Litchfield enquirer., 1860-04-26
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

TIE THIRD PARTY.-If there is still left in the party now trying to raise itself from the dead under the name of the " Constitutional Union Party single man whose intentions are hon. est, and who is not knowingly selling his man. hood to the slave-driving democracy, we beg to call his attention to the following extract from the testimony of Sylvester J. Megargee before the Senate Printing Investigating Committee :
 Q.-Did you receive any money for political purposes in Pennsylvania or New Jersey from Mr. Wendell?
 Wihaess-Am I really compelled to answer such questions?
 lb.. Kennedy-I think it is within the scope of the inquiry.
 1.-The committee thought the question was a proper one, and that it should be answered.]
 Al did, sir, receive money at various times for political purposes
 Q.-Were those moneys expended for the pro- motion of the interests of the democratic party {? A.-Not all of them; some of it was used for third party. which was organized to divert votes from what was known as "t the Peoples party with us; the |" Peoples party was in opposition to the democratic party we did not know there the party organized as the Republican party y the opposition to the democratic party was called 'the Peoples party" and to divert votes from that party the third party was organized the ob- ject was to divide the Peoples party Q.-Was such third party organized? A. Yes sir.
 Q.-Did you believe that was necessary to the success of the democratic party? Ave cer- tainly did, or we should not have given them the money.
 Q.-What was that third party called? A. The straight American party-the straight-outs Q.-You speak both of Pennsylvania and New Jersey? A.-Yes, sir.
 This party meets at Baltimore soon to organ ize so as to receive their share of the plunder If anybody is going down from Connecticut to sell himself, we shall be happy to print his name NEW YORK REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION = The Republican State Convention of New York, to appoint delegates to Chicago, was held at Syracuse on Wednesday. Elias w. Leayen- worth of Syracuse presided. The Convention appointed as delegates at large, Wm. NJ. Evarts of New York, Preston King of Ogdensburg John L. Schoocraft of Albany. and Henry R. Selden of Rochester. It also adopted the fol- lowing resolution, amid the greatest enthusiasm :
 Resolred, That the Republican electors of New York, represented in this Convention, presents the name of WILLIAM H SEWARD to the Chicago Convention for the Presidency, not only in obeli- .nce to an universal and unbruken sentiment but because they regard him as eminently the representative of the principles upon which the Republican party is based. and to whose hands all the great interests of the confederacy may be safe iy committed.
 We notice among the delegates to Chicago from New York city, the name of our (summer) fellow citizen, William Curtis Moves, Esq, who is an ardent supporter of Gov. Seward.
 eS5. The N. Y. Herald is very complimentary to Mir Pryor on his account of the duel. That pa per says:
 ..'Ihe fact about the matter is that Pryor bull lied Potter on the floor of the House, expecting that he would reeede from position previously taken that Potter did not recede; that Pryor sent him persnptory challenge that Potter accepted it, and chose weapon very common in pryur's section of the country; that Pryor back ed out and showed feather whiter than snow, and larger than any ever known in any ornitho | logical museum since the deluge;,
 In this country at any rate, there is no reason why the invention of Col Bowie should be ruled out of the list of duelng weapons, because there is no fixed weapon used exclusively ln such en- counters. The Colonel himself fought dncl ,tipulating for the use of his own knife. Some Years ago two persons who held a much higher u,sitiuu in rginian society than Mir. Pryor cali eyer hope for namely. Messrs Ktche and Pleas ants, fought with bowie knives, and no one said it was vul gar In Mississippi, Louisiana, Cali Iornia, and other States where the code is recog- nizcd. such encounters are common.
 There is nothing in this world so mean, and at the same time s. much an object of compassion as cr.st-f -f.len. dejected, exposed, snubbed bull ly. No hole ought to be too small for such fellow as Pryor to crawl into, and hide his head from the signt of all decent men. His apoloSlsts might as we'll go along with him. .'
 THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION OF loa6.-At the Cincinnati Convention the whole number of electoral votes was 2e6 of which l49 were ma iority, and l9s two-thirds. The following is table of the ballotings had before nomination was effected