Litchfield enquirer., 1876-09-28

years to come, low prices in coal, should stimulate "those whom it may concern, '' to find the means of meeting the problem successfully. The coal regions will benefit by the in- ;reased production of coal, even though prices may be low, and values there will not decline with the mining companies profits. The workmen with more con- stant employment. even at reduced wages. be better able to pay their debts, and the depressing influence of idle men will be removed by the emigration to oth- 1T fields of the surplus, who must now see that anthracite mining offers no great CT perhaps fewer advantages than most other classes of work.
 Colonel Fenn and the Democracy. Col. Fem edited the Winsted Press. re- gently and makes a statement of his po- litical views-what he calls ''confess1on" as follows;
 As have been thus cautiously called upon for confession, and as I am re- minded that confession is good for the soul. trust that the absent editor when he returns will pardon me If do so far iepart from the plan which I had mark ed out for myself, and from impersonal journalism, as to make the confession which my friend asks though not to the effect which he states he looks for. con- fess then that have affiliated with the republican party, from its first organiza- ton. twenty years ago. When I was a 1oy of twelve untal the present campaign. that while l really wished to be more of patriot than partisan, have almost not quite-always voted with and believ- ed ln lt-and that l regret more tban any other person possibly can my inability to to do so at the present time, that as l grow older l believe more and more in that growing class of individuals who style themselves or are styled lndepen- dents, men who care more for their own carefully considered opinions and home convictions, than for the tyranny of eau cuses and the scourges and chains of par ty politics, political affiliations. I should De proud and content to belong to that class, if for no other reason, provided my influence and example would in any, even the least degree, assist in creating an in- duence sufficient to counteract the mob spirit, which inspires party journalism to smirch the character of every candidate. of an opposing party, and to malign, in- suit and abuse every man who has the courage to think or act beyond the party lines, which assume the right to hold him body and soul in their tolls.
 l confess moreover that intend to vote for Tilden in the comIng presidential election because believe his election, all things considered, will conduce to the best good of the country, because having done what could i'll war, i'll the time of war, am equally in favor of peace, now that the time of peace has come, because 1 believe that if the union was worth fight ing for it is worth while to cement the bonds that bind that union to- gether now that union is assured. I am not believer in state rights in the sense ln which l have sometimes heard those rights claimed, but do believe in accord ing to every state north, and south, east, and west the same rights that we should strenuously assert and: stoutly maintain for our own. I believest that peace is as necessary to restore the union, as ever war was to preserve it, I stand as ever beneath the flag of my country, our uni ted country, but cannot longer train un- der the folds of the bloody shirt.
 Lastly, mean to vote for Tilden, be- cause believe in reform, and because l believe that he believes in it, and has proved it by his works. I was in favor of Brlstow, and would have voted for him had he been nominated, he was not nomi- hated, and the reason he was not in my judgment was because the elements oppo- sed to reform, proved themselves strong CT in the convention than the great mass of the republican party, who like myself desired 1t. A compromise was effected by the nomination of Mr.Hayes, a com promise of what? Reform and anti i-re- form. of right and wrong, of peculation, fraud, official dishonesty, with the purer better elements represented by honest men. Such reform may satisfy others. Am to blame because it fails to sati sfy me2 If so then must endure the blame. AS Luther said, "God helping me I ca h. not do otherwise. I do not say I'm right, | lmpugn no man motives, assume not to do by others, as others have so freely done by me. can only maintain the cor rectness of my intentions, and if tn ese lead me wrong, then shall still hope the right may succeed.
 AUGUSTUS IF. FENN.
 Another modern tendency that seems to have nearly run the length of its It's tether, is toward what is generally spoken of as nlGsSive furniture. We have been making our furniture so heavy of late, that the amount of solid wood in it, added to the carving. inlaying, and ve- neerlng with different woods, has made it very expensive. Of course the Bowery and Canal street, have followed Broadway and the Fifth avenue, and we can hardly tell cheap furniture from dear, by the price. The so-called "East Lake furni- ture," has had much to do with keeping up the tendency, we speak of. The one thing the designers of it. seem to be after is to make it look '.solid." and the one