Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-10-27
THE GREAT FlZZIE,
THE CAPITAL N0vERs AT CINCINNATI
what the Cincinnati Papers say.


We have the Cincinnati papers Of yesterday.
containing reports OF the proceedings of Reayis
s Co. on the first day Of their capital moving
session. The reports fully bear out our special
dispatches as to the meager, spiritless nature of
the Attendance and proceedings.
The Garette heads Its reports -" Removal of
the National Capital-opening Of the Conven-
tion-Fifty-one Disguised Delegates in Attend
snce"-and gives the following IS the proceed
ings:
Some time ago we received copy of cali
issRed by the executive committee appointed at
the convention in st. Louis last year ON the re-
moval OF the national capital. The call raised
presumption that convention to further con-
slider the subject was to meet in this city yes
terday.
BY diligent and persistent inquiry we learned
that Pixies Music Hall had been selected at the
place, and Il O'Clock, noon, as the hour for the
convention TO assemble. reporter was record
iDgly in attendance at the time and place, and
found few gentlemen engaged in futile effort
to NIL the spacious hall, reminding him very
fOrciby Of the misguided hen who spread her
self'' in an attempt TO cover twenty -one eggs.
After some delay, James q. Allen, of Illinois,
was chosen chairman, and Hon. W. I. Cessna,
The committee on organization reported the
following permanent officers: President, judge
dentfSG. W. Anbrose, Of Nebraska; Charles
Beardsley, Iowa; 4. >. Brewer, Kentucky; T..
Burton, Kansas; T.. q. Forshey, Texas; Hon.
el. asss ss- ss
Illinois. Assistant eecretaries-GeO. Brown st.
Louis; w. T. Cessna, Ohio; james j. Smart,
Iowa. The report Was adopted:
A delegate from Illinois now took the floor,
and he said the convention was not as generally
attended Is he expected, and he therefore
moved that they adjourn, to meet in Chicago on
the next Anniversary Of the birthday OF the
A delegate nom Ohio objected. With all due
respect to the Father Of his country. He thought
it would be inexpedient to adjourn at this stage
Of the proceedings, as such Q movement would
be likely to iDjure the cause.
the committee on credentials had not yet re-
ported, and it,Eas impossible to ascertain who
were mt mbere OF the convention until the re-
port Of that committee was received. n
The Gasette then gives the letters Of Horace
Greeley and Col. John w. Gorney, (Which have
already appeared in The starr and says the
delegates in attendance we're as follows:
Iowa-Charies Beardsley, F. W. Eichelberger,
G. +. Kilburn and j. j. Smart. KansasLEdw.
Burton and B; J. Kicker: Kentucky-J: Il.
souri, V. Pratt, L. U. keavis, George brown,
A. w. Maupin and Henry Keith. Ohio-Wsyne
Grswold, Elijah Glover, Alfred Williams, Hon.
samuel L. Heller, Z; H: Castor, Lewis U. Gif-
Hon. w. L. Cessna, n. H. Van Voorhees,, Hon
L: B. Leeds, Hon: John A. Brown, Hon.
" Shaw. W. Morton Beach, kos.
Bats, Abner Slutz, q: ]. Young, b. L. Hill,
Hon. James Robinson, John Barr, Calvin Carr
Nebraska-C; H. Gere, A B: Cogswell, G. W.
q. g. Forshey. Il1nois-N. P. Heath, K. II.
Grace, L, s. Bond, VIM. Ridgely, Charles Bits,
David Ellis, .; F. Price, j.. j; Tunnichtte, Iris
ker, j. r. Mosser, K. b. Harlan, K. l.. Merritt
II. 5. Osborne, James Fishback, Jas. g. Allen
ID. X. Greene, w. X. Morrison, II. z. Buxton,
SV,rin
James Scott, 4. q. Cook, James 5. Rogers.
The able and conclusive letter Of Col. Forney
against the removal OF the capital seems to have
been pretty bitter pill for the convention, and
after portion OF it had been read motion was
carried to simply receive it and lag it on the
table.
The Cincinnati papers all speak editorially
in dsparaging terms Of the convention. The
Gazette pokes q good deal Of fun at it, asks
to what it owes its existence, and think.
it originated in the way the earth did &C.
cording to Hindoo cosmogony. through the
three removes of an elephant, q tortoise,
and snake, and resting on nothing
That paper hopes the convention will not ad-
iourn in pet to Chicago, because 1t got the cold
shoulder in Cincinnati, and insists that the
people OF the country expect the ffty-one dis
gusted delegates to stay where they are, and
'.do their duty and move the capital" turkey or
no turkey.
The Enquirer thinks that the "seventy-fve
gentlemen, representing about one-fourth of
the States Of the Union, who met at Pixies
Hall yesterday morning and organized them.
selves into a convention to deliberate upon the
propriety OF having the national capital placed
upon who els and trundled westward are not
"compre hensive enough for the work.
The Commercial slyly suggests to the removal
aaitators If they mean business to engage Mr.. s
\. Pile, Of that city, to build an Opera House
with a ca ptOl in H.