The Northern star, and constitutionalist. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1834-1837, 1835-12-19

sympathy he knows not the way 10 appre- |
ciate. Day and night find him the same
idio'ic being, retaining his animal nature,
but with dropping head and palsied mind
and quenched intellect Such melan-
choly case Of alteration from virtue,
should not pass without its salutary nhu-
ence and impressiyeness upon the young.
They seem like beacon lights lifted on
high, destined to warn the unwary and
thoughtess Of the quicksands which lie
concealed through the journey of life, re-
quiring constant watchfuness of tho
passions and outposts to be placed aJound
virtue, to keep the heart unspotted in
the world so that its possessor may ul,i-
mately secure the needed attributes Of
Heaven.
\ LIFE INSURANCE. ia one branch
of this business, which might be increased
to the great benefit Of u large portion Of
our merchants and others we mean those
who are obliged to rely in their business
upon the endorsements Of others. Many
a time is man ruined by the death of an
endorser, owing to the necessity imposed ,
upon him Of looking out in hurry for an
other to take his place, which very often
leads to unhappy connexions. The inter-
est which man has, in the continued life
Of an endorser, is, we believe, an insura-
BILE interest, and although it would be too
lexpensve TO keep up q permanent insu-
rance for the whole amount Of the en-
dorsements required, yet it might certain
ly be good policy to make an insurance
for such portion of the amount, as would
enable the holder of the policy to stand
his ground until he could have time to
look round for some new satisfactory con-
nexion Phil. Gag.
Fifteen insurrectionists, or agents OF
the secret societies, which have been
formed to considerable extent in France,
were arrested by the police in house at
Batignotte's, and conducted before the
prefecture Of police were seized
with them many important papers and let
tiers belonging to the associations.
As proof Of the extraordinary degree Of
instinct sometimes found in cats, il is said
that when the Duke Of Norfolk was COM
mitted to the Tower, his favourite cat
found him out by making its way down the
chimney.
!, DR.. Madden tells us that when the fire.
fly Of Jamaica is irrtated, its phosphores-
cence is 50 strong, that in a dark room he
was able TO read some lines Of a letter by
holding the fly over tho lines, and moving
it along them.
A chemist OF the city Of Durham has late
ly discovered, by accident, that the sting
Of a wasp or bee is an acid, which will
lyield to an application Of u powerful aka
ILL.,
A DANGEROUS PROPOSITION. num-
Der of the most respectable inhabitants of
Kings County, in this State, have resolv-
ed to send "A petition to the next Legislat-
lure for the passage Of a law granting d-
voices m all cases where either party to
the marriage is a confirmed drunkard =
A crusty old bachelor at our elbow, rec
lommends that the law be entitled ga re- |
,card for d,unkenness.--.N Y yMer.
| A paper in Goshen, New York, con-
demns the law abolishing public execu-
tons in that State, and complains that at
the execution OF Crime, which lately took |
place in that village large number of
persons who had come miles for the pur-
pose of witnessing his death were disap-
ponted.
Our friend Fessenden, Of the New En-
gland Farmer, who has done so much to
advance the agricultural interests Of this
country, and who il former years used 10
indulge in satiricnl quips at fools who
" would fain live by their knowledge" in
noticing in his paper of "Wednesday the
sentence passed by Judge Shaw upon the
Rev. George B. Cheever, appends the
following strange comment q" In scald-
ing hogs, it is best TO dip them first in cold
water, and then 10 hot-the bristles come
out castor. ."-Boston Transcript.
Mail arrangement beftreen Boston and
Providence, per Rail Road. The Provi-
$ dence Journal states that the Postmaster
, of that place, by authority of the Post
master General, has concluded an ar
rangement with the Boston and Provi-
Y dence Railroad Company, to transport
= the New York and Boston Steam Boat
I Mail, and also mail twice day between
Q Boston and Providence. The mail in
!, Providence will close at I, A. NJ, and 2,
p. M, and will arrive ut 10 l-2 and b
: 10 p. nj.
e A most ~shappy genilemon.-W; q.