Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-05-08
NEWS ITEM

understood, have resolved to raise no to
bacco this season.
On the Sd Gen. Pope captured Farm
ington, Miss, with 800 prisoners. 1h
loss was triaing on our side.
How many poor, sick soldiers could b.
made comfortable with the money ex
pended by government in buying up
single old nigger.
Advices from England to the goth ult
report a further advance in flour an,
wheat. Bacon was also bouyant. Porl
and beef were easier.
"llave tho States n right to dcstro,
the nation ?" asks an abolition paper
The same right precisely that the nation
has to destroy the States.
Prentice says: Beauregard certainl,
surprised us at Shiloh on the first dav o
the fight; but we surprised him a goot
deal more on the second.
Capt. SHINES and officers and crew o
the privatecr Sumter arrived at South.
ampton, England, on the 10th in steam.
er from Gibraltar. The vessel is to be
sold there.
The Nashville Union, of Saturday con
tans call by $50 influential citizens for
a meeting to be held on Monday, to take
measures to restore the former relations
of Tennessee to the Federal Union.
The Ohio Legislature has passed bill
reducing the per- diem of the members and
officers of the next and succeeding Gen.
cral Assemblies to So, but did not reduce
the per diem Of the members Of the pres
cnt session
Major B. Rush Cowcn has resigned he
office Of Secretary of State, and Hon
Wilson S. Kennon, the efficient Repre-
sentative from Belmont county, has beer
appointed by the Governor to fiji the va
cancy.
Col. Applcr, Of the Fifty third Ohio
Is charged with displaying great coward
ice at Pittsburg Landing, SO much tha
through his trcpidation the regiment wa
broken, and the men fought as best the,
could under other commanders. lie i
another of Gov. Dcnnson's pets.
Sir James G.. Ross, the explorer, die,
at AyIcsburg, England, on the 3rd O
APRIL aged 62. IIo was the discovere
OF the North Magnetic pole, and in 1889
40 reached rs degrees 10 seconds south
the nearest approach to tho South Pole
ever made.
Gen. Wool is reported to have re-
marked, on the occasion of his first in
spection of the Army of the potomac
that they were the dirtiest lot of men hc
over saw. Gen. Mcclellan made the fol
lowing reply: "Genoral Wool, if yor
and your men had been where | and m,
men have been, you would be dirty, too.
Gen. Wool was probably satisfied with
his answer.
The Secretary Of War has Transmitted
to Congress list of all the Brigadicr
Generals made from A ril /, 1861, to
April |, 1862. The total number an.
pointed during the year was one hundred
and sixty-three ; of these ten have been
appointed Maj or Generals, three have re-
signed, four declined, two died, and one
rejected. Total number in service April
|, 1862, was one hundred and forty three.
From April | to the ODD ult., sixty.two
were appointed and twenty nine confirm
cd
The distress in Belgium. owing to the
failure of the cotton supply, is said to be
terrible. The city of Ghcnt is the chief
victim. More than 5000 workmcn are
literally on the street, without resources,
and about 1900 more can just drag along
their existence by working three days in
tho week. The students of the Univers-
lty have given comforts and started col
Iections to aid them. Other cities are in
nearly equal distress, and the government
IS scriously y embarrassed at the widespread
misery that has overtakcn this flourish.
ing kingdom.
Let them Come.