Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-03-30
NEWS ITEM 8.

damage done by Sheridan to the Rebels
) amounts to $50 O00,000 He believes the
Confederate forces at Richmond is about
sixty thousand strong, exclusive of the
Home Guards in and about Richmond.
The Richmond Erdminer says the con.
scription of negroes goes on with difficulty,
and guards are stationed at every camp to
prevent the negroes from escaping.
The Richmond Dt$pdtch of the Dist says
Kirby Smith has 20, 600 niger troops organ
lied and armed west of the Mississippi
The Montgomery Ala. Ma1 says the de-
preston which is seiziug the country is sap
ping the vitals Of its power.
The Richmond ,Seatiad says Commodore
Hollins has not been killed, as reported.
The Lynchburg Tygtntan says the Or
ange and Alexandria Railroad has not been
damaged as much as was anticipated On
ly six bridges were burnt, and mile and a
half Of track tore up.
The Washington special says the Spanish
Government has forbidden the further re-
pairs or fitting out Of the rebel ram Stone
rail at Ferrol, which prevents her from 60
ing to sea.
the official organ of the President, is out in
mends liberal terms to the rebels, in order
to avoid further bloodshcd.
There are now nine hundred and thirteen
National Banks, and many applications
are pending for conversion from State to
National Banks.
The State of Arkansas has been taken
from Gen. Canby's command and added to
Gen. Pope's.
The cotton plantations along the Missis-
sippi are nearly all abandoned this spring,
because there are no troops to protect them
against guerrillas.
The Proclamation of the President eau
& tlons against providing arms andmunitionso OF
war to hostile Indians within the limits of
the United States, by persons dwelling in
= adjacent foreign territory. The reader is
| left to infer whether the threats contained
q apply to the people Of Canada or Mexico.
= A number Of offices in Maryland have
4 been declared vacant by the Legislature, on
account Of 'disloyalty'' of those whom the
c people elected This is most attrocious
. outrage, and shows that Maryland is no
j. longer State with Republican institutions.
+ The New York HeraHs Key West
# Fla correspondent says the object Of the
l. late Florida campaign Of Gen. Newton was
r to capture st. Marks. In this respect the
u enterprise failed. lie could not take it.
! 1t is claimed that a statement was recent
II y made in the South Carolina Legislature
O to the effect that the entire effective force
o Of the Gonlederacy was only l20, 900 men,
+ and official documents were introduced
from Richmond to sustain the statement.
y The New York HeraM prints official
documents to show that there is complete
rupture between Maxmalian, in Mexico,
c and the Catholic Church. The Pope gives
= advice to MaXimilian that is disrcgarded. -
The Archbishops and Bishops Of Mexico
also protest against the acts of the new
, Emperor and appeal for a suspension of
the measures against the Church. The ap-
peals were unheard and the final decrees of
f religious tolerance and the confirmation of
the reform laws of Juarez were pronounced
After President Lincoln delivered his
! "pious' Inaugural Address, in which he
expresses doubts whether the Lord was on
c the Federal or Rebel side in the prosentc con.
e fict, he concl9ded the days performances
- tent Office gotten up by sanctmonious re
20 formers who are engaged in the cause OF
&c God and humanity M. Vernon Buaner.
- While prayer meetings were being held
Is inthousands olChrstian Churches through
d out the land, and prayers offered up for tn,
If success of the 'Government,' Andy John
=, son was in bcastly state Of intoXication
y while being sworn into Office, and Abraham
NJ Lincoln was attending ball at the Patent
" Office in Washington. What do the
l. preachers think Of that ?-.M Vernon
:, Banner
to Behold the effects of Abolition rule !
:. Four years of civil war; the country one
% vast Cemetery; an overwhelming nationa
5 debt; impending national bankruptcy
vc thieves and pIundercrs in office IL clowl
cs for President and drunkard for Vice Pres
IN idcnt o, my county? Who does no
=, - mourn for thee ?-IW Vernon Banner.
-. 1t is announced that the President ha
y appained James Gordon Bennett, the sa
sc tanic editor of the New York Hcrad, Min
is ster to France. Bennett, vile as he is
70 considered it no honor to accept office unde
:, this most corrupt and wicked administration
:" and declined the appointment, Mt. Tc,
G non Banner.
r. 1t is reported that there is no scarcity o
Of provisions in South Carolina, but there i
5, no money to purchase them.
t. The e. s. gunboat Niagara has gone in
~ w NnIIcIh, III Nldin WIN II view 10 lnllON
out To sea, mt once, the Confederate ran
10 Olinde, itshc should make such an attempt
On the 18th a grand military movcmen
u by the naval and land forces was commence,
against Mobile There is no reason t.
n doubt that the news of severe battle 70
h the possession Of Mobile will soon reach us
l. The Richmond Sentinel, of the 22d
y says that Eastern Louisiana is infested witt
4 Iiayhawkers, robbers and murderers and, ev
J, erything is in anarchy
u Gen, Singleton brings back ntelligenc,
!, that there is not the slightest probability o
. :. peace, but, on the contrary, continuanc,
! ! of the war.
: Michigan has nearly three million dol
! lars capital invested in salt works.
From the Army OF the James.
i NEW York March 27