The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-05-26

goth, and a public dinner in his honor
viii be eaten at the Revere.
President Benson has been nominal
ted for reelection as President of the
Liberian Republic for the third term.
The Rev. Alexander Gregg, of South
Carolina, has been unanimously elected
Episcopal Bishop of Texas, by the
Episcopal Convention at Galveston.
The Common Council of Cincinnati
has just authorized loan of 100000
to be expended in the erection of school
houses in that city.
The markets of Chicago are already
abundantly supplied with ripe toma-
toes and other garden vegetables, d.
rect from the "Sunny South"
Mr.. Buchanan has poor success as a
newspaper publisher. Since the new
arrangement, the daily Constitution
has decreased in circulation from two
thousand to less than one.
DR.. boy of Kansas, is still in Jail
at St. Joseph, Mo. He is unable to
give the required bonds, as the law
provides that the sureties must live in
Missouri.
The Rev. John B. Hudson, better
known as /" Father Hudson" pioneer
minister in the Methodist Church, died
on the 2eth ult., at Leicester, n Y, al
the advanced age of So years.
The locofoco Board of canvassers
of Ozaukee Co., Wisconsin, have been
indicted by the Grand Jury for fraud
in canvassing the votes. They boldly
suppressed Republican votes.
The Steamer Canada, which arrived
at St. Johns on the 18th from Liver
pool, the eth brings the intelligence Of
the death of the celebrated Baron Won
Humboldt on the Friday previous tc
the sailing of the Canada.
In Essex County, Mass, the value o.
the wild pigeons annually captured is
$4,000. In some towns 5000 dozer
are taken every year. They bring
about q dollar q dozen i'm the Boston
market.
A merchant in Winchester, Va, has
taken into partnership his daughter
Miss Virginia, and announces that
hereafter the business will be conduct
ed under the firm of S. Wysong &
Daughter.
WHAT THE SIcKLEs TRIAL COST TIKI
| PREss.-The entire cost of the Sickles
trial to the Associated Press of New
York was S3,585.29, of which sum So,
100 was for telegraph tolls. The whole
number of words telegraphed was l52,
$40.
The Louisville Journal remarks tina
the Washington States, understood
to be the organ of Judge Douglas, ia
vors the re-opcning of the African slave
trade in defiance of the laws. This,
We suppose, is now to be considered as
Mr.. Douglas ground.
1t is stated that in the case of Jen
nings and Mitchell the Slave catcher'
who have been witnesses against the
Oberlin rescuers at Cleveland, and who
are now under arrest for Kidnapping
an application will be made to Judge
Wilson for writ of habeas corpus.
]. n. Davis, State Senator in Mis-
sissippi, is lecturing through that state in
favor of re-opening the African slave
trade. The New York Ne,cs is pub
fishing series of articles by a south
ern statesman, adopted to remove
northern predjudices against the traffic
Mr.. VIM. F. Sanford, the man tt
whom Gov. Wise addressed his thirty
column letter, is out as an Independent
Southern Rights candidate for Govern
or of Alabama. In his card of an
nonncement, he says he appeals from
the politicians to the people.
The Savannah Republicans says tina
2,344 tons of guano have been trans
ported to the interior of that State, Over
the railroads, for the four months end
ing 3lst March. 1t also says the olde
portions of Georgia are more thrift,
and productive at this time, than the,
were twenty years ago.
| 1t is stated in New York organ o
Mr.. Sickles that multitudes of gentle
men are continually calling to see him
We guess that if Mrs. Sickles woult
only announce where and when sh,
might be seen, she would draw mucl
fuller houses than her husband.
| T. S. Paxton, Esq, in behalf Of tn
Globe Wooden Mills, of Utica, is jus
started ON a western tour for the pur