The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-10-02
PHTLADELPAIA.
The Soldiers and Sailors COnven-
tIon-CIty Crowded with Strangers
Speeches OF Welcome by the
Mayor and Gen. II. a. BaFRum.


iPHffADELpHIA, October 1. - Six
men were arrested to day for attempt.
ingto get assessed in wards where
they did not live, with the intention
of duplicating their votes. 1l
The excitement in relation to nat.
uralizing is increasing. From an ex.
animation of the records in court il
appears that some thousands of pa.
pers have been issued in which the
residences. of the persons vouching
for appleatio rs were in no instance
taken down, so that the records of the
court are useless IN any attempt to
prosecute the voucher for perjury in
cases of fraud. a7e ~ @ ~.
PHILADELPHIA. October L. The
city is crowded with strangers, and
the hotels are filed to overhoWing.
A liberal display of bunting is see u
along Chestnut Street, and many pri-
vate dwellings through the city are be-
ing decorated. The front of lnde-
pendence Hall has a device in gas
jets forming an eagle. and thirteen
stars with epLuTibUs aL7lIn1. The gate
ON Walnut Street has the motto
i. Freedom to all'' in gas Jets. Gas
runs the entire length of the avenue
on either side, furnishing lights to
appropriate notices. The streets are
lively with arriving delegations.
PHILADELPHIA, October John
Deyine was arrested by the police
last night for swapping a pistol at a
RepuSlIcan in the streets. On his
person were found twelve certificates
y E,,r. : c@ppra1 kvyD
atory SnoWden, with the seal of the
Court on them. but blank left for
names. He has been committed.
james A. Watson, who was voucher
on nearly a hundred naturalization
papers, has been arrested.
Fifteen rOughs from Baltimore have
been arrested who assaulted the Boys
in Blue on the cars. .s-er ..--..
1 Members of the Washington dele
CATION state that when about ten
miles north of Baltimore, forty men
entered the car, when they were sing
lug Grant campaign songs, and made
an attack on a colored man who
cheered for Grant. The Boys IN
Blue" resisted the attack, when they
were ia turn assaulted, and several
injured; but they finally succeeded
in driving the roughs out of the car,
when one of the latter fell between,
the cars and was probably killed.
(, PHILADELPHIA, Oct 1.-The city is
quite crowded with delegates to the
Soldiers, Convention aud visitors
The various delegations on arriving
here have been escorted to quarters.
This noon several thousand of them
assembled In Independence Square,
where they were welcomed by Mayor
McMichael. 1t is thought to-mor-
row will be generally observed
asa holiday. An immense crowd
attended the reception in the
Square. Mayor Mc0liehaei welcomed
the soldiers in the name of the loyal
people of Philadelphia. After refer
ing to the aspersions cast upon
them as soldiers, the Mayor said:
AS / gaze on this vast assem-.
blage, composed as it is of
men who stormed Donelson, scaled
Lookout, and penetrated the thick
jungles of the Wilderness; men who
marched with Sherman, and rode
with Sheridan, and bled with Siekels
and conquered with Meade; men who
sailed with Dupont, Farragut, Por-
ter and Worden men who. along
the Windings of the Western
rivers, and amid the rocky cliffs and
the wooded ravines of the central
mountains, and among the swampy
hollows of the Southern plains, per-
formed prodigies of daring, and bore
with fortitude and patience the pangs
of hunger and the ravages of fever, I
know that you bring with you pres
tage of victory, and am confident
that as good and true men, of all pur-
suits, occupations, and classes, par
ticipate In your feelings, and will join
in your feelings, and will join in your
action. Before the ides of November
your great commander will be chosen
President, aud when those fortunate
results shall have been attained,
the peace for which you have
struggled and the country yearns
for, will be followed by har-
mony and prosperity in all
sections of the land; peace that
will bind up the wounds and assuage
the griefs of distracted communities !;
peace that viii secure to all who
dwell upon the soil-of all climes,
casts, creeds and compilations. Abb
solute equality before the law will be
permanently settled, and this mighty
Empire, ,compacted and perfected. and
/ linked together by indissoIuble bonds,
and stronger, and wiser, and better
for the troubles through which it
has passed; and will start afresh
on its magnificent career, and under
the leadership of the hero and states
man whose, tried courage and ap-
proved judgment pre-eminently quail
fly him for the post, will press forward
toward that foremost place among the
powers of the earth, to which, by its
magnitude, its strength, its wealth, its
Intelligence, its resources, it is fairly
entitled. 5
as's Again, soldiers and sailors, brave
defenders and protectors of the flag
that in your hands though torn has
never been tarnished, again and again,
Ibid you welcome"
8 Gen. Fl. A. Barnum, of the Ma
tional G Committee, responded, saying:
8 For the hundred Thousand veterans
ofthe war whom you welcomed to your
far famed city, thank you for your
kindly greeting. The name of yous
noblelcity is cherished by every Boy
in Blue who survives the war, and
your people enshrined in their hearts
the loyal bands who hurried to the
defense of the Capital when treason
first flashed It's light across the south
ern sky; drank atayour fountains, eat
at your tables, and received your
heartfelt God-speed, and the last
bronzed veteran of the war returning