The Chicago Convention--nominations made on the thirty-first of August.
For President — George B. McClellan.For Vice-President--George H. Pendleton.
The Washington Chronicle of the 1st instant contains the following dispatch from Chicago, which we condense:
Chicago, August 31--1 o'clock.--The Convention re- assembled at 10 o'clock. The Wigwam was densely packed, and the crowd outside greater than ever.
Immediately after the Convention was called to order, prayer was offered by the Rev. Dr. Haley, of Chicago.
The following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That this Convention shall not be dissolved by adjournment at the close of its business, but shall remain organized, subject to be called at any time and place that the Executive National Committee shall designate.
The President then stated the question before the Convention to be on ordering the previous question, to proceed to the nomination of a candidate for the Presidency, and it was ordered without dissent.
The vote was then taken by States, the chairman of each delegation announcing the vote of each State as they were called:
| McClellan | Seymour | |
| Maine | 5 | 0 |
| New Hampshire | 7 | 0 |
| Vermont | 3 | 0 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | 0 |
| Rhode Island | 4 | 0 |
| Connecticut | 6 | 0 |
| New York | 33 | 6 |
| New Jersey | 7 | 0 |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | 0 |
| Delaware | 0 | 3 |
| Kentucky | 0 | 7 |
| Ohio | 13 | 6 |
| Indiana | 9½ | 3½ |
| Illinois | 16 | 0 |
| Michigan | 3 | 0 |
| Missouri | 7 | 4 |
| Minnesota | 4 | 0 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | 0 |
| Kansas | 3 | 0 |
| California | 5 | 0 |
| Oregon | 3 | 0 |
| 202½ | 23½ |
Several delegation having given their votes for Horatio Seymour, when the call of States had been finished Mr. Seymour declined the nomination. He knew General McClellan did not seek the nomination. That able officer had declared it would be more agreeable to him to resume his position in the army; but he will not honor any less the high position assigned him by a great majority of his countrymen because he has not sought it. * *
We are now appealing to the American people to unite and save our country. Let us not look back. It is with the present that we have to deal. Let bygones be bygones. * * * *
He would pledge his life that when General McClellan was placed in the Presidential chair he will devote all his energies to the best interests of his country, and to securing, never again to be invaded, all the rights and privileges of the people under the Laws and Constitution.
The President then announced the vote, which was received with flattering cheers.
Immediately after the nomination, a banner, on which was painted a portrait of General McClellan and bearing as a motto, "If I can't have command of my own men, let me share their fate on the field of battle," was run up behind the President's platform, and was welcomed with enthusiastic cheers.
A communication was received from the Chairman of the session of the People's Association of New York, claiming to represent twenty thousand citizens, accompanied by resolutions pledging the members of the Association to the support of the Chicago nominee.
Mr. Vallandigham moved that the nomination of George B. McClellan be made the unanimous sense of the Convention, which was seconded by Mr. McKeon.
Governor Powell and Judge Allen, of Ohio, made brief speeches, and the question was taken on making the nomination unanimous, which was declared carried amid deafening applause.
Mr. Wickliffe offered a resolution to the effect that Kentucky expects the first act of General McClellan, when inaugurated next March, will be to open the prisons and set the captives free; which was carried unanimously.
The Convention then voted for Vice-President. The first ballot resulted as follows: James Guthrie, 65½ George H. Pendleton, 54½ Daniel W. Voorhees, 13; George W. Cass, 26; August Dodge, 9; J. D. Caton, 16; Governor Powell, 32½; John J. Phelps, 8; Blank, ½ On the second ballot, New York threw its whole vote for Pendleton. The other candidates were then withdrawn, and George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, was unanimously nominated.
Mr. Pendleton, being loudly called for, could only promise to devote himself in future, as in the past, with entire devotion to the great principles which lie at the foundation of our government — the rights of the States and the liberties of the people in the future as in the past. * * * With the hearts of millions of freemen with them, the Democracy would again build up the shattered fragments of the Union and hand it down to the next generation as it was received from the last.
An executive committee of one person from each State will be appointed; and it was resolved that the Democracy of the country are requested to meet at different cities and have mass ratification meetings on the 17th of September, the anniversary of the adoption of the Federal Constitution.
With nine cheers for the ticket, the Convention adjourned, subject to the call of the National Convention.
The Chronicle is very much out of humor with the Chicago nominations. It devotes its leader to a biography of McClellan. We give the concluding paragraph:
‘ The nomination of General McClellan will be most acceptable in the South among the enemies of the Republic. It will be perceived that it is hailed with equal enthusiasm by Vallandigham, Belmont, Fernando Wood, Dean Richmond, and all the opposing elements of peace and war in the so-called Democratic Association. Always a negative man, he will be now more a negative man than ever. In the South his nomination will be accepted as a declaration on the part of the Democratic party in favor of the separation of the Union. There is no escaping this issue; for all who are the known champions of McClellan are the known champions of disunion. Jeff. Davis understands his pupil well. Educated in his school of polities, he and his partisans will hail the action of the Chicago Convention with a supreme satisfaction. And they are right in this, for whatever McClellan himself may desire, the peace leaders at home and the traitors at the South will decide adversely. * * However McClellan himself may feel, he is undoubtedly the apostle of a degrading peace. He runs upon this issue alone, and his peace is a peace of repudiation and disunion. * * * And we have a sublime confidence that the American people will stand by, support, sustain, and adhere to, and carry over all obstacles, and against all appliances, Abraham Lincoln, the Union candidate, into the Presidential chair.
’ Of Pendleton, the Chronicle says:
‘ Mr. Pendleton is a man of respectable talents and attainments, a Virginian by birth, and thorough Southern in his political sympathies. Not to put too fine a point upon it, he is what is known as a Copperhead of the yellowest line, and has been the yokefellow of the Woods in opposing the measures of the Administration for the suppression of the rebellion. If anything will reconcile such men as Long, of Ohio, and Harris, of Maryland, to the support of the ticket, it will be the name of Pendleton.
’
War News.
The Chronicle has no war news of interest. The Yankees are still busy lying over their disaster at Reams's station. A dispatch from Louisville on the 30th announces the capture of a company of Yankees six miles below Gallatin by Wheeler. Wheeler's force is estimated at from five to twelve thousand men.
Gold.
Gold is unchanged.
