The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-03-29
News Items.

lively subscribed in England to the new
stock of the Atlantic telegraph company,
and the public will be urged to subscribe
ESQ, 600 more. Then the new cable will
be completed and submerged this year.
| A self-loading ship has been invented
by a skillfll French mechanician. Ev-
erything is done by steam, with only
| two men to superintend, and the entire
work of loading or unloading Is done in
forty minutes. .l
The Alabama Legislature has under
taken to tax Hurper's Weekly out of cir
culation in that State, by requiring $50
for the right to sell "any pictorial or
illustrated weekly, or any monthly pa
per, periodical or magazine, published
outside the limits of this State, and not
in foreign country"
President johnson returned to the
Senate, the civil rights bill, with his veto
message, ON the 9th inst.
Letters from Singapore, dated on the
! Goth of January, announce the death OF
the second King of Siam-whose name,
in full, was P'rn Bart Somdet P'ra Paw
arendr Ramesr Mahiswaresr IA Pin
Klau Chau Yu Hua. His remains were
deposited in golden urn, decorated with
diamonds, and placed on particular
y
ing in state, according to the Siamese
custom, were buried with great ceremo-
ny.
From Matamoras we learn that a Sc
we're engagement had occurred at Eel
Paso, Northern Mexico. The Liberals
were under Nevaji de Festid and Gen.
Donaly, who were reinforced by Tuneus,
and afterwards attacked the French un-
der Baron de Brian, killing him and 100
of his men. Donaly was afterwards be-
sieged in a parish church, with so men,
but held out until reinforced. Baron de
Brian and company were recently sta
toned at Matamoras, and great mourn
ing is occasioncd among the French of
that city.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has decided the Massachusetts, Ii
quor cases. The Court holds that licens-
es granted by the United States, under
the Internal Revenue laws, for the
wholesale Of liquors held by citizen of
Massachusetts,, do not protect him in the
sale or Keeping for sale of liquors within
said State in view of the prohibitory laws
of the State of Massachusetts. The Su-
preme Court reafi1rms the decision of the
court below.
Among late arrivals at Havana of ex-
rebelsis Robert Toombs of Georgia, who
has been negotiating for the purchase of
a sugar estate, but, it is said, he could
not raise the necessary amount of funds
Toombs is reported as intending to settle
in Mexico, rs soon as he is convinced
that Maximillian's throne is on firm
basis.
The Pennsylvania Union State Con-
vention, on the eth nominated Gen.
John w. Geary for Governor on the
first ballot, and adopted resolutions de-
claring that the work of reconstruction
belongs to Congress; that the national
faith should be pledged for the payment
of the public debt and that the protection
of the freedmen; praising Gov. Curtin
and Secretary Stanton; aud requesting
Senator Cowan to resign.
The Cincinnati Gazette says Oh the
"ce,y highest anthority," that a few days
after the Presidents I'D of February
speech, gentleman was "reprobatingo
Seward when he contemptuously said:
the speech in the presence of Secretary
Damn it, you took tailor and got a
goose; what better could you expect?'
Official proclamation has been made
of the ratification of the treaty between
the United States and the chief of the
Minnecongia band of Dakots or Sioux
Indians. These Indians bind themselves
to discontinue for the future all attacks
upon the person or property of the
other tribes, unless first assailed by them,
and to use their influence to promote
peace everywhere in the region occupied
or frequented by them The band agree
to withdraw from the routs overland al
ready established through their country,
and in consideration Of this the United
States agree to pay them $4,000 annu-
ally for ten years, in such articles as the
Sacrotar5, of tic treasury may decluc
upon.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs
has been informed by letters written
| from Forts Randall and Sullv. Dakota,
and forwarded by Maj. Gen. Pope, that
great Of Indians arc arriving
from the country above in starving
ally been forced by the extremity Of
their hunger to eat their ponies and dogs
including their offal. Reports come IN
that many more are on their wav down
in similar condition. Some 3O1 lodged
at Fl. Sully where the Comn,anding
officer is unable to render them nny as
sistance owing to short SUNNY Of ra-
tons. Gen. Sully says it is we'll for
these Indians to suffer- that i'm order
lHey may pc convinced of their own
helplessness and induced to look up to
the government as their only aid and
protection,
Four persons were killed, MANY 9TH
ers injured, and much damage done to
property, at Ladoga, Montgomery coun-
t., Indiana, on Wednesday evening, by
tornado.
J Forty more regiments of colored troops,
are to be mustered out at once while q
large number of Illinois and Indiana vol
unteers, anxious to be freed from service
and return to their homes, are compelled
to remain soldiers althoug IN the term for
which they Unlisted has expired. Reason
, negro soldiers luartered among them,
, and the negroes are wanted to Work on
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