The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-06-05
The Democratic Conventfon-Eiabe-
.ote preparations to Receive the
neIcgatcS.
From the World.

From the World.
Treat preparations are now being made
+se numerous delegations to be in New
10y to take part in the Democratic Ma
.;,ro, Convention. Irving Hall has been
N lnrared BY the State Central Committee of
Tp,.s.nsvlyania for the delegation from the
r [r State, and Masonic Hall will fur
p;sb sleeping quarters for the entire PEN
s s,o escort, which is to number ever FIVE
hnndred men. The Academy of Music will
.Hoso,,nd to the eloquence Of Democratic ora
..rs and the Circus building will be en-
uo,pd foroutside southern delegations. The
rrsrptt House will furnish board and lodp-
:,r to two hundred and fifty delegates and
he'll, ' friends from Maryland and other
iarier States. The Hancock men will con-
.-eratc at the Aston House in large mum.
hers. and negotiations are now going .on
nth the proprietors Of this house and dele
rs,io,s from Illinois and Connecticut. The
Connecticut men have desire to secure the
,,ies ordinary For a caucus-room to meet
in. Five hundred delegates and their
friends are expected at the Astor House.
Accom-, odations have been made ready at
The 8. Nicholas Hotel for twelve hundred
re.,sons who are expected to be present. The
base men and supporters Of Governor
rnylish, of Connecticut, will be found at
his hotel principally. At the Southern
and New York Hotels preparations on o
rand scale are being perfected for dele
Sa,es from the border and southern States,
and the denizens of these hostelries will
once more behold the familiar faces of
staunch southern Democrats. The Everett
House is negotiating with the Vermont del
erstion. and it is probable that the Green
Mountain boys will be found here in large
numbers. The Pendleton men will aggre-
cate themselves at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
The irrepressible, indefatigable, and never
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 country IS
sake, has secured rooms for the West Vir-
c;nia delegation at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
The New York State delegation, numbering
s;y,v-fve persons, marshalled by Mr..
Samuel J. Tilden, will stop at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, as will also twenty-six del
ctatcs from Indiana, headed by their
chairman, Lafayette Devlin. The Illi-
nois 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, General
CIV. McCooke, will also occupy quarters
q, the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Committee and
caucus-rooms have been engaged at all the
hotels named from the LIST day of July until
the close of the Convention, which will be-
gin its session on the 4tls Of July. 1t will
cost each delegate about seven dollars day
10 live in this city during the Convention,
including the necessary trifing expenses
Of barber and bootblack fees, and car
fare. Many leading statesmen and politi-
cians have engaged rooms at the different
hotels from the Goth and 25th of June until
the close of the Convention, in order to
have time to perfect their manipulations
and organization of the country delega-
tons. The admirers of Charles Francis
Adams, from Massachusetts, New Hamp'
shire, and Vermont, will repose their ach'
Ing limbs at the Clarendon Hotel. Tam.
many Hall will be fully ready by the 25tl
Of June.