Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1866-01-25
NEWS ITEMS.

cred powerful speech IN the tni'cd states
Senate last week.
The Government has realized, within a
few weeks, from the sale of Quarternas-
tcrs' property in the South, about seven
hundred thousand dollars.
Northern men who went South, particu-
larly in the Gulf States, are returning North,
on account of the hostility to them 10y South
crn citizens. BY the lst of May all who can
get away will have left the South and re-
turned home.
Colonel Mosby, who was arrested at Ices
burg few days since, is held subject to the
orders Of General Ayres, commander at
Winchester
1t is stated that the revelations Of cotton
frauds in the South will implicate high mil
itary and civil officials, and present the most
astounding disclosures
General Howard, Of the Freedmen $ Bu-
reau, has ordered that negro children shall
be taught in the public schools Of Maryland
the same us white children.
The President has stated that he will grant
no more Southern pardons at present
A newly arrived John Chinaman in Cal.
: ifOrna purchased some ice last summer
and finding it very wet laid it out to dry in
the sun On going to look for it again, he
found it had disappeared, and forthwith ac
cused the whole Chinese ncighborhood with
larceny. a general riot was the conse-
quencc.
Judge Field, of California, who was in
Washington, came near being the victim,
lately, Of an Internal machine sent in box
to his address from California.
I Mr. Harlan, the Secretary Of the Interior,
will not resign that place until his Senatori
al term commcnccs-in March, 1867.
The blockade of Chiian ports has been
raised, SO as to allow Spain to attend to
Peru.
The order mastering out of service all
white troops in Texas has been revoked. -
Nonegro troops are to be retained in service.
\ Cotton Manufacturing Company has
recently been formed in Chicago, with q
capital ofSjOO, 900.
i A bill was introduced into the Senate OF
Kentucky few days since to incorporate q
, negro bank in Louisville,
s'evcra. fires in buildings occupied by
,olore1 persons in WASHINGTON having oc-
CURED. The authorities are investigating the
matter.
1t is asserted, by those who know nothing
A about 1t, that the first report of the Recon
s;rIciOn Committee will cmbody a propo.
sition for an amendment of the Constitu-
ton.
1t is stated that Butler reply to General
g Grant is nearly finished and will soon APP
: pear with the imprint of a New York pub
fishing house. So, that bottle is to be un-
= corked.
General Price has a plantation in Mexico
'of six hundred and forty acres, from which
he raised s., 900 worth of coffee Governor
! lsham Harris and Gen. Ewcll are among
70 his nearest neighbors.
George Wilkins Kendall, the originator
fthe New Orleans Hcuyunc, and its lead
ing editor for many years, but for the last
ten or twelve years large planter and
| sheep raiser in Texas, has returned to New
f Orleans, and again taken charge Of the
iic"y"nc.
The rcinGorccmcnts reaching Mexico from
Europe, the last week in December, num-
bercd |, 200
Hon. John G.. Davis, long a member of
Congress from the Tcrre llautc District,
died Thursday Of apopcxy.
The cholera is still raging at the French
island of Guadaloupc, the average ofdeaths
, being one hundred and thirty four day, in
Il population Of lOOoo.
A rumorcd proposal to cedc St. Domingo
to England, is creating some comment at
bermuda.
There was Slight shock Of an earth
quake ut Vera Cruz on the 9th of January
The steamer Continental sailed Thursday
from New York for Washington Territory
with - women in search of husbands. Mr..
Merccrs enterprise is failure.
The latest adviccs from the West Iudics
announce that the bill abolishing the old
Constitution of Jamaica and vesting al
= legislative power in the hands of nominee.
| of the English Crown has passed the Colo
NAL Parliament, and only awaits the sane
, ton of the Homo Government to become
, IA law.
In the kentucky House the llomcstea
+ Exemption Bill has passed by Il vote q
:, twenty three yeas and eleven nays. Thl
,r bill cxcmpts from execution and attachmcn
:. ten acres of land, not to exceed in valu
: 81 900.
- A letter from the Collector of Customs n
l. CInrksvillr, Texas, states that regiment o
colorcd troops, under Colonel Davis, tool
skitls and crossed the river and captures
It Bagdad They then began plundcring tn
v place and killing the people The scene i
represented as being ndescribable. Git
If 2cnS were shot down for refusing to Civ
T.. their money.
Mr. Mcfarland offered resolution in tn
n Senate of Ohio to disiranchsc armed traitor
# and draft skcdaddlcrs, which was ordere
e to be printed. This is supposed to be
l. blow aimed at the Loyal l.caguers, and othc
4 enemies of civil liberty.
At The Democratic County Convention @
?. Allcghany county instructed its delegates t.
d vote for the nomination of Gen. George W
II Cnss for Governor, at the next Democrat
= State Convention.
: II is said by those who arc learned in sucl
I matters, that this little world Of ours passc,
through the tail of huge comet on the l9tl
Of June last. We suspected that some
= thing was the matter, about those days.
!. Mr. Ridley introduced into the Gcorgi;
Legislature, on the 22d, n series of rcsolu
;ions recommending to President johnson
l.. general amnesty and pardon.
!. Tho New York papers announce the ap
,pcarancc of n new counterfeit one hundrc,
4 dollar National Currency Note, well exc
"a cutcd
T. Crime il rampant in indianapolis. TIL,
= courts are doing land Office business in th
Ic way of sending scoundrcls of every grade /,
Of the State prison. But something more i
lt evidently needed to hc done and a Nigilanc
cr Committee il seriously talked of