Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-02-05
MISCELLANEOUS.


Charley Aldrch has resigned the Ad.
jutancy Of the 32nd Iowa regiment and re-
turned home. -. The Sd and 5th Iowa Cav.
airy regiments and the 18th Iowa Infantry
have re-enisted.. A hog was in snow
bank twenty four days at Eldora and came
out alive and well, if we may believe the
Hardin Sentinel. q. . A correspondent of the
Chicago Journal estimates that $505, 341 95
was paid out at Marshalltown, Iowa, during
the year 1868 for produce. The y. /.
Times (McGregor) hasn't got room for Gov.
Kirkwood's Message. and has to contentitse
with short telcgrapbic summary from the
Chicago Tribune. Still the same paper in
the same issue contains about four columns
Of Gov. Seymour's Message to the n. Y.
Legislature. Wolves are killing sheep in
Marshall County. The Democratic force
in the California Legislature is thirteen.
On the 9Th Of January son was born to the
Prince of Wales. At Christmas supper
at Raleigh, N. G. the Stars and Stripes were
| toasted. On Friday morning last they had
slight thunder storm at Chicago. . On
the Goth ult. Gen. Grant was in St. Louis
and had complimentary supper. .. There
are now over 8 1000 rebel prisoners at Rock
Island, H.. -. An old and much esteemed
citizen of Dubuque, Lieut.. Geo. W. Cum
mings, Of the Iowa Gray Beard regiment,
died at Rock Island on the 9th ult.
Small Pox is quite prevalent in portions of
Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. .. Artemus
Ward lectured twenty nights in California
and pocketed $4,000 to pay for it,. The
prominent lawyers of New York enjoy yearly
incomes Of from $780, 600 to $4,000.
| The steamship Great Eastern has been sold
at auction for :el3o, 900. E. The New York
Herald has a full Presidential ticket now
! Gen. Grant for President, and Gen. Banks
for Vice-President.. "A Sanitary Fair is to
be held in Buffalo, commencing on the 22d
of this month. The total net receipts of
the Cincinnati Sanitary Fair were two hun
drcd and twenty thousand dollars. Gov.
Gamble, of Missouri, died on the 30th ult
-. Gen. Rosecrans arrived at st. Louis on
! the 30th to take charge Of his new command.
go. Gen. Ilallcck thinks the rebels will
make another attempt, in the Spring, to
transfer the fighting ground to Northern soil.
80. The law library Of the late Daniel Web
! ster, Of Mass, was sold at auction, in Boston,
last week. Coy. Bramlette, Of Kentucky,
has been elected e. S. Senator, from that
State. -. Hon. James B. Clay, of Kentucky,
a degenerate son Of an illustrious SIRE" died
in Montreal, on the 26th ult. :. . Richmond
papers state that the time has passed for Of
| fensive military operations on the part of the
southern armies. An important admission.
-. In Ohio the past year there were IA, 293
common schools, attended by 725,095 chill.
dren. :. The President has ordered an cleo
ton in Arkansas on the 2Sth of March next,
to reorganize that State on free basis :.
An election takes place in Louisiana on the
22d of February to restore civil government,
minus slavery. The total value of all
kinds of distilled liquors made in the United
States in tho year 1860, was $24,243, 176.
-. Some Lovers of freedom" held Con
vention somewhere in Ohio, recently, to es-
tablish church 'for Democrats who want
the Union as it was, and the Constitution as
it is" -. In st. Paul, Minnesota, there are
! from 1000 to 5000 Catholics, and 1,245
Protestants. With but nineteen dissent
ing votes the lower House of Congress on
the LIST inst. passed the bill creating a Lieu.
tenant Generalship for General Grant. . .
The recent election in Idaho resulted in a
clear majority for Gov. Wallace, Union can
didate for Congress. The Chicago Trib,
une urges that an extension of time be given
to the Iowa land grant rail roads, to complete
their several lines. The lumber for the
bridges just completed at Chattanooga, was
sawed at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Sometime
during the coming Spring there is to be Q
great Mississippi Sanitary Fair held at St
Louis. The Linn County Patriot says
12,4 40 hogs have been bought in Marion, the
past season. 49,. The State Of West Virgins
has furnished under previous calls 0,29G
volunteers TO the Union army. Senate,
Bayard, of Delaware, has resigned. He was
offended at being compelled to take the oatl
of allegiance. Washington dispatches
state that the new call for troops was rem
dered necessary by recent advices from thu
South. . .Parson Brownlow is at Knoxville
-. 1t is stated that General Gilmore, nov
at Charleston, is coming north for a season
-. Gen. Curtis, of Iowa, has gone to For
Scott. The Secretary of the Treasury has
decided to issue no more large bonds drawing
over five per cent interest :. The Oldest
resident of the Northwest, Gen. Jean Bap
tiste Beaubien, who went to what is now
Chicago over sixty years ago, died at Napier
vile, Ill last week. 49,. Some person of al
inquiring turn of mind has discovered tina
there are eleven hundred different religion:
ir. the world . There has been no rain il
Hungary for nearly two years.
TIE Secretary of the Treasury will soor
declare the ports of Newbernc, N. c., Brown
E, VILE Veyss and Fcrpantjina Flnrid, re