Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-06-23
TIE PET1TCOAT CLAUSE.
ADDRESSES.

resolution, which was received with en-
thusiaStic appreciation. Judge Wright
then addressed the Convention, and il
/ adjourned. The Convention has been
large, harmonious and enthusiastic.
Iowa.
Ii. +. Taylor, in his glimpses at the
Chicago Sanitary Fair, published i'm the
Journal, speaks glowingly of iowa as
follows: r .-.s a.. .. . .. ...
.There Is a beautiful area of some fifty
/ thousand square miles west of the Mis-
sissippi, that once belonged to Louisi-
ana. Seyenty-scven years ago there was
not a white man within its borders. "A
splendid wilderness, its prairies undula-
ted away, dotted with great island
groves, andsspangled with jessamincs,
wild roses and riolets. The deer, the
elk, and the turkey were free COM
moners," and its rivers. ran on unfrettcd
with single wheel. And this area
was named for one of those idle streams
and they called it Iowa, meaning the
"Drowsy.' And Iowa was handed
about the mighty sisterhood, much as
an admirable infant about household.
Louisiana passed it to Michigan, and
she took care of it three years; then
gan to "run alone" and became terri
tory. At length, about the last days i'm
December, 1876 an audible knock was
heard from thcreaway ut the Federal
door; Iowa stood upon the threshold,
was admitted, and became a sovereign
State. Well, this region, miserably
misnamed "The Drowsy,n had three
millions of acres of grain waving with
in il six years ago, aud six hundred and
fifty thousand souls keeping macniii-
i cent step to the march of empire.
But that step has changed since then,
and there, i'm the forefront, Iowa has
kept time to the music of the Union
She had forty-thrce thousand meu.
: women and children, all told, in Iss8.
and seventy-one soldiers iu the aEEly.--
She has sent seventy thousand boys in
blue To fight the battles of the Republic;
four batteries have spoken fOF her, mine
regiments of cavalry have heard the bu-
: giles and thundured to the charge fCrty y
eight regiments Of infantry have closed
up the solid front, and fifteen thousand
: fallen. And what heroes they were,
and how splendid the record they have
. made for Iowa, liberty and God! How
= rich i'm the meaning they have lent the
legend of their coat of arms" Our
LIBERTIES WE PRIZE ORR RlGnTs
WE MILL MAl&TAINW
! And Iowa followed her sons to til,
I. battle; her fathers sought the wounded
where they lay upon the field, before
4 the dropping shots had fairly ceased
: her mothers prayed and labored hei
/; daughters went forth to camp and hos.
pital on mercy's mission her blood and
! her treasure were poured forth like wa
ter. When the Government called for
. men, Iowa's were ready to march,.
At1 Jn,y. hoe f,JI,,ynI h,, 10
the Fair; she remembered them in the
: strife; she does not forget them in the
suffering. Near the center of the east
ern wing is Il double pavilion canopicd
with starry flags and drapcd with arch
, cs, one draped in red, the other all in
blue. A hawk upon his perch between
them betokens the Hawkeyes' home,
and pair of anLlers, once tossed by
: some Iowa stag OF ten, spread there for
broad escutcheon. a curious pagoda-
like cabinet catches the cye--the Yisi-
: bic story of an Iowa soldier killing
creeping time In Libby. Fragments OF
: WOOD, a rocket-kni.e, a poor prisoner,
and 10, Il iIttlC temple! a picture on
the wal is the work Of another 10y in
: hospital.
Gondcr is one Of the most exquisite
groups of waX-work fruit, that Pomona
might almost claim for her own true
wogk-the fasbioning of the ladies OF
. Lyons, and the gift OF its Young Mems
Association to the Fair. There is u nat
, ural chair, taken down from some Iowa
, tree where God had hung it. The To-
vans accept the omen, and call il the
: seat of empire Around are strcwn
the embroidery, the baskets, the scaris,
and all the graceful work of Iowa's 10y
. al daughters. \ committee of thirteen
! /, l. = 4 "a. a.
man, the Secretary of State, q. i. a bell
Esq, and the following ladies, mem
bcrs Mrs. Ely, Marsh, Piumbe, Me-
Clellan, Wfckersham, Downing, May,
|, Duncan, Bloon,er, Mills, Simmons, Ha-
gar and Lathrop.
; And thus and there our Western sis
ter is sat hoDe' i'm Chicago. She has
contributed almost twenty Thousand
dollars to the Fair, and remttances for
almost thousand more have been re-
ceivcd since the delegation has pitched
its camp in the eastern wing. Between
March, 1864, and March again, the State
has given more than fifty thousand dol
lars in cash, and distanced whole
group Of Western States in the blessed
rivalry.
I And iowa has thrown n fold of her
neighborly tent over far Nebraska, that
has sent its contribution of six thousand
dollars. Here are the bcad-work and
tue waInpunl, the bows and arrows and
I necklaces, and other Indian bravery
gifts of the Pawnecs-the red mans Of
iering upon the altar. Iowa is not
, alone in the splcndidrecord, but Che
stands in the front rank, and for the
soldiers every where, and for the honor
of the broad land, we give her thanks
and greeting. sa Hrs@A II .4a.
| WHISKY makes men play some fun
ny tricks. One day this week d Nor
wegian from the country who had inn
bibed pretty freely, was seen going out
Of town, his horses on a full run, and
he seated aetride the wagon tongue with
a horses tail in each hand, and suppo-
sing himself i'm his wagon with his
hands graspiHg the lines instead Of his
horses tails. the sight was Iudicrous
in tie extreme. We have not heard
lIow nc got to the end of his Journey
4 NcGfcyor Reus. z
I CHANGED H,NDs.--We are informed
| that the Times of this city has changed
| hands, j. Rich, formerly of the Indepen-
dence Guardian, and q. T.. Stewart,
| formerly Of tire Times, being the pur-
chasers. They take possession this
! week Mr.. Rich acting as editor IN chief.
4 = DuJuduc Herald.