Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-31
NEWS ITEMS.

II is reported that business is brisk in
New Orleans, and that as prices are advan-
cling heavily, st. Louis and Ohio River
buyers are making heavy purchases.
TIE people of Minnesota are to have a
million of dollars to indemnify them for los
ses in the Indian War.
ACCORDING to General IIancock's testi-
mony before the Committee on the Conduct
of the War, he, and not General Meade,
or Sickles. is the real hero Of the battle of
Gettysburg.
TIE Ohio House has passed resolutions
nstructing Ohio Congressman TO favor the
mmcdiete abolition Of slavery everywhere,
by Congressional amendment to the Con-
stitution. The same branch of the Leeis-
aturc has appropriated one million for the
defense of Ohio from invasion.
AN impertinent wag spells the Presidents 5
Amnesty with AN a, thus--AM NASTY
What an awful thing wits
A dispatch from Bowling Green. dated
March ~, says that the morning freight
train from Louisville ran off the track
about ten miles from Bowling Green, load
ed with Government beef cattle for Chatta-
nooga. Fourteen cars were dashed into Il
trightful mass of ruins, in which were $50
cattle killed and manglcd horribly. No
person injured.
THE remainder of the Hayticn expert
ment at colonization is to be taken to Bos-
ton 1t is expected that the males will go
into the next colored regiment for the war,
on the principle that if they cannot fish
/ they must cut bait, or go ashore.
WIEN the special committee in his case
makes report Frank Blair, Of Missouri, is
! I'm rnsigu his epat in ('nnprpSs
i ACCORDING to the Baltimore cOrrcspon-
dent of the New York WORTH, the Confed-
crates have now 275 900 troops in the field,
of whom 10000 are under the command
/ Of Lee.
GRANT has been enthusiastically received
by the Potomac Army
!. The use of intoxicating liquors by any
persons on the Railroad Military service ol
the Government is forbidden while on duty.
Those who violate the order will be disms-
) scd from the service
FIGHT million, five hundred thousand
dollars Of Confederate notes have been put
in the Funded Debt Of the Confederate
States in Macon, Ga.
TIE abolition State Convention in Cali
iornia was in session in Sacramento las
week 1t passed resolutions indorsing Lin
r coin and oulogizing the Reverend Star
5 King.
j. r. CoBUnN, of New York, has ac
ccpted the challenge of Mace, the Engllsl
y prize-fg ghter, to fight him i'll Ireland. HC
will leave for England on the first of May.
\ large number of wrecks arc reported
off the coast Of North Carolina.
GEN Grant marched around the rebel'
at Vicksburg Now if he can manage tt
1 get around the malign influences at Wash
ington, he will probably accomplish grea
things.
9 TIE editor of the Evansville Jomad
reads the Louisville .Io,unai out of the
Union party. But his reading isn't worse
or more contemplate than his writing
THE Boston Post has detected phioso
pher Greeley in a Irritation. The object
Of his ardent attachment is Miss G. C. Ma
ton.
Ir is understood that General Scott in
dorscs Mcclellan as the best military Cen
cral III the Federal service.
THE amount paid to veteran volunteers
, in bounties is said to reach ninety million,
5 of dollars.
The Democracy Of Cass County, Indiana
+ has presented the editor Of the Loganspor
!; Phaos, Samuel \. Hall, Esq, with pow
cr printing press.
!, The partisans of General Fremont ar
u offering the Lincoln men two bets even:
:, That Lincoln will not be reelected; and {.
:, That Fremont will be the next President
~ ~ the two to be taken together.
>. TIE oil fever has broken out anew a
Mecca, Ohio. Several farms have bee
q bought with view to putting down dee
9 wells
JOSHUA DEWEY, the Oldest graduate G
Yale Collge, died at Watcrtowm, Ne,
! York, ON the 2ilh, aged 81 years, Ii
u taught j. Fcnnimore Cooper the alphabet
Ten thousand Federal prisoners are I
+ be sent to Georgia from Nigina a porto
I of them have been sent forward.
| The exchanged Confederate prisoners hav
4 had great reception in Richmond. JEFF
Davis made n speech to them on the occa
sion.