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Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-07-28
A PROFESSIONAL OPINION.

The British Army and Navy Gazette after reviewing the
facts in the late naval fight, says:
The palm therefore, Of and skill must be adjudged
TO Capt Wlnslow and his Fret Lieutenant and il must
be matter of pride to these two officers conessedy
among the most practical and beat gunney officers of the
Northern states to have achieved important triumph
at such sight cost TO their vessel and crew.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-07-28
A NEW CLASS OF ExEMPTs.

Provost Marshal General Fry has issued circular to
the effect that skilled mechanics and operatives employed
in the ssepas and navy yards of the United States who
shall be drafted and examination be held to SERVICE will
not be required to report for duty under such draft long
they remain in the aforesaid service provided the officer
in charge shall certify that their labor mechanics or
operatives necessary for the naval or military service
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-07-28

GREAT FIRE new JERSEY "A 6re broke cut in the
pines 10 Ocean county, IN J) on the 25th ultmo, and
ragged for four days 1t started about three miles north
east OF ferugo and extended to Toms river, making
sweep of about nine miles In direct line and destroying
every vestige Of timber and vegetation over an area Of
probably twenty-five square miles.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-07-28
VOLUNTEERING

Authority has been granted to the State authorities by
the Secretary Of War to organize regiments of voun
teers for one year under the last call for 100000 The
Governor Of Ohio has issued his proclamation for twenty
new regiments.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-07-28
FIRE AT PHILADELPHIA

PBnADELPHIA, JULY 22.-The Government wagon
factory Of Henry Simmons took FIRE at eight o'clock to-
night and will probably be entirely consumed 1t the
largest establishment Of the kind in the country.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-07-28

MoUNTAINs ON FRE,-The Allegheny mountains be-
tween Blair and Cambria counties near Cresson station
are on hre and at night exhibit earuly lurid aspect
Several fences and meadows along the road have also been
on FIRE, catching from sparks OF the ocomotVe-haTr,s:
It"rg {Pa.l Union,
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-07-28

General Sherman protests against the entrance OF re
crutng agents into his department claiming that they
will swell the number Of idle combaants without
dering any commensurate service
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-07-28

-Four persons we're drowned in Newport harbor on Mon
day by the upsettipg Of boat.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-09-15
Gen. Mcclellan and the Adm i'm
iStratiQn.

General Mcclellan, on the 2Sth day of
June, 1862, at Savage's Station, wrote to
Hon. f.. NJ. Stanton, most scathing letter,
in which he told that obstinate functionary
that the want of 10000 fresh troops was the
cause of all their disasters. lie truthfully
observes, that with that number oftroops he
could change defeat into victory, and take
Richmond, and then adds, in language that
should never depart from the memory of
the people of the United States:
If, at this instant, could dispose of ten
thousand fresh men, could gain the victo
ry tomorrow.
i know that a few thousand more men
would have changed the battle from defeat
into victory. As it is, the Government
must, not and cannot, hold me responsible
for the result.
1 feel too earnestly to night have seen
too many dead and wounded comrades to
feel otherwise than that the Government
has not sustained the army. If you do not
do so now, the game is lost.
III save this army now, | tell you plain
ly that | owe no thanks to you or any other
person in Washington.
You have done your best to sacrifice this
army.
G. B. MCCLELLAN.
an Hon H. NJ Stanton
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-09-15
The Niger.

1t seems strange, when we sit down and
cody think over it, that many of our fell
low countrymen should ever have gone as
crazy as they did four years ago over the
niger question. The reaction is coming
, now, and although it comes in time to save
us irom'grcat future disaster, it comes all
too late to console us for the afllicton that
Lincoln has been, for to restore us our three
thousand millions of wasted treasure, or lift
| from our backs the heavy burden of an end
less and onorous taxation; and more than
all, it comes too late-a long ways too late
to give us back the hundreds of thousands
of brave fellows whose warm hearts are for
ever stillcd beneath the ncwmade graves
that abound throughout the land. The
whole truth about the niger may be sum
med mp in Il few words. He never was
worth fighting for in the first instance, ,cm .uh
less continuing the war as Lincoln now
wants to do in order to enforce his freedom.
lie had four years ago, according to aboli
ton date, which for the purpose of argu-
ment may be taken as correct, three hun
drcd thousand shareholders who held in
bondage JoW m,llions of slaves. Now,
then, why should we or the world feel any
very great amount of sympathy for four
millions of people who were so worthless
and servile as to go and come at the beck OF
three hundred thousand. If the four
millions had been holding the three
hundred thousand in subjection, then we
readily admit it would have been case
for the active sympathy of tho world, for
then it would have been clear case of
might against right. The long and the short
of the business is, that history as well as
common sense teaches that whenever as
many as four million of people become wor-
thy of freedom they are sure to get it and
maintain it, and especially as against three
hundred thousand 1t may be said, how.
ever, in the case of the niggcr, that under
the old order of things our government
would, if necessary, have interfered to put
down rebellion among the slaves, This may
have been so in one case, but, if the Niger
had ever shown himself worthy of freedom
public opinion would have been so largely in
his favor that slavery would have died
peaceful death. Those who still maintain
that the niger has the elements of intelli
genco and freedom that belong to the white
man, we point to the history of the African
ION his native heath, where his mind is
yet as it was thousands Of years ago--dark
as his skin.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-09-15
100000 More.

The reliable Stanton informs the public
that all Grant needs now to finish up the re-
bellion is 100, 600 fresh men, -Four months
ago Grant could have placed his army upon
the identical spotit occupies to-day without
the loss of man or the firing of gun BY
the route he took to reach his present posi-
tion he lost not less than l25, 900 men and
has gained not single point of advantage.
This forces the conclusion that Grant, in
in starting, had not only enough men to
end the rebellion, but surpluss of %, 900.
Either Stanton tells falschood, or else
l25, 900 have been uselessly sacrificed. We
leave the apologists of the Secretary to sc.
lect whichever horn of the dilemma best
suits them. In justice to truth, they should
take both; for it is not only intentional false
hood for Stanton to say that Grant can end
the campaign with 100, 900 men; but it is al
the same time true that every man of the
l25, 600 lost by Grant has been sacrificed
usclcssly. For this latter, Grant, however
is not to blame. 1t is due wholly to Lincoln
the author of "My Plan" He insisted on
Grant taking the overland route, and hence
he is responsible Of its awful consequences
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-09-15
40 Hon. 4. NJ. Stanton.
what Mcclellan originally thO't
Of the War.

The war should be conducted on the high
est principles known to Christian civiliza.
tion.
1t should not be at all war upon pop
ulation-but against armed forces and polit-
ical organization.
Neither confscation Of property, political
executions of persons, territorial organlza-
tions of States, or forcible abolition Of sla-
very, should he contemplated for moment.
In prosecuting the war, all private prop
erty, and unarmed persons, should be strict
ly protected, subject only to the necessities
of military operations
All private property taken for military
use, to be promptly paid or receiptcd for.
Pillage and waste should be treated as
high crimes.
All unnecessary trosspass sternly pro-
hibitcd, and offensive demeanor of military
towards citizens promptly rebuked.
Military arrests should not be tolerated
except in places where active hostllitles cx'
ist-and oaths not required by enactments
consttutionly made, should neither be de-
manded nor received.
Military government should be confined
to the preservation of public order, and the
protection of political rights.
Military power should not be allowed tC
interfere with the relations Of servitude,
either for supporting or impairing the au-
thority of the master; except for repressing
disorder, as in other cases.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-09-15
President Lincoln Reviewed by
himself.

In speech against the Mexican war, de-
livered by him while member of Congress
in January, l848, at "A time when General
MCCLELLAN was rsking his life under the
flag Of his country in Mexico, Mr.. ABRAHAM
LINCOLN used the following language in
respect to President Polk:
After twenty months of war 4 this
same President gives us a long message,
without showing us that as to the end he
has himself even an imaginary conception.
He knows not where he is. He is u
'bewildered, confoundcd, and miserably
'perplexed man. GoD grant he may be
liable to show that there is not something
about his conscience more painful than all
'his mental perpleXity."
Was there ever a finer commentary on the
Scriptural warning, Judge not, that ye be
not Judged"
Sixteen years have passed and ABRAHAM
LINCOLN himself, after twice twenty months
Of war, stands before the people Of America
a 'bewidorcd, confounded, and miserably
perplexcd man. showing that ''as to the
'erd he has not himself even an imaginary
He knows not where he is
and all that charity can say for him is to
echo his own words, 'Gop grant he may be
''ablc to show that there is not something
about his conscience more painful than all
his mental pcrplexity! - World.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-09-15
Abolition Sfunlpers.


/ notice determination on the part OF
the Abolition stumpers to indulge in the
most infamous, inhuman and vile denunci-
ations and ISLANDERS, in their stump speech
es. For more than -four years past these
same men have been sowing the seeds OF
bitter hate, malice and revenge and for
more than three years we have been reap
ing the legitimate harvest Of war, devasta-
ton and ruin. None but fool would ex-
poet peace, happiness and prosperity from
a political campaign of bitter, inhuman cul-
tivation of hate, malice and revenge. IT
we would have peace in the land, we must
cultivate feeling without which peace can
not eXist--a feeling the opposite of hate
and malice. So long as we shall arouse and
inAame the worst Of human passions, we
must expect the legitimate fruits-war and
ruin. The most unmitigated fiend in hu-
man form is he who would now, when our
country is bleeding at every pore, for party
again, arouse aud inname bitterness, hate
and malice among our people; because all
such, who have sense enough to know the
effect of such conduct, desire civil war in
the North. Letit be understood, that all
who i'll this campaign labor to create hate,
bitterness and malice among the people, do
1t tor the express purpose Of creating civil
war in the loyal States and let them be
Stunned as you would shun the viper.
need not say that Democratic and Con-
servative stumpers will not become such
fiends in human form. That they will, by
sound and solemn argument, appeal to the
honest judgements Of men. That they will
realize that in our country, where the peo-
pie govern through the ballot box, our only
safety is in an enlightened, unprecedented
judgement; and, therefore, every word and
every act that may tend to arouse party
bitterness, and swcrve the judgement, will
be religiously avoided, to the end, that we
may have an honest expression at the bal
lot box, and that peace and prosperity may
return to our land A knave or fool may
indulge in bitter and slanderous denuncia-
tions; but wise, good man will use sound
argument, in the feeling and spirit Of an
American patriot. PEACE.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-09-15
A sad prOsl,ect.

When A. l.. puts on his Scotch plaid, and
packing up his little domestic chattels, bids
farewell to the White House, and starts for
Springfield, what dreary vista spreads be-
for him. What will he do without his
cavalry escort? What will he do without
his scntinels at the door How will he sur
vive the absence of the complaisant cour-
tiers who called him '"Thesecond Washing
ton, Alas how is he to drink his morn
ing coffee with no Washington Chronicle
on his lap, andhow is he to take his morn
ing promenade without chevalier Forney at
his elbow How is he to live week with
out issuing Proclamation. We pity
his cook, Twill she be French) for she will
get the benefit of these ex-Presidential
manifestoes. What will he do for draft?
Must he levy conscripton on the stray
cats and dogs which infGst his premises, or
will he make a fresh haul of clients by this
summary process2 Who is to ring a bell
for him and put some poor devil in ''du-
rance vile" when his Auburn friend has
posted off to the shades of private life?
Who is to write his thanksgiving calls, or
will he ever give thanks again? He will
certainly give none to Fremont and Ben.
Wade. Alasl poor Lincoln, where will be
those pleasant rides under safe guard, those
cosy dinner parties with Lords and Gener-
ais, those quiet .okers in the Cabinet
Will he 90 to hear Richard again, or write
to Hackett concerning the fat knight? Will
he receive colored delegations, or get recon-
cied to Miss Dickinson, orfinally, will "Old
Abe get senitent, drop his jokes, and APP
ply himself to some honest calling as use-
ful citizen? We shall see. PLAIN Dealer
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-09-15
WHY Is II.

Why is il that none Of those who support
LINCOLN have good word to say for him
They denounce MCCLELLAN and conserva.
tives generally, but they have no word Of
praise for the Widow Maker.
LINCOLN has been tried nearly four years;
let his friend praise the beauties of his ad-
ministration-his distinguished abilities for
the position he occupies-his devotion to
Constitutions and laws-tho grandeur his
military genius---his defense of free speech,
free press and free men''--the honesty and
economy of his administraton-the wonder
ful accomplishments of his proclamations--
the innumcrable blessings he has conferred
upon the people, and thereby inform the
masses why he should be retained in power
four years longer.
LINCOLN was elected on the cry for a
change. We obtained a change Now let
LlNcoLN's adherents display the manifold
blessings secured by that ehange--how much
better off we are than under the old state
of affairs, and inform us what blessings are
yet held in reserve and to be dispensed by
the WidowM to the people of Amer
100
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-09-15
Cause Of High PrcCpS.

Let every man and every man S wife who
buys piece of cotton goods at the present
enormous prices remember that these cnor-
nous prices are the direct and logical results
of the abolition policy adopted by Mr. LIN
COLIN. BY freeing the niggers, and confsca-
ting the plantations and burning and plum
dering the houses and other improvements
on them, he in the first instance almost de-
stroyed the production of the raw material.
He now gives it in the finishing stroke by
permitting Massachusetts and other oboli-
tionists to save their loyal hides by enlis-
ting the few able-bodied niggers heretofore
left about the plantations. A blind man
can therefore see that, as all the able bodied
niggers will be taken for soldies, there will
presently be no production of cotton at ALL
and hence no limit to the high prices which
abolition policy has already placed on cotton
goods
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-09-15
nature Reversed.

According to the laws of nature, young
men and those in the prime and vigor Of
full-g grown and mature manhood have the
best chances of long life. Under the reign
of Lincoln, however, this natural order Of
things has been reversed, and We now find
that the old, the infrm, the lamc the halt,
and the blind have longer leases of life than
the young aud ablc-bodied. The chances Of
death to the able bodied man under Lin
coins destructive war policy arc greater
than they are to the aged, infrm or unfor-
tunate under the slower processes of natur-
al decay. BY the general law which alone
perpetuates the human race, the sons should
outlive the fathers. Under the will of LIN
COLIN for his will alone determinates the
number summoned to destruction) the son
dies before the father.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-09-15
Resolutions Adopted by the
IS6th Regt, d. NJ. g.

The following were appointed as Com.
mlttees to report resolutions relative to the
death of our fellow soldiers, Jacob Close
and Livingston Hammond.
lst Committee-David l.. Simpson, Am
brose Taylor and John Snyder
Ind Committee--Wm G. McCaughey,
j. G. Donahey and Solomon Close.
The lst Committee reported the following
resolutions, which were unanimously adop-
ted
WHEREAS, Through the immutable de-
cree of an allwise Providence, Jacob Close,
Company |, l66th Regt o. N. G. has been
bers of Co. l. desiring to express the SEN
timents of estimation in which the deceased
was held therefore be it
ResolUed, That by his death, his wife lost
q loving husband, his family kind and in
dulgent parent, the country brave and
staunch supporter, the company one of its
best and most promising members, and
community an honest industrious and in
tellieent man.
ResOlced That we will hold in romcm-
brance the many noble virtues of the de-
ceased his numerous acts of kindness, and
above all, the firm manner in which upon
all occasions, by word and deed, he defend
ed morality and the truthfulness of chris
tianty.
ReSolred. That while we tender the wife
and family of the deceased our heartfelt
sympathy, in this the hour of their great
bereavement, We trust that, ''He who doeth
all things well, will administer that COM
fort and consolation, which he has promised
to all those who ask.
RerOtred That copy of these resolutions
be presented to the family of the deceased,
and that the proceedings of this meeting be
published in the Holmes County Farmer,
and the Holmes County Republican.
David t. Simpson, Ambrose Taylor, John
Snyder, Committee. BENZ Taylor, Sect.
Cd ommittec--WHEREAs 1t hath
pleased God in his Intimate wisdom, to re-
move from our ranks our fellow soldier,
Livingston Hammond, Therefore
Resolrcd, That in his death Co. l. has
lost one of its best members. One who
never evaded duty nor shrunk from respon-
sibility, and who by his kind and generous
disposition won the esteem of the entire
Company.
Resolred, That while we deeply deplore
his loss, we bow with resignation to the will
Him who doeth all things we'll. "
ReSoLced, That to the friends and rela-
tives of the deceased, we tender our heart
felt sympathy in this the hour of their be-
reavement
Resolved, That copy of these resolutions
be sent to the reativer of the deceased, and
also a copy to each of the Holmes County
papers for publication.
VIM, G. McCaughey, John G. Donahey
Solomon Close, Benz Taylor, Secrtary.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-09-15

LINCOLN. If BYRON was not a poet ar.
tist Of the truest merit, and possessed of the
marvellous faculty ofsecond sight, how could
he then, in eighteen hundred and sixteen,
have so truthfully apostrophised
OLD ABE.
oh! wretch without a tcar--wlthout n thought,
Save joys above the ruin thou hast wrought
The time shall come, nor long remote, when
thou
Shall feel far more than those afflicted now;
Feel for thy vile sclflovlng self in vain,
And turn thee bowling in unpitied pain.
May the strong curse of crushed affection light
Back on thy bosom with reflected blight!
And make thee in thy leprosy of mind
AS loathsomc to thyself as all mankind!
Till all thy self-thoughts curdlc into hate,
TIL thy hard heart calcined into dust,
And thy soul welter in It's hidcouS crust.
OH may thy grave be slecploss as the bed
The wldow'd couch Offirc-that thou hast spread,
Then, when thou inin wOuld'st weary Heaven
with prayer,
! Look on thy earthly victims aud despair
Down to the dust! and as thou rott'st away
! Even worms shall perish on thy poisonous clay.
Tay nhme-thy human name-to every eye,
! The climax af all scorn should hang on high,
Exalted DER thy less abhorrd coinpcers-
And fostering in the lniamy of years.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-09-15
Dirty SOau-EsNbbleS.

The administration journals keep up
vigorous pelting of the Democratic nomi-
nee and platform with bubbles blown, by an
immense expenditure of bad breath, out of
the foth of their own imaginations, with
little dish-water for basis. 50 one con-
demns General Mcclellan for the arrest ofa
Legislature believed by him to be plotting
secession within the circle of war, with the
connivance and in the close neghborhoed
Of Il rebel general and army; but defends
arrests made in its own masters on unprov-
ed charges, in quiet towns and among open
courts. Another startles the country with
a wild fable Of Democratic scheme for di-
viding the Union into five confederacies, in
face of the leading resolution of the Chica-
90 Platform. Another asserts that every
emminent military critic pronounccs Gencr-
al Mcclellan incapable, when its own phais-
cs Of De Joinville's report on the peninsu-
lar campaign confront it. And another
Slanders the opposition with bitter regret
for the national triumphs, although these
pave the way for an honorable peace which
it honestly desires. Assuming such incon-
sistcnt nonsense for their premises, these
acute reasoners spin moonshine by the col
umn for readers whose intcllects they must
suppose feeble indeed, if imposed upon by
such theories Even Republicans, much
more the great body of the American peo-
pie, are not so wanting in sense and fairness
as to be misled by such caricatures of argu-
mcnt.-Ncr York World