The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-04-05

All kinds OF provisions, especially Flour
Beef. and butter, are again enormously higl
in New York. People will soon have to liv.
on beans and fresh cod. The latter, fortu
na'ely, now selling at 6 cents a pound, il
within the reach of the most INDECENT.
The HarpeR have repubIished Madden
Memoirs of Lady Blessington. The Jfauz pa
in her ladyship's career are smoothed over
and yet there is enough IN the volumes te
show that she was a reckless, though bril-
liant woman-lhat she lived the life Of ar
Aspasia, and died a "demirep."
De Witt & Davenport have in press a vol.
ume OF poems, by Thomas Dunn English
The book is 10 be called " Ben Bolt and o,hel
Poems," and will contain, in addition TO the
best fugative pieces that have already ap.
peared, many that have been written by Mr..
English expressly for this book.
The new sireet-sweeping machine now in
operation in New York, threatens, in addition
to sweeping the streets clean, seriousIy 10
sweep away very much of the power and
influence of political parties. The street.
sweeping patronage has hitherto secured q
good deal of power to the party having the
power OF dispensing it.
The slave of the Lamp" a sor. of au,og-
raphic extravaganza, by William North, the
English writer, who recently killed himself
with prussic acid, has just been published
by Long & Brothers. 1t is IN insane sort of
book, but contains some scenes of absorbing
interest. We learn from the preface that the
author was a descendant of Lord North, the
thick.headed Premier, who could not dis
tiuguish the differance between an insurrec-
lion and a revolution.
A terrific raid upon female frailly seems
now 10 be in progress in the moral city Of
Gotham. Easy virtue is forbidden 10 lrav-
erse the streets by night, on pain of being
sent 10 the Penilenliary under the vag,ant
act, and caIaloeued, with names, ages, and
residences appended, in the morning prayers.
About a hundred women have been caught
by The ro!ice in two consecutive hauls;
meanwhile their betrayers are permitted to
run at large, unquestioned. Their is a good
deal of one. side justice IN this enlightened
age and country. A retired merchant who
recently owned a pew in Grace Church, he
is dead now, we believe, was The proprietor
of four houses of prostitution in that city.
But he was rich. s'Plate Sin with gold"
&c,--the quotation is somewhat trlie and
mus!y.
The North american Phalanx, in New Jer-
sey, has failed. This association was partly
organized on the principles of Charles
Fourier; but it appears that they lacked the
numbers, money and capacity necessary 10
success. Some members Of The ASSOCIATION
held a meeting in this city, a few evenings
ago, al which the speaker made very point
ed illusions 10 q certain w%ell-known social
isl in this city, who, they said, had great
faith in the Fourierism, but who did not
manifest it in works, or in the shape of hard
cash, for the cause. After the meeting adj
%journed, Albert Brisbane, The ex.philanthro 70.
pist and Fourierite, when he was poor and
had nothing 10 lose, but the Wal Street
sleek lobber now he has inherited a fortune ,
was pretty severely handled in private con.
versatiou. II is evident tina, he is the man
to whom the speakers mad alluded from the
platform.
The late Poole tragedy has ceased TO be
a subject of discussion, except in bar.rooms,
the station houses. the private rooms of the
Mayor and Aldermen al the City Hall, and
other disreputable places, Baker, the muir.
derer of Poole, evidently has either powerful
or cunning friends-perhaps both. In the
first place, he was permitted to escape when
wounded, and easily known by those whose
duty it was TO arrest him. And since bis
escape, the public has been completely BAN.
boozled as TO his Whereabouts. AT one mo.
ment he has gone to the Spanish Main-then
he turns up in New ~Jersey-then in
Canada-aud now he is back in the JERSEY
woods again, a waneeri outcast. All these
stories originated by the assassin's friends,
tend 10 lead avenging justice a wild goose
chase. Baker is said 10 have been so badly
wounded as not 10 be in a condition 10 leave
New York, and many knowing onss are o
opinion that he is still secreted here. If the
facts Showing the real paris played by Ger
tain officials in this disgracefui affair." are
ever disclosed, the people will open ihei
eyes wide.