White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-04-11
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u Grand military manouvre At the soasn
Cotton drilling.
u Why Is Il that secessionists seize only
the empty fortsi Why don't they make dssn
at . few Of the full ones f-PSsstiss.
u-wsnsy patriots Of the Revolstion have
died vishin the last year. Eighty tvo srs nov
all that remain.
pW. n. Lsfhngwell, the veil known sssof'
was beaten almost to death BY two rufAans IN
the streets Of New Orleans, on the night OF sns
24th ult.
" Dr.. Donaldson, distinguished scholar
author of "New Cratylus," and other phiioiog
ieal works. has recently died 10 Engiasd. ms
death 10 attributed to overwork. -.4- -
u 1t has been recently discovered in Haoer
sham Co., Ca, that woman, held in slavery
for twenty years. is white, having been kidnap'
ped, when child, from Baltimore, Md.
u Some vsnstians having offered 70 present
Garibaldi with bust Of his deceased wife, the
patriot replied BY thanking them, but begging
them to denote the money 70 the liberation ot
their country.
q Il might be we'll, in taking any future
Territory into the Union a. . State, to require
from her bond with reasonable security, that
she will not seceds in less than ninety days.
Perhaps there might be . compromise on sixty.
-LsuisDifis Journal
u If any individual finds himself in danger
of being arrested for violation of the criminal
laws. he had better adopt an ordinance of Sc
csssion from the community, resume his original
rights, and pronounce himself an independent
aad sovereign power.-LSSisriile Journal
u David Davis, of Southport. Ct, died Sat
urday week. aged one hundred years. nine
months and tn enty three days. He left four
children, q grandchildren, 247 great grand
children. and four great great grand children.
He Was one Of zen children. the youngest of
whom died at the age Of eighty years.
q The Washington correspondent Of the
N. Z. Post, says:
"Pretty much every member Of Congress il q
candi date for Office. have never known the
time when 90 large proportion Of the lsgisls-
tive branch of the Government, were open sp
plieants for Executive favor.''
pA SENTIMENT OF Jas. X. PoLE.-Ths
MeMinnville (Tenn.) Peoples Paper plsces at
the head Of its columns, the following motto,
which It credits to q. President Polk:
"No treason to mankind, since the organisa-
ton Of society, would be equal in atrocisy to
that of him who would lit his hand to destroy
the Union"
rA KENTUCKY OPINION OF JsRH TILIl.-
The Louisville Journal says:
We infer from the telsgraphic dispatches that
John Tyler made . regular secession speech in
Richmond the other night. There are several
exceedingly disgraesful passages in the public
career ofthis man. and We fear that he 10 about
to add one of overshadowing infamy to the
number.
pA Sres,rcASr FAcr-Ws learn from the
statistical table in the American Railway Re-
view of railroad earnings for the month of Jan
uary, 1861, that the Illinois Central Road has
increased it's earnings from t274 .697 SO in
January, 1860. to $5so ,772,2 ,25, in the same
month of 1861. This immense Increase 10
mainly due to Cotton shipments FROM Memphis.
via. the lake and the st. Lawrence, and other
Eastern routes.
u TSrRoso ConPARrsoN.-The New York
Evening Post, is 20 moved by Jefferson Davis
comparing his position with that of the Fathers
of the Republic, that it e1claims
"He and his confederates are no more like
Washington and his compeers, than Chin
panzss stealing an African baby is like Colum-
bus discovering q new continent"
u Wyatt CsrdweIl,a . prominent virgiuian.
died at Richmond on the 26th ult., aged SO.
He was first introduced to the public by John
Randolph. of Roanoke, in one of his rsmarka-
BILE advertisements in the Richmond Enquirer.
Mr.. R. said, in substance, that of all the men
with whom he had transacted business for some
time previous, Wyatt Cardwell of Charlotte
Court House, was the only one who had been
faithful to his engagements. Mr.. C. was one
of the fortunate few who retained to the last
the friendship and confidence Of the Roanoke
orator.
u Col Foster, the head Of the land depart.
rnent of the Illinois Central Railroad Company,
estimates the wheat crop Of Illinois last year,
at not less than 25 millions Of bushels. At q
low estimate the corn crop Of Illinois will
amount to ITO millions Of bushels, worth st
least 81. .0o0, 900 to the producers, beng more
than ten times the quantity produced BY the
whole Of New England. The value of live
stock is estimated at one hundred millions of
dollars.
p A CoxrLIxrSr soR rnE Flse "RAssL,."
"A gentleman in Italy writes thus to the
Charleston Courier:
"a Florence lady said TO me last evening
that she had no faith in republic unless 1t
had slavery - one Of iss institutions and
think there 10 mueh tsu.h in the resark, - our
sxperisnss shows that the free suffrage Of the
free rabbls at the North has overturned the
best constituted republic the world has yet
.sen."
u THI SLAVE CoBE.-Ths Chicago Tn-
bsns's Washington correspondent. speaking Of
The adoption Of the Corproniss in the Peace
Congress. says: at establishes Slavery south |
Of IS . 30 min, except in the Indian Territory
Il nstionalisss Slavery By providing for it, in
in the Constitution, and Il gives
i've OF six additional guarantees 70 Slavery not |
now in the Consultation. . Esisg, IT,,