Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-01-28
News Items.

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TIE Treasurcr's Office in Brown county,
Indiana, was broken into by thieves, on
the night of the 10th inst, and robbed of
$4,000.
In the lower branch of the Ohio Legis-
laturc the contested election cases were de-
cided inf favor of the Abolition members.
The conduct of the Republican members
was outrageous and unjust in the extreme.
IT is reported that the rebels have hung
Samuel Jones, of the fifth Ohio Regiment,
in retaliation for David Bright, of the six
ty second Kentucky Infantry, by order of
Gen. Wild.
CnAs. A. DANA, late editor of the
New York Tribune, has been made Assist
ant Secretary of War;
The War Department has decided that
the two years volunteers are entitled to
bounty money.
WHEN spring opens the battle ground
will he in East Tennessee.
GEN. SHRMAN is concentrating an army
at Huntsville, Ala.
TIE wholesale Conscription Law is Gre
ating great excitement among the people of
North Carolina.
COLLECTOR BARNEY has given full his
tory of the discovery of frauds in the New
Y ork Custom House, before the Commit
tee on Public Expenditures.
IT was reported, by flag truce boat
to General Butler, that the Confederates
had evacuated Richmond, and had sent
the Government archives TO South Carroll
ma. Upon investigation, however, by a
scouting party, it was found that Richmond
had not been evacuated
IT said that General Butler has been
!, clothed by the Government with power tc
g settle the exchanging of prisoners in his
own way. He proposes to the Confcder
/ ates to exchange man for man and Office
for officer.
THERE is to be what is called an election
in Louisiana, on the 22nd of February. 1
is to be held under military auspices. w,
presume no one will be allowed to vote who
is opposed to the abolition of slavery in the
: State.
IT is said General Foster desires to be
3 relieved of the command in Knoxville. =
o General Grant requests that General Scho
q field or General Mcpherson may be his sue
cessor
GEN. FRANK BLAIR has resigned hi,
commission in the army.
THE Mexican Governor of Matanioras
has bought ten thousand rifles originally in
tended for the Confedcratcs They are tc
be used against the French.
THE rebel steamer Gray Jacket has beer
captured off Mobile. Her cargo is wortl
; 100000.
n A Spanish war steamer has captured tw,
schooncrs laden with arms for the Domini
can insurgents.
LAST month the Reverend Mr.. Packcn
! ham, Dean of st. Patrick, died in Ireland
q at an advanced age He was a brother o
). General Packenham, killed at the battle O
p New Orleans. The Earl of Chestcrton tn
last of the Irish peerage before the Legsla
@ tive Union with England, is also dead
Y TUE Snow IIill Maryland, Shield an
# nounces itself for General Mcclellan as tn
e next President.
TIE typhoid fever is prevailing in fat,
form in different parts of Harrison Count,
r. Ind.
Ice has been found floating in the Mis-
. . sisSippi as far South as Helena, which
,, ,, Unprecedented.
u The Committee on Elections, in tn
> House, have decided against the claims {
Segur of Virginia, and Fields of Lou
siana, to seats. The reason is, they ar
Union men, but not Abolitionists
:. The Ohio Legislature, which is nearl
all composed of Republicans, has passed
resolution thanking General Rosccrans -
This is u sharp ccnsuro upon the Admins
I tration at Washington, who removed tina
officer for alleged incapacity.
Col. w. M, STONE, the new Govern
4 or of Iowa, was once canal driver botwee
4 Roscoe and Cleveland, Ohio, at three do
t lars week, He made reasonably goo
boatman, but does not possess one singl
{ qualification for Governor
Col. DURBIN WARD, of the 18th Ohio
3 has been presented, by the pricates of hi
4 regiment, with beautiful sword, belt
l sash and cartridge-box, valued at saio.
= The presentation took place in front of th
= Burnett House, Cincinnati.
? PEKIN, China, has the oldest newspape
h in the world, 1t has been published fo
@ 200 years, and is printed ON n large shec
of silk.
On Friday, the 18th inst, the wife of
man named Schlaugher, who lived som
IT miles from Memphis, had her brains knocl
ID ed out with hatchet by man name
Is Slamier, descrter from Missouri cavah
N regiment, who robbed the house Of FIVE hun
he dred dollars and proceeded to commit raj
G. on the daughter, the only member of ii
&c family left alive, whose cries for help we
C. heard by neighbor, who came to the resc,
IS and shot the desperate through the hoa
u instantly killing him,
cd AT the Capital City Hotel in Frankfol
"a Kentucky, ON Thursday, the clothes of NJ
ty Barton, State Senator from Pulaski count
's, caught fire, and being weak from 10
sickness, he died before assistance reach