The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-07-10

perhaps the wealthiest man who will
attend the Convention. Mr. Coolbaugh
was once for short time United States
Senator from lows. He is now Pres
ident of the leading national bank OF
Chicago. He is a stanch Democrat,
and was at first much opposed to the
Endorsement Of Greeley. c. 81. McCor.
mick, of reaper lame, who is reported
to have as many millions as he mas fin
gers, is delegate for Greeley. ln fact,
Mr.. Mccormick acknowledges an obh'
CATION to the Cincinnati candidate, who,
when the Mccormick machines were
having mighty hard struggle
for recognition and sale among
farmers, lauded them in the Tribune
and in agricultural lectures to the
desired effect. S. A. Buckmaster, OF
Alton, another delegate, is Democrat
of many years standing, who attended
the Charleston Convention also as
delegate from Illinois. He was former
" Warden of the Illinois State Peni>
tertiary. John A. McClernand, the
celebrated Major General whose feud
with Grant eliminating at Nicksburg
was one OF the lively episodes OF the
war, is member OF the Illinois delegs-
ton, who has been cursorily mentioned
for permanent chairman. From ken>
lucky delegation comes with Berah
Magoffin at its head. Magotfin was
Governor OF his State when the war
broke out. lie refused Mr.. Lincolns
first call for troops, and was foremost in
the effort to unite the tour States Of
Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky
IN the leadership of a peace policy,
which he believed might nip the war in
the bud. James B. Beck, OF Kentucky,
is here. He was one OF the first and
most pronounced Greeley men among
the Democratic members OF Congress.
Ex-Governor Neal S. Brown is dele
gate from Tennessee.
William Aiken. one Of the South
Carolina delegates, is the man who ran
against Banks for the Speakership OF
the House OF Representatives, and came
within three votes Of getting it. James
Chestnut, South Carolina delegate, is
an ex-senator. The present United
States Senator from Oregon, Kelly. who
it is said will act as proxy for one OF
the regular delegates from that State,
is its best known representative on the
ground. There are present here from
West Virginia the peesent United
States Senator, II. G. Davis, and Allen
I. Caperton, who was in the CoDted-
crate Senate during the war. Ex.Sen-
ator James X. Doolittle leads the Wis
consin delegation, and is a popular
candidate for permanent chairman OF
the Convention. The leader OF the
North Carolina delegation is A.
J. Englehard, editor Of the
Wilmington Journal. He is of
German descent, and was in war time a
auartermaster in the Confederate army.
j. II. Baldwin, Of the Virginia delega>
ton, a man of high character, is the
author OF taking declaration in the
course of a recent speech to the effect
that although Greeley had abused the
South as shameiully as Jefferson Davis
ever did the North, the Southern people
were going on his bond with just as
little hesitation as he showed in going
on Davis's. Thomas S. Bocock, ex.
Speaker OF the Confederate House OF
Representatives, who heads the Vir-
gulans, was for sixteen years before the
war q member OF Congress from a
district in what is now West Virginia.
A third noticeable delegate from Vir-
ginia is Robert Ould, the lawyer who
defended Sickles, and the Confederate
Commissioner OF Exchange, with whom
many prisoners from the Federal army
became acquainted while the war was
raging, and at present promrnen: and
wealthy lawyerin Richmond; Fitzhugh
Lee, the well known Confederate cav.
airy officer; Bradley F. johnson, su-
other Confederate General, and Jefferson
Randolph, a grandson of Thomas JET
ferson, are all members Of the Virginia
delegation. There is some talk by those
who have a regard for the practical
fitness OF things of making Mr. Ran
dolph temporary Chairman Of the Con.
vention. Of the Maryland delegates
here are Montgomery Blair, Phillip $.
Thomas, who was refused seat in the
Senate because he gave his son money
to take him South during the war, aud
Harry Gilmor, the celebrated cavalry
chief. Colonel Greene, Of the Boston
Post honors the delegation from Mas
sachusetts.