Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-23
NEWS ITEMS.

The report of General Bcnurcgarl being woun-
dcd, and dead, are all unlouuded.
The Montgomery Advertiser says the Conled.
crate Congress has dec dcd to remove the Capitol
to Richmond.
A special dispatch to the Sun says the Cabin.
ct has decided 10 sustain the Union men in Virgin
ia, Tennessee and Missouri.
1t appears that the Legislature of Tennessee,
on the 7th, appropriated s5,O00,OOO for orning
the State.
Ross Winans, the great stca mboot man of Bal
timore was recently arrested MS seccssonist, re.
tanned few days and honopbly discharged.
Some of the wide Awake companies in South
cn Ohio have sent their oil cloth capcs to the SOL
diers at Camp Dennson. The Wide Awakes
should go thcmsclves-not scHt their copes
Saturdays dispatches from Chicago say that
Senator Douglas has been very i'll with typhoid
fever ever since he returned to that city. He
has now 50 far recovered as to be considered out
Of danger.
The treasury. eaters are the foe the people OF
Ohio have now most to dread. Like comm II
crows, they are gathering where they scent plum.
der. Let the taxpayers demand rigid rosron
sibility of their war officials.
The great Rodman gun, the fftccn.inch col
umbiad, at Fortress Monroe, is being placed il
position to sweep the bay. 1t is an awful cngin
of destruction, A supply of shot and shell 70
=, 1t. Al
was manufactured.
Mr. Tyler for many years Prothonotary' of tn
Supreme Court OF Pennsylvania, has resigned b
offce, The Supreme Court has appointed J. Ro:
Snowden to fill the vacancy. Mr.. Tyler has le
Philadelphia. He is the son of the Hon. job
Tyler, Ex President of the United States.
r A Union-loving German in Wheeling got Ii
tie tight the other day and went about shoutin
"hulrnh for his Union" He was doing very we
until patriotic individual understood him to sa
"hurrah for disunon" and knocked him down an
pummeled him fIriously.
or the seventeen Governors of the free State:
this side of the Rocky Mountains, who were call
Sprnguc, OF Rhode Island, put himself at the hea
Of his quota for active service. That Goycrno
, is the only Democrat on the list.
Hon. John Young Brown has announced hin
l self a candidate for Congress in the 9Th Congress
ional District in Kentucky. Mr.. Prown is n str or
= Union man, and runs as a Union candidate TT
u Lo isville Journal expresses the hope that Il
Uni men of the District will by common col
the Congressional canvass.
On Saturday evening some 800 persons congr
- gated on the foot bridge which spans the Mar
Canal at Fourth street. Cincinnati, to witness Il
>, manocuvcrng Of three companies of Unit'
States artillery encampcd in the Orphan Asylu
lot in vicinity, when ii fell, prccptating nea
" all the people into the canal A child is r
ported dlowncd, and several persons bruised
/ The New York Herald meets the query as
whore the "seven mile procession of New Yol
Democrats is." made by the New Orleans Picayur
by saying that 'in the procession they marchc
under the Stars and Stripes and they are sti
marching under the Same flag the flag Of III
Union land on their way to Washington in co
umns of a thousand men each.
The Democrats Of the 18th Congressional Di,
trict, by their Convention which met the l6t
; inst, nominated Cen. VIM. Mclaughlin of Ricl
land county, as their candidate for C,ngress. III
nomination was unanimous. Gen. Mclaughlin
now in the service of the country, as Cap ain ,
one Of the companies, in the Fist Regiment Obi
Volunteets, being among the first to raise h
company and appear at Columbus, in response
the call for troops He should be unanimousl
elected.