushnell, in his sermon at Litchfield, illustrative of tho Age of Homespun, was one which deserves to be told by itself, and belter than wo can re peat it. aged divines of that county, still married daring the revolution, singular difficulties There was an the wodding that, seemod insurmouutabto. He had no wed ding coat, nor was%oW to bo hod to "ftako one, and it was in the dead of all parlioi were roady, and he was rfftious to bo married without delay. A-®l life mother of tho intendod bride tho difficulty, and promptly had norm yt hor sheep shorn and tewed up in blankel&o keep them wnrm, while of tho wool she spun and wove a coat for her rovereud eon in law, The Family opposed to Newspapers. The man that don't take his county pa per was in town yesterday. He brought his wholo family in a two-horso waggon. He 1 still believod that Don. Taylor was President lilid Wanted to "know if tlio ''Kamchatkins" had taken Cuba; and if so, where thoy had takon it. He had sold his corn for twenty five conts—tho prico being thirty-one—but, upon going to deposit tlio in'onoy, [thoy told him it was mostly counterfeit. Tho only hard inonoyhohad was somo thrco-cont pioces, and those somo sharper had "run Oh him" for half-dimes'! His old lady smoked a "cob pipe," and would not holiovo that Any thing olse could bo used. Ono of tho boys wont to a blacksmit's shop to bo moas ured for a pair of shoos, and another mis took Tho 'market-house for a church. Aftor hanging his hat on a moat-hook, he piously took a seat on a butcher's stall, and listoned to an anctienoor, whom hn took to be tho proachor. Ho loft boforo "moetin' was out" and had no groat opinion of tlio "earmint." Ono cf Rio girls -took a lot ! oif "soed onions" to the post-ofllco to trado them for a lotldT. Sho had a baby, which she carried in a "sugar-trough," stopping at times to rock it on tho side-walk. When it cried she stopped its mouth with an old stocking, arid sang "Batbara Allen." The eldest boy had sold two "coon-skins," and was on a "bust." Whon last scon he had called for a glass of "sody and water," and stdod soaking gingor* bread and making, wry fooos. Tho shop keeper, mistaking his moaning, bad given him a mixture of sal-soda and wAter, and it tasted strongly of soap. But "he'd hoard toll of sody and water, and he was bound to givo it a fair trial, puke or no puko." Somo "town fellow" camo and called !er a lemon ade with a "By in it;" whereupon our soap ed frioml turned his back, and quiotly wiped several flios into his drink. Wo approaohed tho old gontloman, and triod to got him to subsoribo, but he would not listen to it. 110 was opposed to "intor" nal improvements," and ho thought "Inrnin" was a wicked "invention and waxation." Nono of his family over loarnod to read one boy, and bo "leached school awliilo, ,nd then wont to studying divinity. History of Alchohol. Alchohol was invented 050 years agfl, by tho son of a strango woman, linger, in Ara bia. Ladies used it with a powder to paint themrclvos, that tlioy might appear more beautiful, on J itto powder war colled alcho hol. During tho reign of William and Ma ry an act was passod encouraging tho manu facture of spirits. Soon after, intomporanoo and profligacy provailod to such an exton!, that tho retailors in intoxicating drinks put up signs in public placos, informing tho poo ple that tlicy might got drank for a ponny, and havo straw to lio on. In the 16th coritury, distilled spirits spread oveT tlio continent of Europe. 'About tliis lime it was introduced into the colonies, as tbo United States wore then called. Tho first notice Wo have of its use in public life WRS among tho laborers in tho Hungarian mirTes, in tho 15th century. In 1761, it was used by the English soldiers as a cordial. The alcohol in Europe was made of grapoe, and sold in Italy and Spain as a medicine. ThoGenooso afterwards made it from grain, and sold it as a modicino in bottlos, under tbo namo of tho water of life. Until tho eixtconth century it had only boen kept by apothecarios as modicino During tho roign of Henry VII. brandy was unknown in Ire land, and soon its alarming offucts induced tho government to pass a law prohibiting its matiufocturo. About 120 yoars ago it was used as a bovorago, especially among tho Bold icrs in the English colonios in North America, un der the preposterous notion that it proven led sieknors, and mado men foarless in tiro field of battlo. It was lookod upon as a sovroign specific. The Newspaper- Bead what Willis says • "As wo feol the eunshino ;as we breathe the balmy air; as we draw our life from household affection— all unoonscrously—so we drink in the pleas ares and blessiugs of tho newspaper; care loss, yet eager, and, though dependent, un thankful. He must bo aa imaginative man who can tell the value of the nowspaper, for only ho can fancy what it would be to be deprived of it. Anothef Byron mighf write uuot'ior 'Darkness' on the stage of a world newspsperloss. If wo should attempt to por sonify such a world, it would be under the form of a blind man holding in his hand tho empty siring from which his es caped ;or tho good lady in 'iSwKrpicturo with hor foot adrancod to stop ou board a stoxmor which sho suddenly obsorvos to havo moved six feet from tho wharf. OR again, 4 stranger in the bottom of a ro'.ue, who, aftor blowing out his' Davy,' r;,ns to the shaft sm'd finds that somebody '„ as takon away the ladder J' AN OFFICXR. —Pray, Mise C.,' said a gen tleman the otboi evening, 'why are the la dies so fund of officers V 'How stupid,' replied Miss C., 'is it not perfoctly natural and proper, that a lady ahould like a good offer, tir V LiT "Little boya should bo seen and not heard," as the liltlo fellow raid when tho master ofdefed him to focite his icssott. KEEP COOI,* la a .lion in the way 1 Keep cool : Toll him you rospeot his priJe, But, that you may go anoad, Ho must ploase to stand aside, Keep cool. "Ddes lie'rouse and show his teeth 1 Koep cool; Tell him you enjoy tho laugh: Uivo a single lightning glance, And he'll dwindlo to a calf, Koep cool. Are you hampered by the bluos > Keop cool; Whon you find your conscit-nco clean, Willi your hands and brkius at work, Not a devil will bo scon. Keep cool. llae a Shy lock loft you thin ? Keep cool; lie's the losor—doh't desptn'r; Now thut your eye-teeth ure through, Keep your tompor; grin and boar. Keep cool. Docs a villain slandor you 1 Keop cool; Ho can itovor hit bis mark. Sirice his naturo is so menu, Let tho snarling puppy burk. Koep codl. Should tho Prince of Serpents hiss, Keep cool; Shrew tfim Truth's old honest Whip : When he sees you bold and firm, Yon will find that off he'll slip. Keep cool. Can't you stand upon you'rsonse? Keep cool • Queer that you should think you can ! Prudent people fathom sonso With a golden plummet, man! Keop tool. Cahuot you roform tho world l Koep cool; Only ono thing you can do— Give a bravo hoart to the work ; Heaven wants no more of yofl. Keep coot. Lot things joßtlo as the} will, Keep cool; , Seizo this truth with hoart arid hand- He that ruleth well hiraeolf, Can tho universo withstand. Keep cool. A Father's Advice to his Son. BY OOTIIC. The time draws nigh, dear John, that I ' must go tho way from which nono return. I cannot lako thoo with mo, and loave thoo in a woiM.whcro good counsel is not supora' bundant. No ono is bom wise. Timo and oxperionce teach us to separato Ilia grain 1 from tlie chaff. I have seon moro of li.o world than you; it is not all gold, dear sou t that glitters. I have soon many a star fall, . and many a staff on which men lutvo leaned hroak ; therefore I give you this advice, tbo ! result of my expericnco:—Attach not thy I heart to any transitory Jhing. The truth comes to us, dear son ; wo must seek for it. i That which you see scTittinise Onrofnlly; arid with regard to things unseen amioternal, re- ] ly on Cod. Search no ono so ctosely -as rhy- . self. Within us dwells the jtldge who never . deceives and whoso voice is more to ustlian 1 the applauses of the world, farid ha ore than | all tho wisdom of tho Egyptians and Greoks. 1 Resolve, my son, to do nothing to which j this voico is opposed. _ Whon you think and project strike on youT forehead and ask for ! ins counsol. Ho spoaks at first low, and ! lisps as an innocent child; but, if you hon or his innooonco, ho gradually loosona his totiguo and speaks moro distinctly, Dospiso not any roligion ; it is easy to despise, but it is much bettor to understand. Uphold truth whon thou canst, and be wil ling for her sake to bo bated ; but know that thy individual causo is not tho cause 61 truth, and beware tbnt tlioy are not cOnfrfnh dod. Do good for thy own satisfaction; mid effe not what follows. Causo no grey hairs to any ono, novortheless, for thd right oven grey hairs are to bo disgraced. Help and give willingly when thou hast, and tliiifk no more of thyself for it, and if tlioii hast noth ing lot thy bands be ready With a drink of cold water, and, esteem thyself for that no loss, hot always what thou knowest, but know always what thou sayost. Not the ap parent devout, but the tfhty devout man ro speot, and go in his Ways. A man who has the fear of Clod th his heart is like Hie sun that shines and warms, though : ,t does not 1 speak. Do that which is wor'.ny of recom pense, and ask none. R-jflect daily upon death, and seek tho lifet which is beyond with a cheerful courage, and further, go not out of (ho world without having testified by somo good devjd thy love and respect for the Author of Christianity. 0 txf* Tho Suicido of tho lion. Luko Wood b'jty. the Democratic candidato for Govcrn- I or, at Antrim, N. 11., is confirmed. The day before his death lib propafod his will making many boquosts. lie was fifty-fivo years of age, and loavos a wife, but no chil dren. Mr. Woodbury had for scrotal yoars held tbo office of Judge of Probate, and was much esteemed by his neighbor*. No cause foitho act is known boyond that of ill hoalih. Thero is no reasonable doubt that Mr. Woodbury would havo been chosen Govornor of New Hampshire in March next. James Sullivan, of Ekotof, will probably now be tho Democratic candidato. OF lie is happy whose circumilancos suit his temper; but ho is more happy who can suit hie temper to any circumstances [Two Dollars per Annum Nt/MBER 33 I'iirt hod Fancy. On'hist Ualurday evening the steamboat-* bound lor tho several watering places on llits lako shore Worn crowded by hundreds i., pursuit of plcasuro and puro air. Husband want to 000 their wives, futhor3 their duugh tors, hud lovers their stviiot heats: and eev'. eral unfortunalo bipeds, who had neiihc. wives, daughters nor sweethearts, wont with the forlorn hbpo 6f attaining (110 first point 1/1 that happy series of causes and consoqtion ces which ought, at lehst once in a lifetime, to blossovery sou of Adam with tho posses sion of all thrco. Wo have only to do, how - ever, with but ono among tho crowd—a we'l known citizen ot Now Oi leans—a man <>l poetio iinhginatiuu anil ardent temporameu' who in tliis occasion was about 10 pay a weekly visit to a wife and soino half dozen children, tit Bdoxi. A lady on board had re ccivcd from liiia tliat polito attention which every gentleman is bound to pay to ono 01 tho sex when unprotected, or, in other words, when Tier mother ioesn't know she out. They sat together upon tho "guards," and ouch spoke of tho beauties of uatuie but wo regret to say that tlio gentleman did } not aliudn, in tbo most distant manner, to th-i facl of h'ia having a wifo. "How this fresh breeze cools tho fevered pulso and in vigor utes the frame," rorharkud the gentleman "•fid what visions of beauty lio abovo and •round, as tho boat dashes through tho wa ter this bright wrooiflight night, chasing tho cares of business away, and bringing sweet -and -pleasing reflections. Sco that glow | which still lingers in the westorn horizon; where sky and water ecom to meol; doos it not portray to tho mind tho glorious hopes of youth, which point tho dim distanco of fh'e futuro uud creato an imaginary conncc lion botweon caitli and heaven 1 Seo tin; track of our progress, as it rests in foam up on tho surfaco of tho lake ; and as tho agi tatod waters stiFl spaYklo, it appoars as 7f Th-: galaxy was transferred to their cool dopthv At early morning, whon the while heath be fore us fringes tho lako, and the sun sin fling through the Ireo tops, oasts their shad owe upon tho calm waters, fancy dooms it Nature's mirror, frantod with silver and with her potfutnes hanging round it. And when it oVentng, if you uliouid seek the shadows of the forost, when a sweet liitlo Jenny I I.ind is singing on ovory bow, you will foe I that their joyous notes corns with freshet gladness to tho heart Than tho voluptuous swell of oporatic musio." for hero slopped horo for wont of breath and a swcot smile lady -thanked him for his efforts to please. At this mo ment, a fellow of ralhor unprepossessing ap poarcuce, stepped up to lite lady and desired her to prepare to land, that they wore nest ing the shore. She replied not; but cast n' look of silent su tiering upon our poetic gen lioman, who was thrown into a perfect fit o' surprise and commisseration. The boa! readied the landing at Post Christian, the la ily and her seemingly rough companion went on shore, and our hero, who had been' watching her final exit, turned away with u sigh, and determined, as tho boat left; the whart, to drown his sentimonts and sorrow in a brandy julop. It had quite a cooling and agreeable effect; bat when lie sought his purso to pay iho bar-keeper, if was no! to be found, lio atobd muto for a moment 1 but tho memory of all that had passed camr lushing upon him, and slnpping his empty brccches-pockof, ho cried : "Dono brown by—! 1 foh her leaning against mo as I spoft of tho connection botweon heaven' audTorih." 'fliospursj contained'within a few dimes ot ninety dollars Wo learned tho story fioic the hero of it, and consider i(s moral 100 to let it pasa unnoticed.— N. O. Pit. Snlvcllznftbu. Whiihorsoover wo go, wo meet with tho snivellor. Ho stops fie at tho cornor ot tho street to entrust us with his opinion, lio fears dial tho morals uVul intelligence of the people ara defrayed by tlto election of somo rogue to ofiico. lie tells us, ji-st before uhnriut, that the litst soshnon of somo trans cetidontnl preh'ehor lias given tho death blow to religion, unit that did wares of atheism •Ddffie clouds of p'anthoism are to deluge and darken the land. In a time of general health, ho speaks of (he pestilence that ia to' be. The mail cannot bo an hour lato, t u't ho prattles of railroad accidents and steam boat disasters. His fears that his Iriend, who' was married yesterday, will bo a bankrup in a year, whimpers over the trials which he then will havo to onduro. He is riddon wi h everlasting nightmare, and emits an eternal wail. Recklessness is a bad qnaliiy, and so is blind and extravagant hoptt ; but neilhei is 10 dograding 09 inglorious and inac ivo despair. Wo object tq tho sniveller, becauso be presents tho anomaly of a being who has tho power of omotion without possessing lifo. His insipid languor is worso than tu mid strength, feet tor that a. man should rant than whine. The mar. who has no bound ing and buoyant feelings in him, whose olieok never flushes at anticipated good. Whoso blood novbr tingles and fires at the contemplation bf a a noble aim, who has no inspiration and no groat object in life, is on ly fit lor tho hospital of band box. Enter prise, confidence a disposition to bofovc that good can be done, an indisposition to' believe that all good baa been done—those constitute important elomonts in the oharac tor of evory man who is of uso to tho world We want no wailing and whimpering about the absence of happiness, but a sturdy do termination to abate misery.— Sunday (link