New-York tribune., 1868-09-15
THE COOPER INSTITUTE MEETING.

TIE NEWS FROM MAINE-JUBILATIoN AND EN-
THUsIAsM-sPEECHES BY THE HON. HENRY
J. RAYMOND, GEN. KILPATRICK, JUDGE BUS
TEED, THE HON. A. BRADLEY, AND OTHERS.
To say that the Cooper Institute was packed
last evenDgby Of the respectable aud intelligent
Republican audiences that assembled in this city,
would be to tell but half Of the truth Eight o'clock was
the time announced for the meeting TO be called to order
but almost hour before that time the loyal people.
anxious hear the glorious from Maine had filed
every seat in the large hail. aud lines Of men began TO
tend down the alses toward the platform
Mono of seymours friends (" from water-st. and
the Five Points there, hardly representative OF
the BOOdy Fourth Ward could have been found among
tbem but those seats and aisles the platform and tho
vestbule, crowded full Of the educated, liberty
loeing citizens Of Eew-York, the men aud women who
act from principle the bone and snew OF respectable
Metropolitan society The hall was almost devoid OF
decorations; flag two daped the platform, and the
words
"GRAST AND COLPAx,"
formed of brilliant gasets tho speakers desk wers
all that had been added for the occasion TO vary the dull
monotouy that the walls OF the present. On the
platform were number OF distinguished gentlemen
among whom the Hon. A Bradley, late Of the Geor.
a state Senate the Hon George Opdyke. the Hon JAS
Kelly, the Rev. Messrs George Woodruff and L. II. King.
and Messrs Alexander spauding, Sheridan Shook j. W
Culver. ]. ID. Ottiwe and Nathan Kingsley, esq When
the Hon Henry Raymond entered the room his appear
greeted with great applause, and three cheers
were proposed for him and given with "a WILL As the
hour Of drew near the people began to inpatient
and when the Hon Chas 8. Spencer forward with
teeEraphic dispatch IN his hand almost breathless
silence prevailed in the roOm But when he began to
read Bangor gives Republican gain OF $50; Portland,
9lO saco 222 Hollowel 1885, Lewiston, 2S7 the cheering
which commenced the platform, increased as u
spread through the audience and out through the DOORS
until the whole company broke forth into three rousing
hearty cheers for Maine while the band paye the dbut
ever popular National air, 1.-THE Red, White. and Blue"
The Union Gee Club then introduced and sung, amid
applause the song "May God bless our Land" More dis
patches having called for Mr. Spencer said that lie
had message from a member of the noble WashburD
family, the Hon. Israel Washburn Member OF Congress,
and that It conta ned the glorious that the Republ
can majority in Portland 800 at three o'clock D. m,
and that Bangor would give Union majority OF from Coo
to 500 Mr. Spencer also read the following dispatches
PORTLAND SEPT A-sPehes eSiang from AL pss OF I1s Sss
2ooO Eueay completely dsmsraitsG $50 LrseE
largest vote pOed in the State and shall have 29 majority We
The meeng was then called to orderly the Chas.
g. Spencer, who made aspeec, promising that New-lork
would give her electoral vote 10 Grant aud CGfax Tie
Hon Thomas Murphy who presided, then introduced the
During Mr. Ray nonds speech Gen: Fitzpatrick entered
the ROOM and the almost all 10 their feet
wildly cheering and waving hats, handkeiehleIs UNI
rnped by spencer who read the news from Maine as
came in The most interesting Of these messages were
PosT.s0 Sept Fourtesn towns give over 100 RsrnSis.g
voIcE-"Let 'em send along another watermelon
from Maine"
MIR sPEScER-Here 1t
. ,b oSips result Chsmteriain 3sa Pbary sSs Re
publican majority 4Sa Republican net gam 1900 over last yar'
Sept s 30 cities ot town: give Cham
Just before Mr. Raymond closed his speech the follow
ing kilograms read and received by the AUDIENCE
as a before them had been, with loud and continued
frcaTsSo Me. Sept Caps Elizabeth .Sl Republican tss Dem
Pen Dem ScaTlO KtU ID
Kle 1903: North Yarmouth s9 Rep Z Den &C. G9Lha" ts ksP
Sam5e.nd III Rep goo Dem oxford Rep 40 Dem Fa
%o G Rep S Dem sISo .S:, g. E s ss ..e. s s s si n
When MIR Raymond retired it as amid great applause,
You Free" Gen. Fitzpatrick was introduced When he
stepped forward there was the widest enthusiasm eneet
one confused mass OF waving hats handkercheis &c.
Other kilograms from Maine received before the
close Of the meeting, each bringing glorious news
The meeting closed at about lot o'clock With the
dence joned and which they continued singing they
poured OF the ball. and even after they were several
blocks away. - -
specal dispatches regarding the election began TO come
the Asor House telegraph office pretty rapidly as
early o'clock but most OF theu were OF too specua.
tive 10 afford much satisfaction AS the night
advanced, however the interest became more general
and keen. The halls and spacious barroom were hed
nature began arrive which began TO tell with all par
ties But anxious Democrats were not wanting faraway
ready enough TO buoy them up with the enthusiastic
OF fables. which they. like enough actually believed to
received by well known and venerable Eighth Warder,
who gladly permitted our reporter to copy IT.
'PoRrLisD, Sept n-s:Npm.
DEaE CArrAIY We bse licked the Radicals by leas, 1900
jory rely this for AaVs see" a., documents saf'e
bet bigb on Plsbury "GEoKGt y. R."
The Captain did not say what particular documents
his sanguine co-worker In the interests OF White Mans
Government referred TO- but he evidently thought the
papers genuine inasmuch as copy Of The Netc, iork
World peeped out OF his breastpocEet while the latest
pictorial OF The La Crosse spread over his
knees depicted the late Hon. Thaddeus Stevens IN infer
nal tormens and an imaginary hend OF the guilty con.
science touching up Gen. Benjamin +. Butler with q
whiteho trident; nor we aware that ne adhered 10
the pecunIary injunction TO bet high on Pisbury but
afterward observed him consolng his inner man In
lone drink" that probably his way OF dong 10,
that is he betting the price Of the adueraton ana the
Old Man cheerfully seeing" hun with another silver.
headed nail for his prospective cohnlid Its sear prox-
inty 10 the newspaper Offices all Of which scenes
Of considerable excitement the official returns
received and announced also rendered the Asor 01