Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-12-08

RHRNaRAL NEWB celia
Two Young men. Belonging to Allsghs-
nv CITY. who have just returned from vir-
where they had been engaged in the bust
ness of driving csttls fsPort that upon
re.ching Harpets Fereg, hey were appre-
heuded By tisssoIdisfs, and detained for
some time, as suspicious chafaeters. They
missed the tseip ia consequence 81 the de-
lay, bu, upong:ying goodaccount of them
selves, they we've sd6sssd to depart.
Eicksburg paper says that q school
tsadier 4fsom Tie lsid Of wooden nntinegs,
was taTed and festhered and ridden on a
nail thu day, at Helena, and then set
adrt on the tnrbed waters Of the Missis,
sippi on q log, for yeDtilating bis views
rasheE too freely concerning the peculiar
institution.r An abolitionist who was ia
ken up at RAmberg, South Carolina, on
the 10Th uit., for being too free in the ex-
preston of his opinions, had his head
shaved on one side and a coat of tar and
feathers applied to him; he was then rid
den on a rail beyond the limits of the vii
iage. eosss
Two suspicious characters have been
a~pprehended il Petersburg, Va. They are
nrmed John Hastings and Henry King.
The only suspicious" circumstances yet
proved on them is thai, a few minutes be-
fore they were spprehended, King told a
negro to go and tell hastings be wanted to
see himl "Vot a beeples" down in "Ole
Virginia" a
Samuel Snyder has been appointed post
master at Mansfield, o, in place Of Jacob
Reisinger, removed.
John F. Mills.a shoemaker, s~eventy-two
years old, cut his throat and died at STEM
bennlle, hst Tuesday. Owing to old age
and asthma, he had been for several months
unable to do any work. The craft bad
been contributing to bis support, and he
was strongly urged to go to tbs County
Infirmary. Rather than become public
charge, be took his own life.
A large Veterinary College has been
opened 10 New York, under an act of in
corporation from the State. Fifty horses
can be accommodated in the building at
the same time. A dissecting room and
lecture room are provided, and the entire
system Of medicine and its uses for the
horse is here to be taught
The Lafayette Courier says that Mr..
Joseph Danziger, of that place is aboutto
a mammoth balloon, to be called
tho sStar City" 1t is designed to carry
-four passenger. and will be ready for an as
sension By the first Of May next
On Monday ofhst week an inquest was
held at Hamilton, Canada, on the body Of
Arthur. Potter, a SheriTs officer, who had
been placed in charge offs quantity oflum-
Der seizedty the Sheriff on the Wharf of
Mr.. RoatiI The verdict of the Jury was
-"That. the said Arthur Potter came 10
his death from drowning, while leaving
the vessel "Hamiiton," of Oswego, and
while he was frightened by the i'll usage
Of some of the crew of the said vessel,
siz: the prisoners, John McAulep. John
Carroll, VIM. Wyburne and Samuel Glea-
John B. Cough is working wonders in
working wonders in the temperance cause
of Ireland. Large audiences flock to hear
him everywhere, and in Belfast alone, The
whisky metropolis of the North, two thou
sand persons have sigoed the total absti-
nence pledge.
The Davenport Gazette announces the
demise of a couple of democratic papers
at Keokuk and Burlington, the Benton
City Democrat, the Marion Herald, and
Sentinel. The Democratic pa
pers in Davenport have united
Gen. Harney-ihe squaw killer-and
who was in command of the troops that
took possession of the San Juan island in
the Pacific, left Portland, Oregon very alb
on the arrival of Gen. Scott He
went off in a rage and swearing like a
trooper"
In order to protect travellers from bandits,
Pasha governor of Palestine, has
ordered that so blockhouses, to be occupi-
cd by troops, shall be constructed at inter-
rails on the road from Jaffa, to Jerusalem,
from Jerusalem to Enron, aad from Ram
to GAIA. The foreign Consuls have
thanked them for this measure.
The Baltimore Exchange learns from a
letter, written by a near connection
of Gerrit Smith, that his physician does not
his symptoms as indicating a speedy
recovery.
Mr.. Rhoades proprietor Of a hotel at La
Ind, was taken with bleeding at
the nose, one night last week, and before
the ~effusion of blood could be stayed, be
died. He was physically q very large man,
over s feet in height, and weigh
ing 26o pounds.
Reign OF Terror In Virginia.
- Tn BALTIMORE, Dec. l.
The arrest of three persons at Martins
burg on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,