Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1866-12-01

LUG company OF ExcursionistS from
the East, who recently visited Nebraska,
for trip over the Pacific Railroad, from
Oman" to Fort Kearney, have been heard
from. They came DOT via the Hannibal
+ St. Joseph Railroad, and fs.urned
across Iowa via the North western Rail-
road, aud are enthusiastic in their ADM
ration OF our State. The Editor Of the
Cleveland Herald, who was one Of the
party. among his jo,tings puts in the fol-
lowing notes on Iowa:
We might dismiss the ride across Iowa
By saying that from the Missouri to the
Mississippi the country presented not
FOOT OF land incapable Of the highest
cultivation. and that nature has made the
eStire State, on the route travelled BY the
party, ~ perfect u garden ~ lies GA. Of
doors. Back score Of miles from Omaha
after making slow progress over the hills
that make the prairie q rolling one, We
came in view Of the Boyer Valley, and as
the eye took in the beauty Of that land
scape all felt to exclaim,
"-twas = go"dly sight to seq
What Heaven has douc for this delicious land"
Except there was no body Of water in
v'ew-s very essential requisite to per-
fec,ioD Of laudscape-the eve cannot,
res. upon richer. more lovely valley
than the Boyer valley Of Western Iowa.
Miles upon miles, without house or a
feoce, the land rs it came from the hand
OF its Maker, the view was over a land
scaps ~ refined, as beautiful as il science
aud labor aud money had been exhausted
in perfecting the scene. aud one could
imagine the coach rolling through the
we'll kept preserves Of landed nobility.
rather than through valley that is yet
in its wild v,rginity Aud here, TOO, the
eye found relief resting upon groves scat
tered here and there. ~ IL planted for the
characterization of the sweet valley # the
whole Of Iowa is like that portion thr,'
which this railway runs, from river to
river, 1t has not waste foN OF land in
1t; 'dneed it has not a foot tn It is not
superlatively rich. 1t is diversifi by
rolling prairies, 10y abundant streams. and
what is particular y attractive u Groves
II timber. What may be found beneath
its soil We know net, tut as it stands to-
day, it's mere surface view proc!aims i,
the husbandman's Eden, Of course with
the great penalty Of sin attached. Gin The
s~ea. OF thy face shall, though eat bread"
HEAVY RrBBERY Ar ST. LOUISE Jac-
card Co, twelers, Of St Lonis, were
robbed OF = ten thousand i liar set Of
diamonds. in = very Ingenious manner
The thief was =, el"x 'ntly dressed, gem
te"l iook,rg man, and claimed % b., ,ook-
ing tor = Large ass"r'men, OF j+welry, TO
stock sire in St. Joseph. He MAS shown
an assortmenl Of valn ,hle diamonds:
among other thire:, and while the snl-s-
man WAS engaged IN waiting upnn the la
dies, the gent made an urgen, excuse for
trip to the basement in a confih, n,ial
whisper. AMI passed down, leaving his hat
on tho nt.n.ia-- IL 49, s.aaoi .L-a..h
n side door into I.-itehe> drug store. and
drawing Earth II cap, concrs!rd about his
pers n. passed When the salps,nan 60
I-hed SCI, 10. the lady customers. ha dis
covered that u caskt containing len
thousand dollar diamond st had gone
with the stranger La,s this evening
there was repor, ,ha. 10 I'd bean aires
ted. bnt The pr"pri tor cnn'l no, be + unA
The city ia inf s,ed with thieves. gamblers
and gsrroters.
A GREAT IRuTH A greater truth WAS
never u tered than the to!low,n. from The
Springfield Mass. Republicans:
The men Who pat down th" r.bal ion do
nor j,.'n IN M. demand tpr the future pun
i.htnrn' of the rebels. but it there J. "A
General no. n'v-r ~,n battle. u ~ol!-
i-r sh, invariably -kutj:-i wh~n Ii -hting
wa. to be to"", camp follow r vi 0 Wa
never om hand to lIun1"r Towns, som"
treasury ag-nt or a'> pin2. wAn has enr.
cheh himself by levying black mail on
traders on tn. inhabitants nf III. South. 4
c,s'Iian VII" was AL ways really to pr ""t
The bio, Ot cvervbpiy Ia. T. save h.
nA'l IN, 50 are the men Who are now
eager 10 Kick tn PROSTATE foe and con
hSeate his vasnabi"s --thrse nr" the men
who ar cn,lnual'y making he ahnr,v"
attempts 10 arouse the cid ha're.is aud
stir the popular heart to ven-etnce.
The Memphis Avalanche, of Saturday.
has a story whi,h may be considered
go d Of its hind 4 couple ran away
from their parents and 60, married -
This took place ut a station on the Mem
phis and Charleston Railway. The father
Of the bride pursued Awoke the pair ia
the d. ed OF night, presented pistols at the
head Of the bridegroom, made him con
sent to renounce his wife, and carried her
of. The Lady was cha>,iscl by her moth
er and bra.hers I'D was confined to hey
room. The Temporarily nasilad groom
obtained legal proc, IS "ni seat l., H."
house to sccnre her The Deputy Sheriff,
in charge Of The affair was M de drunk by
the brothers dismissed BIS pose, and while
in that condition, the young lady was car
red of by che of the household for parts
unknown.
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OH MAlDs.-A sprigh,ly writer OK pree-
sss his cpl Mon Of old maids in the follow
ing manner: ~ am inclined TO think
that many Of the satrcal asparsons cast
upon old maids, tell more to their credit
than is generally imagined. Il woman
remarkably neat in her person? She will
certainly be an Old maid. /. she particu
lsrly reserved towards the other sex ? She
has all the squesmishness Of an old maid.