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Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02
TWISTED.

The farmers hereabouts are securing 8 rich harvest this year from their sugar ma. ples. This has been the best season for maple sap known in several years, and ma pie sugar has gone down from 40 to l5 cents per pound in our market.
 = Monday was quite busy day at the Town Clerks Office registering new voters, There were 28 more Republican than Dem ocratic voters made. The probabilities are that on the last day for registration Wed nesaayl the parties will be about equally reinforced. We expect that the Repubi- can majority in this town this year will not fall short of 13O, and we hope to do better than that.
 = B. Frank Marsh is offering his stock of goods near the Stone Bridge on North Street. for sale at auction. He intends to to sell out and spend the ensuing season West, travelling. Those in want of dry goods will be able to make good bargains by attending his auction.
 - Aaron T. Case, Esq. of this place, is soon to leave for the far West. He goes out on the line of the Pacific R. R. to pros pect, and doubtless to invest money, if a good opportunity shall exhibit itself. He does not take his family and intends re- turning in the Fall. We wish him success.
 The month of March came in "like a Lion, and true to the old proverb, is go- ing out like Lamb.' Our streets are all settled, and some of them dusty-s rare thing for hereabouts in the month of March. Every thing indicates an early Spring.
 A portion of the law library of the late Judge Hall remains unsold Those de- string legal works can purchase them at the appraisal.
 Martin Volkman is about re-opening the Excelsior Billiard Hall in West Win sted. He has had three tables at Thomas ton, which he has removed here. Hope he will succeed better than those who have preceded him.
 D. & W. B. Phelps have just removed in- to their new store in their Block, where they are to remain permanently. The oth- CT store in the same Block they have rented to MT. Elam Norton, and another gentle man. for millinery and fancy dry goods store.
 B. B. Rockwell. Esq. says that if the bill before Congress relating to the Reve- nue becomes a law, there will be required but one Assistant Assessor to county. In view ofthis fact, we suppose he contem- plates turning farmer and leaving the service of Uncle Samuel
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02
LITCHFIELD.

On Monday the Board of Registration met and added twenty-two names to the ilst.-Of these the Republicans are said to have the majority.
 The speech of Hon. MT. Stokes. of Iennessee, causes great futtering amono the Democracy. Tue Sentinel deyotes two long articles to the meeting. All it is able to bring against Mir. Stokes is letter of his, of May '61. denouncing Lincoln's call for 70, 900 troops The first effect of that proclamation was to arouse in the Slave States feeling against the government, just as overwhelming, as that which it aroused for the government in the Free States. With many on both sides these feelings were but temporary. Snch was the case with Mir. Stokes, who never did anything to help the rebellion, but every thing to help the Union. Some, even, of our most prominent Litchfeld Democrats were carried away temporarily by the Un- Ion excitement. We recollect. just about the time MT. Stokes must have been writ ing that letter, seeing Dr. D. W. Blake marching our streets with fowling piece behind drum, the most determined of Unionists; yet how long afterwards was it that he was undergoing persecution as a secessionist? Where are the very Jacob ins of Unionism who for some months made Litchfeld a hot place for. southern sympathizers?-almost to man in the Conservative ranks; their leader, our Dem- ocratic representative in this Legislature, like to be continued ip the next: their sec. ond in command, back here temporarily. endeavoring to get chance to vote the Conservative ticket. as usual
 The most amusing part of the Senti- neps criticism is the fault this aristocratic Democrat finds with Mr. Stokes pronun- citation. &c, Very we'll for the successor in the true apostolic line, Ia few breaks don't injure an apostolic succession of Selleck Osborn, and true Democrat
 - The Democrats have nominated Hen ry 5. Graves and T. Leander Jennings for Represen tatives
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02

Cooke, Kate Cummings, Mary Weed, En- ma Weed, and MT. George W. Cole. The following during the term have neither been tardy nor absent: Misses Gcnie I. Catlin, Mary Brooker, Mary Camp, Sarah Brooker, Kate E. Mason, and Sarah An drus.
 Il. E. Noble of Winsted has opened a new boot and shoe store, at the stand for merlY occupied by Messrs Palmer and Nanvaulkenberg.
 Henry von Emden, has opened tailor ing establishment over Lana9an's Hat Store.
 MT. F. Saxty contemplates erecting dwelling house just above the depot, on lot purchased of Mir. Midgeon.
 The Republicans had a rousing rally at Wadhams Hall on Saturday Evening last, the speakers were MT. J. l.. Barbour of Hartford. and Hon. Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota. The band assisted; the Hall was full and the meeting was the most suc- cessful and enthusiastic yet held here. Old Torrington will beat its republican ma jority of last year. sure.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02
CORNWALL.

Wm. L. Rogers, and gentleman in New Britain, have obtained patent for new safety railroad switch, It is very simple in it's arrangements. and it seems impossi- ble for train to get otr #, no matter at what rate of speed it is approaching If the switch is misplaced, the moment the engine reaches certain point, the weight of it instantly replaces it in its proper po- sition. The Hartford, Providence and Fishkill R. R. are about to make trial of it on some portion of their road. From a small boy, Mir. Rogers has manifested quite penchaM for mechanical novelties, as his fathers garret will abundantly testify.
 The singers of Cornwall, more partic- ularly the choir of South Cornwall, have been rehearsing for some weeks under the lead of Mr. Robert Baldwin, preparing for concert, which is to come off, on Wednes- day evening, April Sth; or, if the weather is unfavorable. on Thursday evening, in the church in South Cornwall. The lovers of good music may expect rare treat. The performance will consist mostly of Sa- cred Music, Quartettes, Solos, &c.. Sc.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02
WOLCOTTVILLE.

Professor Hubbard, of Hartford, gave a reading here on Thursday eve, the 18th, the selections were "A Christmas Carroll by Charles Dickens, "Paul Reveres Ride, ; and "Gridiron or Pat Maloney's Adventure in in France" The reading was enjoyed by large audience, all were so highly pleased as to unite in the desire to hear him again soon. Prof. H. at the invitation of MT. H. R. Morrill,, the principal, visited the high school and read few selections to the scholars for their entertainment and instruction.
 A youth by the name of Judd hailing from Waterbury, was tried on Monday lass for the theft of seventy dollars, and sent over to Titchfeld to await the action of the court.
 A number of our citizens visited New Haven, on Tuesday evening of last week, to hear Dickens read.
 The interior of the Congregational Church in this place is rapidly approach ing completion.
 The public schools closed on Friday of last week for the usual vacation. The fol- lowing pupils during the last term, have averaged above 96 in scholarship, deport- ment and attendance: Misses Genie I. Catlin, Kate B. Mason, Helen Sperry, F. A. Hungerford, Mary Camp, Mary Brooker Lettie Abbott, May M. Christie. Ida
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02
NEW MILFORD.

WHEREAS, It hath pleased our Heavenly
 Father, the supreme Architect of the
 Universe, to remove from among us by a
 most affective dispensation our beloved
 brother George Lockwood, therefore.
 Resotued, That we cherish the memory of our deceased brother, thus separated from our fellowship and society, and that we will continue to hold him in affection ate remembrance at the same time feeling assured that his record is among the faith full of our order who endure unto the end and are saved.
 Resoived, That we tender to the widow and mourning friends of the deceased, our sincere sympathy on this occasion of sore bereavement, and while we are conscious of our inability to offer any adequate coa- solation, we would still fain share with them this heavy burden of sorrow.
 Resotoed, That the Lodge room be drap- ed in mourning for thirty days as token of our respect and affection.
 ReSol0ed, That the Secretary be instruc- ted to transmit copy of these resolutions to the widow of our deceased Brother and to the Sentinel and Enquirer of Litchfeld for publication.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02
The Real Issue.

We reprint on our first page letter con- taining synopsis of the ''black'' legisla- ton of Mississippi, as reconstructed by President Johnson. Under it emancipa- tion would have been mockery. The most it gave the negro was tine choice of a master. and so ingenious is the special leg islatiOn regarding s'vagrancy," and 'hiriay oSa by the sheriff at public outcry. ''that even this privilege would have been lost in very many cases. About the cunningest device ever cOntrived by tyranny is to be found in the following:-
 Same, p. I9a, chap. 4s.-Any freedman falsely and mAliciOusly causing the arrest and trial Of a white man, the court shall render a judgement against such freedman for all costs and charges in the case, and impose fine in addition of not less than fifty dollars, and imprisonment not to exceed twenty days. If the freedman fails to pay cOs-s, charges fine and the jail fees he is to be hired out by the sheriff at public outcry.
 The terror of Southern shareholders in 1865, it must be remembered, was the Freedman's Bureau. See how the freed man was to be punished for an appeal to that tribunal when abused in his person, de- frauded of his wages He staked his own lib- erty on every appeal to justice. If he failed to convince the white court and the white ju- " of the guilt of the white prisoner, he him. self paid the cost, incurred the penalty, and was sold into slavery,
 Yet such is the style of legislation that the success of the Democracy would restore throughout the South, and Litchfeld Democrat, writing to Mississippi rebel. speaks to him of the ''dawning" of such a ''day of redemption!
 Let us now turn to the other side of the picture-the Congressional oppression of the Southern white On our fourth page is to be found the clauses of the pro- posed Louisiana Constitution disfranchi- sing rebels. In North Carolina, and we believe in South Carolina, there is absolute ly no disfranchisement, but we take Louis jana as fair sample. There, rebel civil OF military officers are disfranchised, and scarcely any one else. Moreover, any one even of those disqualified, can obtain his lost rights merely by filing a certificate 'ssetting forth that he acknowledges the late rebellion to have been politically wrong, and that he regrets any aid or con- fort he may have given it.
 Now all we ask is that the two methods may be carefully compared; and if the man can be found who honestly considers the position of the blacks under the Johnson plan, freedom; and the position of rebels under the Congressional plan. sIarery, let him vote for Mir. English-if he can keep out of an insane asylum long enough.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02
Retrenchnent.

Every sensible man must see that Con gress is retrenching in every possible quar- ter. The burden of taxation cannot, how ever, be avoided. Putting -semi-repudla' tors in power will only make matters worse. The nation must be borrower for years to come. In order to borrow on reasonable terms we must show our deter imitation to fulfil our contracts to the let ter. America, having never before been a large borrower, has reputation to es- tablish. The only reason why we contln- ue paying double the rate of interest paid by England, is because those who talk of paying our bonds in currency, have brought the national good faith in question If European capitalists had the confidence in the financial integrity of the United States government, that they have in that of Great Britain, one half of our burden would be removed within year, merely by borrowing money at lower rates of ln- terest a
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02
Poll Every Vote.

There can be little doubt that the vote at the coming election will be a very full one. Both parties are straining every nerve and each is confident of success. The Repub- licans, especially, are determined to carry the State. Let every Republican poll his own vote, and see that his Republican neighbor polls his. Even if your locality is hopelessly Democratic. remember that your vote on the State ticket is all impor- tant! In the Republican towns there will be great gains; and if the Republicans in Democratic districts will only poll theii full vote, Jewell is surely elected. .w
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02
JeHarson-Stevens

Old Thad. Stevens has been called all the hard names in the Democratic vocabulary -tyrant' traitor, periuror, &c.--hecause he considers the work of Reconstruction 'outslde the Constitution. In the days when 'Democracy' was living princi- pie, and meant democracy, Thomas Jeffer- son, then Democratic President of the United States, went, as he supposed, "out- side the Constitution" to purchase Louisi. ana. h letter to Mir: Breckenridge dated Aug. l2th, 1893, just after the purchase. he says.
 Ine constitution has made no provision for one noidng foreign territory, still lessfor incorpora t. ing Iofelgn nations into the Union. The Execu- tlVe III selzlng the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, hare dohe dn act 6eyondhs Consultations. Jefferson s Works, Vol. ". page 50o. -l, =
 If 1t was right to go outside the Consti tuition merely to aggrandize the nation, it IS clearly right to go outside the Constitu- tion to settle, On firm and just basis, the tremendous difficulties that have arisen out of tremendous war and a tremendous so- cial revolution following the warl Let the Democrats when they denounca in un- measured terms statesmen who in great emergencies propose ra-constitutional remedies, remember that at the head Of the roll stands the name of Taomas Jaferson'
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02

Q9~ About month since the New Ha- yen Register published, without q word of condemnation. the card of one John Heck CT of Alabama in which he said. ''I will re- tain no man in my employ who will sup port the fanatical party which is now dom- inant in our national councils?'
 We extract the following from the Brandon (Miss) Republican.
 Will Southern planters continue to give employ ment to negroes who vote to disfranchise them?- Er.
 Those who have any self-respect will not.
 The Conservative papers of the South openly urge Democratic land-holders and employers to discharge every employee vo- ting the Republican ticket! Nevertheless our virtuous Democratic journals, who boil over with indignation at the mere ru- mor of undue influence in Connecticut, contemplate very calmly the same species of oppression practised without disguise by their fellow Democrats of the South!
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02

aa- The Register we'll says that the Radical plan for the present campaign in Connecticut, is to deal only in falsehoods. We have had abun- dant evidence of this within the past few weeks, The same game was played in New Hampshire, by the same party. The most atrocious senti ments were put into the mouths of Henry Clay Dean, &c.-Fd,mer.
 We defy the art of man to put any more ''atrocious '' sentiments into the months of Henry Clay Dean, c. c. Burr, and that tribe of malignants, than utterances oi theirs that appear in Democratic papers every week. l#... ,. s
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02

.sA- The Meriden Republican repeats the stale was prominent Know Nothing. The story has been authoritatively denied so many times that 8 man must have strong desire to misrepresent, and great deal of impudence, to repeat the slan- der at this late day.-Fdrmer. ,, ->
 All of piece with the exhibition of the Constitution of Know Nothing Lodge having the name of James Dixon attached! If James the Less has become something of Fenian, why not James the Greater, too?-yea, and that other James who
 collects the customs at New Haven? ..
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02
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 One of the most valued of our Democrat ic exchanges is the Danbury Times We often find, there, news of the greatest i'm portance that never gets into any other journal. There appears in its last issue Washington letter, from which We extract the following: s-,.. .ss.. ........,.-,
 "WM. H. BARNUM.-One of tie most earnest. conscientious, and hard-working gentlemen, who has ever represented the Fourth District of Con- nectlcut ls the present incumbent of that respon- sible office, Hon. W. II. Barnum. It is but short
 time since he took his seat, and he is already very popular in both Houses of Congress. Mir. Barnum IS not eminent perhaps as an orator, but hts styte s terse, nervous and poited and ia debate, like skifad Jeneer he his his ddoersa7y dt ere1y thrust. lie IS already serving on an important committee, and there is no doubt but that he will be chaasdn Of 1t, dt the 9aect session. He IS we'll known as ! successful finance, and his opinions 1ega ding financial matters a9e generally considered conctu- I sice." ..t r-.
 It will be observed that the Times cor respondent makes the true distinction be- tween the great orator and the great deba ter. Chatham, says Macaulay, twas un- doubtedly great orator, .* yet he was not great debater.' Here, also, Burke differed from Fox; and herein also lies the difference between Mr. Julius Hotchkiss, of the New Haven District, and our Representative. In ratiocination, pure and simple, and in mere elegance of diction, the former excels; but in the "terse, nervous and pointed style" of real debate, no one reckons him the equal of MT. Barnum. In Mr. Hubbard of Hart ford, we confess we have been disappoint- ed. He is an excellent lawyer, (Erskine failed in ParliamentD He has now and then made an excellent speech; but no one claims that '' in debate like skilful fencer he hits his adversary at every thrust;' he has no chance, whatever, of becoming chairman of the important committee on which he serves, ''at the next session." nor is there any important subject on which his opinioas '' are generally consid- cred conclusive!'
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02

eI> It will be noticed that, while Sena- tor Wade scrupulously refrains from voting Senator Patterson, the son-in-law of the ac- cused, votes every time. The virtuous in dignation designed for the interested par ties who take part in the. trial can there find proper object on which it may vent itself.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02
The Prospect
The New Haven correspondent of the N. '. Tribune says:-

The New Haven correspondent of the N. '. Tribune says:-
 The admission of electors for this town closed on Thursday last, when the number admitted was 1,347, gain of about 200 over last year. Of these the Republicans claim 50o, leaving majority ot $50 in favor of the Copperheads. The first regis try lists show, they always do, largo falling oil ln Democratic vOters-this year more than usual so that when this waste is supplied they will be unable to poll greater majority than last year: which was about ], BOO. Gicing ttena this for Ne,c Hauen the caarass ofthe Siate shocs majority for MarshaN Je,oeH.
 The Hartford correspondent of the same paper writes as follows:-
 In this city about 800 new names have been ad- ded, and ill New Haven about 400. A large part of those men have been colonized from New York to take the place of those who cast illegal votes last year coming into the State just before election and suddenly disappearing alter it was over; but notwithstanding this fraud, the Democratic cote l: not ttEely to shor q go'n on hat of last yea5' in Mese cities.
 If the Majority of Gov. English in Hart ford and New Haven can be kept down to their last years figures, We th,nk there can be no reasonable doubt of Jewell's election.
 If Q statement published in Saturdays N. '. Herald is correct, the Democratic Central Committee, themselves, admit a large falling off in Bridgeport.
 A Tribune correspondent further states the following fact of peculiar importance to the Republicans of doubtful towDs:-
 The close and doubtful towns are being thor. oughly ''worked" with view to get majority oi representatives who will elect English United States Senator in place of James Dixon. In these towns he is expending large sums of money.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02

az- One of the most delightful places in the world to live in must be Banco county, IeSas. Sa and colored yet the district clerk in making return of the cases of crime in the county since June 1885, puts down '.s3 persons indicted for murder as ,, sault with intent to- kill 20 robbery t9ets Tbe sa Sa indicted for murder have been thus disposed of 10 acquitted 40 indictments quashed, sl continued for service, , dismissed" The Texas paper wRlch contains these official returns, quietly remarks :: the small registration of voters. s."-Palladiuna.
 This is probably one of the counties, where the white citizen is alarmed, and the peace broken, by freedmen's carrying revolvers!
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02
B9 The Rochester Union. which i,
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B@ The Rochester Uaion, which is a vehement party journal, denounces Rev. O.. Chauncey Burr for his labors on the stump on behalf of the Democratic party, and declares it's belief that he is hired to make speeches for that party by the Radi- cal leaders. If this is so, it is the most profitable investment we ever knew the Radical leaders to make. But acho hires the Democrats to bear his speeches and applaud las sentiments?-N. F. Times.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02

a% The Cincinnati Enuu,rer says: 1.-The suits penoing m Memphis County, regarding the for clng 9. ciuzens in 1892 to sell cotton to army specs a.ors ~ stipulated prices or have the same con- nsca.eu,nase brought to light important facts. It %ss proven in the tral that GEN. GRANT. AND orFEa OFFICIALS WERE PRIVATELY coNNECrED WITH THE sfsegLAroRs during the advance of the army tbis the defendant. aNorthern man. saves him. self by proving, by several witnesses, that where she citizens would not accept the prices offered for cotton it was confiscated by the Quartermastars GEN. GRANT RECEIVED \ PER cENTAoE FOR All. THE SoTPos BOUGHT"
 1t shows to what straits the Democracy are reduced when they take to the circula- ton of such unmitigated falsehoods as the foregoing.