Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-04-21
AFFAIRS AT CHARLESTON.
Especial dispatch to the New York Tribun

Especial ulSpdtcn 10 the new L Ork lflDune.t
CHARLESTON, April 10, 1880
All expectation of great gathering here is now
abandoned, and there Is general feeling of dis
appoi ntmeht at the prospect The Mills House,
which was preparing for over LOCO, has only 100
so far, and other hotels relatively few. The
Northwestern delegations are provided for at the
MIL House, but sleep at Hibernian Hall, few
yards distant, where 132 cots are spread in single
room.
Messrs. Richardson and Dyer the two principal
managers for Mr.. Douglas reached here last nj hit
When they left Washington bis nomination>was
regarded as certain. Their confidence here is less
positive from the absence of the expected enthu-
siasm But they remain still firm. They believe
he will be nominated the third ballot. which
IS virtual surrender in the estimation of others.
NO friends could be more jealous or faithful.
III Mr. Douglas shall fail on the first ballot the
North Western delegations resolved at Washing
ton to change their front in solid column. but in
created no second choice. Several Eastern dele
cations are exp cted to co0perGte in such con-
tlngency, but cannot be relied on. They will
look after their own interest
The Douglas men claim the delegates from
Maine, New HAMPSHIRE, r hode Island and Yer
mont, with parts of Massachusetts, and Connect
CIT the rest of which are conceded t. Mr. Toucey,
complimentary. This count is considered ex-
trayagant by well-informed persons.
No safe opinion can be formed of the result till
larger number OF delegates have arrived and
compared opinions.
The Vice Presidency has been held ont as bait
to North and South Carolina, Tennessee Viz
ginia, and Georgia, with some personal effect
but no decided influence. The game is well un-
derstood, and will be blocked
A partial test will be made on the question of
whether the platform candidate shall first be
agreed on. The Douglas interest and southern
extremists favor the former. but from different
motives. Others urge candidate In preference
intending he shall personally indicate the spirit of
the platform.
Most Of the Kentucky delegates have arrived.
IEey intend adheriDg tenaciously to Mr.. Guthrie,
and discourage emphatically any movement for
Mr.. breckenridge, which will i'm pair his strength
when urged by a majority Of the Pennsylvania
delegation. Mr.. Bigler will nd himself cornered
upon reaching here. Nj. Guthrie finds favor with
the conservative Ct lass, who uncommitted and
not partsans, and is urged judiciously by his
friends as compromise candidate.
Outside there is a very small and inconsiderable
interest felt
Mr.. Orr is here surveying the ground having
achieved victory at the State Convention over
the uitras. With any northern candidate for Pres
dent. he would be prominent for the nomination
for Vice President.
Mr.. Stuart, of Michigan, is proposed, among
others, for President of the Convention, but his
Douglas procllvities may interfere. That selec-
non, however, will not be considered test of
strength.
Three hundred delegates and visitors from the
northwest arrived this evening, to swell the Doug
las chorus, which had become weakened
A dispatch to the New York Herald saws.
Inc Mllls House, with Il capacity for the &C
commodation of fifteen hundred persons is thus
far only certain of the Tammany Hall delegation,
III,
and members from Tennessee, Ohio Indiana
Illinois, Iowa, and Maine. The proprietors having
leased Hioernian Hall building, have put upwards
OF hundred cot beds into the upper hall and
have rented lower hall to one Of the Illinois del
legations for committee room. The Mills have
three other outside buildings, one OF which takes
one hundred and ten single beds
The Charleston Hotel can provide for twelve
hundred, but they pack away three hundred of
these into one hall on Hayne street 1t will he
a delightful lodging room, particularly if the
weather should increase in heat, because there
ventilation can be permitted. and will he needed
Tie North Carolina delegation has taken quar-
tiers and committeeman at the Charleston and
Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Michigan
delegates have SECURED the comforts of that house
The Pavilion Hotel can quarter 900, the Plan
tiers. Hotel 800, and the American 500 Neither
OF these houses has any engagements thur far
Old boarders at the Mills, the Charleston and
the Planters have chosen to 90 into private board
houses rather than succumb to the demand of
80 per day till the Convention closes.
The Pavilion, which has five outside houses
under lease for odging rooms and the American
which baS put beds into odd Fellows Hall and
another building, have alone retained their regu-
lar boarders at old prices
The Mercury is still disinclined to welcome
the Convention, and would prefer disunion to the
nomination of Douglas.