Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-04-07


A New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer, writing under
date of the 23d, speaks thus of the COM
mercial crash in that city: 5sa 3.
Tho commercial crash has PLAYED
havoc with some people here, who have
been busy, these six months past, in
the delightful but ''shaky" business of
but Yesterday as it were, could count
| their hundreds of thousands, are to-day
absolutely penniless. Some who We're
shrewd enough to invest their suddenly
acquired riches in real estate, or other
solid securities, are riding out the gale
in safety, but the less prudent, who
went ON from speculation to spccula-
| ton, and who thought bubble blowing
| was going to last forever, have gone to
the bottom with mary red.
| il True, these belong to class of per-
[ CONS who are spectators by profession,
fAnd who are used to being ruined -
tbut the mischief of the thing Ii, that
their downfall drags down others who
are better entitled to sympathy; yet,
after all, these are the incidents that In
variably accompany wide spread COM
mercial collapse, and in what Is trans
piring before your eyes now it may be
said that history" as usual, is but re-
| peating itself. .
Less than two months ago one of the
showiest equipages seen i'm the Central
Park on sunny afternoons belonged to
the establishment of well known citi-
zen in Lexington avenue, whose elegant
proiusion was aproyerb with men about
4 town. One of the showiest boxes Mt
the opera was his also, and on Sundays
4 the congregation of C--y Church, In
! Fourth avenue, would he disturbed at
their prayers by the entrance of the
rich man and his daughter, late on pur-
pose, in order to attract attention and
1 create a sensation. ..G
Balls, parties, receptions, ETC., were
events of almost nightly occurrence at
his residence, and to obtain the e'atret
there was considered thereafter an un-
questionable passport to ''our best soci-
ety." Everything went on swimming
! ly for q while, but the turn of the tide
came ut last. Three weeks ago this
very day one of tho daughters was en-
! gagged to be married to wall street
I broker. ....-..ls. ....5 '..... ..4 ......
4 The cards were out and the bridal
I presents Were beginning to come in
when 10! II sudden and ruinous decline
in gold and produce, and some descrip-
tions of merchandise, in which the "old
man. was bull, compelled him to sus.
| pend payment, and To postpone for de,
cency's sake, the |" diamond wedding y
1 he was getting up for his daughter
For that matter, however, he need not
have been at much trouble, for the
bridegroom, on learning that his con-
1 templated father-in-aw had ''gonc up,
lost no time in notifying his intended
that circumstances over which he had
no control, would compel him to have
their nuptials indefinitely postponed. y
/ The result of all this Il, that the
snowy equipnge Is no longer visible In
/ Central Park the fashionable mansion
has ceased to be illuminated at night
the music and dancing are succeeded by
II adeath-lilSe silence, while the follow
] ing placard on the richly carved door,
brings this eyenfful history to its ap-
propriate conclusion
THIS HOUSE FOR SALE,
| TO SATISFY A JUDGMENT.
Apply Immediately to
/ . ... J. r.. S., PINE Street.
H. Terms Cash.
/ Sylvanus Cobb, or Emerson Bennett
/ or any other sensation writer of the
dime move" " school, would make theil
fortunes il they would go about town In
!, times like these, and hunt up material
There is plenty of 1t, and OF the kind
too that shows that "truthn oitener is
stranger than felton,
..E .Eg.. ... ...
! THE RIGHT SORT OF TALK.-"Iowa,"
the Washington correspondent of the
Dubuque Times, talks in the following
sensible manner to the people of N North-
crn Iowa: .
If you have not had as many dis
tinguished and influential officers i'm
your part of the State as you werep prop
erly entitled to, apart from the question
OF where the most talent may have hap
Il pened to have been located, the chic
cause has been the division OF senti
4 ment and Interest in your own region
The northern part.of the State, consid
ering her Republican strength, and hel
consequent power in conventions, has
| had ii Within her command to say what
she considered herself entitled to, and
4 what she would have, If only she could
have SO far and SO generally united her
people as the southern part Of the State
has done. II you cannot agree as to
/ what or who you want--if you cannot
come to some substantial unanimity
among yourselves, it will be in the fu-
ture as IN the past; and there will be no
help for 1t, SO long as men are selfish,
and other quarters of the State will take
what they can get. Let me exhort you,
| up North, to come to some mutual,
kindly and satisfactory conclusion
among yourselves, and you, can then
have a Senator, or a Governor; and you
certainly have the means of furnishing
more than one good and eminent citi-
zen for either place, or for both places y
| aiF "a sf k-w-----7, s---------- ~
Iowa, THE QUEEN STATE OF THE
WEsT.--A correspondent of the New
York Herald gives a description of Iowa
| from which we take the following ex-
tract, twill be recognized as a truth.
ful picture, so far as it goes:
2" But the Queen State of the West is
Iowa. There the prairie. is rolling, not
fiat, and there is no Mlifflculty about
drainage, and no fever and ague. There
fsa fairamount of timberfH the center of
the state, and there falls, on an average,
enough and not too much rain. The
soil, like that Of Northern Illinois, Is u
rich, black lOom, several feet deep, in
which, in the words of d Yankee farmer,
'Wheat and corn grow quite naturally,
without any watchin'.' Like Illinois,
iowa contains exhaustless beds Of btu
miI16as coal which, by and by when
wood becomes more scarce, aud scien-
titic Ingenuity liberates the sulphur,
VIII become a leading product Of the
State 1900 at t.E fE
), HISTORY OF. Iowa SOLDIERS. Our
readers Will he glad to learn that l..
D. Ingersoll, ESD, {" "Linkensale') , Is
steadily prosecuting his labors on his
forthcoming history Of Iowa soldiers.
In this work Mr.. Ingersou viii endeav-
or to give q faithful record Of the part
borne by. all our Iowa regiments ri the
war now so gloriously closing. The
long and intimate acquaintance of the
author with our Stale and people, his
earnest sympathy with the cause In de-
fense,0f which Iowa valor, has been 80
AsigpallYe 1 displayed, and his known
ability as "a, a,writer, gives promise of q
history to be gladly and profitably read