The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-02-06

it's passage IO-Gay2s ~ TeSoluttUu WIS
!. adolIted ordering tWo sessions per day
hereafter until otherwise ordered. The
remainder Of the morning was absorbed
/! in discussing the propriety of re-enactr
| ing Section 1924 Of the Revision. more
efiectuaily providing for the punishment
of timbea thieves.
THE NEWS. @g~r
| Eighteen prisoners escaped from the
Jail at ST. Joseph, Mo-, on Saturday.
The, ,Cretans and Turks have had
i another battle, in which the latter We're
j victorious. s bsar4t u .trsn; ra4ss.a.
l., \ proposition was introduced in Con-.
gress, on Monday morning for the re,
moyaf of the National Capitol from
i Washington to st. Louis. t.t..
/ 1t is stated from Washington that the
President will soon send to the Senate .
new appointee for. Secretary Of War.
Other Cabinet changes are limited at. :,
4 ! 1t is reported that General Meade has
!. ordered the arrest of Jenkins, the de-
] capitaied, Governor, of Georgia, on a
j charge of ohstracting the enforcement
vi Tic IslN .. ~
The Mayorof Jackson, Miss, announ-
ees, officially, that cholera of very
! fatal type is now prevailing in certain
] parts of that, city. Three deaths have
already occurred, and the attending
physician reports Others under treat
ment, in . collapsed state. .t..-.. -ss.,
,rt President johnson, in the presence Of
Generals Grant and Sherman, disclaims
any, knowledge of, or responsibility for,
the charges published by Washington
correspondents of copperhead papers, to
the effect that General Grant had yio-
lated a solemn promise made to the
President in connection with the STAN
ton War Office inabrogko. The Presi-
i. dent denies that General Grant ever
made any such promise to him. trrr
\ Cork paper says that George Fran
els Train was arrested because on the
! morning of his arrival the Boston. Plot
thoughts a. report of o speech in which
the ''irrepressible' had said: "A cable
dispatch should be sent at once to Eng.
land with the words: Pay the Alabama
claims, or fight. Lberate Meany, War.
prcn and the other American citizens, OF
war - the knife<'n Behold, what q
great fire Il little wind kindleth. H..
Italy is nlysteriously fitting out 3
vaval lieet for the coast Of Paraguay
South America. II will sail at once.
q. The Italian authorities withhold all in
formation III reference TO its object,
which is believed to be warlihe.
u News ironl Peru states that the prado
Administration Tor original Govern
mentl has been hurled from its place
, and power, and the revolution has PROV
Ell a success. The city of Areauipa Was
bombarded by the insurgents for thirty
six hours. ..#- -.
The bill for the abolition OF the tax on
cotton, as agreed upon by the Confer
ence Committee, has passed both houses
OF Congress, and now awaits the sigma.
ture of the President. 1t abolishes all
tax on domestic cotton, and the tax on
imported cotton after next November. :
| -A','AhiiiS " Aatek uiSidtIilSs u Wdl
between the United States and Great
Britain is probable event. The d,plo-
matte efforts TO procure a settlement
with Great Britain for the depredations
committed upon our commerce by the
British-rebel pirate Alabama, having
failed, the President, it is said, now
intends to insist upon a settlement, by
force Of arms, if necessary.
! The previous Legislature OF Ohio rati-
fed the constitutional amendment
j known - tie 18th article. The present
t Legislature has undertaken to rescind
! that action. Both housed OF Congress
were OH Friday engaged in the discus
sion OF the subject, the question being
Can State reconsider its ratification oil
a constitutional ameadmento Mrs sum
ner said the action of the Legislature
was unprecedented. The State having
8 once given its assent to an amendment
I t. the constitution had no power to
Nj, draw Ii. keverdy johnson said
MI lp, amer Was right. As Messrs John
1 go, aud sumner represent both sides Of
tln hnuSnt, e fate vi the resembling res
aIntinn : Are. dy sealed.
As the morning train on the Milwau-
kcc and 81 Paul Rs 'iroah, due at Mil
waukee at : O'clock + ''aaS, was three
miles west Of Lowell, tn, Sleeping ear
and ladies' car were throw ito!h inc
track 10y a broken rail, down an en-
hankmcnt OF twenty feet The ears
landed bottom UP. The ladies' car 'os,
fire, hut was extingaiShed after savera
pelsans We're more or less barned .Fif-
teen persons were injured, by the accl
dent, hoae dangerously.
IN accident occurred Friday morning
near Mil crse'l. Oh Tire Pennsylvania
Central Railroad, to fast IN <senrer
train bound east, caused by broken
rail. The Jour rear cars We're thrown
down al eIloauknent, when they took
I..e ard were burned. All the pas@en-
ger. were got oat excepting a woman.
named Anna Daggan, OF pittsbargh /,
is believed she was killed i'll the upset.
ting Of the car, and her body afterward
: partially burned. several others were
injured but rot seriously.
Tie New Orleans febel papers are
urging, tie appointment Of Jefferson
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