Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-12-11
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The Steubenvilc UNION says that one man
walked forty miles to claim exemption from
the draft on the ground OF inability to en-.
durc long marches and the hardships OF camp
life.
The supreme Court OF Indiana in full bench,
the enlistment of minor under lS valid
Such peasons were no part Of the militia force
of the country. A large number of cases Of
this sort, before the court, ore thus settled
and all the petitioners discharged.
The Portland (Me.) Argus hears strange
stories of peculatons of rebel property by
army officers from New England, who, it is
alleged. have "confiscatcd" without authori-
ly, and illegally appropriated 1t to their own
use. Some of the articles thus stolen have
been sent home
A special dispatch from Washington says
that the President is believed to have finally
decided on compromising the Minnesota Indi.
an business by hanging some thirty aad par.
doning the rest.
Hon. W. A. Graham, of North Carolina
has been elected to tie Confederate States
Senate, in place Of Geo. G. Davis, whost
time expires on the 4th OF March. Mr.. Gra
ham was the conservative nominee, and was
the nominee for Vice President with Gener
al Scott.
| A Washington despatch says the President
message plcases very few of any party.
mancer Parker, assisted by land force, hav,
destroyed extensive salt works in Matthew
county, Va, and number Of small vessels
Upon the marriage of Miss. Wheat OF vir
ginia, an editor hoped that her path might b
fowcry, and that she might never be thrashc,
by her husband.
The Lindell House just completed at st
Louis, is said to be the largest hotel in tn
world. 1t is equivalent to eight stories il
height and contains 5ij room.
There is a shoddy contractors establish
ment in Lawrence, Mass, where sewing girl
are employed whose compensation is oul
about sirty cents per week. For shame y
hypocrites! who advocate "frec labor" an
I plumber your Government while you oppres
e the sewing girls.
The Potomac derives its name from an II
= dian word, meaning ''rver of swuns' an
those noble birds are still quite plentiful 0
its lower shores.
# The Secretary Of War has ordered the dis
charge OF all Quakcrs who were drafted
Ohio, the laws Of which State did not eXcmI
them.
Joseph Suscndorf, a naturalzed Prussiar
l who was arrested some time since, while al
tempting to go from Baltimore to Richmond
and sent to Fort Warren, afterwards becam
insane, and was placed in the State Lunati
ASYLUM. He has recovered his sanity an
on Monday was discharged from tina: institr
tion.
, Gen Hooker has sent an application in
d, the War Department, asking that Gen. Stol
q be giveif-a command in his corps. 1t was r
turrcd to him "endorsud "not granted"
! All the sick in Gen. Burnside's army al
/, to be transferred to the Washington, Georg,
- town and Alexandria hospitals. The probe
of building a hospital on the Rappahannoc
l. has been abandont d..
n The reb61 force at Vicksburg is stated by
deserter to be seventy-fve thousand old me
# and young boys, who have gathered togcth,
q from the surrounding country. They snbsi
almost exclusively upon corn bread and IN,
lasses.
The Pope and Porter difficulty, now bein
= investigated by Court Martial, seems like
n to prove sort Of Killarney cat affair.
/, Each General will succeed in somewhat dar
J. aging the reputation of the other.
II The National InteNpmcer is ont in dcten.
II Of Mcclellan, against the impu tation of LA
. eck's report and replies to his complaints
IS the slow movements by referring him to i
u own tedious march of twenty miles fro
! Pittsburg Landing to Corinth.
Special dispatches state that six of o
Q pickots of the Army OF the Potomac froze
i death Saturday night. Seven died from Il
effects OF the cold at Camp Misery, Alexandri
The Committee of Ways and Means of Il
House OF Congress are already at work on Il
" Tax Law, considering amendments theret
which have been urged as Indispensable.
e The Utica Telegraph says it knows that
' less than three hundred and siXty.fve office
of the Army OF the Potomac have sent
- their designations sine e the removal of &c
~ MCCLELLAN.
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