The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1864-04-28

oou Wv PiisouVASy uSsluec N">'A 'A"'"3
horses and mules.
MURDERED By INDIANs-Informa-
ton has been received at Genera! Sullys
headquarters, at Davenport, that the
Indians killed two men about fifty miles
above Sioux City, on the Big Sioux
river, about the 9th inst. One was
Fred. Pattee, a brother of Lieut.. Colonel
John Pattee, Of the eth Iowa cavalry
The men we're coming down with boat
laden with furs. One man had for some
purpose landed, when the Indians fired
on the two men in the boat and killed
them. The man on the shore escaped.
The Indians got possession of the boat
and helped themselves to good assor.-
ment of furs. Troops are in pursuit.
The work of organization Of colored
troops, and employment Of freed men on
plantations in the Southwest, goes on
quietly but effectively. Adjt. General
Lorenzo Thomas, to whom this important
task has been entrusted, is solving, by
practical examination and experiment.
one of the greatest problems of the war.
His tour of inspection has already been
extended through Tennessee and down
tho Mississippi as far as Natchez.
- The Ship Canal Bill in Congress
has been postponed for the present, by
agreement among its friends.
The statement that Gen. Grant has
determined to disband the Invalid corps,
and send able bodied men to the front
and permanently disabled to their homes,
is utterly unfounded, and is believed to
have been inspired by some disappointed
aspirant for promotion in the corps.
1T is reported that the Indians have
torn down the telegraph line twice near
junction Station, bstween Juiesburg
and Denver City.
"A Merhouiov pr---i .,.-suu.
ing the past year he offciated in two
churches in New Haven county, in one
Of which there was no. a Democratic
member, and in the other not a Repub.
lican, a...
The monster OK, "Pride of Living
ston," is now on exhibition at the SAM
tary Fair in New York, and attracts great
attention. He weighs 5000 pounds
The Baltimore american does not
hesitate to say the greater part Ct the
vote which in Missouri, Maryland and
Kentucky, will be cast for Mcclellan, is a
vote that would be more graciously cast
for JEFF. Davis, and only takes up the
other as the next best man.
John G. Hccnan is still in London.
lie has fits now, and falls down in the
street. He has never been we'll since he
was druggod for the fight with King by
the friends of the latter. 1t is thought
he will never recover.
"A statement was recently made in
the rebel House of Representatives, Civ
ing the number Of troops supplied to the
rebel army by the respective States since
the war began, as follows: Alabama las
furnished 40, 900; Florida 5000; Georgia
$1,000; Louisiana 5000; Mississi ppi
10000; North Carolina $4,000; South
Carolina $4,000; Texas $4,000; Virginia
100000; Arkansas $4,000; Tennessee
$4,000; Kentucky and Maryland 10000
each; Missouri 5000. Total, sol 900.
A London letter says that during
the months of January and February last
the sun was unseen in England. THAI
must be nice country to live in. W.
guess the sun was ashamed to be seen il
a land which was guilty of inducing poo
little Denmark to hold out against al
Germany and tEen failed to aid it.
that was not the cause we can't imagin
any. Certainly Englishmen should vel
their faces after such conduct. But the
don't. So the sun did it for them.
An exchange says that Mr.. and Mrs
Mallory, Of the Rebel Cabinet, are SO poo
that they have to borrow dishes, and ar
grateful for presents Of milk: They ma
console themselves, however, with tn
christian reflection, cit doth not yet ap
pear what VIC shall be-"
-Slugs are said to have invaded Aus
tralia in hosts. An eyewitness says h
saw them moving in millions in a com.
pact body, stripping the country, march
ing about mile and half day, an,
clearing breadth Of half mile ia thci
line Of march. The Australian shepherd
were looking for help to the grasshoppe
bird, hoping he mi ght change his diet
for time, to slugs, especially as grass
hoppers are SO scarce.
/ A Homestead Association, organiz-
ed at Syracuse, New York, took thei
depasture for q new homo at Yap kton
Dacotah, on the l2.h. Tho party con-
sisted of los families, comprising owe
four hundred and fifty persons, all O
them from Central New York The ex
petition took special train from syria
cuse, consisting Of six passenger cars ane
ten baggage cars. The movers 90 b,
way Of the Canada route to Chicago, anc
leaving the railroad in Central Iowa, they
will 60 overland in wagons. This is set
ting up anew country in earnest