WEST VIKCIMA. 



WHITEHOCSE, HKNJIY J. 807 



will oppose with an unrelenting opposition any 

 scheme <>t' political aspirant* that itliull have 

 olij.vt tlif tiurtfuin or ale of this o,iK-ali-m lor present 

 or futur tin-lit. 



riiui we recommend to tho politicnl par- 



tlic Stuto tllttt this luuttiT In- Hindu a subject 



nj political priuiury meeting*, and 



that ul -. for tho Legislature hu requested 



i_v ilu-m.sclvoa uii'iuuliucdly iu fuvor of re- 



UlllVlll. 



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/JWivV, That in taking thin position upon this 

 <iui'.>ti"ii, u o are animated by no tWTuuj of hostility 

 !-m|ilo of Charleston, but uro actuated solely 

 . u o conceive to be tho truo interests and 

 welfare ..f the whole State. 



That the following gentlemen bo ap- 

 nvcntion nn Executive Committee, 

 for tlio purpose of currying out tho sentiments em- 

 bodied in tin--! 1 resolution*, and their presentation 

 to tho people of the State. 



In accordance with the last resolution, a large 

 number of prominent citizens were appointed 

 as committee-men. 



A new railroad, called the Wheeling & Lake 

 Erie Railroad, is in process of construction be- 

 tween Wheeling and Toledo. A junction with 

 the Atlantic & Southeastern Railway is spoken 

 of, and cooperation of the two roads from the 

 point of junction to the Ohio River. Little 

 support has been derived from the citizens of 

 Wheeling. 



An act of the Legislature, passed February 

 6, 1864, authorizing boards of supervisors to 

 borrow money to pay bounties to soldiers, was 

 decided in the Circuit Court of Wetzel County, 

 by Judge C. S. Lewis, to be in violation of 

 a clause in the constitution to the effect that 

 " no law shall embrace more than one object, 

 which shall be expressed in its title." The title 

 of the act in question runs thus : " To pro- 

 vide for the relief of the families of soldiers,'' 

 which, tho court held, does not imply the pro- 

 vision of bounties for the soldiers themselves. 



Several Normal Institutes, supported by tho 

 Peabody fund, held in different parts of tho 

 State during tlie summer, were attended by 

 the experienced and progressive educators of 

 West Virginia. The sessions lasted from ten 

 days to t\vo weeks, and the results were help- 

 ful and promising. 



The present Legislature, composed of 68 Dem- 

 ocrats, 16 Republicans :iud "> Independents, will 

 be called upon to decide the question of the re- 

 moval of the capital, and to choose a Senator. 

 The foremost candidates for the senatorship 

 are Henry S. Walkerj the public printer ; J. N. 

 Caraden, who has been twice candidate for the 

 governorship ; and J. 0. Faulkner, ex-minister 

 to France, and Confederate officer during the 

 war. 



It is the opinion of many leading citizens 

 that a geological survey of West Virginia is 

 needed, and will have an important influence 

 in promoting the industrial and commercial 

 prosperity of the State. In presenting this 

 subject to the consideration of the Legislature 

 in January, 1875, Governor Jacob said : 



Our valuable mineral deposits are becoming wide- 

 ly known ; they have attracted the attention of some 



of the leading capiUlUU of other Bute*, and also of 

 Knglat. 1 tin- Suto with a 



view of investment. But unfortunately, when they 

 come, we have comparatively . 



communicate to them. Our people are, in the 

 main, ignorant of our true resources, and this some- 



leads to an exaggeration of their extent, or, 

 on tho other band, to u depreciation !' their value. 



<>f our more enterprising citizens have bad lo- 

 cal investigations and examinations made, but these, 

 even when made by men of the highest scientific 

 character, are neither so reliable nor so satisfactory as 

 a general survey. We need a general examination of 

 our geological strata and mineral formations; when 

 this has been done, local investigations can be made 

 intelligently and with advantage. 1 therefore think 

 it would be highly conducive to the public interests 

 to have a general geological survey made under State 

 authority. 



WIIELAN, Right Rev. RICHARD VINOKBTT, 

 I). D.. Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese 

 of \\lic, liii-. West Va., born in Baltimore, 

 January 29, 1809; died in that city, July 7, 

 1874. He entered Mount St. Mary's College, 

 Emmettsburg, Md., when ten or eleven yeara 

 of au r e, and remained there eight or nine years, 

 being Prefect of Studies the latter part of the 

 time. He was then sent to the Seminary of 

 St.-Sulpice, Paris, for his theological and philo- 

 sophical course, and graduated with high honors 

 in 1831, being ordained priest at Versailles the 

 same year. He was employed, on his return 

 to the United States, as professor at St. Mary's 

 College, till 1835, when he was assigned, by the 

 Archbishop of Baltimore, to the missions at 

 Harper's Ferry, Martinsburg, etc. His labors 

 were so zealous and successful that, in 1840, 

 he was appointed by the Pope Bishop of Rich- 

 mond, and consecrated March, 1841. In 1850 

 the diocese was divided, and he chose the 

 western or Wheeling diocese, and resided 

 thenceforward in that city. He was very ac- 

 tive in promoting the educational interests of 

 the Church, and had built up a seminary for 

 young ladies and a convent at Mount de Chan- 

 tal, near Wheeling, which has attained a very 

 high reputation. He was a lithe, active man, 

 of great energy, and one of the most self-sac- 

 rificing, zealous, and hard-working prelates in 

 the country. He opposed, in the Vatican 

 Council, the promulgation of the dogma of 

 papal infallibility, but gave in his adhesion to 

 it promptly when it was promulgated. 



WHITEHOUSE, Right Rev. HENRY Jonx, 

 D. D., LL. D., D. 0. L., Bishop of the Protes- 

 tnnt Episcopal Diocese of Illinois, born in New 

 York City, August 19, 1803; died August 10, 

 1874. He graduated from Columbia College 

 in 1821, and from the General Episcopal Theo- 

 logical Seminary, New York, in 1824, receiv- 

 ing deacon's orders the same year, and priest's 

 orders in 1827, and ministered to a parish in 

 Reading, Pa., for about three years. He was 

 then called to the rectorship of St. Luke's, 

 Rochester, and remained there, greatly es- 

 teemed by all Christian denominations, till 

 1844, a period of fifteen years. He was next 

 rector of St. Thomas's Church, New York 

 City, till 1851, when he was elected Assistant 



