The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1864-05-04
VARIOUS Items.

Der Of female rebels by making them their wives
One clergyman has married as many as FIVE
couples ia one DAY. In the adjoining county of
Coaway, sl single women under sixty, are COB
5ed up a. soon as the soldiers find them.
Lord Shal,esbary recently stated, in public
meeting in London, that from personal obsefvA-
ton. be had ascertained that OF adull mae GRIM
inals Of that city, nearly all had fallen into
course of crime between the ages lOi eight aud
sixteen years; ADD that if young man lived
an homes. lie up to twenty years OF age, there
we're forty-nine chances in favor. and only one
agaiust linn. a. 10 an honorable life thereafter.
n Congress bill has passed, authorizing the
payment OF nearly 100000 TO the Chippewa
Ottawa aid Pouawatamie Indisus residing in
Michigan.
/ Among the members Of the House OF Repre-
-eutatives in Congress, there are present "A
from save States, who stand politically as fol-
lows-l4 vote with the Union party, and Il with
the Democratic party.
Wendell Phillips, in his lecture last winter, be-
fore the Parent Washinstonian Society. told the
following story
4 mother, Oh the green hills OF Vermont,
God at Der garden gate, holding by her right
hand son Of sixteen years old, mad with love
OF the sea. Edward, said she, they tell ue
that the great temptation OF the seaman's life Is
drink Promise me, before you quit your
mothers hand, that YOU viii never drink Said
he, for he told me story, 81 gave her the.prom
. is. went the broad globe over-Calcuttar
the Mediterranean, San Francisco, the Cape o
Good Hope-aod during forty years, whenever
{ saw glass filed With the sparkling liquor, my
, mothers form By the garden gate, on the HILL
side OF Vermont, rose up before NE ; and TO-
+ dav az sixty, my lips aye iunocent OF the taste o
liquor"
e letter dated "Pail6,li, Hampshire Co.
b Mass, April -, says
You would be surprised to see tue body 0
snow covering the ground in this town. Fo
two miles north OF the Center the snow IL iron
two 10 : feet deep, reaching to the tops of tn
fences all through the roads, and is two feet O.
q. level in the woods. Our farmers have a
l. made extra quantities Of maple sugar this season
= than ever before Through the Eastern State
4 generally, farmers are believed to have made a
d least a third more than in former years.
d Atl1uta Ga, is a nice place for strikes. Their
" are four newspapers in the city, all OF which ar
suspended, owing TO the strike Of the Printer;
' under Instructions of the " Printers Union, d,
manding 81. 81 per 1000 ems The result Is III;
= a. soon as the Printers quit work they were a
conscriptcd into the rebel army at $l5 mont
in rebel currency
Every one will remember the celebrated cas-
of Sir john Dean Paul the fraudulent Londo
banker A recent copy of the Madras TIM
gives some curious information concerning hin
q" Immediately after he was sentenced TO paual SCI
vitude. Lady Paul realized ali the property Sc
tied upon her, and proceeded without delay
Sidney, where she purchased beautiful seat
the suburbs Her husband having arrived
n penal settlement in another part Of Austral
as one Of q gang Of convicts, the wife of Oh
- convict baronet applied to the Government fl
, his services, aud was permitted to employ hi
" as her assigned servant" We need scarce
&c add that having thus relieved him from unplea
,e ant restraint, she placed all the newly purchase
pro2erto in his hands, and has since led a vel
quiet life in his company
The spitituali-ts of this State are to hold
mass convention at Grand Rspids or the est
-, 26,h and 27'h days Of June
An cnamored swain was serenading a preti
- Qualrercss and sang the song of " Home, Swe'
II I'll. d.. 4
Friend, SAID he ",hec have bccn singing Of III
81, home thy sweet home; now If thee have
home. All a sweet home, Why don't thee 20
r9"
There is a state in which a mans consccuC
becomes so torpid. 30 dead that there is no re
direction from it 10 this lie; AMI that is VIII
understand % be substantially meant by VI
~ pardouable sin. Il is the sin Of condition
the whole moral conditon-and not the sin of
specific act.
Over ierty estates have been seized in Alel
> audria, aad are now offered for sale BY the Coy
eminent under the con6-cstion act.
= The Louisville Journal, speaking Of the COZ
perbead candidacy for The Presidency, says
= "Gen Mcclellan il in this relation not ouly Il
most prominent, but without a competitor. Lib
Jupiter among the Gods, he l. first aud there
no second Mcclellan resembles Jupiter al:
in the fact that he il the myth Of a dead religio
aud the idol Of past worship.
r., The Crisis, paper published by certa
o Medary, at Columbus, Ohio, contains the folk
wing remarks il relation to the action Of the
A.. State Copperhesl Convention:
~ There can be TO doubt about the fact IN,
any attempt to transfer the Democratic party O
10 "A war platform will be resisted with more d,
IL termination than some men, who would sell d
:, country for an Office suppose. They want ne
p ther Lincoln nor any Of his Major Generals.
"Tbe strength, aud the only strength, of h
Democratic party, from first to last, has been o.
position 10 tbs ,rar, u0holy, barbar0us and rui,
% Gus
u In the United States Senate. recently, NJ
e Sherman. Union of Ohio submitted a memo
"a rial from the officers and members of the Obi
Wool Growers Association. representing tina
u from Trustworthy data. and in the belief of th
= Association five hundred thousand dogs inves
the State of Ohio The memorial adds that
: partial record of the damage done to the shee
husbandry Of Ohio. amounts 10 one hnndre
thousand dollars per aDnum. The mcmOrial-t
d pray for revenue tax Of one dollar upon eac
d dog.
q Since the opening Of the New York Stat
= / Lunatic Asylum at Utica, in le43. 69l6 pa
. tients have been admitted aad 6.Ss2 discharged
OF whom AHA were cured LOCI improved
ZOO lad .~,I < NJ