Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-03-02
NEWS ITEMS.

The Confederate Congress lower house,
has passed the bill ~ arm 200, 900 negroes
The Senate, il is said, will also pass the
same bill
The first men 10 rcpudiatc the legal ten.
der grecnbacks, aud 10 demand gold in their
stead, is the loyal Republican Legislature Of
Illinois.
1t il stated that adyiccs from France show
that the reported ccssion Of Sonora is With.
out foundation aud that the relations be.
tween France and the United States are not
likely to be disturbed.
The ~ J. HeruHs Washington special
says: General Singleton, Ill.,, J a peace
Democrat, who, it will be remembered re-
Gently visited the rebel capital, has left
Washlngton again on second excursion TO
that place, accompanied by Judge Hughes,
late Of the Court Of Claims it Is supposed
on peace mission.
The Richmond Eaquirer Of the 10th. has
u frantic article on the condition of rebellion,
III which 1t proposes to take one fifth Of the
cotton aud tobacco crops to carry on the war.
1t says the situation of the country is too
serious, and the calamities which threaten
their cause too great, TO waste, time in de-
nunciation.
President Lincoln has pardoned the no.
torlous Col Fish, late Provost Marshal of
Baltimore, whose corruptions and brutality
were a few months since, matter of indignant
comment on the part of northern journal -
Of course.
Roger A. Pryor has been released from
Fort Lafayette, by Mr.. Lincoln, with view
to eflecting his own exchange He is an
old journalistic friend of Col Forney, and is
ordered to report to John W.. at Washing
ton. Happy family.
The Washington correspondent of the
ComD,,rcial states that four per cent. of the
United States Senate has been dead drunk
for several months, and that ten per cent
OF the same body is in hourly danger of
0eltrium trc1neHs.
A poctical contributor cc the Crisis al
luding to the admission ofa negro topractice
law IN the Supreme Court Of the L. s.,
thus gushingly breaks forth:
"CHAsE on the bcnch-niggcr ut the bar,
Go away white man--you's no business dar."
Tom Hubbard, of the Dayton Empiye
fires off the following squib Drafted men
are supposed to be unwilling soldiers. At
all events, they look uRitormaiy blue after
they are mustered into the service"
Those preachers who are subject to draft
are now giving their hearers sermons from
Lamentations.
In Brazil when friend introduces a
friend hesays, ''if he steals anything | am
accountable for it" No Brazilian should
ever introduce 'loyal' Abolition Office
holder, unless he has the collatcrals in his
pocket.
Governor Vance, of North Carolina. has
issued proclamation, in which he declares
that the Southern struggle shall never be
given up. He entreats the people to rise,
and says all the disasters of the South are
caused by the soldiers being absent without
leave.
Some of the Republican press is very in
dignant over the parole Of Roger A. Pryor,
a prisoner of war, by the President.
An influential eastern Administration pa
per says, that the evacuation of Charleston
! by the rebels is not an evidence of despera-
ton, but that it means mischief to the Fed.
eral arms.
! The Ecan,incr says Richmond is more safe
than it was in May last, when Grant was
moving on it. 1t is true they have not as
many troops as then, and neither have the
Fcderals by IA great deal
The quota of Illinois, like the rest of the
Western States, seems excessive Cover.
nor Oglesby, the new Republican Governor
says hell be ID to h--ll if man
more than the just quota shall be taken
| from Illinois ~