By the Governor of Virginia a Proclamation.
--Whereas a vacancy has occurred in the House of Delegates of Virginia, occasioned by the death of William H. Cook, the delegate elect from the county of Wythe: Therefore, the Sheriff of the said county is hereby required to hold an election at the several places of voting prescribed by law in said county, on the third Thursday, being the 21st day of November, (the present mouth,) for a Delegate to fill the vacancy aforesaid.Given under my hand, as Governor, and under the Seal of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, this 4th day of November, 1861, and in the year of the Commonwealth the eighty sixth.