Col. JOHN R. MALEDGE of Page County, announces himself as in independent candidate for Judge of that Judicial District.
One R. B. GILLIS OF Henry County, comes out with an affidavit in the newspapers, that in consequence of his refusal to take the oath of allegiance to the Government, being a suspected man, he was compelled by Lieut. Col. Drummond to carry big logs of wood for several hours while the snow was up to the tops of his boots! Mr. Gillis is a badly persecuted man. It is too bad now days for a man suspected of disloyalty, to be required to take the oath! Traitors, skulking around in Iowa of whom Gillis is probably not one, should be left to plot against their country with impunity. They should not be disturbed in their high calling!
The following is from the State Press, Iowa City:
We are informed that letters have been received by friends of Dr. Crosthwait in this county, announcing the death of his sons Shelton and Bromfield in the battle of Mill Springs. They were both in the rebel army, as is also their father in the capacity of Surgeon. Our informant states that Shelton was killed outright, and Bromfield mortally wounded. The former was somewhat of a printer and has worked as a compositor in this city in the past. He was a young man of fair abilities, and a Native of Tennessee. – The Dr. formerly represented this county in the State Senate. Bromfield was a younger son, of whom we recollect but little.
The Hawk-Eye of the 16th says:
It may not be amiss to suggest to the good people of Burlington and surrounding country that wounded Iowa soldiers by the hundred, perhaps by the thousand, are in hospital at Cairo, Mound City, and on the Tennessee river – that they need hospital stores, sheets and pillow slips, shirts, bandages, towels, eggs, butter, [wines], jellies and a hundred other things that are abundant here, but very scarce and impossible to procure there – that these things, with good nursing, are necessary to save the lives of many of these noble men. While we have abundance – while we are living in peace and comfort here, let us not see those who are fighting our battles languish and die in dreary hospitals when we can help them at so trifling an expense of money and labor. Every body can do something, however, small. And will be better, yes richer for doing it. Iowa soldiers must be cared for.
The Dubuque Times thinks it a good thing that the Municipal officers lately elected in that city of the Blessed, were obliged to take the oath of allegiance before entering on the duties of their offices.
– Published in the Daily State Register, Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862
