Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-01-10
News items.


like proportion.
A secession lady in Northwestern Missouri
offers premium for enough Yankee scalp
to make bed quilt. Perhaps she woult
like to take whole Yankee as a comforter.
THERE are now front 5000 to 7,7OO NOR,
negroes oh The islands about Beaufort thar
when our troops first landed, many of then
often coming bng distances, leaving HON,
and families, enduring fatigue and bravin,
Hangers, to be free. Four came from Florid,
IN an open boat.
The Lacrosse, [Wis.) Republican of tn,
93d learns by an authentic source, from tn,
iu,nSef regions on Black River, that ther,
Will not ot.e-tenth the amount donethis yea,
that there was last. 1t thinks that not owe
i've .iniions Of feet will be put in this win
Ter.
A private letter dated at St Louis on tn,
Goth, says that more than sixty Thousand
inhabitants have left that city within a year
that an immense number of houses and stores
are vacant, that business, except Government
contracts, is at dead stand"
1T has been ascertaincd that the British
iron-clad Warrior, the only really dangerous
vessel, draws 100 much water (nearly TWEEN
ty-eight feet to enable her to enter New
York habor. Portland and Newport alone
she could reach.
The Chicago Tribune has information
from an unquestionable source, that five
thousand acres in illinois will be planted with
cotton the coming year"
A recent dispatch from Brigham Young
states that the war news from the States sent
in the morning is published at Salt Lake City
in the afternoon.
One dollar notes of the State Bank of Iowa
raised to fivcs are very common. The Wig
nette of the ones is a milking scene, and of
the fiyes a party of cmigrants in covered
wagons.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made by an as
ISOLATION OF citizens to hold i'm Chicago, com
mencing on the I'd of September next, a
Worlds Horse Show, to be open to competi-
ton from the world. Premiums to the ex-
tent of $25, 900 or $4,000 will be given for
running and trotting horses, and ladies eques-
trianship.
CAPTAIN Palmer Of the Hoquois is to be dis
missed for allowing the Sumter to escape, the
Department being apparently satisfied of his
trcachcry.
HE MAI 10 CoStiilS lue NONelHuienI
two millions a day.
The Sd Iowa regiment at Benton Barracks,
has sent home over 1000 out Of its last
payment OF this two companies sent 81 800
each.
THE Office of the Vinton Eagle has furnish
cd seven soldiers to the volunteer service.
The Paymaster General has issued an or
der districting the Union--No Z is the dis
trict Of misunderstanding the States Of
Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, and Arkansas
under the charge of Lieutenant Colonel T.
B. Andrews, Deputy Paymaster General
United States Army, at Saint Louis, Missou-
RI
TIE Canadian press is decidedly warlike,
and "beside Itself" on the Trent affair
They are ready to " let slip the dogs ofwar"
upon "the pcstiferous Yankee race" if their
mother country only rubs their ears and cries
"stboy,"
GENERAL Mcclellan has recovered from his
recent Illness He was confined to his bed
for several days with fever.
Ir Is not improbable that the fate of
Charleston may be shared by other South
crn cities. The Montgomery (Ala.) Adcer-
ttser says that no less than seven attempts
were made to set fire to that city within two
days and that two of them were partially
successful.
We have not less than sc, 900 Cavalry on
the Potomac.
Mr. Colfax, Of Indiana on the 10Th ult pre-
scented bill in Congress for the abolition of
the Franking Privilege.
FoRTY-fouI societies have reported them.
selves to the Secretary of the Iowa Sanitary
Commission at Lyons.
LAST week two hundred horses persisted
by the burning of Government stable near
Washington.
THERE has been recently put into the Ro.
man Catholic Cathedral in Dubuque, fine
organ, costing $4,000.
The Chicago Tribune now issues morn.
ing evening and night edition.
In various parts Of the Southern Confed.
eracy the rebels have raised the black flag
and resolved to take no prisoners.
IT is proposed to connect the Government,
forts from. New York to Ship Island at the
mouth of the Mississippi, by an Atlantic
Coast Telegraph Line, the greater portion
OF which would be submarine.
On the 10Th at Washington, Col. Berdan
was seriously injured while trying a brcech
loading rifle, about to be adopted for one OF
his regiments of sharpshooters. The charge
blew out the breech, making severe contu-
sion Of his right cheek and fatally injuring
the right eye.
The Secretary of War has ordered for Col.
Berdan's brigade the Spence Magazine Rifle.
This gun fires eight times without charging,
and can be recharged and ready for eight ad-
ditional rounds in almost the same time that
the ordinary musket can be loaded once. In
appearance it is not unlike the Sharpe rifle.
1t is the most expensive arm in the service.
WaEN the exchange of the $50 prisoners
sent by us into the rebel lines through Fort
Monroe shall be completed, it is the purpose
of Secretary Cameron to send all the remain
ing prisoners in our hands South. to be ex-
changed for al equal number of Union cap
tives.
Col. John Ccchrane has introduced sing
ing into his regiment in which all the men
and officers are expected to take part, and
has established daily religious services
through the regimental chaplain "John
Browns soul is marching on" chorosed by
thousand men at evening parade, gives a