The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1863-08-22

lee i. bsink .apped in 4v{baee to ybr
fseset and xeavsnl pr'h! ri s6tSsl per y,
The city direcsSry sf ckie.s 8 ~ 1860 IKE,
the population at 10000.
Lyon county will hold An Agricultural Fai,
on the 9th Of October, It Emporia. 38.
The State Of Illinois has s240,0 in gold il
its treasury.
The claims. for damages done 81 the New
York rioters foot up to nearly 81, 100000.
Colonel Cloud has been assigned to duty
under General Blunt His brigade 10 now II
Cassville, Missouri. 'hdT g 7-7s 80 :
Last Sunday, 16o negroes took their masters
horses and wagons, in Saline county, formed
q procession and marched towards Kansss.-T
The Atchissn Champion says that C. NJ.
stebbins, Of that city, has an income of $40 600,
and pays tax,of nearly $:O0Oto Government.
Hon John Petit. formerly Judge Of the Terri
torial courts in this State. is now practicing Law
in lafayette, Indiana.
The St Joseph Herald states that eighty five
slaves we're recently shipped from that place t.
Kentucky. That branch of commerce il done.
A three-story brick building in Kansas City.
used as a guard house for she rebels recently
fell, killing four of the inmates, and badly
bruising several others. ',rc ~ i1
The Grand Jury Of Leavenworth county have
presented General Ewing detectives - thieves
and nuisances, demanding abatement. The
moral Show was ordered closed :-ai s.
A dispatch from st. Paul says General sib-
ley fought three battles with the Indians, kill
ing so. The Indians were driven across the
Mississippi. ~ r 49,
The Fort Scott Monitor gets of the following:
What kind Of timber is the machine that pub
fishes the Council Grove Press made from
Nibbs says it is BAss-WooD. ..-.. !.
General Grants loss in the campaign, COM
mencing at Port Gibson and ending at Vicks-
burg, was, 1242 killed, 1896 wounded, and
5S7 missing. -4 ,ia
1924 Mormon Saints arrived in New York in
one week, short time since, bound for Salt
Lake They are spoken of ss in the main q
respectable looking lot of immigrants.
From reports already received, it is estima-
ted that the number of frst-class men in 1lli-
nois liable to military duty, viii not vary far
from 10000. f.'.i-.'..-
1t is said that the Atchison Railroad, to run
due West, will be commenced within thirty
days. Senator Pomeroy Is expected to bring
on FIVE hundred hands from the East.
It is suspicioned that the burning Of the
steamer Ruth was the work Of an incendiary,
to cover up the loss of the $500, 900 on beard,
which it is supposed had already been stolen.
The fines assessed upon the individuals before
he Mayors Court in Leavenworth, on Thurs
lay, the 18th inst, amounted to the snug little
sum of $20S That is the way to replenish q
reasury.
A Company, composed Of wealthy merchants
# Cincinnati, have about 1000 acres planted
n Cotton in Southern Illinois They employ
efugees from East Tennessee and Georgia in
Is cultivation, and it promises well.
VIZ. A. PHILLIPS will do to bet on. We
'elieve him to be "a gentleman and . scholar"
soldier and . patriot, and an HoNEsT Man.
4 he lives through this war, the State will
equire his services in some civil capacity
Wyandot Gazette. '-att } IS
The Railroad Convention held at Niagara
Falls, recently, resulted in breaking up the
combination under which fares have been here
ofore arranged. Every line is now for itself,
md the fare from Chicago to New York has
,een reduced from twenty-four dollars to eigh-
cen.
Bramlette, the Union candidate for Governor
+ Kentucky, has been elected by the handsome
majority Of 10000. Where are the croakers
vho prophesied the killing out Of the Union
ointment of the Border States by the issuing
f the Emancipation Proclamation7 i
VIM. L. Yancey, the man whom the whole
'outh are now mourning over, was convicted
murderer. A disagreement having sprung up
'etween himself and DR.. Eaton, his uncle, he
hot him dead while on Q visit Yancey WAS
Imprisoned for the act but was afterwards
'ardoned by the Governor. ---y4 Fsg
Resistance to Rebel Draft IN Alabama.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 7.
A company Of citizen scouts, about 70 |
D number, that we're engaged in the fore
art Of June to resist the rebel conscription,
sve thus far evaded every effort Of the
ebel authorities to capture them.
They report to Gen. Dodge at Corinth,
hat their number is now increasing, and
hey have either captured or driven out