Show THE NEWS by the last mail from the east which arrived on sunday we received a greater amount of exchanges than by any mail for a long time past excepting the ox express including dates from new york and washington to the and ano a ni from st joseph to the uit the charleston convention met on the ad was called to order by judge smalley chairman ma of the national committee and rb flourney of ark chosen temporary chairman the rev DC dr caneel of charleston oali officiated coated as chaplain and offered up a prayer bus bu if intercession was made for the spirit of enry uni y to prevail among the members that winch which was asked for was not received for the first movement that thit was made after the prayer and the appointment of a temporary secretary proa produced a row which caused great excite meru among the 11 11 and no good f feeling eeling 0 was manit manifested ested during that days s ses es slon sion which adjourned at 3 pm till the th next morning after the appointment of a committee I 1 OB or credentials the ile contest for seats between the two sets of delegates from new york i georg a and illinois was likely to be a matter i I 1 nol no easily settled there were also those from other states who would contest seats i douglas and his friends were in high glee on 0 ehe the but as a the delegates r arrived and compared votes iotes his hib chances of success were greatly diminished and he became somewhat chopfallen I 1 A platform was announced as the first thing i la a order to be decided a after the question I 1 of seats seas should be settled then the nomina t or i the supposition the late telegraphic i dispatch that there were more planks taken there by the delegates 0 than could be put into one of those horizontal concerns and that they con concluded eluded to make two one for the north and I 1 another for the south and adjourned one party to baltimore the other to richmond t to meet on the of june before doing 0 which I 1 they the ro no doubt hadan irrepressible conflict judge cradlebaugh had bad petitioned congress 1 for an indemnity but whether it was for ex incurred in the provo campaign or for something 0 else does not appear from the journals our nals frank H wootton of maryland says the baltimore sun has been appointed secretary for I 1 tal tat the general impress impression ioli at washington was L a f cong congress ress would not do much till af after ter the conventions were over which under present arrangements will not be till the last baat of june |