Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-06-21

The Hon. Schuyler Colfax, Of Indiana, has
been re-nominated for Congress by the Repub-
icans of his district, by acclamation. Mr.. Col
fax is an Editor, and one of the very few the
Republicans do more for than to make them the
working pack-horses for party success. Mr..
Colfax richly deserves all his houors and good
fortune.
Flour from new wheat, ground at Carbondale,
ILL.,, has been received at Chicago.
Chicago will soon boast of the largest and
best Post Office and Custom House in the Union.
The work on the U. S. building is being push
ed forward rapidly.
The hard Norwegians are still making homes
in Wisconsin. -Four hundred recently en-
tered the State in body, TO farm the rich wild
lands.
The Chicago Press says Geu. E. Pugh. Sena-
tor from Ohio, talks of entering upon the prac-
tice of the law in Illinois, and adds-"We hope
he will come, because we knead dough-faces out
here"
II has been ascertained that the Iowa tornado
progressed at the rate of &C miles per hour
Its circular velocity was much greater, some
300 miles IN hour, even greater than a cannon
ball fred by full charge. Cedar shingles
were driven through the side of house, and
pine chips were forced into an oak tree so sol
idly that they could not be pulled out by the
fingers.
In Washington county, Va, last week, VIM
Woodson. who is worth upward of 100000
was convicted of hog stealing, and sentenced tc
one year in the Penitentiary.
The bark Wildfre, recently captured with 4
cargo of Africans, is said to have been owned
and fitted out by Boston house, who anticipa-
ted clearing over 100000 by the operation.
The salary of the Mayor OF New York has
been raised from $500 to $1,000, and that of the
City Clerk from $500 to 500 a year. The city
has appropriated 500 to celebrate the 4th Of
July. The salaries of our city officers would
stand little increase.
1t is given out that Mr.. Buchanan exclaimed
the other day: when will my trouble ceasel
l have had Douglas, Walker. Forney, Covode
and Fowler on hand; and now comes an infer
nal cargo of captured niggers to add to my vex-
ation."
The first new wheat of the season, a lot OF
thirty-three bushels. from Memphis. was exhib-
tied by sample on Change, in st. Louis, on Sat-
urday, and was honored by millers and mer-
chants with all due attention. 1t was grown in
De Soto county, Mississippi. Messrs. Leonard
& Schurich. of the Saxony Mills, took it at $2,-
65 Per bushel.
The Vincennes Gazette. the Albany Tribune,
the Fort Wayne Times and the Evansville jour
nal, all Fillmore papers in 1856. have come out
heartily for Lincoln d Hamlin. The Terre
Haute Express, which was Fillmore paper for
a short time in 1856, is now enthusiastically out
for the Peoples Ticket. The Greenville Banner.
the Seymour Times and the Rising Sun Visitor,
all Fillmore papers in 1856, will advocate Lin
coin. Tht publisher of Jeffersonville Republi-
can is warm Lincoln man, and is going to
make his paper Lincoln and Hamlin paper.
So far as we have seen, not one opposition pa
per in Indiana has failed to hoist the Chicago
ticket. This unanimity is unparalleled.
1t is stated that DIR. o. ". Holmes delivered
an address before the Massachusetts, Medical
Society last Wednesday, in which he declared,
in plain language, that mankind had been drug
ged to death; that whatever would injure well
man would injure sick one; and that the world
would be better off if the contents of every
apothecary shop were emptied into the sea,
though the consequence to the fishes would be
lamentable.