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EMPORIA NEWS. 8TOTLKR WILLIAMS, Editor a Faorairroaa. Friday, February lO. 1871. Tb Xm has a tvmu JliU circulation of 1,000 eopfaes, sad steadily Increasing-.

Advertiser will rlMM ot the fact. EDITORIAL AXD SEWS ITEMS. Boston telegrams report news of intense cold at all point in the past and north. The House Committee of Way a and Mean has reported a bill to repeal the Income tax. Saturday night the cadet barracks at West Point were partly burned down.

Loss $50,000. At Galetburg, 111., Sunday night, the Michigan Central railr'd station build-Inga were burned. There is no prospect of the House and Senate agreeing on the bill to abolish the income tax. Monday morning four dwelling houses on (J rand street, Brooklyn, were burned down. Loss 915,000.

Four vessels are being loaded at New York with provisions for France. Each takes 10,000 barrels of flour and pork. Bolivia, South America, is enjoying civil war. Brazil, Ecquador and Peru have formed an alliance against Columbia. In Kat Saginaw, Michigan, Sunday morning, the Hovey block was destroyed by fire.

Toss insured It Is again asserted that Grant will reconstruct his Cabinet ou the 4th of March. The contradiction is coming along. The Adelphi Theatre, Boston, was destroyed by fire Sunday a.m. The company lost all their wardrobes. $50,000.

The civil war in San Domingo is as lively as ever. The commission bad best inspect that lovely Island with telescopes. The full telegraphic report is published in each day's Nwn, either as a condensed telegram" or under the display head. The House at Washington, declines to allow tho use of Its Hall by Mrs. Wood- hull, or "any other man," for any kind of lectures.

Secretary Boutwcll advises Congress not to repeal tho income tax now. The amount it brings in cannot be spared from the revenue. The oppressed red men killed a family of eight persons near IJicatur, Texas, Jan. 31st. More nugar and powder should be given them.

Another lie that President Grant has sent a messenger to San Domingo to recall the commission. But it was a good canard while it lasted. Rye, in N. II, experienced a slight earthquake at six o'clock' Sunday morning. Just to wake people up so they could get to church in good time.

A large hoiel at Iuka Springs, Tennes see, waa destroyed by fire, Monday, with Its contents and adjacent buildings. Loss, $60,000 insurance $100,000. It is again reported that the British Minister at Washington is empowered to settle the Alabama question, and thus save Schenck from going to Eng land. Milton Turner, a colored gentleman from Missouri, wants to go as U.S. Minister to Liberia, and is recommended by promineut Missouri Congressmen.

Secretary Fish asks for $50,000 additional funds to meet the extra legation expenses at Paris, London, Belgium and Madrid, in consequence of the war In France. Washington is to hold a grand carnival February 21, and 22. to celebrate Washington's birthday anniversary and the 7th and 71st New York regiments are going to participate. In New York, Saturday, a messenger of the Chatham National bank, had his pocket picked of notes and drafts amounting to $23,000. Payment has been stopped, and the parties concerned will not suffer.

So far tho Germans lu the United States have contributed to aid the sufferers in the fatherland on account of the war. The executive committee in New York now issue a call for increased efforts in this line. The Kensington Bank, Philadelphia, robbery would not have occurred but for the watchman, one Murphy, disobeying his orders, which were not to admit any one into the bank after it had dosed. He has beeu suspended but not by the neck. In Cobourg, Canada, Friday night, a lira destroyed Sutherland Co's.

store on King the telegraph and express offices, McCullum Co's. hardware store, and tho branch bank of Toronto. The contents of tho telegraph and ex press offices, and of the bank. wm saved. A Memphis robol.

Col. Duncan Mc Cray, has been appointed clerk of the United States court there. Before the war, he was a member of Congreits from North Carolina, and during tho war a member of the rebel Congress and a colonel In the rebel army. Pretty well reconstructed. Another frightful railroad murder, by which many passengers were killed and burned, is reported iu our tele graphic columns to-day.

There is no remedy for such accidents but there is a preventive, and that is to place a legal value of not less than $100,000 upon each passenger's life destroyed. The British Minister at Washington assures Secretary Fish that the British Government has peremptorily ordered the Dominion authorities to restore tho license fishing system, so as to give American fishermen all the rights and privileges to inshore fishing on the British coast of North America. The contradiction of this report has not yet arrived. The New York chamber of commerce has notified Minister Washburne at Paris, that it will place $100,000 to his credit, to be used in purchasing food for the population. The chamber appeals to the American public to at once subscribe money, and provisions, which may be sent to the treasurer No.

27 Pine street, N. Y. It is a matter of con-fldence, of course. Cramer, Grant's brother-in-law. was confirmed as Minister to Denmark at the Senate session Saturday.

The debate is said to have been very bitter personally. The opposition was led by Sumner, Schurz and Patterson. Chandler made a very severe speech against them. Some of those opposed to the brother-in-law loft the chamber during tho debate. The fisheries-Alabama-Scbenck question is still muddled.

But the latest statement is that the British government offers the coast fishing and free navigation of the St Lawrence to the United States, in order to produce a state of feeling which will readily pave the way for an amicable adjustment of the Alabama question upon Schenck's arrival in England. A fearful amount astute diplomacy is being wasted about this matter which after all is slrapl, one of dollars and cents. The Philadelphia reporters are la for it. One of them having published the detail of a bar-room fight, John Fabin, a notorious rough, threatened to kill the knight of the quill. Wherefor the reporter had Fabin arrested, and held in $15,000 bail not to do so.

Fabin is in jail, and Saturday all the reporters were notified by a gang of roughs that iney wouia oe snot if any more un pleasant things are published. A club of practical jokers lmfests Cheatem county, Tennessee. The other night they jerked Lewis Harrap, color ed, out of his cabin, and whipped him severely. They then went to Joel Davis' house near Kingston Springs, and took out a Mr. Finely, an ex-union soldier, shot at and missed him three times, and then whipped him badly.

They finish ed by whipping Davis and his son Oscar, and then left, the whipped men watching them depart with tears in their eyes, Such things won't induce emigration to Cheatem county. The Parker Record gives the particu lars of a horrible murder near that town, which is supposed to be the re sult of a quarrel between John Twiss, the murdered man, and a family named Miller, concerning a claim which has been occupied by both parties. The murder was committed while the family with whom Mr. Twiss lived were at church, on Sunday a week ago. The coroner's jury found a gunshot wound through the right breast and three cuts and bruises on tho head, and that Jacob Miller, Daniel Miller, Henry Miller, William Miller, and John Sturman and James were concerned iu the perpe tration of tho deed.

All of the parties named by the jury were arrested except E. James, who could not be found. CAUSEY'S MAG AM MIT Y. It is well understood, all over the State, that the friends of Ex-Governor Thomas Carney were anxious that he should be a candidate for U. S.

Senator at the late election. For several days it was expected bo would be Few, If any of the aspirants could have rallied more positive strength. His friend are in every district in tho State. It was with great regret, a few davs after the Senatorial fight commenced, that they learned of the Governor's determina tion not to be a candidate. Governor Carney told his friends that Leaven worth had been unfortunate because of the dissensions among her leading men that she laid all her ills to the fact that she had been unrepresented in Con gress that notwithstanding his pros pect of election if he were a candidate, and notwithstanding the solitcation of his many "friends, lie eould not and would not take any course that would divide Leavenworth.

He therefore withdrew and cast the full strength of his influence for the successful Caldwell. On this subject tho White Cloud Chief, one of the oldest and most influ cntial papers in tho State, has the fol lowing, which we heartily endorse. It tells the simple truth conccrniuir Gov ernor Carney's relation to the Senato rial contest: This is the man to whom, more than all others, Leavenworth owes tho hon or of having secured a United States Senator. Gov. Carney went to Topcka, at the earnest solicitation of friends throughout the entire State, with a view to entering the race tor the ssenaiorsnip There is no man In Kansas that has as many warm friends as Gov.

Carney all over the State, who are so dovo-tcdly attached to him. He had more positive and reliable votes in the Legis lature than any other candidate and decided maioritv of the Leavenworth delegation were for him. But Mr. Caldwell was also on the track, and claimed that he had given such pledges to his friends, that he could not honestly with draw while one of them was willing to stand by him. Gov.

Carney then, much to the retrret of his friends, withdrew from tho contest, in order to leave but one Leavenworth man to concentrate unon and from that time on, he work ed with all his might for the election of Caldwell, urging all his mends to give him their earnest support. He undoubtedly secured the success of Caldwell. He was repeatedly urged, during-the session, to permit his name to be again used and on the very eve of the election, influential men, who were opposed to Caldwell, requested permission to use Carney's name, assuring him that a large vote could bo concentrated upon him and there is but little doubt that, even at that late date, he could have made the race successful ly. But he steadily refused, saying that his word of honor stood pledged, and he would keep it inviolate, bo the consequences to himself what they might Such is the history of his connection with the Senatorial fight, and it cer tainly shows him forth in the roost hon able light. KTATE NORMAL SCHOOL.

We are a little late in publishing an account of the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Normal School, which was held Jan. 24th. We find the following report of the proceedings in last week's Commonwealth; "A called meeting of the directors of the state normal school, was held at tho office of the late superintendent of public instruction, on yesterday afternoon, commencing at half past three clock, p.m. lhe meeting was called to ordor by Gov. James M.

Harvey, ex ojfirio president of the board. Superintendent McC'arty was appointed secretary, pro-tern. There were present, Gov. James AT Harvey, state treasurer J. K.

Hayes, state superintendent 11. D. McLarty, ex-lientenant Governor Eskridge. K. M.

Overstreet, S. S. Prouty, and L. B. Kellogg, principal of the state normal school.

At the request of the board, Mr. Kellogg submitted the estimates of appropriations which he deemed necessary for the coming year. He also submitted some remarks, showing the condition of the school and the necessity of some relief in the way of legislation. He also presented the following statement Emporia, Jan. 23, Jo tha honorable board of director of the Atnta Xormat School: GFXTLKMUf: We, the undersigned teacher in the State Normal School beg leave to submit the following statement of opinion and petition.

In our judgment, the employment of two assistant teacher instead of one, as voted by you at the recent meeting of the board. Is necessary to insure the bent results in their several cl asset now reciting in the school. We beliere that the faculty should be increased by the addition of this second assistant toacher. We threfore respectfully petition your honorable body to reconsider your late action in this regard. L.

B. Kkllouo, Principal. J. H. ttORHAM, Preceptress.

R. B. DH-WORTH, Prof. Nat. Science.

Ex-Gov. Eskridge favored the application of the teachers of the Normal School, and also an increase of their salaries. Mr. Oversteeet opposed any increase in the number of teachers or their salaries. Mr.

Kellogg spoke in explanation of the former action of the board. Superintendent McCarty urged that we pay the principal of the Normal School a respectable salary and then demand that the money shall be fully earned. Mr. Eskridge moved that the esti mates submitted by him he passed upon by items, and the motion was carried The following estimates were then adopted Salary of Principal iMO.no Professor of Natural Science l.HOO.OO Salarv of Preceptress 1,000.00 Two Assistant Teachers, each l.ouo.OO Principal of Model School 1,200.00 Salary of Janitor 300.00 uac a pay lor Tecepires. Repair Fuel and Lights 600.00 Catalogue 175.00 Insurance 125.00 Text Book and Apparatus 350.00 Improvement of Grounds 350.00 Mr.

Overstreet moved that an itemiz ed account of expenses for fencing be filed with the Secretary of the board. which motion was carried. On motion of Mr. Prouty, the legisla ture was respectfully asked to make the appropriations as estimated by the board. It was ordered that the pro ceedings of this meeting be published in the Daily Commonwealth.

The board adjourned. THE SENATORIAL BANQUET. The Blsrgest Feast Ever West. Vlrea in the Speeches of Governor Carney and Sena- tor Caldwell. The Banquet given on Friday even ing by the citizens of Leavenworth in honor of the election of Hon.

Alexander Caldwell to the United States Sen ate, was the largest and most successful affair of the kind ever given in the West. We have not room for particulars, but give below the speech of welcome delivered by Ex-Governor Carney, and the speech of the evening delivered by by our new Senator. It was a regular ovation, and demonstrates that the new Senator is certainly popular at his own home. The people were taken to Leavenworth by seven magnificent cars of the Kansas Pacific road, which were furnished free to the members of the Legis lature. At Leavenworth carriages and hacks were in waiting, and the crowd were driven to the Fort and through the principal streets amid cheers and music.

At the Fort General Sturgis welcomed the banqueters by the booming of cannon. The banquet was the finest thing of the kind we ever saw. The bill of fare embraced everything that could be had west of Chicago. All who attended speak in praise of every part of the ex ercisea. We give below the speeches of Governor Carney and Senator Cald well.

SPEKCU OF GOVEKNOK CABNEY. Gentlemen of the Legislature, Ladies and Gentlemen: The pleasant duly has been imposed upon me by the citizens of Leavenworth of welcoming you to the hospitalities of this city, and to this festive hall. In the name then, and in behalf of the citizens of Leavenworth, with out regard to party, 1 give you a cor dial welcome. You have been invited here to-night that we may express to you personally our joy, our gratitude and our heart felt acknowledgement for the high honor you have conferred upon one of our iellow citizens, we icei that we should make to you, and through you to the the people of this State, our pub lic acknowledgements for the distm guished favor conferred. We feel also that we aro called upon to assure you that we shall not selhsbly use your gen erous gift.

We realize that the Sena tor elect belongs to Kansas, and that he owes equal duties to all the people of tho State, without regard to locality, and we mean to so counsel and assis him in every way we can while he holds this exalted position ot reprcscnun Kansas iu the Seuate of tho United States. We desire to show the peopl of Kansas that Leavenworth is not local, is not selfish, and will not use your geuorous confidence to the dot riment of any portion of this young growing, vigorous commonwealth 1 feel that I can safely say this to you fully assured that you will beuevo that mean what 1 sav. I came to Kansas in 1857, aud found Leavenworth theu, as now, dependin pon the State for its existence, its sup port, and its importance as the inctrop olis of Kansas, la her position timer ent now Is not her future wholly de pendent upon the State If so, how can she neglect to look to, and help in ev ery way she can to promote the interests of the power which can add to or take from her importance? Is not Leav enworth interested, deeply interested in all parts of Kansas 't Ask her raer chants, her bankers, her manufacturer and her people. As a citizen of Leavenworth, 1 assure you, 1 know her people desire the pros perity of Kansas above and beyond the individual interest or any man. now, then, could as one of her citizens, knowing this, and sharing in this feel ing as deeply and as earnestly as any.

obtrude my individual interest in the way of her wishes, her hopes, and her expectations of uniting her future closely and intimately with that ot the statef To those of you who differ, and have differed with me, 1 can only say that wish you had accompanied the Senator elect to this city on his return lrom Topcka, and witnessed for yourselves tho general joyous, whole-souled wel come he received on his arrival here as he enjoyed the warm congratula tions I experienced for the support gave hint. You would then have re alized that the hopes and aims of twen ty-five thousaud people were more to be regarded than your individual wish' es or my personal ambition. Leavenworth proposes to have but one "ring" and one "pet" to enjoy the victory we celebrate, and that "ring" and that "pet" is Kansas, politically, morally, socially and materially. SPEECH Or HON. ALKX.

CALDWELL. Mr. President, Gentlemen of the Legis lature and Citizens of Leavenworth: 1 would that I had the eloquence of a Webster, or a day, that might in fitting terms reply to your complimen tarv toast, and give utterance to the feel ings of gratitude that swell up in my heart. JSly lite having been devoted to business, neither time nor opportunity lias been afforded me to cultivate the art of speech making, but I realized early in the battle of life that difiicul ties must be surmounted, that where there was a will there was a way. And believing, gentlemen, in that principle.

1 am determined to stand up here to night, and at least tell you how much thank you for the support you have triven me in the Senatorial contest. had many able and worthy competitors, among whom were Hon. Sidney Clarke Gov. Crawford, Hon. lhaddeus Walk cr, Hon.

E. Boss, Col. Phillips, and others. To these gentlemen 1 desire to return my acknowldedgment for the very courteous aud gentlemanly man ner in which they saw fit to conduct the campaign. Not one word of acri mony did 1 ever hear as coming from them during the entire contest.

To the members of the Legislature, I desiro to say that it is with pleasure I embrace this, the earliest opportunity, to return to them my sincere thanks for the high honor they have conferred upon uic. 1 fully appreciate the posi tion to wmch they have called me, and as fully realize the great responsibilities I have assumed. The responsibility a senator lrom a young and growing state like ours is much greater than that ot one from an older state. Kansas is yet in her infancy, and her future pros perity will depend upon the wisdom of those who may be entrusted with her public anairs. lo them must we look lor the consummation of our railroad enterprises and for the development of tne mineral and agricultural wealtL of the State.

With proper management there is no reason why the future of our young State should not be even more glorious and bright than the past: and what true Kansan can contemplate the past with other than feelings of pride? But fifteen years aro Kansas was sup posed to De a part of the great Amen can Desert. Cities, towns, villages, and cultivated farms are now located upon wnai was men a waste and a wilder ness the home of the Indian and the buffalo. The record of Kansas is par ucuiariy historic, it was here upon her beautiful prairies that slavery and freedom met. The propangandists of slavery, beaten by the ballot, appealed to the bullet and essayed to spread the blighting curse of slavery over free Kansas. Upon her virgin soil the blood or liberty was 6hed.

lrom the very Dirtn or ner rerntoriai existence, Ivan. sas was the scene of strife. But the brave men who came to our border in the name of liberty were equal to the occasion, and as a result of their efforts, free Kansas was admitted into the Union in 1SG1, scarcely ten years ago, a free State. With her admission came the National call to arms, and true to her glorious record, she was among the first of the States to raise men and means to protect that Union of which she formed part. How she performed her part in the terrible struggle for National existence, let Wilson Creek, Prairie Grove, Cane Hill, and a hundred other well fought battles attest.

All througa the war the Kansas soldier was ever found in the front and in proportion to her population she furnished more men to defend the flag of the Union, than any other State. This should redound to her honor so Ion? a Republics live. Notwithstanding our early trials and tribulations, how rapidly and extraordinarily has Kansas grown. Why, fellow citizens, nrteen years ago. the site of Leavenworth was covered with hazel brash, and the soli tude of these majestic hills was only disturbed by tha whoop of the Indian, and the occasional whistle of some steamer, whose brave captain had thus far pioneered her way up the mighty river.

Now we have a beautiful city, of more tbau 25,000 souls, macadamized streets, lighted with gas, paved walks, blocks of commodious stores, palatial residences, elegant churches, a grand cathedral, and a system of education that rivals that of New England. The prairies of Kansas aud the great plains that ten years ago were traveled by the slow and cumbrous ox team, are now spanned by the iron rail. Towns have sprung up as if by magic all along the route, and the vast domain is being rapidly transformed into finely cultivated farms. And now, fellow citizens, what of the future 1 opine that the predictions of the most sanguine of ns would fall far short of the progress our young State will make within the next decade. Six years ago we did not have within the State forty miles of railway.

Now we have about fifteen hundred miles insuc-cessful operation, and as many more projected. Within the next ten years we will have a system of roads equal to that of Illinois, and a population of at least a million and a half of souls and whilst I would give every encouragement to railroad enterprises calculated to develop the resources of the State, I would ever carefully guard and protect the just rights of the settlers. In contemplating the future of our State, we may well congratulate ourselves upon its geographical position. Situated midway between the frozen lakes of the North, and the warm waters of the South midway between the rocky-bound coast of the Atlantic and the golden sands of the Pacific, upon the great Missouri, with 3,000 miles of navigation above Leavenworth a soil unsurpassed by any in the world, and a climate as genial as that of sunny Italy. With such a country, in the very heart of the nation, who can predict what it may be within the next twenty years I will tell you.

It will be the seat of tie national Capitol I will not detain you with an argument upon the question of removal. But it is not so improbable as some may suppose. As early as 1811 the question was agitated, and our forefathers supposed they were very far west when they selected Washington as the site. Since then our progress has been westward, and the Pacific Ocean is now our boundary. And when all the vast territory west of the Missouri shall have been organized into States, it will not be unreasonable for our Western Senators and ICepresentatives to say to their Eastern brethren, "Wo will meet you half way, will meet you in the Valley of tho Missouri in Kansas." At Fort Leavenworth the Government owns some 8,000 acres of the finest land in the world has direct communication with all parts of the East, and is already sending supplies by rail to the various military posts, north, south aud west, We have upon the reservation, the finest coal west of Pennsylvania, and marble of the finest quality for public build ings.

In connection with the removal of the Capitol I indulge the hope that our beautiful Fert Leavenworth reser vation has a future, grander and more glorious than we now dream of. Fellow citizens, this is a festive occa sion. We are assembled here for the purpose of enjoyment, and, so far as am able to judge in this regard, this meeting is a success. I do not propose to trespass upon vour time by discuss ing the political questions of the day, I will defer that tor a more appropriate occasion. I desire, however, to say for the information of some of my friends in the remote parts of the State that 1 am a Kepubucan.

am proud, however, that such good and influential Democrats as Tom 1- enlon. V. S. Van Doren, Dr. Crook, W.

F. Ashby, and others voted for me. am much oblig ed to those gentlemen for their support. but will do them the justice to say that had there been a prospect lor the elect ion of one of their own faith, my ma jority would have been reduced by at least four. As many of mv friends are here from all parts of the Stato, and as some of them may not be as familiar as they should be with my political record, trust that a brief statement on that subject will not be considered out of place.

I inherited from my father the principles of the old Whig party, and when a boy had the honor to serve in the Mexican war, under the gallant old soldier, General bcott, and to fol low him in his triumphant march from era Cruz to the Halls of the Montezu mas. It was with great pleasure that my first vote was cast for him in 1852. Subsequently, the dissolution of tho Whig party took place, and in 1S56 my vote was cast for John C. Fremont. I con less I did not, at that time, have much admiration for the man as I had for the party he represented, being an organization pledged to resist the ex tension of slavery.

Again, in ibtv, had the honor to work and vote for that great and pure patriot, Abraham Lincoln. 1 am proud ot my Kepubli cauism. to tno Ke publican party, in my humble opinion, are we indebted for the preservation of our nationality. To it belongs the credit of having voted men and means to suppress the most gigantic rebellion ever organized against a government. To it do four millions ot free men to-day owe their liberty, and Republicans all over the world are indebted to that organization for the preservation of the freest and best gov ernment ever vouchsafed to man.

And now, that our glorious Union has been preserved, let us see to it that the life of this great Nation is not again im perilled either from foes without or traitors within. And let all unite in sustaining such measures as will best protect and develop the laboring and manufacturing interest of the whole country. And now, in conclusion, fellow citi- zen9 of Leavenworth, what shall I say to you for the support extended to me the recent contest 1 have no lan guage to express my gratitude. It has been the misfortune of our city, hereto fore, to be divided. Let that not be charged to her again.

Never was a city more united never did men work more earnestly than you did in the late con- test I can only promise you, in re turn, my best efforts iu your behalf. Your success the success of Jueaven- worth is my success, and the success of the whole State. I am proud of this the city of my adoption. My proper ty is here, and I have much to make by the prosperity of Leavenworth and so has the whole State or much to lose by the decline, Uo not understand me, however, to intimate that 1 shall ever lorget that am a Senator for the whole State of Kansas a Senator for the United States. It shall be my duty and pleasure to guard the interests of Atchison, Law rence, Topeka, Wyandotte, Fort Scott, Manhattan, and indeed all sections of the State, as carefully as I do those of Leavenworth.

But, gentlemen, every State must have its metropolis, and if nature de signs there shall be a great city on the banks of the Missouri, it behooves us, the men of Kansas, to see to it that that city shall not be outside of the borders of our own State. This is demanded by our pecuniary interests, as well as by our State pride Kansas has already too long given of her substance to towns beyond her own border. Let us now build up our own metropolis, and urns Denent the tax-payers or Kansas. Tls true Leavenworth has lost many opportunities in the past some of which can never be regained. It is not wise, therefore, to expect too much, but I believe there are tides in the affairs of cities, as well as in the affairs of men, "which taken at the flood, lead on to fortune." I do not believe the tides for Leavenworth are all past, and we pro pose to take advantage of those which are to come, and do whatever it is pos ible for man to do to make Leavenworth the metropolis of Kansas the Queen vuy oi tue est.

In Pittsburg, Tuesday, Smith Park er's locomotive works wero destroyed by an incendiary fire, along with 23 lo comotives aud a large amount of machinery. Also, 23 private dwellings were burned. Total loss insurance. Block No. 360 Broadway, New York, was cleaned out by a fire Tuesday morning.

The losses are Lawson Bro'a, importer of lace, Cohen 8c hi sure, clothiers, Wm. Kinsly, silk goods, $20,000. AH fully insured. Damage to building $15,000. OX THE W1XG.

Eldorado, Kansas, February 2d, The country lying between Augusta and Eldorado is hard to beat anywhere. On the right of the road the dark belts of heavy timber, following the course of the Big Walnut, give one the impression that he is no longer in a prairie country, but is looking upon some of the extensive woods of an Eastern State. The broad bottom lands over which the road passes are exceedingly rich and- almost entirely settled up. Another Important feature we noticed in the country here was the absence of those high rocky bluffs that so often mark the course of Kansas streams. The uplands are approached by gradual on which there is no waste lands.

In this neighborhood the whole country seems to be thickly settled. The road between the two places was very bad, in some places almost impassable. The town company of Augusta have taken steps to repair this road. The town of Eldorado is located on the Big Walnut, at the mouth of the West Branch. It being the county seat of one of the best counties in the State, and being situated in a rich and populous district it is rapidly building up with a permanent class of buildings.

One of the most important institutions of the place is the Walnut Valley Times, an eight column newspaper published by T. B. Murdock. Typograph-ally, the Times is pronounced the best paper in the State. Although it is young only about eleven months old it has a circulation all through Southwestern Kansas, making it, probably, the best advertising medium in this part of the State.

During the year 1870 as many as ten or eleven firms in the merchandizing business, with a proportionate share of professional men, mechanics, etc. The dry goods and grocery trade is mostly taken together as yet. The principal firms that are carrying on this branch of business aro Henry Martin, J. C. Lambdin Son, J.

C. Fraker and Betts Frazer. They each carry large stocks of goods. Knowlton Eilet are engaged in the hardware business. They also keep on hands a large stock of stoves and tinware.

Tho drug business is well represented by Drs. McClarcn Jackman. Dr. Allen White and McClaren Jack-man built a neat two story building at the north end of Main 6treet last fall, in which they have a large stock of drugs and medicines. Dr.

White also keeps a stock in this line not often found off the Hue of railroads. Myers Bolte arc proprietors of a furniture store. They inform us that the business is profitable. An extensive business in farm machinery, wagons, seeds, lumber, has recently been opened by Hazlctt Dick, a Kansas City firm. These gentlemen have erected a building 25 by 60 feet, and propose to carry on a large business.

G. Howe is deal ing in flour and feed. Mr. Miller of Emporia, is also intending to embark in this branch of business. His building is nearly ready for occupancy.

Bloom are dealing in clothing and gent's furnishing goods. Fred Brand hn is the proprietor of the Eldorado bakery. He can always be found on Ceutral Avenue, east of Main, where he keeps on hand a large stock of bread and pies-an things. The post-office here is well managed by Mrs. Long, the efficient post-mistress.

Mrs. Long has nearly completed a new two storv building on north Main street that will be an ornament to this part of the town. The first story of the building will be occupied by the post-office, and Mrs. Long intends keeping a large 6tock of books and stationery. The Empori Dai ly News will always be found on her table.

One side of this building will be occupied by David Bockway as a Jewelry store, ne is a first class workman and an affable gentleman. We recommend him to the people. Immediately opposite the post office is the office of Bronsou Saddler, real estate and insurance agents. D. M.

Bronson is one of the first settlers of Butler county, and is widely known over the State as a thorough-going business man, is well acquainted with the land all over Butler county. His recently associated partner, Mr. Saddler, is well known in this county as a young man of good business capacity. This firm have a large amount of land in Butler county for sale. They also deal largely in town lots, pay taxes for non-residents, etc.

We can freely recommend them to all who are wishing to buy or sell lands in Southwestern Kansas. The hotels of Eldorado have always been on the opposite extremes of good and bad. Last summer the place was rated as having the poorest hotel in this part of Kansas. Messrs. Falls Kcarns purchased the house, and immediately changed it from the poorest to the best.

They plastered the house, refinished and refitted it. They always are prepared with the best of food for the starving travelers that usually travel by stage. In addition to all this, the gentleman ly bearing and accommodating disposi tions of the genial landlords will almost serve in lieu of the mere substantial comioris oi me. J. jm.

Sheets is pro prietor the Main Street House. He always keeps a good table. His good humor and good grub always keep full house. Now a visit to the Walnut Valley Bank will astonish people who are not used to seeing things fixed up so. Their elegant counter, carpets, furniture, would do honor to a city bank.

J. C. Fraker, the president, and J. S. Dan- ford, the cashier, are kept pretty busy paying out and receiving greenbacks.

This bank is established on a firm footing, with a capital of $100,000. Some of the best men in this part of the State being stockholders. The livery stables are an important feature of the town. Calloway Lamb- din, last fall erected a large building, in which they have a large livery stock. Cary also has a large stable.

Henry Martin has a steam saw mill on the banks of the Walnut, which he keeps running all of the time. JUurdetts Wheeler have erected a large steam and flouring mill in the northern part of town. A large number of buildings are go ing up in the various parts of town. We were informed by C. Tbibanlt, the leading architect and builder of the place, has under contract and in course of erection at the present time six buildings, besides the flouring mill of Burdett Wheeler, not quite complet ed.

We noticed about twenty buildings in course of erection in the different part of town. In the practice of medicine, Dr. Mc- Kinsey McClaren take the lead. Dr. McKinsey has recently built a residence on Sutler street, north of Central ave nue.

The "limbs of the law" are thick in Eldorado. Col. Redden, the county Attorney, is associated with his brother in the practice of law, under the firm name of Redden Redden. W. P.

Campbell is kept busily engaged attending to the many wants of his clients. Jndge Sumner is also a prominent practioner. Every one can aee that Eldorado i a fixture. There is plenty of room for more people here, and they are coming to this country every day. Yours respectfully, G.

G. PATTERSON BRIX. TELEGRAPHIC. Pocghk'psix, New York, Feb. A frightful accident occurred on the Hudson R.

R. last night at New Hamburg, caused by an oil train bound north catching fire and setting the bridge at New Hamburg also on fire. The Pacific express came up and ran into the oil train, and also caught fire. The bridge gave way under the weight' when the train went down in a jumbled mass. The locomotive.

Express car, baggage car, Pullman car aud coach, and sleeping coach of express, went down with a terrible crash. Doc. Simmins, the Engineer of the express train, was killed also Peter Vossburg, Conducter of the Pullman car, and a brakemen. A number of passengers on the Pullman and sleeping coach were unable to get out when the crash occurred, and were burned to death or drowned. The scene at the track was fearful.

A corps of physician are there from Pough-keepsie to attend to the wounded and dying, and search is now being made for dead bodies. Further particulars and number of dead and wounded cannot be ascertained at this hour. New Yobk, Feb. 7. The following additional particulars are furnished by the Western Union Telegraph Co.

The train leaving New York at 8 o'clock last evening met an oil train on the New Hamburg draw bridge. The oil train jumped tho track and broke iu two. An oil car tipped over upon the passenger train and 6et it on fire and locomotive, cars and bridge were all burned up. Three sleeping coaches are among the destroyed. Eighteen persons were killed outright, and many more injured who will not recover.

The names have not yet been obtained. Poughkeepsie, Feb. 7. A dispatch sent from here this a. incorrectly stated the cause of the disaster on the Hudson river railrcr.d.

An oil train was bound South, and when passing New Hamburgh, an axle of an oil car broke, and dragged along the ground till it reached the draw bridge, wLon striking the timbers, it threw the car off its truck and upon the up -track, and in the face of the second Pacific Express, which waa approaching at full speed. An attempt was made to stop the express train, but there was not time enough, and it struck the oil car. The fragments of the oil scaikcred in every direction, and at once ignited, and the entire express train in flames. The express train was composed of a locomotive, one baggage car, one express car, and 5 or 6 sleeping cars. The locomotive was at once hurled into the river, and the engineer was killed.

The baggage and express cars were piled on top of the engine. At the same time, the Chicago sleeping car was one sheet of flames. Though desperate attempts were made to rescue the passengers, it is said that not one got out alive. Two of the other sleeping cars next to it were also wrapped in flaraea, but the passengers in them all got out safely. Then the bridge took fire.

In less than ten minutes afterwards the whole structure fell, carrying with it the Chicago car and burying it and its inmates out of sight under the water, and among the ruins of the locomotive and express car. It is thought that Rev. Dr. Dennis, of the church of Strangers, in New York city, and his wife, are among the dead, as a gentle man states that they occupied a birth in the Chicago cars. Chas.

Cossum, the conductor of the train, states that there were 65 sleeping car tickets, and that 52 of them have found owners, indicat ing that but 13 persons are missing, Passengers say, however, that the Chicago car contained 25 or 30 persons, and that not one got out. All the trains are stopped at the break this a. and the work of recovering the dead bodies has commenced. Coroner Andrus of Poughkeepsie, has been notified, and is wait ing for a train to convey him to the spot. Upon the ice near the break a body was found with the entrails torn out.

and the head and lesrs crushed. It has not been identified up to this time Poughkeepsie, Feb. 7. The following are the names of persons killed by the railroad accident as far as ascertain ed: David Simmons, engineer; Dr, Nancheld, N. Y.

Vosburgh, conductor of sleeping car; Jas. Stafford, N. Y. Baggage master Vosburgh, porter of sleeping car Bev. Morrill Fowler, wife and two children, Batavia Mr.

Bene diet, editor of the Cleveland Herald, and wife. In the pockets of Vosburgh, the sleeping car was found a memoranda of berths taken, containing the names of Lowell, Fowler, and Pease of Buffalo; Curry, Sorhis, and Ger- manuel, of Rochester Dr. Naureed, of N. Y. Roscnthat and Forbust.

19 bodies have been recovered, but none have been found since 12 o'clock. The report that 21 bodies have been found is untrue. New York, Feb. 7. The derth list by the Hudson river rr'lroad accident now foots up fifteen passengers and five railroad employees.

Th- inquest will probably commence to-morrow morn ing. Three bodies yet remain unrecogniz ed. The body of engineer Simmons is not yet found. The friends of the vic tims are arriving from all quarters No more bodies have been found up to this hour, 9 p. m.

Poughkeepsie, Feb. 8. Up to midnight no more bodies had been recover ed, and nothing new in relation to the disaster had transpired. Bordeaux, Feb. 7.

Members of the Government who have arrived here from Paris, telegraphed to prefects in all of the departments last night the decree annulling the Bordeaux decree of the 31st of January, relative to electoral disqualification, as incompatible with the principle of universal suffrage. The Paris decree of the 29th of January is maintained. Tuesday, Mr. Hoar reported to the House, at Washington, a bill to estab lish a national educational system at an annual expense of $50,000,000. The House committeee which has been investigating West Point, recom mends the restoration of the three cadets who were driven out by their com rades.

The report states the leaders in the expulsion were President Grant's son, Adj. -Gen. Townsend's son, and the late Admiral Farrago t's son. These bovs had so much influence that the sa T.rintnriAnt sLnA offirra of th sj-aA. I my feared to reinstate the expelled ca-1 Ata s.

.1 I has several times secured the pardon Of I cadets who were subject to penalties for violating discipline, and that he has assumed a power above the lawful gov ernors of the academv. (Have we young royal princes and high blood dukes among us A lively debate is expected when the subject is laid before the House. "TIARKETS BY TEI.XIsAIU. Sw Tork Homt mmd Stek Market. Xbit Tori, Feb.

8. Gold rather weak, oxminir at 11 4, cloeed at tt Clearances Sterling- exchange 9. Sixes of 'SI lSSew 5-s S-SU fi llx I 5 Wi -eg '65 1 NM0- Currency sixes Missouri sixes SBJf. Government steadr at old prices. Stocks during the a rather weak, but after 1 o'clock showed some indication of strength and closed firm.

Stats beads rarv dell. Toil. Feb. 8 p. Gold 11 Ji.

Money easy at 5. Bonds Firm Sixes of 'SI. .131, i SO ot 8-S0 '6 iiy -67 10, I -SK "65 Currency -s Missouri C't 85. Flour Dnll nominal: taper western 6 10a A 35; common tc TiaS SO; good to t-boice 0 Wi 1 SO: white wera 7 40a 15. WhUky Wheat Fair dcruaud and lower rauu: spring 1 5it red amber 1 00.

Kve 1 SO. Barley Stead r. CornQuiet; So mixed 85a8T. Oat lull; wetern and Ohio. S8a6S.

Coffee Firm fnir demand: Rio, 18.Sal6S. Sufrar Firm: fair demand: Cuba. 9alOV. Molasses New Orleans dull. B0a65.

Pork New S3; old prime pork 19.S; prime mess new 21a29. Hams 15Si. Beef Steady; mes 10al5: extra, Lanr-Steady prime fa team kettle St. Louis Market. ST.

Lor IS, Fell, a Flour Imll and drooping, with small business. Wheat Firm lint somewhat neglected; No spring 1 IS; No red fall 1 34. Corn Steadr; low mixed 45a47; yellow bulk; choice whita SUata sacked. Oats 60a7. Barter Quiet: 90al 00.

Rye Hisrher: J6. Provisions Quiet. Mess Pork Shoulders l)rr salt 8V- Bacon Clear rib U.alz; clear sides lia1 Lard Quiet: ighwiises Stead 90. llofrs Quiet; 7 15a7 SO; receipts 7UU. Cattle Quiet; SiaS.

Chicago Market. Chicago, February 8, Flonr Ouiet and nnchanred. Wheat Fair demand aud lower rates; No spring 1 cash. Cora Quiet and lower; No mixed 46hi easb. Oats Quiet; No 46.

Rye Quiet: No closed at 87. Barley oiu i nal lligbwines Steady at Provisions Quiet aud easier. Mess Pork ifiijaai'i I.ard 13.al2'.. lloifs Fair demand and firm; dressed 8 80a8 85 live Cattle 3 70aS 60. New Advertisements.

EMPORIA BANK OF Swallow, Heritage Soden, E.TIPORIA, KANAN. Ksastera sand Foreiflra Exchange- "In, and all kinds ofU. 8. Honda bought and stold. Itfvtais (Stamp for stales.

laterest ullowed on lime deposit. Collections promptly attended lo and remitted lor on day of payment. m. axgell, PHYSICIAN AND SURGON, offers his professional services to the people of this city and vicinity. Residence corner of nth avenue and Merchants street.

w6-tf Administratrix Notice. KOTICE is hereby given that tbe under, signed hag been appointed administratrix of the estate of Oscar M. Sutherland, late of Lyon countv, Kansas, deceased. POLLY SUTHERLAND. January 13, 1S71.

wtt-tf STRAYED. the subscriber, livinz F1 KU.il the subscnuer. livine on creek, one bav mare colt and nnp h.v liorse colt, will each be two years old in the spring. It is believed thev wsndernl off In Auarust last, in the direction of Rock creek. A liberal reward will be paid for their return or information leading to their recovery.

GEO. H. PKOEGEK. TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS. EXAMINATIONS for Teachers' Certificates will be held in the Stone School House in tiuporia the last Saturday in each month, commencing at 9 o'clock a.

m. Applicants should provide themselves -with paper and pencil. Strangers to the Board of Examiners suouiu present testimonials of good moral character. A. D.

ATIy Boucd of Exam's. naisuj. February 4th, 1871. wO-ly Sealed Proposals "TTTILL be received for the erection of IT frame school house, with stone founda tion, in acnooi isistnct JNo. 23, as follows: For furnishing the material and building the foundation and chimney; and for furnishing the material and doing the carpenter work.

To see the plan and specifications call on Andrew Hlnshaw, two miles west of Emporia, Proposals to be filed by the first day of March next, and the right reserved to reject all bids, if not satisfactory. ANDREW HINSHA JU1.U. BuildinarrVwn. DAVID MAY. 1 w6-H ALEX.

BAIXiBY, Wholesale A Retail Dealer In Groceries, Provisions, Flour, Feed, HAVING leased my Business Houe for a term of years, I propose Selling Out my Entire Stock Of Groceries for CASH BEFORE tne FIRST of APRIL, 1871. Call Soon if you want Bargain. Remember the place. Opposite Court House, ALEX. BAILEY.

d7S-81-w-8 Kmporia. Kansas. Feb. 3d. J.

A. YOUNG, IE TV I No. 148 Commercial Sthitkt, Emporiu, Kansas Teeth extracted without nam. bv the no nt vr. Gas) tbeti (r TCrz.mg;; lirOlW VXJQ, (lllj tlier, Ac.

AnT of v.rinii. tnetics administered at all hours bran experienced operator. STOVES Buck's Patent Stoves ARE MORE DURABLE, Bake Quicker, Better 1XD WITH LESS FUEL Than Any Stores Made Thiy always Grot SaTisvAcnox. "DUCK'S STOVES have taken tbe annual Premium as tne Dent Cook Stoves at the lour lagt airs Held at St. Louis; and the Gold Medal awarded to Buck's Stoves after two tuyr actual tnal, in competiou with the lead Insr stoves made in tha I'nitl Rt.tx New Orleans Mechanics' and Agricultural Fair, January 14tb, VsbH.

Tolm Bay, No. HO Commercial Street, KMPORIA, KANSAS. Dealer in the above Cblebratkd Stovks, Every COOS STOVE Warranted to Give BATiaxAUTIUS- He also has a large and complete stock of ALL BXXDS OF Rapairinsr, Hoofing- pon ting Executed Keatly and Promptly. JOHN BAY. w6-tf Osage Plants and Peach Trees For Sale.

I HAVE Forty Thousand Osage Plants which ni prepared to sell at 92 per tnousand. 1 also have from Five to Ten Thousand Peach Trees which I will sell for 82 per hundred. Residence 2 mile east of Kmporia. w-7 rLWOOD CHAPMAN. Emporia AdfertLsemenb.

UKO. DOWl'KI- J.L.W.BXL. DOWDEL BELL WHOLESALE RETAIL DSALKKd IX ISO COMMI-BCIAI. "TBI! EMPORIA, KANS, Agents American Powder Company, ST. LOUIS, WO.

Market 23-tf Price Paid for Produoe. ABRAHAM LAND. Oroocry, Bakery. AND FEED STORE. we have purchased the City Bakery Stand, Jnst Sooth of tho T.

A 8. F. R. K. Depot ON COMMERCIAL STREET.

TTTE will keep constantly on ha nd the bes quality or FHESH BREAD, Calces, -Pies, Stc. We also have a full assortment of Groceries Provisions, Flour, Buckwheat, Corn JfTeaty Oats, Jori Can always be had. ABRAHAM LAND. w51-tf J. 8.MC ILLaK.

R. U. OVXRHTRHT MC MTLIiAK OVERSTREEET WHOLESALE AND RETAIL OJ- H. 3B And Dealers In QUEENSWAME, ETC. 128Commerelal Street, EMPORIA, KANSAS, WE RESPECTFULLY aoliolt tho palron-age of the Public, believing- can 6" numiKuog DOIU aa IDS Quality and Price Of our GROCERIES.

'l'he igriet Market Prlos PAID 43-tf FOR PRODUCE. A Great Bargain Offered. A FARM of 157V acres, maatl-r 1wttm J. laud of the beat quality, on the south side ui me ononwooa river, one and a hair miles from Plymouth, Lvon county; all enclosed; 200 rods two-year old hedee; 66 acres in eulti; ration; a good hewn log house; good well; a new crib; granary and stable; 200 bearing peach trees, and small fruit of several there is no better farm for stock, having an unlimited ranse, and abundance of water and grass for miles; good school house one-fourth mile from tbe bouse: 7 acres of timber one and a half miles from the farm; 42 acres of fine wheat; stock and farming implements can be had on reasonable terms. Price -er acre.

In easb. Come and see it at least. w49-tf A. A. ALLEN DISSOLUTION NOTICE.

rpiHE partnership heretofore existing be- iwwn ibb unaernroen nnaer ma nrm name of Rim. Dnnlao Jfc Co. waa riiMnl.xl tho first of Januarr. 1871. B.

Kirn hirinr 8. B. EIGflS, l. C. ROBINSON, HOWARD DUKLAP.

rw a abb uuaenuneo nave rormaa new a. partnership, and will continue tho Banking business at tha sunt place, under the same nrm name ana style or Uunlap A Co. HOWARD DUXLAP. Emporia, Kansas, Jan. 1, 1870.

ws-7 STRAYED. TJlBOSfmy residence on Badger Creek, about JL1 the 20th of December, one black cow about 8 or 10 years old; a black calf, one year old. white on flank: a little red I 1 1 a two-year-old heifer nj person giving me information recovery or above animals. Will tasai la a A ssasm sal WJ- WM. SQUIRES.

STEAM SAW MIIX FOB SALE. IS in tbe most complete running order, Em. erson's inserted teeth saws, log turner, bull nn or, and evervthln nsmur. for out-at Caa be bought for half iu value, and upon very easy terms. For particulars apply P.ALLER, Emporia Bask, Kmporia, Kaa.

For Sale or Trade. rfIHE andersiraed offers to sell tor easb. ar wm A trane tor horses, or moles, two desirable Lota ou North tate street, in the city at amporia He also, will sell or rent ana atom mereial street, SaxSO. room It (M alsh. For particulars apply to E.

F. Bancroft, or nat-na-srn-e OHM HASCUOVO. K. B. HtTBMT, tfebier Neosho Valley Bank.

KMPORIA, KANSAS. WILL I A tienernl JLtnnlcliiir Business. Will bay mud sell Foreifrn mnd Ktrn Ci-4ag, Gold and silver, ud mil kiada of V. S. Securities.

Will buy and sell School Bonds and other miaeollsjieous securities on eo iu filiations ON LY. Collswtlons promptly attended to and remit- ted for on day of payment nt cur rment as rent rates oi ezc Interest allowed on time depoaita. D1KWTORS: John Wayne. S. J.

I ran ford Wm. Martindale, E. U. Hurst and H. C.

Cross. I7twft-tl EMU GAUDY FACTORY. MORRIS B0TTGER Have fitted up a Oaud-y Factory, With all the necessary appliances to manufac ture Candies of all kinds and qualities, and are prepared to supply The Trade of Southern On better terms than can possibly be offered in any of the Eastern cities. WHOLESALE Jb RETAIL. They will also keep on hand a large stock of TE0PI0AL ISUITS AND HUTS, And everything usually kept in Confectionery establishment.

Ir Commercial Ntree-t, EMPORIA, KANSAS. 20-ly General Variety Store, CHELSEA, KANSAS. SMITH BISHOP, Keep constantly on band a full supply of GEO CERIES AND PROVISIONS, HATS nnd CAPS, ISocts and Shoes, GENTS'S FURNISHING GOODS Etc. We also keep Oom, aScC. Country W4-1S The highest cash Produce.

price jiaid for 3" CJivK t'H a Call GARRETT RUSH, Wholesale and It 1 1 DEALERS IN FINK LUMBER Lath, Sh.in.gles. SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS. OFFICE Oor. Sixth Ave. and Merohants Street EMPORIA, KANSAS.

FOR THE SPRING OF" 1871, Fruit and Ornamental Trees, GKAJTCVISTCS, Etc. Apples, 1, 2, 3 and 4 years old; Pears, Dwarf abd Standard; Cherries, Peaches, Plums, Apricots, Nectarines, Quinces, A splendid lot of Concord, Catawba, Delaware, Hartford Prolific, and other Standard Grapevines. Also fine plants of Ion Mar. tha, Salem and other choice varieties. Strawberries.

JKaspberrlea, Gooseberries, And all tha Roses, EVERGREENS SHRUBS. All of tho first quality and warranted true to names. Plans for laying out and Improving grounds and list of trees furnished. TREES, VINES and PLANTS Famished, Planted and Insured at reasonable rates. PEICE LISTS furnished on application.

MILLIKEN HAIL, (In Fremont Park) EMPORIA, KANSAS, LUMBER! C. F. PIEECE Cor. Third Av. A Constitution EMPORIA, KANSAS, KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND ALL GRADES OF Dry Pine Lumber, LATH, SHINGLES, Sash, Boors and Slinds.

We have a switch on the AT. g. K. R.R., and will save to our customers the former EXPENSE OF HAULING FROM TEE DEPOT TO THE YARD. SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS WriX BE 6ITKM TO CASH CUSTOMERS.

WE ARE BXXLCtO AT A VERT SMALL PROFIT. Remember the 2fev Yard is at the Atchison, Topeka A Santa ir Jtna. road Depot. ss-tr ELDBIDGE HOUSE. LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SMITH, Proprietor.

The onlv fi MeeoiiBtseted with the house. ST Prices reasonable. 1L C. CBOBit, Pres..