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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13
Princely Liberality.

During the month Of January John c.
Rives, Esq, publisher Of the Congressional
Globe, of this city distributed the sum of
$1,47o to'the families of the privates in
the First District regiment. now stationed
on the Washington Branch railroad be-
tween this city and Beltsville.
Mr.. Rives obligated himself in Septem-
Der last, to pay to the wife Of each volun-
teer from the District, ten dollars per
month, and 10 each child one dollar per
month. Since that time he has expended
among the families of the soldeas nearly
$1,000. The liberality of Mr.. Rives de-
serves commendation, and no doubt the
soldiers, who have such noble-hearted
friend will ever remember him with great
full hearts, Wash. Rep.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13

YThe Treasury Note Bill with the Legal
tender clause has passed the House. 1t is in
timated that it may be defeated in the Senate,
but we have confidence that it will pass. The
danger is that Senators will continue their GUS
tom of wearisom and proftless debate. 1t is
high time the previous-question gag were into
introduced into the Senate. Our Senators are
not distinguishing themselve by aptitude for
business. and there is no sufficient reason why
she country should be so painfully bored by
their long speeches. Even on so plain ques-
tion as the expulsion of JESSE d. BRIGHT, they
of which tended to mystify rather than enligbt-
en- all who had nothing better to do than watch
the course Of debate.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13

KEEP THE BALL RoLLING.-Petitions are in
circulation in parts of the Vast end ofthe coun-
ty asking the Legislature of Ohio to reduce the
salaries of such county and State officers as are
too high. These petitions or something similar,
should be generally circulated throughout the
State. The salaries of some county officers are
entirely too high. Men can be found abund-
antly qualified. who will discharge the duties
for one half of what is now paid certain officers,
and make money at that. Aud now, particu-
larly, when there is necessity of increasing
largely the burdens of taxation, why not have
the Legislature make provision for having the
work of the people done as cheap as possible
Printed petitions can be had at this Office
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13

rE The Ohio Legislature has refused to pay
for the publication of the daily accou 1T OF their
doings, consequently there are none published
and nobody knows whether they are doing any
thing or not, but most people take it for grant,
ed that they amt, and don't make many inqui-
ries concerning them. This Legislature is
smarter than any preceding one-which We
think is saying good deal for it--for hereto
fore the proceedings have been published, and
the people could tell exactly how much time
was spent in frivolous debate, de-, but under
the present ruling this is not found out, and ii
any new laws are passed or old ones amended,
it will not be known until some poor devil is
informed by an officer that he has violated their
provisions.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13
FOREIGN NEWS.
Mason and Slidell Arrived
NO DEMONSTRATION!

PORTLAND Feb. 10.
The Steamship Jurs, which left Liver
pool on Thursday the 3Otb, and London
derry on the 3lst, arrived tonight.
Mason and Slidell had arrived at South
ampton. No demonstration was made
the former went to Loudon and the latter
to Paris.
Sales of cotton for three days, $4,000
bales, including $4,000 to speculntors and
exporters. Market frmer with an ad-
vance of Id.
1t was rumored that the Government
had ordered the Nashville to quit South
ampton, but extended time for her depart
ure owing to the danger from the Tuscar-
ora. It was also rumored that the Gov
ernment will prohibit armed ships Of either
party remaining over "a hours in any Brit
ish port. ....... ........-. ....-...
The following is the Etna's report =
Earl Russell, in dispatch dated % Jan.
to Lord Lyons, says that the English Gov
ernment differs entirely from Mr.. Stewards
conclusions on the question whether the
persons taken from the Trent, and their
supposed dispatches, were contraband.
1t was rumored that the vessel which
the Sumter engaged, off Algiers, was the
Iriquois. There was no news Of either
It was reported that the Tuscarora was
about. to quit Southampton. The destina-
tion was kept secret.
The Times, in characteristic article,
calls for something decisive in America
1t says that unpleasant complications must
arise if the present state Of affairs contin-
ue much longer.
FRANcE.-Napoleon opened the Cham
Der on the 9th.
He said the civil war which desolates A
merica has greatly compromised our COM
mercial interests. So long however rs
the right Of neutrals are respected we
must confine ourselves to expressing wishes
for an early termination of those dissen-
sions.
France recommends to Rome to concili-
ate the Court of Turin. Antonelli abso-
lutely refused all terms. .....
There were extraordinary rumors of an
enlarged French expedition to Mexico.
The London Times remarks on Mason
and Slidell that both will probably keep
quiet and wait events that are at hand.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13
ANOTHER VICTORY.
Roanoke Island
Taken.
PANIC AT NORFOLK.
Fl. MONROE, Feb. 10.


News by the flag of truce states that
our troops landed at Roanoke Island yes.
terdav D. m. No particulars are given,
but It was inundated that the Island
was taken. --....-
Ten deserters [contrabands] came to
Camp Hamilton this afternoon, having
been found by scouting party. One was
member of the Black Virginia Cavalry,
who were engaged at New Market Bridge
ON the 22d Of December, with Max Web
ster's regiment.
He was completely armed with carbine,
pistol, &c and had a considerable amount
of rebel money. They represent great
scarcity of provisions.
The bark Trinity arrived this p. m. from
Boston, with 400 released prisoners in
charge of Lieut.. Buell. to be exchanged.
1t is expected that Bishop Ames and
Hon. Hamilton Fish will accompany the
prisoners when they are sent over in the
morning.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 10.
The Inquirer of this city had dispatch
dated Fortress Monroe last night, which
reports the landing of the Federals at Ro-
anoke Island.
Three rebel gnn-boats we're sunk, and 2
captured. One of them the Flag Ship.
The fremen on board the steamboat re-
ported the stars and stripes could be seen
over the batteries and from Elizabeth city.
CAIRO, Ill, Feb. II.
A detachment of Cavalry two hundred
and fifty strong had an engagement with
rebels Sunday seven miles east of Fort
Henry on the road TO Fort Donnelson,
killing five rebels and taking thirty prison
ers and thirty horses. One Federal wou nd
ed.
A detachment of the 32d Illinois de-
stroyed portion of bridge on the Lou
isville, Clarksville and Memphis road on
Saturday evening, the rebel camp at that
point being previous evacuated.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. IL.
The Baltimore Clipper publishes an ex-
ira stating that Roanoke Island was cap
tured after days fighting. Two rebeI
guu-boats were captured, and the rest were
sunk or scattered.
The people of Norfolk and Portsmouth
are panic-stricken.
The news is confirmed by passengers by
the Fortress Monroe boat.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13
The Finances.

New YORK, Feb. 8.
The TriJune's dispatch states that an
order has been issued to Commanders of
Divisions in Virginia, directing all sup
plies and baggage not needed for troops
on the march to be sent here and ware
housed. Another order has been issued to
surgeons in charge of hospital patients in
this city, TO send the convalescent patients
to Annapolis and otherwise, to have ready
as many spare beds as possible.
The Heralds dispatches say that the
Secretary. of the Treasury in a note to
Mr.. Spalding, relative to the Treasury note
bill states Immediate action is of great
Importance. The Treasury is nearly emp
ty. l have been obliged to draw for the
last instalment Of the Treasury loan, so
soon as it is passed. fear the banks gen.
orally will refuse to receive the United
States Treasury Notes. You will see the
necessity of urging the bill through with
out delay.
From information received from Cur
scouting parties, and from other sources
it is believed large bodies of rebel troops
have been within few days transferred BY
railroad from Manassas, relying upon the
utter inability of the Federal army to
move against them on account Of the i'm
passable condition of the roads.
The Worlds dispatch says:
A rumor is given, and names Of parties
distinctly stated, that orders have gone
forward to Marshall Murray and District
Attorney Smith, to compel all who sold or
chartered improper vessels to the War De-
partment for the Burnside expedition to
return the sums received or 60 to prison.
A firm in New Nork known to have
been violently secession long after the fall
of Sumter, will, it is stated, be the first
called upon. 1t was regarded as very
strange that this firm should have been en-
p.oyed. Treachery, as well as fraud, is
suspected in the fitting out of the Burn.
side expedition, and those who have sworn
to fraud in respect to draft of their vessels,
will be compelled to refund.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13
s<The Cincinnati Commercial learns fro,

sEThe Cincinnati Commercial learns from
gentleman, who has within few days had in
terviews with the President, Secretary STAN
Tos and Gen. MCCLELLAN, that they express
themselves quite as impatient at the delay of
military operations, as the people in general
can possibly be. Every excrtion will be made
to employ the time fully in military operations,
and the most vigorous proceedings that the un-
favorable weather permits are enjoined upon all
Commanders of Departments.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13


Referring to the state of health Of Gen.
Anderson, the New York World says his
physicians have ordered him for the pres
ent to avoid all undue mental excitement.
He is not allowed to engage in any of
the public plans on business even of the
simp plest nature possible; consequently he
is living with his family in the utmost
quiet, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, occupy
ing rooms in the most retired part of the
building. Notwithstanding the best med.
ical advice and care which the hero of
Sumter receives, he still bears with him
caro- worn look, and it is feared that he
may never recover from the strain that
was made on his vital energies during his
defence Of the flag Of his country.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13
The News from Mexico.

Accounts from Vera Cruz to the 9th ult, rep
resent the combined feet off the.port at that
time as consisting of sixteen Spanish frigates,
three French steam-frigatcs, and two British
steam -frigates, and four men -of-war at Anton
Licardo.
There are about 1000 Spanish soldiers in the
city, but no French or English. There has
been few shots fired at the pickets outside of
the town on the sunday previous. No business
was doing in the town, the Mexican merchants
having all left the interior. Provisions were
scarce and very high. The Spaniards had
placed officials in the Custom House, Post-Of-
flee and other public office in town.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13

sSyAn effort is making to organize Com
pany and get sufficient stock subscribed TO pur-
chase ground and fix it up as permanent place
for holding our County Fairs. We hope this
project, or some similar one, will succeed; for
if our Fairs have to go fitting about from place
TO place as heretofore, with no suitable accom-
modations for stock, and other articles brought
on exhibition, they might as well be abandoned.
The plan proposed is similar TO that adopted in
other counties, and the stock is found to be a
paving one
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13

sBT The North Carolina newspapers are full
oil articles about the BURNSIDE Expedition, show
ing that the Hatteras panic isrenewed nnd per-
maps increased. We hope that the Expedition
may turn out fully as formidable as the rebels
lear 1t is. 1t is Gen. BuRxsIDE's well known
determination not to permit a good opportuni-
ty to strike to pass unimproved.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13

N Letters were received at Columbus on
Saturday from Col GARFIELD, in which he joy
fully announced that he had just received or
ders from Gen.eBUELL to push forward, and
clean out the rebels in Eastern Kentucky. The
gallant Col. has been fearing that he was DOOM
ed to winter quarters, but he is to be gratifed
with more active service, if he can find any reb-
els, which is doubtful.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13

aEThere lie evidence that Gen. Lander,
commanding at Cumberland, and in that vi
cinity, means to have fight. The mud, which
prevents him from making forward movement,
must be very deep and tedious, and the orders
from headquarters that restrain him, must be
explici. and pere mptory. One of his warlike
looking directions is, that the troops must keep
three days cooked rations on hand.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13

H Gen. Beaureguard is reported to have
been ordered to Columbus. KY, where he will
be second in command. His presence will in
spire the rebels with confidence, which they
stand sadly in need Of; but it will not win
victories, as they will probably find out before
long.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13

sTThe telegraph brings news of bloody
skirmish on the left wing Of our army on the
Potomac, in front of Washington. Fifty of
our troops found thirty of the enemy in house
and killed twenty-nine of them, taking one
prisoner. Our troops lost but one killed and
four wounded.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13

W An interesting and successful protracted
meeting is being held in the M. Z. Church
known as "Morehead's Church." Quite num-
Der of new members have been added since
its commencement.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13

eTThe Democratic State Central Commit
tee of Pennsylvania have decided to hold q
Democratic State Convention, at Harrisburg, on
the 4th of July.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13

cY-sportsmen must hang up their shooting
irons SO far as game is concerned, on the lst of
February. So provides the Ohio game law.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13

eNAttention is directed to the new Adrer-
tisement of Mr.. CHERRYHoLMEs. Whilst goods
are going up, Mr.. C. will keep as near to the
margin of their first cost as "posikible."
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13
Read the Advertisement Headed
ssGOING, GOING, GOING.O
10 MEM
Nobody else has Them

THE Book Store men have the exclusive right to sell
Il Wier's Prize Packages and several Others Minors
Stationery Packages and several Others There ped
dlcrs through the country selling miserable mita-
ton. The paper in them is thin soap bubbles, and
Jewery the refuse of country blacksmith shop
Turn them out of your doors and you have big dog
tell him to bite them, and he refuses kill the dos
he is as worthless as the peddler. 49,
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-02-13

eEThe traitor BRIGHr of Indiana has been
expelled from the Senate of the United States.
Good enough.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-30
Correspondence Of the New York Post ]
APresidentIai LeYee.
WASHINGTON. Janua

WASHINGTON, January, 1852.
The Presidential leVee of the new year far
outshone that of the old. Even the semi
Secessionist croakers who go to the White
House TO ridicule and tell every lady they
meet how much finer things used to be, can
hut confess that the Red, Blue Green and
East rooms were most resplendent that
night, without the reflected lights Of their
vanished Southern bellies. Southern women
are very sumptuous. They fascinate with
their Tidnt grace, their exuberant sweetness,
their sensuous prodigal beauty. They lack
the exquisite delicacy OF perception and feel
ing, the broader intellectual culture of the
women of the North; but they culture their
manners with as much assiduity as the
former do their heads and hearts, exsltiug
their social magnetism to the dignity of con-
summate art.
1t is very natural, then, that people who
have been accustomed to bask in the splen-
dor of Mrs Douglas smiles, and to believe
that Mrs. Orittenden, Mrs. JEFF. Davis, Mrs
Gwin and few others alone made the bon
ton of Washington 5ociety, should deplore
their departed idols. But we get along very
well without them.
The tides of beautiful women sweeping
under the chandeliers left nobody room to
regret the absent
With a single exception Mrs. Lincoln's
costume was in exquisite taste. She wore a
dress (deeOllete) of szure silk shot with white,
mOttled with gorgeous velvet leaves of a
deeper blue. A shawl of point lace hung
over her arm, and point lace berthe of
marvellous fbrous texture encircled her neck.
Her ornaments were pearl bracelets and
necklace; her head dress of blue and white
plumes.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-30
Colonel :. :. FRY,

The name of Colonel Fry, commander OF
the Fourth Kentucky Regiment in the battle
ofLogan's Cross Roads aud who is believed
to have shot Zolicotfer, has become already
household word" .....
Colonel Speed Smith Fry is now about Al
years old, having been born in 1918, and q
man of mild, amiable disposition. He ia the
grandson of old Joshua Fry, of Danville,
who has now been dead about twenty six
years, and the son of Thomas Fry, also Of
Danville. When the present Colonel was
about sixteen years old, his father moved
to CIswfordsville, Ind After his fathers
death, Speed Smith Fry returned to his ma
tive town, where he remained till the begin
nipR Of the Mexican War.
During that war he was Captain in the
regiment commanded by Colonel Mckee, and
distinguished himself on the battle field of
Buena Vista. 1t is well known to many
that he killed his man in that memorable
battle. The circumstances are reproduced
here: A Mexican, detached from his com
rsdes, was seen to load and FIRE, with great
deliberatioD, three or four times, at Captain
FTy's men. The Csptain took a masket
from fallen soldier and fired, and the Mexi
can was never seen again.
It is useless TO tell how that regiment came
off the field covered with glory. In that
bloody battle Colonel Mckee was killed,
and, if we mistake not, the Lieutenant. Colo
mel also; Msjor Cary Fry, cousin of Speed
Smith, taking command of the regiment
This incident in Mexico, and the death Of
Zollicofer, prove Colonel Fry to be a man
of GOODNESS, decision and uDainching bravery.
After his return from Mexico, at the end
of the war, he applied himself again to his
profession, the law, in which he was emi
Dently successful. At the breaking out of
the rebellion he was Judge of the County
Court of Boyle County, and while many
others were fearful of opening their mouths
rebellion on the stump and elsewhere. He
was the first to move in raising troops in
Kentucky, and camping at Dick Robinson,
recruited successfully two regiments, the
Third and Fourth Kentucky. All honor to
kentucky's Doblesons Louisville Democrat
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-30

THE INDIAN WAR-AN INFAMOUS POET.-
We get from our correspondent at Topeka
some documents in relation to the recent
battle, or rather battles, between the Union
Indians and the rebels. 1t appears that
there have been three different engage
ments, in which some four thousand loyal
warriors from the the five principal Nations
had taken part against the mongrel rebels
under Albert Pike. In the first two bat
ties the united tribes of loyalists were sue
cessful in repulsing the enemy but Pike,
taking advantage of a moment when the
majority of the warriors were off obtaining
supplies, attacked their camp, routed their
unsuspecting forces, slaughtering them in
discriminatory, and drove the remnant out
of the Nation. At latest advices they had
arrived on the Cherokee Neutral Lands in
Kansas, utterly destitute, with worn-out
ponies and worn-out feet, leaving bloody
tracks wherever they went. The concocter
and leader of this atrocious massacre Of
these poor but loyal redskins, was the poet
Albert Pike, native of Boston, formerly
a school-teacher in Newburyport Mass,
and who, but few years ago, published
his "Hymns to the Gods, in his native city.
But Pike had the misfortune to marry a
woman with a dozen slaves, in Arkansas,
and from that time he has been gradually
transformed into a savage, till now he has
taken up arms against his Government
and taken the field with his halfbIeeds
against the full-blooded Indians who would
defend it.-Ne0 York Times.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-30
POSTAL RULES.

Many errors occur by persons not observing the
following regulations In dspOsitpg letters, papers
or miscellaneous publications in the Office fog
mailing;
ALL DRoP-LETTERs MUST BIZ PREPAID BY POSTAGE
Prepayment, by stamps, required on all letters 10
places within the United States.
Such are not prepaid WiH Be set 70 the Dead Ls0r
0es and the pdrty addressed val not be notified,
hsretQtcTe.
Prepay ment, BY stamps required ON all transient
printed matter, foreign and domestic
BY inserting the county In which the once ia Io-
Gated upon all letters many errors In superscriD-
tiOn might be detected, and mistakes in mailing Be
avoided.
The postage on sheet Busic maps, esOraViaOs Isfo-
OTdphs OT photographic prthiS, rollers oF 81 paDo
covers; books boand GHbouHd; phONO0raphiO pdpsF
aAd letter envelopes, IN packages cot exceeding "a daD
case four pounds, Il at he rate Of ceHt an Oanoa
or fraction Of oasee 70 any place u tie Uaiied 6atsa
HRder eeH huh1red miles, dhd al ns rate Of hoo osn1
an oHace o. hGohoh Qf an otnos OV@ Wtooa kaNared
mileS. prepaid bD postaDe-stanps, M
Same rates on cards, either blank or printed, and
blanks In packages Weighing at least eight ounces,
REGISTRY 0FFIOh.
Valuable letters for part Of the United States
Canada Great Britain, Fra Holland, the Italian
States, OF States Of the German A1strian PostAl
UniOn, viii 6e registered on application at ths
office, between the hours OF ~ "A. NJ and p. NJ
Lsts 20 b registered '0iu not b reoSiSod a Iais
OFFIOE HOURS.
ONES open from s A. N. 10 6 p. n. r1Ds.
Open on Sundays from to 10Y A, :. =,
Cincinnati, Decsmber5, S, 1851.