Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-06-07

to its fate.
A severe hurricane swept over the Rock Is.
land region, H., Sunday evening. destroy in
its course the railroad bridge hat spanned Rock
River, on the Chicago and Rock Islani Road.
Nothing but the piers are LEFT Standing The
structure was 1850 feet in lsngth, and it will
cost $4,000 to repair it.
A special dispatch from Washington to For
ney's Press says: Great fears begin to be enter
tanned lest Mr.. Hunter may succeed in Staying
the tariff bill in the Senate. 1t is now asserted
that he contemplates reporting and advocating
a sort of cross between the Morrill, bill and the
present law. 1t seems to be the determination
of the South to pack new burdens upon the back
OF the Democracy of the free States.
Mr.. Douglas friends have head quarters es-
tablished on Pennsylvania avenue. Washington
occupying all The upper stories of a large build
ing, from which immense quantities of his re-
cent speech ard other documents are issued,
principally for Southern distribution. A large
force of clerks are kept constantly employed,
and several members of the House are engaged
in franking. This enterprise will hardly pay
expenses.
Malcom Murray, Justice of the Peace in
Iowa City, Iowa, has fallen heir 10 an estate in
Ireland, valued at $4,000.
The Petersburg (Va-) IntdlAgenccr says that
the debt of Virginia amounts to SlS,000,U00
with no prospect of diminution.
The young people connected with the fremont
Temple Society in Poston, have presented their
pastor, Rev. Mr.. Kalloch, a purse containing
Col. J. B. Morgan has sold recently the "Old
Eagle" gold mine in Stafopd county, Va. 10 a
company of Boston and New York gentlemen,
for $25,0OO. Col N. is said to have purchased
it three years ago for $4,000.
A man who calls himself Martin, but who is
supposed to be Lawrence, one of the men con-
cerned in the Ottumwa Iowa( murder, was ar
rested at Fort Madison, Iowa, last Friday, and
taken TO Keokuk for examination. t.
1t is stated that the Hon. F. Potter has COM
menced and action for libel against the proprie-
tors of The Washington Statcs and of The Nadi-
son Patriot. The ground of the action is the
duplication of story that Mr.. Potter declared
himself the owner of colored man.
By the newly revised statutes of Massachu-
sets, bank officers are required to stamp all
counterfeit and spurious bills which may be re-
ceived in the course of business, under apenal-
thy of paying the full amount of the bill or bills
allowed TO pass without being so stamped.
The N. Y. Herdlds Washington correspond
ent says at least five thousand people attended
the Republican ratification meeting Tuesday
evening in the square in front. of the City Hall.
1t was larger than the meeting which ratified
the nomination of Taylor, and none was ever
more orlerly.
The Chicago Press and Tribune hears from
every part of Illinois "the welcome news is that
the men who permitted themselves to be drawn
into the Fillmore delusion of 1856, whereby
Fremont was defeated and Buchanan elected.
are making all convenient haste to give in their
dahesion to the Chicago nominations
The Court of Chancery of New jersey has
granted an application for the divorce of Mary
J!Snyner from Simeon Remei, bothof Newark
These parties, it is stated, were married some
two years since, while on pic nic excursion O.
Sunday school, at Railway. Both were undel
age and the girl was married against the wisl
of her parents. , 81 -
One of the grandest schemes of plundcr con.
ceived in our day-the Houmas grant-was de,
Tended in the U. S. Senate Tuesday. by Mr.
Benjamin, while its enormous wrongfulness wa
exposed by MIR. Toombs. We trust that Con
gress will not adjourn without crushing out thi
atrocious speculation of the Louisiana Scna
| tors. \, ,.F, = -....,g1' 81 -ra
a shocking accident startled the people 0
Champaign City, ILL.,, last Saturday morning.
A German named Augustus Glase was cleaning
out his gun, intending to be absent from hom
for few days, when one barrel was accidentll
discharged, the whole load of shot taking effec
in the head of his little daughter, killing he
instantly The whole of one side of her head
was blown off.
The Shasta Courier mentions the recent find
ing in claim, not one mile distant from Shas
ia, of a lump of pure gold worth $1,000. An
other lump of the same value was found las
! Christmas. These are the most valuable mug
gets that are recorded to have been found il
Shasta county. Pieces of $500, 5000, $7O'
| and $500 have been found at different times
and at different localities in the county. -
On Wednesday, there was a desperate fgh
between 10. Williams and Bill Bladen, on Rec
river, a few miles below Vicksburg, where they
were raising vegetables in partnership. Blader
treated Williams wife rudely and drove her of
the place. She reported the conduct of Blader
TO her husband, who went down with his gur
to have satisfaction. When Bladen came to thu
spot firing commenced on both sides-Blader
shooting Williams through the body with rifle
killing him almost instantly. Bladen was sho
| in the back. and has since died. it'<.i-
The fisheries of the Eastern Shore of Virgin
| la have been remarkably Successful this season
such quantities having been taken that it ha
been iound impossible to preserve them; thu
consequence is that large quantities have beer
carried upon the adjacent farms as manure
AT one haul last week, two thousand bushels o
trout were pulled up. The seine stopped il
SIX feet water and it being impossible to lane
such an Immense quantity, the seine had to b.