PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING BY
AT TWU DOLLARS PER ANNUM, IN All vAN CE.
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NUMBER 786--NEWI SERIES,
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ONN., TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1863.
VOLUME XLVIj-NUMBER 4.
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NORWALK gagETTE.
OFFICE IN GAZETTE BUILDING.
A._§.§YINGTON 8:50.
A. H. BvINcTON, J. B. ELLs, G. N. ELLs,
' Advertising Rates.
One Square. one insertion, $1 00
" two insertions, 1 25
three insertions, 1 50
one month, 1 '75
two months, 3 00
three months, 4 00
" six months, ’2‘ 00
" one year—with paper 15 00
Two Sauares, one year—with paper, 25 00
Each 8. ditional Square, per year, 3 00
One half column, one year, 40 00
One Column, one year, ’f'l 00
Fifteen lines, or 100 words,make a square. Fraction-
al arts of a square charged for as a whole.
Year y advertisements payable lst of January &July.
Yearly advertisers restricted to the business contem-
lated at the time of contract.
&" These terms will be inflexibly adhered to._,§1
BUSINEss clacc'l'oav. - ..
I ‘Norwalk rest Office. '
MAILS CLOSE.
West 7.30 A. M.—2.30 P. M.
East 8.30 A. M.—5.00 P. M.
Danbury & Norwalk Railroad 8.50 A. M.
Weston, Bedding and Bedding Ridge, Tues-
days, Thursdays and Saturdays, at 12 M.
MAILS DUE.
West 0.10 A. M.—6.CC P. M.
East 8.20 A. M.——3.30 P. M.
Danbury & N orwalk Railroad 8.90 A. M_.
POST OFFICE HOURS.
From 7.00 A. M. to 8.00 P. M.
CHARLES OLMSTEAD, P. M.
N. A. MOSMAN, M. D.,.
Homoeopathic
Physician and Surgeon,
Ofiice over C. J. Gruman’s Store,
NORWALK, CONN.
Office hours from 1 to 3 P. M.
Dr. J. J. WALLACE,
HOMGOPATHIST,
Office at Dr. Moody’s late Residence,
I WEST AVENUE,
NOR WALK, CONN.
Slate at Mr. Frank Nash’s Store, South
horwalk.
New
HARDWARE 8:. PAINT STORE,
M a i n S t r e e t,
Opposite I. II. Calnpcll’s Confectionery,
MARVIN & PROWITT,
Wholesale and retail Dealers in Hardware,
Cutlery, Paints, Oils, Glass, Paper Hang-
ings, Window Shades, &c. -
JAMES G. EAREOUB,
SURGICAL AND ALECHANICAL
'D E N '1‘ I S T,
Office at Residence, East Avenue, Norwalk,
Connecticut.
Architecture.
SIDNEY M. STONE,
ARCHITECT,
Will furnish Plans, Specifications, Detail
Drawings, and superintend the 'erection of
public and private buildings. Oflice in Mar-
ble Block, Chapel-st, N cw Haven, Ct. “52
Li E0. F. BELDEN, Norwalk, Conn.,Man-
ufacturer of Tin, Copper, and Sheet
Iron Ware; and dealer in Stoves, Ranges,
Furnaces, Cutlery, Brittannia, Wooden and
\Yillow Ware, Crockery; and a full assort-
ment of House Keeping articles generally.
a. s. Locnwoon,
Fashionable Draper 8r. Tailor,
and
GENTLEMEN’S FURNISHING
EMPOZ IUM '
No. 3 Skiddy’s Block, Main-st, Norwalk, Ct
8. E. OLMSTEAD 6f. 00.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Groceries, Flour, Peed, &c.,
14 and 16 Main-st, Norwalk, Conn.
ETNA INSURANCE COMPANY,
Of Hartford.
Incorporated in 1819, Charter Perpetual.
Call: Capital $1,000,000
Insure against loss and damage by Fire
on Terms adapted to the hazard,and
consistent with the laws of
compensation.
GEORGE R. COWLES, Sole Agent
ly3 For N orwalk and vicinity,
DENTAL CARD.
N impression having gone abroad that
the undersigned has relinquished his
profession, this is to inform his friends and
.he public that he still continues the practice
of his profession at his 011 stand, foot of
Main-st, Norwalk, where he will be happy
to tender them his best services. In case of
, temporary absence,a skillful assistant will be
found in attendance at the Office, ready and
Willing to serve all that may call.
A. HILL, D. D. S.
‘A. JACKSON 6!. DRO.
' No. 1 Gazette Building.
OULD respectfully announce to the
public and their old customers, that
t"ey have recently made extensive additions
to their stock of goods. We are now prepar.
ed to offer an assortment not to be surpassed
in Furficld County, in quality or price. We
would call particular attention to our stock of
Watches, which is lar er than ever before.—
We have a line 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, Gentlemcn’s
$5 to lg. 00. We buy of the best importers in
New York, and altogether for cash, so that
our facilities for selling cheap could not be
reater. Our stock of Jewelry, Silver and
luteli Wares was never better than at pres-
ent, and comprises all of the latest styles that
a 'e manufilctured. A. JACKSON & BRO.
WISH POLES, ’I‘ravclin DEERE—7*
b Baskets, Work Baskelgs. Also SYVgildlllc‘fi
Ware in general, at '
C. d: E. K. LOCKWOOD &. CO.
\/I ()()l),all lengths, at S. E. OLMSTEAD
A's CO‘S Wood Yard, lorsalc low.
Window Shades.
Sl’lllu‘N fill) Assortment of Window
Slladcsjust received and for sale. b
. MARVIN A; PROWI T.
Nov. 3rd, 1862. ’ '
J.
Children’s Carriages,
PRICE ranging from $1.50 upward, at
' C. & E. K. LOCKWOOD & CO.
atch-l
es, In SllVCl‘ and gold cases, at any price from'
D. PRITCH RD, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon,
Residence next door to Rugglcs’ Store,
MAIN STREET, ‘
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN.
Mrs. Tindall, in the new block
BENNETT’S BUILDING,
No. 17 and 19 Main St,
' ILL call the attention of the public to
-her new and well selected assort-
ment of IIIILLINERY GOODS, at a very small
advance from former prices. Velvets very
cheap for these times. Futlhcrs, Ribbons,
Flowers, &c., the. She will give her atten-
tion to the business at all hours of the day
and evening, up to the usual hours of clos-
ing. All orders promptly filled. Ready
made Bonnets on hand. Bloomers trimmed
in unique styles. 45
New Goods
POR THE HOLIDAYS.
OYS, China Mugs, Match Boxes, Motto
Cups, Motto Mugs, Vases and Cologne
Bottles.
Also, Toy Tea Setts, China Tea Setts, plain
and band, and a large assortlnentof all kinds
of Crockery. Sold by
E W. A: H. H. SMITH,
Phoenix Block.
Whitney 6L Deckwith,
. PHOTOGRAPHERS,
GAZETTE BUILDING, NORWALK, CONN.
MBROTYPES, MELAINOTYPES,
and PHOTOGRAPHS. plain, retouch-
ed or colored, in the best. style Of the Art.
Cartes de Visites in all styles. Stereoscopic
Groups, Views of Private Residences and
- Grounds taken.
A good assortment of Rosewood, Gilt and
Passe Pal'tout Frames, for Photographs and
Cartes de-Visitcs.
E. T. WHITNEY.
Roofinv.
HE subscrlber is prepared to furnish par-
ties building, with Warrcn‘s superior
FELT AND CEMENT ROOFING. -
This article of Roofing is in use upon the
Norwalk Lock Company’s Building, and at
Louusbury, Bisscll d: Co’s, where it gives en-
tire satisfaction, and is believed to be the
cheapest as well as the best roofing in use.—
All orders will receive prompt attention.
“38 C. W. LOCKWOOD.
N. B.— All orders left at the store of A.
'Morehouse, Main street, will be promptly at-
tended tO, Inquiries freely answered.
R. A. BECKWITH.
War Claims.
THE undersigned, through the agency of
reliable friends in Washington, is pre-
pared to secure Bounty Money, Back Pay,
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 fee charged unless the claim is col—
lected. JOSEPH ’W. WILSON.
Aug. 22, 1862.
ELM STREET SALOON,
Between Main and Broad Streets, NEw
CANAAN, CONN.
J. W. EDMONDS, Proprietor.
OYSTERS served in any style, and for sale
by the Quart or Gallon. Also, all kinds of
FRUIT, CONFECTIONERY, and other REFRESH-
MENTS. Private Supper Rooms for Small
Parties. Also, in connection with, but in
separate apartments, a first-class SnAVING
AND HAIR DRESSING SALOON.
TO GAPTAINS
AND
OWNERS of VESSELS.
THE undersigned has taken the SHIP
YARD and MARINE RAILWAY,
(formerly owned by Clark A: Ritch,) in
Greenwich, .Conn., where he intends to car-
ry on all kinds of
Ship Building and Repairing
of Vessels.
He keeps constantly on hand all kinds of
Points and Oils, Timber of all kinds
for the repair of vessels. SHIP SMITH
WORK done in the best manner, and with
dispatch, on as favorable terms as any other
marine railway in the country.
'24 . E. M. MERRITT.
NEW FURNISHING STORE,
IN JAMES’ NEW BUILDING,
Water Street, Norwulk.
HAVE at my Store in Norwalkthc largest
assortmentot
Household Furniture
in this county, consisting of Bureaus of all
kinds, Lounges, Sofas, Tete-a-Tetcs, Card
Tables, Marble top pier Tables and Center
Tables, Wash Stands,
EXZENSION TABLES,
CHAIRS and ROCKERS of all kinds,
Looking Glasses,
Picture Frames, and everything else in the
Furniture line cheap for Cash.
Repairing,
done promptly and by experienced workmen.
Undertaking,
I have on hand a large assortment of
COFFINS, of the best materials, and will
furnish shrouds, carriages, hearse, and every-
thing necessary for the burial of the dead,
cheaper than can be obtained elsewhere. I
have as good a Hearse as there is in the
county; and will attend Funerals in neigh-
boring towns, without extra charge.
ELBERT RAYMOND.
Norwalk, May 1st, 1862. 44
Splendid Attractions
FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
HE Firm of KNAPP a: LYNES
would inform their Old friends and pat-
rons that they have made an extensive addi-
tion to their stock of DRUGS, MEDICINES,
PERFUMEBY, PATENT MEDICINES, FLAVOR-
INo EX’I‘RACTS, POMADES, and other articles
usually found in a First-Class Drug Store,
and are prepared to furnish anything in their
line of business at the lowest possible rates.
Flavoring Extracts,
Of the finest quality, constantly on hand;
among which are to be found ,Vanilla, Lem-
on, Almond, Rosc, Peach, Celery, Raspberry,
Strawberry, Pineapple, J amaica Ginger, 62c.
Also, a splendid assortment of LUBIN’s,
and KNAPP d: LYNEs’ I-IANDKERCHIEF
EXTRACTS and COLOGNES. Also, a
superior quality of Hair Oils and Pomades.
VERY BODY wants the Tax Pay-
E er’s Manual, containing all the
items of Taxation, the mode of proceeding,
and the duties of the Officers, at
SELLECK’S.
Clothing neatly Cleaned an
Repaired.
D] RS. ANN E. WOOD would inform the
. citizens of Norwalk, that she still con-
tinues to renovate Old garments; will clean,
alter, repair, brighten, and restore the col-
lars, and make them look all most equal to
new garments. N E. WOOD,
44tf Over Bebee’s Drug Store.
- full. by a soldier 'who lost two fingers and the thumb
To Death.
[From the German of Gluck.]
Methinks it were no pain to die
On such an eve, when such a sky
O‘er canopies the West ;
To gaze my fill on you calm deep,
And, like an infant, fall asleep
On earth, my mother’s breast.
There‘s peace and welcome in you sea
or endless blue tranquility;
The clouds are living things;
I trace their veins of liquid gold,
I see them solemnly unfold
.Their soft and fleecy wings.
These be the angels that convey
Us weary children of a day,
Life‘s tedious nothing o’er,———
Where neither passions come, nor ‘woes,
’1‘0 vex the genius of repose,
On Death‘s majestic shore.
No darkness there divides the sway
With startling dawn and dazzling day;
But gloriously serene
Are the interminable plains;
One fixed, eternal sunset reigns
O’cr the wide, silent scene.
I cannot dofi‘ all human fear;
I know thy greeting is severe
To this poor shell of clay;
Yet come, 0 DEATH! thy freezing kiss
Emancipatesl thy rest is bliss !
I would I were away.
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From the New Harem Palladium.
The following doggerel was written in one of
those ‘ hoursof idleness,‘ of which hospital life is
of the left hand at the battle of Fredericksburg:
O, cruel war! that, trumpeting its fierce alarms,
Makes some men ‘flnd their legs,’ and others lose
their arms :
That ruins statelylords, and blackens smiling lands;
That ‘ cuts up ’ large brigades, and cuts down small
brigaudsi;
That makes contractors ' fat,‘ that leaves whole
armies thinned ;
That ‘ tries ’ the hero’s courage and the coward's
‘ wind”—
What feeling of disgust around thy memory lingers,
When thinking of my falling ‘ pluck ’ and fallen
fingers:
Yet ‘all things have their uses,’ so the poets say,
And ugly wars, like ‘boils,’ may ‘ take the bad
blood away.‘
E’en now begins, methinks, the promised ‘ age of
steel,’
When carbines, and not codes, shall ‘judge the
public weal ;‘
When ‘ poor unfortunates,’ convicted of some crime,
Are seized with ‘love of country,‘ (I must make
this rhyme,)
And dying in its service, earn a ‘ slab ' to tell,
Not how they nobly fought,but how they kindly fell.
What wretch will curse the ‘ blasted ’ shell, that,
- with no ‘ fond ’ intention,
Gives issue to a limping gait, and to a life-long
pension ;
0r who will name that fate among the list of plagues
That trims down homely ‘mugs,’ or curtails ugly
legs—
Neither will I complain, though in the 'ull-lzantl-y
strife,
I ne’er again can ' play a handsome hand ' in life;
For I’ve one fingerleft, that will not ‘bend to reason'
But seems in stubborn scorn to point (like this '3')
at treason,
My loyal children too (should any such ‘ transpirc,)
Will look, wrth throbbing pride, upon their thumb-
less sire,
And boast, with lofty bearing and exulting eye,
' My father had afinger in the Union pie.’
Humour) GENEEAL HOSPITAL, {
POINT Looxon'r, Md, Jan. 13, 1863. l
.n. E. w.
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PUBLIC ACTS.
Passed December Session, 1862.
CHAPTER XXI.
All Act in addition to “ An Act relating
to the Militia.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatires in General Assembly con-
celled.
SEC. 1. Every able-bodied white male
citizen residing within thls state, of the
age .of eighteen years and under the age
of forty-five years, not exempted by the
provisions of this act, shall belong to the
inactive militia ; and in every case of
doubt respecting the age of a person en-
rolled, the burden of proof shall be upon
him, and the enrolling officer or officers
hereinafter mentioned shall examine him,
and any witness in his behalf, under oath,
and administer to him or them the usual
oath prescribed for witnesses, and any
person so examined who shall be guilty
of wilful false swearing, shall be liable to
the penalties of perjury. .
SEC. 2. The selectman of the several
towns in this state shall be the ofiicel‘s to
enroll the inactive militia ; and it shall be
their duty, between the tenth day of Sep
tember and the first day of December in
each year, to enroll the names of white
male citizens residing in their respective
towns, between the ages of eighteen and
forty-five years, including those exempted
by the following sections of this act, al-
phabetically, in a book to be kept for
that purpose at the town clerk’s office ;
and the selectmen shall strike from such
roll the name of each person who is not
able bodied or is exempt under the pro-
visions of this act from enrollment, by
drawing a red line across such name, but
leaving it still legible, and shall specify
in the margin, and upon the same line
with such. name, the reason of the disa-
bility or exemption of the person whose
name is stricken Ofl' as aforesaid. And
such rolls, when completed, shall be sign-
ed by the selectnlen
SEC. 3. The name of no person shall
be stricken from such roll as not able-
bodied, unless he be either blind, deaf
mute, insaue, imbecile, wanting an arm
or leg, or such a deformity of one or both
legs as to produce a disproportionate
length of two inches or more; and the
name of any person stricken from such
roll by the selectmen as not able-bodied,
may be reStored by the order of the sur-
geon general. The persons whose names
shall remain upon the rolls in the several
towns, shall constitute the inactive mili-
tia; and‘ ”whenever a draft is ordered
from the inactive militia, the selectmen,
before proceeding to draft, shall amend
such rolls by adding thereto the names of
persons who are, or striking therefrom
the names of persons who are not subject
to enrollment.
And it shall be the duty of the select~
men of the several towns, annually, on or
before the fifth day of December, to
make a certified report to the adjutant-
general of the number of persons whose
names shall have been enrolled as afore-
said, and also to make a certified return
of the number of persons to be taxed
under the provisions of this act ; and the
adjutant general shall return the same to
the state treasurer And the commander-
iu-chicf shall on or before the tenth day
Of January, 1863, issue his order, direct-
ed to the board of selectmeu of each
town, requiring an enrollment to be made
adjutant-general within thirty days from
the date Of said order.
SEC. 4. In addition to the persons
exempted by the laws of the United
States, the persons hereinafter mentioned
shall also be exempted from enrollment
ill the militia, viz : judges of the supreme
and superior courts, the state secretary,
treasurer, comptroller, and commissioner
of the school fund, the superintendent of
the common schools, sheriffs, the. superin-
tendent of the reform school, of the re-
treat for the insane, and each of the pub-
lic hospitals, teacher in the American
asylum for the deaf and dulnb, the war-
dens and deputy warden of the state
pl'lSUfl, keepers of light-houses and mem-
bers of the active militia, and fishermen
in sea service, belonging to smacks,
licensed under the revenue laws. And it
shall be the duty of. the selectmen in the
several towns in which such persons re-
side at the time of making the rate bill
for the collection of the annual town tax,
to insert in such rate-bill 'for every able
bodied man of the aforesaid exempts, be-
tween the ages of twenty-one and forty-
five years, not a member of the active
militia, an additional tax of one dollar
upon each and every person as aforesaid,
which tax shall be collected at the same
time and in the same manner as is provi-
ded tby lawhfor the collectioniof town
taxes, and when so collected shall be paid
into the town treasury.
SEC. 5. The enrolled militia, except
thosa who may become members of the
active militia, as hereinafter provided,
shall be subject to active duty only in
case of war, invasion, the prevention of
invasion, rebellion and insurrection or
reasonable apprehension thereof ; in
which case the commander-in-chief shall
order out for active service, by draft or
otherwise, as many of the militia as tlk
necessity of the case demands.
And whenever the commander-in-chief
shall find it necessary to order out the
inactive militia, in fixing the number to
be called for or drafted in each town, he
may consider the number of persons who
have volunteered from each town in such
a manner that the draft shall be equitably
apportioned among the several towns in
the state; and any person who has hereto-
fore enlisted, or shall hereafter enlist into
the service of this state, and has been or
shall be turned over into the service of
the United States, shall be credited to
the town where such person was last en-
rolled. And in case any person shall be
or has been enrolled and claimed in more
than one town, and shall enlist or be
drafted, the governor shall, unless the
selectmen of the town shall agree, deter-
mine to what town such person rightfully
belongs. And in case any person who
has enlisted, or shall enlist as aforesaid,
is not enrolled in any town in this state,
he shall be credited to the town where he
resided whdn the call for volunteers or
order for draft is made by the governor,
pursuant to any requisition of the Uni-
ted States.”
And he may also, in fixing such num-
ber, take into consideration the probable
number of those persons who will be ex-
empted or rejected from disability, or
other cause ; and in case more drafted
persons from any town are accepted by
the examining surgeon than the quota
allotted to such town, such drafted per-
son shall be held in the order to their
draft to the number of such quota, and
the remainder shall be discharged and re-
enrolled.
No person who has volunteered for a
longer period than three months, or shall
hereafter volunteer, and has performed or
shall perform military service for the
state under any call of the President of
the United State, nor any person who
has been or shall be drafted and perform
such military service, either’ by himself
or by substitute, shall be again subject to
be drafted until the whole number of the
inactive militia in said town shall have
volunteered or been drawn or drafted.
SEC. 6. The order of the commander-
in-chief for such purpose may be directed
to the selectmen of any towa, who shall
thereupon appoint a time and place either
orally or by leaving written or printed
notices with them, or at their usual places
of abode, or by publishing in some news-
paper printed in the same or adjoining
county, and by posting on the public sign
posts in the same town, and shall then
and there proceed to draft by lot as many
thereof, or to accept as many VOIl‘eers
as are required by the order of the com-
mander-in-chief, and return to the adju-
tant general the names of such men as
have been drafted or have volunteered,
as aforesaid; and such drafted men, or
volunteers, shall thereupon be subject to
the order of the commander-in-chief.
And until the enrollment, as provided in
the second and third sections of this act,
is made and completed, the enrollment
now made and existing shall be used for
the purpose aforesaid ; and in case any
selectmen of any town shall neglect or
refuse to comply with the order of the
commander-in-chief to draft, it shall be
lawful for the commander-in-chief to de-
tail such person as he may think proper,
to execute such order at the expense of
such town, and make return thereof to
the adjutant-generul.
SEC. 7. Every soldier ordered out
from the inactive militia for active service,
who either volunteers or is detatched or
drafted, who does not appear at the time
and place designated by the order of the
commander-in-chief, communicated to him
by the selectmeu or otherwise, unless he
is prevented by sickness or other inability,
or proves that he is exempt under the
provisions of this act, or provides some
proper or able bodied substitute at such
time and place, shall be taken to be a
soldier absent without leave, and may be
dealt with accordingly, and shall, at all
times, be liable to enter the service for
which he is ordered, whether the quota
of the town to which such person belongs
is full or not. .
And it shall be the duty of the select-
meu in the several towns in this state,
upon the completion of the draft which
may be ordered in their respective towns,
to secure the attendance of the persons so
drafted, at the time and place of rendezo
vous appointed in the order of the com-
mander-in-chief, and the selectmen, if it
shall be necessary in the performance of
such duty, may take charge of such
drafted persons, and may command the
assistance of the constable of the town
or of any other person to secure the at-
tendance of all the persons so drafted at
the time and place of rendezvous, spv
and completed, and report made to the
pointed in the order of the commander-
in-chief as aforesaid ; and any person who
shall, when commanded by the selectmen
or either of them, refuse to render his
assistance as aforesaid, shall be punished
by a fine of seven dollars, or by imprison-
ment in the county jail for a term of not
less than ten nor more than thirty days,
or by such fine and imprisonment both.
And when any number of the persons
so drafted from any town shall fail to be
present at the time and place of rendez-
vous aforesaid, the commander-in-chief
may, at any time, not less than three days
thereafter, issue his order requiring an-
other draft to be made in such town, to
supply the deficiency.
Sec. 8. The commander-in-chiefunay
appoint the necessary number of post
surgeons and assistant post surgeons to
examine the persons so drafted, and de-
cide upon their ability to perform milita-
ry service, who may grant certificates of
the exemption, particularly specifying
therein the cause thereof, and who shall
be paid out of the treasury of the state
such reasonable sum for their services as
may be fixed by the commander-in-chief,
unless they shall be paid for such services
by the United States; and if any one of
such post surgeons or assistant post suru
geons shall receive any other fee or reward
for his services, or any gratuity therefore,
or shall knowingly grant any certificate
of exemption on account of a disability
not existing, he shall be liable, for each
and every offence so committed, to pay a
fine of five hundred dollars, or be impris-
oned in the county jail for a term of six
months, or suffer such fine and imprison—
meat both, and any certificate so granted
may be revoked by the surgeon general,
and all certificates of exemptions heretos
fore granted are hereby revoked and au-
nulled.
Persons hereafter drafted and excused
on account of disability, shall not be en-
rolled until the next annual enrollment
in their respective towns. And if for any
cause there shall be a deficiency in the
number of persons required to be drafted
from any town, it shall be the duty of the
selectmen of such town to continue draft-
ing until the quota required from such
town is full and complete.
SEC. 9. If any selectlnen of any town
shall neglect, or refuse to perform the du-
ty required of him by the second, third,
fourth, and seventh sections of this act,
or shall neglect or refuse to enroll any
person in such town, subject to enrollment
as one of the inactive militia, or shall
knowingly strike from the roll the name
of any person so subject, or! shall the
commander-in-chief respecting a draft, he
shall pay a fine of five hundred dollars
for the use of the state; and it shall be
the duty of the attorney for the state, in
each county, upon knowledge of any
such neglect or refusal on the part of any
selectmen within the county to commence
suit against such sclectmen for the recov-
ery of such fine, by an action on the case
founded on this statute.
SEC. 10. Any company of active mili-
tia organized under the provisions of the
act to which this is an addition, is hereby
empowered to enact by-laws for its bet-
ter government and discipline, which,
when approved by the major general,
shall be binding upon the members of such
company, and the penalties thereof may
be enforced in the same manner as the
penalties provided in the twentieth section
of said act.
SEC. 11. The active militia of the state
shall not be liable to be turned over into
the service of the United States, for the
performance of military service out of
the limits of this state, for a longer time
in all than three months, in any one year,
and they shall consist of not more than
ninety companies.
SEC. 12. The first, second, fourth,
eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh sections
of an act, entitled “ An Act relating to
the Militia,” approved, J uly 10th, 1862,
and so much of the remainder of said not
as is inconsistent herewith, are here-
by repealed, but the recovery of any fine,
forfeiture, penalty, or debt incurred by
reason of the violation of any of the pro-
visions of said set, on the collection and
enforcement of any commutation or other
tax provided for therein, shall not be af-
fected by this act.
SEC. 13. This act shall take efi'ect
from the day of its passage.
Approved, Dec. 24th, 1862.
«O
A Revelation from “ Castle
Thunder.”
“Alexander Young, an aged man, sent
from Tmmessee, died in the Castle on Sat-
urday.”
Such is the curt announcement that.
comes to us in the Richmond Examiner
as a fit commentary on the rebel at Rich-
mond. Could the walls of “Castle Thun-
der”—as they seem to delight in calling
it—reveal their dread secrets, they would
doubtless tell stories of the horrors wit-
nessed there such as to drive the Amer-
ican people almost beside themselves with
tearful regrets that any portion of this
continent could have witnessed wrongs
like this as the fruits of an accursed re-
bellion.
At a glance, the whole story of the
.wrongs of gallant Tennessee seem com-
pressed in these two lines: Not a con-
vict; not disgraced by crime, because for
each his own State and every State pro-
vides a place; but a patriot, an “aged”
mun transported all the distance from
Tennessee to Virginia to perish beneath
the shadow of the tribunal set up by J ef-
ferson Davis, because his crime was stead-
fast love for the Union to which he had
been devoted through a long life.
And yet these prison keepers are the
men loud in favor of the writ babea: cor-
pus, tender of the rights of the citizen,
tolerant of opinion: the ones in whose be-
half and in whose name the rebel Gene-
ral Lee came to offer relief to “down-
trodden Maryland.” Only when the
“sink of iniquity” is cleared out at Rich-
mond by the entrance of the Federal or-
mies will the world learn of the horrors
that have been enacted under the rule of
Jefferson Davis and Benjamin; only then
will Maryland learn what she has really
escaped by remaining in the Union.
A Letter from the President:
Wasnlxoroujriday, Ian. 16, 1863.
In the McDowell Court of Inquiry to
day Gen. Ricketts was examined, testi-
fying that the road by which he was order-
ed to march by Gen. McDowell on the
morning of the 28th of August was so ob-
structed by wagons in his front as great-
ly to impede the progress of his_commaud.
Major Gen. Hitchcock was next called.
He testified at length relative to the force
left for the protection of Washington
when Gen. McClellan’s army started for
the Peninsula. In the course of his tes-
timony the following letter from the Pres-
ident was laid before the Court :
WASHINGTON, April 9, 1862.
To Major Gen. MCCLELLAN : My Dear
you are not properly sustained, while they
do not offend me, pain me very much.
Blenker’s Division was withdrawn before
you left here, and you know the pressure
under which I did it, and, as I thought,
acquiesced in it certainly not without re-
luctance. After you left I ascertained
that less than 20,000 unorganized men,
without a field battery, were all you de-
signed should be left for the defence of
Washington and Manassas Junction, and
part of this even was to go to.Gen.
Hooker’s old position. Gen. Bank’s corps
once designed for Manassas Junction, was
divided and tied up on the line of Win-
chester and Strasburg, and could not
leave that position without again expo-
sing the Upper Potomac and the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad.
This presented, or would present, when
McDowell and Sumner should be gone, a
great temptation for the enemy to turn
back from the Rappahaunock and sack
Washington. My explicit directions that
Washington, sustained by the judgment
of all the commanders of corps, should
be left secure, had been entirely neglec-
ted. It was precisely this that drove me
to detain McDowell. I do not forget
thatI was satisfied with your arrange-
ment to leave Banks of: Manassas Junc-
tion. But when that arrangement was
brokeu,up, and nothing was substituted
for it, of course I was not satisfied. I
was constrained to substitute something
for it myself. And now allow me to ask
you, do you really think Icould permit
the line from Richmond via Manassas
Junction to this city to be entirely open,
except what resistance could be~prescn-
ted by less than 20,000 unorganized
troops? This is a question which the
country will not allow me to evade.
There is a curious mystery about the
number of troops now with you. I tele-
graphed you on the 6th, saying that you
had over 100,000 with you. I had just
obtained from the Secretary of War a
statement taken, as he said, from your
own returns, making 120,000 then with
you and en route to you. You now say
you will have but 85,000 when all en
route to you shall have reached you. How
can this discrepancy of 35,000 be accoun-
ted for? As to Gen. Wool’s command, I
understand that it is doing precisely what
a. like number of your own would have to
do if that command was away. I sup-
pose the whole force which has gone for.
ward to you is with you by this time;
and if so, I think it is the precise time
for you to strike a blow.
By delay, the enemy wll readily gain
on you; mm: is, he will gain faster by
fortifications and reenforcement that you
can by recnforcements alone- And once
more let me tell you, it is indispensable
to you that you strike a. blow. I am
powerless to help. This you will do me
the justice to remember, I was always
opposed to going down the Bay in search
of afield, instead of fighting at or near
Manassas, as only shifting and not sur-
mounting a difficulty; that we would
find the same enemy and the same or
equal intrenchments at either place. The
country will not fail to note—is noting
now—that the present hesitation to move
upon an intrenched enemy is but the story
of Manassas repeated.
I beg leave to assure you that I have
never written or spoken to you in greater
kindness of feeling than now, nor with a
fuller purpose to sustain you so far as in
my most anxious judgment I consistently
can. But you must act.
Yours, very truly,
A. LINCOLN.
<‘.>e
Two Questions.
Why is it that all the protests against
the proclamation of the President come
from the politicians who remain quietly
and safely at their own homes ? Why is
it that the Union soldiers, who see slavery
as it is, and ought to realize all its bles-
sings, and to protect the slaveholders in
all their rights, accept the proclamation
as one of the stern necessities and rem-
idles of war, or hail it as the beginning
of a great and enduring reformation?
.———‘°'<0’**—-—
firN ever be east down by trifles. If
a spider breaks his thread twenty times,
twenty times will he mend it again. Make
up your minds to do a thing and you will
do it. Fear not if troubles come upon
you; keep your spirits, though the day
be a. dark one,
._———-4<<.
fiDr. South says :“Thc tale-bearer
and the tale-bearer should be hung up
both together, the former by the tongue
the latter by the ear.
._____..A....._._——
H‘He who gets a good husband for
his daughter gains a son; and he who
[sets a. bad one loses a daughter.
Siva—Your dispatches, complaining that
0n Forehandedness.
By forehandedness we do not mean
simply or chiefly having a handful of
money, more than present needs remire;
that may be all very well, but it is rath-
er iu regard to the pre-arraugemeut of
time that we now speak. The man who
forms the habit of getting every part of
his business looked into and arranged be-
forehand, so that no turn of events can
bring up anythiugforgotten, and on that
account unprepared for, has an element
of success of the most important charac-
ter possessed actually by few, yet within
the easy attainment of all, if they would
only believe it.
Let any man of business before doing
anything else, and before the time arrives
at which others are doing anything, take
a pencil and paper and put down all the
duties which he knows are certainly to be
attended to that day. Let him deter-
mine the order in which they shall be at-
tended to, so as not to jostle, and the
time he will give to each. Let him then
arrange the possible or contingent duties
so as not to intefere with the certain and
necessary matters, and he will have a map
of the whole day spread out beforehand,
and the most important affairs will not be
pushed aside by things inferior, the cause
of rain to nine out of ten who fail. What
the plan of a structure is to the builder,
such a plan for each day will become to
the man of business. The more complica-
ted a man’s afi'airs are, the more necessary
will such pro-arrangement prove to suc-
cess, and the more impracticaple and cer-
tainly ruinous every other mode of con
ducting affairs. Washington used thus
carefully to arrange beforehand the plans
for his campaigns and battles, taking in-
to account all possible contingencies. So
did the Duke of Wellington, who had ex—
amined before hand the ground of Wa-
terloo, and declared that ill certain con-
tingencies he should retire to that ground
and give battle there, Thus, must every
man act in proportion as he hopes justly
for success in the battle of life.
Here is one of the greatest advantages
of early rising. It enables a man coolly
to anticipate all the events of each day in
their wholeness and relative importance,
and lay a plan to comprehend the whole
with all contingencies. General Have
look, who became. so successful in India,
owed much of his success to the habit of
always getting up so as to have an hour
or more to himself before starting, even
on an early march. If his troops started
at four, he would be up by three, if at
three by two. He who delays to rise till
it is time to act, must act without plan
or premeditation, and after he once gels
to work the thought of what he is about
at the moment narrows his thinking, and
keeps it from comprehending the whole
bearings of it. Such men will be pel'pet.
ually betrayed by being lost ill details.
He will have notes fall due in bank and
unprovided for, or have to loose immense-
ly at the last moment of exigeucy for
want of a little pre-arrangement. It was
remarked once that those men who atten-
ded to their devotional duties only at the
close of the day, but were to hurried to
think of them at the commencement,
generally were of a low spirited turn of
mind, probably from reflecting only of the
duties they had neglected. On the other
hand, that these who attend to their de-
votions early and before entering on the
business of the day, are uniformly cheer-
ful, hopeful and forehanded with time in
everything. Whether the one is a cause
or only a symptom of general tendencies
of character, we will not Say, but the Ob-
servation will be found very generally
true. Hence, rising early, from Job’s
day to our own, has been esteemed such
a sure token of success.
111 the management of others, every
man will be successful in exact proportion
to the perfection with which he takes
each coming duty by the forclock and
prearranges every iota of the pl in he
means to carry out, anticipating each pos
sible difficulty, so as to surmount it ill the
easiest manner and at the exactly proper
time and place. With children, almost
all success will depend upon this. Let
any parent who is discouraged at his
children’s slow success at school take
some lesson or subject from which his
child sits down ill dispair and gives up
the study, and he will generally find that
it is some simple truth, of which the
child is ignorant, but which the book
takes it for granted he knew, that has
caused all the trouble. Let the parent,
or teacher, go over the ground carefully
before/land and remove a few of these
stumbling-blocks front the ’higll-road of
knowledge, and he will be surprised at
the cheerfulness and delight with which
the young hearts bound alOug the paths
of advancement, but he must be before-
hand with all this to be successful, and
not wait until the student has exhausted
all his energies in blundering blindfold on
the stony road before he examines to see
what roughness ought to be removed and
what left for him to conquer by his own
efforts.
0‘.»
fi-A plan has just been tried on the
Northern Railway, in England, for re-
ceiving the letter-bags at the intermedi-
ate stations without stopping the train.
By means of a ring the bag is attached
to a post on the line ; the engine is pro-
vided with a rod so disposed as to catch
the ring and thus carry off the letters.
By a similar contrivauce bags are left by
the train when necessary
a? The character of Gen. Rosecrans
shines brighter and brighter as the de-
tails of ‘,the fight on Stone’s river are
known. The Tribune’s correspondent
writes :
Old campaigners have remarked that
the disposition of the army, after
the disaster of Friday morning gave them
an idea of massing fOrces which they had
never before comprehended. Aside from
the unconquerableness of the army thus
concentrated, there was a magnificence
of pageantry about it impossible to de-
scribe. The legious were folded up in
their most compact shape, and the army
an instrument of the most decisive results;
You saw no extended flanks with feeble
wings stretched far and wide to tempt the
enterprise of vigilant foes, but a. solid
and mobile mass, which could be unfolded
at the will of a master, and hurled as I
stone from a sling upon any given point.
The plan of battle, so unhappily marred
by accident or worse, was strategy, the
matchless handling of troops subsequently
was grand tactics, the magnificent do-
portment of the Commanding General
throughout all that tumultuous tornado
of fire, death, and destruction, was sub-
lime heroism. .
You know that our bivouscs were
gloomy Wednesday night. The fee was
fiercely swarming around us, evincing re—
lentless determination to cut as ofi‘ from
Nashville and crash us. Many generals
felt despondent; some favored retreat ;
but the constancy of Gen. Rosecrans re-
mained untouched. He repeatedly ex-
claimed : “We shall defeat them i We
will show them a. trick worth two of
theirs.”
* >l< * >f< * a:
An hour after the fight, Major-General
Crittendeu dropped into the Genenl’s
marquee. Incidental allusion being made
touching Sunday, Gen. Crittenden re-
marked : “’I will obey your orders,Gon-
eral ;.but I can’t help but feel that the
Old Master takes care of those who re-
gard his laws. I never feel right when I
violate the Sabbath day. Ours is a su-
cred cause, and a sacred war.” General
Rosecrans replied : “ l have just tele-
graphed Gen. Hallcck that we should be
quiet to-morrow. I will not fight to-
morrow unless we are attacked.” You
may rely that unless compelled to violate
this principle, by inexorable necessity,
Major General Rosecrans will not violate
the Sabbath day. ‘
. A.-.
A Beautiful Picture.
The man who stands upon his own soil—
who feels that by the laws of the land in
which he lives—by the laWs of civilized
nations~—he is the rightful and the exclu-
sive owner of the land which he tills, is
by the constitution of our nature undera
wholesome illflllénCU, not easily imbibed
by any other source. 'IIe feels, other;
things being equal, more strongly than.
another, the character of a man who is
the lord of all animate world. Of this
great alld wonderful sphere, which, fall.
ioned by the hand of God, and upheld by
his power, is rolling through the heavens,
a part is his—his from the center to the
sky. It is the space on which the gene-
ration before him moved iu its round of
duties, and he feels himself connected by
a visible link with those who follow him,
and to whom he is to transmit a. homo.,
Perhaps his farm has come down to him
from his fathers. They have gone to their
last home; but he can trace their last I
footsteps over the scenes of his daily 1..
bors. The roof which shelters him we)
reared by those to whom he owes his being. '
Some‘interresting domestic tradition is”
connected with every inclosure. The fr"
vorite-f'l'uit tree was planted by his father:
hand. He sported in boyhood beside the
brook which still winds through the mend-'-
ows. Through the fields lie the path to
the village-school of earlier days. 110’
still hears from his window the voice of"
the Sabbath-bell which called his fathers
to the house of God ; near at bond i!
the spot where his parents laid down to
rest, and where, when his time has come,
he shall he laid hv his children. These
are the feelings of the owners of the soil.
Words can not paint them; they low
out.of the deepest fountains of the heart;
they are the life-springs of a fresh, heel?
thy, and generous national character.
Edward Everett.
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ONE or The gyros—One of our exchau-V
ges contains thé‘f’bllowing paragraph:
mgm’l‘qe prIntorS ane on A st-riKe jor hixh-
OI AtaGeg' Me Hf‘ve Concnudcd tO slit
ocr an tYyos lu fut Ura! 1t £5:EAsy
cNOUgh.
c<.>-o—'—
vapb‘rench ladies of rank are now in
the habit of.slightly painting thecheeks
just under the eyes, to give those organs a
brilliant appearance. Different colors
are used ill painting to the colors of the
eyes.
————o~.~
ne‘Mrs. Partington says she was
much elucidated last Sunday, on hearing
afine concourse on the parody of the
prodigious son.
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usel‘he telegraphic communication
now ill course of Construction by Mr.
Reuter,. through Russia, Siberia, and
Mongols, to connect Pekin with St. Pe-
tersburg and London, is expected to be,
completed ill about six months.
.A.».
‘While the Confederates fit out
cruisers in English ports, they do noth-
ing of the kind in the ports of France,
Russia, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Holland,
Belgium, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark,
Germany, and Greece. England is the
only country that cannot be neuter.
Norwalk Chronicler