Year: 1861

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Second Kansas.


KANSAS CIrY, Oct. 2, 1861.
= The large force now concentrated here is
about to move South--a portion on each side


Of the river The Kansas Brigade, under Gen.
Lane, will form the advance guard, and as he
moves in mysterious way his wonders to per-


FORM" there is no telling whether slower coaches
and those who travel in daylight alone, will
evertake him before the close of the war, or the
approach of tho millennium.
There seems to be a scarcity Of transporta-


tion for the large supplies necessary to subsst
| SO large force, but by gathering up carefully
all lost wagons and horses scattered over Clay
and Jackson counties, and by compelling each
man to carry rations for himself and forage for
his horse for a few months, the machine will get
on handsomely. q 9Ja go 4 zs5ges
The great object Of attraction here is Lanes
Brigade, and the eccentric commandant of that
institution is the s'rage' all about here Hun.
dreds-and a chronicler of ordinarily brilliant
Imagination and less regard for strict numerical
accuracy than myself, would say--thousands of
curious people are constantly thronging his
quarters to get glimpse of the great leader, or
to shove letter from some influential individu-
al under his nose. However, the ubiquitous
gentleman rather beat them yesterday; and he
accomplished the skillful maneuver in the fol.





+ When he arrived here on Monday, he was ha.
blitated in an old straw hat COW hide, boots,
blue blouse which had been thrown away by
private in Nontgomery's Regiment, some sort
ot an apology for pantaieona, and butternut
brown WOODEN shirt, with beard, hair, face, &C.,
to correspond; and, thus decorated, every one,
by instinct, could detect the hero Of Black Jack
and Hickory Point Yesterday morning, at 9
o'clock, visited his tent and found an immense
crowd wandering about the neighborhood, each
inquiring Of the other if he had seen or knew
the whereabouts of "Ginerl Lane" Upon ap-
preaching his tent, found therein solitary
gentleman seated upon an old eplit.bottomed
chair, one leg thrown across the other, in.ently
engaged in caressing, with the thumb and finger
OF the right hand, beard, if not remarkably
luxurious, yet splendidly valegated in color
Upon careful reconnaissance, | discovered
this figure to be the very specimen of mortality
which the adjacent crowd were SO anxious to see.
lie had donned the new rig made expressly for
him in Boston-black coat and pants, buff vest,
black chapeau, feather and boots. In this make
up he sat there as quiet and undsturbed as if he
were in wilderness, seemingly enjoying the
discontinue of the multitude about him, when a
man with long whiskers, who looked as if he had
travelled with show, approached and asked if
Gen. Lane was in: NO." was the laconic re-
ply of the hero, with the least bit of twinkle
ia the northeast corner of his left eye, and the
victim vanished ineontnently.


The Kansas Second Regiment was partially
paid off yesterday, BY Col. Mitchell, and given
furlough for twenty five days, during which
time the officers expect to recruit it full, and do
further service in the good cause.


The breakfast bell and steamboat whistle are
both sounding, SO good bye for this time.


: Two hundred of Lanes command cross the
Missouri at Kansas City this morning, to start
the forward movement