The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1850-09-26
NUMBER 35.
...... From as Peanyluanian.
hnd's Rebuke OF the FshionabIe world.


Punch, who isa sor of Jester for the whole
world and the resi- Of mankind, will soon be-
gin to scream with laughter at the extibi-
tion in New York, where JENNY LisD is now
the ideal and the god. ''Let them laugh
that wn,' is homeIy adage, and when the
New Workers realize how much they have
lost->not in five dollar gold pieces, for fash
ion might put them into worse place than
into BARSuM's coifers--but as people who
boast Of discretion and good sense, they
will begin TO recoil and to review the ridici-
lous spectacle in which they are now play
ing so prominent part, New York is a
great city, and it is greater in nothing than in
It's contrasts. Rich, impulsive, and to the
last degree, liberal, il is constantly allowing
itself, or those who speak for ii, TO perpes
trate some piece of absurdity which, wheri
the fit is over, they are among the earliest
to repent OF, and 10 resolve against in the f,,-
ture. ItfeaSted DickEss, and was laughed
at for it bv that heartless writer; and now
we see it III parox.sms over a singer, who
does not pretend 10 The intellect OF FAsNs
ElLsLERs anothes popular iayorite, and Wild
is herself heartily ashamed Of her worship.
pers. Some years ago, or more, the great
philanlhropist, RoDERT OWEN, came 10 New
York, without, being heralded, though il wa4
known when. be had arrived and he passed
from e1txutRcity, on his errand of good, un-
unhonored, The Hungarianpa.
he few months since, were iecei-
il true, so far as eyanescent hos.
could go, but when il was announ-
y those glorious men were poor, the
pockets of the fashion and wealth clos. d
like the gates Of deat1, and those who are
now lavishine gold pieces upon JENNY, ffoze
up into statues.-When the Mexican war
was over, the same feeling made it almost
impossible TO collect money enough to feed
and clothe the soldiers widows and orphans.
A bitter bitter commentary upon.this is tho
present profuse extravagance manifested for
a single singing woman, whose nightly coni-
pensation is equal 10 the half year;y salary
of our President, and whose musical words
are paid for In tributes Of gold.
But we did not sit down to write sef-
mon, or TO attempt satire. We intended
simply TO call attention 10 Tie manner in
which the amiable Swede has rebuked the
foiiy and rfie extruvagance of her adorefs:
Hef gift 10 The New York Charities-a gift
Of $40, ,ooO-'he earnings of single night.
however it may be otherwise construed,
was severe rebuke of those who throng to
her concerts, and bid away her tickets as if
they wefe so many admissions 10 the skies.
She has said, by that act Of quiet and grace
full benevolence, to her admirers: ''You arc
forgetting the starving poor in your midst.
You forgot those who fought for your honor
in Mexico. You neglect those who labor to
save your property and your lives. You do
not remember the sick and the needy; the
want that crouches under your palaces the
misery that tolls 10 keep up life; the orphan
that struggles TO eatt the bread of virtue, and
to be able to defy the tempter. All these
YOU forget, and weak woman from
Stockholm, foreigner and an alien, am
grateful TO be enabled to remind you Of youf
datyto yourselues by yo,ir generosity to me.''