Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-08-22
Siont City &&gisttr
SATURDAY, % AUGUST.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
Foa GovERNoa,
JAMES NJ. FUTILE,
or Van Buren, county.
ros LIsuR. GOVERNOR,
JOHN F. DUNCOMBE.
OF Webster County.
ron SUPREME JUDGE,
CHARLES MASON,
OF Des Moines County.
THE NEWS.

OF Des Moines County.
THE NEWS.
Brig. Gen. Thomas Walsh died in
Cincinnati on the l4th
ALI is quiet in and around Corinth.-
Guerrilla bands operating in that region
having been completely broken up.
NO information has been received as
yet, indicating that Lee has been rein.
forced to any considerable extent.
The mail coach and passengers were
robbed BY guerrill.s between Kansas City
and Independence on tho 14th inst.
The female prison at Kansas City,
fell on the morning Of the l4th inst, bury.
ing IL women. Four were killed, and
seven slightly wounded.
"A government train Of ten wagons,
and several houses, were buroed near
Kansas City by bushwackere, . few days
since.
Tho War Department has issued ~
order forbidjing officers end mso from
leaving their colors or rank to take pri.
vats property, under penalty Of death.
Tho reports Of the retirement Of Gen.
Price was not confirmed; when last heard
from he was in the vicinity Of Jackson.
po.', he having succeeded Lieut.. General
Holmes, in command Of the troops Of
Arkansas His army consist Of about
seventeen thousand men.
A New Orleans letter to the N. Y.
Herald says the feeling Of the people at
Mobile is very Respondent They antici'
pate an attack every day, and it is thought
if the city was threatened it would sur
render. Provisions are very high and no
medicine or means Of caring for the sick.
A few conscripts and convalesent are
arriving occasionly, but it is not believed
that any portion Of the Northwestern
army have Joined our forces in Virginia.
"A dispatch dated Milwaukee, Aug.
18th, and signed S:bley, says i've had three
desperate engagements with 1900 Sioux
warriors, 10 each Of which they had been
routed and finally driven across the Mis-
souri, with the loss of all their subsistence.
Our loss was small, while at least $50
savages were killed and wounded.
"A conscript just in from Wilmington
reports that seventeen large steamers had
arrived =. Newbern, N. G., having run
the blockade. They were loaded with
stores for the rebel army. among which
are $4,000 English rides, 10000 army
blankets, 10000 ready made uniforms,
$4,000 cases of shoes, eleven locomotives,
elk riaed cannon, FIVE cargoes Of railroad
iron, and sk'lliul men accompanying them.
Tho news from the South is that
force Of rebels estimated at seven thous.
and infantry and three thousand cavalry
under General Logan are marching to.
wards Natcbez. Planters coming into
that place within the past few days, state
that the rebels are conscripting fully one
half Of the able bodied negroes in Missis.
sippi. The rebel Gen. Dick. Taylor is also
near that place.
A Constitutional Union meeting con.
vened at Rochester on the 18th inst. The
object appears to be for consultation on
the subject Of the next president and for
organizing in the different States the old
Wing, Bell & Everett element. Represen.
tatises from several States were present,
including Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland
and Wisconsin. 1t is expected that .
definite course will be determined on to-
night. An address to the people is con.
templated.
Canadian papers give unmistakab'e
evidence of intense excitement prevailing
in the Provinces, and the question Of sep.
Grafton Of Upper and Lower Canada il
seriously discussed. In the midst of do.
nestle troubles, Thos. D. Arcy McGes has
written letter which Is extensively cop
led and commented upon, in which be ex.
presses fears Of Al invasion Of Canada By
the United States. He says: Ispeak apon
no newspaper authority, upon 10 doubtful
information, when say that plan il co.
templated 1t Washington for the invasion
Of Canada. The plan is to march Loo, 900
men Up to the district Of Monsreal and to
cut the connection between Upper and
Lower Canada to abstain religiously from
intermsdling With our local affairs, but %
force separation BY N army Of oecupa-
ton and interposing . military barrier to
their intercourse.
H. 8. Hsrbaugh, editor Of the Oosstitx.
ton. at Chil'icothe, Missouri, has been
arrested and bis paper suppressed. lie