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VOL. XXYIi No.
II.
rtCLlSUED WEtKLT BY
FOll THE PROPRIETOR,
At Tbraa Dollar per annam, in advance.
AdVrfisaU' inserted ou tba usual terra.
Letter to Ibt Editor. Biiut tx port id. ;
" From tWaJassacbofetta JearaaL -
S E W3, A N D N E TV'S PA F K S. '
'Paper! Papers Here they come;
bf inking French pew and English
Dew, sea-ct ent, living skeleton,
murdcri, death, and marriages.'
-Tiiue it as,. when a uenJsjSararas
an -objrctof tnterest w two-the
purblind old maa would bobble
- Italia dozen miles on his- staff "to
gel sight fibe'AVrs-pri. When
old wometr .wiped their 'spectacles
ttln71itid wnt tbswn b luaiacy
corner to have a - good meal of
reading the half newspapers that
f- cam wrapjicd round her lut quar-
erxrfVptmtiW-awi1ea' ra '..
H paging ,ul chiiif had a sound cuff on
the . ear, far tearing any thing that
: had reading on it -and when Row
v cue and Cordelia and Arminta
wrote sweet piece 'of poetry and
had every word of them read, and
pronounced them tu he a 'sweet
pretty pair o' far.
Ah those were golJon day!
But they never ill return never!
Familiarity has produced contempt.
Une nwpaper in a town, ana ou
jewel in vuuutry is invaluable;
- - hut, like the fuolidt pedlar, we hate
shown a w bole box of emerald,
and now, nobody will -giveany
thing for them. If the governmeut
, would hot try to put down the
prrs! bui then, instead .of that,
they 'place a beggar on horse-back,
'""ana let hint rde te tha"""
; la lieu' of the sentimental Hum
inery of olden time, tba newspa
per ate now full of genius and ot
ifcmigbi;-ooewt ef-evevy-4eajit
them contains-la the- course of
tffcUo month, material, real
' tt Miatrr ial, of prie ywfl(jr,
enough to have built up twentjr rep-
- tttanti, as high os the tower of
B iIk I, Ufteen car ago. ilut w no
Blind that! They ara only mem
ya.rr articles! Put thrm ia a book
in.h'odKnnd they will b fiied ut,
andrried -down,, aud eckcd ami
. pulled, ad-pWUbed,"f . and all
that hut who thinks of noticing
i tvhat they read in atjrrpapcri
v Aye, jw may pnuryour very
soul out, and that soul on) be full
to overflowing, and Joa getoo
'tecotno and stt-al a cup full, and as
be carties it oil trie to attract at
lew'ion to lu . sniirkling treasure,
Poor fool! ' lle. iyas badly offa
thu bird ho bus nluckel he chib-
iiliii stolen trrasurcsin tuaepa:
llowercr, there is some reward
to those who labor io the causa of
tmmlcdg" and of Yirtuc. The
word which apirett acattcred to
the wind, wilt, if written in linccr-
. it iuul love, enlighten sotno under
st.nndins. and touch soma hearts.
Truth' may b winding along . in
cold, dark idace, wbero we not not
" of its proirrr, vet .iris alowlf
""r fnfining the diamond that will h"
. aUT iaziio us, as is is stre w
' bodied light, i ,7 -
A hint rend o a newirnincr nwnr
iutlncncoa tliouglitlcHa motficl'Sn
the education of her child thus
new cneicie may bo dcwclopedin
IIZIl!cjchild, nnd new objects give to
those cner giithaTntnrn le--f
eomcsn moihef, and her , children
derivo a, tenfold benefit from the
original caution that arrested the
- attention of the grandmother. 1
This inny bo Sf the stuff that
dreams tiro made of but' we will
hop that the newspaper press,
' 'kh'jO-i W t errors, jihuses, and
neclert, does much for human
litiowUr Je, nnd human hacpinrss.
Iloiv carelessly wo readlhrfntws-
fRtpTM?f.
tid acquaiutaucc there, Ate think
"the news!
-jIIENTQN,
no raoro of them. Yet what depth
of human feeling, what intensity of
human suffering are couveyeu in
the tidings we read so coldly! ,
The bride hat left Ihe home of!
youth, the protection of a Cither's
roof, and thrown ber all of hoppi
ness into the handa of one. Life.
oh, infinite more than fife, U risked
on the 'hazard of die; and God,
God only, knows' whether it will be
for good, or evil. But what have
we to do w ith bee hopes, her fear;
the world bathed in the sun-li-lrt it
will nevcfcjffeaf:saio; crcnJOer
bright perrpectire do not prove all
a delusion? W hat to us are the
emotions of a spirit 'burdened with
the excess of er strange" nature's
Jl"iverin
amuries:
read ir
a newspaper
IS
married.
We jnly see lHat Mr. Sueh-a-ohe
ileajjjand has left a widow and
riuiaren to mourn bis loss ti oar
s 1 a- v
think we of the long, midnight vi
gil, the heart breaking tears,
the gasvtng farewell, 4he lonely
jHiit sinking under the strong
rasp of atsionate despair;
As I stopped a few moments at a
tavern latelr, I hear J a loeneer
read, Mr. was found dea.1 in a
oicl at New. Orleans. Hi brains
were blown out; supposed to be by
us own hand. Cause unknown;
aud when the man had read it, be
turned to the other sido of the uews
paper, stretched 14 feet out, and
j3uiliildirLaLachis
ruing sensation came over my
heart; for the deceased had been a
iriend of mine; and I would hare
eh en worlds tl hare bad the cause
uf his dcaibujiknowaMo me.
i le bad started into life a boid
a nihil ions, talented, honorable man;
intense ia all bis feelings and all
hi hopes. He cat ly united biro-
elf - to .i a great beauty, a
s rest iu and the : kadlnr star uf
fashion. He did not in'utaLe ad
miration tor av deeper feeling; be
really loved his wife with that de
votion, which form the rally
dream of woman. And the said,
and thought she was to love with
him. ilut it could not have been
rr, else she could not have crush
eJ hi heart, nnd trampled ou hi
a (Tortious as she did.
Yotin. elesant, admirel, and
most of all beloTcd. he had the
strongest and best of human mo
tif esio support her resolutions,
vet she liecame the decraded vie
her btUe ones with the subtle m
on; aud the flaming corse w as in
fused into theie voun blool. bt fore
they had word ioak for it! Here
was a inelaiKttoiy end or alt bis
high hones, and strong affections.
He tiled rcmnostrancc lie tried
entreaty he tried to renew the
tendered recollections of their early
love ho tried change of scene all
would-not do. . When I last saw
him, be was sadly changed.. His
sparkling eje and fearless brow
were now always bent towards the
erottiid: he ecemcd overpowered
withatoadofahaaieIla-wentao
New Orleans on business and sick
of thf past, frightened at the future,
be committed the frantic deed we
have mentioned. How lew of the
thousands who read his fate, will
think o,f the bitter,, long-protractcd
ngony which bioke that jftohle
hcatt, , .i... "
FwmITboT6"tjAUtr Jrnal-
SINGLE BLESSEDNESS. -V
4 at tt . f .
I have met with very few un
married ladies who have nota
peared to ine to fed, after the ' age
of 30, that their existence was
thoroughly comfortlesi and wretch
rd. Many liavo' t heard express
it ejwiilvand Hint inch " is the fact
can very caily be discovered by an
accurate observernf the human
:!'l.v""'n
English ladie? of the present day
ock morning, koox, and evening ckv.'
N. CWEDXESDAY,
rnitisrrfemarn unmarried: because
no man can exist on less than, t wo
thouiand a year, compared with
the number of young ladica! Five,
six, or eight, Sometimes, in one
fdmily; generally nil tolerably pret
ty, and most of them fleuing and
accomplished women many pos
sessing talent of no ordinary
stamps-yet pcrhanft, iu out salons
these lovely and uccompliahed be
ings are completely neglected by
the other sex, "because (1-mufct re-
eat tbe-sentMncutav I haveheard
frotifciheusaiMl of Jest notice' but where is the nove
A. . I : i . - ..ii. n it '"-. i.jrcm. .
iw gins a
uare not pay uticntion to unmar
ried women, .bccauc I am not a
larrying man. 31 r. flirted
iln so and so, and was . accused o
tieliarirtrrg'iii-l dont hketejexTite
false hojie I shull never inurry,
unlrss I can find a wife with ut
least two or three thousand Jt-cax,.
bcTasvlm-trmeh-dicaaima
ncu, w un f ne ion une i uave. '
- It is of - no use to. - quarrel , vviiu
the stale of society a it is at pres.
ent constituted for we cannot alter
it; but I think it might be benefi
cial to give a few bints oti the edu
cation of women, hith might per
haps be uatful in procuring them,
in a state of single lUcdnes, t it
is very ' falsi ly called, a greater
Vbare ofha(piness, or a less loud ot
misery than l hey at present appear
to me to rnwfCKS after the awful age
of thirty. 7T:r:r'
'. .A girl at thirty is called on 'old
asaU; she goes to a Lull, and gen
erally sits neglected all the even
ing, or dances with Homo gentle
man who has been often asked to
dine at her father's homc, and who
perhaps remarks, 31 iis is ifa
iher pane, o good old girl, ,oud I
mut do my duty here; and now I
hall dance with the beautiful
Miss My bcnrt alwnyt
bleeds for the inornfieatTous" I see
endured by these Mor oldgiiU rtn
tinially.v There ore certainly some
single women whose talent have
made them at nuith considered' in
society as they ought to be; but
then 1 ha.e generally oh'scrved l hut
they huve bad forttmes, or have
had advantage ubove' others, to
bring them into rwiieey and to1 give
to the uatuial nuibitiw.i of the hu
man species come ; scone of action.
I will soptoo a tins in
which
ll.ere are four girls a moderate
rtroportion in ono family and two
sons; and I will supiKtitc their father
The estate, of courc, goes iff'tue
Ideot son: the seeritul innst be u
clergyman if his rotations h.ve' a-
ny preferment, or be must be of
some profession, of course, he ucv-
cr marries iiuuui a urge lorioui.
unless, nt the age of foity-five, he
lias made ono -for himself. The
eldet ton having been to Eton and
Cambridge, has learnt that fifteen
hundred a year is nothing, aud, iu
nil probability, determines not to
be taken in, wot to marry any love-
Iv eiil. without, at least forty or Of-
IT thousand pound. Nl now come
to-mv-lourYoug indies. ! win
suppose one very pretty, ouc tol-
erablv nrettv. and the other two
rather tdain. They nave uccn ed
ucatcd in , all probability as the
ereater proportion of Cngish gills
are: First of all. the? have
strong orthodox belief in the Chris
tian religion go every Sunday to
Church and are, ai Itonceive,
aTITor nearlr alii theassof aio4
. . i ' .... . i
eratelv rich English gentry to be,
pel fectly honorable, upright and
well nrinciplecf. It is only for their
own happiness that I would propose
ay change in the ' education of a
class for whom I entertain ao high
a respect. - J
To -return to the.. fouf.yong.lar
dies. The have all been brought
un withtho idea that they will bo-
enme wives and motheti and are
tntcht to cherish those. naturFnf.
fictwait.pi-tf'by torn VenjuW
APJtlli 6, 1831,
chance one out of ihe four ever
does marry, make them so amiable
and lovely as such. They are al
lowed to "read modern novels, at
least all such as are . considered to
have a moral tendency. Nov I
maintain that there is scarcely ' one
of, these works which does not
impress any young woman with the
idea that happiness can alone be
found in love and marriage:, The
heroine is very amiable and perfect,
surrounded with admirers, all con-
lending nfWtue honor. oldioli hi.
I
iiieii represents lour pretty uuno-
tkedirls, who are destined to pass
their young years without, per hups,
o inuch ns one admirer amongst
them? Year- efier-year-passes. ,
tlhcirilrlecmTawd-beawtydeww
my iour ovey nnu accouipusueo
warm hearted beings, having seen
' is . . t a i a a
aiijuur youmiui castles tun ono uy
and uohanny,
they baveniUl4iUfe
them one diet of a, complaint iu
the cpine; another lives many years
on arrow-root and calrs foot jelly,
and is inveloped m flannel evcu in
July; a third is under the I care fef
ut. fc..for indigestion; and erhaps
the fourth uho is made of tougher
mutt-rial, und bpiii ilk. less feel
ing t haii the others, , or, Hrhaj s,
fruin having something to oci upy
iirrmind in preparing (he arrow
rm4 for one MsUr, and ordering the
hud dumptiiigs pi escribed by1' Dr.
N. lor the oilier out lives !cr, sor
rows uuofaipolTiTmevts; nnd if
he lakes uu iutercst hi her broth
er's cluldlren, or n share in thur
educationior in something which
gives veut to those a fleet ions which
akFeTnilanlcdTtjya
reast of woman,' she becomes, hup
, I his. then, appear to me to be
the Tccrct too moth ii gift ltd iu
Cvanx !c eduiat iotu Ttuc h them,
y all means, that one great Source
of happiufss consists in the tudul-
rt ce of v ii luous auecuou; but do
:ot teach thetu that there is no af-
Icction cupabl" of producing this
hnpiuncss, escent such as may be
It lor a lover. or hukbnnd. It toe
Ucait be propet ly regulated, it muy
tuke a vvauti aud.. sullicicutly en-r
grossing "iutercst in many uhjecU
U' intimdlely coniieeted with it
Marriage U a sad loUerv, and at
the best, -a.M ate fu 3 of cures and
s I
anxieties., .-f reedom mm iiKiepen-
Ichcc ought not to. Le lightly parted
rittleTatuc.
I law to raise the wind. A rejiow
with mora wit than waidrobe, re?
cently took lodgings aT a tavern h
this city and remained there some
time without remunerating mine
host for his goodly fare. The laud
lord dunned him until he wav tired
of dunning, but no money w as forth
comingraud he was at length com
pelled to seize the gentleman? pan
taloons white he lay iu bed. The
fellow thus fixed, had to put his
brains to work to hit'upon. a plan of
getting out orthe dilemma. About
lotinlhe-veiihe-ujcda
hark, and wrapping himself in his
cloak, ordered 'the driver to take
hinder -'s, a respectable hotel
in this cW. Enveloped in his cloak,
sans culotle-be stepped boldly op
to the bar and ordered a room.- lie
was, shewn to one, possessing every
comfort a gentleman could w ish.
lalbjemormng he ' Jor the sef
vaht and rcquesieiT'an .1rTtcrvie"w"
with tho landlord The landlord
came "Sir,rt taid the gentleman
incog."! am in a very disagreea
bje situation I came here last
nisht before mv trunks; and I have
sn much resneCt for the Ciedit of
your" estabfisliVnent, that. 1 regret
extremely having TOtiuunnyeu
that ihW room wus entered last
night while 1 was asleep, and .1
roblied of my pantaloons, . in the
Tu"hand pocket rhkhyi-'rQ
WIIOJLE No. 1366.
$35. t ain extremely sorry, hue .
Quiets you remunerate , me , for my
losses, I shall be obliged to inakei
the matter public.' The landlord - .
seeing that the reputation" of hie
house was at stake, and at the same
time believin that he bad to deal
with' a centlcman. immediately or
dered his cenerous lodger a hevV
pair of pantaloons, aud agreed td
pay bun thirty-nve dollars; . K
lSalttmort Mincrtd. .
Dr. Jonnson'accoitnt of a papert, .
'f netcr derive more benefit or!
H?g"inre pleasureorlW
says Dr. Johnson, ''that in reading - '
a newspaper w hich has lately beeil
issued from the press. 1 do really
believe that nothing adds ko roucH -
to thesrlory ol any country asi a ' -
newspaper, jiurriy is siaioptu
legibly upon lis pages, and ,'evcti
the. fold is mat ked with 'freedom fi
Do you ' w ant .lo know 1idr"tcinr' '-J
to the press! There you shall" find. 7
a piece, pcrhnp. under tle head of
ihe legislative! , Ate you. fond of "
Sliscellany ?, . Lbtik there! What -book
can furnish such good accounts' '
of our country such V ndrful;
siu h extraordinary nccouUs of niur
dor, robbery, accident?, nuiriupes; .
anecdotes of our Irish, Fnglih and! f v
Indian bivthren, and 'many other
Ktch things such good as well i
bad accounts from the Ilusian;'-
Turks, Diilth, ; 4 c Under. allJlhese'
considerations, who is there in thuf
Undof Ficedom.thaLJiilllnt i at4
tend to an object so worthy of tbeif
regard. 1.'".. & L,
Comparing l'ossttsibin.'A gen
tlctnancine da ' took an acquain
tnfjce upon the leads of bis house, uj
show him the extent, of his posses " ' ;
sions. 1 tVavlng bis liand about;
"There'jays be, "that is my es
iftle7T"Then pointlrtgW s greai -distance
oh the other ide "do
you see that farm?" 'Yes. t'ell,'
that w inine.-T Pointing again to
ihe other side "Do ' you see that
houscf" 'Yes, That also l el gs(
to me. Then said his friend, Do)
you sec that little village out yon
der? Yes?r, JYell there lives a poor
woman in that village, who can say
more than all tht.- 'Aye? what cant
she say?1 " Why, she can say 'Christ
is mine!', lie looked confounded
and saM ne mote. r ' " .
The Fair Quakers. They are V
certauilya dangerous set. iTbere is" ;
more peril la Jiflncounlercd : beJ
nrith one ot- theHr -coal box irab
bonnet sHthan in. all the eyes t hat .
ever shone throggh artificial flow- .
crs. The coquettish simplicity ot '
dress, that latent smile, just snffi.
cient to dimple the check without
uttering a sound,' and, above a'ltlje' ;
snow white stockings htted exactly,
to the loot that cannot be concealed;
have a witchery about iherrt which .
"we are sore never entered into the V
contemplation of the good and hon
vet a j-.
Reputation. We must not tako
a rasu prehidice or entertain a sin-
istetjpiTvehension ; of any; upon
slight grounds; 3b not repreiem :
man, his words or actions, at a dis-' -advantage;
make the best , of et eiy
thing, for a man's good Dame is like.'
a looking . glass, not hing i sooner
cracked, and every breath can sully
it. Handle ever man't reputatiotf
with. the same tchdernestf . thoa
wouldtt naive every man use towards1
th7nlunr6Tmr
anv man. or reioice to hear other
- w '
roen'a miscarriages ript oi'en.
- ' QT "i. ' 1 'a
A blacksmith in Alabama having
beert alandered. was advised to np." '.
nU tR cimrfs for redies. Mo
Lrenlicd, with true wNom. I thall '
frfevpr sue any body .ibr-jslandf Xrrl .
can go into my shop nnd woi k mt d
better clraiacter.iii six1 months .t han I
could' itet in tha court house ifr it "