The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-04-19
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Pherson. at Clyde, Ohio. The Copper
head members voted agains.it.
Advices from Gen. HaucOck's' Indian
Expedition have been received to the I'd of
April. It vas then at Fort Harker. A
conference had bean held at Fort Dodge on
the 24th ult.s between Major Dodge aud
several chiefs ofths Kiowas, 10 which the
latter professsd much friendship to the
whites, bat indicated that general con-
federation of Western and Northwestern
Iudians had been made to carry on
bloody war.
The receipts from customs during the
mouth of March. 1867. we're sixteen mill
ion dollars. In March. 1865. only eleven
million were collected. This increase is
considered fair indication of revival of
business.
The Union Republican S ate Convsn
ton of New York adopted the following
golden maxim:
THAT RsPublcanism is as good for
the North IS necessary for the South,
and that in honesty we are bound to sus.
tain at home what we compsl abroad
| impartial suffrage"
That's the talk, We shall soon hear
this key note echoed and taken up with
no uncertain sound by the Republican
party in every State Of the nation.
The imports of coffee at Boston for
1866 were 54.164 bags. or less than
one half Of those ten years ago. The
change has been mainly owing to the
great increase in price and in the con-
sumption of inferior articles called coffee.
St. Domingo coffee. which cost II cents
per pound in 1853. was held at 30 cents
in 1864.
The New York Tribune declares that
the election of English, in Connections
was the effect of bribery. and the inves-
tigation will prove the fact. 1t adds:
Exposure may not change the result,
but it will deprive it of any political sig
ni6cance, and will brand this Copperhead
success as more disgracefIl than any de-
feat, and as likely to be, in the end. more
damaging"
A shooting affray occurred at Kansas
city on the lO:h between A. H Hollo-
well, editor OF the Journal of Commerce,
aud H. B. Branch, Postmaster. Four
shots were fred, but neither party was
hurt. The sfftr grew out of some COM
meEts in the Journal on letter from Geo.
w. Mclean, Special Agent of the Post
Office Department, to G. S. McHenry,
chief clerk of the postofice there. ordering
him TO take possession Of the flee, aud
not allow Branch to have anything more
to do with it.
Judge Murdoch. of Cincinnati, has de-
cided that billiard tables kept Tor games
come under the gambling act and are
illegal.
An american circus company, with
highly trained horses, and with a build
ing n which to give performances at the
Paris Exposition, shave sailed from New
York. The company will be under the
man agemsut OF spauldIng. Rogers q Co.
Leading men iu commercial circles of
Eastern cities have been urging on secTe-
tary Mccullough to abandon contraction
for the present. in order to prevent fur
Their slringency 10 money matters. The
Secretary seems inclined to yield TO the
demand.
MIR. B4yard. the newly appointed Cop
perhead Senator from Delaware, has taken
the test oath 10 the United States Senate,
Notwithstanding he resigned few years
ago to avoid doing SO. The suppression
of the rebellion seems to have wrought a
wonderful change in his views of consIi-
tuliOnal right.
The quarterly statement of the New
York city National bapks shows 3 decrease
of S25,oOO.OoO in their resources, com
pared with the January statement.
Cheating circulars are sent through the
country. dated from the bible House.
New York." soliciting custom and money
for various gift enterprises with taking
deceitful names. The name of the Bible
House is used to disarm suspicion and 10
cheat under false colors. The Secretaries
of the Bible S,cities have published a
card. saying that no rooms 10 the Bible
house are rented or ussd for auJ such
fraudulent purposes.
The AlAt3ma grand council of the Ur-
ion League of America has just coDclud-
ed its session at Montgomery. Resolutions
we're adopted thanking Congress for the
passage of the military reconstruction act;
haiIing with Joy the recurrence to the
fundamental principle of our, fathers-the
equality of all men; charactsFizing rebell-
ion as the highest crime known to Law,
but still welcoming 10 the republican par
ty all who forsake entirely the principles
ofthe rebellion. and saying that the asser-
ton that there are not enough intelligent
| loyal men In Alabama 10 administer the
government is false in fact, and mainly
promulgated BY those who aim to keep
| respectable By retaining power in the