Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-05-02


-Protestanism i gaining ground in
China.
The new Philadelphia post Office is
completed. ..oT
There are now nearly 5000 men em.
ployed at the B,ooklyn Navy Yard.
There are mining bitches in Califor.
MIA 900 miles long.
Rio Coffee is selling in Augusta, Ga.
at 81 ,95 per pound.
-ThAre are nov in Washington City 81
public schools, tended BY 1902 scholars.
Potatoes are selling 10 Atlapta, Ga
for $15 a bushel
Ice, it is thought, will be worth Two
cents pound in Cincinnati next summer.
, News .is now, passed between, the
Sandwich Islands and NewY orb in less
than two weeks.
-Thaddeus Smith, Of North Hadley,
had II acres Of good tobacco last year,
which be has sold for $1,000.
1T is said that Brigham Young and
his wives, when they 60 to the theatre,
fill Eve rows uf seats.
They say that some members Of the
Rebel Cabinet are remitting money to tie
North, for investment
A great many Arctic birds have late.
ly been seen on the Lower S, Lawenrce-
white quails and white owls.
The penalty for selling poor butter in
Philadelphia is coniscation-- balf 10 60 to
the clerk, half to The poor.
IL. is said that in thirty three Ohio
regiments now in the Geld, there are no
less than 5000 deserters. - <.s.a.-- e..
The hotels of Windsor, Canada, op.
posite Detroit, are crowded with skedad-
lers to avoid the draft. ..,
- Fifteen thousand maskets were sent
from the Springfield armory to New York
last week, to be shipped to California.
Gen. Cooper Of Ohio, has issued
| general order against the pnsoldierly
practice Of mobbing newspaper Offices.
A letter from Port Royal says the
number of freed slaves in that department.
is nearly seventeen thousand.
The l2s III. Regiment has been re-
duced from $50 men to $50, principally
by desertion.
Forty acres Of good land, within
three miles Of Springfield, No., were re-
Gently sold for Sc. = @D-a+ 90
Indians are reported 10 be collecting
| -, l. ho ::
preparatory to raid on The settlements.
The copper shoe tips, now so exten
sively used for chidren's shoes, are man
ufactured at Lewiston, Me.
AT the present time there are only
about eleven thousand Jews in all Pales-
tine. @a~ = 3 ~
About 10 pounds of brick were found
in bale Of cotton recently opened in
Woodsockst, RI.
Senator Hale, Of N. H. is now tn,
oldest member Of the U. s. Senate, having
been now fourteen years in that body.
The weekly receipts at the Office o
Internal Revenue in Washington are abou
one million two hundred Thousand dollars
: Since the lst of August, 1861. on
hundred and seventeen thousand soldier
havs pal&a over the New Jerssy. Raj
: road, bound for the sea. Of war.
There are 800 monster guns at Pitt,
burg, intended for sea.coast defepces. :
They are to be shipped TO Boston and Ne
1oRk.s q aFsf : ,t':tEt E
= The hospitals in Washington an
, near the city have 9,229 iamates. II thes
q hospitals there pre- l3.s4l beds, IN
4,7l2 vacant beds. h .k.tss ~
). One hundred and forty nine oper,
!, tives from the English cotton mills arri,
ed at Boston on tho Gath sN bound (
the West.
We understand that in all the nj,
'r yards in the Union, save Mare Island .,
Washington, new wooden steam vesse
: are TO BE built. - 45H1 F~AH.at t.#f.*
i Two hundred and forty dollars
!" gold have recently been dug from /
ruins q ,a., ths great fire in East Bosto
"A new York letter states that A.
ID Stewaft's annual tar will be about $2(
=, y OOOl and hundreds Of firms will pay fre
;" Sc, 900 to $4,000.
=. -Hle i.,.eldiei peks)or'.
land, now IN close custody, Who Is kno,
TO have enlisted ten times, and TO b
received seven touhties.
y @TAe am1Qnt of mosey H.hEbs60 il
u the Y. s. Treasury, FOR exemption fre