Litchfield enquirer., 1880-05-13

n"ss that he has been humbugged: the men are iG, or out and the principles as complete 1 iy ignored as ever was the Republican plat of course possible that the election of 1880 will become contest of measures rather than of men We do not expect it; and it is for no such battle that the two political machiues are i just now so busly preparing.
 Three Republican Senators of the Ne" York legislature who are also delegates to the Chicago Convention have announced their de- termination to bolt the unit rule fixed by the Convention and to support Blaine instead of Grant. The statement is also made that dozen more New York delegates are prepared 1 to follow these gentlemen's lead. It is also stated, on apparently good authority, that twenty or more of the Pennsylvania delegates, chiefly those from Philadelphia, have agreed to repudiate the instructions of their state con- vention and cast their ballots for Blaine. So important @ defection as this seems to make the selection of Grant an impossibity even if he succeeds in carrying a large majority of the delegates yet to be chosen in the South. Some 500 delegates have now been chosen, of which Grant apparently cannot get over 275. Of the delegates to be chosen, he may get seven- ty or eighty whereas he needs an hundred to secure the nomination Blaine cannot count as yet but about 250, with very little prospect, as it strikes us, of getting the 125 more he needs for a nomination.
 The letter of Judge Robertson has created great stir among New York Grant men here. Senator Conkling is represented as much dis turbed by it, and his friends say he will now find it necessary to make the greatest effort of his life to retain control of his state delegation. He and Senator Cameron are to-day sympa- thiZers and both are said to feel that their own supremacy in their states depend upon each Gelng able to hold his own delegation for Grant. CourGnt Washington Dispatch.
 It is curious feature of modern ''states- manship," that the great effort of the great mans life comes when he is trying to hold his state delegation to doing something so idiotlc that nothing short of the grandest powers can keep them to it. Imagine the greatest effort of Daniel Webster's life. the holding of Mas sachusetts delegation to some scheme of his at a national convention.
 Hartford ladies have organized grand Ba- gar to raise money for the poor. It is to open on the 1st Tuesday in June at the Rink This ''Union for Home Work" is incorporated by special charter. The Bazar is to remain open during the work; it publishes daily paper, with an article by Mark Twain, with engrav- ings to be prepared under his own supervision. Charles Dudley Warner, Rev. Edward Ever cit Hale, Bishop, an ex Mayor, and others. will also contribute It is evidently to be the biggest thing of the bazar kind ever seen at the capital. Subscriptions from outside pla. ces can be sent to s. w. Barrows F. O. Build ing, Hartford, Conn.
 Boss Shepherd was given one of the finest dinners often eaten at Washington, on the eve of his recent departure to his Mexican mines at Chihuahua. Belknap, Babcock, Hallett, kilburne and other old cronies of the District ring were present. besides many better men, Justice Miller of the supreme court bench sending the guest on his way with clean bill of health, as one who had suffered traduction and scandal, but had passed through It all un- obad