The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-13
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aRANSAB;NOTES.
Whereabouts or Fate OF the Leading
Border RunRns and Free State Men
OfKansas, ~ q ziFr.t az.z.ls z.
si-z BOSTON, May 4, 1867.
Imet to-day Colonel VIM. A. Phillips },
well known as a Kansas correspondent
in the days that tried mems souls, and
| and still better known during the war
as the military leader of the Cherokee
Nation and commander of all the
troops in the Indian territory. He is
now engaged in writing ahistOry of the
Indian people and territory, and their
record In the rebellion. From him
have learned severalinteresting facts in
relation to the present status and poll
tics of the leading free state men, as
well as leading border rnffians, whose
names were in all mems mouths before
the war. fsr5 IN San 5s', =it.e.,-
| gi FREE STATE AIEN.
Governor Geary is Governor Geary
still, as the Quaker vote of Pennsyl-
vania attests. rra ,.ssl,.- rT.-y -tt.-,-7
Governor Robert J. Walker and Gov
ernor Stanton are together still. They
are practicing law in Washington.
Judge johnson is also practicing law
in Washington. .l}5l
JOuu DEO"u1 Vi ulS 6Ou61 AHhlH
Cook, Stevens and Whipple, have all
perished at ethe hands Of the slave
power. OF the brothers Coppie, fone
was executed at Harper's FerryCand
one was killed in Missouri by the fall.
ing of railroad bridge, undermined
by the rebels. 7 -.S..l,4r i,,-sg.-.,
John Brown, Junior, is living at Put
in-Bay, opposite Sandusky, where he is
cnltivating grapes. Bis brother Owen,
who escaped from Harper's Ferry, is
with him. John, Jr., was in The war
for time, but was compelled to leave
the service by ill-health. s9l-E
Mr.. Delahay, territorial delegate from
Kansas, Is judge Of the United States
District Court.
Mr.. Parrott, first member of Congress
from Kansas, is practicing lawn Leav-
enworth, and Is now an ultra radical.
Mr.. Conway, the second member OF
Congress from Kansas, Is United States
Consul at Marseilles. -19 iiiFf. -
Jim Lane committed suicide. ~,
Governor Robinson Is q farmer near
Lawrence. F--- .4..-r ..a5 II
Judge Lecompte Is Free State man.
BE is lawyer In Leavenworth. he
was member of the legislature last
United States Senator. sng gs9.f
Jack" Henderson was colonel in
the Union army, was wounded, and is
now an Indian agent in New Mexico.
Calhoun, of "candle-box notoriety,
died some years ago in Southern Illi-
nois. Z av
Judge Elmore died at Tecumseh at
the beginning of the war. He was a
Union man. faasa. F1s-
Gov. Shannon has practiced law since
his deposition, and is now popular with
the Free State. people. 49, -- t.,..
Sheriff Walker was heutenant-col-
mel in our army, and is now keeping
livery stable inIawrence. - 'Lt
\ X. j. Hinton was a captain and bre-
vet col In. Kansas regiments during the
war, and Is now a well known Wash.
tngton correspondent. 81. sfs -aa lsi
Sam. Tappan became a colonel Of
a Colorado regiment, and is now in
Boston.
G. W. Brown, of the Herald Of Free
dom, Is boring for oil down at Peoria.
He had not struck it at latest dates.
p, B. Plumb is lawyer at EmpOria,
and was speaker of the House OF Rep
resentatives last winter.
Joel K. Goodin is a member Of the
legislature. .--i
Mr. Holiday is still at Topeka, en-
gagged in the real estate business.
Mr.. Branscomb was one Of the loyal
southerners-from Missouri.
Sam Wood is now a judge of one of
the state courts.
Mr.. Pomeroy is a member eff the
United States Senate, and has splen-
did mansion in Chester Park, Boston.
W. F. NJ. Army is now an Indian
agent in New Mexico. -
"Old Colonel Vaughan" isstill lead
ing journalist at Leavenworth. @
T. Dwight Thatcher is now on the staff
of the Philadelphia Telegraph.
Governor Reeder is dead. ~ t1n
Judge Schuyler is consul.
Judge Smith Is a lawyer in Law
renee. 75 giHa .s-+-lt45
Captain Hamilton, the author of the
massacre at Mer des Civignes, was a
colonel in Texas. A Kansas regiment
on one occasion happened TO find, that
they were encamped on his homestead
in Alabama. 1t was not benefited by
this discovery to any alarming extent.
BORDER RUFP1ANs.
General Atchison-old DaYy-is dead.
he died in Missouri during the war.
iHetook no part in it but protessed to
"General" Stringfellow-B. F,-the
notorious champion of the border ruff
fans with the pen, became free state
man, and settled at the town of Atchi-
son. From Kansas senator learned
that he became so completely regenera-
ted as to do honor to the memory Of
John Brown. 80.
The other stringfellow -t.'the Doctor''
=he who was Speaker OF the spurious
legislature, went to Virginia and turn
ed up during the war as an aid on the
staff ofa rebel general who defended or
garrfsoned Mobile. : : -, -
Captain Henry ClaV Pate-he who
soughtand found John. Brown, and
was duly captured by him at the "bat
tie" of Black Jack-was killed in the
same skirmish in which his leader,
General st uart, of Virginia, fell.
Sheriff Jones Is In Arizona, and is re-
ported to have been a Union man du.f
ring the war. He has always managed
to hold on to federal offices.
tEColonel "Bufford" left the State, and
probably Joined the Southern army.
TOWNS.
Leavenworth is now a city ofSO. 900
tnhabitants; Lawrence of 1900 or 10, 900;
Topeka the capital, 900; Ossawatomie
Is mere village; Lecompton Is played
out; Manhattan Is a thriving town,
and Salina Is the present termination
of the Pacific Railroad.
THE POPULATION OF KANSAS
Is estimated TO be about OO0O. The
colored population is small. The State
Is very prosperous.
T. THR Indian Bureau has just issued
for the Senate long tabular statement
of the approximate number of persons
belonging to each tribe of Indians in,
the United States. The total number is.
$50, 465. The CherokeesS Apaehes, Choc-
taurs and Greek trihaa nunrnr.n- nh.,,.4