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Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-03-23
HUMBOLDT FIRE ms. COMPANY,
NO. 10 WALL STREET. NEW YORK,
Cash capital, All Paid IN, 500. 600

HU MDUkOl kIkE lNS, COMPANY.
NO. 10 WALL STREET. NEW YORK,
Cash capital, All Paid IN, 500, 900.
Q TATEMENr OF THE CONDITION OF TIE
y Humboldt Fire INSURANCE. Company of the CIV
Of New York, on the LIST day Of January, 1851,
made to the Auditor Of the State Of Iowa. in
compliance with an act entitled An act to reeu.
late Agencies Of Insurance Companies not incor
porated BY tho State Of Iowa."
The name Of the Company is the Humboldt Fire
Insurance Company, and 10 lOcated in the City
Of New York.
rh. smoans q It's capital Stock is 100000
paid up....... 100000
ASSETS,
Cash on hand and in Bank. l0.507As
Real estate-NONR.
Debts due the Company, secured by
first mortgages on real estate worth
At least fifty per cent. more than
the amount loaned AS per schedule
A, attached. .:................. l6l,l75.oO
Debts due the Company otherwise
secured, or loans on call, with New
York Bank, Insurance and other
stocks 0s collateral security, as per
schedule b, attached. ........... 2987O.oO
Debts due the 20. for premiums.... l,42O.77
Bonds owned BY the Com
pany in New York
State stocks per cont. above
Observation-Disclosures. 100000
+" 80. 100000
81, 10000
Market value. 25,6l5.OO
Interests unpaid, being semi annual
interest on investments due this
day, January l, l86l,.... ...... 3,sO6.4
Cash In the hands OF agents..... 4,80l "
All other securities-none.
Total assets. S45,995.H
LIABILITIES.
Amount due or to become due to
Banks or other credit0rs-none.
Lesses adjusted and due none
Losses adjusted and not due..... 100000
Losses unadj listed. 6,275.OO
Losses in suspense, waiting further
pr0of-none.
All other claims against the Compa-
ny-n0ne.
Total asssts..... $8,275.OO
Greatest amount in one risk........ &20,O0O.O0
allowed to be taken
in any enc town, village or block
no rules have beer adopted.
No deposit is made by this Company in any ether
State, as security for payment for losses.
Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-03-23
STATE OF NEW YORK, :.

CITY AND COUNTY ORNEW YORK;
John Rankin, President, and William Mulligan,
Secretary, Of the HUNT oldt Fire Insurance Com
pany of the City Of New York. being duly sworn,
depose and say, and each for himself says that the
foregoing is = true and correct statement Of the
condition Of the said Company on the first day Of
January, A. D., 1861, and that they are above de-
scribed officers Of the said Company and also,
that the said Company is possessed Of at least One
Hundred Thousand Dollars Of actual capital, in
vested in stocks of par value mortgages on real
estate worth double the amount for viii b the
same is mortgaged. (Signed]
JOHN RANKIN, President.
WV. MULLIGAN, Secretary.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 22nd
day Of January, 1851.
L. 81 Witness my hand add official seal.
BENJAMIN RANKIN,
Commissioner for Iowa, in New York:
Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-03-23
PUBLIC SPEAKERS AND SINGERS.

Few are aware of Importance of checking .
Cough or "Common Cold" in its first stage that
which in the beginning would yield to : mild
remedy, il neglec' cd, soon attacks the Lung.
"Brosrns Bronchial 7reches," containing demu-
cent ingredients, allay Pulmonary and Bronchit;l
Irritation.
Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-03-23
CTATE OF IOWA, SCOTT COUNTY, IS.
y Edwin R. Pease
~. In the District Cour
John P. H. Tallman, Of said County,

Notice IS hereby given that BY virtue Of an or
der of said Courtthe subscriber, receiver in the
above suit, will sell At Orr's Auction Rooms, in
the city Of Davenport, ON tie 9th day Of April,
A. D., 1861 at - o'clock At noon, all and overy,
hands as such receiver, consisting Of promissory
notes, book accounts, judgments, etc., etc. which
sale il to be entirely for cash. and the purchasers
or assignees Of the said debts will be authorised
to sue for and collect the same in tho name Of
the subscriber IS receiver in tho above suit On
his receiving SUFFICIENT indemnity against oil
costs and expenses to which he may be subjec led
in consequence of any suits.
Dated this I'd day Of March, 1851.
r. d. CONGDON,
uch6 Receiver.
Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-03-23

reossesa ~ p0e.
CLUBBING.
~ = discount eftssnty-fvs Per ssaH. ftea the
/ obsvs prices viii - allowed 70 Guns epdering
fear copies e(any one 4 more Of the shove works.
1haes -Four copies of BlaskHsod, or Of one Re-
scr;.. ~ ~ fo., Rsv;.vs .nS a, ~.
.lIHaU9 YIflDgTAGE. Ps'"
.sihall the pslneipal Cities and TevnDo these
wosh viii - delivered FREE OF RO0T.
+! 4&$yg An Eqil - = Ssssaaa ~. .y.
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Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-03-23
STATE OF IOWA.l
AuDITOR's OFFICE

III. w. CATTELL, Auditor Of said State, do
certify that the foregoing is = true and correct
copy of the statement filed in this Office by the
Humboldt Fire Insurance Company of the City Of
New York, en- this fifth day of February, A. D.,
1861.
L.. S.. Witness my hand and official seal
b ereunto affixed, ct Des Aoines, this 5th day Of
FEBRUARY, 1861.
J. w. CATTELL,
Auditor of State
Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-03-23

Which they guarantee equal to any in the market,
and inferior TO mono. These Inks have been long
used in tho principal Eastern asd Southern print
ing Offices, and IN no haCe they failed to give
sai.Sfaction. Orders will receive our pronpt4st
attention. We call attention to the following list
Of prices.
Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-03-23

The name Of the Company is the Humboldt Fire
Insurance Company, and il located in the City
Of New York.
The smount Of its capital Stock Is 500, ooO. 90
Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-03-23

HAVING PURCHASED or a. W. BAILEY
II his stock & Dry Goods, W shall from sud
after this date Offer the same
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-09-26
What Constitutes Treason?

Judge Catron, of the U. s. Su-
preme Court, in a recent charge to
the Grand Jury, in st. Louis, laid
down explicitly the following prop
ositions as the law of the land:
/. That to constitute treason,
there must be reasonable intent,
as we'll as a reasonable overt act !;
and in order to make out treason
able intent and overt act, the party
accused must have been leagued in
a conspiracy to overthrow the Gov
eminent.
2. That there are certain con-
Stitutional guarantees which the
passion or frenzy of the hour can
not touch, and among them is the
right of expression and discussion,
and the freedom of the press.
3. That no sentiments however
hostile, can be held to be treasona-
BILE.
4. That the right Of every citl-
zen to bear arms is an inalienable
right that cannot be %infringed ; and
the fact of a citizen having arms,
without being in league with a
hostile force, was not an act for
which his liberty could be abridg-
cd
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-09-26
w AR ITE MI ..

De- The war news is scanty but
very important.
Lexington, in Missouri, has been
taken by the Confederates, after a
siege of between four and five days,
and the Northern army there have
been made prisoners. 5000 privates
were released by the Confederates
on parole, but the commissioned
officers have been retained prison.
ers.
On the Potomac things remain
in statu quo. Each army is prepar.
ing for a great conflict, and a bat
tie and great slaughter must take
place soon.
A great expedition of gun-boats
and ships, containing troops, has
sailed from New York to some
Southern port or ports.
In Western Virginia, both par,
ties are still in the field, and our ar
my appears to be gaining ground.
Kentucky is heaving and in
trouble. The darkness which hangs
over the country appears to become
more gross.
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-09-26
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
LEGAL NOT
Preble Com. Pleas.
Petition on Note and
Mortraoe.

Samuel Hart, pptf, Preble Com. Pleas.
US. Petition on Note and
Thomas g.. Horton Mortgage.
and others.
TThe defendants Thomas G. Horton and
l. Harriet NJ. Horton his wife, of the State
of Indiana, will take notice that Samuel
Hart, of the county of Preble, and State Of
Ohio, did, on the 2lst day of September, A.
D. 1861, file his petition in the Court of
Common Pleas of Preble county, Ohio,
against them the said defendants, setting
forth that the said defendants Thomas G..
Horton and Harriet NJ. Horton his wife,
gave q mortgage to one Henry b.. Sayler on
lot number seventy-four, (74) in the town Of
Winchester, Preble county, Ohio, to secure
the payment of 5000, according to certain
notes referred to in said mortgage, and that
said notes we're endorsed and delivered to
the plaintiff, and praying that said defend
ant, Thomas G. Horton may be compelled
to pay the sum of one hundred dollars, with
interest from the first day of September, A.
d. 1858, now claimed to be due from the de-
PENDANT to the plaintiff, and that said prem
ises may be sold to pay the same, and the
said defend ants arc notified that they are
required to appear and answer said petition
on or before the third Saturday after the
seventh day of November, 1861.
Foos & Campbell, attys for plt'f, :
Sen. 26, lS6l-fw
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-09-26
Stand BY the good Old Party

Now that the Republican party is
broken up, daylight commences to
break again for the Democracy
The opposition are now pursuing
a course that must inevitably drive
the Abolitionists from their ranks.
and when once that is accomplished
we shall give again our old fash
Toned majority, and restore the
Go government to its former prospect
ty ana power. The Democratic
party is ths only party that can
govern this country with safety and
economy, and now is The time to
place it on the basis of permanent
success, from which it can not be
overthrow in the next century,
We say to all good Democrats, who
have the interest of the country at
heart, now, in the hour of the
country's greatest peril, stand fast
by the glorious old ship that has
carried us safely through sunshine
and storm for the last eighty years.
This is no time to falter or give
way. Stand firm. Work. Don't
be taken in.-OhiO Patriot.
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-09-26
ShERIFF'S SALE.

Thesbia Leas, plaintiff, Preble Com. Pleas.
US. In Partition.
Levi Leas ct al deft. Case No. 1888.
Dy virtue Of an order of sale issued by the
ID Court of Common Pleas ofPrcble coun-
ty, in the above stated case, and to the Shcr-
if of said county directed, l will offer for
sale at public auction, at the door Of tho
court house in said county, on
SATURDAY, OCT. 26, 1861,
between the hours of l and 4 o'clock P. Il. Of
said day, the following real estate, situate in
the county of Preble, and State of Ohio, and
bounded and described as follows, to-wit:
Being the sonth part of the southwest quar-
ter of section sixteen, in township No. sew
en-, of range three East, Sc, containing l05
and one-tenth acres, and being lot No. one,
~ in the recent survey or division Of said
section, appraised at $3O45,O 90.
Terms of sale, one-third Of tho purchase
money cash in hand, one-third in one year,
and the residue in two years from the day of
sale, deferred payments to bear six per cent.
interest from the day Of sale, and to be Sc
cured by mortgage on the premises,
j. R. MoCLEAF, Sheriff.
Foos h Campbell, attys
Sen. 26, l86l-dW
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-09-26
DEAD! DEADH DEADU!

Democrats of Preblc County!
The Rcgistcr of last week published
to the world that your mission is
completed, that your work is done,
that you are "dead, DEAD, DEAD"
and that your "pale attenuated
form has been consigned by a few
friends to the silent tomb" On
Saturday, the 28th inst, that is
this week, you will have an oppor-
tunity of proving to the world that
right principles cannot die, neither
can they change or fuse with a
mixture with which they have no
affinity. Democrats are what they
have ever been. 1t is only section
alism that changes and becomes
metamorphosed annually like In
sects that are generated by sG1mEer
heat. Come on friends a thousand
strong in the greatness of your in
tellcctual and moral strength, and
by your numbers and calm deter
mination put to eternal "silonce
the ignorance Of foolish men,
Rouse you, and come in good time
in the morning. You who have
Democratic workmen give them a
day to visit Eaton. Bring your
wives, your sons, and your daugh-
tiers, your flags, and instruments of
music. Come from College Corner,
and from Winchester, from Cam
den, and from New Paris. Come
on friends, we shall have some.
thing to say to you. Come and
let US have such q Mass Meeting as
you used to have in days gone by.
and you will thus inspire men tc
speak as political prophets ought
to speak, and who knows but thai
the mantle Of Clay, Jackson, OF
Douglas, may fall upon some one
or more OF yourselves. You have
rising men in your ranks, and the
times upon which we have fallen
demand that we should use extra
ordinary means to save our coun
try from the ruin in which it is in
volved.
Bring us all the fresh subscrib
crs you can possibly induce to reat
our paper. The war has deprived
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-09-26
For the Democratic Press.
No. III.
81 also will give my Opinion"

u also will give my Opinion"
Mr.. ED1ToR:-I throw my bread
upon the waters-but this war of
sections must 60 on till the end
In this crisis it can do no good to
extol the glories of our once hap
Ply Union. tits gone, and the par
ty in power will make no reasona-
BILE sacrifice to restore it. That
party is propelled by fanaticism
which has no eyes, and cannot see;
it has no heart and cannot feel
That party SO governed, never till
now had the reins in its hands. 1t
requires men by the hundreds of
thousands, and money by the mil
lions of tons for purposes of coer-
cion, to whip States back into a
Union of free will; a Union where
| aactionalism now bears absolute
swsy, and coercion is civil war,
and civil war is disunion. "Mad-
ness rules the Eour." That party
to strengthen itself, and rule al
ways, will destroy the Constitution
and ruin the people, to prove that
we have a government. But what
will that government be? Surely
not such as our fathers made,
founded upon consent and compro-
mise. No, certainly not. 1t has
so far refused its consent to every
proposition which might approach
to an adjustment. 1t has no con-
ccssions to make to rebels against
sectionalism. It must show that a
party that can carry an election at
the polls, can also put down rebel
lion by force of arms. Its leaders,
before they would vote for a peace
proposition would rather see fifty
Unions broken into fragments
The man who has the frmness tc
plead that the Constitution may
be preserved, they denounce as q
traitor. In the name of God, and
before our whole country, if he is
faithful to the Constitution, tc
whom and to what is he a traitor
The answer is plain, alas too plain
He. is viewed us o traitor to sec.
tionalism, a traitor to the party il
power. Yet we find a few so. called
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-09-26

us of many of our supporters, and
bitter enemies have also done us
no little harm; a glance at our adj
vertisements will convince you
that only a few of the Eaton store
keepers render us any support, and
some few have withdrawn their
support because we would not
hound on the war without, at the
same time advocating the immedi-
ate restoration Of peace if possible,
and because we would not abuse,
calumniate, and SANDER in Billings
gate style, one of the greatest
statesmen now living. Some few
have left us because the general
literature Of our paper is above
their comprehension, and because
they have resolved to abandon the
true Union party, and fuse with
the men of the sixteen starred
flag.
When we look at the incohe.
rent and senseless stuff that has
been sent to us in the shape Of
letters to stop the paper, it may be
well said that our literature il
above their comprehension. Oul
mission is not to stoop to theil
level but to try patiently to educate
and raise them to our own. Veri.
ly there is room for "the schoo,
master abroad" And yet these
are among the men who abuse the
Honorable G. L. Vallandigham
and shout "traitor," "secessionist,'
etc.
AS the words "traitor' and use.
cessionist" are so constantly made
use of now by Republicans anG
Abolitionists, to call in question thu
sincerity, patriotism and loyalty tc
the Union and Constitution of the
Union Democratic, but no Fusion
party, it may not be amiss to relate
here q real and sober fact. A Ger.
tain Fusion Republican, offered
on the steps of the Court House tc
go to the wal if a certain Democra.
present would go; the Domocra'
at once accepted the challenge
both patriots agreed to meet il
Eaton on Monday the 23d inst
The Democrat came-we saw him
but our brave defender of the
Union never made his appearance
And this is just the way in which
great blusterers and loud takers
about Union and ORATORS" &C
when driven into a corner. w,
are sickencd and filed with DISCUS
by the cowardly attacks constantly
made upon respectable men by
vendors of windy babble and sen.
scless prattlc.
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-09-26

same accomplished counterfeiter,
and when at last caught in his own
snare, and imprisoned, he murder
ed the keeper Of the prison, while
in the act Of handing him in his
breakfast, and sprang out into the
prison yard, shouting" stop the
traitor, hang the traitor; he has
Aed-he has fled; to the gates-to
the gates! See-see, he has climb
ed the rails! he has reached TIE
street! Turnkey, turnkey, open
the gates-the traitor has murder
ed the keeper of this prison." By
this clever, but diabolical trick, the
turnkey, and such of the prisoners
as were legally allowed to walk
about in the prison yard, were all
thrown ofthcir guard, and hurried
into the street in confusion, and
Hogarth, the counterfeiter and
murderer, was the first to gain the
street, still shouting - "Stop the
murderer, catch the traitor" We
need not add, that he made his es-
cape ; made for q wood, wandered
about for q fortnight, again met
with and slept with the detective
who was in search of him, and
gave him-the oficial-such infor-
nation, relative to u man that he
had met at q small and obscure
lodging house, only the night be,
fore, as to induce the officer to give
him some money. Hogarth took
the money, and, knowing where he
had the policeman, he crossed tc
the Emerald Isle. He was traced
and, after two years of wandering.
was discovered and taken prisoner
: at an Irish annual and celebrated
: Fair, taken back across the chan.
mel, tried, and the judge put on the
black cap, and pronounced the sen.
tence of death upon him, and he
was hanged till he was dead.
Let those who are so apt tc
change their name, voice, tactics
and company, and counterfeit prin.
ciplcs, take heed to their ways
that they fall not into the snare Of
the devil.
The above touching and remar.
kable narrative, is q sober fact, and
it reads a solemn and serious lesson
at this moment, to the men who
are given to change, who were seer
in vision, and known p~ropheticaIly
to the wise man of the East, who's,
advice is worth more than a pass
} ing thought. He speaks of thos,
"who are given to change" ant
} says" their calamity shall rise
r suddenly, and who knowcth the
l ruin Of them both."-THe ProverB,
of SO70yD0D
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-09-26

Democrats, whose bosoms the fer.
vor of national patriotism never
warmed, who have become followers
after this evil spirit. Bogus Dem
ocrats, so hungry, that they would
sell themselves and the Democratic
party too, for the loaves and fishes
Of Office, and boast that they had
made a good bargain. Out of the
miseries of our country they desire
to fatten Observation-Disclosures
of Baal they are, have been, and
will be, to the end. They are
joined to their idols, let them q.
lone. Ifthey should again change
the next month or the next year
they will not greatly deceive any
body. JUNIUS.
Sept. 81, 1861.
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-09-26
LEGAL

Absalom Silver, EXT Of
John Holtry, deceased, Preble Com. Pleas
Us. Petition on Notes
Thomas J. Bunch4 wife and Mortgage.
and John II. Campbell.
Nhe above named dert John IT. Campbell,
L is hereby notified that on the let day of
June, 1861, the above named plaintiff fled
in the Clerks Office Of the Court Of Common
Pleas, Of Preble county, Ohio, a petition
against the defendants Thomas j. Bnnch
and Wife, setting forth that the said
Thomas j.. Bunch and Wife gave a
mortgage to said defendant John II.
Campbell on the east of the northeast Guar
ter of section l, ofrange 2 East, &c, in said
county of Preble, containing SO acres more
or less, to secure the sun ofSj90, according
to a note referred to in said mortgage, and
further prays for the sale Of said mortra ed
premises to pay said sum of $3.50, and inter-
est. That on the Sd day of July, 1861, the
said Thomas j.. Bunch filed his answer to
said petition, setting forth that he was the
owner of the Real Estate above described,
and derived title to the same By deed of gen
eral warranty from the said John II. Camp
bell and Otilia Campbell his wife. That at
the time of the execution of said deed, there
was a mortgage upon said Real Estate, given
by the said John II. Campbell to one James
Perrine, and which said mortgage the said
John II. Campbell in consideration of the
sale to the said Thomas j, Bunch agreed to
pay off and discharge. That the said Camp
bell did not pay said mortgage. That tho
said Bunch was compelled to pay the same.
And the said answer further sets up, that
said note and mortgage was assigned to the
sad Holtry, by the said Campbell as collat-
eral security only that after paying said debt
thus collaterally secured, there will remain
Of said note about the sum of $3.50 and fur
Their asks that said Campbell may be made o
party to this action and that said sum Of
$3.50 be decreed to the said Bunch in rart
payment of the amount so by him paid to
the said James Perrine. And the deft John
Il. Campbell is further notified that he is
required to file his answer in said cause on
or before the Sd Saturday after the 7th day
of November, 1861. Foos & Campbell.
Sep. &c, l8Glfw attys for T. j. Bunch.