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on her countenance—never! never! I will pursue him to tile etuis of the earth, 1 will find him, and I will then recount to him the joys of other days. 1 will supplicate, l will implore, and when he beholds me at his feet, ami feels the warm caresses of these infants, think ye. will lie not then lut e me. take me to his arms agam, and make me as happy as he'll he Most ‘ I lov’d him then, he lov’d me too, rr.j heart \\ ill fin 1 its kindness kindle i! lie si:,i!e , The memory <>t our loves will ne’er it> par', I’hough lie hath fatten stung me, wifi t dot Venoiii’d and harb’d—and u —’.e up n the < stresses, which his babe and mine sli .uie har. -- Though lie shout 1 spurn me, 1 v.iii rain.I- i Mis madness—and should sickness c me. an i kiv Us parult /.ing liand upon him . then I would with kindness, all rru wrongs :e: e , Tntil the penitent should weep, andsuv Mow injured and how faithfui ! i;ad heeii. i )eep!v sympathising in her distress, p.,. tccr.e uas too acute for our feelings to sustain, and directin': her the proper path to pursue to reach the Bristol road, we hade adieu to the tin ice in jured and hapless child of misfortune, sorrow . •and perfidy, and wondered that the lightnings of In aveii did not descend to blast the t illain, w ho had broken the heart of a li.uid, confiding, and ! n f ly woman. Shanu' to our se\. that such \ i 1 lams -hoiiid he tdloweii to exist, and to eoutainintite societt ; and our prayers shall asceml to beaten, in; pinring a just t iod to plunge his vengeance and his wrath, on him who assails the happiness or tirtueol a lovely defenceless wife.— Lit .('mid. TKS REMEMBRANCER. FROM Till: I'll IULFSTON COIRIIH. Tin: t.iru i:-\ Tv.ract of a letter IVuiii a gentleman in New-Haven, to his ft it-mi in this city, elated ,lui\ •• The most iiitrrestintr object of noveltv to f ho 'trar.^iT in this town. i> the (iiavo-Yartl.— Tlii- i- a green plain of ten aercs enrinscii—di vided into pa: ellelngrains. and subdivided into I.il’iilv bill t iitiT "r.-aimis. 'I'lu: walks, which in tit's act anil i • • ■: t tt < 1 Hi'1 p.t 1 :*.!k sorrnni-. in v hor j dried nidi poplar tree*, atul am bi-oail cnoujrh : to ailtnif carnait'i'S. In contrast ai'li the rich ! carpet of crass and tin- towem.n poplar, stands | the pr-.-.liftio iiiarhi". inviting all the modes of ! inventive --unis anil classical architecture The 1 \ c r*I -Antique, indigenous in this -stale, i^ tin* ! common material used, am! comp ,-se- tin* mo- | miment of the ceh-hi ntcd J )i Dwight. lorn • 11 v i President nl \ .i 1*• College. | f»dt ;t deep v • i»i• i «i ii‘<n while pausm-i; beside the mute and ehunn-nt ; memorial oi this learned American sele Jar and t liberal divine—l owned that lie had stamped die { literary character of my country, and I adinin d, honored, and ibanked him. The ^rave of the philosopher is the only altar of his unsophido rat' d praise—its - nl. silent, appealing humi le m ’o. sol tens the bickerings of party ra^e, tie' mah \<d»nceof an ’ ition. and thrill of persecu tion : it* like mist, hides the elaie of in lirmitv, am! even vice—there misanthropy so eiahzes tli*' indiscriminate cynicism of its na tore; there the. tear of merer bedew s ami Minds the keen eye of strict and impartial criticism.— V> e Fizr- *,ii the lone marble before ns, which feels net. nor hungercth, nor thirstclh ; and m/ic udmii *■ the genius of one w ho thought and wrote ami perhaps vturvi-d for immortality—of one '‘■lio.n tin- world n«‘,■!•■*• tod and misiudg* *1. •• The appearanc* of tlie grace yard is ele gant and neat, displaying all kinds of architec tural ta-de: lo re is -ecu tin- rough sand stone of the old puritan, and the light peering cone and chaste obelisk—the low ly turf of refningpo vert; . ami the gaudy monument of .boasted af fmeuec—on till--, a mother mourns, in lew ami simple words, (lie Imreai em* nt of an only child, -—on that, exaggerated eulogy belies and ridi eue - the protemled virtues it would perpetuate —on tins, beauty is cut otf in its blushing ripe lit'''*—'in mat. tM-ilDiu sinus m the drooping ol age The striking beauty and variety of.sui mum!.tig ai t. railin' fascinates than sorrows■ t<i«* In ait. 1 diil expect. niy ih'ar I'm nd. to be here "di it11,1 \ ail.'cit'd; to look mi the drcaving mar Mr. and shudder at tin1 analog! ofmv uit'tt form In it- lingering cutrui'iii”-—tosaunter in mourn lul contemplation and attractive, delaying in lid* bed common tenement til' llesli—the sail chronicler of time, and time's victories, lint the design of genius—the skill of art—the ruck arid the chisel, put away the superstitious and melancholy emotions incidental to the eeniete rv And why should it not In- so .' W hy shun thetoinhd W hv dress till' last i (hut of life, in tic terror ofih-spairWould ue live fur ever.' is life Imppine.s > I(i lifr, u e hale, slander, and even commit murder. In death are ue guiltv ol’lliesi .’ Does the inanimate corse need rai ment, or fund, or drink Does it ask and rr r ive not ’ Nn. no. Nor raiment, nor food, nor drink, needs it — it wants nut these—it feels no i>ii.it•—it smiles no more—it weeps no mure! — Insult, hi fame it. has it no anger .’ It resent' not. tin into the dissecting room — see the. knife plunged into the heart—the blood Hows—'tb blael; and watery; not red. no, not red. Do no shrieks unnerve the hand None. none. .Ml is silent , this is silent—nil is xilnd! “ I ii i:v« I to behold tilt* aged man “Struggling with sol'inW'-, ivf* oi ail the j-ws “ I hat earth ran give, yet dreading’to meet <i;. “ I fir is not terrible. O, no—lie comes “ I .ike a ki!.< 1 fr:i ml who would provide a !■■ me “ I o sin I'ei those he could no longer sa\e.” ‘• ruin your eye now on tin- world: is imp pines" there look closely, he not deor'ned.— lie 1 e t nne m lid eu ^ the w hito-d blossom of hope; y ;uth droops for attainment; old age laments the iiiotncui ol attaining. \»m turn vour eve on the w-uM—its ;itinosp]i‘ !e is miser; ; its sun may shine, hut darkness will follow, llnwr around the throne of simling. r: ptiviuing* limn tv—lioes ie r white hos-om •• * !* d It mnv be. th< \:> "j’so: !•" 0?:g f'ii , d *• •; \e ’ it maybe the tlash of envy; does she blushshe may blush with shame.—Alas! my lYiem!. life has no perpetual spring. it must have its winter. “Tacitus records of the Thrasi, that they wept at the birth anil rejoiced at the death of their children: well may they do so. The re tierable. (ire.cian historian wrote wisely in these words : “whom the (mils lor e. do: tonii^.*’ “ I would not mock the dead nor ridicule the virtue ol pensive and n h"ious meditations.—I would direst the tomb ot its horrors, its super stitious fears and childish ignorance. It we weep, let us weej) for the worthy ; If we fear, let us fear rationally -and relief tin^ly ; If we ad mire, let our admiration be impartial.” EDUCATION OT WOMEN. I ltOMTUK vnimi AMMIICAN HM'tKW. The cxpedienc) of cultivuting* the* intellect of man is pictt\ well settled at the present d.o, and ’ seen s difficult to imagine w !i\ that of w oman should be negkeied. I*’it have similar powers and equal strength, it is as deserving1 of care, and will repay care as well ; it* it be weaker and narrower, it needs the. more to be strengthened, enlarged, and disci plined. If the purposes of socicH and of life would 1)0 promoted by the establishment of domestic slavery, then evi rv spark of intellectual light in the female Helot should he carefully extinguished : just us birds in a cage are blinded, that they may not look upon the forests and fields, the blue hon veils and the green earth, and long to he abroad upon the air, till melancholy should stop their-mu; I Jut religion and policy alike revolt at this. Man’s best happiness, like <*TTarii\, begin-* it home, and, like that, i*» apt to sta\ there ; and home i> sure to he just what the wife would make it. Now if it were true that a woman, who r.m do any thing be sides making a pudding or mending a stocking, does those necessary tilings le^s willingly and well, than am one who can do nothing else ; it it were true, as certalnl\ it is nut, that a wife subnets to r »n:ugal untie.rit\, jm-t in proem:don as sin* is ign rtnt and un< uit’.valed, how* can tin* great purpose <»f marriage, the mutual an 1 reciprocal improve ment of the moral and intellectual natures ot# the *vvt «, be proi. ;ted bvvn union upon such urn on .1 terms . and v.bat must we limb, of a husband “as sex o/^utn.ciiNv iiit iu iTJOuesle, to wn.h his v itc an uiHjnest v e.'-tra'l «.t a s\n;p.th\ ot thoo..dit, and and tiel’mj*' I*, is >0:1.et.sues iit^ed that, if a w ) nan’s mind be much unarm'd, and lie;’ ta»t-; i- line i, she is apt to think d'dk-.endv of tie.* dudes of , ••> refj'i:re dnarent pk*a~u • f: online rest e-t bet* 'V\ : tnat III1! »;*ilines Iea\ tie: channels wife h the instit'.ti'Uis ft isocety hi.' mu:k'. d ii r then-, ami ?u : ■', an ! br'u < In : e fnine s and baton s> into i mtpr. Now ti '* ;.•!•. .» answer to thi> i , tl.at I'.k v; on.Is hopper’, vt b i cause her reason uas cultivated, i>*»t ‘ • • ,* v * lire cult ivaU d H ‘ !k and ’ •« C:-!!-..: t!:: "a ln.‘ 1 It of women general !y do not r. -eve due cukui* I (i i- 111»* deli^'ld a* d charm of literature that ■ it ;<.b»rd* us a r« iuge fr mi 12.«* t rm-ds :.ad cm I tettiants ol aettve ht .