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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-05-08
CORRECTION.

From conversations with several of
our Eagle creek friends, this week, we
are satisfied that there were some errors
in the account we gave last week
of the horse thieving affair in that
neighborhood. We obtained the state
ments published from j. w. French,
who claimed to be the owner of the
horses. His statements and conduct
give rise to q suspicion that there was
something wrong about the whole mat
ter. The two men from whom he took
the horses claim that they bought them,
and that Mr.. French knew they did not
steal them that the horses did not be-
long to French, and that he had no right
to them or authority to arrest the men
who had possession of them. The men
were not placed under a guard of citi-
zens, as he told us, but were released by
French himself. and no attempts made to
secure them. The men were met the
tween here and Council Grove, and
stated that they were going west to find
the man from whom they bought the
horses. After the pretended arrest
French let the men go on their promise
that they would report to him the next
morning, and when morning came he
made no effort to get the men. No citi-
zens We're called upon to guard them.
These are statements made to us by
several of the most reliable men on Ea-
gle creek. To say the least, French's
condhct looks a little strange.
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POLITICAL GOSSIP.

The following bit of political gossip
we clip from Washington telegram of
May 5th, and give it for what it is worth.
Several reports have reached the cOun-
try that Mr.. Fessenden is unsound on
the impeachment question, and "where
there is considerable smoke there is
generally little fire." AS to Chief
Justice Chase's action throughout the
trial, we can only say we have regarded
his course as an effort to bring himself
into favor with the Democracy. lie is
trying to make Presidential capital out
of it, and seems to care for nothing else.
''The Hcrald's Washington dispatch
states that Senator Fessenden has pre-
pared an opinion that there are no frauds
shown i'll the evidence or argument
justifying a conviction of the President.
Mr.. Morrill, offered Fessenden an adj
verse opinion, but failed to convince
Fessenden. Several other Republican
Senators arc reported to have follow ed
Fessenden's example. 1t is now stated
that a new party, headed by Chase fol
the Presidency against Gen. Grant, is to
be Immediately formed by Fessenden,
Henderson, Trumbull and other moder.
ate Republicans"
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SLIGHTLY MISTAKEN.

The last Atchison Free Press comes to
us full of information. about Kansas,
intended for immigrants. 1t is gener-l
ally very correct, but in one item 1t Is
mistaken, and we disire to correct 1t.
In an article headed kansas as a wheat
growing State" speaking of the crops
of 1866, it says:
'The crops in Kansas north of the
Kansas river would have averaged near
Nv 81 bushels to the acre-this was on
her best wheat land -alOne-but there
was large bredth of land in Southern
Kansas sOwn to wheat, where the land Is
not as good for wheat, and when all this
was taken into the account the average
per acre was reduced to ola bushels.
From these facts we feel sure that there
is no better wheat growing land in the
States than that of Northern Kansas
1t is all right for the Free Press to
publish to the world the advantages OF
Northern Kansas, but We cannot allow
it to do so at the expense of the South
ern portion of the State. We are salts.
fed that Northern Kansas is one of the
finest wheat growing regions of the
west, but do not believe it is better thar
this part of Kansas. Our land is fully
as good, and the amount raised per acre
in 1866, was equal, if indeed it did no
surpass that raised in the counties rep
resented by the Free Press. Thirt!
bushels per acre was common thin:
that season in Southern Kansas, Will
forty bushels per acre was not an un
common yield. Now and then Their
was field which went as high as fit
bushels to the acre. That was an unu
sually good wheat season i'll SOuther
Kansas, and we remember of convers
ing with parties several times after tn
crop was harvested, who had travele
all over the State, and the testimony wa
almost universal that Southern Kansa
had raised larger crop than any othe
portion of the State. We will ventur
the assertion that if the figures coul
be published that Southern Hams:
would show a considerably larger yicl
of wheat per acre, taking all the yea
since the settlement of the country, tina
Northern Kansas, and prove to the ed
tor of the Free Press that he is slight
mistaken when he asserts that .'the be
wheat growing portion of Kansas lii
North of the Kansas river"
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The Old World Still Moves
IN OPEN FIELD, md FIR
FIGHT.

FOR CENTURIES THIS CRAZY OLD
world has been hunting specific Panacea for
all their woes, pains, aches and diseases, in
duced by the violation of immutable physio-
logical laws. They have searched the uni
verse and accumulated the poisons from the
Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms
''The dregs and Kkem of earth and sea, y
swallowed them with superstitous faith
en-, suffer, and die, prematurely. But one in
a thousand live out half their days. Medical
colleges hatch out, and send forth a tender
brood of sheep-skin gentry, called doctors
full of learned lingo and technical gibberisfI,
to dose and drug, bleed and blister, pow-wow
and speculate, but still diseases multiply and
increase in proportion to the amount of drugs
swallowed and doctors employed.
Says DIR. Benjamin Rush, of Philadelphia,
after forty years of experience in the drug
practice: Eve have done but little more than
multiply diseases, and increase their fatality
| Says DR. John Mason Good, of London, THE
cept, indeed. that they have destroyed more
| lives than war, pestilence, and famine, COM
bined."
Thus for centuries the doctors have pipetl
and the people have danced, until they have
become depleted in vitality, and the Doctors
plethoric in purse This "unbalanced circu
iation,' is abnormal.
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THE CONSERVATIVE.

The Leavenworth Daily Conservative
announces D. w. ;i-ilder as its editor
again. Mr.. Wilder has bought the inter-
est of Capt. Insley i'll the paper. Mr..
Wright remains as one of the proprie-
tors, and the firm is now Wilder &
Wright. Geo. T. Anthony publish
his "good bye" Mr.. Anthony has made
the paper good one, but we have 4
kind of a notion that nobody. ever
did or ever will give the paper those
characteristics which arc peculiarly its
own but Web. Wilder, and w ithout
them the paper is not itself Web. was
the first editor of the paper. He built
it up and sent it into every radical
household in the State. We are glad he
has come back to the State-sincerely
glad. He is a good man to have in
Kansas. He has worked for Kansas
and will again. He is a forcible, clear
headed editor, and is always true. No
man ever dealt harder or more telling
blows for the cause of the government
than Web. Wilder did during the war,
and Leavenworth never had trueI
| friend than he.
The price of the Weekly Conservative
has been reduced to one dollar per year
and the paper wants 100000 subscribers
| We hope it will get them.
Mr.. Wilder's salutatory is published
in the Conservative of May 9TH. We
take from it one of the closing para
graphs:
But we have said enough. Egotism
is laxative, as our people have lately
found out from Presidential authority
| Some of you may want to know what
think of Andy. Well, Andy will be i'm
peached, and 1 have thought the best
thing old Ben. Wade could do will
him after that, would be to make him
| Governor al interim of the new and
flourishing Territory of Ku Klux
That Territory will never be admitted
and Andy will be al interim forever
Two months of that punishment has
been enough for poor old Thomas. An
DIV will sit on a little black throne an6
receive perpetual addresses from Kr
Klux delegations to which he will be
doomed to make perpetual replies. IIC
has ordered copy of the CORSerc0
tice, but that felicity we are compelled
to deny him. We shall send him {
| Constitution and small flag.
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STATE SCRIP.

We find the following article about |
our State Scrip. in the Oskaloosa Iade-4
pendent, of late date, and it accords SO
well with what we have heard from
reliable private sources, that We copy it
entire:
Some of the State officers have united
to discredit. the scrip provided for by
the last legislature, which has the effect
to reduce its value very materially. As
one interested III this matter we de-
nounce this effort as scheme to play
into the hands of shaFpers, whether SO
designed or not by the officers of State.
We said some months since that ap-
pearances indicated very strongly that
| there was s.ring' formed at Topeka
| for the purpose of specializing in State
scrip. We think these late develop
ments show conclusively that we were
| right Now there are hundreds Of pco-
| pie in the State interested in this scrip
matter, who will be grossly wronged by
any such shystering movement as that
proposed, namely, giving preference to
the scrip of one year over that of an
other.
If we were county treasurer, we
would receive every dollar of State scrip
4 offered in payment Of State Tax, no diff
ference what its date, and we would Of
fer IT in payments to the State, and il
the State Treasurer refused to receive
the States note i'll payment of its own
claim. he might get his pay the best he
could.
, Ii there is such law as these men
9 claim, justifying them in this strange
: course of procedure, why was its eXis
tence not Known before and if any rem
edy is needed, why was it not brought
to the attention of the legislature ? Die
= the ring wait purposely until the al
: jOurnment of that body, before sending
+ out the circular to county treasurers
and if so, did they do this to line thci
own pockets more efectually.
Several of the State officers hav
t held their position for years. Do the.
mean by this last official act to say tina
they have been violating the law of til
State up to this late hour? 1t seems t
us that this singular section on their par
places them i'll most awkward and uIl
enviable position. Either they hav
p been openly violating the law in tn
u past, or now they are engaged in
h. grand swindling operation. Which
J. it?
We think these men, in justice t
- themselves as we'll as the people, shout
'e publish the law which they can clail
is to be so authoritative, and then cxplai
nf how they Glanced to discover it at til
- late day, or how it happened that the
= let it sleep so long Ilnheeded while the
u were violating its provisions?
If II they have been transgrcssing Il
is law, they ought to be dealt with.
,t they are new attempting to shield then
" selves in dirty speculation by the lie
e ter of a law long imperative, they shou
IN be held up to the scorn of an indigna
e. and defrauded people. In any ever
lis this matter calls for investigation and
Mt thorough ventilation.
II 9
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WExDELL Pu1LLIrs, in a recent let

WENDELL PHILLIPS, in recent let
ter. speaks of General Buffers conduct
in the impeachment case as follows:
''Without rejecting on any other
managers, since all have done and all
will do their duty, the nation, up to this
hour, thanks General Butler for the sue
cess of the impeachment. His vigor,
skill, tireless energy, unequaled ability,
have carried it Oh. After standing that
one immortal hour in the breathless
Senate chamber, and seeing the four
ablest lawyers johnson could summon,
entirely cOwed, disconnected, appalled,,
siieaced by his skill-sitting in mute be-
wilderment-he needs no word OF
praise. That scene. unparalleled in jul
dicial annals, must be testimony enough
to his ability. We can assure him that
the loyal millions enjoyed his triumph.
deemed it only his due, and thanked
him most cordially that such skill was
used on the right side
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AN IOWA MANS REPORT OF KANSAS

lie Grand Byington, one of the veal
finest and most enterprising citizens of
Eastern Iowa, 9.madc an extensive ex-
ploration through the more accessible
parts of Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas.
Tennessee, Kentucky and Southern IL
linois, to satisfy himself whether all the
confessed advantages of Iowa as an ag-
ricultural section, could not somewhere
be combined with so genial and salubri-
Gus a climate as to obviate the extreme
hardships of Iowa winters and back
ward springs" After looking over all
the States named, Mr.. Byington says
81 am satisfied by actual observation,
and by reliable information from all
available sources, that an the caiIey Of
the Kansas ricey, on the finished line of
the Union Pacific Railroad, within easy
access of the flourishing young cities of
STD Oseph, Atchison, LeavcnyV orth, Kan
sas City, Lawrence and Topeka, have
found what l sought, with the addition
al recommendation that the best quality
of grain, grass and fruit growing lands
can be had by mere occupancy or for a
nominal consideration, in quantity suf-
ficient to accommodate hundreds of fam
lilies within easy neighborhood proxim-
ity."
Mr.. Byington has called meeting, to
be held i'll Iowa City on Saturday next,
May 9th, at which he viii give any other
information desired. He has issued a
circular to the people of that State, one
of which is now before us. He will
doubtless be the means of inducing
hundreds of settlers to come to our
State.
MIR. Byington will move here next
season. His report only comedies with
all intelligent and observing men who
have visited our State. Movements
looking to the formation of large par
ties of emigrants are being set on foot
in all parts of the East, and by next sea-
son we may expect an influx of new
Corners never before witnessed in any
ate.-Leaeentc0rth Conservative.
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THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL.

Bingham closed his speech Wednes-
day at 6 O'Clock. So the speaking is all
over. Bingham was cheered by the
packed galleries. Chase ordered the
galleries cleared and was Kissed. But
the galleries were cleared. The I'M
parchment party seem more cheerful
than few days ago. Doubts expressed
about the soundness OF Fesscnden and
Sherman are now cleared up, and there
is scarcely doubt that Johnson will be
convicted and removed. We shall know
very soon
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-05-08
SEW R1TLRoAD PRoJEcT.


at our last State convention several
in attendance from the coun-
ties Of johnson, Franklin, Coffey and
Lyon held meeting and organized the
kansas City s. Santa Fe Railroad and
Telegraph Company 1t is proposed
to run the road from Kansas City via
Olathe, Ottawa, Emporia and Cotton
wood Falls in the direction of Santa Fe.
We did not learn much as to the pros
poets of the enterprise at that meeting,
but see that those who have the matter
in charge are starting the enterprise
in good earnest.
The Corporators held a meeting al
Kansas City on the Both of April, and
organized by electing Col! E. Hays
of Olathe, President, and w. III. Morgan
of Kansas City, as Secretary. Books
for the subscription of stock were or
dcred to be opened at Kansas City, Ola
the, Ottawa and Emporia.
Col. Plumb of this place, was appoin
ted solicitor, and notice is published
by the Secretary informing us that he j
authorized to receive subscriptions O
stock at his Office commencing on til
9Th of June.
On motion, the President pro ten
was directed to call a meeting of til
stockholders, to assemble at Ola TIT
Kansas, as soon as ten per cent. of til
capital stock is subscribed, for the puI
pose of clecting Board of Director
1t was further resolved, that the HoI
l. S. Kalloch be requested to aceompa
ny the Indian Commission on its pre-
posed trip among the Osages, and til;
he be empowered to act in the intel
est of this company in such manner {
may to him seem best, to the end TIL
he may secure for it any treaty adval
tages within his power.
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THE Nashville Times published let
ter from Pennington, Marshall county,
Tenn, giving an account of the murder
of Rev. L. Lincoln, a Baptist minister,
on the night of Sunday week. He was
taken from the house where he was
sleeping, killed. and his body thrown in
to sink hole. a day or two after
ward another influential Radical, Mr..
Williams, was waylaid and severely
wounded in the same county. Demo
cratic Justice!
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Charter.
Read What the Press Say of the
Charter.

We have given the Charter a full and fair
trial and pronounce it the ne plus ultra of
stoves. and all that can be desired in its line.
1t is unsurpassed as a ready, quick and even
baker. We can cheerfuIly recommend II as the
stove for the farmers and for general mousse
keeping.-5Stdte journal.
One of our oldest settlers. moving to Arkan-
sas via st. Louis took his stove. the celebrated
Charter with him for fear he could not obtain
another one like it.-Lds0Tence Ifl6nne.
It is very even baker, takes but little Iuel,
and is very durable sGge Chronicle,
have oood points. we have seen no stove that
has so many excellent points as the Charter,
made by Chamberlain, Of Cincinnat1.-1opek
Record.
anv other stove while il costs 40 more tnSn
others Council Grore Press.
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Agents Wanted to Sell the History of
The War Between the States.

Its Causes, Character, Condu It and Results.
BY HON. ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS
A book for all sections and all parties. This
Accordingly interesting book by 'ETHE GREAT
sTATEsMAN'' Of the South, presents the most
complete and impartial analysis of the causes
of the war which has ever appeared from
Southern pen; it treats without partizanship,
and in the utmost moderation of the character
of the struggle; and in its description of the
conduct of the war, it gives those interior
lights and shadows Of the conflict only known
to those high officers who watched thefiood-tide
of revolution from its fountain-springs, and
which were so accessible to Sfr. Stephens from
his position second officer of the Confederary.
The results Of the war, present and future,
have never been treated by any other author,
and Dir. stephens great abilities have here
found their fullest play.
The intense desire everywhere manifested to
obtain this work, its Official Character and
ready sale, combined with an increased COM
mission, make it the best subscription book
ever published, and offers to Agents the finest
opportunity to make money ever heard ofsin
the history OF books.
Send for descriptive Circular and Terms to
Agents. Address.
ZEIGLER, McCURDY & CO.,
10-12-4m 5l3 Olive Street, st. Louis. Mo.
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THE TOPEKA RAILROAD.

We clip the following from the last
Topeka Leader:
. Daily we are asked the question, Do
YOU think that work will soon COM
mence on the Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad? Now that Col. Holiday has
returned, and having heard his state
ments, we say to the public that the
early construction of the Atchison, To-
peka 81 Santa Fe Railroad is certainly
1lattering. That grading will be started
within sixty DAYS, we verify believe.
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The ST. Joseph & Denver II. r. Com
pany, one day last week, selected the
lots upon which the depot buildings at
this place will be erected. The location
is good one, and we are informed that
work will be commenced Immediately.
-Wothend Reporter, 30th.
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/ PROPOSE REVOLUTION:

Let the people pipe and the doctors dance.
Medical men have stood like priests st the al
tar of their so-called medical science, while
the people offered incense and sacrifice, but
wGre not healed. They ''greer no better, but
rather gre,c ecorse.'' Here is need for revolu-
ton. The people have ever sought to be saw
ed in their sins, and not from their sins. Hence
their faith i'll mocking priests and deceptive
drugs They have not yet learned that "ceasc
to do evil and learn to do welI' means; cease
taking drugs and poisons and learn to obey
the laws of your being as implanted by an in
telligent Creator. They have yet to learn
that obedience to physiological law will in
sure health and happiness, and that disobedi-
ence leads to disease. misery, and premature
death. Blind leaders have misled them, and
all have fallen into the ditch.
The Reform PHYSICIANS propose Revolution,
and Revolution means war. All we ask is an
open field and fair fight.
If in two thousand years of practice, we.
blight, mar, scarify and slaughter as many as
they have; if we wreck and ruin as many con-
situations. shatter rs many nerves, rot out as
many teeth, ulcerate as many liyers, corrode
as many stomachs, blister as many skins, blast
as many hopes, and blunder much general
ly, we will surrender the field and retreat into
lishonored oblivion with Andy johnson & Co
now offer the citizens of Emporia and sur
rounding country
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Proposals for Roof and Cor
nice OF State House.
OFFICE OF THE BOARD
or Gers Tlnr-sx- (snrsssrsSxn~-rpS

OF STATE HOUSE COMMISSIONERS,
TOPEKA. Kansas, April Il. 1858.
GEALED PROPOSALS will be received at
othe Office OF the Secretary Of State at Topeka,
Kansas, till the 12th day Of May, 1868 at L.
O'Clock, d. for furnishing complete upon the.
building the iron roof trusses and boarding,
together with the gaivanfzed iron eorTiice bal
ustrade, and copper cutters of the State Capt.
tol at Topeka.
Plans and specifications Of the above work
NAV nc seen at the Office OF the Secretary Of.
State after May 1st, 1858.
Each bid must he accompanied with a writ
ten guarantee, signed by two acceptable sure
ties that IL the work Is awarded the bidder he
will enter into contract therefor, with appsov-
ed security for the faithful performance Of the
contract.
Each bid must be accompanied with a copy
Of this advertisement.
The right 70 reject any and ali bids is reserv--
ed.
BY order of the Commissioners.
1913 JIG. HASKELL, AEch'ts and supt..
FOR SALE.
q - head stock cattle, consisting sfcows.
I'd and calves, - oyear olEis and yearlings.
T. 4. HICKS,
E-H Waterloo, kaAss.s
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The new whiskey-tax law is beginning
to be felt. Owing to the fact that whis-
ky is selling in New York at less than
tax, the revenue bureau has
ordered the seizure and closing up of all
distilleries there. This order has been
enforced, and on Friday there were no
distilleries in operation in Now York
city.
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Horse Breeders, Take NOfice.

FTSHE Stations TOLLA and 10 HOOKER
Il may be seen ut Groves livery stable, in
Emporia, on Saturday in each week, from the,
1st of May to the LIST Of July, and at my stable,
IN Fremont FIVE miles north of Emporia. the
rest OF the week. r. II. ABRAHAM
lift
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sxfO sash 65 cts, 1ox12 s. cts, &c. Doors
26X66 So, 2SN6S 1925, &c.
Call at the oldest lumber yard in Topeka,
corner of 9Th and Quincy streets.
D. Ii. JOHNSTON.
April 10th, 1868
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Chance for Bargains.

= HAVE for sale. cheap for cash. so 600 feet
4 of Lumber of all kinds; a span Of work
mares: a span Of mules; 1000 fence posts, 800
of which are mulberry. Call and see me, as
offer the above articles at good bargains.
15-tf n. LOCkERMAN.