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Year: 1861

her politicians and merchants. Her vote
has been given for Lawrence or Topeka, As
pay or prejudice inclined.


But the Capital is dead issue ; We have
done our duty and have no more to say
about it. If bribery has settled the ques-
t;on wa canuot be blamed for it.


The County election has been hotlv con.
tested. The Republican ticket was good
one the Democratic ticket was the worst
possible it offered for candidates several
men Who were as rank traitors as any in the
army of JEFF. Davis. And it may be elect
ed. If the people want such miscreants in
office. they have the undoubted right to
vote them in.


The State ticket excited very little atten-
ton. Although the Governor, the Attor'
new General and the Auditor were magnan-
,mously taken by the Republicans from the
Democratic party, yet that traitor conclave
threw off on the State ticket. They did
not have the name of single State Office,
on their tickets; they did not even vote fol
the yacaacies on the State ticket. Such
meanness, such depravity, such utter con
tempt of Union men and Union principles
as was yesterday manifested by the Demo
Gratis of this county, merits and will receive
the execration of loyal men in all parts o.
Kansas.


But the contest is over and we are con
tent with having done our duty.
Year: 1861

The Paris correspondent of the London
Herald writes as follows


The military preparations of the French
Government are going on with great activity.
Experiments are just now going on at Nln-
cennes with view to use common rlfed
howitzers as mortars, by fixing them at
very sharp angle, wEich enables small shells
to be thrown some six thousand metres
But these experiments excite but little at
tention in comparison with a new invention
which has been tried with perfect success:
and by which foot soldier in heavy march
ing order is enabled to aUdls on The aoater
aeithont sinking 1t consists of a pair of
India rubber boots and trousers, all of one
piece, which are filled with air little be-
low the waist, and heavily weighted at the
feet. With these trousers on, detachment
has frequently crossed the lake of Vincennes
where the water is about fifteen feet deep,
firing their muskets and loading as they
went. The men sink abous two feet, the
water barely reaching the top of their thighs
and appear not to have any difficulty III
keeping their balance ard moving along
The experiment is to be repeated in pres
ence of the Emperor, and there is not the
slightest doubt of its being adopted for the
army. The inventor is a manufacturer of
Douai, and hear that he offered his lnven-
ton to the British Government some time
ago, but was laughed at, and'eyen refused a
trial. The consequence of the adoption of
this system need hardly be pointed out
Fancy on calm day at sea how easy il
would be to land three or four thousand
men, who would forthwith walk ashore, and
secure landing for the rest of the force
For the crossing of rivers, the advantage OF
this system is still more obvious, and the
delays caused by the necessity for construc
ting bridges or discovering fords would be
done away with. | may add, as it is not
improbable that plan for making soldiers
amphibious may meet with some incredulity
that | can vouch for the accuracy Of the
particulars given above, which have reached
me from military friend who himself wit
messed what have attempted to describe
can readily believe, however, that you vii
require ample corroboration.
Year: 1861

the feelings of gratitude which oppress me
in my retirement. l shall offer my prayer
to God for this Administration, and for my
Country. l shall pray for it with conf
dence for its success over all enemies, and
that speedily.


The President then took leave of Gen
eral Scott, giving him bis hand, and saying
he hoped soon to write him private letter,
expressive of his gratitude and affection.
Year: 1861

The New York Evening Post sketches
with master hand, the contrast between
the humane course of our Government and
the inhuman policy of that of the Rebels:


We restrain our soldiery from trcading
the soil of State that wears the mask of
peace and protests her loyalty, until she
casts aside her pretense and reveals her hills
covered and her forests and defles lined with
batteries. We spare the lives of traitors,
relying on their honor and their oaths, and
soon after find the subjects of our mercy in
the ranks of our foes. We have respected,
in all cases, the usual signals Of truce but
they confound the hospitalities of war BY
carrying our banner as decoy, and having
won by so base and cowardly an act, an ad-
vantage of position, they pour their mur-
derous fire on our soldiers about to embrace
them as brothers. We give our wounded
enemies water, and with reviving strength
they plunge the bayonet to the heart Of
their benefactors. We give free access to
our military posts aud our prisoners of war,
even to Congressional traitors, and per
petual truce to unarmed rebels, but Nor
thern men are imprisoned or shot all over
the South. We gallantly permit the wives
of rebels in arms to boast their family dis
loyalty in the circles of our Capitol, and in
directly live from the public treasury, and
at the same time complacently hear Of Nor
thern women sojourniDg in the South, strip
ped to the waist and whipped With the knout,
for no crime but the love of the government
of their fathers. We withhold, nay sup
press the stampedes and instructions Of q
servile race, while they force their slaves to
throw up the breastworks behind which they
may in comparative safety deal death to the
defenders Of the Constitution. We decline
the services Of men whose color as well as
whose occupation might be questionable to
our fastidious foemen, and send our white
citizens alone to do the parallel entrenching
and to fall under the FIRE Of negro battalions.
We discourse feelingly Of our recent frafer-
nal relations, and hope that the rebels will
lay down their arms and return to obedience
to the Constitution and the laws Of peace !;
they poins n to their newly formed allan
ces with the pirates Of the seas and the In
dian savages Of our frontiers. The world
viii judge which side Of this national strug-
gle glows with that glory Of " chivslry" that
accounts it honor to give the odds to your
enemy in deadly contest.
Year: 1861

nS News from Europe per last steamer
shows the rebel emissarles in London and
Paris were confdent,and noisy in the belief
that the necessities of manufacturing inter-
est. will lead to an interference in the
American contest for the purpose of break
ing the blockade to procure supply OF
cotton.


II is nevertheless evident that their cause
is losing ground both with the people and
the press. The London Post, Palmerston's
organ, has strong article against any In
reference, and expressing the fallacy Of the
notion that recognition of the rebel States
would reopen the cotton trade; that. on
the contrary, recognition would only in
crease the vigor of the blockade, and any
interference would be an act of war.
Year: 1861

Election in Leavenworth County.


The Leavenworth Conservative thus vents
itself the morning after election. We be.
gin to think Leayenworth "wont do to
bet on"


Yesterday was a spirited day in this town
and county. The location Of the Capital
seemed to be the important question. Law.
renee and Topeka had spent large sums Of
money here; they had bought up the Times
and Zeitung, (as we'll as nearly every other
paper in the State); they had bought up
strikers, runners and FOUNDERS who we're to
be seen and heard at every poll in the city.


Leavenworth has done nothing in this
contest Her duty was to prevent an cleo
ton and to save the State the expense ol
the two OF three hundred thousand dollars
which will presently be voted for the erec-
tion of Capital buildings. This was also
the interest and duty of the people of the
State at large. Our taxes will be sufficient
~ high without the onerous burden to which
we are now to be subjected. This policy
has been advocated in the Conservative
We have refosed the lots and gold Of Tope-
ka and Lawrence because the interests oi
the people were of more importance thar
our personal aggrandizement.


But Leavenworth has done nothing; hel
leading men have been careless or purohas
ed. The arguments offered BY unbough'
men have had no weight; the real inter
ests Of the people have not been consulted
and Leavenworth has been led into error BY
Year: 1861

Coon FOR THE PRINTERs-The Typo
graphical Union of indianapolis held a
meeting last Saturday evening, and ordered
subscription Of fifty dollars to the National
Loan. This is the first movement in that
direction.
Year: 1861

THE VOTE OF JUNCTION PREcMoT.


The following is the vote of this precinct
We are unable to get the returns from the
different precincts in the County for this
paper, but will give them next week.


Whole number of votes cast, 13l
Year: 1861

"Jim and Joe Hardman both in State
Prison! How does it happen?"


"Jim was committed as burglar three
years ago, aud Joe was only sent here last
week for horse stealing. He has been q
hard case long time though, aud John is
not much better"


How arc the other boys coming onH


Bill ran away 10 sea year ago, and has
not been heard from, and have just heard
that Mr. Hardman has been obliged to
settle up large bill which Jack made at
the tavern last winter. Prospect is that
the old man will be obliged to disinherit
the boy soon, or loose all his property. In
fact [ presume it will go soon any way,
and he has taken TO drinking himself, and
some say to gambling also. He feels rather
downhearted since his boys have turned out
so badly, and l suspect he is trying to
drown his troubles. l feel sorry for the
old man, he always meant wcll' Meant
well, but certainly failed to do we'll. Had
his children received the education which
they should have had, his old ago might
have been blessed in their respectablity and
usefulness, AS it is, bis grey hairs will go
down with sorrow to the grave.
Year: 1861

The election for Delegates to a Conven-


ton, to meet in Wheeling in November


next, was held in the loyal counties OF
Western Virginia on the oath inst, and
though the vote cast was not n full one,


the result is overwhelmingly in favor of a
division and the organization of the new
State of KanaWha. The deplorNble want
of intelligence in the mountain regions,
from the limited means of information ac-
ceSsible TO the masses, added to the covert
and insidious efforts of sympathizers with
the secession schemes, rendered the vote
less than it otherwise would have been


But the result is none the less decisive.
The negative vote cast was very meagre
in some districts scarcely any, while in
others the expression for the division is al
most unanimous. The delegate selected are
from the ablest men in the several coun-
ties, and hence the Convention will be
composed of an intelligent, well-Informed
and patriotic body of men, who will per-
form the work assigned them with sound
judgement aud Il wise regard to the best
interests of the new State. Under libcr-
al, free Constitution, Il brilliant future lies
before the people of Kunawha. Composed
of u territory rich in mineral wealth and
abounling in all needed facilities for un-
limited manufacturing cuterprises-with
the noble Ohio washing its western boun-
Diary throughout its whole length-the
new State will bound forward in a career
of prosperity unexampled in the his
tory of her contemporaneous sisters
Whether excluded or not, Slavery can
never clog its prosperity or impede its
advancement. 1t has been the curse of
old Virginia. Upon this breaker has she
made shipwreck of all her material intor-


oil nd Gnr
fame No State in the Union has sunk so
low us the Old DOrainion-the Mother of
States-solely because of her idOlatry to
the barbarism of slavery. And now she
has lost the only portion of her territory
from which she might have hoped in the
future to repair the ruin wrought by her
Welding to the mad and delusive schemes
of the Southern Olignrchy. The die is
cast With worn-out soil, q blasted cred
it. 81 hopeless insolvency, desolated ter
ritory and bankrupt and impoverished
population, nothing remains for her but
ruin the most hopeless and pitiable that
ever befcl State since tue dawn of civil
izatisn. Alas what fall f! How abject,
how BUNDLED in the dust is the once proud
old Commonwealth One cannot cOntem-
plate ruin so complete without emotions
of pain and melancholy regret. No State
in the Union had more glorious prospects
before her. With territory large enough
for an empire, containing all the elements
and prosperity, she has fallen prey to thu
wild schemes of ambitious demagogues,
whose rapacious thirst for power and do
minion has wrought out their ruin and
brought disaster, dishonor and woes un-
speakable upon her people! Let the new
State avoid the rock upon which she
split.
Year: 1861

An Indian and a white man were
brought under conviction by the same
sermon. The Indian was shortly after
led to rejoice in pardoning mercy The
white man, for long time, was under
distress of mind, and at times ready to
despair but he was at last brought Il so
to comfortable experience of fOrgiving
love. Some time after, meeting his red
brother, he thus addressed him: How
is it that | should be so long under con-
,iction, when You found comfort so
soon ? oh, brother replied the In
dian, me tell you. there come along a
rich prince. He propose to give you a
new coat. You look at your coat, and
say, don't know; my coat pretty good.
] think it will do little longer lie
then offer me now coat ! look on my
old blanket. say. This good for moth
ing fling it rip ht away aud accept
the beautiful garment. Just SO, brother
you try to keep your own righteousness
for some time. YOU 10th to give it up
but | poor Indian. had none /; therefore
| glad at once to receive the righteous.
ness of theLord Jesus Christ. '-Bomes
Illustrative Gatherings.
Year: 1861

The Savannah Republican says: In
times of great public excitement great
many stories are invented in both Sec
tions with the view of adding to the
public irritation. OF this class is the
statement, generally believed, that it is
unsafe for C citizen of the Confederate
States to put bis feet on the soil of the
enemy. This is not true OF course it
is advisable and best in times like these
for Southern men to remain at home, but
in eases where their families are at the
North, and they desire to bring them
home, or in any urgent necessity, we
have no doubt of their ability to 20 and
return with perfect safety The only
condition is, attend to your own bust
ness. and leave the affairs of others a.
lone. We know number of gentle


men of this State, some of them Of this
city. who have recently gone North and
returned without the slightest molesta-
ton. We yesterday saw letter from a
resident of Savannah now IN New York
in which he expresses his astonishment
at the respect with which he is every
where treated, after all the bloodthirsty
stories he had read in the newspapers
Year: 1861

ny MISS ROSE TEvoY.
Don't shed a tear for him
Lay him to rest,
The bright cross of honor
Ablaze on his breast.
The shouts nf nation
Shall cheer him to God,
The hope Of people
Spring fresh from his blood.
Don't shed a tear for him
Heroes must die
In gladness and triumph,
Like suns from the sky.
Battle-red banners
And war-tramp above.
They only break camp up
Forward to move. ~
Don't shed tear for him !
Mourn him in blood.
Quick-dropping bullets
Shall work him most good.
Fight for him !! fall with him!
Die as he died.
Living or dying.
Our hope and our pride.
Don't shed tear for him
Better to go.


Eager for cattle,
Facing the foe.
For one life like his life
A thousand shall pay,
And the fury it kindles
Shall carry the day
Year: 1861

"A Methodist brother had occasion to
preach discourse against the doctrine Of
immersion, but could not find text until,
with great shrewdness and good sense, he
hit upon this-"Beware of divers---and
strange doctrines" ....s
Year: 1861

has won for itself such renOwn for the cure OF
every variety of Throat aud Lung Complaint, that
it is tirely unnecessary for TO recount the evil
deDce of its yrtues wherever it has been employed.
AS it has long been in constant throughout
this section, wo need not do more than assure the
people its quality is kept up to the best it has
been, and that it may be relied to do for their
relief all il has ever been found to do
Year: 1861

began to make an equivocal of RI
diculous kind with me but a power
was then given to me, and verify I
have thought that was surely for
titled and inspired with the spirit of
truth and seriousness.


/. "'Oh Captain was my answer to
his light hearted ribaldry, 'ye're due
a great debt-ye hae great sum of
sin to answer for. Here wasa young
lady, rosy and sweet, blooming upon
her native bush. though it may have
been thorny. The dear and kind
entertainments of auld lang syne
We're around ner paternal sanctuary
and gentle Memory was ready with
her golden key to open tho tower to
you when you returned.


"He looked clouded as I said this
his mirth was departed; but for
all that | persevered, saying,


"' And what, Captain, have ye
earned by your deceitfulness? ga
witheted flower and broken heart.
Oh sir, where was fine feeling when
ye brought the harlot thoughts of
camps and barracks into the defence
less and innocent bowers oflove and
con6dence-where was bravery, when
the silly Establishments of simple
maiden won you to forget the virtue
|wherewith remembrance had sancti-
fled the scenes wherein she fell-and
where is your honor, knowing that
what was won was given in the faith
fulness Of youthful constancy, that
you refuse still - redeem the pledge
of fidelity?'


81 spoke like my father in the
pulpit; and, by the pith Of what I
said, so daunted the worldly audaci-
ty Of the Captain, that he sat silent
and made no answer Seeing him
thus in sort of penitential medita-
ton, I pressed upon him further-I
babe him compare what the unfortu-
nate lady was, with what she might,
but for him, have been. It was a
depicting that made my own heart
melt with sorrow, and my eyes to
overflow with tears.


CONTINUED IN OUR NEXT.
Year: 1861

CHILDREN Of any age can now have their pictures
" taken perfect as we have built a Room expressly
for their Groups of Children also taken in rac
tlon of second, clear weather Mothers need not
have the trouble take them 70 Gallery dozen
times and at last put up with caricsture, they
will but go at once to


feb1S-u HUGRESi PREMIUM GALLERY.
Year: 1861

We seldom open one of our exchanges with ou finding a noice or advertisement of con cert tdbIeaur giUaAts, or exhibition of some kind, the proceeds of which is to be applied for the benefit of soldiers, or their families. The ladies of Little Rock who are busily making clothes for the volunteers need some money to purchase materials. Some of the families of the volunteers will need aid this fall or winter, and fund should be provided to relieve their wants when they arise. We have in this city musical amateurs of acknowledged ability, both male and female It would be very easy to get up concert or musical exhibition. Our young ladies could get upa series of tableaux that would draw full houses. The evenings are growing long and we need recreation of some kind.

 Our contemporary of the Gazette is a batche Tor. with the run of the musical circles and is the very person to take the matter in hand and get up a concert. When he does, we suggest to him that the simplest music will be the best, and the performers need not take the trouble to learn or to perfect themselves in difficult pieces Tableaux, or dramatic exhibition; rectations or a musical entertainment, would be well received and patronised.
Year: 1861



 NT7 HEREAS, By the provisions of the Sd section of an w act of Congress approved August 30th entitled An act to Collect for dstribuon the moneys remaining in the several Post Offices of the Conf derate at the time the postal service taken in charge by said govern ment it is made the duty of the General to make procamat that all are citizens of inc Confederate States of America and may have rendered postal of the States Conie,leracy der mao by the United States Go before the Confederate States Government took charge of snch service shall ther claims partmen verified and established according rules he shall prescribe by time tn rein to be for than six months and requiring the claimant to under oath how much has been paid and the date of pay ments account of the contract appointment under which said claim occurred and what fund provision Ina been apart made for the further payment o the whole portion of the balance of such claim by Govern ment of the United States or any of the States and they shall also sate oath whether they performed fully the service according to their contracts appointments during the tune for which they claim pay, and if not what partial service they did perform and what deductions have been made from their far they know any failure, or partial failure, to perform such servce.'

 Now, therefore, JOHN II. REAGAN, Postmaster Gene ral of the Confederate States of America issue ths my proclamation requiring persons having claims for postal service under the foregoing provisions of the Sd section of the above named act to said claims the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department for examna on on or before the 18th day of March, 1862 in order that may make report to Congress of the amount thereof as required by law.

 be furnished application the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department.

 And hereby ali who nave heretofore col lected in the States composing the Confederate States and which they had not paid over at the time the Confederate States took charge of the postal vice. to make out under oath and send the Auditor of the Treasury Post Office Department on or before the 18th day of October next % or ps ce a partment up time the control of the postal Service assumed by the states in accordance With May 5th 1859 page 1o6 exhibiting the balances in the pos session of such postmasters r f,, Gwen under my hand and seal Of the Post Oince Us Department of the Confederate States of America " at Richmond Virginia & the l$ day oi ssPtemoe ID Oct g. ls6l 4w Postmaster General
Year: 1861

This gentlemen spent few days of the past week in our city. He is just from Richmond, where he was detained some eight or ten days after the adjournment of Congress, laborng for the interests of Arkansas in the great struggle now upon us. One of the measures, among necton of Ft. Smith with Little Rock, and Po- cahontas with Des Arc, by the establishment ot telegraph lines between those points for the pur- pose of immediate and speedy communication between the government and our armies under Generals McCulloch and Hardee In this he informs us he succeeded entirely, and that the work of placing the wires will be commenced as soon as the government can make the necessary arrangements.

 In recent number of our paper we an nounced Col. Johnson as candidate for the Confederate States Senate, and we believe his election by the General Assembly, at It's session in November next, will be nearly unanimous The wish to have him in that position seems to be general with all parties and persons, and 1t is in obedience to that very general wish, made known to him through numberless channels, and his own anxieties in this struggle to which he has been long devoted, that he has abandon ed his determination to retire from the public service and submits his name to the people of Arkansas, to use his own language, !" to be again elected or defeated"

 The rumor has reached him that letters have been written to different asprants for the Senate to the effect that he has tavorite for the other seat in the Senate to be filled next November, and that he is seeking to make a combination against all other candidates. Such letters, if any have been written, are intended solely to iniure him, and contain not word of truth The legislature will select for itself without any fort r nauence fir m him