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Litchfield enquirer., 1861-10-03
AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL


 FOR THE RAPID CURE OF COUGHS, COLDS, HOARsENEss, INFLU.
 ENZA. BRONCHITIS, WHOOPING
 COUGH, GROUP, ASTHMA, IN-
 CIPIENT CONSUMPTION, and for the relief of consumpive patients in advanced stages of the disease.
 We need not speak to the public of its virtues Throughout every town, and almost every hamlet of the American States, its wonderful cures of pulmonary com paints have made it already known. Nay few are the families in any civilized country this continent with out some personal experience of its eecs and feweryet the communities any where which have not among them some living trophy of its victory over the subtle and dan gerous diseases of the throat and lungs While it is the most powerful antiiote yet known to for the form dabe and dangerous diseases of the pulmonary orran also the peasanest and safest remedy that he poyed for infants and young persons Parents should have it in store against the insidous enemy that steals upon them unprepared We have abundant grounds to believe the e17y Icfal saves more lives by the con sunptions prevents than those it Keep it by you and cure colds while they clatle. nor neg feet them un no human skill master the inexoialle canker that tl,e vals eats your life away All know the dreadful fatality of lung disorders ana as they the virtues of this remedy we need net do than to them it still made the best can be. We spare cost. to" to produce it the most perfect possible and thus atrd those who rely on the best agent wich skill furnish for their cur
 PREPARED BY DR. J. (. AVER, Practical and Analytical Chemist, Lowell, Mass
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 AGENTs.-A c. Smith, Litchfield Hart Broth FITS & Co.,. West Goshen Fred. Boardman, New Milford Pratt, Foster & Co.,, West Cornwall H. c. Gregory. Cornwall Bridge A. St. Johr. Kent; G. H. Chase, Sharon; Smith & Ensign, Morris.
Litchfield enquirer., 1861-10-03

F. HUMPHREYS & CO.,,
 562 BROADWAY, NEw-YoRH. Sold by c. B. Maltbie, Falls Village; J. Catlin, Northfeld; A. St. John, Kent; G. F. Afford & Co.,, Hitohcocksville.
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Litchfield enquirer., 1861-10-03

The Company have no losses or claims unpaid
 SETH P. BEERS, President. JASON WHITING, Secretary.
 SHELDEN OSBORN, Harwinton,
 General Agent. July l, 1861. tf-13 Directors of the Company. Hon. Seth P. Beers, Shelden Osborne, Jason Whiting, Philip S. Beebe, Abijah Catlin, Henry R. Colt, Charles Adams, George w. Thompson. A. s. Lewis NROCKERY AND GLASS WARE, very cheap, O at T. H. RICHARDS March 25th 1861, tf-49
 Flour. NNHE best brands of FAMILY FLOUR, con u stantly on hand. at
 T. H. RICHARDS CHEAP STORE. Litchfeld, March 25th, 1861: tf46
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The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-09-05

az None but physician knows
how much reliable dlterdtive is need
ed by the people. On all sides of us,
in all communities everywhere there
are multitudes that suffer from COM
plants that nothing but an aAterative
cures. Hence great many of them
have been made and put abroad with
the assurance of being effectual. But
they fail to accomplish the cure they
promise because they have not the in
trinsic virtues they claim. In this state
of the case DR.. j. G. Aver & Co., of
Lowell, have supplied us with COM
pound Extract of Sarsaparilla, which
does prove to be the long desired rem
edy. Its peculiar difference from other
kindred preparations in market is that
it cures the disease for which it is re-
commended, while they do not. We
are assured of this fact by more than
one of our intelligent Physicians in this
neighborhood, and have the further
evidence of our own experience of its
truth Isnmesse Farmer, NashuiNe,
Tenn Las
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-09-05
Patriots and Traitors.

In this unhappy conflict there an be
but two parties-Patriots and Traitors
douglas Last Speech.
This short sentence, says the Cleve.
land Leader, tells the whole story
Patriots aud Traitors !? How true it is
Every man must be one or the other
There is no neutral position. For the
country or against (which are you
Nor can there be a Republican OF
Democratic party during the war;. Old
issues are dead, buried-merged in the
great question of Union or Disunion
Nor can there be lodging, to catch
votes. Masked battery platforms will
not do. The people will storm all such
Guerilla politicians will be unhorsed-
traitors. Union or Disunion! Honest
men and patriots will choose the right
side-the side of the whole country.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-09-05
Important seizures in New York.

NEW York, Sept. 2-Surveyor An.
drews yesterday seized twenty-five ves-
sells owned wholly or in part by rebels,
including eight ships and seven barks.
Others will be seized to day. The
value of the vessels seized is over 3d.
100000.
New YoRK, Sept. Eight more
vessels were seized by the Surveyor
to-day, including the steamer Marion
and the ship Trumbull. The latter
was loaded and ready to sail for An
twerp.
BosToN, Sept. 1.-TWO barks princi
pally owned in Charleston South Caro-
lima were seized by the Surveyor OF
this port to-day under the confscation
act. va-r
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-09-05
ST.. Louis. Sent

ST.. LOUIS, Sept. 2.
Lexington remained in possession of
the Federal troops as late as Friday;
Reinforcements have reached there be-
fore this time and no apprehensions are
feIt for the safety of the place.
In the attack on Thursday several
Union troops were wounded, but none
killed. Gen. Hope leaves for Quincy
this evening, and will Immediately take
the field in person in Northern Mis-.
souri,. FfrTV TC.1E
CAIRO, Sept. 2. /
General Prentiss and staff arrived At
Cape Girardeau on Thursday after
noon. His army is encamped at Jack
son, ten miles west. No secession
camps were found between Ironton and
Jackson. r5T rs,ss r. sff
JEFF. Thompson yesterday took one
hundred thousand dollars from the
bank at Charleston, Missouri.
s-..,o ST.. LOUIS, Sept. 2. b..
The Democrat has advices direct
from Gen. Thompson, encamped at
Benton, Scott Co., to the effect that all.
the rebels heavy baggage at that and
other points is being hastily removed
to near Madrid, and that Thompson's'
and Hardee's forces. would attempt to-
effect junction and fall back on Skies,
ton, the terminus, of the Cairo & Full
ton Railroad, where it is supposed they
would make stand and give Gen.
Prentiss battle. The combined
strength of Thompson, Bardee and
Pillows forces, is estimated at 5000
Reports were current yesterday and
to-day that Gen Prentiss had surprised
a camp of Missouri rebels near Bloom
field, Stoddard county, and had taken
$50 prisoners without firing gun, but
they needed confirmation.
Private dispatches announce that
Provost Marshal McKinstry had been
promoted to a Brigadier- Generalship.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-09-05
Fighting in Western Virginia.

HEELIN0, d, OePI. 2.
The secessionists encamped al
Warrington, Marion county, four hun.
dred in number, were attacked by Col.
Crossman, of Gen. Kelly's staff, with
two companies of United States troops,
a little after daylight this morning.
The secessionists were too strong for
him, and he was obliged to fall back
with the loss of men. The expedition
from here last night hadn't reached the
scene of action at our latest advices.
Two pieces of artillery were sent to
Crossman's relief from Clarksburg to
day. He reports that he can hold the
enemy in check until reinforced.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-09-05
Western Virginia.

From western Virginia we have not
had much news of late, the position OF
matters in that section seems to be as
follows: The secessionists were COM
pletely BUNDLED and their forces driven
out of western Virginia by Gems. Nc.
Clellan and Rosencrantz. Since then
they have made no efforts to recover
their lost grounds, thong h Ex-Governor
Wise has made some threats. The
passes through the mountains in the
most commanding positions, are now
held with sufficient forces of all kinds
to repel any attack. General Lee of
the rebel forces was detached from
Eastern Virginia and is supposed to be
at the head of ten thousand men, with
the design of attacking the United
States forces at Cheat Mountain Gap,
or in that locality. The posts of the
two armies are very near each other,
and it is probable we shall hear of a
|canfiict from that section very soon.
Meanwhile achievements are being
forwarded to the Federal army and
there is considerable security felt that
western Virginia is safe for the present.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-09-05
Business Prospects.

The fall trade is about to open, and
with much more agreeable prospects
than the most sanguine could have
hoped for month, ago. New York,
says the World, will not do the enor-
nous tarific of former years, but what
there is of it will be very profitable to
those who have not succumbed to the
times.
To such as are apt to take gloomy
views of the future we present the fol-
lowing considerations, which seem to
us to indicate much better state of af-
fairs than we have had during the past
six months. aA
l.. The country was never in a more
healthy monetary condition than it is
to-day. There is no speculation; trade
what there is of it's profitable, and
there is more coin in the banks and
among the people than at any previous
period of our country's history.
2. Notwithstanding the loss of the
trade of the South, land we do not
wish to overlook or belittle its impor-
tance,) there are still twenty millions
of industrious free people left, who
must eat and be clothed, and have their
real and artificial wants administered
to. This is large basis upon which to
re-adiust the industrial and commercial
systems of the country.
8. The existence of war is itself a
stimulus to certain branches of indus.
try, and employs, in the field and in
the making of army materials at least
one-third of the available labor of the
North. AS yet we scarcely realize this
fact, but as time progresses it will be-
come more and more apparent.
4. Under the government demand
for vessels, and the immediate export
of bread-stuffs abroad, our shipping in
terest is tolerably prosperous. There is
large demand for sailors, and good
ships are in request.
s. Our crops of wheat, corn, pork,
and provisions will be very large this
year, and we can sell all we can ship.
Our imports have been and will con-
tinue to be light, and there will be no
demand for foreign goods; hence, not
only will the balance of the trade be in
our favor, but our own manufacturers
will be employed to replace by domes-
tic the foreign fabrics heretofore used.
In addition to these considerations,
it is well also to bear in mind that the
irrepressibIe Yankee is not to be kept
down by adverse circumstances. We
may lose the South, and with it vast
trade, but in any event there is great
deal of work to do in this world, and
we intend to have more than our share
of such of it as is profitable. Since
the dawn of time there has been no ma
ton that will compare, in enterprise,
ingenuity, capacity for work and bust
ness faculty, with the people who in
habit these Northern States. Such a
people are never ruined under any cir
cumstances, and as yet they know no
such word as Fail. 80
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-09-05
Mastering of Minors Forbidden.

A general order has been issued by
the War Department forbidding the
mastering in of miors, and providing
that volunteer officers shall rank from
the date of mastering in. A minor,
according to the laws of war, is one
nnder the age of eighteen, we suppose,
though we may be in error on this
point. We suspect the only effect of
the order will be suddenly to add sew
eral months to the age of large class
of young men not up to the standard
age.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-09-05
w Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson TO,

sW Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson for
merly leader of the &c Old Hunker''
wing of the Democratic party of New
York, and as strong friend of the
South as could be found in the North,
made glorious Union speech last week
at mass meeting in Wyoming county,
Pa. He took the ground that inasmuch
as the secession rebellion is utterly I'M
justifiable, it is not for us to favor com
promise with the traitors, and that the
only way to deal with them is to squelch
them by the force of arms.
The party in New York, which Mr..
Dickinson formerly led, -what little
there is left of it's now clamorous
for " compromise and peace"
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-09-05
Il Valuable Capture.

New YORK, Sept. 8.
The Times Washington dispatch,
Sept. Cd, says: the propeller Herbert
arrived yesterday having brought as
prize a small sloop, taken the day pre-
vious. She is heavily loaded with re-
volvers, primers, ammunition, includ-
ing 1000 lbs of percussion caps,
blankets, surgical instruments, n.edi-
cines, &c. She was worked by three
men, one of whom escaped to the Vir-
ginia shore, the others were taken pris-
oners. The sloop is said to have taken
on the freight in Washington.
"The Herbert shelled the woods and
beach near the Rappahannock without
discovering any rebels
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-09-05

AN INCIDENT OF THE wAR.-One of the
sentries at Gen. Banks camp, the 9TH
er night, guarding the springs that sup
piled the camp, shot man who was
crawling up on his belly, under cover
of darkness, with a pound and half
of arsenic, to sweeten the water. The
sentry fired without knowing what the
moving "thing" was, and killed the
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-09-05
Fight with Montgomery...Rebel Camps
rE in Northern Missouri.
RoLLA, Aug. 80

ie'. hoLLA, Aug. 30.
ia The correspondent of the St. Louis
Denaocaat furnishes the following item:
Parties from Springfield report that
a skirmish had taken place in Vernon
county, east Of Fl. Scott, between Col.
Montgomery of the Kansas forces, and
the rebel troops under Rains. Rein
forcements had been sent to Rains from
Springfield. Six thousand rebels were
eneamped at Pond Spring. Another
encampment of over 5000 was at a
spring south of the Fayetteville road.
There were also encampments near
Springfield. Gen. Mcbride, with TO-
900 men, passed through Dade county
last week in Northwest direction, and
10000 men were at Dry Glades, in
Dade county, devastating the country.
Every vestige of property belonging to
Union men in Greene county had been
seized.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-09-05
The Government Loan.

The effect upon the business of the
country of the heavy government loans
and the consequent large expenditures
of money, is exciting considerable dis
cussion, but the general opinion among
the best informed men is that it will be
favorable to the general trade. The
New York World, in stating the case
says the government borrows the uE.
employed or idle capital of the country
to the extent of 100000 per day
and spends that money Immediately in
the purchase of American labor, man.
ufactures and agriculture products
thereby creating cash trade to the ex.
tent of 1866, 700, 900 per annum, equal
to our whole foreign imports. The
money being spent Immediately by the
government, finds its way back to the
banks, and no more specie is required
than the ordinary clearing house pei
centage of about five per cent. on the
exchanges. As to the ability of the
banks to fulfill their contracts with the
government, comparison of the clear.
ing house statements for this month,
compared with last year, answers that
question. Last year the exchanges
were 100000 per day more than a,
present, consequently we can increase
that amount of transactions daily with
advantage to every interest. Govern.
ment proposes to do business with the
people to the extent of 1866, 200, OOC
per annum. The question is, simply.
have we capital sufficient to perform its
movements. s2O,oOO,OoO in specie are
more than enough to effect all that
governm ent proposes to do. The New
York banks to-day hold over $4,000.
900, and the weekly bank average will
show between $40, 900, 900 and 5O,OOO,.
600 in specie. The business of the
country will be stimulated powerfully
by government disbursements.