Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-03-06
TssE NEW S.


At latest advices the streets Of Sacramen-
to City were noviga,ed by small boats
The hill which provides for receiving
engineers into the volunteer service has
been rejected by the House.
The President has nominated Colonel
John Cochranc for a Drigadcr General
Of Volunteers.
One hundred and fifty millions Of in
come annually are expected from the Ex-
else and National duties to be levied.
Senator Hunter has been elected Prcsi-
dent, pro- tenn. Of the Confederate Senate,
and T.. J. Brock Of Va, Speaker Of the
House.
The loss Of property by the great fire
in Boston. Mass, last week, is estimated
at lc million of dollars, on which the
insurance is half million.
Asst. +. NJ. Guucral kasson is making
arrangements for establishing Post
Offices in the lclcl States as fast as our
army advances.
The Mexican treaty resolutions, etc,
were defeated in Exccutivn session, by
ayes s, nays 2S. This carries the rcjcc.
ton of Gen. Scott as additional Minister
to Mexico.
4 Lieut.. Colonel in an lows regiment
at the Fort Donelson fight, had nine bul
lets put Though his coat, and yet sus
taincl no injury. lie is bullet proof.
The rebel newspapers acknowledge al
length, the magnitude Of their defeat al
Fort Donclson. The Governors Of Ala
bama and Georgia have each called iol
twelve additional regiments, threatening
Ito draft unless the rcqusition is immcdi.
o,'ly filled.
Our soldiers at Port Royal and TybcC
arc having fresh shad and green peas
brought into them by the negroes. 1t i,
as warm as sumner and corn and grass
are from six inches to a foot high. They
will have green corn presently.
/ Counterfeit s. Treasury Notes have
made their appearance in New York.
They are excellent limitations of the gen
uinc, but they can be detected. The let
tcrs L. S., one within the other, on tn
& shield, in the Goddess OF Liberty, bein!
left out.
y letter from agrnlleman in 2ichmon,
dated over month ago, is published il
the New York Post. 1t says the rcbc
army on paper is 400, 900, but in the fcl'
it is not quite 10000. The rebel fore
on the whole line Of the Potomac he put
at only G0,000.
In his last letter from Europe, MI
Thurlow Weed says "Sincc the settle
mcnt Of the Trent affair, kindlier fccln
both with the Government and people {
England, has been very manifest. On til
: Trent affair, they were all for war bu
ing"
The st. Louis Democ3m has n lispatcI
from { larksvillc, Tenn, which says tn
rebel soldiers before leaving Na,hvill,
plundcrel many dwellings, and busincs
hou.cs, and excited great alarm among
the citizcss. Several soldiers were sho
by citizens whom they were robbing.
The baltimore IL Ohio II. Il. Co. ar
rebuilding their bridges at IIarpcrs Fcl
, ry. They expect to have their road i
operation through to Wheeling in twcr
ty days. Military protection has bee
promised the Company by See. Stanto1
a Advices from Annapolis, Marylan,
/, say that the nomination and election
l. Hon. Revcrdy johnson to the Unit
lc States Senate is II certainty, the contC
y being narrowed between him and Hen
t Winter Davis.
l. The Democratic State Convention
re Connecticut nominated James G. Lool
- is for Governor, Charles +. Pond I
re Lieutenant Governor, and II. II.
re Kingsbury for State Treasurer, The Ia
lc ter gentleman is now serving as Col
N mel in one Of the regiments of the Bur
. side expedition,