Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-11-07

QUEEN VICTORIA.
In his late speech in Chicago tho Parsou
got of the following: p
When We come out of this war, which We
shall do after while, we will como forth
with 700, 900 or 800, 900 of tic best drilled,
hardened, seasoned, best fed, and noblest-
hearted fellows, that ever constituted an army
on the face Of the earth. Having Our hands
sin, and having little experience in the way
aof fighting, il the Queen Of England and her
advisers arc not satisfied with the way VIC do
ehusincss, We will give them turn. Laugh
teri am in favor of thrashng anyhow
IContinued laughter England has been
actins the dog from the word 20. Hypocrisy,
deception, falshood, smuggling. that has been
her neutrality. ! am in favor Of declaring
war against her whenever this thing is wound
up, giving her the devil and rubbing it in
Laughter sent the Queen of England u
message the other day-private and CONT
"dential-by merchant going abroad to Lon
don. I told him to 60 to Windsor Castle,
give her my respects, and tell her that had
known individuals in America, and whole
neighborhoods, to make comfortable living
by Just minding their own business: Much
snierriment.] told him to give the Queen
the anccdote Of the Dutchrnan at the battle
of New Orleans, as it exactly covered the
case. 80 fl..' $50 pan a
They had Tennessee Dutchman at the
battle of New Orleans-an honest man, not
professor Of religion, not Christian by
professor, but he had learned from his pa.
rents that General Washington was man OF
faith and prayer, and never went into battle
without making it the subject of prayer; and
he thought he would do like General wash
ington. So the boys, hearing some one pray
ing away terribly in the chapparal one day
just before the battle, they followed him into
the bushes, and there found the Dutchman
on his marrow bones-on his hunkcrs, with
tIpl,fted hands and streaming eyes, and ne
was praying. Mind the application j. to the
Queen. He was praying: oh, Lord Colt,
come down dis one time and help US hight on
de side Of America; but so be Oh Lord, II
YOU can't come on our side, Oh Lord, don't
help the British but oh Lord you stand OFT
and say nothing and you Sc; one Of the
damnedest fights you ever heard o. Koars
of laughter r-d s.T-a q.
,! L told him to ask the QUEEN of England
for one to stand of and say nothing but oc-
cupy neutral position, gu smuggling ships
and guns and ammunition and all that sort
oil (nlnk through W INV Icoe's, Yu'I tJH'S
and falsly pretending to be neutral. but stand
off, and we would show her, as the Dutch
man said, "one of the damendest fights she
ever heard Of" Langhtcr1
t7s ANOTHER OF BRowNLow's GEMS.
Almost the last thing that happened to me
before they crushed ,sst my paper was chal-
ler,gs to fight duel from sccessionist edit
or in the South, Lewis II. Pope, specimen
Of Humanity who weighed ninety. five pounds
worse locking maa than Alcek Stephens
He supposed that being preacher and edit
or I wouldn't fight, but he walked up the
wrong passenger. [Applause. accepted
the challenge, and wrote in letter that be.
ing the challenged party had right to die
tate the weapons, time and place. 1t was
then summer time and hot weather. said
s'.I elect that we fight Immediately after the
first hard rain that comes, in hog pen. The
weapons shall be two large, fonr. pronged iron
dung forks. CONTINUED laughter and who
ever shall shovel the other out, should be re-
carded az having killed him in mortal COM
bait vociferous laughter.] He replied
that tho terms were cruel, inhuman, and con-
trary to the laws Of dueling, and he backed
out; and we'll he might, for he knows that
could have shoveled him out in less than no
time. Laughter