The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-12-11

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Secretary Smith has finally decided on
leaving the Cabinet about the first of
January, with the distinct understand
ing that he shall receive the vacant
|judgship in Indiana. 1t is well under
stood that the President would appoint
Schuyler Colfax if he desired it, but he
will not accept. tits not believed now
that any Indianian will get the place.
Judge Holt of Kentucky, seems to have
the inside track.
Twenty Of the drafted men of Mon
tour county, Penn, absolutely refuse to
submit to the draft, and have SO far
defied the efforts of the Marshal to in
duce them to yield to the law. Give
cold lead and sharp steel.
Col. James A. Mulligan, the hero of
Lexington, has been made Brigadier-
General. His brigade is now at New
Creek Va, of which post Gen. Multi
gan is commandant.
The steamer Great Eastern now lies
at New York, so disabled as to be un-
seaworthy, and in her present condition
she could not cross the Atlantic. She
is greatly lurched, and as she rolls on
her side she looks like some terrible sea
monster that has been wounded. Her
frame has been so fearfully strained
that the entire line from her upper deck,
from stem to stern, presents the bow
like curvature described by a hogs
back. The English pilot who brought
her over, on the last voyage, was SO
full of conceit that he refused an Amer
lean pilots aid and ran the big ship on
the rocks off Montauk Point, knocking
a hole in her bottom, besides breaking
her screw.
Rev. Henry Yard Beecher's resi-
dence in Brooklyn, N. Y, was be-
smeered and disigured in front with
coal tar, few nights since-doubtless
by some political enemies of that bold
divine. Such revenge is natural to
"Copperheads."
A serious disturbance occurred
among the soldiers of Massachusetts
regiment, encamped near East New
York and hotel keeper, named Schel-
lin, on Sunday evening last, in which a
private, named Stellfax was killed, and
the hotel burned to the ground.
The New York World has a rumor
that Banks expedition has landed.
Special dispatches from opposite
Fredericksburg on the 9Th, 10 o'clock
A. NJ, say: "It is still intensely cold,
with two to four inches of ice in the
Potomac and Rappahannock to day.
Any movements involving probability
of fighting, is considered by our Gene
rails impossible during this inclement
weather. Every wounded man would
die.
Parson Brownlow, in letter from
Nashville, says that Tennessee is to all
intents and purposes brought back into
the Union. The rebels themselves
confess that she is virtually lost to
them. They will soon be compelled
to abandon her altogether and seek a
new "base" further South.
The. next Legislature of Wisconsin
will contain Is eaa;;:ors-a in the Senate
and 10 in the House. Poor "cusses,"
how low they have fallen.
Humphrey Marshall's library, con.
sisting of fifteen large boxes of law
and miscellaneous books, was con-
demned last week, by the U. S. Court
at Columbus, Ohio, and ordered to be
sold at auction Pity the big body of
that traitor could not be secured.
Gen. Buffers order for sending away
from New Orleans the secesh Episco-
pal ministers, has been published, also
their letter of excuse. They endeavor
to make martyrs Of themselves, and
say they obey the orders of their bish-
op in not using a prayer which has
been altered from President Lincoln to
jeff: Davis. Butler CURLY tells them
to pack their trunks and be of.
A party of % slaves, all fugitives
from labor, passed along the Under
ground Railroad, in Cincinnati, last
Friday, from Kentucky. Their sup
posed destination is Canada. Their
masters are in pursuit.