Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-05-11

pliliOIul VI not. L WO votes out vi Iue lOur'
teen delegates of Missouri, were in favor of a
platform. His State wanted no platform,
except the constitution of the United States.
They expected, if the convention would not
tranImel them with platforms, to rout the
democracy in Missouri at the next election.
Mr.. G. Ii. Hopkins, of Georgia, suggested
that Gen. Sam Houston, of Texas, was the
man for the times. They must have militia
ry capital to carry the people, as they did in
1910. He appealed to the Kentuckians and
Tennesseans 10 support Gen. Houston-to
the prosecuted and oppressed shareholders
for whom he had added another State where
slave holders could 90 with their property
and labor and till the land. He was the
platform, the State Of Georgia would sup
port.
Hon. Erastus Brooks of N. Y, said they
wanted this convention to present no platform
to the country, except the constitution
With that they could establish the fact that
neither tue extreme party of the North, nor
the extreme party of the South, should longer
administer the affairs of the country. 1t
was wise to learn in the school Of experience.
As long as they live under one government,
they must learn to be tolerant of each other.
Whether they adopted Il platform Of only
one line, 1t was proper that committee to
whom all the propositions should be submit
ted, should deliberate and report on it. lie
was tired and weary, as all must be, of the
deception of platforms, like those which have
been heretofore adopted at Charleston and
elsewhere.
The several propositions were then, at Mr..
n1-,jr itb Il NV tl,air
tive movers.
Mr. Brooks moved that the rules of the
House OF Representatives, SO far as appllca-
BILE, be adopted for the government OF this
convention, which was adopted.
Mr.. G.. a. Halsey, of New York, moved
that committee of one from each delega-
ton be appointed by the delegations to pre-
pare business for the convention, and to
which committee all resolutions should be re
ferred 1t was adopted.
Mr. Mcclure, Of Pa. wanted no better
platform than the constitution. lie would,
however move the appointment of a com
mttee of one from each State, to report a
platform tomorrow ('rhursday) at IL o'clock.
Withdrawn.
The following committee was then appoint
ed under Mr. Ialsey's motion.
Alabama, A. +. Alexander; Arkansas, NJ.
S. Kennard Connecticut, Austin Baldwin;
Delaware, Charles +. Cullen: Georgia,
Joshua Hill; Indiana, r. w. Thompson:
Illinois, John Wilson, Kentucky, c. T. Bur
nam; Maine, Geo f. B. Jackson; Massachu-
sets, A. S. Lewis; Minnesota, II Barnett;
Maryland, George \. Pearre Mississippi,
John VIC Watson Missouri, Thomas d.
Harris New York, Erastus Brooks New
Jersey, Jos. +. Randolph North Carolina,
Richard S. Donnell; Ohio, n. 6. Pendleton:
Pennsylvania, Joseph r. Ingersoll; Texas,
A. b. Norton; Tennessee Bailie Peyton
Vermont, John Wheeler; Virginia, Robert
Il. Scott.
The chair stated that the committee would
meet ut o'clock p. NJ. at the Eutaw House,
No. l24
The convention then adjourned until 10
o'clock Thursday morning.
TIE DROWNING OF Picnic PARTY-FUR-
TIER PARTICULARS.-The Sumter Watch
man (extra) brings Us the sad particulars OF
the drowning of twenty-seven persons, most
!y females, while on picnic and fishing par
ty nine miles from Camden, S. c. It APP
pears the early part of the day was spent,
by a large company in unalloyed enjoy
mcnt, but in the afternoon about thirty Ia
dies, with few gentlemen, embarked on a
large fat-boat for the purpose Of passin z
around large pond. In this manner they
enioyed themselves for some time. and until
the boat while in the middle of the pond,
unfortunately struck IL snag, held fast, and
began to leak. The Waterman describes
the scene that then ensued as follows.
The widest excitement and fear seemed
to seize every heart, and but few if any
were sufficiently collected to enable them to
employ their efforts for rescue advantageous
ly. In few moments now she sank, when
the scene may be better imagined then de-
scribed. Piercing cries and shrieks and calls
for help, both from those on shore and those
on the unfortunate boat, filled the air.
Sisters and brothers, parents and children,
relatives and friends, whose hearts were
bound together by the nearest and dearest
of earthly ties, and animated by the warmest
and most tender affections were there-some
on the sinking boat and some on the shore.
Oh, how rudeI y were those coniding hearts
torn asunder, and ravished with wild and
aching grief!
The boat seemed to have committed them
to the bosom Of the water, huddled together,
mainly in a mass. The water is supposed
to have been about twenty feet in depth.
Thus thrown together one clinging to the
other, with that grasp which belongs only
to those in a drowning condition, there was
little opportunity for the males in the com
pany to rescue the ladies or even to save
themselves
Efforts to rescue the bodies the uufortu-
nate drowned, were Immediately employed.
Some were taken from the water-others
could not be found
Mr. S. s. Richburg lost his life in endcav-
orins to save the lives Of the females. On
Sunday the bodies of eight females were con-
veyed to the NJ Il. Church at Sumter, where
their funerals took place, in the presence Of
a-large congregation. The town of Camden,
where nearly all the victims resided, is shroud-
ed in gloom, and many of its citizens over
whelmed by the most severe atiliction and be-
reavement
LAMENTABLE TRAGEDY IN TENNESSEE
We learn from letters, received in this city
yesterday, that fatal tragedy occurred in
the town Of Lebanon, Tennessee, on the 4th,
resulting in the mortal wounding of one of
the students of the Law Department of Cum
berland University, named James CaEal, by
fellow student, named Spot McClung. The
parties had misunderstanding about a very
trivial matter, and subsequently met on the