Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-07-31
Meeting Of the Republican State Central
Cou,mitfee.

Meeting Of the Republican State Central
Committee.
The Republican State Central Com
mit,ee met at Harrisburg OH the 18th
inst. The attendance was large.
General Harry White-who bad been
nominated by the State Convention for
both Congressman at large and delegate
to the Constitutional Convention deem
ed it proper to decline the candidacy OF
Congressman at large. 1t fell to the
duty of the committee to fill the vacancy
and also to nominate a third man as a
candidate for Congressman at large. for
by the latest count of the population The
State ia entitled to three additional mem
here of Congress The two new men
placed in the field by the committee are
Gleuni ". Seofield and General Charles
Albright.
". ID. Forten. of Philadelphia was
nominated as elector at large.
GENERAL CHARLES ALBRIGHT.
Gen. Albright is resident of Mauch
Chunk, Carbon county, and is not qnltr
fifty years of age He was educated al
Dickinson College, and embraced the
profession of the law, in the active prac.
tice of which he is still engaged. He is
also actively interested in the banking
business, being president of the Second
National Bank of Mauch Chunk.
In August, 1862. he was mustered in
to service as major of the 1881 regiment
of Pennsylvania Volunteers. with which
he served until the regiment was mus
tered out of service on May "a. 1858
He was promoted to he lieutenant colo
mel of the regiment on September "a
1862. and to the colonelcy on January
"a. 1868.
The regiment arrived on the field just
at the close of the battle Of South Noun
tain, September 13, 1862, but in time to
take al active and efficient part 10 the
pursuit of the enemy across Antietam
creek During October. it took part in
Reconnaissance at Leesburg and Charles
town. West Virginia, and then joined in
tie general movement of the army to
wards the Rappahannock and prepara
lions for the battle of FreGer cksl urg
The regiment was led in the charge oil
Mayre's Heights, on the afternoon OF
November 13, by Sieutenant Colonel
Albright. and although side by side with
veteran troops, it stood the brunt man.
fully Sickness aud casualties had re
duced the command from the full com.
plement to $40 effective men, and OF
these $50 we've lost in this assault The
regiment. subsequent to this engage
ment, performed only the ordinary
guard and picket duty near the banks OF
the Rappabannock, until the battle OF
Charlottesville in which it took part
being subject to severe lire on The
morning of the Sd Of May. and losing Sc
men Its term of service having expired
it returned home and was mustered out
of service.
Two thirds of the Regiment re-enlist-
ed, however. and Colonel Albright again
entered the field at the head of the 2O2d
Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers
The new regiment was mustered in on
September 3, 1864, but Colonel Albright
was absent from his regular command
for some time, in command of the forces
employed to suppress the riotous distur
Dances of the miners in Columbia county
The 202d was first employed in keeping
open Sheridan's connections while oper
afing in the Shenandoah Valley, and
subsequently, in guarding the Orange
and Alexandria railroad During this
period they had frequent skirmishes with
the enemy, but took part in no pitched
battle. In May. 1865, the 2O2d return
ed to the State, and portions of it were
on duty in the coal regions, and or
August it was mustered out of service
its colonel having on March Z previously
been brevetted a brigadier general fol
his gallant conduct during the war.
General Albright is prominent mem
ber of the Methodist Church, and was
one of the lay delegates to the recent
General Conference Of that denomina
ton. held at Brooklyn. taking an active
part in the debates and deliberations.
HON. GLENNI w sCoPIELp.
Judge Scofeld, the third candidate for
Congressman at large, is too well known
to require extended notice. He was
born in Chautauqua county, New York,
March IL, 1871 graduated at Hamilton
College in lS4O, and removed to Warren
Pa, where be was admitted to The bar il,
ls43 In 1850 and 1851 lie was MEM
Der of the State Assembly: and from
1857 to 1859 be was in the State Sen.
ate:
In 1861 he was appointed President
Judge of the the Eighteenth Judicial
District of the State. and in 1862 he
was elected Representative from Penn.
sylvania to the Thirty eighth Congress,
being subsequently reelected four times
in succession, and serving lately as
chairman of the Committee on Naval
Affairs. He was delegate to the recent