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The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-02-10
How to get to Pixies Peak.

The distance from Detroit to Pixies
Peak, is l 800 miles, of which $50 are
by railroad, as follows:
Detroit to Chicago, 2s4 miles
Detroit to Quincy, on Mississippi River $50 miles
Detroit to st. Joseph, on the Missouri
| River, opposite Elwood in Kansas, 25 ;
miles north of Leavenworth, 720 miles
A. correspondent of the Chicago
Journal furnishes the following infor.
nation as to the best route to the
newly discovered gold fields:
"The gold field is at present con-
fined to the lands on the eastern slope
of the Rocky Mountains and in the
vicinity of Cherry Greek and the South
Platte. Cherry Creek is directly north
of Pixies Peak about fifty miles distant.
and in long. los lat. 80. Gold dust
has been found further north, but in
small quantities. Fort Laramie is two
miles north of Cherry Greek.
From the north and east Chicago
is the best poiut for starting, for emf
grants. From Chicago to Hannibal
by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad, distance 279 miles; from
Hannibal, by the Hannibal and St.
Joseph Railroad, to Elwood, Kansas,
200 miles. Chicago is thus placed
within 500 miles of Elwood, and within
LOO miles of Cherry Greek, by this
route.
Shy this route, Kansas, is now
reached in four days sooner than any
other route. The distance from Ell
wood to Cherry Greek is $50 miles;
the road is one which has been travelled
for the last ten years, and is well known
to all old Californians. From Elwood
directly opposite St. Joseph, Missouri
the road passes through well settled
country to Marysville, on the Big Blue.
From Marysville, the route is along
Platte River to Fort Kearney; thence
following the Platte to its junction with
the South Platte, and along the South
Platte to its junction with Cherry
Creek. Wood, water and grass abound
along the route.
GO The above with the exception OF
the last 100 miles, is the route taken
by the Salt Lake mail, which arrives
and departs from Elwood weekly.
Stations for encampment and supplies
are frequently over the whole line.
"The journey can be made from
Chicago to Cherry Creek, via Elwood,
Fort Kearney and the Platte Valley,
in 16 days. Elwood is the1argest city
in Northern Kansas, and supplies OF
stock, provisions, camp tools, tents,
blankets, wagons, and all things nee
essary to an outfit can be obtained
here.
&c The following is a table of dis
! tances from ElWood to the mines:
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-02-10
a. Death is but too often the de.


az Death is but too often the de.
termination. of what in its beginning
was lightly treated and fatally neglected
as common cold. The snow ball does
not increase faster by rolling, than does,
danger from an unchecked cough or
cold. When inflammation once seizes
upon the delicate tissue of the Lungs.
the progress of fire is scarcely swifief
or more fatal than that of Pulmonary
disease through its various stages, and
its terminus, death. Yet it may be ar
rested in all cases by prompt resort to
DIR. Hairs Balsam for the Lungs.
W For sale by n. B. HOLSTER and
"A. Huntington, in Dowagiac: and bv
agents N every town in the county, :
vs. See advertisement,
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-02-10
The Conditions for the Relief of the New
Counties. fti.f..---f

Gov. Wisner has issued a circular to
the people of Gratiot and Isabella and
other new counties, in relation to the
relief afforded by the Legislature.
Geo. w. Swift, Esq, is appointed the
Executive. Agent. The conditions Of
relief are, that the person applying must
present certificate of the Supervisor
of the town, or in his absence, the
Town Clerk, stating that he is a proper
subject for relief, the number of mem
bers of his family, and the amount Of
aid he will require. Before the provis-
ions purchased shall be distributed,
each person who receives aid shall give
his note for the payment for the
articles, their value being estimated at
cost. These notes the Governor says
he will endeavor to have the people,
through Legislative action, pay for by
work upon some public Improvement
in their vicinity, but they must expect
to pay them at all events. In conclu-
sion, the Governor states, that the aid
is merely intended as temporary, to
reach the most destitute, and should not
be whollyrelied upon, until after the next
haryest.-Detroits Tribune.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-02-10
The Acquisition Of Cuba.

ne Acquisition Oh C0O8s
1t is the desire of the Buchanan adj
ministration to render itself famous in
the annals of the country, by an acqui-
sition Of the Island of Cuba. The
friends of the measure claim that the
same necessity exists noso for this addi-
tional territory, that, in Jeferson's time
threw into our hands the rich posses
sions of louisiana; but, from some
cause, we admit an inability to discov-
er similar, or in fact, any necessity,
for the acquisition, at this particular
era of our history, save that of making
more than ordinary historical charac-
ter out of the man whose destiny has
placed him at the head of our govern
ment. The manifest destiny men
argue that Cuba will certainly be part
and parcel of the United States. Her
contiguity to the continent renders
that event mere matter of time, and
the same causes which operated in the
case of Louisiana and Florida, will
operate as certainly towards annexa-
ton in the case of Cuba. Well, be it
so. If manifest destiny" in its own
way, in its own time, and in peacea-
BILE manner, throws Cuba into the pos
session of this country, we will not
quarrel with the will of Heaven, but
take it as dispensation which, in some
mysterious manner, will work for the
good of this Nation.
But Mr.. Buchanan is not disposed to
take things in this quiet manner. Spain
notifies the United States, and the rest
of the world, that she will not sell Cuba
and will look upon proposition of the
kind as an insult to her nationality
and right in the face of this notice, the
President asks Congress to vote him
thirty millions of dollars to aid in the
purchase /!
1t may be the intention Of the Pres
ident to provoke the Spanish authori-
ties into some expression of feeling or
retaliation, and then employ it as pre-
text to take forcible possession of the
Island. If this is the intention, our
country may prepare itself for strug-
gle more trying than the darkest days
of the revolution, for France and Eng
land will not see the dominions OF
Spain dismembered, by the employ
ment of physical force, without becom-
ing active participants in the struggle,
and how high an opinion soever we
may have of the powers of American
arms, we do not doubt but humiliation
would be our lot in contest so une-
quail.
Whenever Cuba is to become ours,
let it be by course of conduct enlist
ing the warmest support of the people,
in the honesty and integrity of the
Government. Without this great prop,
such things as Ostend Manifestoes u
and Cabinet Wars will be found to
be prolific only in contempt.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-02-10

EVERY MANS AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Every man is actually engaged, day by
day, in writing that autobiography
which neither time nor eternity will
efface 1t may be written in high places
or in low, in public remembrance or in
the honest heart OF domestic affection:
but we are writing fast, we are writing
sure, we are writing for eternity. Hap
Ply is he who, through the grace of God
assisting him, records such lessons of
kindness, truth and wisdom, that when
he is gone he will be held in grateful
remembrance; happier still to have ones
name written in the Lambs Book of
Life, and when every memorial and
monument of his earthly history has
persisted, he may ascend with the Son
Of God to honor, glory and Immortality.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-02-10
The Great ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and Ague
Cured by DIR. M'Lane's Liver Pills..

Inc Great ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and Ague
Cured by DR.. M'Lane's Liver Pills.
Mr.. Jonathan Houghman, of West
Union, Park county, Illinois, writes to
the proprietors, Fleming Bros. Of Pitts
burgh, that he had suffered greatly
from severe and protracted attack Of
Fever and Ague, and was completely
restored to health by the use Of the
Liver Pills alone. These Pills unques-
tionably possess great tonic properties,
and can be taken with decided advant-
age for many diseases requiring inyig-
Grating remedies; but the Liver Pills
stand pre-eminent as a means of restor-
ing disorganized Liver to healthy ac-
ton; hence the great celebrity they
have attained. The numerous formid-
able diseases arising from a diseased
Liver, which so long baffled the skill
OF the most eminent physicians of the
United States, are now rendered easy
of cure, thanks to the. study and perse-
verance of the distinguished physician
whose name this great medicine bears
"a name which will descend to pros
perlty as one deserving of gratitude
This invaluable medicine should always
be kept within reach: and on the ap-
pearance of the earliest symptoms of
diseased Liver, it oan be safely and nse-
fully administered. 'sssn.s'
90 Purchasers will be careful to
ask for Or. McLdns's celebrated Yer.
naifmge, 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 scith0sH the sig
nature of 6 FLEMING BROS.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-02-10
:" The following is table of dis
ances from Elwood to the mines:

W Several bills, one Of which it
is said will certainly pass, have been
introduced in the Kansas Legislature,
abolishing slavery in that territory, and
prohibiting it forever. fa
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-02-10

AOtoi VAsN,"NN
These amounts may be either in
creased OF reduced when they come to
be acted upon by the two Houses.
But these will be about the sums appro-
priated.
A number of village and city charters
have passed both Houses. In the
charter for the village of Marquette was
a section authorizing the village board
of trustees to take a dinner with the
corporation officers, once year at the
expense of the town.
The Registry Law has been read for
the third time in the Senate, and is now
probably before the House.
A Bill has passed the House remit
ting permanently the interest on the
100000 loan of the University. The
feeling toward this noble Institution
seemed very hearty. All were agreed
that the University was a source of
just pride to the State, and that it
should be fostered, and its interests
promoted in every just and proper
manner. The bill viii doubtless pass
the Senate.
The committee to whom was referred
the question of paying the Circuit
Judges their travelling expenses, have
made a report, which, after quoting
the Constitutional provision, proceeds
and concludes thus:
1t is the opinion of your committee
that the compensation fixed by the
Constitution was intended to be full
remuneration for all the duties required
of the Circuit Judges, and that any
allowance for travelling would be such
an increase of the salaries as was in
tended to be prohibited by the Consti-
tuition and that though the salary of
these officers may be, and probably is
too low, there is no remedy within the
power of the Legislature"
The Bill for the restoration of the
Death Penalty for the crime of murder,
has. received its death-blow in the
Senate. 1t will not, probably, be
brought before the House.
The correspondent of the Detroit
Aduertiser says that bill was reported
to the House on the It'll, by one of its
Standing Committee to punish the in
PRODUCTION of. slaves into Michigan.
Every Democrat in the House voted
to reject the bill without even permit
ting it to be printed and considered,
thus giving a distinct and emphatic
opinion in sfavor" of the introduction
of slaves into the State! Thus they
stand upon the record. 1t is the voice
of the chosen leaders and representa-
tives of the Democracy of the State in
favor of applying the principles of
the infamous bred Scott Decision to
Michigan-an invitation on their part
for shareholders to bring their chattels
into the State and hold them for any
g convenient length of time. q.
The question of disposing, in a
proper manner, of the Swamp Lands,
the most troublesome and complicated
question that has been before the
Legislature for years, has been very
thoroughly and patiently discussed by
the Republicans. The different pro-
jects that have been brought before the
Legislature, have all been printed and
have been carefully examined. All of
them have much merit, and the ques-
ton has been which combined the most
of merit and would best accomplish
the purposes desired by all. 1t is
thought that Senator Barns bill lay
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-02-10

~ The Senate has passed the
Registry Law.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-02-10
THE CASS COUNTY REPUBLICAN.
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Michigan Legislature.

Our forty day biennial session" is
now almost ended, and as yet, although
large amount of work has been &C.
complished, but very few of the really
important bills have been acted upon.
The press of local matters seeking leg
islative aid is altogether unprecedented,
but may be considered good feature
rather than otherwise, indicating rapid
growth and extension. esas.
Both Houses are now holding even
ing sessions daily, and the hope is that
all the important measures will be acted
upon at this session. An attempt has
been made, but with what success, we
cannot say, to induce Gov. Wisner to
call an extra session.
In the House, on Monday. the two
main appropriation bills were passed,
and are now before the Senate, that
to the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum,
giving S82, 900 for the next two years,
and that to the Insane Asylum, giving
100000. The general tax bill was
likewise passed, providing for the levy
ing annually of one mill and quar-
ter tax on the dollar for the next two
years,gt meet the appropriations re-
quired to complete and carry on the
important public and benevolent insti-
tutions of the State.
1t is understood that the House Com
mittee on Ways and Means, have fixed
upon the following appropriations for
the next two years, besides those above
stated.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-02-10

and Rhode Island, relative to the boun-
Diary line.
Tuesday, February s.-SENArE. =
Mr.. Broom offered resolution calling
for any correspondence of VIM. Cary
Jones on which Martinez and Jerez
calling themselves the Supreme. Gov
eminent of Nicaragua, could have
based the assertion that the Ministers
of the United States were accomplices
of the filibuster invaders of Nicaragua
and if such an assertion was made.
whether any and what apology is nee
essary for the mis-statement. The
resolution was adopted.
The Pennsylvania one horse railroad
bill was considered, but having been
overloaded with amendments which
changed its original object, it was de-
feated without much debate, and partly
by the votes of its friends. The vote
upon it was yeas %, nays Is. = z
HousE.-After adopting a resolution
instructing the Sd auditor of the Treas
ury prior to the final settlement with
the citizens of Washington and Oregon
Territories, to examine the vouchers
and make report to the House on the
lst Monday in December next, of the
amount respectively due, according to
the rule laid down by the committee,
which included only army pay to the
volunteers received into the service by
the Territorial authorities-no double
pay to be allowed, and supplies, trans
portation, &C., to be paid for with q
due regard to the number of troops
and the prices current at the time.
The hydraulic press., 1859-03-19
LADIES ON Snow SHoEs.-To those

LADIES ON Snow SHoEs.-To those
individuals residing in the lower country,
it may appear rather strange that great
deal of the travelling here, at this season
of the year, by females, is done on snow
shoes though considered somewhat
novel means of locomotion short time
since, it is now becoming so common as
to scarcely attract attention. We are
informed that during the late snow storm
nearly all the ladies at Gibsonville at
tended the parties with snow shoes-we
mean they used them for underpinning
in going to the place where the twink
ling footed muse was to preside.
Picture to yourselfa number of ladies
with wooden appendages, twelve or four
teen feet in length, buckled on after the
manner of skates, coming down the hill
at 2:40 rate, with crinoline and meri-
no floating in the breeze, and you will
imagine sight to which we have lately
been treated. Occasionally the seraphs
lose their equilibrium, the balance pole
takes an aeriel flight, and after it goes
the performer, and then follows ground
and lofty tumbling, in which ease and ma
ture predominant over elegance.
Mountain Messenger
The hydraulic press., 1859-03-19
STEAMBOATS, ON RED RIVER

STEAMBOATS, ON RED RIvER.-Ar.
rangements are in progress to put one
or perhaps two steamers on the Red
river of the North next summer. This
fact will direct public attention to the
Red river region, which is described as
equal, in soil and climate, to the Upper
Mississippi The Red river is the twin
river of the Mississippi They arise
amid the same lakes and marshes, and
while one sweeps down to the sunny
Gulf of Mexico, the other takes its
course into the dreary world of ice under
the North Star.
The hydraulic press., 1859-03-19
New MISUNDERSTANDING t.

New AMERICANIsM.-A to
the Springfield, Mass, Republican, in
some parts of Vermont they use the
word popular in the offensive sense of
aristocratic. If man sets himself up
in any way above his neighbors, they say
he is getting popular. We once heard
it said of candidate for office there that
he could not possibly be elected because
he was too popular" We thought
that very singular objection until we
found that the provincial meaning of
popular in that region was snobbish and
proud, and in that sense a man might
lose his popularity by being too ''popu-
lar"
The hydraulic press., 1859-03-19

THE MARROW OF THE NATTER The
Shasta Republican, which paper has
distinguished itself by its devotion to
law and order in the face of popular
prejudice, thus pertinently remarks with
reference to the Chinese difficulty in
Shasta county:
The question which now agitates our
county is not a question as to the Chi
nese or any other inferior race. The
single question is whether the laws shall
be maintained or not. 1t is the very
question, the wrongful decision of which
by the masses has disgraced and ruined
our fair State The question is whether
we shall have law or lawlessness; whether
we shall be loyal or disloval to our Gov
ernment; whether there shall be peace
and order, or moboeracy
We trust we cannot be misunderstood.
If there is law upon our statute books
that is wrong, change it; and change it
sas speedily as possible. But as long as
the law remains there, obey it. Those
who disobey are criminals. We hate
the presence of any inferior race. but as
long as the law permits them to be with
us they are as much entitled to protec-
tion as the highest in the land.
The hydraulic press., 1859-03-19

The Spiritual Register for 1859 esti-
mates the number of spiritualists in the
United States at 1,2S4,000. In Mary
land there are $1,000 The total number
in the world is put down at 100000
The Register estimates that there are l, )
600 public speakers; 10000 mediums j,
public and private; that 500 spiritual
books and pamphlets have been printed,
and it gives the names of six weeklies,
three semi-weeklies, and four monthlies
devoted to the cause.
The hydraulic press., 1859-03-19

WHALING.-A company of sailors
has been formed in San Fancisco on the
joint-stock plan, for the purpose of pur-
suing the whaling business in the nu-
merous coves and bays in the vicinity
of the Golden Gate There are twenty
five in the present organization, who
contribute $500 each, and the Morning
Call says they intend to form a settle
ment on the coast to the south of the
Bay of San Francisco.
The hydraulic press., 1859-03-19

Addison says that the men who are
really the most fond of ladies-who
cherish for them the truest respect
are seldom the most popular with the
sex. Men of great assurance, whose
tongues are lightly hung, who make
words supply the place of ideas, and
place compliments in the room of senti-
ment, are the favorites A due respect
for women leads to respectful action to-
wards them, and respect is taken by them
for neglect, or want of love.
The hydraulic press., 1859-03-19

FLAT-FooTED DEMoCRACY.-Ac CO.
temporary startles us with the expression
"fat-footed democracy" We suppose
he means democracy in broad-soled boots
We are reminded that there is much too
little of this sort of government; party
arrangements being generally perfected
by democracy on high heels. People
whom labor weighs down till their feet
are''fat," trust too much to direction of
the high-heeled sort. They do not suf-
fciently realize that the latitudinous un-
derpinning of labor is the pedestal of
freethinking agents in government.
Trinity journal
The hydraulic press., 1859-03-19
PINCH In view nf the nnmhar of

PUNCH, in view of the number of
accidents happening to ladies who wear
crlnoline from their expansive skirts
catching fire, proposes as a precaution
that the air-tubes of the petticoat light
all be filled with water, and fitted with
the means when needful to eject it.
Every lady would thus, in fact, be her
own fire-engine, and could play upon her.
self the moment her dress caught.
The hydraulic press., 1859-03-19
Snow Tunnel SEVEN MILES Lone

SNOW TUNNEL SEVEN Miles LONG.
The persons engaged in cleaning the
snow out of the FL Dorado and Michi-
gan Bluff Water Ditch have been COM
pelled to sink shafts, in some places,
twenty feet through the snow, and run
a tunnel along the ditch; they have,
we hear. run tunnel in this way seven
miles under the snow, sinking shafts
far enough ahead to give them air.
I0,cu Hill Patriot.
The hydraulic press., 1859-03-19
It is related of Dean Swift that beino

1t is related of Dean Swift, that being
called upon to preach charity sermon,
he delivered the following pithy and la
comic discourse: "He that hath pity on
the poor lendeth to the Lord. My
brethren, if you like the security down
with your money" The security proved
SO acceptable that very large investments
were Immediately made.
The hydraulic press., 1859-03-19

CUBA-The population of Cuba, at
the last census was little over million
The area embraced by the island and its
dependencies is 47,270 square miles.
The great staples are sugar, coffee and
tobacco, and the annual value of the
products is about SIC, ,000, 900, although
only about one-twentieth of the island Is
under cultivation. The annual revenue
of the government is SIS, 100000.
The Russian organ, published at Brus-
sells, speaking of the foreible acquisition
of Cuba by the United States, says:
"The war resulting from it would be
far more disastrous than the Crimean
war, which has cost so much blood and
gold, to the world. It would be war
with nation whose products are the first
element of industry in all parts Of the
world, and whose commercial intercourse
makes an important branch of income
for most governments. 1t would be a
violent rupture of all the arteries of COM
mercial circulation; it would be fatal
separation between Europe, which needs
America, and America, which can dis
pense with Europe. Take from Europe
the gold of California and the cotton of
Louisiana, and her industry will at once
be stopped in its prosperous action"
The hydraulic press., 1859-03-19

INDIAN WIVES IN FRESNO County.
Indian women have been married to
white men, in numerous instances, in
Fresno county. They are said to make
excellent wives; neat and tidy and in
dustrious; and soon learn to discharge
domestic duties, properly and creditably.
Mariposa Gazette.
The hydraulic press., 1859-03-19

1t is Chinese maxim that for every
man that does not work, and every woman
that is idle, somebody must suffer cold
or hunger.