The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-07-05

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| sissippi rebel, but who is now liv
ing in Baltimore, has declares
for Mr.. Greeley. A few month
ago Mr.. Greeley was calling for MI
Yerger's punishment as murderer
Some one whom the Washington
Chronicle describes as zone of tn
most distinguished educators of tn
country, the President of one of tn
first institutions in the State 0
New York," has written a letter il
which he lays down the somewha
surprising proposition that seen
Grants administration has don
more for education and general in
tellectual and aesthetic culture thar
any administration ever did before
The political dogs il the mango
growl out "no credit is due Pres
ident Grant for the reduction of thu
nationa; debt and the national take
the credit belongs to Congress
which makes the laws, and the PEG
Pie. who p"- the taxes" Buff tn,
national debt were not reduced
would these GROWERS blame Con
gress and the people, or the Presi
dent and his administration
We have before us sixteen differ
ent lives of Horace Greeley. They
are not satisfactory. At the risk Of
our lives we have read them all
In no one appears the beautiful faci
that Horace began life as writing
master, and his first graduate was
the venerable Spinner, who toI
eighteen quarters dislocated his
right shoulder when he attempted
to white his own name. 1t makes
one cross-eyed to read it now
Washington Capital.
Brick Pomeroy says: at will do
very well for Greeley, after having
kindled a fire which consumed the
Southern edifice, to declare his will
lingness to adopt an orphan snatch
ed from the ruins; especially when
the time is not far distant when
that orphan will inherit large es-
tate"
Noticing u prediction in the New
York Tribune that Greeley would
carry Ohio, the Toledo Blade re-
marks: 1--WE consulted the Gree
ley party in Toledo concerning this,
and it is his opinion that it can be
done if the election can be post
poned long enough. He has anoth-
er man half converted"
The Washington correspondent
of the World says: "Letters have
been received here within a few
days from the leading Germans OF
Chicago, st. Louis and Cincinnati,
stating that the German vote oil
those three localities has become at
last solid against the Greeley and
Brown ticket.
The Lilliputan Democratic party
in Vermont is in danger of being
torn all to flinders by the Greeley
business. Some of its prominent
members declare that as between
Grant and Greeley they will sup,
port Gen. Grant for reelection, and
will not vote for Grant even If nom'
mated at Baltimore.
The Hartford (Ct.) Courant refer
ring to the efforts making in several
quarters to belittle the military
achievements of General Grant, says
eve shall consider ourselves fortu.
nate if we get through the cam
paign without Witnessing the pro-
duction of atfidavits that Grant was
never actually in command of oul
troops at all"
The Chicago Tribune lately quot.
ed Lieut.. Gov. Bates of Michigan
as declaring that, if he were Saint
Peter, the keys would get rusty be.
fore any of the members of the Gin
cinnati Convention would get in
He now writes to the editor: 81
never, at any time or place, applied
such a remark to the Cincinnati
Convention, or any member of it
Third, 1 don't care whether th'
members of that convention ulti
mately get into heaven or go Il
hell"
The New York Times contains
the following: ga gentleman o
this city, whose name is withheld
for the present, is ready to bet from
1000 to 100000 that General U
S. Grant will be reelected Presi
dent of the United States. TIL
proposer of this bold challenge is
responsible individual, who says
the wager can be accepted by who
ever wishes to do So"
The Bureau County Republican
tells us what Governor Palmer real
ly did say in his Princeton speech
1t may be condensed about as fol
lows: 'Grant is an honest man
His administration has given grea
satisfaction. The charges of gift
taking and nepotism are absurd
He did great service to his countr,
during the war. He has not abuses
the appointing power. He proves
himself strong man in removing
Charles Sumner from the Foreigl
Relations Committee. The Demo
cratic party is as dead as last year
bird nest. There is not a decen
Democrat in the state who will de
ny this. The leaders of that part
will tell their rank and file whs
must be done, and their orders wi
be obeyed. Greeley balled JEFF
Davis. Hurrah for Horace Gree
ley"
a list of the German papers, a
, far as their politics are ascertalnct
, gives Grant and Wilson, thirty
eight; Greeley and Brown, sever
STATISTICS OF THE PINE IRE
STATE.-The Boston TranscriI
: publishes the following statistic:
t The whole area of Maine is abol
10000 miles, of which the gre:
primeval northern forest contain
about 10000 square miles. It
largely composed of tall pine
: There are about 1880 lakes in Il
State, covering nearly B. 900 squal
: miles. Nearly all these lakes
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