The Congregationalist

Temperance Medals.-We get from the Salem Gazette, a proof of the benefit of temperance, to laborers, in one instance at least. On account of a difficulty which recently grew up among the laborers on the Western Rail Road, in the neighborhood of Pittsfield, the contractor dismissed his men, and went to New York in pursuit of others to take their places. He happened to arrive there just in season to engage some emigrants who had come over from Ireland, each with Father Matthew's Temperance Medal round his neck, and he returned to Pittsfield with 200 Irishmen, strong in the purpose of abstaining from a single drop of intoxicating liquors. The Gazette remarks that it would be well to import such Irishmen by the hundred, to reform our own countrymen.-N. Y. Dispatch and Tattler.