Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-29
News of the week.

the able discourse on the slavery question
to be found on the first page Of to-day's
paper.
GoLD in small quantities has been
found in Bucks County Penn. tits con-
taincd in a vein of lead ore near Doyles-
town.
A female vagrant named Youngblood,
when taken before the Mayor of Pittsburg
the other day, threw stone at, and mar
rowly missed his head.
NuMrRoUsLY signed petitions have been
presented to the California Legislature,
praying that the crime Of highway rob-
berry may hereafter be punished by death.
TwENTY-rHREE years ago the only no.
tel in Galveston, Texas, was steamboat,
which had been beached in gale of wind
and laid up high and dry.
THE Ohio Legislature adjourned on
Monday last, until the first Monday OF
January 1861. How the brains of the
State scatter at the approach of spring.
A disastrous fire visited ST. Paul, Min
nesota, on the morning of the 10th inst.
Thirty five buildings were destroyed
The loss is estimated at 100000.
BY the Canada we have advices from
Queenstown to the llth inst. The Brit
ish House of Commons had voted an
address to the Crown, approving the
French Treaty.
1t is reported that Miramon has aban-
doned the seige of Vera Cruz. having
done but little damage to the city, desert
ed his army and taken refuge in the French
fleet
WE would thank our brother Editor
of a neighboring county to quit stealing
our brains to edit his paper. Almost
every week he passes off some of our edi-
tooial for his own.
Mn. SPEAKER PENNINGTON, it is said,
has rented fine mansion on Fifteenth
street, Washington, and that he holds
his levees with as much pomp and cere-
mony as those of the President
The Pennsylvania delegates have char
tered the steamer Keystone State, and
will take their meals and lodgings on
board while at Charleston, paying eighty
dollars for the round trip.
A NEW counterfeit on the Warren Banl,
of Rhode Island has made its appearance
. The note has an eagle on one of the upper
corners, and the word "two," in large
letters printed in red ink.
The Vernon Banner states that gold
has been discovesed on Graham Creek
Jennings county, Indiana, on farm
known as the Scott farm, but now owned
by Mr.. Neal. 1t appears in quartz rocl;
and has been sent to the city, and proved
to be of an oxcellant quality.
The coffin containing the body of a
man named Wertz, buried about eighteen
months since, was opened last week in
Albany, New York. The body was
found face downward, and the fingers OF
the man grappled in his hair.
A YOUNG MAN, writing from the Wash
oe silver region in California, says that
it is the finest country in the world for
shooting. Only day prior to that up
on which the letter was written, five men
had been shot, "and," he remarks, it was
poor day at that.
The ship Norway, of New YORK, when
five days out on the passage from Macao
for Havana, with 1000 coolies, was the
scene of terrible mutiny, in which thir-
ty coolies were killed and ninety wound
ed. The fight lasted from six p. M. till
daylight next morning, when the coolies
yielded. Capt. Major had his wife and
two daughters, also lady passenger and
child on board, The lady passenger died
from fright, and her child expired soon
afterwards.
A little boy fell into the river at Green
field Maine, few days since, barely es-
Gaping drowning. When asked by his
mother what he was thinking about while
in the water, he said ho thought "he
should furnish an item for the newspa
pers,"
A Dispatch to tho New York Herald
from Washington, says our government
freely endorses the course of'Capt. Jar
Wis in the capture Of the two Mexican
steamers in the Gulf on the 9th, The
sentiment is universal also in both
Houses Of Congress in sustaining his con-
duct
A special Washington dispatch states
that Spain is to be called on for an ex-
planation with regard to the fitting out at
the port of Havana of the steamers re-
Gently captured by the Gulf squadron,
and if the explanations are not satisfac-
tory, tho neutrality laws so far as Spain
is concerned, assuredly will be suspend