Litchfield enquirer., 1837-11-16

every thing bites, stingA or bruises; every | second of your existence you are wounded by some piece of animal life that nobody has ever seen before, except SwammerdaIn and Merrion. An insect with eleven legs is swimming in your tea cup; nondescript with nine legs is struggling in the small beer or caterpillar with several dozen eyes in his belly, is hastening over the bread and butter. All nature is alive, and seems to be gathering all her chronological host to eat you up, as you are standing, out of your coat, waiscoat, and brooches. Such are the tropics. All these reconcile us to our dews, ] fogs, vapor, and driZzle-to our apothecaries, rushing about with gargles and tinctures; to out British constitutional coughs, sore throats and swelled faces.-IberUilIe La. Ambassador. SLAVE TO A TEMPERANCE SOCIETY. | A respectable young man, son of wealthy farmer, married and commenced the career of life for himself under very suspicious cir cumstances. He was industrious and pros l porous, and his affectionate wife blessed him with several fine children; but, unfortunate | ly for him, man came into his neighborhood l and opened tavern. The farmer, from the i power of social feelings at first, and then 1 from habit, and finally from appetite, visited the tavern more and more frequently, till by l imperceptible degrees he became intemper- | waste away, and in few years he was a bankrupt and a miserable sot, and his wife and children were destitute. For several years he continued in this degraded condi- tion, hanging about the tavern which had been the cause of his ruin, and performing the most menial offices for the sake of the li- quor which he got. At length the news of the temperance movements reached the place, and the tavern-keeper of course began to rail about them. The unfortunate farmer suffered the tavern keeper to think for him, and he, too raised his voice against temper ance societies. But, by-and-by, a move- nent was made in the place where the tav- ern was, and temperance society was form- ed. This caused the unhappy farmer to re- fleet, and he begun to think for himself, and very soon abandoned totally the use ofall in- toxicating liquors, and became sober man, and went and desired to become a member of the temperance society. Not long after this, two men came into the place to transact some business with him, and sent for him to come to the tavern. After the business was completed, they called for some liquor, and asked him to drink with them. He politely declined. They urged, but he refused. The tavern. keeper, who stood looking on, now in- terrupted them with most taunting and bit- ter reproach upon the farmer. ''He dares not drink he is not his own man he is slave to the temperance society he is not capable of thinking and acting for himself, and so he has sunk into the base condition of slave, and has got masters to take care of him, and to keep him from drinking" The unhappy man felt the reproach keenly, but it neither kindled his wrath, nor shook his resolution. With the tears of tender emo- tion moistening his eyes, he turned and fixed Q steadfast look upon the tavcrn-kceper, and with a gentle but decided tone, thus replied 1 to him :-" Sir, am now a slave to the tenn perance society, remember that was for many long years slave to you. And you bitter bondage, and in most ignominious vas- salage! You found me in prosperous cir cumstances, surrounded by competence, and all the tender charities of a domestic life-a happy husband and father, and contented
 man. But you robbed me ofmy possessions, and responsibility, and peace! You blight cd all my domestic endearments and brought poverty, and disgrace and wretchedness, up- on my family; and the property which would have sustained my wife, and fed, and clothed. and educated my children, you took away from me, for the poisonous means with which you enslaved me. Indeed, you were
 a cruel master But, sir, am your slave
 no longer! l lam certain that the temperance
 society cannot hold me in severer bondage
 than you did. It cannot rob me of so much
 as you did; and therefore, if I must be a
 slave, will be slave to temperance socie-
 ty." l Ineed not tell you that the tavern
 keeper had no reply to make to this. The
 farmer soon recovered his responsibility in ] society. gathered his family around him a. l gain, and by industry and frugality, was able
 to support them comfortably and peace re- turned to that family where diversity and suffering long had reigned.-Tsmp. Jour.
 HoARDrNe.-Among the foreigners among us, there are many who have considerable
 hand without income, to putting it out of their hands on any terms. They will not even trust it in the Banks. This disposition arises partly from ignorance, and partly from wolse opinion of men than it is necessary to entertain in this country. Our own cit- izens are generally too intelligent, too con-
 hdent in the resources of, their country, and
 too enterprising withal, to let their money
 lle rusting in the insecurity of an old chest.
 ihere IS a foreigner, in business, near us who
 we happen to know has had about three thou
 sand dollars in coin, which he has kept on
 hand so long, that tho papers in which it is rolled up have become rotten. He might
 have sold it for ten or twelve per cent pre- mium, but he has no confidence in any thing
 but the silver. So he doats on it, and stays
 at home on Sunday to count it, and congrat-
 ulates himself that he has at least so much
 sgfe, whilethe truth is it is much less safe than
 It would be standing to his credit as bank deposite, and really chains him to the spot as fast as if he were fastened to it by chain around his ancle.--N Y. Jour. ef Com.
 Odd Jusiice.-Two Quakers resident in