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

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gion of Texas.
At Salt Lake City the thermometer
remained at % degrees below zero fol-
four consecutive days.
Senator Gwin designs, it is said, tt
make another effort to resuscitate The
Pacific Railroad.
Resolutions sustaining Senator Doug
las have been voted down in the Mis-
souri, Legislature by large majority.
Vice President Breckenridge ha.
gone home to Kentucky, in conse
quence of the i'll health of himself and
family. ssk
John Richards, long known as The
publisher of the old New York Spiri
of the Times, died on Thursday of las
week. -s.e s.- ,se- a.st
A new pass through the Nevad.
mountains has been discovered, which
is practicable and much shorter thar
any yet travelled. ..a,
The planters in Arkansas are suffer
ing want of corn, and their Tennessee
neighbors are shipping portion of theil
surplus to that State.
VIM. H. Prescott, the great historian
died at Boston on the Doth of January
Mr.. Prescott was born in 1892, and al
the time Of his death was SO years old
A young, handsome, and hitherto re
spectacle married lady, of Buffalo, was
recently arrested for public intoxica
ton and sent up for thirty days.
The monument of Ethan Allen, al
Burlington, VT, is completed. 1t i.
forty feet high. A colossal statue O
the Green Mountain hero is yet to BE-
placed on the summit.
The French Government have SEN
Lieut.. Maury the order of the Legion
of Honor as mark Of the estimate il
which his services to science are hello
in that country.
A National Convention of Sunda,
School Teachers is to be held at Phila
delphia on the 22d of February to dis
cuss the best means of promoting thu
cause of Sunday Schools.
Temperance is making fair progress,
in Russia. In the government O.
Koyno, many of the distilleries are max
ing preparation to renounce the bust
ness, as it is no longer profitable.
1t is reported that the Democrats and
straight Americans of the New Jersey
Legislature have agreed to unite upor
Commodore Stockton for the u. S
Senate, with prospect of electing him
On Saturday morning, last, the Lake
at Buffalo was entirely clear Of ice
The Republic says that there was no
a sign of frozen material as far as the
eye could reach.
Counterfeit Tens on the Merchants
Bank, at Massillon, Ohio, are said t.
be afioat. The vignette is a woman
with spinning wheel, and on the lief
end spread eagle. Look out fol
them.
Great preparations are making
throughout Germany for the celebra
tiog of the centennial anniversary O
the birthday of Schiller, the poet. OF
the 10th of November next.
1t is said that although Gen. Cass i
able to attend to his department an,
other duties, he is subject to frequen
attacks of Inconsistencies which dis
able him for days: after this he goe
about again apparently as usual.
A Spanish wag suggests that mon
ument ought to be erected to the Pres
ident of the United States in the centr
of the prado, in Madrid, as he is tn
first man that has been able to unit,
the people for thousand years.
Hon. John Woodruff has been nom
mated for Congress by the Republican
in the I'd (New Haven) District o
Connecticut. Hon. Roger S. Baldwin
withdrew his name preemptorily, some
weeks before the meeting of the Con
vention.
A Washington correspondent say
that Mr.. Buchanan has recently de
clared in the most positive manner tina
he will under no circumstance be can
didate for denomination, and also, very
candidly, that he saw no prospect of I
nomination if he desired it.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dalton, whose divorce
trial and its attendant circumstance.
produced so much excitement in Bos
ton nearly two years since, are still liv
ing in Lawrence, Kansas, apparently
enjoying an enviable degree of domcs
tic felicity and business success.