The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-03-24
News Items,

The Government closed the California
lettings of the mail service on the 14th, re-
ducing expenses over last year to the amount
of s59, 900.
Samuel S. Cox, who removed from Ohio
to New York after the late Presidential cleo
ton, when he was badly beaten for Con-
gress. proposes to return to the former State.
The bill declaring persons born in this
country to he citizens, excepting Indians not
taxed, and to secure all persons in the en-
joyment of their civil rights, has passed
both Houses of Congress and will soon be
presented to the President.
Advices from Idaho state that high
official, named SIocum, had been arrested
on charge of speculation: another official
had recently absconded; another died do.
faulter, and still another, Chas. D. VaughI,
Treasurer of Baise county, has been at
rested. Mighty mean men got Office il
that count ~, as well as in others.
ExePrOyisional Gov. johnson Of GsoF-
gia, writes home from Was hiDgton, on the
Sd inst, that he had short interview With
the President, the Secretary, and Gen. Grant
in relation 10 the removal of the eolored
troops, and was assured by Gen. Grant that
as soon as be could substitute other troops,
they should be removed from the interior of
the State; that in fact such an order had al
ready been issued.
Capt. Poynton Ives, whose muniGcent
charity displayed itself during life by nu-
mOrous gifts to the public institutions of
Providence, R. l., has left will containing
the following requests: $4,000 to the
Rhode Island Hospital, $4,000 to the
Providence Aetheneum, and So, 900 to the
Providence Dis pensary, all free from Gov
eminent duties.
Albert Pike, the rebel poet and Indian
fighter, is at Little Rock, and evidently very
unhappy. A correspondent of The Law
renee Tribune says be recently heard him
declare that call efforts at republican gov
eminent recorded in history were signal
failures; that ours was the most complete
failure of all, and the sooner the free gov
eminent humbug was played out, the
better"
Seventy FIVE members of the Society of
Friends, from Randolph county, North Car
DINA, arrived in Washington on the 18th,
en- route to Indiana. They assert they we're
forced to leave their homes from tie perse-
cutions of ex-soldiers of the rebel army.
They state that at least one hundred and
fifty more of their persuasion, bound for the
West, will arrive here in few days.
A New York merchant named HERMANN,
while on his way East in a sleeping car on
the Michigan Central Railroad. on the 18th,
had his pocket picked of $4,000 in United
States bonds and $4,000 in greenbacks.
The Committee on Reconstruction has re-
ported the testimonysOf Gen. Gustav, who
states that he has travelled all over Texas
and found the mass of the people exceeding
ly bitter against the Government, more so
than five or six months ago. He mentions,
among other facts, that grand juries have,
during the last few months, found 500 in
dictments for the murder of Union men and
others, but not one of the guilty parties has
been convicted.
Edward Cooper, one of the Congressman
elect from the 4th district of Tennessee, has
returned to Nashville. Heleft Washington
in disgust, fully satisfied that there was no
immediate prospect of the admission of the
Tennessee delegation.
A report from Gen. Tillotson, Sups rim
tendent Of Freedmen on the Carolina sea is.
lands, says that things are satisfactory there.
The difficulty between the freedmen and the
whites has been adjusted, and they only
need sufficient military force and organi-
cation. The Government courts say grants
OF land are of no value to freedmen.
Mr.. David Jayne. well known throughout
the United States by his extensively sdver-
tised patent medicines, died on Monday, the
5th inst. at the age of sixty-s six and half
years. The very large fortune which be
left behind was the result of constant and
judicious advertising. He erected several
magnificent buildings in Philadelphia,
which are monuments of mis- public spirit
and taste.
The Blackfeet Indians continue to murder
citizens in Montana Territory to such an
extent that the Territorial authorities have
been obliged to call out 500 volunteers and
send them down to the Fort, in which vi.
entity the Indians were committing many
depredations. These Indians have been hos
tile ever since last falPs treaty was signed
and are killing off whites in revenge for sew
eFal members of their frih. III -. e