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The Pioneer and woman's advocate. (Providence, R.I.) 1852-185?, 1853-03-26
Our Society.

1t has been said TO US by women
of the best talents and responsibility
that our society was the best one
that was ever formed, and we verify
believe il is as good a combination as
may come together, five are always
careful TO receive none to our con.
fdence but the faithful and true
None but congenial minds should
come together in this Union. If we
have but ten or even six true wo.
men. Depend upon it friends we
shall look well to our ranks i'm fu-
ture.
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rMr. J. S. Wesby's Bookstore
is our depot at No. 124 Main street.
Worcester Mas. Mr.. Charles
Brayman is our travelling agent for
Worcester County.
We shall hope to hear a good ac-
count of Mr.. Brayman soon. He
may always take his papers from
Mr.. Wesbey's store if most agreeable
We shall take a new start next
month. - aan51 H
Our friend DR.. T. N. Caulkings
of New London, Conn, is, we are
sure, gentleman of the right stamp,
as he is wide awake, in regard to
having his name spelt right; and we
see, fully understands the justice
and propriety of all just and equal
laws; his arguments are very COM.
prehensive, just and true. We should
like to see the man who would un-
dertake to oppose him, but such an
one, we have no doubt, would never
own his real name. And now, we
wish to say 10 any Of our Providence
ladies that are or may be in poor
health, if you wish to take a pleasant
trip on the beautiful Connecticut
river, and also wish for one of the
best houses for medical aid, in all
its various known arts and practice,
you will be sure 10 find two well.
experienced and successful persons
in Mrs. DR.. Caulkings and her hus.
band. ano1 'd 90
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VERY SUPERIOR RICH AND CHEAP
GooDs.-Mrs. Minnard's Bonnet
rooms, which cur friends will find
in another columns the place TO buy
goods. We have lately made them
a call, and we are sure that we
should not give them justice if we
did not rank them among the mas
accommodating and obliging per.
sons TO be. found in our city, TO say
nothing Of the superior styles of new
and rich goods that we have exam
ined, which have just been selected
from New York. Now, ladies, if
you do not believe usjust call on our
friends, at No. IA Westminster street
and our word for it, you will al
ways 60 there again. g
The Pioneer and woman's advocate. (Providence, R.I.) 1852-185?, 1853-03-26
Montville, March 9, 1853.
Dear Miss Spencer -

-1t .'lol 'IctI
Dear Miss Spencer 81
Think you have reason 10 feel
greatly annoyed that have not an.
swered your letters before. 1t is not
because had forgotten our COM
mon cause, orl lost in any degree my
interest. But I will not now trou-
bic you with the thousand and one
good excuses, to say nothing of the
poor ones, for not doing SO, but
away with past troubles, and now
10 the point, how delighted l should
be to attend your fair, and as those
old costumes real curiosities and
then associate the Anticipated ideas
and thoughts, and enjoy the rare
jokes, and for a short time mingle
with you in your social and intellec-
tual feast. But alas the crowding
duties of the present, the multitude
of witnesses against me, have en-
tirely closed up the party. You
have my best wishes that you may
more than realize your anticipations.
May your company be complete,
and YOU find there was no room for
me. received your package and
the direction now is right. We
liked this number very much, as
Mrs. Granger says had ! the pen Of
ready writer you would hear from
me. hope I shall get you some
thing off soon. There is a chance
yet 10 be useful in the world. The
friends Of temperance are making a
worthy effort here. should be
oery happy to come to- your fair and
myself make useful to you; please
excuse me this time. We are glad
At hear your mother is better and
that you are all in good spirits, that
is the right kind of strength, let us
hear from you.
Yours, in great haste,
s. A. Turner.
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A higher step in civilization has
been taken in several States which
is worthy ofbeing followed by every
State in the Union.
The practices of barbarism are
being slowly replaced by usages
more consonant with the grand key
note Of Christianity,-the unity of
the human race and the consequent
unity Of human rights.
By the inextinguishable lights
now burning on the altars of God
and the people-religion and liber.
ty-it may be clearly seen that all
human good guaranteed by law TO
man as all individual, should have
the same sanction as rightfulfy the
enjoymen. of an individual woman.
Human rights are inherent in hu-
man nature. AS the nature Of the
sex is a unit, so are their rights.
The property-right of woman as
wife, has every where been usurped.
Man, in his legislatures, had made
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1--WE would advise all the la
dies who are looking for the richest
and most beautiful styles of head
dress TO call at Mrs. G. G. Mathew.
sons rooms, (ate of New York; now
to be found at No. 62 Arcade, third
story. For elegant caps and head
dresses Of all kinds, hers stand
among the frstin the city. .,f
The Pioneer and woman's advocate. (Providence, R.I.) 1852-185?, 1853-03-26
All Voted Out,

In our late Fair at Mechanics
Hall, all things went on pleasantly
with rich tables of refreshments, and
the promenades in the the old fash
ioned dresses-all served for a pleas
ant entertainment and was, being
we'll patronized but for the wheel
tables who began 10 complain that
they thought their goods had been
pilfered, for it seemed they were not
satisfied with the money on hand,yet
seemed to be doing good business.
By some mismanagement, however,
among themselves, they fell short
Of having enough 10 pay all the bills
to the full amount for which they
were presented. The jewelry and
toys which they had disposed Of in
grab boxes and on wheel tables was
a most curious affair, and how to
get at the true state of the business
done between these commissioners
and sellers was most difficult thing
Yet it was we'll known by all the la
dies that the constitution and vote Of
the society, gave the President all
the money at the door by her paying
for the hall and printing, to be given
her for a fund for her paper. Even
the jewelry and toys which had been
used by the younger part of the
society, which they requested they
may have, was Immediately directed
to the President to pay out her own
money for these bills, and she hav-
ing three tables Of her own to be res
possible for 10 the different ladies'
Bill after bill was sent her that she
might become the paymaster for all
these persons, which after giving
something in aid Of the different la.
dies that had seemed TO do all they
could, she decidedly refused TO pay,
and it was decided by those ladies
whom thePresident had long known
to faithful friends, that all these box
es and tables, and post Offices shall
be forever voted out of this Society
that we will hereafter take no per-
son that is in favor of or wishes to
have one. We have learned a good
lesson by giving away to the young
er part Of the members, which will
last US our whole life, and by which
we may learn wisdom for time 10
come. Each lady was responsible
for her own table.
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Hedwick, Feb. 18th, 1853.

A4SoWlShS Il COs 1OtIS 4SCOs
My Dear Friend, = Many duties
have devolved upon me the past
week, to prevent response to your
kind letter and agreeable invitation,
TO be with you at your anticipated
festival, please accept my sincere
thanks with the assurance that do
most earnestly desire to be with or
to aid you in some form or other; to
become acquainted and 10 listen TO
remarks of earnest feeling from many
whom as yet 4 have never had the
honor of seeing, would indeed be to
me a real pleasure but it may not
be, though at some future time !
may meet and greet you with that
sisterly affection I ever feel for all
true hearted women. May it prove
a season of mutual benefit and great
profit TO all engaged and concerned
in, it. Oh, how l wish it were with.
in my means TO afford you some Pc
cuniary assistance! Gladly would I
send something for your table were
it possible. In city like yours it is
easy to obtain almost any article you
would wish for, either useful or or.
namental with money, and had l
any to spare you should have some,
for that purpose. ] trust you will
find friends more able and equally
10 lend the helping hand ne
cessary 10 sustain you on in your
laudable enterprise. The most can
do is to send the two dollars enclosed
with the names of two subscribers
Miss Betsey E. Gardner, Wendal
depot, Mass, Miss Mary s. Earle,
Hardwick, Mass. l gave them re-
ceipts as they desired it-from June
9th 1852 TO June 9Th 1853, - and
them with ten numbers.
You spoke of one being published
the week you wrote-there has none
arrived at this Office yet. I do not
think l can get any more to COM
mence back with the first volume.
My love to yourself and mother
we shall be pleased to Rear from
you at any time. Most truly yours,
LUCY M. GRANGER.
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+ TNow is the time to call on
our friends, those men of the true
color for the cheapest and best es-
tablishment in the city. True blue
or any other color you may be sure
Of by calling at No. 81 South Main
street. Keep to 10 the right ladies
lust below the custom house--don't
forget the number.
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laws TO rob her of Of her rights. He
is the stronger Of the two, and such
laws have no other foundation than
that assumed by the robber, that
might gives right.
Stealing her right Of property, he
stole her right of self control, and
made her a slave to his will, while
making her a dependant on his
purse, for the control of the support
is virtually a control over the will of
the supported.
But the husband, say the conser-
vatives, is bound to give the wife
maintenance and protection, and
therefore should assume the owner
ship of her property. How gener-
Gus! Rob her and then support
her. Steal her rights-reduce her to
the condition of a slave, and then
protect her! Oh!ye brother lords
of creation lis it not magnani-
nous?
This Stale with several others,
has become sufficiently civilized and
christianized to yield to her The
right which robber-law had usurped,
and now she is permitted as wife
to hold the property she owned as
maid or widow, and all she may ac-
quire after marriage.
When will other States come up
to the level on which now stands
old Connecticut.
And, on the other hand, when
will woman have delicacy, sense
and independence enough to resume
as she can, the self abandoned right
of keeping out of the demoralizing
clutches of the man midwife
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For the Pioneer.
woman's Property Right.

BY T. N. cAuLKINGs M. D.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-08-03
SOUTHERN COACH FACTORY.

FR4NKLLNTON DEPOT N. C.
undersigned would inform the riding
4 public and others who may wish to ride,
he has established a Factory in the Viii
lage of Franklinton N. c.. on the Raleigh and
Railroad, for the manufacture of
PLEASURE CARRIAGES.
of all descriptions in the neatest and best man
ner. He has purchased the light for Franklin
County for the manufacture Of the
Patent Perch Buggy,
which is acknowledged by all to be a great i'm
provement on the old perch.
He has in his employ the very best workmen
in eve.y department of his business. His Black
smith is an experienced workman, WHO served
his time anG worked many years in the Coach
Shops of Newark N. ]. His Painter is from
Liverpool, Eng. and understands Thoroughly the
style and manner of painting adapted to CARR
ages &c. of the most durable kinds.
Thankful for the liberal patronage heretofore
received, the undersigned hopes by his increased
facilities and neutrality-suspicious., still TO merit
and continue to receive a fair portion of public
favor.
All work done by him will be warranted to
stand twelve months with fair treatment
H. T. CLAWS0N.
July l. 1853. 4s-ly.
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Spring Stock Medicines, 1858.

ID F. PESCUD is now receiving his Spring
I a supply of Medicines, Paints. Oils, Dye
~stuffs. Perfumery and Fancy Articles, which is
in all respects. reliable, and in sufficient guam
titles to merit a large increase of Wholesale as
we'll as Retail Trade.
With seventeen years experience, in his bus
mess and greatly increased facilities for purch-
asing, receiving, and forwarding goods, he
hopes to retain the patronage and influence Of
his customers.
His great aim is to procure the purest and
most reliable articles, and will not knowingly
sell any other kind, aud to this cause, he at
tributes the large increase of his sales and the
success which has followed his efforts to gain
the confidence of the public.
Physicians and families who have Prescrip.
tons to fill may rest assarea tia. they viii be
promptly and faithfully executed by expert
enced persons at all hours of the day or night
He hopes all who owe him on accounts OF
Tor notes due prior to the first of January last
VIII call and settle, without delay, or remit
their Indebtedness.
March l4th. 1853, 2S-
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MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY.

THE cost of Insurance on the mutual plan is
but a small sum, compared with a joint stock
Company. This Company being located in the
Western part of the State, consequently much
the larger portion of the risks are in the West,
very many of which are in the country.
Tn Company is entirely free from debt; have
made no assessments, and have a very large
amount in Cash and good bonds, and is there
fore confidently recommended to the public.
At the last Annual Meeting the following Of
fcers, were elected for the ensuing year:
JAMES SLOAN, President.
Sc. COFFIN, Tice President.
C. p. MENDENHALL, AHorney.
PETER ADAMS, Sec'y. &c Treasurer.
DIRECTORS.
James Sloan, DR. A Mebane, c P Mendenball,
VIM S Rankin, Rev G 1 Deems, James NJ Garrett,
J III Lindsay, w j Mcconnell, Greensborough. E
F Lilly, Wadesboro'. w P Moore, Newborn. II
II Burwell, Henderson J L Bridges, Marlborough.
DR. S G Coffin, jamestown. VIM A Wright, Will
mington. DR. C w Watkins, Carolina Female Col
lege. John I Shaver, Salisbury. John II Cook,
Fayetteville. u Biggs, Raleigh. Robert E Troy,
Lumberton. DR. Robt II Scales, Lenox Castle.
PETER ADAMS, Sec'y.
WIN. II. CUMMING, General Agent.
June Ii. 1853. l5-1y
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JoNEsVTLLE
MalR anh Gfmalt aranfmiRa

MalE NM Gfmalt 1GaGFmiEg.
REV. WIN. L. VAN EATON, A. NJ.
In charge Of the Male Department;
WIN. o. REID AND LADY,
In charge Of the Female Department.
OUR next session will commence on Monday the
~ 18th of July.
it is important that all young ladies and gentle
men wishing to enter, be present on the first day of
the session, or as soon thereafter as circumstances
will permit.
All will be charged from the time Of entering to
the close of the session, and no deduction will be
made for absence, except in cases Of protracted
sickness. Board can be had with the Teachers, if
preferred gentlemen with Mr.. Van Eaton, and
ladies with Mr.. Reid) ut the reduced price of S ,25
per week or if desired, good board may BIO OBJ
tanned at the Hotel, or in many private families in
the village or in heimmediate vicinity, at the same
reduced rates.
Books and Stationery will be furnished the stu
dents at customary prices.
The entire expenses varies from $31:25 to $3S:75
per session of FIVE months.
ExvRAs-Nusic SIS; Guitar $12 French and
Painting in water colors, each So Embroidery So.
W.. L.. VAN EATON,
w. O.. REID,
Principals and Proprietors.
Yadkin Co., N. c., June 20, 1858. 43-3m
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June 26th, 1853
CLINTON FEMALE INSTITUTE.

mdIS Institution will commence its second
4 Session on the second Monday in July next.
Every branch of female education is taught in
the Institute, and the presentnumber of Schol-
ars warrants the belief that no School IN our
country furnishes greater facilities for impart-
ing knowledge.
The expenses per annun will not exceed
1924 for the most advanced literary course,
and with the usual number of extras the neces-
sary expenses per year will not exceed $40
Board per month in the Institute 50 good
board may be had in private families of the
village much cheaper.
Tuition for all English brapchesL per Session
Of 81 weeks, primary course $40 all branches
in the 1st and I'd Glasses ST.. Junior and Senior
Glasses SIS.
For particulars the public is referred to oul
Circulars, which can be had by addressing the
Secretary or the Principal.
H.. A. BIZZELL, Sec'y
of Board of Trustees.
Clinton, June I, 1858. SGT
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Bakery and Confectionery.

PUFrICK & MITCHELL would respect
fully inform the public that their establishment is
now III the 90 full tide of successful experiment.
aud they are prepared to execute all orders in
their line in Cake and Bread-baking, Candy
making, dc. Nuts, Fruits, Groceries, &c., al
ways kept on hand.
CIGARS.-Our stock Of Cigars is very large.
some of them of the choicest brands, such as
Ele Gratitude, Golden Regalias, Silvas, Excel
sior, Ell Ciervo, Steamboat Principles, and a va
riety too numerous to mention.
N- Parties in the City or country furnished
with every description OF C~onfectionaries, on the
shortest notice and most reasonable terms
BRIDES CAKE carefully packed and sent
to amy part of tile State. Sugar and Mola3ses
cakes, also Candy, suitable for country Stores,
packed in barrels or smaller packages, cheaper
than they can be bought at any other House in
North Carolina or Virginia. Low profits and
quick sales, is our motto.
Raleigh, May %, 1858. 37--tl
G- Papers copying our former advertisement
will insert this and discontinue the other.
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BURSTS OF ELooUENCE.-The following
burst Of o loquence was delivered before a
court of justice in Pennsylvania:
Your honor sits high on the adorable seat
of Justice, like the Aslatic rock OF Gibraltar,
while the eternal river of mercy like the ca,
da,erous of tho valley, flows %meander,ng at
your feet
The following is the commencement of a
speech of a lawyer in New Jersey
Your honors do not sit there like marble
statues to be waited about by every idle
bteeze.'
Another orator thus commenced his har
angue:
Tho important crisis which were about tt
arrive have arroycn.'
Another thus eXpatiated:
Tho court will please to observe that th
gentlemen from the east has given them
very learned speech. He has roamcd wit
old Romulus, socked with old Socrates, rip
ped with Euripides, and canted with old Can
lharides, but what yourhoDor, does he knoV
about the laws of Wisconsin
Extra from the argument of a young law
yer before a Mississippi Justice:
MAY it please the COURT would rathe
live for thirteen hundred centuries on til
small end of a thunderbolt-chaw the rag
god end of a flash of Neutrality-suspicious. h
corners of a Virginia worm fence, and hav
my bowels torn out by a green briar, tina
to be thus bambOozled by the gentleman"
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NOCTOR JaS~~hs Famfiiyf ~AA4Feuaie4ncs. A
II fresh supply just to hand.
Transparent Soap in Bars. For all that is
in quality excellent, and in use effective as a
in pIeasurable Toilet appendage, and as a Soap
for washing Lace, Silks, Cambrics, Flannels,
&c, it has no superior.
Gum Dfops, of Lemon, Strawberry. and Va
nilla flavor.
Seidletz and Soda Powders. Maynard &
Noyes', warranted of superior quality. All
the above for sale by
WILLIAMS S HAYWOOD.
June 7, 1858. 39-
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(Which my dear lad do you think the
mcrriest place in the world" "That i'm
mcdiatcly above the atmosphere that sur
rounds tho earth, | should think" "And
why so ?" Because | am told that there
all bodies lose their gravity"
ANEcDoTE OF CRoMwELL.-In the days
of the English Commonwealth, after the
execution of Charles /, Cromwell, in his
zeal to obliterate even the name of royal
ity, ordered an alteration of the Lords
Prayer, SO that it should read "Thy Com
MoNwEALTH come," instead of "Thv
kingdom come"
THE New York atlas, speaking Of a man
of note, lately deceased, undertook to say
'ho subsequently commenced his life as lie.
gal practitioner but was diverted from it by
his lore of letters The editor did not lool
at his proof, and on Sunday morning he haC
tho pleasure threading, he subsequently com
menced life as a legal politician but was di
vertcd from it by his tore ofbittcrs.'
Az UP 81 DOwN REPLY.-During the OK
animation of a witness as to the locality {
stairs in n house, the counsel asked hr
which way the stairs ram The witnes,
who, by the way, was a noted wag, reptile
that One way they ran up and the othe
down. The learned counsel winked bot
eyes, and then took a look at the ceiling.
ONE Of the most celebrated members {
the Paris Bar-Was consulted the other da
by a young practitioner upon an obscul
point of law. | cannot give you a pos
live answer, young man., replied the az
%yocate; | have pleaded once one way, ar
once the other, and l gained my suit eac
time
A drunken chap laundering through Il
darkened hall of his boarding house, W
accosted by the landlady to know if
would not have a candle.
Thunder, no. said be, dts so ours
dark Out her" the) that ! 9ouldn't gee il
~ hight"
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NORTH CAROLINA
Mutual Insurance Company.
RALEIGH. N. C.


= AHIS Company has been in successful oper-
- alton for more than seven years, and con
tiHues to take risks upon all classes of property
in the State Except Steam Mills and Turpentine
Distilleries,) upon favorable terms.
Its Policies now cover property al amounting to
81 800. 900, a large p~ortion of which is in cOun-
try risks; and its present capital is over Six
Hundred Thousand Dollars, in bonds Properly
secured.
The average cost of Insurance uron the plan
of this Company has been less than one third OF
one per cent per annum, on all grades of Fro
perty embraced in its operations.
The following persons have been elected Di'
rectors and Officers of this Company for The
present year:
Jos. G. B. Roulhac, G. w. d. HutchingsAJno
R. Williams, John Primrose, H. d. Turner, S
w. Whiting, T. II. Selby, of Raleigh George
McNeill, Fayetteville, Joshua G. Wright, vii
mington, James E Hoyt. Washington, Jane:
Sloan, Greesborough, John Cox. Edenton, Josh.
ua Boner, Salem, Joseph II. Pool, Elizabeth
City, F. f. Pagan, Plymouth, Alexander Mitch
ell, Newbern, W. N. II. Smith, Murfreesboro'
H. B. Williams, Charlotte, John B. Barrett
Milton and A. T. Sunny, Asheville.
All Directors are authorized TO receive APP
plications.
OFFICERS OF TIL COMPANY;
J. G. B. Roulhac, President,
Henry D. Turner, Vice President,
S. w. Whiting, Treasurer,
&c Partridge, Secretary,
John H.. Bryan, Attorney,
j. Hersman, General Agent.
S. w. Whiting,
Jno. R. Williams, Executive Committe
Jno. Primrose,
All communication in reference to insuran
should be addressed to the Secretary, post pal
j. C. PARTRIDGE, Sec'y.
Raleigh, March %, 1853. 30