The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-01

the close of the war he established himself as a
lawyer in Mobile.
| Arkansas.
The following are the
| sIGNERs OF TIE GALL.
Isaac Murphy, Elias Harrall,
| j. W. Babe,
MURPHY is a native of the South, and enjoys
the proud distinction of being the only member
| of the Arkansas State Convention who dared or
cared to vote against secession. This he did,
and was rewarded, on the reorganization of the
State on loyal basis in 1864, by being elected
| Governor for four years. .,
HARRALL is at present the Judge of the Eighth
Judicial Circuit, position to which he could
not have been elected without being, as he is, an
uncompromising loyalist.
| Delaware.
A Convention of Union men was held on the
10th of August, when the following were ap-
| pointed
n. b. Smithers, I. b. Courtesy,
| j. H. Adams, BENJAMIN Burton
John AlderdIce, Jacob Moore
SMTHERs is lawyer by profession; he was
Clerk of the Delaware House of Representatives
in 1s45 and ls47, and in January, 1868, was ap-
pointed Secretary of State He resigned this
position to take his seat in the Thirty-eighth
Congress, to which he was elected on the death
of Hon. William Temple Democrat Charles
Brown was the Democratic candidate, but owing
to imaginary fears of military interference with
the election, his name was Withdrawn "a few
days previous, and only few scattering votes
were cast against Mr.. SmitherS.
BURTON was a leading Whig politician many
years ago, when he served as a judge of the
State courts and also as Governor of the State,
being the only Whig who was elected to that
position during long time.
District of Columbia.
Several delegations will be present from the
Federal District, comprising, among Others the
following gentlemen:-
DELEGATES.
Joseph Holt, Johu NJ Edmunds
MAORI 4. doughty, Major William 3. Morse
William A. Short, William Stringer
B. B J. j. 'IsUn; BTyant, F. t. D'ke'
Holt has long been a prominent politician of
Kentucky, BELONGING to the Democratic school.
In March, 1859, President Buchanan appointed
him Postmaster General, and in December,
1860, he succeeded the notorious John B. Floyd
as Secretary of War; doing what little he could
to avert the catastrophe of secession. President
Lincoln appointed him Judge Advocate General,
position he still holds, though upon very
insecure tenure.
EDMUNDs was a prominent Republican of
Michigan at the outbreak of the war; holding
the position of Chairman of the State Executive
Committee. He bad previously been on the
bench. President Lincoln appointed him Com.
missioner of the General Land Office, a position
from which Mr.. johnson has taken measures to
remove him. He is one of the most straight
forward radicals in the country, and Is at
Grand President nf ha ITniop 7 aoo,,,o IS
the United States.
Florida
The following are the names of the
sIeNERs OF THE GALL.
" r. Hillyer, C. l.. Robinson,
Philip Frazer, John w. Pnce
HILLYER is a Northern man. who went South
as Captain in the Federal army, and settled in
Osceola, Florida, where he now oficlates as
postmaster.
ROBINSON was appointed at the Baltimore Con-
vention, in 1864 member of the National Union
Executive Committee.
Georgia.
The following are among the many loyal men
of this State who are
sIGNERs OF THE CALL.
G. W Ashburn Henry IT, Cole
j. X, Bryant, N. i. Hurbin,
Frederick Bender, W. W. Wright,
A. ) Murray, A, G Vining,
VI.
| Turner Floyd, G. W. Orr,
| Isaac McLane, James l.. Dunning,
Daniel Ingle, L. =. Gudger,
| B. Hartmann, Ambrose spencer,
John 1. Compton, p. l.. Hampton.
Jesse Trottor,
AsHBURN is a native of North Carolina, but
| was raised and has lived all his lie in Georgia.
| He is an outspoken radical, and was noted
throughout the State for his contempt and dis
regard Of the Confederacy, and of everything
| and everybody connected with il. He served
| for a time as an aide-de-camp on the staff of
| General Rosecranz, and as President of the Pro-
| vost-Board of the Department He was several
times captured by the Rebels, and put upon trial
| tor his life, but managed to outwit them on
| every occasion. On the outbreak of the war he
was warned out of Columbus, Georgia, where he
then resided, because he would not take the
oath of allegiance to the COME leracy. Arming
his two sons with muskets, and himself with a
revolver, he maintained his position until his
wife, who was ill at the time, had sufficiently
recovered to enable the family to start upon
their journey.
COLE is a native of New York, and in his boy
hood was friend and schoolmate OF William
H. Seward. He has resided in Georgia about
forty years. He opposed the Rebellion bitterly,
and vas imprisoned for this reason at Atlanta,
and afterwards at Charleston. After the war he
was candidate for Congress, but suffered defeat
at the hands of a Rebel general.
bryant is a native ofMaine. He went South
as Captain in .he 9Th Maine Volunteers, serv
ing first under General Thomas W. sherman,
and afterwards on the staff Of General Saxton'
In May, 1865, he was appointed an agent OF the
Freedmen's Bureau, and placed in charge OF the