The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-24
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
The Organization of the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
latiOns i'm Regard to the Nominees.

CHARLESTON, April %, 1860. 6O.-Nearly all the dele
gates have arrived and excitement runs high. The
throng has increased, but not what was expected
The Northeastern and Southern members of Con-
gress are here in large numbers. Much interest
and feeling were excited Yesterday by unexpected
movements in the National Committee, involving
partially the contested seats of the New York and
Illinois delegations 1t had been resolved at Wash
ington, that the Executive duty of issuing tickets
of admission or members of the Convention, and
the like, should be confided to subcommittee
consisting of Messrs. Smalley, Valandig ham,
Hesse, and Paul Il. George. But after the adop-
ton of this resolution, Mr. Augustus Schel blum
deringly moved an adjournment of the whole COM
mlttee 10 this place, which adopted. Upon
meeting here Barksdale and others, upon discover
ing that there was thin attendance of the mem
bers OF the Convention, and that the South had
nearly, If not quite majority, contended that the
resolution gave the Committee supervisory DOW
er over the initiatory proceedings. The Committee
alter hlllng two vacancies with Doug las men, de-
cided. by a vote of nine against eight, that they
would not interfere with the subcommittee, of
which Smalley is Chairman and Mr.. Vallandig-
ham is Secretary, in relation to the refusal of
tickets of admission to the Convention to the Wood
delegates from New York, and adjourned sine die
Mr.. Smalley then invited the delegates to present
their credentials and their case before him. The
delegation, in order to put him still more in the
wrong, waited on him this afternoon at five o. clock.
Mayor Wood presented the credentials and found
the other delegation there with theirs. He claimed
that his was the regular one, and demanded tickets
The Chairman invited discussion, but Wood de-
cned, as Smalley had no power to decide. The
case ad djOurned till nine o'clock tomorrow.
If the Convention should be organized with the
North against the South, the first movement against
Douglas will be the adoption of the rules of the
last Convention, which include the two-thirds vote
necessary to a nomination. As this has always
been the rule, the friends of Douglas cannot OPP
poae it without injurng their candidate, yet it
virtually disposes of him, for it will enable the
South ext
will be the construction of the platform, in which
the South will insist on having resolution repu-
dating squatter sovereignty; and Mr.. Douglas
has stated in his letter that if such a resolution
should be adopted he cannot be candidate this
will be decisive OF his fate 4 great fight is there
fore expected on the platform. For candidates six
names are mentioned-Douglas, Dickinson Breck-
inridge, Guthrie, Hunter and Lane Ii is said
Hunter has the delegations of ten or eleven South
ern States, but it is conceded he cannot carry su
fcient number of Northern States to be elected
and, therefore, he cannot get the nomination. 1t
is probable he will receive large complimentary
VOTE but will be dropped as soon as it is found that
the North will not have him. The Pennsylvania
delegation held meeting last night with a view
of organizing and casting the vote of the State
solid. Senator Bigler was elected chairman over
ex-senator Brodhead by vote of 2S to %, there
being three absentees. This was only an express
sion OF personal preference, and practical test of
the proclivities of the delegation. Messrs. Clos
brenner and Cassidy were chosen Secretaries and
a resolution offered by Mr.. Phillips that the dele
cation should vote as unit in the Convention.
This movement, though not unexpected, de-
nOunced by Mr.. Congressman Montgomery a sur
prise de said he would not permit his vote to be
cast by another, and threatened to talk till 1870
before permitting the adoption of the resolution.
He finally left the meeting in passion, but was
not followed by others. The delegation will meet
to morrow, and will carry Phillips proposition by
nearly twothirds, thus excluding eight ten votes
| Tor Douglas.
The Baltimore Convention in 1852 adopted re-
solution authorizing the States to decide upon the
mode in which they will cast their votes, and the
| Cincinnati Convention confirmed it. Hence the
| power of majority of the Pennsylvania delega-
tion to cast the whole vote of the State solid is un
| questionable. Pennsylvania is divided between
| Breckinridge and Guthrie with preponderance in
favor of the former who will probably get the vote
| of the State. The South is visibly closing its
ranks since they have compared opinions and since
members of Congress and other influential persons
have arrived. The delegates of Alabama, Mississp-
| pi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas and Florida have
| held conference, presided over by Governor
Mouton, at which they have resolved to stand by
the Alabama platform in terms unless the candi
date is perfectly acceptable. North Carolina and
other States which are more tolerant toward
Douglas concur in this principle. Douglas
strength in the South has declined considerably
North Carolina has nearly caved in, where half o
the delegation claimed for the Little Giant
Kentucky repudiates the idea of ever going tt
for him when johnson is abandoned. One MAORI
ty of the Missouri delegation and part of Maryland
alone adhere to him, with perhaps few scattering
votes from other quarters. His friends from the
North west and elsewhere met at their headquar
ters last night and proclaimed the alternative of hi
nomination or the defeat of the party. There is
very strong sentiment for retaliation against tn
South If Douglas be rejected by the Convention, a
1t is now feared he will be. While the kentuck,
delegation stands by Guthrie, the outside pressur
from that State exercised by POWELL Burnett, Clay
and others, is for Breckenridge, who is gaining
elsewhere.
Hunter will start with the largest Southern vote
and will increase on the second ballot. His friend
are discreet, but the objection most imreriousl,
urged against him is the doubt of his success
The Southern vote will be divided between Guth
rie, Hunter, and johnson, at the outset, with tn
exceptions already stated which is a very remark
able change. Hunter cannot carry two-thrds o
the Convention IN any event, but if forced upol
them by an unexpected turn of events, four, an,
| probably seven States will bolt, and run an indie
J pendent candidate. The famous letter of Buchan