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The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-10-18
The Gentleman's Room.

Far beyond drawing-room or spare
room and important above almost eve
ry other arrangement in your domestic
establishment, is the cousecration of
one room to the especial use of the
master of the house, should his pur-
suits be such as to :e,,der occasional
solitude and quiet peedful, or merely
pleasura5le to him. A sound and a
lovely policy is that which secures to
husband, in his own family, certain
privileges and comforts that he can
never find elsewhere, and that are cal
culated to counterbalance the weight
of the many other attractions which
his immediate circle cannot offer. A
room to himself-a home within home
is not such privilege, and a few
sacrifices too great if they may pro-
cure it for him; few advantages are
great enough if they must take it from
him; it will keep him from. clubs and
card parties abroad, or from being cal
ways about" at home it will prove a
sanctuary from the numerous petty do
mestic troubles and annoyances that, as
few men can comprehend or tolerate, il
is much better that they should not see
or should business or amusement in
duce a temporary absence, the image
of his O,on room, and the gentle loving
being presiding over its many indul
gencies and comforts, will follow
him into "hall and power" and, crea
ting salutary yearning in the midst o
greater luxury and wealth, will guide
him safely back again, where only h
can rest in perfect happiness and safe
ty
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-10-18
PROBATE ORDER.

CTATE OF MICHIGAN-County of Cass.-ss.
y At a session of the Probate Court for the
County of Cass, holden at the Probate Office, in
Cassapolis, on Thursday the twenty day Of
September, in the year one thousand eight hundred
and sixty. Present-Clifford Shanahan, Judge of
Probate In the matter of the estate of Kinchen
Artis deceased. On reading and filing the petition
duly verified, of jefferson Osborn, praying for
license to sell real estate of said deceased
Thereupon it is ordered, that Saturday, the tenth
day of November next at ten O'Clock, in the fore
noon, be assigned for the hearing of said petition:
and that the heirs at law of said deceased, and all
other persons interested in said estate required
to appear at a session of said court, then to be
holden at the Probate Office in Cassapolis, and
show cause if any there be, why the prayer of the
petitioner should not be granted.
And it is further ordered, that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested in said estate,
of the pendency of said petition and the hearing
thereof by causing copy of this order to be pub
lished in the Cass County Republican, newspaper
printed and circulating in said County of Cass, for
four successive weeks previous to said day of hear
ing. c. SHANAHAN,
r A true copy. Judge of Probate.
September 81 1860 oct424w4
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-10-18

land of freedom for you in 1887. She
sustained the Ordinance of 'S7 till you
were able to take care Of yourselves.
Among the first acts of her Govern
ment, she abolished slavery for herself
She has known nothing of compromises
nothing of condition or qualification
in the great principle. and she never
will. She will sustain your distin-
guished neighbor, because she knows
he is true to this great principle and
when she has helped to elect him, by
giving as large majority as can be
given by any halfdozen other States,
then you will find that she will ask less,
exact less from him, and support him
more faithfully than any other State
can do. This is the way she did with
John Quincy Adams. That is the way
she will sustain Mr.. Lincoln. Loud
cheers
In the course of conversation, Mr..
Lincoln said to Mr.. Seward:
Twelve years ago you told me that
this cause would be successful, and ever
since l have believed that it would be.
Even if it did not succeed now, my
faith would not be shaken.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-10-18
W1SrEnrse CABBAeE.-I have prao.

WINTERING CABBAeE.-I have prao-
ticed for four years the following mode
of wintering cabbage, and it has proved
so well, l give it for the beuefit Of 9TH
ers My cabbage is left out till there
is danger from frost. The heads are
then cut off, with few coarse leaves,
and if winter does not seem to be upon
us, thrown into heaps, and covered
with litter Of some kind. till winter
seems to be coming in earnest. Then
the cabbage are put in heaps by plac-
ing them on the ground-three for the
bottom course two for the second, and
one for the top. Make your heap az
long as you wish-pack them close by
putting the largest to the bottom, and
keep the stem end up Cover ten to
twenty inches or more with earth, with
out any straw. The earth must be in
proportion to the frost. A little frost
will not hurt them if the cabbage are
not taken out till the frost has left them.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-10-18

Controlling THE INcLINArroN.-It
is hard work to control the workings
of inclination, and turn the bent of
nature; but that it may be done, /
know from experience. God has given
us, in ameasure, the power to make our
own fate, and when our energies seem
to demand sustenance they cannot
get-when our will strains after path
we may not follow-we need neither
starye from inanition, nor stand still in
dispair, we have but to seek another
nourishment for the mind, as strong as
the forbidden food it longed to taste,
and perhaps purer, and to hew out for
the adventurous foot a road as direct
and broad as the one fortune has
blocked up against us, if rougher than
it, Charlotte Bronte.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-10-18

USE OF THE BAROMETER BY FARM
ERs.-There is no doubt that farmers
would find great advantage in consult
ing the barometer, when harvesting
their crops. Several instances of its
usefulness have been made known to
us. A gentleman who had fixed day
for commencing haying, found that his
barometer indicated rain, and he post
poned his haying. 1t rained during
the day and for two succeeding days,
but he saved his hay, while his neigh
bors, who had no means of foretelling
the weather, cut their grass and lost
by the operation. A farmer at Chath-
am, N. Y, had large quantity of
hay and grain cut one day, and on GO
ing to dinner noticed that the baromc-
ter indicated rain. His men went 10
work and saved most Of the hay and
grain, while his neighbors who were
not forewarned in time, experienced
loss. A physician at Reading had fixed
a day for haying; the morning was
fine but the barometer said rain, and
he deferred moving, and advised his
neighbors to do the same. But they
laughed at him and went to work, and
the rain came at noon. Many such
facts might be given to show the value
of the barometer to farmer. 1t will
soon be considered as indispensable in
farmers kitchen as clock or wife.
Springfield Republican. IS
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-10-18
Travelling in the United States One Hun
dred Years Ago.

travelling in the United states One Hun
dred Years Ago.
The American advertisement, of
which we here give literal copy, is
deserving of preservation on account
of the quaintness of the inn-signs, the
popularity of the spelling and diction,
the shifting" of the passengers which
it announces, and the general idea it
gives us of the way in which travelling
was performed in America at the time
when it was issued:
"Philadelphia STAGE WAGGON,and
New York STAGE-BOAT performs
their Stages twice Week.
JOHN BUTLER, with his Wagon,
sets out on Mondays from his house, at
the sign of the Death of the Fox, in
Strawberry Alley, and drives the same
day to Trenton Ferry, when Francis
Holman meets him, ard proceeds on
Tuesday to Brunswick, and the pas
sengers and goods being shifted into
the Wagon of Isaac Fitzrandolph: he
takes them to New Blazing Star to ia
cob Fitzrandolph's the same day, where
Reuben Fitzrandolph, with a boat well
suited, will receive them, and take them
to New York that night. John Butler
returning to Philadelphia on Tuesday
with the passengers and goods deliv
cred to him by Francis Holman, will
again set out for Trenton Ferry or
Thursday, and Francis Holman, &c.
will carry his passengers and goods
with the same expedition as above tt
New York. March 8, 1859
+ Weekly Mercury.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-10-18

A THoUGHT.-When there is a
thought in my heart, and l wish it to
be in thine also, l seek sound, as it
were for a vehicle, by which it may
pass to thee. / take sound, and as it.,
were, put the thought into it. Thus l
utter and produce, and teach thought
yet lost it not. If my thought can go
forth to thee and still remain with me,
cannot the Word of God do the same
thing by means of the flesh which he
took on him? Behold the Word OF
God, God with God, the Wisdom OF
God, remaining increasingly with the
Father, that he might proceed to US,
sought the flesh, as it were sound,
and introduced himself into it. BY
this expedient he doth proceed to us
and did not recede from the Father.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-10-18

source of the in6delity and treasons
that have turned her cities into Sodoms
and Gomorrahs, and her lands into the
common nestling-places of howling
Bedlamists. We abonaisate the sys-
tenn, because the SCHOOLS ARE
FREE"
A distinguished Virginia orator, MIR.
Fitzhugh, declares:
"Make the laboring man the slave
of one man, instead Of the slave of so
ciety. and he would be far better off,"
"TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF
fLIBERTY HAVE MADE WHITE
LABORERS A PAUPER BANDIT
III. Free society has failed, and that
which is not free must be substituted"
The Hon. mud-sill HAMMOND, of
South Carolina, believes that Northern
laborers are no better than slaves, and
that it would be better for them if they
were. He says:
"The man who lives by daily labor,
and who has to put out his labor in the
market and take the best he can get for
it, IN short, Our achole class of manuel
laborers and operatives at the NORTH
are SLA YES"
In view of such opinions as these, to
be found in almost every Southern pa
per, and the speeches Of almost every
Southern orator, why should the dough-
face press seek to deny that their can
didate for Vice President, and one Of
the most violent of Southern slave
owners, is in favor of making slaves of
Northern white men as well as South
ern black laborers ?-Det. Adc.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-10-18
PROBATE NOTICE.

CTATE OF MICHIGAN-County of Cass Pro-
- bate Court. Whereas application has been
made to the said court by Rebecca Ann Lewis,
Administrative of the estate of Jonathan W. Lewis,
deceased, for the final settlement of her admins
tration accounts in said estate: And, whereas,
no commissioners have been appointed to examine
and adjust the claims against said estate:
Notice is therefore hereby given, that the first
Thursday in November next, has been appointed
by said court for examining and adjusting the
claims against said estate and for final settlement
of the same at the Probate Office, in Cassapolis,
of said county, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at
which time and place all persons having claims
against said estate will present them to said court
for final settlement.
And il is hereby ordered that the above notice
be published in the Cass County Republican, once
in each week for four weeks in succession imme-
diately preceding said settlement.
C. SHANAHAN, Judge of Probate.
()ctohor I 1860 oct424w4
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-10-18
Equipment of the Lady Elgin..-Cause
of her Loss.


The New York Herald had an article
several days ago, evincing great igno-
rance of our lake marine, severely COM
menting upon the local inspectors, and
rejecting upon Capt. Wilson. The To-
cal inspectors of Chicago have pub
lished reply to this in the Chicago
newspapers, from which we make the
following extract. The suggestions re-
lative to the defective laws, are we'll
worth noting:
"The Lady Elgin had three life-boats
and yawl, each one capable Of holding
up much more weight when filled with
water than the rule requires. The
yawl was the largest and best boat on
board at any such time she would be
called long boat at sea, and would be
preferred to any second class life
by experts. She had on board for life
preservers, over four hundred floats cap
able of carrying large man each, and
they were conveniently placed, and ac-
cessible to all; they are far superior to
any inflated or tin life preservers, are
always in good order, and there is no
risk of leakage or corrosion. The La.
dy Elgin was equipped in every partic-
ular, and was in every respect accord
ing to law; she had the full compile
ment of boats, oars, axes, buckets,
floats, hose, pumps, anchors, &c. She
was perfectly sound, and in good order,
as the evidence shows; she was we'll
officered and manned. Here the duties
of inspector ceased, and they are no
more accountable for the disaster than
is the ship carpenter that built her.
The reason that floats were not used
generally was, that persons unaccus-
toned to the sea, as all the passengers
were, preferred large pieces of timber,
and RATS made of portions of the cabin,
in the heavy sea that was rolling at the
time. The consequence was, that most
of them got hurt in the breakers and
were drowned; whereas the floats in
the same place would have carried them
in safety. AS to the charge that the
captain went out in a terrible storm,
and after he did 60 out, did not keep a
proper lookout, is of piece with the
rest. There was no storm when the
steamer went out, and when the collis
ion occurred the captain and second
mate were both on deck and at theil
posts, although the law requires only
one licensed pilot on deck at the time
The whole fact of the matter is, The
calamity happened in consequence o
the defective law in regard to vessels
lights, and the manner in which the,
are carried, making it almost impossi
BILE for them to be seen in particular po
sitions; yet making it incumbent OIL
steamers to keep out ofthe way of sal
vessels under all circumstances. Unit
this is attended to, and the law i'm
proved in some way, we will be contin
f ually startled, and the feelings of tn
$ community shocked, by recurrence o
t these disasters.
2
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-10-18
ADMINISTRATOR,s SALE.

NOTICE is hereby given that by virtue of
IN license granted by Clifford Shanahan. Judge
of the Probate Court for the County of Cass in
the State of Michigan, shall offer for sale at
public auction The southeast quarter of the
northeast quarter of section seven, in township
five south Of range fourteen west, in Cass County,
Michigan, containing forty acres of land more or
less, on Saturday the seventeenth day of November
next between the hour of nine o'clock In the fore
noon and the setting of the sun the same day, at
the School House in District number three, in the
township of Volinia in said County of Cass, for
the payment of the debts of David Crane, Jur.,
deceased and the costs and charges of Admins
tration, subject tc the right OF Dover OF Charity
Crane. widow of said deceased.
MILTON j. GARD, Administrator.
Sa,tan,ber 90 1890 oct424w6
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-10-18
PROBATE NOTICE,


CTATE OF MICHIGAN = County of Cass Pro-
y bate Court. : Whereas application has been
made to the said court by Samuel Rockwell, Exc
cutor of the estate of Silas Clough, deceased,
for the final settlement of his administration ac-
counts in said estate:
And, whereas, no commissioners have been ap-
pointed to examine and adjust the claims against
said estate:
Saturday in October next, has been appointed by
said court for examining and adjusting the claims
against said estate, and for final settlement OF
the same. at the Probate Office, in Cassapois, OF
said county, at ten o'clock in the forenoon at which
time and place all persons having claims against
said estate will present them to said court for final
settlement.
And it is hereby ordered that the above notice
be published in the Cass County Republican once
in each week, for four weeks in succession, imme
diately preceding said settlement.
c. SHANAHAN, Judge of Probate.
September Is. 1860 sep20-22w4
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-10-18
Song of Saratoga.

''Pray, what do they do at the Springss''
The question is easy to ask;
But to answer it fully, my dear,
Were rather a serious task,
And yet in bantering way,
As the magpie or mocking bird sings,
I'll venture a bit of song.
To tell what they do at the Springss
buaprinsis, my darling, they drink
The waters sparkling and clear;
Though the favor IS none of the best,
And the odor exceedingly queer; -
But the fluid is mingled, you know,
With wholesome medicinal things,
So they drink, and they drink, and they drink
And that's what they do at the Springs?
Then with appetites keen as knife,
They hasten to breakfast or dine;
(The latter precisely at three;
The former from seven till nine.)
Ye gods what rustic and rush
When the eloquent dinner bell rings
Then they eat, and they eat, and they eat
And that's what they do at the Springs.
Now they stroll in the beautiful walks,
Or loll in the shades of the trees;
Where many whisper is heard
That never is told by the breeze;
And hands are commingled with hands,
Regardless of conjugal rings;
And they flirt, and the iirt, and they hirt-
And that's what they do at the Springs.
The drawing rooms now are ablaze,
And music is shrieking away;
TERPsIcHoRE governs the hour,
And FASHION was never so gay!
An arm round tapering waist
How closely and fondly it clings;
So they waltz, and they waltz, and they waltz
And that's what they do at the Springs
In short-as it goes in the world
They eat, and they drink, and they sleep;
They talk and they walk, and they WOO;
They sigh, and they laugh, and they weep;
They read, and they ride, and they dance;
with other unspeakable things;)
They pray, and they play, and they pay
And that's what they do at the Springs,
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-10-18
Correspondence of the New York Herald.
Interview Between Senator Seward and
Abraham Lincoln.

At Springfield, where Mr.. Lincoln
resides, there was a crowd awaiting
the arrival of the train, and salute
was fired as it approached the station.
There was rush into and about the
windows of the car in which Mr.. Sew
ard was seated. Among those who
pressed forward to shake him by the
hand was Mr. Lincoln himself. His
portraits bear sufficient resemblance
to him to make recognition easy, and
yet he is rot by any means so hard dfea-
tured and almost repulsive-looking as
they represent him. On the contrary,
while no one would call him good
looking man, neither would any one
be repelled by his aspect. The good
humored expression that turks about
his clear gray eye, travels the one
long, deep-curved furrow down his
cheek, and makes its home somewhere
in the region of his capacious mouth,
must always make him friends. He
dresses in the ordinary style of West
ern lawyers, black cloth swallow tailed
coat, and pants fitting tight to his long,
bony frame: the inevitable black satin
vest open low down, and displaying a
broad field of shirt bosom, the collar
being turned down over a black silk
neckerchief.
Mr.. Seward made little speech in
which he said:
am happy to express, on behalf OF
the party with whom l am travelling
our gratitude and acknowledgements
for this kind and generous reception al
the home of your distinguished fellow
citizen, our excellent and honored can
didate for the Chief Magistracy of the
I United States. If there is in any par
, of the country deeper interest felt il
i his election than there is in any 9th
er part, it must of course be here, whcr,
e he has lived life of usefulness wher,
he is surrounded by the companions o
his labors and of his public services
We are happy to report to you, although
. we have travelled over large part o
the country, we have found no doubtful
G States. Applause. You would natur
ally expect that l should say something
about the temper and disposition of tn
, State of New York. The State O
!; : New York will give generous, an,
cheerful, and effective support to you
neighbor Abraham Lincoln. l hav
D heard about combinations and coal
F tions there, and / have been urge
e from the beginning to abandon thi
Journey, and turn back on my foo
5 steps. Wbeneter / shall find any res
son to suspect that the majority whic
: the State of New York will give for tn
d Republican candidate will be less tha
10000, [cheers, l may do so.
3. The State of New York never fails
: never finches. She has been comml
u ted from the beginning, and she wi
be to the end, under all circumstance
to the great principles of the Republic
E. party. She voted to establish this
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-10-18

PACKING EGGs.-Take the barrel or
tub, and put layer of common plaster
in the bottom; then take the eggs,
set them up on their ends-don't have
them so they will hit each other; then
add more plaster, then another layer
of eggs, and so on until the vessel is
full. Set them where they will keep
dry, and in the spring yon will have
Hpleanty of fresh eggs on hand.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-10-18

Of all the minor creations, of God,
flowers seem to be completely the effu-
sions of his love Of beauty, grace and
Joy. OF all the minor objects which
surrounded US, they are the least con-
nected with our absolute necessities.
Vegetation might proceed, the earth
might be clothed with sober green !;
all the processes of fracti6cation might
be perfected without being attended by
the glory with which the flower is
crowned but beauty and fragrance are
poured over the earth in blossoms of
endless varieties, radiant evidence of
the boundless benevolence of the Diety.
They are made solely to gladden. the
heart of man, for living inspiration
of grace to his spirit, for a perpetual ad-
miration. The Greeks, whose souls
pre-eminently sympathized with the
spirit of grace and beauty in everything
were enthusiastic in their love, and law
ish in their use of flowers. They scat
tered them in the porticoes of their de-
ities-they were strewed in the con.
querer's path-on all occasions of fes
tivity and rejoicing, they were strewr
about or worn in garlands. The guests
at banquets were crowned with then
the bowl was wreathed with them
and wherever they wished to throw
beauty, and to express gladness like
sunshine, they cast flowers.