The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-02-28

In this city during the season just closed
is as follows:
5. o. RutIers 1852
Leland x Co.'S 1900
| c. l.. Palmer x Co.'S $500
DunsmOre X Chambers 200
Total 2l,352
This is 'css than half the number pack
ed last year The fall ne off is owing to
the fact that our buyers did not enter
the market till late in the season. The
average weight Of hogs, however, j.
ncarI 80 pounds more than last year
.UuscntiHe y0Uraal.
The State Of New Hampshire will
be the first to vote for members of Con.
oress under the administration of Mr..
Lincoln, the election taking place there
on Tuesday, the 18th of March next
In all eighty three persons holding
positions in the army or navy, and be-
longing to the seeding States have re-
signed. There still remain 296.
1t is said that Mr.. Buchanan will
veto every measure Of Congress looking
to the coercion of Southern States. In
tits he does not include the provision for
building seven new sloops Of war.
A Washington telegram says dis
patches to the War Department from
Gen. Twiggs announce that he had sur
rend red to Texat all the forts, arms and
munitions of war in that State.
ss5 According to rebel logic, that is
peaceful secession" when ones pocket
book is adroitly distracted son the sly;"
aud that is improper " coercion when
the owner knocks the thief down to re-
cover it.-Albany Ereni"y Journal
r r. BRIDGE.-The r r. bridge
across Cedar river, at GAINESVILLE. on the
Cedar Falls and Minnesota Railroad, will
be completed early in March. The spill
ing is nearly done.
/ The first pier for the Railroad bridge
+ across the Cedar River at this place was
let through the ice last Monday evening,
amid lou! huzzaing and large number
OF spectators. Two more will be served
! the same way before the close of the week
VALLEY Times, FEB 81.
/ II r. SURVEY From the Waverly
Repub icae We learn that the G. f. & NJ.
X. X. Co. have made survey on the
east side Of the Cedar River, between
Navcrly and St. Charles City, via Hor-
ton and Bradford. Mr.. Tracy the engin.
Ger, reports that the route is favorable -
The line crosses the Cedar three.fourths
of a nile above Waverly This will be
likely to create quite lively competition
between the residents on either side OF
the river.-Dap Gazeue.
The Republicans Of Marion are hav
Ing warm time over who shall be post
master If an outsider has anything t.
say, we should decide in favor of II. w
GRAY. at once, for there is no man in Linn
/ county, that has done more effectual ser
vice for the party than Mr. Gray, and v,
are 10 favor now and hereafter Of givin,
the - fat takes" to those who earn them
-~r,'nr Ialiey Times
The MISSISSIPPI RrvER-Thc accu
mutation Of snow in the upper country
q. extending west to the Rocky Mountain
and far to the North, would seem to in
dictate an overflow of the Mississippi ant
the Missouri rivers in the early spring
Indeed, such deep SHOWS have not bee
known in the vast tract Of country ives
of US, for several years past and we pre-
dict an unusual rise in the Mississippi
and it's tributaries when the winter break
up.-H. Pum Press.
Among the victims Of popular wi
in Virginia, at the recent election, ar
! Senators Hunter and Mason, both o
WHOM went under suddenly; John b
Floyd, formerly Secre; airy Of War, an
now known as the Great Acceptor, VIII
ran for delegate in Washington, aud va
,, hugely beaten; Edwin Rufiu, cla.sed a
,, mons the apostles, who also fell read
victim; Roger 4, Pryor who went dow
among the dead men; and such like
Wise saved himself by tho last hair o
his head.
D Wien Wiafall, of Texas, undertook
to dcmolish Johnson, Of Tennessee, tn
other day, one Of his smart sayings was
al had rather keep railroad hotel an,
sell unbakod bread, pies, meat and ~
coffee at twenty-five cents, than be Pres
f ident Of the United States" Wigfal
evidently knows his appropriate calling.