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NORWICH, CONN.,; THURSDAY,; MARCH 7, 1867.
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Tbe - Love Knot.
Tylns her bonnet under her chin,
She tied her golden rlnelou in.
But not alone In the silken snare.
Did she catch her lovely floating hair ;
.For, tying her bonnet under her chin,
, She tied a young man's heart within.
;, They were strolling together up the hill.
" Where the wind comes blowing merry and chill.
And it blew the curls a frolicsome race.
All over the happy, peach-colored face.
Till scolding and laughing she tied them In,
. Under her beautiful, almpled chin.
And it blew a color, bright as the bloom
-'.Of the plnkiest fuschla'i tossing plume,'
All over the cheeks of the prettiest girl
' That ever imprisoned a ramping curl,
Or, in tying hor bonnet under htr caMM
. Tisd a young man's heart wlthla. ;
i ,
j, Steeper and steeper rrew the hill " y
' Madder, merrier, chiller, still,
it The western wind blew down and played '
. The wildest tricks with the little maid,
I -As, tying her bonnet under her chin,
She tied a young man's heart within. -
nVKIVIU lllUi UU J VU .U.UK .It T. MO ...
f; To play such tricks with her floating hair !
m. -1 r.. 1 1 J
To gladftilly, gleefully, do your best.
. To blow her against the young man's
Where he as gladly foldod her in.
breast,
And kissed her mouth and hor dimpled chin.
,0, Ellery Vane, yon litUo thought.
An hour ago, when yon besought,
This country lass to walk with you,
After the sun had dried the dew.
What perilous danger you'd be in,
' An she tied her bonnet under hor chin.
From the Ilartford Courant.'
Tbe Englishman and the Workingman.
, There was a man in the Nutmeg State
An English-man with a rich estate,
A chest full of bonds and silver plate,
A great Five-Twenty " potentate.
Who sang aloud, both early and late,
" I am the Workingman's Candida to ;
Ninety thousand a year 1
Ninety thousand a year 1
I am the Workingman's candidate."
This English-man smiled as he thought how he
Possessed the wonderful golden key
That unlocks the treasures of land and sua ;
And waving the key he said " Oh see
All the Worklngmen flocking to me !"
And he sang again with labliee
In chorus loud with Ms friend K. D.
" I am the Workingman's nominee ;
L.tftRcty thousand A year t
Ninety thousand a year t
I am the Workingman's nominee."
Under Connecticut's happy sky
.The Worklngmen their labor ply ;
Out and in their shuttles fly.
They weave, they spin, they pull, they pry.
Never were hands so nimble and spry ;
Bat amid it all with a look so sly
They glance at the Englieh-mau and cry
' " Do yon eee anything very green in our eyo ?
. Ninety thousand a year I
v Ninety thousand a year I
Do JOtt Bee anything very green in our eye ?"
EuWiKD JUNIOR.
The Imuu at Stake.
ADDRK3S OF THE REPUBLICAN UNION STATE
COMMITTEE TO THE PEOPLE OF TIIE STATE.
FelloxthCithm of Connecticut
The day again rapidly approaches when
you will be called, under our ancient freeman's
iatli, to Rive your vote touching matters that
'V Accent tM State and the United States, " as
"V flu shafl Judge will conduce to the best good
of the same, without respect of persons or
favor of any man." And it again becomes
our duty to earnestly and seriously to com
mend to you the candidates and principles of
the Union Republican party.
If you sometimes grow .weary of these reit
erated appeals, reflect that the time will never
come in a republican government when you
may honorably suffer an election to pass with
out studying the pending issues and casting
your vote with intelligence and integrity.
Reflect that, tedious as the long contest may
at times appear, it can never seem so tedious
as did to your citizen soldiers the exhausting
sieges and marches through which they main
tained an unfaltering faith in God and Liber
ty. Reflect that all our sacrifices now are but
trifles or pleasures compared with the agonies
of the battle field, and the slow tortures of the
prison pen. llold fast to the great work till
all be settled upon the foundations of Justice,
Liberty and Equal Rights. No other settle
ment will give yaw rest. " Unfinished ques
tions have no pity tor the repose of man
kind." Posterity will never cease to look upon this
generation with contempt, if we lazily lose in
peace what we so gloriously won in war, and
the results of the magnificant struggle.are in
a great measure yet in doubt. It is not yet
certain that treason is to be deemed a disgrace
ful crime, nor that defeated but unrepentant
traitors may not become dictators of the terms
of peace and the chief architects, under their
own plans, in rebuilding the Union they had
so nearly destroyed. . .
When the armies of the rebellion surrend
ered, treason was apparently shattered and
crashed beyond recovery. We do not stop
here to ask by whose fault it comes, but to
day tne spirit or rebellion sis stubbornly re
fuse submission to the national will as when
it fired upon Sumter, and, save a small and
honorable minority,, the mass of prominent
traitors have resumed their reign of terror in
their several States, crushing down the op
, pressed, long-suffering people, or misleading
the ignorant, and they arrogantly denounce
all further terms or conditions of restoration.
Buttheothe day, the Democracy of Ken
tucky, hailed as brethren by. the democracy
of Connecticut, nominated rebels for office
vehemently cheered the arch-traitor Brecken-
ridge,and tumult nous! y ahsited their profane J
ue nance oi the Uongress oi the United States.
It is the unanimous official testimony of the
leading officers of the army acattered over
rebellions region, and they are non-partlzan
by habit and duty that in the greater por
tion of the South, the lives and property of
loyal men are in constant danger. In ten
States the trial of a white man for the mur
der of ft colored loyal roan would be a farco,
and white Unionists fare but little better.
Loyal men in the rebel States are daily driven
irons their homes ; the honorable uniform of
the army is insulted ; the flag is insulted ; and.
the northern man who would leave the main
lines of travel must hold his peace or avow
Ida sympathy with treason. In the official
language of Major General Thomas : " With
too many people of the South, the late civ'l
war is called a ' revolution," rebels are called
confederates,' loyalists to-the whole country,
are called ' damned, Yankees' and ' traitors,'
and over the whole great crime, with its ac
cursed record of slaughtered heroes, patriots
murdered because of their true-hearted lore
of country, widowed wives and orphan child
ren, and prisoners of war slain amid such hor
rors as find no parallel in the history of the
world, they are trying to throw the gloss of
respectability, and thrusting with eontnmely
and -derision from their society, the men and
women who would not join hands with them
in the work of ruining their country. Every
where in tiie States iatkly nr bebel-
I.IOH TREASON IS RESPECTABLE AND LOYAL.
TTODioua. This, tho people of thd United
States who ended the rebellion and saved the
country, , will not permit, said all attempts to
maintain this unnatural ostler of things will
be met with decided disapproval. t - -
Cannon and drums may be silent, yet the
struggle is not over while these things are
ThA Ann A nrtll li AoA n TTO i n If tVinw
bVv a" A in i x v-4 1
m suuerou u remain true, act iwvd ui
. Vvnecticut a party that by its presses, ora-
ana conventions, denounced coercion, ae-
i cuu nwion ' an acoompiisnea xaci, ojs-
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oouraged the enlistment of every soldier, de
nounced successively every measure of the
war, never rejoiced over a Union .victory, nev
er thanked the living soldiers, or mourned
over the "noble army of martyrs," and never
in its official utterances expressed a desire for
the triumph of the Union armies or used the
words "treason," "rebel" and "traitor;" and
uniformly denied the ballot to our soldier in
the field ; a party that, in its two conventions
just held, has by resolution declared the re
bellious States to . have been the moment
armed resistenes ceased, reinstated and re
stored to all their rights and privileges," " en
titled to representation in the Congress of the
United States , and to all other rights and
privilege of e4 tea, "and has - denounced, the
measures of Congress for imposing, terrns. of
justice to the loyal, and security, for the fu
ture as i violation of the Constitution, revolu
tionary and tyrannical, and as the "factious
course of a mutilated Congress who have in
augurated anew revolution, determined to
rule in violation of the constitution, and to
establish their mid and fanatical .. will as a
substitute for the Union 1"
Here in Connecticut stands this party .strong
in organization and resources, boasting of the
wealth of its candidates, and again vaunting
its threats of civil war, shoulder to shoulder
with the rebels who, in all Bave the arms they
have lost, are the same as in the bloodiest
day of the rebellion : here in Connecticut, a
State that sacrificed six thousand lives, not to
face rebels back at the point of the bayonet
into offices and privileges that the contemp
tuously abandoned at the cost of their oaths,
not to maintain the mere name of the Union,
but to vidicate the principles upon which the
Union is based, for which it was built, and
without which it falls !" .
Men of Connecticut ! Is patriotism dead
among us? Have we forgotten the dark days
of trial when we promised justice if Heaven
would give us victory ? Soldiers of the Re
public ! Send your ballots where you sent
your bullets straight into the heartof the
rebellion. Citizens of Connecticut ! vote as you
voted when Terry stormed Fort Fisher, when
Sheridan sent Early whirling up the valley,
when Sherman sent his shout of encourage
ment from Atlanta, or when Grant ordered his
triumphant legions into Richmond ! Heaven
bless- the women of Connecticut ! their coun
try always has their prayers. How long shall
it remain a reproach to the intelligence, virtue
and true democracy of our people that of all,
the States formally distinguished as . free
States, this one contains the most violent type
of rebel sympathizers, and holds the most
Closely contested elections! Without this
Northern aid and comfort unreconciled trait
ors would yield and speedily submit to the
-"-ma uroposed. full peace would bless
us, the rigUts of all be respectea, arid u -!
sullenly lingering social hatreds of the war
begin to fade away. That the Northern wing
of the rebels shows so much strength, that
allies of rebellion are not hopelessly crushed
by the infamy of their record must be due to
the apathy of good citizens who wish well but
work little.
The sham de mocracy of Connecticut stopped
short of nothing save taking arms in sustain
ing those who fought for the doctrine that
M capital should own labor," yet it tried to ap
pear as the particular friend of free labor ! It
sustained and defended men who declared the
laboring classes must always and everywhere
be the "mudsills" of society, yet it spends
money to purchase the friendship oT working
men ! And while the enemy of free labor in
the national councils, it falsely claims to be
its friend at home.
But on the contrary the Union Republican
party in its principles and candidates is fully
indentified with rights and dignity of labor,
and will most cheerfully co-operate in secur
ing to labor both by State and Nationol leg
islation the rights and benefits it justly de
mands. In the grand struggle for human rights in
Great Britian every John Bright and O'Dono
ghue, English and Irish leader or worker in
the ranks of the people, is the ardent friend
of the Republican party of this country, yet
this sham democratic party hypocritically
claims the vote of every immigrant !
When the operatives of Lancashire and
Cheshire heardjtheir wives and children Jcrying
for bread, because there was no cotton for the
mills, secession agents went among them to
stir up tumult umous demands that England
and France should break the blockade. The
working men time and again, filled the halls,
called Heaven - to witness that they would
starve before they' would take sides against
the Union, passed . resolutions in favor of our
war for free labor, and gave great cheers for
Lincoln ! Yet, because the great slave labor
rebellion has brought us temporary burdens,
these " Democratic " allies of aristocracy and
rebellion think that the working men of Con
necticut, who bore their full and glorious share
of a four years' war for liberty, can now be de
luded into following copperheadism ! ' Shall
we be less true to humanity than ou good
friends among a hard-working people three
thousand miles away ? , . ,
Fellovrcitizens ! Since our last election the
Congress of the United r States has proposed
an amendment to the National Constitution
with which you are all familiar. Its cordial
adoption and application in good faith would
have led to an early settlement. Connecticut
was the first to ratify the proposition. The
bellious States have, unanimously rejected it,.
following the . advice and encouragement of
their northern allies, and have proceeded
throughout their extent to render life and-
property unsafe and treason everywhere re
spectable and loyalty odious." Congress has
in the meantime been sustained, by over
whelming majorities, and, thus anew com
manded and instructed it has enacted that the
rebel States shall be "divided into military dis
tricts, subject to the iTesident 8 orders, for the
Detection ot the people where the emi tri
bunals fail. It W provided that whenever
any rebel State shall - have formed and ap
proved a constitution by the- 'votes of all its
people of whatever race or color, (excluding
those leading rebels excluded from office by
the Dendincr constitutional amendment.) and
shall have adopted that amendment, and when
said amendment shall have become part of
the Constitution of .the United States, then
the senators and representatives of said States
shall be admitted to Congress on taking the
prescribed oath. It is provided also that until
said admission any civil governments in those
States shall be deemed provisional only, and
in all elections therein all loyal persons may
vote.
This legislation, sanctioned by more than
two-thirds of Congress: and by votes enough-
to constitute a majority of a full representa
tion- of all the States, is an issue in our elec
tion. Thus again are we called at a critical
tune to indicate the sentiments of our people,
and our 'party- had anticipated the new fea
ture of Congressional action -by taking the
only broad, just, generous, true democratic
Ltround tla canal Mts of all men at the
ballot box. . It is but truth to say that OUT de
feat would be a. national calamity. Our oppo
nents would exultantly defeat every possible
aaeasnre to give security aarainst treason, or
extended liberty to the people. -
We accept gladly the honor of contending
for Justice, liberty and Equal Rights, and
confidently appeal to the tteople to give the
cause no mere success, bat an overwhelming.
triumphant victory : a victory that shall take
away the last hope of treason and rejoice the
heart of every loyal man throughout the
South ; a victory that shall give them victory,
turning the scales at last and bringing us in
view of the real glorious final settlement. ..'
The law prescribes .death for treason, and
every .rebel's life is forfeited, but we ask for
no .deaths in these measures of reconstruction
the law would confiscate every.rebel's prop
erty, but we have asked for no confiscation ;
the law would ? forever disfranchise every
rebel, but these measures disfranchiss only
the leaders temporarily, and afterwards per
mit them to vote but not to hold office until
Congress shall remove the disability; Milder
terms were never offered before to any defeat
ed rebellion. .:. t . .
Full liberty and safety for all men this is
m. .X . . . . . ... -
mands with a will compounded of all the
..i, - ,;n r n I
tremendous forces of the last six years. " Rev
olutions never go backward." This people
shall be free. Heaven has evidently willed it
and led us te it. 1
Let us with one heart arouse for the con
flict ! Leave no lawful step untried. Glorify
labor by the great purpose that animates us.
See that no true men lose votes by removals or
journeys. See that all young men or adopted
citizens are duly admitted or registered. Pro
mote the reading of good papers and pam
phlets. Select good committee men in every
school district. On no account fail to bring
every registered Republican to the polls. This
work is practical sympathy with oppressed
loyalists; without this your good principles
and feelings are worth little to yourself and
the rest of the world. With our duty faithlul-
lv performed we elect our few members of
Congress, and thus preserves the front of New
England unbroken ; shall carry the State, and
the good cause will gain the most glorious
and significant victory in the history of our
party, and we shall give joy to every loyal
man in the nation. .
All parties, here or in Europe, that are fight
ing to give light and liberty to all the people
are of our party, and we of theirs when the
line falters in one spot the whole line feels
the loss. The world shall be better for the
war ; the full work of the war shall be com
pleted. May God defend the right r
February 28, 1867. ' "
H. H, Starwkath:er, Chairman.
Ezra Hill, Hartford Co.
John M. Morris, New Haven Co.
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Unlon
Repub
llcan
State
sunm s. .N ewton,
Litchfield Co.
Fairfield Co.
Roawxu. R. Pratt,
Asa K. Woodward,
Jeremiah A. Olnet,
D wight Marct,
Lucres S. FtrLLiR,
Marcus Liixik,
Babtlxtt Bent, Jr.,
Central
Windham Co:
Tolland Co.
Com
mittee. Middlesex CO.
Capital add Labor. James E. English.
sapperhead. -nlMtj feu? governor, is a cap!-.
t&list. lie nas grown ncn out ofdmdends cratli-
ered from the profits of manufacturing estab-
lsliments, where men and women have been
ground down to the hardest work receiving
only small pay theretor. isy this grinding
process, business has paid large profits at the
expense of the employees. If Mr. English
and. other stockholders had been desirous to
ameliorate the condition of their workinermen.
they would have been satisfied with smaller,
yet abundant -profits, - and would have paid
their help accordingly.
Julius Hotchkiss, copperhead candidate for
Congress in the second district, is a capitalist.
He, too, has grown rich out of large divi
dends. The Russell Company of Middletown,
in which he is the owner of one-third of the
stock, pays from fifty to one hundred per cent,
profit, and out of this income he has become
wealthy, let this same Kusseii company.
employ girls to run looms at prices which
barely enable them to pay their board and
dress respectably. If Mr. Hotchkiss and his
copperhead associates who controli a majority
of the stock, desired to ameliorate the condi
tion of their employees, they could hove made
their dividends smaller, and Mr. Hotchkiss
himself might have been content with $10,000
a year, instead of $25,000 which has been
trround Out of the wages of the factory girls.
Mr. Uarnum oi Salisbury is anotner oi tins
class, and others might be named, all of whom
are friendly to the working man only so far as
he can be used to advantage at small pay to
roll up big1 profits and convey extravagant
dividends to their own pockets. - ilie intem-
o-pnt. wnrkinrrmpn of Connecticut will prefer
to support in the coming; election 1 men who
are not aristocrats either by
tion. Ilartford Post.
birth or educa-
The nomination last Wednesday of Prof.
Cyrus Northrop for Representative to Con
gress from the Second District of this State,
is one that is received "with great enthusiasm
by every one connected with Yale, as well as
bv the rieoDle at large. We care not for poli
tics, and never snail allow our paper to siae
With any political party.- In such an Instance
as this, hoWer, we must say a word for the
man, ana we coma say no less, wnaiever par
ty lie bekmired. to. Toere axe men, tlie men
tion of whose names brings up to the mind
at once, as inseparably connected with them,
the phantom, Politician. Among ail parties
and classes, the name of Prof. liorthrop is
ever spoken of, and associated with, the wora
man. . ana sucn us is in me true, iuu Dense
of the -word. ' It will be a brisrhter era in 'the
nolitical historr of our nation when the too-
-niA B.TA nnnrtatMi to vote inr mars ana not ior
vartv. We know that it is the "law and
.
gospel of all. political parties to uuiuence
their dupes to vote the straight party hck.-
et," In reading1 the results of elections it is
always eratifyinir to us to find that there are
some wno carry weir religion uuo -ueir pon
tics, sj-d vte for those they know, and be
lieve to be the men for the office- , We know
little for or against Prof. Northrop's opponent :
and we presume that rune tenths ol the voters
in this city know as little about it as we do.
We QO Know, however, ana nine-tentns oi tne
rT 'i v Tl iCt
In tM- city also bow, tht iM
?i8a Tery T 5teds X
voterk
iNorthrop
and -would, do honor to the district and the
State. For stateraaship, oratorical ability.
and integrity of character, he stafids forth
preminent among men or his age throughout
the country. xaie vourani.
Imfortant Liquor Decision. The Bos
ton Journal learns from reliable authority that
the question that nas been Bent up to tne
United States Supreme Court, as to the ef
fect of the taxation upon liquors, in which the
liquor dealers claimed that the fact of the
goverment imposing a tax of . $2.00 on each
gallon gave them authority to sell in order
to get hack their money that they had paid
for taxes, has been been decided adversely to
the litjuor dealers. This affects those cases
that have been waiting for the point to be
determined, some 2300 in all. ; s . : ;
The Apple. Gibson, the sculptor, describ
ed Queen Victoria as extremely affable, and
nvfn rlriorohic to l&uo-h heartilv at some of
hls siorles. , One day he Bald tok, "Madam,
1 was bom a tiifef." A thief, Mr. Gibson f
Yee, madam
for wlien a enlld X stole an ar-
pie from tbe stall of an old woman witli a
wooden leer. My mother found me out, took
me back to the old woman, and begged her to
beat me with her crutch, which she did lustily.
I never stole more." " Ah I" replied ' her
majesty, thoughtfully, "a great deal of Bor
row was brought into the world by the ap
ple."
. ,,p..M:.iwi----ivirf ;ynatf -KlT-a"'--' nzwmim '"-
' Xl' Old TlureAtswj'.SsUb
The old policy of intimidation, and threats,
is again resorted to by the Ctopperhfaus of Con
necticut. The men who lit " 1860 threatened
to resist the passage of Massachusetts troops
through the State, on their way to the defence
pf the capital and , who boldly j avowed their
purpose to resist the draft, and to shoot down
any officer whQ attempted to ajrest them, are
again at their mischievous work.T They com
menced it two months ago, when they threat
ened the; country: with the bayonet i of the
"Maryland Militia,'? aad their presses are Still
talkino- It an at intervals.
The -New Haven
1. --,
rebel army has not yet enthVi surrendered.
and holds up a threat of resuirfMon of hostili
ties by "the Trans-Mlssissippt.i$my, number
ing nearly two hundred thousand men" This
is the sort of language it uses In connection
with the recent passage of the Joilitary recon
struction bill. After aenoundagjhe law for
sending " Northern satraps by which term
it designates the Union armyto govern the
Southj it says : . j , . ,
Are ws nrenared for inch a declaration of war ? Are
we sore that it will not be followed- by the clash of
arm, and the gathering of sqnadraas again in the
field f It should be borne in mind that the army of
the Trans-Mississippi, numbering ntarly twoTmnared
thousand men, never formally surrendered to the
Federal authoilty certainly, neveaarrendered their
arms. After the . capitulation of generals . Lee and
Johnston, they dispersed to their; homes in Texas,
and the other territory lying west cf the Mississippi
river, apparently willing to acquiesce in the authority
of the Federal government to the extent of the terms
imposed by General Grant, in tbt surrender of the
at armies oi me vib-ausbissipp; department, w ui
ev now submit to this military scheme of partition.
which the Radicals would impose upon them T And
if they resist, will they be alone la their resistance T
For such language as this, .we ask the care
ful perusal of every patriot Jin Connecticut.
Consider well the character pf these threats,
and decide then whether aftpr five, years of
such fighting as we have had, alter purchas
ing a Union victory at such a fearful cost, we
are ready to be cowed dowfc by copperhead
threats of another rebellion, c' ;u
Appreciated! Mr. C W. Gibson of this
city, who has made himse quite prominent
i of late in connection with pC&tical movements,
and who officiated as President' of the Work
! ingmen's Convention, at wl Haven, receives
a wrr flattrinc notice. fr.'Vi'fhe New Britain
a very nattering nouce nv we jm ew uniain
Record. The editor of tfck M was a dele-
gate to the Covention and had an opportunity
of revelling in. the delight of Mr. CJibeon's per
sonal presence. The Record says of the Con
vention : . I
It was late in the afternoon before a perma-
nent organization could be effected, and it was
then hoped that a presUing officer had been
secured who -would be .impartial in the per
formance of his duties. But .in. this tho Con
vention was sadly disar,vinted. for the per-
nianeht Pmident -w $C.X "not -to possess
the slio-htest aualification for his position, and
his dishonesty was so apparent that even his
friends were ashamed of him. Indeed it is
seldom that every quality necessary to make
both a fool and a knave can be found bo per
fectly blended in one person. If a motion was
made that he thought would not please the
men in whose employ he evidently was. he
would not entertain it : if any one, unknown
to him, was nominated he would paycno at
tention W UIO uuuiiUAkiuu uutu a biv wiua.
from one known to be in favor of carrying; out
the programme of the- democratic managers
assured him that he mignt saieiy proceed.
Such conduct necessarily disgusted the better
part of the Convention with the whole pro
ceeding, and many delegates who had come.
to the Convention hoping that English would
be nominated found the efforts in his behalf
so shameful that they' steadily opposed them.
Had it not been for the presence and the par
ticipation in the doings of the Convention of
scores of men in the employ ol r'.nglisn. tne
gathering would have been quiet and an hon
or to the workingmen, as it was, it was a dis-
1 mace to the state, for which the democratic.
leaders are responsible.
Jtrsrus's Secret. Four or five years ago,
Thurlow Weed, writing from London, said
with great confidence, 'MJetore tins year ex-
Tires all doubt or question as to the author-
Shin oi tne Junius letters wiu do removed.
The controversy has become somewhat anti
quated, it is true, but so confident an assurance
of new light attracted not a little attention.
In a letter recently published, Mr. - w eea ex
plains why the prediction was "notr verified.
Mr. Joseph Parkes of London had prepared,
was about to publish, a life of Sir Phillip
Francis, in which " it was established beyond
b. doubt, or a cavil, or a. perd venture, that he
was the author -of the - Letters : of Junius."
Mr. Parkes died suddenly soon after, , leaving
his book incomplete : and the work to which
ha devoted rears of various research has as
yet found no hand fit to take it up where he
i ixz
I
I - Insttranck Ofkxcb to sb Wookd Up.
i m consequence o very ktoiut,
1 . . ... . A jv SWY .1
amounting, lssaia, to over iw,w, me
i niquiiauie oaieiy no uiu mauuu uouiuiw
i company nas votea. to (umuuuiiub uumg
risks and to wind up Its afiairs. The assets
are said to be sufficient to pay all losses up to
this time, and to reinsure the risks now upon
the books. The per centage which the stock
holders will then receive will not probably be
large. li&ston Journal. -.
Am Insurance Agent Boxjx A -pleasant
item concerning an elderly gentleman in that
CitT 18 told Dj the Springfield Union: On
he WM tedbyan tiner-
anTsucTaent who seemed bint on se-
ant Insurance agent who seemed bent on se
cuxinir his Taronxise to take out a volley. - The
hind old man bore with the agent's tedious
rehearsals of the worn out stories of the bene
fits" of insurance which a good and smart
man at the business never tells wishing to
gie him a fair hearing ; and after an hour or
two the visitor came to be quite bold and oc
cupied all the time, leaving his victim noth
ing to do Out to listen ana enaure. - vv nen
nine o'clock' came the talk was but begun,
and the man of the house thought it time for
the agent to look for his Jiat and meditate a
departure, and so took out his watch and
looked afrit. Fifteen minutes later he thought
to make an imnresslon by the same means
and so drew forth his repeater a second time ;
but all to no avail. At ten o'clock he tried
the same experiment with a like result ; and
then, abandoning all nope oi getting no oi
him by Buch gentle reminders, concluded . to
nerve himself up to the task of tiring him out.
The agent, thinking he saw. signs of future
success, continued to piy his arguments ana
puasiODS, ttu with redoubled wnieejs.
He kept Up the talk Until 0H9 0 ClOCK 111 the
i momlnor, wnen ms neaier. Deoomrntr too mnca
fatigraed. to Bit up longer, and tnmkln it xus
turn, to speaJk, said it was bed time, and . be
sides, one of the insurance men in town board
ed at his house, and he had 'just insured all
his property, and consequently there was no
use in talk. The Joke is ffoinir the rounds
among the insurance men of the city, and
; they enjoy it very much.
.'Third. CoDKreaslonal Dlstrlc.
It will be seen by the correspondence pub
lished below that Mr. Earl Martin, the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress in this district,
has invited Mr. Starkweather to discuss the
Issues in the pending election before the peo-
pie of Windham county, and. that the latter
gentleman has accepted the invitation, "V
VXST KH44NSXY, I .
: . v - :. February 90, lSflT. f .
Hon. H. H. Starkweather Dear Sir : Verv
much to my surprise, and by no means In accordance
wiui my inclination, l nna myseir your competitor
for the honor of representing this district In the next
Congress of the United States.
: My object in addressing yon, is to propose, in an
amicable spirit, and with due regard to that courtesy
which has always marked our intercourse, to discuss
with you the great questions now before the coun
try and upon which every member of Congress will
be called upon to act. -
For this purpose, I suggest that you meet me in
Windham county in as many places as mar be fixed
upon by our mends-between this time and the
day of election.
Hoping to hear from yon In reply, as soon as may
may be convenient, I am, Ac ,
- - roura truiv.
I)
EablMartis.
Norwich, Conn.,
Feburarv 86. 1861.
Dear sir: i have the Lonor to acknowledge the re-J
eept of your courteous letter of the present inet, in
viting me to discuss witn you toe great questions
now before the country, in reply I would say that 1
shall be happy to gratify you by making appoint
ments, In as many places as may be fixed upon by
our friends, in .this Congressional District. I have
business engagements already made for a week to
come. I will meet you hereany day you will name
after Thursday of next week, for the purpose of ar
ranging for appointments.
- iTuiy yours, -
i ...... 1L XL (Starkweather.
Letter from a WorkXngliiajn.
The Workingmen 'b Convention of the
Fourth Senatorial District (New Haven) nom
inated last week James Gallagher, of New
Haven as their candidate for Senator. This
was a part of the plan of the Democrats of
that District, and showed, better than any
thing else could, the' purpQ3e of the men who
control the organization in New Haven, and
who undertook to control the late State Con
vention. Mr. Thos. H. Dory, of New Haven,
one of the most active and influential men in
the organization, speaks his mind on the sub
ject of this nomination in the following letter
to the New Haven Journal which we com
mend to the attention of worklngmen in this
part of the State j
I FLLOW Laborem : I appear In print before yon
at m time to enter my vt0est ag&in8t the doing? of
oar Senatorial delegates, on toe e rating of yep.
jin. in nominating mr, uames uauagner as me
WorklDjfma' eandfdata for .Senator at this District.
las. x cnarga me delegation wltU brealclng through,
the bulwark. of tbe Workingmen', policy, which was
to steer their new ship, freighted with the rights of
the laboring classes, clear of both poliiie&l parties
and stranded politicians.
3d. I charge them with utterly disregarding the in
structions and advice of the members of our Union,
who appointed tnem as delegates, and charged them
not to nominate outside of our organization.
3d. I charge them with knowing that it was the
earnest wish of a majority of our members that in
case Mr. fhelpn, our President, aid not accept the
nomination or Senatorshlp, that it -would not be ad
visable to maks any nomination this year, bat sim
ply t atAte who we Would like as Senator, to advo
cate our cause, so that the one o other of the old
parties might do us the kindness to put such an one
on their ticket, so that we might conscientiously
vote for him.
4th. I charge them with knowing that to nominate
each a man as Mr. James Gallagher, is sure destruc
tion to the treat ends aimed at by our organization.
for they cannot be go short-sighted as not to see that
suca an act win cause the withdrawal or nearly every
r oi. nepuDiicsa principles irom oar boci
lich will immediately weaken and sicken our
Union.
6th. I charcre them with not having: the true inter
est of our cause at heart, but, as their acts show,
making of themselves and our organization political
tools to be used in helping certain of their pets to of-
nce ann nonors.
tith. I charere them with knowing that all the money
collected by subscription for the aid of our cause
was given on the strength of oar pledge that we
would not use such money dishonrably: that we won Id
not turn our votes, in a body, over to either of the
political parties, but that we would use such money
directly within our own Workingmen's circle. To
nominate such a man as James G. is to shamefully
violate this pledge.
7th. I charge them with knowing that of all the
men ia the Democratic party ln this district, not one
couio De round wnose name sounds more aisagro
able to the ears or the Kepn oilcan members of our
Union ; and they should have known that our cause
would not be one-twentieth part as much respected
in the Senate Chamber in the case of Mr. Gallagher,
(and when I say this I mean no disrespect to the
gentleman) as it would in charge of one vf our own
members. And in case there is a Republican major
ity in the Senate, our cause would be considered with
more compassion not to De represented oy any
per-
bod, man to oe re
resented by the gentleman re-
ferred to above all
have foreseen.
of which oar delegates should
' 8th. I chartre them with knowinj
nominating such an one as Mr. C
Lng fall well that by
u. tney would not
add one vote to the Workin omen's ticket, but on the
contrary It would turn away manv from voting- our
tieket. The a in what manner will or can they ex
cuse themselves for so selling our birthright for such
a miserable mess of political pottage t
9th. I charge them with being short-sighted ln not
seeing that such a nomination wonld throw our or
ganization into di8respect throughout the State. To
my own knowledge, thU nomination is flatly disap
proved dv genuemen oi uum puuuuu parucs.
loth. It does not seem possible but that these del
eatea knew th&t by nominating tnch a man it would
-n- distraction in our Union. - If so, on what prem
ises can they be justified ln dealing such a deadly
blow to our ttir-to-do organization t
Kverv Workingman that feels such a nomination
to be a false renresentation of our policy, will please
come to Room No. 4, Austin Building, this evening.
at half-past 7 o'clock, then and there to enter ms
X oar in wa.nean.oi wv nunaugmen n nan,
T. H. jDobt
Tbe School Children of Norwich.
The census recently taken shows the number of
children between the ages of four and sixteen years.
who on tho 1st of January, "1867, were la school in
this town to be as foUows :
Central District .1,806
West ChelsealDlstrict. 609
Greenville Diatrict 704
Falls District 891
Norwich Towa District 44
West Town Street District... 139
Weaquonnae..... - -.. 98
Bast Great Plain District. 69
MU1 (or Yantlc) District 58
Wiweecus District
Scotland Road District i
Plain Hill District 8
Tth District of Bozrah t
Total. 7!. 1 . .8,733
With the advent of the XLth Congress
Connecticut ceases to he represented by Mr.
Lafayette S. Foster, who retires from the Sen
ate after twelve years of active service in that
body. As a parliamentarian Mr. Foster has
few equals in tbe country, and. for many
months he has filled the honorable position of
presiding officer in the upper house or tne
national legislature with unimpeachable dig
nity, courtesy and impartiality. He had pre
viously, auring more tnan one verm, prtnuueu,
with equal ability, over the deliberations of
the State House of llepresentatives. He has
been twice chosen United States Senator,
having first taken Ms seat at the opening of
the XAJUVtn vngress m cooo. up to tne
date of his election to the vacant chair of the
presiding officer he took a prominent part in
the debates on the important measures which
have been brought before the latter Congress-
. .1 ... .r Gf-- lV.t M Vnatff 1a
still in the prune oi pnyBicai Birengui : auu
mental -vigor. Jiarjora jou.rant.
The cit of New York, last year received an
tnmme of 1(26.000 from permits irranted to
VinalnRsa men to place slcms and other obstrue-
tions on the sidewalas. -signs wmca extena
more than twelve inches beyond the front
wall of a building are taxable. ;
(Correspondence.) .
How They Went ? to
Own Funeral.
Their
COPPERHEAD MANAGERS
-xl-., .. FEATED. ': -
DE-
i v, A SICKLY SET OF,-m6uKNE11S.
' -:. .-7 r;- A
i , " This world is all s fleeting show ,
"To man's illusion given," - , ,
' Hartford, March
2
lam a workingman have the hon
or of belonging to the Coacnmaker's
ion. Politics is no part of my
trade. One day, about four . weeks
ago, some of the boys said we must
elect delegates to the "Wbrkingmen's
Convention at New Haven, and they
wanted to put me on. . I don't care
any thing about that," I replied, " only I
that our side wins, and I
our side wins, and 1 want to
have it win every time because we
must keep the old party that stood-by
ns when we were down to the' front
stiff-backed against those fellows who
refused to let us vote, and who called
us all sorts of hard names."
After some further discussion that
day, and for three or four days after
ward, our Union held a meeting, and
was appointed one of the delegates.
On Friday morning, the day the
Convention met, I went down to the
depot to take the first train to New
in- at 1.1 r -w
naven. adoui tne nrst man i saw
on the platform was A. E. Burr, of
the Hartford Times.
I began to make up my mind that
av
there was a very large sized cat in
that meal, "Well, we grot into tbe
Convention, and after looking around
spied James Gallagher up in a corner
talking with a chap thej said was
n&med Senior fi om TLoo.wiiiP, Just
then Burr came along and. asked,
TTnw r?rfa if ioolr f" fTnlli trhpr v-
plied, " It's all right I guess, if those
workingmen from the rural districts
don't pile in here and raise tho deuce."
As I was from Hartford, and feeling
that Gallagher referred to just "such
fellows asjne, says I, hpM' are you
rural districts 7
About an hour later a fellow rush
ed by where I was sitting, and an
nounced in pretty loud tones, 4 The
eastern and northern trains were in!"
Just then there was a humming noise
around the doorway, and, on looking
around, I saw thirty or forty good
looking chaps who were' elbowing
their way through a crowd of copper
heads as if they had some sort of bus
iness to do that thing, and just at
that particular and eventful mo
ment, you ought to have seen A. E
Burr and Jim Gallagher.
Burr seemed to be meditating over
the famous expression : " I'm sick
send for McGinness!" Gallagher had
O ' I
the appearance of a chap who had
lUSb cume uut ui a iruuce auu iuuuu
. , . n 1 ,
himself laid out in a coffin with a doz
en or two mourners standing by.
After organizing, by the appoint-.
ment of officers it was discovered
that the permanent chairman, a chap
named Gibson,' I bcljove, who has
been working on the pay of English
for two or tliree months, was as deaf
as an adder. All the delegates., who
had motions to make, had to yell at
' '. t . -.ji
the top oi tneir voices, anu inen no
Ar.4 u... nnioca cL fa - rr,iMar.
ULa Va-a V ' uuv-iu ava-waw AMujfa-BJ-
A w i.: . r
mm a liuie, jsurrgotcioseuptonimi
and acted as a sort of speaking trum -
pet; which helped him ajoog- some -
what.
Finally some fellow made amotion
to-dispense with fourteen of the extra
presidents of the Convention, (Burr, J as they did at the grand meeting in
. ... .lava -rr i , ; m 1 1 1
Gallagher & Co.) and these appenda-
ges left the stage
The whole Convention voted 'this
Gibson both a fool and a knave.
I can't give you any sort of a dis
cription of the Convention after that.
The copperheads of New Haven,
headed by Gallagher, proceeded to
carry out their plan to kick up a
row, Decause tney saw mat tuey u
made a mistake in the figures, and
at 1 1 V X . J
jronov., """
theoldDoy generally, nnuiunauy, m
became necessary to call in the police
and put them out. Wasn't they mad,
though, but it wasn't any go. They'd
tried to fool the workingmen, who
are supposed to know a thing or two,
and in getting tripped up were served
instnVht. 1 fbrrot to say- that I
V o .
took dinner at the Tontine, and when
I went to pay my bill, the clerk said7
" that is all right." - Afterward ,1
found out that English paid ut. the
bills there: f. - ' V v
The Convention did first rate in
not nominating a ticket. It settles
tho hash Of the coDDerhead nartv
Ai j- .
sure. We workingmen, if wje shoula
endorse that party, would cut our
own throats. Their candidates are
all aristocrats and it is easy" enough
to see that all their talk" about the
workinjrmen is bosh? designed to
cheat ns into supporting them, -and
chedt us afterward. "expect now
that fraud is fully " exposed, to see
Hawley and the whole' Union ticket
elected by at least two or three thou
sand majority. TiiIf we, as 'working
men, want-any wrongs righted, br
grievances remediedwe must stand
h7 tnj? . Py r stands byrthe
country, ana wnose record is cqiisis-
lent ln g"yinS - luU recognition to j
the rights of labor and the righls of
nil m An - - -- . -- --.a
Delegate.?
" The Hoot on the other JFoot. ' 9
The democratic conventioniwhich
met at .New Haven, Jan.-8th,. spent-
f.V. f in In A Kin 4. - J
uiutu tx no vaiuauio tiiuo ill uenunci-
ation of anv attemnt to imneaoh An
drew Johnson, declaring that it would
1 A - ?1 T.
uoiuBii-aus ui civn war. jrrominent
among the State journals which sus
tain this view is the Hartford Times:
It and' its associates can eee no other
course for themselves but war; if Con
gress impeaches a " coordinate branch
ot the government, the executive.
How differently they - talked when
they supposed that Air. Johnson was
s ' radioal." - After the disgraceful
scene in the benate chamber March
4th, 1-865, when he was sworn in vice
president, Mr Sumner urged his im
peachment. The Pkes9 amon? other
lournals, said that he should -be de
posed bv impeachment.
The Times at that time had no ob-
jection to impeachment j it urged the
immediate arraignment, oi uir. Jonn-
son.
March
7 th it said the vice president
was "so beastly drunk that he was un
able to go through the inauguration
ceremonies. it is an occurrence 10
W . a
make every Amerioan hang his head
in shame. "It seems that the vice
president nad not been sober lor a
week:, and that on this occasion he
was beastly drunk.'
March 8th It followed tho matter
..-v-vv'. a m v a a
up : " Y ill Jar. ueming vote lojr a bill
ot impeachment, charging Andy
Johnson with drunkenness? If not
letushavea man that will, seeing
that all parties are agreed upon the
propriety ol such a proceeding.
Jlarch yth it returned to the charge:.
"We second the motion" of the Press.
"Mr. Mitchell will pledge a vote to
that crreat sten redressing the na-
tional humiliation. Will-Mr. Dem-
Novr, we do not hesitate to say
that we have just this confidence in
the sincerity of the Hartford Times
and the democrats of Connecticut : if
the President to-day held to the op
inion be expressed .April. 18. lobo,
that "tire American people must be
taugnt mat treason is a crime, . auu -
.a . 3
. ...i . -
must be punished " .and had ; stood -
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I l.7 a; aw M WaIa ma ti An rw
v7 U18 ueuiaiatiuu w , B7 .
lay
W A DUUblLV. U .- i V.. .W V. w w
following, that
" consistent
Union
men only should be appointed to fed- -eral
offices "in southern states," the r:m
Times and the democrats of Conneo-
ticnt would still be urging the im-,
peachment of Andrew Johnson.'
" - r . . L J .
The Hon. SL JL Starkweather
aceepted the invitation of Earl
tin, Esq., to discuss the politica
sues of the dav before the people
the Third Congressional district; a
rru TTmJr mho
i we are gia o JU
- m nnt snflter when such a man a
a ,
I Air. Btarkweatnef detenas it.
aker8 we have in Connecticut
1 He is earnest, speaks to the point,
1 and makes you feel that you are lis-
tening to a man whose heart is in his ,
work and whose impulses are all on
the right side. Onr Hartford people -
always welcome him to the platform, ,
. . ... ... . . '
Allyn Hall ' on Thursday evening.
That he will heap coals of fire on the -
head 'of his opponent, who shall at-
tempt a defense of copperheadism,
we nave not the slightest doubt. - X he
more joint discussion tney .bold, the
better for the good cause. nartora
Post: -
The workingmen's state commit-"
tee met &t the United States Hotel
in tnis city yesterday and elected X.
W. Ferkms of -Norwich, chairman.
A meeting of workingmen will be
held in. American ilall on
Jlall on Tuesday.
evening next, a call Tor which ap-
pears among tho apolitical notices in
this paper. Martjora rosi.
The following "whine" of Peggy's
lover ain't bad for the blues : . j i ?i-
When Peggy's arms her dog imprison, .
' i v - V : . ' - -
11:7 CftCIl TTOUla I 0P 4 tura
To get a pat from a hand hke hern ;
-And when she kisses Towser'S nose,
0 1 don't I wian that X were those r ..J '
Breckinridge cot thirteen votes for
governor at the
Lentueky democrat-.
10 convention.
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