CONNECTICUT. 



Fi-h-rulturo is regarded as a great 

 in an-; >!' >ii|i|ilving abundance of food to tlio 



Sle, an 1 more remunerative, to those who 

 uly att-'U'l to li-hing, than agriculture or 

 ug. An act was passed at the lost 

 u "regulating tho taking of shad in the 

 itonic River," and -two acts "for eu- 

 -iiiu' and regulating fisheries." 



w.-inaii-siiHnigo movement, whicli bc- 

 .v-'iity years ago, was unusually active 

 made grout progress in Connecticut last 

 ring even into tho halls of the Legis- 

 ', and engaging much of its attention. 

 . in tho session, a petition was presented 

 to the General Assembly, "asking for an 

 amendment to the State constitution so as to 

 < \u-nd suffrage to women on tho same terms 

 with men." The Assembly entertained the 

 petition and appointed a special joint com- 

 mit Leo of nine to examine into tho matter. On 

 Juno 7th, and on several stated days after- 

 war J, the committee held public hearings of 

 tho case at the Senate-Chamber, and at tho 

 more capacious Hall of Representatives, when 

 many, both men and women, spoke in favor 

 of tho measure, and some against it. The 

 members of the committee disagreeing among 

 themselves as to tho justice and expediency of 

 giving women tho right to vote, a majority 

 report signed by five of them was submitted 

 on July 14th, " recommend ing to the General 

 Assembly the passage of the following resolu- 

 tion : 



PEOPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION. 

 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, | 

 May Session, A. D. 1870. j 



Resolved, That the following be proposed as an 

 amendment to the constitution of this State, which, 

 when adopted and approved in the manner provided 

 by the constitution, shall, to all intents and purposes, 

 become a part thereof, viz. : 



Everv white citizen of the United States, without 

 distinction of sex, who shall have attained the age 

 of twenty-one years, who shall have resided in the 

 State for a term of one year next preceding, and, in 

 the town in which such citizen may apply to be ad- 

 mitted to tho privileges of an elector, at least six 

 months next preceding the time of such application, 

 and shall be able to read any article of the constitu- 

 tion, or any section of tho statutes of the State, and 

 shall sustain a good moral character, shall, on taking 

 such oath as may bo prescribed by law, become an 

 elector. 



Resolved, That the foregoing proposed amendment 

 to the constitution be continued to the next General 

 Assembly, and be published with the laws passed at 

 the present session. 



E. A. WOODWARD, Ch'n, Senate, 



ROBERT L. WARNER, 



JOHN COTTON SMITH. 



A. B. GOOIMMC1I, 



TALMADGE BAKER. 



A minority report, signed by the remaining 

 four members of the committee, was also sub- 

 rajtted, concluding " that they cannot honestly 

 comply with tho prayers of tho petitioners," 

 and that "the petitioners have leave to with- 

 draw." Tho General Assembly ordered tho 

 report to he printed ; hut seems not to have 

 come to any final decision on the subject. 



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Tho population of Connecticut, according 

 t > the census of tho United States, is us fol- 

 lows: 



CONY, SAMTJEL, Governor of Maine during 

 the war, born in Augusta, Me., February 27, 

 1811 ; died there, October 5, 1870. He was 

 educated in Augusta, and at Brown University, 

 from which he graduated in 1829 ; ntudjed law, 

 and, being admitted to tho bar in 1832J settled 

 at Oldtown, Me., in the practice of his profes- 

 sion. He was elected to the Legislature in 1835, 

 in 1839 was chosen a member of Governor 

 Fairfi eld's Executive Council, and from 1840 

 to 1847 was Judge of Probate for Penobscot 

 County. In 1847 he was appointed land agent, 

 and in 1850 elected State Treasurer, which 

 office he held for five years. He removed to 

 Augusta in 1850. Up to 1861 he had acted 

 with the Democratic party, but, coming out 

 decidedly in favor of the war, he was rejected 

 by his party, and in 1862 was elected to the 

 Legislature as a Union man, and in 1863 chosen 

 Governor. His administration was everyway 

 so admirable and efficient that he was twice 

 reflected by very large majorities. His ex- 

 cessive labors so impaired jiis health that he 

 refused a renomination in 1867, and never re- 

 covered his former vigor and strength, but, like 

 Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts, was a 

 martyr to his zeal for his country's success and 

 welfare. 



CORROSION OF SHIP -PLATES. Upon 

 this point some very interesting experiments 

 have been recently carried out in France at the 

 works of the Terrenoire Company, near St. 

 Etienne. Samples of plates were cut to exact- 

 ly similar dimensions, and carefully weighed. 

 These samples were plates of best wrought- 

 iron, of hard Bessemer steel, and of the soft- 

 est kinds of Bessemer steel, particularly those 

 qualities which are made at Terrenoire for 

 boiler-plates, without spiegeleisen, by means of 

 Mr. Henderson's well-known alloy of ferro- 

 manganese. These samples were immersed in 

 s. -a- water, and the effect of the chemical ac- 

 tion was put to an immediate quantitative test 

 by means of a galvanometer. The plate was 

 connected with one of the galvanometer wires, 

 and the other, which carried a piece of plati- 

 num at the end, was immersed in the sea-wa- 

 ter without touching the steel plate. This 

 established a complete galvanic battery, of 

 which the plate under test was the only varia- 

 ble element (since the same galvanometer and 

 the same platinum piece were applied to each 

 test plate.) The amount of electric force 





