MOOUE’S liu; AL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAAIILY JOURNAL. 
Inbies’ lepartniMit. 
THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN. 
BV MRS. K. LITTLE. 
“ The Rights of Woman”—what are tliey? 
T lie riglit to labor and to pray ; 
Tlie right to watch while othem sleep ; 
'J'hc riglit o’er others’ woes to weep ; 
'J'hc right to succor in reverse ; 
'J'he right to bless while others curse ; 
'Die right to love whom others scorn : 
'I’he right to comfort all that mourn ; 
The right to shed new joy on earth ; 
The right to feel the soul’s high worth ; 
'Die right to lead the soul to God, 
Along the path her .Saviour trod— 
The path of meekness and of love, 
The path of faith that leads above. 
The path of patience under wrong. 
The path in which the weak grow strong. 
Such Woman’s Rights—and God will bless 
And crown their champions with success. 
WHICH IS THE WEAKER SEX I 
Females are called the weaker sex, but 
why? If they are not strong, who is?— 
When men must wrap themselves in thick 
garments and encase the whole in a stout 
overcoat to shut out the cofd, women, in 
thin silk dresses, with neck and shoulders 
bare or nearly so, say they arc perfectly 
comfortable! When men wear water-proof 
boots over woolen hose, and encase the 
whole in india-rubber to keep them from 
freezing, women wear thin silk hose and 
cloth shoes, and pretend not to feel the cold. 
When men cover their heads with furs, and 
then complain of the severity of the weath¬ 
er, Avomen half cover their heads with straw 
bonnets, and ride twenty miles in an open 
sleigh, facing a cold noth-wester and pre¬ 
tend not to suffer at all! 
They can sit, too, by men who stink of 
rum and tobacco smoke enough to poison 
a whole house, and not appear more annoy¬ 
ed than though they were a bundle of roses! 
Year after year they can bear abuse of 
all sorts from drunken husbands, as though 
their strength was made of iron. 
And then is not woman’s mental strength 
greater than man’s ? Can she not endure 
suffering that would bow the stoutest man 
to earth ? Call not Avoman the weaker ves¬ 
sel; for had she not been stronger than 
man, the race Avould long since have been 
extinct. Hers is a state of endurance Avhich 
man cannot bear. 
Man labors ten or tAvelve hours per day, 
and then his Avork is done, both body and 
mind can rest, but Avoman’s work is never 
done—she is never idle. From early dawn 
her hands are busy, at noon she is not idle, 
and at night her task is not accomplished. 
When all else has been accomplished, sew¬ 
ing or knitting fills up her spare moments 
.till the hour of retirement arrives, and even 
then when lier lord and master is snoozing 
it, as unconscious as a sleeping calm, she 
must take care of the child and perhaps be 
aroused from her fitful slumbers ten times 
each night 
If woman was not the stronger vessel 
she could not live three years after marriage. 
—Pleasure Boat. 
ABOUT BABIES. 
The influence exerted unconsciously up¬ 
on a family, by a little child, especially if it 
be beautiful, gentle and good, is not easily 
estimated. Few persons are aware, or take 
time to think, how much ill feeling is pre¬ 
vented—how much good nature and affec¬ 
tionate emotion are evoked—hoAVjtnuch dull¬ 
ness and gloom are banished, by the odd 
ways and sweet innocences of the dear tod¬ 
dling baby. Even the rebuke which is slily 
ministered over baby’s shoulders to some 
older body, loses its A'incgar and provoking¬ 
ness. Often, too, the brother or father, im¬ 
patient for his meal that he may get to busi¬ 
ness, is cheated into forgetfulness while 
holding baby and listening to its funny at¬ 
tempt to talk. How, we should like to 
know, can a man grumble that his steak is 
over or underdone, or that a button is off, 
or that his wife has made a bill at the dry 
goods store, while baby is croAving in his 
lace or clambering on his knee ? Heaven’s 
blessing on all good babies, we say. 
When baby comes, the family circle cries 
With great applause; its little sparkling eyes 
Brighten all bosoms in that happy place; 
And saddest brows, and guiltiest, it may be, 
Unvvrinkle on a sudden but to sec 
'J’hat innocent glad face. 
Yes, whether Juno has green the sward, or whether 
November draws our rocking chairs together 
Hound a great household lire in quiet talk. 
When the child comes wo feel a general cheer; 
, With calls and laughter, and the mother’s fear 
Seeing it try to walk! 
It looks so fair, tho infant with its smile. 
Its soft sweet trust, its voice that knows no guile. 
And would say all the grief it soon dismisses; 
Letting its pleased and wondering glances roll, 
Oflering to life, on all sides, its young soul, 
And its young mouth to kisses. 
There is nothing more true than the say¬ 
ing of Horace, tliat it is sweet to remember 
those tilings which it was hard to suffer.— 
In youth Ave listen to tho promises of hope, 
and look fortvard to the future Avith confi¬ 
dence for their fulfillment. But, as years 
roll by, the sanguineness of our character 
becomes diminished, disappointment occurs 
to cloud the prospect; and we turn more 
frequently, and Avith more fondness, to the 
contemplation of tho past, in proportion as 
the field is lessened where our fancy was 
Avont to build her delusi\'e fabrics. 
JUST SENTIMENTS. 
The Washington correspondent of tho 
Baltimore Clipper, says; — 
The northern newspapers are very par¬ 
ticular in telling us, among other things, 
that the “ J}^igktmgale’s J^est ” cost ten 
thousand dollars; and every little act of 
Miss Jenny, every trifling word, is recorded 
as though earth was never before visited by 
so peerless a daughter of Eve—one more 
free from the infirmities which attach to 
poor humanity! This lady, no doubt, judg¬ 
ing from what Ave can learn of her true 
character, has some difficulty in suppressing 
the contempt Avhich she must feel for the 
senseless worshippers at her shrine. No 
man is censurable for searching dictionaries 
in various languages for extravagant Avords 
to express admiration of the sweet notes of 
tho songstress, and for paying his own money 
for a ticket. It is the humbug of which Ave 
have heard many complain. But this is 
called a free country, and, therefore, people 
have a right to make fools of themselves. 
Did you ever hear talk of the American, 
Miss Dix ? She has been in Washington 
repeatedly. Foav, however, have ever seen 
her, as she does not sing in public. The 
calm, soft tones of her voice will never be 
heard in Castle Garden, or in Tripler Hall, 
or in the Melodeon. It is not her vocation; 
she is not gifted Avith the tongue of a Night¬ 
ingale. Her errand is love—mercy. She 
has traveled alone many thousand miles, 
and visited and inspected the dwelling pla¬ 
ces of the insane; and in innumerable in¬ 
stances she has pleaded successfully in hav¬ 
ing the condition of this unfortunate class 
of beings improved; and she came to Wash¬ 
ington in furtherance of a design to provide 
for the indigent insane throughout the 
Union. During the next session of Con¬ 
gress Ave believe that the bill reported for 
this purpose (granting lands, the proceeds 
of which are to constitute a permanent fund 
in each State) Avill become a law; human¬ 
ity Avill demand its enactment, and jus¬ 
tice will require that, amid the profligacy 
of legislation, there shall be one bright fea¬ 
ture—that for the relief of tho distressed. 
It is the way of the world: Fashion and 
amusement rule the hour. The mind in 
after years Avill occasionally revert to the 
immense croAvds which listened to the 
Swedish Nightingale. The voice of melody 
will have died away like the chirping of a 
cricket, or the croak of a frog; but the re¬ 
sults of the employment of Miss Dix Avill 
be enduring, not “ like a vapor,” and many 
will “rise up and call her blessed.” 
AMERICAN JOURNALISM. 
We clip the following from an able arti¬ 
cle by a correspondent of the N. Y. Trib¬ 
une:— 
American journalism, like the American 
national character, is less conventional, more 
versatile, various, and flexible, than Euro¬ 
pean. A German, French, or_^ English 
journalist cannot put his paper to press 
without one or more regular long editori¬ 
als, wrought Avith due attention to all the 
rules of rhetoric, in a style smacking often 
quite as much of the scholar’s study, as of 
the crowded and rapid Avorld in which a 
real editor has his being. The American 
is more a journalist, that is, a writer who 
seizes upon the events of the day, and holds 
them up now in this aspect, now in that, 
flinging on them the most condensed and 
lively light. He does not seek to make 
elaborate essays; his ambition lies not in 
fine writing; he spends no long hours in 
polishing the turns of his periods. All that 
presupposes a certain degree of leisure, 
and perhaps a kind of taste to which he is 
a stranger. At any rate, he has too many 
things to look after, too many subjects to 
discuss, too large a round of aft’airs to un¬ 
derstand and write about, to cultivate the 
mere perfumeries and pigeon wing’s of his 
profession. From necessity, he had rather 
be brief and pointed than elegant and class¬ 
ical; his best triumph as a writer, is an oc¬ 
casional felicity, Avhich is, after all, often an 
accident. 
It is remarkable, that the only paragraph 
writers are Americans. In fact, paragraphs 
are a natural invention of the more youth¬ 
ful period of journalism, before a great va¬ 
riety of talent, or thorough study and treat¬ 
ment of subjects are required in the edito¬ 
rial columns of ncAvspapers. The tenden¬ 
cy seems to be to abandon them as the 
press is improved. Take, for instance, a file 
of any leading London journal of sixty and 
even thirty years ago, and you will find 
these brief, pithy editorials (juite frequent, 
though the same paper has .since ceased to 
use them. And yet a paragraph of tAvo or 
three brief sentences will often have more 
force, and produce a greater effect on the 
convictions of its readers, than the same 
idea expanded through two or tliree col¬ 
umns, though set forth with the richest re¬ 
sources of the language, and illustrated and 
supported by all the suggestions of Avit and 
learning. 
There is nothing on earth so ludicrous 
as the affected caution of a fool after you 
have humbugged him. 
iuiiiiaq Jlwiimg. 
FAITH. 
Ye who think the truth ye sow 
Lost beneath the winter’s snow. 
Doubt not time’s unerririK law 
Yet shall bring the genial thaw, 
God in nature ye can trust; 
Is the God of mind less just ? 
Reap we not the mighty thought 
Once by ancient sages taught ? 
Though it withered in tho blight 
Of the mediseval night, 
Now the harvest we behold ; 
8 ee—it bears a thousand fold ! 
Workers on tho barren soil. 
Yours may seem a thankless toil ; 
iSick at heart, with hope deferred, 
Listen to the cheering word ; 
Now the faithful sower grieves— 
yoon he’ll bind the golden sheaves. 
If Groat Wisdom hath>dccroed 
Man may labor, yet tho seed 
Never in this life to grow, 
Shall the sower cease to sow ? 
The fairest fruit may yet be borne 
On the resurrection morn. 
SEEDS OF THOUGHT. 
He who begins by loving Christianity 
better than truth, will proceed by loving 
his own sect or church better than Chris¬ 
tianity, and end in loving himself better- 
, than all.— Coleridge. 
While everybody wishes to believe rath¬ 
er than examine and decide, a just judg¬ 
ment is never passed upon a matter of im¬ 
portance; our opinion, therefore, is taken 
on trust. The error of our fathers which 
has fallen into our hands, whirls us round, 
and drives us headlong. We are ruined 
by the example of others. We shall be 
healed if Ave separate from the rabble.— 
Now the people, in hostility with reason, 
’’ stand up as a defence of Avhat is their own 
mischief.— Seneca. . 
'' done nothing has known 
. • nothing. Vain is it to sit scheming and 
F A'T HER M A 'FIIE W . plausibly discoursing—up and be doing ! — 
- If thy knowledge be real, put it forth from 
Although few men furnish a happier subject among the great and influential abroad, until in with real natuie, try thy 
r .1 u- I I • • .1 r. I loon i .u ri u r I • i rv theorics there, and see Iioav they hold out. 
for tho biographer, we can only give in the Rural December, 1839, when tho Gatholic bisliop. Dr. nil ^ 
Nkw-Yorker a brief and imperfect sketch of the Ryax, invited him to favor the people of Limor- / 
life of this distinguished philanthropist. Fortu- ick with his presence and labors. Tho advent of , Man IS the feeblest^ branch of nature, but 
nately, however, tho laurels of such a man as the Great Irish Reformer on that occasion, pro- ^ branch that thinks. It is not neces- 
Fathor Mathew are unfading—and hence there is duced a result and sensation which has since been sary that the whole universe should rise in 
no necessity of giving the details of his benevolent felt throughout the civilized world. Since then he arms to crush him; he would Still be nc- 
actions, or extolling Ids e.xalted character. has visited every part of Ireland, various parts of bier than that which causes his death; for 
Theobolu Mathew was born at Thomastown England and Scotland, and is now on a mission he knows that he is dying, and the universe 
mi 
Carlyle. 
Man is the feeblest branch of nature, but 
actions, or extolling Ids e.xalted character. 
Theobolu Mathew was born at Thomastown, 
near Cashel, Tipperary county, Ireland, tho 10th of of mercy in this countiy'. Of his great labors, knows nothing of its power over him. — 
October, 1790. Ho was respectably connected on and the vast good they have accomplished, we Pascal. 
both sides—and is a relative of tho celebrated Gen* may cite one all-powerful evidence. Out ot the Every man should strive tO be a creator 
Mathew, honorably mentioned in Sheridan’s nine millions of Ireland, seven millions have rather than an inheritor — to forge his own 
Life of Swift. At an early age ho was left an 'vithin the past ten years solemnly pledged them- AVeapons rather than rely on the rusty 
orphan, and adopted by an amiable and accom- selves to abstain from all that intoxicates and sword of his forefathers. 
plished aunt, to whoso training and example ho is nearly all their names are recorded in his register, -—- 
indebted for the humane'(/I'd pious traits of char- with the dates of their respective pledges, and, FALSE ESTIMATE OF MAN’S ACTIONS, 
actor which have since, distinguished him. After with very few exceptions, they have religiously ^ _ 
a thorough academic course, he pursued ecclesias- kept those pledges unbroken! How talsc how unjust the estimate 
tical studies for three years . Hero, says his biog- Of Father Mathew it is well said that “in ^hich the world places upon the actions of 
rapher, “ though a close student, ho continued to Christian charity, patience, forbearance, humility, Hc who dies upon the battle field — 
keep his benevolent sympathies in daily activity, industry, wisdom and perseverance, his example who rushes tO carnage and to strife — whose 
and by his amiable qualities, won to his interests has been conspicuous throughout his career; but hands are dripping with human gore, is a 
the enduring friendship of many e.xcellent college in none perhaps has ho taught a lesson, or set an man of honor. Parliaments and Senates 
mates.” Among the most devoted of these was example, ne.xt to temperance, more useful to his return him thanks, and whole nations unite 
tho very Rev. Dr. Power, late of Noav York. countrymen, (and may we not add to our own?) in erecting a monument over the spot where 
Upon the completion of his ecclesiastical course, than in his rare spirit of liberality. In administer- sleeps his corpse. But he Avhose task it is 
Mr. Mathew embraced the order of Capuchin pledge, or or any other offering or oflUce of to dry up the stream of blood, — to mitigate 
friars—and, after a season of spiritual preparation benevolence, he has never required any test, polit- the anguish of earth, — to lift man up, and 
under the care of tho Very Rev. Celestine Cor- religious, has seldom inquired of what par- make him Avhat God designs him to be, dies 
coRAR, of Dublin, he was ordained by Dr. Mur- subject was, and always treated without a tongue to speak his eulog-y, or a 
RAY on Ea.stor Saturdry, in the year 1814, and di- them with the same undiminished kindness, when monument to mark his fall. That only is 
rectly went to Cork to assume the duties of his. l»e know they were opposed to his faith or his sen- truly honorable which does good to the 
mission. Hero it is said ho soon evinced untiring Aments. Upon matters of religion he has often body Or the SOul of man — which contributes 
energy and fidelity, with singular equanimity, ajj said: ‘Let each be satisfied about his faith in his tO human happiness, or promotes the glory 
a pastor and almoner—such indeed that he was conscience, but not be uncharitably bigoted; of God. He shows himself a man, and he 
revered by all, beloved by tho good, and almost while each is striving to get to heaven in the only, who sacrifices his own interests that 
idolized by the poor and friendle.ss, long before he A® according to the light which God may benefit others — who lives unknown 
was publicly noticed. ‘>®Ai given him, why should we quarrel with one ^ fame that he may bind up some bro- 
The first act by Father Mathew, which seemed ken heart — who lays his own honor and 
to involve him in notoriety and public favor, was a portrait is said to bo a life-like one. Father happiness, and even life itself, upon the al- 
purchaso by him, out of frugal savings, of eleven Mathew is described as being a very little above tar of a common humanity, 
acres of land, for the purpose of opening it as a ordinary stature, or about five feet nine or ^ WOuld you show yourself a 
cemetery, free to tho poor, who previously had no mches, with a full though well proportioned yonder tented field, where 
place in or near Cork, where their remains could Jg-e-and he now stands in he si.xtieth year of ^^ath hovers, and the vulture feasts himself 
be decently buried without e.xorbitant charges.- e-®tence. as erect and agile as any military ^ 
Near .h« cento of ll.isb..mifulc..„..e,y,l,c ha. eo.nm.nteoyerty summ.,. Long may he live J* monument, of marble tOp“ 
cauecd..be emoted a plain obeliak, about .ixteen Wreelaun and improve tnanlund, and benefit tho liveTnCe 
feet high, and, upon a tablet in the middle of one ' _ ___ grateful memory ! Go not to the dwellinfys 
of its sides, are^sinqdy inscribed these words- ^ of the rich! 6o not to the palaces of 
‘ Erected in 1830, by Theobolu Mathew.” Un- ABOUND. merriment 
Mr. Buckingham, in his Reminiscences, and pleasure! Go to the widow and relieve 
le aeso iis ir an ea i, lo esires to e gt^tes that during the first session of Con- her woe: Go to the orphan and speak 
urie , an , w icn i was erec e , le c to .^gg the late Benjamin Russell, who had words of comfort: Goto the lost and save 
he surrounded only by the bodies of his poor S i .• r . j l- n * en j • i- 
i.v I .id... done so much hi the Centinel towards the him. Go to tne tallen and raise him up: 
wellasCatholicVhU^pemiadrFLherM.iH^ of the Federal Constitution by Goto the wanderer and bring him back 
by considerable and much needed contributions to Massachusetts, wrote to the Department ot to virtue: Go to thesinner and whisper m 
his charitable funds, to grant them the privilege of salvation and eternal 
being laid in that now lovely place with his poor documents gratuitously-the country hte. 
dependants. almost bankrupt. They were The true object of life has scarcely be- 
Father Mathew began his work of reform accordingly transmitted to him and publish- gun to be understood. In past ages men 
among tho poor inebriates about Cork. He en- Columbian Centinel “ by authori- have been attracted by the glitter and show 
treated them in piivate, as their friend, to break ^y-” the end of several years he was of conquest, and worldly predominance.— 
off at once from their tempter and do.'^troyer, and Called upon for his bill. It was made ou^ They havc pursued the phantom, while the 
take the pledge ;—he exhorted them from tlie al- in compliance with his pledge, was re~ real and the substantial have been sacrifi- 
tar, as a servant of the Lord, to desist from habits ceipted. On being informed ot the tact, ced. — D. C. Eddy. 
of intemperance, as they hoped for prosperity hero Gen. Washiug>on said — “This must not be. -- 
or for happiness horofter. In 1838 ho commenced When Mr. Russcll offered to publish the A FooLiSH Way. — It is said that the an- 
holding his public meetings twice a week in Cork hiws without pay, we were poor. It wtis a cient philosophers once tried to find what 
whore ho addressed the people generally upon the gciierous offer. We are now able to pay was the original and natural language of 
importance of toe-totalism, distributed circulars, our debts. This is a debt of honor, and man, by bringing up a child so that henev- 
and administered tho pledge to the accumulating must be discharged.” A few days after, er heard the human voice. Instead of ob- 
crowds, which then began to seek his instructions Russell received a check for seven thousand taining their end, the child became dumb, 
and to adopt tho terms he enjoined. dollars — the face of his bill. What hearing is to the ear truth is to the 
'Fho success of his efibrts soon attracted atton- --- mind ; and he Avho wishes to give his child 
tion, and induced hundreds of pilgrim-inebriates. The glutton is the lowest souled of all a moral and religious education, must not 
from both near and distant places, to seek his in- animals; the butcher’s boy is to him an At- keep him ignorant of moral and religious 
tluoncc — but incited no spirit of co-operation las bearing heaven on his shoulders. truth. The child will become dumb. 
be decently buried without e.xorbitant charges.— e.xistcnce, as erect and agdo as any i 
Near tho centre of this beautiful cemetery, ho has ®®«n>nander of forty summers. Long may 
caused to be erected a plain obelisk, about sixteen ‘® '®®*f imprpve mankind, and ben 
feet high, and, upon a tablet in the middle of one ' 
of its sides, are- simply inscribed these words— ■ 
“ Erected in 1830, by Theobolu Mathew.” Un- GOOD ALL ROUND, 
der this monument with no after inscription but nr l) • t • d • • 
the dates ot his birth aud death, ho desires to bo , , i • xu r ■ 
