Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-10-24

At that moment Mrs Homes Oldest
son, Fred, . student in the Free Acade g.
my, burst into the room. He stopped for
. moment, surveying the strange tableau.
There was /, flushed with the excitement
Of my exploit; Biddy, angry at being
checked in her volub'e explanations, and
shrinking from the corpse Mrs. Hone,
severe in her dignity as head Of the house,
glad that the obnoxious creature was
dead, yet anxious Ito prevent any talk
among her boarders; and Mr.. Williams
holding up the dead body SO that all could
see it.
Master Fred, who being six years my
junior, was my sworn admirer, and hated
my mysterious foe as much as did, took
in the whole affair at a glance.
you've killed him, Miss Fanny, have
you ?" he exclaimed. ''Bully for you'll
He's the biggest fellow ever saw! "A
rat, dead for a ducat, deadv he added,
irritating as nearly as he could the tone
and attitude Of Edwin Booth, whom he
had seen the evening before in Hamlet,
pointing at the dead body of the huge
rat whom had just killed, which Mr..
Williams was handing to the shrinking
Biddy, to be duly disposed OF.
Possibly the reader Of this narrative,
may, like my Lord Hamlet, have taken
this slaug h.ered rat for his better If so
be has read with his imagination instead
Of his eyes-"a bad habit, I pray you
avoid il. 49,
l have only to add here, that "My Mys.
FERROUS Foe" was the irst and last of his
kind that has ever succeeded in penetrat.
ing into the Immaculate mansion of Mrs.
Hone.
A Masonic SroRY.--Another extraor.
binary Masonic story is related to the
effect that three bushwhackers were on
the point Of shooting man during the
sacking of Lawrence when he gave the
grand hailing Masonic 8 On, and one Of
them instantly turned upon the others
and threatened to shoot them if they
harmed the prisoner-took him TO the
entrance Of a ravne, told him to escape,
and stood guard there to ensure his safety.
The Albany Ereniny Journal declares
its disbelief in Jim Lane as a universal
panacea, and says: This immensely
pulled individual proves to be nothing bet
ter than humbug. blatant in the Senate
and quarrelsome in tho field, rendering
precious little service in either position,
for the double pay he receives"
The patriots Of the Revolution are fast
passing away, and soon The last will! be
summoned to his final resting place. The
Youngest Of them now is about ninety.
four years Of age. On the LIST Of July,
1862, there were but six.y-.wo Ct them
living since which time over.thiri OF the
humber have died.
Gen Cass, who was reported i'll, it was
feared fatally, is recovering, and is said to
be out of danger. He is now 81 years
old, having been born in 1882. In that
year were also born John c. Calhoun,
Thomas H. Benton, Daniel Webster and
Martin Van Buren-all dead.
A general order has been issued taking
out Of the hospitals every enlisted man
Except hospitals s,ewardsj who are e, for
duty. 1t is thought that several thousand !
will thus be speedily obtained, as a large
number are employed in various ways
about the hospitals who have been fit for |
active duty for months.
The white officers of colored regiment,
he lst Kansas, have been detected 10
cheating the darkies out of their pay -
Well if that isn't about the meanest thing
We ever read Of! If it was no. for dis.
grazing the colored men. the officers
should be reduced to the ranks.
The Newburyport Herald gives curren-
y to the statement that Mr. President
Lincoln is in the field for re- nomination
or the next Presidency, aud that Secreta-
y Seward is IN favor of that arrangement.
NJ. Chase's feelings are not mentioned
The French Government is going to
end an officer to the Crimea to collect all
he bones OF the French aud put them in
,ne tomb How will he dihuxuisb be.
ween the English aud Frenchv -
Tie high cost of labor at the coal
n Pennsylvania, has suggested the neces. 4
ity Of machine for digging it. A ma.
'hine that is independent of strikes, mill
airy drafts, and volunteering for the war.
would be an invaluable invention.
At the coming Presidential election,
men will vote for. or against "the Union
IS it was 1t will be the entire conser.
ative element Of the country, against
hose who would sacrifice it for the idea"
Il anti. slavery.
Cleveland, Oct. l3 -Indicatons from
II parts of the State cheering. Dayton
'dvices say many Democrats are voting
or Broueh. This city will doubtless give
lin majority. Many towns on reserve
'asting almost entire vote for Brough.
"What part Of my business do you like