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The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07
The Discipline of Daily Life.

The reason why we have so many
crosses, trials, wrongs and pains, ir
here made evident. We have not one
too many for the successful culture OF
our faith. The great thing, and that
which it is most of all difficult to pro-
duce in us, is participation of Christ's
forgiving gentleness and patience.
This, if We can learn it, is the most
difficult and the most distinctively
Christian of all attainments. There.
fore, we need continual discipline OF
occasions; poverty, sickness; bereave.
ments, losses, treacheries, misrepre.
sentations, expressions, prosecutions
we can hardly have too many for our
own good, if only we receive them as
our Saviour did his cross. 1t is BY
just these refining fires of trial and
suffering, that we are to be most ad
vanced in that to which we aspirs.
We have not too many occasions
given US for the exercise of patience
which is yet more evident when We
consider the Christian power of pa
tience. How many are there who b,
reason of poverty, obscurity, infirmit,
of mind or body, can nevor hope to dc
so much by action, and who often sigh
at the contemplation, of their want O
power to effect anything. But it il
given to them, as to all, who suffer
let them only suffer well and they vii
give a testimony for God, which al
who know them will deeply feel ant
profoundly respect. tits not necessa
ry for all men to be great in action
The greatest and sublimest power. il
often simple patience aud for just tha
reason we need sometimes to see it,
greatness alone, that we may embrac'
the solitary, single idea of such great
ness. and bring it into our hearth un
confused with all other kind of power
I-SeZected.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07
MORTGAGE SALE.

DEFAULT having been made in the condition
IL of a certain Mortgage, executed by Horace
Cooper to Gilman Witherell, dated May tenth,
A. d., one thousand eight hundred and fifty six,
and recorded in the Register Office, in the County
of Cass in Liber F., of the book of Mortgages, on
pages 4l0 and AL, the fifteenth day of May,
1885, at halfpast ten o'clock, A. NJ, and assigned
by the said Gilman Witherel to John A. Reynolds
on the twenty-second day of September, A. d.,
1853, and recorded in the Registers Office, in the
County of Cass, i'm Liber H., of Mortgages, on
page ninety By which default the power of sale
contained in said Mortgage became operative and
no suit or proceedings having been instituted at
law to recover the debt secured by said Mortgage
or any part thereof, and the sum now claimed to
be due thereon, is three hundred and forty three
dollars and thirty three cents Notice is therefore
hereby given that the said Mortgage will be fore
closed by sale of the mortgaged premises to
wit: The south half of the south east quarter of
section six in township number seven of range
number fifteen west, in the County of Cass and
State of Michigan, said premises to be sold to the
highest bidder at public vendue, at the Court
House, in Cassapolis, on the seventeenth day of
September next, at three O'Clock, p. NJ.
JOHN \. REYNOLDS, Assignee
b. OSCAR JOKES.
Dated at Pokagon, June 6, 1859. Ljune9-1w13
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07
Eloquence of Henry Clay.

Whoever heard Mr.. Clay for the first
time, was almost certain to be delighted
with him, without exactly knowing
why. There was charm about his
oratory that defined analysis, and rem
dered sober criticism weil-nigh impos-
sible. You went away too well pleased,
and too full of admiration for the man
to think of asking how he had managed
for the last hour to put you in a rage
at one moment, and make you laugh or
cry the next, at will. There was some
thing about him different from any
other man | ever heard. Webster was
like steam engine for concentrating
power, and the rush and roar of his
assault upon an enemy, sort of human
volcano, when the fires were kindled
in those cavernous eyes, and ne poured
forth torrent of burning words scorch-
ing and scathing all before it. Calhoun
was the very genius of abstract reason
ing calmly and deliberately adding link
after link to the iron chain of his logic,
till the hearer fell down at the end,
bound hand and foot in the unyielding
meshes of an irresistible necessity.
But Clay-when he mounted the ros-
trum universal smile Illuminated mems
faces and they looked at one another
with an expression which said palmer
than words" "Glad to see you, Mr.. Clay.
Begone dull care! We're going to
have good time. This heavy work
is over at last. Business done-now
comes pleasure" "Clay," said General
Jackson, sis the most plausible speaker
that ever opened his mouth in public
assembly. If you listen to him, he will
make you believe anything he pleases. -
This, from an enemy was not meant for
praise, but to the fact old Hickory was
perfectly competent to testify.
"Hush, Mr.. Clay is going to address
the jury" looked at those twelve
gentlemen with some interest, for a
fellow being was on trial before them,
for his life, accused of most attrocious
murder. Heavy, substantial looking
citizens they were-rather dull, tho't
and about as likely to be moved by an
appeal to their feelings as the stalac.
titles in the Mammoth Cave. As Mr.
Clay commenced, friend whispered
in my ear, "That william ought to be
hung, but he's got wife and child, and
his old mother is here in court, and
that's enough for Clay, he'll have the
jury blubbering in less than half an
hour" l doubted 1T, but SO it was
Those great hulkng fellows were sob
bing and mopping their faces over the
prisoners family as depicted by the
speaker, as though they themselves had
just lost their dearest friend. Ever
the Court blew its nose vigorously, fol
some reason, during the appeal in behal
Of the old woman, and although per
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07
PRORATE NOTICF

TATE OF MICHIGAN County of Cass Pro-
- bate Court.-Whereas, application has been
made to said court by Henry W. Bly, Administra-
tor of the estate of Matthew Gibson, deceased for
final settlement of his administration accounts in
said estate:
And, whereas, commissioners have been
appointed to examine and adjust the claims against
said estate:
Notice is therefore hereby given that the first
Saturday in July next, has been appointed by
said court for examination and adjusting the claims
against said estate and for final settlement of the
same, at the Probate Office, in Cassapos, of said
time and place all persons having claims against
said estate will present them to said court for final
settlement.
And it is hereby ordered that the above notice
be published in the Cass County Republican, once
in each week for four weeks in succession immedi-
ately preceding said settlement
c. SHANAHAN, Judge of Probate.
May q, 1859 june2-6w4
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07


Justice gets snarled up IN hopeless
manner. He admits that Congress
could not have intented to embrace
slaves as among the persons liable to
pay fine, and says that to imprison
the slave to compel the master to pay
the fine, would be furnishing an inno-
cent man for the crime of another. But
the grade of offence, which the girl
Amy had been guilty of happened to be
punishable with imprisonment only.
Therefore, says Judge T., "we must
not be understood as expressing a de-
decided opinion upon this question"
The naked statement of this subterfuge
is that, though one branch Of the act
OF Congress did not contemplate the
slave Amy as capable of committing
the crime, and being punished therefor
yet the punishment is admissible under
acertain construction of another branch
and verify she shall be punished !!
Here surely. is Dogberry, comprehend
ing all vagrom men,"
But the most important part of this
decision remains to be noticed. Judge
Taney re-affirms in several places and
with much energy, that the Constitu-
ton recognizes slaves as property.
"And as property" he continues, "the
rights Of the o,cner are entitled to the
protection Of the la1." In another
branch of this argument he says: at
is true that slave is the property of
his master, and his right of property is
secured by the Constitution and laws
of the United States" These para
graphs, and particularly the former, are
seized upon by the Richmond Enquirer
as a settlement of the question which
has somewhat vexed the Democratic
party, whether Congress ought to pass a
slave code for the Territories. Says
the inquire
"'rhus, the question which has threat
ened to devide us by sectional issue,
is at last directly decided by the high
est judicial authority in the Union.
Even those of our fellow citizens who
have hitherto been disposed to withhold
Congressional protection from slave
persons and slave property, will, doubt
less, yield the same acquiesence to the
decision in the case of the slave Amy,
which they have already, as good citi-
zens, accorded to the decision in the
case of Dred Scott"
So here, according to our Virginia
contemporary, is the end of Squatter
Sovereignty. The reply of the Doug
lasites will doubtless be that though
the opinion comes from the Chief JUS
tice of the United States. it was pro-
nounced in the Circuit, and not in the
Snpreme Court, and is therefore not
binding outside of the States of Della
ware, Maryland and Virginia, which
comprise the Circuit. Here is room
for lively controversy, but the decis
ion cannot fail to have a marked effec,
on the Charleston Convention, and t.
operate disastrously to Douglas and
all the believers in the efficacy of .'un
friendly legislation"'-Press Dc Iri6.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07
NUMBER II.



We were crowded in the cabin,
Not soul would dare to sleep
II was midnight on the waters,
And storm was on the deep.
'Tis fearful thing in Winter
To be shattered in the blast,
And to hear the rattling trumpet
Thunder "cut away the mast,"
So we shuddered there in silence
For the stoutest held his breath,
While the hungry sea was roaring.
And the breakers talked with death.
As thus we sat in darkness,
Each one busy with his prayers-
"We are lost p the Captain shouted,
As he staggered down the stairs.
But his little daughter whispered,
As she took his icy hand,
Isn't God upon the ocean,
Just the same as on the land?"
Then he kissed the little maiden,
And we spoke in better cheer;
And we anchor'd safe in harbor,
When the morn was shining clear.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07
MORTGAGE SALE.

nEFAULT having been made in the payment
IL of a certain of money secured 10 be paid
in and by certain Mortgage Indenture, executed
by Samuel NJ. Bear, of St Joseph County, Michi-
gan, to Marcus Sheriff., of Cass County, in said
State, dated the first day of June A. D. 1855 and
recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of
Cass county aforesaid, on the second day of June.
A. d., 1855, at So o'clock, p. NJ, in Book T. of
Mortgages, on pages ~ and ~, ON which Mortgage
there is claimed be due at the date of this notice
the sum of two hundred and twenty-seven dollars
and forty-scven cents, and the time for the pay
ment of said sum having expired and no suit or
proceeding at law in ciancery having been nsti-
tuted to recover the same or any part thereof No
tice is therefore hereby given that, by virtue of
power of sale in said Mortgage contained, and pur-
suant To- the statute in such made and provi-
ded, the premises described in said Mortgage, to-
wit: The equal undivided one-half Of thc cas-;
half of the northeast quarter of section thirteen
(l3i. in township six 90, south of range fourteen
"a west. containing eighty acres of land more CT
less situated in cass County in the State of Mich
igan viii be- sold public veDdue thc outer door
OF the Court House. in the Village nf CasSapolis,
in said county. on Saturday the Both day of July,
~ d., 1859, at clock in the aiteraoon of SAID
dav in fore closure Of said Mortgage.
MARCUS SHERRlLI, Mortgagee
f. McILyAIN, Atty for Mortgage.
Dated April 2a, 1857. ap2S-lwl3
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07

WIr-LNGs. = Noah is thought to
have had on board supply of ''Exter
minator," from the fact that for nearly
six weeks he was without seeing Ary-
rat. l.1.i.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07

~ Bald headed men take . Joke
the more easily, because they are not
at the trouble of /" getting it through
the hair"
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07
III. w. RUGG,

Dealer in Gold and Silver Watches, Clocks and
Plated Ware, Front ST., Dowagiac, Mich; Stric'
personal attention paid to repairing Watches
Clocks and Jewery All work warranted.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07
DOWAGIAC NURSERY.

SEELEY COLE, having established themselves
in the Nursery Business in this village, will fur
nish TO order Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Law
ton Blackberries, Cherry Currants. Grape vines,
Evergreens, and every variety OF Shruboery-
.E- Office with DR. Clarke, on Commerce-st.,
second building from the Post Office.
T. p. SEEI.EY, NJ. ID.
WM p COLE.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07

General Dealer in Books, Stationery, Periodicals,
Wall Paper, Window Shades, Wrapping Paper,
Pocket Cutlery, &C. Dennison Block, Dowagac,
Mich.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07

Dealer ia Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes,
Crockery, Hats and Caps, Glassware Paints and
Oils, Hardware, &C., &c. Front Street. Dowag-
lac, Mich.
MAMMOTH STORE.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07
CLARK & SPENCER,

Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, and Solicitors
in Chaneery. Office in G.. c. Jones Co 5
Block. Dowagiac, Michigan Especial attention
given to collections throughout the Northwest.
JOSEPH B. CLARKE. JAMES NJ. SPENCER
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07

We always did like the "church-go-
ing hclle.r
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07
DIR. f.. r.. ALLEN,

E-ez.caa Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist.
fYSSA All work warranted to give salts
Oll1O faction. Office Brownell $
Hardware Store, Front Street,
DowaQiac Mich.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07
G. C. JONES & CO..
r. q. LARZELERE,

Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes,
Crockery Glassware, Hats and Caps. Front
Street, Dowagiac, Mich.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07
Ausintss 9irettorp.
MISCELLANEOUS.
III. B. DENMAN,

Banking and Exchange Office, Dowagiac, Mich:
Buy and sell Exchange, Gold, Bank Notes, and
Land Warrants. Pay interest on School and
Swamp Lands, and Taxes In all parts OF the
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07
III. Il. ELLIS,
IRA BROWNELL.

Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Fancy Goods,
Boots and Shoes, and Yankee Notions. Front
Street, Dowagiac, Mich
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07
FTS
May 81, 1859

LIZA Is.
ON England Ireland, France and all parts Of
" Germany, for sale by
u. p. nENMAN, Banker, =
une3-e powagiac, Mich.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07
JOHN PIPER.

Ambrotype Artist. Likenesses taken on short no
t;ce and warranted not to fade Chidren's pic
tures taken in one second. Operating in
Rooms over F. J. Baum Co.'S Clnthing store,
Dowagiac, Mich. Also, fine Boots made to
order
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07
MERCHANTS.
GEORGE RAPLEE.

GEORGE RAPLEE,
Dealer in Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, Silver and
Silver Plated Ware, Gold Pins, Cutlery and
Musical instruments, Front street. Dowagiac,
Mich.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07
p. ID. BECKWITH,

Maclinist and Engineer. Foundry and Machine
shop at the foot of Front street, near the rail
road bridge, Dowagiac. Mich
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07

Dealer in Hardware, Tinware, Stoves, Agricultural
Implements &C., &c. Front Street, Dowagiac,
Mich
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-07-07
CHARLES w. CLISBEE,

Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Solicitor in
Chancery, and Notary Public, Cassopolis, Cass
Co., Mich. Collections made, and the proceeds
promptly remitted. ~.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-07-14
"A Monkey Abductins II Negro.

On Sunday afternoon we were startled
from comfortable nap, by the most distress
ing cries we rushed upon the gallery to
learn the cause, thinking surely that we had
good local item. We were rather amused,
however, when we found that the excitement
was caused by tame monkey that had bro.
ken prison, and who, in his perambulation
around town, had seen little negro GIRL
The monkey being, we presume, of spec.
ulative turn of mind, Immediately resolved
to embark in the slave trade, and forthwith
made an attack on the premises in which he
had discovered the little negro, climbed into
the window, pounced upon his prize, and de.
spite the young dorkeys screams and yels,
was about to carry her off in triumph, when
he was driven back by a reinforcement
IVoodvMe (lIiss) Republican.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-07-14
BIOndin Crosses Niagara River
with a Sack on his Head,

Yesterday afternoon M. Blondin again
crossed the Niagara on a rope, and returned.
in presence Of more than ten thousand
people. He started from Whites Pleasure
Grounds, and first walked down the rope
nearly one hundred feet backwards. He
then returned, took his balancing pole, and
walked to the Canada side. He proposed
to put on q sack before leaving the Amer.
ican side, but his friends there refused to
permit him to do so. The sack was sent
round to the Canada end of the rope, and
NJ. Blondin put it over his head, and return
ed with it to the place Of starting. This
sack was made of Indian blankets, with
places cut for his arms. He had no diff
cnlty in crossing thus blindfolded, except
that his balancing pole caught two or three
times in the guy ropes. He laid down upon
the rope in the sack, and performed some
other feOts. The success of NJ. Blondin in
walking this rope seems to be established
now beyond all doubt.
young man at present residing in this
city, called upon US this morning to show a
letter addressed to N. Blondn, accepting
his invita- ton to carry some one across the
Niagara on rope. The name of this person
is Henry l.. Young, and he informs M.
BIondin that he is twenty four years old,
and is five feet five inches high, weighs one
hundred and twenty pounds, and is ready to
mount the back of the intrepid walker, and
be borne across the great chasm-RocheSte er
Union, july 5.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-07-14

Somebody in the Boston Journal has
been making an estimate of the result of the
census of 1860, from Information obtained
from existing stat istics, State, local and ma
tional. 1t makes the population of the I'm.
ion 81 ,234,6 ,675 New York State 1882, lat;
Pennsylvania 3.097,793 /; Ohio 2,574,428
Illinois l,s62.74a; Virginia l ,429,S In
diana 1,423,3l9. The table gives California
7SS .926 Iowa 72O,8O2. According to this
tab lie New York will have thirty Represen.
tatives in the Lower House Of Congress, and
Pennsylvania twenty-three.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-07-14

C-The middle aged bloomers who met
at Auburn last week, and resolved to swear
short dresses or nothing at all," laid down
the following platform just before starting
for home
lst. Our purpose is to perform duty to
ourselves and society, and not to attract
public attention by eccentric display.
2d. We believe that all the ills that fe.
male flesh is heir to arise from the prev.
alent modes and habits of female dress, and
we therefore 60 in for short and loose dres.
ses in order to obtain bodily freedom and
physical development.
81. The recent awakening Of public
interest in our movement increases our faith
in its importance.
4th. We believe that women sright wo.
men proper "are only tantalizing us with
visions of the impossible" SO long as the
present fashions hold the sceptre of suprem.
acy.
5th. Woman's subjecting to fashion is
the evidence of her dependence and inferior
position.
9Th. Bondage to fashion is incompatible
with religion.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-07-14

A FAITHFUL AND HONEST OFFIcER.-
Maior Ben McCulloch, late United States
Marshal of Texas, has not only resigned
his office, but settling his accounts, the gov
erment found due him $ls So more than he
claimed. During1he seven years he was in
officer he disbursed 100000 for the govern.
ment, and collected under executions and
judgments about half a million more, and
vet he did not hold on to dollar under the
pretext that he had Offsets against the COVER
ment.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-07-14
A Mans Leg Driven through an
Inch Board.

We get the following from the Ashtabula
Sentinel:
Mr.. E. D. Harmon. of Lenox, met with
severe accident on Tuesday morning, the
18th u!t. He had loaded his wagon with
cheese boxes. with the intention of taking
the same to market. The end-b board to his
wagon rack not being sufficiently stayed, the
boxes, together with his own weight, caused
the bourd to give way, and tier after tier Of
boxes rolled out of the wagon on the horses.
AS might be supposed, the horses became
frightened, and ran. They were reined out
of the road, and brought up alongside of
barn, where Mr.. H. was violently thrown
from the wagon, feet first, against the barn
door and strange as it may appear, one foot
and leg was actually driyen through u solid
inch board forming part of the door. The
boxes were scattered in all directions, the
wagon brokeE very bpdly, and Mr.. II. was
picked up for dead. His injuries are not SO
bad as were at first supposed, and he is now
fast recovering.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-07-14
Brow ned.

1t is with regret we have to record the
death by drowning, of little son of MIR. G.
Huston, Of this place. On Thursday of last
week, the little fellow went into the side.
cut canal to SWIM, and getting into deep wa
ter was, from some cause, drowned. An
other little Toy, about the same age, seven
or eight years, who had gone to the water
in company with the deceased, gave the
alarm, but unfortunately not in time to save
the little fellows life I'uscarawas Dem.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-07-14

sHALERsviLLE, PORTAGE COUNTY, OHIO.
NOTO THE HOME FOR INVALlDS,
" ifyou have Chronic disease. "a
|. You will have your case kindly, carefully and
scientifically examined, and your disease truth.
fully pointed out. g.
9. You will have treatment instituted that will
meet the conditions of your case. .'.
3. You will be subjected to no wild extremes and
experiments in medical treatment. 4:
1. You will not be received as a patient, without
there is a prospect of relief or cure, and in
of failure, after aiair trial, the money you have
paid will he refunded to you.
5. You will receive a water and chemical bath treat.
ment not surpassed al any establishment In the
State. -
6. You will receive medical and hygienic treat
nenttrom an experienced physician, not based
uEon one idea false dogma.
Z. You will receive daily and hourly attention OF
physician. If needed, and attentively looked
after by an intelligent and experienced nurse,
that while you remain at the Home it shall truly
be a home to you.
For luther particulars send for circular.
april o.. lS5Y-3m J. HAYES. NJ. II.