New-York tribune., 1876-06-15
NEW-YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE Is, 1876.


stationed behind Rhode Island of the cotton mills.
Nebraska, Colorado, and Minnesota the Northwest
and Southwest, were tumbled together behind.
Behind Ohio. on the extreme left, were Illinois,
Michigan, and Wisconsin. Behind New-York were
New-Jersey, Kansas. aud Missouri Behind Indiana
the column ran Tennessee Mississippi, Texas, New
Mexico, and Georgia, tapering off with Montana in
the very background. OF to the right, behind Ken
tucky and Pennsylvania, a confused and con-
fusing crowd of States and Territories Virginia and
North Carolina, California and Arkansas the District
of Columbia, and Louisiana, Idaho, and Alabama.
Delaware received the reward of her rDemocracy by
being planted alongside of polygamous Utah, while
the only name that revived memories Of the year we
observation-disclosures the last and least in
the order, the furthest off in the furthest corner.
STRIKING FACES PRESENT
The gathering was al instructive from the
character and bearing of many of its members. n
lesson in American politics not easily forgotten was
to be learned from contrasts in the men seated IN
this hail. You might trace the whole history Of the
Republican party through all the of abolition
war, reconstruction, the carpet-baggers, Grantlsin
and the Liberal revolt. There were not few
picturesque figures in the gathering and not few
strange and interesting histories. Run your eye
| over New-YOrk and you see Curtis's cultured face
not far from the typical CustOm-house delegate
/
sits next to Judge Robertson, and near such solid
New-Yorkers as 4. A. Low, Marshall o. Roberts, and
George Opdyke. Near them in the Massachusetts
delegation are the Goar brothers, the one rugged
and Stubborn, the other keen and alert, with ques-
tionng way with his forciinger Lowell, the poet
| listens to Gen. Logan, and does not smile. Dr.
LoTing is there with his suppressed ambitions IN iu
| play under an ample and respectable waisteoat
Take a sudden turn to the Arkansas representatives
| There il Chief-Justlce Poker Jack" whose judg-
ments were such as to make the judicial grevc, who
| kept about ~ packs i'll the sleeves OF his robes
! of Office, and had on his judicial hnger-nalls; ;
! and Clayton with his empty sleeve aud his pirate
! phvsognomy; and Gov. Brooks, who first was
counted ont and then was counted in, and always
suited his politics beforehand to his changed stua-
/ ton.
! In Ohio there is the veteran benjamin Wade, who
missed being President of the United States by
! single Senatorial vote and named n Cabinet which
| was never formed and ex-IOv. Noyes, one OF the
most popular of Buckeyes, who bears his certificate
| of honorable service in his lame leg. In the front
/ row from Maine are the two inseparabie Blame
| managers-Coa grcssmen Frye and Hale, who have
themselves 50 much of the Blaine vim and snap that
they have infused the whole Blaine following with
/ IT. Behind them il John l.. Stevens, Mr.. Baines
partner i'm newspaper ownership and in the political
engineering Of the State of Maine, one OF the wv"
| having been at the head of the Republican state
! Committee ever since the formation of the party
In Alabama there il Senator George /. Spencer,
the liyery-sable graduate still faithful TO all the
traditions of his Alma Mater aud Ananas HAYS, the
original dealer in bloodred Southern fiction and the
man who got up the celebrated corner in 'outragcs.'
In the Illinois section there is Robert j. Ingcrsoll
considered one of the greatest Of Western orators
! and the frcetbinkor who coined the phrase. An
| honest god il the noblost work Of man. and C. b.
Farweli. who Is a Congressman IN Pokcr-play-
ing and a pokcr-payor in Congress. AT the
head of the Kentucky delegation ~ Gen.
j. NJ. Harlan. stalwart Kcntuckian, whose
| celebrated horseback canvass Of his state
earned him Mr.. Gre lcys mention as man whose
Marty services a. party services were being rewarded
in that way, deserved place in the Cabinet. In
Louisiana there is Mr. Pinchback, always clamorous
M the doors of the Senate; Packard, hung round
with memories Of intimidated Legislatures and Cat
| Ing puus: Kellogg the weak but tyTannical ruler
of an unhappy people in Mississippi. Adelbcrt
Aues who resigned to avoid impeachment,
and Acorn, his old time enemy, one OF the
few native Southern Senators, with Senator
| Bruce, handsome and dignied mulaito' be-
tween them, are TO be seen among the MIS-
sis,ippians. In Vermont Luke i. Poland appears
with his silver hair and whiskers, and his oStenta-
ions blue coat and brass buttons, who saved Arkan-
sas 10 law and order by a courageous report III Con
grcss.
From Utah there is cy- -Chief-Justicc Mexican, who
sought To overthrow polygamy by usurpatioh' ana
was himself oyerihrown; from Pennsylvania. the
new Secretary of War; pentccl, nofiensiy ye-iookng
voung man. with no external signs of Cameron
morals or manners, as also Mackey, Mann, and
Kemble. and o. j. Dickey, who ratified around in
tho se,t of Tladdcus Stevens in the House from the
District of Columbia ex-Gov. Shepherd and Fred
erick Douglass No words could do justice TO such
neigh horhood AZ that From South Carolina there
are r. b. Elliott, negro educated abroad and one
of the abcst of the race which is represented on the
floor to-day by nearly 30 delegates; GOV. Chamber
Lain who has lived down the suspicious created by
his associations with the rings in South Carolina
f. f. Patterson the statesman who packed ms car
pct-bag in Pennsylvania and was made Senator IN
Sonth Carolina Raincy, another able colored man,
and at the head of the altcrnatcs, Nhlttemore, Who
WAS expelled from Congress for traffic III cadetshlps
The great mass of the Convention would attract no
attention except for it's intelligence and It's digmhed
hearing 1t commands respect rather than curiosity.
FILLING UP or TIE HALL.
Bv an admirable system of entrances and of coupon
tickets the latter copyrighted by the COMMITTEE
every seat in the delegates and alternatcs sections
i'm the press-row and in the guests amrhheater was
reserved for IFS owner There was as little difficulty
in getting IN and out in theatcr. ana much less
lban there often is IN church. The body of the
hall filed up without noise and confusion, ana the
Galleries inst ~ quietly, though there gaps in
them all through the proceedings. There were lew
men of prominence among the invited guests, and
tbc ladies' m the whole audience might have been
counted on your fingers. 1t was this gathering
| .Ilt tbo rit