The amount of bulk meat confiscated . . .

. . . and seized by the Government on the Cumberland river, mostly at Nashville, Tenn., was very large, amounting to 3,000,000 pounds, but a large portion of it is said to have soured.

– Published in The Cedar Valley Times, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1862, p. 1

An old friend from Springfield . . .

. . . lately called to see the President.  After the usual greetings, etc., ‘Lincoln,’ said he, ‘when you turned out Cameron why didn’t you turn out all the rest of your Cabinet?’  ‘That,’ said the President, ‘makes me think of something that took place near home in Illinois.  An old man had been pestered with a colony of skunks, that depredated nightly upon his poultry.  He determined to be rid of them, and finally succeeded in getting them into one hole, where he could kill them at his pleasure.  He drew one forth by the tail and executed him, but, said he, in telling the story, this caused such an infernal stench that he was glad to let the rest run.’

– Published in The Cedar Valley Times, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1862, p. 1

On the morning of the taking of Fort Donelson . . .

. . . Gen. Johnson, while taking his coffee, narrowly escaped death.  A rifle ball skimmed off the bottom of his coffee cup, leaving the empty sides in the rebel’s hand.

– Published in The Cedar Valley Times, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1862, p. 1

At New Orleans . . .

. . . flour was selling at twenty-two dollars and fifty cents per barrel.

– Published in The Cedar Valley Times, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1862, p. 1