Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-01-19
NEWS ITEMS.


The gunboat Rattlcr driftcd ashore in the
late storm between .Nicksburgand Natchez,
and was burned to the water edge by n
gang Of gucrrillas.
I An Indian war has burst out again on the
plains. The Indians attacked the Overland
Mail coach and robbed the Express They
destroyed the stage station. The Indians
were pursued by the troops and a number
Of them killed.
/ On the 9TH a desperate battle took place
near Julesburg, Nebraska between the lst
Nebraska Cavalry and a large body of lndi-
ans. The latter were defeated with consid-
cradle loss.
The workshops and depots of Georgia
Central Railroad are located at Savannah,
and are coniessedly the most gigantic, costly
and complete on the continent.
! Itispredicted that Thomas, with his army,
will follow in Sherman footsteps to Savan-
nah.
George n. Saunders, in letter to Dudley
Mann, claims that France will recognize the
Southern Confcderacy whether Great Brit
tain does or not.
! Gen. Sherman proposes to INCORPORATE
negroes into his army-50,O00 if he can
procure them.
Our President is not literary character
we know, but we supposed his reading took
wider range than an exchange asserts when
| it says he don't read the papers, and boasts
the only documents he has read since he has
been in the White House are the writings
of Orpheus G. Kerr, Artemus Ward and
Jonathan Q. Smith.
Its estimated that the present number of
petroleum companies in the United States is
| three hundred and fifty, with capitals rang
ing from $50, 600 to so, coo, 900 each. One
company proposing to consolidate several
others with it, has capital of SIS, 1000, 900.
An immense mine of emery has been dis
covered in Cheshire, Massachusetts,, of
quality unsurpassed by any in the world. -
/ Till now, all the emery used has been sub
ject to Il monopoly of two or three European
mercantile houses, but this one mine will
supply all the wants of manufacturers for
ages to come.
! 4 Washington dispatch says Secretary
| Fessendcn has asked for authority of Con
grcss to issue 5000, 600, 600 more 720 bonds.
The Army and Navy Journal makes the
:, singular announcement that Ma or-Cieneral
Meade has ordered each division of the Ar
my of the Potomac to prepare its graveyard
and fence it in, on the ground now occupied
by our forces before Richmond.
The Republicans took on terribly at Wash
ington, over Butler removal, and have en-
, tered protest against it. But it will be Of
, no avail
The new Senator'S from Nevada, Messrs
James w. Nye and William NJ Stewart
=, have sailed from San Francisco.
i Thcy are building new State House il
= California, which is said to cost two and
c half millions Of dollars. 1t will be severa
c years before it is completed.
d Increase Of taxation, or increase of green
C backs, is deemed absolutely necessary in or
10 der to meet the demand Of the Government
" The House Committee Of Ways and Mean
l. will recommend increased taxation.
II Uniontown, Kentucky, is in possession o
= the rebels, and every passing steamer is free
upon.
Gen Mcclellan sails for Europe the frs
e week in February, to be gone two years.
c Maximilian has issued manifesto, direct
. ing a revision, by his Ministry, of titles ant
y claims under which ecclesiastical property
Il has been for some time held, and, in effect
declaring that it belongs to the State, ant
r that it is in the province of the Governmen
to cXcrclSc.superior control over it.
: In the Confederate Senate resolution
' has been adopted eivicg thanks to their In
: dian allies in the Cherokee country.
II Mosby is still alive in a place of safety
- and his early recovery is anticipated