The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-11-04

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enl upon the advanc emeni OF tcience and
general intelligence, ri desirable thing.
| But how few acquire money for such purpo-
ses!
Take heart, Won who belong not TO ihrong
OF the vulgar "etealp' Reconsider your ior-
tunes, and see if sou have'not cause. for true
| ihahkfulnees. Plessinoi on so madly' for The
| elittering payment. Do you not see how
: ys'u uuruP'o' ,ur'now~rs Ivy INC |~ay sue:
Why will yon be so unmindfnl OF their fra2.
| rance upon the air, and Of the blue heaven
over your heads
From Foraet Press,
| Pursuit of Gain.
The irresistible impulse that has been
given, within the last few years, TO every
branch of industry, has been productive of
great good. But every human benefit is
apt to be closely attended by corresponding
evil. The Lightning and the tempest purify
the elements, but, at the same time, are the
agents of death and desolation. So too,
while the whole country bears evidence to
fhe physical prosperity of our people, it is
equally evident that there is too intense
and absorbing devotion to gain. This af-
fects the whole body polite. 1t has chang
ed, and will yet more radically change, the
whole order of society. "The great princi-
pie of demand and supply" said NJ.
Calhoun, in one of his speeches on the
Sub-Treasury, "governs the moral and in.
| tellectual world no less than the business
and commercial. If a community be so
constituted as to cause a demand for high
mental attainments, as if its honors and re-
wards are allotted to pursuits that require
:heir development, by creating ademahd
for intelligence, knowledge, wisdom, Justice,
firmness, courage, patriotism, and the like,
they are sure to be produced But if, on
the contrary, they be allotted to pursuits
thatrequire inferior qualities, the higher arc
sure to decay and perish.'
Fortunes have been so rapidly accumula-
ted in our country out of the regular and
beaten paths of ordinary pursuits, the, a
rage for sudden acquisitions universally pre-.
walls. Wealth is fast becoming the citerion
of merit, as well as of Individual and so.
cial consideration. The influence of this
upon the intellect and more manly qualities
of people is disastrous. All the higher
and nobler faculties of the mind dwindle
away when brought in contact with the
schemes of speculation and the arts of the
stock-board. In that presence they are as
surely blasted as the green SPOT in the des-
ert, when swept by the devouting sirocco.
"Wisdom, justice, courage, patriotism, and
! the like" derive their inspiration from IL
| very different source. 1t is true, TO make
money, in the sharp competitions of trade,
may require and develop quickness of judg-
ment and promptitude of action--qualities
desirable in themselves, but by no means
the highest and most desirable. That ma.
tion has arrived at critical stage in its ex-
istence, when wealth, and the ease and lux
ury it secures, are become the chief objects
of ambition.
Oil fares the land, to fastening ills
prey,
Where wealth accunalates and men
| decay"
The heroic virtues have then departed.
Duty and honor no longer hold sway. In
any great crisis affecting for veal or woe the
good and glory of the county through all
coming time, the decisive action will be
determined, not by public and patriotic con-
siderations, but by those which are personal
and pecuniary. The professions, and espe.
cially the higher career of politics, will be
! adopted, not as the means to acquire honor
and do the State service, but as the means
of making money. Other considerations
will be sacrificed to This. A generous am
bition withers and dies whenever the pass.
ion of acquisition gets possession of tha
mind. s...
II is on this ground that wars have been
vindIcated 1t has been said that they with
| draw the attention of mankind from those
objects that are dwarfng and benumbing
them, and fix it upon things of larger and
more Hementous character. Their bosoms
| are aroused and agitated by the march and
encounter of armies, by gallant deeds, and
heroic sacrifices. They become insensibly
imbued with higher and loftier spirit, and
obey with alacrity the call of honor or duty.
Such is the argument, and certainly it is
not without seeming force. Let us hope,
however, that more effecnal means to
check the undue and unrighteous worship
of Mammon may be found in the wider
diffusion of sound and ennobling literature
and the re-awakening of more bealthful
moral tone. re
! TIN
A MARROW EscAPE--" Miiher Mitlrert
what have you dones" said little newsboy
to green.horn who had jnst tied bis horse
TO spruce pole, as he thought. "Dons!'
said The fellow; 'swhaI do You mean! hain't
bsen doia', as know on!" "Why, yaIh
you have thlf you've hitched your hoih To
the magnetic telegraph, and you'll be in New
York in lrth than two minutes, il you don't
look out.n-- the man united his horse with
nervous anxiety. and jumping into his wag-
on drove hastily down the street.
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