The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1864-01-21

Tho Davenport O1~cttc 6tatcSeMa
1o2 rebel prisoners on Rock Island
died daring the month Of Deccm-
Der.
The whole number Of Rebel PRISON.
era at the barracks on Rock Island IS
Goal.
Warren county has appropriated
So. 600 to be distributed in bonn,ies 10
recruits
The anniversary of the Proclamation
Of Freedom, was celebrated on tho
first dav Of the year by the colored pco-
pie of Muscatine
A young lady in McrGregor slipped
and fell on the sidewalk. On recover-
ing balance she paasionately exclaimed:
"Beforc this winter is over I'll have =
man to hang on to sec II l don't!
We hope she will. there is nothing
like man in eases Of that kind and
othcrs.-Statc Register.
A, last accounts, the 18th Iowa Regi-
ment commonly called the Grey Beard,
was marking arrangements to 60 to
Rock Island from Alton. It's business
will be to guard the rebel prisoners on
the Island.
The Kcoknk papers estimate tho
number OF hogs slaughtered and pack
cd At that point the present season, in
round numbers, at one hundred thous-
and. These are pretty big figures for
The Gate City.
The great New York Sanitary Fair
is postponed from February I'D u
March Goth. A special building ftr
its accommodation has got to be ercc-
ted.
.y Guns arc drug now. Many
foreign muskc,s, imported on spccula
ton, are going back, and a lot of 1880
Austrian mrskcts destined for the rch-
els, but captured by the Government,
were sold ut auction in Boston the
other day, for $3.2o@375 each. We
are now manufacturing all we want,
and more too.
20 The contract fer supplying the
Post Office Department with Scales has
been awarded to the Messrs. Fairbanks.
Their Scales are also very extensively
used in the Aamy, and in the Navy
Yards, Custom Houses, Arsenals, Public
Works, &c, throughout the country,
nA- The cases Of Gelpcke W. the City
Of Dubuque, in which bounds to the
ammonnt Of $500, COO are involved, las
been decided against the city Ivy
the Supreme Cou,t at Washing
ton.
\ JOKE Ar THE Mas Ns-When Ire
Masuns, in :hcir gay re@alia, were at
tending the funeral of dec asci men,
Der the other day, an inqni>itive mn.
tryman, after cying the Knights T IN.
plars for a few moments, innoccn,ly in
quircd, with much concern for the sac
y OF Washington, "whcther all them
l,rigadicr Generals was home on a fur
Tough ~ Syracuse Journal.
rA- Chief Justice Baldwin has retir
ed from the bench, carrying with him
the respect and affection Of the bar and
people. Hon. Geo. &. Wright, senior
Jus'cc succeeds to the Chief Justice
ship.
| eW Caleb Il. Smith Of Ind, ono Of
the Judges Of the U. S. Supreme Court,
is dead.
.E Tcnnc ssee has furnished to tho
Union armies: Cavalry $4,000, Infant
y 1900, Artillery 100, Colored In
fantry 5000, Colored Artillery 1000
total over $4,000.
Out oftwenty.one Iowa regiments.
aud five Iowa batteries in Gen. Dodge's
command, nineteen regiments and four
batteries have re-enlistcd.
The number of common schools in
Pennsylvania, not including Philadcl-
phia is 12,l61. The whole attendance
ofpupils, including that city, is 7os ,453,
and tho total cost oil tho system,
$2,sSs,lo9. There were last year III
less ulale teahers and 40 more female
teachers than the year previous, owing
to tho war.