The Ohio State Journal affirms . . .

. . . that among the prisoners at Camp Chase were some seventy contrabands, the slaves of rebel officers, also prisoners.  They are the menials of their secesh owners, in Camp Chase as at home, and are claimed to be “sacred” as private property.  This mode of dealing with rebel prisoners, wicked and foolish in itself, becomes most provoking when we recollect that some of our bravest and best, like Corcoran and Wilcox, in violation of all faith and decency, are kept in felon’s cells or amid the stench, filth and vermin of Richmond tobacco factories.  Cannot somebody give us an exhortation on charity, loving kindness and courtesy towards the cut-throats who are prisoners in our camps?  “Respect the rights of these chivalrous gentlemen,” quotha.

– Published in the Iowa State Register, Weekly Edition, Des Moines Iowa, Wednesday, April 16, 1862, p. 1

Islands In The Mississippi

The Islands in the Mississippi above the mouth of the Ohio are all named, and below the Ohio they are numbered.  Island No. 1 is below Cairo, and they continue in numerical order to No. 125 at or near Tunica Bend, in Louisiana, about 120 miles above New Orleans.  From that point to its mouth, the river is clear of islands.

– Published in the Iowa State Register, Weekly Edition, Des Moines Iowa, Wednesday, April 16, 1862, p. 1

We find the following in the Buffalo Commercial:

ON DIT. – That in an interview with the President before the advance of the army, General McClellan said that unless he could raise the Stars and Stripes over Richmond before the 15th of April, he should resign his commission.

– Published in the Iowa State Register, Weekly Edition, Des Moines Iowa, Wednesday, April 16, 1862, p. 1

Some of the Fort Donelson Secesh prisoners . . .

. . . confined at Chicago have written a letter to the Nashville Patriot which they request the Tennessee papers to copy in which they say:

We want to say to our wives, fathers, mothers and children not to run away from their homes and firesides, as others have done, even if the Federal forces should come in their midst; nor grieve themselves unnecessarily on our account.  We know not (if we are detained long) how our wives and children will live but we are prisoners of hope, and we have formed a better opinion of the Northern people and they army than we had been accustomed to hear.  We are short of clothing, and particularly of money.

– Published in the Iowa State Register, Weekly Edition, Des Moines Iowa, Wednesday, April 16, 1862, p. 1