The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1863-10-24
NEWS GLEANINGS.


NEWS GLEANINGS.
The Commissioners to receive proposals for
the building of Penitentiary. met on Tues
day, the 18th, at the office Of the Secretary of
State, and adjourned to meet at the same place
on Tuesday the 9th inst-Reeord. a- .ra-
In regard to the costliness of government
Great Britain takes the lead. Englishmen pay
at the rate of thirteen dollars and twenty-five
cents per head for being governed; the Swiss
pay but one dollar and seventy cents per head
for the same convenience The French pay o
little more than ten dollars per head, and our
worthy ancestors, the Hollanders, pay without
grumbling, twelve dollars and o quarter.
The liabilities of E. P. Jeffries, the fast
young man who has cut such q dash in Boston,
are found to figure up to $9OO,OC0. He is only
twenty-eight. III t..as O., .atnsi r.H
1t is beginning to be a serious question
whether Morris Island is going to. hold our
troops much longer. The tides are washing
away the bluffs at the south end at the rate Of
from fifteen to twenty feet day. Fifty yards
Of beach have disappeared in the sea since
the middle Of August. 1t probable, however,
that Charleston will 'scave in" before long.
and give our brave fellows more comfortable
quarters.
Hon. F. G. Adams has received the appoint
ment of Clerk of the U. S. District Court, for
the District of Kansas.
The Navy Department has contracted with
Tufts, of Massachusetts,, for the construction
of casemated iron-clad of $500 tuns burthen.
This is the only vessel yet contracted for under
the advertisement fer monster iron-clads.
Orders have been issued for the draft to
commence in Minnesota, Wisconsin and New
Jersey on October 25th That date falls on
Sunday, but probably the War Department
acts on the proverb that .sthe better the day
the better the deed" 6a
Within the last two months JEFF. Davis rebel
incendiaries have set on fire and destroyed Is
irst-class steamboats,, valued at three-quarters
of million of dollars, and caused the loss Of
twenty-eight lives. 49,, ...s. .,..
The Navy Department is reported to have in
its possession an original contract between the
Confederate Government and private parties,
for the delivery of stores at st. Georges Ber-
muda, thus making an English port the depot
for the rebels. gsi,s aa ,esas s'a 81.
Letters received at the Agricultural Bureau
from Wisconsin, state it is estimated BY good
authority that the wheat crop Of that State
will reach this year thirty millions of bushels
of which twenty y millions can be spared after
supplying the home demand. '-s-
A London paper says that Kossuth is now
residing in the environs Of Turin. He is in
actual want Of the necessaries of life; his
wife is in rapid consumption, and he is soured
against the world in pitiable degree.
The people Of Pennsylvania have raised
their Curtin and gone to playing startling
American drama, entitled Freemen's Revenge,
or "a Vigorous Prosecution Of the War; =
It is remarkable that in "the good old col
ony tines" they had q law to impose fine Of
twenty pounds sterling on any one who refused
the Office of Governor after being elected.
Winthrop says in his q Journal, that MFR. Ed
~ar'l winslow got of by Importantly, having
served ten years.
Caiifarnia led tho way, Vermont and Maine
echoed back the shout. Now Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania and Iowa sirike in With grand chorus
for Liberty and Union, now and forever, one
and inseparablc. s. sgss gi t So 4
Capt. Banks, Provost Marshal, has been re
moved, and Capt. Shannon. Of the Earollnent
Board, appointed in his stead. Z sb
The population Of ireland decreased 20 per
cent. between the census of 1871 and that Of
1851. and II per cent more between the CEN
sus Of 1851 and that Of 1861, -@ '- e9fi
The third series of ) 20 bonds, SlO0 OOO, 900.
Is nearly ready for issue, and the indica4ions
lre that they win soon be taken up. Most Of
he work has bccn done in the Treasury De. |
pertinent at an important pccuniary saving