The New York Times, May 19, 1860
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
WASHINGTON, Friday, May 18.
The reception of the news of LINCOLN’S nomination, at Chicago, threw the House of Representatives into such excitement as to suspend business for some minutes. Everybody was delighted. Even Mr. SEWARD’S warmest admirers pronounced the nomination most able and judicious. Judge DOUGLAS and his friends think it the heaviest blow the Democracy has yet received, and say that by to-morrow night there will not be a tar barrel or a pound of powder in Illinois.