Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-09-11
IMPORTANT TO OFFICERS OF THE FIRST

IMPORTANT TO OFFICERS OF THE FIRST
Iowa ISyASTRY.-Adjutant General Baker is
now busily engaged in preparing his annual
report for publication. Many Of the officers
and men Of the lst Infantry have been sp
pointed or elected to positions in the new reg
iment.. but as they were enlisted for three
pirstion Of that time, it is impossible to as.
certain what. If any. position they occupied in
the First. General Baker has frequently, by
letters and circular, asked the officers and cold
iers Of that Regiment to give him the position
which any Of them have held or now hold in
any OF the new regiments. By the present
system of business. as conducted in the Ad
jutant Generals Office, the promotion OF an Of.
hcer or soldier from one Regiment to another
il Immediately noted on the books, but where
q man who formerly belonged to the Iowa lst
10 appointed to field Office or elected to
com pany office. the position which ke occu.
pied n that reg iment, when in service, 10 fire.
quently unknown. 1t is very essential that q
full and complete report should be given, and
TO secure this the officers and men must inter-
est themselves in the matter, and give General
| Baker all Information in their power to give
The Eegiments in the field are making very
full returns. Let the lst see that her name ap-
pears prominent in the report.
SLIGHT MIsTAKE.-Judge Claggett, in
his worthy paper, the Keokuk Constitution
gives Us q little tits up this way. He holds
up oDr city council to scorn because it give
aliens. who went in for exemption papers. to
understand that they cant be employed by
the city and then calls that body the Re
publican Council Of Davenport" Not SO fast
Judge. You mistake the mark badly. The
conncil Of THE city has good working major
it, Of democrats. They are all good sound
| straight mAp too-never scratch ticket and
vote vigorously. Il was our Irish democrat
who, offered the resolution. It was seconded
by German, and voted for by all. They
meant it too, and will live up to it. Nothing
IL axes true Irishman more enraged than to
see one Of his counary taking huge oath
| shat he claims the protection of Great Britain
He resents It at once 40 q personal insult
| Nothiog touches true con of tho Faderlsnd
in . more tender spot than 10 zee brother
| cling to the royal purple OF sone poor German
desuot from whom he has departed in dis.
gust. That is where the matter lies. For the
good name Of our city just make the correc
| ton, Judge.
DEPARTMENT OF THE NORTHWEST
The newly created Department. to which
Cen Pope has been assigned is composed Ct
she State. OF Iowa, Nina. Wisconsin, and the
Territories of Colorado and Dacotah. All the
troops in this departn ent are under tn. com
mand Of Gen. Pope. When jim Lane threw
himself away in frantic abolition speech at
the great humbug War Meeting held at the
Court House some weeks since he "th anked
God that we had a Pope" We have got one
now right here with US and in comm nd Of
our military. jim. will Of course be more than
| usually devoted in his thanks, as the great
blessing that he grew SO fervent over is bro't
nearer. Pope-ry, among most people, has
played out.
TIE Rock Island Register has been
discontinued. For several yea!s it has been
struggling along. Once it was a f1ourishing
daily-then it became a tii-weekly, then
weekly and then il went out entirely. Friend
Pickett, its last editor. is in the army. Rock
leland once on a time. in 1856 81. supported
three daily papers. and it wasn't much OF a
time for newa either. Now it has only one
of the town. which has been greatly reduced
since the expiration of the dates above men,
toned 1t would be good plan for the pro-
prietors Of that burgh to move it over here
and scatter it around on our vacant lots, and
let the site run back into an Indian corn-feld
az it was twenty five years ago. The Moline
Independent is the only Republican paper left
in the county.
ArroINTMENrs.- following ap.
poi tments have been made since our last:
Joseph Fiout. Lyons. Quarter Master of
the Goth.
Luke Baldwin. Marengo. Quarter Master
Of the oath.
Charles Bysm, Adjutant Of the "a th.
Lieut. Southwick Guthrie. has been ap
pointed Aid to the Governor. with rank of
1t. Colonel. This gentleman is at present
engaged at the .fice Of the Adjutsnt General,
and is one of the most competent men in
that Department. We are glad to learn that
his merit is duly appreciated.
NEW STYLE.-Hitherto all the CON-
missions Issued in this State have been printed
in clumsy manner upon coarse stiff paper,
which will last but a short t,u,e except by very
careful usage. Gen Baker has just gNt up a
nav and beautiful form. handsomely litho
grspbed, which viii be printed .pon parch.
ment paper, not only rather ornamental. but
almost imperishable. 1t is designed and en-
graved BY Hageboeck, Of this city. We don't
know that commissions will be in any greater
demand than heretofore-that is hardly possi.
BILE. but surely the improvement 10 valuable
one.
CLAIMANTS WANTED.-There are in
the Adjutant Generals Office paymaster's Ger.
ti6cates for the following named persons:
Co. A, sth Reg-John H. Howell, $40 40;