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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-05-19

at the house of Mr. Gardiner, after the launch OF
the new packet ship named after the distinguish
ed orator., q gentleman present, in a convenient
interval IN the speeches, toasted Mr. Everett as
the httest candidate for the President of the
United States. Mr.. Everett replied in joeular
manner, which caused a hearty laugh, that he
"did not expect that from one of his friends"
! The Republicans of Virginia held their State
Convention for the choice of delegates to the Chi
cago Convention. at Wheeling. They adjourned
after doing their business, to meet next year at
Richmond, the Capitol of the State.
The Michigan Republican State Convention
passed strong resolutions favoring the nomination
of Gov. Seward for the Presidency. The dele
gates are all understood to be Seward men.
John D. Defrees, writing from Washington
to the indianapolis Journal says
"Twenty years ago was a locker on at the do
ings of Congress. The two men who attracted
the most attention William Cost johnson of
Maryland, and Thomas F. Marshall of Kentucky.
They were the most brilliant orators-the lob
served of all Observers Mr.. johnson died in
this city few days ago, pauper and outcast,
unnoticed and unlamented. The papers, a few
days ago. informed US that Mr. Marshall is the in
mate of a hospital at Buffalo, diseased and miser
able, and about to die Intemperance, of course.
is the cause of all this
In recent speech IN congress- MT McCter-
nand of Illinois, comparing Judge Douglas to
eagle. INDUCED in this flight of rhetoric As
he scared far above the heads of his enemies, his
tai! quirered in the air in proud defiance of them
AS poetry this is sublime, perhaps, but the atti-
tude in which the Judge is placed would be very
awkward in prose.
in the Democratic national convention eight
years ago, there were 4s ballots, and Gen. Pierce,
who was nominated, was not brought forward IN
til the 18th, when he had 55 votes. Mr.. Douglas
was then prominent candidate, and his highest
vote 80. -Four years ago Mr.. Buchanan's
nomination was made on the 18th ballot; the first
stood Buchanan l25, Pierce 1872 Douglas SO, and
the 10TH Buchanan I68 Douglas l22.
The following Slave States will be represent
ed in the Chicago Convention Delaware, Mary
land, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri.
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CENTRAL KANSAS.
the rose.
D. R.

Ii has been customary amongst certain
class of Kansas people to speak of the Kaw
River Valley as Central Kansas" all north
of it as Northern Kansas" and all south
of it as Southern Kansas" This has
arisen somewhat from the fact that during
the difficulties" the towns along the Kaw
River were the headquarters for the
contending forces-botb Free State and
Pro-slavery-in the Territory; and also
from the fact that until the spring of 1857
settlement had not been made in the extreme
south and southwest; and consequently the
Kaw River might have been said to be the
''center of population" in Kansas,
With the politicians, toe, of the Kaw
Valley and Northern Kansas, it has been
customary to regard the Kaw Valley as the
center for the purpose of giving the 'lion's
share of Offices and political power north
of the river. With them, all south OF the
Kaw River is Southern Kansas and de-
serving OF no more consideration than that
portion lying north of the river.
But ever since the spring of 1857, when
the great bulk of the emigration poured in
to the valleys of the Usage, Neosho, Cot
tonwood and their tributaries, the ''center
of population" has gradually been approach
ing the geographical center of the Terrific
ry /; and along with this population slowly
but surely has come the political power. un-
til at present, its center, too, is far south oil
the Kaw River Valley, and is still going
southwark.
Geographically, the counties of Lykins,
Franklin, Weller, Breckenridge, Chase and
Marion form the central tier of counties in
Kansas and the center of population and
political influence is gradually but surely
approaching this line. The center, and
country south of the center. in the essen
tials of climate, soil timber, water, stone
and coal, is far superior TO that portion ly-
ing north and for that reason must one
day contain a more dense and wealthy pop
ulation.
The Central, Southern and South western
portions of Kansas have been checked in
growth by the existence of large bodies OF
land owned and occupied by the Indians a.
Reserves. which formed an insurm cunt
able barrier to settlement but these are now
fast disappearing, and in the next FIVE years
win probably have altogether disappeared.
The census returns viii show an immense
gain for Central and Southern Kansas over
Northern Kansas in the last two years.
gain in both population and wealth. The
growth. toe. has been healthy-not stimu-
lated by speculation-and will furnish a
sure index for ihe future.
Politically, too, the gain is great. and
destined to be still greater. The Border
Rufian Legislature deliberately DISTINGUISHED
the greater portion of Central and Southern
Kansas, and the succeeding Free State Leg
islature outrageously perpetuated the dis
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SOUTH AND SOUTH WEST KANSAS.

That portion of Kansas answering to the
description of the South and South west,
comprises the organized counties of Madison,
Greenwood, Hunter, Butler, Otoe, Marion
and Chase, and is watered mainly by Eagle
Greek, the Verdigris, Fall River, Walnut,
Whitewater, Little Arkansas, Cotton
wood, and their numerous tributaries
The general characteristics of this portion
of Kansas are the same in all its parts. 1t
abounds in stone of excellent quality, coal,
rough, generally slightly rolling, while the
bottoms are broad and level, but never
marshy. The soil is rich and fertile, while
the climates salub,ious to marked degree.
There are many heavy settlements along
the streams we have mentioned, most
ly made within the last two years. The
settlers are mainly an energetic, industrious
and moral class of people, who are making
for themselves permanent homes. There
are no better communities anywhere than
are to be found in South and South west
Kansas.
There are thousands of desirable quarter
sections of Government land yet untaken in
this section of Kansas-many of them with
timber, stone and water, and all of them
closely situated to those articles. Such
chances for obtaining homes for mere r't-
lance, are nowhere else offered.
Settlers are needed to assist in developing
the almost exbaustless resources of this
country-men of energy, men of capital,
farmers, mechanics, artizans, merchants and
manufacturers. Almost every branch of
business carried on in the East could be es-
tablished here with profit. Saw and grist
mills are wanted manufact cries of plows
and all kinds of agricultural implements,
furniture, brooms and earthware black
smiths, carpenters, She. !akers, timers,
tailors, harness makers, doctors, lawyers and
ministers. There is glorious field here for
you all, which is as yet comparatively un-
its natural resources.
For the raising of all kinds of stock, but
more especially cattle and sheep, this por-
ton of Kansas is unequalled by any other
portion of the American continent. 1t is
the garden spot of the great pastoral re-
gion'' of the continent which has supported
in luxurious plenty the countless thousands
of buffaloes, deer, elk and antelope, that
have for centuries roamed over its vast ex-
panse.
We have only room at this time to say to
those who are looking toward the West with
view to obtaining cheap homes in rich
and healthy country to those who wish to
make safe and profitable investments of their
money to those who are seeking for robust
health, the nerve and stamina of life and
to all, of whatever creed. class, sect or sex,
high or low, rich or poor, e"Central and
South west Kansas will prove the Eldorado
of your reasonable hopes and expectations,
if you but bring stout hearts and willing
hands with you for the work that is waiting
to be done CoMEi"
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

A Democratic orator, in Philadelphia, addressing
amass meeting of his party day or two previous
to the recent election in that city exclaimed:
"If any one dares to come into my neghbor-
hood and preach such treason as that of g. W.
Curtis and Wendell Phillips, by the ever living
God. he shall never leave the place alive !"
Such is the spirit, such the love of free thought
and free speech, which animate the great mass of
the strengthening party.
One hundred and twenty seven guns were
fired in Savannah, in honor of the seeding dele
gates from the Charleston Convention. The feel
ing in Charleston appears to be strongly in favor
of the seceders, for the Herald correspondent says
that Perry. of the two delegates from South
Carolina, who remained in the Convention, was
Kissed by the galleries every time he cast vote.
Seth Bartlett, of Coventry, Vermont, has
four sons who are lawyers. The Iras burgh Stand.
ard says -Four lawyers out of Eve sons! We
venture TO say there is not another family in Yer
mont that presents such deplorable example of
wholesale depravity."
Northern democrats must feel highly compli-
.-ented by the remarks of Mr.. Burrows of Ar.
kansas, in the Charleston Convention. HE con
sidered them worse than the Black Republicans
He did not care whether the Black Republican:
whipped them or they whipped the Black Repub
( icans OF the two he considered the Black Re
publicans as the most open and manly foe of tht
South - Is this the guerdon earned. after years
of devotion to slavery, the part of northern
& Democrats Oh
The county elections of Minnesota have result
ed so well for the Republicans that the Winona
Republican .xultingly promises four thousand ma
E!ority next fall over anybody, not excepting
Douglas
The Charleston Mercury publishes the lat'
sPeeeh of Owen Lovejoy. Any Northern paper
containing such matter would be burnt as insur
dictionary
:. Yearly every Republican county convention
3 "a ui' State of Illinois have declared for Abraham
'iLe''h for the Presidency cold Abe" is strong
AT the leyee at East Boston Saturday evening
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EMPORIA, KANSAS, sATURDAY. NAY.19. 1860


franchissaent; and nothing but whole
somesfear OF the conseq asnces induced tie
Republican Legislature which followed. to
do partial justice to this portion of Kansas.
The Kam. Valley aud Northern. Kansas saw
in. this rapid growth Of The Center and
South the destruction Of the power hef had
SO long welded. and they have been 10th to
recognize this portion Of Kansssas entitled
to anything but mere pittaace in thepo-
litical power of the TSsritoFy
The Center and South vii hereafter be
united. and both Wiling epd able TO assert
their rights and compel their ecognition.-
Their commercial and Zeal interests are
identical. and they viii no longer submit to
their being ignored.
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DIR. CUNNING ON THE "SIGNs OF THE
TINES. DR.. Cumming has been stating
his opinion, at Leeds, respecting the great
events which, according to his interpreta-
ton of the Book of Daniel and the Apoca-
lypse, are looming in the future. He said
the year 1867 seemed to end six thousand
years of the worlds history, and from the
earliest periods onward it had been the al
most universal belief that the six days OF
creation were typical of those six thousand
years, and that the seventh day Of creation,
or the Sabbath, was typical of the millen-
NAL rest of one thousand years. But they
would say that, supposing this were so,
they were at this moment over one hundred
and forty years short of the six thousand
years. 1t was remarkable fact, however,
that the ablest chronologists, irrespective of
all prophetic theories, had shown that a
mistake of upward of one hundred years
had been made in calculating the chronicle
gy of the world, and that the year 1860 OF
the Christian era began not from the year
4004 of the worlds history, but in the
year 4138, and that the year of Christ's
birth was five years before that, or in 4138.
If his premises were just, then they were
at that moment within seven years of the
exhaustion of the six thousand years; so
that if 1867 was to be the termination of
this economy, they bad arrived at the Sat
urday evening of the worlds long and
dreary week. If this were so, it was mag
niGcent thought that there were some in
that assembly who would never die. They
were just plunging into days such as they
had never seen; an European war was loom
ing, more dreadful than that through which
they had just passed, and when these things
happened it would be seen that the etate-
ments he had uttered were not the dreams
of fanaticism, but the words of soberness
and truth.
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A venerable miss observes that the hus-
band in this case was fair sample of bis
class:
my little angel" asks the husband OF
his wife. in railroad carriage, ''are you
comfortable in your corner %
Very much so, thank you dear
You don't feel the cold 90
"Not at ALL"
t-The door closes well 90
Very well. thank you.''
We'll. then. come and change places
with me-
Fanny Fern says there are two things
which woman cannot do, namely, ''sharp-
en- lead pencil and ''do up bundle
1t is mistake to suppose that .'time is
money" We know of two or three rail-
roads that make frst-rate time, but not a biz
of money
A hungry man does right well to eat The
egg; for he might starTe before il got to be
. pullet
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GEN. JACKSON AT NEW ORLEANS.

From Parton's Life of Andrew Jackson.l
Early on the morning of the second of
December, 1914, party of gentlemen rode
at brisk trot from the lake toward the city
of New Orleans. The mist, which, during
the night, brOods over the swamp, had not
cleared off. The air was chilly, damp, and
uncomfortable. The travellers, however,
were evidently hardy men, accustomed to
exposure, and intent upon purposes too alb
sorbing to leave any consciousness of ex-
ternal discomforts. Though devoid of all
military display, and even of the ordinary
equipments of soldiers, the bearing and ap-
pearance of these men betokened their con-
nection With the profession or arms The
chief of the party, which was composed of
FIVE or SIX persons, was tall, gaunt man,
of very erect carriage. with countenanee
full of stern decision and fearless energy.
but furrowed with care and anxiety HIS
complexion was saiow and unhealthy his
hair was iron-gray, and hls body thin and
emaciated, like that of one who had Just re-
covered from lingering and painful sick
ness. But the fierce glare of his bright
and hawk-like eye betrayed soul and spir-
it which trlumphed over all the infrmities
of the body. His dress was simple and
nearly threadbare. a small leather cap pro-
tected his head, and shor, Spanish blue
cloak his body, whilst his feet and legs were
encased in high Dragon boots. long igno-
rant of polish or backing. which reached
TO the knees. In age he appeared TO have
passed about forty-fiye WinIers-tbe seas,rn
for which his stern and hardy nature seemed
peculiarly adapted.
Jackson has GOMEZ There was magic in
the news Every witness. living and dead.
testifes to the electric effect of the Gene
RAILS quiet aud sudden arrival. There was
q truce at once to INDIGESTION, 20 indolence.
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A train on the Hudson River Railroad re-
Gently ran seven miles in six minutes. be-
tween Albany and Casilesen. This is at
the rae Of 10 nailes m hour.
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TO incredulity, to actious debate, to paltiy
scontehtions, 10 wild alarm. He had come,
so worn down with disease aud fatigue of
his ten day 3 ride on horseback that he was
more fit for the hospital than the field. But
tlsere WAS that in his manner and aspect
which revealed the master. That viii of
his triumphed over the languor and anguish
of disease, and every one who approached
him felt that the man for the hour was there.
The new aid de-samp, Mr.. Livingston, as
hesrode from the parade ground by the GEN
erals side, ihvised him home to dinner
The General promptly accepted the invita-
tons IL Glanced that the beautiful and gay
Mrs; ngsEons4 seadkr of society then
It New Orleans. 81 le astl a neriean,
bad a little dinner party that day, composed
only of ladies, most of whom were young
and lively Creole bellies. Mr.. Livingston
had sent home word that General jackson
had arrived, and that he should ask him to
dinner; piece Of news that threw the hos
pitafle lady into CONSERVATION. "'What
shall we do with this wild General from
Tennessee ?" whispered the girls to one an
other; for they had all conceived that Gen
eral Jackson, however becomingly he might
comport himself in an Indian fight, would
be most distressingly out of place at a fash
ionable dinner party in the first drawing
room of the most polite city in America
He was announced. The young ladies were
seated about the room. Mrs. Livingston
sat upon a sofa at the head of the apartment,
anxiously awaiting the inroad of the wild
fighter into the regions sacred hitherto to
elegance and grace. He entered. Erect,
composed, bronzed with long exposure to
the sun, his hair just beginning to turn gray,
clad in his uniform of coarse blue cloth and
yellow buckskin, his high boots Tapping
loosely about his slender legs, he looked, as
he stood near the door of the drawing room,
the very picture of warworn noble war
rior and commander. He bowed to the Ia
dies magnifcently, who all rose at bis en-
trance, as much from amazement as from
politeness. Mrs. Livingston advanced to-
ward him. With dignity and grace sell
dom equalled, never surpassed, he went for
ward to meet her, conducted her back to
her sofa, and sat by her side. The fair Gre
oles were dumb with establishment. In a
few minutes dinner was served, and the Gen
eral continued, during the progress of the
meal, to converse in an easy, agreeable man
ner, in the tone of society, of the sole top
ic of the time, The coming invasion. He
assured the ladies that he felt perfectly con-
fdent of defending the city, and. begged
that they would give themselves no.uneasi-
less with regard to the matter. He rose
soon from the table and left the house with
Mr.. Livingston. In one loud chorus, the
young ladies exclaimed to their hostess
is this your back woodsman? Why,
madam, he is prince -
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When, soon after dark, tie noise of pre-
paration in the British camp grew louder
and came nearer, there could not have been
much doubt in tie lines that another most
unquiet Sunday was in reserve for them
There was much silent and rather grim pre-
paraiion in Jackson's camp; a cleaning OF
arms, counting out of cartridges and ad-
justment of ffints, and careful loading of
muskets and rifles. Beside the thirty two
FOUNDER was heaped up bushel or two of
musket balls and fragments of iron, enough
to fill the piece up to the muzzle, and which
will fill it up to the muzzle if the enemy
come to close quarters, and deal such whole
sale death among them as no thirty two
FOUNDER has ever dealt before. Yes, grim
ness certainly prevails to a considerable ex-
tent. We are in earnest. Jackson walks
slowly along the lines just before dark
He, too, is grim, but confident. He wears
the look of man whose mind is wholly
made up. and who clearly knows what he
viii do in any and every case. He stops
occasionally to see that the stacked muskets
are all loaded. and says to PIanche's men,
as he goes along their part of The lines,
Don't fire until you see the whites of their
eyes, and if you want to sleep, sleep upon
your arms
At one O'Clock on the morning of this
memorable day. 1.-THE Bib of January. 1915
on a couch in room in The McCarty man
sion-house. Gen. Jackson lay asleep in his
worn uniform. Several of his aids slept
upon the floor in the same apartment, ali
equipped for the field. except that their
sword belts we're unbuckled and their swords
and pistols laid aside. A sentinel paced the
adjacent passage. S-ntinels moved noise
lessly about The building. which doomed up
large dim and silent in the foggy night,
among the darkeniug trees. Most of those
who slept al all that night were still asleep,
and there was as yet little stir in either camp
to disturb their plumbers.
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Major Iatour gives us lively French
picture of New Orleans, as it appeared du-
ring the last few days Of waiting for the
landing of the enemy: ''Such was tie uni
versal confidence inspired by the activity
and decision of the commander in chief,
added to the detestation in which the enemy
was held, and the desire to punish his au-
dacity, should be presume to land, that not
a single warehouse or shop was shut, nor
were any goods or valuable effects removed
from the city. At that period, New Or
leans presented very affecting picture to
the eyes of the patriot, and of all those
whose bosoms glow with the feelings of ma
tional honor, which raise the mind far above
the vulgar apprehension of personal danger
The citizens were preparing for battle as
cheerfully as if it had been party of pleas
ure, each In his yernacular tongue singing
songs of victory. Tie streets resounded
with Yankee Doodle, the Marseiles Hymn,
tie Chant du Depart, and other martial airs,
while those who had been long unaccus-
toned to military duty were furnishing their
arms and acceutrements. Beauty applaud
ed valor, and promised with her smiles to
reward the ills of the brave. Though in
habiting an open town, not above ten leagues
from the enemy, and never till now exposed
to wars alarms, the fair sex Of New Orleans
were animated with the ardor of their defend
ers, and with cheerful serenity at the sound Of
the drum presented themselves at the windows
and balconies to applaud the troops going
through their evolutions. and to encourage
their husbands, sons, fathers, and brothers,
TO protect them from tie insults of our fe-
rocious enemies, and prevent repetition of
the horrors of HAMPTON
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