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Voten in the Several States. The follow i.g hi !if le, copied from the Mtaoton. ( V i.) Spectator, may be useful for tqie< ial reference, Ml the jvo ,*nt sea-on of elections. Right of voting us Exercised in the Several States. The.re is no political subject which outfit to engage the minds of the p<*o jde of Virginia more at this time than the amendment *<f their constitution. They have Haiti a convention shall as h< mhh for that purpose, and they will H i long he called upon to select there from, suitable representatives. It has occurntl to ns that as the e|e five privilege is the grand conservator of the right of all, it might he well to prepare a brief view if the qualifica tions n w r qoir and for voters in the several slates f the union, in order that our < itiz'-ns generally may better avail themselves of the opportunity wln li experience effbrds, in the f.r tnaiioti of their opi loos on this head, and we have accordingly done so. |f Will be seen that Virginia stands alone With her freehold q lalifi ation. In New II nipshire—every male inhahitant 21 years us age, three months in tin- state—students, pan pees. .ex epted. In Mass a huselts—every male cit izen, (paupers and persons uinfer goanleatiNhip excepted,) one year in the state and six mouths in the town or township where he offers to vote, having p'id tax within two years, un less exempted therefrom by law*. !•’ Il'iode M iml—No constitution —By charter of Charles 11. all free men vote. In Connecticut—every white male citizen having a legal residence for six months with a freehold of seven dollars per annum and every white male enrolled on the militia one y ear, or being exempted from military duty by law, having paid a state fax within the y ear, aud of good moral charac ter. In Vermont—every man of quiet And |u-w< >ui.|u behavior, one year in the slate. In New Jersey—All persons 12 ■fiofi'h** residence, worth a clear es tufe of 50ll>. proclamation money. In lVosy Ivmiia—every freeman who has resided two years in the state, a>d paii a tax; and the sons of *ii. h between 21 and 22 without thu p y rnent of a tax. In Maryland—All free white males fit years of gr, having resided one year in the state, and six months in tin county. In North Carolina—Ml freemen wilt a freehold of 50 acres. And a rest of one year fo|* senators: and and all freemen resident 12 m nths, having p id taxes for members of the house of commons. In S U'h Car lioa—every freeci'i zer, having r< sided two years in the state, with a freehold of 50 acres, or a town lot possessed for six months; or not having such freehold of lot, a r sidence of six months in the election district where he offers to vote, and the payment of a tax within the year of three shilling sterling towards the support ot the state government, ‘ll Georgia—All ritizens and in habitants who have paid the taxes re quired otthem, and resided six months where they vote. In Louisiana— every free white male citizen, residing then in one ytvr, and having paid a tax or being a freehold* c. In Kentucky—All free white male citizens, two yeai s in the state, aud one in the county where they vote. In Ohio—every white male inhabi taut, one year therein, and having paid a state or county tax. In Tennessee—every freeman and inhabitant of the state, if a freeholder, in iy vote in the county where the freehold lies without being thereof il not possessed o| a Ireehold lie must reside six months w here he offers to vote. In Mississippi—every free white male person, one year in the state, ! and six months in the county, serrintr in tin* militior pay iug a t *x. In Illinois—NVriise male inhabi Rants, tix months in the state. In Missouri—All free white m*h * iliz'Mis, one year in th * state, are’ three months in the county. In Allabama—every white inale of lawful age having resided one year i the state aud three months ill th county. In Indiana—All white male one year in th** si ate. In New York—every ma|p ritize of the ag* of 2 1 y ears, one y ear ill tin state, and six months in the town oi county where lie off. rs io vote, havjnc paid a tax wi hin tin* year, or leg .lly jserved as a militiaman or fireman— !or labored upon the public highways In Maine—every freeman havine his r< iideiine established three months j before the election—students, pau pers, K . excepted. In Virginia--Fifty acres of unim proved land io the county, orlwenty fi *c hi res of land with a house on it, hold for life or in fee simple, qualify a man to vote in the county where the land lies—provided said land has been owned by him six m tilths be tori election or has descended to him, or come by marriage or gift.—An im proved I>t in any corporate town, w ith ail welling of a certain size there on. A pm son owning land as above, in diff rent counties, may vote in each county fr delegates, but ran only give one vote fir a senator, dr for a memer of congress, in the same dis trict. ETln every ease voters are re quired to be citiz us of the United Stotts, hv • i**tt* <>r naturalization. Vj A33LWr. n JURE'TON. SEPT 6, 1828. I his p. per (lotn a the senes of Tub VBsprtß. VVe tend rour thanks to tingemo. for the H titering terms in which lie rnminuut ates to us, what we know will be to many of our rea dears unwelcome int lligonce. Eu genio. we fl itter ourselves, will, e’er long, redeem his pledge, and make the Cabinkt again the medium of dis seminating his chaste and sentimen tal lucubrations. Our county men will observe the request made in this days paper bv the | ts ri >r Court relative to the pre sentments of the Grand Jury of Chat ham. (c MWf UNICATED ) Mr. Editor , VV ill y oi have th * goodness to in sort in your p p r th * f II wing tick** vt; It will be run by the R publicans of Columbia C‘>nn f y. tor Senate. PETER VRAWEORB. Esq. House of Representatives. JOH V (ART LEDGE Esq . ltr. NATHAN i HAH FORD. JAMES HAMILTON* Esq. And as a Y’oier, in tin* lasi Courier informs •• the people of G -orgie, .that they can choose but seven out of thir teen (bow tliAtikful we should be t<*r tins information) candidates who offer for seats in congress, permit me to” correct his ticket by striking out ( uthber, l r:plett and Lumpkin, aid insert Gilmer, Haynes and Brails f ‘t*d, I therefore <* recommend tin f Rowing ticket as combining!* inp.ni tety •• more talents than any other se led ion that could be made’ from the list.” RICHARD H. WFF,DE. CEOROK 11. GII.MKR, OH \RI ES K. H AYNES. W| EY THOMPSON. DANIEL H. BR VII.SFORD. JAMES M. WAYNE. THOMAS F. FOSI ER. .1 SUJiSCBIBER. 0 For the CABINET. THE VESPER No. XU. AM ESSAY o.\ FEMALE CHARACTER AND TA Li.NT. ( Written for a lady's Album.) Woman tnou solace w fieri oppression low ers, Thou comfort in our days of misery; !'n >u healer of the broken heart—tiie hour* Dearest to memory have a tale of thee, When riian’a proud spirit neath unslor lur.e rowers, 1’ .ou u t near him with thy fond tidili ty. In cot or pit ice, hut orlofty and une, VVnere’er thy heart dwells is my happy home. In eon mg the page of history there s nothing width so readily att'acts our attention in trair.g tlr* progress f ivii ->c a 4 * the u inu* stage* in wiucii die i in le character ha* hero lr id irotn the •ailost ages : VVe find woman in the *nuling bowers ol Eden the companion •aid equal of man * Heaven in her eye. in every ges’ure, and gnuy.-and Live I'h companion ot oer par tier’.- waliis and the sharer ot id’ jiltasurt-s: When sin yielded to tne temptation of the wily -er pent, and they w**re > xpelh’d the smiling walks and gay bower* t the lively gar den. we find them togrther, trending the ‘h irny pa’h of life ahk*- >hnrers of the <ui se of disobedience and the wrath of God. For main centuries after thi-, his tory affords but little matter in elucidate the -unject, until the period of the more enlightened ages, when proud R -me rose to her zenith, woman seems to have been the sharer of mans toils ami doin’ -tic la bors ; Then she arose to a high and proud stand in society : In the Augustan age, the Roman matrons taught their chddren in the nursery to revere the mime of honor and to make fame their highest dis tinction ; The names of Tiberia of Virginia and of Lucretia, still hold a higi rank in Homan history, and the pages of Heathen anthology have • x Ited to the rank of i efr-tial pu rity, the vest'd* who wat'hed the gates . f Buna’s ’l’emple, In the rud-*: and barbarous ages which followed the i overthrow and trial extinction of the Ro ma i Kinpoe. we again lose sight of tin* fe*nal’ ch ■ acter, w th the extinction of iotelleetual refinement, she -.g in he< omes the of man, wh<i, wi’h the univleiit iog severity of a haughty task master, and ive- her to the sr-vore toils of his do mestic labors.* But this dark age of bar barism was fated so*n to change, as one exitem follows another, the age of Chi valry soon succeeded, ami woman wa* fifed to lead the p’-nud sprit of man through deeds of ueisonal prowess, a'.d the highest sense of emulation and hono rable feelings ; With bur the nod of lusi Inly low, the K .ight Errant tiaveiled the ext nt of k’ g l ims and c- u/itrtes,! su-m.tund >g everv peril an l engig ng,.; ndisr.i iminately m persoual combat, eve-1 ry one who dares gaio-ay the superiority of her beauty. This age of bigotry and fanaticism was succeeded bv one of more r itional and lasting principles. T e nod of beauty before which man bad b- nt in -uch hum b e adoration, so -n sett * and into thr more rational charms f i< telleciu I refinement —tie cultivation of l-ttors which hid b-'ro lo't and iri'ig ihe dark ages again re vived atol literature became the surer ’ rdeal ot Until this period, the female character had never taken that stand in society to ” Inch the ex mples of the r reseot age has fund it eininen'ly equal. Confined with in the pale *f dotuestic avocations, we find onlv now and then a star of that bi il-! I ant constellation where light was to as to. i*h the world. Most of those who had wriiren on this subject, in the earliest ages of mod *rn li>e r ature, considered a distinction to have b en learly ma-k and in the original genius of the sexes, giving vigor and strength of genius to the one and delicary and softness of expression to the other, yet happily we now find the! most abu* dant efforts of female genius! before us, to explode *oab-urd a doctrine:! Elizabeth swayed with unexampl<d p r u-i Hence and foresight, the destinies of a mighty nation. ‘1 he eloquent writings and sound, moral and political reasoning* of Miss Owenson have been long justlv admired: The style and energy of Mrs. Hannah More has no supe ior among the othersex: Miss L. E. Landon authoress ot the Improvisatrice Troubadour and other poems, in who*e enchanting strains are to be found the true soul of poetry, stands an almuat unrivalled genius : Tlie elegant Mrs Homans the amiable author ess of maoy pi*etic iff'.-ions winch have a* extensively cir* ulated as nniversal'v admired, stands un quailed .imo'ig the fail poets of the present day : Madam D. Arbly, the accomplished an th >ess f F,v lina, Cecilia, and other truly drawn pictures of society. should be plaid amot ghe first writers of ai-y age. T i record here all ho*e brilliant stars of female genius which have illuminated this and the last age, brief as our notice is. woo'd more than fill this little volume, Siiffi. e it that we have placed but a small few where the eye of beauty may bright er and the lip sinde over the names of tiio-e wh > have entwined in the wreath of female excellence, a fame which can ne ver die. They are n imes which the most favored on T Jenm* need never b'ush to see associated with hi- own. The - line mu-** which diet t* and Ch'dde Harolds j Pdg image and Lalla Rnnkh may ue found i. the el-glint il scnptmn :nd h**a.u tv of i dorii'g of the Improvisatrice of Miss handuri, th” Voi e . f Sp iog< f VJ s. leniaos. and in he numberKss *tra.n of the*e contemporary poets • h > -o fe iing ly pou t>ay tlie glo-ving language of oa tire, in numbers which gladden th hevt T affection and liglit the ethereal spark if love; a! that is romantic and lovely mingle in their chaste lines—the tender ness f heavenly benevolence are the pe uiiar attribute —are tlie female tmagma’ (ion ttie true impulse of h r heart aud th* pinnacle of her ambition. But while w<>m tn thu* becomes a sur •e- lul votary at ihe shrine of the mu e ; while she reasons with the calmnes-’ <T Philosophy on the proud < Hurts of world ly amb.tion, there are other stations m -ociety where she reigns unequalled. The Svlph like form of beauty mav pass for a da\ through the giddy m-.ze* of p ea sure, enjoying the enrap'ured admirati ui of every behu'der, but it is in the reti ed and social duties of h r dome-tic circle that she excites the most lasting admira tion. In fuming, wi'h warm solicitude, the germing disposition of her tender off spring, and vn here, mu has we must admire, she is Is lovely than when bend ing, bke a go udi in angle, over the couch *>f rfflivti ti and cheering with the tender u >tiun., ha oj of ass ction the hrd .-f desth ; VV like her rail siuttbp the an guish of the I .st nmm< nt nr Iih ♦ the ruy of hope in the bosom ot despairing sor row, “* *"•* *•*"* ft is but p r ide wherewith I • hi* ta'r sep the fi h- rs eye and til tun VV atehiog his growth : aye on the boy he Io k*. The hr giit gad creature springing in his p<h But a- tie- heir of his great name—the voung And stately tree where rising strength ere to g Shall bear his trophies well. And this is love, I his is man’s love—what marvel you neVr made Yi"r b eat the pillow of his infancy, VV mle to the fulness of your hearts glad heavings H.s fair cheek rose and fell, and his bright hair Waved softly on your breath, you ne’er k pt watch Beside him till the last pale star had set., And morn all dazzling as in triumph broke On yon dim weary eye : Not yours tlje face Which early faded through fond care for him, Hung o’er his sleep and duly as heaven’s light Wan there to greet his waking . You ne’er smoothed His couch, nor sung him to his roy rest, Caught his last whisper when his voice from yours Had learned soft utterance, pressed your lip to his When fe* er parihed it. Hushed hi 9 way ward crie* With patient, vigilant ne’er wearied love. No these are wouiaus her youth And bloom of cheek and buoyancy of heart Steal from her all unmarked *•***’> EUGENIO. From the Newark, Ohio, Gazette. WESTERN CjJLCUL i TIOX9. Fifty years ago there were no Eng lish west of the mountains. In 1790 the who! population in the Western States and Ten Kories, was less than