Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-04-23

The Steamer Lady Franklin, from Mem
phis to Cairo, on tho 10Th, brought 3S7 bales
OF cotton.
Miss Betty Minor was arrested at Nash.
willie the other day. She is charged with be.
ing a seccssonist. Mrs Jos. $. Ycrgcr do,
Miss Clifton, do.
An officer from the Quarter Master Gen.
erals Department at Columbus will start in
few days with new and improved arms for the
Ohio Regiments serving with Gen. Rosecrans.
Dan Rice the celebrated circus clown has
been engaged for the season by Spauldng at
$4,000.
Tho expenses for chatering vessels for
the Vicksburgh expedition were Sio,0oO per
day.
The Medical Department statistics show
the number of rebel prisoners who have died
in Union hospitals, since the commencement
of the war to be over five thousand, inste ad
Of two thousand as published few days since.
The attempts to blow up the sunken gun
boat Keokuk at Charleston were unsuccessful. 4.
She was found to be full of sand.
News is received of tho assass ination
of two Christians at Damascus, on account of
which the Christians were leaving the city.
- Gen. Pemberton, in command Of a reb.
el force near Yicksburg, recently sent Gen.
Sherman very fine boquct as as an evidence
of his good will.
Gen. Rosecrans has prepared his army
for offensive operations. Gen. Burnside has
opened Greet communication with him, and
will probably join him at the proper moment
The forces scattered about through Tennessee,
= Missouri, ard Arkansas, have orders to con
centrato and move with more concert of ac
ton.
The Norfolk Uaion says that Mrs Jack
son, the wife of Ellsworth's murderer, i,
wandering about in state of almost utter
dcstitution, the rebels having, it seems, long
ago forgotten their profuse promise of help.
r 1t is said the dying from homosickness il
no figure of speech, but a reality of week !,
occurrence in our army.
A Tin Mine of a remarkable richness ha
just been discovered in Washington county
IL Missouri, a company has already been form
o ed, and will soon go into operation. From
st inspection it is said to yield thirty dollars t,
l. the ton from the lead.
Fifty East Tennessee refugees, with thei
families arrived in Cincinnati on Saturday
They had been starved out of the Souther
VI Conicderacy.
% "A negro riot took place in Cincinnati o
/ Sunday. The Aboltionists were jubiar
u over the pleasant prospect.
4r Two thousand descrtors passed throug
u Cincinnati last week, returning to their reg
III ments, so the Commercial says.
'' The Sanitary Commission at Cincinnati
shipped on Saturday ll3 barrels ofvegotable
to Nashville.
--D'Utassey mado written acknowledl
ment in open Court that his account of C,
pcnse in raising his regm ent was frnudulen,
but stated that he was unqucstionably loyal
and down upon all Copperheads.
{; About Sl00000 of money sent by sol
g diers to their families was carried Off by tn
e rebels when they captured the Nashville an
at Louisville train lately. 1t was one of IL
Adams Co.'S Express Safes. The Compan
will Of course bear the loss.
--Thirty-cight of Moscly's guerrillas wei
~ captured last week by an expedition und
~ Major Hammond, sent out by Gen. Stahl.
"A steamer from Havana, the 9th inst
brings the report that Admiral Wilkes hi
. been arrested and put under parole, until Ii
;, affair of the Vanderbilt firing into SPANS
:, ooasting steamer was explained.
Gen. Shields arrived in San Francisco
on the Goth ult. lie has resigned his con
!. mission in the U. s. Army.