The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-04-26
News Items.


revolution at Panama is ended
By a terrific explosion on board the
steamer European at AspinWal, recently
from a cause similar to thatat San Fran
ciscD. fifty lives were lost and n uch dam
age done.
The recent reports of Fenial warlike
nrenarations and demonstrations on the
Maine border are entirely false. There's
no warlike excitement in that region
nor anywhere else that we can ascertain
A. far as the Fenians are concerned.
The physicians have finally decided
that the disease on board the enigrant
ship England, at Halifax, and tn. emil
| grant steamer Virginia, at New York, Is
Asiatic cholera. The fact that the cabin
passengers. who had sufficient ar and
healthy food, are entirely exempt from
the disease. confirms the opinion that
cholera, like all other epidemics can be
controlled by proper sanitary regulations,
and robs the disease of many of it ter
rors.
Several bands of guerrillas are moving
! through the county of Putnam, Tenn,
robbing and maltreating Union men, and
setting civil law at dfiance. In several
: instances, processes and warrants nave
been taken by them forcibly from the
| hands Of the officers of the law, ana -" "a,
nings have been given that the Peope
would not tolerate the State Government ,'n
Well-informed persons do noI Si1 T;..
emit Court to be convened, or the Trahu
- Ea.--H----~ IT'S duties. unless q
small force Of soldiers be sent there to
protect members of the bar and defend
the court. Troops will, w;:hca: doubt
be sent.
There is growing popular opposition
in New Brunswick to the course of the
Governor in favor Of the Canadian Con-
federation scheme.
A vessel built in Scotland for the reb-
el navy, which is now at Baltimore
claimed as private property, has been
seized by the Government for coi11sca-
ton.
Captain Charles S. Boggs, of the gun
boat De Soto, is to have command Of the
naval squadron ordered to the 1orth-
eastern coast. He will sail in the
De Soto, which will be his flagship.
Mexican advices by way of San Fran
cisco, state that the French troops were
repulsed and defeated near MazatlGn by
the Liberals. The French loss was 100 in
| killed and wounded, and the rGt of
| their force was scattered.
At San Francisco on the 10th, a hor-
rible explosion Of what was supposed to
| be mira glicerine occurred at a quarter
past one o'clock near Wells, Faigo &
Co.'S building. The explosion::shook the
earth like an earthquake for circle of
"a quarter of mile. Samuel knight,
superintendent of Wells Fargo & Co.'S
Express, died i'm half an hour of injuries
received. G. w. Bell, Supervisor and
/ T. al
! Wallub, Wells, Fargo 4 Co.'s Assager,
Joseph Elliott, John Gallagher, Frank
| Meosher and William Justin were also
killed. Eight dead bodies were so mu-
tilated that they could not be identified.
Louis McLane, Capt Eldridge of the Pa
cific Mail Steamship Company and
Judge Hoffman were bruised and cut.
Felix Lamax, d. Stacy, Jefferson Taylor,
III. Blame clothing dealer; Captain J.E.
Ayers, Fred. Leiz, Frank Norris and
others were injured but not fatally
Some will never be identified, az frag
ments of human flesh, bones and bruins
were found nearly two blocks distant
Montgomery, Sacramento, and Calfor-
mia streets were lined with broken gl,ss,
scarcely 4 window for several hunared
feet remaining whole. Wells, Faro d
Co. horses, and everything in the vi
entity animate and inanimatc we're
blown into fragments. The damag. is
estimated at least S7DogDa. William
Ravens a pookkeeper, Of the Paifi.
Mail Steamship Company, il a-ceTta ned
to be among the killed. The caus. of
the explosion is mystery. The
Freight Agent Of the Pacific Mail CJIn-
pany says that two boxes, each nea-
surfing about four cubic feet, were taken
from the steamers dock to the liace
where the explosion occurred. One box
was consigned to Idaho City, and the
other to Los Angeles. Both were sain-
ed with oil. The contents were not
known. Forty men are now engaged in
removing the ruins.
BY the breaking of the Mississippi
through liz banksnaar Baton Rouge,L "a,
the country has been oyerfiowed for
many miles, and it Clocks like an
ocean,
/ The New York Herald announces
what we have h f.. some tine.
that an exten-ive ..@w Express Com
! panN, known a. the Merchants Unien'
has recently been organized, witha can
itai OF olo,ooop@, AMI will soon go into
active operation, running over all the
great business routes Of the country.
The Memphis Arnlnnche, which yield
!, ed to Grants pcrs'taztre policy while in
G, nmmand ottiiascity has been reyiving,
ana contains call for grand Southern
Conye, ation, to be held on the 18th Of July,
"for the ,ourpn*e OF coming to definite
understand, ny a. to the political status
which the a,.otes and people of the
, -en.lr 80 ~ OF. -upy I'm the future"
The best thing the .:outi.ern people can
do is to follow Mr.. ;'teplicns' advice,
remain at home, and dev ote al their en-
orgies to the task of reccIp erat;on, re-
kindling the smouldering fires of Loyalty
and patriotism. BY 50 doing ti,cy will
determine thcir.future status" and no.
by meeting In mass conventions.
Southern politicians must be csntent. IN
the language Of President johnson. to
take q back seat in the political syna-
gogue for the present, leaving the people
to solve the problem of reconstruction.
Down in Alabama thew hay. ,,o,>.: