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

been thrown out by other banks.
Rev. II. G. Comingo, a we'll known Pres
bytciian clergyman OF Stcubcnvillc, died
suddenly of Dyptbcra, on Sunday morning,
the LIST inst.
The small pox is quito prevalent in st.
Louis. The President of the Board of Health
has notified the citizens TO get vaccinatcd at
once.
John Hill. of Philadelphia, has secured
Il contract for five thousand tons OF hay, at
s2j per ton, delivered in Washington. lie
also has one for five thousand bushels of corn,
at S. cents, and a tiko amount of oats, at 81
cents.
The Raymond Mis-. Gazette is much
gratifed to observe that planters almost uni
vCrsally are supplying themselves with seed
wheat, and many have sown acres of it. The
Gazette thinks, with favorable season, large
crop will be harvested next June.
Louisiana has $50 companies mustered
into the Confederate Service. Ten of them
are cavalIy, "a artillery. The aggregate is
2S, 900 men not including about 900 men
for service ailoat.' The patriotism Of the cit
les is seen in tho fact that 20,400 of these
men are New Orleans volunteers.
Gov. Dcnnison has pardoncd Cook who
murdered Kate Bcaureau in Cincinnati, about
two years since. His friends in Cincinnati,
VIC understand, are wealthy and influential
On what grounds he was pardoncd, we are
not advised.
t In Boston paper young widow lady
I advcrtiscs that she is dcsirous to meet Will
t an aIlcctionatc and good tempered partner
that can furnish her comfortable home. 4
n gentleman Of color not objected to, from
o iorty.fve to fifty years of age.
be. st Helena Inlet, which has been taken
G possession of by our troops upder Gen. Shcr.
$ man, is about as far TO the northeast of Port
Royal as Tybce islend is to tho south west
, Its siezurc gives us the command of another
entrance to the island chain Of water commu.
nications in that vicinity.
A dispatch of the 25th states that Gen
Lee has ordered that nobody should leave
Charleston without a special permit from the
Mayor. The Charleston papers of that date
have intelligence from Baltimore that 'ehc
public sentiment Of tho North is of such an
alarming character that the Government is
forced to do something"
Two descrtcrs recently came within Gen
M'Call's line from Cenrcvillc. They say
; that 60 900 men are cncampcd at Centrcvie
under Beaurcgard and Kirby Smith, the camps
, being six or seven miles long and three OF
four wide.
1t appears that Col, Pcyton went South
to Southampton b the Nashuillc, with letter,
from jeff. Davis accrcditng him Minister tc
Spain. His family were with him. Car
. Shurz, U. s. Minister at Madrid, will be at
fordcd chance to use his diplomatic skill t,
! counteract whatever influence Peyton may
possess.
On Thanksgiving Day in New York Cit,
Thomas Curran remarked that he didn't ad
mrc William Ilurley's sister. Thereupor
, Hurley fought Curran and killed him with Il
blow from an axe. What business has any one
t living who does not admire llurlcy's sister.
1t is stated, positively, that the rcbc
Buckner has much smaller force than has
Dccu BcHcltlly thtIlllhtcus Ills uTIly III DOWI
h ing Green is less than 10000 strong and ar
rangements are already perfected which viii
) compel him to surrender or retreat rapidly
into Tennessee.
1t is stated that between the lst o
July and lst OF November, four months, ten
milo of cartridges for muskets and smal
arms were issued by the ordinance department
to the army of Potomac This enormous OK
pcnditurc of cartridges is due to target prac
ticc among the troops,
=, A letter from London says, "nautical mel
. here express very dscouraging opinions i,
regard to the Great Eastern. They think /
doubtful whether she will ever make anothc
, sea "trip, and think after remaining a while a
}, Milford Haven, she will be converted into
bathhousc or floating hospital"
1t is ST ated that Major Swearinger, th,
commander Of Cumberland, Md, has issue,
orders to the effect that no whisky shall b,
sold to any soldier under penalty of having
the whisky of those who sell to the soldiers
, cmptied into the street. The order also pro
hibits the sale Of the article TO the citizens
except in very limited quantities.
/ The Chilli IdrcrtiScr, of rcccn
date, says white man uamcd William Camp
, bell was beaten to death in South Union Ros,
county, by couple Of negroes, named Dayit
and Amos Hickman. The negroes have beer
arrested and lodged in Jail.
A dispatch from Fortress Monroe stat,
that Gen. Wool held a cou neil of his oilic or.
and they unanimously came to the conclusion
that demonstration ought to be made on
Richmond from that point. Gen. Wool wa,
very anxious that the Government ahculd
give him the requisite number OF men and
means 70, that purpose. The subject is before
tho Government.
The Jackson MisSissiPpian advocates raising
tho pay of the soldiers of the Conlrdcracy
II says there are not, like the Northern holds,
the refuse of society who fake up arms as a
means of securing their bread, bat are the
flower of the country; social equals with
their officers, "actuatcd by the purcst patriot
ISM" and therefore there should not DO SO
great distinction between the pay of private,
and commissioned ofic crs.
| The steamship Northern Light fl ON AS
u p'hwaN, Nov. 25th, arrived at New York {
l. 'ew days ago. Shc brought SS7S,O00 il
N treasury. The Cant ain ,a,,rts t,,,, ;,C,,n,,