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STONE, v, _, . , enemas, ‘ ’ Will furnish Plans, Specifications, Detail Drawings, and superintend the erection of ublic and gfivate buildings. Office in Mar- ley Block, hapel-st, New Haven, Ct. , use . E0.- F. BELDEN, Norwalk, Conn.~,Ma'n- ufacturer oi Tin, Copper, and Sheet Iron Ware; and dealer in Stoves, Ranges, Furnaces, Cutlery, Brittannia, Wooden and Willow Ware, Crockery; and a full assort- ._ ment of House Keeping articles generally. - c. s. LOGRWOOD, Fashionable Draper & Tailor, and GENTLEMEN’S FURNISHING EMF 031131“: 2 No. 8 Skiddy‘s Block, Main-st, Norwalk, Ct n.1, ems-rm a co., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Groceries, Flour, Feed, on, 14 and 16 Main-st, Norwalk, Conn. Erna msnaancs COMPANY, 0f Hartford. , Incorporated in 1819, Charter Perpetual. . Gash Capital , $1,000,000 Insure against loss and damage by Fire, on Terms adapted to the bazard,and consistent with the laws of compensation. GEORGE R. COWLES, Sole Agent US For Norwalk and vicinity. War Claims. THE undersigned, through the agency of reliable friends in Washington, is re- ared to secure Bounty Money, Back ay, Pensions, and claims of all kinds against the Government. Charge for collecting from two to five per cent. No charge will be made for advice given in relation to claims, and no foe charged unless the claim is col- lected. JOSEPH W. WILSON. . Aug. 22, 1862. ' A. JACKSON a. 330. No. 1 Gazette Building. WOULD respectfully announce to the public and their old customers, that they have recently made extensive additions to their stock of goods. We are now prepar- ed toofi‘er an assortment not to be surpassed in Fairfield Count , in quality or price. We would call particu ar attention to our stock of Watches, which is lar er than ever before.— We have a fine lot of adies’ Swiss Watches, in gold cases, at prices varying from $20 to $75, which We can recommend as bein r cor- rect time keepers. Also, Gentleman’s atch- es, in silver and gold cases, at any price from $5 to $-00. We buy of the best importers in New York, and altogether for cash, so that our facilities for sellmg cheap could not be reater. Our stock of Jewelry, Silver and hated Wares was never better than at pres- ent. and comprises all of the latest styles that are manufactured. A. JACKSON & BRO. Carts and Wheelbarrows, 0R Children, sold by C. & E. K. LOCKWOOD 65 CO. G. N. ELLS- - WHAT IS THE USE? , What is the use of trimming a lamp, If you never intend to light it 7 What is the use of grappling a wrong. If you never intend to fight it i’ What is the use of removing your bar, If you do not intend to turd-y? What is the use of wooing a maid, If you never intend to marry ? What is the use of buying a coat, If you do not intend to wear it? What is the use of a house for two, If you never intend to share it i What is the use of gathering gold. If you do not intend to ke. it ? What is the use of planting a field, If you never intend to reap it :7 What is the use of buying a book, If you do not intend to read it 9 What is the use of a cradle to you, If you never intend to need it f «O.» o——-——-.—-- Orpheus C. Kerr, in a late letter to the Sunday Mercury, contributes the following exquisite poem : “ PICCIOLA.” It was a Sergeant old and gray, Well singed and bronzed from siege and pillage, Went tramping in' an army’s wake, Along the turnpike of the village. For days and nights the winding host Had, through the little place, been marching, And ever loud the rustics cheered, ’Till ev‘ry throat was hoarse and parcliiug. The squire and farmer, maid and dame, All took the sight's electric stirring, And hats were waved and staves were sung. And kerchiefs white were countless whirring. \ They only saw a gallant show Of heroes stalwart under banners, And in the fierce heroic glow, ’Twas theirs to yield but wild hosannahs. The Sergeant heard the shrill hurrahs, Where he behind in step was keeping; But glancing down beside the road, He saw a little maid sit weeping. “ And how is this i” he grimly said, A moment pausing to regard her :— “ Why weepest thou, my little chit r"— And then she only cried the harder. “ And how is this, my little chit,” The sturdy trooper straight repeated, “ When all the village cheers us on, That you in tears apart are seated ? “ We march two hundred thousand strong! And that’s a sight, my baby beauty, To quicken silence into song, And glorify the soldier’s duty.” " It’s very, very grand, I know,” The little maid gave soft replying; “And Father, Mother, Brother, too, All say ‘ Hurrah’ while I am crying; “ But think—O Mr. Soldier, think, How many little sisters’ brothers Are going all away to fight, And may be killed, as well as others l” “ Why bless thee, child," the Sergeant said, His brawny hands her curls caressing, “ ’Tis left for little ones like you To find that War's not all a blessing.” And “ Bless thee i" once again he cried; ‘ Then cleared his throat and looked indignant, And marched away with wrinkled brow, To stop the struggling tear benignant. ‘ And still the ringing shouts went up From doorway, thatch, and fields of tillage ; The poll behind the standard seen By one alone, of all the village. The oak and cedar bend and writhe, When roars the wind through gap and broken; But ’tis the tenderest reed of all That trembles first when Earth is shaken. .4.-. Advantages ofEdncation to La- borers. _On another page will be found a sen- .sible letter froma manufacturer stating that be always finds intelligent educated mechanics more profitable to employ even at higher wages, than those who are un- educated. We have never met any one who had muchwxperience in employing large numbers of men who did not' hold the some Opinion, and, as a general rule those manufacturers are most successful who are most careful to secure intelligent and skillful workmen. It requires extensive observation to enable one'leven partially to appreciate the wonderful extent to which all the faculties are developed by mental culti- vation. The nervous system grows more vigorous and active, the touch is more sensitive, and there is a greater mobility in the hand. We once knew a weaving room filled with girls above the average in charac. ter and intelligence, and there was one girl among them who had been highly educated. Though length of arm and strength of muscle are advantages in wea- ving, and though this girl was short and small, she always wove the greatest num- ber of pieces in the room, and consequent- ly drew the largest pay at the end of everv month. We might fill many pages with similar cases which have come under our observatidn, but there is no occasion. It has long since been settled by the gen- eral observation of manufacturers, that intelligent workmen will do more and better work than ignorant ones. But the excess in the amount of work performed is not the most important re- spect in which an intelligent workman is superior to a stupid one. He is far more likely to be faithful to the interests of his employer, to save from waste and to turn to profit everything that comes to his hand. There is also the exalted satis- faction of being surrounded by thinking active and inquiring minds, instead of by brutes _ Such are some of the advantages to the “Captain of Industry,” which result from the employment of intelligent work- men; not in one article, nor in any num- ber of articles, could they advantages be fully set forth. And if it is impossible to state the advantages to the employer how vain must be the effort to describe those which result to the workmen him- self l The increase of wages is~the least and lowest of the rich rewards of mental cul— ture. The whole being is enlarged and exalted; the. scope of view is widened; the objects of interest are increased ; the sub- jects of thought are multiplied; life :is more filled with emotion ; and the man is raised in the scale of creation. Scientific American. BUYING WINTER THINGS. BY LOUISE CHANDLER MOUI.TON. “ The poor ye have always with you.” “Would you like to go shopping this morning?" ‘ It was Miss Chaloner who asked the question—“Gertrude the magnificent,” as her worshipers called her, with more truth in their epithets than there usually is in the compliments paid to handsome women. Gertrude Chaloner was self- poised to a remarkable degree. No world’s judgment, no human opinion, had power to lay out a foot-path for her im- perious feet. What she willed to do she did, and of small import was any other mortal’s nilly. So far this circumstance had not hurt her popularity, for she had only willed to be the most accomplished, the most intellectual, and the best-dress- ed woman of her set. So, never thinking of fashion, per se, she became a leader of it. A few knew, however, that it want- ed only the true electric spark to quicken that grand nature into something nobler than any of her past dreams. Meantime her powers, unconsciously to herself, wait- ed, as the offerings used to wait upon the altar for the spark of celestial fire which was to make of them sweet incense for heaven. Of course not every one knew this.— Most peeple supposed that she was in her proper sphere now, and would never have thought of associating her with self-denial or self-sacrifices She sat—this clear, bright autumn morning—in her own room, which was shared, just then, with a guest who came the day before—her cousin Nan, from Philadelphia. The pair were a complete contrast, and therefore polarized admira- bly. Miss Chaloner was tall and stately, with dark hair and gray eyes, out of which the waiting soul looked honest, earnest, trustful. Her lips, except when she smiled, were a thought too thin; her brow, now that the hair was rolled back, a thou ght too high. Nau‘Darrow’s brow was low; her eyes laughed even when her full soft lips did not, and her soul was all heart—a creature pretty and most winsome, but one whose good deeds would be off-shoots of impulse, not principle; none the less graceful for' that, however. She reverenced her cousin Gertrude as a superior being; and, after her owu gay fashion, loved her door] y. She sprang up and clapped her handsas Miss Chaloner spoke. "Going to get winter things? Oh, that is charming! I always love to see you shop—you go at it royally. No shilling counters for you! It is well that your purse is as long as your taste is lofty.” Miss Chaloner smiled. “1 fear you’ll be disappointed, Nan.— I am going to buy practical, useful things this morning.” “As if I did not know that your most useful gown was a French cachemire, and your most serviceable stockings were fine- spnu of the silk-worm’s castofi‘ winding- sheet.” . “Well, I am not going to buy cache- mire robes this morning, but I shall get a good many winter things nevertheless.” Nan put on her dainty velvet cloak and tired her French but round a face bright with the careless, thoughtless joy of youth. Miss Chaloner made a graver toilet, and soon they were on Washington Street. Their first stopping-place was at. a grocer’s. Flour and sugar and butter were purchased in liberal quantities, and sent to different addresses, which Miss Chaloner read from a card she held in her hand. Nan began to wonder, but she main- tained a discreet silence. She walked on beside her cousin with her tripping foot- steps till they turned into Summer Street, the more congenial region of dry-goods shops. A half-suppressed exclamation of delight escaped her as she saw the temp- ting array of silks in a window on the north side; and when Miss Chaloner en- tered the door she began to think the true business of the day was commencing. But they did not go up to the silk coun- ter, or turn aside for the soft laces float- ing out mistily. Half-way up the store, where the shelves were piled with sub- stantial cottons and warm blankets, Ger- trude Chaloner stopped, and Nan made a half-unwilling pause at her side. The purchase was- extensive—several pieces of c'otton, half a dozen pairs of soft, warm blankets, in these' days when cotton and blankets are at a premium. Nun’s won- der increased. But the articles were to be sent home this time, and she began to' think her cousin was .secretly contem- plating matrimony' and house-keeping. “We will cross the street, now,” Miss Chaloner said, as they went out. “I saw over there some nice, serviceable winter dress goods cheap.” “When, in the name of wonder, did you begin to care for cheapness?" mut- tered Nan, as the little 'door-boy let them in. The dresses were purchased—a few remnants for children, some dark cali- coes and strong woolen goods in larger patterns. Then a dozen or two of coarse, warm stockings, . and the list was com. plete. . \ “Now, to pay youpfor being good, you shall look at pictures a little,” Miss Chal- ' oner said, as she led the way toward Everett’s. They looked over some choice engrav- ings for half an hour, and finally Miss Chaloner purchased one—small, but a gem of the most exquisite art—a Ma- donna, with the Holy Child smiling in her arms, and the attendant angels looking out from the clouds around, with the brightness of another world upon their brows. to be framed simply, and said that she would call for it on the morrow. With unusual rellct-ncc .\uu rc‘ll‘illlied from any questions until they had reached home, and sat down in her cousin’s pleas- ant room to rest a while. Then when the bundles began to come in, she asked, “Are these blankets and cottons for yourself, Cousin Gertrude?” “No.” “And of course the calicoes and stock- ings and remnants are not. Who, in the name of common sense, are they for? and how much money do you think you have spent this morning on this rubbish?” “As to whom they are for, you shall see that to-morrow; and as to the money I have spent, it is less than half my usual winter allowance.” “And you expect to dress on the other half?” cried Nan, with wide open, won- dering eyes. “No, the other half gbes for coal and house-rents.” “And you are to dress ou—what?” “What I have. Except boots and gloves, I do not mean to have a single new article this winter.” “Except, of course, your bonnet; one" could hardly imagine Miss Chaloner in a last year’s chapeau.” ‘ “Not even excepting my bonnet. My last winter’s one was black velvet. It will alter over irreproachably. I do not mean that the world shall know these things, Nan. I am not going to turn hermit, or even to give up the society in which I have been accustomed to move. I had more now fineries last winter than half my friends had a sight of. I lhall not be conspicuously shabby if I wear them again. I only let you into my se‘ crets because you are my little cousin, who loves me, and I think my example may have some weight with you. You are rich enough to do a great deal of good in the same way. It is going to be a. terrible winter. country never knew before, and goods are selling at prices We should have thought fabulous a year ago. With my ward- robe full of last year’s handsome dresses, I could not think it right to buy new ones, when the cry of the poor and the wail of the destitute are piercing the air on every side.” “But there have been poor people al. ways, Gertie. and you have never felt like this before.” ' “No, I have not realizedstbe fact of suffering as I realize it now. It is the hour of darkness over all the hind. The resurrection morning will come by-and-by, but now the night is mark, and the stars are dim. I will tell you all, Nan. I have given more to my country than gold could buy. One I loved, and who loved me, went, in August, with thethree' years’ men. He came to me with the light of eager courage and self-devotion in his eyes, and asked me to bid him God- speed, and send him on his mission.” “And you did it?" “Yes, I did it. It was a hard struggle; but what was I that I should stay at home and keep my own, and let other women’s lovers and husbands march, and bleed, and die, that I and mine might shelter ourselves in a smiling home, and look out through plate-glass, and from between soft draperies, at the winter?— Yes, I gave him up. He is gone. He will come again, perhaps; but I can never forget that other perhaps—that the month which kissed mine at parting may never kiss again, and the eyes at whose courage I lit the fire of my own resolve may look their last on the smoky sky of some Southern battle-ground. “When I had given him up I longed to do something myself. Beside the one great sacrifice all lesser ones seemed easy, and almost his last words had marked out my path. “How shall I bear it?’ I faltered, clinging to him with a woman’s weakness. ‘By being always busy, Ger- trude,’ and I remember the pity in his eyes as he said it. ‘There are so many suffering ones to comfort—so many wounds to heal." “Since he went away I have been liv- ing a new life. 1 have been among a class of people I had never understood before—the good and honest poor. I have seen there sights to make a woman’s heart ache, and, so far as I-conld, I have carried consolation with me. It is a small sacrifice, Nan, to go without a new cloak, or wear a last year’s dress for the sake of giving a shelter to the shelterless.” “But I never thought you were he- nevolent, Gertrude, and you always seemed to me very fond of dress, in a dignified, high and mighty fashion of ' your own.” “ _ - “So I was, and so I suppose I am still; but that was not all of me, Nan. 'I needed rousing, and I: can not understand the soul which these days of dread and danger, these times of parting and pray- ing, would not quicken to a new. life." ~- ' Nan Darrow looked at her cousin.— Miss Chaloner’s face shone as if she were inspired. Into her great, gray eyes it She gave directions for it' Taxes are such as r ' flood of light bad broken—her pale face was flushed, her head was erect, her chest heaved. Even Nan’s unpenetrating gaze could not fail to see that for that soul its hour had come. They did not talk 'much more. Nun’s nature was impulsive, demonstrative, out- spoken, but she dared not express to Ger- trude the admiration which she felt—as profound as any sentiment of hers could be. “Go thou and do likewise,” was the only tribute Miss Chaloner would have welcomed. - The next morning they took the car- riage, packed with the purchases of the day before, and started to convey them to their destinations. On the way they stopped at Everett’s and took in the Madonna. “Surely this is not for one of your pen- sioners?” Nan asked. “I think one would hardly feed the hungry with pic- tures.” _ “There is more than one kind of hun- ger, child Nan. You shall see whether my gift will be appreciated.” They had stopped at three houses, leav- ing a pair of blankets here, a dress there, and at another a piece of cotton, as need was. At the next pause Miss Chaloner took the picture in her hand, and turned with a smiling face for Nan to follow her. They went up two flights of stairs, and then a faint, sweet voice answered “Come in” to Miss Chaloner’s tap on'the door. They entered a large and not nncomfort. able~ room. Every thing was scrupu- lously neat. In one of the windows stood a tea-rose, a geranium, and a heliotrope. Nan knew they were her cousin’s favor- ite flowers, and guessed. how they came there. In the bed, bolstered. up by pil- lows and knitting busily, was a young girl. She was not beautiful, and yet N on- thought she had never seen a face so sweet. It was a delicate, this face; so pale that the tracery of the blue veins shone through. The eyes were dark. and full of a mournfnl tenderness. The hair was cut short, like a child’s, and lay about the brow in sunny rings. How the pale visage brightened into smiles as she saw who was her visitor! Miss Chaloner took a chair near the bed and gave one to Nan, as if she were at home. Then she asked, "How do you do to-day, Martha?— Did you have a bad night? I have brought my cousin, Miss Darrow, to see you.” “Thank you. I am pretty well; no more pain than usual. I slept several hours last night, and it did me so much good. Mother has gone out to take home some work, and I was quite cheer- ful sitting here alone.” “You always are. It reproacbes me sometimes to think of it,” Miss Chaloner said, kindly. “How long is it since yen have been able to stand on your feet?” “Five years this month, ma’am.” “Five years of lying here in this one place, and looking at the blank wall and suffering!” Miss Chaloner’s eyes grew misty, but 'she=went on, in a tone of en- couragement, “I have brought something go hang in front of you, on the wall, Martha, and perhaps it will comfort you sometimes when you are,lonely.” She unfolded the wrappings from the picture and held it before the sick girl. Martha did not speak. Her ecstasy was wordless, but it shone in her eyes and transfigured her face as she looked. By- and-by her tears began to fall. . “Oh, Miss Chaloner,” she said, a length, “do you mean that that is my own? I never saw any thing half so beautiful. I shall never be lonesome again.” “Do you think my picture was a good investment?” Gertrude asked, smilingly, as they went down stairs. “The best of all!” Nan cried, with eager tones. “0h, Gertrude, isn’t she lovely? So refined, so gentle—~” . “And so patient.” Gertrude added.— “What she suffers no one dreams—nights and days of racking agony—and yet busy every-:-moment when the sharp torture leaves her a respite. If I had made ten times more sacrifice for the sake of doing good, to have known that girl and learned the lesson of nnfaltering trust, of patient submission she has taught me, would have been worth it all.” Nan staid in Boston three weeks longer. She went 'th Miss ChaloIer to buy the rest of her winter things; and when she left, at last, it was with a new purpose in her eager, impulsive, but kindly heart. Last week she wrote to Gertrude Chal- oner:— “1, too, have been shopping since; I saw you. Hitherto I had shopped only for one. Now I am shopping for many, and the reward is proportionately larger.- I do all I can—gas, Gertrude, I do be' lieve I am doing all I can forflhose' whose sufferings you taught me to dis- cover. Sometime, perhaps, I shall be good enough to be called your friend.— ‘I, too, have sent one away to fight for me whom hitherto my selfish love had held back. My ofi'ering, like your, is on the altar. Come to me and teach me ~ bow to wait.” . How long will these women, and many more beside them, have in 'which to learn ‘ - that long, eldw lesson? With what grand results, to them, too", will the waiting be crowned at length? God knows. Harper’s Magazine. The Attack on the Charleston and Savannah Railroad. CONNECTICUT SIXTH AND SEVENTH REGI- MENTS ENGAGED. A hard battle occurred on the 22d of October at a point about four miles from ‘Pocotaligo on the Charleston and Savan- nah Railroad. An expedition left Hilton Head about midnight on the 21st, with the design of destroying the bridges and tressel-work over the Pocotaligo, the Tnlifinny and the Coosawatchie; thus cutting off com« munication between the two cities, leav- ing either to be moro'successfully at. tacked. It consisted of several gun- boats, and 600 47th and 400 55th Penn; 600 4th N. H.; 500 7 Conn.; 480 3d N. 11.; 500 6th Conn.; 300‘ 3d R. 1.; 430 76th Penn; 250 N. Y. Engineers; 300 48th N. Y.; a section of Henry’s Battery, and a. section of the 3d U. S. Artillery. The entire land forces were composed of portions of the first and second brig- ades of the tenth army corps, respect- ively commanded by Brig-Gena. J. M. Brannon and A. H. Terry, ‘the former being senior officer, and therefore com- manding the expedition. The night was misty, and some of the vessels went aground, delaying the expe- dition. Meantime Capt. Gray , with a small company of the ’lth Conn. was sent in boats to capture the rebels’ pick- ets at Mackay’s Point. The project was only partially successful. Part of the pickets escaped and gave warning.— Subsequently Gen. Brannon learned from a rebel ofiicer that they had antici- pated and prepared for the expedition. The troops got lauded by 10 A. M., and marched seven miles without meet- ing any enemy. - At length; in passing through a dense woods the'rebels'opened fire. Order of battle was fermed; the first brigade drivingthe enemy into the woods, and the second, under Gen.- Terry, following closely into the action with cheers. The enemy retreated, tearing up the causeway bridge. Here the fight fairly commenced, while the, bridge was being repaired, our artillery firing and the enemy picking ofi' our men. ' This action began between mood I, and lasted about an hour, ending: in the retreat of the rebels to another position at Frampton’s plantation, which lies two miles beyond. The enemy were closely followed, and after a fight more hotly contested than the first, our tr00ps were again victorious, the second time driving the rebels from their well chosen position, and two miles beyond, which brought them up to Pocotaligo Bridge, (not the railroad bridge,) over which they crossed, taking shelter behind earthworks ion the farthest side. To this point our ‘troops nearly approached, but found farther pro- gross impossible, as the bridge had been cut by the enemy in his retreat. This, says the New York Times cor. respondent, from whom we take the ac- count, was considered a defeat ‘of the enemy; and it took five hours of gallant fighting to accomplish it. GenssBran- nanond Terry were constantly under fire, leading and directing the movements - of their men, awakening enthusiasm by their personal bravery and the skillful manner in which they manoenvered their commands. Frequently, while the fight was progressing, we heard the whistles of the railroad trains, notifying us of rein- forcements for the rebels, both from Char- leston and Savannah,’,and even if we had had facilities for crossing the river, it would havo been unwise to have made the attempt in view of these circumstances. General Brannon therefore ordered a re- treat, which was conducted in a most or- derly manner; the regiments retiring in successive lines, carrying off their dead and wounded, and leaving no arms or ammunition on the field. The rebel force is supposed to have equalled ours; and they were constantly reinforced from Charleston and Seven- nah. It was commanded first by Col. Walker, then by Beauregard. . The humane task of bringing off the wounded was superintended by Gen. Terry. Mr. McClellan, surgeon of the 6th Conn., was very active and useful in his duties. The Herald correspondent says: All of the Keystone troops did splen- didly, as did the Connecticut volunteers, under Chatfield and Hawley. One of the most useful men who ac- companied our force was "Col.” Sam. Cooly, sutler of the Sixth Connecticut.— He labored more than any other one man in getting the wounded tr00ps aboard the transports. - It was at the fight near the iron bridge over the Pocotaligo that Co]. Chatficld was wounded. The Herald says: In this contest Col. Chatfield, of the Sixth Connecticut, fell, struck by a Miuie ball in the hip. Shouting to his men to go on and do as well as they had already done, he gave up his command to the se- nior captain—Lieut. Col. Spidell h8V-. ing previously been disabled by a bullet in the arm, and was carried to the rear. When the enemy were driven from their first stand point, they left behind them two cassions filled with ammunition. It was sent back to them from the boat howitzers of the Wabasb,'and proved to be our salvation at Frampton’s. Had we been unable to avail ourselves of this most opportune bequest of the rebels we would have undoubtedly have been com- pelled to retire, inasmuch as the ammuni- tion of Lieutenants Henry and Gittings [had become exhausted, and were fighting .... some eight or nine miles distant from sup- lies. ' p PriVate Znick, of the First Artillery, performed a most praiseworthy not do- ring the engagement. A shell from the enemy’s guns lodged in one of our ammu- nition chests. At the risk of his life be seized and flung it away, and was woun- ded by its explosion as it fell from his hands. The total loss was 15 killed, 106 wouud~ ed, and 2 missing. The following is the list of casualities in the 6th and 7th Conn. regiments: _s1xrn CONN, yore—con. CHATFIELD. Wounded—Col. J. L. Chatfield, se- verely; Lieut. Col. John Spiedel, arm, severely; Com. Serg. W. H. Johnson, leg, severely. Company B—killed—pri- vate James McKinney, wounded—Ed- ward Longhberry, head. 00. C—wound- ed—lst Lieut. John P. King, leg; cor- poral Fred. Hartnng, arm; private Val- entine Blenel, Co. D—wounded—privates Dennis Burns, chest; John Hassenan, leg: H. Hoyt, aucle; J. Topher, hand; Augustus Provost, shoulder; Smith Sco- field, hand; Wm. Sher‘Wood, chest; Rob- ert Wilson, shoulder; Charles H. Weed, head; Albert W. Crocker, foot. Co. F --killed—private Daniel Matthews. Co F—wonnded—privates Bruce Baldwin, Hubert S. Holbrook; missing—Serg. Geo. W. Cadwell, private L. D. Booth. Co. G—killed—private Henry Allen; wounded,—-privates Geo. Ashwortb, shoulder; Lucius Leonard, Marshall Dowd. Raphael Manco; missing—private Edward Haugh. Co. H—wounded— private Emil Hesserch, shoulder. Co. I —killed——Orderly Sergeant Robert B: Gage private Henry Delf; wounded— Lieut, Daniel J. West, leg, slightly; Corp. David Shepherd, mortally; pri- vates Thomas Taylor, mortally; Geo. Bouton, severely. Co. K—wounded— private A. E. Wilcox. SEVENTH CONN. VOLS.-—COL. J. R. HAWLEY. Killed—Fred. G. Eaton, Co. I; James Cook, Co. I. lVounded.—Serg. W. Reynolds. Co. A, since died; William Keefe, Co. A, sc- verely; Corp. Robertson, Co. B, slightly; Corp. Dennis O’Brien, Co. C, severely; Wm. Soby, Co. C, dangerously: Corp Schofield, 00. D, seriously; H. Erwin, Co. D, dangerously; J. Roberts, Co. D, severely; C, C Dolph, Co. D, slightly; W. Kay, Co. F, dangerously; Edward Smith, 00. F, severely; John H. Riggs, 00. F, slightly; Corp. John Botsford, Co. G, severely; Willis 0. Thomas. Co. G, dangerously; Serg. Chas. A. Wood, Co. H, severely; W. J. Holland, Co. H, severely; Joab Jeffrey, Co. H, since dead; Wm. Crabb; Co. H. severely; Chauncey Geer, Co. H, dangerously; David Sanders, Co. H, slightly: Loren- zo Hall, Co. H, slightly; Elisha Welch, Co. H, slightly; Wm. Arnold, Co. H, slightly; Martin Southerly, Co. H, slight- ly; Miehl. Grimes,-Co. H, slightly; S. B. Pettingell, Co. K, slightly; Isaac Holt, Co. G, seriously. _____.......- From the Winsted Herald. Political Matters. The political agitations incident to the past and pending elections in neighbor ing States, naturly lead to a reflection on our own duties at a time not for distant. Within a few months the citizens of Con- necticut must indicate the measures they nppove through the candidates they shall adopt. Not only is a board of State ofii- cers to be chosen, but four seats in Con- gress are to be filled, at our annual elec- tion in April. While believing in the utmost freedom of thought and action upon political sub- jects, and regarding a too rigid and there- fore reckless support of mere party as pernicious and baneful to the State, yet at a period like this, when it is difficult to classify prevailing political sentiments except as they are either friendly or hos- tile to the perpetuation of our Nationali- ty, and when the least discord among the friends of the Government must result in the triumph of its enemies, we plead for the burial of minor issues and an harmo- nious “ massing” of all loyal and patriotic men in such a manner that votes may fall in the civil contest as powerful and as ef- fectual as the charge of solid regiments in actual battle. Hence at this time we dep- recate as bad policy and fraught with dau- ger,divisions like those in which the friends of the Union in Massachusetts have fallen. In that State and in this instance We re- gard it as scarcely possible that Mr. Sum- ner, as the Union candidate, can be de- feated, but be may be. We have already lost in Ohio and Indiana by these family quarrels, and are still threatened by _oth-. ers in New York and elsewhere. The progress of the war, be it good or ill, has elicited from the President a Pro- clamation declaring the emancipation of the slaves in the rebel States, after the 1st of January next. All those who de- sire a pretext for opposing the ' President and the prosecution of the war will seize upon this issue. It is a precious mask for their traitor- ous designs. Auti-proclamationists i— This is the innocent paltry in which the Northern wolves of disnnion will seek to conceal themselves. Let not true men be deceived and led intd their bad compan- ionship. . In our own Statb we have few fears upon this subject. The truitor’s cloven: hoof has been more freely exposed in Con- necticut than elsewhere, and there is less chance for deception. The only danger lies in the choice of cxccptionable candi- dates, whose nnmcs will fail to awaken the enthusiasm of the people; and having reached this point with scarcely the in- tention, we propose to call over some of those named in more or less frequency in connection with the nomination for Con- gress in this, the 4th Congressional Dis- trict, to fill the seat which will be made vacant upon the expiration of Hon. George C. Woodruff’s term. The Hon. 0. S. Ferry, now an efficient and much praised General of Brigade in the Union Army, was once elected and twice defeated. His last defeat, (in 1861) was due to the falling-off in the vote of his own county. For this reason and especially as Gen. Ferry does not desire re-nomiuation, (having recently forbidden his friends the use of his name for even a more exalted position,) we be- lieve that Fairficld concedes the, nominee to her associate county of Litchlield. Beginning, then, on the north, eleov- ernor Holly, of Salisbury, is sometimes named. He was Governor of the State for but one term, in 1857, and gave place to our present excellent Executive. .He has since been a candidate for the Legislature from his own town, but no- successful. Having been thus frequent-V ly before the public, his merits scarcely require further canvass. The Hon. George W. Poet, of Ca~ noun, has achieved some local distinction by his efforts at the bar, as well as in several Legislatures of which he has been a member. He has youth and beauty in his favor, and usually runs upon the Union ticket. We are not, however, able to give guarantees as to what his course. in Congress would be if electpd; nor yet are we certain that he anticipates a nomination. Following down the Housatonic Val- ley, Dr. Gold, of Cornwall, has many friends—we doubt if he has any enemies. He is in the ripeness of years, and in the fullness of his intellectual vigor. He is a man of unquestioned integrity, upon whom the tooth of slander dolls its sharp- ness. Not gifted with eloquent debating powers, he has what is better—deep set- tled convictions and adamantine firmness. The good cause would‘snffer no detriment in his hands. Andrew B. Mygatt, of New Milford, has been once or twice in either branch of the State Legislature, and is now one of our General Bank Commissioners. In one position he has shown himself an ac-. complished parliamentarian, in the other an efficient business man. He has many friends, both in this and in Fairfield conu- ty. Should he fail to receive a nomina- tion, it is not certain that he will be crowded aside by better men. William Cothren, the Historian of Au- cient Woodbury, has perhaps now a wid- er reputation through his pen than at the bar, though he has been eminently suc- cessful as an attorney. He is reputed in affluent circumstances, which is no ob- jection to a candidate if the frequent sar- casm ol partizan presses may be believed. However that may be, he has been no- ticeable liberal and energetic in the pro- motion of enlistments, and has thus en- deared himself to all who appreciate the patriot. Litchfield, by virtue of a large vote on a former occasion, cannot fail to present the name of Hon. Gideon H. Hollister should his healtb,—now quite poor, we understand,——be such as to permit the excitement of a warm political canvass. Mr. Hollister stands at the head of his profession in the county, while he is es- teemed one of the most acconplished scholars agraceful union or! snative State, 3 fitted to adorn any posi- tion, and necessarily occupies a promi- nent position among talked of candidates. John H. Hubbard, Esq, also of Litch- field, is a lawyer of some repute. Though a man of very pleasing and popular man- ners, he is great on great occasions. His defense of Woodford in the Great Mur- der Trial, is probably fresh in the minds of our readers. He is sometimes men- tioned for Congress, though understood to have expresseda preference for a Guber- natorial nomination. H. B Graves, Esq, also of Litchfield, is also a lawyer. He is now a member of the Union organization in this State, or was at a very recent dute,——owing to which, or some other potent cause, his town elected Secesh candidates inits late election. Harwinton is supposed to have a can- didate in the Hon. Abijah Catlin. He! also, is a member of the legal profession, though partially seduced therefrom by lucky vicissitudes both of politics and bu- siness. Of a strong phyisical organiza- tion, he is a. little inclined to be wilful, gaining his points by straight forward blows, rather than by more conciliatory arts and policies. Such natures may do- serve friends but they do not create them. He will stand about as much chance for a nomination as George B. Mc——does for a reputation for activity and vigor as a. General. Winchester names Hon. Elliott Beards- ley and Gideon Hall, Esq. The former a successful and wealthy manufacturer; the latter an able and well known attor- ney. Both have friends—hosts of them. Either would fill Mr. Woodrufi’s chair satisfactorily.———The Rev. Mr. Eddy, (who as aChaplain of the Second Con- necticut regiment was captured on the field of Bull Run and remained for one year a prisoner in the hands of tho reb- els,) is often and warmly proposed by his many admirers for Congressional honors. Few men would represent as more cred- itably. We have heard the Hon. Hiram Good- win, of Barkhamsted, mentioned in con- neetion with the nomination. The re- port, however, which gained general cre- dence during the last session of the Leg- islature, was, that a Harwinton gentle- man, agreed to aid Mr. Goodwin for the Assessorship under the new tax law, now held by Mr. Reuben Rockwell, on condi- tion of Mr. Goodwin’s aid to Mr. C, in the Congressional campaign. This being the case, Mr. Goodwin cannot in good faith enter the field. Norfolk presents two excellent gentle men in connection with this subject, in the persons of Hon. Robbins Battell and William K. Peck, Esq. The first is a farmer of liberal culture and genteel tastes; the latter a lawyer of fair standing. The fact that Norfolk has recently furnished us a representative in Congress may abate from the consideration her candidates would otherwise receive: yet there are those, and their number is by no means small, who believe that simple justice, though tardy, would be done by restoring the Hon. W. W. Welch to the seat he once filled so well. From this list of candidates the next member from the 4th Congressional Dis- trict will be chosen. Let us select wise- ly and support him unanimously—Nev- ertheless, if we have named any who do not desire to enter the canvass, let them inform us and their names shall be at once withdrawn. And if any have been omitted who desire to be “counted in,” we shall be most happy to hear from them and duly set forth their claims. «.’O*-———. Said Col. Hamilton, of Texas, a slaveholder, at a Union meeting in Brook— lyn, Friday night, “A s a . Southern man. I accept the President’s proclamation and boil it with gratitude and joy.” Cotton in Kansas has ripened perfectly this year, producing a heavy crop of good staple upland cotton; and it was not growu by the aid of slave la- bor. -'
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