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

will urge upon Congress contraction q
currency.
| Col. Mclean. Democrstic csndidst
for delegate to Congress from Montans
has been elected.
A special session of the Oregon Leg
islature has beeo called by Gov. Gibbs, t
convene on the 5th Of December.
The latest intelligence from Texas in
dicates that the work Of reorganization il
that State is progressing rapidly and sat
isfsctoriIy
The late rebel Gen. Lee was installed
President Of Washington College, Lex
ingson, Va last Monday.
| A private letter received from Con
stantinopIe says that the recent confla-
grafton iu that city destroyed 10000
tepements, and that 10000 people ere
left without roof to cover them.
A special FROM Washington says tn
Cabinet have determined, after full con
suItstion, to susfsiD the President in
sending fleet Of troops TO San Domingo,
to put down tho Instruction in that
Island.
The Mississippi election has resulted
in the success of Humphrey, a rebel
General, for Governor, by about 10000
majority, 1t is said that Humphrey was
not candidate by his own consent. -
George j. Potter, anti negro testimony
candidate, is elected Judge of the High
Court of Appeals, 10 the Jackson Dis.
trict, by 5000 majority.
All of the officers of the Signal Corps
in the United States army, east of the
Mississippi river, are honorably muster.
ed out Of the service, with the exception
Of COL Fisher, chief of the corps, and
one aid, who remain on duty There
are twenty five officers on duty with
Gems Pope and Halleck, west of the
Mississippi, and these are all that remain
of the l40 officers selected during the
war on account Of their bravery and
mental capacity
The County Commissioners and Treas
urer Of Lawrence county, Western Penn.
sylvania, have been committed to Jail for
contempt of court, by Judge McCandles,
OF the United States District Court, 10
that they had refused to pay interest
due on railroad bonds issued by the coun.
ty, several years since, and now repudi-
ated by the people. A similar action of
court, it will be remembered, brought
around the Allegheny county commis-
sioners several days since.
Dryden and Ray, the old Supreme
Judges Of Missouri, who were ou..ed BY
Gov. Fletcher some months since, and
who have continued to consider them
selves in Office and hsrmlessly to 90 thro'
the motions of holding courts, without
records or attorneys, have concluded that
il don't pay, and have thrown themselves
upon the p ple as full hcdged martyrs
They have resigned aud have issued an
address setting forth the important fact
hat recent events make is clear that all
hope OF reconstruction is vain.
Commissioner Sells. ca his return from
The Indian Cauncil at Fort Smith. met
The chiefs and head men of the Usage
Nation at Canvil|s Trading Post, on the
10Th ult and Concluded a treaty by
which the Indians relinquished 3 2S4,-
200 acres Of land, being surplus not
necessary for their occupation. The
Government buys $50 900 acres outright
for 100000, and takes the balance in
trust for private sale, These lands are
all within the State of Kansas, and are
among the most valuable for cultivation
and settlement
Dispatches at Leavenworth represent
the people all along the North Platte
badly frightened. as nearly all the troops
out that way have been Withdrawn, and
the ssvages are very threatening. On
the Sd inst Mr. J. G. Irwin received
short despatch from the wagon master of
one of his trains near Pole Creek, slxty
miles below Julesburg, stating that they
had been attacked by Indians at that
place few days since The wagon
master was badly wounded, but no fur.
Their particulars are given. Mr.. Irwin
has two trains, comprising sixty wagons
in all, in the vicinity. and a large herd
OF beef cattle twenty miles beyond Jules
burg
The N. Y Times London letter OF
Sept 9th, has the following relative to
the Fenian excitement in Ireland:
Some fifty arrests have been made 10
Dublin, nearly as many in Cork, and a
few in Liverpool, and some of the manu-.
featuring towns, Lancashire among the
rest. For Irish Americans, and for 9th
ers, rewards Of goo and 9lOO are offer
ed One Murphy, from Boston. on be-
ing arrested said he should represent his
case to Mr.. Seward. % the mere men
ton of that name he was set free by the
authorities At Dublin Castle. The panic
at Cork and other towns 10 the southwes,
has not been diminished There have
been runs upon the local banks Steam.
ers and passengers baggage have been
searched for documents and revolvsrs
A gunboat is cruising off Cork harbor tc
intercept yankee ship said to be 90 the
way to Ireland with arms for the Fen
isns. Two officer. OF the Cork garrison