The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-12-24
mails are discussing the suggestion of

nails are discussing the suggestion OF a
call for 100000 or 100000 volunteers
to take Richmond, and release our starV'
ing and dying countrymen held there as
prisoners. If this work could be done
at all, by this process, it could be done
in three months after the crusaders were
landed on the soil of Virginia
1D-The new State of West Virginia
has been divided by her Legislature INTO
townships, like other Free States and
unlike the Slave States, which have no
civil division below counties. She has
also adopted comprehensive Free School
system. They say West Virginia is un.
constitutional, but she don't act like It.
nea- The dispatches tell US that the
Democratic members of Congress are In
cooperating the new movement OF the
party, looking to complete change OF
front, preparatory to Presidential cam. :.
paign. At caucus, on Wednesday oi
last week, they were unanimously IN
favor of voting all the men and means
required for the vigorous prosecution OF
the war, and it is given out that a thor
ough war platform is the Democratic
programme for the future. 1t is about
time for them TO ''come in out of the
wet"
Lsg~ A correspondent with the Army
of the Cumberland gives an interesting
account of late movements in the " est
Bracg's forces are estimated to be now
but fifteen or twenty thousand, and he
is said to have but thirteen pieces of
cannon, our captures having reached G3
So Of which are now parked in front
of Gen. Thomas headquarters. The
rebel forces in the cotton States are said
to be distributed as follows: With Bragg
at Dalton, 20, 00e; in Mississippi, - 900;
at Mobile, 500; and scattered 10 various
places, 5000. This is exclusive Of those
west Of the Mississippi and irregular
guerrillas.
nH- Morgan crossed the Tennessee
river above Chattanooga. He came near
bei1g captured. Two Of his officers and
thirteen of Tis escort w}rt' taken. Nor
gan was mounted on a fast horse, pre-
sented to him by a Kentucky synpathiz
er. Our cavalry were securing the coun
try south of the Tennessee, in search of
Morgan.
pg-The Senate of the loyal Virginia
Legislature, now in session at Alexan
dria, have passed bill calling conven-
ton to meet in that city on the 25th Of
January, to effect the abolition Of Slave
ry 10 the FIVE counties of the State cx-
empted from the operations of the Presi-
dents proclamation. These counties are
Accomac, Northampton, Princes Anne,
York and Elizabeth, and include tie
cities Of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
pa The Des Moines Register, of the
Goth inst publishes the official vote of
this State (includiug the soldiers vote)
for Judge of the Supreme Court-being
a total of 1914 for Dillon and %, 06S
for Mason, making Dillon's majority 49,.
G73. The vote for Governor and Lieu
tenant Governor will be canvasscd by the
General Assembly next month.
I-The Presidents Message propos-
es that ono-tcnth the number of voter.
who exercised the elective franchise at
the Presidential election in 1860, may,
after taking tic oath of loyalty, organize
State Government and be admitted tc
all its privileges.
Ia the aristocratic State Of South Car
DINA the people are not allowed to vot
for President, and cons equently Their
were no votes cast at the popular electio
in 1860. So there is no provision mad
by the President for the resumption {
the rights and powers of loyal State i
the Union by the arch traitors of Sout
Carolina.
1t is to be hoped that this omission
however casual, may prove signidcan
and that the territory Of South Carolin
after the removal of its white inhabitant
: may be surrendered to the colored pc
pie, for whom it would make very DE-
9 sirable country.
A good joke was perpetrated by a rel
prisoner captured at Chickamauga. The rel
q was looking at one OF our guns, and remark
4 that "he didn't think that the Yanks would
them big guns much longer" why not:'
t. quirea the Feds. BE cause said he, Il
Y Confederacy is getting so narrow that you'll !
clear over it, and hit your men on the other sid
d AT recent meeting Of bank officers
Cleveland it was resolved on and after Dee,
her 10th, to throw out all currency hut st
Bank of Ohio, indiana tha,new National Ct
- cncy and legal tender or" gseenAaeks."
-0ne hundred and seventy-thlee new
h cruits and seventy one convalescents were :
South from Camp Mcclellan, Davenport.
le week That is start towards State que
;" There are about six thousand rebel pris
a. ers now in Camp Dougl many ofwhom, act
ar ding to the testimony Of the Chicago Tribl
declare themselves willing to abide by the CO,
Is Of the Presidents Proclamation. Over one
lc dred Of the prisoners have enrolled their Ia
"a and had th:m forwarded to Washington Off,
=. To enlist in the United States Navy. 1t il bel
is ed their proposition will be accepted.
=" The steamer Chesapeake was transferred
the British auth orties. On her arrival at H
"A fax, a large crowd was presnt, who rescued
- rebel prisoners and despatched them to 20