Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-12-06
GUERRILLA wARyARE.

desire to call your attention to the fact
that the rebels are still engaged in this bar
barous mode of warfare. Ia the mountain
districts. the gaerrillas are carrying on q
system OF wholesale, indiseTiminate rob-
berry and murder Not only do they strip
our Union fellow citizens of horses, cattle,
and every other species OF property, but
they seize and carry away captive, their
persons. Numbers of our most worthy and
respectable citizens are now suffering all
the untold horrors Of Incarceration in
Southern prisons and while the rebels
have not, so far as am informed, executed
auy of them on the galloWss or by the bull
let, yet they are sending many OF them "to
that bourne whence no traveller e'er re-
turns'' by the less rapid, but not less Ger.
tain, process of starvation.
have felt the want of sufficient legisla-
ton on this subject, and respectfully sug-
gest that Law De passed, authorizing the
Executive, or appointing commission, to
designate influential secessfonists ia the
loyal portion of the State, to be arrested
and confined until their friends procure the
release Of an equal number OF loyal men.
STAY LAW.
The Stay Law, enacted at your session of
December last, expires on the LIST Of Janu.
AIRY next. have converted with many in-
telligent gentlemen. holding different views
as to the prOpriety of re-enacting or per-
hitting it to expire; but AS you are fresh
from the people, and can form q more COR
rect Judgment of their sentiment upon the
subject than am able, leave it to your
candid and careful consideration. may
be allowed to suggest, however, that it has
occurred to me, law might be passed
which would, in many instances, be OF great
advantage to both debtor aud creditor
Let the creditor require the debtor to pay
twenty-five per cent of the debt, interest
and cost in ninety days after the pass
age of the act, and twenty FIVE per cent.
at the end of each ninety days until
the whole debt is discharged aud on fail
ure to pay the specified amount at the ex-
pirntiou oftime proposed let execution issue
sue for the balance of claim unpaid, ineIud-
ing interest aud cost. would except the
officers and soldiers in the army from the
provisions of this law nor should any eiUil
process be issued against them until ninety
days after their discharge from the service.
sHERIFFs.
desire to call your attention to an Act
of the General Assembly entitled stAn Act
to provide for the extension of time for
Sherifs of this Commonwealth to execute
Writs OF feTi tdeids on certain judgments"
passed February l3, 1862 That act de-
cares "that the present Sherifs in the Com
mOuwealth shall be allowed twelve months
after the expiration of the present Stay
Law, to execute any writ Of feri -faeias is
sued on judgments in any of the County
and Circuit Courts of this Commonwealth
during the present term of said SheriHs"
And this Act further declares, .'that it
shall be the duty of the Clerks of the sew.
eral County and Circuit Courts to direct all
such Writs to the said present Sheriff. as
If the same had been issued during their
said term as aforesaid"
The term for which Sheriifs are elected,
is fixed by the Constitution at two years.
Their bonds are taken in accordance there
With, and their sureties are held, only, for
their official acts during that period.
The effect Of this Act is to proEOag the
term of the Sheriffs; and that period being
fixed by the Constitution, cannot be
changed by legislative enactment; nor can
the sureties be responsible beyond the pc
riOd for which the Sheriff was elected.
respectfully request that the act be re-
peAled.