Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-03

' SYST 1.-THE DRArr-Abbe McMasters, of this city, addressed copperhead meeting at Du- buque, Iowa, on the 22d inst, in which he said, as reported in the Duly Times of that city,: He has been frequently asked since he came here. why Governor Seymour had not opposed the draft? He would say that the gorernor had done all t scas prudent to do. In short time there would be convention held, which would adopt resolutions opposed to the war and against forcing people to fight. If a man wanted to fight, let him join the array, but no man should be forced to enter the ser vice Of the despots in power. Gentlemen, Governor Seymour will act up to these resolu- ] tions.
 "It is not safe," said the speaker, to op- pose the draft now. New York is full of fed eral bayonets. We had riot, but the tax payers, many of uhons gre democrats, aciu hare to pay .for the destruction of property, and n ,ciH come hard on them. As taues- ton of brute force it is not policy to make war on the government now. We tried tt once aud U did not pay.'-N. ?. EUening Post The yield of fruit this season in Michigan will be the largest ever known. In 1861, the peach crop yielded about s0,000 baskets; last year, owing to the severe frost in May, it reach l ed only abous 5000 baskets from the esti- mate given by the most extensive fruit grow CTS the peach crop this year will amount to 25G,oo0 baskets.
 Robert Toombs has addressed letter to the Atlanta Constitutional, dwelling upon the fearful depreciation of the rebel currency, and contrasting it with our healthy condition. He attributes it to bad management alone. He I.1 Lakk 1o~- .1 and adhered to the true principles of finance. He asserts that the rebel currency is depre- ciated more than 1000 per cent below gold and silver, and more than 400 per cent below suspended bank notes."
 We learn, says the Norwich Bulletin on un- disputed authority that the paragraph which has been going the rounds of the press in ref erence to the secession sympathes of Mrs. Bell wife of Hon. John Bell, are entirely in- correct. Mrs. Bell is now, and always has been, Union woman, and has never ceased to give expression to Union sentiments. No one regrets more than she the mistaken course of her husband, who has, by his action in re- gard to the rebellion, slienated from himself some of his oldest friends in Tennessee and the North.
 GEN. BUTLER-The Washington correspoE- dent of the Herad says: "ln view of the speedy capture of Charleston and occupation of South Carolina by the Union forces, the intention of the government has been indica- ted to pnco Maj General Butler in con- mand of that department as soon as Gen. Gilmore and Admiral Dahlgren have compile ted their work ihe admirable hammer in which Gen. Butler administered the military governorship in Maryland when Baltimore was in charge of the disloyalists, and Louisiana wh n there was but corporal's guard of Un- ion men there, has induced bls selection. Be- | sides it is thought just retributioa that Mas sachusetts should furnish tho military com mander over the hotbed of reIeldom.'
 A former citizen of New London psached that city from Savannah, Ga, on WeGnesday night He succeeded in getting oat of the Confederacy by means of boat, to an island where he raised his handkerchief on a pole, and the commander of a gunboat sent and took him on board. He says the people Of Savannah are fe.ing in all directions to es- cape the sweeping coascription of Davis. Af: but very few troops at Savannah, and those are put on very short rations It takes $25 in rebel trash to buy $l in gold. The people have no heart to fight, and consider the rebe ] cause hopeless. He says after the taking oi Port Royal, l5,ooO troops could have taken SavaDnah as there was perfect panic among the people. He thinks the Confederacy can, not survive three months after the fall Of Charleston.
 | INCIDENTS OF THE LAWRENCE MASSACRE The Lnavenwnrth Consoreatire publishes full account of the late Lawrence massacre, from which We gather the following incidents illus tIating the "superior civilization'' of thu rebels
 "Judge Carpenter was wounded in his yard and fell, when his wife and sister threw them selves upon his body, begging for mercy, but t no avail. The fends dismounted, stuck the
 pistols between the persons of his protectors and fired.
 Miss Stone, daughter of the proprietor o the City Hotel, had a diamond ring stole, from her finger. Quantrel obliged the man tt restore it. In revenge for this the sufians af terwards came back and shot her father befor' the mothers eyes. They also tried to kill Mis Stone.
 "The rebels were told that there was a De gro baby in certain house. but they said, w, will burn the Cd d-n little brat and the,
 did. We saw it's charred remains, burned black as the heart of its murderers. The book of the county and district clerks were burned but those of the register of deeds were in the safe, and are supposed to have been saved. Ev cry safe in the city but two in the Eidridge Store were robbed. James Eldridgo and James Perrine gave the rebels all the money in the
 safe, and were instantly shot down. All the hotels were destroyed except the City Hotel. We have seen battle fields and scenes of carnage and bloodshed, but have never wit messed a spectacle so horrible as that seen among the smouldering ruins at Lawrence. Nc fghting-no resistance, but cold blooded mur- der was there."
 l Nor VERY BAD.-Last Sunday, c clergy. man stopping at Congress Hall, Saratoga. re- marked to the head clerk in the establishment that he had been to church that morning, and was surprised that more talented preachers were not employed in the village "Oh, said the clerk, we have very smart preachers here, but they have to give place in summer to those who come here from abroad, as a matter of courtesy" The answer appeared to be satisfactory, as the clergyman said nc more.
 4 doctor gave !hc following prescription fol . sick lady: " A new bonnet, a cashmere | sEa s rD,i A l,air nf Daiter bnnts Y, The la