New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-18
The Baltimore Convention.
soeeal Dispatch to The N. Y. Tribune.

The bellioerent masses Of the discordant and
dissolying Democracy come tumbIng in upon the
city in shoals. Some of the specimens have very
plug-ugy look. 1t seems mockery to intruss
great affairs of State TO such seething crowd.
The stereotyped political traders and drovers Of all
the States are here. There are some new faces
which were not at Charleston. b. +. Hallett. tho
resolution major and Pierre soule, for example.
The New Workers are at the Eutaw House, but
the crowd is ut Barnum's. At the latter is Caleb
Cushing, who, in big placard adyertises he will
issue tickets OF admission to members of the Con-
yeniion FROM his room on Sunday from till s
o'clock.
No tickets are to be issued to the seeding dele
cations, or TO those chosen in their place, till the
Convention settles their rival claims. The Con-
venion thus opens with fresh bone of contention.
which will create difficulty, and may cause rup-
ture at the start.
Douglas delegations are here in force from Lou.
isiana and Alabama, and very much in earnest.
They claim TO be the only regular set from those
States. The Douglas delegates from Georgia arc
transparency bogus being chosen by sscessionists
from regular State Convention. The Arkansas
pretenders are similarly circumstanced.
South Carolina, Florida, and Texas, it is said,
will not be represented in the Convention at all;
but the Alabama and Louisiana delegations intend
to make fight. Pierre SOule heads the latter.
This defer of Louis Napoleon and shooter of Lord
Howden did not come all the way from New-Or-
leans TO have the door of the Convention slammed
in his face with impuniiy. lie will do battle in
sensation speech, unless an memorable previous
question shuts him off, as is now threatened on al
long talks. The managers say they had gas enough
Charleston. Now they mean to have nothing
but work. The weather is hot; time is precious;
they spent their money at Charleston, and they
want to close this bad job as quick as possible.
The radical Douglas men are for letting in the
rev Louisiana and Alabama delegations, who have
made good fight and have a strong party at home.
But / predict the new delegations are going to be
uthlessly slaughtered after struggle. The Doug
as men have no majority without New-YOrk, as
they had not at Charleston, and NewYork is the
break on the Douglas train, and she doesn't intend
to let il do mischief. The New-York delegation
will vote for Mr.. Douglas regularly and constantly.
but on all outside propositions it means to be con-
servative and independent Its position is one
which insures it more kicks than coppers. tits
really the pivotal and controlling force in the Con-
yention, and long heads manage it. New-York
wants either Mr.. Douglas or Mr. Seymour; at the
same time it doesn't want to oppose the South
unnecessarily. 1t cannot go to Seymour, however.
without breaking with Douglas This position of
New-York must be borne in mind, as it is the key
TO much that will happen in the Con-
ycution, not otherwise to be easily understood.
The war feeling between the two sections Of the
party is very bitter as well as painful to every
patriotic mind.
There is good deal of blowing among the
groups at hotels for Mr. Douglas, and the meeting
out of doors last night, where four OF FIVE thou
sand were present, was strongly Douglas Yet the
Old-fashioned Maryland Democracy is against him,
and throws up its head against following the lead
of Beverly johnson, who, they say here has turned
so often that his bIeeches are buttoned behind.
Outside of New York the Douglas men are rampant.
and breathe threatenings and slaughter They claim
to have the power and say they intend to put on the
screws in the Convention. But his more judicious
friends do not see how he can be either regularly
nominated elected in the present state of things
at the South. Still, the programme is TO push him
obstinately and enthusiastically. The reasons are,
that it is hoped to get him on to the course by
hook or by crook, regularly or Regularly, for the
purpose of making fight in twenty or thirty
Congressional Districts North, now represented
by Black Republicans 1t is contended that there
is good chance to win number of these il they
can be contested on Douglas and the Popular
Sovereignty dodge 1t is not for Douglas so
much, as for what the running Of Douglas win
bring to hungry crowd of political loafers, who
have been some time out in the cold, that be is
and will be pertinaciously stuck to. As to his
being regularly nominated, his chance seems just
az good ss it was at Charleston. His friends ad
nit the less Of vote or two in MASSACHUSETTS, and
elsewhere but claim gain of two in Kentucky,
and expected gains somewhere else Of uncertain
geographical location.
As to the platform, il is not designed, in tho
present programme, to touch that till after nomi
nation. And herein sleeps whole volcano Of
missiles, threatening the Convention. This deter.
mnaton, il adhered to, as il probably WIN be- Is
likely to wreck the whole concern speedily, rs II
was wrecked at Charleston. The hope Of patch.
ing up peace on the basis Of the Tennessee reAo-