Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-02-14
Editorial squibs and Brevitie..


ACCORDING to the Dubuque Herald, tn
Capt Jones taken prisoner at Fl. Henry is
son of Gen. Jones, Of Dubuque, now quarter
ed in Fl. Lafayette. A
SENATOR Morrell has presented bill fo
the immediate emancipation of all slaves il
the District Of Columbia, and providing for
compensation not to exceed $500 head tt
loyal owners 1t has not yet been acted up
,on.~ins Committee. There is about 3,0OG
slaves in the District -otstaa orr
On the 10th, the House unanimously pass
ed the Senate bill authorizing the issuing OIL
$1,000 600 treasury notes. g.. .sl
THE telegraph has it that jim Lane will
probably be made Major General.
On the Potomac orders have been issued
prohibiting any more furloughs, and all off.
GERS are ordered to return to their regiments
This looks as though an advance was near at
hand. 2va -..e..f .t
The pirate Sumter is reported as cruising
off Genoa.
GEN. Stone has been removed from his
command on the upper Potomac, and has
been sent to Fl. Lafayette. His soundncss
on the Union question has been suspected
since the affair of Ball Bluff, which disaster
is supposed to have been the result Of either
his criminality or carelessness. ... ..H
The Third Iowa Infantry is stationed at
Huntsville, on the North Missouri Railroad
on police duty.
By adviccs Ella San Francisco we learn
that the Mcxicans recently gained a victory
over the Spanish invaders in battle near
Vera Cruz, which lasted five hours. Partic-
ulars of the engagement not yet learned.
TIE latest intelligence we have from Mis-
souri, says that Prices pickets and our own
were but few miles apart, and twas thought
probable that the rebel army would be sur
rounded and compelled to surrender.
A meeting of the principally iron manufac-
turers Of the country was held at Pittsburg
last week, when an advance in the price of
irons and nails was agreed on, and at once
put into operation.
THE..Richmond Dispatch admits that the
aggregate force Of the rebels now in the field
is but two hundred and fifty thousand Il
The Confederate steamer Nashville was al
last accounts still in Southampton harbor,
and the U. S. steam sloop of war, Tuscarora,
was there watching her like a hawk, ready to
pounce upon her should she leave the harbor.
COUNTERFEIT five dollar bills on the Oska-
loosa Branch Of the State Bank of Iowa, are
in circulation. Look out for them. .-
THE Racine Wis. Aduocate doubts whether
the Iowa Legislature has Constitutional
right to pass law exempting certain prop
erty from taxation, referring to the bill before
our Legislature exempting from taxation focks
of sheep less than fifty in number, wool and
wooden manufacture, sorghum and sorghum
machinery, flax, linseed oil, straw goods, and
the capital invested in the manufacture of all
these articles. 1t thinks that the only prop
er way the Legislature can encourage any
branch of industry is by passing law offer
ing premiums. %. a.a .. ..- ..
GEN. LANE.-Private advicesss from Kansas
state that Gen. Lane was there about the LIST
inst and announced that he had not accept.
ed his commission as Brigadier General, and
that he visited the State only as member of
the Senate Military Committee. He declined
to assume any military character, but main.
tanned the most friendly relations with Gen.
Hunter, between whom and himself there is
no practical difference Of sentiment with re-
gard to the relations Of slavery and the war.