Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-04-23
lsylyauia and New York will vote as unit.
CHARLESToN CoRRESpONDENCE.

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The Convention is the great topic of conversation in
this city the present tme and everybody from the
hotels the fruit and cake shops from the occupant OF
house with one spare ro0m, 10 the proprietor of the
largest boarding house. fom the drinking saoon christ
eued Democratic Headquarters opposite Institute Hail.
10 the degraded concern that deals out whskcy TO
Kill at forty rods is calculating make enough out Of
the Democratic National Convention Of 1860 to retire
ftOm business
The hotels have made most extensive arrangements
for feeding aud lodging the multdes that expected
upon this city ike the locust5 of Egypt but -
the public have been slow 20 come forward and
thorzc their TO be entered in the hotel books
secure rooms and board.
The Mills House, with a capacity for the accommoda-
ton OF fifteen hundred Per5ons is thus far only certain
of the Tammany Hall delegation, committee rooms for
the krntu Ky del CATION and members from Tennessee,
Ohio, Indiana Illinois, Iowa and Maine. Mayor Wood
has taken apartments 1T that house The propretors
having leased Hbcruiau Hall building have put upwards
of hundred cot beds into the upper hail. and have rent
ed lower hall to Of the Illinois delegations for n
committee room. The Mills has tl,cc other outside
buildings of which takes hundred and ten single
beds.
The Pavilion, which has five outside houses under
lease for lodging rooms, and the Aueric ~ which has
put beds into Odd Faiows Hall and another building
have retained their regular boarders old prices Tie
latter house is cigiby situated King street, and
your readers have been apprzed OF its terms OF board
through thc advertising columns of the Herald
The Charleston Hotel can provide for twelve hundred,
but they pack away three hundred of these into hall
on Hayne street. 1t will be delightful lodging room,
particularly IT the weather should increase in heat he
cause th,re ventilation can be permitted, and will be
needed The North Carolina delegation has taken
quarters and committee room at the Charleston and
Alabama, Tennessee Kentucky and Michigan delegates
have secured the comforts of that house
The Pavilion Hotel quarter 600, the Planters
Hotel 800 and the American 500. Neither Of The e
houses have any engagem MS thus far.
Oi bOJrdors at the Mills the Charleston and the Plan
tors have chosen 60 into private boarding houses rah
er than succuub the demand OF - per day till the
Convention closes
Artists from New York pictorial newspapers are
the Convention including the lodging rooms with from
three hundred beds therein 1t they could sketch
the odcer when they get up in the morning and search
in vain for their coats aud pants many of them
will their life scenes hould Possess peculiar interest.
These articles will &c; mixed up particularly in crowd
Of three bundled and many Suts will be likely to
change wcarers--thruugh mistake OF course.
The Mercury Is Sli. disncned 10 welcome the Con
vcniou and would prefer di,uuon the uomiaaton OF
| Douglas.
TIE rogues gallery" Of daguerreoiypes at the lower
guardhousc will enable the detectives to embrace a few
OF The careless ones An extra police force Of fifty
h been detailed for the convention erm aud will
t the ordinary hundred aud hi, officers to presrry,
order
Very opporiuuely fellow scntenceddst Saturday
10 be hung or Highway robbery ia this city Let Other
! thieves take Warning.