Coloured Convention [Phila.], VA rep agst. NY rep.

COLOURED CONVENTION.
The Convention of coloured persons, assembled for the purpose of devising means to elevate the character and promote the prosperity of the African race in this country, are still in session at Philadelphia. The President, as we learn, conducts the proceedings with great gravity and decorum, and discovers by the precision with which his decisions are made, no little promptitude and acuteness. He has studied well the philosophy of rules and orders, in regulating the proceedings of a deliberative assembly.

Some of the speeches that are being delivered, are said to be good, and even eloquent– whilst others partake somewhat of the ludicrous. We regret to learn that a representative from our sister city of Albany was put down, a few days since, by one of the representatives from Virginia, in a somewhat unceremonious manner. The Albanian in a stentorian speech announced himself with great emphasis as follows:– “Sir, I am a representative from the Empire State,” &c. The pride of the Ancient Dominion took fire, and as soon as opportunity was offered him to take the floor, he repelled the lofty airs of the New Yorker as follows:– “Mr. President– The Honorable Gentleman who spoke last, boasts that he is a representative from the Empire State. But, Sir, that Honorable Gentleman should remember that in the Empire State he cannot sit down at table, nor ride in a stage coach with a white man– whereas in Virginia we can do both.”

The lefty bearing of our doughty Albanian withered under the rebuke, and he hung down his head in silence. [N. Y. Com. Adv.