Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-08-05

| 70 the laty from the Rhine;
And again she shook her laxen head,
And ciyiliy answered RjRe!"
Now wha, DO you mean by shaking your head.
| And always answering nine -" ..'
| " lct kcliR mictt EHaiiI," ciNiy said.
/ The lady from over the Rhine.
| "Nsia," pronounced nine, is IL e German for no.
FROM WASHINGTON.
{0tca sed 90 be in Congress- ogd as IL Is no,e-
| bard #a II '.@ -
. Correspondence of the Cedar Falls Gazette.
| WAsuNGroN CigY, July 20, 1864.
II had strictly fulfilled my promise, &
should have written a communication for
your carefully edited journal good while
ago, and perhaps more than one; but have
been too much engaged. As it is, I shall
have to hurry you off an epistle which, per-
adventure, would appear better in your waste
basket, than in your columns
The rebel army, big or little, which lately
bcsiegcd this city, run -four up to $50 a bar
| rel. other things in proportion, and got up a
pretty big scare all around, has got away,
bag and baggage, maugre few hundred pris-
oners and some stolen property. Congress
is not in session. Major Hay" the private
secretary Of the President, the SELF constitute
ed envoy extraordinary to Niagara Falls, re
mains near the scene of his late brilliant ex.
plots, out Of sheer fear, suppose, of coming
to this capital, lest he should be incon,irent.
y laughed out OF it. The political machines
which are to run the pending presidential
campaign are not yet fully fabricated So
take it all in ALL times here are dull. The
government employees perform their tread
mill, exhaustive duties from Q to 3 o'clock,
drill from 8 to 4, dine and gossip the rest of
the day d"tachments Of troops daily pass
through the city army trains are all the
while rumhling and kicking up dust every
row and then black ambulance goes by,
bearing slowly two coflins wrapped in the
star spanglcd banner, and you may be sure
two homes far away will henceforth have un.
occupied chairs about the hcarthstonc. Hero
you have an rpitomc of Washington life.
| will fall back on my reserved knowl-
edge" and discourse few moments ofthings
not new.
There is nothing so good for a country as
brains--bra'ns las is brains," and not ridic-
ulouS pomposity, prctcnse, big airs, noise,
sound and fury sjgnitying rothiug The
finest country, as country, in the world
wouldn't bc fit for much without men Of
sense, aud energy, and ntclligrncc--mcn Of
brains Men, high minded men, these con.
stitute State. Thomas II. Benton did more
for Missouri than her iron ,nnos will ever
do, Stephen A. Douglas more for Illinois than
all her prolific praries. De Witt Clinton
made Of New York the Empire State; the
genius, tho intelligence, the energy Of New
England people have made that sterile land
as celebrated as that Of the wonderful nation
whose phaanXcs forced their way through
barbarous hordes from the Acropolis To the
Indus, or that other whose victorious legions
carried their eagles everywhere from the
Temple Of Solomon to the highlands Of Cal.
edonia. Your Augustus Caesar Dodges and
your George Wallace Jonescs give their State
no reputation, or, at any rate, no good repu.
tation. They are very good fellows person.
ally, agree the one hospitable, kind, and
honest, the other generous, well dressed, and
a most accomplished dancer But they had
no right in the Senate. Compared with the
men whose talents and craftsmanship were
bringing fame to themselves and honorable
mention TO their States, they were absolute.
ly contemptible Vino cares a row of pins
about either of them to-day? Had they re-
NAMED in the national councils, Iowa, it is
true, would have become we'll known but it
wonld have been in spite Of her public men
because she had a population which no in
capacity Of her public servants could have
long belittled @ .
How is it now? The names Of Grimes
and Harlan are as familiar in New England
as they are in Iowa. Those Two men are
well known, and favorably known, all over
the country. 1t is universally conceded here
that no State has two as able men in the
Senate as Iowa. They have in consequence,
a vast deal Of influence in all national legis.
!ation, whether il be Of general or a local
nature. and they give the State they repre-
sent name and position which could not be
secured by any other means whatever. They
do for Iowa what Old Bullion did for Mis-
sour, what Clay did for Kentucky, and what
Webster did for Massachusetts. .a..--~
But allow me to drop generaities, and
| speak of what was done by the late session
of Congress directly for the benefit Of iowa
| shall not mention all the acts of that kind
probably. need only speak ofthose which
might be thought most important
And first of what was usually called here,
the Omnibus Bill ~ the bin for all the rail.
roads, that is, and not bill for the omni.
busses. .a.' it #'a 81 81 -E..k
ltgrants additional lands to the BurIinc. |
ton d Missouri River Railroad Co., to the
Mississippi q Missouri r. r. Co, and to the
Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Co. It au.
thorizes the last named Company to connect |
With the line Of the lI & NJ. road, and then
- 81 ~ r''o ''hc' " ohi"bh, oul w NHoul re-
leasing the Cedar Rapids road from its obi |
CATION to complete its main line. 1t must 90 |
90 miles beyond Nevada before getting any
lands. The act here spoken Of contains some |
new and important provisions, two or three |
Of which / may mention. It is required that
at least 20 miles shall be annually completed,
under the penalty that the State Legislature
may take possession of the lands and dispose
Of them for the benefit and completion of
the roads, Another provision is, that where
actual settlers have entered upon lands un.
der color Of tids, .etssisr from the ge1sral or