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Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09
Before Richmond.

| Grants communications by White House
are reported to be complete, and everything
works well. This is the same White House
that was the base Of Mcclellan operations
two years ago the present month. This and
other circumstances leads us to believe that
Grant is, or soon will be, in the precise po-
sition occupied by Mcclellan two years ago
This fact is certainly unfortunate for General
Grant, for it will surely draw down upon
him the dcnuncations Of the loyal abo-
lition newspapers. They have called Me
Clellan ''thc Gravedigger Of the Chicka-
hominy, because, inthe hot tsummermonths
he pushed his army in the miasmatc swamps
of the Chickahominy River. If Mcclellan,
for taking an army of 81, 600 men into those
swamps in June Of 1862 is entitled to the
appeliation of "Thc Grayedigger Of the
! Chickahominy, what fit term will they find
to apply to Grant, who goes into the same
swamps in June, 1864, with 100000 men!
What epithct can loyal aboitionism find So
we're enough to propely designate the culpa
bility of Grant in the present case?
But this is not ALL Mcclellan got into
the swamps Of the Chickahominy, and il
SO doing did not lose more than five or ter
thousand men; while Grant, in order to get
himself in the same place, has sacrificed al
ready not less than 40, 600. Now what cui
| loyal haters Of Mcclellan say that is severe
enough to cover the conduct Of Lieutenant
! General Grant?
There is another point that we should like
a little information about, and that is, why
if Grant wished to get in his present posi-
ton, he did not quietly sail up York River
and land there? BY takig this plan, he could
have gotten precisely where he is now in ten
days, without having lost single man. As
it is, he has been nearly five weeks in NOV
ing to this place, and in SO doing has sacri-
feed good sized army
Now, we are not censuring Grant, for We
think he is doing the best he can; but we ask
these questions, and suggest these yarou,
matters, in order that, through the aid OF
loyal intelligence, We may know where We
stand.
These mastery and successive flank move
ments' puzzle us exceedingly; why nee,
Grant do all this fanking, and sacrifice al
these men, to obtain what he could have ot
tanned just as well in fifth part Of the tim,
and with no loss whatever?-L LMcdgo Time
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09
Atlanta

Is at present writing only little less inter
estng to the people of the North than Rich
mond 1t has a population of twenty-six
thousand. 1t is located in an elevated and
salubrious section of the State upon the di-
viding line in Fulton county, between the
cotton growing and grain producing regions
and is three hundred and ten miles from
Savannah, three hundred and seven miles
from Charleston, one hundred and seventy
five miles from Montgomery, Alabama, one
hundred and thirty-six miles from Chatta-
nooga, three hundred and twelve miles from
Knoxville, and seven hundred and ninety
miles from Richmond. Four Railroads
communicate with Atlanta, and form q
junction there, the Western or Georgia
State Railroad, the Macon and Western
Railroad and the Atlanta Montgomery rail.
road.
In the Spring of 1850, John G. Calhoun,
on his return from the Commercial Conven,
ton at Memphis, stopped several days at
Atlanta, and predicted then, that it would
be the greatest inland city of the South, and
at no distant day the Capital of the, South
ern Confederacy. Although the rebel Cap
! ital is at present at Richmond, the public
sentiment of the South has already located
it permanently at Atlanta, provided the
Confederacy does not collapse. There art
ouarries of the very finest granite at Stone
Mountains, sixteen miles from Atlanta, OF
the Georgia railroad
Atlanta is the great military depot o.
Rebellion, and is here that the naval sup
plies are stored. There is an armory at At
fanta, chemical laboratory, and swort
factory. Shells, solid shot, siege guns, tel(
pieces and mountain howitzers are cast there
Percussion caps, cavalry saddles, artiller!
harness, gun carriages, ambulances, armoI.
wagons, tents, and all the shoes and cloth
ing for the Western Department are mad
at Atlanta, The armory turns out musket
of the Springfield pattern, and rolling mill
stretch the plates for the rebel iron -clads
Large quantities of meat are packed Their
. for the army.
The first house was built there as latel.
as lS45. -Plam Dealer.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09
.,ter from GEN. Fremont.

New York, June "A long letter from
Fremont accepting the nomination, CON
cludes as follows If the Convention at
Baltimore will nominate any man whose
past life justi6es well grounded confidence
in his fidelity to our cardinal principles,
there is no reason why there should be any
division among really patriotic men Of the
country to any such | shall be most happy
to give my cordial and active support. My
own decided preference is to aid i'll this way,
and not be myself candidate; but if Lin
coin be re-nominated, as | believe would be
fatal to the country to endorse the policy
and renew a power which has cost us the
lives of men aud needlcssly put the country
on the road to bankruptcy, there will re-
main no alternative but to organize against
him every element of Conscientious oppo-
sition, with view to prevent the mlstor-
tune of his reelection. In this contingen-
cy accept the nomination at Cleveland,
and as a preliminary step | have resigned
my commission in the army. This was a
sacrifice that gave me pain to take, but
had for long time fruitlessly endeayored
to obtain some active service. | make this
sacrifice now only to regain liberty of speech
and will leave nothing in the way of dis
charging to my utmost ability the task yor
have set before me- With earnest and sin
cere thanks tor your expressions of conf
dence and regard, and for many honorabl,
terms which you acquaint me with the ac
tions of the Committee.
i am, gentlemen very respectfully AM
truly yours, Signed, j. G. FREMONT
John Cochrane has also written lettc
accepting the nomination Of the Vice Pre-.
lilency
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09
Scattering Grecnbacks.

Dr. Worrel, of Joliet, Illinois, started
from Rochester, New York, the other day,
with three thousand dollars in bank notes in
bag suspended in belt around his body.
While en- route for Cincinnati, "a gentleman
asked him if ho was uuu of Souretary
Chase's printing presses, as at every step
he took, greenbacks were seen to come out
at the legs of his pantaloons, An invosti
cation revealed the fact, that, by the tear
ing Of his money bag, he had lest all bu
three hundred dollars, and that he hac
been scattering it all along on his journey
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09
The Fremont Convention.

On the first page of today's paper will
be found full proceedings of the Fremont
Convention. Among the miserable absur-
dities announced by the fanatical abolition
lists then and there assembled, we find some
goodthings that are worthy ofall acceptation,
and are decided improvement on Lincoln
ism. The convention announced that the
Constitution and Laws must be obeycd; and
that the rights of Free Press, Free Speech,
and HdbedS Corpus, must be held invio-
late. To this extent the Democratic par
" will hereafter have the aid Of large,
intellectual, and influential class of men
whose position has heretofore identified
them with the crimes and oppression of
Abraham Lincoln. They will aid US in
arousing the people to a realization Of the
despotism which has been erected at Wash
ington and of the tyranny and oppression
which have been imposed upon them in the
name of a spurious and hypocritical loyal
ty to the Government. Whatever else may
result, it will be manifest, when the cleo
ton is over, and the votes counted tha
there has been majority of the people
too formidable to be despised or tamperet
with, and ready, in the last emergency, tt
unite, who are resolved to maintain, a
whatever sacrifice, their inestimable right
as freemcn.
We read in the Fremont Platform, al
end to arbitrary arrests, illegal punishment
and the tyrannous censorship Of the press
which has of late spoken only with bateo
breath, and with the constant apprehension
of suppression and ruin in near prospec-
five
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09
Guardinn,s Sale.

IN pursuance of an order of the Probate Court
OF Holmes county, Ohio, made on abe 23d day
of May, a. ID. 1861 in the case of William Huns
mel, guardian OF Aaron HumInei, Jacob Hum
mel and Levi Hummel against his said wards,
the undersigned will
On the 24M day of June, A. d. 1864,
Mt one o'clock, p. NJ. on the premises offer at
public sale the following described real estate,
situate in Holmes county and state of Ohio, to-
wit: Being the undivided three-seven nths OF
the north least quarter dissection Twenty-Five in
township eight, of range five, containing forty
acres of land more or less. Also the undivided
thrce-sevenths OF the west half of the northeast
quarter of section twenty-five oftownship eight
and range five, containing eighty acres of land,
more or less. Also, the undivided three-scv-
enths part of the southeast quarter of Sec
tion sixteen, township eight, range five boun-
ded MS follows: commencing at the southwest
corner of said quarter and running thence west
eighty pcrches, thence south forty perches, con-
tanning twenty acres of land more or less, sub
iect to the widow dover.
| Terms of sale One-third cash OH the day Of
sale, one-third in one year and one-third in
two years from the day of sale, to be secured by
mortgage on'the premises sold, and the defer
red payments to bear interest at the rate OF six
per centum per annum, payable annually.
| Appraised at S076 co..
Guardian of Aaron Hummel Jacob Hummel,
| and Levi Hummel.
! VOORHEES, & REED, Att'ys for Petitioner.
| May 70, ls6i-pfS5 IL
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09

terrible Cavalry Ftghting--
Great Slnughter--The Enemy
Driven From the Eield--Rebel
IrOn-cIads Preparing to At
tack our. Fleet on James I:iy-
er.
New York, June 4.--The Heralds cor
respondent from headquarters of the caval-
ry corps, gives the details OF the cavalry
engagement on Monday at Cold Harbor. =
The engagement was brought on by both
parties attempting to establish line of
pickets. Generals Devin and Merritt went
in with zeal and drove the rebels to the
first woods; they then dismounted three
fourths of their men, leaving the other in
charge of the horses, and on foot pressed
through the woods and across the ravine and
creek and over the next hill into the woods
AS they were going up the hill, Williston
opened his guns upon them having reach
ed the woods the enemy made another stand,
supported by the reserves Merritt and
Devin maintained their ground stubbornly
and contested every inch until the lines were
within eight rods of each other, neither
yielding and both suffering great slaughter.
Custer with his demoralizing seven shooters
was now ordered up to aid in running the
rebels out of the woods. Sheridan alsc
Cdluc vi lnc Helu WilcTc nc COuiu ODScENt
matters and give directions. Custer dis
double quick, and in less than fifteen min
utes rapid crack, crack, of Spencer rifle
was heard. The First New York dragons
, charged in with them, and the enemy doubt
, less thought ten thousand men at least ha(
) reinforced their opponents, for they had fee
, two or three miles, leaving their dead am
wounded on the field Tobertt followe,
them up, and spent the night four miles il
, the advance.
5 Another fight occurred on Tuesday A
= Merritt s brigade was pressing towards Col
C Ilarbor in the morning, they came upon til
e enemys cavalry reinforced by three regi
5 ments of North Carolina infantry. MERIT
y pitched into them with his regulars and wa
c stongly supported by Devin and Custer
G The fight was even more desperate tina
yesterdays Sheridan galloped to the from
4 but found Torbett whipping them beaut
: fully. This action gave US Cold Harbol
u and if Lee is at Mechanicsville as supposed
= very nearly turns his right flank, and is
- great point gained.
$ The Herald correspondent with the Jane
= river feet says deserter from the rebc
: ram Richmond, states that Fort Darling
y mounting fifty heavy guns, was consdere
c by the rebel impregnable to the gunboat
l. Three ironclads are now lying before til
: fort preparing to attack our feet, aided /
several fire ships and number of infern
h machines. Fire ships are to be drifted dow
81 to our vessels in flames; closely followir
Is will be host of torpedoes to explode c
1t striking our gunboats and in the excit
n ment the rebel ironclads are to make Il
d attack. The rams are plated with eigl
le9 inches iron three feet oak, and each has
d beak several feet long with powerful SUI
st marine battery attached.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09
Grand Exhibition.

The "Government" party proposes to
exterminate the South and parcel the lands
out among the =" freedmen" Then, of
course those States will be repre-
sented in Congress and elsewhere by Free
Americans Of African descent" LINCOLN
and SEWARD both told us long since that
this Government could not exist half slave
slave and half free. The query with us is
how il will get along half black and hall
white Won't there be an rrepreSsible
conflict ?''
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Late Battle Oh the North
Anna.
WAsuINGToN, June ..

WASHINGTON, June Z.
Some of the particulars of the battle be-
tween the two armies are being made pub
lie. The Confcderates allowed our forces to
Gloss the North Anna and carry the first
line Of Notifications with little resistance. -
Grant then attacked the second line and
carried it, (as they intended he should, W in
the same way. The rebels then let our
troops approach within range of the third
and main fertilization, when they opened
upon us, threw our troops into confusion,
and raked them with cross fires with artil-
lery from both wings. The slaughter was
terrible. Our loss is estimated at not less
than ten thousand. Three broken bri-
gades were captured with park Of artil-
lery by the enemy
Grant then retreated over the North An
ma, and, to avoid pursuit, next morning
started south east and for the Peninsula. -
This has been styled Gen. Grant success
ful strategy AMI flank movement. 5000 of
the wounded of this battle have arrived
here, and they are more mangled and fatal
y wounded than any troops that have ar
rived. The majority of them are wounded
in the legs requiring ampututiou. Tie
wounded described the battle as terrible.
We shall have nothing but successes anC
victories, admirable flank and strategeti
movements, from now and until after tn
Baltimore Convention. Nothing else will
be permitted to go over the wires. lie
what will take place we will hear only o
victory, strategy, and the expected speed
fall of Richmond.
The truth is notwithstanding all that i
said, and the victories that are boasted o
Gen, Grant is more concerned for th
safety of his army to-day, than for the cap
ture of Richmond. He is getting, howeve
reinforcements daily, and in week or so hi
army will number not far from two hun
dred thousand men, when he will with hi
known tenacity and perseverance, set him
self down before Richmond with the deter
mination to take it or perish in the attempt
His heavy siege guns are now on the wa
to the White House, and by the time thi
letter reaches you they will have reache
their destination.
Mosby cavalry have control of the Who'll
country about Fredericksburg, and as nea
, Washington as Centrevile No communi
cation whatever can be had with the arm
by land, Water is now the only means
reaching General Grant from Washington
CLEVELAND.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09
Negroes in the Baltimore Con-
ventiOn.

South Carolina sends twelve white anc
four black delegates to the Baltimore Conven
ton. This is all right, according to the
Radical party The party's theory is, that
negroes should have the same privileges at
the polls as white men, And surely, if ne.
groes are good enough to vote for u candi-
date forthc Presidency, they are good enough
to go into convention and vote as to who
the candidate shall be. Statesman.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09
Lincoln Buys Greeley.

Greeley has been more or less sulky ever
since the creation of Lincoln Cabinet He
desired place, and did not get it. OF late
he has been demonstratiyc in his hostility
to the Second Washington, and very Frc-
montsh is the tone Of his paper. He was
confidently expected at Cleveland, where
he had promised to be; and while we were
reading the disappointment of the Conven-
ton at his absence, the mornings dispatch
brings word that Lincoln has already dcsig-
mated his Cabinet for the next term, making
Greeley Secretary of the Interior This
shows at once the baseners of Greeley, and
the fright of poor Lincoln at the Cleveland
Convention yton Empire.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09


paper.
The disposition of General Buffers forces
the night before the battle, was very bad
and exceedingly unfortunate, he having Il
line Of battle several miles long, and but one
line. The reserves also were few and badly
disposed. The manoeuvres during the fight
were very dilatory, unskllfull and unsatis-
factory, and showed that military genius
did not stand at the head of affairs The
enemy manoeuvred very skillfuly and rapidly
throwing his solid columns of troops upon
various parts Of General Buffers long and
weak line successively, beating his army by
detail. lie threw his force first upon Gen
Butler right flank; then, rapidly as the
swoop of an eagle, he struck his center and
then his left, driving back those parts OF
Buffers line i'll confusion, and inhicting,
but meeting great loss.
Gen. Buffers grand mistake consisted IN
not seizing in the first instance, upon the
great stragetic point for our army south o.
Richmond, that is, Pctersburgh. The place
could have been easily taken immcdiatel,
after Gen, Buffers landing at Berlnud;
Hundred, and being on the South side o
the Appomattox River, pnd the junction o
several railroads, would have been a place O
vast importance to us.
Petersburg would have been splendiC
base for any operations Gen. Butler wish
ed to make, and his army would have beel
safe there; then he would have cut off
very important channel of supplies to Lee
army, and from thence with the assistance
af our gunboats, he could have cut off al
reinforcements and supplies coming t.
Richmond
The statement that the battle of the l6tl
was only a teint to cover the small cavalr
raid of kauntz, is too contemptibly absur
to need refutation No one will be deceiy
ed by it. Gen. Buffers campaign south c
Richmond is ended, and candor must ad
nit, though with regret, that it was fai
ure, and a failure attended with great los
of human life and limb.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09
Coming Down a Peg or Two.

The great treason case, in which Mr..
Cathcart and the Covington washerwoman
and in which Hon. Sam. Medary was re,
Gently arrested as an accomplice, has beer
squelchod in the District Court by the Dis
trict Attorney. The Government has JUS
no treason, even on the showing of its owl
liars. The thing has been let down to 8
conspiracy case; that is, an indictment
under a law passed by the abolition Con
gress since the war began. 1t will come
down to plain case of lying, and small
drunk after while. .-Dayton Empire.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09
The Albany Statesman for Fre-
nh0nf.

The Albany Statesman, the organ of the
Republican party the capital of New Y ork,
representing the sentiments of the Republi-
can State officers and opposed to the Journal,
which represents the Postoflice and Thurlow
Weed ring Of contractors and shoddyites,
raises the Cleveland platform to the mast
head and says truly enough: 'Thc nomina-
ton of John G. Fremont ouge to be satistac-
tory to the Republicans of 1860, because he
and his friends made the strength that gave
them Lincoln, and superabundance of pat
ronage afterwards. - Ohio Statesman,
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09
Cheerful Prospect.

Col. Forney, the Republican Clerk of the
U. 6. Senate, in letter to his Press, under
date of Washington City, in speaking about
crushing out the rebellion, says:
'The vast reserve army--the men in civil
life, the men Of middle age, and the youth
between seventeen and eighteen years, will,
IN all probability, be called for to help to
finish the work"
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09

The drought in Texas is greater than has
been experience since 1915 Unless there
are good rains, there will be no crops,
No rains have fallen for seven months, and
it is long past the planting season, Every
thing is parched up, Tho cattle are dying
by hundreds, and all able bodied men are in
the army
Such is the condition of things in "The
land of Flowers
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09
Severity of the virginia Fight
Ing

The bloody character of the work now
going on before Richmond, may be estma-
ted by the fact that in the few days fight
ing Of which we have had most meagrc ac
counts from the war office, we have suffered
in killed and wounded loss of hco hou.
sand .fre hundred men. Yet this fighting
has been represented as only preliminary
skirmishing, the main engagement not hav,
ing yet taken blaze,
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09
NIiIIersburg Market.

Corrected aceekB by Herzer d Rt,y.)
WHEAT-Red, 1356o1, 40; white l,45@l,j0
RYE-Good, 81 Z. buShel.
CORN-Sl II bushel.
BARLEY-Wanted at 10 q bushel.
OATS-lj@65 per bushel.
SEEDS-Clover, 100; Timothy, 2,25; Flax, zoo
FRUITs-Dry Apples 80; Dry Peaches, 800.
BUTTER-lSc = pound.
EGGS-l2c5P dozen.
IARD--lO a pound.
WHITE BEANS, ,5Oa 100 y bushel.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09

fg- A number of years have elapsed since the
introduction of Hostetter's Celebrated Bitters
to the public. The prejudice existing in the
minds of many persons against what are denom-
mated patent medicines ut first greatly retard-
ed its sale; but, its virtues and merits be-
came known, this barrier of prejudice was ever
thrown, and the demand increased so rapidly
that in IA few years scarcely village existed in
the United States i'm which the afflicted had not
experienced the benefits arising from the use of
the ."Bitters,' and at the present day there are
for the great merits of the article No greater
cure for Dyspepsia can be found. See advertise
ment For sale by the Druggists and dealers
generally, everywhere. limo.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09
Hagan's Magnolia Balm.

This is the most delightful and extraordinary
article ever discovered. 1t changes the sun
burnt face and hands to pearly satin texture
of ravishno beauty, imparting the marble pu-
rity of youth and the distingue appearance so in
viting in the city belle of fashion 1t removes
tam frecllles pimples and roughness from the
skin, leaving The complexion fresh, transparent
and smooth 1t contains no material injurious
to the skin. Patronized by Actresses and Ope-
ra Singers. 1t is what every lady should have.
For sale at the BOOK STORE.
June o. lS6t-mo2
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-09
alew Adrertisemelsts.
A N ew Gall.

All those knowing themselves indebted to me
on Book account or Note, will please call and
pay up before the 18th of July. Claims not paid
by that time will be handed to the proper au-
thorities for collection. Now Is the time to save
cost BENJAMIN COHN.
June 9th, 1864,