Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-06
BALTIMORE.
Arrangements for Democratic Ma
tiOnal Convention.

The Decorations of the Opera HOuse
How Ghe Delegates Will be Seated.
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
VI sAsHINGToN, July 5.-The Committee
of Arrangement for the National Demo-
cratic Convention have worked most dill
gently, and have almost perfected the de-
tails. All delegates will be seated on the
first floor of the Opera House, where the
Convention is to be held in the parquet and
parqUet circle, which is capable of seating
over eight hundred persons, and the whole
house will hold two thousand five hundred
people. There will be no admission eX-
cept TO holders of tickets. The stage, about
fifty feet deep, will be occupied by the Off
GERS of the Convention, the newspaper cor
respondents and reporters, and telegraph
operators, for whose accommodation chairs
and desks and instruments will be provid-
cd, thirty wires to convey the reports of the
proceedings of the Convention to al parts
of the country, having been already carried
into the building. The committees Of
the Convention viii find rooms be-
low the stage, originally used as
dressing-rJoms by the actors. Other
parts 81 the underground story have also
BEEN prepared for conference apartments,
while the rooms in the third story front will
be used for the same purpose. The deco
Eations viii not cost more than five thou
sand dollars, which is one half the sum ex-
pended for the decorations at Philadelphia,
but they will be quite as effective. 1t is de-
signed to erect in front of the Theater a
grand triple arch, or portieo, of evergreens
over the pavement, bearing the memorable
words of j. V. L. Echfabon, uttered on the
occasion of the grand old rally Of 1926, in
Baltimore, "Every mountain sent forth its
rill, every yvalley its>stream, every river its
Hood, and so the avalanche Of the people is
here" This legend will adorn the front of
the evergreen p)rtico facing South. On
the eastern and western ends will be in
scribed the words, "National Demo
cratic Convention-1S72." Over the
main entrance of the theater will be
the following sound Democratic legend:
"The Constitution is still the object of our
reverence, the bond of our Union, of de-
fense in danger, the source of our prosp r
ity in peace"-Andrew Jackson. Over the
entrance nearest Stewart street will be the
following motto from Thomas Jefferson:
"The whole art of Government consists in the
art Of being honest" On the front of the
building, above the first story, there viii be
four quotations from Washington's Fare
well Address, serving to stimulate the Ma
uonal and patriotic spirit of the people, and
all who revere the name of the Father of
bis country are mindful of the legacy which
he has left to them. Within the theatre
coats-of arms of all the States, furnished by
the same decorative artist who at Philadel-
phia transformed the Academy of Music in
TO flower garden-and who is, by the way,
a Democrat = will be tastefully distri-
buted about the interior. Evergreens and
flowers, growing in terra Gotta vases,
hanging baskets and other choice OIna-
ments will not be wanting in good taste,
while the portraits of Washington, Jefer-
son, jackson, Charles Carroll of Carrollton,
and Henry Clay, will be placed in conspic-
uous places. Among the chief adornments
of the auditorium and stage beneath the
portrait Of Washington will be the follow
ing from the first President TO Thomas JEFF
feTsoD: "In short, that | was no party man
myself. The first wish Of my heart was, if
parties did exist, to reconcile them" The
location of each State and Territory will be
designated by small silken banners,
with the name of each State or
Territery. The programme, which has
already been prepared, places Maryland,
with her sixteen delegates, in the extreme
rear, furthest of all from the stage. The
eight territories, with their two delegates
apiece, sit in front of her, fanked by Utah's
two votes and Nevada's six. The front
row Of seats, Immediately under the stage,
in the parquette, will be occupied on the
right hand of the President by Maine and
Louisiana; on the Presidents left next be-
hind comes Arkansas, Michigan and Rhode
Island, in the third row will sit Mississip-
pi, Connecticut and the District Of Co.
lumbia, Iext behind aud quite across the
middle of the parquette, will be
Missouri, Massachusetts, Virginia, In
diana and North Carolina; and in the
rear of the parquette will be West Virgin
ia, Georgia and Illinois, The seats in the
pS,quette circle, which will not be as good,
but still afford fair view of the stage, will
be occnpied in the front row by New Y ork,
Immediately behind, right-hand side,
towards the rear will be Kansas, Wiscon-
sin, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Mime
sofa. On the left-hand side of the main
aisle, the front row of the parquette
circle will be filed with Delaware's
six votes, Floridas eight and Ala
bama'S twenty; next behind on the same
side, come Tennessee and Kentucky;
behind Tennessee will be Ohio, and behind
Kentucky, California, New Jersey, Texas
and Oregon. Special reporters will occupy
the orchestra. The President, flanked by
Secretaries, will sit on the raised platform
of the age in front of the Vice President,
surrounded by reporters and correspond
ents. On the floor of the stage the Frank
lin, Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph opera
tors will occupy the right hand corner Of
the stage, in the rear of the private boxes,
and in the similar corner opposite, will be
placed the Western Union Telegraph oper-
tors with their instruments. The private
boxes will be devoted to the uses of the
members of the National Executive Com
mittee.
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