offered a resolution for reference looking to the establishment of Federal recruiting stations in each county.

ARMS BROUGHT TO WHEELING.

Mr. Burdett suggested an inquiry regarding the disposition to be made of the 2,000 stand of arms now in the city. Mr. Carlile said the committee were unanimous in the conclusion that they should be handed over to the State authorities here for arming the volunteer militia of the State which would be organized in a few days. These were the arms shipped to Wellsburg at the instance of the Brooke County delegation who went to Washington. Mr. Burdett had proposed that as there was no possibility of the guns being needed at Wellsburg they be brought to Wheeling and utilized in arming the volunteers; and he with some others of the members went to Wellsburg and arranged for the reshipment of the arms, coming down with them on the boat and landing them on Wheeling Island.

THE CONVENTION RESTS.

On Tuesday, the 25th of June, the twelfth day of the sitting, a resting-place in the work having been reached, the Convention, having arranged for earlier recall if needed, adjourned to the 6th of August. Mr. Farnsworth had sought to have the adjournment made subject to recall by the Governor, so that if matters should not be in trim for the resumption of work when August 6th came around, the reassembling could be deferred to a later day; but the suggestion did not meet with favor.

RICHMOND REVIEWED.

In his parting remarks to the Convention, President Boreman noted that thirty-four counties were represented, a territory embracing almost one-third of the white population of Virginia. Their work, he said, had been well done; and it now only remained to go home and assist in putting the government they had restored into effective operation. On the day of the adjournment an address issued by order of the Convention was promulgated. It embraced a careful and able review of events at Richmond, including this interesting paragraph:

The proceedings of the Richmond Convention up to the 17th of April were evidently intended by those in the secret to persuade the members favorable to the perpetuity of the Union, and the people at large, that it was intended to propose terms on which it could be maintained. On the day named, the mask was thrown aside and the ordinance of secession passed. This was done in secret session, and no immediate promulgation of the facts was made to the people; nor until since this Convention assembled was the injunction of secrecy so far removed that the vote on the passage of the ordinance was made public. It now appears that more than one-third of the whole convention voted against it, and hat nine members were absent. Up to this time the debates which preceded the vote are concealed from the people, who are thus denied a knowledge of the causes which in the opinion of the majority rendered secession necessary and justified so gross a disregard of their lately expressed will.

CHAPTER XI.

CHEERFUL OUTLOOK FOR THE

MENT THE LEGISLATURE;

OF SENATORS.

NEW
ELECTION

GOVERN

THE EXECUTIVE IN HARNESS.

In its issue of June 24th, the Intelligencer took this cheerful view of the work of reorganization:

"Governor Peirpoint and his Council are hard at work each day and much of the night in maturing important business. The questions of revenue, militia and general ways and means are being rapidly matured. Our people will soon be able to see that we have earnest men at work." The editor proceeds to pay a merited tribute to one of them, Daniel Lamb, who, he says, "is, with all his heart and soul, at work in the good cause. From the very first he has signalized his devotion to the movement by willingly taking on himself no inconsiderable share of the drudgery."

SKIES ARE BRIGHT.

The editor recites further the auspicious circumstances attending the inauguration of the Restored Government:

The building of the United States custom-house in this city (finished in 1859) was a fortunate thing for the new government inaugurated last week by the Convention. It is nothing more nor less than a fine State-house-a good deal finer than the one tenanted by the traitors at Richmond. The magnificent United States court-room is just the hall for the Convention and will be just the place for the Legislature when the Convention adjourns; and if the two bodies sit at the same time-which we presume they will-there is a fine capacious chamber on the floor beneath, quite the thing for the latter body. Then the different committee rooms, Governor's room, etc., seem almost to have been made to order. We never could see before what all these fine rooms were for. Already we have a finer capitol than they have or had-at Montgomery; and much better, as we said, than they have at Richmond.

The new government starts out auspiciously if ever government did. Its declaration passed by the identical vote given for the Declaration of Independence, and its passage unconsciously immemorialed the eventful anniversary of Bunker Hill.

And more than this, the new government finds itself with an army in the field; with the whole strength of the Federal Government at its back; with a revenue ready supplied from payments already collected by the sheriffs; with all the loyal State wishing it God-speed and with every possible circumstance in its favor.

THE LEGISLATURE CONVENES.

Those members of the General Assembly of Virginia who adhered to the United States met, in response to proclamation of Governor Peirpoint, in the city of Wheeling July 2, 1861-the House of Delegates in the Federal court-room in the custom-house, the Senate in the Linsley Institute, corner of Fifth and Center Streets. In the House, the roll was called by Col. Leroy Kramer, of Monongalia, and Gibson L. Cranmer elected permanent clerk.

In the Senate, Lieutenant-Governor Polsley presided, and William M. Lewis, of Doddridge, was chosen permanent Secretary.

RECOGNITION AT WASHINGTON.

The Governor's message was read at an evening session in both houses. He transmitted with it correspondence between himself and the authorities of the United States, showing that June 21st he had addressed to the President a formal letter setting forth the conditions in Virginia and asking for "military force to aid in suppressing the rebellion and to protect the good people of this Commonwealth from domestic violence."

The reply came from the Secretary of War, Simon Cameron, who was directed by the President to say: "A large additional force will soon be sent to your relief." The correspondence, of course, long post-dates the movement of troops to Grafton in the later days of May, by which the Northwest had been relieved from the presence of Porterfield's and Garnett's forces. Secretary Cameron's letter is somewhat discursive:

The full extent of the conspiracy against popular rights which has culminated in the atrocities to which you refer was not known when its outbreak took place at Charleston. It now appears that it was matured for many years by secret organizations throughout the country, especially in the slave States. By this means when the President called upon Virginia in April for its quota of troops then deemed necessary to put it down in the States in which it had shown itself in arms, the call was responded to by the chief Confederate in Virginia by an order to his armed followers to seize the Navy Yard at Gosport; and the authorities of the State, who had until then shown repugnance to the plot, found themselves stripped of all actual