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.
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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><n, ;d that tho bed
had not been occupied ti-.i that
had flown. He, however,, t.iund on the ta
ble money for their supper, and a
stating that in consequence of signs made®
at the supper table by the young ladies®
they did not think it safe to go to bed, and®
therefore paid tho bill and took their depart-®
GOODNESS FTERNAI.— I"The 1 "The
spend upon our mortal selves will
with ourselves ; but the care we give
a good heart to others, the efforts of
lorested duty, the deeds and
pure affection, are never lost;
to waste ; and aro like a force that
gates itself forever, changing itself,
loosing its intensity. In short,
sense in which nothing human dies ;
at least, which proceeds from
and characteristic part of
nothing which he does as a
moral law. Material
ed, their indentity and function are gone,
but mind partakes of the eternity of the
great parent spirit; and thoughts, truths,
emotions, once given to the world aro never
lost; they exist as truly, and perform their
duty as actively, a thousand years after
theii origin as on their day of birth."
READER, did you ever enjoy the ecstatic
i bliss ol courting ? you didn't! then you had
i better get a little gal-an-try!