The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-31
Personal AID Poii7rcsL.


John Morrfsssy beta sf,6oo to $50
that seymour Viii not be elected, and
offers to do it fifty times.
A Cincinnati paper suggests that the
Republicans app6int day for thanks-
family.
Government securities fell in London
when the action Of the New York con.
vention became known in the market:
viii the Democrats cheer for thGtf
The Hartford Post thus hits the nail
on the head: 1.-THE Democratic party is
the peace party in war, aud the war
party in peace"
The New York Tribune, after sum-
marizing the Democratic platform upon
the financial question, vigorously add.
ed, aft this is not naked scoundrelism,
where is the fig leafi"
The Columbus Journal gives Pendls4
ton and his friends this parting rhyme
"Not yell was heard. not . greenback note,
As the escort from Tammauy hurried.
Not hummer discharged his farewell shout
Ger the grave where poor George lies burid~
"Honest" John Covode has beefi re-
nominated for Congress by the Repub-
iicans of the Twenty-first Pennsylvania
district. He has served five terms in
the House and has never been o beaten
candidate.
A fair reply was that made by Pitts
field Democrat, whose sympathy with
the war against the rebellion was not
extensive, TO the question, "How doee
things look at New York 2" "H-lt
seems to me It looks damnably Ike an.
other lost cause"
The Boston Transcript says: eff It
requires q Chief Justice TO renounce
most of his political principles in order
to obtain four votes in National Dem
ocratic Convention, what amount OF
apostacy and degradation would be re-
quisite to obtain q nomination.
The Sandasky Register (Rep.) thinks
''it was particularly cruel in the DEM
ocratic Convention to force the Prest-
Dental nomination on TO gentleman
who has faint OF hereditary insanity
and then to couple him with one of the
Blairs, whose society through the CAM
paign would develop lunacy in the SAN
est Of men,"
A NV FERTILIzER.-Bouche OF
France, has invented q process for sub
jecting the entire bodies of animals to
the action of dilute hydrochlOric acid,
by means of which they are completely
verted into q uniform pulp, which Is
inodorous, and can be kept for any
length of time, to be applied when
needed toward fertilizing the soil.
Gen. Emory, in the command Of the
Department Of Washington, has issued
a circular permitting all troops in the
Department to wear straw hats and
blQuses of the army pattern when off
duty, and when upon all duty except
reviews, inspections, dress-parade aud
guard mounting.
A man named II. Carver, who claims
to be the father of the Pacific railroad,
says he is going to travel from San Fran
cisco to New York, when the road IS
completed, in forty-eight hours. He
says he has a model car in New Jersey.
built of cedar, with each wheel running
| by itself like a wheelbarrow, and q
small engine about as large as barrel
III the bow of the car, and he has run it
at the rate of over two miles q minute
with perfect safety and ease.
One significant fact in connection with
the recent Democratic National Conven-
ton has not yet been mentioned in pub
lie, namely: that every delegate in that
convention from the Southern States
was a secessionist. Not one of the en-.
tire number had been loyal Union men
during the war. We presume it is also
true that there is nota man in Tue South,
| white or black who supported the Union
during the war, who will support Sey-
mour and Blair. At all events, there is
not solitary Southern rebel, or North.
ern sympathizer with the rebels, who In
not for that ticket.