Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-01-21
WOMAN.

WOMAN.
To the honour, to the eternal honour Of the sex,
be it said, that in tho path of duty 20 sacrifice is
with them too high, or too dear. Nothing is with
them impossible, but to shrink from what love, hon
innocence, religion require. The voice OF plea
of power may pass by unhecded, but The voice
GDttciioa neUe7' The chamber " the sick the pttoc IF
the dying, The riis Of The dead The affairs frefigion
neper missed The synpaties Of Timid though
she be, and delicate that the winds of heaven may
not too roughly visit her, such occasions she
loses all sense Of danger, and assumes pletcrnat-
ural courage, which knows not and fears not conse
qucnccs Then she displays that undauntcd spirit
which neither courts difficulties nor evades them;
resignation which utters neither murmers regret,
and that patience in suffering which victorious
even over death itseiE-y'"dse Story
Mas ACuUsErrs Blue LAws.-A neat little vol
une has recently been pdblished entitled The his
tory of Lynn by Aonzo Lewis, Esq" We have
been much amused IN perusing ofits details,
pecially those which relate to che curious and
pc rstitious laws of our ancestors. 1t would i'm
possible at this late and enlightened day that such
singular legal enactmcnts could have been
forced, by men moral and intelligent those
lwho preceded us bat two centuries since. The fol-
owing cXtrac from the volume to which we refer,
TRnt fail 10 entertain
spread bass o Gsnerai Court forbade the people
pose of enrichng the n ,eis .hs 10" hS pnr
order, for the regulation Of Gress: aNo gar
meat shall be made with short sleeves and such a.,
hnve garments with short sleeves, shall not wear the
same unless they the arm to thelwrist; and
hereafter, no person hntcver shall make any gar
ment for women, with sleeves moro than an ell wide
that is 22a inches.
The first book printed in America was IN octave
volume OF fsalns, of 400 pages, in 1870
In the early part of 1911, gays Governor WIN
throp, "a goodly maid of the church of LYNN poas
in deep snow from Meadford homeward was lost,
and of her clothes found after among the
rocks"
In 1913, was presented to the Salem Court
aud compelled to confess his opinion erroneous and
asa forgiveness of the minister for saying that the
baptism of infants was sinful At the same Court
person was presented for common sleeping" at
CHURCH and TO. striking him who walked him Soon
after not having amended his conduct, he was SEN
tencei 'to be severely whipped" II the custom
at this time during public SERVICE fur person no
about the meeting TO wake seepers. lie bore long
wand, ON one end of which bail, andon the other
L fox tall When ne observed the men asleep, he rap.
ped them on the head with the knob; and reused the
slumbering sensibhy of the ladies' BY drawing the
brush lightly across their faces
In June OF the same year the Wiad was so high
according 10 Governor Winthrop, that C multitude
OF trees were blown down, and the meeting house at
Newbury lifted up, the people being in it, II did not
hart, but only killed one Indian"
ut the Quarterly Court in 1914, WA. Hews and
John his son were fined for deridng such as sing in
tle congregation, learning them Roocs also VIM
llows for saying Mr.. Whiting breaches confuscdly;
also John Uewcs for charging Mr. Cobbitt with
fhschoodJ in his doctrine"
~ the same Court in 1915, Leinucl Bennett was
prosecuted, Tor saying, i'll soornfnl manner he
neither cared for the Towne, any order the Townc
could make
Ad order was passed la lG47, that if any Young
man SAohid address q young woman without the con-
sem o. her parents, or IN their absence ofthe Conn
iy Coat, he SHOULD be fined FIVE pounds.
Ia tho came year the town of Lynn was presented
70 the Quarterly Coui Cor want of u staff for the
Constable" Wv
I"e '3n"uais-TIe annual cost 10 the pul,lic of
Oeaaiu volumes n'nounts to 9O,Oooi which s
CoOofi Pfmtofs, 3OOOL engravers, 10. OOOL: conner
plate printers, 4O00i; paper nakers sooOI. h;ndJLr
SOOoLi SILK manufacturers, 10o0L leather sellers
~oOOt; Tor advertising, &c. 2O0Ok; Incidental ,1.,
teIr UtOi; publishers profits, 10 OOOL. retail ho,l
sellers, $4,000 One binder alone Mr. Wcs,Io,, 80
Frar street. Doctors Commons has $50 norson.' ~
most exclusively engaged on those works, qh;.
VIII give some idea Of the employment they sIro,J 20
NorhiHg printers, silk manufacturers copuetna,o
printers, paper makers, &c We have no basi,at,nr
lu Inserting That they give bread to above 2Oo0 ne,
'0'" uu'i"s considerable portion of the year.
t'PF" and Manners o/' he .lge.
w see, by the late arrivals from, Eo,,lo,J ~,
yD@SNS U0Tfs arc about TO be published IN T 80
doD, ny COlburn q Co. Tho wL,e nurbn -;
tod VA ChaTo!Ieevlie 10000 hos been subscribed c.
ana although The anxiety 20 possess than m ,h ~ TOT
Is extreme Of the present edition, cs ~ noIih
or 1t * 10 Le hoped that the pront don,, vi u'
the work VIII induce the proprietor 10 rublsh so'
coma edition as early as pcs4ibc.-[ Literary igs-,,,,
Inc Kentucky Reporter slys that the ils,aI ovno, =, M
cicsau steamboat -" nce Sam upders,anI;n ~, on zoe
Ut 'nds gsng this winter his dauebteT and 49,. 4, Gay
oIeans nave politely tcnercd bin basssee N tba