Litchfield enquirer., 1836-12-08


 trials were had before the County Court of NewLon. don county. We are glad to see this subject taken up by the proper authorities; and if all illegal voting were punished as it deserves there would be less of it in all parts of our State No matter what party is guilty ofi they ought to be punished with exempIa ry severity
 State us Elisha IEiu Information for voting in Town Meeting, not having the qualifications required by law. The Information containedtwO counts The
 first charged the accused with having voted at and n termeddled in, meeting of the town of Ledyard, e- galy warned and held in said town, on the llth of June, 1886. The second count charged the same of. day of October, 1896.
 The act of voting on both these occasions was ad- mtted by the defendant The public prosecutor then proved that the defendant moved into Ledyard on or about the first of April last and that he had paid no tax Tn the town of Groton, from which town Ledyard was incorporated at the last session ot the Legislature for two years anterior to the time of voting There record evidence offered that the defendant had ever been made an elector in any town m thls State His counsel, however, stated that he had been made an elecor at some time prior to l797 in the town of Hartford and that the records of that town ot the ad- mission ot electors extended farther back than that year. He then offered evidence that he had voted in several towns for numberaof years, without having his right to do so questioned The prosecuting Attor ney objected to the admission of this testimony, insist ing that the exercise of this privilege, proof of the right to exercise it. The Court said they would admit the evidence offered, but that it would be of avail unless coupled with proof of the right to vote Testimony was then offered, that the defendant had been frequently seen at town meetings in various towns and though none of the witnesses had seen him vote yet they had no doubt of the fact and presumed that he had.
 On the part of the prosecution it was claimed that there no evidence that the defendant ever had right to vote any where; but at all events he could have right to vote at Ledyard, not having resided in said town ene year previous to the time of voting bound to believe from the evidence that the detend- ant had been made an eiectorthat there gould De no doubt he had often exercised the privilege ot one clam ing the right to do so-and that the exercise ot ts right like the exercise of the duties of public office, constituted prinaa acie proof of legal qualifications
 The jury returned T gu ns on % 6o a counts the costs of prosecution
 State vs Isaac WiHiams-This was also an infor- nation for voting illegally at town meeting in the town of Ledyard, on the Sd day of October last The facts in the case agreed to. It appeared that the defendant was elector in the town of North Stonington, in which town he had resided till some time last spring, when he removed to North Groton, tnued to reside there and in October voted in town meeting, as alleged in the information. He was found guilty by the jury, and sentenced to pay fine of ST. and the costs of prosecution.
 Calculations on Elections.-The Van Burenites cla med Pennsylvania by 25 900 ma ority, and the Amer ican Sentinel the day of election expressed it. seh-the actual majority sless than 5OOO-eror above 2O,OO0!
 The Van Burentes claimed Connecticut by 5000 the actual majority less than 1O00-error above 40OO
 The Van Burentes claimed Rhode Island by 20OO -the actual majority is about 3O0--error l70O.
 The Van Burenites claimed New-Jersey by 5000 maiority-they are beaten 5OO-error $500.
 They claimed Maryland, we don't know by what majonty-they are beaten above 36Oo-error to'that
 They claimed Ohio by 2O0O-and MT. R. T. .LytIe, the Surveyor General of the State-(hs salary is $25 % per annun, which includes expenses of surveying, nIn X tho of fhn nln wrote to friend in Kentucky, and pledged him the State for Van Buren-they are beaten above 10000 error 1000!
 They claimed Indiana-they are beaten O,OOO-er- TOT to that amount.
 Indeed they claimed every State in the Union--in ten of them they beaten-and have only succeed to use very common expression well understood in this country. The Vice President IS defeated before the people, and their party routed in many of their for mer strong holds Let's hear of the infaibil- ity of Van Buren estimates !- Baltimore Chronicle.
 Mr. Van Burens Cabinet-It is rather early to talk about this, but Washington correspondent assures that the Secretary of State will be Mr. Rives of Vr gna, and that Gov Marcy, of this State, will proba- bly, come into the War Department. Mr. Woodbury our correspondent thinks, is the only member of the present Cabinet who is likely to be retained.
 W. Y Jour. of Com.
 MT. Van Buren will find that making up Cabinet Is very easy matter. It is as he apshes, but as he is compelled by "the rude enforcement of the Times"
 The new President comes into office overwhelmed with political debts, thout the means to speak in a mercantile way of paying five shllEngs in the pound will not dspease one half of his creditors consequent ly he will be worried and embarrassed during the whole of his four years reign.
 Ills appointments may be classed under the follow
 First Class.--Cabinet and Ministerial appointments growing out of direct and distinct bargains for the votes of States. Such for example as Mr. Rives Sec retary of State, in repayment for Virginia; Dallas, Rush, lngersol and Buchanan, for Pennsylvania, &c. &c.
 Second Class.-Direct bargains and understandings with Gen: Jackson himself as to certain number of his confidential fends who to be retained in of flee, otherwise provided for which class includes at least one Cabnet-one foreign and several minor offices.
 Third Class.-Anangemen with the Kitchen Ca binet, which includes Kendall, Blair, Whitney, and others, who aided to get up the Baltimore Convention
 Fourth CLass.-The multitudinous claims of the AL bany Regency, and their coadutors, which will be noisy, restless and not easily satisfied, nor yet to be
 Fgtth Class. s.-Close and confidential friends of some pretenson, whose aid active politicians has secured his election.
 SirA Class-The Democracy-the candle ends & cheese parings, if any be left:
 Buren sagger, and of this capital will be placed in the hands of Tustees-Wnght, Benton, Cambre- leng and Co. for example.
 As to Mir. Woodbury, who, it is said above, is the only one to be retained in the Cabinet, we think on the contrary that he is to retire and into the &c., nate from New Hampshire.
 As to Governor Marcy, we think he has more State pride than to surrender the second office in the try for subordinate one at Washngton-besides MT. Van Buren cannot but see the impocy of taking Pre- sdent, Secretary at War, and Attorney General and probably several others from the State of It would excite ealouses against the State, before he is strong enough to ward them of.
 Manage it as he will-bend to the storm as he may