Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-03-30

The total imports at New York for
January were $50, 1O9, $50, against SlO,-
$40, III the last month of 1886. Total
for seven months, Sl72,S40, 1911 against
Sso,3s 1888 same period last year.
About O'Clock on the evening of the
2lst terrible tornado swept over the
southern part Of Montgomery county.
near Ladoga, Indiana, destroying TIM
Der, houses, &c. Four persons were
killed and twenty or more crushed and
bruised.
A MISSISSIPPI QUARANTINErIt Is
proposed that Davenport and~kock
Island unite in establishing quaran-
tine on Credit Island, below both cities,
with the design of preventing all inva-
sion of the cholera. a1
Few persons have any idea Of the i'm.
mense amount Of money handled by
extensive paper manufacturers. and Of
that s I. Merrill, of the Rock River
Paper Company, at Beloit, cleared over
$50, 900 last year. And the most of it
comes out of newspaper publishers.
The Atlantic Telegraph Company
have fixed on the last week in June to
commence laying their new telegraph
cable. 1t is expected that the Great
Eastern will leave Sheerness at that
date with the cable on board.
Word comes from England that all
the ships leaving Liverpool for this
country are filled with emigrants, and
that emigration to the United States
will be enormous this year = greater
than ever before.
IOwASABBATR s HooL ASSOCIATION.
The first annual meeting of this body
will be held at Iowa City, Tuesday,
June II, 1866. Hon. &. G. Cole, Of Des
Moines, is President, and Robert Grant,
OF McGregor, Secretary.
Fortress Monroe dispatches report
that Clement G.. Clay has been premit.
ted on his parole of honor to enjoy the
liberty of the grounds within the walls
of the Fortress during the daytime
jeff. Davis's health continues good, and
he keeps up the same habits to which
he has been accustomed for some time
past, including his daily outdoor exer-
else. He reads much and keeps we'll
posted on passing events. An officer
out on Fenianism met with complete
failure. Though great portion of his
time disposed to be social and CONVEX.
sational, he is frequently seized with
fits of sourness and reticence. He sell
dom alludes to his trial.
The fire in Cincinnati, which hap
pened on the night of the odd instant,
is one of the most destructive that ever
occurred in that city. Besides Pixies
Opera House, amounting to loss of
81, 900, 600, the office of the Cincinnati
Enquirer, one of the finest and most
valuable in the Western country, was
completely destroyd. 1t was worth
100000, Among other losses are A. G..
Peters & Co., music dealers, 5000, 600;
Wheeler & Wilson's sewing machines,
$500, 600; Harpel's job printing office,
$50, 600: Bryant Il STATIONS CONNER
cial College, $4,000. The entire loss is
put at 81, 100000.
PERsoNAL.-We had the pleasure of
meeting yesterday Brevt Brig. Gen.
NJ. NJ, Trumbull, who arrived on Tues
day evening from FIT. Smith, Arkansas,
where the General has been in COM
mand of the post for some time. He is
looking in fine health and expresses
himself as pleased to get back to this
more congenial climate and people, and
he will be welcomed by his many friends.
The General entered the service as Cap
tain of Co. |, Third Iowa Infantry, in
June 1862: was promoted Lieut.. Colonel
August 1862 resigned November Goth,
1862, in consequence of ill health
was afterwards Assistant Adiutant
General of the State, and in the fall of
1868 raised the 9th cavalry and has been
on duty since in the South, not having
been home since leaving here with his
regiment, although once he came very
near it, having in the fall of "a received
furlough, but upon reaching Daven-
port, he was struck by lightning i'm the
shape of a telegram from Gen. Rosen-
Grams, ordering him to return to his
regiment, as Gen. Steel expected to
have call from Kirby Smith and his
rebel hordes. We believe it is the Cen
erals intention, upon being mustered
out. to resumehis professional business,
satisfied that Iowa is the State to locate
in for health, comfort and congeniality.
Davenport Gazette.