Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1862-11-29
STATE NEWS.

days, and taken 10 Camp Dodge, where it
is said they will be placed in the United
States service. q
So says the Glennwoaa Times. What
are they arrested for?
-CowLEs VS.. GRAY-l. Dedication to
the public use: When town is laid out
With a street running parallel with a nav
igable river, and narrow strip Of land
between such street and the river is not
embraced in the plat thereof, it will not
be presumed that it was dedicated to the
public use as front or water street for
such town. =. Same: ecidence: The suf
heieacy OF evidence 10 show dedication
to the public use considered and deter
mined.
The above is among the recent decis-
ions of the Supreme Court of this State,
and we should say might be case in
point, relative to the question Of owner
ship Of the ledge in our city, about which
our City Council and the Sioux City Com.
pany Lave several times been at logger.
heads. .s.
Removal OF PARoLED PRlsoNERs.-
We learn the following interesting part,c-
ulars at the Adiutant Generals office -
Captain Stibbs Of Company D, 18th Iowa,
writes to the Governor that after being
paroled he started West, aud while stop
ping in Ohio learned that the Iowa boys
at the Parole Hospital at Annapolis, were
not well taken care of. lie went straig ht
back to that place, procured an order, and
took all the men of the l2rh, numbering
l73, to St Lonis, where they are well pro-
vided for. He reports that abont 70 were
sick disease starvation) but are now get
ting along finely. Col. Shaw started on
Sd inst, to procure the removal of the
paroled prisoners Of the l4h to the same
place. There are large number there OF
the Sth, 9th and 81 Iowa. which can be
removed if any officer Of those regiments
will go for them. 1t should oe done at
once Davenport Ners.
-TuE !. PuNkIS R1NDs "A soldier in
Camp Franklin (near Dubuque) has in.
vented a new name for shoulder straps
AS Colonel Scott approached his beat one
morning where the soldier was acting as
sentinel, he asked the boy wha, his in.
struc,ions were. "WelI," said the senti-
mel, II was ordered not to pass anybody
unless they've got the. 'puntta rinds on
their soulders - The Colonel passed
quietly on, but laughed heartily over the
fellows wit when he got out of hearing.
Adj. Gen. Baker. refuses to accept as
Grey Boards any one under the age Of
forty. FIVE, stating that when application
was made for permission to raise the reg
ment, the understanding was that none
who We're liable to draft should be accept.
ed in its ranks We understand about
fifty were rejccscd for this cause.
The Davenport Ners says that the
sabres and rifles for the 9th cavalry regi-
ment has arrived there. The sabres are
very choice, and the rifle is French Min.
ME, which gives great satisfaction to the
members of the regiment
The Oskaloosa Herald announces
that Rev. VIM. F. Cowles Of that place
and now Presiding Elder in the NJ. Z
Church, has accepted the appointment Of
collector for the 4th District. and has
given the 100000 bonds required, and
will at once enter on his duties,
e.
the 9th Cavalry are coming in from all
quarters. and the prospect is that the
thousand contracted for win be furnished
within the specified twenty DAYS. Cham
bers. BearG and DR.. Egpert Drought seven
car loads OF splendid horses from Chica
60 yesterday morning. Bacon, of Wash.
inpion. Skenkle, Of Muscatine aud Fisher
of Iowa CITY, have all filed their contracts,
and Chambers end Beard have only few
more to furnish. 1t locks as though there
would be more horses than men at Camp
Hendershou III n few days.
Bacon, of Washington, tells an Incl
dent that heel him while out purchasing
horses to fill his contract with the Govern.
ment, that is worth printing. Hearing
that widow of the Quaker persuasion,
who resid.s in Washington county. and
who is pretty we'll of, as the world goes,
had some good horses, be made her a call
and made. known his basiness---that he
wanted to purchase horses for the Gov.
eminent. At this announcement the old
lady told MIR. Bacon that she had none to
sell the Government, but she had been
wanting to give something to it for long
time. and told him to 90 to the stable, pick
out the best horse he could find, and take
it as gift. This astonished the contrac.
tor he had been used to dealing with a
different class of customers, and was at
loss to know how to proceed. He finally
explained the matter, that the Govern.
ment wanted to pay for what it got, and
succeeded in inducing her to take a fair
price for her property. Such people are
very overwhelmingly So Davenport
NeUs.