The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-11-24

Carlisle, has been surrendered upon tho
requisition of Gov. Wise.
The new trial of Henry Jumpertz for
the murder of Sophia Werner. COM
menced in Chicago on Monday last.
Judge Douglas is much better. and
the early recovery of his health is now
anticipated.
Receipts of gold from Kansas in
crease; it is estimated that not less
than s2,6oo,o 900 in gold has been mined
at Pixies Peak in the last four mouths.
Our Minister to Spain, Mr.. Preston,
is very shortly expected from Madrid.
His family will pass the Winter in Par
is. He has congo for six months.
Lady Peel, widow of the late Sir
Robert Peel, is dead. She retired to
rest in apparent good health, and was
found next morning dead in her bed.
Prairie fires are, or have recently
beer, raging quite extensively in ILL
nois, Indiana and Iowa, doing much
damage to farm property and timber.
Mr.. Dickie, late P. M. at Buffalo, is
said to have been removed, not for
Douglas proclivities, but in conse-
quence of chronic difficulty with his
accounts.
Measures are in progress to raise a
fund for the education of two of John
Browns daughters at the school OF
Theodore d. Weld, in Eagleswood, N.
Jersey.
The Erie Pa.) Dispatch says that
the existence of an organized band of
Robbers, extensive in numbers, on the
south western shore of Lake Erie, has
been placed beyond doubt.
Bayard Taylor, VINO returned to New
York in the steamer atlantic, on Thurs
day, spent seven weeks in California,
where he delivered twenty fourlectures
at a clear profit of about $4,000.
Francis Jackson Merriam of Boston,
who was reported to have been with
Brown in the Harper's Ferry insurrec-
ton, and subsequently to have died OF
his wounds in Philadelphia, is at pre-
sent in Canada.
The Laporte Qnd.) Union says that
a child was killed in that place last Sat
urday, by a drunken father lying on it
in bed. Its mother was not at home
to take care of it, having been driven
away by the violence of her husband.
The Canadians are discussing the
project of forming government as
much like that Of the United States as
possible, consistently with their allie
glance to Mrs. Victoria. Public con.
ventions are being held, projects sug-
gested, &c.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his lecture
at the fremont Temple, Boston, on
Tuesday evening, apostrophlzed John
Brown as The Saint, whose fate yet
hangs in suspense, but whose martyr
dom, if it shall be perfected, will make
the gollows as glorious as the cross"
Lieut.. Bartlett is understood to have
given up his intention of suing Stedmar
the poet laureate of the Diamond
Wedding, for libel, under the melan
choly conviction that such proceeding
would only give the poem wider cir
culation than ever
John b. Cough lately gave three lee
lures in the Round Room of the Rotun
da in Dublin, which is capable of con
tanning $500 persons, and was full t.
the utmost possible extent. He visited
some of the provinces, and in Belfas
alone (the metropolis of Whisky drink
ing north) succeeded in obtaining 2, Oo(
signatures to the pledge.
A letter from Frederick Douglas j.
published, in which he bids farewell
to America and states that he is about
to depart for England. He denies tina
he ever contemplated a rebellion
against the Government, though aid
hitting that he is apprehensive of an
attempt to arrest him as an accessory
to that affair.
A salt company is boring an artesiau
well at Grand Rapids, Mich. The
Eagle says, the deeper they go the
stronger is the brine they get.
They have reached depth of 200 feet,
and the water that boiled up tasted
quite as briny as that of the ocean, and
boxed, when running into and ming.