White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1862-05-29
A Sweet Hole.
St. Joe il . sweet hole.

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St. Joe u sweet hole.
We were in St. Joe. few days ago.
People had told us that St. Joe was get
ting to be quite . Union town. and We
were prepared to ses things wearing
bright. cheerful aapect. But il st. Joe
is Union. We would prefer to live in Rich
mond. Take out of St. jos all who are
connected with the army, and there would
be scarcely enough genuine Union men
left in the city. to have saved corner lot
10 Sodom. Yes. leave at least one-third
Of the troops and army attaches in the
city. including q majority Of the officers.
and then good Union man would be .
rare sight-a good. whole-souled Union
man. who always was such. and would
sacrifice everything else (even human
bondage) to save the Union.
They talk about Union Hotels in St.
Joe. There is not such . thing in the
city. unless it be some unpretending
house. pstronised by emigrants. team
sters, and market folks. We bear this
man and that speak Of stopping at such
and snch hotel when they go to St. joe.
because it is Union house. Bless their
unsuspecting souls! And only the other
day. the Union paper of St. Joe (it is
genuine Union) indorsed the Pstee IS .
Union house. as it had kept the stars and
stripes flying through all the troubles.
Yes, it has been Union. because Union
bayonets compelled it to be- When
young Patee went up to tear down the
stars and stripes. the Kansas troops who
were there. gave him to understand that
if he did so. he would bring down with
him some lead that he didn't take mp.
That made the Patee good Union house.
But this was about the time when the
Union editor was compelled to fee for
bis life, from Secession outlaws, and per-
haps he had not heard of the circum-
stance. The Pacific House, we are told.
has changed hands, and is now q good
Union house. Yes. like the old woman
kept tavern iu Michigan. The prorrie-
tors took the oath. and gave heavy bonds.
and of course ought to be recognized as
Union men. The house is infested with
traitors, as much as it ever was-but the
house can't help it Another hotel. far
tber up the hill. also has q good Union
reputation. Well. perhaps it is. The
young man boss was imprisoned for trea-
SON. and took the oath: and the old man
boss says be "guesses the North is too
strong for as. and we'll have to submit"
They're all right on the Union ~
Major Bruce. candidate for Congress,
and disbursing agent Of the Ladies' Sew
ing Society. lives in St. Joe. When be
was born. there occurred lusus nature;
to which circumstance is owing the fact
that he is not now called grandmother
Bruce. He wants Office, and, strangely
enough for Union man. appears to think
traitors are the men to court for Office
over there. But. juding from what we
have seen, we are inclined to think he is
about correct on that point. His princi-
pal hobby is interceding for traitors. as
"our erring brethren" His paper is the
organ of the OK line. The Secesh losfers |
about the city are constantly getting up
reports of tremendous Union defeats, Just
a. they have been doing for year past.
and Bruce publishes them as reliable
He is also extra jealous in whitew ashing
such traitors as Major John E. Barrow.
whom he denounced, less than . year
ago, as Observation-Disclosures be didn't
expect to be . candidate for Congress
and be rests poorly of nights, brooding
over the thought that the slave populs-
tion Of the State is evaporating.
Judge Woodson lives in st. Joe. He
is the principal controller of the Gazette.
which is and has been the leading traitor
organ in North W estern Missouri. An
other of its editors is William Riden-
baugh. who holds the Office of Clerk of
The District Court. Why he is permit
ted to do so. in the loyal city of St. Joe
who knows?
Brig. Gen. Loan is the Great Moeul
1t st. joe. Before his appointment; he
told how he meant to put the traitors
through without mercy, if he got the Of
hadn't they made him 'skedad-
de" for life into Kansas, last Summer :
he got it. and for season did .'sort o."
put them through; but it is under the
very nose of him that treason aourishes
70 rankly. To be sure, be has got gang
of poor devils. of the scum and rabble,
sooped up in Jail. for having been in
Prices army; but at the same time, big
bugs and officers from the Same army are