The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-11-07
Upton, IOWA:
THE NEWS.

ordered General Grant to disarm anidi
band the negro militia in the District
Columbia. He is evidently afraid
something. Much excitement has bee
caused among the colored population
Washington in consequence.
aGarbaldi has been attacked and d,
featcd by the combined Papal and Frenc
troops, near Rome. He and his sma
army are reported 10 be prisoners. Wit
nlnere handful of men, poorly eauippe
and without any effective military OF
ganiEation, Garibaldi could not reason
ably have expected success in the face o
the overpowering forces that were mar
shaded to oppose him.
II Our Government has not, as reported
yet purchased the Danish West Indi;
islands, but is negotiating for them.
General Schofield has issued general
order announcing the result of the late
election in Virginia, and appointing the
Sd day of December for the meeting o.
the Reconstruction State Convention, to
reorganize the State Government as pro-
'vided by the acts of Congress. The Re-
publicans have 30 majority in the Con-
vention.
As in Louisiana, Alabama and Vir-
ginia, the Republicans carried the State
of Georgia at the election last week. On
the question of calling Convention to
re-organize the State Government, I'M
der the Reconstruction act of Congress,
the proposition received majority in
every county heard from.
It. is reported that the President in
tends to recall Hon. Charles Francis
Adams, our Minister to London, and
give him The appointment of Secretary
:. Of State.
titles at Washington that the Indian war
on the Western Plains is at an end. The
Government Commissioners to treat
with the tribes report likewise.
General Mower, commandant at New
Orleans, has removed General Hayes,
the rebel Sheriff of that county, and APP
pointed Mr. Bullitt, friend of President
Lincoln, in his place. The reason as
signed for this change is that Hayes
sided with the rebel rioters and murder
crs of negroes in the July outbreak, and
would not be safe man as Sheriff at
the time of the approaching meeting of
the State Reconstruction Convention,
when another outbreak is apprehcnded.
The sorghum crop of 1867 is said to be
Il failure, when compared with the yield
of former years. From most of the cane
growing regions of the West the reports
upon the condition of the crop are
gloomy. Excepting a few favored local
tiles, heavy rains have prevented the
canes from maturing in season to escape
the frost
Judge Bullock of the Circuit Court of
Kentucky recently decided that nothing
except gold or silver is a legal tender in !
that State another Rebel Judge |
Woodward, of pennsylvania-tried that /
same dodge during the war, but as far as
heard from he didn't thereby nullify the
laws of Congress declaring another sort
of currency legal tender and Bullock
will find he has run his head against
wall equally formidable and durable.
The Plattsmouth (Nebraska) HcraM
recommends to the farmers Of that State
that in localities where the grasshoppers
have deposited eggs prairie fires be kept
off until next spring, and then when The
eggs shall be about TO hatch that the
grass be burned simultaneously, and the
pestiferous insects be thas destroyed.
A letter from Georgia says: "Nou !
would hardly believe were to tell YOU, /
the absurd hopes excited in the South /
ern bosom b. the recent Democratic /
successes. One result the planters re- /
gard as certain. we shall all be paid !
for our niggers,' they say, in less than
three years / know of several planters
who have already made out the necessa- !
~ papers with descriptions, af1idavits, |
&c, to support their claims"
silk culture, as wine making, promis- !
cs to be an important part of the bust /
Hess of California in the future. Silk /
worms have been bred in California
regularly since 1860, and the weather
being favorable the increase has been
rapid, and the next year the total pro-
duction, will, it is expected, reach as
high as one hundred and fifty million
cocoons. 1t is said that the average of |
European cocoons in quality and guam |
tity Of fibre is considerably surpassed by
the California cOcoons.
vEAs Chicago Democrats don't take /
kindly TO the Ohio Democratic PROPOSE
ton to pay the debt in greenbacks and |
tax Government bonds. 4 resolution to
that effect was voted down on SATURDAY., |
and a resolution recognizing the obliga- |
ton to pay the debt in good faith, to the
last dollar, was adopted.
Gen. Pope has issued orders for the |
of the Alabama Constitu-
tional Convention at Montgomery, on
he 18th of November.