The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-04-05

The following is an extract from
| letter this day received by speaker Col
fax, dated ut San Antonio, Texas, March
II:
III have inst learned from an officer
that fight has occurred ut Clinton,
about seventy miles from this city.
The circumstances were as follows:
Cap. Nolan. of the 18th New York Vol
unteers, was recently sent to arrest
man who had committed murder
| Learning that lie was at Clinton, he
| took party of sixteen men, and finding
| him ut dance, was about to arrest him,
when the fellow and his friends took
refuge behind the women and commenc-
ed firing. One soldier was killed, two
were wounded, and Capt. Nolan was
assailants were killed, and some wound
ed. Pleasant people to reconstruct it
might be well if Mr.. Johnson could only
have chance at it personally.
North Carolina papers are full of state
ments going to show that plantations in
that section are being rapidly bought up
by Northerners. "A Jerseyman recently
purchased twelve hundred acres in
Wadesboro, n. c., at eleven dollars per
acre. A New York company are on the
point of taking ten thousand acres in the
| same State, on which they will settle
English emigrants.
In the Texas convention, March Sth
the debate on tire repeal of the ordinance
Of secession brought forward Messrs.
| Waul, Ireland and Runnells, three UNI
pardoned rebel Generals, each of whom
maintained that the State had right to
secede in 1861. In speech made by
Waul, he declared that the people of
Texas had been marching to such other
music of late that they should not sub
NIT to everything that was asked of them.
Mr.. Ireland also remarked that they (the
rebs) would have to grid on their swords
and go to the assistance of President
johnson. Many of the Union delegates
are sick and tired Of the proceedings
and are leaving in disgust. There are
prospects of a general smash-up i'll the
| Convention before long.
A Kingston correspondent sends a
somewhat remarkable speech by the
Fenian Head Centre, Murphy, by which
it appears that the freedom of speech is
not entirely gone in Canada. Mr.. Muir
ply is represented as saying that forty
! thousand Canadian Irish, many Of whom
were Government employees, were pre-
pared to shed their blood for Ireland's
redemption; and that they had subscrib-
ed twenty five thousand pounds for that
| Is
speech cheers were proposed and given
for "Old Ireland" Bishop Lynch, who
had denounced the Fenians, and for
James Stephens, the Chief of the Feni-
ans, who was alluded to as "the foremost
Irishman..alive." A recent Washington
letter says: IA speculator, well known
in this city as having made large pur-
| chases of arms, munitions, ETC., sold a
| General Sweeny, week ago OH We'd
nesday, twenty thousand army revolvers
and seventeen thousand forage caps. It
is known that very large proportion of
the military material sold by the War
Department since the rebellion closed
has been purchased by one or the other
of the Fenian executives"
One of the English papers in its head
ings to President Johnson's 22d of Febru-
airy speech, announced the probable re-
newal of'the civil war;"
Among the novelties in ladies' fash
ions are little bells to be worn upon the
wrists of white kid gloves, and even up
on the edge of the Pamela bonnets.
The California Senate have pa ssed res
olutions indorsing Congress by 4 vote of
SO to q.
There We're in service in the army of
the United States on the 10th ult: Whites
27,171; colored, 39,s14-giving an aggre-
gate of 66, 9S5. The total number of SOL
dicrs mustered. !.ut since Jan. 9th, is TO-
Oh. The total number remaining in the
army, when musters out now ordered
shall have been completed will be Al $50.
a majority in Congress, it is reported,
are in favor of protracting the session
until September. The object of this new
movement is not divulged.
The Governor of Vermont has filled
the vacancy in the United States Senate,
caused by the death of Senator Foot, by
the appointment of Geo. +. Edwards.
The doubts SO freely expressed of the
ability of our monitor fleet to cross the
Atlantic have been solved by the moni-
tor ALonadnock. She has arrived at Val
nor,irn HAVING made the naSSarc rome
the 'horn" in good style, her sea-goine
qualities being pronounced of the first
order,
The speech recently made in the
! French Senate by Jules Favre, the vir.
tual leader Of the opposition, appears te