American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-08-19

where they correct one Scolding at child,
fretting at a child, sueering at child, taunting
child, treating the child as though it had no
feelings. inspires dread and dislike, and fosters
those very dispositions from which many Of
the faults of childhood proceed. Mr.. f. and
Mrs. II. are OF this class. Their children are
made to mind but how? Mrs II. frets and
scolds her children. She is severe enough upon
| their faults. She seems to watch them in order
to find fault. She sncers at them. Treats
them as though they had no feelings. She sell
dom gives command without threat and q
long running, fault4fnding commentary, When
she chides, il is not done in o dignifed manner.
She raises her voice. puts ON n cross look,
threatens, strikes them, and pinches their ears,
snaps their heads, &C. The children Cry lpont,
A sulk, and poor Mrs. +. has to do her work over
\ pretty often. Then she will find fault with her
h husband because no will not fall in with her
ways. or chime with her as chorus. ab i
v Frettig and lscold,,,g make Hyoocrtes.
| AS a fretter never receives confidence and
affection, so no one likes to tell them anything
disagreeablc, and thus procure for themselves
a fretting Now children conceal as much as
they can from such persons. They cannot make
up their mind 10 be frank and hearted.
So husbands conceal from their wives and wives
from their husbands For man may be brave
as a lion, but he likes not to come in contact
with nettles and mosquitoes.
.,tsata VIaK destroys ones Peace of Hind.
The moreone frets, the more he may 3Afretter
always has enough to fret at, especially if he or
she has the organ of order and neatness largely
developed. Something will always be out of
1 place. There viii always be some dirt some
where. Others will not eat right, look right,
sit right, talk right; he will not do these things
SO rs to please them And fretters are gener-
ally so selfish as to have no regard for any one $
comfort but their own .aIt gt'
WI. II as a mark Of a Vulgar Disposition.
Some persons have so much gall in their dis
position, are so selfish that they have no regard
to the feelings of others. All things must be
done to please them. They make their hus-
bands, wives, children domestics, the conduct
discharged. Wo to the, children who are ex-
posed to such Influences 1t makes them callous
and unfeehng, and when they grow up they
| pursue the same course with their own children
or those entrusted to their management, and
thus the race of fretters is perpctuated. ANY
person who is in the habit of fretting, sneering,
taunting their husbands, wives, children, or
domestics, shows either a bad disposition or
else ill-breeding; for it is generally your igno-
rant, low-bred people that are guilty of such
things. :" ot@
!. CAPITAL CRIMES frequency with which
one murder follows upon another is becoming
4 truly alarming. There must be something rad
A ically wrong in the operation Of our laws or II
the state of society, that murder stalks unre
strained through the land We believe that til,
fault is in both the laws and society. The Law
demands more of the criminal than society il
willing to give, and thus the criminals them
selves go unwhipt of justice, and by committing
one crime become ripe for another.
1t is thought by many that capital punish
ment is fast losing its terror, as it ought to lose
its hold upon the statute book. 1t cannot be
denied that laws right in themselves often be-
come inexpedient and dangerous by the state
and condition of society; and il is not impossi-
BILE that this remark is true of the law requr-
ing capital punishment. Nearly one half OF
our citizens believe such punishment to be
wrong, and very many of them believe it to be
unscriptural and opposed to the higher law '
Hence, let murder be committed, and nearly
one-half of the community is arrayed on the
| side of the murderer. morbid sensibity is
created in his favor, and we now think it i'm
possible to empanel a jury which would not be
swayed more or less by the conviction or belief
that capital punishment is inexpedient and un
warranted. 4, - ....H
Hence it is difficult to convict man Of mur
der if he is guilty. 1t is the certainty of pun
ishment, and not the scperitv, that deters from
crime And it is a matter for serious consid
Grafton whether community would not b,
more secure with laws less stringent aud ,
more faithful execution. We may pity or cen
sure jury for saying: "We had no doubt tha
he killed the man, and that too, with malice
but we didn't want TO bring him in guilty O
murder, If the penalty had been punishment
in the State prison for lfe we would hav,
found him guilty in ten minutes" Such is tn,
language of nearly half of the iuries which 81
in capital cases And it cannot bc Nyondere
at that murders abound in such n cornmrnity
There are now four persons under sentence o
death in the city Of New York, and eight NOR
under indictments for murder. There are sew
eral more in other counties. We do not know
the exact number Of those charged with murder
in the whole State; but il is enormous The
penalty of murder holds out but little terror to
criminals under the practical administration OF
justice; and we hope that our lawmakers will
give this subject their earliest and most serious
attention.--ROthester { W. L. Times, lug. -.
SCENE IN THE STREETS or PARIs-A day or
two since, On American gentleman, now a
planter at the South, and formerly consul gen.
eral for the United States in Africa, was riding
in the grand avenue of the Champs Eiysees in
an open barouche. He Tas accompanied by
another gentleman and two young ladies. As
they were ascending the hill leading to the Tri-
umphal Arch, the forty Arabs who are just now
delighting the town at the Hippodrome were
4 coming down. The gentleman told his coach
man to drive in the midst of them and then
stop. This being done, he rose, with an Ara
1 bic salute and in the Arabic tongue commenced
\ courteous conversation. The astonishmcnt