The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-03-29
MiscelIaneous Items.

Gov. Goodwin has appointed April
18th for Fast Day in New Hampshire.
It is estimated that there are four
millions of snuf.takers in the United
States.
Bayard Taylor has lectured 142
times in the last six months, and
George Summers ITO.
Gov. Bissell's mother is still living.
She is eighty years old, and resides in
Macoupin county Illinois.
There is proposition before the
Maine Legislature to remove the Cap
ital of that State from Augusta to
Portland.
The Laporte Qnd.) Herald says that
between 800 and 500 persons contem-
plate leaving St. Joseph county this
Spring for Pixies Peak, and large
number will go from Laporte also.
There is society of Mormons at
Wheeling, Va, to which forty or fifty
have been added by conversion with
in year. They are of the Joe Smith
sort, do not believe in Brigham Young,
and have but one wife apiece.
Mrs. DR.. Bailey announces in last
weeks number of the National Era,
that the publication of that paper will,
after the next number, be suspended
until the first of May at any rate, and
forever, unless the friends of the cause
it represents sustain it.
The Pennsylvania delegation to
Charleston have contracted for the
steamer keystone State to take one
hundred passengers from Philadelphia
and back, between the 18th of April
and the LIST of May, and furnish them
on board, during that period for $50
each.
There are many sympathizers with
the Lynn strikers in New York. Many
shoemakers and the Printers Typo
graphical Union have expressed their
sympathy with them, and procession
and other public demonstrations are
proposed. Some of the New York
butchers and foundrymen are also on
strike.
Seereiter's billiard challenge to the
world for $4,000 a side, has been ac-
cepted by Dir. David Lynch, of San
Francisco. He proposes to play the
challenge for $4,000 a side, 1000 points
up, and he offers to pay Mr.. Seereiter's
expenses to the city of the Golden
Gate. Mr.. Seereiter's answer has not
yet TRANSFERRED.
OF the 121, 900 foreign immigrants
who arrived in the United States in
1859, 39,3l5 were from Germany, 35,-
2l6 from Ireland, 1926 from England,
9,7l2 from Great Britain, 4,l63 from
British America, 3,457 from China, q
$40 from France, 2,469 from Prussia,
1928 from Scotland, and 1901 from
Norway and Sweden.
Steamers have been chartered at
Boston, New, York, Philadelphia.
Richmond and Savannah, to take dele
gates to the Charleston convention and
board them there. If the western men
will take along their tents and supply
of beef and whisky, the convention
may make itself comfortable and be in.
dependent of the Charleston Shylocks.
The New York Seventh Regimen,
has. in the person of beautiful young
lady, a" Child of the Regiment" She
is the daughter of a deceased officer
was educated by the regiment, appears
in beautiful costume whenever it is on
parade, goes wherever it goes, and it is
said that the soldiers rival each other
in their respect and courtesy for her.
Mrs. Francis D. Gage, of Missouri,
formerly of Ohio, might claim the nom
nation of President under the authori-
ty of Mr.. Beecher, shaving brought
up six unruly boys WHOSE aggregate
height would form column thirty-six
feet high in honor of their mother, who
will all vote the Republican ticket in
1860, with one exception, and he has
notyet attained his majority, Not one
of them smokes or chews tobacco, or
stimulates the inner man with intoxi-
eating beverages. Mrs. Gage is also
the mother of two daughters.
NEW YORK SUPERvISORs.-The ag-