The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-09-16

News and Other Paragraphs.
An agent has arrived from Hayti to
induce free negroes to emigrate thither.
u A prospectus has been issued in Eng
lard for telegraph to China and Aus
tralia.
/ Woman has found her true " sphere"
at last. 1t is about twenty-seven feet
round, and made of hoops.
Thaddeus Stevens has been nomina-
ted for Congress in the Lancaster pa
district.
The pecan crop in Texas, this year,
will be a very large one. The export
will probably amount 10 100000 in
value. tef1 70
The Chinese Sugar Cane promises
to be fine crop, in Illinois, this year.
Sugar mills on a large scale will be
erected for crushing the plant and con-
yerting the juice. = s
Alexander Penault was recently sem
fenced to two years imprisonment in
the penitentiary at Montreal, Canada,
for stealing twopence from the poor
box of the cathedral in that city.
/ Cincinnati owns property to the ex-
tent of S6,726,O 900, and its whole debt
is s3,717,oo0 The annual taxes ARE
s67l,9l1. The valuation of Hamilton
county is sl2o,s9o,79l.
Rev. J. NJ. Gregory delivers the adj
dress before the Washtcnaw Co. Agri-
cultural Society; in. Ingersoll, ESQ.,,
before the Shiawassee Society, and
Hon. Henry Waldron before the st.
Joseph Society. 3 -
Rev. DIR. Abel Stevens, of New
York, is about to publish an elaborate
work in four volumes, on Methodism
in America" 1t is stated that he has
been engaged in the enterprise to some
extent for fifteen years.
1t is said by Mr.. Bowen, missionary
to Africa, that there are American
blacks in Liberia, and natives of Sou
dan in Sierra Leone, who can read
Latin, Greek, and Hebrew; and their
attainments in their branches of knowl-
edge are far from being contemplate.
Ray Tomkins, the leader in the mob
!, against the New York Quarantine
buildings, has since been chosen deli.
gate to the Democratic State Conven-
ton. He will probably be made Presi-
dent of the Convention in consideration
of his services on that occasion.
Boston has a population of l62, $40.
Like many other cities its numbers have
not increased for a year past, but, if
anything, diminished. The Assessors
make report, showing a decrease of
polls of 574, which would indicate q
considerable loss of population
$500.
"A THIRD CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS
IN THE FOURTH DISTRICT Jonathan
Chase, of Royal Oak, has announced
himself as an Independent candidate
for Congress, against "Bob Davis'' in
the 4th District, in this State. Mr..
Chase stands boldly upon the Buchan-
an Platform. --
Baron Humboldt has predicted his
own death. A letter written by him,
lately read in one of the Prussian law
courts, caused a sensation, from its
containing the declaration, my death
will take place in 1852" and urging
that it would be better to postpone a
certain publication of his works till
then.
+ Doubts are expressed as to the pa
ternity of the Empress Eugenia. The
Monitor, the officialpaper of the French,
stated that she was born on the Sd of
June, 1926, and according to the nm
disputed testimony of registers and
other documentary evidence, her father
died on October 80, 1923, from the eff.
fects of fall from his horse.
The New York Herald thinks tho
Democratic party is going to ruin 1t
says that "neither sympathy for Doug
las, nor hostility to Douglas, nor little
movement here for Gov. Wise, nor
another there for Slidell and Bright,
nor anything of the sort, will avail to
unite the distracted, dismantled, disor-
dered, disjointed and divided Democ-
racy." ~ tistk. .. -
The Charleston dNerc,oy declares
that "the evils of pardoning and sup
porting Douglas, will be the absolute
destruction of the Democratic party,
inasmuch as the party, which is now
weak at the North, will be divided and
repudiated at the South, and between
the sections, fall hopelessly to the
earth. y ----s.., s.