The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-03-23

claring that they did not see our flag 9
, truce, which had been in full view. =
The rebel authorities are unusually STRIFE
in guarding their lines.
The Herald, editorially thinks Ii
rebels will evacuate Richmond witbou
another battle. 1t says it is the only al
tentative left to save Lees ARMY
thinks Lee will form junction with Jo
Johnston at Danville.
| The Times New Orleans correspon-
dent says: "A woman, who left Mobile OF
the 9th, says the troops were being re.
moved, and everything indicated thai
tho city would be evacuated. It is
probable tht most of the garrison is out.
side of the city limits. Rebel officers,
who recently deserted, say the city will
be defended, but think it can be taken"
Gen Lee is reported as having notified
jeff Davis that it is impossible with the
means at his command, to make Roadway
against the Union forces now concentra.
ting for his overthrow. He urges the
arming of negroes to fight for the rebel
cause. The rebel cause is fast crumb-
ling to pieces, and the arming of negroes
will rather hasten than retard its down.
fall.
General A. J. Smiths command we're
in New Orleans, on the 10th instant,
ready for the contemplated movement
on Mobile.
On the Goth ult., the mail train from
Chattanooga for Knoxville, Tenn, met
with singular accident when passing
through the tunnel. From some cause,
a couple of the iron braces which sup
ported the arch fell down, and hung over
the track. The first four cars after the
engine were loaded with army Wagons.
AS the train passed under the hanging
braces, they caught the Wagons and
swept them back, jammipg them up
against the box cars, and killing two and
wounding three of the soldiers on the
cars.
The report of the Secretary of War,
just published, states that on tho lst of
November last the total enrolment of the
Provost Marsha! Generals Office, showed
a total force OF 2,7S4,226 men. By the
reinlistment of veterans, over a hundred
and thirty six thousand tried soldiers,
who would otherwise ere this have been
discharged, were secured for three years
longer.
From the 1st of October, 1868, to DC.
tober LIST, 1864, $780, stragglcrs and
deserters were arrested BY the Provost
Marshals and assistants The total mum.
Der arrested from the establishment of
the bureau to October lst, 1864, being
6O,700.
The amendment to the army bill in
crcasing the army ration from thirty to
fifty cents which was supposed to have
been defeated, was passed 1t adds about
twenty five per cent. to the pay of line
officers and about fifteen per cent to
ield duty.
The Overland mail stages have resum.
ID their regular trips to California. The
Dad has been re stocked between Cotton
wood Station and Denver City, and a
nounted escort now accompanies the sta
les between these points.
Twenty five thousand bodies and souls
re immared in the cellars of New York
n these dens of misery, damp, dark, moist
With the dews of death, filled with pols.
nous gases and villainous air, the squal.
d and wretched victims Of poverty live
n suffering and die in want.
Kennedy, one Of the hotel iDcend,aries
in New York, has been convicted as
spy and sentenced to die. The day of
execution is not fixed. When informed
Of the finding Of the Court, he appeared
surprised but seemed callous. He is
and thinks death is the end
Of man. He is in Fort Lafayette, and
win be hung in few days. ...,
4 single days issue Of the Memphis
Bullenttn contains the following speci-
men Of Southern barbarism: Two white
men hung; two negroes hung; one Union
man murdered; two negroes whipped al.
most to death; mulatto man whipped to
death, and his masters house robbed; an
unknown number Of men carried off for
conscripts; more negroes whipped; hun
dreds of bales OF cotton burned; and rob.
cries too numerous to mention.
The mormons have commenced cutting
a canal of magnitude far exceeding any
thing of the kind ever undertaken IN the
Territory before, for the two fold purpose
of irrigation and navigation. Starting
near the boundaries oil Utah and Salt Lake
counties, it will wind its way along the
eastern side of the Valley, watering the
land on its course, including very con.
siderable tract yet unbroken, and reach
ing terminus in that city, short dis
lance south aud west of where the artesian
well is being sunk; its entire length be-
ing over thirty-two miles.
Democracy does not seem to recuper.
ate. The township elections through
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