Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-04-12
From Our Utah Correspondent.
SILVER crr, UrAH TERa,roxr, Feb. Goth

SILVER crrr, UrAH TERRiroRr, Feb goth, 1861
DEAR GAzErTE:-I have just finished and
sent off letter to the Era" and one to
the " Bulletin" and now comes your turn ;
but, entire nous, hardly know how to COM
mence-thercfore, shall not take pains to
commence at all, but just fire away ra5an.
don. The boys in the next cabin below me
arc roaring themselves hoarse on that good
old tune Of Aud lang syne." We certain.
ly have musical set of people in this -four.
ishing, village-especially in the suburbs.--
Sometime since, shortly after heavy fall Of
snow, | had occasion to go some distance up
the Canon and came upon little six by eight
tent of cotton drilling, but little thicker than
common brown paper, pitched in the ravine.
The snow was drifted half way to the top Of
it and lay in unbroken banks about, the only
tracks visible leading to a patch of sage
brush, which served in lieu of woodpile: a
few rocks were heaped up at one end of the
tent and capped with nail-keg from which
struggled faint, blue wreath Of smoke; but
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despite all these discouraging circumstances
the lord Of the castle" was the happy
possessor Of fiddle and was just popping
the weasel" right Through" Let the wind
blow, the snow descend and earthquakes
rock the firm mountains-cant make us feel
bad, we've got fiddle, and" pop goes the
weasel" What if the snow is three feet deep
and nothing in the lieu of fire-wood, except
sage brush, within two miles can't we &c,
down our "old gourd" and !" drive dull
care away" with "pop goes the weasel 2''
You bet you!
Passing little board house last week, the
door of which stood wide open, in hostile
manner, saw an Aom6re in red flannel
shirt seated on brady y-keg with flaming
"yaller fiddle thrust under his bearded chin
putting in his best licks" on "rakc her down
sall," and four strapping great fellows with
hands joined circling round in the middle of
the floor, in great style:
"Go in boysr' cried I. The reply was
You bet you" and on they went, without
a moments pause; the pine sliyers flying,
heads bobbing and old "yaller' squalling
on the high key. 49,
We are 10 have grand ball at the Devils
cate, on the 22d, tickets $500 Queer
place Tor ball, amt it ? but then, folks out
here have but little fear of the ID himself.
There was ball in town last week, but as
never attend things of this kind am unable
to give any particulars concerning the per-
formance, but | understand that respectable
married women go and " trip it to and fro, "
with others of both sexes who can lay but
little claim to responsibility or even decency
though, Of course, on these occasions all be-
have as well as they know how, as long as
they keep sober-I believe it is not consid-
cred polite for any but the men to get drunk.
Liquors are sold in some thirty places; in
fact, wherever anything else is sold, and new
saloons going up every day---we are thirsty
race, us miners On Ncw-ye day the in
habitants took a grand drunk! You might
see numerous couples promenadine the streets
with arms twined lovingly about each others
waists, swearing eternal friendship and each
taking the greatest possible care of the other
picking their way cautiously along the road
from one saloon to an other till at length thcy
can hold out no longer, the dear friends fall
to rise no more, for some hours at least, and
are dragged to the back part of some saloon
and laid out in a row with other victims to
eternal friendship and " tarantuIa i,,ice %
Others after getting their dose rush out in the
steeets and run bowling up and down with
hats oft and hair about their eyes looking
more like wild beasts than human beings
Then here and there clinging to the hitch.
gposts are the sicE Ones, with pale faces
and eyes as void of expression as those of a
dead catfish. Again there are others hall
sea over" who are seized with .furor To-
quindi and are addressing their fellow citi-
zcns on the threatening aspect of the political
horizon. Here is little spindle e-shanked
lawyer mounted on goods box, with Union
loving brothers, with tears in their eyes, on
either side of him to keep him in an upright
position, and small crowd of patriots stand
ing with uncovered heads and countenances
ludicrons IN their expression of respect and
profound almost fearful attention. lie is
saving the Union for them:
AS said before, gen.lcm'n. and as will
say TIL my dying day notwithstanding that
Lin-k'n seeds an South China re-zine-z--
PAcA'c ALOuu are CT ZDOutS oil cl
foemen !-er p'culer in-stoozen's rampant
let er ramp! One an undivided she stans.
unitd she'll never se-zede,--long may zhe
wave -e pluribus corpus! Though Pine CT
lawyer, and might be thought a-noffis seeker,
still say-lct er wave-wave-loud NAV
zhe wave-habeas bonum, pluribus corpus
noac and forever" Enthusiastic cheers from
the crowd, who imagine the Union is saved
But enough Of this, drunken men are pretty
much the same the world over.
This is rather dull old PLACE for reading
matter; books are not thought of. Harp
er's Magazine" sell at 81, 90 each and there
is never one left an hour after they arrive
saw two men quarreling over the last one
of lot received yesterday at the little peri.
odical depot in this place one proved at last
that he had bought and paid for it and had
only laid it3down for moment to do some
writing. when the other being determined to
have it il any reasonable price would get It,
offered 81 80, then 200 for it; but the luck !
owner would not part with his /" Harpey.,'
for any such triAing sum as two dollars
There are few trashy yellow covered novels
among the miners and these 20 from cabir,
to cabin, are borrowed, stolen, given away,
exchanged and bought and sold. Newspa.
DerS from Califnrnia and the. Cxotas 90, "a