Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-11-20

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plant of the action OF Gen. Butler in
New Orleans toward Prussian property
and Prussion subjects.
The London Times says that Mrs. Phil
lips, an English subject, had become in
sane in New Orleans in consequence Of
Gen. Buffers treatment.
Some two hundred sailors from New
York city passed through indianapolis
on the 18th inst. on their way to Join
the gunboat feet.
Another head has rollcd into the bas-
let. The venerable Major General John
T.. Wool has been relieved from his com.
mand Of The Maryland Department, and
General Robert c. Schcnck selected TO
succeed him. General Schenck is the
Republican member elect to the next
Congress, in the Third District Of Ohio.
-Four companies Of the Second Rcgi-
mcnt Of the District Of Columbia vol
unteers are supposed to have fallen into
the hands of the rebels. They were de-
; tailed to escort thee thousand GONZALES
cents to Horpor's Ferry, and on their re-
turn crossed the river at Berlin to meet
cavalry escort. 1t failed to be at the
appointed rendezvous, and as nothing has
since boen heard Of the four companies
mentioned, it is supposed they been cap
turcd.
James Madison Porter, Secretary of
War under President Tyler, died Tues
day morning, November II, at Easton,
! Pennsylvania, aged sixty-nino lie was
. the son Of General Andrew Porter, Of the
B., Revolutionary war and was born in 1888
Dispatches from Evansville Indiana re.
port n successful guerrilla hunt recently
70 in Kentucky. The marauding bands
C wei badly cut up and thoroughly routed
- losing large number in killed, and
| wounded and prisoners, with horses,
| arms, etc.
@ Gen. Grant, on the 18th inst, occu.
I pied Holly Springs, Miss, and the I'M
! ion pickets advanced south Of that place.
k At Lumkin's Mills, on the Tallahatchee
rive four miles south Of the Springs, the
q rebel pickcts were driven in and one hun.
: dred prisoners captured, including sever
| al officers.
A dispatch from Nashville reports a
fight near Lebanon, on the | lth inst, be-
tween Kennels and Wolford's cavalry
and Morgans forces, in which the latter
were defeated with considerable lons.--
The rebels are said to have large amount
I, Of stores at Murlroos5oro.
Lieut.. Bculs and twenty men Of the
4th Mishigan cavalry, were captured on
the 18th inst, on Stones river, eight
= miles from Nashville, by a superior force
of rebel cavalry.
t Cen Pope has Just achieved charac.
s teristic feat. a Military Commission
| in Minnesota recently sentenced three
( hundred un fortunate indians to death for
| completely in tho lato outrages on the
, northwestern border. Instead of send
ing the result by mail to Washington,
, Pope tclegraphs the finding of the Com.
mission, including three hundred jaw
breaking Indian names, all the way from
st, Paul 10 til, Capital, at n heavy aud
absurd expense to the Government
This is too much. Mr.. Chase in return
ought to pay this terrific General his sal
ary in deoced postage stamps.
Mr.. Locke King, member of Parli-
mcnt has lately made speech, in which
he said that if England had gone to war
on the Trent affair, she "would not have
rested until she had obtained that which
she had right to, namely. the State of
Maine and harbor at Portland"
The Albany Jurnoi states that Gen
Mitchell had a prcscntmcnt that he would
not live long. just as he was leaving
that city he said to friend that no was
not likely he should see him again, as he
iclt n strong conviction that he should
fall a victim either to the climate or the
bullets Of the rebels. The conviction
proved too true.
The scige of Nashville has been raised,
and the rebels are rctrcating southwark.