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The Daily Dispatch: February 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Virginia Post-office affairs. (search)
Virginia Post-office affairs. --A new office is established at Mountain Falls, Frederick county, and David Cooper appointed postmaster; near the route from Winchester to Wardensville. The office at Fisher's Point, Jackson county, is re-established, and James D. Thomas appointed postmaster. Appointments.--Napoleon B. Richardson postmaster at Fife's, Goochland county, vice Jane Poor, deceased. Joseph F. Howard postmaster at Issequina, Goochland county, vice John P. Bradley, moved away. E. T. Ogg postmaster at Bells X Ronds, Louisa county, vice R. H. Ogg, resigned. William Dawson postmaster at Cypress Island, Alleghany county, vice J. A. Thomas, resigned. C. A. Kramer postmaster at Fort Martin, Monongalia county, vice Joseph Snyder, resigned. Edward Pritchard postmaster at Shirley, Tyler county, vice W. W. Clark, resigned.
The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
as put and decided in the affirmative. Senate Bill Passed.--Senate bill for the relief of John M. Jones, late Sheriff of Pendleton county, was passed. House Bills Passed.--Repealing an act passed April 2d, 1858, entitled "an act requiring the Banks of the Commonwealth to resume specie payment;" amending the 2d section of an act authorizing the Bank of the Valley in Virginia to establish a branch in the city of Richmond; incorporating the Monongahela Savings Bank, in the county of Monongalia; amending and re-enacting an act, passed March 22d, 1860, entitled "an act to incorporate the Knob Turnpike Company, in the county of Washington, and incorporating the Hayter's, Abingdon and Tennessee Turnpike Company;" incorporating the Piedmont Land and Improvement Company. Enrolled Bills.--Mr. Hackley, from the Committee on Enrolled Bills, presented sundry such bills, which the House ordered the Clerk to communicate to the Senate for further examination. Appropriation Bill.--T
The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
Patrick Springs Female College; to repeal an act passed April 2d, 1858, entitled "an act requiring the Banks of the Commonwealth to resume specie payments; incorporating the Piedmont Land and Improvement Company; constituting a part of the Ohio river a lawful fence; to amend the 14th section of an act providing additional protection for the slave property of citizens of this Commonwealth; incorporating the Staunton Savings Bank; to incorporate the Monongahela Savings Bank, in the county of Monongalia; to amend and reenact an act passed March 22d, 1860, entitled "an act to incorporate the Knob Turnpike Company, in the county of Washington, and incorporating the Abingdon and Tennessee Turnpike Company; incorporating the Staunton Savings Bank. The Senate bill incorporating the Southern Agency, reported from the House with an amendment, was referred to a special committee--Messrs. Paxton, Thompson and Armstrong. The Code.--The bill appropriating a sum necessary to pay for the pr
The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
and Norfolk. At Smithfield, the counties of Isle of Wight, Surry and Sussex. At Petersburg, the counties of Pr. George, Chesterfield and Dinwiddie. At Buffalo, Putnam County, the counties of Mason, Jackson and Putnam. At Barboursville, Cabell County, the counties of Cabell, Wayne and Logan. At Charleston, the counties of Kanawha, Boone, Wyoming, Raleigh, Fayette, Nicholas and Clay. At Parkersburg, the counties of Wood, Wirt, Roane, Calhoun, Gilmer, Ritchie, Pleasants, Doddridge. At Moundsville, the counties of Tyler, Wetzel, Marshall, Ohio, Brooke, Hancock. At Grafton, the counties of Braxton, Lewis, Harrison, Monongalia, Taylor, Barbour, Upshur, Tucker, Marion, Randolph, Preston. At Richmond, the counties of Pittsylvania, Halifax, Charlotte, Mecklenburg, Brunswick, Grayson, Nottoway, Prince Edward, Appomattox, Buckingham, Louisa, Hanover, Goochland, Powhatan, Cumberland, Henrico, Amelia, Fluvanna and the city of Richmond. my 4-- d3tcwdt
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
The National crisis. Commander Stewart on secession — taking of the Georgia forts — views of the Governor of Missouri--Daylight Breaking — the Evacuation of Fort Moultrie--Meetings in Virginia — fortifications of the Southern States, &c., &c. Commander Charles Stewart, U. S. N, of the Philadelphia Navy-Yard, has written a letter against secession, and in favor of the North repealing her Liberty bills. Hon. Waitman T. Willey, of Monongalia county, candidate of the Opposition party in Virginia for Lieutenant Governor in 1859, has written a letter opposing disunion. He alludes to the position of Western Virginia in that event, and adds: "I am for Virginia as she is and was, as our fathers exhaled her--one and indivisible. I have deprecated recent manifestations of a desire for her dismemberment. Let her be integrate forever. But if we are to be dragged into secession or disunion, because a mere outside appendage of a Southern Confederacy, defenseless a
The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
Charlestown; by Mr. Boreman, the proceedings of a Union meeting in Wood co [He remarked that it should have been presented at an earlier day, but it had been mislaid by him.] By Mr. Wallace, the petition of citizens of Preston, Barbour and Monongalia counties, asking the incorporation of a joint stock company to repair and Macadamize the Morgantown and Berkeley Turnpike road; by the same, the petition of citizens of Preston, &c., for repairs to the Morgantown and Berkeley Turnpike road; by the same, the petition of citizens of Monongalia co., praying a repeal of the license tax on breadstuffs; by Mr. Mathews, the petition of sundry citizens of the town of Frankfort, praying for an amendment to the second section of an act passed 27th March, 1858, entitled "an act to incorporate the town of Frankfort, in the county of Greenbrier;" by Mr. Campbell, the petition of Ro. H. Gray, Attorney for the heirs of certain officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war; by Mr. Keen, the petition of
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Post-office affairs. (search)
and and Virginia--At Galena, Kent co, Md. William W. Wood is appointed postmaster, vice Samuel E. Briscoe, removed. James Sanders, postmaster at Maidsville, Monongalia county, Va., vice Wm. H Lazzell, removed. David Fisher, postmaster at Upper Flats, Marion county, Va., vice Joseph A. Roush, removed. Solomon S. Wagner, postmasteph A. Roush, removed. Solomon S. Wagner, postmaster at Jake's Run, Monongalia county, Va., vice Richard D. Tennant, removed. The office at Centre, Monongalia co, Va., is re- established, and Benjamin McCurdy appointed post master. Offices Discontinued.--Benton's Ferry, Marion county, and Miracle Run, Monongalia county, Va. ph A. Roush, removed. Solomon S. Wagner, postmaster at Jake's Run, Monongalia county, Va., vice Richard D. Tennant, removed. The office at Centre, Monongalia co, Va., is re- established, and Benjamin McCurdy appointed post master. Offices Discontinued.--Benton's Ferry, Marion county, and Miracle Run, Monongalia county, Va.
The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
er elect from the county of Henrico, and by the death of John N. Hughes, the member from the county of Randolph, and of Valentine W. Southall, the member from the county of Albemarle; and, also, by the expulsion from the Convention of Caleb Bogges, of the county of Lewis; Wm. G. Brown and James C. McGrew, of the county of Preston; John S. Burdett, of the county of Taylor; James Burley, of the county of Marshall; John S. Carlile, of the county of Harrison; Marshall M. Dent, of the county of Monongalia; E. B. Hall, of the county of Marion; Chester D. Hubbard, of the county of Ohio; Jno. J. Jackson, of the county of Wood; Geo. McPorter, of the county of Hancock; Chapman J. Stuart, of the District composed of the counties of Doddridge and Tyler, and Campbell Tarr, of the county of Brooke: Therefore, the Sheriffs of the said counties and districts are hereby required to hold an election in each of said counties and districts, at the several places of voting prescribed by law for a memb
The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Legislature of Virginia (search)
elections by of which they claim seats were mill and void. The committee therefore, recommend the adoption, by the House of Delegates, of the following resolutions: 1. Resolved. That the 23d section of article of the Constitution does not authorize the admission of former members of the House of Delegates in the House until their successors are qualified. 2. Resolved, That vacancies exist in the representation in the House of Delegates from the counties of Ohio, Preston, Monongalia, Harrison, Marion, Kanawha, and Burkely, each being entitled to two delegates, from the counties of Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Wetsel, Taylor, Upshur, Lewis, Wood, Putnam, Mason, and Messrs, each being entitled to our delegates; and from the election districts composed of the counties of and Tylor, Jackson and each being entitled to one delegate. 3. Resolved. That the petitioner, Jacob W. Marshall, is not entitled to a seat in the House of Delegates as delegate from the election dis
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Legislature of Virginia. (search)
, That the 23d section of Article VI. of the Constitution does not authorize the admission of former members of the House of Delegates to seats in said house, in cases in which their successors fail to qualify." After discussion by Mr. Forbes, of Fauquier, it was adopted. The question was then upon the adoption of the second resolution, which was as follows: "Resolved, That vacancies exist in the representation in the House of Delegates from the counties of Ohio, Preston, Monongalia, Harrison, Marion, Kanawha and Berkeley, each being entitled to two delegates; from the counties of Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Wetzel, Taylor, Upshur, Lewis, Wood, Putnam, Mason, and Morgan, each being entitled to one delegate, and from the election districts, composed of the counties of Ritchie and Pleasants, Doddridge and Tyler, and Jackson and Roane, each being entitled to one delegate." The resolution was opposed by Messrs. Newton, of Westmoreland; Rutherfoord, of Goochland; Nola
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