The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-05-04

~ hurting huDoreOe In the Alr ana over
board-very many being badly scalde,
and otherwise injured. The boat imme
5. dately took fire and burned to the wa
= ter's edge. The people of Memphis wer
first notified of the tragic event by piece
of the wreck floating by the levee will
Q persons yelingiDg to them. Boats imme
diately put out for the scene of disaster
picking up IS many as could be found
At latest accounts not more than 500 OF
? 600 persons had been saved
not less than 500 lives wero lost. The
troops mostly belonged to western regi
, ments. In list of soldiers and officers
saved We notice no Iowa names, and il
is Inferred there were few or no Iowa
troops on board. This is the most hor-
ribe steamboat explosion ever known.
A Washington dispatch says the search
after the assassin of President Lincoln,
and the would be murderer of Seward,
developed well laid and deliberately
matured plan of assassin alton and infam.
Gus rascality, murder and, arson upparal
leled in the annals of,crime.. The inves.
LEGATIONS have not yet reach ed, the point
where it is proper to disclose the extent
and various qualifications of this murder
Gus plot. Many unsuspecting parties are
involved, and the evidence is complete
to show that it was neither, the freak Of
mad man nor Of individual hate, but
scheme cousummated by leaders Of the
rebellion and relied upon by them 10 the
hour of their most desperate need as one
Of the means Of success in their treason.
able enterprise. u g., ..a r.,
The paroed officers and soldiers, from
Lees army, are robbing the Inhabitants
in the vicinity of fredericksburg The
officers, members of former wealthy fam
lilies, who never did hard days work,
declare they will not earn their living.
Edwin Booth was at Washington, for
the purpose, it is said, of procuring the
body of his brother. His desire cannot
be granted, as the grave of the assassin
will never be known.
The Consul General in Canada has
given notice to the authorities there that
all The criminals connected with the as
sassination Of President Lincoln must be
surrendered to the U. s. authorities
: A Mobile correspondent says our forces
captured there 215 heavy guus, 10000
stand of small arms, aud 80 900 bales of
cotton, besides immense quantities of
corn and other grain. Over l 1000 strag.
glers from the rebel army had come in
, and given themselves up
Two merchants of New York have pro
posed to the Secretary of War to offer a
. reward Of half million dollars for the
J capture Of JEFF Davis alive If the Sec
rotary approves it, these two gentlemen
will give $40. 900 each toward raising the
amount named.
Dr.. s. c. Rodgers, Surgeon of the
5Oth Iowa Infsntty. snd his Orderiy,
were brutalIy murdered by band If
guerrilas, on the 10th of April, short
distance from Goldsboro. Ii had just
flushed transferring a number Of our sick
soldiers to the cars for Morehead City,
there to be shipped northward. While
endeavoring to rejoin the main body of
Sherman's army he was intercepted and
shot dead. H.. IT,.
After Raleigh, the capital of North
Carolina, had been formally surrendered
to our forces on the l4th day of April,
and while Gen. Fitzpatrick was marching
through the town, an officer belonging h.
Wheeler's command, who, with some Of !
his men, was engaged in plundering
store near the Market House, rush o.
to the street and fired at Fitzpatrick,
who was riding at the head Of the COL
unn the ball fortunately missed Kilpat-
| rick, but wounded one Of his staff. Chase
was instantly made, aud the ruiiian cap.
turedO IL less than ten minutes he was
swinging by his neck from tree
General Grant telegraphs from Ral-
eioh. Arril 10th, that Johnston surren-
I dercd the forces in his command, en-
bracing all from Raleigh: n. C, to the
l Chattahoochle, ca large river in Georgia,)
to Gen. Sherman, on the basis agreed
between Lee and himself for the army of
Northern Virginia. The terms granted
Johnston embrace in the surrender four
armies Of the Military Division of the
West, but exclude the fifth-that of
Dick Taylor. The number actually sur
rendered is p 400, although more nam es
; are given. East If the Mississippi river
!, the rebellion is dead There vet remain
= the armies of the trans Mississippi, Tay
4. lor's. Kirby Smiths, Prices, aud the
forces in Texas, the surrender of which
: depends simply upon the time it will take
our troops to get to them and demand it.
That will be soon, as the 18th corps, and
It the troops that captured Mobile arc
= already en- route for that department
= A Washington dispatch, of the 9th
ut says: "The statement that the Pres
: ideht declines all precautions for his per
sonal safety are erroneous. He has hot
given any special directions for guards
e to be placed about his person, but he ap
e proved the precaution when taken by the
y authorities which embraced the continu
J. ance upon duty Of the late Presidcnt's
{, body guard, commanded by Lieut. Jane;
d son, of Ohio. This company consists OF
one select man from each county in