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The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-04-03
CATTAWISsA RAILROAD.

The Senate Committee appointed 10 re-
port upon the subject of the Sunbury and
Erie Railroad, lately presented report
through Mr.. Walker the chairman, from
which we are pleased 10 extract the follow
ing conclusion in relation 10 the
SUNBURY AND ERIE RAILROAD.
General remarks upon lis Eastern Terminus be-
treen Sunbury, and The Pallcy Of the Schnyl-
kill.
Several reports have been proposed ex.
amined, and surveyed, with view to a rail-
road connection between the waters of the
Schuylki!l and Of the Snsquehanna, al Sun
bury: which various routes may be briefly
stated as follows commencing westwarily
is BY the Nine Hill and SchuylkN Havcn
Railroad.
From Schuylkill Haven, through Miners
vile, md Coal Castle TO shamokin, dis
,.n.e of fo,:...iwo miles, overcoming the
r., w,rn,a;n h,,'-avalion of 1883 feet
(above Delaware tidewater ,s'fh''ade'phia')
by eighty feet grades ascending " ss'"a a,u.!, ~.
an ls;xty six feet ascending eastwardly. "'
would make the total distance from fhila'
telphia 10 Sunbury one hundred and fifty
miles, thus:
Philadelphia to schuylkill Haven (Read-
ing Railroad) ~
Schuylkill Haven to Coal Castle (Mine
Hill Railroad) 10
Coal Castle 10 Shamokin 80
Shamokin 10 Sudbury (Danville and Potts
Wiley ~
l50
OF which enly thirty two miles from Coal
Castle to Sharnokin would require construc'
ling, at cost oil about 81, $780, 900 the balance
of the one bundled and eighteen miles being
already built and in operation.
Sd. BY the Mount Carbon Railroad route
through Fottsville, New Castle, and Shamo-
kin, to Sunbury, a distance of about fifty foul
miles from end OF Reading Railroad with
grades of eighty gve feet per mile ascending
west, and about sixty feet Ter mile ascending
east. By this route, at present unexplored
the distance from Philadelphia would be one
hundred and forty six miles, thus;
Philadelphia to Pottsville 81
po,,sv;lie N sudbury 5;
IA,
or which thirty three miles would require
to be corstr, ,'cted at cost Of about si,4oo,
000.
sd. Bv ,bs NV Greek Railroad via Por
Carbon. 81 Clair Ne. " Boston and Shamokir
to Sunbury, in all sixty nns' uo' paA ~
Reading Railroad at Mount a.oo", p,;,a.,", M sI
hundred and fifty two miles i. VI" '"S4''
pha.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-04-03

The Virginia Elect ions Po'ponsd--The Le.
gislasure Of Virginia, on Thursday, passed an
act providing for the submission of the new
Constitution to the people on the 4th Thurs
day in August, and for the postponement oi
all the elections, both for Congress and the
State Legislature, until the 4ih Thursday in
October next.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-04-03
WHY THIS LONGiNGi
BY CHARLES mAcxAY.

Why this longing, clay clad spirit :
Why this aultermg Of thy wingsa
Why this striving TO discover
Hidden and transceudant things
Be contented in the prison,
Thy captivity shall cease
Tase the good that smiles before :hee;
Restless spirit be at peace
With the roar of wintry forests,
With the thunders crash and roar,
With the rush of stormy wafer,
Thou wouldst sympathise, o soul
Thou wouldst ask them mighty questions
In language of their own,
Cntranslalable 10 mortals,
Yet not utterly unknown.
Thou wouldst fa.nom Life and Being,
Thou won.dst see through birth and death
Thou wculdst solve the eternal riddle
Tnou speck, ray, breath.
Thou woudst look at stars and systems,
A. if thou coudst understand
All the harmouies of Nature,
Struck by all Almighty hand.
With thy feeble logic, tracing
Upward from effect 10 cause,
Thou art ioiled by Natures barriers,
And the limits of her laws.
Be at peace, thou struggling spirits,
Great Eternity denies
The unfolding of IFS secrets
In the circle of thine eyes.
Be con,ented with thy freedom-
Dawning is not perfect day;
There are truths thon canst not fathom,
Swaddled in thy robes of clay.
Resi- in hope that il thy circle
Grow not widsr here in Time,
Gods Eternity shall give thee
Power of vision more sublime.
Clodged and hedded in the darkne 8,
Little germ abide thine hoIr,
Thoul; expand in proper season,
Into blossom, into flower.
humble faith alone becomes thee
In the elooms where thou art lain:
Bright is the appointed future
Wait--thou shalt not wait IL vain.
Cease thy struggling, feeble spirit I!
Fret not at thy prison bars;
Never shall thy mortal pinions
Make the circuit of the stars
Here on Earth are duties for thee,
Suited 10 thine earthly scope:
Seek them, thou Immortal Spirit.
God is with thee-work in hope.
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The maximum grades in thisr route. will be

Inc maximum grades IN thlsroute, Will b'
about one hundred feet to the mile going
west, and about fifty coming east. OF the
whole distance one bundled and eighteen
miles are Built and in operation, and five or
the Mill Creek Railroad are partially graded,
leaving twenty nine TO be constructed, at a
cost Of about sl,2OO,oOO
4th. By the Little Schuykill and Cattaacissa
Railroad via. Port Clinton, Tamaqua, Tama-
mend, and Cattawissa, to Sunbury, in all one
hundred and sixty seven miles from Phila-
delphia thus:
Philadelphia TO Port Clinton, (Reading
Port Clinton 10 Tamaqua Little schuyl-
kill Raroad) 20
Tamaqua 10 JUNCTION with Caitawissa
Railroad l2
Thence 10 Cattawissa IS
Cattawssa 10 SuDbury %
of which ninety eight miles are constructed
and III operation, and thirty five Of the Cat
,awissa Railroad are graded, leaving only
thihy.four TO be made, at probable cost Of
1880, 900. The maximum grades on this
route are only sixty six feet goLig west, and
thirty three feet per mile coming east.
All these routes stated pass over or through
The first .nd second coal fields of Penn.
sy.sania, containing the richest measures
OF anthracite coal in the United States ::
accessible at every point, by any of the
routes, and therefore abundantly able to af
ford local coal business sufficient 10 justify
their construction. For want of these i'm.
provements, thousand of acres of most val
liable coal land, in the second coal field, are
held at a nominal value only, and rise or fall
in price, as the prospect of railroad i'm.
proves or diminishes.
The "Grard Eestatn," owned by the
City Of Philadelphia, in the second coal
field, contains a large amount of most valua-
coal land, at present entirely unproductive,
for want Of access 10 market
Any RAILROAD, connecting the Snsquehan-
ma and Scuylkll valleys; must command the
entire passenger travel of the north and west
branches OF that noble stream, at present
dependent upon canals and stages Tie ex-
tensions already made, and making north.
wardly, into, New York State, will secure a
large portion of the travel now seeking the
Erie Railroad, and of the rich and fertile
valleys Of the Tioga, Owego, and Chenango
rivers.
i is worthy Of remark, tha, by the Schuyl-
kill Valley lies the shorter route from Phila'
delphia to EImira (on the New York ana
Erie Railroad.) than from that latter port,
by the same railroad, TO the city of New
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NUMBER 10.

or misfortune.
perdtn--Now Thy arr is known, thy spell
binds not.
Hoity--Come near me If you dare.
Butter Cup.--Deceit is often thus covered.
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" There are now foriy.one newspapers
published in Texas.
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Difference in favor of Philadelphia IL
By the proposed Sunbury and Erie Rail
road. and the sho1test (surveyed) of the
routes jus, stated, the distance between Phil
adelpha and Lake Erie is the most direct OF
any railroad now being constructed, or pro
posed, between the great lakes Of the West,
and an Atlantic seaboard city, as will be
shown by the following comparison;
Philadelphia TO Sunbury, via Mine Hill
Railroad 100
Sudbury to Erie, BY Nliller's Survey 2s6
436
Nep York and Erie rouie--
New York 10 Dunkirk, by Erie Rail
road 470
In addition to the immense trade OF the
Lakes yearly increasing in magnitude, and
for which the Erie and Philadelphia Railroad
must be a successful competitor, its local
business alone will be important.
The ncrlhem tier of counties in our State,
is quite equal, in fertility of soil, and lar
superior in mineral wealtl, to it's southern
portion. The former have not increased in
wealth or population, as have their more
favored southern brethren, aided by large
expenditures from the State and the capital.
isl, Let the norlhern territory Of Pennsy Iva.
MIA have but a fraction Of such outlay ex.
pended in constructing such an improvement
as this railroad, and with the natural advan-
tages already possessed, she will exhibit re-
suits as brilliant as ever Witnessed in the
history of our progress; and assist most ma
terially in establishing, in 1860, the Keystone
State in the proud position she is proved to
occupy by the last census-.he first OF the
Atlantic States in the increase Of her popula.
ton.
READING, Penn, Feb. 10, 1851.
Your committee, then recommend the
renewal of the charter Of the Sunbury and
Erie Railroad, reorganization of the COM
pany, and more thorough investigation oi
the subject
We do not recommend that the State take
stock, but suggest the propIiety of legisla-
tive appeal being made to the general gov
eminent, tor a doRaiion 10 this Stale of
100000 acres of and, the proceeds OF
which 10 be invested in this road, and the
dividends arising therefrom to be pledged for
The support of our Common Schools.
This, if Pennsylvania insists upon it, can
be had II is due to her position, and the
objects to be acc omplished--the education
Of her children, and the improvement of he
territory, are worthy Of the exertion.
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In Pittsburgh, during 1850, there were Sd
fires.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-04-03

Women are like houses, tho longer they
remain ",o let,n the more dilapitated they
become. To keep either from going to de.
struction, they should be early occupied.
Southern shield., 1851-02-08

the Northern Democracy are in the main opposed to Gen. Cass, owing to the ex- tremely liberal and patriotic course pursu- ed by him upon the slavery issue. And they think some han more northern in his loca. tlon and views should be taken up. Hence ail.this class of the Democracy have theil hearts set upon Judge Woodbury, whom you know was candidate at the time Gen .Cass was nominated.
 5 third division of the. Democracy as- Sume boldly the position that the oniv man they can succeed with in the next canvass, IS Gen. Sam. Houston, the hero of San Ja- clnto. They urge that gun powder popu- larl!y is the on y element of success now -a- days, and that more capital can be made out of Houston's bold and adventurous life. the prominent part he took in severing Tex fs from the Republic of Mexico and in es- hbShing her independence, and in his uni brm support of all the U nion measures of Congress, than by any other candidate they can select So that you need not be sur Irised to see Gen. Houston the Locofoco standard bearer in the next campaign.
 Gen. John E. Wool, who claims the cred t of planning, and doing most of the fight ing at the battle of Buena Vista, has also lis friends, who urge him with good deal 't pertinacity, maintaining that he has nore igun- powder popularity than General Houston, and possesses far higher degree of talent and ability. Nor does the list terminate even here; fornot only Buchan- n o( ppnnSvlvania hni Senator Donnl.cc d Illinois, have their friends, who think that Ncha a condition of things may arise as will ender it polite to give the North West the candidate, in which contingency Doug lass, in all human probability, would be the nan, Gen. Cass being excluded from the alena of competitors by the pledge above Sd forth.
 have not named Colonel Benton in con- IeAiol with the Democratic candidates, as the chances are far greater that he will be a sectional candidate, run by the ultra Free SoiIers of both parties, than as the nominee of hB. Still, such a state of the case may arise as will drive them 10 the dire necessity of taking him up. In some of the North ern States he would be very strong, owing 10 the fact that he would gain as much, his friends say, from the Free Soil wing of the Whig party, as he would loose from his own.
 This is a general and impartial description of the various Presidential interests at work in this city ct this time, and out of which you may readily imagine any amount of po- itcal intrigue is daily set on foot.
Southern shield., 1851-02-08
We were Boys Together,
BY GEORGE P. MORRIS.

BY GEORGE P. MORRIS. We were boys together,
 And never can forget The school-house near the heather, In childhood where we met: The humble home to memory dear, Its sorrows and it's joys; Where woke the transient smile or tear, When you and were boys, We were youths together,
 And castles built in air, Your heart was like feather, And mine weighed down with care; To you came wealth with manhood's prime, To me it brought alloys Foreshadowed in the primrose time, When you and l were boys. We're old men together
 The friends we loved of yorc, With leaves of autumn weather, Are gone for evermore, How blest to age the impulse given; The hope time ne'er destroys Which led our thoughts from earth to Heavel When you and were boys
Southern shield., 1851-02-08
The President and the Great Fair.

ltaPpears from some articles in the Lon. don papers, that they desire Mr. Fillmore
 to visit the Worlds Fair, and promise him cordial reception. An American mer- chant, living at Manchester, MT. Steele, an old friend of the President, wrote to invite him over, and to this letter he sent an an- swer, which is published in the London News, He pleads official duties as an ex- cuse for not going. But this does not satis- fy the Englishman, who remarks very cor rectly too, It appears strange to us that when the Emperor Nicholas, who is him. self the State, the Government, the all in all in Russia, can be absent without detri- ment 10 the Empire, from his territories, for weeks at time, Mir. Fillmore, who is at the head a constitutional, and to a cer- tain extent, self-regulating machine, can- not hazard six weeks absence from the Federal City" It is also plainly said that a visit from our President, would be follow ed bya visit from Queen Victoria, who, be- ing desirous to visit the Canadas, would take New York as her landing and travel thence through our country to Canada Such an event would produce great sen- sation in this country. lis general effects would, no doubt, tend to remove to some extent, national prejudices.-Lou. Dem.
Southern shield., 1851-02-08
THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE.
BY HENRY W. LONGFELLoW.

BY HENRY ". LoNGFELLoW. Saint Augustine well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread
 Beneath our feet each decd of shame. All common things-each days events, That with the hour begin and end Our pleasures and our discontents
 Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire, the base design,
 That makes another's virtues less; The revel of the giddy wine,
 And all occasions of excess The longing for ignoble things,
 The strife for triumph more than truth, The hardening of the heart, that brings Irreverence for the dreams of youth All thoughts of i'll, all evil deeds,
 That have their root in thought of iii, Whatever flinders or impedes
 The action of the nobler will All these must first be trampled down, Beneath our feet, if we would gain, In the bright field of fair rcnown,
 The right of eminent domain We have not wings, we cannot soar But we have feet to scale, and climb By slow degrees-by more and more The cloudy summits of our time The mighty pyramids of stone
 That, wedge-lke, cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear
 Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept N ere not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept,
 " ere toiling upwards in the night. Standing on what too long we bore
 With shoulders bent, and downcast eyes, We may discern-unseen before
 A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past,
 As wholly wasted-wholy vain If, rising on its wrecks, at last,
 To something nobler we attain.
Southern shield., 1851-02-08

SCENE IN JUsTIcE's RooM.-The Hart ford times vouches for the truth of the fol lowing story
 "Pat Malone, you are fined five dollars for assault and battery on Mike Sweney."
 "I have the smorey in my pocket, and I'll pay the fine if your honor will give me the resate.''
 "We give no receipts here. We just take the money. You will not be called upon a second time for your fine"
 But your honor, l'Il not be wanting to pay the same without geta resate."
 "What do you want to do with it 2, it 10 me, I'll tell ye."
 "WelI, there's your receipt. Ivo" "l.~. do you want to do with it 2"
 "Pll tell your honor. You see one of these days Pl be after dying, and when get 10 the gate of Heaven I'll rap, and Ss, Peter will say, who's there /? and I'll say its me, Pat Malone, and he'll say "what do you want?" and Pll say want 10 come, in-then he'll say, "did you behave your self like dacent boy in the other world and pay all your little fines and such things?' and l'll say yes your Holiness, paid all ot them, and then he'li,wans to see the resates. and Ill put my hard into my pocket md take out me resatel and give if him, and FN 10 have to go plodding all ore1 heE 10 find you honor to get one,"
Southern shield., 1851-02-08
,,ocu,vc MupnpR OF A YOUNG LAD

SHOCKING MURDER OF A YoUNG LADY, We learn by gentleman from Holmes county, that a most brutal murder was committed not far from Lexington on Fri dagag geti 10 be~ married to a young lady (name not recollected) and her parents op- posed the match. They met on last Friday at wedding in the neighborhood; and the company were adjourning to neighboring house to dance, Tate asked the young lady if he could not accompany her, and upon her declining 10 accept his services, he drew a pistol and deliberately shot her through the body, and then tried to make his escape. He was arrested and committed to jail.
 YazoO (lWi.0 Democrat.
Southern shield., 1851-02-08

F One of the Editors of the N. York Day Book, who is now travelling in the South, in letter from Augusta, Ga, gives the following statement illustrative of the folly and absurdity of Abolitonism
 "Bishop Capers of South Carolina, some years ago was taken with the abolition fe- yer, and conceived the strange notion that he could do the church and the world some service by emancpatng his slaves. He was the owner of large plantation and nearly hundred slaves. For many years he had worked his slaves and accumulated considerable money-they had, in short, been very profitable. Fearing that what every body said might be true, and that emancipation might not prove blessing to the negroes, he dared not set them scott free" at once, or rather, did not like 10 turn them out to starve, without knowing where to find them. He therefore made an WJtP lhG9 fheifge igH was tsG on it, hogs mules, wagons, &c., on conditions that if they diG well they might have all that they made, and at the end of three years their entire freedom. The terms were so favora- be to the blacks, and the inducements to labor and save so great, that those who did not think the race capable of taking care of themselves, admitted that they believed the Bishops negroes would be so stimulated with the hope of freedom that they would "do well" for three years at any rate. What was the resultl Why, at the end of the second year they were in a starving condition. They killed the stock cattle for food, had no corn for seed nor money to buy 1t, the mules were too poor 10 work, and the whole concern, plantation, niggers, cattle, utensils, all were in such miserable condi- ton that the Bishop had actually to buy corn for them to eat and go back to his plantation and take charge of it and them again. One such practical lesson as this is worth all the theory and speculation of all the philosophers that everlived. It cured Bishop Capers of his abolition capers, and would cure every sensible aboltionist, if there be such an anomaly in the world"
Southern shield., 1851-02-08
Discoveries of the Last Half Century,

There has been no period since the com mencement of the world in which so many important discoveries, tending to the bene- fit of mankind, were made, as in the last half century. Some of the most wonder ful results of the human intellect have been witnessed in the last fifty years. Some of the grandeSt conceptions of genius have been perfected. It is remarkable how the mind ofthe world has run into scientific in- vestgation, and what achievements it has effected in that short period. Before the year eighteen hundred, there was not sin gle steamboat in existence, and the applica- ton of steam to machinery was unknown Fulton launched the first steamboat in 1907 Now there are three thousand steamboats traversing the waters of America, and the time saved in travel is equal to 70 per cent The rivers of every country in the world nearly, are traversed by steamboats. In lSOO there was not single railroad in the world. ln the United States alone there are now o,797 miles of railroad costing $2S6,OOO,OOO to build, and about 22,OOO miles of railroad in England and America. The locomotive will now travel in as many hours distance which in 1900 required as many days 10 accomplish. In 1900 it took weeks to convey intelligence between Phil adelphia and New Orleans, and now it can be accomplished in minutes through the electric telegraph, which only had its be- ginning in lS43. Voltasm was discovered in March, 1900. The electro magnet in 1891. Electrotyping was discovered only few years ago. Hoes printing press, ca pablo ot printing 10000 copies an hour, is very recent discovery, but of a most im- portant character. Gas light was unknown Tn lSO0. Now every city and town of any pretence are lighted up with it, and we have the announcement of a still greater discovery, by which light, heat and motive power may be all produced from water, with scarcely any cost. Daguerre con- municated 10 the world his beautiful inven- ton in 1859. Gun cotton and chloroform are discoveries but of few years old. As tronomy has added a number of new plan cts 10 the solar system. Agricultural chem lstry has enlarged the domain of knowI- edge in that important branch of scientific research, and mechanics have increased the facilities of production, and the means of accomplishing an amount of labor which far transcends the ability of united manual effort to accomplish, The triumphs achiev- ed in this last branch of discovery and in vention are enough to mark the last half century as that which has most contribu- ted to augment personal comfort, enlarge the eniovments, and add 10 the blessings of man. What will the next half century ac- compIish? We may look for still greater discoveries, for the intellect of man is awake, exploring every mine of knowl- edge, and searching for useful information in every department of art and industry.- Ledger.