The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-04-05
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Aletter dated Leayenwortbs Kansas
Thursday, March 23d,s 1866, says: The
activity infused into military affairs by
the new commander, Major Gen. DODGE,
since the consolidation of the depart
ments of Kansas and Missouri into one,
betoken successful termination of the
present Indian difficulties. The organi-
zatioh of volunteer infantry, Of men cap
tured in the battles of Tennessee and
Georgia, convinced of the hopelessness Of
heircause, have taken the oath of ale
glance to our government, and are now
aiding it by service, will materially serve
to QUILL all difficulties and protect the
greatiinland routes as well as the Over
land mails The forces heretofore en-
ployed in garrisoning the frontier posts
were cavalry, that being the force prin-
cipally organizedin the Western country;
and they have been under many disad-
vantaEes while Kansas was department
in itself, owing to the difficulty in pro-
curing supplies, animals and transporta-
These difficulties have now been over
come The cavalry forces, consisting of
the Third Wisconsin, Seventh Iowa and
Second Colorado, are being relieved and
rdered to Fort Learned. When, after
being remounted and furnished with the
necessary outfit. campaign of great i'm
porta1ce will be inaugurated, under the
comm nd of Brevet Brigadier General j.
H. Ford, an officer of energy and expert
ence in border and Indian warfare. Tho
Indians are, to the number of IL. 900, pre-
pairing for great and barbarous cam
paign| The three large tribes, Camanches,
Apaclles, Kiowa., with that portion of
the Arappahoes who escaped from the
Chivipgton massacre at Tand Creek, are
now on the Little Arkansas, and south Of
that. awaiting the recuperation of their
stock and have some vague dieas of
peac, which means to be let alone until
Ford will establish peace, and deem it
a lasting oneA Heretofore, when treaties
have been made with them, the Indians
have taken it as an acknowledgment Of
their power aud prowess, and have made
war under this belief whenever inclined
to- The many barbarous and fiendish
outrages committed by them must be
punished, and the only means of effecting
a lasting peace and restoring security
and tranquility to the emigrant and
freighfer will he to whip them, and thus
prove the superiority and supremacy of
the Government of the United States
and its inhabitants over that of the In
dians ....
THE Chicago Post says the name of the
State of Illinois originated in this man
ner: "a party of 'Frenchmen set out up
on anexpedition down the river, which
they afterwards named, providing them
selves with bark canvas, and relying
chiefly for their subsistence upon the
game They found at the confluence of
this river with the Mississippi, an island
thickly wooded with black walnut. 1t
was at a season of the year when the
nuts were ripe, and this party of explo-
rers, encamping on the island, greatly
enjoyed the luxury of this fruit. From
this circumstance they called the island
the Island of Nuts'-or, in French, Isle
aar aois which name was given to the
river which they explored, and hence
the territory and State This eXplana-
ton of the word Illinois more fully
accords with the photography of the word,
which has certainly French termina-
tion-and the rapid pronunciation of the
French Isle aar nois would naturally lead
to the Anglicism of the terms into the
presept shane illinois,"