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LsGA STEAMBOAT LINE
1Rs---a11Az@ FROM
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smyrna to PhIladeIphla'
On and after WEDNESDAY. JUNE 9th, the steam
er SWAN" Captain S PRIOR. will leave Dea-
kynes Landing for Philadelphia every MONDAY
WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY. at 8 O'CLOCK A. M ;
touching at Bombay Hook Port Penn Delaware Cl'y'
New Castle, Pennsgrove and Chester. NJ --
RETURNING, leave Arch street Wharf: PhIia;' every
TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY. at o
O'Clock, A. NJ touching at the abOve-named iahulhgs
0~T Stages from Dover, Smyrna aud Lelpsic' meet
the Boat at Bombay hook
% Stages for Collins Beach meet the Boat at Dea-
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APPEAL TO sIECHANICS AND LA
BORING MEN TO INSURE
THEIR LIVES

A large proportion of the operatives in our various
kinds OF shops are not worth $1,000 A wife be-
loved, and confding children cling with fond regard
to the father, liable at any moment to be taken away
with nothing laid by for their comfort and prott c.
tion. The annual sum of S2I would pay a life poll
cy that would in the event of death go far towar rds
making them comfortable; and who can not lay
aside for such purpose this small sum, and who
among you ought not to lay it aside If the family
is poor much the greater need that this wise pro-
vision be not neglected. AS the ordinary accumu-
lations necessarily slow, requiring years to lay
aside few hundred dollars, how much wiser to make
sure at once a large sum by Life Insurance. Take
warning before it is too late.
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Insure Your Homes and Property
IN THE
Kent County Mutual Insurance Company.
AT DOY YER, DELAWARE.

THIS Company continues 10 Insure property on rea.
sonahe terms, aud Tor several years past has paid s
Policy Holders annual dividend Of and no nar
cent. The ilVdcut- urr pad On the lst dav of Ian
nary or allowed ia The payment Of The annual pre.
dlinms, due On thal day.
II is The bOun1eA duly Of every man. not OnIy To his
iamIly hh' h!- ''"i'- ' keep his property insured
ana no man ua~ .'r -'.# Pro complain of his neigh.
O"rs ami in"t.r... tuey snOud refuse TO cOnribHIe
towards the loss oi his property being bound for the
sn1Ee reason that insurance cheap and agents of
The company reside in almost every town throughout
The state. and for trIlng can be made secure
from loss OF his property by fire. If mai will not
use the precautI0n to secure his property against loss
by lire. II 1t rs Insurabe he has no fqhI tn call unon
his neigh bOrs to assist him
The Kent County Mutual has a CanitaI or coon
600, and pays promptly Its losses
Parties deslTOus OF Insuring in this COmpanv will
call upon the following agents ''''
AGENTS
w. Z. Robinson And'w ]. Wright FELTON,
delaware City. Geo M Davis BrIdgeviIle
Jesse s. Huntingdon. Smyrna james Ponder, Milton.
u. Dickson, Dover Paul A. Davis Lewes,
Jas Cowgirl, ( i'' Or. A. Mauck LaureI
tI - =. 'acHsoi, oamoeh' - Georgetown,
T. CowsIil' Wlila" Grove. Wesley Stack.
J.Y. FOuIk Milford, Greenshoro Md.
ELIJAH CRoUCH. Dever. General Agent
DIRECTORS.
Or .; ~ cslsler. smyrna, 'FhOs Bradford. Dover
Iamas n TCyIHua,ns, CIa Nuns, Dr.. Henry RIdgcy, "
Wlli,am oenney' James Pretlyman,
Brldgeville.
SaMDGL PAN G3,pl, N, FiSLER, President. SMYRNA
JAS: COWGlLL, Trear Dove ''N'
GEO B. DICKSON. Sec'y'
0buspeSSss - ~ !, "Ia,lohs Ias promptly attended to
OEoA"E D. OiohsoN' Secretary, Dover.
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Freiehts Of all descriptions at low rates.
'rhe above arrangement will continue until Tues
dav. June 26th when the SWAN will make DAILY
TRIPs from Philadelphia. je6
May 30lh 1866
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THE BROOKLYN
Life Assurance Comply.
To Wen OfLimited Means.

with families dependent upon their efforts sure pro-
vision for them If they shOnld be taken from hem To
ALL the consciousness of having, by prudent fore
sight, provided for those pendent upon them and the
liberal plan OF assurance, allowing all whose premi.
ums amount 10 over $40 per annum, the privilege of
giving note for One-half the premium till their dIvi-
dends IN the Company pay oil the note thus enabling
person for the same expenditure of money be assured
for tWtce much they could be insured for IN Com
pdRy requiring premiums RllCAsH With such induce.
menls whose health is such as 10 allow of their
assurance should fail I" make application This young
but most prosperous Company rapid, exteRdng It's
business, and rising fast IN the public estimation. It's
President, CHRISTIAN w. BOUCK, and Secretary
RICHARD II HARDING. ESQ rs. are men whose re-.
pualon for ability and honesty Of purpose widely
known. With ample deposits IN the insurance bureau
OF the State Of New York. for the security of the in.
sured with business last year Of nearly tDO million
of dollars, and paying cash diridend Of 40 per cent
loM reseroed surplus ample for all contingen encies
none should fail 10 avail then of the great ad yan
tages offered by it for LIFE ASSURANCE In this
Company 40 cents per IDeek, or fraction OUer SIX
CENTS per day, 'ciH secure for the benefit of the
family Of person Of 80 years Of age,
@aS ~ 90 GB GD @m-
payable al his DEATH and less sum for persons vounq
er How strange that no love their ianlIes viii
leave them exposed TO utter dessIulon al their death
when
SLY CENTS PER DAY
would insure them $4,000 at tho time their families
will most need aid.
Applications will be received by the subscriber AT
Dover-Dr ISAAC JUMP. EXAMINING Physician in
Wilmington by THOMAS ROBERTS, Esq DIR. {. w.
JONES, Examining Physician.
arrangements will be made for opening offices IN
most OF the towns OF the State. Unul those arrange
mehts are completed. will visit any part OF the ola'e
upon the call Of persons deslrous OF being insured
VIM. R. CAHOON,
Agent for the State of Delaware
iely66 Dover Del.
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pensation is commonly given beyond an
extra mug of ale or cider. -u
The Earl of Shaitesbury, whose estates
are In that country, and who has world
wide and honorable reputation for his phil
anthrophy, and especially for HIS jealous
efforts in behalf of ragged schools and other
means for elevating the condition OF the
poor of London, has felt constrained at
length to address the public, In a letter to
the Times, explanatory of the condition TO
which the laboring classes are reduced N
his own country and on his own estat s. IL
Is plea In mitigation merely, and does not
mention one solitary instrumentality! In
use by the wealthy landowners OF the thriy-
ing middle classes to elevate the condition
of the working people, to improve their
dwellings, to educate their children, or to
promote religion and morality among Them
The utmost extenuation which he urges
consists In minute calculation of possible
perquisites and privileges from which he
infers that their means of living do In fact
amount, on an average, to fourteen shil-
lings and six pence weekly, equal to about
three dollars and sixty cents per week,
they feeding and lodging themselves, and
paving ten dollars for rent per year. The
London Spectator of February 18th replies
to this with testimonies from the laborers
themselves. that their best chances average
only ten shillings and six pence per week,
including profits on the allotment of land.
This is equal to two dollars and siXty-twO
cents of our money. Out OF this they have
to pay house rent and buy food, fuel.
clothes. and all necessaries for their fami-
lies-N. Y. EUenin0 Post.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-19
The Farm Laborers of England.

The Dorsetshire laborer stands in England
for the representative of the very bottom
tier of English humanity. He is referred
to as an example Of the lowness of wages
and the scantiness of comforts to which
aristOcratic institutions, including the
monopoly of land, are capable of reducing
the agricultural labOrers in the richest
country of the world. A late English au-
thor, Fawcett, in a work on Political Econ
omy, thus describes their condition:
"A DOrsetshire laborer can seldom either
read or write; he, therefore, has little or no
information with regard to the wages paid
in other districts. Hisignorance magnifes
the difficulties of removing to distant part
of the country and makes him disinclined
to leave the locality to Which he has been
accustomed. Again il he has a family,
he is far too poor to pay the expense of con-
veying them to a comparatively distant
place; for we have carefully ascertained
the fact that an agricultural laborer has
rarely saved even few shillings. More
over, there is associated with our system of
poor-relief law of settlement which has
often bound and fettered the laborer to the
district in which he was born. No law has
perhaps ever more grievOusly oppressed a
class. A man, by resorting to place not
far distant, may much improve his position
employment there might be much better,
and he would therefore get higher wages; !;
but the law of settlement often prevents
him from availing himself of these advan-
tages-he is not allowed to settle in another
district, because it Is feared that he or his
family may some day become chargeable
on the poor rate. The combined influence
of the causes Just enumerated prevents
laborers readily migrating from one district
to another in order to avail themselves of
the advantages which they will secure from
a greater demand for their labor"
The customary rate of wages is from
eight to nine shillings, two dollars to two
dollars and twenty-five cents per week,
subject to a deduction of one shilling or
TWENTY-FIVE cents, pei, week for the rent of a
cottage, where that luxury Is indulged in.
Il Is common for coGtagers to have an allot-
ment of land which they cultivate for them
selves In evening hours, and for which they
pay rent at the rate of about three dollars
ier half acre yearly, the crop being worth
about ten dollars above the rent, II the man
takes time enough out of his hoursof rest
to. cultivate lit thoroughly. The laborer
furnishes his own tools, which cost him at
| least one dollar and seventy five cents year
ly.SsMen also earn about twenty dollars
| additional for piece-work during harvest.
! They work during eight months Of the
| year from seven o'clock until five, with a
| half-hour for breakfast and an hour for din
ner making nine and a half hours. In
| winter they work from six to five, with one
hour inrldinnen making nine hours. of La
| Dor. If pressure of work extends the
| time OF labor an hour or Two, no extra COM
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-19
MutIIatod xauI, Notes,

Freeman Clark, Comptroller of. the Treas
ury, has made che following important
decision relative to mutilated bank notes:
A bank is bound to redeem its notes on
demand. The fact that portion of one, Of
its promissory notes Is torn of or missing,
does not cancel this obligation, solOng as
there is no reason to believe that the miss
ing portion OF the note can or will be used
to defraud. Sectien 5S of the Currency act
will always justify an inquiry as to the
cause or manner of mutilatiOn. If the ex7
PLANTATION is satisfactory, the note should
be redeemed in full; but if the inquiry
should lead to the belief that fraud was in-
tended, the bank would be justified in re-
fusing to redeem it. Nothing would justi-
fy deduction from the face value of note
except fraudulent intent, and evidence of
fraudulent intent would justify the bank
in refusing to redeem the note; therefore,
the note should be redeemed in full, or not
at all. The fnll face value will be allowed
for all mutilated notes returned to this OF
flee, when such value was allowed by the
bank which redeemed them. ... ..........
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-19
Testinc Her InnOcence.

The following touching scene recently
occurred in Partisan court of Justice:
A poor, pale, wan seamstress, was ar
raigned for theft. She appeared at the bar
with baby of eleven or twelve months in
her arm, her child. She went to get some
work one day and stole three gold coins of
l0f. each. The money was missed soon af-
ter she left her employ er, and a servant was
sent to her rooms to Claim it. The servant
found her about to quit her rooms with the
three gold coins in her hand. She said to
the servant: II was going to carry them
back to you." Nevertheless, she was car
ried to the commissioner of police, and he
ordered her to be sent before the police
court for trial. She was too poor to engage
a lawyer, and when asked by the judge
what she had to say for herself she answer
ed: "The day / went to my employers /
carried my child with-me. 1t was in my
arms as 1t Is now. was not paying. atten-
tion to it. There were several gold coins
on the mantle-piece, and, unknown to me,
it stretched out its little hand and seized
three pieces, which did not observe until
l got home. l at once put on my bonnet
and was going back to my employer to re-
turn them when / was arrested. This Is
the solemn truth, as hope for heavens
mercy" EARN "Hf ~ "-1 9IC8
The court could not believe this story.
They upbraided the mother for her impu-
dence in endeavoring topalm off such a
manifest lie for the truth, They besought
her for her own sake, to retract so absurd
a tale, for it could have no effect, but
oblige the court to sentenceher to severer
punishment than they were. disposed to
inflict upon one SO young and evidently
stepped SO deep in poverty. These appeals
had no effect, except TO strengthen the
poor mothers pertlnacious adherence to
her original story. AS this fifmness was
sustained by that look Of innocence which
the most adrolt criminal can never eoun-
terfeit the court were at some loss 10 dis
cover what decesiot Justice commanded.
To relieve their embarrassment, one of the
judges proposed 10 renew the scene de-
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-19

AN anecdote of Victor Hugo and his son
appears in the Continental journals. The
son, NJ. Charles Hugo, one day heard Mile.
LIE Hoene spoken of in the most fattering
manner, begged to be introduced to her,
and short time afterwards asked her hand;
but her grandmo'h her (the young lady was
an Orphan) refused, on account of her pow
erty. To this the lover replied, "My faith
er will think that matter of no import
ance when ne knows my wishes" He told
Hugo his desire to marry Mile. LIE HOene.
The father replied, "Very well, but don't
mention the suhjectto me again until get
my book out" The proof-sheets of his
''Songs of the Streets and the WOodsr were
then engaging his full attention, and when
he is preparing work for the press, or
seeing it through the printers hands, he
will hear of nothing else. After the ap-
pearance of the volume, he arranged the
marriage, gave his son a sum of money
equal to $4,000, married them, and prom
ised that they should live with him as soon
as he had completed the mansion he Is now
building. Hs. ~ H.t-' t"
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-19
Eighteen Persons Poisoned 10
.. f ... Death. tFr.lr ...l.. d..

From the Grand Rapids (Mich.) DemocratJ
We are Informed, by gentleman who
came in last evening, from the town OF
Lisbon, that a most distressing case OF
poisoning occurred in that town day or
two since. A party of men were employed
IN the woods getting out pine logs, and had
shanty clearinghouse, and employed
man to do the cooking. trapper hap
pened that way at night, requested permis-
sion to remain over night, which was grant
ed. He had with him paper containing
strychnine, for the purpose of poisoning
meat in setting his traps for wild animals
and on entering the shanty it was placed
upon board shell, carelessly, and left there.
The cook, in preparing the meal, took from
the shelf, as he supposed, paper Of sale
ratus, but instead thereof. poison, and mix
ed up and baked the biscuit of which all
parties partook, from the result of which
ighteen persons were poisoned, and died.
We give the statement as we received it,
and have no doubt it is in the main cor
rect, -f'
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-19

vi. .#
The great issue before the people is,
whether all the powers Of Government
shall be concentrated in the hands of the
General Government-the States being re-
duced to the condition of counties-and q
consolidated despotism be thereby estab-
lished; or, whether those rights of local
self-government which our fathers enjoy
ed aud which we inherited from them, and
without which there can be no real liberty,
no wise government, no public economy,
no light taxation, shall be preserved,
"A powerful faction, represented bya ma
jority in Congress, have conspired to over
throw the free and benefcent institutions
of our fathers, and to substitute therefor an
JOligarchy of privileged classes, crushing
the mass of the people and all individual
liberty, under the weight of despotic and
unrestricted General Government. To ef-
feet this object they, in plain violation of
the Constitution, exclude eleven States
from representation in. Congress, and insist
upon comforting upon negroes the right
to vote-not out of regard to the negro,
but because they expect to be able,
with their money to control his vote, and
thereby perpetuate theirparty ascendency.,
Let every man who is opposed to the
schemes of the conspirators, who cherishss.
the institutions founded by our fatherssi
who appreciates the necessity and benefits
of local lself.government. who is opposed to
seeing the great State of Ohio shorn Of her,
dignity and reduced to the dependent con-
dition of a county, or who Is opposedto
Negro Suffrage, join with the Democracy
in rescuing our country from the grasp Of
the Malignants. @ sgfe,of,b o,.t
By order of the Democratic State Cen
trail Committee of Ohio. '.'iN'' '-D
n "ta JOHN G. DUN, Chairman. ts
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-19

scribed by the mother. Three gold coins
were placed on the clerks table. The
mother was requested to assume the posi-
tion in which she said she stood at her
employers house. There was then a
breatbless pause IN the court. The baby
soon discovered the bright coin, eyed 1t for
a moment, smiled, and then stretched forth
its tiny hand and clutched them in its fin
gers with miser's eagerness. The mother
was acquitted. m .....,. ... ....ff.fr.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-19

DENOCRAT.CHAYE CONyUNNVI.ll !
'Thursdayy IMayaAtA, iIaee-sd


. The Annual State Convention of the II
Democratic party OF Ohio,will be held In, 70
Columbus, on Thursday, the RAahpay 40
of May, Is06, to transact suchbusiness sIol
may come before IL, and to put in nomina5 II
tlon candidates for the following offices sidqmo-
I, SeTstaS9f Stuts5 ii5g III 1aaG sdi j99ioTq
\ Jadge6f sthe Supreme Court n1gdinos gGi
10 Member Of he Board AZ Public JVOrks%i1odl
Il The basis of representation the appor-
tionnent of Delegates is as follows: eone1s
Delegate for each county; one for every
Jiue hundred votes given for Gel. GEoRdE WI
% MORGAN for Governor, last october; and %
an additional one for every fraction Of ttoOoii
hundred and Gfty and upwards. The nuuh-pq
Der Of Delegates to which each county Is 10
entitled, is indicated in the following table'iol
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-19
Reputation Established

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public bemefNCt1'eSS, and her q l
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youth, and sct6t1E ttfhrOgsgb
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Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-19
TAKE NOTICE.

1rHAT ALL KINDS. OF FINE AND COARS,
Wrapping Paper and Paper Bnescan bo lad iu
n the Paper Mil b Merchants and oil using Wrap-ao
3 ing paper, would do we'll to give rs a call . - :.
Z feb37-dlm ANDERSON n C0NAN. Hpi
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-10-30
Lively Items fom Nye County.

From the Nye County News Of Saturday.
The RIolsrRR LIsfs.-Ths register
lists for the several precincts are now
closed, and, according to law, should be
posted in their respective precincts, for the
inspection Of voters. We wish to call the
attention Of the Union men Of Belmont
Township to the large number enrolled on
the last day, and ask them to soan the list
cloIely. See that the requisite number Of
copies Of the list 10 made out, posted and
distributed, that all may have . fair op-
~portunity to inspect it. The law requires
IL. We have been shown the names Of
eight or ten who are claimed to be rebels,
having served in the rebel army for some
time. Such men won't do to make laws
for loyal Nevada. In that township, on
the 18th, as we are informed BY q gentle
man who left there on that day, there
were ll6 registered, with . claimed Dem
ocratic majority Of 20. On the 10Th, when
the list closed, tho number was l86, with
q claimed Democratic majority Of 66.
Therefore we call the attention Of Union
men, not only in that precinct, but in
every precinct, to scan these lists closely,
and weed out the Johnny-rsbI., BUSH
,whackers and jeff. Davis shouters, who
will Of course vote the Democratic ticket.
DoN'r ENDoRsB TXlx.-We learn that
several Of the old-line Democrats refuse
to swallow the pills mixed for them BY
their late County Convention. One OF
the candidates for the Legislature, when
called upon to endorse the resolutions. did
so in the following sensible style. an 40
count Of which we presume the Secretary
inadvertently omitted to furnish in his re-
port last week. The gentleman being
called for, came forward and said "Mr.
Chairman and gentlemen Of the Conyen-
toni am q candidate for the Lsgisla-
ture. I am called upon to define my po-
sition. I don't endorse a dam n OF
these resolutions, nor either Of the Phila-
delphia Conventions. I 70 in for the
principles Of the old Democratic party,
and l say again that I don't endorse .
dam one Of these resolutions" At this
stage Of the proceedings the gentleman
was called to order, for fear he would
tell to many unwholesome truths, but be-
ing allowed to proceed. said "Col. Buell.,
you called me up here to define my posi-
ton. I again say I don't endorse q dam
one Of these resolutions" The aid OF the
Sergsant.at-Arma wal invoked. and the
gentleman politely assisted to q back seat.
or course no failed to get . nomination,
though undoubtedly would had he obsyed
orders and swallowed the pills, but unfor-
tunately he had too much glycerins