The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1850-08-08


that every mans house is his castle but
mine is castle invested by foes, and attack.
cd Jerro ct igne, by rails and steam. In rail
ing, indeed, could match them; but be-
fore could begin my abluration the audi
ence would have vanished, and should tall;
TO the air.
Imagine the beautiful ruralties Of Amori-
ca cut up By a reticulalion of railways such
as covers the recent maps of England Since
Alarc there has been nothing so barbaric.
green sequestered lap of land will soon be
as rare as the Phoenix or the Dodo, and we
shall understand half OF our classic or
descriptive poetry, no mere than we do the
chancier7 on tae bricks u Babylon. City
merchants, hear, breakfast at home forty
miles off. and then get TO daily business in
Front Street Or the Bowery. This is the
next thing 10 fighting against nature. Half
the old manor-houses within twenty miles OF
the great towns, where lofty trees and lawns
fvelvet and wildernesses of shrubbery be-
spoke the quiet abode or noble hospitality of
better days, are bought up by cts, who
spend in them theiI nights and Sundays.
o tempora! o mores! ! say nothing of mar
kets. My foolish daughters grudge me the
very egg | used to take with my breakfast
and my strawberries go in little baskets TO
Washington market. Sorry am I to add,
they must needs so. themselves And
wish you could see the fashions with which
they ieturn, My good woman, tholgh deaf
as post, (no disadvantage, they tell me,
in the cars,) has been long providin, herself
series OF caps, wherewithal to make. a
grand appearance on a. projected visit 10 a
cousin in Bridge street and expect soon
10 be called on to sell another piece of land
to pay the costs.
In the book De Finibus, the philosophic
Roman says nothing Of one great constitu-
cnt OF human happiness it is expressed in
the phrase-Let me alone. There are scatter
cd up and down, in every country, hundreds
OF old fellows who live honestly, pay their
taxes, and, till lately, have slept in their beds
at night and ploughed il the fuuows of their
sires; troubling no one, plotting no inva-
sions of Cuba, content that the Union be un.
dissolved, prying into no ones larder or
desk, picking holes in nobody's coat, read
ing old books, and wearing old doublets ::
all they ask in return for these virtues is that
they be let alone. They so to bed early
dine g, noop, and sracke 5ss;siI pipe in shady
places, while the cows are coming homo
affect becchcn shadows in tho woods, springs
where they drank in childhood, and angling
in dark, out-of-the-way brooks. For their
self-possession and case of conscience they
domand exemption from domiclliary in
spection. But what shall say This
flaming vaporous Asmodeus has taken the
roofs off their houses, and laid their secrets
open 10 the day. A sound of tremendous
roaring is in their ears, and in this word they
can no longer look for tranquil day. Even
the one silent Sabbath is metamorphosod in
to time of special merymaking and iaunt.
ing, and the Sunday passengers preserbially
drink more, shout more, and stare more,
than those of all the six working days put
together My choler is by no means disgor.
Ged tumajecur; but strength would fail
me and do but augment the bitterness by
thus stirring up the bile. Tel me, o tell
me, of some corner, so hemmed in by ma
ture, so begin with Serbonian bogs, SO rug
ged with crags, so arid with sandy wastes
that the army of surveyors, contractors and
diggefs shall never convene 10 mutilate or
deform it, Reveal TO me somo basin a.
mong mountains, where may sit at sunset
in cue'po with more TO modest me, or may
lead my coils TO water al the brook, without
having them set TO scampcr away at the ap.
partition of the uncouth, snorting anaconda
that now crashes through our vale, breath.
ing out fire and fury. Comfort me by no.
ting some limit 10 this advance OF civilza-
ton, art and insolence, which has begun to
sacrifice all homely delights on the altar of a
corporate Plutus.-Give me the hope of yet
coming my Latin authors in quietude and
independence, however humbly Die, quiz
bus in terrs, ct eris mihi 7naguus Apollo
TULLY TEsTY.