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EQUALITY OF RIGHTS IS NATURE'S PLAN AND FOLLOWING NATURE IS THE MARCH OF MAN. Barlow Volume V.J LAWRENCEBURGH, INDIANA; SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1829. Number 39.

. .. Communicated. Boone Co. Ky. Sept. H A, 1329. ELECTRICITY.

Among the wonderful discoveries of human nature, there "13 hardly any that rank higher than Electricity, This phenomenon, like many other?, was round out merely by accident; yet has proved not only a source of various experiments, but likewise been extremely beneficial to mankind. The great Dr. Franklin ha3 improved more in this branch of knowledge than any other person, he even contrived to to bring lightning from the clouds by means of conductors; these conductors are of great service, when tised to churches, and other public edifices, to preserve them from the dreadful effects of the rapidnessof elemental fire. When electricity is made use of physically, it is of great utility, and has been known to relieve, and sometimes entirely cure various disorders; it is ve ry serviceable in the rheumatism, and other chronic disorders. One circumstance I shall mention, which I received from a gentleman of much notoriety. He told me, that having much com pany one day to see his museum and his electrical experiments, they were rather fearful of undergoing the shock; when a person who was much given to inebriety, being in the room, and rather intoxicated voluntarily oft. red to let the experiment be tiied on him. This was agreed to, upon which he received it pretty hiavily three or four times, and though no more about it at that time. A few ays afterwards he was obliged to go to C ,in S , and being rathei low in circumstances was obliged to walk. This man had been afflicted for man) years with a rupture, which was extremely troublesome, but on his journey be had not the least symptoms of it; on which he wrote a letter to Mr. B , informing nim of this agreeable circumstance, and imputing it entirely to his receiving the shock from his electrical apparatus; the man lived to confirm this by word of mouth, and what is really extraordinary, the rupture never returned which suffieientlv establishes its physi cal consequences. It is of further ser vice in palsies and contraction; and is performed by sparks drawn by friction from the machine. Its rt! Deing thus established, we may novuJ idut offending, be a little particular with other circumstances which have and may happen again by means of electricity. Some ladies and gentlemen comins to Mi. R 's brought with them a negro servant, who had not been long in E . After they had seen his nalu ral and artificial curiosities, they desired to see some of his electrical experiments, and gave him a hint to play a trick upon poor Mungo. Mungo was . ot a little surprised at the shocks he received, but could not guess from whence they came; but when the room was darkened, and fire made to come out of his finger ends, he roared out like a mad bull, crying, the devil! the devil! and in endeavouring to get out of the room overset the skeleton of a Rhinoceros, run his head against a case full of butter flie1, and broke to pieces a fine busk of tinMarquis of Granby ; and having once more gained daylight, made a sudden spring into the street, and run immedi ately home, to the no small diversion of his master and family. Many are the tricks played by means of the electrifying machine. A person in the city had one in his shop, which was not seen by the passers by: he hung at the door an old steelyard, which, from its make seemed to be very ancient. This attracted the notice of many, who no sooner went to examine it, than they received the shock; those who knew what it was, only smiled and went on; others stared and could not guess from whence it came. A drunken porter being called one day, and asked what he would have to carry the steelyard to a certain place, went to examine it, but he no sooner touched it than he felt a blow; and turning round, with an oath, declared if he know who it was he would pay them well for their impudence. He then returned to perform the job, received another shock, and another after that, till irritated by the supposed assaults given by he could not tell who, he stripped to light all that came in his way, till he got a mob of boys and dogs at his heels, and was glad to get off at any rate. J. W. G.

Physical Education of Girls. In the physical education of children, it is not sufficient to consult merely their present ease and well-being; but attention is equally due to whatever is calcu

lated to pr 'mote the vigor and usefulness of their future lives, by strengthening the constitution, preserving the limbs in the free exercise of all their motions, and guarantying the -ystcm from the delete rious influence of those agents by which it is to be constantly surrounded. Throughout the whole animal king dom, the young are prompted by an in stinctive impulse to almost constant exer cise: conformable to thi3 intimation of nature, the infancy of man should be passed in those harmless gambols which exercise the limb?, without requiring any minute direction from the head or the constant guidance of a nurse. It is well known to physicians, that when attempts are made in r.ny- youth, to interfere with the natural movements and exercise of the bodv, whn.from a false idea of improving the rhspo or giv ing grace to the carriage, children are confined to any particular position for too long a period, they become restless and uneasy, and their muscles acquire tricks of involuntary nation. Twitching nf the features, gesiiciVttions of the limbs, or even dangerous ana : ermanent deformity, may be the result of such unnatural restraintFrom exercise, and the free use of pureair, no c r-iu snoulfl be deoarred: : 1 1 -m 1 a -a upon these depend, in a great measure, the health, vigour, and cheerfulness ofl y-iuth; while they contribute essentially to the permanence of the same blessings during adult life. Error in this respect, it is true, is but of occasional occurrence in the physical education of boys. But how often has an over anxiety for delicacy of complexion in a daughter, or the apprehension that her limSs may bee : me coarse and un graceful, and her habits vulgar been the means of debarring her from the en joyment of either air or exercise to an ex tent sufficient to ensure the health and activity cf the system? The conse quence is, thatt"o many females acquire in infancy a t'eeble. sickly, and languid habit rendering them capricious and helpless, if not the subject of suffering through the whole course of their lives Toe bodily exercises of the two s-exes ought, in fact to be the same. As it is important to secure to both, all the corporeal advantages which nature has formed them to enjoy, both should be permitted, without control, to partake of the same ration ;l mea.r.s of ensuring a continued flow o. health and animal spirits, to enable their system to perform perfectly all the functions of life. Girls should not therefore he confined to a se dentary life within the precincts of the nursery, or at best, permitted a short walk, veiled and defended from every gleam of sunshine and from '-very breath of air. The unconstrained enjoyment of their limbs and muscles in the open air, without a ligature to restrain the freedom of thir motions, or an ever watchful eye to curb the lively joy of their unclouded spirits, is equally important to their health and well-being, as to that of their brothers. To hope to communicate graceful I form and motions to the limbs of a child, health and vigor to its constitution, and cheerfulness to its spirits, by confine ment, belts, ligatures, and splints, superadded to the lessons of the posture mas ter is about as rational as would be the attempt to improve the beauty and vi gour ot our forest trees, by transferring them to the green-house, and extending their branches along an artificial irame work. The first occupations of the day, for children, should, be abroad, for the ben efit of inhaling ihe morning air. Ever person whonotices the fact, will bestruck with the difference in the health and freshness of complexion, and cheerfulness of feature, exhibited by the child who has spent some time in cut-door exercise before its morning meal & task, & the one who passes immediately from its couch to the breakfast table, and thence to study. Children are fond of early rising, when their natural activity of disposition, and disinclination to remain long in a state of quiet have not been counteracted by habits of indulgence. As much of the day should be passed in the open air, as the weather will permit, and is compatible with those necessary avocations which call for attendance within doors. Nor are we inclined to limit this out door exercise, in respect to girls, to the season of summer alone. Though female children, as generally educated, may net be able to bear

the extremes of heat and cold as well as

boys; yet, by proper management, thc may be enabled to sustain with as little inconvenience, the transitions 01 the seasons. A habitual use of the cold bath, when no circumstances are present to forbid its employment, while it contributes to the health of the system generally, is an effectual means of removing that delicacy of constitution which renders an exposure to cold alike disagreeable and prejudical. Journal of Health. The Portsmouth (N. H.) Jonrnal has the follow if g fair hit; we publish it, as the first Warden sells damaged merchandize, for the benefit of all concerned. U. S. Gazette. SUNDAY CONVERSATION. Mr. Eoitou: Whether the propensity arises from malice, or solely from the love of amusement, I am unable to say; but certain it is, that I have always taken pleasure in witnessing those little failings; which are not unfrequently found among the good and kind hearted. Last Sunday, at the close of the morning services, as I chanced to follow in the train of a small part, on their way from church, it was my fortune to overhear their comments upon the various subjects suggested by what they had seen and heard. The group consisted of an elderly gentleman, of grave and formal carriage, accompanied hv his wife, a motherly personage of about fix t j ty, who w as supported on her left by a girl and a boy of about sixteen, and a lady who appeared to have reached the meridian of her charms. The imagination of the reader must assign the shares of the conversation to their respective prop'hitors. A good sermon; a very good sermon, wife. It ought to he good, my dear, for it has worn well. I have heard it two or three times before. I wish, papa, we might have something interesting. I am tired to death of sin and mortality. Pray, sister, did you sec that woman in the pew next to ours, with the great black ribbon on her bonnet, like a thun der cloud? She tne-ns to have mourn ing on her bonnet, if no where else. 1 n I I 1 1 .1 see neri 1 guess 1 uiu, or rattier J saw her sleeves, like a fat man in a ham mock puffing out with twenty yards of gros de iNaplcs. bhe is old enough t wear her grandmother s damask. Poor woman! she thinks bishops' sleeves are all the fashion. Hush, child, she is a worthy good wo man, she was a Jones, and her mother was a Carter. When I lived in Boston, five and forty years ago, come next No vembcr, she lived in the house next to ours, with a green door, and a lion' head upon the knocker, so that she's no chicken now. Her father was a little weazle facd old man, with a white whig, and a cane taller than he was, who used to keep a shop down by the market, and kept it till the day of his death; and Ins wite looked as if death had forgot her; she did go off, however, one day, in a tit ot parallels. Paralysis, woman, paralysis. So you say, my dear but the doctor told mc what it was, when I stood by at the time. "Mrs. said he, (he was a pleasant man) "the old lady has got her walking papers. Well, well, let her rest. Our singing requires some looking to. That fellow in front of the the gallery opens his moutn liKC a crocKouuc. Yes, papa, and screams like a North wester through a hen coop. Don't interrupt me, child I say some thing must be done to put a stop to these new tunes, or we may as well dance jigs as pray. Why, papa, the first tune was a beau tifulone. It was Auld Lung Svne. Old long what! Old Bangor is worth a dozen ol it. Pray, sister, did you see cousin Pollv come sailing up the broad aisle, in the 111 . 1 1 ' middle 01 tne long prayer? Yes, indeed 1 saw her, and so did ev ery one else, or she would have been much disappointed. But I did not notice her much, lor I was laughing at the old woman by the pulpit, with faTse curls got adrift, and hung about her face like hop vines. Papa, why cannot I have a new coat to go to meeting in, as well as Nat Hates Nat Bates may do as he likes. Who do you think sees what kind of coats you wear? My dear, did you see how sad Sally looked? I will lay a dollar she has lost a Deau. Poh!

Mother, what business has such an old woman as she is with a beau ? Some business, child, I should think; for she has had one. off and on for the last twenty years, to my certain knowledge. How you talk, mother! If a young lady looks sad, it follows of course that she has lost a beau. She was mourning for her sins. She and you might join force?, sister, and cry in company. You are, as near as I can judge, about of an age. Papa, I don't want to go to meeting this afternoon It is too hot and tiresome. Hot and tiresome, or not, go you shall. Til not leave you at home, to be

turning up Jack, and disturbing the neighborhood, whilst I am engaged in devotion. Heigh day! there goes the toe ol my shoe! Hang these internal side walks, with their points jutting out likebagncts! Those rascally surveyors shall alter em, or I'll know why not: tut, tut. My dear, my dear, don't he put out by so trifling an accident , and on Sunday too! Trifling! If I had stubbed my head ofl, you would have thought it more tn fling vet. 1 rilling, your toe3 feel very cleverly, I suppose Trifling! Tom! you rascal ! 1 ou jades ! have done giggling this instant. Ha, reverend sir, good morning to 1 f 1 you. a line day, sir, a very line day. This warm weather is very hne for the grass. You gave us an excellent sermon this morning, sir. You wiped up the heretics admirably sir, admirably. 1 am glad, sir, that it suited you; and hope that it may be the means of doing good, especially that part of it which related to anger. No doubt it will, sir. I observed my neighbor, ycru know who, kept his head down while you were upon that point. Good morning, &ir. Wife you did not forget, 1 trust, to put on the onions for dinner. At this moment, the party entered their own doors, and 1 went away, musing on the effects of devotional exercises. On the 8th ultimo, the citizens of Louisville, Ky. gave a public dinner to Mr. Rowan, one of the Senators in Congress from Kentucky. In reply to a sentiment complimentary to him, Mr. Rowan made an address to the company ; in the course of which he related the following interesting circumstances connected with the settlement of that State: "Gentlemen You have justly designated me as "the son of the wilderness." My father, at the close cf the Revolutionary war, under the illusive hope of rcparing the ravage?, which his devotion to the cause of liberty had made in his ample patrimonial estate, emigrated from Pennsylvania, his native State, to the wilderness of Kentucky. He arrived in this place in the month of march 1783. In the spring of the following year, he took with him five families, and made a settlement at the long falls of Green River, a place, computed at that time, to be 100 miles from any other set tlement in the country. The subject of your present kindness was then about 1 1 years of age. Of the hardships and privations endured by that little colony, of the dangers which they encountered, and of the fortitude with which they en dured and met them, it does not become me to speak. I cannot forbear, however, to mention an incident which took place in one of the many incursions made unon thorn bv the savages. It is illustrative of the time3,and relates to my mother; and 1 am led to the recital of it by the affectionate veneration with which I cherish her memory. "She had walked out with Mrs. Barnett to a place where a company of young people were pulling flax at the extremity ot a large held which adjoined the fort. Mrs. Barnett had taken with her, her infant son, about two years of age. Very soon after they had joined the flax pulling company, a band of savages burst from their ar.ibuscade, and lushed upon them, discharging their guns at them, and yelling most hidiously. My mother who was an athletic woman, started to run, but recollecting that Mrs. Barnett was a delicate and weakly woman, unable to carry her child, turned and ran back in the lace of the Indians, under the fire of their guns,! snatched the child from the arms cf itfeeble mother, and bore him in safety to the fort, although she was closely, pursued, shot through her clothes with an arrow and twice burnt w ith the powder of the guns which were shot at her.

Mrs. Barnett and her infant were both saved. He is now a respectable citizen of Ohio county, and there are still living three persons, besides myself, who witnessed the scene, and shared in its dan

gers. lut thank to the hardihood, the enterprise, and the industry of our peo ple, Kentucky bow rivals the oldest of her sisters, in the comforts and conveni ences of polished life. Geography of Grrece. By a decree of if Count Capo d'Istrias, President ot Greece, the Peloponesus has been divi ded into seven departments, and the Islands which are in possession of the Greeks, and under the jurisdiction of the government of the republic, mtosix. making in all thirteen. The extent of the peninsula is 8353 square miles, which is a little more than that of the state of Massachusetts, and the present population is estimated to be 600.000 souls. The extent of the island is 1770 square miles, and the population 196 600. Ihi3 is exclusive of any part of continental Greece, and the Lland of NegroponL If we add this island and the part of the continent proposed in the protocol lately published, including Attica, Bieotia, Phoris, Actolia, and Acarnani, it will make the extent of the new Grecian States about 18,500 square miles, or about equal to the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, with a population of about a million of souls. We have seen a map on which the boundaries of the thirteen departments, as constituted by the President ot Greece are delineated. Those of the peninsula bear names corresponding with tho&e of the same counties in Ancient Greece, and the boundaries in general are the same. They are aa follows: 1. ArgolU. The capital town is Napoli, a city of 15,000 inhabitants. It has also the considerable town ofCurinth, Argos, Damala,and Kironiti,the ancient Epidauni?. 2 Jlchia. This department occupies the northern part of tin Peninsula, bordering on the Gulf ot Corinth or Bay of Lepanto. Ii principal towns are Patras lately taken from the Tmks by the French troops, with the assistance of the French and English fleets it was while under the Turkish dominion a place of considerable trade Tostitza, KrJevrita, and Kamenitza. 3. Ens. The principal towns of this department are Gastouni, Lana, and Prigo. 4. Upper JWesshiia. Th"i3 department includes the towns of Navarino, Modon Coron, and Arcadia. 5. Lover JUessinia. This department includes the towns of Kalamata, Leoudari, Karatenc, and Andorossa. G. Laconic. The principal towns in this department are Mistra, near the rite of the Ancient Sparia, Monembasia, Kolokythia, and Kclochina. 7. Arcadia. The principal towns of th:s department are Triplitza, which, under the Turks was the chief town of the whole peninsula Karitena, Ajapei i, or St. P ;ter, and Fanari. 8. The JVorth Shorades. This department consists of the islands of Skiathos, Serpelos, Skiros, Ipsara, and the smaller inlands. The extent of the whole is lesa than 100 square miles, and the population is 6,600. 9. The East Shorades. The population of of this department is 54 000. The principal L-dand is Samos, which has arj extent of 17 I square miles, and a population of 50,000 souls. The other principal islands are Patrnos, which has 150O inhabitants, lkaria, which has 1000, Kalymna, which has 300, and Zero, which has 200. 10. The JVes! Shorades. This depart ment consists of the Islands of lit dra which has CO ,000 inhabitants, Spezzia, which has 8000, Poros 3000, Egina 4000 and Salami, which has 5000. The whole population of ihe department is 10,000. n. The JYcrth Cyclases This department has a population of 4C,00 ?nuh. The ptincipal inlands arc Andre?, Tine, iVlycone, Syria, Thermia, and Zen. 12. The Central Cycladez. The principal islands are-ftaxoi?, which has a population of 10,000 foub, Paros 2000, Ntos 3700, Mlo 4U00, Sephno 5000. The whole department hu3 25,200 inhabitants. 13. The Southern CychJecThc prin- ( ir.al islands are Amorgo, JSanterin, and Karpates. The whole number of inhabitants is 19,900. Bost. Dai. Adv. The.Alltt3 newspaper 1 printed in London contains forty ne square feet; the paper isfioe and well printed.