Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-05-08
SUMMARY or WAR NEWS.

New Orleans. Natchez is almost desert
ed.
There is great CONSERVATION in al
the towns along the Mississippi. Th
rebels are beginning to form some idc
of the strength Of the Government.
n camp of eighty rebels in buchanan
county. Virginia, was recently surprise,
by forty loyal Virginians and Kentuck,
mauntoineers, who killed six men an,
took a large amount OF plunder.
General ITalcck's effective force, &C
cording to the muster rolls, on last Sat
turday morning. is reported at one hun
drcd and sixty thousand men.
Aspecial dispatch to the Tribune from
Cairo says: "From the fleet we learn o
the capture of Bat Rouge and the Con
federate arsenal.
Burnside captured Fort Macon with
four hundred prisoners with a loss on
our side of but one killed and eleven
wounded.
Adiutant- General Thomas, in confer
ence with the Finance and WAYS and
Means Committee, stated that we had
seven hundred thousand soldiers in the
field.
The news from Pittsburgh Landing is
Of the 3D. inst. All rumors of battle
are said to be unfounded No allusion
is made to the report Of Bcaurcgard's IS
evacuating Corinth.
In addition to the capture of the BaJel
formerly hHa WoHey, the steamer Ber-
mu1a with $4,000 pounds of powder,
cannon, swords, pistols, &c, has been
seized near Hole in the Wall, and taken
to Philadelphia for adjudication.
The Richmond and Norfolk papers
hint at treason in the surrender of New
Orleans. They charge the rebel Con
gress with adiournin5 through fright,
and deny the intended abandonment .oI
Virginia in tone implying apprchcn
sion of such a course.
-Four hundred and fifty Germans dcs.
crted in body, on Saturday, from Beau,
regards outposts, to which they had been
sent on duty, and camo into the national
camps with white flags on their muskets.
DIR. Fowlkcs, editor of the Memphis
1palanche, has been arrested for publish
ing articles injurious to the Confedracy.
His loyalty to Jeff Davis has been n
matter of donbt for some time, we un
dcrstand
The Richmond Enquirer of the ID
contains report from Savannah, Ga,
dated the lst inst, to the effect that len.
Lawton has formerly communicated to
the city Council his determination to
surrender the city, and the Council sus-
tain him. They do wisely.
Certain rebel papers still cling to the
delusion that the North can be invaded
by their armies. The Pittsburg Va }
Express says, "they would move with
alacrity in the direction of Yankee Land
If the word was just given them from
Richmond" They show wonderful alac-
rity in moving away from the direction
of Yankee Land
The Texas invaders Of New Mexico are
in bad way. Another fight has occur
ed between them and General Candy, in
which they were whipped, and tho Gen
cral has now cut off their retreat, so that
they must surrender, unless they go to
the mountains, where bands of hostile
Indians would be delighted to massacre
them.
We have tclegraphic adviccs Of vic
tory over band of Indians in South
western Missouri, under Col. Coffee, by
u regiment Of Missouri volunteers, and
the capture Of reblo .saltpetrc manu-,
factory at Yellvillc, Arkansas, with a
quantity Of stores and Il number of guer-
illas, by portion of Gen. Curtis com
mand.
The rebel steamer BaJel, deeply laden
with Enfield rifles. liaed cannon, &c, !
has been captured one hundred miles
north Of Abcco, and brought to Port
Royal, 5, &. Tho vessel that captured .
he %a6c( chased the NaShmHe, which
'lso had arms on board for the rebels,
,ut tho latter was much too swift for her.
There has been another battle in New
leNico between the Texans and the Fed |,
raj troops under Gen, Candy. The
ncmy were defeated. The battle took I
lacc at Porollo on the Rio Grande, where
he Texans had fortified themselves
.ho report says the enemy are nearly ,
urrounded and must either surrender or |
lee to the mountains whore the Indians :
vii welcome them with bloody hands to !.
'ospitable graves.
The army force under Gen. Reno have :
blocked up the Dismal Swamp Canal at c
Is lower extremity, at the mouth of tho
Orth River in North ror,l;r M |