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Jl THE MISSES.
Addressed to a careless girl by the late
Mrs. Barbauld -
Wc were talking last nigt, my dear
Aune, of a family of Missea, whose
acquaintance is generally avoided by
people of sense. They arc most of
?hem old maids, which is not very sur
prising, considering that the qualities
they possess arc not the most desira
ble for a helpmate. They are a pretty
numerous clan, and 1 shall endeavour
lo give you such a description of them
as may enable you to decline their
visits; especially, as though many of
them are extremely unlike in temper
and features, and indeed, very dis
tantly related, yet they have a won
derful knack at introducing each oth
er—so that, if you open your doors to
one of them, you nre very likely, in
process of time, to be troubled with
the whole tribe.
The first I shall mention, and in
deed, she deserves to be mentioned
first— for she vras always fond of being
a ringleader of her country, is # Miss
Chief.—This young lady was brought
tip, until she was fourteen, in a large
rambling mansion in the country
where she w as allowed to romp all day
with the servants and idle boys of the
neighborhood. There she employed
herself in the summer, in milking in
to her bonnet, tying the grass together
across the path to throw people down;
and in winter making slides before
the door for the santc purpose,
and the accidents these gave rise
to always procured her the enjoy
went of a harty laugh. She was
a great lover of fun; and at Christmas
time distinguished herself by various
tri ks, such as putting furze balls into
thi beds, drawing off clothes in the
middle of the wight, and pulling peo
ple*.*? seats from under them. At
length, as a lady, who was coining to
visit the family, mounted on rather a
starfish horse, rode up to the door,
Miss Chief ran up and unfurled an j
umbrella full in the horse's face, which |
occasioned him to throw his rider,!
who broke her arm. After this ex i
ploit Miss was sent off to a hoarding
school: here site was no small favor
ite with the girls, whom she led into
all manner of scrapes; anti no small
plague to the poor governess whose
tables were cut. and beds hacked, and
curtains set on fire continually. It is
true Miss soon laid aside her romping
airs and assumed a very demure np
pr a ranee; but she was always playing
one siv trick or another and had lear-
ned to* tell lies, in order to throw it
upon the innocent.
At length she was discovered wri
ting annonymous letters* by which
whole families in the town had been j
set-at variance: and she was then dis- j
missed the school with ignominy. She
has since lived a very busy litc in thej
world; seldom is there a*great crowd
of which she does not make one, and
- y|,e has even frequently been taken up!
for riots, and other disorderly pocee
dings, very unbecoming in her sex,
I he next I shall introduce to your;
acquaintance is a city lady Miss Ma- j
mtgcinent, a very atiring, notable wo
man, Bud always behind hand* In the
parlour, she oaves candle ends: i * toe
kitchen, every thing is waste and ex
travagance; she hires her servants at
itall wages, and changes them at eve
ry quarter; she is a great buyer of
cheap bargains, but as she v.annot al
ways use them they grow worm and
moth eaten on her hands; when she
pays a long score to her butcher, she
wrangles for the odd pence, and for
gets to add up the pounds.—Though it
is her great study to save, she is con
tinually outrunning her income, which
is partly owing to her trusting a cous
in of hers, Miss Calculation, with the
settling of her accounts, who, it is ve
ry well known could never he persua
ded to learn her multiplication table,
or state rightly a sum in thrßulc of
Three.
Mis3 Lay and Mis3 Place am sis
ters, great slatterns; when Miss Place
gets up in the morning she cannot find
her combs, because she has put them
in her writing box. Miss Lay would
willingly go to work, but her house
wife is in the drawer of the kitchev
dresser, her hag hanging on a tree in
the garden, and her thimble any
where but in her pocket. If Miss
Lay is going a journey, the keys of
her trunk are sure to be lost. If Miss
Place wants a volume out of her book
case, she is certain not to find it along
with the rest of the set. If you prep
into Miss Place's dressing room, you
find her drawers filled with foul linen,
and her best cap banging upon tli
carpet broom. If you call Miss Lay
to take a lesson in drawing,” she is
so long in gathering together her pen
cil, her chalk, her Indian rubber, and
her draw ing p.iper, that her master's
hour is expired before she has well
got her materials together*
Miss Understanding — l This lady
comes of a respectable family, and!
has a half sister distinguished for her
good sense and solidity, but she her
self, though not a little foml of reason- j
ing, always takes the perverse side of|
any question; she is often seen with
another of her intimates, Miss Rep 1
resentation, who is a great tale-bear
er, and goes about from bouse to bouse
telling people what such a one said of
them behind their backs, Miss Repre
sentation is a notable story teller, and
can so change, enlarge, dress up an j
anecdote, that the person to w hom itj
happened shall not know it again; how
many friendships have been broken
by these two, or turned into bitter en- j
mies! The latter lady docs a great
deal of varnish work which wonder.
| fully sets offlicr paintings, lor she pre
| tends to use the pencil; but her pro
jductions are most miserable daubing*,
that it is the varnish alone which alone
I makes them pass to the most common
| eye. Though she lias colours of all
sorts, black varnish is what she uses
most. As I wish you to be very much
jon your guaid against this lady,
| whenever you meet her in company,
I must tell you she is to be distin
guished by a very ugly leer; it is quite
out of her power to look straight ut an
object.
UVJV’ I •
Miss Trust, a sour old creature.,
wrinkled and shaken with palsy. Stic
is continually peeping and prying a
! bout, in the expectation of finding
something wrong; she watches her
servants through the key hole, and ha 9
lost her friends by little shynesses that
i have arisen no one known how; she :s
worn away to skin and bone, and her
voice never rises above a whisper.
Miss Hole.—This lady is of a very
lofty spirit, and bad she been married
would certainly have governed her
husband; as it is, she interferes very
much in the management of families:
and, as she is very highly connected,
she has as much influence in # he fsh-
Womeotiu,. F--i.-rmiry 13, 1830.
*onaui r world as amongst the lower
orders. Sbe even interferes with pol
itical concerns, and 1 have heard it
whispered that there is scarcely a
Cabinet in Europe where she has not
some share in the direction of alTairs.
Miss Take.—This lady is an old
floating: woman, who is pur blind, and
lias lost her memory; she invites her
arquiantance on wrong days, calls
them wrong names and always in
tends to do just the contrary thing to
w bat sbe does.
Miss Fortune.—This lady has the
most forbidding look of any of the clan
and pen Pi e are sufficiently disposed to
avoid her as much as it is in their pow
er to do; yet some pretend, that not
withstanding the sterncss oflier coun
tenance on the first address, her phys
iognomy softens as you grow more
familiar with her, and, though she has
it not in her power to be an agreeable
acquaintance, she has sometimes pro
ved a valuable friend. There arc
lessons which none can teach so well
as herself, and the wisest philosophers
have not scrupled to acknowledge
themselves the better for her compa
ny.—l may add, that notwithstanding
her want of external beauty, one of
the best poets in om language fell in
love with her, and wrote a beautiful
j‘d> ift her praise,
CON GRESS.
<-KORGIA INDIAN CLAIMS.
11. of REPRESENTATIVES Jan. 26
Mr. Bell, from the Committee on In
dian Affairs, to which the subject had been
referred, made the following
REPORT:
D ring the negotiations which preceded
tho treaty referred to in the resolution, it
appears that the commissioners attending
on the part of the State of Georgia presen
ted claims against the Indians, which they
alledged had accrued prior to the passage
of the law regulating the intercourse with
the Indian tribes, in 1802, to the amount
of about two hundred and eighty thou
sand dollars. These claims, it was then
insisted, should be allowed by the Indians
out of any sums the United States might
stipulate to pay for the cession of lands
then about to be made. The validity of
part of the claims appears to have been
disputed, but finally it was agreed that the
adjustment of the amount should be made
by the President, under such rules, regu-.
lotions, and restrictions, as he should
prescribe; and the United States under
took, by the treaty, to pay the amount
which should be found due. provided it
did not exceed the sum of two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. The Commis
sioners of Georgia were at the same time
required to release all the claims of the
citizens of that State against the Indians
which they did. It appears that the com
missioner afterwards appointed bv the
President to take the proofs and decide
upon the validity of the claims, construed
his instructions as implying an exclusion
of all such as might appear to have arisen
from property destroyed by the Indians,
and not actually taken away and detained
by tiiem. In this, your committee are de
cidetlly of the opinion that the commis
sioner erred, and that thereby the citizens
of Georgia were injured by the rejection
of a large portion of their claims.
The citizens of Georgia complain that
interest should have been allowed on the
amount awarded to them for property cap
tored and withheld by the Indians. Upon
this point, your committee are not as well
satisfied as to enable them to recommend
any definite course to the House in regard
to it. It would seem reasonable that some
thing should be allowed by way of dama*
ges for the detention of property for
twenty, thirty, or forty years, and that too
against the express stipulations of several
treaties, but, on the other hand, the liber
al prices allowed for the property already.
;deserved to be weighed, incoming to any
j conclusion upon the question.
The claim to be allowed t v .s ue of
the increase of any of th. property t k<’U
from the citizens of Georgia, stand upon
the same general grounds
\ our committee report such a bill as
they are satisfied, upon every ground,
may be safely supported. The House will
have the power to add to its provisions,
should they think proper. In the biii
reported will be found a provision for the
payment of interest upon any claims found
dut* the citizens of Georgia, for prope rty
destroyed, to be calculated from such pi
riods. at which, by the terms of the t<eatv
they would have been paid, but for the
mistake of the commissioner who r ■ i*r J
them. This the committee think is a rea*
sonable allowance.
1 he committee have not thought prop
er to make a full report up n tu< do *jr
submitted to them by the resolut n- for
the reason that all the facts, and most of
the grounds upon the questions wh ch
have arisen, were communicated to die
House in a report made by the Committee
on Indian Affairs, in Rep. No. 128 at‘he
Ist Session of the 20th Congress, and by
the substitute offered in lieu of it. to
which the House are respectfully refer
red.
• January 28.
Mr. Thompson of Georgia, reported,
from the Committee on the Militia, a Bit!
to establish a uniform Militia System.
On motion of Mr. Lamar it was
Resolved, That the Committee on the
Poet Roads be instructed to inquire into
the expediency of establishing a mail
route on the nearest practicable road from
Macon, io Georgia, to the town of Perry,
in the county of Houston, thence to the
county towns of the counties of Marion
and Randolph to the town of Columbus,
in said State: also, to inquire into the ex
pediency of establishing a post from the
county town in the county of Marion, by
the Court House in Lee county, to the
town of Byron, in Baker county, and
thence to Tallahassee, in the Territory
of Florida.
February 1.
Mr. M’DuFVttt, submitted the follow
ing joint resolution:
A JOINT RESOLUTION
For amending the Constitution of the
United States, in relation to the elec
tion of President arid Vic<> President
Resolved by the Senate add House of
Representatives of the United States of
America, in Congress assembled, two
thirds of both Houses concuring, That the
following amendment oT the Constitution
of the United States be proposed to the
Legislatures of the several States, viz:
For the purpose of electing the Fresi
dent of the United States, each State
shall be divided by the Legislature there
of. into as many Districts as will equal the
number of electors and Representatives to
which such State may be entitled in Con
gress, the said Districts to be of compact
form and composed of configuring Terri*
t° r y* . .
The persons in each of the said Did*
tricts, entitled to vote for the most numer
ous branch of the State Legislature, shall
be entitled, on a day to be fixed by Con
gress, and which shall be the same
throughout the United States, to vote
directly for the President of the United
States, in such manner, and at such places
in the said Districts, as the respective
State Legislatures shall prescribe; and
the person receiving the greatest number
of votes in each of the said Districts, shall
be deemed to have received the vote
thereof for President; but if two or more
persons shall receive the highest, and an
equal number of votes, the persons ap
pointed to superintend the electioo shall
give thecasting vote between them; and
in cflse the superintendents aforesaid,
should be equally divided, they shall de
termine the question by lot The said
superintendents, or a majority of them,
shall make out a list of all the persons
voted for, aod of the number of votes given
to each; and in case of an equality of votes
shall state in whose favor they decided;
which list and statement they shall sign
and certify and transmit to the Governor
of the state, by whom it shall be transmit
ted, in like manner, to the neat of Got-
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