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•lie more melting eloquence of your tears. Could •.ve pourtray before you the legions of evils brought upon your sex by intemperate man—could we repre sent, in a proper light, the scenes of iniquity which have stained his character, your feeble natures would shrink from its sickening view in melancholy -adness, while all the smitten powers of your soul would thrill with the mournful sound—“ Man in r,dU:r" “ The case, however, of most confirmed drunk ards, is irremediable, lint though few should be ■o'laimed by this pointed, this stinging neglect, vet t is believed many, very many, would be deterred *:-nm entering their path. Our hopes are principally rom the rising generation. To them, in a good mgree, is committed the destiny of our land. In , -'portion to their virtue, or to their vice, our coun ty will be happy or it will be miserable ; we should, ■ icrefore, guard them against vice in general. < mod •rental government is the life of good society, and hat community in which no attention is paid to the . .oral culture of the youth is rapidly hastening to •iamy and disgrace. 1 It cannot be doubted, that if rains were taken to impress on the minds of hilJrei:. at an early period, an abhorrence ofdrunk is and of drinking in all its forms, many might in iis way be saved from shame and perdition.’ Jiut, ...is how many fatheis in this Christian countrv, .. .ven ot those who have declared that they are :he followers of the Lord,) leave their children to re as they list ; to associate with whom they please, to go where they will, and return when tliev think l*t' -’per. how many youth while under the paternal : ••■of, anti during that critical period when the vigi lar.ee of a parent should be* doubled, are permitted to mingle with the dissolute and unprincipled, to loiter round dram imps and acquire habits of idle ness and tippling. It is now no uncommon sight to - • beardless boy s reefing around these pit-falls of d. stnu ti-m. •* II we i ire hoerly—il we wish to preserve our countiy irom bondage—if we wish to save it fiom the ’ron grasp ((| bloody tyrants, let us endeavor to ultivate the minds and morals of the rising class of ■ ire roinimmitv.” THE GARL/kNSJ. 'A I'l I!!)\V KVKNINU, SKPTKMIJER 16,1806. la cur las!, we published an account of tlie he mic conduct of Diiiiilottl Onn.tr, in ridding t rance ol one of t!ie greatest monsters wliich tlie '■doody era of the Revolution had produced. The t' .flowing is tiie last letter of this dauntless female, *o her father, dated July 1J, 1T94 : “ Pardon me, my dear father, for liawnp de posed of tny own existence, without permission from you. I have avenged a great many inno event victims ; I have ’prevented a great nianv hard disasters; the people, disabused, will ot.r day rejoice at having been dtlivered from a tyrant. It 1 have tried to persuade you that 1 wn. going to England, it was because f sought t 1 [i it a secret; hut I knew the impossibility oi I hope you will nut be thrown into trou gh a coiisypucnec of v hat I hare d mc !a case you do, you will have advocates at Caen. I have taken Counsellor Gustavis Doulec to de fend me, but till dead need no defence; it is , only for form. Adieu, my dear father; l beg of you to forget me, and rejoice at my death, i for the cause of it is sweet to me. (jive mv ! love to my sister, whom I love with all the ten derncss of my soul, and likewise to my relations : and forget not those lines of Corneille— “The crime is the shame ; but not the scaffold.” To-morrow, at 8 o'clock. 1 am to be tried.” j .imeriean Ladies. — Mr. l’oletica, formerly Ilus I sun Minister to our Government, in bis new work j on tbe t'nited States, says that die “ Women in the ' t 'nited States enjoy a reputation for morality, which | the most violent defatners of that countrv have ne I ver dared to assault. They assiduously fulfil the du I tics of wives and mothers. Their deportment is modest, decent, and very reserved. “ The beauty of the women of the United States, i is generally acknowledged. But it is of so frail and transient a character, that a sentiment of compas sion immediately mingles itself with the pleasure you experience in beholding the young and nume rous American beauties, who assemble together in their evening entertainments. You involuntarily compare them to delicate flow ers that wither before ! the slightest breath of a northern wind. The fie- ; ipient changes in the temperature of the air which j ! distinguish the climate of the United States, exert a fatal influence on the health of the inhabitants, and the beauty of the w omen.” — The lute Miss Jane Tai lor sa vs :—“ 1 do be lt' vc the reason why so few men, even among 1 the intelligent, wish to encourage the mental ! cultivation of women, is their excessive lute of the sood liiiii'ss of this life : they tremble for their | dear stomachs, concluding that a woman w ho 1 could taste the pleasure of poelrv or sentiment, J would never descend to pav due attention to 1 those extjiii-ite llavors in pudding or pie, that are so gratifying to their philosophic pulatts: and yet. poor gentlemen, it is a thousand pities tin y should be so mistaken ; for, after till, win. so much as a woman of sense and cultivation, : will feel the real importance of her domestic duties; or who so well, so cheerfully, perform them VARIETY. 1)K>CHII’TION OF I.OKI) IIVKON. KHOM “ VIK I 11 Mil l.” “ li oi.e thing was more characteristic of Heron I than another, it was his strong, shrewd common ' sense—his pure, unalloyed sagacity. I was slight!) acquainted with him in Kngland, fur l was then very ' young. Hut many years afterward I met him in It..!;. . It w as at l'isa, just before he left for Genoa. I v as then very much struck at the alteration in his : appearance. His face was very much swollen, an i he was getting tat. His hair was grav, anil In . j countc' -ince had Inst that spiritual expression which i it once so eminently possessed. Ills teeth were | decaying : and he said that if he ever came to ! F.ngland. • a nld be to consult Wnvte about them. I certainly was very much struck at his alteration tor the worse, llesidcs, he was dressed in the must extraordinary manner. He had on a magnificent foreign foraging cap, which he wore in the room, but his grej curls were quite perceptible ; and a frogged surtout; and he had a large gold chain round his neck, and pushedinto his waistcoat pock et. 1 imagined, of course, that a glass was attach ed to it ; but 1 afterwards found that it bore nothing but a quantity of trinkets. He had also anothu gold chain, tight round his neck, like a collar. I was not long at Pisa, hut w e never parted, and there w as only one subject of conversation—Kng land, England, England. 1 never nu t a man, in whom the mnlndte (Input'* was so strong. It\ron was certainly at this time restless and discontented, lie was tired of his dragoon captains, and pensioned poetasters, and he dared not come back to England w ith what he considered a tarnished reputation. His only thought w as of some desperate exertion to clear himsell. It was for this he went to Greece, When 1 was with him he was in correspond, u e w ith some friends in England, about the purchase of a large tract of land in Colombia, lie affected a great admiration of Bolivar. The loss of l’.weo can never be retrieved, lie was indeed a man—a ii.nl man ; and w hen I say this, I award him, in niv opinion, the most splendid character w hich human nature need aspire to. Ityron’s mind was like his own ocean—sublime in its yesty madness—beauti ful in its glittering summer brightness—mighty in the lone magnificence of its waste of waters gazed upon from the magic ot'its own nature, \. • capable of representing, but as in a glass darkle, the natures of all others.” Anern-lf.—Several years ago, there was a v< un English nobleman figuring away at Washington, lie had not much brains, but a vast number of title which, uolwi'hsfanding our pretended dislike f» them, have sometimes the effect of tickling t| . ear amazingly. Several young ladies were in !, debate, going over the list : He is I.ord Viseoo so and so, baron of such a countrv ; and, ‘ m\ f. friends,’ exclaimed the gallant lieutenant V ‘line, f his titles you -appear to have forgotten ’ ‘ Ah ’ exclaimed they eagerly, ‘what is that ’ ‘ IP II irren of Intellect,’ was the replv. [Mm I nh tii's M>. . . .. 'i iif. mini: mointun. A letter 1 ruin ;i gentleman to the Kdilor of tie (icorgia Statesman, says, “About two hour,’ rule from tins, there, is ;t lone, solitary Kook, that lifts its awful brow more than a thousand b et above all the surrounding objects of the wilderness. it looks like the strong touer of sonic antediluvian monarch, who had lung since gone down to the hidden chambers, to n pose bis wrath in the unexeitable stillness of ■ tlmnsaiid ‘lumbers. Its exterior i‘ bare ai d black. It is about seven miles in circumference —it is about twice its breadth in length ; it, tual measurement is feet above tie . .. fare of the creek which Hows at Us , ill I at. d.i' a1) N in the count v of lie is. ,. Georgia." 1 ' nhilr I.itf'rr't iv ■—A young ladv, bv tin. name of Miss I-'raiuis. bis c, mine:,red a new pel iodic,d work in lio-ton. called tie ■■ .luienilc .Miscellany." Me I- tin- authoress of Hebei-,-' ••i' e • :i g- .. V i 1-111J.6,e