Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-03-20

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THE now department assigned to Gen.
IF.cmont. combine, East Kentucky, East
I Tennessee and Western Virginia.
Charles Mackoy, the English poet, is
in New York. lie reached there from
Canada on the sih isn't.
The authorities in New York and Mas
sachusctts are making arrangements for
earr>oning the New York and Boston
harbors.
The resolution introduced in the Uni.
tod States Senate for the expulsion of
Senator Powell, Of Kentucky, and sup
ported by the Abolitionists received II
votes, to % against IT,
General Burnside appears to have been
informed as carly as the 81 instant Of the
retreat Of the enemy from Manassas, and
he has probably taken precautions to
guard against a surprise from them.
General Johnston is reported to have
established a new inc Of defence from
StroSburg to Gordonsyilc, but the next
movement of thc army Of the Potomac
will probably destroy it.
a London letter of the 1st Of March,
to the CoDmerciol, says on the whole,
there is un obvious growth Of the i'm
preston in England that the struggle
will be terminated this Spring. Amcri.
can securities have been consequently
buoyant.
BY the now order Of President Lincoln
Cincinnati is in the Department of the
Mississippi, Gen. 1TallccR. The line Of
middle division, Gen. Fremont, runs lon
gitudinally, thirty.six miles cast of that
city.
The Mortar Fleet is adoat in the Sou
thern waters, but its exact destination and
= present position aro wisely concealed
from the public Captain Porter will
INbVotIcHN bc cldDIcl W IcHleT cllecllNc
servic when the proper time for action
arrives.
Winton, n. c., taken by Commodore
Rowan, of the steamer Delaware, is sit.
uatcd on the right bank Of the Chowan
river, which ompties into the Albemarle
Sound from the north. 1t is the capital
+ Of Hartford county, and is at the head o
sloop navigation on that river
, Brunswick, Georgia, which was desert
! ed by the inhabitants, on the arrival oil
our fleet is the capital of Glynn county,
situated at the mouth Of the Turtle river,
eighty miles S. w. of Savannah 1t is
the terminus Of the Brunswick and Flor
ida Railroad and has fine and capac-
ious harbor
+ Gordonsvillc, Va, to which it is said
the main body Of tho rebel army from
Manassas has retreated, and which is be-
ing fortified as new Manassas, is an i'm
d portant junction on the Orange & Alex
h ondria Railroad, sevcnty-six miles from
t Richmond, and eighty.eight south oI
Alexandria.
The departments Of Generals Hallecl
and Hunter are consolidated and placed
under the command of the latter The
limits Of this new department extend east
ward so as to include all territory west of
north and south line, indefinitely drawn
through Knoxville, Tennessee. This
change absorbs Gen. Buell's Department
and places him under the command OF
IIalIeck,
George Bancroft, the historian, was
named in the published proceedings, as
one Of the Vice Presidents Of the radical
Republican Cooper Institute meeting in
New York City, on the evening Of the
9th inst, The next day Mr.. Bancroft
published a card in the New York papers
stating that he was not present at the
meeting, and that his namc was used
without his consent.