The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-07-04

vest which machine he prefers.
Our farmers who are needing ma
chimes will do we'll to remember that
Mccormick gives the strongest wdrran-
ty-that their warranty is good beyond
all doubt, and that Mccormick ma
chine will last an ordinary farmer as
long rs he lives if he takes care of it.
THE NEws. - II '"-.
+ Horace Greeley was summoned before
the Impeachment Committee last Mon
day.
Returns received at the Department
of Agriculture, Washington, from the
various States, indicate magnificent
harvest. The yield of wheat, it is esti-
mated, will be two hundred million
bushels.
The rebel element in New Orleans is
jubilant over a report, said to be con-
firmcd by President Johnson's Private
Secretary, that General Rousseau is to
supercede General Sheridan.
The evidence on the trial Of John II.
Surratt demonstrates very conclusively
that Mrs Shrratt was one of the most
guilty of the assassins who murdered
the President, Amy sympathy tina: may
have heretofore been felt for her, as an
innocent woman, is put at rest by the
damning evidence adduced on this trial.
General Spinner, in an official letter to
the cashier Of National Bank in New
Hampshire, says after the failure of
National Bank, it has nothing more to
do with its notes, all Of which the Unit
ed States undertakes to redeem. Such
notes are subject to the same rules of
redemption as public notes Of the United
States.
A smash-up occurred OH the Valley
Road, near Ottumwa, last Friday. The
train due there at o'clock was on its
way up. A wheel gave out on car
attached to the tender, and this car and
eleven flat ears were thrown from the
track in a wrecked heap. The passen-
ger cars, which were in the rear of the
train, were uninjured.
The Board of Aldermen Of New York
have appropriated $40, 600 to celebrate
Indian scalps in Colorado are worth 1
$40 each.
OF the five hundred and twenty-four
United States exhibitors at Paris, there
have been awards in favor of two humid
red and sixty-two. Among these, four
have been awarded grand prizes and
seventeen gold medals.
General Sherman has issued all i'm
portant order relative to the manner Of
conducting hostilities against the Indi-
ans. While willing to accept the servi-
ccsof mounted men raised in the menaced
States and Territories, and regularly en-
rolled according to act of Congress, no
Observation-Disclosures will no be permit
tod by u State or Territory, except for
the punishment of mourauding bands of
Indians. He particularly warns all con-
the old "treaty rights are the Supreme
law of the land aud must be respected.
General Swayne, commanding the
District of \ Isba,,ia, has blocked some
of the rebel games in his department.
The rebel Legislature of Alabama have
passed u law imposing a heavy stamp
duty upon documents relating to the
collection Of pensions, back pay, ETC.,
of Union soldiers, General Swayne has
it. He has also suspended
a law imposing heavy license tax up
on the sale of illustrated periodicals,
that record of rebel spite
aimed at Harper's Weekly, General
Swayne's removal will, of course, be de-
manded by the copperhead press of the
entire country.
Information was received at Wash
ington on the lst inst, from reliable
source, stating that by a decree of the
Juarez Government, Macmillan was
shot Oh the 10th ult., at o'clock in the
morning, and that the friends Of Maxi
milan asked the privilege of removing
his body for the purpose Of sending it to
Europe, but the request was refused.
Gen Grant also received private tcle-
gram from Gen Sheridan, containing
substantially the same statement. 1t is
believed that Juarcz reluctantly consent
ed TO the execution of Maximilian.-
When the messenger bearing dispatches
from our Government relative to spar
ing the life Of Macmillan delivered his
package to Juarez, the latter informed
him that he was disposed to spare the
life of Macmillan, but the pressure
from the Mexican leaders and people
for his execution was SO great that it
would he almost impossible to resist it.
The Herald's North Platte, Nebraska
special says: Intelligence was brought
to this town, this morning, by party
of Independent scouts, just from the
Pawnee reservation, that large body of
hostile Sioux had suddenly appeard and
surrounded the Pawnee reservation,
twenty miles northwest of Columbus, Ne
braska. There is great excitement, of
course, among the Indians and white
settlers, and the worst results are reason
ably entertained. These scouts have
travelled fast for the purpose ofprocuring
immediate relief. A band of Pawnee
Indians, tribal relatives of the warriors
on the war-path, are encamped shout
twenty miles west of Omaha. These