Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-07-04
Correspondence Of the Gazette.
LETTER F.sOM DAN DE QUIL LIE.
SILVER CRY, NEVADA TERRIroRY,)

LETTER F.sOM DAN DE QUILLE.
SILVER Crr, NEVADA TsRRrrony,)
April ith 1862.
DEAR GAZETTE II can add but little to
former statements in regard to the foods OF
the Pacific Coast. disappearance of Sacra-
mento City, since the subsistence Of the food
is described as being pitiful and desolate in
the extreme. The loss Of property is almost
beyond computation. The Chinese say that
fourteen hundred Of their people lost their
lives throughout the State. No stages have
yet crossed the mountains between here and
California. All the mails pass over on the
back of mules; also, all manner of freight.
Received a package of the GAzErTEs to.
day which had been on the Great(y) Daily(?)
Overland Mail Route! precisely months.
But, "late is better than never"-lct us no,
find fault: 3" Curse not the king even in thy
bed-chamber." At the present writing We
are blessed with good wcathcr--in fact, de.
Iightful weather.
We watch with great intescst the progress
of our army-everyday our thoughts arc
turned toward the seat Of war We here
cannot fully appreciate the stern and terrible
reality. Doubtless, you who arc nearer these
scenes Of slaughter can more readily realize
what it is for Americans to be engaged in cut
ting the throats Of Americans. To those
who have lost fathers, brothers. sons and
husbands, the dcsolate fireside must make
the deplorahle fact most sorrowrully obvious
and in the broad West are many cheerless
hearthstones-many sorrowing families. And
who is to blame for the weight of woe press
ing upon so many thousands of American
hearts? TO whom is all this sadness due ?
Is it ascribable to the murderous incursion
Of cruel and unprincipled foreign power ?
No, we owe all this to mcn-to brothers
reared under the same laws and same shel,
tering banner, the glorious Stars and Stripes
with ourselves! Brethren in whose pros.
perity we were always ready to rejoice and
whose Affections had always been our sor.
row but. alas! as they have proved them
selves. plotting. treacheroGs brethren Yes,
ia Sc lente,', sch ming brethren of the South.
this most unnatural war is your handiwork,
the grand result of your years of traitorous
plotting. And why is it that our brethren
have turned their sword and poured out
their wrath against us? Because they con-
sidered themselves our supcriors in refine.
mcnt and chivalrous impulses and wished
to separate from us and build up govern
ment OF their own OH more arstOcratc prin-
cip'es. They were not content longer to re-
main upon an equal footing with those who
wen their daily bread by their daily toll
their chivalrouS souls shrank from such con.
taminating contact--thcy were not content
with the plain. honest thrift of the old Re.
public. A single glance at the two portions
f the Union, tells us that this boosted supe.
riority Of our Southern brethren is purely
imaginary-in nothing are they our superi.
ors but hollow, unsupported pride. Could
they succeed in all their designs as fully as
they desire, woe. woe to the poor man liv-
ing under the laws Of their imperial Confed.
eIacy. Poor, deludcd IDIOT, after having Civ.
en- his sweat and blood for his aristocratic
leaders cause, he finds himself degraded
from the high the proud position of free.
man to level lower than that of the most
abject slave. His hands are tied, he is voice
less where free man should speak-as well
be tongueless. But these proud schemers,
ICSICSS dliu uSluuCu lUIIOWcIS,
have lifted their hands and struck the first
blow at the supporting pillars Of our Union,
they have cast the first brand to spread
abroad the flames of war in our land-they
have sown the wind, verify, they shall reap
the whirlwind. War, WAR! say-as long
as traitor hand bears brand or points a
sword against his Governmcnt-W Var! BY
nature, I am not bloodthirsty, but have lit,
tie mercy OF sympathy for rebels found ar.
rayed against the government of the United
States-let them die. Let us hope that soon
such may be hard to find. r
My fire is burning low and my candle
fiickering in its socket; have already writ
ten two letters tonight and think I will try
my miners cot till morning Tomorrow ct
ten o'clock have promised to breakfast with
Mr.. Leon Levelle, the President of the Dana
Mining Company This is French compa-
ny throughout and expect to see some mar
vels in the line Of cookery. Will report on
my return. For might, friends, good bye.
Well, I've '.bin and did it'-thc breakfast
mean. and it was big thing for this latl.
tudc. All down at the table, we were Just
eight in number. found myself the only
American present. Three were officers Of
the Dana Company, and five of us invited
guests had been told that would meet
several scientific gentlemen at the breakfast
and found that DR.. Gan.ier, Of San Francisco,
NJ. B rnis, an African traveller, NJ Kuh, of
San Francisco Mint, and pair Of chemists
and minerologists. Truly. a very learned
crowd-scarce man spoke less than six
languages. A dozen old women, all talking
at once Of some prodigious prodigy Of a ba-
by make something of clatter, but two Of
these learned Frenchmen would have talked
twenty such blind in just three minutes and
ten seconds, by the watch. Their talk was
all on " something to eat'--the dishes of va
rious nations, from African roasts and CAT
fer Koos ko- 500" down to Yorkshire pud
ding. A most fiery dispute arose in regard
to the length Of time proper for keeping ven