Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-01-13
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The Evening Post has an account of Shcr.
mans march through Georgia. Under date
of Station Georgia Central Railroad" Nov.
80, il says:
Al this station We came across an old man
named Wells, who is the most original char.
actcr ever met lie was depot master in
the days when there was a raroad here
lie is a shrowd old man, and seemed to un.
derstand the merits Of the war question per.
fectly. He said: -
They say YOU arc retreating, but il is the
strangost sort Of retreat ever saw. Why,
dog bite them, the newspapers have been ly-
ing in this way all along. They alters are
whipping the Fedora! armies, aud they allers
lnli back after the battle is over. Ii was that
ar idee that frs, opened my eyes. Our ar
my was always whipping the Feds, aud We
alters fell back alters told 'en It was .
d---d humbuS, and now by ---- know it,,
for here you are right on old John Wells
place hogs, potatoes. corn and fences oil
gone, don, lind any fault. expected it
ALL ..... 81,
" JEFF Davis and the rest" he continued,
talk about splitting the Union. Why Il
South Carolina had gone out by herself, she
would have been split in four pieces by this
time. Splitting the Union Why, d--n il,
the State Of Georgia is being split right thro'
from end to end. 1t is these rich fellows
who are making this war, and keeping their
precious bodies out of harms way. There's
john Franklin went through here the Other
day, running away from your army. could
have played domnoes on his coat tals.-.-
There's my poor brother, sick with small pex
at Macon, working for eleven dollars month
aud hasn't got cent of tho id stutf for .
year. 'Lcven dollars n month, aud eleven
thousand bullets minute ! don't believe
! in it, sir.
my wife came from Canada, and Kind
o thought would sometime 80 there TO live,
but was allcIS afraid Of the ice and cold but
| can tsll you this county is getting too Gus.
sed hot for me. Look at my fence rails
burning there, | think can s,and the cold
better. .a #.
| IL heard as how they cut down the trees
across your road, up country, and burn ths
bridges why, dog bite their hides one Of
you Yankees can take up n tree and carry il
oil, tops and all and there's that bridge you
put across the river in less than two hours
they might as well stop the 0geehcc as you
! Yankees
tHe blHSltu TuSCalS WHO buTnt tilS yGf0
bridge thought they did n big thing nat.
uraI born fool, cut in two, has more sense in
either end than any Of EN-. -.s
To bring lilck the good old times, he said
"itl take the help Of Divine Providence,
heap of Iain, and deal Of elbow grease 10
fix thing, up again. ..f.-.
FARMERS WIVES. People talk Of the pres.
sure on great men, but should much prefer
leading fleet up to the death hui, ling forts
ol Charleston, writing proclamation for tho
nation, or editing the daily -, to the
never ceasing pressure on our hard working
farmers wives.
Another thing: they are not loved Ono
may live among ordinary farmers siS years
which Is long enough to form a pretty fair
cstma Ic--aud never see in the husband any
acts OF sell sacrifice, eRdcaIment, or solicI.
tudc toward the pale, drudging woman. who
many years agonc, stepped beamirg and
hopeful into HI, life path, and wove her
youth and loveltneSs into crewn for him
Ii is a shame. that Heaven shall make him
blush FOR. that be exhibits more care for his
horses than for hi, toiling mate indoors;
/ that he has Tor them attccionate pats, =
CHEEKY word Of greeting, but never anything
Of the sort for the silent starving heart which
might be made 80 happy by them. With
rare exceptions, no conversation ever takes
place except upon some question Of the farm,
or the wants of the house. Indeed, ono
would be puzzled To know if the coujugal
tie existed, were il not for the abandon with
which the wife (1nd sometimes the husban j
j. scoldcd
The white winged small, sweet courtrsies
OF home never !loltor aln,d those hard, harsh
lives.
or this half million Of over ,a.kca POW.
crs, and starved hearts, why should it be a
matter of surprise that many md many of
them are Mt last tortured into the darkness
OF insanity And whore does the evil lie
And whore is the rcmedyp Cannot our
brothers be "ady scd ?"-NiFs JgurHal If
Nea{th.