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“EARTH TO EARTH, AND DUST
TO DUST.”
BY THE REV. G. GLORY.
“Earth to earth, and dust to dust'.”
H ere ihe evil and the just,
Here the youthful and the old,
Here the fearful and the bold,
Here the matron and the maid,
In one silent bed are laid,
Here the vassal and the king
S : de by side lie withering;
H are ihe sword and sceptre rust—
“Earth to earth, and dust to dust.”
Age on age shall roll along,
O’er this pale and mighty throng;
Thpse that weep them, those that weep,
All shall with the sleepers sleep.
* Brothers, sisters of the worm,
S immer’s sun or winter’s storm,
Song of peace or battle’s roar,
N e’er shall break their slumbers more,
D»ath shall keep his sullen trust—'
“Earth to earth, and dust to dust!
But a day is coming fast,
Earth, thy mightiest and thy last 1
It shall come in fear and wonder,
Heralded by trump and thunder;
It shall come in strife aad toil;
It shall come in blood and spoil;
It shall come in empires’ groans;
Burning temples, trampled thrones;
Then ambition, rue thy lust!
‘‘Earth to earth, and dust to dust!
Then shall come the judgment sign;
In the east the King shall shine,
Flashing from heaven’s golden gate,
Thousand thousand, round his state,
Spirits with the crown and plume;
Tremble then, thou sullen tomb!
Heaven sna’l open on thy sight;
Earth be turned to living light,
Kingdom of the ransomed just—
“Earth to earth, and dust to dust l’*
Then thv mount, Jerusalem,
Shall be gorgeous as a gem;
Then shall in the desert rise
Fruits of more than paradise;
Earth by angel feet be trod,
O le great garden ofher God,
TiU are dried the martyr’s tears
Througli a thousand glorious years!
Now in hope of him we trust,
“Earth to earth, and dust to dust.”
MISCELLANEOUS.
FEMALE EDUCATION.
From the National Gazette.
In contemplating the subject of the
moral and intellectual education of
Females, we see that it is far too
circumstantial and expansive for re
gular discussion in a newspaper essay:
and we must therefore confine our
selves to a series of remarks either
so genera! or immethodical that we
shall hardly obtain the credit of a full
or efficacious compliance with our
alleged promise. Mere heads for re
flection, seminal hints, biographical
allusions, may, however, have their
comparative utility.
The main general principle with re
gard to education is eminently appli
cable to females;—we mean the form
ation of moral principles and sound
affections as the first and m st impor
tant care, for the benefit of the indi
vidual and all others. This maxim
belongs to the fundamental doctrine
that happiness depends on virtue, and
especially with the sex, according to
their moral constitution and their des
tinies in this life. What forms their
primary interest, also immediately
concerns the well-being of the other
branch of the human race. In the
hypothesis of on option, no man of
sense, whether as a son, parent, bro
ther, or husband, could fail to value
moral and domestic excellence in a
female, more than any intellectual
gi ts or showy accomplishments. The
Wisdom of Solomon is not wanted to
enahle us not to discover that “out of
the heart are the issues of life and
death.” Our American existence, in
the great plurality of instances, is
plain and recluse; it is still far differ
ent in its modes, exigencies, and
pleasures, from the career of fashion
arid aristocracy in Europe. Of Am
erican ladies the number is very
email who can be exempt from fam
ily offices;, who have not to undergo
“a succession cf petty trials and a
Tound of obscure duties,” and to whom
household relations do not necessarily
constitute the principal source of plea
sure or discomfort. For them it is
almost indispensable to learn to win
general esteem and secure private
attachment; to shine in economical
details; “to be happy without wit
nesses & content withuot panegyrists.”
Their unavoidable sphere is home,
and to that it is positively expedient
as it is abstractly proper, to adapt
their sentiments; knowledge, and gen
eral tone and cost of character.
Moral instruttion and discipline
jfeould bo as ear)} as possible;—the
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heart is to be imbued while it is most
soft and susceptible, so that the tiue-
mro or impress may he thorough, and
suitable principles and dispositions
make part of the original texture.
The lesson in pope s proveroial line—
‘•Just as the twig is bent,” die. had
been fully conveyed by Dryden, in
these verses—
“Th3 babe had all that infant care be
guiles, W W .
And early knew his mother in her smiles;
Bui when dilated organs let in day
To the young soul, and gave it room to
play;
At his lust aptness, the maternal love
Those rudiments of reason did improve;
The tender age was pliant to command;
Lute wav it yielded to the forming hand;
True to th’ artilicer, the labor’d mind
With ease was pious, generous, just and
kind;
Soft for impression, from the first pre
par’d,
Till virtue from long exercise grew
hard:
With every act confirm’d, and made at
last
So durable as not to be effac’d,
It turn’d to habit; an i, from vices free,
Goodness resolv’d into necessity.”
To us it is certain that religion is
the best scheme or fountain of such
instruction, and Christianity the best
code or text.
If the observation must be deemed
trite, it is not the lees true—that ear
ly religious impressions can scarcely
ever be obliterated;—they remain in
the midst of the strongest tempta
tions and most dangerous illusions, to
prevent the commission of crime, and
after, long depravation, and the bold
est strokes of vice, to cause sudden
repentance and induce final reform.
We refer to the fear as well as to the
love of G *d, but not to fantastical ter
rors, ghastly images, painful observ
ances, or ecstatic fervors. The dis
tinguishing tenderness and the rela
tive weakness of the female nature
render it more susceptable of the good
and the evil of religious tuition:—
We should rely upon the tenderness
for purer and sweeter piety;—we
should dread the weakness, the viva
city of imagination, and excitability
of nerves, for derogatory superstition
or melancholy panie. Hence, even
Religion is to be taught to the sex
distinctively, anatomically—as to both
mental and physical conformation.
When Religion has been thus in
culcated and tempered—when it has
been embraced, not as an occasional
exercise or ritual process, but a per
vading and animating- spirit, or deter
minative habit of the soul-when it
does not spend itself merely in tenets,
prayers, and canticles, hut works in
the practical duties and fruitful char
ities of common life—it may he re
garded as the crowning and perpetual
grace of the female character—a
panoply of the the firmest and bright
est materials—and the sure reliance
of every one of our sex in what rela
tion soever of blood or affinity. Pie
ty may be cultivated with most ease
and advantage by females, since they
enjoy most leisure and quiet—and at
the same time they most need a sen
timent so consoling and fortifying in
their state of dependence, with frames
of a delicate structure, and sensibili
ties too often exposed to disappoint
ment and outrage.
That Christianity which we have in
view is not incompatible with the
ordinary enjoyments and accomplish
ments of polished life. Hannah
Moore, the most rigid of the preci
sians, concedes that every kind of
knowledge which appears to be the
result of reflection and natural taste
sits becomingly on a woman:—that
the fine arts, polite literature, ele
gant society, are among the lawful
and liberal and tilting recreations of
the upper classes; that the time pass
ed in refined and intellectual inter
course may be considered as among
the beneficial as well as pleasant
portions of existence. The moral
tendencies of intellectual pursuits are
universally recognized: the improve
ment of the mental faculties increases
the capacity, and represses and de
fecates the passions. A female of
enlightened judgment, elegant at
tainments, and social merits, adds, as
such, diffusive vyeight to her example
as a conscientious Christian, known
to execute thoroughly the severer or
familiar duties, and to prefer the use
ful to the merely agreeable employ
ments.
)
We do not mean to disparage fe
males who cannot strictly be termed
pious—in whom a very ardent devo
tional spirit is not manifest. This de
scription embraces, perhaps, the ma
jority of the highly estimable—such
-«8 adorn every sphere and discharge
every obligations ;whoae affections glow
on every side, and whose principles arc
noli less sound ttian then demeanor is
attractive and . laudable. V> e eliter-
lam much confidence in the superiori
ty of the original tcrnulc nature, de
veloped and improved with the usual
aids; and would repeat from our own
conviction what the rough and arro
gant Warburiok says in one oi Ins notes
to Pope s cyclical and luliacious
Lpistie oil the Characters of Woman
—“I believe that hie sum of virtue in
the female world does, from many
accidental causes, fat exceed-the sura
of virtue iu the male,” The simple
panegyric or tribute by Ledyard is
worth more, because it comprises
more of the essence of justice—than
all the sneers and invectives of Boi-
leau, Pope, and Young. The senti
ment of maternity surpasses, in its
properties and annals, any one of the
affections of the male bosom;—female
love wins the palm in like manner;
we might cite the memoirs of the
Bareness of Reidesdel alone, for a
case of conjugal devotion for which
there is no parallel on the other side:
and as to filial regard and service,
Pope himself must have acknowl
edged, if he had been generalizing
tviien he wrote the following lines, that
the spirit and the functions,—their
“pensive and pathetic sweetness,”—
appertained of right to the sex which
he reviled,
“Me let the tender office long engage,
To rock the cradle of reposing age,
With lenient arts extend a mother's
breath,
Make languor smile, and smooth the bed
of death,
Explore the thought, explain the asking
e je,
And Keep awhile one parent irom the
skv!”
FEMALE ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
it a woman be as beauliiul as one
of those celestial beings, with whom
the vivid dreams ol imagination have
peopled Mahomet’s paradise, as love
ly and fresh as the fabled Auroia, and
us iignl and as graceful us Hebe, yet
il she does not unite to ihe external
chuims of her person, the refined ac
complisnmenls and sublime sentiments
of an elegant mind, she cun never en
chain the Heart ol her husuand with
those golden letters which only death
can sever. .sweetness oi disposition,
and intellectual endowments wreathe
those letters with the ever blooming
roses oi' enjoyment, and call forth into
action all tne tender charities which
irradiate the sphere of connubial hup*
puu-ss. A woman may shine in me
chanical accomplishment, though a
ray ol menial iignl does not dawn up
on her ruiud; she may paint, sing, and
play upon musical instruments, and by
those manual vocal ai ls, gam a tran
sient triumph over those who are con
tented with ieuiaie cultivation hanging
on walls, or hearing it vibrate upon
strings. But the man ol discernment
feels that a woman thus gilted, can
only amuse for an hour, and attract
by her adscuitious donations, some
frippery lops, who, like the stupid but
terflies, light on exotic tloweis, with
out fragrance or perfume, rather than
on the odoriferous blossoms that jicld
delicious honey. The looks oi a stu
pid beauty, “who has nut soul within
her eyes,” are fixed in the uead calm
of insensibility; they emit no electric
spark to kindle the afieclions—so that
they are examined without emotion,
and as they do not express passion or
iutellect, they are beheld without
love.
in the winter of life, when the gau
dy flowers ol personal beauly are uip-
ped by the “rude breathing” of age;
wheu the lustre of the blue eye is
dimmed, and the bloom of rosy cheeks
fled, how fallen then will be the un
married who has no resources in the
treasury of mind; she will remain a
tyrant without power, a prey to envy
and remorse. A woman of intellect
ual accomplishment, on the contrary,
in the evening of life, will draw at the
fountain of the giaces the limpidbaisam
of literary knowledge—diffuse the
pleasure of instruction to her children,
and illuminate by her cheerful con*
versation ail who are circled within
the attractive sphere of the society in
which she move*. Beauly is as fleet
ing and as fragile as the bloom of an
exotic; flower, blown under the chill
ing influence of a northern breeze; edu
cation alone is the towering oak that
defies the tempest of years. •
The most inestimable blessing which
the benign bounty of the Creator has
bestowed upon man, is the possession
of a virtuous, amiable & educated wo
man—her love is the highest delight
which gladdens him in the vale of suf
fering; it is a green basis that spreads
for him its grassy verdure on the de
sert of despair. In the possession of
a lovely, sympathetic woman, even in
the solitudes ol life, only illuminated
by her smiles, the soul is mure grati-
hed than upon the throne ol Napoleon,
when the world honoured him with its
homage, and was dazzled by the lustre
of Ins glory.
Though Rousseau threw enchant
ments over the tender passions, though
Byron and Ossian transfused liic must
sublime ^profound sensibility into love,
yet they never experienced those tine
leelings of which the pure heart ol w o-
irian is susceptible.—It is the fountain
from which piety and ardent affections
gush iu a spontaneous and flowing un
ion. It is in the uiidst of distress and
anguish, that the finest qualities of the
female, and the noblest traits of the
female character, are displayed in all
their characteristic grandeur. When
a husband is suffering under the press
ure of unutterable woe, when his
prospects are withered by the dissolv
ed illusions of hope, and the cruel de
sertion of friends, it is then that the
consolations of a wife pour the halm
of sympathy into the corroded bosom
of grief. Adversity only gives an ad
ditional impulse of ardor to her attach
ment, it seems to inspire her with a
spirit of devotedness to the object of
her love, which rises superior to the
inflictions of misfortune. No changes
or chances can estrange constancy, or
subdue the intensity of her devotion.
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AGRICULTURAL.
EARLY POTATOES.
The best time to plant potatoes
for w intei s use, feeding slock, &c. is
said to he about the later end of May,
or the first ol June; but it would be
good economy, generally speaking, to
plant an early sort on early ground, to
feed swine beiore Indian corn be
came Ihesubject of judicial invests ,
gallon. The ploughman became
deeply enamoured, with the charm*
ol the milkmaid, of course rosy and
fair, of a w ealthy farmer. H»a ad
dresses were rejected, and the disap
pointed swain, full of melancholy and
vengeance, procured a strong cold,
and wei^ out to the barn, and tied, all
the cow'8* tails together.
The bellowing of the poor animal*
disturbed the ivliole neighborhood.
The offender w’as arrested and car*
ried before the magistrate, by whom
lie was sentenced to a fine for his
cruel revenge and to .be imprisoned
till payment. >
The follow ing is a copy of a “raZc”
shoemaker’s hill, which dropped from
the pocket of its writer:
“His Honer Mr. Trant, Esquire,
Dr. to James Barrett, Shoemakor.
1. s. ds
To clicking & sowing Miss Clara; 0 2 A
To strapping &. welting Miss Biddy, 0 1 6
To binding and closing Miss Mary, 0 16'
*
10 5 d-
Paid July 14th, 1828.
James Barrett:
Curiosities of the Post Office.—A let*
ter passed through the Post Office oq
Monday, post marked “Georgetown,
D. C. May 9, paid,” and superscribe
ed as follow s:
“W L Esq.
Down there at the Locks:—
If he ant there, send this to Vltoc;-
lie’s a droll chicken. Lockport, Ns*
ngara Co.”
On the reverse—
“Just sober enough to put on the
seal.”
This remarkable epistle, doubtless
on account of the importance of it*
contents, was sealed w ith three seals.
comes sufficiently grown lor that pur
pose. These should he planted the
last of April or beginning of May.
Coarse manure answers best for
that purpose. Fallen leaves taken
from the woods are recommended by
a correspondent of the Bath Society
in England. This kind of manure,
says the writer, eauses potatoes to be
much more mealy, and of a finer fla
vor than when they are produced by
the application of ashes or dung.
The following judicious observations
on this subject are from the 2d vo
lume of “Memoirs of the Board of
Agriculture of the State of New
York.”
“Potatoes should be planted the
first ten days in Mry, or a little be
fore the planting of Indian corn. But
it is better to postpone the planting of
potatoes than of corn. Therefore in
the hurry of spring work, farmers of
ten leave their potatoes to be planted
in the last w eek of May. To plant
them early will never injure the crop
•at any season, and if the season hap
pens to be very dry about harvest lime,
the crop will he much better than if
planted ihe first of May.
“Seed potatoes should never be
cut—one large whole potatoe is suf
ficient fora hill. The outside skin of
the potatoe, called the cutidle, is the
most durable part, and retains the
moisture for the use of the young
plant, until it is all exhausted, if po
tatoes are cut, the nutritive juice is
absorbed in a great measure by the
earth. The evil of cutting potatoes
is more manifest on a dry soil than if
moist. It is a mistaken opinion that
a whole potatoe is not good, on ac
count of bringing the plants too near
together; for the roots will yield all
we seek for, spread in all directions,
and fill the hill.
“Potatoes if planted in a sandy or
loamy soil will yield one third more if
„a table spoonful of plaster be thrown
upon the naked potatoes in each hill
after they are covered.
“Yard manure is very useful if laid
over the potatoes in each hiH, and
after an inch of soil has been laid
upon them; and then the hill covered
as deep as usual. But if the manure
be laid directly upon the seed or
under it, a drought will injure the
crop. t
“The most convenient method of
raising potatoes is to plant them a-
bout the margin of corn fields. Then
a horse may turn upon them, when
ploughing among corn, without inju-
The first hearing the vignette of a dog,
with the motto “when this dug harks,
my friendship shall end.” fcecond
vignette, a pair of scissors, open,with
the motto. “We part lo meet again.”
The other we suppose was thought
very witty, but we cannot describe it.
We hope some Agent of the Tem
perance Society w ill set off for George
town without delay.—JV’. T. Journal
of Commerce.
A graceful deportment is the true
ornament of virtue.
He who observes not decorum iri
small matters may be a great man;
but is unwise at times.
Constancy is the foundation of vir
tue.
MARSHAL’S SALE.
W ILL be sold to the highest bidder, on
the 17th July next, at New Echota,
one negro man, named
P22TER,
levied on as the property of Edward Hicks;
to satisfy a bond giv-n by said E. Hicks
to the National Treasurer.
JOSEPH LYNCH,
Marshal
June 24th, 1829. 12 tds.
CHARLESTON OB
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The effects of disappointed love
have been sting by poets, described
by physicians, and deplored by mora
lists.
A romantic incident occured on
one of the isles of Scotland which be
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