The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-11-25

Strolled up town,
And Pm going TO write his travels down;
Bni II yon suppose Bill Brown will disclose
The usual sin andfoiles of those
Who leave rural regions ,o.see city shows
You couIdn't we'll make
A greater mistake;
For Brown was a man OF excellent sense;
Could SEQ very we'll through hole in fence,
And was honest and plain, without shame or
pre,ence, fed,
0fsharp, city learning he couldn't have boast.
But he wasn't the chap 10 be easily roasted;
Though, like many "Bill,h he wasn't well
"posled,"
And here let me say,
In very dogmalic, oracular way,
(Aud I'm prove il, before | have done with
my ay,)
Not only that horesly's likely TO "pay,"
But that one must be, as general rule,
AT least half knave TO be wholly fool!
0fpocke-book dropping Bill had heard,
(Or at least II he had, he'd forolten the word)
And now when, al enslh, the occasion oc-
cured,
For that sort of chaff he wasn't the bird.
The gentleman argued with eloquent force,
And begged him to pocket the money, of
course,
Bu, Brown, without thinking at all what he
said,
Popped out the first thing tina. entered his
(Which chancsd 10 be wondrously fitting and
true)
'No--no-my dear sir--I'll be burnt If do y
Two lively young fellows of elegant mein,
Amused him awhile with pretty machine
An ivory ball, which he never had seen.
But though the ursuspectng stranger
In the "palent safe" saw no patent danger.
He easily lodged The nefarious net,
Because che wasn't accustomed to bet."
Ah!-hers, wot,
Is exactly The spot
To make small fortune as easy as not!
That man with the watch what lungs he has
got
It's oGoing"-the best of that elegan: lot
To close concern, al a desperate rate
The jeweller ruined as certain as fate -
A capital walch!-you may see by the weight,
Worth one hundred dollars as easy as eight
Or half Of that sum to melt down into plale--
Drown doesn', know "Peter" from Peter the
Greal,)
But then can't dwell,
Pm ordered 10 sell,
And mustn't sland weepIng-just look al the
she'll
warrant the ticker TO operate we'll
Nine doars-il's hard 10 be letting the thing
go
For only nine dolIars!-it's cruel, BY Jingo!
Ten dollsrs-Fm ohered-lhe man who Sc
cures
This spendd-ten dollars!-say twelve, and
il's yours!
Don't want ,'-quoh Brown-tl don't wish
to buy;
Fifty dollars, Pm sure, ,one couldn't call high
But to see The man ruined Dear Sir de-
Between two or three bidders, it doesn't seem
lair
To knock it off now were surely sin;
Just wait my dear Sir, till the people come
Allow me to say, you disgrace your profes'
AS Sherf-consid'ring the debtors condi.
To cell such watch without more competi-
lion?p
And here Mr.. Brown
Gave very black frown.
Stepped leisurely oul, and walked further up
To see him stray along Broadway
In the afternoon Of summers day,
And nole what he chanced TO see and coy,
And what people he meets
In the narrower streets,
Were pregnant theme for longer lay.
How he narveled al those geological chaps
Who go poking about in crannes aud gaps,
Those curious people in taltered breeches,
| The rag wearing, ag.picking sons of-dtches
| Who find in the very nasliest inches
| A decent living and sometimes riches;
| How he thought city prices exceedingly queer
| The buses too cteap, and the hacks TOO dear
How he stuck in The mud and got lost in the
| question:
A problem 100 hard for his mental digestion
Why, in cleaning the city, the cily employs
SUCH very email corps OF such very small
boys,
How he judges by dress, and, accordingl,
makes,
BY mixing up classes, the. .dfollest mistakes
As if simple vanity ever were vicious,
| Or women of merit could be meretricious,
He imsginesihe dashing Fifth Avenue dame
| The same as the girls with unspsakablt
Games!-- ..or .-..s, ....
An exceedingly natural blunier in sooh,
But, Pm happy to say, very far from lb'
| truth;
Fer e'en at the worst, whate'er You suppose
The one sort OF ladies' can choose their beaux
While as 10 The other-bu, every one know
Wha,--lf ;twere q secrst-l wouldn't dis
close. 's-
And Mr. Brown rl atu.
Returned from town,
With bran new hat, and muslin gown,
As he told the tale, when The sun was down
How he spent his eagles, and saved his crown
How he showed his pluck in resisting tn
claim '.i4,-d --..4s
or an impudent fellow who asked his name
Bn, paid, as gentleman ever is willing,
AT the old Park Gate the regular shilling
~ Pleasure unattained, is the hare whic
we hold in chase, cheered on by the ordt
of competition, the exhilarating cry of tn
dogs, and shouts of the hunters, the echo {
the ambition of being in atthe death. Ple'
sure attained, is the same hare hanging u
in the sportsman's lardsr, worthless, disr
! garded, dispised, dead. 5.., tsa-
FRED. DOUGLASS publishes a card in Il
Waiertown N.Y. Journal, express ing gre
indignation, because the proprietor of Gel
talr hotel in that town refused 10 enlerta
4 him. on account OF his color. HAi ai