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Postoffice Row At Jackson

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
April
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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A pub:c nu'Ctuig of "ye Kepubucans" was held at Jackson on Tuesday eveniog ot last weekj to oleot a Postmastér. The meeting being orgnnized some ons questioned tbc jurisdiction of " Many Citizens" to nfake tho cali, and therccpon !' Father Treadwell" fathered t and read u letter from Congressman Gr.vnger adviaing such a coursë. .Somebody elcc read a second one of a later date, advising agai'i.st or rathcr giving nn advice. After much explosión ol " wrath and cabbage" the meeting passcd a resolution requeeting Judge GiïANOiat to " tale the responsibility," ar.d adjourned. It is Bard sonio very unprctty things werosaid.of each otlier by tho Ropublicun aspirante and their irieml.s. a W. S. Woor, haring been apDoiutcd loc.il Muil Agent at Detroit, the Advertiser polces sharp sticks at hiin, and iusiimates that he camo into the Republican organization at entirely too late au hour, and that bis services to the party liave been of too merecnary a character, to entitle him to share in the distribution of spoils. The attack sniacks of " sour grapC8," and wo surmise that Joe Wakiu:n or somc other attachee of tbe Ádtettiaer had a hankering fjr the sinecure place. IW The Allegan Journal is vcry much exercised about the position of Texiis. the deposition of Houston, and the threatcned raid of Ampudia, etc. If we are not mistaken " Dou'' represented Texas in the Chicago Convention, and, if so, lio ought to " regúlate" her now. 3E " Bbad" left for Washington, post hasto, on Friday evening last ; and those of his Rcpublican supporters and admirers wlio have been left out in the cold in the distribution of favors, maliciously insinúate that there is a screw loosc as to somc of his recommendations. Wc sliall sec. jjgf" The Washington lottcr-writers and sensation correspondents of the Now York press, must bo of that elass spoken oí jn Bcripiure as " Wise beyond vvbat is writteo ;"' for thcy cortain]y cxh.bit v(:iy little wisdom in what they do wri'te. JJ3T" 'le -Jackson Citizen says that in Ann Arbor the Demócrata clected their candidato for Marshal, and the Rcpublicans the balance of the ticket. Vic must havo written this item aftcr four o'clock, P, M., and while mcditatiug on his defeat for Supervisor. Takc notico, Vic, the Democrats of Aun Arbor elccted Recorder, Collector, Street Commissioner, - juai half the City ticket, and the paijiii;[ialf aiid amajority of tho Councii. XjtT The Ü8li3ÍBg JlepuMican says that Mr. F. G. RussErx has resigned the principalship of the Second Ward School in that City, to accopt a Clerkship at Washington. If Mr. lt. don't find teaching f all lis honorable as tho clerkship, and I more profitable, then we are mistaken; that's all. Kansas Sexator?. - Messrs. Lam: and Pomkiioy werc clectcd Senators from Kansas on the 4th instant. J!r?r The Democrats gainedtwomembers of Congres in Connecticut, and two in Rhode Island, at the elections last week. L" The South Carolina Conventioi on the öth inst., adopted the Constitution of the Confedérate States by a vote of 1 IG to 1G. There wero ten absentees. The ncw Board of Supervisors in Livingston County stands .9 democrats m:d 7 Republicana.

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Michigan Argus