The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-09-06

A Boston dispatch contains an ac-
count of the funeral of Rev. G. w. Hor-
ton, Chaplain of the late New Orleans
Convention, who was murdered by the
rebel police during the recent massacre
in that city. The largest hall in the city
was filed with mourning friends.
The Treasury Department is busily
engaged in the conversion Of Seven-Thir-
ties into Five-Twenties. The recent ad-
vance in the latter class of bonds makes
the chance very advantageous. +"
BY the swamping of a boat, near Tole-
do, Ohio, four young persons connected
with aSabbath School picnic weredrown-
ed. .-a ..z-
Advices by the cable to the LIST inst.
states that the treaties of peace have all
been ratified. a dispatch from London
states that rise in. rebel bonds was oc-
casioned by the news of the Phiiaokl-
phia Con ventiOn of last month. Affairs
OIL the Continent are assuming peace
full aspect, and hostile troops are evacu-
ating the countries they have invaded.
The negotiations reported between the
King and the Pope are denied. The
war in Gambia continues. Later dis
patches report the progress of the Amer
lean Embassy through Russia.
An attempt was made ut Durant, Iowa
two or three nights since, to fire bridge
on the Mississippi and Missouri Rail-
road. Fortunately the flames were dis
covered in season to prevent q consum-
nation of the outrage. raa
A party of drunken Winnebago Indi-
ans came near capturing Sioux City, To-
wa, fewidays since. After firing their
revolvers promiscuously for some time
| thc1, xynro at nA q nd diSnpraad
The Mobile advertiser says terrific
explosion occurrd at the mouth OF Dog
River on Friday evening, which startled
into a fear that they We're having a relapse
of the late war. Upon investigation
they discovered that flat-boat had bro
ken loose and drifted on torpedo,
which exploded and sent the barge
higher than kite" 1t would seem
from this explosion that the old t0rpe-
does have as yet sustained no damage
from their protracted immersion.
The Fenian General Spear and his as
sociates, who were arrested by the Uni
ted States authorities during the recent
attempted raid into Canada, have been
notified that they will not be prosecu-
ted. W
Gold has declined in New York owing
to the advance Of United States 5-2Os in
London, and the arrival Of 81 ,OOO, 900 of
gold from Europe, at New York. It
opened in New York yesterday morn
ing at l45. IS i' .s7 ".'f
The Michigan State Republican Con-
vention for the nomination of Governor.
Lieutenant Governor and other State
officers, was held in Detroit. Governor
Grape and Lieutenant Governor May
were re-nominated. Resolutions de-
nouncing. President johnson and de-
manding the expulsion of Henry J. Ray
mond from the Republican party, were
adopted
A gentleman resident of Cleveland be-
came crazy on Monday last on hearing
that his brother, his sister and her hus.
band, and their family, had all died OF
cholera at Cincinnati. He was OIL
Tuesday morning found roaming
through the streets, needless of the tear
and entreaties Of his wife, who was try
ing to persuade him to return home
The police took him home. where Ii.
has to be guarded aud confined to hi
room. b
General John A. Dix, orator of thu
. day at the laying of tho cornerstone q
, the Douglas Monument, to-day, reached
Chicago, on Saturday evening. The
Presidential party arrived last evening
, Advices from South America state tina
spain has abandoned her war agains
Peru and Chill, but that those Repub
lies are nevertheless preparing to renew
war Of retaliation against Spain 81 )
. new Ministry has been chosen In Bra
al, pledged to vigorous prosecution q
the war against Paraguay.