Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-04-18
WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.


headquarters. We hear that rarely less than a
hundred Of them are at any time congregated
there. They amuse themselves by counting up
the chances Of Mr.. Douglas, as the market-girl
reckoned up the ultimate results Of her expected
profitable sale Of the basket Of eggs carried 20
lightly on her equally giddy head
On the night before last, Mr.. Clingman, Of N.
u, Is said to have amused them with a speech in
which his calculations Of the strength Of Douglas
at the South were about sensible and reliable as
those Of the market-girl aforesaid, In the never
to-be-forgotten fable. Thus, he Is said to have
urged the delegates from the Northwest-that is
from such Republican party strongholds in the
presidential election as Ohio, Wisconsin and
Michigan, for instance-to stick to the last to the
fortunes Of the man whose views on slavery ques-
| lions 90 down best in their localities, upon the
ground that if they succeeded in thus comprising
| his nomination, they might rely on his unanimous
support by the South, in November.
1t can hardly be necessary for us to saw that MIR.
Winslow is the only other Democrat Of either
House. from North Carolina, who entertains the
same ridiculous idea; and, further, that with the
| exception Of those two gentlemen, it is highly
probable that every other southern Democratic
member Of both Houses knows better the state of
the sentiment Of the South than to entertain any
| such idea. Instructed they have been. there is
strong probability that almost the entire delega-
lions from seven Southern States would leave the
Convention on the nomination Of any candidate
holding the views Of Mr.. Douglas upon the slavery
question; accompanied by more or less from three
other Southern States As this fact is Thoroughly
| comprehended by well-informed persons here,
southern gentlemen less credulous and enthusiastic
in their preference for Mr.. Douglas than Messrs
Clingman and Winslow, all take very different
view, indeed. Of this subject.
THE THRoNG IN WAsHINeroN-The throng of
Democratic politicians in this city last night was
much greater than ever before, except on the
occasion of the Inauguration of a Democratic
President. In addition to those from distance
then among US, between five and seven hundred
reached here after IL m. yesterday. Though the
Presidents levee was Of course densely crowded
with them, the halls of the different hotels were
all packed, crammed, and damned by them 50 as
to make the atmosphere In their midst everywhere
sufocating. The relative chances of the differen+
aspirants for the Charleston nomination was of
course the theme of universal conversation Per-
haps four hundred of this crowd were delegates
and alternates; while the balance. three or four
times as numerous, were principally strikers for
Douglas, assembled here by his whistle, as i,
were, on their way to Charleston to perform for
him at this point the Office or duty upon which
he sends them to Charleston. Vito "blow,'
over his alleged vast strength in States hopelessly
welded to the doctrines Of the Republican party
Among the delegates here are few from slave
holding States, circumstance infinitely to be
regretted, because the "looseness'' with which
this army Of political spectators go in for the
man of their choice, now being developed
here, is certainly calculated to warn al that the
purpose for which his nomination is being 80
strenuously urged from aboitionized States Is
that by his nomination the Democratic party may
be put SO distinctly on practical anti-slavery
platform, as that Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont,
Wisconsin and Michigan, may, as alleged, be Sc
| riossly contested with Mr. Seward
Some hundreds of this crowd left this morning
| to commence operations upon arriving delegates
at Charleston as early as Thursday evening next
Not few of the delegates also left Washington
for Charleston at the same time.
DIVIDING OUT THE SPOILs-If there remains
anybody here wanting any Of the good things the
next administration will have to give out we ad-
| wise them to call on Senator Douglas, or some
| member Of his managing squad now located in
| the Washington hotels, and pick and choose to
their hearts content. They can one and all get
positive promises Of any and every thing good and
fat, they may fancy to bespeak. From the Vice
Presidency or Cabinet places. down to messenger
ships in the Departments here, any aspirant of
! whatever degree may have thus promised what
ever he most fancies to appropriate to himself in
advance. The only condition exacted is attendance
at Charleston and ceaseless logging while there for
the nomination Of Douglas At least twenty-five
| mention Of whose names in any such connection
would excite smile upon every American coun-
tenance-have doubtless been thus promised the
reverson of the strength Of Douglas for the Pres
| idential nomination; and as many more the vote
OF his partzans in the convention for the Vice
Presidency. Fifty are at this moment positively
sure that they have sealed bonds for Cabinet
places. and hundred have good security for
Foreign Missions; thousand at least have Bu-
reaus, Marshalships, COllectorships. &c already
almost snugly huttoned up in their breeches pock-
cts, &c, &c. To so great a.length and so openly
| is this game just now carried on according to
popular belief here, as that those around US not
willing to swallow Mr.. Douglass phase of aboli
tionlsln for the slim chance Of clutching place 1t
holds out are splitting their sides with laup hter
at Throwing well that ere the end of next week
the bubble will burst at Charleston running polit
ically and financially the spectators in politics
who surround Douglas and expend their wind
and money i'm playing for him his game Of brap
and forever distributing the promised horde
from ever again putting faith In the promises and
and calculations Of place-seekers like themselves
MIssouRI.-It turns out that the story that
Douglas has ten of the eighteen delegates from
Missouri to Charleston, is the manufacture of the
ST. Louis Repnbl,can-absolutely of whole cloth
We have received the st. Louis Bulletin, ftbe
Observation-Disclosures organ) Of the 1ath
inst, which pricking the bubble, explodes it.
We are without space to-day, in which to re-
publish its two articles on the subject. but have
to say that 1t quotes the speeches in the Conven.
ton Of Mr.. Lakenan and Gov. King, (claimed bv
the Republican as being Douglasites,) wherein
they distinctly and definitely repudiate the
Douglas impeachment and pledge themselves to
vote Cat Charleston) first, last, and all the time
against any candidate not standing on the plat
f1rm Of the Convention that elected them-an anti
Douglas platform as emphatic as that of the late
Alabama Convention. That platform, by the bv.
was adopted with but a single dissenting voice
that of gentleman who refused to It his assent
on the ground that it involved an insult to Mr.
Douglas.
We quote brief concluding paragra oh from
the Bulletin, that the Stay,s readers NAV ,.,,