Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1862-06-21
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A troublesome door to tend-The Sue.
YASDoAH.
ANDREWS Morro-Great cry and \
great deal Of gool
The Republican State Convention ia
called to meet at Des Moines on the 23d
Of July.
Fitz Henry Warren, is now Brigadier
General. His appointment was confirmed
by the L. s. Senate on the 29th uIt.
Gov. VIM. Sprague is the newly elected
Senator from Rhode Island. He 10 the
youngest Senator in the Union.
A military conspiracy, in favor Of Po.
land, has been discovered in St. Peterburg,
Russia.
Whilst paper is so exceedingly scarce
in the South, we cant see why the Con-
federste authorities are permitted to waste
i. by printing Confederate notes upon it.
The rebels pretend to think chat their
flying forces have at length come to n
I halt. All, but the thing their leaders are
coming to is a halter.
Wherever the rebellion has set its foot
in Kentucky. the spot has been blasted as
if that accursed foot had been in tho clio.
ven foo. Of Satan.
William Brown Of the Mackcrel Brigade
y. Y V. NJ, writes from Manassas
have met the enemy and they are hours
ahead Of us.
The army correspondent, OF the Savan.
nah Dgp1I1i,,ya, t,a rnhol lnpa : ho
battle Of Shiloh. on the 9th and eth Of
April, was fully 10000 in killed, wound
ed and missing
George W. Child, the en.erprising Phi.
ladelph publisher, has offered Mr.. Rarey
the very handsome sum Of 500, 900 if he
will write book upon the horse, horse.
manship and horse breaking. Mr.. Rsrey
now has the subject under consideration.
4 German woman at Wnsted, Conn,
thinks that I'VE IN this country don't know
anything about war yet During tho
existence of war in Germany she vas
compelled to work in black smith shop
three years, % scarce were men.
A Mrs. Murphy. widow. of Eastport va.
found dead in her bed on Friday morning
last lHe TOWN. aulnnritieS .OuNu Sf,fVv
her premises, of which $4,000 in gold
was sewed in her dresses. She left re-
quest 20 be buried in tho geld .linefdress,
bu, whether the coin was to be takg, out
the papers do not state. =
The Key West correspondence ofth.
y. \. Erp'tsS, under date OF the i5ti,%
ult, states that the British iron steamer
Circassian, l,jli tons. with a cargo OF tea
silk, coffee and munitions OF war. valued
at Sl,oO0,000, had been seized by the
blockad!ng fleet, and would be sen. 10
New York.
Hon Rober, J. Walker thinks the result
O! the rebellion is 70 he of immense value
to the country. 1t will give confidence at
home and command respec. abroad. Mr.
Walker il firm In the opinion that amnesty
to the deluded masses. and exile to the
leaders, is the only thing that will settle
the matter after the struggle of armies
is over
"Mark you. Rassanio, the Devil can
quote Scripture for his purpose Shaks.
pturc .Nercham of Venice
The New York Journal Of Comm.rcc
says -
last Sunday the Iniversalist church
on Broadway presented the unusual sight
of the editor 81 the Tribune, Horace
Greeley, in tho pulpit, Mr.. Chaplin was
too unweIl to preach, and Mr. Greeley
oficieted in his stead.
The New York World says that after
Richmond is captured, let Gen. Mcclellan
again assume control Of the Eastern De-
partment. and Secretary Stanton be con-
fined to the more congenisl employment
OF browbeatins correspondents Of tho
press and writing at captaadum r-ocla-
nations and war bulletins.
From the report of the Congressional
Investigating Committee The govern
ment has been the victim Of more than
one conspiracy, and remarkable combina-
tons have been formed to rob the Trea-
sury. The profits from the sale of arms
to the government have been enormous,
and realized, too, in many instances, even
by our own citizens, through system OF
brokerage as unprincipled and dishonest
as untr'endly to the success and welfare
OF the nation, as the plottings of actual
treason.
From the report Of the Congressional
Investigating Committee The govern
ment paid Starhuck SlI,5o0 for two ships
for which, while acting as government
agent, he paid only $1,000. lle was paid
in addition Eve per cent commission up
on SlI,500 for his own services, and the
additional commission of : , per cent.
upon the same sum for advancing money
From the Report Of the Congressional
Investigating Committee In one impor-
tant division of the army Che westerly
the law has been almost totally disregard
cd, and even the safeguard of the respou-
sibility of public officers has been unne-
cessarily removed by the employment Of
irresponsible agents in the purchase of
large quantities Of supplies, even where
responsible md experienced and upright
public officers We're in position ~ per.