Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-01-23
Southern News.

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Southern journals
MAJOR GENERAL ETc.-The NASHVILLE
Courier of the 4th says that Col. Pres
ton, late Minister to Spain, has been APP
pointed maio, general of the rebel Ken
tncky forces. The legislative council of
Kentucky, (lately establishcd;) on the 3D.
instant, elected II. G. Burnett, and VIM.
Il. Simms Senators to the Confederate F.
Congress.
GEN. PkIcE.-A movement is on foot
in New Orleans to present General Price,
Of Missouri, some suitable testimonial Of
the estimation in which he is held by the
people OF that city, and the South gencr-
ally, for his efficient service to the South
in the pending struggle in Missouri.
Rus THE BLocKADE.-The Mobile Id
ceytiser, of the 2Sth ult, announces the
arrival at that port of schooner with a
cargo of coffee, soda, starch, birthstone
and other necessaries She was pursued
and fired on by the blockading squadron
until she ran under the protection Of the
guns of Fort Morgan.
SALT-The Winchester (Va.) PresJy-
terion mentions that Mr.. Chas p. Rouss.
of that place, recently bought 100 sacks
of salt in Southwestern Virginia, for
which he was offered five thousand dol
lars in Strausburgh, but refused to take
it and brought the salt home and retail
ed it out to the citizens of Winchester at
five dollas per sack.
| TIE TAKING OF B1oXG.-The New Or
leans Delta of the Sd inst, contains the
following dispatch
HANDsnoRoUGH, Jan 1.-The enemy
came near Biloxi yesterday morning ;
two United States officers, with sixty
men, landed in small boats, and Gcmand-
ed of Capt. Farrell, commanding, the
, surrender Of any property of the Confcd-
eracy, if any such there might be. Civ
ing Farrell one hour to decide. Farrell
surrendered, and the United States Com.
modorc took away two cannon, it is said
l Butler and his command were at ShiI
Island. Biloxi is considered in poses
sion Of the Fcderals, and they are mo
mentarily expected to occupy it.
y CALL FOR TRoops - NASHVILLE, Jan
= 2-Gcneral johnson has called upon tn
Provisional Government OF Kentucky 10
:. thirty thousand troops to serve for one o
three years. 1t is understood that whcl
u two or more brigades are mustered int,
t the service they will be placed unde
a command of Hon. w. B. Preston, VIII
e is to receive the appointment Of Majo
- General. He has since been appointed
J. and is to have the command of twenty
five regiments Of infantry.
Ie REINFoRcEnIENTs AT Bowling GREEN
il KY.-Thc correspondent of the Nashvill
- Banner writing from Bowling Greer
10 Goth ult, says:
III "Vast reinforcemcnts are pouring in G
d a rate more rapid than anything that ho
yet been witnessed Their instruction
=, are to be ready for any emergency. !
:, few days since, the Forty-frst Tennessee
II a full, brave, and splendid looking reg
n ment, reached here. just after them cam
\ three additional Mississippi regiment,
# Yesterday the entire force from cam
Beauregard arrived. General Bower
entire division, seven thousand strong
Il are coming-two of the regiments arrive
l. here to-day. They were the Twenty sec
ond Missippi, Colonel Benham, aud til
,cI Twenty seventh Tennessee. The other
u will follow tomorrow. General McCul
1t loch, the world-rcnowncd Ben, brings hi
l. rcdoubtablc troops, and General Floy
VI and his forces. However, il is state
this evening that he had arrived at Ga
II latin whence he would take up his lii
II of march for Scottvillc, Ky. Cavalr
ed artillery and heavy batteries are also dai
coming in large quantities"
-, INpEMNIrY 10 LoyAL CTrIzENs.-TI
" Richmond Eraminer says:
III 'In the Virginia Senate, January It
N a resolution offered by Mr. Newman "
ng adopted, appropriating so much Of t
ho debt of the United States and the Distr
of Columbia as may be necessary to i
Ut dcmniiy the citizens of Virginia who q
" loyal to the State, for losses sustained
them in consequence Of any conhscati
,od act Of the Congress Of the United Stat,
Io1 or any other act growing out Of t
'0' war"
III SITUATION OF THE SouTH CARou
OF SEAnoAnp.-The Charleston corrcspon
ent of the Richmond Examiner, writ
under date Of January 9th, gives the f,
towing as the situation of the scaboar
-. All accounts seem to agree as to t
w. fact that the Yankee gunboats are adm
'"' rably managed. They range at will
and down the little bayouS of the Goa
~, and their rillcd guns are always serv
-, with precision. 1t was probably t
LIS !; consideration of this great alvapta
w. w., which the enemy possesses that has
Wv ~ duced Gen. Lee to !all back from I
.? - shore line of the main, and to choose
- position for final stand about tn
:" miles from the Coosa river. The po
90 tion of the hostile forces at this time m
.; be briefly stated as follows The eneu
- by means Of his gun boats hold comma
w. of Broad River and st. Helena soul
w al with all the intervening islands. |
"o troops also occupy them in land Just q
"a " positc to Port Royal ferry, and can IL,
S1 90 possese themselves, Whenever they pie;
~ Nv of the rest of the shore opposite to Z
:" u. Royal Island, making in all, tract
"' about six miles long and half a IN
- wide, immediately bordering ON the G,
- sa River This tract has been abandC
-" ~: ed altogether by the Confederate fore
W. ~ which have receded about three miles
,%a ,% ward the railroad, leaving a strip of r
Wv lands, averaging two miles in width, s.
"" aratinu them from thn nncitions vial,