II '•' 1 . _>_ .: ■ ■ - *-JL > - JIJJ L— i_Ll!—L— 1 -'- '' r 1 '-!- '- - llr --' - L"j!Ji--Ll THE STAR OF THE NORTH. ■■ - . , JBL - . It. W. Heaver Proprietor.] ? * . ; * ... - ?*>.- OLUME 3. THE STAR OF THE NORTH It published {very Thursday Morning, by R. W. WEAVER. OFFICE—Up stairs in the Mew Brick building : on the south side of Main street, third square below Market. TERMS : —Two Dollars per anmtm ; if paid within six months from the time ot subseri bing ; two dollars and fifty cents if not paid within the year. No subscription received for a less period than six months: no discon- ! tinnance permitted until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the editors. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding one square ] will be inserted three timesforone dollar,and . twenty-five CPnts for each addition! inscr- j lion. A liberal discount will be made to those i who advertise by the year. From the Aibany Dutchman. j WAV 1.Y1.E. BT FLORENCE WII DC. , Don't you remember the days, May I.yle, When we were together at school, And our room with the windows that looked 1 on the lawn, Where the sweet summer breezes blew cool ? The trees on the lawn, are still waving as j green O'er the rose and the lilies below, And the violets blooms by the broad mea- J dow stream, As freah as it bloomed long ago. j Don't you remember the forest, May Lyle, With its tangled paths llow'ry and sweet, Where we carelessly strayed in those hope- ! ful young hours, Through the silent aisles, sunless & deep ? , Oh, that wood was an emblem of life, for us two, The entrance was sunny and greene, ! But the farther we wandered, the darker it grew 'Till no sunshine nor blossoms was seen ' Don't you remember Grace Rivera, Mav ' Lyle, The Grace who wa< always so gay ? Last summer slip died, wi'h a blight on hor heart, She had learned for the grave's rest to pray 1 j Some others of those who completed OUT band In those school-iooms, three summers ago Like her, have been withered by sorrow's j cold hand, And under the sod are laid low.J Our Shadowless days are gone, M.iyT.ylo, Their Breams are lied with them for aye, ! And wearily, drearily, over life's road We tread and look back with a sigh. 'Tis well for the heart that it reads, May Lyle. But a page at a time, 1 ween, From the bonk of its fate; for 'twould never smile, ) Could it never hope and dream! Diary of a Returned Salt River Fxilc. ) MOUTH OF SUIT RIVER, BAT OF SAFE RETURN, \ Oct. 15, 1851. My Dear Editor: —ln haste I grasp my pen to inform you that we (our crew) arriv ed 6afely at this place from head waters of Salt River, yesterday, about 7 o'clock, P- M- ( The water was in good order for rafting. We 1 came down on a very heavy 'spar raft,' which,, from its large size and fast running, we cilled 'Clearfield.' We are all in good health, and foci no little share ol happiness 1 on our return homo, after a three year's ex ile on the bleak shores of salt river. It was on the evening of the I0;h of Oc tober A. D. 1848, that our exile was deter mined upon -. and early on the morning of i the 11th, we started for our destined place. | Our generous Whig friends furnished us with free passes to the commander oBthe Salt River SquadrOn, requesting him 'to allow ' us to pass up stream unmolested.' They had furnished us with a boat called 'Free Trade Tariff of 1846 :'—rather a contradic tory name by the way—which was a fast sailing craft- As we cut cable and turned the prow from the shore our sad heads were big with grief, and as we looked back upon homes and friends we loved, we 6hed the parting tear, and each quivering lip whispered low and deep a sad farewell. We passed along, a solemn band of sym pathizing brothers. Soon after quitting the mouth of salt river, on our way up, we en tered the U. S. Bank narrows. This is a , bleak and dreary place. The barren and rocky shores rise nearly perpendicular, and are covered with fragments of marble, from palace columns, banking houses, splendid mansions &c.,&c. In many places along these narrows we saw monuments of ruined fortunes and crushed reputations ; desolate homes and gloomy chamel houses filled with the dry bones of bioken-hearted wid pypfL and robbed orphans. £>oO n a ' ler P as ' king these narrows we entered into A."i!* ** Valley; This is really a strange looking place. The people seem quiet, orderly folks, rather iudolent, and being of very limited possessions ate not inclined to rob each other. Their principal employment is being swords and other war instruments into plow shears and pruning hooks. Mars is one of the principal workmen at the anvil, and the Goddess ol Liberty was washing dishes and doing other chores about tho kitchen. The Ametican Flag, they had cut up and made into horse blankels. Their chief ruler was Thomas Cor win, who had for his chief butler, John Btrohm. As wo passed out of this valley we observed a thri ving row of 'Hospitable Graves,' and near by we saw flourishing some ' bloody hands.' Tot a long distance above this valley the scenery is of a highly exciting character. The cliffs, the shores, and tho moimtaiu BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1851. coves are covered with the remains of every kind of wtecke; such as old cotton specula tions, parts of large manufacturing compa nies, fragments of banking houses, the re mains of many corporations, and a largo number of delapidated mercantile bouses. It appeared as if tho country bad been visi ted by an earthquake, an avalanahe, or a hur ricane. Upon inquiry of an old stager who had often visited these regions, we learned the country was ca'lej 'Pleasant Belief by Bankrupt Late.' As we moved slowly along we heard somo 'old chape' singing curses to tlid Demncrx tic party for repealing the only law they ever had that was worth a copper. It was near night when we passed this place, and after rowing a few miles above, we 'tied up' for tho return of morning. Oct. 12th.—AH aboard—Captain at post and our craft movrd up stream. We had not gone far when our ears weri filled by many and various sounds, fitful and frightful in the extreme, All was conjecture what it meant. The sound seemed part human, part not human, and a small sprinkling of hyena. Our anxiety, however, was soon releived as the Whigs, Free Soilers, Woolly Heads, War and Anli-War Friends, Native Americans and Higher Lawyers hove in sight with their flags fluttering, heading down stream. They were singing what they called a Song of Victory, composed by Theo. Fenn, and set to an Italian Opera tune. The whole company joined the cho rus which run as follows : "Sound the Ilewgng, strike the Tonjoin, Beat the Fnzzyguz/.y, wake the Gonunong, Let the loud Quanleppa ring, Bum turn fuzzlebutn, dingo bint." On one banner was the picture of an ele phant with an eastern overcoat on him and a band of 'coon-skin minstrels' on his back ; on another was displayed the picture of 'sail river flat-boat;' an another was emblazoned an old barrel—it WBB a cider or whiskey bar re.—don't know which—guess it was whis- j key, as whiskey was in most credit at tha J time. A fourth banner had a picture of a | coon licking a fox, painted by a 'master hand.' j This 'bothered' us a little to make out what it meant, but came to the conclusion, that it J was intended to exhibit one portion of the i Whig par y under Taylor (a slave-holder) ! ('licking' another portion of the same party under Van Buren (an abolitionist.) Then there was another banner carried by the captain of ilisirßoat: This or.e had the picture of a man 'running like smoke,' and a great big crooked horned ram butting him.— j This we solved to mean Morris Longstreth being defeated by Wm. F. Johnston, the j Wooly lle id candidate. These fellows, al though as jolly as any mortals could be, I from their appearance, struck a kind of ter- | ror into our very souls. They were ragged j and d-rty, and as lank looking as weasels I that had been forced through gimblet holes. We asked them of the country above, but j they said nothing, and only shook their I heads, and kept going on at a rapid speed ;! and although they had head winds it made ; but little difference ; for even the deck being I crowded with persons, they were so thin o' flesh that tho wind couldn't get hold on them—'they cut it like a knife.' The country began to look more dreary and land seemed to be gelling 'scarcer,' and the rocks stuck up through the ground much higher. Towards evening the water became vary salty, the country looked kind of salty, and even the rain wns as salt as fish brine. At sun-set we passed a mountain gorge and full before us spread out the extended plains at the 'Head waters of Salt Iliver.' And oh]! immorto! Jove ! What a country here we found for slick, fat, and well-fed Democrats! Had all the plagues of Pharoah, from his day down lived and fed upon the country—has frogs, and loens's, and Hies, and lice, and every othor thing both vile and hungry been (eas'.ed in this land, it could not have been more God-forsaken. Ido not like to com plain, but I must say that our Whig friends . treated us most unkind ; for they had lived | on that country ; they had feasted oti the i countt-y ; they had consumod everything and | produced nothing; they had introduced a 1 protective tariff for protection's sake—a pro ! hibitory tariff—which had driven everything ' from the ports of salt river; and when they : left the country they not only wont them selves but they took the country along. ! A more cheerless, heartless, and death ; threatening place man never saw than was | the head waters of salt River, when we lan i (led upon its barren and exhausted shores in : 1848. For the first year we feased on hopes, ! and made common fare of fears. We expected to return in the fall of '49 but the freshet was not sufficient. However we got along better that winter. We had put In crops and they did well. We had ■own and the harvest came. We reduced the prohibitory tariff and traded salt for pro duce h' mullla ' exchange. The country began to pjoSpt and things became cheering when news camd lip Union was in danger and it was likely Ui£l wo would be called home. This was in 'So J and one night wo called a council and resol ved to gel ready to go dowp if the water was 'high enough for rafting.' But the ri*9 didn't come and we concluded to prepare for the winter. We weathered it pretty well till spring when the cheering news came up one bright morning, that our friends had se lected "Bill Bigler,' an old raft-man, to pilot us down in '5l. All hearts were glad, and we went to work in good earnest to have in good crops ready for Gov. Johnston ntjd his friends. Aud although we had a long dry summer, yet about the last of September the river looked propitous for a rise, and about the 10th of October tho water had risen a foot. Wo vrent to fixing up, building a raft, arranging matters, and on (ho evening of the 13th, we all went aboard the big spar raft —'the Cleaifield.' By noon the next day we were afloat and gradually sliding from our moorings' That evening was the last lime we raw the sun set linger around the brackish shores of Salt River's souree.'Next mornins we were far on our journey, with a noble freshet bearing us downward. Bill Bigler at the front oar, Seth Clover at the other, nnd a more jolly set of fellows around there never was since the days of rafting on Salt lliver commenced.—We arrived safely in thi. port where we were met by onr friends who welcomed us with three times three for Bigler, Clover and the Comprorai see ; three times three for tho tariff of '46, the faithful execution of the lnwsof the na tion, the rights of the North, the South, the East and West, and nine more louder than common thunder, for our glorious old Union! Wo met Johnston and his motly crew a ( short dirtance below 'Bankrupt Valley.'— They were a sorry looking set of fellows,— Johnston was laying on some kind of a 'shelf —which f leanmed.since I came down was called 'demagogue.' Strohm was begging for supplies. Meredith was clutching a bag of the 'Galphin claim.' Jessup was calcu lating the profits of the 'Susquehanna Bank' speculation, On their old craft, —much like a Pittston Coal-scow'—they had all their ef- | fects; consisting of edfne strange looking 1 thing called 'Sinking Fund.' We didn't know what it was, only some one said it was a machine by which 5 per cent, loans were paid by borrowing money at 6 per cent.— They had also a celebrated Proclamation ; a bill called 'Breeches Pocket; a picture of Gen. Scott veiled in crape; a'Protective Tar iff for Protection's sake the coffin of Gor such; a large number of Fugitive Slaves; an assortment of Bloomers; and a printing ! press called the 'Register and Examiner,' I which was working off circulars to the j Methodists, charging Mr- Gorsuch, one of! ■ their I'reacherr, with embodying a ''Union j of the Priest with the Blackleg," &c. They I had no banners aboard, nor flags fluttering 1 in the breeze, but they moved mournfully 1 along— not a song was sung nor speech was j heard—to the place where the people had I sent them. By this time they are all back to Salt Riv er's head waters again. By this time they have surveyed the improvements made by i their opponents, and with their most musical ' voices accustomed to song, proclaimed— "Ye crags and peaks WE are with you; once again!" May they have a good time of it, add a j long and happy life. In conclusion, I beg your pardon for bar- j ing trespassed so greatly upon your lime, | and can only offer as an apology for this long I letter, the importance of my subject. Your's truly, RAFTSMAN. N. B.—As we passed Johnston and his ' crew one of our fellows overheard "Bill" as Ihe d—d the "dutch," and cursed "old Joe j j Ritner" for advising him to canvass the State | on the strength of the Ritner Administration. | ! —Jeffersoninn. : ..... Woman's Rights Convention. j A Convention of Women wns held, last j week, at Worcester, Mass., to discuss the i rights of women, and the way to obtain I them. The platform adopted, claims perfect ' equality for woman with man in every so* i cial, civil and political privilege—with the right to choose (or hersell, independent of I all dictation from the sterner sex, what cal ling she will pursue for her support. Most of the speakers in thoir addresses came ful ly up to the spirit and letter of the resolu tions, while one or two claimed only that wonan should be free to educate herself for the duties and responsibilities which devolve upon her sslhe companion of man. One day- Mrs. Nichols, of Vermont, said woman should be educated in order to be able to as sist her husband in the business of life ; so that if sickness overinke him, she may be i able to slcp into his place and relieve him ! in the hour bf his extremity from anxiety I and cara about his business affairs. She I would have her qualified to leach her chil ! dren how to act their parts in life. Furth. ! ermore, she contends fur an alteration in the laws respecting property. The wife j should have ari equal right with the husband I and at hie decease she should Inherit it. Of woman's political rights she had nothing to say. She did not, as did some others, cou tend that woman should be conductors on railroads, steamboat captains, &0., but would leave that for the other sex. This Conven tion was well attended and at the closing meeting Boma eleven hundred ladies were present, and some or 60 gentlemen. The ladies were all apparently ol the middling class, and seemed very much interested in the remarks of the various speakers. The Bloomers were well represented among i them. BT Not long since two sailors passing by a tailor's shop, observed a tailor at work with his waist coat patched with different colors of cloth, when one of the tart cried out to the other, "look ye Jack, did you ever see so many sorts of cabbage grow on one slump before. A GOOD MAXlM.— Nothing would fortify us more against any matter of accidents) than possessing our SOUIB with this maxim, that—"We never can be hurt but by our selves." If our reason be what it ought, and our actions according to it, we are invulnera ble. From Arvine't Cyelipadia of Anecdotes. Habits of Authors la Composing sii Cor recting. TSOCRATES, VinciL, CARSIUS. —The an cients weie pertinacious in their correction*. Isocrates, it is said, was employed for ten years on one of his works; and, to appear natural, studied with the most refined art. After a labor of eleven veirs, Virgil pro nounced his JFaeid imperfect. Dio Cessions divoled twelve years to the composition of his history, aud Diotiorus Sioulus, thirty. There is a middle between velocity and torpidity. The Italians say, it is not neces sary to be a stag, but we ought not to be a tortoise. NOT so BAD A FAULT. —An old French wri ter, more remarkable f ir. 3Uj3%tny of thought thKn foVgnt#e of style, was once i reproached by a friend with the frequent repetitions to be found in his works.-"Namo them to me," said the author.—The critic, with obliging precision t mentioned all the ideas which had most frequently recurred in the book. "I am satisfied," replied the hon est author; "you remember my ideas. I repeated them so often on purpose to pre. vent you from forgetting them Without my repetitions, I should never have succeeded." SALMAPIUS A HODBES* —Salmasiua used to read and write in the company of his wife, and amidst the noise of his children without inconvenience. Hobbes was accuslomod to shut himself up in profound quietness. HOBBES'S LEVIATHAN. —Aubrey lias min- | utely preserved for us tha manner in which j Hobbes composed Ins Leviathan. It is very | curious for literary students. "He walked | much ar.d contemplated; and he had in the : head of his cane a pen and inkhorn, and carried always a note book in his pocket; and as soon as a thought darted, he present ly entered it into his book, or otherwise he might have lost it. He had drawa the design of the book into chapters, &c., and he knew . whereabouts jl would in. Thus that' book was made. KccENTßiciilfes.—Among literary men, J some have been ecceulrig in their method of, composing and studying. De Cartes used to lie in bed, very fre quently, for twelve or fourteen hours in the j day, with the curtains drawn. Thompson sometime spent the whole day I in bed. Rousseau and Pope procured some of their j best thoughts in bed. Mezerai, the" historian, always cdmpoted by candle light. Much of this is folly. Nature has consti tuted human boings so similarly, that what I is consistent with common aense, and stiita- j ble for one man, would be found adapted ' for all, if they would but accustom ihein-j selves to it. Excentricities are not only pro ductive of no advantages, but they are fre- i qucntly the occasion of awkwardness and I unpleasantness. PASCAL, MILTON, SHEFFIELD, THUANUS, AND NEWTON. —Pascal subjected his letters to the inspection of the members of his college, and every advantageous alteration that was t suggested was introduced. This method oc- j I casions much correctness, but it destroys the : 1 originality of the author's thoughts and style. ! Sometimes Milton would dictated certain j number of lines, and then reduce thein to i one half (he quantity, i Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, wrote an essay oti satire, which was altered and a mended so much, that at last, like the stock ing of Aristotle, it became a new thing. The commencement of the History of { Thuarius is said to have cost the author an ; immense deal of labor. Sir Isaac Newton informed tlisliop Pearce j that lie had written his Chronology of An cient Kingdoms sixteen times. PASCAL. —When Pascal became warm in his celebrated controversy, he applied hira sell with incredible labor to the composi tion of bis Provincial Letters. He was fre quently oeoupind twenty days on a single 1 letter. He recommenced some above sev en or eight times, and by this means obtain ed that perfection which has made his work, as Voltaire says, one of the best books ever published in France. The Quintus Curtns of Vatigela*. occu pied him thirty years ; generally every pe riod was translated in the mrgina five or six several ways. Chapelain and Cousart, who took the pains to review tHis work critically, were many times perplexed in the choice of passages ; they generally liked best that which had been first composed. BOSSCET —Whenever Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux, had to compose a funeral sermon, he read Homer in the original Greek, to raise his style of composition to the due ele vxtion of his subject, "and 1 light my lamp, said he, "with the rays of the sun." ! BALZAC. —Balzac, the first writer in French 1 prose who gave majesty and harmsny to a I period, it is safe, did not grudge to bestow a j week on a page, and was never satisfied j with his first thoughts. Malebranche, Hobbes, Thomas, and Buf fot.—Some profound thinkers could not pur sue the operatior.s of tbsir mind In the des truction of light and noise. Malebrnnchs, Hobbes, Thomas, and others closed their enrtains to concentrate their thoughts, as Milton says of the mind, "in the spacious circuits of her musing." A secluded and naked apartment, with nothing but a desk, a chair, and a single sheet ol paper, was for fifty years the study of Bufton ; the single ornament was a print of Newton placed "be fore his eyes; nothing broke into the unity of his rererias. Fenelost and Gibbon.—Voltaire tell* ns of Fenelon's Telemachus, that the amiable au thor composed it in hi* retirement in the short period of three months. Fenelon had, before this, formed hie style, "and his mind overflowed with ell the spirit of the ancients. He opened a copious fountain, and there were not ten erasures in the original manu script . The same facility accompanied Gib bon after the experience of his first volume. Intelligibility—lt would be well, bolh for the public and the writers themselvos, if some authors wonld but adopt Lord Falk land's method before publishing his works, who, when ho doubted whether a word was perfectly intelligible or not, used to nonsuit one of his lady's chambermaids, (not the waiting woman, because it was possib'e she might not be conversant in romances,), and by her judgment was guided whether to re ceive or reject if—Swilt pursued, it said, a like method of reading his works to the un learned. Rosseau and Pope.—Rousseau, who wns ' full of enthusiasm, devoted to the subject of < his thoughts the long, sleepless intervals of ' his nights, and meditating in bed, with his ' eyes closed, he turned over his periods, in a tumult of ideas ; but when he rose and had ' dressed, ali was vanished, and when he sat down to his papers he had nothing to write. ; Thus genius has its vespers and its vigils, as well as its matins, which we have been so j often told aro the true hours of its inspira-; lion; but evory hour may be full of inspira tion ; but every hour may be full of iiflqii- ' ration for him who knows how to modidate. j No man was more practised in this art of; the mind, than Pope, and even the night , was net an unregarded portion of his poeti- i cal existence. From the Erie Obtervtr. W hat Causes Hard Times. "Where all the money goes to?" nnd "What causes the tightness in the monpy- 1 market?" are questions as hard lo solve, in ' the opinion of some, as that frorld-wide < problem, "Where is Sir John Franklin?"! Does a Bank break, or some mercantile 1 house in New York or Boston burst up— j does some speculating visionary without cap- j ' al, but a superabundance of brass, succeed 1 in getting others as visionary ns himself tip- | on his paper to tho tune of haif-a-million or so, and then, when credit can no longer be i got by hook or by crook, made "one grand ] failure," and flourish in the newspapers as i paying but throe per cent., we are immedi- ! ately salulcd Irom a thousand presses' with the cry of "hard times ;" and then it is that the political tricksters of the Greeley school seizes upon the event as ovidence of a want i of some kind of patent legislation. Their j stalking-horse, the Tariff, is generally maJo i to bear the burthen, especially if some itn- • portaut election is about lo take place—if! not, then we Bre told it is the want of more j Banking facilities, or some other modern j contrivance to secure a living to the rapiuly j increasing numbers of non-producers in the ; country. Now, in our opinion, the whole ' question is contained in a nut-shell, and the ! solution as easily extracted as the moat of a 1 nut, if the inquirer will but go as naturally j to work.—Over-trading, over-speculation, ami j extravagance genernlly, wo take it, is at tlia j bottom of the whole matter—Building cit- j ies on paper, like Dnu kirk, nnd then specu ting in. corner lots—building factories where : factories won't pay—constructing railroads ] where plank roads would pay better and an swer the purpose as well—buying good* on 1 credit and selling them on the same terms— all these, and much more of the same sort, are among the causes that conspire to make "hard times,*' and consequently, stringency in the Money Market. Again, a New York or, a Bostonian, or a I'hiladelphign, is a mere nobody in upper-tendom now-n-days unless ho has made the grand tour ol Ku rope—unless he has spent thousands in the purchase of "old paintings" in Italy, which, if the truth were known, are not as "old" as they proless, but have been manufactured by some sunning artist to satisfy tho parven ue gullibility of such connoisseurs;—ot thousands more in obtaining letters-patent to "good society" at home by giving grand dinners or superb suppers in London and | Paris, a t which Ms son or his daughter had 1 the "honor" of danciug with tho "accom i plished Lady Betiv Nonesuch," or the "die- I tingutshed Lord Fiddlefaddle." And when I they come home the plain and simple style of living to which they had been accustom* ed, appears insipid and stale, gnd then comes boxes at the Opera, grand parlies which cost not less than 51,500, nccorjing to ( the newspapers, splendid "turn outs," ami servants, in livery complete the receipt for "tightness in the money market," so for as they are concerned. If the effect of such l extravagances slopped hero, no ono would ; have a right to complain, but its induction is ! felt down through overy strata of the body ' politic. In the middle walks of life thous ands have been spent in a single night, much of which no doubt ought to have been appropriated to the payment of debts, upon a Swedish singing girl and her troupe of for eign followers But why pursue the subject farther—let this one fact suffice. According to the New York Herald it apears that 21, 200 people attend the different places of amusement in that city nightly, and tho re ceipts of these places are over 810,000 per evening. Add to this th e immense sums r eceivcd by saloon keepers, gaming estab lishments, and other places of equal inter est, and we think it will not bo difficult to answer tho qneMion, "What canses hard times?" I.OVEJ O LOVE I BY JAMES JSACK. I' Love ! O Love ! to every heart What a blessed thing thou art, When beauty is revealing Tby soft and ardent feeling ! Brows blushing, Cheeks flushing, lives shining, Arms twining, Hands pressing, Lips caressing, Bosoms meeting, Hearts beating; I.ove ! O Love! to every heart What a blessed thing thou art. F.re six months pass over, lluppy bride and happy lover—" Butchers, Bakers, Mantunmakers, Doctors solemn— With a column 01 expenses SchocK the senses! Quite undooing Turtle-conisig; Love! O Love! to every henrt What a blessed thing thou art! By the time that two years Have brought their 'happy new yekrs,' Wife and rnother, In n pother: Husband surly, llurly-burly, Cherubs squalling, Rawling, brawling. Kicking, fighting, Screaming, biting; Love ! O Love ! to every heart Wtiat a blessed tiling thou art! An Important Enactment. Here aro two sections of an act of the Le gislature that we venture to assert are not known to ten men in Coluinbiacouuty, aside from the Lawyers; and perhaps there are some of them that can plead ignorance of it. It is, however, a matter of great impoitance to business firms, and as ignorance of its existence is no valid excuse, all concerned had better bear it in recollection. By the by, what an argument JOPS this single in stance furnish of the importance—nay, the absslute necessity, of the speedy abolition ol the I'amphlet Law system, and the substitu tion of the New York and Ohio plan of pub lishing rll Laws in Ih'A newspapers ol the respective counties. Had this enactment been spread broad cast over the State in the columns ol the newspapers, instead of re maining buried op in the voluminous Pam phlet Laws, there would haue been thous ands acquainted with its provisions where now there is but one. But to the Law: it can be found on page 52 of the Laws of last session : SEC. 13. That from and after the tenth o' August next, a 11 persons who are now doing business in a partnership capacity in this commonwealth, shall file or cause to be fil ed io the office of l'rollionotary in the comity or counties where the said partnership is ear. ried on, the names and location of such part nership, with the style ar.d name of the same ; and as often as any change of mem bers in said partnership shall take place, the same shall be certified by the members of such new partnership as aforesaid ; and in default or neglect of such partnership so to do, they shall not be permitted in any suits or aetiobs against them in any court or be fore any justice of the peace or alderman in this commonwealth, lo plead any misde meanor or the omission of the name of any membef of the partnership or the inclusion of the name of persons not members of said partnership. SEC. 14. That hereafter, where two or more persons may be desirous of entering into any business whatever in partnership capacity, they shall before they engage or enter into any such business as aforesaid, comply with of be subject lo all the provis ions and restrictions in the next proceeding section of this act. TARIFF ILLUSTRATED —The N. Y. Herald, of Sunday week, shows the cause of the j money pressure where it properly belongs— ; to extravagance and luxury. The tariff pro- | teetionists lay all the failures that sprung | from dishonesty, idleness, dissipation and ex travagance to the effects of the tariff of 18- 46. They ih.ight with equal truth charge the dry weather to the same cause. •'lf, during the week, the stranger should be surprised at the intense activity nnd in line eagerness to make money, which pre vail among our business men, let them look at their handsome wives and daughters as they sail to church in fitii Sunday apparel, and he will bonder no longer. This vast, uninterrupted stream of twenly-fivo dollar bonnets fifty dollar silks., yard-wide ribbons embroidered shawls, velvet robes, and co6tly feathers, be-spoaks an unpai&llod extrava gance in the families of the industrious and prosperous many who make up the great body of the population of eircry large city The expensive and ostentatious -tyle of this imtneuse class—both in their dress and man ner of living—is ono ot the most striking characteristics of oui country and our age. No where else in the world can one-tenth of so great a number of expensively (wo do not say well) dressed women be seen in the same time or compass, as in Broadway on a fine Sunday morning. When we encounter ed this brilliant possession, last Sunday, and I renlembered that money was worth two pe r j cent a month in Wall street, we could no' help roughly estimating the enormous iter est the husbands and fathers of New-York | bestow upon their wives and daughters." ! Ey This lino fills the column. NUMBER 417 From the Public Ledger. Important Will Cue. Tlie care of Leech's Will, which has been on trial before Judge King for several dny past, and was decided on Saturday last by a verdict of the jury, was one of considerable importance, and its correct adjudication will give renewed assurances of the fidelity with which the guarantees of tho law, in the en joyment find disposition of properly by its true owners, are carriod out by our courts. The testator, Charles Leech, residod in West Philadelphia, possessed of considerable properly. He was about eighty-three year* old when he died, and had been eccentric in his habits for many years, if not always, being exceedingly suspicious, believing in witchcraft, and frequently fancying that somebody had a design to poison him. Jin was never married, but had a natural son, and lived almost entirely alone in his ex treme old age. Several years ago ho made a will, iri which he bequeathed his property to a family with which he was intimate, but not related by blood, cutting o(T Lis natural son, and his brother's citildren. A neigli bo r who was frequently entrusted by him to manage bis business, with others, remonstra ted with him upon the injustice of such a disposal of his property; reminded him ill 1 he had acknowledged his son, nrr 1 prcsso upon tho moral obliaa'.ior. of providing fjr him, and giving him the bulk of his property t° his son. This will was offered for pro bate after his death, when a caveat was filed by his nepheiVs, denying the validity of-flio will, oh the ground that it had been obtained by undue influence, and that, when it was made, the testator was not of sound dispo sing mind. On the trial of the cause, a largo number of witnesses, were examined on both sides I touching the mental capacity of the Testa tor at the lime of making his will. Tho physician who attended him in his last sick ness, was one of the witnesses, and testified that the old gentleman was extremely feeble in body, from disease and age, but that ho appeared to be of snund memory and dispo sing mind. He, the witneSs, spoke ;o him fir3t on the subject of his disease, and, when he saw that it would be difficult if not im possible tb improve bis health, he admon ished bim on the nece sity of preparing him self for anothes world. Ttie doctor said ho conversed intelligently and rationally on tho subject. Judge K.ng, in a clear and able charge t(> the jury, reviewed the law on the subject of wills, and pointed out the duties of courts and juries in deciding on their va'idity. lie said that neither was permitted to ma'ro wills for deceased persons, but to construe them according to their obvious meaning, and to give force and eflect to wills proper ly made. The question of sanity was one of fact for the jury, which they must decide up on the evidence presented to them, but they must not take proofs of the caprices or ec centricities of les a'.ors, as evidence of their want of capacity to make wills. If a man had a sound recollection of his property and the objects of his care; if he had distinct ideas of his moral obligations, and had nei ther forgotten the extent of his possessions, nor die persons who were in nature and in law entitled to his regard and consideration, he should certainly be deemed fully compe tent to make a valid will, whatever peculiar ities of mind or infirmities of body he might have experienced or manifested. It was tho policy of the law to give validity to wills in al 1 cases where unduo influences had 110 been exercised upon imbecile testators, or fraud* practised upon them. Men were in duced to industry and frugality hy the assu rances given to them by the law, thdt tho disposition of their properly by will should be respected and carried out, and ovidetK'o of a clear, positive and unquestionable cha racter should always bo insisted upon, bo fore a court or jury should set aside n will and make a disposition of a man's property different from his own intentions and coavic tiothof propriety. The charge of tho judge was listened to with great attention bv a crowded court, and | was considered as able as it was comprehen sive and interesting. After an absence of a few minutes only, the jury rendered a ver- I diet in favor of the plaintiff, sustaining tho : will. BENTON AM. OVER. —Tima was when "oIJ Bullion" was "some" in the Democratic household, but that day past with the burst ing of Com. Stockton's big gun on board the Princeton—that catastrophe knocked all the common sense that ever was in him out. Wo might fortify this position by citing his childish freak of "making mouths" at Gen, Kearney before a Court Martial, and his re fusal to oat or sleep at Fort Leavenworth be cause his son-in-law, Fremont, was once held a prisoner there ; but we need not go back farther than to his reply to a recent proposition to unite the Democracy of Mis souri on a plan similar to the New York joint convention. In this notable document he says he wou'd ' sooner set in council with the six thousand dead, who died at St. Lours Louis of cholera, than to into convention with such a gang of scamps." While Boil ton holds such sentiments, Missouri is lost to the Democats, and his political hopes cn gulphod in that broad and deep schism.—E rie Observer. ty Some of tho Newspapers are brag ging about a "Bust of General Scott by J. D. Jones. We don't think it can bo compared to the "bust of Gen. Scott" in Ohio and Point sylvania, by Johnston and Vinton.
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