Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-10-02

Cooncls Thomas II. Ford, of the 32d Ohio,
and William II. Trimblc, of the Goth Ohio, are
among the officers arrested on account of the
FIarpers Ferry surrender.
The several hospitals at Washington now con
tain over 10000 patients. About1 900 wounded
altogether have arrived there since the late bat
ties in Maryland and are accommodated in the
hospitals. More new hospitals will be opened
in few days.
The President has issued a proclamation an
nouncing that all disloyal Practices such as
discouraging enlstments, resisting drafts, &C.,
will hereafter be tried and punished by martial
law; and that the writ of habeas corpus is suspend
cd in respect to all persons arrested by my mill
tary authority.
Eli Thayer's scheme for the colonization by
armed men Of the Southern States is said to BE-
favored by the President, Secretary of War and
other Secretaries, and to have been discussed sew
eral times in Cabinet meetings. 1t is added that
the scheme will probably soon receive formal Of
fetal sanction.
Surgeon General Hammond, from personal in.
spcction Of the battle field and the hospitals, cs
Inmates that the numbe? killed the Federal side
at the battle of Antic'am will come within twelve
hundred. md that the wounded will not exceed
six thousand.
Gen. Sicklcs is reported as having been placed
in command of Gen llookcr's old brigade
There is n rumor in Washington that the Pres.
dcnt designs ordering draft that will bring our
force in the field up to million men. Mr.. Lin.
coin Violently does not count much upon the four
millions of "downtrodden Africans" that were,
accordngto abolition authority, to rush to our aid
upon the issuing of an emancipation proclama-
ton.
The Radical candidates for Congress in Ohio
are all on the stump making partisan speeches,
and appealing to the partisan prcjudices Of the
voters; and yet, the Abolition press Of the State
Is bowling at he Democrats and other Union
men, because they are organizing and laboring to
elect Conservative Congressman, upon which we
must rely to save the Constitution and restore
the Union.
Every candidate for Con gress in Ohio, nom.
mated by the so called Union party, is a Rcpub.
lican of the Radical school, and indoIses the nj
ira and destructive legislation of Congress at its
last session. Democrats who are asked to vote
for any of these "Union" candidates should bear
this in mind.
The Democrctc press is unanimous in con
dcmning the Emancipation Proclamation.
We hope Horace Greeley will do his utmost to
trot out the 900 600 Wide Awake he has been
prating about for so long. They have got their
proclamation. Now let them find their muskets
Residents near the ford across the Potomac, at
which the rebels crossed, say that three or four
hundred got out of their depth and were drowned,
They heard their shrieks as they were swept
past by the current, The ford is a narrow one,
and the descent on each side is steep.
The rebels took as prisoners a large number of
they took large body sent out as grave digeers
near Bull Run, after Pope's late engagements,
and recently at Ilarper's Ferry they mad,
haul ortwo thousand negroes, employed as mill
tary laborers under an act passed at the last scs.
sion of Congress. The rebels are Of course not
expected to parole or exchange these black prs
oncrs. What is to be done about 1t is now
the great problem with the Abolitonists.
The order of the Confederate authorities, by
which Gen. Pope's captured officers were to be
scinded, and all heretofore captured will be re.
leased upon the same terms as otner prisoners =
General Price and large number of other Off.
GERS have been released and have reached Anna
rolls.