Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-06-20
The Democratic Convention.

| made In this atty Tor the purpose ol accommodating the numerous delega- tions who are to be present in New fork during the first week in July, from all parts of the Union, to take part in the deliberations which are. to result in the nomination of the next President and Vice President of the United States on Democratic national platform. Tammany Hall will accom- modate an immense assemblage within its capacious walls but as it is calcula- ted that each delegate will be accom- panied on an average by at least ten friends or packers, it will be necessary to find quarters in other places for this immense ccncourse when the labors of each days session are concluded. Irving Hall has been engaged by the State Central Committee of Pennsyl- vania for the convenience of the dele- gation from the Keystone State, and Masonic Hall will furnish sleeping quarters for the entire Pendleton es- cort, which is to number over five hun- dred men. The walls of the Academy of Music will once again resound, as in days of yore, to the eloquence of Democratic orators; and it is also believed that the circus building in the vicinity will be engaged for the accom- modation of outside Southern dclega- tions. The Everett House will furnish board and lodging to two hundred and fifty delegates and their friends from Maryland and other Border State. The Hancock men will congregate at the Astor House in large numbers, and negotiations are now going on with the proprietors of this house and dele gations from Illinois and Connecticut. The Connecticut men have desire to secure the ladies ordinary for a caucus room to meet in. Five hundred dele gates and their friends are expected at the Astor House. Accommodations havo been made ready at the St. Nich- olas Hotel for twelve hundred persons who are expected to be present at the Convention. The Chase men and sup rorters of Governor English, of Con- necticut, will be found at this hotel principally. At the Southern and New York Hotels preparations on a grand scale are being protected for delegates from the border and Southern States, and the denizens of these hostelries will once more behold thu familiar faces of staunch Southern Democrats. The Everett House is negotiating with the Vermont delegation, and it is pro- babe that the Green Mountain boys will be found here in large numbers. themselves at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The irreprcssible, indefatigable, and ncver-to be beaten Colonel Woolley, of Cincinnati, who had the honor of kicking Butler some weeks since in Washington, and who is now enduring 1 imprisonment for his country's sake, has secured room for the West Virginia delegation at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The New York State delegation, num- bering sixty-fiye persons, marshalled hv MT. Samual J. Tilden, will stop at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, as Will also twenty-six delegates from Indiana, headed by their chairman, Lafayette l Devln. The Illinois delegation of thirty persons, under the charge of SsoreD of the Chicago Times, and the Ohio delegation of forty-two persons. with their gallant chairman. Gen. c. w. McCooke, will also occupy quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Committee and cancus rooms have been engaged at all the hotels named from the first day of July until the close of the con vention, which will begin its session on the 4th of July. It will cost each delegate about seven dollars a day to live in this city during the Convention, including the necessary trifling ex- penses of the barber's and bootblack fees, and car fare. Many leading statesmen and politicians have engaged rooms at the different hotels from the twentieth and twenty-fifth of June un- til the close of the Convention, in order to have time to perfect their manipula. ! tions and organization of the country delegations. The admirers of Charles Francis Adams from Massachusetts
 New Hampshire and Vermont, will
 repose their aching limbs at the Claren' don Hotel. Tammany Hall will be fully rerdy by the 25th fJune, and tho inaugural, or dedicatory cermonie' will be, as described below, of th' most imposing description ever be
 held in New York ofa political nature MEETING OF THE sAcHEMs OF I'll
 TAMMANr SOCIETY.
 A meeting of the Sachcms of th' Tammany Society was held yesterda, at the office of Mayor Hoffman, for th' purpose of making arrangements il , reference to the decoration of the new hall and in preparing the regalias o the order. Arrangements were mad
 in reference to the Fourth of Jul. decorations of the main hall of th
 Tammany building, and Judge Alber Cardoso was selected to read tn Declaration of Independence on tha day. The internal decoration of tn
 hall will be of an unique and tastefu character, and the committee have un der advisement number of plans 10
 that purpose. The Committee on Con ference with the National Democrat
 Committee in regard to the plac l fa-...x.a..fi1,ra ahnl