The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1862-12-06

1t is Is reported that an assessment Of
$40, 900 will soon be made upon the sym.
pathisers of Platte county, Missouri, for
the support Of the militia.
Deserters from the rebel army opposite
Fredericksburg represent Longstreet's corps,
10000 strong, as the only one yet arrived,
and D. H. Hills corps as hourly expected,
and say that Gen. Leo will make stand
there with his whole army. Eighteen rebel
guns command the fords and beyond. The
rebel infantry are quartered in Fredericks-
burg. Trains are running to Richmond,
and the women and children have left the
town. Gen. Sumner holds our advance.
A dispatch from Boston dated Nov. 28th
says: By orders from Washington, all the
political prisoners were released from Fort
Warren, yesterday. Many Of them left
for their homes last night, including Mar
shall Kane, of Baltimore.
Geo. w. Lane, brother of Senator Jim
Lane, has been appointed by the President,
Director of tho Branch Mint at Denver,
Colorado. 1t is alleged that the appoin,ee
is rabid pro-slavery Democrat, and was
unfortunately notorious in the Kansas
troubles, and it is intimated that resistance
will be offered in the Senate to his con6r-
nation.
1t has transpired that during John Van
Buren's recent interview with the Presi-
dent, he was very emphatically told that no
peace proposition could be listened to, save
the unconditional surrender of the rebels,
and that he meant to stand by his emanci.
patton Proclamation to the end.
A speech delivered BY Gen. Pemberton,
on taking command Of Van Dorn's (rebel)
a,my of the Southwest, is significant. Ii
is published in the papers lately received
from New Orleans. He begins by telling
the soldiers that, although Northern man
by birth, he has married, raised children,
and owned negroes in the South, and will
never consent to the social equality Of the
white and black races. am, says he, no
street scavenger-no Gen. Lowell. Tho
General then expatiates on foreign interier-
ence by Europe. We want no interference
in our private quarrels; We must settle trs
question ourselves, or fall entirely. Tho
moment England interferes, she finds US q
united people, and she will have to meet
the armies of the South as we'll as of the
North.
The Ericsson iron clad battery Pass.io
left the Navy Yard, New York, Nov. 26th,
for active service. Her destination is un.
known. The Montauk, her sister ship, il
preparing to follow rapidly.
The New York Post says we hear that an
arrangement is on foot in this city, for the
dispatching of two or three ship loads of
provisions to England, for the relief of the
starving operatives of Lancashire. Emf.
nent shipping men and merchants have
taken the matter in hand, and it is proposed
to subscribe sufficient amount to send out
one vessel Immediately.
Military Governor Shepley has issued
proclamation calling upon the loyal electors
of the frst and second Congressional Dis
tricts Of Louisiana to choose Representatives
to Congress, and appointed the Sd of Dec.
for the day Of holding the election.
One hundred and twenty.four men Of the
9th Vermont regiment, captured on the 4th
September by the rebels, were returned to
New Orleans on the 18th ult. Seven were
shot BY the rebels for having enlisted in
New Orleans, also two or three former Con.
federates who had enlisted in the 9Th.
-Four had died at Vicksburg during their
captivity. x
Gen. Butler has seized and closed ne
bank Of New Orleans for sending $4,000
in specie within sixty days to the rebel
government. This specie had been previ-
ously reported to Gen. Butler As having
been sent away, which was not the fact.