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

and 20 end all trouble. As it is. no dan
ger can be apprehended Of any consider.
able number Of Indians committing overt
acts; yet few nov and then, If they find
you not on our guard, may rob and even
do more. have already sent part Of my
command down the river, and a. soon rs
I can make arrangements for the estab.
| lisbmcnt Of a post here, l will be down
With more OF my troops, and will give you
| al the protection in my power.
ALFRED SUiLY,
Brigadier General Commanding.
Fifteen new regimen 10 are being organ.
lied 10 Indiana.
Gen. SickIss health has 50 much i'm.
proved tina. he has rejoined bis command
ia the field.
Patti was paid q cool two thousand dol.
lars for singing once before the German
monsrchs 10 Frankfort.
General Scott still walks erect and en-.
joys good health. He is writing, without
the aid Of speetacles, . history Of bis
campaigns.
Victor Hugo has already bagced
hundred thousand dollars by Les Misera'
b'es. and is almost ready with more non.
sense of the same kind.
Arrangements have been made by which
teIegraphic communication with the Paci.
fc will be established by the close Of next
year through the British possessions.
Nebraska contains some Of the richest
salt fields in the world. In Saline and
Lancaster counties, Fifty miles from the
Missouri river, are about 10000 acres ia
three several basins.
The pearl fishery At Ceylon has this
season opeLed nine millions Of oysters,
and found therein half milIioa dollars
worth Of pearls which indicates . good
time 10 that line Of business.
A writer who is evidently capable Of
knowing Of ~ha, he speaks, says there IS
not an iron vessel in the British or French
navies whose plating can resis. the sho,
Of our large Parrot guns, =. \ moderate
distance.
The effect Of the late frost has been
such as to advance the market prices of
t'bacco from So to 81 per loo p,unis-
Letters from Tennessee and the Southern
counties ir Kentucky state that the tobac
co is totally destroyed, with exception Of
the little that has been t-about one.
fourth.
We have heard Of several, says the Bel
rideyc Standard, who have commenced
working up their sorghum, aud 6"d that
It turns out good article OF syrup, gen.
orally about the same quality as any for
mer year, but yield is less per acre.
The Richmond Wing announces tho
death of Gen. Sam Houston, at his resi-.
dence 10 Huntersville. Texas, on the 25,h
of July. He was 20 years Of age. Gen.
Houston has been killed severa! times by
the papers. The Wing ought to be good
authority.
The novel spectacle Of a feet of three
Russian men of:war-steam frigates-is
now presented in the harbor Of New York.
Five other frigates Of The first class are
expected soon. The object Of their visit
to our waters IS unknown. Some think it
is to offer their services to our government
in case OF = war between our nation and
France or England.
A careful observation a. the Treasury
Department has disclosed the fact that Of
the fifty cent postage currency there are
nine different counterfei,s, Of thetwenty.
6ves and tens two each, and Of the fives
one. The 6f,ies and tventy.fiyes are be.
ing rapidly called in, preparatory to the
issue of . new style Of thu same depomi
nations.
--Alorzo Sherman, Of Monons, while
on bic way homo from McGregor, and
when almoet four miles out. VAS beaten
to desth BY elabs in the hands Of two men
who had asked to ride with him. He had
sold wheat in town and had $S3 With him.
He vas discovered in bis wagon and heard
to groan by two persons ~ho we're driving
10 McGregor il = carriage. When asked
the matter he said two men had beaten
him badly and robbed him.
The N. Y. World thinks, - the repub-
licans insist on taking tho name Of Union
Il ought to b understood that it is the
Uaien Of eoless tAaa y meant. s. !