Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-05-17
This, That, and the Other.

FROM StatiSliCai report, VIC tctiiI liidI tIlc
South Carolinians threw 1851 shot and $50
shells at Fort Sumter.
SAYS the Boston Transcript The North
is fighting for the peace of the country--the
rebels for piece of it.
SOLDIERS are hit in battle according to the
color of their dress in the following order =
Red. the most fatal color; the least fatal,
Austrian gray. The proportions are: Red,
IL; rifle green, z; brown, g.; Austrian
BLUSH gray, 5.
One of Mr.. Becchcr's sons is volunteer,
ard the New York correspondent of the
PHILADELPHIA Inqui,rr says Mr.. Beecher him
selfcontemplatcs acting as Chaplain to reg
iment now forming.
UNDER the head Of can honorable con-
tract" the Petersburg (va.,) cypress states
that northcrners arc well treated at the South,
but ssoutherners are exposed to all sorts of
insults and molestations at the North, even
to the extent Of imprisonment. We always
thought the case was just the reverse.
ACCORDING to the editorial columns of all
Southern papers, there is the most perfect
unanimity in the Rebel army, and every man
is eager to meet the Northern forces; but in
the advertising portion Of single sheet The
atlanta Inteltigencer) rewards arc offered for
fifteen deserters from single regiment.
THE offers Of troops from the West are as
tonishng. The Government has already re-
ccivcd proffers Of services from tuo hundred
and fifty thousand meu, all West of the AL
leghanies. This immense multitude is ready
for instant and active service, and each regi-
mcnt is made up of hardy troops. The men
of the Northwest are moving IN earnest Tor
the support of the Government.
r., OF
jeff Davis, Col j. b. Magruder, Col. r. +.
Lee, Lieut.. NJ. +. Maury and Vice President
Stephens will hold consultation in the city
of Washington at a very early day. We
shouldn't wonder if they did, with a sheriff
each side of them, priest in front, and a
slip moose just above their heads. " And
may the Lord have mercy OH their souls"
A day or two since young man offered
himself as recruit at one of the offices in
this city, who evidently being minor was
asked if he had his fathers permission to
volunteer Hereplied that he had no father,
but admitted that his mother was willing
".Then you must get your mothers consent
said the officer The young man returned,
with the following brief but noble letter -
"M is my all, but I.treely gire him to my
country" -BaRgor Wig. a
A communication from Harvard Observa-
tory announces that the comet is growing
brighter, and is already visible to the naked
eye near the tail of Drocco. 1t viii! pass
across the Great Bear, and will be near the
Bowl and Dippcr in eight or nine days. But
the most remarkable fact about the comet is,
that it will on the 10Th Of May be almost ex-
actly where the earth had been on Friday
the 10th ult., 50 that if its perihclion passage
were twenty four hours earlier, the earth
would pass through the body the comet
SABEEs, with sheath and belt, cost from
81 to $40 each, according to quality. Cut
lasscs, such as are often used by artillery
men, cost 3d. A breech loading carbinc,
GIalps pattern, which is the best costs SIT,
Sharpc's rifle, a most effective weapon, about
the same. Rcvolvcrs Navy reyolvers are
preferable to the Army PATTERN cost from
s25 to $50 pair. A six pound brass can
non, used in flying artillery, costs $1,000,
and the gun wagon $500 Armstrong; twelve
pound rihcd cannon, Gan English gun, of
which many are now being importcd) costs
tl12 6s. 3d., or about $500. A six horse
caisson, for artillery ammunition, costs $500.
TIE most ungratclul villain in the whole
secession camp is Lieut. Maury, who ran
away from Washington and his oath of office
on Thursday last. For twenty years this
rascal has been one of the pets of the govern
ment. During that time he has had am ex-
ceiicnt salary and has lived in clover For a
whole lifetime he has drawn living from
the United States, and yet the very moment
the government needs his service to put down
treason, he turns sneak and runs away.
IN the multitude of banners which float
upon thu breeze in these patriotic days, there
is scarcely one Of the correct stripe The
following is the correct style. there are thir-
teen stripes, seven rcd and six white, repre-
scnting the original thirteen States. The
field of blue extends to seven of the stripes,
and the stars arc worked parallel with the
stripes.
PALMER the sculptor, has offered to make
a statue in marble of the member of the
Utica corps who will "bag" Wigfall or jeff.
Davis.
As the volunteers were about leaving Eas-
ton, Mass, for the war, young man, mem
Der of one of the companies, shed tears when
he babe his mother 'Good bye" The old
woman encouraged him, saying, Dry up,
Joe, and show your spunk y
OCCASIONAL travellers from Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, Georgia and South Carolina, bring
Information that there is a fearful condition
of things financially, socially, and politically,
in that quarter. Every effort is made to con-
ccal the fact, but bankruptcy and beggary
are inevitable. Phaddelphia Press.
KANsAs.-Gov Robinson has issued his
proclamation calling for eiecen regiments, and
fixing their respective headquarters. This
would be pretty hard strain on any other
State of an equal population. But Kansas
contains a larger proportion of men accus-
toned to fighting and fond Of the amusement
than any other member of the Confcderacy.
Their crops are all in the ground, and they
can now leave home for incursions into Ar
kansas and Missouri Gin case she secedcs, }
without Inconvenience to themselves, but
with immense inconvenience to any enemy
they may happ.n to encounter. Gen. Lane
will probably lead large dctachcment down
into Texas, and Montgomery, will have a
corps Of sharp shooters and stabbers for any
desperate service that may be required on
che Western and Southw estern frontier
PArRIorIc CoNTRIBUTIoNs.-The patriotic
contributions of the people for the war dur
ing the last three weeks amount to the i'm
mensc sum of % ,277,000 Pennsylvania
leads tho cclu,nO with n fraa oft Of S9 400 !.