The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-01-12
News and Other Paragrapb,.

N. Y, at cost of $4,000
The Legislature of Georgia have
passed law prohibiting manumission
of slaves by their masters, after death.
Bracket the Boston sculptur, has
nodded an excellent bust of John
Brown, which was ordered by lady.
There were two fires in Leavenworth,
Kansas, on Sunday last, by which s65-
600 worth of property was destroyed.
By the explosion of camphene
lamp last Tuesday, in New York, a
house was fred, and six persons burned
to death.
A literary gentleman of London
claims that the word Wing was derived
from the initiating of the party motto,
"We hope in God"
George Wilson, Republican, was
elected Mayor of Pittsburgh Pa, on
Tuesday, by 700 majority over Mr..
Twain, Democrat.
Most of the Washington city banks,
holding hypothecations of Post-office
scrip for advances, have agreed to car
ry them until Speaker is elected.
The Female College at Hernado,
Miss, was burned on the night of the
I'd inst. The loss is estimated at from
SIS, 900 to $4,000.
They had some cold weather up
north, last Monday. At monroe, Wis,
the thermometer was 80 below zero !:
at Portage City, 35 below; and at La
Crosse, 35 below.
Longwood, at st. Helaena, where
Napoleon died, now belongs to French
The present Emperor has recently
ordered $4,000 to be expended in
repairing the house and tomb.
The Vernon Qnd.) Banner, says
that some wag of that place lately
sent to Gov. Wise tin sword and
gun, as a token Of admiration of his
military talets.
MONUMENT TO Col. BENToN.-A
bill to appropriate $4,000 to erect a
monument to Col. Benton passed the
Missouri Senate unanimously Tuesday
of last week.
Gerrit Smith has returned to his
home in Peterboro, but DIR. Gray ad-
vises him to refrain from business and
correspondence, and receive visits from
his immediate relatives.
Ex-PosTMAsTER ARRESTED. = The
Elk Postmaster of Detroit has been ar
rested, charged with embezzling some
six thousand dollars. He claims, how
ever that the money rightfully belongs
to him. This remains to be seen.
The Connecticut Republican State
Convention, to prepare for the election
next April, meets at Hartford, January
25th, and Gov. Buckingham and his
associates in the executive offices will
probably be reelected.
The citizens of Niagara Falls are
making arrangements to have their
village lighted with gas. A company
has been formed, the capital, S12, 700,
subscribed, and the works will be con-
structed as soon as the weather will
permit.
HEAVY DEFALcATIoN.-The Cincin-
natl Enquirer states that a boy about
seventeen years old absconded from
Middletown Ohio, few days since,
with $4,000, which had been intrusted
to him to convey to Winchester, Pre-
BILE county.
Helper has sent a splendid bound
copy of the unabridged edition of his
" Impending Crisis" to Missouri Clark,
with letter, returning that gentleman
his sincere thanks for the magnificent
advertisement he has bestowed, free of
charge upon his book.
Over one hundred hands have re-
Gently been discharged from one of the
largest manufactures in the city of
Philadelphia, in consequence of orders
from the South having been counter
manded. The factory has been in
very successful operation for six or
eight years past, doing very extern
sive business, the major portion of
which is with the south.
ARIzoNA.-A gentleman just arrived
in Washington, from Arizona, says
that this territory, which the President
recommends be organized, does not
contain two hundred Americans.
"The rest" to quote his own words,
/" are mostly cut-throats and vaga-
bonds" He says that the men who
clamor for a territorial organization
are interested politicians and that their
must be taken with
great allowance.