Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-07-31
News Items.


Eight rebel prisoners made their escape
from Fort Delaware recently on raft, getting
safely home to Dixie.
Tho rebels have parolcd ;,0i6 federal sol
dcrs taken prisoners at Murfrccsboro.
The United States Mint at Philadelphia is
manufacturing conts at tho rate Of 100000
per day.
The shipments of specie from New York
continues to be large.
Under the new arrangement for the cx-
change of prisoners it is said that Col Cor.
coran will be exchanged.
The rebels, initiating he action OF our Gov
ernmcnt, have discharged Internationally the
Surgeons and Chaplains talion prisoner dur
ing the war.
Beauregard is very sick, as reported by
Mobile papers.
Richmond is said to be in good condition.
Great care is taken for cleanliness of streets.
Gen. W. r. Sherman issued an order that
no more gold shall be paid for cotton, and
vcndcrs refusing the current funds ofthc place
shall forfeit half their cotton.
Samuel +. Melcr, and not Daniel +. Mel
Ter, has been appointed to the United States
Supreme Court bench.
1t has been decided by court in Chicago,
that Treasury notes are legal tender for
taxes, wherever there is not a special statue
directing the tax to be paid in specie.
''One thing" says tho Cincinnati Press,
"isprctty clear, different policy and different
] l. Al. -.
been in the past, else the rebellion will be
successful.
A patriotic widow lady in Portland, Me-,
has consented to let the board OF her gentle
men patrons "run right on,'' in case they vol.
untccr for the war.
A powerful military force, consisting of
portions Of the corps commanded by Gcrer-
ais Curtis and Sherman, has been dispatched
to take part in the siege Of Vicksburg.
Generals ITallcck and Burnside returned
from the Peninsula to Washington on Sunday
last. IT was announced that General Pope
would take the field on Monday last.
The nine and twelve months volunteers
raised under the proclamation of Gov. Curtin,
States service for those periods.
General Sherman has arrived in Memphis
and assumed the command OF the city.
The 10th Ohio, guarding the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad between Decatur and
Cortland, wore attached on the Goth inst, by
a large guerrilla force under Sturns and W ard
and thirty or forty Of our men killed.
An order has been issued by the President
appointing General IIallcck General. IN. Chic
of all the land forces Of the United States.
Special dispatches announce the escape o
Morgan through the mountains into Tenncs
see.
Gov. Mo ton, ofIndiana, sent one thousand
men to Henderson, Kentucky, who arrv ed
there on the morning Of the 23d inst. A gun.
boat also went up the river at the Same time
to protect tho Union residents.
Letters of the 18th and 10th inst. from
Huntsville, Alabama, state that there had
D been terrific storm, which did much dam
a age to the camps. In consequence of the ope
& rations of few squads ofgueuillas, bctwccT
@ Huntsville and Nashville, General Buell.,
grand army had been reduced to half rations
, General Rousseau had taken command Of the
y Third Division, lately commanded by Genera
, mitchell.
The boldnoss of the rebels in General Bu
cll's department Is extending all along his
, lines. AT last accounts a band OF cavalry had
made dash into Florence, destroyed large
amount Of ofGovcrnmcnt stores, burned steam.
boat and made prisoners Of a squad of Ken
nctts cavalry. They had also destroyed
stores and dcpots at other places. The rebel Is
also captured and destroyed a wagon train,
between Pittsburg Landing and Corinth.