Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-25
.ErnIi, RinhIaontl.

Letoher has issued proclamation, call
ing an. extra session of the General Assem-
bly, of Virginia, for the 9TH of September.
His direction for calling it win be found
set forth in the following extracts:
aThe condition of the country calls for
the exercise of the best Judgment OF the
wisest councillors of the State. The large
levies of additional troops by the enemy
for the devastation of our lands and the
subiugation of our people require extraor-
binary exertion on our part, and every
STATEN the Coufederacy must brace itself
to the impending encounter with fearless
fortitude and untiring energy. The people
mnst prepare for the magnitude of the
emergency, and each man must feel that
his arm is necessary to aid in vindicating
the Justice of our cause, and that, come
what may, he is prepared to meet the foe
with calm defiance that acknowledges no
alternative but an unqualified recognition
of our Independence. No people can be
conquered who feel thus and act up to the
feeling with an abiding confidence in the
justice of Heaven.
concur in the propriety of converting
the General Assembly for the purpose of
devising means for the public defence; to
enroll an additional force of militia be-
yond the conscript age, for local as well
as general protection; to provide for arm
ing and equipping such additional torce1
and furnishing the means for rendering
their service available when necessary; to
give confidence to our people in our abili-
ty to repel our interruptions and worse
than savage foe; to set an example to our
Southern sisters by exhibiting mistaken
confidence in our Government and undi.
minished ardor in our common cause, and
to invoke their united aid once more in
meeting the emergency as becomes-a peo-
pie engaged in a righteous cause-to dis
play not only endurance under losses and
severe reverses, but, graphing with adver-
sity, to exhibit, at moment of anticipated
weakness. power from moral example and
physical exertion.
Besides this important purpose, hrst ana
uppermost in every heart, there are other
matters which require our most anxious
councils. The currency of the country ID
| in dangerous state. Something must be
done to give confidence to the people in
the stability of our monetary concerns
Something must be done to prevent the
depreciation of our circulating medium,
and the enhancement of the price of the
necessaries of life.
While it is proper for the Government
| to call in its excessive issues, and to en-
or proper, in my Judgment, in doing so, to
discredit the only money that is now in the
hands of the people to meet their every
day transactions. The capitalists and bro
kers may collect and fund the amount of
the currency in their hands, but the Gov
eminent should not permit the banks and
corporations of the country to discredit the
money which the poor are required tie re-
ceive, by refusing to receive it on deposit,
and rejecting it for ordinary dues, and
much less should the States themselves
discredit it by prohibiting its reception in
payment of taxes and public dues.
Such acts are mischieyous in the ex-
IRENE, and will produce panic, frighten-
ing the mass of the people from their pro-
priety, and tending to shake the Govern
ment to its foundation. 1 conyoke the
Legislature to provide remedy for these
evils, and especially to repeal the act pro-
hibiting the reception of Confederate notes
of particular date, in payment of public
dues. Much rather would punish those
who refuse to receive the currency of the
couatry with the utmost penalties of the
law.
It's necessary to provide funds for ga. car,
/ ryinR on the oPS"~A;H''e-"f-o taLe lnstltu-
tious to provide the means for employing
the convicts in the penitentiary, many Of
whom are supported at puplic expense
without returning an equivalent in labor
because no adequate appropriation has
been made for furnishing a full supply OF
materials for their work. Other appropri-
atoms are required, which it is not neces-
sary to specify, but which are, neverthe-
less, essential to the public service"