Litchfield enquirer., 1860-08-09
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. By the latest returns from Missouri, it appears that Francis Blair, Jr. is defeated for the short term of the present Congress, but elected to the next by about 1000 majority.
 ns- Gen. Leslie Cembs' majority in Ken: lucky for Clerk of the Court of Appeals will probably reach 5000. He beats the Locofoco candidate hollow.
 | b9 Chief Justice Shaw, after thirty years service upon the bench of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, has resigned. Though nearly four score years of age, he is still vigorous in body and mind.
 B9-Mrs. Burdell Cunningham was married in San Francisco on the 18th of June last. The Golden Era, which publishes the announcement does not give the name of the happy individual DWm. H. Seward the distinguished repub- l lican is to take an active part in the canvass Sept l, he speaks in Michigan, Sept. g, in Wis consin. and Sept l5 in Minnesota; returning, he will meet the republicans in Illinois, at Cleve. land, O., Pittsburg, Pa, and at Fredonia and
 Le Roy, NJ.
 hss-Michael Phelan, the billiard player an | nounces in Frank Leslie's Newspaper that henceforth and forever he retires from the championship contest, having in vain solicited matches with the celebrities of the mother coun- try, and finding himself like another Alexander | without ncw world to conquer. BE Parson Brownlow is opposed to any flu sion with either Democratic faction. He says
 "In this split, we are pleased to see the fac tions so equally divided, and we hope, in their wrestle, they will make dog fall of it! Let all honest, patriotic, Union-loring men stand aloof from both, praying in their family devotions, that God in mercy to the country may political ly damn both factionsp P
 I@~ The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Press says: "Secretary Thomp- son yesterday headed the Breckinridge subscrip- tion list with S5C0 Postmaster General Holt indignantly refused to subscribe cent. MT. Buchanan's Cabinet does not seem to be unit. v paeThe New York Herahlis very angry at the rumor that it had been bribed for the present canvas, for S25, 1000, and says :-" Instead of be-
 ing in the political market for sale, this journal is in condition to buy up the machinery. run ming gear, steam power and gas fixtures of any political party Tn the country.' The principal source of the Heralds anger is found in the low Suie dt hiiCH IL Is CPo eS0 eo Ls.'o oSSH oo1A'
 Had the slanderer said half million, Bennett would have copied the story approvingly.
 Bag~ Mr. Douglas, in recent speech at Bur lngton, Vermont, made casual alusion to the privations and labors of settler in new coun- try-one who has to make his own fences and /" split his own rails" The Burlington Free Press says:
 "This incidental application brought out a hearty and general round of exclamation from all over the house, which told the speaker at once where he was, and that his assembly in the main, had their hearts on Abraham Lincoln, and not on Stephen A. Douglas
 Eas~ The returns of the North Carolina cleo tion received, indicate that the gains for Pool the opposition candidate for Governor, are very heavy, but not sufficiently so to affect the proli- ability of Ellis election. The Democratic r,a- jority in the State, however, is reduced at least one-half since 1858, when Ellis had majority over McRae of upwards of 16.G00.
 n- A lady residing in Avon, Dodge County, Michigan, writes to Ihe Nos'ricA Bulletin that tho Post Office in the former village has been discontinued fer the following reason: The Postmaster came out for Lincoln and Hamlin. He was, of course. at once removed But. on looking about for some one to supply his place. there was not found single Democratic voter. So tho office was moved to less enlightened town.
 Bsss~ 1t appears from the returns already re- ceived from Wake Co.,, North Carolina, that Moses A. Blcdsoe, the Opposition candidate for the State Senate, has been elected Some months ago Working Mans Association was formed and an address issued in which the taxing of negroes was advocated as measure of protec- ton for free labor. This idea presents one of the issues in the election which has just taken placs. The movement, which was not strictly a party one took with it portion of the De mocracy. Mir. Bledsoe, who had once been elected State Senator by the Democratic party, declared himself in favor of the Free-l ahor movement, and was dropped by his party He then offered himself as an independent candid ate for reelection, and was taken up and voted for by the Opposition or Frec-Labor party. If he is elected. as now seems probable, this victo- ry over tn Slave Democracy will have signii- canoe as the commencement of a movement in favor of Freedom, which cannot go backward THE PRESENT PRospEcr.-We give below a list of the States entitled to vote on Tuesday, the 9th day of November, 1e50 and the way they are likely to vote. It will be seen that there will be 3O3 electoral votes. and that 52 is clear majority. We give in the first column the States likely to go for Lincoln and Hamlin and figure up IT votes, without counting Cali fornia or Delaware, which arc not desperate, by any means :-
 Maine, Delaware, New Hampshire, Maryland, Massachusetts, 13 Virginia, Is Rhode Island, North Carolina. 10 Connecticut, 6 South Carolina, 8 Vermont, 5 Georgia, 10 New York, 8 Alabama, g