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OLUME 3.
THE STAR OF THE NORTH
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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.