White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-10-10
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u The Southern papers give accounts o
the organization of two slave regiments to fgh
the Yankees Now We have no doubt that tn
cunning Yankees will pit two iree niger regi
ments against the two slave Niger regiments
This, il is obvious, must be losing game will
our Southern friends, for their niggers an
worth fifteen hundred dollars apiece, while the
northern niggeis are not worth the powder
and ball that would kill then.-Loaisuiue jour
nal.
70 BEN MoCuLLoUoH.-A contemporary thus
describes this rebel General: "Ben. Mccullough
the Texas 6Ilibuster, and now rebel leader in
Missouri, is medium sized, light complexion.
ed man; sanguine, nervous temperament; about
fifty years Of age, considerably bald, has the sp-
pesrance Of an over-rushed mercantile man; is
active, quick, rather restless; suaviter in his
address; speaks low and confidently, and pos
sesses elements of successful leader"
M A POWERFUL SrY.-George. Raphael, of
New York, recommends the use of the camera
obscura at Washington for making observations
~ to the position of the enemy. He says, that
by elevating the camera seventy-6ve feet. OBJ
jects no larger than dog can be seen at fifteen
miles distance. This process, Mr.. R. says, is
much easier, cheaper and certain than the bal
loon.
10 An Alabama postmaster has settled his
accounts, and returned the stamps in bis posses
sion. He could get no money, but he hoped
the Department would receive the stamps and
"e1cuse him as long as he is in this bogus Con-
federate id ci circumstance of h-ll, in which
q man is not allowed to express his sentiments"
He b brick.
U Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, was ask
ed the other day what he thought of that part
of Fremont's proclamation relating to the
forfeiture Of property, and manumission Of
slaves belonging to armed rebels of Missouri;
and replied, that it was just nght-that 80 man
who will fight against the Union shouldn't be
allowed to own dollar or dollars WORTH
u Prentice says: Ben Edward Gray, well
known in Kentucky, and now citizen of Dali
las County, Alabama, has given q couple of
horses to secession company down there. Ben
after giving the horses, should have joined him
self. Two horses and an ass would have been
a nice team.
% Philadelphia paper thinks it is a deci-
dedly good thing that the project for Nation
al Hymn has failed. If there is better patri.
otto song than the Star Spangled Banner to be
produced, it will come without offering bribe
to the MUSES. for its production.
D The Potomac is spanned by two bridges;
one called the Chain Bridge, about six miles
above the city, and the other called the Long
Bridge, crossing the stream Immediately into
the upper part of town on the road to Alexan-
dria.
D Gen Jas. Shields, who distinguished him
self in the Mexican war, has been again called
into the field. The President has appointed
him Brigadier General. He was formerly Sen
ator in Congress from Illinois, and now resides
in California.
D' Thomas Francis Meagher made sharp
point with the Irishmen Of America the other
day, when he told them that revolution which
had "the fattery and patronage Of the English
aristocracy" could surely never have the heart
and arm Of any Irishman who had learned the
history of the Stars and Stripes, and value the
blessings and protection they insured.
70 STRONGLY PUr.-Mr. Holt, in his great
speech in New York, compared the shameless
crew who are giving moral support to the reb-
els by croaking about "Peace'-to those who
during a FIRE should sneak about cutting the
hose. The smile is felicitous.
U- A writer in the Cornhill Magazine, Eng,
for August, hits the question of the right of
Southern States to secede from the Union by
this happy illustration: at is as If wife, after
henpecking her husband for twenty years, claims
a right divorce him."
&c The traitors confined in the st. Louis ar
senal are divided into gangs with one of their |
nam6er as foreman, and required to sweep their |
apartments and perform other labor necessary
for their good sanitary condition.
U JEFF. Thompson has issued proclamation
in which, as retaliative measure for Frenont's
proclamation, he threatens for every Southern
soldier and citizen executed, to hang, draw and
quarter one of Abraham Lincoln's soldiers.
70 John C. Breckenridge went to Baltimore
to get up q riot against the United States Gov
eminent, and got up a sort of one against him
self-Louispille Journal
p The Austrians have an odd way of in |
fha ~ No /
police recently closed twenty seven coffee hous-
es in Venice because they refused TO take the |
Verona Gazette.
~ The Southern papers are discussing the
question, "Who took Shermans BattsryT In |
the course of a month or two they may discover
that it wasn't taken at all.
u Coon FOR RrrcHlk.-Ritchie County, Vir. |
Psinia, which has voting population of 700. has
furnished five hundred soldiers for the United
States army.
u LIGHT HousEs DEsrRorED-A notice to
mariners is published announcing that Jupiter
Inlet and Cape Florida light houses have been
blown up by the Confederates.
q A Philadelphia paper cruelty thinks the
secession lady prisoners in Washington deserve
the severest punishment, and suggests depriva-
ton Of their looking glasses.
" A letter from Minister Fogg, states that
Garabaldi said to him, "If your war is for Free
dom, 1 am with you with %, 600 men,"
U The secession party in Kentucky consists
for the most part of women and boys, and men