New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-24
FROM GEORGIA.
THE CONVENTION.

Circumstances over which had no controi
have kept me from giving you any Information
Of events passing in this State for the last week
A crowded town causes an overiiowlug hotel
and a1l overGowing hotel renders double bedded
rooms common. When two strangers fnd Them
selves together in bedroom OF Southern
hotel they are as cautious In their movements
ns would be pair Of dueliSts in tho dark. IL
is not well, under circumstances Ike these, lot
either party TO have too much the air OF liter
ayy man. Anything like volurnhous CORES
pondence is almost impossible, always suspicious
ard is to be carefully avoided.
Mlledgeyils has held very large and lively
crowd for some days. The delegates began to
arrive here early IN the week, the brothers Cobb
being on the ground in fine season, and Robert
Toombs coming III on Wednesday morning before
light, believe, having paused only to acknowl-
edge the baying Of h gun and the orstorical
performances Of o freeater in his honor at
Augusta. There was much anxious caucusing
among the Secessionists on Tuesday evening and
night, and the operation known Us counting
"noses' was frequently performed. The great
anxiety appeared 10 be TO get through the Con.
yention vote indorbing the Governors seizure OF
the forts, il being considered very desirable to
put down rising feeling that mistake had
been committed feeling which had been grow
ing for come time in Savannah especially. The
leaders Of the Secession movement were exceed
il gly pysteriOus, and not particularly web at
ease, though when they came into the focus OF
the public eye they took fresh chews Of tobacco,
and tried their best TO look jolly. The greatest
care was taken in one way and another to keep
the anti SecessOnists from coming together for
consultation and it MAS believed, up 10 yester.
day, that 10 concerted action had been deter
mined on. The vote yesterday on the abstract
right of Secession was an unexpected develop
ment Of strong opposition
The delay Of some Of the Delegates and the
tsrdy arrival of Toombs, rendering il impossible
Tor the disunionsts 10 concoct their plans in sea
son for an early fight, nothing was done in Con-
veptiCn on Wednesday or Thursday, except to
put the officers in their places aud allow the
| Commissioners from South Carollna-Messrs. Orr
and shorter-lo uncork their bottled thunder.
The attendance in the galleries was large but
orderly, the ladies taking an active part in the
exhibition there as they secm 70 do everywhere,
and always when American oratOry or debate
goes Oh. The real work, however, was done
outside of the legislative hall on these two days,
and il was hard work, too; for although, to the
eye OF the casual spectator, ali the delegates
we're Of one mind, and the sentiments Of the
whole town united in favor 0! Secession, there
was movement for delay which must be checked.
And 70 the Cobbs' ssd TOombs' party plotted
and cajoed and bullied and prepared resolutions,
and formed plans, and wornIed their way about
very silently when in the dark, but talked with
much noise and bois:crous confidence before the
gaping crowd who knew nothing OF what was
pOirg on behind the curtain, but who VIII one
Of these days be called on for rather heavy
poll.ta1, at least. to pay the piper for the dan
| cling Of these days.
Yesterday morning friday, matters seemed
To be in train for business; and as there was
reason TO fear that the cO0perationists would
talk too much, the session was made secret, as
indeed, everybody who knew anything about
affairs expected. The seal of secrecy is never
inyiolable, of course, under such circumstances;
most men will talk, especially if they are some
what pulled up with the importance Of their
position, and not accustomed to public life. SO
that there is no absolute secrcsy. But unior-
tunatey, the men who talk are not educated for
newspaper reporters, and their recollectiOns and
ideas are in o most fragmentary and scrappy
condition. Consequently, nothing but crumbs eau
be picked up-crumbs, too, moisteLcd with the
prevailing whisky, and not by that improved for
expectation. So that all l can ten you about
the days work is that there was long and, in
some respects, savage debate upon the general
topic of secession branching into everything else
connected Herewith, and exciting much warm
feeling. Very sharp charges ind retorts are said
TO have passed between some Of the leaders Ia
the Cobb camp and one or two of the chief Co
Operationists. IL is even said that the partisans
Of Cobb and those Of Toombs allowed their zeal
for their respective generals to lead them into per-
sonalites during the interchange Of which some
not steady hands parted the combatants. The
result of the fight was that resolution declar-
ing the right Of Secession was passed by ma
jority of only thirty.fve, Though it is said that
some resolutions offered by Herschel " johnson,
in favor Of delay and cooperation, were lost by
a much stronger vote. A good deal Of di1ap-
pcintment was quietly expressed By the conser-
vative outsiders, and not little surprise more
loudly by the fre-eaters, because the Hon. A.
Ii. Stephens did not, apparently, make strong
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