The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-06-21

s,eanfirnk G&ain and Portugal have
: sraad Ia adt III common for the defense
q neutrality. ~ q nj g.
The new Captain General of Cuba has !
issued circular, expressing the deter
mination of the Queen of Spain to ex-
terminate the slave trade, and his own
resolve to enforce the laws on that sub
ject. .0'~ Ii N III. !
says: ave Were shown yesterday, by
Mr.. S. Bridges, two counterfeit $50 COM
pound interest notes, which had been
passed upon him and one Of his neigh
bors by q drover, who gave his name as
Daily, from Mount, Pleasant, and pre-
tended to be travelling through the State
in the interest Of some large st. Louis
diaries, buying up milch cows. He OPP
crates thus: After taking a cursory look
at the cows, he becomes very easily sat
sfed both with quality and price, and
offers to advance 500, leaving the COW to
take ata more convenient time. II This Is
approved; aud he puts down one of these
counterfeit notes, ami takes $50 in good
money in, return. This operation has
been repeated scores of times.
/, A despatch from Canada says that
number of British soldiers diedoffatigue
during the recent Fenian invasion. We
suppose this refers to some members of
the Queens Own, who ran from Ridg-
way to Port COlborne ON an excessively
warm, day. This was very fatiguing ex-
ercise certainly. .,.. ii "A l...s...@
Accounting to the Postal law just APP
proved by the President, prepaid and
free letters are to be forwarded at the
request Of the party addressed from one
office to another without additional
postage charge, and dead letters restored
to the writer's thereof free Of postage. II
The Omaha Repablicm. of the It'll,
gives cheering. bulletins Of progress on
the Union Pacific Railroad. There are
on the olevee at that place fifty miles of
iron, and ties tor seventy-five miles,
with 10000 ties up the river, on the
constantly employed. From one to two
miles of, road are finished daily, and at
the. above date the track had reached
eight miles beyond Columbus. .t Nav
The surrender of Lees army threw in
to the hands of our Government thirty
thousand muskets of British manufac-
ture.. These were sold to a speculator,
and from him purchased Mt double the
~ sG$tioi SN''upS viz AtANSs
+ "Reminiscences of Gen. Scott are now
current in the public journals. One of
! his latest treasured remarks was when
he heard the gums fired rs asalute on his
arrival at West Point: '''Fhe last Of hu-
man glorics arc passing away But it
is all unpnetieal fact that his last words
were about his horse, and his last auto
graph an order to Cozzcns for bottle Of
brandy. @ - 2hf2 3af go "a5sa
Gen. Grant has been invited to visit
about ninety-six places on the Fourth of
July He is expected at fOrty-fve. mil
The colorcd men of New Jersey are
moving to contest legally their right TO
the ballot. Claiming that, as as tax pay
ers, representation is due them in the en-
actment and administrations of the laws,
they offer votes mt next election, land, if
/ refused, they VIII Drlng the matter Ust.l,o
courts and there lay open the whole
! question Of suffrage. The most intclli-
! gent and wealthy colorcd men of the
State lead the enterprise, which retains
for its chief lawyer General b, F.. But
Ter. w, ,,n nv. ..t....r,,.1..
Iry President johnson has granted twelve
Thousand three hundred and eighty-one
political pardons since his accession ia
Office. To avoid the opportunities q
pardon brokers, he has now directed
that henceforth pardons shall he dcIiv
cred only to the applicants themselves.
IN the case or absence, pardOns will be
forwarded to them through the Govern
ors Of their States. h. g. aa ,mns
Over 10000 'e;nigrant. from Europe
arrived hit New York last month. It is
estimated that 100000 have landed ut
that port alone since the LIST of January.
ID. THE ATLANTIC london
Hclu1d says: AS we were the first to
describe the BEGINNING OF tile work on
this years cable, so now that the prepa-
rations are being rapidly completed we
have the pleasure of laying before our
readers an account OF the programme
I which will be followed is closely as cir.
cumstances will permit. The Great
Eastern, which lies comfortably enough
in the Midway, about three miles above
Shecrness, and where the public parted
with her last year, will run out to yea on
the 30th of June. The 18th being the
day Of the highest spring tides; was orig.
: inally chosen; but While the 3Qth gives
. a margin Of two days more for possible
delays, the water on the bar Dat1 Sheer.
: ness will on that day be quiternough tc
float the big ship, however dceD she may
be, especially as she will coat comfort
! ably from the third or fourth Of July till
the seventh or eighth, in that delightful
; anchorage behind Bear Island, in Bantr,
Bay, where Capt. Anderson kept hel
snuglly for three days last year. From
Bearhaven the Great Eastern will 90 t.
2 Valentia not later than the 10th ofJuly
and by that time the new shores end
which is TO be shippedf from Nortl
Woolwich by the middle Of June, vii
be laid from the William Cory, steam
:, ship, and bchready at a buoy not ia
from the spot where the splice was mad
| cable are Joined the Great Eastern, witt
: her consorts, will take her dcparture OF
a course distant about thirty miles from
that which she took last year. SO tina
there may be no chance Of laying TIL
| new cable over the old one. If all shout,
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