wuotimibs dimsiiias - priill uk i by k.udeu ti bin t ham s.w.ysuyivi tbufthaxt 0 umlttv-a as 1820 yta \ xo the w-wrt-mt ctni)i..mtt is published every tucs j m at thhee doixab8 per annum payable at tlie in.l of six months ftn paper will be discontinued until all arrearages are paid unless at the discretion of the editors whoever will become responsible for the payment of dins papers shall receive a tenth gratis dveinisf.jients will be inserted on tlie customary engagements which alone can make it attrac tive or even happy these considerations have often suggested to my mind the inquiry whether they have been consigned to this miserable state of un certain aud transitory bli.ss by nature or whether it is the effect of art i was con vinced that they never attained those powers ol the mind which make the age of man more illustrious than his youth only because vve have prevented them from doing so ; that they are perfect by nature but are crippled by ed ucation thc head and that she did often ca4 and other reproachful terms thomas ler testifved that when bis brother obac his wife lived wiih him shee did cofttruonh call him fool and varmine and he doth nol remember he ever heard her call bim hus band and shee said shee did not love him but bated him yea shee hath said shee elie never love him and shee should never love him for wbich her vile misbehavior to wards her husband shee was adjudged to be taken forth to the whipping-post there to re ceive so many stripes on the naked body a the commissioners should soe cause to inflict on her : whereupon she was brought forth , but by her humiliation and earnest protesta tions for better carriage towards her hus band the punishment was remitted and thit sentence passed that for the lease miscar liage to her husband after this tyme she should bc brought forth again to receive a good whipping on her naked body well laic cm education if tbey were false a man after having spent tlie first twenty or thirty years of his life in a close application in tbe mathe matics the languages the subtilties of the ancient scnool men and a continual conten tion with the author he read or some college rival who has embraced a different theory of physics or system of morality enters on the business of life prepared for the senate the bar or the pulpit i'he melancholy contrast of education and mode of life in women lias already been mentioned their minds are suffered to languish under the constraints pf a narrow education and to pine in the dele terious shades of a fatal custom the natu ral vigor of intellect has never been strength ened by exercise nor thc germ of fancy ever been developed by a timely and judicious culture it is then no more a matter of as tonishment to me that men are more acute in argument — more subtle in detecting a false position or more able in exposing it than it is that a frenchman educated in the military school of paris instructed by the examples of moreau and bonaparte should be a more able commander than an american farmer who never saw a tent or heard the sound ot cunuon.h | mix no advertisement inserted until it has been paid tot or its payment assumed by some person in this town or jt vicinity rj-ali letters to the editors must be putt-paiil tir they uill not be attended to 1 am about to examine what may in gen eral terms be stated ter be that the capacity ol man for intellectual attainments is less than that of woman they are said to possess more fancy and less judgment a greater pro pensity lo the frivolities of romance but less aptitude for the severer studies of science — that the intellectual powers of woman are under the present state of things inferior to those of man is no better prool of any natu ral imbecility of intellect than the inferiority of the unlearned is that thej are born vvitli less capacity for improvement than the learn ed lhe fact which is the foundation of the inference is as undisputed in tbe one case as in the other in the first case i would ask how do we learn that their minds are inferior to those of men ? by never observing them to perform those great exploits or to exercise those abilities which have adorned many men in every age of the civilized world it may be asked how it has happened that men have always gained the ascendancy over woman in the outset unless they did so by superior sagacity they have ' done it by physical force they compel the women to perform the drudgeries of life while they spend the day in the recreations of the chase or in indolence at home they occupied their own minds as they pleased and direc ted the exertions of their wives as they plea sed these reasons alone appear to me to be sufficient to account for the very few in stances upon record cri great powers of mind being displayed by wymen ; but when united with that cliff pyaecof education which men first impos^_rl)y force and now continue by custom the conclusion is irresistible for this difference of education there is this ad ditional reason women are constituted by na ture to be the nurses of children while the superior energy and activity of man renders him more capable of providing a subsistence for the family accordingly in all coun tries the economy of the house is assigned to them but as it this end which they are ul timately to reach was the only one which they are capable of attaining they are fined by education for scarcely any other business pr enjoyment i hat one of the objects for they were created was to attend to children is then neither a proof of inferior ity of capacity nor that their minds such as ihey are should not be cultivated still il has every where been adopted and we think it quite enough that girls should devote the first ten or twelve years of their lives to learn ing to read and write their own language — their education is completed according to this course at the period when that pf a buy fairly begins i submit it to your candor whether this picture of female education in this country ancl its consequences be not in the general too true i admit that there are some bril liant exceptions to it and these exceptions confirm my argument that the inlerionty of women in the walks of science ancl literature results not from any inherent defect of gen ius but from the unpardonable and even in famous manner in which their education is neglected these reasons are amply sufficient to ac count for the actti.il difference of mind be tween the two sexes but those gentlemen who have dissected and analyzed tbe subject with the dexterity of surgeons ancl the saga cious curiosity of philosophers would ima gine i bad not perceived the true point of all their reasoning if 1 were to pass over in silence their metaphysical distinction women are said to possess less acutcness of discernment less power of argument and a less extended mode of thinking than men they are accused of a natural predilection for light ancl frivolous pursuits as poetry and romance and an aversion to the severer stud ies oi philosophy i shall not stop to ques tion whether those assertions be true ; for it appears to me that it would be a miracle under the prevailing customs and system ol i\sy\cy\yum hail i first of arts source of domestic t.-eie ; pride uf the land and patron of the seas from the baltimore federal republican we are happy to onserve about us a ration al ancl steady growth of public opinion in fa vour of agriculture it argues well for the prosperity of our country to find men ol educa tion and feeling acting as practical farmers — to agriculture a nation that has the right ambition of being virtuous and great will first address itself ; and there can be no better proof that the hearty and sound elements of political economy are thoroughly understood ' in any country than to see the ploughman and corn grower rtepected ancl respectable noth ing at this moment so contributes to the du rability of china ancl her government with all its regulated system its world of abuse ignoranc and error ancl its overgrown and huug-y population — nothing so contributes to the upholding of the huge fabric of its gov ern mr as the amazing veneration there shown to farmers and agriculture the no i blest spectacle among all the parade of war j and politics and all the pageantry and corus i cation f imperial governmeti for the contem plation of the philosopher and the statesman must be that in which the great emperor of china the emperor of a country whose small est provinces are empires is sc.en publicly turning up the earth in tb presence of all his subjects all his armies l hi bility all his lo.iseholcl and hous.hold - w ith a plough such is true nobility ! — "- . '. is being indeed tht father of one's coin , ! we are in a fair ' . > feci a like venera tion for the tilli's ■,. : ,•■ earth in america — our farmers in gin ; . i-cl tint there is a great ness as well as g int-ss and innocence in working in the open ir and trusting tothe god of harvests for a blessing upon thefl|^_j_t hour thev are losing that idle and cnijhj ish ambition of set ing their sons lawyers mufa isters doctors and shop-keepers they be gin to regard a gentleman farmer with a stock of good sense aid a good education with a plenty of sober theory in his brain and a good practical knowledge of farming and grazing to temper his experimentalizing as the true gentleman after all and they are right it is a proud name to be indeed a farmer is to be one of god's own children a good txl wise man october 24th 1 oto john petty complains against good wife hunter for offering to mis chief his wife and giving her ill language ralliii her as the testimony speaks ' hailing 1 iding and other exorbatancys ofthe tpngue ippe:iring,asby the testimony of mary brooks and mercy john on file ; and also tbe neigh bors declaring her common trade upon all oc casion to exorbitant with her tongue as par ticularly sam marshfield and john bagg dc clan — sentenced her to bc gagged or else set in a ducking stool and dipped in water as law provides ; shee to choose which of them shee pleases within this half hour or else i to determine and order either as i sec cause shee not choosing either i ordered her to be gagged and to stand in the open street for a half hour ; which was done accordingly ancl for her reproaching good wife petty shee did openly clear her o 1 all she spoke against he'r and asked forgiveness which good man pet i ty accepting she was released as to that wl cannot conclude this grateful task of wt ting in a cause where all my sympathies ar interested without adding a word o.s the su perior sensibility the moral beauty of the fair sex we not only owe to their piety our ex istence as a race but i am struck with the many instances of their having preserved af ter they had given life to individuals the captive warrior has sometimes been released from his dungeon — the forlorn and forsaken traveller bcen cheered in the solitude ol the wilderness by those touches of compassion to which they ure so much more sensible than man i cannot here forbear to mention thc instance of our guardian genius pocahontas who saved the life of captain smith from the ferocity of a virginian savage after it had been previously rescued by the clemency of a turkish-i-ady from an oriental tyrant — when mansong a king of the moors refu sed mungo park permission to enter his vil lage and he sat under a tree exposed to the derision of the men the storms of heaven and the pangs of approaching famine a wo man moved bv the superior sensibilities of her nature sheltered him from the rain gave him meat to eat and sympathised in his sor rows in an unpremeditated song thit ten derness which has so often appeared in mo ments of real distress is beautifully painted by a modern bard in the fictions of poetry : in tho following abort memorandum we have an evi dence of the strictness vvith which the sabbath was ib served in those early times j which as at the present day in new-england commenced at sun-dnwn on saturday and closed at the same time on sunday their sahbath.1 resembled more the burdensome sabbaths of the jew than the christian sabbath -. but mankind arc apt to run into extremes and many of their posterity to free them selves from puritanical foibles and gtrictnt-cs would des troy all distinction and make every day alike a me ilium between the two would be about right sept 28 1685 the tythiugmam sam bedortha presenting benj leonard for that last saturday night he was out after sun and came through the street with his laden cart the said benj leonard appearing acknowl edged it and said he was belated by the gath erers of his corn else had been at home be fore sunset ancl is sorry for it acknowledg ing disorder in it i fine him only se to thc county and so discharge him o woman ! iu our hours of elite uncertain coy and hard to please ; and variable us the shade by the light quivering asp.in made when pain and anguish wring the brow a ministering angel thou i x a ws\\uoy>j one of our late french papers relates that a poor shoemaker of the name of onfreville upwards of fifty years of hje had been ar raigned for the second time before the court of assizes for seditious expressions he was so deal that it was necessary to place his wife next to him during the trial to acquaint him with the tenor of the indictment and of the testimony he pleaded not guilty and ac cused the witnesses of a conspiracy to ruin him the jury found him guilty — the court sentenced him to six months imprisonment and a fine of fifty francs what a picture this altogether ! looking to such things in france and to the execution of journeymen weavers in scotland for high treason accompanied with the most barbarous judicial hacking of the carcases how ought we not to feel and enjoy the serene mildness and immovable security of our own order of society and government nat gaz puritanical goieirwlent jn massa chusetts a correspondent has transmitted fl curious document to the editors of the national intelligencer being nn old manuscript entitled tlie records nf the two first magis trates of springfield massachusetts a pleasant antl pop ulous town on ihe connecticut river these records ex hibit no new trait in the character of the first settlers of new-england but they show the same peculiarities simple and homely habits the same piety tinctured vvith m small share of bigotry which we have been accustom ed to view in delineations of the character of the puri tans of new-england but whatever may have been their foibles however fanatical and persecuting they may have bcen at times yet take thein all in all they deserve mush from their country ami are not unworthy to be called the founders of that populous antl enlight ened part ofthe union which is now enjoying the fruits of their labors and the blessings of their institutions — the following extracts will show that they knew very well how to tame a threw although by some they may be considered as furnishing little evidence of gallantry and devotion to the fair among the patriarchal settlers on the banks ofthe connc ticnt .- , run tiik w i sri.iis c time to her shall count each day which from you it takes away wretched indeed would be the condition ofour species if we were irrevocably dopm td to be the victims as we are the produce of time like the beasts of the field we should grow up from the imbecility of child hood to the decrepitude of age acquiring an imal strength one day which we were to lose lie next and after we had shed thc bloom of our youth should possess nothing which ould claim the admiration or even respect of our fellow-creatures but happily for man had we are blessed with faculties which though increased are seldom diminished by length of years he whose wisdom is enlar ged with years will lose scarcely any tiling which ne ought to value by continuation ol hie the vigorous efforts of manhood may i^^^^^^miijml,^^^b^ksuhe7"vvi.,dom oji from tho boston daily advertiser important facts it is stated in kees's cyclopedia article london that in the year i go the average evcight of cattle and sheep killed for the lon don market was as follows : — an ot 37clbs a calf iolbs ; a sheep 28lbs ; a lamb 18lbs and that the average weight at present ari sing from improvements in the breed anel management of these rnimals is as follows : oxen 800lbs each calves i40lbs each sheep 80lbs each ; lambs jolbs each such fact3 are of more weight than an argument ever so long ancl ever so good to convince our agriculturists of the benefits to be deri ved from improving the breeds of cattle 8ct march 13th 1655 obadiah miller com plains against loane his wife for abusing him with reproachful terms or names as calling him fool toad vermine and threatening him ; as also for yesterday she fell upon bim en deavoring to beat him at which tytne she scratched his face and hands the case be ing examined it was found that loanc the wife of obadiah miller was guilty of wry evil behavior towards her said husband it being proved by the testimony of john lamb and thos miller john lamb testified that he heard her say she would knock him on hvv.iv something a so rarely pos gnjoyed their vre'ul pleasure ; for an hour and those intellectual