Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1866-05-26
TIE MS.


Of the Confederate dead. There was a
procession of young girls in white, and
matrons in black, bearing chaplets aud
boquots of flowers, which were placed
upon the l400 graves in the cemetery,
where prayers were said and an address
delivered The Seminal remarks that no
distinction was made between our own
dead and about forty Federal soldiers,
who slept their last sleep by them. 1t
proved the exalted, unselGsh tone Of the
female character. Confederate and Fed
eral--once enemies. how friends-re-
ceiying this tribute Of respect"
A clergyman called to visit woman
who calmly awaited her departure. She
expressed her resignation to depart
But" said the minister, are you willing
to be damned forever for the glory Of God2'
mo, SIR she softly whispered, Il canno.
say that" The afflicted husband, who
stood by the bedside listening 10 the con-
versation, moved by the impulse OF his
nature, stepped up to the interrogation aud
said, care yos willing TO BIO thus damned?'
eyes," was the reply. "Then, sir, there
is the door; 60 and be damned, and let
my wife depart in peace Christian IN
quirer.
Tho mortality by disease among negro
troops, as appears by tho statistics fur
nished by tho war department, was over
one hundred per cent. in proportion to
numbers, greater than that among white
troops. The number Of colored troops
who died in action and from wounds, WAS
only 2 o97, out Of 10000 enlisted while
the number of deaths from disease, was
2G,907. One colored soldier out of every
seven enlisted, died of disease. The pro-
portion among the white troops was one
to fifteen.
The Legislature Of Tennessee having
passed a bill which DISTINGUISHES ma
jority ofthe people ofthat State, are push
ing their policy still further in the shape
of bill to prohibit every man who is not
entitled to vote, from sitting on juries. An.
other bill prohibiting disfranchiscd whites
from owning, buying or selling real estate,
would add very materially, we think, to
the beauties of the programme Of Parson
BrownIow and his radical associates in
the Tennessee Legislature.
'Do you believe in the appearance Of
spirits, sir p asked demure old landlady
ct certain watering place. "No, mad
en-, but I believe in their disappearance
since missed two-thirds Of my bottle of
brandy las. night said the old gente-
man, looking hard ct the lady. But mad
am didn't seem to take" the hint al
though it was evident where the brandy
had gone.
In the vicinity of Stratford upan> Avon,
the birthplace of Shakespeare, abou.
three Thousand human skeletons were
recently found, while digging. They
were all laid closely side by side, and the
bones were in remarkable state of pres
ervation. 1t is supposed they were the
remains Of the slain of same great battle,
hut history is silent regarding any encoun-
ter . etween srmies near the spot.
Senators Cowan and Doolittle made the
best species of the week in the senate,
both Of them pursuing nearly the same
line of argument, and showing conclu-
sively that the opponents of the Presi-
dents policy, who so 'avishly charged Mr..
johnson and bis friends with apostacy TO
the republicans, were themselves the real
traitoas to the Union party.
FoRruNE.-Fortune plays some queer
pranks. Ote occurred to a poor widow
woman who did washing for living, in
Pithole She owned small piece of
ground, and some friends got her consent
to sink we'll upon it, the result of which
is barrel of oil every ten minutes. She
has bad sovcra! offers of matrimonial en-
gagement from disinterestod parties since.
Thaddeus Stevens is queer old chap;
be calls his radical friends in the senate
"self-righteous republicans and charges
Mr.. Summer with being consommate
pedant, vain and weary philol ogist; a
vandal in grammar, and Ii desecrator Of
Llndlay Murray; pomp0u2 aud e4agger-
o,ed egotist, and SO IoE,E.
Forney D. D., is sending ont pitcous
appeals to the loyal" all over the coun-
try to como up to the support of his pro-
scribed "Chronic|e.' Forney in this ap-
peal styles himself "a bruised sentinel on
the watch-tower Of liberty" The loss Of
its bread and butter will make even
dead duck" whine.
"HAvE the jury agreed ?" asked the
baiiif OF q lock up set of II, whom he
had left under his man, Denny Garry,
and whom he met OH the stairs with
pail in his hane; ooh, yis," replied Dem
ny, they have agrade to sind out for an
other half gallon
SApl--The death Of Mormon Bishop
is thus announced in q Salt Lake paper
"He was thirty-seven years old, and
leaves an interesting family of eleven
wives, and forty-seven small children to
mourn his DEATH
A Yankee being asked by Southorner
why Yankees say ~ guess" while the
Southern people soy II reckon" give tho
following explanation: "Tha. q Yankee
could guess as we'll as Southeruer could
reckon" ....
The Tennessee Franchise law disfran-
chises all who aided the cause Of the Con-
federacy-o over ninh tenths Of tho people
Of tennessee.
SUMNER ON THE MECHANICS.
Says he-"Though they did not pull triggers,
Yet as makers. and members, and rvHers.