The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-02-15
Public Meeting.-County Lines.

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Public Meeting.-County Lines. 49,
A protest against any change in the
present boundary between Usage aud Shaw
nee counties having been signed by forty
sac citizens of Ridgeway township. Usage
y-tsUenty.f four being the whole num-
Der of votes received by Mr.. Weleh, in this
township, at the last election; and report
having been circulated that signatures had
been obtained to that protest by misrepre-
sensations, written notices were posted up
on the 18th, in four public places, for a
meeting at the Ridgeway House, on the
25th day of January, 1869. In pursuance
of such notice. a number of the citizens of
said township met, at the time and place
mentioned in the call, and organized by
electing Rev. Martin Seller president, and o.
Fl. Browne secretary. 1t is proper, how
ever, to state here that, an informal ,deei-
sion of the Supreme Court being reported
to have been made, in entire accordance
with the views and wishes of the people on
the subject of county lines, the number of
persons in attendance was not large.
o. H. Browne submitted series of res
olutions, which were duly considered and
unanimously adopted. The first resolution
is omitted. For the substance of it. see
decision of the Supreme Court. By the
second resolution, Rev. ]. w. Fox, Rev.
M. Seller, Hon. H. H. Heberling, Edwin
Smith, VIM. Aitchison, Sen, and D. G.
Rosencrantz, were elected delegates to To-
peka, to attend to the interests of Usage
county. 49,. ........
The third resolution was as follows:
Resolued, That if any person who has
signed the protest aforesaid, wishes to with
/ draw his name from the same, he is hereby
solicited, in the most affectionate manner,
| to do so.
! No person withdrew his name, or ex
pressed any desire to do so.
The fourth resolution was as follows:
ResoLved, That the allegation that sigma
lures have been obtained to said protest by
| misrep presentation, is, in the opinion of this
meeting, a FALsEHooD, a0ithout any back
bone.
TIf personal responsibility is desirable.
the Secretary will accommodate.
The fifth resolution expressed profound
respect and esteem for the people of Shaw
nee county. -. sEafa
The sixth resolution instructed the dele
gates to urge the Legislature to amend the
present apportionment. SO as to give the
! Twelfth District seven members of the
House of Representatives and three Sena-
ators, and allow the whole of Usage county
to vote in that district, where she properly
| belongs. a' -t :ee#
On motion, adjourned. as
o: II. BRowNE, Secretary. III. .t..,-..
Mr.. LincoIn's Last Joke. 81
We learn from excellent authority, says
| the Philadelphia Bulletin, that during the
recent visit of the finance committee of our
Board of Trade to Washington, an informal
visit was paid to President Lincoln, by
whom the committee were received with all
his well known affability and cordially.
Encouraged by the Presidents open man
ner, one of the committee made bold to at
tack him directly upon the topic nearest his
own heart, when the following dialogue
ensued: -s<" a ~
s'Mr. President, I wish you would tell
me where the Burnside Expedition has
gone" ltssT es'fse A7E 81 81
- Why don't you know where it has
gone thought everybody knew that
swell, sir, it may appear very ignorant
in me, but must confess don't know
aud that would like to know, exceed
ingly.'' aF ssr -
lyon really surprise me, sir. The papers
have been full of it; everybody has been
talking of it,, and I did not suppose there
was any body who did not know all about
it. OF course I will tell you, if you prom
Use not to give your authority" aaa
The gentleman promised solemnly. 80
The President drew his chair close to
him, and with his hand car efully interposed
between him and the rest of the company,
whispered, with mysterious emphasis:
1.-The Burnside Expedition, Sit, has gone
to Sea- r.
The Richmond Dispatch says that the
Missouri difficulty has bsen satisfactorily
arranged, and adds that General Price will
doubtless be commissioned Major Gener-
al, and the Missouri troops received into the
Confederate service as twelve months vol |