Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-09-18


wav of men who we're competent to command.
Salutcs were fred at Sanborton, N. H., and
other towns. on the announcement Of the ews !
that Gen. Tlalleck had succeeded Stanton and
that Gen. Mcclellan had assumed command
of the army.
Thus far Illinois has furnished two artillery
regiments, thirteen cavalry, and one hundred
and twenty six infantry regimcnts-in all one
hundred and forty seven regiments.
The New York Post and the New York 7ri.
Lunc, agree in pronouncing the present Ad.
incompetent, imbccic, untrust-
worthy, etc. etc. Not being Democratic
journals, they are at liberty to be impertinent
and disloyal to the top of thcii bsnt.
Tho Massachusetts Republican State Con-
vention met at Worcester on the 10th inst,
and nominated the present State officers for
re-clcction.
Colonel Fletcher Webster, who was woun.
dcd at tho Bull Run battle on the 9th inst,
and has since died, was the sole surviving son
of the great Massachusetts statesman, Daniel
Webs or. Col. Webster was about fifty years
of age, and left widow and children.
Surgeon. General Weber, Of OHIO, was at
Washington, on the 9th inst, under orders
from Gov. Tod to look after the Ohio wound
ed, secure discharges for the permanently /
disabled, get lurloughs for the seriously in
urcd to go home to recover, and to make |
whatever provisions might be necessary for /
the comfort of those who remain there. lie
found five or six hundred Ohio wounded orly /
in W ashington hospitals.
The United States Navy is now, or very
soon will be, composed of more than three
hundred and twenty vessels of war, of which
a large proportion are iron clad gunboats.-
SO far MS the Ohio and Mississippi are con
cetncd, there are about twenty five gunboats
ready for service in those rivers.
The Masonic jewels belonging to Fred
ericksburg Virginia, Lodge, Of which Gen.
Washington was a member, were stolen while
that city was in possession of the enemy
Their init insic value is small compared with
the association with which they were connec-
ted. They were worn by Gen. Washington
in his several Offices Of Deacon, Warden and
Master of Fredericksburg Lodge, and were
|, highly priscd as relics
The Cleveland Plain Dsller and other Re.
publican papers unite in saying that the war
will probably last three or four years yet,
if not longer.
4 Nine mortar boats arc lying opposite Balti-
more under command of Commodore Porter.
The prospect must be anything but gratifying
| to the seccsh of that city.
I bn md tInv
raised five white regiments, and organized
twelve hundred loyalists.'' Jim, the Lcadcr
thioks, has been most successful in his recruit
| ing operations, referring doubtless to enlist
ment Of negroes. When shall we hear OF his
exploits in the feldi
Mayesviile. Ky, was taken possession OF
by the rebel cavalry, fifteen hundred strong,
on the llth inst, The city was surrendered
I without resistance. Two gunboats were dis
t patched up the Ohio river from Cincinnati in
u the afternoon.
Gen. Pope proclaimed that his head. quar-
y tcrs would bo Sin his saddle" We guess
s he meant his headquarters. His head quar-
, tcrs are now in Minnesota, were there is much
4 gassing and ittlc fighting to do.
, An exchange says these arc tho darkest
I days ever know to American citizens The
< Wide. Awakcs who bore torches at the funer-
: al of the American Union might bo induced
r. to ''light up these dark days"
t The Wheeling (Va.) Mhhgencer says that
c an attempt was made to rob the Government
Custom House of 81 $50 600. A large hole
? was made in tho wall of tho building, but
none of the money was taken.
Prentice says that such of the Abolition.
lists as arc going into the army are very anx-
ious to have negroes fight by their side and
are probably afraid that they can't stand the
smell Of gunpowdcr, and so are anxious to
have it noutralzed by counter smell.
DR.. Palmer, iormercly one the editors of
the New York Tribune, is now in the lunatic
, ASYLUM. If Grcely and his present editorial
associates we're in a lunatic asylum, or in
prison II would be much better for the coun
try.
The Abolitionists want the war prosecuted
to free niggcrs; but they refuse to fight. If
you would free the niger by the war, why
don't you join tho army
Cot Langworthy OF the 09th Ohio regiment,
who abandoned Cynthiana, KY, and destroy
a largo amount ofproporcty there, when there
was not an cuemy within twenty five miles,
has been dismissed from the serv ice.
DR.. Olds, of Lancaster was released from
prison in Fort Lafayette on the 9th inst. Ills
arrest aud Imprisonment were made without
any specified crime, and he was released
without any cause being assigned. What
business has a man to be white ut this season
of the yeari
Vanity Fair says that just as soon as the
Army of the Virg inia took to changing base
and falling back upon Washington, the Gov
crnmcut, too, found 1t cNpedient to change
base and fall back upon Mcclellan.
A Scottish newspaper state that "poor Kos
suth, the Hungarian patriot, is in the final stage
h Of consumption; and that probably before
d many weeks pass away, noble country will
+. have to wocp Tor the loss of one her ofnoblcst
J., and most gifted men,
o There are signs of Indian troubles in North.
ern Michigan as we'll as Minnesota, Indian
# warriors are gathering in the vicinity of Bay
,e City, who exhibit signs of hostile intentions
v thorc are said to he two thousand well. armed
nt warriors among the Indians in Northern