The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1864-03-26
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/. Tho war costs about hundred tAsus.,d dol.
lars "A hour. 8 z
Five hundred Of our prisoner died in Rich-
mond during February.
Men slip on water when it Is frozen, and On
! whisky when it isn't.
It is now stated by authority that General
sant will take command In person of ths
Army Of the Potomac.
Females are acting an important part in the
present war. The two most noted are Anna
Conda and Libby Prison. s-,,
kumor says Queen Victoria il about to .bdi-
cate and the Prince Of Wales to ascend the
throne Of England as Edward the Seventh.
Artemus Ward thinks it's q hard thinr to
not have wife--no gentle heart to Eet up in
the morning and make the fire.
There are seven hundred and thirteen pris-
oners in the Gratiot and Myrtle street prisons,
st. Louis. large number are bushwhackers.
A farmer in Warren county, Missouri, while
preparing tobacco bed short time ago, dug
up and killed sixty-seven snakes.
An exchange calls young men who stand
around church doors to watch young ladies, as
the congregation is going out, the "Devirs
Pickets."
"Ideas," says Voltaire, "are like boards
men only get them when they grow up, and
women never have any" We are not surpris-
ed that such . man was An inidel
At Somerville, Mass, on the 7th, forty -four
thousand pounds Of grease and twenty-three
thousand pounds of tallow were destroyed by
fire.
Mrs. Stuart, the wife Of the famous rebel
Genera! ]. E. B. Stuart, is living quietly at
Georgetown, D. c., where she has enjoyed the
society Of her friends, unmolested, nearly .
year.
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs, it
is said, will shortly report . series Of resolu-
tions in reference to the Mexican question,
doctrine.
The Federal authorities have recently confis-
Gated the property of the following rebels sit
uated at Superior, Wisconsin: R. NJ. T. Hun
ter, R. Ould, VIM. Aiken, Samuel Magofin, W.
W. Boyce, John Mcqueen, W. W. Corcoran and
8. NJ. Flournoy.
The pro-slavery and secession members of
the Maryland Legislature have held caucus
and concluded to make . canvass against
emancipation. In the counties where is q
probability Of success, they will run ticket
for the Constitutional Convention.
The Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch thus de-
scribes the following style Of pantaloons: The
hue is . sort of cross between that of pea soup
and dirty water, with . strong touch of the
green scum of the frog pond; and the wearers
60 about as so mauy bull frogs out on an e1-
cursion Of pleasure.
The civil affairs Of Idaho are in such an un-
settled state, that it 10 believed it will be i'm
possible to establish good government there
until the Territory is divided. The seat of
government is in the extreme northwest cor
ner of Idaho, from which the eastern part Of
the Territory is cut off by . mountain range,
placing it quite beyond the control of the au-
thorities while stationed so far away.
The telegraph line from San Francisco to
Oregon is now completed, and Offices have been
opened at Portland, Oregon City, Salem, Alba
ny, Corvillis, Eugene City, Oakland, Roseburg
and Jacksonville, Oregon. 1t is designed to |
continue this line up the western coast Of the !
Continent, across into Asia, and through St. |
Petersburg to London.
Vermont New Hampshire, Rhode Island, |
Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and |
Iowa have raised their full quotas under the |
five hundred thousand call; Ohio, Wisconsin |
and Missouri very nearly so. Pennsylvania |
and Kentucky continue to have the worst |
showing.
The Chicago Journal says !, 200 railroad en-
gineers employed upon the Chicago railroads,
have issued circulars to the different railway
companies to the effect that they will suspend
operations upon all of the roads unless the
Galena and Chicago Union Railroad Company
reinstats the strikers upon that road.
New Co1xs-The Government is consider
ing the subject Of the propriety Of issuing two
new coins, to be of bronze-one and two cents.
The price Of nickel is extremely high, and it
is proposed to substitute some other metal for
it. The owners Of the only nickel mine in the
country was before the Committee Of Ways
and Means Monday morning.
A burgfar-proo vault has been invented in
which . space between two pieces Of the plates
IS filed with iron balls about one inch in diam
eter, perfectly loose. The plates cannot be
drilled through as . drill must strike one Of /.
hose balls, which would rotate with the tool,