Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-01
EditoriaI Correspondence.

a ii - NEW York, June 80.
Is is conceded that the Democratic Con-
vention to be held In Tammany Hall on
Saturday next, July 4th, will be the largest
political gathering ever held on this con-
tinent. The Convention is to be held in
the new Tammany Hall on Fourteenth
street. The proceedings will be opened by
the appointment of a temporary Chairman
and other officers. Prayer win then be of
tered, and the election of permanent Off
GERS, of committee on Credentials, &c.
Very little will be done on the first day of
the session, and the business of the Conven-
tion will not fairly begin before Monday,
the 9Th of July.
| Let me tell you something of the new
Hall: A high facade of brick, faced and
corrugated with white marble, overiooks
the street, frowns upon the Church Of the
Redemption, and the row of brown stone
houses directly opposite, and, in its pro-
digious height, quite dwarfs the Academy
of Music adjoining. The highest story is
adorned with parapet of marble, in the
center of which rises high, arched niche
or recess, provided as secure retreat for a
colossal aborigine. Ample entrances pro-
vide access to the building.
Entering by the main entrance, the visi-
tor to Tammany Hall ascends by wide,
easy staircase to the second story, which
is chiefly occupied by committee rooms and
other apartments. All these rooms, which
are ample in size, are frescoed in drab or
blush, gray color, the walls designed in
panels. These rooms are rather low, but
appear to be comfortably adapted to their
intended purpose. The main hall of the
building-the vast apartment which enti-
ties 1t to the name of Tammany Hall, occu-.
pies what appears from the outside to be;
the third and fourth stories of the edifice.
As an auditorium this hall is in every way
a thorough success. Though spacious and
ample, it is so arranged that no seat Is out
OF hearing of the speakers on the stage.
Instead of longitudinal apartment, with
platform at one end, the new Tammany
Hall is very broad room, about square In
shape, and furnished with semicircular
gallery which extends across one side of
the room, and is furnished with rows of
seats rising one above the other. The seats
on the main floor are wooden sofas, not up
holstered, but simply seated with Stats of
wood. They are cool and comfortable.
Around the walls are few rows of sofas
fitted up with red leather cushions.
The walls of the hall are frescoed in
blush gray, divided off into panels, and at
the top, in the middle of each side of the
room, are the words, ssTammany Society,""
painted on blue ground. The ceiling is an
elegant and elaborate work, representing
amid variety of tracery and Ornamental
ton, eight receding ruches, of which four
are partly filled with vases of flowers, and
four with emblematical figures, includipa
another delineation of an Indian. From
the center of the ceiling depends pro-
digious chandelier of an entirely new pat
tern, the framework colored in red and
gliding. e,la5el saE
The platform is approached by door at
the rear, which is flanked by pillars and
panels, profusely gilded. Over this door
way is a balcony, and over this balcony an
slaborite canopy of the most gorgeous style
of upholstering. agH1
The hall is admirably lighted, forit ex-
tends across the entire building, and there
are twelve windows on each side-six on
Fourteenth street, and SIX on the rear. The
ornamentation, upholstering and frescoing |
show well by daylight. and for all sorts of
day nt-commencements, an
niversaries and the like, the new hall is !
without peer in the city. Our theaters |
are in the day time dark. dreary dungeons
witness Niblo's, at the late commence
ment of the New York University-butI
Tammany Hall is as cheerful, brilliant and |
attractive in the day time as many places |
of resort are in the evening. For public !
speaking it has the vast advantage that every |
person in the auditorium is comparatively
near the speaker; while for balls its floor
offers very attractive field of operations,
and the dressing rooms are especially COM
modious.
Mr.. THOMAS R. JACKSON is the architect
of the building, and his name, with those
of the contractors and the officers of Tam |
many Society, is duly recorded on slab of
red polished marble set in the wall at the
head of the first flight of stairs. The en-
tire building is admirably adapted to its
uses, and does great credit to Mr.. JACKSON |
and his associates. ato.-t-
In Fourteenth street, in front of Tam
many Hall, has just been erected a tri-
umphal arch, in honor of the delegates to
the Convention. It is thirty-five feet high,
fifty feet across the street, and forty feet in |
breadth. 1t is to be elaborately decorated
with evergreens, and the summit of the
arch is to be adorned with a portrait of
ANDREW JACKSON. sqsf -ar,st IL |
There is no mistaking the sentiment of
the people of the West. As thousand after
thousand of the Democratic masses are
poured into this city hour after hour, the
enthusiasm for GEORGE 81. PENDLEToN in
creases. The Republican and Independent
press is busy trying to injure his pros
poets. To-day they announce that CHASE
is the first name on the slate, tomorrow it
will be some other, aud the next day still
another, but the great Democratic heart
beats responsive only to one name, and
that the name of Ohio's tavorite son,
GEoRRE 81. PENDLEToN.
Gard from MIR. White.
MEssRs. EDITORS OF STATEsMAN:-I saw |
last evening, for the first time, your issue |
of Friday last, in which you seem anxious |
to know whether intend to support the |
Republican nominee for School Commits |
sjoner Permit me to quiet your solicitude |