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The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-12-12
From the Atlantic Monthly.
The Wolves.

Ye who listen to stories told
When hearths are CHEEKY and nights are cold.
OF the lone wood-side, and the hungry pack
That howls on the fainting travellers track
Flame-red eyeballs that waylay,
by the wlntry moon, the belated sleigh
The lost child sought in the dismal wood,
The little shoes and the stains of blood
On the trampled snow,-O ye that hear,
With thrills of pity or chills of fear,
Wishing some angel had been sent
To shield the hapless and innocent,-
Know We the fend that is crueller far
Than the gaunt grey herds of the forest ares
Swiftly vanish the wild feet tracks
Before the rife and woodman's axe:
But bark to the coming of unseen feet,
Pattering by night through the city street,
Each wolf that dies in the woodland brown
Lives spectre and haunts the town.
By square and market they stink and prowl,
In lane and alley they leap and howl.
All night they snuff and snarl before
The poor patched window and broken door.
They paw the clapboards and claw the latch,
At every crevice they whine and scratch.
Their tongues are subtle and long and thin,
And they lap the living blood within.
Icy keen are the teeth that tear,
Red as ruin the eyes that glare.
Children crouched in corners cold
Shiver in tattered garments old,
And start from sleep with bitter pangs
At the touch of the phantom's viewless fangs.
Weary the mother and worn with strife,
Still she watches aud fights for life.
But her hand is feeble, and weapon small:
One little needle against them all
In evil hour the daughter fled
To the door of sin the wolves pursued.
Fierce the father and grim with want,
His heart is gnawed by the spectres gaunt.
Frenzied stealing forth by night,
w lth whetted knife, to the desperate fight,
He thought to strike the spectres dead,
But he smites his brother man instead.
D You that listen to stories told,
When hearts are checry and nights are cold.
Weep no more at the tales you hear,
The pangs is close and the wolves are near.
Shudder not at the murderer's name,
Marvel not at the maiden's shame.
Pass not by with averted eye
The door where the stricken children cry.
But when the beat of the unseen feet
Sounds by night through the stormy street,
Follow thou where the spectres glide;
Stand like Hope by the mothers side;
And be thyself the angel sent
To shield the hapless and innocent.
he gives but little who gives his tears,
he gives his best who aids and cheers.
lie does well in the forest wild
Who slays the monster and saves the child;
But he does better, and merits more,
Who drives the wolf from the poor mans door,
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-12-12

eW The man who undertook to
wrestle with a gallon of rum met with
the most signal defeat. He was f1oored
in less time than you could throw a
summersault
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-12-12
C. M. O'DELL, M. ID.

Homeopathic Physician Surgeon
and Obstetrician,
Having bought out DIR. BARNES and taking his
Practice, feels happy to say to the citizens of
Dowagiac and vicinity, that he is prepared to
Practice his Profession in all its branches. He
also keeps Medicines by the case or single phial
for sale and Family Guides. Office over the
Center Market ler
Dowagiac, January 2sth, 1861. janS1-41y1
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-12-12

WTo whiten tallow, melt it, and
add little alum and saltpeter, or a liz
tie nitric or sulphnrie acid.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-12-12
s. G.. SANGER,

Commissioner of Deeds for the State of New York,
Notary Public, and Agent of the Phoenix Insur-
ance Company, of Hartford, Conn. Office with
James Sullivan, front room, second floor of
Jones' Brick Block. mar1H7m6
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-12-12
8usintss 9irettorp,
PROFESSIONAL

T. p. SEELEY, A. M, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN 81 SU r. GE OF i.
Office at his residence, on Commercial Street,
second building northwest of the Post Office.
Dowagiac, Sept. 10, 1861. sep19-22y1
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upon which the estimates were founded.
and by extraordinary expenditures
connected with the employment and
discharge of the Three Months Con-
tingent.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-12-12
JUSTUS GAGE.

Notary Public and general Agent for the exchange
and transfer of Village Lots, and sale of real
Estate. Agent for the Manhattan and Irving
Insurance Companies, of New York, Office with
James Sullivan, front room, second floor. Jon
Brick Block. nov12v3y1
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-12-12
NJ. PORTER. M. ID.

PHYSICIAN Sc SURGEON.
E1ice at Awards Book Store, Denison Block,
Front Street. Residence first door below the
Methodist Church, Commercial ST., Dowagiac,
Mich. ap25v4y1
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-12-12
GEORGE SMITH, ,

Tailor. Shop one door east of Howard Com
stocks. Cutting and Making done to order, and
warranted to fit. july21v2
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-12-12

G. C.. JONES & co.
Dealers 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, 1861-12-12

STATE OF MICHIGAN-The Circuit Court for
~ the County of Cass, in Chancery. ~
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-12-12

GEO. w. FOSDICK, M. ID.
Ullee eoyer Mr.. Bates Provision Store, Front
Street ,Dowagiac nov22-3ly1
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-12-12
JAMES SULLIVAN,

Attorney and Counsellor at Law, and Solicitor In
lChaneery, Dowagiac, Mich. Office on Front
Street. ap25v4y1
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-12-12
w. n. CAMPRELL

Notary Public Will attend to all kinds of Con
sveyanong-Republican Office. Dowagiac. Mich
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-12-12

Attorneys and Counseliors at Law, and Solicitors
Chancery. Office in G. G. Jones Co. IS
Block, Dowagiac, Michigan. Especial attention
given to collections throughout the Northwest.
JosrpH B. CLARKE. ap25v4 JAMES NJ. SPENCER.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-12-12

Attorney and Counsellor at Law, and Solicitor in
Chancery, Cassapolis, Cass county, Mich.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-12-12

an army OF oyer tnree mllilonS.
WHAT SEVEN MONTHS HAVE DONE.
1t gives me great satisfaction to refer
to the credible degree of discipline of
our troops, most of whom were, but a
short time since, engaged in the pur-
suits of peace. They are rapidly at
tanning an efficiency which cannot fail
to bring success to our arms. Officers
and men alike evince an earnest desire
to accomplish themselves in every duty
of the camp and field, and the various
corps are animated by an emulation to
excel each other in soldierly qualities.
The conspiracy against the Govern
ment extended over an area of 733, 144
square miles, possessing q coast line of
3,52s miles, and shore line of 25.4l4
miles, with an interior boundary line of
7,Osl miles in length. This conspiracy
stripped us of arms and munitions, and
The constitutional union., 1861-02-22

THE CoTToN-cARRY1NG TRADE.-We e find the following somewhat suggestive statements, in relation to the cotton-carying trade, in Pittsburgh cotemporary: ..
 The secession movement bids fairly to change altogether the route of 50 much of the cotton crop of the South as was wont to find its way via New Orleans and Charleston to the eastern States. Instead of taking the sea board route now shippers have their cotton brought to Pittsburgh by river from Memphis, and sent hence by the Pennsylvania Railroad to Philadelphia. Large quantities are also carried over the Central illinois, Southern Michigan and Grand Trunk railways, and from Parkensburgh over the Baltimore and Ohio road. The distance is accomplishedw with incredible speed, and the rates but little higher than under the old system. There are three steamers running regularly between Pittsburgh and Memphis, all of which get as much cotton as they can carry for the return trip. Besides thee the transient steamers bring up more or less every trip; so that, be- tween all, the qu3n fly arriving here every week now is large beyond precedent
 In November, as We find by the books of the Pennsylvania Railroad, six thousand one hundred and six bales went over that line The amount shppcl in pecem2er, owing to the condition of the river, was but three thou sand and sxty-six bales; but in January it reached eight thousand niue hundred and ffty-one, so that for the last thee months we have a total of eighteen thousand one hundred and twenty three bales. There are three thousand bales on their way here now, and much more lying at Memphis and Cincinnatl, the whole destined for Philadelphia, New York, Lowell, etc., via the Central road. And with all this the business has but begun to de- vcop itself Six months hence, should the present troubles continue, and the great bulk of the cotton-c carrying trade of the seeding seaboard cities will take the inland route to the eastern states.
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How WM. l.. GOGGIN. - This dlstln-


 HOM WM. L. GoGGIN.- This dlstin- euished son of the "Old Dominion" recently gave utterance to the following sentiments in speech delivered in Bedford county :
 "We are now in the midst of revolution, and the Union was no longer the bond that made us one people, Virginia then must take care of herself. Thank heaven. she has strength to do 1t, with flag of her own, and it was a flag that has never trailed in the dust Where that flag would lead he would follow, and if 1t be with sor- rowful sorrowful at the thought ot the happiness of the past lost-mournful even Tn the anticipation of the future yet to be real, zed, it would be with pride that he could still behold the flag of his blessed mother. That flag could protect him and all of us, and under its folds he and they would perish, it perish they must
 lie believed that Virginia should now take her position She must take 1t as a sovereign, independent State. She should at once, how ever, and without delay, set about the recon struction of some National Government, in which she can maintain her position of per feet equality with her sister States.
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[Richmond (Va Dispatch

LEY.-Thc Arizona papers are filled with re- joicings over the grant of the free transit of merchandise through the State of Sonora, Mexico. The Mesilla Valley Times says
 It will open up communications with Cal ifornia, through Guaymas in Sonora, and of fers to us cheap transportation for copper, and brings us some two or three hundred miles nearer navigation. To the mining companies of the western port of the Territory, it is of immense value, as the freight on their goods and machinery from Port Lavaca, Texas, has been fifteen cents per pound, while from Guaymas it will never be over from three to five cents. We learn that a stage line is to be immediately put in operation between Guaymas and Iuecon
The constitutional union., 1861-02-22
Arkansas Election.

The vote in this township is as follows:- Can't, (secessionis) 145; Totten, (secession) 96; Quisenberry, Union) z; Convention 245; no Convention 9.
 A large number of votes were cast against convention, at Fayetteville. Great enthusi asm was manifested over the Stars and Stripes Parties paraded the streets under the fa2 of the Union.
 The vote of Madison, St. Frances county was-for Convention l55; no Convention 9; Laughinghouse, (secessionist) 159; Shel ton, (seeessionisD l40.
 In Helena, Phillips county, the vote stands thus; Hanley 262 Adams PSI Blackburn 228; Rice l4S; Convention 36S; no Con- vention IT.
The constitutional union., 1861-02-22

How BOSTON MERCHANTS TREAT SOUTH ERNERs.-Undcr this head the last Boston Commercial Bulletin says: A prominent merchant from Charleston, South Carolina. being in this city on business a few days since, was arrested by New York house under the new law, which admits the arrest of a debtor in any State. The arrest was made on an old claim which the Charleston mer- chant did not acknowledge as just Immedi ately on hearing of the same, one of the lead ing firms in this city came forward and gave bonds in the sum of S20,000, and the mer- chat was released We think there are but few Boston merchants who, at this time. would take the steps that the New Workers did. Boston may not uphold the recent acts of the State of South Carolina, but we believe our merchants are none the less ready to extend the hand of friendship and assistance to her business men,"
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TIE SOUTHERN NoMINATIoAs.-Th

TIE SOUTHERN NoMINATIoAs.-The Vicksburg Whig. though for twenty years opposed to the views and polcyof the South ern Confederacy, is willing to give him fair trial. Of the nomination it says:
 Since his first entrance into public life twenty years ago. this journal has been con- sistent opponent of the views held and policy advocated by Jefferson Davis. But we intend to let by-gOnes be by-gones, and shall keep onrsef free to advocate or oppose any meas ure his Administration may espouse, free of past prejud.ces. We desire to see the new government Succeed, and nothing that can be done by us to promote that object shall be left undone; much less will it be in us to throw any obstacle in the way of its accom- plishment, or excite any opposition to its sue cess. We intend to give the President fair and impartial trial-as ready to applaud his meritorious as to censure hisimpoitic actions.
 Alexander II. Stephens, the second officer in the new Conlederacy, would have graccd the fast station. He is one of the purest statesmen of the land, patriot and a man above reproach. If the ambition of Davis is curbed by the sagacity, prudence and virtue of Stephens, the new government will be a success. Let them call around them, in the organization of the departments, such men as will give confidence am security to the reo- pie, and all will be we'll Let them act with an eye single to the glory of the country, and the evils attendant upon revolution will have been passed, and all its blessings will be in full view before us"
The constitutional union., 1861-02-22
FORTY MEN LOST IN THE SNoW.-ThC

FORTY MEN LOST IN THE SNow.-The Manchester (England) Guardian, of the 18th January, has the following:
 Perhaps no more severe weather was ever experienced on the Yorkshire moors than that which prevailed during the past week. The snow-storns were continuous and heavy, occa- sionally attended with thunder, and in some of the valleys, the drifts of snow are still twenty feet deep. All traffic was stopped, and the partridges and grouse were driven off the moors by scores, and were picked up in the streets of Nation half dead with cold and hunger Vast numbers of crows and other birds were found dead The works on the Rosedale railway, now in course of formation, have been entirely suspended and the labo- rers reduced to great distress. Forty of these men were driven from the works to seek shc!- ter at the Esklitt huts, on the bleak moors, where it seems they were snown over and could not escape. Their continued absence caused a search party to set off over the moors, and by dint of great labor, passage was made to the huts, where, on the door be- ing opened, the poor fellows were found in a very exhausted condition. They had been prisoners for two days and nights, and had eaten their last provisions and used their last fuel.
The constitutional union., 1861-02-22

TIE SoUTH CAROLINA SECRETARY OF STArE-Coonel G. c. Memminger, the Sec retary of State in the South Carolina cabinet, is German, born at Wirtemberg, January 7th, 1893. He was brought to th.s country when child, and, at the age of nine years, both parents having died, he became an inmate of the Orphan Asylum at Charleston. He was adopted into the family of Governor Thomas Bennett, by whom he was educated in the South Carnlina nAliAaA graduating i'. 1920. He commenced the practice of law in Charleston in lo25. During the null fcltion conflict of lS3z-3, he was leader of the Union party, and author of "Y he Book ol Notification "a work satir.z,ng the advo- cates of the doctrine of nu!hfcation in bibli- cal style. He hagfiIled various offices of trust in South Carolina up to this time For nearly twenty years he Was at the head of the finance committee of the lower house of the legislature, from which he retired i'll 1852
The constitutional union., 1861-02-22
CHEAP PArRIorIsM-The New Hamn

CHEAP PATBIoTIsM.-The New IIamp- shire Patriot referring to the resolutions passed by the Massachusetts Legislature, ten dering the President men and money to main tain the Government in the present crisis, ob- serves that this is very cheap patli tism, cf the thinnest kind 1 he authorities of that State arc prompt to promote and prosecute a war against portion of our own people; but when the country has been engaged in war with foreign nations, their conduct was just the reverse. They refusel to allow their troops to aid in defense of the country in the War of l8l2-l4; and in the Mexican war private charity had to be solicited for means to clothe and feed her citizens who volunteered to fight the battles of the country True pa triotism would prompt that State to lend her aid to avert civil war, by repeating her per sonal-liberty laws, and aiding in the peaceful settlement of existing difficulties.
 TRichmOnd Wa 1 Dispafcb
The constitutional union., 1861-02-22

Too Coop TO BE LOsT--Governor An drew, of Massachusetts, is in hot water about his military order intended to menace the South. Among many letters of patriotic military men in the State, is one from Cap tain Charles II. Manning, of the Salem Artil- lery. He says:
 "They, the Salem Light Artillery, are now filed with astonishment at the alacrity with which Massachusetts offers her services in the war against her brethren. That she who, swept on by political rancor, proposed to shut up her arsenals and her storc-houses, and bury every military ensign in the dusty seclusion of deserted armories, while foreign foe was sweeping our seas, destroying our towns and devastating our felds-that should now rush to arms against those of her fellow citizens who ask for position equal with her own un- der the Confederation, is as strange and un- natural as that national madness which vents itself in the horrors of civil strife. That she who denounced and defed the Union, while it was in the hands of her political opponents, should now be so eager to fight for its ,preser- vation, is something significant
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TIE EXTERIOR OF FRANCE oX SKATI

TIE EXTERIOR OF FRANCE oN SKATES The Paris correspondent ot 'Ihc London IIc.- ald, writing on the 18th, gives the follow ng account of the manner n winch Napoleon 1 i | sometimes d.yerts hm-elf 1hc Empcror Napoleon arrived at the lake in the Bols de Boulognc about thIee P. NJ. on Friday, in | p!ain chariot drawn by two horses. and unat- tended by an escort. He alighteI from his carriage and crossed the lake on his skates He was soon recognized by some men wear ing blouscs, who raised q cry of Here is the Emperor. Vive rEmpereur." The cry at tractcd universal attention, and every body ran and every body chcercd The Emperor continued to skate, apparently delighted with the enthusiastic reception he met with The Emperor seeing a child in a sledge, pushed forward by a nursery maid, took the place of the servant and drove the slcdge Having amused himself for about half an hour more like school-boy enjoying holiday than an Emperor, he left as quietly as he came. There were several lashIonably dressed Eng fish ladies among the skaters.
The constitutional union., 1861-02-22
The Convention Election.

The,election on Monday last was the most important one which has taken place in the State since her admission into the Union, and from the interest which the people every where took in 1t, we doubt not that they are fully aware of the danger in which we are in volved. We are in possession, as yet, of no reliable news from the other parts of the State, but we are confident that the assem- bling of Convention has received the sanc- tion of the people, and that the election of secession members to the Convention has been accomplished The time for Arkansas to take a bold front has auived-longeT delay is dan gerous, for the 4th of March will soon be at hand, when the people of Arkansas, by re- maining in, will be compelled to bear arms against their brethren. The river counties are unanimous in favor of immediate seces- sion, no Union candidate running at all, while in our own, one of the most devoted in the State to the Federal Government, the un- conditional Union candidate received but twenty-five votes. AIr ToTTEN, the candidate of the conditional scccssionists, has been elected in this county, and the condition on which he will vote for the State to remain in the Union is now despaired Of by the most ssnguine. We are compelled to secele in defense of our rights, the alternative has been forced upon us hope nc longer remains, and iii few days our connection with the Federal Government will be severed forever.1
The constitutional union., 1861-02-22

WELL-PREsERvED.- President TYLER is described as bearing his great age with re- markable grace He is the same slim, tall looking, high-bred Virginia gentleman, his striking features still showing high degree of mental activity. He has that characteristic which NAPOLEON I. considered the mark of intellectual superiority-a prominent nose His eye is keen and gentle. and reflects the ami nal vigor which is undiminished by age.
The constitutional union., 1861-02-22
TIE DECISION OF TExAs.-Tl

HE bEOlsio2 UT 1EAAS--A he UdlNe5- ton News of Tuesday last says:
 From present appearances, there will be no organized or decided opposition to seces- sion, in the election to take place in Texas the 23d inst. The Union men find oyertres from the North too slow and unsatisfactory to afford any encouragement of settlement of our present difficulties in the Union and the public mind seems to be no longer divided. The Southern Convention, now in session at Montgomery, organized on the 4th, by the election of Hon. Howell Cobb, of Georgia, President, and J. J. Hooper. Esq, of Ala bama, Secretary. Mr. Cobb, on taking the chair, said he regarded the separation of the seeding States as <. perfect and perpetual ]" This is, doubtless the idea of the whole Con- yention"
The constitutional union., 1861-02-22

TIE FOWLER DEFALcATIoN CAsE-The jury in the District Court, on the l4th inst, rendered verdict against the Government in the case of Postmaster Fowler's bondsmen, on the ground that Fowler was detaultcr in the sum of $50, 900 when the bonds were signed
 The case now gees before the judges on the law questions.
The constitutional union., 1861-02-22

SIMpIcITY.-A little girl of four years old was recently called as a witness in the Dur ham police court; and, in answer to the eues- Ilon as to what, became of little girls who told lies, she innocently replied that they were sent to bed