The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-01-31

he is still in this country.
| The official conduct of Governor
! Brownlow meets with the hearty APP
nroyal of the Unionists of East Tennes-
see. lie will probably he rendered
denomination, but his health issuch that
his accentance Il thought doqhtfnl.
Colonel stokes, now in Congrdss, Is the
second choice Of the eastern part OF the
state.
A IT. Joseph Mo special says advi-
cc. from the Plains and Mountains
rrnoyt the great body Of the Indians
moving southward. Old Indian fight
up. cav this mems war; that the Indians
have Il Knowledge of the troops Which
are being sent out, and. 50 they are NOV
ing southwark 10 open The War III liiat
less protected region: but when the
troops ;.re sent after them, they VIII
give them the slip, dash north again
and spread murder and devastation up
on the region thus uncovered.
! The bill reported in the House on
Saturday by the Committee on Agrlcul,
turo proposes 10 raise tho Agricultural
Bureau to an executive department.,
thereby adding another member to the
Cabinet. The proposed Secretary OF
Agriculture will have about the same
:
''ture. 1t is probable the bill will not pass
this session.
An official letter from from Florida
S,x.s tra Indians of tho Evo~e'" doc ore
determined to keep the negroes in their
tribes "a slaves, denying that white
mems laws are applicable to them on
the subject of slavery. The negroes
claim their liberty, and have appealed
to the military for assistance.
Tt is officially announced that the
freedmen throughout Florida are renew
ing contracts. Large numbers are en-
tering lands. There was large lmml-
grafton from North Carolina and \lr-
Tginia, for the purpose of obtaining work,
or colonizing on st. Johns river, on the
south side thereof. General Ely had ar
rived from Carolina with eight hundred
freedmen. The colonization agencies in
the southern part of the State seemed
unpopular.
A movement il on foot to pass law to
provide for filling the Office of President,
in ease of the removal of Mr. johnson
by impeachment or death. The Consti-
tuition directs that Congress shall pro-
vide by law for the appointment or an
officer to discharge the duties OF Presi-
dent when the office shall become va
cant, and it is proposed to designate
Gen Grant by law. The bill will soon
be brought in.
An cnterprising Connecticut man
has succeeded in curing beef in South
America so that it can be safely put up
and brought North. 1t costs cured,
cent ana II half per pound.
A railroad conductor was arrested
at Hudson, Mich, on Thursday last, and
fined $500 and costs for electing pass
annmer from the train who had refused
to nav three cents.
\ Conductor has Just been discharged
from the New Haven Railroad whose
were never less than fifty
dollars daily.
The Maine Legislature is discussing
the eXpediency of enacting laws regulat-
inr the sale of kerosene and other eN-
plosive burning oils, and also of repeal
ing the law prohibiting marriagcbctWcen
a white person and negro or an Indian
and mulatto.
The Hcru'd's New Orleans special
savs: 'Bowie eoenty, Texas, is in re-
volt. Captain rremblc, late Of All H.,
regiment 81 piuntcr there, was recently
shot wounded and his HE uucatorod.-
lie came to New Orleans and returned
with twenty cavalry to remove his fam
iIv. He found that his wife and child
had been driven from home into Arkan-
sas. The negroes on his place were
manaclod and driven through the streets
| in pre>ence of the cavalry, who were
! forced TO fail back before three hundred
Of the unreconstTacted.
"Mrs Tremble died srom i'll treat
ment, and was buried here. General,
Mower, Hatch, Kirby and many UGior
officers and members of the Grand ar
my Of the Republic attended the funeral
The Captain is at the point of death
from wounds received from the 'chival
ry.'
There is talk of charging the police
force of New York by 500 men, maxim!
it 1900. This increase is necessary in or
der to keep proper lookout on the liz
Adyices receivedA from Behring'
Straits state that the American portion
of the Russian and American TELEGRAPH
is completed, and the Straits have beel
surveyed for the purpose of finding
suitable place for laying a submarine Ca
; bic. The Russian portion of this grea
enterprise, it is expected, will be finish
ed by next autumn.
y united States man-ot-Waf las lei
the Bosphorus to take Cretan fugitive
on board and transport them to Greece.
1t is reported that Greek commission
will 30 to America to thank the pGupi
, of the United States for their sympathy
and to ask the Government to send
fleet Of monitors to the assistance {
= the Cretans.
The American monitor Miantonoma
is now lying in MarscilleS harbor, and
daily crowded with visitors.
, The United States District Court, {
) Washington, has placed itself in an al
: tagonist position to the recent ties
oath decision Of the Supreme Court, b
refusing to admit attorneys to prAt
tee who will not take the oath j
/ q,fcstiuu.
: 4 Wisconsin Court has decided ths
: a man has IA right To cha-tise his wife [
= a "red$ond5ie orient"
: The Virginia Supreme Court of Al
peales has decided that the clothes of
married woman do not belong to he
but are the property Of her husband.
General Grant has ordered upwards {
500 recruits to be Immediately forwarde
to the regiments serving ut Forts Carp
! and Phil hearney, Dakotah Territor,
and Camp Douglas, Utah Territory,
serve against the hostile Indians.
The Times special says that since In.
November, the leading politicians Mort
and South-republicans democrats an