The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-09-29

raj visage rotund. Leayenworth feels de-
cidedly better to-day than at any time du-
ring the last eighteen months, and is enjoy
ing healthier growth than ever before.
Punctual to the hour advertised. along
came the packet Thursday morning. and we
are off for Atchison. The boat is more
than usually crowded with passengers, and
loaded with freight. Among the passen-
gers are several members elect of the Mis-
souri, Legislature. and other prominent pro-
pro-slavery men of that State. OF course
they .'cussed and discussed" political mat
tiers; and, strange as it may seem, about
the only point on which they all agreed
was, that Lincoln would be elected Presi-
dent, administer the Government in a con-
sentative manner, and at the end of his
term be IN minority in both Houses of
Congress and also with the people, and the
Democrats would then march again into the
public crib, and stay there forever There
is little consolation. for the Democracy in
that view of the matter. and they are gem
orally avaiIing themselves of it. My own
opinion is. that Immediately after the cleo
ton of Mr.. Lincoln there will be an ANAL
gamaiion of alLthe opponents of Republi-
canism, in which Democracy will lose its
distinctive character. The Southern De-
mocracy will take refugein it as the only
means OF obtaining protection FOR Slavery
while a chronic hatred of Republicanism.
and the cohesive power of public plumber
will carry into it the Douglases, Hunts,
Brookses, and the Northern rag tag and
bob tail generally. This combination will
have majority in the Senate during the
next four years, and will use that majority
to thwart the measures of, and bring dis
grace upon, Mr.. Lincoln's Administration.
AS far as possible they will ignore the slave
.ry question, endeavor to quiet public ap-
prehension in regard to slavery extension,
and go into the Presidential canvass of 1864
simply in opposition to the measures of Mr..
Lincoln's administration. If successful,
the northern wing of the combination will
get the four hundred millions of public pat
ronage, and the South will get Mexico fol-
Slavery. / am willing to risk this predic-
ton and so put it on record.
At O'Clock we arrived at Atchison, and
take the cars for St. Joseph, twenty miles
distant. Here we are obliged to remain un.
til the next friday morning at 6. there
being no evening train on the H. & st. 10
R. R. This disappointment is somewhat
mitigated by stopping at the Pattee House
decidedly the best Hotel West of st. Louis
of which have any knowledge.
The H. & st. 10. R. R. is now in all its
appointments and general management
equal to any Western road, and is enjoying
an extensive patronage. The rate of speed
is an average of 90 miles an hour which
brings US to Quincy at P. NJ. Along the
entire line of this route, traversing the State
| of Missouri from West 10 East-from the
Missouri to the Mississippi-the effects of 8
twelve months drouth have been as terri
bic and are as plainly visible as any por
ton of Kansas. Wheat was an entire fail
ure, and corn and grass nearly so. The
drouth still continues and the earth is az
parched as during=tbe month of July. Th'
blow falls less heavily upon this country
than upon Kansas, because it has been Ion
ger settled and had larger surplus left from
last years crop, and is SO much nearer t.
the plenteous fields of Iowa and Illinois.
But I shear the trains shrill whistl
call" and must be off. so from here t.
Springfield. from where 1 shall probabl.
write you again. +.