Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1862-08-30

neeoeO before the Indians are Snbdued.-
He thinks :hsf will have not less than
1000 or 5000 warriors to meet sooner or
later. A committee of citizens from St.
Cloud, appointed - visit the .cene of the
reported murders. have returned and re.
port that they went a. far - Psynesville,
and found some 200 persons in the vicin-
ity Of that place aud Norway Lake muir.
dered.
Citizens of Paynesville have pe.i,ioned
the Governor for military 10 protect their
lives aud property in Stearnes, Meeker,
and Monongahala counties. Arrivals from
New Uln on Saturday, report usual shock.
ing scenes Of barbarisy.
Sr. Cou1s, Aug. rs
Two companies sen, up the Missouri
River 70 destroy boats and other means
used b! gurrillas to cross the river, have
returned, having successfully accomplish
LouIsvILLE. Kr., Aug. %.
Yesterday near Gallatin the federal Gen.
johnson, Of Ky, with 800 men. attacked
1900 cavalry under Morgan, and WIS de.
feated. Our loss vas 300 ,aksa prisoners.
the rsmsing 500 escaped to Nashville
WASHINGTON, Aug. Is.
Passengers from Virginia to-day report
an engagement At Warrcntpn yesterday,
in which our forces were successful, driv.
ing the enemy out Of town. We still hold
ing Il at latest sdsices. The rebel forces
engaged were mainly cavalry.
CHICAGO, Aug 26.
A careful consideration Of the evidence
accumulated TINS far goes TO show tina,
the influence Of white men was at the
bottom Of the Indian nassacres in Min.
nesota. The fact that distant tribes like
the ianktons and Flatheads are Il Loving
in concert with the Sioux; tina, the force
attacked post fortified by artillery like
Fort Ridgeley, such attack being wi,hou,
precedent in Indian history that they
are numbering missionaries, who have
spent their lives among them, and who, in
ordinary Disturbances, would exercise
considerable inhusncs over them, all seem
to indicate some directing Intelligence
superior 10 themselves
CINCINNATI, Aug. Is.
The President Of the Kentucky Central
Railroad has advices that Buckuer, with
10000 rebels, were encAmped near Som.
set and has called the Young men Of Ken.
lucky TO join him. Bragg is at Chat.
anooga with thirty thousand and Humph
rey Marshall is a, the head Of Big Sandy
with 1900 men.
The Cutcrland River is in tull posses.
sion Of We rebeIs-no travel by Railroad
TO Nashville.
New YoRX, Aug. -.
The steamer Blackstone, from New
Orleans the 18th, has arrived. John
Slidelrs property has been con6sca.ed BY
Butler.
An order has been issued commanding
the turning over to the United States OF
all arms in New Orleans. The French
Consul asked tina, the French citizens
might retain :heirs for fear Of servile 10.
surrec'ion Butler replied that protec
ton would be given BY the United States
In such cases, and insisted that all arms
should be under his control
New YoRK, Aug. o.
A Rappanhannock letter says, on the
morning of the 2lst the rebels opened q
battery on our centre and continued to
throw shot and she'll vigorously for several
hours. A little higher up it vas discov-
cred that the enemy b I'd, during the night,
erected bridge over the river. At this
point brilliant affair i, reported to have
taken place. In the vicinity Of this bridge
was one Of SigeI's batteries. on which the
rebels opened FIRE, to which our battery
replied With spirit In little while our
bat,ery ceased, having apparently been
Withdrawn, when three rebel regiments
crossed the bridge. No sooner had they
than Sigels battery opened on the bridge.
The fourth shot completely demolished il,
and al tho SEINE time a deadly fire Of mus
kerry assailed the rebels in front, their
retreat was cut Oft Nearly two thousand
are said to have captured aud about four
hundred killed and wounded. The enemy,
foiled in this. strove to ou,nank Sisel bv
crossing at Frencks Ford, but reinforco-
ments were ordered UP and the enemy
was repulscd.
CHICAGO. Aug. IS
The following is . brief synopsis of
JED. Davis message After alludinR to
the peoples sutferngs, and the ga.lan,ry
OF the troops, he says the vas, army which
threatened the Confederate capital has
been defeated aud driven from the lines
OF Investment. The enemy 10 now seek
ing to raise new armies on such a scale
as modern history does not record, TO Of.
feet the subjugation Of the South. He
charges the tederals with rapine, wanton
destruction of private property, murder Of
csp.ives, &c. He speaks Of the conGsca.
ton bill IS attsocious, and recon m ends
measures Of retsliatiou-he says stern
exemplary punishment. must be melted
out to murderers and fyl,s. who are dis
grazing the profession OF arms and seek
to make Of public war the occasion for
commission of the mos, monstrous crimes,
that the evaporation Of failure has
aroused the worst passions of our enc
mies and large portion Of their people,
even the cleigymen are now engaged in
urging an excited populace to extreme
tsrocl'y. Nothing remains but to vindi-
cate our rights aud maintain existence by
employing asainst the foe every energy,
every resource st our disposal. He re-
commends further legislation 70 make
conserip,ion universal and says the large
increase Of the federal forces may render
IL necessary hereafter TO extend the pro.
visions Of the conscript Law 50 - to EN-.
brace persons betvess tho ages OF IS and
As. The rigor and efficiency of the pre-.