Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-12-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

MASCBLkANEOUSs
The present session Of the rebel Congress
promises to be very stormy one. The
question Of reconstruction will be boldly pre-.
scented by tho conservative members of North
Carolina. =. The Illinois Supreme Court has
sustained Gov. Yates action in proroguing
the Legislature last summer. :. Our total
losses during the siege Of Knoxville are re-
ported at 1000, and the rebel losses at g.
oo0.. !. b. F. Taylor, the able Chattanooga
correspondent Of the Chicago Journal, is at
his home in Chicago, called back because. Of
sickness in his family. He hopes soon to
return. We esteem his letters very highly,
though We think Illinois is in his eye too
nearly the only State in tho Union. The
Supreme Court Of this State has given a
unanimous opinion, declaring the law allow
ing the soldiers to veto constitutional and val.
id. Do the Copperheads feel any better, now :
80. The Illinois State Horticultural Society
holds its eighth annual meeting at Alien,
commencing on the 10Th inst and continu-
ing four days. "A fire in Amboy, ILL.,, on
the 10th inst. destroyed about $50, 900 worth
Of property. !. F. F. Low was inauguratsd
Governor Of California on the 18th inst. for
the ensuing four years.. :. The Catholics Of
Springfield, I'll. are making preparations for
the construction Of convent in that city to
cost about 46O, 0o0.. II il now pretty Ger.
tain that John Morgan and his Captains new
er went to Canada. II is pretty certain that
they are safe in Rebellion. =. Gen. Halleck
in his report thinks suffers a nuisance to the
army, and that the whole system ought to be
abolished. -. We again have reports that the
Army Of the Potomac 10 to be thoroughly
rsorgan;zed. and Hooker or Thomas given
chief command. Our troops in Texas are
reported a. being in excellent health ;. i. "A
New England Society has besn formed in Du-
buque. The Society have supper At the
Julien House on Forsfathsrs' Day, Dec. 22d.
80. The Common Council Of st. Paul has
voted an appropriation Of &250,00O for q
railroad to Superior. :. The recent frauds
discovered in tho Quarternastsrs' Depart.
msnt at Alexandra, Va, will foot up among
the millions. ;. Tho Navy Department has
thirteen vessels in pursuit Of the captured
steamer Chesapeake. ;. The avails of the
draft, a. far - ascertained are 5000 men
and el2 ,o00, 900. :. The Rebel Senate has
passed bill prohibiting the enrolment Of
substitutes in the army. The Richmond
papers say that Of 10000 prisoners held in
since the LIST Of January, 1852,
GIL have died, which it considers very small.
80. Letters have been received at Washing.
ton from conservatives in North Carolina
asking on what terms the Rebel States will
b. admitted back int the Union. They will
lind thsir answer in tho Presidents Procla.
nation. -. There is Q report that General
SheTman's command met with heavy 70.
pulse by Longstzsst's rear guard east of
Knoxville recently. The report is not gensr.
lily credited. :. .Colored troops under Gen.
Wilson have captured Elizabeth City, N. G. |
-. Mr.. Down, Of Mississippi has introduced
resolution into the Rebel Congress impress
ling al able bodied whites into the army, |
md requiring all aliens to leave the country
within sixty days or take up arms. There
. rumor that there are Rebel Commission
rs on the road to Washington to propose
erns Of peace. The question has been
'sised whether the rebel prisoners in our
hands nay not avail themselves of the recent
Proclamation ty the President tbs thought
arge numbers would gladly do 30. "A bill
,as been introduced in Congress to extend
he silas in which the States n.ay evail them.
slvss OF the grant Of land for agricultural
md industrial colleges. Col. John Scott,
# the SD Iowa regiment, who recently lost
me hundred and sixty head of sheep by the
Expectations of dogs, has suffered a further
oss Of twenty-f FIVE head. Edmund Kirk,
ushor Of Among the Pines" lsctured in
Dubuque on Wednesday evening. +. Gen.
ialleck, in his report, pays the highest con.
linents to Gen. Grant. :. +. .Eapoleon's pro-
oct Of European Congress has proved q
allure.