Litchfield enquirer., 1863-08-13
AUGUST 2D.

The usual amount of gambling was accom- plished during the day, notwithstanding the extreme heat. One who has pever witnessed the business on wholesale plan, can scarcely conceive how rapidly pile of $l00 will change hands, and when you see twenty such piles, in a single room, won and lost in less than five minutes, you will infer that there is fuctuation in the money market. The question arises, what will be the effect of introducing into . Regiment, or Company of young men in the field, who have 30 far held fast their integrity, such corrupt and reckless body of men as is this?
 Fathers and mothers of Litch6elj County, who have sons in the armies of the U. s., re- member that your apprehensions of evil to such need not arise only or chiefly from the sword of the enemy, when enemies to every good work so freely abound in the camp. In your letters to the loved ones, in your suppli- cations for them, endeavor to fortify them against this peril.
 And you, who think to escape the responsi- bility you owe to God, to your country. to hu. manity, by expending $500 of your wealth in procuring some degraded wretch, from the pur- lieus of some city, to represent you in the place of danger and duty, are you content to yoke alongside of your owH, ar yaur brothers, or neighbours son or brother, such miserable apol- ogies for yourselves as some, many of these substitutes are to spend their hours of duty and time of leisure in their society, and be all the while under it's baneful influence?
 Order of the drum-"Lights out and all hush"-is not regarded to night: The Com manding Officer, who orders silence in quar- ters, is insulted, and there is greater tumult in Conscript barracks. The whole guard is in- stantly ordered under arms. The barracks are as quickly cleared with the hayonet. In line outside, the noisy crowd is thus addressed by Capt. Lewis-"Y You have violated Regulations of Camp. You have disobeyed my orders and insultsd me. I wish yop to understand that comnaand here and soiU De obeyed. If after this, my orders are disrsgarded, the lives of thoss who do it, are not worth the powder twill take to kill them. Now 1 do not wish to punish the innocent. Let information be given of the guilty parties and they alone shall suf- fer. l give five minutes for you to point them out" No information is given. .Then you shall all understand the penalty of disobedi ence, and when any of you will give infor nation of one ringleadsr in the disturbance you shall be discharged"
 All were marched to barracks and surroun I ded by the guard, with muskets loaded ani fixed bayonets. They were placed at 'atten tionr-heels on line. eyes to the front, etc. and were kept at it all night, and yell into th. next morning. the guard being relieved opca sionally, and served to refreshments ditto.- Some gave out and others didn't, The bo. who at school pointed his finger for an hour 2 i . nail above, or stood on one foot 2 long, can tell you something of the seyerity Q a punishment of tue same style of some nin lhours' duration. By being well served 'o' polices in the forenoon, and given four hourt
 drill with full knapsacks in the burning snu followed with inspection and parade in the a!
 ternoon, these rioters substitutes $500 mel
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 ana keep their threats shut IS they have beei
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