The Big blue union. [volume], May 07, 1864, Image 2

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THE BIG BLUE UNION.
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MANNING,
HENRY,
EDITORS.
MARYSVILLE, KANSAS.
Saturday, May 7, 1864.
"Flao of thK free heart's hope and home,
By angel hands to valor given;
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome,
And all thy hues were born of heaven.
Forever float that Standard Sheet 1
Where breathes the foe but falls before us
"With Freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner streaming o'erus
The Swindler h Itdwl.
Tbe result of the late State Convention
through" which the people have effectually
and emphatically denounced and repudi
ated last winter's "usurpation" wrings
from the l63' a-moufnful and piteous howl
as they sink fo oblivion beneath the huge
wage of popular indignation. Though
daad. ther still claim the nrivileee of
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stinking. They think that Kansas soil,
though six feet deep", cannot cover them
out of smell. This may b'e so, for in this
particular they are strong. The journals
that hare so strenuously defended and up
held the Senatorial Swindle are at present
filled with excuses and apologies for the
same, or square denials of having ever
endorsed it, or fair and open acknowl
edgments that it was wrong and an out
rage upon the people. In the same pa
pers we see a howl set up against the
State Convention and a general tirade
against the people for having sent dele
gates to Topeka who were avowedly oppos
ed to the Swindlers. They call the Conven
tion a "fraud" because McDowell, Legate,
Vaughn, Jennison, and their followers
who were there could not control things,
and were hugely in the minority,
having only ten votes against over sixty.
Yet so eenerous were the majority- that
they gave the insignificant minority a rep
resentation on every committee. It is
not necessary to expose all the meanness
and make-shifts resorted to by the noto
rious' (6S to induce the people to continue
to repudiate them. Kansas knows them ,
and knows them only to despise. A per
son would scarcely know that any of the
original fraudites were in the country ex
cept by the involuntary clasping of noses
whenever one appeals in the community
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Watching and Waiting.
The people of these United States are
impatiently watching and waiting for the
bloody flash and terrible thunder that shall
soon burst from the war-cloud that is now
gathering on the Rapidan in the hills of.
old Virginia. We all feel the ominous
silence that always precedes the awful
storm, with now and then a distant peal of
thunder. The goddess of Liberty to-day
breathlessly awaits the mortal struggle
that shall decide her future on the Ameri
can continent;
The strength of the Union army is now
being concentrated for a death grapple with
the hosts of rebeldom. If our leader,
Grant, succeeds in crushing his antagonist,
then all is well ; but, if by some misfor
tune the rebels inflict a mortal blow or
overwhelming defeat upon our arms,
France through Mexico will acknowledge
the Southern Confederacy, and England
follow suit, the "peace" men" will elect their
President this fall and,ourt nation is ruined.
The disasters of Oulustee in Fin., Ft.
Pillow, Tenn., Plymouth', N. C, and even
the terrible blow that Banks received at
Mansfield, La., in which he lost over two
thousand men, several pieces- ot cannon,
a large amount of small arms, supplies and
transportation, though' all coming in quick
succession in the spring's campaign, they
are, taken severally or collectively but a
trifle to the coining fray.
The Post Office Department is advertis
ing for bids,' to be recieved until the 14th
of June, for carrying the Overland Mail,
either from St. Joseph or Atchison, the
contractor to supply all the offices along the
route. It seems that Ben Hollidayhas
not got the contract and it is probable he
will not get it.' St. Joseph may be the
starting point.
A Falsehood.
The editor of the Troy Investigator has
taken (he job of abusing the citizens of
Marshall county and of misrepresenting
them to the exclusion of all other reading
matter in his paper of the 30th ult. We
are ssrry the gentleman has seen fit to take
this courEe, as we formed a very fa
vorable opinion of him while he was at
tending Court at this place. He makes
no direct attack upon our paper, but at
tacks our friends and the citizens and af
fairs of our county and we are in duty
bound to reply. The Investigator says
that "Col. Bowen packed the Convention
at Marysville and procured the election of
D. C. Auld as .Delegate to Topeka."
The assertion is not true and the author
knew it when it was penned. .The result
of the Convention would have been the
same had Col. Bowen not been here.
Every oporrtunity was given for all to vote
who wished to do so at the primary meet
ing, and there was no unfair dealing. The
Secretary of the meeting was Mr. Magill,
the strongest 'frauditc' in the county, and
one of the tellers was another strong
'fraudite.' The names of six men were
placed upon a ticket, as delegates from
Marysville township to the County 'Con
vention that was to meet the next day.
These men were known to be .opposed to
the Senatorial Swindle. The ticket was
shown to everybody and all were asked to
vote it. In the mean time the editor of
the Investigator (who, by the way, had
come out here four days before court in
order in order to help carry our County
Convention in the Carney interest) in a
sly way set the 'fraudites' to work and they
'fixed up" their ticket and cast ten square
votes for it, while thirty-six were cast for
the first mentioned ticket.
Now considering that the Central Com
mittee published through our paper a call
for the township and county meetings, and
considering that the people were careful
to select men opposed to the "fraud" to
represent them in the County Convention,
and considering that the delegates so elec
ted unanimously cast their votes for D. C.
Auld, Esq., a staunch "anti-fraud" man,
as delegate t3 the State Convention, and
considering the fact that the editor of the
Investigator attended both meetings and
knows that himself and his'political friends
were well treated, and received marked
consideration at the hands of an intelli
gent majority, and last, though not least,
considering that it is none of your indi
vidual business whether Marshall county
repudiates or endorses the perpetrators of
the Senatorial swindle, it is strango that
you should return home and fling a sheet
lull of abuse of ( the citizens of Marshall
county to the public, because they ' can t
see it" as you see it. Your abuse will
harm no one but yourself.
The UTew York Fair.
The great Sanitary Fair held in New
York City surpassed anything of the kind
upon the continent and closed on the 23rd
ult. The proceeds of the Fair amounted
to over one million dollars. One of the
principle interesting features, or doings,
of the Fair was ballotting by visitors at
one dollar a vote for the donation of a
magnificent and costly sword to some offi
cer of the army. Some visitors cast sev
eral hundred votes for their favorite Gen
eral. Gens. Grant and McClellan ran
ahead of all others, and the result was
30,291 for the former and 14,509 for the
latter. Thia is a novel and good way to
make the copperheads contribute to the
comfort of our soldiers. There was also
a sword disposed of in the same way for
some officer in the Navy, and Commodore
Rowan was the lucky recipient.
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Gen. Curtis has isued an order requir
ing all army officers arriving at Leaven
worth to report to the Fort and register
their names, and state their business away
from their command. This will likely
cause a thinning out of the sHouldefMraps
at Leavenworth, and be a benefit to the
service.
There is a eortain itinerant lawyer who'
travels round with the Court ia''the' 2d Ju
dicial District, and when vHe can't edge
nimself into a case on a five dollar fee, he
writes doggerel for the Troy Investigator.
The last number of that paper contains a
slanderous article written by this itinerant
gentleman, on some of the citizens of Ma
rysville. This same itinerant lawyer is a
sweet tpecimen of humanity to talk about
bogus Legislatures, pro-slavery men, and
disloyalty, when but a few years ago he
was made to run round the corners and
alleys of Topeka by young Williams Jbr
having uttered disloyal sentiments in the
Capital of our State, and subsequently
started for Missouri, because Kansas was
too hot for him, but finally "fetched up"
at Troy, a little iown go near Missouri
that he might fly there for refuge in case
it beeame necessary.
.' ...
8P The withdrawal of Carney, is the
bestjoke out, on Sam. Wood and Tom
Ellis. They both voted for him, and jus
tified their action in their respective pa
pers. We feel sorry for you, boys ; but
the next time keep out of such "frauds."
White Cloud Chief.
When we consider that the editor of
the Chief is one of the original, odious
"68" and has heaped untold abuse upon
us and all others who denounced their ac
tion, and since he has endorsed the "fraud
in every issue of his paper since its perpe
tration, it will bother the readers of his
paper to see where the joke comes in so
far as the author is concerned in the
above paragraph.
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It is said that the rebels in Texas have
been receiving supplies of clothing of fof
eign manufacture through Mexico into
Texas, and that the trains conveying the
goods were escorted to the Texas line by
French soldiers.
.
The ladies of Ft. Leavenworth have
raised over one thousand dollars and for
warded it to the Treasurer of the Missis
sippi Valley Sanitary Fair at St. Louis.
A band of guerrillas numbering about
seventy-five, "have appeared in southern
Missouii, just up from below the Arkansas.
The White Cloud Chief comes out in
favor of Gen. Albert L. Lee as candidate
for our next Representative in Congress.
One thousand recruits for the Federal
army are reported on their way from Germany.
The massacre at Fort Pillow is only
equalled in atrooity to that of Quantrell.
and his murderers, at the ill-fated city of t)
Leavenworth, and will doubtless bere-i,
vended in the fullest manner. Terre
Haute Express.
Leavenworth is not ill-fated to anyi
"alarming extent." The Express has con1
founded Leavenworth with Lawrence -I
hence the error, perhaps. Leavenworth
Bulletin.
Perhaps the Express means your recent
charter election riot. )
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From Frt Smith. More Rebel
Barbarities.
Will there be no end. to the rebel bar
barities abd' how long must our brave
soldiers, who may'fronv time to time fall
into the hands of the rebels, suffer death
by torture iu its most excrutiating forms
before our Government will retaliate even
to the extermination of the last blood
thirsty villian that fights for ther traitors'
despotism? A correspondent writing
from Ft. Smith, to the Conservative, under
date of April 17th, says :
On the 5th Colonel Judson sent Lieut.
McKibbern and twenty-six men of the
Sixth, as an escort with Dr. Fairchild. At
Roseviile & number of wounded, rebel and
Federal, needed attention. Ten wounded
Texans were in our hands, and (en of our
own. When at Charleston, twenty-five
miles southeast, they learned that 100 reb
els had camped there the previous niyht.
Six miles further they found a camp just
abandoned. Three miles further on they
were fired upon by fifty men from a ravine
at the same time a large force appeared in
front and both sides of the road. The
Lieutenant commanding ordered a charge
for the purpose of breaking through, which
he succeeded in doing, and reached Kose
ville with fifteen men. It was found that
the Doctor and eleven men were missing.
On a return to the scene of the attack,
next morning, the bodies of nine men were
found in the road, were they fell or were
shot down. The evidence was plenty, of
severe struggling. The bodies were strip
ped of every particle of clothing, and hor
ribly mutilated. Three of them were cas
trated, and others had their ears cut off.
One man lay without a wound on the body
but his head and face so beaten with the
butts of gun's as to be reduced to a pulp
The features eould not be distinguished.
The other two men, and the Doctor's body
were found near the road in the timber.
The Doctor was the only one who was not
outraged. He was shot through the head
and shoulders, after being taken prisoner.
A .woman living near the scene of conflict
, T-l 1 ! 1 111- 1
states mac raircnua torn nis captors tne
errand he was on, and asked for his life.
The others begged to be treated as pris
oners of war. The reply was brutal oaths,
fiendish execrations, and horrible assas
sinations. It hardly seems possible that
such fiends are human.
The following are the names of the kil
led in this shocking affair:
S. A. Fairchild, Assistant Surgeon Sixth
Kansas.
Co. E. Corporal H. L Barber, Corpo
ral J. Corvin, privates James Dunn, Bur
ton H. Johnson, Terry Mullen, David
Newton.
Co. L. Corporal George Long, pri
vates Lafayette Gowings, Wm. Anthony.
Co. I. John Sailing.
Co. D. John Davis.
- -xii uDTi-rrCT-Trmrril. WE "IVEKC AEfi:
c in the trade lor ncarh two ear, when we nut v.'thfru
ii iiuiiiiuniir.iuiu co:iieuuun. wnu'li lias inerene uif
some eight or ttn houses .ire cUnnjre.ich a poiI Iui-ine
ThesuLC-v-! ami encourneiKPiit we I.ne met with, has
Marysville Market.
CABEITTLliY CORRECTED ITXRT
.'orn,
Oats,
Flour Fall Wheat,
do Spring Wheat,
Corn Meal,
Butter, "$ ft
Eggs, ) doz.,
Lard, lt,
Chickens, dox.,
Pork,
Beef,
Potatoes,
Onions,
Hay,
Hides, green,
dry, salt,
" " flint,
Bacon Hams,
do Shoulders,
do Sides
WEir
55 9 60
55
4.25
8.25
80
25
10
8
4.00 4.05
HI
JT 20.00
05
10
a
6
8
j allied ana imiuceu u to I irv'y increase our i-ttck,othat
are una spnug well preparui to meet the wauta of all
desire
Fancy and Staple
Strayed or Stolen
From the subscriber, a dun tiro year old oar.
colt face grayish white and one white Hn
foot, a scar from a kick an the left haunch
piece taken off the left ear. It was last seen at
Mr. Sleppo's on Walnut creek, last Saturday
I will give Ten Dollars for its recovery. !
formation may be left with Mr. Wiesbach a:
Marysville.
May 6th. 1864. 2t Jacob Goxdlefixgie.
SHERIFFS SALE. "
Gustnrns Kuttar ts. ,Abram Bnckhout.
BY virtue of an" Order of Sale bearing data MarU
AD 18b4, to mo directed and tlelivered, issued in the ih.
entitled cause out of the District Court sittinin and f-'
Maihall county, State of Kansas," ith Wasliin-ton tflir
ley, and Republic counties, in said State attached tor iniT
rial purposes, I will JUU
On Tuesday, the 14th day of June, A.D. 1S5-J
between the hours of ten o'clock A. M. and four o'clark
M.of said day, at thb Court House' door in the Citvcfv.
rysville, Marshall county, State of Kansas, oflVr at PnuV."
Sale, to the highest bidder, fqr cash all the right titliant
interest of the above named defendent in and to the folia
ing described property, to wit : The south hair of the Jo
west quarter or sec ion nuraBer three 3, and the north
east quarter of the north west quarter, and the north wen
quarter of the north-east qrurter Of section ten (It) in
township five (5), south of range seven (7feat contiinim
160.acres, lying and being in Marshall county Kan3as
Said lands to bo sold by me iu accordance with the mm
manN or said Order of Sale.
Given undermy hand this 5th day of May. A. D ISM
JAMES GllAY, Sheriff
Brumbaugk 4 Bollinger, PlYlTa At t'y.
v3nG -it pr's fee $T JO
General Order. No- 8.
Head Quirter, State or KsiM
ADJUTANT GENES L's OmCX V
Topeka, April 19, lSGt j
I. The following, Sec. 4, Militia Law, of Feb.
28d, 1864, is published for the infonnatijuof
all concerned:
llbat the State shall constitute one Division,
and shall be divided by the Major, General Com
manding, into five Brigade Districts, w th pow
er to alter and change the same at pleasure."
II. The Regiments of Kansas Militia irilt
hereafter be numbrred and designated as fol
lows, tc-wit:
lt Kegt Col C. II. Robinson, H'dQ'rs Leavenworth City.
I'd ' Mdj.A.Starfc, " Topeka, Shaw uee C
3d '' Cul.C. "tVilkmson, " LawT6nce,Diai;;U "
4th " ' S. .. Cooper, " Os!.aloosa,Jeffrsoa '
5th " " G.A.Cvlton, " Paola, MUmi
Gth " ' Mound City, Una '
7th " "'Peter McFarland, Loarenworth City.
8th " Lt. Col W.S. Smith, " Council Grove, MVi Co
Oth " Col. F. M.Tracy, " Troy, Doniphan
10th " " ffm. I'ennock, " Cntropoli8,Frank:.a"
11th' " A. J.Mitchell, - 8mpona,Loa "
12th " - 1..S. Treat, " Atchison,
13tu .
Uth "
15th "
"'Peter McFarland,
Lt.Col W.S. Smith,
Col. F. M.Tracy,
44 Wm. I'ennock, '
44 A. J. Mitchell,
4- L.S. Treat,
44 Julius A. Keolar, ,4 Olatlm, Johnson
44 D.W."cott, 4' lortr.iW,
" John T. Price, " Juntion Citv. D-irij C
Co,
16th 4C " F. W.Potter. 4' Burlinston. Coffer
17th 4 " E. C. Manning, ' Marvsville, Marshall '
ISta 4t " P. L. Hubbard, ' Atchi-on.
Jy Order of the Commander-in-chief,
GUILFORD DUDLEY, Adjutant General.
General Order. iVo, 1.
Hi
Had it not have been for Legate, Mc
Powell and Ed. Russeil, who got into the
Convention with proxies, the whole busi
noma wmiM hnvA hpfin trnnnantp.fi in two or
three houfB. 'I'bese gentlemen desired to
make capital for tbe future and throw ev
ery obstacle in the way of business possi
ble. They ranted about the unfairness of
the majority, in not allowing debate, when
they were allowed by the hour to go oa
with a Itream of vituperation against the
members of the Convention, and everyone
onnosed to them. Let it be remembered
that these were the same men, who last
year forced their measures through under
the gag rule, giving the minority no chance
to be heard. Consistency is a jewel.
Topeka Record.
Boots'and Sltocs,
-'Dry Good
Pirate Goot
iDQUiRiccs Second BaiiHDB Duia:a
&MCA, April Z2, Ul-i. j
I The conntie? of Doniphen, Brown, Xemaha, VanlH'f.
W.uhinton. Republic, ihir!ey, Pottowattoinie. an! Jack--on.
beiiiu de'ap.ated as the 4,Second Brigade District,"
the un ienijned assumes command of tLe Militia of tb
same.
II Tim fullntrirnr w nnnntippr? n ttinEtftfT. Vir. f!rt.Jell
IrLSniith, A-istint Adjutant General, Seneca; t'sft. J
Ueisbacli, i2mrterniater, Jiorsnau county; uapi. n. w
Uollenbiirjr, Coromis-sary, Washington connty; First Li-
enairt II 31. Knbinson, A. D.U., Brown connty; iirstun-
enant Alfred Saxey, A.D.C.. uoniphan county.
III. Commanders" of regiments, batteries, and detach
ompanioi", will at once report to the Assistant Adjutiit
icneral fnl 1 information respectinjc the condition of their
ommands, the number and description of arms in ti.r
possession.
IV. All official communications soonia oeaaurfseuw
.ipt.JtihuJK. fcmith Assistant Adjutant General, Seaeei,
Kansn
By order of BYKIVS SHEF.R1 ,
Bne'dicr General Commani'nr.
District pipen plea copy four times. nW
The deficiency of something rtr If
teen hundred soldiers that Kansit tit It
have filled this spring under all ftbc ttllg
of the President, is now filled by this State
hating obtained credit through the efforts
of Senator Lane, for a corresponding num
ber of black troops that have been raised
in this State and now serving in tbe 1st
and 2d Colored Regiments.
The Seventh Kansas is camped it St.
Louis, It numbtrs tvr 700 men
That Bogus Resignatiok. Carney's
friends have thrown up the sponge and
carried their .defeated candidate into his
corner, but still refuse to give up the
stakes. In other words, be tells the peo
ple that he has resigned, end wishes to be
considered out of the fight, but he still
hangs on to his credentials, and has not
yat apprised tbe Secretary of State of his
resignation. As we have before stated,
the performance is only intended as Fraud
No. 2. Carney had no intention of re
signing, he has not resigned, and does not
maau to resigu. 4ooncri'itvv.
Thtra ia another panic at Richmond;
ays tha Herald's Yorlrtown letter of the
26th. Rebels live in momentary fear of
the appeamnca of the Federal troops.
Many of them are rooting south, believ
ing that the present campaign will event
uate in success and the downfall of Rich
mond. Air order has been i?saed to re
move the Auditors office to Montgomery,
Alabama
Joteph RobidouxSen., ona of the foun
ders of St Joseph, was robbed recently of
some $2,400. Part of the money consis
ted of a ?1,000 Treasury note.
Hats"and Caps,
The Press ot Kansas was well repre
sented in Topeka during the session of the
late Siate Convention. 'The following
papers represented by the gentlemen nam
ed below:
The Conservative, by Gen. D. W. Wild
er ; Bulletin, Mr. Buckingham ; Times,
Col. Vaughn; Champion Hon. A.H. Hor
ton ; OsKaloosa Independent, Rev. Mr.
Roberts; Nemaha Courier, Mr Cone;
Manhattan Independent, Hon. 1). Wilson ;
Junction City Union. Hon. S. M. Stick
ler ; Osage Chronicle, Mr. Murdock ; Em
poria Nines, Jake Stotlerj Bourbon Coun
ty Monitor, D. B. Emmet t, Esq.; Paola
Herald, Hon. C. A. Colton ; Troy Investi
gator, Hon. C. C. Camp; Lawrence Tri
bune, John Speer; Lawrence Journal,
Messrs. Lowman and Smith ; Olathe Mir
ror, Mr. McKee; Neosho Valley Register,
Mr Payne; Jeffertonian, Mr. Dodge;
Border Sentinel, Mr. Snoddyj Couneil
Grove Prtm, Hon. S. N. Wood ; and the
Obterver, Prof. Emery. The following
papers were unrepresented : While Cloud
CUef, Big Bine Union, Wyandotte, Ga
zette, Crusader, and the Zcitung.-Tof&
Record;
Bacon is selling in Raleigh. N- C, at
$5 per pound ; butter $6 ; corn 827.50 per
bushel ; eggs $3 per dnzn ; flour $2o0
per barrel ; molasses S30 per gallon ; po
tatoes $15 per bushel ; salt 1 per pound ;
sugar $12 per pound.
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