THE STAR OP THE NORTH, B. U". VOLUME 9. THE STAR OF THE NORTH •IS PUBLISHED BVCRY WEDNESDAY MORNING BY 11. ff. WBAVER, 'OFFICII"— Up stain. in the new brick build• 1 ting, on the south side oj Main Street, third i square below Market. ;I- E N BI s■ i wo Dollar* per annum, if \ paid within six montlia from the lime of sub- 1 -eeribing ; two dollars and fifty cents if not paid within die year. No subscription re ceived for a less period (hail si* months; no -discontinuance permitted until all arrearages •ire psid, unless at the option of the editor. ADVEBTISEMENT* not exceeding one square "will be inserted three times lor One Dollar, and twenty five cents for each additional in seition. A liberal discount will be made to | 'those who advertise by the year. <UOOI>*tttAItT AND WILLING HAND. -BY CHAtU.-KS MACKAY. In storm or shine, two friends of mine Go forth to work or play, And when they visit poor men's homes, They bless them by the way. 'Tis willing hand! 'tis cheerful heart? The two best friends I know, Around the hesrt come joy and mirth Where'er their faces glow. Come st.ioe—'lis bright! come dsrk—'lis light! Come cold—'lis waim ere long! to heavily tall the hammer stroke ! Meriily sound the song! Who fall* may .'and, if good right hand Is first not second be.t; Who weeps may sing, il kindly heart Has lodging in his breast. The humblest board has dainties poored, When they sit down to dine; The bread they tat ia honey sweet, The water good as wine. They fill the purse with honest gold, Tlrey lead no creature wrong; tin merrily fall the hammer stroke! Merrily sound the sung. "Without thee twain the poor complain Of evils hard to bear, But with them poverty grows rich, And finds a loaf to spare ! Their looks are fire—their words inspire— Their deeds give courage high ; About their knees the children run, Or climb, they know not wby, Who sails, or rules, or walks with them, Ne'er finds the journey long; So heavily fall rhe hammer stroke 1 Merrily sound the song! II ALU D. BY MEI6TEK KARL. If flowers were good as kisses, Ob then I wilt be bound, That sprouts would soon be growing Ou every incb of ground. If wine were good as kisses, How very soon we'd see All people who could gel if As tipsy as could bo. If bread were good as kisses, Full well, my Iriend, I know That corn would rise in price, And to baking we would go. If rakes were good as kisses, We'd soon see high arid low, The countess with hercook-mttid, All rolling up the dough. If books wete good as kisses, And easy to bo earned How many an ignoramus Would be full deeply learned. Go over the world, good fellow, Consider all things well, Thou'li see that ol every pleasure Sweet kissing doth beat the bell. I f Next to being upright and faiikfu! in the performance of your duty, be decided,! and then you will make either friends oi loes worth having. IT In treating diseases of the mind, mu- j a'.c is not sufficiently valued. I:t raising the heart above despair, ao old violin is wotlb Jour doctors and two apothecary shops. A certain cockney bluebrard overcome by sensibilities, fainted at tbe grave of hia fourth epoti6e. "What can wedowith him'"asked a perplexed friend of his. "Let him alone," said a waggish bystander; "he'll soon rewive. "You ate very stupid, Thomas," said a country teacher to a little boy eight years old. "You ate like a donkey, and what do they do to cure him of his stupidity?" "Why, they teed tim more and kick him less," said the urchin. "If we ate to live after death, why don't yse have some ceitain knowledge of it?" ■aid a skeptic to a clergyman. "Why don't you have some knowledge of this world be fore you cotne into it ?" was the caustic reply. ur It it slated that the warehouses in Buf falo arecramed to their utmost capacity with grain, flour and general produce from the west. Fresh cargoes are continually arriving, but there is no one to recive them. Tho banks in many instances have advanced the freight, -taking the whole cargo as security- One firm lias now thirteen boats lying st West troy lieavily laden with valuable produce, and tbey are unable to raise tbe money ($3000) to pay tbe tolls. A Gooc COMPARISON.—"If you have ever -Been," wrote Willis to his daughter,'' a field -of broom-coin—the most careless branching and free sway ing of all the products of a sum mer—and can fancy the contrast, in its des tiny, between (weeping the pure eirwith the wind's handling, and sweeping what it more usefully may, wben lied up fot handling as brooms, you can understand tbe difference 1 fsel, between using my thoughts at my pleasure, si in country life,*nd using them for subsistence as in my present profession." BT Til* SHIPBUILDH' OPINIO* OF WHIT FIELD.—A shipbuilder was once asked what be thought of Mr. Whitfield. "Think!'' he replied; "I tell you, sir, every Sunday that I no to my parish church, I can build a ship from neni lo alern under the sermon; but, were I 10 save my eoul, under Mr. W. I to Lid cot l.ry a eiii~ie pluck." BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1857. MR. BUCHANAN'S SPEECH. - (EXTRACTS.) IN SENATE, JANUARY 23, 1840. What has been the financial history of the country for the last twenty-five years ? -I can speak with positive knowledge upon this subject during the period of eighteen years since I first came into public life.— 'lt-has been a history of constant vibration of extravagant expansions in the business of the country, succeeded by ruinous con tractions. At successive intervals many of the best and moat enterprising men of the country have been crushed. They have fallen victims at the shrine of the insatiate and insatiable spirit of extravagant bank ing and speculation. Starting at the ex treme poifit of depression -of one of theso periods, we find that the country has been glutted with foreign merchandize, and il re quires all our efforts to pay the debt thus contracted to foreign nations. At this crisis the bunks can do nothing to relieve the people. In order to preserve their own ex istence, they are compelled to contract their loans and their issues. In the hour of dis tress, when their assistance is most needed, they can do nothing for their votaries. Ev ery article sinks in price, men are unable to pay thoir debts, and wide-spread rain pervades the land. During this firßt year of the cycle, we are able to import but comparatively little foreign merchandize, and this affords the country an opportunity of recruiting its exhausted energies. The next year the patient begins to recover Domestic manufactures flourish in propor tion as foreign goods become scarce. The industry and enterprise of our citizens have been exerted with energy, and our produc tions have liquidatod the foreign debt. The third year a fair business is done. The country preset)'* a flourishing appearance The banks, relieved from the drains of specie required for. foreign export, begin onoe moie to expand, and temptthe unwary to their ruin. Property of all descriptions commands a fair price. The fourth or filth year the era of extravagant banking and speculation returns, again to be succeeded by another ruinous revulsion. This was the history of the country up till 1837- Since then we have traveled the road to ruiu much more rapidly than in for mer years. Before that period it had re quired from three to six years to get up an expansion and its corresponding explosion. We have now witnessed the astounding fact that Ave can press through all these changes, and even from one suspension of specie payments to another in little more than two years. It is curious to observe with how much accuracy you can read the ever-changing condition of this country in the varied amount of our importations. The year 1836 was one of the vast expansion, and produced the explosion and suspension of Bpecie payments in 1837. The imports were greatly diminished in 1837, being less than they had been in 1836 by nearly fifty millions of dollars. In 1838 they sunk down to twenty-seven millions less than they had been In 1837, and nearly twenty seven millions less tban they were in 1839. In 1839 we had another expansion, and our imports were forty-four millions of dollars greater than they had been in 1838. This expansion preceded ihe explosion and sus pension payments in the mouth of October iast. Thus we have become such skilful architects of ruin, that a single year was sufficient to prepare the late explosion. There never has existed a nation on earth, except our own, that could endure such rapid and violent expansions and contrac tions. It is the buoyancy of youth—it is | the energies of our population—it is the i spirit which never quails before difficulties —which enables us to endure such shocks J without utter ruin. Yes, sir r a difference in : the amount of our imports, between the j years 1836 and 1838, of twenty seven mill ions of dollars, is sufficient to excite the ! astonishment of the world. What causes chiefly operate to produce this speedy recurrence of the second ex plosion and the second suspension of spe cie payments ? Three may be mentioned. In the first place, after the bank suspension 1837, every person who was friendly to well regulated banks, if such a thing be possible under the present system, ardently desired that the different State Legislatures might impose upon them some wholesome restric tions. It was expected that they would be compelled to keep a certain amount of specie in their vaults in proportion to their circulation and deposits ; that the founda tion of a specie basis for our paper curren cy should be laid by prohibiting the circu lation of bank notes at the first under the denomination of ten and afterwards under that of twenty dollars ; that the amount of their dividends should be limited; and, above all, that upon the occurrence of anoth er suspension their doors should be closed at once, and their affairs bo placed in the hands of commissioners. The diflerent Legislatures met. Much indignation was expressed at the conduct of the banks.— They were severely threatened; but at last they proved to powerful for the people. In deed, it would almost seem as if most of the Slate Legislatures had met for no otiter purpose than to legalize the previous sus pension of specie payment, No efficient restrictions were imposed; and the banks were thus taught that they might thereafter go unpunished—unwhipped of justice.— Past impunity prevented tbem from reduce ing their business and curtailing tkeir prof its in such a manner as to render them secure in the day of trial. They have fallen again ; I fear again to enjoy the same im punity. In the second place, ihe immense, amount of money loaned to many of the States in England, a large portion of which was brought home in the form of foreign mer chandise, afforded great facilities for over trading, or rather overbuying. And in the third [place, the conduc£of the bank of the United Statesgreatly tended to produce these, excessive importations.— That institution became the broker for the sale of ell State bonds" in Europe. It en deavored to monopolize the entire cotton trade of the country ; and it drew bills of exchange on England, roost freely, at mod erate rates, against the proceeds of the bonds and of its cotton. Every temptation Avas thus presented to speculations in for eign merchandise. These three causes combining, have oc casioned a second suspension of specie payments within two years after the first, and produced this bloated credit system, from the wreck of whioh cur country is now deeply differing. 1 most heartily concur with the Senatot from Kentucky in one of his positions. We certainly produce 100 little and import too much. Our expanded credit system is the great cause of this calamity. Confine it within safe and reasonable bounds, and this disastrous effect will no longer be produced. It is not in the powei of Congress to do much toward a consumation so desirable.— Still we shall do ull we can ; and the pres ent bdl will exercise some influence in re straining the-banks from making extrava gant loans and emitting extravagant is sues. What effect has this bloated system of credit produced upon the morals of the country ? In tho large commercial cities, it lias converted almost al' men of business into gamblers. Where is there now to be found the old-fashioned importing merchant, whoso Avord was as good as his bond, and who was content to grow rich, as our fath ers did, by the suoeessive and regular prof its of many yearsof patient industry? Such men were the glory and pride of commeroe, and elevated the character of their country both at home and abroad. I ask, where are they? Is not the race almost extinct? All notv desire to grow rich rapidly. Each takes his chance in the lottery of specula tion. Although there may be a hundred chances to one against him, each, eagerly intent upon the golden prize, over'ooks the intervening rocks and quicksands between him and it, and when he fondly thinks he is about to clutch it, he sinks into bankrupt cy and ruin. Such lias been the fate of thousands of our most enterprising citi zens. If the speculator should prove successful and win the golden prize, no matiet by what means he may have acquired his wealth, this clothes him with honor and glory.— Money, money, money, confers the highest distinction in society. The republican sim plicity and virtue of a Macon would be sub jects of ridicule on Wall street or Chestnut street. The highest talent, directed by the purest patriotism, moral worth, literary and professional fame—in Aorl, every quality that ought to confer distinction in society sink into insignificance when compared with wealth. Money is equivalent to a title of no biltiy in our larger commercial cities. This is the effect ol the credit system. We have widely departed from the eco nomical habits and simple virtues of our forefathers. These are Ihe only sure foun dations upon which our republican institu tions can rest. The desire to make sn os tentatious display of our rapidly acquired wealth has produced a splendor and bound less expense unknown in burner times.— There is now more extravagance in our large commercial cities than exists in anj portion of the world, which I have ever seen, ex cept among the wealthy nobility of England. Thank Heaven this extravagance has but partially reached the mountains and valleys of the interior. The people there, so fsr as their potential voice can be heard, are deter mined to put an end to this bloated credit system, which threatens to involve not only their private fortunes, but their political lib erties in ruin. On Fridey last, when I eery unexpectedly addressed lbs Senate, 1 stated a principle of; political economy which 1 shall now read i from the hook. It is this. "That if you double the amount of the necessary circulat ing medium in any country, you therefore double the nominal price of every article.— 11, wnen the circulating medium is fifty mil lions, an article should cost or.e dollar, it would cost two if, without any increase of the use of a circulating medium, the quanti ty should be increased to one hundred mil lions." The same effect would be produced whether the circulating medium were specie or convertible bank paper mingled with spe cie. It isyhe increased quantity of the me dium not its character, which produces this effect. Of course I leave out ol view irre deemable bank paper. Let rhe now recur to the proposition with which I commenced; and 1 repeal that I do not pretend to mathematical accuracy in the illustration which I shall present. The U. S. carry on a trade with Germany and France; the former a hard money country, and the latter approaching it so nearly as to have no bank notes iu circulation nnder the denomi nation of five hundred francs, or nearly one hundred dollars. On the contrary, the U. S. is emphatically a paper-money country, hav ing eight hundred banks of issue, all of lbm emitting notes of s denomination as low as five dollars, and most of tbem one, two and three dollar notes. For every doi- Itr of gold and silver in the vaults of tbeee y. Truth And Right-— God tad oar Couutry. banks, tbey issue three, four, five, and some of tliern as high'aa'ten, soil even fifteen dol lars of paper. This produces a vast but ever-changing expansion of [the cnrrency, and a consequent increase of the prioes of all articles, the value of which is not regela ted by foreign derhantl, above tho prices of similar articles in Germany and France. At particular stagev of our expansions, we might with justice apply the principle which I have staled to our trade with these coun tries, and assert that, trom the great redun dancy of our currency, artidlesare manufac tured in France aad Germany for one half '.heir actual cost in tbia country. Let me preeeut an example. In 'Germany, where the currency ts purely nretnmc r *fld trie cost of -every thing is reduced to a hard-money standard, a piece of broadcloth can be man ufactured for fifty dollars, the manufacture of wbich in our country, from the expansion of our paper cnrreucy, would cost one.hundred dollars? What is the consequence? The Foreign French or German manufacturer im ports his cldth into our country, and sells it for a hundred dollars. Does not every per son perceive that the redundancy of our cur rency ie equal to a premium of one hundred per cpnt. HI favor of the foreign manufactur er ? No tariff of protection, unless it amoun ted to prohibition, could counteract this ad vantage ir, favor of loreign manufactures.— I would to heaven that 1 could arouse the attention of every manntactarer of the na tion to this important subject. The foreign manufacturer will not receive our batik notes in payment. He will take nothing home except gold and silver, or bills o! exchange, which are equivalent. He does -not expend this money here, where he would be compelled ta support his family, and to purchase his labor and materials at the same rate of prices which he receives for his manufactures. Ou the contrary, he goes home, purchases his 'labor, his ivool and all other articles which enter into his manufacture, at half theirco.t in thiscoun try, and again returns to inundate us with foreign woolens, and to ruin our domestic manufactures. I might cite many other ex amples, hut this, f trfist, will be sufficient to draw public attention to the subject. This depreciation of our currency is, therefore, equivalent to a direct protection granted to the foreign over Ihe domestic manufacturer. It is impossih le that nur manufacturers should be able to sustain such an unequal competi tion. Sir, I solemly believe that if we could but reduce this inflated paper bubble to anything ike reasonable dimensions, New England would become the most prosperous manu facturing country that the sun ever shone upon. ' Why cannot we manufacture goods, and especially cotton goods, which will go into successful competition with the British manufactures in foreign markets? Have we not the necessary capital? Have we not the industry? Have we not Ihe machineryf— And above all, are not our skill, energy and enterprise proverbial throughout the world? Land is also cheaper here than in any other country on the f.ce of tbe earth. We poa sees every advantage wbich l'rovidence can bestow upon us for the manufacture of cot ton; but tbey are all counteracted by the folly of man. The raw material costs us less than it does Ihe English, because this is an article Ihe price of whioh depend* upon for eign markets, and is not regulated bv our OAn irflated currency. We, therefore, save the height of the cotton across the Atlantic, and that of the manufactured article on ita lettiru here. What is the reason that, with all these advantages, and with the protective duties which our laws afford to the domestic manufacturer of cotton we cannot oblaio ex clusive possession of the home market, and successfully contend lor Ihe markets of the world? It is simply because we manufac ture at the nominal prices of our own inflated currency, and are compelled to sell at the real prices of other nations. Reduce our nominal to the real standard of prices through out the world, atid yon cover oar country with blessings and benefits. I wish to Hea ven I could'speak in a voice loud enough to be heard throughout New because, if the attention of manufactures could once be directed to tbe subject, their own intelli gence and native sagacity wonld leach them how injuriously they are affected by our bloated banking and credit system, and would enable tbem to apply the proper cor rective. Although this bill will not have as great an influence as I could desire, yet, as far as it goes, it will benefit the laboring man as much, and probably more, than any other class of society. What is it he ought most to desire t Constant employment, regular wages, and uniform reasonable prices for the necessaries and comforts of life wbioh be requires. Now, sir, what has been his condition under our system of expansions and contractions f He has suffered more by them than any other class of society. The rate of bis wages is fixed and known, and tbey ere the last to raise with the increasing expansion, and the first to fall when the cor responding revulsion occurs. He still con tinues to receive bl* dollar per day, whilst the price of every article which he consumes is rapidly rising. Hs is at length made to feel that, although be nominally eatna aa much or even more than he did formerly, yet, from the increased price of ail the ne cessaries of life, he cannot support his fami ly. Hence he strikes for higher wages, and the uneasy sod excited feelings whioh have at different periods existed among the labor ing classes. But the expansion at length reaches the exploding point, and what dots the laboting man now suffer I Be Is for a season thrown out of employment altogether. Our manufactures are suspended; our pu'blio works are stopped: our private enterprises of different kinds are abandoned; and, whilst others are able to weather the storm, he can scarcely procure tbe means of bare subsis tence. Again, a'u; who do you suppose, held the greater part of the worthless paper of the one hundred and sixty-five broken banks to which I have referred ? Certainly il was not the keen and wary speculator, who snuffs danger from afar. If you wete to make the search, you would find more broken bank notes in the cottages of the laboring poor than any where else. And these miserable KUliiptasiere worn <™ wry, wnai em lire;) After the revulsion of 1837, laborers were glad to obtain employment on any terms, and they often received it upon the express condition that they should accept this worth less trash in payment. Sir, sn entire sup pression of all bank notes of a lower denom ination than Ihe value of one week's wages ol the laboring man is absolutely necessary for bis protection. He ought always to re ceive his wageß in gold and silver. Of all men on rhe earth, the laborer, is most inter oeted in having a sound and stable currency. Tobnccn Smoking. The Mahoramedau legend on the subject is too long for repetition under its Eastern garb. Suffice it that a viper was restored to health by the warmth of tbe Prophet's body. Immediately on convalescene, the ungrateful reptile announced its intention of biting its preserver. The I'tephet expostulated. An argument ensued, which ended in the viper's carrying out its original project. The Proph et sucked the venom from bis wounded wrist aRd spit it forth. "From these drops ■sprung that wondrous weed, which has the bitterness of the serpent's tooth quelled by tbe sweet saliva of the Prophet." But what ever the origin of tobacco, no plant has ex ercised so much political infloe.ice. The Pope Urban VIII excommunicated all those who'iook snuff in church. The Empress Elizabeth was less severe. She declared ihe snuffboxes of those who made use of them in churuh should be confiscated to ihe use of the beadle. At Ilerne the use of to bacco was classified with adhlteiy. In Tran sylvania-the penalty was far gteater; ii 1639 entire confiscation of property was the sen tence of those who should plant tobacco, while consumers were condemned to fines varying from three to two hundred florin?.— Amuralh IV hung persons found guilty of smoking, with pipes through their noses and a tobacco pouch hanging from their necks. The Grand Duke ol Muscovy forbade smok ing and snuff-taking under the penally of having the nose cut off; while Mohamed IV, son or the Sultan Ibrahim, 1663, punished the practice with decapitation. Il is related of Amnrath that a smoking sapbi once anuck the monarch himself for smoking with him incognito on board a caique. Amurath in formed the ssphi that the royal decree refer red equally to himself. "No," replied the saphi, "t fight for and would die for him.— It does not apply to me." A few days sub sequently Amurath sent for him, and, making himself known, gave bis fellow-offender a good appointment. But such penal regula tions appear always to have been evaded. Those modern Amuraths, rail way directors, arrogate to themselves tbe right of inflicting a fine or 4Da. and expulsion from their line ou any one guilty of the sublime act. But it is sweet to smoke under difficulties. Were the prohibition removed, smoking on railway carswoulJ probably cease. We know of one young man who feigned madness that he might secure a carriage to himself.— Another, on seeing a bishop alight at an in termediate station, immediately made for the compartment' and calling for a guard com plained that the carriage was reeking of to bacco smoke. "To be sure, those clertoal gentlemen do smoke terribly," answered the official. "Then don't accuse me of it here after," rejoined the yoolb with an arch smile. I On one occasion a railway guard thrust his head into a carriage filled with devotees in the act of their devotion*, ar.d placing his hand ou a cushion, observed, "There are two very good rules on this line, gentlemen. Smoking is strictly prohibited, and the com pany's servants are forbidden to accept gra tuities." A CELLAR "UP STAIRS."—H. A. Sheldon, of Middlebory, Virecommends those with out the conveniences of an onder ground cel lar, the following substitute: "Take a box of any convenient size and set it within another of similar form, but enough larger to admit a layer of dry sawdust four or five in ches thickness to be closely packed betwen the two, both at the bottom and eides. There may be a cover on both boxes, or ocly one on the outsiue box. In a room having a fire by day, such a box will keep vegetables enough for a small family during a month or so, which will be a great convenience to those living at a distanc from market. In very cold weather the box may be left open during the day." It will also do for a Sum mer ice-cheat, by putting the ice in, in some water-tight vessel.—American Agricultwid. EF" PUNCTUATION— that is, putting the stops in the right places—caunot be to sedulously studied. We lately read, in a country paper, the following startling account of Lord Pal meralon's appearance in the House of Com mon: "Lord Palmertson then entered on his heat 1 , a while bat on his feet, large but well polished boots upon his brow, a dark cloud in his band, bis faithfo! walking stiok in his eye, a meaning glare taying nothing. He eat down." LI PR'S COItII'KNSATIuNS- The'tiappinesa of this world is not so une qually distributed as many imagine ; the rich have not all the priviledges, nor the poor all tbe privations. Thank God, the'pureil plea sures of life are those which mcney cannot buy. The artisan going from hia wearisome labor to his hum bio house, as he meets the love-lit smile of his wife, and lakes his fair and healthy child upoo his knee, knows a thrill of sweeter joy than the most lavish ex penditure of gold upon cosily stimulants can bring the jaded mind of the epicurean in plea sure- The wildwood IfloWets and the dew drops ate not bought; Ihe glory of snnse! and (lie magnificence of the full moon ere tree to tf;l,' The blushing cheek end beaming eyes of the effectiou cannot be purcha-ed ; virtue and beauty receive not their glorious riches from the hand of Mammon; the intel lectually wealthy may well bold in contempt tho baser coin of Ihe world. ft is true that the bridegroom workingman. as he bears -his bride to their lowly home, longs, with Ihe impulse of affection, to attire her graceful fo>m in the same adornment* which her proufier sister* use to heighten their charms; but it is foolish, though gen erous impulse. If he loves his bride, and she him, they need not covet the situation of those whose love of rivalship, display, and "pride of place" have most likely driv en out simple, heartfelt happiness. The ra diant smile of affection, and the clear glance of unsullied virtue, are ornaments above price, and will make the face of a woman beautiful even in its old-agb. So the working-man father, looking around upon his blooming children, is conscious that their intellect is as keen, their percep tions as ready, as those ol the nabob's upon the next street; and he determines they shall have similar advantages. This is a noble ambition. But in these days, it is no reason why a man should spend his years ingrumb litig discontent because he is not rich. Our system of common schools places education •within reach of ihe -humblest. Willi rnintl and education, every son and danhter has a fair chance to achieve respectability in this couutry; and it is fa-lse ambition which Avould seek the power and honor cotfferred ■only by money. Yet, (hat son or daughter may have yearnings after the develnpemenl of peculiar talents or genius; the son may thirst to drink deep of the Pierian spring of classical learning; may have a gift for a profession (without which especial calling he has no business to attempt competition in the overburdened Tanksof the professions;) and ihe daughter may have visions of beau ty, or have dreams of melody, which call for her fingers to accomplish themselves in pain ting or music. With health a moderate industry will bring about all this, and still the soul not fall a vic tim to the prevailing fever—the terriblegold lever which scnrches the eensibillies, and dries up the springs ol humanity in so many hearts. There is still another class who feel yet more keenly the want of wealth; not for the petty pleasures of sense, or thetoeal influ ence it would give tbem, but because-they worship the B-autiful, and money would gkye them the means of gratifying their ex quisite tastes. With souls aspiring after grace, fitness, and beauty in all things, they have to struggle with the details of life and poverty. These are the people of genius poets, artists—men of divine, unworldly gifts. They would convert the glorious Ideal into the Real, ifrtiey had the necessary means. They nre treated by the coarseness and ugli ness from which they cannot escape, yet they are self-deceived if they do not consider themselves among the most lortuna'.e, as far even as happiness, commonly considered, goes. We doubt not that the painter in his unfurnished gairet, with his coffee pot and loaf of bread, and his hard bed in the same room with him. ia filled with a richer plea sure, as he sits, and dreams, and broods over the creation of his genius upon the convas before him, than it is possible for the weal thy egotist, who buys it of bim, to conceive. We doubt not that his Act—his beloved, wor shiped Art—is more to him than pyramids of diamonds. Ask him if he would exchange himself, his hopes, his dreams, hi* ideals, his fine perceptions of beauty, his deep emo tions, for the withered soul ol yonder Croesus, who has spent bis life in accumulating bonds and mortgages, rent?, and interest upon in terest. And the poet —will he say that he has ev er entered the portals of any Fifth Avenue palace, that could begin to equal the splen dor of the unearthly palaces through which his imagination daily walks? Will he give up the materials (torn which he constructs these—gold of the sunset, marble of the clouds, silver ol the Star light, gems of the dew and waterfall, draperies of intangible mists and inexpressibly lovely shadows, spray and foliage, with all the delight which tbey give and the beamy which they auggeet—for the brown stone mansion of the millionare? Will he notaay that his day and his night dreaming, his fancies, bis earnest aspirations after ibe pure end true, his deep sympathy with the heart of humanity, hia mighty store of lore, his keen delight in all ibatia fair, bis broad and boundless realm of feeling and imagination—where angels walk, and visi ttnls more beautiful then flowers, linger to smile upon bim—will he net say that tkese are beyond price—a wealth which he has in herited from the Father in Heaven 1 The scholar and the screniifio man ; will tbey measure their pleasures along with those of the sensualist and the epicure ? Yet, for what nobler purpose are the moat of these fortunes acquired, than for indulgence in [Tw Dllars pe^^S^^ NUMBER 43. I good eating, good drinking, rich clod:, and eltowy hoose, a'rtd for ihe means of rivalry, I arrogance, and ostentation ? j A good fortune, well spent noon ol'jecla [ of real merit, upon works of art, and cnltiva ' lion of the mind and "tool; updo ihejpoor, the sick, nnd upon the struggling men df tdl"- em ; upon the advancement of science and general intelligence, si a desirable thing. But bow lew acquire money for Bach purpo- BPS! Take heart, yon who belong not 10 throng ol the vulgar "great!" Reconsider your for tunes, and see if you liave'tlOl cause'lor lru thankfulness. Press not on so madly" for the glittering payment. Do you not see how jrm kiittnjfh om itirTtirwrtd tty V Why will yon be so unmindful ot their frag rance upon the air, anil of the .blue heaven over your heads ? From ForiUj't rrcst. Pursuit of Gain. The irresiatibie impulse that has been given, within the last few years, to every branch of iudustry, has been productive of great good. But every human benefit is I apt to be closely attended by corresponding evil. The lightning and the tempest purify the elements, but, at'the same time, are the agents of death and desolation. So, too, while the whole country bears evidence to the physical prosperity of our people, it is equally evident that there is a too intense and absorbing devotion to gain. This af fects the whole-body politic. 'lt lias chang ed, and will yet more radically change, the whole order of society. "The great princi ple of demand and supply," said Mr. Calhoun, in one of his speeches on the Sub-Treasury, "governs the moral and in tellectual world no less than the business and commercial. If a community be so constituted as to cause a demand for high mental attainments, as if its honors and re wards are allotted to pursuits ihftt require '.heir development, by creating a ifftmaPd for intelligence, knowledge, wisdom, justice, firmness, courage, patriotism, and the like, they are sure to be produced. But if, on the contrary, they bo allotted to pursuits that require inferior qualities, the higher aro sure to decay and perish." Fortunes have been so rapidly accumula ted in our country out of the regular and beaten paths of ordinary pursuits, thkt a rage for sudden acquisitions universally pre vails. Wealth is fast becoming the cilerion of mrt-it, as "Well as of individual and so cial consideration. The influence of this upon the intellect and more manly qualities of a people is disastrons. All the higher and nobler faculties of the mind dwindle away when brought in contact with the schemes of speculation and the arts of the stock-board. In that presence they are as surely blasted as the gTeen spot in the des ert, when swept by the devouring sirocco. "Wisdom, justice, courage, patriotism, and the like," derive their inspiration from a very different source.' It is true, to make money, in the sharp competitions of trade, may require and develop quickness of judg ment and promptitude of action—qualities desirable in themselves, but by no means the highest and most desirable. That na tion has arrived at a critical stage ill its ex istence, when wealth, and the ease and lux ury it secures, are become the chief objects of ambition. "11l fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumalales and men decay." The heroic virtues have then departed. Duly and honor no longer hold sway. In any great crisis affecting for weal or woe the good and glory of tho country through all coming time, the decisive acion will be determined, not by public and patriotic con siderations, but by those which are personal and pecuniary. The professions, and espe cially the higher career of politics, will bo adopted, not as the means to acquire honor and do the Stale service, but as the means of making money. Other considerations will be sacrificed to this. A generous am bition withers and dies whenever the pass ion of acquisition gets possession of tint mind. It is on this ground that wars have been vindicated. It has been said that they with draw tire attention of mankind from thoso objects that are dwarfing and benumbing them, and fix it upon things of a larger and more momentous character. Their bosoms are aroused and agitated by the march and encounter of armies, by gallant deeds, and heroic sacrifices. They become insensibly imbued with a higher and loftier spirit, and obey with alacrity the call of honor or duly. Such is the argument, and certainly it is not without seeming force. Let us hope, however, that a more effectual means to check the undue and unrighteous worship of Mammon may be found in the wider diffusion of a sound and ennobling literature and the re-awakening of a more healthful moral tone. A NARROW ESCAPE —" Muher! Miilrer! what have you done?" said a little newsboy lo a green horn who had jntlied his horse to a spruce pole, as he thought. "Done!" ■siid -the fellow; "What do yon mean? I hain't been doiu', ae I know on!" "Why, yelh yon have thir you've hitched your both to the magnetic telegraph, and you'll be in Naw York in leth than two minute*, if you don't look out."— the man untied Ids horse with nervous anxiety, and jumping into his wag on drove hastily down the street. OF* A gentleman having fallen into thft river Exe, relating it loSirT. A., viid, "You will tnppoee I waa pretty wet." "Yes," said 1 the baronet, "wet, certainly, in the Exeltente.
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