VIRGINIA. Arthur R. Smith, Portsmouth. Wm. F. Thompson, Crimea. William H. Clark, Halifax Court House. William L. Early. Madison Court House. Walter D. Leake, Goochland Court House. Wm. A. Buckner, Bowling Green. James W. Davis, Greenville Court House. William T. Cecil, Tazewell Court House. William G. Brown, Kingwood. NORTH CAROLINA. William W. Avery, Morgantown. SOUTH CAROLINA. James Simons, Charleston. Samuel McGowan. Abbeville Court House. H. B. Wilson, Geo getown. R. B. Boylston, Winnsboro'. J. H. Witherspoon, Lancaster Court House. J. P. Reid. Anderson Court House. GEORGIA. Henry L. Benning, Columbus. John I. Lumpkin. Rome. Isaiah T. Irwin, Washington. Henry R. Jackson. Savannah. Junius Wingfield Eatonton. Hiram Warner, Greenville. Solomon Cohen, Savannah. O. C. Gibson, Griffin. E J. McGehee, Perry. James J. Diamond Stone Mountain. J. A. Render, Greenville. Samuel C. Chandler, Carrollton. G. J Fain, Calhoun E. R. Hardin, Dalton. Mark Johuston, Cartersville. A. A. Franklin Hill, Athens. D. C. Barrow, Lexington. FLORIDA. T. J. Eppes, Apalachicola. B. F. Wardlaw, Madison Court House. George L. Bowne, Key West. ALABAMA. F. S. Lyon, Demopolis. D. W. Bayne, Hayneville. L P. Walker, Huntsville. T. J. Burnett, Greenville. MISSISSIPPI. W. S Barry, Columbus. Charles Clarke, Prentiss. E. Barksdale, Jackson. W. S. Wilson, Port Gibson. D. C. Glenn, Mississippi city. ARKANSAS. J. P. Johnson, Laconia. T. B. Flournoy, Laconia. F. A. Perry, Waverly Post Office. KENTUCKY. G. A. Caldwell, Louisville. S. B. Field, Columbia. R. M. Johnson, White Sulphur. J. B. Beck, Lexington. N. Green, New Liberty. R. McKee, Louisville. H. D. Helm, Newport. R. P. Butler, Carrolton. TENNESSEE. Andrew Ewing, Nashville. MISSOURI. J. B. Henderson, Louisiana. G. A. Shortridge, Bloomington. John B. Clark, Washington City, D. C. Austin A. King, Richmond. C. G. Corwin, Jefferson city. J. F. Mense, Washington, Franklin county. A. Hunter, Benton. John O'Fallon, jr., Sulphur Springs. John M. Krum, St. Louis. Sam. B. Churchill, St. Louis. IOWA. A. C. Dodge, Burlington. Wm. H. Merritt, Cedar Rapids. J. W. Bosler, Sioux City. E. H. Thayer, Muscatine. W. H. M. Pusey, Council Bluffs. WISCONSIN. John R. Sharpstein, Milwaukee. MINNESOTA. W. A. Gormans, St. Paul. ILLINOIS. S. S. Marshall, McLeansboro'. OHIO. Geo. W. McCook, Steubenville. D. P. Rhodes, Cleveland. Washington McLean, Cincinnati. Henry B. Bowman, Cincinnati. Charles Rule, Cincinnati. Wesley M. Cameron, Cincinnati. William T. Forrest, Cincinnati. A. P. Miller, Hamilton. George W. Honk, Dayton. R. H. Nugen, Newcomerstown. 8. D Harris, jr., Ravenna. INDIANA. E. M Huntington, Terre Haute. J. B Norman, New Albany. P. C Dunning, Bloomington. E. Read, Terre Haute. H K. Wilson, Sullivan. L B. Stockton, Lafayette. Isaac C. Ellston. Crawfordsville. G. Hathaway, Laporte. 8. A. Hall, Logansport. 2 FIRST DAY. The opening Scenes-The Actors in the First Fight-John Cochrane William A, Richardson-E. Barksdale-Walker of Alabama— Clark of Missouri-Butler of Massachusetts. INSTITUTE HALL, The hour appointed for the meeting of the Convention was at twelve, M. About eleven a delightful shower came up, which was quite welcome, for the country has been suffering excessively from drouth, and the air was full of the hot dust of the streets. Orders were issued that the doors should not be opened until twelve o'clock. That hour has passed. The reporters are at their places, with piles of paper and bunches of pencils sharpened at both ends. A boy is waiting, ready to run to the telegraph office with dispatches. The delegates are pouring in and finding their places. About a dozen ladies occupy seats in the gallery, looking down with critical interest on the seething mass below. One-third of the space in the galleries is allotted to the ladies, and the remaining two-thirds to the outsiders, whose occupation is the manufacture of public opinion. Each delegation has a certain number of tickets for distribution among outsiders. They admit the holders into the gallery. The hall is far more spacious, better ventilated, and better arranged than that in which the Convention was held four years ago. The delegates are in groups all over the floor, talking and gesticulating as in all other conventions. The scene is very much like that in the Hall of the House of Representatives on the opening day of a session of Congress. The men who, by their position upon the Executive committee appointed at Cincinnati, have to initiate proceedings, are Judge Smalley, of Vermont, Chairman, and C. L. Vallandigham, Secretary. Judge Smalley arises and calls the Convention to order. He states the business of the Convention with the utmost simplicity, omitting, as was agreeable to every body, the opportunity afforded of making an able and eloquent" speech. He calls for the nomination of a President, pro tem. Mr. Flournoy of Arkansas was nominated by McCook of Ohio. There was no opposition. A committee was appointed to escort him to the chair. He stated upon assuming the chair that he should exert himself to produce a speedy organization of that body. As an earnest of his intention to proceed to business, he sat down. Thus two opportunities to make speeches were irrevocably lost. Mr. Flournoy is a gentleman at least six feet two inches in height, and would weigh two hundred and thirty pounds. He is a splendid specimen of physical manhood, but is not troubled with too much brain. The next thing in order is a written sermon in the form of a prayer. Some portly, white-headed, red-faced and gold-spectacled parson, from the South, being called upon for a prayer, proceeds to recite one which he has written down and pasted in the cover of a book for the occasion. There are not ten men in the house who can hear what he says-and the fine, old, fat clergyman is pronounced an unmitigated bore. His solemn tone is worse than a stump speech would have been from the rostrum. In case of the speech we might have had a few rabble-rousing sentences. As it is we have only a noise that is in the usual intonation of prayer. A Virginia delegate arises and makes a nomination of temporary secretary. It already appears that the hall is one in which it will be almost impossible to hear what is said. The street in front of the hall is paved with bowlders (Cincinnati fashion), and the incessant clatter of the wheels is deafening. aye. Mr. Fisher of Virginia tried to introduce a resolution, and to read before introducing that resolution. It was well understood that this was a resolution respecting the contested seats of New York. John Cochrane rose to a point of order. An Alabamian and a Mississippian pitched in. Fisher of Virginia appealed from the decision of the chair, who had ruled him out of order. The chair was sustained by a roaring Another struggle took place as to which should be appointed first the committee on Credentials or on Organization. The object of the ultra Southerners was to exclude Illinois and New York from the committee on Credentials and Organization. Richardson of Illinois, and Cochrane of New York, disclaimed any desire to participate in the committee on Credentials. They were not disposed, however, to give up their places in the committee on Organization. In the course of the struggle on this point, it became evident that the weight of the outsiders was for the Douglas delegation from Illinois, and the Cassidy, Richmond, Cagger, John Cochrane and Co. delegation from New York. At last the Convention came to a vote on a proposition that the committees on Credentials and Organization should be simultaneously appointed, the committeemen on Credentials from Illinois and New York not having authority to vote on the contested cases of their own States. The vote was taken by States. The proposition was affirmed, Virginia, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, and half of California, voting no. Mr. Fisher of Virginia protested in behalf of his State against the record, because the vote of New York, the delegates' seats being contested, had been taken. A resolution was offered by a Mississippian, that the New York and Illinois delegations be requested not to take part in the proceedings until the committee on Credentials had reported, and the contests had been settled. Payne of Ohio moved to lay this resolution on the table. A vote was taken by States on Payne's motion, and it prevailed by a heavy majority. This is a vote which indicates that the Fernando Wood and Cook delegations will have to remain outside the Convention. Richardson of Illinois pronounced the contest in his State, the most frivolous and contemptible ever heard of. The committees were appointed, and the Convention adjourned. The noise of wheels on the streets was so great, that sawdust is to be heaped in front of the hall, to deaden the clamor. The ultra-South was guilty of a very foolish thing to-day. They made a bitter fight on a question, when there was no possible chance of doing any thing. The Convention was against them six to one, and yet they struggled with as much energy as if they expected to accomplish something wonderful. In this way they lost prestige in the Convention. They threw themselves away without sufficient cause. If they continue |