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FOR ] VN UNPUECRDENTKD 0UTCBR8 AND KNO< in establishing a 1'nper in cver^ respect ?qu to tho dissemination of Literary, Religious, Seienti | vacating tlie great principle* of KQUAL KKili'lV5, | of our people. So far we have given entire sntisfa I iiumhcr in our list of friends and subscrioers pcreo WORKING-MEN A Have found in its columns something Instructive m mmam Have likewise found that it has afforded the luteal ! of tho Knterprisc into afford a reading adapted to : a m&kx FOB THE TOWN ;" . cnimimntwp ii mi in ii w Uiliiui III | !*reat red-hot haste, and <juifo intli^f-! mnt at an expression lined to her, ad-! Iresned him thu* :? "Alderman, Mrs. Snooks, in next' loor neighbor called me a thief; can't! [ make her prove- it ?" "Well," naitl the Alderman, after a, moment's deliberation,'"yon may, but [ think you had better not." Is Hartford, latolv, at the door of a* jiti/.on, a very little boy begged- |iito-i >usly for something to onf, and inn1 mournful tone of voice said, "hi* pa [ rents were dead; and Ins father! wouldn't get any work, and his mother ( rery sick, indeed." > en, . Haul lie, "l coined along, und I gomed along, till Ignt to deu hill vat stands on top of der blackout's diop, and den I looks 'round peliind my pack, and tor sthuff vas all running out niit tor hung holo. Tinks I, I'll sthop dat: and so I sthops tor cart, uid schotehes ter oxen niit a grabble itlione, and trove te pung hole in as tight ash never it vas ni.it a ligh-woodtiot, and gonied along again, till I got to where ter forks roads cross each >dcr niit ter meet in' house, and I looks) 'round peliind my pack agin, and <h* ?nssM sthuff vas all run'd over niit ter [iarrel agin. 'Oh tain you,' says I, I'll fix you now,' and I picks up a chunk iiuf hits ter pung hole niit all my! night, and ter ting ilew out niit a noise, ike a cannon, ana knocked me down! Sat of ter road mitmy pack, and scart er cart, and it runned away niit der itheers, and turned 'cm all over raiti saclioder, and proke everything all in pieces, and I'm gonied home niit my-i lelf, put tor scart isli running to ter' aivfiil." ? Tin? A lmtouty Doli.ak.?A black nan once went to Portland, and attei?-; led church. lie went into a good pew, | ind the next neighbor asked the man ivlio owned it why he put a nigger inhis pew 1 ''Why, sir, he's a Ilayfinn." "Can't help that?lies black." "Why, sir lie's a correspondent of iipne." "Can't help that?lie's black." "He's worth a million of dollars." "Introduce me." Siiukwo Aoyick.?Arffteruinn ttinns luuiiir on 11/wl n " Charley stood a moment, the struggle was evidently a hard one, but the temptation was too strong ; a circumstance known, perhaps, to many older than lie; he gave up his principles to secure a personal end. The next dav%t dinner his grandpa mentioned his ' conversation..1 "You were a 'Loco' last night, at ami-ate !*' "Oh, it was thnl\ then I" responded the child ; as ready with an excuse as any other politician. aIETx. A KAimr.it had occasion to send his hired man?who by-the-way was a jolly Dutchman-?to a neighboring town tor a barrel of molasses. The weather being warm, ami road rough, iind the driver, moreover, driving rather fast, the molasses took a notion to 'work,'" us it i6 generally called. lint we will let him tell his story in his tiwn words. ii\r .11 11 11 ' T "Yes, nia'am," and away he goes to bring the samples, chuckling at the idea that his zeal was to be successful at last. "Thore's nothing," muttered ho, "like hanging on, an v how I" The tin kitchens were brought, and tin pans were next inquired lor. The pans were brought, and other articles enumerated, to seven different kinds, until a goodly portion of tho pedlar's ware had l>cen transferred to the house. "Is there anything more you want, ma'am. "Oh no?I don't want urn* of these : I only asked yon if you had them." The pedlar was fairly "sold," and for a moment felt like getting angry, but the idea rather tickled him, ana he commenced returning his wares to the cart, without uttering a word. He has never called at that house since. Nic-Namos. In the time of "Tip and Ty," policies ran high, like the measles, or any other infectious disease, through whole families ami alltbok aides, front prattling two-year-olds, to octogenarian grandmothers. Charley, like his father, was a strong Whig ; and although very fond of his grandfather, with whom they lived, resisted all inducements to agree with him in politics. lie was particularly happy when allowed to sleep with the old people, and it was only granted as a special favor. One night they heard liirn pattering into their bed room but said nothing, and he soon called out: "(Jran'pa ! don't you hear little feet a coming "Co back! you're a Whig. We can't have any Whigs here," was the reply. " I get her hands from the dough in which ' tlrey were busy, to answer the cb]|.? When she reached the door there stood the everlasting pedlar. "Any tin ware to-day, ma'am V9 "Have yon any tin kitchens t" Bluffing a Pedlar. Ik there is really a difficult point to ! c managed, and acutenesa is reqnir-; 1 to effect it, commend mc to woman's > it for tho purpose. Now there was a certain tin-ware |' edlar travelling tlie city to dispose of I otion-. to such as were willing to har-j1 uin. lie was a iiersevcring trader;* r?d never suffered uinwelf to l>o ldnF-; id with a short answer. At one house ' i particular, he received continued! < idmffs and juwitrances that nothing; as wanted ; they never Ixjnght any- 1 ?ing in that way. ertljeless, he iad? his Culls steadily, with each reg-i lar round, until Jio brcamo a npgular J est, and in reply to. the information < int it was useless to call, he made < nown his purpose to call just aft off en i s he pleased. i One hitter cold day the door l?ell < ing, and the g<KKl lady hastened to'* mmmtjmio lx<KJ<)\ ''iam'"" A Mistake All Around. Thk 4liazarre' tells the following! ood story: A person, who wore n nit <>t homespun clothes, stepped into house in this city, on some business, * here several hulks and gentlemen rei'o assembled in an inner runn.-? i )ne of the coin put iv remarked, (in ai, )\y tone, though suftieientlv loud to be 1 vcrheard by the stranger)tlmt a coun- \ ynnm was waiting, and agreed to 14 Hu o fidinc fun. The following table- j ilk en. ued : I, kYdn're? from the country, I suppose?'?< 4 Yes, Fin from the country.' I, 4Well, sir, what do you think of the) i ty V . 4 [ i 4It's got a darned sight o'houses. in' 5 4I expect there are a great many la-11 ies where you came from V \ 4 Wall, yes, a powerful sight, jest for | !1 the world like them there,' (point- | ig to the ladies.) < 4And you are quite a beau -among ' lem, no doubt.?' * < 4Wall, I 'scort 'em to ineetin' and i DOUt.' j j 4ATavbo the gentlemen will take a '. lass of wine," said one of the coin pa- i Y- , 1 4 Wall, don't care if I <lo.' j 4l>ut you must drink a toast.' ' j 4I eats toast what Aunt Debbj', , lakes, but as to drinkin' it, I never' ( ied tlie like.' L 40, von must drink their health?' i( tWi> all mv heart.' * ! j 4Lnd1oft and gentlemen, permit mo1 > wish you health and happiness, with , rery other blessing this earth can af-| i ad, and advise yon to bear in mind i < nit we are often deceived by appear- j ices. You mistook mo. by my ilress, I * >r a country lioobv ; I from the same i inse, thought these men to be gentle- j leu ; the (Inception is mutual?I wish 1 on good evening.?Saturday Conner, j iyj cuiKwu uic murui cimmcror 01 11 is | er bwpttjtife; but character is not formed in the miCss; and the child, j inorever, is absent from the school at the very hours most favorable fur in or-j id improvement. It is in the privacy ; A' the family'-that the failings of the] fhild quickest betray themselves, and j the peculiarities of its character conge-! luently became most evident. It is 1 here also that the infant heart opens I tsolf readiest to the voice of affection. In reality, children who have noj ionics, in the hue genre of that word, areiy became good citizens. It is now j uhnfttcd, by all ])crson8 familiar with i he subject, that-not only the criminal, >ut even the vagabond portion of so iety, is chiefly bred in the dens of the' die, degraded and lawless. There is a commonwealth c?f vice hat perpetuates within the social fa ' iric, as foul maggots generate them-! elvcs in human subjects victims of the I modi an disease, bet a man be born n the family of a thief, and' the proba>ilitv is that he keeps company witli hieves, that lie g,ows up to he a thief iim?clf. ]>ut let him firpt see the' ighi-in a household where the exam-1 ?les he sees, and not thorcly the advice ic receives, is conductive ko virtue,! md ten to one he becomes an orderly j itizen merely from tha excellent absolutions which have surrounded hina, if. torn nothing else. "When a florist wishes to produce a lew variety of the dahlia, ho begins rith thq germ, and does not wait for he flower. Tho education of the; icartli is to man what the florist's skill : ; to the plant. As soon as .every child { an have a home, in the true senso of! hat word, prisons will be nearly, if; ot wholly useless, ami not. only will ails l>e comparatively unknown, but lie intellectual training received at chool will 110 longer be perverted to uscality and crime, as is occasionally! lie caso now. L?>k to the hearth first, | lie school next, and the prison last.?! fj; *) . 7 II" T r i- L.,.. I ' I truth be effectually as at the fire-aide. It is not at the school that men gcquire their habits of rectitude, but. at the mother's kuee, beneath the peaceful love of the parental hearth. For the teacher's task is principally to mfortn the imnd, while the mission of the homo is to improve the heart. Kverv honest teacher labors indeed U .UV ? 1 .1 1 - I * An ignorant people may be made the; dupea of demagogue*, or the slave* of, a military dictator, much easier than a 1. woll instructed one. A Nni>olcon, for} b example, is as impossible for America,: e< aa a Washington would be, perhaps, |u *#lr France. But the school is still not tho most p powerful engine in recuperating socle n ty. One may discipline*the intellect gi and inform the mind, but unless the ni Ijrinciples are cultivated also, only j ft valf the work is dono. In fact tho men-; it tal qualities are the agents of good and ' r< evil, exactly as a pure or impure mo- u tives preponderate in a man. - Thcjtl Mephistophites of Goothcr, conceded to ; n be the vary incarnation of wickedness, u is the idea of passionless intellect ctevo- j p ted to unmixed evil. 11! Th? Lucifer of Milton has generous !k Jualities aniid his depravity. The j a [ephistophiles is merely a cold sneer-1 ing fiend. nowhere can moral r: .. .? .v ....... .... v. vindictive punishment, tlimi a means ? for successfully leading the viciousj "back to virtue. Few who once enter) _ a jail comes out permanently reformed. | Tito majHrity, perhaps, are really j mado worse. For the last hundred i years philanthropy has exhausted eve-;-" ry resource to render prisons places of ^ reformation ; hut though a few criini-i51 lials, in that interval, have been res- M tored to society, the number has been ! J1 vastly exceeded, by that of the convicts) J" hopelessly depraved. There is, in truth, a something iV 1 " jtie very nature of a prison which,'*) d^diile it strikes terror, rouses the un-!M ge*of the victim against society. In- ^ caracration calls up whatever there is or the tiger in the heart. In short, to seek to make people better by immuring them in dungeons, is beginning at C1 the wrong end. Prisons restrain, but . rarely reform men. lt If our race is to he improved, we , must depend lefss on the prison and j more on tho school and the hearth.? j . In other words, we must rely less on (. fear as applied to the grown up crinii- 11 nal, tCnd more 011 the (affusion of iutel ' . ligenco and good morals amon? the as} yet unperverted young. . A great writer has well said, that {,it j1 is cheaper to build school-houses than ' . jails." Statistics show that in propor-1 ^ tion to the increase of education crime " diminishes. As a class, the men who cannot read are more brutal in their tastes than tho men who can. They drink more, are apt to get more fre- 1,1 quently into affrays, and are continual- H( ly offending tho laws. As a general rule, also, just in proportion as men are ' more highly educated, arc they hotter members of society. Where there j is one Professor Webster, there arc ? scores of Langfeldts and Springs. Everv commonwealth, therefore, should [ have good schools. Every wise states-1 V man will look to the school-house, not: only as a preventive of crime, but as a j(' mental gymnasium in which to train j " lib /.urti nntnn f 1/ . ifniv mill I.K.iiilohiiv I ? ? - ^ T The christian liath its ost rays, To him is given * - j ' Its truest light?moruliun Mnxe, [. Bespeaking liliss thro' endless rfhvs ; A home in ltenvou! v\r.' ' A ' I ? Jti<fy*wat/, 8. V. * T . . i D'UsL 11 Tho Prison, Tiio 'School, The * J - .v.< Hearth. At tlie foundation of every govern- j incut lie.three things, the prison, the 1 school, and the hearth. AYitlumt these, :i social order could not ho maintained' c for ft twelve month. In proportion, c also, as the people arc free does the in- 1 llnenc-e of the first decline, and that of the two last increase. Austria and r ltussia rule by tho terror of the dun- v geon. The United States is governed ( by tlic |XH)ple themselves, educated to I that end intellectually at the school,'is and morally at tho hearth. If cvo* J e the time should come when the world t will see a perfect government, tl^e u jprwon will dhmpjlfcar altogether, and j ouljf tlie school and tho fireside ro-' t! rnala. The prison is, indeed, tho rudest of r rail the agencies designed for the iin- tl provetaent of the human Vaec. in fact tl if ia niyi/*f wftllr rntlior on om/#U\A C. .? 2 Thbbk's a phantom in this of ours So fair, so bright; . ^ Ana it shodcth in our circling hours From its beauteous wings soft showers j Of golden light , Tis a phantom that we all pursue Most eogerly? Life's every vista gleaming through, ' Tis bright as star in ether blue, 1 Or angel's eye. < M f' > * ^ Its smile can almost stay, I trow I Tfie band of pain, Which pr esses hard the anguished brow, . ' . Bonding the hot lilood seething thro* .,. The tortured brain. Tis hope?bright sbndower forth of dreams; } What-e'er IfetMe, I With rsiplww firm it always glcniUs f ,p'cr lonely paths, witfcgohlen beams, , { Tlie soul to guide. ]