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Litchfield enquirer., 1867-03-07


 The Committee on Resolutions, consisting of Msssrs. c. B. Phelps, S. M. Pettbons, and R. O.. Barber. reported tho following, which were unani- nously adopted:
 Resolced. That we heartily approve of the plat form laid down by the late Republican State and Congressional Conventions and that we yield our support to no measures or men who would sacri- nee in the hour of a nations triumph, the fruits of decisive victory for freedom and equal rights for all men.
 Resolred That we hereby ratify the nomination sf P. T. Barnuni for Congress in the 4th Congress aional District, and pledge to him a hearty and united support.
 Resotred, That we recognize in Robert Pierpont, our Candidate for Senator, a tried and faithful ex- ponent of the political views of the republicans of ihs 18th District and hereby pledge to him our naited support at the coming election
 The ncmination !s conceded to Morris by com- non consent, and the only difficulty arose from the strong preference of many Morris Republicans for Mr. David Benton, gentleman every way worthy of the position, and who, had it not been for the caucus resolution which we published two weeks sines, would have had an excellent chance for the nomination. Tho calling of a eaucus to settle sush question is matter of very doubtful expe- disuey at best. and in this instance the vote so close that the losing party was not inclined to &C., suissse in the result, claiming mistakes in the sonnt wsut of full notice. &c. Had these dssen- sions lost Morris the nomination, the Litchfeld delegation would have pressed the claims of Mir. Philip 8. Boebe of this place although the votes indicate that probably MT. H. H. Stons of New Hartford, would have been the successful! candid
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LITCHFIELD.

The dwelling-house of James Heffner, at the foot of South Street, caught fire on Sunday morning last, and was entirely de- stroyed, with nearly all it's contents. The fire is supposed to have caught from de. fective chimney. It is reported that the wife of an Irishman occupying half of the house, had just been confined on the same evening, and that she made her escape bare-footed through the snow quite dis. tance to the house of John Gleason
 Frederick D. McNeil has sold to MT. A. B. Shumway the dwelling-ho house and premises formerly owned by Edward Cross. man on West Street. a
 The cases tried by the Superior Cour, at it's last term, are decided as follows:- Anson c. Smith vs Anna Birge. Judg. ment for Plffs. Damages $45.-Wm. Da- wis, Jr. vs. Town of Goshen. Judgment for Plaintiff Damages $162 68.-John T. Peters vs. Town of Litchfeld. Judgment for Defendants. William 8. Johnson vs. Andrew Terry. Judgment for Plaintiff. Damages $30O.
 This was the case about which much was published year ago, called the Kidnap- ping case. The Plaintiffs wife left his home, taking with her their children. He obtained a divorce from her, and learning that his son had recently gone to live with Terry, in November, 1865, came from New Jersey to obtain the care and custody of his son, boy about thirteen years of age. He sent two men to Terryville. who brought the son to Bristol and delivered him to his father Terry, the defendant, followed and endeavored to take the boy from his father by force, in doing which, he committed the assault and battery for which the suit was brought. Terry was immediately arrested and taken before magistrate, pleaded Guilty to the criminal charge and was fined. The civil action was tried at the last term and judgment rendered for the Plaintiff to recover Three Hundred Dollars damages and his costs. G. c. and G. NJ. Woodruff for the Plaintiff Sanford and Giddings for the Defendant.
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fHE WoBKINGMAE's FRIEND.-Speaking of the Hoble character of William H. Barnum, Esq, the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Fairfield District, Democratic contemporary remarks:
 "When, during the war, draft WAS ordered in his town, and there was fearful apprehension ameng the wives end children of the laboring men that their husbands or fathers would be forced to iaave them, perhaps never to return, Mir. Barnum did not stop to express regrets and tender empty necessary to sasisy the denaand of Ae gorernment, and thus relieved many an aching heart. Need VIC wonder if tho workingmen of the Salisbury iron mines and foundries are little emphatic in their hisndship for such man - Hayosd Times
 Mir. W. H. Barnum employs, as is claim. cd. some thousand men. When the draft was ordered in this District fearing his manufacturing operations might be inter. rupted, he advanced the money to fn up the quota of Salisbury, every cent oi which has since been refunded by that town. Thatis Mir. Wm. H. Barnum's pat. r5otism
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REGISTRY NOTICE.

THE Select nen and Town Clerk of the town l of Lit. h6eld, will meet at the Town Hall in said tow n, on Monday the 25th, and We'd nesday the 27th days of March 1867, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on each of said days Tor the pur- pose of correcting and revising the Registry List of said Town and to examine and decide upon all applications to be admitted to the privileges of an elector.
 JACOB MORSE,
 CHESTER c. Go.1En, selsetmsn
 CHARBs D. WHEELER, of
 A. J. PIERPoNT, Litch6eld
 GARNER B. CURTIS, GEO. M. WOODRUFF, Town Clerk. Litchfeld March 4th 1867. ~ Sw
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News of the Week.
BOURGEOIS.

FOREIGN. The "Adulamite Party in the l British Parliament have resolved to ally themselves with the Liberals. The Colon ial Minister has resigned for reasons con nected with the Reform question. The re- l form bill promised by the Government vii be presented to Parliament on the 11th inst 1 It is rumored that war has broken out in India. Col. O'Connor the leader of the late Fenian movement has been arrested The American Legation at Paris has not succeeded in the effort to induce the French Government to remit the search oi travellers baggage during the continuance of the Exposition. The French Liberals have determined to resist the abolition of the reply to the address from the Throne. The Government is about to prosecute M. Emile de Giradin for his recent bold attack upon the Emperors policy. Herr Simson has been chosen President of the North German Parliament. The draft for the new German Constitution has been laid before the North German Parlia- ment by Count Von Bismarck. Garibaldi has arrived in Venice, where he was received with the greatest enthusi- asm by the people. His sons have gone to Candid, to help the Cretans in their battles against the Turks.
 The Turkish garrison are to be with drawn from the forts in the Principaity of Servia.
 The Duke of Richmond declines the Sec retaryship for the Colonies, and the place is taken by the Duke of Buckingham.
 VIENNA, Tuesday, March 5.
 The Eastern Question is becoming more complicated. Dispatches have been re- ceived from the South which indicate that a general rising of the Christians through out Turkey is feared.
 DOMESTIC. Gov Swan, of Maryland, declines the U. s. Senatorship to which he was lately elected.
 Five Magistrates of Norfolk Va, have been arrested, for violation of the Civil Rights bill.
 Capital punishment is substantially abol- ished in Illinois,
 The report of the House Committee on Frauds in the New York Custom House se- riously duplicates Senators Patterson and Doolittle, and apparently President John son. Collector Smythe is charged with cor ruption and extortion of the most fragrant character.
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nsa- The campaign of the Sentinel opens March lst. From the overloaded name, in which it rushes into the canvass we fea, 1t may flag, somewhat, before the 1st of April; still, the last number is decided improvement on the general average. We hear its selections from the Enquirer and Winsted Herald highly commended among Conservatives, and have no doubt more ex- tended quotations from the same quarters would effect still greater improvement. It will confer greater favor still by copying the selections at the head of our editorial columns.
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BARNUM TO BARNUM.
The following letter was sent by Mir. P. T Barnum to Mir. William H. Barpum:
BRrpGnpoRr. Conn. Feb. 2Ist. l

BRIDGnPoRT Conn.,, Feb 21st 1867. W. H. BARNU4 Esq, Salisbury, Conn.
 DKAR SIR: Observing that the Democratic party has nominated you for Congress from this district, desire to make you a proposition.
 The citizens of this portion of our State will be- compelled the first Monday in April next to de- eide whether you or myself shall represent them ill the Fortieth Congress of the United States.
 The theory of our Government is that the will of the people shall be the law of the land. It is important thsrfore. that the people shall vote un dsrstandmgly, and especially at this important crisis in our National e1istence In order, there- fOre that the voters of this district shall fully prshe,d the principles by which each of their Con- gressOnal candidates are guided, respectfully in- vits you to meet me in serious and candid dis sussng of the important political issues of the day Tict of Connecticut on each week day evening, from the fourth day of March until the 3Oth day oi h a R9R5Ra JRSth nfaIa.ISsst .hISset me in friendly dkcussion of those subjects, now so near and dear to every American heart and, may add, possessing st this time such momentous interest to all cviliz- izsd nations in the world, who are suffering from misrule, pledge myself to conduct my portion of she debate with perfect fairness and with all due respect for my opponent, and doubt not you will do she same. .-.s
 Never, in my judgement, in our past history as RSkon, have interests and questions more impor- tAnt appealed to the people for their wise and fsl consideration. It is duo to the voters of the 4th Congressional District that they have an early and full opportunity to examine their candidates in regard 10 these important problems and I shall sstseni it great privilege if you will accept this proposition.
 Please favor rus with an early answer and obliSe,
 Truly yours,
 P. T. BAENUh. To ths above, Mir. William H. Barnum replied, refusing to accept the proposition so 60 before the people of this district and discuss the political questions of the day. &Aonddrd
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Notice to Tax Payers

A IL Persons liable to pay Taxes in the EA Town of Plymouth, are hereby notified that Rate Bill on the assessment for Town, State, School and Military Taxes, on list of 1866, has been placed in my hands with a war rant to collect the same. ..-...,.,l
 l thel efore give notice that will be at the in Plymouth, Monday, April 1st, 1867 !; at the Post Office in Thomaston, "Wednesday, April 10th, 1887 at the Store of B. H. Hemingway, April l1th, 1867, from o'clock, a. m until4 4 o'clock, p. m. on each of said days for the pur pose of receiving said Taxes. All persons fail. ing to pay their Taxes on, or before, the Ilth day of April, lS67, will be charged legal fees for collection.
 An addition of one per cent. a mcnth W II be made to all unpaid Taxes, after the first day of June, 1867. as by law required.
 Il H, E. CInE cAllantnr.
 Plymouth, Feb. 25th -s-rrSS-s ' s
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6rty column weekly paper, published on Thursday of each week, devoted to the interests ofMerchants Manufacturers and business men generally We take pleasure in recommending it as the best pa- Thursday and gives fuller quotations than any oth CT paper published among which are New York Stock Sales, Dry Goods, Dye stuffs, Paints Oils, Hardware Iron, Steel, Tin Plate, Metals Groceries, Country Produce, Liquors, Hides and Leather, Tobacco, Wool, Fruits and Vegetables, Butter, Cheese, Fish, Salt, Game, and in fact almost every class of Merchandise is given full and complete with prices, and Review of the state of tho Mar fet. It is just the paper needed by every City and Country Merchant. Price s3 co. Address, The New York Mercantile Journal, $50 Pearl street P O. box, l919 New York city.
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barnum the Mermaid is reported-thoupl asport lacks cont> mation-t to have challenged me Iron Man, to stnmpins tour in the District we presume the party challenged can better em PIoy ma ume than stumping with Phineas Barnum .f his Bearded Woman {; but Of the effect if he s.outd accept the challenge and let himseIf do,, r to such conipany as tho showman's, there can he no doubt. What little chance of an election tbs saowman may yet hope to hold, would be brett, sasetuAuy demolished. -Ha'gord Times.
 Cannot Mr. W, H. R be persuaded te come out and demolish his adversary at 6 hlow9 He would find that method mucl more .esoaomisR one. certainly, than hi. present one. aa
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DIED.

In Litchfield, on Tuesday, March 9th. Mrs. Phoebe Wadhams, widow of David Wadhams of Goshen. aged 94 years. Flu neral on Friday at II A. NJ.
 In Sharon, Miss Mary Wardwell aged 20 years.
 In Northampton, Feb. 22d, William Lawrence, aged 65, formerly of Norfolk
 In Canaan, Feb 27th, Phineas Mansfield aged 70.
 In Washington Jan 2sth, MT. Gregory Seeley aged 67 years.
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Say Judge Pitkin, who is to stump this state during this campaign was a member of the dispersed State Convention of Lou iaisna Loyalists, ill New Orleans, and while escaping from the building in company with Dostie and others was shot and se- vsrely wounded, His experience has quail fled him to speak effectively as to the pres snt condition of southern affairs and the spirit exhibited by southern Rebels &0sd0rd
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GOSHEN.

At special town meeting, held ill this town, on the 18th of February, tax of six mills on the dollar was laid on the list of 1866, to pay the outstanding Bounty order, and also appropriated one thousand dollars to erect a Soldiers monument.
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Ba~ The New York Herald is venting its spite on P. T. Barnum, our candidate for Congress in the Fourth District. The trouble is, as every one knows, that Bar mum is somewhat too shrewd for the editor of the He,ala. His establishment ''does not advertise in the New York Herald" If he can run the museum without the aid of that sheet, we have no doubt he can run for Congress without it-and be elected in despite of it.-Neu London Star.
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NEW PRESTON.

MT Charles H. Werner, proprietor of the Clarendon Hotel, New York City, has pre- sented to Geo. c. Hitchcock Esq, of Ash Grove, very promising young stallion two years old, sired by Smith Burr's Long Is' land Black Hawk Stallion, dam, very fast mare by Eathan Allen; gr. dam by Old Ab- dallah, sire of Rysdeck's Hambletonian.
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NOTICE.

THE Public Highways in the Town of Nor ! ris will be let to the lowest Eidder for re- pairs. for the term of five years. on Monday, March 1sth. at the Town Hsll in Morris. lime of sale; o'clock. a. m. Terms of contract made known at the tilne of sale. Should the day te very stormy, sale next fair dax
 P. B. RANDALL. selectmeD
 D. W. WAGONER,
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D9 A great Union meeting was held at Allyn Hall, Hartford, on Friday Evening last. An immense crowd was addressed by Governor Hawley, General Logan, General Schaffer and Mr. Starkweather, whose speeches were enthusiastically received.
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sl- Henry Peck, former mayor of New Haven, died in that place on Friday last, at the age of p years. He was partner of the publishing firm of Durrie & Peck, and had repeatedly represented New Haven in our State Legislature
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DGe If you were to enquire of Q southern democrat who he is in favor of for Con gressman for this District, he would sav for Barnum; but if you ask which Barnum he would not say the Barnum who cages copperheads. Logan at Bridgepor..
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rn5s- In the Twelfth Senatorial District. the Republicans have nominated William c. Street of Norwalk.
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Senatorial Convention, 18th District

 The Convention was organized by the appoint saent of Daniel 0. Churchill, temporary Chairman; I. L. Hungerford and G. ". Mason, Secretaries, and the usual Committies were appointed.
 The Committee on Credentials reported the fol- lowing list of delegates:
 LitoAesld.-D. c. Churchill, c. W. Mason, Leon- ard Stone, 4. O. Benton.
 Borkhamaed. R. Cleveland. Albert Afford, Lau- rsn Smith, J. Deming
 OOlsbrvok--Asa white, l.. A. Cook, Geo. Sack cit, 0. B. Phelps.
 kosrI.-B. s. Hall, R. Huntingdon.
 Eee HdrHord-Orvis Griggs, E. H. Chipman, \. N. Psttibone, J. F. Smith.
 fbrrSngton.-J. F. Calhoun, F. L. Hungerford, R. 0. Barber, A. T. Whiting
 RsneAe-ser.-J. R. Avord, g. A. Granger, c. P. NoTth, W. o. Dsnnen.
 The Committee on Permanent Organization then exported the following officers: D. O. Churchill, President ?. L. Hungerford and L. A. Cook Secretaries, Co. W. Mason deelining.) The Con yantion then proceeded to ballot for Senator witl Eha following result
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BF We are glad to see our Congression- al candidate is taking the field in earnest He made his first appearance at the great meeting in Bridgeport on Wednesday last, spoke here last night, and speaks in Dan bury tonight. We are glad to see, too, that the charges of meanness in his private relations have been proved false in every instance. His generosity is testified to by the very witnesses the Democracy had called against him.
 s0~ We have been requested to call the attention of the Republican Probate Dis triot Committees of this county to the ne- cessity of calling their Conventions as ear ly as possible, and that the names of the candidates be forwarded to this office inn mediately after their nomination.
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Taxable Amount. .................1,3 ,391 AT An association for the promotion of the agricultural interests, and for the en- couragement of stock-breeders in Water town, was organized Wednesday evening, by the election of the following officers: President Hon. T. A. Warren.
 Vice Presidents Hubert Scoville, NJ. Barnes, Alanson Warren.
 Secretary-C. T. Hickox.
 Corresponding Secretary.-Leman W. Cutler
 Treasurer-Gcorse s. Atwo d, Augustus Hamilton, Joseph Blake 5lee. John Hemin- way.
 Tho association will hold an exhibition and fair in the autumn.
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SHARON.

The noble letter of P T. Barnum, avow- ing his intention to appeal to the patriot ism and intelligence of the voters of this District, and not to their cupidity and ye- nality falls like thunderbolt upon the copperheads of this town. Their looks and actions betray the same kind of disap- pointment as that which they showed when during the late war, they received the in- intelligence of the capture of Atlanta, which turned the tide of victory ill favor of the Union and the tide of popular feeling i'll favor of the reelection of. Mir. Lincoln. Their candidate for Congress WAS nomina- ted for no other reasons than that 1t was expected that his immense wealth would be employed ill the purchase of votes to se- cure his election He spent large sums in that way last year to defeat Mir. Peet ill this Senatorial District, q good share o1 1 which was disbursed in this town. There are twenty Democrats in Salisbury who, ir point of proper qualifications for the place
 are far more worthy than the candidate now in nomination, and, now, that the let ter of P T. Barnum has made the expen
 allure of money to buy votes cishonorabl' and disgraceful. the democrats are in great quandary.
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horses, mermaids and the like. Harmless as these inventions may seem in his eyes, it is now evident, from the outcries of the editor of the Sentinel and others, that they deceived some. No candid Republican, however, has yet charged Mir. P. T. Bar mum with being that most dangerous of all impostors, a political humbug; and Union men give him their support because they know they can depend on him to oppose, under ali circumstances, the party which by delusive promises of assistance hum bugged the South into commencing civil war of unparalleled magnitude, into con- tinuing it after it was commenced, and in- to hardening themselves against all reason able terms of accommodation, after it's close. The ludicrous spectacle of the edi- tor of the Register playing the part of the clean and hungry" Cassius, of the Hon. James Brooks performing as Jack Cade, and MT. w. W. Eaton in his favorite role as the Garibaldi of Conservatism, excites no very grave apprehension here in Con- necticut. The danger is, that the men ot the South who are i'll earnest in this mat ter of ftreason-who have once already been deceived by such exhibitions as these-may be deceived again. To them and to the country it is due that the Union men o1 Connecticut should administer q severe re. buke to this ill- timed Democratic foolery, and save perhaps thousands of lives and billions of money.
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Republican Senatorial convsntic

Republican Senatorial Convention
 A Republican Convention for the Sixteenth Sem atorial District will be held at Kelley's Hotel i'll Woodbury on Thursday March 14th 1887 at 10 A. for the nomination of candidate for Senator and any other business proper to be done at said con vention. Towns are requested to send four dele gates each. ..I
 I;, ~ Y; AEsRSEi SfEeHHfii IEE|1 Committee.
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