Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-10-29
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from the Army OF the Potomac 10 NOto loT
Curtin. caused Meade TO seek safety in his
ontrcnchmcnts around Washington Such
are some Of the beauties Of abolition policy.
The Indianapolis Sentinel says suIli ciont
returns have been received from different
counties in the State to determine that the
Democracy maintain their asccndcncy by
majority fully as large as that of last fall.
The Democracy have been often beaten,
but never conquered. As often as they have
been defeated, as often have they rallied and
met their enemies with renewed vigor and dc
termination So it will be again.
Lee has lett Mcade's front, but nobody
sec ms to know where he has gone One re-
port says he is falling back to the line OF the
Rappahannock; another that he has gone to
the Upper Potomac, for the purpose of maxi
ing a raid into Maryland.
Curtin, Of Pennsy lvania, went into the
Office q Governor in stratencd circnmstan-
ces. lie has now $50 says Philadelphia
paper three hundred thousand dollars to
his credit in bank. He is still for vigorous
pros ccution Of the war in an unconditional
manner.
The army OF Denmark has been placed on
a war footing. Prentice says he don't exactly
know why unless there is "something rotten
! in Denmark"
The Washington correspondent OF re-
publican cotemporary, recently wrote: Mr.
| Chase each day can make certificates OF in
dcbtedncs for a million of dollars, and thus
avoid borrowing.
! The pat riots OF the revolution ore fast pas
sing away, and soon the last will be summon
cd to his final resting place. The youngest
Of them is now about ninety-iour years OF
age. On the lst of July, 1862, thcrc were
but sixty two living, since which time over
one thrd Of the number have died
j If seventy. five thousand officials we're re
ouired to produce sixty thousand conScripts
from the last 6ratt, how many will it take to
! get s.three hundred thousand morei"
t Mrs Partington has bought horse so
? spirituous that he always goes off in decan
, ter. Ho would make good match for John
Brough.
Admiral Dahlgrcen was relieved from CON
maAd OF the ironclad fleet at Charleston a
few days since, and Capt. Thomas Turner,
of The Ironsides, appointed to the position
I A Washinton Dispatch OF the 22nd says
that great frauds in the supplies furnished to
e the occupants of tho convalescent camps
/ have recently been discovered. Only two ra-
tions of potatoes were served out, and he
good meat was sold. 1t is reported that oili-
GERS high in authority are implicated, aud an
investigation is now going on.
The Allentown Democrat has raised at the
, head of its editorial columns the name OF
General George B. MClelan for the Presi-
doncy, subject to the decision OF the Demo
cratic National Convention.
e Gen. Blair publishes letter in reply to Q
speech of Congressman Blow, proving Blow
, privy to and assistant in the radical plot tC
remove General Grant from the command o
+ the army of Tennessee the letter is alsC
. severe upon Secretary Chase and his election
II eering scheme for the next Presidency.
, I've DuHuItu utiidio, Dy tHo
. Common Council, have been appropriated tt
!, be put in the pocket of the Marshal of til,
day on the occasion of the recent Chase re-
! ception Republicans in Office liboraily spend
Q the money Of the people.
= A mine of magentc iron has been opcncc
in Sweden, several feet thick, which causes
deviation Of the needle from between tel
. and fifteen degrees. Natural magnets Of Z
u, cwt. will soon, says a Copenhagen letter, b
y no rarity in commerce.
- Eighteen of the Colored walters OF the De
,C laven House, in Albany, were drafted. Six
n teen of them took the skedaddler's road t
e Canada
An immense deposit OF silver bearing lea
o has been discovered in Marquette county
y Michigan, yielding l5 poun ds of silver to tn
n ton.
VI The next Legislature of Kentucky viii
choose Senator in the place of Senate
VI Powell. Dr.. Breckenridge is a promuel
~ aspirant.
3 On the lst OF September, 1868, the public del
u
n and twenty eight million eight hundred and thi
4 ty.two thousand seven hundred and seyenty-o
l. dollars and eleven cents.
h. The official orders investing Gen. Grant wi
al his new command, designate il to include all Il
e. territory west Of the Allegheny Mountains, to
l calle the Western Military Division, with hca
at quarters ut Nashville, Tenn.
The Richmond Examiner of the l7th, says tn
W the number of prisoners Of war held in Rchn,o
- at this time, is ten thousand two hundred al
NJ afy-odd,
~ Papers in southern Kansas complain OF
- drought. The Burlington Register compla
ON that in that vicinity n severe drought has p
rr vailed for six weeks. No rain scarcely /
r. fallen
The Louisville Democrat says that quite nu
Der of omigrants reach that city daily en route
homes in the West The unsettled condition
many portions of Kentucky is tending rapidly
dcpopulate it, People who have suffered
years, and who see no scttement--no ray
promise ahead are willing to abandon "the
homestead" and seek refuge far away from
os. scenes of their childhood, in the untricd Wes
ing anywhere out oi 'he re"eh oi 'h's u"ha'u
no. conflict.