The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-05-02

Robert w. Taylor, late Ohio Slate Audi
tor, has entered upon his duties as first
Comptroller of the Treasury, as successor to
the late Elisha Whittlesey. i,1ass,af3
The daily receipts at the Treasury average
100000. The subscriptions with Jay.
Cooke d Co., yesterday, were S13, 10000.
The Commissioners of Internal Revenue.
has decided that hotel keepers who sell IL
quor. must take out license as hotel keep
er and license as retail liquor dealer also:
John A. Logan, of Illinois, has been con-
irmed by the Senate as a Major General.
He is straight-out radical War Democrat.
The Charleston Courier impresses lis
readers with the importance of producing
something to eat, in the following aphoris-
teal utterance: ''One grain of corn In tie
earth is as bullet in the heart of the Van
kee; and ridge of potatoes is worth any
mile of breast works from Vicksburgto the
Rappabannock." Corn and potatoes will
doubtless make good fight, but We prefer
planting cannon.-Louisvlle Journal. ,;-.
Col. Kimball, who was shot by Gen. Cor
coran, was printer by trade, and for many
years publisher of the Woodstock (Vt.)
Age. He was also, at one time, connected
In the Nashville Post Office, one night
last week, six clerks distributed and stamp
ed, and three others counted, tied up, and
way billed thirty Sir thousand letters be-
tween eight o'clock and daybreak, working
without cessation the whole night. When
their task was executed, all hands were so
exhausted that they tumbled over and fell
asleep on the mail bags. a
Col. Forney, in letter from New York
to the Philadelphia Press, says: "Who do
you think 1 met last night? Franklin Pierce,
neither more nor less. And looking like
bridegroom-fat, friendly, and (pardon me,
General, fifty-four. I had not seen him
for three years. Remembering his kind
ness to me in days gone by, and his genial
nature and generous heart, 1 felt glad once
more to take him by the hand. We spoke
no politics, for we differ much, l am sorry
to feel, on these troubles; but / soon saw
that we did not differ on one point, viz; that
there was to be no separation of the Repub-
! lic."
1t is said that while in the genuine postal
notes, each side OF the figures 90, and be-
| Depositary," there are three small curved
]
It is stated that single firm pays over
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a
year to the London Times for advertising.
The American merchants do not begin TO
invest so much money in advertising as do
those of England.
The births in Philadelphia, in 1861, num-
bered 14.741; the deaths, 15,O97. The
excess of male births was 447.
Three hundred bales of cotton from Bra
iii surprises the New Workers, but they buy
it at extraordinary prices.
What's whiskey bringing?" inquired a
dealer in the article. bringing men to the
gallows, and women and children to want"
was the truthful reply. ~
Look not mournfully into the past--it
comes norback again. Wisely improve the
PRESENT. is thine. GO forth to meet the
shadowy future without fear and with man
ly heart.
There is many one who no more thinks
of carrying his religious faith into his count
ing house than of wearing ife-preserver
in his parlor.
The greatest hypocrite and dissembler
never deceived his neighbors half so often
as he has deceived himself r
} At Montmartre Cemetery tombstone has
! been erected with a colossal tear carved on
it, and the words nderneath-"Judgeh how
} we loved him."
Good nature, like bee, collects its honey
from every herb. Ill nature, like SPIDER
sucks poison from The sweetest flowers