Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-01-27

/ p''eihhitNe se''i'C, ioauHiS LOT tie LOHcT
Mississippi, with Qusr,ermastcr's stores for
our brave boys that are scattered in the land
Of Dixie.
! The city is all alive. and business is brisk.
Fourth street, the Broadway Of Cincinnati,
is ihrengsd with people, and the stores are
crowded with men, women and children, Sc
1 lecting their Christmas presents. paid a
visit to the Lover Market House, as it is
called, and witnessed the finest sight tina. |
ever saw display CT fat meats. The Mar
kct house Was decorated with evergreens aud
flowers, pictures. flags, and lit with gas
There were some twenty stalls that made
| displays Of show meats. We saw several
quarters Of beef that weighed 500, wei fat
ted and marbled-thst is fat and lean mixed
the beef rss thoroughbred Short Horn
The stalls erosncd with South Down and
Cotswod mutton, bear, deer, elk, cson, pos.
sum, poultry, and in fact everything that is
bait for an epicure. We saw at the stall OF
Frank B.sford, one Of our old acqnaintances,
Cotswold wcther, dressed, that weighed 235
pounds, two years old, the carcass was
bought by gentleman from Philadelphia, to
which city he intended to ship it. Cincn.
nsti is a handsome city, we'll laid out, the
streets are clean and well paved. The build.
ings in the business part of tina city are
beautiful structures five and six stories high.
built Of the Portsmouth free or sand stone.
The private dwellings are Feat and inviting,
and it is astonishing to rote the rapid growth
Of the Queen City Of The Vest Nor is this
progress corGncd to mere physical or me-
chanical Advancement; for in no place with
in our knowledge has more been done for
educating the rising generation, and promo
ting tho ~ oral and intellectual improvement
Of the Inhabitants, and aiding the progress
OF Science and the arise Cincinnati is
reading and thinking as we'll as a working
people. A thirst for higher Attachments in
knowledge pervsdes in sgood degree all elias.
es Of community. The hills around Cincin-
natl that once were thought could not be cul-
progress Of horticulture has been great with.
in the last twenty years. We have not room
to speak in particular Of the numerous gar
dens and places that could be referred to as
sffortiing evidence Of highly cultivated taste,
and great horticultural skill bat we will
say that there is manifest a more general at
tention to establishment of this kind, in and
around this city, than we have seen in any
othsr place Of so purely a business chsrac.
ter. This attractive and commendxble trai.
in the character Of this city, can BIZ attrbu-
ted TO nothing else than influence Of its Hor.
ticultural Society.
The military commission are ready to 90
to work on the trial of the Chicago conspra.
tors. 1t Is causing considerable OF interest
here. And this brings me back to those mis-.
cradle cul throats and scalawass that watch
ed me so closely over at Lexington the other
day. Four or five Of mean, sncsking look
ing individuals were in and around the hotel
and apparently watching me. A friend told
me that they were rebal sympashizers and
guerillas, and that Il ust keep a good look
out for them. Well, Hank, | watched them
about as close as tboy did ME. There arc
several bands now in tse neighborhood led
by Sue Mundy, Pat. Bull. Tom. Rhodes and
others Of Ike stripe. When sthcse guer.
rilas are captured they should have no
quarter shown them. II had my Nay |
would eIterpuste them, and not leave hair
of their heads TO pclute our land. If wish
ing would do any good they wosil all have
been made way with before this. If power
could be given me | would gather them from
tho four quarters Of the globe and fence them
in, hsndcuG them and march them 10 Oregon
shove them into the GIiny deep Of the Pacific
and direct King Neptune to gather them 10
his shiny embrace. | would have an in.
clined plane made Of hetDlocs boards, placed
st an angle Of 45degrces, and as fast as they
arrived to tia portals Of cid Neptuns's
would have item put on to tae plane and
started for the othy world, heller spletcr,
with all the American eagles that hover over
our native land to accompany them in their
doomed fight and letting their shril screech
be their death knell to the place provided for
the devil and his imps-the bottomless pit
! | have such an utter adherence of rebsl
a guerilla, a sympathizGr Of this REBELLION
| that can have no patience with the pusillani
: Il 7 L.,
such things, but upon my honor if the pow
er could be given me | would put them
! through right or wrong. There would be
such wall Of traitors as would never be
heard again. What, compromise with things
that would tail our noble old Starry Banner
in the dustp no, never. Hank, you will
probably ask yourself what's the matter with
Peter, ia he crazy? Not = Bit Of it. If you
only will come down here. and see and
hear what have, y0u would second my mo-
ton, and help put it into execution. Now
hope you will pardon me for these thoughts,
for cannot help it.
Well, if cannot have my wish to getrid
vi tISSc SoiitShipt SSohtiuteis
| would ike to give them good-cuss-
bu, don't know as that would do any good.
| feel like the fellow that had load of ashes
in cart. He was taking the cart and ashes
up hill. AT the bottom of the hill the tail
board came out and spilled the ashes. When
nc got to the top of the Hill he observed his
cart was empty. He exclaimed, Well, I'll
be - It's no use, can't do the subject
Justice, and therefore will not ssy anything
And that is my fix, can't wish, nor think Of
anything too bad for traitor; therefore viii
leave the subject, and trust that their reward
will be hereafter.
If set the stock together in tina intend
to start from here for Chicago on Monday
night rsxt, snd may be home by New Years,
| Yours, NJ.
Tbs Cincinnati Commerciars Washington