The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-02-09
SUNDAYS DISPATCHES.
FOREIGN.
HAVANA.
by Joyellar-Miiitary
Preparattons-A Sweeping Coh-
scripiion.

scrtpiion.
Havana, February s.-The pages OF
to-day's official Gazette are devoted to
the proclamation OF Capsain-General
Jovellar, lately reinststed with extra'
ordinary powers.
The first gives full history Of the
| present state OF the insurrection and
the causes OF its continuation, and also
assures peaceable citizens that they
NAV live in security under the protec-
ton OF The laws.
9, Declairs the entire Island in
| state of seige. All persnns accused oil
| sedition, murder and similar crimes are
to be tried by court marital, and persons
charged with other crimes and mlsde-
meanors are TO be tried before
the ordinary courts, the Captaiu-Gener-
al reservipg the right TO turn them over
to courts martial II the gravity OF their
crimes require it.
3. Orders the mobilization !or active
service, OF one volunteer out OF every
ten, this mobilization to begin lmmedL.
stely and continue elk montba All
persons between the ages OF twenty and
forty-fiye years, not volunteering before
the let OF February, are to be enrolled IN
the MALTA for one year, and q volunteer
who may enlist for one year, will be
exempt from all future drafts. Every
drafted volunteer will receive one hum
dred dollars bounty. DRAFTED voiun-
teers will be allowed TO furnish substi-
tutes, but the payment OF money 10 De
relieved from the service will not be
allowed. No one subject TO the draft
will be permitted to leave the Island
unless he gives bond tina: he will
furnish a substitute in case be is drait-
cf. All persons over iorty-fve years
.. ace will have to furnish Tor moblllzs.
ton one man out Of every one hundred
and one OF their number. If they can
not enlist sufficient to cover this de-
mand they must pay one thousand
dollars in gold for each man wanting
to complete the quoso. Quartermasters
will furnish the necessary sccoutre-
ments to drafted persons, who VIII
receive the same treatment and be
subject to the came lave and regu!s'
tions as regular soldiers. Those drafted
will be organized into bodies OF three
hundred, forming two addltlona! COM
pauiea, making each a battalion. Two-
thirds of those drafted will remain in
the garrison and the other third will
take the field, accompanied by regulars.
Eyery three months the third in the
field will be relieved by one or the o;h-
er OF the two-thirds performing gaTrl'
con duty. The artillery and engineer
corps will be re,enforced in the same
manner as the Infantry.
4. The proclamation orders o! the
militia thall be divided into tour class.
es, according to the age, and that every
IN an or person OF age shall be included
in the militia, all to be liable to mill
tary duty under certain restrictions aud
conditions.
5. Provides that Tree colored peo-
ole eplistipg in the militia shall be
subject 10 the came conditions az the
whites, and be modelled in the same
manner.
6. Orders that the owners oI slaves
shall give one out OF 900 in the Island
to work in the camps and on the tortl-
fcatious and trenches. Atthe end OF
the cam psign the government will hbe-
rate all these slsves paying their owner
$1,000 for each,
I. Augments every battalion n
the army by two companies.
s. Creates Jun'a for the iusPec-
ton OF all items and expenses Of war.
Q. Organizes vigilance committees In
the interior, who will take uo;e OF every
thing going on, ard furnish guards, aud
act as home guards. This system OF
vigilance is to be paid fer, and is in-
tended TO prevent communications he.
tween rebel sympsthizers in towns and
armed insurgents, thus lsolst'Dg the
latter.
10. Orders that officers and soldiers
shall be paid in future in gold or lis
equivalent paper.
II. Increases extra allowances and
food OF soldiers in the field.
l2. Relates 10 towns aud settlements
in the inferior, ordering that only such
be preserved as may be necessary in
military and political sense, and whose
Disappearance ce canDotproduce any alarm
or cause desertion to the enemy. The
Inhabitants OF destroyed towns will be
removed 10 the nearest preserved town,
and receive land for tillage known TO be
in a productive condition; able bodied
msles to be elected as local gueEilias
and their families to receive govern
ment ratious. Towns may be taken
from their present site to another and q
new town built according to orders pre-
scribed.
These orders are published sin'ulta-