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Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-24
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
TuEspAY, July e.


House of Delegates met at 10 A. N.
! PRAYER by Rev. r. Y Dodge, of Presby-
Communication from the Senate an
nounced adherence to their amendment to
House bill No. 10, regulating the salaries
Of the officers of the branch of the Bx-
change Bank of Yirgiuia at Weston, and
requesting the concurrence of the House IN
the appointment Of q Conference Commit
| tee.
Also. the passage of the resolution pub
lished in the Senate proceedings OF yester-
day, and asking concurrence therein:
Mr. SMITH, from the Committee on Courts
of Justice, reported a bill eutitied, IAN
act to provide fer the preservation oil the
public health.
entitled, An act rehrranging the judicial
Circuits Of Western Virginia.
Also, bill entitled, An act 20 proVids
Sor the confinement and safe keeping Of
prisoners sentenced to the penitenttary
Which were read by their titles and Or
dered TO be printed.
he also reported that the committee
concurs with the Senate in amendments to
bill No 2.
Mr.. WETzEI, from the committee to ex-
anime enrolled bills, reported bill emil
tied, AN act 10 amend and re-enact the
| 18th section of chapter Is of the code.
The bill was, on motion OF Mr.. FARMS
worth, laid over for the present.
/ Mr.. WEST, FROM the Committee GU Roads
and Internal Navigation, to whom was re-
| ferrcd resolution to exempt the mail car
| rier on tue Wheeling and Bethany turn
pike from toll, reported adversely on Tue
resolution. =.
Mr.. PoRrEa from the Committee on FL
nance, to whom was referred resolution
to refund to the Sheriff of Ohio county
amounts oyerpaid by him to the Auditor,
! reported adversely thereon. \
lie, also from the came committee, re-
ported various amendments to the aPpr2-
| priatiOn bill.
Mr.. SSIpER from the Committee of Con-
ference in relation TO the amendments to
tho bill regulating the military forces not
! mustered into the service of the United
States, reported that they had agreed to
amend by striking ont the word ''staffi"
| Shich was adopted.
! Mr.. WEST moved to reconsider the vote
by which the House had resolved to ad-
j0urn on Wednesday
Objection being made he withdrew the
He then moved to pass by the order of
the lay for the present. After good deal
of discussion about extending the time
! Fixed for adjournment, the question was
taken aud the motion lost.
The special order was then taken up, it
being the bill and substitutes in relation TO
a division of the State. Alengthy discus
sion followed, and several gentlemen adj
dressed the House.
I'VE prefer to give the discussion 10 full
at a future day. to bare and uninteresi-
ing outline this morning.-EDs
Several amendments were offered to the
bill, and some adopted. The House took
a recess with the subject pending.
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!From tho Pittsbu,g Gazette
Yesterday'a Disaster.

It is in vain to Disguise ii that our army
under Gen. Mcdowell has sustained ter
rit lie reverse, the details OF which will be
iouud un,lrr our telcgraphic head. This
is the hour 10 trT the courage, the faith ana
the patriotism Of the nation. Forty thouS-
aud men have been routed; bat "" hn'c
ten times forty Thousand To take their places.
For few days This sudden AMI unlocked
for disaster will cause some CONSERVATION
and discouragement; bnt the spirit OF the
nation will rise with rebound cores
ponding to the depression. and the war
will still be prosecuted with fearful
vigor.
Should Beaureg0rd follow up his advar-
tage with the vigor for which some people
give him credit, in the present disorganizcd
and demorali2ed condition of our troops,
Washington itself may be captured. Still
we trust that there is sufficient force ther"
to save it. Phtterson's column OF over
20 900 men is near, and may be brought in
in good time. Patterson has been super
coded by Gen. Banks, and now we may
look for more activity. Phttersun's inert
ness, to call it by no harsher term, occ"-
stoned this great calamity.
Now, friends, what SHALL we say Of
these things? Shall We give up in des-
pair? Shall we count all as lost be-
cause we have suffered one deIeht =
Certainly not. We are cure that We
are conteudiug for the right, and SO
long as that is true, we have no reason to
despoud. In the Revolution the cause OF
the struggling colonies sustained defeat
after defeat, aud yet it triumphed. Think
! of the year l777, and you will say that
were our entire army cut off, our day is
brighter and more hopeful than WAS that
1t has pleased God to visit US with deep
affection, q sore calamity. Many thous-
nuds will werp bitterly for sons, brothers
and husbands slaughtered in vain; but
tears and blood have been, since the world
begun, the price of liberty, the purchase of
peace aud salvation. From the tears and
blood shed by one rs a ransom for many,
to those Sued by many as II ransom for one
beloved country, the conditions are the
same.
This is no time for rage and passion;
but it is time for heroic resolve-for the
giving up of more sons and brothers to
take the place of the fallen, and to cheer
the discouraged hearts of the survivors.
1t is time for deep thought, for the gath
ering OF those strong emotions, which while
they nerve the h~art, cause the eye to
glance henyenwari.
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A PATRIOTIC SPEECH Owing to al
lodged bad treatment By the State author
tiles, the Erie Regiment, near Pittsburgh,
began to display rather ugly, mutinous
spirit, whereuPou their Colonel (McLupe)
addressed them in tho following pithy and
patriotic speech.
"Gentlemeu, there is one thing l want
you to understand. and that is, that I tn
tend to command this Regiment under
stand there are number Of you dissatis-
fed and uneasy becnuse your payments
have been stopped There is no doubt but
that we have been badly treated; and by
the Eternal, the time shall come when We
shall have our rights, and our wrongs shall
be fedressed. In the meantime, advise
you to act like soldiers and gentlemen. If
the State refuses to do its duty towards us,
let US do ours, and then they can have no
Iault to find with us. If there is any
among yon who wants to leave, he can do
so. and Twill give him a free pass home
I hope there is no one who will desert his
post now, and who rates his patriotism at
the paltry sum Of SIT 90. / have spent
$1,000, and have not received cent in re-
turn, but am determined to do my duty;
and If the State of Pennsylvania is too
poor TO repay me, will make free gift of
fny service 20 herr
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Mr.. HooToS moved the suspension oil tue
rule for the purpose of taking up the reso-
luton he had offered.
The resoiution WAS considered and re-
ferred to the Committee on Courts oil JUS
tice.
The bill regulating the salaries of the
officers OF the Exchange Bank at Weston,
as amended By the Senate, was taken up,
tho amendments disagreed to, and Mcssrs.
Arnold, Wilson and Boreman appointed
committee to confer With a like committee
or part of the Senate in relation to them.
Mr.. FARxswoRTH offered the following
ResoIvcd. That all offices of the Common
wealth of Virginia known to be vacated
by the officers thereof, either by absentins
themselves, BIZ giving aid and comfort to
the SccessioniSts, or joining the rebel army,
thereby neglecting the duties OF said ut-
fees, shall, on the fact becoming known Ia
the Governor, be declared vacant, and nc
shalt be empowered TO order new cleo
ton to ell such offices.
The resolution was ordered TO lie over.
Senate bill No. was taken up, read and
recommitted to the Committee on Courts
of Justice.
House bill to prevent county courts and
overseers of the poor from making levies
ond time and ordered to be engrossed.
Mr.. CRoTHBRs moved to reconsider the
vote by which the House agreed to adjourn
on Wednesday, and substitute Monday
next. Lost.
The resolution fixing on tomorrow for
adjournment WAS taken up.
Mr.. WEST moved to lay on the table
Lost.
Mr.. WEST Moved to amend the resOlu-
ton by striking out Wednesday and sub
shutting Monday next. Lost.
Mr.. VANCE moved to substitute Thurs
day, which motion was also lost. The
question recurring upon the adoption of
the resolution, Mr. Logan moved 10 lay 1t
on the table Motion rejected.
Mr.. WEST moved to indefinitely post
none the consideration Of the resolution.
The motion WAS rejected and without dis
posing of the resolution the House adj
journed.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-24

BRowxsoS's Quarterly Revictr for july
contains very able and timely article,
written by the editor, on the rebellion Of
1861. He contends that the South have no
justification for their present position, and
denies "that they have received any wrongs
worth mentioning from the North lie
feels full onfdence in the stability OF the
Union, and believes it will be stronger
and more beloved than ever" OF the ad-
ministration lie says:
mSiuce it has shown itself determined to
resist the rebellion, TO use all the forces,
military and naval, of the loyal States to
crush the rebels and save the Union, 1t has
risen in the respect and in the affections of
the nation. at the South no less than at tue
North. If there still fingers Il doubt or Il
distrust in its regard, it is not because it
mukes war on the rebellion, but because
it is feared it is not prepared to make it
with sufficient holiness, energy and deter
mination. Yet tho doubt or fear which
NAV still linger in some minds, W" think
ia uuiusti6ubie. The administration I'M
derstands its duty. and is prepared to per-
form it. That in the beginning it WAS
timid, hesitatiRg, uncertain as to the poll
CIV best to be adopted, is possible; bat, as
sured now of the support of the loyal
American people, even of the great major
ity of those iu the Notwithstanding Suites,
who, in the late Presidential election, voted
against it, it feels its strength and under
stands what its dignity and honor as ("
government demand; its timidtty has pass
ed away; it no longer hesitates, and is de-
termined to vindicate the constitution, to
preserve the Union, and to crush speedily
aud forever its foes. In this it is manifest
" right, and every American citizen is not
only free, but bound in conscience to sup
port it to the full extent OF his ability
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proportions among the States :

This from the rough calculation we have
been able to give is based on the represen-
tative population of the several States, es
timated up to July, 81, and is tax Of
about one dollar per head-the slave pop
ulation paying three dollars to every five
slaves. The hill provides for the appoint
ment of an assessor and collector in each
district,-the States to be divided into dis
tricts for that purpose. and as the bill in
cludes necessarily all the seeded States,
the Offices of collector and assessor down
there must he very inviting. We rather
fear it will Or some time before there is any
Of this tax collected South of the Potomac
unless il is collected by the army, and that
would prove so expensive, that the govern
meut would make money BY letting the tax
go unsolicited by such means.
The tax (says the n. Y. Tribune is to be
laid upon all lands and lots of ground, with
their improvements, dwelling houses, chat
ties and slaves. The bill provides that any
person who shall give fraudulent list of
property under his charge, or owned by
him, shall be fined in sum not exceeding
Eve hundred dollars, and pny all costs and
charges of prosecution. From tho vaiua-
ton of the board of assessors there is to be
no appeal, but they nre in any case when
it is demanded to give careful hearing to
the parties claiming reduction OF Vnlua-
tim
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-24

TIE 6rst graduate in the 6rst examining
class at West Point, last week, was poor
Irish boy named Peter o'Rourks. who at
the age Of sixteen did not know his letters.
This lad bad sared the lives of several
persons on Lake Erie, who, out of graft
Iuds, offered him a considerable sum of
money, which he declined, GU condition
thai they woaId secure him an education.
They complied with his request, sent him
20 sshooi. and afterwards secured MIN a
SItuation a. West Point, where be has just
! saated With the highest Donors.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-24

TINS Philadelphia city councils are dOVt-
sing means for providing the working men
of that city with employment. 1t is sug-
Rested that an ordinance be adopted max
ing an appropriation of between 100000
aud $500, 900 for tue purpose, to be taken
from loan to be hereafter authorised
This amount is 20 be yariously expended
in the different departments of the city,
and the workmen will be employed in lay
Ing pipes mains, repairing highways, lay
ing out public squares aud parks, and ez-
tendius the wharves aud landings.
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A Ta1 to Pay for tho war.

The Secretary of the Treasury, it will be
recollected, recommended that Congress
should provide for the expenses of the war
in three modes. First, portion by loan.
Second, by an increase of duties on the
reccssaries of life, such as sugar, coffee,
tea, etc. (; and third, By direct tax. The
tariff and loan bills have passed, aud the
Committee of Ways and Means have pro-
pared Tux bill which We suppose will
pass. We are indebted to the New York
Tribune for synopsis of the bill, from
which we gather the following facts:
~ tax of thirty millions per ..annum will
be levied and distributed in the following
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-24

soME one was reading to Gen. Scott tbs
o,her dag, fault-6nding article from n
New York paper, at his request, aud when
the article WAS finished he replied, so
long as nun commander of the armies Of
the United States, shall be commander.
1 am fit or am not fit for the position,
and if the country thinks an, not will
rssigu. But SO long as am at the uead
of our troops I shall direct their move
ments, not according to the clamor of
newspaper editors, but according to my
own judgment" The truth is, the Gen
eral does not intend to be scolded out of
his plan of tho campaign by "brigadier-
generals" or newspaper editors. Who can
blame him?
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Says New York paper: There never
has been a period in the history of the
United States when the people of the
country were so universally conservative
as they are at present. Our brave troops
are engaged in no crusade against slavery.
They eschcw aud rePudiate abolition teach
ings. Two-thirds of them arc Democrats,
and, while they have sworn that the mus
kets shall not drop from thei: hands until
instruction is quelled, and the banner of
The country once more floats uumoiested
over every stronghold, custOm-house and
post Office in the land, they will connive
at no such illegal acts "a the confscation
of property, or the emancipation projects
of the wild, revolutionary fanatics who nre
striving to divert popular passions into
wrong channel.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-24

~ REPORTER for one of the New York pa
pers has taken the pains to inquire "s to
the number of United States flags made
and sold in that city since the lombard
ment of Fort sumpter. He ascCrtained the
aggregate to be 1895 The total amount
of material used was se.72o yards of bun-
ting, 20 pounds of thread, and 40 dozen
spools of cotton.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Now is the NINE fOr BargaInS!
Election for Judge of the
Circuit Court.
DURsUAST TO PROCLAMATION, /; Of the Go
tuesday, August 18th, 1861,

TOuRsIJGST TO PROCLAMATION of the Gov
crnpr OF Virginia, an election MIL he held on
Tuesday, August 18th, 1861
at the several Election Precinets now established 10y
for the Twentieth judicial Circuit OF Virginia under
the direction Of the following named gcntlenlen:
At the house of Samuel Mcconnell, in the lat Flee
ton District, john NJ. Oldham, Conductor: and Tho
mas b. Stewart, Alex. MConn, Edward MCauslin,
Robt Hail. and Alox. Orr, Commissioners.
AZ Br,,the-ton's Tavern in same District, John J.
Sis.ou, Conductor; and john Pierson, Jos. NJ. Bell
John b. Maxwell, Joseph Carson, and Isaac Jones,
At the Town Of West Liberty, in the 2l Election
District VIM. d. Curtis, Conductor; and VIM. Wad-
die. DIR. John English Sam'l Smith Vim. p Brady,
and Gr4euberry b. Ronor, Commissioners.
At AtKinsOn's School House, in the 3d Election
District, .N@ SnUdErnss, ir Conductors ana Wnl At
kinsun, Sam'l McColloch, W.. j. MrColioch' jesse
Wells AMI Ebenrzcr McCclloch, Commissioners.
AT the Woods Run school House. In same district
Jas. McCumbs, Conductor: and Vim. North, JAS Ne
Coocl, Elisht Connolly, EltiHh Pogue, anu Daniel
NJ the Town NJ rriadelphia, in tho 4th Election
prstrict Saml II. b. Carter, Conductor and David
Arms runE. Fredk Miller, Nm, Faris, DIR. j. Ii. Sto-
rcr, and Hamilton Frazier. Commissioners.
At the First Ward Hose House. in the 5th Election
District Elijah Day. Conductor; and Jeremiah Glen,
e1. Hiram Armstrong Isaac Colts, Lewis BAyha, anu
john Parker, Commissioners ,,-,,-
At the Court House, in the 9th Election District
VIM. NJ. Derryhill. Conductors and RUbt Hamilton.
H. q peluDiain Edward Coon. Jos SeyBold. and Geo.
W. Sights Commissioners.
At the Fourth Ward Hose House, 10 the Ith Elcc-
ton district ~ l. Dorsey Conductor; and Uei. tx
lev Harvey Hall. Henry CrRngle, VIM. odbeTt, anu
Henry KurtZ, commissioners.
At the Pablo school House in the Fifth Ward, n
the Sth Election District, Matthew b Reed, Conduct
or; and john Gouy Jas. Wilson, +. W. Bassett, Jas
| H. stout md Christian Smith, Commissioners.
! p5At the South Wheeling School House, in the came
| District, Jas NJ. Wheat, ST., Conductor; and u: u
! Hughes, Benedict Spidel, Henry Wallace, stephen
| Waterhuusc. aud Augustus Handlin. Commissioners
This Election will be held according to the IroFis
ions of the Election Laws Of the State Of Virginia
| The Conductors receive the poll books on or
! ono W. SIGHTS,
| wM. VI. BERRYlIILL,
JOSEPH SEYBoLD,
! JyI-dkwlt Special Commissioners
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GA z,.rd snr nag, and keep each star
MN StrIpe e bright Is NOW they WaVsI
san mike II lead our ranks 10 war,
san doat above each patriots grave
Dsath 10 the traitor that would dare
TotruiI e through the dust Of shAu'e'
All honest hearts Us lot Will snare
And follow It 10 Death or FSme'
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war Not Decided by Chance.

An able writer in Fra=sr's Nagasine con-
tends that there are certain principles of
war, fixed and real: aud if principles,
then there ia science which combines
and Celebrates them. The first of all
principles of war is said to he to concen-
tratc superior forces upon the decisive
point. But the use of the term point in
PRODUCES into the axiom Typographical
idea which had best be avoided. AS
things now are in this country, there may
be said to be no decisive point whatever.
Not even the capture of Washington by
the rebels would slacken the efforts of
the North or abatc its spirit. Tt ere may
he. however, decisive object to be attain
cd, and that object may be 10 provoke the
enemy to concentrate in order that he may
be the more easily annihilated. All scIen-
'tifc calculations in regard TO tue present
struggle are plainly in favor of the North.
We quote the following from the writer to
whom we have referred:
LET Us put case, impossible in itself,
vet to certain degree attainable in
many instances, and suppose that we
we're fully acquainted with the moral
and military qualities OF the generals OF
two opposing armies, with the skill and
energy of their staff, commissnriat, med
zeal and all other departments, with the
characteristics both of officers and men,
with the numbers and composition OF each
army, with I'LL the antecedents and with the
resources at the disposal of both armies ;
further, that we knew. we'll the country In
which they were about to act, its physical
and local pcculiarities. and the habits OF
its people then we may safely say that
the result of the war would be. ii not ah-
solutely, ut least, to the highest degree OF
| moral certainty, predictablc. Now what
does this fact, which will hardly be dis
puted, imply? 1t implies that The Issue o.
icar is not matter of blind chance; that II
! depends, humanity speaking, upon com
! bination of qualities and its resources IN
F.: the opposing forces, and that these quail
| ties must be exercised, and these resource:
| developed according to principles which
! whether known or unknown TO US, arc
/ beyond doubt equally fixed and real Thr
| fact that the game of war is Frequently
! found 10 he the most uncertain OF III
! games, proves nothing to the contrary. /
f! only shows that the true apprehension o
| the above elements of the calculation Il
excessively difficult in practice. Expert
! ence in war is universally acknowledged
as the best teacher; and the precise knowi
! edge which experience brings of the dat'
before mentioned, and of the principles q
! action which spriug from them, provc'
/ that there is in war Il sufficient sequence o
! cause apd effect to constitute science.
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Ancti0n N0tlca-.-EXtra!

I Grey ncrcSes. plain an s;riI,.Ni, Grey Travelling
Dc.ss ,il4 Fl0uncl3 Bsre.n. and Or ,ndieS. Lawns
silks, RrlantL, Prints Bonnet Ribbons. DanasS
Linen, Table Cloths. Trimmings OF vHri"us kinda
with great variety Of Fancy and STAPLE GS>-Is. al
Of which will he sold at Enc'ip7. Sale coinmencin:
this afternoon, Monday, the I'D. Sale positive anu
terms cash (jy22j o. ". HEISKELL.
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4, To the voters of the several Counties
f! composing tn" rNTenIieIh judicial

composing TIA" twentieth = uutclni
Circuit.
II AvIN'; been nominated by. the par'l"ity. Of
friends 10 fill the office OF Judge OF Said Cir
cult, and having given my Consent to ACCEPT It. iF
elected, deem 1t due my feilow-citizens = state
very briefly. my position III reference to the new
state OF things in which placed will state
that in lS3S, when X candidate for the Senate of
Virginia. ] was Intercepted through the public pit
pors OF the day, to my opinion upon the right Of
SECESSION on the part of State. from tho Union
then give through the same medium my unqualified
dcnis OF tho right. aud pronounced it TerciHtiO't
aud that opinion have always entertained and en-
deavOrOd to maintain. l have always viewed 1t S
most dangerous horcsy, and that the State Of Nir-
Gnia by adopting il has placed herself In tho Rtti
rude of rebellion and that the government At Rich
mond Is simply revolutionary and not the cOUS;it1t
tionaI government. Tie organization of thu gov
ernment by the Wheeling Convention, believe, is
constitutional, and rightful and lawful govern
and such shall give it my cordial support,
whether in office private citizen. will add
that lavr heretofore by taking thu oath Atior
ney for tho Commonwealth. prescribed by the Ord-
nance of the Convention given the strongest poSS-
BILE pledge Of my fidelity 10 the nav organization.
will only adj that il 1t The pleasure of the cit
zens of tho Circuit to confer upon honorable
distinction will endeavor to disc Rrge it's response
bio duties with fidelity and impartiality
Very Respectfully,
Your fellvw-citiZen.
IylS-1wi NJ. c. GOOD.
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a CARD.

OWISH 70 tho present unsettled sIato of N"
VI country, mud tile great difficulty in collecting
ieLts We will irDm ;ha time forward sell GoodF ;9r
CASH and CASH EXCLUSIVELY.
wis COOPER & sENsENEI.
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SjszSs will he Supported for the Office Of Judge
OF the Twentieth Judicial Circuit by