FOR THE ENQUIREE.
--blackw wounding caiumny

 The whilest virtue strikes. ShGks.

 Bid slander rage, and envy cease, .+s

 For one short interval of peace;

 Let others iaults and crimes alone

 Survey thyself, and view thine own. T'rnmban.

 As philanthropy seems to be the order of the day, and the spirit of improvement to be operating with unusual vigor. i, may not be amiss, while we decry those open offences of intemperance in "d,inking" and tobacco cesoiag, seek aut and expose those more hidden faults which from their very concealment work with more sure and deadly certainty. The sub. jecs of scandal is hackneyed oncits turpitude and crimnali,y in the sight of God and man have been too often and too forciby portrayed to require any add tional coorng at this day-our moralists have sufi ciently prove" its inconsistency with, rather its d rect opposition to, social peace and christian clary and higher authority than mans doubtful reasoning has stamped upon it the mark of His dsapprobation, But have we nOt cause iu'cHs, SIr. Editor, efficacy these intended restraints upon wayward Is deplorable to witness the extensive and baneul influence which thus fend still exerts a- mong us? What man, or woman, be she :" "as pure as the icicle, chaste unsund snow," that has not been wounded by the remorseless fangs of scandal And who is there that may not dread its insidous api'roachesf We may indeed think to draw around the mantle ofinsensibiy, of in the conscousness of innocence and purity to asspnd beyond the reac, of its influence but in either public opinion will have its sway, and he is composed of "Mern suff'' who entirely disregard it. In short, the effect of the very fashionable mode of calumnia,,ng now extant among is nothing less than to destroy many good regulations, and 10 impair that confidence between man and man which isthe foundation and in- dispensabe support of society. did not set ont 10 write an essay this vile pracce-I repeat enough has been said by ahler pens and to these would re- fer all those whom it may concern. disclaim any personal aluson in what have said but there may be those, even in Litchfeld whose consciences will not wholly acquit them of gniIt. Tothese would say qui capis. He acis. Let hope thai, in addition to the other and pre-eminent advantages which our town eajoys there may be always maintained that cia harmony which becomes a christian community, and which can only be effected by dscouragng all backbiters and calumniators. PHILANTHRoPos.