Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-03-28
News.


tween blood relations exists at Schenectady.
N. Y. An estimable. couple-cousins-
have eleven children, six of whom were
born blind.
A fire broke out on Wednesday, in the
upper part Of a building in Chicago. Two
children, one three years and the other one
year old, were in the room. The mother,
who had been in the store below, braved
the fire and smoke in order to find her
children, and was only saved from death by
being forcibly removed. The children
were found in a closet, burned to death.
A little son of Mrs. Jamison, not quite
six years old, while on visit from Brook
lyn to Cold Spring, strayed away from his
mother last Sunday afternoon, and was
traced through fields, swamps, woods,s snow,
&C., some five or six miles, where he was
found frozen to death.
Thomas Rose wealthy planter driven
to insanity by depreciation of negroes, cut
his throat in Jackson, Miss, last week.
In St.Louis, ON Monday week, Michael Ken
nedy called on DR.. Bohanan, and cautious
ly stated to him that his wife was i'll; that
he loved girl named Bridget Fallen, and
that he would give the Doctor 500 if the
wife could be put away. The Doctor
thought he was joking, but humored him,
when be said he bad given Mrs. Kennedy
ten cents worth of arsenic in small portions,
but that ''did not do it." The Doctor
then went with Kennedy to see Bridget,
handsome young girl, aud she urged the
scheme on, hoping "the old woman would
be soon done for" He then gave the
scamp bottle, of harmless stuff labelled
apoison," and put the police on the track,
who succeeded in arresting him as he was
administering some of it to lis wife,
Both Kennedy and Bridget acknowledged
criminal conversation and a design to muir
der Mrs. K.
John Sherman took his seat in the Uni
ted States Senate on Saturday the 23d.
Eight millions of Uuited States stock
are advertised by the Secretary of the
Treasury. Proposals to be received up to
April I'd.
The Texas Legislature has sworn allegi-
ance to the secession government. Gov.
Houston and the Secretary of State have
retired aud appealed to the people.
Washington rumors state that the Pres
ident has ordered Anderson to vacate Fort
Sumter, going out with all the honors of
war. tits also said that Fort Pickens is
short of provisions.
Ex-Congressman Holmes states in Charles
ton that be has assurances from the Gov
erRment Of its favoring peaceful settle
ment of the national difficulties. He also
states that Fort Pickens will be evacuated.
The Georgia Convention has adjourned,
leaving the State Constitution to be voted
on by the people at the July election.
New Mexico dates of the 11th report
provisions short in the Territory, and there
is prospect of much suffering. The army
supplied.
She U. S. Senate has requested the Pres
ident to lay before it the despathes sent by
Major Anderson to the War Department
during his occupation of Fort Sumter.
In debate on tho resolution calling for
information regarding the Forts, Senator
Douglas charged the Republicans with
having caused dissolution of the Union,
and said that if he had been elected the
Southern people would have rested in Sc
curity, and the Union would not have been
dissolved.
Col. Lamon, on behalf of the Federal
Government has had an interview with the
Charleston military authorities, and has
visited Fort Sumter. The opinion in
Charleston is that the Fort will be evacua-
ted on the 9th. Lamon returns to Wash
ing on that day.
Minister Corwin leaves New Orleans for
Mexico on the first of April, his son, Will
liam Corwin, being named, as Secretary of
Legation.
Some persons arrived in Washington
from Texas, report Gov. Houston as stating
that civil war in Texas is inevitable, and
that Alabama will soon be in the same pre-
dicament.
The Virginia Secessionists have aban-
doned the hope of passing direct osdi-
nance of secession, and will endeavor to
submit the question 10 the people. The
Union men say that even this cannot BE-
done.
Several applications for cadetships at
West Point have Teen received from Lou
isiana.
The official census of the United States
has just been completed, and it shows a to-
tai of thirty-one millions four hundred and
twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and
ninety-one, (3l,429,s9l). Of these, 81
95l, ,S01 are slaves.
The New mail agents in Virginia find
trouble in performing their duties, owing
to the opposition of the people on their
routes. One has already resigned, but
others stand ready to, serve. The mails
will probable be cut off if the troubles con-
time.
The Pensacola, Fla. Gazette, says
"Florida will soon be called up to furnish
her quota of men for the army of the
Southern Coufederacy. This quota has
been put down at 1000 men. With an
empty treasury We cannot imagine how
she can enlist, equip, and arm this number.
If, as the 1ribuase states our State is bank
rup; at this early stage of action, we think
the sooner she shells out the better. If
the State government cannot be carried on
for want of finds, let Florida be divided
between our sister States of Alabama, by