Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-04-09
News Items.

. News Items.
r Tho Democratic State Central Committee
of Indiana has issued call for a Mass Con
vontion at Indianapolis on the Goth of Nav,
"to consider the questions which now agitate
tho public mind, and take such counsel to.
gether as will most certainly secure the hles
sings OF liberty peace and unity to our dis
tracted country.
The Concord Patriot gives complete returns
from each Of the four corntieS in the First
Congressional Districts in New Hampshire.
They sum up as follows: Marcy, Democrat,
l2,OG0 Eastman, Republican, 1890. Ma.
K jorty for Marcy, 80 votes. Marcy is the first
i Democratic Congressman elected in ten years.
O President Lincoln has sct apart Thursday,
April 30th, as a National Fast Day.
Washington dispatch states that the pub.
LEGATION of the Internal Revenue receipts has
I been forbidden, and that this fact is taken as
cOnfirma,ory OF the suspicious entertained for
! some time that the annual receipts under the
law would ftll nearly one half short Of the
estimates made in the ato official reports to
Congress.
I The New York Evening Post announces
with flourish tho formation at Hartford,
!. Connecticut, OF a"Loyal Women's League,
the members OF which pledge Themselves to
"enconrage and sustain our brave soldiers by
constant tokens of love, )" etc. This, says
the WORTH, looks like business.
The negro regiment recently enlisted in
South Carolina have been paid promptly up
20 the lst OF January. Some two months |
ago white woman, the wife Of soldier,
starved to death, as certified to by coroners
jury, in Cincinnati, because her husband had
not been paid of. Comment il unnecessary.
The Abolition Col. D'Utassy was arrested
in trying to make his escape to Europe. His
trial began on Monday. He is not so loud
now denouncing Democrats "Copporheads."
Surgeon Charles Johnson. First Middle
Tennessee Infantry, son Of Governor Johnson,
was thrown from his horse on the 4th inst f,
and almost instantly killed.
W The New York Hcralds special states that
" it is understood that no further efforts will be
made to raise negro regiments in free States
The Government is informed that i've pow.
crul rams were building for tho Conicderates
on tho Mcrsey and Thames, in England
The rebel cotton loan has created great ex.
. citemont in the English and French money
nr make,s. Tho bidding was to close on the 2Ist
-, ut.
~ Under Democratic Rule we had peace lib.
=" cry, low taxes, low bu, fair prices for articles
~ essential to life and comfort. How is II now
, under Republican rule
" The General Term oftho Supreme Court OF
the District Of New York decided on tho 4th
= inst, that the United States legal. tenders
were constitutional and valid as to debts con.
" tracted before the passage Of the law making
T. such notes lcgal.tender. All tho four Judg
es concurred
Dispatches from Washington states, upon
good authority, that drat will soon be
made To ill up regiments in the fold, drcma
ted by the causaiti rs of war, to their p. opcr
standard. Men will be scnt at once TO their
regiments, where they will be taught tho mil
itary tactics upon the field, and not in camps
of instructions AS has been proposed
Our loss in recent skirmish at Dransyille
was about 60, iacludng officers killed,
The list Indiana Regiment captured by the
, rebels last fall, has been exchanged.
Brig Con. Condin has retired to private
lite. A splenccd horse has been presented to
Gen Hooker,
Since November, 1862 there have been en-.
= tered into the hospitals l4l 200 soldiers!
The patriot soldier Mcclellan, has published
his Report OF his battles on the Peninsula
The Abolition war Committee have pub.
lished their Nenemous report.
| Rhode Island, Maine aud Iowa have accep.
8 ted grnnts OF Naua for tho cs,ab,isnmSu, OF
Agricultural Colleges.
- Nathaniel Fillmore, father of ex,Presdent
n. Fillmore, died at East Aurora, Eric county -,
Il, N. Y, on tho 2Sth ult, aged %.
ng So perfect were the Egyptians in tho manu-.
e. iacturo ofperumes that some OF lheir ancient
ry ointment, preserved in alabaster vases in the
'ir Museum at Alnwlck (Engandl, still retains a
do very powerful odor, though it must be between
cn 1000 and 5000 years old.
he Active measures--the character OF which /.
not stated--are 20 be taken by tho Aimiuistra
ton In regard TO tho ttting up OF armed yes.
sells In England for tho use of the rebels
" fight occurred near Somerset. Ky, on
no under Pcgram were defeated and put TO iligh,
III by l,2OO Foderals uudor Gilmore, About
oo 400 OF the former were taken prisoners.
!" Two members OF the 9th Michigan Cavalr,
{" have been arrested for stealing marble statu
va AIRY from the Congressional Burying Ground
w W Washington, and from the establishment @
gu Clark Mills which statuary they had bee,
We boxing up and sending home to Grand Rapid
Michigan, Some OF this has been recoycre,
from there.
decree, previously ratified by the Pop
OF Rome, has just been promulgated in Ne,
he York city, it provides accommodation fol
40 all Catholics VINO got married by a Protestan
'e' minister, and invests the power of pronoun
oo' eng the anathemas in the Bishop. Tho dc
Ing cree, however, has been understood not /,
's' apply to former marriages.