The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-02-22

/ leum companies, .'on the hoof and in IN,
she'll" are before the Legislature u Ala
hanna. asking for charters The oil feyes
is surely epidemic.
At Brownsville, Texas, it is 4 COMMON
remark at the breakfast table, ''Well
T who IVES killed last night or, s'Vers
! there any bodies found floating in the
. river yesterday ~..-..-
The Legislature Of New Mexico hiss
decided upon a State Convention to
, frame a Constitution. which will he
thereafter submitted to the people of that
, Territory.
1t is said by the ST. Louis papers that
there will be not less than forty steam
boats in the upper Mississippi trade OH
the opening of Navigation.
At Saltillo. Ky. las, week. seven horse
thieves were executed by lynch law. In
Boone county, Ky, returned rebel sob
d;ecs are numbering negroes, and have
Ordered the departure of the Government
officials. \ military force has been sent
TO quell the disturbance.
Jennison. the Kansas jayhawker, it is
reported. has become a Brigadier in the
Fenian service, and is going to Canada,
Gen. Butler is reported to have pu-.
chased extensive mill property on James
river, near Richmond. Virginia, with
the design of erecting cotton factories
thereon. He also contemplates the )ur-
chase ofthe tract of land through which
his famous Dutch Gap Canal runsy for
the settlement of New England families
and factory operatives.
| Artemus Ward has been playing a
charitable role in Southern cities. forthe
benefit, OF destitute rebel soldiers--.he
proceeds Of one entertainment, S:G5,
were given to Jefferson Davis. The
Philadelphia Bulletin wants to know
when and where, throughout the whole
war, this gentleman ever gave lecture
TO the benefit of Union soldiers.
Gen. Wood, commanding the Depart
ment of Mississippi, has issued an order
that mo prosecut- ons will be allowed in
this Department against cclored persons
for offences for which white persons are
no: prosecuted Or punished in the same
manner and degree; but no Intervention
will be exercised by the military autho-
rites in prosecutions against colored per-
sons for which white persons may be and
are punished b. the laws of tits Sta:e in
the same manner and degree. Before
intervening i'll any case, commanding
officers will be careful to satisfy them
selves, by rigid scrutiny, that the pros
ecution comes clearly within the prohi-
bition contained in the foregoing ex-
tract"
The bill for the organization and en-
largement Of the powers of the Freed
mems Bureau, as finally passed by Con-
gross, provides that its operation can be
extended to all parts of the States. Un-
der it the President is authorized to re-
serve for sale or settlement under the
homestead and pre-emption laws, and to
set apart for the use of freedmen and
loyal refugees, male or female, unoccu-
pied lands in Florida, Mississippi. Ala
balla, Louisiana and Arkansas, not ex-
ceeding 100000 acres-provided that |
not more than 40 acres are given to each |
freedman or refugee. The latter is to
'ay such annual rent for said land as may
C agreed on. With regard to the South
carolina cotton lands, the bill provides
hat Gen. Sherman's order giving freed |
men these lands shall be confirmed for
hree years from January Is, 1865. The
'Wners can make application for the res
GRAFTON of their lands, provided the ac-
eptants consent to be removed to other
ands, either public or private. In other
aspects the bill is nearly the same us the
'reedmen's Bureau law now in force.
|he President has vetoed this bill, and
II very elaborate message to Congress,
opposes the bill in every shape and form.
he believes many of the features to be
and says that no such
legislation for the South ought to be
ldopted, while the Southern States are
represented. He thinks there is too
much appointing power in the bill con-
Iided to the President. He enters into a
full discussion of his reconstruction poll
cy, and thinks the Southern representa-
tives ought to be admitted.
CoSGKEssloNAL.-In the Senate, last
Monday, Mr. Wilson presented a bill for
d!sarming the military in the Southern
states: An amendment to the repre-
-enta;ion bill was offered giving the
night OF suffrage to all coiored citizens
enrolled III the army or navy who can
read and write, and owning property to
The value Of $3.50. In the House. the
following bills We're offered: To make
eight hours doy's warli of Government
repeating the act cxempting
government bonds ftom State and Gov
.rnment tax; equalizing bounties: CIV
ne bounty IN lands to one hundred day
men ; for the relief of persons from pun
,shmeht, by State authority, for acts
zone under the authority of the United
states; bill that the loyal States have
power to amend the Constitution re-
iucmS the duty Oh printing paper: do
mating temporary barrecks and encamp-
nehts to benevolent Institutions: ail-