The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-05-10

From Gov PIERPoINT's recently pub
lisaed letter to the President concerning
the abuse of the military power IN Gen.
Buffers department., we make the follow
ing extracts. The cases we give are, by no
means, the worst or most aggravated IN
stances of the exercise of despotic power
which Gov PIERPolNT exposes and pror
duces conclusive evidence of, bat they are
merely such samples as we could most
easily reproduce in the columns of news
paper. The whole letter constitutes such
an Indictment against the private and off
cial character of Gen BUTLER as should
affix upon him the stigma of eternal intamy
and shame But let the reader judge.
THE GAS WORKS.
think that all the holders of gas stock
in Norfolk were disloyal. About the first
Of July last they stopped making gas coal
run out, and the officers would not take the
oath of allegiance in order to get permits
tn ship more They continued closed uotil
December. when Gen. Butler issued his
order that all the residents in his o.'trct
should take the oath prescribed in the Pres
idents amnesty proclamation. In IT, or
der it was stated that every pegS IA ''tn
have his rights in any way protected must
take and subscribe the OATH ETC. The
proposition is here plainly inferable that If
they do take and subscribe this oath, their
rights of property shall b" protected. On
the issuing of the order the president and
directors, aud all the Stockholders Except
those in rebellior) went forward and took
and Subscribed the oath, and made imme-
date preparation to start the gas WORKS,
but they wec1 stopped. General Butter
seized the whole concern and put then, int
operation himself although the president
of tie company assured hun that he could
start them in = few DAYS aud would supply
ali the gas needed Yet General Butler
sent to Lpwe for a nsn and fixtures t. re
pair at a cost OF tea thousand dollars, and
'has now the works in operation, furnishing
gas to the city on account Of somebody,
don't know whom. Isupposo the profits
20. into the procOst marSdaPs fund He
sells tbe sas at nearly double tho price paid
in Washington
In the sale there were upwardui thirteen
,hundred dollars, which Or. Cook, the pres
dent, desired to take out, but was pruh b.
TIED and asked to leave it there a few days,
aud assured that he should have 1t. But
ne has NOT been able 20 get one cent
.. of L.
MRS. TATEM's CASE.
Some time in January, General Butter
issued an order appointing three comm's.
sieiiers To examine into the condition of the
savings bank of Norfolk and Portsmouth,
under the plea that the money e the poor
q the city had beea deposited there, AID
thar the officers had used it and would not
bay the depositors. 1t was believed By
tnoss who had some opportunity TO kuow
= bat the money had been sent to Richmond
long ago So 1t turned out. But Mrs Ia
ten, widow lady, had two silver cake.
baskets and some other pieces of SILVER, be,
longing to her daughter in Europe. and
wren tue rebel army first came tnere, in
1861, oncgt sGerr aaus htcrs took thu silver,
placed some. napkins aiouud it. and put it
10 . box and placed it in the vault If the
savings bank IN Portsmouth. [, remained
there until General Buffers commissioners
went there: Mrs. Tatem called OH them
end ssked them for the silver, but she could
not geti:. They treated her politely. She