The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-05-31
NEWS AND POLITICS m BRIrr.

The Mayor Of Mobile has been petition.
ed 10 appoint Ous-balf Of the police negroes.
Snow fell at Council Bluffs. Iowa, last
Monday. during the storm which swept
over that section of the West.
It is rumored that the brothers Pfxlsv,
who murdered Gen. Bailey in Missouri,
have been aPprsheuded in Iowa.
The Chicago City Government yielded
to the eight hour dem and for its labOrers,
but reduced the pay accordingly, and nov
the wOrkmeu have, persuaded it to 90
back TO ten hours.
Accounts received from along the line
of ths Illinois Central railroad, from
Dunleith to CsntFalia. report the wheat,
barley, rye. and oat crops in fine coudi-
ton, aud promising large yield. The
weather has bsen very Uulavorabls for
corn already planted. sai
The determined action Of the Govern
ment officers 10 seiziDg distiIIsrisg in New
York, has created panic among the man.
ufacturers of whisky. Tits estimated
that not more than six Gistilleriss are now
in operation. /. is reported that the Gov
ernment hes ordered the seizure of all
uubouded Wb.sksy.
The New York Times says ga cargo OF
wheat recently passed westward through
Syracuse which was originally shipped
from San francisco for France. thence to
New York and to Chicago. This is Gu
rious illustration OF the sinuous channels
which commerce sometimes makes for
itself. It is not likely that shipments of
j grain from California, for Illinois, by
way of France, will become a gsnsr
thing"
Geo. Wilson. the express robber who
was one Of party of three who robbd the
United States Express of $4,000. near
Pleasant Hill last summer, escsped from
the Guard at HarEisonvile on the 10Th.
10 the Maryland Constitutional Couveu.
ton yesterday, the Committee of the Leg,
islative Department made q report which
contains provisions prohibiting the Gen.
Assembly from making appropriations
for compensation to former owners Of
slsves.
The old Bushwhackers aud despera-
does of Missouri are fast disappearing, &
dispatch from Warrensburg states that
Tom. Stevens, a son of the notorious Bin
Stevens who was killed in that vicinity
some six weeks ago, together With his pal,
MOrg. Andrews. were found hung By tue
neck ION The Gath near the water tank,
north of that city. These men were
brought from Kansas lately on requisi-
ton from the Governor. The officer in
charge of them was overpowered by an
armed body of men, who tied his arms
and compelled him to yield to their de-
mands and surrender the prisoners to their
hands. Some we'll to,do farmers, con-
neclsd with the late gang of horse thieves.
have been arrested through the instFu
mentality of the vigilance committee, and
placed in duIance vile to await their trial
before Judge Elliott, at the June term Of
the Court of Comon Pleas.
A letter from Jackson, Mississippi, says
Judge Sharkey has returned from Wash
ingtOu, and expresses some surprise at
the course of the Supreme Court with ref
erence to the Injunction bills. He strong
iy opposed any convention under the mill
itary bill, and will advise the people to
vote against calling one. Military do
minion, he says, bad as it may be, ia
better than negro dominion. He expresses
himself as being Disguised with many
prominent public men of the South. for
yielding SO readily as they have to the re-
quirsments of Congress. when quiet and
firm opposition would have produced a
reaction in the North, and induced repeal
of this obnoxious law.
Advices from Hong Kong say it is re.
ported that the United States gunboat
Aspinlot had bombardsd town on the
Island of FOrnese. the natives of which
had murdered the shipWrecked crew of
the American bark Dover.
The following platform was adopted BY
the Republican party of Louisiana: That
the rebuiIding of the Levees is proper
Objee: of national aid; demanding the
abolishing of the cotton tax. and that The
sugar interest be protected and fOsiered:
The Richmond Wing. in commenting
on the dismissal of the Gsorgia injunction
case By the Supreme Court, says: 1--WE
hope this result win prove a profitable
lesson to those who are given to pursuing
shadows aud chimsras. If they would
expend the same zeal and energy in the
pursuit of attainabls ends by practicable
means, they would accomplish something
for the South aud for themselves"
Considerable excite msnt on both Sides
Of the Rio Grande is reported 10 the
Brownsville papers at the rumOred dis
cOVsry of large gold mines IL chihuahua.
and still more, perhaps. at q ridiculous
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