The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-09-04
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL ITEMS.

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Personal AND POLITICAL ITEMS.
Dickens was lately arrested as Fee
MAN.
General Beauregard is to marry a
New York heiress.
Wade Hampton declares himself the
author of the clause in the New York
platform which pronounces the recon-
struetion acts unconstitutional.
Speech, says the proverb, is silver;
silence is gold. Lecturing seems to be
greenbacks, for Cough has made $780,
600 by it.
Blair blows wherever the crowd list
Chicago Post.
Henry w. Shaw (''Josh Billings,'O is
about publishing collection of letters
from Henry Clay to his father, Henry
Shaw, of Lanesboro, who was Mr.. Clay's
chiefpolitical manager III New England.
Brigham Young married, on the 10th
instant, Mrs. J. r. Martin, Miss Emily
p. Martin, Miss L. Pendergrast, Mrs.
r. NJ. Jenickson, and Miss Susie p.
Cleveland, all of the county of Berks,
England.
a Vermont volunteer writes the ITi-
6une: 81 have great respect for carpet
baggers, having been one myself part
of the time during the late unpleasant
ness My carpet-bag was marked u.
S."
A copperhead sheet SAYS Blair never
got bottled up during the war. No, but
your masters would give their hopes of
salvation (not an appreciate quantity
if he were corked up now.
The spirit of imitation is strong, even
with Presidential candidates. 1t is said
that when the intelligence reached st.
Joseph, Missouri, that Seymour was last
on his farm putting i'll new hay, Blair,
who was in the place, Immediately put
in little old rye.-HdrtfOrd Post.
PoLITIcAL.-The Democrat, "Brick''
Pomeroy's new paper, just started in
New York, heads its leading article on
Saturday, Lincoln in He'll" That is
just the sort Of doctrine and way of talk
that will snit Seymour's 'friends," and
''Brick" will soon be acknowledged as
the organ of the New York Democracy.
The New York Tribune, of the 9th,
assures the Friends North, South, East
and West" that the Empire State will
not only 60 for Grant and Colfax, but
that other States will have to work
very hard to do as well for our ticket
as New Y ork will do. Such seems to
be the growing opinion of most of the
New York politicians, the Copperheads
included.
Rev. Albert n. Fisher, Gentle, late
ly preached in Brigham Young's Tab
ernacle, at Salt Lake, to 5000 Saints.
He is the first Gentle who ever preach
ed there by invitation OF Brigham. His
subject was the ''Divinity of Christ"
ALL FOR GRANT.-A ST. Louis cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune says :
AS predicted in former letter, the
Germans are nearly unit against Blair.
| They are full of enthusiasm, and ready
to take an active part in the campaign
whenever called upon, and many good
Germans who last year voted the Con-
sentative local tickets have avowed
themselves in favor of Grant and Col
lax tlllS lttCG
The remnant of the Fremont and Blair
quarrel will kill the Blair ticket dead as
door nail with the Germans, and the
| lower wards of ST. Louis, which Blair
used to rely upon for his majorities in
| 1860, will now GO solidly with their
eight hundred and thousand majorities
against him.
| Patriotic GEMS FROM THE NEXT PRES
IDENT.-'I care nothing for promotion,
so long as our arms are successful
Grant to Sherman, February, 1862.
eff my course is not satisfactory, re-
move me at once. ] do not wish in any
way, to impede the success of our
ms."-Grant TO Halleck, February 6,
1862.
No theory of my own will ever stand
in the way of my executing in good faith
any order l may receive from those in
authority over me."-Grant to Secretary
Chase, May 90, 1868.
''Ihis is Republic, where the will of
the people is the law of the land."-
Grants letter to President Johnson,
August, 1867.
Il shall have no policy of my own to
interfere against the will of the people"
Grants letter, May 9th, 1868.
'Human hbery the only true founda-
| ton of human governmenI."-Gr s
letter to the citizens of Memphis.
Let US have ace."-Grant's letter,
May %, 1868.
Chicago is taking steps to secure a
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