Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-10-13
~ READING A1ATTER on BY1RY PACE.


period within the memory of US all. The wri.
ter pays judicious compliment to the talents
of the late I. n. Gally, of this city, member
of the convention of 1850 The facts and figures
about the relative population East and West of
the Ridge, areIntelIigibly stated and, CLEANED as
they are from the dry records, made interesting
to all our readers 1t will not be amiss for those
who expect to live until 1868, to make note of
these things
Wemust confess that in looking into the SEN
ate and House superintendent of members, even
allowing for our majority of white population,
we do not come to the conclusion to which the
lineofcomment, pursued by the writer, naturally
tends. Upon the mere inequality of Senate
representation, there is not the room for COM
plant, which many persons here in the West
have always seemed to think that there was
The question, like all others, has two sides, and
we apprehend that the gentlemen who repre-.
scented our interests in the convention of go,
with all the facts brought earnestly and lucidly
before them by gentlemen from the other side,
stood fully justified in yielding an assent to
the seemingly unequal provision of the con-
stitution in regard to representation in the
Senate. The fact that the West had a majority
onjoint ballot, or more properly speaking, the
fact that she had majority in the House, was
ample guaranty for her as far us defensive
policy was concerned. She had nothing to fear
from encroachment upon any distinctive interest
of her own. 1t was, on the other hand, equally
natural that the Eastern division-albeit in the
minority of voting populations desire
and provide for the same kind of a defence to
her distinctive interests. And while we believe
that all apportionment should mainly be based
upon the numbered actual citizens to be represen-
ted, yet we cannot concele that the minority are
not entitled to stronger defences in the shape of
organic provisions, than mere dependence upon
whatever modicum Of justice or magnanimity
their opponents, or even quasi opponents, may
meet out to them.
The system while it lasts is, Of course, open
to objections, not of itself, but on account Of
some grievances which exist under cover Of it
So long as it lasts, or until 1866, we cannot get
at the inequality of our positions on the tax
lists-such as the exemption of negroes under
certain age-the taxes for executed or trans
ported negroes &c. These faults antedate the
provision fer representation, and while they do
not arise from it they exist under it There is
no doubt that the East should have n substan-
tialguarantee of the West likettbe one she now
possesses-but our object here in the West
should be to clear out from under it everything
that is really and truly Objectionable to US.
DEIEeATEs representing large number of
German Societies in different States, met at
New York last week, and resolved to petition
Congress for law to protect enigrants from
the gross wrongs which are so frequently prac.
iised on ship board They ask that female pas.
sengers shall be protected from outrages now SO
common; that ship owners be compelled to ac-
count for and guarantee the safe delivery of
property belonging to persons who may die on
the passage, and thateyery emigrant ship carry
ing one hundred OF more passengers, be requi.
red to have competent physician on board.
These propositions appear reasonable and Just,
and Congress ought to notice thepetition of the
German Societies.
TAG proposition for the establishment of a
bullion bank with capital of 81 100000 in
New York meets with favor. Tho proposition
is that the bank shall discount to the extent
only Of its capital 1t is to receive deposits and
pay the checks of depositors precisely as do
the other banks; but the deposits not beinglent
out, will be, of course, always on hand in coin.
Each depositor will be charged a small banking
commission. The highest commission proposed
is onO.tenth of one per cent. on small accounts;
or, in other words. person having an income
of $4,000, would pay So a year for keeping his
bank account, and having his money always on
hand in coin.
A cORRrspoSDRsr of the National Integltgsn.
eer, from Warrenton, Va, in view of the fact
that oil, or grease of almost any kind, applied
pretty freely to Se rails. will etfectusfy and al.
most Immediately cause the stoppago of a. train
of railroad cars, whatever may be its running
speed, on a level or ascending grade, thinks, by
having a fixture of proper construction placed
in front of the driving wheels, and Immediately
over the rails on each side of the track, with a
communicating string leading TO the engineers
stand, almost Immediately constant stream of
otlcOuld be pouredon the rails, and the forward
motion of the train would entirely cease when,
or soon after, the last car of the train reached
the oiled portion of therails