University of Texas at Tyler Scholar Works at UT Tyler By Title Civil War Newspapers 2016 [Leavenworth, KS] Daily Times, October 9, 1861-June 20, 1862 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, October 9, 1861-June 20, 1862" (2016). By Title. Paper 50. http://hdl.handle.net/10950/706 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] October 9, 1861 – June 20, 1862 DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 9, 1861, p. 2, c. 2, c. 1 Saluting the Flag. While standing on the plain near Fort Corcoran on Saturday morning, I witnessed the ceremony of hoisting and saluting the flag.—It was a lovely day; not a cloud obscured the horizon. The Second Maine Regiment, holding Fort Corcoran, was on parade. At a signal a roll of bunting ascended the tall, lithe, tapering flag staff, and fluttered out into the American ensign, the same which floated over the regiment in the hot fire at Bull run.—The great guns of the fort thundered a salute, and mingled with their roar, was the "Star Spangled Banner" by the band. Three times three were the cheers of the stalwart men, and all the cannon roared again. Then farther on, the sons of Michigan, from their newly constructed works, sent up the roar of their columbiads, and then joined in the Dutch from their four gun battery, waking all the echoes of the Potomac, startling Washington and Georgetown into a certainty that the long expected battle had begun, and filling the air with a white sulphurous [sic] cloud, which slowly floated away, and disappeared in the unobscured azure. Colonel Roberts, of the Second Maine, resolved that a fortress like Fort Corcoran should have a substantial flag staff, and at his own instance, and I believe at his own expense, procured one of excellent proportions, which has been excellently rigged, and firmly set within the fort. The men have been in daily practice upon the guns, and on this occasion they were permitted to make more than a dumb show. They handled them with great rapidity, and in a manner which I think would not be particularly pleasing to General Beauregard, should he bring his army within range. It was a beautiful sight to see the belching flame, the fleecy cloud; to hear the thundering roar of the columbiads, the deep boom of the long thirty-two pounders, the spanking report of the brass howitzers, mingled with the cheers of the men and the music of the band. It was soul stirring to gaze at the banner, floating high in air over such a scene, and brought forcibly to mind the thrilling apostrophe to the "Flag of our country," by Joseph Rodman Drake: * * * * * * Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given, Thy stars have lit the angel dome, And all thy hues are born of heaven. Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before us; With freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner waving o'er us. They and the hundreds of thousands now in arms beneath its waving folds will sustain its purity and honor, and the nations of the earth shall feel the effect of their mighty effort. DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 9, 1861, p. 2, c. 4 A "good one" is told of a Quaker volunteer who was in a Virginia skirmish. Coming in to pretty close quarters with a rebel, he remarked—"Friend, it is unfortunate, but thee stands just where I am going to shot," and, blazing away, down came the secessionist. DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 9, 1861, p. 2, c. 3 Each one of the Kansas Second, it seems, has been presented, from some source, with a ten cent testament. This was done, as a Kansas paper devoutly observes, "in honor of their bravery at Springfield." Really! Maj. Sturgis appears to have had a higher appreciation of their valor than that, when he remarked that if he wanted a regiment of soldiers to storm hell with he would take the Kansas Second.—[Topeka Tribune. DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 11, 1861, p. 3, c. 2 Wood, Wood.—We will take wood in payment for subscriptions to the Daily and Weekly Times. DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 11, 1861, p. 3, c. 2 Gen. Lane is having several rifled cannon made at the foundry at this city for his Brigade. DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 12, 1861, p. 2, c. 4 "A Social Evil."—Our attention has been repeatedly called to the alarming increase of degraded women who nightly infest our streets, but as we could not suggest a remedy, we have forborne comment. One of the unfortunate class, who subscribes herself "A Penitent," has written as follows: The writer is not a denizen of Cincinnati, says the Commercial, but it will serve as well for this locality as any: "Every now and then a cry is made against us, and the public prints teem with articles about the sisterhood to which I belong who appear to know little more about the question than that the evil exists and can not be checked. People writing about people they know little of, for the best reason that those who know all about us never care to think of and expose a system they encourage. I am one of the fallen ones, degraded in the eyes of the world, spurned by the good, ill treated by the bad, caressed by a few, but shunned in the daylight by everybody. My fall was that of thoughtless indiscretion; discovered and turned adrift upon the world, this life became a necessity for food and raiment, and followed now, not from choice, for I loathe it. To escape from it is impossible; and, as thousands more do, I go on day after day, thinking sometimes sadly what the end will be, deadening my day thoughts with drink, and spending my evenings in maddening excitement. You, with others, ask why? And my answer is simply that there is no escape, and for this reason, I never speak to those who would help me; and those who come in contact with me are as bad as I am, and men of the world. It is nonsense to suppose that even those of us who would, can reform; our relatives will not receive us, and the good shun us. Many of us have been brought up as ladies, without any employment. Work, if we could do it, is denied to us all; for a penitent telling what she is looked upon as venomous by those who could help her. "Alas for the rarity of Christian charity." Tell me, if you can, Mr. Editor, what we can do to alter our lives, and I, with thousands more, will not be a pest to your streets; but tell us, too, that in our transit from bad to good we shall not have scornful treatment and contempt, such no human creature can endure, and will flock around those who would save us, as we do around those who go madly rushing on through life with us, in the glitter and excitement of our night houses." DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 12, 1861, p. 3, c. 2 Wanted Immediately—Fifty good Shoemakers. Also, Ten good Carpenters. Apply to Owen Duffey, Oct. 12. Delaware St. DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 12, 1861, p. 3, c. 2 Col. Jennison arrived here yesterday, on business connected with his regiment. A large number of recruits are on their way from Lawrence to join his regiment, which, together with those who are now at the Fort, will fill it up to the maximum. Mr. Owen Duffey, has a large force at work making saddles and other equipments for the Colonel's regiment. They will soon be completed and the regiment put into a serviceable condition. DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 16, 1861, p. 2, c. 1 Knights of the G. C.—The Ohio State Journal, of the 8th instant, publishes an account of the descent of the U. S. Marshal upon a "Castle" of the Knights of the Golden Circle. The "Castle" was located in Marion, Ohio, where there is said to be a large number of the Knights. The Journal also states that Columbus is filled with them, and calls upon the citizens to arouse and crush them out. The existence of the Marion Commandery was made known by one Samuel Cheney, who joined the order for the purpose of exposing it. The following is one of the obligations said to be administered to the initiated: "And I further promise and swear in the presence of Almighty God, and the members of the Golden Circle, that I will not rest or sleep until Abraham Lincoln, now President, shall be removed out of the Presidential chair, and I will wade in blood up to my knees, as soon as Jefferson Davis sees proper to march with his army to take the City of Washington and the White House, to do the same. So help me God, and keep me steadfast to do the same." DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], October 16, 1861, p.