Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-06-28

sumo tue respOnelutlY o. tuEUtuE '"sN
out. Desiring instructions from bead.
quarters before assuming the responsibility
myself, and suppOsiuE that the Provost
Marshal General At Wheeling could either
give nc the requisite instruction, or refer
me to the proper one to give it, ! inuedi-
atsly tclsgrAphed him as follows.
PomT PLELgASr, Va, June IL, 1862.
Nq. Dan, Porost NdrIAaI GsHcrai, lrhe'.
Ing Va:
There Are some coutraband negroes here
In jail, arrested and pnt there by some me-
gro eatchsFS.
The contrabauds have passes from mill
tary commandments Of posts, aud are from
Greenbrisr, Allegheny aud Payetie conn'
ties.
Sbould cause those passes to be re-
SpeCtSd by ordering the release OF the con-
trabauds! ]. 0. WnEELER,
Capt. Co. II, 9th Va, Reg. COmdg Post
The following dispatch was received in
reply:
III. s. MILITARY THLEGRAPHt June u,
BY TELEGRAPH PROM CINCINNATI, 49, g.
Cont J. C. Rkrslsr, Co. II, Oh Va. Reg'b
COmmaRtiAg Post:
Your dispatch to Major Darr received BY
me. Respect the military passes in pos
session Of coutnbahdS, and release them
forthwith. L, v. CORWlSE,
Major and A. D G. and Dept Judge AdVO.
cate"
| then issued the following order aud
served it personally on the laIIOr Of Mason
county:
"PotST PLEASANT, June 10, 1862.
TO ne Jaiior Of NaIOH County:
In oLdlenes to orders this day received
from Headquarters Of The Mountain Depart
ment OF the Army Of the United States, you
are hereby required to release from your
custody and from Your Jail, George Wash
inRton and family and ]. Brown contra
banny, having paIses from the Military
COmmandant Of Post.
BY order OF &c. wHEELER,
Capt. Cnmmaudiug Post and Company II,
7lh Virginia Regiment.
The Tailor refused to acknowledge my
authority attempted to be exercised In the
above order and claimed that ho had In
formation that this act Of mine was an in
reference with tho civil power, but sx-
pressed willingness to be governed by
the advice otthr civil officers of the Gov
srnment, and called npOn wm. +. Wet
,el, Esq, Deputy United States Mar'hall,
who forbid his Obsying the order, aud in
violent language threatened to report me,
| il l insisted on eutorcingit it.
To be certain that this case should be
thoroughly uuder,tOud ut headquarters, !
Scut the following dispatch to the Judge
Advocate;
aPoiST PLEASANT, VA, June Y, 'G2.
Moor r. n COrrias, 4. D. @. ! DPsFt-
meat, Judge AIsOsatt
! have served 4 notice on the jailOr ioF
the release Of CoutCaOands.
The U, s. Deputy NaEShal has comman-
ded th jAilor 10 retain them charging that
an interfering with the civil GuthoEityraS
tbsy were committed BY the civil mSEiS-
FaIe. The case will be reported 10 the
District Attorney, who believe Is pro-
slavery, Shall proceed 70 release them
By iorcsl
oaplaip c.. II, 9th Virginia Regiment
commanding post."
The following dispatch was received 10
reply;
~. 8. MtLITARY TELEGRAPH, June 10. /
By TGtEuRAPHgRoH VmcESSEs, lG, '62 !
- ~ @. IHAseltr, CAPT. Co. II, sM Hrgiaia
IaffHtry:
Release them At every haliard.
llhen took . squad Of armed men and
proceeded to the jail, demanded the keys
which were given up without any re,i'.
tAase, aud / released from The cell Of said
Jail, the said George Washington aud bis
family, consisting Of a.wifs aud two child
rem and J. BroEu,' the persons called for ia
the aforesaid pass aud Oriet
George Warrington and bis wife are
rather intelligent eoatrabandI, having been
raised ia the vicinity Of White Sulphur
Syringe. j. BrOWuIha' been afflicted With
rheumatism until his legs are drawn 50
crooked that iOoOmo.ion i' very diaieult--
be Is, however, rather . Hprightly dArksy
und can make himself SsrViOoabls ia many
Nayu. Atsus copy from theorder book Of
Company u.
~ J. Q. wHrrlER, Caplaiu.