The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-03
RADICAL CONCLANE UPON THE
ORGANIZATION.
TROrBLE ~ TIE lIIGWiN.
The Ultras Divide Between the Hawk
and the BuZZard.
WHAT IS TO BE DONE, ETC.

The State Constitutional Convention
meets in the hall Of the House OF Dele
rates to-day at IL o'clock. The hall has
been cleaned out, and everything IS IN
readiness for. the reception of this motley
body.
As to tho organization of the body,
there can be no doubt but that it will be
thoroughly Radical. Among the last
mentioned there has been considerable
contention, and the question as to VINO
shall eujoy the honors of the char mas
given rISc to quito IL lively strife, While 1t
extends 10 the members of the party out
side as wcll Us inside OF the Convention.
Wire pulling and -holing are de-
c;dcGly in tho ascendant, and no efforts are
spared by their respective friends TO gam
favor for tho two nndidates-U Underwood
and llawNhurst. Underwood, 1t is said, IS
not personally engaged in the canvass, but
is acting through his most adrot friends,
while llawXhurst is earnestly engaged
himself, and, aided by his Fright bower"
the pure aud peerless Tucker, stops at
nothing, not oven champagne suppers, 10
which ho invites men of oil colors-mostly
black. Tucker stops only at the Malson
Doree, the negro hotel, where he sleeps
and eats with his African friends in the
hone of converting some of these sable
members with their newly acquired intlu-
ence from the standard of I" the corrupt
and weak kneed Underwood" No amount
of abuse is spared this immaculate Judge.
Tucker and r. d. Beckley, his rather
handsome mulatto cllow-townsmen, 1t APP
pears, lave had some rather hard words.
They differed, in the first place, as
to the candidates for the Conven-
ion-Bcckley preferring Mckenzie to
fuckers master, HawXhurSt; and now
Beckley is in for Underwood. Iester-
day Tucker said to Beckley that he
was Conservative and Copperhead.
Beckley, with some indignation, replied
that he was id liar and Id scoun-
drel, and if he came ont into the street he
would cowhidc him. Previous experience,
if report he true, had taught the white
man that such an institution could not be
accepted, even at the hands Of a mulatto,
with either pleasure or convenience to
himself: so he declined. And Beckley no
doubt thought that he could take this
mode of proving that he was not con-
servative without peril to himself or
without exciting the sympathy or pro-
voking the intcrposition of anybody
in behalf of Tucker. Several other
little scenes are described as having
taken place between the contestants, but
we have not room for them. The whole
question, from Republican standpoint,
resolves itself thus Underwood will be
voted for by the more respectable-God
save the mark portion Of the Radicals,
while Hawxhurst will receive the Suiirages
Of the scum and Of such negroes as are
fools enough to have been carried away in
his favor by being allowed to sit at the
same table with him; and SO the thing goes
between the hawk and the buzzard-" dog
eat dog"
Last evening caucus was held at Hum
nicutt Hall, over which General j. b.
White, delegate from Elizabeth City and
Warwick. presided. The party was found
to be considerably divided, even after
waiting for the 10 o'clock train for the ar
rival of delegates. 1t was in the end de-
cided that the Convention 60 into tenn
porary organization to-day with General
d. 3. White as chairman and j. W. ID.
Bland, of Prince Edward and Appomat-
tox, as secretary. If this organization can
be secured, caucus will be held tonight
at half-past o'clock, at which Under
wood will very surely be nominated as
permanent chairman. The caucus adj
iourned to meet tonight, after preparing
this much of the business.
There seems to be but little opposition
to George Rye, with from six dollars to
eight dollars per diem, for secretary.
For the position of geant-at-arms, the
names Of Tall, Parsons, and a negro from
Norfolk, whose name we could not learn,
arc in nomination. There are other posi-
tons, such as doorkcepers, ETC., which are
also to be filed, and for which there are
innumerable applicants.
Ofsuch is the first act Of this tragic sort
of farce, in the contemplation Of which
we know not whether TO smile or weep,
and the end Of which God only knows.