Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-08-27
Various Items.

WHAT a dirty, contemplate. mean
rick it was-to sag nothing of the dos
potic outrage involved--to send Mr..
Vallandisham out Of the State, where he
could not be heard in his own defense,
while army contractors, Chaplains. po
litical tricksters and other sconndrels are
turned loose to lie upon him.
A GANG OF rebels broke into the South
ern Bank Of Kentucky. at Carrollton, on
Wednesday night. of last week, and .
robbed it Of $3.50, ,000,--the greater part
being in specie.
IN St. Louis, yesterday, two ncgroe
soldiers stabbed and mortally wounded
white man. What's the use OF nrming
negroes if they don't do some execution?
The administration has sent an agent
to Cairo to investigate the circumstances
connected with the burning of the steamer
Ruth and the loss of Treasury notes al
legged to have been involved in that catas-
trophe.
PnEsl DENT LINcoLN in his reply to
Governor Seymour, relative to the CON
script tells him he would be happy to
abide Ivy the decision of the couts, if he
had time. This is certainly fast age
The Aboltionists have a Miss Dickin-
son making stump speeches for them. -
They think they can accomplish wonders
in this way. They are miss taken; she
will not be very proud mother il she
never conceives anything wbiter than her
black ideas.
IT is well enough to remember that
John Brough refused to pass soldiers over
his railroad at bal fare, but passed hund.
reds OF men to Republican meeting free.
Friends of the soldiers will please stick
this in their hat.
IT is sad sight to see, in this country
of boasted freedom, men marched through
the streets manacled and chained, their
destiny to become unwilling soldiers
Yet, such is the spectacle presented in
the Eastern cities, where the draft has
! been enforced.
In speech made at the Minnesota abo-
, lition convention, Senator Wilkinson
stated that he had asked the President il
he ever intended to withdraw the emanci-
patton proclamation for the sake of re-
storing the Union. and had received as q
reply that there was not the slightest
probability that he ever should make such
a withdrawal.
TnE Superintendent OF Freedmen" a
: Washington has applied to the military
7 authorities for assistance in enforcing
| fidelity to the marriage contract among
, the contrabands
8 BENJAMIN D. JOHNSON, u colored maj
gheny county, Penn. Mr. Johnson re
: ported at tho Provost Marshal's office, OF
Friday last, and offered an able. bodied
white man as O substitute. He was ex
amined and accepted, has been sworn int
the service, and is now in the barracks a,
a substitute for Mr.. johnson.
3 Our rulers don't want peace. If the,
do. why did Lincoln refuse to receiv,
Louisiana back into the Union, when sht
proposed to return upon the identica
terms existing before she seeded?
KEEP up your meetings. Make il {
business. Wakcn the people. Ring thu
alarm bells. The blood bought liberty
is being stolen away. What is time
what is money, ccmparcd with the glor
ious heritage of freemen?
THE Democratic Ladies of Ohio ar,
deserving all praise for their noble elIort'
in soconding their Democratic husbands
J brothers and friends in rescuing the STATE
from tho hands ofthe Green back Aristoc
racy.
IT is confidently believed that Maj
General A. L. Burnside, the hero o
fredericksburg, has carried the State o
Kentucky by $4,000 majority. Grea
victory,
AT Bellefontaine when the African ad
mirers held their meeting there, one o
the delegations paraded the streets head
ed by negro marshal.
JoHN BRouau, it is said, was once
y Democrat; so was Satan once an angel -
i But the parallel does not stop here. A
If Satan pretends to be still an angel G
N light; so does John Brough pretend TO b
!, still Democrat Of the jackson schoo
!" The pretentions of both are about on
l. par.
70 CoL. BARrELsoS. OF the S0th Obi
" Regiment. died at his residence in Ne
Philadelphia a faw days ago,