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The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-08-19
NUMBER 80.
DO RiGHT.

A wealthy merchant remarked few days
since that he was fully convinced from his
own experience, that the means to achievs
success lay in nut .shell-Do RIGHT. sWhsa
I say success said he, Il mean not only the
accumulation of fortune, but the ability TO
enjoy tito live a useful, happy life.' What
is the use of much wealth if we know that
it was obtained by wronging the widow and
orphan, by the tricks of trade, selling arti-
cIes for what they were not, and thousand
modes Of unfair dealinga Can man be
happy if he knows he has stripped poor
family Of its last dollar, sent dagger 10 its
very heart, drawn away the final drop Of
blood, leaving their bodies writhing in thross
Of untold agonies, pinched by hunger and
cold, their spirits detected and gloomy
hope crushed out and dispair fast hurryng
them on, on to ruin? Granting that men
grow better by doing kindly acts, and fesi
the better for seeing others do them, how
sickening it must >be to the true man to
know that by false dealing he has curIsd the
milk of human kindness in one breast, tnfn-
ing 1t to bitter gall If wealth comes by
such means let ii not come at all. Shall an
active man, possessed Of God-given powers,
at his dying hour turn back 10 his past life
and be able only to say: | have done noth-
ing to add to the wealth of the world in gold
or silver, or In artistic productions, but have
coveted the labors of others, heaped treas.
ures sordidIy TO myself, foolishly supppos-
ing that might trample down all feelings
and sympaihies not directly productive of
gain? Or shall he rather be able 10 say that,
while have industriousIy gathered wealth,
I have done it with cheerful looks, kindly
words, warm sympathies; have done it by
making things which have added to the
comfort Of men, by bringing within the
reach of the poor great means Of present en-
joyment, the opening of a brilliant future,
by throwing lights of sympathy on the de.
jected, lifting up the down-fallen, strength
ening the weak, infusing in all fervent be-
lief in the brighter part of their being9 Such
a life will enable man to throw off his
wealth as scale, at the last day, bearing
away only the imperishable soul which has
accumulated strength along with the inass
of worldly goods justly and usefully obtain
ed, would you, young man, belong TO the
latter class, do right. How much better to
do right, if you die not worth a farthing, and
feel that you have rather added to the good
faith in the higher life on earth, than to die
while rolling in the luxary, ponp, and pride
of ill-gotten gainst Then do right and if
tempted for momentary ease and vanity TO
abuse your better nature rest assured that
both the body and the spirit will suffer in a
ratio corresponding 10 the transgression.-
There is but one road TO happiness and con-
tentment-do right
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Gboits ipoeiru.
the LIGHT At HONE.

The light al home bow bright Il beams
When evening shades around US fall:
And from the lattice far il glsams,
To love, and rest, and comfort call.
When wearied with the Tolls Of day, ,.,.g
And strife for glory, gold, or fame,
How sweet 10 seek The quiet way,
Where loving lips will lisp our name
Around the light at home!
When through The dark and stormy night,
Wsyward wanderer homeward hies,
How cheering Is that twinkling light,
which through the forest gloom he spies
II 10 the light al home. He feels
That loving hearts will greet him there,
And safely through bis bosom steals
The joy and love tha; Danish care
Around the light al home!
The light a, home! when ere q. las.
II greeis The seaman through The storm,
He feels no more the chilling blast
That beals upon his manly form.
Long y ears upon the sea have fed,
Since Mary gave her pairing kiss,
But the sad tears which she then shed
Will now be paid with raplurous bliss
Around the light al home!
The light at home! how sIill and sweet
II peeps from yonder cottage door
The weary laborer 10 greet
When the rough tolls OF day are e'er!
Sad is the soul that does not know
The blessings that the beams impari,
The cheerful hopes and Joys lbat flow,
Aud tighten up the heaviest heart
Around the light at home!
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The verdant Groomsman.

On no occasion do people seem more
prone TO commit blunders than at q we'd
ding. The following funny incident actu-
ally happened in aneighboriug town. In
the midst of witnesses, the clergymyn had
Just completed the interesting ceremony
which binds, in the silver bondso wedlock,
two willing hearts, and stretched forth his
hand to implore the blessing of Heaven on
the union. AT this point, the groomsman
seeing The open hands reached ont, sup
posed IT was the signal for him to surren.
der the marriage fee, which was burning IN
his pocket. Accordingly, just as The cler'
gyman closed his eyes in prayer, he fell
the pressure of two sweet half dollars upor
his palms. The good man hesitated, ap
.paIlsd at the ludicrousness of his situation
but cody deposited the money in,his peck
Ut, and proceeded with bis devotions.
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A Beautiful Idea.

Away among the Alleghenies there is q
spring, so small that single OK, on o sum-
mars day, could drain il dry. Il steals its
unobtrusive way among the hills, till il
spreads out in the beautiful Ohio. Thence
it stretches away Thousand miles, leaving
on its banks more than thousand villages
and cities, and many thousand cultivated
farms, and bearing on IFS bosom more than
half thousand Steamboats,. Then joining
the Mississippi il stretches away and away
some twelve hundred miles till il falls into
the great emblem of eternity. 1t is one OF
the tributaries Of the ocean, which, obedi.
ent only 10 God, shall roll and roar till the
angel, with one foot on the sea and the 9TH
er on the land, shall lift up his hand to
heaven and swear that time shall be no
longer. So with moral influence; it is a
rill-a rivulet--a river--an ocean-bound-
less and fathomless as eternity.
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DEBr.-Blessed is he who can slap bis
bresches pocket in the face of The world, and
irumphantly exclaim-" Behold, ye good
people! Lo, ye heavily laden debtors! come
and look upon man--who owes not dole
lar!" We would travel far 10 see such a
creature; we would contribuie literally 20
wards providing glass case 10 which bis
embalmsd remains should be preserved after
death, as sacred relic 10 posterity--a speci-
men Of an almost extinct species in the nine
,eenih oeniury--,hs Cash Philosopher! Him
no duus can harass, nor tho approach of In
eviiabis payday disturb. His eubstsnce no
avaricious lawyer can devour, NOR their ruth
less myriads seizeuPou. He, securely armed
in spscis,s smiles at the dread sheriff, and
deiies has power. He is cheerful even or
The awfuleve Of quarer.day. He alone 10 9
free oiilzen-oaly be can feel .rnly independ
emf! Happy mortal 10.
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ORIerSAL AsEcDoTr OF BuRNs.--As Lord
Crawford and Lord Boyd were one day
walking over the lands in Ayrshire, they
saw Burns ploughing in field hard By
Lord Crawford said to Lord Boyd, do you
see that rough looking fellow across there
with the plought Ill lay you a wager you
cannot say anything 10 him that he win not
make rhyme OF
"Done,n said the other, and immediately
going up to the hedge, Lord Boyd cried out
"Baughw
Burns stopped at once, leaned against tho
plough, and surveying the assailant tom
head to foot, he quickly anewered-
Otis not Lord Crawford, hut Lord Boyd,
OF grace and manners he is void-~
lust like bull among the rye,
cues thaueh ? a folks ~ they 90 by"
The wasetwss Of course. won, ,5
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Monry HoAaprD-..Ac,cotd 10 ,bs IRE,

MoEEy HoARDED.-Accofdingto the Treas
ury estimate, there ara in Ills country about
$3.50 100000 in gold, Of which little more
than q fifih is in the banks--leaving liuie
shott Of s2oo, 900 900 10 be found elsewhere
The Treasury 'hoards very commonly from
twenty totwen,y.five millions, leaving prob
nbly si76,ooo, 900 10 be sought among The
people. Allowing $50 ,ooo, ,Ooo--a liberal e.
tim,ae--to be in actual use, there remains
si25,o 900 which is boarded by the peo'
pie, and to an extent six times exceeding
the Treasury. rg-s
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The Form OF Continents Determined By
the SUM-

PROFESSOR PIERcE's DISCOVERY.
The scieniific circles at Cambridge have
been recently interested in an observation Of
Pierce, not ye, published, upon the form Of
the Continents. If we elevate terrestrial
globe until the Arctic and Antarctic circles
are tangent TO the wooden horizon, and then
cause the globe slowly TO rsvolve, We shall
find that majority of the lines Of elevation
in the earth's crusi--. o., coast lines and
mountain ranges--will, enher as they rise or
as they 60 down, coincide in passing with
the wooden horizon. For example, the
main coast Of the United States tending north
east, will, if carried on in great circle, Craze
the Arctic circle, and the coast of Florida and
Labrador tending northwest will Craze on the
other side. The sans Is true of the east
coasts OF South America and Africa, the
coasts Of the Red Sea, of Italy, of the Black
Sea, Of Hindosian, Of New Zesland, &c. The
Arctic and Antarctic circles are also coast
lines, being always tangent TO the horizon
Ilis almost impossible 10 sxsgserate the
importance Of This fine discovery, proving. as
ii does, by geological facts, tina, the obliquily
of the ecliptic has been essentially unchanged
since the dawn of creation, and that solar heat
was the agent 10 carry out the second day TO
le, the dry land appear The lines otsepara-
tion between light and darkness, between
solar heat and the cooIness of night, travelling
daily for two months in summer, and again
for two months in winter, j. such position
as TO coincide IN passing with the lines of mp.
hsaval, indicates Enthusiastically that it was
connected with the determination Of those
lines; the slight expansion and shrinking
being sufficient to determine the line OF rup-
ture OF the crust. From comparison of the
forms Of the continents, Professor Pierce also
draws the order Of their upheayal; showing,
for instance, that the Western Continent is
older ihaa Europe, and thai the Cali Stream,
during The second day of creation, caused the
great variety of outline in that continent.---
Christian Examiner.
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SroTs ON THE SuN.--According to obser.
vations made by M. Rudoiphe Wolf, Direc-
tor of the Observatory of Berne, it appears
that the number Of spots on the sun have
their maximum and minimum at the same
time as the variations Of the needle. It fol-
lows from this, that the causes of these two
changes on the sun and on the earth must
be the same, and consequently, from this dis
covery, it win be possible to solve several
important problems, in connection with
these well.kuown phenomens, the solution
Of which has hitherto never been attempted
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y A good conscience is better than two
witnesses; il will consume grief as The sun
dissolves ice. Its spring when son are
thirsty; stall when you are weary; . scseen
when the sun burns; pillow in death.
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FARM LIFE.

go Friendly 10 the best pursuits Of man,
Friendly 10 the thought, to virtue, and to peace,
Domestic life in rural pleasure passed!
Few know thy value and few taste their sweets;
Though many boast thy favors, and affect
To understand and choose thee for their own"
Cosgpr.
Education is by no means confined to
schools. These are but rudimental and aux
ilary TO that training which is begun in the
cradle and finished only at death. The nur-
sery days Of our life, and its business pur-
suits, have an important bearing upon the
formation of character. What man does,
as we'll as what he studies 10 books, educates
aim. The scenes amid which bis boyhood
is passed, on. Of school, the objects which
occupy his thoughts, the problems he daily
solves in earning HIS bread, quite as much
shape character as the scenes and problems
Of a school room. Agriculture is the largest
and most important Of all our material inter.
es,s, the occupation TO which the largest por.
lion Of our countrymen are born. Ii is 4
matter Of interest to consider the bearing Of
this pursuit upon the characters Of those who
are engaged iu il. -
There are those who consider this meni.
al upa,ion-dsgrading 10 the body By the
toll it imposes, and beltlling TO the mind by
the attention il requires TO the mute details of
its business They regard its implements as
the badges Of eervility, and look with disdain
upon the plow boys lot. They deprecale the
influence of farm life upon the social and
mental culture, and look upon the rustic man
as type of boorishness and ignorance
They think il mainly business for brute
muscles, where mind can achieve no con-
quests, and where skilliul labor finds poor
reward. They think the way Of men Of gen.
ius is inevitably bedged up upon the farm
that there is no heroic work TO be performed,
no laurels 10 be one. II he would do the
deeds worthy Of his manhood, gain weal'h,
gain bonor, make himself name that will
live, he must turn to nobler occupations.
II those who are strangers to the farm alone
cherished this view, we could abide ], in ST.
lence. But when farmers themselves admit
this Impeachment of their calling, and the
pestilsnce Of This heresy finds its way into
our firesdes, and makes our sons and daugh-
ters discontenied with our rural homes, il Is
time to speak out. If comparisons must be
made, which are invidious, the shadows shall
not fall upon the farmers lot. II is time that
other callings were stripped of that romance
in which they are veiled, and thai the sons
OF the farm sheeiA knes~.xsk kas- -,hs1. Ssxe In
prospect when they turn their backs upon the
homes of their youth. II is meet that they
should better understand the blessings of
their lot, it's capacities for improvement, and
its superiority 10 oil other occupations. We
would arrest that feeling of dIsquiet which
keeps SO large part of our rural population
perpelually longing for new fields of enter
prise. We would have them settled, al least
a portion of them, in the old parish, and bend
their energies 10 the improvement, aad adom-
ment Of their homss.--Rsu Cliff.
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u Flowers have bloomed in our prai.
ries and passed away, from age to age, un-
seen by man, and multitndes Of virtues have
been acted out in obscure places, without
note or admiration. The sweetness Of both
has gone up to heayenl
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SIssuLAa.-It is eaii that the ross Of Flor.
ida, the most beautiful Of flowers, emiis no
fragrance; the bird of Paradise the most
beautiful Of birds, gives no songs; the cypress
Of Greece, the 6nss. Of trees, yields no fruit
dandies, the shiniest Of men, have no sense
aud ball room bellies, the lovsliest creatures
in The world, are very often ditlo-and little
more so
The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-10-06
THE WASHINGTss UNION.
THE CONDITION OF THE VIRGINIA BANKS.

THE CONDITION OF THE VIRGINIA BANKS
As the notes of tho Virginia banks have for some
time formed no nconsiderable portion Of the paper
currency of this city, we make room for the following
useful table which we find in a late number of the
Richmond South
The following table we believe includes all the banks
in the State and classified according to the inona
ton In our possession. One curious revelation will be
observed and that is that not solitary branch OF the
Eank of Virginia, far heard from, has suspended
specie payment
Old Banks rayuy specie Farmers Bank OF Virginia.
charlottesville; Farmers Bank Bank Of Virginia. Dan
vile Farmers Bank, Farmville Farmers Bank of Vir
gina, Bank of Virginia. fredericksburg Farmers Bank
Exchange Bank, Bank Of Virginia. Lynchburg; Exchange
Bank of Virginia. Farmers Bank Bank of Virginia. Nor
folk Exchange Bank, Farmers Bank, Bank of Virginia,
Petersburg; Bank of Virginia, Portsmouth; Farmers
Bank, Bank of Virginia, Exchange Bank, Richmond.
Lpdpedea Banks paying speze,-Fairmount Bank, Fair
mount; Bank of Scottsvile Scottsve; Bank of Rock
bridge, Lexington; Merchants Bank, Lynohburg.
Old Banks suspended. Exchange Bank Of Virginia.
Farmers Bank Of Virginia, Alexandria Bank of the
Valley Charestown Bank of the Valley Chrstiansburg
Bank Of the Valley Leesbug Bank Of the Valley Moor
field Merchants and Mechanics Bank, Morgantown !;
Northwestern Bank of Virginia, Parkersburg Merchants
and Mechanics, Point Pleasant Bank of Valley, Rom
ney Bank of Valley, Staunton Northwestern Bank,
Wellsburg; Merchants and Mechanics Northwestern
Bank. Wheeling Bank of Valley Farmers Bank, Win
chester.
independent Banks SspSndd bank OF the Old DOMINION
Alexandria Bank of Monticello Charlottesville Bank
Of Commerce, Fredericksburg Bank of Howardsville
Howardsville; Bank of Rockingham, Harrisonburg !;
Bank of Berkey, Martnsburg Central Bank, Stapnton
Bank of Wheeling and Manufacturer and Farmers
Bank, Wheeling Bank of Winchester, Winchester.
Old Banks not heard from. Exchange Bank, Abingdon
Farmers Bank Backsburg Bank Of Virginia. Buchan-
an Bank of Virginia, Charleston Exchange Bank,
GAINESVILLE Northwestern Bank, Jacksonville Farmers
Bank Lewisburg Exchange Bank, Salem Bank of Vir-
ginia, Union; Farmers Bank, Wytheyille Exchange
Bank Weston
Independent Banks not heard from Farmers Bank Fin
castle Irans-Alleghany Bank, Jacksonville Bank of
the Old Dominion, Parisburg.
The Kanawha Bank at Maiden, in Kanawha county
was paying at last accounts
There rumors that the Exchange Bank, at Weston
and the Paramount Bank, at Paramount have suspended
but the vague that preferred differ
emit classification
The Trans Allegheny Bank has gone out of circula-
ton, and probably should be dismissed from the list al
together.
The Kanawha Bank, at Maiden, has not been heard
from since the general suspension.
The banks classified mot heard from were specie
paying institutions when last heard from 1t is fair to
presume that some of them-indesd probably MAORI
ty--are still of that class.
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INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

Public Surveys in Oregon. Returns of the subdivsional
surveys in Oregon have been made to the General Land
Office situate in township 81 SOUTH of range west of the
Willamette meridian also of the exterior township
lines in township 81 SOUTH of ranges A. s. and west
township 3S south, of range west traversed by Apple
gate creek the tributary Of Rogue river and along which
passes the road from Jacksonville, Oregon to Crescent
City, California
The features of this region of the country appear be
very hily requiring considerable hardship at the hands
of deputy surveyors in running, measuring, and marking
the lines of the public surveys.
Public Suuys IN Nebraska The returns of public sur
veys in Nebraska have been received at the General Land
Office showing the subdivsiona lines of townships g. g.
and north Of ranges and east of the sixth prnc
pal meridian, embracing 2l,9O7 of land through
which Big Blue river courses and which lands situated
Immediately north of the Ottoes reservation and lie with
in the South Platte district.
Public Surveys Washington Territory The subdivsonal
survey of township IA north, of range west of the
Willamette meridian, in Washington Territory has been
returned to the General Land Office by the surveyor
era at Olympia Washington Territory. The quality Of
the lands appears from the field of the survey to
be adapted for agricultural purposes Astounding fir and
CEDAR and the bottom lands along Chihas river which
disenlbogues itself in Gray harbor, of the first rate
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EXPORTS OF COTTON FROM EGYPT.

We are indebted to the London Economist for
report, dated August 10th, on the cotton trade Of
Alexandria, from which we have CLEANED some in
tercsng facts relative to the cotton market of this
port which we have condensed for our readers.
At the date of the report cotton had not declined in
price notwithstanding the unfavorable advices from
Liverpool, and former prices were easily realized
The stock was much reduced, and it was expected
that it would soon be entirely exhausted Three
months must elapso November 19 before any Of the
new crop could be brought to market, owing to it's
being Is to 20 days later this year. The crop, how
ever, promised well. The following are the prices
quoted free on board, charge and commissions in
Guided: Ordinary, piasters, 3O5 to 800 Qsic. to
19ac.;) middling, 80 to $40 (2Oc. to 2lo.;) good
middling, $50 TO 800 (2lc. to 2ltc good to fine,
$50 to 800 (23c. to 23sc. y extra fine, AIS to 44O
IA 4-5c. to rs LOCI
7abua, statement shouing Tia quantities. Of cotton exported
from Ahrotdra from Jaauaryl to August Is, IN the gears
1S55 1256 lSb7
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THE pEMoCRATTC VICTORY I'M CALIFoRNI


In view of the recent brilliant and decisive victory
Of the democracy of CALIFORNIA; clear and undis-
puted victory the combined forces of black-re-
publicanism and know-nothngism--t editor of the
San Francisco Globe sends the following greeting to
his atlantic friends - 4.
We send greeting to the democracy of the East and
congratulate them upon the fact that have once
that they have succumbed. The majority of Col We'll
Ter over Mr. Stanly the nominee Of the black republ-
cans" will not short Of from twenty to thirty
thousand His majority both Stany and Major
Bowie the american" candidate, will also be consid-
cradle The republican candidate rallied to his sup
port all the sms of the day. and under the specous guse
of reform endeavored to array powerful opposition for
the defeat of the democratic candidate His friends
waged bitter warfare during the campaign and brought
the most calumnious charges against all the democratic
nominees But oil in vain the people not to
be deceived and the result before in noble triumph
of the democracy.
The democratic party displayed Its flag the notices
of popular sovereignty in tho Territories, the justice Of
the decision in the bred Scott case the agitation Of
the subject of slavery the Importance of the Union and
the integrity of the constitution They also declared
reform in the State government and for the early pay
mcnt of the State debt Col Weller the champion Of
the administration of James Buchanan and Of the demo-
cratic party here took the field these issues and trnv
ersed the greater part Of the State meeting the advocate
Of sectonasm at every point and maintaining the
of the people with force Of argument and fupess of IL
usraton which have been surpassed He left the
decision with the masses and they have responded in
thunder tones throughout tho length and breadth of the
State Whatever other States may do whatever tempo
rary triumphs may be achieved by the back srepub-
cans in other localities California Is bound TO stand by
the Union and the constitution.