The Litchfield County post., 1826-12-26

WOuI0 nL them Tor tle OiSCnarHe or Ine very important duties of their station. This is no easy work. It demands skill and judgment as we'll as attention. Surely preparation ought to be made for it, that it maybe done well. Look at the majority of girls of eighteen, in the country, and see what are their qualifca- tions for place at the head of household.
 But female influence is felt not only in do- rnestic life it reaches to every part of society. Every where 1t ought to be intellectual as well as sensitive; intelligent as well as affable ; good as well as pretty. No " here indeed are they more pure and delicate, than among our selves; but if to those graces of the female character were added suitable mental inn proyement, the effect on the whole communi- ty would be most happy. A higher spirit of literature would pervade our states and young men would spend that time in study, which they now waste in dissipation. A lof- tier tone of moral feeling would be awakened, and we might hope to witness the purity with out the cxtravagances ofchivaIry..
 IMPosToRs.-While the ingenuity of man has been exercised in devising means to make the most of his labours, and increase the amount of his comforts, it would seem that imposture and the arts of villany keep equal pace with the more honorable pur- suits. Thus we have beggars for money, some driven from their own country for their attachment to liberty, or by an earth quake-some have had their dwellings bur- ned and score of children left houseless and naked-or dozen of them sick-one is blind-another lame, and limps most pitt eously, so long as he is in village, or in sight of a house that, by it's appearance, promises booty--one is deaf--another dumb, except when he can gain more by speaking. In most of the large villages, by that terror of idle vagrants, a workhouse, scores of ragged boys and girls are kept constantly employed in the genteel arts of begging-in many instances, providing support, by these means, for life of drunkenness and indolence, to their miserable parents.-We recollect many instances of adroitness in gulling. A strap- bursting of grief, called upon several ladies of this village, some months ago, and, un- der pretence that child of hers was dead and that she had no burial cloths for her infant, or decent apparel for herself re- ceived many presents--some gave her gowns, some fine linen, and others gave her money so that in few hours she de- parted with her booty, and having purchas- ed a gallon of clear "new rum,' (for she would have none of your watered spirits) had the wherewithal to mourn for children she never had, and indulged her love of '' the genu;ne.'' One or two ragged, rosy checked, sly looking boys used to be seen asking for charity, and were not very par- ticular about what was given them. Ifthey inquire for one thing, and are refused ,anoth- CT will answer old cloths, rags &c. were preferred, but any thing would do. On inquiry, it was found that the parents were driving profitable trade-the old cloths being torn into taters, were sold for rags, and converted into rum So it goes, and we are tempted sometimes to think that one half the good intended by charitable acts are worse than thrown away. We would not, for the world, denounce that charity which ''blesses him that gives, and him that takes," but we do say that more caution should be exercised there are ma ny virtuous poor whom the visitings of charity would bless, but who pine in want, while the shameless impostor and trained beggar carry off the fruits of benevolence.
 (Concord,) N.H.Journal.
 MURDERS AND EXECUTIONS.
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