Ladies in the Convention.
--The hall of the State Convention is occasionally graced by the presence of fair ladies, whose interest in the reconstruction of our organic law is manifested by their close attention to the debates, and it is not improbable that they will exert some influence upon its ultimate ratification by the people.--At the previous session, in the Mechanics' Institute, when it was the fashion of the day to exhibit the most remarkable specimens of ‘"ground and lofty"’ elocution, the daily attendance of several hundred ladies rather increased the declamatory disposition of the members, who generally addressed their fastidious phrases to the ‘"western gallery;"’ but now the ten minute rule has a happy effect, and a speaker is often brought down by a rap of the
President's hammer before he has fairly got into the rhapsody of his harangue.