The Litchfield County post., 1827-11-29

IITCHFIELD, NOVEMBER -, 1877.


Early WGMser.-lt is not unusual, with many peO-
pie, when they experience uRcOmmOnly warm, OF
cold iempesuOus day, TO say, and perhaps believe.
that another such like day s not remembered by the
oldest inhabitants. These generally prove that
the person thus expressing himself has either not
versed with many aged upon the subject, or that
these living chronicers very correct in mott
cling times and seasons We presume, however,
there be no risk in saying that of middle age
cannot remember previous November cold and
wnter-like this present month has been since the
7thi and indeed we very much doubt whether the old
est people among US, upon comparing the present con-
veniences for keeping with those that the first
settlers possessed any year when winter
in early it has this The grouud has been,
in this vicinity, for the last twenty days. completely
locked up by Frost upon which the sum- apparently,
makes no impression. Indeed do not recollect
any season, in the heart of WINTER where TWEEN
ty alternate days have passed with little thaw,
has been experienced the last twenty in this month.
Snow lying in the most exposed situations, has not
thawed enough to wet the bare ground around it, We
would not dare to prophecy upon this subject even IL
we could, for fear of awakening tho fears Of those who
have hay and wood to purchase for winters supply
but wecan at least express the hope that this not
presage OF winter comparatively severe the last
month of the fall has been.
We heartily reioiced the National Inrelli
gencer restored to its good old fashioned size-an I'm
perial sheet. Surely Imperial size is large enough
for all the purposes of paper and too large to
bear any thing like fair comparve price with COM
mon book printing. This stretching of sheets to make
them large enough for two three neig hbours whose
houses are toeraby compact read them at the same
time without leaving their DOORS useless waste Of
time and money,-paper rags at ieast-If neighbours
must get their information Of "men and thngs' bv
borrowing the newspaper, out of regard to the prn-
ters purse let the sheet be SO small that but one can
read it at the time. Besides, such mighty man.
mouth sheets the editors of the National Intelligent
Ger lately spread upon the face of the EARTH are
singulay calculated put small prints like ours to the
blush, since the fashion of the day appears to be to
judge of papers by their size instead of their merit,
We hope the Journal of Commerce g. New-York Ga
zette will take the hint, and reduce their sheets to IA
size, at least small enough spread out with convex
fence upon three feet table. At present they dis
play such body of solid columns, that no other than
rank pedant would think Of making any thing like
comparison ofeir external and internal merits There
is advantage however u these papers; they afford
goodly quantity Of wrapping paper the grocer and
pederof small "notions" while such little sheets as
the Post" thrown by, to be caught up and read
at =" any spare momeh and thus have:their literary
baTenness exposed "a disgrace which seldom befals
the "big Sheets in question.
FOE THE COUNTY posi-.
q
'ohe" he IS old he mW not depart from it,"
"Ths system does not contemplate the intellectual
part of man alone it regards the whole human being
the subject of education. 1t is designed to correct
the whole moral feeling the passions and the heart
as well as to store the memory with that which is
cellent and useful, and to give the Judgment the
habit of discriminating, with accuracy between truth
and alsehood The mind itself is, in this SYSTEM the
first object. The principal aim will have been efec-
ted if that have been called into action and attain e.
ven the incipien energies of future good habits al
though nothing remain upon the memory, to manifest
Immediately the effect of the discipline which has
been in exercise. Thus far considered. the end to
which this mode of education is directed will be in
great measure answered. if the child leave the school
with the affections and feelings of his heart improved
if, in connexion with that which is "cxceent and Of
good report he be under the influence Of more
cheerful and contented view Of human life, than is
generally present in the mind of persons in his station
if he be prepared receive future instruction, not
ly with pleasure but with facility and, above ALL if
he bear away with him the seeds of true religion and
morality
~ would not however be here thought to imply
that much more than this may not, in very many in
stances, be attained. 1t is truly important distinctly
to recoect, that it is the object Of this system, rather
to prepare the mind for instruction. than fill it with
knowledge; and that if it have preference for one
part Of the human being above another, it gives that
preference decidedly rather the improvement of the
moral feeling, and the influence of true religion, than
to the Development of the intellectual powers. may
the other hand remark, that, in endeayouring
to produce both these results as well as the others
which are attainable, judicious selection may be
made of those things which approach the nearest
the future of instruction, which is proposed
pursue, and which may introduce with advantage
1t will appear hope in tho Of the following
say that in this view of the subject the system of in
FAINT education requires only the superntendance Of
those who are interested in that object to be made
highly conducive to the preparation of the children Of
tho poor for the modes of instruction which are fol-
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