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Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-01

A Paris letter of the Sth instant from the regu-
lar correspondent of the New York journal of Com
merce, has the following item:
It is stated in paragraph of the National Gazette Of
Vienna dated the LIST instant that special messenger
from Washington to Mr. McCURDY had brought formal
and emphatic of the amicable DISPOSE
tons towards the Austrian Government the side Of the
American Cabinet. Mr. HULsENANN had, in consequence
been directed to return from the Havana Washington
Such is the denouement of all the vuperaton Of Austria
in Congress- and at banques and meetings in your great
cities The Hsngaan affair IN tie United States may well
be introduced into the second edition of Mr. Mackay
Extraordinary Popular Detusions There is no other in
stance, probably, in which many public emu,vrry
fostered faacious national excitement. speaker
writer attempting to undeceve the country in any part
tcular instantly cried down. Sir Walter Raleigh
wrote Whoever in teaching contemporary history shall
follow truth too the heels IL may haply strike
his teeth Neper this danger certainly incurred
than IN The ePression Of doubt respecting The and
management Of The Hungarian or Magyar enterprise and the
fate Of the instruction"
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-01
WISCONSIN LEGIsLATION.

The Wisconsin Legislature has adjourned after three
months session Among the most prominent laws passed
General Banking Law, law providing for
Emigrant Agency in New York, Apportionment law,
and the State Loan and Supreme Court Law The new
Judges be elected September next The Banking
law is to be submitted to the people the election in
November next, and win undoubtedly be adopted.
bill submitting the Maine Liquor Law TO a vote Of
the people, which passed the Assembly defeated in
the Senate The latter body also refused concur with
the former in its memorial to Congress to establish the
Territory Of Lake Superior
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-01

An Earthquake was very perceptibly and generally
felt in this city Thursday little after one o'clock
p M. The vibrations continued about three or four
seconds, The shock was also felt and with greater
violence, as We learn through the Telegraph, at
Raleigh, North Carolina. II was likewise per-
ceptible at Baltimore.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-01

meteorological correspondent Of the Boston Journal
states the quantity Of rain which fell during the FIVE days
Of the late storm Mt four and half inches which is one
inch more than the usual average Of the whole month Of
April And the quantity which has fallen since the first
of April Is said To be ten inches
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-01
Steamboat Explosion and Loss of life.

rounding out at the landing at Pen, the Illinois river
between nine and ten o'clock yesterday morning collapsed
the aues Of her starboard boiler, killing wounding and
scang some twenty persons most Of whom were hands
Of the boat and deck passengers The boilers blew out
both forward and ar and but for the quantity Of hay stored
In the engine room the loss would have been greater
The head engineer, Wilson, slightly wounded and his
assistant instantly killed The boat Afterwards caught
FIRE, but II was soon extinguished
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-01

The Government of HAWAII has issued decree admit
ting oil four fish, COAL lumber, stave and heading the
produce manufacture Of the United States into the
Islands free Of all duty provided the Government Of the
United States win admit the sugar syrup, moasses and
coffee Of the Hawaiian kingdom into all United States
ports the same terms
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-01

We understand that letter received in this city yes
terday from Mr. MuRs her Britannia Majestys Consul at
New Orleans states that the Legislature Of Louisiana
have passed act amending the colored law Of the State
by aboshng the penalty Of imprisonment and permitting
free persons Of color to shore with passports from
the Mayor" --Charcston Courier.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-01

THE JAPAN ExPEDrrIoN-Owingt to the diff
Guilty Of obtaining seamen, the Journal Of Com
MERGE says, the expedition fitting out for Japan may
not sail at as early day as was At first anticipated
The vessels for the Mediterranean squadron are TO
be first supplied
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-01

Judge WOODWARD has been appointed to the SUI
preme Bench Of Pennsylvania by the Governor Of
that State, in the place Of Judge Coulter deceased
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-01

IMPRISONMENT CoLoRED SEAsES IN SoUTH CAROLINA
The validity Of the law of South Carolina requiring the
Imprisonment Of coored seamen who may arrive in the
ports Of that State has st length been conroverted in
form which viii put it to the test before the judicial tr
bunals of the country. Manuel Pereira colored Poru
guese sailor ariced to service English brig which
was recently driven into Charleston by stress Of weather
having been arrested and committed to JAIL Mr. MATHEW
the British Consul at that port has applied to Judge
wrrHERs, through his counsel Mr. PETTrGRU, for writ
Of hsJeas corpus The Judge has refused to grant the
writ and notice Of appeal has been given The issue,
therefore, has been legally raised and there is every pro-
liability that IL win ultimately be carried up TO the SUI
preme Court Of the United States for final adjudication
kew Tork Commercial Adrerfiser.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-01

The Coalition in Massachusetts, have again passed
bill calling upon the people to vote whether they
will call Convention to amend the Constitution.
1t was only last fall that the people rejected such
bill by large majority.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-01

MORTALITY IN New YoRK.-It appears from statist
cal report by of the municipal officers of New York.
recently made public that the deaths in that city during
the year 1851 reached the aggregate Of twenty
thousand and twenty increase Of FIVE thousand
and fortysx nearly thirty per cent the number
in 1850. The increased mortality took place chiefly
among children the increase in adults being 264 and
in children 1872 The number Of deaths from consump-
ton during the year exceedingly large but the great
increase in those classes Of disease which pro-
pagated by contagon, and have their in the i'm
purity OF the atmosphere The deaths by typhus fever
increased from 396 to 977 by scarlet fever from 81
627 by dysentery from 1872 to Lib by diarrhea from
47S to 743; and by commissions from 1898 to 1892
Compared with London the mortality in New York is
in thirty-one to one in forty eght The New York
Courier says there something startling in these facts
and adds
II there is any truth in official figures the fact is in
controverble that in spite Of increased wealth. improved
medical SKILL and the introduction and almost universal
Of that invaluable blessing the Croton water the
active of disease and death increasing among
and that the actual duration Of life is yearly d.
mnishing."
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-01

QUAKERrss is favorable to longer, 1t seems. Accord
ing to late English returns the average age at
tanned by members Of this peaceful sect in Great Britain
is fyone years. two months and twentyone days Half
Of the population Of the country, as seen by the same
returns die before reaching the age Of twenyone, and
the average duration Of human life the world over is
but thirty-hree years Quskers therefore, live third
longer than the rest Of us The reasons are obvious
enough Quakers are temperate and prudent seldom
in hurry and never in passion Quakers, in the very
midst Of the weeks business, ION Wednesday mornng,)
retire from the world and spend hour two in silent
meditation at the meeting house. Quakers dgent.
they help one another and the fear Of want does not
rode their minds The journey Of life to them is walk
Of peaceful meditation. They neither suffer nor enjoy
intensely but preserve composed demeanor always. Is
II surprising that their days should be long in the land
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1O,s7s,16o 90

sncudng s22s6l5 So paid under the 18th article of the
treaty with Mexico.
May1 NJ SARGENT, Register
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-01

The Wing State Convention Of Missouri assembled
at St. Louis on the 10Th instant, and concluded its
business on the 21st 1t was the largest Conven-
ton ever held in the State and its proceedings were
enthusiastic and harmonious. The following nomi-
nations were made for State officers:
The Pioneer and woman's advocate. (Providence, R.I.) 1852-185?, 1852-12-04
For the Pioneer.
The Slavery Of Labor.

Labor was designed for good, but like
all other blessings, when perverted, it
becomes an evil. When we allow our
selves to be absorbed by any ode pur-
suit to the neglect of all others we vio-
late Gods laws. That women who la
Dor under the present factory system
are living in direct violation Of the laws
of their nature is fact so plain that all
are ready to admit it. They are de-
prived OF nearly all the means of social
intellectual and religious improvement.
If asked to make social call, their nev-
er failing reply is, have. no time. If
they are asked to read book or attend
a lecture, the answer is, have no time.
If they are asked to 60 to church on the
Sabbath, they will say that they have
become so exhausted by the labors Of
the week that they must rest. And
Notwithstanding the requirements of
corporations and regular attendance at
church on the sabbath, in some of our
largest manufacturing towns, think not
more than one.fifth attend church regu-
iarly. And why does woman thus live?
Her answer is, she fears she shall not
get quite so much money under differ
ent system, and she has barely sufficient
to support her now. A perusal of the
report of the Massachusetts, ten hour
Convention will serve to convince US
that there is little cause to fear perma
nent reduction of wages under the ten
hour system. But suppose there should
be. Is money all we live for in this
world and will it fit US for an immor-
tai progression ~. Are you sure my
friends that you have barely sufficient
The Pioneer and woman's advocate. (Providence, R.I.) 1852-185?, 1852-12-04
PROVIDENCE, DEC. A, 1852.
Our Position.

We have been hard al work abroad among
our friends, In order 10 establish as large an
agency as possible. We have no cause to
complain OF success but il is our time of la
Dor, as II Is the starting time with our paper,
for the discussion OF the principles which will
promote the elevation Of woman Therefore
it may be considered something like uphill
work, but we have found many ready helpers,
and have established about thirty agents in
different parts OF Connecticut, Massachusetts,
and Rhode Island. Their names are given in
this number. We have sent agencies to four
ladies that we have never seen, but we have
heard good amount of them in Worcester,
and was advised 10 send them. We hope they
will be willing to help US. Their names are
Mrs. Mary Adams, Mrs. Lucy Granger, Mrs.
Laura Carey, and Mrs. Hannah Brown. 1t
has been the most cheering part of our jour-
ney TO meet with good and true women, that
were willing to help US, for upon the efforts of
our own sex all our hopes depend and there
are many Of us that have long since learned
that We must dare to stand alone; especially
II We are sure that we are right, and we have
good and true men with us, that have offered
their contributions in our cause. We have
thirteen as good writer's perhaps as there are
IN the land ten ladies and three gentlemen,
one doctor, one student, and one minister, and
among our first and most gifted, we count
Mrs. r. Smell; of Eashampton, Nancy Doug
las, ami DR.. Caulkins, of New London, Conn.
We find that our friends are waking up, and
one whole souled woman has gwen as the
generous sum oftwenty dollars. and one two
dollars. This is what we most need at the
present time. How many more will give us
half or one-qnarter of twenty dollars9 Wo.
men of our land! we need your sympathy
and your material aid. Shall we have our
request granted7 Our cause depends mainly
upon ourselves and as some OF us are sur.
rounded by sickness, we hope our friends will
excuse us if we should not be able at all times
10 send them two plumbers per month. until
spring, but they may rest assured that if we
are one year among the living, they will have
their "a numbers for one dollar, and l2 for
fifty cents. We hope that oil will take our
hint, and fear not in regard to their papers.
The Pioneer and woman's advocate. (Providence, R.I.) 1852-185?, 1852-12-04

en-. For, if we do not. before many gen.
erations the heathen will have occasion
to send missionaries to the land of the
puritans. The foreigner who can neith.
er read nor write, works IN winter dur
ing the day but the daughters of New
England farmers and mechanics must
work, not only during the day but be-
tween four and five hours of the night
lest the public peace should be endan.
gered. My sisters, are you willing Ion
ger to submit quietly to such treatment?
or will you resolve at once to "agitate I"
and petition until you obtain the right
to comfortable and useful existence.
LOWELL, Mass. 81 JULIA."
/ have a nice bed of Goals here and
were it not for violating my promise, |
should very soon dispose Of it. If had
the ability to improve it, have not the
time. for Thanksgiving oompan began
to come on Saturday.
The Pioneer and woman's advocate. (Providence, R.I.) 1852-185?, 1852-12-04

Female physicians. for females and
children, is one of the best improve
ments of the day; and as doctor, and
a husband wanting the person of my
wife sacred to myself from the hands of
all other men, and as man regarding
the proprieties and amenities of mar.
ried life, give them cheerful and
glad welcome.
Believing and feeling thus, have
endeavored to help along this revolution
and comply with a sense of duty, by
qualifying one woman-my wife-for
practical part in this beneficial reform.
For the last two years she has had the
management of large number of pa
tients, and has been blessed with extra
ordinary success, both as midwife and
physician.
New LONDON, CT., Nov. 9, 1852.
The Pioneer and woman's advocate. (Providence, R.I.) 1852-185?, 1852-12-04
Taxation without Representation.
NORTH MANCHESTER, Wabash Co., !
Indiana Nov Cd 1870

Indiana, Nov. Cd, 1862.
Miss n. w. SPENCER Now is a
great time with the men of this coun.
try. Every one stands upon his dignity
as man and voter. How would he
feel just on the eve of a Presidential
election if some stronger power acting
on the principle that "might gives
right" should contrive to withhold from
him his right to the elective franchise
would he not scratch his head and look
about him very busily to discover from
whence came the authority. But man
has SO long usurped the political rights
of woman, that many women think that
the present degraded position of their
sex is right, and, like the contented
slave, give conclusive evidence that op.
preston has doue its perfect work on
them, it has degraded them until they
do not know that they haze any rights.
Look at the gross injustice to which we
have had to submit, no matter how low
the man may be, the veriest vaga6ond
that walks the earth, if he but bear the
name Of man, helps to make laws that
the most intelligent woman is bound to
obey or suffer the penalty. And in the
face of all this, those who attend the
national celebrations, hear it reiterated
again and again that this is free coun-
try, that its boasted liberty was bought
by the blood of our fathers, who were
driven to resist the aggressions Of the
mother country. because she sought to
enforce taxation aoithout representation.
And what did they do? No sooner
were they free from the shackels of the
tyrant themselves, with their hands yet
dripping with the battles gore, they de-
liberately fastened upon woman the
chains that they had spurned to wear-
And this usurpation has been handed
down to posterity until the mass seem
really to be of the opinou that woman
cannot govern harself. Where they
oanuot meet her with argument they try
to frighten her with the indelicacy and
immortality of women, going to the polls.
But some of us are beginning to see
through that scare crow, and have no
hesitation in saying that that place CT
that company that is not morally right
for woman to 60, is not morally right
for man. We should not be surprised
if some who feels the iron Of oppression
in their own souls, do feel indignant at
this species Of tyranny. With the light
that is now being shed on this subject,
it is time that woman should consider
The Pioneer and woman's advocate. (Providence, R.I.) 1852-185?, 1852-12-04
For the Pioneer.
WOmnn's Rights and Occupations.
BY P. N. CAULKINs, M. D.

BY P. N. CAULKINS, NJ. D.
For many years | have believed that
upon the nature Of humanity depended
human rights. They have their origin
in that nature, and should everywhere
be accorded to it.
The nature Of men and women being
essentially the same, they are entitled
alike to all the rights pertaining to hu-
manity. If there be any difference, it
is not radical-fundamental-in kind
but in degree. For instance, woman
has the same kind of philoprogenitive-
ness and destructiveness but her love
Of offspring is greater, and her destruct-
iveness smaller than mans. Therefore
she is better fitted than he fer the ten
der care of children, and in an equal
degree unified for the destructive and
less human occupation of war. She
has notifications in degree that give
her peculiarities but whatever occu.
patton is suited to those notifications,
she can, with perfect propriety, exercise.
There is not single popularity Of her
nature that deprives her Of any right en-
joyed by man; her deprivation being an
unreasonable assumption-an usurpa-
tion-in the days Of old barbaric rule
Her right to control her own destiny and
property in the married condition is
equal to his: and she has no less right
to vote or assist in making the laws that
protect human rights and regulate the
holding, the alienation, and the taxation
of property, and the laws to regulate
marriages and the control Of children
in short, all laws. To usurp these
rights is ungenerous, heartless, tyran-
ous-unworthy the civilization of the
age. Of misery in numberless forms it
is the prolific cause.
The same may be said of the usur-
patton of the occupations every way
suitable for females. One of the occu.
pations thus usurped, is that of the mid
wife. For many years it has been
almost wholly monopolized by men,
But better day has dawned. Hus.
bands and wives are both becoming con.
vinced Of the improprieties, the imposi-
tions, and the demoralizing tendency of
man-midwifery. And revolution has
we'll begun, restoring the business to Its
proper and rightful agents. Within a
few years many women have come, we'll
prepared by proper instruction into the
profession as midwives and physicians.
The Pioneer and woman's advocate. (Providence, R.I.) 1852-185?, 1852-12-04


port conlectioners, druggists and doc
tors All Z my sisters if you had the
ten hour system Of labor you might ex.
change these useless and injurious arti.
cles for treasures that would not only en-
hance your happiness in this life but
through all the life to come; and these
treasures are almost free. Think of
our public Libraries containing thousands
of volumes, from which we can select
two volumes week by paying fifty
cents annually. And no town could re-
fuse to provide evening schools free
You might turn the confectionery shops
into reading rooms and by forming clubs
you might for triAing expense have as
many papers as you like. You might
make physiological rooms of the drug
gists stores and have models of the hu-
man body take the place of those poison
Gus drugs which you purchase so dearly.
You might call the physician to the
counter to deal out instruction instead Of
coming to your families to deal out pills
and powders. 1t is our religious duty
to study the human system. Our Phys
Illogical text book should have a place
by the side of our bibles. Some will
say that they labor in the mills and save
their money to defray their expenses at
school. But if you do this you must
overtax your physical energies while
earning the money. and while you are
at school there is a corresponding tax
upon the mind, which, if you had the
short hours of labor, you would not be-
come exhausted by either physical or
mental exertion and all would be har.
monious. Others will say that they de-
sire to lay up money for the supply of
future wants. But there will be little
satisfaction in suffering the torments of
ruined constitution and exchanging
the hard earned money for bitters and
cordials. ,And if you chancese06e mar.
ried. such wretched wives and mothers.
Their suferings beggar all description.
But the time will come when men will
understand physiology and they will
take warning by the sad fate of their
brothers and not marry. If, after hav-
ing tested the ten hour system, you find
that it does not pay we'll, you will feel
that you have time to qualify yourselves
for some other business The sphere of
woman's labor is expanding, (for you
know woman's sphere is very elastic
There are about l30 now employed in
our Post Offices and official reports say
that they have conducted the business
better than men.
Schools for design have been estab-
lished which will enable hundreds Of
women to obtain lucrative employment
for which their taste is so we'll adapted.
Medical colleges are provided, and many
kinds of business which has been done
exclusively by men will soon be open to
women. There is one other objection
which deserves especial attention.
We are told that the girls mot the men)
would make a bad use of their time and
the public morals would be ruined. If
the future wives end mothers of New
England are so degraded that they must
be so overworked as to ruin their phys.
ical and be deprived of all the means OF
social, intellectual and religious devel.
L
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NUMBER y.
Voting for the Dead--Rome Outdoue

Ut was reserved for the recent election To ey.
hibit new idea in the historical records of
mankind. 1t was thought that every possible
variety OF human conduct had been exhibited.
Solomon himself had said that there was moth
ing new. The rejection of the Just and great
had been often done Roman malice had done
its utmost against human virtue Athens had
Ianlslicd Aristides. and England bad beheaded
Sydney: Nor was there anything wanting to
human degradation. Rome once made horse
an Emperor. But in America we have done
something superior TO all this. We have pror-
ed that the United States can outdo the world
ID any thing, and conceive ideas which never
before had existence In the most intellectual
city III The United Statcs--no less than the re-
hoWned city of Eoston--thousands of poople
r0ffd for dead man for President, Tbey
could not be Ignorant that he was dead. for
they had seen him buried. They could not be-
licNe the election would raise the dead. for the
! elccllohs are carried on according to the Con-
St!tutioh, which contains no such power. In
me, they evidently intended to give The world
neW idea, and as Boston is the Athens Of
America O. 1t is proper that Boston should do
what Athens was Incapable of-go beyond all
ancient IDEAS Of either the sublime or the ridicu-
lous. lenccforth Boston stands alone in this
new Idcality Of hero worship.
Inc dead have had monuments built TO them.
epitapbS written. eulogics pronounced. their
ashes scattered in vengeance. and their names
canonized in glory. but never before have beeu
'oted Tor as President of Repubiic.-Cin.
Gaz.