Litchfield enquirer., 1862-05-15


 An informal ballot for Assistant Clerk ensued. resulting as follows:
 Whole number of votes, l4g ] Necessary to a choice, 76 Il. Lynde Harrison, Branford, 66 Bradley D. Lee, 9 Jno. R. Buck, Glastonbury, l4 1 Scattering among nine candidates, 47 A motion was made that the nomination of MT. Harrison be made unanimous, and subsequently amended by ordering another ballot for Assist. ant Clerk, by declared vote of 65 to 2l. . 4 SECOND BALLOT. q
 Whole number of votes, l45 Necessary to choice, "a H. Lynde Harrison, Branford, 73 1 Bradley D. Lee, Barkhamsted, 68 l Scattering, MT. Harrisons nomination was then made unanimous.
 large number of names for Messengers oi the House were. presented, and on the ballot | Chas. E. Searles, of Thompson, was nominat ed for Messenger, and Oliver G. Holt, of Willing ton, (who received A votes to 43 for Chas. Wing of Goshen, with 30 scattering,) was nominated l for Assistant Messenger
 In the Senate Hon. Hiram Goodwin was call. ed to the Chair, and Hon. A. II Byington ap- | pointed Secretary. Upon motion to proceed to ballot for President pro tempore, Hon. Hiram Goodwin received Is votes to 2 scattering and 1 was declared unanimously nominated to that of- 1 fee.
 cyrus Northrup was unanimously nominated Clerk, Willis Dewy of Granby, was nominated for Messenger, and M. K. Enscoe, of New Ha- 1 ven assistant Messenger, Calvin Ripley, of Old Saybrook, as Doorkecper, and Dyer 4 Clark, of "lndham County, assistant Doorkeeper. The Eatonians, elected to the House from some Of the dark districts of the State, assembled in the dark somewhere, and made the following nominations: For Speaker, Alvan P Hyde of Holland, 4. R. Lucas of Middletown for Clerk and Jas Huntington of Woodbury for Clerk As there didn't happen to be any of the same stripe elected to the Senate, no nominations were made for that branch of the assembly,
 Wednesday, "Election day" proper, was celebrated by parade, which was by all odds the largest and finest ever witnessed on sich an occas'on in this State The procession proper was nearly two miles in length, and was com posed of Military, Fire and Parade companies, from New Haven, Hartford, Bridgeport and oth- CT cities, including the famous "Putnam Pha- lanx" of Hartford The streets through which it passed were lined with spectators, and the houses along the line of march were completely decked with flags and waving banners. No oth- CT city either that ever we saw, seems to contain so large proportion of the fairest of the fair sex as that same New Haven, and we noticed univer- sally, that whenever the procession "halted. D to rest the Phalanx gentlemen, it always hap pened to do so where bright eyes seemed the brightest, and rustling robes and waving hand kerchiefs grouped the thickest. -r The Governor rode a superb bay horse and looked every inch the Governor that he isI He was escorted by the "Horse Guards" of New Haven, fine body of cavalry, commanded by Maj. Col. 1ngersoll, and in whose battalion we noticed the Hon. John Woodruff, and the .s Gov ernors Foot Guards of New Haven. Not the least feature in the procession, was splendid company of Artillery from Bridgeport drawing three finely furnished brass six pounders, among whose officers we recognized our former towns man, Lieut.. Geo. B. Munger. If .ti .t,. t {. Both branches of the Legislature, which were organized in the morning, in accordance with the caucus arrangements made at the preliminary cau- GUS on Tuesday evening. assembled in joint con- vention in the afternoon to listen to the Govern or's Message, which was read in clear and dis tinct voice, and listened to with marked atten. tion by the legislators and vast lobby which packed the hall of Representatives. This being concluded, the Governor was escorted by the Foot Guard to his quarters at the New Haven House, and with the customary salute of the Guards, (which soasn't fired with precisely the precision of veterans) the ceremonies of the day were ended and the administration inaupurated
 On Thursday but little was done in either House, and adjourned early till Friday morning, when the committees were announced in both houses. Litchfeld County receives, for won der, since it gets nothing else, the Chairmanship of three of the committees in each house. We regret to notice the omission of the name of Geo. A. Hickox, Representative from this town, from the committees of the House, as we are confident he would have conferred honor upon any one of them, but we learn he is to be given the Chair manship of an important special committee to be raised in House. Further items of interest as the session proceeds, will be found under the Leris. lative head. in another column.
 As arrival from the Gulf brings us advices from Fort Pickens to the 24th ut. Pensacola was at that time yer in the hands of the rebels who were reported to have eleven thousand men there. Gen. Arnold, in command of the Nation al forces at Santa Rosa was waiting . reinforce. ment of gunhoats before making an attack On Pensacola. The capture of New Orleans has re. lieved our gunboats from duty in that vicinity, and after they pay their attentions to Mobile, Sen. Arnold will dnubtless have his wauss sup- piled, s@zga a{ .stase. a7, veT3gs .s'Y'