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THE t 2mmSTSS’S £) Will he published trery SATURDAY Afternoon, ! In the Tico-Story Wooden Building, at the Corner of Walnut and Fifth Street, IX THE CITY OF MACON, GA. 1 By WM. B. HAKItISOV. TERMS: For the Paper, in advance, per annum, $2 it not paid in advance, Jt;3 00, per annum, j will be inserted at the usual rules —and when the number of insertions dc rired is not specified, they will be continued un til forbid and charged accordingly, U* Advertisers by the Year will be contracted with upon the most favorable terms. jfT’Sales of Land by Administrators,Executors or Guardians, are required by Law, to be held on thefirst Tuesday in the month, between thehours often o’clock in the Forenoon and three in the Afternoon, at the Court House of the county in which the Property is situate. Notice of these Pales must be given in a public gazett e Sixty Days previous to the day of sale. O’Sales of Negroes by Administators, Execu tors or Guardians, must be at Public Auction, on the first Tuesday in the month, between the legal hoursof sale,before the Court House of thecounty where the LettersTestamentary,or Administration or Guardianship may have been granted, first giv ing notice thereoffor Sixty Days, in one of the public gazettes of this Stale,and at the door of the Court House where such sales ore to be held. T ~T Notice for the sale of Personal Property must be given in like manner Forty Days pre vious to the day of sale. ■jjr>Jotice to the Debtors and Creditors o', an es tate nust be published for Forty Days. ■^\ dice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Ne gross must be published in a public gazette in the S,ate for Four Months, before any order absolute can be given by the Court. iJ'Citations for Letters of Administration on an Estate, granted by the Court ofOrdinarv, must be published Thirty Days for I,otters of Dismis sion from the administration of an Estate, monthly far Six Months —for Dismission from Guardian ship Forty Days. t yj"(lules for the foreclosure of a Mortgage, must be published monthly for Four Months— for establishing lost Papers, for the full space of Hirer. Months —for compelling Titles from Ex ecutors, Administrators or others, where a Bond hasbeen given by the deceased, the full space of Three Months. N. B. All Business of this kind shall receive prompt attention at the SOI 2 IIERA TRIBUJYE Office, and strict care will be taken that al I legal Advertisements are published according to Law. fj*.\ll Letters directed to this Office or the Editor on business, must be post-paid, to in sure attention. 43 or 1 r fi . [poll TIIK SOUTHERN TRIBUNE ] THOUGHTS OF THE UP-COUNTRY, FROM A VISIT TO MACON, MAY 1, 1850. RY D. rOSTF.I.L. It is no fiction of a poet’s brain, Flowing, it may be, in a frenzi’d strain. Ti lling of mountain airs, with life replete ; Os hi 11 stream’s murmuriiigs—of odours sweet— Os glorious sunset —of effulgent morn, Welcom’d to eye, oar, heart, by echo’d horn ; Os song of boatman—his heart fill’d halloo, As something, smiio one, prompts him, conies in view ; Where sounds are answer’d o’er and o’er again By echo, ullTing her enchanting strain. It is not ail—not only fancy’s dream, That health is in each wind, each crystal stream; Roses there bloom, and have their rivals there, In many a cheek, most eloquently fair ! Dew drops engein them from a starry sky ; But what so brilliant as a soul-lit eye ? Health in ascendant, makes the heart beat free ; Thoughts come enliv’ning ; few despondinglv. Love in such region is not fancied love ; All sordid thoughts, it must be far above : Love springs spontaneous from prolific life, — Articulate, and in the bosom rile ! Metbinksto wander in those green fring’d glades Where leaning hill trees ‘throw their cooling shades, With one pure angel, though ofeartli-born form, In heart and spirit gentli), but yet warm, Heaven’s own sanctity must fill the breast, And man can feel awhile, supremely blest. Oh true ! no spot of earth is free from care ; But yet 1 dreamt it must be lighter there 1 There was a freshness, blent witli nature’s grace Around each form I saw —upon each face ; The greetings tltero receii and all doubts o’ercame, And stead ofpolish’d couriesy,lhe flame Os friendship shone—perhaps the fire of love, Did some long slumb’ring, tranquil feelings move ! For like Vesuvius, dormant, yet alive Within the breast, a flame may quick revive, And burn as fiercely as it ever did, Though for a time by perverse causes hid ! It may be I but dreamt ! but dreams like these, Do, for a season, though a short one, please : And it by this W e may some griefs allay, I-et us all dream once thus—hut once a day. political. / rom the Richmond Examiner. Letter from lion. Jamt-if A. seddou. Hie Richmond Republican is essential > mistaken when it supposes that the "Compromise will in the end secure the support of the Southern Democracy” in "tigtess. Ihe distinguished Represen •Hive from this Congressional District, in ‘P following letter, assumes a position w ntch vve know to be that of this collea- S'Jos from Virginia, wi h the exception of ,lu or tu , » members of the House of Ren sseii atives. 1 hat these gentlemen would ' use to surrender, together with their :is Southern citizens, the principles "h l .'“'c' eV . e, y 01,0 advocated during the tli .i'.i l * ,e ‘ r existence as politicians, and ,1 I 'r ou, ‘l rc htse to make their State u b i..f that insulting mockery which THE SOUTHERM TRIBUNE. NEW SERIES —VOLUME 11. Federalists and Free Soilers have concoc- I ted for the South, —we felt assured long ! before any inlimationsof the fact had leach ed us from themselves. Without setting their faces against the whole course of their lives ; without the abandonment of every particle of self respect, every emo tion of patriotism, and the last shadow of personal and political consistency, these gentlemen cannot do otherwise than resist that ignominious measure. The weak and the timid will urge them to close with the offer of the North, on the ground that organization is impossible at the South,and consequently, efficient resistance to further pretensions. But even supposing these ideas correct; is out impotence for efficient resistence a sound or manly reason why we should desert principle, abandon honor, and choose the part of paltroons subdued iby tear, instead of men overpowered by physical force?—sit ourselves down as i lawful slaves lather than as prisoners of I war ? I hieves sometimes overcome and | bind the honest man; that alone does not diminish his title to respect. But when from the imbecility of terror, he makes a g atuitous surrender, not only of the purse that is in his pocket, but of It is house and lands at home, he approves him self destitute of manliness. So also wi 1 the Hep esenta ives of lie Southern peo ple, if they surrender at discretion, as they wdll do when they help through this Cora promise, because they feel impotent to prevent its passage over their protesting votes. The Compromise maybe the best thing they can get; hut il is certainly the worst thing the North can give. We can lose nothing therefore, by following the path which courage and consistency point out, and by resisting to the last; like men, even though resistance be inefficient; w hile hy that course, we preserve our dignity and oui p sition intact, and keep still the right of resistance when resistance will he worth more. But when we ‘'close with this offer,” and pocket with a cheerful face this most grievous insult, we adver tise outselves as the football of the North. Washington, May22J, 1850. To the Editors of the Examiner : I cannot forbear from expressing to you cordially and warmly, my acknowledg ments for the aide and manly attack you have made in the Examiner, on the insi dious propositions, miscalled a Compro mise, tendered by Mr. Clay, from the Committee of Thirteen, to the South for the settlement of the sectional issues, which have so agitated the country'; and for your eenerous appreciation and able vindica tion of the purposes of those Southern members who oppose and denounce the ignominious concessions demanded of them. It is, indeed, amazing to me, that among intelligent and tme hearted men, there sli uld He difficulty in discerning, arid doubt of hesitancy in repudiating the specious pretences of this delusive Com promise. As you justly insist, the oppo sition of the South to the Wilmot Proviso was not t • a simple name, to a mere instru mentality. but to a principle—a system and tin end sought to be established and accomplished by that measure, 'i be whole South warred, and stands thoroughly com mitted, against the exclusion of the citizens of the slaveholding States from participa tion, settlement, and equality of privilege in the vast expanse of territory acquired by a common Government, hy joint exer tions and sacrifices, from Mexico. The South was demanding a right believed to be a clear, existing constitutional privilege, and although asset ted by them as the ne gation of the power to pass the Wilmot Proviso, such negative position was simply because the unjust prohibition had only been sought to be accomplished by that single measure. Any other decree of in strumentality invoked to accomplish such unjust ex lusion, must be equally repug nant to their honorand safety, and he equal ly the ground of resistance “at every haz ard and to the last extremity.” You are therefore clearly right in insisting that ac ceptance of the present scheme of Compro mise would be an ignominous backing out from the position deliberately assumed, and a complete abandonment of all the su stantial tights heretofore asserted by the South. The scheme seems to me one the most odious ever prescribed to us. It demands concession—concession of vital rights at every point, and, so far as 1 can perceive, gives no compensation whatever—not even the poor boon of equal privilege and sim ple protection of our property in the Ter ti oiies Utah and New Mexico, the least valuab eof nur nevvacquisi ions. It sanc tions and consumates the outage of our total exclusion from the immense extent and exhaustless treasures of California; in which, if we of the South had had fair play and equal rights, we shouldhavehad, at this very time, ten or twenty thousand slaves, yielding to their owners in the slaveholding States from ten to thirty mil lions of yearly revenue; whilJe the mo neyed value of the whole slave property of the South would, by a natural demand for laborers in so profitable a business, have been increased at least one hundred per cent. Is it net a monstrous outrage, that the only laboring class in the world debar red from participation in the mineral I treasutes of California, is the laboring class I of one half of this Union ! and this is done without law, against the assent of Con gress, on the mere invitation or instigation !of the Executive, bv the horde of adveu- MACON, (GA.,) SATURDAY AFTERNOON. JUNE 15, 1850 turers and trespassers attracted from all parts of the world with the thirst of gold. By this scheme, not only the whole of the claim of Texas to the Territories, acquir ed in Iter right and in her name, hut also a very large territory heretofore confessed ly a part of Texas, and under the juris dicton of her laws establishing slavery, is surrendered; nay, is paid for hy millions of treasure, to be subjected, as all must admit, to the doubtful hazard— and as I believe, to the certain destiny of Free Soil ism. The right of Congress over the in stitution of slavery in the District cf Co lumbia is, by this scheme, impliedly ad mitted; and is only arrested now by the concession of interference with one of the direct and essential incidents property in slaves—the right of buying and selling them. The cleat constitutional obligation ! c f the Nor hto surrender fugitive slaves is indeed acknowledged ; but only to be hampered and icstricted by cumbrous con trivances to appease their prejudices, and delay the vindication of our rights. For all these concessions on the part of the South, the only compensation pretended to be offered by the bill,is the forbearance as to Utah and New Mexico, of the need less insult of the Wilmot Proviso, co nomi ne; while even as to them, the exercise of jurisdiction hy the territorial governments for the maintainance of the relation of master and slave, or of the conservation of slave property, positively prohibited.— Surely such a scheme ought not even to be acquisced in or submitted to bytheSouth, if forced on us by the tyranny of a North ern majority. Il -w passing strange then that Southern Representatives are expect ed and called on to approve and pass it by their own votes! Not merely to submit to the inevitable chain, but to aid in man acling ourselves, and hug the emblem of honorand safety. Others may do as their convictions and their consciences may al low, but for myself, personally, I would resign and forfeit public station and for ever,before I would subject myself and my constituents to the degradation and the ignominy of sustaining such a mea sure. I hope you will go on in the same spirit to inform and arouse the South ; and my life upon it, when the real fetures of the measure are exposed and understood, they will reject it with indignation and scorn. In one respect, however, I fear you may have inadvertently done injustice.— I mean in reference to the other Demo-ra tic papers of the State. The Pilot of Portsmouth, the Argus of Norfolk, the Jeffersonian; and Lynchburg Republican, have all, I understand, taken gallant ground against the Compromise, I en close an able article from the first,which,if your columns will allow, I should be pleased to see inserted in your widely circulated paper. Excuse the liberty 1 have taken, and believe me, Grateful y and cordially yours, JAMES A. SED DON. From White's Statistics of Georgia. Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Georgia. It is situated about half a mile above the city on the hanks of the Ocmulgee river, mostly on ele' ated ground, the high est point being 142 feet above its bed.— Its en ranee is through a lofty arched gate, constructed after the Doric order of archi tecture. The atea of ground comprised within the enclosure is about 50 acres.— Another shot could scarcely be found in any section of our country so many dis tinct objects and combinations going to form a perfect picture of rural beauty.— Many who have visited the Cemeteries of the North, and even the far famed Mount Auburn, think it far inferior in natural beauty and location to Rose Hill. A pro minent feature in its scenery is the Ocmul gee river, along which it extends nearly hall of a mile. The banks are from thir ty to sixty feet high, and generally rocky and precipitous, and form an impenetra ble barrier to its approaches. The high er parts of die ground are nearly level, and laid out as places of interment; other places have been selected by many in the wildest parts, almost overhanging the deep valleys. Fn ni the river deep and narrow dells penetra e the ground from fifty to two hundred yards ; one of them divides it entirely near its centre, through, which a rivulet murmurs over a steep and rocky bed to the river. Thus is supplied by four springs, one at the head, outside the ground, and three within it. The wa ter of one is reputed to be the coolest and purest in this vicinity. It is most beauti fully located, and is the most attractive spot for visiters. The banks around it are high and steep, and thickly wooded.— Above it. tower giant poplars and the sha dy beech, and the sun can scarcely pene tiateabeamto enlighten this quiet and solemn solitude. Seats are provided here for visiters, as well as in many other parts of the ground. Two rustic bridges of rock and earth cross this valley ; and in it a pond of about 80 yards in length, by 20 in breadth, has been excavated, supplied by pure water from the springs, and its banks neatly sodded with grass. Around it, are several cypresses and weeping wil lows, and one rises from a mound in its centre. A variety of tine roses are also near it, and in perpetual bloom. These are also scattered over the ground, anil along the walks and roads, in great profu sion. The ridges between the dells arc steep, and generally terminate abruptly in rocky cliffs at or near the liver. On their summits are most beautiful sites for lor burial lots, most of which are occupied. A broad avenue from the gate terminates on a rocky bluff at the river. Carriage ways are laid vvhereever neeessaiy. One makes the entire circuit of the ground; another winds along the heads of the val leys, and presents most picturesque views, the entire length of the roads and foot- I walks is about 5 miles. Many of them i have been construc ed with great labor, j being cut into the steep sides of the river bank and hills, winding through every place that presents any object of attraction. The lots of families are of different dimen sion!, from 20 to 40 feet square, and at prices varying from 10 to 30 dollars.— About 150 have been allotted for stran gers. A record is kept of all the inter merts, by which the occupant of every | givve can be designated. Many of the lots are enclosed with iron and handsomely improved with monuments, and the most choice shrubbery, making it emphatically a "Garden of Graves.” The first object that strikes a visiter on entering the gate, is a lot belonging to Macon Lodge, No. 96, handsomely enclosed, and planted with evergreen trees and shrubs, many of which are from far-off lands. The orien tal cypress, from Asia, raises its graceful spire ; the balm of Gilead, Norway and silver firs, the hemlock, arbor vitaj, cedar, juniper, and wild olive the broom and furze, and even the hhmble thorn, from w'hose branches was plaited the crown worn on Mount Calvary. This sacred ground is appropriated as the testing place to strangers belonging to the Masonic or der. The Odd Fellows have also their enclosure, and beside it “that ancient and peculiar people,” the Jews, have also their resting place. Most of the Cemetery is thickly wooded hy a young and thrifty growth, interspersed with the towering poplar, giant oaks, beech and sycamore; am! it is worthy of remark that there is scarcely a tree, shrub, or wild flower, that is known in our country, that may not be found within this area of 50 acres. A morg those that most adorn it are the wild honeysuckle in abundance, woodbine, gol denhypericum, &c. These, with its im prorements and diversified landscape, cannot fail to attract the attention and leave deep impressions on every visitor. The ri ver, murmuring over its rocky bed, | wheeling around immovable ciiffs of gran ite and flint, rolling on and on forever, like the tide ol human life, to mingle in the imfathomed and undefined ahvss of eternity, imparts an instructive lesson, while the beauties of the scene disarm deiuii of Half its ten ors. From the Pendleton Farmer. IMotle of Cultivating Cotton. gentlemen —l send you for puclicaion in yojrj mrnal, which promises so lair toben efi the agriculturists of the South, the m-de adopted by Mr. Glen,of our District, of raising Cotton. And permit me here to sujgest to die farmers ofour section, that tlu success of Mr. Glen for the last two or thiee years has proven that cotton can be rased in this District, so as to remmu na'ate with nearly, if not equally, as much ne t gain as in any District is this S ate— taliug into the calculations the cheapness ofliving— the health and Consequent in ertase of laborers and the genera! econo my of our people. The crop he made in 1849 I have not heird from. The crop of 1848, he made, wlh three hands, 27,000 pounds of seed colon; and this, too, from 25 acres of laid. Each acre making over 1000 p unds. Making something over 17 bags of4oo each, or 6 bags to the hand, besides provisions enough for his family and stock. He farm is all upland, lies on the North side of Three-and-Twenty Mile Creek, se'en miles East of Pendleton, and was purchased by him some four or five years ag> at, 1 think, §1 per acre, of Col. Ham ilton. 3n a visit to me some time the past year, he gave me his mode of preparing the ground, manuring, planting and cultivating Cctton, which I will give pretty much in his own words. He says it is mote convenient to plant in the midd : es, but better to plant on the old bed. When be manures, he runs a furrow on the old bed, puts in manure in the common way, throws two furrows on the manure and lets it lie till planting time. At planting time he breaks out the mid dle, which makes bis ridges fresh again.— But when he plants land not manured, be runs no centre furrow to bed on, but sim ply laps two furrows on an unbroken ridge, which he leaves bard ; this he does early in the spring, and at planting time bleaks out the middles as he does with land manured. His planting time is from the 4th to the 10th April, which he does by making a slight furrow on the ridge with a small gofer. Then, after the seed are wet and rolled in ashes, he has them dropped in the furrow at the rate of two bushels to the acre, covers with a board having a notch cut in the centre and don t strike off. So soon as the cotton is up so that you can see generally along the row, he runs around it with a plow, with a board so fixed as to throw the dirt away from the young cotton, and let the sun into the t outs. — Then, as soon as the third leaf can he seen in places he begins to hoe to a stand lets all other farm business wait till he gets his whole crop to a stand. The third leaf is usually seen between NUMBER 23. the 10th and 15th of May,and by the last of May he lias it all brought to a stand. If this be done hy the last of May he thinks his crop pretty well made. Thinning to a stand, he means to bring it all to tine stalk in a place, ten inches apart on poor land, fifreen inches on better and twenty inches on rich or manured land. He is very particular to leave no more than one stalk in a place. 'I he first hoeing commences with the ippearance of the tjiird leaf, which gener ally will be about two weeks after the run ning round. T his hoeing should leave nr> grass standing. In about a week after tlie hoes start, the ploughs should follow and with a mould board, throw about as much earth to the cotton as the hoes have token away. Then the buzzard follows and bursts out the middles. He continues working in the same way throughout the crop, that is, the hoes going before and the ploughs following, and lays by by the middle or 20th of July. He plants the white seed. Respectfully, your friend, R. F. SIMPSON. April 10, 1850. From Seott's Weekly Paper. CUBA. The recent invasion of Cuba has direct ed the attention of thousands of persons thitherward, wdio, heretofore, have remain ed content with little more knowledge than their school geographies furnished them with. The position alone of Cuba, however, renders her, under any circum stances, an object of interest. Whether we look back over three centuries, when Columbus first beheld her beautiful, shores, and the lofty summits of Portohello and Cobre, rising like beacons of safety and promise through the dreary uncertainties before him; or view her as she stands now, clothed with increased importance asihe acknowledgad Gibraltar at the por tals of the American sea, commanding the g eat highway to Mexico, South America, California and the Pacific, there is some thing to excile curiosi’y and command at tention. It is an Island of beauty and fer tility, as well as of geographical impor tance—as its well stocked farms and luxu rous plantations, its fields of plantains, its palms, sugar canes, almond and orange groves, and its mountains crowned with luxuriant growth, abundantly prove. It may indeed he well designated as a place, in the language of Bishop Heber, “Where every prospect pleases, And only man is vile.” The truth is, Cuba is suffering under the baneful authority of old Spain, as the Uuiicd Giatco auficiei) previous to ttie He volutionary war, and to this evil may be readily traced most of the others under which the creole population groan, asadi rect and exciting cause. It has reduced the local government, administered in all its departments by a captain general, into a military despotism; and it hasengrufted upon that government, the features which render such a despotism most odious. It has sapped the vitals of religion until its forms have scarcely a decent observance ; it has sown the seeds of practical infideli ty until the very morals of the Island are a reproach tothe Christian age. The mor al and political condition of Cuba is, at present, at a very low ebb. The last census of the Island, that of’ 1811 gix'esa total population of 1,045,624, "f which 571,129 are white inhabitants, free mulattoes and free blacks, 436. 595 are mulatto and black slaves, and 88,- 000 transient inhabitants. The number of children educated, in proportion to all the free population, is otic to sixty! —an act,re plete in itself, with alarming reflections The most immediate causes of discon tent among the population of Cuba, oflate, fall under three general heads, —the cor rupt cupidity of local rulers, leading them to invent oppressions in order to extort ransoms; the method of taxation now ad ministeied; and the total deprivation un der which a large portion of the popula tion suffer, of any representation in the local government. These, considered sin gly are grievous ; in the aggregate, they would be intolerable to any other than a vastly degraded people. The press, as might naturally be suppos ed under such a government, is under a degiading censorship,intended tosmother any complaints against the ruling authori ties, and all appeals for redress. Tlius al though the creole population is excluded from lhe participation in the government, no complaints reach us through the news papers of the Island. A citizen must ob tain and pay for a license to entertain com pany, or for any amusement at his house. The same for permission to leave his place of residence. A citizen can neither walk the streets after ten o’clock at night with out leave, nor lodge a person at his house without giving information. Yetthe press dare not discuss these topics, or point on the end to which they must eventually tend. Cuba properly governed—even as she was governed twenty five years ago-might, and would become, in every respect, an important and interesting Island. Her people might be enterprising, prosperous and happy, with one of the most genial climates in the world, there is nothing which, in the nature of things, ought to depress her, either morally or physically. But Cuba as she is, independent of hei geographical position and beauty—the seat of misgovernment, political corrup tion, and cupidity, is any thing but an at ttactive spectacle to look upon. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, Will he ex emitted in the most approved style an and on the lest terms, at (he Office of the SCTTEEB.IT Tr.IBTITE —BY— WM. ft. HARRISON. From the Hiimbui v Republican. Mr. Editor : — An article in your paner says: “When man comes to marry,* ho wants a companion not ah artist; he wants a being who can comfort, counsel, reason, reflect, judge.feel,discourse,and disciimin ate; one who can lighten his sorrows, pu rify his joys, strengthen his principles, and educate his children.” The man, whtf attains this, has reached and seemed the richest of Heaven’s treasures. I care not what his condition in life may be, he is happy, must and will prosper, his children will be not only bis ornament, but on or nament to any nation; they will call him blessed. Such a companion is rarely found; not from want of purity of heart; a virtuous mind, an aimnble disposition or any other natural qualification ; hut from want of proper training and education in youth. A child’s mind is like a piece of clay, it may moulded to honor or dishonor, according to whose care he may be en trusted. It is rarely the case that men of intelligence, who have been educa’ed to habits ol industry and virtue; and who employ their lci-ure moments in the ac quirements of uscfull knowledge by read ing, reasoning, reflecting m otherwise, will sacrifice their reputations, their es tates, lives, wives and children, in a word, their happiness, to intemperance. Hu man happiness is founded upon wisdom and virtue, hence we should study how to attain wisdom, and practice virtue. Let moral virtue constitute an essential branch ot instiuction in every school, that our youths may be carefully taught the art of thinking and acting properly, as well as speaking, reading, and writing cotrectly. We should have, by all means, correct examples in our.teachers. There is but one method of preventing crimes, and rendering a good government parmanent, that is, by disseminating the seeds of vir tue and knoweledge through ever neigh borhood. This can only be accomplished hy means of proper places anil modes of instruction. Promote, then, as an object ot primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of useful knowledge; for says our venerated Washington. “In proportion as the structure of a govern ment gives force to public opinion, it is es sential that public opinion should be en lightened.” Then let divines, philosophers, statesmen, and patriots unite their endea vors to renovate the age hy impressing on the minds of the people the importance of rightly educating, raising and Uaining the rising generation. The printing press should not be remiss in its duty. It is the main engine. Knowledge and virtue are. generally suenkinff. insenni able com panions, and are in the moral, what light and heat are in the natural world. They are the Humiliating and vivifying principle. Knowledge, says Blair, is the foundation of happiness. The press is the most effi cient means hy which knowledge may be conveyed, therefore, our cdhiors, next to our divines, should bs men of sterling worth, pure in heart, sound in principle, and well acquainted with the book from which the best of knowledge is acquired, 'lf’enafmnoil In wiooli.wt of lorlnn moi*. •.'* t*.w piavuLu 04 MIIUV) “*v» al, and intellectual. We are creatures of circumstances dependant from our birth upon our pa rents or guardains for every thing. We are denied the right to act, and think for ourselves. Hence it is that our educa tion is formed, limited, directed, and per fected by our parents and guardains, with out any reference whatever to our capaci ty, resources, or interest. Female educa tion at best is but a tissue of dissimula tion, talso delicacy, false taste, false pride, false dignity—in line, falseeduca’ion from the beginning to tlieend. We have nothing solid, substantial, or useful in our whole course of instruction. We are taught to wiite by copy plate or imitation, we are taught to read without thinking ; we are parlicnlrly taught to laugh, giggle, sing, dance, thrum on the piano, or some other musical instrument. In fact our five seses lie dormant, nor w ill the fashion of the day permit to use the talents we have. With regret I feel and know that from this mode of education springs so many empty-head ed. giggling, light-minded, and frivolous males and females. Our education, sir, is wrong, the fault is not ours, but that of our parents and guardains ; then taunt them with il through the press as much as you please, and severely as they deserve; but spare the female. Her ignorance is a suffi cient torment for any negligence on her part. Under the present mode of instruc tion she cannot qualify herself to move in the sphere which she most ardently wish es, and which nature seems to have fitted her to occupy. Bitterly does she feel the sing. All great men attribute their great ness to their mothers; these few mothers had the advantage of a correct example, proper training, and discipliningthe mind in youth, and of culivating their talents in years of maturity. By their training and education they were capacitated to dis charge the duties incumbent upon them in regard to their offspring. Should not this teach our parents and guardains a les son ? Nature designed woman as a help mate for man. She is equal in point of intellect, his superior iti refinement of feel ing and taste. If she is not a blessing to him, it is from want of proper education. Fathers and brothers, divines and editors, the condition of our sex calls on you with an imploring voice to use your efforts in iheir behalf, and point the errors of their education and the remedy. E.