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The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-06-06
PRoRATE ORDER.

GTATE OF MICHIGAN-County of Cass.-ss.
y At session of the Probate Court for the
County of Cass, holden at the Probate Office, in
Cassapolis, on Tuesday the seventh day of May,
in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty
one Present-Clifford Shanahan, Judge of Pro-
bate In the matter of the estate of Ruef D. Gregg,
deceased. On reading and filing the petition duly
verified, of Joseph Jones, praying for license to
sell real estate of said deceased. f.
Thereupon it is ordered, that Tuesday, the
eighteenth day of June next at ten O'clock in the
forenoon, be assigned for the hearing of said pc
ttion, and that the heirs at law of said deceased
and all other persons interested in said estate
required to appear at 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
hearing. ~ c. SHANAHAN,
A true copy.] Judge of Probate.
May Z, 1861. may16-4w4
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-06-06
ElOpements.

Elopements with the view of mar
riage are more frequent among the ris-
ing generation than at any former peri
cd in our history. The minds of the
young have become so familiarized
with that species of crime. that large
majority of girls and boys, who have
reached the age of discretion, contem-
plate such denouement to a brief
courtship as one of the natural conse-
quence of romantic love affair. We
not only find in our exchanges almost
innumerable accounts of "elopements
in high life," but are too often shocked
with the details of such occurrences in
our very midst. A writer in the New
York Ledger says that the result of
each case seems to be a type of the is
sue Of them all. Gradual estrange-
ment, bitter disappointment, mutual re-
ordinations, desertion, aud in some
cases the sad death of the weaker par
ty. In every finished up'' case that
has come under our observation, where
marriage did not follow the elopemeut,
or where wife or husband was one
of the fugitives, the result has been in
describably deplorable. And of course
in the nature of things, such must ever
be the result in all alike cases. A tie
Of guilt is certain to strangle, sooner
or later, any attachment or affection
whatever, and the corpse of the dead
passion, clinging to the deluded victim
like body of death from which there
is no deliverance, forever after breeds
the canker worms of hatred and re-
morse. too of despair. And when the
elopements is honorable" and mar
riage follows, the result is often enough
ill-starred to render the risk altogether
too great. The very fact of elopemen,
shows that the parties resorting to such
a clandestine and indelicate course are
destitute of that degree of pluck, pru
dence and fortitude which is obsolute
ly necessary to enable married coupl,
to live happily, and to bring up thei
children in the way they should go
Any man who has a genuine call to b,
a husband can always get wife with
out resorting to clandestine proceed
ings; and any woman fit to be at tn
head of a domestic circle will sacredl
guard that in which she has been cher
ished from an indecorus disruption
!. There is right way for doing every
thing, and whatever cannot be accom-
plished in the right way-includinl
4, marriage, as well as matters of less i'm
portance-had better De left undont
else the actors will be apt to undo then
: selves. ~,;-..-. rrf
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-06-06
From Harper's Weekley.
Volunteered.

know the sun shines, and the lilacs are blowing,
And summer sends kisses by beautiful May
OH to see all the pleasures the Spring is bestowing,
And think-my boy Willie enlisted to-day!
1t seems but day at twilight, low humming,
rocked him to sleep with his cheek upon mine,
While Rebby, the four-year old, watching for the
coming
Of father, adown the streets indistiuct line.
1t is many year since my Harry departed,
To come back no more in the twilight or dawn
And Robby grew weary of Watching and started
Alone, on the journey his father had gone.
1t is many year-and this afternoon, sitting
At Robby's old window, heard the band play,
And suddenly ceased dreaming over my knitting
To recollect Willie is twenty to-day;
And that, standing beside him this soft May day
morning, 2ir a
The sun making gold of his wreathed cigar
smoke,
saw in his sweet eyes and lips faint warning,
And choked down the tears when he eagerly
spoke: r-l E-...r
"Dear mother, you know how these traitors are
Growing
They trample the folds of our flag in the dust
The boys are all fire and they wish were GO
ing"
He stopped, but his eyes said, "Oh say if ]
must" err
1 smiled on the boy though my heart it seemed
breaking:
My eyes filled with tears, so turned them away,
And answered him, "Willie, tits well you wa
king
Go, act as your father would bid you to-day !''
1 sit in the window and see the flags flying,
And dreamily list to the roll of the drum,
And smother the pain in my heart that is lying,
And bid all the fears in my bosom be dumb.
/ shall sit in the window when Summer is lying
Out over the fields, and the honey-bees hum
Luls the rose at the porch from her tremulous
signing,
And watch for the face of my darling to come.
And if he should fall. :. his young life he has
given
For freedoms sweet sake .and for me, / vii
pray
Once more with my Harry and Robby in Heaven
To meet the dear boy that enlisted to-day.
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From the Chicago Journal
A Heroine in Knoxville, Tenn.--Pars0n
BrOwnlOw's Daughter.

A gentleman just arrived In this city
from Knoxville, Tenn, brings intelli-
gence of affairs in that city. He in
forms us that $500 Secession troops
are stationed there, for the express
purpose of overawing the Union men.
1t is part of their business to engage
in quarrels in saloons, and in street
fights, with all who are not friendly to
secession. Two men were shot last
week for no other offence than speaking
words of loyalty to the Federal Gov
ernment. sre ..sra 9.i5 ts.
The house of the celebrated, bold
hearted and out-spoken Parson Brown
low, is the only one in Knoxville over
which the Stars and Strips are floating.
A few days ago two armed secessionists
went, at six o'clock in the morning, to
haul down the Stars and Stripes. Miss
Brownlow, brilliant young lady OF
twenty-three, saw them on the piazza,
and stepped out and demanded their
business. They replied they had come
to stake down the id Stars and
Stripes" She instantly drew a revol
yer from her side, and presenting it
said: eco on Pm good for one o.
you, and l think for both % 'igia .vri
"By the looks of the girls eye, shell
shoot" one remarked. 81 think wee
better not try it; !; we'll go back and ge
more men," said the other: ii 81
j "Go and get more men" said the no
BILE lady; "get more men, and COM
and take it down if you dare!' n
They returned with a company o
ninety armed men, and demanded tina
the flag should be hauled down. Blu
on discovering that the house was file
with gallant men, armed to the teeth
who would rather die as dearly as pos
sible than see their country's flag dis
honored, the Secessionists retired.
/, When our Informant left Knoxville
e the Stars and Stripes still foated to tn
3 breeze over Parson Brownlow's hous'
Long may they wave !eog sa& aEa'
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-06-06
SHERIFF,S SALE.

DY virtue of an Execution issued out Of and
ID under the seal of the Circuit Court for the
County of Cass and State of Michigan, to me di-
rected and delivered l have levied upon and shall
sell at public auction, at the Court House in the
village of Cassapos, in the County of Cass afore-
said, Saturday the 9th day of July next, at one
o'clock in the afternoon the following described
real estate to w.t. The west half of the south west
quarter of section nineteen Q9.) town seven e.
south of range fifteen Q5) west Containing eighty
acres (s0) be the same more or less according to
the Government survey.
BARTH w. SCHERMERHORN, Sheriff.
Dated at the Sheriffs Office, in Cassapolis, this
18th day of May, A. ID. 1861. may23-5w6
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-06-06
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

NOTICE is hereby given, that by virtue of a
IN license granted by Clifford Shanahan, Judge
of the Probate Court for Cass County, Michigan,
shall offer for sale at public auction: The west
fractional half of the southeast quarterof section
three, in township five, south of range thirteen
west, containing ffty-nine 23-l00 acres of land.
Also, the southeast quarter of the southeast
quarter of said section three, containing forty
acres of land, all in Cass County, Michigan, on
Saturday the sixth day of July next, between the
hour of nine o'clock in the forenoon and the setting
of the sun the same day, on the premises above
described for the payment of the debts of Christ
man Kern, deceased, and the costs and charges OF
administration, subject to the right OF Dover OF
HENRY w. BLY,, Administrator.
April 1S 1861. mayl64w6
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-06-06

tWeThe Charleston Mercury says
that "South Carolina stands upon q
point of honor" We thought her
honor had been whitfield down to q
point.-Pre,atice.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-06-06
GUARDIAN SALE.

NOTICE is hereby given, that by virtue of a
IN license granted by Clifford Shanahan, Judge
of Probate for Cass County, Michigan, 1 shall
offer for sale at public auction: The undivided
one-third part of village lots number forty-nine
(49) and one hundred and thirty-four QS4,) in
Patrick Hamilton's addition to the village of
Dowagiac subject to the life estate of David Gibbs,
on Saturday the fifteenth day of June xt between
the hour of nine O'clock in the forenoon and the
setting of the sun the same day, on the premises
above described, as the property of Frances
Louisa Gibbs, minor.
DAVID GIBBS,
may2-2w6 Guardian.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-06-06

sg- Virginia Is reaping the harvest
she has planted. We guess she won't
care to putin another crop.-Loasis-
vile Journal
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-06-06
NOTICE OF ATTACHMENT. W
THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY

Il
Il of Cass-
George s. Murfey, |
Tracy II. Harris,
Co-partners under
the name of George 7 u
S. Murfey Co.,
as.
Theron j. Abbott. ~
Notice is hereby given, that on the seventeenth
day of March, A. ID. 1861, writ of attachment
was duly issued out of the Circuit Court for the
County of Cass, at a suit of George s. Murfey and
Tracy III. Harris, the above named Plaintiffs S,
Coz partners in the City of New York, under the
name of George s. Murfey & Co., against the
and effects of Theron j. Abbott, the Defendant
above named, for the sum of six hundred and
forty dollars, which suit was returnable on the
second day of April, "A. ID. 1861.
Dated, the twenty third day of April A. d. 1861.
HENRY III. COOLIDGE,
may2-2w6 Attorney for Plaintiffs
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-06-06
C. M. O'DELL, M. d.

Homeopathic Physician. Surgeon
and ObStetrician,
Having bought out DR.. 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 single phial
for sale and Faafily Guides. Office at the former
residence of DIR. Barnes.
Dowagiac, January 2Sth, 1861. jan31-41y1
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-06-06
Business 9irettorp,
PROFESSIONAL
IsPubhshed every Thursday,
At Dowagiac, Cass County, Michigan
By w. H. CAMPBELL.


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. marl44lm6
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-06-06
M. PORTER, M. ID.

PHYSICIAN 81 SURGEON.
Office at Awards Book Store, Denison Block,
Front Street. Residence first door below the
Methodist Church, Commercial St., D0wagiac
Mich. ap25v4y1
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-06-06
A. N. AWARD,

General Dealer in Books, Stationery, Periodicals,
Wall Paper, Window Shades, Wrapping Paper,
Pocket Cutlery, &c. Dennison Block, Dowagiac,
Mich ~ .lLn III aaa apsov4
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-06-06

Us LARZELEHE q CO.,
Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes
Crockery, Hats and Caps, Glassware, Paints
and Oils, Hardware, &C., &c. Front Street,
Dowagiac, Mich.
DANIEL LAnzELERE lss WILLIAM LARzELERE.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-06-06

1 know the sun shines, and the lilacs are blowing,
And summer sends kisses by beautiful May
OH to see all the pleasures the Spring is bestowing,
And think-my boy Willie enlisted to-day
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-04-04

ccssrul completion the Harrisburg,
Mount Joy and Lancaster Railroad,
surmounting difficulties and prejudices
which would have appalled, and par
alyzed a man Of ordinary energy and
determination In 1888 he was nom
mated for Congress, but declined He
was engaged in public enterprises from
which he would not permit himself to
be drawn aside by any consideration
Of Office or personal elevation In 1851
he was mainly instrumental in the form
alton of the Susquehanna Railroad Com
pany, now consolidated with the North
ern Railway by which the upper val
leys Of tho Susquehanna are connect
ed with the Capital of the State There
was still another line wanting TO form
q direct and continuous Railroad TO New
York city, the great commercial metrop-
oils of the Union. Cen Cameron 8
practical mind soon suggested the mode
and the manner of suppJying the want,
and the Lebanon Valley Railroad Com
pany was organized, and that road built,
aud now consolidated with the Phila-
delphia and Reading Railroad. In 1852
General Cameron was elected Cashier Of
the Middleton Bank-a position which
he held for twenty-seven consecutive
years. So that about the year 1854,
he was at the same time President of
the Susquehanna Railroad Company
President of the Lebanon Valley Rail.
road Company, President of the Com
monwoalth Insurance Company, and
Cashier Of the Middleton Bank, besides
being director and manager in several
other institutions, and having a large
private business Of his own to manage
and superintend. Yet notwithstanding
the vast labor and responsibility of
these positions, he performed the du
ties Of them all successfully and salts
factorilv.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-04-04
Ne sooretary Of the rreaaurz.

The country may we'll congratulate
itsolfon the appointment and confrma-
ton Of Mr.. Chase as Secretary of the
Treasury. Although denounced in ad.
vance by malignant Pro o-Slavery parti-
sans as a man of extreme and ultra opin-
ions, Mr., Chase is really not only one
Of the ablest Of American statesmen,
but one Of the most moderate, cautious,
and deliberate Rejecting the wild and
radical innovations of the Pre-. Slavery
school, he holds with true conservatism
to those great principles of Freedom on
which Washington, Jefferson, Madison,
Jay, Franklin, and Hamilton framed
the Constitution and founded the Gov
ernment. His attachment to those prin-
ciples was avowed in early life on his
first entrance into politics, and has new
or wavered or faltered He has stood
by them for more than quarter of a
century, through good report and evil
report, in disaster, in defeat, and has at
length witnessed their final triumph in
the success Of the Republican party
He has long and conspicuous, and
stainless record. His e-cminentabili-
ty is admitted by all, and the bascst and
most bitter Of partisans have shruuk
from any imputltion upon his personal
character. The recent impulcnt at
tempt to exclude him from the Cabinet
was based, when stripped of its dis.
guisos, solely on the ground that Mr..
Chase was thorough going Republican,
who meant what he said and adhered to
the principles after the election as
strongly as he did before it, and who
could not be cajoled nor iutimidated
1t is but justice to both Mr.. Chase
and Mr.. Lincoln to state that Mr. Chase
has been entirely passive in the contest
over his appointment. No man at his
suggestion or by his procurement has
ever approached the President on the
subject Of the Cabinet. tits we'll known
to the friends of Mr.. Chase that the Of
flee ofSccretary of the Treasury is not
one which he has sought or desired
/ The position of Senator of the United
/ States, on which he was about to enter
for term of six years, was far more CON
/ genial to his tastes and habits and as
pirations than that of a Cabinet Min
ister. But the interest of the country,
in the judgment Of the great mass of
the Republican party, demanded the
presence in tho Cabinet of his tried in.
tegrity, his eminent administrative abil-
tiles, and his unAinching frmness. Mr.
Lincoln, from the first, has desired his
services, and with characteristic inhexi.
bility, has adhered to his choice in spite
Of the clamor that has been raised
while Mr., Chase has patriotioally saori.
feed his preference Of a seat in the Sen.
ate to his sense of what is due to the
wishes Of the pooplo.-[N. Y. Tribune
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-04-04
A Roadside Colloquy.

"And, so Squire, you don't take a
county paper?"
"No, Major, get the city paper on
much better terms, so 1 take couple
of them.
"But Squire, the county papers Of
ten prove a great convenience to U.s.
The more we encourage them the bet
ter the editors can afford to make
them"
"Why, I don't know any convenience
they are to me. -"
"The farm you sold last Fall was ad-
vertised in one of them, and thereby
you obtained a customer. Did you
not?"
Every true, Major; but 1 paid three
dollars for it,"
"And you made more than three hun
dred dollars by it. Now, if your neigh
bors had not maintained the press and
kept it ready for use, you would have
been without the means to advertise
your property But l think l saw your
daughters marriage in those papers
did that cost you anythingY
"No, but"
"And your brothers death with a long
obituary notice. And the destruction
of your neighbor Riggs house by fire
You know these things are exaggerated
till the authentic accounts Of the news
papers set them right"
80, true, but"
"And when your cousin, Splash, was
up for the Legislature, you appeared
much gratifed at his defanoe-whioh
cost him nothing"
eyes, yes; but these things are news
to the readers. They cause the people
to take tho paper"
"No, Squire Grudge, not if all wore
like you. Now, 1 tell you, the day will
surely come when somebody will write Z
long eulogy on your life and character
and the printer will put il in type with
a heavy black line over it, and with all
your riches, this will bo done for you as
a grave for a pauper. Your wealth
lberality, and all such things will be
spoken Of but tho printers boy, as he
spells tho words in arranging the type
to these sayings, will remark Of you
"Poor, mean devil he is even sponging
an obituary. Good morning, Squire.
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L6r gorrr Cjrrlc.
Fanny Fern on Masculine Beauty.

Fanny Fern on Masculine Beauty.
Well, in the first place, there must
be enough of him; or, failing in that,
but come to think of it, he mustn't fail
in that, becausethere can be no beauty
without health, or at least, according
to my way of thinking. In the second
place, he must have a beard; whiskers-
as the gods please, but beard I insist
upon, else one might as well look at a
girl. Let his voice have a dash Of Nj
agara, with the music of a baby's laugh
in it, Let his smile be like the break
ing forth Of the sunshine on a spring
morning. AS to his figure, it should
be strong enough to contend with a
man, slight enough to tremblo in the
presence of q woman he loves OF
course, if he is a well-made man, it fol.
lows that he must be graceful, on the
principle that perfect machinery always
moves tremendously; therefore, you and
himself and the milk pitcher, are safe
elbow neighbOrs at the table. This
style of handsome man would no more
think Of carrying a cane than he would
use a parasol to keep the sun out of his
eyes. He can wear gloves or warm his
hands in his breast-poCkets, as he pleas
cs. He can even commit the suicidal
beauty-act of turning his outside coat
collar up over his cars Of a stormy day,
with perfect impunity; the tailor didn't
make him, and as to his halter, if he
depends on this handsome mans pa
tronage of the "latest spring style"
fear he would die of hope deferred; and
yet--by Apollo! what bow he makes,
and what an expressive adieu he can
wave with his hand! For all this he is
not conceited-for he hath brains!
But your conventional "handsomo
man." Of the barber window wax6g-
ure-head pattern; with pet lock in the
middle of his forehead, an Opple-Sized
head, and a raspberry mustache, with
six hairs in it; pint pot on its cheek,
and a little dot of a "gOatee' on its
chin; with pretty blinking little studs
in its shirt bosom, and a neCktie that
looks as if he would faint were it tum-
bled, I'd as lief look at a poodle. 1 al
ways feel a desire to nip it up with a
pair of sugar tongs, drop it gently into
a bowl of cream, and strew pink rose
leaves over its little remains.
Finally, my readers, when Soul mag
netizes soul, the question of beauty is
a dead letter. Whom one loves is al.
ways handsome, tho worlds arbitrary
rules Notwithstanding; therefore, when
you say what can the handsome Mr..
Smith sec to admire in that stick of a
Miss Jones?" or "what can the pretty
Miss r. see to like in that homely Mr..
Jonos?" you simply talk nonsense--as
you generally do on such subjects
Still the parson gets his fees and the
census goes on all the same.