Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-12-26
THE NEWS.

General William ii. Lytle, the hero of
lCarnifax Ferry, was the Democratic candidate
for Lieut.. Governor on the ticket with Hon.
II. b. Payne in 1857. Gen. Lytlc is quite
lame from the wound he received in the late
nght
The British ship Cheshire from Liverpool,
in attempting to run the blockade at Savannah,
was captured by the gun boat Augusta, and
has been sent to New York In cha &c of a
prize crew. Her cargo consisted chiefly oil
coffee, salt and army blankets
The rebels have sunk huks near Norfolk,
rendering the approach by water to It impos.
sible.
George W. Jones of Iowa, Ex Minister
to Bogota, has been arrested by order OF Sec.
retary Seward and sent to Fort L afnyctte.
"A resolution offered in the Washn gton
City Council favoring the abolition Of slave
ry in the District of Columbia, was laid on the
table by ayotc Of nine to four.
The Albany Journal states that letters from
Italy bring the Intelligence that Kossuth is
alarmingly i'll. II is disease appears to be a
kind Of consumption which has thus lar bai.
fed the efforts of h is ply sicians to arrest it.
He is so reduced as to DC able to converse
with difficulty. and his friends fear he will not
survive the winter.
james Rodpoth, the former abolition cor.
respondent of the New York Tribune, has
published card recanting his political doc.
trincs lie thinks he has done enough mis-
chief, and would now gladly undo his thou,
sand errors while the lamp holds out TO burn,
&c.
1t is said dispatches of the Bridish Min
istery are reported to be more sen sible and
moderate than represented by the English
press. Nothing pcrcmptory or imperative will
be addressed to our Government, and moth
ing, in short, which cannot be settled by
q diplomacy.
h Quebec paper says contracts have recent
ly been rewarded to carriage making firm
e in Montreal TO manufacture gun scghs.-
: RE Canadians are fearful that the provinces
: may be invaded during the winter, at which
time the snow would obsruct the movement
OF artillery in tho usual way.
C. G. Flint, late an editor upon John
b Wcntworth's paper in Chicago, was, on Sat
G urday last, sentenced to prison for cmbczze-
4 ment Tho Recorder remarked in the sen.
8 tonce, that ho was the third editor from the
y same paper who had been sentenced to i'm e.
% prisonment That docs not speak very well
II for Long Johns moral teachings and infu-
} cnce.
" Large numbers Of our volunteer troops,
some suffering severely from sickness, others
u disabled by wounds, are leaving Washington
i and returning to their respective homes to re-
cuperatc, having long iurloughs for that pur-
= pose. Others have obtained honorable dis
charges from the service.
. The office of the st. Croix He,ah, at st
Stephens, n. b., was destroyed on the night
OF the l0th, by party Of secession sympathi
= GERS, ow ng To the opposition manifested b,
the editors to tho cause of the Southern reb.
els.
"A brief dispatch to Washington from
Ma ajor- General Iialleck to tho army head
quarters confirms the truth of the reported
success fGen. Popcs expedition in Missouri.
On Monday of last week there were
in the army Of the Potomac, and on Wedncs-
5 day twenty -four, or about seventy. five during
the week. A few of these resigned to take
f higher appointments in other regiments
$ Thomas Francis Mcaghcr was on Saturday
. appointed II Brigadicr- General by the Presi-
dent; also General Palmer of III.
# The Philadelphia Enquirer of Saturday
@ has special dispatch from Baltimore, stating
that news had been received fom Richmond
q to The effect that Fort Pickcns had opened
c fire on Fort McRao three times since the 2lsi
T. ult., but with what effect is not known.
q The abuse OF the franking privilege, will b,
e cut short by the bil, recently reported by Mr.
ii Colfax. Under that bill the members OF Con
m gress may send public documents and letter
t without prepayment, leaving the postage t.
be horne by their consitucnts, who will hav
IN to pay the rate OF one cnt for every spoccl
a they receive, and an average OF five cents fol
q bound volume. II is estimated that this
N bill will save to the revenue more than 81 ;,
IS 600, 900 annually.
Tho Chicag Journal learns on good an
thority that President Lincoln has determined
to appoint Hon. o. H. Browning, now United
States Senator from Illinois, to tho Federal
u Supreme Court, in place of Judge Mclean
Vt deceased.