Litchfield enquirer., 1830-11-25

should be we'll governed. So he laid by a good hickory, and for every offence thrash- ed his children till they were beaten into hardihood and dshamelessness. When they appeared on tho theatre oflife, they were only fit for robbery and the whipping post. How different was the government ofmy old friend Aimwelk and his wife-If one corrected child, the other never interfer- ed. When the first ray of knowledge be- gan to dawn in their infant minds, they commenced a steady course of proceeding. They never directed what was improp-. CT to be done, or misunderstood but so long as the child resisted through temper, they continued to persist until that temper yielded. A second whipping was rarely necessary. A steady hand-a mild but l firm manner of issuing their commands, were always sure to produce obedience.- 1 It was an inyariablc rule with them when they were in a passion, never to punish their children never to promise to them the minutest thing without performing; and yet their children loved them most tender- ly-wantoned and played their little gam bols about them with the utmost freedom. If it was convenient they came to the table -ifnOt, without a murmur they waited They grew up patterns of lilial obedience and affection, and added to society the most correct, useful and respectable members.
 Listen to old Robert Never strike a child while you are in anger. Never in- terfere with your husband or wife in the correction of a child in its presence. The parents must be united, or thero is an end of government. Never make light prom ises to children of rewards or punishments but scrupulously fulfil what you promise. Begin early with your children-ifthe tenn per be high, break it while youDg-it may cost you and them pang, but will save you both fifty afterwards-and then be steady in your government. Use the rod spar. ingly. It is better and easier to command from their love and respect than by fear. Keep these rules, and my word for it, your children will be q happiness to yon while young, and an honor to you when they grow up.-Luzernc Cleaner.
 Variability of F'ortame.-A young lady, native of Martinique, and a creole, was On voyage to France, with the design of being educated there, when the merchant vessel on board of which she was Iassen- ger, was captured by an Algerine cruizer. and taken to A!giers. The fair captive was at first overwhelmed with affliction at the prospect of captivity before her; but as passion gave way to meditation, it came I to her recollection that an old negress had predicted that she would one day become one of the greatest princesses in the world ]! 'Ahr exclaimed she, for superstition was in this instance but the handmaid of inclin- alton, it is doubtless SO, am to be prn- cess. Well, I must not quarrel with for tune. Who knows what may come out of this ? So strong did this prepossession grow upon the young lady, that ere she reached the Barbary shore, she was as much tatalist in point of resignation, as any devotee of Islamism could possibly be. The French Consul at Algiers immediate 1 ly offered to ransom his countrywoman {; but no, the fair creole would not be ran- somed, for fear of offending fortune, by re- sorting to SO vulgar a way of recovering her liberty. So to the Seraglio of the Dey of Algiers the lady went; and, strange indeed to tell, from his Iiighness's Seraglio she was sent as present to the
 Grand Seignior, who was SO struck with
 her beauty and manners (for in both she was oxcelIing) that he elevated her to the dignity of his favorite Sultana! Such wal the singular rise of the late Sultan Valide who died in 1918, and was the mother o the present Grand Seignior.
 { Dy. Johmson's Account of Paper.-' never derive more benefit or see more pleasure for the time,' says Dr. Johnson, . than in reading newspaper which has lately been issned from the Press. do really believe that nothing adds so much to the glory of any country as newspa- per. Liberty is stamped legibly upon its pages, and even the fold is marked with freedom. Do you want to know how your country thrives point you to the press
 There you will find piece perhaps, under the head of the Legislature Are you fond of Miscellany? Look there O.
 Foreign there you will find it Wha 2 book can furnish such good accounts of ou' country--such wonderful, such extraordi' nary accounts of murder, robbery, acci- dents, marriages, frolics, anecdotes of oui
 Irish, English and Indian brethren, and
 many other such things-such good as well as bad accounts from the Russians, Turks Dutch &c. Under all these considera- tions. who is there in this land Of freedom
 that will not attend to an object, so worthy l of their regard