The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-06-23
Che Gmpuriia Mews.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMs.


UsoLE SANS FARM.-The amount of
land the United States Government has for
sale is almost incalculable. AL the people
Of fourteen States and Territories derive
their title to their land from the Federal
Government, and the records and files evin-
cling the inception of their rights are pre-
served in the general land Office at Wash
ington. The public domain now covers a
surface, exclusive of water, of I,45o, 900.
600 acres. The Government has sold about
I9o, 900, 900 acres of land during the last
quarter of century, for less than $780,
OOO, 900. It will thus be seen, Uncle Sam s
farm ia still sufficiently large for practical
purposes. and though he should sell off
lands for centuries to come, he would have
an abundance still, even if be does not en-
large his borders by the annexation of Gu
ba, Mexico and half the rest of the world.
STAMPEDE OF NEGROES Frederick
(Md.l Examiner, of May 3oth, says:
"On Monday night some eight or ten
slaves. belonging to persons in this city
and vicinity, absconded in body One of
them, for whom reward of three hundred
dollars is offered in another column, be-
longed to Mrs. Caroline E. Brengle, of this
city; others to Mrs. Mary Hammond,
Messrs. John Smith, Ezra Houck, Chris
tian Thomas and others. The plan of the
fugitives was evidently preconeerted, and
advantage was taken of the holiday to make
good their escape. It has been suggested
that the approach of the first of June, on
which day the law forbidding manumissions
will go into effect, was the cause of their
departure"
AN IRISH STAMPEDE FROM DEMocRAcY.-
The Irish of Menasha, Wis, have publish
ed their reasons for quitting the Democrats
and going over to the Republicans. They
say they have found the Democratic pro-
LESSONS of regard for the working men to
be false, that the Democrats have failed to
support the homestead bill, aud are now
making an effort to degrade labor, Demo-
cratic Senator's declaring that "labor is the
Legitimate sphere of slaves: that labor should
be owned and not hired,' that striking a
blow at the very liberties of nine tenths of
the Democratic voters of the North.
THERE WERE GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS"
The theory that humanity of the antedi-
luvian period existed in forms which would
now be considered colossal has found many
adherents among scientific men. A fossil
cred near Abbeville, in France, was regard
ed as a proof of this theory. A DR.. Full
raft, of Berlin, has more recently found 9TH
er remains of some antediluvian giant in
the village of Gluten, just at the junction
of the Rhine and Dussal. The discovery
has created quite futter among the wise
men Of Germany, and commission has
been formed for digging in divers places of
the same geological formation as that where
in the giant skeleton was found.
ONE OF JOHN BRowN's MEN KILLED
Yesterday morning a tonnage train east,
from Martinsburg, when at Lock House,
three miles west of Point of Rocks, ian
over and killed a free colored man, named
Henry Brown, who was lying on the track.
His head was severed from the body. He
had been to picnic at the Point of Rocks,
and drinking too much became oblivious
of passing events, and trains in particular,
laid down on the railroad track and went to
sleep. The deceased is supposed to have
been one of Old Browns confederates, as
he worked with him on the place near Har
per's Ferry.-Baltinaore San, May 80.
Our COUNTRY DIsGRAoED IN SICILY
Letters from Italy, received by the steamer
Arabia, report that Mr.. Henry II. Barstow,
the American consul at Palermo, has been
guilty of an act of perfdy which will for
ever brand him with infamy. This misrep-
resentative of land of liberty was instru-
mental in betraying Father Ottavio LAMA,
one of the noblest and purest of patriots,
into the hands of the agents of the vilest
The accounts state that on the l It'll of April
cts lod fha Of fbaI
arrest of Father LAMA, by American in
tervention, on board merchant vessel
bearing the '.stripes and stars" and that the
act was committed By the agency of Mr..
Carstow, the American Consul The d.
plomatic corps to Palermo have refused to
hold any further communication with this
traitor against humanity-this alder and
abettor of the despotism of the second Bonn
ba, who thus prostitutes his official position.
If one quarter part of the stories reported
about this Barstcw are true, he should be at
once dismissed from the service Of free
republic, and suffer the official, as well as
the social, disgrace awarded to renegades.-
Boston Transcript, Nay 80.
SELLING FREE MAN AT AucT.oN-A
communication to the Cincinnati Gazette
from Newport, Kentucky. states that Charles
Wagner, an alleged fugitive slave, Is to be
sold at auction on Monday next, June 4th.
It appears that he had been induced to leave
Cincinnati, and was carried across the river
into Kentucky. There he was arrested as
runaway, the men who had kidnapped him
claiming reward of seventy five dollars.
By threats and menaces he was led to con-
TESS that he had a master, but no one has
appeared to claim him, and it is believed
that he told the story at the suggestion of
these men. He is now to be sold into ser
vitude, without any opportunity to prove
his freedom. to pay the reward and the fees
of the officers. The balance. if there be
any, goes into the treasury of Kentucky.
ANorHER VICTIM OF SPrRIrUALIsM.-The
Pittsburg Gazette states that Charlas Hig
by, late postmaster at New Brighton, Bea-
yer county, Pa, recently became crazy from
the effects of spiritualism. He embraced
the delusion some years ago. and became
l.. e., faI foyy e