Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-01-11


laturc welcome ON their retnrn from their
homes, and invited them to the hall of the
Mechanics Institute, where Il sumptuOus
entertainment CmuSic and egg-uOg) was
provided. Yours, &c,
ELpIpzo.
RICHMOND, Jan. s, 1850.
Editors Of the IntelEgenccr:
The House of Delegates convened again
ON Monday, and the Senate on Tuesday,
| after their recess for the enjoyment of the
festivities of the hOlidayS-eujoymcnts
which, suppose many of them are lOthe
to leave, as both Houses are still rather
thinly attended.
Governor Letcher assumed the oathS of
Office OH Saturday last, aud on Tuesday iu-
formed the Legislature that he had no
communications to make to them at pres
ent Ex-Governor Wise has moved down
to his farm near Norfolk. recently purcha-
sed by him. from his brother.
Among the proceedings of yesterday,
was IL resolution of Mr.. Caldwell in tie
Senate, referring it to the committee on
general laws to report bill incorporating
the Abrams Encampmcnt, No. l, of the, l..
.. q. f., of the city of Wheeling. Also,
resolution by Mr.. Richardson, in the
House. upon the cxpedicncy of reporting
u bill for an increase of the compensation
of the Prosecuting Attorney of Ohio
| county.
| observe, too, that Mr.. Morris, the dele
gate from Marshall county, has got the
committee on roads of the House, tu re-
port his bill for turnpike road ON Big
Wheeling Greek, from the Monument to
the Pennsylvania line, together with a
subscription upon the part of the State, of
threc-lifths of the cost of constructing the
same.
On Yesterday, Mr.. Porter, of Hancock,
had also bill reported from the same COM
mittee, chartering the Harmans' Valley
Railroad company, being the Pan Handle
Railroad company under another name.
On to-day. the Senate passed to its en-
gFossment, II bill requiring all Express
companies doing business i'll this State, to
file bonds with good security, in a penalty
not less than $40, 900 nor more than S20,-
900. for the protection of any one cntrust-
ing them with money or goods for car
riagc. Such bonds to be filed and eXecu-
ted and approved, severaily, before the
County Courts of Ohio county, of Rich
mond CITY: of Norfolk. of Dauvillc, and OF
Alexandria. 1t will, probably, become a
! law.
Upon yesterday. tho House of Delegates
passed Il bill, leaving it to Il Board, COM
! posed of the Auditor, the Secretary OF
/ State, and the Alto -ney General, to audit,
settle and pay all bills of every kind aud
( description, growing out of the Harper S
Ferry Affair. This bill, will likely receive
opposition in the Senate, on the ground
! that it is IA mode of hiding from the Lee
I gislature and the people, the costs of the
| Grand Military ConvOcation, called togeth-
cr to do what the Sheriff of Jefferson
county and half dozen deputies, could
! have done lust as we'll. ! think. however,
! that IL majority of the Senate will pass the
bill. and the people will find out the cost
! of all that ''pomP and panOply of war
| about the time the tax gnthcrer shall come
around next year. 1t is but just and
| right that the men who were called out,
should be paid, and paid without delay,
which could be done in ten days or less,
! bv bill founded upon the muster rolls OF
! the several companies. and the reports OF
/ the quastcr masters department. Whist
+ now. as proposed, this bill not only Prodn-
ces delay in the mere getting their pay,
but also covers up from the tax payers,
the cost and expense of all that costly
pagenntry."
i am told that some of the soldiers were
allowed to retain the boots and overcoats,
furnished them by the State, at Charles
town, whilst others were required to de-
+ liver them up before they left on their
homewnrd march. The fact is, as am in
| formed, that they were all entitled to re-
! tain them, and that some companies did
: not get to do so, was the fault of their
+ officers.
To-day the Senate bill appropriating the
sum of five thousand dollars for the pur-
/ pose of purchasing arms for the defence OF
I the State. come up on its third reading,
| but its patrons fearing its defeat i'll a thin
/ " attended Senate, laid the bill on the
table, to be called up nj future day.
This being the first of the year, the
| slave market in Richmond is much brisk
eV than at any other period. Many are
now being brought into the city, from the
interior counties, and here sold off, for II
more Southern market. They bring even
here high prices, and are cash nrticle.
| A very quick mathematical calculation de-
tcrmines the general value of slave. II
| is by multiplying the number of his years
T! bv eighty dollars--thus one five years old
F., is worth S4O0-one ten year old $500
and so on, till he gets to be sixteen year:
of age, where, generally, the rule will
work no longer. OF course, this rule va
ries. should the slave be unsouud, oil
should he be more than usually smart, in
telIigent and active.
On my way hither from Washington
not long since, travelling by the Orange i
| Alexandria Railroad, | went forward to thu
! smoking car, for the purpose of enjoying