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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-04-22
WESTWARD HO!

The ceaseless tide of western emigra-
ton which our eyes daily witness is suf-
ficient proof of the utility of the soil,
the perseverance and enterprise of those
who join in the eager persuit, accompa-
MED by a firm constitution and unyiel-
ding desire to accumulate competence
which will place them beyond the reach
of want.
AS the declining years of age multi
ply, the hand of time passes over the
brow, leaving his signet stamped indeli-
bly there, and like the frosts of winter,
changing the brown, glossy cnrls and
ringlets into the silvery, unmistakable
decay of youth. The pioneers of the
west can tell a tale of suffering and
bloodshed equal to those who penetrat-
print of a white mans foot had never
yet been traced upon the soil, and the
cup of deadly fire-water had not been
put to the natives lips,
Towns and villages spring up in rap
id succession by their unceasing efforts,
the sun reflects its rays upon towers
and domes of mighty cities where once
stood the proud wigwam and rude hut
of the red man steam palaces navigate
the lakes and rivers where then the
bark canoe OF the tawny savage played
in blissful ignorance of the coming dis
solution. Education succeeded ignor-
anee, and power docility, until the
.-sons of the forest" were driven in fear
from their native element to give place
to interlopers.
Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas and
Oneidas were marched in one common
brotherhood up the shores of lake Erie
and Michigan, to seek a home as best
they could in the uncivilized wilds of
of the west. Green bay sheltered and
protected hundreds for while; but fl
nally the poisonous breath, the fatal mi
asma which is ever attendant upon the
peace and happiness of the tribes shed
its iRfuence over them one by one the
fell destroyer laid his blighting finger
upon them, till not a child was left TO tell
the sad tale of their wrongs.
Kansas, the home of the Kaw and
Cherokee, is yielding her broad prair-
] les to the covetous demands of the pale
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replied that when the proper time arri-
we'd should probably, like host of
other friends, ask for such fayors.
i.But," said Mr.. Lincoln, lyon have the
reputation of taking time by the fore
lock. was warned to be on my guard
against you and the joke of the matter
is that those who gave the warning are
after offices themselves, while you have
avoided the subject"
But going back to Mr.. McCulloch.
My interviews with that gentleman, If
protracted, were made so by his intelli-
gent, right-minded, straightforward ex-
preston of views and opinions If, in
going to Mr.. McCulloch, l had some
thing of Toots, in calling on Captain
Cutie for the flavor of his friendship"
l left him with a strong feeling of re-
gard and confidence, and so reported to
Mr.. Lincoln, who Immediately sent his
name to the Senate step which neith-
er Mr.. Lincoln nor the people have any
occasion to regret. On the contrary,
Mr.. Nc Culloch proved himself an en-
lightened Secretary of the Treasury.
To the friends whom / represented he
was just and faithful. To myself, who
was frequently compelled to occupy his
time and attention, he was uniformly
courteous and patient-always grant
ing what was proper and in his power
to grant, and never refusing without a
good reason and in a friendly spirit.
all my recollections of Mr.. McCulloch
In his department-the only place, am
sorry to say, that ever met him-are
pleasant ones.
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A DEMOCRATIC CARPET.BAGGER.

George Alfred Townsend writes to
the Chicago Tribune thus about Conner,
a new Congressional "star" from Texas.
This chap enters the arena with more
than the usual allow of trumpets," and
has already challenged Shanks, of Indi-
ana, to fight duel. He will undOubt-
eddy become as famous int short time
as Morrisey:
Conner is the name of one of four
newly-admitted Texans, and the only
one of them who is democrat. He is a
genuine type of the carpet-bagger, re-
duced below the others to the extent of
the difference that they are republicans
and he is democrat. You go as far
down as you know to reach the repub-
lican carpet-bagger. Then you go
farther down than you know, and you
come to the democratic carpet-bagger.
At the latter level you find Conner, n
blne-eyed boy genius from Indiana,
scarcely mp to the constitutional age of
Congressman, with smooth face of
molten brass, high cheek-bones, sandy
white hair, and look where despera-
ton, vanity, and impotence appear in
three equal parts. Altogether, green
Indiana boy, who went into the army,
was celebrated for his precocious ferOc-
ity, became the pet of those ravenous
Texans, who were delighted to see that
the North could beat them in their own
specialties, and Connor, who was natur-
ally tonguey and truculent, trained for
a stump-speaker. He was duly elected
by large majority, who sent him to
Congress with the delight of a tribe of
Indians sending a live panther to
their Great Father.
When Conner came up IN Congress
there was a tremendous fuss. Butler
and Shanks flew around like wild ducks
with their heads off. The usual ec-
parte ordinations and letters were
read. He had logged somebody; his
speeches were scandalous; he was
elected simply by out and out rebels,
etc. The young carpet-bagger had re-
piled to all this to General Butler with
the candor of pupil, that he was mot
responsible for the sentiments Ofspeech-
es made merely to get voters" Ortiz,
Job Stevenson, Schenck and others
stood up for the right of representation,
regardless of Connor's previous record.
These were replied to by the same tipsy
set that once disgraced the House ON
counting the Electoral vote. At !ast
equal justice prevailed, and Conner was
admitted.
You should then have seen this JuVe-
nile carpet-bagger, with the pertness, and
glibness, and self-sufficiency of a low
comedian on rural stage, stalk out and
make personal explanation. He put
out his forearm, pursed up his mouth,
pivoted ON Butler, and treated him to a
piece of stump billingsgate. Then he
congratulated the House, expressed his
opinion of the weather, nature and pos
terity, and sat down with the peaceful
ness of Caesar. l never saw such i'm
pudence in my life-except Mr.. Roder-
lick Butler keeping his seat, though
nearly two-thirds ofhis colleagues voted
to his face to expeI him for trafficing in
his responsibilities.
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face until they too have heard the
words, Onward march!
The same spirit who gave the fox his
hole, and the dove her nest, made a
home for the red man also, and he may
well sing:
''Ohl why does the white man follow my path
Like the hound ON the tigers trackF
The madness which the effects of rum
is heir to seizes them, and they raise
their arms to protect themselves from
the food of immigration Whichis pour
ing upon them. Driven to desperation
one revenge only they know, and is it
strange that they seek it? Hostility as
sumes the place of quiet and repose,
each time adding force to the already
consuming fires of eternal hatred, in
herited from generation to generation.
The whites exult in their superiority
and inly declare they viii possess every
foot of land from the St Lawrence to
the Gulf of Mexico, and from Maine to
the Pacific, driving in their ambitious
career, the last Indian into the mouth OF
the Columbia river.
Vain mani you must lie on the same
level with Logan; with him in agony
of spirit you may exclaim, ''Who is
there to mourn for Logan? Not one.
The same soil will cover you that covers
him, and at the last great day his face
will be as fair as yours, and mayhap
you will each receive the same SEN
tence. HIP.
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DESPOTIC SOCIALISM.


For the poor, and the advocates of
the poor, if they desire a despotism,
surely signs have been given in history
as glaring as sign in heaven. There
is the long cry of misery which strikes
on the historians ear from Diocletian
to the fall of Constantinople. There is
the population of Spain, famished and
decimated, as well as degraded, by
Charles V. and his successors. There
are the taille and coTcee, the grass-eat-
ing serfs and the dragonnades of Bour-
bon, France. There are the bloody va
grancy laws of the tudors. As to
''Game preserving" it was under very
civilized despotism, and in face of a
strong clergy, that the Prince de Charo-
lais used to divert himself with shoot
ing, not pheasants, but workmen on
the roofs of houses, whose death-throes,
as they fell, beguiled the sameness of a
princely life. His pardon was easily
obtained. The most Christian King,
who had made incest the fashion, could
not be hard on murder. Had the Prince
de Charolais, however, been an ordina-
ry person of quality, aud not of the
blood royal, he would probably have
been exiled to his country seat. Had
he been peasant suspected of worship
ping God in a way not patronized by
Louis XIV and the Prince de Charo-
lais, he would have been sent to die by
slow torture in the galleys; and if he
had resisted, he would have been bro
ken on the wheel. Sax
Sociology (if that is to be its classical
name) must be a science of experince ;
and what experience shows that. the
rich and noble will act more concien-
tiously toward their dependents when
they have made over their consciences
to a ear; or that car amidst his cour-
tiers will think more of those who are
farthest from, than of those who are
nearest to his throne2 The French
freeholds, be they good things or bad,
were the gift of a republic, and not of
an Emperor We know that some des-
pots have1earned the trick of appealing
to the passions of the masses against
intellect, at the same time that they APP
peal to wealth against the passions of
The masses. But what has been done
for the masses except giving them hack,
in ostentatious faTgesses, q little of the
money which is ultimately drawn from
them in unobtrusive taxation, and
sweeping OF good many of them to
Cayenne?
The population of France it seems,
has hitherto been diminished under the
tranquility" Of the empire; though
diplomatic Journalism nationally hopes
for a cessation of this sad effect from
the continuance of its beniffcent cause,
On the other hand, whatever may be
the shortcomings of English society, we
may say without Boosting, and we hold
it mere reckless eynieism to deny, that
great and real efforts are being made by
the upper classes to improve the condi-
ton and the education of the poor; and
the source of these efforts is the sense
of individual responsibilities, with sin
cere religion and free press. Individ-
nsI responsibility is what a despotism
is desired to supersede q sincere relig-
ion is what a despotism never yet had /;
free press is what despptisln never
has endured and never can endure.
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Written for THE EMPoRIA NEWS.
MAX FAWCE1T'S CLAIM.

EDIToRs News Max Fawcetti is well
known to the good people of Emporia
as marked and peculiar genius, pos
sessing much taste, refinement, ingenu-
ity, and love for the beautiful. He has
taken a claim one-half mile west of the
young city of Creswell, which recent
ly had the pleasure of visiting, and
which propose to describe.
1t is situated on the north bank of the
Arkansas, here a noble stream forty
rods in width. A bluff of magnetism
limestone some thirty feet high here
rises abruptly, washed by the river a
part of the way, but bending in such q
manner as to enclose bottom of some
thirty acres, covered with a splendid
growth of timber and grape-vines. Out
of this bluff pour three beautiful
springs. One is received in a square
cavity cut with a chisel in the soft mag
nesian stone. Another pOurs out of a
| pipe i'll such a manner as to form''a min
iature and fancifnl cascade, showing
some of the peculiar touches of the pro-
prietor.
| a few rods from this is a cave about
ten feet wide and four feet high at the
entrance, larger within, and passable to
the depth of about one hundred feet
bejOnd that too small to conveniently
penetrate, but of unknown extent. Here
is most perfect natural cellar for meat
fruit, and vegetables.
The cabin stands on the bank just
above. 1t is not yet very thoroughly
completed, and was, a few nights ago,
invaded by pack of prairie wolves
doubtless attracted by the scent of dried
apples and graham crackers. One yell
from under the blankets caused them to
vanish more rapidly than they entered
just back of the house is Max's gar
den. This is in conical sink-hole, ey.
identity connected with the cave below
He has shoveled this partly full ofloose
earth, and laid it off in garden beds
with his own quaint taste. Various orn-
amental plants are also growing about
the house.
The land is warm, sandy loan, adj
mirably adapted to the growth of corn,
fruit and nursery stock. The Chicka.
saw plum, now in full bloom, grows in
thickets all over it. From the building
site the scenery is truly magnificent, in.
Guiding many miles of the river, the
town-site, and vast vistes of bottom, up.
land and bluff. Here ''Mac" has found
site exactly adapted to his genius
He seems perfectly happy here, and de-
clares that nothing could induce him tC
return to dull, muddy, monotonous En-
poria. His estate here will soon be the
most beautiful in Kansas.
Creswcll is founding. DIR. Wolsey
of Iowa, is here building a hotel. HI
is a man of means and energy, and in
tends business. lie will become thu
most popular Boniface in the state
c. r. Sipes, of Emporia, is erecting {
building for his new hardware store
Mr.. Sleeth, of Eldorado, is to move hi
new Sawmill bither on the 1st proximo
A stage-route, a water-mill, newspa
per, two or three stores, a restaurant
a ferry, and many other Improvement
are in the near future. Hundreds o
excellent claims await the pioneer. DR.
Kellogg will soon be ready to show
these to all anxious inquirers. Cowlcy
county will be known as the garden o
Kansas. H. b. n.
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EMPORIA NEWS.
A GREAT MAN,

That man Ii great, and he alone
Who serves greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pelf:
Content TO know, and be unknown,
Whole in himself.
strong n that man, he only strong,
a. To whose weli-oTdered will belong,
For service and delight,
All powers that in the face OF Wrong,
Establish Right.
And free is he and only he,
Who from his tyrant passions free,
BY fortune undislnayed,
Hath power upon himself TO be
By himself obeyed.
II such a man there be, where'er
Beneath The sun and moon he fare,
He cannot fare amiss. taFlE
Great Nature hath hinrin her care;
Her cause is his.
Who holds by everlasting law No.
Which neither chance nor change can flaw
Whose steadfast course Is one
With whatsoever forces draw
= >. The ages on.
Who hath not bowed his honest head I 1
To base Occasion. nor IN dread
OF duty Stunned her eye;
Nor truckled to loud times; nor wed
His heart 20 ale; sssssf >-r9zi $50
Nor feared to follow, In the oEense 4fss
or false opinion, his own sense .,s
OF justice unsubdued;
Nor shsunk froi1 ahy teassql I14se 81 ~ 3
OF doing good u So
He looks his Angel in the face
Without blush, nor needs disgrace
Whom naught dIsgraeefaI done
1 Disgraees. Who knows nothing base
Fears nothing known.
Nor norseIed out from day to day
In fevcrIsh wishes, nor the prey
OF hours that have no plan,
His life is whole to give away
To God and man.
For, though he lived aloof from ken,
The worlds unwitnessed denizen,
The love within him stirs
Abroad, and with the hearts OF men
His own confers.
The Judge upon the justice-seat,
The brown-baeked beggar In the street,
~ The spinner IN the sun.
The reapers Ieaping in the wheat,
The wnn-cheeked nun,
In eloister cold; the prisoner lean
In Iightless den; the ROBBED queen;
Even the youth that waits,
Hiding the knife to glide unseen
y Between the gates;
lie nothing human alien deems
Unto himself, nor disesteems
Mans meanest claim upon him;
And where he walks the mere sunbeams
Drop blessings on him.
Because they know him Natures friend,
On whom she doth delight TO tend
With loving kindness ever,
Helping and hearteniBg to the end
His high endeavor-
Therefore. though mortal-made, he can
Work miracles. The uncommon man
Leaves nothing commonplace.
He Is the marvellous, to span
The abyss Of space.
The orb Of Time is his by faith;
And his, whilst breathing human breath,
To taste, before he dies,
The deep, eventual calm OF death,
LIES latest prize.
II such a man there be, where'er
Beneath the sun and moon he fare,
He doth not fare alone.
lie goeth grit with cohorts, powers,
The monarch of his manfuI hours,
Whose minds his throne.
He owes no homage to the sun,
There's nothing he need seek or shun,
All things are his by right.
He is his own pOsterity;
His future in himself doth lie;
His SOUPS his tight.
Lord of n lofty life Is he,
Loftily living. though he be
OF lowly birth. Though poor,
He lacks not wealth, nor high degree
In state obscure.
The merely great are, all in all,
No more than what the merely small
Esteemed them. Mans opinions
Neither conferred, nor can recall
This mans dominions.
Queen Meredith
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A GOOD SUGGESTION.

The following is an extract from q
letter from Joseph Savage, of Lawrence,
man of large experience in the fruit
growing business. We hope our citi-
zens will give their considerate atten-
ton to his suggestion as to horticult-
ural society in our midst:
Il am surprised that in so prosperous
community as yours not to hear from
an Horticultural society. / see no re-
ports in your paper, and infer that you
have none in Emporia.
There should be one formed this pres
eut summer, spreading facts and expe-
riences all through your part of the
State, and hope you will send up to
our annual State Horticultural meeting
at Manhattan a good delegation from
your section. This we do not expect
unless you form local societies to wake
up an interest on the subject.
Iwould also suggest the propriety of
your making an effort to have the State
meeting at your place in the fall of 1871 ;
it acts like missionary to stir up the
minds of any community.
Kansas as fruit State is becoming a
great recommendation by bringing in a
much better class of inhabitants than it
would if stock was its chief excellency.
l have no doubt but that we shall be the
first State in fruit growing east of the
Rocky mountains.
Much of our best fruit lands are as
yet unappreciated by our people-this
is on high rolling prairie, with thin
soil composed largely of decayed sand
stone-this gives good drainage and a
steady, healthy, sound growth to our
trees, and will soon be ranked among
our treasures, while now it is not
thought TO be worthy of its taxes. Pears
and grapes require the warmth aud dry
ness of this kind of soil, and will do far
better in it than in any other location.
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WHAT Book SHOULD BE.-A book
should be founded on good principles,
and conform to good taste, to make it a
proper inmate of the family. Playing
at checkers, jumping the rope, or recit-
ing the multiplication table, are much
more useful employment than the peru
sal of trashy works of fiction. The
standard books. of the language are
standard for a reason-they never yio-
late common sense, nor mock at Felig-
ion, nor tribe with the proprieties.
How, then, oan books which are weak
in style, foolish in sentiment, and utter
Iy Without any guiding principle in the
mind or the hand of the author, expect te
claim permanent respect of the world 2
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The following table. officially prepar-
ed at the Treasury Department.. exhib-
its the time it would take to cancel the
entire public debt of the United States,
50, SOC, 100000, by sinking fund capital
varying from S25, 1000 600 to 100, 200, 600
year, Interest at per cent, payable
semi annually:
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Bread cast upon the waters is not

Bread cast upon the waters is not
always a total loss, even in matter of
State diplomacy. In closing up the me-
gOtiations with the Sultan of Turkey,
in 1852, Mr.. Seward distributed ten
thousand dollars as presents among the
Turks. After eight years of enjoyment
these severely just barbarians now send
back Turkish carpet fer the white
house worth ten thousand dollars.
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EMPORIAT NEWS


TIE g. TGFNTN
AfsA Hais =. zine far each IuseStisn. sns
the year, - line will be charged In this depart
ment for cards OF ten lines less; and 81 80 line
for one-eighth OF One fourth OF column.
Cards OF Ave lines. or less, without display, s. q
year. a dollar year for each additional line. r
One-eighth 81 ajrot1mn. thfee nfonths -; six
months. $i2; one year $40.
One-fourth OF n column three months, $1a; six
Half a column. tree Months, sao SIX nSSnsis. sS;
one year, SEQ.
one column, three months, $40; six months SO;
one year. $110.
Twenty Ave per cent. win be added TO the above
prices whsre advertisements arc kept etanding on
the inside Of the paper, and also Cor those sea IN
quarter. which occurs the last OF March, June.
September and December.
transient advertisements of less amount than
IS must be paid for at the time OF the INST nser-
Zeal advertisements, rnust be paid for 1t the
time they are first inserted, attorneys must be-
come personally responsible for them. The rates
for these, hxed by law, are ten cents line for
the nrst insertion, and i've cents line for each
sPEcI AZ Observation-Disclosures must be hand
ed In by Wednesday Of each week
Job Work.
We have the best fitted up Job once in southern
Kansas and AeAn and tWlllLAo plain Deb Printing
such as Blanks ~ ypllA hindA fosters 4aFds. Blu
Heads Letter Heads. Envelopes, etc, a. cheapiy
Address al eenmunI cations 20
sroyLER WILLIAMS:
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NvoTA ny PUBLIC, Real Estate Agent and L.
~ censed CoBvcyEnoer, Eldorslto. Butler Coun-
" Kansas. Acknowledgements taken. Deeds and
Mortgages draEn faYss nstt iSr on:res dents
tehded 70,
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LAUNDRY.
CITY LAUNDRY
MEAT Markets.

VVN j. ROLF. Proprietor. Corner of sth Avenue
l. . and Commercial Street. Washing done on
reasonable terms. u ~ 49,. "a ~ sa
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Farm for Sale.

T have for tale farm Of 1I5 acres, on Allen
il creek, two miles and half east Of Americas,
known as the William Miller farm. Frame
house, and forty acres under fence; p acres
timber; good well Price, 81 800 cash, or q, 900
cash, and 81. ESQ on twelve months time, At 10
per cent The first land agent that sells this
farm at the above figures, win receive the us
uaI per cent. for selling, and when the land Is
sold the printer will receive his fee for adyer-
tising T. c. HILL,
lift Americas. Kas.
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z N ROBINSON, Proprietor. Corner Of Mer-
II IL chants street and sixth Avenue. This house
has been reltted aud furnished throughout, and IL
now OpeRko the public stAgeY lease daily and cop-
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.EMPORA BUSINESS CARDS.
hotels.

BUCKEYE HOUSE,
TNIFTIHKTkN2IA BAlporA, kAnsas, Ieaf cor
Il ner OF Commercial Street WOrden 4 Bird
sell, Proprietors.
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BLAcKsMITHs.
CONNER y RYAN.

CONNER y RYAN,
DLACKSMFTHS. Commercial Street, North OF
ID Tth Avenue. Will pay especial attention to
times be prepared to accommodate the public with
any kind OF work In their line OF business. Give us
n call and we will endeavor TO render satisfaction
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y. 5. CLEVELAND's

HNENTRAL LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STA
BILE. ON 5lh Avenue. betwccn Commercial and
Mechanics Street Is now open and ready for bnsi-
ness and will furnish teams at any time during
the day night. Passengers conveyed 10 any part
Of the country ON liberal terms Particular atten
tion paid 60 boarding and transient stock.