The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1864-11-24

looking pixies, hiss been tried snd scqsig:
ted, the judge in dismissing the prison CT
stating that there was no law 10 Canada
to prevent man having pixies in his
house If he wanted to do 50. n
A newspaper correspou dent Who wit
messed, after the battle of Cedar Bun,
one Of the very few military reviews
which the active Sheridan has found
time to hold, says that not one regiment
which passed in review carried . whole
flag, aud the large proportion of the once
glorious banners under which they were
| led on so many battle. fields, we're now but
the remnsuts Of what they were-mere
shreds, dropping in strings beside their
shattered stats.
There was grsa. rejoicing 10 the city
OF Richmond che night last week over .
rumor of McC'ellan's election. North
eru "sympa,hisers" have not had even
one hour Of comfort, bat they wil,ed from
the first telagraphic dispatch.
More than one hundred lives have
been lost 10 the Northern States since
October 3lst, and nearly as many persons
have been more or less injured, many Of
them for life, BY railroad sccidents In
nearly every case these accidents might
have been avoided by such precautions
SIS the merest common sense would die
tate.
Sephen A. Douglas vas reported to
have died iusolvent. We are glad to
learn from the Chicago eurral that such
Gas not the Csc. On Monday the exec.
utor presented receipts to the county
court, showing that he had paid over
SIS, 500 to Mrs. Douglas, and over 81 900
to the two children, after liquida,ing all
demands against tie estate.
An emancipation movement in Cuba
looks to the gradual abolition Of slavery,
all persons born Of servile parents, after
the first of January next, to become free
at the age of twenty four, and to be paid
for their labor after resching the age of
twenty, at the rate Of Slo2 for four years
Mr.. Amcs of Conn tcu., WHO, after
many rebutfs from the Ordnance Bureau,
at length succeeded in getting from the
higher power contract for fifteen
wrouhgt iron rifled finch guns, has had
one of them tested with charges Of twenty.
FIVE pounds of quick. burning powder, in.
creased after few trials to thirty pounds,
seven hundred times No perceptiblc
Impression was made on the gun The
strain endured by this gun is more than
four times az great as that which was
ventured on the 90 inch CUR, which is
called great triumph. We need not
say tina: the velocity and effect Of the shot
are in proportion to the power applied
With the Hotchkiss prcjscti!c, and thir.
ty five degrees elevation, range Of seven
miles was reached.
The ports of Norfolk, Va, and Fer.
nandina aad Pensacola, Fla, having for
some time been in the military possession
of the United States, it is deemed advis.
able tina. they should be opened to do
nestle aud foreign commerce; therefore,
the President has issued his proclamation
making known that pursuant to authority
vested in him By the ac: Of Congress CT
June, 1851, the blockade of these ports
shall SO far cease and terminate, from and
after the lss day of December next, that
commercial relations with them, except
as to persons and things aud Information
contraband Of war, may from that time
be carried on, subject to tho laws of the
United States, to the limitations and 10
pursuance of the regulations which may
be prescribed by the Secretary Of the Ma.
w, al j to such military and naval recu.
Iations As are now in force or may here
after be found necessary.
Ben. Wood is iu favor Of once more
calling together the Chicago Convention
in order to give that botv chance to
prepare their funeral and u::e decently.
Fl speaketh thus: eve sueges: to tie
Executive Committee Of the Na:iccal
Democratic Convention the proprlety Of
calling that body together, and give it
the opnortun,.- to adjourn sine die. The
Convention by its on,, resolution, is gift
ed with kind Of qu1si Immortality, de-
pendent upon the volit!oG Of its Es.cu
tive Committee. The gon,lomca Of the
Convention are naturally uneasy uader
this doom of eternal organisation. After
dcmolishiog their platform, it is the re-
fuement of cruelty to compe! them to
dwell forever amid its ruins. We hope
that Mr. belmont will disem body this
troubled spirit, aud bid it God speed
across the political Styx.'
The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph says of
the rebel enlistment Of negroes: at
would be adopting the spirit of abolition,
ism in its broaG:nst sign fcanca Gree
ley, Beecher, Seward, Lincoln. and all
the Abolition horde would send US their
hearty greeting over the prs,ace of such
measure 1t would be confession of
greater weakness than four years Of war
has succeeded IN e,citing," Yea, verify.
Then would we Indeed be band Of Abo-
i,ionis,s, from the lakes to the gulf; yes.
al. save the coppcrheads, aud even some
Of them, in this vicinity. think that their
members Of Congress ought to vote for
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