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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-20

The London Times says it is impossi-
BILE to suppose that the Chinese can be
kept out ofsAmerica, aud thinks that
the conflict of races in California cannot
be solved by heavy duties OF immigra-
ton, or by street outrages.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-20

The Reportar says the wheat ont and
barley crOpss of Doniphan county this
season viii exceed that of any previous
year. Corn also looks very well.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-20
ALAiEEIN GILLETT,
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT Law,

Practices in Che Courts of the Fifth and
Ninth Districts. Makes collections, buys and
sells land. attends TO conYeyancing, and fur
nishes abstracts of titles 10 real estate in Lyon
county. m OFFICE IN COURT HOUSE.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-20
IL {. IItUSS., -I--.,--- 4 = W. I. Nc CAItIN.
CROSS y aA6ccARTY,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,

Prompt attention given, TO all business in
trusted TO MS in Lyon and adjoining counties.
Collections made, COnyeyancing attended to,
and Acknowledgment of Deeds and other in
struments of writing taken. T.. FL
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-20
- IWIIEELUNIAI a INIIsUN, ~
CIVIL FIN GINEERS AND

Are prepared to furnish Elevations and work
ing plans for all kinds of mechanical struc-
lures, HoaSeS, Public IBHjldiags, and Bridges
Especial attentions given to land UIpegi1tJ.
Are prepared TO do Carpenter and Joiner
cork, either by the day or contract 16-tf
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-20

Lou. Wagner, citizen of Montgom-
cry county, Illinois, writes the follow
ing letter to the Litchfield Monitor,
which we republish, to show what trav-
elers saw of our State: f.sf
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-20

A Chicago dispatch gives the follow
ing concerning the eclipse as seen at
Springfield, where the observation was
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-23
Granite omcial Criminals ana Liar.

During the Lincoln war. NJ Y. John
son, an. estimable lawyer Of Galena, was
seiitenced and thrust into prison for
"6isloyalty." at the! instance of E.IB.
Washburne and, j. r. Jones' At the
Iolose- of the war, MIR. johnson brought q
suit against these two scoundrels for
false imprisonment. Washburne and his
fellow -culprit put in a plea of justifica-
ton, but finding that they were sure to
be mulcted in heavy damages. threw
themselves upon the mercy of Mr.. John
son, and signed paper confessing their
guilt, from which the following is an ex-
tract: -,
THAT the said pleas, heretofore sign
ed by them in said case, and the matters
and things therein set forth against said
p aintiff, are untrue in substance and in
fact. And the said defendants further
confess the wrongful trespass and impri-
sonment set forth in said declaration,
and that the said defendants are guilty
in manner and form as therein stated
and set forth, and said plaintiff he's sus-
tained great damage thereby, as is al
legged in said declaration; and said de-
PENDANTS further confess that the said
seizure and Imprisonment was wrongful,
uDjustifiable, and without cause; and
that said plaintiff was innocent of the
violation of any law, or of doing any aot
lnlmical to the Government of the United
States; and that said plaintiff did no act,
and uttered no expression, or exercised
any influence, to the knowledge of said
defendants, that was not in support of
the Government of the United States, its
Constitution, and its laws"
One of the scoundrels who signed
himself q liar and calumniating knave,
is the fellow who now represents this
Government at Paris. If Washburne
was not a wretch utterly destitute of
shame, he would never dare to lift mp
his head in the presence of respectable
gentlemen again. To be sure, while at
home, he was not generally given to the
society of gentlemen, fact which is be-
fore this time patent to the Court of
France. Grant has sent murderer to
Spain, confessed liar to France. and
several of his other foreign appointments
have smelt the air of the criminal cell.
Ne,o York Day Book.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-23

The Prince of Wales must be the
prince of spendtbrifts, if the stories
about his ''straitened circumstances"
can be relied ON. His annual income
cannot be much, if any, less than s15O,-
GOO and may exceed that sum. And yet
it is pIc"osed to appeal to Parliament
to r..y the Princes travelling expenses in
the East, in consideration of his "nar-
row" resources. Seven or eight hun
dred thousand dollars year, one would
think, ought to keep prince from beg
ging.
A Cool PRopos1r1oN.-A report "on
the resources of Iceland and Greenland"
is said to have been drawn up lately for
the use of the United States Govern
ment, with the view, it is thought, of
their ultimate purchase. At this season
of the year, Iceland and Greenland, if
they could be towed from their present
moorings and anchored off the coast,
would be popular acquisitions. In fail
ure of that, the annexation of floating
iceberg or two would be valuable and de-
sirable.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-23

The RICHMOND GRAND JURY AND
Gov" BULLOCK. blatherskite
Bullockite sends the following to the
Savannah Ne,Ds, in an evelope post
marked Augusta. AS a specimen of
radical political literature we print it
Uerbatina et Hteratina. It will be seen that
the writer entertains orthodox radical
ideas on the subject of holding Office,
which he evidently regards in the light
of license to steal. He seems to think
that Bullock has no other use for his
''paT s" but to steal from the public crib
The writer is, no doubt, an ardent admirer
OF the Bullock, and good radical,
either of the black or white persuasion.
But read his missive:
"Fhe example of the grand jury of
Richmond County should be followed by
every grand jury in the State, each pre-
sentiment closing with an invitation to
Bullock to vacate the Office which he is
so unfit to fill, and the towers of which
he is using for the bascst partisan pur-
poses"
Oh, poo fellow, sec where the Shoe
Pinches you amt got your paws in the
crib Stealing that's whats the matter been
Stealing for the last 80 years-and Your
paws are out that what hurts.
perhaps you heard the Same Story
about augusta official tell the democrats
got in didyou hear any moro about Steal
ing but saying about it and will request
you to call on democrats to SEQ who
stole the most paws out of the crib
anon.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-23

OYSTERS DESTROYED RY DRUM FISH,
That the drum fish has been operating in
the waters near keyport will be unwel-
come news to the lovers of oysters in
New York and vicinity. This fish re-
ceives its name from the peculiar noise
it makes when taken from the water Ia
sort of aquatic partridge.) There is
nothing unpleasant about the noise, but
the presence of the fish on nm oyster bed
is the reverse of gratifying to those who
make their living by raising oysters for
market. The drum fish has o pair of
powerful jaws with teeth like those of
an old-fashioned corn -sheller, and work
ing with the force of model quartz
mill. Between these jaws he can crush
young oyster as easily as a boy crushes
q chesnu. and after sucking out the pulp
he rejects the shell, and is ready for
another. He is expert in the business,
and can crush oysters faster than the
most skillful professional at Fulton Mar
ket could open them. Last week, it was
discovered that large school of drum
fish was making sad havoc among the
oyster beds near Keyport, aud it is esti-
mated that 20,000,O00 young oysters
have been destroyed, involving loss Of
SlOO,OOO. From present appearances
there will be very few Shrewsburys in
market next winter, and the prices of
the best oysters are likely to be above
those of any previous year.
Ne,o York Sun, july 8.
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IS. sC.


: The New York Times, ,frem ,,factsIfur,
aished by the Atsorney-G General Of South
Carolina, publishes review OF the ffinan-
cial condition Of our State, from which il
deduces the most cheerful conclusions,
and from the soundness of her finances,
puts "the prospects of South Carolina
in advance OF the rest of the Southern
States. We apprehend that the pros
poets Of South Carolina are attributable
10 the smallness of her existing debt
and the fidelity with which she has
always met her obligations, rather than
to the efforts of this 'youg man" of such
rare financial ability. The Acts of the
Legislature authorizing Govern Scott to
use le bonds and credit of the State
furnished the 'young man" with mass
Of collateral securities which rendered
the raising of money not such stroke
OF genius after all. That the money was
raised, we know to our cost. through the
medium of every tax-gathererin in the State.
The late Blue Ridge Road affair is suffi-
cient by itself to show that railroads
have derived substantial aid and COM
fort from South Carolina. The finances
have been well handled so far only as to
meet the expenditures of reckless and
spendthrift government, and to satisfy
the requisitions of the banditti who
hover around the State Treasury for
pillage and plunder. We fancy that,
unprotected by these iron-clad securities,
this young man Of monied experience, Z"
who became the financial agent of South
Carolina by the unanimous choice of the
Governor, Treasurer and Attorney Gene
fal, in spite of his personal investment in
the bonds, and his unlimited confidence
in the honor of South Carolina and the
negro Legislature, might have tried Wall
street in vain for rise at his bait
If the financial status of South Caro-
lima is restored to its former integrity,
we venture the assertion to the Times
that it will never be from the financial
jugglery of either this "extraordinary
young man" or the administration of
government by her present officials, but
by her own people will be worked out
her redemption. By honest labor, un-
tiring energy and fertile lands shall this
good work be effected.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-23

Ex-PREsIDENT JOHNSON IN NASHVILLE.
A Nashville telegram, dated July Is, to
the Louisville Courier, says:
Ex-President Johnson arrived in the
city to-day from East Tennessee. He
has several appointments to speak in
Middle and West Tennessee before the
election. He is delighted at the present
situation in Tennessee, and, although he
says little about his own aspirations,
there is little doubt he has sharp look
out for the United States Senatorship.
Should there be conservative majority
in the Legislature, as is not unlikely, he
will be likely to have Emerson Ether
idge and Bailey Peyton as rivals for the
place, but thero is little doubt that Andy
will secure the prize. The gubernatorial
canvass still goes on briskly. Lawless-
ness OF any kind is something almost
unheard of now in Tennessee.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-23
HEINITsH's QUEEN's DELIGHT. =

HEINITsH's QUEEN's DELIGHT. VI
is it? Ask your neighbor, who he's 4
relieved of O distressing disease.
that rheumatic what cured him.
the victims of dyspepsia. Ask that b
tiful daughter what removed those II
GUS spots and ulcers, and made her
as fair as Parian marble. Ask the
iaundioed victim of liver compld
Ask that once poo- emaciated form,
subject of female irregularities, VI
brought about such marvellous char
The answer is, "It's HEIN1TsH's QUE1
DELIGHT. Come out, then, all ye
spending ones. Be cheerful, gay
happy. If you are sick, fail not to [
only try-no easier teek-a bottle
HEINITsH's QUEEN DELIGHT. J
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-23

The Albany Eoening Journal talks
about "the man that now fills the
Presidential chair" We know of no man
that now fills it. We know of one that
sits in it.
A Cincinnati treasury agent caused
himself to be locked up in bank vault
to escape the wrath of tobacco dealer,
whose factory he had closed, and who
was hunting him with big whip.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-23

A Mississippi paper says that General
Ames. when frat appointed Governor Of
the State, spent most of his time play
ing billiards, but since he has been COM
manding general he has devoted his time
to playing havoc with the people.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-23

DIR. TUTT's ExPEcroRANT.-A
have used this invaluable medicine
Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Splitting
Blood, Group, Inflammation of
Lungs or Chest, Hoarseness, Difid
of Breathing, Bronchitis, and ALL
eases of the Lungs attest its usefulI
For Lung affections it has no equal.
J17
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-23

1t is our painful duty to announce the
death OF DR.. James E. Hix, q prominent
citizen of this town, on Friday last, in
the fifty-third year of his age. DR.. Hix
has been always identified with Union,
was physician of good practice, and an
enterprising and public-spirited citizen.
Union Times.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-23
.szhs Grand Army OF sho RepubiIc."


Reader, il arnember Of this q Grand
Army OF the Republic" enters your door.
kick him out, andtreat him, beAe ofider
|of private, asa snsakipg, pryines double
tHced treach eroue, false hearted, wllite-
IliyeFsd seoundreli q Wa mean to be. .sun.
|desateod In this matter. A more detesta-
kkble ST of knaves never herded together
for political and social villainy, than this
so-callsd Grand Army of the Republic.
They are political pimps, political panel
thieves, and are worthy to play spy. and
informer TO "our friendly ally, the despot
of Russia" It was the Grand Army Of
the Republic that ordered the removal
from place he had long filed With faith
full services to the Governments, the man
who married the daughter OF that MUIR
dered lady, Mrs. Surratt. And the other
day, one Martin Renchase, a clerk in the
Fifth Auditors Office, at Washington,
was removed by the order of this band of
political thugs, because his wife dared to
rent room they thought they could
spare from their very limited suite of
apartments, to an Confederate officer.
These thugs stabbed Renchase in the
back, and under cover of darkness, for
the scoundrels never work like manly
highwaymen, in open daylight. Renchase
was removed, and did not know where
the blow came from which lost him his
place, till q week after he was dismissed.
A negro was installed in this place made
vacant in the Fifth Auditors DEPART
ment.
The Grand Army of the Republic is
simply secret organization of, thugs
and informers, who work under cover of
obscurity for the damnable party now
cursing the country. If these things go
on, free white men of the United States,
we shall all wake up one of these days
and find every varlet and knave who
compose the rank and file of this Grand
Army of the Republic, standing over us
with fixed bayonets, and liberty corpse
by the road side, mangled and torn as
by jackalls. q. S. Grant, the ostensible
President of the United States, is com
placently viewing the growing strength
OF the Grand Army of the Republic; and
when the time comes, that organization
will show its claws. Have the Demo
cracy Of the United States sold their po-
litical birth-rights to the mongrels now
in power? If they have not, it is high
time to arouse and prepare for conflict
which must be victory or death. The
year 1872 is 20 be the most eventfui
which this country has ever passed
through, or ever will This republic
either emerges from the perils that now
surround it, or it sinks beyond extrica-
ton into one of the darkest despotlsms
which ever disgraced the earth. The
Democracy alone can save it. They
must; they will.-NeD York Day Book.
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A sentimental editor says: '1t is COM
Portable to know that one eye watches
fondly for our coming, and looks brighter
when we come" A contemporary is
grieved to learn that his "brother Of the
quill has wife with one eye."
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! meeting OF tho s1asis.rates.

|. Meeting or tho Magistrates.
+ ws8opy the following from the sa-
vannah Reputlcan:I Z 4
+ .AS7e meeting of,the Magistratss Of
Chs$ham Coulty, the following prgami
BILE And RESOLUTIONS were adopted by ths
undersigned:
Whereas, by a recent decision of his
Honor Walter 8. Chisholm. Judge of the
city court OF Savannah, in regard TO
magistrates and constables collecting
costs from the defendant, it is impossi-
.ble to enforce the collection of the same,
excepting levy, and then not until after
final conviction-it is hereby W.
!. Resolved, That in all aases where we
are called upon to issue warrant, the
prosecutor must advance the sum of five
dollars ($5. .00), to pay the magistrates
and constable's costs e-.1.
q. Resofoed, That in all cases where
magistrate draws a bond for the defend
ant, he shall be paid five dollars for the
same.
8. Resolued, That in all cases good and
reliable security shall be required, or
else the party shall be committed to Jail
to await his trial.
Whilst we feel that the above position
will bear hard upon the poor man who
has suffered ON injury from the hands of
another. and wishes the judgment of the
law to be administered as q punishment
for the criminal, we find the law so in
differently arranged in regard to the pay
ment for our services, viz: 1st, The
County is not responsible for our costs;
I'd, The defendant cannot be compelled
to pay our costs, until after final convic-
tion, and even then, no provision is
made, and the magistrate cannot collect
the same from the city court THAT court
having jurisdiction in misdemeanors);
and, in cases of felony, providing if the
defendant is convicted, the court may or
may not. in its discretion, pay the costs,
(which to us would be about the same
as no costs at ally our representatives
are so unmindful to the proper steps to
be taken to secure good and efficient ju-
dicial officers, and provide for proper
remuneration for the same; the senti-
ment of the people so embittered with
regard to the defendant paying costs un-
til after final conviction-that we ere
forced to the adoption of these rules.
We are willing, to the best of our ability,
to serve the community, but at the same
time conceive it to be our duty, as we'll
as our right, both to ourselves and fami-
ieS, 10 require payment 1or our SER
vices.
1. NJ. MARSH, N. P. and E. O. J.P.,
@. O., Ga.
PHILIP NJ. RUSSELL, Jr., N. P. and
j. P, @. c., Ga.
ROBERT J. WADE, J. P. and N. P,
@. c.. Go.
s. ELSINGER, n. P. andJ. P. C. c.,
Ga. - 81
JOHN Mop. BERRIEN, N. P. and j.
p, O. c., Ga.
ISAAC RUSSELL, N. P. and j. P,
G. O., Ga.
The other magistrates, after being duly
notified have refused to adopt these
rules.
PHILIP M. RUSSELL,
Secretary of Meeting.
I. M. MARSH, Chairman of Meeting.
SAVANNAH, July 10, 1869.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-23

Punch does up the course of the French
straight from the Brest of the shore,
it plunged in the Bosom Of Ocean"
The innocent folks in Connecticut ac-
tually grumble at six weeks session of
the Legislature.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-23

OUR CREDIT ABRoAD-THE ENGLISH
COTTON BoND-HoLDERs.- The third re-
port of the Committee of Cotton Bond
holders has been issued. It reviews the
question of the position of these claims,
and concludes as follows:
OF one thing, however, your committee
feel assured, no British Government or
House of Commons will ever, unless our
claims have been pronounced by an inn
partial tribunal to be invalid, sanction
the payment of any damages committed
by the Alabama to American citizens,
without setting off and deducting there
from, the value of the cotton crop hy-
pothecated by de tacto government as
security to British subjects for money
advanced; especially as the United States
Government has possessed itself of the
assets of the Confederate States, and ap-
propriated them to its own use, and by an
act of arbitrary power, and, contrary to
every principle of international law,
compelled the Southern States to repu-
diate the contract legitimately made
with British subjects. Your committee
cannot refrain from doing an act of JUS
tice to the Southern States by emphati-
cally expressing their conviction that
but for the express interdict of the Con-
gross of the United States, where they
are not represented, their Legislatures
and people would have, and will, if per-
mitted, honorably acknowledge and pay
the cotton loan, the forced reputation
of which constitutes one of the chief
grounds of complaint against the United
States.
Your committee with sorrow point out
the heavy blow this repudiation, al
though forced, has had on the credit of
the Southern States in Europe, and they
may mention q fact in confederation Of
the cruel injury done them, viz: when
tho Wilmington and Manchester Railway
Company sent very able agent to Eng
land to negotiate small loan for that
railway, and offered to the cotton loan
bond-holders terms which would virtu-
ally have been an exchange of f200,
Wilmington mortgage bonds for g10O
cash and 9100 Confederate cotton bonds,
ex the overdue interest, the negotiation
entirely failed, not because the cotton
bond-holders doubted the security offer
ed, but they feared that when they had
completed the transaction the United
States Congress would have compelled
the Wilmington and Manchester Railway
to repudiate it under pain of seizing the
way, and thus have inflicted further loss
on those who had taken their bonds.
The consequence has been that all pecu-
mary assistance from England, to enable
the Southern States to develop their
resources, has been virtually suspended"
augusta Chronicle and Sentinel.
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1t cost $208 to try colored man at
Columbus, Ga, for stealing chicken
valued at 81 cents.