The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-01-09

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The heads Of some of the department.
It washangtou 1re dissharging $500 Q
their employees, while othsn are rsduc
ing wages.
/ Official advices from the West 1ndi,
island Of st. Thomas state that durini
the month OF November It had tws
thousand earthquakes, two hundred and
forty Of which occurred within mine
hours. Rather too shaky for comfort
The new arrangement Of peace and
cooperation between the express com.
panies took effect on the LIST. It II vir'
tually . consolidation, the entire man.
age1nent Of business being put in the
hands Of Board Of Control, consisting
Of one member from each Board Of d.
rectors, which four choose the ffth, who
acts as President. ~
Charles Dickens high authority
leans to the position that first ampress-
ions are usually correct, and also says !:
II have known vast quantity Of nom
sense talked about bad men not looking
YOU in the face. Cont trust that con-
ventional idea, Dishonesty will stare
honesty out OF countenance any day Of
the week, il there is anything to be got
by it." .. ........ t...~ .e+.. .s.
A formidable revolution has broken
out in the State Of Yucatan, Mexico. It
is rebellion against President Juarez's
Government. The rovolutionists have
pronounced for Santa Anna rs Dictator,
and that parsonage was expected there,
but ut last accounts he was in Havana.
Affairs throughout the Republic of Mex
leo appear to be rapidly relapsing into
that confusion and disorder for which
that unfortunate country is notorious.
The monthly table of losses at sea dur
ing December shows al aggregate of
fifty three vessels. OF this number two
were steamers six were ships; eight
were barks; ten were brigs thirty-three
were schooners, and two were sloops.-
OF the above, four were burned; two
sunk after collision, and eleven were
abandoned ut sea. The total value OF
the property lost and burned is estimated
ut two million five hundred and seventy
two thousand dollars. The vessels
wrecked, burned, and missing the past
twelve months number five hundred
and thirty-six, with on estimated loss OF
tw enty-one millions seven hundred and
forty two thousand two hundred dollars.
There Is revolution in Yucatan
against President Juarez's Government.
Three millions, of poor people, white
and black, in the States of Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and the
Carolinas, are reported to be in starv-
ing condition.
Senator Sprague, Of Rhode Island, In
his speech advocating the abolition Of
the cotton tax, told the Senate he feared
the country had lost the great cotton
interest forever that the control of the
question had passed from their hands,
He even feared the competition OF In
dia cotton in American markets. As
for Sea- Island cotton, he believed that
in two years it would only be produced
as a rare plant in some gentleman
garden. At this day Egyptian cotton
was used in seven -cights Of the articles
in which Sea Island cotton was former
ly employed. The plantations of the
South were not worth one-twentieth
part of what they were before the war.
Probably it is not generally known to
Pro estant readers that there is large
settlement of Cistercian Monks at New
Melleray, Iowa. Their labors have been
SO successful that they are about to erect
an immense cioister, costing between
$500, 900 and 100000. This monastery
will cover nearly three acres Of ground.
The details Of its plan are copied from
the order Of architecture used by the
Cstercians in the eleventh century, en-
bracing much Of Gothic style. 1t will
be noble pile. AS monastery, it will
be by far the largest Of any order of
monks in America. There are few in
Catholic Europe which are of larger
dimensions. Duplicates Of the plans
We're sent to France to the General
Chapter Of the Cistercian Order, last
September. for approval. They were
adopted without any alteration, and
the head Of the order wrot: to the
Abbot Of New Malleray, that it would
be the most perfect institution of the
Iistercian Order i'm the world. The
NAH. buildings will be four in number,
and vii, be erected in the form of a
square, surrounding a court one hun
dred feet long b. the same in width
They will be of store; each superstruct-
ure being thirty-two feet high, resting
Oh easements twelve feet deep. The
projectors hope that every building will
be finished by the LIST of June, 1870.
E@-"Observer," the Washington cor
respondent OF the Davenport Gazette,
gives the following views of the proba-