The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-08-18

charge Of his high and responsible duties,
our profound respect and assurance Of our.
cordial and sincere support.
About the PhiisdeIphia Conventisp.
xEErrSG OF GENERAL OFFICERS.
Thursday night there will bs meeting
of the general officers of both armies now
in the city, preliminary to the call for the
convention mentioned last night.
THE LETTER OF 4 TATTLEn.
Condensed from special to the New York Times.
This Convention has brought out some
CAV old wardrobes. l saw one deiegate
from the sunny South with dress-coat
whose tails weren't Of the same length.
He had spruced up the best he knew how,
and had resorted to the shears to remove
the ravellings. Why he couldn't have cut
of both, 50 az to make an even thing OF u,
is what don't understand. Another queer
old chap came into the hotel with asatcbel,
evidently homemade, of carpet, tied to-
gether with rough cord on his head was o
coarse plantation straw hat his vest was
of plush velvet U don't know the exact
term-its this fuzzy stuff that feels queer
when you rub it the wrong way). Any
number of southern delegates were shining
in white trousers but rainy days and white
trousers don't go well together. But they
do beat the Dutch in the way Of thread.
bare brown overcOats, with high velvet COL
lars and unclot.ied buttons-Iye seen
twenty, if I've seen one.
Henry Clay Dean rantcd and howled
about the corridors OF the hotel like an in
sane fat boy on hot day. No one noticed
his presence save when he beloved forth
a string Of balderdash about an ex post
f1cto test oath and the resolutions Of '98.
Finally, after wandering up stairs and
down stairs with two pieces of ill-con-
sidered scrbbie in his paw, he dropped
| into the room of the General Committee,
where he found Governor Randall, Senator
Doolittle, Governor Raymond, Judge Rus
sell, and several newspaper men. Down
upon his launches sat the cx-reyercnd
ex-mcmber, and soon to become ex-dele-
gate, and to the infinite amusement, not TO
say amazcmcnt, of the gentlemen present,
began in first-class bull Of Bashan voice
| to read his letter. Deliver me always
| from a man who reads his own matter to
me; but of all men from whom pray to
be delivered, this reverend Dean ~ tho
boresomest. Shouting at the top Of his
voice, gesticulating like the puppets on 2
Punch and Judy board, perspiring like
patient at q water-cure, he soon attracted
crowd Of gapcrs, who wondered what
manner Of man he was.
! Exit Dean.
/ In the mean time Eallandigham and the
| Ohio delegation were having it hot and
heavy in the committee rooms. Tho
more prominent members were bound and
determined that he should not sit in tho
Convention, and they made known in no
very complimentary terms their opinion
, TO him. The night came, and Val. retired
I from the committee to an upper room,
/ No. 80, where
SELECT PARTY OF POUR
were discussing the affairs Of the nation
generally, and the Democratic party par
! ticularly.
/ Also viands and cigars.
! There were present: Colonel English, Of
/ Connecticut, one of the most gentlemanly
exponents of New EnglaDd's aristocracy;
| Hon. Samuel S. Cox, formerly Of Ohio,
now Of New York, genial, witty, social,
whole hearted man Of the repcntant
school; Hon. Benjamin Wood, marked
contrast in many things to his brother, an
honest, hard-headed, wrong headed enthu-
sast and Mr.. Wall, Of New Jersey, Of
whom I know but little, and that decline
! to say-de mort,tis nil, SC.
Into the midst of this pleasant party
dropped the portly Val.
Val. hasn't changed much in the last
| five years, and the little alteration has run
| 10 fat, principally in the abdominal region.
| He is of good height, pleasant features,
amiable smile, and graceful carriage, bnt
selfish as mink, and headstrong as mule.
| That he had made up his mind to with
| draw long before this, / have no doubt,
/ but he was bound to make capital first, to
make sensation, to be the great talked-of,
and all that sort Of thing, which George
! Francis Train is making 80 very popular.
/ He came in and sat down.
/ Cox, who never liked him, opened his
, batteries first. He told him that he
would certainly be oustcd from the Con-
vention if he got in, showed him how
desirable it was for the sake vi harmony
/ that all offensive individuals should DC
kept away, and urged upon him, for the
good of the country, the party, aud him.
/ self, TO withdraw.
! Colonel English did the same. lie spoke
more quietly and calmly than Cox, whoi il
a. full Of impulses as q woman, and as SET
/ in his opinion as the same.
But Ben Wood struck out from the
shoulder, and brought the ciaret every
| time. He told Val. that he had always
| stood BY him when he needed friends, and
/ he always should so long as be could; but
on this point he was determined. II Val.
! insisted upon going into the Convention,
| he and he would then and there part CON-
pany.
| Mr.. Wall alone backed the valiant VAL,
and urged him 10 adhere 10 his original
| determination.
The choice hour of 8 in the morning
witnessed the breaking up Of the party,
and as Val. went out, he gave signs Of
| thought meet for repentance; As for the
rest,
| Believing, they r.!oie.t
To see the removed,
and then went TO bed.
The Ohio delegation in the mean time
had passed ripping vote OF ecnsurc, which
they would have sent to their unweicone
associate, but he in some way became
aware Of il, and blocked their game.
He was up early in the day, and called
on General McCook, Of the Ohio deiega-
tiop. He asked the General ii there MAS
any doubt as to his regular election.
McCook said there was none. Val. then
asked if lie could have u ticket 20 the
| Convention. Certainly; take mine," re-