Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-11-30
NEWS ITEMS.

A poor woman living on Kelley street, in
GAINESVILLE, was robbed by negro, the other
day, of iorty-two dollars in greenbacks.
The falsehoods concerning the diSband-
mcnt of the Government Detective force,
so industriously circulated by the agents
and newsmongers of the Associated Press,
are now refuted by statement from the
same source which in so many words says
that the Government detective force so far
from being disbanded, hasa new, important,
and legitimate work laid out tor it i'll the
chief cities of the Union, and along the
borders to detect and apprehend counter
feiters of greenbacks smugglcrs and de-
frauders of Internal Revenue.
Mrs. Clement G. Clay has been informed
so the dispatches say-that her husband
cannot be pardoned.
Internal Revenue receipts are falling Off
This will render necessary further issue Of
grccnbacks.
The Russian Telegraph Company have
been furnished with vessel belonging to
the Navy. BY what authority is not stated.
/ There is said to be no opposition to Col
fax's reelection to the speakership. A
Washington paper says he has received let
tcrs from ii. j. Raymond and General
Banks, announcing that they will not be
candidates.
The British minister has been instructed
to urge urge upon the United States gov
crnment the propriety of making a new
Canadian reciprocity treaty, and negOtia-
ton to that end will be opened at an early
day.
A collision occurred on the night of the
2ith, between the Niagara and Post Boy,
on the Mississippi river, seven miles above
| Helena. The Niagara sunk in twenty feet
of water, and one hundred deck passengers,
mostly discharged colored soldiers, were
drowned. The cabin passengers and crew
were all saved. The Niagara was valued at
| 100000. No insurance. She had 200
tons of freight on board. The Post Boy
was unnjurcd.
A Washington special says the medical
officers Of the Freedmen's Bureau in Rich
mond, report an increase Of disease among
the colored population of that city, which
is now estimated at $4,000. Its becoming
more apparent that the greater portion OF
the above number have their residences inn
mediatcly in the city, while the residue are
quartercd in the larger rebel camps that
everywhere environ the town. The Or.
phan Asylum for blacks, instituted by the
Bureau, has recently been taken in charge
By the society Of Friends there, with about
800 inmates.
The two smallest animals mentioned in
the Bible-the widows mite" and the
wicked flee" (lea. "
There are now only one hundred enlisted
men belonging tothc Netcrn Reserve Corps
twelve hundred and fifty having recently
been mustered out Of the service.
General Carl Schurz has given an opinion
to the President, that if negro suffrage is
permitted in the South, it will require u
large standing army.
Southern postmastcrs are required to pay
up all balances due the government at the
breaking out of the war.
There are 20, 900 applications for pardons
on file in Washington; 5000 have been
granted
A San Francisco dispatch of the 22d
states that storm Of rain had prevailed
there during the past week, the most Sc
we're since the flood of 1861. Communca-
ton with the interior was cut off, except by
water and telegraph. A large amount of
damage had been done to railroad, mining
and other property, and there were no signs
Of the storm abating.
| There is bitter feeling against England
in Washington for allowing the officers and
crew Of the Shenandoah to escape. The
general impression appears to be that they
must be given up to the government under
the extladition treaty. as it is thoughtit car
be proved from her log book that she took ;
number of prizes after being informed o
the closcof the war.
A military commission is to investgat,
, the enlistment of Prussian subjects by tn,
state of Massachusetts during the wal.