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Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-10-19
Soldiers,

The curious may be glad to know
what troops outrankcd in height i'm the
grand army of the North during tho
late war. DIR. a. b. Guild, in recent
lecture ut the Academy of Music, New
York, on the "Staturc of American
Soldiers" made the following state
mcnt, as the result OF personal eXami-
nation ut the several Adjutant Gener-
ais offices:
"Onc striking fact developed is, that
the time of reaching maximum height
is very much later than is generally
supposed. In men born in America,
the average age for attaining this height
is Is. Again, it is found that the height
of men at S5 is not so great rs at - or
80. This subsidence may be attributed
to the consolidation of the cartilages of
the backbone. The age for maximum
stature comes earliest in States where
the height is found to be the greatest
an unexpected result. Again, the
men of foreign birth We're considerably
shorter than those of American nativi-
ty. u Massachusetts man, reared in
Ohio, is an inch taller! The average
height of the first 50, 600 Of New York
troops was GA inches, of the second
New York troops was 67,5, and of the
third, G5,S. 1t was thought the third
result must be wrong, and unavailing
efforts were made to correct 1t. The
highest stature found in the books was
6 feet 10 inches. The number of men
above 6 feet inches reached several
hundred; but these tall men did not
wear SO well as the shorter ones by a
great deal.
The following is given rs the greatest
average of height in different States,
showing that the Iowa soldiers headed
the crowd: Maine, 6s.6 inches; Yer
mont, GS.l; New Hampshire, 60 ;
Massachusetts, three classes, GA, GI.3,
G7.3; Rhode Island, GT.5; Connecticut,
67.5; New York, five classes, CTS, 678,
65.S, (sailors) 57.2, 67; New Jersey,
G6.7; Pennsylvania, three classes, G7.8
57.5, GIG; Ohio, three classes, G8.S, 6S.3
GS.1; Indiana, 6s.7, CSC; Michigan,
67.8; Wisconsin, 67.7; Iowa, co. Lou
isiana, 6T7; Minnesota, 68.3; Missou-
RI, GS.5; scamen, Co.'S; and the average
of all, disposes of many things said in
disparagement of American soldiers.
The Adjutant-Gener of Iowa was ve-
ry reluctant to have the records in his
Office examined, because he did not
wish to have the soldier from his State
appear at disadvantage-and no mus
ter-rolls of the first and tallest troops
had been kept. "'Those were men
worth looking at" he said.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-10-19
Mr.. Eeecher at the South.

Henry Ward Beecher's regard for the
South, as expressed in his recent letters
does not provoke very cordial re-
sponse. For example, the Mobile Ga
zettc remarks, I'm the course of an article
on his conversion:
This obscene parson Of Plymouth
Church, who Haunts musk scented
handkerchief before his congregation
Of Wall street moralists, is, however,
the same whO--not ten months ago
before the same congregation, war
preaching, forgive us, Christians, fos
using that word, as applied to that
man , the beauties of amalgamation,
and his sweet, silvery voice, with his
oily countenance turned up to those
Heavens he kept insulting, telling his
hearers that when that mil enium OF
human perfection should arrive the
world would witness its fruits, Crystal
more pure-jewels mole rare" than
could ever be dreamed of.
That man whose every thought has
been blasphemy, whose every act has
been an insult to that God whose Cos
pei his profane hand has polluted, is
also the cO-laborer of woman--his
worthy sister--wbose Infamous slam
ders OF the South have done SO much to
shut out the sympathies of the world
from US, and ii the hand that traced the
libel known as "Uncle Toms Cabin,n
is not actually that of the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, his lying spirit is that
which inspired it. A more contcmpti-
BILE, more selfish being, never disgraced
a public or private station; a more Bit
ter, more venomous, more lying foe to
the good and true men of the South
never lived than Henry Ward Beecher,
who, desecrating even the tomb of that
sainted woman, the mother Of Wash.
ington, once devoted her memory to the
torturcs of hell, though afterward,
afraid of his own prospects, he sat on.
on crusade to abolish that place, where
his soul shall finally be ashed.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-10-19
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Three Years Ago.

Three years ago to-day
We raised our hands to heaven,
And on the rolls of muster
Our names We're thirty-seven;
There were just a thousand bayoncts
And the swords were thirty-seycn.
As we took the oath of service.
With our right hands raised to heaven.
Oh twas q gallant day,
In memory still adored.
That day of our sun bright nuptia,s
With the musket and the sword
Shrill rang tho flies, the bugles blowed.
And beneath n cloudless heaven
TwinlSied q thousand bayOnets
And the swords We're thirty-scven.
or the thousand stalwart bayoncts
Two hundred march to-day;
Hundreds lie in Virginia swamps,
hundreds In Maryland clay; ..
And other hundreds, less happy, drag
Their shattered limbs around,
And envy the deep, long, blessed sleep
ofthe battle-fields holy ground.
For the swords one night, a week ago,
The remnant, just eleven,
Gathered around a banquetng board,
With seats for thirty-seycn;
. There were two limpod in on crutohes,
And two had each but a hand
To pour the wine, and raise the cup
AS we toasted "Our Flag and IanlIr
4 And the room seemed filled with whisper,
AS we looked at the vacant seats,
ana with choking threats we pushed asid,
Ihe rich but untasted meats;
Then IN silence we brimmed our glasses,
AS we rose up just elcven-
And bowed as we drank to the loved an(
the dead
Who had made us thrty-seven.
y HWper'S Hieekkgl
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-10-19

Professor George w. Harper, at Gin
cinnati, in hia regular monthly wealth
er report, says of September: sin SOW
eral respects the month is marked PEE
riod i'm the meteorological history Of
this place. The maximum tempcra-
.ture and the mean temperature of tho
m~nth are the lowest | have ever re-
corded for the month of September.
The amoept of rain-~nearly eleven
This excess will more than make up
the deficiency of last May. The year
1866 Is memorable as containing tho
drycst May and the wcttcst September
perhaps ever experienced ut this point.
More rain has fallen during the past
month than ! have ever recorded in
any previous month";
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-10-19

The American Board of Foreign Mis-
sions held their annual meeting ut
Pittsfield, Mass, last week, and about
fifteen hundred persons were in attend
ance. The receipts OF tho Board for
the year from donations and lcgacics,
are $i3l ,073,37, and this sum will be
increased by the income from its per-
manent funds. 1t Is an interesting
fact, that though tho income for the
year just closed has been some SG7, 900
less than for tho year previous, yet tho
cost of exchange has been go, 900 less,
80 that the gold value of the income Is
actually some thousands greater than
the previous year. The withdrawal
OF the Rev. DIR. Anderson from the po-
sition of Senior Secretary, which no
has held for SO many years, was an
nounced, and deservedly recognized by
words of personal enconium, and con-
tribution of 500 900 from two wealthy
friends of the Society.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-10-19

SOME SNAKE.-Mr. Theodore Xum-
buesh, jeweller of indianapolis, was re-
Gently on a hunting necursion in llli-
nois. Near Parish's Grove he remain
ed over night with farmer, who few
days before had killed an immense rat
tlesnake, as thick as mans thigh,
and sporting one hundred and ten rat
ties, " ell defined, indicating the vcuer-
able age of one hundred and eleven
years. The farmer was offered twenty
five dollars for the skin, which he re-
fused. Not much of IA snake country
about Parsh's Grove, either.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-10-19

A valuable statistical table, exhibit.
ing the rate of increase I'm the popula-
tion OF the different States In the Union
since the State census of 1865, has been
received by the Department from sew
en- States, and the increase of popula-
tion, even during the existence OF tho
war, in which the mortality was uni
yersally large, is as follows: Minneso-
Ia, 40 per cent; Illinois, GO per cent;
Wisconsin, II per cent; Iowa, IL per
cent; Michigan, 5-l0 per cent; Rhode
Island, per cent; Massachusetts, 3per
cent. Taking the general average OF
this increase, l3l per cent, as fair rep
resentation of the ratio of increase IN
the other States, the Census Bureau cs-
Inmates that the population of the
United States and Territories has in
creased from 81 ,433, ,2I3, the number
found by the census of 1860, to 35 ,500,-
600. aa#
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-10-19

The National debt now amounts to
81, ,573, ,337 900. During the month OF
September the public Indebtedness was
reduced So ,3iG,3 ,326,5i.
A Canadian newspaper contains the
following plaintive advertisement: !:
"Will the gentlmen who stole my mel
ons on last Sabbath night be generous
enough to return me few of the seeds,
as the melons are rare variety?"
The Independent has stopped print
ing Mr.. Beecher's sermons, but the
World gives them in full, although
they do not now contain any politics.
BY this change Mr. Beecher's exhorta-
tions will reach q class Of readers who
are likely to be much benefited by
them.
A little girl in the employ of The
Wolcottville, Connecticut, Manufac-
turing Company, possesses most won
derfnl arithmetical powers. she counts
1000 percussion caps and puts them i'm
twenty boxes 600 in EACH In one mia
ute, and never makes a mistake.
"A young lady now employed as COM
poster on the Montgomery (Al.) dd-
pertiser, had 800 bales of cotton burned
uuIiDp TIC WIFI. JHstcdi Oh 1BDlllily
over her misfortune, she now goes to
work mt n business most congenia' to
her Intellectual taste. Her heroic SELF.
reliance is truly commendable.
II is alleged that startling Disclosures
are about to be given to the rublic from
New Orleans. of the existence of rebel
secret organizations tb rou.hout the
South, at New York, Dad i'm the West.
These organizations S.re said to be arm
ed, and their object is to renew the re-
bellion at the first favorable opportuni-
ty. In New York its membership is
stated at $4,000, consisting principally
Of ex-rebel soldiers.
The Frecdmen's Bureau still contin-
Ues to issue rations to white refugees
and freedmen in the South. During
the molth of August, l5,05a refugees,
and {, yo8 freedmen drew Government
rations i'm Alabama, and In Arkansas
AsS freedmen and 443 refugees were sup
piled. The reports from the Commits
sioners Of the Bureau i'm those States
are favorable. The freedmen are gain
ing confidence, and generally going to
work.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-10-19
From the Cerro Gordo Republican.
Mass Meeting 1T Cedar Falls.

Seldom have we witnessed n grander
display in the young State of iowa.
than on Wednesday, the 26th ult., at
Cedar Falls. Taking the morning train
at Waverly, which was literally filed
and covered, we soon found ourselves
ut the Cedar Falls depot. The people
here formed Il large procession, preccd-
ed by the Waverly band, and crossed
the river. The Bremen county delega-
tions were well provided with bauners,
bearing appropriate and suggestive mot
tos. AS we entered the city, flags were
floating at every corner, streamers fly
ing, bands playing, and Cedar Fails
was dressed in her best suit. The main
procession formed at 10 o'clock, under
Brig. General Trumbull, of Waterloo,
Chief Marshal. Bands of music and
colors were in front, then came the
speakers, then soldiers of 1912, and 9TH
er invited guests in carriages, followed
by n large concourse of citizens on foot
and in wagons.
At IL O'Clock the procession reached
the park, and the stand was occupied
with speakers and officers of the day
The President, Hon. Peter Melendy,
said that many speakers who had been
expected would not be present, as Iowa
was known to be safe and sound, sc.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-10-19
Six bands were i'm attendance, and i

Six bands were in attendance, and it
was IA great day for Cedar Falls.
In the evening, Overman's Hall was
filled, and speeches made by Judge
Burt. Col. Carpenter and Senator Hen
dcrson.
Much credit is due the citizens Of
Cedar Falls for the enterprise and pat
riotism on the occasion. Everything
was done to preserve order. Mayor
Allen had the police force admirably
arranged, and the little city was made
q house of welcome and entertainment.
No people are more hospitable or en-
terprising than the citizens of Cedar
Falls. They spared no pains to make
everything pleasant to their guests,
whose wants were amply provided for.
May Cedar Falls enjoy many such oc-
casions, and the cause of freedom be as
well sustained.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-10-19
The Broken Atlantic Cable--A Thrilling
Story.

The London Spectator tells the fol-
lowing singular and most interesting
story:
Night and day, for a whole year, an
electrician has always been on duty,
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-10-19
NO. so.

We're paid. The Gdgettc approves be-
cause it is the organ of the Maine law
fanatics, and Judge Burt, in Black
Hawk county at least, claims TO be
their candidate. Men who believe i'm
the substitution of a judicious license
cannot vote for Judge Burt. Dubuque
HcralH
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-10-19

The Cedar Falls Gazette approvingly
refers to the fact that Judge Burt, in
his zeal to enforce the odious prohibito-
ry liquor law in Black Hawk county,
last spring, imposed heavy fines, and
ordered the defendants in the prosecu-
tions committed to Jail until their fines
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-10-19
SIMEON FLEISCH,

(FROM PAEIS),
DAINTEGs, OF EyERR STYLE. WORK DONE
4. short notice. shop in the rear of overman's
Block, Cedar Falls. 19-3m
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-10-19

The National debt now amounts to
81, ,573, ,337 900. During the month of
September the public Indebtedness was
reduced So 3lG,326,5i.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-03-13

The editor of the Gold Hill News, ut
one time u Breckenridge Democrat, and
therefore somewhat rotten at the core, i
the only member Of the Union party in
Storey county who endorses the peculiar
reconstruction policy Of the Presidential
least. he is the only one we have heard Of.
-Enserprise.
We were never Il breckenridge Demo-
crat. The Enterprise has no authority for
its assertion. We supported Douglas in
1850; aud have always and earnestly sus-
tanned the Union party-an organization
which we contributed TO secure and COM
pact. I, does not lay in the mouth Of any
man to successfully challenge N Union
ism and an a,,emp, to do so on the part
Of a journal whose price has been regu-
larry hawked in the executive council
room, of the Copperhcads Of Storey coun-
~, is worthy of a species of sublime de-
rision.
As our readers very well understand,
the sweeping declaration that we endorse
the reconstruction policy of the President"
is also untrue. We think the veto Of the
Freedmen's Bureau bill is not OF itself
cause for irreparable breach in the Union
party, and we have given our reasons for
such q conclusion. Let the public judge,
40 far. In devotion to the grea, essentials
in the Union party platform, We can ex-
press our Srmncss by no higher or more
intense comparing illustration. than BY
saying that we claim to-day a fidelity as
positive and rs well understood as the
pas, Unionism of the Enterprise has been
uncertain and suspected.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-03-13

HORACE GREELEY WILL o ABUSE
ANDY.-We have never sought to conceal
nor to disguise our general sympathy with
the Radical school; yet we have deemed
it unwise and impolitic to denounce and
ostracise the other. We have differed with
Wendell Phillips and his set, because we
believed their teachings calculated to post
pone the result at which we sincerely
aimed. Mr.. Phillips in 1850 called Abra-
ham Lincoln "the ~slave-hound Of Illinois,"
and sought to defeat him. Mr.. Phillips in
1864 desired a more Radical candidate for
President - and therein we agreed with
him but, Mr.. Lincoln being nominated,
we held it our plain duty to support and
do our best to elect him. Had half a
million as earnest but not quite SO abusive
Aboli,ionists as Mr.. Phillips is followed
his lead in 1850, Lincoln would then have
been beaten, the slave power would have
triumphed, and Slavery, extended to the
Pacific, would have received a new lease
of power and of life. Had q like number
followed him in 1854. we should have had
a Mcclellan triumph and a Mcclellan
peace-which, at all events, would not
nave been an Anti Slavery peace. That
Mr.. Phillips has to-day his head on his
shoulders and is at liberty TO speak in
public, he owes to those Abolitionists who
have refused to" follow his lead, and who
are thereby exposed to his vituperation.
We do not see how any good end is to
DO achieved by likening the President Of
the United States to Benedict Arnold or
TO Aaron Burr. We differ with him on
some points; our difference may widen
into alienation: If 90, we intend that the
world shall see and feel that zoe did not
invite that catastrophe. The President
may be a very good Unionist. yet cherish
views on many points from which we dis
sent. So long as he does not make agree.
mens on those points Of difference vital,
we shall not do 30. The Union party was
formed of those who agreed to differ and
to tolerate differences |; and we adhere to
their faith. While 1t is our joyful, I'M
doubling conviction that the end Of these
differences, as of all our troubles, must be
a recognition and acceptance Of the grand,
inspiring truth that all men are equal in
natural right, and that the law should
affirm and enforce this equality, we do not
insist on erecting that faith into a Shib.
boleth. and matchmaking all who dissent
from tn. Y. Tribune. FEB. 18th.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-03-13

A STRANGE INYATuXrIoN.-The Arm
strong (Pa.) Free Press says that for some
years past q family named Dunmire, con-
sisting of q father and three daughters,
have resided In Q ave on the bank Of the
Kiskiminitas river, near the town Of Apol-
10, in q sort Of semi-barbaric life. They
would not labor, but, dressed in rags, and
~wallowing in filth, they managed to secure
q subsistence in q variety Of modes, suit
able to their debased and half-civilized
At one time some of the humanely dispos-
ed people of the locality of their abode,
taking compassion upon the abandoned
life they were leading, prevailed upon the
girl, to go among them as "hslp," but no
sooner did a favorable opportunity present
itself than they fed to their cave. No in
ducement would prevail TO cause them to
abandon their mode Of life. A shor. time
ago the father died in the cave. and the
fact becoming known the people in the
neighborhood had him buried. The girls
were arrested and lodged in the jail of
Armstrong county upon a charge OF va
grancy. where they still remain.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-03-13
Same Strong Poiuts!

II il is the desire of the Executive and
Congress that our republican institutions
shall DO maintained, the Constitution up
held, and the States retain all their just
powers, the Southern States recently in
rebellion will be permitted to resume their
relations with the Government at the care
lest practicable moment. demanding
them back to q Territorial condition would
be a tacit acknowledgment on our part
that secession was an accomplished fact
that they were not in the Union "A
dogma, and we might say a heresy, that
the Government, for wise reasons, took
particular pains, both at home and abroad.
to deny. Not only the Government did
this, but the loyal press and leading men
Of the loyal States also took the same
view Of the question, and any one who
may have expressed different opinions
was considered unsound, if not a rebel
sympathizer. On this great question
the Executive displays the straight
forward, answering consistency, that
has marked its course for five years
past. To stultify itself by turning
its back upon a policy and o theory that
have been heralded the world over, and
have, until within a few months past. been
Endorsed by the loyal people Of the North.
ern States, would be one Of the strangest
sommersaults that has ever happened to
u Government, and would be q striking
evidence Of its vacillation and imbecility.
As for compelling the Southern people to
adopt universal suffrage, while we at the
North are permitted to reject it, would be
an act Of despotism and sectionalism un-
worthy Of a republican people. II uni
versal suffrage is to be enforced at the
South, let it be enforced at the North.
Then, il four millions of uneducated ne.
groes are to have the right to the ballot,
why not the fifty thousand Chinese in
California, and why not the three hundred
thousand aborigines, also within the limits
Of the United States i-Nerada Gazette.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-03-13

ANOTHER CAUSE FOR PARTY SPLrr.-
Now Senator Fessenden has made one Of
his characteristic phillipics against Sena-
tor Sumner. isn't it time to array the
Union party in new sectionsi As Pes
sender was bitter on Sumner. and as
Summers side made a negative triumph in
the Senate. hadn', we better call the regis.
try roll and see how every other man
stands on the representation basis plan:
Nice idea some folks have about keeping
a party in power; if they are sincere in a
desire to maintain its sscendancy? A man
charged Burke with a readiness to "com-
promise principles" "There is a practi-
cal policy TO be observed in carrying out
principles" retor,ed Burke; "but I am
eccused by a man who regularly sells his
presanss of principle"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-03-13

GEN. LEE on RgcoSsrRucrroS.-Our
.telegraphic column that Gen.
Lee has been before the Reconstruction
Committee. Now, we believe that those
men who regard hell as q failure because
James Buchanan has met with a change
Of heart, and stands a show Of being watt.
ed to heaven-on howery beds OF ease. we
suppose-will howl over this announce.
ment. For our part, we trust Gen. Lee
will give that committee the benefit OF his
experience. He ought to understand the
temper and views or the Southern people
as thoroughly as any living man, and if
his knowledge can be put to good use, it
is high time the attempt was made. II
the country is to hear nothing but the
trades Of Thad. Stevens, and other de-
str~uctionists, our fate is sealed. II that
committee will listed to but one side, their
report will not be worth the paper il 10
written on. prove all things, hold fast
that which Is good."-St. Jo'eph Herald
FEB. 20th.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-03-13

TAKING H BACK TRAcx.-Ths Sac.
ramento Union and Marysville Appeal
evidently have found out that they were
travelling too fast in denouncing the Presi-
dent as a traitor, etc. The other day they
were abusing him for going over to the
Democrats, and because the Democrats
applauded him. Now they are striving
to make it appear that the President has
been right all the time, and that the
Democrats were rather fast in indorsing
him. just as We have all along commended.
II Is amusing to witness the efforts of these
journals 10 craw6sh out of the predica-
ment in which their iusuferable folly
placed them.-S. F. Call.