Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-06-08
Items of News.

The New York World says that Memori-
al Diplomatique makes known the fact that
President johnson has instructed the
American Minister IN London to ask for an
indemnity TO American cruisers, for the
damages done by the Alabama and other
Confederate cruisers built in England.
1t is said that the mission of General
Sickles to Bogota, South America, is for
obtaining grants of land, for the purpose of
settling The negroes of the United States
upon them The late President was will
ling to give fifteen millions of dollars for ad
equate territory.
The iron clads'and monitors belonging TO
the Western Gulf and Mississippi Squad
rons, are to be laid up, now that the war is
over. They will not be brought North but
will be laid up at some convenient point on
the Mississippi River.
A contract has been made and prelmin-
ary steps have been taken, for the building
of railroad on the ronte from Sioux City
to Montana and Idaho.
The present fhorses and carriage, which
President johnson declined, from New
York., brought 50, 800, but cost $500.
Great dissatisfaction is felt among the
Pennsylvania one-year men at an order of
the War Department reducing their boun-
ties twenty-five per cent.
Gen. Sherman was enthusiastically re-
ceived Friday in New York, but made no
speech, and had no public reception.
The radicals are said to be dissatisfied
with Gen. Halleck's management Of affairs
in Richmond, because he is too lenient to
the Confederates.
The story about gold being discovered in
: Venango, Pennsylvania, turns out to be
, false.
' Gov. Brown, of Georgia, has been re-
T. leased on parole
A terrible storm passed over johnson
# county, Kansas, on Wednesday night last,
Houses and fences were blown down, trees
II uprooted, and several cars thrown from the
l. track and wrecked Several persons were
If seriously injured, but no lives we lost. -
d Considerable property was destroyed in
It the vicinity of st. Louis.
J. The President has inaugurated the poll
y cy of giving soldiers cherkships by detailing
r private of an Iowa regiment for duty in
n his own Office.
= Mrs Lincoln has taken up her residence
g for the summer at Hyde Parkc, six miles
y out of Chicago.
ri A terrible outrage is said to have been
70 committed on the person of young lady,
= who has since died, near Washington on
"a Thursday, by three drunken officers. -
70 They were subsequently captured, and on
~ Saturday tried by a drum head court-mar-
" tial and sentenced to be shot.
70 Wendell Phillips pronounccs the new re-
l. publican PLATFORM Negro suffrage: Re-
es pudiation The war, he says, was So
in purely of the negro that if they fail to get
Is voting power, then the North has been
,I tnI vi ha f,r ti,,
al of the war debt.
h. Many thousands of mules are selling al
- auction in Washington by the United States
&c will continue until the number of animals is
1T reduced in proportion to the reduction o
the armies, now going on rapidly.
Ina little village in Iredell county, NORTH
e Carolina, there are twenty widows and one
hundred and eight fatherlcss children-
=. made 50 by the war
- Edward Gallagher, of Wheeling, en-
- gagged in putting roof upon the RandolI
4 House, Bcllaire, tripped and fell from the
(. roof distance of forty feet from the ground
He survived but fifteen minutes after h,
G fell
,s The New York Herolds correspondent
=, says the government has determined to turr
-, over Davis to the civil authorities.
s. 1t is said that Secretary Stanton intends
,e to put in rejoinder on Sherman, having
" possessed himself of Johnston's and Beau
d regards favorable views of the negotiation.
1t The slaves who left their homes when
,e our troops passed through the State OF
at North Carolina, and went to Newbcrn it
at great numbers, are, as a general thing, re
lie turning after much suffering satisfied tina
there is ''No Place Like Home. Hence
st the numbers at Newbern are decreasing
NJ about five thousand month.
a.: 1t is said that Reverdy johnson, the coun
Q sci for the alleged assassination conspirators
o' has prepared, in their behalf, a paper, deny
ing the jurisdiction of the tribunal that as
sumes to try them.
The New York Heralds Washingto
IN correspondence says Congressman Harris
il of Maryland, was sentenced to three years
10 imprisonment and forfeiture of his politica
:, rights The President approved the finding
IL but committed the sentence
Is Senator Yulee formerly U. s. Senate
'c from Florida has come into Jacksonville
c and given himself up to the Union author
"a tiles. He is anxious to resume his position
- >, as United States citizen, and recovery hi
property.
r The city of Washington is filling up will
if the political leaders of the rebellion, excep
" ted in the Amnesty Proclamation. Man.
y. of them have had frequent interviews witt
" the President