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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-12-26
coma ENlPORIA. KANSAS, SATURDAY. DECEMBER o. 1863

as it relates to State Governments, has no
reference to States wherein loyal govern
ments have all the while been maintained,
and for the same reason it may be proper
TO further say, that whether the members
sent to Congress from any State shall be
admitted to seats, constilutionaily rests ex-
clusive!y with the respective Houses, and
not. to any extent, with the Executive; and
still further, that this proclamation is in
tended to present the people of the States
wherein the national authority has been sus-
pended, aud loyal State governments have
been subverted a mode by which the ma
tional authority over every loyal State gov
eminent may be established within said
States, orsany of them, and while the mode
presented is the best the Executive can sug=
gest with his present impressions it must
not be understood that another possible
mode would not be acceptable.
Given under my hand, at the City OF
Washington, this th,day of December, A.
D. 1868, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the 88th.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President. -- r
WIN. H. SEWARD, Sec'y of State
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WIN. H. SEWARD, Sec'y of State
The Lost Bows.

The public we'll know that one of the
sons of the editor of this paper was killed
in the Lawrence massacre. Him we buried
He rests with the martyred dead on the
mount above Lawrence. 1t was terrible
stroke to his parents to part with that dear
boy.
Bat a sadder affection was the loss of our
second son, Robert Speer, whose body has
never been found. We have heard number
less rumors, and have spared no pains to
follow them up in hopes, that the child
might be found. The last we saw of him
we put our arm affectionately on his shout
der, and asked him to see that our papers
were we'll mailed, while we went to rail
road meeting. David Purinton, a neigh
boris son, once our apprentice, faithful,
good boy, assisted him. Finishing their
work, they went to the Republican printing
office, where David usually slept, to keep
each other company. They were heard to
come in by gentleman and his wife occu-
plying an djoining room. The same gentle
man broke the door between the two apart
ments-a door unused and fast-to alarm
the boys when the murderels came. and
found their bed empty. A colored bow,
who thinks he knew them well, saw.them 10
the cellar. A neighbor says he saw Robert
pursue the rebels; another says he saw Da-
vid after they left. Reports reach us that
they were prisoners and shot--others that
Robert was hung by the murderers.
AS the two boys were known to be very
anxious to Join the army, some think they
may have pursued Quantrel, and when our
volunteer forces were turned back at the
Missouri line, with boyisb ambition and he
rosm, they might have joined the forces of
Gen. Ewing. Others think they might
have left to join the army the night before
Quantrel came, and be still alive
Every place where they might possibly
be dead-every well and cistern has been
searched in vain.
Robert was dressed in mixed plaid pants,
| lineu coat, fine French calf boots, and an
India hat. To his mother his clothing
would be easily recognized. She dreams OF
him in handsome blue soldiers dress, and
hopes even against hope that he may live
Money is nothing compared with the
lives or those dear children. Ill that we
have would we freely give for the mere iden-
tity Of his remains, if dead. But we rave
/ offered one hundred dollars reward as sue
fcient remuneration TO pay any person TO
taking pains to hunt up facts in regard t.
any body that might be found, or to Civ,
any information of him. if living. Freely
! gladly would we give it.
We would respectfully ask editors to copy
this notice, that nothing may be left IN
done; and any person having any informa
tion to communicate it.-Lawrence Dahl
Tribune.
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About S13 900 have been subscribed 10
San francisco for the Sanitary Commission,
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MATTERS IN BRIEF.


Wool is selling in Michigan at 7o@so
cts. per pound. ~
\ Blondin has gone into partnership with
wine merchant. T elI
The sales of public lands for November.
brought s22,O5O. it
Corn in Richmond is s1s per busheI and
coffee 8 10 per pound. $50
Kansas has received sc, 900 acres of land
for her Agricultural College. tiaai r-s.
Potatoes in Denver City are twelve cents
per pound. Other vegetables are nearly
exhausted. t'aa
Gen. Ewing has seized large quantity
OF cotton on its way from Fort Smith to
LeaveGWoFth. ..1 zssss- SO eel u
On the 9th inst, the safe of the paymas-
ter of the North Missouri railroad was rob-
bed of $4,000. .r
Joseph Faber, with nine other men, en-
route for. Denver, wers recently frozen to
death on the Platte.
T The New Hampshire Gazette completed
its one hundred and seventh year on the
first of October last,
Over four hundred millions of the FIVE
twenty loan have been taken up, which
leaves less than one hundred millions to be
sold.
Leayenworth contains a population of
between $4,000 and 10000, and is grow
ing faster than any other town in the whole
West
War meetings are being held in the larger
towns of Kentucky to devise some means
by which the draft may be avoided, if pos
sible.
A farmer near Law renee, Kansas, cleared,
this year, SO, 900 on Sorghum He made
his own syrup and sold it for so cents per
gallon.
The rebel General Gheatham is said to
have resigned his command. A great
many others will. before long, desert the
sinking ship.
| The Cleveland Wool Grower states that
the clip of wool in Ohio this season will be
100000 pounds, bringing from fifty to
sixty cents per pound.
The Louisville Journal learns that John
Morgan, with FIVE of his officers, was in
Cumberland county, Kentucky, on the 7th
inst, making for Dixie.
Between the first of January, 1868 when
| the law went into effect) and the thirtieth
of September, ,456. 81 4 acres of land were
entered under the Homestead law.
The ore from Bannock mines is exceed
ingly rich, resembling that taken from the
Gregory, Gold Dirt, and other veins when
they were first opened and worked
The cotton recently stopped by military
| orders at Leavenworth, Lawrence, Kansas
City and other points is said to be WORTH
$4,000. 1t came from Fort Smith.
Col. James Belger of the regular army,
lately Quartermaster at Baltimore, who was
tried sometime since by a court martial, has
been dishonorably dismissed the service.
The boys of Dayton, Ohio, have formed
a regiment of ten companies. with officers,
of wood sawyers. The soldiers families
are rapidly gaining wood piles by their
| labor
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IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN MINEsoTA.-The
fuel question has been solved most happily
in Minnesota, near the city Of ST Paul, by
tho discovery of vast beds of peat, which
the Press says are sufficient to supply the
city for centuries. Peat gives strong and
steady heat, equal in all respects to oak wood
and will go as far. There are millions OF
acres of this peat in that section ofthe
country, and in another year it will become
a branch of industry afording employment
of much higher nature than coal mining
for large numbers Of people. The beds ex-
tend through Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa,
in the Red River Valley, and probably away
up in the British Colonies.
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It is said that those ladies acquire the
best carriage who do not ride in one,
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MINISG FOR WooD-The Irish ''bog oak"
has been long known and celebrated. It
consists of the fallen trunks of ancient oak
forests, now deeply covered by accumula-
tons of peat bog, but still perfectly sound.
This ancient wood furnishes large quaint
ties of valuable timber, which is mined
from the beds in which it lies, and worked
into beautiful articles of cabinet work,
sculptured panels, and other carving The
dark stain impaired to it by the long steep
ing it has undergone in water saturated
with both vegetable and mineral matters,
gives it special value for ornamental wood
work. Similar deposits of ancient wood
exist in the vast swamps of New Jersey.
These buried trees, however, are cedars
and not oaks, and it is made regular and
profitable business to dig them from the
beds, to be manufactured into shingles,
which are said to be Of extraordinary ex-
cellence and durability. A New York
paper thus describes the timber, and the
process of getting it out: ''These swamps
are very valuable, an acre Of such timber
commanding from FIVE hundred to thou
sand dollars. A peculiar feature of the
swamps is, that the soil is Of purely yegs-
taple growth often twenty feet or more In
depth. The peaty earth is constantly accu-
mulati0g, from the fall of leaves and boughs,
and trees found buried in it at all depths,
quite down to solid ground. The timber SO
buried retains buoyancy and color. and large
numbers of workmen are constantly employ
ed in raising and splitting the logs into
rails and shingles. In searching for these
logs, the workman uses an iron rod, which
he thrusts into the soil, and. by repeated
trials, ascertains the size and length of the
wood be strikes, and then, by digging down,
, obtains chip, by the smell of which he
) can determine whether it is worth removal.
! The number of shingles pIolueed from the
wood of these submerged forests is very
great; from the little town of Dennisville,
as many as eight hundred thousands, valu-
ed at twelve thousand dollars, have been
sent to market in year. From the same
: place, thousands of dollars worth of white
cedar rails are annually sent out. The de-
: posit of timber at this point extends TO an
indefinite depth, and although, from growth
above it. believed to bs two thousand years
% old, is all entirely sound. and viii supply,
for years to come, the draft upon it.
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The wives of prisoners in the hands OF
the Coufederates will be pleased to hear
that the War Department has revived the
old rule to pay them the money due to
their husbands.
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All the grandsons of Thomas Jefferson
are with the Confederates, and all his
granddaughters are with the Union, as are
the husbands of those who are married.
Hon. Henry S. Randall, of Cortland, New
York, states this fact in recent letter to a
friend.
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G. w Starbuck, ESQ., proprietor of the
Cincinnati Times, has collected in three
months nearly $4,000 for the Cincinnati
Relief Union. He visited 683 firms and
individuals, 533 of whom contributed and
so refused
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Recruits In New York and Brooklyn get
S777 in bounty They came forward at
the rate of one thousand week. In Mas
sachusetts the pay in bounty, clothing. ra-
tons and aid 10 family amounts to SCOTT.
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On the 9th inst, Mr.. Lane of Kansas
gave notice of bills providing for the adjust
ment of the accounts of the 5th and 9Th
Indian regiments. and for indemnfying the
citizens of Lawrence for Quantrel's raid.
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VA sLIKIAl.k.N.

COOPER lNJNs ON Np.u is, sci hy the
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t. Nisi Gam. l.. Emons. Of Wiliitns,ur.h, l. III
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.. ..lAN WuIEE-. AUCI-MORT-
sts Tine d.. o. u o'.o.k, A. 2si
sr. o. t.t.,. CAL a.. uasnos. and the routents
3D. butcher hop lly .rd,f u DHAs. !. WATTS.
.Ugy for Hulla..e. 1876
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-20

nymu was read by the President, and pravs,
ntf-red by Bro. Campbell. The meeting w., -,
dressed by Rev. Messrs. A. McMullen, JPN,
gee of Boston, and DIR. Harri., Missionary Soo..
tary. The latter stated that there had bo.,
general increase in contributions for the Mss;,.
AIRY Cause the past year. We think this very =.
nifcant in these times.
The services OF the Sabbath were as follows.
Love Feast Sabbath morning at o'clock =,
the NJ. E. Church Preaching by Bishop Siun,
son, and ordination Of Deacons, 10 IL o'c,ooL
A. NJ. A; and preaching by C. w. Gushing of Troy
n. Y, and ordination of Elders, in the aternoon
at the Congregational Church.
In the NJ, E. Church, preaching in the fo,.
noon by Rev. ID Packer; in the afternoon bv
E. B. Ryckman Of the Wesleyan Conference
Canada In the evening d. W, Dayton preached
in the Congregational house; and in the NJ. F
Church. P. Merrill preacoed funeral sermon
having reference to the members of Cop(ere,..
VINO died during the year.
The Anniversaries of religious services w.,s
ATTENDED with unusual interest.
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fuuess to duty as the past and Vermont will new
er blush to own you as her sons.
By order of CHARLES q. CHANDLER,
NJ jor Cong Denchm't.
l.. c. GALE, 1st 1t. and Acting Acjt"
1t may be becoming IN me to add few words
10 relation to our brave and noble commander,
who is now with us ut this hour of trial. although
he has been absent from us for several days on
account of i'll health. He has returned with re-
newed vigor and increased strength, ready for any
emergency,-and, as we 60 forth from this place
to battle for our country, we have the most unre-
served assurance that he is all that we can ask or
WISH Vermont has reason to feel proud to day,
that she has such noble men to GO forth in the de
fence of our National Flag. No regiment ever
entered the field better differed than the gallant
10th Vermont and may its name be handed
down to future generations with feeling that 1t
has performed fully its part in this great and glo.
rious struggle. And we ope and trost, by the
grace Of God, that before another year shall roll
around we may be permitted to return to our
quiet homes, and enj the same comforts OF lie
that you nov enjoy.
Yours Truly, SERGEANT.
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: HEADoUa RTERs DETAGfM'T 10TH VT. tSF'Y, !
Conrat's Ferry, Md, April u, 1868. {
Gtnerai Osztsrs No q.

The commanding othcer, on his retDrn to this
.ommand after An unexpected absence, irels it his
iu,y to congratulate alt, not only Upon The neat
md Clearly appearances of the camps, the good
,clpline and sold erly appearance OF the mpn,
ut upon the prospec, Of entering upon an active
,mp4ign and ef msstlng the rebel foe, where you
.n.y prove tha, Green Mountain Boys are notion
sisilsnt bat brars, and thai it is his purpose to
= with and stand by you in the hour Of danger
id of battle, and, if Eecessary, to lie with ,he
len in The defence o. that fay that We are now
,lled upon to antur to the breeze in the face Of
e euemy. Let the future show the same faith
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HAIR ER'o EKLY,
tENDtDBY ILLUSTRATED
Price Six Cents Number; $3,OOa Year
C,t,eal Notice Of the Press.


Ifs fres leave In clear type jig inter- aiming variety
its syyefe bu jus or tic upon he loii,so tie lines
ITS elegantly htn ami instruc i've articles, aud ~
ablt co'rttpcn &C. al Cembn 10 axe II the IN DEL
AeWspapei VI { ~ e0DtrN ind enc Il at every hmly
must p, re. coudetsed wtekly SUNNI ~ Of eign
and Domestic incl igtncs ia aitogeh uptror 70 mat
eon ain IN auy other Journal. Being Iuo he'd 100,
in fu IN lor preseryst and hnu ing il ak,n ca OF
AS desetve 10 be II VIII be fJuAd in tut re YEAR"
gel ome mpanon Tor the family nnd residt a. tns
DAY OF which II was first pefutet.AN y. EstHiag row.
We would boi so often cal attention 10 Hsfpers
Weekly II We " not well salts ed that is me o."
Family Paper pnol,hsG IN the I'M lid States, and o. 'haI
ret:ph aud ula aioue sire TO see Il undtrmhs
ard root outs csf lsin knd OF eratnte 10. prevalent
viii buuts tn Ht0as # its read6s vttates theI
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seized With eaRsrhes, bee use Of sIrheG Ike cheS
at iars TX evet. We all like & ioCk at the fa'eS
n we have read OF, ana n ps tort that nave
figured THE loody 'tene O. war o. all suea men
a. Gees, aud events his papet iurni4estht bfst
aatra,ions, tar ulufe mist. mans will en-, Oh 'heh
'elvea out OF ABPEl's NRkxLY long aheT writers spI
kaInl FRS Rnd pablishers are turned GMt- Nae ~"
.EssagstS.
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THIS may eertif3 that |, kSrtha Barnes, ~ Sls
gvr ny sen, tn " j. Barnes, his time, ana shs
none 81 ms earnings, nor pay an d.bSs Of BIS GU"
ns sftr this d ate. .x.s
Witness, GSow. MARTHA ". bh"'Sv
March IA, 1873.
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ssOea Office Notice.

On and after the first day Of Nay next all unpud most
age due om unpaid Ir,ters rcceIyed at this Office fr
foieg couLries mus, be paid in golC or silver coin
ry ord r of the Post OLcc Department.
JAMES q. FRENCH,PN
Montpel er, April l6, 1858. d&wt
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Vermont Conference of the M. E, Church,

varmort Confarenca of tha w T, Churoh
A''ua!' 1AP' II 49,
Conference met pursuant to adjournment.
Religious services were conducted oy M oPeh-
Ger.
The Conference orderHd draft OF $Zo on INT
Conference trustees, for Missions.
Rev. Vi. Carpenter, delegate from the Oonsre-
Sat'onaSt o'a'e Oo0'e0'on' was introduced 70
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AL asilio us DiSe ases


The 6est Chsapes and m )st $ loc asstul "a n
aly Paper in the Union
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AFTERNOON.

At 2 o'clock the anniversary OF tbs Vermont
Conference Sabbath School Soc ETY. was held in
the NJ K, Church The President in the chair
introductory religous services By w. J. Kiddrr.
Addresses were delivered by brothers |. LeBar-
ron, Ii. p. Gushing, C. N. Smith of the New
England Conference, and J. p. Msgee of Boston,
intersperssd with excellent singing by the chill
dren.
In the evening there was preaching in the Con-
grsgalonal C1urcs, by G. n. Smith of the New
England Conference. His sermon was founded
on Matthew 5; l3
Saturday, April 1873 A, NJ.
Religious services were conducted by Rev. z.
H. Brown
Rev. E. Carpenter, delegate from the State
Conyeo'ioa of the Congregational Church, came
forward, anu presented the CHRISTIAN salutations
of that body to the Conference.
The Presiding Elder on But,inyton District was
appointed delegate to the Dsxt Congrt gstional
State Convention.
Bev. 4. b Ryckman of the Wesleyan CpuSer
enee, OF Canada, was intro uceel TO the Conference
different reports were then presented and
adopted ".N
George CroSen, local Deacon, was es c,ed to E.
der's orders.
The Conference adjourned at IL IL o'clock,
and closed by Renscictoa, by L. q. Haynes.
-lur4ca AFTERNOON.
Preaching, at o'clock, by Bro. Cobb.
Missionary s'e'ssy he'd its annual session in
the evening, IN the Congregational Church. A
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CsMp rEAR Gl,NRAD's FERRY, Mp, }
April y, 1868.

were read u,on dress parade, on the sf'ernoon Of
he 18th, at Conrad's Ferry, Md, detachment of
he 10Th Vernon, Infantry and you will confer a
great tavor upon your readers by inserting them
n your columns:
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-08-14
THE EMPRESS EUGENE AND HER
INTRlGUES.

~ hlbOho'
She was and is determined and energetic
ally Of the Pope. and for him she plotted and
worked with an energy worthy of any cause.
She sent him vast sums of money, obtained
from irregular sources she collected from
her adhtrents and surrounders all they could
give her; caused contributions to be exacted
from even the servants in the imperial house
hold and, at last, when she had exhausted
all her means, she pledged to the old duke Of
Brunswick-a monomaniac upon the subject
Of possessing diamnnds-the Jewels which
the great cities of France. Paris. Lyons, Mar
settles. Bordeaux, stras burg, and others pres.
ented to her on the occasion of her marriage
to Napoleon. These Jewels were. strictly
speaking, crown pro perty, but in her over
zeal and religious enthusiasm largely spiced
with a spirit of opposition to her husband +
wishes. she sold those Jewels and sent the
sums obtained to Plus *.
Her old antagonist, NJ. Fould has been re-
callep to Office by the emperor who is aware
Of his great worth, and as minister Of finance,
Fould is once more in direct opposition to the
wild extravaganza Of Eugene He pleads
and menaces, but prayers and threa's are alike
Intellectual. The palace OF the Elvsees, which
their msjesties are to occupy next year. has
lust been renovated. The apartments destin-
ed for the empress we're magnificent. She
found them ms, Efficiently so, and has caused
changes and ordered additional decorations
which will cost millions upon millions Tho
change Of character which is 80 noticeable in
Eugene is not the only one observable in her
majesty Though bot thirty-.ix years Of
age. her beau is sadly on the wane. Her
cheeks are now pendent, her hair thin and fall.
ing, while the nose formerly no well shap.
ed, so precisely adapted 90 her style Of fea-
ture-seems far too prominent This effect
is no doubt produced by the falling Of the
cheeks Then her majesty bas resotted to