The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-07-05
For Tie Stare the North.
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.


and the COnstaution.-Gas.-Ship Building
New YoRK, June 30ih, 1855.
The weather, for a few days past, has been
of a sufficiently ardent temperature to Try,
pretty fairly, the endurance of those who sigh
amid the chilling blasts OF winter for the de-
lights Of the torrid season. Many Of them
as they vainly seek relief in ice-water and
palm.leaves from the miseries they SO
~thoushtlessly invoked, wish again as reck-
lessly that they were plunged 10 the ears in
the midst of a Nova-Zemblan snow.bank.-
Theyenvy The good fortune of The expedition
lists in search of Kane, and feel a sympa,het.
ic indignation with the polar navigator, at the
idea Of the outrage of bringing him back from
so delicious a summer retreat as Alderman
Jones' Sound, or Scoresby's Inlet.
1t seems that after all The protestat;ons re-
gardins The legality and peaceful purposes Of
the Kinney Expedition, it is really a filIibus-
tefing scheme, designed 10 affect a revolution
in or a possible conquest of Nicaragua. The
invasion is 10 be made in conjunction with a
similar demonstration on the Pacific shore,
simultaneously undertaken by the would-be
Presidcn, of the Republic of Lower Califor-
MIA, Col Walker, with forty or fifty men from
San Francisco. These gentlemen must look
out for the N%icaraguan Government.
The German Musical Festival has come 10
a close, and The various societies engaged in
1t have returned 10 their homes. The picnic
in Elm Park was a splendid affair. 1t were
well if our American people would learn 10
cultivate more extensively those elevated so
cial e~njoyments for which the Germans are
so much distinguished. MIR. fUrsh, one Of
the speakers on that occasion, alluded very
properly, though IN a very delicate manner,
TO this palpable deficiency Of the Americans.
He would not like, he said, TO say anything
derogatory to the American character, which
had so many substantial elements worthy Of
The utmost respect. But he believed that the
social virtues do lot always flourish best
where the energies OF both mind and body
are devoted entirely 10 material pursuits
There was something worth living for, beside
the acquisition of wealth, and withou, which
there was, after all, no real and satisfactory
enjoyment 10 be found.
The papers record a remarkable double SUI
icide occurring in Brooklyn on Wednesday.
The cause was that ever active occasion OF
mischief among romantic young people
love. What were the particular misforiuues,
of the secondary class, growing out OF this
prolific causa e~auSdns, have not !Ianspired.-
They were potent however; for prusSic ceid
was deemed alone competent 10 exlerminate
them. The affair is altogether most singular.
Neither OF the parents of The unfortunate
young man knew anything of their sons at.
tachmenl 10 the lady in question, and neither
of them had ever seen her. What then, was
their surprise, as well as horror, 10 find, on
Wednesday morning, q strange ard beauilfu
female lying dead upon a lounge on a piazza
in the rear of their dwelling, with The form oil
their ~lifeless son in her armsi All the instant
before this shocking spectacle blinded their
eyes, their son was supposed 10 be in the
Western country, whittier he had gone osten
sibly 10 settle up his business, and then 10 re-
turn 10 live with his father. VIVA, a return
was that 10 those fondly expeclant parenIs!-
1t was only last week that another young lady
committed suicide by poisoning, from a disap-
pointment in love, occasioned by the inter-
ference Of her lovers friends and on Tues-
day night, an Irish girl put a period 10 her ex-
istence with a dose OF arsenic.
The delegates from the Know-Nolhing and
Notwithstanding Conventions having arrived
home and made their reports, and the excite.
ment OF those meetings being over, the good
people of Boston have dashed eagerly into
the Squirrel question. "Squirrel" or "No
Squirrel" are now the issues presented 10
the Bosioniaps The i-Squirreliss seem 10
) be rather in the ascendency. ! hear that the
X. N. Mayor of Boston, DR.. Jerome Won
Crowninshield Smith, hearing that squirrels
) had been introduced By the X. N. Mayor oil
!, Philadelphia into The public parks Of that city
concluded TO Try a like experiment on the
great Common of Boston, and, procuring a
, colony Of real native red and gray squirrels
, from Vermont, lei them loose upon The trees
} of that fne pleasure. ground. Hence The par.
, ties. The Anii-Squiuelists declare The May!
} or performed an unconstitutional act; he hav-
ing no more power TO introduce The little CHR
rupers than he had 10 call back the British
1 soldiers who were driven away from The SAINT
1 locality eighty years ago. They d~olefully
I predict immense evils 10 the Common and
{ lis venerable trees. But the Squirrelists, who
: are prosressives, cry fudge and are san.
: guine of the most beneficial results. 1t strikes
me that Mayor Smith made a serious over.
sight in moi importing, with his nut-eatina
colony, such an efficient protection for them
! as the British game-!aws.
The Committee o! The City Council on the
7 subject of Lamps and Gas have before them:
and il would seem under favorable consider
alton, the petition OF a new association called
the Metropolitan Gas Company, for leave to
lay gas'pipes through the streets Of the city
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