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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



OCT. 20, 1841. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



THE LITTLE FACTORY GIRL. 



The following sketch is from on English paper. It ha? no 

 original in this country, l>ul is doubtless true to the life, as 

 descriptive of the sufferings of some employed in the mills 

 o< Great Britain.— Atu) Hampshire Patriot. 

 'T was on a winter's morning, 

 The weather wet and wi'd, 

 Three hours hefore the dawning, 



The lather roused his rbilJ ; 

 Her daily morsel bringing, 



The darksome room he paced, 

 .And cried, " The bell is ringing, 

 My hapless darling, haste I" 



" Father, I'm up, but weary, 

 1 scarce can reach llic door. 



And long the way and dreary — 

 carry me once more ! 



To help us we've no mother, 

 And you hare no employ ; 



They killed my little brother- 

 Like him I'll work and die!" 



Her wasted form seemed nothing ; 



The load was at his heart; 

 The sulferer be kept soothing, 



Till at the mill they pan. 

 The overlooker met her 



As to her frame she crept. 

 And with his throne he heat her, 



And curs't her as she wept. 



Alas ! what hours of horror, 



Made up her latest day, 

 In toil, anil pain and sorrow, 



Th>y slowly passed away. 

 It seemed as she grew weaker. 



The threads they ofleu broke. 

 The rapid wheels ran quicker, 



And heavier fell the stroke. 



The sun had long descended, 



But night brought no repose : 

 Her day began and ended 



As cruel tyrants chose. 

 Ai length a little neighbor 



Her halfpenny she paid. 

 To take her lost hour's labor. 



While by her frame she laid. 



Ge.'<f.rai. Pdt.'vam — The Alexandria Index 

 makes a spiriled defence of "Old Put," ajrainst the 

 article in a late Knickerbocker. Tlie Index says: 

 "We take exceptions, hoirever, to the review of 

 General Putnam's Life, which is the leading article 

 of the number, and can Bcarcely refrain n smile at 

 the abortive attempt of the elegant writer to prove 

 the fire-eater of the old French war and of the 

 American Revolution, a coward. Romance may 

 have tinged the deeds of olden time with an illu- 

 sive coloring, and eXalted General Putnam far above 

 his contemporaries in the temple of fame ; but we 

 think .Mr Fellows had better have let the dead of 

 the Revolution sleep out their glorious sleep, than 

 to have cast a shadow of doubt upon the bright 

 page of his country's early history. General Put- 

 nam was one of the bravest of men. Like Stark 

 and Knowlfon, ho was better fitted for the sortie 

 and midnight entriMichment than for the council of 

 war or the festive hoard. If every man had his 

 I p. roper place in the memory of his countrymen, how 

 nu iny kings would bo cobbler.-, and how many phi- 

 ■Wo f„,., ,],„ f II loi»> M'tiPr^ '"""Is I General I'litrmm was a Mnjor 



om eSn nrenar n"'?f '''"'r' """^ "^^ eral of the line ; he was. therefore, a sh.nin. 



Zr M hi? 7 """^^ "nprove.nent in mark for the junior- when his old lion heart was 



object of iaTir^' """""^ "'"^^•' "'^ '-•■i-ld ' •"'• "'" "- •■"-''-■• -rh-t he was „„ 

 11 An.l il.io :. .1,- . Bunke r IJill in the thickest of tiie fight, the Court- 



tion s ou be treS 'T,!:'':' r """" '''''"'^ '"' i'T'" '^^'"'""'' '''''^■'' --'"-«ly. 

 uirectca. J-.ducati.,n. to operate lie it >v a.? that drove the brave, though unfortunate 



At last, the engine ceasing, 



The captive homeward rushed ; 

 .She thought her strength increasing 



'T was hope, her spirits flushed. 

 She left, but olt she tarried. 



She fell, and rose no more, 

 'Till by hercomrads carried. 



She reachcl her father's door. 



At night with tortured feeling. 



He watched his speechless child. 

 While close beside her kneeling, 



She knew him not, nor smiled ; 

 Again, the factory's ringing, 



Her last |)crcep«inn tried. 

 When from her stmw Iwd springin;, 



" 'T la TiMBl" she said— and died. 



EDUCATION. 



beneficially upon the masses, must lake a more 

 practical direction than it has hitherto done. To 

 overload the memory with columns of spelling, or 

 with the contents of lexicons, is not the way to 

 make children or men happier or better, let the few 

 who have leisure and inclination, learn, if they 

 please and have the power, all languages spoken 

 under heaven, and reveal any hidden knowledge 

 contained in Ihein to their fellow-men ; but. for the 

 many, life, unless they wanted to neglect its duties 

 — is even too short to muster the treasures of know- 

 ledge brought to their own doors, in their mother 

 tongue. The education retjuired for the people is 

 that which will give them the full command of ev- 

 ery faculty both of mind and body; — which will 

 call into play their powers of observation and re- 

 flection: — which will make thinking and reasoning 

 beings of the mere creatures of impulse, prejudice 

 and passion ; — that which, in a moral sense, will 

 give them objects of pursuit, and habits of con- 

 duct, favorable to their own happiness and that of 

 the community of which they will form a part ; which 

 by multiplying the amount of rational and intellect- 

 ual enjoyment will diminish the temptations of vice 

 and sensuality; — which, in the social relations of 

 life, and as connected with objects of legislation, 

 will teach them the identity of the individual with 

 the general interest; — that which, in the physical 

 science — especially with those of chemistry and 

 mechanics will niake them masters of the secrets 

 of nature and give them powers which tend to 

 elevate the moderns to a rank higher than that of 

 the demigods of antiquity. All that, and more, 

 should be embraced in that scheme of education 

 which would be worthy of statesmen to give, and 

 of a great nation to receive; and the time is near 

 at hand when the attainment of an object thus 

 comprehensive in its character, and leading to re- 

 sults, the practical benefits of which it is almost 

 impossible for even the imagination to exaggerate, 

 will not be considered Utopian." — h'eslminister Re. 

 view, June, 1840. 



Callendcr back to the lines, with his sword point 

 ing at his breast, when the captain of artillerv 

 sought a hollow in the hill to reduce his cartridgef 

 to the size of his gun. Putnam, as we said before 

 was a Major General of the American army. Hie 

 commission was given to him after the battle ol 

 Bunker Hill. N\here were Dearborn and Stark 

 and Heath and Wilkinson then ? Why did thev 

 let a coward wear the laurels of the brave, anc 

 lord it over them, when an appeal to the facts woulc 

 have stripped the craven, and driven him from the 

 ranks a scorned and unhiily thing? Putnam had 

 liis Humphrey and his Waldo, and Harrison his 

 Dawson and his Gushing. How far the biogra- 

 phers of early and modern times wandered from 

 the truth 111 their pages, we will not soy ; but we 

 aver if I'lilnain was wanting in courage, the battle 

 of Biiiiker Hill was the work of cowards, and Gene- 

 ral Wa.^^hington was the first to honor the craven 

 who fired the morning gun of the Revolution al 

 the Glasgow man-of-war. The post of danger al 

 the battle of Bunker Hill was not at the redoubt, 

 as some supposed, but was upon Charlestown neck, 

 raked ns it was by the grape and cunnistcr of two 

 vessels of thirtytwo guns each. Across this neck, 

 in his visits to the doubtful Ward, General Putnam. 

 galloped, amid 



" The iron bail 

 And the ihunderiii^s of war." 



Across this neck he led the backward militia- 

 and to convince them that the crossing was passa. 

 ble, he passed and repassed several times, amid 

 the thickest of the fight. i 



(Jeiicral Putnam a roii'a;-;/.' Gracious God ! If' 

 his acts were cowardly, let us have an army ol 1 

 such cowards, and our country will be secured for. i 

 ever from the spoiler's arm and the traitor's insidi 

 ous blow." 



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