Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-11-27
Miscellaneous News.

partment Of General Grants army have
G been arrested for dealing in cotton.
PACK mules will be used to great OK.
, tent this winter to carry subsistanco.-
! The cavalry will be supplied at once.
, The New York regiments taken pris-
oners at Harper's Ferry, and for some
, time stationed in Chicago, have beer ex-
changed and ordered to Washington.
SEYMOUR RIFLES is the taking name
OF new regiment whose organization
has been started under the auspices of a
, number of distinguished citizens of New
, York.
CHICAGO papers notice the fact that
Tor the first time since 1855, there is an
, active movement in real estate in that
city. The demand is for the most part
, mined to business property.
5 The President has recognized Rev.
John u. Pinney, who has been connected
, with the American Colonization Society
Tor many years, as Consul General to the
Republic of Liberia for the United States.
The people Of New York City are evil
IDENTIFY becoming alarmed as to the pos
Sible operations Of the Alabama, as they
have secured the detailments of the Ro.
anoke for the defense of their harbor.
The New York Eccning Post contra
diets the report that General Fremont
had been or was about to be assigned to
the command of the defenses of Wash
ington City.
The conhagration that took place in
Troy, n. Y, in May last, has not yet
been totally extinguished. 1t is suppos-
ed that quantity of coal, which was in
a cellar, is still burning, causing little
smoke.
! DISPATCHES from Washington speak
Of an attack upon Charleston an event
certain to take place within short time,
and it is intimated that the destruction of
the city will be the result that is if the
rebels mean what they say.
The Indian masacres in Minnesota have
produced great distress among the set
tiers all along the frontier counties. The
Governor states that at least thirty thou
sand people are wandering homeless, ma
ked and starving.
UNLESS directed otherwise by the Gov
ernment, the draft will be made in New
ork as soon as blankets and uniforms
can be procured for the use of the drafted
men. There is a deficiency of 10000
men in that State on the last quota.
PRAIRIE-FIREs are reported to have
! been very frequent and destructive of late
IN northern Kansas and southern Nebras-
ka. Whole farms have been ruined and
their occupants beggared. In Lasalle
county, Illinois, large tract of prairie
country has been burned over causing
great loss in house lots, crops, etc.
A W4sHIseroN dispatch SAYS the
General-inC has determined to issue
only shelter tents to the army this winter
in order to Tighten the Interpretations
The Quartermaster' department is pro-
curing large numbers of shelter tents,
and will doubtless soon be able to supply
the whole army.
GENERAL MoRGAN's late Cumberland
Gap army, and General Granger's late
army OF three divisions from Covington,
are at present embarking on steamers at
Louisville for Memphis, thence to pro-
csed under direction of Major General
McClernand General Morgan left Gin
cinnati Tuesday for Cairo.
GENERAL Mcclellan touched the right
cord in lis brief address on the occasion
of his reception at Trenton. "While
the army is fighting" said he, "you as
citizens must see that the war is prosecu-
ted for the preservation of the Union and
the Constitution, for your nationality,
and your rights as citizens" These be
letters Of gold.
No order has yet been issued by the
Government for the Imprisonment of
Rev. Messrs. Goodrich, Leacock and Full
ton, who were sent North from New Or
leans, under arrest for refusing to pray
for the President Of the United States,
and for the present they are on parole
among their friends in New York City.
The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer says that Gen. J.
Z. Fremont, on reporting himself to du-
ty, was told that he must remain there
and wait further orders. Dispatches
have been sent from St. Louis requiring
his attendance again in connection with
the trial of Mckinstry. lie will prob
ably have to remain there.
The telegraph informs us that there
was meeting of the newspaper proprie-
tors of Chicago. on Wednesday night,
Nov. 10Th, when it was decided to raise
tie price of Daily and Tri- Weekly pa
pers twenty five per cent, and that of
Weekles fifty per cent, on account of the
great increase Of the cost of white pa
per and other items enhancing the cost of
their publication.
THERE is singular feature of the coal
trade this fall, and something quite un-
precedented. Coal can be shipped from
the mines to Chicago by rail two shillings
cheaper on ton than it can be shipped
by lake. 1t is being so shipped in large
quantities over the Pittsbnrgh, TT Wayne
u Chicago road. Freights on the lake
have taken long jump ahead of late
Gen. Grant has appointed Captain j.
Eaton, Jr., of The 9th Ohio, to take
charge OF the contrabands employed
n picking cotton within the lines Of the
army. The fields around Lagrange and
Grand Junction are full of cotton, that
vas abandoned by the owners of the
plantations at the time our army approach
ID. This is to be picked, prepared for