Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1842-03-10

month, alone and unaided with no knowl-
edge OF the art except what nature had
taught him, sometimes at monday and some-
times at night, when others had left their
tasks, he toiled on, until his work was COM
pleted. That monument, which, as a speci-
men Of art is exceedingly fine, and would be
an ornament even in Mount Auburn, now
marks out the grave of his wife. While it
serves to call to mind the memory of the
dead, it speaks also of the constancy and
purity of affections which death and time
could not destroy.
THE DIFFERENCE.
The enemies of theimanufacturing interest
IN the country, for want of better arguments
to sustain the erroneous stand they have ia
ken, refer to the miserable condition of the
operatives in England-and paint in the
strongest colors the colorless and haggard ap-
pearance of the females employed in the
British factories-as much as to say, that
female in this countrywide works for ten or
eleven hours, must necessarily present the
same forlorn aspectas the female in England
who works sixteen hours per day ut one
third the wages received by the same class
in this country, and obtaining not more than
one-third the wholesome food found at the
female boarding houses in our manufacture
ing villages. Besides, the opponent Of Amer
lean manufactures keeps out of sight the fact
that the English female, from the indulgence
ofthe parent, is placed in the work shop at
four years of age, and never suffered like our
females 20 acquire muscular strength or the
! first rudiments of education before entering
the factory. Instead of being thus early in
troduced into the factory, our females have
the opportunity of acquiring good common
education at our innumerable free schools,
and generally reach the age of Is, with NOR,
al faculties SO improved as to have high
sense of all that constitutes female dignity,
before they seek employment in d factory.
The American female in factory is eIla-
to Ciol6s gecsa enough for the
lady of a well circumstance oil
bier against the protective thrift. Our re-
males in factories not only exhibit gentecLs
outward appearance, but not being required
to work as many hours for good wages asan
English female does for small wages, they
have abundant opportunity every eyoF'nE
for improving their minds by reading. ny ct.
tending instructive lectures on religious ana
other subjects Many Of them my BY con-
siderable stores of cash for their own future
| use tn commencing housewifery, or to as
| sst in maintaining widowed mothers and or
phan brothers and sisters: Where do we
hear of as great sums deposited in Savings
Banks, as in the manufacturing towns in
this country where females are employed!
This argument that the females in our facto-
ries are of sickly appearaDce,-Inere can
didates for an early grave,-is all shallow
pretence, used as capital by those who war
against every thing except the pure gold cur
rency-and miserable short-sighted grum-
blers-have done more for few years past
to drive specie out of the country, than they
would do in ten years byrepentance and res
formation, to bring it back again. ~ a .4.,
= 81, Enn olnc Hx,tNT "a
convenient for q few years to earn in facto-'
ries more than they can earn in any other
employment, are as healthy, live as long,
and are more useful during life,' than the;
wives and daughters of protectionists.
The same charge that is brought against
manufa curing establishments, that the fe-
males employed in them do not appear as
brawny as Swiss or German field woman,
will apply equally to millinery and mantua.
making employments, and to those females
who wait tor mercy drops from the master
tailor. Are these employments exempt from
denunciation, because the females thus en-
gagged, work on articles imported, instead Of
assisting to manufacture domestic goods?
The free traders de- not allude tothe females
who bind shoes and hats, and are engaged In
other sedentary employments. II will not
answer to attack every branch Of manufac-'
ture at once.
As regardsthe health of those who labor
in factories, it may be stated that it is fact
we'll ascertained by learned men who have
kept records of the duration of human life in
Ethe various employments, that the average
lives Of mechanics and manufacturers, is
much greater than those belonging to the
agricultural class, the habits Of each being.
equally good.-N. Y. Syacusean. y
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Profit Of Temperance.--A worthy mechanic
of Salem, Mass, who from the force of his
own convictions, discontinued the use of in
toxicating drinks yeaE1ago, celebrated the
! anniversary of his freedom from bad habit
by inviting a few friends, one evening last
week, to partake of IA clam chowder. After
due discussion of the savory mess which
formed SO important part of the sustenance.
of our pilgrim fathers, and in praise of which
the pen Of the latest British traveller in this
country runs riot tho host opened his desk
and took out a drawer of money. He show
ed his guests that there were more than O
hundred dollars in the drawer, and informed
them that those were the savings of his "grog
money" for the year. Every day he de-
posted in the drawer the sum he would pre-
viously have spent for liquor and this was
the result Think of it, young men, and re-
member that the regular saving Of this sum,
with its lawful interest," would insure hand
some independence, in old age, for any Of
you.-SGlem GGz. y
Keep yourself always decent in dress and
decent in appearance. A thousand little.
matters, which, at the time, seem of littleAS
importance, help to make up mans re-
spectability.. Comb your hair; never APP