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TELEGRAPHIC.
Trom McClellan's Axmr--Interesting State of Aflairs J
in Dixie.
The Baltimore American's correspondent
Etatcs that a steamer from White Ilouse
biingsa number of passengers from the
headquarters of McClellan's army, which
was in proximity to Bottom Bridge, over
which a portion of the army had already
passed. The Second Division had crossed
the Chichahominy at New Bridge, seven
miles further up, and within eight miles of
ltichmoud.
It was rumored that a proposition for an
armistice for ten days had been made by the
rebels. Of course no such an idea could
be entertained.
The advance of our army was underwood
to bo within fiue miles of Richmond, to
which point the enemy had fallen back
with but a slight effort to check our onward
movement.
Two intelligent c'tizens from Petersburg,
who fled from that city to avoid conscrip
tion, arrived at Portress Monroe, and left
immediately for McClellan's headquarters,
for which they have some information
which has not been mado public. The
condition and suffering of the people seem
almost beyond endurance. They represent
the condition of affairs as most deplorable.
The scarcity of provisions is so great that
everything has been seized for the array,
md even the soldiers have been on half
rations for a week, with no prospects that
oven this supply will continue for any great
length of lime. They represent the rebel
army, or a great portion of it, demoralized
:ind desperate, to such an extent that they
were only held together by the most vigor
ous appliances of military law. The work
of consc.iption, however, was progressing.
The roads to Bichmond were thronged with
unarmed men, old and young, being driven
along under strong armed guards. They
lepresent that no people in modern times
ever suffered more than the people of Vir
ginia arc now suffering, every household
being in mourning at the prospect of ap
proaching famine. They also say that it
was announced in Petersburg on Wednes
day that Beauregard had arrived at Rich
mond. Jeff. Davis and the military authorities
declared their intention to light to the
death at Bichmond, but strong suspicions
were entertained that it was really their
purpose to abandon the city after a short
defence.
A largo number of women arrived at
Petersburg represent the distress prevailing
in the former cit as beyond description.
Throats were made by the soldiers from the
Gulf States, that, if they had" to abandon
the city, they would lay it in ashes. Great
fears wero entertained that these threats
would be carried into effect.
The number of troops in Richmond and
vicinity is believed to be fully 200,000,
including unarmed and poorly armed of
recent levies, who were to bo armed with
pikes.
North Carolina Backing Oat.
News from North Carolina states that
Gov. Clark has refused to furnish any more
troops to Jeff. Davis, and has recalled all
tho North Carolina soldiers now in the
rebel army. North Carolina had held a
convention of its' citizens, and pronounced
against giving any further aid to the rebel
lion, thus virtually returning to the Union.
In reply to a demand of Jeff. Davis for
additional troops and means of transporta
tion for his army to and through the cotton
States, Gov. Clark said Davis had received
all the aid from North Carolina he could
expect, and hereafter no more troops would
be permitted to leave the State, and has
ordered all North Carolina troops home.
Gov. Clark also informed the rebels that
they could use the railroads in retreating
homewards, but that they would run their
own risk of being intercepted by a Union
force at any part of the State.
The Tribune has the following :
"We can positively assert that, whatever
modification ma' be made in his order, Gen.
Hunter will not he recalled nor put in a
position necessitating his resignation.
More Troops Called Tor.
Dispatches from Washington to tho New
York Tribune are not precisely determined
what number of volunteers will be called
for, but it will not be far from 100,009,
including those needed to fill up tho old
regiments.
The Herald says the President has deci
ded to accept 50,000 more volunteers to
fill regiments which have been thinned out
by wounds and sickness, and to form a
reserve under drill for the future, which
may be ready at a decisivo moment.
Prompt responses have been received
from most of the Governors of the New
England States to the call for additional
regiments, to meet the demands of the War
Department,
Ecports Regarding Nce Orleans.
ThcNavy Department has received full
reports from commanders at New Orleansj
accompauicd by elaborate plans of the forts
as they appeared after the bombardment.
Out of 7500 shells thrown, 1100 were
counted in the solid ground of the fort;
2 100 exploded in the air above the forts:
3300 in ditches and overflowed portions of
the fort. The draw bridge, hot shot fur
naces and cistern are completely destroyed.
All the casemates and passages were filled
with water, the levee having been cut.
Platforms for tents had been burned up.
The casemates were cracked from end to
end, and tho roofs of many broken in.
Pour guns were dismounted, and eleven
gun-carriages and traverses injured.
From Beauregard's Annr.
.Deserters from the rebel camps, who left
A week ago, report that Reauregard had
130,000 men. They are suffering greatly
with sickness, and an average of six hun
dred men being daily sent from camp over
the Memphis and Charleston road. All
the houses along the railroad are used as
hospitals.
Beauregard was constantly among the
troops, making speeches, and using every
effort to cnccrurag6 them. His troops are
on half rations.
Arkansas Secedes.
The proclamation of Governor Rector, of
ArKansas, proposes that the State shall
secede; she doesn't propose to bear the ills
of the Confederacy if that magnanimous
government cannot afford her better protec
tion. Gov, Bcctor says Arkansas can
"play it alone ;" but hints that she would
receive a little acsistanco from Missouri,
Louisiana and Texas. No Confederate
troops have ever been sent to Arkansas, but
she has been drained to swell the ranks of
the rebel forces in Tennessee and Virginia.
Foreign Intervention.
The news from Europe is pacific. It is
ascertained that the rumors of intervention
have been the creation of the secessionists,
and arc without foundation.
Non-Resident Tax Payers.
The manifest justice of requiring, says
the Topeka Tribune, non-resident land
owners to pay a fair proportion of the tax,
upon such permanent improvements, made
by actual residents, to alone enhance the
value of his own land and render it sale
able, is attracting the attention of our peo
ple, our Assessors, and our County Boards.
In Osage county, measures have been taken
to tbia end, the County Boards yielding to
the demands of the people, and the Asses
sor will assess the lands of non residents
(that i3 those who reside in another State,
or who living in another county fail to
inform the Assessor of their residence,) ae
much higher as will equalize the taxes in
this particular. Will not our County
Board and our Assessor come to an under
standing and take similar measures to
render equal and exact justice to all ? The
following communication will explain itself:
Ridgeway, Osage Co., Kas., )
April 3d, 18G2. j"
To lite Commissioners of Osage County :
Gentlemen The new tax law of 18G2
provides that all improvements on lands,
exceeding in value five hundred dollars,
shall bo valued separately, and be liable to
be taxed. There arc men in our county
whose farms are nearly surrounded by
unoccupied lands. Their improvements
may be valued at 2,500. These improve
ments enhance the vnlue of all the
lauds in tho neighborhood. The owners of
these farms will have to pay about twenty
dollars annually for the privilege of en
hancing the value of non-rc&ident lands,
the owners of which escape the payment ot
the personal road tax altogether. This
may be uniform, but it is certainly not
equal. It is therefore in violation of the
spirit and letter of our State Constitution.
The article on finance and taxation makes
it the duty of the Legislature to provide for
a uniform and equal rate of assessment and
taxation.
I have given bond and subscribed on
oath for the faithful performance of my
duties as Assessor. I shall therefore assess
all unoccupied lands owned by non-residents
at such a figure that the owners will
have to pay a tax equal to that paid by the
resident owners, whose improvements do
not exceed in value S500, including the
personal road tax paid by tho latter. This
will be uniform, as there will no exception
to the rule; and it will be equal, as both
resident and non-resident will pay in the
airjrrccate the same amount of tax. If
non-residents cannot afford to pay the same
amount of tax that residents pay, they had
better sell out to somebody who can.
Bcsidents of adjoining counties, owning
lands in this, will of course stand in the
same position as residents of this county,
provided the Assessor can ascertain the
names and residence of the real owners.
But as the Legislature, in the pleuitudc of
their wisdom, have repealed that portion
of the old tax law, making it the duly of
the Register of Deeds to make out an ab
stract of conveyances for the use of the
Assessor, it will be necessary for the own
ers of unoccupied lands in this county, to
communicate immediately, their address and
a minute description of their lands to the
undcrsigued. They will probably save
about three dollars on each quarter section
by so doing. Yours, &c, O. n. Browne
Tho Southern Expedition.
The force going south from this point,
have been assigned by General Blunt to the
command of General Doubleday. It will
be sufficiently strong to occupy and keep
in subjection the ountry of the rebel
Indians, and even menace the borders of
Texas on the line of the Red river. The
forts in the Indian Territory are Gibson,
Arbuckle, Washita and Cobb. Of these,
Fort Gibson was dismantled and abandoned
several years since ; Fort Cobb is a new
post, and Forts Arbuckle and Washita are
the old frontier -defences of Texas against
the Camauchc and Kiowa Indians. These
forts are situated as follows:
Fort Gibson on the Arkansas river, 100
miles southeast of this place, and G5 miles
west of Fort Smith by the Military road,
and SO by the Whisky road. Tahlequa,
the Capital of the Cherokee Nation, is near
Fort Gibson. Fort Arbuckle is 140 miles
southwest of Gibson; Washita is GO miles
south of Arbuckle, and Cobb is 150 miles
west of Arbuckle, in the Wichita Moun
tains. It was built for the protection of
the Texas Indians, who were removed
there ia 1SG0.
Should General Mitchell's Division move
southwest in the direction of Fort uobb, he
will be able to occupy the whole of North
western Texas to the'Rio Grande effectual
ly cutting off their communication with
New Mexico and Arizona. We hope, ere
long, to sec the Texans receiving their
share of punishment for participation in tho
rebellion. Fort Scott Bulletin
1. The Fugitive Slave Law does not
extend to the District of Columbia. Mem
bers of tho Cabinet and Senate, whose legal
knowledge is of the first order, agree in this.
!) Uttiflit.
JUXCTIOIV, K4IVSAS,
TJd.UJKKD.AfSr, 3tfY SO, 1862.
THE FUTURE OF THE WEST.
As time rolls on the prospects brighten.
The passage of the Homestead Bill, the
most gratifying aspect the Pacific Railroad
question are assuming, is awakening this
distant portion of the Far West from its
lethargy, and instilling confidence into our
people. The Homestead Bill is now a law
of the land; its provisions we have as yet
not seen. But the great object sought by
it is to secure Homes for the Homeless.
This we regard as the greatest victory the
North has obtained. It dedicates forever
the unocupicd public domain to Freedom.
It insures the speedy settlement of our own
State, and the boundless prairies west of us,
by hard-working honest farmers, and does
away with the merciless prey of the land
shark. It will also, as Senator Pomeroy
remarks, produce more revenue for the
Government than any present or prospective
sale of public lands.
This truly great measure has been agi
tated in Congress for upwards of twenty
years, and has always met with a persistent
and determined opposition from the South.
But thanks to secession, it has triumphed,
and tho wilderness will soon be made " to
blossom as the rose." The vote on its
passage was 66 yeas to o nays. .Uvery
Republican in the Senate voted for it, as
also did Messrs. Henderson and Wilson of
Missouri, Kennedy of Maryland, McDougal
of California, and Wright of Indiana. The
nays were from Delaware, West Virginia,
and Kentucky., Messrs. Thompson of New
Jersey, Rice of Minnesota, Latham of Cali
fornia, Nesmith and Stark of Oregon, were
absent or withheld their votes.
Take in connection with this the almost
certainty of the passage of the Pacific Rail
road Bill now before Congress, what an
Empire will exist here in a few years ! The
inducements held out by this country to
the emigrants of the Old World as well as
of the Eastern States, are unparallclled,
and will bring to us millions of good citizens.
Further, by the time of the completion of
this Railroad, we believe that what is now
the West will hold the balance of power in
the Government, and be the centre, com
mercially, and otherwise, as it is geograph
cally. To our own immediate locality the result
of the present legislation in Congress is of
the utmost importance. The passage of the
Railroad Uill now before that body, recog
nizing as it does the great Kansas Valley
route, the one intended by Nature, will in
a few years make our valley teem with
people, and with the capacity then offered
in developing our resources, the wealth of
this section will be unsurpassed on the
continent. The Bill requires the company
to fiuish the first one hundred miles of the
road within two years from its passage,
which will bring it almost to Fort Riley,
Take courage, settlers !
GENERAL BLUNT.
It is really pleasing to witness the slow
but sure manner in which General Blunt
is rebutting the sarcasm and bitter invective
hurled at him by the Kansas press at the
time of his appointment. From the Con
servative down we believe the press of the
State as a general thing are discovering
those administrative and soldierly qualities
which characterize him, and which obtained
for him the position. New life and vigor
has been infused into the military affairs of
the State ; particularly is this the case re
specting kidnapping the papers no longer
teem with accounts of these outrages. The
General's past history is beginning to come
to light. From the earlist period in the
history of Kansas, he has always appeared
as a bold, brave, strong, clear, unflinching
friend to freedom. A correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune relates several instances
of his career last summer, wherein he ex
hibited daring intrepidity, accomplishing
in each instance what his superior officers
deemed impossible. To him is ascribed, by
this correspondent, the honor of having
saved Kansas form the incursions of the
rebel hordes under Price. The same writer
says that time will demonstrate the wisdom
of the President in putting in command of
this Department the man best qualified for
the position.
We are trmly glad to witness the mag
nanimous spirit exhibited bj the press at
large in coming to his aid, and acknowledg
ing his fitaess for the position. "
GEN. HUNIKtt AND THE PRESIDENT.
In our telegraphic columns last week was
a synopsis of a proclamation by Gen. Hun
ter declaring the slaves in the States of
Georgia, Florida and South Carolina for
ever free. His right to do thi3 he bases
upon the fact that, as those States are in
rebellion against the Government and mar
tial law has been declared over them, and
slavery and martial law are incompatible
and cannot exist together, the slaves are of
a necessity free. Slavery cannot exist
without local laws to protect it, and when
those laws arc supplanted by martial law
the chains of the slave fall to the ground
and he becomes free. But however right
General Hunter may be in his views of the
subject, the President t'oes not seem pre
pared for such a movement, and in a proc
lamation pronounces General Hunter's
action unauthorized and altogether void.
He says that such " supposed right " he
reseves to himself and will not be entrust
ed to commanders in the field.
The President in his proclamation, calls
attention to his former proclamation, urg
ing emancipation upon the people of the
border States, and appeals to them as
follows :
" To the people of these States I now
earnestly appeal. I do not .argue, I be
seech you to make tho arguments for your
selves. You cannot if you would be blind
to the signs of the times. I beg of you a
calm and enlarged consideration of them,
ranging, if it may be, far above personal
and party politics. This proposal makes
common cause for a common object, casting
no reproaches on any. The change it con
templates would come as quietly as the
dews of Heaven, not rending or wrecking
anything. Will you not embrace it ? So
much good has not been done by one effort
in all cast time as, in the Providence of
God, it is now your high privilige to do.
May the vast future not have to lament
that you have neglected it."
ALITTLEHOPE.
The Con'sci'vative contains a correspon
dence between Senator Lane and the Depart
ment, from which Robert S. Stevens, one
of the parties in defrauding the State last
winter, obtained his Sac & Fox house con
tract. Senator Lane states to the Depart
ment that Stevens stole thirty-two thousand
dollars from the State, and asks tho co
operation ot the Department, if possible, in
recovering the amount out of moneys due
Stevens on this contract. Mr. Dole, Com
missioner of Indian Affairs, replies that if
any means can be devised by which the
Government can interfere between its con
tractors and their creditors, he will cheer
fully aid in securing the amount.
This gives a little hope to a dispirited
people; but it would be just like the thing
if some legal technicality would be found
to thwart the State, and let the thieves
escape unpunished. In fact, such is sure
to be the case. Tho accomplished villain
is perfectly secure; none but the bungler
comes within the province of law. The
very shirt should be taken off their backs.
The man who would rob people, impover
ished as our people were by war and famine,
is unfit to live.
THE WHEAT CROP.
The.prospects for a most bountiful wheat
crop are of a very flattering character. All
through this section of country the growing
grain presents as promising an appearance
as we ever saw in the grain -growing regions
of the East. From a gentleman who has
just returned from an extended trip through
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, we
learn that in no part of the States named,
does the wheat present as fine an appear
ance as it docs in Kansas. And this is
more particularly true of fall wheat.
Many people were doubtful of the suc
cess of fall wheat in this section of coun
try, but the bountiful harvest that was
reaped last year, and the strong evidence
which we have of a still more bountiful
one this season, will dispel the doubts from
the mind of every person, as it is now
plainly shown to be one of the best grain
producing regions in the entire West. In
the raising of fall wheat it far exeed3 Illi
nois or Iowa and is fully the'rival of Ohio.
xbe yield is large, and makes most excel
lent flour.
In view of these facts, we think it would
be well for our farmers to make arrange
ments for putting in a large amount of
seed the coming fall, and sow less spring
wheat, which does not yield as well as fall
wheat and does not make as good flour.
OUR KAIL FACILITIES.
The Post Office Department invites pro
posals for carrying the mails from this
place to Pawnee Fork, there to connect
with the Santa JFe mail from Council Grove,
The object of this move is "to test the rela
tive advantages of the two routes, with the
view of permanently awarding the contract
to the road presenting the best facilities for
the speedy transit of the mails. For the
remit we have no fears, as the route from
the Missouri river to Pawnee Fork bj way
Junction and Salina is much shorter than
by the old Santa Fe road, as has been ftllj
demonstrated. '
OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
The Pacific Hallroad Collateral Hoad The House
Bill-The Prospects ia the Senate-The Conditions
of the Bill-Its Benefits to Kansas The War for
the Union Anticipated Victories Jennlson ana
Stnrgis.
Washington, May 15, 1862.
Editors of the Union .A3 you have
doubtless been advised long ere this, the
Pacific Railroad bill passed the House on
Thursday last by a vote of 49 to 79.
As it passed the House, the bill organi
zes " the Union Pacific Railroad Compa
ny," to erect a railroad from the western
border of Kansas to the eastern border of
California, and donates to the company five
alternate sections of land on each side of
the road where the same is not taken, and
16.000 per mile in thirty year United
States six per cent bonds with treble the
amount of bonds through the Rocky and
Nevada Mountains, and double the amount
between the Mountains. It authorizes the
Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western R. R.
Co. under its charter, to build their road, as
a branch of the Pacific Road, from Kansas
City to the Western boundary of Kansas,
and the construction of another branch
from the western boundary cf Iowa, to con
nect with the U. P. R. R. on tho western
line of Kansas, atid also the construction
of a branch from Leavenworth, fifty miles
in length, and the construction of a branch
from St. Joseph, one hundred miles in
length, to intersect with the Pawnee
road all upon the same terms of the
U. P. R. R. that is, ten sections of land
and 16,000 for each mile of road. The
Western end of the road is left with a Cal
ifornia company, with vthe same aid as
extended to Eastern end.
The House bill was reported by the
Senate Committe on Monday last, with a
number of amendments, tho only one of
interest to your readers being one making
Fort Riley a point in the road an amend
ment not material, as by the terras of the
bill as it now stands, the road will be so
built.
The friends of the enterprise in the Sen
ate feel confident that they can carry it in
that body by a majority of from eight to
twelve on a full vote. For the present, the
bill lies upon the table, but may bo taken
up at any time. Its consideration will,
however, be deferred for some time on
account of the Tax and Confiscation bills.
Of its passage when taken up, and its ap
proval by the President, there is, to say the
least, a reasonable certainty.
The afrcrejrate amount of the bonds to
be issued in aid of the construction of the
road is not to exceed 60,000,000, the prin
cipal and interest to bo paid tho Government
in freights and mail service on the road. Hie
Kansas company is required to complete
one hundred miles of the road within two
years from tho passage of the bill, and fifty
yearly thereafter. The entire road ia to be
completed bv 1S75,
To sav nothinjr of the National view of
the matter, the passage of this bill will be
of incalculable benefit to the people of
Kansas. Its immediate effect will be the
expenditure of some fifteen to twenty mil
lions of dollars in the construction of the
road and its branches, within the limits of
the State, and its resulting effects the con
centration of hundreds of millions cf dollars
of wealth and millions of people within
her limits. From the main trunk road of
the Kansas Valley, collateral roads will
speedily diverge in every direction in the
State, and in ten years Kansas will be cov
ered with a network of roads which will
equal those in the older States. To the
Western Territories, too, it opens up the
highway to futuro wealth, prosperity and
greatness, and binds with a chain that can
never be broken the Pacific and the Atlantic
States.
The intelligence from tho patriot forces
now in the field gives encouragement of the
speedy crushing out of the rebellion, and
of the restoration of the authority of the
Government throughout all the revolted
States. On land and water, where patriots
have met the foe, the old flag waves in tri
umph. Victories follow each other in such
rapid succession, that a bare allusion to the
last one in a letter from this place, would
be regarded as stale by the time it could
reach you. Suffice it to say that all eyes
arc now turned in the direction of Rich
mond and Corinth, and all cars listening
for the shouts of triumph which they feci
certain will be heard by all true men from
both points.
Jennison and Sturgis, two much talked
of Kansas men, are both here at this time.
The former will, probably, in a few days be
nominated as a Brigadier, and given the
command of an expedition to the Indian
Territory and for tho recovery of Fort
Smith. The latter will not be returned to
Kansas, but in all probability will, like
many others like him in the regular army,
be permitted to pass off into quiet, infam
ous obscurity. Yours, &c.,
McB.
Words of Wisdom. The following ex
tract from the speech of Periclcss, of
ancient renown, on the defections of Euco-
baand Megara, contains much truth in a
small compass. It is peculiarly appropriate
at the present time. He says :
"No State can be respected if fragment
after fragment may be detached from it
with impunity ; if traitors are permitted to
delude and discompose the contented, and
seduce the ignorant from their allegiance
if loyalty is a weakness, sedition a duty,.
conspiracy wisuom ana reoeuion heroism.
9&- Colonel Cloud, of the Tenth Kansas
is stopping at the Michigan House, Leav
enworth. The Colonel's regiment, says the
Times, is becoming one of the most popular
in the service. It will probably be de
tailed for the Southern expedition.
Forth a Cnian-
THE KAN8A8 TALLEY.
It has always been customary in the
frontier States of the Union for the the'
settlers to extol the merits of the particular
section in which they happen to reside. It
is natural for the people of a new country
to desire to create a favorable impression
abroad concerning the inducements offered
to immigrants. It is frequently the case "
that the descriptions of country that meets
the eyes of Eastern people, are drawn more
from the imagination than from existing
facts. So true is this, that emigrants in
search of homes in the Western country,
avoid a? if by instinct, those localities that
are lauded the highest. Happily for the"
Kansas Valley and the vallics of the Smoky
Hill and Republican rivers the praise be
stowed upon them is substantiated and
founded upon fact; and the results of this
salutary method of obtaining settlers is
plainly perceptible npon the growth and
prosperity of the vallies referred to.
The country west and north-weat from
Fort Riley is undoubtedly the garden of
Kansas. The great Smoky Hill river
drains a scope of country unsurpassed any
where in the West in point of agricultural
resourced. Stretching far back towards the
Rocky Mountains, this river is fed from
never failing fountains, and its waters as
they flow eastward diffuse life and beauty
over millions of acres of land as desirable as
any that eyer snn shone upon. For a distance
of fifty miles back from the mouth of this
river, may be seen flourishing towns, the
fruits of an energetic civilization; while
still farther back tbo buffalo quenches his
thirst in its waters, and the camp fire of the
red man gleams upon its swift-moving bos
om. The time cannot be far distant when
the valley of the Smoky Hill will be ono
of the most populous portions of the State.
The Republican river, in every respect
the compeer of the Smoky, also presents
attractions that cannot cscapo the eye of the
home-sacking emigrant. The soil of the
Republican valley is unequalled in point of
fertility by any other portion of Kansas,
while Nature has bestowed her facilities for
the rapid improvement of the country with
a lavish hand.
The confluence of the Smoky and Re
publican rivers in Davis county renders tho
county in an agricultural point, ono of the
most important in the State. As a stock
raising county, Davis has no rival in Kan
sas. The uplands afford a large range bet
ter adapted to grazing than any other
purpose. Clothed for nearly nine months
of the year with nutricious grasses, and
watered by numerous springs, these high
lands contain the elements of wealth that
can easily and quickly be brought to bear
upon the prosperity or the county. All
that is wanted at the present time is a
market, and that want will soon be supplied
by the Union Pacific Railroad. Then will
the resources of this unparalleled counrty
bo fully developed. Then will the Kansas
Valley teem with a thriving population.
Then will the monuments of wealth and
magnificence spring up on every side, and
the geuius of civilization will joyously turn
her eyes towards the Pacific. . f
OUR COUNCIL GROVE CORRESPONDENCE.
Council Gkove, May 15, 1862.
Editors of the Union : Several parties,
three in all, have lately been arrested in
this and Lyon county for horse stealing.
Two of them were taken to Lyon county
and one to Wabaunsee. One of these was.
a Mexican charged with stealing horses
from Mr. Scgur, at Judge Raker's place on
Rock Cioak, in Lyon county. Judgo
Baker was instrumental in procuring tuc
arrest of these parties. For that reason,
or some other, (not political) a man named
Anderson, of Bluff Creek, came to Judgo
Maker's house with the avowed purpose of
shooting him. Mr Comstock, a constable
of this place, who was in attendance, inter
fered in time so that the lead of Anderson's
gun did not take effect. Baker then shot
Anderson on the spot. The shot by Baker
is entirely justified by thoso present.
Judge A. I. Baker was married at tho
Union Hotel in this place, to Miss Anna
Segur, by the Rev. Mr. Spencer. After
which a cotillion party took place in honor
of the event. A large party is said to
have been present. A suitable supper was
served up by Mr. Smith, the proprietor of
the hotel, and. tho occasion is reported -as
particularly interesting to those present.
S. M. Hayes, late of the firm of Haves
& Co., is about starting his " outfit " to
Uolorado Territory. He will be absent
some months. He is succeeded in business
here by his former partner, Mr. Simcock.
The firm of Sharpe & Lcdrick has changed
to Lcdrick & Robbms.
Mr. A. S. Pollaid & Brother have their
brick yard under way. In addition to the
excellent brick manufactured here, the
town is abundantly supplied with in'o
building stone, easily quarried and near at
band. Many of the buildings are built
with these stone.
The crops, look fine. The prospects of
fruit are also good The country is gener
ally healthy, and if the war was closed a
new impetus would be given to eyery of
branch of business.
Several parties have been hrantfht before
J. F. Dadds, U. S. Commissioner, for ex
amination this week on a charge of selling
liquor to the Indians. Two of the parties
were held to bail hfthe sum of 500 each
The business has been carried' on quite
extensively. The Kaws -were- becoming
wholesale dealers with the Kiowas and
Arrapahoes in the same article of commerce.
SANFORK -
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J3T While in New York they say maw
be seen the ominous placards "to, let,'
every business house in this part of the jt
West is " wanted," and new ones are being "V
built Never, perhaps, since our city .was
located, have we experienced a more pros-
perous season. Dwelling houses are at i
high premium, and " board wanted" for.
families is the prevalent cry. Lcat. Timcs
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