The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-05-05
Ullr Gnrppria MrmB.
sATURDAY, NAY s. Iseo.
2 Personal AND POLITICAL.

short time the Free Labor party will carry the cleo
ton for county officers tTE f@ss< go ~
"A negro was put into box at Nashville last
Friday and shipped for Cincinnati, the intent Of
the parties being to make him Free 0nthei afri-
val of the train at Seymour, Ohio, careless hand
ling started off part of the cover and disclosed
the fugitive, who sent back to bondage. sfns
Judge Mclean, of Ohio, is being put forward
as candidate for the Republican nomination for
the Presidency, by the Wing Republicans. From
this standpoint Mr.. MeLean's chances for the
nomination are not the best.
The Evansville Journal, published in South
ern Indiana, reviews the prospect in that State,
and recognizing it, with Pennsylvania, as the
battle ground in the next Presidential contest,
presents the following as its conclusion That
Mr.. Bates is the strongest man that can be run,
and that he will beat the Charleston nominee ION
Slavery Extension platform) $4,000 votes. -
The great wigwam at Chicago, to aecomno-
date the Republican Convention, will be one hun
dred and eighty feet long by one hundred broad,
capable of holding ten thousand persons. Its
cost viii be about $4,000, which will be met by
voluntary subscriptions. In the centre of the
front on Market street will be a dome surmounted
by large eagle and shield supporting a flag
staff The architect has very pertinently repre-
sented banner floating in the breeze, inscribed
with the sentiment 'Irrepressible and Undivided
The democrats of Missouri find much fault
with the action of their Governor, Stewart, but
attribute all his wanderings to confirmed drunk
enness. He replies that they have no right to
find fault with his intoxication, for he was drunk
when they nominated him, drunk when they
inaugurated him, and drunk he means to be till
the end Of his term.
The policy of counting southern trade by pro-
Tossing pro-slavery sentiments and paying black
mail to certain southern papers cuts both ways
The N Y. Independent gives several instances of
merchants from the w est, some of them purchas )
ing as high as $4,000 of a single firm, refusing
to buy goods where they had been accustomed to
heretofore, because the parties had put themselves
on the "white lists" of the southern papers
The fremont House, Chicogo, has engaged
to keep the Massachusetts,, Connecticut, New
York, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and -Missogrigdsls
cations to the Republican Convention, atdgether
with Thurlow Weed, Gov. Morgan and-,the ma
tional Republican Committee; and it announces
that it cannot do more. sa 'ssf4 .Hlf
The Republicans of the 9Th (Kilgore's) dis
trict, in Indiana, have nominated their old free
soil representative, George W. Julian for the next
Congress. Two years ago the delegates cheated
him out of a nomination which the people had
INSTRUCTED" and. the people took it into
their own hands, nominating him by $500 ma
jority in township elections. |
.,-Barnum has sent an agent to England to of. |
fer the winning bully in the great prize fight
great price to come and exhibit himself at the
New York Museum for few weeks. Twenty
five cents sight-walk up and see the brute !
The mild and humane editor of the Atlanta
(Ga.) Southern COntederacy proposes the following
method of getting rid of all who do not subscribe
to the divinity Of slavery: e--'E@ ,''@
"Let citizens make an example of about
forty of the rngleaders that nfest this commune
ty. by general gibbetting from the railroad
bridge. 1t IS unnecessary to erect gallOws, but
swing them like dogs from the most convenient |
place. When the time for action comes we can
point them out, and if necessary will adjust the
Sg crap We are opposed to hanging an abo-
iltonlst with rope; we prefer something that is |
indigenous to the soil of the country. Hence we
suggest tough grapevine.
The abolition and incendiary scoundrels must |
De driven from this city very soon, or else assas
sination and murder will be the consequence He
that hath ears to hear let him hear, and he that
hath eyes to see let him see.''
The Temperance men behaved badly the 9TH
er day at Saharville, Ohio. They had arragned
a member of the ''Sons for violation Of. his !
pledge. During the trial, brother in-law gave
the lie to a witness, and sent it home with blow
Then followed promiseuous fight, in which all
the movable furniture of the apartment was SHE'D
back and forth many tunes, the whole affair wind
ing up with pyrotechnie display, caused by the |
upsetting of two hot stoves. This was on Sasur-
day; Sunday was passed in threatenings and bra. |
vado; on Monday, two of the ci-deoant Sons of
Temperance met in the street, the one armed with
druggists pestle the other with carving knife
Thus unequally matched, they fought till the by
ISLANDERS separated them. The temperance cause
seems to have been the greatest sufferer.
"A Republican county Convention met on Sat
urday, the 18th ult., at Occoquan, Prince William
county, Virginia, fol- the purpose of choosing del
egates TO the Wheeling Convention. Strong res
olutions were passed in favor of the Republican
party, protesting against the censorship of the
South, and demanding freedom of speech. After
enumerating several of the absurd and burden
some provisions of slave legislation, they come
out with the following resolution
i"And all this must be borne without murmur |
on our part, charged as abolitionists and
dlsioyal to Virginia. Thus after careful review
of the politics of the country we forced to the
conclusion that in the coming contest we are to |
make choice between the Democratic and Re- I
publican parties. as we are convinced that every
other party will be swept away by the issues of
The Mobile REGISTER, a Douglas paper, allu.
ding to the introduction of slavery into New Hex
leo, says & -g.ss
"Under the non-intervention principle embrac-
ed in the Kansas Nebraska legislation, 239 ,OG0
miles of free territory have been converted into
siaue territory. and the will of the sqaGtter has
carried slavery degree and q half north of the |
old slave line of $500"
The following is copy of draft received in
New York for payment through one of the prin-
eipal banks:
WASHINGTON JAZZ, March %, 1860.