The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-11-26
GENERAL NEWS.

The experience of the War DeIart
nent has led, as We supposed it would,
to modification of the list of disqualifi-
cations for military service. The former
orders on the subject demanded men of
about absolutely perfect health. Such
are, in fact, exceptionab,e instances
Having made this discovery, the rules
just issued adopt the mere sensible plan
of taking men usually called able BODIED.
The causes of exemption for physical
disability arc diminished by at least one
third.
Calico is said to be selling In Mobile
at the moderate price Of eight dollars q
yard That is not attributable there, we
presume, to any scarcity Of cotton. Here
it is worth twenty-five cents yard, and
that because cotton is scarce. Ought
we to grumble!
The Missionary Society Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church has just
appropriated the considerable sum Of
thirty FIVE thousand dollars for an object
which is Of importance, Tot merely to
Methodism, but to the country at large.
l. is proposed to send preachers to those
parts Of the Southern States now re-
deemed from rebel rule, to recall the
people to the church and to the Uuion.
The bishops are to make at once a vista
ton in each of the States and they will
select aud appoint fit men to send
amongst the Southern people, who have
been abandoned by their ministers, who
we're all rebels.
C. Brooks, of Camanche, Clinton
county, was instantly killed on the 18th
inst. lie jumped from railroad train
to recover lost hat, and was crushed be.
tween the cars. The accident occurred
near Lowden.
Among the treaties to come before
the Senate for ratification, is one made
last Summer by the Commissioner of In.
dian Affairs with the Chiefs of the
Creeks, by which those who joined the
rebels arc permitted to return to their
allegiance, but are to be forever disqual
fled from holding Offices Of honor, emol
ument or trust among the Indians anc
the treaty engages to abolish Slavery, a.
the Cherokee Nation has done already
and to colonze freedmen on land belong
ing to the Creeks.
The number Of immigrants who ar
rived at New York last week. was l 900
5 making the number siace January LIST
lac, 1886, against 6s, 294 to the cores
: ponding date last year, or more than on
hundred per cent more.
Intelligence from Western Afric
represents Liberia to be rapidly devel
oping the elements which constitute
free and prosperous nation. The thir,
!, term of tho college at Monrovia com
!, menced on the 18th of August. Til,
next national exhibition Of manufacture
!, aud agricultural productions is to b.
! opened on tho second Monday of March
1864, at the city of Buchanan.
The Louisville Journal says: at il
q reported that all the distilleries in Ohio
! Indiana and illinois will be closed, in
conformity with the order closing those
, of this State" This order is to the
, effect that no corn E.ust be wasted in
whiskcy making, it being needed fol
: army subsistence.
jefferson Davis said, at the begin.
ming Of the war, can the Southern blood
that will be shed in this war, can hold
in the hollow of my hand" Isn't the
"hollow" most full, Jefferson
u The Government Quartermaster q