Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-01-14
Presidential PrOcla m q ton.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Goth, 1864.
BY the President Of the United States:

WASHINGTON, Dec. Goth, 1864.
BY the President Of the United Statu:
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, By the act Of July, 1864, en-.
titled " An act further to regulate and
provide for enrolling aud calling out the
national forces, and for other purposes
it is provided that the President Of the
United States may, at bis discretion, at
any time hereafter, call for any number Of
men as volunteers for the respective terms
of one, two, and three years for military
service; and that, in case the quota, or
any part thereof, Of any town, township,
ward OF a city, precinct or election district
OF county not so subdivlded shall not
be filed within the space OF fifty days
after such call, then the President shall
Immediately order draft for one year to
fill such quota, or any part thereof, which
may be untitled and
Whereas, The operations of the enemy
IN certain States have rendered it imErac.
tcabie to procure from them their tull
quotas Of troops under said call! and
whereas, From the foregoing cause,
but 10000 men have been put in the
army, navy and marine corps, under said
call OF July 18th, 1861. leaving a deicien.
cy on that call Of go 900,
Aow ther.t"re |, Abraham Lincoln,
President OF the Ini.,d States of America,
and IN order to supply the deficiency aud
to provide for casualties in the military
and naval service Of the United States, do
issue tits my call TOR 800 900 volunteers,
n FV t,tr 90 t,p.,
The quota Of States, districts and sub.
districts under this call, will be assigned
by the War Department through the Bu.
reau Of the Provost Marshal Geueral, aud
IN case the quota Or any part thereof, Of
any town, township, ward Of city, pre-.
cinct or election district Of county not
SO sub divided shall not he filled before
the 18th Of February, 1865, then draft
shall be made TO fill such quota. or any
par. thereof, under this call, which NAV
be untitled On said 18th of February, 1865.
III testimony whereof have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed
Done at lie city Of Washington this
18th day of December, in the year Of our
Lord 1864, and Of TIE Independence of
(Sgned) ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
BY the President:
W. IL. SEWARD, Sec'y Of State.
A man in Fairfield, Ohio, stole forty.
five dollars in green backs. By statute in
that State, the stealing of thirty We dol
lars constitutes grand lareency, which is
a penitentiary offence. The Republican
lawyer who defended hin, pleaded that
the statute contemplated thirty FIVE dol
lars in value, and that IS the notes stolen
were worth less than the sum in gold the
prisoner was oly guilty Of small larceny.
The court sustained the pea, and the
rogue escaped the prison.
TWENTY FIVE TuousASD WIpows.-
. twenty-five Thousand widows are recei,.
ing pensions undert The law recently passed.
Twenty five thousand widows made by the
present war.-irgus.
True, but these twenty-five thousand
widows are not all How many thousand
are knocking at the door of the pension
office, which is far behind in the transac.
tion Of the business the war has made for
it, anx'ous'y waiting the allowance Of
their claims?
Shortly after leaving Milledgeville, Ga,
Gen. Davis no relation to jeff detected
two soldiers stealing ladies clothing from
a house near the read. Turning them
over to the Provost Marshal they were
dressed in the stolen crinoline aud petit.
coa'a, tied to the rear Of wagons, and for
six days marched through muddy fords
| and swamps as an example to meL under
his command. They came out Of the
ordeal with slightly discolocei skirts aud
dirty stockings.
A trial Of Mr.. kellogg double. harreled
cannon made in Hartford, Ct, tuesday.
The gun carries ball Of csiiber City six,
and water proof metallic cartridges are used.
1t was fred ut the rate Of about two hun.
| dred shots minute. An iron.clai caison,
with capacity of seven thousand one
hundred and sixty eight cartridges, &C.
companies the gun. and the whole can be
drawn By one horse or the four men needed
| to fully man it. In the trial at long range,
distance of nearly two miles WAS reached.
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The negro soldiers of the army Of the
| Potomac have been organized iuto a sep.
arate corps, and are placed under tho
command Of Major General Weitzel, a
Cincinnati boy, whose army reputation is
very high. Tho saperate organization Of
the negroes will subject them, in course Of
pending operations, to more severe add
conclusive test Of their military guailliss,
than they have We. experienced.
! Hrog JOKE on BEN BuTlER-A rich
joke on General Butler is current in army
circles. 1t seems that the regular officers
have little faith in the Dutch Gap canal,
and ut recent courtmartial in the Army
of the James soldier was sentenced to
two years hard labor on the said canal
The report adds that Butler was disgusted,
and dissolved the court Immediately upon
hearing Of this finding ana sentence Of
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