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The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01

DEATH OF KIT CARsoN.-This cele-
brated trapper and guide, one of the
noblest of our brave frontiersmen, died
recently at Toas, in New Mexico, as
will be seen by an extract from the
Omaha, (Nebraska,) Republican, given
in another place. He was a native of
Madison county, Kentucky, and would
have completed his fiftieth year had he
lived to the oath of December next.
While he was yet an infant, his par
ents removed to the Territory of Mis-
souri,, in which wild region his yourh
and early manhood were spent. As
the borders of civilization enlarged, he.
gradually withdrew farther and farther
from settlements, preferring the haunts
of the Indian to the abodes of the
white race. About Seventeen years
since he fell in with Col Frem ,nt.
His services as guide to that intrepid
explorer, and others of his class, have
won for him national reputation. In
lS47 he was sent TO Washington as
bearer'of dispatches, and received an
appointment of Lieutenant in the rifle
corps of the United States Army. Six
years later he drove $500 sheep to
California, for the successful execution
of which difficult undertaking he was
rewarded with the post of Indian
Agent at Toas, the place of his death.
His memoirs, edited by DR.. S. E.
Peters, have been published in large
octave volume.-Ci Cincinnati Gazette.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01

EXTENSIVE GANG OF HORSE THIEVES
BROKEN UP.-For some time past a
daring and extensive gang of horse
thieves has been carrying OH operations
i'm the southern counties of Illinois.
Almost every farmer has suffered from
their ravages. During one of their ex-
cursion lately, one of them was shot,
and being captured, revealed the
names and whereabouts of his compan-
ions. The disclosurs. reveal the as
founding fact that several Of the most
respectable persons hitherto, have been
engaged in the business. One young
man was arrested in Princeton, the
son of one of the most prominent fam
lilies in the place. The various depots
were also disclosed, and in one farm of
about ten acres, in cane brake, forty
three brood mares were discovered.
Respectable parties in Peoria and in
other places have also been arrested
and will be taken to Springfield for
trial.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01
Important Decision.

On Saturday last, Justice Bosworth
of the Superior Court of New York,
rendered judgement in the long con-
tested case of the people of the State
of Michigan against the Phoenix Bank
of the city of New York. The Judge
decided that the State was not liable
for the advances made by the Bank to
Gov. Mason, and that the award to. the
Bank was contrary to law and equity,
and was void as having been procured
by fraudulent concealment, &c. The
defendants were liable to refund the
money amounting to s45,934 "a. The
original loan in 1887 consisted of two
drafts Of bank of River Raisin and
Farmers and Mechanics Bank, Detroit
to the amount of $4,000.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01

a. If the recently discovered gold
and silver mines in Utah prove to be
as rich as they are believed to be, the
population which they will attract will
become the most potent lever for over
turning the Mormon hierarchy, and
destroying the dominance of that sect
in that country. The existance of
valuable mines all along that region of
country, from the Sierras to the Rocky
Mountains-if they are found practical
BILE for working-will also have de.
cided influence in aiding the great Ma
tional Enterprise of constructing the
Pacific Railroad. Everything now
tends to promote large emigration
towards the heart of the Republic,
from both the Pncific and the Atlantic
basins.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01
The ssIrrepressible Confetti

The Lockport Journal says: "Look-
ing among some old papers recently,
we incidentally came across the fol-
lowing from the Richmond Enquirer
of 1856, showing that Senator Seward,
in his famous Rochester speech was
over three years behind the Enquirer, !.
Trio opposite and conflicting forms
of society cannot, among civilized men.
co -ecist and endure. The one must
give way and cease to exist-the other
become universal.
If free society be unnatural, immoral
and unchristian, it must fall and give
way to slave society-a social system
old as the world, universal as man.
As this was uttered by q southern
Democratic organ, of course it is or
thodox, bnt II. the mouth of Senator
Seward, it is "treason." The difference
between them is that Governor Seward
hoped oar country acouldbeconae land
of universal freedom, while the great
Southern organ of the slave Democra-
cy believes it will become land OF
universal slaUery! If the Governor
had expressed the opinion that slavery
would triumph in this ''irrepressible
conflict" he would have been pro-
nounced pure patriot, and the ablest
and most far-seeing statesman of the
age, by the advocates of propagandism.
Now, because he hopes freedom will
triumph, they stigmatise him as a
traitor
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01

The telegraph brought the following
alarming intelligence from Richmond,
on Wednesday.
"Last night at nine O'Clock, an alarm
was given by one of the sentlnels hrlng
his rifle. The military orders were i'm
mediately sounded from one end OF the
town to the other, and the panic among
women and children, and some OF the
men whose nervous systems have be-
come much disordered by the late
events, were very great. Shutters
were closed and lights extinguished in
quick time. The excitement continued
until ten o'clock, when it was ascer-
tanned that the sentinel had mistaken
a cow for man; that she would not
halt when he commanded, and he
fired.
"Another alarm at three o'clock this
morning was occasioned by the report
of three guns. A sentinel came rush.
ing in; reported having killed three
men, who instead of halting, fred on
him. Scouts were sent out, but no men
could be found, and the town was in
an uproar for the balance of the night"
Could there be anything more ridicu-
lous? Could parcel of hysterical
old woman show greater trepidation,
than do these trembling scions of the
F. F. VS.? Verify, conscience doth
make towards Of us ALL"
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01

No HOPE FOR JOHN BRowN.-The
following letter from Gov. Wise was
received by Rev. WIN. G. Whitcomb,
of Lynnfield, Mass, in answer to an
earnest appeal that the life of John
Brown may be spared:
Richmond, Va, Nov. II, 1859.
REV. R:-The very sympathy with
John Brown, so general, so fanatical,
so regardless of social safety, and so
irreverent of the geign of law, de-
mands his execution, if sentenced by
the Courts. The laws he insulted and
outraged are now protecting all his
rights of defense and all his claims to
mercy. Truly yours,
HENRY A. WISE.
Rev. VIM. C. Whitcomb.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01
From the Sacramento Bee,
A Hasty Departure.

So soon as Broderick was fatally
wounded, Gwin gave ont that he would
at the earliest opportunity, leave for
his home in Washington. True, he
will have nothing to do for month
after he arrives there, for Congress will
not meet until December; but then
peace and quiet are there, while here
he was subjected to all kinds of pretty
annoyances, such as being publicly
charged with accepting bribes-of at
tempting to swindle the Government
for his own and his friends aggrandize.
ment and of conspiriug to murder
Broderick. He came here some months
since, and stalked stealthily about the
State, like thief in the night, seeking
the dark corners in which to deliver
speeches, which he reported with his
own hands for his party organs. He
crawled around abont the foot-hills,
blowing and Dragging, as none hut
braves at distance do, of his ability
to eat up; by speech or pistol, anything
that might fall in his way; but he new
err dared to venture to face the people
Of this city or of San Francisco with
his hombast.
We charged him to his face, and up
on the highest authority, of receiving
q bride of $4,000 from the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, aud he dared
not deny it What higher crime can
a represe NATIVE be guilty of? Is for
gerry, or burglary, or highway robbery
worse? And vet he leaves the State,
nominally az the representative of this
people, with that most serious charge
hanging over him, and which we be-
ieve to be gospel truth.
He was going to kill everything that
came in his way, to devour everything
that came within the reach of his fs-
rocious tallons; and even went so tar
as tn say. when he heard of Broderick's
death. "Terry has taken away my meat
from me-" meaning, thereby, that if
Terry had not killed Broderick, he
would have called him into the field,
and made mince-meat of him at once.
Well, these words were reported to
John McDougal, one of Broderick's
friends. who holds political rank equal
with Gwiu, and has the advantage Of
an honest reputation. He sent the
clustering Mississippian challenge,
but behold the valiant hero, the bel
fgerent stumper, the defamer of the
dead, and the braggart at distance, or
when he supposed all danger was past
became terrified at his own words, hid
himself in San Francisco to avoid re-
ceiving the challenge, gave out at his
hotel that he had left the city and Just
as the steamer was about to sail, he
stole on board, lodged the deck, and
went below with his large body of
Federal officials, who surrounded him
to prevent challenge approaching
him! In fact, Gwin ran away for fear
he would be called upon to fight, and
hid away in secret places for nearly
two whole days to avoid receiving a
challenge. He called upon the police
to protect him while he was leaving
the city. and the Chief told him that
if he would keep below in the steamer
until she left, he would do so but that
he would not be responsible for the
consequences if he (Gwin) came on
deck
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01
Reward for the Head of ]. r. Giddings

Reward for the Head of J. r.. Giddings.
The following "high toned and chiv-
alrous" advertisement appeared in the
Richmond Wing. 1t needs no COM
ment:
$4,000 REWARD.-JOSHUA r. GIDDINGS.
having proved himself Traitor in lecture al
Philadelphia on the 2Sth of October, and there be-
brought to justice propose to be one of one
hundred to raise $4,000 for his safe delivery in
Richmond or $4,000 for the production of his head.
do not regard this proposition extraordinary as il
may at first scem either unjust or unmerciful. The
law of God and the Constitution of his country
both condemn him to death.
For satisfactory reasons Withhold my me from
the public, but it is in the hands of the Editor
of the Richmond Wing There will be no diff
fculty am in raising the SIC, 900 upon rea
sonable prospect of getting the said Giddings to
this City.
Richmond, Nov. /, 1859.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01
The storm Of saturday Night.

The storm at Chicago on Saturday
night last ragged with terrible fury, and
was largely destructive. Bryan's new
Music Hall, handsome structure, the
walls of which were up fifty feet, was
blown down. A rear of the building,
SIS Clark street, 20 by 80 feet, was
blown down. The family who occu-
pied it took refuge in the store in front,
and were not injured. The kitchen
of Goodhue's Eating-House was torn
down. A number of houses were I'M
rooted, cupolas blown down, and
fences, suffered and signs caraied
away. The storm was accompanied
by thunder and lightning, and one
building, the Railroad Mission School,
was struck by the latter, but not much
injured.
AT Buffalo the storm was severe.
The Main street bridge was seriously
racked. The iron bridge at River
street, across the slip, near the Wes-
tern Transportation Co.'s warehouse,
was entirely destroyed. Butconnected
with the loss of the bridge is another
matter of still greater inconvenience.
The supply pipe of the Gas Works
for all the lower part of the city wes-
terly and southerly of the canal, is bro
ken off consequently there will be no
supply of gas in that quarter during the
winter, as it is not probable that new
bridge will be built for some months
to come, and until this is done, the Gas
Company cannot lay another pipe at
that spot. The track of the Buffalo
& Niagara Falls and Buffalo & Erie
Roads are badly washed. No train
left OH the former Saturday morning.
Some few vessels broke loose and ran
into each other, and few canal boats
were washed out on the tow-path.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01

The Republican, victory in New York.
The result of the election in New
York is finally known; and though it
is not all that we could hope, and had
reason at one time to believe, it is 9
substantial Republican victory. 1t il
thus summed up by the Albany E've
ming Journal
AREPUBLIcAN CoMprRoLLER elected
by forty -eight thousand m ajcrity.
A REPUBLICAN TREASURER elected
by. forty-s thousand majority.
A REPUBLICAN ATToRNEY-GENERA1
elected by .forty-'aine thousand major.
ity.
A REPUBLICAN JUDGE OF APPEALS
elected by .forty:tfve thousand major
ity.
A REPUBLICAN CLERK oE APPEALS
elected by .tortg-eight thousand major
ity.
A REPUBLICAN, STATE Prison In
sPECToR elected over the united Dem
ocratic and American vote by sac han
bred majority.
A REPUBLICAN SENATE chosen by
thirty, fve thousand majority.
A REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY chosen by
an equal or larger.
Thus, the Republicans have elected
sac out of the nine State officers, by an
average majority of FORTY FIVE THOU
SAND, have three-f ourths of both
branches of the Legislature, and the
Governor and Lieut. Governor. The
doughface Democracy, on the other
hand, have only elected three State
officers by an average majority of less
than secen hundred! Last year the
aggregate majority against us was for
ty-five thousand. Now there is an av.
erage majority in our favor, including
the Legislative vote, of Miry-nine
thousand. In view of this result. the
New York Tribune declares that "the
electoral vote of New York may be
set do,on to the Republican candidate
for the Presidency IN 1860, as surely as
that Of Vermont. No sane, sober, SEN
sible politician in this State believes
that any possible combination of fac
ton can hazard such consumation. :"
The Republicans, therefore, have the
right to claim it as decisive Repub-
lican victory. With six out of the
nine State officers just elected, the
Governor, both branches of the Legis-
lature, and five out of the eight SUI
preme Judges voted for at the late
election, while the slave Democracy
have only three State officers and three
of the Supreme Judges, Republicans
have every reason to be gratified at the
verdict of the Empire State,
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01

W A dispatch from Washington
last week says: "The War De-
partment to-day countermanded the
orders for six companies of troops
from Fl. Monroe and five from Fl.
Leavenworth, to proceed to Browns
vile, there appearing from latest ac-
counts that there is no necessity for
their proceeding thither apart from the
object of affording protection to the
Rio Grande frontier. The various
speculations as to the employment of
so large force is thus dissipated."-
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01

A FREE CoUNTRY.-A gentleman
named Perkins, who publishes paper
at Berrysville Va, having published
the prospectus of the n. Y. Tribune,
and urged the pardon of Brown, the
Richmond Enquirer intimates that ga
respectful request to Mr.. Perkins to
leave the community, signed by all his
subscribers, would perhaps prove effica-
cious, but don't lynch him."
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01

The Harrisburg (Pa-) Telegraph
says: A lady had the habit of pick
ing her teeth with pins. A trifling
humor was the consequence, which ter
minated in cancer. The brass and
quicksilver used in making these pins
will account for this circumstance.
Pins are always pernicious to the teeth
and should never be used for tooth.
picks.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01

NEW JERsEY--An intelligent COR
of the n. Y. Post, thinks
that New Jersey can be safely counted
upon for any sound Republican in 1860,
and he is the more inclined to this view
because the Republicans will then have
the large German vote, which for local
reasons, was this time given against
them.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01
TIM Nrw CA11roRN1y

THE New CALIFORNIA SENATOR
As already stated, Mr.. II. +. Haun
has been appointed by Gov Weller, to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the
death of Senator Broderick. He is a
man of ordinary ability and little note,
but is probably competent to draw his
enormous mileage. Previous to ls45,
be was young lawyer of small repu-
tation at Georgetown, KY, from
whence he emigrated to California in
Is49. He has served one term as
County Judge in California.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01
Tape Worm cured by DIR. M'Lane's Cele.
brated VermIluge.

New YORK, August 2, 1854 GER
tain lady in this city testifies that, after
using DIR. M'Lane's Vermifnge. pre-
pared by Fleming Bros, of Pittsburgh;
she passed a tape worm. ten inches
long; and has no hesitation in recon-
mending it to every person afflicted
with worms as in her opinion, it far
excels every other remedy now in use.
The name of the lady, and further par
ticulars, can be learned by calling ON
Mrs. Hardie, Manhattan place, or E. L.
Theall, Druggist, corner of Rutger and
Monroe streets.
s~ Purchasers will he carfnl to
ask for DR.. MLdne's celebrated Yer
na!fmge manufactured by Fleming
Bros, of Pittsburgh, Pa. All other
Vermifuges in comparison are worth
less. DIR. McLane's genuine Vermi-
fuge, also his celebrated Liver Pills can
now be had at all respectable drug
stores. None genuine aeithosst the sig
nature Of As FLEMING BROS.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01
DOW AG1AC:
Epn,r, uRr;,;sb snhs.rv;onov

ERRATuM. "British Subserviency
to the Moloch Of Slavery" the heading
of an article in our last number, should
have been British Subserviency, as
we wrote it. The subserviency of
of the Cassapolis Democrat spoken of
in that article, is considerably worse
than any thing British that we ever
heard OF. Indeed our conscience some
what reproaches us for the libel upon
the brute creation, implied in calling
such subserviency british.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01

az The Washington Star says !:
Some cute speculator at Harper's
Ferry, have been turning the old
Brown excitement to account by man.
ufacturing bogus ''Ossaw atomic" pixies,
and selling them at big price to pas
sengers by the cars. The railroad
company finally put an end to this
speculation, which was becoming an
noying to timid passengers, by inter-
dieting the sale and driving the pike
vendors off the platform.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01
e@- From Texas we learn that tn,

w- From Texas we learn that the
Legislature has authorized the Cover
nor to call out all the troops necessary
for the protection of the frontier. Capt.
Ford had been appointed commander
of the troops, and started out after
Cortinas. The Brownsville affair had
caused great excitement, and volun-
teers were rapidly organizing. Depu-
ty Sheriff Campbell had been released
by Cortinas. Brownsville, on the
10th, was still closely besieged.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01

cation to servile vevolt OF which Brown
has been convicted.
There are other facts going to show
that Buchanan and his cabinet at least
had advance information of Browns
enterprise other than that in the letter
from Cincinnati. The panic of the
"chivalry" at Harper's Ferry when
Brown had effected the conquest of
their town of near three thousand in
habitants and is U. S. Arsenal, together
with the desperate boldness of the con-
quest itself, induced them to suppose
that Brown. had two hundred white
men and several hundred revolted me-
groes with him, with hundres more in
the Immediate vicinity to whom he was
about to distribute the arms of the ar
sensl; and they so telegraphed to Bu-
chanan and Floyd.
Why, then did those officials having
hundreds of marines and other Federal
troops at Washington and in its imme-
date neighborhood, together with the
whole militia force of the District of
Columbia at their command, dispatch to
Harper's Ferry only a force Of forty
marines?
The answer readily suggests itself
1t was, and conld only have been, be-
cause they knew that the forty mar
ines would outnumber Browns entire
force. Indeed the facts prove as
strongly as circumstantial evidence can,
that Floyd had received from his Gin
cinnati spy and informer or from the
"Col. Forbes" so entitled) whose tes-
timony as spy and informer, Locofoism
has been so industirously attempting
to use against Republicans since
Browns defeat, or from some other of
their creatures who had wormed into
Browns confidence and probably ac-
companied him, full muster-roll of
the whole invading force of sirteen
achite men and fye negroes.
The authorities at Washington thus
"posted mp" in the premises, RETAINED
from making theil information public,
and from taking any step to prevent
the projected invasion, probably be-
cause they supposed the "chivalry'' of
Harper's Ferry and vicinity, could mus
ter fighting courage enough to kill and
capture the twenty-one invadsrs when
they should arrive; theory which the
event has shown, was without any
foundation in fact.
Another reason for the silence and
inactivity of Buchanan, Floyd & Co.
was as now fully appears, their antici-
patton of making large amount of
political capital out of the invasion by
charging it upon Republicans; an an
ticipation which time will show to have
been equally groundless, except so far
as they were able to make such capital
for temporary use, and before exposure
came upon them, in the recent State
elections, only to sink it and ten fold
as much more in the election of 1860.
We have other equally significant
facts proving the agency of pro-slavery
locofocoism in Browns enterprise, but
have room for no more this week.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01
Dowagiac Prices Current.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.

REPUBLICAN OFFICE,
December l, 1859.
FLouR-$5.0o q $500 per Dbl.
WHEAr-ssc. for Red slosc for White.
CoRN-3S @ 40c.
OArs-SOc per busheI.
PorAToEs-35 a 40c. per bushel.
BEANs-s1. 00c. al .12L per busheI.
HAMs-12 q 13c. per pound
BurrER-1s q zoe. per pound.
CHIcKENs-6c. per b.
TURKEYs-7c. per fb.
CHEEsE-l2c. q 13c. per pound.
LARD-l4c. per pound.
INDIAN MEAL-Sl.75 per cwt.
HIDEs-green, 51Sc.@ SIC. per h..
HIDEs-dry, 12c. @ l3c. per h.
PELrs-25 q SIC EACH
APPLEs-Dried, 1211c. q &c. per n.
EGGs-l0c. per dozen.
SALr-fne, sl.75 per bbl.; coarse, $500; zoe,
per sack.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01

SLAvERY.-Notice was given in the
Mississippi Legislature, on the 9th in
slant by Mr.. Graham, of the introduc-
ton OF bill to abolish existing laws
against the introduction of slaves from
abroad into the State; and to legalize
the holding of blacks in bondage intro
duced from foreign countries.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01

There is some difference in the esti-
mate of the democracy concerning the
Harper's Ferry "rebels." Mr.. Brown
they call an cold rufian." and Mr.. Cook
ssthe erring brother of Mrs. Willard
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-12-01

CONTESTED SEATS IN CONGRESS-
The contestants for seats in Congress
usually numerous, as is shown by the
following list, prepared by the N. Y.
Tribune