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George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), Missouri, Weston, Platte County, Missouri (search)
Weston, Platte County, Missouri a town of 3,000 pop., on Missouri River, 7 miles above Leavenworth, Kansas, and 30 miles direct from St. Joseph. It is an important commercial point. A railroad connects with St. Joseph.
The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The great fraud. (search)
sell Chiquia securities and Florida bonds, the latter for Mr. Yulee, a Senator from that State. When asked from whom he received his information, he gave the answer usually resorted to in such cases, viz: he should not remember. The next heard of Mr. Russell is that he is on his way from New York to Washington, in company with Luke Lea, Esq., a banker in the latter city. Mr. Lea was formerly Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and is a partner of Mr. Russell in the banking business, at Leavenworth, Kansas. Mr. Lea is, however, careful to state in his evidence that he gave no intimation to Mr. Bailey that he might use the stocks he had in his charge belonging to the Indian Trust Fund. Mr. C. G. Wagner, who is nearly related to Mr. Bailey, and in whose hands was first placed his confession, states, in his evidence, given (your Committee are pleased to say) with full and honorable frankness, that he learned from Mr. Bailey that Mr. Lea did mention the stocks in the conversation betwe
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Immortal Kallock. (search)
The Immortal Kallock. --Isaac. H. Kallock, of Leavenworth, Kansas, is in Washington on business connected with the establishment of a Baptist College in Kansas, having the appointment of general agent of the same. He is negotiating a treaty for twenty thousand acres of land belonging to the Ottawa Indians, a delegation from whom is with him.
The Daily Dispatch: December 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wanted — negroes.-- (search)
bt either been, or were intended to be, taken to Paducah. This fact plainly shows that Lincoln has emissaries fingering our mail. The woman had a plentiful supply of the Louisville Journal upon her person for distribution. Upon this head I may remark that Abolition papers and documents by the ton are regularly sent into Kentucky and distributed among all classes, especially the unsuspecting. Boasting of Abolition success. The following congratulatory statement, made by the Leavenworth (Kansas) Times: evidences the secret feelings that prompt the Abolition Government to wage war upon the South: Thirty-eight negroes arrived in Leavenworth on Sunday, having been freed by Jennison, and a greater number went to Lawrence. Millions of dollars' worth of this kind of property are now running about in Kansas. Leavenworth is crowded with them, and Lawrence has a larger number. Theoretical Abolitionism has ceased and practical abolition is at work. The doctrines of Messrs. Lan
The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
any other influence we could exert. When the news reaches the Old World of our triumph at Mill Springs, the capture of Fort Henry, the success of General Burnside, notwithstanding the numerous obstacles he was unexpectedly obliged to encounter, and of the great preparations we have made for hemming in the enemy upon all sides, there will, we hope, be little disposition to sustain the infamous conspiracy which is now gasping in the last stages of a rapid decline. There are now at Leavenworth, Kansas, some fifteen thousand troops, with a large supply of cavalry and a fair proportion of artillery. The entire force that will accompany Gen. Hunter in his expedition will consist of about thirty-four thousand troops, and as they will march to the west of Missouri, through the Cherokee Nation, and enter Arkansas below Van Buren, it is supposed that they will have no difficulty in obtaining subsistence. They expect to march to the Cherokee Nation in ten days after leaving Leavenworth.
The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
cious freight of intelligence, skill and Secession proclivities, be sent, under honorable escort, through our lines as far as Gordonsville, and be kindly permitted to join their relatives at Richmond. Many a valuable item of information which now finds its way to "Stonewall" Jackson would never be sent in else they were quietly forwarded, per express, to those with whom they so deeply sympathize. A negro regiment raising in Kansas. The following advertisement appears in the Leavenworth (Kansas) Conservative: One Thousand Colored Men Wanted--To form the First regiment of Kansas Zouaves d'afrique, and join General Blunt's Southern expedition. All able-bodied colored young men who wish to enlist, will leave their names with W. D. Mathews. Waverly House, Leavenworth. As soon as instructions are received from the War Department, (application having been made for them,) the regiment will be regularly enlisted, mustered into service, and received the advance bounty and clot
The Daily Dispatch: August 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
son Lewis Rogers. These gentlemen said to bystanders that they thought they were living under a civil Government, which they had taken the oath to support, but such conduct and such scenes were an outrage on all Government. A large number of citizens of Accomac were imprisoned for various political offences, and females as well as men were not allowed to utter a word in condemnation of the Yankee Government or the Yankee hirelings in Accomac. Execution of a guerrilla.[from the Leavenworth (Kansas) Conservative, July 29.] Jeremiah Hoy, one of the Quantrell guerrillas, was shot at the fort yesterday morning, having been found guilty by the Military Commission of treason and murder. It was proved that Hoy was a member of Quantrell's guerrilla band; that he was accessory to and guilty of the murder of Allison, a citizen of Missouri, and of a United States soldier of Major Banzhaff's command, on the 20th of March, at Blue Bridge Crossing, Jackson county, Mo; also, of burning sa
The Daily Dispatch: September 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
ntific attainments, and industry. He was for a time on the Coast Survey; then on topographical duty in the West; for a year engaged in building a military road from Big Sioux river to St. Paul. Minn. From 1854 to 1857 he was stationed at Frankfort Arsenal, near Philadelphia. He was afterward Chief Ordnance officer to Gen. A. S. Johnston in the Utah expedition, and remained there till 1859, when he was detached and sent to Mount Vernon Arsenal Alabama. He was afterward stationed at Leavenworth, Kansas, where he was when the war broke out. He was killed about 7 o'clock Sunday evening, and the following account of his death is thus given in a letter to the N. Y. Herald: He, with his staff, was standing a little back of the wood on a field, the rebel forces being directly in front. A body of his troops were just before him, and at this point the fire of the rebels was directed. A Minnie ball struck him and went through his body. He fell, and, from the first, appeared to
The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1863., [Electronic resource], General Lee's (search)
Miscellaneous. Commander Henry A. Wise has been appointed Acting Chief of the Ordnance Bureau at Washington. The property of Mrs. Mary E. Dandridge, (formerly Mrs. W. W. S. Bliss,) a daughter of Gen. Zachary Taylor, has been confiscated at Detroit, Michigan. Rear Admiral A. H. Foot, U. S. N., died in New York Friday. He was a genuine Yankee, from New Haven, Conn. A pile of the tabooed papers--New York World, Chicago Times, and quire--were burnt in the streets of Leavenworth, Kansas, on the 19th. A band of music was on hand. The merchants of Boston offered a reward of $10,000 for the capture of the Tacony. The invasion of Pennsylvania has put coal up $1 per ton. T. P. Redfield has been nominated by the Democratic State Convention of New Hampshire for Governor. The Alabama and Virginia were at Bahia May 14th. The latter was brig rigged, and without armament. Col. Dana has been assigned to the command of the defences of Philadelphia.
The Daily Dispatch: September 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
nts of the Moniteur, indicate clearly enough its purpose to intervene in our affairs. It is reported that Washington Goodrich was captured a few day since near Occoquan, Va., while endeavoring to carry a quantity of contraband goods to Richmond. It required a desperate struggle to master him. He was removed to Washington and locked up in the Old Capitol prison. [Wash. Goodrich was in Richmond yesterday arresting counterfeiters.] A mass convention of negroes is to be held at Leavenworth, Kansas, to secure "certain civil and political rights" of which they are now deprived. Gen. Price, with 25,000 men, is at Bayon Metaire, a strong point on White river, the Federal forces, under Gen. Steele, being at Duval's Bluff, on the same river, fourteen miles below. A battle was said to be imminent. A telegram dated Boston, August 31st, 1 P. M., says: A destructive fire is raging in East Boston. It commenced in the Atlantic Works, where the monitor turrets are constru
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