THE STAR OFTHE NORTE R. W. Weaver, PrcprleUr.] VOLUME 9. THE STAR OF THE NORTH is PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MOKNINC BY K. W. WEAVER, OFFlCE—Upstairs, in then tie brick build in/!, on the south side oj Main Street, third Tim e bti'ote Market. IS K M S:—Two Dollars per annum, if paid w:tliin six months from the time of sub scribing ; two dollars and fifty cents if not paid within the year. No subscription re ceived for a less period than six mouths; no discontinuance permitted until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the editor. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding one square will be inserted three times for One Dollar, arid twenty-five cents for each additional in seition. A liberal discount wtll be made to Ihote who advertise by the year. fffljoite poctrg. THE LIGHT AT IIUME. ♦ The light at borne ! how bright it beams When evening shades around us fall; And Irom the lattice far it gleams, To love, and rest, and comfort call. When wearied with the toils of day, And strife for glory, gold, or lame, How sweet to seek the quiet way, Where loving hps will lisp our name Around the light at home ! When through the dark and stormy night, Wayward wanderer homeward hies, How cheering is that twinkling light. Which through the forest gloom he spies! It is the light at home. He leels That loving hearts will greet him there, And safely through his bosom steals The joy and love that banish care Around the light at home! The light at home ! when ere at last It greets the seaman through the storm, He leels no more the chilling blast | That beats upon his manly form. Long years upon the sea have fled, Since Mary gave her parting kias, But the sad tears which she then shed Will now be paid with rapturous bliss Aruund the light at home! The light at home! how still and sweet It peeps from yonder cottage door— The weary laborer to greet— When the rough toils of day are e'er! Bad is the soul that does not know The blessings that the beams impart, The cheerful hopes tnd joys that flow, And lighten up the heaviest heart Around the light at home ! K.FKEGTS UK THE COMET IN 17151 The return of a great comet had been predicted to appear in 1712, which caused great alarm in England. The following amusing account is taken from an old pa per of the period: "In the year 1712, Mr. Whiston having calculated the return of a comet which was to make its appearance on Wednesday, the 14th of October, at five minutes after five in the morning, gave notice to the public ac cordingly, with the terrifying addition that a total dissolution of the world by fire was to take place on the Friday following. The reputation Mr. Whiston had long maintain ed in England, both as a divine and a phil osopher, left little or no doubt with the pop ulace of the truth cf his prediction. Sev eral ludicrous events took place. A num ber of persons in and about London seized all the barges and boats they could lay their hands on in the Thames, very rationally concluding that when the conllagration took place there would be the most safety on wa ter. A gentleman who had neglected fam ily prayer for better than five years, inform ed his wife that it was his determination to resume that laudable practice that same evening; but his wife having engaged a ball at her house, persuaded her husband to put it off till she saw whether the comet appeared or not. The South Sea stock im mediately fell to 5 per cent, and the India to 11; and the captain of a Dutch ship threw all his powder into the river, that the ship might not bo endangered. "The next morning, however, the comet, appeared according to predictions, and be fore noon the belief was universal that the day of judgmeut was at hand. About this time 223 clergymen were ferried over to Lambeth, it was said, to petition that a short prayer might be penned and ordered there being none in the church service on that occasion. Three maids of honor burn ed their collection of novels and plays, and sent to the booksellers to buy each of them a Bible and Bishop Taylor's "Holy Living and Dying." The run upon the bank was so prodigious, that all hands were employ ed from morning to night in discounting notes and handing out specie. On Thurs day considerable more than 7,000 kept mis tresses were legally married in the face of several congregations. And to crown the whole face, Sir Gilbert Heathcote, head di rector of the bank, issued orders to all the fire officers in London, requiring tnem to 'keep a good look out, and have a particular eye on Lire Bank of England.'" The Verdant Groomsman* On no occasion do people seem more prone to commit blunders than at a wed ding. The following funny incident actu ally happened in a neighboring town. In the midst of witnesses, the clergymyn had just completed the interesting ceremony which binds, in the silver bonds of wedlock, two willing hearts, and stretched forth his hand to implore the blessing of Heaven on the union. At this point, the groomsman beeing the open hands reached out, sup posed it was the signal for him t der the marriage fee, which was burning in his pocket. Accordingly, just as the cler gyman closed hia eyes in prayer, he felt the pressure of two sweet half dollars upon his palms. The good man hesitated, ap-, palled at the ludicrousness of his situation, but eooly deposited tho money in lua pock et, and proceeded with his devoliotW- BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, TA., WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 19. 1857. UNA WING A KILE. Thete was once an old honse, and in (hat house lived an old rat. By means ol cracks and knot-holes, and sundry boles of bis own making, be bad an extensive circuit through the whole house. From front to L., and Irom cellar to garret, wherever there was anything that would minister to the comfort of his outer man, he was sure to find it and help himself. One room was used as a granary, and the door was kept carefully closed. The old rat used to hear the sound of the grain, as it was poured upon the floor, or into the barrels, and a strong desire possessed him to know, from personal observation, what was in the room. But there was no way for him to gratify that deaire but by making an entrance through an oak board partition.— So, one night, after all was quiet in the house, he sal himself vigorously about the undertaking; and though he iound it rather a jaw-aching operation, yet he kept up such an incessant nibbling, that long belore day light his task was accomplished, and his hat! toil was rewarded by a plentiful repart at the pile of grain. For some days and nights he passed in and oui at pleasure, and enjoyed high living, without let or hinderance. But the proprietor at length discovered the hole which he had made through the parti tion, and at once concluded that he would lay an embargo upon that sort ot fun; so he thrust a file into the hole. The next time the old rat essayed to pass in he found a slight impediment in his way; and he tried in vain to remove it. At last said his ratship, ''l know what I have done, lean gnaw oil that stick, for it iin : t half as thick as the oak board through which I gnawed the hole." So at it he went again. He thought the file was a good deal, harder than the board, but he was not determined not to give it up. Indeed, it was a promi nent article in hit creed, never to back out. "Ah, a workman is known by his chips," said he, as he looked and discovered quite a little pile, that looked very much like ivory saw-dust, though he wondered that his chips should be so light colored. "I shall fetch it yei," said he, and he applied himself with renewed vigor. But at length he discovered some blood on the file where he had been gnawing.— He instantly clapped bis paw to his bleed ing mouth, when behold! be made this discovery: that instead of gnawing the file, the file had actually gnawed his teeth down to the gums. For a moment he stood quite confounded. At last he said, "for once I made a lood out of myself." And so he had ; for he was not only obliged to go sup perless to bed, but what was of vastly more consequence, he had lost a good set of teeth which would be quite indispensable in pro curing his future suppers. And here we will leave his ratship, in order to make an application of the story. Men ought to be wiser than rats; but they are not, for they also frequently gnawafilo. A person gnaws a file when, just for the sake of having his own way, he obstinately persists in doing that which is against hia own interests—that which injures himself a vast deal more than anybody else. Here is an illustration : A boy carelessly bit his foot against o stone, and as a natural consequence it ached dreadfully. He in stantly made up his mind that lie would have his revenge. So he sol down end went to beating the stone with his fist; and he only desisted when he ceased to feel any pain in his fool, in consequence of the more severe pain in his bruised knuckles. Now he had hia own way—he took hia revenge, but it was gnawing a file. Here is another: A boy whose name I feel a little delicate about mentioning, once got a little grouty at something which hia mother required htm to do; so when he was called to dinner, to show his independence, said, with pouting lips, "I don't want any dinner." Now he was hungry enough, but he was determined he would not eat, out of 6pite. He overheard hia sister say, "Guess he'll get hungry by supper time;" but he thought within himself, "You'll see." So he nourished his wrath to keep it warm, and when hia sister called him to supper, he grunted out more grouty than ever, "I don't want any supper." But as he turned to go oft he heard his mother 6ay, "You'll be a cheap boarder at this rate." So be had the blessed satisfac tion of having his own way, and went anp perless to bed, where he repented at his leisure. There be lay and thought the mat ter ail over again and again. He finally came to the "unanimous conclusion" in his own mind that he was a great fool for hav ing done as ho had; for he had injured no mortal living so much as himself. It is al most unnecessary to add, that he had a re markable good appetite for breakfast; and that, from that he was of the unshaken opin ion that it was miserably poor policy to gnaw a file. We might give illustrations equally perti nent from those of riper years, but we for bear. MONEY HOARDED. —According to the Treas ury estimate, there are in this country about $250,000,000 in gold, of which little more than a fifth is in the banks—leaving little short of $200,000,000 lo be found elsewhere. The Treasury hoards very commonly from twenty to twenty-five millions, leaviig prob ably 8175,000,000 to be sought among the people. Allowing 850,000,000 —a liberal n one will be, endowed with extraordinary powers of mind, those powers my have an opportunity of developing themselves ; and if they never have tliat op portunity, the harm is not very great to us or them. Nor does it hence follow that the de scendants of laborers are always to bo labor ers. The path upward is steep and long ; but by industry, caro, skill, and excellence, the present parent may lay the foundation of a rise under more favorable circumstances, for his children. The children ol these take an other rise, and by-and by the descendants of Ihe present laborer become gentlemen. This is the natural progress. It ts by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery i produced ; and the propensity to make such an attempt lias been cherished and encouraged by the strange projects that we have witnessed of late years for making the laborers virtuous and happy by giving thorn what is called education. The educa tion which 1 speak of consists in bringing up to labor with steadiness, with care and with skill; to show them how to do as many use ful things as possible ; to leach them to do all in the best manner; to set them an example in industry, sobriety cleanliness, and neatness: to make all these habitual to them, so that they shall never be likely to tall into the con trary; to let them always see good living proceeding from labor, and thus to remove from them the temptations to get at the goods of others by violent and fraudulent means.— IF. Cuhbett. The Atlantic lelcgtaph Cable. —A letter from Captain Hudson, to the Navy Department, says the wire intended for his ship was all coiled in the Niagara, and the probability was that they would start for the Core of Cork on the 27th ult. The work of laying the cable would probably begin about the Ist of August, and it was expectsd that the Ni agara would run out her half first and then sccompan y the Agamemnon cn her way to Newfoundland, the other end of the line.— Ledger. Flowers liavo bloomed in our prai ries and passed away, from age to age, un seen by man, and multitudes of virtues have been acted out in obscure places, without note or admiration. The awoetnoss of both has gone up to heaveu! FARM LIKE. " O Friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to the thought, to virtue, slid to peace, Domestic life ; in rural pleasure passed ! Few know thv value and few taste their sweets; Though many boast thy favors, and affect To understand and choose thee lor their own!" Cowpcr. Education is by no means routined to schools. These are but rudimental and aux iliary to that training which is begun ill the cradle and finished only at death. The nur sery days of our life, and its business pur suits, have an important bearing upon the formation ot character. What a man does, as well as what lie studies in books, educates him. The scenes amid which his boyhood ie passed, out of srhool, the objects which occupy his thoughts, the pioblems he daily solves in earning his bread, quite as much shape character as the scenes and problems of a school room. Agriculture is lite largest and most important of all our material inter ests, the occupation to which the largest por tion of our countrymen are born. It is a matter of interest to consider the bearing of this pursuit upon the characlets of those who are engaged ut it. There are those who consider this a meni al occupation—degrading to the body by the ' toil it imposes, and belittling to tho mind by j the attention it requires to the mute details of I its business. They regard its implements as the badges of servility, and look with disdain upon the plow boy's lot. They deprecate the influence of farm life upon the social and mental culture, and look upon the rustic man as u type of boorishness and ignorance.— They think it mainly a business for btu!e muscles, where mind can achieve no con quests, and where ekilllul labor. finds a poor reward. They think the way of men of gen ius is inevitably hedged up upon the farm— that there is 110 heroic work to be performed, no laurels lo be one. If he would do the deeds worthy of his manhood, gain weal It, ' gain bonor, makH himself a name that will | live, he must turn to nobler occupations. If tbose who are strangers to the farm alone cherished this view, we could abide it in si lence. Knt when farmers themselves admit this impeachment ol their railing, and the pestilence of this heresy finds its way in'o our firesides, and makes our sons and daugh ters discontented with our rural homes, it is time to speak out. If comparisons must be made, which are invidious, the shadows shall not fall upon the farmer's lot. ft is lime that 1 other callings were stripped of that romance in which they are veiled, and that the sons of the farm should know what they have in prospect when they turn their backs upon the homes of their youth, ft is meet that they should heller understand the blessings of 1 their lot, its capacities for improvement, nnd its superiority to all other occupations. We would arrest that feeling of disquiet which keeps so large a part of our rural population ! perpetually longing for new fields of enter prise. We would have them settled, at least a portion of them, in the old parish, and bend their energies to the improvement and adorn ment ol their homes.— Rev. Ch/t. The Form of Continents Determined by ilic sun. riiOFKSSOIt riERCK's DISCOVF.ItV. The scientific ciiclcs at Cambridge have been recently interested in an observation ol fierce, not yet published, upon the form of the Continents. If we elevate a terresteal globe until the Arctic and Antarctic circles are tangent to the wooilen liwlniii, anil ilm> cause the globe slowly to revolve, we shall find that a majority of the lines of elevation in the earth's crus' —i. e., coast bites and mountain ranges—will, either as they rise or as they go down, coincide in passing with the wooden horizon. For example, the main coast of the Unilcdftlalcs tending north east, will, if carried on in a great circle, graze the Arctic circle, and the coast of Florida and Labrador tending northwest will graze on the other side. The same is true of the eaM coasts of South America and Africa, the coasts of the Red Sea, of Italy, ot the Black Sea, of Hindostan, of New Zealand, &c. The Arctic and Antarctic circles are also coast lines, being always tangent to the horizon. It is almost impossible to exsggerate the importance of this fine discovery, proving, as it does, by geological facts, that Ihe obliquity of Ihe ecliptic lias been essentially unchanged since rhe dawn of creation, and that solar heat was the agent to carry out the second day to let the dry land appear. The lines of separa tion between light and darkness, between solar heat and the coolness of night, traveling daily for two months in summer, and again for two months in winter, ir. such a position as 10 coincide in passing with the lines of up heaval, indicates unmistakeably that it was connected with the determination of those lines; Ihe slight expansion and shrinking being sufficient to determine the line of rup ture of the crust. From a comparison of (he I forms ol the continents. Professor Pierce also | draws the order of their upheaval; showing, | for instance, that the Western Continent is 1 older than F.urope, and that the Cull Stream, | during the second day ot creation,caused the I great variety of outline in that continent.— Christian Examiner. SPOTS ON THK SIN —According to obser vations made by M. Hudolphe Wolf, Direc tor of the Observatory of Berne, it appears that the number of spots on the sun have their maximum and minimum at the same time as the variations of the needle. It fol lows from this, that the causes of these two changes on the sun and on the earth must be the same, and eonsoea from Rome to Avignon, when the Vatican remained in a condition of obscurity and neglect for many years. It is now the repository of multitudinous treasures of art. Speculation in the New Crops of Wheat.— Great competition, the New \ork Courier says, exists in that city, in buying up the new crop of Southern wheat, which has re sulted in ptices being paid higher in piopoi tion than present prices of flour, and as the general expectation on 'Change is, that flour must decline when the new crop begins to come iii, this movement excites much com ment, tor it is felt that noelfott of speculators can sustain ptices in the absence of a foreign demand and with a full crop. The abund ance of the present seaoti cannot be controll ed by speculators, no matter how much they may be favored by the paper credit system Ledger. SIMCCLAK.— It is saul that the rose of Flor ida, the most bcsutiful of flowers, emits no fragrance-, the bird of ParaJise the most beautiful of birds,gives no songs; Ihe cypress of Greece, the fineat of trees, yields no fruit; dandies, the shiniest of men, have no sense . and ball room belles, the loveliest creatures in the world, are very often ditto—and a little more sol [Two Dollars per IMM. NUMBER 32. DO It I (i II T. A wealthy merchant remarked a few days since that he wan fully convinced from his own experience, that the means to achieve success lay in a nut shell—no RIGHT. 'When I say success,' said he, '1 mean not only the accumulation of fortune, but the ability to onjoy it—to live a useful, happjr life.' What is the use of much wealth if we know that it was obtained by wronging the wiifbw and orphan, by tho tricks of trade, selling arti cles for what they were not, and a thousand modos nf unfair dealing! Can a raau be happy if he knows he has stripped a poor family of its last dollar, sent a dagger to its very heart, drawn away the final drop of blood, leaving their bodies writhing in throes of untold agonies, pinched by hunger snd cold, their spirits depicted and gloomy— hope crushed out and dispair hist hurrying llient on, on to ruin ? Granting that men grow better by doing kindly acts, and feel the bettor for seeing others do the-irt, how sickening it must be to the true man to know that by false dealing he has curled the milk of human kindness in one breast, turn ing it to bitter gall! 11 wealth comes by such means let It not come at all. Shall an active man, possessed of God-given powers, at his dying hour turn bsi'elc to ills past life and be able only to say : 1 have done ttolh ing to add to the wealth of the world in gold or silver, or in artistic productions, but have coveted the labors of others, heaped treas ures sordidly to myself, foolishly supppos ing that I might trample down all feelings and sympathies not directly productive of gain ? Or shall he nlthcr be able to say that, while I have industriohsly gathered wealth, I have done it with cheerful looks, kindly words, warm sympathies; 1 have done it by making things whieh hdve added to tho comfort of men, by bringing within the reach of the poor great means of present en joymunt, tho opening of a brilliant future, by throwing lights of sympathy on the de joctod, lifting up the down-fallen, strength ening the weak, infusing in all a fervent be lief in the brighter part of their being? Such a life will enable a man to throw off his wealth as a scale, at the last day, bearing away only tho imperishable sotil which has accumulated strongth nlong with the mass of worldly goods justly and usefully obtain ed, would you, young man, belong to the latter class, do right. How much better lb do right, if you die not worth a farthing, and feel that you have rather added to the good faith in the higher life on earth, than to die while rolling in the luxury, pomp, and pride of ill-gotten gains! Then do right! and if tempted for momentary case and vanity to abuse your heller nature rest assured that 1 both the body and the spirit will suffer in a | ratio corresponding to the transgression.— i There is but one road to happiness and con tentment—do right. Peacock Aristocracy. There is something in nature on which at> aristocracy of blood or of talent may be pre dicated. But the aristocracy of wealth is ri diculously absurd, while that of dress is sub limely ridiculous. The peacock aristocracy of this country was handsomely rebuked at Washington not long since. While Lord Napier, the Engligh Minister, was busy at Washington, his lady sojourned at the Gilmore House, Bahimore. The fash ionable circles were agitated by the pres ence of a live lord, and her ladyship receiv ed numerous oallc and party invitations.— The American ladies of fashion, elaborate'y and gaudily attired in flounces and jewels, were surprised to find the English lady in excessively plain dress, totally free from all display, glitter and nonsense. Not a single jewel was visible upon her person. The wife of Lord Napier, however, is a lady ot high birth, who can trace her descent from a long line of illustrious ancestors. She is nevertheless remarkable, though born and educated in the heart of European refine ment and civilization, lor the plainness of her apparrel, the simplicity of her manners, and the entire lack of ostentatious preten sion f-he administers a severe rebuke to upstart, peacock vanity which so many of our people. A Uraeiiful Idee- Away among the Alleghenies there is a spring, so small that a single ox, on a sum mar's day, could drain it dry. it steals it■> unobtrusive way among the hills, till it spreads out in the beautilul Ohio. Thence it stretches away a thousand miles, leaving on its banks more than a thousand villages and cities, and many thousand cultivated farms, and bearing cui its bosom more than halt a thousand steamboats. Then joining the Mississippi, it stretches away and away some twelve hundred miles till n falls into the great emblem of eternity. It is one ot the tributaries of the oceau, which, obedi ent only to God. shall roll and war till the angel, with one foot on the >ea end the oth er on the land, shall lift up his hand to heaven and swear that tune shall be no longer. So with moral influence; it is a nil—a rivulet—a river—an ocean—bound less and fathomless as eternity. OKTCINU. Asctx)Tr or Beans—As Lord Crawford and Lord Boyd Were one day walking over the lands" in Ayrshire, they saw Burns ploughing in a field hard hjf.— Lord Crawford said to Lord Boyd, " Do you see that rough looking fellow across there wnh the plough' 111 lay you a wager you cannot say anything to him thai ha will not make a rhyme ot." " Done," said the other, and iwediaw'r going up to the hedge, Lord Boyd erred out .-Baugh!" | Burns stopped at otiee, leaned against the plough, and surveying the assailant trout Lead to loot, he quickly answered— h a not Lord Crawhwd, but Lord Boy'. Of grace and manners he void— Just like a hull among the rye, Cries 'baugh at folks The wager w* of course watt