Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-18

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some dispute as to this gentleman views
and the contention seems to have left him
exceedingly red in the face Radical
heat perhaps, as URcle Toby would say.
George Ely, of Massachusetts,, is a
snug little man, with neat whiskers and
"nicel smooth hair. He lives here and
represents Russell covnty. Mr. Il. is
brother Of that Congressman Ely who
came to grief at the first Manassas.
w. T. Ewing is one Of the original
Moulton leaguers, who in 1865 first or
ganized the Radical party of Alabama.
He has stiff, badgery gray hair, that
shoots fercely upward, like Andrew
Jacksons; and, like jackson, will hear
of no compromises.
James Palmer is James Palmer, which
is obscurity Itself
Peyton Finley is city negro, who
once held the doors open for members in
that very chamber where he now sits as
delegate, and if my memory does not
fail, | have for my poor self paid him,
on "a full day tribute to the extent Of
thirty-fve cents currency for chair.
Mr.. Finley being of huge size | forbear
further reminiscence, lest in the exalted
position to which the wisdom of my
country has assigned him, it should
strike him as desirable TO aunihilate the
recorder Of unwelcome annals.
Samuel S. Gardner OF Massachusetts,,
is bureau official
w. G. Garrison is a rough.looking old
Albanian, heretofore unknown. Two
editors, two reporters, and Secretary OF
State looked at him and could not make
him out.
G. w. Graves is Vrginian who was
first carpenter and then taught himself
medicine, which lie now practices.
Early Greathouse is a Baptist preacher,
but a preacher after such fashion as
would make the well.kidded and neat
necktied ecclesiastic of Gotham gasp and
stare. His appearance and political
views" and, doubtless, theological tenets
also, are comprised in one word, and that
word is rough" There is but one
thing about Elder Greathouse that is at
all smooth, and that is his tongue; but
apt as this is, it is at least problematical
whether a knack at exposition" is
exactly the thing whereby to restore the
heaviest cotton producing State in the
Union, as Alabama is, to prosperity and
peace.
James X. Green is negro who takes
the name of the master whose carriage
he once drove. The name of this states
man does not appear on the signed list,
from a modesty which withheld his sole
signature, an Y mark.
Ovide Oregon is light mulatto from
Mobile, whose thin lips, keen-cut jaws
and furtive eyes seem to body forth a
Malay.type OF man. 1t was this Oyide
who, as the phrase goes, busted Bus
teed," withdrawing the favor of Ethiopia,
on one occasion, from that sagacious
and admirable judge.
Albert Griffin, OF Ohio, is the editor of
the Mobile negro organ, and, as stated,
had the honor of primarily presiding
over the convention" But fer trife
more youth and a triAe less unconscious
ness, A. G. might well be taken for
Mr.. Chadband, and, like that good man,
hides by certain outward greasiness
much inward venom. He is bitter
Radical, and has, perhaps, majority
| in the convention to back him.
Jordan Hatcher, of Dallas, is grizzled
negro of lightish hue, who, after not
unusual fashion, takes his former mas
ter's name.
James H. Howard, of Crenshaw, the
only Conservative in the Convention, is
a fine, soldierly looking young man, and
native Alabamian.
r. NJ. johnson, of Illinois, misrepre-
sents Coffee county.
Wash. johnson has the very blacklist
skin and the very worst signature of any
patriot of the whole eighty-three His
hue is, without jest, jet black, and his
autograph, the sum total Of his writing
abilities, might stand equally well for
Smith, or Van Landt, or Schemerhorn.
A. w. Jones is ghost. That is to say
he is the gentleman who was barbarously
murdered by rebel outrage" " which
originated here in Montgomery and
killed him off successively in every truly
loyal sheet in the country. Mr.. j. writes
a very spectre-like hand and misrepre-
sents Conecuh.
G. Jones is a yellow negro, who, on
being called up to the secretsry's desk to
register VIII a
refreshing abandon that provoked q
general smile, and then made his mark.
John o. Keffer, of Pennsylvania, is
chairman of the Radical Executive
Committee, and is known to the malig.
nants as the head devil of the Loyal
League. He is a protege of ForneY's,
has been connected with the Philadel.
phia Press, and by virtue of strict pa
triotism has put money in his purse. He
was a candidate for President of the
Convention, but withdrew.
Thomas Lee, of Perry, is negro who
finds that it assists him very much in
signing his name to lean his head quite
on one side, and not be in a hurry about
it. he is very black.
w. McGown comes from Tallapoosa,
the habitat of Simon Suggs, whom
McGown resembles. Otherwise unknown.
J. ]. Martin is a military appointee
probate Judge A Southern man.
Charles A. Miller, of Maine, wears the
second Of the two clean shirts in the con-
vention. He was for six years clerk of
the Maine House of Representatives, and
is an ex Federal army officer, major
A. c. Morgan is from the North, very
extreme in his politics, but personally
presentable.
Ut. Morton was in the United States
army, also in the reconstruction conyen-
tod Of 1865.
Thomas S. Peters, of ST. Lawrence, is
an Albanian Of some tertiary note.
r. NJ Reynolds, Of Iowa, has been six
months in Alabama, and very naturally
knows all about it" He is an ardent
loyalist
Lafayette Robinson and Benjamin
Rolfe are either whites or blacks, and it
is impossible at date Of writing to say
vb;ch thinra arc an mirpd in conven-