THE STAR OF THE NORTH. B. W. Hearer, Proprietor.] VOLUME 8. THE STAR OF THE NORTH IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNINU BY It. W. WEAVER, OFFICE— Up stairs, in the new brick build' ing, on the south side of Main Street, third square be'ow Market. TEIUIIS :—Two Dollars per annum, if paid within six month; 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 ■re paid, unless at the option of the editor. ADVERTISEMENTS not exoeeding one square will be inserted three times 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. NY DARLING. The following neat poem is from Putnam's Monthly for Ootober: Her sou! is as whits as the lilly, And her heart as warm as the rose; The breath of the morning is with her Wherever my darling goes. The children are glad at her coming— When the children are old and gray, There will be more light in their spirits, That they danced in her smile to-day. When she shall be singing in heaven— On the ways that she walked below, Like June in the wealth of October, Her spirit will breathe the glow! "T.," THE PARIS CORRESPONDENT of the Pennsylvania Enquirer gives the following in teresting account of the present Empress of Russia:—"lt appears that the Empress Ma ria-Alexandrowrta, who has at all times ex- I cried a legitimate art J salutary influence ; upon the mind of her august spouse, is just j now laboring powerfully to open to the ! young Czar the way for an honorable trans- j action with the Western Powers. The per- ! sonal position of Count Nesselrode, whose | speedy retreat had been falsely announced, | has never been more firmly seated than at j this moment, thanks to the powerful protec lion with which the Empress Maria Alex in- i drowna covers the archchancellor of the Em pire. So long a cateer, filled in the manner j •o honorable, must necessarily have cot)6oli-- dated Court Nesselrode's ascendant over the young Czar, Alexander 11., mat the arch- i chancellor foresaw, with his usual clear sightedness, the disasters with which the ar rogant presumption of the old Muscovite party was to be struck in the Crimea. Tile counsels and efforts 01. Count Nessolrode needed, nevertheless, to be efficaciously sus tained in order to counterbalance the pow erful influence of the Grand Duke Constan tino—an influence which the Czar felt in spite of himself. The Grand Duke is so much like his father everywhere and in every respect, that the Emperor Alexander 11., rather from filial piety than from weak ness ol will, has allowed himself to be hith erto so much guided hy his younger brother. Since the fall of Sebastopol, however, a more salutary influence, that of the Empress Ma ria Alexandrowna, whom the noble instinct of mother and wife leads to foresee a fu ture strewn with perils for the reign of her husband, which has but just commenced, seems to be gaining the ascendancy. The young Czarina passes (and justly so) (or a princess whom nature nas been pleased to endow with all the better qualities of mind and heart. I have heard a great personage of the Court of St. Petersburg relate an inci dent which characterizes precisely the adroit perspicacity of the woman who seems to have been placed providentially upon the throne of the Czars, by the side of Alexan- / der 11. What is a very 'are thing in prince ly families, it was not mere policy, or any high stale reason, but rather mutual inclina tion, which presided at the union of Ihe Czarowitz Alexander with Ihe Princess Ma ria of Hesse, whose marriage took place Ap-il 28, 1841. The Emperor, not wishing to I thwart the affections of his heir presumptive, bad given his consent, but without, at first, testifying for hie daughter-in-law any very great sympathy. The princess, after having studied the character of the Czsr, promised herself, nevertheless, soon to captivate bis I entire good-will. The fete of the Emperor! Nicholas was always celebrated by all the members of the imperial family with the most touching demonstrations of afTectiou and attachment. Several months in advance, the Empress mother and the grand duchesses eel themselves at work to make, with their , own hands, those presents to which the Em- ' peror Nicholas (who, in the interior of his < family, was no longer the same man as the Czar seated on the throne,) attached great valne. The Czarina Maria Alexandrowna alone did not ask to be associated in these labors, to the great surprise of the whole court. St. Nicholas' Day came at last; and, according to usage, before breakfast, the im perial family came to present their congratu lations to the Czai, holding in their hands the presents which tbey had to offer him.— The Cessarewna approached in her torn, and eihking upon her knees, she .began reciting with Ihe greatest seriousness the in the Russian language, and with great purity of pronunciation. The Emperor uoderatood how much strength of the will and patiance it bad required to accomplish in a few months such a four deforce, since tbe Czarina, before ber marriage,", had never pronounced a word ol Russian, His Majesty, greatly moved, raised tbe Princess, and, preeaing her to bis heart with transport, called her bis be-!' loved daughter. From that day to his death the Czat Nicholas never ceased to show the Czariua the great lendarnau." GT It is announced in letters received from Mr. Buohanan, that it was hit intention to leave Havre In the Arago, on the 9th of April. BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY. PA., THURSDAY. APRIL 3. 1856. from the N. Y. Herald. THE SAFETY, DESTINY AND ICIGHTS OF THE WHITE AND BLACK It ACES IN THIS COUNTRY. There are times when the law of self-prea ervation repeals all others, reducing forms and discipline at once to anarchy, and o/ficers ' and seamen, generals, soldiers and camp fol lowers to a common level, and subjecting them alone to their own individual means of salvation. In pursuit of this object, homicide ceases to be a crime, selfishness is justified, cruelty defended, and all the obligations of ! friendship and affection overlooked. As with [ persons, so to a great extent it is with nations. The latter have their perils and disasters as well as the former. There are conditions ap pended to the existence of States as well as individuals. There are laws of necessity and self-preservation with the one as w.ih the other. Abstractly considered, it would be easy to fix tbo crime of murder upon the mar iner who, in the midst of the storm and the wreck, by the force of his superior strength hurled his companion into eternity in order to save himself; and still the peril of his own life justified the severily of the means em ployed to save it. What, then, is the political liberty or the utter ruin of the three millions of the African race in this country to the safety, peace and prosperity of the twenty three millions of the white race 1 All experience has demonstra ted the inferiority of the former and the vast superiority of the latter. It requires no argu ment to show that, as members of the same political family they csnnot subsist together 1 on any condition other than such as their ca- j pacities impose. There are equalities enough I in our own race ; and these are made visi ble in the various spheres into which socie ty is divided. To think of adding to these a distinctive African caste, inferior to all others | and incapableof amalgamation without allock ing both moral and physical sensibilities, is one of those cruel and inhuman projects sus tained by men from whom we may expect plans of infusing social and political reforms in ihe world by some grand scheme of inter national guvanism ? VYe must no longer trust to natural laws. SVe buve grown too wise to submit to what is inevitable. We must deny to the superior its right of control; we must guarantee tothe inferior an equality, an-J this must be done by a State composed of individuals as various in intellect as in form ! When the fifth day's work of material cre ation had been satisfactorily completed; when the heavens and the earth, the sun and the moon, the fishes of the sea, anr( the birds and animals of the land had been brought into being, then man was formed and endowed, and was given "dominion" over all theße things, and of the earth, which he was com manded to replenish and subdue. The authority thus delegated to the human family, in connection with the obligations imposed upon it, signify as well the true char acter which the Creator intended to establish in the race, as an obvious design to reward the superior for its nearer approach to the Divine attributes and image. This principle is maintained throughout the whole range of rational, irrational and material existence. It is a law to civilization, to barbarism, and "to everything that movetli upon the earth." It is bound to no conditions which paralyze its action or impede its progress, lie dominion and its power to subdue indicate its superior ity, and that superiority has the right to im pose the conditio is of its own safety and success It need not be laid under this sweep ing hypothesis—that tyranny stands justified by its might—because the remedy for every species of injustice and oppression will be placed in the hands of the oppressed pre cisely when they have the sense to exe cute and enforce it. Besides, intelligence is conservative, magnanimous and philanthrop ic. It is humane and generous, and there is no higher proof of this than is to be found in the history of the federal union, including its slavery. Slavery, indeed, is the only means of sav ing from utter annihilation the three millions of blacks who inhabit this country. It is the only condition by which their acknowledged superiors in numbers, intelligence and enter prise—the white race—can endure their ex istence. The freedom of the negro would be tho signal of his decline, and finally of his utter ruin. The laws creating slavery may be repealed; but the laws regulating the in tercourse of two such opposite races cannot be. The slaves may be freed from the shackles of bondage, but not Irotn the con ditions of their natures and minds. They are doubly a race of dependents in this instance: as inferiors, and as co-inhabitants with the whiles, whose safety will not permit their freedom. Their release, then, while it would insure their ruin, would go far towards effect ing the same result with their masters, who would find relief only in their death or re moval. The exlension ol slavery to Ihe North, in stead of strengthening and perpetuating that inslitntion, would weaken it. Wherever it exists on soils and in cliniatea adapted to ile prodoctione, it is made doubly strong. It has no chance there of removal. Whereas, its extension into latitudes where its labor ciinnol be employed to profit, while the orig inal supply must come from the south, it is liable at any time to be abolished, and more or leas of the slaves set at liberty. This is teen in the extinction of slavery in the north—a result to be attributed not to be nevolence and humanity, but to the fact that it had ceased to be of interest to its proprie tor*. This latter condition forced northern slaves into the south, and having thus nar rowed down the sacrifice, the proprietors were ready for abolition. Slavery it moral obligation to lake care of the blacks,guaranteed alike by the penalties implied in thoir freedom, and by the pecuni ary interests of the slaveholder. If there were no other proofs of this than ate to be found in our intercourse with the Indians, they would be sufficient to establish the truth ot the assertment. We have not only treated the latter aa freemen, but recognized their nationalities; and yet our contact with them has reduced their, from millions to a few thousands; and while we have advanced in all the arts of civilization, and have taken them under our national protection, tbey have become every year moie helpless, im moral and degraded. All this shows clearly enough that something lesides a mere frigid national guardianship is necessary to save an inferior race co-existing with their supe riors. The present Congress has occupied eight weeks without effecting an organization. A large party of its members has struggled to convert it into an insane asylum, with one of the craziest of political lunatics for chief doctor, and it is yet to be shown that their opponents do not require the advantages of such an institution to bring them to their right minds. This very matter of slavery is the bone of contention. It has made its op ponents lunatics as men, traitors as citizens, criminals as legislators, neglectful and dis honest as agents. Each one of them has a mission to perform—to take caro of the ne groes. The peace and harmony of the Union, the glory of the nation, the prosperity and happiness of its white people, their great commerce, manufactures, agriculture and general industry count as nothing compared with the Utopian (schemes of abolition which these purblind devotees of anarchy seek to subetitute for the federal con stitation. leuorancc and Crime. Ignorance is nearly related] to crime, as rum is to assault and battery. According to the reports just made by (he different Sher iffs, it appears that the whole number of con viclio.ts in the several Courts of Record and of Special Sessions in the several cities of the State, from the year 1840 to 1848 r was 27,949. Of the persons so convicted 1,183 are re turned as having received a "common edu cation," 414 as '-tolerably well educated," and 128 only, or one in about two hundred, as "well educated." Of the remaining 26,- 225, about half could barely read and write ; the residue were wholly destitute of instruc tion. 1,122 persons oonvicied In 1847, twen ty-tsyo only had a "common education:" ten only a tolerably good education," and six only, or one in one hundred and eighty seven, were "well educated." Of 1 345 persona convicted in 1848, twen ty-three only had a "common education," and ten only were returned as "educated." "These facts speak like Gabriel, "trumpet tongued," and show how absolutely neces sarv it is to educate people if we would pre vent them from filling our jails, penitentiar ies, and Slate Prison.— Albany Knickerbocker. Parental Defects. I have said that parents are the natural teachers of their children. That is, it is their duty as far as they are capable, to give their children the first elements of knowledge.— My avocation for some years has convinced me that a great amount of labor is thrown upon teachers, which should have been dis charged by the parents. The result is that a great deal of time and labor is spent at school without much benefit in consequence of the children not having received any in tellectual training at home. In many instances parents have received but very little intellectual discipline them selves, and the depression of poverty as the case may be, or intemperance or sll these causes combined may- have crushed the no ble aspirations of their minds for knowledge and subdued their desires for the improve ment for their children. Many children are deprived of parental care, and thrown upon the broad face of an unfeeling world with out receiving that wholesome, moral and in tellectual training, of which they stand so much in need, and which is absolutely oecessary to make them good oitizens. A STBONU STORY. —A wild friend of ours, (Selma Tom,) told us the other day, the fol lowing tough story: Tom says he ea> acquainted with a very companionable fellow from one of the moun tain counties, who happened to be in Selma ori business. This was in August last.— Mountain Sprout was a member of the church but a long way from home ; and having nev er experienced iced cocktail before, he "took on as much as he could wag with"—Tom aiding and abetting. In due time Sprout went home, but rumors of his potations followed him, and the church brought him to law for drunkenness. Sprout, on trial, admitted that he had, while in Selma, got a little "foxy," but then he told his brethren the "big lumps of ice they had at ti.e bar were so inviting, he oouldn't help drinking." Thereupon an old brother got up and said, that fcr his part, if the young brother had on ly got drunk under the circumstances of be ing away from home and falling into bad company, he should have been in favor of forgiving him, on his proper acknowledg ments. "But, brethren," he wound up, "this matter is worse than drinking. It's down right lying! Did you hear what brother Sprout said about ioe, and in August 1 I'm for Jerking tint oat for lying I" and out he went. Troth aod Bight God and oor loootry. TOWNSHIP OFFICERS, Elected in Columbia Co- on last Friday. BLOOM TOWNSHIP. Constables—B. F. Hartman, Gordon R. Goff. Supervisors—John Pursel, Martin Ropert, Samuel Shaffer. Overseers—R. B. Arthur, J. H. Abbot. School Directors—A. C. Mensch, Elias Hicks, 3 years: Joseph Sharpies*, Jos. W. Hendershot, 2 years: Dr. John Ramsay, Wel lington Hartman 1 yr. Assessor—John M. Chemberlin. Judge—Thomas J. Morris. Inspectors—l. W. Hartman, Jacob F. Diet terich. Anditor—John K. Grotz. BRIARCREEK. Constable—Adam Suit. Suparmanm—.lnna'tm* W.'JSbi", Pater Hay man. School Directors.—Moses Davis, Jos. M. Hicks, Wm. L. Freas, Alexander Lockart. Assessor—Wm. Erwiae. Judge—Lewis Enke. BEAVER. Justice—Franklin Shuman. Constable—Charles Michael. Supervisors—Jacob Hoats, Samuel Cox. School Directors—Jesse Johnson, Peter Hauck, Charles Michael, (tie.) Sssessor—Daniel Singley. Judge—Andrew Shuman. BENTON TOWNSHIP. Justice—Jacob Ogder,. Constable—Stephen Kiefer. Supervisors—Wm. Cole, Ezekiel Cole. School Directors—Jesse Pennington, N. P. Moote, Elijah Hess, (tie.) Assessor—Samnel Rhone. Judge—Samuel Hess. CENTRE. Justice—Jesse Hioks. Constable—Charles H. Dieterioh. Supervisors—Daniel Neyhard, Isaac Ar wine. School Directors—L. A. Hutchinson, Jas Kooher. Assessor—Elwood Hughes. Judge—Henry Hess. CONYNGHAM. Janice—James A. King, John Scolt. Constable—John Uren. Supervisors—A. \V. Rae, Geo. Scott. School Directors—F. R. W'olfhart, Jas. A. King 3 years: A. W. Rae, Geo. Soott 2 years: Israel Hulstein, Jacob Deik 1 yr. Assessor—F. R. Wolfhart. Judge—Jacob Deik. CATTAWyISA, Justice—lsaiati John. Constable—Peter G. Campbell. Supervisors—Abel Thomas, Samuel Kost enborder. School Directors—lsaac S. Monroe, Mat thias Harlman, Barnett D. Davidson. Assessor—Milton H. Kerr. Judge—Michael Brobst. FRANKLIN. Justice —B. P. Fortner. Constable —Aaron Lamberson. Supervisors—Hiram J. Reader, John Zeig ler. School Directors—David Zarr, Moses How er. Assessor—Aaron Lamberson. Judge—Wellington Cleaver. FISUrNGCRKEK, Justice—A. J. Kline. Constable—J. C. Runyan. Supervisors—John Drescher, <Aaroo Hess. School Directors—N. T. Pennington, Hen ry Bittenbender. Assessor—Thomas J. Hutchinson. Judge—Peter Criveling. GREENWOOD. Constable—Abraja Kline. Supervisors— Henry Kitchen. School Reece, Thomas E. Eves. . Assessor—Russel P. WeHrter. Judge—Elisha Hayman. IIEMLOCK. Constable—Daniel Nevhard. Supervisors—lsaac Leidy, Sylveeer Pur sell. School Directors—Baltis Appleman, ben Folk. Assessor—John H. Faust. Judge—John G. Nevina. JACKSON. Constable—Jacob W. Supervisors—Peter Hodge, Frederick Wiles. School Directors—Hiram Baker, Peter Hodge. Assessor—Wesley Snyder. Judge—Thomas W. Young. LOCUST* Constable—William Goodman. Superstore—John Ritner, Leonard Adams. School Directors—John Yeager, Jr., John Harner, Peter S. Helwig, George Fetterman. Assessor—Wm. H. Reinbold. Judge—Amos Rhodes. MAINE. Constable—Joseph Giger. Supervisors-John Klingnman, Joseph Hart zel. School Directors—Aaron Andrews, George Fleming, William Shuman. Assessor—John Harmony. Judge—George W. Gardner. MONTOUR. Juslioe—John Dieterich. Constable—Peter Heimbach. Supervisors—Geo. Yost, William Roberts. School Directors—Josiah Roberta, Lewis Roat/ Assessor—Cad wallader Roberts. Judge—Josiah Roberts. MIFFLIN. Justices—Samuel Creasy, John H. Heller. Constable—Lewie Eokrotb. Supervisors-Aaron Mas teller, Jacob Hart zel', Jr. Sfchool Directors—Samuel Snyder, Charles Klingaman. Assessor—John Frost. Judge—Nathan Grove. MOUNTPLEASANT. Constable—Melkiah Ruckle. Supervisors-Jackson Hower, William Fair roan. School Directors—Andrew Melick, Samu el Johnson, John Hower. Assessor—Matthias Gilbert. Judge—Stephen Crawford. MADISON. Constable—James Eisner. Supervisors-Andrew Ohl, Michael Wine garden. School Directors—Lewis Schuyler, Joseph Con ell, Pitineee Welliver lyr. Assesaqr—John Smith. Judge—*Allred Pegg. ORANGE. Justice—Alfred Howell. Constable—Richard Brewer. Supervisors-Hiram R.Kline, Joseph Ruckle. School Directors-Samuel Everett, Samoel Acbenbicb. Assessor.—Samuel Everett. Judge—John Achcnbacb. PINE. Constable—John Yoong. Supervisors—lra Sanders, Moses Watts. School Directors—Jacob Long, Elijah Full mer, J. P. Lyons lyr. Assessor—Jacob W. Warnar Judge—John Whilmire. ROARINGCREETL. Justice—John C. Myers. Constadie—David Hower. Supervisors—Peter Levan, David Stranssor. School Directors—Samuel Eck, Michael Mowrey. Assessor—Charles Oyer. Judge—Michael Mowrey. SCOTT. Justice—Joseph R. Robbin*. Constable—E. B. Pursell. Supervisors—Henry Trembly, Samuel Mel ick. School Directors-Aaron Boone, Josiah Smith, Peter F.nt, John Warden. Assessor—Wm. F. McMullin. Judge—Elias Smith. SUGARLOAY. Justice—Wm. B. Peterman. Constable—Cornelius Girton. Supervisors—George Dils, Samnel Fritz. School Directors J. F. Laubach, William Stephens. Assessor Jeremiah 11. Yocum. JudgeTJtnas Cole.""**" From the Public Ledger. THE FUTURE OF NATIONS. It has of late years been the subject of fre quent remark, how few of Ihe battles that history records have produced any perma nent effect upon Ihe course of events or des tiny of nations. That destiny is written more deeply in the charucter of each nation itself, in the opinions that prevail, the spirit of in telligence that directs its course of industry, of coherence that binds the whole people to gether, and of morality that gives vitality and force to everylhicg. Where these thftiga are, it will never fight but to conquer; where they ate wanting, its very victories will fail to extend its power. Thus the battles of a nation have but little usually to do with its prosperity or its decline except as indica tions. The futnfe course of nations will work it self out from the germs of their national characters; victories or defeats to the con trary notwithstanding. The influence of the Bonaparte family would not have been great er in France oj in Europe at this moment Napoleon gained instead of losing the tails of Wa'erloo. If'grom shah a point u{/view, ye look at the {pluipj/ China, foriislance, it will pfobnjrty matter little a hundred j£fcr*4fftewtether the Imperial part) or the IdUjgedKtriurnph iuylhe present con test, ssfftftokf real history and condition of concerned. Whichever parly Kaae tllCpower, certain reforms must Kbe cbj&isdeiVvind about an equal decree of cbrmpliorf and arbitrary jver will prevail, 4 that i(rfupt ** touch as me people will bear. The *l>4perflSl gfijiernment had waxed cor rupt,and becnpm a government rjfATes ar.d shams, in whsdft the peopfehad lost all faith. They had seen, too, in Christian governments a mysterious force antl which they possessed not. The cuffing off of 70,000 heads In a captured city, skinning the unre sisting inhabitants alive, or torturing them with exquisite skill, may ktspire tetror, but will not restore faith. So long as Qlflisiian nations are intrinsically a. superior people, the Chinese wiUAep that superiority, and long to obtain Ihe4surces ol it. Their eyes have been opened and bdnceflmh civil wars and convulsions ol aU kinds must be the fate of that people, luffu they have tried our forms of government, of philosophy, and of religion. Liberty of opinion and of sci ence, and the inflection of Christ ization has l;p who will fill the Imperial throne, this cannot take place without vast convulsions/' It matters little what leaders arise, St amffor the moment •uccessful, the powei^T that bugest of na tions must crumble before the of the ideas with Which this age, and even the very air is filled. If from Asia w|j£o\v turn to Europe, con vulsed as the at present appears by the war between Russia and the Allies, ahat wilt all that amount to on the page of Malory 7 It is a oonteat which signifies nothing. No great principles lie at the bottom of it; it leads to nothing, it decidea nothing, turn which way it may. The liberty of the world will not be essentially forwarded or retarded, whether the Russians or tbe Allies gain. Even in Turkey, the government will be about equal ly despotic. The utmost difference it can make, ia whether the few millions of Persia and the circumjacent regions shall be allied to England or to Russia, ail influence in ei ther case equally arbitrary and selfish, and in either case administered through much the same forms. What matters it to the peo le of those regions which has the upper hand, and if not to them, much less to tbe rest of the world. Quite clear is it that changes are awaiting Europe, compared with which all the present contests raging are are just as nothing. The masses must role far more than they ever have done before. The Example of Ameri can liberty is working and must work out a new era of things, and those now in power can only retain its semblance by yielding gracefully to what ta irresistible. And wheth er they retain the forms of power or not mat ters but little, whertier there be outbreaking revolutions by the dozen, as in Paris, or peaceful, quiet changes of Ministry after Ministry, as in England, the principles of liberty must extend, and the nations of Eu rope then lake their rank, not according to their armies and navies, but the intelligence and virtue of the masses of their peopfo, which, alas ! is very small. Those nations which cannot abide this test must and will perish in Ihestrnggle. In most cases, too, the selfish and sectional prejudi ces of the small territories into which Europe is at present divided, will lead to innumera ble clasbings of large standing armies, that are a curse to the people and to liberty. Mill ions of expenditure will impoverish all; op pression and resistance will coma, till worn out with the struggle and the burden, the masses emigrate or sink, as the descendents of the old Romans have done, to the brigand level. And what as to the future of America ? It is certain that no real revolution in our prin ciples of government can take place. On all these questions which must agitate the rest ol the world, we are safe. Quite possi ble it is, that were the love of foreign con quest to enlarge materially our domain, by destroying its present balance, two or three republics might spring out of one. But all of these must retain the same pritlaiples, were they ever to take place. The whole American continent is essentially republican, and must ever be. The extent of these re publics, tbeir success, their powar, thair re spectability, will, of course, depend tin the virtue and intelligence of the people; but the great fact of this continent is that here the peoplo must rnle, whether fit for it, as in tbe United States, or destroyed by it, as in the petty sovereignties of Central America. This hemisphere, at least as far south as tbe equator, is, and ever will be republican. That which has got to be the problem and result of all present contests in the rest of tho world, is already a settled fact with us.— Our institutions and growth are formed up on a basis homogeneous with the destiny of the age before us and all mankind. But the institutions, the prejudices and the history of all the nations of Europe and ot Ihe world are heterogeneous, and opposed to their man ifest destiny. They are certain to come somewhere, sooner or later, in conflict with the age. Hence this continent must rise, while the rest of the globe ia gradually de clining, and our true policy is not to hasten events prematurely, least of all to anticipate them by wars, which cannot effect anything but the destruction of virtue, and therefore of republicanism, but rather to wait patiently and peacefully the development of those great natural laws upon which our progress and our power depend. Nolle of your Bonk-Ledmed Doctors. The following dialogue occurred in a Court, in a Slate not two thousand miles from New i England. A quack doctor of the Thomsoni. | an order, was called to the stand as a wit j ness, and after he had testified to having made "a night visit," the prosecuting attorney the cross-examina'lon thus : "Mr. Doctor, to what school of practice do you belong?" "I don'i_be!ong to any school. I neter went to any school it: my lile, I thank you." "But that is not quite what I want to know. I mean, to what school of medicine do you belong?" "I tell you, sit, I never went to any school of medicine, or practice, or anything else. I am a seventh son, sir, and_didn't need to go to school." "Well, well, what system of medicine do you practice? That is, what kind of medi cine do you give ?" "Oh, that's what ydu want is it ? Why I give the Brutenic medicine always, and ev erywhere." . "The Brutanic ? You mean the Botanic system, don't you V' "No, sir, the Brutanic, I say." "Now will you tell me how much you charge for a nocturnal visit ?" y "Sir, [very indignantly,] I don't give any snch medicine. I practice as I told you, to the Brutanio system, and I'll have you and ihisoonrt to understand, I don't give any such medicine ai (hat horrid-stuff." No more queilions were asked.—R. Island Schoolmaster. footman, proud of his grammar, uali ere<om> the drawing-room, a Mr. Foote and hia two daughters, with this introdulion : "Mr. Foote and the two Missea Feet." [Two Dollars per Asiu. NUMBER 11. LOVE AND JEWELRY. Mr. O. P. Q. Granger reside*in Burlington, Vermont. Mr. G. It • gentlemen of prepoe teasing appearance, sports a jet black impe rial and travels sligh'ljr on hi* shape. Mr. Granger ha* a vorjr excellent opinion of him self, and runs away with the idea that no la dy can look at him wrthnnt experiencing a slight palpitation of the heart. In Joly last, Mr. Granger visited Rockaway, put up at the Pavillion, and indulged in sea-bathing and clams for about ten days. On his way home he stopped in the city to spend a week. Ha put up at the Delavan House. One afternoon, while promenading up North Pearl street he he saw a very fasoinsting young lady sitting by a patlor window belonging to a very fina three story dwelling not a mil* from Steuben street The young lady smiled—Granger lift ed his hat, and dropped hi* bead about an inch, inch and a-half, or two inches. Hav ing done this, he passed on,and in due course of time found himself at his hotel. If ever Mr.Granger felt well toward all the world, and the rest of mankind, it was that afternoon.— He was so buoyant that if anybody bad cut his suspenders we have no doubt that he would have gone up like a balloon. The next day Mr. Granger repeated hie "troll. He again pawed the Pearl street man sion, and found that fascinating young lady sitting at the window. The third time he grew more courageous. He not only lilt ed his hat and smiled, but he ascended the stoop and twitched the bell-pull. The young lady flew to the door, opened the same, drop ped a courtesy on ths matting and invited Mr. Granger to wulk into the parlor. Mr. Granger did ao, and, for a few minutoe felt slightly embarrassed. He overcome this, however, in a little while, and entered upon a chat that satisfied him that he had made a ten strike—effected the conquest of an heir ess. Ou leaving, Mr. Granger and the young lady exchanged cards—a ceremony that en abled Mr. Granger to perceive that "the best looking girl in all Albany" was Miss Doug lass of North Pesrl Street. They parted in the hall with a squeeze of the hand that made Mr. Granger look like a boiled lobster for an boor afterward. Mr. O. is a gentleman of sanguine temperament, hence the ease with which his face takes to vermillion. Mr. Granger lelt for home the next morning, and look along a bosom so filled with sunshine that there should not be a hard winter in Vermont for the next five years. On arriving at Burlington, Mr. Gran ger opened a correspondence with Miss Douglass that continued till Tuesday tut, when Mr. Granger came to Albany ta saa Miss D. in person. He went to the Pearl street mansion, pulled the bell, and was an swered by Biddy of late importation. With Biddy the following conversation took plaoe. "Is Miss Douglass io?" "Who V "Miss Douglass." "And who the devil is Miss Douglass J" "A young lady that I saw here in July last —your mistress, I suppose." "I ou do ? well ihen, let me tell you you're mistaken. The young lady you met here in Joly last was a forwaid mint that Missis left to tako caro of the honse while the family went to Niagara. She Was as modest a girl as ever was, till some blackguard in Vermont made a fule of her." "You said a blackguard in Vermont, 1 think .* "1 did, and I repeat it. If he had not been a blackgnard he would not have sent her a goold watch, and an undecent letter with lit tle boy* flying all around the edges with more bow-arrows than breeches—bud lock to hi.n." "Well, never mind about all that. Cao you fell me where i can find the person re ferred to ?" ' Nb, I can't and if 1 conld, I wouldn't, for 1 have an idea that you are no better than the other blackguard." Biddy having Said this, slammed the door and retired to the kitchen. The information received at the Pearl street mansion struck Mr. Granger 'all a heap.' The idea that he had been courting a servant girl for an heir ess, drove him Blmost (6 distraction. But this was not the worst of it. Mr. Granger had not only suffered in his "bossom," but in hia pocket. correspondence heated forwarded the following presents to Mist Douglass: One gold watch valued at $120; one set of ear-rings worth'.s7s, aod a pin worth 595, making a grand total of $290. To get back a portion of the treasure, Mr. Granger repaired on Wednesday to the Po lice Office. He told bis story to Justice Par sons, and wished to swear out a warrant fot false pretences against Miss Douglass. "For doing what ? asked the magistrate. "For putting on French airs and doing m out of ?290 worth of jewelry," replied hit. Granger. The Justice informed Mr. Granger that there was no law forbidding "French aha," and that he could not postibly have a warrant. "Ar.d what would you have me to do*' "Go home to Burlington and resolve natt er Sgain to be sold by a Pfearl street cham bermaid, even if she indulges in Frenoh aire and smiles from a parlor window." Mr. Granger left the office saying he would think it over. Wu saw him about an boar afterward inquiring the way to Mr. Hobttn's law office. Whether be intend* to com. mence n law suit for the recovery of hia goode, will be known at the next Court.— Albany Police Tribune. "Are you fond of tongue, sir?" "I always was lond of tongue, nudum#, and I like it stiff."
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