DAILY TIMES
[LEAVENWORTH, KS]
August 15, 1863 – March 25, 1864
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
The
Administration has finally determined to suspend all operations under the
Conscription act in Nebraska and Dakota. There
will be no draft in those Territories.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Subject for Investigation.
In times of commotion and confusion, like the present, it is to be
expected that "corruption will creep into the State." But this evil tendency is no justification for the evils
committed. Because one has a
propensity to steal, such a bias of nature is not a good plea, either in law or
morals, in answer to a theft. Neither
ethics, nor religion, the laws of God, nor the laws of man, permit such a rule.
But, notwithstanding that the interest of society and the precepts of
morality, alike, command honesty in the administration of public affairs, it is
a scandilous [sic] fact that the most unblushing corruption has been practiced
for many months past by a few persons, in military positions, in and about Fort
Scott.
To
such an extent have these transaction[s] been carried on that many claim
respectability for them, on the ground that it is the "universal
rule."
We
believe that if a searching investigation is made, by honorable officers,
authorized and sent by the Government for that special purpose, a catalogue of
corruptions will be disclosed that will shock all good citizens, and appal [sic]
the bad. A _rigid- examination will
bring to light deep schemes, will uncover adroit plans and skillful combinations
to defraud the Government, to steal many persons rich "in the name of
liberty," to engineer through immense fortunes out of the present public
calamities, to plunder the border and play havoc, generally, so that a few may
be made Nabobs, whether the nation lives or dies.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 15, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
They
are freighting ice from Lawrence to Fort Scott.
In the former place it sells for $1.00 per cwt.
Cheap enough for the scarcity.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 15, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
We
shall have an abundance of sorghum syrup for our buckwheat "slap
jacks" next winter, judging from the number of evaporators going out.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 15, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
Thirty-five
contrabands crossed the river at Kickapoo, night before last, from Platte
county. The stampede has become so
general that Platte is almost denuded of negroes. They leave at the rate of thirty or forty a day.
By the
census of 1860, Platte county had a slave population of 3,313, and our informant
thinks there are but two or three hundred left.
From all portions of North Missouri we have like information.
The slaves are leaving by day and by night.
Few owners pretend to stay the exodus.
Many pack up their "duds" and walk boldly off in broad day,
while others quietly retire in the night. Should
the flight continue at the present rate, by the time 1866 rolls around, the
slaves of the State will scarcely be worth counting.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 15, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
The
Pacific Railroad Company are paying $1.50 per day for laborers.
Cash every Saturday night. Kansas
may expect a heavy laboring immigration soon.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 15, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
One
hundred and fifty wagons from New Mexico are now in corrall [sic] near the city.
The proprietors are purchasing goods to freight them with.
The entire stock of goods in Kansas City wouldn't load this train.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 15, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
Send Them Off.
One object of Gen. Ewing's visit to St. Louis was to obtain authority,
from Headquarters of the Department, to send off out of the country the families
of the bushwhackers. It is an utter
impossibility to rid the country of these pestilent outlaws, so long as their
families remain. Several times the
guerrillas have been mainly driven out, but they have always found their way
back sooner or later. Whenever,
from the stringency of military operations, the county becomes too hot for them
to stay in this locality, they retreat into adjoining counties, or to other
parts of the State, to return to their old haunts at the first opportunity.
Meanwhile their families remain, and raise provisions ready to feed and
assist them on their return. One of
the greatest difficulties the military authorities have to encounter, is the
constant and correct information which the families of the bushwhackers give of
every movement the troops make. The
houses in this county are almost universally situated on the edges of the
timber. The bushwhackers lie
concealed in the brush, and at the approach of the troops, a boy, or girl, or
woman slips out into the thicket and gives the alarm.
So perfect is the spy system, that a squad of troops may march and
counter-march all over the country, and not find a single bushwhacker, and yet
hundreds of them lie concealed within twenty rods of the column.—With the aid
of these spies, dotted all over the country and living in perfect security, a
hundred bushwhackers may defy the utmost efforts of five hundred soldiers to
exterminate them. You may drive
them out again and again, but they will come back, so long as their families
remain. Even now, hundreds of
Price's old soldiers are finding their way back from the ruins of his army; and
the same may be said of the Missouri rebels captured at Vicksburg.—Every one
of these joins the bushwhackers. The
truth of the matter is, that the troubles on the border have been so long
continued and severe, and the feelings of mutual hatred and revenge have become
so bitter and relentless, that one of the other party must leave the country for
good. It is now one continued scene
of murder, assassination and arson. The
open Union men have nearly all been obliged to leave the country and congregate
in the towns, while the bushwhackers and their aiders and abettors remain to
toil the soil. This state of things
cannot continue. It will result in
the complete subjugation of the border by rebel thieves and outlaws.
Measures of sufficient thoroughness must be adopted to rid the
country of every outlaw, and of every person who in any way gives them aid or
comfort. These facts have been for
some time apparent to Gen. Ewing, and he has now obtained authority to institute
such measures as he may deem necessary to accomplish the end desired.
He will immediately arrest and send out of the country, the family of
every known bushwhacker in his district, while the troops in the field are kept
on the alert, and every possible effort made to exterminate and drive out the
desperadoes themselves.—[Journal of Commerce.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 16, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
From the Fifth Kansas.
Helena, Ark., Aug. 8, 1863.
Ed.
Times:--Agreeable to promise, that on my arrival here I would drop you a note of
what is going on, or to go on, I comply now.
I
arrived here on the evening of the 3d, after a tedious, but rather a pleasant
trip. I find the officers of the
regiment, generally, in good health. Colonels
Clayton and Jenkins are well and in fine spirits.
Maj. Walker has entirely recovered from his late illness, and Major
Scudder has gone to the Queen City of the Missouri valley, after companies L and
M, of our regiment. The health of the men, I am sorry to say, is not so good, in
proportion. According to the
morning report of our excellent Surgeon, W. B. Carpenter, there was one hundred
and forty-four on the sick list, out of that twenty-three were in the hospital
and one hundred and twenty-one were in company quarters. The morning reports in the Adjutants office show about one
hundred and seventy for duty. Should
Major Scudder be successful in getting an order from Gen. Schofield for
companies L and M, and bring them here, the number of men then for duty would be
considerably increased. It appears
that all or most all of the sickness in the regiment was caused by excessive
heat, and overwork done during the battle of the 4th of July, at this
place.
Those
men who were wounded on the 4th are all able for duty again.
The names of the three men who were killed in the battle, and companies
to which they belonged are: John
McGough and Phillip M. Rhodes, company F., Wm. Ingles, company H.
The names of the five men who were taken prisoners I have been unable to
get at present.
Maj.
Gen. Prentiss, who has been in command of the District of Eastern Arkansas for
the past four months, left here on Tuesday (4th) to take command of
the 16th Army Corps, (with headquarters at Memphis,) lately under the
command of Maj. Gen. Hurlbut. By
special invitation the officers of the Regiments, engaged in the battle at this
place, met at the wharf boat to bid him farewell. In a few brief remarks he thanked them all for the aid
which they gave him on that day, and their men for the bravery which they showed
in defeating the rebel hordes, and hoping that ere long this slaveholders war
would be over and the starry banner would wave in triumph over every State now
in arms against the Union, wishing them all a happy, long and prosperous life,
he bade them farewell.
Brig.
Gen. Soloman now commands the District of Eastern Arkansas, who will, beyond a
doubt, give a good account of himself, (if an opportunity ever offers,) as he
did on the 4th of July.
Maj.
Gen. Fred. Steele takes command of the expedition now being organized here for
the interior. Col. Powell Clayton
is to have command of a Division of infantry, with the 1st Indiana
and 5th Kansas cavalry and one battery of field artillery attached.
Gen.
Davidson, with his command, is back in the country a short distance, waiting for
the troops here to get ready. His
supply trains are here now, receiving supplies from this post.
It is
reported here that Price has crossed White river at Duvall's Bluffs, for Little
Rock, evidently afraid of Blunt's getting in there. Holmes and Marmaduke are at Des Arc, and Brig. Gen. Dobbins
was at Moreau, but moved from there on Davidson's approach.
The
beautiful steamer Ruth was destroyed by (accidental) fire between Cairo and
Memphis. She was bringing supplies
and transportation to this post.
All is
quiet on the Mississippi at present.
V.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 16, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
Eighty-five
slaves were shipped from St. Joseph on Thursday to Kentucky.
Will they be any safer there?
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 16, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
Last
Sunday 160 negroes took their masters' horses and wagons, in Saline county,
formed a procession and marched towards Kansas.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 16, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
About
forty slaves were recently sent from Platte to Howard county, in the interior of
the State. It's on the river and
they'll get away. Messrs. Irvine
and Hart, of Buchanan county, have sent their slaves to Glasgow, Mo., for safe
keeping.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 16, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
On
Monday morning a caravan of forty negroes passed through Weston to immediate
emancipation. The Sentinel says
that a short distance north of town they had a break down, and were compelled to
leave a large amount of their plunder in the road, consisting in part of feather
beds, bed clothing, flour, provisions, silver spoons, &c.
We hope the people "over there" are satisfied with the result
of the secession experiment they inaugurated in 1861, and that they have found
their rights.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 16, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
A good
many dorgs [sic] are to be seen in the streets without collars and "T.
P." stamps. The curs ought to
be muzzled, lest they stock the market with hydrophobia and lacerated
inexpressibles.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 16, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
Rebels Arming Their Slaves.
By the following dispatch it appears that the rebels are on the point of
arming their negroes for soldiers:
"The
Herald's Washington dispatch says negroes used by the rebels as soldiers are to
be allowed $5 for each United States musket, and $25 for each United States
horse, for each United States negro killed or captured by them, and $50 for each
scalp of a United States white officer commanding negro soldiers."
It is
an easy matter for them to put arms into the hands of their slaves, but it will
prove a far more difficult task to take them away, after the war is ended.
Once elevate them into the dignity of soldiers, accustom them to the art
of fire-arms, the skill of military evolutions, and the custom of triumph, and
they will never again sink back quietly and peaceably into a condition of
bondage. Their arming of their negroes, by the rebels, is the last of
slavery. In their desperation, they
have probably accepted this fact. How
it will work is a problem yet to be solved.
The solution, however, will doubtless give the Union armies very many
thousand of rebel muskets, and drilled soldiers, changing at every possible
opportunity, from their side to ours. "Whom
the Gods seek to destroy, they first make mad."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 18, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
During
a storm on Monday night, 10th inst., two young ladies at Fort Scott
were killed by lightning. They were
in a house when the storm commenced, but removed to a tent where the lightning
struck.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 18, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
Miss
Louise S. Schultz writes to a strong minded Boston paper that she has discarded
side saddle riding and determined to sit a horse henceforth in the fashion of
the masculines. Her habit is a blue
dress coat, white gilt buttons, buff vest, cassimere pants and a quilled dickey.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 18, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
Mexicans
are almost as plenty in our streets now as at Santa Fe.
The editor of the K. C. Journal could learn to talk Spanish in about a
week if he would come up here. The
merchants of the South-west are not slow in ascertaining the advantages and
facilities of Leavenworth as a trading point.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 18, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
Survivors
of the Missouri campaign of '61 will have a lively recollection of
"chiggers," and the time when the whole command, from General down to
8th corporal, indulged in the poor man's luxury of scratching.
"Grape Shot," in the Nashville Union, communicates an article
about 'em, and says the description is found among the literary remains of the
eminent naturalist, Alexander Pottles, who once upon a time contributed an
article upon the Elephant to Artemus Ward's book.
Here it is:
The Chigger.
The chigger is a little anymile ov the inseck speshes and of vorashus habits. He prays on man and Human Beings. He is particulurly fond of the pore soldgers which has to fite for thare kuntry, and ete hard krakers, which is faseshully kalled 'Linken platforms," and ly out onto the bare ground—prefers the laigs, espeshulley round the nese whare the human skin of man is tendurer than whare it is tuffer. Chiggers prevales in timber whare wud grows and where it also dise and dekase, and whare the leves falls in the ortum fall ov the yere. Chiggers gose in gangs and asosheates with thare selves. When wun of the no dekrise a man reklining onto the ground he kalls his friends and fello-chiggers, and they at wunst procede to the fra, and fasten onto the hide and skin mighty tite, which it is fun fur them but mighty ruff onto the man, and a mighty bad thing for his pesefull slumbers. If you don't want chiggers don't go fur a soldger, but if you do go fur a solger and don't want chiggers, put your trust in the Lord, fur I've tride everything else, bakin rine inklooded, and it don't do a par-tikel of good.
The End.
And the eminent Pottlegs is right; anointing with "bakin rine"
is entirely futile against these beasts of prey.
The cuticular irritation from the bite of an Arkansas gallinipper is a
mere trifling titillation compared with that produced by them!
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 19, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
The
Censor.—Mr. Lynch, the government censor for the past three months, has
permanently retired, and the censorship reverts into the hands of the Telegraph
Company.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 19, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
The
Troy Patriot notices the arrival in Doniphan county one night last week, over
the pontoons, of forty-four families of contrabands. They brought over sheep, hogs, cattle and farming implements.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 19, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
Gen.
Curtis' Arkansas camels were recently sold in St. Louis for $545.
They cost [the] Government originally about $30,000.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 19, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
All
companies of the Sixth regiment in this district have been ordered to Fort
Gibson. Capt. Harvey has left
Westport, and Major Ransom goes to-day.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 19, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
About
half a hundred contrabands, in hue from sooty black to prime saddle color
arrived yesterday from the other side of the darkies' Jordan. Some of them will do for the railroad.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 19, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
It's a
poor time for lazy contrabands. The
police are stirring them up and affectionately inquiring why they don't go to
work, when the R. R. Company are paying $1.50 per day.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 19, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
The
names of the women killed by the fall of the guard house in Kansas City were, as
reported by the Journal, Miss Josephine Anderson, Mrs. Selby and Mrs. Vandover,
(twin sisters) and Mrs. Carr. Mrs.
Wilson was fatally wounded, Miss Mattie Anderson (sister of Josephine) badly
wounded, and Miss Molly Grindstaff slightly.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 19, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
We
learn from the K. C. Journal, that Pleasant Hill, Cass County, Mo., was last
week visited by Col. Younger's party of fifty guerrillas, who burned the houses
of Union men, driving the occupants to the brush.
The next night, Tuesday, they returned and burned the house of every man
who had shown the Union troops any favors whatever. The next day Capt. Palmer, of the 11th Kansas,
passed through the town and burned the houses of several known bushwhackers,
with two blacksmith shops and a mill, known [as] the property of men in the
brush. He took away and escorted to
Harrisonville and Independence a number of Union families who had been rendered
homeless by the rebels.—According to our recollection of the town, it
consisted of only about a dozen houses, and there can't be many left.
The lex talionis will bring the rebels to their senses.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 20, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
The
soldier boys at Council Grove have established a small theatre, with front seats
reserved for ladies.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 19, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
The
sable tide has reached Colorado, and in that far off Territory juvenile Sambos
and Dinahs are taught their A. B. Cs. The
Commonwealth notices the new institution as a place whereat the juvenile
minds—genus contrabandis—receive lessons in ideal archery. The sable preceptress presides over her charge with all the
grace and dignity imaginable.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 19, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
We
were shown yesterday, by Major Johnson, of the Sixth Cavalry, a beautiful flag,
to be presented to Company A of that regiment, by the ladies of Wyandott county.
It was furnished by Hershfield & Mitchell, at a cost of about $125,
being made of heavy ribbon silk. The
flag is about three feet on the staff by perhaps five feet fly, elegantly
fringed with gold. Upon one side of the "Union" is the inscription:
"Presented to Company A, Sixth Kansas Cavalry, by the Ladies of
Wyandott County." On the reverse are the names of the engagements in which the
Company has participated, beginning with Morristown and closing with Prairie
Grove, Cane Hill, and Newtonia being included.
The flag was manufactured at a New York house and will be accompanied by
two regulation guidons of red and white silk, bearing the letters U. S. and also
that of the company. It is a
present that the boys will be proud of.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 19, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
An
exceedingly pleasant place to pass this evening will be the Festival and
Promenade Concert of the First Baptist Church Society, at the Union Theatre
Hall.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 21, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
The
Mayor has reported in favor of allowing Gross to re-open the "Moral
Show" upon paying a license of $100 to the 1st of January next,
and by maintaining a respectable house.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 21, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
Attentive
"boy waiters" have been engaged at the "Moral Show."
We commend this improvement to the Aldermen of Gotham.
It would break up the Broadway Cellars in a week.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 21, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
There
were more Mexican los carros, bueys, & hombres in town yesterday than have
been seen in Kansas City in three months. Ox
drivers must swear and "carrrjos" [sic] is frequently heard mingling
with the crack of their long whip lashes.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 22, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
The Burning of Lawrence!
The news which we publish to-day, from Lawrence, is of the most painful
and exciting character.
Kansas
has been invaded and many of her best citizens murdered by rebel outlaws from
Missouri. Justice cries aloud for
vengeance, and expiation.
The
destruction of Lawrence must be avenged. We
will inscribe on our banners "Lex Talionis."
Lawrence
was one of the fairest, most beautiful and flourishing towns in the State.
Her destruction touches every Kansan's heart with the most poignant
sorrow, and fills him with feelings of bitter and dire revenge.
These marauders from Missouri have set "mischief afloat," and
woe betide their sympathizers all along the border.
Their acts of vandalism, of fiendish barbarism, have knit the hearts of
our people into one. They must be
punished and exterminated wherever found. The
sword of vengeance is unsheathed; let it not rest or be stayed from its fearful
mission, until it has purchased at the cost of much blood, perfect
immunity from such terrible calamities as have befallen our State in the burning
of Lawrence.
[plus other articles]
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 22, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Relief for Lawrence.
Now is the time for our citizens to display their liberality. The losses and suffering in Lawrence must be great.
Let immediate steps be taken towards raising a munificent fund to relieve
their necessities. It is peculiarly appropriate that we in Leavenworth shall
first move in this matter; but it does not belong to us alone; the whole State
is interested in again setting the beautiful and historic town of
Lawrence on her feet. The movement
should be commenced at once. Who
will begin it.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 22, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Quantrill's Raid.
From passengers by the Fort Scott stage, we learn that Quantrill passed
through Johnson county on Thursday night, within two miles of Spring Hill.
They robbed several farmers of their horses, and proceeded to Gardner.
They reached the latter place about 10 o'clock at night, and after
robbing the citizens of all their money and taking several fine horses, they
left for Lawrence. Quantrill said
he was going to "burn the damned abolition town and scoop out the negro
thieves."
Quantrill's
men numbered between 300 and 400, and were all well mounted and armed.
The supposition is, by most of the people through Johnson county, that
Quantrill, after burning Lawrence, would proceed down through Osawatomie and
Paola, thence to Missouri.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 22, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
The
excitement in the city yesterday, from when the news of the burning of Lawrence
was received, until late last night, was of the most intense character.
A feeling of deep sympathy for our sister town of Lawrence, in this her
hour of bereavement, exists among all classes of our citizens, coupled with an
intense anxiety for vengeance.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 22, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
All
men in favor of the Lex Talionis will report at the market House this
evening, mounted. Sharp's Carbines
and Revolvers will be furnished.
D. R. Anthony, Mayor.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 22, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
The
St. Joseph News ahs information that Alice Vanness, formerly of that city, was
one of the victims of the Kansas City catastrophe.
Her's [sic] has been a sad fate.
"She has fallen, fallen, very low,
Though once she was pure as the beautiful snow."
Her's
[sic] has been an unfortunate family. Her
father died in St. Joseph in '59, leaving the widow and children in reduced
circumstances, and soon after Alice took an irrevocable step downward, and to
hide the shame, her mother with three children came to Leavenworth.
The mother, and we believe two of the children, have since died of small
pox, and if Alice has now gone, the family is extinct.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 22, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
Labor
is fast asserting its equality with capital, owing to the great excess of demand
over supply, and no able-bodied, industrious man need be in want.
Laborers are wanted for the farm; railroads are building, and labor must
be had; artisans and mechanics are advertised for in the city papers, and it is
an exception to the rule to hear of an application for employment.
In many locations this scarcity of labor has resulted in the employment
of females for some of the out door work, usually performed by men, and might be
further employed with excellent advantage in dry-goods stores, telegraph
offices, and other light avocations, for which they are so well fitted.
On this subject the Cleveland Herald says:
"In
the rural districts even of Northern Ohio, where the New England element
preponderates—it is very common this year to see a woman or girl seated upon
the reaper or mower as driver, and also managing the patent hay pitcher in
mowing away hay. Of course in the
German district every field, almost, has its female hands, taking part in every
variety of agricultural labor, but such is not a "Yankee" habit, and
it is a rare sight to see a New England woman or one of the New England descent,
in the harvest field. But when
patriotism demands the fathers, husbands and sons, for the battle field, the
Yankee women can make themselves generally useful in the harvest field."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 22, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
However
paradoxical it may seem, the pink of fashion this year is to be yellow, since
Eugenie of France has taken to saffron and sunflower. Everything is to be of that hue, and we have noticed already
an acquiescence in prospective edicts of the mode. Just now, the Saratoga Jenkinses tell us colored muslins are
not at all elegant. White
organdies, tulles and tarletans are worn by young ladies, and also by young
married ladies, and are made exceedingly dressy by pretty French caps, and wide
bowed sashes of the same material, trimmed with lace, and pink and lilac, or
velvet ribbon. Fine wool
grenadines, and other very transparent woolen tissues, trimmed with lace, silk
ruching, or designs in braiding and needle work, constitute the most admired, as
well as the newest evening toilettes.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 23, 1863, p. 2, c.
1-2
Summary: Several articles on the
sacking of Lawrence
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 23, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
All
day yesterday excited crowds were congregated on the streets, discussing the
very sad affair at Lawrence, and anxiously asking for further news.
There is the most intense feeling among our citizens, and a settled
determination that the guerrillas must be exterminated and their rendezvous
destroyed. No quarter will be
given; no prisoners of war taken.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 23, 1863, p. 3, c.
2-3
Summary: Detailed article on
Lawrence
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 25, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
General Orders, No. 11.
Headquarters District of the Border,}
Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 25, 1863. }
I.
All persons living in Jackson, Cass, and Bates Counties, Missouri, and in
that part of Vernon, included in this District, except those living within one
mile of the limits of Independence, Hickman's Mill, Pleasant Hill and
Harrisonville, and those in Kaw Township, Jackson county, North of Brush Creek
and West of the Big Blue, are hereby ordered to remove from their present places
of residence within fifteen days from the date hereof.
Those
who, within that time, establish their loyalty to the satisfaction of the
Commanding Officer of the military station nearest their present places of
residence, will receive from him certificates stating the fact of their loyalty
and the names of the witnesses by whom it can be shown.
All who receive such certificates will be permitted to remove to any
military station in this District; or to any part of the State of Kansas
included in this District, except the counties on the eastern border of the
State. All others shall remove out
of the District.
Officers
commanding companies and detachments serving in the counties named will see that
this order is promptly executed.
II.
All grain in the field, or under shelter in the border district from
which the inhabitants are required to remove, within reach of Military Stations,
after the 9th day of September next, will be taken to such station
and turned over to the proper officer there; and report of the amounts so turned
over made to District Headquarters. All
grain found in the District, after the 9th day of September next, not
convenient to such stations, will be destroyed.
III.
The provisions of General Orders No. 10, from these Headquarters, will be
at once rigorously executed by officers commanding in the District and at the
stations not subject to the operation of Paragraph 1, of this Order; and
especially in the towns of Independence, Westport, and Kansas City.
IV.
Paragraph 3, General Orders, No. 10, is revoked as to all who have borne
arms against the Government in this District, since the 21st day of
August, 1863.
By
order of Brig. Gen. Ewing,
H. Hannahs,
A. A. A. G.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 25, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
The
people of Lawrence are destitute and suffering.
They want ladies' and childrens' [sic] clothing, crockery, bedding,
mattresses, muslins and all kinds of household goods. They have nothing. Will
the ladies of Leavenworth attend to the matter? Articles may be left at the store of Thompson & Woodruff,
who will forward them immediately. Made
up articles of children's clothing are most needed.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 26, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
All
the ladies of Leavenworth who can sew, and are willing to do so for the relief
of the suffering women and children of Lawrence, are requested to meet at the
Music Rooms of W. S. Clow, on Shawnee street, for three days, at any hour
convenient to do so. There is a
Committee of Ladies appointed to prepare the work for those who sew at the
rooms, also for those who wish to take the work to their homes.
Ladies,
who can sew on machines, are particularly invited for the greatest dispatch is
desirable in getting the items of clothing to the sufferers.
Any information as to articles needed can be obtained from Mrs. E. C.
Perkins, President of the Ladies' Committee, at 52 Shawnee Street.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 27, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Rumor of Killing
and Burning in Cass Co.,
Missouri.
We have a rumor that the Union forces have entered Cass county, Mo., and
burned 150 houses, and killed about that number of persons.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 28, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Raids into Platte County.
We hear of projected raids upon Platte County.
No good can come of this, but much harm, great wrong, terrible suffering,
the innocent desolated, the unoffending ruined, perhaps murdered, and probably
driven to be outlaws in a spirit of retaliation. It is true that Lawrence has been desolated, laid waste,
swept as with the besom of destruction; for this let vengeance sweep with the
arm of extermination against the perpetrators and their aiders and abettors.
But
who is responsible? Not Platte
County. She has not in the
leastwise contributed to Quantrill's fiendish crusade.
If she had participated in this horrible affair, then she should suffer
her due share of retribution. She
has not, but on the contrary, as soon as she learned of the massacre, she
contributed to the relief fund. Shall
the innocent suffer for the guilty?
The
Missouri border counties, South of the Kaw, have furnished the
"sinews" to the whole expedition.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable.
There is where the swift bolt of destruction should fall—and even
there, in God's name, let discrimination be made between the innocent and the
guilty.
The
storm-cloud that now hangs with such black and threatening fury over this
ill-fated border, must be guided with a wise and an iron hand, or it will
burst upon us, involving all in one common ruin.
These are not idle words, but they are solemn words, "spoken in
truth and soberness." We are
drifting between Scylla and Charybdis!
Who has the foresight and the will to save us?
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 28, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Summary: Union Theatre.
Benefit for the Lawrence Sufferers—Maniac Lover; patriotic address;
Star Spangled Banner; Battle Cry of Freedom; stump speech; Old Guard
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 28, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Summary: List of killed, wounded,
and missing at Lawrence.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 29, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
Summary: Union Theatre—Six
Degrees of Crime; or, Wine, Women, Gambling, Theft, Murder and the Scaffold;
Poor Pillicoddy.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 30, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Summary: Union Theatre—Lady of Lyons, or, Love and Pride; dance; Forty and
Fifty.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], August 30, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
Eighty
of the persons killed at Lawrence were heads of families, and 250 children have
thereby been made fatherless.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 1, 1863, p. 3, c.
2
Summary: Union Theatre.
Romeo and Juliet; Cousin Joe.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 1, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
Report of the
"Ladies Lawrence Aid Society
of Leavenworth."
The ladies have met for five days of the past week, in the music rooms of
Mr. Clow, and have made the following list of articles for the sufferers of
Lawrence. To them are due the
thanks of our citizens, for the interest they have taken in the matter, and for
the large number of needful articles of clothing made by them, besides their
liberal contributions of second hand articles.
There has been a very large number of bundles of clothing left by the
citizens at their rooms and at the store of Thompson and Woodruff.
The names of donors were not left with packages, hence we cannot give a
list of the contributors. Suffice
it to say, there has been sent to Lawrence three large dry goods cases of
articles by them.
The
ladies of the aid committee are thankful to Mr. Clow for the use of his rooms;
also to Mr. Reed, for his constant attention to the running of the sewing
machines, whereby a much larger amount of sewing was accomplished than could
have been done without his valuable assistance:
Mrs.
Savage
$5 00
Dr.
Stiles
5 00
Mrs.
Stiles
5 00
Mrs.
Early
5 00
C. A.
Wright
5 00
P.
Cushing
5 00
A lady
15 00
$45 00
Articles of Clothing Made.
26 aprons; 26 boys' pants; 5 boys' shirts; 6 boys' waists; 5 boys'
aprons; 22 ladies' chemise; 12 child's dresses; 19 child's waists; 10 child's
flannel skirts; 26 crash towels; 13 pairs drawers; 29 ladies dresses; 13 ladies
handkerchiefs; 14 pairs hose; 13 infants' flannel skirts; 150 infants' napkins;
5 infants' dresses; 21 infants' flannel shirts; 3 night dresses; 37 sheets; 8
white skirts; 1 flannel skirt; 3 gents' shirts; 3 gents' collars.
All
the goods purchased for making up the articles mentioned in the above list has
been paid for from monies raised by subscription for the sufferers at Lawrence.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 2, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
We are
informed that $20,000 have been raised here for the Lawrence fund.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 2, 1863, p. 3, c.
3
Summary: Union Theatre.
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 3, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Lawrence Sufferers
Going East.
[Correspondence of the Times.]
Adams House,
}
Chicago, Aug. 30, 1863.}
Ed.
Times:--The party of women and children whose homes were desolated by the
desperado Quantrill, in his recent murderous onslaught upon Lawrence, arrived at
this city this morning at half past six o'clock, all safe and none greatly
wearied, indeed, the right from Leavenworth was as nearly a pleasant one as
could possibly be made.
To the
unwearied and most efficient attention of Mr. Kendall, agent of the Michigan
Central, and Robert S. Stevens, our own townsman—both of whom accompanied the
party, are the women and children who are fleeing from the scene of their broken
hopes and their ruined homes, mainly indebted for their facile and almost
enjoyable trip over the several lines between this point and your city.
By
rendering these gentlemen full praise for what they did, I do not wish to be
understood as shutting out the other parties from a grateful recognition, whose
cooperation was essential to give success to the generous efforts of Mr. Kendall
and Stevens.
The
trite saying that corporations have no souls, must, hereafter, have, in my
vocabulary, only a modified signification.
Let it
be remembered by all Kansas people, and sympathizers with the stricken ones,
that fifty-one of the women and children and their wounded and suffering male
relatives and friends, and four corpses of the slaughtered, have traveled and
been brought, thus far free of all cost, with the exception of a very
moderate charge at the eating house at Brookfield, for dinner yesterday.
In Leavenworth, those who sought quarters at the Planters' were charged a
merely nominal bill. Those who put up at the Michigan were charged nothing, and
bidden, with many a warm word from the Host, God speed on their solemn journey.
Gen. W. Nelles, agent of the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad, was
unremitting in his endeavors to secure a free and facile transport for this
party over his line. No less can be
said of John T. Ball, agent of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad. Mr. Nicely, the Clerk on the steamboat, met the first request
of the gentlemen in charge of the party for quarters on his boat with a complete
transfer of all the comfortable places on the Majors.
The
officials on the Platte County railroad were similarly zealous in their kindly
efforts to make the progress of the party pleasant.
Upon
the request of Mr. Stevens an extra coach was sent down from St. Joseph, and its
seats were exclusively devoted to their accommodation, and to save the confusion
and annoyance of a change from one car to another the agents of the Hannibal and
St. Joseph railroad passed the car as it was occupied at Iatan over their line.
The
gentlemanly officials on the cut off from Palmyra to the Mississippi, opposite
Quincy, did as those supervising the other lines over which the party was
passed, they opened the doors of their cars upon the first summons and landed
them all upon the west bank of the Father of Waters, free.
My
letter, which I intended should bear to you only a few words, indicating the
generous treatment which the sufferers in the Lawrence tragedy have received all
along the line of their progress east, is growing long. But where the deeds of men whose habit it is generally
supposed by the public, to act in obedience to motives of business and gain, are
so conspicuously generous and warm hearted, I must be permitted to make a more
particular record.
At St. Joseph,
Messrs. Kendall and Stevens telegraphed to the Superintendent of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railroad for an extra sleeping car in which the wearied
company might find rest together during the night passage over that road.
The telegram was speedily responded to, and a splendidly appointed
sleeping coach awaited us at Quincy.
I must
not forget the ferry boat at the Mississippi.
The entire party were crossed, and the proffered remuneration
significantly rejected.
Without
the least hurry, confusion or bustle, the car devoted to the use of the company
at Quincy was occupied. The berths
were spread and the tired fugitives reposed in them. With few exceptions their rest was as refreshing as a night's
slumber at their once quiet and happy homes, in the once beautiful, but now
ruined city of Lawrence. At St.
Joseph, at Quincy, and in fact all along the line of travel wherever the party
stopped and changed from road to road, or from road to boat, or boat to road,
they met the kindly sympathy of the people, which manifested itself in a ready,
unsolicited hand to carry baggage, take charge of the little ones, or to help
the wounded and carry the dead, and in several instances gentlemen gave
liberally of money and would listen to no refusal from Messrs. Kendall and
Stevens. Yes, let these generous
deeds be recorded, and a memory of them kept green among Kansas people whose
grief for the slaughtered in Lawrence is as universal as the bounds of the
State, and whose sympathy for the heartbroken and ruined ones left is equally
catholic.
I can
speak for those who are the immediate recipients of these bounties of God's
mercy working through the hearts of our fellow men.
The richest and tenderest thank offering of stricken and suffering hearts
is laid on the altar, a perpetual intercession for God's rarest blessing on
those good men who have obeyed the divine nature in them.
So long as a memory of the fearful massacre at Lawrence lasts, so long
will we remember with all the gratitude of our nature every helping hand that
has been and shall be stretched forth to our succor in this our direst need.
Messrs.
Kendall and Stevens do not propose to surrender their charge here.
They will see all of the company, if not to the thresholds of their
friendly homes they are seeking, still so nearly so that they will be in hailing
distance of those who are to shelter them.
The
incidents of the balance of the journey, I will take care shall be written to
you.
I am,
very truly,
H. E. Lowman.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 3, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Summary: Union Theatre—Uncle
Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 4, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
From the Fifth
Kansas.
[From our Special Correspondent.]
Headquarters Cav. Brig. Ark., Exp'd.}
Clarendon, August 19th, 1863. }
Ed. Times:--On the morning of the 15th we arrived 4 a. m., we
left camp at Helena, and arrived at this place on the forenoon of the 17th,
a distance of fifty-five miles, just half way between Helena and Little Rock.
Nothing of importance took place on the route.
On arrival here we found General Davidson crossing his Cavalry over White
river—the rear guard of his Division crossed the river late last night.
On the 15th, the gunboat Cricket No. 6, moved up the river,
and arrived in sight of Jacksonport on the 16th, when she discovered
a pontoon bridge across the river and troops crossing, which proved to be
Marmaduke's division. She
immediately opened on them with her guns, and with good effect, as the loss of
the rebels proved to be eighty-five killed and one hundred and thirty wounded
(as I am informed) besides destroying the pontoon bridge. She run the rebels from both sides of the river and burned
the beautiful town of Jacksonport. She
returned here on the 18th, and leaves here for Helena with the mail.
The 1st
Division of Infantry is crossing the river this morning.
A
deserter arrived here yesterday from Gen. Kirby Smith's army, which is at Little
Rock. He reports that the Gen. made
them a speech on the 16th advising them and begging of them to stand
by him and defend the city until the last.
He also reports them as fortifying twelve miles this side of the rock.
It is
uncertain when our Brigade will cross the river, it is thought by some that it
will be left at this place to protect the ferry and keep Gen. Steel's line of
communication between him and Helena open, with Col. Powell Clayton in command.
V.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 4, 1863, p. 2, c.
3
Summary: Union theatre—Les
Miserables; ending with an imposing tableaux.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 4, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Lane
tried to raise a mob to destroy the Times on Wednesday night.
Beautiful business for a United States Senator!
We can inform Lane that destroying a loyal paper will prove a very
different business from destroying a disloyal one.
Let him and his minions make that issue before the people of this State
if they choose.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 5, 1863, p. 2, c.
3
Stevenson,
Ala., which General Rosecrans holds as the base of operations against
Chattanooga, was founded by Col. V. K. Stevenson, President of the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad, who laid out this depot in 1852.
Five miles distant is Coon Island, the site of Coon town, an ancient
Cherokee rendezvous. Stevenson is
located at the base of a spur of Cumberland Mountains, two and a half miles from
Tennessee river, and contains three hundred of a population.
The surrounding country is a clay soil, rather broken; climate tolerably
healthy, and the principal agricultural products are cotton, some grain, horses,
cattle, mules, and smaller stock. There
is one steam circular saw and grist mill, four dry goods houses, one drug store,
and two hotels. Stevenson is the
intersecting point of the Memphis and Chattanooga, and the Nashville and
Chattanooga railroads. Among the
natural curiosities in the vicinity is "Nickajack Cave," at which a
bloody encounter is said to have occurred between the whites and Cherokees.
It has been explored for several miles, and abounds in matters
interesting to visitors.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 5, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Our
German fellow-citizens propose to give a grand vocal and instrumental concert
and ball, on Sunday evening, at the Leavenworth Museum (Stahl's Garden,) for the
benefit of the Lawrence sufferers. The
admission is fixed at 25 cents.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 5, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Summary: Union Theatre—"Les
Miserables."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Kansas
Indians—Lands Purchased for
Their Colonization.
Commissioner Dole has made a treaty with the Osage Indians by which the
government purchases thirty by fifty miles off of the east end of their
reservation, adjoining the Cherokee neutral lands.
This tract is to be devoted exclusively to colonizing Kansas Indians,
according to the act of Congress. The
Government agrees to sell "in trust" to settlers, a tract twenty miles
wide off of the north side of their reservation.
Of the
Creeks the Government purchases a wedge shaped strip, adjoining the State [of]
Kansas, forty miles in length along the north line, and embracing the bulk of
their reservation north of the Arkansas river.
This tract is also to be devoted to the colonization of Kansas Indians.
The
commissioner is negotiating with the Sac and Fox Indians for their removal with
a fair prospect of success.
After
returning to this point, and before going to Washington, the Commissioner will
visit the Kickapoo Indians and investigate the facts in relation to the treaty
recently negotiated with that tribe for their lands.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 6, 1863, p. 2, c.
2
Summary: Union Theatre.
Fanchon
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
[Communicated.]
A "Central Park" for Leavenworth.
A Cemetery more lofty and lovely than "Mount
Auburn."
A company of twenty gentlemen, of ample means, proposes to construct a
magnificent public Park on the eastern portion of Pilot Knob, extending west to
the cemetery of "Mount Aurorie."
To this they propose to add one hundred and fifty acres, lying mostly on
the same summit level, and extending to near Colonel Johnson's, or the western
line of section three. Around the
entire park and cemetery they propose, first, to lay out and construct a broad
and smooth carriage avenue for a public drive and promenade. This avenue will be protected on the outer edge or
perpendicular brow of the summit, by a solid wall of stone; and on the other,
bounded by the park and cemetery fence, adorned by a living hedge of Osage
orange, evergreens and flowering shrubs.
This
avenue will measure over four miles in length, and at every step will afford the
most grand and lovely view of the Fort, the city, the river, the valley of the
Missouri, and the hills and vales of the surrounding country.
The
park will be laid out and ornamented in the most skillful and elegant style, and
the cemetery will be laid off into alleys and the carriage avenues, surpassed
only by the broad public avenue that surrounds it.
It will also be ornamented, at an early day, with a massive stone gateway
and a residence for the superintendent. But the first expenditure of the company will be in the
construction and improvement of two or three graded and macadamised roads to the
park and cemetery. The present road
to the cemetery is up Ohio avenue west, till it reaches the hill-side, and then
it turns south, and by a winding route enters the sacred grounds.
By a little more grading and macadamising, this will be made a fine road
with an easy grade. The Lecompton, or State road, already a well graded
thoroughfare, save where it leaves Shawnee street, enters the cemetery grounds
on the north-west, and will be identical with the broad public avenue from that
point to the west line of the same. But
the main avenue to the park and cemetery will be formed by opening Kansas avenue
due west from the Floral Garden to near Putnam's Garden, on the west line of
section two; thence, winding south a few rods, the park and cemetery are reached
by a grade lighter than that of Fifth street or Broadway in South Leavenworth.
At the point on Kansas avenue where the road turns south to the summit,
there are fine living springs breaking out of the ground that will always
furnish abundant water for animals and all who visit the park and cemetery.
When this avenue is opened and paved, (for it hardly needs any grading,)
it will afford the most splendid drive from the city to the park that can be
found on the continent.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 6, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
There
were ten cases before the Mayor yesterday.
One Wm. Gregory was fined $100 for saying that Leavenworth should be
served as Lawrence. In default of
payment, he was sent up to the shovel brigade.
Served him right. "The
way of the transgressor is hard."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 6, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
We
were much surprised when visiting the Fort two or three days since, at the
amount of building and other improvements progressing there. These improvements have become absolutely necessary in
consequence of the vast amount of business transacted in the Quartermaster's
Department.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 6, 1863, p. 3, c.
2
Grapes
have made their appearance in market. Invest
a quarter for a couple of bunches. It's
cheap enough.
Our
farmers can't complain when cows sell for thirty-six dollars at auction.
We saw one that brought that amount yesterday.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Treaty With the Sac and Fox Indians.
Commissioner Dole has purchased for the Government the entire Sac and Fox
Reservation, embracing a tract of magnificent country twenty by thirty-four
miles in extent.
These
Indians are to remove to the Osage or Creek purchase, as they may elect, and are
to have a tract ten by fifteen miles in extent.
The
removal is to take place as soon as the Senate ratifies the purchase, and the
peace of the country in that region will permit.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 8, 1863, p. 2, c.
4
Summary: Union Theatre.
Fanchon.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 8, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Kit
Carson has had a fight with the Navjoes [sic], near Fort Canby, defeating them,
killing thirteen and capturing over twenty women and children, without suffering
any loss himself.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 9, 1863, p. 2, c.
2
Summary: Union Theatre.
"Satae [sic—Satan] in Paris, or, The Mysterious Stranger;"
"Poor Pillicoddy"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 9, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Target
shooting will be one of the features of the State Fair.
Ample preparations have been made for this manly exercise.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 11, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Interesting from St. Louis.
St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 6, '63.
Mr.
Editor:--A trip from Leavenworth to St. Louis is not now a journey of any note.
In '55 and '56 when the trip had to be made by boat, a free State man
could, during the three or four days it took to make it, be forced into
incidents and experiences sufficient to make it a matter of lively interest.
Such were the dangers of travel on the river that many preferred
journeying to and from Kansas through northern Missouri and Iowa.
All this is now changed. Our
people can now without disguise and danger traverse the river and railroad,
while the persons who then desolated Kansas and made travel insecure, or many of
them have sought the thicket and the brush to hide from the eye of the Federal
soldier and for a time avert the punishment their traitorous acts so richly
merit.
"The mills of Gad grind slowly,
But they grind exceeding sure."
The
cars were much crowded. Families
whose property had been destroyed by Quantrill's murderous raid on Lawrence, and
families from the border counties of Missouri, who in obedience to Gen. Ewing's
Order No. 11, had been compelled to abandon their homes and crops, were
traveling eastward to find temporary homes among friends, far removed from
scenes so cruel and murderous, and general orders so desolating in their effect.
The
heart-broken sufferers by the Lawrence massacre expressed their gratitude for
the kindness shown them by the Leavenworth agents of the railroad.
The Platte County, Hannibal & St. Joseph and North Missouri railroad
at their request passed all such persons free.
A letter of endorsement from these agents secured to its possessor every
kindness and attention.
A
Lawrence man, or woman, was an object of especial attention. The deepest interest pervades the community in regard to the
horrid massacre. Every one wishes
to hear the particulars from an eye witness.
"Were you there? How
did you escape?" are questions you are continually compelled to answer.
No one seems to understand it, with all its horrors.
That it was a horrid massacre, unparalleled for its fiendish cruelty, all
know, but the particulars they know very little about.
It would be well for the citizens of Lawrence to cause a true and
faithful account of the raid to be published, so as to correct the exaggerations
now afloat in the community in regard to the matter.
Wherever
we have been, we have found a spirit of determination existing, demanding that
Lawrence shall be rebuilt. This
spirit its own citizens possess. We
met on the rail-road hurrying from the east, where they were during the raid,
Lawrence merchants whose stores and homes had been pillaged and burned—going
back to commence life anew, determined "ever to give up the ship."
Here
in St. Louis there is great sympa[fold in paper] appointed a committee to raise
subscriptions, and they have already raised about $10,000.
Mr. E. W. Fox, of the firm of Pratt & Fox, has taken the lead in the
matter. Mr. Edgar of the Exchange
Bank of St. Louis, a most excellent man, has also taken a lively interest.
Their zeal in behalf of the suffering, and their desire to promote their
welfare have caused them to be unceasing in their efforts to accomplish this
end. Lawrence will owe to them as
well as to the generous people of Leavenworth and other places, a debt of
gratitude.
St.
Louis has during the war suffered greatly.
The demands upon her charity have been excessive and unceasing, she has
contributed $100,000 to support the families of her soldiers, her generous
people have contributed largely to support the families of the loyal refugees
from her own State and Arkansas, and in addition to these, she nobly contributes
thousands for the relief of Lawrence. A larger sum would have been raised for us had not some of
its people believed that urgent demands would be made upon them for charities to
be given for the relief of refugees whom they feared would be driven from the
western border of their own State, ruined and penniless in fulfillment of the
resolution of Lane to devastate the Border.
The
committee here having in charge the Relief Fund, will recommend that it be
deposited with the Mayor of Lawrence, to be loaned by him, under instructions of
the City Council, to the sufferers at a small rate of interest per annum, and
for a period of ten or twelve years, the interest to be paid semi-annually, and
to be used for the widows and the orphans.
The principal when paid, to be used for the establishment and endowment
of an Orphans' Free College. This
idea, we believe, was initiated in Leavenworth, and some of its citizens have
communicated with the St. Louis people upon it. There is a determination that Lawrence shall be rebuilt; and
the people of St. Louis, like our generous friends of Leavenworth, will pour out
their charities lavishly to promote it.
We saw
a young Lawrence merchant here whose property was destroyed.
Wherever he went, those from whom he formerly purchased took him by the
hand and offered him every aid that kindness and liberality could dictate.
Let
our people keep up their "pluck."
Loyal merchants everywhere will stand by them, and do their part towards
rebuilding the historic city.
The
offer of General Pomeroy to aid in rebuilding the hotel has had a wide
circulation. We have often had the
remark made to us: "Your hotel
is to be immediately rebuilt. We
are glad of it. General Pomeroy was
munificent in his offer to rebuild it," &c.
We saw a gentleman from Washington, who congratulated us that the hotel
was so soon to be commenced, he having heard that General Pomeroy was to rebuild
it. Were it not for this belief, we
feel convinced that much could be raised towards its construction.
As it now stands, the report having gone abroad that General Pomeroy will
do so, it serves to prevent anything being done in its behalf.
From this, the General will see that it is due to himself and the people
of Lawrence that he take immediate steps to make good his proposition, as
suspicions may arise that he intended to make promises which it was not his
desire to fulfill.
Traveler.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 11, 1863, p. 2, c.
3
Summary: Union Theatre.
"Kathleen Mavourneen"; "Stratagem of the Actress"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 12, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
Summary: Union Theatre.
"Kathleen Mavourneen;" "Bonnie Fish Wife"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 12, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Captain
A. Ellis' company of Miami county boys paraded the streets yesterday on
horseback. They are a splendid set
of men, and will do efficient service wherever they go. They number sixty-one men, and are going into the Fifteenth
regiment. The following interesting
ceremonies occurred at Paola on the 8th, just before the company left
for this city:
Thirteen
ladies formed in procession and at the head of the company marched around the
public square. The ladies had with
them a beautiful flag, a sabre and a miniature gallows. The company was halted, when Miss Levisa Huffman rode forward
and presented the flag to Captain Ellis, with the following remarks:
"In
the name of the thirteen States, we present you this flag, the emblem of our
nation's glory."
Captain
Ellis replied:
"Ladies,
we are proud to receive this at your hands to-day; and trusting in the eternal
principals of justice and right, we intend to bear it aloft unstained and
unsullied until it floats in triumph over this entire nation."
Miss
Lurens P. Ellis presented the sabre and said:
"I
present to you this sabre, the emblem of our nation's strength; take it and use
it until the last rebel has either returned to his allegiance or been sent over
Jordan."
T. J.
Hurd replied as follows:
"Ladies,
in the name of the company, I accept this token, as a memorial of our nation's
strength and power. May our hearts
and nerves, like this steel, be ever ready to meet the foe who dares, in battle
array, to trample upon that dearest boon ever granted to man—the boon of
liberty. May the one who falters in
his duty to his country in this, her hour of extreme peril, never meet the
approving glance of the fair of our land. And
may he who in future wields this blade, ere he permits it to be dishonored,
"be in death laid low, leaving no blot on his name."
Miss
Nancy Maphett presented the gallows, saying"
"In
the absence of shot and sabre, use that."
Elias
Stoker responded as follows:
"Ladies,
in receiving this instrument of punishment, we pledge ourselves to be ever ready
to use it upon such miscreants and their aiders and abettors, as made the late
raid upon Lawrence. May we ever
find an oak limb ready and strong, to act as a fulcrum, and with stout hearts
and hands we will send them up as went Alexander the Great when ballanced by a
garment that Dorcas had made."
The
company sang the splendid national song, "The Battle Cry of Freedom."
Miss
Laura Doud made the farewell address, as follows:
"Soldiers,
until the nation's last enemy is conquered and you return in peace, in god's
name we bid you farewell."
The
ladies engaged in this patriotic affair are named Miss Lurena P. Ellis, Samantha
M. Ellis, Catharine Deck, Levisa Huffman, Marietta Downing, Ellen Merritt, Sarah
Carr, Amanda Shipley, Sarah Donahoe, Nancy Maphett, Laura Doud, Mary Thorp,
Sophia Requa, Jane Stewart, Marcell M. Tracy, Lizzie McDowell.
The
company, in parading our streets yesterday, carried the gallows with them, with
the inscription: "Protection
Papers for Rebels." Mr.
Maphett carried it. He was the
first man enlisted in the Fifteenth regiment.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
From Fort Smith.
We have just been show[n] a letter dated Fort Smith, September 2de, to a
gentleman in this city, from an officer in Blunt's army, in which he says:
"I
have just got in here. He had a
fight of three hours yesterday. Capt.
Lines killed and his company cut to pieces.
I am all worn out. We went
down nearly to Texas and then back again to this place."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 13, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Charley
Fisher, through whom we have obtained some notoriety in the Anti-Slavery world,
has, after a most extraordinary and perilous career during the last four years,
returned to Leavenworth.—Charley says this was the scene of his triumph, and
here he proposes to make his abiding place during the remainder of his days.
Charlie's
life in Dixie, since his capture in Nebraska, has been checkered with
adventures, and scenes of the most thrilling and painful character.
To detail them would fill a book. Charley
thinks of publishing, for the benefit and information of his race, and the
humane of whatever color, a book of the incidents of his life for the last four
years. He has entered into business here, having purchased Jack
Scott's barber shop, on Shawnee street. We are glad to learn this, and hope he
may succeed in building up a large and profitable business.
None deserve the patronage of the public more than he.
His sufferings have been great. He
is once more, and forever free. Hail! Charley, hail!
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 13, 1863, p. 3, c.
2
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Flower Girl;" "A Day in Paris"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 15, 1863, p. 3, c.
3
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Flower Girl;" "Strategem of an Actress"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 16, 1863, p. 2, c.
4
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Captain Charlotte;" "Strategem of an Actress;"
"The Raw Recruits"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 16, 1863, p. 2, c.
3
Memphis, Sept. 11.
Refugees
lately arrived within our lines bring exciting reports of the terrible condition
of affairs in the Southwest.
One
man, who left Mobile on the 5th, states there was a terrible riot of
soldiers' wives in Mobile on the 4th. About six hundred women and children collected at Spring
Hill, armed with clubs and hatchets, and marched through the principal streets,
carrying banners inscribed, "Bread or Blood," "Bread or
Peace," and other like inscriptions. Being
soldiers' wives, the proceedings were winked at by the soldiers, who made but a
feeble resistance. Several stores
were broken open. One merchant, a
Jew, struck one of the women. Some policemen present arrested the Jew and beat him
severely.
Many
citizens left town, among them my informant, who says the riot was increasing
when he left.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 16, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
According
to the records of the Hospital, it was established December 14th,
1861, under the charge of Surgeon H. Buckmaster, of this State, and now Medical
Director of the District of the Frontier, and has since been under charge of the
following Surgeons, viz: George W.
Hogeboom, J. L. Weaver, John E. summers, George Rex, and George E. Budington;
and is at present under charge of Samuel F. Few, Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S.
A.
Number
of wounded admitted, 285; number of sick admitted, 1,664; total admitted, 1,949;
sent to duty, 1,329; discharged, 374; deserted, 20; died, 32; transferred to
General Hospital, 8; sent to pest house, 11; sent to Mississippi river, Marine
Brigade, 47; to Invalid Corps, 47; to insane hospital, 2, remaining in hospital,
80. Beside the number of sick
remaining, there are nine attendants, including steward, ward master, cooks,
&c.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 18, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Soldiers
aid "attention." There
will be a special business meeting of the society this afternoon; on
which, every member is earnestly requested to be present."
Per order of Pres't.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 18, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Mr.
Soussman, of the Zeitung, will commence issuing a daily edition of his paper
first of next week. We hope our
business men will patronize it liberally. A
good German daily ought to be well sustained in this city.
We wish Mr. Soussman success in his new enterprise.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 18, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Wood
is selling in our streets for the snug little sum of $6.00 per cord.
With wood at this price, the poor of our city will have to study economy
to make both ends meet during the coming winter.
It seems to us, in view of all the timber that lines the banks of the
Missouri, and the facilities for cheap transportation which we enjoy, that wood
should be furnished at a cheaper rate than the above.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 19, 1863, p. 2, c.
2
Summary: Union Theatre—"The
French Spy, or, The Fall of Algiers;" "Family Jars"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 20, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
It is
said that 20,000 girls in New York earn a livelihood by making hoopskirts.
Who says abolish crinoline?
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 20, 1863, p. 3, c.
3
Summary: Union Theatre—"The
French Spy, or, The Fall of Algiers"; "The Inquisitive
Contraband"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 23, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Summary: Union Theatre—"Wept
of the Wish-ton-wish, or The Last of the Narragansetts; "Captain
Charlotte"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 24, 1863, p. 2, c.
3
Summary: Union Theatre—"The
Invisible Prince, or, The Island of Tranquil Delights;" "Kathleen
Mavourneen"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 25, 1863, p. 2, c.
3
Summary: Union Theatre—"The
Invisible Prince, or, The Island of Tranquil Delights;" "The Love
Chase"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 26, 1863, p. 2, c.
3
Summary: Union Theatre—"Maid
with the Milking Pail;" "The Invisible Prince, or, The Island of
Tranquil Delights;" "Ireland as it is."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 27, 1863, p. 2, c.
3
Summary: Union Theatre—"Fanchon;"
"Persecuted Dutchman"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 27, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
The
stands for the sale of beer eatables &c., during the county fair, have been
let. The sum realized by the sale
of the permits was $500. A large
sum, but the lucky bidder will easily realize it from their sales.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 29, 1863, p. 3, c.
3
Summary: Union Theatre—"Gipsey
Girl of Granada;" "Youth that Never Saw a Woman."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], September 30, 1863, p. 2, c.
3
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Hidden Hand;" "Persecuted Dutchman"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 1, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
From the Georgia Battle.
By the kindness of Mr. Livins Hazen, of this city, we are permitted to
publish the following letter from his son, who is in the Pioneer Brigade, of the
Army of the Cumberland:
Bridgeport, Ala., Sept. 23.
Excuse
me for writing in haste. The
bloodiest battle that has been fought is going on now.
Our division (Palmer's) is badly cut up. My brigade suffered terribly.
The wounded are coming in by hundreds.
My regiment is almost used up, and most of the officers killed.
Some of our boys are coming in to-night, all wounded.
We took up our pontoons yesterday, and are throwing up rifle pits and
planting batteries to protect Bridgeport, the terminus of the railroad.
We will have it here—we are ready.
We work night and day. Rosey
is fighting the whole Southern Confederacy.
The Virginians that we took prisoners say the men here fight different
from the Army of the Potomac. All
think yet Rosey will win if reinforcements get up in time.
He is holding his own. A
great many of my comrades have been killed and wounded.
Colonel Nie Anderson, of the Sixth Ohio, was here last night on his way
home. He is badly wounded in the shoulder. One of the Sixth Kentucky Lieutenants is now in my Captain's
ten, badly wounded. He ways that
all the regiments are badly cut to pieces.
We are cutting the trees down all along this island, in order to use our
artillery.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 1, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
From Little Rock, Ark.
Our special correspondent "V" sends us a brief letter from
Little Rock, Ark., under date of September 13th:
Ed.
Times:--At last I can send you the glorious news of the capture of the rebel
capitol of Arkansas. Gen. Steele
did the work most completely, routing "old pap" Price to such an
extent that his "worn legions" will not be apt to concentrate soon
again. Our cavalry followed the
"retiring" rebs for twenty-five miles. It is impossible at this time for me to give details as to
losses on either side, this being the first day I have been out of bed for two
weeks. The rebels have fallen back
on Canton, about forty miles from here. The
capture of the city took place on the 10th.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 1, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
The
amusements for next week commence on Monday evening at Turner's Hall.
The purpose for which the festival is to be held is a most praiseworthy
one, and needs no comment from us to ensure a large attendance.
With a most commendable zeal, a few ladies last winter collected a
considerable sum of money, through the means of a Fair held in Mr. Duffy's
buildings, towards paying the expense of a hospital.
Our citizens are much gratified to see a very handsome brick house
looming up, quite an ornament to the city.
We must say, from personal observation, that this was our greatest want,
as many of our sick people are necessarily neglected in consequence of no
suitable place being provided for them. There
are many amongst us who speak of the kind and gentle care of the Sisters of
Charity from experience, and heartily endorse the efforts of our ladies to
provide the necessary materials for furnishing the house when ready for the
reception of patients, which will be early this winter.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 2, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
A
Missouri exchange publishes the following:
Patriotism
Amidst Desolation.—A gentleman relates that whilst passing through Andrew
county, a few days ago, he heard a voice that sounded like a bugle merily [sic]
singing,
"Rally round the flag, boys,
We'll rally once again"—
On
turning the corner of a road, he discovering [sic] a woman weeping with a child
in her arms. Near by was a boy who
was loading on a wagon, that had a pair of cows hitched to it, the last remnants
of furniture that had been snatched from the flames of a handsome dwelling house
the night before.
The
boy kept singing,
"We're marching to the field boys,
"We're marching to the fight,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom."
On
arriving at the place, the gentleman inquired, "How did this accident
happen?" The boy replied:
"Accident?
h---l! Some men come from
Kansas last night and burned dad's house. They
said he was a rebel, and it is a d----d lie.
He has been for the Union all the time," and again the boy sang,
"The Union forever! 'row, boys, 'row!"
"Don't
you really know what they burnt the house for?"
"Burnt
to restore the Union, I reckon, or because our folks owned a negro once.
Dad is in molitia [sic], and that is what he gets for it."
"Have
you no oxen to hitch to your wagon?"
"Stole
'em last night."
"What
has become of your horses?"
"Ask
Jim Lane; I reckon him or some of his strikers have got 'em posted before this
in Kansas."
"But,"
said the stranger, "they have to get passes to take stock over the
river."
"Mr.,
you are not up to the way they do things in these parts.
All these Kansas fellers want is a skiff and a rope.
But, perhaps, you may be one of them chaps looking around for a
chance."
To
hear how the little fellow would answer, our friend said:
"Yes,
my son, I am really from Kansas, but I am not looking for plunder.
If you have lost your stock why don't you go over the river and hunt it
up?"
"No
use," said the boy, "old Jake down there, lost his horses, and went
over there after 'em, and they put him in jail, 'cause, they said he was hunting
niggers. They tell me you fellers
have stole two regiments of niggers, and the way the horses have left these
parts, I expect you have taken a dozen of them, but I don't care a d—n!
our folks are going to Illinois, and I am going with the soldiers."
Our
friend passed on, and the boy commenced again singing,
"Down with the traitors,
And up with the stars!
For we will rally round the flag, boys,
We'll rally once again."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 2, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
The
ladies of the Christian Church are preparing, upon a grand scale, to entertain
the hundreds of strangers who will be in the city during the week of the
"State Fair," as well as our own people. It is probable that the Fair will occupy general attention
during the day-time, but the evenings would perhaps be dull, if it were not for
the fact that this festival has been gotten up to entertain the people.
It will be held in the large and beautiful audience room of the church on
Sixth street, and will be brilliantly illuminated with gas and decorated in the
most beautiful manner. The proceeds are to be appropriated to paying a small debt
that remains against the church building, and, if possible, painting and seating
the same. From the known energy,
ability and taste of the ladies having the matter in hand, we have no doubt it
will be a grand success.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 3, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Summary: Union Theatre—"Asmodeus,
or The Little Devil's Share"; "Jack Sheppard"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 3, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
The
patriotic women of the Northwest have determined to hold a Fair at Chicago
during the last week of this month, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the
fund for the relief of sick and wounded soldiers. Why not inaugurate a corresponding movement on the part of
the patriotic women of Kansas, during the State Fair?
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 3, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
Refugees
from Missouri are still coming into this city.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 3, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
Six
good waiter girls wanted immediately at the Mansion House. Steady employment and good wages given.
J. Landes, Prop'r.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 4, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Frozen
Watermelon.—The Washington Star states that frozen watermelon is now all the
rage among the epicures of the Federal capital, and thus describes how the thing
is got up:
"The
melon (select a first class one in the start, of course,) subjected to the
freezing process, should be buried in pounded ice, perhaps twelve hours previous
to use, and packed carefully away in the coolest place attainable.
When again brought to light, the melon shows an even coating of frost,
like dew, upon the surface, and upon being cut, (lengthwise, by all means,) a
smart, crisp detonation precedes the knife in its progress, when the fruit is in
perfect condition. Then carve and
eat ad libitum.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 4, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Summary: Union Theatre—"All
is Not Gold that Glitters"; "Mr. & Mrs. Peter White"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 4, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
One
hundred negroes were recruited in Saline County, Mo., last week, for the U. S.
service.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 4, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
State Agricultural Society—First Annual Fair.
The first annual fair of the State Agricultural Society of Kansas
commences on Tuesday next, and last night it seemed as if the clouds would clear
away, affording guarantee of pleasant days for the exhibition of the products of
Kansas industry. We have feared the
equinoctial and its drizzle, and a sparse attendance at the grounds, but the sun
smiles last night incited a hope that fair weather would attend this first
effort of the Agricultural Society of our young State, and enable people from
Bourbon and Saline, from Brown and other remote counties, to attend with stock,
grain, fruit, agricultural and mechanical implements to show that we are not so
far behind our sister States in manufacturing and producing those things so
essential to human life and human progress.
The
grounds are laid out and prepared in an attractive and convenient style,
provided with abundant stalls for horses and cattle, many of which are covered
securely, and have ample feed troughs, the buildings being neatly erected,
white-washed, and presenting a fine appearance.
The stock will be placed on the North and West sides of the grounds, and
watered from two springs near by.
Floral
Hall will be one of the most interesting features of the Fair, as presided over
by the ladies, who will, of course, attract the largest concourse.
An octagon structure near by will be used to exhibit pianos, melodeons,
sewing machines, &c., and it will be thronged.
The
large building for exhibition of domestic manufactures (not including babies,
however,) will be under the superintendence of the ladies, and if we attempt to
get in these it will be late in the evening, after the old codgers have gone
home.
The
ring for equestrian displays is a circle one-fourth of a mile round, securely
fenced and graded, and the ladies, it is said, have been already testing the
track, in order to be in readiness for the contest.
"Them" races will be watched closely, and from the names of
several we have heard as probable contestants, we are prepared to "go a
green back" on the result. It
will be a dashing affair—mettled horses, gayly prancing, beautiful ladies in
gay habits and jaunty hats, with waving plumes, and thousands of lookers on,
will form a scene we would not miss for a premium.
To the
Superintendent, Jas. L. McDowell, the society is greatly indebted for the
perfection to which the arrangements for the Fair have been brought. The bridges are strong and complete on the roads leading from
the city, the grounds have fenced very securely and all things arranged to give
eclat to the first Fair of the Society. A
large pole has been erected, from the summit of which will float the
"starry banner" of the nation and ever loyal Kansas.
The
usual outside attractions, we presume, will be found on the ground.
Side shows of all descriptions, either inside or outside; swings,
whirligigs, gingerbread and "ice cool lemonade, only five cents a
glass." There will be such a
gathering of the people as has never been seen before in Kansas, and Missouri
will be well represented in people, stock and products.
A large number of entries have been made, and articles will begin to
arrive at the grounds on Monday. The
display will be extremely creditable to the State and the arrangements give
abundant evidence of the enterprise and energy of the officers of the Society.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 4, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
Le
Follet, the French Journal of Fashion, says mohair, foulard and alapaca are
the materials most in request for Fall wear.
The new "turtle dove" collar [sic?] is not likely to be long in
favor, as decided hues are affected. Red
is much worn, and will be quite in favor. Dresses, petticoats and cloaks are all of the same material,
and trimmed in the same manner. Plaid
dresses are fashionably worn, and will become more general in the autumn.
Plaid sashes of ribbon or silk are much in favor for white or self
colored dresses. Shawls are now
worn by the Parisian ladies, fastened to the throat by a brooch, and not hanging
loosely on the shoulders as formerly. There
seems no danger of bonnets resuming their high and pointed form; they are still
narrow on the sides, but flatter on the top than formerly, and no not [sic?]
come so far on the head. It is
impossible to describe the endless variety of hats now worn; the most elegant
and aristocratic have a rather broad brim, and a bunch of feathers placed high
in the front. Caps are mostly made
of black and white lace, with a loose crown, and generally have a Maria [sic]
Stuart point in front. Fancy aprons
are likely to become very fashionable for home wear; they will be quite small,
and gathered and plaited into a very narrow compass at the waist.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 6, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
The
Leavenworth Turnverien will celebrate its sixth anniversary on Wednesday
evening, by a grand ball and festival, at their hall on Delaware street, corner
of Sixth. The Turnverien are in a
flourishing condition, and will give an exhibition on the grounds during the
Fair, probably on the day of their festival.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
State Agricultural
Fair.
First Annual Fair.
. . . At the left of the gates, as you enter—of course
buying a ticket at the office outside, if you are not a life member or the
holder of a season card—are located the swings, bars and other gymnastic
arrangements of the Leavenworth turnverien; while further on, in a convenient
locality, Fogel has established his booth wherefrom to dispense refreshments to
the thirsty crowd. He has a
shooting gallery attached, where those desirous may exercise their skill in
"hitting the bull's eye" with a feathered cane propelled by
atmospheric pressure from a patent air rifle. . . .
The
juveniles will be delighted with the revolving swing, or, as we called it in our
younger days, the "flying horse," upon which, for a representative ten
cents, they can view the earth in revolution. . .
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Summary: Union Theatre—"The
Willow Copse;" "Mr. & Mrs. Peter White"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 7, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
"Over
the left," the cant phrase implying falsehood, has been abandoned for the
emphatic and significant expression of "Over the wires."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 7, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Summary: Union Theatre—"The
Willow Copse;" "Family Jars"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 6
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Richelieu, or, The Conspiracy;" "Rosin Joe"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 9, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
[Special to the Times.]
Fort Scott, Oct. 7, 1863.
Ed.
Times:--Lieut. Tappan, a special messenger, arrived here this morning, at 2
o'clock, bringing the startling news that General Blunt with his body guard,
consisting of two companies, had been attacked by Coffey's guerrillas, said to
be one thousand strong, at Mud creek near Baxter springs, about seventy miles
below Fort Scott. The entire guard
was captured, together with Lieut. Pond's company stationed at Baxter Springs,
including the General's band. Gen.
Blunt escaped with eight or ten men, and at last advices was moving from the
scene of action as fast as his horse could bear him.
Reinforcements,
consisting of two companies of cavalry and infantry in wagons, and one piece of
artillery, left here to-day for the scene of strife.
Capt.
Taft, of Blunt's staff, is known to be killed, seven or eight bullets having
entered his body.
G.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 9, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Chimney Corner;" "Old Guard"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 9, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
Blindfold
Wheelbarrow Race, $20. Committee,
Thomas Stevens, L. T. Smith, J. Tams; L. H. Sargeant and H. S. S. McLanartan.
Sack
race, $25.00. Committee, J. K.
Bartlett, Web Wilder, J. Stotler, H. Buckingham,
German Editor.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 10, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
State Agricultural
Society.
First Annual Fair.
Fourth Day—Friday.
. . . Somewhat later than the time announced the crowd
began to gather around the ring to witness the Ladies' Equestrian Exhibition,
one of the most interesting and attractive features of the week.
Nine entries were made, as follows, for the premiums, offered three in
number, the first being a splendid saddle, manufactured by Owen Duffy, and
valued at about $100. The second premium was also a saddle, though of less value;
while the third was a beautiful riding whip.
The
riding was superb by each and all of the ladies entering, and the committee no
doubt hesitated in awarding the prizes; but it would seem they might have done
so with a greater appearance of fairness than was exhibited in the bestowal of
at least the second prize. While we
do not question the justness of the first award, we but echo the universal
sentiment in saying that the second prize should have been given to another
party. Either of three ladies, the
Misses Sinclair, Mills or Martin, were entitled to it in preference to the
recipient. This is the verdict of
seven-eights of those who witnessed the exhibition, and to sustain it the
friends of the ladies named have made up outside prizes of at least as great
value as those awarded by the society. It
seems to have been a plain case of favoritism, and we hope never to witness such
another. It doesn't look well.
Miss
Tanner, the recipient of the first prize, is one of the most graceful and daring
riders we have ever seen, sitting her horse with the ease of the "rosiest
Amazon," and putting him through the paces in a manner which would be very
creditable to Tournaire or other queens of La Cirque.
She wore a black and neatly fitting habit, with a hat of the same color
finely set off by a dashing white plume which waved above the dust like the
historical feathers of Henry of Navarre. Often
did the admiration of the spectators find vent in loud and hearty cheers as the
gallant bay and his fair rider passed around the ring.
Mrs. Crowell, of Atchison, wore a drab habit, with a straw hat and a
white plume. She rode a splendid
white horse, and at times appeared to excellent advantage, but we are not
prepared to agree with the judges in awarding the premium for either elegance or
style.
Miss
Jennie Mills, the little fairy of the circle, though apparently somewhat timid,
certainly managed her horse with the ease and skill of a practiced equestrienne,
and exhibited, we think, a better knowledge of "horsewomanship" than
any on the ground. Her extreme youth alone prevented the exhibition of qualities
of elegant driving, which would entitle her to the first prize in any equestrian
arena; and that this is the opinion of good judges is abundantly verified by the
fact that Miss Mills is to be the recipient of one of the outside prizes awarded
by the unanimous verdict of the spectators. She rode a large dark sorrel horse, upon which her black
habit appeared to excellent advantage. Miss
Mills also wore a straw hat with a white plume.
Miss
Bettie Martin, from the Sac and Fox Agency, was, to our mind, one of the most
graceful riders on the ground; exhibiting a knowledge of equestrianism which our
ladies would do well to cultivate. All
admired her dashing style, and opinions were at variance as between this lady
and the recipient of the first prize. Miss
Martin wore a splendid blue habit with a black hat and plume, and rode a large
sorrel horse.
Mrs.
Jennison rode a magnificent pony, "Spot Beauty" we call her—the same
to which the premium was awarded on Wednesday, for best saddle mare.
She was one of the most dashing riders on the ground, and held the reins
in a manner that exhibited her perfect knowledge of the art.
Dark riding habit with plain hat and veil, no plume.
Miss
Maggie Sinclair seemed to charm all lookers on by the fearlessly graceful style
of her riding, and if there had been three first premiums to award, she must
have received one of them. It
seemed to be the general opinion that, as it was, Miss Sinclair should have
received the second premium; and in dissent to the views of the judges, a purse
was at once started to purchase outside prizes.
The
other entries, we believe, were Mrs. Grant, Miss Maynard, and Miss Cook, all of
whom rode so elegantly that we hesitate in awarding superiority to any.
The exhibition was one that pleased everybody, and the fair riders were
anxiously watched, whether manœvering their horses in front of the stand or
showing their points and speed in the ring.
The
judges were Kellam, Irwin, Osborn, Moonlight, Ingalls, Latin, and Chadwick.
At the
conclusion of the exhibition addresses were delivered in front of the
Secretary's office, by Judge Lowe, of Linn county, and Judge Thacher of Douglas.
. .
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 10, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
The
gentlemen engaged in getting up the subscriptions for prizes to be given to Miss
Mills, Miss Sinclair, Miss Martin and Miss Cook, for their splendid
equestrianship, as displayed yesterday at the Fair, have raised the sum of four
hundred dollars, which is in the hands of Capt. J. C. Irwin, and will be awarded
at an early day.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 11, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
James R. O'Neill.
Among those butchered by Quantrill in his recent attack on General Blunt
was our friend, James R. O'Neill. Following
the Army of the Frontier as artist and correspondent, he was captured with the
band and brutally murdered. Kansas
and freedom have lost a true and well beloved friend.
Who
can forget the genial face, the manly and robust form, the sparkling wit, the
unvarying amiability, or the bold purity of heart and life of our lost and
lamented brother.
Conspicuous
among those who in the very beginning of the rebellion flung their loyalty
against the sympathizing and cowardly friends of the Southern cause in Kansas;
earliest among those who organized unconditional warfare against the enemies of
the Government; an abolitionist, a humanitarian—James R. O'Neil won the
admiring respect of every loyal man he met.
Artist, actor, musician—the versatility of his acquirements enabled him
to shine in every occupation of his life.
Dead!
Though living ever under the shadow of the imperial wing of the Good
Angel, he did not fear to die; nor will his good example cease to live.
Unshriven by earthly priest, but shrived, forgiven and accepted by virtue
of great and unceasing goodness of heart and an invincible conscience, we shall
not forget dear James O'Neill.
G. H. H.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 11, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
Miss
Virginia Mills:--Believing, in our judgment, as was also the opinion of a
majority of the spectators at the test of horsemanship, that you are the most
graceful and finished rider, the award of the committee to the contrary
notwithstanding, we would present you a goblet as a slight testimonial of our
appreciation of you as a female equestrian of the first water.
Truly, your friends,
L. G. Terry,
E. H. Gruber,
A. S. Addis,
Ben Akers,
Ed. Penlon,
Len I. Smith.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 11, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
The
following handsome and deserved testimonial to Miss Sinclair will be appreciated
by the thousands who witnessed her superb equestrianship on Friday:
Miss
Maggie Sinclair: the following
named gentlemen, admiring your perfect grace and management [at] the equestrian
exhibition to-day, beg leave, respectively, to tender you the enclosed one
hundred dollars or to purchase a premium, which we think should have been
awarded you on the ground. We are
truly your friends.
Fox
Diefendorf,
James W. Brown,
Wm.
Tholen,
Dr. Demming,
Lafayette
Mills,
Geo.
Kengsley,
T. S.
Town,
J. C. Hemingray,
T. P.
Fenlon,
H. G. Loring,
H. E.
Gruber,
Joe Irvin,
J. L.
McDowell,
J. L. Pendery,
B. F.
Akers,
Chas. Adams,
Jas.
Legate,
M.
Saulsbury,
Len.
Smith,
Jep. Rice.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 11, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
The
friends of the ladies competing for prizes at the Equestrian Exhibition of
Friday have contributed about $600, through the exertions of Mr. J. C. Irwin,
and Doctor Demming of the Fifteenth, for the purpose of procuring additional
premiums to be awarded to those not receiving any from the Society. Mr. Irwin has the funds in his possession, and the awards
have been made as follows: Miss
Mills, $170; Miss Sinclair, $170; Miss Martin, $75; Mrs. Jennison, $100; Miss
Manard, $75, and Miss Cook, $75. These
premiums will be given in money or in any articles for which the ladies named
may signify a preference, to the amounts mentioned.
Our citizens have been very liberal in the matter, and Messrs. Irwin and
Demming have zealously exerted themselves to secure this result.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 11, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
The
following proceedings transpired in the Mayor's Court yesterday: . . .
Eliza
Robinson, fast riding, fined $10 and costs.
Mollie
McCoy, fast riding, fined $10 and costs. . .
Wm.
Cranston, coming in contact with a colored individual, fined $10 and costs.. . .
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
It is
beginning to be a serious question whether Morris Island is going to hold our
troops much longer. The tides are
washing away the bluffs at the south end at the rate of from ten to twenty feet
a day. Fifty yards of beach have
disappeared in the sea since the middle of August. It is probable, however, that Charleston will "cave
in" before long and give our brave fellows more comfortable quarters.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
The
Fashions—Imperial War Against Tight-Fitting Corsets in France.—The unusual
heat of this month has, along with the efforts of the Countess de Castiglione,
caused a salutary change in the fashions. Stays,
for the present, are thrown aside and replaced by the more becoming cienture
suisse. Neither does a tight
body form an indispensable portion of a lady's dress.
It is replaced by a loose one of white muslin or coarse linen, worked in
imitation of the bodices worn by the peasants of Romagna.
Loose silk jackets are also greatly worn.
It is
possible that this style of dress will continue in fashion, the doctors of the
Empress having advised her majesty to imitate the style of dress recently
adopted by Madame de Castiglione, who, like nearly all her countrywomen, holds
pinched waists in aversion, and whatever mistakes she may make in other matters,
has the good sense to believe that stays must produce a red nose or a sallow
complexion.—[London Lady's Newspaper for Sept.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Lieut.
Col. Tennison, formerly of the Kansas 1st, was heard of not long
since, at Floyd, La., where he was drilling a confederate company as captain.
His downfall commenced with his falling in love with a secesh damsel near
Providence, La. While infatuated
with her he drank a toast to Jeff. Davis, which resulted in an order degrading
him from his command, on the strength of which he deserted to the enemy.
The secesh girl who had bewitched him, refused after all to marry
him.—[Kansas City Journal.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Summary: Union Theatre—Dot! from
Dickens' Beautiful Story of The Cricket on the Hearth"; "40 and
50."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 13, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
The
flax crop this year will be larger than ever before raised, and inquiries are
made as to the best mode of disposing of it.
One of our exchanges advises the farmer, after threshing out the seed, to
stack the straw carefully, protect the stacks with boards, or a good thatch, and
await the coming of customers, who will appear between this and the end of the
year. It is important that the
straw be kept dry, otherwise it will rot, and the fibre be destroyed.
From present appearances, there is no doubt that there will be a demand
for every ton of flax raised, and farmers will do well to preserve their straw
in good condition. The preparation of the fibre had better be left to those who
make that their special business. In
view of the increasing importance of flax, consequent upon the suspension of
cotton growing, we advise our inventive readers to examine and see if they
cannot produce improvements in flax-dressing machinery. The field for this class of invention seems to be a good one.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 13, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
Eighty
genuine Confederates arrived at the Fort yesterday. They are direct from Dixie, having been captured at Honey
Springs, Ark., wear butternut clothes, if their rags can be called such; and the
only small change they carry is a full supply of gray backs.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 14, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
The Island of
Bridgeport, Tennessee River.
[From B. F. Taylor's Correspondence Chicago Jour.]
The Island is rich in beauty, and is a vineyard of Muscadine grapes, a
rich and noble fruit that can be gathered anywhere by bushels. On this island are the famed mounds, of which something has
been already written, and Northern hands would long ago have made this gem in
the Tennessee a paradise of beauties like that with which the advocate invested
the island home of Blannerhasset. Among
the mountains, for the first time in my life, I have seen clouds born.
Breaths of vapor, like smoke from camp-fires, wreath their way up above
the tops of the trees in one place and another, looking thin and pale in the
early morning. You have not the least idea what will come of it all; but, by
and by they melt into one, assume volume and color, and before you think of it a
cloud made up of a whole family of the little breaths is sailing away.
And the richness of the Southern evening sky is no poetic fiction.
Here it is not, as at home, so much crimson and gold bravely laid on
about the sunset, as a peach-like ripening of the whole heaven with a golden
glow that lasts long after the stars are out.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 14, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
A
Deserter ran across the Niagara bridge at Lewiston a few days since, and a guard
after him. They followed him into
Queenston, on the Canada side, and fired at him, without effect. Whereupon the soldiers were arrested by the Canadian
authorities and put in jail. A well
known citizen went to their relief, and, after due apologies, the soldiers were
released. The Canadians were quite
indignant at this invasion by Yankee soldiers.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 14, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Summary: Union Theatre--"Dot!"; "The Married Rake"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Important From
Fort Scott.
Particulars of Blunt's Defeat by
the Bushwhackers.
Gross Neglect in not Supplying
Our Brave Troops With
Ammunition.
Gallantry of the Colored Troops.
One Hundred Killed.
Where is the Responsibility?
(Special correspondence of the Times.)
Fort Scott, Oct. 11.
Editor
Times.—I have delayed writing to you for some days, so that I could send you
an authentic account of the disaster which happened [to] General Blunt.
All sorts of rumors are afloat concerning the affair and you at
Leavenworth will not get a true account of the matter, either through the Fort
Scott Monitor or any of the partisan friends of General Blunt.
The facts I send you are derived from reliable sources, part official and
part from men who were on the ground and saw the transaction.
On
Sunday last, October 4th, General blunt left Fort Scott with an
escort of two companies of cavalry—company A, Fourteenth regiment, his body
guard, and company I, Third Wisconsin Cavalry—and a train of about fifteen
wagons, containing army subsistence and ammunition.
His band was with him, and also his staff, or at least part of it,
consisting of Major Curtis, A. A. G., Lieutenant Farr, Judge Advocate, of the
Third Wisconsin; Major Henning, District Provost Marshal, also of the Third
Wisconsin, and Lieutenant Tappan, Second Colorado Volunteers, Aid-de-Damp to
General Blunt.
On
Monday, about noon, or just before noon, the guerrillas, under Quantrill and
Coffee, made an attack upon the camp at Baxter's Springs. One company of the Second Colored Kansas Volunteers and one
company of the Third Wisconsin, company C, Lieutenant Pond in command, were
stationed at that post. The black
soldiers were out of the camp unarmed at the time. The guerrillas made a rush into the camp and formed in line.
Lieutenant Cook, of the colored company, ran out of his tent and
surrendered himself a prisoner of war; he was then shot down.
The blacks seeing what was going on, made a rush, broke through the line
of guerrillas, unarmed as they were, seized their arms, made fight, and the
guerrillas fled. A few of the
negroes were killed and wounded Lieutenant Pond, I understand, fought bravely.
The
guerrillas soon after met General Blunt, about two miles from the camp, with his
force and train of wagons. They
sent out their skirmishers, who fired two volleys at our men.
A line was ordered to be formed, and company A, Fourteenth regiment,
formed their line, but broke and ran without firing a shot.
This company was in command of Lieutenant Pierce, a boy.
No ammunition had been distributed to the men of this company; their
cartridge boxes were empty. Company
I, Third Wisconsin, fired two volleys, and then broke and ran.
The guerrillas charged among our men without let or hindrance.
Major Curtis' horse was shot and fell, and the Major taken prisoner.
Lieutenant Farr was also taken prisoner, as were all the musicians of
"Blunt's Band," together with J. R. O'Neil, General B.'s artist, and
the whole train. General Blunt's
ambulance, and all the traps, goods and chattles [sic] belonging to the outfit,
fell into the hands of the enemy. Major
Curtis, Lieutenant Farr, Mr. O'Neil, and the musicians were all killed after
they were taken.
Quantrill
sent in a flag of truce to the camp at the Springs, with a request to exchange
prisoners, but Blunt had none. The
guerrillas then murdered, in cold blood, all the prisoners they had captured
from us. All the members of the
band were killed but two, one of whom was, and is, sick in the hospital at Fort
Scott, and the other had gone home to Wisconsin on a furlough, and only returned
on Friday last.
The
names of the musicians who were killed are:
Henry Pelloge, leader of the band; Henry Bulow, F. Rasmarth, F. Balloun,
J. P. Madison, Thomas Davis, N. A. Nott, F. M. Laroux, J. Trits, T. Lusher, F.
Simon, and George Geminda.
The
above were all murdered! The two
who are here are James M. Cotton and August Sheel.
Seventy-eight
of our men were killed and their bodies found.
Some of my informants say there were full eighty guerrillas, some
say sixty, and the highest estimate I have yet heard place them at one hundred
and fifty. Blunt had no scouts out.
He was taken by surprise and remained surprised till his men were
scattered in every direction.
General
Blunt, Major Henning and Captain Tufts, Captain of the Scouts, escaped and got
into camp at Baxter's Springs. But
many a brave and loyal man has been killed; and who is to blame?
Not the slain men, but the wicked neglect of those in command.
Here is a company of soldiers, a Major General's body guard, marching in
an enemy's country, among bushwhackers, were they rise up out of the ground, as
it were, and without a round of ammunition in their cartridge boxes, but
plenty in the wagons in boxes, with the lids screwed on!
Here is a force of men, with a train of wagons, moving in one of the most
dangerous and treacherous parts of the country without scouts or flankers out,
and the result is the loss of a train of fifteen wagons, mules, &c., and
almost a hundred brave men killed, by a force of only about one hundred
guerrillas. This same number of
guerrillas was shipped by thirty-five negroes under Captain Martin, and almost
in the same place, (Captain Martin, of the First Colored Volunteers, with
thirty-five armed negroes, fought about eight guerrillas, for a distance of
eight miles, while conducting a train of five wagons from Fort Scott to Baxter
Springs, and brought the train into camp all safe. This took place last summer.)
It is
undoubtedly one of the wickedest military neglects that has happened in our
country since the war. "The
Conservative don't want brains in this District," but the country wants its
leaders to exercise good horse sense, at least while in the enemy's country.
General
Schofield telegraphed to Kansas City that a force of guerrillas were intending
to attack Fort Scott, and ordered a force to reinforce this place.
The messenger from Kansas City arrived here about the same time the
messenger from General Blunt arrived from Baxter springs with the news of his
disaster. The day after, Colonel
Wier arrived with about six hundred men, picked up all along the route from
Kansas City to Fort Scott.
It is
strange that Major General Schofield should know what was going on in our
neighborhood, while General Blunt, only sixty miles distant, should know nothing
about it! But such is the fact.
The truth of the matter is, there is too much _______ going on—if
common-fame reports are true—in this District.
But I
have not time to particularlize. I
may see you soon.
Yours, &c.
G.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
The Latest from
Fort Scott.
Four or Five Towns Burned.
Barbarities of Guerrillas.
Fort Scott, Oct. 12, 1863.
Ed.
Times.—Capt. Henry Williams, who has a family residing in your city, arrived
here, bearing a dispatch from Major Edwards, arriving at 3 A. M., the 11th
inst., and called at Fort Scott hotel, and was furnished a comfortable bed,
where he slept soundly after his long and weary ride. Himself and two of his men encountered fourteen secesh, and
routed them. Quantrill took 260 of
the 6th Missouri, and parrolled [sic] them and burnt Neosho, Warsaw
and Carthage, and then proceeded up Spring River and burnt Brown's Mill, then
Mount Vernon, thence towards Greenfield, had a brush with the militia, burnt
Greenfield, and butchered the inhabitants at all the above towns.
Maj. Edwards with 500 men, and six 10 lb. Parrott guns, surprised Col.
Shelby, Quantrill, Brown and Coffee, with about 1500 men.
They had several pieces of artillery, and after a fight of a few hours
Maj. Edwards fell back on Warsaw. Rabb's
battery, manned by part of the Second Kansas, 600 1st and 2d Ark., 8th
Missouri, and others, were joining Edwards, and soon after Capt. Williams left
he heard a terrible cannonading for several hours.
Houston was burnt also. Capt.
Tuft was not hurt in the fight at Baxter, but discharged his pistol at the
bushwhackers. Maj. Henning was by
his side in the fight. Both
escaped.
The
remains of Major Curtis and Lieut. Farr, and two others, arrived here.
They were stripped on the field of all except their underclothing.
Gen.
Blunt lost his fine horse and saddle, &c., all amounting to about $1,800.
Tuft lost all his money, with his carpet sack.
The
citizens of Fort Scott are drilling daily, and are armed, but there is not half
as much danger as there was 12 months ago.
Lynde,
Wier and Edwards are trying to surround Shelby and Quantrill.
Monday
morning at 1 o'clock the pickets stationed 1½ miles northeast of town came in,
reporting that when two of them were going to relieve the sentries they
discovered five horsemen at a cornfield fence and several inside gathering corn.
They discovered our men, mounted their horses, and shots were exchanged.
One of our horses was shot. I
suppose it was bushwhackers going South. They
are continually doing so, and are said to have skiffs on North Fork, near Lamar,
by which to cross. The citizens are
up in arms, and women are hiding in hay stacks.
Great excitement prevails. Day
light has appeared, and no enemy.
Kenton.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 15, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Richelieu;" "One Touch of Nature"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 16, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
The
following statement from Lieutenant Pierce, we publish in justice to him.
If our correspondent at Fort Scott has done him a wrong we gladly afford
him this opportunity to set himself right before the country:
Leavenworth, Oct. 15, 1863.
Editor
Times:--In yesterday's issue of your paper appeared a letter dated Fort Scott,
Oct. 11th, signed "G."
The writer says "A line was ordered to be formed, and company
"A," Fourteenth regiment, formed their line but broke and run without
firing a shot. This company was in
command of Lieut. Pierce, a boy.—No ammunition had been distributed to the men
of this company, their cartridge boxes were empty."
The
above statement is false. I ordered
the company in line, and took position on the right. My company gave the enemy a volley, broke and ran.
I succeeded in halting some fifteen of the men, formed them again and
gave the enemy another volley, when we were obliged to retire.
Ammunition
was distributed to all the men the morning we left Fort Scott.
I am a
"boy," but have tried to do my duty, and shall continue to try.
Robert H. Pierce.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 16, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Joseph and His Brethren; or, The Hebrew's Son;" "The
Eaton Boy"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 16, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
Mrs.
Partington has bought a horse which is so spiritous that he always goes off in a
decanter.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 16, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
The
"fashion" writer of the New York Express announces the fact that no
lady of ton will dare to appear now on Fifth Avenue or Broadway with trailing
dress or long petticoat. Short
dresses are now the "style." They
are scolloped around the edge and are worn over balmoral jupons, of sufficient
length to display the kid boot, or else the skirt is looped up at every seam,
nearly to the knee, showing the colored petticoat of Mohair, cashmere or silk,
trimmed either to match the dress or in tasteful contrast to it, and in
correspondence with the shade of the hat, or mantle worn.
The leather boots have very high heels, colored, perhaps, and strings and
tassels of either, also. The
petticoat is short enough to disclose the instep, at least.
To every dress suitable for walking, French modistes now attach little
rings, through which pass cords, running through to the waist when a lady
prepares to promenade, and loosened within doors, thus allowing the dress to
resume its original length in the saloon. Hoops
and skirts are quite exploded in Paris. Flounced
mohair skirts being used instead, to enable the dress to fall gracefully.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 17, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Joseph and His Brethren"; "Dick Turpin"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 18, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
We are
permitted to publish the following letter from the gallant Lieut. Pond, to A. H.
Jennison, Esq., of this city.
The
bravery and soldierly qualities of the Lieutenant, as we learn from many
sources, shone with great brilliancy during the attack on his command.
By his own personal heroism was his entire force saved.
His men are brave soldiers, and fought splendidly, but the repulse of the
rebels was owing chiefly to the intrepid conduct of their leader.
Lieut.
Pond writes as follows:
Head Quarters, Fort Blair,}
Near Baxter Springs, }
October 13, 1863.
}
On
Monday, Oct. 5th, I arrived here with my company and a mountain
howitzer, to assume command of this post, which was then held by a company of
colored troops. Mrs. P. and baby
were with me. On Tuesday, the 6th,
at 12, M., my camp was attacked, and surrounded on all sides by the enemy, who
were shooting in every direction. In
less than no time I was in my tent, about twenty rods from the main command.
I ran out, and before I could reach the company I was shot at, I should
think, about one hundred times, but arrived safe at the Fort, where I found the
rebs as thick as my own men, some of them cutting horses loose and others
shooting. My men soon brought their guns to bear upon them, and they
thought it safer to be a little further off.
I called for men to help man the howitzer, but as the firing was so hot
none would go over the entrenchments with me.
This made me a little mad, and I jumped over myself, and let them shoot
at me until I broke open a box of shell with an axe and loaded and fired the young
cannon three times by myself, without swabbing or thumbing; and having no
rammer, I was obliged to use an axe-helve.
My first shot give them h—l, and made them fall back over the hill,
killing one horse and man. Shortly
after this I heard firing over the hill, about half a mile from my camp, on the
Fort Scott road. Major Henning, of
our regiment, came riding into camp, telling me that Gen. Blunt and body guard
were attacked. I did not learn
until evening what the General's loss was.
The day following we picked up from the General's battle field 78 dead,
among whom were some of our old friends. Jim
O'Neill was one. The entire brass
band of the General's was annihilated; some of them were burned in their band
wagon. I tell you it was hot work.
The casualties of my command were 9 killed and 10 wounded, 6 of my
company killed, and Lieut. Cook, of the contraband, Johnny Fry, the scout, and
one darkey. We killed five of them
and eight horses, and wounded several that we did not see fit to care for.
Johnny Fry was taken prisoner in the woods, before we were attacked, and
killed. It was a warm time, but
they found enough where we were, and if the body guard had not have stampeded,
we might have given them merry _____.
After
the fight a flag of truce was sent in to my camp, but was met by me on the
prairie, demanding an exchange of prisoners.
As I had none to exchange, they killed all they had, among whom was Maj.
Curtis, Adjutant General.
Yours,
J. Pond.
Comd'g post of Fort Blair.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 18, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Hamlet, Prince of Denmark;" "Box and Cox"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 18, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
Hazel
Eyed Women.—Major Noah said a hazel eye inspires at first sight a Platonic
Gibraltar. A woman with a hazel eye
never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never sacrifices her
husband's comfort to her own, never talks too little, always is an intelligent,
agreeable and lovely creature.
We
never knew, says a brother editor, of but one hazel-eyed who was uninteresting
or unamiable, and she had a nose, as we Yankees say, that looked like the little
end of nothing whittled down to a point. The
grey is the sign of shrewdness and talent. Great thinkers have it.
In woman it indicates a better head than heart.
The dark hazel is noble in its significance as well as its beauty.
The blue is amiable, but may be feeble.
The black—take care! There
is thunder and lightning there!
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 18, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
A Word
to Mothers.—The fall mornings are coming on, or rather are on us now, and in
many families there are no hands but mother's to tend the baby, dress the little
ones, and get breakfast. There is
perhaps no hour in the twenty-four so trying to a mother as this; and no wonder
that baby is neglected and tosses around in his little night-gown till he gets
cold feet and wind colic, and cries as if "pins and needles were sticking
in him."
The
only thing to be done then, is to have out baby's winter stockings at once; put
them on the first thing when you get up in the morning, also a flannel
petticoat, and a long sleeved sacque; then he can toss around at will until
breakfast is over and the mother can get time to wash and dress him.
This
is now emphatically the season for croups, coughs and colds far more than
mid-winter; the middle of the day is too warm for thick clothes, and the morning
and evening too chilly for thin ones. No
wonder that the fall, on this account, is the harvest for fever and ague.
To
every mother of a family, then, let us say, get out the winter clothes, put them
on gradually as they are needed, and so secure health and comfort to your little
ones.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Macbeth"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 21, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Interesting Letter
from Baxter Springs.
(Correspondence of the Times.)
Baxter Springs, Oct. 10th, '63.
Editor
Times:--You have doubtless heard of the tragedy which so recently occurred here
and which has resulted so fearfully to the escort of Gen. Blunt.
It is now ascertained that some twenty of company A, 15th
regiment, are killed, four are missing and one wounded.
Every
member of the brigade band was killed. Poor
Jim O'Neil was wounded, and from appearances crawled some distance from the band
wagon and was again shot and killed. His body escaped the terrible burning to which the others
were subjected by the burning wagon.
Company
C, 3d Wisconsin, lost five men killed. Lieut.
Jim Pond, of this company, distinguished himself for coolness and gallantry,
working his 12-pound howitzer alone, outside the fortifications.
This small piece of artillery had arrived at the Springs only the day
before, and no arrangements had been made for operating it.
Its report evidently was unexpected to the rebels and must have
disconcerted them.
Reinforcements
arrived here last night, and with them came Capt. Wm. Larrimer, Jr., of company
A, who had been detained at Fort Scott as a member of a Court Martial, company A
having been in command of 2d Lieut. R. H. Pierce, in the late action.
This young officer is highly spoken of for his coolness in the fight.
Capt. Larrimer has command of the force of cavalry here, and is doing
good scouting service. He is bound
to rise.
The
fatal tragedy here is similar in many respects to that of Lawrence.
Prisoners were shot in large numbers.
The many additional shot through the head, of our dead men, attest too
surely that the wounded were despatched in the same manner.
One fiend was seen to dismount and feel the pulse of an inanimate wounded
soldier, and with cold-blooded, fiendish malignity place his pistol's muzzle
against the head of the poor unfortunate and discharge it.
A
little child was shot through the chest by the notorious Bill Rader, of Jasper
county. The villain was afterwards
killed and I had the satisfaction of seeing his carcass.
This
morning five of the devils were killed and their den found.
Many more were doubtless wounded and carried off.
They were splendidly mounted, and in nearly every instance were, as at
Lawrence, strapped to their horses.
The
entire number of our killed, already found, will not fall much short of eighty.
Company I, 3d Wisconsin, lost some 25 men.
The balance of the loss was of teamsters and other attaches.
Small
parties of the bushwhackers continue to prowl around here.
Lieut. Barnard, who was out scouting last night, was chased into camp by
a party of fifteen.
Sergeant
Splain, of company I, 3d Wisconsin, was shot five times by Quantrill himself.
He said to Splain before he commenced firing to tell
God Almighty that Quantrill was the last man he saw on earth. The Sergeant, it is thought, will recover, though his wounds
are serious. More anon.
C.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 21, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Summary: Union Theatre—"Much
Ado About Nothing;" "Box and Cox"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 22, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Summary: Union Theatre—"Jack
Cade; or, The Bondmen of Kent"; "A Dead Shot"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 22, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
The
truly patriotic and loyal women of the northwest propose to hold a Fair at
Chicago during the last week of this month, for the benefit of the Sanitary
Commission. All kinds of
contributions are solicited. Will
not our loyal and patriotic ladies assist in this matter?
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 22, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
The
Soldier's Aid Society have determined upon a series of lectures, as a means of
enlarging their nearly exhausted treasury.
Judge Hemingray, whose philanthropy is only equaled by his abilities, has
already engaged to deliver a lecture for the Society's benefit, and it is hoped
that other talented gentlemen of this city will cheerfully lend their abilities
in aid of so good a cause. While
the war continues many of our brave men will inevitably fall by disease and
wounds; and for such we must seek to furnish all the appliances of comfort
needed in the hospitals.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 23, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
From Fort Scott.
Fort Scott, Oct. 19, 1863.
Ed.
Times:--I see by the TIMES, of Oct. 16th, that Lieut. Pierce, of
company A, Fourteenth Kansas, states that the letter of "G" in the
TIMES of the 15th is false, &c.
My
letter is true and the statements therein are true, if the testimony of
soldiers—privates and officers—is of any value; for I have been informed by
both that the members of company A, Kansas volunteers, did not have any
ammunition distributed to them the morning before they left Fort Scott for
Baxter Springs, and I am credibly informed that the last time ammunition was
given to that company was at Fort Gibson previous to their leaving that post for
Fort Scott. I have seen the tears
welling up into the eyes of some of the brave men of company A, because of the
injustice done them from the highest officers down to Lieut. Pierce.
I have said brave men, for who believes that Kansas soldiers are cowards.
Say they: "'Could it be
expected of us to stand and be shot at without the means of self-defense,
without ammunition?"
Lieut.
Pierce says: "The company
fired one volley and ran." Gen.
Blunt says: (See his letter
published in the St. Louis Democrat, Oct. 14th) "They ran without
firing their loaded carbines, with but few exceptions." Who shall we believe on that point Gen. Blunt or Lieut.
Pierce. The Lieutenant also says:
"That he succeeded in rallying fifteen of the men, formed them,
fired another volley, then they had to retire."
Gen. Blunt says: (See his
letter in the Democrat.) "I
succeeded in halting fifteen of the men, including Lieut. Pierce."
Who are we to believe on that point, Blunt or Pierce. The fact is, the letter signed "G" is substantially
true, and no one here will deny it; they may quibble on technicalities or on
some non-essential details of the affair, but the letter is true.
The
publication of the letter has created quite a breeze among the shoulder-straps,
and the query is, who wrote it? It
is generally conceded that it was written by an officer, and one who knows.
G.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 23, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Stop and Read!
Hatters.
Army Goods:
Embroidered Wreaths,
Officers' Plumes,
Crossed Sabers and Cannons,
Eagles, Bugles,
Regulation Cords,
Writing Companions,
Letters and Figures.
Ladies' Goods:
Fur Collars and Capes
Muffs and Cuffs,
Riding and Promenade Hats,
Satchels, Gloves,
--And—
Skating Caps.
Gentlemen's Goods:
Fashionable
Silk and Soft Hats,
Buckskin and Kid Gloves,
Fur Mufflers,
Collars and Caps,
At the subscriber's,
E. C. Putnam & Co.
No. 24 Delaware Street.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 24, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags;" dance; "Mr.
& Mrs. Peter White"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 25, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Macbeth"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 25, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
To-morrow
night the tragedy of Macbeth is given, and the supernatural effects are to be
given with the new wonder, which has excited the admiration of the world.
The great spectral illusion—the ghost.
Those who have timid and superstitious temperaments we advise to stay
away, as ghosts will be seen flitting around them, and spirits of the other
world will usurp the places of the old material apparitions.
Seriously, this great novelty will doubtless crowd the theatre, being a
series of scientific results discovered by Professor Pepper, of the Polytechnic
Institute, London, and is now produced after models furnished by him to the
artists of this country. We cannot
speak in detail of this phenomena, but only know (and that is enough to know)
that it has been the rage in England and in America for several months.
We are much indebted to the perseverance of Mr. Neafie, and the
liberality of Mr. Addis, in thus giving to us, here in the West, sources of
amusement and instruction scarcely to be expected out of the metropolitan
cities. Get your seats in time, and
as near the centre of the house as possible.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 25, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
As a
matter of news, we give the following, which we have from a soldier at Fort
Scott:
Fort Scott, Oct. 21st, 1863.
The
following letter was written by the bushwhackers and tacked to a tree, after the
disastrous affair at Baxter Springs. It
was found by the express rider, at Low Creek, and taken to Fort Smith.
Some of the officers at that post kept the document, but the contents was
remembered, and told to me as here written:
"Hellow,
Jim Blunt! do you recollect the letter you wrote to Col. Parker, last Spring,
and the execution of Jas. Vaughn? Stop
and turn your eyes to Lawrence and Baxter Springs, and see what your amiable
policy has brought you to—see what you have done for your fellow
soldiers—and then remember the dying words of James Vaughn.
A Bushwhacker."
The
above had no date, but was evidently written the same day that Gen. Blunt was
defeated at Baxter Springs.
G. Ben.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 27, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
There
are more emmigrants [sic] coming into Kansas this fall than we have seen for
three or four years past. Some nine
or ten wagons, all in one company, stopped beneath our window, lately, and
others come singly and in couples every day, with the stock and other
appointments to settle our rich and beautiful prairies.
They are mainly from Missouri and other Western States.—[Jeffersonian.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 27, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Hamlet"; "Our Gal"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 27, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
About
one hundred and fifty persons were turned away last evening on account of the
scarcity of seats at the Union; and we will only say to those who wish to see
the grand spectral illusion, that they must be sure and engage seats early, or
they will not be able to get them. To
the ladies we would say, don't go without your salts as several fainted last
night on the appearance of the Ghost of Banquo.
The illusion was perfect.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 28, 1863, p. 3, c. 4
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Corsican Brothers, or, La Vendetta"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 29, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Contradictory Orders.
Headquarters Fort Blunt,}
Cherokee Nation, }
September 18, 1863. }
General Orders, No. 3]
I.
It is hereby ordered that all colored people residing within the limits
of Fort Blunt, who are not officers' waiters, nor in the employment of the
Government, shall, within the next eight days, remove outside the limits of the
Post. If any of the said colored
people desire to go North, transportation will be furnished them in the next
return train, by applying to the Provost Marshal.
II.
The Provost Marshal will see that this order is obeyed, and if, at the
expiration of eight days, any persons who come under this order are found still
living within the limits of this Post, he will cause them to be forcibly
expelled.
By
order of Lieut. Col. Schuarte.
Robert S. Roe,
Second Lieut. Second Colorado Infantry, Post Adjutant.
Headq'rs First
Brigade,
}
Camp Williams, Sept. 22, 1863.}
Special Orders, No. 56.]
The
above Order No. 3 is hereby revoked, having been issued without proper
authority, and opposed to the principles of humanity.
Military orders must be lawful to be obeyed. [See Army Regulations,
article 1, section1.]
By
order of
John
Ritchie,
Col. Commanding First Brigade, Army of the Frontier.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 29, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
From Fort Scott.
Fort Scott, Oct. 23d, 1863.
Friend Times:--It is amusing, and perhaps instructive, to see the
wriggling at this post at the present time.
There are many countenances downcast and thoughtful that three days ago
were jubilant and full of speculation. Confidence
in the value of integrity of character has increased at least one hundred per
cent since the receipt of order No. 11. Honest
men, who had not dared to speak while Blunt ruled without regard to orders from
Washington or St. Louis, now say in private conversation, "We are glad it
has come at last." In fact
things had come to such a pass here that, with Blunt's staff, Blunt's scouts,
Blunt's appointees, Blunt's body guard, Blunt's expectant hangers-on, that it
was scarcely safe to express the idea that open, palpable and defiant violation
of orders was a wrong when committed by "a fighting general."
The man who expressed such ideas was a copperhead a few days, and then he
was arrested and quietly shelved to keep him still.
Thus honest dissent in the army was stifled, and "thrift only
followed fawning."
It is to be hoped things will be different under the administration of
Ewing, if indeed Blunt leaves anything for him to administer on.
I understand that he has today issued orders for everything that can move
to start on Sunday for Fort Smith. I
know that many of the troops here have received such orders.
This place, and this part of Kansas, will thus be denuded of troops, and
left an easy prey to bushwhackers, if there are any around.
This is worthy a disciple of Lane: "Rule
while you can; when you cannot rule, destroy," is the motto of the clan.
Of course every one sees that order No. 11 leaves all the troops in this
district under the command of Gen. Ewing; but Gen. Blunt is evidently determined
not to resign his control over them till forced to do so.
There is even talk that he is to take the field when he arrives in the
Indian country, cut off McNeal in his attempt to reach Fort Smith and make
another brilliant campaign before he returns, "relieved," to your
classic city. Preposterous and
outrageous as this proposition may seem to reasonable people, it may be acted
upon, and it would be but a logical termination to his career for the last two
months or more. Moreover, nearly
every officer in the regiments here, so thorough has been the work of partizan
demoralization, would obey if such programme were laid down.
The men, however, feel differently and are asking anxiously if there is
no way in which they can escape this mad attempt to move an army of 8,000 or
10,000 men four hundred miles from the base of supplies, in the dead of winter,
and separated from that base by a country infested with thousands of
bushwhackers, who are thus to be left to prey upon their homes, and all this
when the same country is reached in one-third of the distance via Little Rock,
which is now in our possession.
But this letter is too long, and I close
Yours,
Looker.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 29, 1863, p. 3, c. 4
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Richard III"; "A Kiss in the Dark"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 31, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
The War in East Tennessee—Loyalty of the People.
A letter from a soldier in Burnside's army, written from Knoxville,
Tennessee, says:
"I saw an old man from Jefferson county, in this State, who,
although seventy-three year [sic] of age, came to join the army.
He brought, as he calls them, his own crowd, numbering one hundred men,
and another of eighty. he and forty
of his company have been bushwhacking in the mountains for fourteen months.
"Seven or eight regiments are under way, several of which will be
full this week. Morristown,
Greenville and Jonesboro have, I learn, each a regiment nearly full.
"When we were at Morristown, and getting on the cars for Greenville,
an old countryman from back some twenty miles came riding into town.
As he did not know we were there, he looked at the brigade awhile in
amazement. When the state of things
began to flash upon him, he asked if we 'weren't the blue-bellied Yankees,' and
as soon as he was satisfied, he went almost crazy, shouting 'Glory to God,
they've come at last,' then sinking his heels into his horse's sides, he went
galloping through the town, waving his hat and shouting away, 'Glory to God,
they've come at last!'
"It was not long, however, before he was back and coaxing some of
the boys to go home with him. He
said 'it wern't only twenty miles;' if they would go home with him 'he know'd
the old woman would go crazy.' He
said she had been 'saving thirteen jars of apple-butter ever since last summer
for the Yankees to eat.' When our
boys told him there would be a fight at the salt works, and that that was our
destination, he wanted to borrow a gun and go along, saying the rule of the
rebels was over now and his time had come, and he was 'arter revenge like a
four-year-old.'
"That is the universal cry of all the people in this country, and
not a man comes to join the army that does not talk of 'revenge.'
If a brigade of these men go through this country, every traitor's house
will be sure to get a firebrand. The
majority of them, so far, have had their houses burnt and themselves hunted like
wild beasts, and never will be satisfied until they finish the work by driving
their persecutors from their sight."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 31, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
The winter winds will soon be howling like a thousand wolves at the doors
of the poor of this city. The
wolves of the forest are kept aloof by fire.
But how are our poor to make fires to save them from the fury of the
howlers around their dwellings, when the price of fuel is so far above their
reach as it is now? Is it not time
for our citizens to devise some means to aid the poor in procuring fuel?
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 31, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
C. H. Langston, well known in this city as a talented and influential
colored man, is meeting with considerable success in Illinois, recruiting for
the black brigade.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 31, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Love and Duty, or, The Pet of the Regiment";
song—"Shout for our Glorious Banner (in costume)"; "Stage
Struck"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 1, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
"There goes a man," said a friend to another, "who is
worth his hundred thousand dollars." "Yes,"
quietly said the other, looking after the rich man, "and that's all he is
worth."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 1, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
Mrs. E. Y. Shields and Mrs. J. H. R. Condiff [sic—Cundiff] have been
ordered South from St. Joseph, and have already gone to St. Louis, from which
place they will proceed to join their rebellious husbands in Dixie. The husband of the former was, in '58-'9-'60, one of the
editors of the St. Joseph West, and Condiff was, until the beginning of the war,
joint-proprietor of the Gazette, of that city.
Both joined their fortunes with the Confederacy at the outbreak, and have
been looking for their rights ever since.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 1, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Unequal Match"; song; "A Loan of a Lover"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 3, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Unequal Match"; song; "Fish out of Water"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 3, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
The Fifteenth Regiment wants fifteen good musicians, to form the band of
that organization. The leader is
offered $60 per month, and the others from $20 to $30.
Application may be made at Camp Jennison, near the Fort, immediately.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 3, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
To-night the festival of the ladies of the Church of St. Paul commences.
The ladies have been untiring in arranging tableaux vivants for the
occasion. No pains have been spared
to make the festival one of the most entertaining amusements our citizens have
ever had the pleasure of witnessing. Turners'
Hall has been fitted up for the fair, which will continue to to-morrow evening
only. The proceeds are to assist in finishing the new Episcopal
Church, which is now in course of erection.
We predict the hall will be filled both evenings.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 4, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
The ravages caused by the war in Tennessee are thus graphically
described: "There is a portion
of this State so devastated by the civil war as to be practically abandoned by
the foot of man. The men are
slumbering at Shiloh, Corinth and Stone River; the servants have gained their
freedom; the women and children have fled to more remote and quiet precincts.
Falling in behind the retiring footsteps of humanity, come the
four-footed beasts and creeping things. The
fox makes his burrow under the ruined dwellings where a happy people once dwelt.
The serpent crawls under the floor of the church and school house.
The squirrel chatters and builds his next upon the locust tree in the old
yard, once noisy with the mirth of children.
The gum is rotting in the cool spring.—The partridge whistles from the
ridgepole of the cabin. The wild
bee seeks a storehouse for his honey, fearless of detection by the human eye.
All is returning to a state of nature.
What a monument of the ravages of war."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 4, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
The Printers' Union of this city, at the regular meeting last Monday
evening, adopted the following advanced scale of prices for work:
Foremen's wages, $18 per week.
Composition on morning papers, 40 cents, evening papers 38 cents, per
1,000 ems.
Compositors and job hands, working by the week, not less than $16.
For hand-press work, 45 cents per token.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 4, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
What We are
Fighting For.
[From the Atlantic
Monthly.]
First, a government, a real government; a government not to be whistled
down the wind by any jack (or jeff) who chooses to secede; a government that
will not dawdle with hands in pockets while this continent is converted into a
maggot-swarm of ten-acre empires;
Secondly, a government whose purpose, so far as it can act, shall be to
forward every man on the path of his own proper humanity;
Thirdly, a government constituted and operated, so far as shall finally
prove possible, by the common intelligence and common conscience of the whole
people.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 4, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Po-Ca-Hon-Tas"; "California Diamonds"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 4, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
How Nature Covers Up Battle-Fields.—Did I tell you ever, among the
affecting little things one is always seeing in these stirring war times, how I
saw on the Bull Run battlefield pretty, pure, delicate flowers, growing out of
emptied ammunition boxes, a rose thrusting up its graceful head through the head
of a Union drum—which doubtless sounded its last charge or retreat as the case
may have been, in that battle—and a cunning scarlet verbena peeping out of a
fragment of a bursted shell, in which strange cup it had been planted?
Wasn't that peace growing out of war?
Even so shall the graceful and beautiful ever grow out of the horrid and
terrible things that transpire in this changing but ever advancing world.
Nature covers even battle grounds with verdure and bloom.
Peace and plenty soon spring up in the tracks of devastating campaigns,
and all things in nature and society shall work out the progress of mankind and
harmony of God's great designs.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 5, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Eight young girls, victims of the "wanted correspondence"
mania, left Zanesville, Ohio, last week, to seek their pretended lovers, who had
been corresponding with them from the army.
Two were arrested and sent back. It
is hoped that the others may be discovered before it is too late.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 5, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
J. Wilkes Booth is to play at the Union here soon.
He is immense as Richard III.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 5, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
A Battle Song.—the effect of a stirring song or tune is often
electrical. The Western armies have
one of this character, called "The Battle Cry of Freedom," which is
described in one of our exchanges as of most potent effect:
In either Grant's or Rosecrans' army it only needs to be started to be
caught up from camp to camp, till it spreads for miles over the whole army.
By order of a General commanding one division of the Army of the
Cumberland, the Colonel of each regiment is ordered to start the "Battle
Cry" whenever the army goes into action, and the effect of the thousands of
voices, united upon the chorus:
The Union forever! Hurrah,
boys! hurrah!
Down with the traitors, up with the Stars!
While we rally round the flag, boys, rally once again,
Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom!"
is described as awakening a frenzied enthusiasm, perfectly
indescribable.
It is evident, from its effect, that this is one of the few songs not
written "to order," but written because the author could not help it.
The great number of thrilling circumstances under which this song has
been sung, in the army, added to its popularity.
When Gen. Blair's brigade, which led the assault upon Vicksburg last
fall, after being hurried again and again upon the enemy's fortifications only
to see each time a ghastly proportion of their numbers go down in death, were at
last ordered to retire, the brave fellows closed up their shattered battalions,
and came out of the smoke of that terrible carnage, defiantly singing—
"Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys!
We'll rally once again!
Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom!"
We are not surprised that the remembrance of that scene drew tears from
the officer who described it to us. And
when, after months of hardship, assault, and battle, these same troops ran up
the Stars and Stripes over this same rebel stronghold, Gen. McPherson and staff,
on the cupola of the court house, fittingly started the same song, and we can
imagine with what a will it was sung by Grant's entire army.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 5, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Wonderful Woman"; "Fish out of Water"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Early Closing.
Leavenworth, Nov. 5, 1863.
Messrs. Editors: Permit me,
through the columns of your paper, to speak about a matter, in itself local, yet
still of vital interest to a large class in this community, viz: the early closing of retail stores in this city.
As you are well aware, the clerks in this town are required to work from
early morning till late in the evening, and naturally the question arises, is it
necessary to keep the stores open as late as 9 or 10 o'clock at night?
I, for one, most emphatically answer, No!
And I am perfectly satisfied that a majority of the young men clerking in
this town will bear me out in the assertion.
A great many young men have yet to finish their business education, and
therefore wish to employ their evenings in going to school; but how shall they
find time to do so, unless the stores are closed early?
Would it not be well for employers to consider how thankful these same
young men will be to them, if, in after years, they will have risen to wealth
and position, and all because the stores were closed early enough of evenings to
give them an opportunity to educate themselves, so as to be able to fill any
position the changes of time and fortune may demand.
A second class are those who have families, and I appeal to every married
man in this town (who loves to be with his family, and what married man does
not/) if I am not right when I say that it is a burning shame to keep them, year
in and year out, drudging along, never having an hour they can call their own,
and never enjoying the pleasure of spending their evenings at home, by their own
fireside?
And now for the remedy, which I think consists in this:
Let the clerks, from the youngest "entered apprentice" up, of
the different business houses in the city, sign their names to a memorial to
their employers, asking them to close their stores at 7 o'clock every evening;
and, as a certain orator of this place says, "My word for it, success will
crown our efforts."
Trusting you will excuse the liberty I have taken of troubling you, I beg
of you to lend a helping hand in this project, and believe me,
Yours, &c.,
A Clerk.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 6, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
Col. S. A. Drake, of the 1st regiment, K. S. M., is at home
again. He has at his store a
splendid flag for the regiment.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 6, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Nothing Stops Me"; "Po-ca-hon-tas"; also a
national song, in costume.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 7, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Public Cemeteries.
For a few years past great changes have occurred, all over the country,
in regard to burial grounds. The
public cemetery is a place of beauty. Flowers
will spring up out of the bared and bony skull, and look therein as sweetly as
if blooming for it. Over the graves
of the loved, they speak to the dullest heart and touch it.
We use the words "public cemetery," and we use these words with
a purpose.
No one individual should own a burial ground.
It is, as the Germans call it, "God's garden."
If money be required to cultivate, to adorn and beautify it, let it be
done at the general expense. He who
plucks money out of the dead man is hated.
No matter with what kindly purpose the private individual may offer to
sell lots and care for the dead—still that purpose is forgotten, and such
individual, be he high or low, is suspected, distrusted, and, to use the mildest
word, disliked. It is always so. Right or wrong, suspicion falls upon the single seller of
"lots" for the dead, and men and women whisper his name as if he were
one of the polluted of earth.
The cemetery is generally, therefore, and should be everywhere, the
property of a combination or corporation, representing the whole public.
On one point all are agreed. Pilot
Knob is not a fit lace for a cemetery. It
is difficult of access, and hard to cultivate.
Adornment, that cultivation of the ground which a matured taste and a
generous feeling would suggest, is an impossibility, almost, on that exposed and
bleak spot.
We should have, then, a Cemetery which should belong, in the sense we
have employed the word, to the public; which should be easy of access in any
weather; which should tempt the mourner, as well as the stranger, to visit it.
It should be a spot marked by natural beauty, or capable of being made
beautiful. "God's garden"
should be always a place of beauty.
To-morrow will be Sunday. On
that day, citizens, ponder on this subject, and see if, by a little effort and
some combination, we cannot have a cemetery in or near Leavenworth, which shall
be a fit home for the dead, and a holy place for the living.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 7, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Rob Roy"; national song in costume; "Four
Sisters"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 8, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Barrack Room; or, Marriage Militaire"; national song in
costume; "California Diamonds"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 10, 1863, p. 2, c.
4
Summary: Union
Theatre—"The Wonderful Woman"; "Po-ca-hon-tas"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 10, 1863, p. 3, c.
2
A spirited scene occurred at dress parade of the brave Fifteenth, on the
afternoon of the 8th inst. It
was determined to have a "Daughter of the Regiment," and the boys,
with enthusiasm, elected Miss Sophia Jennison, the sweet and intelligent
daughter of the Colonel, to that post. We
need not speak either of the interest which the scene excited, or of the feeling
which was manifested. Lieut. Col.
Hoyt made the proposition and accompanied it with a few touching and telling
remarks. Miss Jennison will be
introduced to the regiment in a few days and will be received with that
enthusiasm characteristic of the Fifteenth.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 11, 1863, p. 2, c.
4
Summary: Union
Theatre—"How to Make Home Happy"; 2nd and 3rd
acts of "Rob Roy"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 12, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
[Correspondence of
the Times.]
Matters and Things
in Fort Scott.
Messrs. Editors:--"All quiet on the Marmaton."
Gen. Thos. Ewing, Jr., the new commander of this District, has been with
us. He came unheralded, with no
brass band to parade his entry into our city, (it is said, by the way, that our
young Brigadier has'nt [sic] adopted the band programme as a part of his
operations against bushwhackers.) He
transacted his legitimate business quietly and unostentatiously, and left Fort
Scott when he was ready to do so, as quietly as he came, impressing the whole
community with a favorable opinion of his abilities and intentions, and causing
many to conclude that brains after all, were pretty desirable chatels [sic] when
reasonably the gift of a military commander.
I could not help noticing that many of his seemingly attentive friends
here, were those who lifted up their hands in holy horror at his appointment.
Gen. Ewing will succeed in making fast friends of these gentlemen if he has the
time and the inclination to see that "their axes are ground."
Many of your readers know that there is an institution called a clique
here, perhaps some who read these lines have seen the animal.
He is here, he has vitality, but he is very docile now.
A dose of salts was administered to him a few nights since by the fine
officers of the 14th regiment K. V. C.
The pesky varment [sic] had intruded into, and shaped a former, illegal
election for field officers of that regiment.
The action was premature, to say the least of it, for the regiment was
not by any means full when the election was held.
One in due form has been taken, and the result is as follows:
Colonel—Lieut. Col. C. W. Blair, 14th Kansas.
Lieutenant-Colonel—Major D. H. David, 14th Kansas.
1st Major—Lieut. J. G. Brown, 14th Kan.
2nd Major—A. J. Briggs, Captain Co. F, 14th
Kansas.
3d Major—Lieut. J. Finn Hill, 10th Kan.
Let us see who these men are.
Col. Blair, the able and gentlemanly commander of this post and
Sub-District, has established a reputation for soldierly qualities second to no
man in this District. He made his
mark at Springgeld under the gallant and lamented Lyon, and has constantly added
to his good name since. He is
eminently fitted for still higher positions and will no doubt attain them.
Lieut. Col. David is known in Missouri as one of Penick's 5th
cavalry thieves. He was a
Captain in that famous regiment of rebel killers.
He has'nt [sic] a bit of sympathy with "our Southern brethren." He kills them whenever he can, and has succeeded in securing
in this manner, the hearty hatred of Missouri conservatives, and ergo,
the unbounded confidence of all unconditional friends of the Union as it was
not.
1st Major Brown has credentials of a very high order. He served with distinction in the Army of the Potomac.
He has been recommended for a position in the regular service; is a well
trained cavalry officer, competent and energetic, and will fill his position
with honor to himself and to his country.
2d Major A. J. Briggs was also a Captain in Penick's regiment. He learned bushwhacking tactics from the same book with
Lieut. Col. David. For over two
years he has worn the two bars—and faithfully demeaned himself. He brought his veteran militiamen with him into the service,
and though loth [sic] to give him up, they are all glad to see the true merit of
their old Captain meeting with its deserved reward in the line of promotion.
Of 3d Major J. Finn Hill I need not speak to Leavenworth readers. A thorough soldier and a perfect gentleman, he has been
identified and interested in the organization of this regiment since its
inception. His claims were of such
a character as to secure the support of all, the animal aforesaid even growling
its assent upon his selection.
It is now thought the Fourteenth will soon be organized and in the field.
When it is, let rebels "stand from under."
Pickwickian.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 12, 1863, p. 3, c.
3
Summary: Union Theatre—"The Folly of Flirting;"
national song in costume; "Love and Duty, or, The Pet of the Regiment"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 13, 1863, p. 2, c.
5
Summary: Union
Theatre—"The Honey Moon"; song; "The Wandering Boys";
duett
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 13, 1863, p. 2, c.
1
The proprietors of some of the Staffordshire potteries have forbidden the
use of crinoline during work hours, in consequence of its great inconvenience.
In one shop alone, hoops are chargeable with the loss of $1,000 a year
for breakage. The girls have
submitted with a good grace, and now appear like pretty Greek statues in their
collapsed working attire.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 13, 1863, p. 2, c.
2
A dog against a badger—in mortal combat—was the game among the sports
yesterday. The affair is said to
have been recherche, a la mode—a bully fight.
It took place on the Government Reserve.
The dog belonged to Wm. Burk, the badger to Mr. Pellam. The best were $100 that the dog would kill the badger,
against $75 that the badger would whip the dog.
The dog was the favorite, and the bets were strong on his side, but the
badger went in on his merits, being bound to win or "go up."
They came to the scratch in due style, and once in, scratched and gouged
with ferocious will, in accordance with the dog theory, "Let dogs delight
to bark and bite," &c. But
the badger had the most mettle, or the largest teeth, or some peculiar
"snap" that won the battle. He
put Mr. dog hors du combat—took the purse and went off in due cockney
style to hunt his hole until the next turn comes round.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 14, 1863, p. 2, c.
5
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Raffaelle the Reprobate of Paris"; duett; "The
Wandering Boys"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 14, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
The Governors of Illinois and Michigan, and other distinguished guests,
were entertained by the lady managers of the Soldiers' Fair, at Chicago, at a
dinner. Fifty young girls served as
waiters, their costume consisting of a white short skirt, with red stripes
running from top to bottom, blue Spanish waist, tarletan breakfast caps, and on
the left shoulder a roseate of red, white and blue. In the evening, addresses were made by several of the
honorable guests.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 15, 1863, p. 2, c.
5
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Maritana"; "Your Life's in Danger"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 15, 1863, p. 2, c.
3
Arkadelphia, Ark., now occupied by our forces, was the main depot of the
rebels in Arkansas, Missouri and Louisiana, selected on account of its remote
position in the interior, South of the Arkansas River.
Here the rebels had established all their military workshops, but
accounts furnished by deserters informed General Steele that these shops had
been removed to Marshal [sic], Texas, and that the place was only held by
cavalry, the remainder of the army having retreated to the Red River.
It was upon this information, no doubt, that Steele made his recent
advance to Arkadelphia, which has proved the correctness of the reports, and
shown that Marmaduke's attack on Pine Bluff was a mere feint to conceal the
retreat of Price and Holmes to Red River.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 15, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
A good bath is next to a good dinner—in fact rather better. Where the wine is not well flavored all physicians prescribe
bathing, cold and warm. It cleanses
the skin, purifies the blood, gives the whole system tone, vigor, health and a
ruddy glow. Enter a bath, wash
well, rub well, and you come out feeling a new man.
This being the case, and no one will deny it, let every one go to Jones
& Jordan's, under the Planters House. They
have the finest bathing establishment in the Western country.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 17, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
The Great North-Western Sanitary Fair.
Chicago, Nov. 6, 1863.
Editor Times:--Amid the roar of a great city, I sit down to write you a
few lines from this point of the North-west.
At the present the centre of attraction, for all the region around about,
is the great Northwestern Sanitary Fair, now in full blast.
It commenced about a week ago, and will continue to the end of the
present week. It has brought
multitudes of people into the city, not only from Illinois, but from neighboring
States. . . .
No. 3.—This hall is filled with trophies from the battle-fields, and
torn and tattered banners, borne by our gallant brothers on many a well
contested field, are there. Among
them I noticed flags of the Forty-fifth, (Lead Mine Regiment,) Eighty-ninth,
(Railroad Regiment,), Nineteenth, Eighty-eighth, Fifty-first, and the Mercantile
Battery, of Chicago, all Illinois volunteers.
There are also flags of the First, Second, Tenth, Seventeenth and Sixth
Wisconsin Volunteers. These flags
are riddled with shot and shell: visible
mementoes of the bravery of Illinois and Wisconsin troops.
They will be preserved as precious relics of a great people, who poured
out their blood and treasure to preserve liberty and a free country.
There are also regimental flags, taken from various rebel regiments,
among which I saw one marked "Mississippi Devils, Presented by the
Ladies," &c. Also, flags
from Virginia, Georgia and Tennessee rebel regiments.
In this room are various implements of destruction used in war, from the
rifled musket to the huge torpedo, from which the southern chivalry have
expected so much. . .
Yours, &c.
Spectator.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 17, 1863, p. 2, c.
2
Some twenty temples of venus have been suppressed in Washington lately by
the police. Large numbers of
similar establishments are still in full blast, and it is estimated that there
are a grand army of "social evils," fifteen thousand strong, on active
duty at the National Capital. As
Uncle Abe has an eye to utility, he ought to organize this force into Bloomer
Brigades, and send them down South to operate amongst the rebels.
The amount of injury they would be sure to inflict would render them
valuable auxiliaries to the army.—[Sunday Mercury.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 17, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Twenty-three negroes, found in arms on the river plantation of Jeff.
Davis, in Mississippi, were captured on Tuesday, the 3d.
The negroes fired on our troops, but without effect. Several of the negroes are the property of Jeff.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 17, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
The patriotic women of Philadelphia are about to form an association
whose duty it shall be to seek out and relieve distress among the families of
soldiers in the field. Why not a
similar association here among our patriotic women?
Who will move in the matter?
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 17, 1863, p. 3, c.
3
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Madeline;" "Jenny Lind"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 18, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Stringent Order.
We learn that Lieut. Col. Hoyt, commanding the Fifteenth, has issued the
following stringent order. It has
the right ring. Enforce order and
good discipline. This is the only
way to make good soldiers. Col.
Hoyt understands the true theory, and is acting on it.
Headquarters 15th Kan. Vol. Cav.,}
Camp Jennison, Nov. 17, 1863.}
Special Orders, No. 38:
The commanding officer learns that depredations have been committed on
the property of citizens of Kansas, houses forcibly entered and women insulted
by scoundrels wearing Federal uniforms and claiming to be members of the
Fifteenth regiment.
It is therefore ordered that any member of this regiment detected in the
commission of such or similar acts shall have stopped from his pay, for the
benefit of the injured party, three times the value of the property taken or
destroyed, and such offender [fold in paper] of military law in such cases made
and provided. Commanding officers
of companies will be held to a strict enforcement of discipline and
subordination in their respective commands, and in case they fail to control
their men, shall be made to stand aside for those who can.
By order of Lieut. Col. Hoyt,
Jos. Mackle,
1st Lieut. and Adj't 15th K. V. C.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 18, 1863, p. 2, c. 2-3
The Gold Mines of Idaho—Interesting Letter.
By the kindness of a gentleman in this city, we are permitted to publish
portions of a private letter just received from a friend living at Bannock City,
in the celebrated mining regions of Idaho.
The letter is dated Oct. 4th, 1863.
In describing the city, he says:
"As near as I can describe it to you, the buildings are made of
logs, with pole roofs, covered with dirt and sod.
They are of all heights, not to exceed twenty feet, but as low as you
could imagine a man would build a hut to live in.
The city is situated on a stream called Grasshopper, which passes through
a narrow canon between two, yes, a dozen—mountains, so high that you would
have to look twice before you could see the top of them.
We never can see the sun rise in this valley, nor see it until a long way
up. It is one of the most desolate,
lonely places you can imagine on the globe, and is scattered along this canon
for five miles. I found about four
or five hundred inhabitants, most of them engaged in mining, and they were all
doing well. I arrived here at 11
o'clock in the day, found an empty log building, rented it and put in my goods,
and in fourteen days we sold fourteen thousand dollars worth of my little
outfit, at good prices, which I will give you here, and for gold, the nicest you
ever saw: Hams, 65 cts. per pound;
bacon, 30 cts.; tea, $3; tobacco, $3; coffee, 90 cts.; sugar, 60 cts.; dried
cherries, $1; butter, $1; cheese, 75 cts.; cream tartar, $2; soda, $1.
Clothing sells well; hats and caps are good property.
Blankets sell at from $10 to $30 a pair.
The prices I give you above is by the pound.
Flour is selling for $20 to $30 per 100 lbs.
Potatoes, onions and beets, which are brought here for sale from Bitter
Root Valley and Salt Lake, sell for 25 cts. per pound.
In fact most everything sells here for good prices.
I pay seventy dollars a month for a log house that I have my goods in.
My family is in the same building. There
is no partitions. People here live
as they can, not as they would like to. The
mountain tops around us are covered with snow, and have been for some time, but
in the canon it is warm and pleasant, and the miners are taking out big piles of
gold (you bet). You will be
surprised to think there are so few people here. I will explain to you. In
May last there was a new discovery made on a stream called Stinkwater, about
seventy miles from here, in a similar canon, and it proved so rich and so
extensive that there was a general stampede from here to that point.
All left here except those who had the richest claims.
They continue to work on, and some take out as high as $500 to $700 per
day, but there are but few claims as rich as this; but all are doing first
rate—much better, old miners say, than in California.
Wages re from five to eight dollars per day, and plenty of work; board
from $1.50 to $2 per day and sleep yourself as best you can, which is rough
enough, I tell you. The mines on
Stinkwater are being now worked for fifteen miles in length, and new discoveries
are being made every day. There are
mines at the foot of Ball Mountain, twelve miles from here; also on Horse Creek
Prairie, twenty-five miles from here, and all pay the miners from ten to $100
per day to a man. It is estimated
that there is from three to five thousand people in Stinkenwater [sic] Mines. Everyone can do well here if he will work.
Stinkwater is the fast town. All
the gamblers and pimps are in that famous city, and out of some claims they are
taking pounds instead of ounces of gold daily.
These are facts, and I presume this country will prove the richest poor
man's mining country ever discovered. It
don't need any machinery for the gulch mining which is extensive here.
Every day new discoveries are being made. It is a hard country to live in, but there is plenty of gold
here; no rubbing it out, and no humbug. Inclosed
[sic] I send you, by ------, who leaves here in the morning, ten small specimens
of gold as they were taken from the mother earth.
This gold passes here for eighteen dollars per ounce.
These ten specimens weight a little over ten dollars; but these are no
specimens to what they are taking out here, some weighing from $50 to $200 and
$300 each. We are within 280 miles of Fort Benton, on the Missouri, and
350 miles from Salt Lake City, and about 600 miles from Salmon or Boisee [sic]
River Mines, where they are taking out as big piles of gold as here.
The route I came is only about 1,200 miles from here to Leavenworth.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 18, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
[Special
Correspondence of the Times.]
Battle of Pine
Bluff, Ark.
Marmaduke Attacks
the Place with 4,000 Men—
Col. Clayton
Defeats Him with 600 Men—Hur-
rah for the Fifth
Kansas and First Indiana
Cavalry—Three
Cheers for Col. Powell Clayton
--Total and
Disgraceful Route of the Rebels—
Their Dead and
Wounded in Our Hands.
Pine Bluff, Ark., Oct. 25th, '63.
Editor Times:--We are just resting after a hard day's fight with
Marmaduke's rebel forces, numbering from three thousand five hundred to five
thousand men, and twelve pieces of artillery.
They attacked our pickets about 7 o'clock this morning, completely
surrounding the town. They did not
even give the women and children and non-combatents [sic] time to get out of
town. Lieut. Frank Clark, with his
company, (B, 5th Kansas,) happened to be going out a short distance
in the country, and had not yet passed the pickets when he met a column of
cavalry moving in on the Princeton road. He
drew his men up in line and sent word to Col. Clayton.
Company F (Capt. Moore) was immediately ordered out to reinforce Lieut.
Clark, who had gallantly checked them in their advance.
Being aided by Co. F, both companies skirmished with them for half or
three quarters of an hour, when they gradually fell back towards town.
By this time Col. Clayton had almost everything arranged for the defence
of the post, having put all the negroes to work rolling cotton and barricading
every street leading into the public square.
By the time this barricading was finished, and our artillery planted, the
rebels were drawn up in full sight, and on every street leading to the town,
with their [fold in paper] Now the
ball was fairly opened, for grape, canister, solid shot and shell, as well as
bullets from small arms, were flying around us like hail.
They certainly worked hard for seven mortal hours to get possession of
the town, but worked without counting the cost.
They got possession of the quarters occupied by our regiment, plundered
the trunks of the officers and men, and then set fire to the buildings, in which
was one rebel Captain and five men wounded.
The wounded were all burned up. The
clothing and bed clothing belonging to our men were all destroyed.
In burning this building they caused one whole square to take fire,
destroying property amounting to about three hundred thousand dollars, all of
which belonged to bitter rebels. Our
gallant Col. Clayton was all the time to be seen giving orders and speaking
encouraging words to the men, never standing still, ever moving.
The men of his brigade may well be proud of Col. Powell Clayton, and he
may also well be proud of the men composing the brigade.
This is certainly the worst whipping Marmaduke ever got, considering the
number of men he had (4,000) and the number we had (600). He had two full batteries of heavy field artillery, (Blodsau's,
the same that Price had at Drywood two years ago,) and we had nine small
howitzers. This makes the fourth
time that our regiment has met that battery in battle—Drywood, Helena, Little
Rock and Pine Bluff. At half-past
three the firing ceased on the part of the rebels, when they left the place,
after receiving the worst whipping they ever got, and that too, from a little
band of six hundred men, and even one-half that number left the hospitals to aid
in the defence of the place. The
lost on our side is very light compared with that of the rebels.
The number killed, and who have since died of their wounds, is eleven,
and wounded sixteen. Eight of those
killed belonged to our regiment. Their
names and companies are as follows:
Killed.
A. Campbell, Co. B; Bryce Miller, Co. C; George Lucas, Co. C; Chas. Perrin, Co. D; H. Hinton, Co. D; Geo. Carthwright, Co. D; Chas. Waite, Co. F; Pat McMahan, Co. K. 1st Indiana Cavalry—Serg't Travilia, Co. B; Corp'l J. Whitten, Co. G; Chas. Steele, Co. G.
Wounded.
T. Archer, Co. A, severely; A. Marion, Co. A, slightly; D. W. Boutwell,
Co. A, slightly; Corp'l Wm. Steele, Co. A, slightly; Geo.
Cox, Co. B, severely; Serg't J. Clark, Co. C, severely; Serg't A. T.
Perry, Co. C, severely; G. W. Smith, Co. C, severely; G. A. Gibson, Co. C,
slightly; T. S. Fuller, Co. C, slightly; Serg't Wm. Duncan, Co. D, severely; T.
M. White, Co. D, severely; A. Rogers, Co. E, severely; M. Schaws, Co. F,
slightly; Jas. Grooms, Co. F, slightly; D. N. Snook, Co. H, slightly; D.
Forrester, severely.
Most of the wounded are doing well.
The rebels buried forty of their dead one mile from here, and we have
buried twenty-two of their dead, and there was one Captain and five men burned.
There is a scout going out from here soon.
Reinforcements are coming in fast.
V.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 18, 1863, p. 2, c.
3
Pardoned.—Captain James Madison Cutts, who was convicted by a court
Martial of spying through the keyhole of a lady's bed room when she was
undressing, and sentenced to dismissal from the service, has been pardoned and
restored to his place. The
Captain's peculiar talent might be profitably employed in spying out the
vulnerable points of our wayward sisters at the South.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 18, 1863, p. 2, c.
4
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Bohemian Girl"; "Your Life's in Danger"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 19, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
An Imposture.
The Oskaloosa Independent says, that a number of men have been in that
vicinity stealing horses, and claiming to be members of the Fifteenth.
The Independent thereupon enquires if that regiment sanctions such
proceedings.
We are satisfied that these robbers are not soldiers, but are the same
class of depredators who, for the last twelve months, have been engaged in this
business under the guise of "Red Legs," "detectives,"
"recruiting officers," etc., generally wearing soldier clothes.
We have information which leads us to believe that no men are or have
been absent from the Fifteenth, and, moreover, that that regiment is in a state
of strict subordination and discipline.
We refer the Independent to the order issued at Camp Jennison in regard
to this very matter, and published in yesterday's TIMES.
Colonel Jennison and Lieutenant Colonel Hoyt ardently desire to make the
Fifteenth a source of defense and protection to the people of Kansas; and we
know that if the people will punish every horse-thief they catch, they will have
the hearty approbation of the officers and men of the Fifteenth.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 19, 1863, p. 2, c.
4
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Bohemian Girl"; "A Kiss in the Dark"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 19, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Rev. H. M. Turner, colored pastor of the Israel Bethel Church in
Washington, has been appointed Chaplain of the First regiment of United States
colored troops, now in South Carolina. He
is the first colored minister who has been commissioned chaplain.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 19, 1863, p. 3, c.
3
How a Soldier Sleeps.—You would, I think, wonder to see men lie right
down in the dusty road, under the full noon sun of Tennessee and Alabama, and
fall asleep in a minute. I have
passed hundreds of such sleepers. A
dry spot is a good mattrass [sic]; the flap of a blanket quite a downy pillow.
You would wonder, I think to see a whole army corps, as I have, without a
shred of a tent to bless themselves with, lying anywhere and every where in
all-night rain, and not a growl nor a grumble.
I was curious to see whether the pluck and good nature were washed out of
them, and so I made my way out of the snug, dry quarters I am ashamed to say I
occupied, at five in the morning, to see what water had done with them.
Nothing! Each soaked blanket
hatched out as jolly a fellow as you would wish to see—muddy, dripping, half
floundered, forth they came, wringing themselves out as they went, with the look
of "wet down" roosters in a full storm, plumage at half mast, but
hearts trumps every time. If they
swore—and some did—it was with a laugh; the sleepy fires were stirred up;
then came the—coffee, and they were as good as new.
"Blood is thicker than water._--[B. F. Taylor.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 20, 1863, p. 2, c.
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Summary: Union
Theatre—"Sonnambulist"; "Dutch Lovers"' "Jenny
Lind"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 20, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Says the Cincinnati Commercial: "Give
to the Bavarian his beer, to the Frenchman his light wine, to the Englishman his
brown stout, to the fire-eater his brandy cocktail, to the Nantucket whaler his
rum punch; but if you would warm the heart, make eloquent the tongue, and hearty
the grasp of the true descendant of Daniel Boone, call up from the depths of
your hospitality, and pour out for him, in overflowing measure, the milk and
honey of his happy Canaan—pure, unadulterated, imperial Bourbon."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 20, 1863, p. 3, c.
2
Kissing.—The gentleman must be taller than the lady he intends to kiss.
Take her right hand in yours and draw her gently to you; pass your left
hand over her right shoulder, diagonally down across her back under her left
arm, press her to your bosom; at the same time she will throw her head back, and
you have nothing to do but lean a little forward and press your lips to hers,
and then the thing is done. Don't
make a noise over it as if you were firing off shooting crackers, nor pounce
down upon it like a hungry hawk upon an innocent dove, but gently fold the
damsel in your arms without smashing her standing collar or spoiling her
spittles, or breaking her hoops, or treading on her toes, and by a sweet
pressure upon her mouth, revel in the blissfulness of your situation, without
smacking your lips over it as you would over a glass of lager beer.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 21, 1863, p. 2, c.
5
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Drunkard"; song—"When the Swallows Homeward
Fly"; "Perfection"; song—"Within a Mile of Edinboro
Town"; "Wandering Minstrel"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 22, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Additional
Particulars of the Battle at
Pine Bluff.
(From our Special
Correspondent.)
Pine Bluff, Ark., Nov. 1, 1863.
Editors Times:--I give you additional particulars of the fight here.
Just one week ago to-day Lieut. Frank Clark, with twenty-five men of his
company, (B, 5th Kansas,) was ordered to report to Lieut. Hillyer, on
Sunday morning, the 25th, to go to Sulphur Springs for some
contraband harness leather which was needed in camp.
He reported and stated in obedience to orders.
At 7 A. M., when about three quarters of a mile from town, he heard the
report of small arms, at or near the picket post.
He moved to the aid of the pickets in haste, but with caution. He had not yet reached the pickets when he discovered a body
of rebels moving towards him. He
immediately had his men formed in line of battle and halted.
The rebels still advanced, also in line; when within a distance of about
one hundred and fifty yards of Lieut. Clark's company, he ordered the rebels to
halt, which order they obeyed. Lieut.
Clark then went forward with one man. Seeing
they hoisted a flag of truce, the commander of the rebels also came forward to
meet the Lieutenant. Clark then
asked the rebel Captain his business. He
replied that he had dispatches from Gen. Marmaduke for Col. Clayton, which he
supposed were demanding a surrender of the post and garrison. Lieut. Clark told him that he would send word to Col. Clayton
informing him of his wish (the rebel) to enter the town, and the nature of the
dispatches, and started a messenger to Col. Clayton immediately.
The rebel Captain asked Lieut. Clark how long he would have to wait for a
reply. He (Clark) told him that it
would be about half an hour, when Mr. Rebel, with a sneer, told Clark that he
would be d----d if he would wait half an hour nor five minutes, when Lieut.
Clark as quickly replied to Mr. Rebel that if he did not wish to wait he could
go to h—l. Rebel tells Clark, you
will hear from me in less than five minutes.
Clark replies, don't give a d—n, go to your company and I will go to
mine. You may open the ball if you
want to, which they did. Lieut.
Clark, after a few shots from both sides, crowded hard and drove the rebels some
distance, when they were reinforced by a section [of] artillery, supported by
dismounted cavalry. Then Lieut.
Clark threw his company into skirmishers. By
this time the messenger from Clayton arrived, with orders for Lieut. Clark not
to let them in, but tell the bearer of the dispatches "that if Marmaduke
wanted the post and garrison he must come and fight for it, that he
(Clayton) never surrendered to rebels. In
the meantime company F, was ordered out to the relief of Lieut. Clark.
Capt. Moore moved out part way to aid Lieut. Clark, but misunderstanding
his orders he fell back into town, much against the wishes of the Lieutenants
and men of company F.
Several other companies were sent out on other roads to check the
advancing rebels, but the main road (the one which Clark was on) was the one on
which the main body of the rebels were coming in on.
Thus, through the bravery of company B and their gallant Lieutenant, the
rebels were checked long enough for the negroes to roll about three hundred
bales of cotton into the square, and in a short time every street was
barricaded, under the superintendence of Col. Clayton, Major Scudder, Lieut.
Hillyer and some officers of the 1st Indiana cavalry. The artillery was also placed in position so as to cover the
streets leading from the Court House Square.
Had it not been for this barricade it would have been almost impossible
for us to hold out against the large force the enemy brought against us.
As soon as Col. Clayton was able to learn something near the number of
the rebels he sent a detail of men from Company E, under Sergeant Lane to Little
Lock [sic] for reinforcements. This
wast [sic] at 8 A. M. They arrived
at the Rock at 4 P. M., (distance sixty-five miles,) but the news of the attack
had been received at Little Rock about two hours in advance of the regular
detail.
There is certainly one true Union man in Arkansas.
He lives about seven miles South of here, who as soon as the rear guard
of the rebels passed his house, saddled his plow horse and started at half past
6 A. M., and arrived at Little Rock by 2 P. M.
As soon as Gen. Steele received the news of the attack from this man, he
ordered troops to be ready to move at a moment's notice, but would not send them
until he received something official from Col. Clayton.
The dispatch bearers soon arrived, and by 7 P. M. there was cavalry
moving to our relief, under Col. Caldwell, also some artillery.
They should have been at this place by 10 A. M. Monday, but did not
arrive here until the afternoon of Tuesday.
It appears that their delay was caused (I won't say fear) but by the
report of some rebel citizens, who told them that Marmaduke had returned on
Sunday night and renewed the fight and captured or killed most all of the
garrison, and that only Col. Clayton and ten men got away by swimming the river;
and that the town was now occupied by 7,000 rebels.
All this the Colonel in command of the reinforcements took for granted,
and on the strength of the report went into camp nine miles from here.
Then sent a dispatch to Gen. Steele to the same effect, and that he could
not move until he got more troops to recapture the place.
The loss of the rebels is much larger than any one here expected. Their own report is that their entire loss amounts to 340
killed, wounded and missing. We
have also a large number of their men prisoners, with several of their wounded
in our hands.
The loss on our side is light in comparison with that of the rebels, only
eleven killed, one missing and twenty-four wounded.
One more of the wounded died yesterday.
His name is Smith, of company C, 5th Kansas.
All the other men wounded are doing well.
The health of our men is not so good as it was.
The illness was caused by not having sufficient clothing, blankets,
&c. But the want of clothing is
relieved now by the arrival of a large supply train yesterday—everything
plenty, except blankets; there was only a few of them to be had at Little Rock.
Lieut. Frank Clark—the same who acted so nobly in holding the rebels in
check when they made the attack on this place—with Co. B., attended a rebel
dance, some forty miles south of this place, a few nights ago. He took the party a little by surprise, apologised for not
being able to join them earlier in the festivities of the evening—also for not
being able to remain with them very long, as he had a long ride to make towards
Pine Bluff. He politely (as he does
everything) begged the ladies to excuse him, but he was compelled to take a part
of the gentlemen who attended the party with him to the Bluffs.
The night being very dark, and the roads bad, he was compelled to take as
guides two rebel Captains, two Lieutenants and twelve privates, belonging to
Gen. Cable's rebel brigade. The
ladies cried and begged with all the art of women, and some few of the citizen
butternuts even swore that such and such a rebel officer should not go, when
Lieut. Clark turned on them, and told them to dry up; but still they railed and
swore that they should not go. They
provoked the Lieutenant to such an extent, that he ordered some of his men to
take the two principal ones, then put a strong guard over the rebel officers.
The men got a light and went among the rebel horses an mules, picked out
the poorest mule there was, led him to where the prisoners were, put a rope
bridle on him, but nary saddle, then made the two butternuts mount the poor mule
and put the rebel soldiers on the other horses. He then moved his company out, bid the ladies good night and
started for Pine Bluff, where he arrived in safety the next day, about 12
o'clock M. If you ever had the
pleasure of looking at two sore and sorry men, you would have been amused to
have seen those two.
We had quite a scare here a few days ago.
It appears that a company of State (Union) troops were the cause of it.
They had been out in the country for same [some?] purpose, and when they
came in sight the pickets took them for rebels, and sent word to town that the
rebels were approaching. Then the
alarm was given and "to arms" sounded; every body was out, horses
saddled, and the artillery got ready to receive them in a becoming manner.
Women and children rushed to the river bank. "The rebels are coming," was the only reply that
could be hand from any one; but it soon blew over, and all felt that they had
been sold.
V.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 22, 1863, p. 2, c.
4
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Lucretia Borgia"; "Wandering Minstrel"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 22, 1863, p. 3, c.
2
We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do;
therefore never go abroad in search of your wants.
If they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that
buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 24, 1863, p. 3, c.
3
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Romeo and Juliet"; "Irish Lion"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 25, 1863, p. 3, c.
2
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Hunchback;" "Your Life's in Danger"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 25, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Notice!
Notice! Notice!
One Hundred
Dollars
Reward!
I will pay One Hundred Dollars Reward for the body of J. Wells, delivered
to me at Topeka or Leavenworth. He
is about 5 feet 11 inches high, with scar on the forehead; had on when he left
plain gray pants, gray knit shirt, and was handcuffed.
James L. McDowell, U. S. Marshal.
Nov. 23d 1863.
[Bulletin and State Journal copy.]
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 26, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
The members of the Fenian Brotherhood of this city and county are
requested to meet, on the evening of the 26th inst., at 7 o'clock, at
the office of A. F. Callahan, Delaware street.
Persons wishing to join will please attend.
Peter McFarland.
Leavenworth, Nov. 24, 1863.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 26, 1863, p. 3, c.
3
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Italian Wife"; "Irish Lion"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 28, 1863, p. 2, c.
1
Exit Hoops.—Some of the ladies in Hartford appear in the streets
without hoops, but with dresses that come down only to the ankle, disclosing
balmoral boots and striped stockings. One
of the Hartford papers thinks this a "pleasant reform."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 28, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Inside View of the Rebellion.
Dr. Times:--Having recently returned from a forced impressment in the
South, I propose to give you a sort of inside view of rebeldom.
In 1860 I went to Texas and established myself in the tanning business,
and when the war broke out, I with thousands of others, was under the impression
that a few months would settle the whole difficulty; and that we, in Texas,
would not feel its effects to any extent, but a few months passed before I
became convinced of my error, and I found it a dangerous undertaking to leave
the South. Volunteers were called
for, but the number not being made up, I, with others, was drafted to make up
the number. I served in the 19th
Texas regiment for six months, fortunately for myself the regiment was not armed
during the time, so we were not called upon to do active service.
I was finally discharged on account of being a tanner, and went to
Georgia, where I was enrolled in the State militia, when I made my escape to the
Union lines, passing through Gen. Bragg's army on his retreat to Chattanooga
last July.
While South I had no means of knowing what was going on in the North,
except from the Southern press, and notwithstanding my knowledge of the Northern
people I was badly misled as to the real sentiment existing North.
The poor whites which make a large portion of the rebel army, are
uneducated and follow their leaders blindly.
They were led to believe that France and England could not get along
without cotton, consequently they would be obliged to recognize the Southern
Confederacy, and remove the blockade in order to procure a supply; and, further,
that the copperhead resistance to Lincoln's administration, in the North, was so
strong that a civil war would brake [sic] out in the Western States, causing the
President to withdraw his armies from the South to put down rebellion at home.
All this was to take place during the past summer, and a few months at
the most would close the war, and they—the rebels—would succeed in
establishing their government, whose chief corner stone should be slavery.
The fall of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, and the elections in Pennsylvania
and Ohio, with the action of France and England in reference to ironclads have
convinced the "poor whites" that they have been badly deceived, and
the thousands of deserters who are flocking to our lines shows conclusively to
my mind that they are determined not to uphold a cause whose chief merit is in
elevating the negro at the expense of the poor whites.
The present year has been the best crop year the South ever had;
nevertheless, thousands of women and children in remote districts must starve
during the coming winter.
The slaves South are the producers, while the army and the people at home
are the consumers. The South are
obliged to draw their supplies from their own country—consequently by
circumscribing their territory and liberating the producers of their
supplies in future must necessarily be curtailed in a large degree.
Nearly every available white man in the South has been conscripted, yet I
do not believe that the rebels have as many men in the field to-day, as they had
in July last. The leaders South
will fight just as long as they can keep an army together, but having nearly
exhausted their fighting material, and having but a small territory to draw
supplies from, I do not think the rebels can hold out until another crop is
raised.
The railroads South are very much worn, and the speed of running not over
12 miles an hour, as an average. Much
of the rolling stock is useless. The
South, in respect to arms and munitions of war, are in a much better condition
than they were one year ago. Atlanta,
Ga., is a very important point to the South, as nearly all their powder is made
at Augusta, and a desperate effort will be made by the rebels to hold these
points.
The Southern women are far more patriotic than the men, and had it not
been for the spinning wheel and loom, which are scattered all over the South,
the rebel government never could have clothed their soldiers.
The reason why we have met with such stubborn resistance from the rebels,
is, because they are, as a mass, ignorant and superstitious, but I think they
will soon come to a realizing sense of their condition, and while this war will
forever crush out slavery, it will, at the same time, liberate the poor whites,
from the thraldom [sic] which is worse than African slavery.
Yours Truly,
H. Stratton.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 28, 1863, p. 2, c.
3
A Maine regiment was the first to land on Texas soil, in the recent
expedition of General Banks. Thus
the extreme North has the honor of first planting the banner of freedom upon the
soil of the extreme South. The
national flag now floats proudly, defiantly and permanently upon the soil of
every rebel State.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 28, 1863, p. 2, c.
3
It appears from official reports from General Carleton, commanding the
Department of New Mexico, that California and New Mexican volunteers are
scouring the territory, penetrating to the haunts of the Navajo Indians,
destroying villages and crops, and making captures of persons and stock.
Owing to scant supplies of grass and water, further operations are to be
made in detached parties on foot, which plan of campaign is to be continued
during the winter. The Navajo
Indians have been more severely punished during the summer than ever before.
They have been closely hunted, in almost every direction, by our troops,
and of late by the Zuni, Apache and Pueblo Indians.
In the large scope of country which has been traveled this autumn, every
evidence tends to show they have no longer permanent abiding places, but are
fleeing from one place to another in a state of continual fear.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 28, 1863, p. 3, c.
3
Charles Dickens, in a recent article, says a great pitched battle is
seldom more deadly to men than the gaiety of a London season is to the pale army
of girls who live by the most wretched flipperies of fashion, and fewer,
perhaps, die by the bayonet than by the needle.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 28, 1863, p. 3, c.
4
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Lady Audley's Secret"; "Honey Moon"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 28, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Speaking in a moral sense, we don't like Camille.
Its morals are French, and bad. But
as a play, it presents opportunities for a display of genius.
In that sense, only, do we admire it.
Matilda Heron, with her great genius, seizes it, and with a master hand
makes it live with beauty—not of thought or purity, but of intense delineation
of character, if we may so express that to be beautiful.
Miss Hosmer rises to equality almost, if not quite, with the great
Matilda as Camille. We expected a
fine performance last night, but not such a masterpiece.
The abandon was there, natural, life-like.
The transforming power of love upon a woman's heart was portrayed with
living art. We cannot now speak at
length of the performance. We trust
that Miss Hosmer (since it is settled that the American public desire to see the
play) will produce it again before her engagement closes.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 28, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Thursday was appropriately observed by our city, as a day of
thanksgiving. Business houses were
closed and services held in many of the churches.
At the Congregational Church, that society and the Methodist united.
The services were commenced by an anthem from the choir.
Rev. Mr. Liggett then offered some very appropriate and significant
remarks, relative to the designs of Providence in our national struggles.
That we were being punished for national sins, was very evident; our
reverses, he regarded, necessary as purgers of our iniquities; we must be
humbled, cast down, and made willing to forsake them. In alluding to the proclamation of emancipation, he said that
in those States excepted from its operation, slavery had got to be actually trampled
out, by the bloody feet of contending armies.
After Mr. Liggett's remarks, Rev. Mr. Mitchell offered a fervent,
touching prayer. Then followed the
President's Hymn by the choir; and then a poem from Judge Brewer—a production
containing many beautiful points—delivered in an impressive manner.
The breathless attention with which the audience listened for an hour and
a half, after an hour's previous sitting, is a high compliment to the speaker.
After the poem, the choir sang that glorious old tune, America—"My
country, 'tis of thee." At the
conclusion, the plates were passed around, and $66.00 contributed to the
Soldier's Aid Fund.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 29, 1863, p. 2, c.
5
Summary:--Union Theatre—"Ingomar, the
Barbarian"; "Object of Interest"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 29, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Three weeks ago a boy named Jas. Oliver, about twelve years old, went to
Marshal Schott, in great distress, for food and clothing.
The Marshal examined his case and, concluding him to be an object of
charity, secured him a comfortable home in the country.
Soon after the man who took him was in town and informed the Marshal that
the boy was a thief and a desperate young character.
He actually feared the boy would, if he kept him longer, burn his
buildings. When the man returned home the boy was gone—run away.
The next seen of him was at Brown's livery stable in this city.
On Wednesday night he stole from a certain blacksmith, $88 in greenbacks.
Thursday morning he appeared before the Mayor.
Eight-four dollars were recovered, twenty of which were found in the sole
of his companions boots. The Mayor
ordered him to be sent to St. Joseph, his home.
The Marshal says there are one hundred and fifty boys in the city at the
present time who are under no reliable control, but are allowed to run loose,
contracting dissipated and ruinous habits.
Over a dozen, he thinks, obtain a living by stealing, and the others are
taking frequent lessons in the profession.
Believing that their tender years are a sufficient protection, they stand
in no fear of officers or the jail. The
only place for such boys is in a House of Refuge.
Kansas has none. Would it not be well for the Legislature to establish
one during the ensuing session. There
is everything in favor o it and nothing against it.
The future moral and political interests of our State demand the
immediate establishment of an institution for the confinement of depraved
youths, an institution which shall snatch them from the ways of idleness, vice
and ignorance, and train them in the paths of industry, virtue and wisdom.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 29, 1863, p. 3, c.
2
On Friday last Dr. G. H. Field was called upon to attend a lady seriously
injured with a broken spring of her skirt.
An artery had been severed, which would have proved fatal had not medical
aid been timely extended.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 29, 1863, p. 3, c.
2
Last Wednesday night, about 11 o'clock, a tragic affair took place at the
fork of the Atchison and Mount Pleasant road, about twelve miles from this city.
Two men, in citizens cloths [sic], went to the door of old man Hayes, and
rapped. Mrs. Hayes admitted them
into the house, and they made many inquiries about a train of mules which had
put up there. While talking, the
woman heard a voice outside say, "That is as good a thing as we want."
On looking out, she saw seven other persons, and suspecting something
wrong, spoke to her husband, an old man fifty-five years old, and a cripple,
telling him to come out. The moment
the old man appeared, one of the men shot him dead.
Mr. Hammel, the owner of the mules, was in the house.
He, with two sons of Hayes, and another boy who happened to be in the
house, immediately jumped from their beds, seized their guns and rushed into the
conflict, which resulted in mortally wounding one of the two men who entered the
house and slightly wounding the other, and wounding the stranger boy severely in
the foot. We are not certain who the men were, though we hear that one
of those wounded belongs to the 15th Regiment, in which case we trust
the officers will thoroughly investigate the matter, and bring the offenders to
merited justice. An hour before
this affair the same parties went to another house, a mile or two from Hayes,
and demanded admittance. They were
informed that there were several ladies in the house preparing for bed, and were
refused admittance. They persisted, and were admitted. They claimed to be in search of Government property,
and thoroughly searched the house, broke open trunks, &c.
They next said they were searching for a man, and applied themselves
again to the closets, drawers and trunks. One
man slipped a small mahogany box, containing ladies' keep-sakes, locks of hair,
&c. On being requested to give it up, he pointed his pistol at
her head, and threatened to shoot her if she accused him of stealing.
They finally left after robbing the man of the house of his money and
searing his daughter into a fit. Such
scenes are a disgrace to our State, and should be investigated and punished
without mercy.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 1, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Summary: Union
Theatre—"The Stranger;" "Lady Audley's Secret"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 1, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
The Festival of the Mercantile Library Association, passed off last night
with great eclat. It was
really a recherche affair. The
tableaux was the feature of the occasion. The
tables were loaded with all the luxuries of life, game, oysters, &c. The elite of the city were present, and Beaux and
Belle were there in throngs, and in magnificent array. The Festival continues to-night, when additional attractions
will be offered. A ball closes the
festivities of the evening. All who
seek amusement, pleasure, and good things to eat, go to Turner's Hall.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 1, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
From the Mayor's Court we report that John Thomas, colored, disturbed the
peace by hiring a buggy, breaking it, and informing the owner that he would
"die and go to hell three hundred times before he would pay for it."
Fine $5. Peter Welsh, for
being a vagrant, paid $20. John Tucker was one of a party in a saloon.
The "Battle Cry of Freedom" was struck up, which grated on
John's patriotic nerves. A soldier present undertook to defend the merits of the song,
and John insisted on settling the matter by a street fight.
The officers objected, and after consultation John concluded to stop with
them over night, and see the Mayor in the morning.
So in the morning, after brushing the saw dust out of his eyes, he called
on his honor, conversed a few minutes and gave him $5.
H. R. Whitcomb "expected he was drunk," which the Mayor
was rather inclined to believe; so, to make a sure thing of it, he deposited
with his Honor $1, to be expended for the benefit of the city.
John J. Graham, according to the testimony of a colored girl, passed some
counterfeit money on her, and then, because she accused him of it, cut her
throat, hand, &c., and threatened to kill her. The Mayor to obtain a full understanding of the case, asked
the witness what John paid her the money for.
"He carried me into the stable." Now John's legitimate business is hack driving, and his
license permits him to carry people through the streets, but it is silent on the
question of carrying wenches into stables.
The Mayor concluded he had exceeded his legitimate profession, and fined
him $20.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 2, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Pauline"; "The Lady of Lyons"; "Object of
Interest"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 2, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
The ladies have introduced a very comfortable style of cap for cold
weather, and should be allowed to wear it without being intruded upon by the
sterner sex. Men have, in several
instances, donned the ladies skating cap, and can be seen promenading Delaware
street as large as life. We shall
not be disappointed to see the same gentlemen sporting one of Miss Sopher's
spring hats in due time. We would
suggest to the ladies to try another pattern, say similar to Ball's.
We think it would become a lady as well as one of those three tailed caps
do the men. If this won't suit the
fair portion of creation, we would recommend the gentlemen who have supplied
themselves with these storied fixtures to present them to their sisters, or
sweethearts, or wives if they insist upon wearing them, but let us change the
name of them, and call them the Dramatic Cap.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 2, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
It is not generally known that the leading singers of our city have
formed an association, called "The Leavenworth Musical Association,"
which meets every week for rehearsal of choruses, quartettes, &c., &c.
We learn that in a few weeks the association will give a grand concert,
embracing in their programme some of the celebrated choruses of Handel, Hayden,
Mozart, and other productions of the ancient masters.
Music is the guardian angel of this wicked world.
She always follows close on the heels of civilization, and does perhaps
more towards moulding character, purifying the heart, softening the manners,
refining the feelings and elevating the social and moral tone of society, than
any other one influence. An eminent
man once said, "Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who make
the laws." History proves that
where music is most loved and cultivated, there is to be found the highest order
of civilization—the highest intellectual and moral culture, the greatest
harmony, the best religion, the truest progress.
The people of Leavenworth will hail, with pleasure, the organization of
this musical association as a neucleus [sic] around which will centre, for years
to come, the increasing musical talent of the city—as a society whose
radiating influence will reach all our slumbering musical talent, and stimulate
it into active exercise—as the real commencement of musical culture in
Leavenworth. They will remember,
too, that in its infancy the society must be encouraged by patronage.
Let us assure the society a good house when the concert is announced.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 3, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Camille; or, The Fate of a Coquette"; "That Blessed
Baby"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 3, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
The following chapter of cruelties we clip from a Cincinnati paper:
A gentleman named Hughes, who resides in Hardin county, Tenn., eight
miles northwest of Savannah, brings the information that, on the 16th
inst., forty-two guerrillas rode up to his house, when four of the number
dismounted and went into an adjoining house.
His wife followed them, when one of the guerrillas turned round and shot
her so badly that she lived only fifteen minutes afterward, saying:
"Daughter, help me up; let me down!"
Mr. Hughes' daughter asked him his name.
He cursed her, and when she endeavored to perform her mother's dying
request, he knocked her down with his gun.
The Captain of the band put his hand upon the mouth of the dying woman to
stop her breath. His name is John
Stumett, and he belongs to Col. Wilson's Tennessee regiment of guerrillas, who
had boasted, four miles from the house, they would either get one or the other,
meaning husband or wife. The
daughter is twenty years old and the wife forty-four; Hughes is sixty-three
years old, and is one of four men at one time confined in a rebel dungeon in
Nashville. Such outrages, Mr.
Hughes states, are of daily occurrence in that section of Tennessee.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 4, 1863, p. 2, c.
2-4
Summary: Speech
on "Rights of Colored Men" by Lt. Col. Hoyt, at Turner's Hall, Friday
evening, Nov. 27th.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 4, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Evadne, or, The Statues"; "Faint Heart Ne'er Won Fair
Lady"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 5, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Lucretia Borgia"; "Faint Heart Ne'er Won Fair
Lady"; "Toodles"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 6, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Fanchon, The Cricket"; "Toodles"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 6, 1863, p. 3, c. 1
The following case was in the hands of the police yesterday morning, and,
owing to the fact that the parties wear good clothes, and occupy respectable
positions in society, is entitled to some consideration:
A Mr. _______, (it is unnecessary at present to mention names,) formerly
a Lieutenant in the army, but more recently a railroad employee, came to our
city about two months ago. His
family consists of his wife, two children and his wife's sister.
Between the husband and wife's sister an intimacy sprung up, which
alarmed the wife and compelled her to confess her suspicions to the husband, and
finally to request that the sister be removed from the family.
Last Thursday, as we learn, the husband was discharged by the railroad
company, gave his wife $85, and informed her that he was going to leave her;
that he would not live with her. Leave
her he did, and in company with the sister.
The wife put the police on their track.
Friday night, at the Western Hotel, the police found the guilty pair
occupying the same room flagrante delictu, and made an arrest.
Saturday morning a prominent city official interested himself in their
behalf, and endeavored to persuade the Marshal to release the guilty pair, and
hush the affair up. The Marshal's
honor, however, was not to be compromised, nor was his duty to the city and
public morals sacrificed to the wishes of officials or the feelings of "respectable
criminals." The husband
deposited $10 for his appearance, which, of course, was forfeited without an
appearance. Let it be remembered
that this is the class of crime which is filling our cities with prostitutes and
ruining, beyond recovery, thousands and thousands of the females of our country.
Public morals demand that this species of crime should be punished
without mercy. We trust that such iniquities, sapping the very foundation of
social order and public good, may never again receive an apology from one whose
duty should be to detect and punish, but that it may at all times receive the
scorn and condemnation of the entire community, and the severest penalty of the
law.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Fanchon, The Cricket"; "Box and Cox"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 9, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Before and Behind the Curtain"; "The Happy Man"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 9, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
The following was written for our yesterday's issue, but was mislaid by
the typos:
In an article of last Sunday morning we alluded to "a prominent city
official," in a way which he thinks did him great injustice.
We gave the story just as we heard it.
In justice to the official we now give the facts as he states them.
Saturday morning the individual arrested for improper conduct with his
wife's sister, went to the official—a perfect stranger to him—seemed very
penitent, promised to send the girl away, and to repair the wrong to the
satisfaction of his wife. The
official, desiring to protect the girl's name, and believing the family and
public interests would be best subserved by privacy, requested the Marshal to
drop the affair, on payment of the sum deposited for appearance.
This is the other side of the story, from which we are glad to learn the
official was impelled by good motives, and supposed he was doing right.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 9, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
The brave boys who fought at Prairie Grove celebrated the anniversary of
that battle by a grand ball, at Kansas City, on Monday night last. Several of the boys from Leavenworth went down, and report a
good time.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 10, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Forty-five bachelors at Paola have concluded to get married. They advertise for an equal number of young ladies, from the
East. They want them between the
ages of eighteen and thirty-five.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 10, 1863, p. 3, c.
2
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Love; or the Countess and the Serf"; "Stage Struck
Tailor"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 11, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Our General Lee.
Gen. Lee, of Kansas, on the 28th ult., with eight hundred
cavalry and a section of Artillery, attacked the 4th Texas and the 2d
Louisiana cavalry, at Camp Pratt, and drove them near Vermillionville.
The charge of the 2d and 3d Illinois was gallant.
It broke the enemy's lines, and ended in capturing one commissioned
officer and sixty-nine privates—mostly from the 4th Texas—with
their arms and horses. Eight rebels
were killed and a large number wounded.
A few days previously General Lee surprised a camp of rebels twenty miles
from New Iberia, and captured six officers and thirty-five men, and a large
number of horses and arms belonging to the 1st Louisiana Mounted
Zouaves. Two rebels were killed.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 11, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
C. S. Christian Commission.
I wish to acknowledge, through your paper, the receipt of one hundred and
thirty-three dollars given by the citizens of Leavenworth to the Commission.
In view of all they are doing for themselves and others in these trying
times, it is a noble offering to our brave and suffering soldiers.
In visiting your hospitals and sanitary rooms, I found a lack of books
and reading matter, which could be easily made up, with but little sacrifice or
inconvenience to the people. May I
not urge the citizens to gather up their books, papers and pamphlets, and bring
them to Dr. Park's store, during the coming week, and place them at the disposal
of Mr. Brown, the Sanitary Agent. The
call by chaplains and others is constant for reading matter.
The stock is exhausted. Forts
Scott, Blunt, Smith, Riley, Larned, Halleck and Benton can all be reached from
this point. I would respectfully
ask ministers of the city, on next Sabbath, to mention this subject to their
several congregations, and ask them to bring in all the second-hand reading they
can possibly spare, and have it put to this use. You have more or less books and pamphlets you will not read,
perhaps, again for years, and would be thus made useful.
Your hospitals here have need of from one to two hundred volumes.
Other hospitals, even as far off as Talequah, C. N., would be benefitted
by your gifts.
Let each one bring a few of Harper's Monthlies and Weeklies, Books of
History and Travel, Memoirs, etc.; but especially religious books.
The aggregate will do you as much credit as your generous gift in money.
I will endeavor to add to it from time to time, from our rooms in St.
Louis. Those 10,000 men on the
frontiers must be supplied. They
are worthy.
Yours truly,
Shepard Wells,
Field Agent, and Cor. Sec'y W. S. C. C.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 11, 1863, p. 2, c.
5
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Love's Sacrifice"; "Conquering Game"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 12, 1863, p. 2, c.
5
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Italian Wife"; "Conquering Game"; "Happy
Man"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 13, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
The celebrated ventriloquist, J. M. Searl, is coming to Leavenworth, and
will give one of his mysterious exhibitions at Turner's Hall, Monday and Tuesday
evenings, Dec. 21st and 22d. Mr.
Searl has been performing at St. Joseph, and the papers speak in the highest
terms of his entertainments. See
his advertisement in another column.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 13, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Large requisitions have been recently made upon Mr. Brown, the agent, at
this place, of the Sanitary Commission, for shirts, drawers, and other articles
for sick and wounded soldiers, beyond the capacity of the Leavenworth soldiers'
Aid Society to supply; and, as these are needed promptly, the patriotic ladies
of the city are earnestly solicited to call at the Aid Rooms and take to their
homes such articles as they can make up, in order that the pressing wants of our
suffering soldiers may be supplied without delay.
Mrs. Hiram Griswold,
President Leavenworth, S. A. S.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 13, 1863, p. 3, c.
2
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Ida Lee, or The Orphan of Lowood"; "Happy Man"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 13, 1863, p. 3, c. 2
Prestidigitation
J. M. Searl,
Grand master of
The Occult
Science!
Interpreter of
Ancient Necromancy, the most accomplished
Presdigitator!
And only
Natural Born
Ventriloquist
Now on this
Continent, will appear at
Turners' Hall
Monday and
Wednesday Eve's,
December 21st
and 22d.
And produce a series of effects, strange, mystical and incomprehensible, confounding the speculation of the ingenious, defying solution by the scientific, amazing and bewildering the mass, controverting the laws and regulations of nature, and realizing the Eastern Chronicles of enchantment and the dark legendary lore of the Necromancy of the middle ages.
Admission, 50 Cts.—Gallery, 25 Cts.
Doors open at 7 o'k. Prestigitatorial
Entrance at 7 1-2 o'k.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 15, 1863, p. 2, c.
4
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Ida Lee, or The Orphan of Lowood"; "Toodles"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 15, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Leavenworth contains a population of between 15,000 and 20,000, and is
growing faster than any other town in the whole West.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 15, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
In the Bishop's yard, on Fifth street, is a good dial. Whenever the sun shines, it gives the true time of day.
Consult it, and set your watches; then go set your clocks, and tell your
neighbors what the time is. Is it
not possible to have uniform and correct time in a city of 20,000 people?
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 15, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
About nine o'clock on the evening of the 10th inst., three
soldiers, partially disguised, entered the house of William Bates, two miles
below Delaware, called him a d----d traitor, presented their revolvers to his
head, and threatened to blow his brains out unless he gave up his money. Bates remonstrated, and his wife begged, when the soldiers
struck them both on their heads, inflicting seven cuts. Bates then gave up $75, all the money he had—in fact, all
he was worth, and the soldiers left. Bates
was formerly from one of the border counties vacated by General Ewing's order
No. 11. At the time of this order,
he appeared before the authorities at Kansas City, satisfied them that he had
always been a loyal man, and received a written permit to reside in the
District. This permit he requested
the soldiers to read before they robbed him, but they "would be d----d if
they would read any paper." Two
of the men Bates says he knows, and that they belong to the Fifteenth regiment.
We are sure the officers of this regiment will not tolerate such outrages
committed by men in their command. We
trust they will give the subject their immediate attention, and, if the
statements above be true, punish the villains to the full extent of the law.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 16, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
We learn that Wilkes Booth, the celebrated American tragedian, is
expected to fill an engagement soon in Leavenworth.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 16, 1863, p. 3, c.
2
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Evadne, or the Statue"; song; "An Object of
Interest"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 17, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
General McGruder [sic].
This ugly tyrant of a man, (whom so many of our citizens and soldiers
know) is playing the despot with a high hand in Texas.
He does not hesitate to expel Union men, and to punish the suspected.
It is no time to hesitate, he says, when I know that a foe is organizing
in our midst.
Indeed, he furnishes, in a speech made by him, proof of the extent
"of a large Union feeling in Texas."
This was done, we take it, to justify his cruelty towards certain
citizens.
"I have made some extracts from the correspondence of the traitors
to whom I have alluded, and though they constitute but a small portion of the
evidences against these men, nevertheless, they will suffice to show upon what I
based my action. Before the news of
the fall of Vicksburg was confirmed, one of the parties removed used this
language in his letter: 'I don't
know how to be thankful enough for the fall of Vicksburg and Port Hudson.'
"When some good citizen had said he thought he saw light ahead, one
of these traitors immediately wrote to his friend:
"'I certainly see light ahead, when all such men as C. will have to
stand before the judge, and pass the solemn test—that is, take the oath of
allegiance to the Federal Government, just to save their worthless lives and not
a cent of their property.'
"The Federal prisoners have been visited by these men or their
friends, and on speaking of them use such language as the following:
"'Two prisoners died—poor fellows; they can be killed in this way,
if not in fair fight. Banks'
arrival at Clear Creek could save the whole of them.
I wish he would come.'
"They talk in their correspondence of the fate of Charleston, and
one of them predicts that 'the car of Juggernaut would soon roll through the
streets of the devoted city,' and added, 'If I had the direction of it, it
should move slow enough to give them a chance for immolation."
"When the gallant Morgan was taken prisoner, one of these villains
says: "So Morgan has been
really caught. I am glad it was no
smaller man, though I wish it had been Jeff. Davis himself.'
"A Memphis paper was received by one of these men, giving an account
of the convention held at that place by Union men, whereupon he indites the
following paragraph in a communication to another conspirator:
"'Oh, when can we have a convention in Houston—such a convention
as was held in Memphis, and for the purposes therein described? I feel now that Tennessee is fairly reduced, and hope the
military governorship will continue until the last squirm of rebellion is
crushed out. Gov. Johnson is
doubtless the man.'
"They speak to each other of 'the rains being a Providential
interposition, to allow the enemy's gunboats to ascend our rivers, and talk
confidently of the way to Houston as not difficult,' and propose, if a
convention could be had, that the following resolution should be passed:
"'Resolved, That we have played the game of secession and
resistance out, and have not won, and that we now propose to uniform ourselves
in sackcloth and ashes, and to be labeled exempts, from this time forward.
To pray God for his forgiveness, and to petition Old Abe for all the
mercies he can vouchsafe us.'"
Besides all this, McGruder refers to plots, to incendiary documents, to
vile schemings, &c., of the traitors. Evidently,
the harsh tyrant is alarmed. Ere
long he will have greater cause for alarm.
His day will be soon over.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 17, 1863, p. 2, c.
4
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Fanchon, or the Cricket'; "A Dead Shot"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 17, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Put castor oil on new boots if you would make them soft and water-proof.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 18, 1863, p. 2, c.
5
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Deborah, the Forsaken"; song; "Belle of
Washington"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 18, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
A few days since, some soldiers were escorting Col. Eldridge to Fort
Scott, and, when near Lawrence, two of them, belonging to the 15th
Kansas, obtained permission to visit some friends.
Instead of visiting, they entered the houses of strangers, and,
representing themselves as acting under the orders of Capt. Ross, proceeded to
gobble up revolvers, clothing and other articles within their reach.
They then returned to their company, went to Fort Scott, and on their
return were themselves gobbled up by Detective Williams, and lodged in the
Kansas City guard house, where they belong.
Do such soldier thieves know that every lawless act they commit is an
insult to their commanders, and their companions in arms, as well as an outrage
upon society? Respect for their
leaders and common regard for their companions should restrain their
lawlessness, even if they have no regard for the law of the land or for common
decency. Soldiering is an honorable
avocation, respected by all ages and nations.
But stealing and robbing is not soldiering.
A true soldier never steals, never disguises his true character,
never abuses women, children, or innocent men.
True, in all armies, perhaps in all military companies, there are a few
men—warts of humanity—low enough to insult and rob citizens.
But they are not soldiers; they are cowards in soldiers clothes, a
disgrace to their profession, a nuisance to their command and a curse to the
community. No punishment is too
severe for them. We are informed
that Gen. Ewing has determined to ferret out every outrage committed by these
villains in uniform, and to punish them without mercy.
In his efforts he will be assisted by those in command at this place.
We trust that these efforts will be rewarded by a speedy triumph of law
and order throughout this district, and a complete reform or extermination of
professional thieves and robbers of every description.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 19, 1863, p. 3, c.
3
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Deborah, the Forsaken"; "Before & Behind the
Curtain"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 19, 1863, p. 3, c.
2
Among the articles recently sent to this city by the Soldier's Aid
Society of Northern Ohio, was a quantity of female wearing apparel, for
distribution among the families of soldiers, refugees, and contrabands. A portion of these have been, by the agent at this place,
placed in the care of Mrs. Griswold, the President of the Leavenworth Soldiers'
Aid Society, for the purpose of facilitating their distribution; and one but an
eye witness of the matter has any conception of the misery it helps to
relieve—not to remove. A few days
ago Mrs. G., putting her hand into the pocket of one of the dresses—not yet
given away—found the following note:
Hazel Dell, Ohio, Aug. 20, 1863.
Unknown Friend:
If you ever get this dress please write to me.
Not that I think the gift valuable, but I have a curiosity to know
whether the box reaches its intended destination.
I have been a member of the Soldier's Aid Society for two years, and have
always thought it a person's duty to contribute and risk the consequences of its
going to the rightful owner. The
afflicted have my sympathy.
Mattie A. Hill.
Mrs. G. complied with the request, and informed Miss Hill that her dress
has reached a destination, which, if not the one specifically
"intended," will enable it to accomplish the beneficent object of its
kind hearted donor. Miss Hill may
never see the note acknowledging the receipt of the dress, or this article.
But others will, and it may strengthen the faith of some who like her,
feel it a "duty to contribute" for so worthy an object, and run the
risk of the articles "going to the rightful owner."
It is pleasant to know that Miss Hill lives in Holmes county,
Ohio. Her sweet influence there is an antidote to the guilty
plottings of a hundred of the traitors with which that country abounds.
While blessed with the presence of such as she, it cannot be wholly lost.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Christmas Coming.
The stores have a voice, and tell us, that the great holiday is near.
The moving throng have a voice, and, as if anticipating a coming joy,
speak to us of the merry Christmas.
But deeper and more eloquent still, comes the voice of sweet child-hood.
As we walk the streets, and look into their bright eyes and watch the
varying expression of their rosy cheeks, and hear their innocent prattle, what
is good in our heart wells up and we are happy.
"See there," said one of these dear little ones, pointing to
some gift "my papa will give me that Christmas day, I
know."—"And my mother," added her companion, as she selected
another article, "will give me that."
How these little scenes tell of home and of home affections!
How they cluster memory with the joys, long past, of young life!
The love of home! That is
the solid basis of virtue and of truth, for it knits hearts to the hearth-stone,
and warms in them that patriotic fire which makes devotion to a Nation and to
Liberty a living instinct. Parents,
cultivate this love, and sink it deep into the bosoms of your children.—Go
where you may, let them go where they may, be the yearning for home, and for the
land of your home, true as woman's love, and unyielding as a martyr's faith.
It is the sunshine of patriotism, of virtue, of truth, in all life.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 20, 1863, p. 3, c. 3
Amusements.
Union Theatre!
A. S. Addis,...............................................................................................Proprietor.
G. D. Chaplin,...................................................................Acting and Stage Manager.
Monday Evening,
Dec. 21st, 1863.
First night of the
celebrated young and talented
American
tragedian,
J. Wilkes Booth,
Who will appear in
his great character of Richard,
in Shakespeare's
grand Tragedy, in five acts, of
Richard III;
--or—
The Battle of
Bosworth Field!
Concluding with
the laughable Farce of
Your Life's in
Danger.
Extra
Notice—Change of Time
In future doors will open at seven. Curtain rises at half-past seven precisely.
Prices of Admission:
Parquette,..............................................................................................50
cents.
Gallery...................................................................................................25
cents.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 20, 1863, p. 3, c.
1
Prof. J. M. Searl, the renowned Prestidigatator and Ventriloquist,
performs to-morrow night at Turner's Hall.
The St. Joseph papers have been filled with his praises for the past
week, which gives us to understand that something unusually good is in store for
us. They say he can do anything,
and the smartest man in the whole Paw-Paw militia can't begin to guess how he
does it. He makes eggs, rats,
turnips, fine jewelry, hats, boots, breeches and young chickens out of nothing.
In his manufacturing business the raw material never costs him anything.
If you want anything speak to the Professor and he can blow it right out
of his coat sleeve.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 20, 1863, p. 3, c.
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The following resolutions were passed unanimously by the Fenian
Brotherhood, at their meeting at Turner's Hall, on the evening of Thursday, the
17th inst.:
Resolved, That it is our first, plainest and paramount duty, as
Irishmen and American citizens, to sustain and defend this great and free
government under which we live; and that we pledge to it, whether in peace or in
war, our united and hearty support.
Resolved, That the English Government in Ireland is, and has been
for centuries, a usurpation without law, established with robbery, maintained by
the most cruel tyranny, and ought to be abolished.
Resolved, That all Irishmen, in whatever land they live, should
assist and encourage their brethren, in Ireland to overthrow this mean despotism
by which they have been so long and so barbarously ruled.
Resolved, That we, Irishmen in the United States of America,
living under the benign influences of a free Government, and being by far the
most numerous body of Ireland's exiled children, ought to be foremost in aiding
and encouraging all movements in Ireland tending to the elevation and
independence of that, our native country.
Resolved, That we offer our heartfelt sympathy to the brave and
long oppressed people of Poland in their gallant war for the independence of
their native land.
M. Bransfild,
James Jennings,
Michael Gorden,
Committee.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 22, 1863, p. 2, c.
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Summary: Union
Theatre—J. Wilkes Booth in "Richard III, or, The Battle of Bosworth
field"; "Your Life's in Danger"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 22, 1863, p. 3, c.
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J. Wilkes Booth arrived last night and to-night plays Richard III, at the
Union. Secure seats early.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 23, 1863, p. 2, c.
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Summary: Union
Theatre—J. Wilkes Booth in "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark;" "The
Happy Man"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 23, 1863, p. 3, c.
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A melancholy case of child abandonment occurred yesterday morning.
Some boys playing in the rear of what is commonly known as the
"Farmers' Hotel," discovered the body of a male child, which, from all
appearances, had been thrown through an aperture in the fence, by some shameless
and heartless wretch. Coroner
Stiles, being made acquainted with the fact, proceeded to hold an inquest.
Nothing was elicited by which to fasten the barbarous act on the guilty
one, but we hope proper steps will be taken to ferret out the criminal.
The verdict returned was, "that the child came to its death by
abandonment and exposure."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 24, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
This Eve!
To-night childhood's merry voice will ring out in merry glee—for it
will be Christmas Eve.
How the little ones, God bless them! will long for the morrow.
How they will talk of Santa Claas [sic], and the little presents they are
to receive! How be anxious to peer into their stockings, or under their pillows
ere the sun shall be up?
If there be one thing lovely and beautiful above another, it is the
bright, cheerful face of childhood, when enlivened with a sweet anticipation.
It has, then, an angel's look and an angel's voice.
We love to look upon children; to hear their prattle; to watch their
cunning, yet innocent, ways; to look into their deep meaning eyes and note their
expressive countenances. Affection
is there, trust, truth, faith—the germ of all those qualities which, if they
could be carried out amid the stern strife or ruder tanglements of the world,
would make manhood as great and grand as childhood is simple and beautiful.
Joy be with you, young friends, on Christmas Eve, and a larger joy for
you on Christmas Day! Be good, and
be happy, be kind to each other, be kind to the poor and the sick, love home and
its duties, and then, surely, you will be happy as well as good. So, again, we say a glad time to the Leavenworth youth on
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day!
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 24, 1863, p. 2, c.
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Summary: Union
Theatre—J. Wilkes Booth in "Lady of Lyons, or, Love and Pride";
"The Irish Immigrant"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 24, 1863, p. 3, c.
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The new garden scene at the Union is very tasty, natural, pleases every
one, and does great credit to the skill and imagination of the painter, Mr.
Jerome. We trust he will be active
with his brush, and surprise our community frequently with his very pleasing
conceptions.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 24, 1863, p. 3, c.
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, was produced at the Union last night.
Hamlet had a cold—and so did the audience.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 24, 1863, p. 3, c.
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Butcher's Festival. In the
olden time, our British Fathers made a great display "in the Christmas
holidays of beef, mutton, and all things fit to be eaten, decorating the animals
with flowers, and putting on their bodies appropriate emblems, and fixing in
their mouths, a full description." it
was held to be a "merrie sight in merrie old England."
We, their descendants, have caught up the idea and improved upon it.
On this evening the Cincinnati markets are crowded with the fashion and
the solid men to witness the scene. And
it is, we know, an imposing one! But
still more imposing, considering our age, (for we have not had a city here seven
years,) was the display at the Leavenworth Market House last night.
In quality, the meats cannot be beaten; we never saw finer or fatter beef
in Cincinnati or Philadelphia. Besides,
in every stall, and in all portions of every stall, the flag of the Union waved,
telling how the Butchers of Leavenworth felt, and where they stood.
Ryan & Everhardy occupy Stall No. 1.
That was lighted with a circular gas tube, center and side lights, and
looked brilliantly. A huge bear was
on the left, as we entered, neatly dressed and ornamented, and a buffalo, all
decorated, was on the right. There
were four of these natives of the forest. Between
these, glittered and glistened four silver cups, awarded to this firm as prizes
at the Fair, filled with flowers, (and occasionally otherwise moistened) and
with pride, we were pointed to the quarters, surloin [sic], steak, &c.,
tastefully arranged, and completely encasing the Stall.
There were mutton, goats, pigs, buffalo heads, in full view, and all
looked well and was well. A band of
music was there to greet visitors and enliven the scene.
N. W. West, with his premium for the best four year old, stall No. 9;
John Wolf, stall No. 10; Tees & Volk, stall No. 11; Dietrick & Vittig,
stall No. 12; John Kirch, stall No. 13; and Williams, (pork) were all admirably
arranged, and had we space or time we would notice them in detail. John Wolf, besides having everything nicely fixed, with a
portrait of Washington in the centre, had an eagle, which was not always very
polite in company. Teech & Volk
had two black-tailed deer.
Turn out, citizens, to-morrow, and see the show!
Applaud the taste, energy and enterprize of the Butchers!
Buy, and live like lords during the holidays.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 24, 1863, p. 3, c.
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J. Wilkes Booth, as a tragedian, is all he has been represented.
His Richard the Third, of Tuesday night, was a fine conception.
We never witnessed a more thrilling representation of deceit, hate,
revenge and ambition combined and intensified than in his Richard.
In Hamlet, last night, he was equally good.
People who love pure tragedy can be gratified at the Union during the
engagement of Mr. Booth. To-night
he appears as "Claude Melnotte," in "Lady of Lyons."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 25, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Christmas.
Merry greetings will leap from lips old and young to-day. There will be the family circle, and among friends a real
heart revelry! We join in, and to
one and all we wish a merry, merry Christmas!
There should be special days set apart for the cultivation of good will
among us all. The conflicts of life
are hard. They stir up, in the
bosoms of the best, bitter feelings, and crust over generous hearts, often, with
a gloomy, if not soured, will. Fortunately,
Christmas and New Years come and chase away this hard feeling and make us ask,
why hate; why cherish anger; why not cultivate good will?
The old year is going out—dying slowly, but surely.
A fit period, then, to bury past animosities—to be friendly, and
cherish friendly relations. And
what time so fitting as to consecrate ourselves afresh to this high and generous
course.
Our warmest greetings, then, to the public!
May happiness throw its radient [sic] light upon the family circle, and
joy follow the steps of friends! A
merry and happy Christmas to all!
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 25, 1863, p. 3, c.
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Mr. Booth, at the Union, continues to draw crowded houses. To-night he appears as "Charles de Moor," in
Schiller's great tragedy of the "Robbers."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 25, 1863, p. 3, c.
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Men, women and children thronged our streets yesterday in countless
numbers. And what happy
countenances they wore, especially the little ones.
How hope and expectation lighted up their countenances as they travelled
through the streets, peering wishfully into the beautifully arranged show
windows, and beseechingly into their mamma's loving faces.
How hopeful and happy they seemed, and how happy they are this
morning, to be sure. They were up
early—long before light—expecting, perhaps, to catch a glimpse of Old Sante
[sic] Clause's [sic] coat tail going, in haste, up the chimney.
But Sante [sic] Clause [sic] is cunning, and seldom gets caught.
He is good, though, isn't he, little ones.
How he fills your stockings with the prettiest things he can find, and
then disappears without waiting for thanks.
All he asks is that you feel grateful, and be good till he
comes again; and if you are really good, he is sure to come and
reward you.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 25, 1863, p. 3, c.
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Summary: Union
Theatre—J. Wilkes Booth in "The Robbers"; "The Irish
Emigrant;" at 2 o'clock "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 27, 1863, p. 3, c.
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Summary: Union
Theatre—J. Wilkes Booth in "Marble Heart, or The Sculptor's Dream";
"Limerick Boy"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 27, 1863, p. 3, c.
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The ball at Turner Hall, Christmas night, given by the Turners, was a gay
success. Every body there was in
fine spirits and, of course, the occasion was a happy one.
We don't know who was the master of Ceremonies, but friend Hoffman was on
hand to welcome the stranger and make him at home.
That is an admirable quality in the management of the Turner balls, and
we have in consequence, order, yet no stiffness, cordiality, yet no familiarity,
joyous fun, yet no vulgarity.
The German element preponderated at the Turner Ball, yet the American
leaven was there, and both were mixed up, and mingled together in happiest mood
and with friendliest feeling.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 29, 1863, p. 2, c.
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Summary: Union
Theatre—J. Wilkes Booth in "Marble Heart, or the Sculptor's Dream";
"Irish Tutor"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 29, 1863, p. 3, c.
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The colored population of Kansas numbers over 7,000.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 29, 1863, p. 3, c.
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Mr. Booth still keeps up a sensation at the Union.
His popularity is on the increase. Last
night, in Marble Heart, or the Sculptor's Dream, he delighted every one.
To-night he appears in the same.—It is positively necessary to secure
seats early.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 29, 1863, p. 3, c.
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Remember this—that one thickness of paper, placed between a pair of bed
blankets, is equal in warmth to a thick comforter.
So is a thickness of thin silk. Old
newspapers are cheap, and within the means of everyone.
In this land of newspapers there is no necessity for suffering from cold
in bed.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 29, 1863, p. 3, c.
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Last Sunday, at the Methodist church, we noticed the inconvenience
occasioned by incorrect time. The
Church time agrees with the sun-dial at the Bishop's, which is set by the
compass, and is consequently correct. Many
of the city clocks are a half hour faster, and a few a half hour slower.
People went to church in the evening at seven o'clock—each by his own
time. Many were obliged to wait a
half hour for service, while others came in so late as to lose half of the
sermon. There is, at least, an
hour's variation in the time pieces of the city.
While this exists, promptness is impossible; meetings will be annoyed by
continual entrances; men will be disappointed in business appointments; people
will be compelled to put up with cold dinners or wait for hot ones, &c.
In fact, without uniform time, hours and hours will be daily squandered,
and the city will lose the benefit of the industry she would otherwise receive.
What jeweler in Leavenworth will undertake to regulate the city time?
Here is an opportunity for some man in the time business to make a
reputation.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 29, 1863, p. 3, c.
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An amusing case occurred the other morning in the Mayor's Court before A.
Brown, Esq., Acting Mayor. A lady
and gentleman from Ethiopia, James Kidd and Mary Anderson, were charged with
being in an improper house together. Kidd
owned up and was fined $10. Mary,
however, entered a defense that she was married to Kidd.
A fact which that gentleman, in his admission of guilt, denied.
The court asked Mary when she was married.
"We's married in Missouri just like anybody gits married over dar."
"Well, how is that?" said the Court. "Just said we's married and lived up to it—she
had lived up to it ever since but Kidd had'nt." [sic]
The Court informed Mary that such was not marriage in Kansas.
Mary knew it, but Kidd kept "preferring" the time and she had
to wait—couldn't help it. The
Court thought Mary's style of "waiting" accounted for Kidd's style of
"preferring;" hence Mary was found guilty and fined $10.
After a few minutes she re-appeared and said she was "ready to mary
[sic] Kidd this very minute." Kidd
being called up, said he loved Mary, always had loved her, she was good enough
for any man, but would drink and so would he, hence he feared
their union would result in poverty and matrimonial discord.
Mary didn't think so, because if he would only marry her she was ready to
be good from that instant. With the
advice of outsiders Kidd concluded to do his duty.
They then stood up, joined hands and bowed assent to the solemn questions
of the Court. The following
petition was then put in circulation:
"The undersigned, in consideration of the honorable conduct of the
parties in promising to "love, honor and cherish each other"
respectfully request your Honor to remit the fines imposed on James Kidd and
Mary Anderson, for their imprudency in adhering to the Missouri form of marriage
contract within this State."
The petition readily obtained signatures and the Court gladly remitted
the fines. Mr. and Mrs. Kidd then
left the temple of justice wiser and better than they entered. "No cards."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 30, 1863, p. 2, c.
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Fifty-six Federal soldiers, who have been held as prisoners at
Shreveport, La., escaped and made their way to Natchez lately.
They complain of having received barbarous treatment.
Fifty Texan deserters from the Confederate army lately arrived at
Natchez, forty of whom enlisted in the Union ranks immediately.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 30, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
A Female Soldier.
Lizzie Compton, a bright young lady of sixteen, arrived in the city
yesterday from Bardstown, where she had been encamped with her regiment, the 11th
Kentucky cavalry, of which she has been a member for several months past.
Her history, during the past eighteen months, is strange and romantic.
She has served in seven different regiments, and participated in several
battles. At Fredericksburg she was
seriously wounded, but recovered, and followed the fortunes of war, which cast
her from the Army of the Potomac to the Army of the Cumberland.
She fought in the battle at Green River Bridge, on the Fourth of July
last, and received a wound which disabled her for a short time.
She has been discovered and mustered out of the service seven or eight
times, but immediately re-enlisted in another regiment.
She states that her home is in Loudon, Canada West, and that her parents
are now living in that place.
This young girl has served a term of eighteen months in the army, and,
were it not that she dreads the annoyance of being detected and mustered out,
she would enter the service again. She
was sent to this city by the officer in command at Bardstown to be again
mustered out, and is now at Barracks No. 1, awaiting orders.—[Louisville
Journal.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 30, 1863, p. 3, c.
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Great Fair to be Held Under the Auspices of the Union League and Ladies'
Aid Society of Leavenworth.—A Fair for the relief of the destitute families of
our Soldiers, will be held at Laing's Hall, on Tuesday evening, January 5th,
and continuing until Thursday evening, January 7th, 1864.
The destitution of this meritorious class of our citizens is so great
that it is the duty of every patriot to aid in every possible way to afford them
immediate relief. Contributions of
every kind will be thankfully received. Contributions
of money; contributions of every productions of the farmers, manufacturers,
mechanics, merchants, grocers, clothiers, jewelers, milliners; contributions of
music, decorations, fruits, flowers, eatables and refreshments; contributions or
loans for exhibition in the fine arts and sciences; relics, memorials, and
curiosities of all sorts.
Arrangements on an extensive scale will be made for collecting and
disposing of every article which may be contributed.
Special care will be taken of all articles loaned for exhibition, and
promptly returned.
An earnest appeal is made to all to come forward and lend a helping hand.
Admission, single tickets, 25 cents; during the Fair, $1.00; admitting
one gentleman and lady, $1.50; admitting one gentleman and two ladies, $2.00.
Committee:
J. B.
Laing, Chairman,
A. M. Sawyer, Secretary,
Dr. S. A. Marshall,
D. C.
Picquett,
Henry
Deckelman,
H. L. S.
McLanathan,
Dr. Levi Houston,
D. R. Anthony.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 30, 1863, p. 3, c.
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The Marble Heart was produced again last night at the Union, before a
large audience. Mr. Booth is superb
as Raphael. To-night, he appears as
the Cardinal in the great lay of Richelieu.
The people must remember that this week concludes Mr. Booth's engagement,
and if they would see tragedy well represented, they must improve the
opportunity.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 31, 1863, p. 2, c.
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Summary: Union
Theatre—J. Wilkes Booth as Iago in "Othello, or The Moor of Venice";
"Limerick Boy"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 31, 1863, p. 3, c.
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We noticed very fully the great display of meats made by the Butcher's
[sic] on Christmas day, but, by an accident two pages of the description were
lost. Thus, seemingly, we omitted
all stalls from No. 2 to No. 9. We
regret this accident, for the show attracted general attention, and when all did
so well, all ought to have been noticed.
The stalls not noticed were:
N. W. West, Stall No. 2;
August Kraft, "
" 3;
J. Kermyer,
" "
4;
J. Hartman,
" "
5;
P.
Espencheit, "
"
6;
Aiken & Co.,
"
" 7;
John Hubbard, "
" 8;
Of friend West, as a raiser of the best cattle in the State, we need say
but little. He took the first
premium at the Agricultural Fair, and knows all about them, how to raise, how to
improve the breed, how to keep and sell the best of meats.
With regard to the others named—every stall was well filled, admirably
arranged, and had a display of meats, the quality of which could not be beaten
in Cincinnati or Philadelphia.
We take pride in the Butcher Boys. They
are men of grit—of enterprize—and know well how to supply the families of
the city with the choicest of meats. Besides,
they are as generous [a] set of fellows as ever lived. And this, we venture to guess, they will prove at the
Sanitary Fair soon to be held. By
the way, would it not be a good idea, friend Butchers, to have a meeting, and
selecting out what you can give to soldiers families, send it to the Fair, each
labeling his name, or the name of the firm, on the lot given, yet all put
together and marked as the Butcher's Free Gift.
What say you?
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 31, 1863, p. 3, c.
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An exhibition of wild animals takes place at Harmony Hall on the 1st
of January. A badger and dog fight
will add to the attractions, as also an exhibition of rat killing, hen wrestling
and cock fighting, for the benefit of those who have talent enough to appreciate
that kind of entertainment.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 31, 1863, p. 3, c.
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Richelieu was produced at the Union last night.
To say that J. Wilkes Booth done well is faint praise, and faint praise
is damning. It was excellent.
Booth understands the character and he plays it as he has not done any
other piece put upon the boards of the Union since his engagement.
Those of our citizens who were not present last night missed a great
treat, and for their benefit we hope Booth will appear again in his great
character of Richelieu before the close of his engagement.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], December 31, 1863, p. 3, c.
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The colored people and their friends will hold a Grand Jubilee at
Harmony Hall on Friday, the 1st day of January, 1864. The meeting will open at 2 o'clock P. M.
Many distinguished speakers have been invited and will be present.
Among whom are Gen. Jas. H. Lane, Ex-Gov. Chas. Robinson, Hon. M. F.
Conway, Edwin H. Grant, Esq., Col. Chas. R. Jennison, Gen. D. W. Wilder, John C.
Douglas, Esq., Col. John C. Vaughan, Chas. H. Laingston, John H. Morris, W. H.
Burnham, and others. The
proposition to be considered in the meeting is this:--That it is just and
expedient, and therefore, the duty of the people of Kansas to give to its
colored citizens the elective franchise; and that the Legislature ought, as soon
as possible, to take initiary steps to amend the Constitution by striking out
the word white, where it occurs in that instrument, in the 5th and 8th
articles.
Skips to January 6, 1864
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 6, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
J. Wilkes Booth is giving Shakespeare readings in St. Joe.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 6, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Married Life;" readings; "A Row at the Theatre"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 7, 1864, p. 2, c. 2
The Leavenworth Sanitary Fair.
The attraction of the day is the Great Sanitary Fair now being held at
Laing's Hall; and as it is a matter of considerable interest to our readers, we
will endeavor to give at least a faint description of what is going on in the
Hall, and the sights to be seen by visitors.
Very few stands were arranged on Tuesday, and it was not until yesterday
that the Committee succeeded in getting everything into perfect order, and the
stands so arranged as to attract the attention of those who wished to see and
admire the taste of the ladies who had their decoration in charge.
[List of stands, items, donors, ladies in charge of each]
This is the last day of the Fair. Dinner
will be served as usual at one o'clock. In
the evening the articles remaining unsold will be disposed of at auction, Capt.
Smith having kindly volunteered his services for the occasion.
Let all attend who can, buy what you want, and give as liberally as your
circumstances will permit.
Too much praise cannot be given to the noble men and women who have had
the management of the Fair, and by their untiring energy and steady devotion to
the purpose, have made it a great success.
We do not know the names of but very few engaged in this laudable
undertaking, and where all done so well, it would be invidious to mention the
names of a few to the exclusion of the many.
They all deserve credit, and they will merit and receive the thanks of
many a poor soldier's family for their heartfelt sympathy at this unpropitious
season.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 7, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
In consequence of the gas going out on Tuesday night, there was no
performance at the Union. Mr.
Addis, determined not to have such an occurrence again, has made arrangements
whereby the theatre will be properly lighted when the gas fails.
Despite the intense cold weather, the building is thoroughly warmed, and
so, then, our citizens need have no fears of freezing while witnessing the
legitimate drama.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 7, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Serious Family"; "His Last Legs"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 8, 1864, p. 3, c. 3
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Married Life"; "Irish Tutor"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 9, 1864, p. 3, c. 3
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Madelaine, or The Foundling of Paris"; dance, song (Who
Will Care for Mother Now); "His Last Legs"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 9, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
Yesterday, Mr. Tom. Stevens sent up to the Sanitary Commission rooms a
large wagon load of spare ribs, to be distributed among the poor of the city.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 9, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
The Sanitary Fair has interfered considerably with the business of some
of the established institutions of the city.
During its continuance the police court has not done enough to pay
expenses or keep up its reputation. There
were only two cases before it yesterday morning, and none the day before. Verily
our city is becoming moral.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 9, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
The profits arising from the Sanitary Fair, after deducting all expenses,
amount to something over $1,800. Considering
the short time allowed the committee for preparations, the above sum is all that
could be expected. The committee
return their thanks to many of our merchants for their liberal donations and
hearty co-operation in making the Fair a decided success. The committee state that many articles were left in the hall,
through accident, by visitors, which the owners can have by calling upon Mr.
Brown, and proving property. Others
again have articles which properly belonging to the committee, and which the
possessors will please return at their earliest convenience. The committee will
make a full report in a few days, until which time our readers must wait
patiently for the full particulars.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 10, 1864, p. 2, c. 3
Summary: Union
Theatre—"Fugitive Slave; or, The Quadroon"; song; "Richard 3d,
in Dutch"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 12, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
The Hospital Sanitary Fair commences to-night.
Be on hand. The object is a
worthy one and the Sisters of charity are deserving of all the assistance in
their praiseworthy undertaking that our citizens can afford.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 13, 1864, p. 2, c. 1
Texas.
The withdrawal of the rebel forces from West Louisiana, if true, is an
abandonment of the Mississippi river, and will end in the utter overthrow of
rebeldom west of that stream. It is
almost too good to be true. It is
the very thing our Generals in the Gulf Department most desire.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 14, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
Bannock on the brain appears to be an epidemic in our city at the present
time. Everybody, his wife, and his
wife's able bodied relations, are making preparations for a grand Hegira to the
new ophir.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 14, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
The 18th U. S. Infantry (colored) is being rapidly recruited. Capt. Lucas has an office on the corner of Shawnee and Second
streets, where he will enlist all the able-bodied Americans of African Descent
who may want to join the Army of the Lord.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 15, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
A miscellaneous train, consisting of sutler, stragglers and loafers
generally, left Fort Scott yesterday morning, for Fort Smith.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 15, 1864, p. 2, c. 1
No theatres, no snows, no dances, no amusements of any kind in our city
at present. Some of our citizens
are turning their attention to more serious matters, as an evening at the M. E.
Church will convince any one who will visit the interesting meetings now being
held there. It is well.
There is something beyond the pleasures and pastimes of this mundane
sphere, and it is the duty of every one to obtain that pleasure which the
consolations of religion alone can give. We
advise our citizens to attend these meetings.
They may reap some benefit, and it certainly can do no harm.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 16, 1864, p. 2, c. 1
The Union Theatre quarrel is still going on.
Addis has had Chaplin arrested for defamation of character. Between manager and actors, the public is having as much fun
as they would if the Union was in full blast.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 16, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
The following statement of the growth and present condition of the
Mercantile Library Association is respectfully submitted by the Directors, to
the consideration of the citizens of Leavenworth:
At the commencement of the year last past, the library contained 590
volumes, 204 volumes have been purchased by the association, 128 donated, and 32
added for membership, showing an addition during the year of 364 volumes, more
than half the number belonging to the library at the commencement of the year.
The number of issues of books to members of the association during the
year is 8,273—showing clearly the necessity and advantage of maintaining such
an institution in our midst.
In the rooms of the association may be found 19 daily papers, 11 weeklies
from outside the State, and every one, we believe, published in the State.
The cash receipts of the society during the year have been from life
membership $50; annual membership, $443; from other sources, $195.20.
The indebtedness of the 1st day of January, 1864, amounted to
$258.97, most of which has since been paid, but out of funds collected for the
present year. That the society is
thus behindhand is owing to the fact that on its organization two years ago it
necessarily incurred an expense of some three of four hundred dollars in
purchasing furniture, shelving, paper stands, stoves, matting and other similar
things, which do not become an annual charge.
Notwithstanding the outlay that has been made for books this year, the
society has been steadily improving.. . .
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 17, 1864, p. 2, c. 1
Theatric War.
The theatricals, managers and all, are in the courts and (poor fellows)
in the hands of lawyers. We pit
them. They are to be pitied.
If we had the power, or if, better yet, Justice Brown possessed it, he
would abolish the Theatre wholly, or else issue a writ of injunction compelling
all concerned to shake hands, and make others laugh, instead of crying and
cursing themselves.
Strange—that those who should bring with them heart-easing mirth—jest
and youthful jollity—quips and cranks, nods and becks and wreathed
smiles—stranger still, that those who with laughter can smooth the wrinkled
brow and make the face a glow of sunshine, (all Milton, only we can't remember
the verses,) should bar the people out from recreation and in moody and dull
melancholy, kinsman in grim and comfortless despair, subside—(this is
Shakespeare beyond a doubt--) into a large infectious troop of pale
distemperatures—foes to life! But
so it is!
And is there no remedy in common sense and common good feeling?
Are there no three sensible disinterested citizens who, as umpires, could
unravel the tangle and settle the muss? Remember—Shakespeare
again—never anger made good guard for itself.
So if the theatricals, managers and all, don't hear or heed our advice,
the quarrel may go on—we'll take no part in't.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 17, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
We herewith present the semi-annual report of the Kansas Soldiers' Aid
Society. Early in June last this
society published a report of its labors during the preceding six months. Again, the patriotic public to whom we have repeatedly
appealed, and never once in vain, for that aid necessary for the prosecution of
our work, is turning towards us to inquire what we have done, and how applied
the funds its generosity has committed to our hands.
During the summer months the calls made upon this society were few.
The red wheels of war have continued to roll along our border, and the
memory of the slaughtered heroes at Baxter Springs yet sends a thrill of horror
to the heart. But the enemy in
every late instance has made his work so deadly and complete, that little has
been left to the hand of pity and affection, but to cover the honored remains.
In the month of August a new impetus was given the society, and the
community at large, by an event as sudden as it was terrible and unlooked for.
The inhabitants of a neighboring city are startled from their beds at
daybreak, by a ruffian band of soldiery, headed by their ruthless leader.
The deadly bullet and desolating flame mark each step of their progress
through the town, writing scores of women homeless and widowed.
To relieve these suffering friends, the most active measures were at once
instituted by the authorities of this city. Large sums of money were raised.
The Ladies' Union League, in conjunction with this society and ladies of
the city, nobly applied themselves to the work of making, in the speediest
possible time, clothing of every description to meet their immediate
necessities.
For the General Hospital of our city, little has been needed during the
past season. Under the excellent
supervision of the attending Surgeon, the patients, numbering about seventy, all
seem to be doing well.
So far as the legitimate object of the society is concerned, the carrying
relief to the soldier in the hospital, but little can be shown in this, as
compared with previous reports; but if in relieving the families of our
soldiers, we are essentially strengthening the Union arm, why is not this an
important branch of our work? Our
army are battling upon frontier ground. Hundreds
of loyal men in Missouri, Arkansas, and the Indian country are fleeing to the
Union lines, leaving their families to make their escape as best they can.
How much of loss, of hardship, their exodus involves, the sad, wan faces
and scanty clothing of this class, plainly prove.
To feed the hungry and clothe the needy among them, is a work bearing a
substantial unity with direct efforts for the soldier.
Let our work be two-fold, then, as it has practicably been since an early
period of this organization. There
is means enough, and patriotism enough, as the gratifying results of the late
Sanitary Fair fully testify. While
the brave soldiers lying in the hospital should have ever needed comfort, will
not the thought that his beloved family will not be permitted to suffer, carry
repose to his weary heart.
The society would herewith acknowledge, with the warmest appreciation,
the liberal contributions of our citizens for the objects of the society during
the season. It would further render
heartfelt thanks to those gentlemen of the city who have favored them with the
delivery of lectures. Likewise to
the publishers of our city papers for the gratuitous insertion of much matter
pertaining to the society.
The following list will show, in regular dates, the contributions of the
society. All have been passed into
the hands of the Sanitary agent, and sent to the different hospitals, so that
not an article remains on hand:
October 31—22 bed ticks, 14 shirts, 9 pair drawers.
December 6—16 shirts, 35 pair drawers.
December 21—5 shirts, 2 pair drawers.
January 13—5 shirts, 12 pair drawers.
Wyandotte Hospital and Society.
August 10—2 comfortables, 11 pillows, 16 pillow cases, 6 sheets, 46 towels, 8 pair slippers, 5 pads, 8 lbs. lint and bandages.
Wisconsin Boxes.
28 Comfortables, 39 pillow cases, 63 shirts, 7 bed gowns, 34 pair socks, 12 bottles wine, 46 pillows, 33 sheets, 20 pair drawers, 55 towels, 13 pair slippers, 16 yards flannel. The above received through H. Deckelman, Chief of Fire Department, June 5, 1863.
Montgomery Boxes, Left Over from Last Report.
49 Shirts, 20 towels, 6 pads, 50 books and papers, 21 pair drawers, 5
pair slippers, 1 bottle wine.
Mrs. L. E. Williams,
Secretary Kansas Soldiers' Aid Society.
Leavenworth, Jan. 15, 1864.
[treasurer's report]
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 19, 1864, p. 2, c. 1
Over thirty-five hundred Southern refugees arrived at Cairo on the 18th.
They fled rebeldom to escape conscription—and starvation.
They are penniless.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 19, 1864, p. 2, c. 1
Gambling at Fort Smith.
Gen. McNiel makes a dash at this and kindred vices, at Fort Smith, and
will break them up.
Order No. 7, dated Nov. 7th, 1863, reads as follows:
["] Vagrancy and idleness are a bane to any community where they
exist. Labor is the only legitimate
support for honest men. Hereafter,
every able bodied man in this district will be compelled to enter the service of
the United States, either in the ranks of the army or in the trains or
workshops, or they must seek other lawful avocations defined in orders
heretofore issued. Subsistence will
not hereafter be furnished to any person able to cook.
Gambling, pimping, prostitution and other grossly immoral pursuits will
not be tolerated. The District
Provost marshal is charged with the rigid execution of this order, and will
banish from the district all vagrants and other notoriously disreputable
characters.["]
This place—Fort Smith—has been literally overrun with human vermin.
This salutory [sic] order will clean them out.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 19, 1864, p. 3, c. 3
Female Heroism,
Such as is seldom witnessed. One of the fair occupants of Captain Stinson's
"fort" is the heroine. Mattie—that
is her name—saw our movements from the ridge, rushed to the house, removed her
mother and sisters to the cellar, closed the trap door, and rushed out to the
front of the house, which is situate close by the rebel rifle-pits on the
summit. Folding her arms across her
breast, she stood there gazing upon the battle as calm and unmoved as was Bragg
or his staff, while our balls were constantly whistling past her, and the rebels
were momentarily falling bout her feet, convulsed in their death throes.
She was frequently ordered away, yet there she stood, as immovable as a
marble statue, with a countenance changing from anxiety to delight as she saw
our line of battle press the enemy, the heads of Union soldiers protrude over
the rifle pits, and the national flag placed upon the ridge.
It seemed as though some unseen power had chained her to the spot, and
when the din of battle was for a moment drowned in the shout of victory that
rent the air as our soldiers took possession of the summit, the spell was
broken, and with the speed of a deer she bounded into the house, released the
family from their underground prison-house, and bade them come forth to greet
their deliverers. There is a
specimen for you of a genuine Tennessee Union girl—none of your filthy rebel
females, steeped in sin and tobacco juice, who are as numerous in these valleys
as are the "cattle upon a thousand hills."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 20, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
All loyal citizens are respectfully requested to illuminate their
premises on to-morrow evening, in honor of the arrival of Maj. Gen. Curtis.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 20, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
The managers of the Festival for the benefit of the Sisters of Charity
Hospital, report the next profits to be $845.50; which sum has been handed over
to the Mother Superior of the Hospital.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 20, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
Overseers in the South are noted for brutality, and the negro
"drivers," that is, darkies put over field hands, are, generally, just
as cruel. The negro charged with
rape, and committed to jail yesterday morning, belonged to this latter class in
Alabama, when freed by his master. Since
he has settled here, he has kept aloof from the colored people, and claimed to
be a white man. A meeting of the
colored people was held last night, and the outrageous act of Woodson Townsend
denounced. They are deeply
incensed, that a villain should excite new prejudice against them, and would, if
they had the power, make quick dispatch of him.
Of course no one can hold the colored people accountable for the
atrocious conduct of one villain, and, as that villain will meet his doom with
certainty, we are sure no one will disturb or attempt to disturb the
well-behaved and orderly among them.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 20, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
Woodson Townsend, a negro, committed a rape, yesterday, upon a married
woman. The woman had engaged him to
take her to some point in the interior for the purpose of obtaining some
clothes. When returning, and while coming through the government lane, the negro
pulled out a couple of revolvers and threatened to shoot her unless she complied
with his demands. She refused,
whereupon he attacked and overpowered her, fully succeeding in accomplishing his
hellish designs. Upon arriving in
town the woman entered complaint. Townsend
was arrested and bound over in the sum of $5,000 to appear at the next term of
the criminal court. Not being able
to give bail he was put in charge of the Sheriff.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 21, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
The many friends of Geo. D. Chaplin, late manager of the Union, will be
sorry to learn of his departure from among us.
He took his leave yesterday, with others of the late company. During a period extending over a twelve month, this gentleman
has demeaned himself in a manner worthy of emulation and the highest praise.
In the thankless role of manager, (and it is a position, the
difficulties of which, its trials and disappointments, few outside the
profession fully understand,) he has acquitted himself to the satisfaction of
even the most fastidious theatrical connoisseur.
Always a pleasant, agreeable fellow, never out of temper with himself or
others, urbane and gentlemanly, he won that friendship and countenance from our
citizens, which a true manhood always appreciates.
His withdrawal from among us will be keenly felt, lessened, however, by
the hope that his career will be as bright as his sterling abilities merit, and
his many friends ardently hope. It
is said he is under engagement to appear in New Orleans.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 22, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
The illumination of last night was brilliant, and the whole city was
out—and all the world beside. Crowds
were in all parts of it—women and children, and every body that had eyes to
see or ears to hear. And the loyal
Union League, with a display of banners and transparencies, and all the
paraphernalia of a grand processional ovation.
It was a sight to behold—to see the stalwart men marching on, and it
thrilled the heart to hear their cheers.—It was the hurdwar of
Leavenworth.
The centre point—the place where procession and the vast concourse
met—was at the Planters' House. The
streets North, South, East and West, were densely packed.
It was a grand sight to see this moving sea of upturned faces, eager to
honor and to welcome the warrior hero of Pea Ridge.
Gen. Curtis was welcomed by James McCahon, Esq., in a short address.
Gen. Curtis appeared, and as he came forward, the thunder of applause
sounded as if it might drown the roar of old Kickapoo, and that applause was
continued for minutes. He looked
the soldier and, like a soldier, was simple and earnest. . . .
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 23, 1864, p. 2, c. 2-3
Incidents of the
Late Fight in the Indian Nation
with Quantrill and
Stan Watie.
[Correspondence of
the Times.]
Ft. Gibson, C. N., Dec. 23, 1863.
The Attack on
Gibson.
For several days the enemy had been threatening an attack.
They were camped four miles distant, on North Fork.
Spies of Quantrell's men, in Federal uniform, with Sharpe's rifles, had
been hovering around the refugee camps to get information, pretending to be
"6th Kansas men." Col.
Phillips moved in his command and got ready, but did not believe they would have
the audacity to attack the Fort.
On the afternoon of the 18th, "Simps Bennett," a
scout, galloped in and reported the enemy pouring into the prairie out of the
timber, five miles off. Instantly
the regiments were called under arms. The
ramparts and few guns manned, Col. Phillips, with a yellow man, Andy Murrell,
galloped out to see how they were coming, followed, as fast as they could get
mounted, by their orderlies, and Lieutenants Waterhouse and Thompson.
"Middling Impident [sic]."
Our old friend, Capt. Chester Thomas, A. Q. M., who is one of the
Colonel's staff officers, got on his horse and galloped after the party.
The old Captain, whatever his peculiarities may be, was not afraid, but
very much astonished, at this experience of "close proximity."
As he rode up, Col. Phillips, with his little squad, was about 300 yards
from the rebels, quizzing them with his glass.
The rebels had been checked, but were amusing themselves by burning a
house and shooting at the little party. The
old Captain rode up alongside of the Colonel and asked:
"What men are them, over there?"
"The enemy."
"The secesh? Great
God!"
He took a ferocious bite at his tobacco plug and resumed:
"They are middling impident, ain't they?"
What are you going to do with them?"
The Colonel shook his head and said:
"I have no cavalry, and I am afraid they won't wait for my
infantry."
"Well, Colonel, I am here for anything."
Here an orderly galloped up and reported that neither of the three
regiments could mount a man, and that the infantry ordered out were coming.
It was over three miles from the Fort.
"Captain," said Phillips sharply, "gallop back to the Fort
and tell Major Wright to move out his regiment through the timber to Dunbacks,
and to form them on the edge of the timber on my right, as a reserve, there wait
orders."
Away galloped the Captain. Arrived
at the Fort he shouted out, when he was yet fifty yards from the Major's tent:
"Oh, Major! Major! Major!"
The Major stepped out.
"Oh, Major! haven't you
heered it?"
"Of the attack? Yes."
"Great God! Major—they
are out there in thousands—the perairie's full of them—where's your
men?"
The Major pointed to his men in line of battle in front of their tents,
and the orders were given.
Not Quite a Stampede.
The first arrival of infantry on the prairie was two companies from the 1st—only
fifty-five men and three officers. The
nearest of the reinforcements behind were more than a mile back.
Fred. Crofts commanded the two little companies, and was ordered
"forward," the few mounted men going ahead.
Slowly the portion of the rebel force that was round the burning
buildings fell back on their main body that was marching in column of fours in
the edge of the timber, going northwards past the Fort, at a distance of five
miles from it. The small force of infantry swept on the
double-quick—occupied the ground lately held by the rebels, and pressed
forward. The Colonel's object was
to tempt them into an engagement.
Suddenly the enemy perceiving the small force so far out, conceived the
idea of stampeding it and cutting it to pieces, as had been done at Baxter's
Spring. A very considerable force
broke off from the main body and came charging over the prairie, shouting, while
eight hundred yards distant, and galloping with fury, uttering fierce yell.
The few horsemen fell back and Col. Phillips immediately formed the
little line in a sunk ditch or ravine in the prairie, that showed only the head
and shoulders of the infantry. It
was done in a moment and the command given:
"Don't fire till you are told—when you do, fire low and take good
aim;" and the men quietly waited.
On came the rebels, and their balls from English Enfields were whizzing
round pretty sharply, but when they got within two hundred yards and could see
the heads and shoulders of that little line of battle, and away over the
prairie, more than a mile off, some 200 more of the 3d coming on the double
quick, they wheeled and broke back in confusion to their main body, followed by
a shower of balls.
Storm and Darkness.
It was an intensely cold winter's night. The wind swept with cutting fierceness, and the horsemen shivered. Slowly, as the darkness set in with an impenetrable pall, the rebels retreated into the deep timber and ravines of the mountains. An Orderly galloped out, and reported from Col. Wattles, who was left in command at the Fort, that the enemy were reported to be marching a column by the Creek Agency, away on the other flank. It was found impossible to catch the retreating rebel force with infantry. All were ordered back to the fort, and as the deep darkness settled on the earth, a narrow beam of flame rose from the Creek Agency, going up in a crimson flush to the zenith, and showing that the enemy was also moving there.—Expecting an attack, the 2d, which had been down in the timber, was moved into the fort during the night. Every preparation was made for a storm at daybreak. Men paced the ramparts that night, and all was bustle and activity. Parties were mounted and sent out to find the enemy's camp that night, and the rebels, who had also squads patrolling the prairie, would chase or be chased, and some stirring adventures occurred that dark night. Two Federal soldiers lay dead on the prairie; one was dying, and a fourth shot, like Achilles, through the heal [sic]. We had the consolation of learning afterwards that five rebels had been shot that evening, two of them mortally wounded.
A Brave Cherokee.
That day two Cherokees had got leave to go out in the hills to buy butter. At dark the rebels surrounded a house where they were, but the two men, with their revolvers, kept them at bay. One rebel was shot, and all the others trembled to approach men fighting in that stout log house, and so evidently determined to sell their lives dearly. Col. Stan Waite was sent for after dark, and directed his men to load up a wagon with combustibles and back it up against the building, as was done at the battle of Franklin, in the old Free State war in Kansas. This was done, and soon the roof and wall caught the blaze. Paralized [sic], one of the Indians would have yielded, but the other tore up the floor, and ordered his timid comrade to dig a hole under the sill with a butcher-knife and a hoe, while he watched the door with his revolver. "Don't be afraid," he whispered to his companion; "work on—it is God only (not these men) who can determine whether we will escape." Amidst the cracking of the flames and whirling smoke an aperture was made, quietly the men slipped out at it in the darkness, and as they escaped to the dense plumb [sic] thickets, they heard the roof fall in with a dull thundering sound, amidst the yells of Col. Stanwaite's men, who gloated at the idea of their perishing in the ruins.
A Prudent Pow Wow.
The rebels had come to attack the party, but during that afternoon and night their courage, like Bob Acres, oozed out at their fingers ends. Col. Chili McIntosh, who commanded the rebel cracks, had refused to cross Arkansas river, on the plea that it was too cold weather. He might, in various ways, have woke to a conviction that there was "a north," but while he dissembled with Col. Waitie, he secretly told his men, in Creek, to skedaddle, or as a very gallant officer who went out of the battle of Prairie Grove said, "march by the flank." While Col. Waite, Adair and Quantrill were fording the river, the Creeks "marched by the flank," and as some of the big fragments took the Agency in their way, they burned a house, either to warm themselves or that they might have the credit of doing something. Twice Col. Waitie, who commanded the rebel force, moved his camps that dark night, as parties went into the hills to feel for them. Morning broke on them, and such a bitter, cheerless morning! They had reason to expect an immediate attack. They had moved ten miles from Fort Gibson, but their position was known. They learned in the night that Major Forman had gone to Rhea's Mill with 300 men, and 37 wagons for flour, and they bethought them that taking such a train would be the safest enterprise. They cursed Chili McIntosh, and made him the scape goat of their cowardly retreat, and set off hot foot for Talequa and Park Hill, where Quantrill and his men distinguished themselves as usual, by "taking things," and murdering a helpless idiot, who no one supposed they would be mean enough to kill.
The Night March.
It soon became evident that the rebels were after the train. Had infantry started in the forenoon, when we learned of the enemy's movement, the rebels would have found it out, and, as they were mounted, arranged their programme accordingly.—But when evening came, Capt. Spilman, of the 3d, was sent, with half the available force left in the fort, to hurry through and reinforce Major Forman. His command was all infantry except about a dozen mounted on poor ponies. But a 12 pound field howitzer doubled the force of the command, which was little over 400 men. Col. Phillips' orders were, "Press to Forman. Don't be diverted from your purpose should the enemy swing back here. If the enemy offers fight, accept it; but do not be amused [sic—amazed] by a small force, while the main body of rebels might strike for the train." In the darkness of that night, Capt. Spilman made a march of 25 miles, and crossed at one of the fords of the Illinois river about 1 o'clock in the morning. The enemy were camped across on the other side of that clear and turbulent stream.
The Battle.
Day broke on a cold winter's morning. The great pine-crowned hills—for
I cannot call these Boston mountains—"mountains," looked down on a
quiet scene soon to be broken. The
beautiful Illinois gushed over its pebbly bed, leaping and bubbling up in its
turbulent course, but so limpidly beautiful—talk of creeks—if we could only
steal the Southern Illinois for Kansas I would, for the time, acquiesce in
Jayhawking.
As Capt. Spilman marched his men to the river, a portion of the enemy
came down to contest the passage. The
bottom of the Illinois was covered, as were the surrounding hills, with dense
brush. The stream was rapid and
waist deep. In those deep dells and
in that thickly bottom lay the enemy. An
enemy much more than twice—nearly thrice as strong.
To cross the river—to hazard all—to "wade in."
It is such steps, that seem unimportant that are pregnant with events.
For a moment the thoughtful young Captain wavered on the brink, and then
the command swept over.
There was a sharp rattling of musketry, but it was mere skirmishing yet,
and the rebels had o idea that it was a real attack.
Their main camp was on Barren Fork, three miles from the ford, and they
thought it merely a small scout which they would allow to be inveigled in before
they made serious resistance, or overwhelmed it; but the rebels heard the wheels
of the Howitzers over the rocky ford, and thought it was a wagon, and conceived
that they were about to take it. An
attempt to do so opened the eyes of the rebels.
As the echoes of the old Howitzers went booming through the woods it woke
up all that was half slumbering in that segment of secessia, and warned them to
prepare for battle. The second shot
tore off a rebel's arm at the shoulder, and some wounded horses went plunging in
agony through the brush.
The rebels fell back on Barren Fork two miles, and formed where they
would have had a strong position, but for the unfortunate circumstance that we
had artillery and they had not. They
formed their main line of battle in a ravine that ran down from the mountains
and clear across the bottom, in a dense brush, the Barren Fork washing a
precipitious [sic] bluff on their right, with their left running up the gorge
into the hills. These men were
dismounted, and the force that remained on horseback were drawn up in irregular
shape by companies in the hills.
As our command swept slowly through the dense woods near this line all
was silent, for the rebels who had been in front went off into the hill
precipitately as if beaten. The
small advance of mounted men discovered the rebel line and galloped back. A line of battle was formed against it, and swept on until
the rebels indiscreetly poured out a volley at too long a range to be effective.
Halting his men, and using his howitzers, Capt. Spilman briskly shelled the
ravine. Galled, and for a moment
desperate, Quantrill's men who were near the road charged out of the ravine and
forward. Then blazed the whole
forrest [sic] with a terrible musketry, and cannister [sic] swept the woods.
The rebels broke into the hills up the ravine, and their horsemen,
instead of coming to help them, galloped off in a panic. Over the hill our boys
poured after them, but as they began to rise on its first brow, the rebels
rallied and pressed them back.
The road of Barren Fork being clear, Capt. Spilman pressed on several
hundred yards, and came to a knoll in the bottom, where there were several log
houses, and where the howitzers would have an elevation that gave it better
range. Thinking this a retreat, the
rebels, now mostly in the rear, poured again out of the hills and attacked with
considerable fury; but the first roar of the howitzer again scattered their
horsemen. A part of the rebels
pressed forward desperately in an attempt to take the gun. It was here, while leading the men of the First regiment to
the charge against them that Capt. Willet fell mortally wounded, shot through
the abdomen. In front of his little
line he was bravely dashing on, when the fatal bullet arrested his career of
glory.
The rebels were again driven to the hills, and for an hour the firing was
desultory. Remembering the
Colonel's stern order, "Do not permit yourself to be amazed by a small
force, but press on to Forman," and suspecting some such feint, Capt.
Spilman abandoned his knoll and log houses, and pressed on.
Here the rebels made their last desperate effort.
Supposing the movement to be a retreat, they formed and rushed forward in
pursuit as rapidly as the nature of the ground would permit.
Here the rebel Col. Adair had his horse shot from under him.
For a moment the two lines of battle swung.
Spilman stayed by the guns. Lieut.
Parsons, Luke Parsons, one of the old John Brown boys, was on the right, and
taking his hat swung it and called his Cherokees to charge.
The effect was as ludicrous as irresistible. Mistaking the nature of the demonstration, each Cherokee
soldier pulled off his hat likewise, and with a terrific roar of enthusiasm went
forward. Talk of a bayonet
charge—that was a hat charge, and goes to prove that the enemy who goes
in wins. The whole rebel line
gave way, and were driven back to the hills in confusion, not to form again that
day. The fighting altogether had
lasted from daylight till one o'clock, and five miles in all had been fought or
skirmished over.
Great portions of the rebel force broke up.
Capt. Anderson, from McKeys Lick, with a few Indian soldiers on ponies,
broke into the fleeing fragments, killing and taking a few of them prisoners.
Another small party—all the ponies that could be hooked or borrowed
around Ft. Gibson, also raked into them. Col.
Stanwaite had given notice to the women of the nation that he would "issue
flour" from the train he would take on Barren Fork the day after,
but he gutted his fish before he got them. He fled, bragging through the
mountains by Rabbit Trap, having lost 50 in killed and wounded, while Capt.
Spilman marched 18 miles farther towards Major Forman that night.
T.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 24, 1864, p. 2, c. 3
Fenian Society.
We must confess we did not know the origin or object of this society,
precisely, but, as is the case with secret associations, generally, both are
made public. Indeed, in this case,
it has been made public by the order itself.
In November, 1863, the Fenian Brotherhood held a Convention at Chicago,
and the publication of its platform and proceedings relieves curiosity, and will
appease all anxiety. We say
anxiety, for at one time suspicions were entertained as to its fidelity to the
country, and its cause. Its object
is trans-Atlantic. Its design is,
by armed force, to rescue Ireland from British rule.
It does not interfere with religion, nor mix up with politics.
It asks only that Irishmen and the descendants of Irishmen shall combine,
and at the proper juncture, strike for Irish liberty in Ireland.
The society originated at New York, six years ago, or in 1848, and has
lodges or "circles" in every city in the Union.
It was unquestionably the movement of the Fenian Brotherhood which
alarmed the British Government last year. Earl
Russell made it the subject matter of a note to Minster Adams, who, evidently,
knew nothing about it. By this
time, however, the whole matter—all the Fenian Brotherhood motives and
movements are known both by our own and the British Government.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 24, 1864, p. 2, c. 3
Army of the Frontier.
Fort Smith, Ark., Jan. 8.
Editor Times:--Such a winter as this has been—thermometer below zero,
snow, and the Arkansas river frozen over so as to bear wagons.
Great distress for supplies has existed here and with Col. Phillips'
command at Fort Gibson. No
foresight had been shown in the fall to properly subsist this army.
"The fat Boy" has never been very much or very long in the
field, and evidently, the best of what genius he has, does not lie in that way.
Only think of an army nearly starving, requiring herculean efforts to
subsist itself and stock in the dead of winter, and the train brought down by
the "Fat Boy," which had not an ounce of lour, but was begirded by
nearly 200 Sutler's wagons. "Are
we a commercial people?" The
last seen of "Imperial Purple" he was leading a bear down Garrison
avenue. Never was any bladder
reduced to so small a compass by putting a pin in it.
How long must Kansas bear such things as putting a man high in rank to
lead the gallant Kansas armies, whose fighting won all the battles that
have been won, whose only qualification is that nobody may be jealous of him, or
that he will play into the hands of a certain set, or run the army at the
behests of the "Grim chieftain."
Do the men of Kansas send their sons to suffer and to die, that their
gallant bearing may only cover up the contracts of certain interests? How long! Oh
Lord! how long?
*
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 24, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
O'Neill's Great Diorama of the Water will be exhibited at Turner's Hall,
on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of this week.
The exhibition consists of a series of war scenes, battles, incidents,
&c., which have transpired since the commencement of the rebellion,
presented with life-like actions and military precision, and requires over 5,000
moving figures. As the painting was
the work of the late and lamented James R. O'Neill, artist, actor, musician and
scholar, one of Quantrill's victim's at the Baxter's Spring massacre, it will be
of double interest to his many friends and acquaintances here, as a living
testimonial of his genius and talent. This
last production from O'Neil's gifted brain and ready pencil, we are confident,
will prove of rare artistic merit, and its exhibition be both entertaining and
instructive.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 24, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
A petition will be presented to the City Council on Monday night, praying
that a portion of the school fund be devoted to maintaining a school for the
colored children of the city.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 26, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
A fire broke out in the Union Theatre building shortly after ten o'clock
yesterday morning. When discovered,
the smoke was issuing from under the eaves and roof near the north-east corner,
directly over the stage, and in less than fifteen minutes after the alarm was
given the whole upper story was enveloped in flames.
The Eagle Fire Engine company, Hook & Ladder company, No. 1, and the
German Protection company were promptly on hand, and rendered every assistance
in their power to prevent the flames from spreading to buildings opposite.
The upper part of the building was occupied as a theatre, the lower part
by Coolidge & Co., as a drug store, Cooter, as a saloon, and Ashton &
Bros., as a wholesale liquor store. Our
citizens, generally, who were on the ground in time, rendered every assistance
to the above named parties in removing their stock.
Coolidge & Co., succeeded in saving most of their stock in the store.
They had a large quantity of liquors and oils in the cellar, which could
not be removed, and were consequently destroyed.
Their loss will amount to about $3,000.
No insurance. Ashton &
Bros., saved a large portion of their liquors.
Their cellar, however, was stored with pork, which they were engaged in
packing. Their loss was very heavy,
amounting to about $7,000. No
insurance. Cooter's loss will
amount to about $200, occasioned principally by removal, as he had succeeded in
removing most of his fixtures. The
Mayflower adjoining the Union, on Delaware street, and kept by McGovern, was
also destroyed. Most all of the
furniture was saved. We did not
learn who owned the building, nor whether it was insured.
The house adjoining on Fourth street, and occupied by Addis Bros.,
together with one occupied by Mr. Tracey, were partially burnt, and then torn
down to prevent the flames from spreading to the buildings on Cherokee street.
Most of the furniture belonging to inmates of the last mentioned
buildings was saved.
Stockton's Hall was owned by Mr. Mitchell, of Cincinnati, and was
insured. We understand, from those
who are most likely to know, that a new building, second to none in the city,
will be erected upon the site of the old Union as soon as practicable.
It was feared at one time that Laing's fine building would fall a
sacrifice to the devouring element, but owing to the superhuman efforts of the
firemen and some of our citizens, that, and Dr. Kopf's house, although not
without damage, was preserved. . . .In this place we wish to say a good word for
the colored men of our city. When
the heat became so intense that white men could not be found to man the brakes
of the only engine at the fire, they manfully came forward and worked until
exhausted or relieved by some of their own class.
They done well, and it should cause a blush to mantle the cheeks of some
of the white men who refused any assistance in staying the great destruction
that seemed inevitable. One trouble
we noticed at the commencement of the fire, viz:
that there appeared to be no head to direct operations.
Every body was boss, and everybody wanted things done their way.
A regularly organized fire department is needed, particularly at this
time. Let the city fathers look up
this matter and take much action as will in future secure the city against the
possibility of any great danger or damage from fire.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 27, 1864, p. 2, c. 1
Fort Gibson.
The condition of affairs at Fort Gibson, and Fort Smith, is as bad as
well can be.
As to the former, soldiers and refugees were near the starving point.
Our correspondent—in whose word implicit reliance may be
placed—paints it sadly enough. We
rejoice to learn, through the well timed and systematic efforts of Col.
Phillips, that, as the severe cold is passing away, so is the suffering.
We are satisfied, however, both for our fair name, and our future safety,
as well as for the cause of freedom in Arkansas, that a most rigid examination
will have to be made into the management of affairs in that district.
The neglect has been wanton and cruel.
Abuses are tolerated which shock the disciplinarian, and tarnish the
names of commanders. And had it not been for the indomitable will of our soldiers,
we know not what consequences might not have followed this neglect and these
abuses.
Major Gen. Curtis, influenced by an honorable ambition to win a national
fame, and, whatever may happen, to guard well the soldier and the soldiers
honor, will not pause where fraud shows its ugly front, nor hesitate, when the
public good demands its exposure and punishment.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 27, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
In our report of the fire, published yesterday, we forgot to mention that
Mr. Addis lost, in scenery, lumber, etc., at least $1,500. Nothing was saved out of the theatre.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 27, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
There will be an afternoon exhibition of O'Neil's Diorama of the War, at
Turner's Hall, for the convenience of ladies and children, the admission being
only fifteen cents. The last
exhibition of this work will take place this evening, commencing at 7½ o'clock.
This is positively the last opportunity that will be afforded our
citizens of witnessing O'Neil's great work.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 27, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
[Correspondence of
the Times.]
Affairs at Fort
Gibson.
Fort Gibson, C. N., Jan. 18.
Editor Times.—The first terrific burst of winter is over. Snow, ice; thermometer twenty degrees below zero, and
the Arkansas river a foot thick with ice, so that heavy Government wagons could
rumble over it. Then there came a
thaw, a slight rise in the river, snow disappearing; again cold, thaw, frost,
mud, and general misery.
I do not know what you may have heard of misery here—doubtless
frightful stories of starvation and suffering.
It was, indeed, cruel to think that homeless women and little children
were huddled in comfortless camps, for miles and miles around the protecting
ramparts of Fort Gibson, the snow sifting in on the little helpless faces.
Half-clad, less than half-fed; five thousand helpless refugees clustered
here, they hardly knew why, and trusted for existence to they hardly knew what.
A large number of these refugees were negroes—negroes of the Indian
nation, whom the agents and the Indian authorities refuse to feed, because they are
not Indians. Formerly they used
to be sent to Kansas. As they have
many ties here, of course most of them would rather stay.
When
Colonel Ritchie was here, in a spirit of kindness he would not let
them be sent away in the trains. He
would not drive them out of camp, taking the ground that the President's
proclamation forbade it. The result
was, that bread was fed away to them, for which the army has suffered intensely.
On the day before Colonel Phillips assumed command, 2,500 rations were
issued to these refugees, and on that day there was not an ounce of flour left
in the commissary, while there were 3,000 soldiers to feed, two hundred miles
away from the base of supplies. The
mules were dead or dying for want of forage, only five poor teams being left in
the brigade train, and one of the most terrific winters ever known was just
setting in. To make the matter
worse, four hundred sacks of flour had been borrowed from the Indian agents, and
as this put them out of bread, starvation stared soldiers, Indians, negroes, all
in the face.
But it would not be justice to Colonel Ritchie to lay the blame of the
suffering on him. Those who were
responsible for sending supplies had evidently known but little, or cared even
less, about their duty. An
ignorance of what an army needs, and hoe it must be supplied, has proved the
utter incompetency of sundry men who have heretofore been fortunate in having
access to the press, to sound their own praises for deeds of valor, real or
imaginary, and the public is startled from its worship of "dead stars"
to gaze at trains—the last trains of the season—going down, begirt and
behuddled with hundreds of sutler wagons, so that certain parties may make an
"honest penny" ere "this cruel war is over," and not a pound
o flour for a starving army.
But the honest truth is, that the Kansas army has been run for the
benefit of a "close corporation."
Men whose brain and heart have been tested in the old Kansas struggle,
and who proved, by their ability, that they were "rulers amongst men,"
have been thrust aside, or put in secondary places, in order to give the power
of the army into the hands of men who would be supple tools.
Men who had no sense of their responsibilities, or decorum sufficient to
behave themselves in the dignified places into which they were thrust, carried
on the war as Kidd or Morgan, the bucaneers [sic], might have done.
Discouraged in the failing resources of the rebels, they discovered a
richer placer in the treasury of the Government.
Beef contractors, forage thieves and bogus horse buyers swarmed about the
camps. Sets and clusters of
officers were formed into a sort of Jacobin club, the cohesive element of which
was plunder. Officers were detailed
on fictitious duty, to edit papers, or write for them in the interest of these
parties, who were thus so able to pay them.
Ah! thus it has been with
the army of the grand little Commonwealth of Kansas; and while her people have
sent out her children to shed their blood gallantly on every battlefield of the
South-west. Weep not,
fathers—weep no, mothers—for the blood of your sons has been used to cover
up the follies and crimes of men too little and too weak for their
responsibilities; and the cry of radicalism is raised to embarrass the action of
a President who has consented to many weaknesses, because he regards Kansas
kindly, but who is ever startled from his disposition to treat her well by such
rogueries.
If there is a little feeling in what I have written, you should excuse it
by seeing the women and children around this place picking (like flocks of
snowbirds) the corn from amongst the feet of the mules that have come in with
flour trains.
At present, the soldiers get part rations of flour, with beef and salt,
but it has been with terrible exertion. The
worst of the strain seems to be past both ways—the weather and starvation.
But you would feel it now if you were in Fort Smith, from which place I
came a few days ago. Pandemonium
let loose, is the only description. To
make it worse, the grossest licentiousness is openly boasted of, and I blush to
think of even what the rebels will think of us.
I do not remember, or know much to communicate of military matters at
present here, except that a scout just arrived from the Canadian river brought
Colonel McIntosh's brother prisoner, and killed one or two rebels.
R.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 28, 1864, p. 2, c. 1
State Historical Society.
We are glad to learn, that we are to have a State Historical Society,
and, if it shall be rightly managed from the start, it will be of valuable
service to the historian hereafter.
But, with some knowledge of these institutions, of their rise and
difficulties, of their progress and benefits, we would urge those who have it in
charge, to look well to the selection of officers.
Whoever shall select or gather together documents, tracts, orations, law
opinions, land and school matters, and all that pertains to the actual life of
the past and present, or guard them, must be a man of special qualities.
Be he Librarian or Secretary, he will be the important
official—far more important than President.
Still that officer should be familiar with what is essential to a good
historical selection, and how best to make it.
For this reason, we should say, that Mr. Parrot was not the man.
As an orator, he will fill well the occasion, be it the inauguration of
the Society, or its annual celebration, but fine sentences, or pretty talking,
does not always harmonize with exact detail or the close labor, it requires.
For this, we are sure, he is not fit.
But let the friends of the Historical Society move on, and so move, that
it shall lay well its foundation. We
promise it whatever aid we can render, or can command.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 28, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
Edward Bates reached our city yesterday in the first overland
coach from Fort Smith. He was
twenty days on the route. The coach
belonged to the rebels once; it was a captured ambulance.
Mr. B. came through the Cherokee Nation, but he and his party (they had
no escort) saw no foe, and heard of no guerrillas.
All quiet at Fort Gibson and Fort Smith military wise.
Mr. B. will remain some weeks with us.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 28, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
A boy named David O. Dodd, aged seventeen, was executed, as a spy, at
Little Rock, Ark., on the 9th inst.
Secret dispatches to Gen. Fagan, rebel, and private letters to rebels in
Fagan's army, were found secreted on his person.
Several "conservatives," who harbored the youth while he was in
Little Rock, were arrested as accomplices. They should be made to suffer the
same fate of the boy, whom they encouraged in the crime that cost him his life.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 29, 1864, p. 2, c. 2
From Fort Smith.
We have received the Fort Scott Monitor of the 25th—by the
way, the first number for three weeks—through which we learn that Messrs.
Martin and Alexander arrived from Fort Smith on Thursday last, having left that
post on the 19th. . . .
The Monitor also has the following which appears to be later than the
above:
"We learn from Lieut. Bell, 12th Kansas, who has just
arrived from Fort Smith, that the army has been on half rations since the 1st
of December, 1863, and horses were dying off for want of forage.
A train for supplies was sent to Little Rock, but on arriving there, were
informed by the Quartermaster at the post that they would have to go to Pine
Bluff, sixty miles further, through a country that was dangerous to travel in
without a large escort. It was
rumored that a force from Price's army had started out to intercept them on
their return; he ascertained nothing definite as to whether they got through
safe or not.—Col. Williams was having a brush with the enemy at Roseville; a
portion of the 14th Kansas was sent to reinforce him.
The Colonel was making the "chips fly," so the last dispatch
that came in before our informant left stated.
There is enough subsistence at this post to supply the Army of the
Frontier, for six months, and why is it that the commander of that army don't
make some exertions to get them, and not have the men looking like so many
ghosts, when the time for action comes. We
have now a separate Department, Gen. Curtis in command, and immediate steps are
being taken to put things in such condition that men and officers will have no
room for complaint hereafter.["]
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 29, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
Cooter—the indefatigable, unconquered Cooter, is on his pegs again.
He will open to-day at his old stand on Third street, between Delaware
and Shawnee. The season will open
to-night with a new Opera, written expressly for the occasion by the Colporteur.
A talented corps of artistes will render it in the inimitable manner for
which they are so well known. Cooter
returns thanks to his many friends for their kind assistance in saving his
property at the late fire, and will be glad to extend them his duke, in right
good fellowship, any time to-day.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 31, 1864, p. 2, c. 5
A Union Spy in the
South.
Condition of the
Cotton States.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial gives a long and interesting
account of the experiences of a Union spy who has been traveling since the third
of August through the rebel states. He
found Gen. Bragg's army, at that time, on quarter rations; he reports that there
is a regular system of secret spies in every rebel regiment; that all the
disaffected are reported; and that the punishments are terrible.—Nevertheless
desertions are frequent.
"While riding through Northern Alabama and portions of Georgia,
deserters, in squads of from twenty-five to one hundred, were met almost daily
in the woods, seeking safety from the rebel cavalry, who were met on every
public and side road, in search of stragglers and deserters, and conscripting
all citizens who came in their way. In
many places he found regularly organized bands of deserters, stragglers and
runaway negroes, intrenched [sic] on the hills and mountains, prepared to resist
attempts at their capture. They
inhabit caves in some instances, and where no better means of shelter is at
hand, like the natives of the forest, they make burrows in hillsides."
These fugitives resist and attack the conscripting officers; they live
upon what they can rob the planters of.
The spy found Union men in all parts of the South, in the army and at
their homes. He found the poor in
favor of peace and Union; the planters generally desiring peace and disunion.
"Wherever he went he found the most intense suffering prevailing
among the soldiers' families. Thousands
drag out a miserable existence upon the paltry pittance derived from the
government, for the manufacture of army clothing, at which about one dollar per
day in Confederate money can be realized. Bread
riots are frequent, yet the newspapers do not mention them, lest the
intelligence reach their soldiery. They
are not confined to one or two places, but are universal in every city and town
throughout the South, where the poor, starving families can be collected
together. The spy witnessed many of
these riots, which he describes as extremely harrowing to the feelings of the
humane. To such an extreme are the
unfortunate families of soldiers driven that the women in towns and cities, as a
last resort, take to a life of prostitution. So general is this that the name of "war widows"
has become synonymous with a life of debauchery.
All but speculators are represented as in favor of repudiation.
Although fearing the confiscation of their cotton on the advance of the
federals, planters prefer to trust the chances than to dispose of it for rebel
currency. The soldiers, when asked
what their pay is per month, reply, 'fifty-five cents per month at present
rates.' The issue of notes is
$85,000,000 per month.—There is between $120,000,000 and $140,000,000 of rebel
counterfeit money in circulation, he was informed.
Peeling the Dead.
The supply of shoes and other articles is exhausted since the close of
the blockade, and those articles are no longer issued.—To clothe himself the
soldier must appeal to his wits. Instinct
naturally tells him that federal clothes are acceptable articles, and the
instant a Union soldier falls, if an opportunity presents itself, the rebel goes
through the operation called 'peeling the dead,' or, in other words, 'relieving
the dead Yank of his dry goods and crawling into them.'
But they do not confine the peeling process to our men.
In all their battles the shoeless soldiers are held in reserve, and as
the rebels fall their shoes are gathered up and placed upon the shoeless
brigade. At the battle of
Chickamauga, this was the case, and as many of our wounded fell into their hands
they had a large 'peeling bee' upon the battle-field on the night of September
20th.
The complete system of martial law renders it impossible for a citizen or
foreigner to pass through a single street without showing his papers.
At every corner a bayonet is presented, and woe be to the man who has not
the documents. All authority of
foreign consuls is ignored. No redress is given an alien subject for outrages
perpetrated. He is forced into the
ranks and kept there.
Curious Scene in a Southern Theatre.
He attended the theatre in Atlanta on the 10th of September, when 'Metamora' was brought out. In the scene where Metamora is assaulted by the British soldier, a rebel soldier exclaimed, 'Why don't you do like General Bragg—fall back on Atlanta?' Another exclaimed, 'Ill bet they don't belong to Bragg's army; they don't know how to retreat.' In another scene, where one of the characters is in danger, a soldier created much merriment by exclaiming, 'Don't hurt him; he is one of Bragg's commissaries. If you kill him we will be entirely without a ration. We are bad enough off as it is.' Still another cried, 'Flanked again, by golly. Well, Rosie is a great fellow; hurrah for Rosie.' This was the signal for loud cheers for old Rosie by the soldiers present. The provost guard interfered, and ended the disloyal demonstration, by marching off seven or eight of the participants to the guardhouse."
How the Rebels Respond to Habeas Corpus.
While my informant was sojourning at Selma, Georgia, a Mr. Evans, for refusing to receive Confederate money for some article, was seized, chained, and sent a prisoner to Fort Morgan, below Mobile. After lying in a prison for some time, he applied to an attorney to take out a writ of habeas corpus. The lawyer commenced proceedings, when a stop was suddenly put to them by the arrest of the lawyer, the application of balls and chains to his legs, and his transportation to Fort Morgan to keep Evans company. This summary way of responding to the writ is quite common in Dixie.
Thieves, and Hat-Grabbers.
Throughout the entire South the people, Jew and Gentile, bond and free,
indulge in petty thefts and robbery. A
traveler cannot put his boots outside of his door at night to be cleaned without
awaking in the morning to find them missing.
If a hat is left in the hall or at the hat-rack, it takes legs and
leaves. So expert are some of the
chivalry that if a man stretches himself in a railway station for a nap, while
waiting for the train, they will relieve him of his overcoat without awakening
him. On the departure of every
train a battalion of soldiers, negroes and citizens line the platform, and as
the train moves out they grab indiscriminately the hats and satchels of all who
may be standing on the platform of the cars.
To jump off is dangerous, and this, with the certainty of being delayed a
day or more, makes the victims submit with the best grace possible, and place
their hat down on their loss account."
He reports the poor, even in South Carolina, in favor of the Union.
In North Carolina Unionists speak openly.
The planters, who flee towards the centre of the "Confederacy"
with their slaves are coldly received, and called interlopers.
Male slaves in Alabama and Georgia sell for less than slave women,
because they are more apt to run away. In
many cases slaves are offered free to planters, for their keep, but are refused.
The defeat of Vallandigham in Ohio greatly discouraged the rebel leaders.
The railroads are in a most wretched condition.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 31, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
The Manhattan Independent of the 25th inst. says that, about
one week ago company G, Fifteenth Kansas regiment, passed through that place on
its way to Fort Riley, camping for the night in the woods skirting the banks of
the Big Blue river, opposite Manhattan. It
proceeds:
"The land on which this company camped belongs to a widow lady, Mrs.
Sarber, who lives on the place near where the company pitched their tents.
Her only two sons grown up are in the service, one in the Second and the
other in the Sixth Kansas regiment. Lieutenant
Hall, in command of the company, declared the house of Mrs. Sarber a secesh
house, broke open the door, and, followed by his men, forming a brutal mob,
proceeded to destroy the furniture and steal sundry articles.
These are the facts as we have them from an officer of the Fifteenth
Kansas regiment."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], January 31, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
The Philodramatic Society will give an entertainment at Harmony Hall
to-night. Ingomar will be rendered,
and one or two good farces given for the entertainment of the public.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 2, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
From Fort Smith.
[Special dispatch
to the Missouri Democrat.
Fort Smith, Jan. 25.--. . . Lieutenants S. Dutton and Berry, with 10 men
of the 14th Kansas, deserted two days since.
The Lieutenants were under arrest under serious charges. They took horses, stole about 100 revolvers, and are supposed
to have joined some bushwhacking gang.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 3, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
Three soldiers belonging to the 15th shot a discharged soldier
of the 11th K. V., on the Santa Fe road, last Thursday.
They took his overcoat and pony, and left him for dead.
He was afterwards picked up by the Fort Scott stage, and now lies at
Kansas City, in a critical condition. A
force has been sent out to capture the ruffians.
So says the K. C. Journal.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 3, 1864, p. 2, c. 3
Explained—Refugees and Relief.
We understand what was meant by the article headed "Kansas cries for
aid," (and which we answered week before last,) but we did not understand
it until to-day.
The aid sought for was for refugees, Indian and negro, whom the war had
forced from their old homes!
Ever since December, 1863, our correspondent—whose word every Kansan
would believe—has informed the public of the terrible condition of affairs at
Fort Smith and Fort Gibson.—Week in and week out, we have presented the sad
picture to the public. Two weeks
ago, we stated that "homeless women and little children were huddled in
comfortless camps for miles and miles around the protecting ramparts of Fort
Gibson—that, half-clad, less than half-fed, five thousand helpless refugees
clustered there, they hardly knew why, and trusted for existence to they
hardly knew what—that a large number of these refugees are negroes, whom the
Government Indian Agents refuse to feed because they are negroes—and
that to such a pinch of suffering were they reduced that they had to pick up the
undigested corn and food out of the dung of horse," &c., &c., and
in doing so, we have appealed earnestly and repeatedly to the public.
Beyond this, we have written to the War Department, and to Senator
Pomeroy, detailing these facts, and calling for immediate help, and for an
examination into the causes of this unnecessary and terrible suffering at
Fort Gibson and Fort Smith.
It was to relieve this suffering, to aid these starved or starving
refugees, that J. R. Brown made, in fitting terms and at a fit time, his appeal
to the generous in St. Louis, Chicago and Cleveland, for help, and it is to this
end, that the Hon. George A. Reynolds (just up from Fort Gibson) urges him, by
letter, after stating the facts we have stated, to continue that help.
Mr. Reynolds states that seeds, simple and cheap agricultural impliments
[sic], clothing and food, should be sent at once to the refugees, and adds:
["] Fort Gibson, Jan. 20, 1864.
J. R. Brown, Ag't Sanitary Commission:
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This country is in the latitude of Northern Tennessee, and with proper
encouragement they would be able to raise enough for their own subsistence by
the 1st of July next. Their
labor and knowledge of husbandry would not only furnish themselves with the
means, but would be of vast benefit to the loyal Indians now under the care and
support of the Government. Clothing
and food should be sent them at once. They
have lived all the winter on beef and a few bushels of corn, hauled and packed a
distance of one hundred miles.
Your earnest and immediate attention to this matter is needed to save
helpless women and children.
Yours, very respectfully,
Geo. A. Reynolds.["]
The last letter of our correspondent, dated January 6th,
informs us that, through the untiring and herculean efforts of Col. Phillips,
the point of starvation had passed, and the poor sufferers relieved in part.
But no gift, in money or means, can come amiss, and, as under the
direction of the Sanitary Agent, J. P. Brown, such gift and means will be
honestly applied. We trust that the
generous, at home and abroad, will hearken to his appeal, and answer it promptly
and generously.
Still, we repeat earnestly our call upon the War Department for its
action, and upon our Senators and Congressmen to demand from it both relief and
investigation. Such unheard-of
cruelty as has been practised at Forts Smith and Gibson—such monstrous
disregard of humanity, and such wanton defiance of all system and law, causing a
fearful amount of suffering, disease and death among soldiers and refugees, have
disgraced, nowhere, the public service.
Let the causes be made known! Let
wrong-doers, high or low, be exposed, rebuked and punished.
And if the proper authorities will not act; if no appeal shall be
answered by them; let the subject matter be introduced to the Committee on the
conduct of the War by the Governor and Legislature of the State of Kansas, or by
our representatives t Washington.
This inhuman conduct, resulting in such a wide wreck of human well-being,
and such a wild waste of human life, shall not go unexposed or unpunished, if we
can help it.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 3, 1864, p. 2, c. 3
A "Peculiar Institution" in Iowa.
Among the curious phases of Iowa society is "Amanua [sic—Amana]
Society," situated in Iowa county, twenty miles west of Iowa city.
From the Muscatine Journal we glean the following facts relative to this
community. It says:
"It numbers 800 members, and is divided into seven villages.
It is governed by trustees elected by all the members of the society.
The society owns 20,000 acres of land in one belt.
They have a large stock of horses, sheep and cattle—700 head of cattle,
12,000 head of sheep, and a large number of horses; also, 2,200 acres of land
under cultivation. They are engaged
to some extent in manufacturing, and have a good flouring and saw mill and a
large woollen factory in successful operation.—They card, spin, weave, full
all kinds of woollen goods, running twelve looms, nine narrow and three for
weaving broadcloth. Their machinery
is of the most perfect kind. They
will work up this season from 5,000 to 6,000 bales of wool.
The members of the society are all of a religious order.
Everything moves on in perfect harmony.
When necessary, the women aid in out-door work.
We saw twenty in one carrot patch, all at work.
In the same field eight teams were ploughing.
The society is destined to become wealthy."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 3, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
A Dog Mail Train.—The St. Paul (Minnesota) Pioneer publishes the
following extract of a letter from Pembina, showing how the mail is carried from
that point to Crow Wing:
"I should have written to you four days ago, but the mail had to lie
over one trip on account of the lameness of one of the carrier dogs.
You will probably think it strange that the great United States mail
should be delayed several days from such a cause, but nevertheless it was.
The mail is carried from here to Crow Wing, a distance of three hundred
and fifty miles, by dog trains, and if one set of dogs get footsore when their
turn comes the mail has to lie over. To-morrow
they say the dogs will be right and the mail will go forward. I saw the first dog mail train leave here on last mail day.
It consisted of three middling-sized dogs.
They had regular harness, very fancifully ornamented, and buckskin
saddles, gorgeously worked with beads. The
dogs are driven in tandem style. They
go from forty to fifty miles a day, the half-breed driver trotting behind most
of the way."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 5, 1864, p. 2, c. 2
Sanitary Statistics.
Our friend, J. R. Brown, has furnished us with a brief statement of his
receipts and disbursements of goods and money for the relief of refugees from
Missouri, Arkansas and the Indian country, who have come into Kansas for
protection. We gladly give to our
readers, and especially our Eastern friends, that they may be satisfied that
their liberal donations are taking the course for which they were designed.
J. R. Brown's statement in brief:
In September—From Cleveland. Ohio,
9 packages clothing and medicines; from Chicago, 8 packages clothing.
These were designed for and disbursed to sufferers by the Lawrence raid.
In November—From Cleveland, Ohio, 14 packages clothing, which was
disbursed to the refugees in Leavenworth.
In December—From Cleveland, 6 packages clothing and medicines; from
Philadelphia, 2 packages clothing; from Schineath's, N. Y., 2 packages clothing;
from Chicago, 2 packages clothing; from Rev. Robt. Collier, Chicago, cash, $100.
All of which was disbursed to refugees at Leavenworth, Lawrence and Fort
Scott, during the same month.
During the severe cold of January, in response to appeals made in behalf
of destitute refugees from other States, to Freedman's Aid societies East, I
received, in cash, from
Chicago....................................................$245
14
Cleveland,
Ohio............................................15 00
Talmadge,
Ohio.............................................54 70
Colored men of Leavenworth.....................__27 55
$342 39
From Cleveland, Ohio, 3 packages clothing.
Disbursed the same month, in cash, fuel, shoes, clothing and
provisions...................$271 85
Balance on hand of refugee fund,
70 54
During the same month the people of Leavenworth raised for the relief of
Soldiers' families exclusively, the sum of $2,190 36.
Disbursed during the month, $1,434 86, leaving a balance on hand of $755
50.
No. of soldiers' families aided,
145
" refugee "
"
_45
190
The average of families about 4
persons..........................760
--We have only to repeat, what we said before, that, whatever is sent to
Mr. Brown by societies, or by the generous at home or abroad, will be wisely and
well applied. He does his duty
faithfully.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 5, 1864, p. 2, c.
3-4
Summary: History
of Kansas Seventh Cavalry, organized October, 1861, now home
. . . Gen. Rosecrans, when the regiment had reached its
camp ground visited it. "Where
there is so much smoke, there must be some fire," said he.
"I don't regard the past; that's gone; I put you on your good
behavior." The Seventh heard
his words and acted. What that
action was, let the result show. At the end of three months hard service, Old Rosy, as the
boys love to call him, ordered the Seventh to be armed with Colt's Revolving
Rifle—the highest compliment he could pay it, and the only regiment, in his
army corps, which received that compliment!
Veterans! you have helped to
win an undying fame for Kansas, and Kansas will honor you.
You have fought as no hirelings fight; you have fought as FREEMEN for
FREEDOM. You come back in triumph,
and yet many of the bold and brave, your comrades, come not with you. The heroic Woodburn, and men as heroic as he, sleep, far
away, the soldier's last sleep! While, then, we bid you welcome with hearts
alive to your brave deeds and noble endurance; while we garland your brows with
the wreath of victory, let us remember the hallowed dead, and weave a chaplet of
cypress for them, the "true heirs of Freedom's glorious dower."
Yes, men of the Seventh Kansas, of you, the living and the dead, as the
warrior bard sung of warrior heroes, it may be said:
"No fearing, no doubting the soldier shall know,
When here stands his country, and yonder her foe;
One look at the bright sun, one prayer to the sky;
One glance where our banner floats glorious on high;
Then on, as the young lion bounds on his prey!
Let the sword flash on high, fling the scabbard away!
Roll on, like the thunderbolt over the plain—
We come back in glory, or come not again."
Veterans! welcome to
Leavenworth! Welcome, an earnest, a
hearty welcome, to Kansas!
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 5, 1864, p. 2, c. 4
Letter from Fort Smith.
Fort Smith, Ark., Jan. 20th, 1864.
Ed. Times:--A few days since the scouts brought in and had confined in
prison six members of the Southern confederacy, to their disgust; one of them
quite a noted personage, by the name of Fain, who figured in Kansas as U. S.
Marshal at one time, but lately as a beef contractor for the Confederacy, and at
the same time running for the rebel Legislature of Arkansas, with his pockets
full of paper of an inferior quality, sometimes called "Confed
notes.."
Thirty-eight Texans arrived in town yesterday, mostly from Collin,
Grayson and Fannin Counties, including one "intelligent contraband,"
who was captured near this place last fall, belonging to the 1st Kan.
Col. vol., who was confined for awhile in Fort Washita, and afterwards in
Bonham, Texas, from which place he made his escape, and reached this place, by a
circuitous route of near 300 miles, in six days and nights.
From them I learn, very correctly, the true state of affairs in that
country. There has existed a very
strong Union element in a large part of Texas ever since the rebellion
commenced, but all that have been suspected of loyalty have been most brutally
treated. At this time Quantrill,
with his band of outlaws, are encamped near the line between Cook and Grayson
counties, engaged in his usual avocation of murdering and plundering all who are
not in sympathy with the traitors. At
Bonham, where Gen. McCollough [sic] has his headquarters, large numbers of
prisoners are confined, with shackles on, and crowded together.
Many perish and are buried with their irons still on them, in graves so
shallow that the hogs root them up within a short time.
It is enough to make one's blood chill to hear these men recite the
scenes they have witnessed, of shooting, hanging, chasing with blood hounds, and
perpetration of all the savage cruelties that could be invented by fruitful
minds, steeped in villainy and nurtured by treason.
The "intelligent contraband" states that a company stationed at
Washita is composed of one Captain, one Lieutenant and four privates.
Many of their regiments are reduced to one or two hundred; and one of the
refugees stated that the 1st Kan. Col. Vols. is as large as any of
their brigades. The Camanche [sic] Indians are causing them some trouble on
the frontier. Not long since they
made a raid down into Cook Co., Texas, and drove off several hundred head of
horses, destroyed much property, and created a general stampede along the
border.
Col. Judson, 6th Kan. Cav., is now in command of this
District, Gen. McNeil being ordered to St. Louis some two weeks since.
Gen. Blunt and others left for Washington City a few days since, but if
you see them in Kansas, you need not ask them how much they have made, or expect
to make, out of their cotton investment, or horse dealing, as that might look
uncharitable, or at least be leading questions.
The Provost Marshal's Office here, under the superintendence of Lieut.
Col. E. A. Calkins, 3d Wis. Cav., is conducted in a very discreditable manner,
and has elicited the scorn and contempt of the unconditional loyal element of
the community, for the favoritisms shown to those in sympathy with treason, and
a disregard of the claims of the loyal, and by being turned into a huge
speculating concern.
As the mail closes in a few minutes, I must,
C.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 6, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
The Turn-Verein will give a masquerade ball at their hall, on Tuesday
night of next week. Every
precaution will be taken to prevent the attendance of worthless characters, and
every exertion used to make it the ball of the season.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 6, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
"Ho! for Bannock!" is
the cry. Large numbers are making
arrangements to visit the new Eldorado this spring, and in doing so they also
seek some mode of conveyance. Faivre
& Leary, gentlemen well known in this city, are making arrangements to not
only convey freight, but passengers, to Bannock.
They will start a passenger train about the first of March, and will take
passengers through in as short a time as possible, for the low sum of $100.
Those who wish to go to Bannock in this way, can rely upon it that
Messrs. F. & L. will fulfill all contracts for either freight or passengers.
See advertisement in another column.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 10, 1864, p. 2, c.
4
In a lecture at Portland, Maine, the lecturer, wishing to explain to a
little girl the manner in which a lobster casts his shell when he has outgrown
it, said, "What do you do when you have outgrown your clothes?
You cast them aside, do you not?"
"Oh, no," replied the girl, "we let out the tucks."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 10, 1864, p. 3, c.
1
Six deserters from the Fourteenth Kansas were captured near Neosho Rapids
last week. One of the party is a
Lieutenant. They are no doubt part
of the guardhouse crew which Blunt permitted to be recruited at Fort Scott, in
order that some of his friends might obtain commissions.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 10, 1864, p. 3, c.
1
Work cattle are selling in this city at $80 and $125 per yoke, with a
fair prospect of an advance. The
large emigration that is making ready to visit the Gila river and Bannock mines
will take off most of the surplus cattle in this section.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 13, 1864, p. 2, c. 3
Refugees at Fort Smith.
"Truth" figures in the Conservative, (don't smile, good reader!
for we don't refer to the glorious virtue itself) but to a correspondent who
plies the word under falsehood's mask.
Patient soul! is the editor of the Conservative.
Actually, he held back the communication for several whole days.
"Which has been in our drawer several days" are his exact
words. But not only must we commend
the patience of the editor—but the correspondent.
What shall we say of him? "He
is fully acquainted with the matter under consideration."
Indeed! what with the
patience of the editor, and the "full information" of the
correspondent, then, we must have a flood of light "upon the matter under
consideration." Let us see
about it.
Gov. Carney had nothing to do with the contract relating to the Refugees.
That belonged, wholly, to Thomas Stevens—was made and filled by him.
But to avoid all cavil, let it stand as if Carney were equally
interested, and thereupon, let judgment be entered upon the facts.
Thus they stand, as by the papers on record:
The contract to supply Indians run for over three months.
It was entered into and signed by Thomas Stevens alone, he giving his
individual bond for its fulfillment.
That contract was signed on the 22d of October and was to close December
31, 1863—or, in other words, was to run over two months.
There was, on the 20th of Dec., 400 sacks of flour at Fort
Gibson—put there by Thomas Stevens—a sufficient quantity to supply the
Indians up to the 31st Dec., or the time when the contract closed.
On the 16th Jan. 1863, Mr. Stevens received a letter from W.
P. Dole, Commissioner of Indian Affairs at Washington, requesting a
renewal of the contract—so well satisfied was that distinguished officer
with the manner in which the first had been fulfilled!
Mr. Stevens complied, and, quickly as they could be loaded, trains, with
flour were started for Fort Gibson. These
reached there, and when they did so, cost the contractor, sixteen dollars per
sack. Of course, he lost money upon
the contract, but he filled it to the letter.
All the papers are here, and if "Truth" or the editor of the
Conservative, desire it, they shall be laid before them.
As for that matter, any doubting citizen, may gratify his curiosity!
Thanks to the Conservative. Its
patience has been of service. Thanks,
too, to its correspondent with a nickname, "Truth." He enables us to squash an indictment we have heard of for
some time, and, we trust that one or two others—perhaps in the patient
editor's drawer—(wait a little, and we will open ours,) may be forthcoming,
for we want to crush them, as quickly and completely as we have crushed this
falsehood.
But again we renew the broad challenge.
The Conservative endorses its correspondent—declares him to be fully
informed about the Refugees. Let
him, like a man, give his name to the public, and by petition with us, and with
the editor of the Conservative, if he dare, to the proper authorities, demand a
full investigation all round, and all through.
We insert Mr. Stevens' card below:
To the Public.
My name has been used in the Conservative, in connection with a contract
to supply the Southern Refugee Indians in Kansas and the Cherokee Nation.
The contract was for supplies, as per estimate of the Superintendent,
"at such times and in such quantities, as the Superintendent of Indian
Affairs, Agents or Commissary, at any of points named in Kansas or the Cherokee
Nation, might direct." An
advertisement to this effect was published in the daily Conservative, TIMES and
Bulletin. This contract commenced
from the notification of the office of Indian Affairs.
It was confirmed Oct. 21st, and signed Oct. 22d, 1863, and
expired on the 31st of Dec., 1863—not Dec., 1864, as stated by
"Truth."
This contract I fulfilled.
It was renewed thereafter, January 16th, 1864, to be continued
until further notice. Under this
second contract, by requisition of the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, or his
authorized agent, (for without that I could not and cannot forward a dollar's
worth of anything,) I have sent fifteen hundred sacks of flour and such other
supplies as were ordered. I was
ready to meet these orders, before the military escort to accompany the train
was ready, and I met them—not at a gain, as asserted by "Truth," but
at a loss of over six thousand dollars.
Thomas Carney had no knowledge of this contract.
It was made in my name, and I and my bondsmen are alone responsible.
For full and specific reference to the first and second contract, see
files at the office of Indian Affairs, in this city, or the office of Indian
Affairs at Washington.
Thomas C. Stevens.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 14, 1864, p. 3, c.
2
The exhibition last night, at Turner Hall, passed off pleasantly.
The set-toos were rather spirited on the whole, and better may be
expected on Wednesday evening, when another exhibition will be given.
The singing of young Conner was well received, and substantially
acknowledged. "No Irish Need
Apply," was heartily applauded. Mr.
Orem, in his Indian War Club exercises, fully shows the extent to which physical
strength can be expanded, as did also the breaking of a huge rock on the chest
of another athlete.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 14, 1864, p. 3, c.
1
During the past week our streets were crowded with men and teams
outfitting for the Bannock mines and points in the interior.
The roads are good, and everything indicates a lively spring business,
and the lion's share for Leavenworth!
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 16, 1864, p. 3, c.
1
Bill 144, for the protection of game, passed the House on Saturday.
Good for the prairie chickens.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 16, 1864, p. 3, c.
1
We have received the Santa Fe New Mexican of the 31st.
From it we learn that Col. Kit Carson has been in pursuit of the Navajoes,
killing and capturing a large number. The
New Mexican also contains encouraging accounts from the Arizona gold mines, but
states in connection that the scarcity of water will make mining an unprofitable
business.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 16, 1864, p. 3, c.
1
Faivre & Leary state their first train for Bannock this morning, in
charge of the junior member of the firm. Simmons
& Staiger ship through them a very fine stock of cigars, tobacco, etc.
Our young friend, Dave Staiger, goes out to start a branch house in the
new Eldorado. Dave has a host of
admirers here, who will be glad to learn of his success.
Arthur attends to the business in this place, and to see that the Idaho
branch house is well supplied with the great solacer of all our ills—good
"weed."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 17, 1864, p. 2, c. 3
Affairs at Gibson.
Colonel Phillips
on the March—His Circular.
Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation,}
January 31,
1864.
}
To-day Colonel Phillips is crossing his troops over the Arkansas, for an
advance move toward Red river. Every
effort respecting this point has been strained for some time.
Until now, it was impossible to get provisions enough on hand to start
with. The transportation was not in
a fit condition, and although resources are still weak, it is determined to
move, so as to clean out the rebels before the melting snow and spring rains
make everything impassable.
The Fourteenth Kansas will be part of the command.
The enemy have been trying to concentrate on the Canadian, sixty miles
south of here, but whether to repulse an anticipated attack, or to attack us, is
not known.
A part of the command—four companies, with major Wright—is running
Rheas' mills, in order to make flour and get forage.
A garrison will be left, with the equipage, at the Fort here.
I enclose a copy of the circular issued on the even of march. It is in English, Creek and Cherokee.
Headquarters First Brigade,}
Army of the
Frontier, }
Fort Gibson, Jan. 30, 1864.}
Soldiers—I take you with me to clean out the Indian Nation south of the
river, and to drive away and destroy the rebels there.
Let me say a few words to you that you are not to forget.
Do not begin forming in battle until you are ordered.
When you fire, aim low, about the knee; or at the lower part of a man's
body, if on horseback. Never fire
in the air. Fire slowly, and never
until you see something to shoot at that you may hit. Do not waste your ammunition.
Do not straggle, or go away from the command. It is cowards only that leave their comrades in the face of
the enemy. Nearly all the men we
get killed are our stragglers.
Keep with me close and obey orders, and we will soon have peace. Those
who are still in arms are rebels, who ought to die.
Do not kill a prisoner after he has surrendered, but I do not ask you to
take prisoners.
I ask you to make your footsteps severe and terrible.
We have offered peace too long, and our offer has been insulted.
The time has now come when you are to remember the authors of all your
sufferings, those who started a needless and wicked war, who drove you from your
homes, who robbed you of your property.
Stand by me faithfully, and we will soon have peace.
Watch over each other to keep each other right, and be ready to strike a
terrible [blow] on those who murdered your wives and little ones by the Red
Fork, along the Verdigris, or by Dave Vann's Cow Pens.
Do not be afraid. We have always beaten them.
We will surely win.
God go with us!
W. S. Phillips,
Colonel Commanding.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 17, 1864, p. 3, c.
2
George M. Lee advertises, in today's Times, a large lot of Osage and
White Willow plants, for fencing purposes.
The plants are of a fine quality, and will make a fence superior to
anything we have in Kansas.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 17, 1864, p. 3, c.
1
Woodson Townsend, the negro charged with committing rape upon the person
of a white woman, some few weeks since, has been tried.
The jury brought in a verdict of guilty, fixing the punishment at six
years' imprisonment. He was clearly
proven guilty of the crime charged. The
punishment is not sufficient, but a new trial has been applied for, which, if
granted, should enable him to obtain all the justice he so richly deserves.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 17, 1864, p. 3, c.
1
We learn from the Fort Smith New Era, of the 30th ult., that
Capt. Barker, Second Kansas Cavalry, in command of a scouting party, consisting
of detachments of the Second and Sixth Kansas Cavalry, came suddenly upon a
party of guerrillas, under command of Capt. Williamson, near Sulphur Springs in
Rock county. The rebels were in log
houses, and fired upon our advance before the latter were aware of the presence
of an enemy. When the whole command
got together, they made a charge, killing six of the desperadoes, among them
their Captain, and took the balance, over thirty, prisoners.
Our loss, one man of the Second Kansas killed, and three wounded.
The Era also states that the prisoners had arrived at Fort Smith, and
that among them were several who had deserted from our army to the rebels.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 17, 1864, p. 3, c. 3
Osage—Willow—Orange
For Sale.
100,000 Osage
Orange Plants,
80,000 White
Willow Cuttings,
All grown on my farm and of superior quality, for sale and ready for
delivery, at the Scott Farm, in Jefferson county.
G. M. Lee.
Leave orders at Grant & Prest's, or at the farm.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 18, 1864, p. 2, c. 1
An Answer.
"A pious friend" writes us complaining of our use of the word
"ruffian," i connection with the frauds committed at Forts Smith and
Gibson, and the terrible suffering of refugees, and even soldiers, caused by
sheer, by wanton negligence.
Perhaps, it is not the right word. "It
is the only one," our friend says, to which I object, since I have read
your paper. We say, perhaps;
for consider the case. Men, women
and children are driven from their homes by rebel ferocity; they come into our
lines; we welcome them, and then, let them half starve or perish with cold.
They eat anything, even the undigested food out of the dung of animals!
Our soldiers—men periling all for liberty and the old flag—are put on
half rations! While this is done,
speculators grow rich, and they who wear stars on their shoulders roll in
wealth! Shall indignation be
silent? Must it measure its words?
Should it trim and bow and softly condemn?
In high heaven, crimes like these will be held black, and, on earth, they
cannot be defended.
The complaint of our friend reminds us of an anecdote Sir Robert Peel,
when Secretary of Ireland, justified the "coercion bill."
Waxing warm and rhetorical, as he described "the ruffianism of the
white boys," he exclaimed, "then the evil genius of Ireland raised her
bloody hand."
Of course the London Times published the speech; but omitted the word
underscored. Sir Robert demanded an
explanation. The reporter was sent
for, and the following dialogue ensued:
"Why, sir," asked Sir Robert, "did you omit the word
bloody?"
"I wrote the speech so," replied the reporter, "because I
thought the interests of the Times, and the demands of good taste, required it;
for you must own, sir, that "bloody" is rather a coarse word."
"Yes," said Sir Robert, restraining with difficulty his boiling
indignation, "yes—yes, I admit that 'bloody' is a strong and a coarse
word, but still it is sometimes appropriate.
For instance, if I were to say you are a ______ fool, it would, no doubt,
be very coarse—but it would be very true!"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 18, 1864, p. 2, c. 6
Grand Variety
Exhibition
at
Turner's Hall,
On Wednesday
Thursday and Friday
Evenings, Feb. 17th,
18th and 19th
Manager and
Proprietor.................Mr. John C. Orem.
The performance
will consist of Acrobatic, Gymnas-
tic, Ethiopian,
Terpsicorian and Sparring Feats.
Mr. John Con.
Orem,
Champion of
America!
(Middle Weights,)
will appear in his celebrated
Indian War Club
Exercise!
There will be
several set-toos by all the talent of
Leavenworth, and
also of the Fort. In the course of
the evening there
will be grand display of science be-
tween Mr. John C.
Orem and Prof. McNab, of
Glasgow, Scotland.
Mr. John Jerome,
will appear in his
daring feat of Flying Trapeze.
Mr. Thomas Deal
as Hercules, who
will have a Rock Broke on His
Breast, Weighing
Six Hundred Pounds.
Mr. Pat. Connor,
the celebrated Irish Comedian
will appear in
some of his favorite songs.
M'lle Emma Jerome,
the charming Danseuse
will appear in
some of her favorite dances.
Miss Miranda
Jerome, the charming Vocalist
will enliven us
with her melodies.
And last, but not
least, Tommy and Wally, the
wonder of the
world, will appear in some of their
rich acts.
Doors open at 7
o'clock. Performance to commence
at 8 precisely.
Tickets, 50 cts.
Reserved seats, $1 00.
On Saturday next,
the 20th instant
Mr. John C. Orem
will wrestle with
Mr. Joseph Rigsby,
for $500 and the
Championship. A host of talented
artists have
kindly volunteered for this occasion.
For this night
seats will be $1 00. Reserved seats
$2 00.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 19, 1864, p. 3, c.
1
J. Wilkes Booth, the "eminent tragedian," has just concluded an
engagement at Nashville, Tenn.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 19, 1864, p. 3, c.
1
The barbers of St. Joseph have come down to their old price, ten cents,
for shaving. The citizens couldn't
"stand the press."
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 19, 1864, p. 3, c.
2
The local reporters have their jests and jeers, their fun and fancy, as
well as other people, and here is a simple record "ye Bohemian" of the
Memphis Bulletin gives for the year 1863. As
the various Insurance companies, Savings Banks, State Officials, Aid and
Missionary Societies, are making their annual reports and publishing long
columns of figures, which are of most intense interest to the reading public
generally, we give the reporter's statement in full, and vouch for its accuracy
and correctness:
Report.
Times.
Been asked to
drink.......................................................................................11,393
Drank,...........................................................................................................11,392
Requested to
retract............................................................................................415
Didn't
retract.......................................................................................................416
Invited to parties, receptions, presentations, &c., by
people fishing
for
puffs...............................................................................................3,333
Took the
hint........................................................................................................33
Didn't take the
hint...........................................................................................3,300
Threatened to be
whipped..................................................................................174
Been
whipped........................................................................................................0
Whipped the other
fellow.......................................................................................4
Didn't come to
time............................................................................................170
Been promised bottles of champagne, whisky, gin, bitters,
boxes of cigars,
&c., if we would go after
them............................................................3,650¼
Been after
them.....................................................................................................0
Going
again...........................................................................................................0
Been asked "What's the
news?"..................................................................200,000
Lied about
it.................................................................................................99,987
Been to
church......................................................................................................2
Changed
politics..................................................................................................33
Expected to change
still........................................................................................33
Cash on
hand.....................................................................................................$00
Gave for
charity...................................................................................................$5
Gave for a terrier
dog.........................................................................................$23
Sworn off bad
habits..........................................................................................722
Shall swear off this
year......................................................................................723
Number of bad
habits............................................................................................0
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 20, 1864, p. 2, c. 1
Another
Fire—Half a Block of Buildings
in Ruins—Loss
About $100,000.
It seemed a dark day for Leavenworth when, on the 15th day of
June, 1858, the morning sun rose on a charred and blackened district that a
fiery element had lapped with its devouring tongue.
The timid trembled for the future—the croakers set us down as ruined,
and even the bravest feared our then young but noble city had received a shock
from which she would not soon recover. Scarcely
were the embers cold ere hammer and plane and trowel were at work, and the very
smouldering ruins begat a hum of industry that bespoke an unconquerable will,
which neither misfortune nor depression could vanquish.
That same district has again been laid in ashes. . . .
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 20, 1864, p. 3, c.
1
A man was fined by the Mayor yesterday for refusing to work at the
fire.—Hundreds of similar cases came under out observation.
Serve it up to 'em all, Mister Mayor, in like does [sic], and double up
if the malady is catching.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 20, 1864, p. 3, c.
1
The Fencibles No. 2 having voted to turn in all the Austrian rifles and
the accoutrements accompanying the same, each member having such arms and
accoutrements in his possession is hereby directed to deliver the same to Lieut.
J. R. Bailey, at the office of the City Marshal, forthwith.
By order
Z.
E. Briton, O. S.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 21, 1864, p. 3, c.
1
The Turn Verein Society have determined to fire a salute, in honor of the
father of his country, the immortal Washington, to-morrow morning, (the 22d) on
the rise of ground adjoining Gov. Carney's mansion.
They return thanks to the citizens for their liberal donations in
furtherance of the laudable object.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 21, 1864, p. 3, c.
1
Our German friends will have a grand celebration on Washington's
Birthday. It is gotten up under the
direction of the Philodramatic Society, and will be held at Harmony Hall, on
Monday evening, Feb. 22d. The
programme will be found in our advertising columns.
The occasion, doubtless, will be an interesting one, and we expect to see
the hall crowded. Don't forget the
celebration by the Philodramatic Society, at Harmony Hall.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 21, 1864, p. 3, c.
1
We are fully aware of the criminality attached to the simple request that
our streets and thoroughfares be cleaned of the Augean accumulation of filth and
rubbish which encumber them. It is
a flagrant act of audacity on the part of any citizen to point out its necessity
in view of the approach of warm weather. An
evening cotemporary, some time since, referred to the matter in an article
pungent and to the point, but its suggestions have passed unheeded, and our
by-ways and high-ways remain as they have been during the past six months.
As far as our individual health and comfort is concerned, we can quietly
await coming events, and allow the streets to remain in their natural condition,
until we were fortunate enough to secure the services of some Hercules of a
contractor or the fitful efforts of old Boreas, to perform the difficult task,
did we not feel it incumbent upon us, in the name of the health and cleanliness
of our city to urge our authorities to take measures to abate the nuisance as
soon as practicable. Their delay of
prompt action in the matter can but justify the idea that they are expecting the
streets will be purified, one of these days, by a second deluge, the tail of the
next comet, or the superfluous garments of our lady pedestrians.
Leavenworth, at present, is dirtier, has more garbage and filth in its
sewers and alleys, than for the past nine or ten months; in truth, the shovel
brigade has become a myth, and one of our "things" has sunk into
oblivion. We venture the assertion
that there is enough accumulated soil in our city to manure the Government Farm
during the next ten years. Something
should be done, and done immediately. The
dirt and dust is bad enough now, and in a month or so will be intolerable.
Should a pluvial dispensation be our lot, and old Sol look down upon us with
scorching rays, the effluvia arising from the magnetism of his smile will either
breed a pestilence, or sensibly increase the average amount of sickness and
mortality. Will those, therefore,
who have the safety and well-being of our city in their keeping, please hurry up
and devise some means for cleaning our city and keeping it clean.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 21, 1864, p. 3, c.
2
Our city will soon be crowded with eager gold hunters, outfitting for the
new Eldorado in Idaho Territory. "Westward
the tide of emigration takes its way," said good Bishop Berkley, which all
true Americans believe, and are bent on proving.—Every body is talking of
"Bannock," everybody is going to Bannock—men, women and
children—if you take everything for granted you hear everybody say.
"Bannock on the brain" is the new disease, while the
"Pike's Peak Pilgrim" has toiled and sweated onward out of existence.
We remember these pilgrims well, first in '48 and '50 and then again '58
and '60—fussy, furious fellows, rushing, roysterous, rampageous mortals,
flitting from stables to stores, from stores to camps, from camps to corrals,
stopping for no one—but A No. 1. The
suffering and privations gone through by these ideal Utopian-finders, will be
warning to none—the pangs of hunger and the dangers of a wild, unbroken
wilderness, will deter none from rushing madly and blindly on.
No argument, no sophistry can convince them but what their fortune
lies somewhere in the far "Westward"—a pot of gold in the end of the
rain-bow, like nursery children's legends, to be had for the going after.
As we said at first, emigration will soon begin to pour thick and fast
upon us. Leavenworth, fulfilling
the glorious promise of her youth, and keeping up her good name, will be as busy
as a swarm of bees. Well, let it come. We
are used to the hurry scurry, fuss and flurry consequent in a trading mart, with
a population and business capacity, such as Leavenworth possesses.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 21, 1864, p. 3, c.
3
Fort Smith, Ark., Feb. 20.
. . . The survivors of a party of Texan loyalists arrived
yesterday. The main party was
attacked in the Kenosha Valley, 120 miles from here, and all but 11 killed or
captured. All roads are closely
guarded now, making it very difficult to escape.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 21, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
Fruit Growers, Attention!
The subscriber offers for sale, this spring, the following articles of nursery stock, to-wit:
Apple Trees!
A large quantity, of fine size, and of best leading varieties, suited to the climate and soil of Missouri and Kansas.
Budded Peach Trees!
Several thousand, best leading varieties for this country.
Grape Vines!
Two years old rooted plants, embracing Concord, Delaware, Clinton, Catawba, Isabella, Rebecca, and various others of the best leading kinds.
Strawberry Vines!
Some sixty thousand, among which are the following extra fine varieties: Wilson's Albany, (unsurpassed,) Scarlet Magnate, (very fine,) Triumph de Grande, (highly esteemed,) Jenny Lind, (very early,) and many other fine varieties.
Wm. M. Howsley.
Two miles West of Leavenworth City.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 23, 1864, p. 2, c.
1
The twenty-second, Washington's birthday, was celebrated in our city.
The Turners met the morning with a roaring welcome of Old Kickapoo.
In the evening the Germans by tableaux—admirably gotten up—by music,
reading the Declaration of Independence, and the Americans, at Turner Hall in
festive dance, remembered the day.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 23, 1864, p. 3, c.
1
The guard house at the Fort was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning.
Nothing was left of the building save the bare walls.
It is said that the building was fired by Pickels.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 23, 1864, p. 3, c.
1
The weather is fine and mild for the season, and the streets are
exceedingly dusty. Watering carts
should be introduced to the public. They
would have a soothing effect on the dust. There
is enough of it lying around loose.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 23, 1864, p. 3, c.
1
The wrestling match, at Turner's Hall, on Saturday night, between John C.
Orem and Joseph Rigsby, was won by the former.
The match was--$500 and the championship, side hold, best two in three.
Mr. Orem's titles are getting numerous—champion of Colorado, champion
of America, middle weights, champion wrestler of Kansas, besides others of minor
consideration.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 23, 1864, p. 3, c.
2
Washington's birth-day was heralded in yesterday by old Kickapoo, under
the management of the German Turners, and by the artillery at the Fort.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 25, 1864, p. 3, c.
2
The following communication in regard to remarks we made on the case of
the State vs. Townsend, has been handed us for publication. When we wrote the paragraph complained of, we supposed the
case concluded, else we should not have been so free in our remarks.
We hold that, while a case is before the courts, nothing should be done
by the public journals to prejudice the interests of either plaintiff or
defendant, and for this reason, and to deal justly with all parties, we give the
communication a place in our columns.
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Mr. Editor:--I see in this morning's TIMES a short paragraph in reference
to the trial and conviction of Woodson Townsend, charged wit the commission of
rape upon Elizabeth McFarland. That
paragraph I do not regard as strictly just and true. I therefore, as Attorney for the defendant on trial, propose
to make a brief statement of teh evidence as presented in the case.
The State called the said Elizabeth McFarland, who testified that on the
17th of January last, Sunday, she started with defendant for the
railroad depot in Missouri, opposite Atchison, to get her goods.
Sunday night she got to Atchison; that she put up with a black family,
composed of five or six adults, male and female; that all lodged in one room.
The next morning she got her goods and started for Leavenworth; arrived
at the end of Government Lane about dark. There
the defendant made an attempt to ravish her, and did ravish her, after a contest
of two hours. Then she got out of
the wagon, and went to a Mr. Murry's house, and told him "what the poor
devil was doing." Murry says
he asked her if defendant accomplished his purpose; she said he did.
The woman then said she went from Murry's to a milkman's named Samuel
Sully, asked him to take her to town. He did so, and she made complaint to the
police of an assault upon her by defendant; that he choked her, tore her
clothes, and struggled with her for two and a half hours.
She stated on the trial that she hollooed what she could; that her neck
was sore, bruized [sic] and stiff, in consequence of defendant's treatment.
That is all the principal evidence on the State, going directly to the
offence charged.
The defendant then introduced Taylor Turner, a colored man, who testified
that he was coming to town on the same road, at the same time; knew Townsend and
his wagon and team; that he got on the hind end of the wagon to ride; those
inside could not see him; did not know he was there; the wagon got to the end of
Government Lane about dark; that there was no scuffle, no contest, no hollooing
in the wagon by the woman. He heard
defendant call her a rebel; she got mad, and said she would have him arrested,
and got out of the wagon.
Defendant next proved by Amelia Lease that the woman, McFarland, stated
to her at milk-man's house, that Townsend did not ravish her; he was too drunk;
she prayed to God and got away.
Samuel Sully testified that the woman McFarland told defendant's wife in
his presence, that he tried to take the advantage of her, but, thank God, he was
not quite strong enough.
Mr. Miller, a neighbor of Townsend and of the woman, as she lived in
Sully's house, hearing of the charges, choking and spotted neck, &c., went
over to see if these things were so. He
testified that he went over to see the woman the second morning after the
alleged commission of the offence; he found her with a low-necked dress on, neck
bare, limber and white as usual, without any discoloration.
Prosecuting witness McFarland said she was enciente, and within
four or five weeks of her confinement at the time of the perpetration of the
offence.
Defendant called three physicians, who testified that such a scuffle,
struggle and contest with a man as represented, could not take place, in all
probability, without causing a premature birth.
Dr. Stiles said in nineteen cases out of twenty it would be so.
Mr. Vanhorn testified that this McFarland woman's reputation for truth
and veracity is bad, and that he would not believe her under oath.
Defendant had other witnesses, but they could testify only as to personal
knowledge—not as to reputation.
The State called a Mr. and Mrs. Graham to support her.
A Mrs. Jewett knew her two years ago; had not seen her but two or three
times since; from her knowledge then, her reputation was good.
The State called also some others who have been charged with various
criminal offences, but they did not appear.
The foregoing statement I believe to be a correct summary of the
evidence. The jury rendered a
compromise verdict—imprisonment and confinement at hard labor for six years.
A motion is pending for a new trial.
There are good and honest men who heard the trial, who cannot think the
defendant guilty of the offence, while there are others, borne along by their
violent prejudices, seem ready to convict a colored man of this or any other
crime.
Yours for justice,
C. H. Crane.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 27, 1864, p. 3, c.
1
Prof. Foster's exciting scientific soirees at Turners' Hall are decidedly
the rage. Thursday night every seat
was occupied, and many were turned away for want of room. Every experiment was a success.
The hydrogen cannon, the repeating candle, and the balloon ascension,
were performed with a skill which evinced thorough study and long practice.
Finally, the laughing gas reached in its operations the very climax of
the droll—the irresistibly humorous, mingled with something of the pathetic,
the musical and the dramatic—and the effects were received with shouts of
applause. The remaining two
lectures will be given on Wednesday and Thursday evenings of next week.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 28, 1864, p. 2, c. 1
Welcome Day.
Let the people give TO-MORROW to the Veterans of the Eighth.
How many days, year in and year out, have they devoted to us! How many wearisome days and nights have they spent for our
common country, amid privations and peril! shall we not, then, with heart and
hand unite in the welcome to them?
Let business be suspended. Let
those employing men give them a holiday, and let employers close their
establishments! For we want to see
the people out; to look into their glad eyes; to hear their glad shout.
We want the cannon to ring, as the Veterans shall come to meet us, and to
hear our greeting!
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 28, 1864, p. 2, c. 2
Col. Phillips—District of the Frontier.
Col. Phillips, with his brigade, met, on the 14th, at Middle
Boggy river, (one hundred miles Southeast of Fort Smith) a band of rebel Texans
and Indians, and had a lively skirmish. The
foe were 3,000 strong. Only a small
portion of the forces, on either side, were engaged.
Rebels killed, forty. Federals,
one. The enemy were pursued nearly
to Fort Arbuckle; after that Col. Phillips fell back to the Canadian.
Gen. Steele has issued orders, by direction of the War Department,
including Fort Smith, in the district of Arkansas, and the command of Gen.
Thayer, to be called the District of the Frontier. The
latter officer has established Headquarters at Fort Smith, and commanders of
Posts, Brigades, &c., are ordered forthwith to report.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], February 28, 1864, p. 2, c.
4
Summary: History
of the Eighth Kansas Infantry.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 1, 1864, p. 2, c. 1-2
Summary: Procession,
speech, and dinner for the Eighth Kansas Infantry.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 1, 1864, p. 3, c. 3-4
Summary: Loyal
Union League being used to shelter horse thieves and murderers, centered in
Leavenworth, mayor D. B. Anthony believed to be the "Great Archbishop of
this mischief"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 1, 1864, p. 3, c. 2-4
Summary: More
on the other side of the Union League/horse thief controversy
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 2, 1864, p. 3, c. 5
Leap Year's ball, at the Turner, the last night of February, was a
success. The ladies gave it, and
that's enough. It was admirably
managed—the supper fine—the dance joyous and exhilarating.
Can there not be a Leap Year's ball once a month?
So much was this enjoyed, all are for it; or let the gents try their hand
and see if they can equal—for they can't beat it.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 3, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
See notice of Sisters of Charity Hospital.
This institution, as a benevolent and needed one, has no superior in the
west. It is a living monument of
the generosity of the Sisters, and an honor to our city.
We trust our citizens will feel that interest in sustaining it, which
becomes those who are generous and mindful of the wants of those who are so
unfortunate as to require its aid.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 3, 1864, p. 3, c. 3
Hospital of the Sisters of Charity
This institution will be open for the reception of patients
on and after the 15th inst. For
particulars, apply at the Hospital, corner of Seventh and Kiowa streets.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 4, 1864, p. 3, c. 4
The Romance of the War.
We have just been put in
possession of the facts of a sad case of monomania, which had a terrible
termination. A young lady residing
in Brooklyn, N. Y. about 19 years of age, about a year since became inspired
with the idea that she was a second and modern Joan of Arc, called by Providence
to lead our armies to certain victory in this contest.
The hallucination was a strong one and a change of scene being suggested
by her physician, she was brought to Ann Arbor, in this State.
Her mania, however, increased until it was found necessary to confine her
to her apartment. She, however, succeeded in making her escape, came to this
city and joined the drum corps of a Michigan regiment, her sex known only to
herself, and succeeded in getting with her regiment to the Army of the
Cumberland.
How the poor girl survived the
hardships of the Kentucky campaign, where strong men fell in numbers, must
forever remain a mystery. The
regiment to which she was attached had a place in the division of the gallant
Van Cleve, and during the bloody battle of Lookout Mountain, the fair girl fell,
pierced in the left side by a Minie ball, and when borne to the surgeon's tent
her sex was discovered. She was
told by the surgeon that her wound was mortal, and he advised her to give her
name that her family might be informed of her fate.
This she finally, though reluctantly, consented to do, and the colonel of
the regiment, although suffering himself from a painful wound, became interested
in her behalf, and prevailed upon her to let him send a dispatch to her father.
This she dictated in the following manner:
"Mr. -------, No. --,
Willoughby st. Brooklyn:
Forgive your dying daughter. I have but a few moments to live. My native soil drinks my blood.
I expected to deliver my country, but the fates would not have it so.
I am content to die. Pray,
Pa, forgive me. Tell ma to kiss my
daguerreotype. EMILY."
"P. S.--Give my gold watch to
little Eph. (The youngest brother
of the dying girl.)
The poor girl was buried on the
field on which she fell in the service of her country, which she fondly hoped to
save.—[Detroit Advertiser.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 4, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
A meeting of the German citizens will be held at Turner's Hall, to-night,
for the purpose of taking into consideration the means of building a school
house. A full meeting is expected.
The friends of education are requested to be present.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 5, 1864, p. 2, c. 1
Carrying Revolvers.
We desire to ask military commanders, whether there is no way, (if
soldiers must come to the city,) of preventing their carrying arms?
Nay, as to this matter, we call the attention of Gen. Curtis to the fact,
and beg him to consider, whether it should not be stopped by positive order?
We know of several cases, (besides the fatal one which has just occurred)
wherein death nearly ensued. It was
only a few days since, that two soldiers drew a revolver upon one of our best
citizens, and when confronted next morning by the injured party, declared he
knew nothing about it. No man, when
drunk, or excited by liquor, is safe with a revolver.
Nor is any citizen safe in his company.
Let a stop be put to the habit of carrying weapons.
It is a policy which the civil authority should enforce, and the military
power promptly uphold.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 5, 1864, p. 2, c. 6
Summary: Turners'
Hall—"Robert Macaire, or, The Two Murderers;" dulcimer solo;
"The Maid of Munster"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 6, 1864, p. 2, c. 3
[Correspondence of
the Times.]
The Late
Expedition.
Fort Gibson, C. N., Feb. 24.
Col. Phillips has returned from the South.
The expedition has been eminently successful, although certain parties
thought it would be and intended to make it a defeat.
The Fourteenth Kansas cavalry were to be the cavalry of the force.
One Battalion, Major Willets, belongs to Col. Phillips brigade.
The other companies were ordered to report to him for this expedition, by
Gen. McNeill. They were delayed, and finally Col. Phillips was directed to
proceed, and the cavalry would meet him at North Fork.
The order for the cavalry to go was thus revoked; and it was evidently
expected that Col. Phillips would fall back and the expedition be a failure.
Instead of doing so, Col. Phillips, in spite of the fears of his
officers, went forward alone, and the result is eminent success.
Two considerable fights occurred, in which the enemy suffered heavily.
In all the skirmishes and regular fighting not less than two hundred and
fifty rebels have been killed and many wounded.
Twenty-five prisoners were taken. Few
prisoners were taken, as severe orders were given.
The result is that the war is over in the Creek, Seminole and Choctaw
nation. They declare that they will
fight no more, and many of them are fleeing to Mexico.
The rest are in Texas.
The farthest point reached was 165 miles from Fort Gibson.
At Camp Kagi, Col. Phillips sent letters to the heads of the rebel Indian
nations, giving them but thirty days for unconditional surrender to the
Government.
Had the Fourteenth arrived, Col. Phillips would have entered Northern
Texas; but as the ammunition was expended, and as Gen. Maxey was organizing a
large force to prevent the invasion of Texas, it was deemed inexpedient to go
further.
A large ox train was captured, which will in a few days be put in the
line for Fort Scott.
J.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 6, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
The Fenian Brotherhood had a large and enthusiastic meeting on Friday
night, and resolved to make arrangements for a grand supper on St. Patrick's
evening, March 17th. The
proceeds of the supper will be devoted to the great Fair to be held by the
Brotherhood in Chicago, on the 28th inst.
A grand time may be expected.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 11, 1864, p. 3, c. 4
Summary: Turner's
Hall—"Matteo Falcone, or The Brigand's Son; comic song; Shakespearean
readings; rock splitting; "Don Juan, the Libertine's Doom"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 12, 1864, p. 2, c. 3
Pea Ridge.
The second anniversary of the battle of Pea Ridge was celebrated on the 9th
at St. Louis in fine style. Some
six hundred and twenty-five officers were present.
Speeches were made by Generals McNeil, Gray, and Rosecrans—and the
occasion passed off brilliantly.
"Old Rosy" was in fine talking mood and in the best humor.
He paid a high compliment to the day, and to gallant Missourians under
him. Evidently, he understood his
ground. "I know your
position," said he; "you were on the frontier; you had a mixed
population, some of whom were disloyal, and some of whom took sides, some of
whom were neutral, and some few of whom were loyal."
Of these he spoke "as soldiers who never failed on duty, in camp, on
reconnoissance [sic], or in the bloodiest of the fight," and then referred
to Boomer and his men of the Twenty-sixth, &c., at the battle of Iuka:
We had to bear the brunt of the fight from half past four till half past
seven. I was at first in the rear,
and when i came to the front, where I knew a sharp fight was going on, I found
Boomer and his men of the Twenty-sixth, pouring in grape and cannister [sic]
tolerably warm. At half past 7, I
rode over to the left of our line, right close in the rear, and suddenly the
most terrific musket fire I ever heard broke out.
It was a perfect sheet of flame from one end of the line to the other.
Said I, "Hallo! there's something unusual going on there."
I listened, and on it roared for fifteen minutes.
I rode up to the point, but it was so dusky I could not see them.
I could hear the bullets whistling around us, but it was too dark to see.
Presently I heard our men cheer, and we knew the fight was over.
It was the sharpest firing I have heard in this war and I have heard some
that was pretty hard. Shortly after
came along the 11th Missouri, Col. Mower.
I found most of his brigade had separated from him.
He came storming along, and says he, "where's General
Rosecrans?" It was all dark;
nobody could see. "Oh,"
says some one, "he's just gone over that way.
What do you want of him?" "None
of your d----d business." [Laughter.]
One officer says, "I am his
Adjutant General." "Oh,
all right. I want some ammunition.
The wagons have not come up. Somebody
stopped my brigade, and I have had to fight alone."
I heard him, and says I, "What's the matter?"
Says he, "I am out of ammunition.
Damn this pop firing. Give
me my brigade, and if I can take the bayonet, I can run the d----d guts out of
them." It was these Missouri
troops that saved the fight.
Down came a brigade upon them but they were repulsed, not without
difficulty. Then a second fresh
brigade came upon them, when it was so dark they could not see—so close the
Colonel of the Thirty-seventh Mississippi called out "Jump from the front
lines, and for God's sake don't fire on your friends!"
"Thirty-seventh Mississippi, is it?" "Whoop!" says Mower, and then they fought hand to
hand; but the enemy were rolled back—and thus two regiments of Missouri troops
saved the day. [Cheers]
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 12, 1864, p. 3, c. 3
Summary: Turners'
Hall—"Matteo Falcone, or The Brigand's Son;" comic song;
Shakespearean readings; rock splitting; "Don Juan, the Libertine's
Doom"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 12, 1864, p. 3, c. 3
Turners' Hall.
Monday Evening,
March 14th.
For Most
Positively One Night Only,
Artemus Ward
Will
"Speak a
Piece."
The public of Leavenworth are respectfully informed that the
Distinguished
Eccentric Humorist
Artemus Ward,
(Charles F.
Browne,)
Will visit Leavenworth, en route from California, Oregon, Salt Lake City and Colorado to New England, and deliver his
New Comic
Specialty
Entitled
Robinson Crusoe!
(With occasional allusions to the subject, and references to "Man
Friday" as remote as is the Island of Juan Fernandez.)
Doors open at 7. Commence at
8.
Admission Fifty Cents.
Tickets to be had at the Post Office News Depot, at W. A. Rose &
Co.'s book store, 75 Delaware street, and at the hall on the evening.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 13, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
John G. Saxe, the poet, and James Murdock, the great elocutionist, are
engaged to deliver lectures before the Mercantile Library Association of this
city, during the month of April.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 15, 1864, p. 2, c. 3
St. Louis Paper
Warehouse.
M. S. Holmes
28 North Second
street, St. Louis
Dealer in
News, Writing and
Wrapping Paper,
of Every
Description.
500 Tons of Rags
Wanted.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 16, 1864, p. 2, c. 5
Hospital of the
Sisters of
Charity,
Cor. Seventh &
Kiowa Sts.,
Now Open for the
Admission of Patients.
It is divided into Wards as follows:
1. Charity Ward,
2. Public
"
3. Private Rooms.
Doctors O'Brien and Phillips, Visiting Physicians.
Patients desiring the attendance of their Family Physician can have that
privilege. For further particulars
apply at the Hospital.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 16, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
Well, we suppose you heard him, didn't you?
If you did not, you missed a treat.
But we can't see how you could have helped yourself on Monday night, nor
do we know that you can do so now. A.
Ward, Esq., of Baldwinsville, Indiana, spoke a piece at Turner's Hall on Monday
night. Those anxious to hear him
began to assemble in the Hall at an early hour, and ere the time had arrived,
the building was packed with a mass of humanity, and crowds were compelled to go
away without even the poor privilege of looking in at the door. Before saying anything about the lecture, it may not be out
of place to give a short description of the personal appearance of the
Baldwinsville showman and orator. It
may gratify some of our readers who have not had the pleasure of seeing the
light of his benign countenance and gazing upon those manly form [sic].
A. Ward is about five feet ten inches in length when he lies down, and
very near the same when he stands up. He
has a fine, manly, commanding form, and would make a good figure to hang old
clothes on for a sign to some second-hand Jew clothing store.
His hair is the color of dirty molassas [sic] candy, and his eyes are
blue, gray, sorrel or black, we don't know which, but they have color and we are
credibly informed that his sight is excellent.
His nose and moustache are his most prominent and handsome features.
The first is indiscribable [sic]. This
much we can say of it, however, that, if anything, it is larger, sharper, more
hooked and more homely, than the nasal protubrance [sic] which adorns the
frontespiece [sic] of our worthy Mayor. The
moustache is very near the color of his hair—has a little dirtier look, and
stands out as if it had always had its own way.
A further description of the showman is not necessary.
We flatter ourselves that the above is sufficient, and will enable any
person to easily recognize him in a crowd of a thousand.
But what shall we say about the lecture? We could not do the subject justice. It cannot be reported—and if it could, we would not print
it. Suffice it to say, that it was
good, and well worth any one's fifty cent postage currency.
After the lecture, the members of the Typographical Union took Artemus in
charge, escorted his nibs to Dobson's restaurant and fed him in good style.
Speeches were made by Colonel Vaughan, A. Ward, Colonel Jennison,
Colonel Hoyt, and others. Songs
were sung, toasts were drank—no—we mean—yes, we mean.
But no matter—we had a good time, individually and collectively.
At the close of the festivities ye typos escorted Arte to his hotel,
where they assisted him in a serenade to himself, took a parting cup of
kindness, and bid the printer, showman, orator, etc., an affectionate and
affecting adoo.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 16, 1864, p. 3, c. 2 [note: some numbers difficult to read]
J. R. Brown's
Report of Receipts and Disburse-
ments of Soldiers'
Family Relief Fund.
Receipts.
Dec. 22, 1863—O'Brien & Diefendorf
$10 00
"
28, Union League
332 00
Jan. 6, 1864—Avails of party at Turner's Hall
85 00
"
8, Donation of Mrs. Hovey in clothing
10 00
" 13,
A. M. Sawyer avails of Sanitary Fair
1,715
00
"
13, bill of goods received from the fair
113
86
"
13, clothing from Mrs. Whitman
4 00
" 13,
load of meat from Carney & Stevens
20
00
Feb 4, A. M. Sawyer
3 10
" 8,
Fencibles No. 2, by Wm. P. Boland
135
00
Total
$3,328 46
Disbursements.
January—Paid plasterer from taking down from Laing's Hall
15 00
"
Paid for labor during the fair
25 90
"
Money returned for chances sold and not drawn
9 50
"
20, L. B. Davis, for Coffin
2
50
Feb. 20, Mrs. Palson's order for rent on house
15 00
March 7, Medical services, as per bills paid to date
27
50
March 7, Druggists bills to date
36 25
" For help and
clerk hire to date
87 00
" To soldiers
families in wood, goods, provisions and
cash (as per day book)
1,895 00
March 7 to 14, Provisions and cash (as per day book)
180 89
March 15, Provisions and cash (as per day book)
32 00
March 15, Druggists bills to date
7 42
" Medical services to
date
29 25
Disbursements
$2,433
81
Receipts
$2,328 46
Overpaid
105 35
Total numbers of soldiers families visited 216.
In making our reports of the disbursement of the funds, placed in our
hands by this generous community for the benefit of the soldiers families in our
midst, we could report the name of each recipient and facts in regard, to their
situation, so far as they could be obtained; but as such facts would necessarily
make a more lengthy report than we could tax our papers to publish or our
friends to read, we would simply say that we have done the best we could, not
claiming to have done everything in the best manner.
We know that we have been deceived in some instances, and have, no doubt,
neglected some worthy, destitute families.
But in such cases we feel inclined to lay the blame upon our friends, who
have known of such cases, and failed to report them.
We have had our hands and hearts full with constant applications, which
has forbidden our making personal visits in many cases where we otherwise would,
and we have often called upon Rev. Mr. Baldridge to help us in ascertaining the
real condition of applicants, and also to look out cases that were in danger of
being overlooked through their timidity. We
would say to all, that our books are open to the inspection of any person
wishing to obtain particulars in regard to all or any particular case of
disbursement. We are glad to be relieved from this most perplexing task,
but our hearts are pained to be compelled to say that applicants that we have
nothing for them, when we know that they are sick and helpless, and must suffer
without aid; and Mr. Brown has felt justified in using the $105 35 overpaid
belonging to the refugee fund for these special cases, in the hopes that more
funds would be raised soon to reimburse him, and to still carry on this humane
enterprise. We ask not to be
continued as disbursers of your charities, but we do ask you to tell us what to
say to several families that seem entirely dependent and helpless.
We have been warning them for several weeks that the fund was nearly
exhausted, and that they must depend upon themselves.
But what can a sick mother with several small children—with wood and
provisions to buy, house rent to pay, doctors and druggists bills to pay, and
children to clothe—with present high prices for everything?
Many soldiers do not send money home to their families.
We ask ask [sic] again, what can be done for extreme cases?
There are many of them. While
our Eastern friends are sending relief for refugees coming among us, we
certainly should not let our soldiers families suffer.
J. R. Brown,
S. A. Marshall.
Leavenworth, Kas., March 15.
I have examined the above exhibit of distribution of "Relief Fund" for soldiers families, and compared it with the regular footings up of the day book, and find them to correspond. And further, from the connection I have had in aiding the committee in visiting and supplying destitute families, I am satisfied that diligence and faithfulness has been used by the committee, and under very trying circumstances. But the fund is now exhausted, and what shall be done for the sick, destitute and helpless, still on their hands? It is evident they must suffer and die, unless relieved. They are our citizens, wives and children of our brave soldiers. Humanity and patriotism alike forbid that they should be neglected. What, then, can be done for their relief? That done, needs be done quickly.
B. L. Baldridge.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 17, 1864, p. 2, c. 2
Soldiers Families.
There is a chance for the generous and the worthy to do a noble deed, an
opportunity for all to exhibit a practical and patriotic charity. And we want to have it done—to have it done too, promptly.
We shall not multiply words, or attempt to write a stirring appeal.
If the facts stated cannot rouse our people to action, no language of
press, pulpit or forum can or will.
There are at this time over one hundred soldiers' families
suffering for the necessaries of life!
For soldiers families, the States, cities and towns of the East and the
West have provided liberally. The
home of the warrior is supplied. Neither
Kansas, as a State, nor Leavenworth, as a city, has contributed to this holy and
patriotic end.
Now we propose, that the Merchants (as many as can get together) shall
meet, appoint a committee, and raise a fund for the relief of the soldiers
wives. Half a day devoted to this
object, would raise a fund which would make glad many suffering and dreary homes
for months. Now, let there be no
delay. Begin this work at
once—to-day.
There will be no difficulty in appropriating the money so collected
properly, as the managers of the Sanitary Committee know these soldiers families
and where they live, and will account for every dime, if the amount collected
shall be entrusted to them. Let our
prosperous merchants and business men, we repeat, take hold of the matter
without delay. And let the name of
Leavenworth be identified, in our army, and out of it, with those cities that
have acted so nobly in this cause.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 17, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
Lieutenant Colonel Hoyt will deliver an address at Turners' Hall on
Saturday evening next. His subject
will be "The Trial of John Brown."
Fifty cents admission will be charged, the proceeds to be given to the
Sanitary Commission, for the benefit of soldiers' families.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 17, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
A pleasant scene occurred at the Printer's Banquet on Monday night.
For more than a year Dick Boughton has held undisputed possession of the
jack knife against all comers, but on the occasion to which we allude the
verdict was quite general that no less a personage than Artemus Ward now justly
claimed the distinguished honor of its possession.
Dick drew the ancient emblem reluctantly from his pocket, and held it in
comprising attitude before the distinguished guest of the evening.
For a moment there was profound silence; but presently the comical aspect
of the two sharp-featured countenances in such proximity to each other drew
applause from the house, and Artemus began: "I leave it to your
magnanimity, sir; can you look me fairly and squarely in the face and candidly
say that I am a better looking man than you?
If you can," he continued, "I will take the knife and draw it
across my windpipe!"
Dick put the jack knife back to its dismal home in his breeches pocket
with a decisive movement, which seemed to say, "I will never draw that
knife again upon an object which can, by any physical contour, be possibly
identified as belonging to the human specie!"
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 18, 1864, p. 3, c. 3
Artemus, the inimitable, passed up on the Emelie yesterday, on his way to
St. Joseph, where he lectures to-morrow night. If
the inhabitants of that benighted region do not receive a few grains of common
sense, it will be because they are still endowed with their usual amount of
stupidity.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 18, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
A party of five men, dressed in military clothes, and claiming to be
soldiers, went to the house of a Mr. Abels, living on the old Calvert farm, in
Salt Creek Valley, on Sunday night last, and, after hanging Abels, and leaving
him for dead, robbed the family of some $60 in money, and all the clothing that
could be taken, leaving the family with scarcely a change of garments.
A party who had camped near Salt Creek bridge were also robbed of some
$300 the same night, and, it is supposed, by the same crowd who robbed and
maltreated Abels. On Tuesday night
Mr. Abels also had two valuable horses stolen from him.
Since the robbery, he has not been able to find a clue which is likely to
lead to the discovery of the miscreants who perpetrated the outrages.
So far as we can learn, no other persons in the valley have been
disturbed. It has been conjectured
that the outrages were perpetrated by some persons having a particular grudge
against Mr. Abels. The military
authorities should investigate the matter, and, if possible, unearth the
perpetrators of the rascalities.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 19, 1864, p. 2, c. 1
Soldiers Families.
Col. Hoyt lectures to-night, at Turner Hall, for the benefit of the
soldiers families. His subject will
be, "The trial of John Brown."
A youth merely—a New England boy only just past the age of manhood, he
volunteered, when Virginia tyranny barred out free speech and a fair trial, to
defend John Brown. He feared no
danger, and was ready to encounter any risk, in the effort.
And he was there, during the whole trial, doing his duty nobly, and
fearlessly!
The description of the trial, by one so gifted, cannot fail to interest
and instruct. It will repay whoever
may go. The intellectual, if they
desire a rich repast, the thinking, if they will master the theme, the
courageous, if they like to honor a bold, brave man.
But above the lecturer and even his theme—stands the object of
the lecture. That is, the relief
of destitute soldiers' families. Could
a stronger appeal be made to the generous or benevolent?
Could a higher motive influence the patriotic and the noble of heart?
Let Turner Hall, then, be crowded to-night to hear the
gallant Col.
Hoyt.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 19, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
We owe an apology to our readers or to Artemus Ward—which we are not
certain. At any rate, we lied about
Artemus yesterday morning. We said
that he had passed up to St. Jo. on Thursday, when he didn't do any such thing.
We met Artemus yesterday morning, and from him we learned that he was in
St. Jo—because the TIMES said he was. Of
course he was, and the attempt to palm off upon us a Second Ward, is a fraud
that we can't stand.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 19, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
["]Vice, in all its forms, has been shown but little leniency during
the past year, and there are many upon whom his official power has fallen with
no light or sparing hand.—[Conservative.["]
Monthly levies of black mail upon houses of prostitution and gambling
saloons is a sweet way of falling upon vice "with no light or sparing
hand." "No sparing"
are two good words, but to the best of our recollection they mean just the
amount the different hells are willing to pay when the emissaries of $20 and
costs call upon them.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 19, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
The Fenians had a goodly time of it on the night of the 17th.
The spirit of Young Ireland was there, and the spirit of Young America,
too, was about. It was a joyous
celebration of St. Patrick's day. The
toasts, and the persons who responded to them, are given below:
1. The Day we Celebrate.
Response by Col. McFarland.
2. The Land of our Adoption.
Responded to by Dr. O'Brien.
3. The President of the
United States. Response by
Col. Vaughan.
4. The Army and Navy. Response by T. P. Fenlon.
5. The City of Leavenworth.
Response by Mayor Anthony.
6. The Fenian Brotherhood.
Response by Col. McFarland.
7. The American Eagle.
Response by Chas. Clarkson, Esq.
The exercises closed by singing.
The speeches were excellent. That
of col. McFarland was especially eloquent, and Tom Fenlon was not slow.
After the speeches, songs followed—spirited and stirring—and all we
regret is, that we have not room or time to describe the joyous festival.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 19, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
Summary: Proceedings
of meeting to defeat Mayor D. R. Anthony, on the basis that he used his power to
pad his pockets and punish his enemies.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 20, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
The editor of the Atchison Champion says that on Saturday last, he had
the pleasure of seeing the beautiful flag recently presented by Brigadier
General Mitchell to the gallant Eighth regiment of Kansas Volunteers, Colonel
John A. Martin, commanding. The
flag is of the finest silk, cost $125, and is a splendid specimen of fine
workmanship.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 20, 1864, p. 3, c. 5
Wanted Immediately.—Twenty journeymen tailors, to whom we will pay one
dollar, over and above the regular prices, for each frock or military coat, and
all other garments in like proportion. For
further information call at our Excelsior Clothing House, where our extra list
of prices can be seen.
Louis Durand & co.,
Corner of Delaware and Second streets,
Leavenworth City, Kansas.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 23, 1864, p. 2, c. 1
Down South.
The news to-day—it is very limited and contains only
snatches—indicates a strong movement up the Red river.
Some facts given, however, are worthy of consideration.
A fleet of gunboats and some ten thousand men, are at the mouth of Red
river.
The former left Vicksburg on the 10th, so that ere this, the
combined force must be on its way, or near to its destined point.
What is that point? Is it
acting in concert with Banks? These
are questions which suggest themselves to every military reader.
The point is probably Shreveport, in Northwest Louisiana, and, if
so, it is certain that Banks will co-operate with the expedition.
Shreveport is below the "Raft"--a depot for the rebels—the centre
of a rich planting region—and has a railroad running to Marshall, Texas.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 23, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
Cummings, of the Topeka Tribune says:
"We met a lady friend a few days since in a variety store, and
casually asked, how she liked the Balmoral hose?
Said she liked them, but don't propose to make "barber poles"
of her legs. Now, we wear
balmorals, but does any lady suppose our legs are barber poles?"
If any lady supposes your legs to be barber poles, would you object to an
examination?
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 25, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
Last fall a poor fellow—a stranger—came to this city with a panorama.
He had his bills printed and posted all over the city, upon the Market
House, street corners, and other prominent places.
For posting bills on the Market House the individual in question was
taken before his Honor, and fined in the usual sum of $20 and costs.
Wednesday the bills announcing the Anthony meeting were posted in several
places upon the Market House, and nothing is said about it; no one is fined; and
the bills, for aught we known are sticking there yet.
DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], March 25, 1864, p. 3, c. 1
In December last the Missouri Republican published the adventures of Ben
Wright, an American barber of African descent.
The story of his captivity and redemption thence; of his partings and
meetings; of his love and loose marital relations; of strange episodes and
startling situations, was told in the true melodramatic style of the novelist.
The story is worth reading, but its great length forbids its publication
in our columns. Suffice it to say
that after many moving accidents by flood and field, Ben has turned up in our
own famous city, and may be found at W. H. Burnham's barber shop on Shawnee
street. Ben is a good barber, and a
thorough professor of the tonsorial art.