Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-04-24
THE CHARLssToN CONVENTION

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Correspondence Of The Star.
SUNDAY, April -, 1860.
DEAR STAR: have so much to say to you TO-
day as that really do not know where or how TO
begin, in the whirl Of excitement now existing
around me, heightened by the wonder stricken
stares Of the people, white and black of this evil
IDENTITY usually quiet, prudent and regular city.
The crowd, though not yet one-thrd the number
provided for, Is, however, eight or ten times as
great as was perhaps ever before preci plated upon
Charleston hotels at one time-say thirty five hun
dred strangers in all. 1 do not think that mere
than thousand at most could have been here
when wrote my first letter,-on the evening of
the 19th-the increase having subsequently az
rived by railroad, steamboat steamship, and even
sailing vessels. Though apparently full owing
to the fact that all here eternally buzzing as
at Cincinnati four years ago, in and out of the
pubic halls of the hotels, the crowd does not
begin to exhaust the preparations made by mine
hosts OF Charleston for their accommodation. For
the comfort Of those who here this is fortunate
indeed, as the thermometer must be now ranging
somewhere between 90 and o5' Of Farenhet.
For their especial acc onmodation the strict laws
CT the city against the sale of '.liquor for the
crowd on Sundays, has been dispensed with
through Southern pOliteness ito say nothing of
praiseworthy disposition on the part CT the au-
thorties to permit the innkeepers to make as coed
thing possible out of the propensity of us
Yankee teetotallers to hit Nedr as hard as Eos
sible on such an exciting occasion-if across run
ring water from home.) So, an awful quantity of
The ardent is being duly punished. Fortunately
Charleston wines and liquors are the best in
America, Proverbially. Else. many strictly
temperate man at home, drinking as hundreds if
not thousands Of them are, would swallow ere
gtYvCh niD fp,;,,
dozen horses.
In the bar-rooms, the questions are Douglas or
no Douglas-Wood delegation or 10 Wood dele
gation-the creators of 1.-the crowdn being al
most invariably strikers for the admission of the
Wood delegation, or for the nomination of Doug
las The free drinkers, however, do not happen
10 De the men upon whom either treating interest
desire 10 operate. That is to say, Southern men,
The latter are usually brave drinkers in their
way, but they ,schew indiscriminate drinking in
crowds, and here. have a way Of insisting ON
paying for their own liquor, unknown in the
New York bar-rooms from which such political
treating" on d large scale Is borrowed
But enough Of the steaming, beseeching sweat
ing, swearing, and sinking crowd-for the fumes
Of tobacco smoke, Of the many rather overheated
. men and brothers, las Garrison, Morris of ILL.,
& Co., esteem thein) who hurry to and fro in
neous crowd, make the atmosphere down stairs
absolutely unbearable to one of nv OFF G.
tories-ior in divers nominally private but almost
public rooms of the different hotels affairs are in
progress here destined to exert vast influence On
the country's II not the world future. Fernando
WOOD occupies one such place wherein he enter
,as all corners and goerS, really in princely style
He plays but single card, and for single stake
Tue latter Is the admission for his delegation as
the regular New York delegation, in the Conyen
ton. The card he plays is the most intense de-
voton to the interests of slavery conceivable Tie
parties lie Is playing il upon are altogether the
most Peppery delegates and outsiders belonging
to the most intensely red-hot ire-eating southern
interest as here represented. That is whenever
any OF them can be caught and brought into his
apartments " half snapped"-else they are evil
IDENTIFY not approachable by his very industrious
Purveyors. laughter or more digniiied set Of
men never saw than these same intense fire
eaters when dead sober Fernando is dist-;bp,ing
. free gratis for nothing thousands of his recent
Connecticut speeches-all right on the goose
While his hundred aids are industriously wills.
Perlng In the ears of green fire eaters, that Sey-
mour, Cochrane, Croswell, Dickinson & Co. are
OUT aoolltioniss in disguise. Such is his game
10 not mink 1t can win, il is too transparent
&c deceive child into the belief that outside CT
tne CITY q New York his delegation have a con-
sntneney OF over a thousand voters il So many. I'm
al the Empire State. The National Committee
o. which Judge Smalley (legger for Douglas lust
now Is chairman, have settled the hash of Fer
nando Co, at least until they can get i'm by a
formal vote Of the Convention which will not be
accorded 10 them, or 1 am Judge of the signs
around me. The South might vote to admitthem,
were mat policy conceived necessary to settle the
nf mol,
however, alreadya dead cock in the Cba,les,on
Convention pit" Nevertheless the friend. 81
douglas claim here hat he is sure Of Iio vote, n,
the fist ballOt-having fallen - from tbei, clair,
IN Washington just before left for this city
mean the most impudent among them make th;.
claim The rest simply shrug their shoulders
"nen cornered with the question-TeIl us where
your IlO votes are to come from, They profess 10
nope Tor al least third Of the vote Of Pennsylya
MA, ana all OF New York and New Jersey: insist,
ing that MI Montgomery has so fixed IL that Penn
sylvania viii not. as heretofore cast q up,+ ,o,a
mat New Jersey has agreed to abandon BrscLi,'
ndge and her second choice, Guthrie; and thu,
hlchnond, Cassidy. Cagger & Co. are unde, =
POSITIVE pledge to Douglas to vote for him from
ue start III aGmitted-in all Of which I do not
Piooe 'ne leas' confidence They claim. also that
they have five ont of Mssouri,s eight votes su,e
nURd
against any squatter sovereignty candidate T6ev
$50 calm In this 40 calculation sundry Mary
- 'o'es 'hey Will never get, or ] am no propbe,
a., .oe oy, Speaking of prophets, the fact that
,..o,Id - ,'.he DAYS ago announced that Douglas
-. 'e'elVe, as claimed for him, the un.n
",assachusetts, Maine Connecticut
'ne ruth Of which in now admit 4
oy ali here, causes it (the Star 70 n. ,,,,
uaie oy any number Of ardent Done
lasi' es, Is the plotter that hss repda,.d
SO essentially blue. The truth :, 0nHhoe'
being used by those terrible wall-eyed seu,hean
e' against Douglas, are one and all the Der. sen,
Arguments Of the Star; and its publishes c.,s',n
lions OF the strength Of the different sspirant, ar.
found to be so nesrly correct, that IL 4. RI.
voted by the Douglasites around ne, 4 sort or re
htical devil incarnate-endowed with foreknorrl-
edge OF all that IL to happen, and filed with a
spirit Of gall towards your namesake, that has
completely poisoned the cup he thought he had
1,most up 70 bis lip Despite the Dragging Of his
her n Dc,