Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-11-26
VARIOUS ITEMS.

l Pre- sdent. The Columbia City (Tnd.) Neps
t raises the name of vallandigham to its mast
{ head.
: An exchange says that s'it is n fact worthy
L OF note that since the commencement oil 'no
0 rebellion more marriages have taken place
than during any previous period OF the same
: d,,ation." The Same observation is true OF
funerels- that's worthy OF note, too.
The Indianapolis Sentinel states that many
fam lilies are leaving that city, because of the
prospective high prices the coming winter OF
rents, wood, beef, pork, and other things
generally Rents, a consequence, and 9th
er things, will probably come down. The
poor hope so.
The Federal loss in the battle of Getteys-
, burg-kied wounded and prisoners accor
ding to General Meadc's official report, was
23,lS5.
The President has decided that every person
conscriptcd, who pays $500 commutation
money, is exempted from service for three
years. The judiciary are not needed to de.
eide anything now. Lincoln and Stanton are
the whole government.
The ew York Post says " everything is
very high"
We beg leave to differ with the Post
Things are no higher now than they used to
be, but the stuff called money is very low
A good old fashioned Democratic dollar wod
buy as much now as ever it did.
Senator 7. J. KINNEY, who has been re.
n
ported defeated in the Richand and Ashland
District is elected by majority. This gives
l the Democracy Senators. The entire Dem.
' ociatic ticket OF Ashland county is also elec.
ted.
Tho war steamer Honsides, now off Charles
n ton, burns fifty bushels of coal per hour, or
n twelve hundred bushels per day. The naval
steamers require thirty seven and half mil
!. lions OF bushels per year.
A. Merchants are now in Rochester, New
1t York, buying buck wheat to supply Chicago
Al and tho surrounding country. 1t is ground
in in Rochester, put in barrels, and shipped
West.
~ BY special order No. II, from the Wal
Department., all Deputy Provost Marshals
- and detectives arc relieved from further duty
" where the enrolment is completed.
In the Sixth Congress ional District Mary
land, at the recent election, a voter wa
sworn under Schenck's order, who told ih
Judge that it was the twentieth time he had ia
- ken tho oath. He ought to be as Loyalty cur.
ed as well smoked bacon.
n The Cincinnati Gazette late days--ha
hae some violent phiippics against tho ad
III ministration on account Of it's mismanage
=. ment of the war. Tho Presidents organ, the
ID Washington Chronicle, comes back at the
Gazette and pronounccs it most eminently dis.
loyal. How pleasant it is to see brethren
dwell together in amity!
u A Chippewa squaw, who was the belle o
% her people hundred years ago, still lives OF
!" the shores of Red Lake. She is 100 year
'' old She and her husband were tn first set
tiers in that region, and she and Frencl
dealer In furs were tho progenitors of thu
half breeds so numerous.
"a A bill will be introduced into Congress
,r. early in the session 90 increase tho soldiers
n. monthly pay to thirty dollars a month, b,
having the bounty como in monthly install
ments. Why not give them their bounty a
once, and then increase their pay to thirty o
i;c forty dollars a month"; Such an incrcas
would not be too much, in view of tho hig
price OF living.
,at Up to tho first of October, tho Confederat
on privateers had captured no less than on
10, hund red and seventy eight vessels. the tur
m, mage OF which amounted to eighty thousan
teS eight hundred and ninety nine tuns, an
e. whose value was estimated at thirty mlior
of dollars.
gy Tompkins says that "a wdder is Marie
IT. woman that's got no husband, kos he's dea'
NJ, and widower is a feller that runs after wi,
dcrs.'
=" A Mrs. Back, of Washington county, hi
os named her boy baby, Green. We hope I'll
,os little Green Back is genuine issue.
its Tho aboitionists are as savage as 'moi
KS axes on tho Democracy since tho election
tn, We will have to fog them at the polls ne,
year to restore their good manners,
VT Frauds are being discovered in every d.
partment. Recent developments have bro
us to light unprecedented frauds in the Ne
York Custom House, perpetrated bysM
,or Stanton, son of Mr.. Stanton, Secretary
~ the War Department.
In the recent attack upon Gen. Washburn
-: forces, in the Teche region of Louisiana, Il
'o' Federals suffered loss of 500 killed an
wounded, and 900 prisoners. Nearly q
Did Of the 9th Indiana were captured, The re
be. els ais o ca ptured two ~ pound Parrots. III
for Federals deemed 10 advis sable to fall back.
e., is reported that the third Army Cops HI
o ,oi been ordered to Texas via the Gulf, and Il
iof 18Th Corps to Memphis,
'"o Our Army of the Pot omac is brandir
IT. deserters--that is, stamping with a hot ire
tho letter y upon them.
80 The rain upon the Rappahannock, by wasl
lty ing away the graves exposed horrible sight
We enough TO sicken and appall any one wit
an war.
he A Naval engagement has taken place @
ara Mobile. The Ladies' Ram, the Rebel vesse
,,, finding she was getting the worst OF il fro
~, w our vessels. put back under cover of Fo
'"i Morgan.
Twelve thousand Union prisoners ha
ts' been removed from Richmond to Danvillo,
be
,d The suffering among our prisoners at Ric
al. mond, resulting from scan.y allowance,
nl inta IA