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General Headquarters, State of
Connecticut.
AD JUTANT annnAL‘sOmnicic, '.
J Hartforgl, July]11, 1862. l
‘ERAL ‘ nouns, o. 56.
[thThe President of the United States hav-
ing accepted from the several States an addi-
tional force of three hundred thousand vol-
- untcers to serve for three years _or during the
war, the Conimander’in-Chief directs that the
uota from this State be organized as infant-
r , as herein provided. . .
2. Each Regiment Will consist of ten coin-
anies, and each company Will be organized
as follows :
MINIMUM.
1 Captain,
1 First Lieutenant,
1 Second Lieutenant,
1 First Sergeant,
4.Sergeants,
8 Corporals,
2 Musicians, .
summon.
1 Captain.
1 First Lieutenant,
1 Second Lieutenant
1 First Sergeant,
4 Sergeants,
8 Corporals.
2 Musicians,
1 W9. oner 1 Wagoner .
64 Privgates, , 82 Privates,y
83 Aggregate. . 101 Aggregate. .
3. On the application of persons proposmg
to enroll‘ companies, the_ Commanderoin-
Chief will, at his discretion, issue orders
granting authority to enroll volunteers and
entitling the person to whom they areissued
to receive a commission as Second Lieuten-
ant whenever he shall have enrolled .not
less than thirty men, and shall have received
a nomination from a majority of that num-
be: The Commander-iu-Chief reserves the
right—whenever, in his opinion, the interests
of the service ay require—to consolidate
such squads, an when so consolicated, the
rades of the commissioned officers will be
designated by nomination by a majority of
the members of the consolidated company.
Squads of sixty men may nominate a irst
Lieutenant, and eighty-three men a Captain.
The company non-commissloned . officers,
until the Companies shall be embodied in. a
regiment, will be appointed by the Captain;
afterward b the Colonel, on recommenda-
tion of the aptain. ‘
5. No authority will be granted to oflicers
who have been discharged from the volun-
teer service for incapacity or misconduct, or
who have resigned under charges.
6. Each Regiment willbe organized as fol-
lows :
lixrxrn. xaxmux,
830 Compan Officers 1010 Company Officers and
and En isted Men, Enlisted Men,
1 Co onel. - 1 Colonel,
1 L tenant Colonel, 1 Lieutenant-Colonel,
1 In or, 1 Major,
1 A utant, a Lieut.) ( 1 Adjutant (a Lieut.)
a
1 Regimental Q. M. (3
Lieutenant,)
1 Sur con,
2 ABSlstflllt Surgeons,
1 Sergeant Major,
1 Regimental Q. M.
Sergeant, .
1 Regimental Commis-
snry Sergeant,
I Hospital Steward,
2 Principal Musicians,
1 Re imenta
ieutenant,)
1 SM con,
2 Assistant Surgeons,
1 Sergeant Major,
I Regimental Q. M. Ser-
gean , .
1 Regimental Commis-
i-y Sergeant,
1 Hospital Steward,
2 Principal Musicmns,
844 Aggregate. 1024 Aggregate,
7. The Field Officers will be appointed by
the Commander-in.Cliief‘. The Majors of
‘the several Regiments (except those to be
raised in the cities of New Haven and Hart-
ford,) will be appointed from the Captains of
Companies. Promptness in eiilistingacom-
puny and military capacity Will determine
Inch selection.
8. The Colonel.w'ill appoint from the Com-
pany subalterns an Adjutant and a Regi-
mental Quartermaster, who may be re-as-
signed to Companies at his pleasure.
9. The Surgeon and Assistant Surgeons
will be appointed by the Commander-in-
Chief after the shall have passed an exami-
nation by the edical Board.
10. The non-commissioned Staff will be
selected by the‘Colonel from the non-com-
missioned officers and privates of the Regi-
ment; and vacancies so created will be filled
by appOintihent, as is prescribed above.
11. The Regimental Chaplain will be ap-
pointed by the Regimental Commander on
the vote of the Field Officers and Company
Commanders, on duty with the Regiment, at
the time the appointment is to be made.—
The Chaplain so appointed must be a regu-
larly ordained minister of some Christian de-
nomination,and will receive the pay and a1-
lowances of a Captain of Cavalry.
12. No man under the rank of commiss-
sioned officer, who is under eighteen, or over
forty-five years of age, or who is not in phys-
ical health and vigor will be received.
13. Persons nominated for Company Offi-
cers, will be examined in the school of the
Soldier and Company, by a board of exam-
iners will also inquire into the moral charac-
ter and habits of .the persons examined, and
report for the information of the Command-
in-Chief. When a person designated as an
officer, shall be found not qualified. another
nomination will be made instead. When no
nomination shall be made to the Comman-
der-iri-Chief, he will fill the vacancy.
14. Expenses incurred for subsistence,
quarters, &c., previous to the transfer of re-
cruits to a regimental camp or barracks, will
be paid by the United States Mustering and
Disbursing officer for this State, in conformi-
~. t with General Orders NO. ’70 from the War
epartment, 1861. '
15. Arms, equipments and uniforms will
be furnished the troops, when they are mus-
tered into the service of the United States.
16. All officers and privates will receive
the same pay and allowances as the regular
army of the same arm of the service from the
date of their enrollment. In addition, boun-
ties will be paid b the General Government
and the State of onnecticut, in accordance
with the following provisions:
WAR DEPARTMENT, l
WASHINGTON, D. 0., June 21, 1862. 5
Pursuant to a resolution of Congress to
encourage enlistments in the regular army
and volunteer forces it is
Ordered, That a premium of two dollars
shall be paid for each accepted recruit that
volunteers for three years or during the war;
and every soldierwho hereafter enlists either
in the regular army or the volunteers for
the war, may receive his first month‘s pay in
advance upon the mustering Of his company
info the service of the United States. or after
he shall have been mustered into and joined
a regiment already in the service, This
‘order-will be transmitted to Governors of
States and recruiting oflicers.
(Signed) EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
WAR DaPAnTiiENT,
WASHINGTON, D. 0., July 2. 1862. 5‘
Ordered, That out of the appropriation for
collecting, organizing and drilling volunteers
there shall be paid in advance to each recruit
for three years, or during the war, the sum of
twenty-five dollars, being one-fourth of" the
amount of bounty allowed by law ; such
payment to be made upon the mustering of
the regiment to which such recruits belong,
into the United States.
(Signed) EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
Every volunteer non-commissioned officer
private, musician and artifieer, who enters
the service of the United States, under this
plan, and serves for the two years, or (hiring
the war, if sooner ended, will be paid by the
United States when honorably discharged
the sum of One Hundred Dollars,in addition
to the regular pay and allowances—less the
sum of Twenty-five Dollars advanced pay
under Orders from the War Deparment, July
2d, 1862.
Any volunteer who may be received into
the service of the United States under this
plan, and who may be wounded or other
wise disabled in the service, shall be entitled
to the benefits which have been or may be
conferred on persons disabled in the regular
service; and the legal heirs of'such as (lie or
maybe killed in sevices, shall receive the
balance ($75) of the bounty due from the
United States to all soldiers honorably dis-
charged. .
From the State of Connecticut, by set of
the General Asscniby, approved June. 1861,
a bounty of Thirty Dollars at year and “six
dollars a month for a wife, if any there be,
and two dollars per month for each child
under fourteen years,‘ providing the sum in
'the aggregate does not exceed ten dollars per
month.” .
Pursuant to a resolution of the General
Assembly to encourage enlistments in the
volunteer service, approved July 10th, 1862,
a bounty of Fifty Dollars, in addition to an
compensation heretofore by law allowed, wi l
he paid to every non-commissioned Officer,
musician,‘artificer or private who has enlist-
ed and been accepted since the fifth day of
May, 1862 or who prior to the‘twentiéth day
of August, 1862, shall enlist in this State and
be musered into the service of the United
States. ‘ ‘ - ‘
The Wagoners will receive the pay and
allowances of Corporals of Cavalry.
The Regimental Commissary Sergeant will
receivethe pay and allowance of a Regimen-‘
talSergeant-Major.
17:» All'applications in pursuance of these
orders will be made to the Adjutant-General’s
Department. , '
By order of the Commander—in-Chief,
JOSEPH D. WILLIAMS,
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untecrs.
$2 at the time of ei‘ilistnient.
$6 per mohtli to the wife of a married
man, or to the youngest child if the wife is
dead. ,
$2 per month to each child under 14 years
of age, not exceeding two.
$30 per ypar from the State.
$50 in advance, by the State, at the time
of entering the service; to those who enlist
before August 20th.
$25 by the United States, in advance, at
the time of entering the service.
$75 by the United States, when honora.
bly discharged.
All this in addition to regular pay of $13
per month of privates, with rations, clothing
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and arms.
A private, leaving a wife and three child-
ren behind, will receive in all, (providing the
war is ended within one year, which is prob"
able,) a total of $458! Few men can do
so Well in these hard times, as a matter of
business remuneration, ta lay aside all ques-
tions of patriotism.
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\Var in Earnest.
There is a well told story of a non-resist-
ant Quaker, who bore without a murmur of
imp nee, the tilting over of his hay-cart
in the meadow; again in passing the bars, a
side lurch dismounted the hay—On the road
home, bad driving, carried the wheel off
the little stone bridge, and away went hay
and cart for the third time, into the brook
below; yet without repining the cart was
righted, the dripping hay re-pitclied upon
the slielvings, and the load conveyed to his
barn, when a sudden thunder-gust careenod
his load, and unhinging the great barn door,
it came crashing doWn on top of Deacon
Broadbrim. Such a chapter of catastrophies
collecteda crowd of sympatliizing specta-
tors, who set themselves to exhuming the
extinct Quaker, as they supposed him to be;
But he was found to be alive, and upon be-
ing asked by the excited spectators “how he
felt,” after cooly surveying the scene, and his
hay spread in all directions about his yard,
meekly, but very decidedly replied that he
“fell as if it was about time for him to 6.221) ress
himself.” Does not the patience and forbear-
ance of this great American nation in deal-
ing with this fierce rebellion, during the past
year or more, find a fitting parallel in the
story of the Quaker? And isn’t it about
time to erprcss ourselves?
One year ago, men and money came pour-
ing out from the people like an - irresistuble
flood, until the Government declined to re-
ceive morc‘of the former, and declared that
it had enough of the latter. To crush the'
Rebellion was deemed but the work of“niue-
ty days.” No more men were wanted, no
more would be received, and all enlisting
was discontinued by order of the General
Government. So strong were we, that men
everywhere felt and preached that the rebels
could be subdued without touching Slavery.
Such was the popular confidence, that when
Fremont issued his famous order decrceing
Frecdwn to the slaves of all Rebels, although
it sent a thrill of hope and joy surging like
some mighty wave pf ocean, through all car-
nest, loyal hearts, yet the President was able
to re-call that order, without one audible
murmur Of discontent. ’Well, a year and
more has passed—nearly or quite, One Thous-
and Millions of Treasure has been expended
and sadder still, over one hundred thousands
of the Countries noblest sons have been sacrifi-
ced, and where do we stand“ tO-day ? Are
we as near the end as we might have been one
year ago this day? When men wanted. to
what they were refused, and now that they
are wanted they don’t want to, and large bo-
nus are being offered everywhere ' to induce
them to come speedily to the country’s res-
cue. Why is it, and what is it that has caus-
ed the change? Is it not that the Border
States have hung like a mill-stone about the
neck of the Government, insisting that what-
ever clse should be done the “ nigger” should
not be touched! And is it not that Northern
Freeman have learned to feel that when ditch-
ing and digging and menial service is to be
done, where their lives are sure to pay the
forfeit, the negro should be permitted, y en
INvITED IN to do a willing service? Is it not
that whatever may have been past .partizan
notions, our people have grown up to a feel-
ing that the lives and health of our soldiers
are at least as sacred as a rebel’s chattel prop-
erty? If the Adiiiinistratirin doubts it, let
the Bugle Blast of EMANCIPATION be sound!
ed, not in timid, doubting, begrudging phra-
ses, but let it rifig out in clear, unmistakable
«cords Let the word itself be Spoken by the
President with the cal-mat will of his great
heart, and he will stir such a tumult of pop-
ular enthusiasm as shall rally about the old
Flag men enough to sweep the Rebellion and
all its aiders and abettors into the Gulf with
the irresistible force of an avalanche !
This year of procrastinations, of delays and
disappointments, has deepened the weld/ions
convictions of the pcoplefitnd let. the moral
and religious impulses of our people be roused
as they surely would be, and the terror and
panic which as surely would seize the rebel
hosts, be thus invoked, and the war might be
deemed virtually at an and. It is not the
mercenary avarice of volunteers that holds
them back. The government itself has chill-
ed the enthusiastic uvrdor of the people. It is
money that causes our men to lag,behind.—
It is for the want of War in EARNEST, with
croryfcftcr broken which has hitherto confin-
cd their arms! In short it is EMANCirATION
that is needed. The tini‘c has come for plain
talking. This infernal rebellion with all its
horrible carnage, has been going on long
enough. We HAVE the power in our own
hands to CRUSH iT; in God‘s name, let not
another widow or orphan be made ’till i'. is
boldly and defiantly let loose.
In no other way, in our humble judgment,
shall we ever have the ' earnest sympathy
of the nations of the earth, or our Own peo-
ple with us, or the God of Battles on out
side. We believe the time has arrived when
it should be done, if from no higher motive
than that of aiding cnlialmcnis.’ With such
a rallying cry, we believe men would rush
to the national standard, as did the northern
ehordes from the mountains of Italy, and we
should present a spectacle such as the world
has never seen since the (lays of Peter the
Hermit. We have every confidence in our
- noble President, and even now as we write,
his proclamation comes dccrccing the execu-
tion of the sixth section of the confiscation
~hill, yet his words luck that ringing earnest-
ness and boldness of declaration, such as
Adjutant General.
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shall reac'b the great throbbing heart of the
for the want ofa Policy, and not the want of.
loyal millions of the people. God grant that .
the Nation may not longer sin away its peace
ensuring opportunities. ,
In a late issue of the New York 11'th
sinctly set forth. We care not what any
man’s individual love of slavery may if‘hc
would honestly name the one thing, :1 id the
only thinyavhich would most speedily end this
horrible war, he would be sure to present
,0.“ argument similar to the follbwing:
“Up to this time, the Slave Power now in
rebellion against the Union“ has had the sole
use of the Four Millions of our people held
in bondage. A blind and senseless prejudice
born of Slavery and its father, the Devil, has
’ prohibited the use of blacks in the National
service, unless as menials to a few officers.—
General Orders have forbidden the reception
into our camps of loyal blacks who had fled
from their rebel masters on purpose to warn
us of ambuscades, surprises and assaults in
overwhelming force on our exposed positions
Negroes who had braved everything to ren-
dcr our arms the most important service have
been surrendered to the traitors who claimed
them as their chattles and by them beaten
nearly or quite to death in punishment of
their patriotism. Offers of military service
by the despised race have been spurned as
insolcnt and insulting presumation. J our-
nals that pretend to be loyal have devoted
far more talent, energy and space to calum-
niating the blacks, who are almost necessari-
ly friendly to the National cause. than to ex-
posing and reprobating the treachery, cruelty.
and villain of the traitors who are seeking
out our ational ruin. To strengthen the
rebtls and weaken the loyal by four millions
of people would seem to have been the chief
aim of the Democratic and Border State lea-
ders and organs throughout the last eventful
year. And the Admintstrat-ion, appalled by
the menace of a divided North, has hesitated
and delayed until the Union is in its last ex-
tremity. We see enough to convince us fiat
it can hesitate no longer. . .
Let us hope that whatever is now done to
undermine the Rebellion will be done in no
halting, grudging, niggardly spirit. Let us
have done with ambiguity and paltering. If
we are henceforth to esteem ablack Unionist
at least the equal of a White traitor, let us
frankly say so. If we want the slaves of
traitors to cease working for the support of
the Rebellion, and begin working generally
and in earnest on the side of the Union, let
us tell them so in unmistakable terms. The
pretence that they will never hear us is sheer
absurdity. They have their expresses and
their telegraphs, somewhat ruder than ours,
but still effective. We are well assured that
news has recently been received at Fortress
Monroe from Florida by secret slave dispatch
in eight days—the distance being not less six
hundred miles. The message probably made
two-thirds of the journey on foot, keeping
clear of cities and highways. Let our Gov-
ernment tO-morrow issue a decree or procla-
mation iving freedom to all slaves of Rebels
who will present themselves at any of our
camps, and henceforth give their services to
the National cause, and three-quarters of the
slaves in Rebeldom would know the fact
within a week, and the residue before the
close of the current month. The fact that
famine now threatens the South, while food
is plenty in the loyal States, would strengthen
the natural impulse to seek for freedom.
“How much and what direct, ositive ser-
vice would thus be secured to » e National
cause, we do not decide; but we firmly be-
lieve a proclamation of fr cm as above
would rapidly concentrate around the Na-
tional standards 100,000 stalwart diggers,
cooks and teamsters ready to be converted
into rank and file whenever our Generals
shall say the word. But we do not count so
much on what they would speedily do for us as
on what they would cease doing for our ene-
mies, and on the diversion of half the effec-
tive force of the Rebellion from shooting Un-
ionists info watching, hunting, and recaptur-
ing fugitive slaves. From the hour that it
was generally understood that a slave escap-
ing from the Rebels to our lines would be a
slave us longer, the Rebel pickets on a line
at least three thousand miles long must keep
at least as sharp a look-out for fugitives in
their rear as for Unionists in their front.—
'Their anxieties and labors would thus be
largely increased. And every hour would
witness a weakening of the material base of
the Rebellion by the escape of enslaved work-
ers for its willing upholders to be emancipa-
ted works on the side of the Union.
“Countrymen! Patriots! we must throttle
thisRebellion ! It is a return of the Dark Ages
—a deification of anarchy, perfidy and Op-
pressiou. And in order that we may speedi-
ly and surely throttle it, let us repel no arm,
however humble, that is ready to be lifted
for Freedom‘ and the Union."
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Town Meeting! ' .
As will be seen by Adv. in another Col-
umn, a Town Meeting is to be held on Satur-
day afternoon next, to vote an additional
Bounty to all who enlist under the Presidents
last Call for 300,000 men. and also to appro-
priate a suitable sum to defray the necessary
expenses of duly authorized recruiting officers
within the town. Other towns have come
nobly forward, some pay $10, some $25,
others $50 and $100 cash to volunteers and
Norwalk must not be behind.
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Glorious News.
It is reported from Washington that, “Fa-
ther Abraham" is going to off coat and roll
up his sleeves, 'and fight the rebels with all
the power that “God and nature” have placed
in his hands.
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Patriotic Concert.
In anotliercolumn will be found an adver-
tisement for a concert to beheld at South Nor-
walk in aid of our sick soldiers. No more
worthy cause could possibly enlist the sym-
pathies of our noble ladies or draw from your
patriotic purses the willing quarter. The
vocal music will be of a very high order of
merit, and will well repay a trip to South
Norwalk to listen to, even in the absence of
the horse cars.
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Enlistments,
Are going on in the State with as much ‘x-
pedition as could reasonably be expected
under all the circumstances. Capt. Fowler's
Company is over half full, and his men were
sworn in yesterday.
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The Fairfield CO. Regiment.
The Governor has Commissioned WM. H.
NOBLE, Esq, of Bridgeport as Col. of our
County Regiment, with the Camp at Bridge-
port. It is reasonably expected that this will
give a fresh impetus to enlistmeiits' through-
out the county.
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Ncw Canaan.
Messrs. Kellogg and Benedict are at work
enlisting a Company from New Canaan.—
Tliey have some 30 men secured, and by'
“poaching” a little on the York State border
wiil be able, no doubt, to raise a company.
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Westport.
Holds a War Meeting, this Tuesday eve-
ning, to be addressed by Col. Noble and Cy-
rus Northrop. She has already done much
better than she has had the credit of doing,
having sent some 100 men to the war. Over
80 families draw the soldier's State Bounty.
Good for Westport.
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- Darien Fairs.
Our Daricn friends are not only aroused
on the enlistment question, but are stirring
the people on the scdro of Church Fairs.—
We wish them abundant success.
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Parson Brownlow’s Book:
George L. Dix do 00., No. 20 Washington
Street, Boston, the New England publishers
of the above work, are now ready to receive
orders, Single copies will also be sent upon
a remittance of the retail price, $1.25. The
bold and graphic narration of the experien-
ces of this heroic good man, in Secessia,
should be read byevcry man, woman and
child throughout the-Confederacyahat every
sympathizer with this diabolical rebellion
may be hated with all the intense loathing
of the Parson's own indignation.
’ I 1 Gucci Suggestion;
It is proposed to select the new corps of I
Tax Assessors and Collectors from among
1 those who can show the strongest. claims by
reason of services rendered in prdnioting
eiilistnieuts and putting down the rebellion.
A good move, and we hope to see it carried
out.
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Who was He ? ,
A capital story is told us of an old Farmer
in the Northern part of this County, who
had been “saving up” to take up a mortgage
of $2000 held against him by a man nearer
the sea shore. The Farmer had saved up all
the money in gold, fearing to trust the banks,
in those war times. Week before last, he
luggcd down his gold and paid it over, when
the following colloquy ensued :
“Why, you don’t mean to give this $2000
in gold, do you ?” said the lender.
“Yes, certainly," said the Farmer, “I was
afraid of the pesky banks, and so I’ve been
saving up the money; in yellow boys, for
you, this long time.” .
"All right,” responded the lender, “only I
thought you didn’t- takc the papers, that’s
all 1”
a‘Talccihe papers .’ No, sir, not I. They
have gone on so, since the war’s been agoing
that I won’t have one of the d—lish things
about. But, the money is all right, isn‘t it 1’”
“Yes, all right, $2,000 in gold. All right,
here’s your note and mortgage.”
And well he might have called it all right,
as the premium on gold that day was 22 per
cent, and his gold was worth 'not only the
face of his bond, but $440 besides, enough to
have paid for'his village newspaper for him-
self and posterity for at least three centuries.
It pays to take the papers.
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TWELFTII AND Tumrnrmrm—Iu
the hat of sick, wounded, discharged or con-
valescent Connecticut soldiers arrived at
New York from New Orleans, on Wednes-
day, by the “Fulton,” we find the following
from this vicinity:
12th Regiment—E. Parketon. N orwalk,
Corp. A. N. Taylor, South Norwalk; H. Tq
Williams, Norwalk; J. K. White, T. Jack-
son, Brookfield; G. B. Botsford, Newton.
13th Regimen t—J ohn Fanchei, Norwalk ;
E. C. Lockwood, R. H. Jones, J. J. Haight,
T. S. Harris, G. H. Scarles, and C. F. Rain,
Stamford.
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WRev. T. Atkinson will deliver the
Concio ad Cleruiu at New Haven, on Tues-
day evening, and will repeat it by request, at
his own'Church in Westport. on Sunday
morning next. '
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W On Sunday morning last,,iu Danbury
a horse broke loose from the carriage and
ran on the sidewalk in West Street which
was full of people going to the different
Churches. He knocked dOwn and ran over
five ladies in that street and then ran on the
sidewalk up Main Street, but as the faces of
the persons in that street were mostlyto.
wards him they saw him in time to get out
of his way. Some of the ladies were very
seriously if not fatally injured.
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Postage Stamps.
We have heard it urged against the use of
Postage Stamps for change—tli at they stick
together and thus become worthless. When
found in this condition, drop them into wa-
ter, either warm or cold; let them remain a
few minutes when they can be easily separa-
ted and dried. Postage stamps of the pres-
ent issue should be folded yum side in, which
will prevent thcm adhering to each other.
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WIn reference to the non-advertising of
the Horse Railway election, by the select
men, it is proper to state, that the South
Norwalk member was out Of town, that it
was expected by the second member of the
Board, that it would be, but it having been
suggested to the Chairman that all parties
pro and con had been made already aware
of the election, nothing was to be gained by
putting the town to the dollar’s expense in
advertising it. We know the faithful chair-
man of that Bo'ard too well to believe him
guilty of any intention to aid the opponents
of that measure, but we do believe that the
party advising that such notice should 'be
withheld, did intend thereby to compass its
defeat. How‘ever, if the public are satisfied
with the legal manner of giving notice, and
wit , e result, we certainly are.
2” «0» at
Nor-walk Behind the Times.
Nearly every other tbwn in the State is
offering a bounty to every man who shall
volunteer to go as a soldier. What does
this mean? Where are our rich men. We
had better give bounties to the half We are
worth than have the rebellion succeed, or to
even resort to drafting. Meriden gives $100
bounty to each soldier, and it will pay. She
has a company enlisted already. Merio'en
has no more inhabitants than N orwalk, and
yet she has sent at least as many if not more
men to the war than we have. Other towns
are giving from $10 to $100 bounty;‘why
will not Norwalk do something; we have at
least some noble rich men. And then the
moral of the thing—to resortltoa draft when
other towns send volunteers—it is‘too mean.
We who remain at home ought to do some-
thing; I am not a rich man, but I will do
my proportion. Let us have war meetings
every night in the week, if necessary. At
our last war meeting,the most effective
speeches that were made (excepting that of
Gov. Buckingham) were those made by
Judge Butler and Col. Cunningham; the
one for $200, and the other for $50. Nor-
walk must come up to the scratch. If we
expect men to leave home and friends, and
give themselves and their lives to their coun-
try, we at least should do our part. *
0‘.
WTbe chronically facetious but always
earnest Izaak Bromley of the Norwich Bul-
letin has enlisted for the war, and calls upon
the young men of his vicinity to step up and
enroll themselves. He wants such as will
be missed when they 1eav’c.‘
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Good for Windsor.
At a Town Meeting in Windsor on Satur-
day afternoon, after a lOng debate, a resolu-
tion was passed allowing $150 bounty for
each of thirty men enlisting from that town
before the 20th of'Augusf. After the vote
was passed private individuals added $30
more makinga total of $180 bounty to each
volunteer, which is more" than any other
town in the State pays.
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Regatta.
There is to be a Regatta at Gregory’s Point
on Tuesday August 12th. See advertise-
ment.
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ANOTHER THIEF CAUGHT.—Ofliccr Bissell
arrested a man named James Tobin, at So.”
Norwalk, on Saturday morning last, for steal-
ing a bag of specie from a Boston gentleman
on the "express train, Friday night. The
gentleman had $196 in silver which he was
going to sell in New York. As the train
reached our StatIOn he went forward to the
light to see by his check what place it was;
when he returned to his seat the specie and
an umbrella were missing. He got out at
the next station, came back to Norwalk, and
roused Officer Bissell, who succeeded, at 3
o'clock, A.M., in catching the thief and secu-'
‘ ring the money.
“flint can I do '2
“plug-11 CVCl‘y wuyf‘ 1.111: you all lllllll;ll'-
i'icd man with good health? you can volun-
teer to tight for your country. If you are a
licalty, vigorous iiiai’ricd man can you I101:
make arrangements to go ? will not the pay
and bounty of a volunteer be more than you
can earn at home? and above a hiswlmt
else can you do for your own 'y but to
fight'fo.i her? I know it is a sacrifice of
personal comfort—I know that it requires a
strong will and purpose to look danger in
the face! but think, is it not for your coun-
try that yon arc to to take this step? And
will you not do it? There are upon the bat-
tle field to-day, incn circumstanced as you
are, who have left home,wife, children and
all, rather than have the government dc-
stroycd and the union broken. . Think you,
they did nOt count the cost 1’ Aye they did.
And you will volunteer to go rather than be
drafted, to get only $13 per month‘and no
bounties. To go wherever you are sent,
having no choice of company or comrades.
Then the idea of being drafted! don't have
to come to this !—rather volunteer and pre-
sent to the world the great spectacle which has
no precedent,—-of a nation, the sovereign of
which is the voice of the people,—putting an
army of a million of men into the field, as
volunteers to protect its rights and maintain
its laws. '
But what can I do? say other classes. Are
you rich? Then give Of‘ your means in eve-
ry way to sustain the government and pro-
vide for the soldiers. Better give the half of
your fortune, than that this rebellion succeed.
For if it succeeds your property will have to
go in one way or another. And you are the
man we are looking to for support in this
war. You can do much to encourage men
to volunteer. Let them see that if you can-
not go, you are willing to make some sacri-
fices of personal wealth and comfort as your
part of the work. Mean men, penurious
men, are nearly as bad as secessionists, for
they cannot go themselves and they hinder
others from going.
But there is one class worse than these.—
I refer to those who croak; who having no
fathers or brothers, nor any dear friends to
go, and because they are either women or
cripples, cannot go themselves, are constant-
ly crying, why don’t you go; and branding
those who do not condescend to reply to
their imperfhience, as cowards. Now we
have work for this class to do. We have
heard them say, If I was well I would go;
or, if I was a man I would go. Why if in-~
hcaven’s name you can’t go, don’t you do
what you can ? Some of you are rich, and
we have heard yousay, you would do this
and that. But we are ready to bring the
wives and mothers of poor volunteers who
have done measurably more for the country
than you.‘ I have heard this croaking- till
I am sick. And now if you are a woman, or
crippled—-and therefore can not fight—~then for
God's sake do what you can. You can sew,
you can comfort those who are sick, or
wounded, or, what is worse, bereaved. Lit-
tle comforts, or kindnesses, a word—a show
of sympathy—will be felt and appreciated.
In times of peril, trouble and sorrow like
these, give up your feasting and dancing and
merry-making, and go to ministering. Let
the army—let the bereaved and stricken——
see that-you are smitten with them and share
their sorrow. It is time that we awoke to
at home to give evidence by their manners
our dauger,—not only for those who
can go and fight but for who remain
and sacrifices that they too feel the danger
and act accordingly. 9“
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.~ ' 1"01‘ the Gazette.
’ \Vestport Moving.
We are informed that the citizens of West-
port are in motion. A meeting of the town
is called for Wednesday next to make an ap-
propriation or raise afund for the-benefit Of
volunteers or their families. With a taxable
property of two million, this town ought to
raise an adequate fund uch a patriotic
purpose. What may not e great estates of
Burma, and WINsLow, and such million-
aires as Mounts Knrcnon and the venerable
DANIEL NAsn accomplish in a crisis like
this, by an apprOpriation of a few thousands
out of their accumulated treasures in aid of
reinforcing the “Army of the Constitution”
-—Of that Constitution under whose guardian-
ship and protection their treasures were
garnered—and which now extends over
those treasures the only guard or security
their owners have for all they have got.
Will not the venerable DANIEL N ASH, now
i his 92d year—born before the Constitution
existed—who has amassed a vast estate un-
der it—and who has been spared so long—
will he not head the subscription for volun-
teers now circulating in Westport,with $1000.
What use can he so fittingly make of a part
of his princely income for the benefit Of his
children and his children’s children—what a
close, such a subscription, from' him, would
make to his life so long profrated beyond the
ordinary limit of human existence. And
then such an example set by him would kin-
dle the fire of patriotism in all around him.
We are glad to know that it is the inten—
tion of the citizens of Westport, by private
subscription, to pay to each volunteer
enlisting in Westport, in Burr’s company,
$25 in addition to all town, state, and nation-
albounties. ’76. .
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SOMETHING an son A PAPER Finn—We
have procured one of “ Jacob's Paper File,”
manufactured in Worcester, Mass, for the
Gazette. It appears to be the mOst simple
and complete article of the kind which we
have ever seen. We were shown by the
general agent for Connecticut, 8 number of
different styles suited for the largest weekly
or daily papers. Also spine for letters, com-
mercial note, and the style particularly adap-.
ted to music, is the most complete for use.—
Witli this there will be no occasion for new
pieces of music being soiled and torn before
they are much used, as is the case frequently.
- It being so arranged by elastics that whether
there be one or thirty pieces it will bind them
just as well. Mr. Wildinau will call upon
our business men about town and cxhibithis
cases, and he can also be found at, the Nor-
walk hotel, for the next few days. Ours can
be seen at the Gazette office. We are quite
sure that a sight of the convenient‘aud inge-
nious device will ensure a ready sale.
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W In an article on “ Improvements,” the
Waterbury American alludes as follows to.an
enterprise of one of our “ Norwalk boys,”
nowa resident of that city:
James E. Ells is laying the foundation of a
handsome block of buildings on N orth-Main-
street, near the foot of Cooke-street. The
dimensions of the block are 57 by 32 feet.—
Thc building is intended for three tenements,
two stories above the basement. The style
of architecture is Italian, and the front, with
its three pcdiments, balconies under the win-
dows, and other artistic embellishments will
make a fine appearance. It will add greatly
to the beauty of that unsightly locality, and
at some future day he intends to ccmove the
old buildin north, and put another block.—
Mr. D. H. Ieloy is the architect, who has
shown a good taste in the plan.
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Vownmnmxa—It has been decided thy
the judicial authority in Vermont, that a man :
who has signed the enlistment roll of a regi. ‘
ment, although not sworn in, is bound to
serve the same as if he had'taken the oath.—
There is no doubt of the correctness Of this
dicision. The U. S. mastering officer for this
State takes the same ground.
. resolution, and it is hoped that it will speedi-
Explosion of Hazarll’s Powder ,'
Mill—Loss of Life. .
Wednesday afternoon, about 3 o’clock, tive
of the wheel mills of the Hazard Powder
Company, at Hazardvillc, blew up, causing
great dcstruction'aiid the loss Of eight lives.
The live mills were several hundred feet
apart, and were substantial buildings, some
twenty by thirty feet in size. In the first
mill that exploded there Were six men at
work, and they, with the building were
blown to atoms. One human foot,‘ which
was found a quarter of a mile distant, was
all that could be found of the six men. One
man was crossing a bridge with a mule and
cart, near the mill. Not“ a vostigc of the
man could be found, the mule was torn in
two parts, one half being thrown across the
stream, and the other thrown over the trees
into a field several hundred feet distant,whilc
the cart was demolished. Another man was
bathing in the stream ; he was found lying
in the water, dead, with a large stone on
his head. A large elm tree, several feet
through, was bro on off and the limbs scat-
tered in all directions. Other trees were
were stripped of their limbs; fences were
destroyed, and acres of grass looked as if
heavy rollers had passed ‘over it. .Most of
the principal mills had it roof crushed in,
windows destroyed, and were otherwise
dama ed. In one building wasalarge quan-
tity of coarse, ungi‘onud powder; this build-
ing was much damaged, but fortunately the
powder did not explode. In one of the
buildings which escaped, there was powder
enough stored to. have destroyed the whole
village. It is remarkable that there were
not more lives lost. It was reported tha't a
large piece of iron was thrown into one of
the cartridge buildings, fracturing the skull
of a girl at work there.
Thousands of people visited the spot in.
the course of the afternoon to view the scene'
of desolation. .
Col. Hazard was on his way from New
York, on the 5 P. M. train, and was told of
the explosion at Berlin Station. Of course
no one can tell the cause Of the explosion, as
every man about the building was blown-
out of existence—Hartford Courant.
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Death of an 'Ex-liresid'ent.
MARTIN VAN BUREN’, err-President of the
United States, died esterday morning, at his
at his residence at inderhook, on the banks
of the Hudson. He was born in that village
December 5th 1782., While in his 14th year
he left the academy and began to study law
with a Kindeyhook lawyer, He was an ac-
tive politician from his youth up, and repre-
sented his town when less than 18 years old
in the Congressional convention for that dis-
trict. Hé worked away at law and politics
combined; was made surrogate Of Columbia
country in 1808; and was a member of the
State Senate from 1812 to 1820. In 1821 he
was elected to the U. Senate,and re-elected in
1827. ,He was chosen Governor ofNewYork
in 1828, but was Offered the place of Secretary
of State by” son,and resigned the Govern-
or’s place to _ 0 Washington. Finding that
he was becoming the real or apparent rival
of Calhoun, he left the Cabinet in 1831 to go
as Embassador to England; but the Senate,
b the casting vote of John C. Calhoun, then
ice President, refused to confirm his nomin-
ation. This made him more popular than
ever with his party, and in 1832 be was elec-
ted Vice President of the U. 8., during J ack-
son’s second term. In 1836 he was chosen
President of the U. S. by a large majority of
the popular and electoral vote. During his
term the paper-money bubble burst up, and
the Sub-treasury bill, requiring real money to
be used by the agents of the government he
came the law of the land. In 1840 he Was
nominated for President; but was beaten by
Gen. Harrison, In 1848 he suffered his name
to be used as the Presidential candidate of
the libeity-loving section of the Democratic
party. His real object was fo.pay Off Gen‘.
Cass for not having supported him in good
faith when he was running in 1840. He ac-
complished his object, for Cass w defeated,
although Van Buren did not get ,' electoral
vote. But by running he gave t e State of
-Ncw York to Taylor, and loss it to Cass. It‘
was a politician’s trick, in fact, although-very
high-sounding phrases used by his son John
and others of that party, who returned to
their wallowings in the pro-slavery mire un-
der Pierce and Buchanan. Van Buren got
about 200,000 votes from the people in 1858,
and the free-soil party really originated then
and there, his backers being mainly in Mas-
sachusetts, New York and Ohio. Since his
defeat Van Buren has lived in easy style at
Lindenwold, a handsome property he owned
in Kiukerhook. He was a born politician, di-
plomatist, and man of business; nothing ruf-
fled him, and nothing daunted him. He
would have been out of place, perhaps, in
such scenes as are now transacting; but he
proved eminently adequate to every trust
confided to him his in career. He is the only
man who ever passed through a regular as
scending grade of offices, from the modest
chair of what we should callthe Judge of Pro-
bate of his native town to the culminating
glory of President of the United States; He
lived too long for his own happiness, and
must have’keenly felt the calamities of the
Southern rebellion; better that he had died,
like Webstgr, before one star was dimmed or
one stripe 'rased from the National Flag.—
He would ‘- ave been 80 years old had he
live’o next December. ~—Uouranl, Friday.
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[S‘A se 'es of most important resolutions
was adopte on Thursday last, at a meeting
of the committees representing the Chamber
of Commerce, the Union Defense Committee
and the Common Council of New Eh.—
The first one calls attention to th por-
_tance of reinforcing the regiments a dy in
the field before attempting to raise new ones.
. It does seem strange to us that this has not
been made the subject of an executive order
or proclamation. In this S ate the necessity
of such a policy is not so ur ent, as our losses
fortunately have not been so great, though
the 6th, 71h, 8th, 10th and 11th regiments are
not by any means full. The lst Artillery, on
account of its excellent discipline and the
prudence of its commander, has lost com-
paratively few, although it is not to up the
maximum. The regiments ‘ New Orleans
are kept up by recruiting ' ‘_ t city. But
outside Ofthis State, at is demand for
troops to fill up the old regi cute is impera-
tive. TO discipline the raw recruit by con-
tact with the veteran, to infuse new life into
the veteran corps by fresh, strong men has
been the policy of every great general; and
the neglect to adopt it will be ascribed to
incomprehensible f‘atuity on the part Of the
Government. The attention of the Governor
of New Yord is to be especially called to this
ly be made the subject of a declaration, on
the part of General Government. The
second resolution declares that all of doubt-
ful loyalty should be regarded. as disloyal.
But the most Significant declaration, as
showing the_change which the public mind
everywhere is undergomg was the following:
Resolved, That every day's delay complicates our
relations bothforeigu and domestic, ives the Rebels
strength, and is wasting hundreds 0 good and true
men ' and it is far better that every Rebel should
perish than that one moreloyalrsoldier should die.—-'
And therefore it is that Wllh entire unanimity', we
most respectfully a most earnestly call upon thePrcs—
ident to act in his capacu y as Commander-in-Chief
of the Army and Navy of the United States, and im-
mediately issue an order which will take from the
Rebels their great source of strength, while it will
diminish their army by calling to the defense of
their homes large numbers of Rebel officers and men.
And we assure the President that. in this, a: in every
act of his Administration, the people of the Free
States will sustain the policy while the whole civil-
ized world will'applaud the Proclamation of Eman-
cipation. ‘
Who would have expected a month ago
such an utterance from “conservative” New
York? The mills of the Gods have ceased to
grind slowly.
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$100 Bounty.
Full one-balfof all the towns in Lifchfield
County have offered the above bounty to
Volunteers. The County meeting at Litch-
field last Tuesday voted to recommend and
urge all the towns which have not already
voted bounties to this amount, to do so, and
thus create a uniform system.
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(13‘ One of the soldiers of the 9th Regi-
mentC. V. gave birth to a son on the 17th
ult. That must be a model regiment. No
recruits need be called for to fill their thinned
ranks. They can fall back on their own re-
sources—Hartford Post. -
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'1 DEATH or “BLACK SAM.”v:-I-’001‘, blind,
“Black Sam” as he was familiarly termed, or
Samuel Holmes, as should now be the res-
pectful recordof his memory, died in a fit,
Sunday last. ‘ He was one of our “village in-
stitutions,” kind and inoffensive, and the
source of an infinite amount- ot amusement
wherever he drifted. Poor Sam.
(3‘ ’l‘heGreat ,Eastern passed the mouth
of our harbor about five ofcloek Saturday P.
M. She was very heavily laden apd prayed
so slowly as to afford a fine view other-mop.-
ster proportions and her movemwts. ' l
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Important Army orders. ,
War department, July ’22d. Executive
order—First, Ordered that military comman-
ders within the State of Viiginia, South Caro~
lina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi
Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas, in an order-
ly manner, seize and use any property, real
or personal, which may be necessary or con-
venient for thbir several commands, as sup-
plies or for other military purposes, and that
while property may be destroyed for www-
military objects, none shall be destroyed in
wantonness or malice.
Second—That military and naval comman-
ders shall employ as laborers within and from
said States, so many persons Of African de-
scent as can be advantageously used for mil-
itaI'y or naval purposes, giving them reason-
able wages for their labor.
Third—That as to both property nnd‘pcr-
sons ofAtrican dcscents accounts shall be kept
sufficiently accurate & in detail to show quan-
tities and amounts, and from whOm both
property and such persons shall have come,
as a basis upon which compensation can be
made in proper cases, and the several depart-
ments of this government shall attend to and
perform their appropriate parts toward the
execution of‘tliese orders.
By order Of the President.
E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
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' Report from Gen. Pope.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF'VIRGINIA, l
WAsnrNoTON, July 24, 1862. f
WTo Hon. Edwin 11!. Stanton, Secretary of
ar :— ,
A cavalry expedition, sent by Gen. King
on the 22d,.from Fredericksbnrgh, returned
last evening. Early yesterday morning they
met and defeated a body of Confederate cav.
airy, one hundred strong, stationed near Car-
mel Church, on the telegraph road from
Fredericksburgh to Richmond, burnt their
camp, and six cars loaded with corn, and
‘broke up the telegraph to Gordonsvillc. An
hour later a large body of Stuart’s rebel cav-
alry came up to attack them, and these too,
were defeated, and driven across the North
Anna River, and pursued till within sight of
Hanover Junction. queral prisoners, a
large number of horses, and many arms
were brought back. A march of seventy
miles and the encounter and defeat of two
bodies of rebel cavalry were accomplished in
twenty-nine hours, and without the loss of‘ a
man. I have not yet received the names of
the commanding officer and troops who have
thus distinguished themselves, but will trans-
mit them to you as soon’ as the particulars
are received. The damage done to the Vir-
ginia Central Railroad, by the expedition of
the 19th inst, has not yet been repaired.
JOHN POPE,
Major-General Commanding. -
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. WASHINGTON, July 24, 1862.
The first of September is determined upon
as the day on which the new international
tax bill will go practically into operation.—
Collectors and assessors will be appointed
before that date, which is officially pro-
claimed. - . 7
; The Danish Charge (1’ Affairs and Secre-
tary of the Interior, have entered into a con-
tract with the Government of the former,
agreeing to receive from the United States all
negroes .‘ivered from on board vessels
seized in a prosecution of the slave trade,
by Commande‘ of United States vessels,and
provide them with suitable instruction,cloth-
ing and shelter, and employ them at wages
under such regulations .as shall be agreed
upon, for a period not exceeding five years
from the date of their landing upon the is-
land of St. Croix.
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Death of lax-President Van
Buren.
KINDERHOOK, July 24,1852.
_Ex-I_’resident Martin Van Buren died at
his reSidence, at Lindenwold, at 2 O’clock
this morning, in his 79th year.
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Gen. Pope’s Method with Trai-
tors.,
Major Gen. Pope's order number eleven
directs the arrest of all disloyal persons with-
inflie reachof any position of his command.
Such as-are willing to take the oath of alle-
giance and give security for its obedience
shall be permitted to remain at their homes;
‘if they refuse they shall be conducted south
beyond our lines; and be treated as spies in
case they return, or having taken the oath
are unfaithful to it. Any person will be trea-
ted as a spy who communicates with persons
within the lines, except through military au-
thority. .
General Pope has also issued orders to the
different generals commanding divisions in
his army corps’, requiring them to seize all
horses in their vicinity, especially in Culpep-
per county, and all stores not absolutely ne-
cessary to the inhabitants. .
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. 33‘ About 200 men are vigorously at work
in completing Fort Gores. which commands
the entrance to Portland harbor. The walls
are 7 feet thick, of solid granite, and will be
pierced for about 70 guns of large calibre.—
' The first tier of casemates is now being
constructed. The work wss commenced in
April, 1858, and suspended in the autumn of
1860, after 10,000 had been expended. Upon
the breakingout of the rebellion and the
threats of foreign intervention, the necessity
of completing the fort became imperative,
Egg] the work was resumed in September,
ad.-.
WTWO weeks ago the telegraph bore to
the western papers an order issued from the
War Department to the efiect that no prison-
ers taken in arms shouldéexecuted without
the sanction of the Pres t. In forty eight
hours after, this news 5 circulated over
North Missouri; aiid forty-eight hours after
that we have news that 700 guerillas,’ well-
armed, and provided with cannon, have at-
tacked Sfate troops at Monticelo. This is
the effect Of the suspension of Gen. Schofield’s
order to shoot guerillas at sight.
I ,.
W A few days ago Gov. Yates of Illinois
received a letter from a town in the southern
part of the State, in' which the writer com-
plained that traitors in his town had cut
down the American flag; and asking what
ought tobe done in the premises. The Gov-
ernor promptly wrote him as follows:
“Whenever you raise the flag on your own
soil, or on the public property of the State
or county, or at anypublic celebration. from
honest IOVe of that flag, and patriotic devo-
tion to that country which it symbolizeaand
any traitor dares to lay his unhallowed hand
upon it to tear it down, then I say shoot him
down as you would a-dog, and I will pardon
you for it.”
Good meGov. Yates of Illinois!
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Volunteer. . .
We are glad to see that movements are
being made in Windham and New London
Counties to secure volunteeqs and form a
regiment. They have. yet, according to the
Adjutant General‘s report, furnished but
2,466 men, and ought to raise a regiment and
a half more. The men are- wanted to-day.—
.n the factories and on the fertile farms of
Eastern Connecticut, there are thousands of
healthy men, who only require the proper
appeals to be brought into the service Of the
nation. They are brave and hardy, and
would do honor to the cause. Let them be
brought into the field at once.
Up to the first of April last, according to
the Report Of the Adjutant General, there
had beeu‘13,666 volunteers from this State.
divided among the several Counties as fol-
lows :—
New Haven County, 3,331
Hartford “ 2,439
New London “ 1,431
Fairfield “ ‘ 2,055
' Windham " 1,035
Litchfield “ 1,210 ,
Middlesex “ 552 .
Tolland, “ — 344
Unknown, etc., 1,265
Of those under the head of unknown, etc.
'nearly all were in New Haven'and Fairfield
Counties, thus bringing up the proportion of
this section of the State to a very large pre-
ponderance over that of the northern and
‘ easterinsections, These sections should make
up their quota. If it comes to a draft. they
will be compelled to do it, add they will find
it much better to‘ doit voluntarily. Let us
hear a hearty response from “down East,"
and our peeple here. now so heavily drawn
upon, will take hold and try to keep ahead
in the same proportion as before, Push on
the volunteering—JV. II. Courier. ’
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[3' The National Intelligence says of the
horse railroad just put in running order, on
Peusylvania Avenue Washington:
Theintrodnction of passenger railroads into
this city of“ magnificent distances ” may be
regarded as formilig an important epoch in
the history of the city, second only to the con-
strution of' the great Potomac acquednct, and
we sincerely congratulate our citizen, as well
as Congress and the Government, on “8 suc-
C953:
NEWS ITEMS.
————Two twin aughtcrs of Capt. John J.
Critlcndcn, of Chatham, aged 14, were
drowned while bathing in the Connecticut
river, on Wedn sday. Their bodies were re-
covered in about half an hour, but life was
extinct.
Married, in New Milford, July lst, Ilen-
ry Benedict, Esq, of the ripe old age Of'six-
teen, to the venerable: Miss Sophia Noble,
“Std lburlccn. SO says the Hartford Post.
-——Thelibcral citizens Of New Britain have
raised a fund 0f$12,000 to aid eulistmerts.——
Three men subscribed one thousand dollars
each, and seven, five hundred dollars each.
They propose to pay out of this fund,
850 to each man that enlists from that town.
New, Britain has already furnished 220 men,
prayious calls, and hopes now to send at least
one full company.
During the French war, as it was called,
the polltax in New England was four dol- ‘
lars, the lax on real estate was at the rate of ~
thirty-six dollars on a hundred valuation, and
there was an excise duty on tea, coffee, wine,
rum and other articles in general use.
——The mint~ is coining two hundred thou-
sandnickel centsa day, and will probably
floutinue this as long as the demand contin-
cs.
—Two‘ church members got into a fi ht in
the vestibule of one of the New even
churches, Sunday, as the congregation were
entering the church. Their faces were dis-
figured by bloyvs, and the excitement became
general lnSlde the church and out. Finally
the men were forcibly separated. It was an
old quarrel. ,
—Sinisbury voted on Saturda to
each volunteer from,that town th): sunfi’f
one hundred dollars. Two or three towns
in that vicinity propose to unite and recruit a
full (ompany.
—The number of sick and wounded in the
hospitals at Washington and vicinity is 5300.
————Parson Brownlow does not grow an
more amiable towards the rebels in East
Tennessee. In a recent letter he says of
them: “Certainly nothing short of an old- .
fashioned or hodox hell will suit as a place
of confincm at for the persecutors of these
Union men.” . '
——Lieut.-Col. Dexter H. Wright of the
Fourteenth has been promoted to be Colonel
of the Fifteenth, or New Haven county reg-
iment. - '
-——Wm. H. Noble of Bridgeport has been
appointed Colonel of the Seventeenth or
Fairfield county regiment, to go into camp
at Bridgeport. .
-—Three brutal men in Stamford, named
Lonnsbury,Fincli and Sniffer), have been or-
rested and fined for cruelly beating a horse
owned by. Lounsbury. .
-——Suffield had its town meeting, Thursday
aflei-noop, largely attended. They voted to
give one hundred dollars - extra bounty to
each recruit from that fawn. ,
—A day or two since, says the New Haven
Journal, as the afternoon train from Hartford
was passing near Hamilto‘n street bridge,t_be
engineer discovered a man lying with his
head apparently on the track. The train
could not be stopped in time, and the wheels
took 011‘ his hat, leaving the drunken man
asleep and uninjured .’ After that he can-af-
ford tO enlist.
———Miss Jane Fuller of Scotland has just
reached home from Florida, where she has
been teaching school, having escaped with
much difficulty.
. 4 . > .
A Proposition.
The rumor that the government intended ‘
to accept volunteers for one year is not yet
confirmed. The men would be immediately
raised under such a call, but a twelve month.
enlistment has this disadvantage : the Inldiera
are discharged just is they get so drilled as
to be most effective. Still the rebellion
might be substantially crushed in one year if
we had men enough in the field, even if they
should go into battle with only three months
training. .
We propose, therefore, that if the govern- ‘
ment does reduce the time to one year, it also
increases the call to half a million of m. . It
can have them and finish the war at once.
Hartford Press.
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CAUTION TOTRAITORS IN OUR Miner.—
Wilkes’s Spirit says: “ We are informed that
the Commissioners of Police have been in-
dustriously engaged for some time past in
forming lists ofall persons Of Secession pr'ui-
‘ciples and doubtful loyalty, who at present
infest the community. The whole fprce of
the Department has been secretly cmplo -
ed in this good work, and tie use to be
made of it will probably be to direct the
Government, when drafting shall commence,
where to go for its first levy. Those secret
traitors, therefore, who have thus far been
discouraging enlistments, had better change
their policy, for in degree as the progress of
recruiting is retarded does the hour of their
conscription approach. Information as to
disloyal persons is solicited by the Depart-
ment from all good citizens.”
——-—oo<..>~~——
(13" According to the Tnbune, Senator
Jim Lane has been comissioiied by Govern-
ment to raise and organize an army in the
Department of Kansas in his own way and
upon his own principles. He has the san-
rance of the President and Secretary of at
that this time he shall not be interfered with. -
The General commanding the Kansas
partment is in harmoney with Lane, and is
directed to giVe him all needful aid. , .
«ONE—— '
Care for the Soldiers.
We would suggest to the ladies of our Stat.
the propriety of lying by this summer a lar-
ger supply than usual of jellies and dried
fruits.' These luxuries are almost indispen-
sable to the sick and wounded, and it is not
probable that the number of invalid aoldieo
in our hospitals will be diminished (hiring
the coming year. Indeed, as new battles are
fought, the number of these must be materi-
ally increased. It is the proper time now to
anticipate any possible wants of the future.—
A little forethought in providing delicacies
which will quicken the appetite and facilitate
the recovery of the broken down vdunteor,
will carry joy to homes all over the land.
We need no: dwell upon this topic. The
women of our State - have shown their wil-
lingness to contribute to the comfort of the
soldiers in a thousand ways. We make the
suggestion for them to consider and’sct iipon. ,
In no better way can they prove their'dev’o-
tion to the cause. ‘ ‘
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W The New London Star says: “Why
should not the new navy yard be located
here? Connecticut has never received much
the Government for which her sons have so
freely shed their blood, and now all that sh. , -
asks is that the most suitable place be select-
ed, and this she thinks she has a right to
claim. We hope that to the commission ap-
pointed to examine our harbor, a medical of-
ficer, an engineer and a naval constructor-will
be attached, that the superior advantages of
our location may be fully appreciated by the
Government.” We hope that Government
may fully appreciate the advantage of New
London for a Navy Yard. It has all the ad-
vantages that could be desired—agood har-
bor, deep water, its desirable climate, &c., '&c.
Aside from all the advantages, it is due to
Connecticut, in consideration of'her past ser-
vices, and the small amount received in re.
turn, that her claims should now be consid-
ered. We trust that the Secretary 'of the
Navy will decide in favor of New London.
—ac<...
'Tiin CONN. FIrTm—A letter from Charla
Boardman, a member of CO. F, Fifth Regi-
ment, to. his father and brother ' is dated
“Camp near Warrenton, July 14.” From it
we learn that the Fifth is in the lsf brigIEde:
Gen. Crawford, in Gen.Williamsliivi3ion,
under Gen. Banks, and forming a part of
Gen. Pope’s army. He says they marched up.
to Luray, 27 miles, and back the next day,on
a reconuoisance A few days afterward they
marched to Warrenton. The weather was
very hot. Some of‘the men were sunstruek
and some died in other regiments, but none
in ours. The cars are running there,and they
get Philadelphia papers the same day they
are printed.
«0».
WA complete list of all persons of seces-
sion principle or d
oubtfnl loyalty has been
formed in New York city. The Whole force 7
of the Department has been secretly emplo ,- .
ed in this good work, and the use to be ma 0-
of‘it will probably be to direct the Govern-
ment, when drafting shall commence, where
to go for its first levy.- ,
-—-——O~<.>..————-——
WCharles Chapman said,in a recent speech
. delivered in Waterbury, that any man who
would discourage enlistments “ought to be
dead and buried with his face downward,.to
show that he h’ad' turned spicy from his
Gor .”—N. H. Palladium. ' ' ' “
«Mr—f”!- .
THE CONTINENTAL MONTHLY for August
contains the conclusion of Edmond Kirke's
remarkable papers “Among the Pines," also
the commencement of a Story descriptive of
“poor white" life at the South, by the same
author. It is a very good Magazine.
Norwalk Chronicler