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The Daily Dispatch: September 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Quartermaster's Office, (search)
om Petersburg assert with much confidence that there is not one word of truth in the rumor of the proposed evacuation of that place. We thought so from the first, and only mention it now to relieve the minds of those croakers who were so dismally affected by the report. From the Valley. The latest advices from the Valley of Virginia represent that General Early, on Saturday last, the 10th instant, advanced from his position at Bunker Hill towards Martinsburg. This place is in Berkeley county, only seven miles south of the nearest point on the Potomac river. The army under Sheridan, confronting General Early, is probably nearly as large as that before Petersburg. A New York paper states that Grant detached thirty-eight or forty thousand men from the Army of the Potomac and sent them to the Valley, to which must be added the troops under Hunter, Crook, Kelly and Averill. This immense force, so far from being able to drive Early out of the Valley, has had enough to do in gu
The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1865., [Electronic resource], Governor Peirpoint's message. (search)
who will complete and equip the road to the coal-fields of Hampshire county. The Capitol needs thorough repair. A new court-house is needed for the Circuit Court and Court of Appeals. The one destroyed by fire was not in the best place, and plans for the election of a building, fire-proof, at a different site, are now being prepared by Colonel Rives. The Governor proposes a commission to equitable part of the State debt on West Virginia. The status of the disputed counties of Berkeley and Jefferson he proposes to refer to the United States. He advocates a repeal of the usury laws, allowing the rate of interest to be fixed by the parties. He also recommends that insurance companies be required to make an investment of $50,000 in real estate or State bonds, as security against failure. The Governor concludes by reviewing his policy in the matter of the reconstruction. He says he has made every exertion to restore to each man the rights of citizenship. He i
The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
rant laws so as to suit the present condition of things was introduced by Mr. Garnett, of Essex, and referred. Petitions were presented touching the case of Berkeley and Jefferson counties, now claimed by the Governor, Boreman, of West Virginia as belonging to that State, but which protest that they are a part of Old Virginiae acts of 13th of May, 1862, and 31st of January, 1863, consenting to the transfer from this State to the State of West Virginia of the counties of Jefferson and Berkeley, and the said counties were declared a part of this State and under its authority. This act had previously passed the House with the same unanimity. On motion ee was ordered to consider the subject of immigration, and how it may be encouraged. In the House, the act, above referred to, relating to Jefferson and Berkeley counties was passed. On motion of Mr. Grattan a writ of election was ordered to supply the vacancy in the House of Delegates from this city occasioned by the death o
The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
he resolution was adopted. Mr. Julian, of Indiana, introduced a bill to extend the right of suffrage in the District of Columbia. Referred to Committee on District of Columbia. Several amendments to the Constitution of the United States were introduced. Mr. Wentworth introduced a bill to prevent the spread of foreign disease among the cattle of the United States. The bill prohibits the importation of cattle, leaving the Secretary of the Treasury to make the necessary regulations for that purpose. Mr. Latham, of West Virginia, introduced a bill giving the consent of Congress to the transfer of the counties of Berkeley and Jefferson from Virginia to West Virginia. Referred to the Judiciary Committee. On motion of Mr. Latham, the Committee on Military Affairs was instructed to inquire if the Armory at Harper's Ferry shall be rebuilt or re-established, or whether the public interests will be better served by selling the property belonging to the United States.
The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1865., [Electronic resource], Latest from Washington by mail. (search)
Virginia, addressed to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House, enclosing a copy of an act passed by the General Assembly of Virginia repealing the assent heretofore given to the division of the State by the formation of the State of West Virginia. The letter was printed and laid upon the desks of members, and attracted much comment. It seems that the question first came up in the Virginia Legislature on a bill to settle the status of the two counties of Jefferson and Berkeley, in the Shenandoah Valley, which have been in disputed jurisdiction. This act was so amended as to repeal the assent given in 1863 to the formation of West Virginia. In order to be effective, the assent of the latter State must be had, as it has been recognized by all the departments of the Government, legislative, executive and judicial. A Virginia Senator on the floor. Mr. Segar, of Virginia, a Senator elect, has unlimited privilege to a seat on the floor of the Senate, and of
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