The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-07-29

..rs RON THE GREAT INDOOR AND
orrnoon MEETINGS WHICH TOOK PLACE
I.sr Ntcur-MR. TnpES TO PRESIDE AT
THE ACADEMY.
fworId, yesterday
The preparations Tor to-niehts g,ea'
meetings 70 ratify the nomination OF nan
oncL and English were about completed
.o.s a." afternoon. Both the sub.com'
,nit,ee on invitations and the uo-conimit-
Zoo On decoration and fireworks met IN the
an,e-room nj Irving Hall and gave maj s''-
tboritv for The arrangements mat are
making to-day. The committees VIII also
mee, n the hall soon after noon 10 receive
Tho f;reworks and distribute them Tor the
evening display. The principal meeting
w,ll no at The Academy OF Music. A branch
meeting will be beid at Irving Hall ana an
other NJ Nilsson Hall. For the crowds VINO
NAV be unable to gain even standing-room
in ei,her of the halls three stands VIII be
huilt IN the open air, and speeches. ana mu'
sic will be provided.
THE feature of the assembly at The Acad'
emy OF Music will be the expec'ed appear,
ance there OF Mr.. Tilden. lie teIegrapDed
Yesterday from Greystone to Mr.. John NC
Keon that he would be present 10 preside,
a. no had been invited 10 do. Mr. McheOn
will present him as the chairman, but MT
Tilden has declined TO make speech. Inc
sneakers will be General Thomas Ewing
ey.Su aker Randall, Mr.. George NJ. BeeDe'
and Mr.. Abram s. Hewitt. Mr. John w.
Daniel. of Virginia; Daniel Dousherty, oil
Philadelphia, and ex-senator John L. stock
ton, OF New jersey. may also speak at thiS
meeting. The artist-bOxes have oil been
reserved fer the members OF the National
and State Committees and for distinguished
Democrats. Tickets OF admission have also
been issued for the stage. The other part'
OF the house will be open to the public, and
there reserved seats will not be Kept AFTER
s.I5. promptly at which hour the meeting
will be opened.
AT Irving Hail the PRINCIPAL speakers Will
be Senator Jones, Of Florida; senator
Jonas, OF Louisiana; General l.. b. Falkner,
chairman Of the Democratic State Commit
tee: and +. Il. Apgar, OF the State Commit
tee. II is expected that Mr.. Franklin Ed
son will preside.
AT Nilsson Hall, ScboOlC Commissioners
Ferdinand fraud VIII act as chairman. Jo-
seph Pulitze-, Of Cincinnati, and General
Franz Siegel VIII address the German Demo
Gratis mere, and several German Democratic
clubs will attend en- mdSSe.
The out-Of-door stands will be: one al
Fourteenth street and Irving Place, one at
Fifteenth street and Irving Place, and an
other IN front of'Nil>son Hall. Among the
open-air speakers will be ex-senator Thomas
G.. +. Ecclesine, eX-Asscmblyman James
DAILY, Colonel John X. Fell)ws, and John
MullaIy.
A number OF distinguished Democrats.
among then. IloratIo Seymour, eX-Goyernor
Robinson, General Mcclellan, OF New JeI-
sew, Senator Herman, Senator BdyarG. and
Senator Thurman have sent letters OF regret
that they cannot be present.
There will he music IN each Of the balls
as well as at the outside meetings, and the
bands will play in the openair an hour be-
fore the meetings begin. At the Academy
of Music the band OF the SiXty-nintb regl-
ment will attend in full uniform. At toe
Irving Hall meeting The Thirteenth-regi-
ment band Of Brooklyn will play, and at
Nilsson Hall The INFRINGEMENT band will
be stationed. The ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and
Third cavalry bands will attend the out
door meetings.
1t is intended that the decorations and
fl .cwOrks. the former under the direction of
f.. 7. Mcdonald, will be something extra
ordinary. Yesterday banners, fe>tOonS, and
shields were hung on the inner walls at
the different places. Large oll.paintingS OF
Hancock and English will be suspended
over The stage OF The Academy OF Music.
To-day banners and campaign flags and
streamerS IS i'll be placed all over the Acadc-
my OF Music and Irving Hall, and the out
door stands Will he built and decorated.
Strings OF lanterns in gay colOrs, including
MANY Japanese lanterns several feet high and
OF kind which has not been used before
in similar manrer, will be hung in front
of the buildings and suspended across
living Place at every possible point. The
fireworks will consist Of rockets, mines,
and Roman candles, and number OF large
ire-balloons will be sent up during the
evening In fact, everything has been ar
ranged to make the neighborhoOd about
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets and IT.
wing Place brilliant and splendid with fire.
works and bunting, and there is no posi-.
be doubt that the scene will 20 far beyond
ANYTHING Of the kind ever before attempted
in that neighbOrb0Od, where political din
and pyrotechncs have long been wont to
boom.
The Michael J. ShandIey Legion, OF the
Sixth congressional district, SIX hundred
strong; the Tiden Light Guard, from the
Ninth Assembly district. and other political
associations. will march to the meeting
from their respective headquarters.