The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-07-26
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
The fast trotting horse Dexter, last
Thursday made the best time on record,
on the Fashion Course. He beat the
horses Gen. Butler and Toronto Chief,
for purse of $4,000. Time, 2:l9.
General Rosseau, Of Kentucky, in or
der to evade the reprimand of the Speak
err as ordered by the House of Represen-
tatives for his assault upon Mr.. Grinnell
has resigned his seat.
Macmillan has interfered to protect
the agents of the American Bible Soci-
ETY. in Mexico from the prosecutions of
the priesthood, and they are now max
ing good progress in their work without
interference.
Another section Of twenty miles of the
Union Pacific Railroad being the Chi
cago branch connecting with the Chica-
go and Northwestern at Omaila,1 has
been finished. This makes las miles OF
the lad that is now finished west OF
Omaha.
The Secretary of the Treasury has au-
| thorized the exchange of $50 bonds,
from any holders, for 5-2Os of 1865, upon
equal terms as respects principal the
interest being adjusting according to the
amount due on each security.
A movement is on foot to admit Ne
braskaint the Union before the adjourn
ment of Congress.
The vote by which the House of Rep
reseutatives last Friday declared in ia
vor of admitting the Congressman elect
| from Tennessee stood l25 to II.
General Sheridan writes to the War
Department that French reinforcements
are constantly arriving in Mexico, and
that he has little faith in Napoleon s
promises to withdraw his troops from
that country.
Governor Crawford, of Kansas, Oh the
18th, appointed Major Il. G. Ross, late of
the 18th Kansas cavalry, and associate
editor of the Lawrence Tribune, United
| States Senator to fill General Lanes un-
expired term. Major Ross is radical
Republican. He left Lawrence OH the
Goth for Washington,
The bill to revive the grade of Gen
eral' in the army, to be conferred upon
General Grant, has been passed by Con-
gress
Both houses Of Congress have agreed
to final adjournment OF the session on
"Wednesday next, the 18th.
We have four days later news from
Europe by the Steamer Hermann ana
City of Paris. Negotiations are reported
to be progressing under the arlnlstlce,
but apparently with no prospect OF a pa
cilic result. Napoleon is preparing for
armed intervention. A general war i'll
Europe is deemed imminent The 4 us
trians have abau doned the city ofPrague.
The Italians are reported to have been
! again defeated by the Austrians.
Colonel TAYLOR, Superintendent of In
dian Affairs at Omaha, and President of
the Commission which recently held
council with Indians at Fort Laramie,
accompanied by General Thayer, United
States Senator from Nebraska, and Mr..
Paddock, Secretary of the Territory, ar
rived at st Joseph on the 10Th, and left
for Washington that night. Colonel
Taylor claims that perfectly satisfacto-
ry treaty was made at Laramie. All re-
ports to the contrary are circulated by
parties interested in creating hostilities.
! There were 1900 Indians present.
Fourteen of sixteen chiefs signed the
treaty. Colonel TAYLOR expresses the
firm belief that if there is trouble Oh the
Plains, it will be commenced by the
whites.
In the Senate, on the Dist, the report
of the Conference Committee on the bill
increasing the the pensions of widows
and orphans was concurred in. The
/ House resolution for the restoration of
Tennessee was amended by the substitu-
| ton ofanother preamble, and the omiss-
ion ola portion of the clause relative to
| the admission OF COnSrceomcn, and then
adopted, as follows:
WHEREAS, In the year of 1861 the Gov
n nt ln Sfntn n To,
was seized upon and taken possession of
by persons in hostility to the United
States, and the inhabitants of said State.
in pursuance of an act of Congress, were
declared TO be in a state of insurrectior
against the United States; and,
WHEREAS Said State Government cal
only be restored to its former political re
lations in the Union by the consent o
the law-making power of the Unite,
States; and,
2 WHEREAS, The people of said State
did, on the 22d of February, 1865, by !
large popular vote, adopt and ratify :
Constitution and government republi
can in form and not inconsistent with
the Constitution and laws of the United
States, whereby slavery is abolished ant
the ordinance and laws of secession, anc
debts contracted under the same where
by the same were declared void; and,
WHEREAS, The State Government
has ratified the amendment to the Con
stitution of the United States abolishine
; slavery, also the amendment proposed By
J the Thirty-ninth Congress; and
WHEREAS, The body of the people O
Tennessee have, by a proper spirit 0
: obedience, shown to the satisfac
ton of the Congress of the United States
a return of the said State to due allegi
ance to the Government of the Unitet
States; therefore be it
Resolred, BY the Senate and House O
; Representatives of the United States o
America, in Congress assembled. tina