Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-12-25

Tennessee east of the Tennessee river,
and the Cumberland Gap, was placed,
upon the removal Of Gen Buell., in COM
mand Of Major.G General Rosencrans.
Having well disciplined and gallant
army under his command, proper de-
gree of diligence and activity cannot fail
to exercise an important influence upon
the speedy termination Of the war.
A great advance has been made sin &C
the commencement of the war. When
it began the enemy were in possession of
Norfolk and every port Of the Southern
coast. They held the Mississippi from
Cairo to New Orleans. Now, the block
AIDED ports of Charleston and Mobile on.
ly remain to them on the seaboard and
New Orleans and Memphis have been
wrested from them. Their possession of
| Vicksburg obstructs the Mississippi, but
it is to them Of no commercial use
Their strong holds on the Tennessee and
Cumberland rivers have been captured.
Governor Andrew johnson, as Military
Governor of Tennessee, holds Nashville
The enemy have been driven from Ken
lucky, West Tennessee, Missouri, part of
Arkansas are fleeing before Grant in
Mississippi, and all their hopes OF Mary
| land are cut off.
The spirit and bravery Of the army is
commended, and its losses by death in
battle, and otherwise, dcplored. Some
promotions have alredy been made for
gallantry, and others will follow. Sc
lections have been made from specimens,
and two thousand medals will soon be
distributed to private soldiers of distin-
guished merit.
Under the calls of July and August
there are already in the field over 420,
600 new troops. OF these 800, 600 are
volun, GERS, 49,, 600 of whom are for
three years or during the war.
The Secretary makes very lame ef-
fort to justify the action of the Admins
tration in regard to the suspension Of
hoJeos corpus and military arrests.
The expenditures for enlistmens, re-
cruiting, drilling, subsistence, etc., o.
volunteers, regulars and militia, amount
to $40, ,692,2S2 80. Since the call fol
volunteers 49, 900 recruits have been ad
ded to the old regiments.
in general terms it may be stated that
the issues by the ordnance department
include l 1926 field and siege, and l.206
fortifcation cannon, 1921 gun carriages,
caissons, mortar beds, travelling forges
and battery wagons, 1,276,6S6 small
arms, 9S7 POI sets equipments and &C,
coutrements, and 2l3, 1894, l27 rounds OF
ammunition for artillery and small arms,
still leaving large supplies of ordinance
stores at the arsenal and depots.
The grants made by Congress for for.
tifications at its last session amounted t.
I So, 535 900 for permanent works, and
$3.50 600 for temporary works. The
Chief of Engineers reports that these
sums admitted of very material process
of construction. This has been realized
in number of instances, and in all de.
cided advancement has been affected
1t appears from the report of the Act
ing Paymaster- General that during the
fiscal year ending the 30th of June, 1862
the sum of S., ,550,039 81 was paid tc
the regular troops, that $9l, ,l16,6lo 6l
were paid to volunteers, and that S3S,
597, ,Sl8 OF have been paid since the 3Otl
of June, 1862. The report states tha
nearly all the regiments were paid to the
3Oth of June, many to the 3Oth OF Al
gust--that some delay in payment has
been occasioned by want of funds, but
it is believed that all will soon be paid
In the Surgeons Department there
have been expended 81, 2,445, ,S94 SO.
The number OF general hospitals is ono
hundred and fifty-eight thousand one
hundred and seventy five. The whole
number under medical treatment is stated
to be not short of ninety thousand.
The Surgeon General represents thai
during the past year there have been nc
epidemics in the army of any severity; thai
the diseases which effect men in camp
have been kept at a low minimum thai
scurvy has been almost entirely prevent
ed, and that there have been few victims
of yellow fever.
The report winds up with an argument
in favor Of emancipating and employing
the Southern slaves; but admits in conclu
sion, that if the Presidents doctrine OF
compensated emancipation and vol
untary return to loyalty" shall "blindly
rejected, STILL the proper application cfMt
means at command Of the Government
cannot fail to accomplish the suppression
of tie rebellion and restoration of those
peaceful relations which were designed to
be established forever on this continent
by the Union OF the States"
Why not then, drop all emancipation
nonsense. and go to work properly
with all the "means at command" to ac-
complish what all desire, and what the
Secretary admits can be done-to-wit
the restoration of peace and union.
V.I & II nh