Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-06-20

SCNDA1 NIGHT AT THE HOTELS-GRFA
SCRAMBLE AMONG THE REpORTERs-opEy
ING SCENES OF THE CoNvENT1oN-cALE
CUSHING, THE PREsIDENT-oTHER CHAR
AcTERs, &C.
BALTIMORE, June le, 1860.
was just in time to miss the expires
train west on Sunday evening With m,
letter, and had to fall back on the In
mighty train, which gets into your place a
six the next day. presume you got m,
letter in time, if not you can enquire of th
baggage master of the train. wrote vo,
that, at the time of my perambulations
to see how matters and things looked
around town, there did not appear to bt
a crowd of strangers, such as person
would naturally cxYect to find at Ma
tIon"i Convention, where there were sc
many elements 20 mppease, and so much
! fierce work to be done before the marty
could hope to contest the field ut all. Al
late hour In the evening, aud especially
! ny the last Washington train (therc were
three run yesterday immense crowds had
| Hooked in. 1t was impossible for many
OF me strangers to get rooms at the princi-
pal hotels, and the reporter for the Louis
vile Democrat told me that he and his
friends had led otfUn a foray on the private
boarding houses, where rooms but no
| meals could be had. This movement was
being extensively followed up this morning
Last night there was scene at General
Cu5Eing's head quarters, where it was
announced by posters on the door, that
the Reporters would get their tickets be-
tween and 8 O'clock. All day long
(Sundny as it was,) the General and staff
had been issuing credentials of admission
to the Delegates, and it came the Repor-
ter's turn ut night. So at eight clock
the Reporters were on hand in strong
force. 1t was evident that the demand
was greatly in excess of the supply, and
when it was announced that there would
not he accommodations for more than half
the applicants, the pressure and excite
ment became terrible. Your corrcspon-
dent, with characteristic modesty, had
crowded his way up along side of the
Secretary and Sergeant" las he was
called) and there was behind Il throng of
black coats and white vests, crow,linc up
against the centre to such an extent that
he could hardly breath. Thinks l, if | |
was clevcrlv out of here, would run the |
risk OF getting into II seat Mt the Conven-
tion some other way, rather than to |
take the risk of smotherng to death here.
But it was great relief to know that
had an enviablc post. Scores would |
have given considerable for it. l heard |
Mr.. Russell, of your city, vocifernting i'm
to know whether any cards were
goingto be distributed to Virginia or not,
which interpreted to be an application
on @e9aIf Uat Of 1ug E2gr EpsiTth9r u 'hfptnts
FOR far off weekly papers, which had no
need of Il reporter, and whose representa-
tivcs merely wanted an eligible seat. II
was determined at last that the daily press
should have precedence, commencing with
Boston and coming through New FORK,
to Baltimore and from hence
diverging to all cities west and southwest.
The pressure meanwhile was so great that
the issuing of tickets was postponed until
this morning-at any time from six to
eight o'clock got up carly and went at
a little after six and so got my ticket, !
while others who waited for more fash
ionahle hour did not get theirs. From all
this you will readily infer that being n
reporter at badly got up and very nn-
systematic convention, is troublesome
business.
Getting tickets of admission, however,
was only part of the work. The next
thing was to get into the Convention, and /
the next thing after that to get seat.
Ten o'clock was the hour set for the Con-
vcntion, and rs there WAS to be II scramble
for seats in the Reporters tier, it was gen
orally understood that those who expected
to get accommodations would Il We to he
on hands at q side door mt an early hour
and watch their chance. went at nine
o'clock. and when got there found quite
n SQUAD who were arguing the proprlety
of their admission with large tWO't5ted
door keeper. Said he-"Gentlcmen. me
orders is to keep you all out until the
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admissions, like kissing, were going by
favor. inasmuch as we had seen several of
The attaches of the New York press slip
ming in Just as we were coming up. How
| ever. our crowd fell back n little until they
met with Fulton, the agent of the AssO-
ciated Press ut Philadelphia, who told all
! to show their tickets and follow him
| And so we did, and came down in force
on the door keeper, who, being taken by
surprise at such n sudden delugc, fell back,
and before he could recover, we were all IN
and up stairs. When in we found, sure
enough, that we had been preceded by
several Others, and that there were but
bare seats enough left for our crowd, al
though there were many others to come
after US. Some had got in surreptiti0usiy
Yesterday and marked their seats, and
some had got in early this morning
However, MS we had made the connection
we dispensed with all unnecessary indig-
nation and took our seats.
IL is now twenty minutes to clever
o'clock, and there is no organization yet
The platform appropriated to the use o
the delegates and to the press, is in state
of the most iudescribable confusion. NJ
body is in their seats. Everybody il
talking. Caleb Cushing, the Chairman, i
standing by his big chair, away up oac'
of us, wiping his perspiring brow and fac
very often and very vigorously with hi
handkerchief, apparently at IL loss whethe
to call the honse to order or not. He j
rather a singular looking man, apparent