The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-04-21

appeared before Justiceof the Peacs. sud
paid Fms.
The Quartsrmastsr's sales of animals
since Nay /, 1865. comprise 1Os. ISL hOrs-
es and I03,4 32 mules; total 212, 1873 ami
mails for which the Government has re.
esivsd4bs sumo sI4, s9I ,e22.
The prospects of war between Austria
and Prussia were increasing. The crisis
was considered imminent II
The cattle plagu. in England is on the
decline. M
On motion of Mr.. Garfield, of Ohio,
Congress adjourned on the 14th. the ami
Versary of the death of Abraham Lincoln.
Gen. Hancock's Examining Board on
breech-loading rifles continue to receive new
models. On the 10th they examined one
invented by Col. Jencks of Philadelphia,
which loads and ires thirty two rounds per
minute, and which is pronounced by the
Board to be the most rapid firing ever
achieved.
The report that Mrs. jefferson Davis is
or has been recently in Washington. is IN
correct She is now in New YORK, on her
way to Canada, Ey permission, to visit her
children, who are at school in that Prov
ince. :.
The Olathe Mirror says that there is not
now single grog shop in that town.
The Junction City Uuion is be enlarged
and have new type throughout. It is one
of the best papers in the State.
A small tornado occurred at Junction
City few evenings since. Two houses
were demolished, and several others moved
from their foundation.
In the senate, on the 18th, 8 resolution
was adopted prohibiting the sale of liquor
in the Capitol building.
In tbs House, on the 18th, the bill
amending tie Agricultural College act was
passed; as was also the bill appropriating
Sc, IFS, 900 to reimburse Missouri for mil
itarv. expenses.
There are in Washington quite num-
Der of planters and agents hiring freedmen
TO labor on plantations in Tennesse, Mis-
sissippi, and other Southern States; among
| them. one from the latter State who wishes
to hire $50, and up to Saturday night had
engaged nearly 900; and lady of the for
mer State, who will engage quite number.
It is estimated that $50 were hired last week.
Alexander H. Stevens testified before tn =
Reconstruction Committee on the 18th.
He expressed the opinion that there is
general aequiescenee among the Southern
people in the idea of perpetuation of the
Union, but that they will never agree to
give equal political rights to the negro
Senator Ramsey telegraphs from Wash
iugton to St. Paul that a treaty with the
Bots Forte Chippswas was signed on the
9TH, by which they cede to the United States
their reservation, including the Vermillion
Lake gold region. $50 s..
Both branches of the New York Legis-
lature passed resolutions endorsing the
Civil Rights Bill and asking their Senators
and Representatives to support it.
The new City Council of Columbus, be,
ing composed equally of Union aud Dem
ocratic members, find it impossible to or
ganize. One hundred and twenty five
Intellectual ballots for President was had
on the 9th. - a
The Wisconsin Legislature passed reso
lutions, on the 10th. severely censuring
Senator Doolittle in voting against the civ
il rights bill in disobedience of instructions,
and declaring that it is his duty to resign.
The freshet in the Cedar river. in Iowa,
was very destructive. Among the proper
destroyed were the dam at Brownsville, the
mill and dam at Newburg. the saw-mill at
West Mitchell, the saw-miH at Brush's
mills, and several bridges. The grist mill
of 3. V. R. Smith, mile below Newburg, |
was bailey damaged. Between GAINESVILLE
and Waverly the water rose,so rapidly aud |
so high that several families living near the
banks narrowly escaped with their lives.
Five families were RATED of while their /
houses went down stream. There was
great destruction of sheep. One man, s.
d. Bryant, lost one hundred and ,flly-six.
A terrible crime in the lower section. of
Philadelphia was discovered the afternoon
of the It'll A family of seven. persons
had been murdered, -Christophsr DeeriDg.
his wife, neice, and four children-on Mr..
behring's farm on the Point House road.
1t is supposed that the murders Wers com
mitted on the 9th, by German laborsrs on