White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1866-05-17
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p A Corinth correspondent, So,
estimated that upon the two field, "' os st, is
and Cornth' there are no less than u oOo ~''0a ~
federate dead. whose bones for the NV. NV. 0On'
lay bleaching above ground, the ,,;n. ,' part
washed away the thin layer of e,,,h 1as
which most ~ere originally covered II. a
erai Dead were all neatly inferred i, tba wv, &
way, with head and foot boards in ar usual
stance, and, in most cases were enclosed m m
wooden palings. WIN
p The 26th ult was set an.-.
every city and village the South for ,hs ~
coration Of the graves Of the rebel dad ~,
flowers. WIN
GT Gen. cass is dying of softeninr Of ii.
brain' and bis family are in daily e.Dec,,,;o.
Of his decease. He is at times ra,ion,I .as
able to converse with friends, but this a,
ceptional state Of mind. He passes s,ofhi,
time in sleep undisturbed. The General !.
now in his eighty fourth year.
T The vicksburg Miss Herald u,...
with no little pride that Col Joesepb F D,v;.
brother OF jeff, recently iadorsed the policy Of
Andy johnson very emphatieally At a ,r,,;.
meeting, saying that if the prircip,es ,rr,.;
ated now by him had been adopted b, N.
North, there would have been no secessc,
aatteTing Endorsement.
U Col. Charles G.. Halpine Miles o,Roa
ly) editor of the New York Citizen, now claims
the authorship ef the celebrated letter of Gen
Hunter, concerning the first organization of the
colored troops.
% Capt. John Ericsson is to be paid sls.
$50 as his reward in full for planning the Init.
ed Safes var steamer Princeton, and suueriD.
tending the construction of the machinery Of
the vessel. Mr.. Ericsson has realized A LARGO
fortune by his Improvements and inventions
during the war.
F The war of the American Revolution
closed about eishty-three years ago, and i, ia
announced that of all the many thousands VII,
once figured as Revolutionary soldiers on the
pension rolls of the Government, barely two
remain-Wm. Hutchings, of Penobscot, Maine.
and Samuel Cook, of Clarcnlon, Orleans
County, New York.
! u The secret of George Peabody's wealth
is said to have been the great confidence he
had in the securities of the United States, no.
on'y during the war but long before it, When
Western State stocks were at very low price,
and nobody abroad would buy them, because
no one had confidence in them-when Indiana
and other bonds we're offered abroad at a song.
and nobody would buy, Mr.. Peabody purchased
freely.
% The West and South, Aleck Longs and
w. VI. Corry's paper, at Cincinnati, says: The
President multiplied his old Tennessee stump
speeches from the front steps of the White
House. II is the endless repetition of Andrew
johnson, and signifies only that small man in
a large place can make an unearthly roise ~
That's pretty rough talk for Democrats.
e Jeff. Davis is writing a book; Gen. Lee
is writing a book; Alexander II Stephens is
writing book; Ex-senator Gwin is writing a
book; and Ex-senator Hunter is writing a
book. They are all writing books of excuses
for their failure. Ex Senator Foote and the
Southern Democratic Review men are out with
theirs.
C A paper was passed around the House on
Friday to procure subscriptions for publishing
the Presidents speech in pamphlet form, bu;
only the following names we're obtaind, all
Democratic "Sitgreaves, $1,000; Ancona
5000; Boyer, $500; Finck. 800; Strouse, 5000;
Ross, $500; Mclean, 5000; Nicholson, 800;
Chanler, 5000; Coffroth, 5000; Shanklin, sl5O;
Niblack, 5000. The cost per copy will be two
cents.'
U The death Of German veteran who serr-
ed under the great Frederick, in the seven
years. war, is announced. He died at the re-
spectacle age of 40. at the hamlet Of slaude,
in Upper Silesia. His name was Laurence
Halaez.
u A respectable young girl Of New Orleans
has what is pronounced by physicians to be an
ciens leprosy. One of her feet has rotted OF,
and one arm is nearly gone.
p Thurlow W. Brown, q well known lecta'
rer on temperance, and editor of the Wisconsin
Chief, died at his residence at Fort Atkinson,
Wisconsin, last Friday evening.
| T Isaac Lineback died at Henry, Illinois,
recently, aged 7syeais. He was originally one
! of the most prominent Of the Shakers. but in
1924 he abandoned that organization fn dis
gust.
p Miss Polly Bowen, aged ss years and 9
months, died in Warren, Rode Island, on Satur'
day, recently. She has always lived in the
same house in which she was born; she was
never in . steamboat; she never saw ram
road; was never in Providence, and never
further from home than Taunton.
rA Washington correspondent says tha'
Senator Cowan has avowed the purpose OF de-
bauching the Republican party. so as to insure
the defeat of Gen. Geary in Pennsylvana. IL
is said BY prominent Pennsylvanians that be
will produce just the opposite effect.
~ The Cuipepper, (Va.) Observer says
"Ms. James Keith Taylor, the sister Of Chief
Justice Marshall. at very advanced age, o.
loved and venerated BY all around, is still nv
ing and resides in the lower end Of Fauquier
County"
p Hepxorth Dixon, editor Of the Lonoon
Atheneum, and the vindicator Of Penn against
aspersions of Macsulay. proposes to visit 'n''
country in August.