Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-06-12
The National Democratic Convention.

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E. cratic Convention. The New York V0r|
:, gives an interesting account of what 1
!, being done to insure the comfort OF TIT
s delegates and specta tors. The new lam
many Hall, it is thought, will be selected
in which to hold the Convention. 1t will &C
commodate an immense assemblage within
, its capacious walls, but as it is calculated
that each delegate will be accompanied or
an average by at least ten friends or back
I ers, it will be necessary to find quarters il
, places for this immense concourse when
, the labors of each days session are con-
cluded. Irving Hall has been engaged by
the State Central Committee of Pennsyl-
yania for the convenience of the delegation
from the keystone State, and Masonic
Hail will furnish sleeping quarters for the
entire Pendleton escort, which is to num-
Der over five hundred men. The walls OF
the Academy of Music will once again re-
sound, as in days of yore, to the eloquence
of Democratic orators, and it is also be-
lieved that the Circus building in the
vicinity will be engaged for the accommo-
dation of outside Southern delegations. -
The Everett House will furnish board and
lodging to two hundred and fifty delegates
and their friends from Maryland and other
Border States. The Hanco OK men will
congregate at the Astor House in large
numbers, and negotiations are row going
on with the proprietors of this house and
delegations from illinois and Connecticut.
The Connecticut men have desire to Sc
cure the ladies' ordinary for caucus room
to meet in. Five hundred delegates and
their friends are expected at the Astor
House. Accommodations have been made
ready at the st. Nicholas Hotel for twelve
hundred persons who are expected to be
present at the Convention. The Chase
men and supporters of Governor English,
of Connecticut, will be found at this hotel
principally At the Southern and New
York Hotels preparations on grand scale
are being perfected for delegates from the
Border and Southern States, and the deni-
zens of these hosteleries will once more be-
hold the familiar faces of staunch Southern
Democrats. The Everett House is nego-
GIdG1uS WILL ULO tC4AOAS OSACShSAOD, auo
it is probable that the Green Mountain
boys will be found here in large numbers
The Pendleton men will aggregate them
selves at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The ir-
repressib lie, indefatigable, and neyer-to-be
beaten Colonel Woolley, of Cincinnati,
who had the honor of kicking Butler some
weeks since in Washington, and who is
now enduring imprisonment for his coun-
try's sake, has secured rooms for the West
Virginia delegation at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. The New York State delegation,
numbering sixty-fve persons, marshalled
by Mr.. Samuel J. Tilden, will stop at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, as will also twenty
six delegates from Indiana, headed by their
chairman, Lafayette Devlin. The Illinois
delegation of thirty persons, under the
charge of Storer, of the Chicago Times,
and the Ohio delegation of forty-two per-
sons, with their gallant chairman, Gen eral
G. w. McCooke, will also occupy quarters
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Committee
and caucus rooms have been engaged at all
the hotels named from the first day of July
until the close of the Convention, which
will begin its session on the 4th of July.
It will cost each delegate about seven dol
lars a day to live during the Convention,
including the necessary triding expenses of
the BARRIERS and bootblack fees, and Car
fare. Many leading statesmen and poll
ticians have engaged rooms at the different
hotels from the twentieth and twenty-fifth
of juno until the close of the Convention,
in order to have time to perfect their mani
pulations 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 Clarendon Hotel
Tammany Hall will be fully ready by the
catory ceremonies will be, as described be-
low, of the most imposing description ever
beheld in New York of political nature.
A meeting of the Sachems of the Tam
many Society was held on Tuesday at the
Office of Mayor Hoffman, for the purpose
of making arrangements in reference to
the decoration of the new hall and IN pre-
pairing the regalias of the order. Arrange
ments were made in reference to the Fourth
of July decorations of the main hall OF the
Tammany building, and Judge Albert
Cardozo was selected to read the Declare
ton of Independence on that day. The
internal decorations of the hall will be of
an unique and tasteful character, and the
Committee have under advisement num-
Der of plans for that purpose. The Com
mittee on Conference with the National
Democratic Committee in regard to the
place where the National Convention shall
be held, have not yet, through their Chair
man, Hon. William M. Tweed, reported
but it is understood that the National Con-
vention will assemble Immediately after
the inaugural ceremonies of Tammany
building shall be completed, in the main
hall of that edifce. The members of the