The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1862-06-26

s,lyapia. Rumors~ of Al kinds we're rife,
each oae discarded for another more excit-
ing.
lived. By forced march Of over one hun.
dred miles through the mountains, Fremont
came down upon him, and thus sandWiched
between Shields and the +" Pathfinder" he
was compelled to relinquish his suddenly
ACQUIRED successes, and now, in about .
fortnight after crossing the Shenandoah at
Front Royal, he has re-crossed, leaving
guns, prisoners, dead, and wounded in iarge
numbers behind him.
What vast change few months in
these time produces. This fact is forcibly
illustrated in the manner in which the
proclamation of General Hunter, freeing
the slaves of the rebels in South Carolina
and Georgia, was received. Eighteen
months ago, the bare intimation OF such
thing would have raised tempest through
the Northern States that might have been
dangerous. Now, comparatively little ex-
citement seems to have been created by
that sweeping pronunciamento. Moderate
Republicans, Peoples Party, Douglas Dem
ocrats, Bell and Everett men, and even
some Breckinridgers, look upon it With
complacency, if not indifference and
thoug gh some of our papers characterized it
as the act of an insane man, there were not
wanting those who considered it as blow
at the root of the evil which reached vital
spot. What differences were expressed
were mainly as to the expediency of the
thing-whether it would have the effect of
still further firing the Southern heart"
or after the reverses which the sham Con-
federacy had experienced, teach them still
further the power of the Government they
bad labored to destroy, and by striking at
their pockets, the moro promptly reach
their hearts. The President, however, saw
fit to annul it-properly, az l think, taking
the ground that such acts should emanate
from the Executive. Besides, true to his
avowed sentiments, it shows the consistency
of Mr.. Lincoln to discountenance so radical
a step.
Perhaps in Philadelphia more than any
other of our large cities-considering the
fact that war has not literally reared its
front among us-the horrors of the present
contest are both seen and felt. 1t is here
that stranger, walking along our principal
streets, would scarcely realize its existence.
Our avenues of trade, commerce, and fashion
seem to be as much crowded as ever ex-
travagance in dress is as prominently dis
played as in the most prosperous times, and
all the luxurics that heart could wish or
imagination conceive, are seen on every
side. Places Of amusement are pretty freely
patronized, and restaurants, lager beer
saloons, aud whiskcy mills are becoming
more and more common every day, and
meet the eye at every step. But this only
upon the surface. Scarcely day passes
but brings train of cars or vessel freight.
ed with the victims of war. Within the
past week, two vessels have arrived bring
ing nearly one thousand sick and wounded
from Fortress Monroe. Every available
building is used as hospital, and the SYM
pa,hies of oui people-and they are by no
means lukewarm-are bestowed freely upon
those who have gone forth to battle for the
Right. We have here, l suppose, not less
than FIVE thousand of them. Occasionally
some are borne along upon stretchers to the
hospitals, to be again transferred in few
days to that narrow receptacle where the
rest is unbroken by pain. The gentle
bands of the true women, rich and poor, are
engaged in soothing the fevered brows,
assuaging tie pains. and administering to
the wants of the poor soldiers, and even the
children Of our public schools vie with each
other in furnishing :hose delicacies so ac-
ceptable to the invalid. The strong arms
Of great, rough men are freely offered to
support the feeble bodies, and eyes that are
seldom dimmed, as they look upon the poor
sufferer, evince, by the starting tear, the
sympathy that words cannot express These
, kinInesses are extended alike to friends and
foes, to those from other States equally
With our owa, and will 90 far, I trust, to
weaken the petty jsalousies that have hith-
erto existed between the au;:9erent sections
of our common country, and streng hen the
bond of fellowship that should knit together
the North and the South, the East and the
West. Yours, &C., PnILos.
The Proposition Of Denmark.
If the Danish proposal seryes no other
purpose il Is likely at least IN ra;so fa;rlv