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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-02-13
Rhett and Conrad,

A correspondent of the Mobile Re-
gister, writing from Montgomery, re-
lates the following incident which
took place in the first Confederate
Congress, and which he says has
never heretofore been published:
1t was the custom to open the sts-
sion of Congress each day with pray
er, the clergy of the city officiating
by turns. One day no minister was
present, and Mr.. President Cobb told
one of the Secretaries to look around
and try to find one, as it was time to
open the session. The Secretary
soon found the Rev. FL. w. Hilliard,
ex- Minister to Belgium, who, it was
said, was not unwilling to represent
the Confederate States at any for
eign court. Mr.. Cobb requested Mr..
%Hilliard to open with prayer, which
Mr.sH., being taken by surprise, with
his usual urbane smile, declined to
do. 49,
| r. Barnwen Rhett and Charles NJ
Conrad were anoHpdes On 2lWol :
every question befd1u
and whenever one spoke on any mea-
sure, the other would certainly take
the Opposi side.
Bear these facts in mind, and you
will be able to " see It,"
RHETT- ORIG.
No preacher is on hand to-day
And Cobb looks here and there,
To find some one who used to pray
| He wants to take the chair.
He calls on Hilliard to perform,
Who, smilingly, refuses,
'Tis not Mission, at this time,
! Which the ex>Belgian chooses.
Bob Dixon, the assistant clerk,
Fun flashing from his eyes,
When Hilliard thus the prayer did shirk,
Proposed this compromise.
The place left vacant by the priest,
Just call the Rhett to fill,
And if the Lord don't answer him,
I'll bet that Conrad will.
Mr.. Conrad enjoyed the joke as
fully as any one, but Mr.. Rhe t never
spoke to the author after he found
out who wrote the verses.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-02-13

EA man who has been travelling
in Texas, says: :" 1t is the hottest
and the coldest, the wettest and the
dryest, the richest and the poorest,
the best and the meanest, has the
best women and. tho meanest men,
and more pretty ladies with pretty
little feet, and no calves to suit !;
more sickness and less health, more
streams and less navigable waters,
more corn brea' and less corn, more
-four and less biscuit, more cows and
less milk and butter, more hogs and
less pork, more chickens and less
eggs, more gold and less silver, and
less money, more deer and less veni-
son, more negroes and less labor.
more Bureaus and less furniture,
than any country i'll the United
States-and where house flies live
and mosquitoes never die!'
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-02-13
Bob Dixon, the assistant clerk.

A FAMILY PUZzLE.-In the fami.
ly of Stephen Herrick, of Mildlesex,
Vermont, there are three mothers,
two grand mothers, one great grand
mother. three daughters, two grand.
daughters. one great grand d-daugh-
ter, two wives, one widow. two hns.
bands, two fathers, two sons.in-law,
one grandfather, and one son-in-law
and only six members in tho family.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-02-13
ALL'S WELL.


BY WILLIAM WINTER.
The apples are ripe in the orcha d,
The work Of the reaper is done.
And the golden woodlands redden
In the blood Of the dying sun.
At the cottage door the grandsire
Sits pale In his easy chair,
While the gentle wind OF twilight
Plays with his silver hair.
A woman is kneeling beside him
fair young head is pressed,
In the first wild passions of sorrow,
Against his aged breast.
And far from over the distance
The faltering echoes come
OF the flying blast of trumpet
And the rafting roll o. drum.
And the grand-sire speaks in q whisper:
The end no man can see
But we give lin to his country.
And We give our prayers to Thee"
The violets star the meadows,
The rosebuds fringe the door,
And over the grassy orchard
The pink white blosso ms pour.
But the grandsire's chair is empty,
Tha cottage is dark tRd still;
There's nameless grave in the battlefield
And new one under the hill.
And pallid, fearless woman
By the cold hearth sits alone,
And the old clock in the corner,
Ticks on with a steady doone.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-02-13

poetrp,
LINES TO MY DAUGHTER.


A~N ~ ~ AA INV " - ~ ~
By GENERAL AIRABEAU D. LAMAR.
o. do not ask me now for rhyme,
For am lonely hearted,
And gone are all the dear delights
The muses. once impaired.
sigh no more for HybIa's dews,
Nor Helicon's bright water,
only crave the sable wave
OF Lethe's stream, my daughter.
But would'st thou share thy fathers woe.
And weep because he's weeping'
Then go with me to yon valleys shade,
Where beauty's wreck lies sleeping.
For in that dark and lonely spot,
Deaths solemn, silent quarter,
Is laid the pride Of all her sex
The mother OF my daughter.
She was all bright and beautiful,
A floating star before me,
Whose lustre WAS my shining light,
Forever shining DER me
So angel like in all her ways,
How often have I thought her
Some seraph sent us from the skies,
To cheer this earth, my daughter
1t was from her alone drew
My minstrel inspiration
And when she died and left me here,
My soul in desolation,
/ broke the harp she loved 30 well,
And burnt the songs wrought her;
Nor can my heart again rejoice
In cheerful strains, my daughter.
Then ask some other boon, my child,
Thou know st I can't deny thee;
No gift thine innocence demands,
Whilst thou art smiling by me;
For should | dare re.string my harp
By Chattahoochee 8. water.
The bitter tears of other years
Would flow afresh, my daughter,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-02-13
Once n Week. speaking of a

~ Once a Week, speaking of a
new invention to warm piano ana
organ keys in cold weather, suggests.
the use of a hot roasted potato. Thu
writer says that he knows MAJ
nlaces where ladies carry a hot
tato TO church in a flannel bar
use it to warm their hands
or to take the chill off .tbz
will retain heat a longs
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-02-13
TERMS-Three Dollars per annum.

s i'll beginning, one appears never to
advance apeg. Yet, by undertaking
prudence and untiring energy, sue.
cess must crown the constant effort,
for y
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-02-13
HANS BREITMANN'S PARTY.

We have room only for very brief
extracts from these Balladsr'
Hans Breitmann gife barty,
Dey had biano.blayn,
feed in lofe nit Merican fran,
Her name vas Madida YaAe.
She hat haar rs prown ash rretzel,
Her eyes vas himmel-plue,
Und ven dey looket indo mine
Dey shplit mine heart in two. :.
Hans Breitmann gife barty.
dells you it cost him dear.
Dey rolled in uore ash sefen kecks
OF foOstrate Lager Beer.
Und venefer dey knocks de shpcket in
De Deutschers gifes cheer,
dinks dat So vine barty.
Never COON to a het dis year.
Here is the first line to another
ballad:
reuzschockschwerenoth!
This is the way, he tells us, how he
came to write the "ballad" of his
visit to Kansas:
Won efening he vas drafel nit some ladies und
shendlemans, und he shtaid incosnitus. Und dey
singed songs, dill py und py one of de ladies say
{" Ish any podies here ash know de craate palad
of Hans Breitmanns Baty?' Den Hans say
" Ecce GaHus am dat rooster!" Den der
ms dook tlink und a let t-bencil und biece of
bapef, and goes indo himself little dimes und
denn coomes out again nit dis boem:
Hans Breitmanu vent to Kansas:
He drafel fast und far,
He rided shoost drel dousand miles
| All in Won ra-roat car.
He knowed foost rate how far he COED
He counted all dc vile,
Dere wash shoost one bottle of champa gne,
Dat bopped at efery mile.
Hans Breitmann vent to Kansas;
dell you vot my poy,
You bet dey hat pully dimes
In crossin Illinoy.
He visited Missouri, it seems:
Hans Breitman vent to Kansas;
He have puy dime
But twas in oldt Missouri
Dat dey rooshed him up sublime.
ney took him to der Blot Mob
Und all der nobs around
Dey spreed him und dey tea'd him
Dill dey room him to de ground.
He joined the "ToonerS :"
Hans Breitmann ehoined de Toornels,
Dey all set oop some shouts,
Dey took'd him into DER Toorner Hall,
Und poets him course of shprouts
Dey poots him on de barreil-hell pars
Und shtands him oop ou his head.
Und dey pOomps de beer nit an enchine hO
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-02-13
INFLUENCE OF THE PRESS.

When Thought the throne of Reason sougt
Upon her path toward Fame,
She shed spark, and it was caught
pure, undying fame;
1t lights the land, it shakes the sea,
And whelms the tyrant's stress,
1t beams the boast of all the free
The infue-ce of the press.
1t rose when Ignorance seemed to cast
Truth in its yawnng tomb,
1t saved the Present with the Past,
light along the gloom;
1t burst amid the darkest night
When all was drsar dismay;
1t shines the star that gives the light,
Which makes earth bright as day.
1t proudly stands upon the throne
OF Freedom and of Right,
A power which has with Reason grown
To crush the tyrant's might;
And though it speaks in thunder tone
ltsheds no blo,d of foes,
Tis Ignorance and Vice alone
Fall meath It's sturdy blows.
1t burst to view when all WIS dark -,
To shed its light on Fame's,
And that immortal little spark
| Has set the world in flames;
1t glides along the argent skies,
The brightest beam of ALL
| Beside it Truth and Justice rise,
And Wrong and Eavy fall.
It..stands to- day with mighty arms
Encircling every shore,
And wields the talismanic charms
Through which opinions pour;
And thus it mad of Thought the power,
The shrine for all to bless,
Until it blassd meteor shower
The Influence of the Press.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-02-13

H The Shoshone Indians along
the line of the Union Pacific X. r.
call locomotives. Heap wagon-no
hoss W
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-24

In Manhattan nearly Sol, 900 worth of
agricultural implements were sold dur
ing the last eight months.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-24


MIs-sPENT EvENINGs.-The boy who
spends an hour of each evening loung-
ing idly on street corner, wastes, in
the course of year, three hundred and
sixty-flve precious hours, which, if ap-
piled to study, would familiarize him
with the rudiments of almost any OF
the familiar sciences. If in addition to
wasting an hour each evening, he spends
ten cents for cigar, which is usually
the case, the amount thus worse than
wasted, would pay for ten of the lead
ing periodicals of the country. Boys,
think of these things. Think how
much precious time and good money
you are wasting, and for what? The
qualification afforded by the lounge on
the corner, or by the cigar, is not only
temporary, but positively hurtful. You
cannot indulge in these practices with
out seriously injuring yourselves. You
acquire idle and wasteful habits, which
will cling to you through life, and grow
upon you with each succeeding year
You may in after life shake them off
but the probabilities are that the habits
thus formed in early life will remain
with you till your dying day. BE
warned then in time, and resolve tha
as the hour spent in idleness is gone
forever, you will improve each passing
one, and thereby fit yourselves for use.
fulness and happiness.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-24

1t has recently TRANSFERRED that it was
the regular practice under the last
Treasury administration to keep in the
New York sub-treasury, a large amount
of gold certificates signed, but not used,
and to count them as cash on hand. I'm
der the present administration this per-
nicious and dishonest custom has been
reformed altogether. HeUen millions OF
these signed certificates have been sent
to Washington and cancelled. Though
this does not figure as n reduction OF
the public debt, the fact that this de-
struction of a large fictitious value
hitherto. credited to the United States
has been effected without increasing the
debt, is equivalent to a reduction to that
amount. That is to say, by counting
these certificates as gold on hand, Mr..
Mccullough or his subordinates fraud
ulently understand the total debt by
precisely the amount they represented,
and, therefore, to properly estimate the
reduction effected by President Grants
administration, one must add eleven
millions to the last statement of Mr.
Mccullough, thus making the reduction
effected by Mr.. Boutwell, Just eleven
millions more than shown by the exist
ing statement.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-24

In all new ountries we hear of fatal diseas-
among Fowls, styled Chicken Cholera,
Gapes, Blindness, Chambers, Megrims or Giddi-
mes, &c. LEIS' POWDER will eradicate the
above named diseases. In severe attacks, mix
a small quantity with corn meal, moistened,
and feed twice a day. While these diseases
prevail, Use little in their feed once or twice
a week, and your poultry will be kept free from
all disease. In severe attacks oftentimes they
do not eat; it will then be necessary to admin
lister the Powder by means of n quill, blowing
the Powder down their throat, or mixing Pow
der with dough TO form Pills.
Cows require an abundance of nutritious
food, not to make them fat, but to keep up a
regular secretion ofmilk. Farmers and dairy
men attest the fact that by judicious use of
LEIs' CONDITION POWDER the flow of milk is
greatly increased, and quality vastly improv-
ed. All gross humors and impurities of the
blood are at once removed. For Sore Teats.
apply LEIS' CHEMICAL HEALING SALvE-will
heal in one application. Your CALVES also re-
quire an Alternative aperient and stimulant.
Using this Powder will eXpel all grub worms,
with which young stock are infested in the
spring of the year; promotes fattening, pre-
vents securing, &c.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-24

LEIs' POWDER is excellent remedy for
Hogs. The farmer will rejoice to know that
prompt and efficient remedy for the various
diseases TO which these animals are subject, is
found in LEIs' CONDITION POWDER. For Dis
temper, inflammation of the Brain, Coughs, Fee
vers, Sore Lungs, Measles. Sore Ears. Mango,
Hog Cholera, Sore Teats. Kidney Worms, &C.,
hfty-cent paper added TO tub of swill and
given freely,is certain preventive. 1t pro-
notes digestion, purifies the blood and is there
fore the BEST ARTICLE for fattening Hogs.
n. B.-BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITERS
To prevent myself and the public from being
imposed upon by worthless limitations, observe
the signature of the proprietor upon each pack
age, without which none are genuine.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-24

Every Farmer and Stock Raiser Is convinced
that an impure state of the blood originates
the variety of diseases that afflict animals such
as Founder, Distemper, Fistula, POll-Evil, Hide
Bound, Inward Strains, Scratches,
Mango, Yellow Water, Heaves, Loss of APpe-
tite. inflammation of the eyes, SweIled Legs, Fa-
tigue from Hard Labor, and Rheumatism, by
some called Stiff COmplaint.l proving fatal to
so many valuable Horses. The blood is the
fountain of life itself, and if you wish to restore
health, you must first purify the blood; and to
insure health, must Keep it pure. In doing
this you infuse into the debilitated, broken
down animal, action and spirit, also promoting
digestion, &c. The farmer can see the marvel
Gus effect of LEIS' CONDITION POWDER,
by the lOosening of the skin and smoOthness of
the hair.
Certificates from leading veterinary surgeons,
stage companies, livery men and stock raIsers.
prove that LEIS' POWDERS stand pre-emi-
nently Mt the head of the list of Horse and Cat
tie Medicines.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-24

RIcHEs.-The man with a good, firm
health is rich.
So is the man with clear conscience.
So is the parent of vigorous, happy
children.
So is the editor of good paper with
big subscription list.
So is the clergyman whose coat the
little children of the parish pulck as he
passes them at their play.
So is the wife who has the whole
heart of a good husband.
So is the maiden whose horizon is not
bounded by the Coming man." but who
has purpose in life, whether she ever
meets him or not.
So is the young man who, laying his
hand on his heart, can say, 81 have
treated every woman / ever saw as /
should wish my sister treated by other
men.
So is the little child who goes to sleep
with kiss on its lips, and for whose
waking blessing waits-Ledger.
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Legal Advertisement.
ROAD NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that petition win
IN he presented to the Board of Commission
ers of Lyon county, Kansas at their next reg
ular meeting, to be held at Emporia. on Mon
day, October 4th, 1869, praying for the estab-
wit: Commencing at the northwest corner
of the town site of the town of Americus;
thence running north until it strikes the town.
ship line between townships seventeen and
eighteen; thence running west along said
township line distance of two hundreG c and
forty rods; thence north distance of two
hundred and forty rods; thence west until it
strikes the main road running from Americas
to Council Grove; thence northwest to the
west line of the county; said road being Ia
tended to take the place of the disputed state
road in the same locality.
Also, petition will be presented at the same
time and place praying the Commissioners to
vacate the disputed State read running from
the west side of Americas town site to the
west line Of section 81, town Il. range 10, and
running the road on the section line in its
place.
$3.50 JOHN ANDERSON.
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The Emporia News.
STARR KINGS GRAVE.
BY s. AUSTIN.


It is in his own churchyard here in
San Francisco. and every afternoon, the
beautiful building which he called his
monument when he lay dying, throws
deep shadows across the place. The
wide church front is near the street,
and far back on the east is long pro-
lection where the childrin meet. In
the space thus left before the projection
and beside the church, there is a wide
paved path by the building side, and all
the rest is inclosed by a low evergreen
hedge. Within the hedge there is
large plot of smooth turf, and in the
centre the pastors grave. The foot is
toward the east, and over it rests long,
low block of marble, carved like the
roof of cathedral with transepts. On
one side of the stone his name is cut in
waving black lines, and Oh the other
the DAYS of his birth and death. The
eye fills as the heart says, 1t is enough.
A few tall cones of arbor-vite stand
like sentinels about the place. In that
enchanting climate the flowers are al
ways blooming around him and the
grass is fresh aud green. A small gate
leading into the Enclosure is rarely open
ed, but visitors lean upon it to look
around the space and read the writing
on the stone. When the morning SER
turn aside to look at the grave and read
the famous name. Most of them are
grave men, who come alone, gaze visit
fully at the low, white stone, and then
walk away, silently looking on the
ground.
The feeling toward him on the whole
coast cannot be described, it is so tend
er, strange and deep. There is nothing
at the East to which it can be compared,
and only those who know this wild Pa
ciffic life can understand it. One of the
Giant Trees of Mariposa bears his name,
and a regal dome of the Yosemite is
called Starr King. One of the Colfax
party, on their recent visit, writes, ale
is the saint of the Pacific shore! Ever
since the day when the young Unitarian
clergyman died, and the Legislature
and all the courts adjourned, when the
national authorities fired minute guns
in the bay, while all the flags in the city
and on the ships hung at half-mast, a
softer and richer halo has been sur
rounding his memory, and many poor
castaway now clings to his belief in
Starr King as his only link to virtue"
To his own people here he is q de-
parted friend; to loyal hearts every
where he is the one man whose elo-
quence saved California in the Union !;
and to the wild and reckless wanderers
of these Pacific States, with his great
warm heart, and his eloquent words of
the mercy of God, he is the one just
man they have ever known, whose life
was pure and whose words were hope.
Liberal Christian.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-24

FINAL SETTLEMENT
NOTICES hereby given to all parties inter-
~ ested, that the undersigned, administra-
tor of the estate Of John B. Bancks, late of
Lyon county, deceased, intends to make final
settlement of said estate, at the next term of
the Probate Court to be holden ut Emporia OIL
the LIST Monday in October next.
j. r. SWALLOW,
Admir- of the estate of John b. Bancks, decd.
Sept. I'd, 1869. $3.50
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-24

LEIS POWDER being both Tome and Lax
alive, purifies the blood, removes bad humOrs,
and will be found most excellent in promoting
the condition of Sheep. Sheep require only
one-eighth the dose given to cattle.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-24

The San Francisco Bulletin, discuss
ing the National Capital question, says
that the idea of removal is preposter-
Gus and absurd. San Francisco, it says,
makes no complaint. 1t concludes, Eat
this distance it is impossible to under
stand why Government should be called
on to abandon about 500, 100000 of i'm
provements, to break up the most inter
csting associations, and to set prece-
dent for future removals of the capital
on some other pretext." This is sens
ible, and if San Francisco and the Pa
cific slope are satisfied with the pres.
ent location, then certainly st. Louis
and the Mississippi Valley ought to be
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-24

A cabinet maker died recently al
Neuss at the advanced age of ninety
three. When his last will was about to
be opened, hotel keeper made his ap-
pearance, saying that the deceased had
recently told him he would bequeath
something to him. This was found to
be correct; but the bequest consisted
only in very small piece of bread,
had prevailed in the country, and when
the testator had bought that piece OF
bread for twelve confines of :the father
of the hotel keeper, who was at that
time baker.
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NOTICE.

SUP'Ts OFFICE, A., T. & S. F. r. r. Co..
Topeka. June sd, 1869. !
THHE above Railroad will be open for bust
ness Monday, June 18th, 1859, between
Topeka and Carbondale. at which point trains
connect with stages for Burlingame and Empo-
ria. Trains will run daily, Except Sunday.)
as follows:
Mixed train. leave Topeka at 6:lo 4. NJ, ar
irving at Carbondale T:45 A. NJ: Passenger,
leaves Carbonate 1910 A. NJ, arrive at Tope-
kali 80 A. n, and connects with east and west
trains on Kansas Pacific; Returning. leaves
Topeka aft 100 P NJ. arriving at Carbonate
300 P. NJ; Mixed Train, Leaves Carbondale
4:OOP NJ, arriving at Topeka 5:40 P. NJ
27-tf r. J. PETER. Sup't.
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Lawrence Advertisements.
GEO. LEISs
GEL EBRATED
CONDITION POWDERS

HAs THE LARGEST SALE OF ANY
II HORSE and Cattle Medicine in this coun-
try. Composed principally of Herbs and Roots.
The best and safest Horse and Cattle Medicine
known. The superiority of these Powders
over every other preparation of the kind is
ishing effects
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$50 Reward.

CTRAYED from the subscriber, living on
y Coal creek three yearling colts one; iron
gray horse colt, one light roam horse colt, one
bright bay mare colt, blaze face.
The above reward viii be paid to any one re-
turning them to Coal creek, or 80 for infor-
nation leading to their recovery.
3S41 J.w. MORRIS.
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SAFE OF sG,HOOH. LANDS.

NOTICE is hereby given that 1 will offer
IN for sale. 1T public auction, on Saturday,
the I'd day of October, 1869, at II o'clock NJ. Of
said day. at my office in the Court House. in
the town of Emporia. the following described
school lands. situate in Lyon county, Kansas,
fo-wif.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-09-24

During the war Asa Packer packed
his trunks and went to Europe, where
he stayed two whole years, consorting
with the rebels.