Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-17
News Helms.


Hardy week passes without couple of
blockade runners getting into Charleston.
There was severe earthquake experi-
oncod in San Francisco, California, on the
5th of March
Is there to be "Another Richmond in the
feld?' The Newburyport Herald comes
out in vigorous recommendation of Gen.
Banks for the Presidency.
The German radical presses are violently
opposed to the President or the Secretary of
War running the churches" They seem
to be moro afraid of the clorgy than of the
Devil.
The "Spotted Fever" has appeared in
the village Of New Lexington, Ohio, and is
creating sad havoc The victims seldom
survive more than three days after the hrsc
attack. ....
The small Convention of Abolition Office
holders in Alexandria, Virginia, have drawn
up an ordinance prohibiting slavery in that
State.
Col. Dahlgreen was killed at Waterton,
in Kilpatrick's raid. Two bullets were
shot through his head.
The Richmond papers claim that 300 pris-
oners were taken from Fitzpatrick in hisraid.
The Richmond Wing is anxious they should
not be treated as prisoners, but blown from
the cannon s. mouth.
1t has been agreed in the council of war
at Washington to make a more decisive use
of the Potomac Army than ever before -
If necessary, it will be recognized, and a
new commander given it.
Mr.. Daytons son has arrived in Wash
ington from Paris 1t. is understood that
he brings the news that the French Govern
ment is about to allow the Confederate pri
vatcers free egress from the ports where
they receive repairs.
1t is rumored that Queen Victoria i.
, about to abdicate the English throne, ans
that the Prince of Wales will ascend it Il
Edward VII.
The "Union League in Leavenworth
! Kansas, is in stew about the Senatoria
election which resulted in the defeat of tn
@ notorious Jim Lane.
It Gen Resecrsns has issued an order in Mis-
souri,, requiring all persons attending reh
gious bodies to take more stringent oat
of allegiance. Old Abe is determined t
IL run the Churches.
|. There are but twelve Revolutionary pen
a sioners, and the House of Representative
u has voted them one hundred dollars eacl
II additional pensions.
l. In the Ohio Senate Mr.. Lang, one of tn
e Committee appointed to examine Govern
q or Tod accounts, stated that more waste
full, extravaqant and reckless expenditure
of public money never was known. Tn,
fund has been exhausted and squandereC
on political iavorites.
: The Conference Of the Methodist Episco
pal Church, in Baltimore, by vote of A
To TO, has openly made politics an article il
: their religious faith, and viii not recognize
, as church member any body not a ioynl,St
l. Nine hundred persons were killed by tn
explosion OF a powder magazine in Morocco
u Mrs Bcauregard, the wife of the rebc
:, General, was buried the other day wit
il great pomp and ceremony in New Orleans
Ir is claimed that the Confederates ha
mined the prisons in Richmond, and il
T. tended to blow them up, with all our pri,
3 oncrs, in case Fitzpatrick arrived there.
This is undoubtedly hoax.
., VERMONT, New Hampshire, Connect
y cut, Rhode Island, Indiana, Illinois, Micl
A. igan, iowa, and Ohio, are reported t
ia have filed their quota under the last cal