The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-03-17


provisions are permitted to leave the city |
for the interior. aud of course, trade is Quite
ruined. Heavy importers in the coast cite
who have recently received large cargoes
from Europe. upon which hey are obliged
to pay enormous duties suffer very heavily"
News items.
| At the election in Alexandria, Va. on the 6th
the Mayor and several Others elected were per-
sons who served in the rebel army.
Twenty distilleries have been seized in New
York, on charge of the proprietors defrauding
Government by ON itting to pay theimpOst levied
on whisky in the internal evenue law.
General Gustav gives raFher gloomy account
of political affairs in Tsz There is little 10y
atty outside of our Ines 4asI If our troops were
withdrawn there would be none anywa ere
Green backs are bus seldom acknowledged 10
have any value. and gold and silver are the cir
culating medium. In many places greenbacks
will not buy food aud fuel. The idea that they
will ever be paid is seldom entertained. Mat
ters are daily growing worse.
| A statement is being prepared in the trea sury
! department showing the amount of prize money
received by each of our Jack Tars during tn e
late war. Some OF the seamen received as much
as $4,000, and only u few of them less than
81 900.
Governor Morton, of Indiana who went to
Europe for the benefit of his health has returne
to New York. His health is not improved.
The North Carolina Legislature adjourned on
the 18th The bill allowing negroes TO testify in
all eases where they are concerneiiu person or
property, when Jurisdiction shall be restor
ed to the courts in the State, was passed.
The excitement in gold stocks continues The
money market exhibits increasing ease Th e
surplus funds resting in the hands of private
bankers appear to have considerably augmented
! in the past few days, and money is freely offered
at six per cent on call Some of the banks ask
seven on demand loans, but 9th rs are lending
freely at six per cent. There is pereeptible in.
crease in the amount of paper Offering for sale
and the rates of discount. Gold irregular a nd
unsettled. opening at 81 Is advancing to1 3a36
declining to .303S, and closing at l3O%
The Commercials special says; The President
told Congressman on Saturday, that he regard
ed Louisiana as more loyal than she has been
since her purchase, and South Carolina more
loyal than she had been for thirty yeas
Petitions are in circulation in Wisconsin re-
questing the Legislature to ask Doolittle to re
Sign his position in the Senate. Doolittle is
disappointing the people of the State by sup
porting the Presidents policy
The New York Commercial of March 10Th,
states that the Baa king House of Rufus Lord
in Exchange Place, was robbed of million and
a half dollars, in Government and other seeuri.
ties Two hundred thousand dollars reward is
offered for the detection of the thief.
Another great robbery was reported in Wall
street on the 22th No partieu lara are given, ex-
cePt that the amount lost Is half million dol
lars.
Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, received
dispatch from Grenada, Miss. on Saturday, warn
ing him that plot for his assassination had been
entered into by party of Mississippians The
dispatch was signed by Captain of 55th Uni
ted States color ed troops, commanding the eta
| ton of Grenada, Miss
The Cincinnati Times describes the stipend
8 bridge, now nearly completed, between that
city and the Kentucky shore of the Ohio. tits
two thousand feet long, aud has span of near
" eleven hcndred feet, which is said to be the
longest in the world.
The Boston Traveller says that. by the recent
~ published returns Massachusetts stands sec
ond osly to New York in the amount of internal
revenue paid into the United States treasury
1t states that The aggregate of the other five New
England States does not approach III amount
that from Massachusetts. The valuation also is
nearly equal to all the others combined The
city of Boston alone has more than double the
valuation of the entire State of Maine.
Macmillan is about to issue so. 600 900 of
paper currency. The "Confederates' in Mexi-
co are reported to be engaged in some sort of
movement of no small Importance and it Is in
timated that they intend to fight for money, not
glory.
Another contribution from the Birmingham
eng land) Freedmen's Aid Association, on the
9Th, was received by Gen. Howard. The invoice
consisted of clothing, and amounted in value to
over 81 600 The money value of articles here
tOfOre con tributed BY the same association is
over SO 900, all Ofwhieh hss been donated since
the termination of the rebellion.
The Presidents veto Of the Freedmen's Blu.
reau bin arrested the contemplated emigration of
a large number Of Tex4as to foreign countries
The Tennesses Legislature practically
dissolved on the 9Th. The Senate met. six
members being present, including the
Speaker. and adjourned over for want of
quorum. In the House twenty Represen.