The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-05-23

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the U. s. for the war, be it long or short.
on condition that At the expiration of the
war, Government will grant them each
bounty of land.
Two yachts belonging to private indi-
viduals have to day been formally accept,
ed by the Government, and detailed for
service by the Treasury Department. -
Their owners, James G.. Bennett, Jr,
OF N. Y, and T. p. Ives, of Providence,
X. l., have been commissioned as Lieu
tenants in the revenue service and are
ordered to their respective vessels as
lieutenants commanding
Too GooaAo be Lost.
.aa PHILADh1pnIA, April %.
BosToN Posr: The following is too
good to be lost The other evening while
your Massachusetts, boys were at the Con.
tinental Hotel, l asked one of them how
they liked the idea Of the Confederate
flag waving over Old Fauueil Hall, as
threatened by secessionist at Montgom-
cry? He replied, "Let them come on
and trD it-weN send then, back to their
friends in the shape Of BONE BUTTONS"
| A BOSTON Boy.
THE GREAT EAsTERN.-Thc Great
Eastern is again on our shores. She ar
rived at Sandy Hook on Saturday, hay
ing accomplished the passage in the re
markabIc time of nine days. 1t is re
ported in New York, on doubtful author
ity, that she will be chartered by the
government to be used during the war
on the Southern coast She is capable
of carrying au army which would Tax the
power of a whole feet of common YES
sells.
Gov. Hicks denies unquali6cdly,
that he gave his assent to the burning of
the bridges on the railroads leading from
Baltimore north. We take the occasion
to add, that our confidence in Governor
Hicks desire to save the Unicn, has
never been impaired We should have
expressed this confidence in him earlier,
if we had not been restrained by the ap-
prchension Of bringing down attacks up
on him from the other side. We do not
approve all b: has done, but we know,
/ hot he has been against the secession tsts
from first to last National Republican.
The following is lis, of the officers
elected by the first Iowa regiment, now
at keokuk: Colonel, j. T. Bates Lieut..
: Colonel, W. ". Merritt; ; Major, y. B.
Porter.
Gen Scott has, for the third time,
taken the oath of allegiance to the Uni
ted States, and the officers Of his staff
have followed his example. lie lirst took
the oath when lie uttered the service,
, and the second occasion was when he
assumed command of Fort MouItrie, in
qualification times.
a TRUE PATRIOT In the ranks of
the Rhode Island Regiment is private
worth s50O,000. This mcrning I saw
him mopping the floor of the barracks -
IL appetite is good.
The Montezuma RepuJHc53 s.aLes
that work on the NJ. & NJ. Nj. Il. H.,
west of Marengo, has entirely ceased
all the hands have been discharged, and
the too'5 and implements taken off. There
will be nothing done this summer on the
road
james Hartsock has received the
appointment of Postmaster at Iowa City.
/ Gen. Pillow threaten. 10 humble
the flag of the United States He can
never humble it except by carrying it.
-The Postmaster at Warrington, Flor
ida, was shot on the 9th ult., for deliv-
cring to Lieut.. Slemmer all the mail mat
ter dropped into that Office, including
letters written by the Confederate SOL
diers to their friends
The Petersburg (va.) Erpress of
last Saturday says:
"Old Abe has not passed night in
the White House for two weeks, but
goes into the barracks to sleep, with his
armed hirelings all around him. He
does not SO much as take off his boots,
that he may be ready to run at seconds
warning"
The Richmond Eraminer styles
Lincoln "the drunken beast now stalled
in the Occidental mansion
The telegraph says JEFF. Davis has
postponed his dinner at the White House
till the 10th of June We hope Mr..
Lincoln will give him his dessert before
that time.
A Washington correspondent writes
to the Springfield Mass Republican:
"Mr. Lincoln stands the excitements of
the times great deal better than was
expected. He has good deal of phys
ical stamana which splitting rails foster
ed left, and will 20 through the war un-
harmed so far as health is concerned He
is eccentric, but possesses more grit than
Harrison or Taylor. Taylor was a trump
on the battle field, but IN the council
chamber his weakness became apparent.
he could not endure that peculiar care
and excitement which falls to the lot of
any man who is President of the United
! States
A large quantity of arms were re-
moved from Fort Leavenworth, on the
sth of May, and taken under escort to
Southern Kansas for the use of the reg
iments of U. s. volunteers being organ
lied in that direction. The Border Ruf.
fans had been talking Of arming them
selves from the Leavenworth Arsenal
That sort of business is, however, closed
up.