Litchfield enquirer., 1861-08-15
WHOLE NO. 1889.

~ |, sn"ii Ut HIS uuty 10 Keep a record of the name of such eleotor, the date whom such certificate was granted, to whom given, and the name of the town whero such certificate is to be used.
 SEC. 2l. If any officer named in this act shall, without just and reasonable cause, refuse or neglect to discharge any of tho duties herein prescribed, he shall, on conviction, be punished by fine of three hundred dollars; or if any of the officers named in this act shall wilfnlly violate any of the provisions of this act, or if the town clerk of said town shall give Q false certificate to any person, such officer or town clerk shall be pun ished by fine not exceeding five hum dred dollars, and by imprisonment in the common jail six months.
 SEQ P. The ballot boxes at each of tho elections herein provided for, shall be opened at seven o'clock in the forenoon, and closed at five o'clock in the after noon.
 SEC. 23. All acts and parts of acts in- consistent herewith, so far as they affect the town of Hartford, are hereby repeal ed and the acts passed at the May ses- sion, 1860, of the General Assembly, en- titled, "An Act to provide for the moro perfect Registration of the Names of Electors of this State," and the act en- titled, "An Act relating to Electors and Elections in the towns of Hartford, Now Haven and Middletown," are, and the same are hereby declared to be, not ap- plicable to or in force in the town of Hartford.
 Approved, July 2d, 1881
 PATRICK UENRY.-A man stands upon the floor of the House of Delegates of | Virginia. He turns his eye of fire around him-he trembles with some mighty emotion. Tho emotion, reader, was the first breath of newborn liberty. She started into life at this inspiration, and the days of tyranny were numbered. The grandeur of that scene cannot be compassed ut one glance. He stood amid grave and prudent body of men, conscious, indeed, of the wrongs of their country but relying upon the modest pe- tition for redress. They had never let their imaginations ramble into visions of upright and fearless independence. 4 thousand things forbade the idea. Their habits of thought and action, their pitt able weakness as a country, their disgust for war on account of recent exhausting conflicts, all tended to indispose them to freedom. They were, besides, legislating beneath the eye of royal deputies, who would not fail to call treason by it's name. They sat as it were under the glimmor- ings of the diadem.
 Who would dare, if so inclined, to stalk forth from their midst, and throw down the gauntlet to the mightiest empire in the world--to principles as old as the great globe itself, interwoven with every page of past history, sanctioned by vene- rable ages, and proud and awful as the heavens? Who would dare to leap on the moss-grown and frowning ramparts of monarchy, and pluck its blood rcd flag? Who would rush from the securi- ty of submission, and Sampson-like, grasp the lion by his mane? It was the grand est moment of the time, but God had reared up one to fill it. That was Pat rick Henry.
 He opened his lips. His heart, big ! with the destinies of the World, strug- gled for moment with doubt but no longer. The electric appeal shot forth, drifted on; flashing fiercer and brighter, and growing in overwhelming majesty until the last words" GIVE ME LIBERTY OR G1vB ME DEATH l''-filled up it's meas- ures of terrible might and the last link of the chain that bound the former was riven. He had finished his sublime task. The revolution was fact.
 A NEW BATTERY.-Stephen Bowerman; ,. mechanic of Detroit, has completed the of a battery, which promises to be very effective. It is species of combination arm, being composed of thirty-two Min nie rife barrels set in four cases or banks, which move around fixed pivot. The inventor claims that tho battery is capa- ble of delivering four hundred balls min ute, under the management of six men, and in such manner that every ball shall take effect, sweeping down a col. umn of 320 mon in length, with unerrina certainty, and that tho mon working tho machine will be safely sheltered while on. gagged in it's service. He has named it "The Pale Horse"
 A THoUGHrFUL. W1pow.-The New. buryport Herald states that young wid- ow married in that city few days since to soldier being questioned as to the inducement to commit matrimony a sec. ond time, when once she had been safely delivered from the restraining knot said she had in mind the bounty paid by tho state to the families of volunteers which would give her and two children three dollars @. week to carry them through noxt winter, and possibly the husband might be shot, and she become pensioner in her old age.
 AGE TEST APPLIED TO HoRpITAL NuR- ses Secretary Cameron, being overrun with applications from ladies for the places of nurses in the army hospitals, thought to get rid of their importunities by issu- ing degree that all who accepted the post should not wear hoops. Findina this readily agreed to by his tormentors, his next dodge was to to issue an order that one should be accepted who was under thirty years of age. This did the business. There are no women of that age in the country.
 The new Sultan of Turkey has already given marked evidence that he is not or,- ly a man of vigorous spirit but also of progress. Among his first reforms he has abolished the harem,--an institution as old as Mahomitanism, completely, and keeps but one wife, after the rule among Christians. Such reform may be called wonderful. and one of the last to be ex. pected. Judging by this as well as of his other movements, it is not unreason- able to conclude that he may renevate and save the Turkish empire.
 The New Paltz Times says that there can be seen at Potterville, in that county something of curiosity-a clock over two hundred years old. It was made n the beginning of the sixteen hundred, and it plays a tune each hour. The music is very pleasant and sweet.
 The Government is paying $125 for mules and from $90 to $l0O for horses,
 In the city of New York and suburbs, the value of eggs and fowls that are sold annually is about $2,OO0,00O.
 The Secretary of the Treasury estt- mates g revenue of $33,00e,0OO from the