Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-03
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News Items.

lHE mock NOVcrnOr OF nglnla, lCr-
pont, has sent word to Lincoln that he has
no objection to his recruiting negroes for the
army in Alexandria. Who cares if he
had
IT is thought the Military Commatec in
the House will report in favor of increasing
the pay of the soldiers to twenty dollars
month.
TnE Treasurer of State has reported that
there is in the Treasury sos, 100 in coin, Of
which sos, 800 is in gold.
IT is stated that the Lieutenant General
Bill will pass the House, as agreed upon in
the Senate, and that the President will con-
fer the honor on Major-General L. s. ,
Grant.
OF thirty thousand veteran troops whose
term expires within the next three months, |
twenty-five thousand have already re-enlis-
ted.
GENERAL SiGEL has been assigned to
the Department of Western Virginia and |
will at once enter upon the performance of
his duties.
ENGLAND has proposed an armistice, pre-
lminary to conference of the great DOW
crs on the Danish question. 1t is support
cd by France, Russia and Sweden.
| EARL DERBY has attacked the British
Government for its course in the seizure of
the rebel rams, and insists that it was done
under American menace.
THE quota for Missouri under the Presi-
dent calls for troops is 9,Sl3. 1t is bsliev-
ed that if the drafting is postponed until
the lst of April the number can be raised.
= Ok the 18th instant band of guerrillas
entered Mayfeld Kentucky, and commit
ted numerous depredations and much dam
age to private property. Our special dis
patch from Cairo gives the particulars -
Negro troops have gone in pursuit.
TIE Richmond Enquirer says that if
Grant defeats Johnston Mobile will be open
to him, and that city will fall without a
struggle.
Hon. Winter Davis denouncos Lincoln,
and has come out for Chase.
GEN, Grant has been appointed Lieutcn-
ant General by the President under the
law creating that Office
THERE is great triangular fight going
, on at Washington between the friends of
Chase Lincoln and Fremont Chase is re-
ported ahead.
THE guerrillas have made another raid
=, upon Maysyille, Ky, doing considerable
damage.
! PRESIDENT Lincoln has ordered General
Peck, in North Carolina to retaliate for
the execution by the Confederatcs of ne
gro soldier
q IT is claimed by the New York Times
. Paris letter that the French Government
n will not allow the Confederate steamer Rap.
r pahannock to leave the French ports.
q PICKETT, the rebel General in North
Carolina, threatens for every Confederate
i prisoner the Fcderals hang in retaliation he
a will hang ten Federas.
IT is understood that the President is pre-.
pairing a new proclamation, revising his
circular on amnesty.
p CALEB LYON, of Lyondale, has been
confirmed as Governor of Idaho. Senate,
tonness, of California, made bitter speech
against his confirmation.
a NEW German paper, to be called the
Union, under the editorial charge Of DR.,
, Carl lanenstein, is to be published in Buff
: thlo. DR.. l., has been chief editor of the
.Staats Zeitupg, and is earnest in the Ere
mont interest.
THE distress in Lancashire, England is OF
the increase again. I'm the first week o
JANUARY there were 3, 100 paupers NOR,
than in the previous week. in the secont
week /, 620 more than in the first week
and in the third week 8, 300 more than il
the second.
IT is not true that the French Govern
mcnt has broken off relations with Eaua
Y dor
r THE steamer Tlyde has been seized a
\ \ Skipwith sLanding, for Illegal trade in cot
ton.
TIE basis of the English proposition fo
an armisticc is the evacuation by the Dane
of one of the Duches.
'hh' NhNhLiN N'NMES' IL ldTlnCr SOM
- six miles south of indianapolis, has twenty
Is five thousand bushels of wheat, all of hi
iy own raising, the product of five seasons
" which he proposes to grind himself cxpcc
It. ting to realize more than by disposing of
at present prices,
1 The Provost Marshal at Chattanoog
r, says that for the month of january an
T. half of February there were 1926 deser
N ers from Johnston's army alone
Rs THERE are about twelve hundred miles
i canals in Pennsylvania having no less tina
IS seven hundred and fifty locks, and emplo.
1t ing in the aggregate, about six thousar
t; boats, the greater part of which are owno
>, >, by private individuals,
>, TIE promise of increased immigratic
IS from Europe continues to be realized, A
u cording to official returns, fifteen thousan
= emigrants left Bremen in 1862, and egl
d teen thousand in 1868. OF the latter nun
II Der seventeen thousand five hundred an
II twenty-eight came to this country.
!, The millionaire, Astor, in New Yorl
r. has raised his rents thirty per cent, III
" poor man is afraid of becoming embarras,
n ed financially.
III lT is again proposed to tax our Stat
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