Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09

She died in beauty like star
Lost on the brow of day.
The South Carolinians found time to think
of something besides secession, on the fourth
of July. At the Whippy Swamp celebration
the following toast was offered
WOMAN:
A cure for every bane,
The polished link in beauty's chain;
a paragon hath every charm,
Mans tiercest FASHIONS to disarm;
Her voice for him is like the dove,
For him she weaves the web of love;
For him her prayer to Heaven ascends,
His manners and his SHIRTS she mends.
A GENUINE TERMAGAKr.-Th New Bed
ford Standard says that recently. in that city,a
married woman became enraged because her
husband refused to stay in the house as she
wished, and caught up their child. an infant
sixteen months old, and precipitated it out of
a second story window. The child fell upon
the earth in the yard beneath the window,
and strange to say, was but little hurt. The
stranges part of the story is that the child
had been unwell, but since its precipitation
from the window by its mother it has entirely
recovered its health.
UP TO H1M-A pedlar called on an elderly
lady the other day to dispose of some goods,
in conversation inquired if she could tell him
of any road that no pedlar ever travelled
Yes said she, 4 know of one,. which no ped
Ter ever has travelled, (the pedler's counte-
nance brightened) and that's the road to Hea-
ven'
In a church-yard in the north of England
is this epitaph upon one John Newtown:
| Here lies (alas) and more's the pity.
| All that remains of John Newcity'
To which is attached the following:
IN. B. The mans name was Newtown, but
/ it would not rhyme t.f
LEGAL DIsr1NcrIoN-Two prominent ad-
vocates in the eastern section, within fiftymiles
| of Bangor, were once engaged in a case in
court on opposite Sides Their feelings we're
very much enlisted in their clients favor. One
OF them, in the course of his remarks, made
assertions which very much excited the other,
who thereupon, sprang 10 his feel and ex-
claimed:
Brother c., do you say it as lawyer, or as
man If you say il as lawyer, tits very
well; but if you say it as man, you liel'
| PRESIDENT FILLMORE IN THE SrRAw.-In
his jaunt through the Old Dominion, accom-
panied by his cabinet, the President stopped
at Lower Brandon, where he showed that he
was practically acquainted with farming, fol
he seized bundle of wheat, and to the aston.
ishment not only of the natives but of his tray
cling companions, skilfully bound up a sheai
| with 81 double lie .r.
THE MODEL HYsBAND.-Mrs. Smith has
company to dinner and there are not straw.
berries enough, when she looks at Mr.. Smith
with a sweet smile, and offers to help him
lat the same time kicking him gently with
her slipper under the table) he always replies
No. thank you, dear, they don't agree with
me-
A gentleman paid his attentions to lady
who was inclined in favor of a Mr. Psalter; hel
partiality being very evident, the former took
occasion to ask, in room full of company
Pray, Miss, how far have you got in your
Psalter%9 The lady archly replied. AS far as
Blessed is the mani
MAssAcHusErTs.-The Wing State Conven-
ton is called to meet Springfield on Sep
/
cracy meet at Worchester on September 6tl
the Convention of the the Regulars (noW
pretty well coalitionized) will be held at Wor
cester on August goth. Robert G. Winthrop
is very extensively named as the Wing candi.
date for Governor. Buff. Com. ADV.
Two Quaker preachers. Eli and Ly bel Jones
sailed lately from New Bedford as missions
ries of that sect 20 Liberia, in Africa. They
are the first of the Quakers who have gone
from this country with such an object.
New Orleas, July %.
We learn that there is great excitement OF
the Rio Grande, Texas in consequence of the
Mexicans refusing to deliver runaway slave
| EgThe San Francisco Picayune, of Jun'
10th, refers to an organization of the Demo
cratic leaders in California. the objectof which
is to divide the State, with a view to the in
PRODUCTION of slavery into the southern portion
This plan is said to have received the sane
tion of the NOSE enlightened and responsible
men in the Democratic party, and has now as
sumed most serious aspect.
EgThe tolls on the Erie Canal this year
} up to July lst, are $23s,Ooo more than the,
were last year up 10 the same tlne, LnouSn III
tolls this season have been reduced about q
per cent. When enlarged, the business don
viii be enormous.
The first newspaper published in Virgins
was issued from Williamsburg, and sent II
subscribers weekly for fifty dollars year
Advertisement were inserted for subscriber
for ten dollars the first week and seven th'
second. aa
Mrs. Fish the Rochester rapper woman. ]
now the vicinity of Cincinnati. She lately yisi
ted Hamilton, and the editor of the Democra
hoaxed her, and obtained rappings and an
swers from person now living and well,
A Detroit paper says that there are in tina
State, (Michigan,) one million of sheep, ant
that the capital invested in them and in tn
land on which they are kept amounts to IS,
100000. @
GREAT SPEED.-A train of cars ran owe
the Eastern Railroad from Portsmouth to Bos
ton a day or two since, in one hour and fit
minutes HAVING made twelve stops The dis