The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-09-15

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A Yankee with the yellow fever
may very properly be called a North
ern man with Southern feelings.
Several thousand dollars have been
subscribed at Natchez, Miss, for the
immediate erection of monument in
honor of ex-Gov. Quitman.
ON THE STUMP. = Hon. Schuyler
Colfax and Hon. Caleb B. Smith are
about to take the Stump in Indiana in
behalf of the Republican party.
New TELEeRApH.-Anew telegraph
line, 467 miles long, intended for the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne g. Chicago R.
r. was opened last Saturday, from
Pittsburgh to Chicago.
The celebrated trotter Magma Charta
has been sold by his owner, E. Wright
of Utica, Macomb county, Mich, for
the handsome little sum of $500 in
cash.
There are one hundred newspapers
published in Wisconsin, of which elev-
en- are issued daily. Eighteen are
printed in foreign language-Holland
German, Norwegian, Welsh and
French.
The Hon. Marcus ]. Parrot and
Judge Sanders M. Johnston, the rival
candidates for Delegate to Congress,
have made appointments, running from
September 19 to October 8, to address
the people of Kansas.
SUICIDE Maintaining the month
of August no less than twenty-seven
successful and twenty unsuccessful sui
cides have been committed in the city
of New York. None of them were at
tended with any great eclat.
PREsIDENTIAL.-Gen. Sam Houston
having left the Democratic party, and
wandered among the dark lanterns Of
Nnow-Nothingism long enough to get
rid of bad looofoco odor, is now
talked of by the Democrats as candi-
date for President.
Withdrawing her face with a mix
ture of camphene and salt, for her
complexion's sake, a Cincinnati belle
accidentally set fire to the camphene,
and was burned in the most sh ocking
manner. One of her eyes was des-
troyed.
BAD AS A GARRISON ABoLITi oN1sT.
The Richmond Enquirer says Mr.
Douglas policy of non-interyention,
which his nomination and election will
inaugurate, will as effectually destroy
the rights of the South as the fanati-
c;sm of a Garrisonian abolitionist."
SOMETHING TO PUT on RECoRD.-
The Richmond Enquirer in its issue
of Aug. 9th says: No black Depu6-
lcas contenepEates interference scith
,Szavery IN the States" The mendac-
ious locofoco organs in this State con-
stantly assert the contrary.
The Batavia n. Y, Democrat insists
that the following plank shall be inser-
ted in the Democratic platform Of that
State:
Opposed to Dean Richmond's run
ming the Democratic party at the ex-
pense of the New York Central Rail
road, and charging the expense to con-
struction account.
The Washington States indicate that
Mr.. Bocock of Virginia will be the
democratic candidate for Speaker of
the House, and says "woe to the man
who resides in the embraces of a slave
holding State, who shall be instrument
tai in electing Black Republican eth
err by direct or by the plurality rule.''
A young man named W. H. Jennison
| fell 90 feet from the Genesee Falls on
Wednesday afternoon, the Slst ult.,
while watching the walking of M. De
Lave on the tight rope, and was in
stantly killed. He fell but a short
distance from where Sam Patch met
his death. :ra5
A Free State man named McNichol
has been elected Judge for Barton Co.,
No., by one vote. The st Louis Dem
ocrat says the race was made squarely
on the Slavery question. In the Con-
gressional election, last year, the county
gave Phelps, Pro-Slavery Democrat,
1913, and Richardson, Free State, SO.
Daniel E. Sickles' first public appear
ance in N. Y. since his acquittal at
Washington was at Tammany Hall on
Thursday evening, at meeting of the
General Committee. 1t is said the
only members who gave him the right
hand of fellowship were Captain Ryn-