The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1864-02-13
NEWS GLEANINGs.

Over I,OoU citizens OF Arkansas have taken
the oath Of allegiance.
] II. r. Gamble, Governor Of Missouri, died in
St. Louis, Feb. 1st.
There are nearly $50, 100000 in gold in the
United States Treasury.
There is salt we'll at Lansing, Michigan,
which, at the depth of fourteen hundred feet,
yields eight per cent brine.
A loyal State Convention has been called in
Florida, to take steps for the restoration Of that
State to the Union.
By the death of Governor Gamble, of Mis-
souri,, Hon. Willard P. Gamble, of St. Joseph
becomes Governor, until the regular election in
November.
According to recent estimates there are about
10000 bales of cotton remaining in the
Southern States, and about 100000 in the
hands Of the Confederate Government.
jeff Davis has had his house at Richmond
set on fire and we'll high destroyed. He recent
ly lost his Steward and Chambermaid, and his
Coachman came over to our lines months ago.
An officer in Lees army furnishes the Rich
mond Sentinel with schedule of his mothers
expenses for December, which he gives as
fair average. The total is 1856 60. Among
the items is $50 for hat.
At q Woman's Rights Convention in New
for the next meeting that if justice was not
done to the ladies and soon, they would stop
the population of this country.
Massachusetts stands at the head of all other
States in the absolute increase of population
per square mile. 1t has a population Of ,231-
066, being the seventh State in the Union on
that point and in size the thirtieth.
A committee of five, representing the New
York Bank of Commerce, have arrived at
Washington to obtain the necessary authority
to turn over the stock of that bank to form
new national bank. The present bank repre-
sents capital of Sl2,OOO,COO.
Leather in the Confederacy has become so
scarce as to render it exceedingly doubtful
whether the army can be shod comfortably the
present winter. The cost of leather now is
almost fabulous. For instance-Sl55 to $3.50
for pair of boots that cost before the war $40.
Common brogans sell for $40 and $40.
Hon. James B. Clay. son of the great states
man, Henry Clay, died lately at Montreal,
Canada, aged AZ years. In 1910, he was ap-
pointed Ch-rge a AFaires at Lisbon. In 1857
he was elected Representative from the Ash
land district in Kentucky.
1t is stated in late Fort Smith letter, that
the brigand Quantrell is now in Texas, with
his band of outlaws, numbering and robbing
all Union citizens coming within their power.
Advices from the national camps at Knox
Vile, Tennessee, represent that q decided re-
mania has taken possession of the
troops stationed in that vicinity. Fully four
ffths of the old Ninth army corps have sub
scribed for additional service In the twenty
third corps. the Fourteenth Kentucky and some
other regiments have come forward and re-en-
listed to a man.
One banker in Chicago states that he has,
within one week, had orders from various parts
Of the West to pay over to the Collector Of In
Iernal Revennc about S25O,OOO. for tax on
whisky alone. This gives . slight idea of the
extent Of the whisky interest in the North
west, and of the amount Of revenue the Gov
ernment will gain therefrom under the new
law increasing the whisky tax.
correspondent Of the ST. Louis Union gives
An account of the exploration of = wonderful
'ave called Fishers Cave, on the southwest
branch Of the Pacific Railroad The oorres-
pondent, who travelled over four miles in it
'ays that it is more marvellous than the Nam
moth Cave OF kentucky-being richer in the
fantastic inerustations that decorate its walls
md ceiling, and more thickly studded with
yrotesque stsiagmites and similar formations. ,