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Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-05-19

Total amount fcapital and surplus, s2os, s5l.7s
:. ASSETS.
\. Cash on hand Observation-Disclosures. l2O5 as
Cash on deposit in the United
States Trust Company, of New
York, drawing interest, . 2,4OO. 90
0asn In the American Ex Bank, 2,639,H
=. neai estate unncun bered,..... none.
3. Bonds owned by the Company. none.
Except these secured by mortga-
ges on real estate, Bonds and
Mortgages as per vouchers ac-
companying, being marked ABB,
being first liens on property in
the cities of New York Brook
Ign, N. T., mostly dwelling
houses worth, in each case. not
less than 80 per cent. more than
the amount loaned, and in near
ly every case, more than double
the amount loaned, ......... .$l96, 100. 90
.. Interest accrued, but not due on
the above,... .............. 4,53s.2l
.. Amount Of premiums due and
unpaid. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 17IS.5l
Z. All other property belonging to
tho Company. 100000
Total ammount OF assets, ........ 5000 65l.7S
LIABILITIES.
5. The amount of liabilities dueor not
due to banks other creditors, by
THIS Company, .................. none.
g. Losses adj listed and due, .......... none
7. Losses adju listed and not DUE. ..... mono.
). Losses reported unad usted,.. 81, 90
y. Losses in suspense, waiting for fur
tner proof, none.
10. All other claims against the Com
pany, none.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-05-19

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Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-10

But dropping Fernando-which am only too happy to dol turn to the Anniversaries, which VIII engross our attention this week. Already 'ne clty swarms with meek looking men in white craVats' and fierce looking women clad in humble taorcs. do not know that any nnusu.l ;,tor- est is attached to these meetinps +b;s noor rs :. American Tract Society silenced, last year inc busy-bodies who have an organization of tbe;r own besides setting sister societies by the oors with their petulant clamor. The abolition;sts will serve up John Browns ghost in every style from soup to pudding, and I have heard it sug. gested, will haul England over the coals for be- ing so welded to King Cotton as to fraudulently deprive citizen of one of our free states of the Champions belt, which he fairly won. Tha amiable preacher, Dr. Cheever, will stand up fol the Benicia Boy to the last, because of the large sum at stake, which the B. B. was to hand over to the Dr. in the event of Sayer's defeat. How ever, nous-vevons, and will tell you all next week.
 The last few days have been exceedingly warm a pleasant change from the cold weather of April. Our hotels are filled with Southern mer chants, despite the split at Charleston. The Cen tral Park, of which will write more fully ere long, has been greatly improved since last spring and every pleasant day it's walks and drives are crowded with pleasnre-seekers.
 But adieu for this time.
 Yours remarkably, HANCK.
Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-10
Superior COurt-April Term.
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 The Superior Court adjourned on Saturday last, having been in session fifteen days, and cleared the docket of l06 cases, civil and crimi- nal-being the exact number of new cases brought to this term. The principal business of the last few days was the granting of petitions for fore closures and divorces. The following is list of the latter: Almeron BunneN V. Mary E. BunneR.-Di. vorce granted for deserton. Hitchcock for pc titioner. GaH Borden, .Jr. V. Arzuba Y. Borden Divorce granted for desertion Hall for peti tioner.
 Maria Lecis V. Edrard c. Leuis.-Divorce granted for wilful absence and neglect. Good win for petitioner.
 Mary r. Smith V. Philo c. ISmiM.-Divorce granted for intolerable cruelty. Peet for peti tioner.
 IStzrah c. Wood V. Allen c. TTood-Petitior for divorce granted for adultery, &c. Giddings for petitioner.
 He''mon Judson V. Minerca Judsou.-Peti | IioH TUT "foiCe SIdutet. OduSe-lnGe mpCrallc6 and adultery. Cothren for Petitioner
 Caroline A. Taylor V. Janaes X. Pozk Taylor Petition for divorce granted. Cause-adulte ry. Respondent now in States Prison. Goth ren for Petitioner.
 Lauren 1yreHv V. Mmtha J. Ty,reN-Peti tion for divorce granted. Cause -intolerable cruelty, and such conduct as permanently destroy ed the happiness of the other party, and defeated the purposes of the marriage relation. Cothren for Petitioner.
 Percy G Birch V. N. & R. Foot-This was an action for fraudulently contracting debt brought upon the statute of ls42. After very able and severely contested trial of two days the Court took the papers for consideration Cothren for Plaintiffs, Ives of New Haven and Hubbard for Defendants SheAon & Futile V. Lucius BraoNev.-Remon strance to the acceptance of the report of an au ditor. After discussion, this case was postponed on terms. Woodruff for Plaintiffs, Cothren fo, Defendant.
Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-10

19rThe total number of votes cast in Phila delphia, at the late city election, was 72,434 oi which Mayor Henry's majority amounted to ss2 Compared with the election in 1857, the opposi. tion increase is 2,8s7, and the democratic, 6,7O6
 H8s> The bill for organizing new territories, reported in the House of Representatives by Mir. Grow, provides that, whereas slavery has no ex- istence in the said territories, nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize or per nit it's existence therein"
 n@- The Peck Dedication in Maine (s76,s16) will be met entire by his bondsmen, so that the State will lose nothing. Nearly half the amount has already been paid in.
 B@r Frederick Douglass paper, the organ of the Gerrit Smith Abolition party, announces that it's publication will henceforth be monthly, instead of weekly, until the return of Mr. Doug las. For some time the proprietor has been losing considerably on its publication.
 n@- The Chicago Herald utters the following howl over the Charleston proceedings. flty It's sorrows:
 "We confess that we have but little heart 10 detail the sad scenes that are being presented m the Charleston Convention. We can only say that our fondest hopes are being blighted' ana that in all human probability, before we reacn another issue, the only organized link thar now binds the Union together, will be severed fof- eyer"
Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE CHARLESTON CONVENTION broke up in a charming confusion on Thursday of last week, after thirty odd ballots,-in which Douglas led the van, but lacked the requisite two-thirds for nomination-and then adjourned to meet at Bal timore on the 18th of June to try again.
 The preliminary motion to suspend the ballot ing for motion to adjourn,was agreed to l9s to 5l. The adjournment was carried by 195 to 55. General Pratt, our own beloved warhOrse, called for several cheers for the |" National Democratic party" which were given by the delegates who hadn't bolted. Gen. Cushing was not asked to make parting speech, but made one, in which with his usual felicity of language he thought that in spite of the caducity of the Democratic party, the Union would continue until the final cataclysm of ire!-(See Dictionary.)
 The Democratic Boilers Fireeating convention, also assembled on Thursday, and after they had learned of the adjournment of the "regulars y proceeded to denounce it. The chairman Mir. Bayard of Delaware made two hours speech and took his hat and left the meeting disgusted. The rest immediately adjourned, to meet at Richmond June 11th, to which place the conf. ding democratic brethren of the North are no, invited.
 Meanwhile the friends of all candidates express great confidence that their favorites will be nom. mated in the end and that the harmonious dem. ocracy will immediately wheel in. That there will be deal of wire-pulling and ,cookpulling before the eighteenth of June,-no one doubts.
 Wood went home on Wednesday, a sadder and a wiser, but much disgusted man. A grand salute of 100 guns was fired in Savannah in hon. or of the withdrawal. A Thursday morning dis patch said that the breach was growing wider and wider; the factions denounce each other in the severest terms, and it is apparently impossi- ble for them to come together.
 It is evident from all the dispatches that the Douglas men expected the assertion of New York and the East every moment and consent ed to an adjournment to avoid another rent Each side boasts of what it will do in the interim Forney says that meetings are to be held in the South to repudate the seceders; an address will ask the north to rebuke northern recreants contempt and scorn are felt for Cushing; the New York game cannot win and adds:
 "The Democrats who prefer Douglas are aunit m taking him or nobody. If he is slaughtered they will avenge his fall by such an appeal to the na,iot n boxes as will be remembered for century
 a, Ms oecessionists must take Douglas or q Re aos.es"' fsa. Ihe hossr of compromise has passed Ra. f,fty.six ballots have been taken, and nn,nmn unoreo VIII not tire or terify the Douglas
Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

| Insults are like counterfeit money we cant
 help their being offered, but we needn't take them.
 | They have no old maids in Japan when the
 girls don't get married voluntarily, the authorl' l ties hunt up a husband, and make them marry
 willing or not willing. The Japanese know 7 a | thing or two, if they have been walled Ill TOT centuries.
 If seems clear that muscle alone doesn't make the man. Dr. Winship, [" the strongest man, who can lift 100 pounds, is painfully bashful and timid before an audience, although within
 the past six months he has appeared in public at
 least eighty times, he is conscious of his nervous peculiariry, but cannot explain or conquer it. Holm A. Hart, son of Luke Hart of Spring fold left his home to attend school on Tuesday, the l7th ult, and no positive information has been received from him since, but it Is supposed he went to Hartford, New Haven, or some other city on the line of the southern railroad. Hels about fifteen years of age, but would easily pass for twelve, of fair complexion, dark hair and dark blue eyes, wore brown jacket and cap and a pair of drab pants. Any information re- specting his fate or whereabouts, will be grate- fully received by his father.
 Half fare tickets to the Chicago convention are to be issued by the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Michigan Southern roads,
 Among the freight delivered by steamer at Cincinnati, few days since, was crockery crate, which on being opened disclosed live negro, we'll packed in straw He was taken aboard on the Cumberland river
 HIS ADVERTISEMENT appears in the New Ro- chelle Pioneer:
 Whitewashing and wall coloring by the Rev. John Taylor. Orders left at Welling's drug store or residence, Hudson street, will be thank fully received and promptly attended to.
 This probably is the only instance ever known of clergyman who achiteacashes either in or out of the pulpit.
 The Covode Committee having aseertained who were the receivers of the Lcompton fund, are now prepared to ascertain who were the au- thors of the Lecompton Constitution.
Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-10

Bradley, was thrown from g wagon by the care
 lessness of drunken driver on Saturday last and had his arm badly fractured by the fall. New Preston.
 SHOCKING Acc1DENr-A most distressing ac cident occurred in H. D. Smiths Carriage Shop
 on Saturday morning of last week. A large
 erind-stone is attached to the water-wheel shaft
 outside of the building, and is in motion when the water-wheel is. On this morning, when the
 wheel had made few revolutions, it stopped
 The workmen in looking for the cause, found a
 little daughter of MT. Wilcox, (the smith of the
 shop,) drawn under this grind-stone. With
 much difficulty she was got out, not quite dead
 She lived about three hours. She was six wears old. The child had been sent to the shon tn get pail. The conjecture is, that she was eli. ther sauntering on the grind-stone, or playing in the water under it. She was drawn in feet first. The bones of her body were much broken The Stone Brothers, merchants in Marbledale. have made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. The Village of New Britain have sent delegation here to engage 100 bass to be put into their large reservoir pond.
 West Winsted.
 The large building known as the Augur Works" was burned to the ground last Wednes- day evening. It was occupied at the time by Messrs. Rice & Lathrop, manufacturers of Table Cutlery, as forging shop. Their loss is estima- ted at about $5,0OO The building was fully in- sured. It is not known how the fire originated. The sidewalks on Main street are being paved with Tagging stones . Application will be made to the Legislature now in session, for Charters for Gas Company, Water Con- pany and Savings Bank. =. The second Con- gregational Society have decided to erect new spire, designed by Mir. Pratt of Northampton, nass, in the place of the one which was blown down in February last. :. Mir. Austin, who has bought out Mir. Potter of the Beardsley House, will take possession on the 18th inst.
Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-10


 LADIES Row BoAr.-We notice by the New Haven papers, that the young ladies connected with Miss Porter's school in Pennington have just had built a fine row boat to be used on the river there. This is good movement, and one which comments itself for imitation to all young ladies lacking in physical culture.
 This is the way the Hartford Post goes on about it.
 There's fun in rowing a boat-there's excite ment about it-yes, and there can be any amount of anecdote and romance embraced in it. Just see party of girls out upon the river pulling the oars and gliding over the smooth surface of the water singing gjoyfuly to the laughing rippes that play about them then, aguin, the oars are lock- sd-the party are taking rest and the boat floats along with the tide, while it's happy freight make merry echos across the hills and vallies that line the shore.-A race? Yes, do you not hear the shouts, and witness the wild enthusiasm attending the strife2 Isn't it glorious fun? The girls are having gay time. Skating is mo- where in comparison. Come girls, get out your boats, join the fleet, and be happy while the day lasts.
 Amen to it all {! Litchfeld ladies might take the hint and heed the lesson, and this summer, " Bantam's bewitchingly beautiful bosom" would heave and thrill beneath the pressure of many a bonny boat, and her banks and hill-sides re-echo with the joyous shouts of the laughing train who combine pleasure with profit and health giving exercise with lifegiving sport. We tender the young ladies of Pennington our most respectful and hearty congratulations, and wish we lived in their midst
Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-10
Our New York Correspondence NEW YORK, Tuesday, May 8, 1860.
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MR. EDITOR The statute of Justice has mounted to the top of our City Hall and, what may appear to you an anomaly, it is right side up Our eccentric Mayor, whom contemporary duos Mozart's wandering minstrel returned late last week, and was greatly overcome at tlie sight of the old dame perched so near his office, or rather the room he occupies when he happens to be in Gotham. am informed, on good authority, that when sFernandy, our darlint' entered the pre- cincts of the Park, worn out with the fatigue of spouting at Charleston and doing something very similar aboard the .Iames Adger, he mistook the statute for very different article, and in accents of despair groaned out, Is that dagger that I see before me?" Query: Isn't Justice a dag ger to all politicians0
Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-10

DIVISION OF THE CouSrY.-We are glad to an- nounce, what We learn from good authority in both houses of the Legislature, that there in not the slightest chance of dividing the old county Of Litchfeld, at the present meeting of the Leg islature. A large majority of the members from this county, loving the old county itself and jealous of any change, will oppose the project; and members from other parts of the State will not listen to the proposition. So our disconten- ted friends will do we'll to save their prayers and petitions for higher and more needed spiritual and temporal mercies!
Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-10

TIE GovrRsoR's MESSAGE. give this week Governor Buckingham's message in full, which we should not have done, if it were not so well worth perussl. His recommendations are all worthy of immediate attention by the Legisla- tare now convened, and the manly, straight for ward, clear headed representation that he makes of the affairs of our State. must commend him to all as the Model Governor" of our time.
Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-10

HE LrrcHFIELD ORE MINEs.-We had the pleasures of drive out to the Connecticut Mines oa Mouht Prospect this week, and from all we could sec with our unsophisticated eyes, the mines ~e'i attest the strongest eulogiums of the proprletors' Ore of a combined species of nick ei' iron and copperis being dug up in great abund. ance Over hundred tons of the finest snao;
 mems have already been exhumed from the sh.m.
 and from fifteen to twenty men are employed aa and night in digging the rich treasures from th, earth. These mines already give an importapc. and value to the business prospects of our town and add another argument to the importance o railroad to the Housatonic, to afford greate facilities for transportation of the ore to market
Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-10
Gfle Eitfbhelo Grlquirer.
THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1860.
Slavery or Death.

Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they Hrs make mad,' is proverb as old as Zeno. It il as applicable to the present time and present as pect of the political condition of our land, as | was in the tumultuous times in which it origlna' ted with the wise old heather who said 1t. Ger tainly when we see men assembled together in the national councils,-our law givers and law makers-and observe, and cannot but observe every day the manyfold vagaries under which some seem to labor when we see in both the Halls of Congress men talking about the gran deur of our mission and destiny as exemplifed in laying violent hands upon Mexico and Cuba, and in the next breath asseverating that the country cannot stand, except we adopt the multifariouf codes they affect from the code of slavery to the code of honor!; when for eight long weeks we read the most abusive epithets and the most op. probrious falsehoods showered upon one section of our country by the graceful chivalry of the other; and when, more Imaginable but less unfor- tunate, we hear the last dying speech in the farce of |" modern democracy" from the lips of the Yanceys and Barksdales and Cushings, all seem- ingly possessed of the insane idea that to the modern Baal of slavery and slave institutions, we must all bow the knee, whether we think it divine or devilish or else pack up our goods sell our lands, and move out of the country ;-certan- ly the proverb we have quoted comes pungently to the mind, and we remember that those whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad p
 We have nothing to do with the family quarrels of the Democratic friends at Charleston indeed we are confident that none of our read CTS, Republican or Democrat have anything to say for themselves or through their delegated representatives upon the matter. There is no North nowadays, or at best North which must either keep it's mouth closed or unceremoniously be snubbed by the President makers and forced to submit to forced adjourn ment; but while we look over the field of the late carnage at Charleston, and see the slaughtered heroes who there pershed, the desertion of broth CTS in arms, and the contending armies finally drawing off their forces for another skirmsh, as their sighs and groans and sweating agony and fierce denunciation hurled at one another, reach our ears from that hall of harmony in Charles ton, again we read the proverb, "Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad," and they being undoubtedly, indisputably, unmistaka- ply in state of derangementt question sor- rowfully comes to us--Is the destroyal next and the ides of June and November will tell the tale!.
Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-10

eeA- We learn that the Superintendent Wa terbury, of the Naugatuck R. R. has been fgur ing up for himself and the Winsted Herald, the probable prospects of the projected railroad from Etchfeld to Kent Wehavent the slight est objection to Mir. Waterbury's amusing him self in this manner as often and as fully as he wishes; but we imagine that the stockholders ol his own road would prefer his "casting up hiE own accounts" and endeavoring to figure out a little larger profit for Aem than the road has hitherto had the good fortune to receive.
Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-10

ma- Mason 0. Weld the long time popular editor of the Homestead, resumed, last week. his position as editor of that readable hebdomadal His readers will be entirely satisfied with the change, and we do hope he will in hls first ploughng, weed that border on the outside of his Homestead and replace it with something fess like buck-thorn hedge run to seed.
Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-10

seA- Our thanks, are due to Senators Dixon and Foster Of Conn.,, and to our Representative Hon. 0. $. Ferry, for valuable and interesting rub docs'
Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-10

WORKS ]! WORMS IA great many learned treat ises have been written, explaining the origin of. and classifying the worms generated in the hu- man system. Scarcely any topic of medical sci- ence has elicited more acute observation and pro- found research and yet physicians are very much divided in opinion on the subject. It must be ad- mittcd, however, that after all, a mode of expsl- ling these worms, and purifying the body from their presence, is of more value than the wisest disquisitiens as to the origin: The expelling agent has at length been found-Dr. M'Lane's Nrmyige, prepared by Fleming Bros. is the much sought after specific, and has already superseded all other worm medicines, its efficacy being uni. versally acknowledged by medical practitioners
 fY Purchasers will be careful to ask for DR, M LANES'S CELEBRATED VERMIFUGE man. ufactured by FLEMING BROS. of PITTsBURG, PA. All other Vermifuges in comparison are worthless. Dr. M Lanes genuine Vermifuge, alss his cele- brated Liver Pills, can now be had at all respec- table drug stores. None genuine without ae ngn0' ture of FLEMING BROS.
Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-10
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

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