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M at this W females Whom cve jfTcn denied. Wrnem from all S* st a'erf men jW-re is, under the 9K whole empire, of females under /mV eastern fanaticism. seen a book, except PPfand have no knowledge of WpKa\ employments of females in BHrntry. Their fingers have never BPfeedle, a pair of scissors, a book, nor they are entirely excluded from all with the other sex. A woman is not allowed by law to go out of the house with out the consent of her husband; to talk with a stranger, nor to laugh without a veil on • her face, nor to stand at the door; nor to look out at the window. In Such a State of ignorance, what can be ex pected, but that the female character must be debased. Hence, among the Uajpoor mothers, the murder of female infants is universally prac tised; notone survives. Mothers among the Casts, in fulfilment of their vow to obtain off spring, are seen sacrificing first ohild in the Brum bu Pootrtis and many other sacred rivers. Manv females drown themselves One morning an officer, while sitting at his window at Altahabad, saw’ sixteen females, under the in fluence of superstition, drown themselves at’ the junction of the -Jutnua and the Ganges And there are now iti London copies of official documents, which prove, that in the year 1817, under the Presidency of Bengal, not less than 705 females, British subjects, voluntarily immo lated themselves by being burnt, or burned alive with the dead bodies of t heir husbands. Lasting Grief.—• During the excursion in the Valley of Deropili in Albania,’ says a late Eng lish traveller, ‘We heard many doleful cries and loud lamentations, proceeding from several hou ses ; we enquired the reason of this circumstance from our guides, who informed us that the wo men were still wailing for their husbands and sons who had fallen in battle against the vizier; that many of these had been thus occupied at least seven years previous to the time we heard them; yet no one appeared surprised at this ob servance. So powerful is the force of custom. 1 remember listening frequently at Joanrina for the cries of a matron who had lost her husband 37 yetus before in a Russian campaign, and had never cmittfd howling three times a day after she had received the tidings of his death/ Eclipse of the Sun It was stated in the Harp er's Ferry Free Press,. that 8n Eclipe of the Sun would occur on the 27th day of June, 1824, which would be total in the UoitecLStates There will be a Solar Eclipse on the’ 26th day of June, 18.4, but it will not be total in any part of the. United States. It was also stated that there would not be another total Eclipse of the Sun visibhe in the U. States until July, 1860. On the 30th of Nov. 1834, there will be an Eclipse of ths Sun that Will ba total in the South of the U States: the center of the Moon’s dark shadow will travel over part of the state’ of Georgia. (~ Bo si on Patriot.. HORSES. It may be generally remarked, that men who drive fast have swift horses ; not that they drive fast because they have swift horses, but because fast driving makes horses swift A horse may commonly be trained to a dull and.heavy, or to an airy and fleet gait. Nature does much, un questionably ; but education does more, in pro ducing the great difference in the §peed of hor ses, than most men will allow. Horses are pro bably injured by driving them rather beyond their hiib’iual pace, than beyond heir native power. One important direction then, for the education of horses, is, to “drive briskly and stop often ” Phtrirk Henry , who was a very devout man, left in his will the following testimony in favor of the Christian { reiigior\: “I have now disposed of all my property to my family—there is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian He ligion , Ifthev had that, ard I had not given them one shilling, they would be rich ; apd if they have not that, and 1 had given them all the world, they would be poor.” Heroism. —Plutarch has related a beautiful in stance of female heroism. Kpponia, a Homan lady, being informed that her husband Sabins, when beaten by the troops of the emperor Ves pusiao, had concealed in a deep cave between Frauche Comptpaud Chaitipagn,-made herself a voluntary prisoner with him, waited upon hiin, supported him for many years, and children by him. At length, being apprehend ed, together with her husband, and brought be fore Vespasian, who expressed his surprise at her courage and forti'ude, she returned this magnanimous answer: “I have lived under ground and in darkness, far happier than you have on the summit of power, and in the lieht of the sun!” The following short but pithy dialogue pass ed between two negroes 9oon after the surren der of Lord Cornwallis, at the seige of Little York: Mingo —Halloa, brudder Sam, bow you do ? Sam —o, don no, bi udder Mingo, mighty poorly Mingo— Poorly! indeed ! you no hear de news ? Sam —No. What sorter news ? Mingo —Why dont vpu know dat are great loan dey call Corv/allis ? <Sam—Yes, I hear ntjff ’bout him, shooting arter de white folk all ober de country. Mingo— Well, I spoae you know Ginral Wash ington ? , . • Sam —O yes, I knows ole massa. Mmgo— Well,l tell you what; he no Corn wallis nor, he Ct-*-wsWs ; Ginral Washington shell ali de corn off him too stick. * SAVANNAH, ./’ WEBJVESIJUIY JVOQjr, JULY 2, 1823. Anniversary of Independence. . On Friday next, we enter upon the FORTY EIGHTH year of the Independence of the United States—a day consecrated to LIBERTY, and hailed with joy by every American, and by every friend to the rights of man. Although a large proportion of those who planned and a chieved the emancipation of their country hare passed off the stage of life, and are their fathers, some few of the political and mili tary Worthies lirigef behind, and enjoy the f>‘ portunity of witnessing the beneficial, and Ve may add the wonderful- effects of their wisdoin, labours, and sufferings, in the cause of thtir country’s freedom. A generation lias grown up since the 4th of July, 1776, and the active concerns of life are in a great measure in the hands of there who know only by hearsay what their endured in establishing their country’s independence. With the consequen ces of that great event, however, they have a more intimate acquaintance. They feel it in the enjoyment of freedom; in the various bless ings of a free government; in the rights and privileges of elections; in the total absence of all distinctions of rank and privilege, and in the general security and protection afforded by mild and just laws, to persons, property & character. “ 0 happy ‘chiefs f if noble deeds can give Immortal praise, your fame shall ever live : Fixed as in Heaven the sun's broad centre ties, And spread -where'er Columbia's Eagle flies” J ! On this auspicious occasion, we offer congrab ulations to our fellow-citizens. We are about to commemorate the day when these Unite 1 States were declared free, sovereign, and inde pendent when the chains, which bound us 1# our oppressors, were broken, and whetJ sun of freedom rose on a rich and powerful re public. May every year find us in thefullcta joyment of this Independence, in health, In prosperity, and in the practice of every virtue calculated to exalt the nation, and to make Vs acceptable in the eye of God, our shield a>d protector. When we look up to the stupen dous firmament above, to the wide canopy of the Heavens,’ bespangled with innumerable orbs of light, shedding down their benign influ ence on our heads, we are taught to wonder, and admire, and adore; and to bow down and worship Him, whose throne is the heavens, his footstool the earth. The 4lb day of July, will ever be hailed by millions of Freemen—they will never be back ward in fulfilling’ the prophecy of iheir venera ble and beloved fellow-citizen, Jous Adams, who, in 1776, a few hours after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, wrote to a friend in the following language : PHILADELPHIA,.JuIy 5,1776. Yesterday the greatest question wag derided which was ever debated in America ; and great er, perhaps, never was or will be decided a mong men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting Colony, “THAT THESE UNI TED STATES ARE AN DOF RIGHT OUGHT TO BE FREE & INDEPENDENT STATES ” The dat is passed. —The 4th July, will be a memorable epocha in the history of America. lam apt to believe it :will be celebra ted by succeeding generations as the GREAT ANNIVERSARY FESTIVA L: It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by so lemn acts of devotion to Almighty God. It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shows, games, spqrts, guns, bells; bonfires, and illumm aliens—from one end of the continent to the ether, from this time fonvardforever / You wijl think me transported with enthusiasm; but lam wot. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and trea sure, that it will cost to maintain this declara tion and support and defend these states ; Vet through all tbe gloom lean see a ray of tight and glory. 1 can see that the end is worth mire than all the means; and that posterity will iri umph, although you and l may rue, which I hope we shall not. Yours, &c. ; JOHN ADAMS. Forty hours more, and will have arrived* the dawn of our political birth-day—the day on which our forefathers declared these United States free and independent .• and for the attain ment of which, under circumstances the most appalling, they pledged their lives , their fir tunes, and their sacred honour. Shall not ttteir offspring, with feelings of gratitude to the tu preme disposer of events, dwell with fond re collection on their heroic virtues; and at least annually, commemorate their noble deeds i Can the most refined language express, 0 r the most capacious mini! conceive—that ardent feeling, that manly enthusiasm, Which prompted the pa triots of *76, to set tyranny at defiance—that daring intrepidity, that more thap spartan cojur age, which enabled them to meet despotic pow er, in every terrific form—and which, against i-uch frightful odds, conducted them tbvictory, to liberty, and to glory. Is there an American, in w hose besom there is not created a gjow of animation, at the sound of the 4th of July f ‘ Is there a heart so callous to all the noble feelings of oqr nature, as to view with coTd indiffer ence, the approach of this glorious anniversary ? Is tjiere a solitary descendant of the revolution ary worthies, in whose breast patriotic fire, will not kindle, and blaze, and burn ; -when the toll ing bells, and thundering cannon, shall have announced the commencement of the national jubilee ? No! emphatically we say NO ! Our countrymen are not so degenerate ! They are too much enlightened, not to see, and feel, and appreciate, the privileges of the American Citi ten.—They have too much gratitude, not to protect and nourish, the precious tree of liber ty, descended from their ancestors ; ar.d too much public virtue, not to transmit the rich in heritance, in all its luxuriant beauty, to pos terity. We also present our readers according to an nual usage on this national festival, the DEC LARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, the off spring of that mighty mind—Thomas Jefferson. The honest and disinterested patriot; a republi can, upright, inflexible and consistent. Let its glorious principles constitute our political faith and be as widely disseminated as the population of our country Parents and guardians should teach them to their children ; they should be implanted at an early day, “ grow with our growth and strengthen with our strength.”—lt is only by a general diffusion of the principles of the Declaration of Independence, that we, may confidently hope for.the permanency of our federal republican institutions. Declaration of Independence. iw congress JULY 4 th, 1776. By the Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled. A DECLARATION. When, in the course of human events, its becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have con nected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separ ate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitled them, a decent respect for the opinions of man kind requires, that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self evident; that all men are created equal: that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the govern ed; that whenever any form of govern ment becomes destructive of these ’ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abol ish it, and to institute anew government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to tfiem shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, in deed, will dictate, that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are suf ferable, than to right themselves by abol ishing the farms to which they are accus tomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces, a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such gov ernment, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies ; and such is now thcmecsssity which constrains them to alter their former systems of gov ernment. The history t>f the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated in juriesand usurpations, all havnig in direct object the establishment of an absolute ty. ranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the pub lic good t He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation, till his assent should be obtained ; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to at tend to them: He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation ot large districts of people, unless those people would relin quish the right of representation in the le gislature—a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only : He has called together legislative bodies, at places unusual, uncomfortable, and dis tant from the depository of their public re cords, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures : He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firm ness, his*invasions on the rights of the people: lie has refused fora lofig time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the peo ple at large, for their exercise ; the state remaining, in the mean time,exposed to alt the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within : lie lias endeavoured to prevent the pop ulation of these states ; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass o> hers,to en courage their migration hither 6f raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands: He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers : lie has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices,, and the amount and payment of their sala ries : He has erected a multitude of new offi ces, and sent hither swarms of officers to harrass our people and eat out their sub stance : He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures: He hs effected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power: lie has combined with others, to 9ubjecl us to a jurisdiction, loreigo to our constitu-> tioo, and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation : Fur quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murder, ‘which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states: * For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world : For imposing tsxes on us, without sur consent': For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury: For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free system of Eng lish law in a neighboring province, estab lishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlargingits boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument, for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies: For taking away our charter, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fun damentally the forms of our goveruments : For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested-with power, to legislate for us in aril cases whatsoever. He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection, and wag ing war against us: lie has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people : He is, at this time, transporting large ar mies of foreign mercenaries,; to complete the works of death, desolation and tyran ny, already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally un worthy the head of a civilized nation : He has constrained 1 our fellow citizens, taken captives on the high seas, to bearartns against their country, to become the exe cutioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands: He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the mer ciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistingoishtd destruc tion of ages, sexes and conditions. In every stßge of there oppressions, we have petitioned for redress, in the most humble terms; our petitions have been an swered ODly~by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus mar ked, by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a* free people. Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts made by their legislature, to extend an unwarran table jurisdiction over os. We have re minded them of the circumstance* of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and mag nanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connexions and correspon dence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice ofjustice and consanguinity. We must therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our sepafarion, and hold them as we hold the rest, of mankind— eiieinies ia war ; in peace, friends. We, i here fore, the representatives of, (he United States of America, in general Con grsas assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world, for the rectitude of our intentions; Do, in the name and by the authority of the good jffcople of these colo mes, solemnly publish an.d declare, that these United Colonies are, & of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and tfcat all political con nexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is, and ought to be totally dissolv ed ; and that as free independent states, they have full powcr< to, levy war conclude peace, contract alliances, estab lish commerce, and to do all otheracts and ’things which independent states may of