Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-07-18
STATE AID OTHER ITEMS.

Two females Of respectable families inc
Buffalo were arrested 10 male attire on
Monday evening, at low dance house,
which they bad entered thus cisguised "to
zee the sights
The Commissioner Of pensions has esti-
mated that if the war continues year
longer, and pensions are granted 10 the
same proportion as during the pas. year,
that the payment of these pensions will
draw an annual sum Of $1,000, 900.
Mrs. Gage, widow of Professor Gage, of
Cornell College, committed suicide in Mt.
Vernon, Linn county, few days since
She was laboring under temporary in.
sanity.
The Davenport Gazette Of the Both, con-
tains report Of the death of Professor
Fellows Of Cornell College, Mt. Vernon.
The Union Guard of Bloomfield, esti-
mates that the amount of wool produced
for sale in Davis county this year, is 49,.
900 pounds.
Two thousand five hundred pleasure
seekers from Ottawa and La Sale, Illinois,
visited Davenport few days since. The
excursion was gotten up for the benefit of
the Baptist Church at Ottawa.
The Supreme Court Of New York has
decided that greenbacks are not legal
tender for debts contracted before their
issue. One Of the Judges reserved his
opinion in regard to the Consti,utionali,y
Of the act.
The State Convention of Missouri has
at last passed an emanci patton ordinance,
to take effect on the 4th Of July, 1870, but
it is partly conditional, inasmuch as the
slaves SO emancipated have to serve an
apprenticeship to accord with the exigency
Of the case.
The population Of Burlington, Iowa, by
the census just taken, is $50. The mum.
Der of votes in the city is lao, and the
number Of militia is 9ls. The population
Of the city in 1853 was 6,7O6.
The negroes propose to hold a National
Convention at Poughkeepsie, on the 18th
OF July, for the purpose of rallying TO-.
0OO colored troops under Fremont, Or
some other General who will lead them to
victory, deliver their race, and end the
rebellion.
While General Paine lay wounded near
the breastworks at Por, Hudson, his Assist.
ant Adjutant General offered any one who
would carry him q drink Of water $4,000.
A brave fellow undertook the task, and
succeeded in cooling the parched lips Of
Gen. p, and doubtless saved bis life. but
death was his own reward. lie was rid.
died With bullets.
Same music teacher once wrote that
the "art Of playing violin requires the
n.ces. perception and the mos: seus;t;'ity
Of any art in the known world" Upon
which an editor comments in the following
manner: The art Of publishing news.
paper. and making it pay, and at the same
time have it please everybody, beats ed
ding higher than kite"
Some idea Of the golden wealth of Col
orado Territory may be gained from the
fact that single claim Of seventy feet is
capable OF producing, with the improved
machiRry now in use, nearly half a mil
lion dall1rs' worth of gold per "nnum.
The Grand Jury have found bill of
Indictment against the editor Of the Wash.
ington Sta for treason, n.publiskng the
account of army movements from tie
Philadelphia Inquirer.
FIRES. -The wooden factory of Meek &
Son, at Bonapar., Lee county, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th inst. Loss,
SIS ,0o0-insurance s3,000.-W. s. Berry
l. Co.'S steam saw mill and an adjoining
dwelling, at Burlington, was DESTROYED by
fire on the 4.h. Loss, $7,0oO-no insnr.
ance. 1t is thought the FIRE originated
from FIRE crackers.
Tho Dubuque Times and Herald come
to US with accounts of a severe disturb.
ance which occurred at the commence.
ment exercises at Cornell College, Mount
Vernon, in this State on the 10th ult. A
few persons went there with copper badges
(head OF Liberty cut out of the federal
copper coin) and were set upon BY tho
crowd. The exercises were suspended;
the pins were forcibly taken from the men
and women also; those who resi1ted were
severely treated. and one grey haired old
man was nearly killed; one woman who
had pin upon her breast, so says the
Times, had it torn from her breast, clothes
and all! Tatejts all in all it was dis.
graceful affair. 3.
-, Isas.s1 9i'1 srosa-o" Tuesday.
Both " obstructive hail storm visited
porliDbs Of Black Hawk aud Jones coun.
~ The Anamosa Eureka says it en-.
rely destroyed the wheat. corn, oats, gar
den vegetables, and even the prairie grass
for . space varying in width from two to
four miles. Pigs and hens were killed by
the hail stones, which were nearly rs
large as hens eggs, and cattle were 20