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VOLUME XXIY--.NUMBER l21,

were due to the Senator from West Yir.
ginia for calling attention TO this subject.
The investigation should be made not in
a party sense button, business principles
to see II the accounts Of this government
could not be kept The same as the accounts
Of great railroad or mercantile estab.
lishment. He favored the appointment
Of select committee to make inquiry.
Mr.. Morton said he was in favor Of
having an investigation bat it should be
made BY the Finance Committee and not
by select committee. No special COM
mittee would be more energetic or de-
termined than the Committee on Finance.
Pending the discussion at 4:l5 the Sen.
ate went into an executive session and
soon after adjourned.
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PhiIndeInhIn WooL

PHILADELPHIA, January ls. - Wool
Quiet, prices firm, demand good and the
supply equal to the .demaudi In all grades;
0hio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia Xxx
and above 4Ga5Oc; K 46aISci medium 49a
59c; coarse 4Ga4ec; New York, Michigan
and western fine 45c; medium 49c; coaTse
45a4Oc; combing washed 5SaG5c; combing
unwnShed 42Hc; Canada cOmbing 63c;
fne unwashed SOa32c; coarse and medium
unwashed 35a39c; tub washed 50a57c; extra
and merino pulled 40a42c; No. and Su.
per pulled 4Oa42c; Texas coarse 2la23c.
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Mysterious Disappearance.

NEW ORLEANS, January 1S.-Mr. Rob-
ert E. W. Sayers, senior member Of the
firm Of Sayers, Shair & Co., commission
merchants, left his home yesterday even
ing ostensibly to consult his physician,
and has not been seen or heard Of since.
He did not call on his doctor, and from
the fact that he had been laboring under
considerable mental depression for some
days, resulting from a recent pecuniary
embarrassment, his friends are disposed
to believe that he has drowned himself.
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Twenty-6nc Years in the Penitcn-
IinnN

Chicago, January 1s.-In the Criminal
Court this morning Henry Davis, who
murdered Charles D. Myland last Thanks
giving day, plead guilty Of granddaughter
and was sentenced by Judge Rogers to
twenty.one years in the penitentiary. His
counsel defended him in recent trial be-
fore a jury on the ground Of insanity.
The Jury disagreed.
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CHICAGO, January Flour-Dul.
Wheat-Activc but lower; No. Chicago
spring 81 0lH spot; 99Mc seller February;
81 COZ seller March; 81 0GI< seller May;
No. 3 Chicago spring Sac; rejected coke.
COrn-Very firm and hOldersasking higher
rates. No. . mixed 43Nc spot; 42Sc seller
February; 1910 seller May. Onts-Quiet
and steady at S0Hc spot; 30kc February.
Barley-0pened firm but closed dull at Sic
spot. Rye-Demand good at full prices,
CO HaG7 &c. Dressed Hogs-Dull and droop.
ing at 7jSasc. Pork-Fair demand but low
rates ut S1g 15a20 90 spot; $i0S0 seller Feb.
ruary; $40 55al9 571l seller March. Hay
Dull aud nominal at $25 00spot; $50 seller
February; $I5 00a47 90 seller March.
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TOLEDO, January 1s.-Flour-Aarket
dull. Wheat-Market easier; No. white
Michigan 81 20; No. 2, do 81 10; extra white
Michigan 81 Al asked 81 80 offered. Corn
Quiet and unchanged; high mixed Soc;
seliar January 4GISc; seller March 4sI+e;
low mixed 46c; NO grade 44c. oSts-InAc.
tive; $40 asked; 365S offered; white 80 Nc;
Michigan 359<c; rejsctsd33c. Dressed Hogs
-linrket dull n IS 05as 10.
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EAST LIBERTY, January ls.-CATrLE-
Receipts to-day 1923 head, or 81 carS, all
for yard sale. supplygood. Demand slow
ut the following prices; Best, 50 O0d6 80;
medium, So 0Oa5 30; common, 81 OOa4 70;
stockerS, So 5Oa4 %; bulls, 81 50a4 90.
HoGs-Receipts to-day 4lS head. York.
crs, 81 00a7 10; Philadelphia, 81 3Oa7 40.
SHEEP-Receips to-day 500 head. Sell.
ing nt 81 00a6 90.
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DURING the war General Beauregard
made speech in the South telling the
people that he for one would never con-
sent to live again under the United States
Government II the conflict went against
the Couiederacy. He has not only lived
under it since the close Of the war but
has at last applied for Amnesty.
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New York Drx Goods.

NEw YORK, January lS.-Business quiet
with commission houses and importers
Cotton goods in steady but limited request
nt generally unchanged prices. Wattham
brown and blCached vide sheetings reduc.
ed to 2ISc. Corset jeans and sattens closely
sold up. Prints in moderate request. Cling.
hams more active. CaSsimers, worSted
coatings anlprnted satin in fair request
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Kcnucky Legislature.

CIxcINNArI, January lS.-In the Ken
lucky Legislature to-day the eleventh
joint ballot resulted as follows: Beck,
loo; Wadsworth (Republican), Is; VIM.
Preston, 4; Proctor Knott, l. Williams
was withdrawn before the ballot. Beck
was duly declared Senator from the 4th Of
March, and the joint session dissolved.
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Marine In,cIIirenec.

SAN FRAScIsco, January ls-Sailed-
o, & o. steamer Oceanic, for Hong Kong
via Yoi ohama.
LONDON, January ls.-The ships City
Of Montreal and Helvetia, from New
York, and City Of Baltimore, from Balti.
more, arrived.
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Death ora Well Known Railroad
Man,

LOUISVILLE, January 1S.-Col. Samuel
Gill, the late Superintendent, and late
Receiver Of the Louisville, Cincinnati &
Lexington Short Limo Railroad, died to-
day in Cincinnati, Of the effects Of insani-
ty, which manifested itself some weeks
ago. Col. Gill was an old and extensive
" known railroad man,
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GOV. Hartranit Inauguratetl.

HARRISBURG, Pa, January 1s.--John
F. Hartranft was to-day inaugurated
Governor OF Pennsylvania. After the
administration Of the oath OF Office he
delivered his inaugural address. A re
view Of troops followed.
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GheGntelIigetrter
The Proposed Apportionment Of
Representation.

We print this morning table showing
the population of West Va. in 1870, and
estimated population for 1875 and 1876,
as prepared by the Special Senate Com.
mittee whose report we discussed yester-
day. This report shows the number Of
tithables in 1870 and 1875, and also the
appOrtionment Of delegates to the several
counties, as recommended by the COM
mittee. The reader will notice that it
apportions the same number Of delegates
to the First and Second Congressional
districts, although thcreis difference in
their population, and yet gives the Third
district two more than to either of the
others.
Aswc showed yesterday, the argument
upon which the discrimination against
this county is justified is entirely
fallacious and will not stand for moment
when tried by any just standard Of dis
tribution. This county is as clearly en-.
titled to six delegates under the proposed
apportionment, as is Lewis county to two.
Wespecify Lewis county because We pre-.
sumo this report to have been mainly, if
not entirely, gotten up by Senator
Bennett Of that county. This right
of Ohio county We claim without ad-
mitting that there is any necessity at all
for re-upportionmcnt. The present
apportionment Of representation in the
House Of Delegates is based on the United
states census ofls7O, and considering the
necessity for economy in our public ex-
penses it ought to stand until the next
census. 1t works no hardship 10 any part
Of the State, because under it every part
of the State is we'll enough represented,
while a new apportionment simply entails
larger expenses and q more unwieldy
legislative body on the people. West
Virginia is not growing in population at
such prodigious rate as to demand FREE
quent changes in the apportiOnment of
representation. In the old State, not
withstanding the loud complaints Of West
Virginia over the basis Of representation,
We made an apportionment do US for
twenty years. Why then, when there is
SO little Just ground Of complaint, do we
need to change with 80 much rapidity,?
Section 100 Article vi Of the Constitution
of West Virginia shows that no such swift
unsettling Of disappointment then made
was contemplated, or esteemed necessary
or desirable. It rccited that "thc
Arrangement Of the Senatorial and Del
"egate districts shall her CATER be de-
Cleared by law, as soon as possible after
"each succeeding census taken by author
"ity OF the United States. When so
declared, they shall apply to the first
general election for members OF the Leg
"islature, to be thereafter held, and shall
CONTINUE in force unchanged until such
districts shall bc altered and delegates
"appOrlioned under the succeeding CEN
"sus.'
This section shows that as late as 1872,
only four years ago, the trainers of the
new Constitution for West Virginia were
abundantly satisfied to lot each census of
the United States be tho basis for new
appOrtionmcnt OF representation. We
are at loss therefore to conjecture what
necessity has come upon us so suddenly
for the proposed change.
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NIr. Beck Unanimously Nom.
mated.

CrxcXNkrI, January lS.-The Frank
fort adviccs are that at . o'clock this
morning the Democratic Convention
unanimously nominated Mr.. Beck for
United States Senator.
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CANADA.

TORONTO, January ls.-Albert Wilcox,
formerly Of Anderson's mercantile house,
St. Louis, was arrested here yesterday,
charged with forgery and the embezzlc'
mcnt OF $4,000.
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BECK was finally nominated for United
States Senator by the Kentucky Demo-
cratic caucus on Monday night, but not
without violent opposition from the
Williams men. One Of the latter charged
that bar was being run in the interest
of Beck; that he had seen Beck in it
drinking, aud that its owner had offered
money to members to vote for Beck. A
Beck man said that this imputation on
Beck was "false as hell" and another
said that Beck was the individual who
had CELEBRATED the South from bondage,
and that "thc present Democratic ma
jOrity in Congress was due to Bcck's ef-
forts" The Williams men left the eau
Gus in large numbers, but Beck finally
got 70 votes and was declared the nom.
inee.
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AVALANCHE, January ls.-A Jackson,
Miss, special says In the House the act
making education compulsory was made
4 special order for ThurSdAy.
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Of tho Tredegar Iron
Works Company.

RloHMoND, January lS.-The liabili.
ties Of the Tredegar Iron Company are
81, 100000. Gen. Joseph R. Anderson
has been appointed receiver. Operations
at the works will be resumed at once. &
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BosroN, January lS.--A dispatch from
Portland says that McGlinchy Brothers
4 Co., dry goods dealers at Calais, have
failed. Liabilities 100000. Assets un'
known.
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By T eIegraph
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.
TO THE DAILY LNTELLIGENCER
CONG R E S S.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, January IS.
Proposed Amendment TO the
Constitution.

Mr.. Knott, from the Judiciary Com.
mittee, reported the proposed amendment
to the constitution as follows: No per-
son who has held or may hereafter hold
the office Of President shall ever again be
eligible to said office. Made special Or
der for Tuesday next.
Mr.. Frye on behalf Of the minority Of
the committee gave notice that he would
offer n substitute,
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SPAIN.

CARrHAdENA, January ls.-The IR-
surgents refuse to vote for CASTELAR,, can
didate for Cortes.
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tration to the many already given OF how
utterly impossible it is for some people
to understand and appreciate the spirit
that animates other people. lie and his
associates acquitted their Northern
brethren OF all responsibility for that
discussion. They had understood fully,
"fOr it was transparent" the motive
which underlay the introduction OF
that subject, and attaching TO that motive
its exact value, they simply looked down
on and passed by. They wished the dis:
turbers Of the public peace to understand
that Notwithstanding the spirit exhibited
they were too good patriots and too sin.
cere men to allow that spirit either to
control them or serve as an example for
them. They wished to maintain the
honor and character Of the American
Union, and they would do it il they were
allowed. One element Of the House had
not been heard from in that discusion-
the element OF the Southern soldiers in
the late war, Of whom he was one. They
had sat in silence and taken the fire that
the gentleman from Maine (Blaine) had
opened on them with no other feeling
than that Of gratitude for having escaped
from so terrible an enemy as he (Blaine)
must have been during the battles Of the
late war. If now, when that gentleman'S
hair was silvering and his natural force
perceptibly abating, he could develop
such intensity of spirit, how must his
plume have waved in the forefront
Of that conflict which had occurred at
II time when he (Blaihe) was young,
strong and healthy, that element hOd not
yet spoken, il could not be goaded into
discussion, on the contrary it had exhi-
bited spirit which he believed :Ameri-
can people would not soon forget! It
had met storm Of hate and persecution
as the swan meets the billOws with 4
breast Of down. He knew some gentle
men who had been engaged in the same
cause with him who had not intended TO
vote for this measure before that discus
sion but who now intended to support 1t
so as to set an example OF patriotism.
II there were any Of them who still OPP
posed this bill, he appealed to them 10
unite with him in the daring act which
could only promote honor and advance
the interests Of the country, and peace
and happiness Of the people.
Mr.. Sheakley offered an amendment
that the entrance 10 the Centennial Exhi.
bition grounds and buildings shall be
free on the 4th OF July, and on Thursday
Of each week.
Mr.. Willis opposed the bill as uncon.
stitutional and denied that the faith Of
the government was pledged in the mat
ter.
Mr.. Hewitt (of New York; and Chit.
tenden spoke insupport Of the bill: With
out taking any action on the bill the
Committee rose.
Williams (of Wisconsin) introduced a
amendment to tho Constitution.
1t is supplementary to the amendment
by Blaine, which prohibits the
or control ofany school fund
or school lands to or by seciarian school,
and is designed to extend the prohibition.
It ia in these words: "Neither shalls
money raised by taxation in any State be
appropriated for the maintainance OF any
school or sectarian institution.
The House at . o'clock adjourned.
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PITTSBURGH, January Is.-Petroleun
Quiet; crude Sc 90 at Parker's refined quiet
and steady at 1870, Philadelphia dollv.
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.FIRANG IAL AND COMMERCIAL
By TELEGRAPH.
lew York Money aud stocks.

NEW YORK, Jannary IS.
GoLD-opened Mt 1lS, advanced to ll3M
and declined to 1l95I, at which It closed.
The rates paid for carrying werc 8, a. 8 and
Az pcr cent.
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WASHINGTON.
Freedmen's Saving and Trust
Company.

WASHINGTON, January 1S-The Com
missioners Of the Freedmen's Saving and
Trust Company to-day forwarded to the
Senate report Of their operations since
the assets OF the Company were trans
ferred to them. The report shows that
the balances still due on loans amount to
81 ,990,S72 exclusive OF accrued interest
on unpaid loans and certain expenses
connected with said loans which places
Sl57,744 balance to their credit in the
United States Treasury, constituted and
remaining as the undistributed assets Of
the Company.
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RAILROAD BoNDs-steady, except Union
Pacific sinkings, which were weak.
STATE SgCURTlEs-Quiet.

Pacific sinkings, which were weak.
STATE SECUMTlEs-Quiet.
STocEs-At the close the market was
weak and lower, the decline ranging from
Il to 2% per cent. Union Pacific fell to
69H on yesterdays hostile movement
against the road in the Senate, but after.
wards rallied to 70H, closing ut G97I.
Lake Shore declined to G6Ila66sS, Pacific
Mail to 37IEaS796, Western Union to 765S,
Michigan Central 10 6lJs, Ohios to 201l,
st. Paul to 39h and preferred to f2. North.
western shares were steady; Panama rose
to l32 and Missouri Pacific recovered to IL;
the Stock Exchange aggregated 10000
shares, OF which $4,000 were Pacific Mail,
81 900 Western Union, 5000 Northwestern
common, 10000 ST. Paul, IS, 900 Lake Shore,
10000 0hiOS, 5000 Union Pacific and 5000
MiChirnn Central
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DECLARED FOR BLAINE.

At the Pennsylvania Republican ASsO-
citation meeting last night resolution
was Offered declaring Representative
Blaine their choice for the Presidency,
but, as in the opinion Of the majority, it
was too soon to agitate the subject, the
resolution was laid on the table.
NOMINATION CONFIRMED.
The Senate has confirmed the nomina-
tion OF George s. Bangs as Assistant
Treasurer Of the United States at Chi
capo.
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SENATE.
INDIAN AFFAIRS.

The Chair laid before the Senate
communication from the Secretary OF The
Interior enclosing report from the Com
missioner Of Indian Affairs in answer to
the resolution Of the Senate Of the 18th,
in regard to the books kept by the Indian
Agent in compliance with section 100,
Indian appropriation bill for the year
ending June 30, 1915.
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CHARLEsToN, July 18th, 1873,
Atsight pay to the order OF self one
hundred and seventy.five dollars, rent
due on farm, value received and charge
the same 10 account OF
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GoyERSMRSrs-Firm. Hs
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SCIENCE
Sleep.

Dr. Ferrier in leeturing at the London In
stitn,ion on "Slecp,'F laid it down that
ncitAer any living bslng, nor any function
of any living being, is capable of uninter-
mitted activity. Ifany organ of the body
seems to be in perpet ual activity that is only
appearance. The heart sleeps as much rs
the muscles, but then the hearts sleep is
rythnical, taken in the interval between the
diastole and stytole-or, to put the same
thing Familiarity, is taken in q great mum
ber Of very short maps indeed, which amount
however, when added together, to eight
hours of twenty -four, or one third Of the
whole day. If that be rest enough, we do
not quite see why the same sort of rest might
not do for the brain-which, even a. it is, in
most men seems to work in frequently re-
peated leaps or impulses Of concentration,
Interrupted by minute reveries or dreams of
relaxed effort, rather than strictly contin-
uously. And certainly in sleep the brain
often seems to be, if not as hard worked as
ever, at least very hard at it, dreaming, As
Cslyle says, the .foolishest dreams,' but
not the less elaborate and tasking for that
What al advantage any race of men would
have whose brains. while equally developed
with ours, should be sufficiently rested by
the minute but repeated intervals of Yepose
which seems to suffice for the heart.
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couple is formed, and . deposit Of copper
takes place on the surface of the carbon, -
in ordinary elactrotyping American an
thracites, and Goals that apparently had
been subjected to the action Of intruded ig,
neous rocks, gave the most rapid results.
The most remarkable Of these was an anl
thracite coming from Peru-containing d
large amount Of sulphur-coming from .,
high plateau Of the Andes, 600 feet above
the level of the sea. This coal was covered
with copper almost as rapidly q
graphite. Pennsylvania coal possesses
the same property, but not to such high
degree as the Peruvian coal. Ordinary
WEIGH anthracite was not good conductor
hut on being heated to q full red heat, it con-
Quoted electricity freely. The connection
between this conductivity in carbons, and
the amount of disturbance in the coal form
ations, if fully established. is q curious one.
In South Wales, where as it is we'll known
that no great amount of disturbance has
taken place, the electric conductivity IL
small, while with American coal, where dis
turbances were undoubtedly greater, and
accompanied by more recent heating, the
conductivity increases. As NJ. Bauerman
very properly adds, long continued exposure
to lower temperature might possibly pro-
duce the same effect. and further expert
mcnts upon this point would be desirable.
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AFFINjTIES.

Speeding across blank, lonely wastes of snow
From your pale palace, reared with Wild
device
In strange, shadowy land of Arctic ice,
Onorth wind bitter north wind, whittier do
you blowi
"southward. to find my tender, languid love,
Who drowzes in cline of tropic haze,
Where, through the heavy-odored, silent
nights,
Great mellow, fervid stars beam out above,
And where one sees, through sultry, golden
The mighty Indian temples rear proud
heights,
And the rich-crested palm her green plume
raise
And |, the spirit strong to wreck and kill,
l, the stern north wind, terrible to chill,
When her warm kisses through my cold
lips thrill,
have no will that is not her sweet will "
II.
Bearing to lavish leaves your cadence low,
From far-off, indolent lands of bloomful
OF g.udy birds and iridsscent seas,
O south wind, fragant south wind, wither do
you blowf
"Northward, to find my cruel, white limbed
Who dwells where all strange polar glories
blaze;
Where, through the scintllant-starred, long
lasting nights,
Auroral splendors up the dark heaven move,
And where one sees, through scant-llt, freezing
days.
Colossal ice plinths, full Of emerald lights,
House the huge walrus in their crystal make
And l, the spirit whom all soft dreams fill
1.-the bland south wind that can work no ill
When her cold kisses through my warn
lips thrill,
My life grows her life, and my will her
will"