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Litchfield enquirer., 1867-12-26
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DEAR ENoUIRER:-Your enquiries seem to have stopped before reaching our sub lime height, as see nothing in your col l nrnns eoneerning, us though other people of other places that we-fguratively and literally too-look down upon are noticed frequently. No doubt you imagine we are ''froze up, you are quite mistaken. Ou1 thermometers indeed have been rather low spirited lately bat the people not at all so. We usually find ''stirring around good expeller of the cold. notice in your last number that some of our neighbors are leaving their native hills during Jackfrost's s reign. We contemplate nothing of that kind, and if We have our usual luck will compare health aud vigor with them next May. One of the chief among our many settlements this winter is our debating So- ciety which has been in full operation for several weeks, and some perplexing and difficult questions have been ably discuss ed. Female Suffrage has of course taken a prominent place as a subject of debate, in which the champions of the fair ones got worsted-that wasn't my fault. Perhaps in justice to our "Lucies, Maries, and fair Anns." I ought to say that they had been requested by the asserted ''Lords of Crea- tion" to stay at Aome on that evening lest they should plead their own cause. Since then whether the ladies have-Lucretia ike-called upon their relatives and friends to avenge their wrongs or whether the consciences of said males smote them I do not pretend to confess, but at any rate, an invitation has been given for the ladies to attend the meetings and even to take part in the debate.
 "Rome was not built in day" and one hill may yet be found as favorable to the growth of Ciceros as seren others were in time past Yours hopefully
 A LITTLE 'sC1o. IN EMBRYO.
Litchfield enquirer., 1867-12-26
LITCHFIELD:

Christmas Eve services were held at St. Michaels church. on Tuesday evening. The church dressing was pretty but not elaborate; music likewise. with the usual Christmas day services and the Sun day School children's festival on Saturday night form the principal features of Christ mas week at St. Michaers.
 We cannot let the occasion pass without acknowledgement of the very great merit of the Organ Volnntaries of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. More beautiful organ music ill light, lively: extem- pore style, is seldom heard
 The children of the Congregational Sunday School have Christmas tree at the Parsonage this Wednesday, evening.
 Tine first service in the new Catholic church was held on Christmas This church is not entirely finished, but the altar is tastefully trimmed, and the building sufi- ciently completed for use.
 On Friday the Masons celebrate the Festival of St. John with appropriate fes tivities.
 Attention is called to the change in the Banking hours of the First National Bank of this place. After Jan. 2a the Bank will close at 4 P. NJ.
 - Governor English has appointed Ori- gen s. Seymour of Litchfeld, William J Hammersley of Hartford, and John T. Wait of Norwich, commissioners to inquire what changes, if any, should be made in the joint stock laws of the State, and as to the expediency of creating the office of State Attorney General. The report will be made to the next Legislature.
 Hon. Gideon H. Holster, who was nominated as Consul General to Cuba last spring, and rejected by the Senate, through misspprehension, has been nominated as Minister to Hayti, and will undoubtedly be confirmed. Mr. Hollister is a gentle man of talent and culture and if he accepts the place he will do credit to the country N IT. Courier.
 - The friends of the Rev. Mr. Fairmar of the Baptist Church met op Wednesday night at the house of c. c. Palmer Esq and contributed to his material aid ant comfort, provisions, cash and other articles amounting to about $50, besides having very pleasant soc1al gathering.
 - The Litchfeld Vigilant Society helt 1 Fl, oir Eor&;o+l Annual Maa&;nr .t tho c+,,. of D. O. Kilbourn on Monday night Dec 23d. The following are the list of officer elected for the ensuing year: President, D B. Stoddard; Secretary, D. c. Kilbourn Treasurer, S. c. Keeler; Directors, T. c Goslee, Wm. Keeler, T. O. Sanford. F. B Hand.
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Railxoad Accidents.

The ohaptar of railroad accidents for the past week has been one of the most terri ble ever known. The worst was that which occurred at Angola on the Lake Shore road, about 20 miles from Bu6alo, on Wednesday of last week. The manner of the accident is thus described:-
 The next to the last car was thrown from the track little east of Angola, and was dragged over the ties nearly to the bridge before the car behind it became unseated from the rails the time during which this plunging along the ties continued was sufficient to enable some but not many of the passengers sitting at the forward end of this to make their retreat from it into the car ahead. Just as the train reached the bridge, the car was jerked from the track and ran nearly across the bridge. An instant more and 1t would have reached the bank, but just at the edge, it Topped over on the next slde, and went with fear fu crash, end foremost. down tho ice-coyered slope 40 feet at least, to the flat below. The passengers were thrown into > struggling mass at the lower end. The soon took fire from the stoves, and, before assistance could reach them, the dead and wounded were ali burned to- gether.
 How many the flames devoured in this car can- not be told with certainty. It was well filled with passengers.
 Forty-one are known to have been killed of whom, twenty-f five were burned to death.
 AS We have already stated, the car next the rear one was that in which the disaster originated, but
 it's fate was less terrible than that Of the fol- lowing. The headlong plunge of the latter threw it over but not until the bridge had been passed, and it made it's descent on the opposite or right side of the embankment where the night was not more than twenty-five feet. The crash only less awful than that already described. It not followed, however by the more frightful calamity of the fire. Twice the car was kindled by the coals from the broken stoves, but the passengers were ia a less helpless situation, and the flames were extinguished.
 Whether the accident was occasioned by de fective rail or by the breaking of a wheel is not positively decided.
 On Saturday, passenger train on the Boston, Hartford and Erie, near the for. mer place, was thrown from the track in consequence of broken rail, and rendered complete wreck. Fifteen or twenty per- sons were severely injured and two will probably die. The escape of more from instant death is regarded ss almost miracu l lous.
 1 On Sunday, an accident occurred neal Natick, Mass, by which a brakeman wa' killed, and several passengers injured.
 We presume it will be claimed that al these accidents were unavoidable, and per haps with the care now usually exercised on railroads, they were so; but we think the time has come when the public should demand precautions not hitherto deemed | necessary
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COUNTY ITEMS.
From the Sentinel:


 LTTcHFIELD-The Executive meeting O. the County Agricultural Society met at tht Mansion House, on Tuesday last The next Annual Fair will be held on Wednes- day, Sept. 30, and Thursday, Oct. 1. 1868 The meeting adjourned to Tuesday, June9
 BRIDaEwATER.-The horse that was sto- len in Danbury, on the 9th, with harness &c., and the sulky that was stolen in Bridgewater the same night, have been found. The thief has also been arrested by H. Beardslee and John J. Warner. His name IS Wm. Knapp. He had sold the horse. He is now in Danbury Jail await. ing trial. ''N'
 CORNWALL. Mrs. Flora Taylor has sold her place in East Street to Oliver Chipman for $1, 100.
 -Fayette W. Pierce has bought q lot containing two and half acres adioinino the cemetery near South Cornwall, which is to be used for enlargement. A move ment is on foot to organize an association with capital of 8, 800. to grade it. divide 1t into lots &c. HUNTsv1LLE-Hunt -Canfeld Iron Go. have been making or testing some of the Mine Hill" iron from Chalybes, near New Milfo,s I'd success: Some
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good quality, and some they hammered and rolled into bars. One of the bars. about an inch square, they doubled and twisted up, but not crack or flaw could be seen. This cannot be done With Salisbury iron. Also considerable quan- tlty has been sent to different parts of the country, and from all comes the same good news that it is 8 superior quality of iron, very tough, and easy to work. These re- ports, and the reports from the Workmen nere, must be very encouraging to the 1 stockholders and managers of that Coln- pany, and there is no doubt but they will get amply repai1 for all their trouble and expense, even if they do nothing but make pig-iron, and let other companies make 1t into steel. All who have read about the mine must have formed the lm- pression that it was steel mine. It IS not. but is rich mine of a superior quail i ty o9 iron, and. probably for toughness Is not ezcelled by any in the world, not even 1 the celebrated Salisbury iron, which stands highest, and from which can be made a good quality of steel, but must be made the same way that steel IS made from Salis- bury iron here at the forge.
 i We have noticed with regret the hitch that has occurred in the prosecution of the Chalybes Mining enterprise. Up to the past two months the works were conducted by Prussian workmen on the plan employ ed for the manufacture of German Steel Extensive works were hastening to com pletion when We were at Chalybes in Octo Der, for refining the pig steel by the Prus sian process. On trial, it seems, these fail ed; and the company becoming dissatisfied discharged their Prussian hands and deter mined to trust to Yankee ingenuity to worl out the unsolyed problem of making the crude metal into steel, directly, without the expense of the usual process of carbon iZing iron. We have no doubt that an ex cellent quality Of iron can bs produces from the Roxbury orc, but the mining of IS very. much moro expensive than at Sal isbury, and there may be grave doub whether merely as an iron ore it will b profitable.
 Wo have great confidence, however, tl4a processes will yet be discovered for makini o'SSA IA1CStiJ biiS CLtiAIG iEStti dS ! comes from the smelting stack. in whic7 case the mine must be one of the most val uable i'll the country.
 A NEW ROUTE MT. E. X Phelps C North Colebrook goes in for a railroad u through that town and then across lots t
 East Sutfield and North Canaan. What
 leave Norfolk out in the cold, after she Ina been in snch shiver of anxiety for s long2 Oh, no, that won't do. Fie on 70
 Mir. Phelps; let Norfolk have her railroa
 in peace-its none of your funeEal.-Ber} shire Courier.
 A freight7train on the Housatonio Roa on Friday afternoon, ran off tho track ,
 Cornwall Bridge. Somo nine or ten cal
 went off but no serious damage resulted 6,
 cept detention of the trains.
 The Hon. George Dudley bought tl
 Winsted Bank building few days since
 and immediately sold It to the Winsted S.
 wing Bank, who expect to occupy a pa of it.
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MARRIED

In West Goshen, at the residence of the brlde's parents, on the l7th inst, by Rev. 8. E. Johnson, Mr. Oliver c. Williams of Amenia, N. r., to Miss Althea A., oldest daughter of Amos Davidson, Esq
 At Norfolk, Nov. 27th, by the Rev. Dr. Eldridge. Mir. William NJ Iibbals, 60 Mrs Julia A, Benedict, all of Norfolk
 At Wolcottville, Dec. 3d, by Rev. Geo. B. Newcomb, Garnett Rinders, of Tor rington, to Eliza Smith, of New York
 In Burrville, at the residence of tho brides father, M. A. Grant, Esq, Mir Henry Fl. Rowley, of New Haven, to Miss c. Louise Grant, of Burryille
 At New Hartford, Nov. 27, by Rev. J. E. Heald, Thomas J. Quiller to Sarah 4. Futile. both of New Hartford. Dec. 1, by the same, Judson Dickerson. of New Britain, to Julia E. Brooks, of New Hart ford. Dec. 5, Frank A. Case, to Emma J. Wilcox, both of New Hartford. Dec. r, Daniel Holcomb, of Burlington, to Annie F. Henderson, of New Hartford.
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Restricted Suffrage.

The Galaxy for January publishes piece entitled ''The Political Outlook" ill the Conservative vein, in which the following Reconstruction programme is proposed:
 1st. Universal Amnesty 2d. Equal rights of the white and black races before the law. 3d. Impartial uot universal suffrage.
 4th. An educational qualification for voting. such as the ability to read and write and solve 8 problem by the Rule of three to the satisfaction o an impartial tribunal appointed by the General l Government
 5th. provision to be inserted in every new State Constitution for the compulsory education of the whites and blacks of the Southern States.
 That the problem in the Rule of Three, ; would be an absurdity in practice scarcely
 -1 ....1-,,.aannt- Sanator Wilson's letter on our first page is one of the best replies to the Conservative demand for an educa. tional test, at the South, we have seen printed.
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DIED.

In Litchfeld, Thursday, Dec. 18th, Mrs Lucretia French, widow of the late Asa J. French. Esq, and sister of Edwin McNsill, Esq, of this village, aged 51.
 At Norfolk, Dec. 12, Isaac Norton, aged 57.
 At West Winsted, Dec. IT, Mir. Allen Jewett, aged v.
 At Norfolk, on the 10th inst, Polly Gaylord, widow of Timothy Gaylord, aged 83.
 In Winsted, Nov. 25, Lowell Persons, aged B years.
 In New Hartford, Dec. 9th, Ida H. Curtiss, oldest daughter of Benjamin D. and Amelia A. Curtiss, aged 13 years, l month and days.
 At Lakeville, Ct., Nov 26th, Mrs. Sarah Tupper aged 84 years
 In Gustavus, Ohio, Dec. 18th, Miss R. Maria Landon, formerly of Salisbury, Conn,
 The death of this truly excellent person will call forth deep and heartfelt sorrow from large cir ole of friends in her native town. Her amiable with her gentle and unassuming man. ners, won the esteem of all who knew her, and her unfeigned piety, gives her friends the blessed surance that for her to die was gam.
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 As-A new railway project has been commenced by Connecticut and New York capitalists undel the name of Erie and New England railway com ner's station the Erie road, by as direct line as possible, not probably over forty miles long and ready and direct communication thus opened from New Haven to the Pennsylvania coal fields N D. Sperry and Charles Atwater of New Haven have been chosen Directors of the Company, and Col. M. o Davidson appointed chief engineer to conduct the surveys in Connecticut. The corpora money for the preliminary operations has already been secured. The new movement is designed to take the Boston Hartford and Erie railroad to the Hudson from Willimantic, through New Haven, instead of Hartford, and by a route which is said to be 2I miles shortev-Courda.
 We have long expected some movements of this kind. In case the Connecticut is bridged, this would seem to be feasible route.
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AG Ben Butler and the Democracy are for 6 moderate measure of frepudiation. Enquirer.
 Wouldn't it look as well, neighbor, if you should tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth! You know that the Democrats as party nave mot advocated repudiation; and you also know that Ihaddeus Stevens, your party leader in the House has done 80 as well as Ben. Butler-Senti-
 Our article from which the Sentinel makes the foregoing extract was concern ing the doings of Congress. Now, as far as we can ascertain, the majority of the Democrats in that body support MT. But Ter in advocating the payment of the prin- cfpal of the Five Twenty bonds in curren- cy. There has been, it is true, no test vote yet taken; but such seems the tenden- ey especially of the Western Democracy in Congress. Out of Congress, Pendleton and the Western Democrats favor Buffers scheme, while Horatio Seymour and the New York Democracy take the opposite view. The majority of the Republicans in Congress are evidently against MT. Butler, and, out of Congress, our press and party are almost unanimous against him.
 Wall our virtuous and indignant friend be good enough to state whether he adyo- cates the payment of those bonds in cur rency, with Messrs. Pendleton and Butler. or their payment in coin, with his fellow partisans of New York?
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fairs. 4 motion to reconsider the vote by which 8 bill declaring forfeited certain lands previously granted to Southern rail- roads. produced lengthy and general de- bate. In Committee of the Whole, the Senate amendments tct the Deficiency bill were acted upon. The depriving mem- bers of both Houses of all allowances for stationery, newspapers, &c,, was concurred in by vote of yeas 48, nays 46, the Speak CT being obliged to vote to make q quo- rum. The other amendments were non- concurred in. Subsequently the bill was reported to the House, and the action of the Committee sustained House adjourn. sd to the 9th of Jan
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Misc ellaneous Items.

The National Mexican Congress wal
 opened on the 8th of the present month
 The interest felt in it's doings was shown by
 the fact that the hall was crowded by tho
 mmebers and the eager spectators. Pres'd'
 JuareZ made the opening speech, which l.
 said to have been delivered in low tone
 He expressed thanks to the United States for the friendly feeling shown toward Mex
 lco during their recent struggle, and justi' fled the Executions at Queretaro The
 president of the Congress replied, thank ing the Mexican people for their conduct
 during the war, seconding the friendly
 feelings expressed by the President toward
 the United States, and affirming the ability of Mexico to take care of herself. Romero is to be appointed minister of foreign af- fairs. He has the reputation of being one of the ablest men of the Republic. Hart ford Posi-
 The new United States Senator from California to take the place of MT. Conness Republican) March 4, 1860, is Eugene Casserly, (Democrat) Q native of New York city, lawyer by profession, and about for ty-five years of age. His father was a teacher, or bookseller, and the son rsceiv- ed good education. Though he was young in 1847-8, he was an active enthusi- astic and prominent Free Soiler. In 1853 he went te California, and, after editing 8 paper awhile, he returned to the law and maintained an honorable position at the par, put no has held no prominent office. Ills ability IS considerable and his personal character good. During the war he was . loyal Democrat" and was an active worker ID the Callfornia branch of the Sanitary Ill. t@N gnS
 Gen. Ord has issued an order forbiddinr the carrying of concealed weapons in Mis. sissippi and Arkansas, under penalty of slO0 fine and three months imprisonmsnt. The civil officers are directed to enforca tho order regardless of race color or opin- on.
 The Times says that the project of start ng new morning journal in New York. lnder the sditorship of Mir. Dana, has been bandoned. The parties engaged in it ave purchased the Sun, and after the first I Jan. 1t will be removed to the Old Tam aany Hall, and edited by Mir. Dsna. I,
 At Marysville, Ohio, Hon. 0. s. Hamil- on, republican member of Congress 'om the eighth distict of Ohio, was bru- lily murdered by his son in . it of insan- y, Sunday morning, withs an axe. Fren4 led by the sight of blood, the son retura- ] to the house and succeeded in inaictingl were wounds upon younger brother be- re he could be rescued. The murderer
 2 hopeless, raving maniac. Mir. Hamil- n had just returned from Washington. Up to the a of December writes sur E five hundred shocks of rthouake have been felt ak St Thomas. I The man who says that Secretary Sew.l
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WOLCOTTVILLE.

The Ladies of the Methodist Church in Wolcottville, will hold Festival at Wad- hams Hail, on the evening of New Years day, Wednesday evening, Jan. 1st. A bountiful entertainment will be provided of the best oysters and otherg good things of the season. Sleigh parties, and all who come, will find good supper, and pleas- ant place to enjoy cheerful evening.
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"WHr1a THE LAMP HOLDS OUT TO BURN, there is a chance for restoration to health. If, therefore, the constitution has been weakened by disease or excess-the nerves shattsred-the stomach weakened--the aE- petite gone, and all the world appears gloomy-pour some fresh oil into your lamp, iA the shape of Plantation Bitters, which will make the flame of life again burn brightly, and Illuminate a once wretched existence. For ladies it is an el- egant and gentle stimulant. exactly such as they require Many families will not be without it. It has an immense sale through out the world.
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Gen. Brsxton Bragg is an intimate friend of Gen. Hancock.-Sentinel.
 Bad enough; but not so absolutely fatal to the prospects of the most prominent Democratic Candidate for the Presidential nomination, as the late message of the President. It don't take much of proph- ct to predict how the people will treat An drew Johnson's paper with Braxton Bragg's endorsement in lS69i
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ards last purchase is. no great shakes. is clearly mistaken. .-- Tribune. Dispatches from the Pacifio coast repre- sent that terrific storms have prevailed Tn Oregon and Washington Territory. Tho
 town of Monticello is represented as hay
 ing been destroyed by . flood in the Cow litx River.
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A SPLENDID GIFT TO A FRIEND. Four Certificates of the Washington Library Company of Philadelphia, in aid of the Riverside Institute for educating orphans costing four dollars, with the fine engra- ving "The Perils of our Forefathers, ''eG oh certificate secures also one present at the Great Distribution by she Company, ma king four presents, one or more of which may be worth thousands of dollars. It al- ways pays to bs kind to true friend. Road advertisement
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THE GALAXY, for January contains: The Story of a Masterpiece, in two parts, Part I; With My Book; American and For. eign Theatres; A Wedding Song; My Sp1r- itualistic Experiences; The Political Out look; The same Christmas in Old England and New; Elizabettta's Christmas; Bur- goyne in New Light; Steven Lawrence Yeoman; Aphoristic Cynicism; Nebulo
 The price of the Galaxy is 50 a year; two copies, one year, S6. Specimen cop ies sent, postage paid, on receipt of 30 cts. Address W. c. & F. P. CHURCH.
 Mo- 30 Park Row, N. I.
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se The Republican State Convention of New Hampshire, which met last week. re-nominated Gov. Hartman, and passed a resolution favoring the nomination of Gen. Grant for the Presidency. The Georgia Reconstruction Convention supports Chief Justice Chase.
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B@The following corporations pay divi- dends on the 2d of Jan. next: Hartford and New Haven R. R. 5 per cent Second Ma tional Bank of New Haven, 5 per cent. National Iron Bank of Canaan, per cent. Bridgeport National Bank 5 per cent. Southport National Bank per cent and an extra dividend of per cent. First Ns- tional Bank of Litchfeld per cent
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November chill blavs loud wi angry sugh;" with these November winds come all the ailments common to 8 Northern win ter; bottle of American Life Drops, cur ing Coughs and Colds, healing sore throat, and by outward application, killing all To- cal pain, should always be kept on hand.
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WIsrAR' BAIsAM OF WILD CHERRY, is a combination and form indeed. for heal ing and curing diseases of the throat, lungs and chest. It cures cough by loosening and cleansing the lungs, and allaying irri- tstion; thus reroring the cause, instead of drying up the cough and leaving the dis ease behind