The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1863-11-21
STATE ITEMS.

They will draw about sixty thousand dollars.
The total vote of Lyon county, at the recent
election, was 531 votes. That Of Shawnee
county was 524. at
| Col. Wcer takes command at Fort Lcaven-
worth and Col. Jennison at Fort Scott Both
good men in the right place.
Major General Scott has issued an order set
ting apart the 18th and 10Th inst. for battalion
drill of the Southern Kansas State Militia.
Dispatches have been received at St. Louis
from Gen. Blunt, announcing his safe arrival
at Fort Smith with the immense train he was
conveying.
! Co. B. Of the Kansas 9th, is to be stationed
at Emporia. The company has just returned
from the mountains, where it has been fighting
Indians for eighteen months.
The Topeka Tribune says the plasterers arc
rushing their work on the Capital buildings.
The Legislature and State officers will be bet
ter accommodated this winter with good rooms
than at any former session.
The editors of the Scientific American have
received from California piece of wood from
a tree thirty feet in diameter, the annual rings
upon which indicate the age Of the tree to be
{, 300 years old.
1t is computed that the nicotine produced by
one years growth of tobacco of the whole
world, would destory every living creature on
the face of the globe, "if its proportions were
administered in single Dose"
A special to the Tribune says Government
received information, through our Consul at
Monterey, that a few days before the capture
of Brownsville by Gen. Banks, large cargo
Of Enfield rifles, enough to arm all the militia
in the State, arrived there.
Maj. L. c. Easton, Chief Quartermaster at
Fort Leavenworth, has been relieved and Or
dered to report to Gen. Thomas at Chattanooga
Lieut.. Col. II. C. Headges, A. Q. NJ, will
take Major Easton's place at the Fort, and as
Chief Quartermaster of the Districts Of the
Border, Frontier, and Colorado.
The War Department has authorized Maj
Gen. Blunt to raise another regiment of '.Iron-
Clads," to be known as designated as the
-" Eleventh Regiment U. s. Colored Troops"
(infantry) to be mustered into the service Of
the United States for three years or during the
war. +-
Thomas Butcher, Esq, of Atchison, has
raised field Of IS acres of hemp, which is
estimated by good judges to yield half ton
to the acre on an average. Average cost Of
cultivation, including breaking and hauling
to market, about $25. Average price of hemp
about $50 per ton. Profit per acre about Sl5,
all expenses paid.
The Union Pacific Railroad will be graded
to Lawrence sometime next week. 1t will then
be less than thirty miles from Topeka and at
the present rate Of grading we may conclude
that the grading will be completed to this
place inside Of thirty days. Wonderful =
Wonderful Tribune
The present season is said to be the dryest
ever known on the plains. Owing to the dry
ing up Of the Platte river and its tributaries,
large numbers of stock have died for want of
want Of water above Fort Kearney.
One Of the men arrested and hung for steal
Falls, in his confession before death, related
the circumstance of the robbery Of Mr. Eli
Evans in Kaw township, giving oil the facts
substantially as Mr.. +. related them at the
time. We are glad that some of the villains
are overtaken by justice.-OskdIoosa Independ-
ent.
At meeting Of the Directors Of the Union
Pacific Railway held in New York on the sOth
ult., Major General John A. Dix was chosen
President of the Company; Thomas c. Durant
Vice President; John Cisco, Treasurer, and
Henry V. Poor, Secretary. This is for the
mam line commencing At the 102 parallel, of
which our Kansas road is the Is Eastern Divi-
sion."
Some twenty Temples Of Venus have been
suppressed in Washington lately by the police.
Large numbers of similar establishments are
still in fall blast and it is estimated that there
are q grand army Of "social evils, fifteen |
thousand strong, on active duty At the Nation
al Capital. As Uncle Abe has An eye to utili-
ty, he ought to organize this force into Bloom
er Brigades, and send them down South to
operate amongst the rebels. The amount Of
injury they would be sure to inflict would rem
der them valuable auxiliaries to the army.
Corn Wanted.-We will pay until
further notice, thirty ythree cents per bushel for
Corn in the ear, delivered to the Quartermasserl