Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-24
NEVIS OF THE WEEK.


 
 A TERRIBLE TORNADO passed over the city of Cincinnati on Monday evening the 2lst, uproot- ing trees, unroofng houses, tumbling down steep les and strewing the country for miles around with uprooted timber. Several lives were lost in falling buildings,and over half million of dol lars worth of property was destroyed.
 THE NEW CouSrY PRoJEc1.-Ihe projects to divide Ltchfeld County and to make new one out cfa part of Litch6eld and part of New Ha- ven, has received another setback in the follow ing vote passed by Town meeting in Southbury, in response to request from Waterbury to in- dicate the sentiment of that honest old township.
 At a Town meeting held in Southbury, after due and deliberate consideration, it was
 Rcsolred, That while we very highly respect the citizens of Waterbury and desire their well fare prosperity and happiness as a people, yet we, as people, do not consider it advisable or expedient to form a new re-adjustment of the New Haven County lines. For more than half a century, by the desires and struggles of our forefathers we have had our connection with the Litch6eld county seat dissolved, and our town to New Haven County. We are we'll satisfied with the present locality and conye- nience of our County seat at New Haven !; therefore we do not wish to unite in petition to the next Session of the next General Assembly for a new county, but do very respectfully beg leave to decline cooperating in the movement of a new county, and respectfully ask to remain in harmony, peace and concord by the same capitol.
 TIE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION met at Chicago on Wednesday of last week. and ad- journed on Friday evening, after one of the most harmonious and enthusiastic sessions ever held by political Convention in this country Hon. GEO. AsHMrS of Massachusetts, was ap- pointed permanent Chairman, and Committee of one from each State was appointed to draft resolutions for platform" On Thursday, the platform was presented, which will be found below in full, and is of as solid and firm a tim Der as our brave and national party could de- sire.
 On Friday, the ballotings for President com nenced. Mir. Stewards friends were in the as- and confidently anticipated victory. On the full ballot the whole number of votes cast was 465-necessary to choice, 233-on which Mir. Seward had l7311s Mr. Lincoln lO2; Mir. Cameron 5O1s; Mir. Chase 49; Mr. Bates AS; Mir. Dayton IA; Mir. Mclean 12; Mir. Col Iamer 10; Mir. Wade 3; Mir. Sumner Mir. Read l ]; Mir. Fremont l. On the second ballot, Mir. Seward had ls412 Mir. Lincoln 1el all others 991.. On the third ballot, MR. LINCOLN had 354; NIT. Seward ll0!s; Mir. Dayton :; ur. Mclean 11ss and Mr. LINCOLN was immedi- atey nominated unanimously, amid intense en- thusasm and cheers.
 The following account from the x. !. Times, paints the scene upon Mir. Lincoln's nomination |:
 "Ten thousand people were in the Wigwam, and the crowd without could not be numbered. The vast throng rose simultaneously, hats and were waved cheers and hearty hurrahs were given, and the air seemed full of some magnetic influence, which moved all alike to exhibit to the full extent their powers of lung and length of wind. The president rapped and ordered silence but in vain. The audience, like a wild colt with bit between his teeth, rose above all cry of order, and again and again the ire pressible applause broke forth and resounded far and wide. The countless multitude outside took it up, and cheer after cheer from them indorsed the sentiments of their brethren within. A huge cannon was wheeled up to the door, and bang it went every half minute for seventeen minutes steady. Some one brought iu large cravon portrait of MT. Lincoln, and carried it, like the Host, up and down the platform. The Illinois, Indiana and Ohio delegates seemed wild. They acted like madmen. Ono smashed his hat on an others head, who returned the compliment which was followed by a mutual embrace. Henry S. Lane, the republican candidate for governor of Indiana, teetered up and down on a chair, not saying word, but grinning all over his express i've countenance, while he waved in huge cir conference a tile, damaged somewhat from its frequent contact with the head of fellow dele gate. At every discharge of the cannon. the cheering would break out anew, and the widest confusion reigned, which would occasionally reach such pitch as to send the blood tingling through one, and stir up the fountains of his sympathies as the storm arouses the seas of the great deep. No human body could attend to business after such scene, and the convention adjourned to o'clock
 At5P. NJ. the Convention re-assembled to make a nomination for the Vice Presidency On the first ballot HANNIBAL HANI1x of Maine received l94, Cassius NJ. Clay lOl E, John Hick- man 5S, G. A. ii. Reeder 51, \. r. Banks 381a. H. Winter Davis 8, Sam Houston 6, Vim. L. Dayton 3, Mir. Read l. Second ballot, HANLIS 367, Clay S6, Hickman l3-and Mir. HAALIS was declared the unanimous nominee The conven- ton then immediately adjourned in most intense enthusiasm, with cheer on cheer for the candi- dstes. and for the success of the ticket.
 The following is the able. comprehensive and 
 Mmional Republican Platform.
 :. Rssolrel. That we, the delegated rel resenta Ives of the Republican Electors of the United states, in Convention assembled, in the discharge of the duty we owe to our constituents and our country, unite in the following. declarations: fsssf: That the history of the nation during the last four years has fully established the rrcprety