The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-05-17
NEWS AND POLITICS IN BRIEF.

PiNt1ys Hgi nla IS the most back /
ward and Louisiana the most forward of
the rebel States.
The European war bubble IS burstsd
and nobody is hurt- France aud Prus-
STA have embraced, and the thing ia all !
made up. The treaty which vas signed
on the 1lth inst, by members of the Peace
COugFess,has been ratified by their respee-
tive governments. by the terms of settle
ment that the Fortress o f Luxemburp il
to be evacuated by the Prussiaus within
a month from date of treaty. The French
Cabinet has made satisfactory tzpIaration
to Prussia in regard to recent war like
preparations in France.
A St, Louis letter says: Merchants
still declare this TO be the dulIest season
for many year. Never before have there
been SO many idle hands and work seek.
ing people in ST. Louis as at present
Hence crimes are more numerous. and
every offence is committed with impunity.
all the way from game of pitch up to
manslaughter and railroad stealing.
In regard to the statement of the Gin
cinuatti Commercial that St. Louis casts
only ID. 600 votes, the Missouri Demo
crat says that that city has over &c, 600
voters duly registered, and a large num-
Der of d!sloyal citizens are not counted.
1t claims over 10000 as the population
ofSt. Louis.
At Baton Rouge. La, last Friday, at
noon. 232 voters bad registered, of whom
EOS were colOred. The Advocate of that
date says" Very few whites take any in
tersst in the matter, the excitement being
confined altogether to the colOred popula-
ton.
The Martinsville (Ind. Gazette learns
that the crop of peaches apples, pears.
cherri es, &c, promises to be large. The
wheat crop also looks we'll, and an unu-
sually large yield is expected.
Considerable quantities of war materi-
al are arriving in St. Louis, and being
sent up the Missouri river for use on the
Plains against the Indians.
A committee is organizing the Repub
lican party in every county in Florida.
and the prospects are good.
Senator Stewart. of Nevada, is about
70 take the stump in Mississippi in favor
of the Republican platform.
In Denver 25l houses are under con
tract to be built this season, by three or
four parties.
John Bright ia coming to Amsrica.
The national debt was reduced S.
100000 during the month of April.
A Chinese firm in San Francisco
Yields capital of oyer $4,000. 900.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has become
member of the Episcopal Church.
The Mayor of Chicago states that the
city debt >nouu:s to So. 399. 900.
Tie Democrats correspondent with
HancOck's expedition. writing from Fort
Hays. May 81, gives long account of a
council held between Gen. Hancock and
Sautanta, principle chief of the Kiowas,
at Fort Lsrned. May Let. Santanta's
speech was full of pFotsstations OF peace
and promises to keep his young men qu;-
ct, and also to use his iufusuce with the
other tribes. He said the Cheyennes aud
Sioux abandoned their villages because
they were afraid of the troops. aud he
thought Hancock did wrong to burn their
lodges and property. He was opposed to
the railroad running through the Arkan-
sas river region, and charged Col. Leav-
enworth with selling annuity goods be,
longing 10 the Kiowas for his own bene,
fit; to which Col. Lsavenworth replied
that be had keptiback aDnuitiss by orders
from Washington. Gen. Hancock replied
at length, going over much the same
ground as in his former speech, but lay
ing particular stress upon the point that
unless the Indians faithfully performed
their treaty obliga tons and preserved the
peace, they would be severely punished.
He explained that be burned Cheyenne
and sivx villages because those tribes lied
to him and acted very treacherously.
They began the war by burning stations
and killing whites on the Smokey Hill
route. and should be punished. Similar
conduct on the part of other Indians
would meet like results.
Lucy Stone sent a dispatch to an equal
rights meeting being held in New York
City, a few days ago, saying that impair
tial suffrage would be carried 10 Kansas
by an overwhelming majority. Lucy
may be +" enumeratiug the-juvenile Poul-
try before the period of their incubation.
"White man is mighty onsarLain.'
It is pretty evident that none of the Fe-
mans engaged in the raid on Canada last
year, and the more recent rising in Ireland
are TO be punished with death. Most if
not all, of those convicted in Canada have
already had their eeuteuce of death com
muted to that of long Imprisonment. and
it is now reported that the death sentence