The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-06-09
TERRITORIAL. NEWS ITEMS.

| TERRITORIAL. NEWS ITEMS.
We notice the white covered wagons of
immigrants in our streets almost daily
Some 90 south into Linn, Bourbon, Allen,
Coffey and Anderson counties, while a
good many are seeking Breckenridge, Mad
ison and Chase. There is also a pretty
strong tide setting toward tue Smoky Hill
and Republican valleys. From what we
observe, we Judge that the immigration of
the present season will be fully equal to
that of last year or the year before. There
is still room for Observation-Disclosures Rep.
The Olathe johnson county, Herald
says that twenty thousand Swedes have
selected that point, through their agents, as
their future homes, and in a few months
Olathe will be the largest city west of st.
Louis ~ Wonder if Kansas City, Leaven-
worth and St. Joseph won't sell out cheap
after this announcement?
Mr.. E. W. Pierce brought into our
office yesterday an immense Maidstone,
which was brought in from the Territory
about ten miles out on the Santa Fe road.
Of course it had dissolved considerable, but
when brought to the Office was as large as
goose egg, and about the same shape. 1t
must have been at least twice that size when
first found So, our hail storm yesterday
wasn't any great affair after all, when COM
pared with the one little west of US
Kansas City jour. Of CON-, eth ut.
They have some very sharp men down
in Southern Kansas. One fellow down that
way, who glories in the proprietorship of a
paper city little distance off the travelled
road, the principal thoroughfare to which is
traced by spotted trees and stakes leading
! from the main road to said oity, has the
following couplet written out in full on a
stake stuck at the point of divergence of the
two roads:
Follow the stakes and blazes,
Or you will be jay-hawked abe Jases"
We couldn't learn that |'Pickles'' had
any interest in that city.-QuindarO 1Fib.
"A splendid rain fell on Sunday night,
and another on Wednesday morning. The
amount of good done is incalculable, and
the elongated faces which the farmers have
been wearing for some weeks back have re-
Taxed into the broadcast of broad grins.-
TT: Scott Democrat.
The majority of the laws enacted by
our last Legislature went into effect on the
first of April last, the balance on the first of
May. We may be DESTROYS of knowing the
provisions of certain acts during the year,
and are compelled to yield to the govern
ment swindle of SO each for certified copies.
The farmers and the business men of the
Territory require the early issuing of the
statutes nearly as much as the profession, yet
they must Join in the march to the Secre-
tary's chamber, and disgorge to the tune of
from 81 to $25 to learn the nature of the
laws which are said to be operating upon
them. Is this right? Is it justice ?
When admitted, our State Constitution will
remedy the evil, and others which are known
to exist among some of our prominent Dem
ocratic officials Grasshopper Fails Gazette.
The teamsters who have been in the
employ of the Government and Salt Lake
contractors are, we have been informed, on
a strike for an advance on the price offered
by Mr.. Irwin, the present contractor. We
are told that Mr.. offers to employ teams
ters at S25 per month, and discharge them
at Salt Lake. They came to the conclusion
that this was not enough, as $25 would not
bring them back to the States, and demand
$40 per month, discharge at Salt Lake City,
or $25 per month for the round trip.-Lea
venaCOrkh Herald.
Topeka was visited by high wind a
few days sinees which blew down the walls
of the Congregational Church and unroofed
several dwellings. The neighboring town
of Tecumseh also suffered similarly from
the effects of the wind.
The recent rains are bringing forward
the spring crops with great rapidity. five
continue to have good weather, farmers may
look with entire confidence for the very best
crops of all kinds of spring grains and roots.
-T6peka Tribune.
-Yivaldi, of the Manhattan Express, in
hosting the names of Lincoln and Hamlin,
pledges himself TO keep them at the mast
head until they are elected to the Offices for
which they are respectively candidates -
We ezpect to do .'that same" ourselves.
"A grand Republican ratification meet
ing was held at Topeka few nights since.
at which great enthusiasm prevailed Du-
ring the proceedings, delegation arrived
from Auburn, bringing large transpa-
rency on which was portrait of ''Honest
Old Abe with coat and vest off. huge
beetle in his hands. and splitting rails from
an immense log before him. At sight of
the painting, the whole audience rose and
gave three rousing cheers for the Working
Mems Candidate
We learn, from the LeavenEorth Times,