Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-07-13
ttct,ls OF News.

the latter. lie was lnulSpOSCu several
hours after the attack.
Gen. Granger has occupied Galveston,
Texas, but the General reports the forts not
worth possessing. The people generally, it
is said, manifest bitter feeling against the
Federal Government.
The Fourth of July was celebrated in
Richmond by procession, &c
Libby Prison, in Richmond, is now used
as Soldiers Home.
According to the Richmond correspond
cnt of the New York H,yuld, anigger in
surrection is feared in that city
Col Northrop, formerly Chief Commis-
sary of the rebel armies, has been arrested
by the government and imprisoned at Cas-
tel Thunder, Richmond.
Judge Ould has been released from con
inemcnt in Richmond, the charges against
him not being sustained.
Gen. Hatch has discovered, according to the
UcyuiHS Charleston correspondent, that
some Of the planters have made, in South
Carolina contracts with the freedmen that
virtually establishes system Of pconage. -
He has issued an order declaring such con
tracts null.
j. G. breckenridge has written a letter to
] IL W. i'lhN'' W. liltldtIy vi tliC ltDCl NOu-
grcss, in which he strongly urges clemcncy
to the people OF the South by the Washing
ton Government.
At Coshocton, on the ith, one of Sher,
mans soldiers Knocked down republican
for saying Gen. Sherman was no great
scratch
The Navy Department has determined
to send an irOn-clad to the Pacific-coast
The troops in the vicinity of Washington
have been near unanimous in their com
plants Of bad treatment by Commissaries
for month past. They say they Jared bet
| ter in the field in the campaign against
Richmond than in the Capital of the ma
| ton.
The cornerstone of the Soldiers Monu-
ment, at Gettysburg, Penn, was laid on
the 18th of July, with imposing ceremonies
! The abolitionsts Of Rhode Island, under
whose rule naturaIizcd foreigners are not
allowed to vote unless they possess prop
erty qualification are urging universal suf-
lragc for the niggers, without qualifications
of any kind. This justiies the charge that
Know Nothing abolitionists is cup with the
Niger and down with the Dutch"
The abotionists now say the "war is Il
failure, unless the field hands are permit
ted to vote
Mrs. Surratt, when the sentence of death
was announced to her said, II had no
hand in the murder Of the President"
Mrs. Taylor, daughter of cxPresident
Harrison, died at Cincinnati on the eth inst
A hotel is to be built at Bull Run
Heretofore it hasn't been much of a place
to stop at.
The Hon. JAS. G. Hall has been re-nom.
mated for the Senate in the 33d Senatorial
! District Of this State. As this District is
entitled to two Senators, Hon. p. Carlin, OF
tindlay, was nominated as the other candi-
date. The Democracy Of the counties com
posing the District can elect their candi-
dates, if they will pull together
Crocket, the lioh-tamcr, of IIowe's men
agerie and circus, was sun struck at Gin
cnnatl, while performing Friday afternoon
and died in the lions den.
Fred Douglass says the country will never
get rid of the negro question until it rccog-
nlzcd the political equality Of the black
race. Fred says he is in 'carncst," and
that he, and his friends, will agitatc until
they secure all the rights accorded to the
white race.
1t is now stated that there are in Texas
under the command of Major General
Sheridan, Union troops amounting to cigh-
! ty-iivc thousand men, very considerable
army, embracing due proportions Of infant
ry, cavalry and artillery. 1t is conjccturcd
that this concentration OF military force
hos more or less to do with Mexican affairs,
and that something like practical commen.
tary upon the Monroe doctrine may be the
result.
General Pope has completed his arrange
ments in reference to Indian affairs, and has
left Washington for ST. Louis.
One of the New York WcraWS South
Carolina correspondents, who has been
travelling through the State, is Of the opin-
ion that the amount of cotton remaining on
hand is very large, exceeding any estimate
yet published.
The South Carolina planters prefer ten
cents pound in gold for their cotton to ll.
teen cents in grccnhacks.
The New York UvdWS Vera Cruz CORE.
spondcnt mentions rumor that the ccssion
by Mexico to France of the Northern McXi-
can States, including Sonora, will be con
summatcd on the lSt instant, MaXimilian
issuing the decree.
The Emperor of Mexico was still in the
interior of the country, ON tour, and the
Empress had goneto meet him. They were
well received by the people.
The gucrrillas in ditfcrcnt parts of Mexico
were still giving employment to the Imperial
troops. Over 900 French soldiers have
lately arrived in Vera Cruz and passed into
the interior.
The town of Mention, Maryland, has al
most entirely been destroyed by fire,
The yellow fever is prevailing to an alarm
ing extent in Wilmington, North Carolina
E The Radicals assign as the reason VIII,
the Southern States should not be allowed
to resume their position in the Union that
they do not permit negro suffrage, Neither
do the Northern States, and if South Caro-
lima is to be rejected ON that ground W,
should have to turn out all the free State
except two or three in New England
The health Of the President continues t,
improve, and II Cabinet council was held ioI
the first time in two weeks.
, John Hardy, late editor of the Selma Al
abama) Sentinel, has been appointed Unite,
States Marshal in that State by the prcsi
dent.
Twcnty-thrcc eases of sunstrokc have oc
cured in Cincinnati since the 18th of July
5 The heat has been intense in the Queer
: City. Let our friends there come up here
whore we have cool brcczcs and comfortable
nights.
D Mrs Surr,tfS confassOr tbo Pow NJ,