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From the JLaixe's Magazine. c e l e b s jn s e a r c h o f a w i p e . I am a young map, W have Been seye 5 5 ^ “ »^2S^K3,,’S££; H t o i B f i Mill FOBLISHED WSgXtT *T A. SMITH, GUSN’t FALLS, N. X.ylA? TWO DOHA** FK1 annum , F A IU L t 1 UjLt. VOL. i THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, IBM. M I S C E j E L A f f E Q t l S . Does not her gentleness, condescension, & active, though inodtojl charity, make her conduct on that occasion* worthy of being the means of introducing her to the High fortune of becoming the wife of the son o f Abraham ? Look' at her riftgs ajid brace .d as a model for her who is to become mi with me. J d o not exactly i g r e e with olomon, that ‘whoever findethfa wife find- lb g good thing* though I ’willingly allow at to gain a good Wife is a p roof of having Gained favor of the Lord.’ Butt I have isfessed, I have b e e n h itherto unsuccens- ulii» my search, a n d the why and where to J am intending to disclose to the pub- rB;;' jf t aro wrong, the ladies may cprrect • if right the gentlem e n , must support * The principles which have guided my onduct in tbe important measure o| choo* * r i wife, have been strictly honorable, bd the objections I have made to those lay let whom 1 have presumed to scrutinize, illh the hope that I should, find some one monr their number, the ‘wisest, virtnohs- il.diScretest, hest,Vofall h er sex, have not Jen thp result of fastidious coxcombry, o r touniary calculation.. Though it w o o l very proper, or polite, 0 speak of myself, and my qualifications ’unless advertising for a w ife, o r a n r r a - )]i)viiient,or electioneering for an oflicc) rtt' in the preient instance, it seems m ces- iaty 1 should Set forth tny own pretensions otic proud triumph a t which I lmve ami- ej|—that o' gaining a good wile. To begin jthniv personal appearance— a s u b l e t jUhc way, not 60 ‘miportah* to a ‘gentle- mroas a l a d y - I will not describe panicu- ir features, but this I will veptureto affirm 1s t \I have always been esteemed good O^king. Innumerable compliments irotn he ladies, have assured mo that 1 am i*Iy; and it would be an ufi'ecfiou ol humil* It,' should I pretend that 1 do not ui Hus articular, ago-c with them in their judg ment. My education,.though not what is idled liberal, (often meaning only expew- »e,l has been judicious and lias titled me ot business. I. do not. name my pfesent mployment, because an Ariiericati so ot to changes liis pursuits, that he who is a thooltnsstcr, a farm er or a printer this [tar, may b ecom e a merchant) a mauujac- iirtr, or an ediiornext. The education of young men should give hem habits of steady industry in bysiness if some k ind, nnd that general inlorniation ifucli will.enable them to judge what to vrs'u-, and when to change. If to these iititudes, a s I w ill call them rather than ciew s , be added correct and well- estab iihed moral principles, a innii t n o u r coun- ly is sure of success, provided he has u M wife. And this brings me round to lv subject again —my own ( requisites lor miring to such an,one..; I have satd.l om wd-looking a n d well educated; my cnaf tier is fair, and I belong, to a family high ^respectable a n d proud. If is tliecirouni- lance of th e high standing which my latn- if claims in society, that most einbarras- is me iii my search loir a wile. 1 wish tbe irl of my choice to Have been accustomed 3 the same station as myself; for I believe 1 conduces to/he happiness of the married u r, that the/gbould in a considerable de* ie<, have received t e same early tmpres u-nMii' mariners, proprieties, and those lit- fe-ei cetera* whifch are nd\ of much consti- |\ieiicc inthem selvea, but which do fre. iucntly have an important I-fleet on o u r do- nestii- comfort. These being my senu tlenis. 1 acknowledge (though, some rout ;all me arisu*cruliC,) |h a t it is anionj, roung ladnis wbpes families were 01 t.n lame rank- with my ow n ,liiall have hitnet- o clnetly directed my atieiiuou. Bui i iave not found owe wise Woman among the Ihousai d I have watched to fifid out the it.mb. r, any more than did the Preacher,— B ».«. 1 mean prudent, economical, tndus- ln .4, d- mestic and accomplished, S>o\v U - U-4SI marry a girl who has been obiigeil lo « o r k ,i begin 16 fear I must relinquish all hope f having a Aelp»i««t in my journey through life , .. , Our young ladies are instructed m many things called accomplishments. They smg play, draw, paint, study l\reneli, and dress,—tne last most tboroughly^-Ote.; nut it is only .for display I do ,,ot 11 f D]“w accomplishments and display font intelligence, o rder, industry, and that taste which c a n throw - refinement around the \arforniance cfl dnlfe, and elevate the nc- toll.e dignified. There is nothing ing fair to look upon, and who does nqt fancy that h er beautifully rounded arm well becomes the gpld that addins il? She was not* made vulgar by her employment. Nor ivill a n American lady, I mean av I say, a lady, fee vulgarized or disgraced, should she on a Monday morning, be. found iii the kitchin,at her wash tub, Homer’s princes ses washed the fine linen. It is strhnge, that young ladies are so in considerate o s t o imagine that an ostenta tious boast of their idleness and imbecility, Aill recommend them to the gentlemen.— VVe admire delicacy ; but We do not want helpleatncss. T h e r e are but few young men Who have fortune? adequate to the sup porting o f a wife merely a s tt pretty bauble to look at, ’ A young roan- who has, his money to earn, wants a wife to assist him, or a t least, not prove a hindrance 'by liei carelessness, extravagance or pride^ How unhappy he niust be if his companion has no prudence, n o ,efiergy^'f })er' self above attending to , m atters w h ich, to be sure, seem trifling, b u t arc nevertheless intlispenenble in a well regulated family. A thorough knowledge o f domestic duties, iiompfising the whole economy of a family, as regulated to. ensurc the best intetesls\ & Uappmi'ss of each individual, thoir rcspec- tnbility and usefulness in society, i» tbe inosl important p a rt of female education. Such a lady I have not y e t found, , Perhaps, it will be u rged, that young .la dies have no opportunity of displaying their dom estic character till they are wives; and that runny a giddy girl has mndo nn excel lent w o m a n s Iim ay have been so. But when I see young ladies devoted'entirely to fasliion.and following the. most absurd inodes, sacrificing their comfoyt, and often their health, to appearances, I-cannot but fear they never will exercise much reason —and with an unreasonable, wife, vynal liappinuss can we expect? 1 adinire’underatnndmg in a woman do not incan'that J would select a deep blue for my wife?—But I want one • Whose eye will Hash, ivitlv intelligence, when she nears a learned allusion, whose aihile of op proval will c h e e r mo on to mental ®ket' lions, and in whose conversation Tcan find the pride of their situation. Mums cotlld I'ollo'w ‘‘in glory snti joy,” “ - —-“His- |i|[iu«tm[M»n ili*- mountiin fidi*, and sing the, song o f hi* country’* fame While cutting thtgreen sward of the val ley. “W allace hail sown over her- rocks tHe imperishable seeds' of high thoughts A great actions. 'Jfhe n a rks of his feet are shown, as if the atone and the fliu1 Would retain them fm ever, by a patriotic peasant, ry to their: child ren, *oing to the ploughed field or the hill .pasture. Bruce iii as fresh a name, as if lie had laid but a few years in the toiiib ”, Aa a nat ion, none have a ‘great er affection,<|f>r theif laiiih filer poets have contributed'(6 make this a pavi of\tire na tional character A ^cot^rWreant to his country, is seldom found. Truly, i( may be said o f him— Cufittmiior. mwtnwn mutant qui trunt mare cumoiT. i-he Swiss has hix Hatizc de Vncbes, to recall hit rec.oHeciion to the land of his birth, and awaken his dormant feeling; hut; there is not a tradi tion of his country, o r one of her songs, which does not speak: to a Scotsman o f home. He longs to breathe ‘ the air o f his heatli- clad hills—-to mingle with the people whose affections ding ‘-with his to “auld Scotland.*? Though the “sceptre lias departed from J u dah,” lie turns <o th« eilent and tcnanlleas wailsof Holy rood, and feeds h h memory with the glories of oast limes, The memo rials pf Scottish valour are every where a round him, and in the breathing thqughta and burning words o f the. loftiest poets of his land he can recouiit those deeds of va lour. H e cherishe* the memory o f those who have honored the land,, as a father •preserves the fnemovy of Ilia children, and dymg, bequeaths the feelings ofa true Scot as a “rich legacy,” tdposrteiitj-— Jlltiandnq Gazflle. ‘ . . ,itse»JN,l'‘ ... _ [Fi om the Nfewi^arli'nus Price Current j “ TAe progrest ^ tkt JTot.” —This has become as common a phrase,'as “the march of the.jhijitl.” U Vb no wonder lliat.it is so. The extraordinary advancement of therpi gion bordering on tlic CXhio and ita tributa ry waters, not only in population hufln the conveniences o f life, sirikes u s at so many, turns, ancl-iu »qtoaroy 4>bviou»K.waysryAi^ \ve tnay bo excused for some repetitions oh the subject- Wc a re accused by travellerl of harping tedious^ on this jopic, bu,l such has been the rapid change of 'filing*' in the west—such is the absolute contrast between things a s they nrc and .things as they wetc that, tv ithout any estcossive sharp o f nation al vain gloriousness, we may very natural- N p : # , ; j 1 - . & impbrted its wiiidovv jjlass from Europe, hut how makes Wiiidpif glass for\ Bostiib -He Maine, ah(| decoM,tes“ With its flint-glass the table of tbe President. A boarding school now occupies III* place of Birad*’ dock’s defeat; old Fdrt.du pueane is now within the srooke ofthpusands ofchiuuveys; and on the aceiie o f another sanguinary bat tle the Ionic-columns o f a new; University are erecting. JtTs important u> those who are engaged' in conslfuctitig routes for trade to this great western garden; to consider how vast a portion of this great and rapid -rosperity i s : aicribable to. the geiiiuf o f uulionj who has demoBstrited that one sia* gle discovery is eciehce, owe\ iroprovempis g in the means of traasporraflon,. ifisy, xk, were, create an agricultural and coantner- ciaiempire. , . \ The cams oj f h ey r n ra. \ T he following; letter from the R e v -M r. Axtell, agent pf th e New York-Btate-T«inpera«ce Society, w ill be read with interest-bravery friend to (lint cause the sucuese of whieh'M r. A. h as c o n tributed so larg e ly to attain.' r; ' ' - “ h T o E. C. Deilcvan, es'q, Chairman; of th e Executive Gommittee of the ^eav*York 'State'T^inim H ^ d e’Sdil^tJ,-;^.^^ : ’ D ear Sir— In compUauce.wi.tfi th^ Wish- IZO.j lions and in wiioae coiivurB»i»v« * ss«-w gswn«r«»..vw-7 , lt a 5vmi)athv, congeniality ivilli my own stud- t y express o u r gratification, especially as ^ Vi win -> mow nnv».l-rnad- ivo tiBliero th a t a sisicerc aslomshinenl must iesVn'd pursuits. Will a mere hovel-read ing and piano-fingering Miss ever become such un one—-a rational companion for man.' I do not vvant a wife to amuse, but] to improve m e, not one whose foibles I must flutter, but o n e in whose judgment / cap confide. . j e , S-mch an one I have not Jot Jound. uui / am dot quite in dispair. 'I think there has been within the la9t two or three years an Important change in the opinion o f socie ty respecting female education.. I lie use- mi is gaining ground, atuLwill, 1 trust sue1 become the Fashionable. Youg ladies wil. find that, unless they cultivate economics as well as the graces they will stand but little chance of gaining husbands. By the ivav.,1 know of a number of vyorthy men, who wish to be married,and arc deset vinp of irood wives, but as they liave not incomes u> support idle o n e s , they choose to remdifi tree Irom the care and cost o f a household siablishmettt. ‘ , j j sliall continue my search, and when van find one who is industrious—1 place .dustry first, for witheill thaj, there cannot ,e muci , excellence o f character or mmd— •ntelligeiil, amiable and reriueil—wl.o w.li iove me, and whom 1 can love—I shall no longer sign my Scotland .—There is no country in the world more full of interest to the’ eye o the observer, than Scotland j'r0™ childhood, when we p wed oyer the mighty deeds of W allace, & gloried in the ncme^' ments of his companions, as though they were our own fathers, we have been ac customed tolook to Scotland with fend re- eard, and have often experienced the full force of her bard’s feelings, when he ex- elaim ^ a mani with soul so dead, '. V ho never to liimselt hath said,_ Thin is my my native land W hat o ther country is there with which ;s«ary to the digHideo. ii*e. «>® t s 0 many interesting associations i mdustrj Vulgar,Uiat is net performedI in ^he,rereco]leclionsconnected? Her warm vulgar lnim'nei fatid tor vulgar puvp • l,er poets, her stufesmen, her people have ' 8 piiug lady vvb.', vvh.m .ovs.herpoeis, o(hcr nalI0ns l.- »n? - h e ii.e e I, vulgar, ^ \ ^ cIl envy. Hcr poorest-children feel . lliei re ev«- ea uiig Uo Bib. •• :cause she drew water for Uie camels?- >ve believe t h a t a Bixicerc aslonishmcnl m in t E osfess every one who contemplates the rielhistory o f the posterity o f lh e regions in question. We have been ttn'iiaed by reading in a Pittsburgh paper, a n account of that place published by J u d g e Brackenrldge, in a g»- zeMo existing, fiiere in 1186, and _ descrip tive of the tosvn a * it w a rtfetliat time, and have b een equally edified by a companion piece, some e d itorial reinnrks,in the paper first spoken o f ; describing the town ns i t is now. Tjic co n tr a s t borrows still greater force from t h e w e ll kno'wh fad that like m a g ical changes bave taken place in a vast 'extent o f country. JScvernl h u n d red miles further itt the “Western wilderneijy” Cpnt- cinnati presents features equally astonish ing at least. Never, in so brief a perioi^ have ao many solitary places been ’made glad. Wo must Lorrow from the Tilts- burgji print some o f die particulars of the change in lhatloV m . ‘ , In tT86, vvhtn Judge Brnt-kfundge wrote his account o f that settlement, il iv-as« fron tier village, o n the outer-most limits o f civ ilized population, eontaining perhaps a him dred houses. Now, it h as TITfirc tlinii two thousand, With a population of irroie than seventeen thousantd souls, and ii surroun ded by suburbs o r villages containing sev en or eight thousand more. Then it Had th e only n ew spaper printed west o f (lie Al legany; now three hundred in the s&irie ex tent o f country. A t that lime all the bur iron brought thither w its transported m horn- back; now Pittsburgh is called ihe Birming- ham o f America, thousands of tons of met al a re brought to it, to be converted into steam enginies.boileriron, b a r iron, anchor# for the northern lakes, and sugar nulls add Sugar kettles for Louisiana- Instead' of. a trade in Which four or five tons o f lead and felts were exchanged f o r a few barrels of whiskey, flour o r merchandise, three -hun dred large st many of them splendid steam- boats, are required for the exchange! o f .that count5yr~A.mons the article* exchanged are castings, n ails, farming utensils, glassv and cotton goods manufactured in P itts- uurgh, which,forty years ago, could not manufacture the axes for felling ihe w o o d s. D ear S ir— In compUance.wi.tIi th e wish* , es of t.he ctxnnnittee, 1 q o q ld SMfeniit to them the following condensed *ccoui>t o f my , r e cent mission, as their agent, in' the ? n o r- them couqties o f this atate. T commenced . my efforts in Saratoga qounty about (be middle o f August last, A passed from thence through Washington, Warren, Essex, Clinton, Frsnklip, St. Law rence, Jefferson^ and i Luwis countie? in * ■ single circuit J Went over the' whole of ‘ this groUUd twice ill Nttccetlsiqn—ifit* first time to prepare tbe vysy by conversing w ith, aitluential mpn— circulatiiig informjqion^ A (lisUibuiing appuintments for future nieet^ ings-*-and the sceoiid time, to,attend tha meetings previously appointed, and organ- ' ----- ’jcietic-a, ■ <’ ' , rplan was in general at 'follows; f t ' ace;'td appoint a d s y for the for* — Mtouilty society at the county tlrtn to appoint town m eetingi kyx.jminediatcly preceding' the ing in six oi eight o f the most rmpditfant totvna. Iii Ujt* way association* were formedfh tliese several tpvvn»i an in-* tcrest tvas awakened in.reference to tli| county meeting, and delegates were appoinf* led IQ abend it. Thu* the. county lueeting was usuallj well attended, and the county society commenced its operations with a considerable im p u lse in its favour. , Each county society at its formation, p a s sed a unanimous resolution to ttkd upon thcmielye'a the responsibility of organizing auxHinrjes’,in th e rem aining -towns of the county, a n d to e n ter upon the work inime- diafely; a n d thus to aid the state society in its g reat enterprise of securing a society in every county and tow n in the state, In some paris o f tin* northern district, I found cansiderable advances already roads in the work, andBevcial county and tow n societies already organized.- Including- these, there are now existing, within the above limits,a c o u n ty society in each coun ty, anil town associations in about fifty towns including in all, between eight am t nine thousand members. „ • These, irt addition to those previously -formed in the Western p a r t o f the state; wift make something more than 200 societies now existing i n .the stale, mcluding in all about 2.5,o00 members. , . ^ I have collected also on this northern tour, lilts names e f. about sixty merchant# and five inkeepers, who have come to the . noble resolution to discontinue' the traffic jn ardent spirits; and seVersl- dtsltUer*, (four in I town) who have fesolved to a- bandon the manufacture. ~ ' Besides Organizing societies, a n d making mild mid respected appeals to merchant# and disffIJcrs, &c. I Have made itart impfir- * tant object to secure th'e' co operation of the periodiual press. 1 called' on alm o st every editor o f a newspaper within the above mentioned counties, and requested i-toitntosppTojiiiaie a jari ot each paper to this subject; and d ther to insert •ometiung in every number hinwelf or to give to mine other person* in the place, Who would engage to do it, (He privilege o f cJilinj *uch *.coluinn with *rticle», either original o r st>lecU’cl,on the subject o f Tem- |H>i«:v i>. v 1 atn happy to be able to sty, that nvory editor to whom I have thus applied lum prortiply cutoplled with the request. • 1 fiavi- made it no part o f my object, aa you snow, to solicit contributions; and l am c.mfi- d-rn it Has contributed very much to. the sue- .ess o f the enterpi izo, that 1 have not. 1 hsv® round, moreover, almost every where, the aioat Hiendly an l grateful feelings enlertaiiietl tow. ,r-d« thoae benevolent ihdividuals in Albany wb# have advanced tfeo moms to carry forward ttif* V.w
