The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-13
]. RICHMOND, Va, FRIDAY MORNING.


| Mass MEETING OF FEpEBAb SoLp,yas Avn
sAlLoas.-A mass meeting Of the ex-soltiers
and sailors Of the United States who served
on the Union side In the late war was held
III The United States Courtroom Yesterday
afternoon. General Fl. H Wells was called
TO the chair. aud Captain c. Z. Dibhle was
appointed secretary. ~
The Chair stated the Object Of the meeting
to TIC the selection of delegates to represent
the tllrion soldiers residing In Richmond and
vicinity in the great convention TO meet i'm
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th instant.
The following persons were enrolled:
I. q. Sterling, One Hundred and Forty
eighth New York; Captain w. Henry Tay-
lor, Twenty-third Kentucky; Captain r. +.
Wadell, Assistant Coinmissary Subsistence,
United States Volunteers; Charles Spencer,
Sixth Massachusetts; Major j. j. johnson,
First Artillery; Captain Patrick Hough. Fiji:
teenth and Thirtv-second New York Light
| Battery; Captain d. w. Bohannon, Twelfth
New York Major s. l.. Annable Seventh
New York Artillery; Captain D. w. Burr,
Twcnty-seventh New York Infantry; Major
Alfred Morton, One Hundred and Ninety
third New York Infantry; Lieutenant j.. b.
Parker. Nincty-seventh New York; Captain
Is. G. Cook. Fifth Michigan; Lieutenant
Andrew Washburne, Second New York S.
p. Lathrop, One Hundred and Forty-ninth
New York; q. w. Graham, One Hundred
and Forty-iourth New York l.. n. Peter,
son, Second New Jersey Cavalry i.
+. Anderson, Third Washington Infan-
Ity; Captain Caruthers, Twenty-tnurth
Massachusetts Sergeant F. NJ. Green,
Forty-fourlh Ohio; Sergeant Z. $. Sprad.
ley. Nineteenth Maryland; Joseph Dean,
sailor; Ii. ii. Oliver, Fifth Massachusetts
Cavalry; W. II. Smith, Sixth Pennsylvania
Infantry; Corporal John j. Franklin, Sixth
Kentucky Cavalry; Nat. Broadly, Fifteenth
Kentucky Infantry; Captain Il. S. Foote,
Eleventh Connecticut Infantry; John Robin
son, Fourth Maryland; Robert II. Taylor,
One Hundred and Sixteenth Kentucky In-
iantry ; John W. Perry, One Hundred and
Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry; Robert
Lee, One Hundred and Seventeenth
Kentucky Infantry; Corporal james
Washington, Second United Suites
Light Artillery; 5. L. Hucles, sailor
John Enders, Tenth United States Infantry !;
Stephen Gray, Fifth Massachusetts, Cavalry
Wallace Jones' Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry !;
Thomas Clopton. One Hundred and Seven
tcenth Kentucky Infantry w. r. Jackson,
Company *, Fourth Massachusetts; Thorn.
ton Catlin. Second Regiment District Co
hmbia Volunteers; Sergeant Laudon Boyd,
Sixty.seventh Ohio Infantry Volunteers !;
Colonel Norman Smith. Twelfth New Hamp-
shire Volunteers; Major Joseph Walker.
Thirteenth New YORK Engineer Corps;
Brigadier-GencmI Ii. II. Wells, United
States Volunteers; Anderson Taylor, Seven
ty-third Louisiana; D. Warrenton Ford,
Thirty-serenth United States Cvlored
Troops; James Starke. Thirty-eighth United
States Colored Troops; David Martin, One
Hundred and Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry ;
y. j. Hinton. Eleventh Connecticut Eolun-
tecr> /: Captain G. L. Dibble, Sixteenth
United States Infantry; Major L. ;. Dabney,
PaymG,Stcr United States Navy; Captain
| William Crca, twentieth New York Cavalry.
4 resolution. offered by Major Dudge) Al
fred Morton, declaring it cXp3dient to elect
DELEGATES to the Pittsburgh Convention wis
adoped: whcrcuron the following gentle
men were elected: Captain Il. c. Cook, Cap
tain CIV. Graham, Majors. l.. Anlablc. Cap
tain c. L. Dibhlp, Major Andrew Wash
:urnc, Captain }. G. Brown, Maj j. j.
johnson. Corporal James Washington, Major
l,Ioscph Walker. 5. L. IIuccs. General Ii. Ii.
| Wells. chairman, was added TO the delegation
by unanimous vote.
The following resolution was then adopted:
" HcSoiced. That any honorahy discharged
soldier or sailor Of the Uuited States now
resident in the State of Virginia is hereby
cordially invited to call upon the president
or secretary of this meeting and receive ere
dcntiuls tn the Pittsburgh Convention as II
dci""ate from this body
Captain Cook and Lieutenant Wa>hburnc
were appointed Il committee on trnsporta-
ton.
On motion. committee, consisting OF Cap
tain y. W. Bohannon. Major Alfred Morton,
and Sergeant Landon Boyd, was appointed
hy the Chair TO draft resolutions expressive
of the sentiments of the meeting. The COM
mittec made the following report, which was
unanimously adopted:
"ReSolrcd by the SOldicrS and Sailors IN
ccnrentton assembled, That we .joyfully inn
prove this opportunity to renew to the pull
lie our fcaltv in and devotion to those prin-
cipIes for which we fought, and which we
now believe to bc essentially protected by
the Republican party of the country.
"Resoiced, That in President Grant and
Senator Wilson we recognize the true expo
nents of the soldiers interests. and we call
on all our iellow.comIudeS to unite with Us
in every honorable effort TO sccrlle their clec-
ton.
| "ResolcGd. That our delegates this day Sc
lected I've instructed to make known to Our
comrades that shall assemble in Pittsburgh
our sentiments on the vital questions now
claiming public attention, and to assure them
that now, aS ever, we are trll" to the great
principles for which we then fought and for
which 30 many of our comrades tell
The following resolution was also adopted ::
q" "F,sriced. That the delegates oi this
Convention be, and they are hereby, in
slr,cted to vote for and use all honorable
means in their power to secure the CO.
operation of the national body Of the cx-
officers, soldiers, and sailors which meets at
Pittsburgh to secure the equalization of
bountics and the equal and just distribution
Of public lands to the cX-soIdicrs and sailors
of the country"
The meeting then adjourned.
The SUNDAY LAw.-At the meeting OF the
City Conservative Committee on Nednc>-