Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-10-06
of the Cedar Falls Gazette.
LETTERS FROM A ROWING TOWNSMly.

LETTERS FROM 4 ROWING TOWNSMAS.
(rSo.6)
NEW YORK, Sept. 18th, 1865.
EDS. GAZETTE: Again i'm New York,
and again am reminded of your own
fourIshing city Of Cedar Falls. New
York and Cedar Falls are much allie
the former having n little the ddcaatdge
in age, and things are on little larger
scale, yet they find room. ,Wall-st. is
used for the sale of stocks, bonds, money
and exchange, while with you it takes
q part OF Main and First-sts. to do the
same, though not so much done in the
same time, for here millions are moved
in day. | have just witnessed q sale
Of stocks of many thousands, which did
not occupy the bidders-the bulls and
bears-as many minutes. 1 saw near
bya turtle from Key West, so said, that
weighed $50 pounds, measuring about 5
feet long and 81 wide. I was told by
the keeper it would live six months
without food if its eyes were kept spong-
ed out! What affinity sponginy has
with food I am not able to discover.
AS almost every step you here see
some new or novel thing, one becomes
tired with seeing, and signs to be relicv-
ed from the never-ending brick and
mortar, and to be back to the banks OF
the Cedar river, and once more look
over the broad prairie and see the graz
ing cows and hear their varied tone of
bell rs they return toward home at the
setting sun to render up to the mixer a
full flowing pail of the real "milk OF
| human Kindness" and not chalk and
plaster and pump that is to be had in
this city.
But in truth New York is busy city
a sort of panorama of life every day
for you see everybody and all their re-
lations, from every quarter of the globe,
! in all their variety.
1 have just taken q stroll through
Stewards store or "palace of dry goods
and fiXens,n and am constrained to say
itexcced anything in Black Hawk coun-
ty. AS I emerged from this establish
the finest walk in Broadway, the num-
Der passing up and down the street every
minute | think must exceed the num-
her that go through section is in Grun-
dy county in whole day! Strangers
in the city stop and ask vhy all this
commotion? why DO all these men and
women, all these carriages and omni-
BUSES be out at this time? They some
times get for an answer, You, fool, this
is the city of New York;!
And now, editors of G. AzETTE, on word
moro and Iquit my scribbling here, and
tomorrow night l expect to leave for
the west, and hope to see your beautiful
Cedar river in a few days thereafter. I
have seen in my journey many an old
friend and familiar face. / have once
more seen and been through many q
thing OF the present and future hope fol
us who have to pay the manufactured
as well as printer. The producer is get
ting rich-yes, is rich-and prices will
Nv hNpS up az iOhCo 90 INC IL
good as it row is; but that cannot long
be SO, for the present wants will be sup
piled, then comes a lull, a going down
in prices in everything. Those who
have large stocks of goods on hand
strive to keep up the price of gold, and
the enormous importations this season
make demand for the precious metal !;
but soon the season is over for importa-
ton and soon Congress meets, and |
predict something will be done to re-
licve the people from this excessive tax
by the imitation of currency and hoard
ing of gold. On the whole--we have
good crops in the west-wc can live on
what we raise, We can wear our old coat
a little longer and by and by We shall
see olden times again, and our county
yes, the whole county-go on in such
rapid strides of progress, not only in
peace and harmony, but in all the arts
and sciences, and prosper for all tine to
come as the world has never known
before.
Yours truly,
EAY STATE