Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-10-03

Ill u reported mat the 0tn cavalry 10
fall, and 400 men 70 spare for the 9.h.
Henry Clay Dear il ..snpips Ohio
fsr the Democracy + : !. Fl
"A company h.s been org.0;sed il
Davenport to construct - eailroad from
Aare1go 10 pointin Benton county.
The amount Of money paid out quar-
terly from the Black Hawk Co. Treasury
for volunteer purposes, is said to be $500.
The Branch Hospitals recently es>
tablished at Burlington and Iowa City
have been broken up and the couvales =.
cents sent to those points, transferred to.
Keokuk. The Constisxtios takes this q
IN indication that there il to be no draft
in this State.
Tho Davenport Democrat says the
prisoners barracks, eighty -four in number,
Icing built on the Island near that city
are nearly completed and the erection Of
the officers quarters, guard house, &C.,
has been commenced. A number Of ar.e-
sian wells are to be sunk on the Island.
The same paper states, at tho request
Of Adjs,aut Gen. Baker, tha. there will
be no copies of his late report for sale, -
the number printed will not meet the de.
mands Of those entitled to then, under
the law regulating their distribution and
the demands Of the different military de.
psrtmerts. !.
Large quantities Of counterfeit pos.
tai currency Of the demon ins,ion of Scots.
are in circulation in Keokuk. The bogus
"scabs' are easily detected by the imprint
American Bank Note Company at the
lower left end, which on the genuine slopes
to the left, while on the coun,erfeis it
slopes to the right
An insane man, mistaken for bur-
glar, was killed recently in Muscatine
county.
Adj. Gen. Baker has lately received
the regimen.al flag Of the Goth Louisiana
rebel regiment. which was captured at the
battle Of Champion Hills BY tn. Sob Iowa.
The flag, which il small one, is pierced
by one hundred and ten distinct bulle.
holes, while the staff is pierced BY nine
Four men were killed while bearing
the flag.
We hear talk, says the Iowa City
Press, Of com pany about being organ
issd with view Of building locks =. tie
dame in the Iowa river, above the city,
for the purpose Of enabling small sized
steamboats, to navigate the river. This 10
certainly commsodsbls enterprise and
We trust It will not De allowed to fail.
Here 10 On item for those who think
Iowa 10 not well adapted to fruit raising {:
At the State fair just held 1t Dubuque, in
addition to 6ue display Of peaches and
plume, there were on exhibition It's vsri
cites Of apples, and $50 vsrie,ie. Of
grapes, the latter being all grown by
Judge King, Of Dubuque.
The contract TO furnish twelve hun.
dred horses for the 9th Iowa Cavalry has
been awarded to E F. Hooker, Of Des
MONIES, at al average price Of $l2l.47,
although there were several lower bids;
one at $li7. 40, and another at Sll945.-
Mr.. Hooker is presiden. Of the Western
Stage Company.
The Iowa Safe Fair, held at Dubuque
last week was, from all We can learn, q
very creditable exhibi,ion-the receipts
being about a. large rs at any previous
year and the sttcndaace good. A is very
apt to be the case ut such exhibitions, the
clerk of the weather was not altogether
pscifsd with the condition Of things, aud
90 he lent, on Thursday and Friday, bis
humid aud frigid presence to the no in
considerable annoyance Of the attendants
upon tho Fair-bo.h fair and IN fair
Still the "nags" we're there in force, and
to the great delight Of the acclaim,ng
spectators, lifted the dus. (mad) with
flying feet.'
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Arcabishop Hughes.-Ths Northern
Journal Jefferson county says tha. Arch
bishop Hughes has been for the past two
weeks Visiting At Lafargsyii'e with tho
family Of his brother. The Bishops
health Is quite poor. and on his arrival At
Lafarseville, from Saratoga Springs. he
vas very sick. The country air, however,
seems TO revive him, and hc is,tast recov-
ering. ."|@ go. .@~s~
Xuriage.-Count WAchtmeister, En-.
voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo.
Tertiary from the King Of Sweden and
Norway, vas married on the 18th u,timo
1t tho Swedish and Norwegian Embassy,
London. to Mile. Constance Georgina
Lon;ss de- Bourbel. youngest daughter Of
Harold Auguste, sixteenth Marquis de
Bourbel, Of Mon,pincon, in Normandy.