Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-02-28
NEWS ITEMS.

--IltN ". " CbNf, Ohittl prHftOT'
frem 2fabama, has been sick for some tine at
ne house oSa relative in Richmond. He Is
now better, and hopes to be able t. leave for
home in few days.
Judge DouGLAs made some emphatic aud
startling declarations in the Senate Thursday
on the Postal bill. lie charged that there
was a body Of Republicans on tire Aoor of the
Senate who were doing their utmost to break
up the Governments. They were Az much dis
unionists. per Sc, as your RHETrs and YANCEYs.
His declaration produced quite a sensation.
Kansas is very much agitatcd upon the
question of whether or not they shall see seed
They are unanimous in the opinion that they
will be ruined if they don't see seed early in
the Spring.
Tive little boys teased goat, in Rowan
County, N. g., last week, till the brute turn
cd on them and buttcd them both TO death.
Daniel Boone's friend, the venerable
John Johnston, was found dead in his bed, at
Washington, on Sunday morning; tie 18th.
Mr.. Johnston was eigiity-six years old, aud
had been a subscriber to the National fnteH
gencer for sixty years.
MY Buchanan leaves the White IL Sc
for Wbsatlani direct on the evening of the
fth of March, Immediately after Mr.. Lincoln 5
Inauguration.
There is growing up bitter fight between
I tlp II lIira, l,nJnrg Ia, ;, -,
compromise and these who arc opposed to
compromise.
Joe Mcdill one OF the sditors Of the Chi
eago Tribune received sound thrashing q
few days since at the hands of Kellogg, mem.
Der of Congress from Illinois. We will wager
our old stogas that Joe deserved it,
1t would appear from numerous obserya
tions that soldiers are hit during battle ac-
cording TO the color Of their dress, in the FOL
lowing order. Red is the most fatal color;
she least fatal, Austrian gray. The proper
tions are, red u, rAo green I, brown G, Aus
trian blush gray 3.
The nssro population OF Boston numbers
two thousand and iorty.eight, showing dc.
crease Of thirty-six in tho last ten years
There are thirty eight families in which the
husband is q negro and the wifo white, and
one only with awhtc husband and tho wife a
wench.
--Artesion wol at Columbus, Ohio, has
reached the depth Of two thousand three hun
drcd and thirty-nno feet and ten inches
four feet and Two inches deeper than any 9TH
or well in the world! 1t now ou'y lacks three
hundred feet and ono inch Of being q hal mile
deep
--Portcr's Spirit ofthe Times has an ac-
count of dreadful old fellow, who would
tell the truth for cash. The idea is decided
ly original.
-Greelcy is said to be busy organizing an
opposition TO Lincoln's administration.
"A negro woman, slave to Rev. James
Doughcn, OF Lynchburg, Va, VINO escaped to
Boston several months since, vol unfairly re-
turned to hcrmaster on Saturday last, having
been reduced almost to the point OF starvation
during her stay among her pretended friends.
An exchange says that Rev. DR.. Potter
OF Chelsea, Tenn, has discovered that SUI
peror quality of gas can be made of cotton
seed. Enough gas had been created out Of
the plant itself within the past few m onths, to
illumine tho universe.
AT meeting of cotton spinncrs held at
birmingham, proposition was made that the
English Government should remove the Can
adian negroes to some portion of Central AZ
rca, where they might establish plantations
OF cotton, with the culture, of which they are
English manufacturing interests at the Same
time.
Tho War Department has just issued nn
order to the armory at Springfield for the
manufacture of 200 muskcts per month, in
stead of 800 por month rs at present. Thcy
are to DO of the latest and best pattern ofride
musket-none | cttcr in the world. Tho ca
pacity ofthc armory is about 400 or 800
per month. These new arms are to bc dis
tribuied among tho Northern States.
Old Abe, in his Indianapolis speech, in
timatod that tire rights OF " State arc to b,
asccrtaincd by hcr siao and strength. Thi
was not the declrine Of tho fathers. WheI
the fabric olthis government was formed, th,
rights of tho "Providcnco Plantations" wcr,
held as sacred as those of New York or Vir
ginia.
The only war that tho opposition to til,
democracy wcro ever known to bo in favo
of, is cipa unr.
--Torncy isatoning Tor some ofhis past sin,
hy q Jealous and oillccnt advocacy of th,
Crittenden compromise. .
The report from Washington is that Sew
, ard will soon make another speech, in whicl
no viii sink tho Chicago platform deeper thar
4 plnmmct ever sounded.
The legislature of Delaware has passed
\ hill sholiShing Imprisonment for debt, whoth
c cr residents or non residents.
Report says 500 or 900 men have bee,
enrolled in san Francisco as knights Of tn
Golden Circle whose object Is to establish
|, Pacific Republic.
' II is considered very probable that an cv
s ira session oi Congress will be- called. Thcr
is an immense amount of business crowdln
on the end Of Tho session, to dispose iwhcl
seems next to impoSsibIc; besides, il is impos