The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-08-31

and tortured to death, and { I'd bedie
) were sometimes left lying whore the.
had breathed their last for three days
poisoning the atmosphere, and rendering
| !, almost iutolersble to the living. Tw'
hundred and seven men died IN one day
in August, 1864. The rations supplied
we're rotten and 10 many cases they wers
not sufficient in quantity to long sustain
life. The men were compelled to lie in
dirt, filth and rsggedness, and almost
usked upon the bare ground in freezing
cold and scorching heat. Where party
was huddled together the dead we're fire.
queatly found mingled with the living.
Those who we're not killed By this course
| Of treatment were reduced to skeletons,
while many we're eaten up with gsugrene,
and others lost limbs. On one occasion
thirty two out of . squad Of ninety men
were unable to stand when ordered to
form 10 line, on account of weakness from
scurvy and disrrbes. Nearly 200 out of
400 who accompanied Kellogg, one of
the witnesses against Werts,to Anderson
vile, died few days after they were pa.
rolled, and the oath New York battery
was nearly annihilsted in the prison. Har-
ris, keeper Of blood hounds st Anderson
Vile, was recently arrested BY Gen. Will
son and forwarded, under guard, to
Washington. AlIcock, who was q pris-
oner at Audersonville, testified that Wertz
took from him $3.50 in gold and $3.50 in
greenbacks. and . bresstpio and ring,
which were never returned. He saw
Wirtz kill a weak man by shooting him
with revolver, merely because he asked
to take a little fresh air. The witness
for demonstrating against this act Of cru.
city, was fastened with ball and chain,
but got loose and escaped.
The Tribune's Washington special says
that the flooring and side boxes of Ford's
Theatre are all removed, and only the
brick walls remain standing. All the
wooden material will be replaced by brick
and iron, in order to render the building
fire proof
Brig Gen. Milton NJ. Croker, Of To-
wa, died at Washington on Saturday, of
Typhoid pneumonia. His body is on its
way to Iowa, escorted by military guard
of honor from that city.
CANADA-The Canadians have already
to certain extent, iutimsted proceed
ings, which their delegates in the Detroit
Commercial Convention limited would be
the result of the non. renewal by the U.
States of the reciprocity treaty. This
was nothing less than throwing open
their ports along the border and enctur-
aging smuggling, now carried on to the
most unlimited extent along the frontier,
aud it is said, with the knowledge and
counivaDce of the Canadian government.
The condition Of the province is very
Taxes and other burdens
are too heavy, and the crop trade pros.
poets so poor that thousands of inhabi-
tants already have sold out and cmigratsd
to the far west. Real estate has fallen IS
per cent 10 value within the past eight
cen months, and it is estimated that in
the city of Toronto alone arc 1900 empty |
tenements.
Another terrible railroad murder has
occurred, this time on Loog Island, aud
the result Of careless ess, one train which
should have waited for another leaving
ten minutes ahead of Its time. Both
trains were wrecked. Fifteen persons
were killed and several injured. A train
also ran off the track near Albany yes
terday, 2Sth inst, killing one person. A !
Raleigh, n. c., train ran CT The track
near Petersburg on Saturday lass sos sso
persons we're killed. The catalogue of |
railroad horrors is completed By the re-
covery of fifteen bodies, victims of the
late Tennessee disaster, and the certainty
that twenty more bodies are in the ruins.
The Government has received informa
ton that large quantities Of drugs, cigars,
silks and other articles on which there
are h'Eb duties, have recently been snug.
gasa ers' the Canada border. A large
force of detectives has been organized to
operate upon new base, aud they are
already on the track of number Of sus-
pected parties. 1t is estimated that at
least s25, 900 worth Of goods have been
smuggled across the border within the
pas. four months.
The Twin Convention at Des Moines.