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The Junction City Weekly Union from Junction City, Kansas • Page 2

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Bf tfj" 0w' and the mteiN ofrioriiatotieUnii. 7bhml abolition ef slama! any ratea the iadeapeMbIa conditio. wilL Western TUilme The sacoeaaafal construction of nihai doubted, as MsTct tbem will pwa for long donees ttSUt country at present uiaUUd. railroad engineer and operator i this mtn rtJt I aee it hinted ia the Lawrence Trihwe' thaMbi. Un.

of road wUl pa. thrgbS not be frightened at this. i "Yoa have not forgotten the stroaf opeo. aettlemenu went thtmA r7u aneaa of tbe eonstraetioa yd I know that thoaaand. of acres PorUge prairie, could have been 84 per acre, and a.

oon aa the JS UOm'TAo't" wouldeuTr lit you have a good country froa eone the Balf of Mexioo, go on with your road. "i01 th! of the country nor the value of your road." M5RTIS.EMENTS. With Farmer and Trappers tor all klada of Produce and Hides. Bring them to WOODWARD'S SADDLERS SHOP CKy, Kansas. noil 4w NOTICE.

ie2 ai tt- Court Ho door. In Jnae-Uon City, Kansas, at 8 o'clock P.M., 8euMeT he 25th of Aov. 1866, the followiigHScf land belonging to the estate of Jam, Bennett deceaaed, to wit The east half of the north' wet quarter section thirty five, towashln twelve south, range five eaat. containing elahtr acre, situated on Lyon'a Creek, Davi ooit Terms of sale cub. i.

7 no AdminUtrater. Public Sale of Stock. I will sell at pubUosale, at my residence, one mile south of Junction City, on SATURDAY, NOV. 18. 1803.

about serenty.five head of oattle, iaelodlnr twenty cow. and steers, tea head of hones, fifty ton of hy, one mowing machine, and two plow. The stock is some of the best ia the county. TERMS CASH. Persons wishing to purchase at private ele before the 18th, can have an opportunity to do o.

wiujamsandebSox nofta 1 'i 1 i 1 e- A. -a I 7i4 A CotoAo paper ia raspanaible for tho fol lowing atory af two Hibernian voter at tha recent election for or against the adoption of negro a mirage in tn at State: No. 1 chucked in a vote -against the Constitution and for the negra ewffrege." No. 2 say, "What the devil are yea vetin' that way for? sore we don't want nagar suffrage hell with tho narur" was the reply, "let him suff and dammed to him." Ix a list of military and civil rebel leader. published ia the New Terk Tribune, who have applied for pardon, we notice the name of M.

Tennison, of Louisiana." This scapegrace was once an officer of the lat Knaa beinr tlie reginnindatraitoiatheart, Ik. A M. A 1 ft. ucoci icu uu went vo uio re i v. nt went from Leavenworth.

His application has been suspjnded.and it is a pity hi miserable carcass wasn in the same fix- Ws learn from the Leavenworth Times, that Mrs. Robert Crosier, wife of the Chief Justice of this State, died suddenly on the Hannibal and SL Joseph road, Wednesday, while on her vray borne with her husband, the Judge, and family. The sad news reached our city yester day, and caused a shock in the' social circle of which she was so bright an ornament. When she left for home, no one anticir a ted the aad event. She was bright and cheerful, and felt strong enough to undertake the journey.

But the angel came, yet so softly that she passed away as if in a awoet sleep. Miscellaneous Items. Adam, in his capacity of gardener, was undoubtedly the inventor of the well known phrase, the dig-nity of labor." what is the difference between a couple of mermaids and summer and autumn? The former are two asa-daughters and the latter tiro-sea-sons. Hcac is the worst we ever Why i a clergyman, near the end of a sermon, like a boy who has rent his integuments. Because he' a lored his clothes.

It is stated from Washington that the next monthly statement of the public debt will show another decreasa in the principal, as compared with the exhibit for September, during which month the debt waa reduced about thirteen millions. Thxbb were 23,000 persona on the scales at the Boston Mechanical Fair. The average weight of men was 144 poands; the average weight of women was 125. The largest man weighed 293 pounds the largest woman weighed 274. Secretary Stanton weighed 180 pounds.

The New Orleans Tribune, owned and edited by colored persons, relates the following incident: "When Carl 8hur arrived in this city, he became tho guest of Gen. Canby. It was in the evening. Next morning, after breakfast Gen. Schun said he would be pleased to look over some loyal city paper, "There is none," replied Gen.

Canby'except the Tribune, which is a negro The in this country and in Europe, have for several years past ben makine ereat efforts to raise subscriptions for the rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem, permission to that effect having been given to them by the Turkish Government. There is a sublimity of purpose about the movement which must elaim the respect and sympathy of ail Christendom. The largest of New York editors, in point of size, is James Gordon Bonnet, while tho smallest is Henry J. Raymond. Both of these men have been bold editors, and yet, quite strangely, the latter has never met the touch of personal violence, while the former has been punished often and severely.

Mr. Raymond exhibits a marvellous contrast between muscle and intellect. His industry for a quarter of a century past has been incredible, and he has the repu tation of beiag the hardest worker in N. York. In this way he has built op the Times.

Cut the, following and paste it in your scrap book it is worth a year's subscription to any reader of this paper. The leaves of the elder, if strewn among corn or other grain when it is put into the bin, will effectually preserve it from the ravages of tho weevil The juioe will also kill bed bugs and maggots. Insect never toueh elder bushes. The leaves of tho elder scattered over cabbages, cucumbers, squashes and other plant subject, to the ravage of insects, effectually shield them. The plum and other fruits may be saved by plaoing on the branches and among them bunches of the elder leave.

Tax New York timet siyl thai the Sunday after the first battle of Bull Run, in 1861, the American agent of tho house in London thro which our Government transact its business, called upon the proper Secretary at Washington and requested the amount duo his principals on ftceonnt. Th ja wv evwe fIVfWV The Secretary informed him that the Govern- ment would not probably break up before bua- ineM the next d7t nl nut request kfm a seek 11 ea wain A mm. a a A ianer oi course utese linkers are till very anxious to be retained Bai" Ql QUT lA)ndon. THS CONSTiTUTlOZUfc AMENDMENT vfc. ms Uriah Tl, nn-r: i it.iwuai aHICHUHICBL aiKlllniOi? i.

i mi hcm rat'nea dt twentv.fnm Statea and rejected by three. The asaent of twentj-aeven ctates is reqoired before the uiouunjui can ocoome part or our Uonati tution. RATrrrrn Illinois. Feb. 1.

It65. Minnesota. Feb. 8. 65.

65 Feb. 2. 1865. East Va Fh 9 Maryland. Feb, 2.

'65 Indiana. Feb. 13. Feb. 3, 1865 New York.

Feb. 3. PcnnFeb.3. 1865 Nevada. Fh 18 65 Leu.

Feb. IT. 18fi5. Mov.Feb.24.186S. Feb.

24. 1865. Vt. March 9. 1865.

Art, April 1865. May 4. 1865. Iowa. Jnne 30.

lftfiS Wt Feb. 3. 1865 April 5. 1865. Maine.

Feb- 4. Ohio, Feb. 9, 1865. Kansas, Feb. 8, 1865.

N. one 30, 1865. Tht CoUoel lenwcQ, who has lately bn thi wav renefta the Union Pacific RlU .7 Official Yote of Davis County. u. a a For RtprtuntaUve CJ A.

w. Uallen, 'Thoma Franklin, L. B. Perry, J.P.Wiley, H. Carleton, For Sheriff 156 24 20 IS 22 IS 238 1 3 i 4 0.

E. Beatea, G. H. Purinton. 95 20 14 13 22 13 73 6 2 8 80 John Brigga, Loroner For Committionert 165 29 20 18 26 13 276 William Stone.

157 38 25 13 30 It 3 13 6 4 58 12 10 7 13 72 10 1 4 9 81 11 9 17 13 275 162 100 96 13 141 31 13 13 1 Henry Mitchett, Samuel Orr. J.B. Quimby, L. Hall, John Wallace, J.P.Ryan, Jack Sullivan, For County Clerk A. C.

Pierce, C. L. Sanford. 2 8 9 1 12 15 29 16 13 2 10 1 27 13 244 Jack Sullivan. For Treasurer R.

E. Laurenaon. 44 82 79 6 41 16 1 9 4 102 90 89 J. H. Brown, 1 12 W.

K. BartletL 9 12 15 Remitter of Dttdt U. Mitchell, 6. F. Gordon, 80 14 22 10 17 13 27 87:23 3 8 13 158 29 15.

13 27 13 242 10 Lvun'v Survevor A. C. Pierce, D. Furrow. Jack Jullivan J.

C. Kennett, 1 7 County Attorney 8. B. White. 89 4 9 2 23 119 J.

B. McClure, Prescott. J.P.Wiley, James Tulley, 4 1 16- Uounty Attutor G. A. Tavlor.

93 26 72 1 2 1 2 12 13 47 J. P. Grassberater. 10 18 E. N.

Church. 8 Jamea Ryaa, 1 R. Laurenson, Bonds Issued to the TJ. P. Eailway.

Tha Treasury Department, on Friday last, issued to. John D. Perry, President, and W. J. Palmer, Secretary and Treasurer of tho JTansas Branch of the Pacific Railroad, six hundred and forty thousand dollars in bonds beine the amount due on the first forty miles under the appropriation of sixteen thousand dollars for each mil completed.

Election News- The State of New Jersey has eone Republi can by 2,500 majority a Republican increase of 20,000. They have also a majority of ten in the Assemby and on in the Senate. This ren der certain the ratification of the Constitution al Amendment by New Jersey. The soldiers have returned home, and the traitorous Democ racy must sink. In our own State there has been a large Re publican majority but we earn give but little satisfaction as to the result.

The result as concerns the next Legislature only is of general interest. Jennison is elected over Cloud in Leavenworth by live majority which is almighty tough. Hoiliday and Fletcher are elected in Shawnee, and Lawrence defeated. Sam Wood is elected from Chase. Wheeler is elected to the Senate from Atchison county over Martin both Republicans.

Gliek, Jackson and Cain. Representatives from Atchison. Rankin and Judge Smith are among the elected in Douglas. Regular nominee in Pattawattomio has been defeated. Stateltems.

A Stat Emigration Society has recently been organised at Lawrence. The Denver News say of the Smoky Hill Route: The road i now fully guarded, there being sixteen soldiers aeach station for escort and patrol duty. Wa learn that Kansas merchants lost no goods by the burning of the Michigan Central Rail road depot at Detroit, which occurred a few days sinoo. Ths Baldwin City Observer says that Gen Pomeroy, while there last week, donated one hundred dollar to the Athonasan Literary So ciety of the Baker University. Thi taxes of Douglas county for the year 1865, foot up the handsome aggregate of Lawrence pays about one third of the amount $44,297.

Isb Taliita, the head chief of the Kansas tribe of Indians, and who was supposed to be about on hundred years old, died on Friday night It is supposed he died from over feasting. The party under Capt. Wicks, who are sur- ejint the SmeltY Hill rouU for I i about on hundred miles east of Denver, on Sand creek, coming fkovr twenty new Concord coaches have i A mm. ween purcnasea oj juutierneia Uverland Ins-1 patoh Company, to run on the line between the Missouri river and Denver. Several of the coaches have already arrived at Atchison.

t--! The Topeka Record aaya the pole for the i I tolesranh noaa Lawrence a.1on thm ltn I railroad, are erected as far as that place. The i uPt ne wnoie wui vrmw i oaiuruay. The Lawrence Journal say should the weather be 'favorable, the ears will be running to Topeka in twenty day. Grading ia beinc pushed forward rapidly of Jopekaf and in twelve saonua from tni ume tne cars will be running one hundred mile west of this place. Ma.

John Roaa last evening left in our office. say the Journal, a sample of apple, beins? a eoond crop grown upon the same tree in hi garden this season. The tree upon which this fruit wa grown bore fruit in again blossomed ic September, and bore fruit Thi Is surely a pomologieal phenomenon. We have never known anything of the like. It shows irbai Kanscan do in the fruit Hoe.

Nbw York, Nov, 6. A aaptared blockade) runner is prepared at Brooklyn Navj TatoVfor tbe recaption of well paasengtri on boaad the AtlanUc The Poat'a special aayaCommisaionera of Patent refused on Saturday to extend a patent to the Cultivator, much used in tha West. The Commissioners in their ananal report will ask Congress to withdraw from the Commission th power of granting tension in teat cases. The aoldiera of tbe veteran Reserve Corps nearly all obooaa to leave the service, and will be mastered oat aeoordioglj. Twenty-two persons were tojarad by an explosion ar tbe Wyoming Hotel yesterday.

None were seriously hart except C. Stevens, a milk man who was passing at the time. Tha box was fcft in the hotel by a nan named Theo. Seers. Tha bar keener.

6m. gac, and Mr. Merseau. who moved tt oat of tne Duuaiog, got away before it exploded, and were not a great deal injured. Seer ha been arrested.

Be states be brought the box from Hamburg, and it contained chemical oiU, and was entrusted to bim as a specimen for sale by an agent of the bouse of We! pel Itie, this city. Seers asserts positively that be never opened it, and knew nothing further of ks contents than above. When be left tbe hotel, to board ehwhere, he forgot tbe box: bat subsequently told that a man named Schoonma-kcrgot It for him, which, a letter negleeted to do. A destructive fire occurred in the sash factory of Albert White on Gurney street, near Clasaon avenue, Brooklyn; last night A row of six frame dwellings on Classen avenue, a thiee story frame dwelling on the corner of Gurney abriok baildioy on the corner of Gate a venue, were diatroyed About a dozen families were turned out of doors, escaping only with their lives. Total los, A Havana correspondent says forty insurgent, in Jamaica have been hanged.

Barbarities committed by rebels ase shock, ing. Mr. AS. Cakaeast was dashed to piece gainst a canton. Rev.

Mr. HerscbiU's tongue wa cut oat, and Baron Yon Eet totboot's fingers cat off. Jeff Davis to be Legally Tried. Washington. Not.

7. Tbe National Intelligencer, in notioing the visit to the President yesterday of ladies of Baltimore and tbe presentation of a petition seeking alemenoy in behalf of Jeff, Davis, says the interview waa a protiaoted one and most agreeable, and the fair petitioners left tbe oity, carrying with tbem tbe moat agreeable impresaion of the President Io declining, tha President regretted that the national oharaoter of tha aueation re strained all private sympathy wbiob they might have awakened' in bim, and make tbe important statement that complete ar-raogements bad been mads for the early trial oi Mr. Davis according to tbo laws of the land. Latest Telegraphic. Tbbktok, N.

Nov. 8. (Official.) Ward's majority in the State will not vary much from 2.000 to 2,500. Tbe next legis latare will stand as follows: Union major ity in the Senate and Assembly 16. Nxwark, N.

Nov. 8. Wsrd has 2.000 to 2.500 maioritv a gain of na.rU 20,000 over last year. Tbe repubieans have ten majority in tba Assembly, and one in tbe Senate. The election ot Ward secure tbe appointment of renublicana and elerks io Chancery and Supreme Courts.and a nosi oi otoer positiona.

The State is ring iog with rejoicing. Pontoon Bridqxs. The nontoen hrid over tbe Kansas river at Toneka ia at completed. The Stato Reoord states that it waa opened to the public on tba 28th nit and save that "those acquainted wth structures pronounce it well built, and ex press oonnaenoe in its permanency. In faot we cannot see that io or drift wood can do more than to take off three or four boat at the most, and tbe oornoanv intaad tn Vn extra boats on band to take tbe place of anv iusi may oe oroxen up.

Tns cable that holds tbe boats waa mannfaetnreil in P. osylvania, and is stretched across the river on eignt piers above high water mart. It is maaa ot wire, if inches in diameter, 1000 feet lonff. and weih. a JMi Mn.4.

pp SravAea The boats are attached to the main cable by vmvnm, Ma 1UT IQmt pUrpOSO 1,126 feet. There are thirty-six boaU now Isid across tbe river, thirteen feet apart, eon nected bv stringers covered with tn ink oak plaak. Four extra bosts are on hand for nae in high water. In oonstroeting the bridge there was used 1,200 feet of piling end 7,500 feat of sawed lumber, besides the hewed timber. Tba total aoat nf tk.

Mt. ore, we about fifUea tbocasd uouarav The CHOLEXA CnMT.n Tffi following from the St. Louis Deaocrat of iub via i The tertible Asiatia cholera. ae alremv reached New York, and here in a few daya. Our city ia in ev condition to welcome the monster with open arms to hosmtabla wravea." There are about 1.000 atagnaat ponds, 10,000 filthy neya, veexing oaeK yaraa, ana iu, 000,000 feet of atinkiog guttera ia the city.

Considering all ibeae may eetlaate that about 15.QQ0 of oer people will be sweat awv bv the Tkla faarfnl mortality may be prevented by speedy draining of tbe poooXeleaniog up the alleys, removing tbe filth from the back Jtsi9 tad aeraping tbe gutters and streets. CCTTbe Secretary of uu fcas aiirccd a letter to the rrovisiostl Governor of Florida, asftarias kin that ha is direetad The Cholera in HoTr Tork. Nr YofcK, Not. ateamer Atlantic, from London, arrived lat night, and waa ordered to the lower quarantine in donsequenae of sickness among tha paasengeta. Ik is Maorad at Staten Island that tight death oeotxrred on board from cholera.

Doctor Burdett, quarantine sureeon. re ports that fifteen death by cholera, out of nny or sixiy oases on ooara to Atlantic, oocured on tbe paasaga from Brest. There are also taw cases ot small pox boards Of the aeonrge on board the Atlantic the uommerctal says: Though tha di ease has been imported to our shocesat thi time, we do not think any special alarm ii oeea oe leu at present, it Deuoovea us to prepare immediately for tbe reception of tots scourge; not a daj is to be A special meeting of the Health Commie stonej was held at noon to-dar, in conse quence of the reported presence of cholera. The committee appointed at last meeting to arait a memorial peiuioniDg ueo. Urant for the use of land of Sandy Hook for quarao tine, representing the necessity of rigid quarantine in aovesal of tho port of tbe country to against tha iottoducion of cholera, and that the authority of New York are without a proper plaee to establish quarantine to meet the anticipated emer genej.

In thi dilemma they respectfully request uen. lirant for temporary quarao tine grounds so much of the lands a shall be necessary now owned by Government at Sandy Hook, to the lower bay. Dr. Sav era and Ersoo and Major Cleveland were appointed a committee to proeeed to Wash ington to lay the matter before Govern ment. The Rebef Debt.

Washington, Not. 3. The National Republican has tha folbw ing highly important dtapatcb from the resident, wbicb ha been recieved here: Executive Mansiok. Oct. 1865.

To James Johnston. Governor of Oeor gia: Your dirpatcb has been received. I be people of Georgia should not hesitate one single moment In every single oollar of debt ereated for tbe ouroose of aiding the rebellion against the Govern ment ot the united States, it will not do to levy and collect taxes from a state and people that are loyal and in tbe Union, to pay a debt that wa created to aid in taking them out, and sub ver tins tbe Constitution of the United States. I do not believe the great mas of tbo people of the State of jm Ueorgia, when left uninfluenced, will ever submit to tbe pajment of a debt which was made tbe excuse of bringing on tbem tbe past and present auffering, lb result of the rebellion. 1 hose who invested their oapi-'al in the creation of this debt must meet their fate and tsko it as one of the inevitable results of the rebellion, though it may iem bard to them, it should at onoe be made known, at home and abroad, that no debt.

contracted for the purpose of dissolving the Unioo, can or ever will be paid by taxes levied on the people for auch purpose. Andrew Johnson. WilZ. Tbe record in tbe Wirz case reached the President this evening, bat has not been acted upon yet. Tbe Herald Washington special of the 2d Tbe conservative people tako heart at the prevalont rumors in reference io the sentence of Wirs Statement are made that tbe President has the Anderson ville jailor' a ease onaer close advisement, with a view to mitigate as much as possible hi punish ment, ainee irx trial did not bring out a much a wa exnected lb imnliaata the r-hnl authorities io the Anderaonville atrocities The trial was a sort of failure, according to the viawa of the radical.

Those who claim to know the feelings of the Executive authorities say in' punishment will not be death by banging. 1 be 1 ribuae' special saja Win has lately been fed on hospital diet at the Old Capitol. Yesterday he waa put back upon regular army rations, in consequence of tbe Surgeon pronouncing him recovered. When break. fast ws presented, he flew into the greatest rage, ana pronounoea the feeding of a prisoner With SUCh food an Outran nmn hint and a diagrace to a great nation.

lNTERtaTI5Jd RiLlC. Maj. Gen. John B. Sanborn, when io tha city a few day go, snowed us quite a relic of antiquity, which he procured from an Indian chief, at the council at the month of the Liitfe Ac.

kansas, and for which he gave a horse Ortb $125. It was a silver mil six inches long and four inohea wide, of an oval shape: on one side were the wnrAm In Washington, PresidecUo Young 6 wurca, una oi an maun with bis tomahawk thrown on the rrnnnit and io bii hand a nine handinr It (a tk. other figure, intended to Vpreaoot a white vi wwii uu uia neaa. AS tne bottom waa the date 1789: on tkft ntkr ide wa a renresentatian of a ahUld mA eagle ua one claw was buoeh oi arrow, in tha other a twig; over tbe bead of the aagle wa twelve atar and tha words 'United Slates of America, bat motto. Everything about the mudal mhnm.A aocient letter were old fashioned mm.Jt La -uu toe repreaeota iott ot tha eagle waa an natural mud awkward, such a a boy would now draw, none of the hfe-lika ttnfMM Uut the eagle baa on the coin tha work of other daya when engraving was not in ita present degree of perfection; bat ereoty-sii years make Quite an imnortant improvement In the mechanical art." alate Journal.

JST'Tbat'a what I call canital tmnish- mnt as the bov aaid wb. ki. abut him tip io.tb ploiet mrtg tne pre- JUNCTION CITY, SATURDAY, NOVEHBER 11, 1885. TbBesnlt. TF elsewhere publish the official vo of Davis eounty, with the and where then wet not a majority the fall tote carried oat.

A. W. Cailen it chose Representative without oppotition. The following is the Board County. all of whom arc first class bnsine men: Wo, Stone, Henry Mitchell and Luther HalV Sheriffa.

E. Beates? Treasurer It. Lawrenson; Register D. Mitchell; Clerk and Surveyor A. C.

Pierce; Attorney-S. B. White; Anewr-0. AJarler, Coroner T. 0.

Bern, If political lines were drawn, and the etw-teat was almost entirelj confined to the posts of Sheriff, Treasurer and Register of Deeds. No objection can be had bj any one totho choice of the people except it may bo to the copper, beadism of Lawrenaen, whose ompeteney.how ver, none can doubt. Altogether, and without exception, Davia county will be well cared for daring the next two years. We have had no means of obtaining the result ia Saline and Dickinson counties. In 8a-line the precincts of 8alina and Solomon gave Phillips a majority of 26, but it is, we learn, extremely doubtful which way the precinctain Ottawa county hare gone.

In Dickinson, the forth ide of tbe river, of course, is strongly eopprd, and it rests with Lyon's Creek and Turkey Creek precinct to save the county. Thero seems to to a perfect indifferenoe all around as to who is elected. In Riley county General Harvey has been elected without opposition. are unable to eay how the Court House vote went, but the general presumption is that the measure has been adopted. Una.

Since the above was pat in tvpe, we leara that Kobler. RtDuhU- u'l io Dickiawu ecaoty by an oBUM majority of "7 cap the elimax. the Lamb family, agaiaet whom all the Copperhead renoin eeas to Lave been direeted, are triumphant. Per aonaeeienae, the placid waters of Mud Creek tuust be turbulent. Bully for the fire straieht-ooUl A Drive.

Saturday of last week, accompanied by Chas. Willemsen, of Lawrence, and Dr. Hall, of this place, we drove to tho month of the Solomon, where we remained a day or so enjoying the hospitality of Henry Whitley. On our way up the weather was a little winterish, rendering eomfortable overcoats and buffalo robes. Be-tween this place and the Solomon there is mag.

nificent river bottom, which, unfortunately, is owaod by non-resident speculator. Whfle there we rode over the bills and through the bottoms, wirnesoingtfta finest and richest of lands. We visited the famoue bluffs of gypsum, on Gypsum Creek, which it nn must yield immense fortunes to that portion of it. fl i ciate. its fertilising qualities, and the possibility that its hardness may be sufficient to justify its use for building purpose, will aake it an article of export The mouth of Solomon is a point of consider, able Importance.

8ituated on the main thoroughfare up the Smoky Hill, and commanding the entrance to a valley of such richness and magnitude as the Solomon, there must speedily spring up a trade at that point second to none in Western ansa. The land in the immediate neighborhood is subject to entry only by actual Iti being taken up by a solid.good class of farming citisens. We learn it to. be the intention of panics interested, whose liber-lity and enterprise will add much to the natural advantagce of the location, to lay out a town. We found Whitly building a substantial house, George Hall gathering the materials for large hotel.

Froet we met on the road, driving to hi place two hundred head of sheep. The farmers generally were revelling in the fait of good crop, and satisfaction abounded an all A Butcher for Congress, The Lawrence Joarnal and the Atchison Champion are employing themselves just now ia piling on the agony concerning Colonel Chtvington, and his Sand Creek massacre. They warn the young State of Colorado not to blot her garment by an endorsement ot the We have reason to believe the horrid tale told of that affair to be untrue. We have conversed with a gentleman with whom have had a long acquaintance, and who participated in the Sand Creek fightconcernina the published accounts, He Inform us that there were women and children killed, as was unavoidable, because all were huddled together, and the etory that the Indian were is shown up by the fact that thirty eight or forty of Chlvington's soldiers were killed. The testimony taken bef in that Congressional Ammmco is calculated to shock sensitive nerves: but an acquaintance of how Indian affairs hare been conducted for a few years past in the neighborhood of Larned and Lyon, is equally well calculated to establish tho value of that testimony.

The testimony of Indiana, half breeds, and their thieving agents and in. terpreteri will hare no weight among these who know thta. earnestly Lope tSe peopleof Colorado may tad Chlviagtoa to Congress. We want such a taaa in that position 'to expose the infernal aeouudreliata carried on in the nam of the poor Indian. We want Chivington to raise hi voice the floor of Congress in behalf of outraged humanity, that our Government may not bo hM responsible for the worse thaa beastly licentiousness of thai portion of the Indian Department.

We want the diagustlag amour of ofSriaband Indian iquaws stopped we want to see that nest of whit4 thieve who are hanging abbot Indians broken up. Then, an! then only, win We" arrive at a eorrrct manage-j wenf of Indian effiite. Stock for Sale at Auction. On Monday, November 18, 1866, at Patrick Davane Farm, on Chapman's Creek, will be old, at Public Sale, about ONE HUNDRED HEAD OF CATTLE, jf coniting of twenty five milch eowa, eleven head of 8 year old steers, and the remainder young Alo a mare aad colt, one two year old hone colt, oa yearling mule colt, and I wagoa. PATRICK DAVANB.

T.rm.Cab. C.C.HCLBUT. Nov. 4, 1865. gw JOHN GROSS, UHBERTMBB, AND DEALER IN ALSO Cofana Promptly made to Order WASHINGTON STREET, JUNCTION CJTT.

KANSAS a. oamDiv. Basilar. A. GAQDUn GO, MATS, CAPS, TLTRS, QLOVE8, TEA VXLIXQ EAGMf fc.

No. 20, DELAWARE 0tnEET isiiAvmi vonTu; eaitoao. JnlyLly. JOHN H. KARftJAN cook PAQLon sToyns OF ME, a COOKING- UTENSILS of.ootry ieeerifiio" Y7AomnoTon criinnKz JUZICTIOIT 01W, HAHCAC, JOB WORK done with wresat aad in a worajaaauae meaner.

Call aad aee aae in ClarfcV OotUnSStf. McDRATNEY, fX XlTtLL ATTEST) TO RUEIHr-'t rvra tbe President to, eay thU the ixtilcsdon of tbe Coogreeiosal Arssdbeat bj the Le-is- Tattira r.f tkat Rfaf im ilAMnkL tm. at -m -mrmm-mw niVl iV W11D1D twenty miKa of MauLattan. Courta of Watrn KsnaaaasiSbetorf the Land Ofiee. My 13, lM5.a5.tf, 1.

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About The Junction City Weekly Union Archive

Pages Available:
17,610
Years Available:
1865-1922