A number of persons have recently been expelled from the M.
E. Church at Montezuma, for disloyalty to the Government, the charge having
been sustained against them. That’s
right: a persistently disloyal man is unfit for membership in a Christian church.
The Dubuque Times says
that 500 recruits have been obtained at the station in that city for the
regular army. Of this number, about
ninety percent came from other counties beside Dubuque.
The Marshall county Times
and Iowa Valley News, published at
Marshalltown have been consolidated under the name of the Marshall Times and News. Mr. E. N. Chapin, of the News, being editor and proprietor of the new paper.
The Dubuque Times says
it is reported that letters found on the battle-field at Shiloh, criminating
certain well known citizens of Dubuque.
It is not at all improbable. When
the accounts of this war are finally balanced, a tremendous weight of
responsibility will be found to rest on the heads of those men in Dubuque who
have urged on the conspirators in their mad rebellion.
Mr. J. C. Holbrook, Jesse Guernsey, and J. H. Nutting, are
about starting a new monthly paper at Dubuque, to be called the Religious News Letter. It is to be conducted by several
Congregational ministers.
Miss Emily Murdick, of Iowa county, was committed to jail,
last week, for cutting the throat of her infant child, to which she gave birth on
the 18th ult.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, May 16, 1862, p. 2
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