Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-18

News Items.

! the interests of the free or stolen negroes.
$ JouN BRoUGH, Governor of Ohio, has
, appointed J. j. Winans Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas in the Second Ju-
dica District, in place Of White, appoint
J cd Supreme Judge. VT
The son of Governor Bramlette made
strong speech last week in the Kentucky
} House of Representatives against the abo-
/ lition policy of the Administration
J SOUTHERN sympathizers in Baltimore
pronounce the reported arrest of De Bow,
Of De BoU's Rcticc, in the South, by
the Davis Government, canard..
| THERE is no instance of the Joff Davis
Government supprcssing any newspaper
in opposition to it, although there are
number of such in the South
| Ir is reported that the Confederate Ar
my of General Polk, in Mississippi, is be-
tween fifteen and twenty thousand strong.
TIE House Military Committee have
agreed to a resolution that all Generals,
who shall not have been employed for three
months before the 10th of March next,
shall be discharged from the service,
The Senate Judiciary Committee has
. agreed to abolish slavery in the United
, States, which is as much as to say that
Lincolns proclamation to that effect
amounts to nothing.
JIM LANE has gone up in Kansas. He
! has been beaten for the United States SEN
e ate. Governor Carny takes his place after
the 4th of March.
GEN BANKS has issued lengthy proc
e lamation in Louisiana concerning the work
ing Of the abandoned plantations. He does
# not seem to be in favor of the fogging of
= the free negroes by their employers, and
J. interdicts it.
o TIE Secretary of War has ordered the
? suspension Of pay to three or four hundred
. Colonies, for neglecting to forward proper
|, returns to the Adutant Generals Office. -
II He has also stopped the pay of about two
hundred company and field officers for the
same reason
II IT is thought that perhaps the Senate
amendments to the whisky tax may be adop.
NJ ted by the House These amendments fN
III the duty after July, at eighty cents gal
5 lon, and do not tax the stocl; on hand
3 GEN SICKLEs is to be sent to Arkansas
J. by the President, to fix up the election il
Sc that State.
GEN BrTLER has introduced the Mas
|" sachusetts Common School system at Fort
&c ress Monroe and Norfolk Whether But
p Ter is one of the teachers or not is not sta
/ ted.
o OUR Government is not inclined to rccog
nize the Dominican Republic as bclliger
ent power.
3, SOME arrests are being made in Rich
= mond for a conspiracy to release the FEEDER
al prisoners and destroy the Government
works.
GEN. BREcKINnIpuE isto have command
in South west Virginia.
II TuE Confcderates claim to have repulset
the Federals with some loss when the latte
-. made an effort to cross the Rapidan at Nor
" tons Ford.
~ TIE Lieut.. Governor of South Carolin
n is dead.
- - Tn rebels have thirty-fvo thousand mel
" West OF the Mississippi.
p WARSAW, North Carolina, has been des
9, troycd by an accidental fire.
- The United States Senate has passed
bill prohibiting any Member of Congress
or head of Department receiving any com
ID pensation for acting as attorney or agen
Y where the United States is party. Tn
u penalty for violating the law is fine and i'm
:, prisonment
's, TIE Presidents stable in Washngto
u has been destroyed by fire, AMI six horse
perishcd in the flames.
d, THE Representative Chambers in Aus
mt tria and Prussia have voted to sustain thoq
al Governments in their war with Denmar
n policy.
We The House of Representatives in Cor
to grcss refuses to allow the writ of habeo
so corpus to those who desire to recover thei
ks boys who have enlisted in the army befor
they were of tho requisite age.
The Virginia Legislature isoccupied wit
the consideration of resolution reduestin
he the Confederate authorities to suspend the
IN outlawry against Butler, until the exchang
is of prisoners is effected.
'c- ATLANTA will be destroyed, it is said, b,
cy fore it will be captured.
M STARVATION is not thought to be mm
od ncnt in the South, as there are plenty
iit sweet potatoes.
re JEFFERSON DAVIS has issued bold, d,
cr iiant and hopeful address to the rebel arm.
o. The victories of Shlo, Pcrryville, Murircc
We boro, the Chckahominy Manassas, Frcde
icksburg and Charlottesville are referred
with triumphant air, and the downfall
the Union armies is confidently prcdictet
y ~ PARsoN BRowNLow has gotten back
y Cincinnati. That tells the story. The rel
lP els are about to advance on Knoxville. -
What becomes of old Brownlow's rilul
~ . sheet is not known, The rebel TsaHlato,
W making tracks for Cincinnati picture i
; think of it,
~ A Confederate Lieutenant and two pr
- Yates have been captured near Haine'
B!uE, and shot, for numbering negro so
der.
i'll SEVERAL prisoners made their oscar
In from the Cairo Jail during the night of tt
$50 18th inst,
,ct lT is reported that the country arouu