The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1863-11-28

A dispatch received at Washington from
Neal Dow in Richmond, says that $500 rations
sent by our Government for the relief of our
prisoners there, had been landed from steam
er, and were being distributed.
The Territorial Courts of New Mexico have of
late tried several cases having their origin in q
belief in witchery. and the Santa Fe paper says
that belief in witchery exists to great extent
in that Territory.
General Robert Anderson has been relieved
from the command of Fort Adams, at Newport,
Rhode Island, to which he had been but recent
ly assigned, his increasing ill health not al
lowing him to continue in the service. d.-e
Sugeon General Hammond has been ordered
to Nashville, Tennessee on tour Of inspection
among the hospitals of our Western armies.
According to official reports, there are s4,472
beds for patients in the United States General
Hospitals, and there are 40, 1876 persons under
treatment at present.
In their exchanges of prisoners the rebels
emaciated of our men, who will not be apt to
survive long, and in return for these receive
back their men well fed, well clothed and in
sound health
A congress of brewers has been in session
in Cincinnati, at which attended delegates
from nearly I'll the Northern States. They
say they cannot afford more than the present
tax of sixty cents per barrel. They also offer
a premium of $500 for the best substitute for
rosin to line barrels.
1t is said that Admiral Renaud, of the French
fleet, has written from New York te Paris, that
his position, owing to the festivities offered to
the Russians. is highly embarrassing; th.t, al
though the most studied politeness is shown him.
eyes and hearts are for the Russians.
A rumor that an attempt would be made to
take out to sea, by force the steam rams in the
Mersey. induced the English Government to
send the iron-plated frigate Prince Consort
and gunboat to Liverpool to watch the rams.
The work on the rams has been suspended,
and two gunboats are keeping watch over
Laird's yard
The World says the French war steamer
Widan has just arrived at this port from Vera
Cruz, via Havana, and will return directly to
the former port, having been ordered to New
York expressly to take out to Mexico four mil
lion in gold, purchased in this city on account
of the French Government, by the house of
Belmont & Co.
The Virginia City (Nevada) Bulletin says it
is absolutely no figure of speech to say that the
streets of that place are paved with silver, for it
is literal fact that they are. Thousands of tons
OF rock, which in other countries would pay to
extract the silver from, are used to level and
macadamze the streets Rock that will not pass
through the screens at the quartz mills is carried
to the roads. though some of it In any other
locality would be considered rich.
strike has been in progress among the Dur.
ham colliers in England, which has resulted
sadly to the pitmen. Thirty.seven families the
heads Of which refused to resume work on the
terms offered by their employers, were forcibly
elected from their dwellings, and their furniture
carted away and deposited in stubble fields be-
longing to the owners of the colliery Thus
about $50 persons were thrown out of work and
home.
woman Of Great Salt Lake county has sued
by writ of habeas corpus for the custody of|
her daughter who was under the control ofl
one Park, who claimed her as his wife, he hav-
ing one already. Judge Drake granted the
thorfS u,sc Oh IL xIok
riage was criminal, and null and void-which
the Deseret (Utah) Nems says is "detestible "
and an " official outrage"
The next Congress will meet on the seventh |
day of December. The New York Tribune |
puts down the members as ninety-two friends |
Of the Administration, and ninety Democrats
and Border State men. Schuyler Colfax, of
Indiana, and Elihu B. Washburne, of Illinois.
both Republicans, are the most prominent can
lidates for Speaker.
Desertions from the rebel army at Chatta-
nooga are more numerous than at sny time
since the expulsion of Bragg from Middle
Tennessee. The decentralization of the rebels
Increases daily. On the other hand, Gen.
irant's forces are in fine spirits. Re-enlist-
nents in veteran corps are more numerous than
vas expected. and good authority says that
lot less than four-fifth of the entire force will
e-enlist for the new term.
A Fight in Louisiana.
An engagement took place at Grand
cotton Prairie. near Opelousas, louisiana,
n the Sd ult., between the Fourth Division