Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-04-26
THE CHARLESTON CONVENTION.
First Days Proceedings.
DOUGLAS DOUBTFUL!

by the choice OF Mr.. FlOurnoy of Arkansas
as Chairman, with VIM F. Ritchie of Virginia
as Secretary. The Soft Delegation from New
York, and the Douglas men from Illinois were
primarily admitted to seats and there rivals
shut out by decree Of the National Committee
An arbitrary act, which excited some feeling
Committees of one from each State on Organ
ization and on Credentials New York and
Illinois not represented in the lattef) were
then formed, and the Convention adjourned to
Tuesday morning, when it is understood that
Gen. Caleb Gushing of Massachusetts will be
made President The Committee on Creden-
tials is expected to report in favor of the New
York and Illinois delegations already seated !;
but there will be minority report in favor of
the Wood or Hard delegates from New York,
which will hardly be disposed of without tu-
multi. The Convention is full of explosive ma
terial, and the Chairman had all he could do
Monday, to keep it within boiling distance of
order.
We judge that the ultra Southern Dclega-
tions who were fierce for having a Slave Code
Platform adopted first, under penalty Of their
secession, will be coofed off and induced to
keep shady, finding that their premeditated
policy would play into the hands of the Doug
las men, who would like nothing better than q
bolt by three or four fre-eating Delegations
just before the first ballot for President
The Irjbunc's Correspondent seems to regard
Douglass defeat as nearly certain and it is
cleur that the selection of Gushing for Presi-
dent is not good symptom. But we suspect
the New York Softs are playing Possum till
after tho decision on their right to sit, after
whsch, they W II demonstrate for Douglas. If
they do not, hie case looks bad, since New
Jersey as well as Pennsylvania is reported ad-
verse to him. But nothing can be clearly
seen till after the contested seats shall have
been disposed Of
Hunter seems likely to stand next to Doug
las OH the first ballot but we do not believe
he can be nominated in any event The De-
mocracy do not mean to give US the election
The following paragraphs from the Repor
ters at Charleston, may be taken for what
they are worth All accounts Indicate
strong Southern opposition to DOUGLAS which
will probably defeat him.
Present signs coRspirc against the nomina.
tion Of Mr.. Douglas, and rumor says that
New York will 60 for Mr.. Hunter, which has
dampened the hopes of his friends, who con-
.cede an unexpected detection in the South
where he Will hardly receive more than seven
votes
Mr.. DICKINSON is industriously pressed by q
few personal supporters. The only contingcn-
cv in which he can be possibly considered is
case of threatened rupture here, when the
South may tender him as q compromise candi
date. He has ten votes in the New York
delegation. The rest are adverse.
Until Mr.. DOUGLAS be disposed of no safe
| opinion as to the candidate can be formed
Some new name may be sprung on the Conven-
| tion at fortunate moment, like Mr. Polk, if
any is in reserve Mr.. PEARCE of Maryland
is suggested by some Douglas men, who have
resolved to stand by him resoulutely and pre-,
vent two-thirds for any other candidate, but
they cannot hold the Eastern delegations or
New York for such purpose as they antici-
pate, and hence they will fail if the expert
ment be tried
The Southern delegations have just adjourn
ed after most exciting meeting. Alabama,
Mississippi Florida, Arkansas, Texas, and
Louisiana, announced emphatically that they
would 60 ont of the Convention unless their
platform was adopted.
South Carolina said she was not authorized
to speak yet, but would doubtless follow the
lead of Mississippi.