The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1864-06-04

Q8H11AL NYWo uRllS.
John jacob Astcf was forty years old
before bs made bis frst thousand dollars.
The Pamuskey is msde up Of the North
aud South Anna rivers. The junction is
near Hanover Court House, and within less
than twenty miles Of Hichnond.
The court.martial upon Surgeon Geueral
Hammond resulted in his conviction. The
findings will soon be made public. ~
The Great Eastern has been chartered BY
the Atlantic Telegraph Company to lay the
Atlantic cable before the 3lst of December;
1865, and If the work Is successfully per-
formed the owners of the Great Eastern
are to receive $4,000 in shares of the
Atlantic Telegraph Stock.
The President received, shortly after the
battles of the Wilderness, dispatch from
San Francisco, requesting him to inform
General Grant that the latter had bet So
900 in gold that Grant would capture Rich
moud within forty FIVE days from the date
of those battles.
The present aspect is that the drsft will
be lightened Of the $500 eommutation
clause, and so We shall get troops, to the
end that our armies be kept full 1t will
give the copperheads chance to take part
in the honorable business Of saving the
country by fighting for il.
Punch gives as one reason for Garabaldis
leaving England so suddenly, that be heard
that MI. Tupper was ''coming after him to
recite an ode in hrs honor" Another was
his being pesteEed by ladies for autographs
and other memorials. At the time he de-
parted he had already consumed three mat
tresses 10 sending ladies locks Of his hair.
Idaho is decidedly.a fast country. If q
q woman becomes dissatisfied With her hus-
band, or finds some man she likes better,
she states her case to the President of the
mining district where she resides-he calls
a miners meeting-.hey unite the matri-&
monial knot, and she is at liberty 10 take
whoever she pleases, provided she can got
him.
The Philadelphia Press states that Geo.
u. Stuart, President of the United States
Christian Commission, accompanied by
Bishop NcIIvaine, of Ohio. had gone to
the battlefield on q tour of inspection and
to arrange for enlarging the sphere of oper-
ations Of the Commission, who have now
over 230 delegates on the field in Virginia.
and are shipping some two hundred boxes
Of supplies daily.
The General Conference of Methodists
at Philadelphia has changed the rule limit
ing the appointment Of preacher to two
years, and has granted to the Bishops the
right to re.appoint for third year, by q
vote of 160 for and 48 against. The de-
bate on the subject showed that large num-
bers of the best minds in the church are in
favor of this change in the time of itinera.
acy, particularly in the cities.
Hon. Joshua R. Giddings died very sud-
denly in Montreal on the 28th Of May.
At the time of his death he was American
Consul General. Mr.. Giddings was one of
the earliest and bravest champions Of the
anti. slavery cause in this country, and he
now falls, like Owen Lovejoy (his CO. worker
in Congress), at the very moment when his
labors were to be rewarded by the Freedom:
of his country. He leaves an honored
name and glorious example.
1t is estimated that SIG, 100000 has been
raised since the commencement of the war
by the fairs, for the use of the Sanitary
Commission.
An oil farm in Western PENNSYLVANIA
has been cold for the enormous sum Of
$3.50, 900. 1t is small, but contains several
oil wells.
The Indians are troublesome In the ex.
treme northwestern counties of Iowa. The
Sioux City Register of the 23d ult., says
that the officers and many of the citizens
of Sioux county had come to that place.
The houses at the county seat of O. Brien
county have been burned by the savages,
and in Clay and other counties property has
been stolen and people murdered. Cavalry
has been dispatched to look after the ma
rauders.
The Russians have at last conquered the
Cireassians. On the first of April . great
battle was fought, with large loss on either
side bat the Circassians were finally de-
feated, and seeing no hope in the future Of
being able to SUCCESSFULLY carry on con-
test they have so long and 90 spiritedly
maintained, they are making arrangements
to emigrate to Turkish soil. The Turkish
Government favors the idea, and has sent
Eve steamers to take Of the refugees IL tho
Russian government will allow it. F.,
BushWhackers Burn Lamar.
The following has been received at Leav.