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Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-12-07

A Christmas Fsxtiral-Under the auspices
Of the Horticultural Society, will be given at
their rooms on Tuesday evening, December
25th, 1860 The object Of the scirse is to
raise funds to meet the current expenses Of
the Society for the coming year. The Com
mittee of Arrangements have secured several
rooms, in addition to their own, in Ovcrman's
Brick Block The following programme has
been adopted: 81. ..........
6r. x.-The Rooms will be thrown open for visitors.
1P.x.-Lecture by Hon. J. d. GRiNSxLL.
sTnL r. M.-vocal and Instrumental Music. -
snlL 10 =. x-Earthquake and other sruptions.
10 rmL II P. x.-Supper.
II TILL 4. M.-A Grand Hop.
The Committee of Arrangements are spar.
ing no efforts to render the entertainment of
Vocal and instrumental Music one of the
most interesting features Of the occasion, and
intend that it shall surpass anything of the
kind ever heretofore held in the Cedar Valley.
All persons DESTROYS Of witnessing the work
ings Of genuine earthquake win have an
opportunity by attending this Festival. As
they are not common to this latitude, the like
Of it may never be seen again hercabouts.--
The supper viii be gotup IN picnic style, and
will consist of all the delicacics Of the season.
At IL o'clock the large hall will be thrown
open for dancing, and all those wishing to
/" trip the light fantastic toe" can have the
privilege by paying so cents extra. This
feature Of the entertainment will be under the
supervision of a special committee appointed
for the purpose. and no dancing will he al
lowed before II o'clock. The ladies' are pre-
pairing splendid Christmas tree, which will
be hung with useful and ornamental articles.
which will be offered for sale. the proceeds Of
which will be applied towards liquidating a
debt lue the Book Committee by the Society.
Tickets Of admission to the Festival $1,OO.
admitting a gentleman and lady which will
constitute the purchasers members of the
Society for the ensuing year, and entitle them
to all the privileges Of membership. r ...
ISAAC ScHENck, S. N. PIERCE,
EDWIN BRowN, l.. u. LAxPMAN,
A. S. SMITH, F. BGHMLER,
p. MELENDY, J. NJ. OvERxAN,
A. j. GRAVES, j. B. Powers.
Committee IF -Arangeme"ts.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-12-07

" A1KREAS, ny WIFE. MARY ANN. HAS
w left my bed and hoard without any just cause
provocation whatever hereby forbid any persons har.
boring o. trusting her on my account. ~ WI pay
debts Of hef contracting after this date.
J. G. JEROME.
Cedar Pals. nov. 18th, 1850
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-12-07

tVyHB UNDERsIGNEDAHAyING PURCHASED or
the Ohio Stock Company some u then Choice Cows
And other Stock h prepared tn furnish ~rers and
Others SisdnR % purchase. HmNe nmbefo. yhofousA
ed Calves - fair usess and ape good te5ms -espon-
!spestisA n 1tesS cen y ee<l npee ny DR. 80
eN4oS Pm. - - =. WU1XAU83.E
Hxrs 80 fe90 IN
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-12-07
FRIDAY. December 7. 1860.


Lecture to-niyht.-Rcv. WV PoRrERrIELD,
lectures this evening friday at the rooms
Of the Horticultural Society. Lecture to
commence 1t Z o'clock.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-12-07

Tounship Superrisors.-We herewith pre-
present our readers with list of the Super
visors Of this County, and Town which each
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-12-07

Coughs.-The sudden changes Of our eli,
mate arc sources of PULMONARY, BRONCHIAL,
and AsrnxArIc AFFECTIONS Experience
having proved that simple remedies often act
speedily and certainly when taken in the
early stages Of the disease, recourse should
at once be had to " Brorn's bronchial Tro-
ehes," or Lozengcs, let the Cold, Cough, or
Irritation Of the Throat be ever SO slight, as
by this precaution more serious attack may
be cffectually wardcd off. PCBlIc SPEAKEss
and SINGERS will find them cffcctual for clear
ing and strengthening their voice. See adv.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-12-07

Vsnsoeed kAs RancAs. I'VE are crediby informed snas
Miss Of summers the adopted daughter
81 srn,er In Black Hawk County eoped last week with
An old coer whose head the frost OF nearly sixty
nt.rs had past There 10 accounting for taste. ~
t.e old woman sid when she kissed her esw-Dwo~2"s
Times 5th inst ...-s .. ....,a ~
The above is news to US, and we rather
think is to everybody else in these parts
There is no accounting for taste, as the devil
said when the editor gave him the above
merely to gil out rather scanty local col
unln.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-12-07

Railroad. The work of laying the iron
between Jesup and this place, has been pro-
crossing rather slowly. The contractor could
not obtain sufficient help, and has been to
Chicago for gang Of eighty or hundred
men. part of whom have arrived, and 1t is
now expected that the work will be pushed
forward rapidly.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-12-07

Little Joksr."-Messrs. II. c. OvERnAN
q Co, are now manufacturing their excellent
Fanning Mills 1t the rate of twelve week,
and vet arc unable to meet the demands for
them. The. Little Joker" seems to bs .
general favorite, and meets with ready sale.
Il contains al the essential features OF the
best Mills, with several additions Of great
utility and convenience of Mr.. OvERAAN's
own invention. ...... ....... ...
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-12-07

Lyceam. Can the young men Of this place
better dispose of one night in each week, du-
ring the long winter evenings that are now
upon us, than by organizing a Debating Club:
Something Of this kind, well conducted, will
be Of great benefit to those participants who
enter into It with the determination to improve
themselves. .~
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-06

A DRUNKARD's BRAINs.-The startling
doctrines taught in Youman's Basis of
Prohibition" are fully corroborated by
the following passage from the Boston
Medical journal:
Hyrti, by far the greatest anatomist
OF the age, used to say that he could dis
fingush in the darkest room by one
stroke of the scalpel, the brain of tue in
ebriate from that of the person who had
lived soberly. Now and then he would
congratulate his class upon the possession
of drunkard's brain, admirably fitted,
from its hardness and more complete pre-
servation, for the purposes of demonstra-
ton. When the anatomist wished to pre-
serve human brain for any length of
time, he effects his object by keeping that
organ in vessel OF alchohol. From
soft, pulpy substance, it then becomes
comparatively hard; but the inebriate,
anticipating the anatomist, begins the in
durating process before death--begins it
while the brain remains the consecrated
temple of the soul--while its delicate and
gossamer tissues still throb with the pulses
OF heaven-born life. Strange iniatuation,
thus to desecrate the god-like! Terrible
enchantment, that dries up all the foun-
tains of generous feeling, petrifies all the
tender hunanities and sweet charities of
life, leaving only brain Of lead and heart
of stone,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-06

Sound ON THE GOOSE AND SOUND on THE
GANDER.-The democrats OF Ohio county,
Indiana, at their recent county conven-
ton, in appointing delegates to the State
Convention, determined to be sure and
certain on the great question, so they re
solved as follows:
That James Buchanan was our chice
for the Presidency in the contest of 1860
his administration has been wise and pa.
triotic, and will continue to give him oui
cordial support. That the delegates oi
Ohio county be instructed to support del.
egates to the Charleston Convention IA
vorable to the nomination of Stephen A
Douglas as the candidate for Presidency
in 1860.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-06

LYScHING.-The Leavenworth (Kansas)
Herald relates the following tragical oc-
currence as having taken place in Jeffer-
son county of that Territory
1t appears that q young man by the
name of Price gained law suit over his
father-in-law who to revenge himself, per-
suaded his daughter to leave her husband,
and live with him-afterward suing the
son-in.law for her board, gained the case,
and seized his cattle to satisfy judgment
The son-in-law afterwards seized the old
mans cattle and was making off with
them when he was arrested, and brought
back. He was about to be tried by law
when a body of men composed of citizens
of the neighborhood, seized and hung
him without judge or jury, very coolly
burying him near by. A coroner's jury
afterwards rendering verdict against
them, but, though mock trial was had,
nothing was done.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-06
CHE goss.
Athens, Friday, January O, 1850.


WASHINGTON, Dec. %, 1S59.-ln the
House to- day, Mr.. Morris, of Illinois, made
q strong anti-Administrntion speech,
which was condemned by Douglas and all
the Illinois delegation.
Mr.. Brabson, of Tennessee, (Am.) NOM
mated Mr.. Maynard, of the same State
for Speaker, saying that although he,
Mr.. Maynard, was one of the Fillmore
electors in 1856, he did not belong to
the American organization.
ANOTHER BALLOT.
Sherman l0l, -four short of an cleo
ton; Maynard Is, made up of Demo
Gratis and I Americans.
Some of the democrats said they would
not vote for Maynard in any event.
Others who did not vote for him, said that
they would do SO if they could thereby
defeat the Republicans.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-06

PAINTED ToYs.-We publish the follow
ing as necessary caution to parents at
this season Of holiday gifts:
"Froin Belgian medical journal we
learn that a child about year old, who
appeared to be in dreadful pain, and had
sort of foam at the mouth, was taken
to an apdthecary at Bossu, when it was
found that the little creature had been
poisoned by sucking the painted face of
a doll, in which an extract of lead had
been mixed. He administered medicines
which saved the child's life, but lie pro-
perly suggests that toy-makers ought to
be prohibited from employing poisonous
substances in painting play-things."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-06

BEGINNING TO FEEL Ir.-The New York
Herald of the Cd says: GAS the spring
trade in dry goods draws near, and which
usually sets in earliest from the South, a
good deal of interest begins to be felt in
regard TO its results. That section of
country, during some years past, has sup
piled the largest and most profitable Of
our dry goods trade. Owing to the recent
troubles in Virginia, and the excitement
growing out Of it, which has extended
more or less over the whole South, houses
in New York have recently received let
ters from their agents and canvassers at
the South stating that they meet with
less success than formerly; and, while
the operations of new and unknown men,
for new houses, are almost suspended,
those well acquainted, and acting for long
established and widely known houses in
that trade, receive orders with more re
luctanee aud caution.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-06
Decidedly Refreshing.

Charles F. Fisher, Esq, the president
of the N. C., Railroad Co., and Mr.. Jas. A.
Long, one of the editors of the Green's
boro', IN. C.) Patriot, have had fall
ling out relative to the management
of the road, and the following pithy cor
respondence, which we clip from the Pc
triot, has passed between the gentlemen.
1t is decidedly rich:
James A. Long: / intend to 20 to
Greensboro and publish you as "a prqfes-
Sed lar and sitndersr branded. coward
and an infamous miscreant, and hypo-
crit, and wherever you 60 hereafter, this
publication shall attend you, until men
know what base creature you are.
! warned you lately, and will now
make you know, that any personal at
tack upon me in your low paper shall
meet with q different treatment from
those abusing me as an Official of the
Railroad. Such are generally regarded
to be beneath the contempt of any one
and simply despise them-but the con-
sequences of the other you shall not es-
cape-as low and base as you are.
send this by servant, as the only
proper bearer of any notice to person
so degraded as you are.
CnAs. +. FISHER.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-06
Curious Talk,

The following curious talk is from the
" Pennsylvania the leading Democrat
ic organ of the Keystone State. What
does it mean? 1t is the most remarkable
case of telling the truth we have met
with for long period of time. We have
italicised some of the most striking pas
sages:
The South, as we'll as the whole coun-
try, has been bascig deceived and betrayed
by the men it has helped to power and
plunder. The Charleston Mercury, as
we have before said, is a consistent jour-
nal. 1t is not only consistent, but it is
honest and candid. 1t expresses its opn-
ions fearlessly, and in this respect does
much more than do those Southern Jour-
mails, which, while holding the same SEN
timents, are afraid to speak out and let
the country know how completely they
have been deceived. The Democratic
party made them large promises, as they
did us at the North, and have utterly
failed them as they have their support
ers here. The Republicans declared it
sectional party long ago and now the
South makes the same charge. 1t is not
so much as sectional party. If it were,
it would be deserving of more esteem than
at prerent. Democratic leaders care no
more for one portion fhe Union han The other,
tier only principle being those Of self:aggra,,-
disemea and national pinder. Our South
ern friends do right to repudiate them.
US they have so basely betrayed their
trust. They have been already and re-
peatedly repudiated at the North, their
only supporters here being those whom
they can deceive or buy. BY hoaxing
the Southern people, they managed to
place Mr.. Buchanan and his horde in
power, and now that game is played out
They have no alternative but annihilation.
The issue in the next contest will be on
the questions of protection, slavery exten-
sion and internal Improvements; and
the position of the Democracy on all these
subjects is unsatisfactory TO both North ana
SouM. Democracy has no position creep
on tie mount Of corruption and faiSehood- -
From that they are to be driven by the
united forces Of two deceived and indig
nant sections.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-06

FRESH AIR,--Give your children plenty
of fresh air. Let them snuff it until it
sends the rosy current of life dancing
joyfully to their temples. Air is so cheap
and is good, and SO necessary wi.hal. that
every child should have free access to il.
Horace Mann beautifully says: "To put
children on short allowance Of fresh
air, is as foolish as it would have been for
Noah, during the refuge, to have put his
family on . short allowance of watss.-
Since God has poured out IN atmosphere
fifty pils deep, II i enough to make .
missr weep 10 ~ oss children .isssd IL,
brsath."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-06

A CANDID PREAcuER.-A Glasgow cler-
gyman the other Sabbath intimated to
his congregation that DR.. Brown would
address them that afternoon. The plain
fact was, that the Rev. Doctor, being anx-
ious to preach from certain text, found
discourse of DR.. Browns on the same
subject. "much superior to anything he
could write." and brought the book into
the pulpit, and simply read the sermon
as II there stood.-Faksirk Herald
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-06

The MorHER.-The world may perse
cute you while living and when dead
plant the ivy and the nightshade of SLAM
der upon your grassless grave, but thy
mother will love and cherish you, while
living, and if she survives you will weep
for you when dead such tears as none
but mother knows how to weep. Love
thy mother!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-06

ORDERS FALLING DRIVE areinformed
by gentleman who resides in Bridgeport
that the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Ma
chine Company are running on short time
in consequence of marked falling off in
their orders from the South. The ine-
vitable results of the unwarantable treat
ment of the Southern States by the Re-
publicans of the North are just beginning
to be felt.-Ne,o Haven News
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-06
GnEENsRoRo,. Dec. s. 1850.


C. F. Fisher, Overseer of the N. C.
Railroad: Yours of this instant is to
hand, consider it the best, the cap
sheaf Of your literary productions, and
decidedly rich. The poltroon who lies
and then backs out, has right and it is
constitutional for him thereafter, TO pro-
nounce any and everybody acoward, liar,
and anything he sees proper.
] send you this by free negro as 1
should regret to degrade one of the good
slaves of North Carolina, so far as to be
the bearer of letter or anything else to
you.
This will be left by the bearer at the
Greensboro Station.
That was likely negro boy that was
the bearer of your note. | should like
to purchase him of you, and will give you
$1,000 for him, if you will warrant the
title, and show by conclusive testimony,
that you came honestly by him.
j. A. LoNo.
P. S.-This note is written on Fools
cap, as symbolical of him 10 whom it is
! addressed. JAIL.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-06

on our citizens and our guaranteed rights.
The President adds that he has been re-
luctantly led to adopt the same opinion.
and he feels bound to announce this con-
clusion to Congress. This is a question
which relates to the future, as we'll as to
the present and the past. The aid which
Mexico requires, and which the interests
of all commercial countries require,
should be extended to her, it devolves on
this Government to render, not only by
virtue of our neighborhood TO Mexico,
but by virtue also of our established poll
oy, which repudiates the intervention of
any European power in the domestic con-
Germs of that Republic.
For reasons stated, the President re-
commends the passage of a law authori-
zing him to employ such military force
as may be necessary for the purpose of
obtaining indemnity for the past, and
security for the future. Should it be the
pleasure of Congress that volunteers
should be selected for such purpose, a
force could be easily raised in this coun-
try, among those who sympathise with
the sufferings of our fellow-citizens in
Mexico, and with the past and present
unhappy condition of that country
Such an accession to the forces of the
Constitutional Government of Mexico
would enable it soon to reach the capital
The President recommends the estab.
lishment of military posts across the
Mexican lines in Sonora and Chihauhau,
for the protection of the lives and prop
eriy of Americans, against Indian depre-
dations.
He recommends the establishment of q
temporary Government in Arizona.
The President thinks that the provis
ions of the recently concluded treaty
with Nicaragua will not fail to be salts
factory; and recommends the passage o.
a law authorizing the employment of ou,
naval force for the purpose Of protecting
Americans in passing the Panama, Mica
ragua, and Tehauntepec routes.
He again recommends to Congress tc
pass law giving the President authority
to employ our naval force in protecting
American commerce against seizure anC
confiscation in Mexico and in Spanish
American States.
In relation to the failure of the passage
of the Post Office appropriation bill, a
the last session of Congress, he recon-
mends the passage of bill at the earlies
day, to provide for the payment of tn,
amount due to contractors, lncludin,
interest; and also to make appropriation
for that department for the curren
year.
The construction of a Pacific railwa.
is recommended, for reasons urged in hi
former annual messages.
The President says it appears extreme
ly doubtful whether we shall be able t.
pass through the present and next fisca
year without additional revenue. Shoul,
a deficiency occur, he recommends tha
the necessary revenue shall be raised b.
an increase in the present duties on i'm
ports.
In conclusion, he recommends to tn
just liberality Of Congress, the local in
terests Of the District of Columbia.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-06

PoRTRAIT OLA DEMOCRATIC cORAToR.-Mr.
Mitchell, the editor of the St. Louis News
with a few slilllul dashes of the pen gives
the following correct delineation of Hon.
Duncan r. McRae, of Mississippi, lead
ing democrat in the House of Represen-
tatives:
Mr.. McRae's mode of speaking is pc
culiar, and rather painful to the observer.
lie twists or shakes his body with every
word, almost with every syllable he utters.
His head particularly is used, and rather
violently, in gesticulation. He throws
it about like the cracker of whip, and
winds up his more emphatic annunc-
ations with a peculiarly sharp and sudden
snap of it. His delivery of u sentence
torcibly reminds one of the nigger's de-
scription of putting en- coat First de
right hand, den de-Seft; den one grand
conwulshion."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-06

A SHORT MEsSAGE.-A few days since
resolution passed the Missouri Senate,
calling upon the Governor for information
or evidence upon which he issued certain
bonds to the Cairo and Fulton Railroad.
The Governor, in answer, sent to the Sem
ate the following message:
JEFFERSON City, Dec. II, 1859.
Because | have the right and power to
do it. r. NJ. STEWART
No TRADE WITH THE NoRTH.-A lady
writes a letter on this subject to the
Richmond Wing, and uses the following
language
"Some persons propose that we have
linsey woolsey of Virginia cloth made at
the Virginia Penitentiary, and wear it,
This is an extreme measure, which will
not succeed but will verify the predc-
ton made by both ladies and gentlemen,
that the projected movement in favor of
Southern manufactures and importations
will probably die away in three months,
and the cooperation of the ladies GER
tainly will. This linsey would certainly
verify this prediction, because, though
we might be proud of our coarse dresses
for one or two weeks, yet after the novel
ty passed away, we would tire of them,
and turn to cashmeres, silks and velyets
more eagerly than before. Let us wear
what we have and what we purchase from
the stock now on hand carefully il these
should be worn out before the merchants
import, let us, purchase the neatest arti-
Gle which is made in Virginia or the
Southern States, for the whole South
should unite in this matter. have it made
neatly, and wear it thankfully"
STEAM RAILWAY CARA novel car has
been made for one of the street railroads
in Chicago, Ill. The car has eight wheels,
and appears externally like passenger
car, but is really locomotive and pas
senger carriage combined The machin-
cry, which consists of fue boiler and
two small chmneys, is enclosed at one
end Of the car. The small cylinders are
suspended under the car horizontally out
side of the wheels. The passenger part
will seat fifty persons, and it is designed
to attach another car when required
The machine cost four thousand dollars,
and is to run four miles an hour.
B6r The Council of the Cherokee Ma
ton, at their recent session, concluded to
dispose of their " Neutral Land" A
committee for that purpose was appoint
ed to proceed to Washington. At tthessme
council Q law prohibiting the residence Of
free negroes In the Nation was passed,
and vetoed BY the chief. si y 10 s