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Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-06-30


| FAITH INFRAoRDrNARY.-I Ianes-
vile, Ohio, there are many colored peo-
pie, who live by baIbering and other
| light work. they are for the most part
an orderly and quiet people, many of
them religious, having II church OF their
own, and an ebony minister, Of all OF
which they are justly proud. one cold
evening, in Il time of a great revival in
the church, this ebony eXpoundcr was
delivering a powerful appeal ON faith ~
! .he gFoans aad COOS Of his hearers Civ
ing token OF its effect upon their im-
pressibie natures The tears stood upon
his own dark cheek, his voice quivered
| like distant thunder, while he empha-
sized his words by vigorous blows upon
the table. In the midst of all this. the
stove, agitsted by his jarring blows,
rolled over on the floor. Brother Lewis,
a high man in the church, had located
himself near the comforter Of shins he
stood irresolute, when the voice of his
minister came to him laden with faith
=" Pick up de stove, brudder Lewis,
pick up de stove, de Lord won't let it
| burn you.o Brother Lewis mind was
| filled up with the miracles of faith he
had heard that evening, SO he yielded
to the appeal of his preacher, grabbed
the hot stove but dropped it instantly,
and turning his reproachful eyes to the
disciple of faith, exclaimed, "De hell he
aO0nt ~
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-06-30

TuIRTy-FIEsT Iowa INFANsRY.--
The Thirty-iirst Iowa Infantry volnn-
tecrs was organized September 10th,
1862, with roster of the following
named field officers: VIM. Smyth, Col
onel J, w. Jenkins, Lieut. Colonel; ;
Ezekiel Cutler Major; and an aggre
gate Of 972 men. The regiment left
Davenport, Iowa, for the field Novein-
Der LIST, 1862, and has participated in tho
following battles sieges, DC: Chickn-
saw Bayou, Arkansas Post, 1st and I'd,
Jackson, Miss, Vicksburg assaults or,
the 18th and ed of May, siege of Vicks-
burg, Cherokee Station, Lookout Noun
tain, Mission Ridge, hiuggoid, Resaca,
Kingston, Dallas, New Hope Church,
Big Shanty Station, Kenesaw Noun
tain, Chattahooche River, Atlanta,
Jonesboro, Lovejoy Station, Little Riv-
er, Ala, ,Sayannah, Ga, COngaree Creek
:. c., Columbia, s. C., Bentonville,
). &.
The present aggregate is 400: present
roster of field officers is j. w. Jenkins,
Colonel; Theodore Stunning, Lieut.
Colonel S. S. FarwciI, Maior.-Lonis-
ptUe Press.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-06-30
President Ligc0ln on Negro Suffrage
Governor Hahn, Of Louisiana, has
consented to publish the following pri-
yatc letter from Mr.. Lincoln:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
W s3fiINGTps March -, 1874.

EXECUTIVE MANSION,
Ws3uINGros, March ~, 1854.
"Hon. Michael Hahn sM-.- ....
" BY DEAR SIR congratulate you
on having fixed your name in history
as the first Free State Governor Of Lou
isiana. Now, you are about to have
Convention which, among other things,
will probably define the elective fran
chise. j hereby suggest, for your pri-
vate consideration, whether some OF the
colored people may not be let in, as, for
pecially those who iiave fought gallant
ly In our ranks. They would probably
help, in some trying time to come, To
keep the jewel of liberty within the
family of freedom. But this Is only q
suggestion, aot to the public, but to you
alone. E
Yours trule
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-06-30

a CASE OF CONsCIENCE.--D Gay had
for some time missed the hay from his
barn, and was satisfied that IL was ato-
len. With view to detect the thief, he
took dark lantern, aud stationed him
self near the place whero he supposed
he must pass. In due time, person
whom he knew, passed along into the
barn, and quickly came out with IA big
a load of hay as he could carry upon his
back. The doctor, without saying Il
word, followed the thief and took the
candle out of his dark lantern, and
stuck it into the hay upon his back and
then rGtreatcd. In II moment the hay
was in u blaze, and the fellow, throw
ing it from him in utter CONSERVATION,
ran away from his pcrishing booty
The d9ctor kept The affair secret, even
from his own family; and, within a
day or two, the thief came to him in
Great agitation, and told him that
he wished to confess to him n griev-
ous sin that he had been tempted to
steal some of his hay and, as he was
carrying it away, the Almighty was so
angry with me that He had sent fire
from heaven and set il to blazing up
on his back, The doctor agreed TO
forgive him Oh condition of his never
repeating the otfense.-- ,Sproguc's
american Unitarian Pulpit.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-06-30

THE Iowa Sanitary Commission is
about to establish four agencies in this
State for procuring back pay, bounty
and pensions for soldiers. These agen-
cies are to be located in Dubuque, Bur-
lington, Davenport and Des Moines.-
So says the Register.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-06-30

A French bonnet maker told a GUS
toner who complained of thesprice de-
manded for new bonnet, Consider,
madame, it cost me three sleepless
nights merely to imagine it."
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-06-30

A lawyer in England who was plead
ing the cause of an infant, took the
child in his arms and held him up to
the jury suff'used in tears. This had Il
great effect, until the opposite lawyer
asked the child:
!" What makes you cry?"
He's pinching me-" answered the
child.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-06-30

WHEN Benjamin parted with Davis,
he said, We're both goi.lg TO the same
place" - How Is that?n asked Davis,
to Europe and your going 10 your rope
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-06-30

CRANK, where have YOU been
You are IN i; perfect glor.' I've been
ut an old gainer-ciusiny q hoop, In
Chestnut Street,
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-06-30

How 10TH CORpS cor ITS BADGE.
The story of the origin OF the badge
Of the 18th corps, whi Ia bears on 1t the
representation of a cartridge box, on
which are the words Forty Rounda,"
Is not without interest
When the corps reached Chattanooga
after the tedious march over the noun
tains, the men looked the worse fot
wear, and "a each man carried forty
rounds in his cartridge box and sixty
in his shirt and pockets, they Were
nicl<named the ammunition train. ~
One dark night one Of the 18th, son
of the old Emerald Isle, had got be-
hind his comrades, when he came up
with squad of wcll-dressod soldiers OF
the army of the Cumberland. whats
them pritty little stars on your hat for"
Are You al BrigadiCr Ginerals?' Oh,
no, that's our badge "And what's IL
badge ?n "Mhy, TO show what corps
we belong to.n :" Bcgora, that's line
thing--good night TO you gintlemen,'
| said the old sod. He had not gone but
few rods when the Cumberland sol
der called him back, saying, "Old fell
low, what's your hadge?'' Paddy look
ed around rather puzzled, scratched his
head, and on the instant brought his
horny, hard-fisted hand with whack
on his cartridge box, said, "1Hat and
forty rounds, DC jdbcrsr' The story so
| pleased General Logan that he adopted
| the cartridge and forty rounds as tho
badge of the corps, -LoaiaDiHe journal.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-06-30
GARTER HOUSE.

TOYIN l.. WILCOX, formerly of the American
81 Hotel having leased the above house, would return
his thanks the public for the liberal patronage formerly
bestowed, and would he happy to welcome all his old
friends at the Carter House. Main ST. Cedar Falls Iowa
STAGES leave this house daily for the North, SGuth and
West.
Cedar Falls July &C, 1861.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-06-30

WHAT a JEwEb!-A obituary, very
eulogistic of y lady, says: '.She was
married twenty-four years. and in all
that time never once banged the door ~
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-06-30
Renlnisccnee OF Mr.. LineOln--Hls Bis
like OF Hoops.

Mr.. r.. B. Carpenter, the we'll known
artist, contributes an interesting chap
ter of his "reminiscences of Mr.. Liucoln,
to Scribner's new monthly, Hours at
Home. Among the stories, he tells the
following, which he says is n vcritahle
relation of what actually transpired:
A distinguished citizen of Ohio had
an appointment with the President one
evening ut six O'Clock, AS he entered
the vestbule of the White HQusc, his
attention was attracted by u poorly clad
young woman, who was violently sob
bing. He asked her the cause of her
distress. She said she had been order
ed away by the servants, after vainly
waiting many hours to see the Pres
ident about her only brother, who had
been condemned to death. Her story
was this:
She and her brother were foreigners
and orphans. They had been In this
country several years. Her brother en-
listed in the army, but through bad in
| iluences, was induced to desert. He
was captured, tried and sentenced to be
shot-the old story. The poor girl had
obtained the signatures of some per-
sons who had formerly known him, to
petition for pardon, and alone had
come to Washington to lay the case be-
fore the President. Thronged as the
waiting rooms always were, she had
passed the long hours of two days try,
ing, i'm vain, To get an audience, and
had at length been ordered away.
The gentleman's feelings were touch
ed. He said to her that he had come to
see the President, but did not know as
he should succeed. He told her, how
ever to follow him up stairs and he
would see what could be done for her
Just before reaching the door Mr. Lin
coin came out, and meeting his friend
said good humoredly: "Are you not
ahead of time?r The gentleman show.
ed his watch, with the hand upon tn,
hour of six. "WeH," ;" replied Mr.. Lin
coln, al have been so busy to-day thai
] have rot had time 60 get lunch. Go
in and sit down; will be back direct
ly."
The gentleman made the young wo
man accompany him into the office, anc
when they were seated, said to her
I"Now, my young girl, | want you t.
muster all the courage you have IN th'
world. When the President comes
back he will sit down in that arm,
chair. | shall get up to speak to him
aud az | do SO you must force yourscl
between us and insist upon the eXami
nation ofyour papers, telling him ii is
case o+ life and death and admits Of n
delay" These instructions were ear
ried out to the letter. MIR. Lincoln wa
at first somewhat surprised Mt the ap
parent forwardness of the young wo
man, but observed her distressed ap
pearancc, he ceased conversation will
his friend and commenced the exami
nation of the documents she had place.
i'm his hands. CHANGING from it to tn
face of the petitioner, whose tears ha'
broken forth afrcsh, he studied it's ex
preston for moment, and th6a his cy
fell upon her scanty, but neat dess.-
Instantly his face lighted up; " Nj,
J poor GIRL" said he, "yon have com
here with no Governor or Senator o
member of Congress to plead your case
You seem honest and truthful; an,
) y0u dOnt Weo' hoops-and | will b
whipped hut l will pardon your broth
er."
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-06-30
Work and Wages.

The "Colored Citizensn of Peters
burg, Va, have been vindicating their
right to be regarded as human beings,
by passing resolutions; and we do not
find them much worse than tho cams
mon run of resolutions adopted In Tam
many Hall, and other like resorts of
white folks. The "Colored Citizons y
" scorn and treat with contempt the al
legation that they understand Freedom
to mean idleness and Incidence" They
aver, also, that they 9 understand Free
dom to mean industry and the lcgiti-
mate fruits thereof" This seems TO us
to be good deal clearer and more cor
rect view than that which is entertain
cd by good many white loafcrs who
prefer to live by the sweat of other
mems brows, and to reap that which
other men have sown. Doubtless there
are blacks who hold the same comforta-
BILE doctrine, and practice 1t when pos
siblc. LaZiness Is not confined to any
one color. If wo ever do discover n ma
ton Of Green Men, we shall find them
divided after the old fashion - into
Drones and Workers. .#. - ma
1t IL this impreSaian, eerinusiy enter
tanned by sundry muddle-headed big
OTIS, that all anti-slavery men are In fa-
vor of petting and cod6lling the black
OF permitting MN 10 Slt Nll uay III tle
sun doing nothiug-of clothing him in
purple and fine linen at the public ex-
pense-of feeding him at like charge,
upon venison, turtle, pium-cake and
hot-house peaches, with a washing down
of South Side Madeira and Johannis-
berger. The muddle headed bigot
thinks that this would be unjust both
to himself and all others who have the
misfortune to be light colored. We, for
once, agree with him, So do the "Col-
orcd Citizens" of Petersburg, as'. .n
The truth is, in every community,
that those who expect to eat without
working are the exceptions. Even
| horses aud oxen seem to understand that
they pull for their fodder. When it is
found that the Freedmen, being equita-
bly, treated and honestly paid, will not
work for their meat, but prefer the
chances of prepense pauperism, then
we promise heartily to approve of what
ever measures may be necessary foi
making these elothful ones labor for
their living, first trying those which
have been found beneficial in the eases
of whites Frustrated 10y similar leth'
! argy.-~N y. Tribune.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-06-30

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New store. No. 80 Washington Street.
An illustrated Catalogue with full descrip
ton Of y!es will be sent free to any address.
a aIsU 4 N 4 n ~ nnES W. APP ANrrn 70
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-06-30

The court roared with laughter.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1865-11-01
Ghoite goetru,
TE q APPLE OF LIFE.

Astriking poem, recently published by Owen
Meredith (Robert Lytton), in the Fortnightlt
Review, has been reprinted in a handsome
pamphlet form, by Ticknor g. Fields. 1t is the
best of this writer's productions, in respect
both to distinctness of thought and richness Of
description. We extract King Solomon's Medi.
tation on Lifei .
Life is good: but not life in itself Life eternal
.eternally young,
That were life to be lived, or desired Well ii
were if man could prolong
The manhood that moves in the muscles, the
rapture that mounts in the brain,
When life at the prime, in the pastime of living
led on by the train
Ofthe ejubilant senses, exulting goes forth, brave
of body and spirit,
To conquer, choose, claim and enjoy what twas
born to achieve or inherit.
The dance, aud the festal procession the pride
in the strenuous play
Ofthe sinews that, plant Of power, the will
though it wanton, obey
When the veins are yet wishful, and in them
the bonntiful impulses beat.
When the lilies of Love are yet living, the roses
of Beauty yet sweet;
And the eye glows with glances that kindle
the lip breathes the warmth that inspires,
And the hand hath yet vigor to seize the good
thing which the spirit desires
0 well for the foot that bounds forward and
ever the wind it awakes
Lifts no lock from the forehead yet white not a
leaf that is withered yet shakes
From the loose crown that laughs on young
trcsscs and ever the earth and the skies
Are cratnmed with audacious contingencies
meusureess means of surprise
Life is sweet to the oung that yet know not
whit life is. But life after Youth,
The gay liar leav $ hold of the bauble, and
Age, with his terrible truth,
Picks it up, and perceives it is broken, ant
knows it unfit to engage
7 he care it yet craves-Life eternal eternally
welded to Age!
What gain Were in that2 Why should any man
seek what he loathes to prolong2
The twilight that darkens the eyeball; the dull
ear that's deaf 10 the song,
When the maidens rejoice, and the bride to the
groom, with music, is led: .E
The palsy that shakes meath the blossoms, that
fall from the chill bridal bed.
When the hand saith, Z" did," not II aciH do
the heart saith, :" 1t ,cas." not IT, ,cH be-"
Too late in mans life is forever-too late comes
this apple to me
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1865-11-01
Mistellamu.
MI. Nasty Eas Most Horrible Vision
SAINTS REST, (wich is in the Stait NV
MO Gelsl i Oct l6, 1865


Mo- Gersl j Oct, l6, 1865
Las nite. weary aud disguised wit
roadio el ck>b00 n''urns, l picked up q
rolum as tammtl'- Poems. and red lha
~pooGld p,e,e, 'Hb4 Las MAJ" Cam
nell Is = pol"k -lhe' amt no doubt NV it.
f my too parlal lriends aint TOO partial
| can whop him On the sublime, but, on
TIE paChruce. | ackn"w dye him ez my
sooperio' b. tia 1t hayj the poem
made iufea ,'.a my mind wich is
pr" ha thpri sulhln into it, aud m,
mind wuz = dwelin onto i, "a sunk into
sumber. -v
Ez yoo>ual he'd dream, and sich a
dream may | never he1 agin.
Methaut the epidpmick, Wich is now
devastatin Europe, he'd struck Moo York
For time it struck down all classes
TIE proud Caucashen, the hidjus Niger,
lhe noble red man Nv the forest. and the
amond-eJed Chinese, all, all, ell afore
the ruthless destroyer But, at last, it
aba'ed, except so tar ez the nigger wuz
concerned. The white man wuz spared,
so wuz the Injn, and the Chinese but,
among the Afrihins, il ragged with re-
doubled tury. o. 1t wuz cluShn ! The
pI4ne, look I'd abroad, and 10 the >tal
Ar, teeld hand, wich wDz with s. 5OU,
wuz a cold corpse, and the ierd waz un-
paved. Agin he looked and alas the
bra8u, #-hch. wich aIluz hor. him a
pIcanlnr wirh wuz wu,h $500 ez 4oon
ez weaned wunSt per year aud bt little
rx, WI h'ppih did a full years W ,wuz
p,n>lrate IN the C Id embrace Nv death.
A gin he looked. aud wo TO him The &c
ioroom aoi wich he paid S 500, and
" hose pi4 babies hr Good sell in Moo
U,ean- q soon ~ they wuz for S.,
900, on akkouI Nv thef hapin his blood
IN then vans. wuZ trn from his lovin
grasp 10y Il, stronger h-nd Nv disease,
M wuznf wulh . copper for any purpIs
The D hlocrisy bekum alarmed. The
uitt igab|e leaders whi pered "The
.iggrr is fsdin ava, !->posin he bekum-
xtinck p Wherupon consultation NV
lie head men wuz held In view NV the
crisis, pair-ons male and wun female.
Tuz selected and examined by commit
ZEE NV expert examiners N fife insurance
companies Theywuz pronounced perfeck
'pecimens---enlirely sound and free from
lisease. These too was locked up in a
'oom, in healthy locashen and twenty.
cur NY the most eminent physicians Nv
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1865-11-01
Humor in the Pulpit.

Old Bishop Aylmer, seeing his con
gregatiou pretty generally asleep, tool
his Hebrew Bible from his pocket and
read chapter, which reused attention,
when the old minister sharply rebnked
them for sleeping, when they might
have understood him, and listening when
they knew not a word he said. or the
witty Dr.. South, it is said that preaching
before King Charles, he saw that poten-
tate asleep; he stopped short. and in a
loud and altered tone Of voice three
times called out, Lord Lauderdale p
His lordship stood up, and looked at the
preacher, who addressed him with great
composure MY lord, l am sorry to
Interrupt your repose, but must beg You
not to shore so loud lest you wake the
king" Andrew Fuller, one Sunday af-
ternoon, saw the people, during the sing
ing OF the hymn before the sermon, com
posing themselves for comfortable nap
aud taking the Bible, he beat it against
the side of the pulpit, making great
noise. Attention being excited, he said
l am often afraid that preach you to
sleep; but it cant be my fault tosday,
for you are asleep before / have began.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1865-11-01
An Argumentive Youth.

What thou hast to do. do with all thy
might" said q clergyman to l. is son one
day
$50 did this morning," said Bill, with
an enthusiastic 4Ieam in his eye.
"Ah ! what was it my darling ?'' and
Il g tather's hands ran through his off.
springs hair.
"Why, | thra-hed Jack Edwards till
he yelled like mad r
Papa looked unEtpp,, while he *
planned that the precept did not imply a
case like that. and concluded mildly wlth,
"You should not have done that. nv
child"
- Then he'd have thrashed me-" re;orl-
ed B II.
Better" expostulated his sire, Ito
have fed from the wrath 10 come"
Yes" urged Bill, by way of final
elincher. but Jack can run twice as fast
as / CAM"
The good man sighed, went 10 bis study,
took up a pen, and endeavored to compose
himself and a sermon reeonciling practice
and precep'. p t .a sas M
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1865-11-01
Summary Of News.

The relation Of the assessor of the
Thirteenth district Of Illinois shows that
several thousand bales Of cotton grown in
the district, will be shipped from 1t du-
ring the present season. '''.'.. 'A '~ 81,
A delegation from south Carolina We're
in Washington asking that the order for
removing the contrabands from the, Sea
Islands on the coast of South Catolina be
temporarially suspended. It is proposed
10 colonize these freedmen in d short time
if the ORDER restoring these lands to their
owners is suspended, to some Of the pub
lie lands in Florida, which can be easily
cultivated by them. -" : q
Governor johnson, of Georgia, writes
here that he is opposed to the with
drawal of all the troops from that State at
the present. He is Of the opinions that
in the absense Of newly organized State
governments some force is required to
preserve order. e.-
The Secretary Of War issued an orders
to-day, declaring that. hereafter, all per.
sons who have failed to report, on being
drafted, are not to be deemed deserters.
and will not be liable to arrest In future.
He also directs that such who have beet
arrested shall be immediately released
from confinement
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue;
to-day, decided, in response to an inquiry
from the South, that the Certificate of an
oath. attached to an application for ans
nesty, must bear revenue stamp. Filsr
Harriet Wilkes. alias Houghton, was
found dead, on the morning of the 22d
October. at her house in 134 Street.
Washington. It is supposed she was
killed by her former paramour, Levi l..
Fatwell. Marks on her neck indicated
that she had been strangled and subse.
luently pushed in a closet, where ths
body was found. The coroner's jury re.
.urned verdict, based on the evidence
'f physician, that they believed ch1oro.
orm had been administered, and that she
vas subsequently, choked. The murderer
obbed her of a gold watch set with
'earls. diamond rings from her fingers.
md other jewelry. The deceased was
originally from Albany. ,w IN
The Times special says that General
Grant has recommended the muster out
# all Major and Brigadier Generals in
be volunteer service. Generals Grant,
'homas, Hancock. and other leading
ienerals, are in favor Of increasing the
egular army so as to number 75. 900.
eeretary Stanton favors the plsu. .-r,
Humphrey Marshall has begun tbs
ractics of law in New Orleans. ,sg.a