Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1862-07-31
ENLIST BOYS, ENLIST.

ENLIST BOYS, ENLIST. ~.
N Now is the accepted timel Your country
wants you. Your kindred already in the field
call you. Your old flag needs you. Don't put
off any longer. FALL mat ONCE! Ta
Let us have LIToHFIELD CoUNry REs1MENT
possible, differed and manned from this Coun-
| y. Now, while the IRONS hot, STRIKEl
~ The following is list of the extraordinary
Bounty to Volunteers inGonnecticut Regiments
S2 at the time of enlistment
SO per month to the wife of a married man,
or to the youngest child If the wife is dead
% per month to each child under IA years Of
age, not exceeding two.
$50 per year from the State.
D $50 in advance, by the State, at the time Of
entering the service, to those who enlist before
August GOTH. .
$25 by the United States, in advance, at the
time of entering the service.
$75 by the United States, when honorably
discharged. Fe's sss
All this in addition to regular pay of $13 per
month oe privates, with rations, clothing, and
arms. .-,r
CoNFIsCATIoN ENFORCED. /
s-t PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT. t.
In pursuance Of the sixth section Of an act
OF Congress entitled On act to suppress insur-
rectlon, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize
and confiscate the property of rebels, and for
other purposes approved July 18th 1862, and
which act and the joint resolution explanatory
thereof are herewith published, 1, Abraham Lin
coin, President of the United States, do hereby
proclaim and warn all within the contemplation
OF the said sixth section, to cease participating
in, aiding, countenancing, or abetting the exis.
ting rebellion or any rebellion against the gov.
eminent of the United States, and to return to
their proper allegiance to the United States on
pain of the forfeiture and seisure as within and
by said sixth section provided. In testimony
l have hereunto set my hard and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed. Done ut the
city of Washington, this 25th day of July in the
year of our Lord 1862 and of the independence
Of the United States the 87th. ",'7 ~
(Signed) III ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the president, WIN 1T. SEWARD, Secretary
of State. .-. t7F" rag
THE SIXTH SECTION.
The sixth section of the coniscation act, on
which this proclamation was based, is as follows
| Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That if any
person within any state Or territory OF the Uni
ted States other than those named as aforesaid
after the passage of this act being engaged in
armed rebellion against the government Of the
United States, or aiding or abetting such rebel
lion, shall not within sixty days after public war
ming and proclamation duly given and made by
the President of the United States, cease to aid
countenance and abet such rebellion, and return
to his allegiance to the United States, all The
estate and property, moneys, stocks and credits
of such person shall be liable to sesure as afore
said, and it shall be the duty of the president tc
seize and use them as aforesaid, or the proceeds
thereof. And all sales, transfers or convey ance;
ofany such property after the expiration of sale
sixty days from the date of such warning ant
proclamation shall be null and void and it shall
be sufficient bar to any suit brought by sucl
person for the possession or the use of such prop
erty or any of it, to allege and prove that he is
one of the persons described in this section. r
The bill was qualified after its passage by g
supplementary resolution, which provides that
no forfeiture of the real estate of the offender
shall extend beyond his natural life. ....
THERE are about ten thousand troops III the
vicinity of Fairfax Seminary formerly belonging
to the divisions sent in pursuit of Stonewal
Jackson. They become completely exhausted
in their forced march, lost their shoes, hats and
uniforms, but were wisely cared for by the gov
eminent, good food was given them, new clothes
furnished them. and rest allowed. by which they
were quickly brought into good condition for
service, and Will soon be on their way to join our
Pontifcal army in the Shenandoah.
The course pursued by Gen. Grant, at Mem.
phis, in regard to the disposition of rebel wo.
men, who may have such unable dispositions fol
themselves, by sending them to their beloved re.
latives in the rebel army will probably be adopt
ed as a general principle for their treatment
There is certainly no reason why they should
be allowed to eat the bread of loyalty in peace
and security while their husbands end brothers
leave them to shoot those to whom these reflects
are indebted for protection. This kind of grass
widow is the most contemplate of all.
The United States postage stamps which are
now coming SO freely into circulation, besides ha
wing the amount of their value in figures upol
the upper corners, may be readily recognized b,
their colors and yignettes, which are as follows