THE STAR ur THE NORTH. It, W. Weaver Proprietor.] VOLUME 7. THE STAR OF THE NORTH IS PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY MORNING BY R. W. WEAVER, OFFICE— Up stairs, in the new brick build ing, on the south side of Main Steert, third square below Market. TERMS :—Two Dollars per annum, if paid within six months from the time of sub scribing ; two dollars and fifty cents if not paid within the year. No subscription re ceived for a less period than six months ; no discontinuance permitted until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the editor. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding one square will be inserted three times for One Dollar and twenty five cents foracb additional in sertion. A liberal discount will be made to those who advertise by the year. CHOICE POETRY. PRIZE POEM. The following beautiful lines obtained the prize Which was offered by the .Editors of the Recorder and Telegraph, for the best poetical production during the year 1825. The pre mium was awarded by a committee appoint ed for that purpose, to Mr. Nathaniel P. Wil lis, then a member of Yale College,' as the au thor. MISANTHROPIC HOURS. I sometimes feel as I could blot All traces of mankind from earth— As if 'twere wrong to blast them not, They so degrade, so shame their birth. To thiuk that earth should be so lair, So beautiful and bright a thing; That nature should come forth and wear Such glorious apparelling ; That sky, sea, air, should live and glow With light and love arid holiness. And yet men never feel or know How much a god of love can bless— How deep their debt of thankfulness. I've seen the snn go down, and light Like floods of gold poureJ on the sky— When every tree and flower was bright, And every pulse was heating high, And the full soul was gushing high, And longing for its home above— And then when men would soar, if ever, To the high homes of thought and soul When life's degrading ties should sever, And the free spirit spurn control- Then I have seen, (oh how my check Is burning with the shame I feel, That thrift is in the words I speak) I've seen my fellow crestures s'teal Away to their unhallow'd mirth, As if the reveries of earth Were all that they could (pel or share, And glorious heaven were scarcely worth Their passing notice or their care. I've said I was a worshipper At woman's ihrine—yet even there 1 found onwoithinees of thought, And yet 1 deern'd I just had caught The rsdiance of that holy light Which makes earth beautiful and bright, When eyes of fire their flashes sent, And rosy lips look'd eloquent— Oh, I have turned and wept to And Beneath it all a trifling mind. I wee in one of those high halls, Where geriini breathesin sculptur'd stone, Where shaded light in softness falls On pencil'd beauty. They are gone Whose hearts of fire and hands of skill Had wrought suoh power—but they spoke To me in every feature still. Andlresh lipabreath'danddarkeyes woke, And crimson flashed glowingly To life and motion. I had knell And wept with Mary at the tree Where Jesus suffered—l had felt The warm blood rushing to my brow At the stem buffet of the Jew— Had aeen the God of glory bow, And bleed for ains he never knew— And I had wept. I thought that all Most feel like me—and when there came A stranger, bright and beautiful With step of grace and eye of flame, And tone and look most sweetly blent To make her presence eloquent, Ob, then I looked for tears. We stood Before the eeene of Calvary— I saw the piercing epear. the blood— The gall—the writhe of agony— I sew hie qnivering lips in prayer, " Father "—all were there. I turn'd in bitterness of soul And spoke of Jesus. I had thought Her feelings would refuse control; For woman's heart, 1 knew was fraoght With gushing sympathies. She gax'd A moment on it carelessly, And coldly cnrl'd her lip, end prais'd The high priest's garment! Could it be That look wee meant, dear Lord, fortbee ? 'Oh, Rat is women—whet her smile— Her fips of love—her eyes of light— What ishe, if her lipe revile The lowly Jesus ? Love may write His name upon her marble brow, And linger in her curls of jet— The light spring flower may scacely bow Beneath her step, end yet—and yet— Witbont the meeker grace, she'll be A lighter thing than vanity. "CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER Caaev."—Promi nent among the charges against George the ill, end one of the causes of the lose of one of the fairest jewels of the British crown, stands the following:—"He has endeavored lo prevontthe population of these States; for lhai purpose obstructing the laws for natu ralization of foreigner*; refusing to pass oth ers to socourage their migration tbiiher, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands." W* have a good many "George the Thirds" among ua at present. H WAGES ■> GBBMANT.—CIerks in mercantile get from 8200 to 8600 per year; wa- B>< of a carpenter (pet day) in aummer, 29 nett; in winter, 27 oents nett; of a ma- (par day) in summer, 29 cents nett; in or 60 cent* per week and boarded; cent* par waak and boarded. House women from 81 to 82 40 per month; all prices, from 86 to 88 down to their at a recent celebration, of following gallant toaat; "Ladies— in A |rden of BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1855. THE TRUE LIFE, AND ova DUTIES TO THE YOUNG IN PREPARING THEM FOR IT. GOD has filled this woild with beauty and grandeur; on every side are scattered, in rich profusion, the tokens of his love. The whole face of Nature is radiant with loveliness, and beams with an ever-fresh, ever-new g£ry. Yet, amid all the works of the Creator, what is so wonderful, as the gloriously endowed, heaven-inspired creature, Man! A true man or a true woman—what lofty conceptions of all that is noble, true and good, do these words bring before the mind 1 Who is not moved by the mention of those who stand bravely out amid (he "storms of circumstance and wrecks of time," as the master-spirits, the heroes of the world 1 Not its blood stained warriors with the conqueror's fading crown, not its ignoble great, whose splendid wickedness was their only renown ; but the true men and women who have bravely met the duties and temptations of life, and calmly gone forth to meet the Angel of Death. In humble homes and kingly courts, in lowly vales and on mountain tops, they have found out their true worth and filled up the measure of (heir usefulness. In exile and in slavery, in sickness and in health, in thronged oities and desert wastes, they have toiled and suffered for the victor's crown. No heart fails to see the exceeding beauty of a good man's life—its blessed presence is felt as an angelio visitant, bearing tich gifts from the gate of Paradise. Who can paint the picture of such an one, so beautiful as the ideal within ourselves? The intellect, with all ita mighty energies developed and matured by long and careful culture, its strong powers of thought directed to wise and nobl* ends-—the heart, with its warm affection* pu rified and guided into channels of blessing; full of sympathy for the sorrowing, and re joicing for the joyous; grateful for every gift ol God's love and patience under every trial —the body, erect and free, with godlike ma jesty of mien, strong to endure and quick to perform—these, all joined, in perfect harmo ny, sanctified by the presence of that religion which adorns and pertecls the whole, may convey some idea of what ws conceive to be the true man or true woman. To reach this lofty stature, we believe to be the design of onr living here ;to grow up into such a manhood or womanhood, to be tbe aim of onr whole thought and endeavor To help others to attain this is also our work as teach ers, as those who guide others in their on ward way. What, then, is our duty to the young immortals committed to our care ? Recognizing this high ideal for ourselves, litis constant growth in goodness, we certain ly must desire others to grow with us. As these children have not only a mind, but a body and heart, are we doing our whole du ty to cultivate thefirsl and neglect the oth ers? We are not all animal, nor are we all in tellectual ; neither are we designed to be an gels upon earth, but true men and women ; as such only can we hope to use all the powers that God has given us for our happi ness and the welfare of others. Do we think enough of these things in our daily duties? Are we not apt to lake a school-room view of the work given ns to do; hurrying and forcing the maturing of the mental powers, while the normal lie dor mant for aught we know?- A delicate and timid girl enters the school, with a heart full of love, shrinking, like the mimoan, from the rude gaze of strangers; all the finer and gentler emotions are developed in that young child, every pure affection is throbbing in that young heart, yet she is awkward from timidity,!and reluctant to say the thing she knows is right. She is obedi ent and truthful, quiet and studious, but still we find her falling behind and we pronounce her dull end stupid. Are we as apt to speak a word of encouragement lo her in her diffi culties, or commendation in her small pro gress, aa we are to praise the brilliant and showy scholar, in whose eyes burn tbe fire of genius, whose young mind ia sparkling with thought aud power? There maybe uclrothlulness and perversenesa in the latter, but do we not bear with them enore patient ly than with tbe other's dulness. Every time we do such things, we are placing the less before the greater, and virtually saying, it is of little use lo be good, truthful, and gentle, unless one is apt to learn. Another, a strong-minded but sickly boy is one of our number, {.earning ia a delight to bim; he loves Iris book as others love their plays; he cares nothing for amusements, he never joins in the school-games end sports of children ; be is not active as they, aed can not compete with them. He site by himself, happy to be alone with a book; it is the dearest of companions to him. Hi* imagi nation, bis perceptive faculties, all have rap id growth, too rapid for hi* body; this is pony, while hi* desire and capacity for knowledge constantly increase. How ought we to treat such a one ? Urge him on in bis studies, put more books before bim end in dulge him in bis love of solitude? This might indeed make s precocious boy with tbe intellectual power of a man, but it could go little farther. Soon bi* fancies would be come morbid, bis overtasked energies begin to fleg, end be would fail of achieving any greet work, or perhaps sink into an early grave. No! let all suoh precooious chil dren, either with healthy or uohealtby bod ies, be kept in the open air, with vigorous exercises end merry playmate*, as much a* possible. They have bodies to be oared for, end heart* to be warmed, and no misan thrope, whether of a man's or child's age, was aver happy, ever living out tbe life wbieb God designed (or hint. Tntk aMI Right Cod aid air Coantry. A case of disobedience comes up—disobe dience not only of the laws of the school, but of the laws of God. The teacher is much occupied, ia anxious to bear certain recita tions before the close of the day ; the pupils know the violation, and feel that a great wrong has been done. Is this to be passed over without comment from the teacher be cause there is so much to be done 1 The teacher, sorelj, is not employed to pieach or give moral lectures, but is not every mo ment spent in enforcing right principle and right action, spent profitably! Indeed, one living truth impressed upon the mind of a child, so that it shall be a guiding principle , for life, is worth more than all the Geography and Grammar lessons in the world. I We know that (he training of the intellect is tn be our chief care, but ought we not to make the school-room the scene of prepara tion for life, for its true ends and work ? and how can we do this, except by untiring care to guide the passions and affections which will be so powerful in- maturer years? The | desires, appetites and lower propensities will grow without our aid; our duty is to help | ihsnr. to growp into healthy and beneficent powers—not suffer them to come up like weeds, choking the fair flowers and blight ing the sweet frcits in the garden of youth. If these children were always to remain with in the walls of the school-room, there would be less danger from neglect; restrained by the piespnce of older ar.d superior minds, they might pass on with few attacks upon their virtue. Rut they who now sport in the suuny realm of ehildbood will soon emerge from fairy-laod to the strife and temptation of a working world; jostled and perplexed, borne up and down by the fluctuations of life, where is their safely but in well-ground ed principles made strong by the authority of conscience ? Ambition is gnawing at their heart strings, that mad ambition which was fed in childhood by one wise in the head but foolish in heart, one who goaded on bis young pupil to untiring effort to gain the brightest laurels for his brow. The band that guided him through learning's maze is with drawn, and he must stand alone, with all his great powers demanding action, his genius panting for a glorious career, and hope point ing to a bright future. How is he to meet misfortune and disappointment, which sure ly will come? With patience or with repin ing?—with calm trust or bitter scorn ? In such times, how fades away the splendor of learning and genius, and a heart of ease is more coveted than a kingdom. Enjoyment of great gifts brings less happiness than the right cultivation of smaller ones. VVa all assent to the necessity for moral training, and believe we have something to do ourselves for ihe young souls committed to our guidance; but do we not need con stantly to press home to our hearts more arid more their imperative demand uponut? Not by words of cold reproof can we bring the erring child to penitence; not by thunder tones upon the offender'* ear can we reach the portals of the heart. Only in the spirit of love, strong yet gentle, tender yet firm, can we truely bless then,. We can fill them with sayings from books and sharp rebukes, and do them little good ; their yonng heart* want a fresh, living power, to act on them, not the love which praises when a child does well, and chides for a fault merely from the impulse ol the woment. No! wo want a love large enough and strong enough to reprove their faults in the spirit of gentle ness; making itself felt to be no less a real love when it punishes, than when it com mends. When such teachers and such only shall gnide all our children, will we have true men and women. May it be oura to hold on that glorious time, when mind, body and eoul shall grow up into their true and beautiful perfection.— Mats. Teacher. CURIOUS TYPOGRAPHICAL MISTAEE.—Prof. French, in hia latest work on the English Unguage, points out in the 24th verse of the 23d chapter of Matthew, the following words, which he thinks contains a misprint, and having been passed over in the first ebition of 1611, has held its ground ever since:— " Whioh strain at a gnat and swallow a camel." The translators intended to ssy, " Which strain out a goat and swallow a That being the correct rendering ot Ihe original, a* appears in Tyodale's and Crac mer's trnslations, both of whicb have "strain out." It was the custom of tbe stricter Jews to strain their wine, vinegar, and other pottblee, through linen or gauze, lest, unawares, tbey ■honld drink down some little, unclean insect as a gnat, and thus transgress tbe Levitical Hew. It was to this oustom Ihe Saviour al luded, intending to sty that Ihe Scribe* and Pharisees, while they strain out a gnat from their drink, would yet swallow a camel at a gulp. OH ! WOMAN! WOMAN!—MlS.OakeeSmith desire* tbat women should be permitted to become lawyers, and lo praoiice in our courts. We cannot think tbat aqy individual of the sterner sex would have any objection to la dies going to court—were there not one lit tle obstacle in the disposition of the ladies themselves. The lew 1 * delay has already become a proverb—and with feminine help, it would become worse, since in ease* in wbioh lady-lawyers were pitted against eaeh other, tbe arguments would be interminable, as both would certainly waet tbe lest word. Vf A down easier is said to have so trained an oystot that it follow* bin about lik*ado|. Speech or Mr. Dallas* July A, 1855. We give below the address ol GEOROE M. DALLAS to tba town meeting at Philadelphia, on Ihe 4th of July last. The sentiments there expressed are worthy ol the beet dsye of tbe republic. We behold them in the spirit of patriotism whioh inspired the fathers ol Ihe revolution. Tbey embody the thought whicb gave to thi* great commonwealth the envia ble name ol the Keystone of the Federal Arab. Amidst the rising elements of faelion aod dis union whioh district Ihe politic* of bi* native state and threaten the disruption of the bond* of our national union, the venerable patriot, for the former companion end faithful dieci- I pie ol Jefferson, Madison, Monroe end Jack son, warn* hie fellow citizens, with prophet ic eloquence, of the dangers whioh threaten the republic, and invokes that love of eonn try, that patriotism and that devotion of tbe Union which should glow in the hearts of ev ery true American. Ma. DALLAS said—That having been kind ly invited, he would venture to express a few thoughts suggested by the occasion. Our object, in circulating thi* day, should be, not merely to recall the name* and eulo gize the exploits of those who gave it univer sality ol interest and immortality of renown, but, at the same time, under the inspirations of the theme, to lay upon the altar of our be loved country some votive sentiment appli cable to her existing condiiion, and harmo nizing with the lessons and aim* of her foun ders. Tbe people of America, over their vast do maio, in all their countless cities, towns, vil lages, hamlets, and settlements, are, at this moment, spontaneously and simultaneously, rendering grateful homage to the Faith and Fathers of '7f>. What million* of voices, on the heights of our mountains, in the depths of our valleys, on the bonndless expanse of our waters, amid Ihe shades of unnumbered forests or tbe sunshine of endless prairies, are repeating, with neverdying sympathy, the solemn and sublime trothes of the Decla ration of Independence ? Nay, this political hallelujah rise* ir. every land , it belts Ihe earth, not with an idle drum beat, but with an anthem of national exultation; for, into what unknown corner has the enterprising genius of our citizen failed to penetrate ? And where, and when, can he be found nu mindful ioJiail and glorify the Fourth of Ju ly ? .It is in contemplating this exact, unexag gerated, yet vivid, picture of a world-wide choir, that we are made to feel and realize the value of our immense inheritance of free dom. Nor does it fail lo strengthen our firm purpose to maintain that inheritance unim paired, with the great bulwark specially de-~ vised by its venerated authors for its preser vation. Need I tell you what the bulwark is ?—wbat tbat only unfailing and infallible citation of security is? It is the Constitution al Union of the sovereign States. That is the panoply under whose shelter Ike infant off spring of our revolutionary fathers has ma tared into herculean strength. That is the sacred conservatory within which the fruits of Liberty, Order, Progress, Valor, and Law have germinated, bloomed, and ripened. And you, Pennsylvanians, in whose midst still aland* the hallowed edifice, whence came both tha oracle of Independence and Ihe organio frame of our Government—you, the central, sustaining power ol the great arch and you not, as heretofore, heart, soul and hand devoted as well to the principles of the Revolution as to ih&sancluary reared for their perpetual protection? Yes, 1 know yon are; and, therefore, it is that I remind you that you possess a quiet latent but resistless force, which, justly and appropriately exerted, may go iar to arrest the ruthless assaults of fanatic and fantastic ethics., may awe back the ag gressor and leach him, however reluctant to learn, the wisdom of loyalty to our common ancestry, loyally to our common covenants, and loyalty to the peace honor end happiness of our common country. It ia the prond mis sion ol our noble Commonwealth to be ever vigilant as guardian of the Union; and it would be well for ber in the spirit of preven tive and admonitory patriotism, to announce ber predeierminsd purpose to live under no ' other than the existing federative Constitu tion ; to appraise in advance, the rash inva ders of that palladium that the can never link her destiny with any sovereignty or seotion 1 stained with the opprobrium of unfaithfulness to record obligation*; to point significantly to the oorrent of ber rivers, the direction of of her highwajs of trade, the the tributary sources whence come* tbe aliment of her in* doatry, and to let it be understood, finally and forever, that whatever may be tbe oheerless fate of the bigoted, prescriptive, disorgani zing, and disreputed portions of a violated compact, she (Pennsylvania) will seek her prosperity io alliance with those only who re main true to the peat, nnder the oIdmMHF leaa and masterly Constitution, star-spangled flag floating lied emblem of led honor. At the conclusion of ' Mr. DalflUHfes, the meeting adjotMM'vWW^Arßmutjrt cheers. ' IMBS!!? A HIT AT SOMEBODY.—An exchange paper ' remarks that, in these day a,' a poor man's earnings, brought home day by day, am car ried out ol tbe house on the back* of hi* daughters.' IT An ancient and exceedingly simple method of book-keeping, i* to keep ell the book* you lay your bends on. tW Why is the heart ol • tree like n dog's tail T Because it is furthest from tha bark. A SIGN OF TUB TIMES. The New York Herald was three months ago one of the moat violent Know-Nothing paper* io the eonntry. It is changing its sails in another direction, as the following article from its columns of last week will show— Straw* show which way the wind blows.— [£d. of the Star.] A Little Common Sense lor the Know. Nothlogs- We see in several organs of the Know- Nothing parly throughout.the country, oon stant allusion* to the Pope, and symptoms of great alarm with regard to the spread of Roman Catholicism. From one journal we leant (bat the day on whioh the news of Mr. Wise'* victory reached the Vatican will have been kept with unnsual ceremony; from an other we gather that the high priests of Anli- j Christ have been in ecstacies ever einoe the action of the Massachusetts delegates to the Philadelphia convention; and generally we may say, the newspaper* of this stripe talk as if we were living in the days of the great i Spanish Armada, and reduced to trust to our broadsword* to defeat the famous bull by whicb the whole of America was given to the King of Spain by the Pope. "There is not a single spectator of the politics of this country," says one, "who takes a deeper in terest in them than the Pope of Rome;" and instead of feeling flattered by this informa tion, which will be new to most of us, this 1 ungracious Know-Nothing adds energetically that we ought "to qjake Rome howl," for "if there be a cloud in oar nation's horizon, it ia the Papacy." It ia high time that this slufl should be (top ped . We have made asses of ourselves pret ty freely—we Christians—since (be days of Luther, about our theological quarrel; and carried matters to such an extent that no sen sible Chinese who has any respect for him self will at the present day have anything to do with a church so obviously divided against itself. Bui if our ancestors, who shot, j stabbed, burned, tortured and hanged each other on points of theology, were undenia ble aases, what are we who have not a tithe of their grounds for controversial rancor?— For, it must be remembered, to the English man of the seventeenth century, Catholi cism implied submission to the Pope, and submission to the Pope involved the surren der of America to the Spaniards: small won der forsooth that they were fierce Protestants, and that, while they trusted in Providence, they likewise kept their powder dry. But we, what cause have we to fear the Pope ? What barm has he done ns? What can he do? Why, really, good people, who are quak- i ing in your shoes about the inroads of the Papacy, and muttering dreadful things about the scarlet woman of Babylon, yon are much more likely to damage the Pop/, than be to injure you. It is hard work enough (or him —poor old soul—to keep his place, with board and lodging and fire, at the Vatican: nor would he be there still, in fact, if Napo leon 111. had not condescended to use Chris tianity, just as he used the Delvigne bullet, to consolidate his new empire. Since the first Napoleon showed that a Pope might be kicked about as well as any other man, there hasu't been a sovereign in Europe that would forego the pleasure of trying the new sport. All tbe ministers of Spain, from the republi can juntas to Eepartero, have had their turn at it. France baa treated him like a dog.— Metteroich let hiui know plainly that he must consider himself a mere pensioner of Austria on his good behavior; and now in these latter days, even Italy's self tnrns round upon bim, and will have no more dealings with him. Rome drive* him into exile, Sardinia deposes him from his authority.— And in this the potentate of whom we are afraid? This poor, hunted, deserted, bul lied creature, set up by this or that tyrant for hi* own purposes ar.d knocked down the next day like a ninepir. in mere sport: living on mere sufferance, a sort of Small weed, shaken up now an then by some neighbor to scare the unwary with hie shrill voice : the 1 pitiable relic of an effete order of civilization, so wholly out of plaoe in the middle of this nineteenth ceolury, that, as we are told by the most reliable travelers, tbe ceremonies and fashions essential to his stale are proba bly the most comical sight in Europe—is this ihe man—this the power—of which the Order of Native Americans confess to Ihe world (beware afraid? God help their back bone, if so it be I But we shall be (old that Catholicism is not the Pope, and that though tbe wings of tbe latter may be cut, the former will thrive notwithstanding. We have before us a Know-Notbing journal in which this ground i* taken. It resolves itself into a very simple question : is there any danger ol tbe Roman Catholics preponderating in tbe United States? i ■kit was with no controversial intent tbat Wr Hpentore boldly the assertion that Roman [Catholicism ia not Ihe creed for the present day. It is • religion of the feelings and of the heart; it rests wholly on faith, and dia-, xardi reason with contempt: it appeal* to the sanies more then to the mind, to the passion* more than tbe undemanding; end though culminating in a system of morality at least equal to tbet evolved out of Protest antism, it is, as every honest person must admit on examination, the best possible creed for a nation emerging from barbarism, and quit* a* certainly, the rooet impossible to plant among a civilised and intelleetnal people. In this place, we are boond above all things to be brief; and will therefore sim ply add—leaving each to fill up tbe argu ment for bimeelf—that for tba vary same reasons which render it a matter of compar ative impossibility that Roman Catholicism, as we know it, can overspread a reflecting, active, energetie people in the present day, that faith has very little chance in Ihe strug gle with Protestantism. All the men who own no religion ere Protestant*; and the wiser the world grows, the larger this class becomes. The Anglo-Saxon rice is essen tially Protestant; tbat is to say, impatient of spiritual control. It will judge for itself in religion as in politics. Aod it does not teem at all more likely tbat these Anglo-Saxons will become Catholics than that they will reveri to their old political systems, and once more sot their necke under the spurred heel of a baron. Finally we may add that his tory contains no instance of one religion sup planting another on its abstract ethical mer its. The heathen myihologies fell when so ciety became conopt: Protestantism con quered half the Christian world, when heav en was sold at auction by the priests and Rome was the sink of Europe; and Christi anity bodily will fall whenever Ihe morality of ihe races which profess it becomes so low tbat society causes to have a basis. It will be found, on examining statistics, that Protestantism has gained on Catholicity aicoe the two were imported to this country.' The gain haa not been large ; but it is quite noie-wo'Uty, as, since the Revolution, there lis no Catholic country in the world where | the Catholics have had fairer play than hers. But in truth it will be time enough to ex amine such trifles when it has been found that men are worse citizens' when they are Catholics than when they are Protestants.— It would be a new thing, we imagine, to ar gue that the people of Maryland are not equal to those of any other State in patriot ism and all the civil virtues; and quite enter taining to hear any one defend suoh a pro position out of the mouth of history. It would not be new, as we know, to see bla tant intolerance exclude from an assembly of delegates chosen by citizens of the U. States, certain gentlemen because they were Ro man Catholics of French descent; the fact is on record to prove what a substratum of | lolly there is in all of us. But if the thing had been done so often tbat one ceased to feel ashamed ot it, it would not be the less impossible to show one single doctrine of Roman Catholicity—properly taught—-whose tendency it is to make mon worse citizens ot a republic than the most enlightened Prot estant. Things in New York. Bamum, has issued a prospectus for a new notion that will nodonbt make a noise among all the other humbugs in the country. He says an eminent publishing house in Paris is engaged in issuing a series of the most distinguished female beauties in the world, which, when completed, is to include ten of the handsomest ladies in the United States, and these Barnum has undertaken to engage. In order to stimulate competition, he offers 85000, in premiums, ranging from 81000 down to 8150, to be distributed, according to the differed! degrees o( beauty. Ladies accordingly are requested to send in their daguerreotypes to the Museum. None will be received later than the 16th of September. The judge of the " best looking" are to be the " people at large." Each visitor is to mark on a slip of paper Ihe particular number, corresponding with that of hit choice, and deposit it in a ballot box at the door. The result is to be announced on Ihe 15th of Oc tober. Single and married women alike may compete, but none below " tweet sixteen" are to enter the lists. No limit to ancient maidenhood is specified' When tbe show ic public is over, artists are to be employed to pain: full sized portraits of the premium beau ties. Great, great is humbug, and Barnun: is ita Profitl Another striking evidence of the failure ol he Maine liquor la w is bad in the fact that many of the saloon keepers, who moved over to HobokoW (N. J.) to escape its anticipated penalties, are moving back to the city to re sume business. Though the police continue arrests fur in toxication, we have yet to learn of the first case of a liquor dealer being waited upon.— There ia a story afloat that the Carson lebgue have " spotted" several of the first olaae Broadway saloons, and are only wailing the proper opportunity to cause their stock of liq uors to be seized. The porter-house keepers are all wondering on whom the bolt will first fall. SCENE AT CONFESSION.-A lady at confession, among other heinous crimes, accused her self of using rogue. Wbat is the use of it?" aaked Her con nor. "ldo it to make myself handsomer." "And does it produce that effect 1" "At least I think so, father." The confessor on tbie took his penitent out of the confessional Into tbe light, put on hie spectacles, and, having looked at her atten tively, said— " Well, madam, you may use rogue, for you are ugly enough even with it !" HEALTH or "Goon SOCIETY."—HeaIth is gettiog to be vulgar, end ia confined princi pally to servant girls. No'lady'can possi bly plead guilty lo' being well' witbont lo sing caste. Spinal complaints ere just now io the ascendant —no female being considered 'good society' who possesses sufficient strength lo raise a smoothing iron. [Two Dollars per Aim NUMBER 26. SKETCH UP LVTUEU. BT CSHLYt*. A course, ragged, plebeian, faee it wee, With great crage of cheek bones—a wild amonot of paMionate energy and appetite 1 But in hie dark ejrea were floods of eorrow ; and the deepest melancholy, sweetness and mystery, were al! there. Often did thereeeem to meet in Lather the poles iir man's charac ter. He, for example, of whom Ritcher had said that h is words were half-battles, he, when be first began to preach, suffered unheard of agony. hing un ripe or difficult of digestion should be taken into the stomach of delioate persons, nor should food be eaten when the body is over heated with exercise. Dr. Meigs describes in the Medical Examiner, a fatal esse of cholera caused by eating a single piece of dried apple. Too FAST.— The learned Medical Commit tee who recently saaeunced the probability of a lineal transmission qf the crown of Fran os, were a little to pre mat ere, the f diag nosis" being deoeptive, and the result a dji appointment.