Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1842-05-19

justly SFaIIyluS wing party me eleCuOA was
one of very considerable importance, and upon the
whole the turn out has been credable to the county,
although in some towns an unaccountable apathy
seems to have prevailed In Plymouth, decided
wing town, Deming has majority of "a, only 80 out
of more than 200 wings having voted. In Watertown,
| a small and compact town, Sedgwick received di-
minished majority. Torrington, which has hereto
fore given its 100 majority against all opposition,
now, when but about half the loco strength out,
gave only As All praise to Goshen for her noble eff
fort in the spring fight when she gave l05 wing
ority, somewhat less, though still handsome
VOTE Canaan and Sharon did better than BEFORE but
Salisbury, old Salisbury, that within the year has
| been almost wing, not ashamed to give loco
majority of sc! Roxbury and Woodbury. have done
well, and it should be known the credit of Wood
bury that the battle there fought as we'll against
the regular forces of locofocoism ferocous nva
sion of Legislative Pipe Layers. These formidable
allies were led on [quere, by the nose q by the
doubtable member from Sharon-the Prospective
Minister Plenipotentary to mediate in the of
his Excellency Governor Dorr, of Rhode Island no.
toriety Iitchfeld is probably the only town in
which Sedgwick received more votes than were
given for Gov Ellsworth at the April Election; con-
sidering the size of the and the distance from
the polls at which many of the freemen reside, this
fact is highly creditabe. But to no town. perhaps is
higher praise due than to Harwinton, which, with
little more than 200 electors, all told, gave Sedgwick
majority of 70.
This election has rebuked the insolence of loco
foco victory, born of accident and destined to
speedy end. The county of Litchfed is firmly whig
and friends and foes may assured that with the
ma wa IF of
agement and indifference will pass away the tr-
umphs of the opposition in this county.
The Sober Second 1hought.-The Wing candidates
for Sheriff in Hartford and Windham counties were
elected at the trial last week-the former by 159 ma
joriy, and the latter by about 200. Thus have our
friends in three counties, where they were sorely
beaten in April, proved their ability to conquer when
they choose to exert themselves.
81-The Hon. John M. Niles was, on Thursday
last elected to the Senate of the United States for six
years from the 4th of March next. Mr.. N. received
every vote of his party except two, Notwithstanding
his we'll known hostility to the great and important
m easure of national policy in which the people of
Connecticut deeply nterested-a Protective
Tariff We told that in the caucus which was
held to cement the party on this nomination, few
votes were given to Messrs. Ingersol Beers and
Ingham, either of whom would have faithfully repre-
sented the state the tariff question; but large
majority were for Niles, and consequently the mi
nory yielded their preferences. We entertain,
however, strong hopes that before Mr. Niles takes
his seat in the Senate, tariff will be adopted upon
such q basis the independence and permanent
prosperity Of the nation require.
0rThe Hon. Roger NJ. Sherman has resigned his
seat on the bench of the Superior Court much to the
regret, we believe, OF the great body of the people
throughout the state, of all parties. For many years
Mr.. s. has enjoyed reputation a lawyer Of emf
I hence, uncquaed in his state, and exceled by
few if any, in the Union During the short time he
has been upon the bench he has had the entire conf
dence of the bar and the public. Though we have
not been, at all times, admirer of his political prin
ciples, have from earliest recollection enter
tanned profound respect for Roger Minot Sherman
eminent lawyer, an honest man, and a sincere
christian.
Who will succeed Mr. Sherman is quite uncertain
Mr.. Toucey of Hartford Mr.. Ralph l. Ingersoll and
Mr.. Seymour of this village have been spoken Of
but all refuse to be candidates 1t is much to be fear
ed that the appointment will fall upon some third
rate man, though yet hope for better result. If
the compensation is not sufficient to secure the serv
ces of the best talent in the state, the legislature
should not hesitate about increasing it,
9s-Our last accounts from Washington state that
Mr. Wise had been bound over to keep the peace to-
ward Mr.. Stanley for year. The latter had gone to
Maryland with his friends, and Wise and his friends
were about to follow when the arrest took place.
NS-The Hon Thomas + Marshall of KantucLy
has been delivering series of lectures on temper
ance in New-Yor which have been listened to by
vast assemblies with interest unequaled in the
temperance reformation. Mr.. Marshall has been un-
til recently addicted to inemperance In June last
we heard his maiden speech IN Congress, delivered
while he was much under the influence of strong
drink in measure to mar the connection of that
truly eloquent effort.
9rWe have given up our fourth page, by particu-
lar request the annual bill of fare of the Agricu
tura Society," presuming that to of our readers
it will be as interesting as the miscellaneous reading
which We are obliged to omit to make room for it.
We are requesed to remind tho several Town
Committees Of the importance of making their col
lections of the members OF the Society in their re-
spective towns, and forwarding the same to the
Treasurer, with the least possible delay.
21-Gov, Seward has very properly declined releas-
ing Benjamin Rathbun, the Great Forger, from State
Prison, though petitoned to do so by majority of
the members of the New-York legislature. The
man in high life who makes and utters forged paper
to the amount of thousands and tens of thousands
should surely be severely punished as the humber
individual who only robs you of mere pittance. The
former high standing of Rahbun, his strong hold up
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