The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-01
Personnel of the Late Convention.
From the Charlottesville Chronicle.

rCUm CuFOnlcIe.
We do not suppose such collection Of
vagabonds was ever assembled before-not
including among them, of course, the Con-
servatives and the niggers. There was a
greater variety of ragcality than we could
have conceived in the same room. At the
penitentiary and at Newgate the conyicts
are for the most part confined separately !;
but in the Convention there was congre-
cation of villainous aspects blaze of sin
lister ELECTROMAGNETIC made an uncom-
Portable impression like the glow Of the
Tartarus-like furnaces of the Tredegar Iron
Works. 5
The whole scene looked like nightmare
an assemblage of imps, and ghouls, and
sharpers, making Constitution. Under
wood was horrible to look at-resembling a
great sallow toad that had been out to dine
with buzzard. Right in the centre of the
hall you see Bayne-a thorough niger.
Indeed, we know that if we had met Bayne
in the tropics, up in a cocoanut tree, we
should have stated without hesitation that
we had seen an ape. He rises to speak on
the judiciary question. The heavy, red
faced man with that sinister, dabolical
grin on his countenance is Bowden, Of Nor
folk. He gets up to "pint of order"
Joe Mayse (of Bath) remarked of old
Bowden that !" he never rose except
to q pint of order, and never left the
hall except for a pint of aoMSkey."
He was accurate. Bowden is o very bad
man-an uncle of the little attorney gene
raj. He is uncle-in-law to the biggest ras-
cal perhaps in the body-that is Porter, of
Norfolk Representing Chesterfeld). Both
of these creatures voted for mixed public
schools both for the test oath. They hate
each other-all of the Radicals hated each
other. Porter is the author of the home
stead provision. When he speaks, he re-
minds you of a force-pump, with very little
water in the well. He has some smartness,
knows little law, is intensely vulgar, and
has determined to 60 the whole figure. He
aspires to the bench Of the Court of Appeals,
to Congress, to the Attorney -Generalship
and to the gubernatorial chair.
That little yagabond right under the Pre-
sident's chair Ito the Left is Hine-a Yam
kee, of course. Hine is as smart as steel
trap. When he speaks he does not move
at all-he stands like pump, and the words
flow monotonously through his nose. He
has not particle of feeling. He would bring
in proposition tomorrow, if he thought it
would pass, in the same cold, imperturba-
BILE, nasal tone, to cut off the thumbs and
great toes Of, oil the males in the State
under sixty. unless they could take the iron
clad oath; and reserving the chance to pro-
secute them for perjury if they swore
falsely.
On the right of the main aisle, just after
you enter the hall, is Hawxhurst, the favor
lite of the Albemarle negroes for Governor.
He speaks through his nose like Hine, and
gives sort of trumpeting groan at the close
of every two, or three sentences-the COM
bined progeny Of the Quaker preacher and
the Long Island Yankee. He is man,
however, of frst-rate sense; Radical on
system-an earnest knave-unlike Porter
in this. He is large man, with gray hair,
and dish-face, lives in Alexandria, and
ran saw-mill until he turned statesman.
That little read-headed fellow way over
to the right, who has just gotten up, and is
rocking and making the curve with his right
hand, is Maddox. They say he has never
settled in the State. He was elected from
Chesterfield. They call him g the litter"
Kennerley, of Warren, gave him that name.
He said he reminded him of one of these
little sand-pipers one sees on the margin of
pond fitting up and down. He is not more
than twenty-six. .gIil > 49,
Lewis Lindsey sits to the left of the Chair.
He has the voice of trumpet; and the
Conservatives are delighted when he rises,
maugre his insolence, You can hear him
mile, and as he is q great fool, and uses
/ words utterly at random, the effect is ire
| sistible. See how Scott laughs now-Lewis
has just exploded some terrible thought,
and, taking his seat, rocks himself about
thirty seconds in spirit Of universal gran
deur, like the settling Of coil of wire that
somebody has trode on.
Right by him is Jones (negro) of Green's
/ vile. He wants nine-and-thirty. He is up
oil the time explaining his vote, and COM
planning generally.
The most elegant niger in the Conven-
1 ton is Bland, of Prince Edward. He re-
ally speaks with considerable correctness,
has an excellent manner, and good voice.
He is about twenty-six, and has the assur-
ance of Bayne, with decidedly less sense.
Hunnicutt is not in his.seat. When in
the Convention he has no special influence,
but speaks better than most of his side.