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

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SOloned y B White George g. French, Elias Todd, j..
Nelso County- J. P. Ireland
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Francis West J. y Laws, A. W. Finney, Hon. William
MONTGOMERY CGunty-wilIem Banliz, } NJ Love, A.
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wy the County-James Upton, Frank Bryant, Joshua
Lee Count j. P, Everett.
Carroll CSnnty-Dr. Joseph Worral william II. Wor-
ran, Martin Garland.
Ss59SS GSRnGy GregSTy William Diokov
:, Princess Ann CountS--John IL DSy, JOhu W. Stone.
:, Orange CSSnty11B P shiaiette Henry j. Muger,
York County--.Danicl b. Keatrer, G. A. Bartlett j.
M ,lS ke9tEez Anthony Variance.
jackson Hun Samuel j. Light, Alexander Wheddie
Augusta C9unty-oharles d Gray, William j. Dews
MRlGr John Yates Yates Alexander Anderson; .,,,
stonlPurvis, Edward Johnston
koa george warWoF Jos stfcte David aG[Ts Laws:
W saEef NJ anReS ReSben Walton Henry
PFopst william Lucas, Daniel Blossen, James Fultz
Patrck County-Hon. b. Davis, NJ O..
PIERPoNT is native of Virginia He wa
educated at the Meadville College of Pennsylva-
MIA, and after being admitted to the bar removed
to Mississippi, where he remained until 1910,
when he returned and settled at Fairmount
West Virginia. He took active part in rails
ing and organizing troops for the Union cause
He was subsequently elected Governor of the
new State of West Virginia, and was appointed
Provisional Governor of Eastern Virginia by
President Lincoln, which position he still holds
Colonel LEWIS is a native of Rockingham
county, and holds the position of Secretary of
State under Governor Pierpont He was for.
merly editor of the Washington National Anne-
rLcdn.
HUNNICUTT is Baptist minister, who went in
so strong for the Union during the war, that he
was chased out of fredericksburg. He has re-
turned to that city, and is now editor of the
Ledger in that town.
CURTIS is a lawyer, and was recently elected
to Congress from the First District of Virginia.
CHANDLER is United States District Attorney
for the Eastern District, and was elected to Con-
gress some time since from Norfolk.
BARBOUR is "so-so, easily-alarmed Unionist."
He S man of small mental calibre. He was
elected some time ago Representative to Con-
gress from the Third District.
RTDGwAY is a resident of Richmond, an editor
by profession, and a quasi Unionist. He was
elected to Congress from the Fourth District
some months ago.
DAVIS was elected Congressman from the
Fifth District
HOVE, Congressman from the Eighth District
BoTTs is lawyer OF some ability. He has
served several terms in Congress and in the
Legislature OF Virginia. His father and mother
were both burned to death in the conhagration
at the Richmond Theatre in 1871. He was de-
feated for the Governorship by Henry A. Wise
and has since declined public office He took
no part in the war, and is believed to have been
a thorough neutral Union man.
WARDwELL is a strong Union man, and one of
the Grand Jury that indicted jeff. Davis.
DUDLEY, same as above.
T1NsLEY, idem.
Fay, ditto.
DAVIS, the same.
West Virginia.
The Union State Central Committee, at a
meeting held in Wheeling on the 22d of August
appointed the following gentlemen as
DELEGATES AT LARGE
Arthur BOreman, ,Waitman I. Willey
Peter j. Van Wnkle, General b. +. Kelley
General j. IL. DuVaI, General T. NJ Harris
General J: A. LightOurn, General D. H. Strother,
D. M. hltchen, George w. Norton
James Burley, Jacob HornprOok
John Atkinson, j. c. McGrew
W. T. stephenson, Nathan Gof,
Greenbury Slack, ID, s. PinneIi
Edwin Maxwell,
FOREMAN, the present Governor of the State,is
a lawyer of standing and an outspoken loyalist.
He was an earnest advocate of the separation
OF the western counties from the old State o
Virginia, and was elected first Governor of the
new State on the 2Sth of May, 1863 by a vote o.
5,797, without opposition. He favored a con-
stituhonal provision prohibiting Rebels from
voting in the State.
WILEY is a native Of Monongalia county,
West Virginia. He studied law, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1888. For fourteen years,
from 1e41, he was Clerk of the State Courts of
Virginia. In 1850 he was a member of the Con-
vention tor revising the State Constitution,
In the winter of 1s6O-Gl he was again member
of the State Convention, held at Richmond In
1861, having resisted the secession movement
he was elected United States Senator by the
loyal State Legislature assembled at Alexan-
dria. When the movement for a separate State
organization began in West Virginia. he was
sent TO Wheeling as delegate, and in 1868 he
took the oath as Senator from the new State
In the Senate he has voted uniformly with the
radical Republicans, except on the question of
passing the first Freedmens Bureau bill over
the Presidents veto, when he voted may"
VAN WNKLE is a native of the city of New
York, but removed to Parkersburg, West Vir-
ginia, in 1885. He was a member ef the Vir-
ginia Constitutional Convention of 1850, of the
Wheeling Convention of 1861, and of the Con-
veRtion Of 1862 which formed the Constitution
of the State OF West Virginia. He was elected
to the Legislature of the new State, and II
November, 1868, to the Senate of the United
States. In the Senate he has usually voted