Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-10
News Items.

TnE Missouri contested election cases in
the House of Representatives have been re-
ferred back to the people of Missouri,
Tue United States Senate has passed the
House bill for the protection of emigrants
to the Western Territories.
THE bill toencourage immigration has al.
SO passed. The men who passed this bill, a
few years ago, were Know Nothings, and
did not desire any immigration at all
THE President has decided that all pris-
oners from the army who have been con
demned to death by courts martial, shall be
imprisoned in the Dry Tortugas during the
war.
THE Ohio State Senate has passed a res
luton requesting the Ohio Congressman to
favor higher duty upon imported wool.
Coz. DUKE, the Lieutenant of Morgan
has been sent from Columbus to Fort Della
ware.
A resolution of inquiry into the cases of
those who have been confined in Govern
mrnt bastiles without the warrant of law
ndS DCCll OntIC'l III lllt IIpuSc vi ltSplCstuO-
atives, by Mr.. Eldridge, of Wisconsin.
BURNSIDE said in Boston last week that
out of fifty thousand contrabands in his de-
partmcnt, one half died within a year from
desttution, starvation and disease.
THE mock election at the point of the
bayonet viii take place in Arkansas on the
l4th of March.
CAPTAINS Sawyer and Flynn, who were
sentenced to death at Richmond, in retalia
ton for the hanging of two Confederate
spies by General Butler, have been dis
charged.
THE Commissioners of Exchange, Gen
eral Butler, on the part Of our Government
and General Oud, of the Confederates
have agreed to an important cartel in rela
tion to the exchange Of prisoners All de
livered at City Point up to January "a, ga
are declared exchanged
WE are informed that sharp dipomati
correspondence is likely to ensuc between
our Government and that Of Great Britain
because the latter will not reimburse t
merchants the losses they have sustaine
I. from the Alabama.
TIE tax screw is again to be applied o
the people. The House Committee O
Ways and Means is going to increase tn
duty upon silks, satins, and French an
English cloths. Only the rich will be abl
soon to dress well.
THE Confederate Government has advcl
tised for sale the gunboats Harriet Ian
and Clifton and bark Cavallo The sale wa
tie take place on the 10th of February
TnE Philadelphia Bulletin has dispatc
that Selma, Alabama, has not been take
by General Sherman, and that he ncve
contemplated taking it,
4 Ir is rumorcd that General Boauregar
in command at Noble, and that Farragu
with his fleet had opened fire on Fort Mol
gan. The Instructions in Mobile Harbo
ARE similar to those of Charleston. 1t i
believed that Fort Morgan will he immcdi
ately destroyed or captured. All the non
combatants have left Mobile.
Doubleday, in their testimony before tn
IOOullilltttc Oh tuC NOHtlucb VI tllc W Ill
that General Meade wrote an order to fa
back after the first days fight at GettyE
burg, and but for chance it would have bee
E ordered.
SOME twenty Tennesseeans who deserte
from the rebel army some time ago an
came within our lines, have been release
E from the Old Capitol upon taking the oat
prescribed iIrthc President amnesty proc
lamation, and have started for their home
in Tennessee