The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-04-26

hlCdMOND
the Cons tuition. under the false and insidiou,
pletence ?! ct supporting it. Those VII" are aiming
70 produce in this country =, permanent sectional
one-half IF the States Of the Union AGAINST tho
other hslf-those who. impeliot b, the stupid and
hurry onr land on to revolution and 10 civil war !;
those who are the banded enemies Of the Constr
l'n,on to wthsand-io strike down and conousT' ~:
Aye that ~ our part, and We Will do il IN the name
Of Of our s ffss With the hs!s e
temen. We will mot distrust ourselves; We win not
aespa,I OF the sen,ns Of "nt country We VII CON
tpue to rep"se With undouht ng faith in the good
providence Of Almighty God. LOUD applause
sPECULATIONs.
A correspondent of the Baltimore Ameri.
can, wri ting Monday evening, says:
Present signs conspire against the nomina.
tion of Mr.. Douglas, ana rumor says that
New York will go for Mr. Hunter. which has
dampened the hopes Of his friends who con.
cede an unexpected detection in the South
where he will hardly receive more than seven
Xotes. lns south Is concentrating Gu Mr..
hunter. Ihe delegates from South Carolina
reconsidered their purpose to vote for Mr..
Davis this morning, and agreed on Mr. Hun.
ter. HIS champions claim Alabama, Della
ware, Georgia, Louisiana, half Of Maryland,
mississippi, half of Missouri, Arkansas, Flo.
rIda- North and South Carolina, Texas and
Firginia-ahout 50 votes. Kentucky and Ten.
nessee stand by Messrs. Guthrie aud John
son. Mr. Dickinson is industriously pressed
by few personal supporters. The only con-
tngency in which he can be ssibly consid.
cred is a case of threatened ruptu re here w hen
the South may tender him as a compromise
candidate. He has ten votes in the New York
delegation. The rest are adverse.
Until Mr.. Douglas be disposed Of no safe
opinion as TO the candidate can be formed
Some new name may be sprung On the Con-
vention at fortunate moment, like Mr.. Polk,
~ n poar ,f Ma 4
is suggested by some Douglas men, who have
resolved To stand by him resolutely and pre-
vent tWo-thirds for any other candidate, but
they cannot hold the Eastern delegations or
New York for such purpose as they antici.
pate, and hence they will fail il the experi-
ment be tried.
The Southern delegations had an excited
meeting to- night. Alabama, Mississippi, Flori-
da, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana, an
nounced emphaticaIly that they would 90 out
OF the Convention unless their platform was
adopted.
South Carolina said she was not authorized
to speak yet, but would doubtless follow the
LEAD of Mississippi.
The NJ ississippi delegation at their meeting
refused to accept Senator Davis declination
OF the use OF his name, and he will according
didate.
THE BALLOTIN0.
Cf course great anxiety is felt as to the time
when the balloting shall commence. At the
were had until the afternoon of the third day,
when seventeen were taken without result
The whole Of the fourth day was consumed in
taking sixteen additional ballots, also without
ballot, on the fifth day, that nomination was
made. AT the Cincinnati Convention, in 1856,
three days and a half were consumed in the
preliminary business. The Convention met
on Monday, une ID but no ballot was taken
until the afternoon of Thursday, the 5th On
that day sixteen ballotings were had, the last
one standing: l6S for Buchanan, 12i for Doug
las, and for Cass, upon which the Conven tion
adjourned. The next day Judge Douglas with :
drew, aid on the seventeenth ballot, which
was taken on the fifth day Of the session, all
the votes were cast for James Buchanan.
Two PRIZE FIGHTs.-The telegraph has
mentioned prize fight Of sixty-one rounds
which took place on Riker's Island near New
York, Tuesday morning, between Ed. Wilson
and Harry Gribben, for $500 a side. The
Express says:
The fight lasted one hour and three minutes
and hfty-nine rounds were fought The
heaviest hitting was done during the first six
rounds, and both com mbatants were pretty well
bunged up. After the 59th round, the referees
refused to let the fight go on-a decision that
created an immense excitement among the
sports. Two side-fghts had been in progress
during the mill, but a general melee now took
place, the whole two hundred roughs pitching
in, i'll the fiercest style. One man lost "A ii n
ger. Another had his eye gOuged out, and
there We're any quantity OF bloody protruber-
ances. The row continued for some ten min
utes, wheu the cry of "Police" was raised, aud
simultaneous stampede was made tor the
steamboat, which forthwith started, and the
excnrsionsts were brought back to Jersey
City. The excitement on board during the
return trip was considerable, and there were
symptoms of a renewal Of the fight; but the
party landed without making any further vi.
oient demonstrations. AS the mill was not
concluded, it is hard to say who is the win.
ner. Both men are badly beaten, and Wilson
received the heaviest punishment, though his
partiZans claim that he had the best Of the
fight ~
In the vicinity Of Cincinnati. ON Monday,
a prize fight took place between the "Un-
known" an Englishman, and an American
named Kelly, Of which the Inquirer says:
Kelly is a man about five feet nine inche.
high, and weighs about one hundred and fifty
pounds. The Unknown" is several inches
shorter, and lighter by ten or fifteen pounds
The disparity in their sizes caused the spec ia
tors TO call Kelly the "Benicia Boy anu
the "Unknown Sayers. There was very
little excitement on the OCCASION the crowd
seeming TO be much in the same mind as the
old woman, Of whom it s related that when
she saw her husband and = bear fighting, she
said she didn't care which whipped. The bet.
ting among outsiders did not run high, though
a little money changed hands on the result
Kelly leaped into the ring first, and tossing
up his har, offered TO bet his opponent twenty
dollars that he would win the fight. which
was Immediately taken by the other when the
fight commenced. When time was called o..
the 22d round. kelly's second threw up the
sponge in token of defeat. The parties short
ly after returned to the city. The "Unknown''
escaped without material injury, but Kelly is
terribly battered, and now confined to his bed
on Sixth street.
THE WESTERN GOLD MANIA.-There are in
dications OF considerable movement of popu-
lation, says the Journal OF Commerce, toward
the region commonly designated as ''Pike's
Peak" within the next few months, especially
from the nor western States. The newspa-
pers of Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri
and Minnesota contain frequent illusions tC
the organization OF companies contempla ting
migration, or to the departure OF individuals
and if the statements thus made were all taken
without qualification. they would lead ms ~
believe that the disposition for gold minin G
amounts to q positive mania, almost de-
nuding some sections OF country Of their
male inhabitants. The Chicago Journal.
for example, estimates that by the first OF
July there will be full $4,000 expectant gold
seekers at the mil es, or on the way thither.
The Davenport (Iowa) News, paper not geu-
orally given TO exaggeratior. thi it not all
elapsed, full 10000 men will have left that
State. In regard TO other States 1t remarks
that 'every town aud county in the great val
ley Of the west is giving up some OF the bes
young men to 60 where they hope to accumu-
late enough in 4 few months to afford them
selves a life of ease and leisure thereafter
The Omaha City (Nebraska) Repu biican gives
a list of more than one hundred men, none OF
them accompanied by families, who crossed
the river IT that point. in the first four days OF
April, bound for Pixies Peak most of them
hail from Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin,
There is no reason to doubt that very large