The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1870-12-22
8. LONGLEY, EDITOR.
LATE NEWS ITEMS

Adyices from Prussian sources state
that the bombardment of Paris Is now
liable to begin at any moment.
The Senate confirmed, on Friday by
an almost unanimous vote, the nomina'
ton Of General Pleasanton for Commits
sioner Of Internal Revenue.
tits positively asserted at the ESecu.
tive Mansion that there is no truth
whatever in tho rumors of Secretary
Boutwells resignation.
Late foreign advices state that the bonn
bardment of Paris has again been post
poned; also that the Prusslans have
Withdrawn from the vicinity OF Havre.
The House committee on Military
Affairs non concurred in the Senate bill
extending the time from the 1st Of Jam
uary until the LIST Of July for reduction
of the army.
The report of the capture ofthe French
stronghold Of Montmedy. near the Bel
gian border, by the Prussians, is con-
firmed. Many guns aud prisoners were
taken.
There are on the table of the Speaker
Of the House twenty six Immigrant bills
aud joint resolutions, all but one Of
which have come from the Senate.
There are thi rty two similar measures
pending in the Senate. All but five Of
these grants are for the benefit of rail-
roads.
The last very mean thing is move
ment throughout the State OF New York
having les origin in Rome, Oneida coun
ty, to ask the Legislature TO reimburse
those men who, having been drafted,
hired substitutes for the army during
the war. Those actively engaged in the
movement are Of course coppcrlleads.
The Tenure cf-Ofiice law, which was
passed in 1867 to restrict Andrew john
ron to tile exercise Of his legal authori
ty, has been repealed by the House, aud
ought to be, without hesitation, by the
Senate. The confidence of the country
In President Grant can at this time be
better expressed in no other way.
The time for the bonlbarlment of
Paris to commence is ROW said to he fixed
for January l, but we may anticipate the
surrender Of the city before that time
without bombardment
Robert Toombs and Lenton Stevens
have published an address to the people
of Georgia, bitterly vindictive in tone,
urging the people to take the law in their
own hands and resist the Fifteenth
Amendment, and all the laws passed 10y
Congress TO enforce it.
1t 10 reported from Washington that "a
soon as General Schenck our new Minis
Ter to England shall have entered npon
his diplomatic duties at London lie will
reopen the negotiations with the Brit
ish Government for tho adjustment of
the Alabama claims on the simple ba'
sis of a settlement by Great Britain of
the actual property losses suffered by the
depredati0ns Of the Alabama and other
pirate vessels sent out from British ports
during the war. Ii is believed that the
British Government will be willing to
settle upon this basis.
The later dispatches confirm what
las been anticipated Is many WHO nave
watched with attention. the movement,
of Russia. A dispatch from Peru, sab
urb OF Constantinop,e, says that Russia
virtually ignores the proposed confer
ence, and insists that The treaty of pari,
has been already ahroga!tA. TURKEY,
it IS reported, refI>"s Il a !nitth!s inter.
probation Of the situation. The impnr.
tant question row Is, what viii England
do if Russia stick. TO this position? She
has declare! that Russia mist withd:a"
from the stand she took in the frat
GortsehakoT note. This Russia ieclin
es to do. The situation is more thau
ever critical.