, 1860-05-25
THE HEENAN-SA PRIZE FIGHT!
Indian War in California!
WHITE MEN KILLED

The steamer Panama arrived at Brown,
wharf yesterday atllA. NJ, days from San
Francisco. We are indebted to Wells
Fargo & Co., T. NJ. Reed Esq, and j.
W. Sullivan, for files of papers from the
Atlantic States to the goth of April, and
from California to the 18th inst.
The Pony Express, with dates from st.
Louis to the 5th inst, arrived at Sacra-
mento on the 18th. BY the arrival of the
Panama we have news from St. Louis only
10 days old !
The following news we clip from the San
Francisco Balieitp of the 18th inst
The Prize fight and the proceedings Of
the Charleston Convention are the only i'm
portant items brought by the Pony.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CHARLESTON CoNvEN-
uoN.
On the 2Sth April the majority report
on a platform was discussed-the delega-
tions from portion of the Southern States
declaring in advance that, unless that re-
port was adopted, which, in effect guaran-
teed protection to slavery in ali the Terri
tories, they would retire, and break up the
Convention and the Democratic party at
one stroke While this excitement was at
its height, on the 2Sth ultimo Senator Big
Ter of Pennsylvania, who was member Of
the Convention, moved TO recommit the
majority aud minority reports on Platform
to the committee from which they emanated
without any instructions This proposition
was adopted, and it was hoped would lead
to a compromise upon which all could agree.
The Convention continued some time in ses-
sion after the adoption of the re-commit-
ment resolution, aud the violence Of some
Of the speakers was so unmeasured that
Caleb Cushing threatened to le-ve the
chair unless better order and decorum were
observed This so far restrained violence
that an adjournment to Monday, 30th ult.,
was agreed to.
On re-assembling, 90th April, Mr.. Sam
uels of Iowa reported from the committee,
the Cincinnati Platform, with the ldditisn
Of a Pacific Railroad resolution, and q
pledge of the Democratic party to sustain
the decisions of the Supreme Court. This
was substantially the minority report pre-
viously before the convention. 1t was fur-
ously asSailed by Southern members, but
finally adopted, l65 to I3S-eyery State in
the Union being fully represented by the
vote. Immediately on adopting this plat
form, the entire delegations from Alabama,
Florida, Mississippi, and Texas, withdrew
in body-and a small portion of the dele
cations from many of the other Southern
States also withdrew. The entire number
of seceders was 44
After the Convention had been thus
purged, the proceeding were less bolster
Gus. The Southern delegates remaining,
generally expressed disapproya of the ac-
tion of the seceders, while some denounced
it as factious and reasonable to the Demo-
cratic party. Notwithstanding this plain
talk, on motion allowing fractional dele
cations who still retained their seats, to
cast the entire vote of the States repre-
sented in part by them, being voted down,
the nine remaining members from Georgia
withdrew, declaring that the Convention
had disfranchised sovereign State. This
increased the number of seceders to 81,
and reduced the Convention to 252 mem
bers An adjournment then took place to
5 o'clock p NJ, of the Both, and nothing
further was done that day.
The subsequent proceedings of the
Convention were merely baletugs, and the
discussion preceding the adjournment. |
give you a summary thereof, as condensed
from the telegraphic dispatches:
The voting during all the 81 ballots that
followed wasYery uniform. Douglass on
the first ballot got l45B, and his highest
votes were at thu, 23d and 34th, when he
got 1921 each time. On the last vote
Douglas vote was ISL.
Guthries' first vote was 36J, and up to
the 36th ballot had not reached higher
than Az on the 37th ballot johnson was
withdrawn, when most Of his votes went
over to Guthrie, whose vote was sweled
in consequence, on the 3Sth and 39lh bal
lots, to 66. On the 5Tth ballot Guthrie
received 65t.
Hunters first vote was Al and his friends
gradually diminished in number till the 57th
ballot, when Hunter got only l6.
Lane commenced with votes. On the
l4th ballot he got 204 votes; these he kept
for several bIIIots, when he went down
again as low as .; but on the last ballot he
got II votes.
The scattering votes were sometimes as
many'as II, anl at others only II.
Ca the first ballot, New York, Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and
Iowa veted entire for Douglas. The reSo-
luton requiring 202 votes was adopted pre-.
vious to the balloting. After the twelfth
ballot, the Convention adjourned. The
following is the,nineteenth ballot in full:
For Dougtas-Maine, New Hampshire,
Verment. Rhode Island, New York, Ohio,
Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin aud
Iowa voted entire. Connecticut, 80; New
Jersey, 2; Pennsylvania, 81; Maryland, 81;
Missouri, Al Minnesota, 3. Total, I5O.
For Guthrie-Massachusetts, 3; Conuec-
ticut, p; New Jersey, S; Pennsylvania, l2;