Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-04-18
NEWS ITEMS.

The President has appointed EARL BILL
rs Marshal of the Northern District of Ohio
Richmond, Virginia, dispatches of Tues
day say an ordnance of secession will pass
within two days,
The Presidents Proclamation was re-
ceived contemptiously and Indignantly in
North Carolina.
President JEFF. DAVIS salary is S25, 900,
the members of the Southern Congress voted
themselves only $500 per year.
The members oftho Ohio Legislature have
peosed q resolution to adjourn sine die on the
2sd. "May the Lord have mercy on their
souls"
According to telcgraphic dispatches the
Presidents Proclamation is warmly respond
ed to in the Northern cities Tho volunteers
required of Northern States will doubtless be
furnished. All the South will be united as
one man.
The Government is said to have charter
ed the steamships Philadelphia and Ericsson
The former is being rapidly filled with provis-
ions, army stores and munitions of war, The
latter is to be held in reserve for any emer-
gency,
The only war that the opposition to the
Democracy were known to be in favor Of is
oipH ,rar. If our present difficulties were
with England, France, Mexico, or some other
nation, the Republicans would exhaust the
language in dcnouncing it; but as it is with
our own people ther"cry is still for war;"
--Advices from San Domingo say the sur
render of the Republic to Spain took the
people by surprise, and it was limited that
there will be bloody rctribution. The English
and French Consus protested and struck
their flags. Up to the 22nd our representa-
tive made no move,
--LNcoLS's levy 5000 troops consists
Of 94 regiments of $50 men each. Ohio is to
furnish 10, lSO. This, however, will De in
creased to about l3 600 since the border
States refuse to respond to the demand made
on them,
--Millersburg Wide -Awakes, Benton Wide
Awakes, Berlin Wide-Awakes, and all the
other Wide-Awakes fall into line. You now
have a chance to tender your services to
"honest Old Abe" There is some fighting
to he done. You were the larks to fight
last fall. Hope you are equally brave now,
The Democrats and conservative men of
the North are in favor of the Union and for
the adoption of such peaceful and consttu-
tional measures as will preserve it, The Re-
publicans are for the dissolution of the Union
by driving off the Border States and prccipi-
tating such measures as will inaugurate civi,
war, and thus permanently separate and di-
vide the country.
The present is a time calling for the ex-
ercise of prudence and caution in both speech
and action. Men will differ about the policy
of the Administration, in what it has done and
what it proposes to do and the indulgence of
elimination and recrimination, will serve no
good purpose. Better Ike ool on all sides
The Wide-Awakes who were so prof.
cient in drill last fall, and so ready to dis
play themselves on parade during the cam
paign, can now have an opportunity to enter
the service. We take it they will all respond
to the call of the President, and hence the
complement of men required $1,000 will be
made up at once.
The Secretary OF War telegraphed to the
Governor of Kentucky for the four regiments
Of soldiers spportion to that State. Gov, Nc
GorrIN's reply was: "Your dispatch was re-
ceived. In answer l say, emphatcally, Ken
lucky will furnish no troops for the wicked
purpose of subduing her sister Southern
States" A despatch from Memphis, Tenn,
dated Monday, says: Th ere is an intense ex.
citement here tonight, and tremendous
meeting is being held Memphis is out OF
: the Union, There are no Union men here.