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SIXTH WARD DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION
A meeting of the Sixth Ward Association was
held last evening at TOlsOn's Hall, T. A. Toll
son in the chair. and NJ. Marceron secretary
The following new members were elected
and signed the constitution VIM. Morgan,
Albert Bardine, W. II Carrico and S. F. Gates.
MIR. Marceron offered a resolution endorsing
the Constitutional Union, and recommending it
to the Democrats OF the ward; which was
adopted; and after the Char had urged the
members to patronize the paper, which, during
the evening, got one subscriber, the meeting
adjourned to Monday night.
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w fsrredJ for q small family. Apply, with rec
concentrations, at No. 397 18th street. between
and q, first floor. sep l96tt
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The Proprietor Of this popular and we'll. known
ness and offers his we'll Known house for sale,
Any one Eishing % engage In . LUCRATIv1
sylvsniA avenue. bet Eth and 18th sts. ssf9-aws
THE UNDRRsI GNED WILL Sell Ar PRT-
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EURNisH1 I'd Rooms 70 RINT, without Board.
lnspire Of Mrs. A. Z. STEP HENSON. On N-W
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pY THE FIRST OF OCTOBER FURNISHED
I'D HOT Sc, containing from to IL rooms. Per
sons having such property for rent will not have
a more desirable opportunity. Address NEW
ENGLAND, Star Office. sep 233t*
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WANTED IMMEDIATELY-A good COOK,
willing to go in the country for four or FIVE weeks
Best Of wages given Inquire at 475 9Th street,
or of MRS. BANCROFT. on street, between Sth
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WANTED-Three unfurnlshed ROOMS, suita-
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WANTED-The undersigned desires to pur-
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WANTED TO RENT-A medium sized Dwell
w LING, now or any time prior to the LIST
November. Address 8. l.. Stent, Garden street,
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NNANTED-A SITUATION, by an Industrious
w young man not afraid of work. Address for
two DAYS, at this Office. L. G. sep Pot
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-17
The Constitution the Sole De-
fense Of Liberty.

The people of the United States, in the
preamble to the Federal Constitution. set
forth the objects for which it was ordained
and established. Step by step, they pro-
ceed in the statement of those objects until
they reach the grand climax-thc ultimate
or final end-"to secure the blessings Of lib
erty to ourselves (the American people, and
our posterity forever. y This Constitution
is that security; it is the barrier erected
against the encroachments Of arbitrary pow
er, come from what quarter they may. A.
long as it remains intact, the liberties Of the
people are safe; once torn down or ovcrleap
ed, the people become slaves to the whim.
and caprlCes OF the man or cabal that may
be to dominate over them.
1t becomes all men to lay aside every
prejudice and bias, and seriously consider
these matters The Constitution of the I'm
tied States gone, its Government is gone
for all egitinate GqAment in this country
grows out Of writtenS4g 4ghSttutions. DESTROY
the one and you destroy the other So witt
liberty. All the liberty we have is thai
guaranteed and guarded by our Constitu
tions, State and Federal. Take away the
latter (the Federal Constitution and the
national guarantee and defense Of liberty tc
the States and individuals are gone with it.
Break down our National Constitution
and we are in infinitely worse condition thar
the people Of any country in Europe. =
There they have established customs, laws
and usages that have been sacred in the
eyes of the people for centuries But here
it is far otherwise We have nothing but
our written Constitutions to fall back upon
to check the inroads Of restless ambition
and heartless despotism These are the
bulwarks the people have erected for then
defense. They have rejected the corner.
stone Of immortal usage, and have declared
that "all power cmanates from the people,
and have made known the people will il
written Consultations. If that will il
thwarted by violations of Constitution an(
the people submit, they are only fit for th
chains that will soon be forged for them
| Statesman.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-17
The state Convention.

AS has been announced, the Democracy
OF Holmes County will select delegates to
the State Convention on Saturday next
There IS no doubt but a resolution will be
passed by the County Convention making
all Democrats from this County in Column
bus on the 2Srd inst delegates. This
course has been pursued for the last two
years, and it has rendered good satisfac-
ton.
1t seems TO us the time appointed for the
State Convention is the very worst that
could have been selected It is time
when most people are busy and have but
little inclination TO leave home. The Pres
idential contest has not yet assumed shape.
And IN addition to these considerations the
people are less excited ON politics than they
were two months ago, or will be in two
months to come, We might also add, that
there is delightful fight going on in the
abolition party, and We might profit by hol-
ding our Convention after it has made fur
ther progress
But the time for the Convention il fixed
and 1t must be attended to. We hone as
many as can do SO will be in Columbus or
Wednesday next TO represent Holmes
County.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-17
The Draft.

Last fall the people were admonishcd to
vote for BRoUGn and save the draft. Well,
BRouGII was elected and the State has al
most been saved from one draft by raising
the triNing number Of about 40, 000 men. -
1t cost the people of Holmes County the
insignificant sum Of $6O,0 to raise THEN
quota. We would have been in nice iiS
if the election of BRouGu had not helped
US out of the draft
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-17
Very truly,
G. l.. VALLANDIGHAM.
How Many Men Have the Reb-
els i'm the Field.

There is no subject upon which there is
greater diversity of opinion than the real
strength of the Confederate armies. 1T
was stated not long ago, in IA telegraph
from the Potomac Army to some North
ern journal, that the three armies of LEE
Longstreet and Johnston, had but seventy
thousand men. This statement is simply
ridiculous The Philadelphia Enquire has
procured some statistics from its Nashville
correspondence, which perhaps approximate
the truth. They may be summed up thus:
That portion Of the Southern army which
constitutes the forces of Gen. LEE (coun-
ting Longstreet, who commands portion
of his army,) numbers 1000 troops. This
is also counting in the troops which are in
vicinity of Arlington, Lynchburg and other
portions ofSouthwestern Virginia and East
Tennessee, formerly under Gen Sam Jones.
At. Richmond and Petersburg there are
mot counting citizens and home guards
about 5000 men. Between Petersburg and
Weld there are 900 men, All along the
railroad between Weldon and Wilmington
there are at least 5000 men. The forces
under Gen. Pickett number s, 900 men. -
lmboden and MOsby together have 4 1000
men, all guerlias. This swels the army
in Eastern Virginia and North Carolina to
The second great army in the Confederacy
is that under General Joe Johnston, a large
portion of which is cavalry. The army
known as the Army of Tennessee is com
posed Of two corps each of which has six
divisions Of infantry numbering thirty-six
thousand men. There are also several
divisions OF cavalry, numbering at least 49,
900 men, making an aggregate of fifty
four thousand men. This includes the four
divisions sent to reinforce Bishop Polk, and
the two division sent to Mobile, and also
the entire cavalry Under Wheeler, Whar-
ton and John Morgan. The soldiers under
Polk and rowing officers are put at 5000
South Carolina, Savannah aud Florida
forces are put at % 600 the Texas Missis-
sippi forces at 1000, Mobile forces 5000,
Chalmers, Forrest, &C., 5000; about u,
GOO as prison guard, &C., and about 1000
men engaged. in a guerrilla warfare on the
Mississippi, making total of veteran sol
diers in the rebel service, two hundred and
tTenty-four thousand, to which add one
hundred and twenty thousand conscripts,
lately added to the rebel army, making a
total of three hundred and forty -four thou
sand. PLAIN Dcaler.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-17
ghase OF the Track.

"Honestn Old ABEs hirelings succeed
ed in crowding through the Ohio Legisla-
ture resolution in favor Of his nomination,
whcreupon CHASE wrote letter declining
to be candidate for nomination.
The shrewdues of LrNcofN's ofice-lfol.
ders in forestalling public opinion by forcing
Legislative resolutions in his favor will no
doubt secure him the nomination but the
masses of the party, smarting under the
wrong that has been done in thus forcing a
nomination upon them, will not greet the
result of the Abolition Convention with
that favor which whould have characterized
a fair and untrammeled nomination.
FREMoNr has hosts Of friends who arc
determined to resent the injustice they claim
he has suffered at the hands of LINCOLN,
and they will doubtless nominate him at q
Mass Convention in ST. Louis on the 10th
of May.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-17
Probate Notice.


NOTICE is hereby given that the folloing Ad-
~ mihistrHtufs Rud Guarduns have tlcd thcir
uccuuuts iu the I'rdbatc Court of HulmeH county,
Ohio which viii be Tor hcNrinB
On Monday, the An ddy Of dpr2 1864.
Final account OF Isaac iIochstotler, Admins
TRAITOR of Abraham Hcrshbcrgcr, decd.
Final account of lsi,ue lochstctlcr, Adninis-
TRAITOR OF Jacob Stut2Innn, decd.
Second account OF Albert Lockhart, Guardian
of Madison Price, Adellia Price and Joseph Price
Second account OF Albert Lockhart, Guardian
of Newton H. Love-
Third account of NJ. w. Brown, Executor OF
last will OF John /. Brown, decd.
First account of james IL. Snyder, Adminiso
TRAITOR OF John Burger, decd. 49,.
FINAL account OF Abraham Workman, Admin
istrator OF Joseph Porter deceased
Third account of X. NJ. johnson and Sarah
johnson, Admr's of Henry Johnson, deceased
Third account OF James Pollock, Guardian Of
Emanuel DeSvolgn and Gideon DeSvoign.
Second account OF William Dowcll, Admins
traitor of Thomas Dowell, deceased
First and final account of Hubert Marchand,
Executor of Il. b. stafford, decd.
| Final account of John Reed, Guardian Of The
odore Reed.
First account of II. X. Enos, Administrator Of
James s. Irvine deceased.
| JAMES A. ESTILL,
| Feb. II, lS6i.-wi Probate Judge.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-17
Ben. Butler.

General Buffers department is getting
" smaller by degrees and beautifully less. "
Terrible as he is to the unfortunate people
under his care, the rebels seem to pay very
little respect to his military power. Since
he has been in command he has lost nearly
all we held in North Carolina, while the
usbels have become so bold that they seize
vessels almost within sight of Fortress Mon.
roe. 1t is now reported that General XII
PATRICK s cavalry will he retainad for a
time on the Peninsula, in order to clear i
of bushwhackers who have started into lifi
under tho fostering care Of BUTLER. II
we had few more Buffers in command
the war would soon be ended, by the-Nortl
losing all the territory it has gained, and
in time, all its armies.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-17
Female WOOd-ChOppers.

In regard to the suffering in Southwest
ern Missouri, brief account of which has
already been tclegraphed, the Cairo CORES.
pondent of the Tribune says that women
and children in the most forlon and desti-
tute condition, some of them almost naked,
are coming into our posts at Cape Girar-
dcau and Pilot Knob, Some of them are
known to be Union refugees, and some of
them are wives and children of men who
have lost their lives in the rebel army
At Pilot Knob are more than 1000 living
in huts and tents. In the latter they could
have no fire, and many were badly frozen
during the cold weather. Some of them
women and girls to add to the half rations
supplied by the Government, engaged in
chopping wood at sixty cents cord. If it
can be had, mother and girl prefer a
cross-cut saw aud they use the AK only to
split. After she gets used to it, the cores
pondent says, women will chop from
three iourths to q cord day,
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-17
The very Document They wan


Tho Richmond Enquirer, 0filuding to
the charge Of the New York Tribune that
Lincoln's Amnesty Proclamation was not
published in the South, says
Gas to. the suppression of President
Lincoln S Proclamation of Amnesty it is
utterly false. The Enquirer published it in
full--so did every daily paper. twas ex.
actly. the kind Of Proclamation We wanted
Mr. Lincoln to make. 1t was the full and
complete confirmation Of all we had oharg-
cd upon Mr.. Lincoln il demonstrated by
confession, that we were correct when we
told the people Of the Confederate States
that the subiugation Of their liberties was to
be affected by their degradation to level
with their slaves. Itshocked the sensiblities
ofcvery class of the people, and was salts
factory evidence that not social ruin, but
the outrage of mothers, wives and sisters,
by brutalized negroes were the terms -
and the only terms of amnesty offered.
TO have suppressed this proclamation
would have been an act of stupendous folly.
The Tribune understands political capital in
party slang. This proclamation supplied
that capital; it could not be denied; it could
not be explained. Its meaning was palpa-
bic; its objects too plain to need explanation
or elucidation. We spread it before our
readers; called their attention to it, we in
vited them to read, and while we do not at
tribute to the proclamation the enlistments
that have taken place, We do believe that it
sensibly checks desertion.
1t is thus Lincoln aids and abets the Con-
federatcs Of the South. There can be no
doubt that all of his proclanatinns have had
that effect. No one is so stupid as not to
see it
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-17
How the soldier sleeps.

You would wonder, think, to see men lie
right down in the dusty road, under the full
noon sun of Tennessee and Alabama and -
asleep in a minute have passed hundftds
of such sleepers. A dry spot is mattrass,
the flap of blanket quite a downy pillow,
You would wonder, l think, to see a whole
Army Corps, as have without II shred of
tent to bless themselves with, lying anywhere
and everywhere in rain all night and not
a growl nor a grumble. | was curious to
see whether the pluck and good natuae was
washed out of them, and SO ! made my
way out of the snug, dry quarter, i am
ashamed to say l occupied, at FIVE in the
morning, to see what water had done with
them. Nothing Each soaked blanket
hatehed out as jolly fellow as you would
wish to sce-muddy, dripping, half Aoun'
dered,, forth they came, wringing themsely
es as they came out, with the look of troSl
of wet down" roosters in full rain storm
-plumage at half-mast but hearts trmp.
every time. If they swore--and some die
it was with laugh the sleepy fellow
were stirred up; then came the coffee, ant
they were as good as new Blood is thick
er than water. "-B. f. Tayler,
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-17
SheriGS Sale.
JANys II HUGE plaintin

JAMES H. HuLcE, plaintiff,
VS.. .....
BARBARA JORDAN ct al deft's
DY virtue of an order of sale issued from the
- Court of Common Pleas OF Holmes County,
Ohio, in u certain civil action therein pending,
wherein James ii. Hulce is plaintiff and Barbara
Jordan, ct al. are defendants and TO me directed
as sSherIfo of said county, l Will offer for sale at
public auction, at the north door of the Court
House, i'll the town OF Millersburg,
On Monday, the llh day Of April 1854,
at O'Clock r. NJ. of said day. the following des-
cribcd real estate to-wlt: Being part of ln-Lot
number elghty-threc in the town OF Millersburg;
Holmes county, Ohio, and running esst and west
seventy feet and north and south siNty-Six feet
Also, In-Lot number ninety eight in the old
record plat OF the town OF MillcrsbuIg, Holmes
county, Ohio.
Taken as the property of said Barbara Jordan,
ct al. to satisfy the claim ofsaid James IL. Hulce
Terms cash.
JOHN S. NELSON,
March TO- lS6t-pfS Sheriff.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-17
Substitute for Hutter.

The following "item for housekeepers"
is copied from the Baltimore Clipper
which is as we'll adapted to this meridian as
any other. AS butter is now selling at a
very steep price, with prospect Of going
still higher, it becomes necessity in great
many families to save it as much as possible,
A lady who is a famous house-keeper, re-
commends an economical plan for making
cake without butter, which may be usefu
to our lady readers" Take piece o.
salt pork, melt it down and strain it through
piece of course thin muslin. 1t is theI
white and firm, and is used like butter in al
any kind Of cake. In proud cake she as
sures US il is delicious, She says that afte
one trial she never used butter,
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-17
Expenditures ---- De
preCiatiOM OF the Currency.

Mr.. Galiatin, in his recent pamphlet ON
Currency, Debt and Taxation, lays down
the position that our disbursements during
three years past, have been the largest ever
made by any nation in the world in the same
length Of time, This proves that there new
er was Government or an Adminstra-
50 corrupt, pronligate and reckless as that
with which this country has been cursed
since the 18th Of March, 1861.
The same authority also says that with
the power now in the hands Of the Secreta-
ry Of the Treasury, he can make wages high
or low, and he can advance or put down the
value Of property in his discretion. y Such
is the tremendous power vested i'll the hands
of single man at Washington that he holds
at will the entire property Of the people
aud the subsistence of every man and that
Of his family is depcndendcnt upon the .udg-
ment, whim or caprice, OF II single money
Autocrat.
After the war of 1872" according. to
Mr.. Gallatin, 'thc greatest depreciation of
the currency at New York, in October, 1915,
was sixteen per cent. discount, and at Balti-
more in 1916, twenty per cent. discount; but
the discount at the present time on our Gov
ernmcnt legal tenders is thirty-thec per
cent Since Mr.. Gallatin wrote, the dis
count on the legal tenders has increased to
per cont This depreciation
it should be remembered takes place, not
at the close Of the war, but while it is being
rs the Administration leaders
claim, with the certainty of speedy and
successful termination, If the national cur
rency, with which Mr.. Lincoln banker has
furnished the people in place of our old-tlsh-
ioncd gold and silver coins, snd specle-pay-
ing bank paper is now at u discount Of thir-
ty-seven per cent, what will it be worth
when this war comes to an end, and the peo-
pile are burthcned with permanent nation
al debt of four or five thousand millions of
dollars. equal to one-tourth the value Of all
the property in the United States
Mr.. McCulloch, the Comptroller of the
Currency at Washington, in his late circu-
lar to Mr.. Chase's new National Banks, de-
scribes in few terse words the seeming pros
perity, false as the hectic flush on the cheek
of Il dying consumptive, arising from an in
tlated currency, and the inevitable conse-
quenccs that must follow. He says: IAN
increase of circulating medium initiates pri-
ces--high prices require increased circula'
tion-and SO they act and react upon each.
other, and no redundancy of currency ap.
pears = until collapse takes place ano
WHAT Is SUPPOSED to be real pros
perity is shown TO be WITHOUT A SUB
STANTlAL FOUNDATION, - States
man.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-17
The Exploded SANDER.

1t will be seen by the telegraph that the
infamous charge published by scuryy Abo-
escape on the night succeeding the battle of
Antietam, allowed him to do so-has been
to TO prove ths charge being dlscoveTed to De %,
probably hear no more Of this piece Of po-
litical villainy. Plain Dealer.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-17
A EOy0l Editor.

Some time ago the editor Of tho Clcve-
land Herald procured an appointment from
Governor ToD to visit and inspect the Ohio
troops on the Gulf He took pleasure ex'
cursion Of several weeks to Washington
Fortress Monroe, Charleston and interme,
diate landings, returned and recently sub
mitted his report, covering two pages o.
foolscap, and conveying the important in
formation that the Ohio troops were il
good condition on the lst Of January. Fo
this he received several thouannd dollars =
Iaysl man.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-17
ueprisals for Abolition Outra-
ges---Eettcr from MIR. Vaiiau-
dighaH 10 the Publishers Of
the "UaytOn Empire"
WINDSOR, CANADA WEST, !
March I. 1864.

WINDSOR, CANADA WEST,
" March Z, 1864.
Messrs. Hubbard d. Brother, Dayton, Ohio:
GENTLEMEN--I read, several days ago,
the teegrahic announcement Of the 'rid-
ding of the Empire Printing Office by
"furloughed soldiers" offer you no sym.
pathy, for that will avail nothing now or
hereafter. | do express to you my profound
regret that you were not prepared to nhict
on the spot, and in the midst OF the assault,
the complete punishment which the assail-
ants deserved; but am gratiGed to learn
that some of them did soon after receive
their Just deserts. But these cowardly acts
cannot always be guarded against. And
they do not primarily come from the 'sol-
diers. j" There is, therefore, but one reme-
dy for past and preventative of future inju-
rles; and that is instant, summary and ample
reprtsatsppon The persons andproperty Of the
men at home, ,ohose language and conduct,
are dl,oays melting these outrdgcS. No le-
gal nor military punishment is ever inflicted
upon the immediate Instruments. Retalia-
ton, therefore, is the only and rightful rem
edy in times like these. speak advisedly,
and recommend it in all cases hereafter. Ii
is of no avail to announce the falsehood
that both parties condemn it, after the
destruction has been consummated The
time has gone by for obedience without pro-
lection. speak decided language; but the
continual recurrence Of these outrages--fre-
quently attended with murder, and always
without redress-demands it. They must
be stopped, lot the consequences be what
they may. Reprisal3 in such cases are now
the only way left for return to law and
order.
Very truly,
n W.,