The West Virginia journal. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1864-1877, 1865-08-09
News Items.
SALE OF WAR MATERIALS.


While the Navy Department sells. its
surplus articles at auction, the Quarter
masters Department invites sealed pro.
posals for the purchase Of its nov use
less property at Cincinnati, Louisville,
Nashville, St. Louis, Little Rock, Vick,-"
burg, Natchcz, New Orleans and Chat Z
tauooga. This includes more than one
hundred steamboats,, about four hundred
bargcs of different kinds, many ?ontoon
and cannl boats together with repairing
apparatus. ~
,. pARoLED PRISONERS. -: -
Gen. Gregg, commanding at Lynch.
burg, Va, has recently issued an order
declaring that privileges granted BY pa.
role consequent on Lees surrender. con-
,inuc only during good behavior. When,
q paroled prisoner insults any othcer OF
the Governme ment which grants tho parole,
he forfeits all the benefits and becomes .
prisoner of war, liable to be confined at
the will of the captor, or punished 4. :
Military Commission may, direct. All
paroled men in Lyncbburg are required
BY the same order to report themselves
at headquarters within twenty-four hours
and make known their means Of living.
DEsTlTUTIoN IN VIRGINIA.
A gentleman who has just returned
from o tour through the counties Of Stat
ford, Shenandoah and Orange, Virgins,
reports that he found tho Inhabitants
generally in very destitute condition,
with no money and very little If any
thing aside from the present crops. The
corn crop, though not very extensive IN
acres, will be unusually large in yield
It is thought more corn will be raised IN
proportion to the number Of acres plant
cd than was ever before produced in that
section of the State. The common peo.
plc arc we'll satisfied with the termination
Of the war, and the rebel soldiers who
have been longest in the field sppeir 70
be the best satisfied with the present con-
dition Of affairs. The preachers, editors
and politicians Of the old State rights
school arc the only ones who still adhere
to the idea of Southern independence.
| In many instances, cx.rebcl heuten.nt'.
Captains, Majors and Coloncls are en-
gagged in tilling the soil, who before the
var would have considered such an oc-
cupation degrading. ..'-: =.
MANUFACTURE OF WOOL.
Judge Edmund, who is preparing the
census report on manufactures, ascer.
tains that in 1860 the raw material used
in wooleu manufactures was stated 1t
$40, 5s6,SS7: the cost Of labor at 50, ,soS,-
254, and the value Of the manufactured
goods was SCI ,9G3,097.
AFFAIRS IN RICHMOND. u,
The Tribunc's Richmond correspou-
dent says: The fact that some twelve
citizens had been refused tho right Of
franchise because Of their Union procliv-
tiles, being made known to Gen. Turner.
he issued nm order declaring the Iate
election null and void.
This is in accordance with the code Of
Virginia which edicts that the refusal Of
one legal vote shall destroy tho whole
ballot, and in harmony With justice, be-
cause men chosen were we'll known disloy-
alists, and still sympathizers With seces.
sion. The persevering tyranny Of Mayor
Mayo the dogged indisposition Of tho
Legislature in its late session to amclio.
rate the laws bearing upon blacks; the
irony Of Mayor Tovnes Of Petersburg in
hi, structures upon justice to the negro;
the unfeigned disloyalty Of Mayor Slaugh:
ter Of Fredericksburg, and the perverted
and distrustful tone Of the entire press,
would all conspire to justify the general
Government ia its continuance Of martial
law and vigorous con6scation Of proper.
ty. Twelve months from now will DO
timo enough for the first steps towards
civil government in this State.