Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-01-22
MESSELIANE0ETa.

with the Mississippi, as near as possible to
Rock Island Arsenal.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Hon. J. d. Doty, of Wis, has been sp.
pointed Governor Of Utah. Andy Felt
says he has not had GAZETTE in two weeks.
The fault is with Uncle Sam, then, for it has
been sent regularly "A portion of the Gov
eminent Barracks at Springfield, Illinois,
were consumed by fire on the morning of the
; 18th Two soldiers were burned to DEATH
The annual salary of Henry Ward
Beecher has been increased to 12,500.. :.
The steamer Vanderbilt has returned to New
York for repairs. -. Another valuable prize
has been captured off Wilmington :. Gen
Stoneman has been ordered to report to Gen.
Grant. 80. The annual yield of tho Revenue
Law, as it now stands, is about $50 300, 900.
%. OF the proceeds Of the Cincinnati SAM
tary Fair, $10o 900 have been invested in U.
s. 5-2os. .. The Naval Department having
been charged with building slow vessels, is
sues a challenge to the world for trial Of
speed against one Of our naval steamers. go.
Congress is inquiring why the widows and
orphans Of soldiers get no pay. Gilmore
still keeps the people Of Charleston busy
lodging shells. CONGRESSES still busy with
the enrolment question. Major General
John A. McClernand has resigned. There
is perfect lull in military action at the pres
eut time. 1t is stated that two.thirds OF
the Potomac army will re-enliss. {. . In 1860
the number Of white males in all the States
and Territories, between the ages of 19 and
45, WAS 1924 ,o65... Tom Thumb retires
to private life with fortune of $3.50, 00o...
Washington is to have mammoth Sanitary
Fair. :. . Restrictions upon trade by Govern
mcnt are to be removed in Missouri . Chas.
A. Dana, late of the N. Y. Tribune, is to be
Assistant Secretary Of War. -. Three new
States will enter the Union this year, Col
orado, Nevada and Nebraska. d. A.. One of the
buildings of the Racine College was destroy
cd by FIRE on the night Of the 10th. Loss
$4,000 insured for IS, 600. 80. Gen. Long
rstreetiis at Bull Cap with force estimated
at 40 900. 80. Colored troops are engaged in
completing the Notifications of Vicksburg,
and the place is to DO gsrrisoned entirely by
negro soldiers. In his recent brilliant raid
in Virginia, Averl destroyed rebel property
to the amount of So ,o0o, ooO.. >. .Thos. F.
Withrow has been re-appointed Reporter to
the Supreme Court Of Iowa. -. The ques.
ton is being agitated Of removing the Ma
tional Capitol from Washington to some point
in the Northwest. 1t will not be done how
ever, we think. = The 9th Connecticut, sta
toned at New Orleans, is composed entirely
of Irishmen.. Arkansas has delegation
at Washington for the purpose Of making
arrangements whereby that State may return
to the Union as free State. =. r. The Des
Moines Register denies the truth of the report
that two stage drivers were frozen to death
between that place and Marshaltown, as re-
ported by tho Burlington Hank Eye.....
The 37sh Iowa is to go to Rock Island to
guard rebel prisoners. -. Lincoln has been
nominated for next President by the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature. "A State Government
is to be organized in Louisiana under the late
Presidential Proclamation. :. . The next Ma
tional Democratic Convention is to be held
in Chicsgo on the 4th Of July. There
were entered under the Homestead Law last
year in Minnesota, 463, a96 acres of land....
The estimated value Of buildings erected in
Chicago during the year 1868, is $4,000, 900.
49,. Chicago now claims to be the greatest
pork packing city in the world. .Ameri-
cans in Paris have contributed $1,000 to the
Sanitary Commission. The receipts Of the
American Tract Society for the year ending
April ], 1858, were 1856, 900. John Nor
gan is advertising for men to make up anoth-
er guerrilla force Six thousand Coffee
plants are growing near Sacramento, Califor-
MIA, and are doing well. :. The Dubuque &
Sioux City R. R. has declared a semi.annual
dividend Of three and a half per cent. =. "A
resolution is pending in the Senate to expel
Carrot Davis, Of Kentucky, for dsloyalty..
There are $500 negro troops at Benton Bar
racks, St. Louis. 49,. Fred Douglass lectured
at Cooper institute, New York, on the 18th
inst. before the Women's Loyal League, on
The Mission Of the War" which he inter
preted to be the abolition of slavery $500
were realized by Mrs. Anna Dickinson's Ice
ture for the benefit Of the Frcedmen's Asso-
citation at Washington the other evening.
Col. Thos. II. Benton, Jr., having resigned
the Office Of Secretary of the Board of Edu-
cation, the Governor has appointed to Gil the
vacancy the Hon. Orsn Favlle, of Mitchell
county. -. One firm at Ut. Pleasant, Iowa,
have bought this season nearly thirty seven
thousand dollars worth of wool.
CENSUS RETURNsOF BLACK HAWK
| COUNTY.
In the census returns Of the different
counties Of this State for the year 1868, pub
lished by authority Of the Census Board, we
find the following figures Of interest relative
to this County .... ....
81 Z Z 81
Lester, ...-................ 10 23 2lo 20
Bennington, ............... 80 70 81 8s
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