The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-05
GOSSIP FROM BALTIMORE.

GOSSIP FROM BALTIMORE.
PREPARATIONS FOR TIE DEMO
CRA ITO NATIONAL CONTENTION.
Baltimore Arranging for Hearty Wei
come-Ford's Opera House-The Deco
rations-How the Delegates will Sit
The Quarters for the D.1egates-Inser-
view with Governor Whyte, &c.
Correspondence OF the New York Herald
The evidences Of the convention are not
wanting in the Monumental City. Even the
weather acknowledges that something is eX-
pected, aud the thermometer stands on tip
toe among the nlneties. Friday and Saturday
have been days warmed up to the occasion,
and to-day especially, between twelve o'clock
and three, Baltimore street has scarcely
ton being suspended and. perspiration having
all Its own way. Equally warm weather q
week hence will put discredlt upon q delay of
any national convention whatsoever to q
period 80 late In the hot season.
THE PLACE FOR HOLDING THE CONVENTION.
Invent through Ford's Theatre to-day, the
place OF meeting for the Democratic represen.
tativee, and found that, With the gas all light
ed, 1t was spot admirably adapted to expe
dite business Of warm day. It stands In the
western end OF the city, about half mile rom
the Carrollton Hotel and Barnum's, and ouly
one block from the Eutaw House. The Wash
ipgton Railway station is close at hand and
handy for Southern delegates, and The new
Potomac railway station, which will commence
running trains on the cheap line next Tuesday,
at fare Of sixty (some say eighty CENTS or
half the pric. charged by the old line, is no
great way OF.
foRD's THEATRE
is new ediace on Fayette street by Eutaw,
built iu the new style, with Mansard pavil-
ions. several entrances and TWO galleries. The
parQuet and parQuet circle will hold eight hun
dred persons, and the wholetheaire will give
seats to eighteen hundred, although, no later
than Friday night on the occasion of school
exhibition, there were twenty-five hundred
peuple crowded In 1t. It is small, however,
compared to the buildings where the party con-
venuons OF the present year have oeen neio,
although larger than the Front street theatre
and the Holiday street theatre-the latter also
controlled by Mr.. Ford-where previous great
national nominating conventions have met.
The stage is about fifty feet deep. The flies
will be removed for the convention, and
q platform. inclined upward and back
officers, the telegraph operators, and
two hundred correspondents. Chairs, with
leather seats, will be provided for these, and
the seuts 10 the body Of the house are revers-
BILE, padded with leather, and framed Of iron.
In sets. The colors Of the house are buff aud
green, with gildings upon the Iron columns,
aud woven iron work enclosing the galleries.
The gas Is lighted by electricity, and the wires
are already carried Into the house, and the in
strumenls attached by the Franklin, Pacific
and Western Uaion Companies for newspaper
uses. All The side scenes will be taken from
the stage during the proceedings OF the con-
vention. Committees must retire to the dres-
sinv-rooms below the stage or to one Of the
lower rooms on the third floor front. There
are six private boxes, and seats will be dis
trlbuted, It is said, to the unnecessary and un-
comfortable number of three thousand specta-
tors.
THE DECORATIONS.
The proprletors of the theatre kept bar for
soda and beverages generally In the saloon
under the vpslbule, and are now fitting up
additional bars on the second and third galle-
ry floors, where there are commodious front
apartments, 30 that beer and alcohol will not
be wanliog. The rich carpet will be taken up
In the drawing-roOm on The second floor. but
the ane portraits of Actors In chapcter there
will not BIZ disturbed. These pictures are the
property Of Mr.. Ford, and are features in
Keeping with the mouse, aui OF q good deal OF
merit In themselves. They are nearly all by
Baltimore artists, and comprise, perhaps. the
best collection In the hands of any American
manager. These pictures are Joe jefferson as
Rip, by Allen c. Redmond; George Holland as
Dorberrp, by w. A. Walker; Owens as Ollapod,
by G. D'Almanie; the elder Warren as Falstaf.
by Sauerwein; Edwin Booth as Richard III;
several guod Landscapes, aud, finally. por-
trait of Manager Ford; himself historic as the
owner OF the theatre ut Washington where
Mr.. Lincoln was shot by I'm Wilkes Booth.
The resident Committee takes cnarge Of the
theatre for the uses OF the convention, and
has tully done Its work.
HOW THE DELEGATES WILL SIT.
The s-ats In Ford's Theatre have been al
ready distributed among the State delega-
ttons, and plan of the theatre prepared, TO
put the arrangement within the comprenen-
sion OF every delegate. Maryland, with her
sixteen delegates. sits i'd the extreme rear,
farLhest of all from the stage, behind even the
eIrht Territories, which, with their two dele.
gates apiece, sit In front of her, fianked by
Utah1s two votes and Nrvada's six. The front
row OF seats Immediately uHder the stage, In
the paruuet, will ba occupied, on the right
hand of the president by Maine, with ner
fourteen votes, and Louisiana, with her
sixteen, on LQ6 prebluouLa lclI. NSAL oou'uu
comes Arkansas, with twelVe delegates;
Michigan with ten, and Rhode Island with
eight. In the third row will slt Mississippi,
with sixteen votes, Connecticut with twelve,
and the District OF Columbia with Two. Next
behind, aud quite across the middle OF the
parauet, will be Missouri, with thirty votes;
MASSACHUSETTS,, with twenty-six; Virginia, with
twenty-five; Indiana, with thirty; North Caro-.
lima, with twenty; and finally, 10 the rear OF
the parQuet, uuder the caves OF the gallery,
will oe West Virginia, with ten votesi Georgia,
with twenty-tI0, and Illinois, with forty two
The seats in the parquet circle, whicn are
not 30 good, but still afford iair View OF the
stage. will bs occupied, in the front row, by
New York's seventy Delegates; Immediately
behind Pennsylvania ffty-eight, and then,
continuing back on the right hand side to-
wards The rear will be Kansas with ten; Wis
oonsln, with tventy-two; Iowa, with twenty
two; Michigan, with twenty-two; Nebraska,
with Elk, and Minnesota, with ten. On the
left hand side OF the main aisle, the front row
eff the parauet circle will be filed with Della
wares six voles, Florida's eight, and Alaoa.
mas twenty. Next behind, on the same side,
come Tennessee's twenty-fonr and Kentncky's
twenty-four. Behind Tennessee will BIZ Ohlo's
forty-iour, and behind Kentucky California's
twelve, New Jerseys eighteen, the sixteen
votes of Texas, and the six of Oregon.
THE STAGE AND FIXISGs.
The secretaries will sit on either side of the
nrasIdnnt and the vice-presldentS behind