Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-01-07
News Items.

. The time of payment to veterans OF
: bounty money, in case they rc-cnlst, Is to
be extended when Congress meets.
1t is thought the Confcdcratcd Govern
Iment will refuse permission to the French
mcn-ot.war vessels to go to Richmond, in
order to bring away French tobacco.
4 OVER three hundred thousand bales of
cotton, General BANKS says, will soon be
ready for the market in Texas.
DANIEL DAVIS and THOMAS DowNs,
tried for recruiting men within the lines of
the United States forces for the Confederate
army, have been found guilty and sentenced
to bc confined at hard labor, at Fort Warren,
near Boston, or such other prison as the
. Secretary of War may direct, for the term
r Of fifteen years.
a PRIVATE, by the name Of CLAYBRook,
OF the Nincty-eighth (Confcdcrafc) Vir-
glna Cavalry, has been granted an inter
view with the President, for the purpose of
making an important communication of a
secret character
The Salt Works at West Bay, Florida,
have been totally destroyed by the Federal
army in that vicinity.
GENERAL BUTLER has written statement
from six rebel sergeants, confined at Point
Lookout, affirming that the prisoners are
well fed and cared for.
:. GENERAL BUTLER, says u Washington
dispatch, now proposes to suspend all fur
ther intercourse with the rebels on the sub
ject Of an exchange of prisoners, and to re-
sort to cocrclvc measures to compel them to
terms. Sowc are where we were in regard
to the exchange of prisoners, before Ben.
BUTLER undertook the job. Little else
could have been expected.
n NASHVILLE correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer claims that Tennes-
see has thirty-threc thousand men in the
Federal service, Of whom about eight thou
sand arc negroes. 1t is said that this force
will soon be increased to 40. 900.
TIE Charleston correspondent of the
Boston HeyuH predicts that the navy will
take that place in sixty days.
lr is reported that Holland and Spain
have recognized the new Government of
the French in Mexico.
lT Is thought that in few weeks nearly
the whole Potomac Army will re-enlist for
the war
THERE is much regret felt at Washing
ton at the late failure to agree upon plan
for the exchange Of prisoners with the Con
federates.
lT is not believed in Washington, accor
ding to special correspondent of one of the
Journals, that Secretary CHASE will issue
any more legal-tendcr but will carry ON the
war hereafter bya loan This idea will. we
have no doubt be found to be entirely i'm
practicable.
lr isreported in the foreign news that the
Arckduke MaXimilian will nov accept the
Throne Of Mexico, unless our Government
at Washington will recognize it. This it has
refused to do. Consequently the Archduke
abandons the project.
HE Confederate General WHEELER,
with his cavalry, has captured Federal
supply train, going from Chattanooga to
Knoxville.
The Russian Government have common
ced putting telegraph wires from st. Peters
burg to to the mouth of the Amoor, dis
tance of twelve thousand miles, which is
expected to be completed by the middle of
next year The United States Government
are to connect with this line, and so, by a
circuit OF twenty thousand miles, reach
England
The Lafayette Courier announces the
death OF Louis Bible, in Tippccanoe co.,
Ind, at the age Of one hundred and seven
years. He was born in Virginia in 1856,
and has sons over 20 years of age, His
faculties and senses were not greatly impair
cd up to the time of his death.
The new King Of Denmark has issued a
proclamation to the people of the Duchy
OF Hol.tein, declaring his rights of SOW
eignty over that principality, and to nut
down all insurrectionary movements by
| force
IllE Contcderatcs are working hard to
build Il new railroad to connect Richmond
with the Gulf States independently of the
Weldon q East Tennessee Road. The
Southern terminus will be at Grccnboro. TO
which point they expect it to be completed
by July next
ir is stated by u special Washington dis
patch that now complications have arisen
between the French Government and Con-
fodcratc authorities at Richmond, in respect
to the removal Of cotton and tobacco, be-
longing to the French, from Richmond
HERE are reports from Richmond that
the Confederate Government intends con |
serlpting all able-bodied persons, white or
black, free or slave. The object is to make
n grind effort to regain possession of Ken
tucky and Tennessee; to the accomplish
mcnt of which end all other operations will
be subordinatcd.