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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-03

A proposition is before the Legislature OF
Maryland TO forbid future manumissions OF
slaves, and to give free colored people the
option to leave the State or be re-ensiaved.
The Baltimore Daily Exchange opposes both
branches of this measure, and observes OF
the latter:
"In Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll,
Frederick, Hartford and Washington coun-
ties there are over 43, 600 free blacks who
are employed in mental services and in ag-
ricultural operations. Of these there are
in Baltimore county alone more than 7,OOo
males, between fifteen and sixty years OF
age. The withdrawal of such proportion
of the laboring class could not but be &C.
verely felt by all. and to many of the small
er farmers it would be absolutely ruinous-
The demand for laborers, thus suddenly
created, could not possibly be supplied IN
time TO prevent the most disastrous eonSe-
guences.'' sd
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-03

Personal COLLISION AT WAsHINGToN-
The Washington Star of February 18th
gives the following account of difficulty
between Messrs. Edmundson, of Virginia,
and Hickman, of Pennsylvania
about half-past 3 P. M. Messrs. Ed
mundson, Keitt and Vice President Brock
enridge, in company with two other gentle
men, were leaving the Capitol. and when
about halfway down the avenue way of the
Capitol grounds they met Mr.. Hickman,
who was apparently unaccompanied. Mr..
Edmundson walked up to Mr.. Hickman. and
some words passed between them in relation
to a late speech of Mr.. Hickman's, (appa-
rently that made on the occasion of a late
serenade, which ended in Mr.. Edmundson
dealing a severe blow to Mr.. Hickman up
on the head, knocking off his hat, and fol-
lowing up the assault by some cuts with a
switch, at the same time designating Mr..
Hickman as a 'slanderer and coward
Mr.. Hickman endeavored to close with his
antagonist, nut further hostlites were pre-
Guided by the interposltion of others, Mr.
Keitt taking Mr.. Edmundson from the
ground. and Mr.. Breckenridge performing
a like Office for Mr.. Hickman"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-03
The splendor of Damascus.

Damascus is the Oldest city in the world.
Tyre and Sidon have crumbled on the shore;
Baalbec is a ruin Palmyra is buried in the
sands of the desert NineVeh and Babylon
have disappeared from the Tigris and Eu-
pirates Damascus remains what it was
before the days of Abraham center of
trade and travel, an inland of verdure 10 a
desert, ga predestined capital" with mar
tial and sacred associations extending
through more than thirty centuries. 1t
was near Damascus that Saul of Tarsus
saw the eight from heaven above the
brightness of the sum-" the street which is
called Straight, In which it was said 'he
prayeth, still runs through the city. The
caravan comes and goes as it did thou
sand years ago there are still the sheik,
the ass and the water wheel the merchant
of the Euphrates and the Mediterranean still
occupy these and ''the multitude of their
waters.'' The city which Mahomet sur
veyed from neighboring height, and was
afraid to enter. because it is given to have
but one Paradise, and for his part he re-
solved not to have it in this world, is to
this day what Julian called .tthe eye of the
East" and as it was in the time of Isaiah,
s'the head of Syria From Damascus
came the udhsOu, ouT Dlue pIum, anu tue
delicious apricot of Portugal, called damas-
co damask, our beautiful fabric of cotton
and silk, with vines and flowers raised on
smooth bright ground; the damask rose.
introduced into England in the time of Hen
ry VIII; the Damascus blade, so famous
the world over for its keen edge and won
derful elasticity, the secret of whose manu-
facture was lost when Tamerlane carried off
the arts into Persia, and the beautiful art Of
inlaying wood and steel with silver and gold,
kind of Mosaic-engraving and sculpture
united-calied Damasceening. with which
boxes and bureaus, swords and guns are
ornamented. 1t is still city of flowers
and bright waters the streams from Leba-
non, the .srivers of Damascus" the .sriv-
ers of gold" still murmur and sparkle in
the ''Syrian garden
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-03

A PRETTY FAEcY.-When the day begins
to go up TO heaven at night. it does not
spread pair of wings to fly aloft like a
bird, but it just climbs softly up on ladder
1t sets ifs red sandal on the shrub you have
watered these three days, lest il should per-
ish with thirst; then it steps to the tree We
sit under. and thence to the ridge of the
roof. From the ridge to the chimney and
from the chimney to the tail elm from the
elm to the tall church spire. and then to
the cloud. and then to the threshold of
heaven and thus, from round 10 crimson
round, You can see it go as though il walked
up red roses Taylor.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-03
view of the Pvramida.

These as the earliest, the Hottest. tho
largest, the most stupendous works of mar
deserve, In this connection, a PASSING motto
High on the meadows of the Nile, thew roc.
like the perpetual hills in settled tranouiI;'
ty on their rocky bases. In sterile and
gloomy grandeur they have survived the,
wearing waste of ages, while cities bavo
risen, fiourished, and fallen on the plain.
below, and viii survive all the ravages of
time on their mountain masses until tba
mountains themselves shall depart and The
hills be removed. They extend from tho
great pyramid of Gizeh to Dashur, a dis.
lance of twenty miles. Between these az.
tFeme groups, at unequal distances, are thoeo-
of Abusir and Sahara, near Memphis. In
utter despair of giving the reader any inst
impression of the great pyramid of Cheops
We must content ourselves with the usual
statistics, and leave him in inauguration 70
gaze at the enormous pile. The foundations
are 732 feet square, and cover little lasO
than thirty acres of ground. From this
base the pyramid rises to the height of 474
feet. Originally it was about thirty feet
higher; and sheathed in casing formed Of
horizontal blocks of granite hewn down to
uniform and polished surface, on every
side, from the apex to the base. The Kings
chamber, the sepulchral cell, in the centre
where the builder vainly sought to find a
sure retreat for his last repose, is "a feet in
length, 19 in height, and II in breath, in.
closed in walls of polished granite.
This venerable pile had stood for several
generations when Abraham went down into
Egypt. While enjoying the favor of the
King at Memphis he gazed habitually upon
this stupendous monument ofhuman power.
if he did not scale its awful heights. But
from its summit now what spectacle East.
west, north and south, the Great Desert,
in frightful desolation, unmitigated by
single shrud or leaf; and below the maies-
tic, mysterious Nile, pouring through this
sea of death its floods of living, life giving
waters, and spreading out on either side up
to the very brow of the desert. broad mar
gin OF verdure "green-unutterably green :"
and evoking indescribable fertility out of the
most hopeless, hideous barrenness contrast
without parallel in the wide world
Stephens.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-03

TRUE YANKEE GIRL.-A young lady
from one of the hill towns in this county IS
teaching in Virginia. After the John Brown
affair, notice was given ont that she could
not have any of her letters from the pos.
Office until they had been opened and read
in the presence of witnesses to see If they
contained any ''incendiary matter. one
Immediately went 10 the Office and demand
ed that her letters should be delivered 70
her unopened. The postmaster looked a.
her moment, saw that she meant what sne
said, and delivered her letters to her. S1e
still remains there teaching, unmolesteo,
but says that all that caves her from coa'
of tar and feathers, is the fact that she IS
woman Greenfield Gazette.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-03

SPITEFUL REvENGE-The Buffalo Cour-
Ter of February says, that young man
who had been regular visitant at the resi-
dence of "a young lady citizen" so as to
create the belief that he intended ultimately
to propose, was asked in a jocose manner
by the mother, while at the tea-table, when
he and the daughter were to be married; to
which he replied, with an appearance of as
constituent, that such an idea had not been
by him. Whereupon, the
young lady" got up from the table with
out speaking, went into an adjoining room
and brought thence bottle of vitriol, and
without syllable or gesture of warning,
threw the fierce liquid into the face of the
young man, shockingly disfguring it, and
destroying the sight of one of his eyes,
while hopelessly injuring the other. "This
most barbarous result of lovers disap-
pointment is, we think, without modern
parallel
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-03
The Clearing of the Clouds.

There is nothing in what has befallen, or
befalls you, my friends, which justiies i'm
patience or peevishness. God is inscruta-
bic, but not wrong. Remember, if the
cloud is over you, that there is bright
light always on the other side; also, that
the time is coming, either in this world or
the next, when that cloud will be swept
away, and the fulness of Gods light and
wisdom poured round you. Everything
which has befallen you, whatever sorrow
your heart bleeds with, whatever pain you
suffer,-nothing is wanting but to see the
light that actually exists, waiting to. be re
vealed, and you will be satisfied. If your
life is dark, then walk by faith, and God is
pledged to keep you as safe as if you could
understand everything. He that dweileth
in the secret place of the Most High shall
abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
These things, however, can say with no
propriety to many. No such comforts OF
hopes belong to you that are living without
God. You have nothing to expect from
the revelations of the future. The cloud
that you complain Of will indeed be cleared
away, and you will see that, in all your af-
flictions, seventies, and losses, God was
dealing with you righteously and kindly.
You will be satisfied with God and with all
that he has done for you; but alas you
will not be satisfied with yourself. That is
more difficult, for ever impossible ! And I
can conceive no pang more dreadful than to
see, as you will, the cloud lifted from every
dealing of God that you thought to be
harsh, or unrighteous, and to feel that, as
he is justified. you yourself are for ever
condemned. You can no more accuse your
birth, your capacity, your education, your
health, your friends, your enemies, your
temptations. You still had opportunities,
convictions. calls of grace, and calls of bless
ings. You are judged according to that
you had, and not according to that you
had not. Your mouth is eternally shut,
and God is eternally clear.-Dr. BUSHNELL
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-03

A JAPANESE SUIT OF ARMoR.-The North
China Herald gives the following description
of a suit of japanese armor purchased by
Mr.. Ward, our Minister to China :-Of the
many beautiful productions of art in which
Japan abounds, none have excited greater or
more deserved admiration than complete
suite of armor purchased upon his late visit
to the country by his Excelleney Mr.. Ward,
U. s. Minister to China: This curious and
magnificent suit is of chain and lacquered
copper plate, and though evidently of great
antiquity, it is yet in a complete state of
preservation. The helmet is of polished
steel, engraved and richly inlaid with gold.
Upon the summit is an Aperture for the in
sertion of small staff with a japanese flag
The mask and gorget are of fine elastic
plates of steel. The armlets, anklets, and
gauntlets are likewise of steel, with concen-
trio hoops In front for the purpose of en-
tangling and breaking a sword or lance
The cuirass Tor body armor) is of copper,
covered beautifully with silk The designs
and chasings are of the most exquisite work
manship, and the entire panoply has been
pronounced by those familiar with the
armories at Malta and the Tower of London,
the most perfect and unique specimen ex-
tant. 1t is said to have belonged to the
grandfather of the present Emperor of ia
pan, and is therefore invested with an histo-
rical as well as artistic interest. Accom-
panying the armor are two handsome Jap
anese swords and pair of heavy silver
stirrups inlaid with gold. We learn that it
is the intention of His Excellency to pre-
sent it entire to the Historical Society Of
Georgia, his native State. Il is the only
suit of armor ever obained from Japan.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-03

In olden time, before Maine laws were in
vented, Wing kept the hotel at Middle Gran
vile, and from his weli-stocked bar fur
nished accommodations to man and beast"
He was good landlord, but terribly deaf
Fish, the village painter, was afflicted in the
same way.
One day they were sitting by themselves
in the bar-room. Wing was behind the
counter, waiting for the next customer;
while Fish was lounging before the fire,
with a thirsty look, casting sleeps eyes &C.
casionally at Wings decanters, and wishing
most devoutly that some one would come
in and treat.
A traveller from the south, on his way
to Brandon, stepped in to inquire the dis
lance. Going up to the counter, he said,
"Can you tell me. Sir, how far it is to Bran
don 90
Brandy 90 says the ready landlord,
jumping up; eyes, Sir, I have some," at
the same time handing down decanter of
the precious liquid.
"You misunderstood me-" says the
stranger '"I asked how far it was to Bran
dOm.''
"They call it pretty good brandy" says
Wing. "Will you take sugar with it"
reaching, as he spoke, for the bowl and tod
dy stick.
The despairing traveller turned to Fish.
"The landlord said he, "seems to be
deaf; will you tell me how far it is to Bran
don go
"Thauk you," said Fish 81 don't care
if I do take drink with you -
The stranger treated, and fed-Hdrper
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-03
6 Meet Again r,

"Meet again 7" ali, shall we meet
These few days have been most sweet
Beautiful, but passing fleet
meet again 20 ah me, how dreary,
Sad nv life would be, and weary,
Might I never more be near theei
Thou whose smiles have in them gathered
All my Iife's lost rays, and scattered
Round me CLEANS of joy unmeasured:
Must the night come, cold and cherries,
All its gloom could meet, fearless
But its solitude-not fearless.
Thou my day art. night thy loss /;
Ali earth . smiles and glittering dross,
Without thee were but golden cross.
Yet God keep thee, dearest one,
Not all for my poor sake alone.
But better, dearer far-thine own.
Blessings with thee, ever, ever;
Meet we soon, or meet we never,
Thou shalt be beloved forever:
Fare thee well
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-03

GIVE Us HOMESTEAD LAw.-Multitudes
of honest, hard working farmers, who have
their homes already in the West. are under
mortgage beyond their ability to pay. and
are continually threatened with ejectment
from their bard earned homestead. For
these classes, says the Cincinnati CONNER
c;al, let the broad and fertile lands of the
new territories be thrown open, and they be
invited TO enter and cultivate them. without
money and without price. Let the govern
ment, which has given away so mRch for
the interests of corporations. for once do
something in the interest of the people
Give US a thorough going, well-guarded
homestead law, comforting upon every actu-
al settles on government lands one hundred
and sixty acres. more or less, of soil to till
and support himself on, and great relief
would follow to the most needy, and one of
The most deserving classes in the community.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-03

White brass is the name given to the
new metallic alloy of III. Sorel, which con-
sists of ten parts of copper, ten parts of
east-iron. and eighty parts of zinc. Il may
be turned, fled and bored, does no. adhere
to moulds in casting and retains its lustre
for very long time in moist air.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-03

THIRD PART1Es.-On this subject the
Newark Mercury makes the following judi
cious observations
''No man can nationally entertain hope
that this new party would carry single
State. Its strength would exist in the
Southern States, and in New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, Indiana and Illinois; but in the
South the sectional Democracy are entirely
omnipotent, and therefore the whole effect
of the movement would be as in 1856, to
prevent the Republican party from carrying
the border free States. The incipient steps
taken for the formation of this new party
are coldly received in every quarter. There
is no enthusiasm in its supporters, no wis
dom in it's counsels, and no ultimate good
to be effected by it.
''We believe that the Republican party is
the purest and best political organization
which the country has ever seen, and we
invite the fullest discussion of its principles
and policy. In no one thing ought the
Republicans to be more commended than
the manner in which they conduct the pol
itics of the country. There are no sense
less threats as to what they will do if beaten
by their adversaries. They bow to the
popular voice, and labor and wait until their
principles are more thoroughly understood.
They know that holding the doctrines they
do, the government of the country must be
eventually in their hands, and they feel and
understand this responsibility In advance
The charges which come from INSCRIPTIONS
opponents they despise. but they rely with
confidence upon the judgment and intelli-
gence of the people"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-03

The Great Eastern steamship has cost
nearly $4,000. 0oo. The company that
built her got tired nf expending money. and
sold her for less than half her cost to new
conpany and The : took Of the new compa-
ny is now selling for fifty cents on The
dollar
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-03

DeImonico. the celebrated restaurant
keeper in New York, though making ior-
tune yearly in his legitimate business. mas
become involved through the failure OF
great kerosene oil company. of which no
was the director. and the only heavy man.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-03
whats that go asked Mrs. Psrtinptop.

whats that?' asked Mrs. Darlington,
looking up at theacOlumn on the Place Ven
dome, during her late visit TO Paris. '.The
pillar of Napoleon was the answer
well, / never did !" she exclaimed and
sand that's his pillow? He was a great
man to use that but Its more like bolster.
And its iron, do believe. All Isaac. see
What it is to be great. How hard his head
must have rested on that ironical pillow
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-03

Learn from childhood. If you can. that
happiness is not outside, but inside. A
good heart and clear conscience bring
happiness no riches or circumstances
alone ever do.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-03

One hundred men could not carry the
amount of the national debt in England,
counted out in ten pound Bank of England
notes, notwithstanding the lighsness of the
paper they are printed on.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-03

A gentleman was hammered out of $780,
600 in Memphis last week, by an nipple
ment called sold sledge.'
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-02-07

MATTERS IN HUNGARY.-The Pesth cor
respondent of the London Times writes
under date Of Jan. I'd as follows:
What is very often the beginning of a gen
eral Instruction is now taking place in
Transylvania-the Szekely population of
that province are refusing to pay taxes. The
Government is seriously alarmed; and all
the more so from the fact that the Szekely
people are of the very purest Magyar race,
and are consequently admired, and to a GER
tain extent looked up to by all the rest of
the Hungarian nation.
In the hope of terrifying these populations
the Government is marching large bodies of
troops from Hungary into Transy lvania, and
intends to replace them by the 9th corps de
arBsee from Venetia. But the brave and
headstrong Magyars of Transylvania, never
very easily intimidated, are much more
likely to be exasperated by the sight of the
bayonets into desperate resistance to the
Austrans than frightened into surrender of
their cash. Besides, the troops which the
Viennese Government is sending against the
Pennsylvania Magyars are Italian and no
surprise would be felt if they, instead of
firing on, were to fraternize with the people.
What is certain is that the Austrian troops
already in garrison in Pennsylvania feel so
ashamed of the tyranny exercised over the
population, that they loudly sympathise
with them. 1t is not at all improbable that
the refusal of the Sickle people to pay taxes
will very shortly be initiated throughout
Hungary, especially by the population of
Magyar race. Extortion and wrong have
pretty nigh attained their utmost limits.
In presence of such facts as these,
people wonder that cry of anguish rises to
Heaven from Hungary; that the breast of
every Hungarian is filled with hatred of the
Government which can permit such horri-
BILE oppression; and that even strangers in
the land, on seeing iniquity so monstrOus,
cry How long, o Lord, how long
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-02-07
verdict OF the Lawrence Fnquesf.

LAWRENCE, MASS, Feb. 3.-The Jury of
Inquest of the Pemberton Mill calamity rem
dered their verdict last evening. 1t is quite
lengthy, embracing a careful review of the
testimony.
The Jury find, from all the evidence adj
duced before them, that they do not believe
the owners of said mill at the time of dem
clifton ever had reason to distrust its Sc
curity.
The Jury further find that the fire origin
ated after the fall Of said mill, and was
caused by the accidental breaking of Ian
tern in the hands of some person to them
unknown. and at the time actually engaged
in aiding, assisting and rescning the suffer-
ers then alive and beneath the flooring of
the mill.
Upon which several findings the Jury
determine and say that the direct cause of
the fall of the mill was the weakness and
the insuficiency of the cast iron, showing
that the thinness of the brick walls and the
manner of construction and length of span
from one support to another beneath the
floor were additional causes, and aided in
the general demolition of the building.
That so far as the actual defects in the
cast iron pillars existed, the responsibility
rests upon Albert Fuller, the former con-
tracing agent anu foreman OF the EdSIe
Iron Foundry, then at West Boston; that
upon Charles Bigelow, being the architect, as
well as superintendent of this s:ucture, rests
all the responsibility arising from an insult
ficient test of said pillars and from any and
every direct weakness from insecurity appa-
rent in or about the general construction of
said building shat the walls were laid under
his supervision; that the timber and floor
ing were, in every respect, constructed and
located as he originally designed; that the
inner supports of cast iron previous to cree
ton had his approval, and even by him
adopted as in all parts safe and secure; that
such construction as he required was given
the iron pillars, and that any want of skill
in designing, any error of judgment in ap-
proving or adopting, and any want of due
care and caution in testing the different
parts of the structure on his part appearing
to that extent, rendered him responsible for
the dreadful catastrophe, involving the death
of those twenty-five human beings.
Signed by the Coroner, VIM. B. Lamb,
and by the Jury.
The inquest was held . in view of The
twenty-five dead bodies taken from the
ruins.