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The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-06-05
Beautiful Women.

Every woman has a right 10 be beautiful;
that is the secret of her power, her mission,
the key that unocks her destiny. But
while she has right 10 be beautiful, she
has no right TO be it's opposite-ihat is an
injustice 10 society, which has a right 10
exact from her It's lovliness, its grace, and
is attraction. There are many different
kinds of beauty, and ii is great mistake 10
imagine that it consists wholly, or even
mainly, of color, form or texture. There is
the beauty of innocence and the beauty of
chTldhood and the beauty of malron, the
beauty of wisdom ard the beauty of SIM
plfcily. The lowest kind of beauty is Of
merely physical perfection and srIendor,
which receives no aid from voice, look, or
expression, but il is marred by the action
of the mind upon lis fair and smooth sur
face; jus; as the mud is stirred in shallow
pool by any slight circumstances that touch
es its depths.
The ideals of the ancient poets are all
beautiful, but their characteristics are dis
tinct and separate, so that ihere rs no fiat
of form with which they are endowed is
simply the vehicle or expression oil the
mental idea they wish 10 convey. Thus
the serene mairon, Inc brilliant coquette,
the imperious queen, the delicate maiden,
the iimid young wife, and the thoughtful
nurse, have all an individuality of their own,
10 which their outward appearance is the
visible sign or index. There dress should
naturally correspond 10 those mental and
physical indications, so as 10 preserve a
sense of musical harmony and fitness
throughout the entire structure.
There is nothing that descendants so soon
as the discovery of folly, ignorance, stupid
ity. bad temper or vile passions beneath
fair and seductive form. The possession Of
any fine and noble qualities, on The contra
ry, illuminates the plainest features and
dulle't complexion much better than scores
of costly powders and cosmetics. Women
who desire To be beautiful make great
mistake in trying 10 increase their atlrac-
tions, or TO make themselves charming,
after any other persons pattern. What is
adapted 10 one style would destroy the ef-
feet of another and for every woman TO
adopt an arbitrary mode or standard of dress
is fatal 10 the aggregate of feminine beauty
whose great charm is variety.
Ii is Ealural 10 love admiration, power
and influence, and almost all women may
not only obtain these, but retain them, by
being themselves in the very highest and
most perfect sense of which they are capa-
ble instead of a weak, diluted imitation of
somebody else. When freshness of youth
and girhood has departed, let them be
succeed. naturally, by the maiured grace of
womanhood, and these by the dignity of
middle age. The affectaiion of pretty CO.
queries and juvenile sim plicity by shallow
specimens OF ancient spIister-hood-or,
worse, by women who bear the name OF
wife and motherhood-not only outrage all
true ideas of taste and ptopriety, but de-
prive those who indulge in Them of their
natural claims to attention and considera-
lion. When all women are natural and
true, then they will all be beautiful.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-06-05
Queen ElIzabeth's Letter Of FIattcry.

With many of her attendants she was so
unguarded in the marks of her favor, that
reports where spread abroad injurious to
her reputation. Party spirit has continued
the discussion up 10 the present time, the
advocates of the hapless Mary maintaining
that the lover of Leicester, and Hatton, and
Essex, was not entitled TO make any over
virtuous illusions 10 the leviles attributed
10 their heroine. Her defenders appeal to
the little influence exercised over her by
the suspected sharers OF her guilt and say
that in all likelihood the friendships of Eli
zabeih went no further than The gratilca-
iion of her Unsuitable love of admiration and
appetite for fulsotne praise. OF all these
temporary and capricious attachments we
have only to dwell on that toward Eesx, for
it was the only one that influenced her
public acts, and seems 10 have been really
sincere but al the time of his greatest
favor she was nearly seventy years of age !;
and even after his unhappy death, when
her own demise was near at hand, she is
reported by the French Ambassador 10 have
been caplivated by the looks Of tall young
IrisE earl, and to be as anxious as ever for
aattery and devotion. The habit OF being
courted became her second nature, and the
same person who as Queen could withstand
coalition of all Europe against her throne,
was wretched if she had not a handsome,
designing cozener al her side, 10 tell her
her brow was not wrinkIed with seyeaiv
two years of toll and care, and that her
locks were as rich and auburn as when her
earlier adorers had assured her they were
sunbeams woven into ringlets, and cluster
ed round the forehead Of the chaste Dana =
Reu. James Whits's History Of England.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-06-05
The Slandefer.

The slanderer the stabber in the dark
the venomous serpent whose trail leaves
poison, aud whose slime corrupls even cor
runption o who can count the tears that
have been shed, the sighs that have been
uttered, the hearts that have been broken,
the souls that have been lost through the
agency of this moral destroyer OF goodness
and virlne. had rather live with mad
man, break bread with a murderer, keep
faith with hangman, than cross the path
of slanderer. His breath is hotter than the
fires OF hell, his eyes are wanton as the
wind, his tongue cruel as the grave. He is
the human internal machine, filled with
sharp razors, into which his poor victim,
some stainless character is thrust, and cut,
and hacked and hewed, and ruined, so far
as his agency can do it. We are command
ed not 10 hate, bot | trust we may dispise
SO foul thing. There is no merit in effort
made with view TO do him good, because
the very act, he blackens and daubs. as a
fool would spoil fine picture with insight
ly paint
And then, look at him alter he has ac-
compished his work. An internal Joy sits
triumphant on his malignant face His
eyes gleam with horrible satisfaction
Sometimes the person distills through the
lips OF woman i is smile il is a shrug
nay, sometimes it is a tear, Trough which
the red of her cheek gllslens mocklhgly.-
o, God can woman then descend TO SLAM
der! Can crimson lips drop toads, and
nevis, and spiders, and vipers Can wo-
mans heart gloat over the wiihering spirit
Ills true" she cdn, and she does /; aye, like
The royal murderer, she can also pir it there
with the shalt of malice, and gIoat over The
quiveting pulse OF agony
1t is said that strong drink is the worlds
worst ioe. Not so; it is heavenly TO sian.
der there is no vitrol that will eat and de,
slroy like slander. Ii is salan's crown, and
hell S choicest ornament. The slanderer
should live in swamps, where his misera-
bic existence might be passed in the midst
OF congenia society, only his breath would
poison every living object, and the trees
and waller and the very serpents are inno-
cent poor things
What will be the hereafter Of The SANDER.
err Merciful Heavens what! Through
the gloom Of his despair shall gleam no
light of mercy. That be denied 10 others
shall be given TO him-juslice. God seelh
all-mak eth all the lonely graves that he
hath rihed of their most precious sweets,
their good names. Cod seeth all trust
him, poor victim of destruction thy tri-
rmp may be slow, but it shall BE-
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-06-05

A WAR Sign IN THE HEAvENs.--Gov. Black
of Nebraska, gives the following descrip.
ton of remarkable display Witnessed at
Omaha, al the close of last year
Shortly after the moon rose, a very dis
tinct and bright cross was visible: of which
The moon was the centre. The arms of the
cross extended on either side, apparently
about one degree at the extremity of each
arm was an upright column, seen through
thin clouds. The pillars wefe vafiegaied
like a rainbow When the moon was about
three hours high, the cross and columns
disappeared and several bright and distinct
circles succeeded at one time as many as
Fix great circles were visible From ten 10
eleven, (when went to bed,) two circles
only were displayed, but those were very
bright and beautiful; and what 10 me,
seemed most strange. part of the circum-
ference of one ran through the centre of the
o,her-a clear anc complete belt | am not
able TO describe the manifestations as they
were seen, but they were quite enough TO
excite our special wonder
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-06-05

" In reply 10 an advertisement headed.
'Use Coopefs Tooth Brush," western
editor says: We'll see Cooper hanged first,
the dirty fellow How woold he like To
use oursp
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-06-05

V An old Dutch lady, at a religious
meeting became very much concerned for
her soul, and went about signing and void
not be comforted. Upon beng asked by
the minister what the matter was, she re-
piled
''Thal she could not read English, and
she was afraid the Lord couldn't under
stand Dutch.n
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-06-05

VA real lady never gossips. She is
too thoughtful, too amiable, too modest, too
wise, 10 gossip. Gossipping women are
not womanly ladies'.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-06-05

Happy Folks.-A child with rattle
-schoolboy CT q hoiiday-two lovers walk
ing by moonlight-and boy sucking cider
through straw.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-06-05

v"The times are hard, wife, and find
it difficult 10 keep my nose above water"
''You could easily keep your nose above
water, husband, if you didn't keep it SO
often above brandy"
.sQuoh Smith TO Jones really is q sin
You do not get your house fenced in."
Quolh Jones, tYou're wrong, the place is
fenced, confound you
hiy wife is all the time railing round"
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-06-05

EA piano affords young lady good
chance to show her lingering and her flu
ger.ring.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-06-05

a MonE may be the root of all evil,
but We shold have no objection to trunk
of il.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-06-05

u The gteat rock upon which all out
! fortunes rise rs "rock the cradleu
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-06-05

n A good man is kinder 10 his enemy
than bad men are to their friends
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-06-05

= That was a wise nigger, who in
speaking of The happiness OF married peo.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-06-05

u At a concert recently, al the concIu-
sion of song, .There's Good Time Conn
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-06-05

Ean oil topper oa West says the two
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-06-05

a Old Abe's vile is big, but Old Abe is
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-06-05

EThs man ul1o minds bis oua busi; |
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-05-02

THAT BLAsT.-The editor of the Terrific.
rial Enterprise most strikingly llkens the
election proclamation to be issued by Gov.
Nye, to Gabriel's trumpet, resurrecting de-
funct politicians, even as the dead are
raised from yawning graveyards. II is one
OF the most apt SMILES we have ever seen
The Governor will probably have arrived
and be prepared to organize the Territorial
government by July. His proclamation
for an election will sound abroad like the
blast Of the archangel's trump: politicians
who have lain in their political graves for
years will raise at the sound, their rotten.
ness covered by the white cerement in
which forgetfulness has embalmed them:
men OF whose existence the community
never dreamed will come forth and asnire
TO legislative honOrs, and then the marshal
ing OF political arrays will commence. AS
yet, the names Of the contestants lie crouch
ed In the uncertainty of the future. abiding
their time. We have few issnes on which
these party champions can stake their re-
spective claims TO popular favor. and con.
sequently the success of the candidates will
depend principally upon their indiyldunl
merit. AT present, we will only say. ''rnay
the best man win.n
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-05-02

INDIAN DEPREDAToNs.--Th Trinity Jour
nal learns that the citizens who went from
Hay Fork Valley 10 KetinsbOu, to punish
the Indians and look after stolen stock, had
returned Out of some four hundred head
OF cattle and hogs, only about fifty were
found. They report that Fulwider was
certainly killed by the Indians A Com
pany intend leaving Hay Fork Valley in
search of the Indians, and to punish them.
CRIME IN BUrTE.-At the April term of
the Grand Jury, in Butte, the following in
dictments we're found:
Grand larceny, 4 burglary, obstruet-
ing highway, 2 forgery, keeping hons
es OF III fame, III giving liquor to Indians.
marrying minor without consent of pa
rents. conveying goods 10 defraud cred
itors, /.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-05-02

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.-Th British Col
onist, published at Victoria, says that Cor.
poral Albert Demarest of the company of
sappers and miners on board the u. S..
steamer Massachusetts,, was apparently seiz-
ed with vertigo on the 18th ult, and fell
backward, striking his head against the
forward gun. He was taken Immediately
to bis berth, and did not seem to have sus.
tained any material injury, but when bis
companions went to awake him the follow.
ing morning, he was found to be lifeless
corpse.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-05-02

EAkTHoUAKE.-The Port Townsend Reg
is'er Is informed by Blake, the keeper Of
the Dunganess Light, that there was quite
severe shock of an earthquake felt at Dnn-
ganesS on the night Of the 9Th alt The
tower of the light house was observed to
rock to and fro so much so, that the lights
gllmmered from the agitation of the shock,
which continued fully three minutes.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-05-02

able physician writes, (page fve): 'It cannot be
too often repeated that the date Of the patients
illness at the time Of admission, is the chief
circumstance which determines whether four
patients in hundred, or seventy in hundred,
shall be discharged cured"
The following is from the Select Medical
Library (new seres) and Bulletin of Medi-
cal Science, for July, eighteen hundred and
forIy-one. book three, page folty-nine:
"Since it has been found that upwards of
eighty insane patients in the hundred, can be
restored to the enjoyment of their mental fac
ultes, when the malady istreated in its earliest
stages, we may consider insanity as disease
as likely to be relieved, as any other affection"
ln connection with these authorities we
will give statement of the admissions.
discharges, aud deaths, in the Stockton
Asylum, since The first of December. eigb-
teen hundred and fifty. eight, to The twenty
eighth Of February, eighteen hundred and
sixty-One, period OF twenty-seven months.
excluding from this statement. all persons
In the asylum previous to December one.
eighteen hundred and 6fty-eight-thus pre-.
senting q basis of recent cases
Number admitted. GOO
Number discharged 203
nu"uet ueu' ......,,........ "A
Per cent. discharged ......... 81
Per cent. died. Observation-Disclosures. l21
We find In the report of DIR. Langdon.
that during the first three months be had
charge of the institution, the number of pa.
tients discharged, exceeded the number ad-
mitted. When he (Langdon,) took charge
OF the institution, the number of patients
on hand was one hundred aud lightweight;
admitted thirty-nine; discharged, sixty-one.
Signed; ID. p. DURsT, Chairman.
SPENCE,
COLEMAN,
FoRD,
SMITH.
The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-14

tated to, and some again, hope they will bind Arkansas to the triumphal car of Lincoln and become the chiefs and the mighty mem who hereafter shall rule the State.
 We will not attempt to follow Gen. Thomson throughout his lengthy pream- ble and resolutions. To the fourth resolu. tion we desire to call attention. Here it IS:
 Resolped further, That committee of five delegates of this convention be appointed to prepare an address to the people of the United States urging upon them the importance of united eiiort on the part of the patriotic citizens of all sections and parties to save the country from the dangers which impend it, and which threaten it's destruc- tion-and especially, to arrest the reckless and fanatical spirit of secfionaIism North and South, which if not arrested, will inevitably involve us in bloody civil war.
 Who authorized Gen. Thomson to pass judgment upon the people of the South !? Does he find sanction for it in his own preamble? We find nothing there to call forth this illogical sequence. The people of the South are not fanatics. It is not fanaticism to repel party, the central idea" of which is ''hostility to slavery" It is not fanaticism to desire an "equal participation" in the common territories of the Union" right that Gen. Thomson confesses has been denied us. It is not fanaticism to spurn the fraternity of men, who. as Gen. Thomson remarks, have degraded American citizens by placing them upon an equality with negroes at the ballot box.'
 We most decidedly object to this islander upon the South If there are five gentle men in the convention vain enough to think their address will effect the ''fana- tics' of the North, for heavens sake let them be furnished with paper and ink i'm mediately, but if their presumption extends so far as to lead them to advise such men as Davis, Stephens, Rhett, Memminger and others we can only pity them.
The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-14
Let the People Speak.

We have heard much from Union saving demagogues about stihing the voice of the people, but these same gentlemen are now afraid to trust their constituents with an ordinance of secession. Let the question of secession be submitted directly to the people. Let that potent voice speak out, which never speaks in vain, and we believe that, with present lights before them, the people of Arkansas will say, let us sepa- rate from northern States, and go with our sisters of tn eSouth. It can do no harm to let the question go before them, unless politicians are afraid that the "little brief authority" which they now possess will pass away from them. We believe, and the sccessionists throughout the state be- lieve, that the people of Arkansas are true to the South-are no submissionists-and they never will be content until the voice of the people is heard unmistakably. Why should that be stiAed? Are politi. clans afraid of the people? Pass an ordi- nance of secession, and submit it to the masses, and we will cheerfully abide the decision of the ballot-box.
The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-14

THE DISCUSSION YEsTERDAY.-Yester- day evening quite an animated discussion sprung up on the secession ordinance, to be submitted to the people. Col. Grace opened the argument in long and eloquent address, which no gentleman on the oppo- site side of the house attempted or was able to answer. Judge Flanagin followed on the same side in bold, manly and ar- gumentative style. The Union side of the house sat in profound silence, afraid seem- ingly to trust themselves to speak lest the enthusiasm of the moment might hurry them to say something too favorable to southern rights and southern equality. If the people of Arkansas could hear the dis cussions in the convention, 1t would not be long before they would be overwhelmingly for secession.
The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-14
AN ORDNANCE,

lIo dissolve Me union 6etween Me State ot Arkansos and Me other States united with ter under Me compact entitled Ihe Con-
 stitutton of tie United States cf Ameri- ca."
 SECTION 1. We, the People of the State of Arkansas, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and 1t is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by the General Assembly of this State, on the eighteenth day of October, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, whereby the propositions set forth in an act of the Congress of the
 United States, entitled an act supple
 mentary to an act entitled an act for the
 admission of the State of Arkansas into
 the Union, and to provide for the due exe-
 cution of the laws of the United States
 within the same, and for other purposes, '" approved the twenty third day of June, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred
 and thirty-six, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State on the same subject, and recognizing the connection of this State with the
 United States of America, under the com
 pact entitled "The United States of Ame- rica," are hereby repealed; and that the
The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-14
for secession

AU On the night that Miss Cora An derson, . St. Louis belle, was married, the steamer Cora Anderson was badly snagged in the lower Mississippi. A singular coin cidence! E 7s4a r
The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-14

L~ They say that marriage makes two, one. But it generally makes them half dozen.
The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-14
Steamboat Register.
(REpoRTED BY BURGEvIN & FIELD
 ArrivalS.

(REPoRTED BY BuRGEvIN FIELD
 Arrivals. March s.r-Leon from New Orleans. S.-Chester Ashley, Memphis. S.-Jennie Whipple, Memphis. s.--Tahlequah, Ft. Smith. s.ARose Douglass, Fort Smith. 10-%J. T. McCombs Cincinnati. l0.-Izetta, Memphis.
 IlASky Lark, St. Louis. l2.-Litte Rock, Memphis. 12.7Medora, St. Louis. l24Hamilton Belle, Napoleon.
 Departures. March 9-Jennie Whipple for Fort Smith. 9.-Chester Ashley, Memphis. 9.-Tahlequah Ft. Smith. 9-Leon, Ft Smith.
 9.-Rose Douglass, Napoleon. I0-J T. McCopbs, Ft. Smith. lI.-Izetta, Memphis
 |" 12.-Sky Lark, St. Louis. I3.+Wm. Henry, Ft Smith. l3.AHamton Belle, Napoleon. Our old friend, the Sky Lark, after an absence of many months, again visited us the Ilth inst.- She is now in charge of Capt. Fulton, one of the many and gentemanly commanders navigating our river. She proposes herself as St. Louis and Arkansas river packet. Capt. Jenks Brown, one of the cleverest of fellows, still continues in com mand of the Little Rock-she is confined to the Little Rock and Memphis mail trade. The river swelled about ten or twelve inches between the 10th and llth inst, but is now at a stand, with fair navigation to Napoleon. The Wm. Henry left yesterday with good trip for above.
, 1861-07-29

make-believea, Of which the rout at M.nss.
sas Is the dolefu1 result. With views like
these, welhail the transfer Of Mcclellan to
Washington, and his investiture With The
powe1vItually Of the Lieutenant General,
as the dawning Of better days. But he:
alone is not competent to the task that
must be imposed upon him. Els hands
must be strengthened and upheld by tie tile
whole military administration; and
wherever man can be found, whether in
the rahks or with epauletts on his shoul-
ders, who can aid him, he must bc called
Tor aud advanced. Promotion by seniority
may answer in time Of peace: but war has
its own demands, and they must be- met:
no matter how routine and precedent are
dis1esarded or red.tape is sshoeked, It is no
time for etiquette. The demand Of
the country is for men who are i clothed
with Tie faculty Of command.