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NUMBER 897-rNEW SERIES,
NORWALK, CONN.. TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1865.
VOLUME XLVIII--NUMBER 12.
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(early advertisements payable lst of January &July.
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plated at the time of contract.
3.?" These terms will be inflexibly adhered to. E
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Dr. 1:. rownnn BIRCH,
Physician and Surgeon,
Residence Levi Clark’s opposite the Congre-
gational Church. Office at the Drug Store
of E. Blackman, No. 11 Main Street, Nor-
walk. 32
:or. .r. s. moomr, .
Has resumed the practice of Medicine
and Offers his professional services to
the public. ’
Office at the residence of 'Mr. Cole,
Opposite the Methodist Church, South
Norwalk.
Oflice hours, 12 M to
8 P. M.
DIRECTORY:
Lye,
2 RM, and 7to
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Li E0. F. BELDEN, Norwalk, Conn.,Man—
T ufacturer of Tin, Copper, and Sheet
Iio.i Ware; and dealer in Stoves, Ranges,
Furnaces, Cutlery, Brittannia, Wooden and
Willow Ware, Crockery; and a full' assort-
ment of House Keeping articles generally.
a. s. Locnwoon,
Fashionable Draper & Tailor,
and
GENTLEMEN’S FURNISHING
EMP ORIUM 2
' Main-st, Norwalk, Conn.
S. E. OLMSTRAD &CO.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Groceries, Flour, Feed, &c.,
h 14 and 16 Main-st, Norwalk, Conn.
ETNA INSURANCE COMPANY,
Of Hartford.
Incorporated in 1819, Charter Perpetual.
Capital and Assets, $3,128,820
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- »
[V3 For Norwalk and vicinity.
Business Change !
WATERBURY do DUNCAN,
“70ULD announce to the public that
they have purchased the Carriage Ma-
king Business formerly conducted by Mr.
Edson Beers, and connected it with their
Blacksmith Shop, making one complete es-
tablishment. They are now prepared to exe-
cute in the best manner, and with greater
dispatch than ever before, anything in the
line of
Carriage Making and Blacksmithing.
Carriages made to order, anti Painting,
Trimming, Repairing, &c., done by experi-
enced Workmen, with dispatch.
WGood Carriage timber taken in ex-
change for Work.
Norwalk, Nov. 23d, ’63. M47
A. JACKSON a. BRO.
N o. l Gazette Building.
' OULD 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 to offer an assortment not to be surpassed
in I! airfield County, in quality or price. 'VVe
would call particular attention to our stock of
Watches, which is larger than ever before.—
We have a fine lot of Ladies’ Swiss Watches,
in gold cases, at prices varying from $20 to
$7 5, which we can recommend as being cor-
iect time keepers. Also, Gentleman’s Watch-
es, in silver and gold cases, at any price from
$. to $-00. We buy of the best importers in
New York, and altogether for cash, so that
our faci. ties for selling cheap could not be
reater. Our stock of Jewelry, Silver and
lated Wares was never better than at pres-
ent, and comprises all of the latest styles that
are manufactured. A. JACKSON & "BRO.
Groceries Cheaper than ever
I' O R C A S II !
'[HE subscriber would inform the public
generally, that he still continues to sell
the best of Groceries, Provisions, etc., at his
old stand, N o. 4 Skiddy’s Block, as cheap as
the cheapest. He Offers great inducements
to cash buyers, as he has as large an assort-
ment Of groceries of the best qualities as can
be found at any store in the country. He
would invite the special attention of all to his
stock of
COFFEES, TEAS AND SUGARS,
which are of the very bcst quality, and will
be sold cheap. The public are invited to call
and examine and judge for themselves.
A. MOREHOL’SE.
IMPORTED CUTLERY,
And Silver-Plated Ware.
'l‘HE Subscriber, while in England, recent-
ly, made arrangements with the Shef-
tied Manufacturers for the sale of Thomas
Harrison’s celebrated Cutlery, and has now
on exhibition and sale at his Store opposite
the Post Office, a large, and one of the most
complete assortments of Sheffield Cutlery
ever offered in this Country, including Car-
ving Knives and Forks; Bread Knives;
Butter Knives; Table Knives and Forks;
Pocket Knives of every description, inclu-
ding many curious styles ; Scissors, &c., disc.
Also, just received, an assortment of beau-
tilul Silver-Plated “’are, made by a
new patented process, by the same House,
and is the first hit imported into this coun -
try. Call and examine for-yourselves.
. tf'46] JOSEPH SHEPHERD.
"Laughing Gas
In nancnrrnnn.
Drs. Kendall dz Paddock:
Extract teeth entirely without pain or injury
to the patient, by the aid of
NITROUS OXIDE GAS. .
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A
tic FRUlT and NUTS at
HOLMES’.
good assortment of foreign and domes—
A—
DEALERS 1N
Groceries,
Flour,
Provision, &c.,
Main Street,
14 Nor-walk, Conn
JAMES SHERWOOD,
REAL ESTATE. AGENT,
OFFICE IN
E. M. do I T. Prowitt’s
Hardware Store, SHERWOOD’S BLOCK,
Main street, ‘
N ORWALK, CONN.
Real Estate bought and sold
on the most favorable terms. 1y1
MORE THAN FIFTY HOUSES, LOTS
AND FARMS FOR SALE.
_ J. FERRIS,
REAL ESTATE AGENT,
Commercial Broker
AND-
Conveyancer of Deeds.
45 ESTATES
OR SALE from 1—2 to 100 hundred acres
each, price, from $800 to $100,000, with
buildings thereon,Stores and buildings to let,
Rents collected. Office in Tolles & Ely’s
Drug Store,South Norwalk. Notice for sur-
veying, may be left at the Gazette Office.
1:. corms-nan a sons,
CABINET MAKERS, & c
ARE now prepared to offer to the public
the largest and best assortment Of
Good Furniture,
comprising every article usually kept in a
Furniture Store, ever offered in Norwalk,
which will be sold
AT THE VERY LOWEST PRICES.
Our customers and the public generally who
want anything we keep, will find it to their
interest to give us a call. Spring Mattresses
of 3 or 4 different kinds, very cheap. Hair
Mattresses, made to order, and old ones made
over as good as new.
UNDERTAKING,
We keep on hand a very large assortment of
Collins of every description, furnish shrouds,
scarfs, carriages, and everything necessary
for the interment of the dead, and at very
low prices. We are just completing another
splendid Hearse, which will give us two
Hearses equal to any in the State, which we
shalluse whenever our services are required,
without extra chaage.
E. QUINTARD & SONS.
Norwalk, March 15th 1862.
NEW FURNISHING STORE,
NEAR UPPER END OF MAIN ST.
East Side of the Bridge.
HAVE at my Store in Norwalk the largest
assortment of
Household Furniture
in this county, consisting of Bureaus of all
kinds, Lounges, Sofas, Tete-a~Tetes, Card
Tables, Marble top pier Tables and Center
Tables, Wash ,Stauds, ’
. EXTENSION TABLES,
CHAIRS and R0 011’ E138 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, Sept. 1st, 1863. 44
STOVES, HEATERS, RANGES,
'VER FORTY VARIETIES and sizes .of
. Cooking Stoves and Ranges; over thir-
ty varieties and sizes of Parlor and Ofiice
Stoves, not excelled in beauty of design, per-
fection of operation, or variety, by any Stove
in the State. Manufactures Tin, Sheet, Iron
and Copper Wares, deals in J appan, Brittan-
ia, Crockery, Wooden, and Silver Plated
Wares, Stove Blacking, Coal Hods, Shovels
and Riddles, Brass Kettles, Sausage Cutters,
Matts, Brooms, Bells, Fire Place Grates, Sad
Irons, Sheet Lead, Lead Pipe, Fruit Jars,
Fluid and Coal Oil Lamps, Stove Castings,
in fact, all that constitutes a well filled Kitch-
en Furnishing Store. Books, describing prin
ciple and management 0f.Stove, free. Lar
gcst assortment ’of Pumps in the State. 09.11
at . H. NASH’S,
1V4 South Norwalk, Ct.
Rack Pay and Pensmns.
OSEPH W. WILSON is an agent for
collecting Back Pay, Bounty and Pen-
sions and is so connected with the Depart-
mentat Washington that he can collectiliese
more speedily than any other in this VlClDl-
ty. “‘24
Hammer’s Champagne Ale.
the superior quality of
H A M M E It ' S
Fresh Brewed Champagne Ale.
This Ale is brewed fresh at all seasons Of the
year, and its keeping quality, especially of
that brewed during the most excessive hot
weather, is guaranteed for any length of time.
For sale in Barrels and half-Barrels, at
Selleck’s Packet Ollice, N Oi'walk.
JEHIEL GRUMMAN,
Agent for the sale of Hammcr’s Champagne
Ale, Wilton, Conn. 2
Notice.
rrHE Subscriberhas the pleasure of in form-
ing the public that he has purchased the
interest of Ebenezer Crissey in the Boot and
' Shoe Business lately carried on at the Store
corner of Walland Water Street, where he
will continue the business. He trusts that
the liberal patronage given to this Store
while under his control as partner and man-
ager, will be continued to him as proprietor.
9 J. N. LOCKWOOD.
WLLIAM o. SWAN,
SADD ER OD HARNESS MAKER,
DJOINING Danbury and Norwalk R.
R. Depot, Norwalk, Conn, keeps con-
stantly on hand and will make to order eve-
ry description of
Harness,llcrse Furniture, Trappings
or Clothing. Also Saddlcr‘s Hardware and
outfits, Trunks, Valiscs, Carpet Bags, &c.
All in want Of' anything in hisline,will do
well to give him a call. Orders for any kind
ofwork promptly executed. Repairing done
neatly and cheaply, and at short notice.
G. & G. M. Holmes,
THE attention of the public is solicited to.
Norwalk
INSURANCE lillllil'llll.
- Nonwann' 'c'o‘nm,
Chartered Capital $500000
Paid up Capital $100,000
WM. C. STREET, President.
GEO. R. COWLES, Secretary.
EBEN. HILL, Treasurer.
Norwalk, Jan 1st. 1864
INSURANCE.
THE subscriber havin taken the agency
of the New England 're and Marine In-
surance Co. of Hartford, is prepared to insure
all kinds of property against loss or damage
by fire on as accommodating terms as any
other Company.
The New England Fire and Marine Insu-
rance Company has been recently established
with a paid in capital of $200,000 and has a
surplus of $6,295.00.
JOSEPH W. HUBBELL,
Agent for Norwalk and vicinity.
N orwalk, Feb. 1st, 1861. tf
.Assets over $23,000,000.
GEO. R. COWLES,
S AGENT at Norwalk, and issues Policies
for the following INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Home, of N. Y., Assets Jan. 1, ’64 $3,286,270
1y
Etna, of Hartford, “ ‘ 3,128,820
Phoenix, of N.Y., “ " 722,219
Home, of N. H., “ “ 500,000
Norwich, “ “ 390,501
Lamar, N. Y., “ “ 389,375
North American, Ht’d“ “ 384,010
City of New Haven, " “ 330,419
Merchants, Hartford, “ “ 301,443
Western Mass, Pittsfield, “ 236,424
Hampden, Springfield,“ “ 200,000
People’s, Worcester, “ “ 405,593
and other Companies, Stock and Mutual, in
Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York,
with assets of $13,000,000. At SO. Norwalk
application may be made to WM. T. CRAW.
William C. White,
Graduate of the Leipzig Conservatory,
INSTRUCTOR IN
MM©D© AWE) @EEMARH,
LOCKWOOD’S BUILDING, ,
NOR WALK, CONN.
American and Foreign Music constantly
on hand; orders for Music will receive spe-
cial attention.
References—the Clergy of Norwalk. 26
REMOVAL!
MRS. J. E. HOYT, would respectfully
inform the public that she has Remo-
vcd her MILLINERY ROOMS to Curtis’s
Building, (directly over the Store of Mr. Bat-
terson,) Main St, where she will be pleased
to meet all her old friends and patrons.
Attention is called to her new stock of
Winter Millinery Goods,
which are now on exhibition and Sale.
3. 1'. RYDER,
Agent for the sale of
WHEELER & WILSON’S
I'amily Sewing Machines.
Ofices—Danbury. Conn, opposite Savings’
Bank. Norwalk, Sherwood’s Block.
N. B.—I will sell you a machine delivered
at your house for the same price that on
would have to pay at; the» FaCtory. ill
teach you thoroughly to use it, warrant it to
be perfect, and keep it in order for one your
free of charge. 35
now. A. B. NORTHBOP,
GUN AND 3001!. SMITH,
And Bell Hanger,
SAACS’S BUILDING, (next to Norwalk
’ Hall,) Norwalk, Ct. Jobbing of every de-
scription. Particular attention paid to re-
pairing Guns, Pistols, &c., Mortice, Rim,
Cabinet and Trunk Locks. Saws filed and
set. Sewing Machines, Clocks, and Pumps
repaired. Platform and Counter Scales put
in order. Skates repaired and made to or-
der, the, &c. tf44
Notice.—
THE subscriber having taken the old
Horse Shoeing Stand, at the foot
of Mill Hill, is prepared to do Horse Shoe-
ing. and all kinds of job Blacksmithing, on
the most reasonable terms.
He also carries on the Carriage Business
at the old Stand occupied by his father for
the last twenty-three years.
JOHN SHEPHERD.
Norwalk, Aug. 29th, 1864. th5.
Hardware, Cutlerly, ac“
AT SOUTH NORWALK.
THE Subscriber would inform the public
that be has purchased of Mr. Chichester
the old established Hardware Business, at
South Norwalk, and will continue the busi-
ness at the old Stand. He intends keeping
always on hand, a lar e stock of Hardware,
Cutlery, A ricult’ural mplements, Mechan-
ics’ Tools, ire Arms, Builders' Hardware,
Paints, Oils, Varnish, and all other articles
usually kept in, first-class Hardware Stores.
It will be his endeavor to meet the ants
of bin customkrs, and merit the patro ge of
the public.
15 WM. S. FITCH.
N 2W MARKET.
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THE subscribers respectfully announce
_ that haying taken the old Lockwood
Budding, next east of Gruman‘s store, thor-
oughl purified and refitted it, have Opened
a mar of there, for the sale of Fish, Oys-
ters. Clams, &e., fresh from their native ele-
ment. Also VEGETABLES and FRUIT
of every variety in their season. Every ef-
fort will be made to please our customers.
Try us. BROWN & ROSS.
Norwalk, Feb. 4th 1865. 6mos
CARRIAGE MAKING,
Horse Shoeing and Black-
smithing.
LYON & AHERN,
“IOULD announce to the pa lie that
they have taken the old stand of Capt
Henry Lamb, Main street, where they are
prepared to execute n the best manner and
. Carriages made to order. and Horse Shoe-
ing, Painting, Trimming, Repairing, &.c. done
by experienced workmen with dispatch.
Mr. WM. E. Burns has been engaged as
Agent and Foreman of the Wood-shop.
AUGUSTUS LYON, WM. AHERN.
Norwalk, Jau., 23d,1865. 1y37
House and Sign Painting.
APER HANGING, &c., done with
neatness and dispatch by
H. M. & J. T. PROWITT,
Slierwood‘s Building,
West side of Main Street.
AM, MY BOY, get up the old horse and
go over to the Drug Store and get some-
thing for my cold, m throat is sore and I
cough all night. liy, Father, I bought a
bottle of SILLIMAN’S COUGH BALSAM
day before yesterday, and it has cured me
already. Try some of it. 6m*46
greatest dispatch anything in the above line. '
WHITNEY & BECKWITH
, AVIN G increased their facilities for ma-
king lifesize copies of
bague'rreotyes, Ambrotypos
or CARD PICTURES take the opportuni-
ty ofreferring to the following named - gen-
tlemen for whom they have executed (to
their entire satisfaction) this style of work.
Dr. Samuel Lynes, Reuben Hoyt,'Esq.
James M. Ho t, Esq.,A. H- in ton, Esq.
A. J. Crofut, sq. Rev. S. B. S. Bissell,
. .For one of these parties, a life size head
in oil was produced on» canvass, from a
small locket picture; for another a beauti-
ful head in oil and cabinet size, from a'small
ambrotype ; Others, enlarged copies of Card
Pictures have been made. equal to any thin
produced by the first galleries in New Yor
City. None but the best artists are employ-
ed in the finishing up of these pictures which
is under the constant supervision of Mr.
Whitney in New York.
Particular attention given to making plain
Photographs and on the most reasonable
terms. All work warrantedto ive satisfac-
tion. WHITNEY & BE KWITH.
SWORDS’
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NEAR THE DEPOT,
South Norwalk, Conn.
. HE subscriber has opened a Clothing
and Furnishing Goods Store in the store
formerly occupied by J. F. & C. R. Bennett,
at the crossing, close by the depot, and in-
tends to keep on hand and for sale as good
and cheap a stock as can be found in the-town.
All kinds of
Ready Made ClOthing,
(or made to order); also Cloths, Cassimeres,
Vestings &.c., Hats, Caps, Gloves, Umbrellas,
Trunks, Leather_Bags. &c., &c.,—in fact ev-
erything in the line. The patronage of the
public is most respectfully solicited.
. H. SWORDS.
South Norwalk, December 1st, 1864. 49
Tristram a Co,’s
Medicated Lozenges,
OR COUGHS, COLDS, BRONCHITIS,
HOARSENESS, &c. They are the
most pleasant, effectual, and harmless reme-
dies known, affording almost instant relief
in all cases of Throat irritation. produced by
Colds, or over exercise of the Vocal Or ans,
in singing or speaking, and are pecu iarly
strengthening to all troubled in any way
with weak lungs. For Sale by all Drug-
gists. - 35
POWEIII’S
American Harness Soap.
ESSRS. GLENN ER & WEEKS hav-
ing formed a coopartnership and pur-
chased the patent recipe and good will of
the above celebrated Soap, for cleaning har-
ness without labor, and removing stains
from Horses, intend making and keeping
constantly on hand a full suppl , manufac-
tured in the very best manner. It will soft-
en the leather equal to Neal’s fo'ot Oil.
GLENNER & WEEKS,
5 Pr'iiyu St, Albany. N. Y.
THEODORE FI GB, Agent for N0"
walk and vicinity. ' “2
“- House: and 1.0?
' {_ For Sale Cheap-
On “ Van Zandt Avenue,” Down Town
near the railroad,
ONE NEW TWO STORY HOUSE,
and one LOT adjoining, for sale cheap.
Apply to L. DIBBLE,
South Norwalk.
So. N orwalk, Jan. 28th, 1865. 2m5*
Building Lots I'or Sale.
RARE CHANCES. '
ANUMBER'of good and desirable Buil-
ding Lots on the old Gregory Place,
are now offered on reasonable terms to the
Public. The large tract, extending from
Catherine St. on the North, and the . & N.
Railroad on the East, running back to the
River, has just been surveyed and mapped
outinto Building lots; three new avenues
laid out through the same, and a bridge in
process of erection to connect with the
west side, thus making the lots tery eligible
and easy of access from all parts of the vil-
lage. For terms apply to
TOUT,
Norwalk, April 25th, 1864. ', 6m
RIMOVAII.
H. M. & J. T. PROWITT.
AVE removed their Hardware Store
to the new double Store in Sherwood’s
ls‘Iew Build’ng, on the West. side of Main
treet.
A Card.
The subscriber would inform the public
that he has sold out his interest and good
will in thefirm of Marvin &. Prowitt, and
in returning thanks for the patronage here-
tofore extended to that firm would request
the public to continue their atronage to the
new firm of H. M. & J. T. rowitt.
GEO. MARVIN.
N orwalk, Nov. 9th, 1864.
BLACRMAN’S
Bronchial LOzenges.
THAT terrible disease Diptberia—a terror
to every family is making its desolating
marks all around us—to guard against that
terribledisease, the proprietor in connection
with a skillful Physician has compounded
an article called
Blackman’s Bronchial Lozenges,
which will act as a preventative to Diptlie-
ria, will cure Hoarseness, Soreness or Irrita-
tion of the throat. Try them, they will rec-
commend themselves. ~
Sold Everywhere.
E. BLACKMAN, Pro rietor.
No. 11 sin St.
CHIA? PASS AGE
To and from
GREAT BRITAIN do IRELAND.
TAPSCOTT BROTHERS a 0038
Emigration and Exchange Ofice.
86 South Street, New York.
DRAFTS on El'llglimd, Ireland, Scotland
and Wales. a scott’s favorite line of
LIVERPOOL PAC ETS sails every three
days. X Line of LONDON PACKETS
sails every ten days. Parties wishing to
send for their friends, or remit money to the
Old Country, can do so at the lowest rates,
by applying to H. B. CLOVER,
Savings Bank, Newtown. Fairfield County,
Connecticut.
A SORE THROAT, or a COUGH, from
a cold can soon be cured—Silliman’s
Cough Balsam will make you believe it.
Kerosene Oil,
CHEAP .
THE BEST KEROSENE OIL—only $1
per gallon,at the Hardware Store of
THEODORE FITCH.
OLD 0R YOUNG who like a pleasant
roduced
’S BAL-
remedy for any of the effects
by a cold, will find it in SILLIMA
8AM. ' '
6m*46
I Spring.
BY CHARLES G. LELAND.
Ur rose the wild old winter king
And shook his heard of snow ;
“I heard the first young harebell sing !
"If: time for me to go i
Northwa'rd o’er the icy rocks,
Northwurd o’er the sea ;
My daughter comes with sunny locks ;
This land‘s too warm for me I”
And softly came the fair young queen,
O'er mountain, dale and dell ;
And where her golden light was seen,
An Emerald shadow fell. ‘
The good wife ope’d the window wide,
The good manspsnned the plow ;
‘f "l'is time to run, ’tls time to ride,
For spring is with us now l”
And the city maiden smiled that day, '
In all her loveliness ;
“I must pack my furs and things any,
And think of anew spring dress,
A new chapesu—a feather fine 1
Light gloves and ribbons guy”—
Ob, winter wild l—oh, maiden mine!
Thus runs the world away!
Mariam Recorder.
-———‘~.’o
Sorrows of Werther.
Werther had a love for Charlotte
Such as words could never utter ;
Would you know how drsthe met her 7
She was cutting bread and butter.
Charlotte was a married lady,
And a moral men was Werther,
And for all the wealth of ladies,
Would do nothing for to hurt her.
So be sighed and pined and ogled,
And his passion boiled and bubbled,
Till he blew his silly brains out,
And was no more by it troubled.
Charlotte, having seen his boy
Borne before her on a shutter,
Like swell-conducted person,
Went on cutting bread and butter.
—Tha'ckeray.
a.»
A Year’s lplnning.
BY ELIZABETH nAnnn'i'r BROWNING.
He listen’d at the porch that day,
To hear the wheel go on, and On,
And when it stopp'd—rsn back swsy— .
While through the the door he brought the sun :
But now my spinning is all done.
no sat beside me, with an oath
That love ne'er ended, once begun ;
I smiled—believing for us both
What was the truth for only one,
And now my spinning is all done.
My mother cursed me that I heard
A young man's wooing as I spun,
Thanks, cruel mother, for that word,
For I have since a harder known 1
And now my spinning is all done.
I thought—0 Codi—my first—bom‘l cry,
Both voices to my ear would drown,
I listen‘d in mine agony—
, It was the silence made me groan!
And now my spinning is all done.
Bury me ’twixt my motherls grave,
Who cursed me on her death-bed lone,
And my dead baby's-(God it save l)
Who not to bless me would not moon,
And now my spinningumam. , "
A stone upon my heart and head.
But no name written on the stone l
Sweet neighbors l whisper low instead ,
"This sinner was alovely one—-
And now her spinning is all done."
And let the door sjurremain,
In case he should pass by anon ;
And leave the wheel out very plain,
That 11: when passing in the sun
May see the spinning is all done.
m.»
REPORT
0fthe Executive Cmnmiltee of the South Nor-
walk Bibk Society, auwiliary to the Ameri-
can Bible Society, Presented Feb. 26th 1865.
The operations of the year now closed have
been principally confinedto sales from the
Depository, and gills through life members.
The amount of sales, including a few dona-
tions ‘of this character, amount to $30.18.
The stock on hand amounts to $82.73.? We
have paid to the Parent Society on account
$35. Our present debt is $50.55. We have
in the hands of the Treasurer $15.21, $10.; of
which must go to donation account, The
amount in the hands of the Depository is
$27.40 so that we have available funds, to,
wards liquidating the present debt amount.
ing to $32.61. It is confidently? expected
that the contributions yet to come in, will
not only liquidate. this debt, and replenish
our Depository, but enable us to makeja gen-
erous donation, in aid _ of the great work of
the Parent Society. It is true..that our So-
ciety is in itself, but a small concern—a little
rill among the thousands, which pour their
united streams into the ighty river of
Christian charity, that flows ever onward‘to
bless the world with its uneeasing benefi-
ceuce. We are in danger of upderveluing
our organization, and thinking lightly of our
work, because of our comparative insignifi-
cunce, yet who does not know. that the
mightiest rivers are dependent on the little
rills for their ceaseless supply of water. The
Mississippi would soon dry up and come to
nothing, if little rills that trickle down the
mountain sides, should cease their flowing.
Equally certain is it, that the American Bible
Society, would be compelled to suspend its
Operations, if every little society like ours,
should cease to send forward its charities.
The ocean itself is composed of drops. The
water which God gives us from heaven and
without which the earth would become a
barren waste, comes down for the most part
in the finest particles. The armies, whose
tread shakes the continent, are made up of
little companies and squads of men, gathered
from the remotest corners of the nation.
Let us not then, undervalue our organiza-
tion, nor tnink that there is nothing for us to
do, because what we can do, amounts to so
little. Let as rather rise to a proper concep-
tion of the importance of our position. and if
we blush in view of the little we have yet so-
accomplished, let us think what might be of
fected if even we were to put our energies
into this work as we might 'do. ‘ ‘
Our field of operations is indeed small.
Our contributions are small, much smaller
than they should be, yetnono of them could
be spared without serious damage'to the
cause ofcbristisn benevolence. The results
of our feeble efforts are not a trifle. It is
something to have kept up a constant supply
of bibles in this growing community. It is
something to be able to say, that not a child
in our Sabbath Schools, or in the commu-
nity, need be without a testament. If 'he
wants it, he can have it. It is something to
have once visited every house, and offered a
bible to every destitute family. Audit is
purchase bibles has been constantly; increm-
l ing, in this community, since we opened our
gratifying to know, that the disposition to
. Depository. We are thankful for having
been permittedto supply our soldiers with
the-word of God, when they went out to
fight our battles for us, and When Some of
them‘ have been brought home sick and
wounded, or have perished on the field of
conflict, it beecbeered our- hearts to know
that the Bible has been their comforter in
the hour of anguish, and their unfailing sup-
port in the near prospect of eternity.
Nor have we confined our charities whol-
ly to this community. Every year a portion
ofour contributions has gone into the treas-
ury of the Parent Society, and thus helped
to swell that tide of beneficence which is
constantly rushing onward and spreading
its healing waters over the continent, and
over the World.
Still it must he confessed that we have not
done what we might have done. The press-
ing exigencies of the soldiers, of Freedmen,
and the Refugees have enlisted our sympa-
thies, and called forth our charities, and we
have made this an excuse for doing little for
the Bible cause. We forget that without the
Bible we should have no liberties to defend
and no soldiers to defend them; that the
stability of our government and the hopes of
'our. Country all rest on this foundation—that
~ ifwe would preserve our country, free, loyal,
united and independent we must by all means
see to it that all the people have the bible,
and read it. Without this, vain are our
fleets and armies—vein the wisdom of
statesmen—vain even all our prayers for the
.peace and liberty and prosperity of the na-
tion. A nation without any religion can not
exist. Without the true religion, intelligent-
ly diffused among the people, no nation Can
remain free and independent. -
If we love our country then, let us renew
our efforts to give all the people the Bible.
Nor let us stop here. The world is calling
for the Bible, in the sighs and groans of its
enslaved millions. The world is open for
the distribution of copies of the scriptures as '
it never was bofore. Who knows how ma-
ny hearts may be made glad by the resolve
we new record, henceforth to do with all our
might whaiour hands find to do in the noble
Work of giving the word of God to all the
earth
Since our last anniversary the senior Vice-
President, who presided at that meeting,
Dea. DANIEL K. NASH, has been called to
his rest. He was a steadfast friend of this, as
of every good cause. We miss him in our
counsels, and deeply lament the loss of his
wise, steady, heavenly influence. How soon
our places will be vacant and our work on
earth ended, who can tell? Let us work
while the day lastsfor the night cometh when
no man can work.
By order of the Executive Committee,
DENNIS PLATT, Secretary.
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For the Gazette.
Two kinds of Education.
To grgglpgte at a commercial College and
i to get fairly estiblished in busines before he
arrives at man’s estate seems to be the sum-
mit of the Norwalk boy’s ambition. To one
who urges a more general course of educa-
tion, he puts the old question, “Cui bono ?”
“What is the good of a liberal ed ucatiou ?”
This is a question which it is legitimate and
reasonable to ask. When a young man
stands at the entrance of life, and different
avenues are opening up to him between
which he may choose, it is well for him if he
have not an adviser in whom he can put
faith, to ask questions, to investigate for
himself, and then to choose wisely.
Whatever a man does, he does in reference
to some end—for the sake of some good to
be obtained. Some things he pursues for
their own sake, others for the sake of some
end beyond themselves. Thus, the true
student seeks knowledge for its own sake.
no goes to school and applies himself to
study to attain this end. Knowledge is the
ultimate end, study the subordinate end, or
means. The enjoyment caused by viewing
a beautiful landscape is an ultimate end, the
climbing of a hill to obtain it, the subordin-
ate end. The ultimate end of all action and
labor is some good. What, then, is the na-
ture of good. All good is the result of our
own activity. Nothing is good, except as it
acts upon and excites our senses and facul-
ties. Light is good, but only as there is an
eve to see it. Music is good, but only as
there is an ear to hear it. Wealth is good,
but only as it satisfies human desires. The
pleasure, then, which results from the right
exercise of any one of our faculties,is a good.
It is evident, therefore, since man is a com-
plex being, and possessed of a wide range of
faculties, that he must be susceptible of dif-
ferent kinds of good. The feeding of his
appetite, the gratifying of his desires, the
pursuit of knowledge, the exercise of his
affections and moral powers, all these are
sources of good to him.
We are far, however, from. agreeing with
ocertsin metaphysician who holds that all
kinds of good are alike—that the gourmand
enjoys as much as the philosopher, the vo-
luptusry as much as the saint.
'If, then, there are different kinds of good,
wisdom will be shown in choosing the high-
est. In the parable of the Ten Virgins, those
were called wise who chose a great and last-
ing good, in preference to a little fieetiug
pleasure. The Bible teaches us that he alone
is wise, who chooses the blesseduess which
results from the right performance of his du-
ties. On the other hand, “The fool hath said
in his heart, There is no God.” He has re-
jected the greater good for the less.
Having, now, seen what good is, that there
are different kinds of good and that wisdom
lies in choosing the highest good. let us con-
sider,how the good which is to be gained by
a business education compa in rank, with
that to be derived from a liberal education.
The object of a liberal education is the
symmetrical development of the whole man.
It proposes to do for the mind what a system
of gymnastic training does for the body.- It
trains every faculty and strengthens every
power, and thus,by their resulting capability
for greater activity, provides for future and
greater enjoyment.
Not only are the faculties of the mind dis-
ciplined by liberal studies, but valuable
knowledge is acquired and the mental per-
ceptions, and consequently, the sources of
enjoyment, multiplied. To take a single
instance. It is with a sort of vacant wonder
and a vague feeling of enjoyment that the
uneducated man gazes at the works and pro-
cesses of Nature. But let the scholar go
forth into the woods and fields and every
sense is alive in discovering new relations of
things and new beauties. Every rock, every
plant, every bird has a thought for him.
Like the Argus of Greek fable, he has an
hundred eyes.
From what has been said it appears that a
liberal education has for its objeCt the pro-
duction of aperfect man—to make man an
end unto himself. On the other hand a pro-
fessional education aims to make him a
means unto others—a mere money-making
machine.
We would not however, be understood as
undervaluing a business education. Wealth
must be acquired that we may be able to
satisfy our own desires. Rightly used, it be-
comes an instrument of great good to others.
No doubt every young man should give con-
siderable time to business studies, or as
the Germans, very unpoetically, call them,
“ The Bread and Butter sciences.” Yet, for
such studies to crowd out the more liberal
ones, seems to us most plainly unnatural and
preposterous. It is the slave, grasping the
sceptre and diadem of the monarch.
C. L. S.
March 10 1865.
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THE COST on THE Dnnoancm—The
enormous sum of $14,641,362 49 has been
expended merely for bounties, by the cities
towns and counties of New York. The in-
ternal revenue tax of this 4th Congressional
district, last year after adding the tax of
banks paid directly to Commissioners, was
$1,086,692 92. What caused the necessity
for these immense sums to be raised ? Noth-
ing but the rebellion of the “Southern De-
mocracy.” who were encouraged in their
treason by the Northern democracy from
first to last. Afterimposing these burdens
upon the people, and causing the deaths of
hundreds and thousands of lives, “ the de-
mocracy" has the impudeuce to even now
put up candidates and ask the intelligent
people of Connecticut to vote for them, this
giving again powerto those who have be-
trayed the government, put the whole coun-'
tion which no American ever dreamed
could befall him. The people should, and
will, rebuke the authors of our national dis-
asters on the first Monday of April in a man-
ner which they will understand.
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ADDRESS
Of Union State Committee
TO THE
UNION VOTERS CONN E CTIOUT.
OFFICE OF THE STATE COMMITTEE, 3
NEW HAVEN, March 11, 1865. 5‘
Another political campaign is begun. The
first Monday of April is at hand. In calling
upon you to make thorough preparation for
that day, we are not simply pointing out to
you a duty. To be avital part of the State
at all times—to help make the voice of the
State clear, noble and decisive in time of
danger—these are not so much the duties as
the privileges (f the free citizen in a free
commonwealth.
~—The auspices are favorable. Whatever
has been lost—\W. mayr _herea tter be
lost—the Nation has been saved.“ It was
saved on the 8th day of November, 1864.
When, on that day, the Nation, trampling
into dust the Democratic conspirators who
sought its life, solemnly declared that it
would live and not die, then, at last, it be-
came certain that the Republic could not
perish. The decision then pronounced has
assured us, and assured the world, that
whatever disasters may befall us in the pro-
gressof the Revolution, the American Peo.
ple will uphold their Nationality, .will pre-
serve their National unity. and wiIl never
give up one inch of their National territory.
But although these things are assured,thc
revolution is not ended, and our danger is
not over. The Democratic party, under the
same leaders who led it into revolt, still
keeps up its bloody struggle at the South,
and still maintains its political warfare at the
North. And until the Democratic party
shall be paralyzed tbroughout.the North, as
well as throughout the South, there can be
no absolute security to the Republic.
In speaking the truth thus plainly, we in-
tend no bitter denunciation of the masses of
the Democratic party. That its leaders at
the South are wicked and cruel traitors, the
slauohter pens of Andersonville, Salisbury
and'I‘lorence terribly testify. That its lead-
ers at the North have been from the begin-
ning of the rebellion, and are now, in full
sympathy with their Southern confederates,
who have murdered so many helpless North-
ern soldiers in those horrible prisons, is
equally true. But the masses of the party,
North and South, simply follow their lead-
ers. The party, as a party, although rebel-
lions and treasonable, does not choose trea-
son intelligently. The leaders, however
cruel at the South, however servile at the
North, are not all cruel or servile from
choice.
Leaders and followers, like the leaders
and fOIIOWers in all other parties, are simply
struggling for the advancement of the ideas
of their party. Thus the Democratic party,
like all other parties, is fighting for its ideas.
Those ideas being essentially revolutionary
and anarchical, have produced rebellion.—
Wherever the Democratic party exists, there
the spirit of rebellion exists. At the South
it uses bayouets; at the North it uses bal-
lots; occasionally resorting (as it did under
the friendly supervision of one of the Sey-
mours in the city of New York,) to the knife
and fire-brand. It will cling to its ideas un-
til it dies. The time has therefore come for
it to die,—since, having involved great na~
tion in the most bloody and wicked Of civil
wars, those ideas have become hateful to
mankind.
The Democratic party assert that the
American people are not a Nation.
It asserts that the Government of the Uni-
ted States is not a National Government.
It asserts that the territory embraced
within the limits of the United States, is not
the territory of the Nation, _and is .not, as
such, subject to the supreme Jurisdiction of
the Nation. _
It asserts that the citizen does not owe
primary and supreme allegiance to the Na-
tion.
It asserts that the American people are not
sovereign. .
It invented, and still.upholds, the perni-
clone and treasonable doctrine of “ State
sovereignty,” or “ State rights,” falsely, so
called,—maintainiug that every State is a
“sovereign” nation, having a “ sovereign,”
right to secede and break up the National
Union at its “ sovereign” Will and pleasure.
Through political necessity, perhaps, rath-
er than through innate depravity, the Dem-
ocatic party has also been led to adopt the
doctrine that the laborer ought to be the
slave of his employer.
The Democratic party has undertaken, at
last, to put ots doctrines into practice, and
we are reaping their results. For the sake
of these doctrines of chaos and anarchy,
John C. Breckenridge, Jefferson Davis, and
other Democratic leaders at the South have
filled our land for four years with blood and
fire; while the Vallandighams, the Sey—
mours. the Woods and the Pierces, have, at
the same time, unceasingly preached the
same dangeroas doctrines at the North.
Thus it has come to pass that the ideas of
the Democratic party—the only ideas for
which it-now struggles, are to-day compress-
ed into two words,—treason and slavery
The old flag floats over Charleston, where
those ideas were begotten and born, but the
victory will not be complete until the des-
traction of the political faction by which
those ideas are still stubbornly defended. _
The Democratic party in Connecticut, nei-
“ther shamed into silence by the verdict of ,
try in mourning, and subjected us to taxa- ‘
.. . wvrismmr
November, nor terrified into submission by
the rapid progress-of the National arms, has
re-afiirmed, in its late convention, all its for-
mer declarations of faith in the bloody dog-
mas of “State Sovereignty” and “State
Rights ;” has ref-asserted its devotion to the
perishing institution of slavery; and, in.
proof of itsinflexible adherence to the cause
of treason and rebellion, has nominated a.
State ticket appro riately headed by the sig-
nificant name of eymour.
. Union men of Connecticut 1 fourteen times
in successmn have you smitten this revolu-
tionary and Seymour-ridden faction to the
dust. Now let the next blow be the heavi-
est you ever gave.
An opportunity, which may never again
occur, is now presented to you, of not only
defeating the Democratic party, but of remo-
ving forever from the land the accursed
system of human slavery, and of protecting
the Republic, for all time, against, the to-
tions, the discards, and the bloodshe of
which that system has been the prolific source.
The acceptioa or rejection of the proposed.
Constitutional Amendment abolishing slo-
very, may be, and probably will be, decided
by the vote of Connecticut. The final adop-
tion of it by a number of States sufficient to
give it constitutional effect, has been render.
ed exceedingly doubtful by the action of the
three States which voted for McClellan in
November. The Democratic party of Con-
necticut enter upon the Spring campaign
inspired by the hope that they'may, by some
accident, obtain control of one House of the
General Assembly, and thereby. be enabled
to save from death the wretched institution
which even their own Southern allies are
giving up. ‘ ‘ ' .
Surely, no higher motive for action can be
presented to you, than the danger that
through negligence of yours, the Democratic
party may obtain the power to,_defeat,'ply
factions Opposition, the well understood '
of the American People, and to inflict upon
the honor of our heroic State on inedible
disgrace. Be vigilant then. Organize. Or-
ganize thoroughly. Organize eve here.
Organize at-once. The victory which you
will then achieve, will be boiled with joy 25
patriotic men throughout thezdond, as
your victories have been. It».will mean
much. It will indicate that the Nation is
still ma rching steadily onward, deter
mined, as it was in the beginning'of the war,
to establish upon immoveable foundation
the supremacy of the nation over all its parts
and the imperial strength, unity and gran-
deur of the Nation among nations; and also
determined now, as in the beginning of the
revolution it was not, to accept resolutely
the necessity, now imposed upon it, of des-
' tioying, root and branch, the bloody and
barbarous institution of human slavery.
Not more truly than heretofore, but more
manifestly now than ever, a victory over the
Democratic party in Connecticht, will be a
victory of the doctrine of‘Nationalsovereiguty
over the anarchial heresy o 9‘ Sover-
eignty”—a victory of law and' order over
treason—a victory of patriotism over a nar
row and selfish sectionalism.
Union men of Connecticut! see to it, that
William A. Buckingham be reselected on the
first Monday in April, by the largest majori-
ty you ever gave him. See to it, that you
elect a loyal Senate, a loyal Honse,‘and loyal
members of Congress. Then Grant, Sher-
man, Farragut, Porter, Sheridan, Thomas,
Terry, and all the brave men whose victoc
ries you haye rejoicedo _ who fight
fer the same flag that you ghTIbr, will in
turn rejoice over your success, and exult in
the defeat of the common enemy.
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WAR NEWS.
Tuesday, March 14.
The Irilmne says, on the authority of our
own correspondent, writing March 10th
from Gen. Cox‘s headquarters near Kings-
ton, we know that Bragg has met with a
repulse instead of a victory on the battle-field
of which he boasted. The defeat which the
Rebels sustained was on the day following
that on which Bragg claimed a victory.—
The column from Newborn,undér‘Geu.Cox’s
command, had advanced b the 9th of M’ch.
to within four miles of ingston without
opposition. On the 9th the head of that col-
umn was attacked by the united .mroes of
Hill, Hokk, and Bragg, and being heavily
outnumbered, sustained a defeat in which
we lost two regiments. On theefollowing
day the action was renewed, and the enemy
are strangely, but we suppose truly repor-
ted to have been reenforced by ,S. I). Lee’s
corps, from Hood’s army. 'l‘heir assault
was nevertheless repulsed, and were at the
same time attacked in flank and routed with
loss. A second assault left them still worse
Off, and they retreated in confusion, leaving
their dead and wounded in our hands.
Sheridan’s dispatch is probably the most
important which that officer ever penned,for
it announces at this critiCal moment that
north of the James River there ,is- no.10nger
any communication, whether .byfrjail' or ca-
nal, between Lynchburg and" Richmond.
The railroad is destroyed from Charlottsvillo
to within twenty milesofb. uhbprg, in-
cluding many bridges; someo ,them, more
than five hunched feet long.‘ The canal is
br'oken up at intervals west of Columbia to
Lynchburg, the locks being destroyed, and
at New Canton the great guardglgclgz. is bro
ken away, and the mighty current of the
James itself pours into the narrow bed of
the canal and sweeps its banks away in I
continuous overflow impossible to be check-
ed. Audit is this canal which Sheridan
says has been the “great feeder” ofRich-
mond. West of the Rivanua River Sheridan
found himself in a country aboundillg in
supplies, and he has cleaned it from one end
to the other of mills, factories, stores,.=p’rovis-
ions—every thing that made it valuable to
Rebellion.
Wednesday 15.
The war department has dispatches di-
rect from Sherman. His dispatch is dated
March Stli at Laurel Hill, North Carolina.-
He says, “We are are ‘all well and have
done finely. Details are for obvious reason!
omitted." Laurel Hill is in the-southern
part of the state, at the terminus of a: rail-
road running to Wilmington. -
There is further news from Sheridan, but
not wholly authentic. Reports resent
Richmond in a panic at his approac 3 and
if this account can be trusted at all, Sheridan
turned east toward Richmond from Colum-
bia and passed down the north bank of the
James destroying the canal as he moved, to
within twenty miles of Richmond, It was
supposed he meant to cross the River Milli
Aqueduct, and strike the Danville roadfihus
severing all communication between ‘ ick-
mond and its supplies. The same narrative
states that the preparations were procedin
actively for the evacuation of Richmond. t
will prove well for Lee if he does not- delay
that purpose too long.
Friday—SHERMAN.
A dispatch from Gen. Grant to the War
Department gives positive and most cheer-
ing news from Gen. Sherman. He had
reached Fayetteville without serious opposi-
tion, and his army in fine health and spirits.
Hardee was in his front but kept at a respect-
ful distance, which he will, doubtles, contin-
ue to do so long as he has the power. . At
Columbia Gen. Sherman destroyed folly-
three cannon and the immense arsenal and
railroad establishment at that place; at Cher-
aw he captured twenty-five cannon and six
hundred barrels of gunpowder, and at Fey-
etteville twenty pieces of artillery "with
much other war material. The ofilccr who
brought the let tor to Gen. Grant'reports that
Kilpatrick’s headquarters had been surprised
by two brigades of Hampton’s getting in his
rear, who captured his whole staff; but
Kilpatrick, escaping, rallied his meh', drove
the enemy with great loss, and recaptI"
nearly all he had lost.
Norwalk Chronicler