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CONNECTICUT. 



CONNOR, SKEFFINGTON. 



$30 per year, of which one third was payable 

 every four months ; also, if the volunteer had 

 a family, $6 per month were paid to his wife, 

 and $2 per month to each child under fourteen 

 years of age. If the volunteer was disabled 

 in service, the payment to his family was con- 

 tinued during such' disability. Bounties were 

 also paid by the several cities and towns, usual- 

 ly about $300. 



The quota of the State, under the draft, was 

 7,691, of which only 2,508 had been obtained 

 by the 17th of October, making a deficiency 

 of 5,183. The quota under the call for volun- 

 teers, made October 17th, was 5,432. The 

 deficiency of the State on former calls was at 

 that time 1,748, according to the estimate of 

 the War Department; but, according to the 

 State accounts, it had a surplus of 531. Under 

 the call of February 1st, 1864, the quota was 

 increased 3,631 total, 9,053. At that date, 

 4,477 had enlisted and about 2,850 veterans 

 had reenlisted, leaving 1,726 men to be raised 

 by March 10th, 1864. At an extra session of 

 the Legislature, convened Nov. 3d, the returns 

 from the first district (Hartford) showed the 

 number of conscripts obtained under the draft 

 to be 50 ; substitutes, 642 ; paid commutation, 

 528 ; conscripts who never reported, 343 ; do. 

 deserted, 11 ; substitutes deserted, 8. In the 

 second district (New Haven) conscripts se- 

 cured, 34; substitutes, 564; paid commutation, 

 296 ; never reported, 171 ; deserted, 71 ; sub- 

 stitutes deserted, 6. In the third district 

 (New London) conscripts secured, 45 ; substi- 

 tutes, 343 ; paid, 232 ; never reported, 269 ; 

 conscripts deserted, none ; substitutes deserted, 

 4. The final returns showed : 



Conscripts and substitutes 2,276 



Paid $300 1,252 



Cash paid $375,600 



At the extra session of the Legislature, in 

 November, an act was passed, giving to each 

 colored volunteer, out of the State Treasury, 

 such sum as should make his monthly pay 

 equal to the amount received from the United 

 States by the other volunteers from Connecti- 

 cut, and an allowance of three dollars and fifty 

 cents per month for his clothing in addition. 



Ten dollars were paid to the person procur- 

 ing volunteers, for each man. No volunteer 

 under the act was to be discharged except in 

 the county in which he enlisted. Two hun- 

 dred thousand dollars were appropriated for 

 this purpose. Another act provided for the 

 payment of three hundred dollars bounty 

 to each volunteer, in addition to all previous 

 sums ordered. The sum of eighteen hundred 

 thousand dollars was appropriated for this pur- 

 pose. 



The returns relative to the various jails in 

 the State showed the whole number of commit- 

 ments during the year to be 1,500, a decrease 

 of nearly 500 compared with the previous year. 

 Of those, 492 were for common drunkenness ; 

 260 for assault; 190 for larceny; 74 for 

 lewd conduct ; 65 for a breach of the peace 



650 were born in the United States ; 850 of 

 foreign birth, and 20 unknown. 



The election for State officers took place on 

 the first Monday in April.- The candidates 

 for governor were, Win. A. Buckingham, Ad- 

 ministration, and Thomas II. Seymour, Opposi- 

 tion. The vote was as follows : Buckingham, 

 41,032; Seymour, 38,395; Scattering, 36. To- 

 tal vote, 79,463. 



The Legislature was as follows : 



Senate. House. 



Administration 13 142 



Opposition 8 95 



The vote for members of Congress was as 

 follows : 



1st diet. 2d diet. 3d dial. 4th diet. 



Admin 10,493 10,420 8,873 11,248 



Opposition... 10,158 11,450 6,381 10,892 



A large number of soldiers belonging to the 

 State, in the army, received a furlough about 

 the time of election, and returned home. The 

 number was between 1,000 and 3,000. At the 

 previous session of the Legislature a law was 

 passed to enable persons absent from the State 

 and enlisted in the armies to vote. This law 

 was decided by the Supreme Court of the State 

 to be unconstitutional. 



CONNOR, Hon. SKEFFINGTON, LL.D., a Puis- 

 ne judge of the Court of Queen's Bench, Up- 

 per Canada. George Skeffington Connor was 

 born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1810. He entered 

 Trinity College at the age of fourteen, and 

 graduated there in 1830. In the same year he 

 married Eliza Hume, of Humewood, county 

 Wicklow (whose grandfather, uncle, and cous- 

 in-german have successively, since 1784, repre- 

 sented that county in the House of Commons), 

 and niece of the last Lord Hartland. In 1832, 

 he came to Canada with Mrs. Connor and the 

 families of ex- Chancellor Blake, the Bishop of 

 Huron, Archdeacon Brougb, and other gentle- 

 men who, like himself, emigrated in that year 

 from Ireland to Canada. 



On his arrival in Canada, Mr. Connor took 

 up his residence in the township of Ovillia, 

 which was then a wilderness, where he lived 

 for two years ; but becoming tired of a life in 

 the back woods of Canada, he returned to Ire- 

 land, whence, after a short stay, he went to 

 the continent of Europe, where he resided for 

 some years. 



During his absence, Mr. Connor was called 

 to the Irish bar, in 1833 ; and, on his return 

 to Canada, was called to the bar, at Osgoode 

 Hall, in 1842. He entered into partnership 

 with ex-Chancellor Blake and Mr. Justice Mor- 

 rison. In 1846 he again visited Ireland, and 

 upon that occasion took the degree of LL.D. 

 in the University of Dublin. 



In 1850 he was appointed Queen's counst ' 

 and a bencher of the Law Society ; and, ir 

 1858, he held the office of solicitor-general for 

 Upper Canada. A few days before the gener- 

 al election of 1847-'8, he began to take an inter- 

 est in Canadian politics ; and on one occasion 

 he unsuccessfully contested the county of 



