Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-09-25

been aSHlSuCu 10 lue department oI thc NOItn- /
west to assist in tho operations against the
Indians.
Rev. NJ. D. Conway, the noted radical ap.
olitionist, has rel inquished his PASTORAL charge
ID Cincinnati for the cditorship Of the Com
monceaih an Abolition weekly journal recent /
ly started in Boston.
Our loss at ITarpcr's Ferry, says a Wash
ngton dispatch of the 18th inst, is stated
in precise numbers at / | ,5S3. and forty y-scvcn
pieces Of artillery, besides some that were so
badly injured as not to be worth counting.
Gen. Mcclellan has issued an order threat.
cniug death by drumhcod court-martiol to
any officer or private in his command who is
found guilty Of pillaging IN the country the
army marches through.
Deaths and severe wounds from the use of
rovJlvcrs in the hands Of soldiers a.c daily
occurrence. The other day, as New York ,
regiment was about to depart, pr ivate care
lcssly discharged his pistol, killing a lady,
wife of an officer, who stood near. The lody
had been married but the day before.
1t is said to be understood at Washington
that from six to eight hundred white persons
have been murdered in Minnesota by the In
dinans, and that two thirds of the State has
been deserted by the white settlers.
Gunboats are now stationed at the distance
Of fifteen miles apart, from Washington to the
mouth of the Potomac, and tugs patrol the
river constantly
The manocs have been clamorons to know
why the rebel army escaped from Manassas
without McClelan's knowing it, and why
Bcaurc2 gard got away from Corinth without
IIalleck's knowing it, We suppose that
they will next demand to know how the ma.
tionof army got away from Popc without
Pope's knowing it,
The disaster, by which the Allegheny (Pa.)
Arsenal was blown up on the 18th inst, occur.
red in the laboratory, where ono hundred and
sevcnty.six boys and girls were employed, Of
whom scventy.fvc or eighty were killed 49,
The explosion is supposed to have been puro
/ ly accidental.
The Democratic Convention of the Chester
county District Pa, has unanimously nom.
mated Brig General George Mccall for Nom.
Der Of Congress-
/ Tie U. s. Attorney Gcncial has given an
opinion under the Pension Act, passed at the
las session of Congress, to the effect that
the mother of a deceased soldier is entitled
to pension, although she may be married
and have a husband living at the timo Of her
sons death, the only question under the law
being, whether she had been dependent upon
the deceased Tor her support in whole or in
part; question Of fact to be decided by evi.
dcncc.
Since the organization of the Federal Gov
crnmcnt, says an exchange, eleven attempts
have been made to resist its authority. The
first was in 1882, the second in 1897, the third
in 179i, called the whisky Instruction IN
Pennsylvania. In 1914 and 1920 two more
attempts were made, and the seventh was with
the Cherokccs in Georgia, in 1880. The eighth
was the memorable nulihng ordinance OF South
Carolina, in 1882, and in 1912 Rhode Island
tried it. The tenth was in 1856, on the part
OF Mormons, and the eleventh is the present
one.
The last foreign advccs indicate short
r crops in England, and the consequent ncccs,
sity Of large importations of grain and -four.
The rebel guerrilla Pondcxtcr escaped from
priso at Hudson, Missouri, the other day, by
throwing red pepper in the eyes Of the guards.
The Chicago TriLune'S Cairo corrcspo ondcnt
says that on the night of the l1th inst, three
hundred contrabands, mostly women and
children, arrived there from Corinh, and that
General Grant will send a consignment of
cnt. The able,bodicd negroes are kept at
Corinth and other points to aid the conStruc-
! tion OF Notifications.
The Grenada, Mississippi rcbcl), AWc0A,
Of the II III inst , says that JEFF Davis had
notified the Confederate Congress that he
would need no more conscripts, and that the
conScript act had been accordingly tabled.
The small river or creek, so frequently al
luded to in the dispatches as the scene OF the
rcccnt conflicts in Maryland, is cslcd Antic-
tam pronounced An tcc,tam). 1t rises ON
the line OF Franklin and Adams counties,
Pcnnsy lvania, and falls into the Potomac be
tween Martinshurg and lIarpcr's Ferry.
! A accommodating party from Gen Sigcl's
force, on the lIth inst, proceeded to Lees
burg, Va, and dslodgcd force of rebels
there, consisting of a regiment of infantry
and battalion ofcavairy. The enemy suffered
considerable loss, while ours vas light.
HOn5Sv}egr. EAenlnpsSV.