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    THE STAR OF THE NORTH.
I. W. Weaver Proprietor.]
VOLUME 7.
THE STAR OF THE NORTH
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Hopes Attn FEARS.
The following beautiful lines from the pen
of Roea, originally appeared in the Louis
ville Journal. The authoress is a lady of
high social position, and eminently deserves
to rank high as an American poetess:
Oer hopes are like the wreaths of foam
That glitter on each shining wave,
'When with a gushing sound they come
The White and thirsty beach to lave.
Tbe waters part, the ripples gleam
A moment on the silent shore,
And vanish as the hopes that seem
A moment bright, and are no more.
Seeking for love, for fame, for power,
To the frail threads of life we cling,
For hope will cull a withered flower
And tune a harp with broken'atring,
And hope will shed a glimmering ray
Of light on pleasure's ruined shrine,
For mouldering columns still look pay
_ When sunbeams o'er them shine.
• Though severed be love's magic chaio,
Still to its broken charms we trust,
And hope to mend the links again,
When grief has eaten them with rust,
Frail as the bubbles on the beach
That hope may be—a transient beam,
But reft of joy, 'tis sweet to teach
The heart to hush its grief and dream.
Oor hopes are like the flowers that bloom
Upon the mountain's verdant side,
That mountain's heart a burning tomb,
Cleft bf the lava's scorching tide,
They spring att.l flourish, fade and die,
Like human hopes—as frail and fair,
While quenchless fires beneath them lie,
Like human passions hidden there.
Our fears are like the clouds that shed
Their gloom across a summer sky ;
When liie is fairest, some wild dread
Of grief is eve: hovering nigh.
The gloom may pass—the shadows fade,
And the sunlight only seems to reign,
But still there is a lingering shade,
Kfsar that clouds will come again.
Where the bright wells of gladness spring,
Hope will the youthful heart decoy,
Bnt fear is hovering there, to fling
A shadow o'er the path of joy.
A canker-worm within the fruit,
A serpen! in the linnet's nest,
A sentry ever grim and mute
Is fear within the human breast.
A rainbow never spans the sky,
But some dark spirit of the storm,
With sable plume is hovering nigh,
To watch itssoft tnd fairy form.
Hope never chants her angel scng,
Or bids os rest beneath the wing,
But fear with all its phantom throng
Is in the distance hovering.
We seek the laurel wreath of fame,
Aod all her fickle favors trust,
To live—perchance without a name,
. And find tbe chaplet turned to dust.
Life wears sway, 'mid smiles and tears—
The wedding peal, tbe funeral toll ;
Bnt though o'ershadowed still by fears,
Hope is the sunlight of the soul.
A Bed-Hug Story.
The editor of tbe Grand River Eagle gives
tbe following a* the experience of a friend
stopping at the Kalamazoo House:
"Yon seel went to bed pretty all fired
used up after a hull day on the old road, be
fore the piank was laid, kaikiiaten on a good
■nooze; wall, just as the shivers began to
ease off, I kinder felt sumthing try in to pull
off my shirt, and diggin their nebs into the
small of my back, tryia to got a good hold.
Wiggled, and twisted, and puckered. All r.o
•so— kept agoin it like all sin.
44 Btmeby got up and struck a light, to look 1
arsond • spell. Foetid about a peck of bed
bug* scattered around, and more droppi n off
myabirt and ru.inin down mV Is-, every
minit Swept off a pl t% ba n J
•book out a qai.'u j own an( j kivered up
"No uso, mounted right on me like e pas
nl of rata on a meat tub, dug • bole in the
klvarlid and erawled through and give lbs
fit* for tryia to hide.
'•Spfttp again, went down stairs and got
tho Offish bucket from tbe wagon. Brought
it up acd made a circle of tar on the floor,
lay down on the inside and felt comfortable
that lime, anyhow. Left tbe light bnrnin
and watohed 'em. Seed 'em get together aod
have A eamp-meetin about d. and then tbey.
wont off in a squad, with anfili! gray headed
ana at the top, - right up on the wall out' on
ibe ceiiio, till tbey got to the right spot, then
dropped right plump into my faoe. Fact, bjr
thunder.
"Waal, I owept 'em op again and made a
circle of far oft the ceitin too. Thought 1 had
'engjoul that time, big,l swan to man if they
didn't poll straw out oi abed and build a rag
alar bridge over it I''
Seeing an incredulous expression on ear
trfaagee, he clenched tho story ihut: . '
44 It's so, whether you believe it or apt, and
pf 'em walked across on atttis!"
Bed-bugs are curious orittarv, and no mis
take, especially tbe Kalamazoo kind. ■
0T Different sounds travel with different
veleehle*. A call to dinner will run over e
tea ionlot In a minute and a half while a
tammons to wprk will tkko iieta five to ten
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 29: 1855.
From the Public Ledger.
WHAT IS THE SUPREME POWIfH IN
ENGLAND!
The whole gin of tfce laei English news is
contained in the following few lines from the
Liverpool Journal of Saturday, Nov. 3 :
" The country (Englandj is on the ere of a
war with the United States, unleupublic opin
ion it brought to operate immediately on her
M jetty e Minister*." There is a volume of
English history contained in that last clause.
It shows where lies the real governing pow
er in England, and that that power is, after
all, more friendly to the United States than to
the aristocracy, which so generally usurps to
speak as the mouth of the British nattou.
Three hundred years ago, in llenry the
Eighth'e time, had any one asked where lay
the supreme power of the British nation, the 1
answer could have been given at once and
decisively, not in the press, for then even
printiog a BiSle cost a man his life—not in
the people, who had no voice—not in the
House of Commons, which lay powerless
and passive in the hands of Majesty—not
even in the House ol Lords, wnich was
equally obsequious—not in the Clergy, who
were stripped of their possessions, but in the
Crown. Hid the same question been asked
in the reign of his successor, lbs reply would
have been equally clear—in the hatids of
Cranmer. In the reign of Charles 11, it was
in the hands of the nobles and court favor-,
ites. With the house of Hanover came the
real permanent supremacy of the House of
Commons. The authority of this body stead
ily increased, until it has absorbed all power;
from the House of Lords, (which is now re
duced to a mere almshouse for superannua
ted statesmen.) and has obtained all the real
authority of the Crown aleo. The Queen is
now held bound to appoint all Ministers and
even her household and personal officers ac
cording to the majority tbey can command
in that body. She ia thus in fact a mere
piece of State pageantry, without one qnar
ter of the personal influence in public affairs
that our President possesses. Indeed, the
present Queen is thus found to govern Eng
land better than any King, because she has
so few points of her own to carry, and has
so little opinion or desire to influence public
affairs. Hence it ie well understood that Lord
Palmereton will weal the wishea of almost
any member of the House of Commons with
more politeness than he sometimes does
those of the royal family, who may hate him
and quarrel with him as muchnsthey please
but are bound to make him Prime Minister,
while he has the majority of the House.
But while the House of Commons has
thus been gaining the supremacy from the
Crown and from the Lords, it has been si
lently losing it to g greater extent on the oth
er side through the public press. The im
mense influence acquired through reporting
public debates, and giving the flrat coloring
to every discussion of public (flairs, has nat
urally drawn to the leading London pipers
the very highest order of talent that ths coun
try car. furnish. By degrees, the London
Times, from the bold and slashing style of
its editorials, ilf unscrupulous audacity in
carrying its ends, its immense capital, prior
ity of information, and influence with Minis
ters, had really absorbed the utterances of
the publio voice, and became the-type and
representation of a power stronger than tbe
Honse of Common* itself, and bearding it
and the Ministry all together.
It is much easier to wrest power out of the
i hands of the inefficient than to hold it against
all attacks afterwards. A certain dashing
snd impetuous boldness of assault will of
ten do tho former; but wisdom, patiences
prudeuoe and truth are required to retain the
influence thua gained. The days of glory
for the Times newspaper ere fast passing
away, for lack of these very qualities, and
other periodicals must now arise to reign in
its stead. Its character is becoming un
derstood on both sides of tb julantio. Last
winter, ita power seamed al it he zenith, but
| was even really on tha wane, or rather
I a*. I'ne height of an intoxication that beto
kened a downfall. It attacked tbe Govern
ment, and pulled ever) thing to pieoes, but
it oould build nothing up. It had nothing
better to ..recommend. It was unqnsliona- j
bly the means of damaging the British char-1
acter in building up itself, end, bye tone of
exaggeration, and the rdVtotatih'n of secrets, |
did more to the honor of the English nation
throughout the world, and destroy it# pres
tige as a military power, than Russia rOnld
have done in a dozen campaigns. It has
now become impossible for Englnml to en
list recruits. The Government has at length
laarnad the power of this dangerous dema
gogne,'and has tapped the sources of Its
Strength, and turned them into mere pdbllc
channels, so that tha country papers now ihiy
give fheir utterance of the sentiments of the
whole people. Since then, the Times has
been growing more reckless and startling on
all question*, lo'dtmw tha publio ear, if only
for a moment. The same audaoity whioh
last winter betiayed the Brush army,has now
ventured op the more dangerous task of at
tacking., the. United State*. So far, this has
only excited a ol derision from on*
and of this country to the other.
BoCin England a war panic has boon rais
ed, and thia at tobfeth has shown where the
present and future supreme power of the
British nation He* and is to liot-wnot in the
Ho ate of Commons, not In the Timet, but
in public opinion. This, at tho Liverpool
Journal My*, mutt note "be brought id boar
on the Ministry." It is thia publio opiflioti
ia whtob we hav* the greatest reliance for
tho good government of OttantrM such : si
England aud America. In England fare fa
perhaps but represented bp tha meroantil*
classes, who are far more sagaoioua than the
statesmen and ar.stocracy, and morn fully
represent the public feeling of thai country.
Cobden and Bright, by the presence of pub
lic opinion, carried the repeal of the corn
laws. They have other not leas important
work before lbs m now.
Here public opinion is represented not by
party politicians, or noisy publio meeting*
in the squares and parks of onr cities, bnt,
perhaps, by the large body of farmer* end
other quiet citizen# who read the daily pa
pers, all through the country, and vote with
out muoh talking or fusa. With us ir.ielti
gnnce is more univetaaily diffused among
the people.
But neither here nor in Eogland is publio
opinion iooliued to a war between the two
countries. It would never in England have
waged war with Russia, bat a blundering
ministry did that which the 'people now en
dure but regret. The people of England wall
know that another such a blunder would ru
in their country.
Mrs. Strougntham'a Cham,
Speaking of churns, a cotoniporary says
he has never seen any other labor-saving
contrivance in that department, that for prao
lical convenience and otility could compare
with that of Mrs. Strongatham, a notable
English housewife, whoee acquaintance ho
had the pleasure of making in oho of the ru
ral districts of New York some year* ainoe.
Having occasion to call upon her one mill
iner morning, he found her ocoupying her
huge chintz covered . recking chair, rocking
and knitting as though the salvation of the
family depended upon the assiduity with
which she applied heraslf to these occupa
tions. Not that she was unoivil or untocia.
bio by any means, for the momont aha bad
taken the proffered chair she sat in with a
steady stream of talk that was as instructive
as it was entertaining, lor beside* her admi
rable qualities as a housewife, tbe lady pos
sessed rare conversational power*.
During tbe call she directed one of ber
daughters to some duty in a distant part of
the house, adding, " 1 would attend to it
myself, but I must letch this butter." Now,
he had known something of the process of
'• fetching batter" in bis early day*, and the
idea of a snow-white churn and an irksome
expenditure of elbow grease was as naturally ,
associated with it in our mind, as was the j
compensatory slice of new bread and butter j
after the achievement of the victory. We .
therefore cast onr eyes about n* involuntarily .
for these indications, but we looked in vain.
Of either churn or churning titers was no j
more appearance than might have been seen
in Queen Victoria's drawing room any day .
in the week. Our curiosity was excited, j
and we resolved to keep onr eyes opeo, sat. 1
isfied that if we did, "we should see what •
we should see." And we did. During a
momentary pause in the conversation the la-1
dy rose from the chair, removed the cushion, '
raised a sort ol trap door underneath, and
looked into the apparent vacnura with an ,
earnestly inquiring eye. The secret was out. i
Under the seat in her rocking chair waa a !
box in which she deposited the jar of cream,!
and the agitation produced by the vibratory
motion of (be chair converted the liquid into
bolter.
By thii arrangement the old lady was en
abled to kill, not two only, but four birde
with the tame atone. She Could churn, knit,
take her ease in the rooking chair, and enter
tain her morning guests aimultaneoualy. And
such butter a* alio made? Yellow aa gold,
sweet as the meat qf the cocoa nut. and aa
hart', too; it always brought Ike highest
price in the rural market. You may blag of
your patent churns if fb u will, bui tor. no*-
elty, econ, m y, convenience, and imroaoou
iate butter we defy them, one and all, when
brought into oampetition with Mra. Rtronga
tltam'e"incomparable contrivance. Of her
butter we ahall retain e lively and grateful
remembrance to our dying day; bar oburn
we ahall never forget either.
'
Doe FIGHT. —"Oh, pa, I've just eeen one
of the worst dog fighta aa waa never Men or
heern tall of in the world."
"Well Simon, my hoy, how waa it I"
"Why, father, there waa one great big
black dog, with white eara arid a braaa col'
lar, and one lit'le black and green dog, what
hadn't no itfan with him, and so * "
"Come, come, Simon, don't talk ao faat;
job get everything mixed np ; stop and get
breath a tnomeni, and not bfyw ao like a por
ppiS*." 1
"Well, I want to tall you how one dog with
WhiM ear* got dn one side of the meeting
honse, and the other meeting house with the
ysller dog—no, no, I tnedn one meeting
house with the yatler green ears, go! en one
aide of the dog, and the other he—no—no,
the whim and y alter ear, he give a yelp at
the meetiiig-hdose, and thg dog flb, dad,
I've give alt out—there wern't no dog it
all."
OF k gkntlaman, wall known ae an ama
tenr gardener and joker, aent to a seedsman
in town the other day lor Some seeda of the
f'pie plant", H Which he tied advertised—re
questing precisely sii parcels of cUSlaitf pio
seedi; and two minoe piek The seed man
promptly sent him hall a dozen goose eggs
and two blind puppies. The humorous old
gentleman admitted that he bad rather fbi
the worst of the joke.
OT An imaginative Irishman gave utter
teratios to this larHeotailon:—';i returned to
the balls of my fathers by nighty end I found
'them in rujos , I pried aloud, my fathers,
where are they I" an echo responded, "Ig
thst you, Pathriok MoQlatbeiy V'
i ' ■ 1 1. ,
Troth am Bljrht—M am Mr Coiairy.
A
JOHN HOWARD, THE PHILANTHROPIST.
In the town of Cerdington, in England,
once lived a very good man named Jdhn
Howard. He' had a large house and fine
farm, and hired many servants. His wife
wae a kind and gentle lady, and made all
around her happy. But suddenly the good
Mr* Howard died, and her husband was
left sad and lonely, for Lis only child was
•till a very small boy, not old enough to com
fort hie sorrowing father. Mr. Howard's
home had lost its brightness, and he now re
solved to follow the example ol our Savior,
who, while on ear'h, went about doing good.
Having placed his son under the care of a
good woman, he began to visit the prisons
in the neighborhood. No one thought much
about the condition of those whose onmes
had brought them to punishment, and Mr.
Howard was anrprised and grieved Ly the
dreadful situation in which he found many
fellow being*.
For Mventeen year* he went about visit
ing almost every jail and hospital in Great
Britain and Europe. He often published ac
counts of what he had seen, and thus drew
tbe attention of great men of different coun
tries to ibis subject, on which they had be
fore thought very little. It would be impos
sible to describe the miserable state in which
lie found many of the Drisor*. Men who
hail grown old in crime, boys who had been
taken in their first open sin, women, and
young girls, were crowded together in one
room by day, and at night slept in damp
cells, without covering, and often without
even straw between litem and the cold stone
floor. Sometimes thd water would stand
two or three inches deep on the floor. Their
food was scanty, coarse, and badly prepared
Only a tew ray* of light cams to pheer the
dreary hours, fofthe prisons of Europe were
little better than uungpone, dug down ten or
fifteen feet in the earth. The prisoners were
often sick, and then their were
very great.
Through the generons effort of Mr. How
ard, a great change has been wrought in
many pltces. The life and health of the
prisoners are proper'y cared for; they are
carefully attended in sickness; chapels are
provided, and the gospel is preached to them.
To produce these result*. Mr. Howard gave
op tho erasures he might have eujoyed at
home, and, going from country to country,
relieved, by kind to's and words, the sorrows
of the suffering and airing.
A heavy grief fell upon the last days of
this noble man. His only son had nifar
MEMORABLE STKGKFC
The siege ofSebastopol wilt raDk as one of
the greatest which ha* occurred in the annals
of national warfare. There have been *iege
at whioh, probably, the aggregate loss of life'
ha* been greater; such, (or example, as the
aiege of Jerusalem, by Titus, when tccord
iug to Joaephus the Jew*—wbo in spite ol in
testine faotion and the lavages of famine,
contemptuously rejected all propositions for
surrender—lost one million one hundred thou
sand, and had one hundred thousand taken
prisoners. These figures are thought to be
exaggerated, but not wilfufly so, byJosephos,
who ia generally considered an anthemic wri
ter, bnt pnobably originated from tbe errors
of the copyists of ancient MSS., who style ol
representing number* by letter* rendered
•aeh mistake* extremely probable. Subse
quent trustworthy historian*, however con
cur m believing that tha number who perish
ed at thi* great aiege could not have been
much less than those act forth by Joaephus.
ThO aiege was not ao protracted, if the loss oi
life was ao n aeh in excees of the' whioh ha
recently terminated with the destruction ol
tbe aouthern fortification* of Sebastopol. In
deed, leaving the learned to decide whether
tuob an event as the aiege of Troy ha* aver
occurred, we question whether, in pqinl of
duration, there is another similar even) to
compare with the aiege of Sebasfopoi. The
moral effect of the Capture of this strong boht
on the destinies of the world, will depend up
on the manner in which the success is fol
lowed up. - .......
Tha great,military achievements which the
people of England and Franco are now oel
ebratiog, has nq parallel in similar memora
ble event*. Alcibisde# sailed in a powerful
fleet to ty eiegg to Syracuse, hut failed,; aod
tjf |ha disaster: ft* military power of Athens
petisbed. The battering-ram, arrow#, afaogt,
•word* and epean, wer dm priootple waap
grown to be a young man, but, instead of
being a comfort to his worn and weary lath
er, he became his bitterest trial. While Mr.
Howard was attending upon several sick
sailors in the port of Venice, he received a
letter from a friend at home, bringing sad
news—his son was deranged. It was a ter
rible disappointment to his hopes, but he
said, "shall I receive good at the hand of the
Lord, and shall I not receive evil V He has
tened home as soon as possible, but the ac
count was too true, and he was forced to |
place his con in a lunatic asylum. Attain he
turned to the continent. For the seventh
aud last time, be bade good-by to old Eng
land. He had stood for the last time by the
grave of his beloved wife; he had looked for
the last lime on the face of his son.
The winter of 1790 was very cold and
stormy. Mr. Howard spent several weeks
in visiting the sick soldier* who were sta
lioned at Cherson, in the southern part of
Russia. One day he was hastily requested
to visit a young lady who was dangerously
ill; at first he refused to go, saying he was
only a physician to the poor who could not
obtain any one else; but her friends urged
him so much, that he at last consented.—
Having administered what medicines he
thought best, he left, directing them to send 1
for him it site grew belter, adding, that if •!,
was worse, which he feared would be the case,
it would be of no use. The young lady grew
no belter, and her friends wrote to Mr. How
ard to come us quickly as'possible. By some
mistake, the letter was delayed eight days.
When Mr. Howard saw how long it had
been on its way, he feared it was too lite.—
No carriage was to be procured, so he
mounted an old horse and rode twenty miles
in a cold, drenching rain. To his great grief,
he found hi* patient very feeble, and on the
next day she died.
The cold, wet ride, and tho sorrow he felt
on the lady's death, together with his recent
affliction, proved too mnch for his strength.
Afrer a short sickness he died, far from
kindred and country, yet not without friends;
for his goodness had made him beloved by
all. He Was buried in the place he had j
u'nosen, and tho inscription he had himself I
written was placed on the plain raarbls slab
over his grave:
"JOHN HOWARD,
Died at Cherson, in Russian Tartary,
Jan. 21, 1790, aged 64.
Christ it my hope."
oim of warfare then, as at former and later
periods of tho history of the world. " With
the exception of the formidable appliances
of Archimedes in repelling the last famous
siege of Marcellus, more destructive agents
were known in the sieges of biblical and
classic times. The Syracusan geometer, one
: 'of whose wotulerlul machines could project
rocks at the enemy's vessels, em bled the
garrison to repel the besiegers until the place j
by treachery was surrendered. But the in
vention of gunpowder led to a complete
change in the system of fortifications. The
square and round towers, constructed on the
walls of fortified cities, to enable the bests- j
gad to discharge showers of arrows and darts
on their assailsntt, were found uselesssgains) i
cannon. The bastian was constructed as the
most durable fotm of defence against the new
projectiles. In the fast siege (if Constant,ino
pte, which continued from the Bib of April
to the 20th of May, lt&3, the Turks employ
ed powerful artillfry, some qf the guns; from
their size and calibre, being objects of admi
ration among military men even at tbis day.
T|ie Asiatio sultans, in their ambition to pos
sess themselves of the old Greek empire, hi
red adventurous spirit* from all quarter* pf
Europe, including the ferociou* bauds of
Mu*covy,'to aid them by tbair talents and
service*. Russian barbarism alto seeks the
same aid in the prosecution of its ambitious
designs. The captute of Constantinople was
immediately followed by the reraojral of Ma
hornet and hi* court from Asia to tbatoity-
The Turk* had now acquired a secure footing
in Europe, and for two hundred year# punn
ed a career of oouquest until ultimately repel
led from the walla of Vienna. The Capture
of Coniiaatinbpla was ao evbnt- if a* much
rutoroM aod importune* in ifa conieqnencos
as any which had occurred drrag an*ra!
centuries. Tha crude no tie*# of fortiffflaHooa
whioh bad hithaito prevailed ware formula-
ted into nyste'ms, slriU perfected by further in
ventions by the chfebrstml Vauben, who, da
ring the wars of Lou ia XIV,. constrocted thir
ty-three new fortresses, repaired and impro
ved one hundred, and projected about fifty
sieges, and who is the author of tha irresist
abte system bf attack which ha* since been
successfully followed.
IsiKLffigif" iKaamrr
The Perplexed Housekeeper.
BY MRS. FRANCES D. OAOE.
I wish T had a dozen pairs
. Of hands tbis very minute:
I'd soon putal! these things to rights—
Tbe very de'il is in it!
Hera's a big washing to be done,
One pair of hands to do it,
Sheets, shirts end stockings, coats A prints,
How will I e're get through it I 1
Dinner to get for six or more,
No loaf left o'er from Sunday,
Anil baby orosa as he can live-
He's always so on Monday!
Ahil then the crram ia getting sour,
And forthwith must be churning,
Anil here's Bob wants • button on—
Which way shall I be turning?
Ti* time the meat was in the pot,
The bread was worked for baking,
The clothes were taken from the boil—
-0 dear! the baby's waking.
Hush, baby dear! the-e, hush sh-ahl
1 wish he'd sleep a little,
Till f could run and get some wood
To hurry up that kettle.
0 dear! if he should now come home,
And find things in this pother,
He'd just begin to tell me all
About his tidy mother!
j How nice her kitchen used to be,
Hsr dinner always ready
Exactly when the noon-bell rung-
Hush! hush! dear little Freddy.
And then will come some hnsly word,
Right out before I'm thinking—
(They say that hasty words from wirea
Set sober men to drinking:
Now isn't that a grand idea,
That men should take to sinning
Because a weary, half-sick wife,
Can't always smile so WINNINO?
When I waa young, 1 nseil to earn
My living without trouble,
Had clothes and pocket money, too,
And hours of leisure double.
1 never dreamed of such a fate,
When I. A-LASS! was courted—
Wile, mother, nurse seamstress, cook,
housekeeper, chambermaid, laundress, dai
ry-woman, and scrub generall), doing tbe
work of six.
For the sake of being supported !
LIVING AND MEANS.
The world is full of people who can't ima
gine why they don't prosper like their neigh
bors, when obstacle is not in banks
nor tariffs, in bad publio policy nor hard times,
but in their own extravagance and heedless
ostentation. The young mechanic or clerk
marries and takes a house, which he pro
ceeds to furnish twice as expensively as he
can afford, and then his wile, instead of ta
king hold to help him to earn a livelihood,
by doing her own work, must have a hired
servant to help her spend his limited earnings.
Ten years afterwards, you will find him
straggling on under a double load of debts
and children, wondering why the luck was
always against him, while bis friends regret
hi* unhappy destitution of financial ability.
Had they from the first been frank and hon
est, he need not have beer, so ortlucky.
Through every grade of society, this vice
of inordinate expenditure insinuates itself—
The single man, "hired out" in the country
at ten to fifteen dollars per month, who tries
to dissolve his ten yeiis' earnings in frolic
and fine clothes j the clerk who has three to
five hundred dollars, snd melts down twenty
to fifty of it into liquor anil cigars, are paral
leled by (he young merchant, who fills his
spaciohs honse with costly furniture, gives
dinners, and drives a fa*t horse on the strength
of the profits he expects to realize when his
good* are sold and his notes are all paql.—
Let a man have a genius for spending, and
whether hia income is a dollar a day, or a
dollar a minute, it ia equally cenain to prove
inadequate. If dinihg, wineing, and parly
giving won't help him through with it, boild
ing, gaming, and speculating, will be sure to.
Tho bottomless pocket will nsver fill, no mat
ter how bounteous the stream piohrinq into
it. The man who, (being single,) does not
save money on six dollars per week, wiil not
be apt 10 on sixty ; tnd he who doss not lay
up" something his first #ear ol independent
exertion, will be pretty likely to wear a poor
man's talr to the grave.
LOOBINU OUT ton No. L—We recollect hear
ing a Dutch friend of out* five a direction to
his son, whioh inky be considered a prac
tical commentary upon Lord Maaefietd'a dic
tum.
'Hen*,' ttfd be; 'go (0 the mill right off.
Dora ish no corn meal,'
'Yah.' acid Hans, 'and dere ish no corn
sbejled neither.'; , .
'Nein! Veil, den, I tells you. How much
corn Schmidt borrows 1 you know ten—fast
year sometimes.' ■' 1.
'fell, poqt von bushel,' replied Hank..
'Yah, so I link 100. Take da mare, Hue,
and foil Schmidt you com* for de oorn vat be
borrows. And Hens, take a couple of bags
mil yon, mine too Hans. Sehmidt have verv
short memory,-Hans, and tain't worth vile
taking OH buiditl to de mills, Hans.'
I'' ■ sesef "i .' '
il tr A brtisforobserved to*teamed broth*
or, fa court, that the wearing bf *•*• WM
unprofessional. "Right I" responded hie
I friend, "a lawyer ottinot hi too bar+faud
[Tw® DtlUrs H> Man,
NUMBER 45:
Meieorolofr fox nmim.
Lteu'f. Maury, soma ftw'yesia ago, accom
plished a very uselul undertaking when bp
so far interested navigators in his plan of me
teorologieal observations as to engage them
as co-laboratori in the work, by which every
vessel opon the ocean was converted into a
floating observatory.. The benefits to com
merce and navigation bare been remarkably
exhibited in the "Wind and Currant Charts,"
which present the most extended series of
tneteorological observations ever undertaken,
and by the experience end laws deducible
from the facts thus collected, millions of mon
ey are believed to be saved annually to com
merce and thottsinds of live* to the country.
This system it is proposed to extend to the
land aa well as the aes, so that farmer* and
planters may be as much benefitted by sci
entific discovery as the merchant an® mar
iner. All that is reqnired is the assistance bf
agriculturalist*themselves. He proposes thai
the farmers and planters should co-operate
ail over the country in a regular and syste
matic method of meteorological observations
The information so collected aa to the winds,
raid, and similar phenomena, ia to be for
warded to Washington, and treasures are to
be adopted to enlist the agency of the Gov
ernment in arranging the facta for publica
tion. Nothing conld be more simple than
this plan; nonacould be devised which wonld
engage a grestet number of Intelligent men
in the undertaking, and which conkl be so
economically carried into practice. The
county agricultural societies overthe country
should adopt the suggestion Immediately, tml
endeavbr to promote the object. The far
mer's interest* are identified with those of
commerce, ahd a co-operation of both for
scientific objects, mutually instructive and
beneficial, is one of the most useful work*
in which they can be engaged. Them can
be no doubt that the Government will lend
its aid to the furtherance of this great work.
Lieut. Msury states that such an office as will
be required in Washington to carry out the
details of this plan ia already in existence.—
It was established by Mr. Calhoun when he
was Secretary of War, and it ia under the
control of the Surgeon General of the army.
The meteorological observations that are -1
made at our military posts are diecnsaad and
published at this office; and "one of the
moat valuable and interesting reports con
cerning the meteorology and elimates at the
country that have ever appeared is BOW
in course of publication there." Lieut-Mau
ry, in broaching his plan to a friend, saye:
" As for giving the acheme a trial and car
rying it into a demonstration jar enough to
hn„ what a systematic plan of observation*
will do for the advancement of agricultural
meteorology, and for the benefit of farmer*
and planters, answer for the observa
tions, if Government will pledge the means
for their discussion and publication. I'll go
fuither, and promise that tba observation*
fhall be furnished to the Government for such
a purpose without cost. Yon know the ma
terials for the. 'Wind and Currant Charts'
were all furnished gratuitously, and that,
without asking Government* for a single cent,
we have literally covered the ocean with
floating observatories, and converted every
ship that tails into t temple of soience. Not
only government, but naiUrns and people
ham united with me, and are assisting to-car
ry out a system of meteorological research
for thh sea. As much may be done for tbe
• land, if tbe plantar* and farrners of tbe Uni
ted Statea will only seeood tbe effort, and
tell their Repreeentativee id Congress that
they want as much done by the Government
for agricuiture aanatary meteorology as it haa
firmittsd to be done at Sea for the benefit of
commerce and navigation. By the saving of
time on the voyage, and tbe leesening of the
dangera by the way, (heee interests, it has
been computed, both in tMt country ana ia
England, have been benefited to tbe extant
of millions annually. Some of theae bens,
fits have inured also to agriculture, not only
by giving an opportunity to Ihe farmer to gas
market* beyond the aea oheaper, and ena
bling ships to letch and carry for bim at low-
I er figures, but by bringing within reach mars
keta which before were inaccessible by tee
eon of the great length in rims of the voyage."
counsels far the Yoasg.
Fight hard against a hasty temper. Anget
will come, but raaiat it stoutly. A spark wili
set a house on firo. A fit of passion may
give.you cause to mourn all thedaya of you*
life. Never revenge an injury-
He that revenges know* no rest—
The meek possess a peaceful breast.
if you have an enemy, aot kindly towards
him, and make him your friend. Yoii may
not win him atoqce, but try bim again. Let
one itintlnea* be followed by another till yon
have com passed your end*. By little end
little great thitisa are completed—
Water* falling day byt. day,,
Wear the hardest rook away. f
;, ——f—.'awer ""Tji'i-.-'i:, ,
IDLENESS— Young men, beware of idtmmi
Accustom the mind to habit* ef regular la
bor. Fia the attention upon a course of uee- *
fulness to youraalf and other*. Awake within -
yourselves an interest for the accomplish- '
men' of a purpose. Cultivate a habit of pa
tient endurance. Let it be your desire ■*'
secure the approbation of the wise and fMdj J
and let your motto be determination, activity
and perseverance. , ' .-, r p
. ■ -
SutMoa*:—Sydney Smith, in mferenc* re
ceiiaie persons who, by handling' the most' >'
sublime troth* in the dullest language hlKt-'£
the driest manner, eo often set tbtit heame' 1
to sleep, used to ask whether ele was to
taken from man it Eve wd* froot AdMß,ty &
easting him into e deep slumber*