THE STAR OF JHE NORTH. I, W. Wearer, PriyriMer.] VOLUME 9. THE STAR OF THE NORTH I* PUBLISHED EVCRT WEDNESDAY MORNING BY ' R. W. WEAVER, OFFlCE— Upstairs, in the new brick build ing, on the south side oj Main Street, third eguare below Market. ISIBl:—Two Dollars per annum, if paid within six months from lie lime of sub scribing ; two dollars and fifty cents if net paid within the year. No anbscriptioo re ceived for a lose period than eia months; no dwoontinaanee permitted until ell arrearages ere paid, unleee at the option of the editor. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding one square will be insetted three limes for One Dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional in eeition. A liberal discount will bo made to Ihoae who advertise by the year. gI THE PREACHING OP THE TREES. FROM THE GERMAN OF GRUEN. At mignight hoar, when silence reigna Through all the woodland spaces, Reign the boshes and the trees To wave and whisper in the breeze, All talking in their places. The roeebosb flamed with look of joy, And perfume breathes in glowing ; "A Rose's fife is quickly past! Thee let me, while my lime shsll last, ] Be richly, gaily blowing !" The Avpen whispers, "sunken day! Not me thy glare deceived)! Thy sunbeam is a deadly dart, That qnivers in the rose's hesrl— My shuddering soul it grieveih 1" The slender Poplar speaks, and seems To stretch her green hands blgner; "Up yonder life's pore liver flows, So sweetly murmurs, brightly glows, To that 1 Mill aspire 1" The Willow looks to earth and speaks: "My arm to fold tbee yarneth ; I let my hair float down to thee ! Entwine therein thy flowers for me, At mother her child adorneth I" And next the wealthy Plum-tree sighs: "Alas! my treasures crush me ! This load with which my shoulders groan, Take off—-it is not mine alone : By lobbiug you refresh me!" The Fir-tree speaks in cheerful mood: , "A blossom bore I never; Rut steadfastness is all my store; In summer's heat, in winter's roar, I keep my green forever!" The proud and lofty Oak-tree speaks: "God's thunderbolt confounds me I And yet no storm can blow me down, Strength is my stem and strength my crown; >' Ye weak ones gatber round>rne p < The Ivy vine kept close to him, Her tendrils round him flinging ; "He who no strength has of his own, Or loves not well to stßnd alone, May to a friend be clinging." Much else, now half forget, they said : And still to me came creeping, I.ow whispered words, upon '.he air, While by the grave alone stood there The Cypress mutely weeping. O! might they reach one human heart, These tender accents creeping ! What wonder if they do not reach 1 'i he trees by starlight only preach, When we must needs be sleeping. iHiscetlaneono. WHO WRITE# THE NEGRO SONGS.—The prin cipal writer of our national music is said to be Stephen C. Foster, the gntbor of "Uncle Ned," ,l O Susannah," &c. Mr. Foster re eides near Pittsburg, where be occupies a moderate clerkabip, upon which, aud a pre centage on the rate of hie songs, he depends for a Using, lis writes tbe poetry as well as the moeie of his songs. These are sung wherever the English language is spoken, white the music is heard wherever men sing. In tbe cotton fields of Ihe South, among the minee of California and Australia, in the sea cost cities of China, in Pari*, in the London Prison, everywhere, in fact, hia melodies are heard. "Uncle Ned," was tbs first. This was published in 1845, and reached a sale unknown till then in the music publishing business. Of "Tbe Old Folks at Home," 100,000 copies have been ao'd in ibis coun try, and aa many more in England. My "Kentucky Home," and "Old Dog Tray," oaoh had a sale of about 70,000. All bis other songs have bad great run. All his com positions are simple, but tbay ate natur al, and find their way to tbe popular heart and link themselvea iudissolubly with its best associations. THE LAW OF TRCER.—It ia now a well Mi lled law, by several jndioial decisions, Ibat if e tree growing npon my land, overhangs tbe ground of my neigboor, the fruit belongs to me, and I may enter upon his land foe the purpose of gathering it, provided I do no damage beyond what may be necessary in carefully gathering (he frail. At tbe same lime, it it equally good law that my neighbor may cat off all overhanging limbs, and all foots that grow on his ground; bat while he permits tbem to grow, I am to enjoy the ben-, efit.— BeUJbute WJsig. Cf" The streets are kepi cleaner in Enrnpe than in the United Stataa, and st tesa expense. In some European lowna there is no expense incurred for street claaning, and in others tbe system produces a revenue. Paris is oleaned every night, and tbe city it paid a bonus for lha privilege of sweeping. In American cit ies, iba cost of cleaning lbs streets is a vary considerable item of municipal expenditure, and the duty is not perfoimed as il ought to be for the cost, Or for tbe publio health, which ia of much greater importance. IF Simpson says the ladies do not set their cape for the gentlemen any more; they spread their hoops. BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY. JUNEI7, 1857,. From the Student and Schoolmate. Til UN DBR-STOBMI. BY a. a. POPS. June, the pleaaanteat mouth in lha year, in the Northern Stalee, forma s part of the aea son for thunder-storms. It Was in Jane, on the fifteenth dny of tbe month, 1752, Ihnl Benja min Franklin tried his famous experiment with a kite, and drew lightning harmlessly from the cloud, and so proved that Ihe elec tricity of the cloud is tbe same as the elec tricity of sn electrical machine. Many persons, learned as well as unlearn ed, disbelieved what Franklin asserted, at first. So bis experiment was repeated in this country, and"in different parts of Europe, to test the correctnees of his opinion. And, thongh the result to science was always Ihe same, the same safety wst not always enjoy ed by Ihe operators. Several persona were more or less injured by tbe lightning which passed down the kije-strings; and one, at least, was killed. Superstitions people said that such injuries came from God's vengeance against men who meddled with things which they should not examine. But science now (ells us, that the disasters happened because tbe experimenters did not know, or would not observe, the great lawa which govern electricity. Bui, ae great as Franklin was, he could not understand the production of electricity in tbe clouds so well as ronch humbler persons can understand it now. It was necessary to know that lightning and eleetricily were alike, be fore any Ibing else could be teamed 'roo:n door, and who requires that certain unoffending parts ol the body and articles of clothing should be designated by delicately circnmlocuiious terms, or the simple-minded Swedish wo man, who come into our bed rooms with coffee, and makes our files while wc gel up and dress, coming and going during all tbe various stages of the toilet, with the frankest unconsciousness of impropriety ? This is modesty in its healthy and natural develop ment, not in those morbid forms which sug gest an imagination ever on tbe alert for pru rient images. Nothing has confirmed my jmpretsion of the virtue of Northern Sweden more than this fact, and I have already felt more respect for woman or more faith in tbe inherent parity of her nature. Curiosities of Sleep- In Turkey, if a person falls asleep in the neighborhood of a poppy field, and tbe wind blows over towards him, he becomes gradu ally narcotized, and would die il the country people, who are well acqnainted with tbe cir cumstance, did not bring him to tbe next wsll or stream, and empty pitcher after pitcher of water on hia face and body. Dr. Appenbeim, during hia residence in Turkey, owed his life to thie simple and efficacoua treatment. Dr. Graves, trom whom this anecdote ia quoted, also reports the case of a gentleman thirty years of age, who, from long continued sleep iness, Waa reduced to t complete living skel eton, finable to stand on hia lege. It was partly owing to diaeaie, hot chiefly to the abase of mercury and opium; nntil at last, unable to pursue his holiness, he sank into abject poverty and woe. Dr. Reid mentions a friend of bis, who, whenever anything oc curred to distress him, soon became drowsy and fell asleep. A fellow student also at Ed iuborg, npon hearing suddenly of the unex pected death of a near relative, threw him self on bia bed hnd almost instantaneously, amid the glare of noonday, annk into a pro found slumber. Another person, reading aloud to one of hia deaiest friends, stretched on his death-bed, fell asleep, and, with tbe book still In hia hand, went on readingutterly unconscious of what he was doing. A wom an at Hsmadt slept seventeen or eighteen honra a day for fifteen yeara. Another is re corded to have slept once for font dafe. Dr. j Macnish mentions a woman who spelt three fourths of her life in sleep, and Dr. Eilittson quotes the oase of a young lady who slept for six weeks and recovered. The venerable St. Augustine of Hippo prudently divided his hours into three parts, eight to bo devoted to sleep, eight to recitstions, end eight to con verse with tbe world. Maniace are reported particular in Ihe easts-a hemisphere, to be come furioai vigilant daring the foil of the moon, mare especially when the deterioreting raye of its polarised light ia permitted to fall into their apartment, henoe tbe name luna tics. There certainly is greater pioneneaa to disease during sleep Ibau in tbe wakieg Mate, for those who pass tbe night in the Cempagae du Route inevitably become affected with its noxious air; while travelers who go tbro' without Mopping escape the miasma. In tense cold produces sleep, and thorn who perish in tho snow aleep on till they sleep the sleep of death. Comical Report ot a Fish Convention- It is to be understood that all the marine monsters, "big fish," and "small fry" of the great deep are assembled in conclave—(be Whale "in the chair." He opened the convention by staling that he did not wish to make e speech; he would take up aa little room, and be no longer than possible. (Hera the Shark whispered to the Sword Fish that it was not possible for tbe Whale to bo much longer, aa he was over 80 feet now. In hia opinion, be only wanted a ohance to spont; In faet, he considered him a regnlar blower.) The Whale oontinned, and contended that he bad been grossly insulted by man—be might say lampooned, not loot he wonld pun npon the nse made of his fat, as he did not wish to make light of anch a matter. He bad been harpooned, at least. Men were sarcastic toward him, and their shafts were sharp and pointed. Some of hia fellow whales had been much out up, and exceed- I ingiy tried. He had latterly learned that a substitute for oil had been invented, which might lessen tbe persecution of whales—but be feared it was all ga*. The Whale allu ded to a harpoon which had lataly hit him, and, he feared, had afflicted bim deeply.— Here hie feelings overpowered him, and he sat down (on the Shark) amidst a general blubber. The Shark rose with some difficulty, and remarked that the tale of the Whale bad moved him; i/i fact, it waa yeix Mxii-o own siinxton was Tar from pleasant. He was by profession a lawyer, and, be flattered one of the deep kind. Bnt business waa bad, and he had been obliged to take in i a few pnptla. He had lately presented a fine opening for a young man who had fell over board, but was sooa afterwards obliged to reject bis seat, as indigestible. Unless he bad mora cases, he would leave law and open aa a dentist. Tbe Sea-Serpent did not wish tojutrnde upon the Convention; he did not know whetner he properly belonged to the fish tribe or not. All he asked was, not to be classed with the Eel, whom he considered to be a very slippery character. (Hero tbe Eel was obsetved to wriggle violently.)— Lately he was passing a certain species of tbe Eel, when, jnst happening to touch him, he bad been so shocked that be hardly re covered. The Eel hastily arose, and said he was shocked, he might say electrified, at these -jit was evi-jent to mm mat tne Serpent most get himself into a coil. As for his being a "slippery chaiacter," he thank ed Neptune be didn't belong to such a scaly set as tbe Serpent. The Whale called the Eel to order, and the Eel called the Whale an "old swell-head," and was then summarily put out of the con vention. The Turtle said he was suffering from in disposition. He was walking on shore, he said, a short time since, when he met a par ty of jolly young Bailors. The resnlt was, that he waa laid on hia back, and was nnable to move for some time, and sinoe then ho had not felt so lively aa usual. There was one thing to which he would call the atten tion of the Convention; he prided himself upon the purity of his political principles.— The Shark had lately insulted bim by calling him a "regular old Hard Shell." Here the Shark intarrnpted him by saying, "Is not that yonr easel" I The Turtle replied, that be should say nothing more at present, but should have something to lay belore the next meeting. Yes, replied the Shark, contemptuously, j "a few eggs probably." Tbe Porpoise undertook to speak, bnt waa speedily silenced. The expression of the Convention was, (bat be waa "a blower." The Small Fry, were next called upon,— Oysters, Lobsters, and others. Tbs OyMer opensd bis case, whioh waa a hard one— He was always in trouble—a perpetual atew or boiL His half-brother, Clam, waa a dis grace to the family: always in liquor, and generally considered a "squirt." Some of hie famdy wer* indolent, and spent most of their time in "beds." There bar! been some raxes among them, who had created great disturbance. There was one of bis neighbors, he said— he would not call any names, for he scorned scandal—who was very surly aud crabbed. He was a one-sided individual, and aobody approved of hia motion. The Crab protested against this abuse, and said that the reel took advantage of him be cause he was "soil." He respectfully retired backward. The Codfish, who had been visiting a "school/' tbe Shad, much net-tied at what be had heard; the aristocratic Salmon, who got into a row with a York State Trout, wbo called him a Northern Fish with Southern principles; and the Flying Fish, who flew into a tremendous passion—all took part In the proceedings of the Convention. But so it was, at last, as the erudite Dog berry has it, that the whole dissembly dis appeared, in good order, notwithstanding an attempt at disturbance made by a jolly old Sole, and "a lot of Suckers." HAD HIR THKRX.—Two little girl*, one a daughter of a clergyman, and Ihe other of a parishioner, fell Into tngry dispute. To mor tify and spite her antagonist, the layman's little girl saw fit to remind her of her father's poverty, and intimated rather tartly that had it not been for her fatber'i benevolent inter ference, the poor minister would have been in the workbouM. " Well, I don't care," replied the other, "if it bad not been for my father, your* would hav* been in bell long ago." • UI.IT. .ft' ' * We yesterday heard a practical fete per petrated, which in the dullness of tbe times, if not for its intrlnsio excellence, is worthy of being recorded. Tho parties to this trans action we shall designate aa Ben and Tom. It is proper for a belter understanding of '.he joke to intimMe that the former specu lates to a modest degree in bivalves—and right good bivalve* they are too—and it ia not necessary to say what the latter does, father than he is as fast as tho locomotive and pel train which he swears by, withal, a great wag. The story runs that Ben had taken a three dollar counterfeit bill, and not relishing aueh d—J .spiral,Me otnuvlrvd ttia Idea Of gIVIKB it to Tom, who was a Iroliekiog fellow, and conld make it go if anybody oould. Accord ingly be approached the contemplated dis pensing medium one day, when the follow ing conversation ensued: "I say, Tom, here's a pretty good counter feit three, if you pass it I'll divide." "Let's MO the plaster," Mid Tom; and af ter examining it carefully, pot II in bis vest pocket remarking, "It's an equal division—* dollar and s half a piece 1" "Yes," said Ben. "AH right," said Tom, and be senntered. A few minutee afterwards be quietly Map ped into the office of bis friend Ben, pur chased a can of Oysters for one dollar and a half, snd laid down the three dollar b.u ; ptym.ni (•' tmtn. xn clerk looked at the bill rather doubtingly, when bis suspicions were immediately calmed by Tom, wbo told him there "wasoo use of looking, for be had received that bill from Ben, hituMlf, oot ten rainotea since." Of coarse, ihe elerk, with thie assurance, immediately forked over the dollar and a half change, and with thie de posit and tbe can of oyMers Tom left. Shortly afterwards he met Ben, who asked bim if be bad passed tbe bill. "Oh, yes," said Tom, "here's your share," at tbe same time passing over the dollar and a half to Ben. That night wben Ben made acconnt he waa surprised to find the same old counterfeit three in the drawer. Tarniog (a bis locum tenens he asked: "Where did yon gel this cursed bill?— Didn't you know it was a counterfeit?" "Why, Tom gave it to me, and f suspect ed it was fishy, but he said he had just re ceived it from yon, and I therefore took il?" The whole thing bad penetrated the wool ff with a yg4r* *?• nwvrr ■ ed, "Sold," and chargecf the can of oysters to profit and lossaeconnt. A Spring Morning. To walk abroad among rural scenery on a fine sonny morning, is to ramble on the tem ple of Deity, and witness the creative process. Every day, almoM every honr, witnesses some change; buds, blossoms, leaves and flowers are woven by unseen hands, painted by invisible artists,and perfumed from 'vials full of odors sweet,' —we look npon tbem io the morning with surprise and pleasure, while the first dew and sunbeam are visiting them. What an admirable and perfect taste must He have, wbo performs all this. There is no noise,no useless display. The Creator therein leacbee modesty to hia creatures. His good ness is also visible—tbe blossoms soon per ish, bnt their hue and fragrance are the brea thing of a benevolent mind. Look at the multitude of little heapa of sand that lie in the paths and snffer your eye to rest for a moment npon the bnsy and apparently happy in.eot (bat brings out bis gram of sand.— Nothing seems too minute and Inaignifleant for tbe Almighty to put bis hand upon and inveM with laculties of intelligence and hap piness. OUR HOUSES.—We always look npon our houses as mere temporary lodgings. We are always hoping to got larger and finer ooee, or are forced some way or other to live where we do not in continual expecta tion of changing our places of abode. In tbe present state of society, this is in a great measure unavoidable; but let us remember it ia an evil,and that so far M it ia avoidable, it becomes our dcty to check the impulse.— It is surely a subject for serions thought, whether il might not be better for many of us, if, in attaining a certain position in life, we determined, with God's permission, to choose a bouse in which ws would live and die—a home not to be incresMd by adding none to atone and field to field, bnt whioh, being enongh for all our wishes at one peri od, we should be resolved to be satisfied with forever. Consider Ibis, and alio, whether we not to ba more in Ihe habit of seek ing hpoor for our descendants than onr an cestors; thinking it better to be nobly re membered than nobly born ; and, striving to live that onr son's sons for ages to oome might still lead their ohildren reverentially to the doore out of whioh we have been carried to the grave, aaying, " Look, this waa bia house; this was bis chamber." 17* A story is told of a grave divine on Cape Cod, not long aince, who awoke from a comfortable nap in his ohair, and discovered his amiabla helpmate in the per formance of an act for whioh Gov. Moray once made a charge ol fifty cents to the Slate—in other words mending his panta loons. Inspired with a love of fun which seldom affected him, he enquired, "Why are you, my dear, like the evil adversary spoken of in Scriptural" Of ooune she was unable to discover any usemblance. "Because," said he, "while the husbandman slept, you sowed the tares I" [Tw Dollars per loua. NUMBER 22. -*VE. HUH OR, AHD OBBTt. Promise to love! why, woman think* To love a privilege, not a task ; If thou wilt truly take my heart, And keep it, this la all 1 aak. Honor thee ! yea, if yon wilt live A life of truth and purity; When 1 have seen thy worthinesr, 1 cannot choose .but honor thee. Obsy! wlten I have fully learned Each want and wish to understand, I'll learn the wisdom to obey, If thou hast wisdom to command. ' So if I fail to live with lhaa In duty, love, and lowliness, i 'Tis nature's fanit-orthina, prhwih- The greater must control the leas. tyaa" Giving "Sambo" Particular Jessie! The Juniata Sentinel, published in Mifflin town contained on Wednesday last, the fare well speech and eonfeasion of its retiring ed itor, A. J. Uncus, who after being trepan ned into the support of Fremont hat fall, has no idea that by it*he a "boond himself to the ultra car of Blaok Republicanism for all com ing time." If a living picture, a tableaux vivant or a gtand family groupe, worthy of Ibo Keller troupe can be enjoyed by our readers, they will take epecial pleasure in the striking pen and ink eketebea of Repub lican principles Which Mr. Qaggft gives in his valsdietir- We gtTe a portion of it for their amusement: "Tired of begging a living, and with sup reme contempt for ultra Blaek Republican ism and Black Republican devils, with this number we close our connection with (hie paper. Hating tyranny over the mind of man in every form, and longing to become a free man, with a free coneeieuee and a free pen we surrender the editorial chair of the Juniata Sentinel into other hands whose organic mu sic we trait shall be more acceptable to the party and persons before listed. Wo have tak en this step after mature deliberation, not that we are afraid to avow and maintain true American dootrinee in the face of ultra Black Republicans, hermaphrodite Americana and political Summer-saoltera generally, but that we may avoid an unpleasant, undesirable and bitter conflict ia the present canvass.— Our chief object in exposing tbe hoilowness of Republicanism in profession, and its an tagonism to American principles was for the good of party, and we tell those who took such great offence at ns for so doing that merwiU find they are not tot quite the whole people, for there are Others who havo opinions as well as themselves, and before this campaign is over they will find "Jordan a hard road to travel." We tell them, too, that there are from two to three hundred vote* in this county that they caonot influ ence by tbe means they have employed againat ua. This is the only time, in our editorial ca reer, in which we have taken leave of a people under a political difficulty, bat we are happy to know that that diffionlty ia confined to a few political Bleeding Kaneee Mood suckers. They weep, they groan over the wrongs heaped upon the ur.fortnnate people of thst territory, in the locs of free suffrage, free thought and a free press, through tbe in strameoiality of Border Rnffianicm, and yet wben the troth of their own iciqoitiee is brought home to their door, Ihey become ae ruffianly and oppressive at their prototype# from the border conntiee of Miaaouri. We need oot go to Kansas for ruffianism, but we can find it even in little Juniata. It wonld be well for gentlemen to deserve • little con sistency. We bold the Liberty of speech and tbe freedom of the press sacred, and he who would take away these (hinge strikes at the very foundation of Oor Republican Insti tutions; he carries with him a heart aa treach erous and a hand as villainous aa him who received tbe thirty piecee of ailver. Those to whom we apply these remarks can under stand them. The Repnblioan party, under i*e present constituted leaders, is the meanest party with which we have ever hail anything to do. Without prudence or discretion it ruibea madly into extremes, end renders itielf so obnoxious to all liberal minded people, that I anion of the opposition elements beoomes an otter impossibility. It will not waive a single point of its radicalism for tbe sake of union with men who are as hostile to the ex tension of slavery as there is any necessity for. Its whole history proves this, and it only uses the American party as a tool to enkbls ultra Republicanism lo gain place and pow er, that, at length, it msy stab the principles of Americanism in tbe high pieces of the country. This it has already doae, and we have no guarantee that any better fate can be expected from it in the future. Then why should Americans lend themselves to tks schemes and designs of a party, possessed of so mnch bitterness, antagonism end mock sincerity 1 Others may do as they please, bat we cannot remain silent and permit our selves to be transferred, by mere platforms and ipse dtzile, to enemies, without a voice in the matter. There never can be bnt two great and successful parties in this country, one of wbiob, must of necessity, be the Demooratio party, on account of its radical tendencies. The other must be composed of tbe conservative elements outside of that parly. Tbe old Whig parly was the best cheek that Democracy has aver bad, or ever will have (or some time to come, as ia the present condition of things we look for (ac cession of Democratic victories in vanis, until contending factions learo wis dom. This may be regarded at bad proph eey; but wait and see." BTBisuty, devoid of gtace, is a mere hook without the bait.