Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-01-09
News Items.
There is said to be no prospect of an i'm
1ediatc rcncrnl engapomcnt in KcntnckY.

. Oi inc utter uemOralHatlOn ot tne rebel army,
Potatoes were selling in Canada at 25
The powder mill opposite New Orleans
exploded on the night of thc2sth of December.
cents few weeks ago, but are now IS cents,
in consequence of the rot.
--- 1t is said that the Introduction of homw-
pathic practice of medicine has raised somc'
what of II commotion among many OF the
regular Surgeons OF the Army.
- 1t is reported that Gen. Seigcl is about
to tender his resi- gnaton, in consequence OF
being superseded by Gen. Curtis.
"A dispatch from leading bank in New
York says. Limited States Treasury no ties
arc not redeemed. We cannot receive them
on deposit until provision is made for pay
ment."
The Wisconsin Legislature stands prac
tcally as follows: The Senate, eleven Re-
publican majority, the House ten Democratic |
majority.
The otal amount expended by the Gov
crnment in the purchase Of firearms since the
beginning Of the rebellion is S22, 100000.
AT Blooms burg, Pa, last week young
man named Levi Irvine was arrested and
lodged in Jail for marrying two young ladies
on the same evening.
According to the Milwaukee News, Carl
Shurtz. the American Minister to Span, in
tends to resign his position and return to
Washington.
- On the lst of July last there were but
sixty thee names OF Revolutionary Pension
ers upon the rolls in the Pension Office
Probably not over fifty are now living.
On the 18th of December, Mr.. Valandig.
ham predicted that Mossrs. Mason and Slidel
would be delivered up within three months
The prediction was ridculcd then, and yet it
was fulfilled within two weeks.
jacob NJ Howard has been elected to the
United States Senate by the Legislature of
Michigan, to fiji the uneXpired term of Sen.
ator Bingham, ending March ith 1862.
The Paris correspondent Of the New
York Tribune, undc date of December Q,
says that it is ''reasonable indisputable fact
that the recognition of the c.. S. A. as an
n existing nation by England and France is
rapidly approaching diplomatic record"
Reports from the Indian country show
c the war has freely begun between the loyal
Indians and the Texans and rebel half breeds.
: In a fight in the Cherokee country, it is re-
u ported that Cooper, a rebel General, and
u Mcintosh, leader cf the Greeks, were killed.
The loyal Indians lost IA.
) The Cauc issian, heretofore printed in New
,, York, has been forbidden email facilities"
for no reason, so far as known, except the
prejudice which our rulers entertain against
the name, A caucass an is white man.
b., -Congressman Ely, who was taken pris-
:, oner at Bull Run, and recently exchanged
for G. j. Faulkner, says he was treated very
well-cven like a gentleman. IIe reports
1900 of our men in the Southern pri sons.
1t is stated that since the correspondence
between Mr.. Seward and Lord Lyons, several
There is nothing like good dinner to adjust
differences between public men.
! Tho amount of treasure brought in by
Calforna steamers during the past year, is
S3i 1873, ,547 being an increase over the pre-
vious year of $3.50, JOY. Tho total amount
given at $500, ,25o, ,407.
The tone ofthe London Times in replying
to Thurlow Weeds letter on American affairs
u to that paper, was intcnsly insolcnt. So arc
the comments of tho Times and some other
y Loulon journals, on President lncon's Mes
II sage. They read like extracts from the rebel
papers.
There arc preparations for one thousand
guns for the defense of the harbor of Now
York, but there arc not one thousand guns
ready, and a long time must clapse before
they can bo supplied. Some five hundred
, good guns, however, are in place in the inner
and Outer harbor, and two hundred others of
an inferior quality. The gov ernment is pros
!, ccutng the work as fast AS possible.
1t may he of interest to some, to know
-, what il costs the State of Ohio to supply her
- dogs with a first class sport for one ycar--we
give it. There were killed by dogs in Ohio
during the year 1861, 42,7Sl sheep, valued at
S6i,2l6,2j. During the same period there
were injured $4,000 valued at SO $40, 20
totDl, 81, ,782 sheep, at SS6,7o5 ,95 That is
more than all tho dogs in Christendom are
worth.
Mr.. Abraham Burkhodcr, of Lebanon
county, Pa, recently lost four children ont
of family of five, by scarlet fever Tho
children all died within the short time of
fifty four hours and were buried side by sdo,
in one grave, in the presence of a large as
scmbly of friends and ncighbors.
1t is almost certain that the English will
if they have not alrcedy occupied Matamoras,
with the design it is feared, of opening COM
melce with the rebel states by way of Browns
vile, exporting cotton and importing contra
bands.
Col. Schuyler, who purchased armsin Eu'
= rope for the Government, has reported at
Washington. The entire purchase of arms
abroad amounts to near three hundred thous-
:, and stand, The arms ought to be good, as
=. the highest price was paid--avc,Nging it is
said, SIG gun making about five millions
cf dollars worth.
Tho Norfolk Day Book has a dispatch
: under date of Dec. 3lst, which says; Sol,
Forests cavalry, about 500 strong, and
~ tho Union cavalry, about tho same num-