THE STAR OP THE NORTH.
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VOLUME 6.
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a- oarcpafir*
The Jli tile's N< w Home.
Far from childhood's sunny ho vers,
A newfhome meets the "lair Young Bride ;
New duties claiming now the hours,
And stranger scenes on every side'
But when the twilight hour was come,
And Memory's holiest depths are stirred,
Sees she not then the dear old home,
Where late her voice and steps were heard?
And tliii.ks she not of childhood's dreams.
That thrilled her with their witching spell,
Of youth's more wild romantic schemes
■She loved to foster all so weli?
And sees she not those absent friends
Who miss the dear one gone from them,
"With each of whom some memory blends.
Now treasured as a priceless gem?
But the deep rense of loneliness
That weighs so heavily on the soul,
When thoughts like these upon her press,
Yields to affection'" sweet control
That strong atfsciion which incites
To almost any sacri tine,
Which is to those whom it unites,
An anlepast of Parudi.-o.
The Bride's New Home! Religion there
Should ever have her sacred shrine,
Ami morning praise, and evening prayer
Be breathed tor every gift divine.
Poor human liive will never wane,
Nor idolize its objects hero, 4
Where piety limb reared a fa:.e,
And Ihe heart ottering is sn cere.
The Bride's New Home ! Teas e lo within,
And every hallowed grace em,loye.t ;
A mother's prayer an ans' or win;
A father's Mussing lull e.vnyed;
A sister's wishes realized;
A brother's hopes fulfilment find;
Kacii dear friend's benediction prized,
And ail with odorous thoughts the mind.
The Bridr'a New Home! Let tnui'tc wake
Her sonl-eniraneitig measure there,
Ami melancholy's dirge ne'er break
In darkling cadence on its air.
Let Love's perfume iis hnl! pervade,
That echo but to gentle words.
So shall 1 tie Bride's New Home be fnade,
* The fairesi dwelling earth aflords.
9
BO&Disiubi&ißvßue 0
THE rOVrAMIXATION or EVIL.
The religious papers that lately praised
the "Hoi corn - ' sketches are recanting very
fast. Among these is the New York Inde
pendent, in which the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher in manly frankness retracts w hat he
had said for the book, and follows with some
very good common-sense remarks on the
contamination of evil, which we are pleased
to copy and endorse.
While men are righting' themselve'. an.l
guiding back again those w-hooi they have
misled, may there lint he danger of an liti-wiso
concentration of the public attention ! Have
not the public been patient of printed mat
ter in the must respectable weekly and daily
newspapers full as bad as this ol "Hot Con?"
What it Mr. Robinson should plead in this
wfse ; "If I have been r islakon in ifly
judgment in the proper materials for such
a work, 1 was partly misled by religious pa
pers and respectable dailies. Neither of
them seem 10 have much delicacy in serving
food for an appetite for-the horrible. Mur
ders are regislerod in all their frightful de
tail*. The shocking cosualitios which nor.p
but morbid appetites can endure, are set
down as conscientiously in many religions
papers, as are pious auecdntos and pious ex
cerpts. The tricks of knaves uro spread out,
of counterfeiter •, burg hits, and swindlers, in
respectable dailies, ot sharpen young wits
against the fima of need. The police re
ports ure not ovcfdelioate. And the record
of criminal trials, the testimony, the speech
es &o. : are wore often, by fartliatt anything
in my book. There, is enough matter in the .
news-department o! our best and soberest
city dailies to mnke several annual volumee
of the size of "Hot Corn," and not a whit
more refined or moral " What shall be said
to this ? Is it so or not ? Let anyone read
in the Tribune, the' Times, or Evening Post
in this week, of Tuesday Feb. 14, too abom
inable details of the trial of that notorious
ereature, Madame Rested, and say if there
it anything in "Hot Corn" a whit worse - ;
Let any ne refresh his memory with the
huge bnlk of Ihe stuff published in the bor
eal Divorce Case, and then say whether all
the pnblic indignation should bo concentra- |
led upon "Hot Corn" ? Evil is op less evil 1
in "Hot Com" because i: exists elsewhere.
But as a question (or surprise and in the ad
ministration of blame, par.iality amounts to
exaggeration.
The fact is, that public virtue, like rnoun- I
lain brooks Is iabjeot to great caprices. At
times it trickles along on almost dry gravel.
Then it suddenly comes up with null and
roar and nothing can stand before it. It soon
subsides and tolerates greater mischiefs than
it beforo uprooted. The publio conscience
is not an ever-present sensibility to wrong.— '
It doea not feel Ihe approaoL of impurity, 1
F.LOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COtJNTV, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1854.
j and instantly .-ink "along 1110 barometric scale
lof indignation, forewarning of storms. It is
' very lax or very rigid. It is all toleration
lor all persecution. F r one while it coos
, with dove like qentimcnlality among the
branches, harmless and gentle. Then, with
out warning, as some long allowed evil hap
pens to be passing as usual beneath its eye,
j it changes form and cotnes down upon it
like an anaconda, and with mighty convo
lutions and convulsive strictures, crushes Ihe
| victim. Gorged and sated, it lies stupid
j thereafter, harmless to any mischief that
sports around it.
; Now we have no desire to excuse the im
i proprieties of "Hot Corn" ; but we shall
; look with some imprest to see how long
litis vigilance of purity will last—how long
before the very papers that are most repre
hensory will givd eolumaa of nowa übout a
brutal prize-fight; the horrible details of
barbarous crimes; and (ho variegated moral
ity of polico justice; and the loa.hesome
testimony of all the intrigues and familiari
ties that lead to jealousies, which, in turn,
lead to ussassinntions, or worse, to divorce
cases, which for months gorge the papers
with prurient details and morbid excite
ments.
There is not another subject worthy of
more serious attention, than tho use to be
made of the morbid anatomy of tho hu
man heart in efforts to reform the heart.
L) respect to the body, the knowledge of
miseries of disease is a motive to obedience
of natural laws. We DO not on that account
however, put treatises of morbid anatomy,
nor reports of hospital cases inro our clril
drens hands. THERE may be a benefit in
a guarded -revelation of the fruits of vice.—
But that certainly does not require one to
open all the DETIO of infamy, to limn the por
traits ol beautiful nicn.-ters, or 10 shock re
fined sensibility with a wearisome abund
ance of vulgarities, that roll their thick and
turbid sir earns in tho "dismal swamps" of
society.
1 "But are not such things true V What if
tlicy are ? Is every thing that is true and
hineous a necessary moral remedy ?
"Is 1:01 ihe to nature and
toJifeT" Not half so true to life as life is to
tit- if. Vet you would think it wise to walk
with his children through the fires of Moloch
U:\lef A plea of religious indoctrination?
"But most not some one know these
things i" II known at all it should by the
piotessional men. The general public are
not fit ieeipieiits lor such matter.
It hiay put a few upon their"guard, but it
will probably put tin times AS in.nty till Irom
their guard, B. may protect single cases
from the wiles of the destroyer; it will edu
cate still more to become wily destroyers
It will stir up the sediments of a prurient
curiosity among the Y oung. Thcv
regard the depths of society as among the
sights to bu teen in Cur great cities. They
will go among gamblers for information and
come away plucked and ruined.
They will go into brilliant saloons to sec
life and will come away having lilt it ; ob
servation will quickly change experience,
and the knnwledge ol good and evil will
he had by plucking the forbidden fruit,
and expatriation ftorn the paradise of pu
rity.
"But is that a true virtue that is founded
in ignorance and cowardice ?"' Virtue docs
not demand that it be tempted ; it docs not
run about seeking sulic'iuiiou only to seek
its strength. And as to cowardice, when
baseness and depravity are ir. question, cow
ardice is true moral courage. There are
things a mere contact with which defiles like
pilch, bums like coals. The monstrous in
genuities of passion--, the hiddeous charms
of occult iniquity, strike through tho imagi
nation a taint that years cannot cleanse.
No man can read the reform-literature of
France, at least such as Sue and Saud, issue,
and not legrei to the day of his death that
he I.vet touched it.
A love ol pusily is belter to the young
than a horror ot vice. Wo must remedy vice
by anticipating it. At least this is true in so
far as we employ public ventimenl as a means
of reformation.
it is where pleasure Iras not yet lost all of
innocence, and where evil is burnished with
these rainbow tin's lhat mark it* inception,
that we must hope 0 interfere snccrsslully
Where rottenness takes hold, remedy is hope-
i esi'.
To justify tho grots exposuro of grow
scet.es, in tne expectation or saving the
young by litem, is an extremely dangerous
thing. If, in attempting it, the subscriber suc
ceeds in descrbiug the evils only so as to in
fluence the curiosity, or the passions, then
ho has himself induced the very peril which
lie sought to.cure. Ho is a Tempter under
the name of a Mentor.
And it is not a thing so easy as most per
sons think to describe guilty pleasure in such
a guise as to excite horror 'and disgust only.
It requires a very deep and strong moral na
ture in a writer, to overbear that infectious
: excitement which atises from the portraiture
l of victorious passions. A man who can
conceive and portray tiro rage or sport of the
appetites, in circumstances designedly ar
ranged to produce fascination, will, except
he be of an niiusnal roligious nature, lend to
bis style a fire, an electrio quality which will
prove, that, uuknowu to himself, the writer,
during Iho period of composition was in sym
pathy with evil, at least so far as to give it
vitality and inspiration. The only part of
. his work having real genius in it will be
: the evil. Goodness will be flat, and vice
' piquant.
Besides, a work mtel be eminently one of
genius, which obliges Ihe reader to receive
just Ihe impressions it chooses to give. There
is an opalescent fancy behind the render's
eye—a fertile and teeming heart, that gives
to Ihe impressions produced by a sentence
or a picture, a great deal more than is intrin
sically theirs. The idea may be simple; but
the eye losses it to the imagination—the im
agination breathes upon it a rosy hue, and
tosses it to the feelings, ami they in turn ad,l
flower upon flower, un'il the product no.
more resembles the original element, than a
full-blossomed flower, the seed that gave it
birth. Hence, the best things may be sug
gesnvely perverted. If the inind lias mor
bid associations, nothing will be harmless.
It wril embitter the sweetest flavors, and
turn innocence itself Into mischief. How
much more i'" Ihe materia! be itself evil, or
directly suggestive of evil.
Another thing ought to be known and re
membered. It i possible, if a mind imbibe
| wrong ideas to remove them, and leave the
intellect clear and unimpaired. Bui, when
ihe imagination has been fully inspired, and
fed with morbid scenes, and all passions have
glowed with unholy fire; these are nol
quenched aniPeuded, when the bonk or pic
! ture is forgotten. It is a stab thai both cuts
and poisons, and the poison goes into the
circulation, even it the wound throwgh
J which it entered closes. The soul thereafter
has an element of mischief lurking within it,
ready to start up on every temptation, and
play the traitor within, to every evil that
creeps up from without.
Morbid curiosities cannot be rubbed out
I from the soul like chalk-marks firm a black
board. The picture may be torn up, the
hook burned ; hut the impressions which
, they made ore phosphorescent piclutes ; in
Ihe mind, that in the daj light of virtue are
I not visible, but that will gleam forth with lu
rid light, in every darker hour of tenip'a
tion.
This is peculiarly the danger of youth, of
persons of an emotive and imaginative tem
per; and of all persons ivjio, cultivated in
tellectually, find no occupation 111 life, no !e
-! gitimate aim for th> ir feelings, but sutroun
; ded by affluence, seek in their own reveries
; or in endless reading of inischievious fic-
I '.ions, a recompense for airalemess aui idle -
. ness.
When, therefore, a book WHICH professes
j to have fa: its end the extinction of vicecar-
I rtes the torch of lust in its hand , it re-enacts
. however unintentionally, tho part of the an
| thor, tfie deed of Joali, and smiles ihe
peeling under the fifth rib. while c'igigcd in*
the friendly act of enquiring "How is it R i;h
thee, my brother.' 1 '
' hi all these remarks wp wish it LO tliider-
I ilerstood that we exote RATE Mr. Robinson
j Irom the charge of hav intended mi—
'j chief. We believe thai his ii \ minus were
j directly the reverse. But a boi-K, like ined-
I icine, however honestly given, does not al-
I ways do that which was wished, and olten
has a minJ of its own which, when once
expressed cannot be recalled.
J CAPITAI. FOU TAB YOCNO.— It is a consols
' lion fur all right-minded young inen in this
| country, that though theylnv.y not be able to
command us much pecuniary capital as TLMR
| would w ish to commence business them
-1 selves , yet there is a mot, IL eapi.al which
; thai can have, which will weigh as much
as money with those people whose
1 opinion is worth having. And it does not
, take a great while io accumulate a respecta-
IMe anion it of capital. Il consists in truth,
J honesty and integrity ; to which may be ad
ded decision, firmness, couiaue and perseve
: tar.ee. With these qualities, there ate few
1 obstacles which cannot be overcome. —
: Friends Ep'ring up and surrouud such a
young man almost as il by magi' . Conti
-1 deuce flows out to him, and business tic
mutates on his hands faster than he can ask
it. And HI a fe,w years such A young mm
is far in advance of many, who started with
him, having cquui talents, and larger pecu
niary means; ere long our young trie mi
stands foremost, the honored, trusted and
loved. Would that we onuld induce every
I youthful render to continence life on the
| principle that moral capital is the tiling alter
1 all.
-
l linl's lite Ailegoiy.
A miser being deud and fairly interred,
came to the banks of the Styx, desiring lo
be ferried over along with the other ghoals.
Charon demanded his fare, and was surprised
to see the miser, rather than pay it, thr. .
himself inlojhe river and swi-t to Iho oth
• r side, notw- •stand ing all the clamor and
opposition that could be made to him.
All Tartarus was in an uproar ; and each
p( the judges was meditating some punish
ment suitable to a crime of sncb dangerous
consequences to the infernal revenues.
"Shall lie be chained 10 the rock along
with Prometheus? or tremble below the
precipice in company with tho Danatdes? or
assist Sisyphus in rolling his stone J"
"Nn," said Minos, "we must invent some
severer punishment. f.et him be sent back
lo the earth, to eee the use his heirs are mu
king of his riches."
ty"Moneeignor Badini, the Popes Nuncio
sailed for Eutope last Saturday morning, in
the Atlantic. His presence in New York
was not known, and his friends put him on
| board a smalt steamer at Staten Island from
which he was received by the Atlantic in
the Narrows.
It" How can I come to know myself ?
Not by contemplation; by action only. Do
your duty, and you will know your valae .
Truth and Eight—Gd aid oar Country.
... _ * ■' * ■ .
From the N. Y. Picayune.
PROF. JULIUS CiBSAIt HANNIBAL'S
Scientific Lcctnrcs.
SPECTBD BUCDDERN AND SISTERN —
De subjick ob my torts dis week, an' ob
de 'scorse I intend to- deliber to you dis e
benin,' am nn easy one. Foolosofers hab
made rules an' regilations for understandin'
j most kreated tings, but wedder de subjick
I ob my 'scorse am a kreated ting or not, am
yet an undecided question. Dis eubjickatn
LUCYS lON E.
I De kwestion stands dus—am Lucy Stone a
strong minded woman ? Most loolosofers dl-
I wide de human specie into men and women
I but make no perwfeion for de strong mind
| ed ones. 1 Key say ifey are not a genewine
. specie—but bngner— again diwiden
j de human race iu ftplitieious, JSrorkin nun,
! an'niggars. But neider dem m ikes er.ny
I menshun obdisklaas. Konsekvfense is, we
! must s'spose dey is not a krea'.ed bein,' but
1 sumliii' made. YVe puts 'em long ivid de
ling hard io understand,' an' rather ongrec
able lo look at, like Gypsum mummies and
grt- x [-icier-. Not dat dey looks exactly like
mummies— contrary, some would be Kwitc
' well lookin' ef (ley ilres*cd eider like men
or women, an 1 didn't let dere single idea
clinte 'em roun' on', romi' ividout enny
rest.
De subjick ob (lis lecture, as I said before
,is no ea*y one— but enny one might s'pose
a Stone to be a hard subjick. Miss Lucy
j hab takin' to public speakin' now ir seb
erul year-, sermonizing on did'-rent topics ;
for douglvshe am a litjje hersef, her heart
am largo 'tin FC*;.' il ara in reference to dis.
NCI doubt, dat ,lt) poet sail dart; were
"Sermons in STONES angood in eberyting."
She am small, as I said Defore, an' tol'blo
gcod lookin', kunsiderin she is a W'te g-D.
But 1 will say, as a kin-know'-shure, dat she
would look much better ef her taste would
not let her ware sumlin' alween a genlman'
an' A lady's dress. Foolosolers call ilia s:ri
kin' de golden mean, an' nii'y MEATI L unl
it is, too. I not cde sirgumriit 011 rainy wed
der—l nose awl walk out ob de church kase
I'm not liberal 'nuff. 1 only say dat slie car
ries do idee 't out four inches to far. It am
de extreme Blomnerism da! I oppose, bekase
it am not hansum, an' all ladies should look
bansum as dey kin' a- well as comfortable;
an' Bloomer dress am not beautiful, fur it
looks like a Dutch churn w id two werrv stout
handles stie-kiii out ob de RUNG end.
T Dere I oppose dif dfe.-s bekase it,'
1 makes Brnauwuv FBPS on a rainy*'
1 day. Dar's sum ob my kungregashun, as
1 brokers, an'ineichatils, an' sich, dat 'pears
lo be mity tickled ive.n dey see a wite stock
in' neatly filled a passin' down town, dough
butler woitld'nt melt in dere motifs up town
at home. De Bloomer ladies am rile ef dey
disappiut such fellers, an' I only axes dem to
let down dere notions AN' dere dress de 'fore
said four inches an' I shall maintain dere
1 A"-E long — as long as — as long as de l:nn
gregashen continue- its koutributiuns. Miss
Lucy ~ ..b her fail biwided iota four quarters
Kloomurism, Temperance, Ar.'i-Slavery
an' Theodore Barker — de Istier,genlmanen
-1 gaged ir: de same perfessinrigis rri ysef, name
ly, litenin de iagotnrunl. "Like a woman,
.-lie am dewoted TO her dress oh knr.-c ; bein'
a reformer, she must 'long TO de Temper- '
ance Siety ; her KINDNESS S her link .
equally well4>b Unrfla Tonrt an' Aunty SLAV
very, two near relasltuns, only Aunty is de
eldest. But it am en de last pint— de Rar
keristn—dat Miss Lacy goes it stronger dan
;on otiny ob de odders. She talks like Bar
ker, thinks like him, 1111' cams part ob de
1 way IN dressiti' like him. Wen he lectin's
he goes strait alied in one nofonus manner
a.L de way NO' : ' • Tliss Lucy, only A
leetle less HJ Urul.es his discourse mlo
short bits, like childmu do dure candy wen
'bout to gtib it aw-ay. So do Miss Lucy. —
In short, she am in de Latin phiase, a inul
-1 turn in Barker, Dat means, she am wrapped ,
up a great de-ii too much in a mdder man's
cloak ob wisdom. 1 (fhrrt nrean wrapped
up in de 'feclioiiate wi;y. Sho wates de
dress she has on purpose dat 110 oue shall
fall in lub wid her. as she knows dere won't
it is so ugly. She d< cj ka-e she don't
want lo abandon her perfesiory an' hab to
'cept one so disagreeable to her as dat ob a
wife anil mudder An' now, my sritigy
heaters, recollect dat d are's sutn good an'
sumlin not good in uhbery one—in Lucy
Stone as well as de re.-t. Dou't kotidem 100
quick, au' don't praise too much.
Will Brudder Raymond please to rotate de
RANCOR.
<
A Tmipernnce Man.
Hero is a story of a man to whom honor
is due, which we find in tfco Uemus of the
Jl est, a Cincinnati monthly :
A gentleman cooper called upon a negro,
who owes a fine la rm in Ohio, r.ud r. isheil
to purchase some stave timber. Our colored
frtcndTnqnired for what purpose he wanted
it. He received for answer,
"1 have a contract for so many whiskey
barrels.'' , - v - •(. *
"Weil sir," was the prompt reply, "! have
the timber for sale and want the money, but
no man shall purchase a single slave of me
for that purpose."
Of course Mr. Cooper was cot a Mile up
in the back to meet such astern reproach,
got mad end called htm a 'nigger .'
"That is very true, mildly replied the oth
er, "It ie my tnitfortune to be a negro. I
can't help that, but I can help selling my
timber to meke whiskey barrels of, and 1
mean to do it.
ENGLISH LADIES.
j The following is from Mr. Holcomb's ad
| dress before the Maryland Agricultural So
ciety :
As showing the interest English ladies
j take in Agriculture, I cannot but relate a cas
j ual interview 1 chanced to have with an En
glish lady, in going up in the Express train
! from London to York. Her husband hnd
! bought a book at (be stand as we were about
, starting, and remarked to her that "it was
j one of her favorite American Authors—
| Hawihorn." I casually observed, "I was
pleased to see young American authors
| found admirers with English Jadfes," when
j the conversation turned ort books and auth
ors. BUTT said to tnyself pretty soon, "this
is a lilera ry lady—probably her husband is
qll fMiisi!- p yaiiiAMirfr, ril -ItwuiUe
'scissors' for him ; at all events, I must re
treat from this discussion about authors,
modern and poerty . What should a
farmer know critically of SUCH things. If I
was only in those fields — if. the conversation
conlJ be made to turn 011 CROPLF or cattle,
then I should feel quite at homo " I finally
pointed out a field of wheat, and remarked
it very fine. The lady carefully observing
it, said ;—'Sir. I think it is too thin —A com
mon-fault this season , as tho seeding was
late;' 'those drills,' she added, tnrning loiter
huslatul for his confirmation, 'cannot be
more than ten inches apart, and you see, sir,
ihe ground is not completely covered—
jivelve, and eleven inches is now preferred
| for the width of drills, and two bushels of
seed to the acre will then entirely cover the
ground, on good laud, so you can hardly dis
, cover the drills,'
If the Goddess of Ceres had appeared
with her sliraf, or her cornucopia, I could
not have been taken mora by surprise. A
lady descanting o r Ihe width of seed drills and
the quantity of see I!'
'I will try her again,' said J, this may be
a chance shot,' and remarked in reference 10
A field of ploughed ground we were passing,
that it broke up in great lumps, cr.J could
hardly be put in good tilth. "We have much
clay land like this.' she replied, 'and former
ly it was difficult to cultivate it in a tillage
crop, Inn since tho introduction of (."ruskill's
I'utetit Clod Crusher, they will inMo the
most beautiful tilth on these lands, and
which are now regarded as among our best
wheat lands.'
The conversation turned on rattle ; she
spoke of the boot breeds of Cows for the
pail, (ihe Ayrshires anil Devon*. ) T"!D ine
where the best cheese was ma le — Pljishire
— the best butler — lreland — where the best
milk-maids were to be found — Wales 'Oh I
eaiil I, '! was mistaken ; this charming in
telligent woman, acting so natural and un
affected, dressed so tie.lL and so very plain,
U ust be a farmer's wife, and what a help
mate he has in her ? She is not an extrav
igaril wife either, nor an ornament about Iter
— yes, a single bracelet CLASPS A fair round
ed aim— that's all.' Ihe train stopped at
York ;no former 1,A.1 my travelling com
panions stepped upon the platform, than I
noticed they were surrounded by half a dozen
servants — men and maids — the men in full
livery. It turned out to be Sir John and La
dy 11 . This gentleman. I learned,
was one of (ho largest laud proprietors in
Berkshire, anil, his la !y 'V daughter of a
Nobleman, a Peeress in her own right ; but
her titled added nothing to her, she was a
noble woman wi'ltout it.
THE PITEDENT AND FUTURE —A. H RR FEI
in a Into speech ti ns --I, -;RK: IF iho hidden
things of the tin : J. A review of the *PA t
fully encoma: ; such anticipations: —" The
rushing locomotive has felled 'he trees which
served to moor the canoe and the boat, and
HS it luiiglis nt time an i oiTnee, seems to
yoil forth its 1, js at DIE tardiness CL tho
past AND the lesonrces of the future.
But whilst fife" spi-1, rushing iron hoi*e
rejoices in iris strength, ID him beware. In
exorable progress i on his heels, and U*itli
er his strength nor his spirit may save him
from an .nevitahle destiny, that, alter having
lived his age, he 100 will have a couqtietcr
upon his track, to whom ho must yield his
laurttls, a* his predecessors he.va to b in, for
we mr.y well believe that one half, or three
fourths a eoufary hence, some spectator
may stand 011 his guard to welcome another
era as undreamed of in the present as the
present has been in the pu-4.'
THE CMRI-TIAN'S Wirs.—Cliß'.eaiibraud'
discourses h<-an:iftillv 011 thistheme:
"Man, in uniting himself to her, regains a
part of his substance; his soul, as well as
hit body, is incomplete without his wife ; Mr
has strenglh, she has beauty ; lie labors in
the fields; he does not nnifer-land the details
of domestic life, but his -companion prepares
the repast, and her smiles sweeten existence.
He has his crose., and the partner of his
couch it there to soften them. His day may
bo sad and troubled, but in the chaste arms
of his wife he finds comfort and repose.—
Without woman, man would be rude, gross
and solitary. Wonjatt nrsads around him
the flowers of existence, as the creepers
of the forest dacmate the majesiia oak with
their odoriferous garlands. Finally, the pair
lives united, and in death are not separable;
in dust they lay side and side,-their souls ;
are reunited beyond the limits of the tomb." '
EiTrnm a statement m&iio up by the
Commissioners of SebuylkiH county the to-1
ta! indebtness of that county is put duwn at 1
571,600 00, consisting of loans bearing 6 per
rent, interest, payable semi- annually.
(ar.t I'braf-c*.
There is no greater mark of ill-breeding
and vulgarity than the use ol slang phrases.
These forms of speech have hert'.ofore ieen
been regarJfct as the distinctive character
istic of bar-room loafers, sporting .rowdies,
i thieves and pickpockets,
j Of late however, the unseemly habit of
! interlarding the discourse with cant phrases
1 lias extended among young men—and wo
[ men, too, —of respectability and good stand
ling in the community, and has become a
1 crying evil. Low Weas are always attarffed
to cant phrases whiob most inevitably ex
ercize a degrading influence upon the mind.
1 Low conceptions are as detrimental to im
provement as wet and heavy plom ge to a
bird that would take a lofty flight.
To show -tIi.ES extent to which the ) AB.KF I
using caur phrases is-sometimos carrfe:!, the
following conversation which transpired in
. 'HO Stunt family is reported :
" I declare to goodness I I realey think
1 MR Rustle in MAKIG up to our Josephine 1"
1 said Mrs. Stout after the gent'' MAN referred
to had passed the previous evening at ,heir
house staying to a later hour than osntd.
'• You'd better believe it," rpjo'".;sd the
I young lady playfully.
, " You may bet high on thai," added Na
poleon, who was in ihe act of lightning a
' real Havana.
'' How do yon like the cut of HIS jib,"
: Timothy resumed Mrs. Stout, turning to
I her husband,
•' I don't gready like his 'rij,' bill Jose
phine thinks lie he's "some," was the reply,
j " Whether you like liiin or not, it's my
I opinion he'li make a "lip-'op husband,"
, continued the mother.
| ''Put her through,' mother," said Joseph
ine blushing.
" Go in lemons '."suggested Napoleon,
smoking through his nose ; a rematk by the
way, so ambiguous, that it certainly must
huve puzzled parlies to guess, at his mean
ing; but in the present case it seemed TO be
lI.VESTED with perfect lucidity
! "Napoleon, I advise you to 'shut your-hop
per I ' elegantly retorted the young lady.
Mr. Srout proceeded to enquite if MR.
Rustle was a man of property, and was assur
ed by his better-half that he had a 'pocket
full ol rooks. The father and husband
then remarked to the effect that lie had been
more favorably impressed wiih Mr. Good
win, A young farmer in the nieghborhood,
than W itli |! e gentleman en fer < oneideri.t ou.
Tors. Stout manifested A different op:; 111 oti
the subject emphatically die latin; TLURT he
"couldn't come in "
J "lie FE that way said his brother, making,
a gesture, over his shculde- vv;:h his thumb.
The above we are invi.ne 110 believe, is
not a faney sketch. It shows the extent to
which the practice of using cant phrases .
when once acquired may be carried.
QUE-TIONS WEI.L ANSWERED — A -onhi-t
; wi-hing to puzzle Thales the if.ile-ian, one
ol the wise men of Greece proposed to him
,in rapid succession the lollowig diffi -ul!
questions. The philosopher replied to them
all without .the fe„ : t hesitation, and how
much propriety and precision, our readers
can judge for themselves:
What is the oldest of all things ? Cod—
becau-e he always existed.
What is the most beautiful' The world
—because it in the work of God.
What is the greatest of all tilings 1 Space
—because it contains all that is created.
What i- the quickest of all things? Thought
—because in a moment it can fly to the end
of the universe.
What '. S the strongest ? Necessity—be
cause it makes men face all the dangers of
lifa.
Y'hat is the most difficult ? To know
yourself.
What is the most conMatil of all things '
ilop#—became il still remains with mati al
u . ie has IoM overylhing Mae.
Ltson t A BKOFCSSION. — There is a v -1
amount of foolish discussion and (ale sen
timent in regard lo the respectability fit labor
All that is honest, anil promotive of human
well being, is respectable, honorable and
dignified. The profession of labor has no
essential merit in itself beyond this mors or
less productive ; the merit belongs entirely
to :he manner ot its pursuit. It is hard lo
say which ol the two is most vulgar—he
who descries and roornes all labor that is
soiled or soiling, all common every day toil,
or he who values labor only as beerinted
with dirt, and turns up his nose a: the man
who wotk- with hands or lacfe cleaner than
hia own. Both are immensely vulgar, and
both will have lo learn much betore they
under-tan 1 tho nature uud dignity of labor
as a profession.
A VALUABLI TAUI.E. —The following table
will be found very valuable to many cf our
readers.
A box 24 inches by 16 inohes square aid
28 inches will oontain a barrel(S bnvhels.
A box 34 inches by 16 inches square ami
14 inches deep, will contain a half A barrel.
A box 29 inches by 15-8 inohes square, ;
and 8 Inches deep, will contain one bushel.
A box 12 inches by 11-2 inches square, .
and 8 inches dvep, will contain half a bush- >
el.
A box 8 inches by 8-4 iuches square, and I
8 inches deep, will contain one peck.
A box 8 iuches by 8 inches square, and I
4-2 inches deep, n ill contain one gallon. j
A box * inches by 4 inches square, and
4-2 inch's deep, will contain one quart. ,
[Two Dollars per ADBM*
NUMBER 6.
OPINIONS Fltoa GOETHE.
; TV I bale all bungling aa Ido fin, bul
I particularly bungling in politics, which lead*
| to the misery and ruin of many .thousand*
i and millions of people.
| iST The semi mentality of the English is
humorous and lender; that of the French is
: popular and lachrymose, and maudlin ; tier
i man fcntime.itali'y is naive and realistic.
rv The effect of good mnsic is not oaus
|cd by On the contrary, it strikes
ns more, ibo rfiere familiar we are with it.
TV Certain books arc written, r.ot to in
struct you, but to let yon know that the an
, thor knew something.
TV The decline of literaiuro indicates the
I deoUue i*l :L. WM. 'l'i.s iwo Jra p p•
in their downward tendency.
C 2"' Our adversaries think they refute us
I win . they reiterate their own opiitions with
j out paying attention to ours.
Rf A little six year oIJ girl of our ac
quaintance, savs '.lie Sunday Courier, whose
! father had boeu repeating .the Lord's prayer,
said 10 him—
" Tapa. is God your fsther V
" Yes, my child, ' replied the parent, sol
emnly.
" Then," said the Utile girl, opening her
eyes wide, "God is my grandpapa."
Paooitcss.—The shoemakers have long en
i joyed a reputation for procrastl nation, above
all other mechanics; but a rnbinet maker we
j hiive just beard of, quite throws in die shade
' all the dhciplcs of St. Crispin on record.—
j One of the most impatient of all customers,
i (a man who was to be married ns soon as
, his house \va- furnished,} ordered some sam
; p'e articles of furniture, and every week for
several months atle. they were promised, as
sured that the work wo 9 in "progress."
At length he indignantly demanded the cause
| ot the delay, and wished a definition of the
word 'progress."
| "Oh, I moan the I reel are growing.'" was
the consoling reply."
CoNSTITI ITT or THE I.IQT.OR LAW—
A DIVIDED COUNT.—'There appears lo be a
difference of opinion among the Judges ot'
the Supreme Court of .Michigan us to the
I validity of the lienor law ol lhat Slate. In
lite Collins case—the first carrie d up ar.d ar
gued—tlic Court wan equally divided, Judg- *
es Grben, Johnsotj, Martin and Whipple be
ing lor the coiiMiiutior.nlity of the law, and
J11.'.-.FJ Wing, Pratt,.Douglass and Copeland
f" atsi it. Se the question is slili open, and
the law is irt the discretion of llie inferior
Courts of the State,
nr 'flood Morning, Mr. Smith, on ihu
sick list to-day 2' •
" Yes sir, got the ague."
'• Do yets ever shake
' Yes, shah* like thunder."
' \\ hen do you shake again
" Can't say when ; shake every day. Why"
Jo you ask V'
| O, nothing in particular ; only I tho'i if
•you shook bad, I'd like to stand by and sea
'it it wouldn't shake the fifteen dollars ont
o 1 " •er pocket.
Mr. Smith sloped, v
NOT BAU —In 'ho New York Independent,
we find ihe following from a mother:
! "But i.id I never tell you what a time I
had with little Joe?"
'• No what was it?"
"Why, I was showing him a picture of the
martyrs tjirown lo die lions, and was talking
i ve'ry solemnly to htm, trying to make him
feel what a terrible thing it was. Ma!'said
i he, all at once, 'oh, ma ! just look at lhat
i poor little lion way behind 'there, he won' l
get any !' "
CAi.troltNiA. —The letters from California
. speaks of the terribly depressed condition of
i business in San Pranoiscn. Entire cargoes
were disposed of to |ay for their freight,
storage and coinm'ssion. Goods havis beer,
sentlorward vastly beyond the requirement!
ol the country, and the that
there is no sale, or nt least no sale that real
izes anything for shippers. It is predicted
that many men of business in that place will
be ruined before the is closed.
lIKSITACT IS Srsr.cn.—"Torn, why did
you not marry MissG
'■Oh she had a sort of hotitacy in har
epeech, and so I left her. '
"A hesitacy in her speech I never heard of
thai before—are you nol mistaken?"
"No—not at all; for wheH I asked Iter if
she would have me, she hesitated to say yea,
and she hesitated so long, lhat I cut foi an
other girl."
tVThe widow of Alexatid-r Hsmiiton,
though US years old, still retains her facul
ties in an astonishing degree, and conversea
with ease end brilliancy. She always insists
up,in visitors taking a merry glass from Gen
eral Washington's punch bowl which is
choicely cherished.
Iy 'Bill, what brought you to prison !'
" A couple of constables, sir."
"What brought them after you ?"
" Tbeir legs 1 suppose."
. " And had liquor anything to do with it ?'*
" Yes, Eliza teased me so J had to lick
her."
Ea** Literature is fragmentary, and yet it
° deals in eudleaa lepetitions, showing how
combined, cribbed, and confined the human
mind really is.