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Litchfield enquirer., 1861-07-04
AZ FRS CATHARTIO PILLS.

Are you sick, feeble, and complafningi Are you out oe order, with your system de- ranged, and your feelings un. comfortables These symp. toms are often the prelude to serious illness. Some 1t of sickness is creeping upon you, and should be averted by . timely use of the right rem edy. Take Ayers Pilis, and cleanse out the disordered hu- mors purify the blood, and let the fluids move on unob. structed in health again. They stimulate the functions of the body into vigorous co. tivity, purify the system from kt,o nhctsrvsrffnnu vvhielp ylnnrn
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HOLMES $ WELLS.
.s WRMERLY
 HOLMES & BRONSON.

5s sa5.5 FORMERLY
 HOLMES $ BRONSON.
 BANK-sTREET, WArxRHua1, Cow. yE7E have associated MT. F. D. Wells of w New York City with us, and hope. by his acquaintance in market, to make still greater m ducements for our friends to favor us with then patronage.
 We shall open every week the choicest styles and qualities of GOODS from tho Boston and New York Markets.
 EsneciaI attention will ke paid tO the Eelec- tion of the most elegant DRESS GOODS. and the latest and most fashionable Spring Mantles and Mantilias.
 A large Stock of Linens < Housekeeping Goods. lE- Cash and Low Prices.
 HOLMES & WELLS,
 Largest Dry Goods House in the City. March 1lth, 1861. tf-47
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Who's Y'Oass. HNttes. 2 HIRAM JACKSON. AG'Y.

DEGS leave to announce to the inhabitanta NE of Litchfeld and vicinity, that he has now on hand a large and handsome assortment of
 SPRING HATS AND CAPS, From the mast fashionable Dealers in New York,
 GIVE HIM 4 CALL.
 Watts on the Mind is very important Work, But Wats on the Head is '' more so.'' Htchfeld, May 22d, 1861, d'a
Litchfield enquirer., 1861-07-04
BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE
 AND THE BRITISH REVIEWS,

L. SCOTT & CO.,, NEW YORK, continue to publish the following leading British Periodi- calls, wis:
 1. TEE LONDON QUARTERLY, Conservative. ]
 2. THE EDINBURG REVIEW, (Whig.)
 B. THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW, (Frec
 Church,)
 f. THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW, uibcral.)
 5. BLACKWoOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE,
 (Tory.)
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EYRE & LITE INSURANCE.

HIRE & LIFE INSURANCE. GENERAL AGENCY, Office at New Milford.
 GEORGE LOCKWOOD. AGENT.
 Capital represented-S12 900 ,0O0.
 FIRE COMPANIES, Viz: Etna Co.,, Hartford, Capital and
 Surplus, ....................... SZ,IoO,OOO Phoenix Co.,, Hartford, Capital and
 Surplus, 6UO,UUO Connecticut Co.,, Hartford, Capital and
 Surplus, 250, ,OOO Merchants Co, Hartford, Capital and
 Surplus, ZoV,Vuo City Fire Co.,, New Haven. Capital and
 Surplus, oOO,oOo T Surplus, I ...................... ~ - s2ooooO ~ and T Surplus. w ......:........... '' ~ s15oo,o Hartford Mutual Co.,, Cash and pledg- Litchfeld Mutual Co.,, Cash and pledg-
 LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES, Viz: Conn. Mutual Life Insuranc Co.,,
 acquired Capital, al,......... $3, 800 900 Charter Oak Life Insurance Co.,,
 Capital and Surplus, ... 800 OOO The subscriber is also authorized to effect insur, ances in various companies not specified in the foregoing list.
 All applications made to me will meet prompt attention, and losses will be equitably adjusted and promptly paid. GEORGE LOCKWOOD.
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TO COMSUMPTIVES And those afiiceed with DYSPEPSIA, NERVOUS DEBILITY, HEART DISEASE,
 FEVER & AGUE.
 Or

FEVER & AGUE,
 Or
 CONSTIPATION. The undersigned now seventy five years old, has for years devoted his time to curing his Par. ishioners and the poor in New York of these dreadful complaints, which carry thousands to an untimely grave he has seldom failed to cure all who have applied to him for relief, and believing it to be Christians duty to relieve those abroad, as well as at home, he will send to those who require it, a Copy of Prescriptions used, (Free of Charge), with directions for preparing and using the same. Also rules on Diet, Bathing, Ventilation, and Exercise for the Sick, they will find these remedies, a sure cure for Consumption. and all diseases of the THROAT AND LUNGS, FEVER AND AGUE, CONSTIPATION, HEART DISEASE, Dys- pEPsIA. NERVOUS DEBILITY, and FEMALE CoN. PLANTS, and he hopes every one afflicted will send for copy, as it will cost nothing, and those suc fering should apply before it is to late. These Prescriptions used by the most eminent Phy, sicians in London, Paris, and New York. Thosa wishing them will please address eii
 REV. DIR. CHAMBERLAIN, 31-1yr-12m. Wiliamsburgh, New York.
Litchfield enquirer., 1861-07-04

The present critical state of European affairs will render these publications unusually inter- ssting during the forthcoming year. They will occupy q middle ground between the bastily written news-items, crude speculaticns, and fly ing rumors of the daily Journal, and the pom derous Tome of the future historian, written af- ter the living interest and excitement of the great political events of the time shall have passed away. It is to these Periodicals that readers must look for the only intelligible and reliable history of current events, and as such, in addition to their well-estadished literary, them upon the consideration of the reading pub- lie.
 EARLY COPIES. The receipt of ADVANCE SHEETS from the Brit. ish publishers gives additional value to these Reprints, inasmuch as they can now be placed in the hands of the subscribers about as soon as the original editions.
 TERMS.
 Per ann For any one of the four Reviews .. $3 co For any two of the four Reviews, ,... 5 0O For any three of the four Reviews, ,.... % For all four of the Reviews, ....... 8 co For Blackwoods Magazine, ........... co For Blackwood and one Revicw,...... 5 co For Blackwood and two Reviews, ...... : co For Blaekwood and three Reviews,..... g co For Blackweod and the four Reviews. 10 co Money current s e Sa'e srhee issued VII be recved
 at par.
 CLUBBING
 A discount of twenty five per cent. from-the above prices will be allowed to CLUBS ordering four or more copies of any one or more of the above works. Thus Four copies of Blackwood, or of one Review, will be esent to one address for S9; four copies of the four Reviews and Black wood for $50; and so on.
 POSTAGE.
 In all the principal Cities and Towns these works will be delivered FREE OF POSTAGEE. When sent by mail, the Posthge to any part Of the United States will be but TWENTY FOUR CENTS year for Blackw0od," and but FOURTEEN CENTS year for each of the Reviews. N. B.-The price in Great Britain of the five Periodicals above named is $S1 per annnm. March 18th, 1881 9e-im
Litchfield enquirer., 1861-07-04

E. HUMPHREYS & CO.,,
 562 BROADWAY. NEwYoaK. Sold by C. B. Maltbie, Falls Village; J. Catlin, Northfeld; A. St, John, Kent; G. r. Afford & Co.,, Hitchcocksville.
 1y15.
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For GentIemens, Wear.

UA UCHJlCIIEtNS3 w CdFs \ l0NSTANTLY on hand good assortment of " Broaicloths, Cassimeres, Vestings Wrappers and Drawers, Collars Neck Ties, Hosiery, Gloves NC. at prices as low as the lowest
 Dec. 26th. A. G. FERRISS
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DR. E. COOP E R'S
 UNIVERSAL MAGNETIC BALM

YHNHIS Medicine has, and is proving itself te
 U be the most valuable remedy for that ter ble scourge,
Litchfield enquirer., 1861-07-04

From the Advertiser, Providence, E. I. The Cephalic Pills are said to be remarkably effective remedy for the headache, and one of the very best for that very frequent complaint which has ever been discovered.
 From the Daily News, Newport, R. I. Cephalic Pills arc taking the place fall kinds.
Litchfield enquirer., 1861-07-04

From the Democrat, St. Cloud, Minn.
 If you are, or have been troubled with the headache, send for a box, Cephalic Pills,) 50 that you may have them in case of an attack.
Litchfield enquirer., 1861-07-04
Price, 25 cents per Box, or Boxes for $1. Prepared by Dr. J. c. AVER & CO.,, Lowell, Mass.

AGENrs.-A. c. Smith, LitchfieId Hart Broth CTS x Co.,, West G shen Fred. Boardman. New Milford; Pratt, Foster & Co.,, West Cornwall H. c. Gregory. Cornwall Bridge A. st. John. Kent; G. H. Chase, Sharon Smith & Ensign, Morris. ly6.
Litchfield enquirer., 1861-07-04

From the Examiner, Norfolk, Va. Cephalic Pills accomplish the object for which they were made, viz Cure of headache in all its forms.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-26
The Duty on Tea and Coffee.

So long as the Government depends on
duties or imports for revenue, every thing
should pay something; especially when it
seems to be difficult to collect from all,
enough to support the Government. If any
thing is exempt, it should be first the
materials for extending our own labor. The
exemptions of tea and coffee never were
founded in any sound reason. They were
mere demagoguery, pretending to be favors
to the poor. The poor have intelligence
enough to know that the Government Is
supported by taxes which come chiefly on
labor; and that sny taking off on one thing,
must be put on others where it is better con-
cealed. Those who use tea and coffee do
not ask that they should be exempt from
their just proportion of the public burdens.
And for those who have helped put on tax
oftwenty. four per cent. on sugar-a far more
bu1densome tax to the poor-which, by Mr..
Cobb's instructions, was extended to the
lackages in which it is contained, to talk
about light duty on tea and coffee being
oppressive to the poor, is an insult to their
Intelligence.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-26

CHARACTERISTIC LETTER FROM Ex-Gov-
ERNoR GIsT OF SOUTH CARoLINA.-The fol-
lowing letter was recently sent to a citizen
of Boston:
Before this reaches you blood may be shed
in Charleston harbor, as the preparations for
attacking Fort Sumter are fnished, and it is
understood that President Buchanan will
not surrender it to the State authorities.
Our Governor has been denounced all over
the State for delaying this long, aud he can
not wait much longer. Are we to have a
bloody civil war, or will the good sense of
the conservative North prevail, and the
South be permitted to part with her late con-
federates in peace2 There can be no recon
struction of the late Union. The Border
States may refuse to go with the Cotton
States, but they will eventually join them.
A common destiny awaits the whole
South, and God only knows what that
destiny is. We may be overrun aud con-
quered, but believing in the justice of our
cause, we consider any thing preferable to
dishonor and degradation. Massachusetts
and South Carolina ought to be friends in
stead of enemies. Massachusetts, loses moth
ing by permitting US to have what institu-
tions we please, unmolested, while South
Carolina, by giving up her institutions,
would degrade and impoverish herself, and
this is asking too much of her. If we have
peaceful separation, expect some time or
other to visit your country, and if do will
call to see you. WILLIAM H. GIST.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-26


Great Political Excitement in Missouri
Clerk Shot Dead.
The Warrensburg MissOurian of the 10th
inst. says:
Monday evening, in the Courthouse, just
as the polls were closing, a difficulty sud-
denly sprung up between VIM. H. McCown
and Marsh Foster, in which Col. Jas. Nc
Gown participated, and which resulted in
the death of Mr.. Foster. This deplorable
affair occurred with our most respectable
and prominent citizens, in which the county
suffers the loss of one of its most valuable
and efficient officers--the County Clerk. Col.
McCown is highly respectable citizen, aud
Clerk Of the Circuit Court; VIM. H. McOowD,
his sopi is promising young lawyer, and
United States Deputy Marshal.
There were some five shots fred, but one
| of which took effect, and almost instantly
! produced death. The ball entered the left
side, beneath the nipple, and penetrated the
heart.
Shortly after the occurrence, excitement
arose 10 an alarming pitch-indignation was
| rampant-and a mob soon formed to execute
summary punishment on the guilty offend
| eTs, who were then safely lodged in Jail
| having given themselves up to be dealt with
as the law requires. The mob grew furiou;
and an Intellectual attempt was made to res.
| cue the men from the jail. They then burs
open the Clerks Office and took possession
| OF the muskets which were loaded and placed
there for safe keeping, in order that no ont
else should get them. To the praise of thu
more moderate and law abiding citizens
who made strong appeals for them to desist
| nothing OF serious nature occurred.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-26
An American Jack Sheppard Exploits ana
Escapes Of n Young Thief

The New York Sun of late date remarks !:
A boy of about eighteen years of age is at
present confined in the Tombs, on chac=oo
Of burglary, whose history bids fair to Il ifi-3
bat Of the notorious Jack Sheppard in-
deed, be is said to have uttered a determine
ton TO be as great man as that worthy.
His real name is John Mahouey, but he has
been known at various times as Thomas
NcCarty, Emerson, and John Dignou. Uu.
der the latter name be is at present confined.
Stme three years since he escaped from the
Seventeenth Ward Station house in the
beginning of 1858 he was lodged in the
White-street House of Detention as wit
ness in a case of receiving stolen goods.
From here be managed to escape during the
confusion consequent upon his firing the
beds in his room.
In February, 1858, he was placed in the
Tombs on charge of grand larceny, aud
his escape from this strong house in the
April following was one of his greatest ex-
ploits. He was coufned in the Boys Prison,
the windows of which front Franklin street,
and his cell being close to the stove he rst
angled to him by means of noosed string,
heavy poker with which he tried to pry off
the door of his cell. Failing in this, he
managed to pass his hand and arm through
narrow aperture in the door, aud with a
nail be had found picked the paddock which
ldSNSDcu duu WAS NJ OUC6 10 eQJer
the hall Here he found a crowbar, with
which he attempted to pry off the bars of the
| window, and, not succeeding in this
crowded his body between them through an
aperture of only six inches in width.
He was followed by five other boys, aud
this desperate escape was effected at five
| o'clock in the afternoon. All his companions
were retaken, but he managed to escape Ia
jersey, and few days afterward was heard
of as being in the Bergen jail, on charge
OF grand larceny. Mr.. Sutton keeper of the
| Tombs, sent over to claim him as a fugitive
but for some reason, he was not given up
The keeper of Bergen Jail was warned tc
take good care of him, as he would lose nc
opportunity TO escape; but the very mex
day the keeper left the keys lying on a bench
and the boy disappeared.
week or two afterward he was agar
caught in this city, taken back to Bergen
and sentenced for a term of one year, whict
he served. Close upon his liberation fol
lowed his return TO this city, aud the arres
which has placed him in his present lodg
ings. He wears the most innocent cast Q
countenance, and is rather a good. lookinI
boy. His picture is in the Rogue's Gallery
though he has changed very much since
was taken. In the police records, he is de
scribed as-"Hight, four feet nine inches
dark complexion, black hair and ewes, slim
eighteen years, U. S." He always promise
to go to sea if he can only get off on each oC
casion Of his arrest (but never goesl and th
} 'consummation Gevoutly 10 be wished" b
uoW oilers, and pretends to hope for.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-26
Ohio LEGISLATION,

The negro sticks in the crop of the Ohio
Legislators. Having secured BY means Of
the Secession of the conservatives, force
them constantly, the Democrats are cram
ming them down the throats of the nominal
majority, one after another, and the Legisla-
ture manages to put in the most of its time
in this dirty business.
At present. the principal measures are :
one to punish by the Penitentiary, any one
who shall furnish any relief to fugitive
slave; and the other, to repeal the law
against kidnapping free negroes, which re-
quires that the claim shall be established be-
fore a Commissioner according to the
Fugitive Law. The professed object and
the effect Of this measure will be, to make
Ohio a free hunting ground for negroes,
where any one can come and seize negro
and carry him off without warrant or form
of law, and there shall be none to hurt or
make him afraid.
This last was invented and introduced by
Mr. Harrison, Conservative Republican in
the Senate. It is doubtful if any Democrat
would have thought of this; though the
other, which is just about as mean, was in
troduced by Democrat. This is the chief
business in which our wonderful Legislature
is engaged.
To give the Devil his due, the Radicals OPP
pose all this negro business. What ConserV-
ative Republicanish is, may be exactly come
at by this last-mentioned measure. Take
the doughiest kind of doughface, and add
the malignity of Intellectual aspirations and
of desire without performance, and you have
the main features of Conservatism. The
main business of Conservative is to fulfill
what the Ohio Democratic State Convention
calls our duties to the South; the first essen
tial ofwhich is that there shall be no man
hood in the North.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-26
The Treachery of secretary TOucsy.

V
The report of the Select Committee of the
House, appointed to inquire into the coudi-
tion of the Navy, makes a showing that
leaves no reasonable doubt that Secretary
Toucey was implicated in the Secession, aud
aided it as much as he could without COM
mitting any overt act of rebellion against
the Government Of the forty-three vessels
in condition for active service, forty. two had
been sent off on distant service, leaving only
the steam. sloop Brooklyn, and the store. ship
Relief available for home service on the At
lantic coast. And the Brooklyn is of too
great draught of water to enter the harbor of
Charleston.
The public will hardly be able to distin-
guish between this disarming of the Govern
ment of the right arm of its defenses, to de-
gree which is unprecedented even in times
when no disturbance threatened il, and the
plot to disarm West Point by disabling its
cannon, for the purpose of making its capture
easy to the British, which consigned Bene-
dict Arnold to ipfamy in our history. In-
deed, recent events, and the manner in
which they are received by a large portion
of the people, especially by the ordained au-
thorities, seem to make it necessary to his
tOIical justice that the name of Arnold
should be rescued from the infamy which
has been heaped upon it, and should be
elevated to an honored place among the pa
ternal patriots of the country.
Either this must be done, or many who
have recently been, and are in high authority
now, must share the sentence which public
opinion has pronounced upon the act o
Benedict Arneld. And il is impossible t
see how those who now regard similar act
as hardly worthy of censure, and even lool
upon them and their success as more sacred
than the Government, can continue to allow
this historical Obloquy TO be heaped upor
the memory of Arnold without their pro
test.
Not only was this extraordinary disposi
tion made of the Government vessels, wher
there was nothing unusual requiring thei
service abroad, but even while the disturb
snces in the South were openly threatened
vessels Of war were sent from our coast Oh
distant service. And since the rebellion
broke out, although nearly all the Govern
ment forts and arsenals in the South hav'
been seized, and their arms turned agains
the Government, and against peaceful YES
sells, for no other offense than bearing il
flag; and the vessels of the revenue service
were seized and turned into the service o
rebellion on our own COAST and fort wa
in state Of siege, which, within limited
time, must have re-enforcements by sea ol
surrender to the rebels, yet no orders were
issued to reft any of the dismantled vessels
in our ports. although $646, $50 of the navy
fund remained uneIpended.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-26
From Texas and Mexico.

New ORLEANS, February 25.-The United
States property in Texas has been quietly
surrendered to the State authorities, and the
Federal troops allowed to leave the State
with all facilities. The property seized is
estimated at about 81, 300 OOO
The steamer Tennessee from Vera Cruz
February 2l, has arrived. Mr.. Pickett has
resigned the Consulate and came passenger
with the exiled Bishops.
The Constitutional Government was fast
being successfully reorganized.
circular had been issued to the States to
enter into no more arrangements with for
eign powers and reclaiming the treaty-mak-
lug power for the Federal Government.
The army is to be reorgauized.
Liberal schemes of colonization have been
arranged.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-26

ITO passengers end 81, 900 900 in specie.
Guayaqail dates of the l4th give rumor
that Mosquira had been defeated, and Cos
tego was in the hands Of the Government.
Another rumor says that Mosquira with
1000 men, was about investing Bogota.
The Bishop of Cardinas had excommuni-
Gated President Guardiola, who declared the
former an outlaw.
Garrett, who shot ]. S. White, is still in
prison awaiting sentence, but the impression
is be will be acquitted.
The steamers Sdrdndc and Narrdgdnsstt
were at Oallao January 30.
Senor Hanlado is appointed Commissioner
to arrange claims pending between the
United States and Granada.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-26
NIurderOua AsanuIt.

SCRANTON, PHNNA., February 25.-At about
one o'clock on Sunday morning, as three
men, named George Brennan, Andrew Far
reli and Boyle, were passing a street in the
city of Carbondale, they were attacked by a
man named Martin Gibson. The former was
instantly killed, Farrell fatally stabbed and
Boyle dangerously injured. The weapon
used was large Bowie knife. Ne clue can
were said to be sober. Gibson expressed re-
gret at being defeated in his purpose of kill
ing all three. The murderer passed through
here yesterday on his wsy to Wilkesbarre
iail
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-26
From New York.

New York, February 25.-The United
States Circuit Court, to-day, ia the case of
injunction, deciding that the Government
was bound where the holders Of the bonds
received them without notice Of fraud, and
the United States has no redress.
Washington telegram says dispatches to
the War Department, from General Twiggs,
announce that he has surrendered 10 Texas
sll the forts and arms and munitions Of war
in that State.
The steamer Afisl, from Aspinwall, is be-
low,
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-26

ANECDoTE OF THE LATE JUDGE WRIGHT.
There is an old and true story about the
late Judge Wright's beauty, which was none
of the finest. Davy Crockett was in a
menagerie at Washington, and approaching
a baboon, remarked, 'If that fellow had
spectacles on, he'd look just like Wright"
Wright bimself stood close by and heard
him, and touched his shoulder in friendly
way. ooh, Lord P' said Crockett, 81 owe
an apology, but don't just know which to
apologize to, you or the monkey"
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-26

TOUCHING DEVOTION OF A HUsBAND.-A
man, living near Fentonville, Wisconsin,
was riding with his wife some weeks since,
when, in crossing railroad track, he came
in collision with passing train Of cars. His
wife and both the horses were killed. AT the
time the wretch said he did not care for the
woman, but the railroad company would
have to pay for his horses, and now he has
of,which he says is to remunerate him for
the loss of the former and 5000 for that of
the latter
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-26

NEWARK, N. j., February 25.-On Satur-
day night q man and woman took a room
together at the City Hotel, where they took
largely of laudanum both, however, sur
Vived, though they suffered much. The
mans name is said to be Moore, connected
with the Zinc Works, and is respectfully
is yet mystery. Strong efforts have been
made 70 ennnress the affair