Litchfield enquirer., 1861-10-24
gotaI ama County News.
LITCHFIELD.

to join the new Cavalry Squadron at Meriden
 Nine of them were from Litchield, one from
 Morris, and one from West Goshen. Litchfeld
 has now sent over seuenty volunteers to the war
 and should Litchfeld Co. Regiment be raised
 and rendezvoused here, we shall have nearly as
 many more volunteer.
 (- Henry Williams, whom we mentioned last
 week, as having joined the Battery has returned The Teachers Institute which commenced
 its session in this village last week, was largely
 attended, and realized the highest anticipatlons
 of it's friends. The managers on the part o1 the
 State, were the Hon. D. \. Camp superlnten-
 dent of Schools, Prof c. Northend, fro1. nus sou Pov IT Reebe and Prof. Sanborn Tenny of Massachusetts.
 The session opened by lecture from Prof. Russell on Monday evening, with recitations {; on Tuesday evening lecture by the Rev. Mr Bebee, on Physical Geography, and another lec-
 ture and readings by Prof. Russell on
 Wednesday evening by Hon. D. N. Camp, on Common Schools, followed by addresses by Rev. with; on Thursday evening lecture on our School System, by tho Hon. G. H. Hollister, and the attendance of the Litohfeld Brass Band playing some national airs; on Friday evening Prof. Tenny gave very interesting lecture on Carbon. After which resolutions were passed by the Institute expressive of their obi ligations for the kind and liberal provision made for their reception and gratuitous accommodation during their stay in Litchfeld, and deserved compli- ment to our distinguished fellow citizen, the Hon. Seth P. Beers, for his eminent services in the cause of Common Schools, in the institu- tion of the Institute for Teachers, and the dis tinguishcd ability with which he had for more than quarter of Q century discharged the du- ties of Commissioner of tho School Fund after which Prof Northend acknowledged the obli- gations to several gentlemen in Litchfeld for their services in the enactment of school laws, improving the condition of our common schools. Extempore addresses were made by Messrs. Hollster, Beckwith, s. M. Ensign, Hon. Mir. Beers, when the convention adjourned.
 The attention of those wishing an excellent Theological Library is call to the advertisement of the late Dr. Jas. Richards of this town. Mr. IhlCudIuS aiiIOuHcCS luSL ueFSslteT uC proposes to give up preaching and take to practising law This resolution is taken after mature delibera- tion and from conviction of duty" A study of some two years and half with John G. Spencer, Esq, of New York, and the further study which Mir. Richards proposes and for the library, now wholly useless to him, or to ex- change it for law library of equal worth, will it is to be expected, amply qualify him for this new profession. For the benefit also of tie younger clergy, we are permitted to nounce that the late Doctor of Divinity has on hand from eight to nine hundred orthodox cal vanistic, manuscript sermons, carefully prepar- cd, in the most approved style, during the last twenty years, for the inhabitants of this planet and not of Jupiter, and warranted not to have been preached within q hundred miles of Litch- field. A rare chance
 We are the happy recipient of two elegant boquets of ro,es in bud and blossom, which ex ude all the fragrance of June And there are pluckcd on Litchield Hill, on the 20th of Oc- tober
 Sergeant Edward B. Smith, who has been at home recruiting his health for few weeks past, returns to his post in the 4th regiment on Monday next, and will take any contributions to "the boys' that their friends may wish to make. Sergeant Smith wishes us to say to the Farmers that few cheeses would be particular acceptable.
 of t1,o {oxr authorize the committee on volunteers to 20 on with their appropriations to all those who en listed in future Regiments from this town? We make the enquiry simply because we learn that the committee after spending less than $500 of the S5o0o appropriated, have resolved to " shut down. on all future volunteers. Are not those who go hereafter to fight the battles of their country as worthy of their compensation, as those who have gone before? We pause for reply.
 We learn that select school for reading is to be opened in town this winter under the immediate supervision of Dr. E. W. Blake We are reminded of tho ancient orator, who when eomplimented on his attainmcn.s in oratory re- piled that the praise shou not be given to him. but that he should have been permitted to live in the time of so accomplished an instructor az his master!
 A Phantasmagorial Exhibition of Biblical scenes scenes in early American history, Battle o1 Dull Run, &c., was shown through a glass, oafkly' at the Town Hall Tuesday Evening. It was much better than the average of this sort or Jack-lantern performances and will repay a 'lslt from people in the lower part of the county when it comes along.
 - The temperance meeting to have been held at the Elm Park Institute last Saturday evening g
 was postponed, on account of the storm. CORNWALL.
 This town has expended during the past year | for rofr al, 6