THE STAR OF THE NORTH. Mrs. B. W. Weaver, Proprietress.] VOLUME 9. THE STAR OF THE NORTn W PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING. W. 11. JACODY,ißu*ines Manager. OFFICE— Upstairs, in Use new brick build •Nfi the south side oj Main Street, third square below Market. 'I B: —Two Dollars per annum, if paid w.thin 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 •re paid, unless at the option of the editor. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding one square will be inseried three times for One Dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional in setlion. A liberal discount will be made to those who advertise by tbe year. <ZTt|oice poetcg. "imuAiiY"DA y~. LONGFELLOW. The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains', and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; My thoughts still cling to the moulu'rtng past, But the hones of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shinning; '4'hy fate is the common fate of all, — Into each life, some rain must fall. Some days must be dark and dreary. THE OLD* OLD STORY. Bummer moon-beams softly playing, Light the woods of Castle Keep; And there 1 see a maiden straying, Where the darkest shadows creep. She is listening—meekly, purely, To the wooer at her side; Tis the "old, old story," surely, Running on like time and tine. Maiden fair, oh ! have a care; Vows are many—truth is rare. Ho is courtly, she is simple; Lordly doublet speaks his lot: She is wearing hood and wimple— His the castle, hers the cot, Sweeter far she deems his whisper Than the night bird's dulcet tnrill; sbe is smiling—he beguiling— 'Tis the "old, old story" still. Maiden fair, oh ! have a care; Vows are many—truth is rare. The autumn sun is quickly going Behind the woods of Castle Keep; The air is still, the night wind blowing, And there 1 see a maiden weep. Her cheeks are while—her brow is aching, The "old, old story" sad and briel; Of heart betrayed, and left, nigh breaking, In mute despair and lonely grief. Maiden fair, oh! have a care; Vows are many—truth is rare. LIVE FOR*BUMEITII NG. Live for something; be not idle- Look about thee for employ; Sit not down to useless dreaming— Labor is the sweetest joy. Voided hands are ever weary, Selfish hearts are never gay, Life for thee hath many duties— Active be, then, while you may. Scatter blessings in thy pathway! Gentle words and cheering smiles Better are than gold and silver, With their grief dispelling wiles. As the pleasant sunshine falletu Ever on the grateful earth, 5o let sympathy and kindness Gladden well the darkened earth. Hearts that are oppressed and weary, Drop the tear of sympathy, Whisper words of hope and comfort, Give, and thy reward shall be Joy unto thy soul returniug From this perfect fountain-head; Freely, as thou freely giveSt, Shall the grateful light be shed. A Miorl Story by Oicken*. Dickens tells the following story of an American sea captain: On his last voyage home the captain had 011 board a young lady of remarkable person al attractions—a phrase 1 ose as one being entirely new, and one you never met with in the news pipers. This young lady was bebved intensely by five young gentleman passengers, and in return she was in love with them all very ardestly, but without any particular preference for either. Not know how to make up the determination in this dilernna she consulted my r riend the cap tain being a man of an original turn of mind •ays to (ho young lady. "Jump overboard, and marry the man who jumps after you." The young lady, struck with the idea, and being naturally lond of bathing, especially in warm weather as it then was, took the advice of the captain who bad a boat mann ed in case of accident. Accordingly, next morning the five lovers being on deok, and looking devontedly at the young lady, she plunged into the sea head foremost. Fonr of the lovers immediately jumped in after ber. When the young lady and her lovers were got out again, she says to the captain : ''what am Ito do now, they arc so wet?" Bays the captain, "tako the dry one ?" And the young lady did and she married him. MILLIONS of massive rain drops Have fallen oil all around ; The) have danced on the house tops, They've hidden in the ground. They were liquid like musicians, With anything for keys; Healing tunes upon the windowe, Keeping time upon the trees. MUSSULMAN writers speak of an ignorant" Arab, who, being asked how he knew any thing about lite existence of a God, replied : "Just as I know, by the tracks in the sand, whether a man or beast has passed there,so, when I survey the heavens, with its bright slate, and the earth, with its productions, do I (eel the existence and power o( God." BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 80, 1857. A GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT. Seasons of war, of eivil strife, and of pub lic tumult, often draw forth the bat as well as the worst qualities of human nature. The Camas of heroea who have borne a promi nent part in this world's struggles, who have shed their life-blood in their country's cause, or have dared to raise their voice in behalf of a sovereign doomed to death by his peo ple, have been handed down with honor to posterity; end well it is that names sncb as these should be immortalized. But, in life's more hidden paths, bow many a noble deed has been achieved, how many an act of self-sacrifice silently performed, which will never be known until that day when every bidden thing shall be made manifest! It is one of these unknown or long-forgotten he roes whom we are now about to introduce to our readers in the hope that his brief but eventful history may not prove nninteresting. Amortg the attendantaof the hapless Queen Marie Antoinette, there was one named Val entin. In her service he began the career of self-devotion which he pursued through fife. At the Tuilleries, on the fatal 21st of June, 1791, he lought in defence of his sovereign, and was carried, wounded, from the palace. Time passed on, and Valentin, recovered from his wounds, sought another service. He offered himself to the Marquis of Car accieli, formerly Neapolitan ambassador to the French court, but now a ruined man.— The Marquis at first declined his services, assuring him that his broken fortunes would not admit of his keeping a valel; but Valen tin seemed to feel a par.icnlar attraction to wards this Neapolitan nobleman, and well nigh insisted on attaching himself to his for tunes. Evil days, however, were in store for the once wealthy and popular ambassa dor. Compelled by poverty to live in one of the most crowded streets of Paris, he fell into ill health, and during (his lime of sick ness was unable to procure the most ordina ry comforts, and even necessities of life. The faithful Valentin, who, in his earlier years, had been a turner by profession, caused the Marquis to be removed to an airy apartment belonging to o chairmaker in the Faubourg St. Antoine. Here he not only paid the rqnt of the room by working for the landlord, but also earned euough to maintain the suffering mister. Day by day, however, tbe illness of Ihe Marquis assumed a more iterious character; increased care and more abundant nourish ment were required by the invalid. Poor Valentin, with a mistaken, perchanco yet generous pride, would not make known Ihe destitute condition of the Marquis to any amongst his former wealthy fiiends; but when his own earnings proved insufficient, he appealed to the government of the day for help; his application, however, proved fruitless, and Carraccioli died in penury and want. When Valentin Blood by his mauler's corpse, he fell as if he had nerer till then known how dear Carrsccioli was to his heart. He could not endure the thought that this nobleman, ol illustrious name and ancient lineage, should be committed to a pauper's grave. He accordingly hastened to a notary, sold, for the sum of £l2, a small properly which he had purchased with the ravings of hie earlier years, discharged the few debts contracted during the illness of Carraccioli, and with the remainder of this sum, paid lor the unpretending funeral of the once honored ambassarlot of Naples. About this time, Madame Junot, Duchess of Abrantes, was setting up her establish ment on her return front Lisbon, whither she had accompained her hnsband on an em bassy to the Portuguese, court. A good old Abbe who had become acquainted with Val entin, and knew the generous self-devotion he had manifested toward his late master, mentioned the circumstances of his past his tory to Madame d'Abianles, and the very next day he was engaged in ber service. The heart of the faithful servant was quick ly won by the sympathixing interest with with which his new mistress listened to his recital of the wrongs and misfortunes of the Marquis, and his gratitude knew no bounds when she erected a movement over his mas ter's tomb. In ibis happy servitude, time passed quick ly with Valentin, until, in the year 1804, he inherited a small property in his native pro vince. He was then about fifty-five years of age, and Madame Jnnol, on learning his un expected good fortune, congratulated him on being now in a position to retire from the service, and settle in a house of his own, with a modest competence. " Do you, then, intend to dismiss me from your service, madame?" exclaimed Val'entin in a sorrowful tone. "Dismiss you! My poor Valentin, why, what or. earth could put such an idea into your head ?" exclaimed Madame Junot. " I thought my lady spoke of going away." "I only congratulated you on the prospect of being henceforth your own master," re joined theDucbess; 'but if you are not dispos ed to enjoy your liberty, that is no business of mine, and certainly, it yon wait for me to dismiss you, you will remain with me forev er. Not long after this conversation, Junot hav ing incurred the Emperor's displeasure, was superseded as Governor of Paris, and sent to command at Arras. This change of position of coarse involved some alteration in domes tic arrangements, and many attendants were dismissed from the serviee of the Duke. To Valentin, however, was defied the confi dential post of superintending the establish ment which Madame d'Abrantes still main tained in Paris. He was chosen for this post as being one in whose integrity the moit abiolute unit might be repoied. Mad ame d'Abrantea wa therefore mnch sun prised, on the eve of her depanore for Ar ras, to see Valentin enter the apartment with an air of deep agitation. His countenance was pale as death, and when he attempted to speak, his voice faltered, and it seemed as thongh he conld not otter a word. Ur.able to conceive the cause of his distress, Mad ame d'Abrantes said, in a soothing lone: "I hope, Valentin, yoo are not vexed at be ing left behind in Paris; yon know it can't be helped; the Duke and I chose you for this post on account of the unbounded confi dence we plaoe in your integrity." "Oh, no, Madame, it is not that," faltered forth the poor man; "1 know that it is right that I should stay; indeed, I should have asked leave to say, even if your grace had not oommanded me to do so. It is not that; it is that peo| le say my lord and lady are in disgrace with the First Consul, just as my poor old master was in disgrace with the Neapolitan court, and my lord and lady are going to take the children with them; it will be an expensive journey; and just at this moment the general has had such heavy ex penses, this must take him by surprise. In short, Madame, forgive me, but 1 have been to M. Tricard, the notary, and I asked him for my money, without telling him my rea son for wanting it; and here it is. If my lord and lady will only be so good as to use it just as though it were their own." "Never," exclaims Madame Junot in her Memoirß—"never can I forget this moment; it is graswn upon my heart rather than upon my memory, and time can never efface it.— Had I needed the money, the recollection that Valentin was my own servant would not have caused me to hesitate for a moment in accepting his generous offer. 1 iell that his noble conduct through life had raised him to an equality with myself—to the highest rank in the social scale." Junot himself had entered the apartment while this conversation was going on be tween the faithful Valentin and iiis mistress He listened in silence to the generous offer of this noble hearted man. who was not even aware of his presence. But when Val entin laid upon the table the four bags, con taining his 3,700 francs—his little earthly all —the kihri hearted General could no longer contain himself, but, stepping forward, clasp ed the worthy valet to his heart, as though he hao been bis own brother. To Valentin's great sorrow, however, M. and Madalnc d'Abraotes declined the pofTered sum, ol which, in fact, they did not in the slightest degree stand in need. He seemed, however, so deeply pained by their refusal of his ofTer, that at last Juuot exclaimed: "Well, Valen tin, I will ta' e your money, but only on one condition—my man of business shall pay you 10 per cent for it so long as you live." This condition was faithfully fulfilled; but upon the death of the Duke, Valentin, know ing his master's property to be incumbered with debts, insisted upon ot receiving more than 5 per cent, interest for his money.— Madame d'Abrantes knew him 100 well to grieve his faithful heart by pressing the mat ter any further in this her own hour of dis tress; but, on the return of the Bourbons, she told his history to the Duchess nf Angouleme who bestowed upon him a pension ol £5O a year, in consideration of the rervice he had rendered to the Queen Marie Antoinette in 1791. About this time Valentin's health becom ing enfeebled, he retired from the service of Madame d'Abrantes, and eeuled at Hellville. Here he lived to a good old age, beloved and respected by all who knew him, and hiving nobly earned, in the course of his eventful life, the honorable title of a "good and faith ful servant." Cheap Machinery. The great public want in regard to ma chinery just now, is that it should be cheap ar.d simple in its construction. Every odd and uncouth contrivance, every difficult and unaccountable motion which the ingenuity of man can devise, seems to be worked into, or hitched on to much of the machinery of the present day, and the machine using pub lic are groaning under a complication of cams, spur wheels, eccentrics, &c., too tedi ous to enumerate, and decidedly too much so to be either profitable or convenient. All these superfluous attachments the users have to pay for—once in bard cash, once in pow er to operate them, and several times more by keeping them in working order. The best thing inventors can now do for the pub lic is to simplify and perfect what has al ready been invented. The man who eo simplifies a plow or a wagon that it shall be equally useful at a dollar less cost, is a greater public benefactor than he who in vebts a complicated machine capable of wonderful performances and Unheard-of ex ploits. The engineer who by a simple devico gives a slide valve a prompt, variable cut-ofl motion, that is efficient and cheap, is emi nently more entitled to our thanks than the man who invents an absolutely perfect con densation of sleam, that can only be used at the expense of maintaining a dozen cofn motions. A serviceable moving machine that could be made for 820 would be a greater success than one which would cost 81000, and do twice its work. Let us have, then, simple inventions.— Throw out an extra shaft here and a com pound lever there, and so arranged the re maining parts as to make them perform the work. Let us see how much can be got rid of, and yet have all that wo need.— Lift lUus traltd. Tratb and Klgbt God and onr Country. GOING HOME WITH A GIRL. "Jeems," the local editot of the Bald winsTille Gurelle, la something of a wag. In a racent number of (bat paper be gives an account of "the first time he ever went home with a girl," which ia certainly the richest thing we have ever seen. As he thought proper to chronicle it for the edifica tion of the public, we give it the benefit ol our circulation: We were between sixteen and seventeen years of age when the event about to be re lated transpired and as a description of our personal appearance of that lime ia absolutely assential to the point of our atory, we will give it as concisely as the subject will allow. In reference, then to that period, to say that we were green in the usual acceptation of that term, would give the reader but a poor idea of the; figure we displayed. Rather imagine a tall, lean, cadaverous, swarthy looking chap, with legs like a pair of tongs, a countenance about as expressive as a plate of Dutch cheese, a mouth that came very near making an island of all the head above it, a face, covered with a furze that looked very much like the down on a newly hatob ed goslin, with a gait that would lead the beholder to conclude that we designed to travel down both sides of the street at the same lime, and you have a correct daguer reotype of "Jeems" in the seventeenth year of his age. One dark gloomy night in the month ol I December, we chanced to beat a "spelling school," not a thousand miles from Baldwin ville, where our eyes fell on a "fairy form" that immediately our susceptible heart in a Hate. She was sixteen or thereabouts, with bright eyes, red cheeks and cherry lips, while the auburn ringlets clustered in a wealth of profusion around her beautiful head, and her person to our ravished imagi nation, was more perfect in lorm and out line. than the most faultless statue ever chis eled by the eculptors's art. As was gazed, our feelings, which never before aspired girl ward, were lully aroused, and we determin ed to go home with her that night or perish in the attempt. As soon, therefore, as school was dismissed, and our "lady love" suitably bonoetted and cloaked, we approached to ofTer our services as contemplated, and wc then learned an important lesson, viz: the diffetcnce between resolving and doing. As we neared her we were seized with a parti al blindness—red, green, blue, and yellow lights flashed upon our vision and appeared ar.d disappeared like witches in phantasma goria—our knees smote together liko Bol shazzet's when he discovered the handwri ting on the wall, while our heart thumped with apparently as much force as if it were driving ten-penny nails into our ribs. We in the mean time, managed to mumble over something which is perhaps known to the Recoidtng Angel, but certainly is not to us, at the same lime polking out our elbow as nearly at right angles with our body as our physical conformation would admit. The night air blew keenly which served in some sort to revive us, and as our senses returned, what were our emotions on find ing the cherished object of our first love, clinging to our arm with all the tenacity a drowning man is said to clutch at a straw! Talk ofelysian,or sliding down greased rain bows, or feeding on German flutes, what are sich 'phelinks' in comparison to those mighty ones that swelled our bosom tiiglt unto the bursting of our waiscoat buttons. Our happiness was sublime, sublimity, sub limely, sublimated, and every person who has ever felt the divine throbbing of a fledged love principle, fully understands the world of bliss couohed in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh words at the commencement of this sentence. Well, we passed on pleasantly towards our Sally's home, talking of love and dove, and dart and part,' until, so courageous had we become, that actually proposed 'to go in and sit awhile,' to which our Dalcinoc very graciously assented. Alas, for us I how soon were we lobe reminded that the'course of Irne love never did run smooth.' Sally had a brother of some ten summers, who accompanied us along the way, and who was in wonderful hight spirits at the idea of his sister's having a bean, and he would walk around us frequently, giggling in the height of his glee, and eyeing us as closely as if ourself and Sally were the world reoowced Siamese twins, and he was ta king his first look. Bill, by the way, was a stubbon, chuckle-headed boy, whose habili ments would have made the forluue of any two dealers in mob-rags. At length we reached the bars, and while we were letting them down, Bill shot past us, and tore for the house as if pursued by a thousand bulls of Basham.—He flung open the door with a bang, and exclaimed at the top of bis voice— " Motherl Mothetl Jim C'lark u cumin Aunt with Sal 1" "Is he ?" screamed the old woman in reply, ' 'teal I declare I I didn't Hunk Hu tap-head kiuw enough t" SIGNS or PROSPERITY. —The following is a very good evidence of good times: Where spades grow bright and idle words grow dolt— Where jails ase empty, and where barns are full; Where church-paths are with frequent foot steps worn; Law court yards weedy, silent and forlorn— Where doctors fool it, and where farmers ride; Where age abounds and youth is mulliplied- Where these signs are, '.bey clearly indicate A happy people and a well soveraed State. The Philadelphia Daily Itm, which ceased to exist a few days ago, sunk 580,000 for its publishers. So much for Republican ism The Unemployed--A Horrible Case- A Quaker lady, residing in Philadelphia, was recently visited by a little girl who aaid her father was veiy sick and was not expect ed to live, and that she and the rest of a large family that waa dependent upon him foraupport, were in a elate of destruction.— She begged that the lady would give her suf ficient money at least to pttrcbsse the medi cine which had been prescribed for her fath er, and which might probably save his life. The kind-hearted Quakeress gave her S8 00, and the little girl with tsars of thankfulness murmured her gratitude and departed. A few days after, she returned with a counte nance more wan and sorrow-stricken than before, to tell her benefactress that her fath er waa dead; all the money which she had received had been expended for a coffin and shrnud, and she had nothing left to the fur ther expenses of her father's funeral. The generous lady gave her slo,and went nmong her friends and collected $8 more for her, and then went with her to her wretched abode where she found the family wringing their hands and uttering loud lamentations over tbe body nf which lay in a coffin placed on two chains in the center of the room The lady, who was unused to such scenes of woe, and was greatly afiected by what she saw, hurriedly dtew forth her purse, and gave a portion of its contents to the little girl with a promise of further assistance, and hastily left the room. When she reacted the fool of the crazy stairs, which she had ascended to the squalid apartment above, she discovered that she had forgotten her purse. She went tip immediately, and as noiseless as possible that she might not distuib the sacred grief of the sorrow-stricken family.— What was her surprise and horror on enter ing ihe room lo perceive ihe oorpso silting upright in its shroud, eagerly counting the gold which she had left behind her, nnnonn | cing the result in tones which Bounded morn ' like those of robust health than the eepul chvol account* of an inmate (almost) of the tombs, {ihe contemplated for a moment this phase of humanity, and then departed as noiselessly as she had returned. MORE AUDACITY. —The following letter, ev idently intended for "the retired physician" was found in our box. The owner can have it by "proving properly, and pa> ingcharges:" KONEY FORT Orgust 28 1857. DOCTOR H JAMES I eee by youra advur lisement in the nuze papers (lint your sands of life have nearly run out. I had no idee sand was so skeerce in youre naiborbood. we have hav gut a big iland liere about two mites long where eny kwan'.ity of sand ken be dug up & it is ewsed very exter.cuve for bilding purpurea, if You ore most out i wood like to gel a order to ship you sum moore very cheep, the sand is not so fine maybee as sum you have ceen. but if you will blow in the nuzepapers & get theeddi tnrs to say it is good, it wood do fust rato.— How much wood you ew6 in a yore. Si how much wood you give a hogshead for it and you pay the frail. yours Respectlully H Bugg Sanders Nashville. P. S. whi jont you save the sand utter, it runs out & ews it agarie. P S If you wood micks scm mulases with the sand it woodont run so fast. H. B. S. NELLY'S ADVICE TO GIIILS. Girls, you want to get married, don't you? Ah, what a natural thing it is for young la dies to have Buch a hunkering for the sterner sex- Well if you want to gel marriod, don 'l for conscience sake, act like fools about it. Don't get into a fit of nips every time you see a hat or a pair of whiskers. Don't get the idea into your heads that you must put yourself into the way of every young man in the neighborhood in order to attract no tice, for if you don't run after the men, they will run after you. Mark that. A husband hunter is the most detestable of all young ladies. She is full of starch puckers ; she puts on many false airs, and she is so nice that it appears ridiculous in the eyes of every decent person. She may generally be found at the meeting, coining in, of course, about the last one, always at social parties, and invariably takes a front seat at concerts. She tries to be the belle of <he place, and she thinks she is. Poor girl! You are fitting yourself for an old maid, just as sure as the Sabbath come on Sunday. Men will flirt with you, and flatter you simply because they have no more idea of making a wife of you than committing suicide. If 1 was a young man I would have no more to do with such a fancy than 1 would with a rattlesnake. Now, girls, let Nelly givo a piece of her advice, end she knows from experience if you practice it you will gain a reputation of being worthy girls, sod stand a fair chance of getting respectable husbands, ft is well enough for you to learn to finger the piano, work embroidery, study grammar, etc., but don't neglect poor grandma or your dear mother; teach yourself to make bread and get a meal of victuals good enough for a king; no part of a housekeeper's duties should be neglected; if you do not get a wealthy husband, you will need to know bow to do these things, as you would have them done. In the next place, don't pretend to be what you are not. Aflectation is the most despcable of accomplishments, and will only cause sensible people to laugh at you. No one but a fool will be caught by aflectation, it has a very transparent rkiu, easily to be seen through Dress plain, but neatly. Remember that nothing gives a girl so modest, becoming, and lovely appearance as a neat dress. All the flummery and (inset work of the dress maker and milliner are unnecessary. If yoo are really handsome, they do not add to your beauty one particle; if yon are homely, they only taake you look worse. Gentlemen don't court your facet and jewel ry but your own dear selves. Finger rings and folderols may do to look at, but they add nothing to the value of a wife—all young men know,! that. If you know how to talk, do it naturally, and do r.ot be so distressingly nice as to spoil all you say. If your neck is black, wear a lace col lar, but don't be foolish enough to daub on paints, thinking that people are so blind as not to see it; and if your cheeks are rosy, don't apply pink saucers, for the deception will be detected, and become the gossip of the neighborhood. Book-keeping by Doable Entry, Listen to what a writer from Philadelphia has to say concerning book-keeping by double entry,: '' There is another little kink connected with this subject, 1 refer to tho ralhor queer manner in which various institutions fall through, and yet show a clear and squarely kept set of books. You remember that in the recent examination of Stephen Bronson, Jr., charged with defrauding the Chicago Bank, of whifh he was cashier, Juilgp Wil son, who was among the victims, gave the following testimony: I "Have never examined the books to as certain in regard to tho accounts. Witness would not attempt any such thing. He re garded the plan of keeping books by double entry, as a scheme for swindling. False entries could be made, and the best of book keepers could not delect them. Witness would as soon undertake to work tho most difficult problem in fluxions or conic sec tions, as to unravel tho mysteries of double entry. If the book show a balance for Bron son, tliey are wrong, that's all; and if the people can bo swindled in this way, the double entry system should bo abolished by statute. There is a good deal of truth in all this. The more books in a bank, tho greater is the chance for forgery and robbery. Book-keeping by double entry is an im mense humbug. All our heavy defalcations take place under this sort of liocuspocus about Cash Dr. to Sundries and Sundries Dr. to Cash. Money, Specie, Cash Items and Bullion are so divided and subdivided that nobody but the man who keeps them can tell whether tho ledger has "busted" the day book, or the day book "busted" tho stockholders. Tho Central Railroad was done out of 855,000 by double entry. Tire Canal Bank, of the State of New York, was ruined by double entry. Cash Items and Bills Receivable were so mixed up that, as you remember, Receiver White came near being made cross eyed in his attempts to straighten out matters. The fact is, in all cases, the more simplicity the more cer tainty. Tho longer you make a will ordced the moro is the probability that thore will be flaws in it. Queer business, thisbook keep ing and finance, isn't it V A DIVISION OF TEXAS.—A suluiivision of Texas into two or more Stales, is warmly advocated by some of the leading public journals. No Stale in the Uniou bus in creased in population and wealth more rap idly within the last few years, than Texas. Her estimated population at this limo amounts to more than hall a million, and when the next census is taken, it will be found suffi cient lo entitle the State to six or seven rep resentatives in Congress. Several reasons are given for a division. Ttie great size of the State, the great dissimilarity of its parts, and the difficulty of constant communication between all Darts, and one centre of govern- I ment, are among the chief of them. The | general political reason is the impoitance of increasing the strength ol the South in the U. S. Senule, by the addition of more Sena tors, to check the increasing predominance of the nor.slaveholdirig Stales, from thegrowtb of free-soil Stales in ihe North-west. The division of Texas into not more than four Slates is provided for by tliarticles of annex ation, and the woik will no doubt be con summated in ihe course of a few years. THAT TISTOL.—An Irishman, driven to dee potation by the stringency of the money mar ket and the high price of provisions, procured a pistol and took tho road. Meeting a trav eler, lie stopped him with " Your money or your lile !" Seeing that Pat was green, he said : " I'll tell you what I'll do; I'll give you all my money for that pistol." " Agreed," said Pal. Pat took the money and banded over the pistol. " Now," said the traveler, "hand back that money, or I'll blow your brains out." "Blizzard away, my hearty!" said Pal, "divil the drap of powlher there's in it, sure I" HTTho total number of failures in New York city since the first of Angust, is about 000, at;d the liabilities are estimated at nine ty millions. It is said that the American engineers, who engaged to raise the sunken ships in the harbor of Sebastapol, have abandoned tho enterprise, on account of its enormous expense. The city of New York expends daily 1 810,000 on cigars, atid 8,000 on bread [Two Dollars per Annua. NUMBER 51. Science and tbe Mechanic Aria. Tnx PLANET URANUS affords one of the roost marvellous illustrations of tbe vastness of the astral system and of the advancement of modern astronomical science. Though not visible to the naked eye, rqniring a certain degree of magnifying power to render it viai hie as t very small siar, it ia no less than 35,- 000 miles in diameter, or more than eighty limes the size of onr globe. It contains a mass of matter, as to bulk, more than twenty limes larger than what is contained in Mercu ry, Venus, the Earth, the Moon, Mars, Veati, June, Ceres and Pallas. Its distance from ihe sun ia no less than eighteon hundred millions of miles. To reach ihe nearest point of It* orbit, a cannon ball, plying from the earth lo that direction at the rate of five hundred miles an hour, would require a period of three hundred and ninety years. It moves round the sun in the space of eighty-foor years, io an orbit of eleven thousand millions of miles in circumference. In consequence of its great distance, r.o discoveries have bean made on itssurfare ; no spots have been seen to indicate a rotation, and therefore the peri od of its revolution round its axis is unknown, ft is somewhat remarkable, that satellites of ibis planet, instead of moving from west to east, or in the direction of all the other plan ets and satellites, have their orbits nearly al right angles to the ecliptic, and movo in a di rection from east lo west. I'RINTH or FLOWERS, plants and other sim itar objects, can be obtained in great perfee (ion by a very simple process. Tbe mode of operation is as follows:—The original being passed between a copper plate and a lead plate, through two rollers closely screwed to gether, its image, by means of ibe pressure, is left, with all its peculiar delicacies, on the lead plate. If the colors are applied to this stamped lead plate, os in printing on copper plate a copy in the most varying hues, and bearing a striking resemblance to the origi nal, cau be obtained. II a large number of copies are required, which the IeSS form, on accouul of its softness, is htcapablo of fur nishing, it is stereotyped, if intended to be printed at a typographical press; or galvan ized, if at a copper-plate prees, and tbe im pressions are then taken from the stereotyped or galvanized plate, exhibiting great beauty of appearance. AN INVENTION is chronicled, applicable to such power looms lor weaving*checked or fancy goods of any description, wherein mo vable tiers of shuttle-boxeß are employed for the purpose of brtnging the various shuttles to tho level of the shuttle race, as the pattern may require. Tho main feature consists in regulating tho changes of the shuttles by means of the ordinary jacquard machine.— The pattern cards passing over the ordinary jacquard cylinder are so arranged as to act upon sliding bsrs or other suitable means, which withdraw detaining catches, so as to allow the tier of the shuttle-boxes to descend, or which put into action other moving catch es, so connected with the shuttle moving ap paratus as to cause the tier of sbtnile-hoxas to asceud, according as the various weft threads may be required to form tbe pat tern. GUTTA PERCHA is so good an insulator, and becomes so powerfully electrified by friction, that these properties of a substance, already applied to so many uses, could not long re main unknown. A good piece of gutta per cha insulates as perfectly as a similar piece of shellac, whether the form bo that of a plate, a rod, or a mere thread ; but, as it is lough and pliable when ccld, as well as soft when warm, it serves a better purpose, in many cases, than tho brittle shellac. By this fric tion, gotta percha becomes powerfully nega tive. Some of it is made in sheets no thick er than ordinary paper; rf a strip of this be drawn between ihe fingers, it becomes so much electrified that it adheres to the hand and attracts bits of paper. A plate of gutta percha makes an excellent elactropborus.— All kinds, however, are not equally good in sulators— a fact to be borne in mind when employing it in electrical experiments, end for practical purposes of a similar ntture. Lite in India. Traveling in India is ofteu fraught wiib dan gers rather dtlierem from those in Kngland.— For instance when crosaiug rivera in a bul lock batidy, it ii not at all uncommon, wheo about the m iddle, for one or both to he down, and thus upset the bandy; or sometimes ac cidentally pop down into a bole, and frigh ten you terribly. All these little catastroph ies wc have frequently experienced; but through the lender cere of our God, bare never suffered seriously. On one occasion when traveling in a pal anquiu, I stopped in a bungalow lo get some refreshments, and told the hearer to lake out the mattrass and pillows, and make it com fortable for us the remainder of the journey. They did so, and 10 my horror I saw a live snake coiled up under the second pillow, and as warm and comfortable as possible. It had traveled with us thirty-five miles sad from being unconscious of its nearness, fell uo tear. Had we been restless, and disturbed it, the that it would have stung; bat, not boitig roused it remained asleep, and thus wo were most providentially preserved from harm. I confess I felt a little nervous at getting in again, lest where there was one, thero might be another; but it was not so; and we arrived at N'egmpatam in safsty. On another occasion, when resting in a little mud-thatched church, and half asleep, I saw a snake hanging Irom Ihe roof, and just over my mattrass. We bad only a little native lamp, aud for some time I watched the creature, thinking it was merely • piece of rope or thatch, but when I gradually aaw it descend, 1 was convinced it was alive, aud directly got up, and without much ceremony, ' had it dispatched.— A Missionary'' Wife.
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