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The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-04-25
PROBATE ORDER.

CTATE 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, Thursday the eleventh day of April,
in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty
one. Present-Cliff0rd Shanahan, Judge of Pro-
bate. In the matter of the estate of Daniel
Bates deceased. On reading and filing the petition
duly verified, of Albert G. Ramsay praying for let
tiers of Administration. on the estate of said de-
ceased.
Thereupon it is ordered, that Saturday, the
eleventh day of May next, at ten O'Clock, in the
forenoon, be assigned for the hearing of said pc
titon and that the heirs at law of said deceased,
and all other persons interested in said estate, are
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 shouldnot 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, a newspaper
printed and circulating in said County of Cass, fol
three successive weeks previous to said day Of
hearing. G. SHANAHAN,
A true copy.1 Judge cf Probate.
April IL, 1861. april1S-52w3
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From the Christian Advocate and Journal.
Orgia.
THE SONG OF A RUINED NAN.

A man of pleasure is one Of the most wretche
beings on earth. Tortured by ennui, weary eve
of reveling, without any high or noble aims, h
drags along joyless life, and passes away by
gloomy and remorseless death. There is the deepes
tragedy in the following stanzas:
Who cares for nothing alone is free;
(Sit down, good fellow, and drink with meD
With careless heart and a merry'eye,
He will laugh at the world as the world goes by
He laughs at power, and wealth and fame;
He laughs at virtue he laughs at shame.
He laughs at hope and he laughs at fear;
At Memory's dead leaves crisp and sere.
He laughs at the future, cold and dim;
Nor earth nor heaven is dear to him.
o that is the comrade fit for me!
He cares for nothing his soul is free
Free as the soul of the fragrant winel
Sit down, good fellow; my heart is thine
For heed not custom, creed or law;
care for nothing that ever saw.
In every city my cups quaff;
And over my liquor riot and laugh.
laugh like the cruel and turbulent wave,
l laugh in the church, and laugh at the grave.
l laugh at joy, and well know
That merrily, merrily laugh at woe.
terribly laugh, with an oath and sneer,
When think that the hour of death is near.
For know that Death is q guest divine,
Who shall drink my blood as l drink this wine.
And he cares for nothing king is he!
Come on, old fellow, and drink with me!
With you will drink to the solemn past,
Though the cup that drain should be my last.
will drink to the phantoms of love and truth:
To ruined manhood and wasted youth.
will drink to the woman who wrought my woe
In the diamond morning of long ago.
To the heavenly face in sweet repose!
To the ily's snow, and the blood of the rose
To the splendor caught from Orient skies,
That thrilled in the dark of her hazel eyes;
Her large eyes wild with the fire of the South;
And the dewy wine of her warm, red mouth!
1 will, drink to the thought of better time!
To Innocence, gone like death bell chinleL
will drink to my soul in its terrible mood.
Dimly and solemnly understood.
And last of all, to the Monarch of Sin,
Who has conquered that palace and reigns within
My song is passing; it dies away;
cannot tell is it night or day.
My heart is burnt and blackened with pain;
And horrible darkness crushes my brain.
Through awful chasms plunge and fall;
Your hand, good fellow, die-that's all.
l cannot see you-the end is nigh
But we'll laugh together before l die
Then cover me-will you with grassy sod,
The feared Of man, the aecursed of God
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PRORATE NOTICE.

CsTATE OF MICHIGAN-Cass County Probate
- Court-Notice is hereby given, ,tlistepplication
has been made to said Court by William r. Fletcher
for the appointment of a guardian for Franklin
Brady, Amanda Brady, Mariah Brady and William
Brady, minor children of William Brady, deceased,
and that the said minors do not reside in this State
but reside in the State of Illinois: 1t is therefore
hereby ordered, that the fourth Saturday in April
next, be, and the same is hereby appointed for
hearing said application at the Probate Office in
Cassapolis, of said County, at ten O'Clock in the
forenoon. 1t is also ordered that the above notice
and order be published in the Cass County Re-
publican, newspaper published in said County OF
Cass once in each week for three weeks in success
ion, Immediately preceding said day of hearing.
C. SHANAHAN, Judge of Probate.
March 26, 1861. ap450w3
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CHANCERY NOTICE.

CTATE OF MICHIGAN-The Circuit Court for
- the County of Cass in Chancery.
Frances Oglesby, At session of said Court
Complainant, held at Cassapolis in said
~rs County, on the 18th day of
March, A.D. 1S61.-Preseut,
James Oglesby, Honorable Nathaniel Bacon,
Defendant @.crcuit Judge
1t satisfactorily appearing to the Court that the
Defendant, James Oglesby is nonresident of this
State and resides in the Province of Canada: On
motion of Andrew j. Smith, Solicitor for Com
plainant it is ordered that said Defendant cause
his appearance to be entered in this cause and file
an answer to Complainant's bill in three months
from the date of of this order, and that in default
thereof that the said bill be taken confessed by
said Defendant. 1t is further ordered, that within
twenty days the said Complainant cause this order
to be published in the Cass County Republican, a
newspaper published at Dowagiac in said County
of Cass, an. that said publication be continued in
said newspaper al least once in each week for six
successive weeks, or that she cause copy OF this
order to be personally served on the said James
0gesby at least twenty days before the time above
prescribed for his appearance.
N. BACON,
Circuit Judge
ANDREW J. SMITH, Compartments Solicitor.
STATE OF MICHIGAN,
County of Cass, S. / hereby certify the
foregoing to be true copy of the order of publi-
cation entered on the 18th day of March, A. ID.
1861, inthe above entitled cause.
CHARLES G. LEWIS,
Register in Chancery.
Dated, Cass County Cerks Office, March 2Oth,
A. ID. 1861. mar2S49w6
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Little Gsrty.

It;was only a small rent in the white
apron, but poor Gerty was sadly fright
ened. Her mother had been very an
cry when she tore her cloak at school,
and had threatened to punish her il
anything of the kind occurred again.
So now, with fear and trembling, the
child kept one little hand carefully over
the rent, while her head was busy
studying how she could best explain
the accident to her mother. Presently,
however, for some service, both hands
were required, and then notwithstand-
ing Gerty's precautions, sharp eyes
spied the triangular tear, and a voice
no milder than the eyes pronounced,
"Careless child %
Then followed an awful pause, while
the iron woman standing there in her
intlexible sternness, eyes the shrinking
child, who was struggling hard to keep
down the rising tears. Her mother
would be still more displeased if she
cried, so she fought bravely against it.
but before she could speak, the decree
came:
eco directly to your room. You
need not come down again to-night.7
"But, mother,"-
"Not one word, Gertrude" And
the child crept silently up stairs to hel
own apartment.
The chamber was chilly and dark
but Gerty cared not for this. Better
both cold and darkness than the frown
ing, freezing presence she had just left
But her punishment had been unmerit
ed, and feeling this most bitterly, thu
sensitive nature rebelled against sucl
injustice. So now she threw hersel
upon the low bed, wetting its pillow,
with her tears, while the little chatting
sorrowing spirit found vent in convul
sive sobs and choking words.
'I wasn'tto blame. Tom was pass
ing with wood and he tore it. VIII,
couldn't mother let me tell her jus
that? She doesn't love me-nobod,
loves me now. o, why did God max,
my own mamma die ?''
"Ah, why, poor child? Other sob
bing voices than yours, all over thi
weeping world, and through all th
ages, have sent up the same weary CT,
to the throne of God. Piercing tn
clouds and the darkness, it has reached
the ear of the Eternal, and one day
you, and i, and they will know why
but not now nor here.
1t was beautiful home. The sof
light lay upon rich carpets and velve
cushions, and upon the walls were hun!
costly pictures-pictures, gazing a
which you seem to be standing ia
away upon the vine-clad hills and un
der the cloudless skies of Italy, AM
pictures of faces whose dark eye
haunted your dreams for days. Her.
you saw an exquisite statuette, AM
there an antique vase, and everywher
something to study or admire, Yon
der, through partly open doors, yo
had glimpse of well filed conserva
tory, and the air was heavy with th
perfume of tropical plants. Yes,
was beautiful home and she had love-
lit, the low-voiced, gentle woman VIII
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ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

NOTICE is hereby given, that BY virtue of a
IN license granted by Clifford Shanahan, Judge
of the Court of Probate in and for the County of
Cass, in the State of Michigan, shall offer for
sale at public auction The west half of the south
west fractional quarter of section thirty in town.
ship six south of range thirteen west, containing
sixty acres of land. The west half OF the north
west fractional quarter of section thirty -one, in
town and range as above, containing forty acres
OF land. And the north part of the south half OF
the northeast fractional quarter of section thirty
six, in township six, south of range fourteen west
containing twenty of land, all in Cass County,
Michigan, on Saturday, the twenty-fifth day of
May next, between the hcnr of nine O'Clock in the
forenoon and the setting of the sun the same day.
on the premises above described, for the ravmentt
of the debts of Jonathan w. Lewis, deceased. and
the costs and charges of Administration, subject
to the right of dover of Rebecca A. Lewis. widow
of said deceased
JEREMIAH f. GRENELL.
Administrator, De bones non
April b, 1851. apll-5lw6
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Commissioners Sale in Chancery.

TN pursuance of decree of the Circuit Court
Il for the County of Cass, in Chancery made
March 18th, A. ID. 1851, in a certain cause therein
pending, wherein Holden I. Wing and Jeffry
simmons are Complainants, and Mary A: Kern,
Mary c. Kern, Jurgon Pollehu and Hannah Pollehu
are defendants: Notice is hereby given, that
shall sell at public auction, to the highest bidder
at twelve O'Clock noon, on Monday the sixth day
of May next, at the front door of the Cass County
Court House, in the village of Cassapolis, all those
certain parcels of land, situate in said County of
Cass and State. of Michigan, described follows,
to wit: The southeast quarter of the southwest
quarter of section three and the north fractional
half OF The northwest fractional quarter of section
ten l0,) in township five (5) south of range tirteen
CHARLES w. CLlSBEE,
Circuit Court Commissioner,
Cass County, Michigan.
ID. BLAcKMAN, Solicitor.
Dated at CassapOlis, March 81, 1861. mar2S-49w6
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PoTAToEs-TwIcB PLowING.-

PoTAToEs-TwIcB PLowING.- 4
usually put potatoes where corn has
grown the year before. In the winter
or fall of 1853, l plowed my ground
for potatoes deep, and in the latter part
of April last. after giving it a good
coat of barn-yard manure, 1 plowed
again and planted deep. The result
was that my potatoes were little lon-
ger coming up than those of some of
my neighbors who planted nearer the
surface; but when drouth came, the
tops did not die; they kept green and
growing until near frost, and / had a
good crop of Peach Blows, White
MERGERS, and Black MERGERS also a
few Buckeyes, which tried for the
first time, and which turned out very
well. The Black MERGERS mostly rot
ted, but do not think it was owing to
the time or mode of planting, which
consider was an Improvement, especi.
ally the fall blowing, as the ground is
in much better condition after the &C.
ton of winter on the fresh plowed
ground, than when not SO piowed
So says a. correspondent of the Ger
maantoacn Telegraph,
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CTATE OF-MICHIGAN.-The Circuit Court for
- the County of Cass in Chancery.-Second
judicial Circuit.
Mary Cloves, At a session of said Court
Complainant, held at Cassapolis in said
County, on the 4th day of
ps' April, 1S61.-Present, Hon
Joseph A. Cloves, orable Charles w. Clisbee,
Defendant. Circuit Court Commissioner.
1t satisfactorily appearing to the Court that the
Defendant, Joseph A. Cloves is nonresident OF
this State and resides in the State of California;
On motion of G. Shanahan, Solicitor for the Com
plainant, it is ordered that said Defendant cause
bis appearance to be entered in this cause and file
answer to the Complainant's Bill in three months
from the date of this order, and in default thereof
that the said bill be taken confessed by the said
Defendant: 1t is further ordered that within
twenty days the said Complainant cause this order
to be pablished in the Cass County Republican, a
newspaper published at Dowagiac, in said County
of Cass, and that said publication be continued in
said newspaper at least once in each week for six
successive weeks, or that she cause copy of this
A. Cloves at least twenty days before the time
above prescribed for his appearance.
CHARLES w. CLISBEE,
Circuit Court Commissioner
C. SHANAHAN, Compartments Solicitor.
STATE OF MICHIGAN, 60
County of Cass, S. / hereby certify the
foregoing to be true copy of an order entered in
the above entitled cause on the 4th day of April,
A. ID. 1861.
CHARLES G.. LEWIS,
Register in Chancery.
Cass County Clerks Office, April 9th, A. d. 1861.
ap1l-51w6
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CHANCERY NOTICE.


CTATE OF MICHIGAN-The Circuit Court for
y the County of Cass in Chancery.
Joshua LoAand
rs held at Cassapols in said
co,xo w - County, on this fifteenth
Administrator, &C., { g s' U - IL ~, " IN, te . Ca, !,
N.,bo,, IN eight hundred and sixty
Defendants ohe'
Ii satisfactorily appearing to this Court that the
defendant, Nathan Jones is a nonresident of this
State and resides in the State of California: On
motion of James Sullivan, Solicitor for Complain
ant it is ordered that the defendant Nathan Jones
cause his appearance in this cause to be entered
within three months. from the date of this order,
and within the same time cause his answer to the
Compliments bill to be filed and COPY thereof
served on Complainant's Solicitor, and in default
thereof that the said bill be taken confessed by
the said defendant Nathan Jones: And it is further
ordered that within twenty days the said Com
plainant notice of this order to be published
in the Cass County Republican, a newspaper pub
lished at Dowagiac in said County of Cass and
that the said publication be continued in said
newspaper at least once in each week for six weeks
in succession, or that he cause copy of this order
to be personally served on said defendant, Nathan
prescribed for his appearance.
n BACON,
Circuit Judge.
l hereby certify the above to be a true copy oi
order on file in the Office of the Register o
said Court.
CHARLES G. LEWIS,
Register.
Dated, this 10th day of March, A. D. 1861
mar21-4Sw6
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- y
Judicial Circuit.
Franklin Muzzy, At a session of said
Complainant Court held at Cassapolis
rs in said County, on the
Daniel NJ. McOmber, }16th day of April, A. ID.
Jay w. McOmber and 1S61.-Present, Hon. c..
Susan N. Wares, w. Clisbee, Circuit Court
Defendants. Commissioner.
1t satisfactorily appearing to the Court, that the
said Defendant, Jay w. McOmber is non resident
of this State and resides in the State of Oregon !:
On motion of +. Muzzy, it is ordered that said
Defendant cause his appearance to be entered in
this cause and file an answer to the Complainant S
Bill in three months from the date of this order,
and in default thereof, that the said Bill be taken
as confessed by the said Defendant: 1t is further
ordered, that within twenty days the said Com
plainant cause this order to be published in the
Cass County Republican, a newspaper published
in said County of Cass, and that the said pubica-
tion be continued in said newspaper Mt least once
in each week for six successive weeks, or that he
cause copy of this order to be personally served
on the said jay w. Mc0mber at least twenty days
before the expiration of the time above prescribed
CHARLES w. CLISBEE,
Circuit Court Commissioner.
F. MUzzY, Solicitor IN personana.
STATE OF MICHIGAN,
County of Cass,. S. T, Charles G. Lewis,
Register of the above named Court, do hereby
certify the foregoing to be true copy of an order
this day entered in the above entitled cause.
CHARLES G. LEWIS,
Register in Chancery,
Dated, Cassapolis, April 16, 1861. aplS-52w6
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~ Woman is mysterious poem
which must be read many times to be
understood he who has never loved
but once knows the sex better than he
who has made new conquest every
day for twenty years,
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PAoLl, Kansas, March 25th,

PAoLI, Kansas, March 25th, 1861.
Friend Palmer: ] am driven to dror
you line or two, to inform you of oul
condition at present. The committee
here have declined sending for any
more relief for Paoli. They have sen,
three or four times and have got bu,
little. I went to Wyandotte after q
load, and stayed Ave days and got 1900
Tbs. for which the committe paid me
three bushels of corn and three bushels
of meal. We have 70 fbs. of meal and
10 lbs. of -four, and when this is gone
| do not know what we will do. five
do not get some help in few days
we must either leave Kansas or suffer
Mr.. Palmer you know my oircumstan
ces. You know that I lost my crops
two years ago on account of my sick
ness, and last season on account of the
drouth. If there is family in Kansas
that needs help, think we are one
There are ten of US in the family. We
have eight children, "and none of them
over thirteen years." and I can not ge,
any provision for my work. We need
some clothing and provision. The
committee have refused to let me have
any thing. They have refused to let q
widow have any thing. l applied te
them for little flour. Three of my
family had very sore mouths, and my
wife was not well it was about the
time you passed here-and 1 did no
get any.
l was sorry that l was not at home
when you stopped at my house.
heardone of the committee here who il
pro-Slavery man say that he did not
want any of this Republican Aid ant
they are all men that are able to liv,
without the aid. They seem to not t.
care for the poor. I am told that the,
sent to Wyandotte for seed wheat, oat
and potatoes, expressly for themselves
but did not get any, and that made then
mad and then they said they would no
try any more. Now friend Pnlmer j
you can do anything for me 1 wish yo'
would, and if you can send it to Wyan
dotte, or if can do better by comm.
to Atchison please write to me at Paoli
Ifyou send me anything to Wyandotte
write to me. / must have some hel,
soon. You oan tell Mr.. Pomsroy m,
circumstances. should not haxe writ
ten this if our committee had sent or
Mr.. Hudson passed through here. 4
said if his stuff came through safe b
would give me some corn, bat had no
heard from it. Then we "must hay
some provisions and clothing"
Now Mr.. Palmer if it is necessary
am willing to be sworn as to the cond
ton of my family. You know that
sold my last wagon, oxen and cow t
supply my family, but that has run on
l wrote to my father when he sent m
IS in one letter, and started SIS in al
other. The letter came but the none
was gone. He started load of prt
vision to me in February, but the teal
had to go back on account of snow.
will wait for an answer from you.
hope it will be good. We are tolerabl
well.
l remain your friend,
| WIN. III. LINDSEY.
/ Office of Kansas Relief Committee,
Atchison, Kansas, March Soth, 1861. I
| / certify the above to be true cop
of a letter written to Mr.. Palmer VIII
is in this place, as agent for Lykir
county of which Paoli is the count
town. II.
PoTAToEs-TwICR PLowING.-
usually put potatoes where corn hs
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az Once our statesmen clustered
around the liberty tree !; now, our poll
tioians only take to the stump.
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W Woman has found her true
/" sphere" at last; it is about twenty
seven feet round, made of hoops
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! ~ II ACKSON
BOOK BINDERY.

BLOCK, SOUTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET.
AQ1SoN, NIGH
fWE ohDEhslGNED is now prepared to bind
Il boon, Pamphlets, Magazines. Music, Caia-
iSSes, IeEspapess Registers. Receipt Books, and
poxs IN the neassst manner and at Eastern
kinds Of I'D Books rebound. and
~eFrehe<sf s>Qood as nesc
- CHAS. " DELAND.
Cisi<en Office, Jackson Mich.
vreers from this seeffou will meetwitb prompt
attention bS being addressed To =" p''"'P'
~~'ss.-s@1sI w. III. CAMPBELL,\
Republican Office, Dowagiac, Mick.
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p. ID. BECKWITH,

Machiaist and Engineer. Foundry and Machine
Shop al Che foot of Front street, near the rail-
road bridge, Dowsgiac. Mich.
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CASTLE PICKNEY.

Which has also been taken posses-
sion of by the mob, is located en- The
Southern extremity of q narrow stripe
of marsh land, about half mile from
Charleston. To the harbor side, the
castle presents = circalar front. dthas
never been considered of much con.
sequence a. fortress, altho' its prox-
Unity to the city wouid give It inpce.
tanoe, if properly armed and garrison.
ed, There are about Is guns mount.
ed on the parapet; tho ma3ority Of
them ls and "a FOUNDERS. Some Col
umbiads are, however,, within the walls.
There are also supplies ofpowder, shot
aRd-shellss (
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CHANCERY NOTICE.

CTATE OF MICHIGAN.-The Circuit Court for
y the County of Cass in Chancery.-Second
Judicial Circuit.
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l remain your friend,

WIN. III. LINDSEY.
Office of Kansas Relief Committee,
Atchison, Kansas, March 3Oth, 1861.
/ certify the above to be a true copy
of letter written to Mr.. Palmer who
is in this place, as agent for Lykins
county of which Paoli is the county
town. IL.
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Business 9irettorp.
PROFESSIONAL

Commissioner of Deeds for the State of New York,
Notary Public, and Agent of the Phoenix lnsur-
ance Company, of Hartford, Conn. Office with
James Sullivan, front room, second floor OF
Jones' Brick Block. marl447m6
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GEO. w. FOSDICK, M. ID.
Office over Mr.. Bates Provision Store, Front
Street, Dowsgiac. nov22-3lyl
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w. E. CLARKE, NJ. ID.
". HI. CAMPBELL

Iysician Surgeon Office at his residence, on
Division Street, directly north of the Methodist
Church, Dowagiac, Mich.
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GEORGE SMITH,
A. N. AWARD.

Tailor. Shop one door east of Howard & Com
stocks. Cutting and Making done to order, and
warranted to fit