Litchfield enquirer., 1860-09-13
NEVIS OF THE WEEK.


 gives Washburn, (Rep) 3s,o7s; Smart (Dem) 27,O67; Barnes (Union) 1885. The same towns last year gave Morrill (Rep.) 3o,4c4; Smith (Dem) 23.l56. Washburns majority, 9,92G. Last year the same towns gave 7,2As majority, making the Republican nett gain 2,67s ihe aggregate vote in these towns is 6G.22o; las t year, 53,5G0-being an increase in the vote of 12,67O.
 We have heard from little more than halF the vote of the State, and Washburn will prob ably have 1000 majority.
 The Republican County officers are generally elected. The whole Republican Congressional delegation is safe.
 The Senate is doubtless entirely Re epublcan. The House of Representatives is at least four | fifths Republican
 FERNoSr-Ecturns from 143 towns give Fair banks IA, maority,a Republican gain since last year of 2,935. Governor Fairbanks majority will undoubtedly reach 22,CO0. The Senate is unanimously Republican, while the House thus far stands: Republicans, 175; Democrats IS 8 Republican gain of six over last year.
 DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON LAKE M1cu1GAN.- The steamer Lady Elgin was run into by a schooner off Waukegan at halfpast o'clock, on Saturday morning, and sunk in twenty minutes after, in three hundred feet of water.
 There were from three hundred and fifty to four hundred passengers aboard, including sev- eral military and fire companies. Col. Lumsden. of the New Orleans Picayune, and family, are supposed to be lost.
 Only seventeen are known to have been saved. Mrs. Jane Cook, and Miss Ann Cook, Wis consin, Franklin Hopkins and son, and Marshall Burns of Milwaukee, are among the lost. Milwaukee is shrouded in mourning; business entirely suspended The reception of Senator Seward has been postponed. The schooner Au- gusta has been libeled for s42 2,cOo, and taken in possession by the Marshal.
 Twenty-seven bodies have been recovered ; among them that of Herbert Ingraham English member of Parliament, and one of the proprie- tors of the Illustrated London News All the survivors unite in according to Capt Jack Wilson, commander of the Lady Elgine' praise for his great bravery and daring through out! He was foremost in confronting danger and earnest fer the safety of the passengers. He was drowned within 100 feet of the shore. Near ly 100 persons arrived within 50 yards of the beach but were swept back by the returning waves and lost.
 THE NEW YORK FUsIoN.-It is at length set. tied that there is to be no fusion between the Breckenridge and Douglas parties in New York The letter of Benjamin Wood, Chairman of the Douglas Conference Committee, accepting al the eleventh hour, the terms proposed by the Breckinridge Committee, has been repudiated by Dean Richmond, Chairman of the General Committee; and all further negotiations may be considered closed. MT. Wood forwarded the terms of the bargain, as agreed upon, together with the favorable recommendation, as stipula to Dean Richmond, at Albany, on Sunday, witt a request that an answer might be returned a: soon as possible. At o'clock Monday evening his communication was returned to him anaaz sece,'ed. It was a subject of general remarl among the leading Douglas men, that Mr. Woot had no power to contract an alliance on sucl terms as were proposed by the aforesai, Breckinridge Committee, and the manner il which his bargain has been ratified, or rather re pudiated, would seem to imply that this was tn case. The approaching barbecue at Jones Wood has raised the spirits of the Douglas mel , wonderfully, and they now declare that the don't want the assistance of the Breckinridg men, but can elect their ticket in New York i : snite of both them and the Republicans.
 AN IMPORTANT PATENT ExrENsIoN.-The al plication of Mir. E. Howe, Jr., for an extensio ], of his patent for the needle used on the pes sewing machines, which had been pending ie g some time before the Commissioner of Patents
 was granted on Saturday last by aa e1tensao '.' of h for seven yeas,