Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-02-23
News from Abroad.

tlser suggests Lion. w m. y. GroesbaCh |
Of Cincinnati as the man to receive the
Charleston nomination. lie is q good
one.
Ety- An iron car has Just been intro
duced on the New York Central Railroad.
1t was built in New Jersey and cost So,
600, and is said to be lighter, stronger
and firmer looking than those built of
wood. In case of collision the danger to
life would probably be much less in it
than in wooden ones.
Es-Gen. Robt. BUTLER, Assistant Ad-
jutant General to Gen. jackson, at the
battle of New Orleans, died at his residence
at Lake Jackson, near Tallahassee, Florida,
on the afternoon of January IL. Only
three Of General Jackson's prominent Of
ficers at that late battle now survive, viz:
Gen. VIM. 0. Butler, Of Kentucky, Mai.
Shotsrd, of Miss, and Col. a. T. Hayne,
of South Carolina.
Ets~An unfortunate man named John
Sherman, of Ohio, recently endorsed large
/ ly for one Helper, an absconding debtor
from North Carolina. Sherman has for
the last eight weeks been pursued relent-
lessly by Missourian, named Clark, on
account of his endorsement for Helper,
and on Monday, Jan. 30, poor Sherman,
in fit of despair, jumped overheard, and
was lost.
ES- Professor Lowering, in one of his
late astronomical lectures before the Lo-
well Institute, said that the great Comet
of 1856 which caused the abdication of
Charles V of Spain, is confidently expect
ed to reappear during the present year,
and French astronomers are even now on
the lookout for it. If no error has been
made in the revised calculations it will
probably be seen from this planet during
the fall of 1860.
EEE- The Wetumka (Ala.) Enquirer
says that on last week thirteen slaves be-
longing to Gov. Fitzpatrick, accompan-
led by MIR. Gum, the overseer, brought
their cotton to market, and sold it for q
sum amounting in the aggregate to 1902
81. Ahab, another one Of the Governors s
negroes, with the others, will soon bring
theirs in. This money is their own, not
one dime of it going into their owners
pocket; and he feeds and clothes them be-
sides, and provides for them in old age.
RS- Benjamin NJ. Woolsey of Salem,
Ala, writes to the Savannah Republican
an account of his .oxperience with the
camel. He thinks that upon paved streets
as in New York or New Orleans, they
would last longer and do better than the
mule, and would not be subject to bro
ken knees and diseases of the foot, and
that the curvature of the spine the super
ior weight and strength of the camel en-
) inently fit him for the cart and dray lie
can carry on his back as much as can be
packed in two horse wagon.
re-" DR.. Cahill, in letter to the Dub
\ lin Telegraph, speaks of the generosity Of
Irish servant girls here in sending money
to their relatives in the old country. He
has visited the different Offices In this
- city for the transmission of moneyto Ire
y land, and from the statistics thus obtained
estimates that during the year, 1859, The
Irish servant maids now working in New
, York and Brooklyn, have sent to theil
DulCulo, blOtllclS anu blotclS liiC
sum of one million three hundred ant
|, fifty thousand dollars.
ES- A Sandwich Island boy recently
deserted the whaleship Frdnklin wher
: twenty-eight miles at sea, Jumping over
y board about eight o'clock at night, an(
swimming all night for the land b.
> daylight he was within half mile o
= shore, but there encountered q strong op
posing current, and after buf1eting tn
- waves in vain effort to reach the beach
s. he saw a sail several miles to the leeward
= changed his course for the vessel, striking
y ont to sea again, and was on her deck b
'd nine O'Clock Friday morning, nothin
As harmed by his fourteen hours swim.
., irg- Gov. Chase tells the story tha
ct when Lieut.. Gov. Newman of Tennessee
ht was in Columbus with the Kentuck
No and Tennessee Legislatures, he was a,
or companied by his "body servant"
y sprightly. saddle colored "boy," of abou
,r thirty, who was conscious Of his dignity
y, His master, who was in the habit of Jest
~ ing with him familiarly, accosted him i
=, ~ the hall of the Neil House, just before tn
:" n' departure of the guests, with "Why
~ Jack, haven't any of the Abolitonist
-, % carried you off yet!'' "Yah! yah! Mass,
or -. Newman, (quoth Jack, "when l see
', ~ you gwine down de street, arm in arm
~ wild Gubner Dennison and Gubner Chas,
%, | tot you were gone sure"
,ly ES- The Executive Council of Judg,
ZIG in Upper Canada have recently passe
ID an act providing for the extradition
,ry criminals who are fugitives from justic
his Hitherto the list of crimes liable to Il
nd provisions of the extradition treaty we
his but fivejn in number, viz; Murder, pirac
ri. forgery, arson and robbery. All 9th
,ro offences, among which are the most he
sts ious on the calendar, were exempt, al
the criminal had but to cross the river
,vs escape all punishment. Now it will
Oh different, and ali offences which are pu
on ishable in Upper Canada by death or il
,od prisonment at hard labor, render the crir
,vt inal liable to delivery to the foreign a
thortieS on q Government requisition.