he would remain silent till doomsday. Some further discussion then took place, and Mr. Lloyd not answering, Mr. Toucey moved that Mr. Lloyd's name be stricken from the list of delegates. The question was put, and, on a division of the house, was lost.

A flank movement on John N. Pomeroy, another delegate who refused to bow the knee to the whitecoated Baal, was more successful. His name was expunged from the record.

VARIOUS PERSONAL MATTERS.

On Thursday it transpired that Fenton had left silently but suddenly for New York on the previous day. Exactly what he had been doing, except that he had been working for Greeley under cover, like a mole, precisely why he had left the city, was not plain to the common understanding. On Thursday Matteson, of the Chicago Times, received a letter from Wilbur F. Storey, in which it was declared that the Democracy of Illinois would support no other candidate but Davis. The German Democrats seemed more pronounced for Adams as the time of the nomination approached.

In attendance upon the convention, and hoping to be recognized in its deliberations, were Miss Susan B. Anthony, conspicuous for her gold spectacles and her faded loveliness, and Mrs. Laura De Force Gordon, of San Joaquin, California. A hum, a bustle, and a rush, occurred wherever they went. Mrs. Gordon was a champion of her own sex on

general principles, a declared Internationalist, and had been a candidate for the State Senate in California, for which office she had received two hundred votes. The two ladies, being in the parlors of the Burnett House on the evening of May 2d, were invited to address the eager crowd that pressed around them. Before, however, they had had time to clinch a single point with their feminine logic, their auditory was ruthlessly swept from the elegant drawing-room by a squad of police, whose aid for the purpose had been invoked by the proprietors.

The close of the first day of the convention's sessions showed no particular change in respect of candidates to the casual observer. The lines of the various factions were, however, more tightly drawn, and personal bitternesses were greatly intensified. Partisans were preparing, in case of disaster, to throw the responsibility upon those who refused to support their candidate. During all the day, and a large part of the night, discussion, not entirely free from bitterness, was going on over certain portions of the platform.

SECOND DAY OF THE CONVENTION.

The weather was pleasant on the second day of the convention. The committee of arrangements having decided to admit to the floor, outside the hall, persons of all classes without tickets, the standing room in the lower part of the building was all occupied. The galleries were well filled, ladies

handsomely dressed, and armed with lorgnettes, forming a prominent feature. Not less than eight thousand people were present. Before the assembly was called to order, Theodore Tilton, bowing gracefully, his head covered with ambrosial curls, escorted Miss Anthony and Mrs. Gordon to the platform. The appearance of the trio in conjunction called forth applause mingled with hisses.

Persons who had leisure looked around for people of note. There were many such to be seen here and there among the delegates. Warmoth, of Louisiana, the Apollo of carpet-baggers, moved easily about among the host, tall, handsome, nonchalant, dignified. General Cochrane, of New York, was conspicuous in his place in the New York delegation, of powerful physique, animated look, bronzed complexion, and voice that enforced attention whenever heard in the deliberations. All were anxious to see Alexander McClure, of Pennsylvania. His massive head and expansive brow indicate and his blase air showed that he could give the vote that might decide the welfare of the nation with as much coolness as he ever cast a die. Mrs. Gordon, dressed in gray, with a straw hat, gay with superflous ribbons, that fluttered like defiant pennons when she walked, took occasion to be much seen on the platform and in the aisles. If a bold usher ventured an inquiring look she congealed him with a stern stare, and an imperious nod.

Judge Matthews called the convention to order at ten o'clock. The immense mass of surging humanity settled itself into comparative quiet.

General McNeil, of Missouri, moved that a committee on permanent organization consisting of one from each State, be appointed, each delegation to designate its member.

A motion to amend, so as to allow delegates from the Territories to be represented on the committee, caused an excited discussion, in which General Cochrane joined ponderously, and the crepitant tone sand incisive manner of Judge Hoadley, grated harshly on the fine sensibilities of the convention.

Mr. Samuel E. Brown, of Colorado, ended the brief debates with some pertinent words, affirming the rights of Territories, and the amendment was adopted.

The appointment of the other essential committees was moved and carried.

MRS. GORDON.

The Chair produced by some unaccountable process of legerdemain, from some unperceived portion of his anatomy, a sheet of commercial note paper, delicately inscribed, and read as follows:

To the Chairman of the National Liberal Republican Convention:

DEAR SIR-The undersigned has the honor to submit for your consideration the following claims that entitle her to a seat in your convention. She is a citizen of the United States, and a resident of San Joaquin County, California, and fully sympathizes with the objects and aims of this convention. Heretofore she has acted with the Republican party, but believing, in common with the members of this convention, that there are grave errors to correct, and many reforms needed in said party, she is desirous of uniting her action with them for the purpose of accomplishing so desirable an object.

She represents further, that, according to opportionment, California is entitled to ten delegates and ten votes in the convention; but, besides herself