The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-08-20

Wood would have placed Hallett in Con-
gress. His great ambition was to take Jim
Lanes place in the Senate. Lane and
Tom Carney are fighting. As usual third
man will step into the chair. The writer
prefers Nebraska to Kansas. 1t is less
/ bloody.
The pure minded will marry a virgin.
HaIett passed his life in playing outaud in
being played out himself. Everything not
providential. His schemes were gigantic,
bat he never realized them. He met Ere
mont MariPosa is Spanish for Butterfly.
and Maurice Ketchum, David D, Field,
Mayor Opdyke and Simon Stevens know
that it was the Grub that made the Butter
NY.
Fremont depended upon Halett's For
eign relations-Halett depended on Mari
posa. EsEiag. Mcdowell. Stone and Isaacs
sold Leavenworth and pawned railway
franchise to Hallett and Fremont for $780,
| 600, assisted by Haskell, McRusk and Ed
ward Learned. Fremont tried to play Hal
lett out. Hallett instead, played them out.
! Fremont, like the Patent Hen Scratching
machine, gently scratched himself out of
| the Pacific Yard. Contracts were made
with a New York millionaire to build that
Kansas road, and Hallett's death in no way
! changes the early completion of the road or
| the value Of the securities. His wife and
! four children are in Germany, and it is be-
| lieved they will have an ample competence
after paying creditors from Hallett's one
third interest. Hallett's ambition was to
! build the Pacific Railway. Hence change
the name of Kansas branch from Leaven-
worth Pawnee, to Union Pacific, E. D.
The Grand Trunk Line, Union Pacific
Railway, runs from Sacramento, in Califor--
MIA, to Omaha, in Nebraska, there connect
ing with the Mississippi, Missouri and
Rock Islnnd Railroad TO Chicago. The
Kansas road will also connect with Sc trains
of Cincinnati and New York by the Great
Broad Gauge Route. ;,
1t will be seen that Edward Leonard, as
Financial Agent of Fremont, with sublime
audacity, assumed to own the entire Pacific
Railway. The audacity of the Live man
only surprised that of the Dead. Edward
Learned was not subscriber nor even a
promoter-nor has he invested one shilling
in the Pacific Railway, but on the contrary
did all be could to defeat the bill in G on
gress. There IS portrait of small boy
pouring water into the sea, to illustrate
Learned's energy in stopping the great
worlds highway Poor Hal!ett; I am sor-
ry he is gone. He had virtues as we'll as
me. His rises were faults. His passion
for notoriety led him always into the news.
papers. Two thousand invitations were
ready for the opening of the first forty miles
of the Kansas road. Newspaper men at
! Washington have suffered at his hands,
But when his purse was full it was open to
all. AS Humphrey Marshall said of the
China Merchant, if Hallett failed, his am
bition was burst acjde open His life was
failure. But how strange that this man
Of SO many parts, in the midst of his active
life, while his brain was not full of giaan-
tic plans, should be assassinated by Grip
pied Engineer, whom Ha'lett had punished
for writing lbeous letter to the Presi-
dent of the United States about his Railway!
Verify, truth is stranger than fiction.
Alas he has returned 70 dust and the God
who gave him. He lived violent life and
died a violent death. Pax Vobiscum.
A Voice From THE PIT.