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ingis a correct picture of a fashion- L
able family. We speak of those in ;
which the father is deyoted to bu si- |
nessinthe day time, & seeks amuse
ment abroad in the evening, and in •
which the mother is devoted to dress i
and fashionable visiting. The lath-;
er, after a day of toil, in which wej
admit that powerful energies have!
been displayed, spends a portion of
the evening in reading a newspaper, •
& then goes to his club, or the thea
tre, or to some other place of amuse-.’
ment where men constitute the whole 1
company, and where the amusement;
is not of an intellectual character, i
* )f his children, he merely ascertains
that they are in good health, and go
to school. The mother confides her
daughters, when young, to the nurse
ry maid, upon whom they are de
pendent for both ideas and
diction. The mother is too much
engaged with the duties of dress <fc
company to concern herself beyond
the full support of their bodily wants.
She knows they are well clothed, in
good health, in the care of the nurs
ery maid recommended bj some of
her fashionable acquaintances, as
competant judges as herself; or, if
they goto school she knows if they
go regularly, and suppose they learn
their leasons. Under this system,
the daughter is not dependent upon
the father for a single idea, or upon
the mother for any beyond what re
late to dress or company.
.As the daughter grows up, she is
taught to look forward with impa
tience and anxiety to the period of
her existence; upon which she is
brought to believe that the happi
ness of her whole life depends. The
idea haunts her imagination through
the whole period of her pupilage, #
is mixed with every lesson that is
sent to her to learn. With this idea
pursuing her incessantly, she can
learn nothing that cannot be render
ed available at this all important pe
riod.
The all important hour at length
arrives; ami what is it? \V hat is
bringing out, which she has been
taught to regard as one of the most
important periods of her existecne,
and to which she hiis looked forward
with a degreeof solicitude which has
rendered tier schooldays a period of
impatient idleness and unproirtable
expectation? It is being introduced
to a great crowd, in a room expen
sively furnished and briliantly light-t
ed, and proclaimed as in the market\
for a rich husband'.
And what can she show as the re
* suit of her life thus far spent? A 1
cultivated mind? No! She hasi
been taught to think that it was not
indispensable in fashionable life, &
u >t instrumental in catching a rich'
h isband? Habits of self-reliance &
original thinking? No! She ha< i
been taught to rely on her milliner, 1 1
and not been taught to think at all. ; 1
God may have given her talents, *s’; i
a heart capable of being enlarged to
every thing great &. good. But the!
first have been smothered, and the <
second has been tilled with worthless <
petty aspirations, and all because ;
one parent has neglected his duties J
ioward her lor the sake ol money & •
low nleasurcs, and the other hasp
done the same for the sake ol worth-1|
less fashion. • -
The greatest of all responsibilities i
is th it of a parent. <
We saw a short time since in an
Ohio paper, something like the fol
lowing receipt for making a sober
man a drunkard. Give him a wit ''
that will scold him well every time J
he Comes home; storm at her soup
Jan; knock Tom over with the ski!- ;
let han lie; give Betty a dab in the
mouth, ketch pol by the hair &, wool 1
her a while, ami then drive them all
i s o the kitchen with a bromstick.;
Repeat the dose according to the!
constitutional temperment, of the pa-’
tient, and it well certainly produce
the effect. —Russ. ( nion.
■
Down east girls.— When the down
east girls wish to threaten each oth
er with a flogging, they say, ‘I will
be into you like a thousand of brick.'
When a wild lark attempts to steal a!
fciss from a Nantucket girl. <hc <avs.
’Conic, sheer, off,or I will split your’
mainsail with a typhoon.’' 1 he Bos
ton girls hold still until they are well
kissed when they flare up all at once
and say , ‘I should think you ought
to be ashamed.’—Bost. Trans.
THE WIFE.
! BY W ASHING TO X I t VING,
i I
j I have often had occasion to re-|
: mark the fortitude with which wo-1
iinen sustain the most overwhelming
.reverses of fortune. Those dßvs-j
tors which break down the spirit of
fa man, and prostrate him in the dust;
| seem to cal! forth all the energies of
j the softer sex, and give such intre
jpiJity and ele ation to their charac
| ter, that at times it approaches to
j sublimity.
j Nothing can be more touching
tthan to behold a soft and tender fe
i male, who had been all weakness
land dependence, and alive to every
'trivial roughness, while treading the
(prosperous paths of life, suddently
1 ; rising in mental force to be the com
j sorter and supporter of her husband
funder misfortune, ami abiding with
’I unshrinking firmness the most bitter
blasts of adversity.
As the vine, which has long twin
ged its graceful foli ige about the oak
’ and been lifted by it into sunshine,
1 will, when the hardy plant is rifled
1 by the thunderbolt, cling around it
with its caressing tendrils, and bind
up its shattered boughs;so it is beau
i fully ordered by Providence, that
-(woman, whois the mere dependant
f and ornament of man in his happier
; (hours, should be his stay solace when
- smitten with sudd n calamnity; win-
• ding herself into the r igged recess
i es of his nature, tenderly support
ding the drooping head, and binding
>I up the broken heart.
l I I was once congratulating a friend,
i who ha<l aroun I hi n a blooming fam-
• ily, knit together in the strongest
• affection. ‘I can wish you no better
lot,’said he, with enthusiasm, ‘than
to have a wife aid children. If you
arc in prosperity, if there
they are to share your prosperly; if
otherwise, there they are to comfort
you.’
And, indeed, I haveobsereed, that
a married man falling into misfortune
is more apt Io retrieve his situation in
I the world than a single one; partly, ,
because he is more st, nulated to ex
ertion by the necessities of ttie help
Je.’s an! beloved beings who depen I
upG» him for subsistence; but chiefly)
I because his spirits are relieved by |
domestic e.mlear nents, and his self
respect kept Mivc by finding that
though all abroad is larkness and
hu nilitation, vet there is still a little
world ot love at home, of which he is i
the monarch.
U hereas, a single man i? ant to
run to waste self-neglect; to fa'tcv
himself lonely and abandoned, at?*
his heart to ruin, like some deserted
mansion, for want of an inhabitant.
Hands off!—A voting damsel was
going to a party, when her mother
charge I her to keep her be tux at
a respectable distance. “You mav
let them converse with von as much
as thev please, but make the n keep
their hands off.’ 'iiss went to the
party and saw ne voting men there
with very i>r- tty mouths, an I rich
red lips, out of which ca tie very
sw et words. She was highly de
lighted with one gaiiant, who tol I
her she was as sweet as rock candy,
and appeared disposes! to give am
ple pi oot that such was his opi ioin,
by sipping the delightful nectar Iron)
het pouting lips. H■p it his arm’s
around her neck, in order to detain
her for the purpose, when she repul
sed his advances, and cried, “I lands
ofl, sir !” Heth ■m began to sue hum
bly for the privilege of kiasing iier
very softly on the ch ek.
‘O yes, you mav kiss me as much
as you please,’ said she—‘but mama
says you must keep your hands off.’
Boston Pearl.
! A Distinction’. ‘Sir, do you
mean to say that 1 lie,’ siitl a perso t
to a French gentleman. “No sar<\
l sav not dat yo i lie, but, sare, I
sav dat son walk round about de
1 truth!'
LATEST FROM FLORIDA via
ST. AUGUSTDE.
The pilot boat Sarah M. Capt.
Low, arrived yesterday afternoon
from St. Augustine. Thro’ the at
tention of (.’apt. L. we have receiv
ed the subjoine I letter from our
Correspondent of the S’t. Augu -tine
Iler aid, which co.itai is late infor
mation from Tampa Bay, which is
now Gen. Jesup’s Head Quarters.
We are indebted to passenger in
the sarah M, for a copy of Gen. Jes
up’s recent order, which will be found
transcribed below. I
F a n our Correspondent.
Office of the Herat I, /
S:. AUGUsTINE, April IS. $
FflOAf JfLMQCZJTO. (
The sloop splendid, (’apt. Helme,
arrived on Sunday last from Mosqui
to. By this arrival we learn that a
few Indians had again made their ap
pearance in the vicinty of the camp.
Capt. Hanson had given chase to
three and had captured a boat, and
all their cooking utentials, &c. which
he destroyed. And one Indian on
horse back was pursued, but he ef
fected his escape.
The steamboat Florida is expec
ted tomorrow with the two compa
nies of N. C. Militia who are to be
discharged on the 20ih, their term
of service having expired.
A report is in circulation, which
has been published, that the Florida
was in want of wood, and that they
were obliged to send here for it.
I'his is erroneous; the splendid be
ing in the service of the (J. States
was sent up fur forage, which was
expected to arrive in the s. s. Mills,
from Charleston, and Capt. lleb
bard, of the Florida, requested that
a few cords of which he had engag
ed hore, might be also brought, if
room could be found in the vessel
for it. The Mills had not arrived,
and some despatches from Gen Jes
up were waiting to be forwarded to
Geir Hernandez, which were de
spatched by this opportunity imme
diately, together with the wood.
This circumstance gave rise to the
report.
From I'ampa we have information
to the 10th. IVe learn lint on the
9th, twelve hundred rati us were
issued, and letters still continue to
state that the Indians still continue
to come in ‘slo'cly but surely ’ An
order of Gen. Jesup, dat/d on the
Sth inst. has bee i received, which
has caused much excitement. 'l'he
suhsistance is as follows :
No white man not in the service
of the U. N. is allowed to go south of
aline drawn r'ast and west through
Fort Draue, from the st. Johns river
to the Crult of Mexico, on any pre
text whaler er.
All vessels arriving at Tampa Bay
are to be immediately examined,
no one permitted to land except
those having business with the mili
tary authority on shore.
* he negroes (slaves captured by
the Indians) are to be sent to st.
.Marks undercharge of Lt. Vinton,
where theif* owners must go to claim
them.
A public meeting has been held,
and a very temperate remonstrance
agaiast this order has been adop
ted.
The cause of this order is alledg
ed to be that unprincipled white .men
will tamper with the negroes of the
Indians, lead to a renewal of hostil
ity s
\ letter from the Postmaster at
Jackso iville, mentions that the fam
dv of a dr. Clements; 6in number,
were murdered mar the Miner
al spring* by a party ol Indians.
The f«dh>wi»«g is a c<»py of Gen. Jesup’s
order:
Head Q larfcr- Vmv of the South, )
Tampa Bay, April sth 1837. )
ORDER No. 79
Ist. Fhe Commanding General
i has reason to believe that the inter
: ference of unprincipled whitemen,
with the negro property of the Sem
inole Indians, if not immediately
checked, will prevent their emigra
tion and lead to a renewal of the
war. Respon>ii»l<‘ as he is lor the
neacc and security of the country,
■ he will not permit such interference
under any pretence whatsoever; and
therefore orders, that nq white
man, not in theservi.ee of the U.S.,
be allowed to enter any part of the
Territory, between the st. Johns’
river and the Gulf of Mexico.
2d The Inspector general will
caqse all inert hant or transport ves
sels arriving in this harbour to be
immediately examined, &the names
of all individuals on board to be re
gistered. No one will be allowed
to come on shore, except for the
transaction of public business. Ves
sels from whence any individual shall
be landed contrary to this order, or I
on board of which spiritous liquors
may be found, will be immediately
sent of, an I shall not be employed
in the public service.
3:1. All negroes now at this place,
'the property of citizens of the U. s.
| will be sent to st. Marks. The In
j spector general will furnish Lieuten-
I ant Vinton, a list of them with their
’owners’, to take charge of them im
mediately.
Bv > r i r of Al .j r G'‘n Jn<mp,
;S gned) j \. C! 1 XAI BERS,
L-put. D C. & A. \. Gen’l.
J. E. Johnston, Lt. & A. A.
Office of the .V. O. Commercial Herald, )
April 14. f
MEXICO.
This country j* m a dreadfully districted
state B. the C Hanova, 10 days from Vera
Cruz, we have AL x: in dates t<» the 26th
March From iu *se learn that by the 10th
of April ’tie election return* are expected in,
when it will bo ascertain d whether B ista
metite or a wietciied Jesupnamed Alaman, is
to tyrannise <u President. The former is
suppo' ted by the soldiers and liberals; and the
latter bv the pru sis mid central party Should
Alam in be elected it is expected there will be
a bloody civd war, m winch that the dreafully
depriv'il portion ( ,i me »>pul;|i ion, the “I e
pro.,” n i nberoijr 100,000, answ rmt’ to the
I zzar >n «»t X apl- s, and lhe vagabonds of ail
eoiintri®-' w.ll t ike pari with the 3000 troops,
tod pluudat and devastation ni'ist ensue, for
the s <ldii rs are for the in*»st part, thieves and
r dib- rs. Foi-ola was about in leave Mex eo
for Maiamoras, relative to a talked of expedi
; Hon aoams Upper < iliiornta; bui the govern
ment n ive neither money or < rodit. Phey
called the (-o umcri i I p -r'l nt of iho citv of
I ’extco it oeliier on 'he 16 t tl.,rc.h, anti nti
naled to th <n th it if they d<d not instantly
fiiriiish 100,000 dollars per month to pay the
triops, llp'ir properly would bs pill med A
naif) the pr sulent proposes to ninrtjr.eje the
revenue fi<Jin the < ust mi house department to
pay these loins; but it will he reninnibeied that
they dishonor: (I the paper which was given
for f<»rm<u to ms, md '■viiich was to have beep
redeem'd at the frontier and sea port towns
Unless the troops ire patd, they a r e sure to
i evol! they wore about to revolt and proclaim
B is! imeri'.e Dictator on the 13th, but he r'--
;used P ie soldiers then demanded that U •
io, president admterim, should resign—he did;
on ron.ress a'lnssl utt nimonsly refused to
Her *p it. Tne pi tests were a’ the bottom of
this, and are also al the bottom of every base
movement throughout the country. The sol
diers are without pay, clothes, or food, and
trie h >r*e.-a of the cavalry have no corn to t at.
Basta nente’s inflaence alone prevents the
outbreak, and the priests hate him for his
popplai Hy.
The minister from France now in Mexico,
has receive I io demand an immediate B<‘t
ilrmeni o( all grievances; he has d"ne so—
been refused—and complying with his inslitic
tions, has ordered several French vessels of
war fr< in Mirijuiqie— Four French frigates
were off Vera Cr iz, and ihe French frigale
Dido, was going into that port, as the Casa
nova came out. t'he Moxie in government
laugh at all this; and say th it disease will de
stioythe French, and the priests will send
their sonlw to purgatory. When told that the
\mericin man-of-war, with the commission
ers on hoard, would soon be at Vera Cruz,
they said, “ihe soom r the belter, for the
sooner will they be driven awav.’
The expedition against Texas is at an end
that question is doubtless settled—nothing
is said about it at the t apitol of Mexico, and
lili< y have no means t • do any th ng.
Si: \ Sh RF * NT.
A extract from ihe Log Book of the ship
Havre, arrived at New Oi leans on ihe sth
inst. from Havre, furnishes the following des
cription ol a Sea Serpanf seen on the 19. h of
February, bv the Captain, crew and passen
gers, ot ih<* II (28 hi number,) —“Lu. 85 32
N. long 26 05 W. stw something very singu
lar ahum 100 feet ir on the ship, and as it ap
proached discovered that it was a snake ; its i
head, which was shaped like that of a flying
fish, and aoo it the size of a barrel , lay within:
50 feet of (he ship's »id", and the end of its |
tail between lour and five hundred feet in a
prn endicijlar direction from ‘lie same color ;
of i s body greyish, and about the size of a
ship's mainmast As this monster the
deep moved gradually from the ship near tin
surface of the water, its mountain appeared
like that created by a series <>f barrels rolling
in water in a direct line. The day was jer I
itclly calm, and all on board had a fair view ol
n.s m ijosty for the space of half an hour, when
he left the ship.”
Savannah Republican.
Brutal Oulraze.— \ black man named
‘Frank’ who is well known about rhe neghbor
hood of Pattersun, was on Saturday last tried
at Hackensack, N J. and sentenced lo be
imprisoned at the State Briton for seven
years, for having assaulted a pretty Im-king
white young woman, about 22 vears <if age,
named Marv Cole. The muster attacked ihe
woman in a bye spot, about 4 miles from Pat
terson, and swore lie would take her life, un
less she yielded ; a'td in a utriJjjgle that ensued
three of her fingers were broken. Finding
himself foiled, the fiend then mre one of tier
ear rings out of her ear, and a teuv irds robbed
her of tier handkerchief, a pair of gloves, and
a small amount of money.
A 7 eto York Era.
Front the Petershurg Constellation.
IMPORTANT FROM \V ASlIi \G i ON.
TREASURY ORDER.
Bv the express mad of yesterday, we re
ceived a letter from a gentleman of this city
now in Washington, informing os that Mr.
Van Buren has, at lengih, determined not to
revoke or rt lax lhe Treasury Order «f the
llth Joly. The cabinet field several meet
ings on the subject, during the lasi week, at
which each member gave his opinion in full,
on the policy of rev iking the order Mr. Van
Buren after hearing the views of all, decided
to continue the order in full force, upon (ho
reasons suggested by Mr. Butler, the attorney
general. Mr. Buller represented that, if the
order was now reneikd, the wu-ieru and
southwestern banks would not be able m keep
their specie, and, while they patted with that,
i they would, at thesime time, increase their
issues, and other facilities, to a vasi extent,
Tiie specie would fl -w to N<-w York m
menl of debts die io the rnerch mts and job
bers of libit city, for last year’s importations,
and would be immedi ilely shipped to Eng
land, to pay ihe forpy or fifty miih ms which
we owe her, on account of those imp<>rta<ions.
lo a few months, our stork of sprem, which
now exceeds seventy mjiion*, would thus be
reduced io less than thirty millions, while at
i*ie s ime time, the bank issues of paper would
be greatly increased: I'he consequence, he
a good, would be a general crash c>! all the
conks, and the total loss to tli«* government
of its revenues which have accumulated in
the deposit banks He represented that the
deposit banks will not, even under lhe most
favorable circum-lancrs, be able to pay the
next quarter s insialui-up of tno surpiues or
dered lo fie distnb u,d among lhe States with
; out greatly distresssing thnr debtor ; and ihai,
lit lhe « nail specie b isis, which now barely
I sust aius cirrula. ion and er.g igements, should
be much diminished, it wouul lie idle to expect
j them lo pay one dollar of what they owe to
the government..
Hr also urged that by the revocation of i|;e
’order, the speculations in public lands would
be vastly increas 'd, and the whole national
d rtnain, so far as it is now subject o entry,
would be immediately bought up by spe ula
la ors, wnh deposit liana notes not worth a
farthing. Ihe people, he further argued, who
h id long I een passive under all tile fluctuations
lof he-currency, weio b ••coming- uneasy, and
• upon the first explosion ,>t >t government de-
I posit b ink, would demand he re establishment
of <• u 1 tonal bank. The utmost prudeuce
and precaution would be necessary to avoid
that result.
Letters were a’so produced fiom our min
ister at London, from otir consul at Liverpool,
arid olheis, suggesting that every pricucablo
n>i 'hod should be resorted to by out' govern
ment, to relam the specie now in \hu country.
I hey state that England is on the brink of
gteat (inaiit ini and political convulsion, <nd
that ihe bank ot England will be obliged to
suspend specie payments unless the efforts
then making for pr muring n supply from the
Filed States, should succeed ; and taut the
question, in fact was, wh m<>r the b inks o,j
thin side of the water, or mi that, should first
blow up. Th- 1 political distu b oees of Eng
land, says Mr Stevenson, are greatly promo
ted by her financial embarrassments ; and. if
the tatter continue, the former must soon < omo
to a crisis. Jf the money power is crippled
and embarrassed, the democracy of the coun
try will triumph, ami Ireland will b<- emanci
pated. To send our specie iq England, at
this crisis wo.dd, ihrr fore, de«irov ourselves
and aid the B tiish tones m their present bank
struggle wnh the people
Mr Woodbury did not coincide in all the
above views.
This is the substance of the information
communicated to us from a m »st unquestion
able source, and (<»r the siibst-iucial correct
ness of the whole thing, we fre* ly pled 'e our
selves to our readers.
An interesting trial took place on Tuesday,
the 41 h mstsnt, o o,r (' i> <on I '<>url, ui u c.iau
in which tile celebran d Airs Ami Royal was a
paitv concerned. Mr. Barney Fusons was
indicted by the Gram) Jury lor i iking sum.
mov sutiata' 'I >ri <>n the fair larfy, for sundry
caustic applications of the pen editorial, in tho
F 'id Fi y, a p iper iiitely conducted by Mrs. R.
Air. Barney not having the feai ol iho Fre«s
before his ejes, and now being somewhat ii».
foxnated, did with most gallant style, ap
proach the sacred person of the Editress, and
did, not having the fear ot the . osts of suit and
various other legal liabilities In-fore his con
science, but only seeing his Royal Cutie be
fore Ins t" inkling <Thi*, ruse an article of
bluish hue and pliant body. de<>«>mitiated a
cow skin, for ihe purpose bought, intr tho
nead o| me lair '.on. and »pply in the moat
sctentifi manner, the aforesaid weapon to her
shoulders.
J he learned council for the plaintiff remark
ed, with^philosophical prect-ton, that Mr.
B irney Par-<>ns should, tor the future, bear in
mind .hat etc* Hunt old English ballad, sung
by old people to < hldren :
“Barney leave he girls alone.”
This tntereeting and important trial was not
conducted anndet the tear* <>| the audience,
and Mrs. Royal sat apart perfectly unconcern-