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The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-12-20

QUANDARIEs.--We give a list of what
are called quandaries, scraps, "fxes,
" cornerings," and sometimes difemas
knocking at the wrong door, and
hesitating whether you shall run awa ay
and say nothing about it, or stay and
apologize.
"Crossing the road until you see q
gig coming one way and cab another
so that if you move on you are sure tc
be knocked by one, and if you stand
still you may possibly be crushed by
both.
"Finding yourself in damp bed, OF
cold night, and cogitating whether
you will lie still and catch your death
or get up and dress, and pass the nigh
on two cane bottomed chairs.
"Paying your addresses to penny
less fair one, under the impression tha
she is an heiress, and, on discovering
error, having the option of marrying
the young lady, or of being shot by tht
young lady's brother.
"Come to four cross roads, one o
which you must take at random, or jus
walk back a mile or two and inquire
your way"
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-12-20
We have been too long in wilIin

We have been too long in willing
fetters, but they clank heavily on those
that scouM be free. And hardly less
fruitful source of evil is the right that
is practically taken from her, that OF
making proposals of marriage, now do
not blush ye fair ones, but it seems to
me quite an unnatural friek in nature
if we may be allowed the expression,
for if it is consigned to but one of the
parties / think it should be reversed
as woman has so much more at stake,
but as / am an advocate of equal
rights, / would not wish to retrench
any one. l only ask them to be equally
liberal.
But already see the day dawning
for the emancipation of woman, the
tide has turned, she will not much
longer have to look and say my lord
and master but they will be strictly
OuC. w OIuau W Ill oOOu Oc lOuuu uiIluS y
the professors chair, the jury box, the
bench, the desk and last though not
least as the signs of the times indicate
to her will be left the work of breaking
the chains and undoing the heavy bur-
thens of the three millions of fettered
ones i'm this boasted land of liberty. for
the work of oppression is fast accumu-
lating on the hands of our present pol
iticians, they are rearing the superstruc-
ture mountain high. Oh may the day
soon dawn when the slave whether
black or white shall no longer "breathe
in tainted air" but shall step forth in
their inalienable rights, to liberty and
the pursuits of happiness as designed
by the great author of the Universe.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-12-20

he grasped it and held it near the light,
thus affording me full time to examine
every feature of his face. 1t was the
face of George Washington, gentle
men. l shuddered as / beheld the
horrible dead-aliye look of that yisage.
After holding my hand for a moment,
he looked at me steadily, and said in a
quiet way:
"And with this hand, Senator from
South Carolina, you would sign your
name to a paper declaring the Union
dissolved ?" sse
sI answered in the affirmative, sY Yes,'
said I. sif certain contingency arises,
l will sign my name to the Declaration
of Disunion.' But at that moment a
black blotch appeared on the back OF
my hand. what is that p cried /,
alarmed, / know not why, at the blotch
upon my hand"
"'That,' said he, dropping my hand,
9Th at is the mark by which Benedict
Arnold is known in the next world"
"He said no more, gentlemen, but
drew from beneath his cloak an object
which he placed upon the table-placed
it upon the very paper on which / was
writing. That object was skeleton"
"'There,' said be, there are the
bones of Isaac Hayne, who was hung
at Charleston by the British. He gave
his life in order to establish the Union.
When you put your name to declara-
tion of dissolution, why you may as well
have the bones of Isaac Hayne before
you. He was South Carolinian, and
so are you; but there was no blotch
upon his right hand.'"
"With these words the intruder left
the room. / started back from the
contact with the dead mans bones, and
Oyerworn with labor, / had
fallen asleep, and had been dreaming.
Was it not a very singular dream ?"
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-12-20
For the Republican.
Marriage and Divorce.
BY NJ. A. DAY.


In comparing the present divorce
statistics with the more remote past,
the mind is not only alarmingly star
tied at its rapid increase, but to the
Philanthropist, yea, to every lover of
that which is pure and of good re-
port, the question involuntary arises.
What is the legitimate source of so
much wrong? and from whence is that
all potent sanitive balm to be procured
that can be cast into the fountain head
of this bitter spring, so that from hence
may issue sweet waters that shall fer
tilize and make glad the hearts of the
thousands that are now captive bound
in unwilling letters. Whenever l open
my mouth to speak, or take my pen to
imprint thought on the mind Of 9TH
ers on this subject, 1 feel that 1 am
treading on holy ground, venerated for
its very antiquity, sacred because d.
vine, for around this holiest of affairs
should concentrate all that loce and
purity, which is the essence and the
emination of the author of those sa-
cred ties, that from hence may issue
those pure germs of intelligence that
shall cause the earth to be better by
their living in it, and shall also soar
high among those spirit intelligences in
the world ETHEREAL.
/ am but too well aware that those
that would agitate as well as those that
legislate on this subject should wash
their hands in innocency and for that
reason / would do no more than to
suggest few inquiries to those better
versed in the healing of nations.
Oh, if / could awaken in the mind
of one heretofore careless sister the
careful thought and its consequent ac-
ton, / should be thousand times re-
warded for all that 1 could do.
1t is too evident the mass rush heed
less on, thinking the goal will be a
heaven, and their chosen one an angel
participator in all its full fruition, but
to their astonishment when they awake
to reali zation, their Imaginative angel
has proved to be fallen one, and their
heaven to be local hell.
/ think the reader will agre with
me when 1 say that the most fruitful
source of all this evil is the very ine-
quality of the sexes as regards rights
to property of their own, as well as the
right to accumulate the same either by
entering the professions, or becoming
a tradesman and what is hardly less
honorable in these days of political de-
gerancy, the chief magistracy of this
nation of slaves. As it has beer, woman
has been compelled to sell herself to
the highest bidder, and her stock in
trade has been her beautiful face, (per-
haps rendered SO by carmine, &C. her
delicate hand with the tapering finger
and too, delicate from its very useless.
ness, the breadth of her laces and
founces, and the many signs that she
may hang out to advertise jewelry and
dry-goods, instead of seeking to be-
come intellectually great and wisely
good.
This would not unfold but that We
may see the slough in which we have
been plunged, so that we can the better
make for a higher. plane of develop
ment, for it is useless to seek to make
a nation wiser and better when it
mothers are in bondage.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-12-20

HoP YEAsT.-In the RURAI of the
10th ult., "Ida" asks for the best re-
ceipt for Hop Yeast. The following
can't be beat Into two quarts of
water put eight good sized potatoes,
and handful of hops tied up in rag
boil until the potatoes are well done
mash them through seive add seven
table-spoonsful of -four; pour over this
the water in which the potatoes and
hops were boiled, scalding hot Add
half cup of sugar; teaspoonful of
ginger,-stir well together, and when
nearly cold pnt in cup full of yeast
After it is done working, add a tea
spoonful of salt, and bottle up for use.
1t will keep three months. - MARY
CRoKErr, Sterling, " r. lsoo.-Rss-
raj Neso Yorker. fa sif - .elesf sal.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-12-20

Down by the breaking waves we stood,
Upon the rocky shore;
The brave waves whispered courage,
And hid with friendly roar
The faltring words that told the tale
I dared not tell before.
Iasked, if with the priceless gift,
Her love, my life she'd blessa
Was it her voice, or some fair wave
For, sooth, scarce may guess
Some murmuring wave, or her sweet voice,
That lisped so sweetly, "Yes."
And then, in happy silence, too,
clasped her fair wee hand;
And long we stood there, carelessly,
While Ger the darkening land
The sun set, and the fishing-boats
Were sailing from the strand.
1t seems not many days ago
Like yesterday-no more,
Since thus we stood, my love and I,
Upon the rocky shore;
But was four-and twenty then,
And noao Pm forty-four.
The lily hand is thinner now,
And in her sunny hair
/ see some sivery lines, and on
Her brow some lines of care;
But, wrinkled brow, or silver locks,
She's not one whit less fair.
The fishing boats score of years
Go sailing from the strand;
The crimson sun a score of years
Sets o'er the darkening land;
And here tonight upon the cliff
We're standing hand-in hand.
'My darling, there's our eldest girl,
Down on the rocks below;
What's Stanley doing by her side -
My wife says; "You should know;
He's telling her what you told me,
A score of years ago."
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-12-20
DENTISTRY.

T<a DIT. a. Q. j on 6S,
Q1fYYN MOULD respectfully inform
w the Ladies and Gentleman
of this Village. and surrounding country. that he
has permanently located himself in this place and
opened an Office for the practice of DENrysTRY in
all its departments, over PorrERs' GuN SHOP.
on front street, where he may be found, prepared
st all times to make variety of styles Of Dental
Plates to suit the various tastes. and Also to do
all the various operations in Dentistry In neat
ness and durability. his work is unsurpassed
Call and examine my work. All work warranted
- A. C. JONES'
Dowagiac, Juiy 80, 1850. aug215tf.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-12-20

sW Half an ounce of pulverized
saltpetre, put in half pint of sweet
Gil, is said to be speedy cure for in
flamatory rheumatism, by bathing the
parts affected.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-12-20

~ A writer asks through the Far
mer's Department of the Dollar News
paper, if any one can inform poor
man the best wayto start nurseryf
The Houlton Times says, "Certainly.
Get married" l.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-12-20

@ Probably the reason why SO lit
tie was written in the Dark Ages was
that people could not see to write.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-12-20
r-n. RECKWITH,

Machinist and Engineer. Foundry and ma Macnme MN;
Shop at the foot of Front street. near '"' ram
road bridge Dowagiac, Mich.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-12-20
DOwAGIAC NURSERY.

SrrTEY 4 COLE, having established themselves
n the Nursery Business in this village, will fur
,,;.b to order Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Law
ton BIackberries, Cherry Currants, Grape % Vines
- 6ssce IN the corner of Commercial ST., near
sne ros' v T.P SEELEY, M. ID.
eGr trAusf VIM p. COLE.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-12-20
washington D c Nov 20

oregon is probably lost. l have re-
solved to see seed with my Native
state. The election of linkon has did
the COB. Our only trust now is in god
and Suthern onion. '.'t
Sd 1< 10 Lain.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-12-20

LANE ON SEcEssioN.-The newsfro
Oregon has disgusted Gen. Lane. His
last telegraphic dispatch to the Gov
ernor of North Carolina reads az fol-
lows -
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-12-20
Gke 8tgublitan,
Is Published every Thursday,
At Dowagiac, Cass County, Michigan
BIZ w. H. CAMPBELL.

o r FL @ r.:
In G.. C. Jones & Co.'s New Brick BLOCK
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-12-20
MTSCELLANEOUS.

~--~~~~~~~~-~->>->~--->>> - - -
III. B. DENMAN,
p.,t;nc and Exchange Office, Dowagac, Mich.
DInnS pa "a seii r Exchange Gold Bank Notes, and
I'syd warrants. Pay interest on School and
swamp Lands, and Taxes in all parts of the
State.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-12-20

"a sr., - G. G.. JONES & CO.,
callers 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, 1860-12-20
r. e. LARZELERE,

Dealer in DRY Goods Groceries, Boots and Shoes,
Crockery. Hats and Caps, Glassware, Paints and
Oils. Hardware, &C., &c. Front Street, Dowag-
MAMMOTH STORE
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-12-20
a. N. AWARD.

General Dealer in Books, Stationery, Periodicals
Wall Paper, Window Shades, Wrapping Paper
Pocket Cutlery, &C. Dennison Block, Dowagiac
Mich - =
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-03
TOLLS AND TAXES.
Now for RHODE ISLAND

The Conference Committees OF the two Houses
at Albany on the subject of toll bill have not yet
reported, and meantime all the financial measures
are delayed, though we are within ten days or
fortnight of the termination of the session If we
did not fear that the Senate were hopeessly in
bonds to the Central Railroad, we should again urge
upon them the pyopriety nay, the necessity, OF the
passage of the Assembly Toll bill, or something like
it. If we are to finish the canals, pay the interest
on our debt, and keep the wheels of Government in
motion, we must raise this year over five millions Of
dollars. If this Gum is raised by direct tax, tax
of four mills will be necessary. Last year the tax
was two and half mills, and the only year it has
ever been higher was in 1857, when it was three
mills and the Republicans lost the State the next
year in consequence. To impose four-mill tax
would in our opinion, endaDger the Republican SUI
premacy in this State; and yet, even if we abandon
the completion Of the canals, which we cannot do,
tax of nearly that amount must be raised unless
some other source of revenue is found. The reim-
position of moderate tax upon the railways, with
consequent increase Of tolls upon the canals, is
the only expedent that has been suggested and the
question is not 20 much whether tolls shall be re-
imposed, as whether they shall be so regulated as
to render possible reduction of the direct tax to
two and half mills, or whether we shall be con.
tent with less than three hundred thousand dollars
in grass from that source, and impose tax Of at
least three mills and a half
This is the question which stares the Senate in
the face How any Republican can HESITATE Wa
do rot zee We cannot believe there is any SeoatOr
representing Republican District outside of this
City who does not know and feel that if he votes to
impose tax Of three and half mills, he digs his
political grave. Let not Senator Sessions aid his
companions deceive themselves into the belief that
the people viii have forgotten their action when
eighteen months hence they called upon to elect
a new Senate. The people will not forget it, be.
cause their own pockets and the public press will
combine to remind them Of il Again. then, we
appeal to Senators Sessions, Robertson, Kescham,
Fitro, Lapbam, and Abel, to pause before they
iD6ict so deadly blow upon the great party to
which they belong. If they have no regard for
their own future political prospects, let them at
least remember that they are in measure the
guardians of q cause whose success they have no
right even to put in jeopardy
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-03

20 base as 10 be wiling 10 curse co,tinsut with
Slavery in order that these wine grower. nd distl-
lers may make little more money, and hs hin. self
get rather cheaper ga,s Of spirit. 1th;. .oyt ~
politics is likely to commend itself 70 Frerobm.,
we must gay that other people have generally a,t,;h
uted to them degree Of common sense and ss
geDeros y Of natzre totally inconsistent with sush
narrow and coatemptible motives
Bot it il very possible that this anxiety about
wine auI brandy is only prete1t 90 tho part Of tho
Co,,ier. Though compelled, in order to preserve
,--aholdipg and slage-breeduR subscribers,
to support the Democratic party ts conductors s1s
still men of education and telong to tho Nineteenth
Century and not the Ninth. They are accordingly
unable to advocate Slavery and Fillibustersm
frankly and directly; and finding nothing else By
which they can prove their fidelity TO the Sham
Democracy, they asssI the Republican party az
well as they car, on the ground of proposition Ia
add few cents per gallon to the duties on vino and
brandy.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-03

There are not many things in regard to which we
are able to adopt the opinions or sympathize With
the purposes of Napoleon III. and the members of
bis governn emf. Blu. in speech recently MAIDS TO
tie Legislative Corps by hi, hal-brothsr. Count
20 Morny, on occasion of the commercial treaty
between France and England, the truth upon thu
question of Free Trade and Protection was stated
with clearness and cogency that could not well be
surpassed. We quote brief but comprehensive
passage:
Free trade may il appears to me, BE considered as
the object 10 which society Is tending but protect
must be the means of arriving at it. Suppose free
trade established in new and poor country, what viii
thai conptry oroducel do not deny bot that Il can
develop some favored industry By o natural priv
legged situation, but foreign competition would stls In
their bud all those things which it requires In order 70
prosper-oapital ekful workmen, experienced over
seeJs easy Communication, and good market-in fsct
all The couddiors which time aloSe can give. tram
siiop, consequently is indispensable, and TO preach
free trade TO country which does not enjoy all these
Advantages nearly as 70 propose 70 cnd
to conield with grown man..
This is the genuine doctrine, and precisely the
sane that we have preached for years. We CON-
mend it, as ii is expressed by Count dc Morpy, TO
all theoIetic free traders who arc capable Of re-
fleeing on the subject.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-03

The Republicans Of CoNSEcTICUT last evening
emerged triumphant from the most desperate pOlit-
cal struggle TO which any State was ever subjected
Money in floods, threats Of Pro Slavery prescription
in their industry and its products, menaces Of
dissolution of the Union if they were not beaten
an enormous Naturalization, and, we fear, heavy
Illegal vote, mainly poed by means Of bogus cortli-
Gates Of legal residence in towns other than those
wherein they appeared and voted have swelled tue
ro.Slayery poll enormously beyond the actual
strength of the Sham Democracy, but without
avail. HENRY A. BUCKINGHAM is over One Thou
sand ahead in the votes we have received up to this
hour (midnight), embracing at least three-fourhs
of the States and we do not think the residue can
reduce it. There lie, Of course, great Pro-Slayery
gain, partly through naturalization, partly through
fraud, in New Haven, Hartford Middletown and
the adjacent stone quarries, Derby, Bridgeport,
&C., but the Republican strength is fully sustained
in the rural districts and wherever the population
is indigenous Windham County nearly doubles
her Republican majority of last year, and we hope
that Ltchfed when fully heard from, will be found
to have done likewise.
For the rest of the State Ticket, we have no re-
turns; but, as Col. Seymour was nominated as the
most popular man in the State, and every effort
was concentrated upon him, we may fairly pre-
sumo that the other Republican candidates run
fully up to Gov. Buckingham.
TIE Legislature is Republican all over. Five
Senators in the two SOUTHEASTERN counties settle
that branch. We hear of Republican gains of Rep.
resentatives in almost every County, leaving no
doubt that The House is Republican by nearly two
to one, or more than the majority of last year
This ACQUIRES the return to the u S. Senate of the
Hon. LAFAYETTE S. FOSTER, or some other good
and true Republican, for six years from the 4th of
March next.
We Judge that the total vote exceeds s., 900.
The highest ever before cast THAT for President in
SOY was SO,325. The increase is of course nearly
all in the cities and Populous manufacturing towns.
ga. m.-We have returns from nearly all the
State They leave no doubt Of Buckingham's
election and of decided Republican majority in
the Legislature. Noby done, dauntless Republi
cans of Connecticut
Now for RHODE ISLAND
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-03

The Courier des Etats Uns argues that every
American citizen Of French birth must vote with
The so called Democratic party, and against the
Republicans, because the Tariff bill lately reported
in the House of Representatives by Mr.. Morrill, OF
Vermont, who is Republican, proposes to lay on
French wines and brandies higher duties than are
laid by the present tariff. In other words, accord
ing to the Courier, every Frenchmsn who takes
the oath of citizenship in the United States, should
still regard the profits of the wiue-growers and
brandy -distilers of France az superior in import
ance to the welfare and prosperity Of his adopted
country He should also possess a soul so vile and
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-03
POLITICAL.

The price Of beef seems just now 10 be the most
important matter with the Southern Democracy. In
deed The Daily Progress, the iueus a non iucendo
nsme of paper published in North Carolica says:
"Our delegation rave not hsd time to think about
who is to be the nominee yeti the great and most vi
tai of all questions to them is, now what 10 be the
price of board at Charleston Can they get iato q
frst-clsss hotel at s. day EACH must they take
gaIret accommodations at $40 After the price of rec
snd Fulton Market beef las they are to be served at
Chseson) Ia settled then delegation will be pre-
Jared to consider less weighty matters"
The Charleston papers say that the landlords wills
have to pay 25 cents per pound for Lee but The Ma
con tGs.) Telegraph denies this it says:
"Wilh acres of beef in Tennessee, at from ak to
eight cents fer the best quality, aud within As hours
transportation by railroad is folly to be publishing
such stuff. Charleston could feed ten Democratic Con-
ventions on a week. notice."
There is something too dreadful in the idea Of ten
Democratic Conventions in session at one time aud
place.
The first Assembly District of Queens County have
selected Robert Willets of Flushing, and Lo. Cornelius
of Oyster Bay to represent them 10 the Republican
Convention at Syracuse. Isaac Fl. Cocks as alternate
to Robert Wlets and Lendal +. Pratt as alternate to
Lot Cornelius.
Desiring TO hire two obscure rooms in the city for
two weeks in April, Charleston gentleman inquired
of the owner what he would charge for rent who re-
piled that he would take four hundred dollars for
them, paid in advance. This is what commentator
calls "a high old joke"
The California and Oregon delegations TO the
Charleston Convention propose TO "camp out in from
tier style during the Conventions they will take down
their tents for that purpose. They will require
enough for three srgs marques and from twenty
to twenty five small tents as there viii be about forty
attendants from the Pacific slope-s good men and
true, and jewellers beyond the Sierra Nevada. An
tive ChaIlesonisn has secured for ,he purpose above
named the vacant lot on the easterly side of Meeting
street, near South Bay.