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\ £. "-■*"■■1—-L 1 " 1 JJ*"" ' , FO£2TR1Tf “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 \ 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. # 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 SERVER. 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