Then Illinois broke from Pendleton and cast half her vote for Hendricks.

On the twelfth ballot the announcement of 1/2 a vote from California for Chief Justice Chase was received with a great and prolonged outburst of cheering.

It was suspected that a single delegate from the Pacific coast had cast the vote at the instigation of the New-York managers, in order to test the sense of the galleries as well as of the Convention.

The day closed with the eighteenth ballot, on which Hancock had 144-1/2, Hendricks 87, and Pendleton 56-1/2.

With such an apparent lead after so many ballots, the nomination of General Hancock on the ensuing day would, under ordinary circumstances, have been reckoned as a probable result.
But it was not expected.