The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-06-28
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
i The Secretary of the Treasury,
whose head is confessedly about as
clear and calm as any in the polit-
zeal field, is said by the Washing
ton correspondent of Mr.. Gree
. ley's own paper to express the de-
liberate opinion that if the Presi-
dental contest is between General
Grant and Mr.. Greeley, the former
will receive the largest relative
vote given to any Presidential can
didate since James Monroe. He
thinks that Democrats will vote
for Grant rather than for Greeley.
The St. Louis Democrats Wash
ington special says the news of
the nomination of Hendricks for
Governor of Indiana is we'll re-
ceived in Republican circles, and
has been much talked of. The
general feeling now is that Gree
ley will certainly be placed on the
boards at Baltimore. This result
is desired by all prominent Re
publican politicians here.
Grant and Wilson make a strong
team. General Grant has done
much to squander in civil life the
reputation he brought from the
army; but he still has a great hold
alike upon Northern patriots,
whom it was his high privilege to
lead to victory, and upon South
ern negroes, whom it was his
equally high privilege-Pro- Slav-
cry and Democratic though he
was-to approach with the armed
guarantee of freedom. Henry
Wilson is working man and a
lifelong Republican, who has pass
ed through thirty years of polit-
zeal contests, without a question
of his devotion to principle, or a
stain upon his integrity. = New
York Tribune, June 7th.
Mr.. Greeley's best friends are
giving up his case as hopeless.
We mean by his best friends not
those who, like Fenton and the
Tanmany men, fiatter only to be- |
tray him, but men like Mr.. Bowles,
of the Springfield Republican.
When this gentleman comedies
that the great mass of the Repub-
lican party is with Grant and Will |
son. that they have the support of
what is called the E'war feeling"
which means that kind of patriotic
feeling which does not die out in a
few years; that the immense in
fuence of the business men is on
their side; that the negro vote is
solid for them, and that the best of |
their men who sympathized with
the Cincinnati movement are dis
gusted with Greeley-when all this
is conceded, there is not even the
prospect of success to induce Re
publicans to join the effort of the
Greeley faction to break up the
party. The attempt becomes not
only malicious but a blunder.-t
New York Times.
The Missouri Staats-Zeitung
runs up the names of Grant and
Wilson at the head of its columns
and says: GAS far as personages
are concerned, there is no Ameri-
can now living who is better known
on both sides of the Atlantic than
Grant. To speak of him in this
place were superfiuous. Wilson,
of Massachusetts,, is a man of iron
energy and spotless reputation; g
man who, from youth up, has had
more sympathy with the people,
and has held more closely to them
than any other American states
man."
Mr.. Austin Daily proposes the
most extravagant theatrical ven
ture ever undertaken in this conn
try-an expenditure of 100000
to bring out "King Carrot" at the
Grand Opera House, next autumn.
Several large halls are now occu-
pied by scenic artists in preparing
scenery, and numberless costum-
ers are also employed. Mr.. Flor
ence, Mr.. Broughan, Mr.. Robson,
Mrs. Howard Paul, Mrs. John
Wood, and Rose Hersee are en-
gagged for it. II is supposed the
piece will run at least O year.
After all, there is no certainty
about DIR. Livingston's safety.
The Herald correspondent is said
to have found him, but there seems
to be nobody able to find the Her
aid correspondent, and SO the dis
covery has resulted merely in Civ
ing us the double mystery of two
lost men instead of one. The
Golden Age sarcastically puts it
that sit is a good deal easier to
believe that DR.. Livingstone is
alive somewhere than to credit the
paper that says he isl
Among the prominent men of
Boston who have recently deceas
ed was Samuel A. Way, who left
an estate of million and a half.
He was fifty-five and commenced
life In Boston, when only twelve
years of age, as an errand boy in
a store at a salary of 81 per week.
After business hours he peddIed,
and saved enough when nineteen
to open a grocery store. He then
began to import and accumulated
a fortune. He was very eharita-
BILE man; and though he never put
his name to a subscription paper,
he gave q great deal to men who
had seen better days, but were TOO
proud TO beg. In this way he con-
tributed over $100,O00 in 1870.
He was very fond of literature. I
A bill was passed in the House
of Representatives, June It'll, to
pay to lady, aged seYenty-one,
the sum OF $4,000, that being the
amount of seven years half-pay
due her father, who was an officer
under Paul jones in the Bon
Homme Richard. The lady has
been prosecuting this claim for
twenty-five years. When it was
announced that the bill had pass
ed. the lady, who was in the gal
lery, was evidently so delighted
that she was cheered by the House.
and she then burst into tears. and
fell upon her knees in thankful
ness. What a comment this is
upon the hopes Of those claimants
who may not be able TO live to
the age Of seventy -onei /
The story goes that during Mr..
Bryant's recent sojourn in Mexico /
he had practical illustration oil
fame, quite as convincing as that |