The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1864-03-10
The Latest News.


Free State candidate for Governor of :
Louisiana, was elected on the ed alt,
by l,727 majority over both the other
candidates. 1908 votes were pollcd in
all.
The whiskey bill has finally passed
Congress, imposing tax of sixty cents
upon spirits manufactured before the LIST
of July next, aud an additional tsx Of
forty cents upon imported spirits on
hand. Domestic spirits on hand are not
taxed. The bill has been signed by the
President. .s....
A Fort Monroe letter Ct the 9Th
says, Gen. Peck is besieged at Newbern,
and nearly every post in North Carolina.
Kilpatrick's veteran horsemen arc god
send to this department, and Gen. Butler
will certainly retain them.
A dispatch from Des Moines states
that Mr.. Durant has lately negotiated
loan of million dollars for tho Missis-
sippi and Missouri Railroad. Railroad
enterprises in this State have never prom
ised so we'll as At tho present time.
| Passengers By tho steamer Lumina-
~, from Vicksburg on the Sd, says Sher-
51oushs . small 10. Of negroes and large
lot Of mules, cattle, hogs, &c. Rebel ru.
mors say Col. Forrest was killed in 40
engagement with Sherman.
Supervisor Booth, of Brooklyn, N.
Y, has just returned from Washington,
aud officially Informed the Board of Su.
pervisors that call for 100000 more
men would soon be made, and that the
draft would be enforced. lie was so in-
formed by Secretary Stanton, who ad
vised to keep on recruiting, as all the
overplus would be credited to the county
in the next draft.
-The business of blockade runuingis
resumed at Charleston. Hardly a week
passes without couple of vessels getting
IN. Over 10000 negroes arc engaged in
certifying Charleston. "
The European news gives little iu-
dicatioos of q pacific settlement to the
Danish war. Hostilitics were being
pushed forward, and the event cannot
prove doubtful if the weaker party calls
out no powerful intervention in her be-
half
The full details of the disaster to
our forces in Florida are published in the
) New York papers. The misfortune orig
mated because our force was less than
Eve thousand. The defeat was orderly
and deliberate, and the fact that the
rebels did not attempt to follow shows
that they were severely punished The
object Of the moving against Lake City
was to cut off supplies from the rebel
army in the West. Gen. Gilmore had
attempted to prevent the advance at that
time, but his order dispatched from Hill
ton Head did not reach General Seymour
in season.
Special dispatches gives the follow
Ing additional statements as to the re-
suits, etc of Kilpatrick's raid. Several
miles Of railroad track on two of the
principal roads on which Lee transports
supplies for tho northern army of Viz
ginia have been SO thoroughly destroyed
that some time must elapsc before the
roads can be put in running order again.
Depots Of Commissary, Quartermas,er
aud ordnance stores were burned or de-
stroyed. No less than six grist mills
aud ono saw mill, principally at work for
the rebel army, were burned. Six canal
boats loaded with grain, with several
locks on the James River Canal. and
almost invaluable coal pits, were DESTROY.
ed. Nearly 800 prisoners were captured
and several hundred horses pressed into
the service. Hundreds of ncgroes avail.
ed themselves of this opportunity to come
within our lines. He was met by the
enemy outside tho defenccs at Rich
mond, but succeeded in forcing him in
side the outer works, where a spirited
engagement ensucd, when darkness cam.
on and the conflict ended Fitzpatrick
finding the enemy and works too strong
:, to allow him to reach the city and ao
complish the object of the expedition, be
withdrew aud reached the lines of Gen
u Butler, with the loss of about $50 men.
= A dispatch dated Memphis, March
! LIST, gives some new and interesting de-
tails Of Sherman movements. The dis.
patch says that after having reached
e Meridian, Sherman sent GU, scout to fee
IL the ground and ascertain whether Logan,
who had started from Florence TO meet
= him, and Smith aud Grierson, on whose
ss'ss:H h. ; vile 3 b;ss DAY..
. elapsed before he received any answer,
= but as his army had but limited ratiops
J. be by rapid movement which discon.
D certed the rebels, suddenly turned to-
wards Aberdeen aud Columbus, in the
richest part Of Eastern Mississippi, where
his army was sure to ind an abundance
of provisions. By this movement he
turned his back on Selma and Mobile,
and marched towards Logan, who had
already advanced to meet him, and by an
audacious stroke of strategy, placed him.
self at distance of about 100 miles from
Iohnson's flank now menannd hn h;s a