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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-26
OFFICE SEEKING BY SENATOR'S.

{ OF the five United States Senators
who have assailed their brethren
for Office seeking, none have been
Senator Trumbull, Of Illinois,
though it must be confessed
that he has altered his tune
since he is shown to have taken ten
thousand dollars from the Treasury
of the United States for q single ar
gument before the Supreme Court,
and since he has been proved to
have over one hundred recommen-
dations to Office, or references of
applications, under circumstances
which implied approval The fee
would never have been offered him,
and the case he argued forit would
never have been lost If he had not
insisted in defeating in the Judici-
airy Committee bill which would
have rendered the argument unnec-
'essary. So, if Senator Edmunds,
and at least one other Senator, had
not respected the opinion of Will
liam Writ when Attorney-General,
and refused the fee because they
thought it Illegal to take IL. Mr..
Trumbull would not have received
the nice little sum, nor been com
PEELED to protect himself behind the
fiimsy excuse that because the sol
dier Grant, during few DAYS tenure
of Office as Acting Secretary OF
War, offered him the retainer, the
lawyer Trumbull, who assumed tc
argue one Of the most important
constitutional questions which ever
arose, was justified in accepting q
retainer which Was of SO doubtful
legality that others refused it..i We
do not say that Mr. Trbmbnll'l
course was clearly illegsl;l but we
do say that a little of that eonscien.
tiouspess which he now parades
would rot have been misplaced,
when be, . Senator sof the. United
States, took. ten Thousand dollars
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LABOR IN LITERATURE.

Verses to which q journalist will
cheerfully allow space in his daily
local paper, may be dashed off by
many of the "small harpers with
their glees," as q pleasant way of
killing an idle hour. But Tenny-
was ten years in writing "In Mem
oriam." Thomas Gray was, in his
day, one of the finest scholars in
Great Britain, and perhaps unsur-
passed in Europe. Very brief is
the poem to which he mainly owes
his celebrity, and which will keep
his memory green and fragrant as
long as the English language lasts.
1t may be read through in five mIn-
utes, but Gray was seven years in
Celebrating it. Upon his death-bed,
Daniel Webster called for this poem.
The gallant Wolfe, when under COW
or of night, transporting his brave
men to the memorable nights of
Abraham, broke the solemn silence
which pervaded the boats by re-
peating stanzas of the "Elegy in q
Country Churchyard," and finished
with the exclamation, Gentlemen,
1 would prefer being the author of
that poem, to the glory of beat
ing the French tomorrow" Per-
haps these words were prompted
to the DEVOTED soldier, by the in.
voluntary reflection which Rufus
Choate expressed, when he said,
"The only Immortality is in book"
But Gray's is no solitary case of
scrupulousness in literary work.
At the town of Ferrara is still meas
ured the ancient scrap of paper up
on which Ariosto wrote one of his
stanzas--the description or tempest
i'm sixteen different ways before
becoming satisfied with it. That
stanza is one of the most celebrated
among Ariosto's remains. Petrarch
surpassed this. One of his verses
or stanzas he rc-wrote six-and-forty
times, and Tasso's manuscripts so
abound in alterations, that they are
illegible to other peoples eyes.
Montesquieu once remarked to q
friend concerning peculiar part of
his writings: "You will read it in
q few hours, but / assure you that
it has cost me SO much labor that 1t
has whitened my hair" Newton,
despite his great intellect, and huge
stores of learning, found within
himself patience to write his
Chronology" sixteen times over.
Gibbon wrote out his "Autobiog-
raphy" nine times, and gave twenty
years toll to his decline and Fall
of the Roman Empire" When the
late auckland was preparing his
sFBridgeWster, Treatise upon Geo
iogy and Mineralogy," he made such
numerous and frequent changes in
the composition, that his wife cop
led part of il for him nineteen times,
and penned four separate copies of
the whole work. 1t was o fayorite
theory with Goethe, and on this
point the meditative Coleridge
agreed with the many-sided Ger
man, that power to conjure up live
ly sentiments is In no measure lost
as men grow. in years whereas,
ability to utter them forcibly Is
vastly increased by practice. In
harmony with this opinion was his
course in regard to Faust, which he
took in hand at the age OF twenty,
and completed In the full maturity
of threescoreyears and ten.-Old
Curiosity Shop. aa7
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Wilson, 5; Western Empire, 3;
Manhattan, 2; Davis. 2; Elliptic
Gold Medal, l: and American But
ton Hole 9. aE.s1
This report indicates how well
the Singer Sewing Machine main
tains its early and well earned pop
ularIty. 1t may be regarded as one
of the pioneers in the sewing ma
chine manufacture, which is one of
the most remarkable events in the
progress of mechanical invention,
and one of tie most striking fea-
lures of modern productive indus
tay. Additional evidence, however,
is gwen of the popularity of the
Singer "New Family" sewing ma
chine, by the annual returns made
by the various companies, and
sworn to by them in obtaining Ii
senses in 1871, from the owners Of
the sewing machine patents. Those
returns show that the Singer Man
ufacturing Company sold, during
me year, 1S1, 26O machines; the
Wheeler s. Wilson CO., LIS, $50 /;
Grover & Baker S. M. Co., 50,83S
Weed S. NJ. Co., SO, 655; Howe s.
NJ. Co., January Let 10 July 1sD
81, o10; Wilcox & Gibbs, 30,l27;
" ilson S. NJ. Co., 21,153; American
B. H. D. s. S. NJ. Co., 2O,121; Orig
inaI Howe S. NJ. Co., 20,O51 Flor
ence S. NJ. Co., 15,947; Gold Medal
S. NJ. Co., 1852; Davis S. NJ. Co.,
II,56S; Domestic s. NJ. Co., 10, 1877
Finkle, Lyon s. Co. 1853; Etna S.
NJ. Co., APO; Blees S. NJ. Co., A.
557; Elliptic S. NJ. Co., 1866 EN-
pire S. M. Co., 1856; Parham s. NJ.
Co., 2,056; Bartram s. Fanton Man
Co., 1,O04; Bartlett S. NJ.
Co., GA j. G. Folsom, $50; Mckay
5. M. Association, 2lS; c. F.
Thompson, 147; and the Union
Button Hole Machine, 124; thus
the sales of the Singer ma
shines exceed all those of others,
j2,O00.-New York Sunday News.
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SEWING MACHINE SALES FOR 1871.

There is circumstance connected
with the late disastrous fire in Chi
cage, which deserves special men
ton, as expressive of the compara-
tive estimation in which the various
sewing mochines now in use in this
country are held by the Western
people. 1t is stated in the report of
the Special Relief Committee of that
city, as published in the Chicago
Tribune Of Msrch 9th, OF The pres
ent year, that the whole number of
sewing machines for which orders
have been issued to the date of the
report is 1874, ON which the COM
mittee have paid the sum of ST, 49,
SO. OF these the singer Manufac-
turing Company supplied 2,497 +;
Wheeler s. Wilson, 235; Howe, I27
Grover s. Baker, "A; Wilcox &
Gibbs, 30; Flofeace, -; Finkle5&
Lyon, 20; Bees, II; Etna, IL ;
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IVY.
ABOUT SOME OF OUR SCHOOLS.
PHRAHK.

Weather fine.
Farmers busy finishing up their
spring work.
The little ones still buster going
to school.
District No. 4, or the Duck
creek District, is taught by Mrs.
Laurie E. Livermore. No. 4 is one
of those progressive districts. For
several years it has furnished a
library of school books for the Use
of the school. They find it pays.
District No. 81, one year old,
situated at the junction of Elm and
142 creeks, is taught by Miss Jennie
Hicks, q Normal student, a new be-
ginner as teacher, but bids fair to
become No. 1 teacher.
District No. is taught by Pro-
fessor D. NJ. Bales.
The Board of Education has
introduced botany in their school
this term. The botany class is
closely watching mother nature.
AS soon as spear of grass peeps
his head above the mold they go for
it. Go into the school room you
will see the desks of the botany
class strewn with branches of trees,
grapes, &C., all interested in the
study of the vegetable kingdom.
District No. z, the Bunker Hill
district, distinguished for its nu-
merous battles, is taught by Miss
Britton, of Hartford. They have a
progressive Board of Education,
and have come to the conclusion
that there is school books more
progressive for district schools
than Wilson's, but as yet have not
decided what is best 10 adopt.
April 20, 1872. w.
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LIVE AND LET LIVE.
A Farm Ballad.
BY JOHN II. YATES.


Wei, Farmer Smith has lost his wheat,
his sheds and mammoth barn;
| His little boy, with one small match, burnt
up the whole concern;
l tell you wife, he'll feel 1t sore; man on
money bent
Can't stand up under such load, when
not insurned ! cent
don't know as pity him; IealI it great
To hoard the harycsts OF three years IN
spacious barn and bin; -...
I can't feel pity for man who double
locks his door, -
And stops his ears to all the cries that
come up from the poor.
1 like to see economy; like to see men
save,
And lay up something for their kin when
they are in the grave; t-- -.
But you and know very well, from what
we both have seen, ---.
There is line which, when tits erosst, I
man gets TO be mean
When wheat was sixteen shillings-a
price which paid US we'll rs
Smith said, "I'll wait for twenty, vow,
before I'll selL'
Then, when 1t reached that figure, he said
to me, one noon,
Ct guess I'll hold it longer; twill be three
g. dollars soon. r..- #.F..r-
He held it, and he ran in debt for things
TO wear and eat; .tE-.s
When merchants dunned him he would
say, 'wait till sell my wheat"
Soon that old tune got fiddled out, and
men began to sue,
And he began to borrow to pay accounts
long due. .'t
When Smith goes off to buy a thing he
spins around the town,
And tries with all his might and main the
price to banter down;
When he has anything to sell tits priceless
in his eyes, ...
And he must have the highest mark--the
lowest when he buys. SD,
'sLive and let live' are golden words; this
other motto, too,
''Do unto others as you'd wish that they
would do to you;"
If Smith had done as they command, he
would not have to-day,
The ashes of three harvests to load and
draw away,
Wife if you take berry and dry it in the
Twill shriYel up till it takes two to make |
the size of one;
So may man, in grasping gain, 80 shrivel |
up his soul
That twill near expand again while life's |
years DER him roll.
Sod bless the farmers of our land! they |
are not all like him,
Who walks around that smoulderiDg pile, |
now, in the twilight dim; -
Living on Gods broad acres, their souls |
expand and grow;
Their ears are ever open to tales of want |
and woe.
led bless the men, where'er they are, in
country or in town,
Who do not think it lIfe's great work to
crowd their neighbOrs down;
This world would be the better; this life
would pleasure give,
( every man who tolls to live would let
his neighbor live.
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NO CAUSE FOR ALAKx..

If one were 70 Judge from the
diatribes and jereniads lof the OPP
position press instead. of from facts
themselves, he would be apt to con-
cIude that the county reeled upon
the very brink of commercial and
financial ruin, with bankruptcy and
starvation staring it in the face.
Yet, IL is safe 10 say that the genef.
al prosperity was never at q higher
point than at the present Trade fs
active, prices Of all the leading sta
pies rule firmly. our securities are
constantly Increasing in valae, mon.
ey Is comparatively easy, gold Is
at about the lowest point which -it
has touched since 1862 manafsc-
lures eFe all brisk agricultural
producers are All iouFishlHg; real
estate il everywhere appreciating /;
the crops are doing well; We have
progress and plenty ct home and
peace and credit abroad. In all the
civil elements of clviIized growth
and advancement, we ere exhi biting
unprecedented growth and activity.
Foreign capital continues TO seek In
yestmeut among Ms new Industrial,
fiscal and commercial enterprises
are every day being esnbeFkea on.
and the deyeispmsat OF our varied
magnificent resources, is being pros
ecuted on scale and at 9 rate far
beyond any previous experience.
Over three kaadred millions ef Tie
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FROM OTTAWA.

The spring time warns up slowly.
april showers" are coming down
freely.
The city people are planting trees
and making garden.
Our fire engine has put in an ap-
pearance at last. 1t is pretty little
costly thing. 1t was snorting and
squirting water over town yester-
day Q7th) 10 the delight of all the
boys. Everybody turned ont to
see the performance.
Ottawa is improving. The brick
and stone block on the corner of
Main and Second streets is going
up rapidly. The new mill, large
three story frame, is enclosed, and
the machinery is being adjusted.
The old mill is being enlarged. The
furniture factory is up and will soon
have its machinery going. Jordan
& Mechem, stove dealers, are build
ing business house on Main street.
Milestone is charging his already
extensive stone block on the same
street, and a number of frame
buildings are going up in different
parts of the city.
The religious meetings are pro-
crossing with undated interest.
The congregations are large, and
numbers of souls have protested
conversion. A larger number rails
ed for prayers last night than atany
previous meeting.
While 1 am writing allow me to
speak of the late Liberal movement
among our disappointed politicians.
am at loss to know just what
they want. 1 had supposed that
they wanted change in the offices /;
but in their late convention they
took most decided stand against
Office holders, especially post mas
tiers. If they are opposed to hold
ing any kind of Office other parties
can wish them success. But then,
want to say that somebody must
hold Office. don't see how we can
get along without postmasters,
even. 1 find them quite convenient.
L do wonder in my heart if we are
to have a great Liberal political
party which shall ignore office seek
ers and holders? Would it not be
an anomaly? 1t occurred to me as
1 read the names of some who took
part in the convention SO free from
naughty postmasters, etc., that a
great reformation had taken place
in some OF them, if they are not
Office seekers. But, in all serious
ness, what do the Liberals want {
Do they seek to divide the Repub-
lican party, and thus put the De-
mocracy in power again? or are
they disappointed in their aspira.
| lions, and seek a new administers.
ton in the hope of receiving some
Of the spoils of Office holders! ]
want to know, before 1 vote, what
they are after. C. r. r.
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A lonely pioneer writes as fol-
lows from La Gonna, Wyoming ''I
sincerely wish that many hundreds
of old maids and widows who can
not get husbands At home would
come out here where they could
speedily get q choice of good, hon
est, Woodworking men, who conld
make them comfortable and indie
pendent. There are, l really think,
five men here for one woman. In
fact, very many of them have been
compelled to live with native Indian
women, who to my eyes, are per-
feet rights, and worse in their coz
duct than appearance, although that
is bad enough"
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THE LIBERAL REPUBLICAN CONvEN-
TI0N.

The objects which have Influenced
the efforts for the organization of
the ESQ called Liberal Republican
party have not been fully apparent
to such persons as are inclined to
take some care to inquire into the
causes of things that transpire, be-
yond the effort to crafty personal
aspirations. At the recent conven-
tion at Topeka, the persistent utter
ance was, against a corrupt ad-
ministration, and in favor of re-
FORM" The special acts which be-
got the accusation of corruption, or
the measure for reform proposed,
were not very clearly stated.
Notwithstanding these accusa-
tons of corruption, even if they
were more than true, it is not easy
to perceiye the necessity for the
attachment of any true Republican
to this movement in order that he
may exercise his talent for reform,
or for the faithful effort for the ac-
complishment of his purpose in this
direction.
The necessity for the organization
of new party, in order to accom-
plish The ends which the leaders
vaguely claim to seek, is no more
apparent now than at all times, and
under all circumstances. If the
party Gas is claimed) has become
corrupt, it is not easy to perceive
the necessity for the creation of a
new party in order to remedy the
evil. If household becomes cor
rupt, and there is virtue left in it, it
seems reasonable that the effort be
made to secure reform before there
be open secession from it.
If any true Republicans are not
satisfied with the present admins
tration they have the same oppor-
tunity to select some other head TO
represent them at the White House
as they ever had. And this can just
as well be done as members of the
party to which they are now attach
cd; as when boilers from it.
The convention at Topeka which
was called for the purpose of getting
up wing of the new party in Kan
sas, seemed to reveal the fact that
the prospective advantage to per-
sons was the most prominent point
in the enterprise.
When the past history and the
present status of the great leaders
are scanned, it will not be difficult
to get view of their real motives.
These leaders were, almost to O
man, from class of men who had
held various offices, and are willing
to hold them again, or from those
who have been willing candidates
but whose ambition has not been
gratified III that direction.
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The WHISKY FRAUDS OF FIVE
YEARS AGO.

The prosecution of some of tn,
thieves who thrived on systemsti,
rob5eriea of the government undel
Andrew Johnson's administration
has induced AlYah Blaisdell, of New
York. to come forward with a his.
tory of his experience in that line
of business some five years ago
DIR. Blaisdell was a physician in
good practice, and a man of wealth.
though unacquainted with distiI-
ling. He was induced in 1867 to
build distillery ON the East River.
ana he expended S1OO,OOOO for this
purpose. He then discovered that
whisky, on which the tax was 50 Der
gallon, was selling for Sl.JO. The
doctor continues his story thus:
81 told Eckel would not run the
place until 1 thoroughly scented the
whole subject. 1 immediately went
to Washington and saw Secretary
McCulloch. told him / had lust
completed distillery, and was. as
tonished to learn that the market
rates of whisky were considerably
less than the tax, and wished to
know how he could account for the
fact. He said he understood thu
condition of affairs, but could not
remedy it without the co-ann-a.io on
Of distiIlers. He added, 4 4sazstfss
fine large place he wished me q. bes
gin running, and set the example by
seeing how much tax could be paid,
for the Government must have
money, and relied largely on whis-
ky to obtain it. said then, "You
advise me to 60 back to New York
and go to stealing" mo, don't
advise you to steal, but want you
to run it and pay all the tax you
can, and thus assist us in suppress
ing the illicit distillation, and sale
of whisky at q price less than tax"
1 said: Il don't see how it can be
DONE" He replied: ''Go and run
it and see how much you can pay.
You can make an arrangement with |
your collector of the Ninth District, |
and ask him what must be done to |
start the place." He told me would |
have to pay him S15,0 600 an d made |
an arrangement with the assessor /
for the same amount. We also had |
to pay an outside deputy collector
$500 week. I commenced run
ming. Before we had made a drop
of whisky an officer of the Metro.
politan board drove up and inform
ed me that must pay them $1,000
q week. From that time forward
while we were running, the place
was infested by q horde of revenue
to the number of seven
ty, with rowing commissions, whose
demands varied from $500 to S25 q
week. There was another gang
called transit officers. The de-
nands of these were satisfied with
$3.50 week. The whole amount
paid thus illegally to government
officials was $4,000 week. was
hen informed, that unless / paid
So, 800 a week to Joshua F. Bailey, | [
collector of the 4th district, the place
would be seized. / refused. The
'esult was the place was seized two
lays later by j. +. Bailey"
This is the way they did things
lnder Andrew Johnson's adminis- I
ration. Blaisdcli was indicted for {
raud, lost his distillery, and, though {
lie attempted to expose the frauds
If Johnson's officials, the whisky s
ing was too strong for him, aud he &
vas sent to the penitentisry. though
pardoned.-[St. Paul
1ress G
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EMPORIA NEWS.
FRIDAY. APRIL &c, 1872.
1--WE CASES DISPOSED OF.


The most startling assertions have
been made as to corruption of Re-
publican officials, by the Democrats,
and their assistants, the so-calIed
Liberals. Nothing has yet been
proven. On the contrary, the in
vestigations are proving most salts
factory 10 Republicans. Two of
the worst cases-those on which
the gravest charges were made
were those of the Secretary of the
Navy, Robson, and the French
arms business. a full investiga-
ton was courted by Mr. Robson.
Dana, of the New York Sun, pre-
ferred the charges, and when he
was examined was compelled to
acknowledge that he knew nothing
of the charges he had made. The
New York Tribune (LiberaD ad-
mits that the case which Dana tried
to make out against Secretary
Robson, has broken down. Thus
is the cowardly assassin of the
character of good man nonplus-
sed. Every fair-Ininded man must
see that the charges against Grants
cabinet officer in this instance, was
made by Dana purely from disap-
pointment, because he failed to get
the Office he wanted from the Presi-
dent. That is the game the miser-
able Dana is playing.
The New York Nation, as indie
pendent as it is able, has devoted
much space to the investigation of
the sale of arms, and now says
"Thc discrepancy between the re-
ports of the War and Treasury
Departments, and the wide differ
ence between the sum paid by
France for guns and those received
by the Government at Washington,
have been explained to the satisfac-
ton of everybody, and have long
passed out of the discussion.
The Nation is mistaken in saying
it has passed out of the discussion.
Falsehoods set afloat, as this was,
are long lived. They are discussed
in remote places publicly, and in
private long after they have been
disproved where they originated.
A lie started for political effect feeds
on partisan prejudice; has sort OF
Immortality; blooming perennialIy
in the deep shade, where the light |
of truth does not penetrate to kill it.
In the same article, the Nation |
says, in regard to the arms being
sold to French agents, knowing
them to be such: 'In a word, we |
think the War Department has
been, perhaps, a little careless, while |
we acquit it at this point of any
of United States law" 1t |
says also: 'tNO charges of bribery
or speculation have as yet been fix
ed upon any one;" and the New
York Tribune says: mo evidence
has been adduced that any officer of
the Government received money to |
influence these sales.
The question arises, now that the
graVest charges have been made
and the instigators of investigate 4
have utterly failed to convict the
as they hoped and ex-
pected to, whether it would not be
the wisest policy for them to aban-
don opposition to the party and
unite in supporting the men and
measures that the convention APP
proves. If they are fair men, we
cannot sec how they can do other
wise.