Litchfield enquirer., 1842-12-22
30. WHOLE No. 862.

III WHICH sue was Iound Is sufficient pr0ot ot tue treatment she was subject to. Human l ity shuddefS at the picture-the mind is un. able to conceive, and the pen inadequate to describe the sc ne in all its loathsome partic. l ulars and heart rendiRg inaginings. Suffice it to say, that the lady who first heard of the circumstance told her husband, who imme. diately calle ( on one of the sons-in-law of the sufferer, who is in the yearly receipt of several thousand dollars of rent from his re. al estate, aud stated the information he had received in relation tohis wife's mother, and his apprehensOnS that unless something was done immediately, she could not survive such cruel treatment. Alas he conjureG truly the old lady died soon after. oue
 The s0n-in- law answered. @1 know 1t all; the old woman is very old, and ought to have died years ago; and it was nobody'S buSl- ness" .. .t .
 But our friend was not to be SO baulked the holy preeepts which he had imbibed, taught Ein 10 persevere. He accordingly called on the township trustees, and insisted on their going to see her, which at first they refused to do !; and it was only after he had threatened to publish them if they refused, that they consented to go.
 His wife previously to this had called on the wife of her minister, and taken her down to view the scene.
 
 lie, and earnest threats made to the relatives of the victim, by our informant that if they did not provide for her, they would publish them 10 the world, he consented to, and did employ n woman to board and wait on the aged and helpless invalid. They gave her food, which sue devoured like fannished wolf would have done they cut off her hair and combed her head, and washed and dres- sed her. While the process of cleaning was going on, her daughter advanced, placed her GOLD spectacles upon her nose and gave dl- rectons 'to be careful and not leave any of the cree1 CTS !'' e ssa
 The poor old creature was at last made clean and comfortable, and removed to the roof of a hireling, where she afterwards died. Our informant states further that one of the regular stationed ministers of the Meth- odist Church in this city, was an eye witness to the condition of the decs,ssd and remark. ed afterwards, "that he never had witnessed such a revoltng scene-it was be thought, without a parallel in christian community" The following beautiful passage is from Dickens new work on America. We com. mend one of the very few things we can praise in his book to the notice of our read- CTS .......... ...s.s-4 .. In the spring of the year vast numbers of emigrants who have newly arrived from England or from Ireland, pass between Que. bee and Montreal on their way to the back woods and new settlements of Canada. If it be an entertaining lounge Gas livery often found it to take morning stroll upon the quay at Montreal. and see them grouped in hundreds on the public wharves about thelr chests and boxes, it is, a matter Of deep in. l,erest 10 be their fellow passenger on one of these e@stsambsats, and, Iniugling with the [ st. l The VI ssal in which we returned from Quebec to Montreal was crowded with them, and at night they spread their beds between decks, Qhose who had beds at least,) and slept SD close and thick about our cabin door, 1 that the passage to and fro was quite block cd up. They were nearly all English | from Gloucester tho greater part-and had had long winter passage out; but it was 1 wonderful tO see how clean the children had been kept and how un.iring in their love, and self denial all the poor parents were. Cant as we may, and as we shall Co the 1 end of all things, it is very much harder for | the poor to be virtuOus than the rich--and | the good that is in them shines the brighter l for il. In many noble mansion lives man the best of husbands and of fathers, whose
 private worth in both capacities is justly
 lauied to the skies. Blu: bring him here, up- on this crowded deck. Strip from his fair young wife her silken dress and jewels, un- bind her braided hair, stamp early wrinkles l on her brow, pinch her pale cheek with care and much privation, array her faded form in 1 coarsely patched attire, let there be nothing ! but his love to set her forth or deck her out, and you shall have it to the proof indeed.--
 So change his station in the world, that he shall see in those young things that cliaao about bis knee; not records of his wealth and name; but little wrestlers with him for
 his daily bread, so many poachers on his | scanty meal so many units 10 divide his every sum of comfort, and father to reduce
 it's small amount. In lieu of the endeaR-
 ments of childhood its sweetest aspect, heap upon him all its pains and wants, it's sick
 ness and ills,its freifulness, caprice and Que- rulous endurance; let it's pratile be, not of engaging infant fancies, but Of cold ,aad thirst and hunger; and if his iatherly affection out live all this, and he be patient waichful, tender. careful of his children's lives. and mindful always of their joys and sorrows-- then send him back to Parliament, and Pull pit. and Quarter Sessions, and when he hears fine talk of the depravity of these who live from hand to mouth, and labor hard to do it.
 let him speak up. as one who knows, and tell those holders forth that they, by parallel
 with such a class, should be High Angels in
 their daily lives, and lay but humble seize to
 Heaven at last. l Which of us shall say what we should do.
 if such realities. with small relief or change
 all through his days, were his! Looking
 round upon this people, far from home. house. less, indigent, wandering, weary with iFavil and hard living; and seeing how patiently they nursed and tended their young children Gns.e