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The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1862-08-13
ITO CONTRACrORS-In pursuance

L Of IN act Of the Legislature Of the state q Ntch
gan entitled An act 70 provide for the drainage sad
reclamation Of swamp Lands by means q STATE Roe11
and bitches !" approved February 18th, 1850, and u
acts amendaiory thereto the undersigned Oymmisoess
on the Ithaca and ST. Charles State Road Win pro~sd "
let tle wofA aaii Iss 6Oe merid.
ian line between Saginaw and Gratiot Countless d.
lance Of eleven and one half miles at Freshman Hotsl
Ia ST. Charles, saturday the 18th day OF SsptsmbsG
next, commencing at 10 O'Clock, A n Plans and spsc
1cailons vii Dc made known the day Of sale Co..
tracts will be made for the performance Of said Woek,
payable IN swamp Lands, which contractors have -
privilege OF selecting any part Of the Lower Peninsaa
where said lands are In market The Conmissionss
serves the right to reject any all BIDS not consssat
with the best Interests Of the State Security viii BE-
required Of all for the faithful Performance
Of their contracts, at the time Of letting
JOHN b. ADAMS, Commissioner.
Dated, Avg. 8, lse2- 3slwl
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A man might frame and let loose star to roll
in its orbit. and yet not have done 20 memora-
BILE q thing before God as be who lets 60 gold
en- orbed thought to roll through the generations
of time.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1862-08-13

DoN'r dispute against facts we'll established
merely because there is something unaccounta.
BILE in them That the world should be created
OF nothing is TO US inconceivable; but not there.
fore to be doubted.
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TEAS! TEAS! TEAS!
THE BEST VARIETY OF TEAS
L ever offered in lansing, can be found ct
Montgomery & Mi||as
GROCERY STORE.
AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO

"a LICENSE OF TAyERNs, SALOONS, ,; ~ aa~,
vICTUALING HOUSES BILLIARD ROOMS, AMI boWl-
ING Or Ten PIN ALLOYS
Section Re ordained ty the Common Ccssc0 a -
the GUY VI Lansing, That Licenses granted BY the Coz
mon Council 10 Tavern Keepers, Groceries, Comooc
Vietcaers Saloon Keepers, Billiard Room Keepers ana
Keepers OF Bowling Ten PIN Alleys, shall be Issued ~
the City Clerk and signed by the Mayor and counter
signed by the city Clerk.
No License % granted shall be Of any force o.
Siefk the person applying therefor snf py the CITY
Cty Treasury and procure the receipt Of the C2 the
urer therefor the following sums respectively:
st FOR keeping an Inn, Tavern or Hotel i've dol,,,s
per year.
I'd For keeping Grocery, at which ale beer. c,dsr
OF shall be sold At retail be ATE or dros
on the premises, ten dollars.
Sd For keeping victuang House, % q cou,m
vtcfualer, ten dollars.
18th keeping Saloon for the sale By retail Of H.
Deer cider or refreshments, TO be ate or drank an
the premises, per year, ten dollars.
9TH For keeping Billiard Table or Tables or 4 I'm
or len Pm Alley 10 be played upon In any manner r.
hrc, nve dollars per year for each table or alley
Done At the Common Council Room, this lIth day a
August, A. D. 1861
Approved August litb, 1862.
wM u. CHAPMAN, Alvsv.
TusoDoRs FosuR, Deputy Guy Cl,k ssiwi
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Special Notices.
DENTISTRY.

Dr. Wood The Dentist; is at home again sat fully pre-
pared TO execute any JOB il biz profession Teeth
mounted OF Gold or silver Pate Rubber Base any
prefer il. Teeth n1ed With Gold, Silver, or Tin any
other operation al done in the most perfect manner AID
a. low prices Apractice Of 30 years and very many
very catering testimonials from eminent citizens a.
Albany and reference Lansing should be . sueieat
euaraatee. Call and see
once q, his residence o. Saginaw street 81
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Here L an old epigram in two lines, or rather
an epiiaph, sharp enough to wake up the vixen
it che we're not very dead indeed
Here lies my wife Polly terrible shrew;
said was sorry then should lie too
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SfAfI TEAcHrR's ISsrrrurks.-The Super.
intsndent Of Public Instruction has appoin-
ted series Of Teachers Institutes to be held q
Sollews each Institute continuing in session Eve
days.
Port Huron, beginning Monday mor.isG, Aug.
3Sth, 1862.
Cistoo, beginning Monday morning, August
2ssh, 1869.
Battle Creek, beginning Monday morning,
September LET, 1862.
Gross Lake, beginning Monday morning, Sept.
Ii, 1862.
Alegan. beginning Monday morning, Sept
Oh, 1861.
St Johns, beginning Monday morning. Sept
lSsh, 1869.
Co'd"aser, beginning Monday morning, Sept
3Osh, 1852.
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cE A justice Of the peace at Lafayette. Ind,
refuses TO perform the marriage ceremony when
the thermometer lie above 80, on the grosnd of
unconstitutionality.
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San Francisco. Aug.1.
The Golden Gate was burned at sea near Man.
sanita- Two hundred passengers and the crew
perished. The ship il total Ioss.
(Ssgned) FORBES B BABCOCX.
San franciscs. Aug 2.
The steamship Golden Gate, which sailed
nsnes On the 2lst Of July, took fire IL miles Of
9anssniIla and burned to the waters edge. h
sheught that the treasure win be saved q the
eAtp vas beached.
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There's not m hour Of day
Or dreaming night, but am with thee, love:
There's not a wind but whispers OF thy name.
And not flower that sleeps beneath the moon.
But in its hues or fragrance tells tale
" thee"
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1862-08-13

~ HOMEOPATHY in the ascencantI 1unedase re-
Lee guaranteed Dr. snTIzI from London, has opened
an establishment Philadelphia, Pa for the treatment
Of Female Complaints Read hu Advertisement N anoth-
Or column, beaded Laases, Read" 1ys7e
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AM k~i;~r- 80 SECOND ipsAs HnraDh1 If
when it's gone dOn't he want another pound,
aud isn't that sweet, toof Troth. Murphy, be.
lieve in second love-"
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TRrAsox IN rnr NoRrH.-It appears from In
vestisasiOns before Grand Jury. that there 81.
ises in the State Of Indiana, systenasissd organ
isatior. having for ito avowed object resistance
b the Federal authority. the destruction Of the
Federal Government and the furtherance Of the
ambitious schemes Of Messrs. Davis / Co. 1t
appears. moreover, that this organization mum
bsrs ito adherents in every nook and corner Of
Tie State, that it has extensive lodges and an
elaborate scheme Of correspondence, that meet
ises are held where reasonable proportions
ere discussed and the programme Of operations
considered and matured. IL appears, too, that
communications in CIPHER and otherwise are
Asld With the rebel rineleaders and the rebel
prisoners in the different depots in the West.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1862-08-13

~ Are you not afraid your wife win get
married again when you de-" ~ hope she
NAV, as there will be one man in the world Who
will know how to pity me-"
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New Advertiser nts.


Il the members OF - The Farmers Mutual Fire lnsp
rance Company Of lnehAm County !" at the ofnce d
Pratt. the village OF Mason, the ID day VI Aqua
inst O'Clock in the afternoon the purpose a
electng President, Secretary, and Board u Dscsss
Of said Company and the transaction Of such other -
may be proper 10 be brought before such ss
ing.
Mason, August 9Th, 1862.
SsIwI BY ORDER OF THE CORPORArO1e
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ADVICE is the only sort Of vice that some peo.
pie don't follow.
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WINS should know that tears, - . means Of
iaasenee, are 70 be reserved foe great oecA-
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NOTICE.

| ASEyo, August 9Th, 1892
The Fall Term o. Our School viii commence On Mon
DAY september Is;- The weather is very warn, and
10 part Of Angus; & profitable for schools
| .sows z TAYLOR
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1862-08-13

ALCOHOL destroys live man but preserves {
dead one.
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Balsiasse, Aug. Z.
Quite stampede is in progress iron this city
q parties eager to escape the dr.ft. Som. Ar.
ee'ae 70 Europe many to Csn.da, and soae 70
Northern States Many leading sscess;ouiet, n.
leaving for parts unkuown.
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eT The Rev. James W. Alexander, in his
letters to Rev. DR.. Hail. gives the following - an
exact copy OF an spiraph in Cranberry church.
ward

80 Her blooming cheeks defence
Against the scarlet fever,
In five days time she cut down,
To be with Christ forever"
Whereupon the Rev. DR.. Hall sent him back %
a fair return, the inscription from stene in .
churchyard in Trenton, New Jersey:
The boiling coffee did me fall,
And by II was slain;
But Christ has bought my liberty,
And In HIM III rise again"
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1862-08-13

"a Boy, Why don't you 60 to school !!
"'Cause, sir, daddy is afeared that il learns ev.
erything nov, shant have anything to larn when
/ come to 60 to the 'cademy."
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home TESTIMONY.

SPRING fcRr, Jackson Co., Mich. Aug.l
Dr. c W Raeaek-Dsar SIR: Ny boy about sisk
years old was very much troubled with 81 AnshouyS
dance 50 that a, times he unable to feed hmssx
frequently falling down in et-and three oe my fanalv
had the fever and ague bought q your seaaAI
navian Blood Pills and Purifier OF your agent here n
CAkins, and TO our great Joy they not only cured a.
fever and asue but my boy OF the 81 Anthoays aaas
for which we shall ever feel grateful
Yours truly, C. n RAIN
"a See Advertisement. SSo~s
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IT il characteristic of truth never 20 exaggs
rate. What need has she Of exaggeration!
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1862-08-13

sF western paper speaks Of . man Who
"died without the aid of physician" Such in
stances Of death are exceedingly rare
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1862-08-13

STRIVE to b.. as kind, forbearing and forRiving
as you can, both to friends and foes.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1862-08-13

II Word should be seconded by action: il
isn't enough for the housewife TO say TO q stock
ing with hole in it, "you be dsrned."
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1862-08-13

II When We fall upon rock We know hou
hard lie. When We are thrown upon our re.
sources We learn how great they are.
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indianapolis Ase. 3.
Al Tie Indiana regiments bat two srs I'm
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M a IA H 7 II ID.
In this cisy On the 5,h inst, BY the Rev. a Belding
Burgess, D., Ar. DAVID y. GIBBS and Mics ASGELINE
TRIP both Of Windsor, Eaton County.
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Highly Important Ortler-The War De.
parament ureets the Arrest Of ali Per-
sons vvho discourage Enlistments.
Washington, August 8.
The following order, authorizing the arrest
Of persons discouaging enlistments has been is.
sued:
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Washington. August 8.

Wa5HEuEtUu, AUSusC o. J
Ordered-1st. That all United States Marshals
and Superintendens or Chiefs of Police OF any
city, town or district be and they are hereby au
thorized and directed to arrest and imprison any
person or persons Who may be engaged by act
or speech or writing in Encouraging enlistments,
or in any say giving aid and comfort to the enc.
my, or in any other disloyal practice against the
United States.
Second. That immediate report be made to
Major L. c. Turner, Judge Advocate, in order
thst such persons may DO tried before Military
Commission.
Third, The expenses of such arrest and i'm
prisonment will be certified to the Chief Clerk
Of the War Department for settlement and pay
ment
(Signed,) Sd. n. STANTON,
Secretary Of War;
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Important War Order-NO Citizen Subject
90 Military Day to be allowed - Leave
tho COumssy-Civil aud Military AuthOri-
ties Instructed TO Prevent their Flight.
Washington, Aug. 8.
The following order has been issued by tie
War Department:
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-05-09

thought is his especial pleasure. One os the
mission schools in New York is infested
by tie "relisions loafer," who calls because
he has nothing to do, and can have chair,
morning paper, warm office, write letter,
" borrow" stamp, and prehaps get an in
vitation to dinner. The same individual
sometimes appears as supernumery dele
gate at conventions, or colporteur Of
tracts and Bibles where the good books lie
in the parlor aod are vended across the
way. 1t was one of this class who adver-
tised for board in some family where his
Christian deportmert would be accepted as
an equivalent for the demolished beef and
bannocks. If he is clergyman he extern
porizes in the pulpit, droning forth any
quantity of religious platitudes TO the drow-
sy ears below. If he is layman, he hap
pens in TO talk ofthe lethargy of the church.
a lethargy for which he is to certain ex-
tent responsible since no one can look at
him without feeling disposed to yawn, or
he interrupts all the avocations Of time by
talking drearily Of eternity, forgetting that,
because there is no device in the grave, we
are 10 do with all our might whatsoever our
hands find to do. The loafr, whatever
may be his special department, never will
lingly finds anything to do, except to eat
drink and enjoy the good of other mems
labor. He has something of the reptile in
his nature, for he is forbid and fond of bas-
king in the sun, can live long time with
out food, and thrives upon the general dis
gust. His chief social utility is to point the
contrast between idleness and labor, and to
consume the bad Tobacco and worse whisky
that which might weaken the energies OF
more efficient men.-SpTagfea RepuM-
can,
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ernment to such slave states as may initiate
measures for the emant ipation Of their
slaves, we may hope at some future and not
distant day to be delivered from the curse
Of slavery.
Unless the country can rely upon the e.,
taol'shment Of these principles In the I'D.
ministration Of the government, the defeat
OF the rebellion win neither give US indem-
nifty for the past nor security for the future,
We oppose, therefore. any peace whicl,
shall leave in doubt the power Of the gen.
eral government 10 maintain its rishtful au.
thorily, and quel any rebellion, however
great, and which shall leave the material
ability of this treason but partially broken
and suhdued And when the end af mill
tary operations shall come, we oppose any
terms Of peace which shall recognize any
division of the Union, any concession to the
political demands Of the slaveholding inter.
esis, or any acknowledgement of their claims
upon the general government, except such
as are distinctly conferred or admitted by
the terms Of the constitution, When the
war is closed, we demand freedom of speech,
and OF the press, in every state and in ev.
cry section Of the common Union. We de-
mand that the citizens Of each state shall be
entitled to all the privileges and immunities
Of citizens in the several states, And while
we proclaim anew our solemn purpose to
stand 10y the constitution .of the United
States, and to respect all its provisions and
all its guarantees, we demand such con-
struction Of those provisions as shall conform
to its essential spirit; and not, by convert
ing into an instrument for the aggrandize-
ment and perpetuation of human slavery,
pervert it from its original purpose to form
a more perfect union. establish justice, in
sure domestic tranquility, provide for the
common defense, promote the general wei.
fare, and secure the blessings OF liberty to
ourselves and our posterity.'"
This is the platform Of Union, of loyalty
and patriotism. The heart of the people
beats in accord with these ideas, and 20 par.
~ which is not true to them can have q
future. .Liberty and Union"-'sske sn.
premacy of the constitution and the laws"
--"freedom of speech and the press in ev-
cry state and section"-ihese are the true
watchwords of our safety and success
these are the guarantees Of future peace and
progress--and to their support loyal and
trae men will rally in every state Of the
Union. Shall narrow partisan lines be
maintained in New England while the par
" of Union and progress Is elsewhere TAX
ing the broad and comprehensive position
required by the great necessities and giori.
Gus opportunities of the hour?
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-05-09

wards his rife, and waited, looking out con-
siantly for the third, who was driving them
along the grass ledge. The chamos came
gradually nearer he is afraid of loosing
his shot, lies in feverish state of excite
ment, fires, and, frightened at the report, the
beasts turn and fly hurriedly along the
ledge the same way that they had come.
just at narrow sloping place, scarcely
broad enough for man to pass where Il
bends round projecting rock, t ey came in
their widest flight upon the hunter climb
ing toilsomely upwards. If the two parties
had met upright on this giddy rim of the
rock, the hunter must infallibly have been
dashed over cliff sinking for more than
100 feet, as the chamois would instinctively
in the agony of despair have tried to
squeeze themselves between the rock and
the hunter. The man prudentiy observed
this, and to save his life, threw himself down
and let the whole herd rush at flying leap
over him. Another hunter in Glarus, in a
similar position at critical place, thought
that he might secure his booty by quick
resolve, and covered down sitting. wedged
firmly against rock, and shot. The charge
missed, the chamois jumped over him, but
touched him in his bounding elastic spring
with one Of his hind hoofs on the jacket.
and tore its highest button-bole; hesita-
ton would have infallibly sent both over a
crushing fall" The APPS" BY H. Borei-
eDscb
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A Strange Story.
NOT BY BULwER.

Mr.. Thomas Inkle of London, aged twenty
years, embarked in the Downs on the good
ship called the Achilles, bound for the
West Indies on the sixteenth of June, 1874,
in order TO improve his fortune by trade and
merchandise. Our adventurer was the
third son of an eminent citizen, who had
taken particular care to instil into his mind
an early love for gain by making him per-
feet master of numbers, consequently Civ
ing him quick view of loss and advan-
tage, and preventing the natural impulse of
his passion, by prepossassion toward his in-
terests. With a mind thus turned, young
Iukle had person every way agreeable, a
ruddy vigor in his countenance, strength in
his limbs, with ringets of fair hair loosely
flowing on his shoulders. 1t happened, in
the course of the voyage, that the Achilles,
in some distress, put into a creek on the
main of America, in search Of provisions.
The youth, who is the hero of story, among
others, went ashore on this occasion. From
their first landing they were observed by a
party of Indians, who hid themselves in
the woods for that purpose. The English
unadvisedly marched great distance from
the shore into the country, and were inter
cepted by the natives, who slew the great
est number of them. Our adventurer es-
capped among others by flying into a forest.
Upon his coming into remote and pathless
part of the wood, he threw himself, tired
and breathless, on little hillock, when an
Indian maid rushed from the thicket behind
him. After the first surprise, they appear
ed mutually agreeable to each other. If the
European was highly charmed with the
limbs, features, and wild graces of the na-
tive American, the American was no less
taken with the dress, complexion, and shape
of European, covered from head to foot.
The Indian grew Immediately eDamored of
him, and consequently desiFous of his pres
ervation. She, therefore, conveyed him to
a cave, where she gave him a delicious re-
past of fruit, and led him TO stream
to slake his thirst. In the midst of
these good offices, she would sometimes
play with his hair, and delight in the oppo-
sition of its color to that of her fingers
Then open his bosom, then laugh at him
for covering it. She was, it seems, a per-
son of distinction, for she every day came
to him In different dress, of the most beau
tiful tugles, shells, and beads. She ike
wise brought him a great many sPoils which
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-05-09
Loyalty aud Fidelity Of the Negroes.

There have been very few instances OF
deceptions praotieed upon our commanders
by escaped slaves who haze come into tho
camps, while white men and pretended re.
fugees have orten given iaise information.
MIR. Forney says in one Of his letters to the
Philadelphia Press -
"They lthe escaped negroes) have re-
peatedly shown, and are repeatedly show.
ing, how entirely they may be confined in
There is not a general officer in the Union
service who will not testify that his best
intelligence of the movements of the enemy,
aud of the topography of the seeded ooun-
try, has come from the blacks. These poor
people seem everywhere to feel that it Is
!heir duty to show their gratitude to the
soldiers Of the republic, A very distin.
guished officer, who has been stationed far
beyond Mount Vernon, on the Lower Poto-
mac, in Maryland, and who, until he took
the field, was an uncomprom;sing friend of
the South, and of the southern school Of
leaders, gives some thrilling accounts Of the
fidelity and bravery of the slaves in the
neigbborhood OF his command. He says
he was never once deceived by them.
They knew the forests around them as the
seamen know the sea- Most of them are
the slaves Of rich and educated secessionists,
and more than one had the blood of the
white aristocracy in their veins. They
would cross the Potomac at night, from tho
Virginia side, detail their narrative, and
reoross before morning and in every in
stance they seem to be fully aware that IL
detected their lives would be forfeited. 1t
is stated Of one of the most intelligent, that
some time before, his master, whom he had
served with great devotion from boyhood,
had him severely horsewhipped, which was
sure preparation for a change OF feeling
in the latter, and he seized the first oppor-
tunity to escape. After getting into our
camps, he hired himself as a body servant
to Gen. ----, and soon displayed all the
qualities which had made him so valuable
to his owner. One dark night he was
missing, and just before daybreak he was
seen coming to the river side in boat con.
tanning his wife and four children. 1t is
well known that the intelligence of the re-
treat of the rebels from Manassas, SO much
discussed and doubted, was derived from
fugitive slaves. Every item of their infor-
nation was found to be correct They
came into Washington at the imminent
hazard of their lives, and il, instead of be-
ing black, they had been white men, they
would at once have been honored by ap-
pointments in the arm y. How completely
such self-sacrifices and fidelity as this put
TO shame the sneers and falsehoods of those
who know no better than that of declaring
these poor outcast not only incapable, but
Of their liberty +