Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-05-01
NEWS ITEMS.

I L he IfcSluCnt mas reCOBniHcu - T.
Adae as Consul of the Dutchy Of Sake
Altcnburgat at Cincinnati
The rebel Congress passed a bill APP
propriating one million and half for
the construction of railroad from Gal
weston to New Orleans.
The United States Court is in session
in Nashville, Tenn, Judge John Catron
presiding. John Trimblc, Esq, is U.
$. District Attorney
Brigadier General Hill, Of Toledo, has
been pointed Adjutant, General of Ohio
vice c. Z. Buckingham, who has been ap-
pointed Brigadicr- General.
Spain is reported to have revived the
boundary quarrel with Hayti. If so, it
is probably preliminary to an effort to
gulp down the negro republic.
Col. Blair, in his speech delivered in
Congress on the 1lth inst, charactcrizos
those persons as "8uperfcid observers
who believe that the rebellion grew out of
slavery"
Reverdy Johnson has written letter
in which he attempts to prove the un-
constitutionality of the act passed by
Congress for the abolition Of slavery in
the District of Columbia.
The new Governor of Wisconsin, Ed.
ward Salomon, who has succeeded the
late Governor Hervey, is a Democrat
. lie is a German citizen, resident Of Mil
/, waukec.
The Cincinnati Commercial publshe
an extract from private letter from TN
Q Cumberland Hospitals, to the effect tha
. the sick arc rapidly convaesing and being
, rapidly discharged to Join their respective
regiments, cured.
Andy Johnson has caused the arrest o
the editor of the Nashville RcpuJLcaJ
t Bonner, on the ground that "thc genera
r tone Of the paper is inimical to the Gov
| crnment of the United States" Mr.
5 johnson is proceeding with high hant
in the exercise Of his dictatorship.
2 The Conduct of the War committe
p had to run back from Manassas, recently
= on account Of bad roads Perhaps the,
e. can now understand the difficulty o
| marching an army where they couldn'
, get themselves.
. Fort Pillow is situated on the lowe
t. end of the First Chickasaw, at Hatche
Bluffs, as they are sometimes called. !
= is said that the bluffs are bristling wit
artillery for miles, and that the fort itscI
5 contains over one hundred guns.
= a Washington correspondent Of III
Chicago Times says, owing to a misaE
prchension which caused the rejection {
u Daniel +. Sickles, the President to-da
rcnomnatcd him to be Brigadior Gene
; raj, The prospect Of his conirmatio
is favorable.
y The first time a President Of the Uni
- ted States ever went aboard foreign wa
> vessel was on Saturday last. Mr.. Lincoll
visited the French frigate Gasend Il
Washington, and was received with dis
tinguished honor.
Parson Brownlow has been specchryin
: in Philadelphia. His topic was hmscl
principally, as usual on which he wa
very entertaining, and amused his aud
ence much. On the close Of his speccl
Senator Wilson gave him an invitatio
from the President to visit the Whit
House
ASHER Posr, Of Richland County, re
s Gently, struck man named Asher Line
:. ley over the head with the handle Of
a pitchlo,k from which Mr.. Lindlcy di,
:. in course of few hours. \ warrant WI
:. issued for Post but he had not been a
y rested at last accounts.
: Con. JoHN S. FurroN, of Ashland Co
f died of typhoid fever, on the l7th, in Il
10 43rd year of his age. The disease WI
contracted while in the service of his coul
IS try in Western Virginia. He was n goc
&c lawyer and highly respected citizen
4. While Col, Bissell was performing h
herculean labors in cutting the twel\
miles of canal at Island No 10, procce,
ings were going on in the Recorder
y Court, Chicago, to forfeit his bail f,
, SO, 900 for non-appearance, under an il
y dictment in connection with the Roc
: Island Bridge burning affair. Shame o
= Chicago.
!, a rebel regiment at Yorktown mutir
ed the other day and they were fired int
by another regiment in order to que
them. The muiners returned the fin
with spirit. 1t is well known that man
NilginiaLs are being forced into the reb,
service at the point of the boyonet, an
t, 1t is no wonder that they mutiny.
Il Gov. Yates, of Illinois, has commits
a stoned Mrs. Reynolds, wife of Lieu
t Reynolds, Co, \, 17th Illinois, MaiC
70 for her heroic onl nroiS ~ orthv conluf