Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-02-04

| The gigantic work Of Emancipation, TO
which Gear Alexander has consecrated his
reign, is steadily progressing. The mobiles
forced BY the pressure of authority from
above and stimulated BY the fear of outbreak k
! from below, are yielding with the best grace
they can command. In the government, Of
/ st. Petersburgh, comprising the city and
/ it's suburbs, they have already perft cted a
plan of Emancipation. This plan, which
has yet TO be submitted to the Central Com
| mittee on Emancipation gives fnll rights OF
citizenship TO all Russians who are inhabi-
! tants of that government. A strong effort
was made to secure some idemnifcatiun,
but the argument that serfdom was establish
ed BY the will Of the Emperor Boris Goud~
ounoff, and that consequently it might be
abolished BY the will of the Emperor Alex
ander. sileneed all opposition. ahd the no.
bles now declare that that would be shame
tul page in the History os Russia which
should tell OF such an outrage done to nat
urai righ'.
Twelve years OF an intermediate stale nre
TO precede and prepare for the full restora-
tion of the serfs TO freedom. During that
period the peasant is to be at liberty to
leave his present owner if be have not Eve
dessiatines of lard allotted 10 him for cu,i-
vation, or If he have, he may leave by per-
mission of the Commune. he making pro-
vision for cultivation Of his land, and the
payment of his taxes to the Crown.
The peasants are to remain in possession.
perpetual and hereditary, of the houses in
which they live and the gardens attached,
on payment of rent of three per cent, on
their valuation. and they may buy the prep.
erty at any time or by installments at this
valuation, which is to be made by an equal
number of mobiles and peasants. AS to oih-
er lands, those landholders who have more
than six dessiatines TO each serf, have to
give up nine dessiatfnes to each family-that
is 10 every male between the ages of 20 and
So; those who have less, must divide two-
thirds of their land among their serfs, and
those who canDet give to each family five
dessiatnes must divide two~thirds of their
property into FIVE dessiatine lots, and distrib-
ute these by lot among their serfs, those get
ting no land to receive complete personal
liberty. The peasants shall have also a
right TO take all the wood they may require.
at liked price.
dessiatine of his farming lands, ten days
labor with horse: and ten days without.
The iaudhelder may exact this labor in
money if he please. at one-third the ruling
price Of labor; that is. three days of this
compulsory labor shall be counted equal to
one of free labor. Alter seven years the
peasant shall have the option of redeeminG
this rent-laoor, onetenth annually. The
valuation shall be made once tor all, and
if a peasant neelects to cultivate his land,
the Commune may take 1t or surrender i.
to the owner. So that a peasant may leave
one Commune and establish himself in an
other, if he can secure land
House serfs also receive full civil rights,
but for ten years they are obliged to work
for their present owners. at fixed compen-
sation. This obligation they may be freed
from on payne Mt OF S250 for men and 800
for women, or at any time during the ten
years by paying for the remaining time
The organization of rural Communes is
provided for, over which the landowner pre-
sides with veto power. In case of his
veto, the measure adopted by the Commune
goes up to body representing both iuud--
owners and peasants ~. Y. Tri6nae.