Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-11-08
Letter from Dan De guile.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE GAZETTE.

Letter from Dan De guile.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE GAZETTE. -
SILVER CRY, N. T., Sept. %, 1861. p
For some time we have had no news from
beyond ST. Joseph. We have been left to i'm
agine all sorts of things in regard to the
movements of the two great armies and our
brains have not been idle Wehad expected
that our next news from Washington would
be of a great battle fought at or near that
place, for from the position of the two armies
at our last dates this seemed inevitable. Our
army may have" swore some in Flanders"
and those not too much frightened may have
felt inclined to profanity at Bull Run, but it
was all as innocent as the prayer lisped by
an infant in comparison with the swearing
done here when we first learned that com,nu-
nication with the east was cut off by the reb
els taking possession of ST. Joseph. Union
men swore, Seceshers swore, and women and
children sworc. Everybody was looking for
n letter from everybcdy's wife or "gal," the
rebels had stopped everybody's bng looked
for letter a: St. Jo, and Of course everybody
:" swore terribly" on this whole Pacific coast.
But, this mornings Pony informs us chat
the Line is again open, and some four hund-
red thousand pens are tonight making up
for lost time. ! wrote you letter some two
weeks since which may have fallen into the
hands OF the rebels If so they must have
made themselves hoarse with cursinc nv
cahgraphy. In one ofmy late letters spoke
of good Union man here, who in a "bit of
discooshin" with Secesh, told said hombre
that IN case Of a certain contingency have
las many scalps Of fellows Of his stripe sus-
pended from the bits Of his bride as he had
of Indians in 49,; well, forgot the nub"
of the story at that time being disturbed
by visitors-but | should have added that
this fierce Union man is one George McCul
loch, a cousin to the notorious Ben McCul-
loch. Old Ben's Union cousin. told me the
other day, in speaking of him, that If he had
the opportunity he would " drill hole thro'
his ID traitor carcass with as little com.
Function as he would shoot an Apache horse
thief" .'..t 4. rH
The GAZETTE for August 3Oth, reached me
to-day by some Hieahs its coming was to
me as that of d" oil to the troubled waters"
o, GAZETTE, :hou art indeed ever most
welcome visitant mot only to me, but there
are here many Western boys who find mat
ter of interest within thy columns concerning
the doings and sayings of the people of their
States. I sometimes meet with
some of Brick Pomeroy's most humorous
sayings in the GAZETTE; let me say that
often meet with them in our California pa
pers. Brick isn't y "'dobe hes hard
baked! Brick is appreciated this way; he's
one Of the tip-topest of tip.top "bricks."-
VIM. L. Card, formerly Of our Washoe Times,
used to do the local for Bricks paper saw
in the last Golden Era, good thing from
Bricks jolly, though ,dagger-sharp, pen, on
the returned threc-months volunteers. Brick
don't spare 'em. No, he don't. ,t .f Es.,
Now is the time for Fairs throughout Cal
fornia, and the people of the Golden State
arc enjoying themselves. They, as people,
are decidedly fond of these annual exhibitions
Of the wealth Of the land. Everybody goes.
The ranckinen drive in their focks and herds,
The gardeners bring their vegetables, the
orchardists their fruit, and the women Of the
towns and country their fancy work = as,
butter, babies, bread, bead:work,
md beauty. I'm. B. / don't mean to say
hat their beauty is artificial. The miners,
too, 60 by droves to the valleys to attend the
Fairs and feast on the fat of the land. That
your readers may gain some faint idea of the
of these great gatherings of the
people in California, and Of the outlay for the
grounds, buildings, etc., l will give you few
items CLEANED from the correspondence Of
some Of the California papers, speaking first
of the Marysville District Fair, which CON-
menced September 10Th. The cash pre,ni
lms offered to stock range from S. to 800.
For fast horses and equestrianis,n from $25 to
300. "TnE Pavilion stands in the middle
of square Of ground blossoming with every
variety Of garden plant and Towering shrub,
and surrounded with shapely young locusts,
-an attractive spot to the visitor, even with
out the facinations Of the FAIR. You enter
from c street, and the eye is greeted with
festcous of. evergreens suspended f,ptH the
ceiling, and stretching away from under the
dome above the fountain through nave and
transept. The tables run longitudinally-
down the aisles on four sides. radiating from
the center. where circular space is left, and
a row Of seats surrounds the Fountain
above the jet Of waters is suspended the
orchestral box, from which marital strains