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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-06-16
ST. LOUIS & SANTA FE RAILROAD.

COTToNwooD FALLS. June Sd. Sc
EDITOR CT NEws: know that your
readers are all anxious to know what the
prospects of the ST. Louis and Santa Fe
Railroad are. Some are undoubtedly
impatient, and wonder that the work has
not already commenced. Permit me to
say to your readers in Lyon and Chase
counties that we found the people in
Franklin and Miami, 10 Kansas, aud
Cass and Johnson counties in Missouri,
earnest in this matter. In ST. Louis we
were more than pleased with our pros
poets. As to whether the road will be
built or not, l say, most emphatically,
that If the people along the line desire
the road it will be built. aud shat so
quick that its friends will bs astonished.
A great preliminary work is to be done;
arrangements for money have 60 be made,
and the company must have a basis to
work upon. Individual stock must be
subscribed, and counties must vote stock
As to your toWp, it is, in my opinion,
destined to be great IsilrOad centre, and
you. must look out for depot grounds.
Your citizens now, whilst land is cheap,
should provide at leas: 40 acres of lanl
for depot grounds, and donate it to the
company. At Topeka. the other day,
found Col. Holiday selling land near the
city at $500 per acre. With railroad
direct to Emporia there is no reason why
land may not fetch near or quite as much.
Let3seVery man then in Lyon apd Chase
counties make up his mind to take stock
There is not man but can take one share
&IOo. )eand many who ought to take
HON 800 to $500. Let every man
makeup his mind 10 take some siock-
dol somethiRg-makeu up our minds to
f'helP ourselves" aud the work will be
dOne. There is not citizen ia Lyon or
Chase. counties but could put half he is
nov worth in this road aud, when built, be
worth Eve times what he now is. We
can and must raise enough to grade the
rOad. We already nave the prom
iss- Of mesns to procure the iron and roll
ing stock and finish ths road.
Up, then. each and every Onel Aid
what yOa can in money. or land, and the
road will soon be built. In haste.
s. N. WOOD.
u. Sup't St. L. & S. F. R.R.
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war IA EURopK.

Il seems that war is insyitabls in Eu-
EOps. On every hand zarEiks measures
are being taken. The ChicagO Rspubli-
can speculates thus on the prospect:
The intelligence from hAly and Ger
many, and Napoleon's declaration of his
dislike Of the treaty Of 1915. are not OF
q character to give any hope that the war
will be aVeTted. Once commenced,
where will that var stop? Will it be
confined to the Original paFties? Italy,
Prussia, and AustFia are enrolling every
man capable of bearing arms. The re-
serves have been called for, and. once
commenced, the war must be fierce one
Italy alone cannot Withstand the over
whelmiug force of Austria. Can AustrIs
withstand the force of Italy and Pfussia
combined? Can she maintain wal
with both of these powers at the same
time? Will Napoleon remain an Ind'ner-
ent spectator TO Austrian success IN Ita.
" Is the peace between Denmark ant
Prussia go strongly cemented that 'bs
former will not, while Prussia ID engaged
10 a war With Austria, TeasseIt her Claim
to the Schieswig- Holsuein Duehies! VIII
Russia become. involved IN the war
And if France, Russia, Denmark ant
Turkey join 10 the general strife, how
can England be kept cut OF il!
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VETERAN BRoTHERuooD-This is the
title of an organization of discharged SOL
diers, recently established at LeavenWorth
and Topeka. the latter being the central
society. The object Of the organization
is a very commenGable one-lhe advance
ment Of the interests of those who were
so recently soldiers of the Republic, and
the protection of those who were rendered
cripples for life by it's casualties, and the
widows aad orphans of comrades who
gave their lives for the great cause.
The Central Committee, from whom
it is proposed to derive charters for sub
ordinate tncampments, are Messrs. A. j.
Huntoon. T. Ryan and John johnson.
The qualification for membership is hon.
orable discharge, and seven gentlemen,
eligible to membership. uniting in Pc
tition for charter, will be entitled to es.
tablish an encampment.
TEis is good move, and we trust it
will be carried through successfully, aud
a good and necessary work be accomplish
ed for those who have suffered by the
casualties of the service, and who so much
need the sustaining sympatlies of those
who were more Observation-Disclosures
Tribune.
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Congress having decided that Captain
Fox shall retain high Departmental rank
on his mission to St. Petersburg. there
will be such display of United States
men-Of war in Cronstadt harbor as has
never before been Witnessed in European
waters. comprising the iron-clad monitor
Mianlonomah, the Colorsd0, the Picon-
deroga, the Canandsigua the Kearsarge,
the Chattanooga. and the Shamrock,
mounting one hundred aud twenty heavy
guns, and manned By picked crews.
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The GOVERNOR Gov. Crawford reach
ed home last Saturday. after az absence
of about fifty days. His time has been
spent in Washington IN attending to the
interests of the State, and in New York
in negotiating the State bonds that be was
authorized to sell. He sold $4,000 Of
thirty years, Z per cent Public Improve
ment bonds that were authorized to be
sold by the last Legislature to re emburse
the Treasury for building the Capitol,
Normal School building. University &c.
The money can only be used for these
purposes. He also sold $50, 900 of TWEEN
ty years, 7Per cent Penitenliary bonds.
The price realized was 81 cents on the
dollar. The bonds of none of the wes-
tern States could be sold for so good
prices. The Governor deserves credit
for his successful sale. He has done his
work in his Usual quiet unobstrusive man
ner, and has not caused it to be telegraph
ed over the country, or great noise to be
made about it, as has sometimes been the
case. The money is in the State Treas
y.-TopekG Record.
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A RARE SIGHT.

Our eyes were RECALLED, few days ago;
with the sight of one of those rare spec
linens in Kansas, a candidate for u. 8.
Senator. He hailed from LeavenWortR.
and his initials are j. B. and his other
name Davis. with the prefix N. D.. Il
his first name is not James Buchanan II
ought to be, for he is about as antiu uated
in his ideas of politics as "ths old pub.
lie functionary." But the Doctor could
not get hall here to air himself on his
favorite subjects of NEGRO outrage and
railroads." in consequences of which cur
citizens missed a rare exhibition. We
see by the papers on the Doctors route Of
travel that he is terribly .ferniast the mig
ger. This is good subject Tor individu.
ais ofhis stripe to butt their heads against,
lfthe Doctor should butt his brains ON,
''agin" the niger his friends will hsv.
the consolation of knowing that the loss
is very small. We dou't blame ]. B-Jos
wanting special legislation to keen him
above the ''nigger, /" for doubtless there "a
many gentleman of ''African descent ;.
who would leave him in the srace 81
brought into competition. We are Of
opinion that DR.. J. B. Davis stands
about as much chance Of sspressnEine
Kansas in the Senate of the United Stalss'
as the Great Tycoon does Of being ehossa
81
to the throne Of England.
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WHOLESALE POISONING.

A correspondent writing from Middle
ton. Connecticut, gives the following par
ticulars of the poisoning of many people |
in that part of the State;
For some weeks past the people living
in the Waikiki Valley, IN the western part
of Orange county, have been attacked by
a disease which baffled, The skill of physi-
clans. In the case of the persons attack
ed the SYMPTOMS we're those OF lead pols-
oning. and in instances whole families
were attacked. Sometimes the disease
has resulted in death.
| After much Investigation it was found
that these csses of lead poisoning result
ed from eating meal aud -four manufac-
tured at mill at Pbillipsburg. largely
patronized by the surrounding farmers
The miller did an extensive business,
running four sets. of stoues night and day
and keeping one set exclusively for Gus
tom (grist) work This was an old set,
needing frequent repairs, and holes were
filed, from time to time, with lead, in
stead Of with cement. Some of these
filed hOles were as large as hens egg.
In grinding grain of'course this lead was
aiuO-k WEN W.
-four. In crude form it was compare
lively harmless, but when the bread was
fermented and subjected to the baking
process, the particles of lead became car
Donate of lead-s deadly poison. Bread
of this kind was like bread spread with
white lead for butter.
AS soon as the:cause of the poisoning
was ascertaiued, DR.. Dorrance and Mr.
King. chemist, of this place, analy zee
it to tests that showed the presence of the
lead The p1isoned -four was sent bach
to the mill from all quarters, and the mil
stopped running.
OF course there was panic among
the people, and the doctors we're kept bu
sy day aud night. The only sufferers
were those who used -four from the mill
Fortunately the bakers of the place re
ceived their supplies from other surces, o.
{ the panic would have been more wide
spread. The physicians here have treat
ed two hundred and thirteen cases sine
the middle of March to the present time
/ hear there have been one HUNDRED ca
f ses in the neighbor hood of Goshen.
am told that large quantity of tbi
loaded -four has been.sent- TO New YOrl
to be manufactured into starch, and if
. is go used it will be harmless.
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aTR,nor LEAD.


We Sc always glad 70 notice the pros
periey d, frispds. ahdsespscially those Of
our boyhood days. Sixteen years ago We
knew q young man named Alfred L. Sc
we'll. AZ We s1tsrsd the Republican of
6cs at Wilmington, Ohio 10 July, 1850.
to learn the pri9ting business. Mr.. SeweII
had ,Juss finished his apprenticeship in
the same efice. He went west. For
some time be assisted in tie Publicat ion
of The "Asbury Notes. - college paper
printed By tie faculty and students of
Greencasile lind. college. Here he
worked and went to school for some
time. From there be went TO Chicago.
With few hundred dollars he aud two
other frissds started a job printing
Office in that city, occupying but small
room at frst. Their business g;sW,
and when We next heard from him. this
printing esisbiishmeut-DunlOp, SeWe'l
& SpaldiugAhad grown to such dimen
sious. thata fargo four story buiIiiug was
necesssryto carry on their business. and
their printing hOuse vas known all over
the west,
But Mr.. SeWell sssvuck lead At the
time the great Sanitary Fair was held in
Chicago. His whole heart was 10 the cause
OF his country, and to aid the soldier and
assist IN alternating his wants, he put
forth his best efforts. He commenced
The publication of small paper Tor young
people,. intsnded at first to last only until
The Fair, called the Army of the Amer
lean Eagle All remember the story Of
"Old Abei" the eagle which accompan-
led the Eighth Wisconsin regiment in the
south during the war. This paper took
its name from Old Abe, aud 10 addition to
printing. the paper many thou anis OF
Photographic of the eagle were. pr inted
aud sold as an aid TO that Fair. In this
way Mr.. Sewell succeeded in raising be-
tween fifteen and twenty thousand dol
lars, for the Fair. After the Fair
was over aud the ''Army of the Ameri
eau Eagle" had served the purp $, for
which it was started, it occurred 10 Mr..
Sewell. from the way in which this little
paper for young folks was sought after,
and from the large circulation which it
had already attained. that there was a
wide field open for the establishment Of
permanent paper Of this character in
the great city of the west. He saw that
much good might be accomplished. and
accordingly the Little Corporal was
started We have before US copy oil
the paper, and from careful Perusal Of
it we believe it TO be as good paper for
boys and girls as is publish he'd in the coun,
try. 1t is nicely printed and contains
sixteen pages of interesting reading mat
ter and what IS more gratifying. at least tc
Mr.. Se"ell, is that the paper-alLhOugh il
has been established only year-has al
ready reached circulation of about forty
thousand.
Phis paper is Published monthly, at tn,
low price Of one dollar per anuum. Ad
dress Alfred L SewelI, care Of Dunlop
Sewell d Spalding. Chicago, ILL.,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-06-16

Our Consul at Liverpool writes, under
date of May 10: "Some two weeks ago /
advised you Of the shipment from this
port to New York of some $1,000 bush.
els Of wheat. / now have to inform the
Department of State that the City Of
Cork. which sails to morrow, takes, as
freight 498 casks of French wheat -four,
valued at 1,O46 pounds sterling. think
this is the first instance Of the shipment
of French -four from this port for the
United States. and probably the first time
-four has ever been shipped as merchant
Use from Europe to America
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The floral decoration Of the graves of
Confederate soldiers buried at Hollywood.
for which extensive preparations had been
made. took place At Richmond on the
31st. Business was suspended in the
city, aud nearly the entire white pOpulA.
ton repaired TO ne cemetery during the
day 20 take part in or witness the memo
rial honor. There was no speaking or
formal ceremony. The proceedings pas
sed-of quietly and Without accident.
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Resolved, That prohibition is not only
right in principle. bat absolutely essen
tial to the triumPhs Of temperance and
humanity, that government and Law
should afford projection to the citizens.
and in 6lowise favor vice and the sources
from whence crime smenates.
ResOlved, That the voice ofthis con-
vention is given in favor of prohibitory
liquor Law, and that we will not discon-
tinue our efforts until such law is Sc
cured aud faithfully enforced in the State
of Kansas.
All of which is respectfully submit ed
V. 81. DoDGE, Chairman.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-06-16

L. Johnson & Co., of Philadelphia, as
printers all know, keep a type foundry.
We have frequently had occasion to deal
with them. having sent all our orders for
materials to them for some time. and We
wish merely 10 say, in justice to them,
that there is not more reliable type
foundry in the country than theirs. They
are prompt, accommodating and gentle.
maUly. A printer can always rely on
having his orders filled to the letter. and
when tie goods come they are always in
order. and of the best quality. We have
tried Cincinnati and Chicago. being clos
er to US. but they cant ''hold q candle
TO Johnson & Co.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-06-16

We find the following bit of gossip in
relation to l. S. Kalloch in the Congrega-
Gonal Record, small monthly paper
printed al Topeka. of late date:
"In caucus held at the close of the
last Legislature, Rev. I, S. Kalloch, for
merly Of the fremont Temple, Bostod,
and now President Of Baptist College
started at Ottawa, Kansas. was nominal
ed for United States Senator. 1t is doub.
ed by some whether Kalloch, from his
well known Identification, first with the
gospel, and afterwards with the law and
now with educational movements, would
accept such nomination; and the doubt
is still greater, whether, if he did accept,
he could be elected. There is no doubt
of this, however, that if Rev. 1. s. Kali
loch was elected U. S. Senator, be would
"cut swell" in Congress as well as else
where"
This is news to US, and we are inclined
to think it will be to Mr.. Kalloch and his
friends. In all the political newspapers,
which are prettyapt il getting hold of such
thinge. we never read oft before. Being
al Topeka at the time the caucus is said
to have taken place, and being friendly
with Mr.. K. we wouder that we have new
er heard of it until brought to light
through this unexpected channel. Wheth.
er true or not, and whether the paper
which puts fort this paragraph intended
to be sarcastic or rot, we believe there
are numerous Republicans in Southern
and Southwestern Kansas, who woalc
have no objections to Mr.. Kalloch for tn,
position. We have heard quite mum
Der SO express themselves. We do mo-
believe, however, that he is a candidat,
fer Senator or any other political position
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A special committee appointed by the
North Carolina Stste Convention has re-
ported in favor Of the unrestricted admis-
sion Of negro testimony in courts in cases
where negroes are parties TO suits, their
free migration, their right 10 bear arms,
and the making Of the Law to punish ne
grOes uitb death for "a a'tsDP stzrape
on white women; applicable alsostO white
men. z =
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-06-16

Our readers will reccollect that some
time ago q bill passed the U. 8. Senate,
$3.50. 900, TO pay the Kan
sas militia for services during the Price
raid. Il also covers pay for Quartermast-
er and conm;ssary supplies furnished.
Gov. Crawford, while in Washington,
spent nuchtims in urging upon the com
miLtee of TIE House, that had 1t in charge,
the iustDessol the claim. At his sug-
gesIion it MAS taken from the committee
ou claims, md placed with the committee
on appropriations. Every member OF
that committee was seen by the Cover nor,
and they all agreed to report favorably as
soon as the committee was ''called."
There is but little doubt that it will pass
before the adjournment of Congress.
When the bill was irst introduced in the
Senate, it covered the payment for horses
lost by our militia, and property taken or
destroyed by. our forces. All of these
items we're stricken out by Senator Doc
littla. He acknowledged to Gov. Cav
ford that there was no good reason for so
doing, and that these claims we're JUS
and should be paid. Mr.. Doolitlle's ex
cuse was, that he desired to make The
claim as small as possible, thinking j
more likely 10 pass. These claims, II
time, must all be paid. and We advis'
those holding them not to part with then
at great sacrifice. Our Congre ssman
Mr.. Clarke, is watching the bill in Con
gress. and has worked Increasingly for il
all the time. He will continue to do SO
nd if it should finally fail to pass thi
session it will not be for the want of BIZ
assistance and cooperation. - Topeka
Record.
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Vallandigham proposes to continue on
the stump until victory perches on the
copperhead banners. II be holds to his
pur pose, and life is vouchsafed to him, he
will excel Methuseleh as much in loDgev-
ity as he now does Ananias in falsity.
What pretty Wandering Jew he will
make. Imagine bim a hundred or two
years hence. making bis appearance like
another Rip Van Wrinkle. at political
meetings, and in his impudent manner
shouting, Il glory in the name of cop
perhead."
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1t is currently reported about here that
the Pleasant Hill Ottawa and Santa Fe
Railroad is expected sJon to arrive-Sam
Wood and 1. S. Kalloch having gone to
ST. Louis after it, Garnet PIGindeGler
Would it not be good idea for tie
Plaindealer to send somebody after the
Lawrence and Fort Gibson road. We
fear it will not come if somebody don't
90 after it. We doubt if it can be found
so close even as st. Louis.
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Gov. Parsons, of Alabama, says there
are about 81. 900 starving poor whites 10
that State, and 100000 destitute whites
and blacks. Feeble women, and decrep-
i'd old men walk miles to obtain rations,
and it is quite fequeut to meet frantic
mothers on the roadside, crying, with
their starving children. 10000 ratiOns
were issued daily during May, and he
wishes the number increased by 5000.
The approaching wheat and potato crops
will give great relief, and the distress af-
ter August will be greatly reduced.
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We learn that the committee TO locate
and make arrangements for the State Fair
next fall, have selected Lawrence as the
place and the 81, 81. 4th and 9th of Ocio-
Der as the time for it to take place. Eff,
forts are being made to secure Horace
Greeley to deliver the address.
By tie way, we see the Lawrence Trib-
une speaks of this as the ''frst State Fair
of Kansas" If our memory is not very
treacberous we think we attended the first
State Fair of Kansas, at Leaven worth, in
the fall OF 1868.
An opportunity will be offered to stock
raisers for the sale of animals, and il is
expected that large quantities of fine stock
will be on sale at the close of the exhibi
ton.
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SUBJ Sd. .. 3 S. 3. q. n.

We aFsextremely glad that the Leayen-
WORTH Conservative endorses our candi-
7dats- toe u. 8. Senator so warmly and so
enthusiastically. But We protest. mos,
-earnestly, sgAinss the iunusndO Of our BIG
'easy o'Oshes that our paper is set in plea.
Ehats a'slqrOn onr long primer. s.WheO
shall We three meet again?
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Orders from the War Department have
bsen issued consolidating the duties Of
the Ereedmen's Bureau agents with those
OF the military officers of she States Of
North aud South Caroline. Georges. and
Alabama. This was done in accordance
With the recommendations eontained in
the late report of Gen. s,eednau.
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THE FENIANs.

We learn from private sources (nO mail
having arrived here since last friday
that General Sweeney and other leaders
of the Fenians have been arreated' aud
that the President has Issued his proc
lamation to suppress the movement.
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As an evidence of how railroads in
crease the value of land where they ran,
we mention the fact that Col. G. K. HOl-
liday has just sold $50 acres of land ad
joing Topeka for the sum of $26. 900 or
5000 per acre.
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Ths Rhods TsIand esnersl AassmbI

The Rhode leland General Assembly
met at Newport. Nay 90. When both
bOases had cOmplsted The election of their
proclamation vas made from the
balcony of the State House. amid the shua-
der of artillery. that Ambross E. B urn
side bad been elected GOvsraOr and Cap
tain General Of The State Of Rbods ISlspd
FOG the ysar ensuing.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-06-16

Sidney 3. Gay has resigned his posi-
ton as uaaAging editor of the New YOrk
Tribune. Ar. Young, Of che Psess.
Philadelphia. succeeds him. js-s5f
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Gen. J. B. Hood is At che bead, of >
stock company forming. capital $3.50.
900. cor drAiaing and sssspine Che stFssts
Of tie city Of New oEIssos BY maehinsgy,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-06-16

The National IntelligeOcer of the cath
nit, says that the Commissioner of Pen
siOns yesterday received intelligence of
the death of Lemuel Cooke. the last Rev.
dictionary pensioDer. 10 New York city,
on the 22d instant. Mr.. Cooke vas orig
inally from New Hampshire. and died at
the advanced age Of lOI years.
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The exports of tea from China to zGiFs.it
Britain and America il the season lust
closed. were I 5000. 600 pOnnds more than
In tie season Of 1854 6S.
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To The PoINT.-Ata recent meeting IN
Shelby county. Missouri, it was
ResOtDed. That any policy that is warm
ly supp orted by every rebel, copperhead
and guerrilla in the whole land, is not the
policy fGr Union men.
Such support should be at least Pri"aG
Jaeie evidence of uDsoundness, especially
when these rebels glory in their treason.