Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-02-26
mIsCELLANEOUs.

scarce. :. The largest and most formidable
fleet ever upon the Mississippi River is now
being fitted out by Admiral Porter Colts
pistol factory is to be built with rs little
. delay as possible. If the Prince Of Wales
lives to ascend the throne of England, he will
, be titled King Edward the Seventh. u. =. The
port of Brownsville, Texas, has been released
from blockade. 49,. Atlanta is being strongly
fortified against assault by Joe Johnston.
Grant will have il, for all that A block
ade runner recently captured had a cargo
aboard which cost $4,000 in neutral Eng.
land. Somebody lost on that venture. :. E.
Congress will probably pass bill for U s.
Arsenal at Rock Island. ..All who die in
Armory Square Hospital, Washington, are
embalmed. This process now costs but $lO
-. The Government still holds between
fourteen and fifteen million acres Of wild land.
80. Mrs. Tom Thumb is mother. SO
great is the rush Of emigrants to this country
that there are not enough ships to do the bu
siness Of transportation. :. The salary Of
the Governor General Of India is $4,000
per annum. :. . Flowers are in full bloom,
and soldiers sun themselves on grassy plots
Of green, at Vicksburg. . A DIV elling house
and three shops were entirely destroyed by
fire in Independence last week. .... There is
one thing that is cheap in the Confederacy,
and that is money. Rebel scrip is now worth
but Ave cents on the dollar. =. Thousands
of starving refugees are now leaving Tennes-
see and Georgia for the Union lines. In
Memphis paper a negro offers a reward of
80 cents for the return Of his runaway own
er... 1t is thought that il the Presidents
Amnesty was extended to colonies, it would
cause whole regiments OF rebel soldiers to
desert. =. Queen Victoria recently stood
god mother for colored baby. OF course
she must be an abolaionist. -. Illinois SOL
diers have participated in fifty five different
battles of this war. II is now stated that
there will be no change in the command of
the Army of the Potomac,-Meade retaining
the position. :. Gen. Thomas reports that
1900 colored troops will be ready for serv-
ice in the South west by the first Of May.
..Heenan does not recover from the effects
of the severe drubbing he got in his late prize
fight. II is reported that DR.. Livingstone,
the celebrated traveller, was recently murder
ed in Africa. +. . Last week Government 5 20
bonds were quoted at 81 o.. :. Capt. Stew
art, OF the 18th Iowa, a resident Of Ottum.
wa, is about to publish biography Of Iowa
Colonies. 1t will be q work of about 800
pages, embcllshed with from 70 to 1GO por-
traits. The earnings Of the Erie Rail Road
in 1868 were $40 ,44o, 900. Thos. j. Briggs,
the last surviving mombcr Of the Convention
that formed the American Bible Society, died
in Cincinnati on the 9th inst. A man in
Detroit purchased an old military overcoat
and found $3.50 in green. backs in the lining.
The banks and saving institutions of
Massachusetts, hold S7s,s40, 53S of United
States securities. They evidently take con-
siderable stock in our Government . In
the two weeks ending the Goth inst, Ohio
mustered into service 3,395 new recruits.
The Gnots Of New York under the last calls
is. $4,000, and Of Pennsylvania IS ,OCO. -.
The cost to the Government Of soldier is
said to be about 81 200 year. . . The cost
CT Government printing and binding last year
was 100000. -. Washington's Birth Day
was generally observed throughout the cities
of the country. The Federal expedition
in Florida has captured thirteen cannon and
destroyed about 81 SOC, 900 worth of proper
ty.... Ice is running heavily in the Mississ
ippi at Cairo, and for fifty miles below. :.
The to.al foreign born population in the
United States in 1860 was 4,13l 100. "A
rebel dispatch reports the Federal force in
Florida to DO 80, O)0.. -. The Union gains in
the New York town elections, thus far held,
are universal, and s6rpass expectation. .
About two hundred freedmen week are en-.
listed at Chattanooga. :. .Guerrilas keep up
musketry fire upon Steamers below Memphis
80. General Macarthur is in command of the
district Of Eicksburg, >. The rebel privateer
Tuscaloosa has been seized by British author.
tiles for violation Of neutrality laws. :. The
celebrated Prof. Agassiz, of Harvard Uni
yersity, lectures in Dubuque to night Sub
jcct, 1.-The Glaciers" 1t is said that there
is prospect of a satisfactory settlement be-
tween the holders Of the Gelpcke bonds and
the city authorities Of Dubuque. The
Times denies the truth of the report that
smal-p is prevalent in that city. 1t says
$50 far as we know there is not a.single case
in the city,. Within few weeks the
Secretary Of the Navy has decided to add
another fleet to the National squadron. 80.
There were % deaths among the prisoners at
Rock Island last week,-4T Of which were
from smallpox -. Fitz John Porter, late
Major General, has gone to Colorado. :. The
author of Bullon's grammar and text books,
is dead. -. Philadelphia has sent off its
fourth negro regiment. King, who recent.
ly whipped Heenan, refuses to make another
match with him to be fought in Canada .
On the 18th it was % degrees below zero at
st. Paul. $50 90 has been subscribed
for the erection Of wooden factory at Bur.
lington. .Gerris Smith, the great New
York abolitionist, is in New York City under
medical treatment. Petroleum oil has
been discovered in Michigan in great quaint
ties, and of a superior quality.
| LITTLE THINGs.-People who are unaccus.
toned to studying economy in their little ar
rangemt hts, have littleidea how easily money
may be saved, and at the same time comfort
secured by little attention to little econo-