Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-03-07

Wounded Soldiers. -Four Of the wounded
Fl. Donelson. soldiers passed through town
during the past week, bound for their homes
in Chickasaw and Butler counties. They
are members Of the Immortal Seventh Iowa.
Another, ga. KlNo, Of company E, TIVE + !,
Iowa, wounded in the knee is at the Amer.
icaa, awaiting an opportunity to go to, his
hons in Floyd county.
| SeAool EshiBition. The pupils Of the
Grdmusr Department Of our public school
givssa entertainment, Consisting of Decla.
nations, Dialogues Tableaux and Music,
next Thursday evening. Feb. ID, in Over.
mans Hall. The scholars have been -for
ssme time preparing for this exhibition, and
we predict an excellent entertainment for
those who attend. As the pupils have been
to considerable expense in preparing for TN
occasion, an admittance fee Of ten cents will
be charged to defray expenses.
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Nasieal.-Last evening we had the salts.
faction Of listening to some very excellent
music by Terwillcger's Glee Club, at the
managers Music Room, Bishops Block. The
town has really more musical talent than We
had given it credit for. This Club propose
to give a grand concert Of vocal and instru
mental music within the course of a few
weeks, and We assure our readers that one
Of the richest treats of the season awaits
them. The public shall soon have full and
explicit notification of this affair now on the
tapis. ,m@
The e. r. Blockade.-The Dubuque Her.
AID thus concludes an article on the Rail-
road Blockade, after speaking Of the COM
plants Of the country press: AZ
But what is the use, it might be asked, of
giving currency to the complaints Of these
country papers! A great deal it appears to
us. The fact is that it is not country people
alone who arc losing by this state Of things,
but this city Of Dubuque, which to great
degree is dependent on TIE country for cxis-
tciice. This being the case, it concerns the
merchants and business men generally of the
city to use their influence with the railroad
company to take measures to prevent re-
currcnce next winter and hcnceforth of such
an interruption to travel and transportation
on the railroad westward as has occurred
this year. The danger is that with the OPEN
ing Of the roads for business, the evil which
has affected trade SO injuriously this winter
will be quite forgotten till the evil recurs next
winter in more aggravated form and with
more serious results. t &
Had tho business men among them some
sort of an organization which would bring
them together occasionally to consult for
their mutual benefit, this railroad blockade
would not have been suffered to exist beyond
a day. How suggestive then is this circun-
stance of the necessity of having Boarl of
Trade and Of the utility which such an organ
ization would be to the business interests Of
this city. Business men, how much longer
viii you suffer your interests to be neglected
for want of Board OF Trade?
a Romance. Twas night; the storm fiend
was abroad; tho unclaimed winds of heaven
rushed hither and thithcr with an an angry
roar, chanting, as it were, the dirge Of death !;
the dir was naught but an immense snow
drift; dark and sullen clouds hung like the
pail Of despair over all nature; the giant oaks
tossed aloft their moaning branches, and
wrestled with unavailng strength against the
fierce onsets Of the storm-king. As the night
advanced the storm increased apace, and
naught animate was to be seen except
solitary traveller who bravely breasted the el-
cments as though life and death depended on
his prosecuting his journey. Right bravely
he struggled amid the storm and gloom, ca.
serly peering here and there, but as often
rcsuming his onward tramp with a baffled
look on his handsome face. On, on, into the
thick darkness he pressed, with a step that
never faltered. There was. CLEAN in his
eagle eye, asd an expressed determination in
the firm compression Of his beautiful lips.
that bespoke unusual energy and daring
What stern fate compelled this brave spirit to
leave the hearth of home and battle with the
midnight storm? What errand Of life or
death was hisy Why, readers, it was our
Local rendered desperate by the dcarth of
news, and madly venturing forth to find an
item or perish in the attempt. Suffice it to
say, the daring man survived the perils of
the night, the thrilling events of which are
worthy Of another chapter.
Snow P,Itace.-The Junior, unknown to
us, did up" the snow, and we sat down
md dedicated a little brain labor to the same
interesting topic, unknown to the Junior
The consequence Of this was, that each had
! SNOW item" in type, and as items are
very scarce the present week, we concluded
10 give them both, in all their effulgent glory
Of glittering rhetoric, and charge nothing ex-
ira for the double dose.
Sxoso Storm. - The most .nagnanimous
storm of the season occurred since the issue
# our last. Saturday afternoon the snow
commenced falling, heavy wind set in, and