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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-23

The great CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD is there
fore, in An important sense, SEMI'NAIioNAL
Work, aided and commended by the people, the
Legislative power, and the Executive officers,
though its management Ii administered Nth all
the care aud JOrethOught Of the most eminent PIRATE
corporations Being under the constant super
viHion of the Govemment-whO, being the prin'
cipal creditor, accepts subordinate ana contih-
gent Iien-with so large an amount of addition.
al capital also invested In the property pledged
it is believed that no securities now offered In
the market possess the sane claims 10 conn.
drnce and market value, except those OF the
Government.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-17
SEYMOUR AND BLAIR.

Horatio Seymour, the Democratic
candidate for President was born in
Utica, New York, where he now re-
sides. He is about fifty-fve years of
age. He is a man of large wealth and
aristocratic tendencies. He is PAM
pered and bloated bondholder. He was
Governor of New York at the time of
the brutal riots of 1868, and addressed
the rioters as his friends" He pre-
sided over the Democratic Convention
at Chicago, in 1864, when the war was
declared "a failure" lie has been vio-
lent proslavery, anti-war Democrat.
Francis p. Blair, Jr., the Democratic
candidate for Vice President, was born
in Lexington, kentucky, February 10Th,
1921; graduated at Princeton College ;
adopted the profession of law; was a
member of the Missouri Legislature in
1852 and 1854, and elected Represent
alive from Missouri to the Thirty-fifth
Congress, serving on the Committee on
Private Land Claims. Reelected to
the Thirty-seventh Congress, and was
Chairman of the Committee on Military
Affairs. lie was Colonel of volun-
teers in 1861, and in 1862 he was ap.
pointed q Major General, and was sub
sequently elected to the Thirty eightl
Congress. During the first session OF
that Congress he resigned his seat in
the House to resume his position in the
army. In 1866 he was appointed by
President johnson, Collector of Gus
toms for the port of St. Louis. He was
selected because he had pandered to
the enemies of the country, and had
rallied the hosts of the rebellion to his
political support in Western Missouri
The nominations are the weakest that
could possibly have been made.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-17
SORGHUM sUGAR.

eve inspected, q few days since, q
very complete apparatus for making
syrup and sugar from sorghum, as well
as Southern cane. The apparatus was
invented and patented by +. L. Stew
art, of Pennsylvania, and company is
being organized in ST. Louis for its
manufacture. The whole apparatus COM
sists of mill to grind the cane, an
evaporating range, and centrifugal
drainer. the last operated by curious
application of steam. The results are
most satisfactory. We noticed some
samples of excellent sugar and syrup,
produced from some very bad, sour syr-
mp, and were forced to the conclusion
that it will do all it promises. The
great secret of the inventors success
lies in the proper application of purify.
ing agents wrich remove entirely the
sorghum flavor, and produce a syrup
and sugar equal to any manufactured
from the Southern cane"
We find the above in the St. Loui!
Republican, and copy il with pleasure
In our account of the st. Louis Fair
last fall, we had occasion to notice the
efforts of Mr.. Stewart to produce sugar
from sorghum, and we subsequently
gave a fitting notice of the book he ha
written on the subject. We have pre-
dicted success in the effort to make sOr
ghum sugar, and we watch every move
ment to that end with q great deal o
interest. Kansas is pre-eminently adapt
ed TO the growth of sOrgho. WhOeve
introduces the machinery by which gu
State may make its sugar, and keep it
purchase money at home, will be pub
lie observation-disclosures Farmer.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-17
State Fair-Preminm List.

We yield much space to the Premium
List of the Kansas State Agricultural
Society, for the Fair of 1868, to be held
in this city, September 18th and Both
and October LIST and I'd. 1t is matter
of such general interest TO the entire
people OF the State, rs To warrant Its
publication.
The aggregate OF cash premiums OF
fered is 81 800. When TO this is added
the Medals, Diplomas, Transactions, etc
the sum will not be less than 5000.
This, compared with any State premium
list in the country, will be found, like
Kansas, a little ahead Of the most en-.
terprising.
There is no reason why we should
not have Fair this fall that will both
honor and profit the Industrial interests
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-17

We publish elsewhere the late amnes-
approximation of President johnson
in full. 1t declares full pardon and
amnesty to al persons engaged in the
against the United States, with
the exception Of those who are under
indictment prescntment on charge
of treason or felony, and restores them
to all rights of property except as to
slaves and to property of which they
may have been legally Invested under
the laws of the United States. BY this
proclamation the traitor who strOve to
destroy the Union is elevated to tile
same footing with the brave defenders
of our free institutions.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-17
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.

We learn from the Emporia News,
and from those present from this city,
that the Examination and Commence
ment Exercises of this Institution were
of the most honorable and satisfactory
character.
The Normal School system is no long
CT an experiment. 1t has proved itself
to be the very soul of the common
school system, which is the life of the
nation. Liberty is safe, where free
schools nestle in the valleys and crown
every hilltop, as they do in this coun-
try.
1t is not great learning, for the few
who can complete the round of col
lege course, but the solid education OF
the many, who go out of the common
school to enter upon the responsible
duties of life, that gives solidity and
| greatness to a republican people and
government. Hence it should be the
| duty of the State, as it is of the citizen.
to foster with jealous care the normal
school for training educators to make
our common schools what they should
| be.
No occurrence has caused us more
regret than failure to attend this eX-
animation. as expected, and giving to
the readers of the Farmer full report
| of the eKerciscs.-KdnSdS Farmer.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-17
PROF. II. d. NORTON.

at the State Teachers Association.
held at Emporia last week, Prof. Nor
ton. of the State Normal School. was
unanimously recommended for the Of
flee of State Superintendent of Public
Instruction.. We like this recommends
alton. and trust that it will be ratified
by the Republican State Convention.
We want in this office live, energet-
ic man; man whose soul is in the
work, and who is willing to do in the
good cause of education. We want a
thorough, practical teacher, competent
to teach the teachers of the State, who
can conduct Teachers Institutes, and
infuse energy and spirit into our COM
mon school system. Such a man. by
nature and education, we believe Prot.
Norton TO be. He was educated in the
Normal University of Illinois, has
learned thoroughly the theory and prac-
tice of teaching, has filed the office oil
County Superintendent in Illinois, has
taught with eminent success III our own
Normal School, and done his full share
to bring up that Institution to its pres
ent high standard.-ChaSe County
Banner
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-17

We make the following extracts from
W. r. Brown's communication to the
Chase County Banner.
During the past term the attendance
at the Normal was not so large as at
ations showed that the good work
which has been done In the school here
tOfOre is being continued and improved:
that the school is combining itself
10 its legitimate business of teaching
teachers, is attempting nothing more
and doing nothing less. Its course
of study is thorough, and it seems to
be the aim of the teachers to have the
students get the most benefit possible
! from that course. They are taught to
think and reason for themselves. Mere
routine is .disepuRaged--free thought
encouraged. This was especially no.
ticeable in the examination of the class
| on the theory and practice of teaching.
This class had used no text books, but
topics had been given out, and each
student gave his own or her own opin-
ion. Criticism and free discussion on
each topic had been encouraged, and the
students showed that they had made
good use of their reason in forming
their opinions. Students taught thus
must make good teachers. Let US bid
l thO NIL Ittl dOG Specu, anu nope uCE
influence may daily increase.
The Commencement exercises on
Tuesday afternoon were very pleasant.
Prof. Edwards, of the Illinois Normal
University, delivered the Commence.
ment address, on the subject of Nor
NAL Schools." No one is better able
than he to treat of this subject, after
yearly the score of years he has taught
in Normal schools i'll Massachusetts and
ia the West, and his statements in ref.
erence to and appeals in aid of Normal
schools would have silenced all cavilers
in reference to their importance, and
/ the duty Of the State to cherish this
, Normal School so well commenced Ill
Kansas. He is forcible speaker; hi;
argumentsare strong. and his compar
isons, thoIgh not always elegant, art
, striking. He was speaking of the OPP
position to Normal schools, and the fol
ly of spending thousands on Thousands
OF dollars tor common schools an(
school houses, and then refusing few
, hundreds fer Normal schools. Il re
minded him, he said, of the DutchmaI
who gave five hundred dollars to builC
a church, and then refused a pittance tt
get a lightning rod. saying elf the Lore
will tunder down His house, let him d.
it." And so, said Prof. Edwards, witt
those who oppose Normal schools
5 they will give fortunes for common
schools and then let ''the Lord tunder
the whole down for the want of school
for teachers
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-17

PENIrENTIARY CoNTRAcT-ExPLANA
-IoS CALLED FoR.-Proposals Were is
sued by order of the Board of Direct
ors of the Kansas State Penitentiary,
dated Leavenworth, June 9th, 1868,
signed by J. 1. Philbrick, Warden, for
n steam heating apparatus for supply
ing the north wing of the new prison
building with steam pipes. Among the
bidders was the firm of III. j. Miller &
CO., practical plumbers aud gas and
steam filters, No. 43 Delaware street,
who offered for their securities men OF
undoubted responsibility. The contract
was awarded to parties, for nearly S125
more than the bid of III. j. Miller q Co.,
who are not in the business and were
compelled to sub-let the contract to
other parties, and by favoriteism OF
something worse III. j. Miller 81 Co.
who were justly entitled ia the contract
being the lowest responsible bidders
were thrown out Will some one who
knows explain this matter! 1t needs
clearing up, and somebody knows just
how the matter is, and let US have nc
coneea!ment.-LeGr. Conservative.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-17
COLFAX.

Schuyler Colfax is prominently a
representative of the best average type
of the American citizen. 1t is this which
makes the influence of his name and
character so magnetic. He reflects ac-
curately the feelings and motives of
that class of honest men who are the
strength and hope of our nation-with
whom rests the issue of the great ex-
pertinent of republican institutions
the men who in politics strive to do
what is just, who profess faith in a ma
tional conscience, and believe that the
true principles of public polity are eter-
nal right. He has been in private life
and in his public relations a good citi-
zen, and by force of our very theory OF
government must be good ruler.
Rev. A. Y. Moore, who is writing the
biography of Mr.. CoIiax for the cam
paign. calls him the citizen statesman OF
the time. For twelve years he has been
his intimate and confidential friend, and
the coming book will be faithful PEN
picture of our Vice President that is to
be.-kaRSaS City Journal.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-17

We judge that the amendment to the
Usage Treaty securing to the Imports
Branch 100000 acres of land is made in
good faith, and will be adhered to. il
seemed quite evident that the treaty
could not be ratified without conces-
sions of some kind, and SO Mr.. Sturges
and his friends and hackers proposed
the building of the Emporia Branch
Lawrence ana Leavenworth have closed
with the proposition and we presume
that the opposition in those parts will
be largely mitigated.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-17
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM-WHO
MADE ITS

To judge properly of the platform
put forth by the Democracy, especially
in its ambiguous features, it is not out
of place TO consider the men who franz
ed it. Upon the committee who report
ed it, are Gen. Wade Hampton, an orig
inal secessiOnist, among the first to take
up arms against the Government and
almost the last to lay them down, re-
sisting even the commands of his
superior officer TO do this, as he had
before defied the Government; Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston; and Gen. VIM.
Preston, rebel General from Kentucky,
who rebelled against his State as well
as the United States Barksdale, also a
rebel General; LangdOn. a rebel editor
from Louisiana. and Babcock, Speaker
of the Lower House in the rebel Legis-
iature of Virginia.
These men made such platform as
might be expected of them, filed with
hostility To those who loaned the Gov
eminent the money 10 put them down,
and denOuncing in every term of OPP
probrium the legislation of Congress in
reconstructing the States whose Gov
ernments they had arrayed in Hostility
to the Union.
Leniency and forgiveness are all very
well. Magnanimity towards the con-
quered is both polite and praisewor-
thy, but is it right and proper, and will
the loyal people of the country submit
to 1t, that those who took the lead in
breaking up the Government and Defy
ing the laws. shall now sit in Judge
ment over them, telling them what is
allowable and what is not, and laying
down policy to be followed at the
risk of another civil war? Such brazen
audacity has seldom been equalIed.
The people who put down secession at
the cost of SO much blood and treasure,
can never consent that their laws shall
be made for them, and their course OF
action dictated, by the very men who
are indebted to their mercy that they
are suffered to live in the land whose
Government they would have destroy
ed.-Kansds City 11Ho.) Journal Of
| Commerce.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-17
TO WAR DEMOCRATS.
From the Atchison Champion.


Men who were earnestly and honest
ly in favor of the suppression of the Re-
bellion are called upon to vote for HOra-
ito Seymour, who, as Governor of New
York, exhausted every effort to perpleX
the Government, dishearten the people
and aid the cause of the rebels; whose
words and acts encouraged a mob of
blear-eyed rufiians and brutal murder
ers, gathered from the lower sinks and
dens of the great city, to sack Orphan
Asylums, beat out the brains of little
children upon the sidewalks, pillage
the stores of peaceablc merchants, and
endeavOr to destroy the office of the
Tribune; who aiterward addressed
these dirty villains and cut-throats as
''my friends ;" and who, better than any
other man i'll all the land, represents
that intense and infamous spirit of dis
loyalty and treason which, during the
whole war, kept up fire i'll the rear OF
our soldiers, and did more TO encour-
age the rebels and prolong strife and
bloOdshed than any victory they evel
won.
Upon, the other hand, men who were
opposed to the war, and who are pref
udiced against negroes, arc called upon
to vote for Frank i. Blair, who drove
men entertaining their sentiments from
Missouri; was an original advocate Of
negro suffrage; was one of the men
who DESTROYED the Democratic party,
and who gravitated back into that party
only when he became SO mean that the
Republicans would have nothing to dc
with him.
Elect such ticket and all the fruits OF
our long struggle for national unity,
liberty and justice will be lost.
Elect such a ticket and every soldier
who limps about on crutches or has q
vacant sleeve hanging by his side is
dishonored and disgraced.
Elect such ticket and national faitl
will be violated, national justice con
temned, national honor furnished, and
national peace rudely and recklessly
disturbed.
Elect such a ticket and il will be just
as patriotic to have been with the as
sassins who came with Quantrel to burr
Lawrence. as it was to have followed
the banners of Sherman through the
campaign against Atlanta, and just a.
honorable to have been with WirZ n
Andersonville as with Grant in tho
Wilderness or Meade at Gettysburg.
All the frothy rhetoric and elegant
defamation of exciting or persuasive
orators during the campaign that is tC
come will not conceal these facts from
the people nor evade the issues involved
in them. This nation, grand in its III
tellectual and moral forces, cannot bG
given over to the hands of those who
would tarnish the proudest pages of it:
most sublime history. Little thing.
many may have to complain of, little
wrongs many may say should have beer
righted; but in the face of events tha
must affect forever our future stability
as Republic, what man is there wh(
loves his country yet would meanly anC
wickedly commit its destinies to tn,
hands OF thos1who have been its mos
persistent and malignant enemies.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-17
THE TOPEKA ROAD.

We learn from the Oskaloosa hide
pendent that the contract for construct
ing the Atchison, Topeka s. Santa Fe
railroad has been let. Fifteen miles are
to be built this year on the Atchison
end of the line, and % miles from To-
peka toward Emporia.
The Topeka Record says Col. Hun
toon and party ran out thirteen miles
of the line last week.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-17

national LEG AND ARM FACTORY
This extensive manufacturing establish
ment has located branch of their bust
ness in LeavenwOrth, under the super
intendence of DIR. S. A. Marshall. Spec
linens of their work were submitted to
the inspection of the Kansas State Med
zeal Society at its recent meeting, by
that gentleman. 1t is claimed that both
the arm and the leg are equal in dura-
bility, ease and freedom of motion to
any manufactured while some pecul-
lar advantages over all others, are claim
ed for the arm.
The members of the State Society
were impressed with the superiority of
both, and we believe favorable notice
was accorded TO them by that body.
Should any of our readers have occa-
sion to recommend a leg or arm, we
would advise them by all means to ex-
anime the work of this establishment
before sending their patients upon an
expensive Eastern trip. All communi-
cations may be addressed TO DIR. S. A.
Marshall, Leavenworth.-Led
UedicaL Herald.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-17


The Lcavenworth Conservative gives
the following notice of the July num-
Der of the Education at Journal:
The Journal for this month contains
an article on Mental Philosophy by
John L. Chapman. The paper is ably
written and for a noble purpose, but
we think it worse than waste time for
teachers to endeavor to "bring Mental
Philosophy within the range of boys
and girls of ordinary intelligence in
our common schools" Better take
them to the fields and teach them bota-
ny and geOlogy-or instruct them in
the sciences and useful arts-in fact
| almost anything is better than the
study of the human mind" by q mind
not yet developed. On the one subdi-
vision, Sensation of which Mr.. Chapman
speaks. volumes have been written by
| ScOtchmen, Englishmen, Germans
with Leibnitz, Fitche and Kant at their
head), and no two authors or scholars
in the country can agree in defining
| what Sensation is or how it is caused.
The next article is on the subject of
committing school lessons to memory,
and seems to be excellent. Two select
| ed poems follow, by Theodore Tilton,
| aud Walt Whitman-twO of their best,
] whichs 20 also shall copy one of these
4 I'D % 4Edc 4ucOGOEC say
First count all mon of equal caste,
| Then count thyself the least and last.
| The brief article on the Necessity of
| Physical Training. by Mrs. j. III. Cor
ham, of the State Normal School, is
| worth all the rest of them. Read it,
Mr.. Chapman. and then take the boys
and girls out into field to romp, frolic.
| shout and have good time. We
would rather have boy or girl who
could lift hundred pounds than one
| who could repeat half the Gospels, or
the Propositions of Euclid. American
| children are almost certain to obtain
intellectual development. They have
large brains, acute reasoning powers
and are often painfully precious,
shrewd and sharp. Parents encourage
this tendency by constantly praising
the child who is studious and pale,
while the robust youth is regarded as
backward if not immoral.
There are also articles on Tobacco in
| the School Room, the Naturalist in
British Columbia, the Usage Lands,
Educational Meetings, Planting Trees.
with liberal amount of miscellaneous
matter and book notices.
The .JOUT7,al is printed by our friend
Jacob Stotier, Esq. and is the finest
specimen of Typography We have seen
III the State.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-17
AMENDMEKTs TO THE Usage TREATY

One effect of the ventilation of the
Usage Treaty has been to compel the
authors and fnishers of that remark
able production to admit that there
were other people In the world besides
themselves who had an interest in the
immense tract of land treated for. Sew
eral days ago they threw tub to the
whale in the shape-o two amendments
of vast consequence to the State at large.
and one of them, at least, of no mean
importance to Emporia and Southwest
Kansas. The first is that the State shall
be allowed to purchase the 10Th and
Both sections for school purposes at the
same price the Company get their lands,
which being but eighteen cents per acre
the State can well afford to do. The
second is that one tenth of the land, or
about eight hundred thousand acres,
shall be set apart for the Emporia
Branch of the Galveston road that the
road shall be completed to Emporia in
three years by the present Company, or
the land shall revert to the State of Kan
sas for the use and benefit of the road.
These amendments having been agreed
upon by all the parties in interest, il
may be regarded as certain that they
will be embodied in the treaty-so that
if the treaty is ratified at all it will be
in a much less Objectionable shape thar
when first signed, though still far from
being what it should be.
The building of the Emporia Branch
will add largely % the value of tn,
western portion of the Usage lands, anC
result i'll bringing those lands into mar
ket much sooner than would have beer
the case if they had all been given to
line of road extending down their east
ern border. The building of this brancl
will also be of immense interest t,
LeavenwOrth, Lawrence, Emporia, ant
all Central and Western Kansas. Il,
conceding it Mr.. Sturges loses nothing
the Galveston road loses nothing. Their,
is land enough to build both roads an.
to give to the public schools and to act
ual settlers their just demands. Instead
of the curse thus threatened we ma,
: have blessing.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-17

Hon. Arson Burlingame, the Grand
Envoy from China to all the treaty
making Powers, is native of Ohio.
He was poor boy, and obtained the
rudiments of his education In . log
school-house in Seneca county.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-17
b. r. CARD.
HOTOG r A p II q r /,

EAPOkIA, kANSAS,
IL prepared to take pictures Of all kinds ut
his room, opposite THE EEwS office, on the
most reasonable terms. Negatives viii be pre-
served, and any number Of Photographic can be
erdexed at any time. 1-N