The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1850-07-04
SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.


The Compromise bill is forgotten by the
American people, and it is becoming doubt
full whether there are any more Democrats
or Wings in the country, since the Forrest
case occupies the attention Of every body
There is no danner Of Gisunion since the
great tragedian cowhided the great dandy.
The Galphin claim is stale. flat and un-
profitable, subject since the Forrest divorce
case has become fashionable. Affairs of state
are now considered beneath the notice of
the refined class as MIR. Willis calls it, while
cholera cases, fires and steamboat disasters
are no longer reported. Ladies lay aside the
last novel uncut, to weep over the romance of
the Forrest case, and loafers discuss the
same subject over brandy-smash in the bar
room or on the public pave. 1t is Forrest here
and "sWillis" there until boarding-school
misses read about:the ruin and sorrows Of
the unfortunate Mrs. Forrest, instead of al
tending 10 their botany; and Old Mr.. Ledger
reads ''the evidence" until the spectacles al
most fall from his grey head. There is no
use in Clay, Cass Buchanan, Benton or
Webster talking about the "next Presiden.
Cyl" for nobody nowadays cares about be.
ing President, they only care about Forrest
and Willis.
The California fever is "broken," as the
doctors say, and people now only get the
divorce complaint. There will be no fever
and ague this season, for people can't afford
to take time 10 shake-they must read the
"AWFUL DISCLOSURES.n A cockney
who meets pert Miss, don't lisp about the
"weathaw,"-he talks about Mrs. Forrest
and "Mstaw" Willis. Even the Fourth of
July don't come this year until after Christ.
mass, if we are 10 Judge from the public
journals. We open paper after paper and it
is nothing but Forrest and Willis There are
no longer cnrrent-prices 10 meet our Dyes
no more love sickening tales to tickle the
fancy of the juveRiles--no long speeches
of Buncomb's gressman-all-every
thing is the Forrest case. We hear of it till
our ears are stunned to deafness we read of
it till our eyes are worn weak--we dream of
1t till it seems an accur sed ghost come from
the other side Of Styx to torment us.
But c,,i bono! What good is this discus.
,. sion TO do the morals of the community :
Will it not rather corrupt the minds of pure
men and pollute the taste of thoughdess
young womena If we had daughter she
should sooner read yellow covered French
novels, than all about this Forrest case for
we could explain to her that the novels are
fiction and unnatural; wEile the wickednsss
of flesh and blood, as portrayed in this case.
in real life, must naturally degrade the opin-
ion which any pure minded woman has en-
terained Of human nature and herself
There is no antidote to this moral poison,
which tends TO deaden all sensibility to hon.
OR and shame; and thus destroys the very
basis which makes good men and pure wo-
men. Let man or woman be- taught 10
believe that there is no vrtue-among his or
her companions, and that person is ruined.
We protest against havlngthe whole coun.
try convused by quarrel between play
actor and fop-or if you please, great
fragedian and a poet. The actor may have
cultivated his imagination until he is very
sensiiivc--in fact, being all nerve. He
may keenly feel the wrong that is done him
by the destruction Of his domestic happiness.
This peace of mind may be destroyed for
life, so that living is an agony to him. But
is his the first case OF the kind under the
sua 2 Have base and black conspiracies not
often ru ined badly educated women, and
made the lives of husbands Of such u long
war with their sorrows-seeming as If nev-
er 10 cease7 Aye! we have often seen gay
and giddy young woman educated to be
miserable. We have seen guileless and
pure young being fall into the net of dam
nable conspiracy 10 become the wife Of
william whom when she Knew she could not
but loathe and hate We Have seen perse-
cu,iop. temptation and an almost resistless
force Of circumstances drive her to sin; and
as prosecutions and SANDER bounded her down
to tho grate, we have seen her die the thou