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I ll)c Union. Junction City, Kansas, THE SOUTHERN FBEEDOM COHVENTION. It 13 indeed wonderful the rapid strides this 'war has made towards Universal Freedom. How absolutely foolish people were three years ago! Had the Administration then taken the stand it now occupies it would have been hurled from power by the loyal people of the North. Think of the conscquonccs of such a move at that time, and tell us if there is a man who doubts the controlling, directing power of the Almighty in restoring Justice to her reign. The idea of a Conveution in the interests of Freedom formed exclusively of delegates from lareholdiug States, we think sufficiently strong testimony to convince the most skeptical Copper head. What an empty shell we have been grasp ing at in the "restoration of the Union"! But that time is past ; and we now have an anti slavery Convention composed of slaveholders, and -whose duty is to consider for the abolition of Slavery. The idea was first proposed by Graatz Brown, of Missouri, and the call is signed by men from Missouri, Maryland, Western Vir ginia, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee. It was called to meet on the 8th of January, but the Executhe Committee deemed it important that the South should be more fully represented, and hence its postponement until March. Such a move will greatly encourage the Presi dent in all radical measures, and aid the people mrhing at the just decision that every vestige of slavery must be wiped out. It will satisfy all timid Unionists to such an end, and stop the blatant Copperhead who is not a wilful and de liberate Rebel. THE CONFEDERATE MESSAGE. To satisfy a nithir curious curiosity we read -very word of the long and windy message of "Jefferson U.u is. The unanimous verdictof those who read it cannot but be that the Southern Confederacy is " played out." It is a series of whining from beginning to end. First, Eng land hasn't actod in good faith towards the Con federacy intimates that she has been frightened into viohtious of neutrality and international law by the North and speaks of the time when they (the Confederates) may retaliate ; while France has behaved but little better. Their finances are in an awful fiv,anJ a greater portion of the document is given to this subject. He can "find no relief only in a sj'stem which is contrary to their Constitution and laws, which he thinks the exigencies will justify them in adopting tem porarily. Whnt he says about the "paper block ade" would indicate that it pinches severely. He moans piteously over the "reverses at Vicks burg, Tort Hudson, and East Tennessee," but is cheered by his faith in God, and the justness of their cuiso. ' Not to be irreverent, it looks as though his faith wasn't reciprocated. To bolster up the courage of his people, he lies. Charges the North with everj'thing atrocious, and to sua tain the charge makes a heart-touching story of the barbarity of the Federal Government in tak ing prisoners from the warm and genial South and incarcerating them in the frigid region of Johnson's Island ! It is Jeff.'s last message. How complete the ruin! Eight or Nino Hun dred Millions of a Public Debt, their Slave pro perty all gone, public works and improvements totally destroyed, and the people depressed in consequence of the sufferings incident to a war of invasion. Men may wisli for retribution, but when it does come its severity touches the hard est heart. Is there any ono who looks at the present wretchedness of the Southern people but what sees in slave pens and auction-blocks its incipiency ? FROM FORT SMITH. From a correspondence of the Conservative, dated Fort Smith, Arkansas, December 11th, we learn that the Anniversary of Uie Battle of Prai rie Grove was celebrated on the 7th by a review of troops. The troops reviewed were the Sixth Kansas Cavalry, commanded by Lieut-Colonel Campbell ; the Fourteentli Kansas Cavalry, com manded by Colonel Moonlight; The Third Wis consin Cavalry, Thirteenth Kansas Infantry, Eighteenth Iowa Infantry, a battalion of the Twelfth Kansas; and Smith's Second and Adule's Third Kansas Batteries. Also, the " Nigger, be gad," and the Second " Irou-clads." The most perfectly drilled regiment was the First Colored, under 'command of Colonel Williams. The Second Kansas is stationed at Waldon, about forty miles below Fort Smith. They had just returned to that place from an extensive raid of about one hundred and sixty miles in the Red River country. They encountered no enemy of a.ny importance, but captured some twenty bush whackers, The First Colored is to be stationed at Rosen ville, sixty miles below, on the Arkan sas river. The Sixth Kansas has gone to Little Rock as an escort to a large supply train. m m m A dispatch in the Lawrence Tribune announ ces that Mr. Hallelt has consented to make Law rence and Topeka points on the Pacific Railroad. The Washington correspondent of the Record tells how it happened : " I saw to-day a request to Mr. Hallett, the contractor on the Pacific Railroad, to make Lawrence and Topeka points on Uiat roadf signed "by .all but four Senators. It is the intention of Senator Lane, who drew up the request and procured the signatures, to pre sent it to-morrow to the President and his Gabi- netfor their signatures. Itis supposed they will sign itl With this paper before him, I -do not see how Mr.' Hallett can well refuse to go to the north bank of the rirer.atXawrence and Topeka with the road, Trobably no Senator but one from Kansas, could have procured so many sig natures to such .paper. The Captains iBd Lieutenants foe the 11th IT. S-mIoA infMif wnr betas' omaiaed.at Fort Smith by Major-GeneraltBlBHt; xjll be takes from the Kansas rpgiraenU. I STATE HEMS. Leavenworth contains a population of from fifteen to twenty thousand. A contract for 220 mules was lately let at Fort Leavenworth at $174.50 each. The colored population of Kansas number over seven thousand. Marshal McDowell gives notice that he is to have entire control of the business department of the Times. A colored man named Lawret was arrested at Topeka, on suspicion of being the person who robbed Marshal McDowell recently. Brigadier-General Bobert B. Mitchell, of this State, is in Washington, presiding over a court martial. The Paola Crusader says that there is a four months' old child in that county that weighs 75 pounds. When two months old it weighed 40 pounds. If it should keep on growing at this ratio it will be ahead of old Goliah, when full grown. The Kansas City Journal says a Tobacco Man ufactory is being built nt Quindaro. It is needed. Quite an amount of tobacco was grown in Southern Kansas this year. This manufactory will get extensive patronage from Missouri. Captain Spillman, of one of the Indian regi ment, has made a gallant little fight with the rebs in the Indian Territory. He is a brother- in-law of Colonel W. A. Phillips the gallant officer to whom the country is mainly indebted for the recovery of the Indian Territory. The following petition is being circulated in Lyon County : " To the Legislature of the State of Kansas: The undersigned citizens and free holders of Lyon county, respectfully petition your honorable body to pass a law requiring all owners of cattle to fenee them at night from the first of September until the first of January of each year, and your petitioners will every pray." The Record says that a clerk from the Adju tant General's office of Missouri is at the Capital to ascertain the number of Missourians serving in Kansas Regiments. Under the present in structions, each State has credit for all soldiers from it, without reference to the State in which they enlisted. He finds 151 Missourians in our 1st regiment most of the other regiments have many more in them. There are a good many Kansans in Missouri regiments. Our Legislature will do well to ascertain how maay, that we may have credit for them. NEWS GLEANINGS. In Nevada, potatoes arc quoted at four cents per pound; milk at SI per gallon. Good whisky in Richmond brings $5000 per barrel, and brandy sells at So per glass. Gen. Corcoran died at Fairfax, Va., on the 22d ult., from injuries received by a fall from a horse. That infamous copperhead sheet, the New York Express, has been ordered to be sold by a decree of court. Three hundred plantations are now in suc cessful and profitable operation along the banks of the Mississippi. A fair held by the American ladies in Mon treal for the benefit of the Sanitary Coramis sione yielded the sum of seven hundred dollars. The New York Herald i3 advocating very vig orously the nomination of General Grant for the next Presidency. A witty doctor says that tight lacing is a public benefit, inasmuch as it kills off all the foolish girls, and leaves the wise ones to grow up to be women. Deserters from North Carolina troops are availing themselves of the President's procla mation, and coming within our lines and tak ing the oath of allegiance. By foreign news we get the result of the great prize fight between Hecnan and King, resulting in the defeat of the Benicia Boy. At the 25th round his seconds threw up the sponge. A battery of mounted guns has been planted at Cleveland, Ohio, to defend the city against assault from Canadian rebel gunboats, should any wander thither. In the new organization of the Senate Com mittees, Mr. Pomeroy occupies several impor tant positions. Mr. Wilder is on the Indian and Pacific Railroad Committees in the House, Senator Wilson proposes, by a bill in Con gress, to pay soldiers $16 per month, and to make no distinction, either in pay or bounty, between black and white recruits. 1 The Lindell Hotel at St. Louis, which cost 5730,000, was recently sold at auction to Hen rv Ames & Co.. for $373,000. The hotel com pany failed to pay the coupons on their second mortgage bonds, hence the sale. Wm. H. Graham, long known as the success ful publisher of "Graham's Magazine," and one of the first literary characters in the na tion, died a victin of intemperance on the 18th ult.. in New York. Quanirell's gang of cut-throats has been again dispersed. Captain Spillman, with some Indian troops, attacked and routed them at Barren Fork, on the Arkansas. The rebel loss was about seventy. The coinago at the United States Mint, Phil adelphia, for the month of October, amounted to S387.375 96, mostly imdouble eagles. The silver coinage in dollars and half dollars, was S28,000. 42,000,000 cents were coined during the month. The Ohio election was duly observed on the 23d of October by the officers from that State one hundred and sixty-three in number confin ed in the Libby prison at Richmond. The poll book and tally list have arrived at Colosabus. Of the whole number of votes cast John Brough received one hundred and sixty-two, one was given for H. J. Jewett, and Jioae for Vallandig- hara. The Chicago Journal says that the Illinois Central Railroad has been so "overwhelmed with Government freight for the last minety days, that some of its cars have been detained for six weeks' time. Finally, as the only means of extricating the Company from the dificalty, notice has been given that no more freight for Cairo trill be received until further notice. They are in a bad fix down in Dixie. If the people are fed the army must starve , if the army starves what will become of the people ? On the other hand, if the army is fed, the peo ple will starve; if the people starve what is the use of the army? The best remedy will be for them all to repent and receive pardon from Father Abraham. It is discovered that while the shoes of our white soldiers range from No. 5 to No. 11 in size, those of the negro regiments will range from No. 1 1 to No. 15. These are just the chaps to tickle the rebellion and put their foot down on it. The new State of West Virginia has been divided by her Legislature into townships-, like other free States and unlike the slave States, which have no civil divisions below counties. She has also adopted a comprehensive free school system. They say West Virginia is un constitutional, but she don't act like it. The New York Tribune of the 11th nit., says The house of Representatives Is to have a thoroughly anti-slavery chaplain in the person of Rev. Wm. H. Channing, who was nominated by Mr. Wilder, of Kansas, and elected on the first ballot over all competitors. The Tribune's army dispatch states that our Cavalry have returned to Bratton Station, hav ing made a successful foray against the rebels, driving the guerrillas into the mountains, and destroying, at Lurcy, an extensive saddle and harness factory and several tanneries; also, capturing a number of prisoners, a rebel mail and a quantity of medicines. There are 20 cavalry regiments in the Army of the Potomac. To these regiments the Gov ernment issued 35,078 horses during the six months from May to October. Include in this number the horses captured, and we have, at least, two horses worn out in the army in a year by each cavalry soldier. When the New York members were taking the oath of office in the House of Representatives, Ben. Wood and James Brooks neglected to raise their hands with the rest of their colleagues. They stood listening to Mr. Colfax as he read the oath, as if they gave no assent. The oath, it must be remembered, is a new one, and is exceedingly stringent against everything looking like treason. The colored people of Philadelphia are nppli cants before the War Department for a contract for Quartermaster's supplies. Some of their number have lately had an interview with Sec retary Stanton, and offered to engage to make and deliver in thirty, sixty, and ninety days, shirts, drawers, haversacks, and blouses, to the extent of three hundred thousand of either. They received assurances that colored people should be placed hereafter on the same footing with whites, in the matter of contracts to do work for the Government. A Chapter on Gambling. The history of gambling in the "West would form n curious chapter. We give one. It made deepest and strongest head after the Lindsales in 1835-6, in Miss:s sippi, for it is amid excitement, amid a swelling prosperity, amid the clash of con flict, and the wild uproar of war, that it thrives most. Tim gamblers bad possession of Vickaburg, Columbus, and other towns in that commonwealth. We were at Columbus the winter of those year?, and we know that the citizens durcd not s-peak out their thoughts or act out their wishes. The bowio knife was suspended over them. Rifle and pistol were the emblems of a unit gambling power The early settlers of Mississippi were rude, uncultivated; many of them belonged to tho overseer class ; but rude aud uncultiva ted as thej were, they could not stand this monstrous oppression, nor the glare of a hated wee. They combined. Not hero or there, not in Columbus or Vicksburg, but in every city and town in the State, and when thus consolidated, they felt that they had a power which could crush the gamblers as a class as easy as the hand a dry lenf. A warning was given to the gamblers depart They hurled back defiance. An other warning came depart. Insults as well as defiauce was the answer. Then cime the hurricane ! The citizen class, united, earnest, made throughout all the State, an onslaught upon the gamblers, and ere a week had rolled round, over two hun dred of them were bung! Thus did a rude society avenge itself against a damag ing vice, and those who so boldly and dar inelv rjracticed jr. It was a whirlwind peeded to save and ti purify society, and in this respect did keep it safe and pure for many years. Leav. Times. fST Among the curiosities on exhibition at the Sanitary Fair in Boston are numer ous relics of Washington his sash, saddle, epaulettes, cane, with numerous autographs and letters ; bronze jar from Shanghai, two thousand years old ; sword of Miles Stand ish ; lock of the gun which killed King Phillip, of Mount Hope, in 1676, and a wooden bowl taken from Phillip's wigwam; a Bible printed in Venice in 1478, before printing was introduced into England, and numerous rare and genuine autographs and letters. There are also exhibited the shoes worn by the royal family of England, and a pair of shoes purchased in (ieorgia by a young lady who arrived in Boston last Sua day. The shoes are coarser than ac y yoaag lady would wear here, and are laced with white cord. Yet the hdy paid forty dol lars for them, and refused to sell them for fifty. ae The man who pays the largest per sonal tax in New York city lives in the same house in which he kept a store for gome fifty years; he washes himself in a tin pan in the back yard whenever he does wash at at all ; takes a basket aad gees out to buy a little food, which a wom&a in the house prepares for him. Hesells no goods at present, but adds to his vast wealth daily by leading money oa good aecarity, beioe just ar shrewd, keea aad dose as he ever was, thoegh be is arack beyoad etv: eaty years ef age. Alii for thepovetty of richee " r " THE LEGISLATURE OF KANSAS, FOX THE YEA 286ft. Seaate. Doniphan County, Sol. Miller aud A. C. Bennett. Atchison. Casius G. Foster and Joshua. Wheeler. Nemaha, Byron Sherry. Marshall, Thomas II. Baker. Davis, Samuel M. Strickler, Shawnee, David Brockway. i Coffey, F. W. Potter. Lyon, P. B. Mazsou. Woodson, Orlin Thurston'. Franklin, D. M. Valentine. Douglas, W.F. Woodwortb, R.G. Elliott. Johnson, W. II. M. Fishbaek. Wyandotte, James McGrew. Chase, M. R. Ijcouard. Leavenworth, John Wilson, C.B. Pierce, and F. P. Fitzwilliams. Jefferson, A. W. Spauldiog. Jackson, Rufus Owsler. Linn, D. P. Lowe. Bourbon, Isaac Ford. Miami, Johnson C. Clark. House of Representatives. Doniphan, J. P. Johnson, W. J. Orem, F- II. Drennmg, C. C. Camp, and J. W. Form j n. Atchison, G. W. Glick, Jacob Saqui, Asa Barnes, Bonz Williams, J. C. Batsell. Brown, Ira J, Lacock, G. E. Irwin. Nemaha, R. Bradley J. S. Hidden. Marshall, J. D. Brumbaugh. Washington, II. G. HollenbTgb. Pottawatomie, O. J. G rover." Jackson, J. W. Williams. J fferson, C. A. Buck, E. Hutchins, and M. Barnes. Leavenworth, Wm. Freeland, Josiab Kellogg, G. H. Moore, J. B. Laing, J. W. Craig, G. W. Houts, D. F. Walker, F. Frower, J. D. Twombley. Wyandotte, M. W. Bottom Johnson, C. H. Stratton, D. G. Camp bell H. McBride. Douglas, T. J. Sternberg, J. S. Emery, C. Reynolds, A. F. Thoman, J. A. Wake field, J. W. Draper. Shawnee, J. F. Cummiogs, Henry Fox. Miami, Wm. Chestnut, T. H. Ellis, W. G. McCullock. Linn, Sarauol Ayrcs, John Snook, Belding, Jefferson Fleming. Bourbon, Wm. Stone, R. P, Stephens, D. R. Cobb, and J. G. Miller. Allen, D. Rogers and J. M. Evans. Anderson, H. Cavcnder, Dr. Lingo. -Franklin, Josiah Pile and J. M, Smith. Osage, James Rogers, Coffey, W. R. Saunders, Job Throck morton and A. W. Pickering. Lyon, C. V. Eskridge,f A. K. Hawks, and J. Frost. Butler, Chase, E. A. Alford. Morris, S. N. Wood. Wabaunsee, D. M. Johnson. Davis, P. Z. Taylor, Riley, B. E. Fullington. Dickinson, T, F. llerspy.f Saline, II. L. Jones f Greenwood, James Kcnncr. Those marked with a were members of the last House. Those marked with a f were members of the House in 1862. The Exchange of Prisoners. Washington, Dec, 27. The Richmond Enquirer of the 17th inst., says our Government has abandoned every point excepting the treatment of ne gro prisoners. Now the simple truth is our Government has not abandoned any point. It is known that Maj. Geo. Butler who has superceded Gen. Meredith has no such intentions. The prisoners at Forts Norfolk and McHenry and Point Lookout have been placed under his orders, and be is author ized to conduct the exchange man for man and officer for officer of equal rank with those paroled and sent forward by himself. The object is to make an even exchange, as far as the prisoners of the rebels will admit, and governed by humane motives. The effort will be made first to procure the re lease of those who have been held the longest as prisoners. Colored troops and their officers, in conducting the exchange, will be placed on an equality with all other troop?, and so of colored men in civil em ployment. -This is one of the points here after to be adjusted. The honor and digni ty of the Government, in the protection of such negro persons and their officers, will not be compromised. The recent visit of Gen. Hitchcock to Fort Monroe was to con fer with Gen. Butler and to communicate to him the orders of our Government on this subject. The object is to secure the exchange of an equal number of prisoners on each side; leaving nil other questions for future determination. The excess is largely in our favor. Iapertaat. The following telegram has been received: WAsmNGTON, Dec. 24. A law has been passed to the effect that no bounties exeept such as are now provid ed by law shall be paid to any person en listed after tho fifth day of January next. The only bounty provided oy law is the one hundred dollars authorized by section five act of July 22, 1863, and promulgated in General Orders No. 49, of that year from the Adjutant General's office. Secure all enlistments of veteran volunteers possible before January fifth. By order of the Secretary of .War. ' E. D. TowNsend. Assistant Adjutant General. l9The War Departmeathas wader consideration important-questions relating to the draft, which will shortly be saade public, the aaotaa of the several States heh iag arranged so as to avoid difficulty ia.ihe fatare. Each State will be cficiall iafcrs edof tea aaai ber.it is expected. to. raiae aad the time axed ;for, the - iafemawat! el ttMTdraft..which will aot be later lhaa the middle of January. I . . ? r 4 Rebel Treat-aeat tf Kaasas Tree. Mr. Lane, of Kansas. I offer the fol lowing resolution : Whereas, It is publicly stated by r speotable parties, returned prisoners from the rebel States, that the volunteers from the State of Kansas taken prisoners by the rebels are and have been, since the com mencemcat of the rebellion, invariably put to death, when recognized as such ; there fore. Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to communicate to Congress any information in his posses sion on this subject. I desire to state from my place here that at the commencement of the summer The Vice President Does the Senator ask for the present consideration of the res olution ? Mr. Lane. I do ; and I wish to make a statement. The Vice President. A statement isnot in order now without tho unanimous con sent of the Senate. The Senator asks the unanimous consent of the Senate to consid er this resolution at the proper time. I? there any objection ? The chair hears none. The resolution is before the Senate. Mr. Lane. At tho commencement of the summer, Capt. Brown, of the gunboat Oceola. who had been taken prisoner, came to me in this city, and said that in one of the prions in the rebel States he had found seven Kansas soldiers in irons; that they told him to find me and inform me that they were to be put to death. I immedi ately communicated the information in writ ing to the Secretary of War. He com muuicatcd with the commissioner on the exchange of prisoners ; but from the fact that Capt. Brown did not locate the point where they were held in prison, Mr.13uld was unable to give him any 'information on the subject. Reoently, a chaplain or a physician I forget which has published a communication in this city, which I have seen in the papers, in which he says that it is distinctly understood at Richmond and elsewhere in rebeldem that Kansas soldiers are murdered wherever and whenever cap tured. It is within my own observation that Col. Qaantrell, who bears a commission from the Confederate government, murder ed all the soldiers that he captured in his raid upon Lawrence, Kansas, and since, in his raid upon Maj. Gen. Blunt, where he captured some ninety soldiers and murdered them all. So far as I know, the Kansas soldiers, when captured by the rebels, have been put to death. I am also cognizant of the fact that the troops of Kansas have cap tured large numbers of rebel soldiers, and that they have invariably treated them with the utmost kindness and consideration. The resolution was agreed to. Congres sional Globe. Mexican News. San Francisco, Dec. The French paper of this city has re ceived news from the city ot Mexico to the 7th inst. The French troops entered Marellia on the 30th of Novenber, without opposition Gen. Barlhier had occupied Acujibaro. Uen. Uazine was nt Columna, where Gen. Comoufort was assassinated. Gen. Mejia occupied San Miguel. Juarez and Kees, Ministers, are said to have left for Dnvanzor. Gen. Bazine bad concentrated 12,000 French troops at Calega, and Done was at Salamasea, 16 leagues from Guanamaito. It is stated that the Governments of Hol land and Spain havo recognized the new Mexican Government. Gen. Lagritti has succeeded Gen. Com- onfort as Minister of War of Juarez. Hews via Memphis. Mempbi8, Dec. 29. After suffering a defeat at Summerville and Middlebury, the particulars of which have not been received, Forrest divided his forces and a column, reported at 4.000. crossed Wolf river near Lafayette yesterday afternoon. They destroyed several small culverts and the telegraph line on the M. & O. road, between Collieiyille and Mos cow and have gone south. Grierson's cav alry aud Morgan's brigade of infantry are after them. It is hoped they will bring to a stand at Coldwater. The bridge upon which this force crossed Wolf river had been ordered to be destroy ed, but the order was disobeyed. J he telegraph line is now repaired and working. The railroad will be all right to morrow. Weather cold. A Vaita Tktry ia Mlasearl. Pilot Knob, Dec. 28, 1863. To General Fisk: Official dispatches from Maj. Wilson in form me that he attacked Reeves seventeen, miles southwest of Doniphan, Ripley coun ty, Missouri, about three o'clock, Christmas day : killed and wounded 35 of the enemy : captured 115 prisoners, including 13 com missioned officers, with all their equipments. ammunition, &c. and 125 horses: also re captured every man of company C, captured at Ueatreville, with their arms, &c Wil son says that the 3d behaved splendidly, officers and men. R. G. Woodsoit, Colonel Commanding, A correspondent of the New York Tri- bane, writing from New Orleaas, says : The colored troops, of .whom we have nearly thirty regiments here, are being well disciplined, and by Spring will take the field. Gen. Andrews is in command. He is oae of the hardest working men in the weria, as ran, auuaon caa at preeeat testi fy. Gen. Ullmaa comauads a division. He has saeeeeded well in the work for which, he waseat here by the Pretideat, aad the oevatrj aaay he pread of the. re sult. iTaaaeitwo gtaerale.are spariaf no efcrtsite make . the. Corps d'Afriqae oae of the noblest anaies is Aeteriee. Caaalaia tf the Heats. A Washington eorrespoedeat of the la dianapolis Gazette, thus writes of Rev. Mr. Channiag, the aewly elected Cbaplaia of the House. He was nominated by Mr Wilder, of this State, and elected oa the first ballot: " We are learning a lessee or two ti are profiting thereby. We exemplified' it in electing uo " Conservative" to aay office in the new organization of Coagreee, are kicking out that old pro-slavery dotard, Rev. Mr. Stockton, from the Chaplaiaey of the House, and substituting Rev, Mr Chaa. ning, a more thorough and life-long Aboli tionist not living. He is a profoaad ree soner, possessing rare oratorical powers, aad is in truth, the most emphatic clerical ex ponent we could have foaad ia this eity, of the true Republican oraati-slavery doctriaea of this epoch in American history." afa The Government, which had aot half a million of muskets in ail tho armories al the commencement of the rebellion, low ' bas, in addition to the millioa aad a half placed in the hands of the men of our armies, enongh remaining to equip eight hundred thousand men. There are accoa trements enongh for eighteen hundred thous and men. It is not likely that, as a aation, we shall ever horeafter be caught anprepar ed for war, fir our present m canities have developed all the resources which are re quired to supply the materials of war. Remember this that one thickeeai of paper, placed between a pair of bed blank kets, is equal in warmth to a thick comfort- er. So is a thickness of thin silk. Old newspapers are cheap, and within the reach of every one. In this land of newspapera there is no necessity fo suffering from cqjd in bed. - Merino sheep from Vermont have josl been shipped for Australia. They were) sent for by sheep farsaera ia the bask9 as the best that could be fouad aaywkera a compliment to the farmers of the Green; Mountains. The witow of Senator Douglas ia at pres ent in Washington City, engaged by Secre tary Chase as a clerk in the Treasury De partment. She is seldom seen ia public. The California volunteers have started a Union paper in Utah. Disloyalists, wheth er Mormon saints or gentile bianers, are to be handled without gloves. B. D. If OBLEY, District Clerk of Davis County REAL ESTATE AND LAND AGINT, JUNCTION CITY. WILL do business in the Laud Office, aa4 give strict attentioa to pajiag taxes fee non-residents. Office on Washington street, Taylor's Building, opposite the Eagle HeteL n8tf A.. COHEN, WHOLESALE DEALER IN CLOTHINQ AND ALL KINDS OF Gents'FurnishingGoods, HATS, CAPS, INDIA RUBBER GOODS, Trunks, fcc, NO 21 DELAWARE STREET, Three Door below Scott, Kerr $ Co.'s SmJk Leavenworth, Kanaka. S. B. WHITE, Attorney & Counsellor afi tt m .JU JUNCTION, KANSAS. TK7ILL PROMPTLY ATTEND TO ALb business entrusted to his care ia Weei ern Kansas. ltf Tim. mil & an. Wholesale Dealers la CHINA, GLASS, EARTHEN- ware. Lookiiiglassei. Silver-plated Ware, TABLE CUTLERY, akc. 65 Delaware Sweet, LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS. H. L. JONES, JOB SALINE COUNTY, KANSAS. ON HAND TO TRADE JOR STOCK 0 CASH, several iaiDroved Claiau ia 8li County; also a bouse and lot ia the tewaef Salina. I buy and sell land aad stack at a fids Commission, and assist esaigraats ia viff eligible location. The HomtstMi BUI mo FasMd, And now is the tine feremigraaUU get GOOD HOMES. No land ia this eeaaty aaa bee offered at Public Sale, aad will all be held under the Homestead Act. Call upon er address ate at Saliaa, Saliae Co., Kansas. n3Ctf H. L. J05W. E S. HIGHABB0, MANUFACTURER DEALER I2T SADDLES it TTATtTfESS, WHIPS, SPURS, COLLARS, Bridles, Check-Reins, Homes, Src. C3 Delaware Street, LBAVEJfWOMTH, EDwAXD W. SEnUOl, 1, Physician, Accoucheur, AND ' Sureon. oake,.oitTDnat Junction City, anaavb i