The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-12-22


The revenue of the Post Office Depart.
ment for 1850, falls short of the expenses
about S5.655, 7o5-the total expenditure
being Sl4.874.772.
Petitions are being circulated in Michi.
gan. asking the forthcoming Legislature to
repeal the Personal Liberty Laws now on
| the statute book.
The banks of Kentucky have determined
not to suspend specie payment, They con-
slider that it would afford no commercial
relief.
The entire cost of taking the late census
| is stated to have been s1,64e, 900, an in.
crease over the previous one. of $245, 600
John Johnson of Dayton, Ohio, recently
paid his sixtieth years subscription to the
National Lntslligsneer. z'
There are, according to the Blue-Book,
781 South Carolinians on Uncle Sans pay.
roll. OF this number, nine have recently
resigned
The Burlington Iowa. RaaOkeye says
there are two thousand bushels of grain in
that city awaiting shipment for the Kansas
sufferers. Money contributions are wanted
to pay freight.
1t is believed that million of Italians in
arms, flushed with the new wine of victory,
will take the field in the spring to perfect
the unity of Italy.
The people of Cincinnati, dissatisfied with
The result of the census taken BY the u S.
Marshal have, at their own expense, had
another taken. The latter makes the popu-
lation 10000 more than the former.
Mr.. Seward will not make speech at
present. He watches the progress of events
in the meanwhile.
The bill to repeal the personal liberty law
of Vermont has been indefinitely postponed
by vote of 1876 to So. There were 80
Republican voters against the postpone
ment.
Gov. Gist's message proposes that the
sovereign State of South Carolina shall en-
ploy Adams Express to carry its mails.-
Thus the first practical suggestion toward
working the new Government looks to a
Northern Company for an agent.
The alleged forgery of the will of the
late Senator Broderick, which gives $780,
600 to the editor of New York sporting
paper, is to be investigated.
Whittier. the Poet, in letter to Republi-
can meeting in Massachusetts,, which he had
haA" :aviFaa to attends characterizes =. j.
ferences between the North and the South
as ga quarrel with the census tables and
Greenleafs arithemetic +; figure three COM
planning that is not equal to figure FIVE"
Probably the oldest member of the Ma
sonic Order in the United States, at least
IL New England. is Ebenezer Mower, mem
Der of the Morning Star Lodge of Worces-
ter. He is now over hundred years of
age was initiated February 10, 1894, and
has thus been Mason nearly sixty seven
years. .. srs-. So -.-r -s
The new Republican paper at Washing
ton is called the National Republican. The
editor is Mr.. Coombs, of Southern Ohio,
Republican of the Corwin stamp-tbat is
Republican with strong conservative pro-
clivities. 7' tr
Some of the new Volunteer Regiments
in England are talking of inviting the New
York Seventh Regiment to come over and
make visit. 1t is reported that the Eng
ish Government handsomely offers to furn
sh frgate to bring them free of expense.
The project is sort of acknowledgment
or hospitable treatment received by the
Prince of Wales in America
The Charleston Mercury Sin behalf of the
people of the State of South Carolina - calls |
1pon ''each and all of her sons, who are
low engaged in the military service of the
government of the United States, to renouncs
1t once the sword and rations of the vulgar
,ppressor, and hasten at once to the homes
hat gave them BIRTH