Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1861-04-20
SUMMARY OF LATEST NEWS.

The North Carolinians have seized
the Forts and other Federal property in
that State. ~
The border slave States have offered
1000 men to the Confederate States.
, Senator Wigfal is serving as q com.
mon soldier in the Southern army.
The salary of JEFF. Davis as Presiden,
of the Southern Contederacy is S25, 900.
John Hutchinson who has been ap-
pointed Secretary Of Dakota Territory
belongs to tho celebrated singing family,
The New York Legislature has pass
ed bill appropriating three million oil
dollars to arm and equit the militia of the
State. ... r-
The feeling in Virginia is against the
Federal Government. a dispatch of the
10Th says the Convention will pass Sc.
cessien ordinance within two days.
Joseph Foote, a Revolutionary sol
der, died in Chenango county, New York
on the 2lst Of March He was 100 years
and months old.
The St. Louis Eren,ny Nt,cs says
that the new Admin stration has ppoin,ed
a secession Post Master at Nashville
Tcnnessee-Wm d. McNish. .-E-
Two comets are now looked for BY
astronomers--the De Vice comet which
appeared in 1855, and the celebrated comet
of Charles V.
The Governors of Maine, Rhode Is.
land, Illinois, Michigan and Vermont have
convened the Legislatures OF their respec-
tive States.
Eek President Buchanan it is said en-
presses determination to sustain the
Federal Government in it's efforts to repel
the attacks Of the secessionists.
The population of the United States
officially given-is ,hirty-one million
four hundred and twenty-nne eight hun
dred and -ninety.ene 81 429,S9l) OF
these, 1881 sol are slaves
1t is reported that JEFF Davis will va.
cate his seat at Montgomery--the Vice
President assuming the duties--and will
make his head quarters at Richmond in
ten days t....
Maj. Anderson and his command
have gore to New York. He evacuated
Sumter with all the horrors Of war. When
the stars and stri pes were hauled down, a
salute of so guns was fred.
"A hillhas passed both houses Of the
Pennsylvania Legislature and been APP
proved by the Governor, appropriating
$500, oQ0 to put that State upon a war
footing.
A dispatch from Washington, date d
the 10th, says that orders Of such a chr.r-
acter have been sent to Lieut. Slcmmer, OF
Fort Pickens, that he would probably pen
fire on the Southern army provided they
continued to erect iortii cations contiy uous
to his Fort.
The Southern Commissioners left
Washington on the llth. Notwithstand-
ing the Administration received the "tra,.
tors" with much consideration, fete them,
aud honorcd them with protrscteei official
correspondence--the ungrateful men go
bone dissatisfied, and announce that civil
war is inevitable.
--Great excitement exists in Philadel-
phia The Office Of the Sonther u Honitor,
n secession newspaper, was rnobbed-
Mobs paraded the streets and compelled
citizens, whose loyalty to the Federal Go
vernment was questioned, to display Union
culors. Several prominent Soulherners
with secession sentiments, were notified
by called vigilance comm iitees to leave
the city
The people of the Northern States,
without regard TO party, very generally
stand by the Government, and will prompt
ly respond to the call of ihe President.
The following is the reply Of the Gov.
ernor Of Kentucky to Lincoln's demand
on that State for troops" Your dispatch
received. In answer, I emphatieally say.
Kentucky will furnish 40 troops for the
purpose Of subduing her sister States.
Signed B. MAGorFlN,
Governor OF Kentucky"