Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-08-08


CD. HUBBABD, Of Ohio County.
In another colamn of this MORNINGS
paper will be found some resolutions
passed by q meeting held In West Liberty
township, one of which instructs the
Board of Supervisors 70 vote at the oourt
House to day for bounty of six hundred
dollars to volunteers under the late call of
the President of the United States, instead
of voting TO confirm the sum offered last
Monday by the Board. This six hundred
dollar instruction is of course an extreme
figure, and one which We presume neither
the West Liberty member nor the other
members of the Board will teel themselves
seriously called upon to entertain. There
is no necessity why they should entersain
it, simply for the reason that it ia an unne-
oessary proposition. The resolution, how
ever, serves to show that there is feeling
in the country as we'll as in the city on
this matter of the draft and that the peo-
pie there are not less anxious for its pre-
veutiou than the people here. 1t
also shows that the plan adopted last
Monday by the Board is not considered
the best one that could be adOpted-in fact
not the one that will secure the county
from draft. This opinion of the West Lib-
erty people is supported by the enlistment
roll furnished us this morning from the
Provost Marshals ONCE, by which it will
be seen that we are making next to no
progress at all in the work Of filling the
quota. At the rate disclosed by the pub
Iished list it will take MS long time to fill
our Quota-much longer than the time al
lowed. 1t is of no use to speculate as to
Why this is the case, or to try to show, as
probably could be shown, that the offer
made by the Board is very rational and
fair one. 1t is not for non. enlisters to pre-
scribe the terms upon which men willing
to volunteer will enroll themselves to the
credit of one county more than another.
The recruit takes his choice and decides
for himself If he prefers three hundred
dollars down and no monthly installmentl
to one hundred down with monthly in
StAllment, and there are parties in the
market willing TO meet bis views and con-
tract with him, as there are, We must alter
our plan so as to compete with such per-
sons, or else give up the idea Of hlling oul
quota by volunteers. Brooke county, above
US, now offers three hundred dollars down
We understand they are doing the samr
thing in Marshall, although We have seeI
no action to that effect by the Board o
Supervisors down there. We must pre-
pare ourselves to do as we'll by those wish
ing to enlist as any other county. Only ii
this way can we hope to hold our ground
The trouble with ne here is that tn
people are mixed up and divided on tn
question of back pay as coupled With
present effer of bounty, There are som
who believe that We should provide boun
ty for those, and only for those, who en-
listed within the time prescribed for illinI
our last quota, and who in good faith be
lieved that they were being credited Of
account of that quota aud were to be th
recipients Of the bounty offered. There
furthermore division as to how many ar
90 entitled. Some, we'll Informed, say tina
only part of the - persons usually spo
ken of in this connection are so entitled
Col. Darr, the late Provost Marshal Gene
raj ofthe State, so affirmed. Added to these
thus divided in opinion, there are other
Who disagree still more widely as to tn
prOpriety of paying bounty to the on
hundred and fifty or sixty who enlisted
between the Let of March and the LIST o
July last, to whom = bounty was not offer.
ed and who did not enlist with an under.
standing that they were TO have any, 1t il
argued that if We are going into the illimi-
table business of paying bOuntieS under
such circumstances that there win be NO
end Of it, and that We can just as well 60
back to the beginning and provide by the
same equity for all who are enlisted TO the
credit of this county since the war commsn
eed. This, in logic, is called the rsdsetio ID
aEsurduns, and by virtusof sneh reduction
those who argue in the manner indicated
propose to show clearly how Iain and -fm-
possible it il go back and ante-dats the
whole question of bounties and make such
provisions as would accomplish just sat-
ifsfsction 70 all claimants. Q .gas1S
IL seems to as that there is . point 10
this mattsr to begin at and 8 pOintto leave
on at. Most people win admit the Propo-
sition that all persons Whoreally did enlist
within the prescribed time to the credit Of