Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1862-03-01

khan aud Council Bluffs Nonpariel, FOR our
telegraphic dispatches. Fs
WAsHlNGroy, Feb. %.
At . complimentary supper given Mr..
Faulkner, formerly Minister to France. At
Martinsburg, Va, a few days since. he
declared in lis speech that it was useless
for the South 10 contend any longer tina,
the Southern Coutedcracy could not stand,
and the sooner the war was ended the
better for the South. His speech is said
TO have created intense excitement. as Mr..
Faulkner exercised considerable influence
in some portions OF Virginia.
The government has released n large
number OF political prisoner. from Forts
Lafayette and Warren on theft parole
that they will not give aid and comfort to
the enemy. e..
.... ST.. LOUIS. Feb. 81.
A correspondent Of the Republican te>
legrnphs from Springfield under date Of
the 2uth, as follows:
A messenger has just arrived who left
the army at 10 o'clock yesterday morning.
Our forces had not left Sugar Creek. In
the istt on Monday fourteen Of The enc.
my were killed and iOrty.thrce wounded !,
our loss twelve or thirteen. Our troops
were bivouacing eight miles beyond camp.
Gen. Price bad arrived nj Grass Hollow,
eighteen miles beyond Sugar Creek
Skirmishes are reported as taking place
daily.
CAlRo, Feb %.
Officers Of guntoats who have heea at
rI.l-,,,l. o,-,a . H., JT,;,,, ful.,., N,
strong: and testified to in such II manner
that there can BE- no doubt OF its sincerity.
Pcopl. state that they had been led to be.
lieve that the Union army was composed
If Germans and negroes, who were max
ing it u war OF abolition. Now that they
have seen it is not, they are anxious to
take the oath Of al.sgi nee. Prominent
citizens say that II similr feeling will in a
week pervade the whole State.
A statement was 'elcSraphed yesterday
tha Gov Harris had conSeaed the Lesi,-
lure for the purpose Of having all uncon
stitu,ional laws passed by them repeated
i, is probably true.
The day before the Surrender of Donel-
son 20o0 rebels escaped when tie garri
son made their desperate resistance. hut
subsequently returned snd offered them.
selves TO General Grant and requested to
be sworn into the Federal service,
ST.. Louis, Eeb 81.
A Cnicn scout who was al C~o!umhns,
Ky. reports that no preparations are being
made for the evacuation of that place IA
steamers With steam up. were nj toe wharf,
and II salute was fred indicating the arri'
val Of general rein!orcements from the
South
CHICAGO, Feb. q.
Cumberland Gap aud Rnsselvi!!e are
in the hands Of the federal forces
NAsuINGroN, Feb. 81
Gen Scott was nominated Minister Ex-
traordinary to Mexico, on saturday, with
it is SAID. functions sa2h as he exercised
in the paci!icniiou Of the Northwestern
Boundary question.
Accompanying this nomination The pro
ject OF treaty weGt into The Senate, the
principal feature OF which is substantially
the assumption Of the Mexican debt. the
interest on which monnis to three m,l-
lions per year. The trca:y guarantees oar
payment uf IL for five years.
/, is thought the nomination OF General
Scott will be confirmed by the Senate, /!
his FUNCTIONS should be limited TO The pa,
cilralion Of an armed auar.t! againS!
Mexico, particularly at n mouent when
We cannot defend the Monroe Doctrine,
and go to her relief, bat II is doubtful
whether the Senate will favor the scheme
for paying of OF England, France and
Spain ion live years or lite.
Dispatches haze been received at tie
navy department from Com. Dupont, dated
Pa., Royal, feo. Is He received IL re
port from Com. Rogers. who says that
while sonndins on The Savannah river a
sbor. distance above the mouth Of Wright
river, they found torpedoes, or some other
kind OF an inferna! machine, which they
destroyed.
Assistant Secretary Fox has received u
letter from u friend in New York stating
that the announcement in The Richmond
papers tina, $4,000 stand Of arms had re.
Gently arrived in New Orleans is unIrue.
A passenger who casHe out from New
Orleans to Havana, on the Victoria, says
she only Obtained $50 guns there. which
wns all he arms she took back to New
Orleans. The militia there are therefore
still unsrMea. q 4s
III. rs..e:s have Withdrawn their rickets
from Ocoquau, about 20 miles from Alex
andria. aan ..-s .4. ...... -.,
New YoaE, Feb. %.
Rebel dispatches state that Ten. Sidney
A. John ION was at Galialin. and had no
idea of surrendering Nashville. Pillow
and Floyd were both there. Beauregard
was there SICK with typhoid fever.
CHICAGO, Feb. "a.
Official report Of the fight at Wort Don.
nelson shoys. three hundred and twenty.
one killed three handrel and t'ty-four
wounded, and one hunIred and fifty two
missing.
An expedition composed Of four gun
boats and two mortar boats, from Cairo,
vent dawn near Columbus yesterday. A
consultation took place which lasted two
hours--result not yet made public.
II is believed the rebels will make a
great faht at Nashville.
Col. Corcoran viii! he made 4 Brieadier
as 1901 as he returns from the South.
CH,cAGo, Feb. a.
An arrival from Fort Douelson repogts
stss the enem! h.ve ssross ~fer,i6sa,ions