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Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-30
MILTON ACADEMY.

JOHN A. BOuGHTON, A. B. Principal TEsHE AUTUMN SESSION of ,his insii'n N ton will q" nn,e nee on MONDAY. Oct. lsth The Prlncp.l Is gradui,c ni Trinity Cllrgp. Harr- ford aud has from the Faculty o ie College h,gh testimonials of character and scholarship.
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-30
SCHOOL NOTICE.

THNHE Schcol Committees for the various districts
 V in Litchfcld are requested to send in their re- ports to Dr. J. G. Beckwith or before Saturday, October 2d, 1858.
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-30
NOTICE.

NEE Voters of the Republican Party of the Town Of Cornwall. will hold their caucus at tho Town Hall in said Cornwall. on Saturlnv nre. vious to Election, at 2 oc clock P. M.
 22 Per order of COMMITTEE.
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-30

tg- The Annual Meeting of the First School Dis trict will be held at the School House in West st. this Thursday) evening. It is proposed to lay tax to paint and remodel the building.
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-30
MARRTED.

In Warren. 18th inst. by the Rev. Cha,les Ever lit, Mir STEPHEN w. RILEY of Sharon, to Miss FAN NY c. SHOVE of Warren
 In Mateawan, Duchess Co.,, N. Y, by the Rev Mr. Masters, MT. SETH SHOVE of Warren, 10 Miss ELLEN CHERRY of Mateawa1.
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-30

eY A. c. SMITH, & Co. have been appointed agents for the sale of DR. JACOBS BiTTERS They have been much liked wherever used-over 1000 bottles having been sold in New Haven alone during the last year. They put up in pint bot ties for 25 cents. s. A. Spencer, young Druggist in New Haven, is the sole proprietor-he having purchased the receipt with the right to manufacture, from distinguished New Englander.
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-30
NOTICE.

A U. ACCOUNTS due the late firm of Warner A Brothers and B. T. Waruer MUST B.. SET. TILED without delay B T. & E. L. WARNER.
 LItth6eld, Sept. II, 1858. 2l
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-30

!" HEREAS MY WIFE LYDIA ANN NUN W SON has absented herself from my bed and board since the 2lst of last June without just cause or orovocaton this is to forbid all persons harbur ing or trusting her on my account as shall pay no debts of her contracting after this date
 Sept. 4, 1858. given under my hand at Plymouth. LteAfeld County.
 20 3to HOSEA MUNSON.
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-30
NOTICE.

VNHE American and Republican Electors of the A Town of Mtchteld are requested to meet at the Mansion House on Saturday, Oct 2, at clock for the nomination of Town Oficers
 e# Per order of the Town Committee.
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-30
HARRIsON's COLUMBIAN
 HAIR DYE.

n has double the quantity and strength of any other. IL gives . perfectly natural color. If eclors every shade from light brown to jet bask
 Ifs is easy and rapid. Ii is perfectly harmless to tho skin. 1fs effect is instantan and permanent. s the 6ss qukest cheapest and sata DYE made A1 Directions Nor use accompany each box. "a Prics-l or ls-2 o. q 50 ;- oz $s;-s or s. ass1 sssesass csas. by
 
 Aans5bt,S1. Ap0LL0s w. HARRISON. 10 Sbsah ,M g.
 1RILAp8tPaIA
 Ter sa,s hy T. H. Richards, Litclffeld; Elmore X Welch winste
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nRESS TRAININGS, VELVET RIBBONS. A Silk Frnges, Belt Ribbons &c., new assortment just opened at VIM. Ii. BRAMAN'S.
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b4- See Advertisement of Dr. SASroaD's :. L1vrn fNvIaoRATER.'' D
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Millinery and Dressmaking.

EtchfieId, Sept. 2e, 1858.
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could not be made to communicate, except
by canals, which would cost great deal
of labor. For these canals of communi-
cation could not be formed at all places,
because there is only one part of the River
Rhyme which is in the neighborhood of
the River Reason, and hence many cities
situated on the Rhyme, such as Rounde-
lay and Ballad, could have no commerce
with the Reason, whatever pains might
be taken for that purpose. Further, it
would be necessary that these canals should
cross the Deserts of Common Sense, as
you will see by the map; and that it is
almost an unknown country. The Rhyme
is large river, whose course is crooked
and unequal, and, on account of its numer-
Gus falls, it is extremely difficult to nayi-
gate. On the contrary, the Reason'is very
straight and regular, but it docs not carry
vessels of every burthen.
There is, in the Land of Poetry, a very
obscure forest, where the rays of the sun
never enter. 1t is the forest of Bombast.
The trees are close, spreading, and twined
into each other. The forest is so ancient,
that it has become sort of sacrilege to
prune It's trees, and there is no probabil-
ity that the ground will ever be cleared.
A few steps into this forest and we lose
our road without dreaming that we have
gone astray. 1t is full of imperceptible
labyrinths, from which no one ever returns.
The Reason is lost in this forest.
The extensive province of Imitation is
very sterile. 1t produces nothing. The
inhabitants are extremely poor, and are
obliged to CLEAN in the richer fields of
the neighboring provinces; and some even
make fortunes by this beggarly occupa-
tion. The Empire of Poetry is very cold
towards the north, and, consequently, this
quarter is the most populous. There are
the cities of Anagram and Acrostic, with
several others of a similar description.
Finally, in that sea which bounds the
States of Poetry, there is the Island of
Satire, surrounded with bitter waves
The salt from the water is very strong and
dark colored. The greater part of the
brooks of this Island resemble the Nile
in this, that their sources are unknown
but it is particularly remarkable, that
there is not one of them whose waters are
fresh. A part of the same sea is called
the Archipelago of ,Trifles. The French
term it L Archipcl des Bagatelles, and
their voyagers are well acquainted with
those islands. Nature seems to have
thrown them up in sport, as he did those
of the Egean Sea. The principal islands
are the Madrigal, the Song, and the I'm
promptu. No lands can be lighter thar
those islands, for they float upon the
waters.
San Andreas independent., 1858-07-24

SPECIMEN OF BACKwoOD-E -ELOQUENCE.
"A man on his trial for murder, having
been found guilty by the evidence, is sup
posed to have been successfully defended
by his counsel in the following speech:
"Thou shalt not kill Now, if you
hang my client, you trangress the com
mand as slick as grease, and as plump as
goose egg in loafer's face. Gentlemen,
murder is murder, whether committed by
twelve jurymen, or an humble individual
like my client. Gentlemen, you can now
smoke the tobacco of rectitude in the pipe
of peaceful conscience but, hang my
unfortunate client, and the scaly alligators
Of remorse will gallop through the inter-
nal principles of your animal visccra, until
the spinal vertebre of your anatomical
construction is turned into a railroad for
the grim and CORY goblins of despair
Gentlemen, beware of committing mur
der Gentlemen, adjure you, by the
manumitted ghost of temporary sanctity
to do no murder
Il adjure you, by the name of woman
the main spring of the ticking time-piece
of times theoretical transmigration, to dc
no murder! l adjure you, by the love
you have for the esculent and condimen-
tai gusto Of our native pumpkin, to do no
murder! | adjure you by the American
Gag gle that whipped the universal game
cock of creation, and now is roosting on
the magnetic telegraph of times illustri-
Gus transmigration, to do no murder =
And lastly, if you expect to wear store
made coats; if you ever expect free dogs
not to bark at you if you ever expect to
wear boots made of the free hide of the
Rocky Mountain buffalo; and, to sum up
all, if you ever expect to be anything but
sneaking, low flung, rascally, braided
small ends of humanity, whitfield down
into indistinctability, acquit my client,
and save your country"
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FIX Your MIND.-Lay it down as

FIX Your MIND.-Lay it down as a
sound maxim, nothing can be accomplish
ed without fixed purpose eoncentra-
tion of mind and energy. Whatever you
attempt to do, whether it be the writing
of an essay, or whiting of a stick, let It
be done as well as you can do it. 1t was
this habit that made Franklin, and New
ton, and hundreds whose labors have been
of incalculable service to mankind. Fix
your mind closely on whaty undertake;
in no other way can you have reasona-
BILE hope of success. An energy that dies
in day is good for nothing; an hours
fixed attention will never avail. The
heavens were not measured in day. The
inventions that bless mankind were not
the work of moments thought and in
vestigation. A lifetime has often been
given to single object. If you, then,
have a desire to bless your species, or to
get to yourself glorious man, fix your
mind upon something, and let it remain
fixed.
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THE KITCHEN OF THE CAPITOL AT

The KITCHEN OF THE CAPITOL AT
WAsHINGToN.-A correspondent describes
the kitchen of the United States Capitol,
after having remarked that the dining sa-
loon occupies principal room on the floor
beneath the representative hall, and is
lighted by large and beautiful gas chan
delier with i've burners A dozen mar
bleized iron tables with heavy marble tops
are distributed around the room, each
costing not less than fifty dollars. The
chairs are somewhat palmer. The counter
is of polished marble, occupying a circle
in the centre of the room, within which
ascends dumb waiter from the kitchen
below. But to the Kitchen:
There are seven rooms appropriated to
cleaning vegetables, dressing meats, OPEN
ing oysters and making pastry. But my
readers may enquire, at whose expense is
this vast restaurant furnished and kept
up? 1t is hardly credible, but still it is
a fact, that the expense of this "public
kitchen" is paid out of the public treas
ury; that is to say, the rooms are all fin
ished and furnished by the government,
in the most costly style, and coal and gas
thrown in, leaving the occupant of this
comfortable but novel establishment, to
supply only the provisions to be cooked
which he afterwards retails to members of
Congress and the employees about the
building at extravagant prices. | under
stand that large number of regular
boarders are accommodated, and the
cook" informs me that he can provide
comfortably for thousand people. Are
we not great nation, and growing
greater?
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CAUTION TO BACHELORs.-Th is
nothing SO dangerous as young man stay
ing In country-house with pretty girls.
He is sure to fall in love with one or other
of them imperceptibly, or one or the other
is sure to fall in love with him and then,
when at length he leaves, there is sure to
be little scene arranged. Miss, with
her red eye-lids and lace fringed kerchief;
mamma with her smirks and smiles, and
hopes he'll "soon return" and so on
There are more matches made up in coun-
try houses than in all the West End Lon
don ones put together Indeed, London
is always allowed to be only the cover for
finding the game in, and the country the
place for running it down; just as you
find your fox in wood and run him down
in the open field. Be careful, therefore,
what you are about. 1t is much easier to
get entangled with a girl than get free
again; for though they will always offer
to set young man free, they know better.
Above all, never consult male friend in
these matters. The stupidest woman that
ever was born is better than the cleverest
man in love affairs In fact, no man is
a match for woman until he is married.
not all even then. The worst of young
men is, they never know their worth until
it is too late. They think the girls are
difficult to catch, whereas there is nothing
so easy, unless, as | said before, the girls
are better engaged. Indeed, young man
should always have his mamma at his ell
bow to guard him against the machina-
tions of the fair. As, however, that can
not be, let me urge you to be cautious
what you are about; and as you seem to
have plenty of choice, don't be more at
tentive to one sister than to another, by
which you will escape the red eyelids,
and also escape having mamma declaring
you have trifed with Maria's or Sophia s
feelings, and all the old women of the
neighborhood denouncing your conduct,
and making up to you themselves for one
of their own girls. Some ladies ask a
mans intention before he is well aware
that he has any himself; but these are
the spoil-sport order of women. Most of
them are prudent enough to get a man
well hooked before they hand him over to
papa. 1t is generally a case of "Ask
mamma first. Beware of brothers. I
have known undoubted heiresses crum-
pied up into nothing by the appearance
(after the catch) of two or three great
heavy dragooners.-Ihe Note Tdker.
San Andreas independent., 1858-07-24

"HE is A BRIcK"-ITs ORIGIN
At duel which took place in Scotland,
a person who was charged with its pre-
liminary arrangements carried with him
to the ground two bricks, which he placed
so as to mark the distance between the
combatants Several shots having taken
place without effect, the parties became
reconciled, and returned to Glasgw to-
gether. One of the seconds being asked
how his principal had behaved, answered,
like regular brick'-meaning that he
had been as immovable as that which was
at his feet at the time when the shots
were exchanged. Hence the origin of
the phrase, and the meaning of its appli-
cation.-Notes and Queries.
San Andreas independent., 1858-07-24

ONES MoTnER.-It has been truly
said that the first thing that rushes to the
recollection of a soldier or sailor, in
his direst difficulty, is his mother. She
clings to his memory and affection in the
midst of all the forgetfulness and hardi-
hood induced by rowing life. The last
message he leaves is for her; his last
whisper breathes her name. The mother,
as she instils the lesson of piety and filial
obligation into the heart of her infant
son, should always feel that her labor is
not in vain. She may drop into the
grave; but she has left behind her an in
fuence that will work for her. The bow
is broken, but the arrow is sped and will
do its office.
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A MODERN BELLE" Love in a cot
tage indeed!" said Lauretta one day to
one of her admirers, sentimental swain.
" | do not fancy the picture. A cottage
always reminds me Of pigs, and poultry,
and dirty children, and sluttish women,
and coats out at elbows, and broken win
dows patched with paper, or stopped with
old hats-things that l hold in utter
abomination. Give me an elegant sufi-
ciency-a handsome house in the city,
splendidly furnished, in the most fash
ionable style-a dashing equipage-a well
filled casket of jewels-a magnificent
wardrobe circle of gay and fashiona-
BILE acquaintances-a wealthy and indul.
gent husband -and then - perhaps
might think of love-"
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BgAn Englishman and Yankee were

BgAn Englishman and Yankee were
disputing, when the former sneeringly
remarked: Fortunately, the Americans
could 60 no farther than the Pacific shore.
The Yankee stretched his prolific brain
for an instant, and thus replied: why,
good gracious, they are already leveling
the Rocky Mountains, and carting the
dirt out west. had letter last week,
from my cousin, who is living two hund-
red miles west of the Pacific shore, on
made land
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NOTICEl
sSE Rounfy Land Warrants. y.

VuyHE undersigned having completed arrange
ments with his Correspondent in Wash.
;noton d G.. is now ready to procure Boun-
+,y Ind warrants, granted by an Act o
Congress. passed March Sd, 1855, giving land
I1so acresl to all connected with the 4rmy oil
Noru of the United States, in any OF the wars
in which the United have been engaged
Also State Troops, whose services have been
paid by the United States
nsa information given gratis.
pea No charge, if said warrants are not OBJ
tanned. H. iho", g.
ces' Stone Building, Mok. Hill feb 7-26
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ARAB PRovERBs.-If your friend is
made of honey, do not eat him all up
If you travel through the country of the
blind, be blind yourself. When you are
the anvil, have patience; when you are
the hammer, strike straightly and well.
He who can take hint cannot compre-
hend long explanation. Take counsel
of one greater, and one less than yourself,
and, afterward, form your own opinion.
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"a Many of the brightest virtues are
like stars-there must be night or they
cannot shine. Without suffering, there
can be no fortitude, no patience, no COM
passion, no sympathy. To enjoy life, you
should be a little miserable occasionally.
Trouble, like cayenne, is not very agree
able in itself, but gives great zest to other
things.
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Written for the San Andreas Independentl

4ue 6uSrlm.
pilgrim stood on the holy mount
In the distant land Of Palestine,
Whose soul was stirred to its secret fount
With the living joy of faith divine;
As upward and far from earthly things,
His peniteut spirit won its way
To bathe in the light Of Peace, its wings,
Where summer reigns in eternal day.
Meekly, he knelt, by . nameless shrine
OF moss-bound stones but loosely piled,
To watch the sun in its slow decline
Ger the west so blue and undefled;
As II on that distant amber line
Far above the mountains curving SWELL
He vainly sought for the mystic sign
He had dreamed of in his hermit CELL
The sun swept down in its golden car,
But the sign he watched for, never came,
While slowly uprose the even STAR
Lighting the arch with its silver fame
And its trembling beams, like earth-born smiles,
tender light DER the altar shed,
But hope had fed from his hearts bright aisles,
And his pure soul like dream had fed
His princely home in a sunny land
He freely left for a mountains cave,
Where shell-fsh slept ON the glittering strand,
And wild gulls hung DER the rolling wave;
For his mind was rent with mighty thought
While his burning eye grew dim and cold;
And his sad heart broke when the sign came not,
On that far off sea of blue and gold.
He wept and sighed from manhood's morn,
For one bright beam of heavenly Eobt
While he meekly bore the rude worlds scorn,
And the weary weight of mental night;
For he knew that there must come o time
When truths would fall as the manna-dew,
And that, which he saw in dreams sublime,
Would prove that his newborn faith was true
OHIO.
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WILLIAM IRVINE, ......Proprietor.

NNIIE UNDERSIGNED has always on hand
IL large supply of all qualities of Lumber
and is prepared to fill all orders on the short
est notice, at the lowest market rates. His
YARD is situated in the rear of the Kinder
hook Exchange, in the town of San Andreas.
| have also established Lumber Yard at
Campo Seco, with Boyle l. O'Neil as his agents.
n B-A good supply of long and short
shingles always on hand.
ie13 '57Iy3S s. WILLIAM IRVINE.
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b%Love labor, if you do not want it
for food, you may for physic. He is in
dolent, who might be better employed
There are few who know how to be idle
and innocent
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D9~" l say friend, your horse is lit
tie contrary, is he not?" "No, sir-eel"
What makes him stop, them" 40,
he's afraid somebody'll say "whoa" and
he shan't hear it."
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Written for the San Andreas independently
Memories.

Written for the San Andreas Independent.
Memories.
What little thing
A word or toy
Will bring back the time
When l was boy;
And methinks | feel
On my cheek, the glow
That gladdened my heart
So long, long ago.
Yet around each hang,
With the vesper chime,
And the birds that sang
In that olden time,
A shadowy grief,
And CLEAN of joy,
For the world was bright,
When l was boy.
The time, and the place,
With its laughing eyes,
Like the twinkling stars
In the distant skies,
Come up on the wings
Of memory bright,
And fill my sad heart
With tender light.
But the village green,
And the grassy lane,
With the little grove
On the sunny plain,
And the dim old wood
Where the breezes sigh,
To my dreamy soul
Are forever nigh.
From the lone wayside,
Or the dewy lea,
AS bright as of old
Do they come to me;
In the waste of toll
Upon life's broad sea,
They come as song
Of sweet melody.
But the ruby lip
And the sparkling eye,
In the gloomy grave
With the earth-worms lie;
And the little form
So fragil and fair,
Like a folded rose,
Is slumbering there.
And fathers smile,
So loving and free,
Like sunny beam
On a tranquil sea;
And a mothers kiss
With its boundless love,
Float up as the clouds
On the blue above.
From the cherries past
Do they trooping come,
When the jar of life
Has sunk to a hum,
Like an angel band
From the glowing west,
They fly to their home
In my aching breast.
LEcIro, July, 1858. ALPH-
San Andreas independent., 1858-07-24

D9-A person who had become rather
dissipated, was accused of having a loose
character. 4 wish it were loose, said he,
I'D soon shake it off.
San Andreas independent., 1858-07-24

s9- Here's Webster on bridge said
Mrs. Partington, as she handed Ike the
dictionary. Study it contentively and
you will gain great deal of inhamma-
ton.
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E. ". BOY NJ o N.
WATCH MAKER AND JEwELER

WATCH MAKER AND JEWELER,
MAIN ST., OPPOSITE ODD FELLOWS HALL,
SAN ANDREAS,
WHERE may be found large assortment
w of good Brass Clocks, such as s9
Eight Day, and Thirty Hour Striking EIA
and Marine Alarm Clocks. Also, beau s.4
tiful Parlor and Bedroom Clocks, all of which
will be parrantad to keep good time one gear.
Also, fine magnifying Glasses with double
power, expressly for examining Quartz Rock.
Also, Spy Glasses, Spectacles, Thermometers,
Pocket Compasses, American Pocket Knives,
Steel Tweezers, Watch Guards, Keys, first
quality Italian E string, fnger-boards, tall
pieces, bridges, rosin, bows, &c.
Also, a large assortment of fine Gold Pens,
Gold Fob Chains, Fob Buckles, Seals, Slides,
Ladies Gold Curb Chains, Belt Buckles, PEN
ellis, Silver thimbles, Coral Beads, &c. Also,
fine Gold Rings, EARRINGS, Breast Pins, Lock-
cts, Snaps, Infants Coral and Gold Armlets,
Necklaces, &C.
Special attention will be given to all work,
such as repairing Clocks and Watches, manu-
featuring Rings, EARRINGS, Specimen Pins, &c.
N. B. All work warranted if well used.
l would also embrace this opportunity of
thanking the public for past favors, and hope,
by trying to please them, to still merit their
appreciation ~ ll-tf:v2:28
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THE INDEPENDENT
is PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING,
B Y AR NOR s. CO.

B. P KoosER, ,......o. NJ. cLAYEs, ,......GEo ARMoR.
Office in the INDEPENDENT Building, St. Charles
street, above Main.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One year,
invariably in advance, So; six months, S3 !;
three months, 81.
TERMS OF ADVERTISING:-One square
of twelve lines first insertion, $3.50; each
subsequent insertion, Sl.25. liberal dis
count will be allowed to yearly advertisers.
Business Cards, not exceeding four lines, So
per month.