The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-12-13
Upton. IOWA:
srNnARY OF LATE NEWS.


IL opposed toit.
The steamship Suwanee was lost off
the south Carolina coast on the 4th.
Most Of those on board were saved, but
small boat with the Captain and fifteen
others has not yet been heard from.
The special committee on the consti-
yutfonal amendment in the State Senate
Of North Carolina has reported against
the ratification. The Governor of South
Carolina has also taken strong ground
against it. E7f
A man in Canada, who was a soldier
in our late war, and afterwards in the
Papal army in Italy, writes letter stat
ing that he knew John H. Surratt both
In this country and in Italy, and alleges
that he told him that the assassination
Of Lincoln was planned in Richmond,
with the assent of jeff Davis.
Itappears, from official Information,
that IL was the intention to send corps
of Austrian troops to Mexico, to take
the place of the French troops there.
Oar Government demonstrated to AUS
'tffa and Napoleon, and recent report
states that the expedition has been
abandoned, the troops disbanded, and
threatened rupture between Austria and
the United States thus prevented.
A London dispatch of the 9th says the
excitement about Ireland is increasing,
aud the military and naval authorities
are making every preparation to meet
the emergency. The Admiralty have
ordered the dispath of three iron-clads
to Ireland, and the military authorities
directed the departure OF two more regi-
mems of troops to the same quarter. The
fort at the entrance to the harbor of
Dublin is being strengthened.
A dispatch from Sweetsburg, Canada,
states that true bills have been found
against fourteen of the Fenian prisoners.
Their trials commenced last Monday,
No special committee, it is said, will
be raised at present to inquire into
moving an impeachment of the Presi
dent. What may he done after various
other special committees have reported,
remains to be seen.
A Paris dispatch of the 9th instant
says that legal proceedings have been
resumed by the United States against
the parties who furnished ships to the
fCoafederates during the rebellion. The
attempt to settle the case by arbitration
has failed
The sentence of death of the condemn
ed Fenian prisoners, at Toronto, has
been postponed to the 18th Of March.
The diplomatic correspondence which
led to the appointment of Gen Sherman
as special agent of our Government in
Mexico, together with an official account
of the object for which he is sent, have
been published. Mr.. Bigelow, our Min.
lister at Paris, having informed Secretary
Seward that Napoleon, according to lis
own confession, had decided TO postpone
the withdrawal of French troops from
Mexico until spring, the President a,
once concluded to send either Grant Oh
Sherman to that Republic TO hasten the
Imperial departure. The Emperor had
promised TO Withdraw his troops much
earlier, and his change of base de-
mandca our prompt and decisive atten.
ton, and, as General Grant could not
leave his ordinary duties, Gen Sherman
was selected for the service. If his mis-
sion has any other significance, either
more or less, there is 10 indication Of il
in the correspondence now made public
and the strong probabilities are that tn,
ostensible object is in reality the onl.
object.
The Alabama Legislature OH the I'll
inst, rejected the constitutional amend
ment b. twenty-five to seven III TIN
Senate, and siXty-nine to eight in tn
House, and then adjourned.
On Friday morning passenger trail
on the Memphis and Louisville Rail
road ran off the track, killing two pas
sengers, and wounding, but not serious
~, twelve Others.
The Surgeon Generals report wa
published last Friday. 1t shows thu
from August, 1862, to July, 1866, thel
were supplied by his Department
manned soldiers, 1881 legs, 2,2S9 arm
feet, and 55 hands. 1t also shows tn:
the rate of mortality was one in ever
fifty-two cases treated of white troop
and one in twenty-nine, of negro troop
The Department has now one hundr'
and eighty -seven post hospitals, with
capacity of 10, ISL beds.
Advices from Fort Sedgwick say q d
tachment Of twenty-five troops, und
Lieutenant Ames, recently had fig
with band Of Sioux Indians, numbt
ing one hundred. They killed eigl
wounded seventeen, and captured co
siderable number of cattle, hors
snules, ponies, and plumber. The tro1
marched 100 miles in thirty-six hou
without food for either men or horses.
A Southern paper lays down
novel and startling proposition that
freedmen ought to be paid for their lab
and hazards the opinion that if the pla
ters pay them for the labor they ba
81 A~..a this wear. it will have tenden