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cd to have no employment, and saw nothing that looked like book or tract, or any printed paper, in the room. The excellent clergyman who accom- panied me, whom asked to offer prayer, said that when he began to speak, the air was go offensive as almost to produce sufocaton. was the more aftec- ted by contrasting this withthe New Haven prison, which had 90 recently seen. When told the men sho object of my vst they were affected to tears, most of them, and DF. SewaIs plates affected them very much, and at tho close asked me to proceed with my remarks. They all signed the Total Absti- nence Pledge. The President of the Ltchfield Tenn Derance Society is to give them certificate of the fact. when they leave Thus hope they will resist teRentation, and find employment; and if one of the live s thus blessed by the pledge. shall be thank fu that made the visit As most of the convicts in all our prison are incorporate persons the condition and management of the prisons is subject ot deep interest to us as Temperance men. Do the people oi Etched County think it best that their Jail shouc any longer remain in such close connection with rum selling tavern9 After the example of Congress tn hanshng GrOg- and Restaurateurs from the Capitol. will they not purge the County premises. and no longer as County, grow rich by the gain of xunG-eeiling7 III have it in my power to attand the next County Temperance meeting, shall urge i'm: mediate attention to this subject. That God will preserve oil our Cold Water Army soldiers from the unhappy condition of tho men now in Ltchfeld Jail, is the earnest desire of most

 Respectfully yours, 2. CHARLES J. WARREN, Secretary of the Conn. Temperance Society.

 New Haven, Jan. 10, l643.