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Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09
Literary Notices.

The Daily Union, new union paper pub
 lished Tn Schenectady N. Y, comes to US ii exchange. Its editorial columns displa,
 marked ability and sound patriotism, it miscellaneous selections are cbaste and spright fa--'nd ifs typograpnIcaI aPpy... ' = lent Our Young Folks for the ensuing montl
 also comes to us richly freighted with eoot
 things for the juveniles The magazine ha.
 no superior for the class for whom it is if1ten
 ded. It contains the following articles :. . Half Hours with Father Brighthopes, IV., b, J. T. Trowbridge; Sir Franklin, by Elizabetl Stuart Phelps How Pine Tree did som,
 Good, by Samuel w. Dufield Disappoint
 ment, by Mrs. Anna M. Weells; The Cruis,
 of the Leopold, Il, by Oliver Optic The Boy
 of Chickamauga, by Edmund Kirke,; Farming
 for Boys, TX, by the author of sTen Acres
 Enopgh;' Sir Walter Scott and his dogs, by
 Harriet Beecher Stowe; Sunday Afternoon. by Gail Hamilton; Winning His Way, xIxby Carleton; Round the Evening Lamp. ? For sale by ". Patton, Waterbury at. $2,O0s per year.
 t7 The Round Table is one of our mo-t accepta- ble visitors. It's correspn-ssrce is yolumin7l ous and reliable, It's Book and Art Notices are ind.pendend and yet judicious It's edit orials strong, original and fearless; and it's ty execution faultlessse We recom- mend it to all in search of first class week. ly. k4 :s i How DEcIDED.'--This is the title of capital story, written expressly for l4he Msr- iden Recorder by the well known and popular authoress, Amanda M. Douglass. I Our lady readers have known Miss Douglass for years in the Boston True Flag and in the, magazines. The Recorder is one of the most enterprising and certainly the most literary paper pub lished in Connecticut. =.
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09
The ..I.ast Ditch. i"

On Tuesday, elections were held in New York, New Jersey, Massachuseits, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and Maryland. In New York Stale Gen. Barlow is elected Secretary |of State by iron 25,Ooo to so,ooo fsajority.- This is a Union gain of l5,oOO or 10000 over last falls election.
 New Jersey, the home and hope of the De moeracy has gone Union by handsome ma iority, and the conservatives will have to 20 to Canada or Europe hereafter to get out of the Union. In Massachusetts, on,a light vote, the Union msjorityswas 5O,0O0 or 60 ,oOo In all the other States where elections were held the Union ticket was successful.
 E.s 2 q4 1ar The President has gone back on his friends in the conservative party again, in a most heartless manner. In aLswer to an in- qniry of Governor Johnson, he sends him the following reply which will explain itself: ' Sst ~sS%. @ EXECUTIVE MANSION. r as. WASHINGTON, D. o., Oct. 28, 1865. 10 James Johnson, Provisional Gouermor,
 MinedgeviUe, Ga.:
 Your dispatch has been received The peo- pie of Georgia should not hesitate one mo- ment in repudiating every single dollar of debt created for the purpose of aiding the rebellion against the government of the United States. It will not do to levy and collect taxes from a State and people that are loyal and in the Un- ion, to pay debt created to aid in taking them out and subverting the constitution of the Uni ted States do not halieve the cyreat mass of the people of Georgla, when left uninfuenced, will ever submit to the payment of debt which was the main cause of bringing on their past and present sufferings-the result of the rebellion. Those who invested. their capital in the creation of this debt, must meet their fate and taks it as one of the inevitable results of the rebellion, though it may seem hard to them. It should at once be made known at home and abroad, that no debt contracted for the purpose of dissolving the Union, can or ever will: be paid by taxes levied on the people for such a purpose. ,5 ANDREW JOHNSON,
 President of the United States.
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09
General News
Thanksgiving For Peace.

AAdAAS5AvAAE 4 SA fGCeaV6s5 -f g E s, L-5,f 5. E{ WARRINGTON Oct. 28 By the President of the United States of America A PROCLAMATION.
 Whereas, it has pleased Almighty God, du ring the year which is now coming to an end to relieve our beloved country from the fear ful scourge of civil war and to permit us te secure the blessings of peace, unity and har mony, with great enlargement of civil libe r ty :; and os. .j t,aae lss8 -s 7t5i i iy
 Whereas, our Heavenly Father has, also, during the year, graciously averted from us the calamities of foreign war, pestilence and famine, while our granariss are full of the fruits of an abundant season and o5 ga S3as Where's, righteousness exalteth g nation while sin is 8 reproach to any people
 Now, therefore, Andrew Johnson, Presi. dent of the United States do hereby recon mend to the people thereof, that they do set apart and observe the First Thursday of De cember as a day of National Thanksgiving to the Creator of the Universe for these deliver, ences and blessings. ,. sss.-..
 And I do further recompsend that on that occasion the whole people make confession o1 our national sins against His infinite good ness, and with one heart and one mind impIore the Divine guidance in the ways of national virtue and holiness.
 III testlmony whereof have hereunto set my
 hand, and caused the seal of the United
 States to be affixed. Done at the City of
 Washington this twenty-eighth day of Octo- Der, in the year of our Lord one thousand
 eight hundred and sixty-fye, and of the In
 dependence of the United States ths nine.
 tieth. ANDREW JOHNSON !, By the President,
 WM. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. aepog a-- The revenue of the government from all sources (including customs) during the hrst quarter lending Sept sO,l of the current fiscal year., amounted to $l4s, 100000, equal to ., yearly aggregate of $592, 2,OO0, 900. ,i,Joqa ,..ss
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b@ The Waterbury Chronicle is nakipe itself the champion of the Base Ball Club oi that city. The editors display a very credita. Eble degree of enthusiasm for their; clients, who wehepe, will not be so ungrateful as to forget their servi ,es. We are not acquainted with the, Waterbury Base Ball Club, but if it resem- bles,the Wicket club that played with the Ply. mouth boys last summer,s We think the Chroni cle had better abandon the case, for that was composed of the most profane, obscene, TOW. | dyish crowd thatgwe ever met inothis State:
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09

neA- Alfew days ago the Hartford Times said the Democrats liked Mr. Johnson because, when they demanded the withdrawal of the Freedmen's, Bureau from Alabama, he with drew it.. But a late dispatch to the N. Y. Times says: Go 'uq 'f tja7As as.6@ faftaHEt- v. The President has not issued an order sus- pending the operations of the sFreedmens Blu reaul in the State of Alabama, as stated in some of the New York journals. Gen. Swayne is still in charge of the Bureau in that State with no curtailment of the power originally confer red on him by Gen, Howard" l.. baic, ss.t ri [ We suppose this suits the Times just as well asthe other. ., The Democrats e9 treat the Presi- dent very much as the old man, did his dog,
 when he said, s, Come here, Carlo (dog didn't
 stir)s We'll, lie still, taan, 7 aciu De minded
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09

D ab@~ At the annual state convention of the 'Universalist denomination of Massachusetts, recently held in HI[ayerhill, in that state, the following resolutions on the state, of the, coun- try were passed by 9 unanimous vote ;. ,,.s[.
 fResolved, Thatevery principle of Christiani-
 ty. as well as the letter and spirit of the De
 clarations of Independence, demand that the
 colored men of this country many of whom
 have fought so npbly for the rights of man, shall have secured to them the full rights of citizenship, especially of equal suffrage and
 all our pnlpits, to urge this subject upon the attention and conscience of our, people, -s, Resolved, That this Convention deplores the practical denial of Christianity in the recent
 election in Connecticut, whereby these rights
 were withheld from her loyal colored popula- tion., ,
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09

a7 CoRNwALL.---The Mtchfeld North Consocia tion of which Rev. s. Fem, of South Cornwall was moderator, and Rev. w. s. Doubleday O Goshen, scribe, met at North Cornwall, ol Tuesday of last week. It dissolveI the pas ralirelation previously existing between Rev John Edgar and the Congregational Church Falls Village; censured one of the Consocia ted Churches for installing a pastor by council imposed tax ranging from two to four dollar upon each church, according to membership designated Kent as the next place of meeting Rev. MT. Waherby, of North Corn wall, the next annual associatorial preacher and Rev E. Hall of New Hartford Center Registrar and Secretary and after an excel- lent sermon by D. D. T. McLaughlin, of Sharon, discussed the followingtopics :: The relation and obligation of our churches to Sunday Schools How can the talents of the lay mem bers Of the Churches bi developed and brought into the service of tn, cause of Christ, ''s The nature and merits of ouI Consociational system. It was shown that te first Sunday Scsooi teacher was Adam, whose first pnpils were Cain and Asal; it vas submitted that tract distribution would tentto develop the lay tal- ent of the churches, snI it was made to appear that the Church Conociation system, which obtains in no State in Ae Union but Connec- ticut, is most wonderful system; and the ar gument in favor thereof, IS an installing and
 dificulty-settling-body, ws greatly strengthen ed by most generous diparagement of Coun- cils.g Most of the Churchs of Litchfeld North
 were represented on the ccasion. a'=zs
 The Rev Mr. Moore ofBerlin, statisticated' with his usual zeal and pwer, and the Rev
 MT. Bullard, of Hartford tractated' with his accustomed unction and ,athos. The Litch- field North Association as in session about l ten minutes, when Rev. ..Hwin Hall was cho-
 sen Registrar, and Prof. lark of New Haven,
 was allowed. to withdraw rom the Association
 for union with some one New Haven Not
 attending the Temperate Alliance, held on
 Wednesday, we are unab to report concern ling it, but feel quite certa that it must have
 been interesting for the reon that Dr. Charles
 Jewett and others were lecture during the
 day..
 The citizens of CornwaA,ordially welcomed
 all who came, and generoay entertained all
 whom they could prevail uon to enter their
 hospitable homes.
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09
NA- The Danbury Times says :

Our columns are open to discussing the po- litical topics of the day, but as we propose to be Independent of party, we shall not be an the opinions of our correspond oents,, 10 1Gasst4t'.s,ye a. ot g.tia97.x .5sge3 That's the way the N. Y. Herald talks when it is in the market for the highest political bid
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09
SPECIAL NOTICES.
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 his own Doctor-Being Private Instructor 1st ri tor
 Male and Female, in everything concerning the physiology, and relations of our Sexual sys-
 spring. i including all the new discoveries never before given in the English languagey by WM.
 YOUNG, M. D .gT This is really aa:yaluablea and
 guage for the general reader, and is fflusttated
 Vi tn upwards of one hundred engfavings. All young married people, or those contemplating marriage, and having the least impediment to
 married life, should read this book. It dis closes secrets that every one should be ac quainted with. Still it is a book that must be locked up, and not lie, about the house. It be sent to any one on the receipt of Fifty Gents: Address Dr., sWMr YOUNG, Noy4l6 srnUon ST., above Fourth, Philadelphias srro' I z3 6m 4s ves gta5 gsft41 vssE asag sfssarsE9 |
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09
fo1al ar,o Gou,,tp Nems.

ArfcHf1ELp.-Wintef seems really to have opened upon us in earnest Until yesterday . cold wind had swept the hills for three or foul oays' the gronnd freaes hard every night and tne Ice forms on pools an inch or more thick while on Tuesday morning we had right smart snow storm that covered the ground with a white mantle that had not entirely disappear ed in some shady places yesterday noon.
 r. Mir. Henry Bissell has collected the fol lowing fourteen additional names of persons seventy years old and over in this town This increases the list to one hundred and fty such persons, and We challenge any other town in Connecticut to show similar record:
 Ann Elizabeth Landon, (widow Catlin,)
 born in Litchfield, Jan. 6, .1779, SC Betsey Stone, (widow Sharp,) born in
 Litchfeld, January 28, l7s0, 85 Folly Bailey, born in Litchfeld, l78O, 8j Lucinda Dickerson, (widow Gregg) born
 in Litch6eld, August 25. 1785. 80 Benjamin Moore, born in Litchfeld, Dec.
 2S, 1786, 7s Anna Catliu, (widow Peters) born in Litch-
 field, l786, 7e Clara Bissell, born in Litchield, February
 P, l789, A 76 Julia Bishop, (widow Baldwin, born in Bethlehem, May l, l792, "a John Barney, born in Litchield, l793, 72 Rachel Baldwin, wife of Benjamin Web
 ster, born in Litchfeld, Sept. 28th,
 l794, II Roxan Gridley. born in Litchfield, l794, II George w. Graham, born in Derby, June
 l8, l792, ii "a Candis Pratt, wife of George w. Graham
 born in Litchfeld, l790, 75 Minerva Wadhams, (widow BueD born in s.s Goshen, Sept. 18th, l793. 72
 The oil excitement in this town seems to be languishing. The indications continue to be favorable, but somehow good many in. credulous people cannot be made to believe that Litchfeld petroleum will ever set the North River on 6re.' We confess that We be- long to this class and though we should be rejoiced to go ont and fill our little can every week with oil out of the brook behind our house, we do not expect to ever be able to get enough to light us to bed, except in the old fashioned way. We believe in Copper, and Iron, and Nickle, and Lead, and even Silve, being found in these hills, and we would like to encourage search for them, but we think all good men with sensitive olfactories should pray that we be delivered from petrolum. II anybody owns nice claim we advise him to sell it immediately, for we consider oil land in Litchfeld to be very slippery property. -7 - MT. Geo. Kenney sold fine COW to J. F. Winslow Esq., of Troy N. Y. and was to de- liver it at Chatham. He employed MT. Soc. rates Clark to drive her up, who arrived in North Canaan on Monday night and put her in the hotel stable. The next morning she was missing, and Mr. Clark and the landlord came back over the road to Litchfield on Tues. day in a vain search for her. They returned to North Ganaa the same day, and it is not known whether or not they have recovered her. 8; szaaSs it S aAa at ae,
 MT. Riverins Marsh has gone into the wholesale Lamp, Chimney, Parian Marble and Bohemian Glass Ware trade, and has got a
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09
e6F The Bridgeport Farmer says i:

tatA few days since President Johnson ap- pointed the Eth of December as day of Thanksgiving throughout the Union. It was generally supposed that our Governor would concnr with him and recommend the same day.
 By his proclamation, it will be seen that he exercises his State .perogatives and e&vcutlye Independence by appointipe tho~ 3oth Of No, vember as the day n2"flch the citizens of old
 Connecticut. .ultaf give thanks-doubtless talk ing th;s method to satisfy, his dislike of Mr. sJohnson.' T' '- '-- Fs''1''iS
 The justice of this sIur upon our Governor is appreciated when we see by looking at the dates, that his Proclamation was issued four days 5e,ore the Presidents. The Farmer re- minds us of the wolf in the fable, that accused an innocent lamb of riiing the water in brook a6ove where it was drinking. @1s t's!as .e''a''
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09
TAKEN UP.

RY the subscriber the 8Othof October.
 Also one.steer, two years old, color red with sDa white stEp on the bsck,b The owner is sreqnesf- ed to prove property pay charges and take Them,
 away. s99s7ssN1~ -asE.eG A. MERyVYN a151cs1 < Goshen, Nov ssth lsS5s Fl 1ss jc; csws aaa
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09
WING & saUMwAY lProprietors
Litohfield. Conn, Thursday, Ncy. g, 1865
Tax on Exports.

The Federal Constitution provides that no tax or duty should be laid on articles exported from the States. The subject of taxing ex- ports was debated with great ability in the con ventioen of l7s7, and the prohibitory claim final ly adopted by a bare majority. 7A o % Mir. Madison, Gen. Washington, Governor Morris, with divers other far-seeing members, admitting that it might not be expedient iu the then condition of the country to follow the example of older governments and lay such tax, opposed the adoption of the article on the ground that a proper regulation of exports would probably become necessary thereafter for the same purposes as the regulation of inn ports namely, for revenue, for domestic man. ufactures, and for procuring equitable regula- tious of commerce from other nations The question will undoubtedly be agitated in the next Congress whether the time has not arriv- cd anticipated by the great statesmen of l7s7, and whether proposition should not be sub mitted to the people for an amendment of the Constitution by striking out the prohibitory clause. %b%44 a9aa 1.sP ,19sEs.q .s:oa
 If Congress had power to impose'a reasona- ble tax on exports, it is believed the govern ment could easily raise not less than one hun dred millions of coin revenue, without incon- venience to the producing classes, by a judi cious tax on the export of articles in which we are not much rivaled in foreign marke'', as } cotton, tobacco naval stores, &-'' ne ouroen
 you,d su--osr han-ify on England and Lr~uce, but it would not diminish their regard
 for the financial ability and material power of the Union. There can be no adoubt the pro- ducers of the articles selected for such taxation
 would hail with delight, the inauguration of a policy that would relieve them from the burden and vexation' of the present excise system of internal revenue. ai aJ 7aanidi red ot b7Ru
 Large as is the federal debt, noonel whoswill. take the trouble to examine into the enormous productive power of the country in connection with our commercial relations with the old
 world, can fail to see that the time isenear by. when by a firm and. wise exercise of power to impose duties on both imports and exports the entire system of excise. with it's immense cost and waste, may be dispensed with. E7T p
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09

! a@- A:few days ago the editor of the Beik. shire Courier caught the fore finger of his left hand. in a Gordon card and Scircalat press, taking the finger completely of Up to the first joint. If we did not know him to be a patriot
 and the war was not over, we should be inclin- ed to suspect that he did it .purposely to escape
 the next draft, sre ss.,.- ,.s,sr a ,se
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09

n6 Mir. B. K. Ashley has withdrawn from the editorialchair of the Danbury Jeffsrsonian, and boy in blue,' Mir. J. H.Swertfager, sue.
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09

s@- It seems that our friend Theodore Vsill, late Adjutant of the Second Heavy Artillery, is going to 9Winsted in charge of the Herald. We dc not think better selection could have been made, for Mir, Vaill is sound patriot, a vigorous thinker, g gentleman and scholar
 But we can hardly congratulate him upon his
 new position, for we do not consider itiaa enyi- able one. It is said that he is going on trial,
 and we fear twill be the worst trie1 of his life to sit in that sanctum and let the Winsted gla- diators fight oyer him. ,..,s:z 4saom so
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09

pA- We print on tue outside this week, a paper from the Directors of the Housatonic Railroad. We hope every reader. of the EN. sou1RrR will peruse it, for it is complete vindi- cation of the character of Mr. Hunt and MT. Plumb from all blame, that public excitement and private hate had heaped upon them re gafding the late disaster on that road. 7a' ~ Il. :
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09

.&r 1t is announced that Capt Wirz, the keeper Of the Andersonville Prison. is to be executed On Friday at the Old Capitol Prison. .WashingtGn City. This decision has been all along sxpectsd. @A@
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09
.JFIf. T
 DIED.

{ oIni Norfolk, on the 18th day of Sept. last
 MT. Oliver E! Butler, aged 74.safEokF ifpsf
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09

SGt The city election of New Haven wen, Democratic by . greatly reduced majority.
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09

nA- The total mortality cf ,yhseA be havs dny record amongst the soldiers ;of the Union in Andersonville Prison, is l2,sis. ;siFsL {
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09

l@ The Bulletin of the 18th, says that. Hon, A. B. Mygatt, of New Milford, National Bank Commissioner for Connecticut and Rhode Is land, had been in Norwich for the two days previous examining the affairs of the national banks. 9gQ -s.anal.a.-a. 1a E.a.s'Es9 aas SEC.
 1@ In recent speech, Gen. Fitzpatrick hadsthe audacity to say that he believed. The one hundred and fifty thousand negroes in the war, had done more to save the country than all the copperheads of the North .o' Ss.'.e 7l
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09

b9~ The New Haven Palladium is printing ten Mousand names of heirs to unclaimed prop. erty in England. We would like to have. our name in the list if our taxes nov were not al m0st as great as our income. sts4 zsszyss I
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09

PLYMOUTH. .-The Citizen publik kd in Rome,
 N. Y., has the following obituarlotic of an eminent son of this town E Died, at the residence of his Ain-law, C. H. Norton, Plinny Darrow, in hiiRd year. . l MT. Darrows decease is fittin&casion to recall his early history, identified 1t is with the settlement of the town in whicAe had so long lived. He must have remoy4to Rome from his native town of Plymouth 4onn., as early as 1904. He was accustomed his last days to relate how he cut his foot Assisting 'to put up one of the first framed ho,1 in tho
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NoRrolK.-A deerswa sec lon the morning of Wednesday last, in the sth part of Nor folk, near the house of MT. Hart Pendleton He was running westerly towalthe mountain. This notice is given for the berst of the own CT, if, as is probably the casehe deer had strayed from the enclosure orparSf the owner.
Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-09
MARRIED

.s In Bristol, Oct. s26th, Mr.sH. E., Buel ol Plainville, to Miss Carrie " Hart, of the same
 place. Es A OIO r dik VI Ill sI