Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-04-27
NEWS ITEMS.

Some important arrests hacc been made
at Fortress Monroe in connection with the
late assassination of President Lincoln. -
They have been accumulating wealth, and
have been the recipient Of untold tavors
from the Government. Important dcyel
opemcnts are expected from it.
Twcnty-onc thousand Niggers have en-
tered the army from Kentucky alone
We have the account of the proceedings
Of body Of men styling themselves the
Legislature of Kansas. They have adop-
ted the abolition constitutional amendment
against any more slave States. The whole
thing is broad farce.
A war widow" in Tnwronceville, Tioga
county, Pa, advertiscs to lay down wager
walk one hundred miles without food, rest
or drink, one,iourth OF the proceeds to be
given to the Sanitary Commission.
The straits Of Mackinaw are open, tho
propeller Montgomery, from Sarnia for
Milwaukee, Passing through on the 10Th
inst
Gen. Reynolds the federal commander in
Arkansas, has offered Grant terms TO Gen
Pagan, with what result is as yet unknown
The report that Gen. Lyon had offered to
surrender to Gen, Meredith is untrue
The Arkansas Legislature has ratified the
amendment abolishing slav-
very, and has before 1t a bill distranchisng
all persons who have held Offices in the rcb-
el army.
From an official report it appears that
Lee surrendered 20, li5 men, so cannon, II
stand of arms, l., 100 wagons, Aissons, &c.
and 1 600 horses and mules
BY the capture of the deicnces Of Mobile,
the iodcrals gained possession of 3l6 pieces
Of artillery. The rebel gunboats, five in
number, escaped up the river; but it is be-
lleved they will be captured or destroyed
In the operations before Mobile the Fcder
ais lost | 800 men, and the robcl loss il
killed and wounded was in the vicinity o
1000.
Secretary Seward and his son continue tC
improve.
Mosby surrendered his force, numberin.
about 700 men, on the 18th inst, having
accepted terms similar to those granted Lee
Rosser has asked for the inclusion of his
command in the arrangement
Columbia, Ga, has been captured by
General Wilson, after fight with Forest,
in which the Rchs were badly defeated. -
A rebel paper reports that Writ Adams
routed body of fcderals at Pleasant
Ridge, Ala, on the 9th inst
Andrew Jackson, Jr, the adopted son Of
President Jackson, is dead.
Three boats have recently been burned by
the gucrrillas on the Hatchie river.
Arrangements are in progress for the OK
change OF 1000 prisoners, at naricn, Gcor-
gia.
Since the lst Of December last, about one
thousand six hundred cannon have been
captured from the rebs
a movement has been inaugurated al
Boston 10 raise the spm of $1,000 fol
presentation to Mr.. Lincoln.
The heir of the Turkish sultanate bcing
q dissol lutte idiot, the present sultan is en-,
deavoring to set him aside in favor of hi,
own son, lad seven or eight years of age
whom he proposes to send to Europe to b,
educated up to the standard of moderr
civilization and science.
The most ancient manuscripts are write,
without accents, stops, or separation be
tween the words, nor was it until after tn,
ninth century that copyists began to leav,
spaces between words,
1t is stated in some of the accounts of tn
assassination of the President that thor
was a sentinel station to protect the Presi
dental party. 1t so, what was he doin
while the struggle was taking place betwee
Rathbonc and the assassin? We do nc
hear Of him in the subsequent preceding
at all.
President johnson has issued a procl,
) nation setting apart Thursday, the 2bt
day of May, as a day Of fasting and praye