The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-02-23

thursday, APrii lZIn, as asst Lay III
New Hampshire.
The students of Georgetown D. G. I
College lately burned the efigy of
Henry Winter Davis for his vote for
Pennington.
The Registry Law has passed the
House of Representatives of Minneso-
ia, by decisive vote. 1t will proba-
bly, pass the Senate.
The ranking privilege originated in
England in the year 1860. Under it,
members of Parliament used to frank
entire bucks and packs of hounds -
Gov. Packer Of Pennsylvania lately
returned to the Legislature in one batch
seventeen veto messages on as many
private bills.
All the opposition journals in Mary
lard bat we nave sustained Mr.. Winter
Davis in his vote for Mr.. Pennington
as speaker. The malcontents are not
regarded as indexes of public senti-
ment.
The infant recently presented to 10y
al subjects by the Queen of Spain has
been christened and received no less
than sixty-one names. None but a
scion of royal house could bear such
a baptismal weight.
Mrs. Mary Hewitt has addressed a
note to The London Critic denying
that she has joined the sect of Swe-
denborgians, however she may respect
them as body of Christians, and be-
lieving there are many deep truths in
many of their religious doctrines.
1t is said that the first remark of
John Hickman, Anti-Lecompton Dem
ocrat of Pennsylvania, after listening
to the recent speech of Senator Doug
las, was: "Upon thy belly shalt thou
90, and dirt shalt thou eat all the days
of thy life"
There are fourteen ships in course of
construction this winter in the ship
yards Of Quebec and its neighborhood,
whose tonnage will be 12,4OO. $40
men are employed at low wages, say
one shilling and eight-pence to two
shillings currency per day.
In the New York Legislature, in
both the Assembly and the Senate,
bills have been ordered to third read
ing, which fully recognize the right OF
married women to the fruits of their
own toll, giving them exclusive control
Of their own earnings. This is right.
In recent lecture, the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher gave an account of his
first year in ministry, the first flock
which he gathered consisting only OF
nineteen poor women. He was then
not only pastor but the sexton of the
church, filing and lighting the lamps.
which he was compelled to buy him
self, kin ding the fires and sweeping
out the church. He did not ring the
bell because he had none to ring.
JOHN Brown, JR.-This gentleman
is now in Ohio and refuses to go to
Washington at the summons of the In
vestigating Committee. His friends
have endeavored to persuade him to
90 to Canada. 1t is said that whoever
attempts to take him will meet with a
terrible fate, as young Brown is doubt
less partially insane on this whole sub
ject of Harper's Ferry, his fathers ex-
ecution, and the demand for his pres
ence at Washington.
When Parliament was opened hel
Majesty wore dress of pearl-colored
satin with gold bars; over it mantle
of rich crimson velvet, with deep and
massive gold border. Her head-dres.
was a tiara of brilliants. The elder
Princess wore " slip''-whatever that
is-of white tulle over pale blue un
der-dress round her head was :
wreath of white roses. The younge
Princess was dressed wholly in white
with a wreath of pink flowers as
head-dress.
A Republican Club, the-only one il
Philadelphia, was organized shor
time ago, and already numbers owe
four hundred members. Its Presiden
is VIM. B. Thomas, Esq, heavy deal
err in -four and grain. It's headquarter
are in a building on the corner o
Seventh and Chestnut streets, where &
large room has been fitted up and wei
supplied with newspapers and docu
ments, and which is opened ever
evening. A weekly meeting of tn
Club is held every Saturday evening
at which one or more addresses ar
made by the best speakers that can b
produced.
STRANGE OccURENcE.-A lady, quit
Iill-accompanied by man who Gale