Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-12-04
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-. MASSACHUSETTS, has furnished SO, 900 me
for the war;. What horrid place Deli
must be to i've in. OF all the merchants il
that town only enc adyertises, and he onl
to the paltry amount Of five dollars year
1.-THE Iowa Colored Regiment at Beptcl
. Barracks. No., has been presented with
splendid flag by the ladies Of Keokuk an,
Nuscatine.. The veteran 18th Illinois Cav
airy arrived in Chicago last Saturday night
having been sent home to recruit its thinnet
ranks. The Steamer Silrer Kace, with /
full cargo Of Government stores, aud abou
| one hundred horses, sank on the 2ssh ut.
about twenty five miles above Cairo. 49,.
About 500 recruits were enlisted in New
| York city last week to apply on the new cal
~. During last week not less than 100 ,29(
live and dressed hogs were received in Chi
cago.. Gen. Banks, in Texas, is getting or
finely. At last accounts he had captured
| Corpus Christi and Arkansas City, and 9TH
Ter places Of minor Importance. :. Among
the prisoners captured at Chattanooga, dur
ing the recent engagements, are a large mum
Der of Pembcrton's men, paroled at Vicks
burg, and never exchanged. They ought to
have the benefit of the army regulations, and
be shot. :. Lewis, in Wisconsin, has ma.
Ijority for Governor on the home vote Of 16,
loo, which is !, 1928 more than Haryey's ma.
|jority in 1S6l...,. Pump Carpenter has
Withdrawn from the conduct of the Madison
|(Wis.) Patriot, owing to some quarrel in the
establishment on the position Of the Copper
head press relative 10 the war. :. I. /. 1t is alto.
gether probable that the next Congress will
largely increase the excise tax on distilled
| spirits. -, Navigation on, the Mississippi is
fstll rendered dangerous by the depredations
Of guerrilla bands. rebel force of 3, 900 to
10000 men is said. to be concentrating not
far above Port Hudson for the purpose of
obstructing the river. The Steamer SUNNY
South has been lost BY fire on the Mississippi,
and several lady passengers either burned or
drowned. lin Chicago, on Thanksgiving
Day, On old man Of fifty undertook to marry
a little gill Of thirteen whom he bad Induced
to accompany him to Catholic Church for
that purpose, but5wos intsrfered with and
prevented by the appearance Of the little
Miss brother and six shooter. The
prize Of fifty dollar gold watch, offered By
Mr.. r. II. Hoes, Jeweler Of Chicago, to the
person making the largest contribution to the
Northwestern Sanitary Fair, has been award.
ed to President Lincoln, who contributed his
original draft Of the Emancipation Proclama- |
ton, which sold for s. COO. Money can
be made at raising tobacco in the South west |
at Eve cents pound. :. Soldiers in the field, |
re-en!isting, are granted thirty days furlough
previous to the expiration Of their present |,
term of service. 1T probable that a con-
vention will be Immediately called in Missouri
for the purpose of Kidding the. State Of slav-
ely at once. The Richmond papers say
that plot Of the Union prisoners, ut that |
place, to affect their escape, was discovered
and frustrated. Nearly four million of the
Government fiye-twenty bonds were sub
scribed for last week. ;. A line Of telegraph |
is being constructed from San Francisco to |
Portland, Oregon. Brownlow issued but
one number OF his revived paper at Knoxville,
when the pl0A was invested oy the rebels,
and Brownlow left for Cincinnati, at the sug-
gestion OF the military authorities. Frauds
upon the Revenue Department to a large
amount have been discovered at Cairo. The
parties have been arrested. -. The President
who last week was qnite i'll, is now able to
attend to business. -. Another large invoice
Of clothing and provisions has been forward
ed to Union prisoners at Richmond. Horse |
contractors cheating Uncle Sam are liable to |
a fine of $4,000, and six months imprison-
mcnt. =. Al monster raft containing million |
feet Of lumber passed Burlington a few days
since. There are no less than seven railway
lines projected across Iowa. :. The United |
States has six territories which are rich in |
gold and precious metals, viz: Idaho, Neva.
do. Washington, Colorado, Arizona, and New
Mexico. =. The quota of Minnesota under
the present call is four thousand. :. The
s'''ef piouuel Oh Ne'aaa territory the pres
e"' se"' 10 tS.ins'eo al slo'voo.ooo. lis
e.'a '''a' "''''s' year II VIII oe iu'iy double
that sum. - =. Ten per cent of the males in
F nus ts'' arg a'.ens' Government
pays $50 "u io' goou nay oel'Vered IN st.
LOUIS '.e'e' papers say tnat there are at
least one n''''on slaves now IN Georgia, hay
ing oeeh run IN there from the more Northern
Save States. .'.lt takes $4,000 of rebel