Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-07-15

tho carpenters still at work in it, butt is also being
decorated in very costly manner, with the flags
and coats of arms of each and every State against
Saturday evening next. When We issue from the
Chanler House We get so mixed up with the un-
washed who nre laboring upon the decorations OF
Tammany Hall, that sometimes We can scarcely
tell "tother from which"
The Jnmum and s.repitus of this great city is
awful and ut the same time delightful. We have
always considered it the greatest and most won
derful city in the world and more than ever do
we think so now. But more of that anon. And
more of tho Convention at present.
It is certainly going to be the grandest and most
important Convention ever held in America. In
its external arrangements, as we'll as in its polit-
cal bearings, it will be without precedent. The
Delegates and their friends have been pouring
into the city for week past, and by tomorrow
they will come in torrents and avalanches. all
the great hotels have already engaged as much of
thoir accommodations as they can spare from the
general public; while the smaller hotels and
boarding houses will DO rammed and jammed to
their utmost capacity. To give you some idea Of
this engaging of rooms, We will only have to state
that at the Chnnler House, where we now are, one
hundred rooms are being prepared for the Demo-
cracy of Connecticut. None of them have yet
arrived. And the Chanler House is to be also the
headquarters of the Georgia delegation. The only
one of this delegation who has actually appeared
as yet is Major Thompson, the gifted humorist Of
the South (author of " Major Jones's Court,hip,')
and editor of the Savannah Ne,cs. Nor is this
all. Two Chase Clubs, one from Washington and
one from Philadelphia, are likewise to rendezvous
at tho Chanler House.
The South Carolina delegation is to set up its
rest with Madame Fillette, on Union Square, five
minutes walk from Tammany Hall. This Madame
Fil,et:e 20 the same who was for ;" long popular
milliner in Augusta, Columbia and Charleston;
she is now keeping lodging house here, and is
still rs uncompromising rebel ns she was during
the war. Her apartments for our delegation, as
we'll as her pnrlor for their private caucusing,
comfortable and elegant. Of the said delegation
but two have as yet arrived, Gonl. Gary and Genl
Hampton. The former is at the Chanlor House
until the coming in of the whole delegation shall
call him to rendezvous at the aprightly Fillettes.
Genl. Hampton is at the New York Hotel. Genl.
Beauregard is also at the New York, where the
Louisiana delegation is to stop. Vallandigham is
also in the city; and in fact distinguished Demo-
Gratis without number.
have thus endcavored to give you some idea
of the magnitude of the preparations for the
great Convention. And, indeed, I might 60 on
and tell much more, but nm we'll aware that
long letters, like long speeches, nro an abomina-
bic bore.
Now as to telling you who will be the nominee,
or whom our delegation will be most anxious to
support, cannot do it. Our delegation not har
ing arrived, and therefore not having consulted
together, it would be mere gratuitous assertion in
me to give any information upon this point. Of
course there is no doubt as to whom they ought to
strive for and support-Pendleton.
The much talk about the probable nomination
of Chief Justice Chase fills US with horror and
alarm. And the Tribune goes so for as to say
that Mr.. Chase's friends ore confident Of the cup
port of the entire South Carolina delegation.
Bosh! We cannot believe that one Of them would
dream of advocating Chase. Tell it not in Gath;
be still ye winds and whisper it not. Chase AID
negro suffrage! If we shall be obliged to give in
our adhesion to such q ticket as that, how can VIC
do anything? That is will it not be mere sulen
acquiescsnce? Can We work in the cause? Can
we be up and doing? God forbid that things
should como to this.
A greater rcnsation in New York at this time
even perhaps than the coming Convention, is the
uow-ragng Schuotzenfest, or Shooting Festival
Of the Germans. This is also q grand national
affair, there being here companies Of Rifemen and
Sharpshooters from all the principal cities Of the
Union. Charleston contributes Company. The
Festival was inaugurated yesterday by the larg-'
est and grandest procession we have ever seen.
This procession consisted of all the said Compa-
nies in full uniform and with banners flying; and
added to this, all the Cavalry and Artillery of the
city After marching through Broadway and
many other prominent streets, they were received
and addressed by Mayor Hoffman, who, together
with delegation from Congress, appointed to be
present, occupied q gorgeously drnped platform
on Union Square. After this, they adjourned to
Jones' Wood, huge natural park upon the upper
outskrt, of tho city, whittier they were followed
by eighty thousand Germans; men, women and
children, young and old, high, low, rich and poor.
And whittier too they were followed by Ourself,
and our fellow-citizen and traveller, Gary. Hero
the day was spent in target-shooting, music, sing
ing, dancing, lager.drinking, eating, and all and
every manner of frolicking. Only Germans can
carry this sort of thing through 1t is peculiarly
and essentially German. And truly on this occa-
sion they have spared no pains or expense. Tho
new buildings and decorations ut Jones Wood
are said to have cost 100000 while $4,000 have
been expended in prizes, to be awarded tc the
most successful shooters. This Festival is to last
ten days from this time. And here let US say Ell
ra,sant that the Indies at homo would have smiled
to see our honored delegate whifling in the polka
and galop, on the platforms at Jones Wood, with
tho German fraus and frauleips; and this ut 8
o'clock in the afternoon; and from that until night
As regards amuscments, the city abounds in
them. As yet however, we have seen only
"Humpty Dumpty," grand spectacular exhibit
ton after the stylo of the Black Crook, in which
the great comedian, Fox, plays Humpty Dumpiy,
10 clown,) and in which Mile Sangali, the great
es. dancer in America, dclineates the poetry Of
motion. Humpty Dumpty is wonderful show
SO grand, so naughty, SO beautiful, so charming,
so gay, so enchanting, so alluring. And as to
ho,
body.
Tho Chanler House is kept by our old friend
DR.. L.C. DUNCAN, whom we find well and rmil-
ing and prosperous and happy. And all this he
observes to be, for be is good man with big