The star of the north. (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, September 30, 1857, Image 1
- ■ ■■■ ' 1 ' ' 1 ' ' ' =*= THE STAR OP THE NORTH. R. M . HeiTtr, Proprietor.] VOLUME 9. aihiaMiittlHmHiflHMtttflilßEßi THE STAR OF THE NORTH IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING BT R. W. WEAVER, OFFlCE— Upstaire. in Ike new brick build ing, on tke eoutk side oj Main Street, tkird square below Market. VEK MB:—Two Dollars per annum, if paid within 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 months; no discontinuance permitted until all arrearages tare paid, unless at the option of the editor. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding one square Will be inserted three times for One Dollar, fend twenty-five cents for each additional in sejtion. A liberal discount will be made to those who advertise by the year. <2Ti)oic poetrjj. SOMEBODY * Somebody's courting somebody, Somebody or other to night, Somebody's whispering to somebody, Somebody's list'ning to somebody, Uuder the clear moonlight. Near the bright river's flow, Running so still and slow, Talking so soft and low, She sits with somebody. Pacing the ocean's shore, . Edged by the foaming roar, Words, never breathed .before, Sound sweet to somebody. Under,the maple tree. Deep thougb the shadow be, Plain enough they oan see- Bright eyes has somebody. No or.e sits up to wsit, Though she is out so late— All know she's at the gate, Talking with somebody. Tip-toe to the parlor door- Two shadows on the floor- Moonlight reveals no more- Susy and somebody. Two, sitting side by side, Float with the ebbing tide, "Thus, dearest, may we glide Through life," says somebody. Somewhere, somebody Makes love to somebody, To-night. The Multay to India. The English papers are foil of the details of the mutiny in India. The massacre at Cawnpore is confirmed in all its horrors.— Bat General Havelock has since severely punished Nana Sahib at Fultehpore, where the Engliab troops behaved gallantly. At Agra, the disaster to the English was not un qualified. The enemy thdy were opposed to lost severely. The consequence ot the movement eppeats to have been tbit the mutineers abandoned the idea of assaulting the position, and marched off to Delhi. Another set of mutineers, who had march ed off from Sealkote in the Punjaub,to reach i Delhi, have been msl and romed by Briga- | diet Nicholson. This affair look place on j the banks of ihe Ravee, on of tbe principal rireriof the Punjaub. Tbe mutineers had already crossed tbe stream, when Nicholson fell upou them, lorord tbem back, and com pelled them to take shelter on an island.— Hare be carried their position, slew a large nnmber, and drove the remainder into tbe stream. At Delhi no progress had been made, the British waiting for reinforcements. The Se poys have made two sorties, but were beat en back. Sieans Hod Carrier. The Philadelphia Bulletin haa the follow-' ing description ol a "Steam Hod Carrier," which was io operation on a new building in that city on Thursday: "The motire power was a small locomo tive-looking steam engine, npon wheels, whiob, although stationary at Ihe lime, look ed as though it could be moved readily from point to point. A mammoth hod, holding twelve or fifteen timee the quantity of bricks and mortar which could be carrjpd by the stoutest laborer, was whisked to the top of the bnildiog in a trie* by the same hod car rier, with the aid of a crane and a block and tackle. One man attended the engine, an other loaded tbe mammoth hod, a third at tended ta its safe delivery np aloft, and without toil or fnaa or tweat tbe little steam engine did tbe work of folly fifteen men. HEAVEN.— Can mortal mindseonceive the glory of that upper sphere, where the sun never goes down and night oan never corae I Where the river of life roll* it* erysial waves around the high white throne of the great Eternal. Fairer flowers than any Flora's hand haa airawn on earth, bloom in tne fields of immortality. Cbernb forma float on the wtvss of mnaio, swept from the golden harps of God's elect. Earth's brightest sun beams are but darkneaa compared to the light that emanate* from tbe sun of righteousness. Frail mortal* deem it shadowy land! Not so I There no clouds come to dim the light of eternal dayl Sorrow never flings it* dark mantle o'er the sinless dwellers there. Ship wrecked mariner, toaaed on life's tempestu ous seal Weary pilgrim, treading the path that lead* lo death I Let not earth's fleeting pleasures deceive yon; trust alone in Heaven. —Kate Clair. Para ia still agitated by one of those fre quent revolutions which are the bane of onr alitor republ ios on this Continent. . A Brother of Mrs. Cunningham, it i* stated, la now confined in jail at Rivsrboad. He ia •aid to bo • very bad character. In Philadelphia them ia a widow lady who Us twenty-five children, all living at home, and none of them married. ' BLOOMSBUHG, CQIrUMBIA COUNTY, PA;<*PN^NBSDAY t SEPTEMBER 30, 1557. REPORT OP R. W. WEAVER, ESQ., OOttMTT SUPERINTENDENT, Of Columbia County fir Ik* year ending Jane let, 1887. Io this connty the schools generally begin to open aboot the first of November, and close about the first of March, without hav ing a term of public school ill summer. This is unfortunate, as reducing the time of school visitations to four months, and those the most inclement of the year. It also prevents the attendance of young scholars; and even of the older scholars with that regularity which is desirable and profitable. There is, however, some improvement in this respect, end in several of the most thinly setlled dis tricts, the directors have resolved upon a summer tfetrn. Jixaminatione and Teachero. —la November last I made a series of appointments through the county, to meet and examine teaobers; but, as in previous years, the attendance of teachers and directors was not so general as it ought to have been, to indicate and inspire that interest in publio education which an intelligent oommumly ought always to feel. The teachers slay away, because many ol them know that they are only apprentices in the profession, ihoogh in most cases they hare improved all the scant opportunities for menial improvement that were in their reach. Most of them frankly confess their incompetency, and excuse it by, the want of proper instruction, lu many cases I have found it necessary to instruct teachers, rather than to exanfine them. In order to find teaobers for all the schools of the county, I was still compelled to give certificates of a lower grade than was desirable; and indeed to some teachers so deficient, that thsy con fessed they would have preferred to go to school as scholars, instead of teachers. But I know that our county is not worse, in this respect, than many others; and the evil can only be cured when Normal schools are once established. We improve slowly, each year, by heavy effort; but it is only in a pace with the general progress of knowledge in the community, and the schools do not, as they ought, lead the public mind. Within the time of my official service the wages of teachers b&vq raised, so as to be now quite up to the giade of qualifications, and in many cases are rather above. It is io be hoped that the pay will remain up, and the teachers will now prepare themselves to earn it, by organizing a teachers' institute. True excellence will always command good wages. * Within the past year I granted one hun dred and twelve temporary certificates, and three permanent ones. Ten applicants wertf reluied certificates. The teachers of last year, in most easel, hold these certificates with some improvements. Their ages, lime of service, and relative capacity, would rank very much as in my statistics of last year. So also wonlj the condition of the school houres, and their destitution of furniture, for there has been very little change in this re spect. Visitation. —l visited all the schools I could within the short months they were open, and found in most of them a decided im provement since my first visit in 1855. Twenty five schools 1 could not reaoh while they were in session. Catawisea is the only district in which 1 fonnd retrogression from the excellent graded schools of last year.— I found twenty little abecedarians, and ten different reading books, in a school which (be teacher was expected to make " first rale." In general the manner of study and recita tion has become more natural and more comprehensible to the scholars, and they have come to think more upon the subject of their lessons. There is, however, still great room for improvement, and in no branches more than in arithmetic and composition. I have found that the most benefit resulting from a supervision of the public schools is in the work at home, where almost every dsy some teacher, director or citixen came for information, or with a bill of complaint. It is in explaining the workings of the com mon school system, in reconciling difficulties and misunderstandings, and in preventing feuds and law-suits, that most good can be done. Still, visitations are necessary, and it is highly desirable tbat those of the Super intendent should be followed by others from the directors. The examination of teachers has a very good moral influence in driving inoompetent persons out of the business of kttping school, and in exciting among fit teachers a laudable spirit of pride to sustain a respectable exam ination, and obtain a good certificate. Al though the school law of 1849 required an examination of teacbers, its directions in that respect were not generally observed in this county, and where an examination was attempted it was very superficial and imper fect. J^/Progrsss.—Three years ago there were no graded schools in the county; oral arithmetic was almost unknown as a school exercise, and musio unheard, except io one or two schools. There bad been no pnblio school examinations or exhibitions of any free school in the county, and co association of the teachers for progress or improvement.— Now almost all the towns have graded schools; oral instruction is applied as a strong element in every district of the ooonty; musio it a common branch of instruction and refi nament; publie examinations and exhibitions are coming to be considered as necessary incidenta ol the term, and within my time of service there have been six meetings of teachers' association. Last summer proceedings warn commenc ed to remove tie directors of Roaring Creek for not opening eohooli end laying lax; and that dlrttict last winter, for the first time, acted upon the common school system, and famished public instruction to all itschildren. I shall therefore have the gratification of seeing, for the first lime in the history of the county, that every township is acting under the common school system when my offici al connection with its closes. Taxation.— l believe that the people of this county are generally disposed to treat the system of State instruction with fairness and justice. The present method of sustaining the schools it certainly the best I can con ceive. If they were supported entirely by a State appropriation, this being raised by a tax on the property of the whole State, would be without any reference to the inter est of each district, commnnily|in its peace, security and order; and withont regard to the doty of parental provision for instruction,— The opposite system of private schools is based on a sort of poll tax, which contem plates only the duty of the parent, and ig nores the duty of the State and its interest in the peace and progress of society. The poor con Id not bear their share of a poll school tax; and, therefore, the present method of supporting schools in part by a district tax, and for the rest by a State tax, is a fair com promise and disposition of the burthen. The district tax must necessarilly be with refer ence to the number of children to be edu cated, based on the duty of parents and the ability of children to be of service in earn ing a common education. The State appro priation is the contribution of the property of the State for ite protection, and of the so cial system of the State for the preservation and progress of its civilization. Exposure to severs and inclement weath er Isst winter so much impaired my health, that I did not think it right to continue any longer my connection with the office I have held. If it has not been profitable it has at least been pleasant, both by reason of the kindness and courtesy extended to me in the county, and that also received from the De partment at Harrisburg. The Law Protecting Fruit Ac. At the request of a neighbor and friend, who has suffered from depredations of thieves and unruly persons, we publish below the Law to protect Fruit and punish Trespass in this Commonwealth, as a warning to the of fenders : SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Common wei-lib of Peunsytvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the wilful taking and carry ing away of fruit, vegetables, plants, orna mental trees, vines-or shrubs, in this Com monwealth, whether attached to (he soil or not, shall be deemed and the same is hereby declared a misdemeanor, and may be prose cuted and punished as such under.tbe laws of this Commonwealth. SEC. 2. Tbat any person or persons who shall wilfully snd maliciously enter or break down, through or over any orchard, garden or yard fence, hotbed, hot or green house, or who shall wrongfully club, stone, cut, bark, break or otherwise mutilate or damage any nut, fruit or ornamental tree, shrub, bush, plant or vine, trellis, arbor, hotbed, hot or green house, or who shall wilfully and mali ciously trespass upon, walk over, beat down, trample or in any wise injure any grain, grass, vines, vegetables or other growing crop,Bhall and may, on conviction thereof in action of trespass before any mayor, burgess, alder man, justice of the peace,'or in any court of law, have judgment against him, ber or Ibem for treble the amount of damage proven to have been done, with cost of suit; one half the damage or penalty to go to the use of the poor of the district wherein the premises lie, the other half of the damage or penally to the use of the owner of the premises on which the said trespass shall or may be committed, and io default of payment of the said fine or judgment, with costs of suit, the parly con vioted may and shall be committed to the jail of the proper county for not less than three nor more than twenty days; said complaint or aotioo to be made in the name of the Commonwealth, and the testimony of the owner or occupant of the premises shall be admitted as evidence to prove the trespass. Monkish Legends. In one of his notes to "Laton," Colton gives the following account of tbe marvel lous things wrought in the bosom ol tbe "mother church" in ancient limes. Some ot tba saints, especially Dunsian,Dorainicus and Lupus, most have been fond of a practical joke, and pretty 'oute hands at playing it off,, too, to have so far gotten tbe weather-gage of the devil—for he is said to be a "full band." These legends abound with stories of pro digious things, some of which are very ludi orous such as St. Swiibin's making whole a basket of eggs by the sign of tbe oross: Pa trlcious making tha stolen sheep bleat in tbe thiefa belly after he had eaten it; then, St. Bridget's bacon, which in great charity, she gave to a hungry dog, and was, after the dog had eaten it, restored again ia ber kettle. Of tbe like nature is tbe story of St. Dunstan, 1 who took tbe devil by the nose with tbe tongs and held him until be roared wilh pain.— Dominions made him bold the candle till he burned bis fiugets. Lupus imprisoned the devil in a pot all night. A consecrated boat being put into a hive of bees, to cure them of tbe murrain, was so devoutly entertained, that Ike bees built a chapel in tbe hive, with a steeple aodbell; erected an altar, and laid the host upon it, and sung their canonical hours liktt monks in a cloister." Trith aid Rlgkt 6i H Mr Coiitrj. THB QUILTING. , Tbe day is set, the ladies met, And at the frame ate seated; In order plao'd, they work in haate, To get tbe qailt completed. While fingers fiy, their tongues they ply, And animate their labors, By counting beanx,discussing clothes, Or talking of their neighbor*. "Dear, what a pretty frock you've on"— "I'm vsry glsd you like it." "I'm told that Miss Micomicon Don't spaak to Mr. Micst." "1 saw Mist Bell lbs other day, Young Green's new gig adorning 1" "What keeps your sister M away!" "She left tawn this morning." '"Tis lime to rsll"—"my needle's broke"— "So Menscn'e slock it selling "Mary's wedding gown's bespoke"— "Lend mo yoor scissors, Ellen." "That neatck will never come abont"— "Now donjt fly in a-NasAifNr;" v "Hair-puffs, they say, are going out"— "Yes, cnrls are all the fashion." The qoilt is done, the tea began— The beaux are all collecting;* The table's cleared, the music beard— His partner each selecting. The merry bind in order stand, The dance begins with vigor; And rapid feet tbe measnre beat, And trip the mazy figure. Unheeded fly the moments by, Old Tims himself seems dancing, Till nights dull eye is on'd to spy The steps of mom advancing. Then olosely atow'd lo each abode, Ttie carriage* go tilling; And many a dream haa for its theme, The pleasure of the quilting. From the Home Journal. INTERESTING TO LADIES. PERSONAL BEATOT—ITS REDTTTON TO MOBAL BEAUTY AND TO AHT.—BY OEMO C.SCOTT. Immediately aftsr the Creation, tbe Father of all looked on his wotk and saw that it was good. Since the Fall his best children have looked on the same and pronounced it beau tiful. Despite the great calamity, the mark of God's finger is still upon us ; for man, though he went forth from the preftnee of his Maker and shunned His eye, was never for saken by Him. Now, although Goodness snd'Beaoty were not synonymous terms, yet in this essay we shall endeavor to show bow intimately they are connected. The Pagans represented Psyche, or (he Sonl, as delicately besnlifnl, with a force that almost seemed to spesk, so eloquent was it—which, indeed, conld be read, for it symbolized innocence, loveliness, aod goodness ; and the book* which we now peruse merely symbolize the thonghts devel oped in the sonls of writer/. "''Wot so Venus ; fuller and more lusciously beautiful, she ere* ated merely sensual desire, aod inspired the best of her worshippers with almost inextin guishable yearning to become like her, loose zoned and careless of all higher aspirations- Bat when Psyche was born, .(or, in other worde, the sonl was lighted up,) pleasure loving ae the Greeks were, they were not so degraded that they could not perceive the groater worth of their new acquisition, and they left the shrine of Venne with all her fac inatione, for that of ber inestimable rival.— That they returned tbe belter from their jour ney who may deny, seeing that the children of ber worshippers became philosophers of Greece, the hnmanizers of Rome, and the art teachers of the Universe.' Gome, too, embraced external beauty ere she sought internal. She worshipped Venue before ebe became Christiijtj but she never forgot her Greek inetruction. She adored her churches, and ber eons sought ont the fairest staves to wail at their tables, which love of the beautiful brought Christianity to the An glo-British children for sale to Rome, and there in the market-place Gregory admiring them, pronounced theso remarkable words, "Non Angli,nd angtlp' (no! Anglea, but An gels.) That they must have been beautiful who can doubt when they called forth such an exclamation from the father of the Church —from one who dwelt in the old metropolis oi the world, into which all the spoils of ev ery nation had once been emptied. That when England became Christianized she did not decrease in beauty, is sufficiently evident from the many records wbioh have come down to os. The statutes which re main of the ladies of the thirteenth century in their graceful draperies have almost al ways beautiful faces; and Jite Troubadours of France who perpetually abuse the Eng-* Itsh, oannot help calling the women the 'most fair of earth's angels.' Fiaxmao, too, a man who prided himself on being classical, was constrained to praise these monuments of English beauty. But just about Elizabeth's reign, art in England perished for above two hundred years. A few portrait painters re mained, because English beanly could not be destroyed forever. And in Elizabeth's reign, too, personal beauty culminated in her great men and women, and with the wane of art declined loveliness of mind, body and soul. But the love of art has again risen in Eng land, and with it will her sons and herdaogh lers return to the beauty of their ancestors, for mind moulds mattsr. It ia the brain of the potter, and not tbe baud, which fashions the beautiful vase; the band is the slave—limber Helot of the graceful Psychs—and ia often untrustworthy; not carrying out tbe artist's ; conceptions. It is tbe fiat of God that makes life what it is. Men is only the instrument, and bo likewise is often unmindful of hie trust. That it is the mind wbioh moulds the mat ter, we may easily convince ourselves by a little ordinary reflection. We walk into tbe , ci'y, and there we see anxious faoes—what makes these bat business? We meet the crowda leaving an execotion, and in them wo behold specimens of homtoity which almost make ua ashamed of the name man or wom an—what makes these but vioe 1 We visit a well conducted orphan asylum, the off spring of various tempera and temperaments, and there we perceive joyousness and inno oence, for no ohild U born with an anxions face; no infant is sent into the world wiih a hang-dog countenance. Even where the stamp of vice has began to set its setl, it may be effaoed by care. Her Majesty has in her possession some photographs of boys snatch ed from tbs street*, whose faces after a few months training were scarcely tar* be traced in those portraits of their former features.— Phoniography so nearly speaka the truth, that it is likely to become a great adjanot to art education. True it enlarges the prominent features, and deepens the sbtdows as the world exaggerates the great charao'eristioi of a man; bnt it cannot oreale mind. Look at Albert Dnrer's 'Man of Sorrows'—that heav enly face with a suffering body—and oompare it with the phontogrspb recently imported— a vicious b/aee aotor in s greasy wig! Suu of beaveh, they use tbee badly when they pat thy life-creating beams lo such uses. Then, too, there is a fine piece ol spectacular en graving, published by the Galvanograpbic Company, called 'Don Quixote;' bnt where ia the amiab'e Don J A ruffianly 'paterer' in achaii surrounded by stage properties, with bit eyes turned up, is there, having left hie vocation of selling 'bull-roarers' on'y'apenny for the sitting. Wonderful sa the discovery of phoniogra phy, and minute as are its delineations, it can only copy. Art can create, bnt can create only op lo the conception of a painter. Lely's women have no minds; Lawrence's ladies small moralities—like their painters. Geo. Moreland loved pigs, Meniere beer-drinkers, Sir Joshua Reynolds children, and their art haa bean graced in accordance therewith; while tbe amiable Fra Angelico, although so successful in his 'Paradise,'—when he came to pamt Satan and his crew in Ihe 'Last Judg ment,' drew only distortions, and Giotti was so successful with his Mandonna—the Moth er of mothers—that the very women of Flor ence wept ss it was carried in procession to cbnrcb. What a stride between this angelic face and the first portrait drawn in charcoal by tbe hand of love which turned to diamonds to light up the cotiage of a forlorn girl I Par ses like, we give thanks to the sun for hav ing destroyed that prolific race which distorted tbe'human divine' at five shillings per sit ting ; thanks, many thanks to it, for having dissolved the portrait clubs, which aoweu inanities broadcast over the land at five guin eas per betd. We English have ever been fond of por traits, and bave perhaps the.largest collection in the world, could we gather them together; not that we are vainer of onr personal ap pearance than other nations, bnt home hab its seem to have developed in ns an especial love for portraits and landscapes. There is scarcely a book whose sale has not been en hanced by a portrait of tbe author, if perhaps we except '• Dilworth" and other spelling as sistants, with which are often accompanied unpleasant reminiscences. The portrait helps to illustrate the writing, and a clever work withont one is like talking to a beauty behind a curtain. But we often err in taking those portraits. We select any time of life, any condition of mind, and that we transmit to posterity as the likness of '.he man; whereas it is but a glimpse, little more tban a shadow, of tbe living form. Ask tbe mother if ever A psinter drew all the sweetness lo be found in her beloved child's eyes; question tbe lover about the locket at which he gazes so oft and so earnestly, and see how be will disparage the artist! Yet true love is not blind, as the ancients depicted it. It looks beneath the surface—it searches the heart, and discovers the connection between that ar.d the face.- Hatred is blind. Like Ihe blow fly wbiob seeks tainted parts, it can only discover de fects. Tbe poet, Ihe pointer, tbe musician, and all who jeal in poetic expression, should be painted as soon as the fire of tbeir eyes breaks forth ; Ihe historian, the philosopher, and all who think deeply just as thought be gins to line tbeir brow; the holy man in his grey hairs; while women of all classes should be selected for portraiture ere Time with his rough fingers has brushed the bloom from her cheeks. This may seem very fanciful to some minds bnt there is as mooh reaeoa in it as in selecting the flower whan in its prime —tbe rose-bud for its beanly, the opening pe tals for the scent. We have lilile conception how much love lineis ia coupled with goodoese, because so many of the beautiful ate dragged through the sink-hole of vice, yet we still keep on with that inherent lova of the elegant which the Father of all beauty baa planted in us, selecting lovely wives and adorning our off spring with every ornament which can set off their charms to advantage. Indeed, it ia not easy to conceive the future destiny of the. human race when the reign of peace shall begin—when the second Paradise, for which all sigh, shall be realized. Then the circle of life being completed, women will reap pear as beautiful as her mother Eve; for beauty is normal, ugliness abnormal. But what will man have gained 1 Knowledge. He had chosen to know the latter, he must suffer from it—conception of the feeling is not sufficient; it must be nuraed and fed with the lifespring of his bosom. Perilous choice!—but the man who is true to his soul shall conquer. To recover this lost personal beauty of the human race requires many years of labor, as it has taken many centuries to make tbe moat degraded nations the most ugly; but 1 that it is to ba attained, all history points out to us. The Turks by intermarriage with their lovely neighbors have turned the for mer ugliness to elegance, while the de scendants of the Prophet (the handsomest man of his time) at Medina, on the same princple have almost transformed them selves, into negroes. During the time the Turks were a conquering people they re tained their ancient unlovelinets, but soon after they settled in Turkey, they grew idle, married women better educated than them selves, and the latter transmitted their beauty to their offspring. The face of a beautiful good womed at home is like the spirit of an angel in the house, with the air of heaven still abont her, and the light of the Eternal City in her foce; but a false countenance; like veneer, cannot stand in the sunshine of truth but warps and twists, and turns into every fantastic form, yet never by chance comes straight. The Bandar Liquor Law- Chief Justice Ellis Lewis, on Thorsday last heard, at the Court House, in Potts villa, an abdication made by F. W. Hughes, Esq., for the allowanee of a writ of error, in the case of the Commonwealth ve. Lewis Reese, recently convicted of tbe violation of the law of 1855, prohibiting the sale of intox icating liquors on Sunday. Mr. Hughes ar gued in support of the application, tha; the third section of the law is unconstitutional, because it provides a second criminal pro ceeding and punishment in tbe Conrt of Qaarter Sessions in addition lo the proceed ing and penalty before a Justice of the Peace provided for in the second section. Judge Lewis declined to grant the writ of error, be cause in the esse of Reese, the defendant had not been proceeded against and paid the pen alty before a Justice of the Peace before he waa convicted in Conrt; bnt the Judge sta ted that if a case should hereafter arise where the defendant charged with violating the Sunday law, and who had been coivicted before a Justice of Ihe Peace and paid the penalty, should be afterwards proseented for the same offence in the Conrt of Quarter Ses sions and after pleading the first conviction and pnniahment in bar for farther proseca tion, should be convicted and sentenced to an additional penalty in Conrt, he would al low a writ of error, in order to bring the ques tion before tbe Supreme Conrt.— Harrieburg Telegraph. Ancient Families. It is well known that the Highlanders are great Sticklers for hereditary honors, and trace back, with the most earnest veneration, tbe origin of families into lb* remotest ages. An amusing instance of this tenaoity to holJ to the dignity and autiqnity of their kindred, may be found in the case we subjoin. A dispute arose between Campbell and M'Lean upon ibis never-dying subject.— M'Lean would not allow that tbe Campbells had any right to rank with the M'Lesns in antiquity, who he were in existence as a clan from the beginning of the world.— Campbell had a little mere biblical lore tban liH antagonist, and asked him if the M'Lean clan lived before tbe flood! " Flood! what flood 1" said M'Lean. " Why the flood that, you know, drowned all the world but Noab, and bia family, and bis flock," replied Campbell. " Pooh! yon and your flood," said M'Lean, "my clan was afore the flood." " I have not read in thsßibl9," said Camp bell, "of the name of M'Lean going into No ah's ark!" " Noah's ark I" retorted M'Lean, in con tempt, "who ever heard of a M'Lean, that bad not a boat of his own !" Rente in Chicago. —We learn from a gen tleman jutfl arrived from Chicago, that three months since, on his arrival at that oity, he tried to lease a store for a stofck of carriages. Ho could at that time find but one, and that not a very eligible one, which waa offered at a rent of $3OO per month. He declined it, and the store remained unoccupied for months, when it was finally offered to him for nothing. The falling of rents in Chica go is not at all surprising. The depression in money matters has cooled the fever of land speculators, and thrown a large amount of property upon the market. Tke Biggeet Fool in New Orleans. —Some nine years since, a letter was received in New Orleans, directed "To the biggest fool in New Orleans." The post-master was absent, and on his return one of tbe young er clerks in the office informed him of the the receipt of the letter. "Aod what be came of it!" inquired the P. M. "Why replied the clerk, I did not know who the biggest fool in New Orleans was and so 1 opened the letter myself!" "And what did you find in it!" inquired the P. M. "Why," responded the clerk, nothing but the wonla, "thou art the man 1" CALIFORNIA POETRY. —Tbe following i* on* etanza of a patriotical poetical production that appears in Ihe Nevada Democrat: Keep your eyes fixed on the American Eagle Whom we as the proud bird of destiny hail; For that wise fowl you oan never inveigle, By depositing salt on bis venerable tail. MAnsiEr.—On the Slst inst., Mr. Strange to Miss Strange all of this city. This is a little strange but probably the next event will be a little etranger. X3T An. Ohio politician was boasting, in a publio speech, that he could bring an ar gument to a p'int aa quick as any other man. " You can bring a quart to a pint a I good deal quicker," replied a Kentucky ed ' itor. [Tw Dollars par Una. NUMBER 38. WHAT 18 TROUBLE. A company of Southern ladies were one day assembled id a lady's parlor, wheo the conversation chanced to turn on the subject of earthly affliction. Each bad her story of peculiar trial and bereavement to relate ea cept one pale, sad looking woman, whose lustreless eye and dejected air showed that she was a prey to the deepest melancholy. Suddenly arousing herself, elie said in a hollow voice, "Not one of you know what trouble is." "Will you please, Mrs. Gray," said the kind voice of a lady, who Well knew her story, "tell the ladies what you call trouble!" "I will, if you desire it)" she replied, "for 1 have seen it. My parents possessed a competence, and my girlhood was sur rounded by all the comforts of life. I sel dom knew an ungratified wish, and was al ways gay and light hearted. 1 married at nineteen one 1 loved more than all the world besides. Our home was retired; but the sunlight never shown on a lovelier one, or a happier household. Years rolled on peacefully. Five children sat around our table, and a little curly head still nestled in my bosom. One night, about aundown, one of those fierce black storms came on, which are so common to our Southern cli mate. For many hours the rain poured down incessantly. Morning dawned, but still the elements raged. The whole Savan nah seemed afloat. The little stream near our dwelling became a raging torrent. Be fore we were aware of it, our house was surrounded by water; I managed with my babe to reach a little elevated spot, on which a few wide-spreading trees were standing, whose dense foliage afforded some protec tion, while my husband and sons strove to save what they could of our property. At last a fearful surge swept away my bus band; and he never rose again. Ladies no one ever loved a husband more; but that was not trouble. "Presidency my eons saw their danger, and the struggle for life became the only consideration. They were as brave, loving boys as ever blessed a mother's heart, and I watched their efforts to escape, with such agony as only mothers can feel. They were so far off 1 could not speak to them, but I could see them closing nearer and nearer to each other, as their little island grew smaller and smaller. "The sullen river raged around the huge trees; dead branches, upturned trunks, wrecks of houses, drowning cattle, masses of rubbish, all went floating past us. My boys waved their hands to me, and then pointed upward. I knew it was a farewell signal, and you, mothers, can imagine my anguish. I saw them all perish, and yet—' that was not trouble. "I hugged my baby close to my heart, and when the water rose to my feet, I climbed into the low branches of the tree, and so kept retiring before it, till an Alb powerful hand staid the waves, that they should come no further. I was saved—all my worldly possessions were swept away; all my earthly hopes blighted—yet that was not trouble. "My baby was all I had left on earth. I labored night and day to support him and myself, and sought to train him in the right way; but as he grew older, evil companions won him away from me. He ceased to care for his mother's counsel; he would sneer at her entreaties and agonising prayers. He left my humble roof that he might be un restrained in the pursuit of evil, and, at last when heated by wine one night, he took the life of a fellow-being, and ended his own upon the scaffold. My heavenly fath er bad filled my cup of sorrow before; now it ran over. That w&a trouble ladies, such as I hope His mercy will spare you from ever experiencing." There waa no dry eye among her listen era, and the warmest sympathy waa ex pressed for the bereaved mother, whose sad history had taught them a useful lesson. The Beauty of a Bhtek-— Goethe was in company with a mother and her daughter, when the latter, being reproved for soma fault, blushed and burst into tears. He said: "How beautiful your reproach has made your daughter. The crimson hue and those silvery tears become her better than any ornament of gold and pearls— These may be hung on the neck of a wan ton, but these are never seen disconnected with moral purity. A full brown rose, be sprinkled with the pnrest dew, is not so beautiful as this child blushing beneath her parent's displeasure, and shedding tears of sorrow for her fault. A blush is the aign which nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell. 0T The last case of garrotiag that we have heard of is this: As a young man was about leaving the house in afashiohable part of the place, where he had been spend ing the evening, a pair of white arms was thrown around his neck and hie lips were stiffed. The suddenness of the attack de prived him of all power of resistance. As usual, "no policeman was to be seen." OT God has written it on the flowers that sweeten the air—upon the breeze that rocks the flowers upon the stem—upon the rain drops that refreshes the spring of moss that lifts its bead in the desert—upon every pen cilled sheet that sleeps in the carerns of the deep, no less than upon the mighty son that warms and cheers millions of creatures whioh live in its light—upon all the works he has wtiMwh: "None liveth for himself." OV Thtfrlia* past fills the column.