endeavor to diminish the amount of the first element, the mechanical man, and to exercise that of the second, the intellectual man? Assuming that principle to be admitted, what should be the effect of the invention and multiplication of machinery? Should it not evidently be to substitute a mechanical moving power for a human power; consequently, to take away from a great number of individuals the necessity of using their muscular powers, but conferring upon them, instead, the opportunity of a proportionate increase of intelligence? But, see what takes place in consequence of the progress of that manu facturing skill, about which we boast so much. To what does that extreme division of labor lead? Is it not that an individual, even of mature age, is occupied incessantly in the same operation, in the same motions? You have read in Adam Smith how many work-people are required to make a pin. How does it happen that the making of a pin should require so many hands? Because the same individual performs the same single operation every day of his life, from year's end to year's end; and is thereby condemned to a mechanical and monotonous existence. It is against that tendency that we wish to interpose some obstacle. In proportion as the discoveries in arts multiply, and as we make progress in improvement, in like proportion ought the moral and intellectual condition of the species to rise: the progress of civilization does not depend alone on the increase of wealth; it chiefly depends upon the improved moral and intelectual condition of the population. All this has been often said, and much better said than I can pretend to do; but with your permission I will offer some observations which, perhaps, may not yet have been made. The ap It is important to draw a distinction between an apprenticed child and an operative child; and I beg you to attend to the distinction I make. prentice is in a course of instruction; I do not say that he is taught all he has occasion to know, but nevertheless his faculties are exercised in a variety of ways; he learns the elements of a process, and by and by he becomes more skilful: in short, he learns a trade. With the operative child it is very different. I will take a very simple instance, from the very subject in which we are now engaged. A child, that has passed ten years of his life as a piercer in a spinning-mill, will have learned nothing; he will only have acquired the power of doing that which might be performed by a brute, for a tolerably docile ape might be taught to do as much. We desire therefore that the operative child, condemned to labor at a description of work that is calculated to reduce him to the condition of a brute, may have some compensation by receiving some moral and religious training. So far from our proposal being an act of tyranny, we dare to say that no provision in the law is more humane, or more advantageous, either to the master or his work-people. We could read to you the very interesting testimony which we have received from one of the partners in one of the largest manufacturing establishments of France, one in which they employ from 1700 to 1800 people. He stated, that for the last 20 years he and his partners had turned their attention to the moral condition of their workpeople, and that they had gradually succeeded in raising it; and that in the same progression the produce of their industry, improved in quality and quantity. And in truth, gentlemen, there is no better auxiliary to labor than sound morals. Those are the best workmen who have upright and honest sentiments. Improve the moral condition of the working classes, and you will improve their worldly condition. After several other peers had spoken, the amendment of the Minister of Public Instruction was put to the vote, and agreed to. The discussion of the other clauses of the bill occupied two more days; and when they had been gone through, the adoption of the whole bill, so amended, was put to the vote, and carried by a majority of 56; 91 voting for its adoption, and 35 for its rejection. The bill, as passed, is substantially as follows: Article 1. No child shall be employed in manufactories for the spinning, weaving, or printing of fabrics; or in manufactories, works, or work-shops, where a mechanical moving power is used, or a continuous fire kept up, except in conformity with the provisions contained in the present law. Article II. No child shall be admissible into the manufactories, specified in Article I, who shall not have completed his or her eighth year of age. No child between eight and twelve years of age, shall be employed in effective work for a longer time than eight hours in any one day; and these divided by an interval of rest. No child, between twelve and sixteen years of age, shall be employed in effective work for a longer time than twelve hours in any one day; and these divided by intervals of rest. The hours of work shall be between five o'clock in the morning and eight o'clock in the evening. No child, of whatever age, shall be employed on any of the sacred festivals prescribed by law.* In cases of working in the night, from sudden and extraordinary causes, by reason of stoppages of the moving power, or urgent repairs, no child that is less than twelve years of age shall be employed, and those employed shall not work more than eight hours in the twenty-four. In order to avoid the necessity of night-work, it shall be lawful for the manufacturer to work one hour longer in the day-time, provided he does not exceed the number of hours that were lost in the preceding month, by stoppages, accidents, and other extraordinary causes. In works in which a continuous fire must be kept up, and in which working in the night is indispensable, children above twelve years of age may be employed, provided their hours of work do not exceed eight in the twenty-four. Article III. Relates to the certificate to be given by the employer to the parent or guardian of the child. Article IV. Authorizes the government, by ordinances, from time to time, to prescribe regulations. 1. For the maintenance of good morals and public decency in workshops, works, and manufactures. 2. To secure the primary and religious instruction of the children. 3. To fix the hours of labour, that are indispensable on festival days, in those works where a continuous fire must be kept up. 4. To prevent all ill-usage or excessive punishments of the children. 5. To provide for the healthiness of the factories, and for the preservation of the health of the children. Article V. Authorizes the government to extend the provisions of the law to other kinds of work not specified in the first article, to raise the minimum of age, and diminish the hours of work, if found necessary. Article VI. Provides for the administration of the law by the local authorities under the direction of the minister of commerce and agriculture. Article VII and VIII. Imposes a fine of $3 to $20, for every infraction by the employer; and a fine of $1 to $3, on every parent who consents to the employment of a child in violation of this law, with an increase for every repetition. *"Jours feriés." The days on which work ought to be suspended for religious duties, such as Sundays, and the great Christian festivals. Article IX. Charges the local authorities with the duties of visitation, and authorizes them to employ a physician to judge of the healthiness of the factories. The bill was presented to the chamber of deputies in May, 1840, but was not discussed till the winter session of 1841. We have not seen the bill as finally passed with the concurrence of both chambers. The following account is abridged from an article in the Westminster Review, for September 1840, on the "Elevation of the Laboring Classes." The object of the article is partly to show that there is nothing in the manufacturing sys tem which necessarily has a tendency to exclude the working classes from a much larger share of the means of enjoyment, and intellectual cultivation, than they have hitherto obtained, and partly to stimulate others who occupy the same influential position over bodies of working men, to imitate an excellent example. The best security for the interests of the working classes is certainly not the benevolence of employers-but after all is done that can be effected by the best laws and the wisest administration, there will still be much left that can only be accomplished through the disposition of employers to exercise their power and influence beneficially for the employed; and we hold that there are no persons deserving of more honorable mention than the few who pause in the pursuit of wealth, to lend a helping hand to those upon whose industry the fabric of their fortune is raised. The proprietors established themselves in the village in the summer of 1832. Their first object was to repair the old buildings and erect new, to purchase and set up machinery, and furnish the cottages for their work-people with cupboards, closets, sheds, wells, and every thing essential to cleanliness and comfort, and to collect a fixed and settled class of hands. In doing this, we endeavored as far as possible to find such families as we knew to be respectable, or ⚫ thought likely to be so, and who we hoped, if they were made comfortable, would remain and settle upon the place; thus finding and making themselves a home, and losing by degrees that restless and migratory spirit, which is one of the peculiar characteristics of the manufacturing population, and perhaps the greatest of all obstacles in the way of permanent improvement among them. Partly with this view, and partly for the sake of giving them innocent occupation for their leisure hours, we took three fields lying in front of the cottages, between them and the mill, and broke them up for gardens, which we divided with neat hedges, and gave one to every house. Each garden is about six roods, and they are separated from each other by a neat thorn hedge. Besides these, they have most of them a little flower-garden in front of their houses, or behind them; and the houses themselves have been made as comfortable as their size and situation would allow. In the spring of 1834, a schoolhouse was erected, and a Sunday school established with. two departments, one for boys and the other for girls. We celebrate the anniversary of the establishment of our school by a general meeting and procession of all the children, on some Sunday in the month of June. They assemble in the morning with their teachers, in my garden, and many of the parents come to share in the pleasure of the scene. It is, indeed, a beautiful sight-at least to our eyes-`and when they join together in singing a hymn, and the little silver voices of the younger children are heard mingling with the manly tones of their elders and the deep bass of the accompanying instruments, we all pronounce our music to be excellent, and think no choir of a cathedral could be better. As soon as the Sunday school was fairly established, and no longer required my immediate attention, we began to think of establishing games and gymnastic exercises among the people. With this view we set apart a portion of a field near the mill, that had originally been designed for gardens, and taking advantage of a holiday and a fine afternoon, I called some of the boys together and commenced operations. We began with quoits, trap and cricket balls, and leap-frog; and as I saw that many others soon joined us, and our play-ground continued to fill more and more every evening it was opened, we gradually introduced other games, and established a few regulations to preserve order, assigning a particular part of the play-ground for different games, and appointing certain individuals to distribute and preside over them. The girls and boys each took their own side of the field, and generally followed their games separately. The following summer we erected a swing, and introduced the game called the graces, with bowls-a leaping-bar-a tight rope-and afterwards a see-saw. Quoits are generally the favorite game of the men, the hoops and tight-rope among the boys, and the hoops and swing with the girls. The last is in perpetual requisition. With the hoops, the boys and girls now play a good deal together, and we encour. age this companionship as being extremely favorable to the cultivation of good manners, kind feelings, and perception of their proper place, and relation towards each other. When we first began these games, this was a thing that had yet to be learned, and instances of rudeness and improper conduct did occasionally occur; but as I made a point of being always present on the ground, and gave our young ones to understand that I wished my leaving it to be the signal for the breaking up of the party, I had the opportunity of observing any breach of good manners or good temper, and gradually succeeded in breaking them into my system. We are now near the close of the third summer since the playground was opened, and during this season we have not once had to remark upon any breach of order and decorum. In the autumn of the same year, 1834, we began our drawing and singing classes. The drawing class meets every Saturday evening during the winter, from six to half-past seven, and generally spends half the time in drawing, and the rest with geography or natural history. This class I teach myself; it consists of about twenty-five boys, and some of them have made considerable proficiency. They occupy themselves at home during the evenings of the week, with copying drawings that we lend them for the purpose, and this affords an interest for their leisure hours, and an attraction to their home fireside, which it was one of my chief objects in introducing this pursuit to supply. During the summer they continue the occupation or not, as they choose; but our regular lessons are given up, as our Saturday evenings are then spent more profitably in the play-ground, and we return to our winter occupations with much more zeal and relish, after a long vacation, than if they had been continued without interruption during the whole year. Some variety and change in our pursuits, we find as necessary to keep up our own interest and attention as theirs. As soon as the drawing class breaks up, at half past seven, the singing class assembles and remains till nine. This class consists of girls and young men to the number of twenty-eight. These parties are held in the school-room which I have fitted up handsomely, and furnished with pictures, busts, &c., and a piano-forte; and as it is close to my house, the accommodations necessary for refreshments and amusements are easily supplied. Before the guests assemble, books, Saturday magazines or drawings, are laid on the tables; and with these they amuse themselves till tea is brought in. The tea and coffee are then handed round to the company, and they continue to chat with me or with each other, and keep up a very tolerable amount of conversation till the meal is ended. After tea, we fall to our games, which consist of piecing maps or pictures, spilicans, chess, draughts, building houses of cards, phantasmagoria, and sev eral others of less note; while those who do not play, amuse themselves with reading, or discussing the news of the week, or politics of the colony. Sometimes we have a little music and singing, and towards the end of the evening, we rouse ourselves with Christmas games, such as, tiercely, my lady's toilet, blindman's buff, &c. &c.-and soon after nine I bid them good night and they disperse. The parties I have just described consist of the elder girls and boys of our colony. Occasionally, however, we have a junior party. These are generally the most pleasant ones, as the little restraint that is somewhat requisite among the elders, is here voted unnecessary and out of place, and there is much more laughing, fun, and merriment, among us. These parties take place about once in three weeks during the winter, on Saturday evening, the drawing and singing class being given up for that day. In the autumn of last year we established some warm baths in our colony, which have been brought into very general use, and have contributed materially to the health, comfort, and cleanliness of the people. The bathing-room is a small building close behind the mill, about twenty-five feet by fifteen. The baths, to the number of seven, are ranged along the walls, and a screen about six feet high, with benches on each side of it, is fixed down the middle of the room. The cold water is supplied from a cistern above the engine-house, and the hot water from a large tub, which receives the waste steam from the dressing room, and is kept constantly almost at boiling temperature. A pipe from each of these cisterns opens into every bath, so that they are ready for instant use. The men and women bathe on alternate days, and a bath-keeper for each attends for an hour and a half in the evening. This person has the entire care of the room, and is answerable for every thing that goes on in it. When any one wishes to bathe, he comes to the countinghouse for a ticket, for which he pays a penny, and without which he cannot be admitted to the bathingroom. Some families, however, subscribe a shilling a month, which entitles them to five baths weekly; and these hold a general subscriber's ticket, which always gives them admittance to the room. I think the number of baths taken weekly varies from about twenty-five to seventy or eighty. general comfort and welfare; everything, in short, which can make the place a home to them, and attach them to it and to their employer, had formed around their establishment a settled population. A frequent complaint against the manufacturing system as at present pursued, especially in large towns, is the impropriety of behavior between the sexes, and the general aspect of rudeness and uncivilized manners among the persons employed in our factories. It must be confessed that the man. ners of our factory operatives of both sexes, especially the younger portion of them are rude and uncour teous generally, and towardseach other not distinguished by that propriety and modesty which form at least the most valuable outworks of virtue, and are intimately connected with all that is good and sacred in human character. From the very first day we commenced operations I kept this evil in view, and endeavored to prevent, that I might not afterwards have the trouble of correcting-the easiest as well as the safest course in our warfare against evil of every kind. It was not at first easy; but with patience and time, they were all gradually brought to understand and acquiesce in my wishes. The sexes are entirely separated in the mill, as far as the nature of the work renders it practicable-the girls sometimes occupying exclusively half a room, and sometimes having a whole one to theinselves. Seeing how much the manners of men, in all ranks of life, depend on those of the women, I endeavored more particularly to civilize the latter; and not only to require from them respectability of char acter, but to teach them to respect themselves and to exact respect from others. Now it seems to me there is no other way of making people what we wish them to be, so effectual as always treating them as if they were so. I did not say much about the matter, for I have little faith in the efficacy of moral lectures, but I made them sensible of the kind of manners and character I admired, by showing that I noticed and appreciated wherever I found them. Those who possessed these saw that I perceived and approved them; and they were doubtless led to value them more because they saw this. Their pa rents saw it too, were touched with the respect they found paid to their elder daughters, and turned their attention to the cultivation of the same qualities in their younger children, which had won regard and esteem for their elder sisters. Others, who were not particularly distinguished by such respect, found that they must follow the tide of public opinion, and become like those whom they saw I valued more, if they wished to assume the same standing in the colony. To be continued. CONNECTICUT COMMON SCHOOL JOURNAL The Connecticut Common School Journal will continue to be published under the editorial charge of Henry Barnard 2d, until the official The above extracts are made from a letter, documents submitted by the Board of Commiswritten by one of the proprietors, in 1835. sioners of Common Schools to the late General In a second letter, dated March, 1838, the same writer continues the account of their ef- Assembly are all printed, together with the Reforts, and of the principles which guided their port of the Committee of Education, which acconduct. Fair wages, comfortable houses, gar-companied the bill for abolishing the Board, and dens for their vegetables and flowers, schools and other means of improvement for their children, sundry little accommodations and conveniences in the mill, attention to them when sick or in distress, and interest taken in their otherwise modifying the Act concerning Common Schools. Hartford July 1st, 1842. ACCOUNT OF AN ENGLISH MANUFACTURING VILLAGE.-Concluded. The importance of good manners among this class of people, as among all others, appeared to me to be very great-more so than is generally acknowledged for though every one approves and admires them when met with, little attention is paid to their cultivation in the systems of instruction for the laboring classes; and our national habits and institutions do not give any opportunity of supplying, in after life, this deficiency in their early education. I wish to see our people distinguished by their good manners, not so much for the sake of those manners, as because they indicate more than they show, and they tend powerfully to nourish and protect the growth of the virtues which they indicate. What are they, indeed, when rightly considered, but the silent though active expression of Christian feelings and dispositions? The gentleness-the tenderness -the delicacy-the patience- the forbearance-the fear of giving pain-the repression of all angry and resentful feelings-the respect and consideration due to a fellow man, and which every one should be ready to pay and expect to receive- what is all this but the very spirit of courtesy? what is it but the very spirit of Christianity? And what is there in this that is not equally an ornament to the palace and the cottage-to the nobleman and the peasant? Another point which has appeared to me of great importance is to provide as many resources as possible of interest and amusement for their leisure hours; something to which they may return with renewed relish when their daily work is done, which may render their homes cheerful and happy, and may afford subjects of thought, conversation and pursuit among them. The importance of this can only be estimated by observing the ruinous effects of the want of it; a want which is not confined to the laboring classes, but is shared with them by their more privileged neighbors in the walks of fashionable and cultivated life. The same want of interest and occupation which leads so many in the higher circles of society to trifle away their lives in the most frivolous, unproductive, and heartless pursuits, or to fly from ennui by pursuing the fiercer forms of artificial excitement,-when confined to those whose range of objects and opportunities is necessarily more limited, leads them into evils which differ only in the taste of the individuals and the small variety of means for killing time which their situation can command. The forms of the evils among them are low company, neglect of home and domestic duties, the frequenting of the public house, contracting the habits of a drunkard, and seeking for pleasure among the vulgar amusements that brutalise their character while they depress and impoverish their condition. But the source of the evil itself is in both eases the same, viz., the having nothing to do: -nothing to supply that want of our nature which demands recreation after toil, as well as toil to give relish to recreation,-nothing to occupy the thoughts, which insist on being occupied with something; nothing for him to pursue, who is by nature an animal of pursuit,-nothing innocently to engage the affections which absolutely refuse to be left void. This is the real evil—the foundation of the mischief. This want of resource and recreation is not to be supplied by mere intellectual pursuits. There are many whose minds are not sufficiently cultivated to avail themselves of these; they have little or no taste for them, and yet are quite capable of being made very worthy, sensible, respectable, and happy men. Resources must be provided of sufficient variety to supply the different tastes and capacities we have to No. 14 deal with, and we must not shut our gates against any, merely because they feel no ambition to become philosophers. By gently leading them, or rather perhaps by letting them find their own way, from one step to another, you may at length succeed in making them what you wish them to be. It is with these views that I have endeavored to provide objects of interesting pursuit or innnocent amusement for our colony. The gardens, and the cultivation of flowers, which is encouraged by exhibitions and prizes, occupy the summer evenings of many of the men or elder boys. Our music and singing engage many of both sexes,-young and old, learned and unlearned. We have a small glee class that meets once a week round a cottage fire. There is another more numerous for sacred music that meets every Wednesday and Saturday during the winter, and really performs very well, at least I seldom hear music that pleases the more. A num. ber of the men have formed a band, with clarionets, horns, and other wind instruments, and meet twice a week to practice, besides blowing and trumpeting nightly at their own homes. A few families are provided with pianos, and here I believe all the children of the household play on them. The guit ar also is an instrument not unknown among us, and to these may be added sundry violins, violincellos, serpents, flutes, and some sort of thing they call a dulcimer, so that I suppose we really number as many instruments as played before the image of Nebuchadnezzar; and when you remember how few families we muster,-not more than seventy or eighty, you will think with me that we are quite a musical society, and that any trouble I took at first to introduce this pursuit has been amply repaid. You must observe that all these instruments are entirely their own-and of their own purchasing,-I have nothing to do with them, farther than now and then helping them to remunerate their teachers. We find drawing almost as useful a resource as music, except that a much smaller number engage in it. The boys only, to the number of thirty, or thereabouts, assemble every Saturday evening to learn this, and some of them have made considerable progress, and are very fond of it. Some of these also study chemistry, mechanics, or history. We let them take almost anything they like, only making it a condition that they persevere in it during the whole winter, and really make a study of the subject, which we ascertain by occasional examinations. Then we have a tolerably good library, to which I think some individuals of almost every family subscribe, and the members of it have the liberty of access to the reading-room, which is open on two evenings in the week, and furnished with newspapers, books, and chess-boards. These last are a great attraction to boys, and draw many thither to whom the love of book-knowledge I fear would not offer any sufficient allurement. That I care little about. It is better than gathering together in knots about the lanes, and obstructing the gateways, and plotting or executing mischief, and that was the alternative; so that whether they are playing at chess or marbles, or studying the wonders of the heavens or the structure of the earth, I care comparatively little. They are there. They are doing something. They are at least innocently employed. They are under my eye or the eye of their elders; and while they are learning their games, they are learning a great deal more. Our object ought to be, not to produce a few clever individuals, distinguished above their fellows by their comparative superiority, but to make the gre i mass of individuals on whom we are operating, virtuous, sensible, well-informed, and well-bred men. My object therefore is not to raise the manufacturing operatives above their condition, but to make them ornaments to it-and thus to elevate the condition itself. I wish to make them feel that they have within their reach all the elements of earthly happiness, as abundantly as those to whose station their ambition sometimes leads them to aspire. That domestic happiness-real wealth-social pleasures-means of intellectual improvement-endless sources of rational amusement-all the freedom and independence possessed by any class of men, are all before them. To show to my people and to others, that there is nothing in the nature of their employment, or in the condition of their humble lot, that condemns them to be rough, vulgar, ignorant, miserable, or poor: that there is nothing in either that forbids them to be well-bred, well-informed, well-mannered, and surrounded by every comfort and enjoyment that can make life happy; in short, to ascertain and to prove what the condition of this class of people might be made-what it ought to be made-what is the interest of all parties that it should be made. This is all my aim-my alpha and omega. And I cannot help hoping that, if after a few years, when the habits of our population shall be more fixed, and their general character matured by time, death or necessity should take me from them, I cannot help hoping that the seed I have endeav ored to sow in this little spot, will not perish-that the lessons I have taught will not be forgotten-that the minds I have tried to open will not relapse into insensibility-that those who have been awakened to a perception of what is beautiful and good, whether in nature, in art, in taste, or in human character, will not forget to feel, to admire, and to love it; that those who for many years have lived together, like the members of a happy and united family, will not cease that union, because the friend is no longer those who so earnestly promoted it; whose frequent prayer among them was for unity, peace, and concord-and whose yearly wish publicly expressed in the presence of them all, was that every year as it rolled away, would find them more and more worthy of each other's respect and love. LOWELL, MASS. The city of Lowell exhibits probably as favorable an example of the actual working of the factory system on a large scale, as can be found in any part of the world. The city has grown up within twenty years. It was incorporated as a town in 1826, and as a city in 1836. In 1826, the population on the territory (2 miles square) was less than 200, and the value of the property did not exceed $100,000: in 1840, there was a population of 20,981, and property to the amount of $12,400,000, according to the last valuation. There are eleven manufacturing corporations, with an aggregate capital of $10,500,000; 32 cotton mills, running 166,044 spindles and 5,183 looms; consuming 19,256,600 pounds of cotton, and manufacturing 58,263,400 yards of cloth Most of the females board at the boarding houses, erected by the mill owners, and rented at reduced rates to the families who keep them. In seasons of depression, their rents are often remitted to enable the keepers to reduce the price of board. The food, though generally plain, is of good quality and ample in quantity. The working population are as well, if not better dressed, than in any of our large towns or cities. An Englishman, on observing a long line of them retiring at the close of labor, and thinking of the same class at home, could not but express his surprise that every one of them had on shoes. He was still more surprised to learn that in one mill alone, there were 150 females who had at some time been engaged in teaching school. The health of the manufacturing population, and especially of the female portion is remarkably good. According to the testimony of Dr. Bartlett "the general and comparative good health of the girls employed in the mills here, and their freedom from serious disease have long been subjects of common remark among our most intelligent and experienced physicians. The manufacturing population of this city is the healthiest portion of the population, and there is no reason why this should not be the case. They are but little exposed to many of the strongest and most prolific causes of disease, and very many of the circumstances which surround and act upon them are of the most favorable hygienic character. They are reg ular in all their habits. They are early up in the morning, and early to bed at night. Their fare is plain, substantial and good, and their labor is sufficientlyactive and sufficiently light to avoid the evils arising from the two extremes of indolence and over-exertion. They are but little exposed to the sudden vicissitudes and to the excessive heats or colds of the seasons, and they are very generally free from anxious and depressing cares." The agents or directors of the several corporations have converted the most spacious and elegant mansion in the city into a boarding house or hospital for the sick. This is a noble and christian institution. Spacious and beautiful rooms, well warmed and ventilated, with the best medical attendance and nursing make up a combination of comforts for the sick which are not often met with even in the best regulated homes of the inmates, For all these accommodations, the charge is only three dollars a week for females, and no one in the employ of the corporation is shut out on account of her inability to pay. There are sixteen organized religious societies in Lowell, in which there are enrolled more than six thousand sunday school pupils and teachers, being one third part of the entire population of the city. per annum ; and employing 6,430 female. and 2,077 male operatives. The average wages of females, exclusive of board, is $2 per week, and many earn double that amount. The sum paid out for wages is $160,000 per month, and of 1,976 depositors in the Lowell Institutions for Savings, 978 arc factory girls, and out of $305,796 deposited on interest, $100,000 belongs to them. "There is not to be found in New England a body of clergymen, more zealous, laborious and devoted to their great duties than our own. |