The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-14
WEST vIRGINIA ITEMS.

The Hon. j. ID. Blair-..The Lost Cause
General DuVaI.--Dr. N. w. White.
RIII Cooper or CInrksburS---ThG
Counties East OF gthe Mountains
--neetinss Rt MorEantOwn and
MoundsVilIe---West Virginia Con-
gr. ssmen.
The Hon. Jacob B. Blair, formerly
member of Congress from this district.
addressed Union and Constitutional
Amendment meeting IL Parkersburg
Thursday. 5z-A
The following paragraph which we
consider 'ta good thing" we find in The
columns of the Parkersburg DAILY
Times of last Friday.
IAN advertisement appears in a West
Virginia conservative paper, headed,
"AgentS wanted TO canvass for the
Lost Cause The advertiser should
wait till after the May election in this
State; agents of that cause will then be
plenty and idle. At present they are
busily engaged in canvassing the State
against the constitutional amendment
prohibiting the resurrection of the Lost
Cause.'n l- ll
We should have noted the other day
that Brig. Gen. 1. Fl. Duval, OF Wells
burg, was lately confirmed a Brevet
Major General by the United States
Senate: His name escaped our notice
in the list we saw. We mentioned only
the name of Gen. Kelley,
The notorious Doctor n. w. White is
back from the late Southern Confeder-
acy, and is once more practising his
profession at WellsbnFR, his old home.
Considering the conduct of the Doctor
in the matter of leaving this section
that is the oath he took and violated
we do not wonder that he was about
the last one ofall the crowd to get back.
The editor of the Register, published
at Union, Monroe county, West Vir-
ginia, thus notices his co-laborer in the
conservative ranks, Bill Cooper, OF
ClArksbuFg: .r
"We are glad to note the issuing of
the first number of THE Conservative, ,
by Major w. p. Cooper, late of the
Confederate army. We welcome the
'C6nserUdtiVe' to the service of the party
in our Stale, that is to meet the COM
bined enemies of our State and nation
and signally overthrow them at the
polls-" sa sa..-s
An agitation has sprung up in Grant
county for a change OF county seat.
The United States district tax levied
by Congress in 1861 on real estate, Is
now being collected in the counties OF
Pendleton, Hardy, Hampshire, Nor
gan, Berkeley and Jefferson. The loyal
States all assumed this tax and paid 1t
each one throughtheir State treasurers.
West Virginin also assumed her por
tion, but at that time she only number
ed forty-four counties, being ali on this
side of the mountains.
Theltax is levied according to the as
sessment of reiIl estate in 1860, and is
tlcenty-seUeH cents to the S1O0 valuation.
The owner ofproperty residing there
on is entitled to a Homestead Exemp-
toni of $500 free from this tax.
Persons owning and residing on pro-
peFty that does not amount TO the value
of $500 are exempt from this tax by pro-
curing the proper certificate from the
Collector.
Gov. Boreman and Gen. Harris ad-
dressed an excellent Union meeting at
Morgantown on Wednesday last. The
Governor also addressed another meet
ing at Monndsville on Saturday. The
ball is rolling. The majority for the
amendment Is increasing every day.
congressman Latham and WhaIey,
from the second and third districts In
this State, both voted against the adop-
tion of the Reconstruction Committees
report. Mr.. Hubbard, our member,
voted for it. Mr.. Latham publishes a
letter in the Fairmont Vedette In favor
of the West Virginia Constitutional
amendment. Mr.. Whaley is also un-
derstood TO be its advocate.