The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-09-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
military Order.-Pcr.snnI Item.

WASHINGTON, September lS.-The
War Department has received copies OF
the following orders, issued on the 9Th
and 10th inst. by Brevet Major General
Ord, commanding the Fourth Military
District:
For the purpose Of securing peace and
ouiet, and preventing violence, disor-
der and riot throughout the limits of
this Military District, the assembling OF
armed organizations or bodies of cltl-
zens under any pretense whatever, Is
prohibited.
The proper civil officers, post COM
handlers and assistants, Commissioners
and agents Of the Bureau'of Refugees and
Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, will
use all means at their disposal to cause
the enforcement of this order.
Probationary measures to prevent
such assemblages by sending guards to
attend public meetings, or such other
action as may be deemed advisable,
will be taken by the post commanders
on all proper occasions.
In the event of its violation the au
thorities above named are required to
make some effort TO cause the arrest OF
the armed portion of the assemblage,
and when arrested they will be held in
confinement for trial by the military
commissioner All arms found upon the
persons arrested will be seized and held
by the officer making the arrest, subject
to ordersSrom these headquarters. The
practice of carrying fire arms is preva-
lent among DULLES and towards, not
practiced in well organized and civil
lied community, and il is the intention
of the General commanding to take all
practical measures TO stop it,
All persons now residing within the
limits of this military district, who, sub
seouently to. the 9th of April, '65, vOlun-
tarily exiled themselves from any of
the States lately in rebellion, and have
since returned to q residence in the
United States will, within thirty days
from the Ieceipt of this order, report in
person or in writing to these headquar-
tiers their full names and places of resi-
dence, giving their poStotficc address, IN
order that copy of the parole oath adj
ministered to the rebel armies on their
surrender, may be furnished to each, 10
be duly taken and subscribed.
The oath may be administered by any
commissioned officer in the military
service of the United States serving
in this command, and will be immedi-
ately forwarded to the Assistant Adju-
tant General at these headquarters for
file. A failure to comply with the
terms of the fore going order will sub
ject offenders TO arrest and such penalty
as may be prescribed by competent an-
thority.
The Heralds special says: 1t is un-
derstood that Mr.. Chandler, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, will certainly
resign.
The Times special says: 1t is exceed
ingly doubtful if General Grant will
recommend new trial for FitZ John
Porter, there being no precedent of law
for it,.
The Tribunes special says: Chief
Justice Chase authorizes a denial of the
statement going the rounds of the news
papers that he has written a letter to
President Johnson indOrsing his action
in the recent conflict of authority be-
tween. General Sickles and the civil
courts of the Carolinas in relation to
Order No. ~, for which General Sickles
was removed. He has never given an
opinion OH the subject to Mr.. Johnson
or any other Government official.