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Year: 1861

"Ihave always considered advertising, liberally and long, to be the great medium of success in business, and prelude to wealth And I have made it an invariable rule too to advertise in the dullest times, long experience having taught me that money thus spent is well laid out as by Keeping my business continually before the pub lie, 1t has secured me many sales that I would otherwise have lost"
Year: 1861

Bsa. We are happy to announce to the public that our old friend JACK MATHEWS, of The Lone Star, has just received large supply of the best cigars ever brought to this city Call and try them
Year: 1861

A writer in the Boston Post tells the following
" good one concerning one Deacon NJ, whose
most grievous fault, if not his only one was the
habit of occasionally getting "mellow." Almost
every Sunday at noon he would indulge in his
favorte cider brandy to such extent that it was
with some little difficulty he reached his pew,
which was in the broad aisle near the pulpit, and
between the minister's and the village squire's.
One Sunday morning the parson told his flock
that he should preach sermon to them in the
afternoon touching many glaring sins that he
grieved to see so conspicuous among them, and
that he hoped they would listen attentvely and
not finch if he should happen to be severe. The
afternoon came, and the house was full, everybody
turned out to hear their neghbors dressed down
by the minister, who after well opening his ser
mon, commenced upon the transgressors in loud
voice, with the questions: where is the drunk
ard ?" solemn pause succeeded this inquiry ;
when up rose Deacon NJ, with his face radiant
with copious draughts of his favorite drink at his
noontide meal, and steadying himself as well as
he could by the pew-rail, looked up TO the par
son and replied, in a piping tremulous voice :;
Here l am" OF course, a CONSERVATION
among the congregation was the result of the
honest Deacon's rerponse however, the parson
went on with his remarks as he had written them,
commenting severely upon the drankard, and
warning him to forsake at once such evil habits
if he would seek salvation and flee the coming
wrath The Deacon made bow and then seat
ed himself And now," outspoke the preacher
in his loudest tones, "where is the hypoorite P'
pause-Dut no one responded. Eyes were
turned upon this and that man-but the most
glances seemed directed to the Squire's pew, and


indeed the parson seemed to squint hard in that
direction. The deacon saw where the shaft was
leveled, or where it should be aimed, and rising
once more, leaned over his pew-rail to the squire


whom he tapped on the shoulder and thus ad-
dressed; "Come Squire, why don't you get up
/ did when he called on me-"
Year: 1861

John Dudley of Raymond, trader and farm
er, was judge of the superior court of New Hamp-
shire from 1885 to 1897. He was a man of keen
sagacty and strong common sense. His mind
was discriminating, his memory retentive, and he
was most extraordinary person. He had but
little learning, and no legal requirements. He
was intent on doing substantial justice in every
case. Theophilus Parson said " You may laugh
at his law and ridicule his language, but Dudley
is, after all, the best judge ever knew in New
Hampshire"


The following specimens of the conclusion of
one of the charges of Judge Dudley will illustrate
his ideas of the law. He addresses the jury in
somewhat after this style:


You have heard, gentlemen of the jury, what
has been said in this case by the lawyers the ras-
Gals But no. will not abuse them. 1t is their
business to make a good cause for their clients
they are paid for it, and they have done in this
case well enough. But you and l. gentlemen,
have something else to consider. They talk of
law. Why gentlemen, it is not law we want, but
justice. They would govern US by the common
law of England. Trust me, gentlemen common
sense is a more safe guide for us; the common
sense of Raymond, Epping, Exeter, and the 9th
er towns which have sent us here to try this case
between two of our neighbors. A clear head and
an honest heart are worth more than all the law
of all the lawyers There was one good thing
said at the bar 1t was from Shakespeare, an
English player, believe. No matter; it is good
enough almost to be in the Bible 1t is this
BE Just, and fear not


1t is our business to do justice between the par
ties, not by any quirks of the law out of Coke OIL
Blackstone, and other books that 1 never read
and never will, but by common sense and com
mon honesty as between man and man. This is
our business and the curse of God is upon us i
we neglect or evade, or turn aside from it Now
Mr.. Sheriff, take out the jury, and you, Mr.. Fore
man, do not keep US waiting with idle talk, o
which there has been too much already, abou
matters which have nothing to do with the merit
of the case. Give us an honest verdict, of which
as plain oOmmon-sense men, you need not b'
ashamed"
Year: 1861

Nature never did betray the soul that loved
her, and nature tells man and woman to marry.
Just as the young man is entering upon life-as
he comes to independence and mans estate-just
at the crisis of his being is to be seen whether he
decides with the good and great and the true, Or
whether he sinks to be lost matrimony
gives him ballast and rightimpulse War with
nature and she takes sure revenge. Tell a
young man not to have an attachment that is vir-
tuous, and he will have one that is vicious Vir-
tuous love, the honest love of man for the woman
he is about to marry gives him an anchor for his
heart; something pure and beautiful for which to
labor. and I've And the woman. what a pure
light it sheds upon her path it makes life for her
no day dream, no idle hour, no painful shadow,
no passing show, but something real, earnest
worthy of heart and head. But most of us are
towards, and dare not think so we lack grace ;
are of little faith; our inward eye is dim and
dark. The modern young lady must marry in
styles the modern young gentleman marres for
tune. But IN the meantime the girl grows an old
maid, and the youth takes chambers-ogles the
nursery maids and becomes man about own, a
man whom it is dangerous to invite into your
house for his business is intrigue. The world
might have had happy couple instead, it gets
a woman fretful, plague to all around her He
becomes skeptic in all virtue; a corrupter of the
youth of both sexes; and a curse in whatever do
mestc circle he may penetrate. Even worse may
result. She may be deceived, and die of a broken
heart. He may rush from one Iolly to another,
associate only with the vicious and depraved ;
bring disgrace and sorrow upon himself and all
around him, and sink into an early grave.


Our cities show what become of men and wo-
men who do not marry. Worldly fathers and
mothers advise not to marry till they can afford
to support wife; and the boys wickedly expend
double the amount in bad company. Hence it is
all wise men, like Franklin, advocate early mar
riages; and that all our great men, with rare ex-
cepuons, have been men who married young.
Wordsworth had only one hundred pounds year
when he first married. Lord Eldon was so poor
that he had to go to Claremarke, London, to buy
sprats for supper. Coleridge and Southey we
can't find had any income at all when they mar
ried. We question whether, at any time. Luther
had moro than ffts, Po''rae yoe-, We ltlast
humanity in its very dawn. Fathers you say you
teach vour cons Drudenca- 1,o,, do nOtb;no Of tho
kind; your world-wise and clever son is already
ruined for life. You will find him at faro tables
and free love circles. Your wretched worldly
wisdom taught him to avoid the snare of marry
ing young-and soon if he is not involved in EN-.
barrassments which will last him life he is
base fellow-heartless. false, without single gen
erous sentiment or manly aim-he has "no God,
no Heaven, in the wide world"
Year: 1861

ISeven years ago, we set up the following beautiful
and touching lines from the original manuscript
They from the pen of Francis Panton, of Portland
who now sleeps in the cemetery "over the river"
Some kind friend has planted weeping willow over
his grave-a fitting emblem to grace the tomb ofone
whose spirit seemed only attuned to the momtsul
cadences of nature.l


LetthOse who are wiser hopes broken promise,
There are some happy moments IN life after ALL
White feathers that Iime as he vanishes from us,
Drops out from his wings mid the dark that fall
When Love the soul of each bud that uncoses,
And blooms in the green af his myrtle-wove crown ;
And if a stray thistle peeps up midst the roses,
Its thorns the next moment are hidden in down.


Oh, thus in youth we idly sing,


When some glittering lure hath won us


But soon time gldes with steadier wing


And its shadow alone falls on US.
Those few happy years of existence soon leave us
And though the bright promise still beckons US on
Those friends who could share what that promise


might give u.s.
Have left us its pain, or enjoyment, alone
lis cold, mournful thought, one gathers the


embers


That slowly die out on some once happy hearth,
To think that he is all that is left or remembers
The home of his youth and companions in mrth


Then the haunts where those he loved on ce met,


And each relic strewn around him,


Seem empty echoes murmuring yet


Some taithess song that bound him.
Year: 1861

A little while ago-only few months at most
it was easy for any well-dressed man. with a
smooth face, candid Speech and respectable hat,
to enter the wholesale stores of our eastern Cities
and obtain on fair representations, almost any
amount ofgoods, and credit to almost any extent.
1t was not the habit of dealers to scrutinize too
closely, OR hesitate long, when new customer
appeared. They took risks, as the insurance Of
fees do, upon the principle that few dead losses
are to be made up by the general gains. Thus,
calculating the chances that, out of five customers,
for instance, one would probably prove bad, prices
were so arranged that the other four would make
the dealers good Even the man who came with
cash in hand to purchase if he was not shrewd,
paid unjust profits, which went to sustain this
risky credit system. And so matters continued
until certain descriptions of trade became mere
gambling operations, and the manner in which
goods were bought and sold, without money and
without price, was astonishing to shavers


The result was inevitable The bad customer
sold his goods again at prices with which the
others could not compete. The end, as we have
seen, was general convulsions. The revival Of
business will be upon a new footing. The attenu-
ated cord of credit stretched until it broke and
it cannot easily be tied. We must commence
anew. Men must get down-if they have not
alraedy been shaken down-from the stills and
stagings of the false systems, and stand upon the
solid ground of capital and capacity.


Confidence, in trade is as necessary as atmos-
pherio air in physics. Without it, business stiles.
But long credits are not only unnecessary, but ul
timately ruinous All the minor branches of bust
ness, especially require to be safe and successful,
cash payments, or reasonably short credits. 1t
may be objected to this that an obstacle is placed
in the way of the young man Of enterprise, desir-
Gus of entering upon branch of trade which de-
mands an outlay exceeding his immediate means.
Very well it is an obstacle. We believe in OBJ
stacles And if the young man lacks perseverance
and energy to overcome so natural one, he has
" no business )" to go into business. The majority
of our ablest merchants are men who have come
up from humble beginning. What honor they
have, they have duly served up to. tits, in real
ity, no desirable fortune for young man to be set
aAoat in large business which struggle and
discipline l.avs net sa.sht hip, manage Tho
facility with which this has been done of late
yeare, has proved the ruin of thousands who,
placed in circumstances where success would only
have attended the just development oftheir facu-
ties; through practice and experience might have
become strong and prosperous business men.
Year: 1861

INDUSTRY AND ITS BLEsTNG.-People may tell
you of yonr being unfit for some particular occupa-
tions in life, but heed them not. Whatever en-
ployment you follow with perseverance and assid-
uity will he found ct for you; it will be your sup
port in youth and comfort in age. In learning the
useful part of any profession, very moderate abi
tiles will suffice great abilities are generally in
furious to the possessors. Life has been compared
to race but the allusion still improves by obser
wing that the most swift are ever the most aptt
stray from the course.
Year: 1861

THE wind is musician at birth. We extend
silken thread in the crevice of window, and the
wind finds it and sighs over it, and goes up and
down the scale upon it, and poor Paginini must
go somewhere else for his honor, for 10 the wind
is performing with single string. Ittries almost
every thing upon earth to see if there is music in
it it persuades tone out of the great bell in the
tower, when the sexton is at home and asleep it
makes miournful harp of the giant pines, and it
does not disdain to try what sort of whistle can
be made of the humblest chimney in the world.
How it will play upon great tree, till every leaf


thrills with it, and winds up the river at its base,
for short murmuring accompaniment. And
what melody it sings, when it gives a concert
with full choir of the waves of the sea- and per-
forms an anthem between the two worlds, that
goes up, perhaps, to the stars that love music the
most and sang it the first. Then how fondly il
haunts old houses moaning under the caves,
sighing in the halls, opening old doors, without
fingers, and singing measure of some sad, old
song, around the freless and deserted hearth
B. E. Taylor,
Year: 1861

ONE of our cotemporaries disposes of the vir-
tues of early rising as follows;


"We have watched those fellows who are the
early risers, and as general thing they are the
first chaps to go to groceries of morning. 1t is
all moonshine about the smartest and greatest
men being the earliest risers. 1t might have
been so in old times, but nowadays, when you
see a chap moving about very early, yon may be
certain that he is after drink"


There, that's fair sample of the way public
opinion treats fellow who rises with the lark"
"a poetical phrase which signifies getting up be-
fore eight oclock.) The last time we remember,
says the Mariposa Gazette, of carrying out vir-
tuous resolution of that sort, fellow pointed his
mouth at US from corner grocery, and shot it off
thus Hello, old fell-been a runnin' all night
eh P" Since that memorable morning, we have
allowed the lark to rise first.


THE following correspondence recently occurred
between a tailor and debtor;


Sir-Your bill has been long time standing.
beg it may be settled forthwith.


To which the tailor received the following po-
lite reply:


SIR am very sorry my bill should have been
kept standing SO very long Pray, request it to
sit down.


"BoYs, said uncle Amos, as he surveyed the
animal, there is only one reason why this mare
should not trot a mile in three minutes" The
boys crowded around to hear the reason, and one
asked him what it was.


"Why said he, the distance is too great for
so short time"
Year: 1861

We are indebted to our courteous
Mayor for q circular issued by the
Chamber of Commerce of the city Of
Macon, Ga. It is addressed to the
merchants, bankers and others of the
Confederate States Of America. The
purport Of the circular is call for
Mass Commercial and Financial Con
vention to meet in Macon on the 14th
day of October next, with a view Of
"devising some plan for establishing
a system of credits between the Con
federate States of America and For
eign countries, which may be practi-
cable and available to all desiring to
use it, and which will command the
hearty support of the citizens of our
whole country We heartily ap-
prove Of this step taken by the Cham
Der of Commerce, hoping sincerely the
object will be accomplished and the
desired benefits attained. This is Il
subject of vital importance to the pros
perity of our country, and should be
treated with proper consideration.


With much truth does that body
say, in its argument: "a mighty and
systematic effort has been made by
merchants and bankers at the North
to transfer to, and engross almost the
entire profits Of Southern trade i'll
their own hands. Our institutions
have been decried to the world in the
hope that by this means they might
drive from us the sy1ppathies of other
commercial nations, and obstruct, if
not wholly prevent direct intercourse
between US and them Let the Con
vention be held, we think the idea
good.
Year: 1861

has won for itself such renown for the cure of
every variety of Throat and Lung Complaint that
it is entirely unnecessary for us to recount the
evidence of its virtues, wherever it has been en-
ployed. As it has long been in constant use
throughout this section, we need not do more than
assure the people its quality is kept up to the best
it ever has been, and that it may be relied on to
do for their relief all it has ever been found TO do
Year: 1861

AS a remedy for this most distressing and obsti-
nate mAlady, the VEGETABLE LIFE MEDI-
CINES deserve a distinct and emphatic recommen-
dation. It is wel-known to hundreds in this city,
that the former proprietor of these valuable med
icines was himself afflicted with this complaint for
upwards of thirty five years. and that he tried in
vain every remedy prescribed within the whole
compass of the Bfateria Medica. He however, at
length tried the medicine which Is offered TO
the public. and he WAS cured in very short time,
after his recovery had been pronounced not only
improbable, but absolutely impossibls, by any hu-
Year: 1861

So denominated from their astonishing power Of
creating new life and health, it were, from the
very ashes of the most dilapdated constitutions
are more strongly tonic and more Immediately in
vigorating than pills; containing the same choice
vegetable extracts the latter in different mod
iication. Although really less cathartic than the
LIFE PILLS they nevertheless begin to cleanse the
alimentary canal much sooner; generally slightly
operating within three or four hours, and produc-
ing decided sense of relief to the head aud stom-
ach aud exhilerating the mind even in less time
than this
Year: 1861

PLENry.-The raspberry and currant
crop it is sad will be boun'iful one this sea
son. Many Of our gardeners have met with
great success in cultvating the former, while
the latter is universal.
Year: 1861

FROM THE SECOND RSIGMENr.-On
the second page will he found anothe er int crest
ing letter from our faithful correspondent in
the Second Regiment. we are glad to hear that
the boys are all we'll aud keeping I'D good
pluck
Year: 1861

DIsoRDERLY CoNDUcT.-There is
complaint made Of very noisy and disorderly
family living at the Northwest corner Of the
Fair Grounds. There is evidently too much
spiritual entertainment about the premises.
We understand that ladies' have been so much
annoyed in pacing there. that they are obliged
to 60 around by Locust Street to avoid the
place. We waut the folks there to take due
office and stop it or take the consequences.
Year: 1861

FOURTH OF JULY.-Some effort has
been made to get up a little celebration here,
whe have money to spend. think it will be
better to appropriate the came for the nse Of
the soldiers families which are in want We
would like to see good demonstration.
Year: 1861

SETrLED.-The person who struck
Dr. Wunderloh Last week appeared before
Justice Wheeler yesterday morning and plead
guilty. Fine and costa amounted to about
$l4.O0. Paying pretty dear for the amusement
we should say. We advice the young man to
make haste to get into business less expensive
Year: 1861

PLAYED DOuT.-Strawberries we're an
article not to be found in the city yesterday.
The producers say the season is over. We
think the public can't complain much. for
surely the article has been extremely plenty
and chesp. For our part we haven't a word
Of fault to find
Year: 1861

STREET RuMoRs.-Those who take
find plenty Of that style Of food. If those
foolish reports were true. it is very evident
that there would not be corporars guard OF
our Iowa volunteers left, when the fact proba-
biv 10. that not one Of them have been so un.


fortunate as to lose their lives. The crculs-
tion Of such rumors is rather poor business
for any one to engage In.
Year: 1861

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
Cassapois, on Wednesday the thirteenth day of
February, in the year one thousand eight hundred
and sixty -one. Present-Clifford Shanahan Judge
of Probate In the matter of the estate of James
L. Fowler, deceased On reading and filing the
petition duly verified, of Emeline Fowler, praying
for letters of Administration the estate of said
deceased.


Thereupon it is ordered, that Saturday, the
sixteenth day of March 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 a 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 should not be granted.


And 1t is further ordered that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested in said estate
Of the Pendeney 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, for
three successive weeks previous to said day oi
hearing. a C. SHANAHAN,


A true copY.] Judge of Probate.


February 13. 1861. feb2l44w3
Year: 1861

az Woman is like iyy-tbe more
you are ruined the closer she elings to
you. A vile bachelor adds: Ivy is Ike
woman-the more it ciiHgs to you the
more you are ruined Poor rule that
won't work both ways.
Year: 1861

Everybody who has tried L, testifiss
to the peculiar intoxication that is pro-
dueed by being in battle. There is an
infatuating influence about the smell Of
powder, the whistle Of q bullet, and
the sight Of human blood, that Instant
ly transforms men from towards 10 he
roes--from women sometimes to mons
ters. No one can tell Of the nature or
mystery Of that influence but those
who have been in the fray themselves.
Year: 1861

GGs1Our dispatches this morning con-
tinue to be of the most exciting and start
ling character Those who have been
growing at the apparent inactivity of the
Administration, will soon come to the con-
clusion that Mr. Lincoln and his advisers
fully understand what they are about and
that in their hands the integrity of the gov
ernuent will be sustained. The activity IN
the War and Navy Departments is unceas-
ing-night and day are men employ
ed in getting vessels ready for sea, and
several FIRST class vessels are already
completed and prepared for the reception of
crews Notwithstanding all these prepara-
tions, the movements Of the Administration
are wrapped IN the most profound mystery,
and the Washington correspondents are in
great agony on account of their inability
to tell what's going to be done.


The placing of sixteen double-banked boats
on the steamer Atlantic, looks as though an
effort was to be made to reinforce Sumter
by means of boats in the night. But a few
days will solve the mystery. Let US calm
ly await the result