Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-04-21
THE CHARLESTON CONVENTION.

ttOul NdIlOQS SOuESGS, IGpOttSs
| gossip, and speculations but tn re is nothing
to indicate clearly what the convention will do
when it assemblies. We take the following
from dispatches in the New York papers.
And first from the Herald -
CHARLESTON, April 16.-The convention is
the great topic of conversation in this city at
the present time; and everybody, from the
hotels to the fruit and cake shops, from the
occupant of house with zone spare room, %
to the proprietor of the largest boarding house,
from the drinking saloon, christened Demo
cratic Headquarters" opposite Institute Hall,
TO the degraded concern that deals out whisky,
sure to kill at forty rods, is calculating 20 make
enough out of the democratic national conven.
ZION of 1860 to retire from business.
The Mills House, with a capacity for the
accommodation of fifteen hundred persons, is
thus far only certain of the Tammany Hall
delegation, committee rooms for the Kentucky
! delegation, and members from Tennessee,
! Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Maine.
| Mayor Wood has taken apartments at that
house. The propretors having leased Hiber
MAN Hall building, have put upwards of a
hundred cot beds into the upper hall, and have
rented a lower hall to one OF the Illinois dele
cations for committee room. The Mills has
three other outside buildings, one of which
The Charleston Hotel can provide for twelve
hundred, but they pack away three hundred
of these into one hall on Hayne street. 1t will
be delightful lodging room, particularly if
the weather should increase i'll heat, because
there ventilation can be permitted, and will be
needed. The North Carolina delegation have
taken quarters and a committee room at the
Charleston, and Alabama, Tennessee, Ken.
lucky, and Michigan delegates have secured
the comforts of that house. The Pavilion
Hotel can quarter one thousand, the Planters
Hotel five hundred, and the American five
| hundred. Neither of these houses has any
engagements thus far.
Artists from New York pictorial newspapers
! are sketching the various objects of interest
| connected with the convention, including the
| lodging rooms with from one to three hundred
beds therein. If they could sketch the dodgers
when thay get up in the morning and search
in vain for their own coats and pants, as many
of them will, their life scenes would possess
peculiar interest. These articles will get
mixed up, particularly in a crowd of three
hundred, and many new suits will be likely to
change wearers-through mistake, OF course"
CHARLESTON, April 19.-Deegates and out
siders are arriving by the thousand, and all in
hustle and excitement.
Douglas has the Target outside pressure and
his friends talk confidently but the confidence
is believed TO be affected. 1t is believed Hun.
ter will have nearly the combined vote of the
south; but no one attempts to predict the final
result. Hunters friends want the nomination
first, and platform afterwards; but the conyen-
ton will not stand this. The platform will be
constructed and the candidate put upon it.
Mr.. Bocock of Virginia, will, it is understood,
be permanently chairman of the convention.
He is a strong Hunter man. President Bu-
chanan has written letter, which is now in
the hands of a delegate from Pennsylvania,
positively and peremptorily declining the use
Of his name for denomination"
The Tribune's Washington correspondent
says :-"For my own part, l believe that
Douglas is to be slaughtered at Charleston"
That paper has the following from the "seat
of war" -
CHARLESTON, Thursday, April 10, 1860
All expectation OF great gathering here is
now abandoned, and there is a general feeling
of disappointment at the prospect The Mills
House, which was prepared for over 1000, has
only 100 so far and other hotels relatively
few. The northwestern delegations are pro-
vided for at the Mills House, but sleep at Hi
bernian Hall, few yards distant, where 1872
cots are spread in a single ROOM
Messrs. Richardson and DYER, the two prin-
cipal managers for Mr.. Douglas, reached here
last night. When they left Washington his
nomination was regarded as certain. Their
confidence here is less positive from the alb
sence of the expected enthusiasm. But they
remain still firm. They believe he will be
nominated on the third ballot, which is a vir-
tual surrender in the estimation of others. No
friends could be more Jealous or faithful. If
Mr.. Douglas shall fail on the first ballot, the
northwestern delegations resolved at Washing
20 ,l,o,
indicated no second choice. Several eastern
delegations are expected to cooperate in such
a contingency, but cannot be relied on. They
will loo after their own interests. The Doug
las men claim the delegates from Maine, New
Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont, with
parts of Massachusetts, and Connecticut, the
rest of which are conceded to Mr.. Toucey
complimentary. This count is considered
extravagant by welntormed persons.
No safe opinion can be formed of the result
till larger number of delegates have arrived
and compared opinions. The vice presidency
has been held out as bait to North and South
Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia,
with some personal effect but no decided in
fluence. The game is well understood, and
will be blocked A partial test will be made
on the question Of whether the platform or
candidate shall first be agreed on. The Doug
las interest and southern extremists favor the
former, but from different motives. Others
urge a candidate in preference, intending lie
shall personally indicate the spirit of the plat
form.
Most of the Kentucky delegates have ar
rived. They intend adhering tenaciously to
Mr.. Guthrie, and discourage emphaticay any
movementIfor Mr.. Breckenridge, which will test
his strength when urged by a majority OF the
Pennsylvania delegation Mr. Bigler will find
himself cornered upon reaching here Mr..
Guthrie finds favor with the conservative class,
who are uncommited and not partsans, and
he is urged judiciousy by his friends as com.
promise candidate
Outside there is very small and inconsidera.
bic interest felt. Mr.. Lane is not named for
the presidency, and the suggestion is ridiculed.
Mr.. Orr is here surveying the ground, having
achieved a victory at the state convention over
the ultras. With any northern candidate for
president he would be prominent for the NOM
ination for vice president.
Mr.. Stuart OF Michigan is proposed among
others, for president OF the convention but his
Douglas proclivities may interfere. That Sc
lection, however, will not be considered a test
OF strength. Three hundred delegates and
visitors from the northwest arrived this eve
ming, to swell the Douglas chorus, which had
become weakened.
The PoPE IN ENGLAND.-The descendants