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Litchfield enquirer., 1862-08-14
J N. DNkWlTH, Assistant Surgeon for Litchield Co.

A full company from Madison is to join the l4th regiment Monday, which will bring the number up to about 900. The balance to fill up the l4th will be on hand Monday or Tues day. and before the week is out there will be men enoyuh enlisted to fill another Nhe 20th) regiment which will be necessary to make up the 7,l45 men for the three years quota Now If the Governor has authority and will say the word, we can in len duys raise our full quota of l nine months men by volunteers, and thus avoid a draft. The draft is ordered for the 18th but as it is to be made under our State law, in the time occupied in getting the enrolment completed and the draft made, they would be | raised by volunteering. If there is no provision for bounties, money amply sufficient could be raised in twenty-fou hours by subscription .- | Courant. ',-
 Among the numerous applicants for certi6. cate before Dr Ellsworth on Saturday was an 1rishman who claimed that he was forty-nine years of age. He loked full as old as that, but 1 in order to make the matter sure he introduced u Ileuu Ol HIS, W WuO Sdtu II lue UldD q hundred and forty eight years old, shure" This testimony was sufficient as to the age of the in- dividual, and he was told that his years would clear him.
 At a war meeting at Brockport N. r., a few evenings since Ex-Gov. Church expostulated the young men for not coming forward, and said after pause in the proceedings, Why, Icould raise more men from the ladies in the house p THIRTEEN full companies have already applied for admission to the 18th, and large number of parts of companies are recruiting, which if consolidated would make in all, with those in camp some sixteen companies. The 2Oth Reg ment will probably be started at once, and filled from the surplus of the 10th and 18th, All the surplus after filling up the 20th will count on the nine months quota. At the rate recruit ting has gone an for couple of days we could fill up our last quota in ten days, easily. Hurry l them up, and let us avoid draft if possible.
 Men are enlisting in Massachusetts at the rate of one thousand per day. A letter from the War Department, says: : Whatever volunteer force above it's ratable pro portion shall be offered by State any time be- fore a draft is actually made will be accepted by the Department and credited upon the draft as proportionable reduction" Go on with the enlisting.
 Co.,. Pettibone, of the 10th c. V. has return ed home on leave of absence, and Lieut.. Engles and ten warrant officers have been sent home to recruit for the regiment. It has now as much fame as any in the service by its exploits at Roa noke Island, Newborn and Fort Macon, is finely offered and filled by men of superior character Those who enlist in it will be in luck.
Litchfield enquirer., 1862-08-14
IMPORTANT MILITARY ORDERS

lMPOhIANT MILITARY ORDERS.
 ghe following important military orders from the War Department have beenissued this week: s War Department, E WASHINGTON, August Sth. !
 Crdered-First, That all United States Mar shais and Superintendents or Chiefs of Police of any town, city or district be, and they are here- Dy authorized m and directed to arrest and impris- on any persons whs may be engaged by aot. speech OF writing, in discoura ging volunteer en- listments, or in any way giving aid or comfort to the enemy, or in any other disloyal practice against the United States. Major L. c. Turner, Judge Advocate. in order, that such persons may be tried before militia ry commission, that the expense of such arrest and imprisonment will be certified to tho Chief Clerk of the War Department for settlement and payment.
 EDWIN NJ. STANTON, Saerefarv af
Litchfield enquirer., 1862-08-14

LATER particulars of the battle of Cedar Noun tain have been received. On Saturday Major General Pope sent forward two army corps un- der command of, Gen. Banks, ins order to check the advance of the rebels to this side of the Rap
 idan At daylight it was discovered that they had advanced as far as Cedar Run Mountain, with only small portion of their force visible on account of the weeds. They also held range of elevations and ravines westward of the noun tain. Gen. Bank Sehose position on an eleva- ted spot a mile and a half from the mountain, and about mile in extent, as the best place to receive the enemy's attack. During the fore noon the enemy spent the time in maneuvering, and i'll the afternoon, about o'clock, began the fight with an attack on our front by battery, distant mile and half Battery after battery was then in succession unmasked, and cross fire kept up on our line from crescent of bat teries, nearly three miles in extent, for two hours. The rebel guns were evidently heavie, and more numerous than our own The fire was kept up and responded to shot for shot till $ o'clock, when an enfilaae battery was opened on our right. At this juncture the order was given by General Banks to cease firing, and Crawford's Brigade and the Forty Sixth Penn. sylvanla Regiment ordered 70 charge upon it Behind the battery was thicket of shrub oak and as the Forty-sixth Pennsylvania approached thsy were moved down by fire from the thick. et The rest of the brigade was then brought
 up, and subsequently, the rest of General Will
 iamss an l General Anger's commands, but tht rebel brigades were found at every point Al 1 the infantry had been concealed in the wood, l during the fight, and secured themselves iron
 observation by expeling our pickets. Tn, fight, which was very obstinate, lasted till dark
 when our forces retired from the field, taking .
 new position out of reach of the enemy's guns
 Our loss was heavy in infantry, and we lost tw, guns. It IS supposed that the enemy's loss wal
 greater than ours, as our artillery several tim~
 riddled their columns. Wetook --"y prisoners Large re1nforcen,--. ..,'erwards arrived for oul
 l.. The enemy's force engaged is stated te 1 have been 20,000, while our own, exclusive o1 artillery and cavalry, did not exceed 7,0O0- The number of federal soldiers wounded is large, although the wounds are slight and but few were killed. The rebels did not appear on our front on Sunday, but it is thought that they were reinforced on Saturday night, and were at- tempting 10 flank our movements. Yesterday morning the rebels sent in flag of truce, ask Ing permission toa bury their dead Our troops were busily engaged in carrying our wounded off the field and burying the dead.
Litchfield enquirer., 1862-08-14

QUALIFIED TO ENLlsT.-Adam Mudsill say that lad in Medford after asking his father i he might enlist as drummer boy, was told that he was not old enough.
 "Pooh," said Young America. "Bill Jones has listed"
 "Well," said the father, "Bill is eighteen years of age, and you are only twelve"
 "l should like to know what that's rot Co do with il" replied tho lad, .' if he is older than be, I've licked him three times, and can do it again and not half try. Now mayn't go :"- Boston Journal.
Litchfield enquirer., 1862-08-14

THE Petersburgh (Va.) Express contains a dispatch from Gen. Van Dorn to Secretary Nal lory that the rebel ram Arkansas left Vicks. burg on Monday the 4th inst, to cooperate in the attack on Baton Rouge, and on the way down her machinery became disabled, and while in her helpless condition several of the federal gunboats attacked her. After 8 determined re- sistance she was abandoned and blown up. Her officers and men reached the shore in safety.
Litchfield enquirer., 1862-08-14

To THE SELEcrNEN OF THE CouSrY-The an ncxed extract from General Order, No. 2, ex- hbits the list of disabilities which are regarded by the present Militia Law as properly exempted from enrolment:
 "SEc. 4th, of the Militia Law of 1862, ex- empts all persons who are known to have dis ability which would incapacitate them from the imbecilty. great deformity of body or limb, per manent lameness. or loss of an eye
 The Surgeon General further directs you will consider tue following as entitled to exemption, wounds of the head, which impair the faculties or cause convulsions serious impeachment of hearing. speech or vision anchylosis or acute disease of acute disease of any of the larger joints; the presence of pulmonary disease, CT organic disease of the heart irreducible hern a, or hernia which is not easily or perfectly retain by truss /; istula in ano large hemorrhoids large ard pueripal varccule, or yaricose veins which extend above the knee ; the loss of a limb, or the thumb and forefinger on the right hand, or any two fingers on either hand, or the loss of the great toe"
 Inasmuch as the above order was received on the 9th inst, after many examinations had been made and certificates granted and as hernia which had been regarded as disability by the rules and regulations of the Army,is by the above order made applicable only to cases of '' 'ir1elu cible hernia, or hernia which is not easily or per ecty retained by a truss,'' all certificates given for hernia, except double hernia,' will not be regarded by the Selectmen of towns as exempted from enrolment. and all certificates which were given, "because, as stated, these indvdu,'s could hot be mustered into the service of the United States in which the reason given is not en- braced in the above list of disabilities, may be regarded as null and void. And as the roll of exemption must be corrected before returned to the Adiutant General, it will be understood these are articles given for exemption from present duty, but retains them for the inactive militia does nct dsenroll them
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lGs- Bishop Thomas M. Clark of Rhode Is- land. made stirring war speech at 8 recent meeting in Providence. But for his great age, says an exchange, the Bishop remarked that he would enlist himself; which ispretty good con- 1 sidering that the Bishop is not oocr forty
 by-the-bYe. this Bishop Clark is not the editor of the Winsted Herald, @ = ,5..
Litchfield enquirer., 1862-08-14
Wsws nf tue sTveek.

The following promotions have been made in the 10th Regiment: 2d Lieut.. Henry W. Camp Co. I, to be 1st Lieut.. O. D uice Harry Hdrl burt, resigned. Sergeant Sellick L. White, Co D, to be 2d Lieut.. Co. I, vice Camp, promoted list Lieut., Henry W. Camp, Go. D. to be Adiu tant, vice Henry c. Pardee resigned. 2d Lieut. James D. Engles, Go. A. to be 1st Lieut.. Co., D. rice Camp, promoted. Sergeant Frank Flaw kins, Co. A, to be 2d Lieut.. vice J. s. Engles promoted.
Litchfield enquirer., 1862-08-14

Rev. Mr. Richards at the request of many of his parishioners and others,swill repeat the sermon on the ss Necessity for Action in these Times," delivered last Sunday afternoon, on next Sunday afternoon in the Congregational Church. It is very highly spoken of by those who had the pleasure of hearingit last Sunday. The young men of our town>who have enlisted, are especially invited to attend. Seats in the galleries.
 -The receipts of the Festival in aid of the Hospital Fund on Thursday last, was Sl50.- Net receipts after paying expenses, $40. 6s.- This included two dollars from two "friends of the cause" in Bantam, and $15 from 8 stranger through Amos c. Benton ---...---
 A few men more are wanted to fill up to the full maximum. standard the ,LITcHFlELD COMPANY. They must come on at once, if they wish to get in. The arrangement between Litch- field and Goshen for consolidation, has been an- nuled by mutual consent. These towns will now furnish taco companies instead of one.
 - LIT. DcchWltu reCelVeu u utapiitCu l1oiu luS Surgeon General, on Tuesday, closing the Litcb- field office. Applicants for exemption can now apply to Dr. Lyman at New Preston, or Dr. Welch ut Winstsd-and much comfort may it do them! E. n .'a.r. uI ,- 7- Rev Geo. Richards has accepted the call of the 1st Congregational Church in this town, to settle with them as their Pastor.
 We learn that sufficient funds have been l raised to authorize the Society to build suita- ble parsonage on the ground donated by Miss Mary Pierce some months since.
 We learn that the editor of the Winsted sheet, 8 visit here, few days since, got into a controversy with one of our citizens whom the 1 editor has taken delight heretofore in abusing | through the columns of his immaculate sheet, and received a very lively expression of the cit izen's views concerning himself and his paper We expect to hear soon of libel suit instituted
Litchfield enquirer., 1862-08-14

n@ We dip, pretty largely, into the s'Pub- hc Acts" this week on the outside pages, in or der ts reach the Military Law, which we shall give atlength and in full in our next. It is the last sskcne.
Litchfield enquirer., 1862-08-14
EDWIN NJ. STANTON,
 Secretary of War

ONE WAY TO RECRUIT At q recruiting meet ing in Western New York last week one of the speakers had been urging the men to sign tho roll and told the women 10 hurry them up, when a woman rose in the meeting and addressed her husband substantially as follows: "Ira, you know what you said before you came here to- night-that you would enlist. If you don't do it, go straight home and take of those brooches, and let me heve them and will go myself! !"- This brought down the house and brought up Ira, who became q volunteer
Litchfield enquirer., 1862-08-14
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS STATE OF CON
 NECT1CUT
ADJUTANT GENERALS OETicB,
 Hartford. Aur. 6. lSc2.

ADJuTANT GENERALS OvTicB,l
 Hartford. Aug. 6, 1862.
 [General Orders, No. 96.1
 l. The Paymastcr-General is hereby directed to pay the first State bounty of ton dolisrs, e those volunteers only, who shall enlist for thsss years or the war, whenever ,he shall receive sa- listments provided for in paragraph 2, 0snsrsl Orders No. "A, and. on the receipt of the muster rolls when mustered into the United States ssy- vice, on the completion of their organization As companies, the bounty of fifty dollars provided for in the act of the General Assembly, aPprOv- ed July 10th, 1862.
 2. Orders for the State bounty of ten dollars will be signed by the recruit and certified by the commanding officer or adjutant of the Regi- ment to which the volunteer is attached.
 8. All deserters from Regiments now in tho field, who are, or may hereafter be arrested, will be committed to the Hartford County Jail. Paragraph of General Orders No. SC, will Do so modified as to conform 10 this order.
 By order of the der-in-Chief.
 J. D. WILLIAMS, Adjutant General.
Litchfield enquirer., 1862-08-14

HARwISroN.-A patriotic meeting was held here on Saturday last. The Rev. MT. Eddy was expected to address the meeting, and large number from this and adjoining towns came to hear him, but his health would not permit him to be here. Addresses were made by Rev, J. A. McKinstrY, Hon. Abijah Catlin, Mr. Linds ley of this town, and Rev. Mr. Averill and Rev Mr. Breckenridge of Plymouth, ahd others At the close of the meeting, town meeting was held, and resolution giving each volunteer that is resident of the town, Sl00 bounty, was passed without dissenting voice.
 A resolution was passed that the Selectmen cause to be published in the Litchfeld ENQUIRER the names of all those shat have got certificates from the Surgeon of the County, and the nature of their diseases. .-.
 Enlisting is going on lively in this town for the past few days. The prospect of drafting is causing great excitement here, and as conse quence our young men are eulisting. Harwin ton will furnish her full quota. -a...
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A1" A despatch to the N Y. Tribune of xes te;rday, states that Lieut. H. NJ. Duton was killed and buried on the field," in the 6sht be. yond Cupepper, Va., on Saturday last. Lieut. Dutton was the only son of Judge Dutton of the Supreme Court of this State, and a brother-inlaw Of Il. B. Graves, Esq, of this town. He enlist cd as private from this town and rapidly rose to the position in which he has mel. his untimelv end lie was very generally spoken of in con nectlon with the Majority for the Litchfeld Rec; lnent lie was young man of the noblcst i'm. pulses, the warmest heart and the finest sense o1 honor and patriotism we have ever known. A whole community and State will deeply svmpa. thlzee with his bereaved parents and friends; and our Litchfield boys, who knew him and loved him well, just going to the field, will burn to avenae his death God grant that his glorious life and death, his example, and his heroic selfsacrifce may not have been in vain,
Litchfield enquirer., 1862-08-14

Seay~ Dr. Beckwith has handed is for publi. cation Card, in reply to the many unjust re- ports ill circulation respecting the manner in which cirtifcates have been obtained at the Lltchfield Ollice,' which is unavoidably crowded out from this issue for want of space to insert it, but which we shall give, in justice to the Doctor, in cur next. .s.....
Litchfield enquirer., 1862-08-14

FALLS VILLAGE.-A Although this town has been doing her part well and bravely for the war, yet it was not till July 2lst, that we had our first war meeting. On that occasion we had good turnout, and some grand talking from Mcssrs. Graves and IIollistcr of Litchfeld
 The part of their talk most interesting per- haps to some of their hearers was their unspar- ing dennncation of the home traitors These they said should be spurned by every loyal man, and even considered beyond the protection of law. They urged the most vigorous prosecu. ,ion of the war.
 - On Thursday night last, Aug. 7th, we had an address from that brave sufferer in our cause. Rev. Hiram Eddy. There was a large gather ing of the people, and no building there being large enough to accommodate them, Mr. E. ad- dressed them in the open air Your readers all know that MT. E. has been prisoner in the hands of the rebels since the battle of Bull Run. He comes back filled with a sense of the wrong and outrage of this rebellion, and with burning words to stir up the hearts of his fellow citizens in this hour of their country's peril
 He gave Us brief account of his imprison ment and s'ffcrings, greater than all endured in his life before, and which he could but refer to, not describe. He gave strong reasons why we could never yied to the claims of the rebels, and why we fnust ressst shem to the bitter end-eveu to the plotting out of every city of the south and the desolation of every field, if they do not sooner submit.
 The ailing ones who are seeking to cover their cowardice by a Physicians certificate, and the tax croakers who weigh their country against few pennies, were duly noticed But the south- ern sympathizers received special attention.- Their deserts were the pistol or halter over the nearest tree, &c
 Mir. Eddy closed with an urgent appeal to Fathers, Mothers and Sisters, to give up their sons and brothers to their country. and to en- courage them to go. Both Mr. E. and his speech were received with most hearty applause, but there were many present whose feeling would be better expressed in fearful thanksgivin for the safe return of this much! loved man, than in public shouts. ss- a Or .f .~H We regret to add thateMr Eddy was insulted on the steps of the hotel before leaving our vil- lagc. One of the men engaged in this disgrace full act, and who hourishes the name of Dr. Gris wold, was afterwards severely chastiscd while venting his abuse on Mir. Eddy. A loyal man, brother of one of our Generals who is fighting nobly for our country, dealt this man two or three blows which may perhaps teach him lit tie decency. ....
 Recruiting is going on finely in our town.- Already the quota for rolunteers is filled, and men are still offering. God grant that the true and loyal men may rise and rush to arms till re- bellion shall be swept with mighty and resist less force from the land
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LIEUT. Frank Beach, of the 4th U S.. Artille. ", has been appointed Colonel of the 16th Reg iment, Hartford and Holland Couuties.) Hei young man, but is said to be very accom- plished officer *t@38&s,
Litchfield enquirer., 1862-08-14

BRlDGEwATER has voted an appropriation o1 $l5O, to each volunteer from that town and is ali alive to the importance of filling up its full quota of men to avoid draft. Not many towns are doing so we'll.
Litchfield enquirer., 1862-08-14

WooDBURY.-We give place to the following communication in reply to the "rejoindefs''' of Dr. G. H. Atwood of Woodbury, as it appears over a responsible signature. We know, of course, nothing of the matter in dispute, but hope it will end here, so far as weare concerned.
 MR. EDITOR Ut has long been the, general understanding among sensible men, that it is not a. wise proceeding to busy one's self with a certain animal of variegated color and pun
 gent odor; ; but as G. H. Atwood of Woodbury, has gone out of his way in article in your last paper, to aude in terms of abuse to your Wood- bury, correspondent, I.have to say to him, 'sbe. fore he sinks to oblivion, in the hearing of the
 loyal public, that if he intends that article to be
 the substance of his speech in our late town
 meeting, hold myself responsible in Court, or 1 out of Court, to prove by one hundred witness es, that if these sentiments are to be taken as sample of his veracity, he must be allowed to bear the distinction of being the bell agethep ot the best Hars n lFoodtuy. No such speech Mothers of Litchfed Couny," would, if true, have been pa,ticularly ,ich, while addressing men only in legal toun meeting. Woodbury is loya1, and its legal voters in patriotic town | meeting, never htss man, and cry, "put him out as they did this Atwood, when he made the speech referred to, in our late town meeting, l J his sentiments are loyal. We want this mans name handed down to posterity for what he said here-not for what he said in your paper; and such is the unanimous wish of our citizens, as
 believe. If this '' coanelian je,oeF' wants his s'sal speech printed, it can be done for it made | a most painful impression on the people. They recollect 1t and hem we'll. Both myself and the patriots of Woodbury, court legal investga-
 ton of this matter. l hold myself personally
 responsible for this article anywhere. I will 1 give this Bible quoting son of Woodbury $500 if he will enlist and do honest service in the ar
 my of the United States. He says he is very ! willing for others to go to war. He is one of those "edueated young men" he speaks of Let him go--to scar-,,ot to Litchfeld for " filthy lucre," to obtain military certificates to prevent drafting. .-. W. CorHREN,
 | Of the War Committee
 for Woodbury.
Litchfield enquirer., 1862-08-14

Geo. Francis Train is expected to roturn to this country about the last of September, for the purpose of featuring in several of tho prin- cipal cities, Ee will draw crowd