" THE STAR OF THE NORTH. f' f" ' " ' ...... ■ ■■ -i and onr Couutry. tTwo D# n ars per VOLUME 7. THE STAR FO THE NORTH IS PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY MORNING BT • H. W. WEAVER, OFFICE— Up stairs, in the new brick build ing, on the south side of Main Steert, third square below Market. TER M S '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 monlhsg no discontinuance permitted until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the editor. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding one square will be inserjed three limes for One Dollar and twenty-five cents for each additional in sertion. A. liberal discount will be made to those who advertise by the year. For the Star of the Roth. FACTS AND FANCIES. THE evening was lovely. The sun was sinkingbehiud the distant hills—all nature seemed at peace, it was a time for reflection, and my thoughts turned to the days of my childhood—to tne bright happy scenes of the • days of my infancy—to those hours of in nocent mirth and gayety that will nev er, never return ; and 1 pictured to myself the pleasant white cottage among the hills, and memory led me back to the cool shaded spring where a large willow threw its grace ful branches over tho pure cold water, and near by was a rustic arbor, over which my sister, brother and I had trained with so much care a luxuriant grape vine. For several sum mers we used ail the means in our power lo have it bring forth fruit, but in vain. In spite ol all our efforts, our toil, our truiuiug, r.ol a single grape made its appearance. Yet un grateful as it seemed lo us, we cherished it still, and when our father would have de stroyed it, we en'reated tim to spare it; for though it bore no fruit, yet its beautiful foli age sheltered us from the summer's sun. Ah! I must not forget the orchard that grew on the bill side. Oh ! what delicious peach es we used to gather, and apples too. With what delight would we ramble through the woods and meadows and gather the lovely , wild flowers. And I remember what pleas- j ure 1 took in calling them fairy thrones, anJ imagining that perhaps there sometimes | dwell in each violet a little spirit that had its home in that bright happy place thai our mother used to tell us of, methinks she call ed it HEAVEN. Yes often would she gather us around her, and point to the skies, and talk to us of that delightful place, and tell us that belore long she hoped to dwell shere. And leave us alone mothet I we would ask, what will we do without you ! Then she would tell us of a being who was always willing to take care of us,even though our parents were gone. And I remember too with what satisfaction I would watch the stare as they made their appearance one by one in the evening and fancy they were windows in Heaven through which the angels looked down and watched us. A thousand other fancies flitted through my brain and I busied myself in building splendid glass castles in the air, when tbe shrill but well knowu voice of a fe male fell upon my ear like a thunder-bolt: — " Why Jemima Ann, what upon artlt are you about! 1 thought you went out an hour ago to milk the cows!" I started, looked around me,and with some surprise and chagrin found myself on the top of a six rail fence sta ring toward the West with all the interest of a practiced gazer, weaving bright fancies and burldirjg air castles which faded away at the sound of thut shrill voice,like mist before the sun. Jumping down from my exalted po sition, seizing (he milking pail which lay at" my feet, I went to perform my duty with a heart neither heavier nor lighter than it had been an hour before. EFFIE. Suck Horn. , ■ , Deatb of Lord Rnglntr. Lord Raglan died nominally of dysentery. But it will be observed that bis seizure comes just after the failures of the English attack on the Redan, in which an old blunder that the British made at the battle ufcNew Orleans was repeated, and where, under a murderous fire, it was discovered that by some oversight tbe scaling ladders had been forgotten. Tbe French General bad complained of inefficient support, and his government had remonstra ted with that ol Great Britian, and applied fqf his reoall. In such circumstances, there ' can be but little doubt that bis death is rath-1 er to be attributed to non-success and antici pated disgrace, than to tbe ordinary effect of disease. j The Emperor Nicholas died a few months since, unquealionably more from a constitu tion worn out by disappointed ambition pro ducing disease, than any other cause. Mar shall St. Arnaud was hurried to his grave by the anxieties of the desperate undertaking of landing in the Crimea under a decimating disease. General Conrobert bas so.far failed to meet expectations, and retired indeject.on while the Russian Generals in command have all failed of a tingle achievment. We say nothing of the boat of inferior men who have died or been disabled, or dismissed, or re tired in disgust, from Admiral Napier to Ad miral Boxer. So far the war has exhibited much personal bravery and heroic conduct, but a miserable want of generalship and ef fieienoy all round. Pelissier began with a few brilliant strokvs, but albat once comes under an eclipse,and seems unable to emerge •gain. " It is war, therefore, in whioh no General, no Ministry and no country eugfged baa gained a particle of glory or of lerntory, but in whioh all have sunk immense amounts of treasure, and loat public confidence; in wfclch U kind* of eoieutifio inventions bare BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY. JULY 26, 18551 been tried, and nothing efTected beyond the satisfactory discovery cf the value of earth works lo counteract them atl. It seems as if it were a war made expressly to exhibit the vanity of war and nothing else. So far it has not laid bare quite so much of its wick edness, perhaps, as usual. Fewer cities have been sacked, and fewer innocent, peace ful inhabitants slaughtered, because Kertch and Balaklava have been the only towns captured. Thus far the horrors of war have fallen elmoat exclusively on the armies, and not the peaceful citizens ; on public, not on private property; on the officers with more se verity than on the men. In lact,il seems to be an unmitigaisd exposure of the curse of war, without any one thing to arouse the sympa thies of spectators in favor of either party, but simply to awaken a feeling ol pity for both. What sympathy can the United Slates feel in behalf of the Allies ? Louis Napoleon is not less an Emperor than Alexander. His government is more at war with the liberty of its citizens, and is a greater outrage on freedom, because there is in France a great er sense of freedom to outrage than in Rus sia. The Allies, if they had been success ful as they hoped, would lucre been very apt, in the flush of victory, to turn this country. In Europe, tbe alliance with France has lied '.he hands of England, so as to make her policy less in favor of liberty on the continent, ami more for upholding des potism, than it has been for a generation. It is equally idle to talk of our sympathizing with Russia in this struggle. A perfect des potism the destroyer of Hungary, the prop of absolutism in Europe, bent on extending its dominions by conquest, it is impossible lo believe the world has anything to hope from her success as a nation. True, her Emperor has always been polite and liberal in his in tercourse with the United States ; has em ployed her citizens, contracted and paid lib erally for their locomotives and their ships, but her peoole are half barbarous, the best apology perhaps that can be made for them for entrapping and firing upon a flag of truce. Nor is ih ere any hope of liberty, or good ; of any kind, crowing out of lha present eon- J lest. Even the sick roan.. Tnrkey, will be ) bled to death by his physicians, as much as by his toes. If Franco and Eogland capture the Crimea, they will quarrel over the spoils ; and if they fail, they will quarrel through mutual recrimination. All Europe is com ing round, increasingly, to the position of the United States, in seeing nothing whatev er to hope from the present struggle, let it terminate as it may. If it only make all na tions less dispbsod to meddle in each other's quarrels, less in favor of war, and more dis posed for peace, it will not, however, have been without iis utilities'—Ledger. A Country singing Muster at the Opera- New YOKK, August 4, 1854. Dear Juke: —l've seen sights sinco I left home. I've seen ships and monkeys, and the 'clips of the sun, and Barnurn, and organ grinders, and Jullien and the Musical Con gress; I've been in the Crystal Palace, and the tombs, and lots of other places too nu merous to write about. But I want to' teli yon that I have been to the opera of Binssa Yellow to-night, to soe 'em operate. None hardly but big bugs and us musicians go to tho opera, for it costs a dollar, and that's more than some people can pay for singing, and preaching a whole year. I can't tell you much about it, for several of the operators belong to the choirs in the fashionable church es in the city, mid have lamed to sing (hat nobody can understand them. Now, Jake, I'll tell you what 'opera style' is. When yon see a girl, or anybody else, wriggle and twist, and mm tier head, and roll her eyes like a pious duck in a shower, and not speak plain enough for you to understand a word, that's 'opera style.' That's the kind most all choirs hereabouts are trying to imitate, aud some of them come mighty nigh it too. Well, as I could not understand the words of lha opera, I will tell you what I can remember about the operation. When I went in, thoro was only three or four hundred people; for this is a very select opera, and but few go to it, because they can't opprociate it. Some fellowa sat in front of a big platform playing on aome fiddles and brass horns, and such like. I tell you, they made 'em acreech. The racket beet the nanny roogins when they went round town dressed up so funny. Well, after they play ed awhile, a great painted sheet was rolled up. It waa covered with pictures, you know, like the pretty bed of ours that that fellow stamped those pea-fowls, and elephants, and wagon wheels on. When it rolled up, there stood a fellow dressed like a monkey. He sung and tried 10 walk, but went one way and then another way, then strutted just to show his fine clothes. After be had sung in some heathen language awhile, out came lots of girls with no dresses on—ouly just pet ticoats all sorts of colors, and some of the ug liest looking fellows you ever did see, with 'em. They sung a song, and then a woman came out with a shiny dress on. She had a scolloped thing on her head. I suppose it is what they call the 'primas du-no;' but 1 should call it a crown. She wae mighty proud of it, but soon something hurt her; lor oh ! how she pot her hand on her bosom and equalled I Then she went round to the fel lowa, who bowed, and that made her feel ea ay, but aoon aha equalled again, and every body clapped their handa as if they were glad but I pitied her, and wanted her taken off and given a doae of paregoric, or aomethin. At laal, after a bard squall, she aat down in a chair when out ran a girl with her sister's clothes on! Jake, it'i a fact; her coat didn't come down lo her knees ! She ran, whirled round and round, kicked her heels higher than her head, and the people laughed but I was ashamed. I never before seen anything tike it in my life. Then came out a girl that cut up and made all sorts of motions. She didn't say anything but she did expose herself so that when they got done they knelt down and prayed. I suppose they were pitying about her acting so shamefully, for they looked mighty sorry. I don't know what they said, for they seem ed to use the language of the Mormon preach er out by Hans Ingledyno's—the Adamit lan guage. After the prayer was done, someof'em went behind lite partition, (I tell you it looks very queer,) and soon they felt happy and sung mighty pretty. But they stolo the tune, for it was 'composed expressly'for a book for school girls when they wanted lo sing about flowers and make a queen. I've sung it lots of times. After a little while, out came tho girl with the crown on, holding oft one of the most Arabic looking fellow you ever saw. He looked like the picture of some Turkey chap fighting with Russians. Well, this girl was tickled to think she was mar ried, (that's natural, you know, with 'email,) arid she smiled, and wriggled, and squalled, then she let go his arm, gallqped of! one side, and told a chap sotnetning that nobody could understand. He bowed; then she went to another, and he smiled; and she wenuto an other, and be smiled; and she went round to all, but when she came to the girls they did not smile, no, they were ail disappoint- j ed. All this time that dumb girl was running round, making motions, and pointing at the new husband. I believe, Jake, he bad boen doing something wrong, or this poor girl wouldn't have looked so bad. She looked as sorrowful as the picture of the 'Maid and her Milk-pail,' in our spelling-book. Right here tbe curtain dropped, and the (idling fel lows crept through some holes under the platform. I didn't much like their playing, for it was too loud. It reminded me ol many who play on the organ alchurch. They make the organ swallow the ehoir, and that is not | tasty. I believe the words ought to be heard ! when people sing. Well pretty soou the curtain rolled up, and then I saw why it had dropped, for every one had pulled off,his or her clothes and put on others to go a fishing, and there they stood a fixing their fish seines. While they work ed, one tn an sung, aud it gave 'em fits, and they jumped up aud ran off. Then two men came out, and sung to ono another, and mo tioucd as if they would fight. When they got through—would you believe it! some ol the women who came to listen, threw %rH ers at them. 1 reckon it was lo get them to try it again, to see if ibey couldn't do better, aud they did. Soon the dumb girl, who couldn't speak, ran out as if she Was going to drown herself; but I tell you it was only pretence. It was just like Nancy Bandy, who always fainted in meeting when she could be sure tujall in to the arms of some nice young man. Just so it was with this gitl. The lellow got his arms around her and she made believe she wauted to get away but she didn't though.— Soon a chap behind the' partition saw what was going on, and raised a yell vvjirch brought the whole crowd lo the platform. They equall ed, and bowed, and courtosied, and pointed and shook hands. What under the sun they did it (or, I couldn't tell. Soon down drop ped the curtain, and (he lidlcrs crept under the platform again. In a low minutes up went the curtain, and sure as 1' rn living, the man had been fish ing, and the women had been to the barn hunting eggs and here they had them to sell: Every one seemed anxious as hack drivers down lo the steamboat landing lo secure pat ronage. I couldn't keep from laughing just i to look at 'em and heat tliem tell how good and cheap their traps vtare. They would make good hands to stand in mock auctions g;,d sell watches |o green western fellows, j Soon a queer looking chap said something to | two girls, who laid down their plunder, aud lie put his arm around them—aud they let him, too—and they walked on the platform. What do you think they were going to do! Why, each was trying to see which could put the foot the highest aud turn round the fastest. The way the short clothes stood out and formed a periphery was a caution. I felt so ashamed that 1 just looked at the toe of my left boot, and supposed that everybody else was doing the same; but on looking cautious ly round, I found the spectators, men and women, were looking with all their might, and soma had spy-glasses. This did astonish me. But tbe laol is, Jake, I am told that the short er and lighter the petlicoatir, the longer and heavier the stamping. Well, the rest of the operators looked at these dancers for a while, ar.d not being able, I suppose, to stand such wickedness, they all fell on their knees and prayed again, and no wonder. Well, soon after the prayer, a chap who seemed to have a spite against the girl that made tbe people believe that she couldn't talk, tried to catch her. The man jumped in ahead of bim, and they fought with tin swords and pop-guns, and such like, add killed tbe fellow, and down dropped the curtain. Whether that was the end of the opera or not, I'don't know! but I thought it ought to be, so I came off. Now, Jake, what do you thick of it! I would like to tell you about soma of the church singing here, but this letter is a heap too (oug already; so you must wait until my next. Your affectionate brother, WILLIAM PILKINS. From the Presbyterian Critic THE A2IEKII AN PARTY. Tbero is no demand whatever, for a great national movement against the Catholio Church. The recent excitement in the coun try has been, ia the main, the rasnlt of a cor rupt movement cf unprincipled politicians, to excite the Protestant feeling of tho people, and to ride into power upon the tide. They have run foul of the great maxim, whioh they have so conspicuously tot forward a mong their principles, as if for of exposing the profligacy of the whole movement, by violating in practice what they oppose in theory. It is to deny, that making tho mere religious sentiments of a man, the reason of refusing to vote for bim, is a violation of the great principle of religious liberty. It is allowing a principle of discriminating the political aspect of a vote to be sound and just; which would be wicked and nnprincipled, if embodied in a law. If our neighbors make their dislike to our Presbyterian sentiments, the ground for their refusing to vote for us, it is perfectly useless to disguise, that we are under politi. cal responsibility for religious opinions—that, quoad hoc, we are suffering for them. The objectionable feature in this view of the case* is, making religious opinion unattended by any viciousness of action growing out of it. a ground for an universal discrimination in political affairs', affecting permanently large masses of citizens. This is our first and great objection to the American or Know- Nothing party; it is violating the very prin ciple of religious liberty, which it professes to conserve; and has adopted a construction of that principle which strips it of all prac tical force, leaving it a dead letter in the statute book, and abandoning its control over the political action of the people. We object again to a political movement against the Catholic church, because therg is no necessity for it, piovided the people of this country will properly employ the legiti mate agencies of opposition which are in their power. The simple and sufficient con dition of the preservation of the Republic from the aris ol Romanism is, the full and efficient support of the Protestant Church— the complete and animated maintenance of the Domestic Missionary enterprise of the various Protestant denominations. This is the great conservative element of our politi cal system ; to sustain and vivify it with the vigorous energy Which it onglit to possess, and it need r.ot to be feared that any of the great social or political interests tjiat are con ditioned upon it, will over come to harm.— It is the only,—not less than the only legiti mate power which can be effectively em- i ployed to restrain Popery, and maintain the ! institutions of our government. All perse cution no matter how disguised in form, or limited in extent, will endure to the benefit' of the body enduring it. The policy then, j of restraining Popery by political disabilities ! inflicted upon the individual Catholic, is sui- j cidal in the extreme. It will "concentrate and intensify the attachment of its members, i and reader them more and muro unapproach- j able by Protestant instruction. It will create ; sympathy, and thus open wide the door to ; proselytism, and it will put the Church in j an altitude far more attfuctive, as the victim j of an unjustifiable crusade, than it is at all ' entitled to assume from its intrinsic charms, ■ How long is the world to be teaming the 1 lesson and never coming to the knowledge i of the truth, that tdl means but reason and i love, to effect tho opinions of men, only re- j suit in strengthening attachment to their i original convictions ! The principle of this opposition to Popery is vicious, and the more completely it is carried into effect, the '< more disastrous will be the result. The more completely the political victory over Popery, the more it will he benefitted. The only effective—as it iB the only lawful, gen eral and permanent agency of opposition to the Popish Ctiutch, is the true Protestant' Church of Christ under its various forms.— j We have no right to complain of the ineffi- | ciertcy of a means, until we have employed it fully, and tested all its capacities. Let the people of the United Stales double theit sup port of the great Domestic Missionary work, aud they may salely abandon all political agitations against the Catholic Church. We object again to tbe American party, that it is condensing the Catholic and For | eign element in our population into a poiiti- j i cal body, distinct from the mass of our citi zona, armed with all their power to do mis- j chief, and animated bv all that hostility which is natural to men suffering under an I ostracism ot their religion and birth, and provoked by an attempt to diminish their full equality with other citizens. Now what does Kuow-Nolhiiigisni propose to do for the remedy of thisevil which it bjis 1— It only proposes to render the" Catholic MI! Foreign citizen* ineligible them the to emigration great means of misubieffi^^^^^^^^^^H to use them. There the Pope's overV^^^^^Kdd except in taking away the altogether. Now it is, to Say the most manly and honest policy, to pro hibit the entry of a Catholic and a Foreigner altogether, into the country, and to tbe right* of citizenship, ra