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POLITICAL.
VIRGINIA DEMOCRATIC CONVENTIONS
Breckinridge Men Propose n Compromisc-.
The Douglas Men Stand Firm -Anofher
Secession Threatened
CharlOttesXiIIe CnnXenfian.


CHARLoTrEsyILLE, August lG.-The Convention
assembled IN this town at noon to-day. Some time
was occupied in the assembling of delegates. so
that the body was not organized until 10 o'clock.
Alter temporary organization, Committees on
credentials and Permanent Organization were ap7
pointed.
The Committee on Credentials reported about
Tour hundred delegates present
Inc committee on Organization reported as per-
manent President of the Convention Colonel VIM.
M. Amber, with large number of Vice Presidents
and Secretaries.
Col. Amber, on taking the chair, returned
thanks in a neat speech.
After some preliminary business of no interest.
the following resolution was introduced:
Resoced, That committee of five be appointed to at.
tend the Staunt0n Convention with view to the settle
ment OF the divisions in the Democratic party
The resolution led to a long and animated debate,
and was finally passed.
Doubts are entertained as to whether a compro-
mise can be affected
If a compromise is effected a considerable num
Der VIII secede from this Convention.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, August IA r solution was
onered to-day in the Breckinridge Convention to
the electors that if necessary, in order to
prevent Republican triumph, they cast the vote
OF the State for either of the other candidates
Aresolution was adopted re-atfirming the Charles
ton platform except the resolutions in reference to
the Pacific Railroad and Cuba.
Senator Hunter speaks tonight and Senator Ma
son tomorrow.
Staunton Convention
SrAUNToN, Aug. l6.-The Douglas State Conven-
tion assembled in this city to-day, and was called
to order at noon.
A temporary organization having been effected
aCommlttee on Credentials was appointed and re-
ported all the credentials correct
Ihree hundred and twenty delegates then en-
rolled their names.
The Committee Permanent Organization was
then appointed, and having returned, reported Mr..
H. hopkins, OF Petersburg, for permanent Presi-
On motion a committee was appointed to prepare
monwealtb. Vim
=, motion to appoint a committee to frame an
Electoral ticket, occasioned some discussion, but
was agreed to.
Ihe Convention then adjourned until o'clock
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Durlng the afternoon several propositions for
compromise were made, and much discussion en-
sued. A
The feeling exhibited by the discussion and an
plause, was overwhelming against any compromise
whatever with the Breckinridge men,
without coming to any decision upon the SUBJ
Ject the Convention adjourned.
All the Douglas Democrats asking admission have
been admitted to seats.
Duncan McRae, of South Carolina addresses
the Convention tonight; the crowd assembled to
hear him is quite large.
RICHMOND, August IA telegram to the Wig
says that when the message from the CharlottsviIia
Convention was received at Staunton for a Com
mittee OF Conference with the Douglas Convention.
a ieeling prevailed that the Breckenridge men
should come to them if they wished to settle the
existing differences
A despatch to the Enquirer says that the propo-
sltion will not be entertained by the Douglas men
except by the friends of Breckenridge "caving in"
SrAUNToN, Aug. 1.-THE Douglas State Conven-
ton today adopted resolution inviting Mr..
douglas to visit Virginia. They also adopted a
resolution re affirming the Baltimore platform, de-
clarlng MesSrs. Douglas and johnson regularly
nominated, and denouncing the administration.
SAuNToN, Aug. Up. M.-The Douglas Conven-
ton transacted but little business to-day beyond
appointing Conference Committee but the general
impression Is, there is not the slightest chance of
reconciliation being effected. The Douglas men
VIII probably form clear Douglas ticket to-nig gbt
THE LATEST.
ALEXANDRIA, August IA special despatch to
the Alexandria Gazette, from Charlottesville saws:
An antiDouglas spirit was decidedly manifested in
the Convention to-day. The report of the Commit
Tee on Resolutions was read and unanimously adopt
ed The first affrms the slavery section of the Ma
tional Democratic platform, etc. The second pro-
Vides Tor the presentation of address to the peo-
pie of the State. The third for the organization
OF Central Executive Committee and of an cleo
toral ticket The fourth calls county organizations
and the fifth requests Messrs. Hunter, Wise and
Mason to canvass the State
The Convention repudiates the Pacific Railway
MIR. Newln made violent dsunion speech amid
much applause.
ported at O'Clock that no arrangement had been
made at Staunton, but that the Douglas Conven-
lon had appointed committee of five to CORES
pond with the Committee of this Convention.
THE NEW YORK DOUGLAS CONTAMINATION WITH
THE UNION MEN.
The New York Douglas Democratic State Con-
vention closed its labors on Thursday with the se-
lection of an electoral ticket in fusion with the Bell
resolutions expressive of the sense of the Conven-
tion relative to the questions at issue in the cam
naign, and the duty of the Democracy in the prem
ises. The Douglas Committee of Conference, it is
understood, had considerable difficulty in arrang-
ing the terms of fusion with the Bell Committee
and the Convention was obliged to adjourn once or
twice to await the result of their deliberations but
everything was finally arranged satisfactorily The
ticket was applauded vehemently when it was read
to the Convention, and was adopted unanimously.
The following is the ticket:
Electors at Large.-Rueben II. Walworth, of
Saratoga, and Heman j. Redfeld, of Genessee
The District Electors are
Selah B. Strong, Charles ii. Collins Francis r
Tillou, Elijah F. Purdy, Oswald Ottendorfer, Jas.
De Peyster Ogden. Jas. Robinson, John Anderson,
Edward Haight Daniel B. St. John, Elisha
Strong, William Kent Martin Springer, Jas Kidd
Isaiah Blood, Henry II. Ross, David C. Judsou,
Charles Goodyear, George C. Clyde, Edward Hun
tington, Ambrose S. Higgins, Lucius B. Crocker-
Pierson Mundy, John NJ. Strong, Edwin NJ. Ander,
roll, Addison Gardiner, John b. Skinner, Lorenzo
Burrows William Williams, Stephen ID. Caldwell
The following are the Bell and Everett electors
VIM. Kent, James Kidd, James NJ. Pulver, Lo-
renzo Burrow, Chas. II. Carroll, D. B. st. John,
Henry H. Ross, Miles II. French, Jas. De p. Og-
den, Edw. Huntington.
Hon. William Kent is the son of the late Chan
cellor Kent. Lorenzo Burrows is the late State
o,,tr
Messrs. Carroll and st. John are both ex-members
of Congress. James De Peyster Ogden is an old
line Whig. Mr.. Kidd of Albany, is of the same
school. Some of these gentlemen supported Col
Fremont in 1856, but are all now Bell and Everett
Union men.
The following is one of the series of resolutions
adopted by the Convention
Resolved That no result of the pending Presidential
will prove disastrous the peace and nteg
ry of the Union, and is much to be deprecated,
the election of Abraham Lincoln, the sectional candidate
of the Republican party and that, recognizing the duty
of all patriotic conservative citizens operate in
avertng such calamity and extending to them
dial fellowship in such work in vite them the
mode ofwthholding from him thrtyfve electoral votes
of New York, and thereby securing his defeat to
support of the electoral ticket presented by this Con-
vention appealing to its high personal and political char.
acter vdicaton of the wisdom and beraty of its
lection and guarantee that the surages of all Unonoy
ing citizens be safely committed to the Electoral Col
lege thus composed of dspassonae honorable and
that for the purpose of such operation the State Com
the electoral State tickets by resignation otherwise
and take such shall deem proper
to give the united expression and effect to the national
conservate sentiments of the State.
The feud between the New York CITY Tammanv
and Mozart Hall factions received the following
healing plaster;
Resoued, That regard New York city the strong
hold of the Democracy in the Empire State, represent
ed by her delegates in this Convention from Tammany
and Mozart Hasthe former for the antiquity of her
ganizaon and devotion to Democratic principles and the
latter for her ndomitabe and firm adherance to
the Democratic May the olive branch thrown to
them to-day be seized by BOTH and in future may they
represented by organization, and thus present
divided front against the enemy of party
lApplause.l
LOUISIANA DOUGLAS ELECTORAL TICKET
First dlstrict-CUi. NJ aunsol w bite, Plequemines-
Second distrct-Hon. Pierre Soule. Orleans. Third
distrct-Hon. Gustave Leroy, Jefferson. Fourth
district-Hon. j. Duncan Stewart, East Baton
Rouge. Fifth district-IIon. Joshua Baker, St.
Mary. Sixth district-Col. n. ID. Coleman, Madi-
The LATE STORM IN LoUIsIANA.--The New Or.
leans papers of Tuesday contain full accounts of
the great storm that devastated the gulf coast on
Saturday night and Sunday morning last. Great
damage done on the land as well as water
There sad loss of life at Procterville on Lake
Borgue. The following reported as having
lost their lives by the effects of the gale:
Mr.. w. +. Wells-he was very ill with consump-
tion. His wife, child, and the rest of his family,
were saved
John Raiey, the watchman of the Railroad Com
pany. He was crushed by the falling of the house
in which he was. His wife and infant child were
saved.
Maria Nicholas and three or four children. Mrs.
Nicholas escaped to Proctor's plantation, but was
drowned from falling into the bayou, while cross
ing at night from the quarters to the sugar house.
Two or three children of Tom Limerick, the