Hannibal (MO) Messenger, December 6, 1859

   The Post Master at Emerson, writing to us on business, adds the following postscript:

   "The next man that comes along and enquires for Emerson, tell him that it is in the North-west corner of Marion county, Mo. A gentleman told me a short time since that he enquired two days in your city before he could fin a man that could tell him where Emerson was. 

   "A day or two since a lot of negroes in this neighborhood were making preparations for a general stampede, but the scheme was detected before they got off, and their plans defeated."