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FOH SALE.


4 NEW House and Lot, corner Of Morgan and
"a Second streets, beautifully situated for adwel-
ling house. Inquire Of the owner, Edward Mumm,
or l.. j. Zwart, on Morgan, tween Sd and 4th SITS.
January "a. dim
Short Credits and Short Prices
WE invite the attention Of buyers to our extern
w sive aud varied asso rtment Of
New Goods,
Selected and imported for our Spring Sales.
Our stock is divided into Three Departments--de
voting one ftor &c eachenabling give more VT
tenion TO, and better assortment Of ach class of
goods than be found in any house doing general
business. The following are among the articles to
which we devote special attention
HOusefu I'm ishIng Department.
LACE MUSLIN CUR TABLE 4 PIANO COW
TAINs, Frs,
SATIN DAMAsKs, WATERED MoREENs,
SATIN De LANES, OIL FURNITURE
IMPERIAL DAMAsKS, CHINTZ'S.
NoRsTED . QUILTS COUNTER
COTTON ' PANES,
coRNlCEs, TASSELS, BLANKETS,
&c; TOILET COVERINGS,
Linen Goods Department..
LINEN sHEETINGS, TOWELS d ToWELING,
PILLOW CASE LINENS, DIAPERS d CRASH,
TABLE CLOTHS, LONG LAWNS,
TABLE DAMASks BIRDS EYE DIAPERS.
NAPKINS d DoYLIES, &c
STAIR LINENS,
And every variety Of SHIFTING, COAT PANT
LINENS.
Hosiery Department..
MEMS HOSIERY AND GLOVES,
| WOMEN HOSIERY ANDGLoVES,
CHILDREN'S HOSIERY GLOVES
SHIRTS, DRAWERS &c
| We ask an inspection of stock by none but
CASH and approved SIX MONTHS buyers--to such we
| offer crest inducements
GuiiIou. Anderson d 90.
No. ll7 Market st. below 4th Philadel phia.
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100 BOXES Glassware and Window Glass At
sUU REYNOLDS Drug Store.
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New Grocery x Provision Store.
~ w. RUNYAN l. co, having established them
". selves on the south side of Fourth street,
to the Market House have received large and we'll
selected stock Of Groceries which they respectful
y call the attention Of the citizens of keokuk and
vicinity. Provisions and Feed of all kinds kept
constantly on hand. All articles delivered in any
part of the city free of charge. dee. ~, du.
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Franklin Fire and Marine
INSURANCE COMPANY.

CAPITAL 100000 CASH PAID N 500, 600.
Invested according 10 the Law Of Illinois
Especial attention given TO Insurance Of
FARM PROPERTY. DWELLINGS AND OUT.
BUILDINGS.
| Nsl RES such buildings contents on favorable
4 terms, for or years. Insures Stores, Ware
LOSSES EQUITAELY ADJUSTED AND PROMPT
LIZ PAID IN CASH.
This Company il a Joint Stock Association organ
lied under special charter granted by the Legisls
tura of Wisconsin, with authorized capital Of
$500 600 One hundred thousand dollars Of which
Is paid in, and securely invested in bonds aud mort
cages. The Company being thu securely organized
upon firm basis the directors take pleasure u
! commencing it to public favor, worthy of conf.
dence and support, with the assurance that all loss
es shall be promptly and honorably adjusted. AZ
this is purely Stock Company no mutual business
will be done nor premium notes taken.
OFFICERS:
y. NJ. Donaldson, Pres't. w. r. Gibson, see'y-
] W. Eddy, Vice prest. A; Gibson. Gen. Agent
dec. 2+d3m W. +. TURNER, Agent.
kEOKUK MARINE INSURANCE. CO.
NOTICE is hereby given that the kEoKuk MA
Y RIsE INSURANCE Co has been organized 10 do
marine insurance business Its place of transact
ing business is Keokuk. Lee County, Iowa--with
pital stock of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars,
$500 ,000l.
One hundred thousand dollars Of said capital
stock to be subscribed and secured and the first in
stallmen of ten per cent to be paid in cash before
the company commences business.
The directors are authorized to make pro rata Ms
sessments the stock notes, not exceed five per
cent every thirty days The said corporation
organized on the Goth day Of December, 1855, and
will continue for the term of twenty years, and may
be renewed FIR ON time time under the provisions of
the Code of Iowa.
The business OF the company is to be managed by
board Of eleven directors, to be elected annually,
on the second Wednesday Of January.
The liability of the corporation is limited to one
M illion deilars, and the private property of the
stock holders is exempt from the payment Of the
corporate debts
A. BRlDGMAN President
WE. TURNER, Secretary.
janid4w
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CAPITAL $500 zoe, CASH PAID IN 500 900.
Invested according 10 tho Law of Illinois.
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GODFREY a SNOW.
IADIEs, SHOE ATOHE.

IADIES7 SHVE - OHEs
OUR sale room is now fitted up in hrst-rste style
~ and We are prepared to attend TO the wants
Of the ladies Of keokuk I j. ELLIOTT CO.
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Frozen FLxsH.-Mr. A. Bronson, of Mead
vile, Pa, says, from fifteen years experience
he finds that an indian meal poultice, covered
with young hvson tea, softened with a hot
water and laid over burns or frozen flesh, as
hot rs can be borne, will relieve the pain in
five minutes. Ii blisters have not arisen be-
fore, they will not after it is put on, and one
poultice is generally sufficient to effect cure.
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NOTICE
r1No the Stockholders Of the keokuk, Fort Des
! Moines and Minnesota Railroad Company.
call Of ten per cent. on tho capital stock Of the
company is due, and made payable at the Railroad
Office in keokuk to WV. LEIGHTON. Treasurer, on
Friday, the first day Of February, 1856.
Keokuk 18th Dee. 1855. H. 7. REID,
WV. LEIGHTON, Secy President.
dec 2Y DAWN
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CT John g. SAKE having been prevented
By the storm from fulfilling an appointment
to lecture at Albany, remarks in letter of
apology: :" l had no motive to break the en-
gagement, and every motive except loco
motive to keep it,"
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To the StOc n h O idrrs Of the e oh nm ,
Nj. Pleasant Il Muscatfne r. n. CO.
NOTICE is hereby given, that in accordance with
~ the conditions IF the subscription for the LIST
Division of said road, the sixth instalment of 81
per cent. will be duepand payable Feb 4th, 1856 At
the banking house of Charles Parsons Treasurer ke-
okuk, OF ~ the undersigned, General Agent.
J. X. H0kNISH
General Agent X. Mt. p 4 NJ. X. X. Co.
Jan. S. ls56.-td ddw
[keokuk Times and Mt Pleas ant Observer copy
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New Arrival.

u R0WN and tan coiored hats, hi gh and low crown
- Of every style and quality, Just received by
oct23dwtf d. +. HUMPHREY GAGE.
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me thonsand BOnnets, q MI Styles and qualities
- at ID. i. HUMPHREY GAGE.
oct23dwtf.
Al ILLINEkl Goods oi every variety. at the low.
vi est prices, At ID. r, HI MPHREl & GAGE.
oct23dwu.
TISHKEE hundred dozen wool and fine hats of cry
style, at ID. i. HUMPHREY GAGE.
1sct~4dmtf
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To Any GemlI man
NTisHINo a new Hat we have just received per
w Express 2 dozen Soft Hats Of Superior quail
ity al the ''Great W estern Emporium"
h. 4. HUMPHREY 4 GAGE.
August II, 1855.
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q.
wasHTssTos. Thursday night, Feb 4.
t,vss s assembling Of the House Of Represents.
parties cor,.na was plainly apparent that all the
each other - lor the printing were afraid Of
off fron, a. ana tney proved the fact by "shyine"
on .rom tne subject and getting mn S..,ia -.
.ot 10 give the poor of this e;sv s;ssas ~
=, uiea uoiars worth of fuel to keen H., ~.
er holmes. The recipients of this T;rd "s NIL -
oe.ng generally the strangers that are v;sh; m
ssam s ~ nu. ss oI course proper that Mr. L. N Co...
the measure. ~eE "o 'ne champion Of
Mr Letcher, of Virginia, had never sao,
commentator of this character in the resoi,.a,. s
OF W and w, and of course objected As .lso All
Mr. G. w. Jones, of TENNESSEE who didn't c..a ~
button whether it was recommended there or not
1t is strange that of the statesmen who hod thesa
resolutions in highest honor, one half believe thew
sanction nothing and the other that they Sanction
everything at any time desired.
A fact not named In the debate Is this that not
only has Congress assumed the legislation for this
District but in prescribing residents here from
office, 1t has deprived the city of its chief support
and protection, the thousand to fifteen hundred of.
nee holders who dwell among, but are not of u.s.
1t does not appear well, to thus weather and i'm.
poverish and then denounce the Capitol of the ma.
ton. - :. ="
The proposed measure of originating appropri-
alton bills in the Senate well az in the House
strangely enough, finds advocates among the strict
eonstructionists of the South and opponents among
the latitudinarians of the North as though it de.
pends upon whose may be the OK that has been
gored :
This election of printer the election Of a chan.
lain, the appointment of minor offices by the Clerk
Sergeant-at-Arms, Doorkeeper and Postmaster
and the announcement Of the committees are things
looked forward to with very great interest And
then to the work of legislation. A. BIC
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The -Ihermometer-Higa Price of Groceries
CoRREsPO PONDENCE oFTHE DISPATCH

FLUvANNA COUNTY, Feb 6. 1855
We are frozen up here to an extent beyond al
precedent. The ice on James River is il inches
thick, and hogsheads of tobacco are rolled across
on the ice without danger, ready for shipment
when the canal opens
have noted the range of the Thermometer for
the last four weeks by which it appears that Thurs
day morning, the 10th January, was the coolest
weather we have had, not only the present winter.
but colder than al any period within the memory
of the eldest inhabitant. The mercury stood, on
the morning in question: at 300 below zero, and at
lO' below zero ON the following morning Since
then it has been few degrees below zero repeat
edy.
hear of many case Of frost bite suffered by per
sons who were exposed for but short time so in
tense was the cold Nearly all business is sus.
pended on the farms-getting fuel being the prnci.
pal employment at present. Sleighing has been
quite the rage and at last Court the turn outs
were very numerous, and no two alike Among
others, noticed one which is, as far as know al
together original The legs of a bench about
three or four feet high were let into a couple of
runners, and a saddle fastened securely upon the
bench. The horse being put into the shafts, the
rider mounted the saddle, and drove away at a flu
rious rate, astride of his novel contrivance.
Groceries, particularly molasses and sugar, are
becoming very scarce in the country; and from all
accounts Richmond is quite bare of these articles.
Yours, &c, O.
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CENTRAL AMERICA. = Boundary betUee,a Neao
Grenada and Costa Ricd.-In connection with the
long standing discussion relative to the affairs of
Central America, and the question of coasting
limits between Costa Rca and Nicaragua, q new
claim has been put in by New Grenada, laying pre-
tensions to the same boundary which Costa Rica
claimed through the instrumentality of the late
Felipe Molina, who published an interesting and
comprehensive work on that subject. New Gre
nada while expressing her readiness to relinquish
all the territory on the coast from Cape Gracias
Dios to the extreme South insists that the tract of
land so exclusively claimed by the late Minister of
Costa, Rica, belongs. and always has belonged, to
New Grenada, in virtue of titles conferred upon
her by former treaties between the Republic of
Columbia and the former United Province Of Cen
trail America ~ s. = - .s
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&c RICHMOND, SATURDAY., FEBRUARY O. isss II

man, sesar shumate Sinclair, Smith, sptler surin.
kle, stanard, Thomas OF NJ, Thomas Of w. 'Thomn-
son. Tdplett, West, WiIey-7r. u 10 =
Noss--Messrs. Brady, Brown Carpenter Christian.
Cox. Crawford, Crocker, Davis of A.. Deane, Drew,
Hobbs. Imboden, Jones Of g., Kemper, Kirby, Lee,
Mays McChesney Nottinsham, Nowlin. Patten N
Pendleton Of L., Powell Riddick, Seddon, Spady,
Taylor. Thrift, Tomlin, Tredwsy Tyree, Walton,
Watson, Wood, Wright, Yancey-42.
The Clerk announced the vote as follows ayes
20, noes AZ; 'a< at So" s-a h.e
MI. SEDDoN asked leave TO change his vote,
which was granted, TO enable him to move recon
sderation ~ ~
: The Chair stated the bill had failed for want
Of . constitutional majority.
On motion of Mr. SEDDos, the bill was reeonsid.
cred and laid on the table
The House then adjourned I'+t
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SAD ACCIDENT WITH A Bow AND ARROW
A very distressing accident occurred on Saturday
afternoon to a little of Mr.. Jas. T. Miles, who
resides on Scio street in this city The little fellow,
who is about six years old aud a playmate
about his own age, were amusing themselves with
bows and arrows in the wood house Accidently
little Miles companion discharged his arrow, which
was pointed piece of whalebone, into the right
eye of the little fellow causing its total destrue-
ton. The acqueous humor of the all ran out
of the wound. Such an accident should warn pa
rents of the danger of putting into the hands OF
their children such dangerous playthings.-Roches-
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OUR RELATIONS WITH GREAT BRITAIN-Mr
Buchanans letters by the Arabia represent the
state of feeling in the British Ministry as very
sensitive on our relations. He had received the
request for Mr.. Champions recall fourteen hours
before the sailing of the steamer but had not pre-
sented it up to that time. Consequently no intel
igence is received of its effects Mr. buchanan
was Informed, however. that positive demand
was dispatched of the probable course here ON en-
listments, and had doubtless sounded Lord Claren-
don. Hence his misgivings.
Mr.. buchanan thinks there is reasonable ground
for expecting peace on the propositions presented
to Russia but our other Ministers do not express
the same confidence or hope. The present plan is
regarded by them as means of preparation by Rus
sia 49, z4''
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: LATEST FROM LIBEsIA.-The New York Cooniza
ZION Society as advices from Liberia TO the close OF
November. Everything was going favorably in
that Republic.
The papers give nn interesting account of Presi-
dent Roberto last official visit to the several towns
Al buchanan he wasreceived with all honors due to
his high station. s.ses a1zs. EA s
The Young Men's Literary Association invited the
President 10 public dinner. ON which occasion an
address was delivered to him by MI Charles Pitman.
York and was named after the late Rev Charles Pit
man, for some yean Corresponding Secretary OF the
Methodist Missionary Society. The President re-
sponded in an interesting speech.
The Rev. Mr.. James, principal Of the preparatory
school, writes fr0m Monroyia, Nov, e5d, that tho
schooIs are doing well. A school for young girls has
been opened By Miss Caroline M. Brewn lstsly from
ths United States. st.S asef9
Prssident Benson has resolved to but ono term
sf two Years He raised on his farm during the past
year about i0 OH lbs Ut coffee
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GEoRGE LAW IN CoURT.-Live Oak George
a candidate for Presidency figured extensively on
Wednesday morning in the United States Court
in his familiar character of the United States
mail steamship contractor. He and his associates
Marshal o. Roberts, Edwin Croswell and Others
are charged by two co-directOrs, Messrs Sloo and
Fisher, with having failed to account for all the
moneys which have come into their hands, and
with having done many things which they ought not
to have done, to the great pecuniary detriment of
the eomplainants, and the court Ia asked to enjoin
them against managing the property as heretofore.
Mr. Sloo is the one who received the original con.
tract from the government-Nfr York Pos.
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GENERAt. ASSEMBLY OF yIRGINIA.

+'+ s5t o. - ...t.f f-sf'f.s =
SENATE ~5
FRIDAY, Feb. G.
~, The Senate was called to order by Lieut.. Gov
REPORTS
by Mr AaBIfR from the Committee of Courts
oi dnshee against SO altering the Code an to pro.
'de ior issuing writs of capias and safisfacienda
on Judgments for money.
fiSANcfs OF THE COMMONWEALTH
MT DOUGLAS, from the Committee on Finance
made a report npon the financial condition of the
commonwealth. The report takes substantially
.ne same views with that presented by Mr.. GAR
ar recommendations. II was laid on the table and
ordered to be printed I:
n communication from the Executive was read
announcing the death, the 9Th instant Of Joseph
Z. Cabell, late Rector of the University
biiis on their first reading were advanced a
q. age
RESOLUTIONS.
MT DOUGLAS offered joint resolution, which
nnder the rule, lies over one day, that the James
isiVer and kanawha Company in their improve
ment oil the navigation of the Kanawha under
the late act passed for that purpose be instructed
and required to adopt the plan recommended by
Chas Is. Fisk in his report made to said company
on the - day of October, 1854
Mr.. DAUGHTREY offered resolution for chang
ing and equalising the fees of harbor masters and
dock masters
On motion of Mr.. STEENRoD the Senate resolved
itself into Committee of the Whole, Mr. CATLETT
in the Chair, on the Bank Bill and motion to
strike out the 18th section, which requires the
banks to redeem their notes in specie or its eauva
lent having been discussed at great length, mo-
ton of Mr.. REGER, the Committee rose and having
reported progress through its chairman, ON motion
of Mr. TAZEWELL, the Senate adjourned.
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THE COLD WEATHER-The Trenton papers
say there has not been SO much ice in the Della
ware at that place since 1904. The New Orleans
papers say the 22d of January the coolest day
ever experienced in that part of Louisiana Ice
two inches thick was made. The mercury fell to
one degree below The excessive cold is the
subject OF notice in every quarter. The only evi-
dence of thaw is a common report that DR. Kane
was seen on Monday last out in his shirt sleeves
making garden
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FIRE INSURANCE CoMPANIES.-The United
States Insurance Gazette and Magazine" has fur
nished list of the Fire Insurance Companies OF
New York, including Brooklyn, &C., with their
capitals and market price, We ascertain from this
list that there are sixty.four companies and that
the business of fire insurance must be profitable as
out of the siXty-four companies there are thirty.
four the stocks of which are quoted above par:
and out of this number there are twelve which are
quoted at l35 and upwards-one as high as l90.-
The stock of twenty -four of these companies ram
ges in market from 90 to SO per cent and only six
out Of the whole number are quoted below 90.
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THE COUNTY OF FAUQUiER, in Virginia, is well
known as one of the best grazing spots in the coun
try. Letters received from there state that the
heightened severity of the present winter begins
to create apprehension of scarcity of food for
their cattle. Rich bottom lands, which usually at
this season furnish partial supplies, are now COW
cred with snow and ice Man and beast are
housed with no other means of support than those
furnished by hand. .
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!. PHILADELPHIA FINANCEs.-The assessed value
of real and personal estate subject to taxation
city purposes in Philadelphia, as adjusted by the
Board of Rev ision, is estimated in the aggregate
at SIS, 1868, ,04s The rate of taxation proposed is
$3.50 per 500. This exhibits considerabl le in
crease over the rate of last year. The amount
added by the Board of Revision to the valuation of
the property in the respective wards, is $3.50 600
1t will be seen by this that the rate of taxation in
Philadelphia is considerable above that of Balti-
more
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AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY-Quite a warm
controversy has been raging of late in the politco
religious world concerning the attitude of the
American Tract Society towards that ever trouble
some affair, the slavery question: until at length the
breach is becoming SO apparent that suggestions
started in religious societies as to whether
their customary contributions shall be continued or
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NOVEL MoNoPoLY.-A company of extor.
ing tolls have monopolized the privilege of cross.
ing the Mississippi on the ice, at st. Louis Mo
Every vehicle is compelled to pay toll and the
Company ii is said, have already made several
thousand dollars and are still clearing at the rate
Of $500 per day.
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TRIED MEN.-In reply to another paper, which
recommends that the candidates for Office should
be men of "tried integrity" the Albany Knicker-
booker says: .. - e5
''This is being done in this county. One of the
times-three times for swindling and once for biga.
my. There is every prospect that we shall have
some tried men in our common council ere long "
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AN EXTENSIVE DAM-3fr Merriam, the wea "
man, who writes great deal about almost every
thing, says that he has seen in Upper Canada.
near the Ottawa beaver dam 80 feet long feet
high and feet wide, upon which trees as large
as any IN that forestwere growing. 1t flooded an
immense surface and was constructed with as
much science, to appearance as if it had been the
work of human hands.
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1NTEMPERANCE IN SCOTLAND The following
statement of the drunkenness of the city of Edin-
burg, Scotland, Is taken from the police records
During the year 1870 there Were found alone iii
the streets SO drunk as to lie unable to take care
vi themselves, 1898 males. and $50 females OF
persons charged with offences, who were drunk
when apprehended, there were 2,02l males, and
4gl females; thus making j grand total of { O95-
being 1853 males, and 8, Jl2 females
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PAINFUL ACCIDENT.-On Wednesday evening
of last week little child aged four years. of Den.
mis- Daniels, residing Nobley, in Hampshire
county, Virginia. fell into a kettle of boiling soap
ltwas horribly burned from its hips downward,
and at last accounts it feared th at it could not
survive its Injuries
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DESTRUCTIVE FIRE--A fire broke out in Ca
nandaigua, n. Y, last Wednesday, destroying MT
Underhills bookstore, ". h its contents s. also Mr.
Shatfer's large clothing store the drug establish
ment of MeSsrs. Pratt 4 Smith, also, the Savings
Bank, together with the printing offices of the Re
poSitory and Times newspapers, besides a number
of other buildings. The damage is estimated at
from fifty TO sixty thousand dollars-insurance
twenty thousand dollars
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RAILROAD VOTE IN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.-The
vote of Hampshire county, upon the proposed
county subscrpt ton of 500 900 to the Alexandria
Loud0un aud Hampshire Railroad, was taken on
Saturday last Returns have been received from
nearly every precinct embracing all the larger
ones, showing majority of about three to one IN
favor of the subscription. -