Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-03-21
Weekly Summary.-.News, Pol
itics, &C., &C.


met appointment, as Secretary of the
Treasury, rendered his resignation as Sen
ator from Ohio, on the 7;h. His success
sor has not yet been appointed.
Senator Wigfall, though claiming to be-
long to another Nation, still hangs on to
his seat in the Senate, and on the 7th,
made most bitter attack upon Mr.. Lin
coin and his Inaugural. In closing he
said: "you must withdraw your flag from
our country and allow us to have our own
and enter into treaty with us. Do this
or make up your minds for war in the
sternest aspect, and all its accumulated
horrors"
Mr.. Buchanan was received at Lancas-
ter, by military display, the ringing Of
bells and National salute. In conclud-
ing his brief speech of thanks, he express
ed the hope that the Constitution and the
Union, would be perpetuated.
John A. Jones, of Illinois, has been ap
pointed Superintendent of Statistics.
Captain Hill, in charge of Fort Brown,
Texas, would not obey the order of Gen.
Twiggs, and refuses to surrender to the
Texan rebels.
Stephen A. Douglas, has spoken highly
of the Inaugural, and says that if be uu-
GersianGs the Presidents true meaning, IN
reference to the preservation of the Union,
and the settlement of the slavery question,
he is with him.
An entire family consisting of Mr.. Henry
Wood, his wife, and five children, were
burned to death, on the morning of Thurs
day last, in New York, being unable to ex-
tricate themselves from the attic of the
burning building which they occupied.
The Rocky Mountain gold news, from
Denver city, by the latest advices, is quite
cheering; nugget having been found in
Georgia gulch few days previous, weigh
ing sl9S.
A Son of Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of
the Interior Department, in the place of
Lester, of Mississippi, secessionist.
The Traitor Twiggs, received orders
from Secretary Holt, relieving him of his
command, three days before be surrender
ed. Death by shooting is too good for him /;
he should be hung!
jeff Davis has secretly sent an agent
to Mexico to get his one-horse "Cotton
conspiracy" acknowledged as an indepen-
dent nation.
Braxton Bragg has been appointed
Brigadier General, and Com. ]. Hardee
Colonel, of the first Regiment of Infantry,
of the rag tag and -bob-tail forces of jeff.
Davis.
Ex-Secretary Floyd, has made his ap-
pearance in Washington for the purpose of
standing his trial on the Indian Trust
Bond swindle. Hang him first and try
him afterwards, should be the motto in ref
erence to such traitor to his country as
Floyd has shown himself to be.
Col. Lorenzo Thomas, Brevet Lieut.,
second in rank in the Adjutant Generals
office, has been appointed Adjutant General.
The Legislature of Delaware adjourned
on Friday last, having refused to call
an extra session to consider the state
of the Union. They also refused to allow
any further Lottery grants in that State
Little Delaware is becoming and will re-
main sensible to the last.
North Carolina, voted against conven.
tion by over 1000 majority, and the men,
bers elected since the convention was or
dered, are two to one for the Union.
While Filling Fluid Lamp, one day
last week, Mary Miniez of Brooklyn, N
Y, was fatally burned.
Ex-Secretary Dix, was received at New
York, by prominent merchants, bankers
and others, by public dinner, and othel
appropriate demonstrations.
$4,000 worth of property was destroy
ed by fire in Sandusky on Friday of las
week. Included in.the ruins was the largt
Stone Block in which were located the
Sandusky, Dayton and Cincinnati, ane
the Cleveland and Toledo Rail Road Off
ces-the U. S. Express office, and the sew
eral Transportation Offices.
A gang of thieves whose head-quarter
were at Sullivan, Lorain County, at th'
house of the member of the gang, namet
Clarke, and from whose ligh: fingered oper
ations the people of that vicinity have
been great sufferers for year or two past
was broken up last week.
A Slave was burned to death in Harri
Co., Georgia, a few days since, upon suspi
cion despite his earnest protestations o
innocence) of having committed a gros
personal outrage upon the wife of Mr.
Isaac Middlebrook, of that county.
| A stout burly negro, black as ebony
with the wooliest kind OF hair and whis.
kers, son of the Ex Emperor Soulouque
was received with the highest honors a
an Imperial ball given at the Tuileries il
Paris, short time since. Would the Min
ister of the Confederate States, hav'
submitted to such an insult had he beel
present.
Major Anderson fired 81 regular oil
boomers, waking the remotest echoes o
the city of Charleston and the neighborin!
} forts, in honor of the Inauguration of Abra
. ham Lincoln, on the 4th.
The Painsville Press and Advertiser, ha
changed hands; Messrs French and Small
ley retiring and Mr.. H. G. Gray becoming
its Editor and Proprietor.
Mrs. Lincoln has been presented, also, b,
citizens of New York, with magnificent
, pair of horses to draw the splendid car
rage which was sent to her from that cit
on The 5th.
Norman B. Judd, of Chicago, has bee
appointed by the President as Minister l.