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Year: 1860

Generation after generation" says
a fine writer, shave felt as we now feel,
and their lives were active as our own.
They passed like vapor, while nature
wore the same aspect of beauty as
when her Creator commanded her to
be. The heavens shall be as bright
over our graves as they now are around
our paths. The world will have the
same attractions for our offspring yet I'm
bern, that she had once for us as children
Yet little while, and all will have
s:ifed, and we shall be at rest. Our
funeral will find its way, ard prayers
will be said, and then we shall be left
alone in silence and darkness for the
worms. And it may be for short
time we shall be spoken of, but the
things of life will keep on, and our
names viii soon be forgotten. Days
will continue to move on, and laughter
and song will be heard in the room in
which we died; and the eye that
mourned for us will be dried, and glis-
ten again with joy; and even our chill
dren will cease to think of us, and will
not remember to lisp our names"
Year: 1860

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, on Tuesday the sixteenth day of DC.
tober. in the year one thousand eight hundred and
sixty Present Clifford Shanahan, Judge of
Probate. In the matter Of the estate of Michael
Ellison deceased On reading and fling the pc
tition duly verified, of Hugh s. Garrett praying
for proof of will of said deceased.


Thereupon it is ordered, that Saturday, the
seventeenth day of November next, at ten o'clock
in the forenoon be assigned for the hearing of said
petition and that the heirs at law of said deceased
and all other persons interested in said estate are
required to appear at session of sand 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
llshed IN the Cass County Republican, newspaper
printed and circulating in said County of Cass for
three successive weeks previous to said day of
hearing C. SHANAHAN


A true copy.1 Judge of Probate
october 10, 1860. oct25-27w3
Year: 1860

Look on the bright side. It is the
right side. The times may be hard, but
it will make them no easier by wearing
a gloomy and sad cou, enance. II is
the sunshine and not The cloud that
makes the flower. There is always that
before or around us which should cheer
and fill the heart with warmth. The
sky is blue ten times where it is black
once. You have troubles. it may be.
So have others. None are free from
them. Perhaps it is as well that none
should be. They give sinew and tone
to life-fortitude and courage to man.
That would be dull sea, and the sall-
or would never get skill. where there
was nothing to disturb the surface of
the ocean. 1t is the duty of every one
to extract all the happiness and enjoy
ment he can without and within him,
and above all he should look on the
bright side Of things. What though
things do look a little dark? The lane
willturn, and the night will end in broad
day. In the long run the great balanee
rights itself. What is i'll bee 3mes well ;
what is wrong, right. Men are not made
to hang down either heads or lips; and
those who do, only show that they are
departing from the paths of true com-
nonsense and right. There is more yir-
tue in one sunbeam than a whole hem
isphere of cloud and gloom. Therefore,
we repeat, look on. the bright side OF
things. Cultivate what is warm and
genial-not the cold and repulsive, the
dark and morose. The Iron Duke was
right. Don't neglect your duty; look
to the bright side; live down preju-
dice" 5s 8a - e6s
Year: 1860

Foolish THoUGHTs.-We are apt to
believe in Providence as long as we
have our own way; but if things go
awry, then we think, if there is God,
He is in Heaven, and not on earth.
The cricket in the spring builds his
little house in the meadow, and chirps
for JOY, because all is going so well
with him. But when he hears the
sound of the plow, few burrows off,
and the thunder of the oxen's tread,
then the skies begin to look dark, and
his heart fails him. The plow comes
crunching along, and turns his dwlling
bottom side up, and as he is rolling
over and over, without a home, his
heart says " oh, the foundations of the
world are destroyed, and everything is
going to ruin % But the hxsbandman
who walks behind the plow, singing
and whistling as he goes, does not think
the foundations of the world are break.
ing up? Why, he does not SO much
as know there was any house or cricket
there. He thinks of the plow and the
cricket, too, if he will but wait, will


find thousand blades of grass where
there was but one before. We are al


like the crickets. If anything happen,
to overthrow our plans, we think all is
gone to ruin.
Year: 1860

INK STAINS. "A correspondent of
the ". Y. World sends that paper the
following, which some of our lady read
ers may find valuable:


"In a visit to M Marseilles, a little in
cident came within my observation
which may prove servicible to many Of
your large class of readers. In the
Hotel des Empereus. where l was re-
siding, an ink-stand was accidentally
overturned upon q beautiful table,
spread !; those present thought that the
cloth was ruined. A servant being
called in, TO remove the article from the
table, all were. surprised when he as
sured us that no harm had been done,
and more surprised still, at Witnessing
the successful means resorted to for re-
moving the ink stains. The servant
sprinkled over the cloth quantity of
pepper and salt, and rubbed them over
its surface. The mixture soon absorbed
every portion of the ink, and the table
spread was in as good condition as
before the accident. The spread was
of wooden fabric. l have never had an
occasion for testing the merits of this
simple mixture when applied to other
cloths, but it certainly would not be at
tended with any bad result"
Year: 1860

Under the Kansas act citizens from the
slaveholding States may go into the Territory
with their property; citizens of the free States
may 90 there holding no such property, and
when they get there and meet in common
council as a legislative body, they may deter
mine whether the institution shall prevail.


j. M MASON, of Va.
Year: 1860

A NURSERY THoUGHr-Do you ever
think how much work a little child
does in day? How, from sunrise to
sunrise to sunset, the little feet pat
ter round--to us-so aimlesSly.
Climbing up here, kneeling down
there, running to another place, but
never still. Twisting and turning.
and rolling and reaching, and aoubl-
ing, as if testing every bone and mus
Gle for their future uses. 1t is very
curious to watch it. One who does
so may well understand the deep
breathing of the rosy little sleeper, as
with one arm tossed over its curly
head, it prepares for the next days
gymnastics. Tireless through tho
day, till that time comes, as the ma
formal love which so patiently accom-
modates itself, hour after hour, to its
thousand wants and caprices, real and
fancied, A busy creature is little
child. To be looked upon with awe
as well as delight, as its clear eye
looks trustingly into faces. that to
God and man have essayed to wear a
mask. As it sits down in its little
chair to ponder precociously over the
white lie you thought it funny" to
tell it. AS rising and leaning on
your knees. it says thoughtfully, in a
tone which should provoke tear, not
smile don't believe it," A
lovely and yet a fearful thing is that
little child.-Fanay Fern.
Year: 1860

heat radiating from the stove viii


raise the mercury in the thermometer


nut II we Interpose plate of trans.
parent glass, none Of these dark rays
oi neat can pass through it it is en-
tireiy Opaque to them. If We now in
crease the tenn ecature Of the stove
until 1t becomes red-hot, the rays of
heat begin to pass through the glass
and affect the thermometer and if we
raise the temperature to white heat.
the rays pass freely through the glass.
If we vary the experiment, and use
crystals of rock salt, instead of glass,
we find that the dark rays of heat
pass out as freely through the salt as
90 those which are accompanied with
light.


Some of the alchcmists discovered,
centuries ago, that the chloride of sill
yer, which is as white as snow, turns
black on exposure to the light and
more recently it has been found that a
large number of bodies are thus af-
fected by light. 1t is this power of
light VIII ca is used in the da guerreo-
type and photograph process. By
more than one means, the force of this
element can be measured in the sew
eral parts Of the spectrum, and it is
found to be most powerful in the vio-
let ray, and to extend entirely beyond
the light. 1t is not visible to the eve:
and it is, therefore, neither light nor
heat. 1t is easy, after thus dividing
the sunbeam, to rc-combine its parts,
when the white ray will produce the
several effects of light, of heat, and
of chemical change, which are pro-
duced separately by its several ele-
mcnts.- Scientific american.
Year: 1860

Father! before Thy gracious throne
With humble hearts We bend
Grant that We each in Thee may own
A faithful, Guide and Friend.
Whate er our hearts of mortal ill
Thou mayst Ordain to know.
May we, rs g Q unto Thy will,
All murmurng furegO.
Help us to serve Thee as We ought,
With revcreIc. and love,
And may each deed and word and thought
Tend TO our home above.
Oh, may we triumph over sin,


And break temptation chain,
While foes without and foes within


Assail our souls in vain.
Through changing scenes of joy and woe,
As pilgrims here We roam
While broken ties of friendship show
That earth is not our home.
Were Death and Change unknown to us,
Our hearts would never rise;
lis in Thy wisdom, Lord that thus
Thou lcadst us to the skies.
Help us To consecrate to Thee


The talents Thou hast lent,
Help us, amid all trials, to be


Strong patient, and content.
And when the path of life is trod,
Our tolls and conflicts o'er,
Grant us III mercy, oh, our God,


To love and serve Thee more!
Year: 1860

Simple as the white ray of the suns
light appears, it is found, on close ob-
servation, to be composed of at least
three distinct elements, and to pos.
scss many curious and wonderful prop
erties. The three elements Of which
we speak, are light, heat, and cLemi-
cal force and they may be separated
from each other 10y means of u very
simple instrument. Darken a room,
and bore small hole through one of
the window-shutters, SD as to admit a
ray of light from the sun. Place a
Triangular prism of glass horizontally
across the ray, with one edge down,
SO that the light may pass through it.
The ray will be bent upward. and will
strike the wall at a higher point than
before the prism was interposed. 1t
will not, however, all be bent equally,
so as to make the round spot it did
before, but will form an elongated
image of seven brilliant and most del
icate colors, which shade into each
other and fade away indefinitely at
the ends of the image The lowest
of these colors, when the prism is
placed as directed, is always red and
the others, in the order as we ascend,
are orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo,
and violet. Suspend delicate ther-
mometer in each Of the colored rays,
and it will be found that the violet ray
imparts the least heat, and that the
| heat increases as we pass down
through the several colors. If we
continue our observations with the
thermometer down beyond the red
ray, we find point, where no light
falls, where the thermometer receives
more heat than it does anywhere with.
in the light. The rays Of light are
separated by the prism from those of
| heat.


Another curious fact which has been
observed, also proves that the light
and heat of the sunbeam are distinct
elements. If we suspend thermom-
eter in the vicinity of close stove,
which admits heat but not light, the
Year: 1860

A BUSINESS ENTERPRISE SpoILED.-A
couple of gay, dashing damsels were
arrested yesterday morning, by Chief
Best, on board the cars of the Lake
Shore Railroad, a moment or two be-
fore the departure of the train. He
had received despatch from Albany
requesting him to look ont for brace
Of feminine runaways, who left that
city on Saturday, and who had most
likely passed the Sabbath at Buffalo,
on their route farther West. They
were charged with grand larceny, and
their arrest was anxiously desired


Suspecting that they had taken the
train about leaving for Cleveland he
FASTENED to the depot, and was just
in time to discover the objects of his
search. aud get them off before the
cars started, On being taken to the
Chiefs Office they made a frank con.
fesslon Of what they had done. One
of them had stolen, or borrowed with
out permission, about 5000 from her
Year: 1860

THE BEAvER.-The flesh of the bea-
yer is much priced by the Indians and
the Canadian voyageurs, especially
when the hair having been singed off,
it is roasted in the skin. In some dis
tricts it has required all the influence
of the fur trade to restrain the hunters
from sacrificing considerable num-
ber of beavers every year to secure
the enjoyment of this luxury and
Indians of note have generally had
one feast in the season wherein a
roasted beaver was the prime dish.
In flavor it resembles pork, but the
lean is dark Colorcd, the fat oily, and
it requires strong stomach to sus-
tain full meal of it. The tail, which
is considered great luxury, consists
of gristly kind of fat, as rich but not
so nauscating as that of tue body.
Cartwright speaks of the beaver as
"the most delicious eating of any ami
NAL in the known world" 1t is not,
however, for the delicacy Of their flesh,
but lor the peculiar closeness of their
soft and glossy fur that man has car
ried on war against these inOittnsive
quadrupeds. That this fur was in
great request at an early period is
proved by a proclamation issued in
the year 1888, By which it was for
hidden to make use of any material
for hats except beaver stuff and bea-
yer wool. From this time the atten-
ton of the North American Indians
was directed towards these animals,
and vast numbers of them were annu-
ally destroyed. At length, the ext
gencies of fashion were supplied.
When silk hats came in, the annual
slaughter Of thousands of beavers
gradually slackened, and they are
beginning to increase in their native
retreats-a singular instance this of
the fashions of London and Paris af
fecting the very existence of a prolific
race of animals in the new world -
CasselEs Natural History.
Year: 1860

MANLINEss.-The purpose of life is
TO form manly character, to get tho
best development of body and spirit
of mind, conscience, heart, soul. This
is the end all else is the means. Ac-
cordingly, that is not the most suc-
ccssful life in which man gets the
most pleasure, the most money or
ease, the most power or place, honor
or fame but that which gets man
the most manhood, performs the great.
est amount of human duty, enjoys tho
greatest amount of human right, and
acquires the greatest amount Of man.
ly character. 1t is of no Importance
whether he win this by wearing q
bod upon his shoulders, or a crown
upon his head. 1t is the character,
and not the crown, l value. The
crown perishes with the head that
wore it but the character lives with
the immortal man who achieved it /;
and it is of no consequence whether
that immortal man goes up to God
from a throne or gallows,-Parksr.
Year: 1860

BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT Grief and Joy
Hope and Fear-Tears and Smiles
Pain and Plcasure-are all twins,
children of the same mothsr, linked
together throughout tie whole of hui
manity. No lot, 10 country, no eli
mate, no scene, no condition may
claim the enjoyment of one, without
the lcbuking companionship of the
other. No cloud, however, is without
its inner light. The blue sky still
harbors behind the gloomy canopy,
ready with its sunshine, and keeping
the sad soul from being entirely dellv-
cred to despair. No condition is so
lowly, as to be without hope (; no sor-
row SO poignant and oppressive, as
not to permit the consolation of some
sweet minister, interposing at the
right moment, with compensation and
perhaps delight. There is no such
thing as unmitigated evil !; as there
is no such thing as pleasure and joy,
without cloud OF qualification. We
have only to open our hearts to the
smile and sunshine not turn our
backs, or shut our eyes to the angelic
visitor, who is always sure to stand
upon the Threshold, whenever we de-
serve most need, and are willing to
give him welcome.-Emerson.
Year: 1860

FRIEND HILDEETH Il notice in the
last issue of your Intelligencer, under
the heading Amendment to the
School Law" what conceive to BE-
an error, not in the law itself, but in
the construction of Sec. 3 of said act,
by the Secretary of the Board of Edu-
cation. lie says, among other things,
"This will enable sub-districts to meet
on the second Monday in July next
for the purpose of lcvying a tax for
school house purposes &c. This
understand to be the time fixed by the
Board of Education, and that the
amendatory act changes that time to
the first Monday in May. We are
only to apply the substituted words,
" the first Monday in May" to the sec
tions referred to in the amcndatory
act, in order to satisfy us that there is
an error or oversight on the part of
the Secretary of the Board of Educa-
ton. This act will be important to
those sub-districts which were refused
taxation by the Township meetings
on the first Monday in March, and 10y
the Township Board at their regular
meeting, or, that being the case, they
can fall back Oh themselves, and vote
taxes on themselves on the first Mon
day in May by the amendatory act,
and not on the second Monday in July
as per the original act. Please give
this an insertion, as it may be of some
service to some Of the Townships in
our County.


| lnotice also some suggestions in
the same paper in regard to Teachers
Institutes. My means of information
with regard to the number of teach
ers who would desire an Institute to
be held in this County during the next
Summer or Fall, is quite limited ; and
in order to obtain that information |
hereby request all Teachers and all
those who are intending to become
such, and who are desirous of holding
such an Institute, to forward to me
their names at the earliest convenient
day. Should there not be thirty in this
county desirous of holding such an
Institute, | should most assurcdly be
in favor Of joining with Mitchell coun-
ty, as suggested in your paper
will suggest that the only expense to
teachers will be one week Of time
(should that be the length of the scs-
sion, and board for that time. The
State will pay the rest of the expen
ses. lsincercly hope that Floyd coun
ty may furnish the thirty without the
aid of Mitchell. Will not all school
officers and friends of education in the
county assist us in this undertaking p?


Presidents of Township Boards, and
sub-directors, also, please forward to
me the names of such persons as will
attend such an Institute, and if the
requisite number shall be obtained,
will take immediate steps to inaugu-
rate the same. HERvEY WILBUR,


County Superintendent.


April 26th, 1860.
Year: 1860

One watch, set right, will do to try
many by but, on the other hand, one
that goes wrong may be the means of
misleading a whole neighborhood !;
and the same may be said Of the ex-
ample we individually set to those
around Us.
Year: 1860

NO. 2 Joint Resolution to reduce the Price Public Print


Ing


Resolved by the Senate and House Of Representatives. Of the
United States Of America in Congress assembled That the
prices established and allowed for the public print
ing by the act entitled AN act to provide for exc
cutting the public printing and establishing the
prices thereof and for other purposes approved
August 26, 1852, and by the several acts amenda-
tory thereof that is to say for composition, press
work, folding stitching, and inserting maps and
plates, be, and the same are, reduced forty per cen
tum; and that, for the purpose Of giving full force
and effect to this resolution, the Superintendent
of the Public Printing is hereby authorized and
directed to cause the accounts of the public prin-
ter or printers to be made out and rendered to
him. as heretofore, under the provisions Of the act
of August 2Gth, 1852 Except as to the printing
of the Post Office blanks, which have been ordered
by law to be put out by contract to the lowest
bidder and before certifying the same to the
Treasury for payment, he shall deduct from the
aggregate amount of each account so rendered the
sum Of forty per centum, and the residue shall be
received by the public printer or printers as full
compensation for the work stated in said contract,
This resolution shall take effect from the passage
thereof


APPROVED, June 25, 1860.
Year: 1860

We have on record speech delivered
not many weeks ago by Gov. Henry A.
Wise, Of Virginia, in which that always
moderate and pious gentleman made the
following declaration CT will never
remain in the Union twenty-four hours
after Lincoln S election, so help me God''
This solemn and fervent VOW was re-
ceived with cheers by the intelligent
citizens Of Princess Anne County, who
we'll knew the Governor and his fidelity
in keeping every promise. But now,
the melancholy contingency which was
to cause the departure Of Mr.. Wise out
of the United States having arisen, his
many friends at the North are anxiously
inquiring, to what part of the earth has
he betaken himself? His devotion to
the South forbids us to believe that he
can have crossed the briny deep to Eu-
rope, at time when the sunny section
of his nativity may at any moment need
his trenchant arm to point with his sword
the road of her conquering legions as
they march Northward to camp in New
York. This destination, then, being
placed out of the question, many believe
that he has retired to Coney Island,
which clam-producing region has been
formally discovered from the United
States by the decree of Gov. Gil. Davis,
bearing date last Wednesday morning.
N. y Times.
Year: 1860




A Sierra Leon paper states that u
white woman, who accompanied her hus=
band, missionary, up the Cavalla ritet
last May, excited the greatest curiosity
and admiration among the sable dwellers
in that benighted region, where white
woman had never been seen. Al want
ed to touch her, and great surprise was
expressed upon feeling her hair The
king of the Nyinemo tribe called her
" very fne,'' and complimented her hu~-
band greatly for selecting her. Aud
when she told him he might see other
white women who would surpass her, he
said that would either never be, Or else
a very long time. Owing to her pres
ence, the attendance on preaching vas
extraordinarily large. During her visit
at the Mission ststion, hundreds went to
see her, who said they could fell salts
fed to die now that they had seen such
a wonderful being as q white woman.
Year: 1860

Somewhere within the spirit land,


Where Gods immortal children dwell,
A wholly and united band,


Is one l long ago loved we'll
One who thro all my early days


Was faithful, beautiful and dear;
But Gods good ways are not oar ways
No human love could keep her here.
Ger her clear eyes shadow crept,


And slowly dimmed their loving light,
And tho | held her close and wept,


There came dark and bitter night;
The laden clouds were piled aloft


And loudly winter winds did rave,
And winter SHOWS fell fast and soft,


They fell upon her new made grave.
And now when many years have past,
When l have older, colder grown,
There comes to cheer my heart at last
A smile as sweet as Annies own;
Like stars that shines thro' Autumn skies,
And frightened all the misty air,
Such smiles for weary hearts arise


To win them from distrust and care.
Still in the watches of the night


Those visioned eyes may come to me,
Still may there beam from them q light,
A glance which l alone can see.
Remembrance of the dead can make
A living love more fond and near,


And may be for her sweet sake,
That these blue eyes have grown so dear.