The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1863-10-03

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recent battle.
Recent foreign advices say that civil war
has commenced in Japan. 2iA+
Company X, of the Eleventh Regiment is
stationed at Burlingame, Usage county.
The State Fair will be held in Leavsnworth. |
next week, on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
and Friday. l'
The fve-twenty United States Bonds are
still selling at the rate Of over half million
dollars per day. ,f
Gen. Hooker has been assigned an important
command in the field, where his brilliant fight
ing qualities will find their full scope. -. :.
The Confederate Government has effected
loan of 100. 900, OO6f from parties In France
on the cotton now in this country.
The New York Tribunc's Norfolk correspon-
dent SAYS Lee will superintend the final strug-
gle for Chattanooga.
It is reported that the Sumter, alias Gibrai-
tar ran the blockade Of Charleston August 2ad.
Having on board two GO and four 4oo-Pound
guns. ~. aat
Brigadier-General George W. Dsitsler has
resigned on account of ill-health. In the res
lisnation of General Deitzler, our Country has
lost one of her best Generals. ftb
Gen. Blunt has arrived at Fort Scott, where
he will remain until he finishes the recruiting
business. and closes up the claims OF the han-
e sas Brigade.
. The Richmond Examiner is savage upon the
, spectators, who are filling their Easements
8 and outhouses with wheat, in order to take ad-
7 vantage Of the necessities Of the people. .-
The first hundred tons of railroad iron for
. the Union Pacific Railroad, Eastern Division
were shipped from Elmira, n. T., on the lo'n
ult.
premium of company colors. worth $25, will
e be given for the best target-shooting by COM
!. pauy of Kansas State Militia at the State Fair.
a and drum and fife to the best drilled company
/. A Canadian, who wished to tell q copperhead
t. what he thought of him couldn't remember the
e appropriate title, and so relieved himself with
G "You old one cent !" He hit the value if ne
i didn't hit the name.
'e A writer who evidently is capable of knowing
IL Of what he speaks, says that there 10 not An
e iron vessel in the British or French navies whose
plating can resist the shot of our large Parrot
L. guns, at moderate distance"
D. Hon. Archibald Williams, U. 8. District
Al Judge for the District of Kansas, died a
= Quincy, Illinois, on the 2lst ult. Thus ha'
fallen another honored citizen, an eminent
~ lawyer and a distinguished jurist.
a At the nominating convention Of Woo
We county Ohio, four Of seven nominees for county
. Offices were wounded and crippled soldiers
n That is right it shows that respect for soldier
rt in that locality is not buncOmb, but comes
IN from the heart. tta. 'l
is Cars are now running from San Francisco
I'd seventeen miles towards San Jose, over tn
ht Western Pacific Railroad. Seventy miles viii
OF be in order for passengers within month, ant
n the balance of the road to San Jose will b
IL completed in the same time.
Since the confiagration at Lawrence, eight g
". nine packages of notes have been sent to tn
~ Treasury to be exchanged for others. They ha
- been subjected to the FIRE, and were not injure
" beyond Identification. It seems that the chem
rer calls employed on these notes forms coatin
~o which affords protection from fire..
- They had a guerrilla scare in Leavenwort
:. last Sunday night 1t was caused by the arr
80 val of some Union League men, who had bee
ldriven out of Platte county. Seven or elgl
companies were Immediately under arms, IN
great promptitude was shown by them in pr
~ pairing for any emergency that might arise.
The Detroit Free Press states that the heal
nty of Gen. Cass had improved, and he was no
,m- considered out of danger. Gen. Csss is no
mt 81 wears old. having been born IN l792.
up that year were also born John c. Calhou
fill Thomas H. Benton, Daniel Webster and Mart
,st- Van Buren-all dead.
one James C., Watson, of Ann Arbor, Michiga
er- discovered new planet on the morning OF :
nti- 18th ult Its right ascension is fifteen minut
I. ftime). and its declination nine degrees 81
6ftv minutes north The motion indicates tn
I'D. the new planet belongs TO the group bstwe
est Mars and Jupiter. 1t shines like star OF
the tenth magnitude. 80
do The steamer Clinton arrived at New 70
bringing New Orleans paper Of the 10Th. Th'
mu- was a female bread riot at Mobile on Septemt
ven. ,.ar 4tb The Governor ordered the 18th Alabal
uch regiment to put down the disturbance, but tn
for ref,eed the Mobile cadets essayed to do it,
ach were forced to fly by the women. Peace y
- finally restored, but the riots openly deelar
emu. they would burn the city If some means W
not devised to relieve distress.
i. ~ sam Wood, of the Council Grove Pre-
~. pitches into everybody like an old woman
washing day. We don't know Sam, Wot
tsf don't want to know, never saw him, never 81
ave ~, -..d envth;no ahr