The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-06-29
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A train OF sixty wagons, belonging t<
Mormons who have seeded from Brigh
am Youngdom, is expected to reach
Council Bluffs shortly. .st,.
jeff Davis private baggage-two box.
% and trunk-has been captured in
Florida. Among the plumber are impor.
tant private letters and papers.
A portion of the 152 Illinois regiment
was struck by lightning, at Tullahoma,
Tennessee, on the 18th inst, ono man
being killed, and thirty two others more
or less injured. ...S"
The Chicago Sanitary Fair closed on
last Saturday evening, as an exhibition.
The total cash receipts of the Fair, after
everything is disposed Of, will reach
about $35O,O0O. .2a.. - 't '.'''
President johnson refuses to comply
with all of Governor Pierpont's recon-
meudations for the pardon of prominent
rebels in that State, especially in the
cases of those who have grown rich by
supplying the rebellion with tn, weap-
ons and munitions of war. Il.
A military order has been promulgated
announcing the dismantling of the field
works which compose the defenses of
Washington, north and south of the
Potomac. ..
Ould, the rebel Commissioner of Ex-
change, has been released on parole, but
officers under him, who robbed Union
prisoners at Richmond Of money aud
goods sent them by their Northern
friends, are still in prison, and Turner,
the tyrant, who treated our prisoners in
Libby SO outraseously, is chained down
in cell in Libby, to experience some of
the horrors no imposed upon our unfor-
tunate men. 81. ..tft. )
The little slaveholding State of Della
ware is rapidly earning the reputation Of
being the meanest and most despicable
of all the States in or out of the Union.
The lower house Of the Legislature, now
in session at Dover, last week passed res.
olutions Of respect to the memory of
President Lincoln, but the Senate re-
fused to concur! The reason Of this is,
that the few slaveholding families in thu
State have controlling influence in the
Senate. 81
All the iron clad vessels and monitors
are to be laid up at League Island near
Philadelphia, until further needed.
The death of Mrs. W. II. Seward is
announced. She had been dangerously
i'll for some time past.
The Second COMPTROLLER has decided
that soldiers who enlisted or were draf-
tod, who deserted during their term, are
not entitled to any pay due them before
deserving, orto any bounty, and pay
ments made contrary to thi decision win
not be allowed at the Treasury. 4
During a fremen's celebration al
Washington Island, near New York, on
the afternoon of the Goth inst, diff
Guilty occurred in which memb ers of
various companies joined. Stones, clubs,
bowie-knives, and reyolvers were freely
used. Great excitement prevailed dur.
ing the aiiray. Some so were wounded
several, it is supposed dangerously.
The miserable wretch who claimed tho
honor (?) Of having fred the first gun on
Fort Snmter-Edmund Rufin, of Va,
committed suicide near Richmond few
days since. Among his papers was found
memorandum stating that che could |
not live under the Governments of the
United States and that he preferred death
to doing 500 He evidently preferred
hotter place, and has probabI y found it.
During the past week the following
number of rebel prisoners have taken the
oath of allegiance and been released: On
Friday, June 10th, 81; on the 18th, lOl;
on the 10Th, 80; making in all GOT re.
leased during the three days. The
steamer Victory left yesterday for St.
Louis with ll5 prisoners, and l54 90 to.
day, leaving less than $50 now on the
Island. - RI Union, 2lst.
The friends Of Ben Butler are ureins
his name as Provisional Governor Of
South Carolina, in case he fails to receive
the civil Governorship of Idaho
The first rebel Secretary of War, L. p.
Walker, will speedily be candidate for
pardon. lie claims always to have beer
Union man.
The rebel General Shelby, with his
gang OF suerlllas, has gone to Mexico
and given his services to llaximillian.
A sale of forty-four gunboats, seven
tugs, and some other vessels, being a
part of the Mississippi river squadron,
are to be sold at Mound City, Ill.,, on the
18th OF August, to the highest bidder.
The Times Washington special says
most OF tho scamps who have been
swindling our soldiers, are caught with
their hands full Of unbelievable accounts
one man having on hand s4o 900 of un.
paid accounts against the Government,
Large sums Of mouey have recently bean
invested in soldiers accounts by SO, called
claim agents in this city and Baltimore.
who have purchased what are called sol.
diers' check books, in some instances tho
agents giving the soldier bnt one-fourth
OF the amount coming to them from