The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1864-06-25
GENERAL NEWs TTEMs.

GENERAL NEWS uEMS.
Aaron Crogin was chosen @. s. Senator for
New Hampshire, in place of John P. Hale, on
the 18th inst
Bids for the S75,000,000 loan ranged from
par to per cent premium. Offers average n
to per cent premium.
Col Andrew j. Polk, brother of the Bish-
op General, has come into our lines and given
up the fight.
The Tennessee delegation to the Baltimore
Convention have urged the President to term
mate his amnesty proclamation.
Drafted men will not be allowed, hereafter
to choose their regiment or branch of service
but will be assigned as the authorities may
think proper.
The taxes average Sl5 head to every man,
woman and child in New York, Fifty years
cents per annum.
Artemus Ward has written a thrilling ro-
nance, entitled Gloverson, the Mormon" 1t
contains twenty-one Mormonesses, each of
whom figures as blushing and gushing hero
inc.
A letter from Covington. KY, says " the
proudest and happiest man in the Union at
present, is the father Of General Grant, who
resides in our city"
A correspondent of the Denver Common
realh. on the road to Bannock, says that
land sharks are scattered along the road. sta
toned at mud holes and creek crossings, de-
manding toll at rates ranging from one to five
dollars.
The st. Louis Democrat says that Capt. L.
D. Raoul, company F, I'd Colorado, has been
cashiered for dressing three of his men as cit
liens and sending them to Kansas in charge Of
contraband stock for his own use.
The highest contract ever known in the
Post Office Department was awarded on the
18th. Postmaster General Blair let the whole
service from Atchison, Kansas, via Salt Lake,
to Folsom City, CAL, to John A. Leesland, of
Lancaster, Pa, at S75O,0C0 per annum. This
is the letter mail only between the Atlantic
and Pacific States.
Gen. Butler is said to be ascertaining as
rapidly as possible how many of the negro
troops were certainly murdered after having
been captured in recent engagements with the
enemy, and that man for man of the rebel
prisoners in his hands will certainly be shot
in retaliation. This shooting will be at the
hands of negro troops.
John Q. Adams asserted that the abandon
ment Of tobacco would add FIVE years to the
average of human life. The Indians formerly
poisoned their arrows with decoction of to-
bacco. Soldiers sometimes shirk duty by
wearing tobacco under their arms, thus causing
symptoms Of illness.
There is tenement house in the city of
New York having sixty-eight rooms eight by
ten feet containing seventy families of one
hundred and forty-four adults and one hun
dred and thirty eight children, eleven dogs
and forty-three cats.
Garabaldi gift to the Philadelphia Fair is
his dagger, proverbial in Italy; it figured in
his portraits with the far-famed red shirt; it
was borne by him in most of his battles. and
it has been sung by more than one poet. 1t
was presented to the Fair by Garabaldi him
self, through Mr.. Marsh, the American Minis
ter at Turin, and Mrs. John Sherwood, of New
York.
An election took place in Nebraska on Mon
day, to decide whether the people want State
government, and to elect delegates to frame a
State Constitution in case the decision is in
favor of State organization. Partial returns
from the principal counties indicate that the
people are opposed to a State Government.
Laclede, small town on the Hannibal s. St.
10 R. r., was attacked by bushwhackers on
Saturday last. They killed two citizens and
robbed the town of what they could find worth
taking away. One Of the persons killed by
the bushwhackers was q returned soldier, who,
believing that they would kill him under any
circumstances, had fred upon the party and
wounded one of them The militia have start
ed out after the banditti.
The resignation Of Major General Fremont
promotes General Butler to the third in rank
of Major Generals, going by date of commits
sion. 1t also leave a vacancy in the regular
army, which will probably be filled by the ap-
pointment of General Sherman. The resigna-
ton of General Buell. also leaves a vacancy in
the volunteer service which will be filled by
some worthy soldier. In the regular army,
Mcclellan is the senior Major General, Hal
leck second and Butler third.
KANSAS MEN AT BALTIMoRE.-The cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Commercial
has the fullowinp reference to our delcpa.