Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-12-30
From the Columbus Journal.
WashingtOn Gossip.
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Washington Gossip.
The AMcABLE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Between Mr.. English and Mr. Montgom-
cry, in the course Of which Mr.. English hit
Mr.. Montgomery on the head with q cane,
and Mr.. Montgomery hit Mr.. English on
the leg with brick, is still the talk at
Washington. The Tribune's letter states
that English struck Montgomery on the
back of the head before the latter spoke to
him, and then ran ingloriously, when Mont
gornery stopped to pick up brick.
From the N. Y. Heralds letter We item
ize as follows:
MOVEMENTS OF THE AxrEDrLUvIAss.
MI desperandumt would seem to be
the motto of The old line wings. Three Of
Fillmore's cabinet-Crittenden, Stuart and
Conrad-with many other old leaders Of
that party, are here caucusing and consid-
ering the ways and means of recuscitation,
and the chances of the next Presidential
term, amidst the existing decentralization Of
political parties.
ARIZONA AND DACOTAH.
The Times correspondent states that
the Senate committee on Territories will
refuse to report the Arizona bill unless Da-
cola goes with it and this cannot be done
unless the Indian treaties are confirmed,
extingushing their claim to the country
These treaties are now pending before the
Senate.
SPANISH MEXICAN WAR. a
The N. Y. Herald has a letter from
Bridgetown Barbados, of which it gives a
paragraph:
Private advices from England say that
war between Spain and Mexico is inevita.
bic, though the beligeren,s may be prevent
ed coming into collision Immediately
through the meditation of John Bull and
Brother Jonathan. France will assist
Spain in overthrowing the Mexican Repub-
lie and substituting monarchy in its stead
with Bonaparte for king.
THE COCHIN CHINESE WAR.
Intelligence has reached Paris by which
we learn the progress of the French and
Spanish expedition TO Cochin China. II
appears the allies have taken the town Of
juror, and occupied the forts of Jeupon,
capturing several guns and killing large
numbers of the enemy. who are declared to
have offered very little resistance. The
Cochin China do not appear to be able to
resist the arts of modern European war
fare any more than the soldiers of the Ce-
lestial Empire, but they are equally cruel
Whenever European falls into their hands
the victim is barbarousiy mutililated.-N
Y Herald.
CUSHING FOR MEXICO.
The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Journal states that Jefferson Davis
is urging the appointment of Caleb Cush
ing as Commissioner to Mexico.
Ex-Prcsident Pierce proposes to pass the
winter at Naples and the Island of Capri
and in the spring to visit Rome. Mrs
Pierce is still an invalid.
PRAYER MEETING IN A JAIL.
1t is said that prayer meetings are held
three times week among the prisoners
confined in the Jail of Ulster CO., N. Y.
MONTGOMERY AND ENGLISH DIFFICULTY.
History furnishes no adequate parallel
to this wonderful reconnoiter, except it be
the bloodless quarrel between two guests
of Bob Sawyer, at the little supper given
by that gentleman to his fellow medical
students. The affair may be found nara
ted at length in the Posthumous Papers oil
the Pickwick Club.
DEATH OF AN INVENTOR.
Timothy Alden, the inventor of the ma
chino for setting and distributing type, died
in New York, on the 4th inst. The de-
ceased was native of Barnstable county,
Mass, and learned the printers trade in
the Office of the Barre Gazette.-Boston
Journal.
HARD TO BELIEVE.
If we had not found the following in a
newspaper, we confess that we should not
believe it:
According TO the Chicago Journal dis
honest servant girl, who was in the habit
of sporting immense hoops, was discharged
by her employer, who soon missing articles
dispatched an officer after the girl who was
employed to search her, with the following
result:
A bag of buckwheat, a quantity of flour,
small can of milk, several pounds of su-
gar, package of tea, and a jug of molasses
actually pinned 10 her petticoat and hang
ing upon her crinoline. A further search
brought to light large quantity of cakes
concealed in her bosom
SPANISH MEXICAN WAR.
Information was received here to-day
that imports that the Spanish Commander
of the fleet off Tampico had declared that
war exists between Spain and Mexico, and
that Spanish land force would soon ar.
rive there.
A CARD FROM ENGLISH.
The Hon. VIM. H. English publishes a
statement to the effect that his collision
with Montgomery was on his part wholly
unprecedented and without malice-an
impulse based upon an unexpected and un-
provoked indignity. He does not deny
the details of the transaction as established
by the witnesses, nor does he give any par
ticulars or produce any testimony.
NEGRO REVOLT.
The negroes on the plantation of COL
cambridge, in De Soto county Miss, re-
volted lately. Five of them have been ar
rested.
A WOMEN WAS KILLED,
At Dixon, ILL.,, during a recent attack by