The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-12-06
SUMMARY OF LATE NEWS.

SUMMARY OF LATE NEWS.
A Washington dispatch says that
Thad. Stevens is very busily engaged in
preparation for the work Of the coming
session. He intends to bring forward
his Enabling act ut as early q day as pos
sble. and also expects to press the Con-
fiscation bill, limited in its operations,
but still sweeping enough to prevent the
return of lands assigned to freedmen, the
estates upon which our military ceme-
teries are, and some other classes of lands
in the hands of leading rebels.
A Placerville, Cal, dispatch announ-
ces the discovery of rich gold-bearing
quartz ledge near that place. One
thousand dollars worth Of loose gold was
picked upnear the surface. Three miles
of ground was immediately taken up.
Portland, Oregon, papers also report that
new and rich discoveries have been
made near the mouth of Keotano river.
Macmillan is reported to have return
cd to Mexico, and it is rumOred that he
intends to resume the cotrol OF the EN-
pire Our troops on the Rio Grande
have been warned not to interfere in
Mexican affairs. No difficulty is antici-
pated from our diplomatic relations with
France in relation to Mexico.
1t is reported that the cattle disease is
raging with singular fatality in all those
counties Of kentucky where the Texas
cattle, imported there during the sum-
mer, have been herded. Thousands of
native cattle have died, and the citizens
are signing petitions to the Legislature
to pass law preventing the importation
of Texas cattle into the State. On some
farms in Shelby County every head of
cattle has died.
Hon. Cave Johnson, Folks Postmaster
General died at noon of Friday, Nov. %
at his residence at GAINESVILLE, Tenn.
aged seventy-two. He served fourteen
years in Congress, acquiring national
reputation was four years President OF
! the Bank of Tennessee, under appoint
ment from Governor, now President,
: Johnson; was, in 1861, elected to the
memorable Congress to consider the re-
! lations of Tennessee to the Union, which
! body. however never assembled; and
was IN Il lss6 chosen to tbs state Sonata s,
and comfort he had extended to the re-
bellion.
1t may be gratifying to strangers who
purpose attending the Worlds EXPOSE
ton at Paris, to know that they are to
be we'll cared for The authorities have
purchased four hundred acres of ground
for burial purposes near the city, in
view of the probability Of an crr:demic
appearing among the multitudes who
will throng the gay French capital.
The other day communication APP
; peared in the Troy New York; Wing,
; written by a resident of that city, who
may be set down as the oldest inhab-
liant. Some of his remembrances are
inconveniently intricate. The follow
ing about President Van Buren, seems
, almost new: martin Van Buren, was
the only President l ever knew or saw.
He used to come to Troy to attend the
courts, and, stopping at VIM. Pierce's
tavern, always used to get intoxicated
/ before he left town.
Ey-rebel General Edward Johnson
: having been recently pardoned by the
President, called on Treasurer Spinner
for the payment Of a check for $500 OF
800 due to him on settlement as Major
. in the United States army in 1861, just
, before he Joined the army of the Confed
, eracy. The Treasurer refused the pay
ment in a manner which was anything
| but pleasant to the applicant.
/: The last great telegraph feat is the or
derng of wheat by a London house o
one in San Francisco, and the receipt by
the former, on the same day, of the intel
ligence that the order had been filled.
The postal service in the eleven seced
Il ed States, which before the war neve
G paid expenses, has nctted over $500, 90
: profit during the last year.
: The most astounding fish story We
: told il the statement by Professor Agass
! IL that in Brazil they have species G
!, fish which can climb trees!
n England and France combined con
J. sumo less paperthan this country, whic
T. has only half the population of the tw
y combined.
'e Gen. Thomas, who has just returne
u from Southern trip, states that almos
q every Northern man engaged in cotto
q planting has lost money.
D. The st. Joseph (Mo.) Herald say
70 that an organized band Of horse thieves
e. counterfeit money passers and rascal
4 are now acting conformity in Northwes
Dr. ern Missouri, Eastern Kansas and South
r. eastern Nebraska.
4, The southern counties of Indiana al
r. infested with numerous gangs Of hors
+ thieves, safe blowers, and petty robbel
n, of all kinds. AT no time has crime bee
lie so prevalent in the history Of that State
Brigham young is Illustrating in tn
honeymoon of his forty-fifth bride,
beautiful Danish girl of seventeen. II
j. has lust lost his twenty-fourth wife, VIII
was buried without any ceremony {
of even notice of her death.
~ The message OF the Governor of Sout
5, Carolina was laid before the Legislator
" Of that State on the 9th ult. 1t takes
al gloomy view of the present condition {
,r affairs, and attributes the depression (
10 agriculture and business in the State
j. the intolerance Of her conquerors, an
es urges that the white population shoul
d be stimulated to work by letting theI
d see that labor is honorable and idlenes
reprehensible. The message is mainl
s. devoted to State affairs, and says the ri
at suit Of the experiment OF free labor ha
n been highly encouraging under the Gil
al cumstances. It concludes by referrin
N to the constitutional amendment, whie