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Another Infantry Regiment.
Gov. Buckingham has issued orders for
raising another regiment of volunteer infan-
try from this State, agreeably to the requisi-
tion of the President of the United States.—
General orders No. 23, of Adjutant General
Williams, published in another column, de-
fines the particulars of recruiting and form-
ing the regiment, which will be designated
the 14th Regiment of Infantry. It will ren-
dezvous at Hartford. Col. Dwight Morris,
who received the appointment from the
Governor last fall when it was presumed the
14th would be needed, is to take the com-
mand, and it is reported that Dexter R.
Wright of Meriden is to be the Lieutenant-
Colonel. Capt. Douglas Fowler of Norwalk
ought to be the Major, both from past ser-
vice and deserving, but whether the Gover-
nor can be made to “see as others see it,” is
yet to be determined.
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Parson Brownlow in Norwalk.
This heroic and persecuted Champion of
the Union Cause spoke at Bridgeport on
Tuesday evening last, and at New Haven on
Wednesday evening. He visited the Hall of
Representatives on Thursday with his fami-
ly, and accompanied by Gen. Rodgers, his
(to-refugee, now of this town, and Gen. Ca-
rey. , The party left on the noon train for
Boston, where he spent the balance of the
week. While in New Haven, we took the
liberty of inviting him to Norwalk, in accor-
dance with the very general wish we have
heard expressed that he should have a hear-
ing here, and we are gratified to be able to
announce his acceptance of the invitation
and that he will favor our citizens with an
address within a short time, notice of which
will be duly given, Never since the perse-
cutions of the early Christian martyrs, have
such barbarities been practiced as by the
“God-defying scoundrels” who lead this ac-
cured rebellion in Tennessee, and to which
this fearless Apostle of Liberty was daily an
eye-witness. I
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Relief for Sick and “’ounded
Connecticut Soldiers.
The Directors of the New Haven Hospi-
tal have issued a call for aid for the care of
large numbers of our returned soldiers now
placed in their charge. A committee of lead-
ing citizens of Stamford visited New Haven
last week with a view to furnishing assis-
tance from that town. Nor-walk should not
be behind. Why not have Afr. Gould give
one of his Shaksperian readings in aid of
this patriotic Charity? Won’t some one
move immediately in the matter?
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“Tooden Cornices.
We see that the progress of the Troy fire
was arrested from a still more terrible spread
by the “Museum building,” which, having a
stone cornice and a fire-proof roof, stopped the
fire in its mad fury. Let the lesson not be
overlooked by our Main Street builders.
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Important to the Savings
Banks.
The Committee on Finance are to have a
bearing upon the question of taxing deposits
in Savings Banks, on Wednesday afternoon
next, at two o’clock. We presume .that
reasons, pro and con, will then and there be
given. '
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Our Ccmetry.
If the present condition of our Cemetry is
not enough to shame the Board of Directors
into some sort of a “ clearing up ” of the
grounds, we hope it may lead to the opening
of a new yard in some more congenial spot.
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Temperance Meeting.
A course of lectures, under the superinten-
dence of the Sons of Temperance, will be in-
augurated tonight, at Lockwood’s Hall.—
Rev. Messrs. Nash and Anderson will speak.
The music for the course will be “ done ” by
a select choir of accomplished singers. All
who are interested in the Muse of temper.
ance will enjoy a rare musical and intellec-
tual feast, by attending the Free Temper-
ance Meeting, at Lockwood’s Hail, to-night,
(Tuesday) To commence punctually at 8
o’clock.
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RETURNED.—We notice that Gil. Bogart,
First Lieutenant of the Company which went
from here in the 12th C. V., has resigned his
commission and returned home- This pro-
motes 2nd Licut. Thos. H. Nearing to the 1st
Lieutenancy, Joseph P. Crossman to 2nd
Lieutenant, and Henry M. Prowitt, jr., to
Orderly Sergeant.
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SEDowrcx’s COMBINATION CONCERTs AT
' Locxwoon‘s HALL—Mr. Sedgwick and his
talented company will pay our citizens a vis-
it on Wednesday and Thursday next, as
above, when they will give two only Of their
pleasing and artistic performances. The
programme will consist of a most varied se-
lection of vocal and instrumental music, in-
cluding solos and duetts on treble and bass
concertinas, by Sedgwick and Son. Ballad
singing by the beautiful Miss C. Bell in the
highest style of art. Mr. Charles Cooper
will contribute excellent bass songs, in his
own peculiar style. Mr. Sedgwick will sing
his great comic songs of the Cork Leg and
Lord Lovell, and Master Charles Scdgwick
will execute his wonderful solos. Truly a
great bill. *
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WAmong the notices of the deceased,
this week, will be found the death of Henry
E._B. Betts, for several years a resident of
this village, and one of our immediate pre-
decessors in the publication of this paper.
He had been laboring for many years with ,
the fatal disease which was at last to master ;
- Here, old opponents meet on common
him, but so hopeful was he and careful, and
so remarkably tenacious of life, that his death
strikes us almost as suddenly and sadly as
though he were taken away from the most
robust health. He was of a reticent disposiv
tron, but we believe of a warm and generous
heart, strictly upright, thoroughly conscien—
tious, faithful and kind at home and in the
oflce. He leaves a widow and one child.—
Ls'lchfield Enquirer.
WYoung Betts was a native of this town,
a graduate of the Gazette Office and all that.
the Enquirer has said of him.
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TEE ATLANTIC MONTHLY for June has
been received. It contains contributions
from the following authors: James Russell
Lowell,"John G. Whittier, Harriet E. Pres--
cott, T. W. Higginson, John Weiss, Henry
D. Thoreau, Richard Frothingham, T. B.
Aldrich, Edward Everett Hale, Alice Cary,
Prof-Louis Agassis, Rose Terry and F. G...
Tuckerman. The July No. commences at
new volume, for which new attractions are
announced. For sale by Selleck.
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The Repulsc and the Panic.
A general panic seemed to prevail all Silk
urduy night and Sunday over the repulse
and retreat of Gen. Bauks’ Division from
Virginia into Maryland. This was in'crcnscd
by the call of the Government for three regi-
ments to come instantly forward for the dc-
fence of Washington. That ch. Banks
would be menaced by a greatly superior
force has not been altogether an unlocked
for event. Senator Foster, in a private note
written to us just two weeks ago to-day, pre-
dicted precisely this result.
The latest advices this P. M., confirm us
in the opinion that the panic was groundless
that the pursuit of Banks’ Army by the
rebels is fraught with far more peril to them
than it possibly can be to us; that Washing-
ton is safe, and that whenever the time ar-
rives when it shall become a “ military ne-
cessity” the rebellion can easily and quickly
be squelched.
' The rumored capture of Beauregard and
his army at Corinth seems to have been
nothing more than a canard of the Wall St.
stock gamblers. There is some grounds of'
belief that Richmond is being evacuated.
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W The Seventh Regiment leave New
York to-night (Monday) for Washington by
Railroad. The Fifth Regiment heavy artil-
lery by transports.
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Mr. Gould’s Readings.
In our last week’s issue we made a brief
reference to Mr. Gould’s reading at West-
port, for the benefit of a fund to be raised by
the ladies of that village to furnish their new
church, and we ventured to suggest that Mr.
Gould might be induced to read in one of
our fine Halls, for some benevovent Object in
Norwalk. We have since learned, through
a common friend, that Mr. Gould would
readily accede to such a proposal, if it were
brought to his notice in proper form; and
we therefore now deliberately repeat what
we threw out without much reflection.
We advise that a committee of our citizens
when Mr Gould, by letter or otherwise, and
request him to read, as we proposed, Julius
Caesar, or the Merchant of Venice, or any
play most agreeable to himself, for the ben-
efit of the families of those who have gone
from Norwalk to fight the battles of our
country against the infamous southern rebel-
lion; and for those brave and unfortunate
men who have returned to their homes from
Norwalk, disabled by wounds or disease.—
This is the first and best and noblest charity
of the day, and one to which every true
heart among us will desire to contribute.—
Such an object should crowd to overflowing
our largest Hall,cven if the price of admis-
sion were fixed at double the usual rate of
an evening’s entertainment.
This plan would give our citizens an op-
portunity to exercise their benevolence to
good purpose, concurrently with obtaining
for themselves an intellectual treat which is
not often to be had in Norwalk, and which,
in our judgment, is far superior to what can
usually be found in a theatre. We invite
prompt action in this matter, and cheerfully
tender the use the use of our columns to pro-
mote its success.
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For the Gazette.
MEssRs. Ens. z—Understanding through
the medium of your valuable sheet, that
there are to be a series of Temperance meet-
ings held in our village, under the auspices
of the Division of the “ Sons," and feeling as
I do that such gatherings and the influences
attending them are beneficial, and may be
made a means of great good to many in our
midst and our community at large, permit
me to suggest a few thoughts in regard to
the theme and the class it is particularly de-
signed to benefit, encourage and bless. It is
a notorious fact known to all who are con-
versant with affairs in our midst that there
are many‘ young men and others of more
mature years, who are daily in the habit of
spending their time and means for the pur-
pose of pandering to this depraved appetite
for strong drink. Why they do thus, they
are hardly able themselves to give any valid
reason and once this craving, knawing thirst
formed, it requires oftentimes the most ex-
treme self-denial, aside from the watchful~
ness and assistance of friends to produce ref-
ormation. Now, ere the taste is formed be-
fore the fangs of the monster evil have fas-
tened their deadly sting upon them, they
may by kindness be comparatively easily won
to a different course, and all the ills which
Satan brings through this agent, splrllous
liquors be forever eradicated. In this view
of the'case, it appears to me that all persons
who love humanity, all who have the moral-
ity, not to say the religious interests of our
community, at heart will not fail to see duty
and right point in this matter. Let the
“young men and maidens,” “ old men and
children” take the cause in hand in earnest
and aSsist this class Ofour fellow citizens in
escaping from the thralldom which is becom-
ing more and more dangerous and galliug
the longer they listen to the siren voice
which is urging them on to ruin and to death,
I am personally acquainted with those in the
community, (men of education and inlclli-
gence, whose appetites lead them to frcqncut
dens of infamy and shame, which their bet-
ter natures in their sober moments shrink
from with lothing and disgust,) who are
struggling to break off the slavery endured
by rum ./ and who would give worlds were
they theirs to give to stand forth disenthrall-
ed. Such cases may be rare; God grant
that they are; but they will be none the less
so unless some sucn means as these in ques-
tion are devised for their deliverance. Sud,
sad, indeed to hear these recitals, but sadder
still to know, sec, and feel their reality.—
Trusting that these meetings will be well at-
tcnded by all classes and bring forth abun-
dant harvests which will ripen through all
coming time, I am yours truly,
A FRIEND or Ifunxnrrr.
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W‘ Gen. 0. Ferry writes a letter relative
to the Senatorial nomination to some one
herein Litchficld County, in which occurs
the passage below. The military [service is
alluded to in the first line:
Mbreover, I love that service. The
jealousics, misconstrnctions and misrepre-
scututions which one encounters in politi-
cal lifc nrcall left behind. No newspa-
pers daul) me with undeserved praise, or
asexril me with unprovoked slundcr.—'
ground,—onr only enemies, the enemies
of our common country.
It strikes us that the above paragraph lacks
both in elegance and in generosity, and we
wonder that Mr. Ferry could have written
It. However, if we have ever shocked the
sensitive gentlcuren‘s modesty by over-praise
we take it all back, and would have done so
before if he had only let us known. By the
by, it strikes us that brother Byington of the
Norwa’lk Gazette must come in for a share
of this back-handed compliment to the Re-
publican press. Stand up and answer to
the charge of “dubbing” our fellow citizen,
A. Homer Byingltour-l ’z'nsled Harald,
WWell, if that isn‘t “Tom Clarke" all
over! But the Gcnerad doesn’t hit us, be-
cause we don’t (la-ab, in the first place, and
in the'next place, whenever use have praised,
it has been deserved. If the Herald has pur-
sued a different course, and thus “put its foot
in it," it has our commiscration. Guess the
whole thing can be accounted for by friend
Clarke having seen the letter in the columns
l of the thchfield Enquirer. _, A.“ :
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Monday‘s War News.
Gen. Banks. in u dispatch from Slrusburu'.
dated on Saturday night slates flu-l Unloucl
Kcnly’s command of infantry and cavalry ,
luul bccn rlrivr-n from Front Royal with con- l
sidcruble loss in killed and wounded and
prismu-l's, among the later Col. KI-uly. The i
eucmy‘s fol-Cc was estimated at from live
to six thousand. The enemy had occupied
the place.
ThePrcsident has taken military possession j
ofall the railroads in the United States, and '
the owners of said roads are directed to hold
themselves in readiness to transport troops
and munitions of war to the exclusion of all
other traffic. _
The receipt of the intelligence ofthe'dcfcat
of Col. Kenly’s command and his reported
death occasioned the most intense excito-
ment in Baltimore, which continued up to
lastadvices. Such of the sympathiscrs with
[thercbels in the city as were imprudent
enough to express their joy at the result were
summarily dealt with. At onetime a collis~
ion was feared. At last accounts the streets
were thronged with an excited populace.—
Thc Union sentiment was never before so
strongly expressed in Baltimore.
Dispatches were received at the War Dc-
partmcnt on Saturday night from General
Banks at Winchester stating that he had
moved to that place for Strasbnrg for the
purpose of securing his stores and trains from
the enemy, and to prevent an interruption of
his communication. His advance guard had
entered Winchester with all his trains and
stores in safety. A strong attack was made
upon the trains at Middletown by the rebel
forces, but it was repulsed, and a few wag-
ons abandoned by the tcumstcrs were sc-
cured. Later dispatches received by the
War Department announce that General
Banks was attacked at Winchester yesterday
morning, and had retired toward Martins-
burg and Harper's Ferry. The enemy are
reported to be in large force, and many ac-
counts slate that the rebel nrmy hnsleft Rich-
mond and moved North to take the oficnsivc.
Dispatches from Gen. McClellan‘s corn-
mand state that our troops crossed the Chick-
ahominy river on Friday, both at Boltom’s
Bridge and the railroad bl‘l( g, and the ad-
vance of our army in that direction was a
mile and a half beyond. The ncmy had
not been discovered in force, and opinion
generally obtained that they had taken up a
defensive position between three and four
miles from Richmond. On Saturday our
forces at New Bridge shelled a rebel camp
on the opposite side of the river, and com-
pelled the enemy there stationed to retreat
in haste. On Saturday a rcconnolssunce ~
was made by the Fourth Michigan Regiment
and a squad of the Second Cavalry, :1 short
distance above New Bridge, which resulted
in the killing of over sixty rebels, the wound-
ing of fifteen, and the capture of thirty-one.
Our loss was one killed, one mortally and six
slightly wounded.
By way of Cincinnati we are advised that
the rebels sustain a severe defeat at Lewis-
burg on Firday morning. The rebel Col.
Heth, at the head of three thousand men, at-
tacked the Union forces commandcd by Col.
Crook, numbering thirteen hundred, and
after a desperate engagement the enemy were
driven back with great loss. One hundred
prisoners, four cannon, and two hundred
stand of small arms were captured by our
forces. Our loss ten killed, forty wounded,
and eight missing.
Gov. Morgan has ordered the Fifth New—
York Artillery, and the Seventh Regiment,
N. Y. S. M., to leave for Washington to-day.
The Eighth, Elventh. Thirty-seventy, Seven-
ty-firét, and Twenty-fifth Regiments, N. Y.
S. M., all of this city except the last, to fol-
low without delay. .
By an arrival at Fortress Monroe we have
late advices from Gen. Burnside‘s command
The American flag was raised in Raleigh a
few days ago by the citizens. No further
particulars had been received. The news
arrived by a. flag of truce. Recently a rebel
force visited Swift Creek, about twelve miles
from N ewbern, where a Union meeting had
previously been held, and arrested and car-
ried away with them several Union men, one
of whom they murdered. A reconnoissance
was made to Clinton,ninetcen miles south of
Newbeen, a few days ago. The enemy‘s ad-
vanced pickets were discovered, and a skir-
misl; ensued. We lost one lieutenant, and
four privates were taken prisoners. Nine of
the enemy were killed and two captured.—
Washington, N. C., has been occupied and a
newspaper started there by our troops.
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Retreat of Gen. Banks.
WASHINGTON, May 25.
Dcspatcecs received by the War Depart-
ment state that Gen. Banks was attacked
at Winchester this morning, and has fallen
back toward Martinsburgh and Harpers Fer-
ry. Tire enemy are reported to be in large
force, and many reports state that the rebel
force has left Richmond and moved North,
to take the offensive.
LATER.
WASHINGTON, May 25.
The enemy under Gens. Ewell and J ohn-
son, with a superior force, gave battle to
Gen. Banks this morning, at daylight, at
Winchester. Gen. Banks fought them six
hours, and then retired in the direction of
Martinsburgh, with what loss is unknown.
The enemy are, it is understood, advanc-
ing from Winchester upon Harper’s Ferry.
Ourtroops there are being rapidly reinforced.
Rumor says that Gen. Jackson is advancing
to the support of Ewell and Johnson, and
there are also statements that there is still
another force behind him.
Prompt means have been taken to meet (he
emergency, if l-rnly reported.
A despatch received to—night, states that
Gen. Banks has made good his retreat across
the Potomac at Williarnsport.
Gen. Rufus Saxton is in command at Har-
per’s Ferry.
The city is intensely agitated by the intel-
ligence from the Valley of the Shenandoah,
and more rumors and speculations increase
the excitement.
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From the Newbern Progress, May 10.
News from the 0141 North State.
The information which we give below is
”ratifying to the lover of his country. North
arolina at last. begins to awake to the fact
that J. Davis ts: Co. have been making a cat’s
paw of the Old North State to poke their
chestnuts out of the fire, and refuses longer
to submit to the disgrace and burden which
has been imposed upon her by the scoundrels
at Richmond. The old patriotic fires which
burned so brightly at Alamance and we trust
will burn with an increasing brilliancy upon
the altars of liberty. North Carolina is in a
fair way of being regenerated from the thrnl-
dom of sin and rebcldom. We trustthat this
may prove the harbinger of better days, and
that brighter prospects are ahead for our be-
loved country. We obtain the news by way
of Washington, and direct from Raleigh.
The arrest of Mayor Rcspcss of Washing-
ton, N. 0.. who was seized in the night time
in the most summary manner and hurried off
to Richmond in irons, is creating a most in-
tense excitement in the state. The governor
of the state (who is not in prison, as report-
cd,) backed by the convention, sent a per-
emptory demand to the Richmond authori-
ties for the immediate delivery of the person,
of Mayor Respcss, who was kept _in close
confinement. His trial was in progress when
they received the demand, and the authori-
ties at Richmond informed the committee
sent by Gov. Clark that there were a few
more witnesses to appear in the case, and
they desired to complete the trial. The com-
mittee informed the authorities at Richmond
that the person of the mayor must be delivered
up forthwith, otherwise North Carolina would
send a force to back up the (lenmnd of the con—
oenllon. Mr. Respess was delivered over to
the committee, and Went to Raleigh rejoicing
He was set at liberty and is now on his way
to Washington, where the Union citizens are
preparing to give hIm nu ovation. This com-
mittee was also instructed to, and did, deliver
an order to the Virginia chivalry that North
Carolina was capable of managing her own
affairs, and that no more of her citizens must
be taken out of the state.
In con ction with this matter We are also
learn that J Davis a few days since ordered
Governor Clark to furnish them all the means
of transportation and defence possible to aid
him in the passage to and through the cotton
states, and also for additional troops. Gov.
Clark, backed by'the convention, informed
him that he had received all the aid from North
Carolina that he could expect, and that hercafi
for no 'more troops would be per-milled to lease
the slate, and has ordered all the North Coroll-
n-la stale troops home.
Gov. Clark informed the rebels that they
could use the railroads in retreating horne-
wards, and that they would run their own
risk of being intercepted by a Union force at
any part of the state.
The above information comes from a mem-
ber of the convention. '
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;@""}i is stated that Company B, 1st Con-
necticut Conakry, has been appointed Body
Guard to :Gen. Fremont. '
0n 1' 13th Rog’t Correspondence.
Slur lsl..\ND, Miss, April 26.
Mrsssus. Em'rous:-—-Wc,—-thc 13th ch‘t C.
V.,—have been cm-mnpcd on this sand-hunk
i'orjust two wr-cks. After our long, tedious :
puss-logo, we were very glad in reach anything '
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, in the shape of land, even though very dif- !
fcrcnt from “term firma," as every slop is '
made in sand anywhere from ankle to knee
deep. During our twenty-six days passage,
we lost and threw overboard six of our men,
and another who died just after our arrival,
now rests in the sand on the Island. We
have lost many since the formation of our
Regiment, and there is vcrylittle faith lcft in
our surgeons. We think, and with reason,
that they are very incompetent. We found
the 9th and 12th Conn. Regiments here, and
very glad to see us, but much disappointed
at not receiving letters by us, as they had not
received any since their arrival here. They
have both left since with a number of other
Regiments, under Butler, and are now prob-
ably nearly in possession of New Orleans.—
We have heard a brisk cannonading in the
direction of Fort Jackson, and have received
pretty definite information that it is taken.—
If so, very little is left to obstruct the pas-
sage to the City. We have just\hcard of the
surrender of Island No. 10, and rejoice ex-
ceedingly over it. We are hoping now to be
soon called for, to follow on up the river or
inland. It is unnecessary for me to attempt
to describe this Island, as you are well-
enough acquainted with it already. There
is nothing to relieve the monotony of ‘he
white sand but the white tents, which extend
some three miles up the Island. We find
good water by digging down some three feet
in the sand ; and by travelling over the sand
some six miles, to the upper end of the Is-
land, we find an abundance of" palm leaves,
with which we floor contents.
The upper end of the Island also furnishes
a few pines, scrub oaks, alligators, wildflow-
ers, lizards, and other vegetables. The only
other productions of the Island are rheuma-
tism and diarrhoea.
Our Colonel is making an attempt to raise
some radishes. They will make quite a side
dish, for the good old stand-by of salt-junk
and hard bread. However, as I have never
dined with the Stuff, I am not certain but
their " bill of fare" may vary.
'We have got one real live man among us.
One who is not afraid to treats. private as a
man, and who is beloved and respected by
the entire Regiment. He is just in the posi-
tion where he should be—our Chaplain, Rev.
Mr. Salter,-—and is a remarkable exception
to the general class. He is always busy for
the good of the Regiment. Through his la~
bors we have a fine Chapel Tent, an excel-
lent aud well read Library, and a well-furn-
ishcd Reading Room—the favorite resort for
many of the men. We have prayer meet-
ings twice a week, besides the Sunday meet-
ings, very interesting and well attended; a
singing school, and are about starting a
weekly course of lectures. For once the
Government seems to have made a mistake,
and put the right man in the right place.
But I must close for the mail. There is
no use of trying to send any news from this
desert. iV‘e hope to receire some very soon;
among the rest that Gov. Buckingham has
had 15,000 majority for Governor.
Yours, hoping soon for the end,
P.
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HEADQUARTERS Co. G., 10th C. V. l
May 14th, 1862. ')
Messrs. EDITORS :—I have taken up my
pen, in behalf of the above Company, that
the public may learn how the soldiers of
Fairfield county are imposed upon here.—
You know we lost our Captain, whose death
threw a gloom over the whole Company,
but it was somewhat brightened by the
thought that our First Lieutenant would
have command. He is a man loved and to
spected by ecery membér of the Company, and
has been pronounced by Col. Russell to be one
of the best military oficera m the line. We
therefore looked with joy, to the time we
should call him Capt. Mead. But such was
not to be the case. By the influence of his
friends, George Atherton now has command
of Company G. He is a man, “college bred”
to be sure, but who never saw a day’s service
in his life, till the battle of Roanoke Island.
He joined the Regiment as First Lieutenant
of Company K., while we were in Annapolis,
and according to the rules of military life,
Licut. Mead was entitled to the first promo-
tion, because his commission is the oldest.—
But that is not the worst of it. Capt. Ath-
erton had no sooner taken command, than
he began showing himself in his true char-
acter, by little acts of meanness, such as an
officer can perpetrate, and not have it ap-
pear intentional, but which keeps the men
uneasy, and have caused every member of
Co. G to fairly hate the name of Athcrton.—
But what can a private do? We all joined
and wrote him a letter, before he took com-
mand, asking him to refuse the office; telling
him we respected him both as a gentleman
and an officer, (the Lord forgive us for lying
$0,) but that we should prefer an officer from
our own county. He took no notice of it,
only to exercise his power the more fully, to
to make us despise him.
I forgot to mention the fact of his being a
Masssachusetts man, and that now We have
only two or three officers in the regiment
that are from Fairficld county, and there is
a good prospect of our losing them, as there
are men, higher in authority than them-
selves who urc using their influence and
heaping these indignities upon them, for the
purpose of getting them to resign, and then
filling their places with other men. With
such officers as these is it any wonder the
men are dissatisfied, and would it not be a
wonder if they were as good soldiers as they
have heretofore proved themselves to be ‘3. I
tell you, sirs, our friends at home do not
know what is going on down here. They
hear that the soldiers are contented and sat
Iisficd, but a few such officers as our Captain
would soon cause disnlisfactiou and may be
something worse. But . must stop, as I have
given you the opinion of Company G. Ho-
ping you may think this worthy of a small
place in the Gazette, I remain your most obe-
dient, HENRIC us.
WWc doubt that any good will be likely
to result from thc'publication of complaints
like the above, yet all that is stated therein
comes to us from so many and so influental
sources, that We are fully satisfied that the
efficiency and usefulness of this noble Com-
pany will be entirely sacrificed if the Gover-
nor does not inlerfcre, and cause, what
would seem to be, a most proper transfer of
their officers. It is very rarely that a com-
pany is as entirely unanimous in its dislike
to its Captain, and the character of many of
the men of which it is compose-dds a sufficient
guarantie that it. originates from no idle
whim or caprice. ‘
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WThe new military company at South
Norwalk were out on Saturday for drill.—
We understand they have voted to offer
their services to the Governor for the new
Regiment.
«04.».
@Both houses of the Legislature passed
a resolution, last week, appropriatin $8000
to the GeneralHos‘pitnl Society of come-
cut, for the benefit of sick and wounded
soldiers.
n’.-.
-——Wm. H. Wheeler, of Litchfield, had in
his dooryard, the 15th of May, a snow-drift
four feet high. That’s cool.|v
spicy(introsponrlum-caibriiitfhe Connecticut Legislature Gen.
Vurnnu.
It will be remembered that the steamer .
; “Varuun” was sunk in the attack on Now ,
Orb-nus, :Illcr destroyingr six rcbcl vessels.-—
The news of her own disaster arrived before i
that of her own glory, and afforded the revi-
1ch of our Navy Department, as they sup-
posed, a capital opportunity to show up its
corruption in purchasing worthless vessels.
The Hon. Mr. Washburuc of Wisconsin,
without waiting for full particulars, hastened
to pen the following:
House: OF REPRESENTATIVES, May 8, 1802.
SIR: I am directed by the Committee on
Government contracts of the House to en-
quire of you how much was paid by the Gov-
crnn‘rent for the vessel Varuna, bought‘at
Mystic, Conn., and from whom_ purchased,
and to whom was the money paid.
Very respectfully yours,
E. B. WASHBURNE,,ClJltirmml, &c.
Hon. GIDEON WELLEs, Secretary of the
Navy.
Mr. Welles returned the following capital
rebuff to those who would so hastily dispar:
age a proceeding of which they know so
little:
N Avv DEPARTMENT, May 12, 1862.
Sm: Your letter of the 8th Inst, asking,
on behalf of the Committee on Government
Contracts, “how much was paid by the Gov-
ernment for the vessel ‘Varuna,’ bought at
Mystic, Conn, and from whom purchased,
and to whom the money was paid,” has been
received.
Had the “Committee on Government Con-
tracts" done me the honor of examining my
report and the accompanying documents at
the commencement of the present session of
Congress, they would have ascertained, as
early as the 4th of December last, the essen-
tial facts which are the object of the present
inquir . The precise amount paid for the
“vessc Varuna" was $127,460. She was
one of the excellent purchases made for the
Government by George D. Morgan, Esq., of
New York, and is the first of many steamers
procured by him that the country has lost.—
She was purchased of Messrs. Charles Mal-
lory and Cornelius S. Bushnell, “each one-
half owners," as stated by the bill of sale,
and the money was paid directl to them.—
Mr. Mallory is an eminent ship-builder of
Stonington, Conn., and owns an extensive
ship yard at Mystic. Mr. Bushnell has been
interested to some extent in vessels for many
years. He sold to the Department the steam-
er Stars and Stripes, oneof the most efficient
vessels in the service; he was the builder of'
the iron-clad steamer Galena, now in James
river, and he first brought the plans of the
Monitor to the notice of the Department.—
He is at this time the representative of his
fellow citizens of New Haven, who know
him best, in the Legislature of Connecticut.
It should be stated that when the Varuna
was purchased she had not. been launched,
and the contract price had been $138,000,
less the estimated cost of fitting her for the
merchant service, over what was required
for naval use. When completed the differ-
ence was estimated by D. D. Westervel't. an
eminent ship-builder of New York, to be
$7,540, which amount was deducted from the
price named in the contract.
The heroic commander of the Varuna, by
a singular coincidence, reached the Depart-
ment from the scene of the great and tri-
umphant conflict on the Mississippi, loaded
with trophies of the victory, which he was
exhibiting, and was detailing the exploits of
his goodship and her fate at the moment
when [the letter from the “Committee on
Government Contracts” was received, inqui-
ring? how much was paid by the Government
forithe'évessel Varuna," of whom purchased,
an‘dtofwhom paid. Having answered these
inqui ies, it gives me pleasure, as it will al-
so,,d, , btlcss, give pleasure to the “Commit-
teego’pfl‘overnment Contracts,” to read the
testimonial other brave and efficient com-
mande'r'to the qualities and character of the
gallant “vessel Varunn," which after render-
ing service never surpassed, perhaps, by any
vessel of her capacity afloat, and sinking six
ofthe. enemy’s steamers—two of them iron-
clad—was herself finally borne down, and
now lies buried beneath the waters of the
Mississippi. I regret my inablity to furnish
the “Committee on Government Contracts"
the'm‘oncy value of the steamers destroyed
by the “vessel Varuna," and the priceless
consequences that must follow from that
great victory in which she bore so conspicu-
ous apart. It will'be, I am sure, a matter
ofgratification to the “Committee on Gov-
ernment Contracts" to learn that, though dis-
abled and sunk, the vessel and her arma-
ment may yet be secured, though at some
ex ense.
~ submit herewith a copy of the letter of
Commander Boggs, and fully appreciating
the interest manifested by the Committee on
Government Contracts in the “vessel Varn-
n}a’,?_’-:_'atjd not doubting the public have a pa-
trioYlézlfeeling in all that concerns that extra-
ordinary vessel, it will give me as much
pleasure as yourself to make public this
correspbndence, detailing her cost and value.
I5ani,'vcry respectfullB, your ob‘t serv’t,
. 2_ GI EON WELLES.
TheHon. E. B. WAsnBURNE, Chairman
Committee on Government Contracts, House
of Representatives.
- ' c NAVY DEPARTMENT, l
~5WAsnINoT0N, May 10, 1862. 5
Sin: .I respectfully submit the following
brief'statcment respecting the United States
steamer Varuna, lately under my command.
Her model for speed and all the qualities
necessary for a sea steamerI have never seen
surpassed, having proven the fastest vessel
ofthe fleet. ‘
Her engines lower and better protected
from damage than many vessels of the navy.
These ’cngines—Ericsson side lever pattern
‘-,—nrc_ of superior workmanship and deci-
dedly the best propeller engine that I have
seen.‘ -
The hull of more than the average strength
of vessels of her class.
.‘ I consider that she was among the best of
the additions to the Navy from the merchant
marine.
I -. Vér‘ respectfully your ob‘t servant,
, 4. CHAS. BOGGS, Commander U. S. N.
.1 -‘ i (in. GID_EON WELLEs, Secretary of the
My "Washington, D. C.
. _ «0»
. . Banks’s Department.
S'PRASBURG, May 24, 1862.
Col. Kenly’s command of infantry and cav-
alry have been driven back from Front Royal,
with considerable loss of killed, wounded and
prisoners. The rebel force. estimated at 5,-
000 or 6,000, is reported to have fallen back
on Front Royal. They probably occupied
it this morning. Signed,
N. P. BANKS, Major General.
aw.»-
WThe Seventicth Annual Convention
of the Connecticut Medical Society will be
held in the city of Bridgeport, in Franklin
Hall, on Wednesday, May 28, at 11 o’clock,
A. )r. The following gentlemen have been
elected Fellows for Fairfield County, for the
ensuing ear: ‘
N. D. night, M. D,; D. S. Burr, M. D.;
Robert Hubbard, M. D.; Samuel Noyce, M.
D.; H. N. Bennett, M. D.
~-¢.>~
DEATH on J onN E. DURIVAGE.—The Low-
ell (Massachusetts) News learns from a priv ate
letter received in that city from a member of
General Butler's division, dated April 80,
that Captain John E. Durivagc of the Third
Cavalry company in that division, fell over-
board when about. ten miles above forts J ack-
son and St. Phillip, at the mouth of‘lhe Pas-
ses, and before assistance reached him he was
drowned. He was with his company on
board a transport, in tow of'a steamer, going
up to New Orleans. Capt Durivnge was for
a longtime connected with the press in Bos-
ton,New York and other parts of‘the country
and joined the army at the West. He was a
nephew of Hon Eward Everett.
0‘.-.
HARTFORD LossEs Br TnE Tnov FIRE.—
The Times state that the Hartford Insurance
Officers will lese about $120,000, apportion-
ed as follows: zEtnu, $50,000 ; Phercuix,
$20,000; Hartford, about$20,000; Merchant’s,
$15,000; City Fire, $7,000: New England,
$6,000; North American, $1,165. Though
this is no small sum, the Hartford offices are
abundantly able to bear it—thankful that
they have got off so easily. Most of the in-
surance in the ill-fated city was in the Lon-
don and New York offices. Taking the size
of the city, the Troy fire swept. over the lar-
gest area. and destroyed more houses (800 is
the last account), than anyother city has suf-
fered on this continent.
9".-. - ——-—-—
Q‘Thc Fifth Conn. Regiment seems to
be somewhere in the vicinity of Harrison-
burg, Va. The Fifth has a wonderful repu-
tation among the rebels. One of Ashby’s
officers, aprisoner. expressed his astonish-
ment attheir rapid movements. He had seen
them first at. Edward's Ferry, and then at
every pornt to which his troop had made an
expedition.
'—
Tuesday, .quy 20. ‘
SENA'I‘E.-—'I‘hc Senate concurred with the
House in the disposition of sundry matters. ‘
The “Flowago Bill" coming from the
House with votc insisting on former refer-
ence to Judiciary, the Senate concurred.
Adjourned.
Housn—Jflzltcrs'rqi'rred—Bill relative to
deeds and mortgages; bill allowing $2.00
per day to constables attending superior
court; bill dc assessment and collection of
taxes.
The committee on the judiciary report ad-
versely on lhe bill allowing an assigncc
to bring an action of ejectment.
The committee on finance report in favor
of the acceptance of the treasurer’s report;
accepted and ordered on file.
Thecommittce onflinancc report in favor
'of the acceptance of the grand list; accepted
and ordered filed.
The committee on unfinished business
report the unfinished business of last session
and recommended various matters to be ap-
propriately referred; accepted.
Adjourned.
Wednemlay lilay 21.
' SENATE.—' Prayer by Rev. Mr. Eustis.
. Bills, eta, referred—Bill authorizing exten-
sion of‘the time for settlements of estates;
bull relative to resignation and appointment
of uardians.
esolution incorporating the Norwalk and
South Norwalk Horse Railroad Company.
A message from the Governor calling the
attention of the Legislature of the State to
the question whether something may not be
done to assist in the return of the bodies of
soldiers of this State to their homes for bur-
Ial; referred to Committee on Military Af-
fans.
The order of the day, being the election of
a United States Senator, was called up. The
ballot being taken resulted as follows:
Whole number of Votes, 2
Necessary to a choice, 11
James Dixon, 19
Blank, 1
Mr. Plait introduced a resolution declaring
the Hon. James Dixon to be elected a Sen-
ator of the United States by the Senate of
this State; passed.
Adjourned.
Hosea—The House convened at 10 o'clock
prayer by Rev. Mr. Rockwell, a member of
the House from New Britain.
Res. raising joint select committee to in-
qurre if further legislation is necessary to
provrde for the sick and wounded Connecti-
cut soldiers, to Com. on Humane Institu-
trons.
Rea. that the recent act of Congress
emancrpating the sinus in the District of
Columbia meets the cordial approbation of
thrs House, and that it is the duty of Congress
to extend the area of freedom, to Com, on
Federal relations.
Mr. Bates of. Bedding was excused from
servrng on the Committee on Educa'tion,and
Mr. Weed of Darien was appointed in his
place. '
Adjourned.
flursday, May 22.
SENATE—Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Osborn.
Senate concurred with the House in refer-
ence of various matters.
Senator Calhoun was appointed on the
part Of the Senate on the Select Committee
relative to the late Col. Russell.
Report of the Com. on Claims relative to
the refunding of money to those who paid
the $10 fine when drafted under the militia
law, reportinga bill for that object; report
accepted and bill tabled. Report of Com. on
Judiciary adverse to bill relative to resigna-
tion of uardians.
The om. on Judiciary reported adversely
on the bill repealing the Maine Law; report
accepted. ‘
Adjourned. -
HOUSE—Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Dudley.
A message was received from the Govern-
or, relative to procuring the bodies of de-
gtased Connecticut soldiers, for burial in this
late.
Res. that the recent proclamation of the
President disavowing and annulling the
general order of General Hunter, [Parson
Brownlow here entered the Hall, amid loud
cheers, and took his seat in the aisle,] which
order declares all the slaves in the States of
Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida to be
free, meets with the entire approval of this
General Assembly, and gives renewed assu-
rance that the Chief Magistrate of the United
States, in takin effectual measures to sup-
press the rebcl ion, will' ever sustain the
Union as it was, and the Constitution as it is.
Mr. Trent of Bridgeport would not dis-
cuss the merits of this resolution. The con-
duct of the President since his election had
met with his entire approbation. He could
vote for this resolution heartily, but he
thought the time of the House could to bet-
ter occupied than in discussing each resolu-
tions, and he, ther ore, thought it the most
beneficial courset refer the subject to the
Committee on Federal Relations. He
moved that the resolution be so referred.
The ycns and Rays were called. Yeas,
146, Nays, 67. So the motion to commit
was carried.
The order of the day, the election of U. S.
Senator, was taken up. A ballot was had
with the following result :
Whole number of votes, 224
Necessary to a choice, 113
J runes Dixon, 102
Charles Chapman, 57
Wm. A. Buckingham, 2
O. S. Ferry, 2
Blank, 1
Resolution declaring James Dixon elected
for six years from March, 1863; passed.
Adjourned.
Friday, May 23.
SENATE—The Hon. Mr. Goodwin, Presi-
dent pro tem., in the chair.
Prayer by Rev. E. J. O‘Brien.
Resolution appropriating $3,000 to the
General Hospital Society of Connecticut for
the benefit of sick and wounded soldiers;
passed.
Adjourned.
Housn—Pmycr by Rev. Mr. Nadal.
Com. on Judiciary on bill de taVerns and
spirituous liquors, repealing the “Maine
an,’ reported adversely, and bill rejected;
on bill dc resignation of guardians,adversely.
Res. that the office of Railroad Commis-
sioner is of no use, and should be abolished;
concurred with Senate in ref. to Com. on
Railroads.
Res. delivering to F. J. Jackson of Dan-
bury, fifty muskets for the use of his school,
to Cum. on Military Affairs.
Bill dc assessment and collection of taxes,
making the term “residence" in the statute
to mean the last residence of the person; to
Corn. on Judiciary.
Res. donating to' the General Hospital
Society $3,000, for the benefit of the sick
and Wounded soldiers who are soon to be
placed there.
Mr.’Pcck explained the necessity 'of this
appropriation. Temporary buildings have
to be crcctedfor the accommodation of the
soldiers, as the Hospital proper is not large
enough for the use required, and it is estima-
ted the cost will reach about $2,500, and $500
more for furniture. He spoke feelingly of
our duties in this war, and said he did not-
believe a single member would oppose the
resolution. .
Mr. Adams of Norwich said as a general
thing, all resolutions appropriating money
should be referred to a Committee, but there
are, in certain cases, exceptions, and this is
one ot‘ihcm. He thought it the duty of the
State, with onevoicc, to grant the appropri-
anon.
Mr. Chapman of Hartford, said this seemed
to be acase of urgent necessity, and all for
mal rules, ifthey stood in the way, should
be laid aside. He hoped the resolution
would pass.
The resolution passed and was transmit-
ted to the Senate.
It was voted that when this House adjourns
it adjourn to meet next Tuesday morning at
10 o‘clock ; and thereupon the House ad-
journcd. ‘
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SifAD.—-Tllt: shad-catch has been more
abundant this year than ever before. On
Thursday night,May 15th, the Saybrook fish-
ermen alone caught 25.000.and stopped when
they did only to assist in dressing and curing
those alreudsy caught, to save them from
spoiling. imilar luck attends the fishery
all along up the Connecticut. At Spring-
field they have all they want and more too.
At lIolyokc, on Saturday, 484 were caught
at the first haul of thc seine, 200 at the sec-
ond, and more than 100 at the third. The
late favorable rise in the river is said to be
the cause of this unprecedented supply ‘of
shad, a large culch being always predicted
under such circumslanccs.
MN.”
——-Hou. Truumn Smith and C. \V. Hin-
man, Esq., liavc opened an office at Wash-
ington, for the transaction of business in the
Courts, before the Departments and before
Congress.
Hunter’s Emancipation}
Order. '
By the President of the Unlilml Slum.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, There appears in the public
prints what purports to be aproclarnation of
Major Gen. Hunter, in the words and figures
following, to wit:
HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF '1‘le )
SOUTH, -
Hilton Head, 3. 0., May 9, 1862. 5
General Orders, No. 11.—-—The three states
of Georgia, Florida and South Carolina, com-
prising the military department of the South,
having deliberately declared themselves no
longer under the protection of the United
States of America, and having taken up arms
against the said United States, it became a
military necessity to declare them under
martial law. This was accordin ly done on
the 25th day of April, 1862. lavery and
martial law, in a free country, are altogether
incompatible the persons in these three states,
Georgia, Florida and South Carolina, hereto-
fore held as slarea, are therefore declared FOR-
EvER FREE. DAvID HUNTER,
Major General Commanding.
Ed. W. Smith, A. A.-General.
And, Whereas, the same is producing some
excitement and misunderstanding, .
Therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President
of the United States, proclaim and I eclare
that the Government of the United States
had no knowledge or belief of an intention
on the part of Gen. Hunter to issue any such
a proclamation, nor has it yet any authentic
information that the document rs genuine;
and, further, that neither Gen. Hunter, nor
any other commander, or person, has been
authorized by the Government of the United
States to make proclamation declaring the
slaves of any State free, and that the sup-
posed proclamation now in question, whether
genuine or false, is altogether vord, so far as
respects such declaration. _
1 further make known that whether It be
competent for me, as Commander-in-Chief of
the Army and Navy, to declare the slaves of
any State or States free, and whether at any
time, or in any case, it shall have become a
necessit indispensable to the maintenance
of the overnment to exercise such supposed
power, are questions which, under my re-
sponsibility, I reserve to myself, and which I
cannot feel justified in leaving to the decision
of commanders in the field. These are to-
tally different questions from those of police
regulations in armies and camps.
On the 6th day of March last, by a special
message, I recommended to Congress the
adoption of a joint resolution, to be substan.
tially as follows:
“Resolved, That the United States ought to co-op-
erate with any State which may adopt a adusl
abolishmcnt of Slavery, giving aid to such rate in
its discretion to compensate for the fnocnveniencep,
public and private, produced by such change of syn»
tern. ’
The resolution in the language above quo-
ted WRs adopted by large majorities In both
branches .0! Congress, and now stands an
authentic, definite, and solemn proposal of
the nation to the States and people most im-
mediately interested in the subject matter.—
To the people of these States I now earnestly
appeal. I do not argue, I beseech you to
make the arguments for yourselves. You
cannot, if you would, be blind to the signs of
the times. I beg of you a calm and enlarged
consideration of them, ranging, if it may be,
far above personal and partizan politics.
This proposal makes common cause for a
common object, castin no reproaches upon
any. It acts not the harisee. The change
it contemplates would come gently as the
dews of heaven, not rending or wrecking
anything. Will you not embrace it ? So
much good has not been done by one effort
in all past time, as in the Providence of God
it is now your high privilege to do. May
the vast future not have to lament that you
have neglected it.
1n. witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this 19th
day of May, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and
of the independence of the United States, the
eighty-sixth. ~
By the President, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
WI. 11. stxnn, Secretary of State.
Q‘.-.
MORE COTTON EXPECTED.—During tire
past ten days nearly one million pounds of
unginned cotton have been received at New
'ork, and another million of pounds are
ready for shipment. The ginning mills near
the Atlantic Docks, Brooklyn, are constantly
running, and 600 bales of marketable Sea Is-
land cotton will be offered at auction in a
few days, thus closing up the business of
Governmentin this article for the present
year.
--o._b-*——
NEWS ITEMS.
——-Alittle dead contraband was found in a
bale of cotton on Tuesday, at the Harmony
Mills, at Cohoes, N. Y.
———Three outspoken Union men have been
found in Norfolk by our troops. One of
them was worth $30,000 a year ago, every
dollar of which the rebel government confis-
cated. He took to the woods and swamps
south of Norfolk; and- upon hearing that
the old flag waved once more over his na-
tive city he returned. Meeting an old north-
ern friend on the streets, he threw himself
into his arms and fell to the ground, a shriek-
ing maniac. The convulsion of joy was too
much for mind and body, enfeebled by his
starving life in the woods, and he is now a
lunatic.
-——John T. Monroe, the Mayor of New 0r-
leans, told Commodore Farragut that there
was not a man in‘ New Orleans that would
raise the Stars and Stripes in that city. The
next day, however, anumber of citizens were
shot in the streets for shouting for the Union
and four hundred and eighty men marched
out of Fort Jackson in a body and took the
oath of allegiance to the United States.
—One of the newspaper correspondents
with the army of Gen. McClellan, while
speaking of a camping ground near the rebel
front, says, “when we first entered this men-
dow we were told that it would hold 40,000
men; we now find that 100,000 will not fill it.”
Some idea of the size of the army may be
inferred from the above.
—E. P. Christy, the renowned minstrel,
died in New York, Wednesday.
--The whole North will be pleased to
learn that the Norfolk Navy Yard is not to
be reconstructed. 3
—The President has signed the Ho ,e-
stead Bill. '5
——Events have shown a strong Unio
feeling 111 Memphis. Placards have beén
posted calling meetings of loyal men, in air-
ticipation of the arrival of the Union army,
rejoicing that “deliverance is at hand.”
——-Joseph Prindlc of Mill Plain (Danbury,)
went to feed his horse, on the 10th, wilh'a
lighted pipe in his mouth. The barn caught
fire and was destroyed. “Put that in your
pipe and smoke it."
——Judge Terry of California who shot the
lamented Broderick, according to the Rich-
mond Eta-miner has had two brothers killed
in the rebel army, and is expected soon to
join it himself
—-—-The sum of $5,652 dollars has been
raised in New York as a testimonial to Licut.
Worden.
—Rev. Geo. W. Bethune, the distinguished
clergyman, authorer and lecturer, died at
Florence, Italy, April 28th, in his 5811) year.
He entered the ministry at the age of 21, in
connection with the Presbyterian Church,
but shortly after transferred his relations to
the Reformed Dutch. His life and works
are familiar to the whole country.
————-Hon. Chas, J. Ingersoll of Pennsylvania
.a prominent democratic politician, died at
Philadelphia on Wednesday. \
———'l‘he Bridgeport papers notice the death
in Stratford, of the venerable and respected
Mrs. Ellis Thompson, widow of John
Thompson, in the 98th year ofher age. The
chased was remarkable for her personal ac-
complishments and Christian virtues.
——Several of the honest merchants of New.
bern, N. C., have lately notified the New:
York merchants to whom they were indebt-
ed that they were rcady to pay at sight.
'-——The appraisers of the Estate of the bite
Col. Sum. Colt have finished their labors,
says the flows, and estimate the whole
amount of his property in Hartford at about
$8,000,000. This is exclusive of property in
England, South America, the western states
and Texas, believed to amount to $1,000,000
more.
————Dennis Manny, an Irishman of Stamford,
30 years of age. was drowned while attempt-
mg to swim across the harbor, Tuesday the
20th.
——There isa pair of Colt‘s revolvers, near-
ly finished, at Colt’sArmy in Hartford, which
are inscribed—“From the President of the
United States to the King of Denmark.”—
The pistols are the improved army pattern,
made in the most perfect manner, and ele-
gantly inlaid with gold.
—-—Dr. Wm. B. Mofl’att, the celebrated and
wealthy patent-medicine man, died in New
York a few days since. '
_ ford.
General Headquarters, State of
Connecticut.
ADJUTANT GENERAI.’s OFFICE, l
Hartford, May 16th, 1862. f
[General Orders, 3’0. 17.]
Upon a requisition of the Secretary of War,
the Commaudcr-iu-Chief directs that Two
Hundred Volunteers each, be enrolled for the
8th, 10th and 11th Regiments.
Those enrolled under these orders will be
entitled to the pay and allowances of soldiers
in the regular service, and in addition the
Bounty allowed by this State to Volunteers
and their families.
Officers detailed for the recruiting service
will be required to report daily to this De-
partmcnt.
The Recruits will rendezvous at New Ha-
ven.
By or'hr of the Commander-in-Chief,
J. D. WILLIAMS,
3t21 Adjutant General.
<.»o
General Headquarters, state of"
Connecticut.
ADJUTANT GENERAL’s Orr-res, }
Hartford, Ma 22d, 1862. f '
[GENERAL ORDERS, No. 2 .]
. 1. The President of the United States hav-
Ing made requisition for another Regiment
of Infantry from this State, the Commander-
in-Chief directs that Voluntreers be enrolled
spfl'lcient to organize one Regiment, to be de-
srgnated the 14th Regiment of Infantry, to
serve for three years or during the War, un-
less sooner discharged. The plan of organi»
_zation will be the same as of those Regiments
now in the field.
2. The Regiment will consist of ten com-
panies, and each company will be organized
as follows:
MINIMUM.
1 Captain, 1 Captain,
1 First Lieutenant, 1 First Lieutenant,
1 Second Lieutenant, 1 Second Lieutenant,
1 First Sergeant, 1 First Sergeant,
4 Sergeants, 4 Sergeants,
8 Corporals, 8 Corpora‘s,
2 Musicians, 2 Musicians,
1 Wagoner, 1 Wagoner,
64 Privates. 82 Privates.
as
3.
MAXIMUM.
A re ate. 101 Aggregate.
fife Regiment will be organized as fol~
lows:
MINIUM. naxmun.
830 Company Oflicers and 1010 Company Olsen and
Enlisted Men, Enlisted Men.
1 Colonel, 1 Colonel,
1 Lieutenant- Colonel, 1 Lieutenant-Colonel
1 Major, jor,
1 Adjutant, (a Lieut.) 1 Adjutant (a Lieut.)
1 Regimental Q. M. 1 Regimental Q. M.
(a Lieutenant.) (a Lieutenant),
1 Surgeon, 1 Surgeon,
2 Assistant Surgeons, 2 Assistant Surgeons
1 Sergeant Ma'or, 1 Sergeant Ma or
1 Re imental . M. 1 Re imental M.
erg'eant, ergeant, .....
1 Regimental Com- 1 Regimental Com-
missary Sergeant, missary Sergeant,
1 Hospital Steward, 1 Hospital Steward,
2 Principal Musicians. 2 Pringipal Musi-
clans,
844 Aggregate. 1024 Aggregate.
4. be several Companies, when full, may
nominate their commissioned oflcers Squads
of sixty-six may nominate two Lieutenanta,
and one of thirty-three men may nominate a
2d Lieutenant. The Commander-in-Cbief
reserves the right—when the interests of the
service may require—to consolidate such
squads, and the higher Officers in a Com-
pany so consolidated will be nominated by
the Company from the Lieutenants. The
Company non-commissioned Oflcers, until
the Companies shall be embodied in a Regi-
ment, will be appointed by the Captain; af-
terward by the Colonel, on recommendation
of the Captain. ‘
5. The Field Officers will be appointed by
the Commander in-Chief.
6. The Colonel will appoint from the Corn-
pan subaltcrns, an Adjutant and aRegimen-
tal nutter-Master, who may be reassigr'ted
to his company at his pleasure. ,
7. The Surgeon and Assistant Surgeons
will be appointed by the Commander-in-
Chief after they shall have passed anexamin-
ation by the Medical Board.
8. The non-commissioned Staff will be se-
lected by the Colonel from the non-commis-
sioned officers and privates of the Re 'ment;
and vacancies so created will be filleslby ap-
pointment, as is prescribed above.
9. The Regimental Chaplain will besp-
poir t d by the Regimental Commander,on~'
the vote of the Field Officers and Company
commanders on duty with the regiment at
the time the appointmentis to be made. The
Chaplain so appointed must be at larly
ordained minister of some Christian enom-
‘ination, and will receive the pay and allow-
ances of Captains of Cavalry.
' 10. No man under the rank of commission-
ed Officer, who is under eighteen or over
forty-five years of age, or who is not in phys-
ical strength and vigor, will be received.
11. Persons nominated for Company
Officers, will be examined in the school of
the Soldier and Company, by a board of 91-.
aminers, appointed by the Commander-in-
Chief. The examiners will also inquire into
the moral character and habits of the persons
examined, and report for the information of
the Commander-in-Chief. When a person
desi ned as an officer shall be found not
qualified, another nomination will be made
instead. When no nomination shall be made
to the Commander-in-Chief, he will fill the
vacancy.
12. Arms, equipments and uniforms will-
be furnished the troops, and when they are
accepted into service, will receive the same
pay and allowances as the regular arm , and
in addition from the State of Connecticut. a
bounty of Thirty Dollars a year and “six
dollars per month for a wife, if any there be
and two dollars per month for each child
under fourteen years, provided the sum in
the aggregate does not exceed ten dollars
per month. ~
13. “Every volunteer non-commissioned
officer, private, musician and artificer, who
err-tcrs the service of the United States under
this plan, will be paid by the United States,
when honorably discharged, the'sum of one
hundred dollars in addition to the regular
pay and allowances. ~
“Any volunteer who may be received into
the service of the United States under this
plan, and who may be wounded or otherwise‘
dizabled in the service, shall be entitled to
the benefits which have been or may be can'-
ferred on persons disabled in the reguar ser-
Vice; and the legal heirs of such as die or may
be killed in service, in addition to all arrears‘
of pay and allowances, shall receive the sum
of one hundred dollars from the United
States. . -j -
“The Wagoncrs will receive the pay and
allowances of Corporals of Cavalry. . .
“The Regimental Commissary Sergeant
will receive the pay and allowances of a Bag-
imental Scr cant-Major." _,
14. The 1 cgiment will rendezvous at Hunt-
15. All applications in pursuance to thehe
orders will be made direct to the Adjutant
General.
By order of the Commander-in-Chief,
JOSEPH D. WILLIAMS,
Adjutant General.
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RAIsING OF THE BLochDE.-The Presi-
dent has issued a proclamation declarin the
blockade of the ports of Beaufort, Port Roy-
al and New Orleans, shall so far cease and
determine from and after the first of'June,
that commercial intercourse with these ports,
except as to persons and things contraband
of war. may from that time be subject to the
laws of the United States, and to the limita-
tions and in pursuance of the regulations
prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
o‘.--" -- *‘
STEAMERS For: NEW ORLEANs—Threc
steamers are already advertised for New 0r-
leans, from New York, the BlackstOne, the
Roanoke, and the Marion. The Blackstone
and Marion will stop at Key West raised
the mails, and the Roanoke wrll go by way
of Havana.
«Ob-m,—
The Connecticut Senator.
The legislature of Connecticut will choose
a United States senator next Week, the term
of Senator Dixon having expired, but no
change will likely be made, Senator Dixon
has discharged his official duties with so
much ability, industry, courtesy, firmness
and good senselllnt he has made few enemies
and acquired nmuy new friends, He is on;
of the most accomplished members of the
body to which hebelougs, and Connection
only honors, herself in retaining his services.
1". 1. Eu. Post.
muop-w—— _
Tare licenses or 01er WARAWe am
heard much of the terrible destitution created
in the south by the war, but nothing that
gives us so vivid an idea ot‘thp terrible priva-
tions as tho slnlement by a mimpdpdgn;
with Halleck’s army, who writes that he say
a woman in her “party dress," andabsolutc.
ly without hoops. That butter and even
bread should be wanting we, can, conceive,
but hoops-what a country _ 2
Prostdcm' Journal.
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