Litchfield enquirer., 1860-03-15

Cornwall.
 Report of the doings of tle xVIIfh senatori- IAl Conssnkoa bsld at Wea Cornwall March 18th, 1860:
 E Meeting called to ordes by R. R. Pratt. Esq. lChairman of the Senatorial Cemmittee | 0. J wolcott appointed temporary Chairman. c. E. Botsford, Clerk
 On motion the Chair al pointed as Committee on Permanent organization: M. L. Graham, Sal isbury Ruins Frink, Cornwall Fitch Landon, Sharon ss SJlIi Fss Committee on Credentials: ". G. Miner. Ca. naan; M. D. F. Smith, Cornwall Atram Beach, Goshen. xs Voted, That such delegations as are not full have power to substitute. Committee on Permanent Organization report 1 ed for l President. c. E. BoTsroRD; Vice, Presidents, H. B. Knapp, Edward Beach
 Secretary VIC Rogers. 5s Vosed. That the report be accepted. l. ge} | Upon request Mir. Botsford was excused from serving as President, and M. L. GRAHAM was ap pointed by nomination to i'll the vacancy. Committee on Credentials reported the deleea tions from all the towns in the district as nearl, or quite full. ?" s2a4s2 A -'5~ 3'7+
 Totsd, That the following gentlemen be Com mittee On Resolutions o. J. Wolcott, A. Allen ". B Roberts. slf sseG szt E88{i f5g |s9Hg-a F. Koied, That the Convention proceed to an in formal ballot for Senator. ..,s 5al. a.s.
 Result John Jewett 2, Charles Sears 3. Wm c. Pierce 4, Wm. K. Peck 4, Fredk Mills John Hopson 2, Geo. Cof6ng 4. ItsY l Convention adjourned for dinner. After din ner A second informal ballot resulted as follows
 John Hopson II, Geo. Cofing 2, Wm. G Pierce 4, John Jewett 1
 Hted, That the Convention proceed to form Il ballot. a lH,sg5f s'7 7ef-@ a1 HS
 Result: John Hopson 21, John Jewett l.
 Noted, That JOHN HOPSON be considered tn, unanimous choice of this Convention as cand date for Senator in the XVIIth District. | Hoted. That the following gentlemen be Sena torial Committee for the year ensuing: Walter w. Warner of Canaan. Stephen Foster of Corn wall, c. E. Botsford of Salisbury.
 Committee on Resolutions reported as follows Resolced That the doings of the Republican State Convention in presenting for the th;ri ti,nt | he names of the able. worthy and honest me, l who for the past two years have discharged the duties of their respective public trusts ~ith sucl marked ability and general satisfaction, shnuls be trinmphantly ratified by the Republican party in the County canvass. ..
 Resolved. That the action of this Convention ir placing the name of John Hopson as their candi date for Senator in the XVIIth District meets on unqualified and cordial alprobation. aud that W. pledge our united exartinfS to secure for him oi the first Monday of April next triumphant sue cess.
 Resolutions adopted.
 l Messrs. Henry Hammond, O. J. Wolcott. E R Pratt M. D. F. Smith, NJ. L. Graham, L. Beech CT, all wide awake, working men, then addressed the Convention. each expressing his determine lion to do all in their-power to help on the goot cause, and prophesying better result from thei respective locations than heretofore. 5 -'y. -...
 After a vote of thanks to Mir Hammond for h i able and encouraging speech, and vote to pub
 fish the proceedings of this Convention in tn, LIrcnrlELD ENQUIRER and Housatonic R.pablican tn. Convention adjourned sine die l The Convention was we'll attended ard enthu throughout the entire proceedings, and the gene ral opinion prevailed that our candidate mus and would be elected. r Morris.
 Quite an excitement is stirring lately il Morris, on the subject of enforcing the liquol
 law. Cyril Cady was arrested last week, ani tried before Mir. Justice Smith, for sellin Ii quor and was fined $40 and costs in default of which payment he was sent to jail.
 On Monday of this week, David Wetmore was nabbed and brought before the Justice, and got his trial postponed for week, by illness ot one of his children. l,...s Norfolk. -s., 9.s-.a A rousing meeting of the great Unterri fed and Unwashed, was held in Stevens Hotel, Norfolk, on Tuesday evening last to set up and arrange Grand Anti Black Republican, Tom Seymour Club. There were present seven white men (Amercans,) and twen- ty-one Irish gentlemen. Mir. John Bates filled the Chair. Whether he made speech or not our informant is mum. Probably mum" was the word. MT. N. B. Stevens, the Democratic Can. didate for Secretary of State, then entered the Hall, making the eighth Yankee, and followed by band-of Irish extraction. A speech was called for, but nary speech followed. A gen tlemen from Green Erin then presented shil- laleh to the Hon. Mir. Stevens, which was duly accepted, and christened the Seymour Club, amid :" skremes of larfture" and applause A Committee was appointed to draft resolu- tions-a Committee of seven-to which the Chairman was afterwards added. They went out, and our reporter awaited in breathless anxi- esy for their return: but they came not. One by one, the twenty-one vamoosed. They looked bought they said "sold." Still our re- porter waited, but waited in vain, until dip by dip, "-The lights were fled,
 And all but him departed"
 What the Committee were doing, what they did, is lost to the enquiring world Our inno- cent reporter still clings to the idea they were ' drafting" but they were certainly long time at the tap. Perhaps the S4 building materi- al" wasn't bad to take! Certainly, our reporter heard, as he passed homeward to his innocent couch, a refrain arising from the subterranean regions of Stevens Hall in which he could only distinguish the popular melody, !" Oh, oA, La dies, never mind Steyens!' The grand Norfolk " Anti Black Republican Pro-Seymour and Ste