The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1864-01-14

having eject throughout JUL '"oA e"~
desertioos are freqsest. The officers
were promising a speecy advance north
ward to keep them quiet.
The bill of Senator Lane, Of Kansas,
TO set apart 4 pcrtios Of the State OF
Texas for the use Of persons Of African
descent, assigned them the region below
the Colorado and Rio Grande, in Texas,
in which they are allowed the privileges
Of the Homestead Law. The officer in
charge Of migration, hereafter to be ap.
pointed BY the President, is charged with
tho execution Of this act, and the sppro-
priatioos heretofore made for colonization
purposes are placed in the hands OF the
President to carry its provisions into
effect.
A negro brigade went into North
Carolina and released 5000 slaves from
bondage, with whom were taken about
$50 OK, horse sud mule teams and about
rs saddle horses. The guerrillss lost Ii
killed and wounded. Ten dwellings, with
many thousand bushels Of corn, were
burned, besides two distilleries. Four
rebel camps we're destroyed and one
guerrilla hung. One hundred rifles and
equipments fell into our hands. Our
loss was IL killed and wounded, and one
prisoner taken. We brought in fourteen
rebel prisoners and four hostages.
An entire family of seven persons
was frozen to death near Centreville,
Mich, during the cold spell about the
LIST. 1t is supposed their house caught
fire during the night, and in attempting
to escape to other shelter they persisted.
Their bodies were found in snow drifts,
At different intervals, on the road to
Centreville. The mother had made the
farthest progress, her lifeless remains be.
ing found erect 10 snow drift about
mA and a half from the house. The
bodies Of the two smallest children we're
with her, the youngest at the breast.
The name Of the family was Krutzer-
German.
The Richmond Examiner thus
fippantly and audaciously announces the
murder Of a federal prisoner in that
modern Sodom: "He was intoxicated
and commenced praising up Abe Lincoln
and his Government in the presence Of
two Southern soldiers who were in the
house. They heard him through and
then one caved in his mouth with spit
toon and the other cut him entirely
through the upper part of the thigh. He
came nigh bleeding to death before he
could be carried to the hospital. The
parties to the assault walked away, as
sorting that he was not the first Yankee
they had killed, and be would not be the
last"
On New Years day a western NJ.
c. calling on tho President, said, ga
year from to-day, Mr.. President, l hope
to congratulate yon on three events: l.
The suppression of the rebellion. 2. The
entire abolition Of slavery. 3. The re-
election Of Abraham Lincoln"
II would be very willing to compro-
mise" said the President, Gin the two
first"
~ trust" said the NJ. c., "God will
bless the country with all three events"
The War department has determin-
ed to credit on their respective States, all
re.enlistiDg soldiers who have already
served two years. It is estimated that
seventy-6ve thousand out of the three
hundred thousand men last called for
will be raised in this manner. Of the
residue, hundred and twenty-five thou
sand men are expected to volunteer,
leaving not more than hundred thou
sand to be drafted.
Gov. Bradford's (Maryland) message
was transmitted to the Legislature to- day,
Jan. 9TH. He gays tho finances of the
State are in prosperous condition. In
reference to the question of emancipation,
he says: 81 believe to-day, as have
done for years, that if We had long ago
provided for the gradual emancipation OF
the State, we should now be, as regards
all national elements of public prosperity,
IN advance of our present position. The
products Of our State and its natural re-
sources are not such as are adapted to OF
can be developed by slave labor. l an
satisfied that the people of the State, il
their moments of calm and deliberate re
Election long since came to the same con
clusion. When conspiring leaders a
the South lifted their hands against tn
Union, and pointed to slavery as the in
stitution upon which their visionary re
public was to rest, they struck blow a
its very vitals in every border State, un
der which it has continued to anguish
and which must inevitably result 10 it:
ultimate destruction. 1t becomes US
therefore, to whom the whole question
rigbtfully belongs, TO take iamediat,
measures for its removal, which should
be no longer delayed than may be re
quired by proper respect for those indus
trial pursuits with which the 10 stitutio,
bss been long and so intimately interwo
ven, and , humane regard for the slav,
himself, which forbids US to cast him
unprepared for so great a change, to,
suddenly upon his feeble resources