The New York herald., 1872-07-07

N. u. wMtey,- who had light In the Convention
willard sauisbufy on the i ticket. NJ '''' '''' '''''
p me ono prominent nance arc ex,Congressmen
srSd4 rnyme wniss champion Mckinney M Munger Gov,
A. Mac Nahon, br0ther-in-law Of vahandighan, and
John q. Thompson, who Is already here snd thinks
Georgia sends at the head Of her delegation II. L.
Benntng, who also led the Georgia delegation In
is',o besides O. i. Goode, also at the Charleston
The Illinois delegation is led by the wealthy
On % states . senator
charleston. and General John A. McClernand, OF
The Indiana delegation includes two who were at
the Democratic Convention in 1S60-R0bert Lowry
and q. w. Mcconnell
Ex-Governor MagOfiin Is In the Kentucky deleRa-
tion, and also John Dishman and James b. Beck,
who came to the baltimore Convention twelve years
From Maine comes Eben T. Pillsbury, who made
the strong Greeley speech at the late Filth Avenue
Conference, heading the list.
The Maryland delegates number PhllipT Thomas
for a time Bdchanans Cabinet Minister, and Mont
gOnery Blair, LincOn's Postmaster General; John
Lee Calloll, OF famous descent, and Harry Gilmor,
The fine old editorial name OF Charles G. Greene
heads tie massachusetts, delegation, associated
in this ueleg itiOn.
AInnesot.. retains one OF her Charleston dele
gates-w. w. Phell 8, OF Red Wing.
most rampant democratic journal Of the South, will
De herc, as ne Was conspicuous ut Charleston and
Missouri sends william HYDE the editor OF the
Repuolscan, GratL Browns 0gan, and w. Il. Switz-
ler ne eiitary contestant iOr seat in GO igress
:, Neb. ASIA sends ner leading editor, Geo. &c l..
Miller, % Omaha
New Je sey mas strong delegation, composed Of
senator StOcAtOn, Governor randolph, the 1aCIle
legal Ileader, Leon Abbott, formerly OF Pnilael-
phia. In tins del ItiOn Is David Naar, formerly OF
Missouri, who has made himself notorious by at
tacAing Greeley, ana fiOm whom trouble " ex-
pecteu
recognized, headed by Governor HOFFMAN, Deios
DeWOl, Jarvis Lord, 0i Rochester, anu Henry U.
Murphy; Mr. k.nsela, OF sac BrocSlyn Eagle;
Sheri1; Honiar A. Nelson and Nelson w. Young;
Congl essnien Fox and cox, Mi. Cassidy, OF the Al
ceased, snd M. ii. Northrup, Of the sy. acuse
courier, are names well known. Augustus Scncn,
Al alternate here, was in the Brecknfdge Conven.
tion, 0f loo0; so also were CASSIDY, UeW0n and
Beech.
From North Carolina come Governor Vance, J. A.
Engeinand, editor OF the Wilmington .JOuyNul, aud
Pennsy wanna contributes her famous executive
politicians, W. A. Wallace, congressman kandal,
phia, }. r. Barr, editor OF the Pttsbuig Post, and
Bali hcMulien, Ike Iced and sam J0sephs, pOiiti-
Clans ut large.
Amasa Sprague of Rhode Island, was also in the
Charleston Convention.
Out OF the notorious delegation from South Caro-
lima to tie nulliiyiIg convention IN Charleston
twelve years ago. Only one ls still politically alive,
Thomas I. Summons, OF Charleston. Those who
Inc names In the Tennessee list are headed by
Governor Brown.
Lucius Roolnson, of vermont was in the Charles
ton convention.
Virginia appears formidably, as heretofore, with
Thomas ). BOcock. titz hugh Lee, bradley Johnson
and Jeherson Randolph. IwO OF the Old elegates
OF 1860 reappear-S II. MOiitt and George locker
General lInboden and united states Senator Davis
come TO Baltimore nom West Virginia.
MscVnsins delegation is headed by ex-senator
Doohttie, ana III it IS Edward s. Bragg, OF fond Du
Lag, delegate in 1850.
M
anu political extraction of the Convention.
THE DEMOCKATIC CONVENTION AT CHARLESTON 1860.
April S5-slgnifcant time Of the year IN the inture
President Lincoln's murder. The last great Con-
vention OF tine democracy preceding this one met
ut Institute Hail. Charleston, Old levei-flOOred
hall filled with wooden chairs and gaudily Orna-
mented. Near at hand was Hibernia Hall, where
the Douglas men revelled Sheehans life Of their
leader and they took their meals at the Mills House,
while the plantation party swearing that the most
obnoxious man to them in the North should never
be President, behaved like the io0lishest Bourb0ns
was the mild, bland. f.worshlppng
of a Cotton empire, whose reputation survives at
this moment scarcely less obnOxiOus III the south
than the North lie could not be lrigntened at the
name OF disunionist. Not he The iool ever takes
fright. There also was the thin-haired, red-faced
busness-hke Sudell, Buchanan Mephstophies,
who Was anything to beat Douglas. lie was yet to
die in Paris, selfish and neglected, in lul knOw
edge of the marvellous reconstruction OF mis- cOun-
try. There was John Logan, like the last Indian
the brink OF the setting sun. splitting pen
sively Douglas tobacco juice, and kich-
ardson, the personal henchman OF Douglas,
was Orr, OF South Carolina undecided as now
and anything for his own promotion, and George
dale and at the administrator headquarters in a
private spot the old Bayard since retired and Jesse
I. bright, the malignant enemy OF Douglas, and the
waegiing Biger, or Pennsylvania, rep0sed In the
smile vi the bacnelor Presidents power.
TIE OMARLEsToS @ :q ON OosvESTioS 70 RE %sEvIEwEp ,u
Look at some OF the names N the great body,
where Delaware had six delegates and New York
seventy: you win recognize Caleb Gushing and Ben
jamin +. Butler of Massachusetts Amasa Sprague
and Lucius Robinson Of New England, John COch-
rane, August Belmont and Sanford Z. Church Of
New York, the late Scallawag. Governor Holden.
James b. Beck OF Kentucky aud the future Senator
Henderson OF Missouri, celebrated in the impeach
ment trial; Sam Marshall and Dick: Merrick, OF
Todd, and Sherman's brOther-in-law, BARLEY, OF
ONO, and scores OF others prominent men, now as
then, widely divided BY the chasms has Of subsequent
THE CHARLESTON STRUGGLE
The Convention meets, called to order by Judge
Smalley, OF Vermont, accompanied by C. L. VAL
landigham, OF Ohio as secretary. L. b. FlournOy,
OF Arkansas, Is made President pro tenn A south,
ern CLERGYMAN reads a laborious manuscrpt pYaver
to the Convention and to God. The acoustics are
horrible, and John Cochrane and the Southerners
The South throws itself away ON q mean
EFFORT 10 neutrali1e New York and Illinois
Richardson beat them down, and the cele-
bratcd editor Barksdae, OF Mississippi spouts for
nought Clarke, OF Missouri, who created the
Helper book by opposing it, and ben Butler and
John Cessna, OF Ch0rpenning fame made egotistcal
riot. The second day Cessna reported the organ-
zaton, led by the name OF Caleb Cushing author Of
the Alabama case, for chairman. Then there was n
grand row to prevent Douglas mln0rties in State
delegations voting. Joshua Randall, father OF SAM
denounced Douglas and was reminded by Richard
son that he was nothing but an old WING, at which
there was the first challenge to the glorious duel
Cushing with his brown coat, gray pants and black
satin vest, eye-glass and fine, healthy head took
tue chair, pronouncing the Convention perpetual
sentlnes on the outposts Of the constitution -
This second day found Douglas stock above par
with an assured majority, but not two-thirds, and
Cagger, Cassidy, Richmond and C0chrane endorsed
as legitimate New York delegates. That night the
rejected Fernando " ood was serenaded.
The third day the fifteen minute rule OF speech
making was defeated. Fun followed over John
Cochrane'S bachel0rdom, and Vallandigham ex-
planned ticket OF admission scandal. Caleb Cusn-