New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-21
A Grand Smash-up Expected.
THE NEW.YORK DELEGATION INAPoG.
DURLs ANTICIPATED.
Special Dispatch 60 The N. Tribune
BALTIMORE, Wednesday, June 90, 1860.


afternoon.
The Committee on Credentials not being ready
TO report, nothing has been positively determined
yet in committee; but majority is known to be in
favor of the centesting or Douglas delegates from
the South.
Mr. Soule was before The Committee last even
ing, and made his great speech
| The interesting and important feature this
morning is the wsverirg of the New-York delega-
tion in regard TO admitting the secediOg delegates.
1t is claimed that majority can be brought to the
81 pport Of the cottestiug delegations. A powerful
| effort has been made to convince them that the
Southern boiling States be carried for Mr..
Douglas, and not without effect Everything turns
On the success of this effort. If New.York leaves
be cause Of the seceders, a is lost The Conven
ton viii be ruptured by the secession of Large
majority of the Southern States, along with numer-
Gus members of Northern delegations from the
States Of New-YoTk, Pennsy lvhns, New-Jersey,
Massachusetts and others. Whether New-York
be held t. the support of the secediug delega-
ton is thus the great problem of the hour. Vers
high expectations are entertained on one side and
very great apprehensions are expressed on the
sUther
m case Of the rejection Of the seceders, the pro-
granme now is for the secessOnists not to return
to Richmond, but to extemporize q Convention
here and sweep in everybody North and South that
can be got to join. Everything denotes the highest
state of excitement extreme fury of partisanship,
and passion. o. r
There were two fights before the Committee on
Credentials last night and another this morning,
growing ont of one Of them. Beside these, there
", re amateur performances in the same line out
side Cficial circles.
This morning in the few brief minutes in which
the Convention was in session, passage of diff
Guilty occurred between Mr.. Clark, NJ. C. of Mis-
sour, and Mr.. Cooking of the same State, in which
very embittered language was used by the former.
1t is probable the Committee on Credentials will
report at this evenings session. When that report
is made, the difficulties Of the Convention will be
only Just begun. Nobody seems to anticipate any
tLrg but a general row and explosion, except
George Sanders, who says Mr. Douglas will be
Nominated by reclamation after the South secedes,
and everything will then 60 smooth.
The Convention It'll lahors with tho mex press
IDLE woes of partur ton. 1t is not even Sc doirg
az well as could BE- expected" 1t adjourned this
Ii orDipg without doing anythiog, except veatilat-
ing single incipient quarrel, till five o'clock this
afternoon. At three mioutes past five O'Clock it
had adjourned TIL ten tomorrow.
The Committee OF Credentials is still tossed with
its lab, RS and apxetes Its majority is still firm
Tor The new Southern Douglas delegates. The
minority is not unabim us in its opinions; large
part 20 for taking back the seceders in body,
ard q fraction for compromising, by taking in part
OF each. The delay in reporting shows the great
per,lexities Of the Committee.
The action of New York is stila subject of great
doubt 81 anxiety. As it goes 20 goes the party,
and the Union of course. There are wise heads in
The delegation, but it has weak ones as well.
II II well understood that Virginia sides with the
geceders who are trying 70 get back, and if they
are Jepulsed a majority of ttat State will make
comm, n cause with them and retire from the IN.
ven,ion. Her example will largely control the
action Of her sister slave States, aud influence the
anti Douglas PORTION of the Free States.
lam. however, still constrained to adhere to my
original Judgment that New-York Will sustain the
| sec, d.rs; but this lot the favorte opinion,
| esIeciay with Southern men, who already talk
| openly about the certainly of break up. aud
| Lew Convention here, to be composed of the dis
seDting fragments.
| Baltimore has become quite sick Of the Conyen.
ton. The BODY soennly assemblies, the spacious
gal cries of the theater filled up to their utmost
| capacity the cri' one is hardly adjusted, when
the c, nv ention as soemnly adourDs without dong
| aryihiog 1t has now done hi. four times in sue
ceseiop. to the great disgust of the vast audience
esch Tins assembled. The lapse of time ia no
wire nitgates the 6erceness of temper with which
,be two factions of the party regard each other.
lnoeed, it rather bighrens the enm'ty.
Nine o'ciock p. mt looks now as though the
Douglas men have got majority Of the Convention
up to the point of taking the bull by the horns and
| eectirg the seeding delegations from Georgia,
| Alabama, and Louisiana, and substituting their
own friends in the places of the seceders.
| 1t is confidently claimed this evening that tins
| lob viii be done Should it be so, we shall have
tomorrow the most magnificent explosion of a
| political party on record.
| The Douglas men are fierce and defiant, and
claim to be ready and eager for the consequences
Tie determination to adopt the foregoing course
| rests upon the conclusion reached by New-iorh
HAT sic cannot cut Douglass throat without nav
| ing her own cut in turn. The fact is that The
position of the party is so environed by in'ur-
Tountable difficulties, threatening ruin upon every
side, that no middle course is open that gives any
bore Of extricaton. The leaders of the conIendlng