THE STAE7 OF THE NORTH. B. W. Heaver, Proprietor.] VOLUME 8. THE STAR OF THE NORTH J It TOBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNINU BY R. W. WEAVER, OFFICE— Up stairs. in the new brick build ing, on Ike south side oj Main Street, . third square below Market. TERMS t—Two Dollars per annum, if i paid within six months from the lime of sub- j 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 ontil ail arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the editor. AovaaTisEMENTs not exceeding 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 these who advertise by the year. MIL OP THE NORTH' R. w. wrjLvxßjSntTon. jjioo'inluirlt, Wednesdityi Sept. 3, 1850. I Democratic County Convention. j The Democratic Convention of Columbia i county met at Bloomsburg, on Monday, 25th ( ult., in pursuance ot the rules of the party, and organized by appointing tbd following ofii- i cere: -__ WM. HOWELL, President; CASPER RAHN and WILLIAM SNYDER, See'.yi: > The townships were ihen called over and ' the following delegates presented credentials and took their seats. Beaver—Henry Fry, Gideon Bredbenner. Benton —JohhjJ. Sides, Wm. Cole. Briarcreek —William-Lamon, M. E. Jack- 1 son. Bloom—'William Snyder, John J. Barkley. Cattawissa—Casper Rhn, 1. S. Monroe. Conyngham—Jacob Derk, F. It. Wolfarih. , Centre —Henry D. Knorr, Henry Hess. . Fishingcreek—George M. Howell, Daniel Stacker. Franklic—John Hanley, Isaac Zimmer man. Greenwood—Andrew J. Albertson, Joseph R. Paiton. Hemlock—Jesse Oh I, George L. Shoema ker. Jackson—James Yocum, John McHenry. Locust—William Goodman, Leonard AJ ams. Maine—Aaron Andrews Clinton Fisher. Montour —Win. G. Quick, Evan Welliver. Madison—B. F. Fruit, Keifer Smiili. Mifflin—John H. Heller, Samuel Soyde-. Mouotplessant-John Hower, Wm.Howell. Orange—Hiram R. Kliiw, Abner Welsh. Pine—Benjamin (ViiflSfsteen, Albert Hun ter. Roaringcreek—Charles Levan, David R. ntvci. Bcott—John H. Dewitl, Jacob Cosenn. Sugarloaf—Montgomery Cole, John Cole. There were no contested seats and eyry township wag full*' represented. On motion of Mr. Rahn, John Mcßeynolds und R. W. Weaver were unanimously cho fpm Congressional Conferees to meet other conftM. es for making a Congressional nomi nation ifl llle 12lti District. The ConK£t'on iisMgroceeded to nomi nal* a candidaSrfbT liepreseiHauve. Mr. Snyder nominated John G. Frtfß® of Bloom. I Mr. Dewiu nominated Peter Enl A vote was taken with the folloit£y ß ' suit: ' L I FOR ENT — ME**r*. Fry, Bredbenner, Rfl*BT Wolfarth, Hess, G. M. Howell. Stnck it, Hanley, Zfmmeynan, Alhgttfea, Patton, Ohl, Shoemaker, AtuTrewsTFisher, Quick, Welliver, Fruit, Smith,Hetler, Kline, Welsu, Levan, D. Hower, Dewitt, Closson—27. FOR FREEZE— Messrs. Stiles, Cole, Lamon, Jackson, Snyder, Barkley, Monroe, Knorr, Yocnm, McHenry, Goodman, Adams, Sny der, Wm. Howell, J. Hower, Winlersteen, Hunter, Cole, Cole—l 9. So PETER ENT having a majority of votes was declared the pgfnineeof the Convention JmrKepresentativd. i motion bf Mr. Jackson, Stephen H. Millev and Jno. G. Freeze were unanimouely chosen Senatorial Conferees to meet other Senatorial wuUerees from this district. 0n motion of Mr. Jackson, Hiram R. Kline npd Wra.G. Quick were unanimously chosen Keoiese nla I isrweaiafe rem to raeetjpjher sim , ilar conferee* from this ffepreaentalive Dis trict. The Cowitlorv ihen proceeded! to nomi nate a candidatrfer President ,1-c'ge of this Judicial District. Hon. J. WOOD WARD was named, andbyiieeiimjetion de clarSgiie clvtice of Columbia counljr for On motion of Mr. Monroe, M. E. Jackson, Emenuel I.azarngsnd Wm. Snyder were unanimously chosen (s Judicial Conferees from this county. The Convention then proceeded to nomi nate two candidates for Associate Jgdw. Mr. Monroe nominated Stephen Baldy ol Cattawissa. Mr. Albertson nominated Jacob Evins of Greenwood. Mr. Hetler nominated Samuel Crsasy of Mifiliq. Mr. HanUy nominated Peter Kline of Franklin. A vote was taken with tbe foilowingieault: FOB EVANS —Messrs. Fry, Wm. Snyder, Berkley) Monroa, G. M. Howell, iNfcker, Hanky, Albertson, Pulton, Ohl, Shoefaker, Yocnm, McHdhry, Andrews, Quick, Vuil, Welliver, Hetler, S. Snyder, J. Hower, Vm. Howell,Kline, Welsh, Winlersteen, Hunkr, Dewitt, Closson—27. \ FOR KLlNE —Messrs. Stiles, W. Cole, Barlf\ ley, Rahn, G- M. Howell; Stucker, Hanley,\ Zimmerman, Afbertaon, Shoemaker, Adams, Goodman, Fieber, Fruit, Srtith, Kline, Welsh, l*pan, ®- Hower, Closson—2o. BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1856. FOR CREASY- Messrs. Bredbenner, Stile*, | Wm. Cole, L*mon, Jackson, Wm. Snyder, . Derk, Wolfarlh, Knorr, He**, Patton, Old, | Yocura, McHenry, Andrew*, Fiiher, Smith, ( Heller, S.Snyder, Winlersteen, D. Hower,M.: Cole, J. Cole—23. FOR BAM>T —Messrs. Fry, Bredbenner, La tnon, Jackson, Rahn, Monroe, Derk, Knorr, Wolfarth, Hesi, Zimmerman, Adams, Quick, Goodman, Welliver, J. Hower, Wm. Howell, Hunter, Levan, pewi'.l, M. Cole, J. Cole—22. So JACOB EVANS having a majority of all the votes given was declared duly nqjni naied for Associate Judge. No other candi date having a majority, a second ballot was taken which resulted as follows: FOR KLlNE —Messrs. Barkley, G. M. How ell, Slucker, Hanley, Zimmerman, Albertaon, Shoemaker, Goodman, Adams, Fruit, Smith, Kline, Welsh, Levan, D. Hower, Clossor.— For CREASY —Messrs. Bredbenner, Stiles, Wm. Cole, Jackson, Wm. Snyder, Wolfarth, Knorr, Hess, Ohl, Yooum, McHenry, An drews, Fisher, Heller, S. Snyder,. Winler steen, Dewitt, M. Cole, J. Cole—l 9. FOR BALDY —Messrs. Fry, Lamon, Mon roe, Rahn, Derk, Patton Qu'ck, Welliver, J. Hower, Wm. Howell, Hunter—ll. Neither candidate having a majority, a third ballot was taken with the following re sult: FOB KLlNE —Messrs. G. M. Howell, Stuck er, Hanley, Zimmerman, Albertson, Old. Shoemaker, Adams, Goodman, Fruit, Smith, Kline, Welsh, Levan, D. Hower, Dewitl, Closson—17. FOR CREASY —Messrs. Bredbenner, Stiles, Wm. Cole, Lamon, Jackson, W. Snyder, Barkley, Derk, Wolfarth, Hess, Patton, Yo cutn, McHenry, Andrews, Fisher, Heller, S. Snyder, Wintersteen ■ 18. FOB BALDY —Messrs Fry, Rahn, Monroe, Knorr, Quick, Welliver, J. Hower, Wm. Howell, Hunter, M. Cole, J. Cole—ll. FOURTH BALLOT. FOR KLlNE —Messrs. Stiles, Wm. Cole, La mon, Win. Snyder, Berkley, Monroe, G. M. Howell, Stucker, Hanley, Zimmerman, Al ber'son, Shoemaker, Goodman, Adams, Fruit, Smith, Kline, Welsh, Hunter, Levan, D. Hower, Dewiu, Closson—23. FOR CREASY —Messrs. Bredbenner, Jack son, Wolfarih, Knorr, Hess, Patton, Ohl, Yo cum, McHenry, Andrews, Fisher, Hetler, S. Snyder, Cole, J. Cole—l 6. FOR BALDY —Messrs. Fry, Derk, Quick, Welliver, J. Hower, Wm.'Kqwell—6. The name of Stephen Eivty was lb*'* withdrawn. FIFTH BALLOT. * Fon KLlNE —Messrs. Stiles, Vim. Snyder. Barkley, Rahn, Monroe-jSE'' M. Howell, Stucker, Hanley, Ziinwlerman, Albertson, Shoemaker, Fisher,Quick, Welliver, J. Hower, Wm. How el', Klino, JWrlsh, Hunter, Levan, D. Hower Dewiu, CliNseoi) —27. FOR CREASY —Messrs. Fry, Bredbenner, Col. lamon, Jackson, Derk, Wolfarth, Kr.orr, Hess, Patton, Ohl, Yoeum, McHenry, Andrews, Heller, S. Snyder, Winlersteen, M. Cole, J. Cole—l 9. So PETER KLINE having a majority of the votes ca< was declared for Associate Judge. The convention then nomi nate a candidate fill l /*trim Attorney. "crtTLE, Esq., of Berwick, was named, and there bsing no other candidate, he was unauimously nominated for District Attorney. The convention Ihen proceeded to nomi nate a candidate foj County Commissioner. Mr. Yocum nominated Henry Bmenben der, of Fishingcreek. \ Samuel Rhone, of Benton was named, and his name withdrawn. S There being no opposition, HENRY BIT TKNBENDER was unanimously nominated for County Commissioner. On motion of Mr. Rahn, SAM'L RHONE of Benton, was unanimously nominated for County Auditor. < The convention then proceeded to pomi nate a candidate for County Surveyor! Mr. Monroe nominated Solomon of Centre. . j Mr Slucker noroi"Rfed Samuel Everet, of Orag*' - " A vote was taken winch resulted as fol lows: Fon NEYHARD —Maisra. BuUbnr, -fiiliaa, win. cote, Wm. Snyder, Barkley, Monroe, Rahn, Knorr, Hess, Hsnley, Zim merman, Ohl, Shoemaker, Yoeum, Good man, Adams, Andrews, Fisher,' Quick, Wel liver, Hetler, S. Snyder, Winlersteen, Levan, D. Hower, M. Cole, J. Cole—2B. FOR EVERET— Messrs. I.amon, Jackson, Derk, G. M. Howell, Slucker, Albertson, Patton, McHenry, Fruit, Smith, J. Hower, Wm. Howell, Kline, Welsh, Hunter, Dewitl, Closson—l7. SOLOMON NEYHARD having a majority of votes, was declared duly nominated for County Surveyor. Tbe convention then proceeded to nomi nate a candidate for Coroner. Mr. Rahn nominated Nathan Drieebach of Roaiingereek, and there being no Other can didate, Mr. DRIESBACH was unanimously nominated for Coroner. Mr. Jackson tben offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted : Raolvtd, That'it ie recommended that the Congressional Conferees of the district meet at Wilkesbarre, on Thursday, the 18tb day of September, and that the Senatorial Con ferees of the Senatorial District meet at Ber wick on the dav following. JMr. Jackson offered the following resolu tion which were unanimously adopted : J. That the nomination* of the Democratic National Convention recently assembled at Cincinnati are heartily approved by the De mocracy of Columbia county amf will be cheerfully supported by them; and that, in particular, the selection of Mr. Buohanan was a just compliment to our State and should a waken the enthusiasm of onr people and in spire their efforts for the success of the great party of the Constitution and the Union in the present canvass. 2. That the State nominations of the Dem ocratic party were proper and fit to be made and may jastly command respect and confi dence; ar.d that the nomination of George Scott, an esteemed, popular and competent citizen of our own county, for the office of Canal Commissioner, was, in particular, well advised and witl receive a ii deserve* a sig nal endorsement from our people. 3. That the nominations this day made being fair, regular and proper, are earnestly recommended to the people for their appro val at the polls, and that the members of this convention will give to each and all of them their undivided and hearty support. 4. That we cordially endorse the position of the Democratic national platform on the subjeol of slavery as the only one compatible with national harmony and the perma nence of the Union, that position being the adjustment of this and all questions of local concern by each S;ato and Territory for itself without interference or dictation from any quarter: That of consequence, any in terference from Massachusetts, Missouri, or elsewhere, with the local affairs of the Ter ritory of Kansas is to be condemned and op posed as an invasion of popular rights as well as of the letter and spirit of the act organizing the Territory. 5. That the Democratic party now as here tofore is opposed to the proscription of any part of the people on account of iheir religion or place of birth, and in favor of equality of political rights and open political organiza tions. 6. That standing upon the doctrines of Washington's Farewell Address ns well as those of President Jackson's, we invoke all patiiolic citizens to co-operate with us in re sisting sectional parties as dangerous to the Union and the best interests of the people, and especially to resist that one recently or ganized upon far.atical and spiteful passions which is content "to let the Union slide' 1 if its purposes cannot otherwise be accomplish ed. On motion of Mr. Monroe, it was then Resolved, That the Representative Confer ees of this district meet at Cattawissa. On motion of Mr. Jackson, it was That C. R. Bnckalew, Jno. Kief er, Emanuel Lazarus, J. A. Funston, and Stephen H. Kwar.k be the Standing Commit tee for the ensuing year. And on motion tbe convention adjourned. AN INDIAN SODOM —An Interesting pamph let has been published by Mr. Bellasis, Col lector of Hyderabad, in Scinde, containing an account of his examinations and discove ries on the site of the ancient city of Brah minabab, on a branch ot tbe old bed of.the Indus. Tradition affirms that the city—the capital of a Hindoo kingdom to which the tide of Mahommedan invasion had scarcely penetrated—was destroyed by fiie from hea ven and by an earthquake on account of tbe wickedness of it* ruler. The investigations of Mr. Bellasis seem to prove that the place really was destroyed by some terrible (convulsiou of nature, which probably at the same time completely chan ged the course of the Indus. On no other supposition can a ruin be accounted for that was at once so sudden and so complete.— Skeletons were found in every house that was opened and in the streets, some crouch ed together and there buried ; others crushed flat by a falling weight, the pieces of stone or brick still in some' cases buried in the fractured skull. Numerous coins and other valuables have already' been discovered, carved figures in ivory, engravings on corne lian and agate, a set of ivory chessmen, and the like. The figures carved on objects con nected with religious worship are Bndhist. From (he fact of their being unmniilatej, Mr. Bellasis considers it dear that the iconoc lastic Mussulman invaders had not reached, or at least had not permanently annexed, Brahminabad at the lime of its destruction, which he conceives to have taken place about A. D. 1020. ' A MORAL WELL POlWTlD. —Sopbronius, a wise teacher, would not let his grown up SOBS and daughters to aasociale with those whose conduct was not pure and upright. "Dear father," said the gentle Enlalia to him one day when he forbade her, in com pany with her brother, to visit the volatile Lucinda,, "you must think us very childish if you imagine, we would be exposed to dan ger by it." The lather took in silence a dead coal from the hearth and reached it to hie daugh ter. "It will not born burn you, my child— take it." Sli* did so, and beheld, her deli cate whits hand was soiled and blackened, and, as it chanced, her white dress 100. We cannot be too careful in handling coals— even if they do oot burn they blacken. So it is with the company of the vicious. DON'T CARE ABOUT THEM. —The felling be tween the Know Nothings and the Blaok Re publicans becomes more bitter aa the cam paign advances. Th* Perry freeman, an able advocate of Fillmore and Know Nothingism thus puts at defiance the Black Republicans. We copy irom that paper of tbe 14th inst. a* follows: "Some Fremonters don't like the proceed ings of the late American Stale Convention. Well, what of it ? Americans don't oaie what tbe Fremonters do ; and why should Fremonters pretend to find fault with the do ing* of the Americans 7 Truth and Right God and our (U>autry. floelre- THE MEADOW GATE. BY CHARLES SWAtlt. The blue bell peeps berAlh the fern, The moor its purple blwsom yields, 'Tis worth full six days' work to earn A ramble 'mid the wood and field*. There is an hour to eilence dear, An hour for which a king might wait: It is to meet, when no one'e near, My Mary by the meadow gate. When love inspires the linnet's breast, How swift he speeds from spray to spray; His song ia of his woodland nest Far bidden from the peep of day. Would such a nest were my sweet lot! Would I might be some dear one's mate I I'd ask to shaie my lowly cot. My Mary by There is a tide the slreenilat irek, A full mile from its course it veers. And into silvery music break* What from the vale the sea appears. Oh ! twenty miles my eager font Would wander long and linger late, One happy moment but to meet My Mary by (he meadow gate. The Present Condition of Spain. Revolutions in Europe have'become such common events within the last ten years, thai it it hard to take any interest, or even to keep tbe run of them. Bit in Spain, which for the last fifty years has been worse and worse governed after every change, it requires no little patience andperseverance to trace out the wretched complications of intrigue, tyranny and disaster that mark the course of events. Espartero seems to be a patriotic Minister, who has certainly saved the Queen and the country on more occa sions than one. But he is for Spain what Lamerrine was for France in 1848, too weak for the occasion. He had advanced, among others, Gen. O'Donnell, who, after pretend ing liberal principles, turns out to be on un principled, ambitious man. True, he is reso luie ; but it is only to advance himself and supercede Espartero, who, 100 honest and honorable for intrigue himself, was unable to suspect his ally in the Ministry, until too late. Upon some pretence of taking offence at the ooduct of another Minister, O'Donnell contrived, at the proper moment for his schemes, to accuse Espartero in the Queen's presence, gel him dismissed, and the power lodged in his own hands. The whole scene had doubtless been anticipated and pre-ar ranged with the Queen, who was anxious to get'rid of a leader eo favprubjA lp the cause of the people, and one wiio, therefore, put such a check on her own royal\irerogratives. Most probably, as is now asseited, the whole affair was arranged in Paris. ' Anticipating resistance to the people, who have no confidence in the Queen and but little in O'Donnell, the latter had contrived to surround Madrid with some 18,000 troops, resolved to become the hero of a coup rf' etal similar to that which placed Louis Napoleon in his present position. The National Guard rose, and for a long lime it was doubtful what would De the issue. Hut after the loss, some say of probably more than 1000 lives, the National Guard has been disarmed, and the Queen reigning in her capital, openly rejoices, and rewnda the officers who have committed the greatest outrage. A large ma jority of the Cortes or SpSriiiiff "Parliament have, however, assembled at Saragossa, wtiere the whole people, if not the garrison, still adhere to li terty, and have protested earnestly against this blow struck at freedom. In faoi, it is not yet fully decided whether we are or are not to have tidings of another revolution. It is O'Donnell that is timid, in spite of his success, and has issued a pro gramme of great moderation. What is the cause of all these revolutions, and what is the cure for theml The cause is, of coiwse, to be found in the difference of views between the Government and the gov erned ; utter selfishness and unreliability on tbe one side, and a keen perception of all this on the other. The character of the reigning monarch* of Spain may have beeu nearly as Belfish and as bad for centuries, but it has not been knowu so well at home and abroad. It is, for instance, now well known that tbe Queen, while really instiga ting this whole movement of O'Donnell's, has seen and applauded*#)* leaders of both sides, in order that, whichever may win, she may seem to be on the successful side , and there j* no doubt that ehe has been all along prepared to discard the losing party, which ever it may be. What confidence can be placed in tbch a head of the executive of a nation as tljis, who sits smiling while both sides cot eakh other's throats! "In Roma" said Daniel Wehater, "pnblic virtue fell with private morality. TTta sanc tity of the nuptial bond ia, in my opinion, one of tbe principal, if not the chief cause of the superior refinement, freedom and pros perity enjoyed at the present lime by Chris tian nations," Judged by* this standard, .Spain cannot he called a Christian nation.— Certainly the tl*fpne is filled by one of the moat notoriously profligate women of Ea rope. For generations it has been occupied by the most vicious of royal families, with out truth, honesty or any other principle than the most intense and unprincipled selfish ness. With pride ontside and corruption within, almost every vice and crime aeems to belong hereditarily to this woman, akd yet the Spaniards endure her. Insurrection after insurrection impoverishes the countrr, until the richest domain of all Europe his become the poorest. Properly, life, every thing, is insecure. Brigands occupy tbe toad*, and aaaassination goes on unmolested, and yat no man arises out of these troubles in whom confidence is to braced, or who can liberate it from this awful degradation. But the great leason to be learned from the prostrate condition of Spain is, that the want of private morality is the true secret of the downfall and degradation of any man. It matters little the name of the Government. It may be called imperial, monarchial, or even republican, if conducted without regard to the eternal principles pf truth, justice and morality, it cannot eland. Here is, indeed, the grest hope of onr form of government. So long as the families of which the nation is composed are virtuous in their domestic re lations at home, where the power springs from them, and returns to them, it may be hoped that we shall ever be able to secure men enough to conduct the government of the country, who will not grossly or wilfully betray its interests. Bat this, be it rAwem bered, is the only safeguard fot us, and ev ery other nation of the earth, th*M*ltt -§h*ll not one day sink and become lilWMfpain. Private morality is the root of public virtue. —Phi/a. ledger. Country Girts. Mefta Victoria Fuller, of the Ohio Cultiva tor, in a sisterly way thns talks to Country Girls : The farmer's daughters are soon to be the life as well as the pride of the country, a glorious race of women which no other land can show, I seek oot to flatter them for be fore they can become this, they will have to make an earnest effort of one or two kinds. There are some who depreciate their condi tion, and some who have a false pride in it, because they demand more consideration than they merit. A want of intelligence up on all subjects of the day and of a refined education, is no more excusable in a coun try than in a town bred girl, in these days of many books and newspaper*. Many girls are discouraged becauie they cannot be sent away to boarding school ; but men of superior minds and knowledge of the world would rather have for wives, women well and properly educated at home. And this education can be had where the desire is not wanting. A taste for reading does wonders, and ait earnest ihirst after knowl edge is almost certain to attain a sweet draught of the "Pierian Spring.". Here is a "farmer's daughter" fn this very room in whieh I am writing, a beautiful refined, and intellectual woman, in whose girlhood books were not as plenty as now, and who obtained her fine education under difficulties that would have discouraged any bnt one who had as true a love (or study. I will slate why I think the country girls are yet to prove the hope of this country. The women in towns and cities are becom* ing so universally unhealthy, and almost as universally extravagant, foolish, fashionable, that men are almost in despair of getting wives who are not invalids, arid providing them with what they demand after they have married iliem. Unless a man has the for tune (good or bad) to be the inheritor of wealth, he must spend the best blootn of his youth in acquiring enough to start Upon, as people are expected to begin now adays. Men even in high places would go to the country for their choice, if they met there equal refinement with Intelligence. Woman are preparing to lake a noble stand in his tory— and, they cannot do it In ignorance. Town girls hnve the advantage of more highly polished manners and greater accom plishments ; but country girls have infinitely more to recommend them as livalsof iheir fair city sisters. They have more truth, household knowledge and economy, health, (and consequently,) simplicity, affection, and freshness of impulse and thought.— Wpen they have cultivated minds, lliey have more chances for good sense and real abil ly, because so much of their lime is not de manded by the frivolities of society. The added lustre of foreign accomplishments conld easily be canght by such a mind from a very little contact with the world. - I would not speak aa though our farmer's daughters were deficient in education.— Many brilliant scholars and talented women may be found among them—in New Eng land, especially st^—but I would seek to awa ken the ambition of all to become that ad mired and favored class wbiob they ought to be, it tbey will but unite refined cultore with their other most excellent graces. A sweet connlry home, with .rosea and honey-suckles trained.to climb over it, with good taste, intelligence and beauty within, toil enough to secure health, and leisure enough to court acquaintances with booke and flowers and the loveliness of nature; with peace, plenty, and love, is surely ont of tbe Paradises which heaven has left for the attainment of man. " The City Better than the Connlry. The graceful editor of the " Easy Chair," in Harpet's Magazine, indulges in some pleas antry at the city fashionables, who migrate to the country and the watering places in search of comfort in the hot sumrtier. He console* himself (possibly like the fox in the fable) that they have the worst of the bar gain, and his sage reflections may bring a spice of comfort to the discontented ones, who long to join tbe general exodns, but can't. He says of the migrating citizens, some of whom ''have gone to the little farm houses in little hot valleys, where tbe sun blazes all day, and the mosquitoes buzz and sting ail night." "Poor people! what have they done!— Why should thay be driven from these high streets in which lofty buildings shut out the •ant Why are tbey bauished from these houses with spacious rooms into which no sun penetrates, upon whose floor ar* cool mailings, upon which stand chairs and so fas draped m suggestive drillings. Hera Crolon flows from the affluence of Liebfra umlick, from the crashed grapes of Rhine vineyards, here rare birds sing in cages, green trees wave before the windows; the ice-man calls alond his refreshing merchan dize ; and for a table spread with a clean white cloth in tbe dim, lofty and cool dining room, around which stand statutes marbly calm, inspiring peace and tranquil thought, the country has sent itsfariest vegetables and fruits and flowers. Coolness and calmness are the city's dowry in the dog days. What has everybody done that everybody ehould be deprived of tbeee rights 7 "In tbe evening everybody is dancing into a white heat at the gay resorts, or going into a straw bed at nine o'clock, to fight with the mosquitoes and toss into a fever, in tbe little hot cottages in the little hot valleys. But the city sallies forth clad in sweet linen and light shoes—for there k no dew, no iffbd, no dreg gling in wet grass ami slipping on marshy ground here—and by the light of faithful day emulating gas—for there is no darkness, no pitching into trees, and tumbling overslumps, and stubbing against stones here—the city seats itself in a bower like those Mahommed designed (or honries in Paradise, and there it touches the pastoral troop of the cobbler, or lastea the sweetest country flavor in odor ous mint. Close at hand gushes tbe spark ling stream of soda, like >he bright rivers Ar bana and Parphar; the fumes of Mecia in spire the air; the cheerful pop of the beer bottle plays through the whole like the foot beat of happy hours passing over; and that mildest of muddlers, lager pours its slow, clouded current bj. No mosquitoes, no hot dancing, no sharp draught', no mud, no drag gling dew, but lager and luxury, cobbler and calm." AUT AND ITS Ft UK 1.1 TV TO NATURE. In thai excellent book, Col. Wall's " Eich ings of Travel," an anecdote is told of Gar rick criticising Raphael's cartoons. The great actor took exceptions to the attitude of Ely mas, the Sorcerer, who stood, he said, with his feet stretched out like a clown ; whereas he was no vulgar fellow, and should have been pictured, therefore, with his arms ex tended, like a gentleman seeking aid. "I will show yon," said Garrick, ''how he ought to be represented." Accordingly, he closed his eyes, and, like the blind Elymas, began to cross the room. When he had reached the middle Sir Benjamin West, who was one or the company, approached him and told not to alier his position, but to open his eyes. Garrick's surprised exolamation,when he obeyed, was, " 1 am Raphael's Elymas." He had, in fact, forgot, as any blind man would, all about the graceful, gentlemanly extension of arms of whieh he had spoken, and had instinctively advanced his feet and toes, line the feelers of an insect, exactly as Raphael had represented Elymas, the Sor cerer. The anecdote should be printed in capital letters on the wall of every artist's study. I The degroeraoyV art, about which we hear so much, is owingte tbe neglect of nature more than tq,aa; ipher cause. Young paint ers, aspiring l*-h* Leonard da-Vweie, forget made of drawing, and jo delineate tbe human fig- UFG&JMt sort of intuition. Or they sit for ever at their easels, touching in and arasing by turns, in a vain effort to secure harmony of color, instead of going abroad among na ture, palette in hand, and copying the lints of the sunset skv or the gradations of a rainbow. Or they take sketches eternally in India ink, till their pictures all grow dead and gashtly alike. Or they attempt to improve on Na ture, something in the same conoeited spirit which made the old Portuguese Marquis say', that, if he had been consulted at the Greatinn, he could have given, he flattered himself, some good hints. In short,-they take every road but the right one to reaoh the gaol, and then complain of the public, when the fault is in themselves. The Jrnth of this assertion, that the degen eracy of art is owing to the neglect of nalure > is further shown by the popularity of modern genre pictures as contrasted with those devo ted to what is called high art. People buy Landseer's dogs, because they are true to life, and anybody, in addition, something of hu man feeling ; but thsy would not buy Hay don'a Regulas, because it was neither true to life, nor to human passion. Landseer, to continue ihn illustration, is not an artist in the higheet walk, but he fills the highest grade of the walk he ie in; while Haydon, and nearly every other modern devotee of high art, labored, or labor, in a walk for which they want capacity, or study, or both. For to paint heroes, in snch a way as to kindle enthusiasm in the spectator, requires both more skill end greater knowledge of nature, than to paint a dog or a stag, even thoogh may be dying, and look out on ns eyes, that almost seem human. Depend on it, tbe key to the degen eracy of modern art, is a Want of fidelity to nature, the result, in some oases, of power to execute, but, in most, of sheer ignorance. " HISTORY informs us LHAL Mr. Buohsnan was "bitterly opposed to the war of 1812." PiUtburg Journal. He was so bitterly opposed to it that be threw down his law books, look the stomp and made bis first speech to rouse the people of Lancaster to arms; company, shouldered his musket, to Bal timore. That is the war in whiob his coun^^Hrajiag&d; and such was the beginning public and illustrious T [Two Dollars per Annua*, NUMBER 33, LEITER FROM HKNU* tut, GRAPHIC PICTURE CP BLACK REPUBLICAITLSLT. We invite the attention of candid and intel ligent citizena to tbo following lettei of Hen' ry Clay to the Rev. Mr. Coltdn, on the Abo lition qneation, now pending before the conn try in the shape of Black Republicanism: ASHLABD, Sept. 2, 1843. My Dear Sir .—Allow me to suggest a sub ject for one of youf tracts, which, treated in your popular and condensed way, I think would be attended with great and good ef fect. 1 mean Abolition. ft is manifest that the ukras of that party are extremely mischievous, and are hurrying on the country to fearful consequenoes. They are not conciliated by the Whigs. Engrossed with a single idea, they care tor nothing eko. They would see the administration of the Government precipitate the nation into absolute ruin before they would lend a help ing bend lo arrest til SfcdSf. Thttf treat worst and denounce most those who treat them best— who so fat agree with them as to admit slavery lo be an evil. Witness their conduct towards Mr. Briggs and Mr. Adams in Massachusetts, and towards me. I will give you an outline of the manner id which 1 would handle it: show the origin of Slavery ; trace its introduction to the British Government; show how it is disposed of by the federal constitution ; that it is left exclu sively to the States, except in regard lo fugi tives, direct taxes and representation ; show that the agitation of the question to the free .States will first destroy all harmony, and fi | nally lead to disunion, perpetual war,the ex tinction of the African race, ultimate military despotism. But the great aim and object of your tract should be to arouse the laboring classes in the free Stales against Abolition. Depict tbe consequence to them of immediate Abolition. Tbe slaves being free would be dispersed tnroughout the Union; they would enter into competition with the free laborer; with the American, the Irish, the German; reduce his wages, be confounded with him, aflect his moral and social standing. And as.ibeul- Iras go both abolition and amalgamation, show that their object is to unite in marriage the laboring white man and the laboring black woman, to reduce laboring white men to the despised and degraded condition of the black man. I would show thatr opposition to coloniza tion. Show its humane, religious and patri otic aim. That they are to separate those whom God has separated. Why do the Ab olitionists oppose colonization t To keep and amalgamate together the two races, in , violation of God's will, and to keep the hlaeko here that they may interfere with, degrade and debase the laboring whites. Show that the British Government is co-operating with the Abolitionists for the purpose of dissolving the Union, &c. lam perfectly satisfied that it will dogreat good. Let me hear from yon on Ibis subject. (UNBY CLAY. A Beautiful Sentiment. Shortly before of the lament ed Hebov, ifir India, he preached a sermon wich contained this beautiful illustration: | " Life bears us on like a stream of a migh- Ily river. Our boat at first glides down the narrow channel through the playful murmur ing of brook and the winding of Its grassy borders. The trees shed their bloa- I some over oor young selves to our young hands ; we are happy in hope and we grasp eagerly at the beauties around ut—but the stream hurries on and still our hands are empty. Our course io youth and manhood is along a deeper and witJer flood, amid ob jecrs more striking and magnificent. Wa are animated at the moving pieiurea and en joyment and indnatry passing us; we ara exoited at some short lived disappointment. The stream bears us on in our joys and our griefs ara alike left bflhind us. We may be t shipwrecked, wo caiflretbe delayed; wheth er rough or smooth, the river hasten* lo lis home, till the roar jf tbe waves is beneath onr feet, and Ihe lan#-Issiona from oar eyes, and the floods are lifted np around as, and we take our leave of earth and he inhabitants, until our further voyage there ia no witness save the infinite and eternal 1" Departed Souls. • That there is a wotld of spirits around us { do suppose. Sometimes I am certain, thereof, almost—there being eeaaona when we thrill to tbe invisible more readily than at others; and mysterious momsnls wherein tbe soul is dimly conscious of an inoats affinr ity with some other world, solemn and un known. Whilst thns as it were "in the spirit," have I felt what, misunderstood, are superstitious beginnings,—l mean the super natural appearance which, at suoh seasons, the commonest objects assume, tbe bodily senses being iu a manner glorified when the soul's higher I acuities are eatir, like the siring of a lyre, all vibrating, though only one b* struck. Meditating on them that have de parted this life, i|ye breeze hae seemed to me, on a Sabbath morning, freighted with their last breath, a penetrating power of peace and love; and many timea have £ started among the elm trees yonder, at tbeic voices, seemicg though repressed, to sigh, softly in the branobee above. This mora! meaning of nature, rising with the soot's mood, would be most inexplicable bet that God is all in all; la drawing nigh lo whom earnestly, external objects, all of thsm, ee " ■raid steps, and, no doubt, were di- I rinely AsW to serve as suoh.—Jto. W*
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