Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1865, JAN. 389 THE QUOTA. Jwn. 2()Beller takes full cliarge of the Iiortler lim(s, and Howard starts the Lumlnmrlc iii a. few months. Jan. 26A public ineeting at 1la.tteC/ity, A. (J. Brown. chair- man, started a subscription for 11101110) to be added to the bounty now oifered by the county for recruits. The tirst pllblir 111:-eting of free(l111e11 was held at \eston. and several e11tl1usia.stic addresses made by whites. Capt. Manoah Miles is appoiiited supervisor of registration. FEBRUARY. THE COUNTY QUOTA. Feb. 1There is now due fro111 the several townships as fol- lows: \eston Township, 26 men; Preston and Carroll, 30; Pettis and Lee. llarshall and Green, 39; making 150 men d11e from the countv. Deputy Provost-Marslial Ronev gives notice that the 1-ounty is in default, a11d eni-0111-ages enlistinents by showing the a111ount of bounties oifered. Capt. Keniper is provost1narshal, with headquarters at Weston. Feb. 6-Th~e State Constitutional Convention abolish slavery. Feb. 13The Legislature, almost un:a~n1i111o~usl v, ratify the constitutional aniendinent abolisliing slavery. Representative John Vilson spoke and voted against it, but Representative D. D. B111-nes voted for it. Feb. 18The old national ag again oats over Ft. Sumter. (harleston burned. A niarauding party 1-obs the 11o11ses of Alfred Jack, E. C. (oi-krill, and otl1e1-s, near Camden Point. Capt. Mays. recruiting for the 51st Missouri Infantry. offers ::%5l) bounty for 12n1ontl1s 111en. . lodge of Good Teniplars is organized at Westo~11 with 40 iiieinbers. and Col. Fielding Burnes, W. P. Feb. 30J11dge Lapvton sends a eoinniissioner to Jefferson City. to see what can be done to avert the draft. but nothing is eected. The Legislature adjourns. having restored the \est0n & A. Railroad to its original stoekliolders. a.nd having provided for the completion of the railroad frmn Kansas Oity to Weston. They also helped the Pacic Railroad to reach I{{1l1~S{l1S Pity. They adjourned until N oveinber to complete the revision of the statutes. MARCH. Jlaireh 3The Border [ime.s (~ompa11v is re-o1;:a11i7.ed. with