Connecticut

The Whigs. have considered it very important to carry this State, as it is the opening of the campnign with them, and a handèome victory there would do much to excite andsustain "the spirit of 1840." A few week since a great state convention was held at Hartford, which for numjers and enthusiasm is said to have exceeded any thing previously known in Connecticut. On the other hand, the Democrats were not idle. In addition to other exertions, immense quantities of Amos Kendall's tracts on Henry Clay's duels were scatfered over the State. Horace Greeley,who visited the State in person, at a Whig meeting in JN"ew York, eported. that the Abolitionists were the only power the Whigs had to dread, and ie was satisfied they would achieve a triumphover them. The election took place ast Monday.