The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-09-27
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The Boston Advertisers special dispatch has
some interesting particulars of the opening
scenes OF the grand convention of soldiers and
sailors at Pittsburg 3boi e. D9s1BO5e.ir -N "
The delegates to the convention seem perfect
ly amazed at their reception. The city has
suspended all business except that of observing
this great occasion, and the citizens are testify
ing their welcome in ways almost innuinerable.
Miles on miles of the streets are almost lined
with flags. The large flags are not more numer-
Gus than at Philade1pfia during the Southern
Loyalist Convention, but for sma II flags from
one to two feet in length they are hundred
where there were ten there. 1t seems no exag-
geratiOn to say that the city shows over hun
dred Thousand of these small flags The deco
ration in this respect is the wonder and delight
ofeverybody, and the Pittsburg people them
selves are as much pleased and surprised as
anybody Busts and pictures of Lincoln every
where abound,s and banners of welcome are
stretched across nearly every street in the busi
The aggregate of the delegates is beyond
computation. They are quartered all loyer the
city, in hotels, in halls, in store-houses and
in private residences. The number cannot be
less than ten thousand, and may be fifteen
thousand. This, ofcourse, is independent of
the soldiers resident in the city and the inn
mense thrOng of friends from Ohio Western
Pennsylvania and other sections No room is
half large enough for such gathering, and
portion of those in their ranks to sit in the con-
vention. The body which assembled in the
hall was even then so large that no reading
clerk could be found equal to its demand. 1t
managed itself, on the whole, admirably, tile
only disorder coming from an excess of never
ending and always exuberant enthusiasm The
namessof Logan, Butler Burnside, Geary and
every other prominent officer, were eheered
again and again in the widest manner. Logan,
in particular, receiving such tumult of cheers
as was scarcely ever before heard. He would
have been the unanimous choice for president
had he been here. SON n hial" ...ih loa
The nomination of private L. Edwin Dudley
of Boston, formerly of the 18th Massachusetts
Regiment, and late a clerk in the Treasury
Departments, from which he was practically
turned out because he came to the Convention,
was an act that touched the hearts of his late
comradesin the army, and they received him
with SIX most hearty and electric cheers. His
remarks on taking the chair were moderate
and sensible, and he performed his duties with
care and promptness.s i7ial o. "a, n
The evening was given up to grand hlu-
mination with Chinese laterns and Bengal
lights, and torch light procession which oeeu-
pied an hour and ten minutes in passing given
point. and was carefully estimated by army of
ficers at four miles in length. Nineteen bands
were in it,
The route of the procession was six or seven
miles long, and throughout the whole extent
the windows and house tops were crowded with
delighted friends and strangers. The city and
entire surrounding country seemed to be on the
streets, and yet the evening passed on without
the least accident or disturbance. ido ias,t1 ".