The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-08-10

undertaking and Sir RooerI IecI mau'
an admirable address. Cheers wer
given for the President Of the Unite,
States. The paying out Of the shor
end then commenced. The splice wa
completed in the most successful ma uer
Some insulated defects occurred at tn
start, which were remedied, aud thel
everything went on all right.
Several applications having been mad
by physicians, friends Of jeff Davis, t
visit him professionally, the authorities
have deemed it necessary to announc,
that bis health is good and that be need
no physic.
A dispatch has been sent to the Com
manding General in Texas, wherein ht
is enioined to a strict and faithful obser
vance of the instructions heretofore
issued, which require him to forbear
from any form Of intervention in the war
between France and the Sovereign power
of Mexico, of which Juarez is the recog-
nizcd chief.
The frigate Congress, at Hampton
Roads, (Fortress Monroe,) which was
raised on Friday, has again gone to the
bottom, her pumps giving out before the
high water hour had arrived. She i;
however in better position than before
General Grant arrived in Quebec on
Saturday, and created sensation among
the Canucks.
The steamer Joseph Pierce exploded
one Of her boilers at Palmyra Landing,
near Vicksburg, on the 3lst, aud soon
burnt to to the waters edge. She was
just taking on board the Gath L. S. col
ored regiment. Some twenty to thirty
persons were scalded or drowned Very
few of the regiment had got on board,
and consequently escaped serious injury.
The Herolds South Carolina CORES
pendent says: Movements indicate that
it is the .in,ention of the National Govern
ment to keep wholesale check for a
season yet on the national secesh aud
rebellious effervesence of the chiyalry of
that State. Garrisons have been placed
in all the principal Interior towns, and,
much to the disgust of the Palm ito aris-
tocracy, these post detachments to a
great extent consists of colored troops
The aDnual interest on the public debt
that is payable in gold, amounts to fifty.
eight millions of dollars. The receipts
from customs, in gold, in New York,
during the fiscal year just ended, reach.
ed eigbty-six millions; thus showing that
the goyernmecc.. has bad a surplus of gold
over It's wants to meet the interest.
The receipts from customs during the
present year will undoubtedly be much
greater, The average duty paid upon
the imports Of last year was forty-fOur
per cent.
The free negro laborers on the Sea
Islands make large wages-from $500
',1'eee year; Ia many cases where
rnv; --A.-non er,ooo to eo,ooo.-
There is now on deposit in banks, by ne
groes in that neighborhood, over sl4O,-
600.
1t is estimated that there are now
about one hundred thousand Americans
travling in Europe, spending some of the
wealth acquired by the war. AS an off
set to these, there have arrived during
the pas. twelve months, abou. two hun
dred and fifty thousand emigrants from
Europe, each one bringing money or
labor to be used in increasing tho resour-
ces Of the country.
Mrjor John II. Gee, formerly keeper
Of the military prison at Salisbury, was
shot and killed few days since by
rebel deserter at Charlotte, n. g. When
Gee was asked if our starving and dying
under his charge could not have full
rations, he replied, "No d-m them:
give them quarter rations-that's more
than they deserve" His treatment of
his victims was unparalleled for brutal.
ity.
The Fort Scott Monitor says: At the
tent door Of De Hayen's circus, near
Fort Leavenworth, the other day, the
drum major of the 18th Illinois "knocLed
the socks off, from Mile Louise, by
performing her fleet" Of walking the
wire, rngch better than she could do it
esrs,5r ie wicked il - the center pole,
aud wtsbpp4 Aopr41oE it, executed about
ta~s Al tpstlss'y s1.ls Wien about
",dTsy u, s.pyd ST 4pe foq: s,ieking
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The Iowa cavalry regiments are loca.
ted at the following places: The LIST, at
Memphis, expecting soon to be ordered
to Atlanta, Ga; the I'd, at Eastport,
Miss the Sd and 4th. at Atlanta Ga;
the 9th, at Edgetield, Tenn; the 9th, at
Fort Randall and in Montana; the It'll
at Fort kearney aud ColIinwood Springs:
the Sth, at Macon, GA; the 9th, a,
| Brownsville Ark.
The Columbis, Ill., Phuai.r, has a let
ter from Wade Hampton, discourageins
the idea Of emf grafton, which it seems ,
number of his friends have entertained
and asked his advice He advises then
to devote all their energies to the worl
of fastening law, order, agriculture
commerce, &c, and recommends all who
/ do t.l, a., ~