The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-09-03
NEWS ITEMS.

J ton, East Tennessee, which is about 81
. miles from Knoxville.
Floyd, Buchanan's thicving Secre
tsry of War, died at Abingdon, Va, o.
the Goth ult.
A private dispatch dated Hons
Kong, July 9th, says war against Japan
England, and France is almost certain.
-Vallsndinham is now holding fortl
to his admirers at Windsor, Canada, op
posite Detroit.
One dollar in gold is now selling il
Richmond for sixteen dollars Of "Con-
federate' money, and "greenbacks" ar
twelve dollars premium.
The rebel Price is said to have ,
force of $4,000 in Arkansas. Steele.
Federal forces were approaching them
and battle was expected at last &C
counts.
Up to the latest dates from Law.
renee the number killed footed up to one
hundred and eighty one. There are fifty
persons missing.
There will be no draft in Illinois,
as they have an excess Of nearly
10000. Ohio also has an excess. The
drafting in Pennsylvania was finished up
last week.
No negro has ever been authorized
to vote 10 any State Of the Union, that
did not receive his authority for so doing
directly from the Democratic party.
His Impirial Hi ghness the Arch
duke Maximillan accepts with the con-
sent of his august brother, the Emperor
Of Austria, the crown of the new Mexi-
can Empire.
1t is a significant fact of the faint
of disloyalty in a certain political party,
that not a sin gle one Of the many Demo.
cratic conventions held during the past
two months has espresso jubilation over
the National victories.
- Up to last week the War Depart
meut has organized twenty FIVE compa.
MES of invalids, who are to do garrison
and other duties. The invalid corps is
composed of soldiers rendered unfit for
service in the field by wounds or disease.
The Council Bluffs Buyle, the lead.
ing Democratic paper on the Missouri
slope, refuses to hoist the name of Tut
tie 1t says there is too much treachery
and double dealing in running him as
the candidate of an anti.war party.
The democrats of Rome, Oneida co.
n. Y, demanded a revision of the enroll.
ing lists Of that district. The list was
carefully revised, and the result proved
that out Of every six persons found omit
ted five were democrats.
-Col. Bussey, of the Sd Iowa cavalry,
an old Democratic Senator in the State
Legislature. doesn't endorse futile by
long shot. He has made several eechcs
lately, in the course of which he leveled
his batteries at the head of the ambitious
Brigadier with stunning effect.
-Elcctions take place this fall in
eleven loya! States, as follows: Vermont,
Sept. LIST; California, Sept. ID; Maine,
Sept. l4th; Ohio, Oct 18th; Iowa, Oct.
18th; Pennsylvania, Oct. 18th; Massa.
chusetts, Nov Sd; New York, Nov. 3D.;
Wisconsin, Nov. 9Th; Delaware, Nov.
10th; Minnesota, Nov. 10th.
The Mobile Register says: "The
negro is no longer an object of small talk
in the South. The people of the South
have pace for him, and that is in the
army. There should be no distinction
of color when mae is willing to fight for
his home and master"
A lawyer has been tried and fined by
a jury in Paterson, n. j., for nibbling.
He followed the practice Of going into
groceries and cutting off pieces of cheese,
taking crackers and buttering them, and
such like things. The jury ordered him
to pay twenty-five dollars tor his bread
and cheese to the proprietor of one store
where he pibbled. He must be Gan old
rat, though he is lawyer
A bureau for the settlement of suit
lers' claims has been established in tn,
Treasury Department. All stoppsges o
soldiers wages by the regimental sutler
are examined here. There arc numerou
instances where the suffers fail to pro-
duce well authenticated vouchers, an
10 these instances the amount elaine
returns to the L. s.
Gen. Banks has recently issued tw
important orders, one direct. Z Gen
Butler assessments to be enforced a yains
parties who subscribed to the loan raise
to defend New Orleans against the Uni
ted States authority, and directing til
banks of the city to pay over to the Qua
termaster's Department all moneys i
their possession belonging to registere
enemies, or those convicted of renderiu
aid and comfort to the enemy.
Some suffers in Gen. GiImore's de
partmcnt having been caught selliD
, rum to the soldiers, were made to wor
two days 10 the trenches, With reb
shells thrown from the front, and a guar
behind ordered to shoot them down
, they attempted to escape. They we,