Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-11-21
Summary of News.

| A company Of As coloniss are to leave Oberlir
next week for settlement in Hayii. Many o
them were originally from the South, and they
go out under the aupiees of the Haytien Emf
grafton Society. = $50. go
Forty two colored emigrants sailed from Nov
York for Liberia on the 10th. Thirty wert
adults, and will make good citizens Of the flour
ishing Republic on the West coast Of Africa-i
Republic which the United States ought long
ago to have formally ACKNOWLEDGED. England
did 50, and enjoying profitable and increas-
ing commerce with Liberia. r-,, -. ---
The loyal Kentuckians talk of sending Thorn
as h. Clay, the oldest son of Hery Clay, to take
the place of Breckinridge in the United States
Senate. He is like his illnstrious father in ap-
pearance and spirit Hon. Reverdy johnson. a
Union man who does battle boldly for the cause
will probably succeed Mir. Kennedy in the Sem
ate from Maryland. v4-s' --a 7 .nil t5s
Thele are now 279 prisoners of War ut Camp
Chase. The prison is bcing enlarged and i'm
proved SO as to accommodate some 6U0 seceshers.
The State Jonrnal of the l4t, says, there are
now six thousand infantry. two thousand caval-
ry, and five batteries of field artillery at Camps
Dennison. Gurley and Dick Corwine. in the vi
cinity of Cincinnati. .... srsz asV
Dwight Chapman. one Of the Oberlin soldier
boys. who was brought home from Missouri in
a state of insanity. the News says is all right
again. -7-lc- e' 1888. l,5L ii5 wsiT
Every woman in Northampton township.
Summit county, has agreed TO furnish q pair
if socks for the volunteer soldiers as soon
as they can knit them. What universal click
of knitting needles the war has inaugurated.
The furniture of Judge Douglas viii be sold
at auction on the 18th instant rs his house,
with those adjoining. has been rented for hospi-
tai purposes. Mrs. Douglas is at Washington.
residing with her father. J. NJ. Curtis, Esq,
Second Comptroller of the Treasury. sys
The New Orleans Picayune thinks whisky
and ice must be growing exceedingly scarce in
Richmond. A friend just returned informs
the editor, that on entering fashionable drink
ing saloon in the Confederate capital. he Saw
this placard posted over the counter: Drinks
fifteen cents each. No bills changed except at
heavy discount. Gentlemen will please refrain
from eating the ice in their tuu,blcrs after drink
ing" ..-i IN - -. -
Two privates. named Douglas Morley and
Thomas McEwen, both of Mt. Vernon, Knox
county. attached to Company B. Fourth Ohio
Regiment. wele drowned recently at Piedmont,
Virginia. - f
We learn from the New Orleans Delta of the
2oth ult., that four persons in that city. thought
10 pe uisioyai ID tne SOUTHERN CoAIeueracy,
were sent for sir months to the Work House.
The Arnoskeag, Machine Shop have just COM
pleted firsi-class steam fire engine for the
Russian government. 1t wss ordered through
Col. Romanoff of the Imperial Board of Engi-
neers, and is 10 be forwarded TO the city OF
Ainoor, Siberia on the Amoor river
Western Virginia has seeded from Eastern
Virginia. Part of North Carolina has seceded |
from fhe rest Of North Carolina The original
secessionists are getting more secession than
hey bargained for. ''' ''- ''' i