The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-02-02


ssrassgsy and personal bravery on tas
6eld Of dssgsr fortsls new ssmpaign
against che ssbsls. g. ! e. @
! The news Of The surrender Of The 18th
Tennessee cavalry (rebeD, abort 600
strong, il confirmed. They had come In.
to our lines, Wishing TO surrender, take
!. ths oash and 60 home.
The Lsgislsturso Of Missouri has passed
. bill sppropris,ing IS, 600 yeaf for ten
years, to the Soldier Orphans Hon.
Of St. Louis. aus.,.a.... 7s5.. :
Two more extensive sooAagrations have
occurred, one at East Saginaw, Mich, do.
stroying property to the smount Of $3.50,
600, aud the other ut Hamilton, c. w.,
involving loss Of over 500, 600. ha.7@
A sharp fight, lasting two days, on the
Arkansas River, between our troops and
| the rebels under Gen Shelby, is report.
Cd to have taken place on the 21st and
22d ult. No details further than that
our troops with the loss of twenty Eve
men succeeded in driving Shelby back
from the river. 80
A general movement is on foot among
Western railroad managers, in view Of
the increased cost of fuel 10 particular,
and of constructions, repairs, and other
expenses in general, to reduce the speed
Of passenger trains to = maximum Of
twenty miles per hour. u.s. va
W. F. Smith, member of the rebel
Congress from Alabama, has withdraw
from that body and addressed letter to
his constituents denouucing the iSensi.
mel for its assault upon menbe who "a.
vored peace negotiations.
Alexander Dumas proposes to deliver
lectures on Garibaldi when he comes to
thi, country, snd "insists" on writing "a
history, ss picturesque as possible, of the
four years of Mr.. Lincoln's Presidency"
which he Gays, published in French,
would be read through the whole Of Eu-
rope, and be Of imense benefit to the cause
Of the North. EgotistiSl:
Rebel deserters persist in their state.
ment, that Charleston is being evacuated
by the rebels, who prefer to leave their
hole before it is stopped by Sherman
Other more strategic points for digging
the last ditch than near the city which
provoked the contest.
Indian depredations continue to be
made on Government stations in the
West. A battle has recently taken place
in which twenty of the red men we're
sent to their mythical hunting grounds.
The rebel General Kirby Smith, who
commands the rebel forces West of tho
Mississippi, is said to be negotiating for
the transfer Of his troops to Maximilisn
of Mexico.
jeff Davis has appointed the 10th of
March next as day of fasting, humilia-
ton, prayer and thanksgiving. The
prayers Of the unrighteous have thus far
done the rebellion no good. -....
slc 's'o1Tce; the view ok Herald states I
hat the armies of the rebellion, all told,
now number only 16s, $50 men, aud that
the only army upon which the rebels de.
pend is that at and around Richmond.
A private letter from member of the
29th Iowa infantry, dated in Arkansas,
says: 1900 rebels came to our lines
yesterday to give themselves up. There
is Brigadier General with them. They
will have to await correspondence with
the War Department. General Carr has
gone to Memphis to telegraph to Wash.
ington in regard to the matter. l think
the rebel Brigsdier will be pardoned, and
the 1000 rebels will come under the
Presidents amnesty proclamation.
The New York Tribune, of last Mon.
day, has leading article on recogui.
ton intrigue, in which, it says, it has
obtained clue to the European cemplot
wherefrom the slaveholding rebels are
comforting themselves with hopes of
powerful and speedy aid to their sinking
cause. Its outline is this: At an early
stage of the rebellion JEFF. Davis sent
the Roman Catholic Bishop Lynch, of
South Carolina, to Europe, to search for
sympathizers and allies, but to make
Rome the focus Of his operations. It
was not difficult for him to convince the
master spirits Of European reaction and
absolutism that the slaveholders' REBEL.
ion was identical in .pirit with their
cause, and enlist their synpathies but
Bishop Lynch went further, and assured
the magnates of the Catholic church that
its expansion and predominauce through.
out this hemisphere would be assured BY
the triumph of the rebels. In Difference
to these representations, a secret league
Of the Roman Catholic powers-France,
Spain and Austria, under the guidance
Of the Pope--has been formed, pledged
to recognize the Confederacy after the
4th of next March on the ground that il
did not take part in the Presidential"
This sounds very much like "big SELL
The Albany Euening Journal has a
story Of a business man in that city who
was supposed to be very rich, but who
returned such a small income to the
United States Assessor that the banks
have refused to discount note for him
on his own security.
Competent judges At Washington esti-
L. Al