Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1862-10-11
STATE AND OTHER ITEMS.

Physician, SOU Judges OF the District
Courts, from tho lst of January next,
$1,000; Judges Of the Supreme Court,
sitter the expiration, Of the several terms
of the present incumbeps, $1,000; Sec
rotary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Reg.
lister of the Land Office, and Secretary Of
the Board of Educa ton, 81 300 of Dis
trict Attorneys, $500, aud the fees allowed
by law.
-TRAvEL-This branch of business is
fast improving-our railroads running full
trains and our hotel registers show a won
derful improvement over the same time
last year. The M. &aM. Railroad is OBJ.
liged to attach, another passenger car to
its trains uscatine Journal.
The county of Warren, WHICH at the
last State election cast LOO votes, and
has returned to the Adjutant Generals
Office l,676 militmmen, has BY actual
count, sent s54 to battle for the old flag.
SINGULAR CoINclDENcE.-It is a Gu
rious coincidence. worthy Of remark, that
the recent decisive battle fought by Gen.
eral Mcclellan on the Antietam took place
on the 18th Of September--the very day
on which, seventy. five years ago, the Con.
stitution of the United States was signed
and adopted.
During one of the late Manassas bat
ties, one of Sigel's soldiers, seeing woun-
ded officer in danger of being taken by
squad Of rebels, hsroically rushed upon
them, shot ore, bayoneted four others,
and kept three more at bay with one arm
while he carried off his officer with the
other.
-UsELEss MUrILArloN-A young man
in Moscow, Maine, cut off the first Joint
OF his torehnges to avoid draft. The
town raised its quota by volunteers, and
now he is manned tor life to no avail.
Lieut.. Bloss, of Rochester, received
singular wound in the battle of Antietam.
a ball struck him on the bridge Of bis
nose, breaking il. and thence passing
down between the lips and teeth through
his chin, striking MS watch and bat.ering
it somewhat
The 34th iowa Infantry. Col. G. NJ.
Clarke, of lndianola, is now IN rendezvous
at Camp Lauman, Burlington. This reg
iment is composed of men from Warren.
Lucas. Wayne and Decatur counties 1t
is called the Star regiment. not from anv
affected superiority over other Iowa regi
ments, bat because its number OF States
in the American Union.
Col. Bussey, OF the ID Iowa Cavalry,
has hsap >, D., ,h
splendid 5000.
The steam saw mill Of Frank Smith,
at Clayton, Iowa, was destroyed by lire
last week; also II large amount OF lumber.
The loss is sbou, $4,000, With no insu.
rance.
Orders for the revenue stamps must
cover remittance of Treasury notes, or an
original certificate of United States
Treasury or designated depository of
deposit made for the pucha.e of stamps.
Stamps will not be RENTED upon the re-
ceipt Of check and drafts upon banks.
Gen. Hunter is in Washington. The
lntethgencer says that he fairly admits
that his ideas OF the effectiveness OF the
negro have undergone a considerable mod
lhcatlon since the failure Of his expert.
ment III thai line al Hilton lead.
-HEAY BErrING Over one hundred
Thousand dollars changed hands Oh the
Fashion Course when Ethan Alien was
defeated. Ben Wood aud John siorrisev
bet heavily. The former won, the latier
lost.
1t is estimated at the Navy Depart
ment that there are 10000 enlisted iu the
navy at this time.
Within a week cotton has Advanced
eight cents on the pound the last quota.
tons being at Sc cents, the highest price
ever known in this country
Large bodies from the regular amry
Of the nited States are now being col
Iecled al New York, preparatory to beng
sent TO the seat OF war.
The Government. contractors are turn.
ing out fifteen inch guns at the rate Of
three day at PIttsburg, Tor the purpose
OF arming new Monitors.
The manual labor school ut Amherst,
n. H., offers to ladies and gentlemen
chance to pay the whole expense Of
thorough education, BY manual labor.
1t is said that in Andover. the smallest
town in Connecticut, with population of
only 500, the draft took nearly every man
in the place. Women rule there now
If never did before
A steel suspension bridge of ITO
yards span is now underg Ding the scientific
test at Brkenhead, England. The steel
used III its construction, stood the hand
some test of seventy tons per square inch
of tensile strain.
Mrs Lincoln has recently made lib
eral contribution to the contrabanas in
Washington, many of whom are in SUI.
A correspondence is said to be in
progress between Generals Halleek and
Sipel, ocoasioned by statements of the
former that there are serious charges
against the personal courage of the latter
MILITARY ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN -
AT Dearborn, in Michigan, last week, Capt.
Speed organized company Of one hun.
dred young women. and administered to
them the constitutional oath, with the
pledge to search on families Of volunteers