Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-12-03
yAIyuOJrs ITEMS.

= merly knew how to paint their porcelain with
fishes and other creatures in such manner
: that these figures never appeared to the eye
until the vases were filed with liquor.
A rRoc was recently found in an English
, coal mine, two hundred yards below tho sur.
- face, which was alive whom discovered, and
4. grew speedily active. Tho block that con.
70 tanned the creature has been seat to the grosf
= exhibition.
TuE Coshocton Democrat nvors G'Volnor
p..i,os oe Nor 1sc.ey, ind Gov. Bramlette,
of Kontuoky, for President and Vice Prcsi
= dent.
'',j Thc NJ Mississippi squadron consists OF ono
, hundred and three vessels; namely; fourteen
r ironclads, thirty soveu tinclads, two ord
nance steamers, six rams, four dispatch
steamers, seven tugs, thirteen auxiliaries;
other kinds bnilding-twenty. There arc
900 officers, and about 81 900 men in tho
service there.
, Tue Alexandria Gasstts states that tho Ar.
lington estate in that county, lately occupied
by General Robert +. lie, and the Custis
Mill property adjoining, are advertised to be
} sold under recent acts of Congress.
THE property of the late Senator Douglas,
situated at Cottage Grove, Illinois, was sold
on last Saturday, by virtue of an order in
Chancery for force osure of mortgage. Tho
total ebtedness-principal and interest
on the estate, smounted to S93 1868 35 at the
time the decree was granted.
u TuE candidates defeated by the soldiers ,
vote OF Wayne county, have determined to
contest the constitutiouality Of the law un
der which that vote was cast.
PARsoN BRowSLow, who recently opened
> out at Knoxville, Tenn, with great flourish
of trumpcts, has become shaky, and left for
Kentucky, Cincinnati or some other place
~ North.
1t, JUDdE WILLIAM Y. GnoLsoN, OF the Su.
nc preme Court OF Ohio, has resigned his posi-
W tion. We regret his resignation, for he was
IN one of the few Judges belonging to the oppo.
y, sition party who wonld not sacrifice his man
We hood and tho purity of the judicial ormine, tc
u, ~ subserve party purposes
~ SMALL Pox has assumed so dangerous
form in Nashville, that orders have been is
ne sued from headquarters, requiring citizen
nd and soldiers to be yaccinated at once. Med
w ical depots have been selected whore vaccin
'tc alton will be gratutousy performed by med
ical officers appointed for the purpose.
1t is said large amount oi cotton, amount
ing, it is believed, to near two millions o
0' bales, has been accumulated at Atlanta
- Georgia belonging to tho people and rebe
" government. 1t s supposed Gen. Grant vii
40 make a strike for ii.
ID" A WASHINGTON dispatch to an adminstra
tion paper says enough is already know;
- there to warrant the assertion that over three
iourths of the administration Members of the
- next House of Congress are pledged tc
l., Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, for Speaker
sts Coliax is a radical aboltionist.
he A New York dispatch says Captain Wall
i've Of tho Irish Brigade, has been appointc,
or Brgader General of the colored troops, will
le orders to report TO General SchoGcd.
nal The States OF Ohio, Indiana, Illinois ant
Michigan are detached from the departmcn
of of the Ohio, and are now under the contro
be of tho Provost Marshal GonoraI, OF Wash
he ington.
I'd, As an example Of tho harmony in ofllcia
j. circles at Washington, it may be mentioned
X that tho Presidents wiie did not attend tn,
el ute wedding of the daughter of the Sccretar,
ho OF the Treasury; and that neither Sccretar,
lis Stanton nor Secretary Chase were present a
tho Gettcysburg celebration.
the The Commissioners OF internal revenue ha
concluded to recommend in his report to til
-. Secretary of the Treasury, large incrca'
of the excise tax on distilled spirits.
+, A DISPATCH from Cairo says the steam,
90 Telegraph No. 3, Captain Monlort, is sun
., at Oscoola, her mud drum having explodoC
=. She was bound for Memphis, and had 4 ,OC
- sacks OF government grain, and numerol
-. passengers. Three negroes jumped owe
49,, board and were drowned. a white MAJ
aud "'', ''"' ""' w e'' "0'o 'e"''''
,u death
MAJOR WHITING, discharged from the
- s. service for speaking disrospectfnlly of tn
President, has borne brave part in itce
SUI pitched battles for his country. The Portlan
Argus says " some small potato civic ina
cnco" in Portland was tho means OF his di,
,ht chargc--not disgrace.
rad Washington dispatches states that Gran
,od is mentioned rs tho coming man, and beior
or whom the name OF Lincoln, Chase and othc
,od pale their Intellectual fires.
all 1t is said that resolutions will be prescnte
to remove the Capital from Washington fur
thcr North or West, owing to want OF accom-
al modations in that city aud tho high pric c
cir charged for rents aud board.
ave A Washington dispatch TO tho Cincinna
W Enquirer says that Chiei Justice Taney, of tn
M u. s. Supreme Court, states that no has nj
tho rcsi gned and that no will resume his seat O
ec, the conyenlng of Court. His health is sa
,sn to be good.
Tho steamer Tocumseh, from Natchez
de- New Orleans, loaded with $500 bales of co
= ton, was consumed by fire at Port Huds'
cld last week
~ The Potomac Army.
ere The Army of the Potomac has bcen on 4
was move for several days, following up Lee
'h9 forces, who ara steadily falling back We