Leavenworth, KS] Daily Times, November 11, 1864-July 2, 1865 Vicki Betts University of Texas at Tyler, [email protected]

University of Texas at Tyler Scholar Works at UT Tyler By Title Civil War Newspapers 2016 [Leavenworth, KS] Daily Times, November 11, 1864-July 2, 1865 Vicki Betts University of Texas at Tyler, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uttyler.edu/cw_newstitles Recommended Citation Betts, ickV i, "[Leavenworth, KS] Daily Times, November 11, 1864-July 2, 1865" (2016). By Title. Paper 76. http://hdl.handle.net/10950/710 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Civil War Newspapers at Scholar Works at UT Tyler. It has been accepted for inclusion in By Title by an authorized administrator of Scholar Works at UT Tyler. For more information, please contact [email protected]. DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS] November 12, 1864 – July 2, 1865 DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 12, 1864, p. 2, c. 2 Dry Goods. The activity of demand is much reduced. Dealers prefer small dealings, and are evidently afraid of overstocking themselves with goods at what are still high prices, though lower than they have been. Several mills have stopped working, and production is very much curtailed. There is no further change in the price of prints, which are in fair demand, with a rapidly diminishing stock, so that goods seem likely to be scarce. Brown and bleached shirtings and sheetings are in moderate supply, with a fair demand and steady prices. Canton flannels are active. Denims slow of sale, but in limited supply. Woolen goods are more active. Delanes are wanted and are low in stock. Fancy cassimeres are very active at unchanged prices. Scotch plaides [sic] are the favorites. Beavers are active. Ginghams quiet. Satinets still dull. Broadcloths steady and in request. Blankets active. Cloakings are firm and active. Tweeds more called for. Flannels very ready of sale. The shawl trade is hardly so active. New and desirable styles are the only descriptions wanted. Foreign goods are decidedly more active as regards staple goods, which are selling at a reduction. Importers seem willing to reduce their stocks. They have been freely selling at auction, and prices are acceptable to the trade. British dress goods are getting scarce. Alpacas and Coburgs are much wanted. Saxony dress goods also sell more freely. Low and medium goods sell readily. The more costly fabrics are dull. Staple silks, mostly blacks, are selling in small quantities; prices steady. The Presidential election excitement this week prevents any great activity, if other circumstances were favorable. Next week we may be able to report a more active state of the market; as the business transacted this fall is but a small fractional part of the usual amount. Prices are considered to have seen their lowest this season, as gold is higher and stocks are low, while the usual demand is unsatisfied.—N. Y. Independent, Nov. 3. DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 12, 1864, p. 2, c. 3 Interesting Correspondence with a Bushwhacker. [From the Kansas City Journal] The following documents are interesting as "phases" of the struggle through which our border is passing: Headquarters, 4th Sub-District, District Central Missouri. Office of the Provost Marshal, Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 4, 1864. Special Order, No. 76. I. Having been informed that Daniel Vaughan (Bushwhacker) has in his possession Sergeant John Bay and private B. M. Fox, of Co. "A," 2d Colorado Cavalry, it is hereby ordered that his sisters, Nancy J. and Susan Vaughan, now in custody at this place, will be held as hostages subject to the release of the two prisoners now in his custody. II. Should the two prisoners now in his possession be killed by him, his men, or through his influence, Nancy J. and Susan Vaughan will be retained in close custody until his capture or death. III. Should he release the two prisoners above referred to, and they safely report at these Headquarters, his sisters now in my custody, will likewise be released, and permitted to go to their homes in Jackson county, Mo. J. C. W. Hall, Provost Marshal. To Daniel Vaughan, per special messenger. ----- Reply. November 5th, 1864. J. C. W. Hall, Provost Marshal: Sir: We received your communication this morning, and accept your proposition to release John Bay and B. M. Fox. You will in turn immediately release Mrs. N. J. and J. Vaughan, and Mrs. Linney, and deliver them to A. Muir. If you fail to do this, Muir and Nalen shall forfeit their lives. Daniel Vaughan. ----- Bushwhacker's Pass. November 5th, 1864. All Confederates and bushwhackers will pass these two Federal soldiers beyond our lines. We have exchanged them for our sister and mother, and Mrs. Linney, who are held as prisoners by the Federals. If Muir does not bring back the women, I will kill him. Daniel Vaughan. DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 12, 1864, p. 3, c. 1 A Sea of Mud. Our streets yesterday were in a swimming condition. From the amount of melted snow and mud mingling and coursing its way down the streets, one would imagine the time propitious for the enjoyment of aquatic sports in our alleys and streets. Yesterday, sleighing and skating was the rage! To-day, why not boating? Overhead the sky was clear, the sun bright and genial, the air calm as a love whisper. Kansas, thou art a peculiar country, and they children a little more so. DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 12, 1864, p. 3, c. 1 Soldiers' Aid Society. About one hundred more wounded soldiers are expected soon at the Fort, and the call upon our society for bandages, compresses, lint, shirts, drawers, &c., is constant and pressing. We hope, while this demand is continued, our citizens will continue to supply us, as they have heretofore, and especially that they will send to our rooms all the old cotton and linen cloth they can spare. The call for articles made of this is very urgent. Articles can be sent to our rooms at any time. In our last report of contributions received, the name of Mr. Howell was omitted. His was a cash subscription of $20. Mrs. Hiram Griswold, Pres't. Mrs. Gen. Blunt, Sec'y. [Conservative and Bulletin copy.] DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 13, 1864, p. 3, c. 1 Fish, in abundance, are to be found daily in market. They are sold at prices ranging from five to six cents per pound. DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 13, 1864, p. 3, c. 1 The Roads. The roads leading from the interior are in an awful condition. Wagoning is nearly at a stand still; and the stages come in two and three hours behind time, with small trips. It is almost impossible to hire freighting done at any price. DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 13, 1864, p. 3, c. 2 Willow Ware. Reception, Sewing, Library, Garden, Varranda [sic] and Nursery Chairs, also Sewing Stands, Nursery and Work-Baskets; elegant French Pic Nic and Traveling Baskets for ladies and gentlemen, just received at 71 Delaware street, by S. M. Rothschild. DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 13, 1864, p. 3, c. 2 Mud. Never was such mud seen or felt before. Mud in which man sticks fast, woman flounders, horses stagger, and wheels roll with fearful plunges. Mud to the knee, fathomless depths of mud. Mud, which fills the shoe, gushes over the boot top, plasters the coat tail, puts foul patches on your hat, your shirt bosom, and slops in your very eyes its dirty insults. Glutiness [sic] mud that defies the knife to cut away, wet mud which the fire won't dry, cankerous mud which eats into the very texture of the cloth, and defies the sponge, benzine [sic] and every cleansing mixture. Mud that mars the furniture, tracks the carpet, comes on the table with the pudding, that fills your finger-nails, grits your teeth. Mud everywhere—in the streets and the fireside. Everything is wrapt [sic] in mud. Everybody is lost in it. Hail to the dynasty of Mud! Mud! DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 15, 1864, p. 3, c. 1 Good Thing. A band of negro minstrels is about being organized in this city. It is their intention to visit all the principal towns in this and the States adjoining. Many of the members are said to possess first-rate talent. DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 16, 1864, p. 2, c. 1 School of Design for Women. The city of Pittsburg is moving to establish a School of Design in that city, and, from the interest it has created, with every indication of success. The subscriptions to it are very fair, the want of such an institution being very clearly acknowledged more sensibly now by the great demand for female labor to fill the hiatus made by the absence of tens of thousands of our men doing battle, and the uneducated efforts, struggles to live, on the part of mothers, wives and sisters, who are compelled to resort to all sorts of menial employment to support the helpless dependents upon them, while husbands, fathers, and brothers are defending the nation from threatened ruin. Success to the Pittsburg enterprise. DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], November 16, 1864, p. 2, c. 1 A Fenian Plot. The Canadians are now being treated to a plot of their own. A conspiracy, in which the Fenian Brotherhood is involved, has been discovered at Toronto, and a number of arrests have been made. The Fenians, as is well known, are a league f Irishmen whose principal object is to free the Green Isle from British rule. They have organizations throughout the United States and the Canadas, and doubtless contemplate some formidable demonstrations at no distant day.

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