Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-04-05
This, That, and the Other.


HoS. VIM. ClaAn, President Of the Mas
sachusetts Senate, is named as the probable
successor of Hon. Charles Francis Adams in
the United States House Of Representa-
tives.
& ANDERSON, the fugitive slave, is in Mon
trcal. He is to go to England on the open
ing of navigation.
Tns banks of New York now hold in their
vaults $40 O0o, 900 in gold, the largest amount
that has ever accumulated there. We hope
tho crops Of the West may be so large this
season, and the demand so great, as to cause
them to disgorge few millions of their sur
plus and send It into channels where it is so
much needed.
The Utica Telegraph states that Alexander
Hamilton Shultz, recently appointed Marshal
Of the Southern District of New York, was
n number of years ago, table waiter in
Bagg's Hotel in that city. He was called,
among bis friends, Hamilton, and it is rcla-
ted that on the occasion of the notorious
Aaron Burr stopping at the Hotel, on his
travels, orders were given that Shultz should
not be called Hamilton during Burr's stay, as
it was thought the use Of that name would
be distasteful to the ears of Burr.
TIE Milwaukee Sentinel relates that the
pastor in one Of the churches in that city re-
Gently became aware that young man OF his
congregation was forming bad habits. Meet
ing the stray lamb one night in the streets
with some dissolutc companions. the Revcr-
end gentleman attempted to dissuade him
from going further, but the rowdes in COM
PAW objected, and one of them struck the
parson. The fellow had reckoncd without
his host In moment the clergyman had
thrown off his coat and "sailcd in" Avery
brief space of time sufficcd for him to "wax
blazcs'' out of the crowd, and having accom-
plished the feat, he quietly resumed his coat,
and with it his cquanimity. He waJnot mo-
Tested further, we presume. Whether he
rescued the object Of his anxiety from the
possession of the party is not stated.
IT is said there are $500 ilcas to a man.
in Florida. If this is true the Southern Con-
fcdcracy will have hard scratching to get
along.
TnE State debt of Louisiana amounts to
s13. 600. 900, Alabama, S6,00o,0o0; South
Carolina, S6,O0O,Oo0; Georgia, 2,oOo, 900;
Mississippi, S7,3oo,OOo; and Florida, ST.
Ago 600. The two latter have repudiated
both principal and interest
81 {" ANTELOPE" the New York correspondent
Of the New Orleans Picdyune, had look at
President Lincoln while he was there, and
concludes that "while there is gcniality and
merited worth speaking wildly from that
face. there is at the same time an iron cast
presented, and an indomitable will Indeed,
at first glance, he reminded me OF one OF
nv sleloe hammers, with which | Dreak
rocLs at home His body is slender, IKE
the handle, but topped off with heaa aii
so,;dity-all firm cndurance-all IRON. Ills
hands too are all muscle, and strong grip
from them must be like the grasp OF wee.
Tur earnings Of all the railroads centering
I, CHICAGO for 1860, were S,6oo.O00.
TuE leader of the Senate, under the ne
npblican regime, will be Fesscndcn, OF Maine,
the Chairman of the Committee on finance.
Uc seldom speaks. He is a cold, hard faced
man. with gray checal de .tr'se round his
laws; inhexibe as the laws OF the UNIVERSE
cool as mountain top. and brave as non.
An old citizen of Cleveland, w., VINO ieit
much solicitude about the inauguration OF
Mr.. Lincoln, says he did his best TO hcip
him every night. He prayed earnestly ior
the success of the President, and to prevent
mistakes, Just added that he meant Abraham
Lincoln, and not the other teller! :,
MARTIN Van Buren, is the only individual
who has filled the four highest positions un-
der the American Government. lie has oeen
r. S. Senator, Secretary of State, Vice Pres
idcnt and President. ~
TIE prospects of peach crop in New
York. arc said to be very poor indeed. Inc
late frosts and snow storms have spoiled the
buds. :.
Ar lawsuit in New York last week, in
yolyinr payments of $3.50 worth OF Amcrl-
can champagne, n witness swore that the
wine was made Of what was called turnlp
;u;cen This was made to sparkle by gas
made from vitrol and marble dust, and then
labeldcd Champagne.
SERVICE on the Overland Buttertield Mail
Route is about to cease in pursuance OF the
act of Congress-so mails Tor California
from all parts Of the country must go via
Panama until the route via Salt Lake anu
Placerville goes into operation-Junc lst:
TnE three newly organized territories, Col
orado. Nevada, Dakota, are all north OF the
line SO degrees 80 minutes.
TuE Germans of Texas for the most part
orc dead set against secession. In freder-
icksburg, 337 Union and IA Disunlon votes
were cast.
Tur Charlotte (ya.) Bulletin, in speaking
ne the American flag, says: The Yankee
Ruzzard will soon be plucked, Quilted, dried
and peppered. The sooner the better.
The real motto Of the Seccdcrs. Let =.
S. alone. =,
ais it very sickly here" said son OF tic
Emerald Isle the other day, to another
" Yes" replied his companion, "a great many
have died this year who never died before.
A lady in Charleston, few nights ago,
had three children at BIRTH Charleston
continues to be port Of dclivery.-Lou's-
riUe Journal.
A very neat and convenient coin has been
recently issued at the U. S. Mint, Phliadel-
phia, three being equivalent to one dollar
They are particularly servicable in making
change, beside being very beautiful in design.
The official census Of the United States has
inst been completed. and it shows total OF
thirty-one millions four hundred and twenty
nine thousand eight hundred ninety-one l3F,-
429.s91.) OF these three millions nine hun.
drcd and fifty-onc thousand eight hundred
and one are slaves.
MANY contend that a. State should be res
ponsible for the niggcrs stolen by its citizens.
Perhaps too State should be responsible for
the money stolen by its citizens. How. would
Virginia and Mississippi like to be RESPONSE
l,,e for the stealing of Floyd and Thompson!