Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-06-29
NEWS ITEMS.

Office department, the Confederate States
were in arrears for postage in the beginning |
Of the war $3.50. 600. Several of the in |
dcbted Postmastcrs arc paying up, ond have
forwarded the money.
i 1t is said that Tx Gov. Wright, of Indi-
ana, will be appointed to his old place OF
! Minister at Berlin.
Forty-ono prisoners, in California, who
were in military custody, under General
/ Mcdowell, have been released upon taking
the oath of allegiance.
/ The Imperialists have again been success
/ full in Mexico, and several of the leaders of
the Liberal party have been taken prison
ers; but there are reports Of disorganiza-
ton among Mexican troops. 1t is also
stated that the Empress exercises more au-
thorty in the Empire than MaXimilian, and
/ that her orders aud bchcsts are the law Of
! Mexico.
! A large number of the late citizens Of
the Southern Coniedcr1cy, who have fled
to Mexico, have resolved upon adopting
the Empire as their future place OF residence
and home.
There have been new discoveries of gold
in California, aud favorable news has been
received at San Fsancisco from the old
mines.
The Apacha Indians are committing
: more outrages. Troops from California
, have been sent on theirtrack.
The citizens of Dinwddie, Virginia, are
bitterly hostile to the negro, and have posi-
lively refused to employ them ON their plan
= tatons except for So month.
On last Tuesday there was mutiny
i among the ID United States Niger Cavalry
V on board steamer lying at the wharf il
. Portsmouth. They took posscssi on Of the
y :, vessel, and refused to permit its departure
Il They went ashore, and run riot through the
d town Of Portsmouth. White troops were
It collected and the niggers overpowered
-, drove back to the ship, disarmGd them, ant
" sent the ship down the bay.
a The forts around Washington are to be
ID reduced to twenty-five. which are to be
IS strengthened and so constructed as to en-
or circle the city.
- The force recently sent out for the buria
of the remains of soldiers, killed in the bat
thc-fcld between the Wilderness anC
Richmond, are rapidly progressing in thei
n humane work. lIcadboards are erected ove
the graves, inscribed with all the inlorma
ton possible to be obtained, and the in
- scription registered at the Office of Captain
&c Moore, who has charge of the burial party
II The demands for more National Bank
10 and currency circulation are so pressing
now that the States heretofore in rebellion
are demanding currency, that Congress
e will be called upon, among its earliest Gu
rs actments, to increase the apportionment o
lc National Bank capital.
a The niggers of the South are crying an
dying for bread and the Aboltion,ts wan
to give them vote. There's philanthro
n py for you.
SO President johnson has suffered an ire
lie parable loss--the loyal, " grccnbac
s. ''bloodhounds of Zion" have quit proyini
70 for him.
70 The late mutinios among the nigge
:. troops at Fortress Monroe and Norfolk
l. destined for Texas, ought to close tn,
III mouths Of the negro suffrage advocate
ut forever; but they will not. Nothing bu
~, death will drive a hobby out of the brain o
a radical.
It's reported by telegraph that Gcnori
10 Grant gave "A reception to the members
he the Union League and their families
", Philadelphia on Saturday Many anon
!; hianumorousf friends and admirers will rcgr,
:. to learn that he lends any especial COUNT
Is nance to any secret oath bound political il
Is sttutlon.
re The Providence .JounaI mentions as 4
- interesting fact that the Chief Justice of Il
ofI Supreme Court of the United States has
o' grandson who is native of Rhode Islam
IN aud adds "We are pleased to be able
Is? announce that Mrs Senator Sprague al
family are quite as well as could be expe,
h, ed.
''' Some of the dsloyal people speak of Il
ETC Internal Revenue tax as the "lnfernal Re
,g cuuc." But, in view of the probable du
,es alton which it will he imposed, it 5 suggest
20 that Eternal Revenue better expresses pu
- lie opinion.
'oh Gen. Butler friends are trying to obta
en- for him the appointment either Of Cover
nd or Of South Carolina or Idaho,
- The latest advises from Panama rcprcsc
,ry that the revolution still progresses in Per
-; and that the rcvoutionists in Salvador we
'u' defeated.
as II is stated that the mission of Gcncr
ne Dix to Canada is to assure the Canada
lth authorities that there must bc a reform
,yy the abuses of the right of asylum in bcha
of rebel agents
',' John Minor Bolts has Succccdclin gcttir
o. an order for the payment of $1,000 #
lls, wood, represented to have been furnishes
taken or destroyed since the war began.
,ey The headquarters oftho Army of the r
voc tomac, which are now ON the Virginia sic
OF the river, and near the Long Bridge, a
ch to be broken up in day on two. The IN,
be are being mustered out so fast that only
ust skeleton Of the army now remains
all In every exchange we receive We re-
nj some account of soldiers being swindled
Il" sharpcrs and scoundrcls. The boys in bl
should keep their eyes open, and be partic
sh lary careful not to make the acquantan
ed. of strangers.
th Roger A. Pryor has been pardoncd. T
,ho situation is said now to be, Good mornin
', ' Mr. President, ask your pardon, y
'"' A Democratic exchange say, Jact
BrinkerhoH, the abolition candidate for 5
,m prcme Judgo-a notorious Office seeker II,
itu n sell,constitutcd Provost Marshal al-ran /
nj, hind his ticket eight thousand votes at t
NY October election, 1850.
'P.' Milton Sayler ESQ, of Cincinnati,
h Is suggested as n candidate for Attorney &c
rse- cral before the Democratic State Conyt
ger ton. Sayler is gifted and eloquent spoa
;n,, er, good lawyer, and a capital good tGllo
n arl The New York Herali, in alluding q,
o"' torlally to the President, says; There
N II also some old signs of the times IN his re
tons with Northern men, 1t is said Il
the other day he admitted John Van Bun
I. to a satisfactory two hours convcrsnti,