Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-12-24

be removed from the Potomac Army, and
hat no movement on Richmond will be made
his winter.
A loyal" paper asks-"Who is a Quar-.
! ermaster3" and then answers as follows:
" The man who gives the soldier one quar-
ter and keeps tho rest himself"
The New York Herald is out in a strong
article in favor OF General Grant for the next
Presidency.
The War Department is investigating the
eral prominent persons will be implicated in
it.
According to dispatch in tho st. Louis
Democrat from gontemal recently in South
Texas, the FcderaIs have possession of the
entire coast, including Sabine Gulf, Calves
ton and Brownsville, and were ascending the !
Red Bivcr.
1t is reported that John Morgan has reach
ed Richmond ria the Big Sandy River. JEFF.
Davis has given him command in the Army
of Georgia.
1t is proposed by the House Committee on
Territories to introduce bills admitting Ne
braska, Colorado and Utah into the Union as
States.
Tho Office Of the North Missouri Railroad
was robbed Of thirty five thousand dollars on
Wednesday night of last week, in Saint
Louis.
The Chicago Journal says that the Illinois
Central Railroad has been so overwhelmed
with Government freight for the past ninety
days, that some Of its cars have been detain-
cd for six weeks time. No moro freight will
be received until further notice.
Horace Maynard, Attorney General OF
Tennessee, declares in a published letter,
that tho usual county elections arc to be
held in March next, in tho State.
Reid, correspondent OF the Cincinnati
Gazcttc ("Agate,') bas been appointed House
Librarian in place Of Lanman removed.
The Confederate debt is ono billion of dol,
lors
1t is reported that there is danger OF col
owing to California and Sonora Supplying the
MeXicans with arme.
The Cincinnati Gazetie saws that n rebel
Major, now under sentence of death at Wash
ington, and to be shot in few days, for a
nagrant violation of his parole, has had the
Presidents last proclamation sent to him.
and if ho takes the oath required threin, he
will be pardoned and sot free. This is the
channel in which the radical cemency rum,
There are great su0erings on the Western
Plains among the emigrants, in consequence
Of snow storms. Over ono hundred trains
are out, and much anxiety is felt for their
safety at Lo avenworth, Kansas,
A Washington letter writer says " it costs
Secretary Welles twenty five cents n day to
dress his beard " At that rate, his beard
will soon have cost him more than his head
Is worth.
Henry Ward Beecher said at recent abo
lition pow.wow in Philadelphia {" All the
signs OF the times indicate that God Is now
in earnest, and determined to cmanclp pate the
slaves" A Western editor is forced to thu
conclusion that Mr.. Bcecher's deity had ple
vously, like Old Abe, been addicted to iok
ing on the subject.
General John Buford, of Kentucky, diod
In Washington, on the 10th inst, after an
illness OF four weeks contracted in his recent
nrduous service in tho Army ofthe Potomac
His commission as Major General OF volun.
teers was laced in his hand, on the 10th
inst. just be fore he d led.
Austria and Prussia have offered to abide
by tho troaty Of 1852, as regards tho crowns
Of Denmark. Great Britain will advise them
to make concessions, and ther oby remove all
anger and hostites.
great storm prevailed about Des Moincs,
Iowa, on the 18th, and for several days pre-
vous. The streets were piled with huge
and the roads were impossible.
European advices state that tho Bank of
England has raised its ratio o interest TO & Der
cent.
Tho British Crown Lawyers have decided
that the condemnation of the bark Sprinqbok
by the New York Distr let Court was illegal,
and Lord Lyons will be instructed to make
representations on the subject.
A heavy gale is reported to have swept
away recently large portion Of the rebel
deionces In Charleston lIarbor, and It Is be-
lieved that the Federal navy will take advan
tage of the occurrence.
llardee's army, $4,000 strong, is greatly
demoraliacd, His pickets are at Tunnel Hill
In Cambria county, Pa, since the middle
OF October last, two hundred persons have
died OF diptheria, some families have been
almost swept away.
There arc is0 looms running In Massachu
setts making Balmoral skirts, viz, In Berk
shire county 900i in Lawrence l00i in Wear,
80
/ meeting has been held at Portland, Ne,
10 take meas ures for celebrating the Emanci
patton Edict on the LIST OF January,
} An amy officer direct from Chattsnoog
iuformod the editor OF the indianapolis jour
nal that Gen. Grant is still suffering iror
his fall at New Orleans, has grown thin an,
STOPPING and shows marks OF great loss G
health.
Richmond, Indiana, has raised $1,000
for tho relief Of the sick aud wounded in III
recent battles, exceeding the amount raise
in any othor town in Indiana.
At Indianapolis the Mayor has issued
proclamation susnandinp business during Ill