Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-06-27

The HEAVIEST item for the maintenance Of
the Secession army-its running sxpsnsss.
The public debt Of Canada amonnts 70
nearly 100000.
Flour is $le per barrel IN Texas. A
famine i expected.
Maj. Gen. Mcclellan Was on Monday
last elected President of the Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad.
The population of Nova Scotia is ascer-
tanned to be about s3O,O In 1851 it
was 276, ll7-showing an increase Of near
ly $4,000.
Eighty thousand people visited the re-
mains of Judge Douglas during the two
days they were lying in state at Byron
Hall.
Ellsworth's avenger, Frank Brownell,
was promoted to Sergeancy of his regi-
ment on his arrival at the camp, near Al
exandria.
There are forty-four steamboats, laid up
at Cincinnati, with no prospect Of doing
business for some time.
The Spanish Treasury is said to be over
flowing with money. The slave trade at
Cuba has probably paid well the last few
years.
A squad of sixteen soldiers, tired of wait
ing to be called into service, have started
on foot for Washington, to tender their
services personally to the President for
wiping out the Confederate States of A
merica.
The report is current that Gov. Randall
of Wisconsin, in imitation of the gallant
example set by Gov. Sprague, desigus 60
ing to the wars himself at the head of the
Wisconsin troops. -------
A lady in Rochester sent dress to
dyer, with instructions to dye it in some
color that would not run. The patriotic
dyer returned the dress covered all over
with the colors of the American Union.
]. L. Motley, one of the most celebrated
historians of the age, has written a most
splendid letter to the London Times, up
holding the Government of the United
States in the present crisis.
There is every probability of revolu-
tiou in Greece. The army is disafectcd
towards King OHIO, his abdica,ion is OPEN
ly talked Of, and even his successor named,
the grandson of Beaubarnais, Duke Nicho-
las Leutenberg.
A correspondent of the Springfield Re-
publican says Caleb Gushing has failed in
business. Years ago be was concerned
with Robert Rantoul in extensive specula-
tions at the West, and it is on account of
these that be is at last obliged to succumb.
Brigadier- General B. F. Butler was born
at Deerield, N. H., in 1918.
Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon was
born in Connecticut in 1921.
Major General N. P. Banks was born in
Waltham, Mass, 1916.
"Dred Scott Decision" Decision
of the rebel leaders not to take Washing
ton.
The New Orleans people are talking a.
bout building an extensive paper mill.
Why do the people shell fcrts! To get
out the Kernel.
The only colored nation in tho world that
coin their own specie is Hayti.
The ladies thimble is Dutch invention,
and was introduced about the year 1890.
At cost of $4,000 the Montrealers
are about to build five new markets in
that Canadian city.
Maior-General John C. Fremont was
born in Savannah, Georgia, January 81,
1918.
The subscriptions in New York, up to
Saturday, to the Missouri Volunteer Fund,
reached $11, 500.
Virginia promises soon to find that pos
session is nine points of the law-bayonet
points.
In North Carolina, coin is so scarce that
when man breaks a dollar bill, he has to
take his change in fat, wood and carpet
tacks.
The New Orleans Picayune has reduced
its size one half. Not few of the South
ern papers reduced their size altogether.
The ladies who wear red, white and
blue rose.tes are real patriots,a ,and therefore
ready for an engagement.
Col. Anderson, though an honored mem
Der of the Masonic fraternity, was not re-
cognized by a single Southern Mason.
'Meet mo at Phillippi," as the rebel
forces said when they retreated in hot
haste from Grairon.
"Virginia Election far as heard
from, the Secessionists of Virginia have
chosen to run far ahead of the Union.
Virginia, we're told, was virgin of old,
And SO all her artists will sketch her;
Alasl for the fate of fair Virginia State,
She's now in the hands OF Letcher.
Although no call has been made on Cal
ifornia for troops, company of miners
has been formed for arming and equipping
a regiment of one thousand men for the
war.
Women with fine dresses and fine
carriages drive into the cemeteries near
Philadelphia and steal the boquets which
nave been placed on the graves.
Jeff Davis ordering the Federal troops
o quit Virginia! Was there ever subi-
ner impudence-a burglar ordering man
o quit his own house
rhe Rock Island bridge, at least that
portion from Rock Island to the Illinois
hore, is to be covered to protect it from
he weather.
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