The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-05-03
NEWS AID PoIITTCs IN BRTgF.

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said to Be very lucrative one.
The Times special says the Treasury
Department has been eficiaIIy informed
that within seven days just passed, no
less than forty Thousand bushels of wheat
have been shipped from Liverpool to
New York.
Gen. Rousseau has been ordered to
Fort Vancouver. Washington Territory.
to relieve Gen. Steele. We suspect the
object of that order is to give Gen.
Rousseau an opportunity TO figure" for
| U. S. Senator from the coming State Of
Washington.
Cases of bydropbobia continue to null
tiply at Chicago. Thus far twenty-five
persons have been bitten. A Vigilance
Committee of citizens is talked of in each
ward. to slay every dog abroad unmuzzl-
ed.
During the past year about ss4 .ooo.-
1000 we're deposited in savings banks in
New York-an increase of nearly Si1,-
Ooo.o GOO over any previous year.
The Pittsburgh silver mining company
operating in Jackson county. West Vir,
ginia, have found rock yielding forty
dollars to the ton, and are confident of
strikin a richer vein.
Gen. Sheridan. il various ways, is
proving himself the right man in the
right place" in Louisiauna, as be was
" hen in pursuit of Early in the Valley of
} the She nandoAh. The Boards of Regis
tration appointed by him under the Re-
construction act, nnder his instructions,
are giving a rigid intsrpr citation to the
law. in consequences of which excluded
rebels have appealed to the President.
OF course he is complimented by the de-
nunciatiOn of Copperheads and rebels, but
loyal men will approve his action.
kilograms report the Union Pacific
railrOad beyond Omaha again in operation.
It WAS under water for many miles in con-
sequO nee of the over flow of the Platte,
but a strong force of hands is now al
work upon it with prospect ofhaving the
damage on-repaired.
E Senator Wilson addressed large assem
b lags of whites and colored men at Fort
: ress Monroe on the 25th ult. He pro-
! cseded to North Carolina. aud will deliv-
g addresses at WILMINGTON and New
8 bern.
They have just had an illustration at
Quincy, Ill. of the idea of 'fres speech"
9 which formerly prevailed in the South.
It A Rev. Mr.. White Was advertised to leo
> ture on "ROmanism," and upon his arri-
val at the hall found it occupied BY Cath
olics, who refused to allow him to speak.
The news from Europe continues war
like. Prussia. in her reply to the note of
Q the Great Powers, denies that she is arm
> ing. but avows her determination not to
svacuats Luxembourg. AS q couse.
quence, war is now regarded as inevita-
BILE. Prince Napoleon is reported to
have gone to Italy, evidently for tie pur-
pose of arranging an alliance with Victor
Emanuel. The fac: that the marriage of
Prince Humbert, of Italy, with the Arch
duchess of Austria has been postponed,
is equally significant as an indication that
Austria is, by force of circumstances.
drifting into an alliance with Prussia. In
the meantime, the warlike aspect Of Euro
psan affairs seems to be giving a new i'm
petus TO Investments in United States
bonds in the German mar ets.
, The Republicans of Western Europe
sviuce a determination TO avail themselves
Of the present unsettled state ST European
affairs to renew their revolutionary
schemes. A rev olutionary caucus is al
ready reported to have been held al Brus-
sells, including representatives from
France, Spain, Italy, Rome. and ireland,
at which Gen. Prim, the Spanish revoll,
ZIONIST, was the leading spirit. Plans for
early revolutionary movements in Rome,
Spain, aud Great Britain were under dis
cussion.
E The Times special says the report of
the Treasury for the month Just closing
+ will show another large reduction of the
National debt. In the next statement
Secretary MeCullOch hopes TO reduce the
Natio nal bebt TO aboDt twenty. FIVE hun
dred millions, at which point he believes
it must remain stationary so long as the
present rate of Government income
and exp enses is maintained. The Indian
wars will draw largely on the National
resources this summer, and while the
Treasury is perfectly clear and easy, the
reduction ofIhe National debt must soon
be suspended, for time at least.
Nassby says the reason why Johnson
and Seward purchased Russian America.
was to furnish positions for the Blair
Family, and thus ''get rid of The cusses."
The country has been divided into two
Territories, he says, and Frank and Mont
gOmery Blair have been appointed Gov
errors.
A Washington letter says: Such