The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-12-21

P. Bassett was chosen Assistant Super
intsndeut, and George Joselyn was re-
appointed Steward. y vPZ w
The 18th Low. Infantry il now sta
toned at Tslladega, Alabams. In con-
sequence Of the expiration Of term Of
service, ESQ of the soldiers belonging to
it have been disbanded since the LIST of
| October.
The Marsh alltown Tgses says Gen.
T. Fl. Benton, the great defeated, is
about to move his residence from Coun-
Gil Bluffs to Marshalltown. ----.-
A dispatch from Des Moines of the
18th says the report that General Fitz
Henry Warren has accepted, and will
shortly leave to Gil the Gautemalian Mis-
sion, isa canard. Gen., Warren il .
member elect Of the Iowa Senate, and
has engaged rooms At the Savory House,
and will DO in @Des Moines through the
session of the Legislature which meets
on the Sth of January next. .-~ae.*
Hon. Hiram Price writes to Judge
Dillon that the House has passed joint
resolution donating the valuable govern.
ment buildings at Davenport, known Is
Camp kinsman, to the Orphans Home,
and that he has the assurance of Senator
Grimes that the resolution will also pass
the Senate. It only remains now for the
people Of Iowa to enable the Home to
purchase the grounds upon which these
buildings stand. ~~r,oe c4t a...s.:
"A meeting has been called 70 be
held at Washington, on the Eth day of
January, to adopt measures to secure the
location Of the St. Louis aud Cedar Rap.
ids Railroad on the route via Iowa City,
Washington, Fairfield and Bloomfield to
the State line. *-4 .-faa
We learn from the State Rectster
that the Directors Of the Iowa Central
Railroad Co. met at Oskaloosa on the
5th inst. They received information
while in session that the North Missouri
Line, With which they are to connect At
the State line, will be speedily construc.
ted, and the prospects for prompt work
on the entire enterprise are most flatter-
ing. This line through lows extends
from Cedar Falls, in Blackbawk county,
through Tama, Poweshiek, Mahssfs,
Wapello, Monroe and Appanoosr, and
will be about one hundred and City miles
in length. 1t passes through fertile
portion Of the State and connecting as it
will Missouri aud Minnesota, will secure
for our State an Important thoroughfsre.
Ga Tuesday last week, James Court.
ney, mail carrier bttwcen Newark,
Marion county. and Dts Moines, via
Red Rood aud Vsndalia, was found fro
zen to death on the road between the
latter places. The weather wa, quite
comfortable when he started on Monday
from Newark; and not anticipating any
sbrupt change, he neglected to protect
with warm clothing lie was
alone, and being overcome with cold, q
is supposed, he fell from the suiky in
which he was travelling, and expired in
}h = dgaa. IIe Was -IQups man With no
D8rRev. Henry Ward Bescher, 10
his Thanksgiving sermon, said: "The
doctrine Of universal suffrage is the doc
trine Of to day, and from tEis day on
there will be no rest ID any State until
suffrage is the law. The ten.
dsncy o: universal mani rood 70 toward it,
aud no decree is surer than this, that the
day is not far distant when all the rights
Of man shall! be granted to every man /
don's limit this to the mere color If kin.
there's deeper prejudice than this-of
sex and sex--and the cay is coming
when in politics as religion, our women
will 60 with US to the polls, when the
family will vote and universal suffrage
will be the rule and law of tho land"