The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-08-06

tor such men. No. We can never do halt
enough And as they never rest in their
labors and sutfernes for us, we must
never rest in working for them till the
war is over, and the few who are left
come home to US again.
Yours truly, NEB.
The Rebels and ThaaGeus stevens-.Iiow
they Destroyed his Property.
1t i known that one Of the heavies.
losers by the rebel invasion OF Peunsyl-
vania was Thaddeus Stevens. The
Chambersburg Reposit0ry gives the fol
lowing account of the destruction of his
property iu Adams countg, Pa:
"The only private property destroyed
by the order Of an officer in the valley
was the extensive iron works of Hon.
Thaddeus Stevens, ten miles cast of this
place. They consisted of large CHAR
coal furnace, forge, rolling mill, coal
house, shops, &c. On Tuesday, the 23d,
portion of Jenkins cavalry came upon
the works, and demanded the horses,
and especially the two riding horses,
which they described. They threatened
that they would destroy the building if
the horses were not given rp. Mr..
Sweeney, who has charge Of the works,
agreed to deliver up the riding horses if
the property should be protected. This
they agreed to, but on going for the rid
ing horses they met the teamsters and
compelled them to produce all the horses
and mules, nearly forty in ali, with gears,
harness, &c. They ha eventually been
minuteiy informed Of tie whereabouts OF
MIR. Stevens horses, as they described
them and knew exactly where to 60 af-
ter them
"The day after, Gen. Early rode up
to the works, accompanied by his staff
and avowed his intention to destroy
them. MIR. Sweeney reminded him that
he would iifict much more serious in
jury upon some 100 poor l.borcrs who
worked there than upon Mr.. Stevens.
Gen. Early replied that Mr.. Stevens was
an enemy Of the South, in favor of con.
fscating their property and armiug their
negroes, and the property must be dc,
stroyed.' lie then placed Il guard around
it and gave special Instructions that it
should not be destroyed until he gave
the order. He seemed exceedingly fear
ful that he might miss the delightful
spectacle of Mr.. Stevens's works in
flames. He then returned to the Green.
wood, where he had his headquarters,
but returned the next day and personally
detailed Col. French, Of Jenkins cucr.
riiIas. with his command, to illustrate
Southern chivalry and humanity by ap-
plying the torch to the private property
Of Mr.. Stevens, because he was guilty Of
the crime of defending the Republic of
our fathers. The work of destruction
was well done, and soon all the works
were in ashes. The houses occupied by
families were not fired. Some three
thousand dollars worth Of charco, Il was
destroyed, seven thousand pounds of
bacon stolen, leaving the fanatics of the
laborers without food, in spite of the
Garnet representations made by Mr..
Swceny as to their nccecitous condition.
Mr.. Stevens loss is not less than fifty
thousand dollars. He is the only man
in Pennsylvania who has been thus hon
ored by the Vandas for his uns werying
devotion to freedom"
bW~That promised declension of Fish.
er-"Goveruor Fisher,' as Mahony fa.
cetiously calls him-hangs fire Bying.
ton still runs the coppcrhcad concern,
and the Dubuque Herald is apparently
Innocent of the recent pow.wow at Dav-
enport, and of its little arrangement for
swapping Fisher for Tuttle. This is a
serious com mplication which may put the
Copperhcad STATE Ticket in jeopardy. -
We see no way out of it but to run Fish
er upon the Byington platform in the
North, Tutte on the New York soldier
in the South, and Dean upon dirt and to-
tai depravity in the West.-Hamkeye.
The Nashville Union says that two
years ago General Pillow wrote letter
advocating the arming of negroes against
the Federal Government in certain con-
tingencies. This was long before our
authorities had thought of arming the
blacks and employing them in the work
of saving the nation.
The Springfield Republican wants
to know if Gen. KiIpatrich was sent to
quell the riot in New York because Of