Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-09-25
& H'H.a. HrH From the Louisville Journal.
A MORTAL BLOW TO THE REBEL
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The possession of Chattanooga, Knoxville,
&C., paralzes the Southern Confederacy at
its very heart and throughout all it's central
organs Of vitality. While we hold the great
Tennessee and Virginia railroad and the great
Western and Atlantic railroad, Chattanooga
being in fact the focal point of the great
Southern system of railroads, there can be
no vital communication between the different
points of the Confederacy First Arkansas
and Texas were clovcn off from the Confed-
eracy by the conquest of the navigation of
the Mississippi throughout its entire extent,
and now what was left is cloven asunder.
The whole of Tennessee and large portion
Of Georgia and Alabama arc at any rate ours,
and, If Atlanta shall be captured either by
battle or through the flight of the rebel forces
to Virginia, the whole Of the Cotton States
will probably fall into our hands without re-
sistence, and Virginia will hardly be able to
hold out for any length of time.
1t may be that the last desperate hope Of
the rebels is to concentrate their entire power
in Virginia as soon as possible and again
cross the Potomac and strike for the redemp-
ton Of their government. This perhaps is
the hope. but we do not fear the result. The
final battle Of the |ar may possibly be fought
upon Northern territory, but it can have but
one termination, and that foreknown one.
We have confidently believed all along and
confidently expressed the belief that the cap
ture Of Chattanooga would be such a blow
upon the head Of the monster Of the rebellion
as a strong butcher strikes with an axe upon
the head of bullock, and we are confirmed
in the opinion now. And with our whole
souls we do congratulate the loyal people Of
Tennessee, long the most suffering and op-
pressed people of modern times, that they are
at length redeemed, gloriously redeemed, from
internal thraldom. Every loyal heart in the
nation will rejoice in their joy, be glad in
their gladness, exult in their exultation. 1t is
true, dcplorably true, that many Of their good
men, victims Of the remorseless rebel con-
sciiption, are far away from their beloved
soil, rendering hated service to the rebel.
lion under duress of rebel bayonets, but, they
in the righteous providence Of God, will no
doubt be soon restored to their homes and
families. We trust, not only that we have
seen the beginning of tho end,' but that
we are seeing the middle of the end. s. !.
HALLE EYED WOMEN Major Noah said a
hazle eye inspires at first sight Platonic
sentiment, as securely founded as the rock
of Gbralter. A woman with hazle eye
never elopes, never chats scandal, never sac
rifices her husbands comfort to her own.
never talks too little, always is an intellect.
ual, agreeable and lovely creature.
We never knew, says a brother editor. of
but one hazle.eyed woman who was unintcr.
csting or unamiablc, and she had nose that
looked, as we Yankees say, like the little end
Of nothing whitfield to point. u
The grey is the, sign OF, shrewdness and
talent. Great thinkers and captains have it.
In woman it indicates a better head than
heart. The dark hazle is noble in its signifi-
cance, as well as its beauty. The blue is
aniable, lnt may 'bc. feeble. The black
take care I! there is thunder and lightning
there.
AN Iowa paper says that at recent cop
perhead meeting at Oskaloosa, in that State