Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-07-11

/ Inc OO0FeQblOQ met IN the HAL OF the House
of Representatives, and at 10 o'clock precise
| ly was called to order by the Hon. Hendrick
| B. Wright, who nominated John b. Guthrie
Esq. of Pittsburg as Chairman.
Thenomine ton was unanimously confirmed.
On taking the Chair, Mr.. Guthrie said:
Gentlemen of the Convention, amsincere-
ly thankful to you for this mark of your con-
/ fdence and respect In the discharge of my
temporary duties shall of course be very
| greatly dependent upon your iberality and
kindness, and hope you will lend me all the
aid in your power, that / may discharge them
faithfully and impartially, (applause). The
Convention is now ready proceed with busi-
ness.
The Convention proceeded to the nomina-
ton and election of secretaries. Messrs, VIM.
b. HcGrath of Philadelphia, REILLY, of
Schuylkili Co.. Joel b. Danner, of Adams
Co., and Thomas A. McGuire of Cambria Co.
were placed in nomination
On motion of Mr.. John Sherry it was re-
solved: That the two FIRST gentlemen put
| in nomination, act as secretaries"
| Messrs Rely and Danner declined serving.
Messrs. VIM b. McGrath and Thomas A.
Mcclure were declared the secretaries of the
| Convention.
Hon. n. B. Wright moved, that the Coun-
/ ties Qe c8keQ over III buctI 1RudUctCdi pfQcEp
with view of the Delegates present present.
| ing their Credentials.
| The motion was agreed to.
| Mr. Chase made motion, that as tie Coun-
ties were called, the Delegates present from
that County, should rise and give in their
| names.
Agreed to.
| Mr.. Rankin then moved, that the Senate
rial Districts be called first and in thsir nu-
merical order.
The motion was agreed to, and the falling
of the Counties was then proceeded with. The
following are the names of the Delegates from
the different Counties:
| Messrs Adams, Jas. Anderson, Jas. M.
Anderson, Alricks, Beidleman, Barr, Berrell,
Butler, Black, Bradley, Barnitz, Bare, Ba-
ker, Brodhead, Bells, Bower, Bowman,
Blood, Bracken, M. p. Boyer, Ritter Boyer,
Blair, Brawley, Brooks, Beck, Bonsall, Burk-
holder, Clark, Mathew Crawford, Geo. A.
Crawford, Chase, Cofroth, Carter, Duffeid,
Danner, Ennis, Evans. Flannery, Graham,
Gournsey, Guthrie. Grove, Hancock, Ham
mond, Hutter. Hartzell, Hoover, Hugus,
Hallowell, Nipple, Hays, Hager, Hostetter,
| Hubbell, Holman, johnson. Bucks, john
son, (Phila) j. Richter Jones, j. Clancy
Jones, Hugh j. Jones, Isaiah James, D. w.
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j. Keenan,, Ludlow. Logan, Lippincott, Laird,
Leazear, Longenecker, Lathrop. Loomis, Lin
eenfelter, Lockhart, Mcguire, Maxwell, John
S. Miller, d. Il. Miller, Marker, Morrison,
Marshall, Meylert, Maitland, Menear, Moyer,
| M'Grath, Mccarthy, MKinney, MKnight,
M'Barron, Orr, Palmer, Pratt, Pastor, Ram
bo, Rutter, Bernard Reilly, Wilson Rely,
Rankin, Raub, Rankin, Riddle, Reed, Rob
erts, Schell, G. M. D. Smith, John NJ Sher-
ry, Selfridge, Simon. Swarr, Shriner, Sea-
right, Shirk, Scott, Thompson, Wright, Wolf,
Wilmington, Weiser, Wheeler, Wallace, Wea-
yer. Worley, Wright. Yerkes.
| There were two sets of Delegates from Dau-
phin County. Messrs Herman Alricks,
George Bowman. and DIR. Lewis Heck, who
had been appointed at meeting of the citizens
of the county called together by IA of the
| County Committee Messrs. Ferree and Riehl,
who were the regularly appointed Delegates
by the Committee, George Seller who had
been appointed Senatorial Delegates by the
| Committee, but ondiscovering that he was a
| Know-Nothing, had been expelled and anoth-
er gentleman appointed in his stead. 6
| The Convention on motion agreed to hear
each of the two first sides for fifteen minutes,
Mr.. Herman Alricks spoke in behalf of his
colleagues and himself, and Mr. McAllisteI,
Chairman of the Dauphin County Democratic
Committee was deputized by Mr.. Riehl to oc-
cupy his seat in the Convention and defend
the right of the regularly appointed delegaf
| ton.
It appears that the citizens of Dauphin
county, suspecting the Democracy of some Of
their County Committee and especially the
Delegates appointed by that committee to rep
resent them in the Convention, and knowing
that the Chairman of the committee was OPEN
| ly in favor of the election Of Simon Cameron
| to the United States Senate, resolved to call a
| meeting of the Democratic citizens for the
purpose of appointing Delegates whose homes
| ty could not be doubted. The call, signed by
IA of the committee, was published, the meet
ing was held, and Messrs. Alrick, Bowman
and Heck, were appointed to represent the
county in the Convention. The County Com
mittee subsequently met together, and annul-
led the proceedings of the meeting, insisting
on their sole power and right to appoint Del
| egates, and the consequence was that both Of
| the Delegates claimed seats in the Convention.
After both sides had been heard, the fol-
lowing resolution was submitted:
| Resoloed, That Messrs. Farce and Riehl
be admitted as Delegates for Dauphln county.
Mr.. Berrill moved to smond, by strfkine
out all after the word '' resolved, !" inserting.
Resoloed. That Herman Alricks, be adj
mitted as Senatorial Delegate, and George
Bowman and DR.. Lewis Heck, as Represen-
tative Delegates for Dauphin county.
| A division of the amendment was asked for
The Chair-The first question is on the ad-
mission of Herman Alricks, as Senatorial Del
| egate.
The question was put. and the Convention
decided that Herman Alricks should be ad-
mitted as Senatorial Delegate for Dauphin