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Itni'ftl Cabinet, VOL. It. THE CABINET Is published every Saturday bi A. L. ROBINSON , Warrenton, ‘ Oeo. at three dollars per annum , which may be ’ discharged by two dollars and fifty cents \f paid within sixty days of the time of subscribing. Advertisements conspicuously inserted at seventy five cents per square for the first insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion Monthly inser j tions charged as new advertisements i Advertisements not limited when hand ed in, will be inserted until forbid, and charged accordingly. 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- \ 34