Then the meeting adjourned and the members returned to their homes. And this was not all. The era of Conventions seemed to have come. On the eleventh of January, in the same year, a meeting was held in Pottsville, again upon Kehoe’s requisition, to prepare for a general celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. McKenna was in attendance, as Secretary of Shenandoah Division. The following Bodymasters also put in an appearance: PAT DOLAN, Big Mine Run. CHRIS DONNELLY, Mt. Laffee. FRANK KEENAN, Forrestville. JAMES KENNEDY, Mt. Carbon. JOHN REGAN, St. Clair. PAT COLLINS, Palo Alto. WM. CALLAGHAN, Mahanoy Plane. DANIEL KELLY, Connor’s and Patches adjoining. LAWRENCE CREAN, Girardville. MIKE O’BRIEN, Mahanoy City. PETER SHERRY, St. Nicholas. PETER BURNS, Silver Brook. JOHN DONAHUE, Tuscarora. JAMES J. GALLAGHER, Coaldale. —— BRADLEY, Representing Pat Butler, of Loss Creek. FRANK MCANDREW, Shenandoah. JAMES KERRIGAN, Coaldale. JAMES ROARTY, Tamaqua. Excepting only Florence Mahanoy Division, of Turkey Run, which was not represented, almost every lodge had present, on this important occasion, a full corps of five officers, viz.: President, or Bodymaster, Vice-President, Secretary and Assistant Secretary, and Treasurer. After the opening by prayer, Kehoe explained the object of the gathering, and all the members able to purchase were supplied with suitable regalia; flags were bought and music engaged, when once more the meeting of Bodymasters was dissolved. Jack Kehoe was fast becoming a man of power in Schuylkill County and gaining supreme control of the dreaded Mollie Maguires. It was policy on his part to invite these conferences. While the President and officers of the bodies were together, he could cultivate their acquaintance and push certain plans, political and otherwise, which, in due season, he would carry to completion. He desired to see all the leading men _en masse_, and succeeded. The presence of the national representatives, and the deference shown to Jack by them, in virtue of his office, at the first Convention, gave him eminence in the eyes of those possessing an inferior order of intellect and standing lower in the official scale than himself. The County Delegate was a scheming, crafty fellow, and looked far into the future, thinking that he could see for himself and his family political distinctions and riches in the deft and continued handling of the Mollies. He did not, however, as the sequel will show, penetrate quite deep enough into the obscurity of coming events. Had he pierced the mystic veil a little further, the ghastly spectre that would have glided before his startled vision might have turned him from his evil pathway, with terror-stricken face and palsied limbs, to seek the bloodless and better course.