Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-01-01
'THEGAZETTE.
CED AR FALLS. IOWA.
HApPYNEw YEAR.

HAPPY NEW YEAR.
To. day ushers in the New Year of on
Lord eighteen hundred and sixty fourl ~
The GAZETTE goes forth to all its readers
to day with right hearty Happy New Yea
to each.
I TO you who stand today in the armies o
the Union may the coming year be ladenet
richly with the fulfilled hopes your hearts
have unfalteringly cherished through,all tn
days Of your hardship and trial--through al
the dark days and hours Of your country.
peril. May it be q year that shall see tht
final and complete overthrow Of Rebellion
the National authority again recognized
throughout all the borders Of the Union
universal Freedom for all the creatures o
Gods likeness finally established, and Peace
brooding securely under the Old Flag through
out all this rich inheritance of our Fathers
May it be a year in which, having fully and
heroically fulfilled your calling, you may re
turn 10 your friends and families and The
civil walks Of a peaceful life In all the trial.
of tho camp and field in all the horrors o.
prison life, and in the sickness and pain Of
the hospital, may you enjoy the proud salts
faction Of the assurance that your valorou:
deeds are not fruitless, but rich in th-iy fruit
age to Liberty and Union; that your heroic
! life is boon OF honor forever TO yeurselvcs
/ from your countrymcn Of this and all sue.
ceeding generations; and, above oil and in
all, may you reap and enjoy the rich bless.
ings of Almighty God. May His love con-
tinually encirclc you, and His strong right
arm be your shield forever more, even
through the dark valley Of the shadow Of
death Soldiers of the Armies Of the Union
May this new year Of eighteen hundred and
sixty-four be to you one and all Happy
New Year ,a.e
To the wives and families Of our brave,
self.sacriicing soldiers may the new year be
replete with joy and blessing. No better
wish need we entertain for you than that
with the reuniting of the bonds Of Union
between the States may come for you re-
union to those to whom you are bound in
the holy bonds of cherished love, and from
whom you have been so long separated by
" this cruel war" Surely il this shall be
all your trials and privations shall be swept,
away by the glorious sunshine Of this Hap
py New Year. " ..
But what can we wish Of joy to you, Wild
ows and orphans, so thickIy scattered over
all our broad land? All! may the New Year
be kind to you, and may He who has prom
iscd TO be the widows God and Father to
the h:herless De yours. May you have the
consolation that not in vain were the lives Of
your loved ones given up, but that they be-
ioicaliy and molly died that their country
might live--sacritices TO all that is good and
pure Of this world. In temporal things may
you all BE blessed, and the sunshine Of the
hart sweep away all dark and ovethangins
clouds. May God fulfill our wish to you c!
a Happy New Year! .a. p -l. g.-r
The old year that has passed has been one
Of prosperity and abundance, and the.new one
promises to be even more prolific in its rich
gifts to US all than the past. We all have
great work Of patriotism and philanthropy
to perform, and in the measure that we per-
form the high and responsible duties devolv
ing upon US in that measure will the
new year be happy or otherwise. The saliva
ton Of our country is the vital work and the
chief interest Of US all. And to this end we
all have work to do. In providing for the
needy, Of whom the war has made so many
and so many so worthy, let us all engage
with willing hands and liberal hearts, and
thus in making the new year happy 10 9TH
ers make it the more happy to ourselves
The Sanitary wants Of orr gallant soldiers
appeal to cur strongest sympathics, md pre-
sent work Of sufficient magnitude for US all
to engage in. 1t is glorious work, too, and
our reward shall be great in rich soldier. bless
ings; and, the better than all, that which our
own consciences shall give. Let us consider
our manifold and abundant blessings, and in
ought our hands or our hearts find to do in
this great struggle for the preservation Of
Our Country, let us not be parsimonous.
May health and plenty attend you all, and
the year now inaugurated be to you each, of
all the new years you have known the happ-
est. = .. .
May this year eighteen hundred and sixty
four see the last Of this accused Slavehold-
ers' Rebellion, and be witness to the death
of American Slayery--the cause Of all our
strife and woe; then surely shall it be to US
all, and the world, Happy New Year!
THE EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.
The business of exchanging prisoners with
the Jeff. Davis Confederation of traitors, does
not seem to progress more favorab!y under
the administration of Gen. Butler, than it
did in the hands of Gen MEREDITH. Gen.
BurLER's plan was to exchange man for man,
TO the greatest number possible, regardless o.
the points ut issue between Us and the rebels
touching negro troops and their officers. In
accordance with this idea he sent 10 City
Point recently under flag Of truce boat
load Of prisoners for exchange, and on the
2Sth ult., received from the rebels flag Of
truce boat with Union prisoners in return