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their ballots for a candidate for the Vice Presi-
| dancy which resulted rs fnllnuvs.


VIM. y. Butler -------27
IL. Strange %
Gideon ]. Pillow. ..25
zen. Downes -------- 80
John B. Weller
David r. Atchison- --25
Howell CODD- y
Jefferson Davis
IhOs. j. Rusk- -12
No one having received a two-thrds vote Sc
cond ballot was ordered.
While the first ballot progressing person
| al alteration occurred between two of the men,
bers of the Mississippi delegation. Messrs. Will
| cox and Simms in which several blows were ex-
changed. This occurrence threw the Convention
into great disorder, and it was sometime before
sufficient order could be restored to proceed with
| business.
The second ballot was then taken and resulted
as follows:
William r. King .-------.-.27 7
Jefferson Davis IL
The Chair then announced that WILLIAM
R. KING, of Alabama, having received two-thirds
of the votes cast was the nominee of the Con-
vention for the Vice Presidency of the United
States.
Col Jefferson Davis.
Gen. Sanders, of North Carolina, called for the
reading of the Report of the Committee on Reso-
lutions establishing the platform of the Democra-
tic party, and demanded the previous question on
! its adoption.
The Report of the Committee was then read
| and adopted, with only few dissenting voices.
B. F. HALLET, Esq., of Massachusetts, from
the Committee on nominating the General Dem
ocratic Committee, reported the names of that
| committee, with resolutions appointing the city
of Cincinnati the place of holding the next
Democratic National Conventions providing that
in constituting that Convention no State shall be
| represented by more than two delegates for each
electoral vote such State is entitled to cast, and
making it the duty of the National Committee to
appoint the time for holding the Convention.
An excited and tumultrous debate arose on this
report Virginia and other States Directing to the
resolution limiting the number of delegates to be
sent to the Convention. A motion was made to
lay that part of the report the table, but reec-
ted by large majority, vote by States be deman-
ded. The question was then taken on the adop-
ton of the report and carried
Resolutions were adopted rendering the thanks
of the Convention to the citizens of Baltimore, to
the Committee of Arrangements, and tothe Pres
ident and other officers.
At this time the Convention was in state of
the utmost confusion. Many members were
striving to present resolutions but unable to
obtain a hearing. Finally. after appointing a
committee to inform the candidates OF their nomi-
nation, motion made to adjourn sine die,
which the Chair declared carried, and the Con-
ton adjourned.
The Press and MeDemocratc Nominations.
The papers issued in New FORK city, on Satur-
day evening. all have something to say of the Pre-
sidential nominee. The New York Commercial
(whig) says of Mr.. Pierce:
'sGen'l Franklin Pierce was respected alike,
we believe for his military and civil character
We apprehend that in all personal qualities the
selection is commentaries; but in those which
should commend him to so high public office we
should think him inferior to some of his competi-
tors, as he is to either Of the wing canddates.-
Hillsborough county, N H., his birth place, is the
birth place of several eminent men: Hon. Daniel
Webster, Gen. Cass, Hon. John A. Dix, &C.,
The New York Tribune (evening edtion) says:
"Franklin Pierce is a man of fair personal char
acter moderate abilities, and the bitterest partisan
feelings. He evidently considers that this coun-
try created on purpose to be ruled by the party
styling itself sDemocratic,' and never harbored
suspicion that that party ever was or could be in
error Ifasked what was the occasion of Adams
Fall, he would instinctively answer Federal
ism! He never had one Progressive idea, but is
in all things model Hunker"
Speaking of his having been in Congress the
Tribune adds:
"He won no position in either house, and was
not qualified to win any. He is essentially
ordinary man in everything but partisanship."
The New York Evening Post, (Dem. Free
SoiL) says:
''Ihs news comes to us at 80 late an hour, that
we must reserve what we have to say of it till
Monday. Gen. Pierce is new man, but man
of capacity and character, and uncommltted by
any Scott letter."
Upon this latter fact, the Express, (Whig,) af-
ter.saying that "Mr. Pierce was evidently select
ed on the ground of his previous insignifcancy in
the contest-the unobjectionableness of mediocre
ty," adds:
alt is a noticeable fact, here, that Pierce was
one of the two persons addressed by Mr.. Scott of
Virginia, from whom no reply was received and
published, as to their opinions upon some deli
cate subjects, and as to what they would do in
certain supposable contingencies. How far this
silence of his may have conduced to the result
we now chronicle we cannot as yet correctly es-
innate. We but note it as a suggestive fact"
THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
THEIR RECEPTION NORTH & SOUTH.
Gen. Pierce and tho Nomination.
Boston, June 5.-Gen. Franklin Pierce is at
the fremont House in this city, and will leave for
Concord on Monday. He is greatly surprised at
| the result.
Concord, N. H., June 5th.-The news of
Pierce's nomination has given great joy to his
| friends in this city. They now firing salute
and ringing bells in his honor.
| ROME, N. Y, June 5.-The Democracy are
| out en- masse to ratify the nomination of Pierce.
| Speeches are being made, guns fired, &c.
| BosroN, June 6.-The nomination Of Pierce
took the town by surprise. The Dougasites are
| greatly disappointed, and the Cass men are great
| y chagrined. The Wings say they could not have
| been better pleased. Gen. Pierce being annoyed
by the calls of his political friends, left the Ire
mont House privately last night, and took lodg
ngs in Cambridge. A hat full of dispatches are
III Ira,,,ont hin, from, W.