The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1864-02-25

St. Louis, Feb. IS.
General Ewing has been superseded
in command Of the District Of the B"r
der, by Colonel Ford, Of the 2"d Go
dorado cavalry.
The 9th Missouri inf.ntry has re en-.
listed.
Over 500 negroes have been en-
listed in this State during the past three
months.
The Danish army in the field, com
manded by De Mcza, is AZ follows: IL
tantry, eighteen regiments OF 1000 men
each, 36 600 cavalry, six regiments OF
six hundred men each, $500. Artillery
seven field batteries of 100 each. Total
40,5l0. The main force is concen.
tratcd in the city Of Schleswig.
cB~ The Union State Convention of
Connecticut, nominated all the present
State officers for re election.
Two negroes carried off the first
rank at the last annual examination Of
the great Catholic college Of the Pro
paganda, at Rome.
Gen. ]. II. Rains, said to be the
handsonest man in the South, has per
manently retired from the rebel service,
and is now engaged in agricultural per.
suits in Texas.
The library Of Congress contains
$4,000 volumes, and during the last
sixty years, s343 900 have been expen.
ded on the purchase ofbooks. BY law.
a copy of every book puhhshed III this
county must be deposited in this Ii
bray.
A Wilmington paper confesscs that
the bomLardment Of Chareston - doing
= good deal Of damage, especially in
Broad street --For want of coal the
gas works there have stopped. A gen
eral impressment OF negroes free an:
slave is going on in the bcleasuered
ely.
The Rolman gun, just cast at The
Fort Pit, Foundry III Pi'tsbnrg, is the
greatest cannon in the world, and
throws ball weighing 1000 pounds.
A New York jury has been fired
$3.50 each tor bringing ina verdict OF
I'VE agree to Disgrace The office,
who suggested tie verdict 10 the FIRE
man Of the jury was fined $1o0, and
suspended from duties until further or.
der 81 the court.
H. has furnished 1870 men to the
/ Union armies.
The extent Of immigration in %
Colorado Territory may be judged from
one acres were taken up n Golden Cit,
District in the month Of January.
The port of Brownsville, Texas, a,
the mouth Of the Rio Grand, has been
decltred by the President to be released
I from blockade.
A W.inco!n Club" has lately been
formed in st Louis. l, is composed Of
those il favor Of the re election Of Pr. =.
ident Lincoln, and embraces many pro,
minent citizens Of St. Louis.
In the Armory Square Hospital in
Washington, all who die are cmbalmcd
The cost is now only ten dollars for
each "subject."
Nova Scotia is going wild over the
discovery of goll within her borders
and thinks she will rival California and
Australia. A committee Of Boston
gentlemen, who have been exploring
the gold districts, left Halifax on Fri
day, by the Arabia, with $4,000 in
gold Of Nova Scotia product taken on,
within the last fortnight,
sW" The rapid increase Of the mum
Der and capital of rhe National banks
induces the belief tina, the issue OF one
million day Of the National bank notes
will soon be required to meet the DO
mand for them b, the banks.
"A correspondent at Newbern.
North Carolina, writes: "We have en-
loyed a season Of beautiful spring
weather The birds are singing gaily,
while the young buds are starting on
every tree. Overcoats and turs are
laid aside for thin apparel and spring
bonnets.''
CuATTAynoGA February 20.