Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-01-16
Brief Gatherings.

The New York Tribune and Herald ara
charging each other with having favored
secession within a few months. This
would not be worth noticing but from the
fact that for once they both tell thetruth.
Proposals have been made by parties
connected with the old Atlantic Telegraph
to connect the Southern forts occupied by
the Federal forces by telegraph, and mil
itary authorities are said to. o.favor it. Mr..
tessenden said, in the Senate, lately, that
expenditures must stop somewhere. 1t
appears to us that here is, good place to.
stop. .....
New Orleans rebels say they have thir-
ty thousand troops in that city, and twenty
thousand more withinshort call, and that
the Notifications for the defence of the
place amount to four hundred cannon,
Ottowanee, one of the principal chiefs
OF the Chippewas, and brave of hun
dred years, died recently among his pco-
pie, deeply lamented by his whole tribe.
1t is reported that secret POLITICAL So
ciety has been organized in Michigan, tho
object of which is to make the war an in.
strument for the emancipation of slavery
throught the South. -, ...t'
The President has nominated TO the
Senate, Charles H. Foster, of North Car
olina, to be Marshal for that district. Mr..
Foster is the gentleman recently claiming
seat in Congress as a Union Member
from North Carolina.
The British steam frigate Warrior,
draw 2S feet, can only enter two har-
bors in this country-Portland and New
port. ..... .-.
A Republican bully of Lodi N. Y, who
in July last undertook to compel DEM
ocratic farmer, George Stilman, to hur-
rah either for Lincoln or jeff. Davis, and
maltaeated him for preserving his inde-
pcndence, has just been fined $50.
AT Hilon Head the Federals have be-
gan pier, intended to be 940 feet in
length and 33 feet in width Negroes arc
employed in its construction, for whom
large frame building is also in process
Of erection. rrr,f
The behavior of the soldiers toward the
"contrabands' at Hilton Head is said in
letter, to be "exceptionable," though
in what respect is not stated
The eebcls had severe disappointment.
in the recent capture of a water boat near
Norfolk. They thought they had got
whiskey, but when they found it was only
bad water, ono OF the ten commandments
was badly fractured in their wrath.
The autumnal freshets in Oregon are
SAID to have swept away neatly all the
mills in the State, with great quantities
of grain,
The Toronto Leader (government Or
gan says! "What though Mason and
Sildell be surrendered? Their release but
removes an impending cause of quarrel.
leaving inevitable complications which it
were madness to ignore"
Mr.. Ely, NJ. c., has been presented with
horse. The gift would have been moro
Useful if presented previous to Bull Run.
"A military execution occurred in Wash
ngton on the 9th, Michael Lanahan was
lung for shooting Sergeant Brennan in
Oct, 2ath 1861
The homeopathic system Of medicine
las been partially introduced into the
rmy, raising commotion among the
urgeons.
The United States Senate, it said has
,urged itself Of traitors. Now let them
ast out the blackguards-if they can do
t and leave q quorum.