The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1866-01-24

al uidue III tue same splflt OF sen glofl0cs-
iiou, choice passages from The speeches of
Mr.. Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Garrison and
other prominent patriots, and minute ruAk
TO perfectlhe pupils 10 the ari of pronounc.
ing the English language through the nose
1.-The approved Yankee fashion. sl.
Besides these various appliances there is
an immense fund 0! magazine and period
ica literature smuggled over our borders
and INTO our houses all saturated with the
same falsehood, Injustice and malignity
The Atlantic Monthly can al feast claim the
merit Of obtaining It's subscribers on no
false pretense. II is notoriously an Adolf
ton magazine. IL is open in its yilaiuy,
and lis editors are not only gentlemen void
of the moral sense, but entirely regardless
OF the fact that other people possess it. But
the Hsrpers stand at the head of a-differeni
class OF publishers. They are guilty of a
perpetual and scandalous fraud upon the
public. They affect to issue ''neuualp
magazine and weekly. They call the latter
journal of Civilization" and The former
literary periodical. Until it began 10 pay
10 denounce the Democracy of this country
they ioadied 10 it with a serviliiy which
was absolutely disgusting They denounced
John Brown, in 1889, in the most savage
terms. and had their paper filled with PIC
lures of the raid, designed TO show The love
of the negroes for their masters and the
airociiy of old Browns bloody attempt to
sever the "patrisrchal relalionn Even
when the war was just i'm pending, whea
Beauregard had donned the confederate
uniform, when Davis was sitting al the
head of the new government which was
certainly ss fatty in rebellion then as ever
afterwards, ;hey published The likeness Of
those persons, gave hatlering biographies
of Them, and never minated hint of dis
approval Of the work on which they had
entered. They showed then the same spir
it which they had displayed long before,
when they embelIished their ''Journal of
Civilization" with an immense woodcul OF
brutal prize fight, because they could not
bear 10 resign the sixpences of the shoulder
hiiIers and blackguarGs of New York to
their competitors OF The other pictorial
weekIies. They sought to appease the de-
cent portion of lheir- readers, on that occa-
sion, by giving, on their editorial page, a
flaming moral article on the vickedness and
indecency of human creatures pounding
each other as represented in the picture
As soon as the war had fairly broken. OFT
and their Southern subscription list was
hopeessly cut of, ;hey commenced 10 print
he most insulting Abolition sheet in The
country Not content with reviIing the pee
pie actually engaged in the rebellion, they
have continued, ever since, to libel, OF word
and picture, the great Democratic parry of
the North. They have filed both "Week-
ly" and Magazine with sickeniug. sneak
ing tales, apparently the emanations of one
added head, designed 10 magnify the viz.
tues of The angular old maids of the East
and 20 illustrate the infamy of the Cooper
heads" as they delight 10 cali us. The plot
of these stories seems TO be KEEP; in type,
and of the adjectives, and love talk, descrip.
lIons OF hospitals, scenery, etc., filed in
according TO the taste of the composiior Ii
is the simplest thing in The world to write
one. Reuben Tarbuttou goes soldering
(the bounty in Reuben's district may re-.
mark, was 81, ,5oo) and leaves Nellie Doc
Iiule disconsolate. Nellie devoies herself
TO knitting stocking for the negro troops
until news comes OF Reuben's demise,
which, of course, takes place in the very
middle OF the deadly breach. Nellie there
upon, having dried up her tears on aer
apron, concludes 10 soolhe Renben's depart~
ed spiril by minisering to his companions
who are left behin4 anu forth with becomes
an army nurse. Finally she happens to
be wandering through the wards OF strange
hospital when she hears familiar voice ex.
claiming, "Oh! that could but see Nellie,
and die happy W She bounds forward, tears
back the curtain, there is a simultaLe Gus
squeal ''Reuben P' "NelHeP' and these two
pure-hearled young beings are locked ir
each others arms. OF course, Reuben
WASH: killed at all. The story was invented
by base Copperhead who was his rival
anu nadn pluck enough 10 go 10 Inc war
He was merely wounded by 20 inch can
non ball in the chest-soon gets on his legs
-lhey are marred-seiile down in a neal
cottage, with an eligible onion patch al
lached-are blessed with brood Of healthy
young AbolilioLisls who come by twins
and lhere the moral sneaks in) are steady
purchasers of allihe. stuff the Harpers print
Fortunately il is 10 the power of lhs Democ-
raey Of this country who have bong ht, in
past tines, thousands OF books and period
icals with the name OF the Harpers on
them, 10 cut down the circulation OF this
nonsense sensbly and right speedily. Thai
is the only way to reach such mercenary
sonls as theirs.