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Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08
April Elections.

The Democracy of Ohio should remem-
Der the Importance of prompt attention
to the lacal elections which come off next
month. 1t is the habit of our opponents
to attend more strictly the spring cleo
tions than the Democrats do, and hence
they obtain advantages in many localities
that by their numbers they are not enti-
tied to. We hope our Democratic fellow
citizens in all parts of the State will look
to this matter, and see that the Democratic
vote is organized and at the polls at the
April elections. Our opponents will be
sure to be on hand. and in localities where
they have not the power to elect their own
men, they will preach against the cleo
tion of party men to township Offices; but
where they have the power they will be
certain to elect their own men. Let the
Democrats do,the same thing, and select
and elect good men for the various posts
to be filed Sta'esmor.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08
The Old keystone.

| The Democracy of Pennsylvania held
! their State convention at Reading on the
/ first instant. 1t was one of tho largest
and most enthusiastic conventions ever
held in the State. Senator BIGIER, Hon.
JouN l.. DAWSON Hon. WIN. MoNTCoM-
ERY and Hon. JosEru B. BAKER were
elected delegates to the Charleston Con-
vention for the State at large. Hon.
/ Henry ID. FosTER, of Westmoreland was
unanimously nominated for Governor
To give our readers an idea of the cnthu-
Siasm and good feeling that characters.
ed the convention we copy from the re-
ported proceedings the following:
After the third ballot, there being no election,
Mr. Dietrich, Of Lycoming, rose, and in a loud
emphatic voice, moved that Henry -. Foster, OF
Westmoreland, be nominated by acclamation.
The motion was responded to by tremendous
cheering. The widest confusion prevailed. Ev.
cry man was on his feet believing to the full ex.
tent his lungs.
After long interval some little order was re.
stored and the President rut the motion. IL was
responded to by n unanimous yell. The confll-
sion was wil,icr, il possible, than ever. The
President declared Mr.. Foster as having been
nominated for Governor by acclamation.
This announcement was received with great an
plause. The confusion still continues, notwitIl-
standing the Efforts OF the Chairman to preserve
When order was somewhat restored. delegate
moved that vote DC taken "oa roce N order to
re affirm and thus permanently secure Mr.. Foster
nomination. This was agreed to.
"" io foug nnng r '1hem len T,eTy delegate an
/ The President again declared Mr.. Foster as
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08
.rhc ,Tc,ns pistuybauccs.

General Forbes Brtton, bearer of deS-
patches from General Houston, had an
interview with the President and Secre-
tary Of War on "Wednesday. He gave
them full and truthful statement of the
condition of affairs as they exist along
the whole line of the Mexican lrouter--
He states that open and avowcd war ac-
tually exist, and that the people of Texas
desire to know whether the United States
intend to interpose in their behalf, and
protect them against the mercilesS and
Infamous Mexican banditti. If the United
States cannot and viii not Interfere, then
they will take the law in their own hands,
and if necessary carry the war into the
enemy'S country They desire, however,
that the United States government should
take the matter into its own hands.
The most that the President can do is
to concentrate large force along the
Mexican frontier, This policy has un-
doubtcdly been adopted, and orders to
this effect will probably be despatched in
a day or two. By order of the War De-
partment, a battery of light artillery has
been ordered from Fort Leavenworth to
Fort Brown, Texas, without delay, and
to be fully equipped for said service
PthS6arg Post
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08
The WAY The Money Goes.

Messrs, Thomas Spooner, Kent Jarvis
and Nelson Franklin, the Commissions
.ers appointed to select tie site for new
penitentiary, present bill for 1856 days
services at 81 per day, and in addition
for expenses the sum Of 1865, making in
all $4,000 for the job, which they have
completed by making a majority and a
minority report is difficult to imag-
inc how these gentlemen could waste three
hundred and thirty six days in the bust
ness, or how they could spend $965.-
They ought to have performed the duties
assigned them in one third of the time
But they are retronching Republicans Of
good standing" in the party of false
promises, and when this fact is known
no one will be surprised at the enormous
bill they have rendered. Statesman.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08

Gen Lane, one of the bravest Generals
of the Mexican war, and now United States
Senator from the State of Oregon, was
the son of revolutionary patriot, noted
for his bravery, and his tough, iron con-
stitution. lie had several boys, of whom
Joseph was one of the younger. 1t was
the old gentleman's delight to tell his
boys all about his hard scrapes and tough
scenes during the war of the Revolution,
and it was their prids to become "as
tough as father" lie lived with his
boys on the side of one of the mountains
northeast of Lake George, in the town
Of Chester, Warren county, in this State.
One of the recreations of the boys was,
when in the corn field, to take turns in
standing on II stump and let the others
pclt him with stons, and the one who
could stand this pelting longest was most
like father; tough and fit to be soldier.
They all in turn would yield under the
pelting but young DO, His remark to
them, when he got on the stump, was;--
"This is my post, and | will never leave
it alive" Sure enough, he never would,
and his determined will and bravery COM
ing to his fathers ears, he clappcd him
on the head, saying to the others, "1ts
no use, boys; 10. will never yield; he
will die first; he will make General
yet" The old gentleman did not live
to see his prediction fulfilled, but DO. did
make General, and brave one, too, as
we'll as noble man, and a Democratic
Senator from one of the young giant
States of the West.-N y NegS
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08
The Chase Platform.

The Abolition Convention having en-
unciated no platform further than subser-
viency to Gov. Chase, we must look at
his past record for the platform of the
party. When he accepted the silver
pitcher from the negroes of Cincinnati, he
said, "true Democracy makes no inquiry
about the color OF the skin" He further
said-"I regard the exclusion of the col
ored people from the elective franchise as
incompatible with true Democratic prin-
ciples" and again he sail--'Ihe exch-
sion of the colored children from the
schools is, in my Judgment, clear in
iringemcnt of the Constitution, and a
palpable breach of trust" Such are the
views of the man whom the Abolition
Convention glorified, and such the plat
/ form the Delegates endorsed. How dc
the people like it, Statesman.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08

black--and still more are VIC opposed to
having the anglo-saxon blood contamin-
ated by an admixturo with that OF the
sooty African.
The humanitarian argument in oppo-
sition to law prohibiting their immigra-
tion is that they are driven from the South
and they must have some place to stay.
We want to hear no such sickly sonti-
mentality as this. If we are humanita.
rians our first duty is to guard the inter-
est Of ourselves and neighbors-"He who
provideth not for his own household hath
denied the faith and is worse than an in.
fdel." Sensible men, those who act
from Judgment rather than from impulse,
will not sink the white race into ruin, more
particularly the laboring portion, through
love for the black.
From the present Legislature we have
nothing to expect. That body has re-
pcaled the law to prevent muattues from
voting, and passed law to prevent the
recovery Of fugitive slaves who flee to
this State. Then, it becomes all who
think that white men are white, and
negroes black, to be viglant in the pro.
lection Of their rights. TO this end we
propose that the Democratic State Con-
vention place plank in the platform to
prevent the settlement Of negroes in this
State.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08
The Pacific Railroad.

The House Committee on Military AT
fairs have had the subject of the Pacific
Railroad under consideration, but have
come to no conclusion. AS prelimin-
airy they have instructed the Chairman,
Mr.. Curtis, to ask for the printing of the
several bills referred to that Committee,
including that matured and agreed upon
by the Select Committee last session, pro-
viding for n central route. The idea is
entertained of uniting this with central
routc' The plan of aid is in the form OF
postal and transportation advances by the
United States Government and by privat,
means. and is now the generally conceded
plan of construction,
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08
ureyitics.

The coat of a horse is the gift of nature,
that Of an ass is often the work of tail.
or
a female slave in Wythc County, Va,
died few days ago at the advanced age of
105 years.
Pat thus gave his testimony in a riot
case thus: "Be jabers, the first man saw
coming at me was two brickbats."
An old lady being asked to subscribe
to newspaper, declined, on the ground
that when she wanted news she manufac-
tured il.
NEns.-Black lace wells can I've recover.
ed by washing them in tea, letting them
soak few moments; then take them out,
and as soon as dry enough iron them.
An editor who thinks himself very
smart, says, in his columns, that he new
er LENDS himself to party hacks, we pre-
sumo he prefers selling.
Bubbles, of the California Golden Era,
tells you how to preserve your hair: if
single, remain SO; if married, do all your
kissing at home.
An editor in Maine has never been
known to drink any water. He says he
never heard water was used as general
remedy but once--in the time of Noah
when it killed more than it cured.
"Who's afraid?" said young man to
himself, in order to screw his courage to
the sticking point. "Why you are"
said the object of his affections, cor you
would have taken courage six months
ago."
"Why did You leave your last place?"
inquired young housekeeper about to
engage new servant. "Why you see,
man." replied the applicant, II was too
good looking, and when | opened the door
folks took me for the missus."
"Well, Jane, this is queer world"
said Joe to his wife; "a sect of women
philosophers has just sprung up" "In-
deed" said Jane, "and what do they
hold?" "1'he strangest thing in nature"
said he, 'their tongues"
North Carolina is more extensively en-
gagged in the cotton manufacture than
any other State in the South. From the
statistics it appears that in 1859, about
10000 bales of cotton were manufactured
into cloth in North Carolina. In Georgia,
the number OF bales was 10000.
Sharp little boy: "Why does pa
kiss you so, ma ~
Atfectionate mother: Because he loves
me, my dear"
Sharp little boy "Wel, then he loves
our cook, too, for | saw him kiss her
morn'n forty times last Sunday, when
you were gone to Church"
EE- The Washington correspondent
of the Chicago Tribune relates the fol-
lowing:
"fhe blacklegs are reaping a rich har-
vest since the members have drawn their
pay. They have cleaned ont several al
ready of every dollar they received from
the Treasury. Night before last mem
Der from "A Western State visited one of
the fashionable hells. Before morning
he was stripped Of So. $50, being his en-
tire salary and mileage due him, which
he had drawn the same day. He was
carried home towards daylight in an OBJ
livious state of intoxication. In other
words, dead drunk and clean plucked.'
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08
Nm. II Welsh. of York county. 81.

THE Democratic District Convention
for the Goth Congressional District, met
at w Warren, Trumbull county, on the first
day of this month. and unanimously cleo
ted David Tod and DIR. Woods the Dele
gates to Charleston, expressed a prefer
ence for Judge Douglas aud endorsed the
Cincinnati platform. This was the dis
trict in which the Central Committee re-
ferred the election held on the first OF De-
cember last. back to the people, there be-
ing contest in relation to the first cleo
tion.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08
News OF the week.

The National Union Party have fixed
the 9th Of May as the day for holding
their convention at Baltimore.
TnE brigand Cortcnas is in full pos
session of the Rio Grando country, and
is continuing his depredations in Texas.
"WILDoAT WILLIAMS" The gcttcr up
of bogus banks, is off for Utah Brig
ham Young must look out for the Nor
mon currency.
The Southern Indianion, heretofore a
Republican slleet, has abandoned that
sectional party, and enrolled itself under
the Democratic banner.
The Democratic caucus of the Mary
land Legislature has nominated Hon. j.
A. PEARCE for reelection to the United
States Senate.
Gentlemen friendly to the nomin alton
of Gen. LANE for the Presidency have is
sued a call for meeting at Mansfield on
Saturday next.
THE President has written a reply to
/ Gov. llouston's letter, censuring the Gov
ernor's plan of raising volunteers. The
President thinks that to he the business
Of Congress.
| A pedagogue, in Kcnosha, Wisconsin,
recently struck one of his pupils, girl
of sixteen, six blows with cowhide,
drawing blood with every stroke. Her
only otlense was chewing gum during
school hours.
THE M'Lano Treaty with Mexico is
considered dead, having been killed in
the Senate. Neither the devil nor Juar-
ez was able to give halt the possessions
which they promised-for the simple rea-
son that they did not own them.
MIcHAEL JoYcE, section boss on the
Dayton Il Xcnia road, was murdered in a
saloon at Dayton on Sunday night last
by some rowdies who knocked him down
and stabbed him. The murderers are at
large.
The nomination of Gen. Foster, foI
Governor of Pa, produced unbounded
rejoicing at his home, Grecnsburg. All
the public buildings, and most oft the dwell
lings and offices were brilliantly illumin-
atcd the evening after the reception of the
gratifying but unexpected news.
THE Westminster Rcview states that
Whitefcld, the great rovivalist preacher
was at one time a STAKEHOLDER in Georgiu
being, at his death, the owner of fifty
slaves, men, women and children, whom
he left in his will to the Countess Of Hun
tingtoi
The Republican State Convention il
Minnesota has elected delegates to the
Chicago Convention, and instructed them
to vote for Wm. II. Seward for President
The Wisconsin delegates are also foi
Seward. The Michigan delegates will be
that way. After all, it is by no means
certain that Seward will not be the nom
inee.
A young man named James Brown
was arrested at Columbus Friday night,
charged with having passed counterfeit
money in Newark. Fifty-five dollars in
spurious bills on the Bank of Wheeling,
were found upon his person. a confed-
crate of Browns has been arrested at
Newark.
THE Napoleon NorthweSt gives an ac-
count of the rescue of little girl by d
schoolmaster i'll Henry county, by the
name of Robert Mccarthy, who plunged
under the ice of the river into which the
the child had fallen, and saved her life.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08
Military Force for RiO Graudc.

If the present disposablc force should
be found insufficient to protect the from.
tier of the Rio Grande, the President will
bring, it is said, the subject to the attcn
ton of Congress in a special message
In the absence of the necessary informa
tion relative to events in that quarter
members generally aronot willing to make
an appropriation to bring the Mounted
Regiment of Texas Volunteers, heretofore
authorized, into the service, nor to resort
to any other measures. g.
GEN. HHUsToN, it is said, has received
moro than eighty applications from gen
tlemen desiring to raise volunteers. He
has advised such companies to be raised
and officercd in every frontier county; that
a system Of espionage be agreed upon,
and in case of alarm, pursuit be gwen,
and the invaders and thieves, whether In
dians or Mexicans brought to justice.
There are already nine organized compa-
MES in the field. A truly alarming con-
dition of affairs on the frontier of Texas
is represented
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08
HARDY v'au'.,SNip

The Democracy of Hardy Township viii meet
Of the Court House on Saturday March 2lth.--
Then aud here U nominate, 10y ballot. between
the hours of O'Clock p. VI. and clock p NJ,
a Township tickct to be voted for al the Spring
Election on Monday the ID day of April, ls6O.
Also at the same time aud place the Democra-
cy Of tie Incorporated village Of Niler'burg wi'i
rrocced TO nominate in the same manner It ticket
10. Coronation officers 10 hc voted for az the
Election Tor Township officers on Monday the %
day Of April, see. .... ......-,,., .,,-
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08
strength OF Parties in the Penn.
sylVaniA Convention.

In the Pennsylvania State Convention,
the first test vote, which decided the rel
ative position of parties, was in the elec-
tion of permanent President " hich result
cd
Wm Ii Welsh. of York county, 81.
r. 5. Cunningham, of Beaver, n.
Mr.. Welsh was supported by the
friends of Mr.. Buchanan, and all who
voted for him indorsed the Administra-
ton in its foreign and domestic policy,
while as Mr., Cunningham was also a sup
porter of the President, many of the Ad'
mnistration men voted for him, The Ad,
ministration majority in the Convention
fully counted was as four to one.-Na
Gopak Democrat.
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NOTICE.

an the 18th day OF February, A. D. $780, the Probate
" Court Of Holmes County Ohio, declared the estate
Of vii IAN Lauhesd, decea'cd "a probably insovcht
creditors ar, therefore to ptesent their claims
against the estate tho undersigned, TO- aiouance,
within six months from the time above mentonrd OF
they will not be entitled to payment
nSwS JOHN SHARP, Administrator.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08

W hope the Northern RePujliconS
wU remain Dirn,, and yHe Uaion mustgo,
UAv, "la her slide. ."--HOLMES UOUN.
TY REPUBLICAN,.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08
re- Our neighbor Caskey tries to ge

Gc- Our neighbor Caskey tries to get
out of his Slur upon our German fellow
citizens by technicalities. lie claims we
did not set forth the offence in the exact
words thereof. Well, we didn't pretend
to. 1t was merely the substance of his
remarks we gave. Neighbor have you
any other defence?
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08
The Only Place to Get

S.IMoN HEITERS PENNSYLVANIA Umbrellas, OF All eyes
- is at the BOOK STORE, Miershurg. These Cmhrel
las are undoubtedly the best article made in the country
December 10 '59-Sm
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08
NOTICE.

A IL persons are herby notified not To purchase
n four notes given by me- the undersigned. To-
Elizabeth Mitchell datod February Goth, A. ID. 1850.
calling for three hundred dollars as said notes
obtai ned by misrepresentation and frand and am
determined not TO pas them, unless compolqd b.
law WILLIAM EOUIZ,
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08
Il. Ii. PETERSON ~ BROS,
SOC Chestnut Street Philadelphia.
MONEY! MONEYm

A LII those indebted to the undersigned hy Doto or
"A book sccount respectfully informed that W;
must have money, and that their accounts must be set
tied without DELAY. FAREA a YOUNG,
Miller shurg, March Sth, 1861. VIZ
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08
The Campaign Opened.

At the Charter election in Marshall,
Michigan. on Monday last, the whole
Democratic ticket was elected by 100
majority. This is Democratic gain of
200 since last fall
Galena, Ill.,, has gone Democratic by
$50 majority. Democratic gain since
last fall 300.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08


SENATOR HUNTER ON WHITE LABOR IN
THE SourH-Here is word Just spoken
by Senator Hunter in the Senate "Nor
is it true that the institution of slavery
makes manual labor on the part of the
whites despicable in the slavehoding
States. There is no country on the earth
in which honest labor, us | believe, is
more respected; and OF this am certain,
that every white laborer in the slavehold
ing States is more nearly on an equality
with every other man in the community
than every white laborer in the North is
on terms of equality with every other
man in the North"
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08

'Ey"Ihe engine house and repair shop
of the Worcester railroad, together with
six locomotives was burnt at Boston on
the 2na instant.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08
T'Or R'rcsi;iCnt,
EScpuh,icau Platform.

The Nominee Of tie Charlcsl0n Convention