Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-10-26
NEWS ITEMS.

II mouse TOOHl, Sulail lrulIlc teHeiltiltS, WIFI
My four apartments, bring one hundred '
ollars per month. !
1t is reported that the British Govern i
nent has repudiated the attempt of Maxi /.
MILAN. in 1866, to extend his boundary in y
nail from y lucatan. The British Minister y.
lecares that Mexico has no claim on that
erritory.
The Government is busily engaged in
ceiling all its railroad rolling stock. |.
The increase in the price of paper has in
luced the Government to build new paper
mill.
A very important circular, containing
valuable recommendations, has just been
issued by the Commissioner Of Agricul-
turc.
The negroes in Texas arc using up all the
spelling and school-boo in that State.
Maximillian has issued decree inviting
emigration to Mexico, and announces the |
benefits which will be granted to all who
adopt Mexico as their home.
Captain Bcckwith, well known army off !
Ger, has been convicted Of forging soldiers
discharge papers, and has been sentenced
to be dismissed the service and confinement
in the Albany Pcnitentiary for two years,
The property Of the Confederate General
Corse has been restored to him.
General Saxton writes from Charleston
that 81, 900 blankets and large supply of
clothing, &c, will be needed this winter in
South Carolina, Georgia and the Sea Is
lands for suffering refugees, freedmen, &c.
This want will be a decided advantage to
the manufacturers Of shoddy, and will add
essentially to the blessedness of large and
still increasing public debt.
II is now reported from the city of Mex
leo that the Austrans were not defeated by
General Alatorrc, the Imperiaists having
captured the city Of Masentile, and roasted
alive portion of its inhabitants. This sto-
ry, coming as it does from suspicious
source, needs lirmation-espiciay that
part Of which relates to the roasting bust
ness.
The New York Aati- Slare,y Standard,
a Negro Suffrage organ, says there must be
no separate schools, churches, or callings
for persons on account of complexion OF
$ race" TO favor such it will, of course,
consider a mark of disloyaty.
Miss Harriet Lane, the niece of ex Pres
ident Buchanan is about to be married tc
Mr. Henry T.. johnson, a rich banker ol
+, , Baltimore.
Roger A. Pryor is writing book on the
inside of the Southern Coniederacy 1t will
appear in England and America.
: Wendell Phillips new lecture for the sea
t son is "Thc South Victorious" The per.
D pntual grumhler, what will he do if they LET
him into heaven?
A grand struggle is going on among the
young medical men from all parts Of the
country for the fourteen places on the med
ical staff ol'the regular army. The proper
t tion of applicants as to places is one hundred
to one
AS a remarkable instance of the duration
Of financial connection in London, it isnoteC
that the banking account of Barring Bro
theirs Il Co., with McsSrs Martin, Stone
Il Co., has Just reached it's Tooth year.
1t is understood in official circles, at Co
lumbus, that, to save harmony in the Re
publican party, Gov. Tod will connscnt t,
step in between Bob Scheck and Sherman
and take the United States Senatorshil
lhimsolf.
i On the 2lst, at Jackson, Miss, Judg
e Sharkcy and j. j.. Alcorn were elected I
,fI ). Senators,
o From dispatches received at the Stat
y Department from our Consul at Liverpool
l. dated October 9th, we learn that the choc
20 ra has appeared at Southampton, thoug
ID in a mild form.
t, The President on Saturday granted am
le nesty pardons to $50 South Carolnian,
10 among whom was VIM. K. Boyer once
So member of the United States House c
is Representatives from that State.
l' The candidates for delegates to the Flol
re- ida Convention, known to be in favor G
:" President johnson $ plan of reconstruction
have been elected.
A delegation waited on the President o
Saturday, to request him to appoint Il II;
ty tional day Of thanksgiving, ON account {
ce the restoration Of peace.
h., Alex. Ii. Stephens left Washington ft
his home on Saturday morning, accompi
. MED by his brother.
y 1t is said that an immense list of pardon
L. were made out on Saturday.
n The hostile attitude toward each other
IN some parts Of South Carolina Of the viii
er and blacks is represented as assuming
nd phase threatening serious results unless Il
he is this the case along portions Of the Goa
upon the sea Islands where the negro,
have been established on abandoned plant
tions subject to the control of the office
of the Frcedmen's Bureau. White Sout
Carolinians are much inccnscd against Il
l'rccdmcn's Bureau officials, whom tn,
ed charge with encouraging the negroes in the
assumptions.
Another loyal scoundrcl has come
grief Major John A. llalcdock, of Il
lElmira Military Depot has been sentcnc,
n be cashiered and disabled from holding al
er Office in the service Of the United STATE
cr and to pay a fine of SO, 900, for frauds,
T 20. ceiving bribes, completely with boun
NO jumpers, &C. The work Of clearing out t
ar Augcan stable of black republicanism
~ progressing as well as could be reasonal
expected.
1t is semi officially stated that forty m
A. lions of the new issue Of $50, ,OOO 900 s.
bonds for funding compound interest not
and certificates of indebtedness, have be
he taken. And further that the Secretary
Is the Treasury has decided to receive dep,
e its of gold, and to issue therefor certifcat
N payable on demand in gold. These gC
r. notes will be- receivable for customs, a
IS will be largely used in adjusting balances
hg New York.
y, The n. Y. HeraITS Richmond corr
I" II." pondent says that General Grant has reius
n, the application made by Henry \. Wi
ho who declines taking the oath, for the res
ho lh'o ration of land formerly owned by him,
he The brig Atlanta, of Philadelphia, bou
- or Mobile, is reported to have founder
ut sea on the 10th, and sunk two hours at