Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-09-16

SASHAAhE IVA AN AZ" " IO0A u
from the Davenport Democrat that Mr.
John Weller, of Eayette, Howard County
Mo-, recently sold three pounds Of Cash.
mere goat wool for $50. He has large
flock, some two hundred Of which are fol
sale. The fine blooded bucks are valued
a. from $500 to . $1,000 each, while those
Of mixed breed arc rated at from $50 to
$3.50 each. The Democrat adds 1T ID
said that these goats thrive on very indif.
ferent food, are as easily raised and cared
for as sheep, and are very prolific, and we
do not See Why they could not be intro
duced into our farming region With sue
cess"
PERTINENT,-The Iowa Public Record
asks some very pertinent questions, and
, which may be considered impertinent by
advocates OF Stone. 1t says:
II Col, Thomas Fl. Benton is a cop
perhead because he is the nominee of the
soldiers, what is Gen. Cox Of Ohio, who
ran upon his merits as a soldier II
Col. Benton is a copperhead because be
stands upon an anti-negro ruffrags plat
form, what is Gen. Cox who is s,umping
the State Of Ohio. opposed TO negro su!-
frage and as the Republican candidate at
that? If it is right for Republican
candidate for Governor Of Ohio TO oppose
negro suffrage, does it follow that Colonel
Benton is a copperhead for doing the same
thing in Iowa.
MALIGNANT CoPPERHEADs. The
Malignant Copperhead 10 New Jersey
have actually adopted in their plat
form, a plank from that Of the Republican
party in 1860, viz:
Be II Resolred, In the language of the
third paragraph Of the Republican plat
form adopted at Chicago in 1860, that
"The RICH: of each State to legislate aud
control its own domestic institutions ao-
cording to it's own judgement exclusively.
is essential to the balance Of power on
which the perfection and edurence Of our
political fabric depends"
The New Orleans Picayune, says Il is .
cruel mockery to express An expectation
that any Of the great staples Of the State
will soon be produced ION o scale ap.
proximating to the production Of the year
before the war. The man who expects
within the next twenty-five years TO see
400 900 hoSsheads Of sugar and 400, 900
bis. OF cotton produced 10 Louisiana, un-
der the present or any greatly improved
organization ct our labor, is truly q san
guins man.
There are indications that . tide ofem-
igrssion to the south is about setting in
from Europe. A wealthy capitalist in
Glasgow, Scotland, has lately written to
gentleman Of Virginia, placing .. his dis
posal flO 900 for investment in lands in
that State !; and letters are daily received
from abroad asking information in regard
TO inducements to immigrants offered by
different sections Of our Southern country.
Negroes in Owen county, Kentucky,
conspired, last week, to hang q white man
against whom they entertained grudge
He heard Of the plot against him, and
saved himself by timely fight.
A negro soldier. who sho. at a white
man abou, the same time, was roughly
treated. Ae was told to 9 90 to the bar
racks aud stay dar."
When Gen. Grant passed though Buf-
falo, n Y, he said to a gentleman Of the
party accompanying him, that there were
not two truer men in the South than Gems.
I orI Toh L.,nI
sion upon a personal knowledge Of the
character of the two men, and the intlu-
ence they were exerting towards the resto-
ration Of peace.
CosT OF NEGRO PAupERs.--1t is q very
low estimate that the expense to the gov
eminent of the fat and lazy negroes whom
it has undertaken to supper. is $50. 000,-
900 per annum. If We adj to this the
enormous expenses Of the various Freed.
men Bureaus.' the aggregate will ap.
proximate to about half the entire cost Of
the Government before the Wal.
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Grand Master C. G. intersmi,h, Of
Kentucky, has issued al appeal to the
leading members Of the Masonic Order in
the United States, calling convention TO
meet in Louisville, on the second Mon
day Of October, to aid in bringing back
the:old harmony between all sectous of the
Union.
Colonel Binney, Paymaster United
States Army, whose affairs are now under.
going investigation in Washington. is re-
ported to have made over 500, 900 by his
operation, and the banks with which he
was associated have made a. much more.
The editor Of the North Iowa Journal
has been challenged to fight by an az
grieved negro suffrage candidate in ALA
makee comfy. Armstrong declines the
combat with him as disgraceful, but gen.
erously offers to "boot him II he will
furnish an opportunity BY imposing his
presence upon him.
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Schuyler Coiax aud his party arrived
at Victoria, in British Columbia, on the
2s.h Of July, and met with . very cordial