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feeds, And to le sore that ta food
time you will reap the same fruits;
drink the same gall and bitterness
here, and the same fiery draught
hereafter/ 183—88.
NUNNERY IN THE uT STATES.
*
Qiorgttown, D, C. March, 1 3th, 1829.
leaded, to day, at the Nunnery or
•Monastery of Visitation* in George
town. I expressed a wish to the Nun
who received roe, to view such parts
of the interior as strangers are ever
allowed to visit.—The Nun smiled as
sent.
The site of this Monastery is in the
north- west part of the town. It stands
upon the borders of <the heights/ and
overlooks the body of the town below.
It commands a pleasant view of the
Potomac, as it rolls its still waters
away to the south-east, aud also the
cultivated fields and lawns on its wes
tern bank. The enclosure embraces
about one acre. On the north sid<, is
the Academy conducted by the Nuns,
consisting of a Ung range of build
ings. three stories high. In the mid
dle of the front or eastern side stands
the dispel. On the left of the chapel
Is the room of tha Father Confessor,
and also the private apartments of
the nuns, into win it no unhallowed
tread of (lie worldly and pro'fauo is
fever admitted.
I had not‘’Waited long, when the
Uady.Abbess, and a Nun of the newly
. Vriated to the mysteries of thebl.uk
t i shout eighteen or twenty years >hl.
rh .se conn enance seemed the abodt
fan unusual degree of intelligence,
h light and ro anittg, came into the
tall. I was in'fudoced to the Lady
lbbcH and her young nnd beautiful
Xttfedant! ‘We will be your con-,
4u tresses/said tlie Lady Abbess, at
jibe same time leading the way and in
citing me to follow.
The Academy, nr High School for
Ladies, is the most interesting ap
reodage of the convent. It oontains a
oarding school of upwards of one hun
dred pupils—A a free or charity school
of mm h larger number of day sclio
fftfs. What strikes the -visiter with
most pleasure, is the perfect system
and order with which every thing is
done. All i9 perfect clock work,
The young misses who compose the
fecbool, are regularly an rigidly train
fed to do every tiling on plan aud meth
od.
We first entered a long passage.
Here were fixtures prepared for the I
dloaks, bonuets. Ac. of the , pupils,
flarh numbered from one to one huu-
Ired and fifty, and each pupil has her
particular number.—The next room
Ao visited was another long passage,
idjoining the dormitories, in this
fas an extended range of wash stands
•caching thro* its length. Here the pu
;i(9 commence their morning toilette.
Each stand is furnished with bowl,
sitcher. napkin, soap, combs, brushes,
T- and each numbered. The same
is true of the beds or couches, in the
loruiitories—of the departments or
livision of their common ward robe—
♦f their seats in the dining and study
lulls, and even the depositories of
heir shoes, s*c. Each pupil has the
ame number throughout the estab
ishment,
The seminary is divided into four
leases. The hall of the first class
tdptains an extensive cabinet of min
cals, to which many rare and valua
le specimens have been presented by
l,e officers of our Navy, and by Cath.
ics of the Eastern world. It has
so many rich specimens of art—the
mtributions of wealthy and powerful
itrons of the church. The sword,
♦eath and belt of Iterbjde, the hero
* South America—two of whose
aughters are now in this convent—
ere recently presented to the cabinet
y Commodore Rogers.
After visiting the other rooms, my
fenductresses led me *to -the domestic
partment where the cdlinary opera*
ions of this great family are perform,
and. This is kept with great care*
*ery tl\jog bright an
clean; and but for the Implements of
housewifery, carefully arranged about
the room, one might have taken it for
a drawing room.
Gne feature iu the training of these
young ladies I was wonderfully pleas
ed with. It is this: two of them are
taken every week by rotation, and
placed in this parlour kitchen, where,
under the-instruction of one of the
sisterhood, they,perform all the ope
rations of housewifery, for the week.
They make bread and bake it, the
puddings, tarts, pies, cakes, Ac.
They roast the beef and fowls, and in
short, perforin the whole labour of
house-keeping, except the drudgery.
At the end of the veek they return to
their study, and tvo others take their
places. This is £S it should be. Do
mestic education is almost wlioly o
verlooked with is. Young ladies are
trained up, as it’ to charm and please,
and grace the drawing room, were to
be the ole tininess of their lives.
They are taught to aing, dance, (this
is imJispensibte,) to play the piano
and guitar, to read bud French, and
write worse English, totrilie graceful
ly (all of which ! a< knowledge I'like
very well if barkened by solid attain
merits,) audnow and then one, to l think
profoundly; hut not one in tew, on* ar
;ving at the peeper age fur taking
large rtf a family, knows how to
make a pudding or a pie that would
he eatable—unless she were to make
it ‘*by book/’
The number of Nuns in Mrs Con
vent, at present, is about sixty. A
oiong them arc dreendants of several
rich and powerful families. Theii
employment'Consists in confession,
vigils, fas to, penances, reading and
religious exercises, in teaching, in
domestic concerns, and in making
line needle work for sale. The Char
ity School embraces about two hun
dred day pupils. For their humanity
and benevolence in collecting and
reaching these children, the mins de
serve praise, in these employments
they appeared happy; but tha hap pi
ness of these devotees, if real, must
be of the negative kind.
in one respect I was much disap
pointed. Instead of finding in the
Convent a set of rigid, austere female
ascetics, I ’met with cheerfulness ap
proaching to vivacity—with kindness
the most engaging—and with polite
ness the most natural and unaffected.
New-youk June 5.
DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.
Explosion of the Steam Frigate Fulton
Yesterday afternoon, about half
past two o’clock, the Magazine of the
steam frigate Fulton the First, which
was lying on the flats, about a cables
length from the Navy Yard dook, ex
ploded, and dreadful to relate, killed
and maimed nearly all on board, esti
mates from 7Q to 100.
At half past five -in the afternoon,
tweuty five dead bodies had been
brought on shore, and 25 to 30 of the
wounded, many of whom are shock
ingly mangled. Others were jet inis
sing. Among the dead were two wo %
men, wives or relatives of the murines
ami seamen. The magazine was du
rectiy under the sick bay, and all the
invalids the confined, supposed about
15 in number, were killed.
The accident is supposed to have
occurred in consequence of the igno
rance of a person named Williams,
who was employed yesterday, to act
as gunner, who it is said, went into
the magazine with a light mistaking
the place lor another apartment.
There was but a small quantity of
powder in the magazine, and the ex
plosion caused no greater confusion
than the firing of a 44 plunder; yet
the three masts of the frigate were
blown into the air to die height of 40
to 50 feet, both decks forward of the
mainmast blown up, the larboard side
shattered to pieces, and the ship ren
dered a complete wreck.
Com. Chauncey, and Capt. New
ton, the commander, with several
other persona, deft the ship a few min
ates before the explosion. The band
of musicians, and the labourers em
ployed, were fortunately, ou shore at
the time.
There were sower persons on board
than usual, aud the number we have
stated above may be exaggerated—
some of the officers estimate the num.
her al no more than 60 or 70. About
6® marines left the vessel on Wednes
day, to proceed for Norfolk, and a
like number a day or two before.
The officers on board were at din
ner when the explosion took place.
This terrible accident has thrown
a gloom over the whole City, and is
almost the only subject of conversa
tion. Hundreds of our citizens have
visited the spot where it happened,
and have horror struck at
the scene it presents.
Names gos the killed whose bodies
have been recovered.
S. M. Brackenridge, Lieutenant
Robert M. Peck, -marine
W illiam Peek, seaman
\lexander Cameron, marine
! Franklin Ely, do steward
Henry 1 ngau, do Corpoial
John M Keever, do
Charles NV dliamson, do
Otto K, Fcrgusttne, do
SvlvesUM O Halloraudo
Henry MeGrath, <i..
hones Livmston, s.irn-in
James Walton, do
fhomas Rtngnen, do
acob Moire, do Nev York
• ohn Delos Haves, Mu be., i, .. t iico
loho Mi oven, orderly seaman, acting cook
\der Gillen, landsman
-Lirnran Vutt-.d, a boatman, of New -York
William Hr own, a boy •
Vlis. Brown, a mul.ato,
Mrs. N eiUmi, a Swede, whose ’husband
•vas a-seaman, and died a few d;iys since
OFFICERS WOUNDED,
Lieutenant Charles T/'Platt, severely
1)> Ah'-K oilier M. Mull, slightly
Sailing; M ister, John Clough, severely
Midshipmen, Robert E. Johnson, do
Dn Divid Dougal, do
Do Robers S \\ L >! h. do
1 )n Jo s eph Eckford,thigh broken.
PRIVATES WOUNDED.
Robert Kilpatrick, marine, severely
Patrick Oihian, do slightly
John Driscoll, do do
John Farrell, do severely
Jacob de Hart, do do
Thomas M'Cullough. conk, fli^htiy
Charles Scott, seaman, aevereJy
Zb Robertson. dn do
Joseph Moore, do do
Th erna* Fe whor'd, and > do
W'lliiam Hr own, musician; severly
Stephen Decatur, a boy, do
*
Extent of Territory and Population
of the V. States.
Table framed from a recent report to
Congress ol one of its Commitrees on Pub
lic Lands, containing an extent in square
miles of each State or Territory; vvitit an
estimate of the population of each, as will
probably be manifested in 1830.
Po'tion to Pop-
Sq miles, each sq mile, illation.
1. Virginia 64,000 13 -1,180,000
2. Missouri 61,000 2 -130,000
3. Georgia 68,000 -7 410.000
4. Illinois 66,000 2 -1-2 130,000
5. Florida 54 000 i -10,000
6. Alabama 63 000 ) 380,000
7. I ouisiana 49,000 6 300,000
8 Mississippi
9. N. York 46.000 43 2,000,000
10 Arkansas 46 309 1 30.000
11. Penn. 44,950 33 1,300 000
12. N. Us, 43,300 10 720,000;
13. Term. 41,300 14 1 2 OooOuoi
14 Kent’y 39 000 15 1 2 950,0001
15. Michigan 39.000 l 35,000*
16. Ohio 38 000 25 1 2 LOOO.Ooo
17. Indiana 35 100 11 12 400 000
10. Maine 32,000 *3 420.000 1
19. S. Ca. 30,080 25 1 t 600,0u0
20. Maryland 10,800 44 4 .0,000
21. Vermont 10 212 27 1-2 280.000
22 N. H. 9,250 32 300.0001
23. Mass. 7,800 71 580 0001
24. N. Jersey 6,000 48 330,000!
25. Conn. 4,674 62 290,000
26 Delaware 2.062 39 80,000!
27. R. Island 1,360 t’6 90.,000*
28. D Columbia 100 600 60,000 \
It is estimated that the aggregate pop-!
ulationofthe United Statistiti 1830 will!
be 13,000,000, and in 1860, allowing 35:
per cent, on every ten years 32.000,000.
Petersburg Times,
‘CABAS ET.
WMMEATOA. JUAE 20, 1 629?*
r ” , r-i iriTTr-i i ms.
We recomiriend to the special
tire of the “Lazy Club” of pur town*
and similar associations (fop etrrjr
county seat, at least, has a fraternity
of Loungers) the Directions to hot Feo*
pie. If the Thermometer, being *at
93 1-2 degrees, in a cool passage of %
house, (which was the case in thi
place 011 Wednesday last) does not
induce, in such brotherhoods, 9
prompt and implicit pursuit of tha
course in that article recommended,
so far as the eatables, drinkable*
and smokeabies are consumed, wo
opine it will be because the ingredients
which compose the prescription are
not comeatuble.
The jury term of our Superior
Court, says, the Georgia Courier of ,
the 15th June, closed on Saturday
night. The Court sometimes sits tea
or twelve days after the juries are dis
missed, for the decision of legal
points, Ac. Notwithstanding the as
siduous attention of the Bench, we
are informed but a small portion of the
business of the Court has been des*
patched, and in too many cases, after
two or threre days and nights spent IQ
wading through the voluminous de*
tails of a case, have the juries thrown
the same trouble on their successors*
by mistrials .
The Court hud some important matter
beforeit on its criminal side. Besides
the usual number of Jlssnults and Batto*
riesy &c. the Grand Jury presented kill,
iard Tables, and the Gambling establish,
meats in tbis CRy. A law’ of the State
prohibits Billiards entirely i;i any fornaj
but the City Council has for several years
licensed them on the payment of a very
heavy tax. The Grand Jury presented
the City Council and Milliard Table Own
ers together, and brought up some twenty
live or thi tv gentlemen who had been to
the ban t of amusing leisure hount
at the -Faro Dank Tables. V*, e believe all
plead guilty. On Saturday the Court pas
sed sentence. As the owners of the BiL
hard Tables were able to throw a portion
of their delinquency on the City Council,
they were fined but g2O each. The Fa
uo dealers did not get off so wed—lour
of them were fined SSOO a piece, and
ordered to stand committed till the fine
was paid. On hearfng the last part of the
sente, ce, they stepped up with their
hands in their pockets, and paid the moo*
ey in open court.
Gaming is not to be suppressed by the
p.dioy, at present, adopted against it. On
the contrary, its evils are aggravated and
extended.to a ruinous degree. The Law*
drive the Ga-nbler to some dark corner,
or secret alley. Here his door ia half
open, and in slip, on tiptoe, the waggoner
with'the proceeds of his cotton,
the sly clerk with his employers
the young merchant, whom a friendh*
name lias ju<t furnished with funds at
Bank, and make their final deposits.
No body knews what has gone with their
money* but all know it is gone -no onn
h is ever seen them at the gaming tables*
they took care not to be susjjected.
Who will say that such a course of se
cret gaming, enforced by the laws, is not
increasing the evils, which those lawn
were intended to prevent? The policy
is not founded in wisdom. License Ga
ming an© make it public— place it un*
; er I. gal regulations,but before the public
eve, that ail may see what is doing, and
who is doing. Then you will ascertain,
whether the young men, to whom yoa
‘confide your business—the young merch
ant or scholar, will frequent the spot*
where they are to sacrifice, not their moo
ey only* but as irretrievably their character
and >landing in society, and every pros
pect of reputable business. Will any one,
who values the good opinion of the world,
be seen publicly loitering about such aa
establishment, or partaking in its ruinous
business’ Would a clerk of such repute,
bf* admited into nny respectable store?
Would the. attorney be trusted with any
man's money? What friend would lend
his name to raise funds for a Faro Bank,
Gaming-made public, none could indulge
in it without observation, and the conge*
quinces, which would follow in an en
lightened and virtuous community.
It is wortiiy of remcntkorance, for