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The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-24

Donald G. Mitchell Qke MarveD re-
Gently delivered the annual address be-
fore the Connecticut State Agricultural
Society. From condensed report in
the Hartford papers we select the fol-
lowing admirable paragraphs.
But there is something worth living
for, besides money. That is very good,
but it is not all. With the rest let US
raise crop of good ideas. While you
are farmers, remember that you are
men, with duties and responsibilities.
Live down the old brutal notion that q
farmer must be uncouth, uneducated
and unthinking-a mere plodder. You
are bought into immediate contact with
the heart of civilization. You cannot
get out of the buzz of the toiling world.
The thrill of the wonder working wires
and the rumble of the locomotive (the
thunder tread of nations) come to your
once secluded hillside.
Move towards better life. Do not
keep your boys corn-shelling in the
long winter evenings. Make your farm
place that your sons and daughters
cannot help loving. Cultivate the trees
they are Gods messengers. Don't
say that you care nothing for looks.
You do care, else why did you build
that two-story white house, with blinds,
and cupalo into which you never go?
Or why did you, years ago, carefully
brush your coat, and pluck up your
shirt collar when your were starting,
on Sunday evening, to visit that good
woman who now shares your home?
Care much more for books and pic
lures. Don't keep solemn parlor into
which you go but once q month with a
person, or the sewing society Hang
around your walls pictures which shall
tell stories of mercy, hope, faith, cour-
age, and charity. Make your living
room the largest and most cheerful in
the house. Let the place be such that
when your boy has gone to distant
land, or even when, perhaps, he clings
to a single plank in the lonely waters
of the wide ocean, the thought of the
still homestead shall come across the
desolation brings away light, hope and
love.
Have no dungeons about your house,
no room never open, no blinds that are
always shut. =
Don't teach your daughters French
before they can weed fower-bed, or
cling to side-saddle; and daughters,
be not ashamed of the pruning knife.
Bring to your door the richest flowers
from the woods, cultivate the friendship
of birds scorn the scamp that levels his
murderous gun at the blue bird or the
robin. Study botany, learn to love
nature and seek a higher cultivation
than the fashionable world would give
YOU
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-24
A Suggestion to Wheat Growers.

A number of millers and wheat buy
ers here have requested us to call the
attention of the farmers to the fact that
very slight admixture of rye depre.
ciates the value of their wheat in pro-
portion much greater than the inferior
grain bears. to the whole quantity. A
little rye in given parcel will reduce
the market value of the whole from
twenty-five to thirty cents bushel, or
more. The best of wheat, thus mixed,
is worth no more to the miller than red,
if as much. Noao Is the time to remedy
this. The rye can be easily seen at this
time, By its hight and color, and can
be cat out aoith no great labor, and the
valase Of the groscing crop aoiU be en-
HANGED enough to pay for the labor ten
times ouer. Farmers, who have sold
wheat in this market, cannot fail to
have noticed how much the price of.
fered for parcel even slightly mixed
is reduced by all buyersin in consequence.
There is parcel of wheat nov in
store here which cannot be sold unless
for distilling, because the rye in it re-
duces, it below the grade Of red wheat
for milling. There are great many
cases, however, where much less
quantity of rye impairs the value of the
whole lot by twenty cents bushel.
A little pains at the right time would
have made the wheat first quality.
There is, on the part of wheat grow
ers, another neglect, which may seem
of slight consequence, but which i'm
pairs the value of the whole harvest of
a farm. 1t is negligence in securing
the grain in the stack. If the grain
be imperfectly stacked or capped, so
that small portion is wet and sprouted,
that little 'sleavens the whole lump.n
1t is sure to be detected, and to bring
down the price by considerable figure.
1t is of great consequence to the
seller in this market, and in every other
to bring his wheat to market well
cleaned and in good condition. The
enhanced price will more than COM
pensate for all the labor, and they viii
find it to their interest to heed these
suggestions.-AA7-on Beacon.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-24

BARNUM ON HIS FEET AGAIN.-The
broken Snowman, 3arnum, has been
mended and is fully as good as new.
He now proposes to bring to this coun.
try Lumley's Opera and Ballet company
from London. 1t comprises in all-the
company and his adjuncts-about SOC
persons, including almost every dis
tinguished artistic in Europe. The cost
of the twenty-four representations pro-
posed, is estimated at not less than
100000, and as partial security for
the remuneration for this great outlay,
the protector requires eight hundred
subscribers at five dollars night for
twenty performances, the tickets to be
delivered by Mr.. Lumley on the arrival
of the troupe.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-24

SUGAR FOR Cows.-Sugar is used
for great many purposes, but the
latest use we have head is given by
Frances D. Gage. She says:
Travelling few days since IN Mis-
souri,, in sections where the cows have
wide range, heard of a new entice-
ment to bring cows home regularly at
eve. This was feeding them sugar, the
same you would salt. A little handful
at eve, at the same time Of day, would
bring them back to the gate with a
regularity as unfailing as the sun. After
they are well trained in sugar-eating, it
may be omitted every other night"
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-24
Trip Lightly over Trouble.

Trip lightly over trouble,
Trip lightly over wrong;
We only make grief double
By dwelling on it long.
Why clasp woes hand SO tightlys
Why sigh Ger blossoms dead'
Why cling to forms unsightlyf
Why not seek joy instead.
Trip lightly over sorrow,
Though this day may be dark,
The sun may shine tomorrow,
And gaily sing the lark;
Fair hope has not departed,
Though roses may have fed:
Then never be down-hearted,
But look for joy instead.
Trip lightly over sadness,
Stand not to rail at doom;
We've pearls to string of gladness,
On this side of the tomb;
While stars are nightly shining
And heaven is o'erhead, ~
Encourage not repining,
But look for Joy instead.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-24

A correspondent, writing to the
lNinnesotian from Shakopee, Min, un-
der date of May 2sth says:
"This is truly great country,
where one can get up by sunrise, take
his wife and family in buggy, ride a
mile or so in the fresh morning air, see
such scene as an Indian fight from
such view as we had, be treated to a
Chippewa barbecue and return to
breakfast at seasonable hour without
costing the first red cent, though sew
eral red skins had to pay dearly for the
entertainment.
When the fight first commenced op-
posite Major Murphy, his wife, daugh-
ter and two lady visitors arose and
stepped upon the rivers brink and
watched the whole affair quite uncon-
cernedly, although at one time the rife
balls whizzed and sang past them, strik-
ing in close proximity. Before the
battle ended very large portion of the
population of men, women and children
of the city, were gathered around the
dead, dying and wounded warriors
which the Sioux had brought over the
river, and from their elevated position
could see, with the naked eye, every
movement of the coDlbatants, and with
the aid of telescopes counted the num-
Der of Chippewas which collected on
the opposite bluffs where the Sioux had
driven them.
The ground from the river to the
bluffs, (about three-fourths of mile,) is a
level, grassy plain, with few large elm
trees near the north bank; while the
south bank on which we stood, is high,
overlooking the whole scene as per.
fectly as one could sit in the boxes of a
theatre and observe the play upon the
stage. Only think what a sight we
had, Of Indians stripped to the breech-
cloth, running, skulking, crawling,
shooting, tomahawking, scalping, null
tilating-the squaws carrying the
wounded, shouting and encouraging
their braves, who were yelling, fighting,
bleeding, dying, crossing aud re-cross-
ing the river, the retreat of the Chip
pewas to the opposite hills, gathering
under the trees, where all their gestures
and actions were clearly visible through
the telescope; while among us and at
our feet, were ladies and Chippewa
scalps, horses and carriages and Chip
pewa heads, gentlemen and Chippewa
hands, children and strips of Chippewa
skin, barking dogs, moaning squaws,
dying warriors, bleeding braves, crying
children, yelling combatants, neighing
horses, cackling hens, whistling bullets,
cracking rifles, putting steamboats,,
smoking Dutchmen, mixed up with the
different languages, including the sill
very tone Of beautiful women; the
whole concluding with the building of
a fire, appearance of the headless trunk
of Chippewa, very extensive retro
grade movement on the part of the
ladies' and children, the contention of
those who advocate or objected to the
consummation of the barbarous act,
the roaring of the flames, the broiling
of the carcass, the rising of the incense,
and the general leaving in disgust, or
lingering for curiosity of the crowd
and all this adjoining city Of a thou
sand inhabitants
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-24

ANECDoTE OF HAvELOCK.-Durin
his stay in England, the narrator went
one evening to the house of the colonel,
in compliance with an invitation. In
the course of conversation, Mrs. Have
lock turned suddenly round to her hus-
band and said, "By the way, my dear,
where is Harry ?" referring to her son,
whom she had not seen during the
whole afternoon. The colonel started
to his feet: Well poor fellow, he's
standing on London bridge, and in this
cold too. 1 told him to wait for me
there at twelve o'clock to-day; and in
the pressure of business at -,
quite forget the appointment" The
father and son were to have met at
twelve at noon, and now it was after
seven o'clock in the evening. Yet the
father seemed to have no doubt that
Harry would not move from his
post until he appeared. The colonel at
once rose, ordered a cab to be called,
and as he went forth to deliver his son
from his weary watch on London bridge,
he turned to excuse himself to his WIS.,
itor, saying: You see SIR, that is the
discipline Of a soldiers family" In the
course of an hour the colonel returned
with poor Harry, who, although he ap-
peared somewhat affected by the cold
watch, and glad to see the fire in the
comfortable parlor at home, seemed to
have passed through the little after
moons experience with the greatest
good humor, and the feeling that all
was right.-Hartlepool Mercury.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-24
COUNTY OFFICERS.

Treasurer-JEFFERSON OSBORN.
Clerk-E. b. WARNER.
Register of Deeds-ARIEL E. PECK.
Sheriff-JOSEPH N. MARSHALL.
Judge of Probote-CLIFFORD SHANAHAN.
Prosecuting Attorney-A. J. SMITH.
Circuit Court Com'r-JAS. NJ. SPENCER.
Surveyor-AMOS SMITH.
Coroner-CHARLES HILL.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-24
STATE AND COUNTY DIRECTORY
STATE OFFICERS.
Is Published every Thursday,
At Dowagiac, Cass County, Michigan.

Governor-KINSLEY 8. BINGHAM.
Lieutenant Governor-GE0RGE A. COE.
Secretary of State-JOHN MCKINNEY.
Auditor General-WHITNEY JONES.
State TreasurerjSILAS NJ. HOLMES.
Attorney General-ACOB NJ. HOWARD.
Supt. of Public Instruction-IRA MAYHEM.
Cem'r of Land Offices. B. TREADWELL.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-24

PoPULAT1oN.-Estimating the popu-
lation of the State from the number of
children returned to the Office of the
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
as compared with the returns of chill
dren and the census of 1850, our pres
sent population is 1877 900. In 1850 it
was 3s7, ,5S6-showing that our num-
bers have very nearly doupled in seven
years. Lansing Repss6lcan.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-24

The grave buries every error
covers every defect-extinguishes every
resentment. From its peaceful bosom
spring none but fond regrets aud ten
der recollections. Who can look down
upon the grave of an enemy, and not
feel a compunctious throb, that he
should have warred with the poor hand
full of earth that lies mouldering be-
fore him?
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-24

When you go to drown yourself
always put off your clothes, as they
may fit your wife's second husband.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-24

H Never do that in prosperity
whereof you may repent in adversely.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-24
III. b. DENMAN,

Banking and Exchange Office, Dowagiac, Mich.
Buy and sell Exchange, Gold, Bank Notes, and
Land Warrants Pay interest ON Scnooi and
Swamp Lands, and Taxes in all parts of the
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-24

John PIPER,

A Ambrotype Artist. Likenesses taken on short mo-
tice, and warranted not to fade. Children's pic
lures taken in one second Operating in Bald
wins Daguerrean Car, ON the Railroad Square,
near the liberty pole, Dowagiac, Mich Also,
fine Roots made to order.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-06-24
ExCHANGE HOTEL,

BY john Letts Directly opposite the Passenger
Depot, Dowagiac, Mich.
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-05-08
MISCELLAN EOUS.
A PROFESSIONAL SCAR.
BY AN OLD LAWYER.


Your kind letter, Harry, came duly to hand;
and you will be surprised to learn that care
less question Of yours will draw forth enough
to cover sheet: "What caused that scar on
my templei" t. r. .#-.nf "."
1t is professional scar, Harry; one that
have carried ever since my earliest practice;
and although have now arrived at tolera-
bic old age, and have many, many intimate
friends, it is a most singular fact that you are
the first and only person that ever inquired
into its origin. I can tell you all about IL,
but must avoid names and places, for the par
ties most interested in the incident are vet liy-
ing, and am under strong bends of secrecy.
In the year -, after passing through
long examination before grave Judges and
shrewd barristers, was pronounced prop
erly qualified person 10 appear before jurics
and courts for others rs well as myself and
at once proceeded to large southern city
where by modest little sign over the door
Of modest little Office, announced my
readiness to commence the practice Of law
For three months waited, but alasl no busi-
ness came, and / sat in my Office on dreary
night at about eleven o'clock, In this very
comfortable position; my money was gone en-
tirely: my board bill was TO be paid in the
morning, and my rent the day following; and
absolutely feared TO 60 to my boarding house,
and waited in what seemed the forlorn hope
that something in the way Of fee might ap-
pear, either dropping from the skies or sud
-, nav Aoak n..fp.
step was heard and as occasionally glanced
through my window, the flame Of the street
light moved by the wind would seemingly
move me homewardl but would not CO.
A footstep sounded in my entry; q second,
and third, and more, but so light that my
heart-besting prevented me counting them;
and then a little knock. compelled myself
to say "come in" with calm voice, although
I expected 10 be instantly ,yis-a-vis with
young woman; the door opened, and ] saw
an old one.
I had ONLY time 10 move toward q chair be-
fore she was in the centre Of the room and
speaking: ,# #m
al have no time to sit Young man, you
are lawyer; are you good for snythinga"
Nv insulted dignity was controlled by an
effort, and answered that | fisttered myself
that possessed some talent for my profession,
or should not have chosen it
"wer, well, no gas can you draw paper'"
Here again I ventured 10 remark, that it
depended somewhat on it's nature; but saw
from her impatient manner that she wanted
no tri1inp Before finished the sentence,
she interrupted me with ferceness Of man.
ner exceeding her former rough one saying:
II want will drawn quickl burriedlyi
but so strong that all the dis in h--l can't
undo Ill Can you do itS" and she fairly glared
at me with impatience for my answer.
Now you know, Harry that my legal edu-
cation was obtained entirely In Surrogate's g
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-05-08

ever. Now l am hero to render also 10 that
party the tribute of my hearty and sincere
thanks, my honest and profound obligation.
that their patriotism was equal to the task of
giving that vote, which believe they did with
wish to establish peace and concord between
all sections, and with the hope that that vote
would accomplish IT, ...
Now, sir, who in the South wants to estab
lish sectional Southern partys The Demo
Gratis are not content with the proposition that
'he doctrine of popular sovereignty shall be
carried forward, and that the people of Kan
sas may have State free or slave, us they pre-
fer. They now proceed one step beyond thst.
read from paper of Tuesday, April ~, the
Richmond South l will read a single SEN
tence, to let you see the manner in which the
progress of this controversy is regarded, and
the point which we have reached:
I'm the mean time, If the Senate bill pass Kansas
may come into the Union slave State or she can
not come at all. That is the ISSUE"
You who 4present the South, ask you in
the most solemn earnestness if that is the is
sue upon which you propose to go to the coun-
tryS ask you if that is the issue upon which
you are prepared to precipitate the South
Your platform made the declaration that the
people of Kansas might determine this matter
that the people of Kansas were to have the
right to vote whether they would be free
State or slave State
But you are understood in the country by
this bill to have made up the issue, as / under
stand it. that she shall come here as slave
State, or she is not to come at all Does it not
result from thatpropositon that you are at
tempting to inaugurate in this country an ag-
gressive pro-slavery party-a party that does
not stand upon the constitutional rights of the
people of all sections, but Southern pro-
slavery party which proposes to fiaunt its ban
ners in the face of the other sections and to
say to them that they must bow down to your
Juggernaut3 The people of Kentucky are not
ready to 60 that far. have never in the whole
course of my legislative experience understood
point in controversy better than do this
which you Democrats PROPOSE and never be-
fore were my conclusions so firmly fixed as
TO the absolute propriety of my political course
am willing that the principle, the philosophy,
the morality, and the prudence of my action
may be judged of by the people of my native
State; and as only seek to do to others what
would they should do to me- l shall abide in
the confidence that Kentucky will sustain my
feeble effort to act with justice, with modera-
tion, and with fairness in those acts of legisla-
tion which relate to the rights of all, but which
are to be illustrated by our course in the case
Of Kansas, as an exponent Of the principles we
follow. yield the floor.
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-05-08
OF THE WASHINGTON
AMERICAN.

We can hardly think it necessary to urge
upon those who hold that Americans ought to
ule America1khc Importance of having paper
It the scat Of ohe Federal Government, which
Ihall enunciate and advocate the doctrines
the American party.
A paper issued from any of the great centres
bf a nation, but especially from the political
Metropolis, in the present age, not in this
country only, but in Great Britain, France, and
wherever there is the least freedom of discus
sion, is medium through which those hold
ing similar sentiments in regard to public af-
Fairs and public policy, may make known, dis
euss and defend their views and expose the
lmpropriety of the principles, and the impolicy
bf the measures Of their antagonists. It should
earnestly labor to give proper direction to
public opinion by enlightenihg the public
mind.
The AMERICAN is the only paper published
1t the seat of the Federal Government which
advocates Ansericon doctrines; the only SEN
tinel Of the party stationed where near and
clear view can be had of the movements and
doings oftheir opponents at their headquarters.
Here political information concentrates, and
from hence it radiates to every part of the en-
pire; here party measures and movements are
determined, and political campaigns planned
here stratagems are concocted and thwarted,
and here at certain seasons of the year poiti-
clans most do congregate here, in short, is
the centre of the great political maelstrom in
which SO many thousands are constantly plung,
ing and forever gyrating.
Ifthe American party is desirous of being
national party, it Should not be without q
paper here through which it can make known
to all people its views, aims and opinions, and
which shall also refute the calumnies that are
from time to time uttered against it through
ignorance or a less excusable motive; and we,
therefore, take hope that the AMERICAN, stand
ing as IL will stand, upon the platform of the
Ameriean party, advocating, as it will advo-
cate, the paramount rights Of natiye-born citi-
zens, eschewing, as it will eschew, all interfer-
ence with slavery as a national concern, and
maintaining, as II will maintain, perfect free
dom of opinion and of conscience in religion,
will find favor in the eyes Of all truly patriotic
citizens in the land, and commend itself to their
generous support
Lest we may not have been specific enough
in declaring our principles, we ado, that the
FAREWELL ADDRESS of the Father of his coun-
try as illustrated by the broad light of his ad-
ministration, is our political text; book and odde
necuna and shall be our compass and chart.
.
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-05-08
Angry Words.

Angry words arc lightly spoken,
In rash and thoughtless hour
Brightest links of love are broken
By their deep, insidious power;
Hearts inspired by warmest feeling,
Ne'er before by anger stirr'd,
Oft are rent past human healing
By single angry word. ."
Poison drops Of care and sorrow,
Bitter poison drops are they;
Leaving for the coming morrow o"#
Saddest memories of to-day.
Angry words, o let them never
From the tongue unbridled slip:
May the hearts best impulse ever
Check them ere they soil the lip.
Love is much too pure and holy,
Friendship is too sacred far, =,
For q moments reckless folly
Thus to desolate and mar.
Angry words are lightly spoken,
Bitterest thoughts are rashly stirr'd;
Brightest links of love are broken
By single ahgry word.