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She ?nUlli$tnm. OA&PBSLL & HDSKXOT, puopriitoss a*d ooiroBe. tPXJHt-Piai, delivered la city per veek, 16oeat? r?n.r, L-y nail, hi adranoe, .~$3,00 <"*- W*anrfta {Leo ?i*su.T. in advicce ? ug W>3SLy,*!z death*, i,?o Friday Morning, MarclTlY W. P. Hcbbabd, sou of Hon. C. D. Hub bard, and late assistant clerk of the House of Delegalts. bas been commissioned as a Lieutenant io the 3d ffe^t Virginia caval ry. Mr. H. enlieted &a a private some tea daje ego. He is a young man of decided capacity and will do credit to himself and tho service. Tn* "gratd confidence" as regards the smashing oat of this rebellion is becoming as visible as sunlight. There are very few people we opine who doubt tbe result now. The situation is mathematical. A clear case of compression is obvious. The strangulation of tbe armed confederate power is daily imminent. It may be post poned a few weeks?perhaps two or three months?but we doubt it. The odds are too tremendously on our Bide and every dity increases tbe disproportion. If it were not for the fact tbat Robert E. Lee is in chief command of tho rebel forces there would be scarcely one who still doubts. He is a tower of strength to the waning prospects of the rebels, if so be that we can speak of a tower of strength appropri ately in such a forlorn connection. But Gen. Lee cannot create anything out of nothing. He cannot number that which is laekiog. He cannot save a rebellion from which tbe arms and legs have been cut, Ht.d frcm which the thighs, shoulders and entrails are being taken. The heart of the confederacy barely bcalB. The head is dreadfully bruised. The vital spark may be extinguished any day nt all now. Fon several days paBt we have been bear ing rumors of a considerable difficulty at Betbai.y, between one or more citizens there and several of the students at the College. Kxcited reports of a threatened cmeule, if not an opeu collision, growing out of politi cal antagonisms have been circulated. Wo are assured by gentlemen of unquestionable authority that there is in reality but the smallest foundation for such reports. We are assured also that tbe difficulty arose with one or two Students firing at a mark too near the residence of n promi nent Union citizen who construed the an noyance Into an intention on tho part of tbe students to persecute bitn. A report from Wellsburg yesterday stated tbat tbe grand jurors of tbe Circuit Court there were on the point of presenting the College as a nuisance. Appeals have been made to the Governor bere to interfere in the difficulty, bot he ba? found it impossible to * reliable and satisfactory statement ol ? be enough men In Brooke rvmJlTta sign u document responsibly attestfog tbe cause and extent ot tbe difficulty. We un derstand tbat the Governor bas called for some such attestation. We would, there fore, say to tbe citizens of Bethany, tbat for the credit of their place and the benefit ot all concerned, tbey should draw up s document and publish it, and thus relieve themselves frcm the many reports in circa lution. Whatever the facie tire let then be plainly stated. Tug li<ral State of Virginia, representee bo Guv. Pcirpoint's government at Alex undria, has a right to oomplain of bread ol faith in the refusal of the Senate to ac cept its Senators. Congress recognizee this government two years ago, and there by West Virginia came into existence ai a State, and it now liolds on to tbe chile but repudiates the mother. Senator Wil son slated tho case truly when the mattei wns before the Senate on the lYth ult:? '?I understand this question to stand in this way: The Congress of tbe United State, recognized ? political governmeni in \ irgmia, or a portion cf ii; as tbe< Stat, of \ irgtniti proper. On the strength o tbat recognition, men were admitted inte this Sunaie and into tbe other House Oc the strength of it we made West Virginia i State, and brought her ioto tbe Union, and is in the Union today. It seems te ine, therefore, tbat we are bound by all oui *?leldu*nK ?h?'?? ,br" J,,,s to con suler tbe Governor and Legislature of Vir ginia as existing. "As regards the proclamation of the president so muob of Virginia a. was not occupied by our forces was declared lo re bellton ; but that portion of it held or to be be.d by our armies was not declared in re - bellion; and the moment a square mile ol \ irginia is occupied by our armies, bv the very terms of tbe proclamation it is no lorger lu rebellion. The great part of Vir IlniTJl" si*!" WUj 'bB K0Tern?e?t of tbe United States, and nt war with the state government of Virginia precisely a. much i" i! "i cl * "r *'lh ,he government of the Lui.ed Stat.s. These rebels are at war with Gov. Pit rpomt and ibe legislature that has St ilt ibis gentleman bere who claims a seat just as much as they are at war with Mr' Lincoln and tbe Congress of -the United States. I am willing to have this question examined, because 1 tbiok tbe committee th . '? ""mine "? *Dj ooRbt to report tbo facts; but my understtndiog of the facts is as I have stated ; and unless some thing is shown to tbecontrary Ifeei hnumi to recognize Gov. Pierpoiu"7nd Si? The reply to tbe argument lately much used in the Senate, tbat senators and rep. reeentativea ought not to be admitted from ?ny state until the president proclaims it i DO longer io insurrection, is well answered by Mr. Wilson. Tbe fact tbat they are not in insurrection, but sustain a loyal gov. eminent of their own, is sufficient without a proclamation. IV bat Our Farina Yield. Statistics jnn issued by tbe Department ot .be"oyaVs",te,i,i:i,s63 "T ^ UtB" *Fsa?&ggx T. w A- 1 ? ZVmet, 16M. The above statement i. de?pli?.. Tb() gaio is more apparent than rf?l. Price! for farm products were generally higher in 1864 than in 1863. and consequently there did not oeed to be an increase of product, but only in price, to make a bigger ebow iog on paper. There will probably be this year (1865) a great increase in prodnct, and the showing will not be bo large in dolUrs jars a6 last. Wby? Because flour, corn, oats, wool, hay, pork, 4c., are coming down in price?not io ftctaul value?bat in paper dollars. NKIOUBOBHOOD IKW8. The St. Clairaville Chronicle notices the fact of a general westward movement of people in that vicinitj this Spring. It says: Going Wist.?From present indications there will be a larger number of persons leave ibis part of Ohio for the West this year, than have ever left in any one year, and we regret to say that among the num ber are many of onr best citizens. There can be no doubt, however, but that the West?with land at its present enormous rates in the old States?does offer induce ments for the investment of capital that seem sufficiently strong to tempt almost any one who owes a small tract of land here to sell it and go there and buy a much larger one. The protracted Methodist meeting at St. Clairaville going on for four weeks, closed last 8unday night. Says the ChronUJ* in regard to it: During its progress one hundred and twenty-eight persons joined the Church, over one hundred of whom are adults. This has been one of the most success* ful meetings ever held in St. Clairt<ville, and ita reaul's will be of lasting benefit to the place. Io addition to tbe large num ber of persons who have joined the Meth odist Church, many others have been seri ously awakened, and in the Presbyterian Church, where a meeting has been in pro gress for tbe past ten days, there are en couraging indications tbnt great success will follow their efforts, and many names be added to that Church also. The Steubenville Ilerald is complaining of the high prices for provisions up there as compared with some larger places. We are not sure but that some of its remarks would apply to Wheeling as well as Stcu benville: " Provisions of all kiuds are kept np io Steubenville much higher than at other points ot more importance. Prices are so unreasonable and exorbitant that some general action should be taken to coun teract tbe extortion. Butter selliog iu New York at 40 cents, ia sold in Steubenville at 45 and 50 cents per pound. Flour, selling at Cincinnati for $8 and $9 pvr b&rr<l, is selling in Steubenville from $11 to $12 per barrel. Hums sell at Pittsburgh for 23A?in Steubenville at 28 cents. These are a tew among the maoy exorbitant prices put upon tbe people of Steubeoville I just now?which they are not well able, 'and should ootstand, if there is any rem edy. For tbe comfort of the Ilerald, we com mend to it tbe following paragraph from the New York 7Ym/.*of yesterday: Tim Better Time Comiko.?The great items (tea, sugar, coffee and the like) of tbe housekeeper's grocery account were not a fraction higher?we speak of tbe smaller retail dealers?when gold sold at 280; than (hey ware yesterday, when gold could be had indpty quantity at 180. Yet * UttXH ~*~* w i? be* TwMroiiyMBBiiftna trade rnnapira. cies, ana higher prices have bad their day. We shall see them broken np with tbe break np of tbe combinations and conspi racies of tbe Riohmond rebels. WASHINGTON COUNTY (PA.) NEWS. The Examiner of yeaterdaytnotioes indi cations of oil in that vicinity. Oil Discovery Nbab Washington 1? While many of ourcitizenB have beeo pros pecting and inveating in diatant localities tbe discovery is made that oil is flowing from the springs almost at our own doors A friend has shown us a vial of oil obtaio ed from springs in a raviue on the farm o James Linn, Esq., one mile northeast o this borough. Daily visitors report that i number of springs on the farm are all yield ing oil in qauntities that stagger beli?f. While many are putting in their claim: for central position, over the basin, whj may not Washington claim to be the grea centre, till some other localiby can make i better show? A Steono Puil.?At a pulling match it Nottingham towoship, last week, a twe horse tenm, pulled fifty two hundred anc twenty pounds, on a wooden eoled sled, up a five degree bill, on the bare grcund. I? must havo been "a long pull, a strong pull and a pull both together." Tub unwilliogness of the United States Senate to consent to an increase of sala ries of the House employees has provoked some comparison of the expenses of tbe two bodies, and it is found that it costs $17,000 to furnish the 62 senators with stationery, while the 102 members of the House get along with $12,000; and thai the senatorial mileage is a big thing, it costing Senators Line and Pomeroy ot Kansaa $2160 each to reach Washington, while the Kansas representative, Mr. Wilder, comes fifty miles further for $1273. Other aimilar comparisons are made,'which do not show superior economy or virtue io tbe highest body. Peefictio*.?Of all the labor-saving machines ever invented, combining the useful with tbe beautiful, there is none to compare with Wheeler k Wilson's Bowing Machines. '? A babe in the bouse is a well spring of plessure," is a beautiful ex pression, but in the now fashionable idiom ot A. Ward, a Wheeler k Wilson Sswibg Machine is a well-er. Seriously, a sewing machine, complete in all its details; that proves itself all that is represented , that brings comfort and pleasure in previously disordered households??n brief, that is j perfection, such as a Wheeler k Wilton machine, is a desideratum the possessor would oot part with on any ordinary ac count. There are numerous other sewing machines before the public, but none can approach tbe Wheeler k Wilson as a ?eli able family machine, and this fact is demonstrated by the immense number al ready sold and iu use, and the constant and increased demand for them. Messrs. i Sumner k Co, No. 99, Main street, are bu sily engaged in filling orders for these un I rivalled machines, but their facilities are such that their patrons are promptly sup** plied. See advertisement. f D1KD, On Wednesday, 15th inat., at 5 o'clock P. M-, Urti Faaxcas Bantu by, daughter of Jacob Sen ?mmj, t|?d M years. The funeral will take place this, Friday morning* at 10 o'clock, from the rcatdence of bar pareata.? Tha trie ads of the femllj are reepectfoUy invited to attend. TOT.W ADVERTISEM'NTS i wanted! i . A B1TDATI0N AB BOOK KEEPER or CL1RK. A The teet of city reference, can be ?a dr*ss A B., at thii office. mhl7-lt WANTED T"08ELL,aotne helle ton or upwardj or B?r Iron. X prltdpally round, from 1 to 8 inch* thick, of T&rloui lecglht. We will Mil the whole together, or part, to ?lt po,chuen.gTEWABT ^ clabk. artVf.,1, O . M.rcb 15. ?? mhl7-I? For Bent. TBI LARGI THERE 8TCRY BBIOK 8T0RE Rood in Market rqnere, next door to Lot* tavern P~ M ill'? riven on 1 he 1st of iF PRYOR, UOWELL * MILLER, mhil-td FOR SALE. ONE Oj Under SI foot Bteem Boiler, 19,000^Brick, one file hone Bteem Bngtne, one ?'^ hor,| Bteem Kugint, t?1im end pnmpe complete, one copper-tinned Brewei'e Refrigerator, fanning Ma SSSJ, <??*?t?rel Steam BtlU four Bwlll Tank.. Ki',v ?!? [Oivten Bottlee, one eecond hand n '_ Hsrnes* and sundry Brewer's UtcnsilBe bSKSI^'"-" building*, with Lot thirteen. In Bquere eleven, Bjnth Wheeling. QE0 gT0REY, mhl7-lw Qcrner Qaiccy and Market dts. /-AillLDRKNa' CAJ-BIA.GES?WOOD AM) WIL* Slr.rA irMt ^5Sffi?ri?rBO" ^ShlT ? 109 Main fairest. ^^Ytn.heUprt-O^^ ReceUed end 'pyjJf1J'TH0WBLI, 4 MILLEH. mh28 Thirty thuom choice sugar cored *i0 ifeIyounde Bacon Shoulder*. J net out of imoke, lor aal.br ' PRYOR,HOWELL & MILLER. mhl7 TEN Tierce* Sugar Oared Dried Beef, received and for tale ny mhl8 PRYOR, HOWELL k MILLER. THREE Hundred Barrels Family Extra VLODR received and for sale by n>hl7 PRYOR, HOWELL k MILLER. For Cincinnati and LonUville. The floe Bide wheel patsenger packet I .JESs^^BOSTcNA," Captain J. II. RIOifi, will d^^^SSBlleaTe as above on SATURDAY the 18th inat.. at 6 o'jl'ck, P. 51 ? ' B JOTH, BATXELLE k CO., Agents. mhl7-2t WALL PAPER! WALL PAPER!! WK HAVE NOW IN STORE OVER 100,000 ROLLS WALL PAPER! RANGING IN PRION PROM 12 Cents to $3 Per BolL Sr-COUNTRY MKROli ANTS supplied at the Lowest Wholesale Rates. tar CITY BUYERS will And It to their lnteres to call and examine onr stock before parchasinj elsewhere. J.C.ORR&Co. 106 MAIN STREET. mhl7-6t LITERARY PEARL IS THE BEAUTIFUL NEW STORY CP MAUDE HILLARY ; oa, THE POOR SOLDIER'S LUCK, BV MISt M K. BRAEDOX, Author of "The Outcasts," u Aurora Floyd," "Lady Audl<*y's Secret," Ac. The publication of this charming romance is com* menced in the XEW YORK MERCURY of 8ATURDAY, MARCH 25. It is one of the chol era? productions that has yet adorned the pages of that celebrated Journal of American Literature.? The tame of M<ss Braddon Is too widely and warmly accepted to require any extended notice. She bas won her vray to tbe hearts of all who appreciate pure, r? fined, and lofty thought, expressed in lan guage easy, bright, and cheerful, yet dignified, and free from any approach toward affectation, either grave or gay. There is an undercurrent of genuine and natural humor, too, that runs likea silver thread through Miss Brad don's text, and lends a peculiar charm to the most serious as well as to tho lighter portions of all that she has written. Her very best characteristics appear in thlshcr latest and undoubt edly most matured and ariistio performance. MAUDE HILLARY opens in the Taamanian Peninsula, amid the fresh scenes of BRITISH AUSTRALIA and the quaint life and manners of the Colonies at the Antipodes. Fnucis Tredethlyn, the "poor sol* diei" ot the work, is a splen lid specimen of his pro fe*si-n, and the reader's attent'on is, at once, riveted by the strong, manly Individuality he repre* eots. The scenes that ensue are as novel and striking as the landsotpes of the country in wh'ch they are laid, yet intermiogled constantly with fine touches of English home life, and kindly domestio feeling. BOTH HEART AND IMAGINATION are Immediately interested, and the perusal of a sin* gle chapter convinces tht moat Indifferent or blaee critic th*t he has, indeed, before him, A most Faa* cixatuq Wosk. The New Yovlc Mercury, or tbb 25th mst., IS NOW READY FOR D1I1VRRY, And contains the opening chapters of Miss Braddon's beautiful story. mhl7~9tdaltw? ST PATRICK'S DAY. THE members of St. Patrick's Mutual Relief So ciety, will meet in the 1 asement of the Cathe* draL at 1 o'clock p. m., 17th InsL, (St. Patrick's Day) j for parade. B j order of the COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS mhlfr-Sl* City Hay-scales to Rent. SEALED PROPOSALS for renting the City Bay Scales in the Second and F<lth Wards, for the current year, will be received by the aadsrslzued until Tuesday, March 31st, at S o'clock P. M. Sep* arte b'ds to be made for each. mhic-'lt H. F. FEINT, City Olerk. Poor Levy-Overseera of Poor. ALL pereoni h??lcg aoronnte er delme iplox Ohio Ovnaty on ec.oabt of eupport of the poor for lb. je? endinz on th. Inl d.j or April. ]iu will pree?it Ihra OK THAT D4T ,rop.rl. estb.n ueoaipulMl by the secnmry To?ch en, for the potpow of Mag Uetod for by th. Bo.rd o. tbmt day. By o d.r mhlfr-deetd 010. W MOIITS. Oluk I ( Wh^Ung Regietw copy. WAR DJ PROVOST MARSHAff Wasb ? OIKGULAR, \ No. 6. J T fetation?*? galdince 'AN ACT to amend Ou fore patttd to pn&hM for calling out the national force* ana j j no- w. j j. published tor th? SSSe. <"?" other purpoee*.^ . . . ? ? j "Sicno.i 1*. And by It f^^'^greiekael ; when any rtTlwd enrollment In J rior w or draft clrtrlctl^li??n?b??^r,1,? cnr<)ll0>.n, any actual drawing of name* ir<-_ . adjusted and I Una. the qnou of suchInstead of ? apportioned to snoh r"!"^ eorol <tlrollmeQt as It being applied to or baled npon the in" m?, heTO stood before the revlao^ ted Th,t -21C1IJS 14. And be It f?r'mUlt5rJ or hereatter all per?nst?ultertdl?l?<n <ob,lllute8? naral eerrice, whether a. credited to repreeentatWee, or ntherwls', ?t?l nreclnot, or the Bute, and to the ward. ?*"r. eSJh per?na other enrollment "b 'torfct. wbe ^ mn beloag by actual residence (If ??,nd actual rieldenc. within the United 8MteJ,> ana where inch pereone were or shall b ^ tlle i I ! end that lair and Jnat credit t , H,JV -ft|l section of the country: *'""*? tow/aWp, for troope hereafter no oonn^i town. p ward, precinct, or ele^on dUtricU .hall h?e crwiu SSrS'4S?i?3 Into the nji.itary ?* ja?al eerrioe on the quoU I "??tii 16. Andbi It farther enacted. That In computing quotas hereafter, credit shall to the setetal Btates,districts, end ?nb-dlrtrlcU, lor all men furnished Iran them, reeptctrrejj, "'?J1 heretofore credited, dating the present rebellion, I for any period ol eerrice not lesa than three monthe, StolitJng the number ol day. for which .uoh eer; I vice was furnished, |nd reducing the same to years. I Provided, That such credits shall be applleu toth" I caU for additional troops made by tho I resident on 1 the twenty-Drat day of December, eighteen hundred I "V*Jno??Y6. And be it fnriher enacted, That peisons who hctve been, or may hereafter be drafted, 1 under the provisions oi the several acts to> *hI|* 1 this is au amendment, for the term of one year, at d I who have actually furuiahed, or may I nish, acceptable substitutes (.not liable to draft) for I the term of three 'ears, shall be exempt from mil liary duly during tie time lor which such eabemutee I shall not bo liable to dralt, not eiceedmg the time for which such nub^tltutfci aUall hare been mue 1 tared into the M>mc?, an> thing; In _">e act of Veb 1 ruary twenty four;u, eighteen hundred and sixty four, to the contriry notwithstanding. I ? Skciiox 17. And bo it farther enacted, 1 hat I aov recruiting agsnt, substitute Iroker, or other I person^wno, lor pay or profit, shall enlL,^ or can.. I to bo enlisted, as i volunteer or subeUtnte. any in I naue i.erson, or coivict.or person under indictment I for a felony, or wbo is held to bail to answer lor a I felony, or person In a condition of intoxication, or a deserter from tho military or naval service, or any I minor between the agta of sixteen and eithteen 1 years, withoat th? cousent of his parents or guar* | diau, or any minor under tho age of sixteen years. I knowing h.m, in ?ither c*se beiore meutioned, to oe such, or who sbal defraud or Illegally dcpr.ve auy 1 volunteer or aubiiitute ot any portion of the State, I local, or United Itatee bounty, to which he may be I entitled, ehall, upon conviction in any court of com I neteut j uriadictlm, be fined not exceeding one ihou I sand dollars, noi leo than two hundred dollars, or I imprisoned not exceediug two years and not less I than three months,or both, in tho discretion of the I court aforesaid. 1 -cacTUit 18. And bo it fnrther enacted, That any I officer who shall muster into tho military or naval I bervico of the United States any deserter from said I service, or insane person, or person in a condition I of intoxication, or any xniuor between the ages ol 1 sixteen and eighteen years without the consent ol I his parents or guardian, or any mi: or under tlu I age of sixteen years, knowing him to be such, ahull, I npon conviction by any conrt-mariial, be dubouor I aoly diuuUsed the eervico oi the United States. I '?tscri-.H 10. And be it further enacted, That in I every case where a substitute ia furnished to tak< 1 tho place of an enrolled or dralted man, snd it ii I shown by evidetce tlat shall be tatisfactory to th< 1 Secretary of War, that anch substitute was, at th< I lime o: his enlbtment, known by the party furnUh I ing him to bi non.comy.os mentis, or in a conditlot I oriutcxic?tion, or unuvr couviction or icdictmeni I tor any oftence of the grade of felony at the com j mou law, or to have been guilty of a previous aci I ot desertion nnsatis&ed by pardon or punishment I or by rt-aoon of any existing infirmity or ailment I physically incapable of perlormfng the ordinary I duties of a soldier in actual service in the ranks, oi I minor between the ages of sixteen and eightoec 1 years, without the consent of his parent or guar I uian, or a minor under tho age ot ntxtocn years, 11 I shall be the duty of the Provost Ma: s ha I General, I on advice of the fact, to report the same to Uu I Provost Slarihal of "tho proper d lot riot) sal If ft) all fMWB*??VU?4Hd inctpable shall havo IffeD, I since the parage of ithis act, mustered into tna ser I vice as a substitute for a person liable to draft, and | not actually drafted, the name of the porson so lia< I ble who furnished such substitute shall be agalr I placed on the list, and he shall be subject to arefi I thereafter, aa though no such substitute had been 1 furnished by him; and if such substinte so enlisted I and inctpable as aforesaid, shall ha?e boon, siuc? I the passage oi this act, mustered into the service ai 1 a substituU^tor a person actually dralted, then it 1 thali bo the duty of th? Provost Marshal General U I dir.ct the Provost Marshal of the district lmmodi I ately to notify the person who furnished auch sub I atitute that he ia held to aervice in the "lace 0 I such substitute, aud ho shall stand la thesam< I relation and be subject to the same liability as be I tore the furnishing of anch substitute. 1 "Ssciloa 10. Aud be it fnrther enacted, That in I case any substitute shall desert from tho army, and 1 it shall appear by evidence eatlsfactory to the Bec I rotary of War, that the party furnishing auch sub* I atitute shall have, in any way, directly or indirect I ly, aided oi abutted such desertion, or to have been I privy to any intention on the part of auch substitute I to desert, then such person shall bo immcdiately I pUccd.in the army, and sh^li serve for the period I fur winch he was liable to draft, auch aervice to | commence at the date ot tho desertion of tho sub I atitute. I **?iKCri05 21. Aud be it further enacted, That, in I addition to the other lawful penaltiea ol the ciime I cf desertion from the military or naval service, all I persons who have deserted the military or naval I service of the United states, who shall not return to said service, or report thomsolves to a Prcvoat Mar shal within sixty days after the proclamation here iuafter mentioned, shall be deemed aud taken to have voluntarily relinquished acd forfeited their rights or cltlaeoehlp and their rights to become cit izen,; and such deserters shall be forever iucapabio of holding any office ol trust or prout under the United States, or of exercising any rights of citizens thereof; and all persona who shall hereatter dest.rt tho mi itary or naval service, and all persons who, being duly enrolled, shall depart the jurisdiction of the olatriat in which he ia enrclied, or go beyond the llmlta of the United 6tate?, with intent to avola any dralt into tho military or naval service, dtly ordered, ihail be liable to the penaltie* of thia sec tion. Aud the President ia hereby authorized and required forthwith, on the paasaze ot this act, to issue hia proclamation setting lcrtb the provisions of this section, in which proclamation the President is requested to notify all de erters returning within sixty days as aforesaid, that they shall be pardoned ou condition of returning to their regiments aud companies, or toauchothtr organizations as they may be assigned to, un>i< they snail have served for a period of time equal to their original term of en listment. "fescrtos 22. And be it further enacted, That the third section of the act, entitled **An act (further; to regulate and provide for the enrolling and call ing out the national loices, and for oihtr put poses," approved July fourth* eighteen hundred and sixty ftur, be, and the same Is hereby, repealed. "Siotiob 23. And be ?? further enacted. That any persou or persons enrolled in any sub-district may, after notice oi a drait, and before the same shall have taken place, cause to be mustered into tho service of the United 8tates, auch number or reoruits, not subject to draft, as they may deem expedient, which recrntta ahall eland to the credit of the peiajua thus causing them to bemuaUred in, and ahall be taken aa anbatltntee for such persons, or so many of thsm as may be drafted, tc the extent cf the number of anch recruits, and *n the order de signated by the principal at the ttmescch recruits are thus as aforesaid mustered In. "gsCTiov 94. And b0 it fnrther enacted. That section fifteen cf the Act approved Kebrnary twen ty.fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four,entitled "An act for enrolling and calllog out the national forcts, and for other purposes,** be, and the ssme is hereby, amended by insertiogafter the words *'any c vil magistrate,** the words 4-ur any person author ised by law to administer oitbs.** "Sxenoa 25. And be it fnrther enacted, That the Secretary sf War is hereby authorised to detail one or more of the emploj eee of the War Depart ment for the purpose of administering the oaths required by law la the settlement of officer's sc counts for clothing, camp and garrison equipage qoartermsster's stores, and ordnance, which oaths shall be administered without expense to the Dar. ties taking them and ahall be as blading uporfthe persons taking the earn*, and if felsely taken, shall sub ect them to the same pet-alUes, aa if the aame were administered by a magistrate cr Jostles of the "oictio* S6. And be U further enacted, That Acting Assistant Burgfona, Ojutract Burgeons, and Snr?eona and uotnm Ssloneni of the Bundling Hoards while In the mihtary service of the United States snail hereafter be exempt from all liability to be dralted under tbepruvisione ol any act for enrolling and calling ont the national Circes. -rsjv oe IT. And be it farther enacted, That this ect shall take affect from and after its paasase ? Provided, That nothing herein contained ehall one-* rata to foitpone the pending draft, or Interfere with lb. qxUi a?ll?.dtl..re2ar. "Apprised March 1,1,9,.' [Se.u.ps treee oat U I .?!*?, laclaelr., do aot r? lau to this ftuatB, and are mlLM I JAKrt II IIT, PrOTo.' ?lar*alOea.r.l. li^SSPS". Oaasphor to Utt.r tb.o Una kr..w ?*?' *?re .Ml Woolen Ototh. tm Ml. aa Mo. 1 044 ,?l!ew UaU Inaa 8loie. _klf - WAR DRPARTBIi'*,1[,a ) PHOVOSr MARSHAL GESERM/fl.KFICB, }? i WasaietOT.*, March 1'.1 i CIRCULAR I No, ?.. { N conformity i /with the Proclamation flhe Presi _ t herewith published, all M0* and em" plojeea of thia Bureau are instructed t?iT0 Prompt attention to the receiving and fonrft :,D? of ,uch deaertera aa present themselves in ?cJ"lanc? with iU prOTiflODS. "BT TBI l-RMIDETTO* THB UK ITU) STATU OF 1MSBI0A : UA PROCLAMATION 41 Whereas the twenty.fint seciioi<>f the act of Conaress, approved on the third instaut, enti tled 'An act to amend the several heretofore pasaed to provide for the enrolling ad callicg < nt the uational forces, and tor other ?uifwea,' require? 'that in additioa to the other lawful ;<naltiea of the crime of desertion from the military or naval service, ail petaons who have deaerted the utW or naval service of the United Statea who ahaii not return to aald Uervice. or report themselves w a Provost Marshal within sixty daya aft- r th# Proc aniUion hereinafter mentioned, shall be deeaed and token to have voluntarily relinquished and forfeited their lights of citizenship and their rights io become cit teens, and anch desertera shall be louver incapable of holding any office of trust or pr.fi- **nder the United States, or of exerclalog any ii?I?isof citissns thereof; and all peraons who shall h?reafler desert the military or naval service, and ai persona who, being duly enrolled, shall depart thejnriadiction of the district in which he is enrolled, or go beyond the limits of the Uoited States irittimteut to avoid any draft into the military or nava service, duly ordered, shall be liable to the penalties of thia sec t'on. And Ihe President is herebj lathorixed and required forthwith, on the pataage t: this act, to is sue his proclamation setting forth tk* provisioua of this section, in which proclamation tie President is requested to notify all deaertera retiming within sixty days, aa afoteaaid, that they ahtll be pardoned on conditiou of returning to their regiments and companies, or to such other organisations &a they may be aisigned to, until they shall &ate nerved tor a period of time equal to their origi&sl term of en listment.' "Now, therefore, be it known th*t I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the Uoited titatrf, do isaue this my t reclamation, as required by aaii act, ordering and requiring all desertera.to return o their proper posts; and I do hereby notify themtbit all deserters ? ho shall, within sixty days from tie date of this Proclamation, viz: on or before the 10th day of May, 1805, return to service, or report themselves to s Provost Marshal, shall be pardonei. on condition that they return to their regiments sad cornp ?nies, or to such other organization* aa thty may be as signed to, and serve the remainder of their original terms of enlistment, and, in addition thereto, a pe riod equal to the time lost by desertion <lIn testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the Uniud btatea to be affixed. ??Done at the City of Washington, thia eleventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one [l s.] thousand eight hundred and sixti -flvo, aud of the independence of the United Staten, the eighty-ninth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. "By the President: ??William H. SxwAan, Sec'y of State. The recorda and returna of these de-erters will he made up in the same manner aa it provided ler in othor cases by existing regulation*, except that it will be noted on the book of the darters arrested, opposite the name of the desert* r, the fact of his having voluntarily surrendered himself in conform ity with the Pre-jident'tt Proclamation; and the com ber thus surrendering themselves to be separately stated on the report to this office. The Becrotary of War dirocts that no reward be paid for the arrest of deserters who may be arrested subsequent to the receipt of thii order by the Dis trict Provoat Marshals. JAMES B. FRtf, mhl7-lw Provost Ma uhal General. AN OHDINANCE TO provide for assessing and collecting a tax on persjual property. Be it ordaluod by the Council of tho City of Wheel ing : ? Sec. 1. At thetirst meeting of (he Council after the passage of thia Ordinance, and at the first regular meeting thereof in the mouth or February in every year hereafter, or at such other time as the Gouuc 1 may by special order appoint, there shall le elected by Joint balljt of the first and second Branches, an assessor, for tho purpose of making the assessment r AT? property in tho city under the Act P?? oi W est Virginia, passed February 28th, I860, entitled "Au Act to authorize the Coun cil of the City of Wheeling to collect a tax on per. aonal property in said city " y Stc. a. The assessment first made pursuant to thii 'i1 lilfiudo th" PerwuHl property in the fnr ink y of the Pa"aRe?f thia Ordinance,and th? Bbal1 delude such property in th0 flrBt daj of February in each year and in listing, ascertaining the value, and making returns thereof, theaas,ss*r shall be gOVOrned b5 nUeiTbS ?mDi and Pr,DC,PIeB? *? f?*r as they aro ap. pliable, which are prescribed by the laws of tbt ?mJlrSrrsi\,o0uxaUoDM'':',m0ntof pe"?"al ?>"? ana 1 hill account for and p.*/ over ? r.r,?? , . Sec. 4. The assessor and collect or shall receive sad compensation for their ssrv.cea^^i^r this Ordi nance, as the Council may s. musty prescribe. Sec. 6. Thia Ordinance shall take effect from iti passage. Passed Maich 14th, 1866. mL?17-2t H. F. FJEENY, Clerk. WASHINGTON HALL. F^AZZlEi 25SW? tbo w"ek Also. ? BRAND mat a/ternoo KlTe" on Wednesday aud tiatnrda1 ? GRAND CONSOLIDATION ol two distinct ant I separate conjpanlu. ani THB WOBLD-RENOWBD Peak Family Bell fiiugers 22 Px&FORKCBS. ?49 FlLYKE BllLS. ror further particular. ac0 Prommmo, T1CKKT8 6u c.ot^ R?.frvtd fSt.To int(1. No half price in the evening. I Tickets for aale at Jease B Mellor?a Mn?ir' o?n? where* diagram of the H .11 may be s!f ? I tlcketa to commence at 10 o'clock m tlcketa sold alter the home Ii comfortabl v fl"??l A GRAND MATINKE will be elv.n . J wf?" day and hatnrday afternooii 8 " "n Children admitt?d to tie afternoon n??.i ?? | 2> cent.; Adnlt. 60 cent,. 0n 0oIlcert <" Djom open at 7; to commfnM at 8 0.cl0ck. mhlg-Pt Rn*,|a.U0M^,1S? Unslnegw Mangers. NEW STOCK! JOSEPH L_ WILDE, HAS THB best assobtment OF wall pa p e e s IN THE CITY. P? E.U. -S* ^,r/?50rmation Wanted. 1 MWi"> ^?'?"matfoa b.* *r?'?r?l Ibr LKWI8 WDITMoRR and out* ?( who left Rockingham HKATWOI.H, Any Information from IlS y" V'rKlnl* In 1863 recirej by their con.ln . 'd brother b" ,h*okfut^ NBWrox WBl'rMORB. mhl?-3t? wT|?..,hM .WU?MOBM, " ? *W"III?, Athena Pp.. nM,, Board of 8Qpervlsnro tPBOIAL MKKT1NQ ? ""SOrS. O Board of l^npe^?l^orIrf.^,'^ meeting 0r tha b. held at tbe Ojurt Uo?m ?r Ohio will GOOD NEWS FSOM SHERMAN! O01D DECIiyisQ KAPIDLY! , B^oLV^^^WgtrgPMNQ 0L0THi H. & S. B(J K\HEIM'8, ?o. 10THaln 8t,?t ^here an ImmenaA ??..< _ _ J,M 6w hu OLOTHLNO AMD ai!rr..u,s-. ?? ?A)Dg 8 '"BKismira good?! *"ra,I1*> * ?? take pleasure In (bowing mbl? u- *- S. ROaSNHBlSJ, * DE Y GOODS GEO. R. TAYLOR IS NOW OPENING A Large and Attractlre Stock | OF DRY GOODS, *STTo which he invites the Attention ol Buyers. JUST OPENED. Black Lustreless Drees Silks, Plain, Carded and Plaid Silks, Morie Antique, Pare Mobair Glace, Check and Mohair De 8oie, Color* d aud Black Alpacas. Small Check bilks, French Organdies. Kich Kmb'd Grenadines, And all other desirable styles of t- NEW DRESS GOOD3. JSMBHOIDKRIE8 AND LACE GOODS. Lace and Moslin Garibaldi's, Lace Handkerchiefs, Lace Setts, Clerical Linen Collars, Linen Cuffs, Edging and Insertings, Flouncing*, Ac., Ac., Ac., JUST OPENED BY GEO. R. TAYLOR. NEW STYLE SPRING CLOAKS. HOUSEKEEPING GOODS. I 9-4 and 10-4 Muslin Sbeoting. 9-4 and 10-4 Linen ? bee ting, Pillow Linens aud Muslins, Iluck Towe!*, Raisin Crash, Liaen Table Damask, Table Napkins, Bed Spreads. Plain, Pink, Buff and Bine | JACONETS AND P1BOALS, MERRIMACK PRINTS, | BLEACHED AND BRO. MU.-LINS, SPRING CLOAKJNG8, OASSI MERES FOR BOYS'WEAR. TRIMMINGS. I Ginpnre Lace, Cable Cord, Bogle Gimp. Bogle Bottom, Ac, | BALLARD VALE ?"1W?TDia rLiNNELS, HOOP SKIBTS? I F REN OH 00RBE1'P;LEXANDKW8 KID GLOVES, JUST RECEIVED BY GEO. R- TAYLOR. EVCRV tAWYFR BHjbDLD I1AVK A. COPY I Iln Preii and will be itiued in a few dayi THE CORPORATION LAWS OF WEST VIRGINIA, Compiled from official sources, and embracing al! the legislation on the subject up to date; To which is added the Law providing for th< RKCOKDING OP WRITINGS RELATING TO PROPRHTY IN UNORGANIZED COUNTIES. By mall 75 cents per copy, post paid. Newsdealers supplied ob liberal terms. Bend orders to JOilN FRKW, Publisher, mhl4-lwdtwaw* Wheeling. W. Vs. HOPS. HOPS?A large lot of prime and assorted Easteri Hops just received and frr sale by mhl8-iw EUBToN A 8TOREY. For Sale; 1l,HE Three Story Brick Rouse in Lamden's Row one door > elow Dr. James Cummins', Mail street, Centre Wheeling. Apply to W. F. PETERSON, Main street, one door above M. A M. Bank. mhl0-2w For Sale. r 11HK BREWERY AND DWE1 LING HOUSE, with X Lot thirteen i'i squarw eleven. South Wheelirg, known as Storey's Brewery. Capacity eleven thou; sand barrels Ale or Beer per annum. If not sold bj M?rch 15ih, the lot and buildings will be sold alono; and mtchinury, vessels a"d fitting for sale. Apply to GEO. bToRKY, mh2 Corner Qulncy and Market streets. Dwelling for Sale. THE TWO STJRY BRICK DWELLING, corner Monroe and Fifch streets, containing seven rooms. Possession 1st April If not sold by 1st April it will be rented. Koqu're of P. 0. H1LDRITH A BRO., _feS4 68 Main street. DESIRABLE RESIDENCE FOR SALE. 1HE Two Story Brick Dwelling, formerly occu pied by Orleff A. Zane, on Wheeling Island, together with ihe four lots enclosed, which are nwatly covered with fruit trees and shrubbery. For terms of sale apply to mh7-9w W. F. PETERSON. For Sale. TWO PORTABLE ENGINES, intt.ble for nil 1 Wo?k?. Ihe, have three iDoh flai .Sj J?!, bum mod or co.1, .nti are eroeciellv .rrmriDfc* fi the OU bnslneM. Appl, far JONAS W. YEO. Bob,D,onM^?^,Sd. STEPHENS & SMITH, ATTORNEYS FQR COLLECTING Pensions, Back Fay, Bounty, AID ALL CLAIMS AGAINSr THE GOVERNMENT, Office over the Bank of Wheeling, Main Street, WHEELING, W. VA. fc*7 FOR RENT rilHE RBNNE8 HOTEL, on M,ln .t? A th. Sa.DeiuloD Bridge. *tyT? olAprIL far particular. Appl^to^ *1*eo ttnt U-M ,0H"a?NCX' Shoe 8tore. 1865. 186& HARPER' & BRO., HAVE THIS DAT RECEIVED THEIR Spring Style or SILK: HATS! ' fs3 KDWAXD aBD. JAMBS IBH. REID & NEILL, MAaxrrAOTuaxaa or Soap & Candles HO. 1 MAIM STREET, DEALERS in all kinds of Plain and Fancy Soaps The highest market price paid for grease and iallow.1Orders solicited from the trade. Thankful forpasfpatronage we solicit a continuance or the ?fs3-4m PIANOS ? AT ? REDUCED PRICES! FBOM THE PHESENT DATE Until the 28th of February, I WILL 8ELL MY BTOOKflOF FINE PIANOS, ;now in stork, FIFTY DOLLARS le8s than Manufacturer's Price List, TO make ROOM FOR NEW 8T00K. t^-PnrohMeri may rely upon every Instrument being exactly as represented. ONB very FINELY [CARVED KNABE PIANO PRICE SI,OOO, | WILI. BE SOIiD FOB $900 CASH JESSE B. MELLOR' | Sole Agent for WM. KNABE A CO., No. 139 Main Street, Js30 WHEKLING, Dissolution Notice. THff co-partnership heretofore existlngnnder tb? firm name cf ROBINSON A BALL In dissolved idw o-j oy inuian coftseut, Mr. JR. nan retiring from the same Either narty la authorised to set tle the business of the firm. KNOOn BALL. JOHN H. ROBINSON. Wheeling, February 30,1864. f OHN H. R0Blv8"*N will continue the business ?J at the old stand. N ?. 165 Mnia street corner ot Market Alley, where he will be happy to meet all his old friends and be prepared to wait on thom with any goods jn his line. Boots Shoes or Oal'en, ea?tern mad* or home made work, at reasonable rates. (mbll) JOHN H. ROBIN -ON. CO-PARTNERSHIP. I HAVE this day associated with me In bnsinesd Mr. B. F. LITTLB, under tho firm aame ol I JAB. O. ORR A CO., the partnership to dat* from Jannary 18th, 18R6 JAB. 0. ORR. ! Wheeling, March 1st, 1865. WE would respectfully call the attentl in of the trade and the public generally to our large | and well assorted stock of WALL PAPER, WINDOW SHADE*, GAP, LETTER AND NOTE PAPERS, ENVELOPES, TOYi JUVENILE $ SCHOOL BOOKS, ALL KlIfDS CT FIRST CLASS STATIONERY, and everything else in our line, all of which we will sell as low as any other honse In the city. Offices famished With SUPRRL ?R STATIONERY at lowe-t rates. Oountry Merchants will find it to i heir advantage to call and examine our stock before pnrchaaing.elsewhere. mh8-10t J A?. 0. ORR A CO. To Our Retail Trade. TTTB have Just received and are now opening aa v T importation of tke best qnality of WHITE GRANITE WABE, In plain shapes, from the Celebrated Potteries of JAMES EDWARDS A SON, DALE HALL, ENGLAND. I We invite those in want of House Furnishing Goods to call and examine them. J. L. HOBBS, SON * CO., fe34-lm-2p 116 Main street. G. B. CALDWELL, ATTORNEY FOE ALL MILITARY CLAIMS, BACK PAY, Bounty. Pensions, Ac: 49~Offlce? Melodeon Building, rooms formerly occupied by Caldwell A Boyd, opposite Bank of Wheeling, [up stairs]. RBTO&sxar:?His Excellency A.L BorCman, Gov ernor of Weet Virginia. F. P. Pelrpolnt, Adjutant General of West Virginia. S.Brady. Cashier Mer chants* and Mechauics* Bank. D. 0. List. Cashier I Bank of Wheeling. mh7 -6mdtw A w ~ ARTIFICIAL Legs, Arms and Crutches. LEONARD LEGRAN, No W Ohio Street, corner of East Common, Allegheny City, manufactures all kinds ot Artificial Leus, Arms aad Crutches. Repairing promptly executed, at cheip rates. For particulars apply to CHARLE8 BEHLKR Ag't, Monroe 8L, bet. Fourth and Market. fe8*-tf Wheeling, Weet Vs. Notice. MR. F. P0L8TKR, Practical Piano Maker and Organ Builder, for the last 20 years engaged in Wm. Kuabe A Co.'s Celebrated Piano Factory in Baltimore, has been engaged by the undersigaedt and Is ready to taieanl repair Pianos and Organs at reasonable prloes. Orders left at the store wiU receive prompt attention. JESSE B. MELLOR, fe?-lBB No. 180 Mtln str?t. Wh^ine. DR. R, H, LEE TT7 ILL hereafter devote from 1 to 2>? o'clock of v? each day, to the operation* and tieatmentof all the various diseases and malformations of the Eye. aed also at the same time, he will examine and treat all the different forms of club-foot. Office?Main street, adjoining the Grant House. mh2-6m #JTJST RECEIVED. Fifty bbls. Washington mills flooe. Five Tierces Davis* Sugar Cured H*ms, Two *?**?* M Inritd Beet, For sale low by R. J. SMYTH. feats Corner Market and Qalncy streets. FOR RENT. FiOM the Erst of April next. Two Large Store Rooms on Main street, adjoining the Grant Bosm. They are to have a new Iron front, with two large show windows, knqnire of L. WO .TMANSIS. fa28-lm Grant House.