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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-02-29
PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTA-.
TON.

We are glad to find that the princi-
pie OF proportional representation has
three such eloquent and able advocates
in the Convention as Colonel WILSON,
Professor PESDLEroN and ex-senator
WILEY. The justice and propr!ety OF
the system canno: be assailed, and we
believe that whatever is right, as this
il, is also expedient
1t is probable that the plan OF pro-
portional representation has not yet
been sufficiently discussed throughout
the State to be thoroughly understood
by the people. 1t is, however, very
easy OF explanation. and a single cleo
ton held under it would at once famil.
iarize voters with the modus operdndi and
The advantages Of the system. We see,
therefore, no serious objection to its
being put into immediate practice when
the new Constitution is adopted, if the
Convention so will.
But, at all events, if the members OF
the Convention think that the people
Of the State are not vet fully prepared
for the immediate adoption OF some
scheme for proportional representation,
let the legislature be given power to In
augurate the system when the public
sentiment is fully ripe. A Constltu-
tioual provision permitting the legisla-
ture to make the change whenever an
enlightened public opinion may demand
il, will afford good compromise ground
upon which the present friends and op,
ponents of the system may meet.
We very firmly believe that
but few years will elapse be
fore proportional representation is
adopted in every important or progress
i've State in the Union. Pennsylvania
and Ohio will adopt the principle
during the present year and other
States will follow just as soon as the
necessary constitutional changes can
be made. West Virginia should rot
lag in the background; and, il it be
not deemed wise to fix at once in the
pew Constitution a plan OF just and
equitable representation, let the Lesis'
lature be empowered to provide for the
adoption OF the system without encoun,
,ering the necessity Of constitutnna
amendment. We believe thst this may
easily be done.
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From the Weston Democrat.
Represen tatiOn.


Fair and equal representation has
always been in Virginia a question Of
paramount importance.
1t came very near dividing Virginia. in
1899. and again in 1850. The people
of this part of the State complained OF
the injustice done them in representa-,
ton by Old Virginia The West con
tended that representation should be
based upon population alone-the East
tor population and taration combined.
Now that West Virginia has been cut
Oft from old Virginia, and assumed to
herself a separate aud independent
State, why should this inequality in
representation be allowed to continue
longer?
The great cause Of our strife, tne
negro slave, has been removed. The
jealousy that once existed between the
STAKEHOLDER and the non.slavehoder, 10
longer exists. The negro slave has been
freed, and now assumes the aspect OF the
unbending freeman. Suffrage is now
open to all; and that being the case, what
good reason is there that a cote should
not have the same representative weight
in Lewis and Upshur counties that /,
has in Hancock, Grant, Gilmer, Nicho'
las, Writ, Boone and Raleigh, whose
aggregate population is 80, and are
given seven Delegates; whereas Lewis
and Upshur, with an aggregate popu,
lation of 1888, are only given two
delegates. This inequality is what we
com plain OF. 1t is not just, and will
work greatly to the injury OF these two
counties. The law-making branch OF
government is not only the most I'm
portant, but it is the most potential for
doing good or evR. 1t imposes tie tareS
and appropriates the public rerenues
And fix this injustice upon US now, and
it lasts for ten years.
Observation-Disclosures is il? 1t is the
effect of suffrage. Suffrage is the cause
-representation the effect. Suffrage is
the neutrality-suspicious. the offspring,
What then ought to follow? What
ought the relation to be between the
cause and its re.ult2 Is there to be in
the Delegate no principle of resem.
blance to the individual who sends him!
Surely the representative is but a mir
ror, which, if true, throws back the just
image of the votsr who gave him his
place.
Our cause is a just one and it can
only fail for the want Of attention and
ability to enforce it. The Convention
must be blind indeed if is cannot be
made to open its eyes to the fairness
and justice Of the proposition.
Give to Lewis and Upshur an add.
tional delegate. They are entitled to
it and justice requires that they should
have it.
We regret the absence Of our county
member in the Convention. Sickness
alone prevents his attendance. If he
were there in health. no member ofthat
body would be able to put his foot upon us.
or trown down our rights. without break
ing a lance with a foe worthy OF his
steel. But in our misfortune, will that
body be unjust towards us? We hope
Motive believe not. Nous verr0nS.
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DIED..

WELLS-At Weston, w. Va, on Mon
day. February 26, 1872, CHARLES WELLS,
aged SO years and months.
The funeral will take place this (Thurs-
day) afternoon, from the residence Of his
mother, on Chapline street, near Marshall,
at o'clock. Friends Of the family are in
vited to attend.
MIILER-On Tuesday afternoon, Feb.
ruary n, 1872, at 81 o'clock, ANNIE A, wife
OF VIM. w. Miller, aged 30 years and
months.
Funeral from the residence of Mrs. VIM.
Miller, Market street, at 10 o'clock this
Thursday morning. Services at st. James
Cathedral. Friends Of the family are in.
yited to attend.
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dleton heartily supported the PROPOSE
ton, as did Mr.. Wiley and others.
Mr.. Raymond, Judge Ward and one or
two other members opposed it, because
it was new, not understood or compre-
hended by our people, and unsuited to
State whose people are not homoge,
neous. The question was not finally
acted upon, but will be brought before
the Convention when the report from
the committee of the Whole comes up
for consideration. "OHIo."
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THE Cincinnati Commercial and
other Radical newspapers nearer home
are very industriousIy writing up Gov
ernor JACOB for denomination by the
Democracy. He seems to suit these
gentlemen marvelously well.
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We are pleased to learn that the
work goes bravely on" in getting sub
scriptions to the Wheeling Creek rail
road. Within the mile Immediately
north Of this place, the farmers along
the proposed line have taken ten thou
sand dollars worth Of stock and given
the right OF way. That is the kind of
public spirit We like 10 chronicle. We
can assure our friends along that line
that it will be like bread cast upon the
waters.-&. ClairsviNe Gazette.
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SLEEVE BUTTONS.

TNHE LARGEST AND MOST VARIED
assortment of Sleeve Buttons, Collar
Buttons and Studs in the city, can be
found at the well known Jewelry Store, ~
Market street, below Mcclure House, the
place for American and Foreign Watches
Clocks, Jewelry, Spectacles, &c.
s6-Special aud prompt attention given
TO the repair of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry
&c OXTOBY & DUFFIELD,
fe2S IOi Market St. below Mcclure House.
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The report Of the Finance committee
of the House OF Delegates, which we
publish this morning, raises some grave
questions touching the constilutionality
OF former acts OF the State government
in swelling the school fund at the ex'
pense of the fund for payment OF the
State debt. Will tie Mtelligcacer please
0rise 10 explain 2
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CHARLESTON, February 26.

CHARLESTON, February %.
The Convention, in discussing in COM
mittee Of the Whole the article on the
Executive Department, has indicated
an intention of making one or two
proper changes in the report as it came
from the hands of the committee. One
is 10 abolish the office Of Secretary OF
State as an elective and one Of the CO.
ordinate executive offices; another, to
make the Office Of State Superintendent
OF Free Schools one of the principal
executive offices. If the Convention
concludes to do what the indications are
that it probably will, the Secretary Of
State will be appointed by the Governor
and will be, OF course, but little more
than the Governors private secretary.
As the office OF Secretary of State
is now but an Insignificant one, and the
duties OF the position merely nominal,
this would be an eminently just and
proper change. And as the duties Of
the State Superintendent Of Free Schools
are numerous, and his labors and re-
sponsibilities great, the Convention will,
in my judgment, commit great blum
der If it does not continue this office with
all its rights and digui,ies unimpaired.
Upon this point l find no difference OF
opinion among the experienced, judi
cious and earnest friends of education.
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We learn from Col. johnson, chief
of the corps Of Baltimore and Ohio
railroad engineers now engaged in sur
yeying a route for the eastern extension
Of the Hempfeld, that one line Of sur
vey (via Mingo creek) will be COM
pleted to this place on Wednesday or
Thursday Of this week. Washington.
Pa, Rerie0.
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Beware Of COunterfeits.
INFANT CORDIAL
The Child's Cure when Teething,
TO RELIEyE


PAIN collie AND WAKEFULNESS.
Such is the popularity OF our remedy that
II has induced some unprincipled persons
in our city to counterfeit 1t, copying our
labels, circular and wrappers, almost word
for word. using the same colors, gliding and
style, requiring very close looking 10 dis
cover tho difference. An intelligent and
honest public will frown upon such at
tempts at deception and treat them as they
deserve. Hereafter we shall prosecute, TO
the full extent of the law, all parties who
by making, selling or buying such imita-
tons as shall infringe on our copyright
The only genuine article Of The Child's
Cure when Teething, Laughlin's Infant Tor
dial, is prepared by LAUGHL.l BROTH,
Frs 4 co. Copyright entered and secured
according to act Of Congress.
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TOYS, NOTIONS, &c.

SWE INTEND REMOVING ON THE
n LIST OF April, we will offer our entire
stock, regardless Of Eastern cost
STEVENSON & CO,
fe27 Market St., opp. Mcclure House.
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on MARRIAGE.

HAPPY RELIEF FOR YOUNG MEN
from the effects OF Errors and Abuses IN
early life. Manhood restored. Nervous de-
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moved. New method of treatment. New
and remarkable remedies. Books and cir
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Manufacturing and Repair.
ing all Kinds of Furniture.

HUBBARD & BROS, DEALERS IN
n Furniture, Oil Cloths, Carpets, Window
Shades, Looking Glasses, Show Cases, Mat
trasSeS, &c, &C.
feb-6 sc and IS Market street.
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Proposals for Grading.

C,EALED PROPOSALS FOR GRADING
- Clay street, from Seventh street TO
Eighth street, by the yard, up 10 O'CLOCK
p. ~, on Saturday, the second day OF March
next. Proposals TO be addressed 10 the I'M
der>igned and lett at the office OF me Clty
Clerk. j. w. BoRlNG,
Chairman Committee on Streets and AL
leys, pro TEN. feDZi-S
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Exhibition.

rrHERE Is AN EXHIBITION TO BE
given at Market Hall by the Colorei
people OF this city, February 18th and
March lst, for the benefit OF Tie
AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH.
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CHARLESTON.

The Executive Departmenf-The
Changes TO be Made in the Report
Governor Jacob and the House
Rent Questionable Elan OF the
Pnnhandlers-The Public Printing
boomerang Minority Representa-.
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FINE OIL CLOTHS.
All Kinds, Styles and Qualities, at
HUHBARD & BROS,

Dealers in Furniture, Carpets, Oil Cl0ths,
Window shades, Looking Glas cS, Mat
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teb.S ST and IS Market street.
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SOC.
, 1872-10-02

The Republic of Honduras loan has suddenly
fallen from "a to 40.
Meal $50 to 4. Pork sI49. Crystals ais. 10.
Gold 1872. Sterling r. pct.
London.-Rentes 500. Consols 924. Bank
of England discount 4 pct. Sugar 28s. "a 26s.
Sd. Sugar at Bordeaux 155f.
The Cholera is raging at BokLara. One
thousand cases daily.
Six millions francs were subscribed to the
French loan in Shanghai.
80 Chinese youths sailed for the United
States to be educated.
Three French Communists shot eight hun
dred and eighty transported to New Caledonia.
Railway train being fired into by Carlists in
Spain.
A man named Forester is supposed to be the
murderer of Nathan, the Nv FORK banker.
Fully 70 have been arrested. Evidence is be-
ing investigated.
Mr.. Stanley of the New York Herald"
dined with Queen Victoria at Balmoral.
New York-Neal 50! to 1. Pork 5145.
Crystals Sugar Toe. Gold 1872. Sterling Is.
London Sugar Muscovado GAS. Crystals
29s. Demerara Rum Is. 9!d. Trinidad Co.
Goa 63s. Rentes sol. ConsoIs 924. Bank
rate Discount 4 p ct.
St. Nazaire.-Sugar 1927.
The Russian Prince Alexis had arrived in
Hong Kong.
The French Author Edmond About was ar
rested in Strashourg by the German Authori-
ties on account o. some articles published by
him in regard to the German occupation of
French provinces.
There are frequent acts of incendiarism in
rural districts Of England owing to dissatisfac-
ton of labourers with the scale of wages.
A severe storm passed over Lancashire and
the lightning killed / women besides injuIing
other persons.
The news from Mexico to 18Th is Of a pacific
nature.
President Theirs appears disposed to relax
his policy about commercial protection.
Paris is eminently quiet
No leniency is 10 be shown to the young men
who whilst in a state of intoXicatiOn uttered
seditious eXcIamations in TrouyiIle.
, 1872-10-02
NOTICE.
Translation.

PURSUANT to Royal Resolution
of 18th May last ] have this date
taken charge of the Office, which
His Majesty most graciously has en-
trusted to my care, as Governor of
the Danish Westindia Islands, in
consequence whereof the acting Gov
ernOr for the Danish Westindia Is
lands, Councillor of State J. A.
Stakemann, Knight of Dannebrog,
will retire to his post as acting Vice
governor of said Islands and Supe-
rior local authority for st. Croix.
This is hereby brought to pubic
notice.
,Governmenthouse, St. Thomas the
25th September 1872.
J. A. r
, 1872-10-02
BekjendtgjoEelse c.

OvereensstemmeIsemed alIerh0ieste
Resolution af 4de Mai d. A. har
jeg ID. ID. oyertaget defining alIernaa-
digst anbetroede Embede som Gou-
verneur for de dansk yestindiske
Der, og vii som F0lge deraf den con
stituerede G%ouverneur for de dansk
v~estindiskc Der, Hr. Etatsraad j.
A. Stakemann, Ridder af Dame
brog, trHde tilbage til sin Post som
constituent Vice-Gouverneur for be-
meldte Der og OVERSIZE local Oyer0y-
righed paa St. Croix.
bette meddeIcs hervcd til %offentIig
Kundskab.
Gouyernementshuset, st. Thomas
den 25de September 1872.
j. A. GARDE.
Translation.
, 1872-10-02

ing by men of their aged parents, as we'll
as their reputed wives and their illegiti-
mate children. It is the most common
thing in all parts of the country to meet
with labourers so advanced in life as to be
scarcely able to earn as much as will feed
them, and whose children are all " gone
off the country and to see women with
half-a-dozen children, whose father, or ia
theirs, as the case may be, have similarly
disappeared. Such aged labourers often
endure great hardships, and such children
must of necessity be brought up in the
worst possible way,-nOt put to school,
ill-fed, ill-clothed, and compelled to work
at too early an age. That such an emigTa-
ton must, by increasing pauperlsm, prove
d~isadvantageous to this island, is evident;
yet it would by no means be prudent or
iustifable to attempt to check the stream
which has set in from our shores. Indeed,
the only way in which it could be done
would be by limiting the number of pas
sengers 10 proportion to the number OF tons
of the vessel. Some such law already eX-
lists, and if it were put in force its effect,
by rendering the carrying trade less prof.
table, would be to raise the passage mo-
ney, and so place it beyond the power Of a
great many to quit the country. In EGG
land, such a limitation of the number OF a
ships passengers is made, and very wisely,
because emigrant ships from thence al
ways have to make long voyages, and if
they were Over-crowded, disease would be
certain to make sad havoc with their Iiv-
ing freight but as there is no such risk in
the short voyage between Barbados and
Demerara, any such limitation of the num-
Der of passengers would, in that instance,
amount to an unWarrantable interference
wit the liberty of the subject. As re-
CARDS protecting the immigrants, any legal
enactment for this end is uncalled for. In
the case of British colonies it is uncalIed
for; and with respect to Surinam and other
foreign places, where emigrants are said to
be deceived and-iIl-used, what law could
possibly prevent our labourers from going
where they liked, and signing any contract
they pleased 1t may, perhaps, be asked
whether some remedy is not needed for
the evils above mentioned, but none such
seem possible. The real fault seems to lie
in the loose habits of our population.
which are so inimical to the growth Of all
domestic ties and affections. Such a large
number Of young men and women Of the
!abOuring class grow up utter strangers to
what we understand as family influences,
that it is 10 wonder that whenever they
feel inclined to go to Demerara, they
should walk off with out caring what be-
comes Of their children or their parents.
High wages, abundance Of wood, and wa
ter, gratuitous medical attendance, and
now, in Demerara, land under very easy
conditions, are inducements which we will
find it impossible to bid against. But if
we would have a healthy emigration, we
must attend more than we do, to the mo-
raj and physical w%ell-being of the mas
ses Agricultural Reporter, Sept. 6.
, 1872-10-02
From the 81. IHomo T1dende, 28M September.
KILOGRAMS.

23rd Sept.
London. Sugar Muscovado 24s. Crystals
Sis. Demerara Rum Is. 91d. Trinidad Co.
Goa 63s.
New York Prince Oscar son y of the late
King of Sweden succeeds.
The proposed telegraphic conn ection be-
tween Bermud and St. Thomas is postponed
for l year.
In France political circles utterly stagnate.
The new French Military law does not practi-
cally come into force until January '73. Gam
BETA declares himself opposed to any agitation
for the dissolution of the assembly. He again
says the accusations of the right by lending
himself to the consolidation of the present reign.
ri
A Company with a Capital Of $50, 900 pounds
has been formed for acquiring from the colonial
government at Curacao the privilege of work
ing the minerals in the Island of Aruba, West
Indies.
= AS the late King of Sweden had but an only child, the
Crownprincess Louisa, married to the Crownprince of Denmark,
and as his brother was the presumptive heir to the throne, the
word "son" in the telegram must evidently be erroneous.
ED, Az,
, 1872-10-02
Bekjendtgjorelse.

EFOLGE Gouvernementets Ordre vii Skate
Commissioner for st. Croix vare samlet paa
efterf6lgende Dage, for at modtage skrittlige
OplysniDger apgaaende Skatterne for indeva-
rende Aar.
For Byen Christiansted
paa det Kongelige Kasserer.C ontoir, hver For
midday Kl. 10 nemlig:
.Onsdagden ode October for Beboerne i Kons
gems, Compaguie-, Dronningens-, Strand,
N6rre- og Vester- Gade SAM Forstaden til
Vesten.
, 1872-10-02
Translation.
NOTICE.

Ell CCORDING to orders from Govern
AA ment of st. Croix sundry repairs to
Public Buildings in Christiansted and FIRE.
deriksted will be put up for public COM
petition; the work to be done agreeable
to the written Descriptions and Conditions
that may be seen at the Sheriff's Office,
Frederiksted, and in Christiansted at the
Office of the Inspector of Buildings, who
will also give further calculations to par
ties enquiring.
Parties DESTROYS of undertaking the said
repairs, either particular portions thereof
or the whole, are required to send in to
the Government of st. Croix, on or before
Saturday the 18th October 10 o'clock
noon,
SEALED TENDERS
, 1872-10-02
"REPAIRS TO PUBLIC BUILD
INCS, CHRISTIANSTBD"

for Frederiksted, as the case may be),
stating the price or prices for which the
party will undertake to complete the re-
CURED repairs etc, either particular por-
tions thereof or the whole, and the securi-
ty offered for the due fulflment of the con-
ditions. The tenders will be opened on
the day and hour above mentioned in the
presence Of the applicants.
Governments Secretary's Office Sep
TENDER 23rd 1872.
r. PETERSEN.