The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-02-09
Extraordinary Powers Conferred on
the CaptaIn. GeneEal Of Cnhn.

HAVANA, Feb. 7.-Three pages OF 10.
days official Gazette are devoted 10 the
proclamation Of Csptain.G General Jovellar
lately reinvcsted with extraordinary
powers. The first gives q full expression,
OF the present state OF the insuTrection and
the causes OF its continuance; also, an.
nounces that peAcable citizens. NAV have
protection Of the laws.
2. Declares the entire Island In state
OF siege. All rebels and persons accused
OF sediton, murder and similar crimes are
to be tried by court martial. Persons
charged with other crimes and misde.
meanors are to be tried before the ordl.
nary courts, the Captain. General resery.
ing the right TO turn them over 10 the
court martial II the gravity OF their crime
requires 1t.
.. Orders of naturalization for active
service Of one volunteer out of eyeTy len
o. this naturalization will begin ilnme.
diately and continue six months. All
persons between the ages OF 20 and As
years not volunteers, on the first day Of
February are 10 be enrolled In Militia
Volunteers and enlisted for one year, and
any volunteer who may enlist for one
year will be exempt from all future drafts,
and every drafted volunteer will receive
one hundred dollars bounty. Drafted
volunteers will be allowed to furnish sub.
stitutes, but payment Of money TO be re-
lieVed from service will not be allowed
NO one subject 10 draft will be permitted
10 leave the Island unless he gives honda
that he will furnish substitute
In case he Is drafted. All peraohs over
10 years will have TO furnish Tor the mob.
ilization one man out Of every ten Of their
number. lfthey cannot enlist sufficient
10 cover this demand they must pay
VI ,OOO gold for each man wanting TO com.
plete tue quota. Quarter Masters will
furnish necessary aCcoutrements to drat.
ted persons who will receive the same
treatment and be subject 10 the same laws
and regulations as regular soldiers. Those
drafted will be organized into bodies Of |
Lnree hundred, forming two additional |
companies, mSking an east battalion. 7
.fwo'thirds Of these drafted will remain |
10 the garrison and the other third win |
take the field, accompanied by regulators.
Eyetysi1 months the ono. third Id the field |
will be relieved BY one Of the other two.
thirds performing the garrison duty,
artillery and engineer corps will be rein.
forced in the same manner as infantry.
4. The proclamation orders that the
militia shall be divided into four classes,
according to age, and that every man or
person OF age shall be included In the
militia, all to be liable TO military duty
under certain restrictions and conditions.
.. Promises that free colOred people en-.
listing in the militia shall be subject to
me same conditions as whites and be mo.
bilized In the same manner.
u. Orders that owners OF Rlaves shall
give one out Of every one hundred in
me Island, TO work in camp and on fortif.
cations and trenches. At the end Of the
campaign the Government will liberate
lll these slaves, paying their owners one
thousand dollars for each.
Z. Augments every battalion IN the
army by two companies.
o. Creates Junta for inspection OF all
tens OF expenses of the war.
0, Organizes vigilance committees in
me interior, who will take q note OF
everything going on, and furnish guards
o act as home guards. This system OF
vigilance is to be paid for, and is in
ended toprevent communication between
rebel sympathizers in towns and armed
Insurgents, thus isolating the latter.
~. Orders that the officers and soldiers
'hall be paid in future in gold, or Its
equivalent in paper. |,
II. Increases the extra allowances and
ood Of soldiers in the field.
II. Relates to towns and settlements in
he interior, ordering that only such
lew settlements shall be preserved as may
oe necessary in military and political
Iense, and whose disappearance cannot
produce any alarm or cause desertion TO
he enemy. The inhabitants of the de-
'troyed towns will be removed to the
learest preserved town and receive land
or tiI!age known TO be in a productive
condition; THE able bodied males win |
'e elected as local guerlllas, their families
o receive government rations. Towns
nay be taken from their present site 10
mother, and new towns built according
o the prescribed rules in these orders.
The orders are published simulta.
leously throughout the Island.