The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-12-28

"A Georgia editor says it is . muol
more vitsl question 10 the South wheths
). the whites win work than whether th'
blacks will refuse to hbos. The loudes
and noisiest blather. sixties abost the con
stitutional lsziness aud persistent indo-
lencs Of the negro, are stout young white
men, who loaf about the corners, with
their hands in their pockets, chew to
b.ceo, and drink bad whisky while thei'
mothers keep boarding house to pay fam
lily expenses and keep up appearances.
Secretary Stanton has issued an order
setting apart all the ground upon which
the massacre Of Fort Pillow occurred for
the purpose Of erecting . nonumsnt
thereon to tho memory Of the soldiers
who fell and those who were butchered
there. This order was obtained by Mrs.
Booth, the widow of the officer who com.
msnded the colored troops there. She
is now engaged in raising funds to build
| the monument.
At Baraboo, Wis, on Thanksgiving
day, two sons of Mr. VIM. Christie,
respectively ten and eleven years old,
! were skating on the river. The elder Of
the brothers broke through. The young
er, exeIaining, my brother will drown |!
he will never 20 to school with me- any
more =! ran to his help. He also got in,
and both were drowned. es
The destitute ration" was withdrawn
10 Richmond last Friday, and the papers
there are much exercised 10 view Of the
starvation that stares some three thous.
and persons in the face. Gen. Turner
notified the city Government more than
a month ago that the Government ration
was to be Withdrawn, but tho Council
has, as yet, taken no action on the sub
ject.
Dr.. John W. Hughes was convicted,
at Cleveland, last Friday, of murder in
the first degree for shooting Miss Tam
zen Parsons at Bedford, Ga few miles
from Cleveland on the 9th of August,
1865 The circumstances of the Grim
were peculiar. DR.. Hughes, . married
man with one child, had settled in Bed
ford, where he gained the affections Of
Miss Parsons, a girl of seventeen, aud
effected her ruin. They fed to Pitts
burgb, in December, 1864, where forg.
ed divorce was exhibited and form of
marriage gone through, and where
Hughes was arrested for bigamy. He
was sentenced to the penitentiary of
Pennsylvania, in January, but soon par
doned through the agency Of his deserted
wife. The iofatustion for Tamzsn Par
sons still strong upon him, he sent his
wife and child to England, their native
country, and continued his illicit suit,
meeting, however, the opposition Of Miss
Parsons and Of her family, Baf1ed, dis. +
graced and stuug to madness, he took to
drink, aud ended the complication in a
murder committed in open day upon the |
main street of the village. Dr. Hughes
is a man Of thirty uine weave, Of superior
education aud refined manners, and has
borne himself through the trial with q
6rmness that was not shaken even BY tho
3read sentence. ..-.
The schooner Haines, from Hayti for
Boston, went ashore on the 22d, near
Nantucket. The crew, consisting of I
men, were all lost The steamer Dos,
phorus, from Liverpool, went ashore at
Fort Lafayette on the 18th.
There is report from Washington
that Gen. Grant will sail for the Rio
Grande Immediately after the holidays
The army officers who have served on
the Western Plains are urging the Pres
ident to employ the army against the
Mormons.
The principal portion Of the oil village
Of Shafer, Pa, was destroyed by fire last
Monday Ten stores aud four hotels are
10 the ruins. s---
Winder, tho associate of Wirz, has
been taken to Richmond, and confined IN
Libby Prison. He is incarceratcd in the
place which, Of all others in the South,
must be disagrceable from its previous
associations. It is stated that he is to
bexsied by military commission Some.
s&dg must be done with him, and it
6ld be moral spectacle to try him by
|H3nrt martial IN Libby Prison, the scene
Il SO many barbsrities, place Of infamy
in which one Of the wretches most guilty
in stimulating the outrages which we're
committed upon Union prisoners shall
meet his doom
4 United States paymastcr went into
. bank 10 Washington on the 22d, and
laying package containing SIS, 600 on
the tnrn.l .siA. 10 w.,>e = /
check, and while thus engaged, some one
took the money and made his escape
with it.
A terrible tragedy occurred on Sunday
morning, at a German boarding house, on
West Lake street, Chicago. Six men
in the prime Of life were stricken down
10 mortal agony by the escape Of gas from
pipe in their sleeping room. Five
were found dead, aud the other so near
the edge Of the tomb that his recovery is
vnrv dnnhtf,,1