The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-10-02

quacKery, sense, pomDast, rldicule and non
sense, the iffics, tiffics, nostrums, oligies
isms, and pathas-egal, theological, medi
cinal, philosophical, political, historical, po
etical, chronological, and astrological knowl
edge. The graduates of which school
whether ic professional, editorial, or polti.
cal life, leave far behind among dusty
books, latin roofs, and sheep-skin diplomas
most of collegians, and sons of the "firsI
families" TO enjoy their exclusiveness, dys.
pepsia, propriety, goose-necked canes, bran
bread, blues, standing shirt collars, kid
gloves, patent medicines, and green specks
His personal appearance, now that he had
been planed, rasped, ground and polished
by contact with the world, was great i'm
provement on the original, yet by no means
the beau ideal of human perfection. He was
rough hewn specimen, long, lank, lean,
and lathy-hair wiry and puglistic-phlz
sharp set, cadaverous, and as rough as a
nutmeg grater-arms long, but legs longer,
| and the whole loosely set together, angular
as pine knot, and forever in motion. In
the firm planting Of his pedal extremiies
was written, in Natures language, ~ tread
no steps backwards )" in the hard, muscu.
lar, and nervous twitching hands, Chang
like grim death 10 on Ethiopian !" in the
deep lines of the visase, "push along, keep
! moving;;" in the burning eye, Excelsior p
in the expansive forehead, "Seek and ye
shall find" And every wry hair seemingly
covered homeopathic, chronological or.
gan.
short time since, his perambulalions
led him into section Of Arkansas, where
the mountains were crowded for want ol
room, and the valleys at an angle of so ,
This phenomenon was accounted for by the
''oldcs, inhabiiant" thus
oyer see, when God fixed up his truck
Ter make the kentry, he chucked a sorter
pepper-box full ov mountains ter sprinkle
'em over the kedn'try as they was kneeded
but thar was mess ov big ugly ones in the
batch, that stuck in the holes am bothered
him, an he took the kiver off, an chucked
em down here TO make place for the var
mints."
In every nook and corner were little clear
ings, filed with stunted donkeys. log cabins,
hall-grown specimens of the rising genera
ton in shirts, blackberry bushes, lazy, toe.
| headed fsovcrcyus" smoking corn cob
pipes; hounds, aud bare-Gooted Ewes, fol.
lowed by drove of little rude "minua.
tures. The bipeds lived on providence
permitins) corn, possoms, bacon, blackber.
ries, red horse, deer, bear, pigeons, and par
simmons-believed in dreams, faith doctors,
hard-shelcd and iron jacket preachers
ghosts, and the influence OF the moon on
pork and cucumbers-amused themselves
by fighting, hunting, fishing, poker playing
eye gougiIg, and drinking corn juice-and
exchanged ideas about the candidates, camp
meetings, where Wilmot Proviso lived,
whether Annexation was as much fighting
man as Joe Bunker, the prospects for mast,
the bad effects of the weather on corn, VIII o
could lift the most ut rolling, where was
the last fight, and the prospective price ol
corn juice.
Once upon time a man with "show,"
in many places known as wagon, endeav.
ored 10 cross the mountains. The inhabi-
tans gathered together, as much astonished
as were the multitudes of Gallee, and fol-
lowed it several miles, to see what the econ
sarn would do when the hind wheels caught
up with the fore ones .n-The mountain
country consisted of some eight or Ten coun-
ties, each one having a county seat,
which was aprroachable only by mule
paths-In each was small octagon log
courthouse, smaller Jail, IN imitation of a
drygoods box-log tavern, with long porti-
co in front, containing slab bench, Mexi.
can saddle, short broom, and a sleeping ne.
gro-grocery, with barrel of corn juice,
red faced man, pint cup, large twist of to.
bacco, piggin with gourd in it, and grea.
sy pack of cards-store half full of ging.
sang, geese feathers, and jeans-and large
green, thereupon the county clerk, Judge
circuit rider steam doctor, landlord, and two
or three little "jack leg" lawyers, all arrayed
in linsey woolsey pants, Indian tanned dee!
skin hunting shirts, store shoes, broad brim.
MED straw hats, and belts containing Arkan-
sas ftooth- picks" I. e. bowie knives, weigh
ing from two pounds TO seven, engaged in
the laudable occupation of playing marbles
and picayune poker.
The press did not circulate light enough
to light cigars, and Webster's spelling book
was Greek te all except few literary men,
who were not plenty enough 10 fli :he coun'
| ty offices, and many of the minor ones,
such as justices of the peace, constables, &C.,
were held by men who were not Catholics,
yel made their crosses-settling all law ca
ses by the code of common sense, and hol-
ding elections by no.ching the votes on shin
giles, and generally cutting off all of the
"cussed whig votes" when they made the
election returns, which consisted of the
shingles and an interpreter.
The congressional district which embrac-
ed the mountains, consisted of some three
or four lowland counties, the most wealth
anil aristocratic part of the State. The line
of demarkarton between the two, was
drawn as closely as between the Protestants
and Catholics of Ireland. The denizens oi
each part looked upon the other as Catho-
| lie looks upon puroatory, or a Methodist up.