The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-10-12

most considerable prisoner in Dublin u
. tailor. The chief informes against the
Fsuians appears to have been one who
had been advanced to the grade Of Colo.
mel 10 the great Feuian army, but who,
having no pay, rssions or forage, suitable
to his rank, had been suffered to 60 ia
the workhouse. This unfortunate dig.
nitary, brooding over his wrongs, con-
cluded that low treason to his associates
would be more profitable than high trss.
son against our sovereign Queen, and
sold them to Sir Robert at the castle.
This inforrDer, who has the credit Of
being the first to sell the Feniaps, is said
to have been violent Orsngeman, who
went to Cork and pretended to become .
Catholic and patriot. Unless ships load
ed with American Fenisns, arms and
supplies are well 90 their way, and sue
coed in making landing in spite of iron.
clads and guuboats on the Irish coast, We
shall not hear much more of Fenian Or.
CARNATIONS 10 Ireland. Two or three
hundred will be arrested. OF these .
dozen or score will be tried for treason,
and sentenced to penal scrvitude as .
mild example. Even these will be soon
pardoned.
A Fortress Monroe correspondent
gives the following particulars OF the
attempt to escape made by Dr. Mudd, ~
heretofore published: "The Doctor en-.
joyed uousual liberties on the island,
through his being detailed 10 the Hos.
pital Department. Through the advan.
tage of this liberty, be managed to
secrste himself in one of the coal bunk.
ers of the steamer Thos Scott When
he was found to be missing thorough
search Of the steamer was instituted to
find him, and the search was very near
abandoned, and the idea of his conceal
meBt on it given up, when an officer, Who
was assisting in the search, thrust the
point of his sword into tho Doctors face,
causing him to cry out, and thereby
make known his place of concealment
The Doctor was hid under the coal, ex.
crpt portion of his face. On bis dis
covery he was taken back to prison and
put At hard labor, which occupation he
is likely to follow for some time. The
Quartermaster of the Thos Scott was
subsequently arrested on a charge of
completely in aiding DR.. Mudd to escape.
There has been no change in the dispo-
sitiou of the other assassination conspir.
ators.
Few topics can possess . higher degree
of interest than the revolution of senti.
ment wrought by the sword in South
Carolina. A Columbia correspondent
gives the proceedings and debates in the
which have ended in the alb.
oition of slavery and the overthrow of
The parish system, whereby the State has
been transformed from . sheer oligarchy
10 the semblance of republic.
A large number Of Feniau prisoners
we're brought before the police ma gis.rate
at Dublin, ireland, on Saturday, che 2Yd
ult. The Government counsel stated
that large sums Of money had been re-
ceived by some of the prisoners from
America, aud letter had been intercept.
I'd in that days mail containing draft
from one Of them. Some Of the CORE
spondence seized, shows that the designs
Of the Fenians were Of most sanguinary
character, being the determination and |
assassination of the nobility, and the
breaking cut of the rebellion.
An old citizen of Leavenworth, just
from Salt Lake, reports trouble brewing
between the Mormons and tho United |
States authorities. The former are said
to feel that the Gentiles are cncroachiug
on their rights, by settling in their midst
and sayin2 hard things of their favor::e
practice, polygsmy. The mines in the
Ruby valley are not worked, as the Nor.
mons oppose the Gentiles going there
Several men have been killed there lately,
by Indians it is said, but the Gen,ies
believe that the Saints are at the bottom
of these murders.
An Eastern correspondent of one of
our German papers says that Gen. Ere
mont, as the representative oft largo
purchased the extensive iron
works of Chouteau, Harrison & Vale, in
St Louis, for $3.50, 900, aud that be will
soon take charge of the works as chief
officer of the company. The General is
expected there next week.
A soldier named Samuel G. Whitehead,
just returned from the war found that
his wife, in Dubuque county, had been
falthless, had married another man AMI
gone to Ohio with one of the children.
Whitehead took hi. r.m.in;uy child 20
Durango, Dubuque county, and then
committed suicide. He took dose Of
strychnine after writing farewell letter
to his wife, in which he tells her of his
great love for her, and con cludes by saw.
ing that he considered it was better to
die by his own hand than to continue to
suffer on account Of her fai.hlessnes.. as
he had done, and that she might inform
all 'inqniring friends" as to the reason
Of his early demise.
Col John W. Forney is out 10 favor
of new National Union party. His
platform is: 1st. That tho rebellion
did not destroy tho Republic, nor tho
Sfafoo nj irh nv,