THE STAR OF THE NORTH. W. H. JACOBY, Proprietor.] VOLUMft TO. BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, FA., YVEDNESDAIT'JANUARY 5, 1859. NUMBER/ THE CAKIIIEK-BdV'S MESSAGE TO THE PATRONS OF TIIE STAR OF THE NORTH. BLOOMSBURG, PA., JANUARY I, 1859. I. The New Year has come, and the carrier-boy Is here with his budget of rhymes, To welcome the year, and to give you all joy, And his thanks for the quailers and dimes I To win from the fair maid of dark eyes a smile— To tell of things funny and queer— To chat with Miss Sarah and Mary nwhile— And sum up the news of the year. 11. Through the year I've brought the news, Tramped through storm with worn out shoes, Told you, through the STAR, who died— Who got married—how the brido Sent us cake so rich and fine — (Wonder who got all the wine !) Told you where to buy cheap trowsers— Told you who it was raised rousers Of babies, corn and beets; and who Wasn't orthodox nor true. Then I've told of golden lands— Politicians loose as sand— Victories on our side all— Murders dire, how bank slocks fall— Steamboats blow up, and how Buck Manages the State, with good pluck— How Douglas and Humbug dose the land, With Forney and Press at his command— How corrupt and base could he, Such a faithless Senator as he. To the young I've sang of trifles, To the sportsmen told of rifles, To the old I've preached profound, To the clerk of pence and pound, To the maiden sang the song, " Lassie do not wait too long " This, and more I've done, and now, If you have some dimes, i'll how New Year's advent, New Year's adieu— Tho happiest year of years to you. 111. The history of tho year is a dark book But there are pages bright and fair and clear, And there are high and holy deeds it tells To nerve the Patriot and Christian cheer. A spirit went abroad that nerved and thrilled The sons of Freedom through all landsof earth. It shook old thrones—the frightened despots fled As from a pestilence or earthquake s birth; As guilty things, from the accuser's rod ; Or the poor peasant from the Alpine cot When roaring,pouring,rushing floods come down And sweeps his all from off his little lot. What though another night enshroud the earth in sable pal!! It is but tor a time, And brighter day must dawn ere long. We feel Earth has a heritage above the crime, The sin,shame and wrong that kings have wrought O'er the fair face of Nature's Truth and Good. The sous of Erin shall not always starve, - Nor crime be Hier plenlier tiurn food. The loilsman shall not smile, as now, when death Comes to relieve him or his starving child, But find that life hath joys as well for liim As for the purpled monarch base defiled. Blum hath not died a felon's death in vain. Nor yet the thousands who gave up a life That blood of martyrs should become the seed Of freedom's church throughout our toilsome strife. , / IV. Nay, dance, dance, dance, Let revelry run high, For revelry is a glorious thing To those who never die. Drink to-day and drink to-morrow-, Drive down cure and drive down sorrow, Think ol leisure—now's no time, Life is long, we're in our prime, Ho ! to mirth! to merry men ! Quail' Fulerniuu red again, Let the dance go round and round, Round let wit and wine abound. Revel now and think hereafter! Here's to beauty, love and laughter! Now the tiny feet Falls as light and fleet j As the moon-beams on the water; — Now the music swells Rich as pleasure wells From the heart of Love's fair daughter:— There the lashes darkle Darker eyes that sparkle Till the love-lit heart doth beam From lite face of Beauty's dream. This the song that mourners now hear, This the funeral dirge ol the year. Then let us hope and love Through another year, Toiling, trusting to the right— Live in faith and fear. Onward, upward, march we on, Tilt life's day is gone, Pilgrims to tho shrine of Truth Till death's nigh*, come on. V. Say young man hath thy laugh been hushed? Have all thy brightest hopes been crushed, Like silk hats in a heavy rfto ? Hath sorrow wrung thy heart with pain, As Sally wrings the dish cloth out, Because that red moustache won't sprout? Or is that grief and anguish dire— That heart and stomach all on fire, From what men colored like your nose Call "fire water" in their woes? Or its because tho maid who flaunts Her silk mantillas, and who vaunts Of "papa's" acres and bank-slock Has no great fancy for wedlock ? Oh mend your manners and your coat And ape no more an ancient goat By beard and perfume that offend The eyes and nose, butaiever rend The heart of loveliness; maidenkind ; And still far less can chartn the mind. Darn not the Coquette bat your hose, And retail tapes before your woes. Though she don't love your gaming race, She has a heart and that an ace; But do not think to trump the nirt With hand of diamonds and of dirt. VI. - ,-v My poetry machine being somewhat orgon-ic, And oil being scarce on account ol the panic, Won't let me grind out more of those rhymes, Without being oiled with a handful of dimes ; And if good luck would make it a quarter or half, Yoa'il see my face change from a grin to a laugh; You'll not be forgotten, and when sixty comes along, [song. My successor will greet you with his first ifiai at There is an end to all things, and One to my time, Of carrying 'round papers and making rough Having arisen asiep above my old level, [rhyme; My mantle has fallen upon the "new devil." Wishing hira the successwhich is surely his due, With a nod and a bow 1 bid you adieu. eifjsNffi vszis SJ©I£^IHI 9 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY IYM. I!. JACOBY, Office on Mniii St., 3rd Square below Market, TERMS:—Two Dollars per annum IT paid within six months from the time of subscrib ing: two dollars and filly cts. if not paid with in the year. No subscription taken for a less | period than six months; no discontinuance permitted until all arrearages are paid, un less at the option of the editor. The terms of advertising will he as follows: One square, twelve lines, three times, SI 00 Every subsequent insertion, 25 I One square, three months, 3 00 One year, 00 Washington as a Farmer. The following extracts from "Irving's Life of WASIIINGTON,'! showing his love for coun try life, and his habits as a farmer, will in terest our readers, if the}' love their farms as he did his. In his letter from Mount Vernon, he writes: "I am now, 1 believe, fixed in this seat, and hope to find more happiness in retirement ihan I ever experienced in the wide and bustling world." This was a deliberate purpose with him —the result of enduring inclinations.— Throughout the whole course of his career agricultural life appears to have been his beau ideal of existence, which haunted his thoughts, even amid the stern duties of the field, and to which he recurred with unflag ging interest, whenever enabled to indulge his natural bias. Mount Vernon was his harbor of repose where he repeatedly furled | his sail, and fancied himself anchored for life. No impulse of ambition templed him thence ; nothing but the call of his country, and his devotion to the public good. The place was endeared to him by the remem brance of his brother, and ol the happy days ho had passed there with that brother in his boyhood; but it was a delightful pftee in itself, and well calculated to inspire the rural feeling. The mansion was beautifully situated on a swelling height, crowned with wood, and commanding a magnificent view up and down the Potomac. The grounds immedi ately nbout it were laid out somewhat in the English taste. The estate was appor tioned into separate farms, devoted to dif ferent kinds of culture. Much, however, wasslill covered with wild woods and indent ed with inlets; haunts of deer and lurking places of foxes. "No estate in United America," observes he in one of his letters, "is more pleasantly situated. In u high arid healthy emmtky, in a latitude between tho extremes of heat and cold; on one of the finest rivers of the world—a river well stocked with various kinds of fish at all seasons of the year, and in the Spring with shad, herring bass, carp, sturgeon, etc., in great abundance. Tho borders of the estate are washed by more than ten miles of tide-water; the whole shore, in fact, is one entire fishery." WASHINGTON carried into his rural affairs the same method, activity, and circumspec tion that had distinguished him in military life. He kept his own accounts, posted up his books, and balanced them with mercan tile exactness. The products of his estate, also, became so noted for tho faithfulness, as to quality and quantity, with which they were put up, that it is said any barrelof flour that bore the brand of GEORGE WASHINGTON, Mount Vernon, was exempt from tho cus- ! tomary inspection in the West iudiapnrls. lie was an early riser—often before day break in the winter, when the nights were long. On such occasions he lit his own fire, and wrote and read by candlelight. He breakfasted at seven in Summer, and at eight in winter. Two small cups of lea and three or four cakes of Indian meal, (called hoe-cakes,) formed his frugal repast. Im mediately after breakfast he mounted his horse, and visited thoso parts of his estate where any work was going on, seeing to everything with his own eyes, and often aiding with his own hand. Dinner was served at two. He ate heartily, but was no epicure, nor critical about his food. His | beverage was small-beer or cider, and two glasses of old Maderia. He took tea, of which he was very fond, early in the even ing, and retired for the night about nine 1 o'clock! We find him working for a part of two days with Peter, his smith, to make a plough on a new invention. This, after two or three failures, he accomplished. Then, with less than his usuul judgment ho put his two chariot horses to the plough, and ran a risk of spoiling them in giving his new invention a trial over ground thickly swurd- I ed. Anon, during a thunder-storm, a fright ened negro alarms the house, with word that the mill ts giving way, upon which there is a general turn out of all the forces, with WASHINGTON at theix head, wheeling and shovelling gravel, during a pelting rain, to stop the rushing water. AN old lady said. her husband was very fond of peaches, and that was his only fault. "Faults madam,"said one, "how can you call that a fault?" "Why, because there are different ways of eming them, sir My husband takes them in the form of brandy." A loafer took a fish in the market house and slipped it under Jhis vest. The tail hanging down so as to be seen, the first man he met suggested to him that he should eiiher wear a longer Jacket or Bteal a short fish. "My native city has treated me badly," •aid a drunken vagabond, "but I love her still. "Probably," replied agentleman, "her still is all you do love." Trnth and Right God and pur Country. A BUY'S TRIALS. The Springfield Republican has a capital article on this subject. Here are some ex tracts: HIS REGULATIONS WITH THE "OLD MAN." We suppose that the first severe trial a boy has to undergo is to submit his will to the old man, whom he is laught to consider his lather. To be restrained in doors at night, to be forbidden to go in swimming five times a day, or to be hindered Irom 1 pinching the rest of the children just for J fun, is an intcference with natural inalieua- 1 ble rights, overy way injurious to the feel- | ings. And then, when upon some over- I whelming temptation, the boy asserts his I independence of parental control, and ] receives a "tunning" with a switch, front a f quince bush, either upon his back or his j bare feet, it becomes really a very serious thing. We never could see that the smart of an operation like this was at all assuaged by the affectionate assurance that it was be stowed of pure love. SITTING WITH THE GIRLS. The next great trial of Ihe boy is to bo obliged by a cruel mastet to sit with the girls at school. This usually comes before the 1 development of those undeniuble affinities ; which in afterlife, would ter.d to mako ihe ! punishment more endurable. To be point- | ed out as a "gal boy," 10 be smiled at . grimly by the master, who is so far delight- j ed with his own ineffable pleasantry as to | give the little boys license to laugh aloud j and to be placed hy the side of a girl who had no handkerchief, and no knowledge of I the use of that article, is, we submit, a trial 1 of no mean magnitude. Yet we.have been | there and have been obliged lo 'sit close,' I with big Rachel, laughing and blushing till j we came to hate her name. We wonder ! where the overgrown frowzy creature is j now, and what the condition of her head is ? THE FJRT LONG TAIL COAT. We do not believe that any boy ever put 011 his first long tailed coat without a sence of shame. He fust twists his back half off looking at it in. the glass, and then when he steps out of doors it seems to him as if all creation was on a broad grin. The sun laughs in the sky; the cows turn 10 look at | him; there are laces at every window, his very shadow mocks him. When he walks | by the cottage where Jane lives, he dare j not look up for his life. The very boards cruck with. consciousness of 1 spectacle, and ifif - 61a pair of pantaloons that stop a light in the garret window nod with derision. If he is obliged to pass a group of men and boys, the trial assumes its most terrific stage. His legs gets ull mixed up with embarrassment, and the (lap of the dangling appendage is felt upon them, moved by the wind of his own agitation; he could not feel worse were it a dishcloth, worn as a badge of disgrace. It_is a happy time for him when he gets to church and sits down with coat tails under him; but he is still apprehensive with thinking of the Sunday school, and wonders if any of the children will ask him to "swing his long tail blue." COINO HOME WITH THE GIRLS. The entrance into society may be said to take place after boyhood has passed away, yet a multitude take the initiative before their beards are presentable. It is a great trial, eiiher to a tender or a rough age.— For an overgrown boy to go to a door know ing that there are a dozen girls inside, and to knock or ring with absolute certainty that in two minutes all their eyes will be upon him, is a severe test of courage. To go be fore these girls and make a satisfactory tour of the room without stepping on their toes, and then to sit down and dispose of one's hands without putting them into one's pockets, is an achievement which few boys can boast. If a boy can get so far as to measure off ten yards of tape with one of these girls, and cut it short at each end, he may stand a chance to pass a pleasant even ing, but let him not flutter himself that all tho trials of the evening are over. There comes at last the breaking up. The dear girls don their hoods, and put on their shawls, ; and look saucy and mischeivous, and un impressible, as if they did not wish any one to go home with them. Then comes the pinch, and the boy that has the most pluck makes up to the prettiest girl, his heart in his throat, and his tongue clinging to the roof of his mouth, and crooking his elbow, stammers out the words "Shall 1 see you home?" She touches her fingers to his arm, and they walk home about a foot apart, feeling as awkward as a couple of goslings. As soon as she is safe inside her own doors, he struts home, and thinks he has really been and gone and went and done it.— Sleep comes to him at last, with dreams of Caroline and Calico, and he awakens in the morning and finds tho door of life open to him, and the pigs squealing for breakfast. CONCLUDtnO REFLECTIONS. We have passed over churning, arftl learning the catechism, because we are fearful of making this article too long, al though we might have talked of butter that would not be persuaded to come, and per plexities of a literary turn ot mind, and a head that measured seven and a quarter when asked what the chief end of man was. Boyhood is a green passage in man's expe rience in more senses than one. It is a pleasant thing to think about now, thought it was serious enough then. Many of our present trials are as ridiculous as those which now touch tho risible in the recol lection, and when we get to the other world andlookBon the infn£y-of the soul through tyhilji w passed here we have no doubt that we shall grin over the trials which we experienced when we lost our fortunes, when our mills were swept away or burned, nml^B 11 ' we didn't get elected to the LegislrPV "Men are but boys of larger growth. I , SALT.—SaIt if, indispensable to man as a I part of his food. It is stated that with every | bushel of flour, nbout one pound of salt is used in making bread alone. Every ndult consumes about two ounces of salt weekly. The omission of a proper quantity of it in our food favors the engendering of disease. We read that when the ancient laws of Hol land ordained men to be kept on bread alone, ' the (Merest punish ment that could be indicted upon them in their moist climate, the effect was horrible; the wretched criminals are said to have been devoured by worms. Mungo Park men | tions that he suffered great inconvenience from the scarcity of this article ; -'The long use of vegetables created so painful a long ing for salt, no words can sufficiently de scribe it." Almost all graminivorous ani mals seem to have the same necessity for the use of salt in their food as man. An ex emption from the rot is generally enjoyed by sheep fed on the salt marshes, or when salt is regularly mixed with their food. In the States La Plata, in South America, the sheep and cattle, when they discover a pit of salt clay, rath to feed upon it; and in tho struggle, many are trodden to death. In Upper Canada the cattle have an abundance of wild pasture to browse on in the woods; but once a Tulfff glit they return to the farm of their own accord, in order to obtain a lit tle salt; and when they have eaten it, mix ed with their fodder, return again to the woods. Salt is now used extensively in England and all Europe, for fattening cattle. In Spain, they attribute the fineness of their wool to the quantity of salt given to their sheep, in England, one thousand sheep consume at the rate of a ton of salt annual ly- A DOMESTIC NECESSITY.—Every house should have as an intimnte, a good-natured, sensible, tidy, old lady. This important fixture should always be, if possible, a grandmother, or, as she next best, an aunt; yet so indispensable to the respectability, comfort, and convenience of a well-regulat ed household is the old lady, that if this , system of hon sleeping become general, it willTiecome qmfe*natufal'tcrTTniruriJeftfio head of "wants" in the newspapers, inqui ries ior proper old ladies 10 supply the lack of dear old folks gone to the belter home.— Indeed, old ladies discovering themselves in demand, would keep in preservation much longer, nor begin to make winding sheets and grave caps full ten years before the great reaper came to gather in the shocks of corh- fully ripe. Old ladies are needed. Providence designed such to fill a large space in the domestic circle; a class remarkable as not living for themselves but for others—the most beautiful specimens of disinterested love this side of Heaven. THE LAWYER NONTLUUSED—Hero we pre sent a case, in which the irritating and too irritable counsel was complelly nonplussed. It is as follows : "I call saidffhe counsellor, "lo state distinctly upon what authority you are prepared to swear to the horse's age?" " UponJSdiaLaulhority ?•' said the hostler interrogativgl/f' " reply to and not repeat tap question put to you." 5 * —■' I. dosen't consider a man's bound to answer a question afore he's time to turn it in his mind." " Nothnig can be moro simple, sir, than tho question put. I again repeat it. Upon what authority do you swear to the animal's ageS' " The host authority," re sponded the witness, gruffly. "Then why such evasion? Why not state it at once?" "Well, then, if you must have it"—Must! I will have it," vociferated the counsellor, interrupting the witness. " Well then if, you must and will have it" rejoined the hostler, with imperturbable gravity, " why, then, 1 had it myself from the horse's own mouth!" A simultaneous burst of laughter rang tb rogh- the court. The Judge on the bench could with difficulty restrain his risible muscle to Judicial decorum. ONE of tha best reasons yet heard for disunion is related by a fellow who went to call on the President. He said he waited four hours, and could not get to see him, "And I concluded," said he, "that if he was so cursed busy as all that, one President was not enough to attend to the affairs of this Republic, and wo had bettor have another." MAIL ROBBED—The Greenville and Beth alto mail—a small horseback mail for sev eral country Post Offices in Bond and Madi son counties, Illinois, was forcibly carried off from the carrier on the 3d instant, by an armed man who waylaid him in Cahokia Creek bottom. The mail bag was after wards found, open and empty, but the rob ber escaped."' George Colman, getting out of a hackney coach one night, gave the driver a shilling. "This is a bad shillin,g" said Jarvy. "Then it's all right," said George, with his inimi table chuckle: "yours is a bad coach." Charles Lever in one of his stories, tells of a dashing individual who boiled his hams in sherry wine; whereat an honest Hiber nian exclaimed: "Bedad, I wish I was a pig them times myself." The New Bell of Westminster- The great bell was tried yesterday, says the London Times of the 19th ull., and not with tbe hammer but with the i clapper The first few strokes were ! feebly given, to see that all was clear I about the monster, and this fact being satisfactorily ascertained, some men fcwere set to work to pull down the tar- Tpautlings which hung round the open 1 arches of tho bell chamber to protect | the workmen Irom the keen wind, hut [ which on this occasion, would have j kept in the sound sufficiently to half j deafen all in the tower. It was impos j siblo however, to remove a wooden [ boarding on the north side, or the tern j porary wooden roof over the bell, so that the trial was made under certain | disadvantages. The rope of tho clap- I per was then passed down to the clock j chamber, where Mr. Denison setting to | work with a will, made the Bbil speak ; in tones not likely to be forgotten oou by those who heard them in the bellry , The first stroke was slight, but after | wards it came peal after peal, in a tre mendous volume of sound that was i actually painful. It seemed lo swell & grow upon the air, with the vibrations that thrilled every bone in the listener's ; body with a painful jar, becoming luud | er with each gigantic clang, till one j shrank from the awful reverberations as from something tangible and dangerous to meet. Many went upon the balus . trade outside the chamber to avoid the , waves of sound that seemed eddying round tho tower but, the escape was j only a partial relief, the great din seem ing almost to penetrate tlie stone works . of the battlements, and jar the very place in which one stood. A Hard Case. j We witnessed the other day a scene which, God grant, our eyes may never see again. A young man was senten ced to the Penitentiary for one of those accidental crimes which olten arises in the heat of passion, for instance, when under the severe provocation a man loses his temper and strikes a harder blow in self-defence perhaps than he was awitre of, and a manslaughter, according to the law, is made ihe crime. He appeared perfectly willing to sulier the penalty which the law imposed, and which was the Penitentiary for a term of years, hut it so happened that he was not the only one to sutler from | such penally. He had a young wife and he was -'all the world lo Iter."'— They had, too, a young child, a darling little boy three years old. When lie came lo bid them a final farewell, as he, with other criminals were about to step aboard of the cars in charge of oflieers, oil their way to Columbus, it was enough to rend the heart-strings of the strongest mind to witness the strug gle of force and affection between the parlies. He kissed his wife with ap •y,.rently little emotion, eridcmly iiaSffg all his fortitude lor that occasion, but when his little boy was brought to him with arms extended for his wonted embrace, he found his father's feet fast ened together witlf-irons and his hands manacled behind him so that he could neither help himself or lake to iiis arms his only child. This brought the water to his eyes, which tip to this time had been welling up in his heart, and the tears rolled down his hardy cheeks in a perfect flood. One such scene Haunts us for a life time. "When will the sons of men learn to do as they ought ?"— Cleveland Plain Dealer. j OR M us. PARTINGTON'S VERY LA-T.— [ "Where did you get so much money, Isaac?" said Mrs. Partington, us he shook a half handful of copper cents before her, grinning all the while like a rogue, as he is. "Have you found the hornicopia, or has anybody given you a request?" She was a little anx ious. "1 got it from bets," said he, chucking the coin into the air and al lowing them lo clatter and rattle about the floor with all the importance of dollars. "Get them from Bets, did you," replied she. "And who is Bets, that she should give yon money? She must fie some low creature oryon would 1191 speak of lier RB desperatdly. 1 hope you will not get led attfuy lyjjtny des olate companions, Isaac, and Rweme an unworthy membrane of siwicly." How tenderly the iron-bowed specta cles beamed upon him! "1 mean bets," said lie, laughing, "that 1 won on Bur ligame." "Dear, me!" she exclaimed, "how could you do so, when gaining is 1 such a horrid habit? Why, someiimes | people are arranged at the bar for it." She was really uneasy until ho explain ed that, in imitation ol older ones, he had bet some cents on Burlingaiue and | had won. J " HAI.LO, BOY, did you seo a rabbit cross the road there just now ?" " A rabbit?" " Yes 1 bo quick 1 a rabbit 1" " Was it a kinder gray varrait ?" '• Yes ! yes 1" " A longish cretnr, with a short tail ?" " Yes, be quick, or he'll gain his bur row," | " Had it long legs behind, und big ; ears?" j " Y'cs 1 yes!" . " And sorter jumps when it runs?" " Y'es, 1 tell you; jumps when it ; runs " j " Well, 1 hav't seen such a cretur I about here," "NOTIR OF A SCHOOL MEETING."—The following "notis" calling a school meet ■ ing at a private house, was found post ed 011 a school-house in Maine, which appeared as if the "Schoolmaster had been abroud" a long lime. The "Notis" 1 read thus : " To sea if the destrict will agree to have a school next winter, ware thay will have it Keep "2. to sea if Thay will agree to re pare the school hous or to build a uew wun. "3. To sea if they wil agre to sol the school hous or what thay wil 3gro to do with it.— 7he Student. IT IS ALL moonshine about the girls petitioning Congress to have leap year come considerably oftener. ' NEVER give counsel where it is no' asked of you, especially to thoso who are incapable of appreciating it. WHATF.VER may be the reputation of a man whilo alive, when dead he is | generally allowed to be a finished gen- I tleman. The Year One Thousand. Just as this century drew to a close, var ious circumstances occurred to produce a change to men's minds. It was a univer sally diffused belief that the world would come to an end, when a thousand years Irom the Savior's birlh were expired. The year 999 was therefore looked upon as the lat which any one would see. And if ev er signs of approaching dissolution were shown in heaven and earth, then the people of this century might be pardoned for be lieving that they were made visible tothem. Even the breaking up of morals and law, and the wide deluge of sin which over spread all lands might have been taken as a token that all mankind were deemed unfit to occupy the eartli any more. In addition to these appalling symptoms, famines were renewed Irom year to year, in still increas ing intensity, and brought plague and pes tilence in their train. The land was left unfilled, the house unrepaired, the right unvindicated; for who would take the use less trouble of ploughing or building, or quarrelling about property, when so few. mouths were to put nil end to all terrestial interests ? Yet even for the few remaining days, the multitude must be fed. Bobbers frequented every road, entered even into walled towns ; and there was no aulhori'y left to protect the weak, or bring the wrong doers to punishment- Corn and cattle wete at length exhausted ; and in a great part of the continent, these extremities were endu red ; and when endurance could go no fur ther, the last desperate expedient was re sorted to, and human (lesh was commonly consumed, One man went so far as to expose it lor sule, in a market-town. • The horror of this open confession ol their needs was so great, that the man was burned, but more for the publicity ol his conduct, tjiun for his inherent guilt. Despair | gave a loose rein to all his passions- Noth ing was sacred, nothing safe - Even when foou might have been had, the vitiated taste made bravado of its deprivation, and w omen and children were killed and roastea in the madness of the universal lear. Meantime the genilo natures were driven to the wild est excess of fanaticism, to find a retreat from the impending judgment. Kings and Emperors begged at monastery doors to be admitted breihern of the Order. Henry of Germany, and Robert of France, were saints according to the notions of tho times, and even now deserve the respect of mankind for the simplicity and benevolence of their characters Honry the Emperor sueteeded in being admitted as a monk, and sworo obediance m the bands of the gentle ab bolt, who had failed in turning him from his purpose. "Sire," he said, at length, "since you are under my orders, and have sworn to obey me, I command you to go forth, and fulfill the duties of the State, to which God has called you. Go forth, a j monk of the Abbey, of St. Vanne, but Em peror of the West." Robert of France, the son of Hugh Capet, placed himself robed and crowned, among tbe chcristers of St. j Dennis, and led the iiyisicians in singing hymns and psalms of their own composi tion. Lower rtien were sacri ficing the marks of their kpightly'and seig 110rial rank, utid placing baldricks and swords on the alters, before the images of saints. Some manumitted their serfs, and bestow-1 ed large sums upon charitable trusts, com mencing their disposition with words im plying the approaching end of all. Crowds of the common people would sleep nowhere but in the porches, or at arvyiiate within the shadow of the churches, aiid other holy buildings; and as the day of doom drew nearer and nearea, greater efforts were made to appease tho wrath of heaVen. l'eaco was proclaimed between all classes of then. From Wednesday night till Mon day evening of each week, there was to be | no violence, "or enmity JiT war in all the j laud. It was to be a truce of And now came the dreaded or hoped ior yeir.— j The awlul Thousand had at last and men helJ their breath lo watch what 1 would be the result of its arrival. "And he laid hold of the dragon, that old serpent which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut Dim up, and set his seal upon him,that he should deceive tho nations 110 more till the thousand years shall be fulfilled, and after that, hemiust be loosed a little season."—(llev. 22 ; 2—3.) With this text, all the pulpits 111 Christen dom had been ringing for a whole genera tion, and not the pulpits only but the refec tion halls of convents, and the cottages of the starving peasanty. Into the castle, al so, of the noble, we have seen it had pene trated ; and the most object terror pervaded the superstitious—while despair as in ship wrecked vessels, displayed itself, amid the masses of tho population, in rioting and insubordiuary. The spirit of evil, for a little while, was to be let loose upon a sin ful world; and—when the observer looked around at Ihe real condition of the people in all parts ol Europe—at the ignorance and degradation of the multitude, the cruelty of tho Lords, and the unchritian ambition, and unrestrained passions of tho clergy—it must have puzzled him how to imagine a worse state of things, even when the chain was loosened from that 'old Serpent,' and the world placed unresistingly in his folds. Yet, as if men's mind had now reached their lowest point, there was a perpetual, rise from the beginning of this dale. When the first day of the thousand-and-first year, shone upon the world, it seemed that in all nations, tho torpor was about to be [Two Dollars per Annua. | thrown off. There were strivings every | where after a new order of things. The first joy of the deliverance from the expect ed destruction impelled all classes of socie ty in a more honorable and useful path than they had ever hitherto trod.— IVhite's Eigh teen Christian Centuries. The Ashes of Colnmbns. A Cathedral in Havana claims the honor of sheltering the remains of the navigator A recent traveler thus describes tho place : A mural tablet in the choi{, on which is a bust ol the illustrations Genoese in al-to-re lief, informs the public that all that is mortal of him reposes there ; that whilst he has left the country he discovered, to be the home of prosperous millions, he has madm*,. a voyage to a still more distant land from which no traveler returns. One of the of ficials, who had an eye to business during the services, presented me with a printed card, telling the s'tory of the liegira of these illustrious bones. Though Columbus died at Valladolid, in Spain, his remains were not permitted to rest there. They were first transported to a Carthusian monastery, at Seville; next they were removed across tho seas to St. Domingo, and finally they were disinterred and Drought to Havana. Here in the Antilles, with which the discovery has rendered his name immortal, and has so intimate connection, it is fitting that his dust should repose. The land which his heroism revealed to an astonished and ad miring world, may well afford him wherein to sleep his long sleep." CHAPPED HANDS. —These are very common ' about these days." cold weather chills the surface of the ekin and prevents a free circulation of the blood, and consequent warmth, and thus induces or aggravates the One of the primary causes of chopping tire skiu is the actiorfof soap. The alkali in ihjs eats away the cuticle or outer skin, and thus destroys the natural covering. In cold weather especially, tho hands should always Be thoroughly rinsed in clean water after washing them with soap. It will be found highly beneficial to wash the skin in a weak solution of vinegar and water, after using soap, and then rinse in clean water. The aecetic acid of the vine gar neutralizes the alkali of the soap, and prevents the further action upon the skin, which will take place il the slightest amount of soapy water be left on the hands when they are dried with a lowed- On washing days will be of f pecial ndt*xtrtajL' lb liarWj a vessel of water with a little vinegar ad- 1 ded, to dip the hands into when ever they 1 are taken from the washing water, when over we find it necessary to wash with soap, i we rinse tho hands in diluto vinegar, or a vory weak 6olulior. of any acid, such as a few drops of oil of vitrei (sclphric acid) muriatic (hydro- cholric) acid, or nitric acid (aqua-fortic) in a quart of water. Any of ( these acids will neutralize the alkali of the I soap. Since adopting this practice we have | never been trouble in the least with chap- M ' ped or even rough hands, though we do i not put on gloves or mitfens half a dozen J I times a year. ''ig j> -.? * | We would add further, that in washing ; the hands it is usually lielter to use a stiff j brush instead of soap, unless they chance |to be coverd with oil or tar. A brush is ; more convenient, more effectual, neater, ; cheaper, and-better every, way lhau soap.— I An. Agr. FUNNY. —A right funny story is told as happening down in the rural vicinity of Mount Pleasant, Virginia, not long since Not far from Mount Pleasant, back in the country like, there is a tavern called the 1 Franklin House. Mr. Franklin, the pro prietor has two deaf and dumb daughters, M sprightly, intelligent and interesting. signs they often carry on animated convert® sations, especially with each other and numbers of the family, j Last week, two foot travelers stopped for ; 'be l ight, at this house, and after supper l->'yith the family, were shown to a room in ' whictntCfts a good tito and bod for their ac ommodat onT -Ijho k't.l host on enteiiug the room in the mnrtivT>