Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-01-01
News Items.


/ Whatever progress Mcclellan might have
made in the work OF the capture of Rich
moud this winter, with the means at his dis.
posal, docs anybody suppose that under him
the Fredicksburg disaster would have occur
redi We suspect not. No wonder the Ar
my Of the Potomac sigh for their old CON.
mander.
The British newspapers are not always at
fault in their conclusions respectiog Amcri.
can affairs. For example, the Lnudon II mes
rema ks tina. Mcclellan seems to be about the
only public man in the country who thinks it
worth while to obey the Constitution.
The Nashville Union says that nearly 700
families belonging to soldiers now in tho rob.
cl service, or who have been killed or died in
that service, arc in that city without food,
} clothing or wood, and are daily making ap'
peals to the Federal authorities for relief
The news of our disaster at Fredericksburg
+ was received throughout the South with the
most unboundcdjo joy the leading men proclaim
ed that their independence would now bo
: gait cd beyond the shadow Of doubt.
A dispatch from Lexington Ky, reports
!, that Humphrey Marshall and Floyd had pass
ed through Pound Gap from Western Virgin
in and were making for Central Kentucky
, 1t is also stated that Morgan's guerrillas are
in the vicinity Of Lexington,
a letter received at Nashville from a slave
trader says he is buying negroes in Richmond
for 81 200 and 800 and selling them in
! Georgia and Alabama for 81 800 and S 600.
: The sorghum crop OF Iowa, for the present,
year is set down at 5000, 900 OF gallons -
Syrup in considerable quantities. is being cx-
ported from that State.
Three released Fort Lafayette prisoners
have entered suits at law against Simon Cam
eron for false imprisonment, and attached his
property.
Tee execution of Eli F. Sheets for the mur-
der Of John Ansley, at Beaver, Pa, has been
ordered on tho 10th Of April next TIc tried
G to cheat the gallows by starvation, but after
a four days fasting took to eating again.
i The last words of the gallant Gen Bayard
we're. "Tcll McC ellan that my last rogrct a,
under him.
5 Gen Burnside's magnanimity in his ofIic ia
r. report is highly praised. He believed it hi.
II duty to tranquiize the country and preserve
order by screening guilty parties from all
- blame.
c G. F. Jackson, the dcposed Governor o
,e Missouri, died at Little Rock on the 9Th 0
December.
d jeff Thompson is reported at Pacahontas
Arkansas, with force of about 6, 900 men.
= There apprehcnsions of slave insurroc
!. tions in some Of the counties of Missouri, bu
C the alarm is regarded, as TO most instances
X groundless.
c One man stabbed in fight; a colorcd wo
+. man died suddenly in the strcot young maj
c killed by being run oycri a man found dead il
o the gutter; another man drowned, and a chile
burned to death, make up the Christmas work
|. Of the coroners OF New York city.
i. A Washington dispatch states that the prop
ositlon to send contrabands northward doe
not meet with much favor there, though ii i
admitted on all hands that something must b.
r. done with them. The cOntraband camp ther
n is very full, and its condition pronounced b,
3. leading Republican papers to bc dsgracefu t
ID barbarism.
Secretary Chasc's financial scheme propose
10 that he may borrow nine hundred millions il
II any OF the forms mentioned in his report at hi
;. own discretion; also, that no banks now exist
e ing shall be allowed to enter into his proposed
;. national banking system; that is, they must
c first rcorganizo under new ch artcrs.
Good radical authority at Washing on pro.
: claims that number Of contra bands will 500 I
f be sent North.
G The Democrats carried the municipal clcc
/. tion OF Bridgeport, Conn, on the 2?d ultim'
N by two hundred maj ority.
Frcmont's coaches, which he purchasd las
year at an expense of about nine hundred dol
lars each, were sold at auction at st. Louis
- on the 10Th ult., bringing two hundred an,
in hlty dollars each.
Ia Senator Fdsscndcn said in his speech justi
} Ging arbitrary arrests, that "tho President
q being chosen by the people for great place
" is therefore to be treated with respect on a
e occasions" Was it not violation of this res
pect when Senator's undertook to dictate t
|. him whom he should dismiss from his Cabinet
It Another vessel chartered by governmeu
'c has sailed for thatarca ofhumbugs, as the Nov
n York Express calls it, Port Royal, S G. The
IS freight was strong minded women, politicL
o parsons and clothing Tor lazy negroes.
" 1t is said that an draft Of troops was un
der consideration when tho rupture in tn,
Cabin ct occurred.
The Springfield republican expresses tn
\. opinion that the country is getting tired of un
in successful war; Of bunders in field, Of doub
% aud hesitation aud confusion in council, O
= fraud and rascality everywhere.
:, Tho Portland Argus ssys it is consoling tha
Iy though thousands OF brave white men fell a
ID the battle OF Fredericksburg, it is not know
10 That single negro was hurt.
la
4, RusnOrs.
to II is said that Secretary S. +. CuAsr
about to lead to the hymouial alter tho accon