The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-04-13

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The Latest News -"
General Candy had fight With the
rebels, near Mobile, on the Z1th u't.mo'
and drove them to their works den'
Steele has cut their railroad communica
t;ons. captured rebel General, and some
prisoners, and is marching on Blake'y to
flank the rebel position. au Zig 5ri-t'E
Breckenridge was with Lee on Friday
last. and the hope has been entertained
that he has been captured.
Ono report says Lees surrendered ar
INV numbers q, 900 men; another report
places the number at $4,000, and but few
common, those having been previously
captured. =. J,.a. --.s. 80. ~, .tfs0
Itis reported that Kirby Smith .propos.
"a the surrender of the rebel army west
of the Mississippi, and that the early res s:
torationa Of Texas to tho Union 10 Proba,
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Jaf Davis arrived at Dan week
.oo With three dilapidated trunks tie
oil! It IS said, make an attempt to esta6-
i;sh his Goyerumhnt at Charlotte, ~ y.
General Stonemau has struck the railroad
hetveen Danyille and Greensboro, cut
tino off Johnson escape from Sherman. %
The Tribune. Washington special
saws three companies Of Mosby's guerillas
disbauded on Wednesday, at Culpeper,
and dispersed for their homes. Mosby
has less than 800 men, now mostly oper-
.,;no On the neck of land running down
to Aouia Creek aud Fredericksburg.
The gainesville Telegraph says that a
man named Valentine Perkins who has
beeu in a state Of almost complete ossifi.
cation for twenty Eve years, has just died
At their county in6rmary aged fifty-two
wears. Ossi6catiou commenced when he
was eleven years old, joint by JOINT,
when he became totally ossified with the
execution that he could move two OF his
fingers, and make tho slightest percepti-
bile motion with one of his toes. His
health has generally been good until .
dav or two since and he has had good
appetite. He has been totally blind for
the last thirty years.
When after his retirement from the
limited States Senate, four years ago,
jeff Davis passed through Vicksburg
on his return to his plantation in the VI
cini.y, he was surrounded by crowd o
people and called on for speech. =
n. ksssassu1nsauAunAn,,As-Aalixaks d-A fey
Yankees know. too we'll the difference Be
tween ninety-nine cents and a, dollar, ts
ever go to war" If JEFF, at this tim,
has enough wits left to tell how many
cents make dollar, he is a good deal les!
scared individual than we take him t.
be. s'. :
The Herald publishes a list of the
General officers surrendered by Lee, in :
Guiding the General 10 chief, three Lieu
tenant Generals, seventeen Major Gen
erals, slxty-one Brigadier Generals. -
Among them are Anderson, Echols ane
Ewell, already prisoners, Finnepan
Heth; Bushrod, johnson, Kershaw
Longstreet, Malone, McCausland, Mos
by, Ould (the Exchange Commissioner
pemberton, Pickett, Rosser, Sorrell ant
Henry A. Wise. The number of me,
surrendered by Lee is from 10000 t,
$4,000.
The Secretary of War 10 his receu
report stated that l,l41 pieces of arm
have been furnished to the Union arm
by the Ordnance Department duriu,
the fiscal year. -..t ...- 80.
From August 8 to Febusry %, W.
wrested from tho enemy 1,3Ol light and
heavy guns Add to this number 81,
hundred captured by Sherman and Gran,
10 their late movements, and We have
1000 guns secured from the rebels il
eight months time, or 700 more thar
are required to meet the demands of GU,
own forces during years time.
Secretary Seward met with serioul
accident at Washington on the aftern oor
of the 9Th inst. The horses attached te
his carriage started to run away. He
attempted to jump from the vehicle, an
doing so fell heavily on his arm, which
was broken and shattered below the
shoulder His right jaw was also frae-
tured aud his face considerably cut and
bruised For an hour after the occur
renee he was unconscious, but towards
evening he improved considerably, and
was considered out of danger. i '.''s-aI~
The excursion party for Fort Sumter
headed by Gen. Anderson, sailed from
New York yesterday, in the steamer A "a.
60. 1t will receive considerable acco.
sion at Fortress Monroe, made from a
party which loft Washington yesterday
with the same intent. 80
A bill to prevent the defacing of rocks
and fences BY advertisements Of ouack
medicines has passed both bran ches Of
the New York Legislature. :.
The Indian war in Arizona drags along
Inc Apaches continue to steal horses
mules and cattle, and plumber emierapt
'la'ns' and military expeditions occasion.
A force under T,ient Ror,