New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-09
THE PRO-SLAvEnY REBELLION.
FROM MISSISSIPPI
A FREE AND EASY SKETCH OF THE
CONVENTION.

r,on .hoded square in front of my window, is
= faded. sober edifce, of the style In vogue
wears AGO. with the Representatives Hall at one
and Senate Chamber at the other, an Ionic pOr-
tico in front, and an immense dome upon the
ION. Above this, is miniature dome, Ike an
infinitesimal parasol upon gigantic umbrella
The whole is crowned by small gilded pinnacle,
which has relapsed from its original perpendicu'
lar to an angel Of $50, and looks like little yellow
Jockey cap, cooked jauntily upon the head Oh
plethoric Quaker, imparting rowdyish ar quite
ut variance with his general gravity. The found
alton. or first story of the edifce, is OF faded,
cracked free stone, the front and end walls OF
stucco and the rear of brick. As you enter the
yestibue two musty cannon stand gaping at you,
and upon one of them you may see, or might
have seen yesterday, little darkey sound asleep
Whether he was watching the gun, or the gun
was watching him, is a matter of conjecture.
Ascending spiral stairway, and passing along
the balustfade which surrounds the open space
under the dome, you turn to the left, through
narrow passage, into the Representative HAM,
Here is the Mississippi Convention in session.
At the north end of the apartment sits the
President, upon high platform in nlche III
the wall, with two Ionic columns upon each sac
of him. Before him, is a little, oid-iashloned
mahogany pulpit, which coneeals all but lbs neao
and shoulders from the vulgar gaze IN front OF
this pulpit. and three or four feet lower, at
Long wooden desk painted in imitation of dark
grained marble with white panels, sit two clerks,
one of them smoking cigar. Before them, ana
Tf.lt
still lower, at shorter desk, an unhappy Celtic
reporter, with dark shaggy hair and eye broWs,
is taking down the speech of the honorable mem'
Der from something or-otEer county. In front OF
his desk and standing automatically upon the
floor, is a little table or stand, which looks as II
Il might have been called into existence by
very drunken carpenter on very dark night,
from the relics of superannua.ed dry goods box.
Upon one of the columns on the Presidents
right, hangs faded portrait of George Poindex-
ter, once Senator from this State. Still further
10 the right, is an open fireplace, with framed
copy of the Declaration of Independence, now
sadly faded and blurred, photographic view of
!he Medical College of Louisiana, and pitcher
and glass standing upon the mantel. On the hearth
n pair of ancient andirons, upon which genial
wood FIRE is burning. The hypOcritical plastering
which once coated the fire place has peeled of,
leaving bare the honest worn faces of the original
bricks There must be some peculiar nOn-adhesye
influence which acts upon plastering in jackson. In
whole rooms Of the hotel it has seeded from
the lath; and Judge Gbolson Gays that once in
the old brick State-House, which stood few
hundred yards from this, when Sergeant 5.
Prentiss was making q speech, he saw an acre
or two" of the plastering fall upon his head, and
ouite oyerwhelm him for the time. The Judge
Ia what Count Fosco calls the Man of Brains;
he is deemed the ablest member of the Conven-
ton and lie talked of as the next candidate for
Governor against the fre-eatng Secessionsts.
He was colleague in Congress, believe, with
the lamented Prentiss, whom be proneunces the
most brilliant orator that ever addressed Mis-
sissppi audience
On the left of the President is another fire.
place also with sadly .faded copy Of the great
Declaration upon its mantle. The members
desks, which stand in rows like the letter D,
sre of plain wood, painted black. Their chairs
are great, square, faded mahogany frames,
stuffed and covered with hair-clOth. As you
stand at the Clerks desk, facing them, you see
behind the furthest row a seni-circle of ten
Ionic pillars, and beyond them narrow, cres-
eent-sbaped lobby. Half way up the pillars is a
little gallery, inhabited just now by two ladies
In mourning.
In the middle Of the hail. a faded brass chan
dslier, with pendants of glass, is suspended from
the ceiling by rod tapestried with undisturbed
cobwebs This medieval relic is purely orna-
mental, for the room is now lighted with gas.
The walls are high, pierced with small windows
with faded blue curtains, Powered and bOrdered
with white, and each suspended from triple
bar Of gilded Indian arrows. Chairs of cane,
rush, wood and leather seats-cbairs with backs
and chairs without backs are scattered about the
hall aud lobby, in pleasing illustration of that
variety which is the spice of life. The plaster
ing is faded, cracked and diDgy, and perVaded
by the general air of mustiness and going to
"ths demniton bow-wows" which is all preya-
lent about the building
TIE members are disposed around in all sorts
Of social and democratic positions. In the open
spaces about the Clerks desk and freplaces,
some are sitting with their chairs tilted against
the wall, some upon stools, and two are slowly
vibrating to and fro in pre-Raphaelte rocking
chairs. Those portions of the hall present quite
the appearance of an interior Kentucky barroOm
on Winter evening Two or three of the
members are eating apples, three or four smoking
cigars, and dozen in their seats with their feet
,,axt,ny unon the desks before them. In coptem.