Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-12-30
e.pondenre Of the Cedar Falls Gazette.
ClAlsESyEELE LETTER.

| CLAPxsvrLLE, Dec 26sh, 1864.
MEssRs. EDITORS THE world moves,
we are taught, and, of consequence, Clsrks
vile has to move with it, But Clarksvllc
has, OF late, been making some special and
grand movements on her own account aside
from the general movements which she has
with the rest Of mankind. The motive
power OF these movements is found in an in
s;i.ution of learning recently established
here, and which is known as the Carks.
vile Institute" The friends Of this instiu-
| ton are already under obligations 10 you,
He.-rs. Editors, for the numerous gratuitous
notices which have, from time 10 time, ap-
posred in your paper respecting it, and be-
,ering that your generosity and forbssrsree,
! in this direction, are not exhausted we pro.
pose giving you b,ief account Of one or
/ two Of the movements referred to-
/ Then be It known to al whom it may
concern that this building of the ClarksYilie
! Institute is the same that wss formerly
known as the Court House. II being sub
stan.ial and beautiful brick edifce of some
40x55 feet, with walls rising about 80 feet
The building vas externally finished soon
after its erection, but was not finished inter
nally until last year, when it was done by
the friends Of education in this vicinity.
Having SO noble building, and withs
such promising school as wenow have, the
people thought that fine be!fry and good
school ought not to be without bell TO call
in the students, and to be rung on all proper
occasions. Well, they have moved in this
matter, and the result is, that they now have
bell put in position in the belfry, and which
has good tone, and has been distinctly
beard at a distance Of four and Ave miles. -
1t is an amalgam bcll--wcighs $50 pounds,
and appears to give satisfaction to all who
have taken stock in it, except one very deaf
man, who complains much Of its tone. We
suppose this is owing TO the cultivation Of
his ears.
But the latest and greatest movement in
ClGrA sville was the Christmas Festival, which
came of at the Institute on Christmas eve,
Saturday, The gath inst) 1t va. gotten up
for the two fold object Of having pleasant
evening entertainment, ard also to make
few dollars, with shich TO purchase some
additional apparatus for the use Of the school
The lower hall was used for dining hall,
with tables running the whole length. II
vas very tastefully and beautifully orna-
mented with cvcrgreens and artificial flowers
several large mirrors being also suspended
on each side, and the whole was brilliantly
lighted. The large school room above, WAS
used for introductions, sitting, pFomenading,
music, toasts, and speaking, with some 9th
er entertainments. The table was set for
some 40 persons at ono time, and the first
table was filed at early candle lighting. No
less than FIVE full tables took supper in all
in getting up the supper the ladies' did
one sentiment in regard to it, and tha! is,
that it was the best they had ever sat down
to. And SO we'll did the table committee ar
range that department that no single word Of
fault Binding has been heard, that the last
table was lot equally as good as the first
While supper was going on below, the guests
bag, and the distribution Of the latest mail.
Supper being over about ten O'Clock, the
guests all assembled in the sehool-roo to
hear the toasts and spesking-which occu-
pied about an hour and hall, xud appeared
to be enjoyed by oil remarkably we'll, altho
it was Il new feature to many Of them. The
chairman Of the committee occupied the
chair, and acting Is toast master read OF the
;oasts in their order and named the speaker
who was expected to res2oud.
Not to occupy too much space in your COL
umns, will merely give the names Of The
regular toasts with that Of the speaker re
spending to each, in the same order that they
occurred:
| C6,i,tHas-Rev. Waterbury,
yhe Py.Ailcut Of Tie United .StQtes-A. J. Ton?.
kins Esq.
The Ch1riSrHYe fnsiitWta-Mr. r. FoNle.
Tie LtIies Of ClgrkSriNs-Mr Nheelocs.
CldrtsrHls-Dr. Logan.
! The Army-Mr. Isaac High.
Ge7lerat Gyuat- Judge Palmer.
! Butter County-Mr. J. W. Davis.
J EducQtiCa-Prof. Duncan.
The EniO7t-Mr. Ecsencraus.
! The Rebellion William Campbell, OF y. G.
! OUr NdEy-Judge Palmer.
{Ri0R--Dr. Allen.
1 The North Nets Nather.
There were also some volunteer toasts, ai
ter which huge cake, of fne appearance
called Fort Sumter" was sold at auction,
Judge Palmer acting az suctionesr. As thu
small hours of Christians and Sunday wer,
then fas, approaching, the large audience be
gan slowly 10 diSplrse, and before IL O