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Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22
KENT.

MIR. ED1ToR:-Sir-Th Sixth Annual Sunday School Convention of the Litcb I field County North Consociation wns held at the above place, October 13 and 1I.l Most of the Sunday Schools in connection with this organization were represented some of them largely so. There were also delegates present from a number of tht Sunday Schools in the South Consociation also from several Schools outside the COnn ty. A spirit of more than ordinary inter est and zeal was manifest at the openin of tho Convention, and it continued to in crease until it's close. Among the topic which came up for discussion were such these:-"T The Qualifications and Duties of Superintondents and Modes of Elcc tion ;" "Who Ought to be Sunday Schoo Teacher? ;" "The Best Modes of TcaclI ing" (" How to secure the Conversion Scholars;' "Should the Sunday School | Substituted for the Second Service of th Sabbath? ;" "A Missionary Spirit in q Sunday School, How Aroused and Ho Used?;" "How to Extend Sunday Scho Work? ;' What Have You Done? Wh. Do You Propose to Do? How will You Il
 It?" &c. &c These questions were ab discussed by tho Pastors, Superintendent and Teachers present, and many new an valuable suggestions were brought on
 which should be, and we trust will be pro table to all who listened to them, and vi
 arc engaged in the Sunday School work. Of especial interest wore those parts
 the exercises. in which Ralph Wells, Esq
 of Now York, gave q practical illustratiC of way to open q Sunday School
 q Sunday School Teachcr's proparato l work and aids thereto-also model Su l day School lesson and black board exnrcis
 &c. As John B. Cough in Tcmperan
 meeting, so Ralph Wells in a Srnd
 School meeting needs to be seen a
 heard before one can realize tho power yields or the results he nccOmplshcs is hoped the services of Mir. Wells will
 secured at our Convention next year, a if so, then no Sunday School Teacher W A-'"'- 1-~;~~ t~ ennonnd in hia or hor wo
 should fail to hear him.
 In the early part of the meeting. it peared as though the hospitality of t good people of Kent was to be taxed
 yond its power of supply It was. howe er' fully equal to the demands of the ocI sion. All were we'll cared for, and thd was room for more. On the second day. grand collation. was given in the Lectr room. Three or four hundred people we abundantly fed, and many baskets full fragments were taken up.
 At the close of the meeting, there wd earnest expressions of thankfulness on part of the delegates, for favors they h received, and we doubt not but that thd two days will be bright spots in the mem ry of those who attended this Conventid and participated in tho pleasure and pro which it afforded R.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22
WASHINGTON.

The Rev. William H. H. Murray, who n n years ago, filled the pulpit here forI caY a year, has received and accepted al praIP Park Street Church, Boston. Tho1 go wfrnd best wishes of his old friends. to the m, that he may stand manfullv. Divinity against those who deny the God blesgsr Lord Jesus Christ. May He is exr the issues of to deliver speech on W. Gum, Eday. in the grove of r. \ All who want "1ext Friday afternoon. I of soul," should Sof reason and flow all! t. Come one. come = The question as11
 Franchise should be eAS the Elective
 Nto Woman?
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22
The Ei6o Railroad Approaching Com
Respecttully,
 E. MoNEILL, ENG1NEE:

pletiol.
 The rs have been laid across the two great mounta ranges of the Continent-the Rocky Mounta, and the Sierra Nevadas-and are being rapidly shed onward along the intervening yal- leys. My persons imagined, when the Pacific Rairoa akas projected, that ii would halt at the mounts barriers The result has been that the Corporpns entrusted with it's construction have redonh their energies as the work went on. Twelveandred miles of the route between Omaha and sa,mento are made by the locomotive, and the ea,f about five hundred miles between the EasterInd Western portions will be further re- duced I250 miles before January. Verify, this is marvehs progress, and the Overland Railroad is no lger thing of hope and conjecture-it is almosta assured success.
 The ntral Pacific Railroad Company who have in banihe Pacific Half of the line, have built more tn 200 miles since the first of July last, and hs 100 miles graded in advance Of their track, The growing confidence of the community in tbisoad is shown by tho demand for tho first Mortae Gold Bonds issued thereupon, which ,voro wears ago offered at 95, and are now sell line aO3 and interest ill currency, and may go biobo,hortly. There is, we are informed, pro bab;,;tbat the remainder of the Loan will be disnol of in short time. Capitlsts and others inter,ed in such matters can learn the particu- lars al foundation of mo Bonds by reference to the a krtiaement ofthe Financial Agents, ,Messrs. FIsky AtcH' Of New York City, elsewhere in this
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22

WHICH IS MUDDYING THE STKEAM?-Next to it's request of Frank Blair, the coolest things we fud in the ITorLA arc it's state ments regarding tho frauds in Pcnnsylva- mia, and the outrages in tue South. It ayers, that Radical ''Roughs' 'roughed it on mild McMul|en and the Baltimore Plug Uglics; while tho Confederate wolves are being slaughtered by wicked black sheep all over the South. And this is to be set right by the ''robust integrity of Horatio Seymour!
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22
The New Rebsllion,

We give on our first page extracts from the speech of John Quincy Adams, lately delivered at Columbia S. c. He tells the Southern people: '"The North is deter mined, as I believe, to retain and establish
 the equal right of every citizen of tho United States to travel, speak and live in every State so long as he did not Infringe the rights of others" Mir. Adams is nnquestionably right in this statement. Now what arc the facts? Within the week a negro member of the Sonth Carolina Senate, standing on the platform of rail- road car, is deliberately shot without prov ocation. He had been making Republi can speech. In Arkansas Deputy Sheriff is seized, tied to negro and both are shot In North Carolina half dozen negroes are seized at night in their beds, mutilated, whipped and otherwise maltreated, be- cause of their political sentiments. Two Republicans printing offices have been destroyed in Louisiana, within a month. A sheriff is murdered by disguis- cd white men in another section of that State. Are these outrages to be quieted by the election of Seymour and Blair?
 Furthermore, Mr. Adams thinks that ga wise policy would dictate the education and gradual enfranchisement of the ne- groes as fast as they were fit for it." Are these the mon to educate the negro and to judge when he is fit for enfranchisment? We want no James Buchanan at the be- ginning of the new rebellion. We want ULYSSES s. GRANT
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22

a9~ Attention is called to the report of the survey of the Shepaug Valley Railroad. A meeting of the corporators will be held at Washington, on Friday afternoon, of next week.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22

mag~The Sentinel states, that at the FallsVil- lage affair, the Hon. James F. Babcock passed in rapid review the questions of reconstruction, the finances and taxation. Isn't it asking good deal, to expect the men the Collector used to talk to, to be-
 ieve that?
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22

dren and not less of training our youth to a benevolence accompanied with labor on their part Might not other pastors or Su- perintendents in our communities inaugur- ate similar effort with like gratifying re suits. P.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22

SEYMOUR TAKES THE sTUMp.-It is about time we had 'sthe authoritative worl" On Friday night Frank Blair declared ill a speech at St. Louis that if Grant was elect ed there would be military dictatorship, and that "G1am ,coul0 nerer eare Ne PJesi- deatiuI cAai,' oice. Hasten Horatio, OF r. B. will kick the rest of the bottom out of your bucket!
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22

MBT The Jackson Guard of Litchfield has actually set the Democratic fashions for the country. The grand October pa- rade of the Democracy having proved a failure, they talk of substitntino Chase and Franklin for Seymour and Blair
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22

RaP We are glad to hear that the Aor;- cultural Society paid all its premiums in full. notwithstanding thinner attendance than usual. The Sentinel ayers, too, that there is no "talk of discontinuing it here aftArn
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22
cPush Things"

If every Republican will do his duty on the 3d of NoyeAber, we can carry Connec- ticut. The Democratic majority to over- come is small. sThst party is demoralized, and hopeless of success in the Union. Thousands of Democratic votes will be si- lently cast for Grant. ''PUsH THINGs.' ;
 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. s.-The Congress- men elected at the October elections stand 20 Democrats to 37 Republicans. The De- mocracy loose two U.S.Senators, Hendricks of Ind; and Buckalew of Pa.. They gain seven members where they expected to gain twenty. This virtually settles the po- litical complexion of the House of which we shall probably have more than two thirds. The following is the list:
 H,I:o
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22
A Specimen Brick.

We notice that the Chairman of the Falls Village Democratic meeting, was the Hon. John Cotton Smith of Sharon. In the lately published History of Connect cut During the Recent War; we find the following:-
 "Peace meetings and displays seemed to be pre- concerted throughout the State. Aug. 8, [1861 there was peace meeting at Cornwall Bridge, at ful separation, declaring that 'he Anaerican U,a- ion is forerer deshoyed,' and calling the other towhs to take ground against further continu- ance of the bloody spectacle ID. 104, ,.
 The chief speaker who advocated the pas sage of those resolutions was MT. John Cotton Smith; Messrs Graves and Hollis ter arguing against him, if our recollec tion serves us.
 On the 22d of May last, MT. Smith pub. lished letter in the La Crosse Democrat. fbssamA bsamt mAWh WhjjGfh @ ye S extract the following:- l $2, and with it sincere wishes for your continued
 prosperity" v.
 If we cannot place before the indignant De mOcracy such champion as Thomas H. Seymour l of Connecticut, Geo. H. PendIeton of Ohio, Chas OConnor of N. Y., Geo. w. Woodward of Pa. Uen Ne election acM Dc C useless aud contenoptib, farce. A common place soldier likc Hancock, who acted an Abolition tool for Lincoln and Stanton l no different from Grant, and deserves anything but Democratic endorsement
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22

nn- Republicans, notwithstanding all their va boring and bluster, have no hope of carrying Penn sylvania, and very little of carrying Indiana World, Oct. 12.
 On the same day, (the day be- fore the election) the N. Y. Times made an estimate of the result outside of Philadel- phia, which will not vary 1000 from the original returns. Which are your true prophets?
 THE CHAMPION FIGURER.-Just after the Maine election the World figured as fol- lows :-
 The same ratio of increase will give us in Octo- ber Ohio by 50, 900 majority; Indiana by over 20 600 majority and Pennsylvania by over 90,O ,O0( majority, and in November will elect Horatio Sey. mol1r President by an overwhelming majority ln | the Electoral College.
 Dg We hear there has been enquiry concerning the authorship of certain articles that appeared in our last weeks pa per. Everything original, except cores ponderce from abroad, was written by the editor, who is solely responsible there fore.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22

D9ynA ''red hot' Cornwall Democrat complains that the Sentinel has acquired the "Grecian Bend." otherwise known as the "Colic Stoop."
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22
gss~ We clip the following from the Mor- ;s corrasnondnnca of the Sentinel =

There are no orders claims outstanding against the Town known of at this time, which IS rather gratifying, as the affairs of the town as regards excess and n,edns, are conducted, and have been, ever since it's first inception incorporation as Town, by party who are berated, and who are charged and accused of being opposed to all mo- and of being destitute of the first principles of economy, discretion. honesty and sobrlety, and wi.h being friends and abettors of the enemies of their country, oil the same list with them.
 Tho foregoing is ono of tho most perfect specimens of this :gentleman' style VIC ov- er met. In the absence of the editor, the doctor escaped doctoring.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22
Are YOU Honest |?

Then you want the government to keep its faith. You don't want partial repu- diation by laying special tax on the Bonds You don t want total repudiation by issuing greenbacks enough to pay the Bonds. yf you are honest-voTE FOR GRANT.
 Besn Tho Sentinel labors hard, last week to justify tho course of its party in reg ard l to the Board of Education, It says: Tho Enquirer says that the Board should not bo ] a partisan sectarian affair. We perfectly agree with Ithe statement, nor have the Democracy ever | made it such.
 Who did make it such then? Two thirds of the Board, and all the clergymen on it, belong to a single denomination; eight out of the nine belong to a single political party! How then does the Sentinel excuse such state of things By undertaking to show that the Republicans have often nom- mated as many as three Republicans and three Congregationalists. If they had not only nominated but had elected such tick ct, it would not have given that deuomina- tion and that party their fair share of the Board.
 In conclusion the Pecksniff of the Senti- nel starts the following original idea: It is the index of a thorough radical to never rest content until he has arrayed brother against brother, not alone in political warfare, but in all the social relations.
 It is the way of the radical to expose par tisan and sectarian unfairness wherever 1t appears, as it does most notably in the case under discussion.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22
To the Co,porators of the Shepaug Valley
 Railroad.

Railroad. GENTLEMEN:-
 The survey of the Road, just completed,
 shows the following highly satisfactory re- suits:
 Commencing at Tan Brook E mile west
 from Litchfield, the line follows, for it's en- tire length, the waters of Bantam, She
 paug, Housatonic, and Pond Brook, to yville-dis stance 311 miles. Without encountering expensive work, the great Falls at Bantam are overcome at
 a point miles west from Litchfield, and ! the grade line of the Road from this point
 to the junction of the Shepaug with the Housatonic, g miles, is accommodated
 to the high water line of that river, and
 hence generally occupies the alluvial flats
 lying along it.
 At the mouth of the Shepaug, a most fa
 vorable crossing of the Housatonic is cf- fected by bridge 250 feet in length, and
 40 feet in height, the approaches to which
 are inconsiderable, as no flats on either side of tho river exist at this point. From the Housatonic crossing, the line l ascends tho Housatonic river. A of a mile
 to the Pond Brook, which stream is closely followed to Hawleyyille, the present termi- nus.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22

PICKET FIRING. Not a Democratic head appears above tho hpc of Sentinel breast works, last wcnl-absolutey nothing to pop at.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22

AesF" What has become of the SentincLs anti-negro suffrage musket, that its editor used to fire from seven to twelve times, every issne, just before the spring election Has it got so rusty as to be dangerous
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22

heSs is pleasant to sec what an apt scholar
 ontrols tho N. Y. Wo,ld. That paper be- gan the campaign with descanting on Grants want of generalship, ringing the charges on Hiram Ulysses Simpson Sam" enqulring, 'Is H. U. Grant Drunkard?" shrlcking over ''General Grants cold biooded cruelty and sneaking hypocrisy in relation to the poor, suffering Union prisoners, and the like. The example of decent Democrats, the September elections, and the frank acknowlelment of Gen. Me Clellan finally wrought an entire change of tone. On the 4th of Oct. we find it saying.
 It is not in General McClellans character to be enyions or chursh; and as General Grant never intrigued against Mcclellan s reputation, and ,rOn his honors by so!djclFy chicpemeiaS, General Me Clellan merely did justice to his own magnanmty ic giving those achievements soldier-lkc recogni- tiOn.
 The result i'll October has still further modified its views. It now attributes the defeat of tho Democracy among other things to ''the military prestige of GRANT," If things go on at this rate M M will record his votefor Grant in November!
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22

sA+A facetious Republican communicates the following letter with certificate attach ed, He thinks the last sentence needs the sanction of an oath before it will take in even sRed-Hot'':
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22
GRADES AND ALIGNMENT.

In view of the circumstance that the ex- ceptional grade of 75 feet is employed but for short distances and only on the upper portions of the Road where it's tonnage would be least, 40 feet per mile may be re- garled as the controlling grade of the Road.
 With the exception of six or seven miles, the alignment is remarkably good, and would, if desirable allow with safety a rapid movement of passenger trains.
 ESTIMATE OF COST. For Graduations and Mechanical Work,i s56o,O0O |" Superstructure including SidnSs,
 $lO, ,000 per mile, }15.OU0 |" Equipment and Buildings 100000 G Fencing Agencies, t;c. 75 000
 Total S950. GOO
 RESOURCES.
 While the prospective resources of the Road are essentially the same as of other roads of the State, mainly to be derived from manufactures and agricultural pro- ducts, it may be stated: That tlle aggre- gate fall from Bantam Lake to the mouth of the Shepaug is, accurately, 800 feet, and tn the Lakes tributary 10 this river fur nish natural reservoirs of capacity Of at least 2,0OO acres.
 The volume of water, it's great fall, and the command without cost of 2,0O0 acres of howage, designate this as the best stream in the State for manufacturing purposes. Again: Its close proximity to the Coal Fields of Pennsylvania, as compared with nea rness to New York and the coast toectfl- CT, at least, is a reasonable guarantee that the establishment of manufactorics would follow, immediately, the opening of the road. PROPOSED PLAN FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF
 THE ROAD.
 The act of Incorporation permits; tic towns along he route to subscribe for it's Capital Stock to ti:e extent of , Der cent of tho Grand List of such towns. as shown by the last returns l. C. the returns of 1867.
 The Grand Lists of tine several towns for
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22

Sworn to, before me
 A. S(ehlell, J. P.
Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-22

NEW YORK, Uct D. Joaah D: Ha,aooer, Esq, WasttnSton, D: C. No authority or possibility to change front. All friends consider it totally impracticable and equiv alent to disbanding our forces. We, in New York are not pa'aic-stricken.
 s. J. TILDEN,
 AUGUST BELMONT.
 AUGUSTUS SCHELL.
The New York herald., 1868-11-17
e u r o p E.

The Atlantic mail steamship City OF LONDON OF tne
Inman line, Captain Brooks, from Lverpooi 'n0 s'l
via Queenstown the 5th, arrived at TINS port yes'er
day, with adyices up TO date.
The London Globe OF the 4th inst. announces thss
Mr.. Bellew the popular reader has, along with MS
wife, seeded nom the Church OF England TO the
Church OF Rome
The Italian papers state that the English squadron
commanded by Lord Clarence Paget recently cast
anchor I'm Maddalena Roads, on the coast OF Sar.
dinia and that on the following day Lord Clarence
Paget paid visit TO General Garibadi, at Caprera,
and was received with much cordiality.
sir James FERGUSON, the newly appointed Cover.
nor OF South Australia, was entertained 1T compi-
mentary banquet on the evening Of the I'd inst in
Willis Rooms, King street, st. James, London, by q
numberof his personal and political friends and gen.
tlemen connected in various ways with that i'm
portant colony.
During the afternoon OF the 4th inst the mortal re-
mains OF the Most Rev. Charles Thomas Longley,
Archbishop OF Canterbury, were placed by the side
OF his daughter, Caroline Georgiana Levetr who was
buried in the churchyard Of Addington parish near
Croydon, within few days OF twelve months ago
The funeral Of the Primate OF all England was re-
Uarkaole for IT'S painness and simplicity.
The New York herald., 1868-11-17

next year is $500, ,ooo While the amount expended
seems large It must be rendered that on 40
count OF the numbers who died at the hospirAlp
and camps at the North. the work has really
extended over nearly the whale settled ter
master General recommends the employment
OF disabled soldiers for superintendens and all other
service about these grounds. He thinks that tho
States should not be applied to for monuments, but
that the should consider the whole caro-
as sacred trust. Fifteen rolls OF honor have been
published, i've are In the hands o. the printer ana
six more VIII complete the number. They contain
list OF graves OF nearly two hundred thousand
soldiers, with the record OF the place where the
remains were, found and q list OF nearly 10000
graves. which are as yet unknown, but which exist
Ing records may identity Careful records Of every
tning Iound with each body and Of all that could
serve 70 nelp Identity have been preserved. The
wooden neadboards are fast decayiRg. Stone the
Quartermaster General regards too costly, and he
recommends hou0w rectangular blocks OF galvanized
lr0n 1led Win earth or cement
The Quartermaster General thinka thet the Atten-
ton OF Congress should be called to the operation OF
the law OF March 30 186d by which the decision OF ac
counting officers OF the Treasury DEPARTMENT IL made
final and binding over the heads OF departments.
He says that under 1t pay for many contTacfa has
been allowed which were made without the AUTHORITY
or the department and even against positive orters
The report closes BY referring TO the great evil OF
furnishing Indians With improved arms, ana recom-
meuds that no arms be supplied TO any Indian not
citizen Arrows will do for tho chase Indians
should be governed by police measures not by trea-
The New York herald., 1868-11-17
A WORD ABOUT wes:gEas.
EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
In no branch OF enterprise Is he enlightened
spirit OF the age clearly marked than In that OF
wrecking companies, established with view OF
anordlng speedy and efficient aid to vessels in dis
trcss, whether driven on the coast or in cases Of
collision, where one or both may founder. We are
led to these remarks from the sad fate OF the steamer
Marmion, trading between this city and Savannah,
which colided with the General Meade when the
former vessel sunk In few minutes Being close to
Sandy Hook, the captain OF the Aarmion sue
ceedei In running his ship into twenty-five
feet Of water, where she now lies. The cap
tain despatched his purser TO the city for
Assistance and In fifteen minutes after his arrival
was on his way back to the scene Of the disaster
the powerful wrecking steamer Lackawanna, be-
longing TO the New York submarine Company. Two
hours aer her arrival she was joined by the steamer
ing steamer In the harbor, owned by the same COM
paDy. They went to Work with pr0mptitude and
energy under the direction OF tho captain OF the
Marmlon In the hope OF saving both ship and cargo.
The extent OF injury the vessel has sustained, COM
bned with the effects OF the weather, make 10 some
what doubtful whether the ship win be saved. All
the Walt able portion OF the cargo will be recovered
and sent up 70 the city.
Throngh the administrative talent Of Captain
samueN President OF the Submarine Company, the
tauk Point and beyond mas been placed under CON-
plete surveillance which, with the aid Of the tee-
graph places the ONCE in New ork en- rapport with
the whole coast. The ample means at the disposal
oil the company both In steamers and material have
succeeded In infusing new life and vgor into an un-
tho detriment both Of underwriters and owners OF
vessels Competition In the only means to rouse and
vtaze al such enterprises, and we hope to see that
eoment stu moro widely introduced.