Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1864-02-20

WASHINGTON, Feb. |, lo64.- Ordered,
That . draft Of five hundred thousand
men, to serve three years or during the
| war, he made on the 10th day Of March
| next, for the military service OF the United
States; credting and drducting therefrom
80 many as may have enlisted or beer,
drafted into the service prior to the Is.
day Of March, and not heretofore credited,
(signed.) NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The, foregoing official order indicates
that the rebels have not all laid down their
arms, fled ~ the Uuion ranks and pleaded
for mercy. It knocks into cooked hat
the glorious triumph and prospects of an
immediate restoration, that the Abolition
press have busted itself in announcing.
They have deceived the people; they fat
tered the honest yeomen that the backbone
OF the rebellion il broken. that peace
would soon be restored and our friends in
The held return TO our warm embraces
We are deluded people; we are the vie.
tins Of misplaced confidence; instead
OF our long absent friends returning to visit
US, 100000 more of US are demanded to
make sacrifice Of our lives on the altar
of tana,Icism. We often wonder what it
will require to shake the confidence the
people have placed in the Administration
and reposed in its ruinous policy. BY and
by an insufficient number will be left at
home to wress the power from our couu.
trys ruiner, though the ballot box, as
the more there are in the field the strong.
er their hold, and the more difficult they
will be to remove. If the people want
peace, plenty and their friends around
them to en- JOY those priceless blessings.
they must not reelect Abraham Lincoln
bat if they desire "war, pestilence and
famine. with the carcasses of all of their
male friends sub iect to such calls as the
above to become food for carrion crows,
and their bones 10 bleach on a Southern
battlefield, vote for Old Abe by all means;
he is the man who says this cursed re-
bellon must I've crushed" and the men
aud means to crash it must be for,hcom-
ing-Eayette Co., Pioneer
Pastry Goop.-A Michigan lawyer,
VINO writes a very bad hand, sends us the
following:
Several years ago was prac,icing law
in one of the many beautiful towns in
Wisconsin. One very warm day, while
seated in my office at work, | was inter.
rnpted by the entrance Of boy, the son
Of one CT my clients, who had walked into
town, six miles, in blazing sun, for the
purpose Of procuring a Bible. He had
been told he said, that there was place
there where they gave them away to pco.
pie that had no money; he said he had
no money, and was very anxious to get
one Of the good books, and asked me to
go with him to the place where they were
kept. Anxious to encourage hun in his
early piety, left the brief on which was
engaged, and went with HIM over to the
stand Of II Presbyterian deacon who had
the much coveted book in charge. in
troduced him to the deacon, telling h,m
the circumstance. He praised the boy
very highly, was delighted to see a young
man so early seeking alter truth, etc etc.
and presented him with the best bound
Bible in his collection. Bubby put it
into his pocket, and was turning off, when
the deacon says, "Now, my son. that You
possess what yon 50 much desired, | sup.
pose You feel perfectly happy! "WelI, |
DO, old boss; for between You and |. |
know where | can trade it off for most
plaguey good tiddle'