The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-08-19

Denison, the Republican County Gen.
trail Committee for the ensuing year.
On motion, adjourned sine de- J
E. BUELL., Chairman.
w. II. CAMPBELL, Secretary. 49,
News ana oder Paragraphs.
New peaches have made their APP
pearance in Detroit.
The yellow fever is prevailing quite
extensively at New Orleans. z+o
The excitable people of Dundas, c.
w., recently burned the Goyernor-Gen-
eral in efigy.
Mrs. Cunningham says she is not
married toEckle, and he has not visited
her house since tie trial. sal
Col. Forney says that James B. Clay
has been delivering in Pennsylvania q
speech written for him by President
Buchanan.
Senator Bright, of Indiana, has, it is
said, become member of the Roman
Catholic Church. His brother Lucas
is already of that persuasion.
A Salt Spring, of great purity, is said
to have been discovered at Clyde,
Wayne county, to work which a com
pany has been formed. as
- FIRE.=A fire which broke out in
Oneida, ILL.,, on Monday last, consumed
all the business portion of the town,
entailing loss of some $4,000.
On Friday night last General Cass
had an alarming attack of an old chron-
ic affection, which called up the whole
household, but he was as well as usual
the next day. asa
The Minnesota Legislature adjourned
on the 18th. The bill for usury law
passed both branches some days previ-
Gus, but it was vetoed during the last
half hour of the session.
The Buffalo folks seem to be in costa
cies upon the success of running canal
boats by steam. Two steamboats, have
already been put on the canal, and are
said to work well. e
The election in Iowa takes place on
the first Tuesday in October instead Of
the first Monday in August as hereto
fore. Five State officers and two Mem
bers of Congress are to be elected.
They are building Crystal Palace
at Toronto, G. W., for the Provincial
Agricultural Fair. 1t is to be splen-
did thing. The Municipal Council has
contributed 45, 900 towards it. .at
KANSAS SENAToRs.-A Kansas cor
respondent of the Boston Bee thinks it
not improbable that Parrot and Elk
Secretary Stanton will be the first Uni
ted States Senators from Kansas.
The amount required to carry on the
government of the city of New York
for the next year is s9,5oo,o 900, of which
the sum of 81 100000 is for temporary
advances to be returned to the treasu-
ry. .ssE - - 500 i5sssi.z - asss
Col. Colt, the firearms man, is making
full set of his military arms for the
Russian Government, and has had
three cases of elegantly mounted arms
manufactured for presentation to the
Russian Court. ss.~ - fsssr1
The Death of Captain Abraham Van
Sandtvoord, of New York, is an
nounced. He was one Of the very first
who engaged'in the steamboat business
on the Hudson having preceded
all who survive him. ..al.ss-sd .isss's
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURES Cover
nor Melville has called an Extra SEES
sion of the State Legislature, to meet
in Jackson ON the first Monday in No
vember next. Various reasons are as
signed for calling the body together.
At the last meeting of the Rhode
Island Historical Society, Mr.. Horatio
G. Jones, of Philadelphia, read a paper
claiming for Mr.. Ebenezer Kinnersley,
an Englishman, who settled in Philadel-
phia in l7l4, the honor of originating
Magnetic Telegraphs. = sssss
| 1t is estimated that there are ,057,-
500 Spiritualists in America, of whom
there are two hundred thousand in New
York, one hundred and twenty thou
sand in Ohio and Indiana each, seven
ty thousand in Pennsylvania, and sixty
thousand in Wisconsin,
DOUGLAS REJo1cing OVER THE De-
FEAT OF BLAIR.@The Chicago Tribune
states that while Senator Douglas was
speaking at Paris, Edgar county, q des-
patch was received announcing the de-