Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-09
The Democratic eonvention--Prepar
lions in New York City.

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 accommodate an immense asseniblagc
within its capacious wallis, but as It IS calcu-
lated that each delegate will be accompanied
on an average by at least ten friends or back
ers. it will be necessary to find quarters in
other places for this immense concourse when
the labors of each day. session are concluded.
Irving Hall has been engaged by the State
Central Committee. of Pennsylvania for the
convenience of the delegation from the Key
stone State, and Masonic Hall will furnish
sleeping quarters for the entire Pendleton
escort, which is to number over five hundred
man. The walls of the Academy of music
will once again reseund, rs in days of yore,
TO the elouucnce of Democratic orators, and
it is also believed, that the Circus building th
the vicinity viii be engaged for the accomno-
dation of outside Southern delegations. The
Everett House will furnish board, and lodg-
ing to two hundred and fifty delegates and
their friends from Maryland and other bor-
der States. The Hancock men will congre-
gate at the Astor House in large numbers,
and negotiations are now going on with the
preprietors of this house and delegations
from Illinois and Connecticut. The Con-
necticut men have desire to secure the la
dies ordinary for a caucus room to meet in.
Five hundred delegates and their friends are
expected at the Astor House. Accommo-
dations have been made ready at the St.
Nicholas Hotel for twelve hundred persons
who are expected to be present at the Con-
vantfon. The Chase men and supporters of
Governor English of Connecticut, will be
found at this hotel principally. At the South
ern and New York Hotels preparations on a
grand scale are being perfected for delegates
from the Border and Southern States, and
the denizens of these hustelries will once more
behold the familiar faces of staunch South
ern Democrats. The Everett House is me-
gotiating with the Vermont delegation, and
it is probable, that the Green Mountain Boys
will be found here in large numbers. The
Pendleton men will aggregate themselves at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The irrepressible,
indefatgiablc, and never to-be beaten Colonel
Wooley, of Cincinnati, who had the honor of
kicking Butler some weeks since in Wash
ington, and who is now enduring imprison-
ment for his country's sake, has secured
rooms for the West Virginia delegation at
the fifth Avenue Hotel The New York
State Delegation, numbering sixty persons,
marshaled by Mr.. Sam'l j. Tilden, also TWEEN
ty-six delegates from Indiana, will stop ct the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, headed by their chair
man, Lafayette Delvin. The Illinois delega-
ton of thirty persons, under the. charge of
Storer, of the Chicago Times, and the Ohio
delegation of foTty-two persons, with their,
gallant chairman, General g. ". McCoese,
will also occupy quarters at the Fifth Ave-
nue. Hotel Committee and caucas 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 fourth of July. 1t will cost each del
egate about seven dollars day to live in this
city during the Convention, including the
necessary trihing expenses of the barber S and
bootblack's fees and Car fare. Many leading
statesmen and politicians have engaged irooms
at the different hotels from the Goth aud 18th
of June until the close of the Convention, in
order to have time to perfect their maDipula-
tons and organization of the country delega-
tions. The. admirers of Charles Francis Ad.
ans from Massachusetts,, New Hampshire
and Vermont will rcpose their aching limbs
at the Clarendon Hotel. Tammany Hall will
be fully ready by the 18th Of June, and the
inaugural or dedicatory ceremonies will be
as described below, one of the most imposing
description ever bchcld in New York OF
political nature.
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Society was held yesterday at the Office of
Mayor Hoffman, for the purpose of making
arrangements in reference to the decoration
of the new hall and in preparing the regalias
of the order. Arrangements 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 Declaration 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
number of plans for that purpose. The Com
lnittee with the National Democratic Commits
tee in regard to the place where the National
Convention shall be held, lave not YET, through
their chairman, Hon. VIM. NJ. Tweed, re-
ported; but it is understood that the National
Convention will assemble Immediately after
the inaugural ceremonies of Tammany build
ing shall be completed, in the main hall OF
that edifice. The members of the Tammany
Society will appear in full regalia, and the
building will be dedicated amid imposing cere-
monies. 1t being sufficiently understood that
Tammany Hall will be the place wherein the
National Convention will meet, the friends of
the different delegations are securing eligible
locations in the vicinity to quarter themselves.
Arrangements have been made whereby the
Pendleton escort from Cincinnati will be ac-
commodated at Masonic Hall and negotiations
are pending, on the part OF representatives
from the Eastern States, to secure Irving Hall
for the accommodation of the friends of the
Eastern delegations; while arrangements are
being made to secure the Academy of Music
for series of monster public demonstrations
during the evenings while the Convention
shall be in session.-Ne1o York World.
Interpreting the Platform.
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