The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-12-20
SUMMARY OF LATE NEWS.

Late Mexican adyices confirm the re-
port that Macmillan has not left that
country, but is on his way back to the
City of Mexico to make one more des-
perate effort to maintain his Empire
The loyalists of North Carolina ask
Congress for authority to call a new
State Convention, to be participated in
by loyal men only, with view of FORM
ing new State Government.
A terrible explosion recently occurred
in coal mine, in England, by which
over three hundred lives were lost.
A dispatch from Shreveport. La. says
terrible tornado passed through Hen
derson, Rusi county, Texas, on the
evening of the 4th, killing six persons
and seriously iniuring twelve, besides
doing great damage to the country.
Five or six houses were blown down,
one of which was an academy wherein
four scholars We're killed and twelve Sc
riously injured
In the North Carolina Senate the con-
stitutional amendment was rejected by
a vote of for its ratification and A for
its rejection. In the House the vote
stood 10 to 90.
The inhabitants of Vera Cruz made
great demonstrations of joy on the LIST
instant, in honor of the announcement
that Macmillan had determined to stay
in Mexico. The project had issued a
proclamation stating that Macmillan,
in a great spirit of abncgation as hus-
band, had determined to adhere to Mex
leo, in defense of which he proposes to
shed the last drop of his blood.
The report that Stephens, Chief Or
ganizer of the Irish Republic has been
arrested in England, is contradcted by
cable dispatches.
A rumor from Berlin states that the
Pope of Rome has been officially invit-
ed to the United States, but whether by
President johnson is not stated.
BY Atlantic telegraph, dated last Mon
day, we have the following items: 1t is
now thought that no further serious
trouble may be expected from the Fen
ians in Ireland. A rising was expected
yesterday, but, as far as heard from,
nothing unusual in that line had occur
red. The story in relation to the arrest
of Stephens is denied
Fenian matters arc very lively in New
York. Arms and ammunition continue
to arrive, and are sent off. 1t is rumor-
cd that two privatccrs sailed from New
York last week, to prey on British COM
merce. An unsuccessful effort has been
made to harmonic the Stephens and
Roberts Fenians.
Rev. VIM. Finchen, a colored mission
AIRY who was preaching to the people of
his own race in Pike county, Georgia,
and who has salary of thirty-five dol
lars per month paid by the Georgia
Equal Rights Association, which re-
ceives its funds from Northern benevo-
lent societies, was arrested as a vagrant
and sentenced to the chain gang for
twelve months. When arrested and
convicted he was in receipt of his salary,
was independent in his circumstances,
and was doing much good as preacher
OF the gospel and teacher. His case was
carried from one court to another, and
his conviction was confirmed by the
highest courts to which the case went
the court holding that the North had
no right to send money South to pay for
such services, and that such support
was so precarious as to make one who
was dependent upon it a vagrant. These
facts are matters Of official record, and
will be brought to the attention of Con-
gress in few days.
A new island is forming in the Mis-
souri, river opposite st. Joseph, and two
citizens have built a shanty on it in or
der to secure the first claim to entry
when the Government places 1t in the
market. It is two miles long.
The KnOh1lk (nnafifnt;on has an ar.