THE STAR OF THE NORTH, JJrs. R W. Weavor, Proprlelms.] 9. 'the star op the north IB POBBLSJTCD tfim WBDNTTDAY MORNINU. IV. M. JACOBY, Busiucsa Manager. toFFleir— Upetairt, in thenew brick build rnr, en lbs sottlh siih oj Main Street, third ' \tmiare below Market. TERMS: —Two Dollars per annum, if paid within six months from the time of sub- j scribing ; (wo dollars and fifty cents if not paid within the year. No subscription re ceived for a less period than six months; no discontinuance permitted noli! all arrearages •re paidi unless at the option of the editor. ADV ERTISEAIENTB not exceeding one square Wilt be inserted three limes for One Dollar, and twenty-five cents for each addittonal in ,settion. A liberal discount will be made to those who advertise by the year. Carrier's Address-January 1, 1858. Tux new year has come, and the Carrier-boy Is here with his tale of the times ; To wish you A IIAPT NEW YEAS, and away With his song of the dollars and dimes:— To wish the poor wealth—with the sick pray for health, And give all advice for the best : To wish a long life to the old and young married And a short single life to the rest. The new year, no doubt, will bo much like the old, In its sorrows, its hopes and its joys; Ther'll be murders and riots, and sleighing and balls, And Christmas for young girls and boys. Young people will dance, and the merry ones sing Whenever the spirit shall move : No matter what growlers and grumblers ! may do, People say 'lis the ago to improve. In Congress u hundred are aiming to fill The President's chair for a while, And think "there's a good time a coming" for them If their cake does'nt sour and 'spile.' And in bar-rooms the patriots will flatter and fawn, The "dear people" loud extolling, Till the "spirit" get up and the spirit get down; And at Harrisburg there'll be log-rolling. And gassy old spoutors will go on to prate In the North of wool, iron and niggers, wrote hut )wvvi|ra* —i ,n c-.t --and foam And stick to the wool of their niggers. * And old fozio patriots often will weld The Union and make it yet stronger, If only the Union will fill each his purso And give him his office some longer. And fierce-whiskered beaux will continue to lisp Of their wisdom, and wealth by. the ton, And spruce maids will flirt with those fel lows and srailo Till their dear little hearts will be won. And then, from the feast of the joyous and fair, We shall get the poor printer-boy'h share And may be there'll be something else to drink health To the happy new-married young pair. I mean the Molly—no I don't, And If 1 did, I surely won't * Toll you how bright her witching eyes- How at ber feet each suitor cries; Her locks how beauteous red to see, Her weight two hundred, age forty-three. Determine that the New Year Shall be better than the old j That your griefs shall all be shorter And your joys be oft'nertold. And think how but a little word Will, when 'tis kindly given, Fall on the heart as on tlte flower Falls the gentle dew of heaven ; Or as upon a ghissly stream The moon-beams lightly dance, Or maiden's beaming love-lit eyes The loving heart entrance. For a very little pebble Thrown in the stream of time, May tarn it, as one word, a life To virtue or to crime. No one can oount the hopes and joys, The sorrow and the pain; That thousand hearts have felt since last The new-year came again. And who can tell the thousand more That shall in thia betide— The ties of friendship and of love That shall be knit or sundered wide ? To many thia has been the last To gladden life's bright way; And many more will wish't had been The last of their dark day. The generous impulse has been cbilled By selfishness and guile; The noble, friendly prompting check'd And betrayed with a smile. While npon others joys have beamed And goodness nerved the heart To deeds the generous impulse prompts, ''' And purest joys impart. The faithful and devoted throb Of true hearts fond and and dear, Reminds that esrth is not all dross, And heaven is ever near. The sun of freedom dawns again In the Oriental land, And wrestles in a deadly strife With Russian robber bond; While treacherous allies proffer aid And seel but to embroil, .j * That they may feast their grepdv jaws 1- On mangled victim's spoils. BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY,'PA., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 6. 1858. Then let the merry New Year ring With joy and mirth that freely spring From million guileless hearts that swell To praise the gdori All-Father well. And you, ye patrons of the STAR Who love to spread its news afar, Remember now the carrierboy Whose eager steps increase your joy He wishes you a blithe New Year, Unceasing joy and bounteous cheer. A GOOD EDUCATION] There is much good sense in the ariiole Quoted below which we find without credit in one of our exobanger. The conversation of adults in the presence of children has much influence upon the latter in school, sometimes exercising a most baneful and deaiructive in fluence. We often bear ol adults boasting of certain smart mischievous acts of their school days, in the presence ol children, who are apt to take it for granted that it is somethiug worthy to be boasted of. For the most part tbeser smart things are coined fabrications— not a word of truth in iliem—yet they may influence a child hearing them to a course of action which will do a life long injury.— Such follies should be corrected, and every sensible person should rebuke them when ever opportunity offers. Hut lead the follow ing : "Patentsgenerally are desirous of securing for their children.what they call a good edu cation. This is a commendable manifesta tion of parental affection. Il still would be more so, however, if the motive urging the.-n to provides good education for their children were somewhat more elevated than they usu ally are. A good education is too often sought, merely chiefly as a stepping-rtone to wealth or rank, or respectability in the wuUl. There are considetaiior.s rendering a good education desirable, of a much higher end more commendable nature than this. Need we name them 1 For the present we will leave them to be presented by the con science end good sense of our readers, while we proceed to say (hat which we intend to say. It is this: —Parents in desiring a good edu cation for their children too commonly in dulge in a very narrow and inadequate con ception of what constitutes a really valuable or good educatiou, and also of what influence a child must be broogbt under in order to se cars it. Do not too many regatc teacher well versed in the usual branchesand apt to teaob, with approved text-books, aDOut all that is necessary to secure a good educa tion which they contemplate for their chil dren ? Is is not too generally and too much forgotten that every conversation which they hear from the lips of their parents and every action of their lives, which manifest either a low or lofty character, either worthy or un worthy principles, are a part of the education, good or bad, of their children ? Is it r.ot 100 generally forgotten that every word and every deed of Ihe companions and associates of your children has something to do in making in their education, either good or bad? It is not generally forgotten that the temper, the taste, the habits of their pa rents, and, indeed, of all with whom parents receive to their intimacy, living for high, no ble, Heaven-approved ends snd objects—such appearing plainly in all conversation and con duct ss the raling purpose of life—and they will then be receiving what constitutes the most essential part of what may truly be called A GOOD EDUCATION." Terrible Scene io a Theatre, A writer from Europe gives the following description of the scene at Leghorn, where, in an agony of causeless alarm, one hundred men of a crowd were trampled to death, and five hundred wounded: The house was crowded. The play •' Ta king of Sebastopol." The first act went off well; batlery after battery exploded, and the spectacle made the theatre ring with spplause. All eyes were now turned to see them take the Malakoff. At last it was stormed. The soldiers rushed in, then the explosion, amid the wildest cheers. At that moment a spark caught the scenes, they blazsd, the audience thought it a part of the play, and cheered the louder, ihe scene was so nstural. Als*! il was too perfect. Another moment they saw their mistake, a wild cry of misery drowned the applause. Higher and higher it rose, maddening the spectators with fright. Five minutes more and the fire was distinguished, but the spectators, like a heard of btifialce-, like a panic-stricken army, like a flock ol sheep before wolves, like passengers from a sinking abip, losing all thought bnt ol self preservation, rushed from the seats. The shrieks of women, the shrill cry of children, Ibe hoarse voices of men, all struggling for life, presented a scene not describable. Some threw themselves from tbe boxes into the pit, killing themselves and crushing those be neath them. No judgment, no forethought; out of the windows, over tbe lodges, stamp iog each other to death. Tbe eentinels were ordered to stop the passage with bayonets. Thus planted, those in tbe front ranks were run through and through, and tbe soldiers, with the rest, were mutilated with tbe feet of hundreds." CP" Pedagogue—" Well, sir, what does h-a-i-r spell?" Boy—"Don't know." Pedagogue—"What have you got on your head f" I Boy—"I guess it's a 'skeeter bite, ft itohes tike thuodar." XW Winter, wbicb strips tbe leaves from around as, makes ue see the distant regions they formerly conoealed; so doee old age rob os of our enjoyments, only to enlarge the prospect of etornity before us. From the Waehington "Statei" The President and Nr. Uenglas, It ie well In-politics as in navigation to take observations, and determine latitudes and longitudes. It is not easy to say where we are going, without knowing where we are. The difference which ewists between the political reckonings of the President and Mr. Senator Douglas ought surely to be fully examined. They start from the same point, and have a common destination. They are both identified with the same great party, and there ia at least a strong presumption that they are eqnaliy interested ia its preserva tion and triumphs in the futuro. The fscts go far to render it possible that any differen ces of opinion which may exist between them touching the reception and treatment of the Lecoroplon constitution may be removed. At all events, it is the obvious duty of the lead ing men symyathizing with either side to comprehend the exact nature of the case, and to remove all possible extraneous caus es which may exist, tending to widen the breach. Mow, than, does Judge Douglas differ from ihe President ? They concur ir. the princi ple that the majority should rule. They equally endorse the policy of submitting State constitutions to the people lor ratification or rejection. They regatd the Territorial Gov ; eminent of Kansas as a legal government.— They concede that the Territorial Legislature was fully authorised and empowered to call into existence the Lecompton convention, and, ot course, that that convention legally, I il not numerically, represented the people of the Territory. They do not essentially differ | upon the facts connected with Ihe action of the peo| !e in calling and electing that con vention. They both understand thai there was and is now in the T-rritory a strong par ty, possibly emhtaciug a majority of the peo ! pie, who have sought to dol'eat all efforts to organise a hum system through the agency 'u! the T iriioriti auii'.orilia* Up to this point thoreis no essential divergence of opin ion between the Presiden* and the distin guished Senator; and it must be conleesed that inasmuch as they agree substantially upon a basis so broad, there ought to be strong hopes that they may yet coma to gether. The Lecompton constitution having been framed by a duly alhorized and organized Con vein iuij, nu mnng aeiertnmvu a|nm n— submission ol the slavery question tothe peo ple, Mr. Buchanan, who is officially identi fied with Ihe Territorial Government —stand- ing il) legal contemplation at its head—felt it bis duty, without submitting to Congress any special recommendation in connection there with, to say that in his judgment the consti tution just framed had received all the legal sanction required to render it a valid judg ment of the people, in their movement to wards the establishment of a Slate govern ment. U it exceedingly difficult to under eland how he could have said less, and bow, in what he did say, he can be condemned by any candid man who regards, es he does, the success of Ihe psrty as a primary object of government in this country. He had em ployed a large force of the army to maintain the Territorial lawe; he had instructed Fed eral officers to protect the people at each re curring eleohon ; he had crippled the Utah expedition, that the constituted authorities in the .Territory might be able, fully and impar tially, to enforce the existing system of which we repeat, he has the head. Was it expected that he would stultify himself by rebellious opposition to the laws he bad labored so zeal ously to maims in ? Was be to disregard and trample under fool a constitution framed by a convention, the delegates to which were elec ted under a lair law emenaling from Ihe peo ple at a general election, which was (ho sub ject of direct sanction by his Adminiiislion, and by the whole Democratic party of the country ? What excuse could be have of fered for insisting npon a fair vote Ci Ihe peo ple in June, had he denied the legality of that election after the delegates had perform ed their work ? The least he could do was to express his opinion that the constitution which had been fiamed was the work of a legally constituted convention,and binding as suoh upon the people of Kansas. Judge Douglas, taking substantially the same general mow of the case, arrives at a widely different conclusion. His position, If we understand it, is this: that the people of the Territory derive their ,iower to organize a State government from Corcrees; that al though the Territorial system was perfectly legal for all mere local purposes, it possessed no authority without an enabling act from Congress to organize a Statgrgovernment. It is easy to tee ftom tbis position that Judge Douglas appeals to the terms of the Kansas- Nebraska act of 1864, at obligatory and bind ing upon the people of that Territory to the extent that Congress undertook, in that act, to direct them in what manner they might establish a State constitution. Io ibis view of Ihe relations subsisting between the Federal and Territorial authorities, Judge Douglas in sists by the terms of the last mentioned act the Lecompton Convention was bound to re fer to the people any organic law they might frame preparatory to their admission ioto the Union as a State—that sueh was the lotto, and fyirll of the legislation of 1854, tuch the intention of Congress and the country. If we concede the premises of Judge Douglas, it will be found quite impossible to avoid his conclusions. By the Kansas bill, Congress repealed the set commonly known as the Missouri Compromise. That act undertook to define the limits wilbin the pnblio territo ry where slavery should be prohibited, and to point out whore it might be estsbliyhad. I Its repeal was intended to establish, on the Trath aa Right— M IRTNR COM try. other hand, the great doctrine of non-inter vention ; and, if Judge Douglas is now right, to assert, at the same time, the complete sov ereignty of the people touching the organiza tion of their Slate systems. If we lake away part of this prinoiple of Federal interference in the Territoties, it seems olear that we must take the whole. If we divest Congress of all right to intervene, we must not noAutma to deoide at this distance quesliouPßßch are purely local, and which, in the v£rf nature of things, ap pertain solely to the people of Kansas. The rights of Congress in reference to the subject accrue under a specific provision or the Fed eral Constitution, by which that body is au thorized to admit new Slates into the Union, and is limited to the single question, whether the government established is or not republi can in form. If non-intervention means any thing, it ceitainly carries yith it the absolute right of the people to establish their own in stitutions in their own way. Congress, then, having denounced its authority over the sab ject, the inference is inevitable that the peo ple of Kansas ought to regarded as free to do as they please. By (heir sots, through thnir own local legis'alute, and by the voles of the people, lltey constituted a convention, and empowered it to frame a constitution, without imposing upon it any limitation touching lite question of its submission to them for ratification or rejection. Now, it is hardly fair to' deny the right of Congress to enact the Missouri Comptomise, which was a limitation or a restriction imposed by that body upon the people of the Territories, by which they were prohibited from, exercising their own will npon a given subjeot, and at the same time dic'atetothat peoplelhe mode in which iliey shall organize their own gov ernment. The l-lih section of ihe eel repealing the Missouri Compromise expressly declares that it is "lite true intent and meaning of this act not to lesisUte slavery into any Territory, or Stole, nor to exclude it llierelrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in Iheir own way.-'' We know of no other construc tion to put upon this language than that Con gress intended to "leave" ths people to es tablish their own institutions, disavowing all authority in the premises. The repeal of the act of 1850 was a part of the system of leg islation then settled and 6xed. There was no virtue in mat repeal, 11 we now oennimir that ths Territories are still dependent upon the National Legislature for authorily lo es tablish their "domedic institutions" or claim the right still to intermeddle in their local af fairs. The Territories and States are dis tinctly referred lo as equal in political inde pendence and rights, so tbat the disavowal of Congressional authority in the act of 1854, and the assertion at itiis lime of the authori ty of Congress over both, are to be taken to gether. It is manifest, indeed, that it was the intention of Congress to plaoe the Terri tories snd the Slates upon an equal footing in respect to the establishment of their local in stitutions. If this is tbe construction of the Kansas Nebraska act, how is it possible logo behind tbe Lecomplon Consiiiution without a clear violation of its provisions? The obvious purpose of that act was to effect the entire separation of Territorial from Federal politics and to settle the principle, without touching questions of detail, such as needlul numbers and local organization, upon which new States are to be organized and admitted. We see no necessity for enabling acts, if Con gress is divested of all right to interfere in Territorial affairs. The principle of non-in tervention beitis; settled, and Territorial and State independence, in reference to all do mestic institutions declared, what reason is there to be urged in favor of special permis sory legislation in such cases? "Baptise the Whole Army." | We have already referred to the religious faith of tho General who added so much lustre to the English army, during the war in India. The following anecdote was rela ted by Rev. Mr. Graham, of Boun, at a meeting of the Hiberian Bible Society in Belfast: " He had to tell them that General Have lock who is now so distinguished in India, nlthough a Baptist, was a member of bis (Mr. Graham's) missionary church at Boun, and his wife and daughters were members jof it for sovon yearn. He could also narrate an anecdote regarding that grest and good man, which he hail heard from the lips of Lady Havelock. When General Have lock, as cplonel of his regiment, was travel ing through India, he always took with him a Bethel tent, in which he preached the gospel and when Sunday came in India he usually hoisted the Bethel flag, and invited all men to come and hear the gospel—in fact, he baptized some. He wae reported for this at Headquarters, for acting in a non military and disorderly manner; and the Commander-in-Chief, General Lord Gough, i entertained the charge, but with tbe true | spirit of a generous military man, he caused the state of Geu. Havdlock's regimeht to be examined. He caused the reports of the moral state of the various regiments to be ] read for some time back, and he found that Col. Havelock's stood at tbe head of the list; there was less flogging, less imprisonment, less drunkenness in it than in any other.— i When that wae done the Commander-in- Chief said: 'Go and tell Coi. Havelock, wfth my compliments to baptize the whole ar my.' " OTThere will be at least seven editors it, the next Pennsylvania Legislature. Disinterment ot the Medici Family of Florence- The London Morning Post has an interest ing letter from itsTnscan correspondent, giv ing an account of the disinterment of the cel ebrated Medici family of Florence, who for so long a period were the absolute rulers of that country. We make the following ex tract: When Louis XV.in his childhood asked his tutor if kings ever die, wn are told that "Qutl quejos, Motutignmr," was the cautious and courtly tnawer. Last week, however, the Florentines had en opportunity of satis fying themselves of the undoubted fact. The whole dynasty nf the Medici was disinterred. It was found that the wooden coffins in the vaults of San Lorenzo were mouldering away, so orders were given to have them replaced and the whole family, from Giovauni dehe Har.de Nere, and bis eon the first Dnke Cos mo, to John Gaston, the las', of the royal house, all about sixty in number, the seven sovereigns, with their wives, children, broth ers—all, in short, that have ever been con signed to the tomb at San Lorenzo, with only two exceptions, were removed from the old, preparatory to being placed in the new oof fins. Of these coffins some twenty were opened for the first lime. Kleanor of Toledo, the wife of Cosmo the First, and his son and sncoessor Francis the First, the husband of the ill-fated Bisnoa Capello, were fresh ts if they had only yesterday been placed in tbe scpulcher, where they have lain For much more than two hundred and fifty years. In deed, the wonderful preservation of the corps of Francis seems to strengthen lite theory that be .died from some strong arsenical poi son. The work was performed with the greatest oare and decorum, under the inspec tion of tbe Avvoca to Regie, the chief Gov ernment urohitecl, and tbe Chevalier Passen ini, a person of greet antiquarian kuowledge atlaohetl to the grand ducal archives. Grand dukes and grand duchesses, princes and princesses, were all found iu the state cos tume ol their day—Giovanni dello Bande Nere, the warlike progenitor of the race with the mouldoring skull in a helm; the sanguinary but sagacious Cosmo, with bis dagger by his side, (perhaps the same ono that struck (iar zia!)—each with a medal bearing an effigy of himself, all ticketed and labelled with the most mercantile precision ; for these mer chant princes to the subtilily of politicians jvnttcn Tirß.prvunuiio vi ICQ • •piattty •tits UU> ried their babits of commercial regularity down with them into the very grave. A stiange thing it was to look on the actual features of the men who had filled Italy with their frame two and three centuries ago ; on the Cosmo who had quencbed in blood all that remained of Florentine and Sinese free* doom; on him who would ride upon a sum mer evening to Arcetri, and cbat with Gali leo; on another who exchanged presents of montepuleiano and ale with the Protector; on a (bird who had corresponded with St. John and Walpoie about the destiny of bit own State. A Bargain by Arithmetical Progression. While engaged :n the tobacco and eigar business, I used to have for a customer in cheap cigars one of these knowing fellows whose knowledge sotvee belter to bore his viotims than advance science. You could not make kir,i believe that—oh, no! Tell him I here Were no regalia cigars that cost forty dollars per thousand ! —it might do to stuff down tbe throats of one of Iboee who knew no better; he wae none of them. And so it was with everything ; he afwaye kesw best. It always appeared to be his dtligbt to draw me into some controversy, no matter whet the subject wae in order to bear himself draw forth. 1 tried every way I could think of to j circumvent bira, and at length I did succeed I in laying him oat as flat as a flounder. It was Saturday afternoon, he came in, made his purchase, end sealed himself, to deal out his usual portion; but I was awake for him. "Captain," saic I, "I have raado up my mind to go to California, and if you wish to go into a speculation, now is your time." "As how!" said he. "Why you see those fifteen boxes of ci gars, well there are two hundred and fifty in each box, and I will let you have the whole filteen at a low rate, providing you take them all." "Very well," said my friend, "let us hear the conditions." "You give mo one cent for the first box, (wo cents for the second, four cents for the third, and so on doubling on every box." "Done," said be, "fetch on your oigars.— Suppose you think I have not money enough —eh f "Not at all: so let us proceed. Here ie your first box." He.drew from his pocket a leathern purse, and out of it a haudlul of ooin. "And here ie your coot," said he, deposit ing a green, discolored copper upon the coun ter. "Here is your second box." "Here is your two cents." "Very well, here is your third box." "And here is your four cents," said be chuckling. "Here is your fourth box." "Exactly. And here is your eight cents 1 Ha! be ! beold tellow—go on." "Here ie your fifth box," laid I banding down another. And hero ie your sixteen cents." "Here is yonr sixth hex." "And—ha I ha! ha!—here is yonr thirtyj two cents." "Here ie your seventh boa!" Vknd here—ha I ha! the joke is gattiug too rich—here it your sixty-four cents, and half your cigars afe gone." "Here is your eighth box," said I, assum ing a cold indifference that perfectly surprised the fellow. "And here is your dollar and twenty eight cents. "Here is your ninth box." "Here la your—let me see—ah I two dol lars and fifty-six cents." "Here is your tenth box." He drew bis wallet thoughtfully and on the slate made a small ealoolation. "And here is your five dollars and twelve oents." "Here is your eleventh box." "And here is yonr—twice five isten, twice twelve twenty-four—ten dollars and twenty four cents. At this stage of the game he bad got quite docile, and I continued— "Here is your twelfth box; hand over twenty dollars and forty-eight cents." Here the globules of prespiralion, large as ra arrow-fat poas, stood out in bold relief on bis face, but at length be doled out the sum. "Here is your thirteenth box; pile out forty dollars and ninety-six oents." "If 1 do, 1 shall, but I will not." With that lis left, and I have never been able to get near him since. Science wad the Mechanic Arts. In the regulating of the supply of gas id burners, so apparatus is in use in England, consisticg of a cast iron vessel, with inlet and outlet passages, tor the admission and emission of the gas. The inlet passage is covered by a valve, the edge of which dips icto a groove contsining mercury, rendering it perfectly gas tight, without impeding the motion of the valve, which moves with the slightest pressure. It is attached by a red to a short cylinder, the lower part of which ia open, and also dips into mercury. This cyl inder rovers and surrounds the inlet, and, as tbe gas flows through it, exerts an upward pressure, which adjusts the supply, if the pressure is increased, the cylinder rises and closes the valve; and, as the gas is consumed, the cylinder falls and opens the vale. In an other arrangement, the regulation is efleoied by a slide, or disc valve, formed by two cor responding surfaces, placed together between '.he inlet ftom the main and the outlet to the ounieis. ine supply is increased or uinim ished by the continuous opening and closing of the passages in this valve, which move ments are effected by the variable pressure of the gas within a small gasometer, Which, as it is greater or less, increases or diminish es the area of the supply passages, and thus regulates the supply to the burners. One of the most ingenious machine* for dove tailing is that invented by Mr. Bnrley, of Boston. The main features of the ma chine are a platform upon which a sliding- I table rests, and four circular saws, which out the entite pins and dovetails—doing away with the necessity of chisels, and performing the work in a manner which cannot be dona by band. The dovetailing process, as is well known, has always been a most tedious and difficult lask. Every joint had to be accura tely marked out, and out with a chisel by the hand; aud in making the drawer* of bureau • and other oase-work, the expense has taen very great. By this machine, sot[fKßy live to a hundred drawers can substanti ally and handsomely dovs _ H | e( j ln tII pour. The machine cuts the mortise with a precis ion and accuracy that renders every joint, perfect. There is also a machine working on the some prinoiple, designed for box dove tailing, tho main advantages of whiob are, that the operator can dove-tail from eighty to oco hundred boxes in an hour—all kinds of wood, whether clear or otherwise, being worked with equal facility. Hoope and naila ii all kinds of boxes, however large, are dispensed with, by thi* method of menufee ture. STIR a—Tbe itreguisrity with which Ihe stars are distributed over the celestial sphere is one of the most peculiar facta in connec tion with the constitution of the taironomical universe. In some regiocs, spaces of consid erable magnitude occur, iu whioh scarcely a single star ie to be eeen, while in others they are crowded together, to as to present to tbe unassisted eye the appearance of a confused mass of light. A grest and repid Increase in nnmber is in general perceptible as we approach the borders ol iba "milky way," where tbey appear, when viewed through a powerful telescope, to be crowded almost beyond imagination. Besides tbe general increase which take* place toward* Ibis re gion, there are in several parte of the heav ens patches or cluster* of stars, where great numbers are condensed into A very narrow sapce. A telescope turoed opon the Plei ades show fifty or sixty large (tart crowded together witbir. a small area, and compara tively insulated from the res' of the heavens. There are many clusters which, it is ihought by atlronomers, must contain at least left or tvreoty thousand alar* compressed and wedg ed together in a round space, whose angular diameter does not exceed eight or tea min utes—that it, in an area not exceeding the tenth part of that covered by the moon. STKSM BOILBBS—A mode of construction in the rase of stationary engines is proposed —the vertical flaws being made of a peculiar form, with tbe fire-box at the bottom of it, and with a double chimney, so a* to contain water between the inner aod outer plates of the chimney, to be heated before passing into tbe boiler. One of the boiler* is fixed upon a cast iroa bracket er support, about twelve inches in height. The sides of the boiln ate en her cylindrical or conical, the for- [Tw Dollars par Anna*. NUMBER 52. mer being preferable. The vertical floe pee ling np through the boiler ie made of a con ical form, tapering or diminiibing op towards the top, from two to eia inchee being left for water apace between the ontei shell of the boiler and the conical flae at the bottom.— Thia fine ie made tapering up tc the top, so that the interior of ita upper or HRiller end may be of the same diameter ae the interior of the chimney. The ehimney eoneiata of two cylinders, one within the other, having between them a water-apace of from half an inch to three inches, according ft> the size of the boiler; the chimney is of the same strength as the boiler, so as to stand the same pressure. Instead of pnmpiag the feed-water directly into the boiler, it is potti ped into the water-specs surrounding the chimney, at a place near to the bottom of it; so that all sediment in the water may settle into the bottom of thia space, whilst the heeled water wili ascend to the top, whence it posses by a feed-pipe into a boiler in a heated state. DUMOHW.— At tbe present day, diamond* *r cut in only two mode*—into a rose diam ond and a brilliant. The roaa diamond iaflal beneath, like all weak atones, while the up per face rise* into a dome, and is cot Into facets. Most usually, six faeets are put on the central region, whioh are in the form of triangles, and unite at their summits. The brilliants base the finest effect, but require the sacrifice of a larger portion of the gem, so that the weight of an ordinary polished diamond often does not bxceed half that of the rough gem. It Is a singular fact that the diamond always occurs in a detached staia in allntrial soil. The primitive crystalline form of theaubsthnce is a regular octahedron, of which there ate numerous modifications. They are found of all colore; those which are colorless, or which have some very decided tint, are most esteemed, though the latter are quite rare. Those which are slightly discolored are the least valuable. When burned in air or oxygen, it ie found that noth< ing but carbor.ic acid is formed; and benoe it is proved that tbe diamond la charcoal or carbon in a pure and crystalline form. A DAUPHIN COUNTY ROMANCE.* In Dauphin county, Pa., some seven yetre sgo, lived a wealthy firmer, who was bless ed with a family of six children, the oldest of whom ws* a beautiful girl of aeventeen summers. A young man tu ihe neighbor hood who, was of good family, feigned st tachmenl to her. Young and unexperienced she fell into the snere set for her. Shortly after her ruin was accomplished, the young man fearing the wrath of her father, wheu the consequeuoes of bia villainy should be come apparent, absconded The girl feeling her shame fled to Harritburg, flinging bet bonnet into a creek which flowed through ber father's farm, in order to make her friends believe she Wee drowned. Shortly after ber auppoeed death, her father, upon whose mind the event weighed heavily, wishing to leave the scene of bis affliction sold hit farm and removed to Crawford eoonty, Ohio. In the meantime she had reached Harria burg, takeu the cars west, and in a few days found herself at the only tavern in a seclu ded village in the interior of Miohigan. The landlady was a kiodbearted woman, and at that particular lime was in need of an assis tant. She hrard the atory of this poor girl, sypathited with her, and liking ber appear* anoe, insisted upon making that her home, la th<s bouse the pieced six years ofeooteot tnetii. Her hostess introduced her as a wid ow—she gained frieads and received many advantageous offers of marriage. Oue morning, about six months ago, the wee in the sitting room when the stage dove up. Tbe windows of tbe coach were down, and she could see most of the passengers.— Among tbem wsa a face that seemed famil iar to her* She looked again, ■ attd with a shriek fell fainting oa the floor. It Was her seducer! The landlady aoon learned how matter* stood, determined thai justice should be doae. She sought him, told him tbe fact* and insisted that be should repair the injury be had iuAicted, by making her hi* wife.— To this be at one consented. Three alter bi* flight from Pennsylvania, seised with remorse, fa* had started hack with tbe intention of marrying her. On the way be had picked op a newspaper, which oontain ed an aceonnt Of her tragical death. Feeliag that he was the cause of her untimely end, heart-sick and sad, be turned baok, a chang ed and better man. He had settled down, accumulated property, aud was a man of standing influence. The joy of the girl when she met with her repentant lover may be imagined. They were married that evening, and the next morning started for Pennsyl vania. Ascertaining the address of ber fath er, they came on to Bucyrus, Ohio, as fast as steam could earry them. Words cannot paint the raptures ol the old man as he clasp ed to his bosom a daughter he had mourned a* dead for six long year*. Explanations were made, all wte forgiven, and after phas ing a few weeks of unalloyed happiness at Ihe residence of the girl's father, they re turned to their homes iu ths West. 17* The reported illness of Charles Feuno Hoflman, now an inmato of the Pennsylva nia Lunatic Asylum, is denied by the Har risburg Herald. He is in excellent health, and hopes are entertained of hie speedy res toration to society. OF* The Artesian well new in progress a' i the paper mitt of the Meeste. Dapont, at Louisville, Ky., has been bored to the of 1,540 feet. The drill i* limestone of alternate and hftftl stjeta. jj Jap
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