The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-08-17

into the river, Instantly killing one brakes
man, and iujurius another SO that he
died shortly after.
An earnest movement has been COM
meaced 10 Brazil for the abolition Of
slavery in that empire.
Six families were buried ia tho mids.
.ofs falling tenement house in Cincinnati.
ii, last Sunday. One person was killed
and several other persons badly injured.
A report from Virginia states that in
Meckienbcrg county, in that State, the
negroes are committing depredatious up.
on the property Of the whites, and that q
bad state Of feeling his arisen in conse.
quence.
The steamship Morayian has arrived
with European dates to the 4th instant
Nothing has been heard from the Great
Eastern since noon of the I'd, at which
time l 200 miles Of the cable had been
laid. The vessel was then 10 tho deep.
lest water, 2. 400 fa,homs. Insurance on
the cable had gone up from % gHineas
to so and 60. No news of the Great
Eastern had been received at Aspy Bay
up to last Sunday evening The laying
of the cable is favorably progressing.
Seventy tons of mail matter are daily
handled and looked over by the clerks in
the New York postofice. The receipts
in the first six months of the present
year, it is said, were 1856, 920.52.
The President has yielded to the So
licita.;ons of Mrs. Douglas and pardoued
Hershel V. johnson, who ran on the
ticket with her husband for President,
in 1860.
A Washington dispatch says adviccs
were received at the State Department,
from the American Consul at Malta,
stating that the cholera is raging there
-;,b the .d;scen, ;:,nas f.s rasa
pended, and quarantine is rigidly en-
forced at various places. Our Consuls at
Vienna and Trieste state that measures
have been adopted to prevent it spread
ing from the ports to which it has ex.
tended from Egypt,
An important suit has been commenced
in the United States Court against John
Minor Botts, in behalf Of one of his
former slaves, to recover pay for his
services to Mr.. Bolts after the Enamel
patton Proclamation took place, in Janu-
airy, 1858, Mr.. Bolts claiming that he
~as still his slave.
Adjutant General Thomas made a
speech at Elmira, N. Y, last Thursday,
sn response to sercnade, in which he
said that MAMMALIAN would have to get
out Of Mexico or We would hurry him
out. The Monroe doctrine must be en-.
forced.
The following rulings we're made by
the Deputy Commissioner of Internal
Revenue: The assignment or transfer of
Judgment should be stamped as an
agreement or contract. Domestic bills
OF !ading are considered as receipts for
the delivery of property, and should be
stamped as such. The bond given by
the guardian of the minor heirs of a dc.
ceased soldier, in order to apply for the
pension, bounty, or arrearages of pay, is
subject to stamp duty Of one dollar as
bond given for the due execution and
performance of the duties of any Office.
"A person employed by an Insurance Go.
to take the general cores poudence and
supervision of the interests of the Com.
pany, either at particular place, or BY
travelling from place to place, must have
license as an Insurance agent, whcthe,
he solicits risks and negotiates insurance
or not.
The receipts of Internal Revenue or
the 10th inst. amounted to very littl,
less than one million.
The question, "Who are entitled t,
pensions 2" is Of great interest to larg,
number of people, and they will be graf
flied to learn that the Commissioner O
Pensions has lately answered it. lie hal
decided that pension of s25 per month
is granted to those having lost botl
hands or both eyes in the military ser
vice of the United States, in the line O
duty, and $50 per month to those who
under the same conditions, shall hav
lost both feet, if such parties were enti
tied to lower pension under the act O
1868. This higher pension will date on
ly from the 4th of July, 1864, in tn
case of pensioners already enrolled, or o
applicants discharged prior to that date
The Cedar Rapids and St. Paul Rail
way is under contract to be completed t,
Ninton, Benton county, by the lst o
January, 1867.
The canine season began in New Yorl
on the 10th Of June Ia the sever
weeks succeeding, 3,GGS dogs had beer
slaughtered. The bounty is now reducct
from so to 40 cents.