The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1864-12-01

Florence, the military prison, . 200
Fmiles from The Florsoce depot, which ID
about 100 miles froa Cdsmbia, asd the
same distance from Wilmington and
Charleston. The stocksde has 40 area Of
SO acres, and . building $50 feet long
There are about l6, 900 prisoners in th.
s.ocksde, and shout 1000 have taken
the oath Of allegiance More conteu-
plate doing 50. The grestest mortality
per diem since the establishment Of thu
stocksdo l. City i've and the smallest
shout thirty. .al~rss as :a ,t 4.
| -Thoss who think Gen. Thomas
troops are idle and accomplishing nothing
are mistaken. About six hundred pris
oners,. recently captured, have passed
through this city from Nashville, for the
North, within > day or two past. Five
hundred and twenty eight arrived yes
terdsy, en- route for Camp Douglas, Chi
csgo. Among them are eight field and
staff officers and twenty company or lioe
officers. Twenty six captured rebel com.
missioned officers were sent to johnson
Island on Thursday.
Tho Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and
Sentinel prints the following extract
from = letter dated, Msdison, Ca, Nov.
7th: If Gov Brown tells the truth 10 his
message, We live under . worse tyranny
than was possible in the old Union. II,
by the blessings Of Providence, you can
once get on the track aud the train star-
ted for peace, all the powers 10 Richmond
or Washington cannot stop or throw it
off. Show as how to negotiate. Point
out some leader; let him be open, frank
and fearless, and the people will follow
as sure a. the sun shines. Let him be
man who can inspire confidence and
equal to the task Of stopping the mad
ness Of these days. ..s.
At the session Of the Georgia Legisla.
turs 1t Milledgeville, on the 18th, the
public fluids we're ordered to be removed
to place Of safety, and measures taken
for . speedy adjournment On the 18th
there was general stampede Of members,
and most of them had gone home or were
wandering about, studying how to get
A Connecticut Clergyman Illuminated
his house in celebration Of the election,
and exhibited over bis door q transpar-
ency, with the quotation from Genesis:
And the angel Of the Lord called unto
Abraham ONT Of Heaven = second time +"
Fred Douglass, While delivering .n
al IN R~1ss 81
was accompanied BY his sister, a freed
Maryland slave, whom no had not seen
since be made his escape, thirty years ego
JEFF Davis has suppressed two North
Carolina papers for "disloyal,y'" lie
used to think cotton was king, but now
when any Of his press refuse to cotton to
him he goes in for muzzliu'. He will
get wvrsted 10 the end.
Ga the ssh Of November, Bernard
Eiseuh nth, a resident of New Castle
Township, Schuylkill County, Pa, sged
one hundred and seven years Eve mouths
and twenty three days, voted for Abra-
ham lincoln. M. Eissnhuth voted for
Wsshsugsos, and as every Presidential
election from that period to this. 1t
seems that before the late election he al
ways voted tho Democratic ticket, but
since the commen cement Of the present
var, one Of his daughters has read the pa.
pers pretty regularly to him; he judged
Mr.. LincoIn's Administrator, and declsr-
ed that Mr.. Lincoln Was Just like Wash.
ingtcn, and that be would vote for him.
Mr. Eisenhuth vas born 10 Lebanon, Pa j,
and vas member Of the Lutheran
Church Of that place. He has lived 10
the woods of Sehuyk county during the
last fifty years.
The "World's Health Convention"
ended its important business by an after
noon and evening session on Thursday
Its unapimity Of sentiment was somew that
remarkable, as may be judged from the
following facts, which werc indubitably
proved: ITha. by stric. adherence to veg.
etable diet only men may acquire immor.
taity and freedom from toothache; that
hydropathy embodies the only true theory
Of health: that the same may be said of
homeopathy; that the irst question tea.
cher should ask female pupils, "Mary.
how's your back" an Interrogation some
what similar to the oldfashioned English
question, "How are your poor fcet?"-
The Convention engaged itself partially in
song singing, emitting temperance, patri.
otto, and 5snorous stanzas. A fair be:
ing 10 the boomer costum participated in
the esercises,and made an address partly
medical and partly patriotic. The audi.
ence was not large, and consisted mainly
Of be specialized reformors. The speak.
ers were Dr. Cameron, Of Delaware, Dr..
Ellis, Professors Do Lewis, Clark and
Trail; Mrs. Farmer, the we'll known ex.
FOUNDER of Woman's Rights, and Miss T.
II. Gooaell, NJ. -. The next Convention
win be held in B5ston, September, 1865
The FIRST cavalry division of Shsridan's
arny, from August l6 until November
Is, 1864, captured and destroyed rebel
property during the csmpsigs IN the
Shenandoah Valley TO the amount Of s3,.
304, 735, and the third cavalry divisions
captures, &c, amounted to 1850, 900.
The former took twenty. nine rebel Guns