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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-28

Hon. EDWIN TUCKER.-We find the
following complimentary notice of this
gentleman in the Burlington Patriot of
last week:
Hon. Edwin Tucker, who has repre-
scented Greenwood county twice i'll our
State Legislature, lives on farm adj
joining Eureka. He is i'll comfortable
circumstances, has worthy wife and
family, and is very and justly popular
with his neighbors. He is level-headed,
philosophical and generous, and has
done much to develop the resources of
Greenwood county. His neighbOrs,
without an exception, so far as we could
learn. speak of him in terms of admira-
ton and affection, and they are anxious
that he shall be the next Senator from
that Senatorial. district, which consists
OF the counties of Lyon and Greenwood.
! Mr.. Tucker is amply qualified, by edu-
cation and experience, to represent that
| Senatorial district, and if Lyon county,
which has had the Senator three terms
in succession and which has the power
| to determine who shall be that officer,
will support Mr.. Tucker, it will confer
favor upon his friends and perform an
act of justice. Lyon can afford to yield
this position to Mr.. Tucker.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-28

The Quincy Wing says that General
Grant, referring to the Quincy Heroids
pretended report of his speech at the
Quincy Rink, on Sat urday night last
the report consisting of three blank
lines-quietly remarked that it would
cost his friends no trouble to explain it.
This is more than can be said of Gov
ernor Seymour's speeches, all of which
have to be explained away up to the
date of his nomination for the Presi-
dency, to render his position in harmo-
ny with the New York Platform.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-28

-
Prouty recently took trip with W.
w. III. Lawrence and Ward Burlingame,
from Burlington to Eureka, and in the
last Patriot publishes an account there
of. OF course these gentIemen-Law-
renee and Burlingame-were OH some
kind of an Indian nission(?) No
politics in their recent Southern tour
"nary a polite" We are considerably
surprised that an innocent fellow like
Prouty would be seduced into such
company. After visiting several points
and finding out that the ''Osages are
bad eggs" they finally found what
Prouty describes as all intelligent
man" who thought that they-the three
travelers-were not the soundest eggs
in the world. They were down in
WOOdson county, and we let Prouty
tell his own story, merely reInarking
that it is good joke to try to account
for the old mans discerning and truth
full statements on the ground of pecu-
MARY misfortunes :"
-Four miles beyond Patterson's we
came to a dwelling situated near one of
the largest and best springs we ever
saw. We here stopped and " watered
ourselves and team. AS the Freedman S
Bureau, who superintendent our loco
motion arrangements, was tarrying to
water the horses, the Colonel and
Ward went ahead, on foot, while we
the editor) sat down in a chair near an
old gentleman who owned the place
! and entered into conversation with
him. He proved to be intelligent, but
rather surly, as some pecuniary mis-
fortunes had recently oyertaken him
He inquired:
Who are those gentlemen ahead p
Ward Burlingame and Col. Law
renee we replied.
! Lawrence? Lawrencc? said he
abstractedly, where does he liver
At Topeka
What! he isn't the bald>headed
shyster that used to be Secretary o.
State, is hep
He used to be Secretary of State,
we replied.
Wen, who is this Burlingame with
him =
lie is the Governors private sec
rotary and edited the Leaveuw OH L
! Conservative last summer
Then he is the id fool thai
wrote the grasshopper article, is he Z,
'Oh, no, we replied; 1 believe hi
was absent when the article you alludt
to was written. You take the Con
SeTUatice, do you?'
No, l used to, but L am too pool
now to take any paper
Don't you take any of the papers
/ published in the Neosho Valley?'
No; / used to take old Prouty'
paper, at Burlington, but he is such ;
/ id old blow that l soured on hin
and quit it,!
Fearing that he might inquire of II
our name we Immediately babe hin
adieu and departed"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-28

back ON the old corn in our cribs. which
should be kept for the vast number of
immigrants constantly coming among
u.s. CITIZEN. Il
For want of room, the poetical part
of ssCitizen's, letter is omitted.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-28

The public debt has been reduced
during the past year over seventeen
millions of dollars. This is at the rate
of one million and half a month.
Taxation has been materially ightened
and the interest on the debt largely
reduced.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-28
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.
It is unsurpassed as a ready, quick and even
baker. We can cheerfully recommend il as the
stove for the farmers and for general house
keeping. State 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.-LdlcreRce Tribune.
1t is a very even baker, takes but little fuel,
and is very durable.-O Usage ChToatcte.
have good points. we have seen no stove that
has so many excellent points IS the Charter,
made by Chamberlain, of CinciIlnatl.-IOpeE
Record.
We find more good points in the Charter than
any other stove, while it costs no more than
others CoHacfL 6TOJe Press.
. FRAKER & PEYTOR.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-28

trict are opposed to both Mr.. Carney
and Mr.. Swallow. This feeling they
have right to express, and have repre-
sented at the State Convention, and we
hope they may succeed in selecting
some good man whom they can trust to
carry out their wishes.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-28

Gen. Grant crushed the rebellion
The present political contest is the en-.
deavor of the rebellion to crush him.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-28
GENERAL sHERIDAN's ORDER.

The following important order has
been issued by General Sheridan, dated
Fl. Harker, August a. We hope the
General will do something to relieve
our border from Indian depredations.
This order looks like business:
"In consequence of the recent open
acts of hostility on the part of the
Cheyenne and Arrapahoe Indians, en-
braciug the murder of twenty unarmed
citizens of the State of Kansas, the
wounding of many more, and acts of
outrage on women and children, too
atrocious to mention in detail, the Maj.
General commanding, under the author
ity of the Lieut.. General commanding
the military division, directs the forci-
BILE removal of these Indians to their
reservation south of the State of Kan
sas, and that they be compelled to de-
| liver up the perpetrators Of the guilty
acts. All persons whomsoever are
hereby forbidden to have intercourse,
/ or give aid or assistance to these Indi-
ans, until there is due notice given
/ hereafter that the requirements of this
order have been carried out"
!. The Fort Scott Monitor says that one
| day last week a man from Missouri
was in that town with load of apples,
which he offered for sale. AS he pass
ed the wooden factory, an employee by
the name of Myers stopped him, and
offered to buy the whole load if he
would take his pay in cloth. This the
fruit vender declined to do. He
thought it little strange that an EN-
ployee should have SO much cloth, and
went to the agent, Mr.. Helbern, and
asked him about it. An investigation
was at once commenced, which result
ed in the finding of about $3.50 worth
of cloth secreted in Myers house. My
ers had preliminary trial, and was
bound over to appear at the next term
of the Dristrict Court. Three accom-
plices have also been arrested MI
Myers has been in the employ of the
company but short time, and was
looked upon as an honest man up to
the time of this disclosure.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-28

Remember the Republican township
III ct;ass ~ moTow.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-28

The contest in Douglas county over
Congressman is waxing warm. Judge
Thatcher has entered the field against
Mr.. Clarke, in answer to petition to
do so, signed by some two hundred cit
liens of the county. Meetings are being
held in every township, and the contest
is interesting. Judge Thacher is one OF
the very best men for the position, and
his thousands of friends in the State
would like to see his name upon the
ticket
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-28

The Concord Patriot says the in
crease of thirteen millions in two
months on the debt is ''the rusult of
Radical economy" Yet the increase
was caused by payment of over seven
millions for Alaski, and over six mill
ions to the Pacific railroad, and the
Pdtdiot justified the Alaska purchase
and supports the policy of granting
subsidies to the railroads! Is this hon
est. then? Meanwhile, Radicals will
ask whether it pays to consent to ex-
penditures for the benefit or at the
request of Conservatives, only to be
abused for those same expenditures as
proofs of Radical extravaganza.
The Oskaloosa Independent states
that Mr.. w. L. Willis, of that place,
formerly Republican, had almost
made up his mind to go for Seymour
and Blair, when he went over into
Missouri on visit, and there saw and
heard the rebels working and hurrahing
for the Democratic nominees-rebels
he had known during the war-and
this experience cured him of any dis
position to vote for the candidates OF
the rebels. He could not stand it to
hurrah in the same crowd with traitors,
nor vote with them.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-28
WE ARE SOLE AGENTS FOR HE
CHARTER
COOKING STOVE.

TIME Charter is the best farmers Cooking
i Stove in the country. We have sold over
twenty different kinds of Cooking Stoves, but
have never found any stove good as the
Charter. If you want a stove. by ali means
buy
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-28

And If it is not the best you have ever used
return 1T and get your money back. If you
want the steve that has the largest oven and
takes the longest wood, is less liable to crack,
and the most even baker, buy the
The New York herald., 1868-05-25
The Impeachment Up Hill Work.

The High Court of Impeachment will meet
again tomorrow, and the idea prevails that
there will be another postponement First
because the impeachers are afraid that if the
vote is taken on the ten remaining articles, as
the Senate now stands, they will all 60 the way
of the eleventh, and that will never do. Sc
condly, because the smelling committee of the
Hon. Ben Butler, directed by the House to in
quire into the suspicious of corruption affect
ing the seven Independent republican Senators,
has not yet finished its arduous labors
Thirdly, because the House Managers propose
getting up a new article or two, which may
require reopening of the trial. Fourthly,
because the impeachers may deem it expedient,
in view of'this reopening, to secure the presence
of half dozen reliable anti Johnson Senators
from the reconstructed Southern States.
Filthy and lastly, because it is the fixed pur-
pose Of the managing radicals to get Andrew
Johnson out of the White House, and such
being the case, they will not come to the vote
ti,,. sure of their man. With these reasons for
it, we may look tomorrow for another post
ponement of the verdict.
The New York herald., 1868-05-25
NEW YORK HERALD MONDAY, MAY 25 1868

graph been known and used at that period, at
least not when and in the manner it was broken
up And here 1t will be the great instrument
of extending and preserving our republican en-
pire over the whole North American Continent.
II is new and mighty phase of civilization,
which must become one of the most powerful
instruments of government 1t is rapidly dis
seminating ideas, enlarging the minds and
views Of men, and bringing all nations together
in closer and more friendly relations. The
time is not far off, perhaps, when the nations
of Europe will be confederation of republics
and all governed by one congress through the
influence and instrumentality of the telegraph
Governments hereafter will become continental,
or bounded only by great natural divisions on
the geography of the globe 1t is impossible,
therefore, that this mighty civilizing and gov
ernmental power should long remain solely in
the hands of private companies. Sooner or
later the government will be compelled to take
control of it both for administrative purposes
and the convenience of the people. Congress
will act wisely, then to take the initiatory step
by at once adopting the excellent bill intro
duced by Mr.. Washburne.
The New York herald., 1868-05-25

The body OF Captain A. De Peyster. late Governor
OF the Sailors Snug Harbor Staten Island who has
been missing since the 23d OF January last, found
on Saturday at Port johnson, Hudson county N. J.
The funeral Of the late Colonel Garrett w. Dyck-
man took place yesterday from the City Ham, the
First regiment National Guard forming the escort,
and large number Of citizens also participating
The remains were conveyed to the Hudson kiVer
Railroad depot, enrOute to Corandtown, where they
will be inferred to-day.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued CIRCULAR
relating to duplicate bounty checks, ana reguiatihg
what course the loser must pursue to enable MIN 10
receive duplicate and receive payment nom the
Paymaster General.
The Collector of the port OF La Paz Lower Calfor-
MIA recently seized the Custom House, with the aid
OF regular troops, and imprisoned the acting Cover
nor who is believed to be favorable to the annexa-
ton of the Northern States OF Mexico to the United
States
The Union Pacific Railroad has been opened to
business six hundred miles beyond Omaha, Nc
braska. Sixty miles have been built this spring, and
larger force of labOrers than ever is at work on the
road.
BY the recent robbery of the train near Seymour,
Ind, the Adams Express Company will lose about
$685. 900. No clue to the thieves has been obtained
The Irish labOrers at the West Rutland, VT, marble
quarrIes have struck for higher wages. Their en-
poyers sent to Canada for five hundred Frenchmen,
and in consequence the strikers threaten to destroy
the place. The authorities are ON the alert
The New York herald., 1868-05-25

The National Bank and Treasury Ring.
Our correspondence from Washington, pub
lished in another part of the paper, makes some
interesting revelations concerning the opera
tions of the national bank and Treasury ring
in Washington. 1t shows how the committees
in Congress are made up or changed through
certain political and business interests and
ends 1t is alleged that Speaker Colfax in
making up the House committees favored pro-
tectionists and his own political aspirations
Mr.. w. d. Kelley, an experienced member from
Pennsylvania, was placed on the unimportant
Committee on Weights and Measures, and Mr..
mittee on Manufactures, in order to remove
candidate for the Vice Presidency from Col
fax's path, as well as to serve the ring by
putting its most prominent official at the head
of the Committee on Manufactures. The poll
tlcal object seems to have been secured in
the nomination of Mr.. Colfax for Vice Presi-
dent. All seems to be done in q trading spirit,
one committee being arranged to accommodate
one interest and another a different interest,
upon the principle of equivalents to EACH The
manufacturers, the protectionists Of various
interests, and, above all, the national banks,
have all their separate rings but they combine
for mutual assistance. The Treasury ring,
supported by the banks, is the strongest, and
all the rest rally around that combination. A
great many members of Congress are personally
interested in the national banks, and large
majority, probably, in the various schemes of
plunder, upon which the rings unite when
necessary to carry their measures. There
never was In any Legislature more unscrupu-
lous and corrupt body of men. Measures for
the public welfare are out of the question.
The whole scope of legislation is entirely for
private and political objects. A great deal is
said about the Importance of the Presidential
election, but the greatest evil to be remedied
is in Congress. The people at the next Con-
gressional elections should turn out the corrupt
men now in power and choose new and better
representatives. That is the only way to arrest
the fearful decentralization and financial ruin
with which the country is threatened.
The New York herald., 1868-05-25

SPEEDY JUDGMENT AND EXECUTION. -
kilograms from Sydney, received Saturday
evening in London and published by us on
Sunday morning, announce that Prince Alfred,
having completely recovered from his wounds,
had left for England in command Of snip,
the steam frgate Galatea, and also that the
assassin O'Farrcll, who fred upon tho Prince,
was executed on the 22d of April. As this
attempt at assassination resulted in no actual
murder, and, so far as we have learned the
evidence Is not conclusive that the man O'Far-
rell was in condition of mind to be held re-
sponsible for treason, the question inevitably
suggests itself, in connection with his speedy
judgment and execution, was this justice or
an unwise and superiluous exhibition of 10y
altyp From all the facts which we know in
the case, the worst use to which they could put
OFarrell was the hanging of him.
The New York herald., 1868-05-25
The Last Express Robbery.

Last Friday night gang of robbers seized
upon the engine and express car of railway
train near Seymour, in Indiana, disengaged
them from the train and while in rapid mo-
ton threw the expressman out of the window
and robbed three safes in the charge of the
Adams Express Company of Hfty-six thou
sand dollars, part of which was consigned to
New York. No arrests had been made at the
date Oath inst.) of the last telegram received
relating to this bold robbery. In audacity it
surpasses any robbery of the kind which we
have ever had occasion to record. But, after
all, it only illustrates more forcibly than usual
an alarming tendency, which we have fire.
quently noticed of late, towards more system
attic cooperation than ever on the part of
our modern railway Dick Turpins. This ten
dency calls for an immediate corresponding
co-operation--in fact, for complete reorgani-
zation-on the part of the authorities whose
business it is to detect these bold robbers and
put them down. If the robbers are to act in
organized bands the authorities must start or
ganized bands in opposition to them. I'm
proved means Of communication between con-
ductors, brakemen and all the employees of
railway train and the agents OF the express
companies should be devised and ado pied
The passengers themselves should join such
general vigilance committee as shall make
every railway q hard road to travel for the
boldest robbers
The New York herald., 1868-05-25

A RAINY SEAsoN.-Rains, hail storms and
tornadoes seem to be the order of this lovely
month Of May, from Mexico to the New Do
minion. On Saturday last heavy storm pre-
vailed all day at Havana, and pieces of wreck
and pipes of wine had been picked up along
the shore and in the Gulf. San Antonio,
Texas, on the 10th, was visited by tremen-
dous and destructive hail storm, involving
loss of half million in houses, crops and gar
dens. Our Atlantic coast storm of Saturday,
from the capes of Virginia northward, covered
an immense extent of country. We fear that
there has been too much rain for the lately
planted Southern cotton and Northern Indian
corn, and that this widely extending and un-
precedented rainy season will be followed by a
summer Of droughts and fevers, North and
South. But our wheat and the hay crops Of
1868, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, promise
glorious yield.
The New York herald., 1868-05-25
TllsGRApHIC NEWS ITEMS.

The contest for the Western championship between
the Cincinnati and Buckeye base ball clubs OF Cincin-
natl took place Saturday and resulted in the de-
feat of the latter, the standing 2ss
Buckeye 10.
thief and pckpocket was arrested at Bostos ON
Saturday night by State constabes Mooney and
Mcguire after severe tussel, during which he at
tempted to wrest o revolver from Mcguire, when it
exploded lodging bullet In the oficer's ieg The
wound IL not serious Clark was locked up
burglar named Curtin, who was under bonds for
cattle stealing, was shot and killed at Memphis
yesterday.
negro constable at Memphis shot and mortality
wounded another negro, who tried 70 escape anhe
being arrested. yesterday evenipg-
The New York herald., 1868-05-25
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.
Senator Van Wrinkle and Impeachme,

Senator Van Wrinkle and Impeachment.
Senator Wiley, of West Virginia, has written the
following note in relation to the vote of his colleague
Senator Van Wrinkle, on impeachment to the editor
OF the Wheeling InteHi9encer:-
WASHINGTON CITY, May 10, 1868.
Mr. G. d. HALL
DEAR SIR-In Yesterdays Inteutgencer, in the edi-
torial article In regard to Mr.. Van Wrinkle, am re-
presented as having stated to member OF the House
that Mr.. Van Wrinkle had said to me that he had had
an interview with Mr.. Chase In reference to the
eleventh article Of impeachment, and that the views
Of the Chief Justice had caused him (Mr. Van Win
kle) to change his opinion Of the eleventh article.
This is q mistake. Mr.. Van Wrinkle never told me
that he had an interview with Mr.. Chase nor do
believe that he ever had. am certain he had not.
The Senate requested the Chief Justice to prepare
form Of putting the question on the eleventh arti-
Gle. The Chief Justice did so, and his statement in
that behalf was made in open Senate and published
In the proceedings. It was that statement which Mr.
Van Wrinkle said modified his views the eleventh
article 1t Is true that, while that statement of
the Chief Justice so Influenced Mr. Van Wrinkles
mind, II had the contrary effect on mine.
Allow me to say In conclusion that while differed
with my colleague on this grave matter yet must
also say that am as certain that he conscien-
tious In his opinion as am sure that was In my
own. never knew man in whose integrity and
purity OF character had greater confidence than 1
have In his. Very respectfully, W. I. WILEY.
The New York herald., 1868-05-25
The Democratic Candidate.

Who is to be the democratic candidate against
Grant? That is the puzzlng question. The
West Is clamorous for Pendleton and his green
back system but the democratic bondholders
of the East will not have him, because they
want their gold. General Mcclellan is coming
back; but men are not apt to bet upon beaten
horse The astrologists Of the party at Wash
ington are trying to work out the horoscope Of
Chief Justice Chase for the Tammany Hall
Convention, but thoy get on slowly with 1t.
The war democrats are beginning to consider
the proposition Of President johnson that
General Hancock comes nearer to the stand
ard of George Washington than any other man
in the democratic camp but the Western
peace men are forsworn against all epaulettes.
They go for democratic principles and good
supply of greenbacks. Horatio Seymour Is
not publicly mentioned as among the prob
abilities, IL being generally supposed that
he has positively Withdrawn from the contest (;
but still 1t is whispered that Messrs. Belmont
and Barlow are holding him in reserve as the
ultimatum of the Empire State. And where
fore? Because, they say, Seymour can hold
New York even against Grant, and that it Is the
belief of the New York democracy that their
State must be saved, whatever may become
this year of Ohio and the West. It would not,
in this view, astonish us IL Seymour, brought
forward in the nick Of time, were, after ALL to
carry off the prize AS to his positive declina-
ton, that is 'al my eye and Betty Martin.
A NEW FREEDMEN's BUREAU PRoPosED. -
They are running one of our fellow citizens o
| African descent for alderman In Washington.