Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-12-10
reached shore. and found his way
about FIVE days to bis masters crib,
Vermont Scientific Tracts.
A NEWSPAPER IN FAMILY.

A NEWSPAPER IN FAMILY,
The minds Of active children are ever
agog after something on which their fancyv
may rest. This principle of the human
faculty never can be satisfied short of en-
ioyment in somelhing.-Ihis being a self
evident positions the question, fairly arises
what is the best food for such minds?
| If we wish their faculties to remain useless,
deprive children as much as possible Of all
sources of education-teach them that all
polish, of whatever kind it may be, is SUI
perhuous. Then they will be eiter drones
or vagrants, according as the bent Of their
incluaton may lead them But, on the
contrary, if you would like to have the off
spring of your charge both happy and use
full, place, such incentives before them as
would lead a tender and susceptible mind
into train Of useful thought, which would
so bias his future conduct as to justify the
saying ofthe wise man-"traIn up a child
in the way he should go, and when he is
old he will not depart from it, One great
source of this bending Of the twig, may be
attributed to the reading of newspapers.
iCIC IS uOt 1T III tIutO Pio-
ced before child, then he may think he
can persue in the course of week, after
which, arrives another treat, until it be-
comes matter of course; and in proportion
to the expansion of the mind Of the child
will his eagerness for the successive paper
increase.
When once this thirst for improvement
and information has gained an ascendancy,
the little follerics and foibles that 90 fire.
quently disgrace neigborhoods, and IN
which none but the frivolous and unculti-
va,ed are generally engaged, will be done
away. At the same time, such children
are more attached to industry, for when
the tolls ofthe day are over, a mental col
lection awaits the mind at home, in the
character of weekly visitant; and chil-
dren are not seeking relief from toll by
perambulating neighbours premises.
These, among great variety of causes
that crowd upon us, are the reasons Shy
we would be willing to direct the attention
of parents to the simple article of news
paper .--Switserldnd Guets. f-
PRovIDENcE.--The city of Prosidence
has been held up to the world by travellers,
as being famous for the beauty gifts fe-
males. "Thls is not wrong;" and | do be-
lieye that have witnessed more genuine
beauty since I have been in this city, than
l have during the last five years. The
Fannys, and Marys, and Keziahs, Of Rhode
Island, may not indeed be endowed with
that refined taste for dress, which is a dis
tingdishing trait in the ladies of Boston, but
in all that is beautiful, they are equal to
the fair ones Of the Literary Emporium.
Providence is distinguished as place
of deposite for an extensive manufacturing
district, and number of its inhabitants
are largely engaged in futhering thecause
of national industry. 1t claims the honor,
and very justly too, fhaving originated the
Cotton Spindle, in the United States. The
venerable Moses Brown, now in the ninety
eighth year of his age, who was the foun-
der manufacturing in the United States,
and who, in connection with the celebrated
Samuel Slater, first applied water power
to the spindle this country, resides about
a mile from the centre of the city, and is
regarded as were the patriarchs and proph-
cts of other days. Although now on the
margin Of another hundred years, he appa-
rently possesses every mental and physic-
al ia Guilty that distinguished him in earlier
life. His opinions, on all subjects, are
sought with avidity, and when given, have
no small ifuence on the minds Of those
who seek them. The history of this dis
tinguished individual would form most
volume, and such an one as
will be given, after the patriarch shall
have gone down to the dust of his ancestors.
Boston Transcript.
The Union Party, in S. Carolina, have
succeeded, at the recent elections IN that
state, in eectlng three members to the next
Congress. There is but one member Of
tina, party in the present 6. Carolina del
egation. 1t would seem, from this, that
the Nullifers were losing ground even in
South Carolina We have no doubt that in
a few years they will be in minority in
the state ofCalhoun, Cooper, Hayne and
McDuGfe. 1t must be conceded that that
party have a GALAXY of talent, or they
would have been overwhelmed long since.
Nashville Banner.
EMIGRATION TO LlBERlA.--We learn
from the Norfolk Beacon that the ship Z
Minus sailed from that port for Liberia