The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1863-03-21
GENKRAL NEWS ITKl(A.

GENERAL NEWS ITEls.
Garabaldi has Issued an address to the
English people, urging their sympathy in
behalf ofsthe Poles.
There we're rumors ID Paris of an ALI.
ance between England, France and Austria
to obtain . solution of the Polish question.
1t is reported that the Government con.
templates the establishment at Annapolis of
camp of instruction for a hundred thous-
and men, an evidence of . purpose to give
vitality to the conscription law.
The Richmond Dispatch in a leader,
speaks discouragingly Of the prospects for
food, and says the impressment of -four and
grain by the Government authorities dis
courages production.
Palmerston, in the British Parliament,
denounced strongly the shipment of negroes
by France from Egypt to Mexico, and called
on France to repair the wrong.
A letter from Florence, Ala, to the Mo-
bile Register, says Wayne county is full of
renegades, styling themselves Union men.
Joined BY deserters from the rebel army
they have become more formidable than
ever.
Frank Blair and C. C. Washburn have
been confirmed as Major Generals. The
nomination of Fred Steele elected warm
discussion. About dozen voted against
Blair.
The New York Times dispatch states that
nine citizens of Fairfax were arrested there
and sent to the old capitol prison, charged
with having piloted the rebels in their raid
on that place.
The rebels who entered Fairfax just
saved their distance in escaping with their
plunder, Col. johnson following them with
cavalry SO sharply as to recapture thirty or
forty of their horses.
One hundred and fifty citizen prisoners
we're sent from St. Louis to Washington
last week. They are to be put inside the
rebel lines via Fortress Monroe and James
River, for exchange.
Dispatches from Admiral Dupont men
ton the capture of the schooner Belle, Of
Nassau, off the coast of Georgia, with .
cargo Of salt and coffee. She purported to
be bound for Port Royal, but among her
Captains papers was found an agreement
with the owners to run the blockade.
1t is said about S3,000,000 of gold
have found their way into the Department
of Gen. Grant within few months past,
and that before the search for contraband
goods commenced at Island No. 10, about
SIC, 100000 worth of goods had been
brought here, most of which had gone
South.
A Washington dispatch to the New
York Times, March 14th, says: We hear
from Falmouth tonight that an official
report has been made to Headquarters Of
the discovery of negro cavalry pickets on
the South bank of the Rapahannock, be-
low Fredericksburg. At the United States
ford, night before last, a new and large
encampment of the enemy was discovered,
as if they were meditating another advance
to this side. Our troops are vigilant.
A dispatch has been received from Salt
Lake, stating that Judge Kennedy has
issued writ against Brigham Young, un.
der the polygamy act of Congress. The
writ was served without trouble. Brigham
gave bail in the sum of $4,000. The dis
patch further says the civil authorities can
be maintained in Utah without the aid Of
troops.
A refugee, who arrived within our lines
from Charleston, says the rebels have about
four hundred guns in position around the
city. The west side is poorly fortified.
There are number of iron clad shore bat.
teries in the harbor, mounted with the
heaviest guns. He denies that the forts
there have been cased with iron. Another
iron clad was ready to launch, but the reb-
els lacked the necessary machinery. Sew.
eral thousand negroes were kept busy daily
in strengthening the Notifications of the
city. He thinks the city impreguable from
water approach.
The Tribune's dispatch states private let
ters speak in alarm of the feet which is in
progress of construction in England for the
use of the rebels. Our Government has
been urged to demand in pre-emptory terms
that they be forbidden to sail on their
errand of destruction to American com.
merce an open threat of war being in the
opinion of the writer's sure and only
onlp means Of putting An end to these
secret hostilities. In high official circles
here similar views are entertained.
A gentleman from Savannah on the Goth
ult., has arrived at Cincinnati. He Was .
member of the South Carolina Legislature.
He reports two immense armies massed in
Tennessee-one to hold Rosecrans in check
while the other fauks him and enters Ken.
lucky, and moves directly on to Louisville
and Cincinnati. 1t is only waiting for the
rivers to fall and the roads to dry up. The
general talk in the South is that feet of