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THE STAR OF THE NORTH. B. W. Weaver* Proprleler.3 VOLUME 9. THE STAR OF THE NORTH IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING BY R. W. WEAVER, OFFlCE— Upstairs , in the new brick build ing, on the south side oj Alain Street, third square below Market. V Kit HI BTwo Dollars per annum, if paid within six months from the lime of sub scribing ; two dollars and fifty cents if not paid within the year. No subscription re ceived for a less period than six months j no discontinuance permitted until all arrearages •re paid, unless at the option of the editor. ADVERTJSEM KNTS not exceeding one square will be inserted three limes for One Dollar, wnd twenty-five cents for each additional in sertion. A liberal discount will be made to those who advertise by the year. Choice JJoetrj}. THE PREACHING OF THE TREES. FROM THE GERMAN OF GRUEN. At mlgnight hour, when silence reigns Through all the woodland spaces, Reign the bushes and the trees To wave and whisper in the breeze, AU talking in their places. The rosebush flamed with look of joy, And pertume breathes in glowing ; "A Rose's lile is quickly past! Ther. let me. while my time shall last, Be richly, gaily blowing !" The Aspen whispers, "sunken day! Not me thy glare deceiveih ! Thy sunbeam is a deadly dart, That quivers in the rose's heart— My shuddering soul it grieveth !" The slender Poplar speaks, and seems To stretch her green hands higher; "Up yonder life's pure river flows, So sweetly murmurs, brightly glows, To that 1 still aspire The Willow looks to earth and speaks: "My arm to fold thee yarneth ; I let my hair float down to thee ! Entwine therein thy flowers lor me, As mother her child adorneth !" And next the wealthy Plum-tree sighs: "Alas! my treasures crush This load with which my Take off—it ia not mine alone : By robbing you refresh me!'* ■ The Fir-tree speaks in cheerful mood; "A blossom bore I never; Rut steadfastness is all my store; In summer's heat, in winter's roar, 1 keep my green forever!" The proud and lofty Oak-tree speaks: "God's thunderbolt confounds me! And yet no storm can blow me down, Strength is my stem and strength my crown; Ye weak ones gather round me !" The Ivy vine kept close to him, Her tendrils round him flinging ; "He who no slrengih has of his own, Or loves not well to stand alone, May to a friend be clinging." Much else, now half forget, they said: And still 10 me came creeping, Low whispered words, upon the air, While by the grave alone stood there The Cypress mutely weeping. O! might they reach one human heart, These tender accents creeping ! What wonder if they do not reach " The Irees by starlight only preach, When we must needs be sleeping. itticccilancono. WHO WRITES TUB NEGRO SONGS. —The prin cipal writer of our national music is said to be Stephen C. Foster, the Ned," "O Susannah," &c. Mr. Foster •ides near Pittsburg, where heoccuoiesq moderate clerkship, upon which, and a pre r.entage on the tale of his songs, he depends for a living. He writes the poetry as well as the mnsic of his songs. These are sung wherever >hc English language is spoken, while the music is beard wherever men sing. In tbe cotton fields of the South, among the mines of California and Australia, in tbe sea cost cities of China, in Paris, in the London Prison, everywhere, in fact, bis melodies are heard. ''Uncle Ned," was tho first. This was published in 18-15, and reached a sale unknown till then in the musio publishing business. Of "The Old Folks at Home," 100,000 copies have been so'd in this coun try, and as ninny more in Fngland. My "Kentucky Home," and "Old Dog Tray," each had a sale of about 70,000. All his other songs have had great run. All his compositions are simple, but ihey are natur al, and find their way the popular heart and link themselves indissolubly with its best associations. TUB LAW or TREES.— It is now a well set tled law, by several judicial decisions, that if a tree growing upon my land, overhangs the ground of my neighbor, the fruit belongs to me, and I may enter upon his land for the purpose of gathering it, provided I do no damage beyond what may be necessary in carefully gathering the fruit. At the same lime, ii is equally good law that my neighbor may cut off all overhanging limbs, and all foots that grow on his ground ; but while he permits them to grow, I am to enjoy the ben efit.— Btllfonte Whig. * If HI ' tW The streets are kept cleaner in Eurone than in the United States, and at less expend In some European towns there isnoexpeuW incurred for street cleaning, and in others the system produces a revenue. Peris is cleaned every night, end the city ts paid a bonus for tbe privilege of sweeping. In American cit ies, the cost of cleaning the streets is a very considerable item of municipal expenditure, end the duty is not perfoimed as it ought to be for the cost, or for tbe public health, which is of much greater importance. %3T Simpson s*ys the ladies do not snt their capefor tbe gentlemen any more; they spread their hoops BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY. JUNE 17, 1857. From the Student and Schoolmate. TMIIIDE R-ITOIt M 8 . BY A. R. POPE. JUNE, the pleasantest month in tho year, in the Northern States, forms a part of the sea son for thunder-storms. It was in June, on the fifteenth day of the month, 1752, that Benja min Franklin tried his famous experiment with a kite, and drew lightning harmlessly from the cloud, and so proved that the elec tricity of the cloud is the same as the elec tricity of an electrical machine. Many persons, learned as well as unlearn ed, disbelieved what Franklin asserted, at first. So his experiment was repeated in this country, and in different parts of Europe, to lest the correctness of his opinion. And, though the result to science was always TMI same, the same safely wss not always ed by the operators. Several persons were more or less injured by tbe lightning which passed down the kite-strings; and one, at least, was killed. Superstitious people said lhat such injuries came from God's vengeance against men who meddled with things whioh they should not examine. But science now tells us, that tho disasters happened because the experimenters did not know, or would not observe, the great laws which govern electricity. . , But, as great as Franklin was, he understand the production of electricity in clouds so well as mttrh humbler persons can understand it now. It was necessary to know that lightning and electricity were alike, be fore any thing else could be learned upon this subject. Since Franklin made his grand dis covery, the whole theory concerning the for mation of clouds, winds, and rain, has be come much better known thsn it was in his time. And we begiti to see how those ele ments may form, as it were, a huge electrical machine in the atmosphere 1 An electrical machine has only three es sential parts: 1. a non-conductor, usually glass; 2. a conducting rubber, usually leath er coated with an amalgam of zinc aud mer cury; 3. a prime conductor (metallic),tocol lect and hold the electricity, which is pto 'duced by the rubber against the glass; one of thsso two being moved upon the other. It must be remembered that heat causes, first, an upward movement of air; second, a lateral movement of air toward the upward volume ; and, third, an evaporation of water, which is carried up by the air, until it is con densed into one mist or cloud. It has been also proved, that vapor, upon rushing out of the escape-valve of a steam-boiler, by its friction produces electricity which can be collected in a Leyden jar; and, besides, it is known that air will answer as well as steam, to produce electricity in this way, if the air have enough moisture in it to mako it a con ductor, like the rubber of a machine. Dry air and condensed vapor are both non conductors. Tlieso will answer for the glass of an electrical machine. But as the column of air ascends, a part of the vapor becomes condensed, and thus forms itself into the rub ber of such a machine. The wind drives the forming cloud through the air, or into contact with another cloud of a different temperature; and the friction of the clouds together, or against the air, produces electricity. This electricity is collected and held by the cloud, which is the prime conductor, till it can con tain no more, or is surcharged, as itMs-eglled; then it leaps from the cloud to the earth, jam both lightning aud thunder. Kjtus, as it seems, the formation of elecUicro %ay be traced back to heat, which creates, in the atmosphere, all theso parts of an elec trical machine, and also operates them. Tbe influence of one cloud upon another, most persons may have observed; because it is common to say, that a thunder-storm is more violent when clouds from a different direction meet over our heads. But clouds Irom dif ferent directions can very seldom be at tbe same height; and the lower, which is always less moist than the upper, pass under that.— By the friction, which their nearness to each other,or their actual contact will occasion, the violence and frequency of the electric dis charges are produced. As soon as it was known that lightning was caused by electricity passing through the air, it was also known that thunder was tbe noise whioh the lightning makes on Us way.. A spark of electricity passes from a machine to a good conducting substance, with a sharp, snapping sound ; and the sound is always proportioned to the distance between the two objects, and to the quantity of electricity ac cumulated. When it is remembered, that the discharge of the electricity of a common Leyden bat tery, through a space less than an inch, will make a noise like the report of a gnn, it is plain how the noise is produced, when there is a discharge from such a large quantity of electricity from a cloud to the earth, through a space of half a mile, or more. This would sufficiently account for a sudden Bound, as violent and startling as any which ever at tends a flash of lightning. This is sometimes the character of the eound when the cloud is small, and tbe ex .plosion near. The rolling or rumbling noise is the echo of the first crash, sent back and forth, it may be, from the earth and cloud'. Those who have visited any remarkable echo-ground, can readily understand the re verberation, as it is called, of thunder.— Among (he While Mountains, in New Hamp shire, there is a place where, if a tin born be blown with a single blast, the listener will hear prolonged, meiodions sounds, like the notes of a bugle, as the echo. A cannon, fired at the same place, will awake echoea so closely resembling tbundet, that (he sounds are rajled "home made thunder." Ofoourse, any one may ee lhat there i danger to be apprehended from thunder. The danger ia over, when we hear the noise of the electri city. The ancients were much afraid of thunder bolts, a* they called electrical discharges.— Their ways of protecting themselves were the results of superstition and ignorance, and were very foolish. The Romans believed that seat-skins were a sure defence against lightning. Augustus always kept one by him! The emperors of Japan were, until quite recently, accustomed to enter a cave, for safety, on the approach of a tempest; and a reservoir was kept filled with water before the mouth ol the cave, to extinguish the fire of the lightning. In Russia, it was formerly (he custom to close the doors and windows, and to fill up the key-holes, to prevent the (evil spirits, whom God was supposed to be ipursuing in the storm, from entering. In many countries, there are thunder-stones, so called, which are supposed, by ignornnt peo ple, to have the power to keep out lightning, if the door-posts of the house aro struck three times with one of them. But, now that the nature of lightning is known, we are enabled to understand the proper method of protecting ourselves and our property against its violence. As we know how easily electricity can be conducted by metals, we are taught to put up metallic rods, with Ihe expectation that lightning will obey its own laws, and follow such rods on its way to tho oarth, if it come upon a build ing provided with them. And this it uni formly does, unless tho discharge is so great that (he rods will not hold it. Then some of the fluid may branch oil, and do some dam age on its track, while still tho larger part goes harmlessly into the ground, on the con ductors. As it is very important that lightning-rods should be perfect, they should always be put up in the best manner, and by a practiced hand. A lew dollars' saving may cost many lives and much properly. There are many persons omployed to do this work who do not understand their business, and know nothing of Ihe scienco upon which it depends. Dr. King, formerly of Boston, ninde tho sub ject a careful study,-and invented a method which has since been improved upon by Mr. Orcutl, so that nothing seems desired in this direction. There aro probably other plans quite as effectual, whioh are followed in oth er neighborhoods, an'd, like Mr. Orcutt's, pro vide all possible security aud permanence, w'uli due economy. Most persons are now aware that it is not safe to seek shelter from the -ain, which usu ally accompanies a thunder-storm, under a tree. It may be well to know the reason for this danger. The pointed leaves ol trees wore arranged by the Creator to be earth's lightning-conductors. A metal point will not discharge electricity so fast as a blade of grass! But the trunks and roots of trees are not very good conductors. So the lightning, which Ihe leaves attract, will be most certain to leave the tree on its way to the ground, for thehu.nan body, which is a much better conductor. Moisture is a good conductor of electricity. Therefore, every lightning-rod should termi nate in moist ground ; or, when convenient, in a sink-drain or well. It is owing to this conducting power of moisture, that lightning is less likely to do injury when it rains vio lently, than when the air is dry. When it begins to rain before the thunder-storm has become violent, we may be always sure that the storm will be less severe than it otherwise ! would have been. A thunder-storm without rain is usually very disastrous. Such storms are most common in the tropical regions. Soot is a good conductor. Therefore, when the discbarge of electricity falls upon a house which has no metallic conductor, tho fluid is quite likely to follow the chimney flue ; and it is not very safe to occupy a seat ic such a house near the fireplace. The danger from lightning is not so great as many suppose. It is said that twenty per sons are annually killed by drowning for one injured by lightning. It is not well,therefore, to be always timid at the approach of a thun der-storm, so as to adopt ar.y needless or ri diculous method of protection, such as dress ing in a silk robe, hiding in a cave, rushing down a cellar, lying upon a feather.bed, or sitting in a chair in the middle of the room with the feet upon the rundles. It is best to keep the mind free from unne cessary anxiety at all limes; and quite as much so in a thunder-storm as at othertimes. If a person be uneasy, and feel desirous of doing all that is possible to prevent the dan ger of injury from lightning, Rome things may be attended to. But, in ordinary showers which do not pass immediately over us, no precaution is needed. When the storm is more threatening, it may be well to remem ber some of the laws which govern the dis charges, or determine their direction. Therefore, avoid a position near a tree, in a draft of air, near a fireplace, or close by a large surfaee of metal which is not connected with tho ground. And, besides, every one should cultivate such a sense of dependenoe upon the Crea'or, as to know that he will care for us, as well when the forked light nings play around onr homes, and the heavy thunder rolls terrifically over our heads, as when we sit in the quiet of a calm summer evening. BT Not long since, a youth, older in wit than in years after being oatechised concern ing the power of Nature, replied— I "Ma, I think there is one thing Nature oan't do."— " What is it?" eagerly inquired the aston ished mother. " She can't make Bill Jonee' month any bigger without setting his ears back." Truth and Right God aid onr Country. Uttyiird Taylor's Opinion or Feminine Vlr. tnc In the Frigid Zone. Bayard Taylor, writing Irom Jnoxor.gi, in the Frigid Zone, on the 6tli of January, tells of a nurse named Fredrica, who attended to his case when suffering the horrors of tooth ache, makes some remarks of womankind in general, in the paragraph annexed: This good-hearted girl was a genuine speci men of the Northern Swedish female. Of medium height, plump, but not stout, with a rather slender waist and expansive hips, and a foot which stepped firmly and nimbly at the same time, she was as cheerful a body as one could wish to see. Her hair was of that silky BO common in Sweden; her eyes a clear, pale blue, ber nose straight and well formed, her rheeka of the delicate pink of a wild rose leaf, and her teeth so while, regular j and perfect that I am sure they would make her fortune in Ameriia. Always cheerful, kind and active, she had, nevertheless, a hard life of it; shown. alike cook, chamber maid and hostler, and aad a cross mistress to boot. Sho made our fires in the morning darkness and brought us our early coffee while we yet lay in our bed, in accordance with the luxurious habits of Ihe Arctic zone. Then, until Ihe last drunken guest was silent, toward midnight, there was no respite from labor. Although sullering from a distressing cough, she hud the out-door as well as the in-door duties to discharge, and wo saw her in a sheepskin jacket, harnessing horses, in a temperature of 30 deg. below zero. The reward of such a service was possibly about eight American dollars a year. When, on leaving, 1 gave her about ks much as one of, our hotel servants would oxpect for answer-1 ing a question, tho poot girl was overwhelm ed with gratitude, and even the stern land lady was so impressed by my generosity that sho insisted on lending us a sheepskin for our feet, saying wo were "good men." There is something exceedingly primitive and unsophistocated in ihe manners of these Northorn people—a straightforward honesty, which takes the honesty of other? for grant ed—a latent kindness and good-will which may at first be overlooked; because it is not demonstrative, ami a total unconsciousness of what is called, in high cultivated circles, "propriety." The very freedom of manners which, in some countries, might denote laxi ty of morals, is here the evident stamp of their purity. The thought has often recur red to me—which is the most truly pure and virginal nature, tho fastidious American girl, •ho tilu.he* .1 lh. itiihi of . vf of boot, outside of a gentleman's bed rooin door, and who requires that certain unoffending parts ol the body and articles of clothing should be designated by delicately circumlocutious terms, or the simple-minded Swedish wo man, who come into our bed rooms with coffee, and makes our fites while we get up and dress, coming and going during all the various stages ol the toilet, with the frankost unconsciousness of impropriety? This is modesty in its healthy and ralural develop ment, not in those morbid forms which sug gest an imagination ever on the alert for pru rient images. Nothing has confirmed my impression of the virtue of Northern Sweden more than this fact, and I have already felt more respect for woman or more faith in the inherent purity of her nature. Curiosities of Bleep. In Turkey, if a person falls asleep in Ihe neighborhood of a poppy field, and the wind blows over 'ovvards him, he becomes gradu ally narcotized, and would die if the country people, who are well acquainted with the cir cumstance, did not bring him to the next well or stream, and empty pitcher after pitcher of water on his face and body. Dr. Appenbeim, during his residence in Turkey, owed his life to this simple and efficacous treatment. Dr. Graves, from whom this anecdote is quoted, also reports the case of a gentleman thirty years of age,.who, from long continued sleep iness, was reduced to o complete living skel eton, unable to stand on his legs. It was partly owing to disease, but chiefly to the abuse of mercury and opium ; until at last, unable to pursue his business, be sank into abject poverty sod woe. Dr. Reid mentions a friend of his, who, whenever anything oc curred to distress him, aoon became drowsy and fell asleep. A fellow student also at £d inburg, upon hearing suddenly of the unex pected death of a near relative, threw him self on his bed and almost instantaneously, amid the glare of noonday, sunk into a pro found slumber. Another person, reading aloud to one of his dearest friends, stretched on his death-bed, fell asleep, and, with the book still in his hand, went on reading utterly unconscious of what he was doing. A wom an at Huraadt slept seventeen or eighteen hours a day for fifteen years. Another is re corded to have slept once for four days. Dr. Macuißh mentions a woman who spent threo fourths of her life in sleep, and Dr. Elliltson quotes the case of a young lady who slept for six weeks and recovered. The venerablo St. Augustine of Hippo prudently divided his hours into three parts, eight to be devoted to sleep, eight to recitations, and eight to con verse with the world. Maniacs are reported particular in the eastern hemisphere, to be come furious vigilant during the full of the moon, more especially when the deteiiorating raya of ita polarized light is pormitted to fall into their apartment, hence the name luna lios. There certainly is greater ptonenets to disease during sleep tbsu in the waking slate, for those who pass the night in the Campegue du Roma inevitably become affected witb its noxious air ; while traveler* who go thro' without (topping escape the miasma. In tense cold produces sleep, and those who perish in the snow sleep on till they sleep ihe sloop of death. Comical Report ol n Fish Convention. It is to be understood that all the marine monsters, "big fish," and "small fry" of the great deep are assembled in conclave—the Whale "in the chair." He opened the convention by stating lhat he did not wish to mako a speech; ho would lake up as little room, and be no longer than possible. (Here the Shark whispered to the Sword Fish that it was not possible for Ihe Whale to be much longer, as he was over 80 feet now. In his opinion, he only wanted a chance to spout; In fact, he considered him a regular blower.) The Whale continued, and contended that ho bad been grossly insulted by man—he might say lampooned, not (hat he would pun I upon the use made of his fat, as he did nm wish to make light of such a matter. He had been harpooned, at least. Men were sarcastic toward him, and their shafts were sharp and pointed. Some of his fellow whales had been much cut up, and exceed ingly Iried. He had latterly learned that a substitute for oil had been invented, which might lessen the persecution of whales—but he feared it was all gas. The Whale allu ded (o a harpoon which had lately hit him, and, he feared, had afflicted him deeply.— Here his feelings overpowered him, and he sat down (on the Shark) amidst a general blubber. The Shark rose with some difficulty, and remarked that the tale of tho Whale had moved him; in fact, it was very striking. His own situation was far from pleasant. He was by profession a lawyer, and, he flattered himself, one ol the deep kind. Rut business was bad, and lie had been obliged to take in a few pupils. He bad lately presented a fine oponing for a young man who had fell over board, but was soon afterwards obliged to reject his seat, as indigestible. Unless he had more cases, be would leavo taw and open as a dentist. The Sea-Serpent did not wish to intrude upon the Convention; ho did not know whether he proporly belonged to tho fish tribe or not. All be asked was, not to be classed with the Eel, whom he considered to be a very slippery character. (Hero the Eel was obsctved to wriggle violently.)— Lately bo was passing a certain species of the Eel, when, just happening to touch him, lie had been so shocked that he hurdly re covered. The Eel hastily arose, and said he was shocked, he might nay electrified, at these I nnwilu. It was evident <o him tiim tt.e Serpent must get himself into a coil. As for his being a "slippery chaiacter," ho thank ed Neptune he didn't belong to euch a scaly set as the Serpent. The Whale called the Eel to order, and the Eel called the Whale an "old swell-head," and wag then summarily put out of the con vention. The Turtle said he was suffering from in disposition. Ho was walking on shore, he said, a short time 6ince, when he met a par ty of jolly young sailors. The result was, that he was laid on his back, and was unable to move for some time, and since then he had not felt so lively as usual. There was one thing to which he would call the atten tion of the Convention; he prided himself upon the purity of his political principles.— The Shark had lately insulted him by calling him a "regular old Hard Shell." Here the Shark interrupted him by saying, "Is not that your case i" The Turtle replied, that he should say nothing more at present, but should have something to lay before the next meeting. Yes, replied the Shark, contemptuously, "a few eggs probably." The Porpoise undertook to speak, bnt was speedily silenced. The expression of the Convention was, that he was "a blower." The Small Fry, were next called upon,-& Oysters, Lobsters, others. The Oyster opened his case, which was a hard one.— jHe was always in trouble—a perpetual stew lor boil. His half-brother, Clam, was a dis grace to the family: always in liquor, and generally considered a "squirt." Some of his family were indolent, and spent most of their time in "beds." There had been some rakes among them, who had created great disturbance. There was one of his neighbors, ho said he would not call any names, for he scorned scandal—who was very surly and crabbed. He was a one-sided individual, and nobody approved of his motion. The Crab protested against this abuse, and said that the rest took advantage of him be cause he was "soil." He respectfully retired backward. The Codfish, who had been visiting a "school;" the Shad, much net-tied at what he had heard; the aristocratic Salmon, who got into a row with a York State Trout, who called him a Northern Fish with Southern principles; and the Flying Fish, who flew into a tremendous passion—all took part in the proceedings of the Convention. Out so it was, at last, as the erudite Dog berry has it, that the whole dissembly dis appeared, iu good order, notwithstanding an attempt at disturbance made by a jolty old Sole, and "a lot of Suckers." HAD HER THERE. —Two little girls, one a daughter of a clergyman, and the other of a parishioner, (ell fato angry dispute. To mor tify and spite her antagonist, the laymsn's little girl saw fit to remind her oi her father's poverty, and iutimated rather tartly that had it not been for her father's benevolent inter- I uronce, the poor minieter would have been in the workhouse. " Well, I don't care," replied the other, "if it had not been for my father, ycurs would hive been in hell long | ago" N O I. O . We yesterday heard a practical joke per petrated, which in the dullness ol tho times, if not for its intrinsic exoellonce, is worthy of being reoorded. Tho parties to tf.ia trans action wo shall designate as Ben and Tom. It is proper for a bettor understanding of the jnke to intimate that the former specu lates to a modest degree in bivalves—and right good bivalves ibey are loo—and it is not necessary to say what the latter does, father than he is as fast as tho locomotive and pel train which he swears by, withal, a great wag. The story runs that Ren had taken a three dollar counterfeit bill, and not relishing such dead capital, he conceived the idea of giving it to Tom, who was a frolicking fellow, and could make it go if any body could. Accord ingly ho approached the contemplated dis pensing medium one day, when the follow ing conversation ensued: "I say, Tom, here's a pretty good counter feit three, if you pass it I'll divide." "Let's see the plaster," said Tom; and af ter examining it carefully, put II in his vest pockot remarking, "It's an equal division—a dollar and a half a piece?" "Yes," said Ben. "All right,'* said Tom, and he sauntered. A few minutes Bflerwnrds he quietly step ped into tho office of his friend Ben, pur chased a can of Oysters for one dollar and a half, and laid down the three dollar bill in payment for them. The clerk looked at Ihe bill rather doubtingly, when his suspicion* were immediately calmed by Tom, who told him there "was no use of looking, for he had received lhat bill Irom Ben, biinsetf, not ten minutes since." Of course, the clerk, with this assurance, immediately forked over the dollar nnd a half change, and with this do posit and tho can of oysters Tom left. Shortly afterwards he met Ben, who asked him if he had passed tho bill • "Oh, yes," said Tom, "here's your share," at the same time passing over the dollar and a half to Ben. That night when Ben p"a<!e up his cash account ho wn9 surprised to find the same old counterfeit three in the drawer. Turning to his locum lenens he asked: "Where did yon got this cursed bill ? Didn't yon knnw it was a counterfeit?" "Why, Tom gave it to me, and I suspect ed it waa fishy, but he said ho had just re ceived it from you, and I therefore took ill" The whole thing had penetrated the wool I o( tWu, nU with a pecutiai grin must ed, "Sold," and charged lire can of oysters to profit and loss account. A Spring Morning. To walk abroad among rural scenery on a fine sunny morning, is to ramble on the tem ple of Deity, and witness the creative process. Kvery day, almost every hour, witnesses some change : buds, blossoms, leaves and flowers are woven by unseen hands, painted by invisible artists, and perfumed from 'vials full of odors sweet,' —we look upon them in the morning with surprise and pleasure, while the first dew and sunbeam are visiting them. Whul an admirable and perlect taste must He have, who performs all this. There is no noise,no useless display. The Creator therein teaches modesty to his creatures. His good ness is also visible—the blossoms soon per ish, but their hue and fragrance are the brea thing of a benevolent mind. Look at the multitude of little heaps of sand that lie in the paths and suffer your eye to rest for a moment upon the busy and apparently happy itlfOct that brings out his grain of sand Nothing seems too minute and insignificant for the Almighty to put bis hand upon and invest with faculties of intelligence and hap piness. • OUR HOUSES. —We always look upon our houses as mere temporary lodgings. We are always hoping to get larger and finer ones, or are forced some way or other to live where we do not choose, and in continual expecta tion of changing our placesof abode, la the present state of society, this is in a great measure unavoidable : but let us remember it is an evil,and that so far as it is avoidable, it becomes our duty to check the impulse.—' it is surely a subject for serious thought, whether it might not be better for many of us, if, in attaining a certain position in life, we determined, with God's permission, to choose a bouse in which we would live and die—a home not to be increased by adding stone to stone and field to field, but which, being enough for all our wishes at one peri od, we should be resolved to be satisfied with forever. Consider this, and also, whether we ought not to be more in the habit of seek ing honor for our descendants than oar an cestors ; thinking it better to be nobly re membered than nobly born ; and, striving to live that our sou's sons for ages to come might still lead their children reverentially to the doors out of which we have been carried to the grsve, saying, " Look, this was his house ; ibis was his chamber.'' CF A story is told of a grave divine oa Cape Cod, not long since, who awoke from a comfortable nap in his chair, and discovered his amiable helpmate in the per formance of an act for which COT. Many once made a charge ot fifty cents to the State—in other words mending bis panta loons. Inspired with a love of fun which seldom affected bias, ho enquired, "Why are you, my dear, bke the evil adversary spoken ol in Scripture Ot course she was unable to discover aay resemblance. "Because,'' said be, "wbile the kukuidtmn slept, you sowtd .'Ac fares [Two Dollars per Inn. NUMBER 22. IA)VE, HONOR, AND OBEY. Promise to love', why, woman think* To lovo a privilege, not a tank , If thou wilt truly take my heart, And keep it, tbi* ia all 1 auk. Honor thee ! yea, if yon wilt live A life of truth and purity; When I have seen thy worthiness, I cannot choose jbut honor thee. Obey! when I have fully learned Kach want and with to undenland, I'll lenrn the wisdom to obey, If thou hast wisdom to command. So if I fail to live with thee In duty, love, and lowliness, 'Tit nature's fault, or thine, or both: The greater must control the leas. "Sam"Giving "Snmbo" Particular Jessie! The Juniata Sentinel, published in Mifflin town contained on Wednesday last, the fare well speech and confession of its retiring ed itor, A. J. GREER, who after being trepan nod into the support of Fremont last fall, has no ides that by it|he "bound himself to the ultra car of lilack Republicanism for all com ing time." If a living picture, a tableaux vivant or a gtand family groupe, worthy of the Keller troupe can be enjoyed by our readers, thoy will take special pleasure in the striking pen and ink sketches of Repub lican principles which Mr. GREER gives in his valedictory. We give a portion of it for their amusement: "Tired ol begging it living, and with enp reme contempt for ultra Black Republican ism and Black Republican devils, with this number we close our connection with Ihia paper. Hating tyranny over the mind ol man in every form, and longing to become a free man, with a freo conscience and a free pert we surrender the editorial chair of the Juniata Sentinel into other hands whose organic mu sic wo trust shall be more acceptable to the party and persona before stated. We have tak en this step after mature deliberation, not that wo are afraid to avow and maintain true American doctrines in the face of ultra Black Republicans, hermaphrodite Americaua and political Summer-eauliers generally, but that we may avoid an unpleasant, undesirable and bitter conflict in the present canvass.— Our chief object in exposing the hollownesa of Republicanism in prolesaion, and its an tagonism to American principles was for the good of party, and we tell those who took such great offence at us for so doing that they will find they are not yet quite the | wtiote people, for there are others who have opinions as well as themselves, and before this campaign is over they will find "Jordan a hard road to travel." We tell them, 100, that there are from two to three hundred votes in this county that they cannot influ ence by the meails they have employed against us. Thi. ia the only lime, in our editorial ca reer, in which we have taken leave of a people under apolitical difficulty, but we are happy to know that that difficulty iscoofiaed to a few political Bleeding Kansas blood suckers. They weep, they groan over the wrongs heaped upon the ur.fortonate people of that territory, in the loss of free suffrage, free thought and a free press, throngh the in strumentality of Border Ruffianism, and yet when the truth ot their own iniquities is brought home to their door, they become as ruffianly and oppressive as their prototypes from the border connties of Missouri. We need not go to Kansas for ruffianism, but we can find it even in little Juniata. It woold be well for gentlemen to pieserve a little con sistency. We hold the Liberty of speech and the freedom of the press sacred, aad be who would take away these things strikes at the very foundation of oar Republican Insti tutions; he carries with bim a heart as treach erous snd a hand as villainous as him who received the thirty pieces of silver. Those to whom we apply these remarks can under stand them. The Republican party, under i's present constituted leaders, is the meanest party with : which we have ever had anything to 30. Without prudence or discretion it rushes ' madly into extremes, snd renders itself so obnoxious to all liberal minded people, that a union of the opposition elements becomes an utter impossibility. It wilt not waive a single point of its radicalism for the sake of union with men who are as hostile to the ex tension of slavery as there is any necessity ! for. Its whole history proves this, and it only | uses the American party as a tool to eaable ultra Republicanism to gain place and pow er, that, at length, it may ttab the principles of Americanism ia the high placesof the country. This it has already doae, and we have no guarantee that any better fate can be expected from it in the future. Then why should Americans lend themselves to the schemes and designs of a party, possessed of to much bitterness, antagonism and mock sincerity 1 Others may do as they please, but we cannot remain silent and permit our -1 selves to be transferred, by mere platforms acd t put dtxui, to enemies, without a voice in the matter. There never can be but two great and successful parties in this country, one of which, must of necessity, be the Democrauc party, oa account of he radical tendencies. The other must be composed of the conservative elements outside of that party. The old Whig party woe the bast chock tbat Democracy has ever had, or am will have fer some time to rones, as ia tit# present condition of things we look for suc cession of Democratic victories ia Peoesjrl vanis, natil contending t"satin as tears wis dom. This may be regarded as bed proph ecy: hut wait and see." ■■■ ■ , tar Baautr, devoid of g'ace, is a taaia hock without 'he bait