The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-04-18


and the most of them | obtained from
parties whom I can rely on: The last
Weld of the Nebraska City mills was S.
765. 40. The quartz was from the Bates
lead. l23 cords, and the time taken to
crush the same was six days and nights
The miners are commencing operations
in Russells Gulch, running rockers and
sluices. understand that the tluming
on the consolidated ditch will be compile
ted in few days and the water let on,
which will set things going again. Ev-
erybody will then be getting flush again.
might give you fifty more reports which
are equally as favorable, but think | will
become burdensome with long report,
so l will be as brief as possible.
have sold quite large bills to mer-
chants from the gulches of Georgia, Cal.
ifornia, Arkansas, and Blue River the
past week, and to see the amount of gold
they have is proof enough that miners in
that region are doing well. I saw mug
gets of gold that were worth from 81 to
s1S4. They say that the miners have
been making from SO to 100 per day all
winter. In short, everybody in the min.
ing business is doing well.
My old friends Quinn and Stevenson,
of Muscatine, arrived here safe. and were
somewhat surprised to see G. city and
fine weather: They wer . yed at the
number of Indians in town to- day. They
express themselves satisfied with our
prospects. Some of our large trains have
started for the States after goods The
roads are dry and dusty Several trains
have strated for Salt Lake with goods
They bring over flour and trade it off for
groceries, clothing, boots and shoes, &c.
| am sorry to see that you had such a
poor turn out on the ed of February. l
wish the Captain could have had the
rear of his Company brought up By his
LIEUTENANT.
?. S.-There are 1900 Indians camp.
ed ten miles below here I think they
are going to give US brush; so look
out.
A CORES pondent Of the n Y. Times
represents the slave trade as unusually
brisk on the west coast of Africa. The
American bark City Of Norfolk hes es-
capped from Whyiah with cargo $50
negroes, and the bark Buckeye left the
same port with $50. The price Of slaves
On the coast is from $50 to $50. The
King of Daholney is still engaged in his
slave hunts.
A panic has for some time prevailed
in England from the apprehension that
the coal mines of the United Kingdom
were nearly exhaustrd. The result of an
investigation has shown, however, that
though the mines may not be inexhausti
ble for many generations to come, the
mineral resources of England are capable
of bearing any drain to which they can
possibly be subjected either for home or
foreign consumption.
A terrible disaster has just occurred
in Savoy. An avalanche of immense ex-
tent suddenly fell from the top of noun
tain called the Merlier, carrying every
thing before it. Fourteen cottages were
swept away, four hundred head of cattle
persisted, and twenty families are reduc-
ed to misery. Three persons were bur-
led beneath the ruins when got out one
was still alive, though dreadfully injured,
and the other two we're dead.
A singular case recently came before
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. A
commission had been issued to Justice
of the Peace who died immediately after.
Another man of tn. same name obtained
possession of the commission and was
qualified. The change was not discover
ed until several cases had been tried by
him. The Supreme Court held that in
nocent persons should not suffer by the
trick, and confirmed his decisions while
declaring the office vacant.
Mrs. Thomas Winan's funeral at
Baltimore on the 10Th ult, was immense
ly attended. This most excellent lady
had been in the habit of distributing
from S25, 900 to $50, 900 annually among
the poor. At the period of her death
she was supporting some seventy or eigh-
ty INDECENT families. 1t was touching in
the extreme to behold these sorrow.
stricken dependents cluster in and around
the church and follow in the funeral cor
tege. Mrs. W. died Of puerperal fever,
a disease which has proved very fatal to
ladies in Baltimore during the past few
-" Antelope the New York CORES
pondent of the New Orleans Picayune,
had look at President Lincoln while he
was there, end concludes that "while
there is geniality and merited worth
speaking viyidly from that face, there is
at the same time an iron-cast presented,
and an indomitablc will Indeed, a.
first glance he reminded ME of one of my
with which break rocks
at home. His body is slender like the
handle, but topped of with head all SOL
idity-all firm endurance-all iron. His
hands, too, are all muscle. and a strong
grip from them must be like the grasp
of a vice"
nA- Dr. f. J. Fountain, of Davenport,
died recently from the effects of an over