Local and Miscellaneous

Attention is called to the advertisement of C. T. Savery, City Auctioneer.

CROSSING. – For several days, skiffs have been dispensed with in crossing the flat. Teams find much difficulty in making the passage, owing to the miriness [sic] of the ground; but footmen can get along without serious inconvenience.

PETERSON’S MAGAZINE for May has made its welcome appearance. This periodical is steadily gaining popularity out West. In the departments of literature and fashions, it has no superior.

ARTHUR’S HOME MAGAZINE for May is welcomed to our table. We are happy to learn that the subscription list to this periodical is rapidly increasing in Central Iowa. It is a magazine of great value.

GOVERNOR KIRKWOOD will go at once to the scene of the Corinth battle, and do what he can to meet the necessities of our sick and wounded. He will take Surgeons with him, and their assistants. Every thing will be done as promptly as possible to render our wounded soldiers comfortable.

DESTITUTE. – A subscription paper is circulating in town for the benefit of Mrs. Spitz, whose husband was drowned two or three weeks since. – She and her family are in straitened circumstances, and are proper objects of sympathy and charity. – Mrs. Spitz has been seriously sick for some time.

FOR PITTSBURG LANDING. – Our fellow citizens Frank M. Mills and G. W. Cleaveland will start this morning on the Des Moines City, bound for Pittsburgh Landing. We are glad that these gentle men are going on this mission of kindness to our soldiers in Tennessee.

HON. E. G. BOWDOIN of Floyd, is still here, waiting to accompany Hon. RUSH CLARK, when this latter gentleman so far recovers as to be able to travel. His recovery has not been as rapid as was anticipated. He is slowly improving, and will in all probability, be in a condition to travel in a few days.

ATLANTIC MONTHLY. – The publishers of the Atlantic Monthly will confer a special favor on the State Register by placing it on their exchange list. It is not agreeable to be without the most able and interesting periodical in the world. The Atlantic Monthly from the date of its birth has given the highest evidence of ability and genius.

GODEY’S LADY’S BOOK for May has not yet come, but we trust it will make its advent before long. Whenever we enter our quiet residence, the first question with which we are greeted is, “Has Godey come? Why in the world don’t it come?” – Mr. Godey will understand that his Book is appreciated in the highest degree in this part of the Great West.

RETURNED. – The steamer Des Moines City, after a safe voyage to Eddyville with nearly a hundred members of the General Assembly, returned at 12 o’clock Friday night. She will leave this morning at 7 o’clock, taking with her, Governor KIRKWOOD, Representative KELLOGG, Colonel NOYES and several of our citizens. Mr. McALISTER, and perhaps, other merchants of Des Moines will take this method to find their way to Eastward for goods.

GONE HOME. – Most of the families who were obligated to vacate their houses on the Flat during the flood, have returned. Some of them are philosophers enough to see some advantage in the inundation. They state their dwellings are remarkably free from rats since the flood. If the water has had the effect to immerse those vermin fatally, it has done a good thing for which the people should manifest their gratitude. Calamities, like human beings, are hardly ever too bad as to have no redeeming touches about them.

FOR the first two months after the Telegraph office was established in Des Moines, the dispatches came with commendable regularity. It was certain that when you picked up a Des Moines Daily, you found under the Telegraphic head the latest news from the seat of operations. But since the breaking up of winter, the loosening earth about the poles, the floods, the sleets and wind-storms, and the falling trees, have rendered Telegraphing and irregular and unreliable transaction. There is no use, however, to complain. No man with a clear head and vigorous judgment will make a fool of himself by fighting Providence and the elements! In spite of the most careful supervision, wires will snap, poles will fall, and the electric current will stop.

When the weather reforms, and when Spring is properly inaugurated, it is believed that we will again have regularity in the receipt of dispatches. – At least, such is the expectation at the present. “Possess ye your souls in patience,” until the good time comes when the communication between Des Moines and the world of mankind, will suffer no more interruptions.

– Published in the Daily State Register, Des Moines, Iowa, Sunday, April 13, 1862