The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-06-17
,-.. clears Of all kinds valued at SIS or

OWS: cigars VI OH ninuS soi"o~ "' W.
ess per thousand, IS cents per pound ana
90 per eentum, I'D valorem; valued ct owe
sis and not over $50 per thousand, $l,25
Der pound and30 per centum ad valorem;
valued at ovef go and not over SIS par
Ehcusand q per pound and 80 per centum
ID valorem; valued It aver &45 per thous-
anda$3 per pound, and 60 per cent I'd vals
orsm; provided that paper cigars for eiglr-]
cites, including wrappers, shall be subject
to the same duties imposed on cigars.
A new section requires the owner or con-
signees when he shall verify to the collec>
tor his entry Of goods, to make addition to
the cost to raise the same to the market
value, and if the collectors appraisementt
exceeds by two per centum the declared
value, duty Of twenty per centum aoqi-
tional will be charged.
Another section fixes the value OF Inns
ported goods at the valuation ut the last
port Of shipment. 5Is -
THE BLAIR RESOLUTION.
The Senate Judicial Committee will take
final action Tomorrow upon the resolution
referred to them 10 regard to General Blair.
A majority of the committee are IN favcr
of reporting resolution to the effect tnat
Blair holds bis commission in VIOLATION o!
law. MIR. Lincoln, however, desires That IL !,
sball stop in committee for the present, ana
Chat no action shall be taken upon it during
this session. He says the Blair troubles
are already sufficient, and does not want
any additional embarrassments. The com
m;ttee ara disposed to act in the matter let
the consequences be what they may
THE CASE OF WILLIAM YokUM.
The President sent message to the
Senate to day, accompanied by . communl'
cation from the Secretary of War, in AM
swer to the resolution from that body, in
which it appears that one William Yoknm,
of Cairo, illinois, found guilty of kidnap-
ming a negro man in the employ of the Uni
ted States, and for fifty dollars delivering
him to one Cant, of Kentucky, is now IL
the penitentiary at Albany, serving out the
sentence at hard labor. 1t seems that on
an appeal from Representatives Green Clay
Smith. Lucien Anderson, and w. II Kan
dali, and representative S. IL. Casey, tue
President Endorsed the request as follows
civilian Yokum, herein named, is hereby
hardened. February l6, 1864" and sub
seouently added, after making the above
entry for pardon, "Upon representations
made by the Secretary Of War, suspend
action in the case"
| HOSTAGES.
| Eioht prisoners held as hostages fol
Union citizens now in the hands OF tht
rebels wilt tomorrow be transferred tc
Fort Delaware.
DENIAL OF Mur1NY BY HUNDRED-DAYt SOL
| ....F DIERs.
! II has been stated in distant papers thai
the one hundred.d regiments which re-
Gently arrived here, becoming mutinous
refused to 20 to the front. This is incor-
rect. They went with as much willingness
as any other soldiers during the war.
DELEGATES TO THE CHICAGO CONVENTION.
At meeting of the National Democratic
| Association of this district, held tosnight
the following were elected delegates to thu
| Chicago Convention: Hon. Amos Kendall
Hon. Charles Mason, 7. B. Swartz, vii
liam Finn, James A. Wise, Charles E. AL,
len, Brooke B. Williams, John F. Ennis
D, @. Lawrence, D. j. Snow, Lewis Shade
Sehn E. Reside, John Purdy, Michae
Thompson, and O. Myer Zulick.
| NoMl NATIONS CONFIRMED.
The Senate has confirmed the nomina
ton of Brigadier General John Buford, de
ceased, to be major general in the yolun-
teer force from the lst of July, 1863, ane
Colonel Selden Conner, of the Nineteenth
Maine Volunteers, to be brigadier- genera