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The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1851-05-17

How TO Do 1r!-There is good sound
sense in the following advice to young men
and women, who are thinking of matrimony.
1t is from an article by Grant Thorburr, IN
the last number of the Home Journal:
"There is no;iiiug 10 lie gained in dang
ling for twelvemOnth after sensible wo-
out wisdom. Tell your wish, like a man, and
not like blubbering school-boy. She will
never trifle with your affections; aud if
there are three grains of common sense in
your muckle carcase, she will be your own
before one month has passed. See the his
tory OF Rebeeca, in Genesis, oath chapter,
57th verse. When .Abraham's servnnt had
concluded the preliminary contract with Mrs.
Laban, on the part Of her daughter, to be-
come the wife of Isaac, the old man was
anxious to get homo TO show his young
master the bonny lass lie had brought him:
the mother wished him TO remain in few
days, to recruit himself and Bis camels. He
persisting, it was finally referred to the
daughter. awe will call the darnsel and
inquire at her MOUTH said the mother.
When Rebccca appeared, her mother asked
"wilt thou 20 with this mana" Rebecca re-
piled, II will CO." =.
"There was noble girl for you. No
tear starting from her black eyes; no whin-
ing, nor simpering make-believe, nor mock
modesty; but what her heart wished, ber
lips uttered. Like an honest maiden, she.
replied, I will co. Now, young ladies, go
thou and do likewise. When the man
whom you prefer above all Others in the
world, says, win you go with me q answer,
4 will 60" ~. ...
'By the bye, ladies. when you wish to
read q true, simple, and unsophisticated love
story just read over the twenty fourth chap
ter of Genesis"
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09
Nat nuite 90 East.

The "Galphin" editor of the Democrat says
that the LocofocO party have more than dou-
bled their majority in Sandusky county in the
last three years. Let US see how il was done:
In 1874, the LocOfoco party polIed 119s
votes; in ls4s, it poIled 1918; and in 1850.
1915, showing an increase of only II votes in
SIX years.
In 1914, the Wing party polled e51; in
1s4s, 997, and in 1850, only 742 votes That
accounts for the Locofocos doubling their ma
jority in three years. They attended the cleo
ton, the Wings staid at home. The Wing
party can poll from ten to twelve hundred
votes in this county, and taking into consider
alton the state of parties in this judicial and
Senatorial districts, they should do it at the
coming election.
There are IS counties in this State, and
Sandusky is about an average one in popula-
ton, and say that $50 Wings in each county
remain at home at tbs next election. as they
did in this in 1850, the total would make
22,OOO. Had the Wings polled these $4,000
additional votes in 1850, the entire Wing tick.
ct would have been elected by at least ten
thousand majority,
From the above facts our readers can see
the necessity of not only each county, but q
each indipidual. doing their duty. Every
Wing should act as if he felt the result of the
election depended entirely upon his vote. and
fall would ctfrom this principle, We should
have no fears for the result Wings of San
dusky county. if zoe aUW Il, the majority of thu
Locofoco party can be reduced 10 less thar
tUo hundred.
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09
WaSklnxten at PRAYER.

!. Laurie Todd, that most indefatieable
sollector d, choice legends of the past, in the
course Of an article prepared for the Home
Journal narrates the following aneedole of
WashingtoRs - - s
received The following anecdote of Wash
ington, about fifty years ago. from the farmer
referred 10 in the narrative. He was member
of the Society OF Friends, who,from the peace
able habits. were luke.warm or opposed to the
war OF independence. While the army lay
in the nelghhorhood of white Plains. afarmer
whose dwelling was near the camp, one
morning at sun rise. while passing clump Of
brush heard moaning noise. Thinking his
OK or his ass had fallen INTO pit he, on ap.
preaching the spot, heard the voice of man
engaged in prayer. He hid in the thicket and
listened, resolved to see the speaker Having
finished his supplications to heaven, this man o.
God came forth from his hiding place. Il
was George Washington. When the farmer
entered his dwelling. he said to his wife
"Martha, we must not oppose this movement
any longer The work is from the Lord.
heard the man George Washington send to
heaven such prayers for the cause aud the
country and Iaknow they will be heard
Thus Washington rose with the sun and pray.
ed for his country; fought for it by day, anG
watched for itby night
I
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09
How did TfntOn vOtes

That's the question Did he vote for the
Fugitive Bill or against it, or didn't he vote at
all,-is the all absorbing topic among the
Wings. Great diversity of opinion exists
Wing editors can't agree. They're all hound
ohave him vote to suit their individual spheres
of action. The Freeman goes it blind
When we stated that Mr.. Vinton voted
against the Fugitive Slave Law, we spoke
from the records. We have examined the
books. and know what we say, to be true. 1t
may do very well for the Democrat to wilfully
misrepresent Wing men and measures, but
we have some doubts about its paying this
time. Locofoco papers may abuse, Locofoco
Office holders may lie, and the Democrat may
refrain from telling the truth, still we think.
the Wing State ticket viii be triumphantly
elected.
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09
Arkansas,

The Congressional canvass in this State
seems to grow warmer and more interesting
as it progresses. The issue between Capt
John Preston, Wing, and Robert w. johnson,
OPP, is very much the same as that between
Foote and Quitman in Mississippi. Mr.. John
son, bold man and of somewhat ultra tone.
cannot abide the Compromise measures, and
thinks that continued union promises to be con-
tinued wrong to the South. Capt Preston
approves the Compromise measures and takes
wha: is generally known as the Union ground
Senator Borland accompanies the candidates
at all their appointments. AT Van Buren,
Mr.. johnson claimed that his position was
identical with that of Senator Borland, where
upon the latter gentleman rose, and emphati-
cally denied the assertion-he acquiesced in
the Compromises The Van Buren lntelli-
gencer, a leading Democratic journal, warmly
opposes Johnson-says that the people oi
Arkansas cannot abide disunion, and compli-
ments Capt. Preston warmly. But Wing
candidate in Arkansas, and poor boy at a
frolic, are much one and the same-though
no battle can be desperate which is fought in
the name of the Union and the Compromise
N. o. Crescent.
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09
Georgia I.ocnfoc0isr,.

In the 1Vth District John D. Stell has been
nominated as the Democratic States Rights
(secessiOn) candidate for Congress. The name
of the late member, Gen. Haralson, was laid
before the Convention, With what success the
following will show:
1T seems says The Macon journal & Mes
senger, that the names of several bersons
were before the Convention; among others,
that of Gen. HARRISON. The General, like the
honest Dutchman, had. had PLENTY of vote,
bat ao elect"-be had the highest number Of
ballots, but not a majority. A motion was
made to nominate him by reclamation; but
the Banner says, the noes came upon the ears
of the body like the sharp peals Of the many
voiced thunder The General had foreseen
the coming storm, and ordered his friends not
to place him before the body; but they per-
sisted. A delegate from Meriwether openly
proclaimed that he had come there instructed
20 vote for no man who was not a member of
the Southern Rights Pdrtyi Accordingly
the chairman of the nilitorv committee was
lignominiously drummed out of camp because
be was not sufficiently open disunionist;
while another of the delegates to the Nashville
Convention was duly declared the candidate
of the Mcdonald party of the Fourth District
Verify, the curtain rises; and the horrid yisage
of disunion begins gradually to appear in all
its naked deformity.'
Only one Democratic paper in Georgia tthe
Athens Banner) supports the election oi
Howell Cobb for Governor. but Mr. Cobb is
sustained BY every Wing paper but one, (the
Augusta Republic.) The Wing organization
with a few Union Democrats forms the I'm
ion party, while the Southern Rights (Disun-
Iion) party is made up of the old Locofocc
party. Judge Berrien refusing, as ye:, to joir
the Union organization. With this exception
all the leading Wings in Georgia belong to the
Constitutional Union Party as the new or.
ganization is termed. The Union movement
in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Other
Southern States receives the great bulk of its
support from the Wing party, as in Georgia
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09


The MAsTER AND SLAvE.-We have recent
" been told an incident that occurred few
wesks since, In the town OF, State of-zz-
MFs-A had endorsed note for q $1,000
fof friend who died. aid he was called upon
for the money. Having no other means, he
was compelled to dispose Of negro slave-a
favorite young man worth that sum. He told
Oudior Of bis necessity Whereupon the faith
ful boy advised his master to put him mp at a
rafie, 100 chances, at $40 each and Cudjor
carried the subscription list around to those to
whom be epreferred to be sold. SO as to secure
himself an acceptable master. A gentleman pur-
chased chance and presented il to Cndjor;
snd when the rattle came of. Cudjor threw
the highest. and ofcourse won himself But
he said he did not want to be free, if he was
sareo Of good master; and forthwith proposed
To- oSafae off himself again, ifthe same subscri-
beFs would take chances. Sixty only agreed
but Cudior said'he was not worth more than
$500. and that be would stand at that price
He pocketed the 5000 Of course His old
master took cilance. and had the good luck
aozuin him back: at which Chdjor was excee-
dinghy pleased, braggiug that himself and his
master had made $1,000 by 'the easiest work
ne sever did. - his master told himbe was free;
but be said, 4 don't want to be freer than lam
aad will stay with you"
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09

No TEETorALER--In conversation which
occurred at one os our, hotels. between son
Of temperance and a Virginia planter, who
was somewhat addicted to old monongahela
the latter defended the use.of his fayorite be-
verage and expRtiated pretty largely upon it
nutritious qualities. -.
But said the son, ,'how many examples are
every day brought under our notice of the
pernicious effect on individuals, and the ruin
of families by drinking No later than a
month ago bosom friend of mine died Of
delrium tremens" Hold on q minute said
the 7Southerner, I see as much as you do
recken its no use whatever for you to tell
me any. such stuff as that There never was
a men in the world died from drinking pure
whiskey ey;-it's filthy water they put in it,
That's what does IL The last retort was a
settler. -, -
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09
FIuemcv i'm COnversation.


Roll an empty barrel down hill. and what
a ratalina noise it makes! So with an empty
carriage over the pavement So also with
an empty head Whensit contains but a few
scattering IDEAS every body can hear them
razfIes Kou almost see them. when the fellow
who carries such head passes by yon. Have
you not such an individual in your minds eye ?
Wehaye His name may be Dick or Jim,
Bill on Joe-but be is the same everywhere
--he wags the same tongue, shoots forth the
same ideas He thinks heis wise. but every
body else thinks Otherwise. Had he real
knowledge he would talk less and say more.
Generallys ? man Of sterling talents talks
bat Ilssle, but every word tells. Addi-
son was a person of this description. He was
alHays embarrassed il company, Some sof
our best living authors-men Of genius and
talent-haye been noticed for their paueity
of.words in common conversation. Yet men
who know scarcely more that twice two make
-four. are always rafting off words, and pass
for persons of some consequences. They
utter sentences without meaning, aud words,
that would puzzle an editor to understand
a,An insessant talker we always avoid. In
Bis presence We feel elabout as happy as on the
brow Of cataract --only there is some sense
t0the latter. In an Office or Store, what is
more trying than q person withe gift of CAB ?
what but straggliag musician under your
window. ez fiddler in your garret?
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09
Whig ConntY C0nYenti0n.

The Wing county Convention win be held
at the Court House in this place. on Thurs
day the fourth of September, instead, as err
roneously stated last week, on the 18th. Let
every Wing in the county remember that the
4th of September is the time, and let all thai
possibly can attend the convention. Be there
early, at least by 10 o'clock, SO that the bust
ness can be got through with by the time the
Judicial Convention meets in the afternoon.
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09
Yours Truly,
PETER WHITE.
Toledo, NerWalk and Cleveland Rail
Read

We learn that the residue of this Road
not already under contract, has recently been
let to Messrs Baxter, Brown, Red6eld and
Chandler. They have contracted TO grade
the Road from Fremont to the junction with
the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati
Road, and to ind and lay down the iron on
the whole track, from Toledo East They
are also to ballast the whole Road, il being.
determined that it shall not be opened TO the
public until it is put in first rate running order,
The gentleman who have associoted them-
selves together to build the Road are well
known 10 the Eastern public as men Of great
energy in doing Rail Road work, as well as
ability in the command of means They
have heretofore been engaged separately on
works which are nearly finished. They have
a large number of men in their employ, and
every appliance for the driving the work on
10 completion. The iron will be laid down
on the western thirty miles, the coming winter
and spring, and and on the residue Of the
line, as the work progresses, It is expected
they will commence operations here, within
the next ten days.
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09

There is spirit of"go ahead" among the
boys of The West, that neither FIRE can burn
out nor water drown The latest instance oi
'never giving up" occurred in Canton Miss
during the late food The Reporter, publish
ed in that town, says during the late food in
the Mississippi, his "devil" carried round
the paper in canoe. that sometimes he would
nose it it into the door of a subscriber and
drop in the paper. aud where that was moi
convenient, he would drop them down chin,
eny. This devil must be descendant o.
The Kentuckian who could stay under longer
and come up dryer than any man in those
parts"
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09

PATHETIc-Some poet who evidently thinks
"our wrong is ntolerable"-probably himself
the husband ofa Bloomer-comes out in the
Carpet Bag in e dozen stanzas of profound
grief most elequentiy done in rhyme, The
following is his description of the gradual en-
roachment of womankind on tho territories oi
paAtaloons. lie says:
them
And then they aped our dickeys and cFavsts;
They stole ur sscks--we only laughed and kissed
them; 'Al
Embodied then they wore our very hats; e.
Until. by slow and sure degrees, the witches.
Have taken all our coats, hats, boots and bFeech-
eRi
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09

A QUAINT CHARAcrER-"When music, hea.
venly maid, was young, we opine that she
had never heard the piano played in the mod
ern stunning style, as described so well by
Thacderay One Of his characters, whom he
designates as simmer, played 'Sich gettin
up stairs. with variations, in the following ef,
fective manner:
"She first with great delberation. played
the original and beautiful melody, cutting it
as it were, out of the instrument. and firing of
each note so loud, that It must have been
heard in the stable. When she had banged
out the time slowly, she began different
manner of 'gettin' up stairs, and did SO with
fury and swiftness quite incredible. She
spun up stairs; she whirleG up stairs; she
galIoped up stairs; and then, having got the
tune to the topof the landing, as it were, she
hurled it down again, shreiking to to the bot
tom Of the floor, where it shrank into crash
as if exhausted with the breathless rapidity oi
the descent. Then Miss w. played the get.
tim up stairs with a mos. pathetic ravishine
soleuinity plaintive means and sobs issued
from the Leys-you wept and trembled as
YOU were .gettin' up staiIs,' and Miss W.'s
hands seemed to faint and wall, and die inya'
riations. Again, and she went up with saw
age clang and clash, and rush of trumpets, as
Il Miss w. was storming BREACH DC.
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09
Kentucky.

Gen. William Morrow, (Whig,) who had
been announced as an Independent candidate
for Congress, declines. leaving the 6eld to the
candidates of the cd parties, Presley Ewing,
(Whig,) and B. L. Clarke, (0pp.)
The same game of deception which isplay-
ed by the Opposition in other States, is prac-
ticed in Kentucky. Robert Wicklife, tine
Loco candidate for Governor. in all his speech
es denounces President Fillmore as Free
Soiler' and an 'Aboli;ionist, (for a certain let
ter Mr.. Fillmore wrote, and saysth all the
Wings who sustain the President are in the
same FIX The Harpersville Press. the only
paper In Kentucky which leans openly to Sc
cession, is Loco Foco, and is very much pleas
ed with the course pursued by Mr.. Buchanan
of Pennsylvania, in writing letters to the South
lin favor of non-intercourse and the extension
of the line of SO deg. so min. through Califor
MIA, with suitable protection by Congress IL
shareholders who should emigrate 10 Califor
MIA with their property The Wing candi
dates for Congress and State Offices are al
Union men.
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09

ALABAMA.-The Florence Ala. Gazette of
the 10th comes to us with the name of Gen.
George S. Houston as its candidate for Con-
gress in the With District, now represented by
Secessionist Loco, David Hubbard, candi-
date for reelection The Gazette thinks that
with the aid of the Wings. Houston stands a
strong chance of an election. The Gazette is
the only Democratic paper in Alabama which
advocates the election Of Benjamin S. Shields
the Union candidate for Governor, the re-
mander of the Democratic press are all going
for some form or other of resistance and Sc
cession.
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09

In accordance with the voice of the Wings
of Ohio the Cleveland Herald places the
name of Gen. Scot t at the head ofits columns
as its first choice for the next Presidency
Many other Wing journals. among the most
able and respectable in the State have done
the same thing. thus indicating prompt and
hearty acquescence in that singularly wise
public sentiment which snow shaping politics
for glorious Wing triumph in 1882.
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09
North Carolina.

Every Democratic paper in this State is
opposed to the Comprom lse. and some of these
papers are as ultry for Disunion as the most
rampant Secession papers of South Carolina:
for instance, the Charlotte Hornets Nest the
Raleigh Standard, the Wilmington CONNER
cial &c. There is cause for this, of course,
the Wings of North Carolina being all Union
men, the Locos have taken different tack
Clingman, the Secession candidate for Con
gress in the lst District is supported by every
Loco Foco paper in his District and since he
ran as the Democratic candidate for the U. s.
Senate. he has utterly disowned the Wing
party, of which he was member. He is the
only man of any prominence now cooperating
with the North Carolina Locos for Secession
who can lay claim Of ever being Wing
Every Loco candidate for Congress is {
Southern Rights man, and in the Vth Dis
trict Calvin Graves ('Union Democrat') is sup
ported by the Wings against Venanle. thc
regular Loco candidate.
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09

SArT MANuEAcrGRE.-Itis It is stated that a
capital of little less than 100000 is used in
the various branches Of the salt manufacture
at Syracuse. N. Y. and that the product of the
Springs has increased from l54,o7l bushel
in 1905, to 4,3es,9I9 bushels in 1885,
There are 10000 watts employed for coarse OF
solar salt. and 1000 kettles for fine salt, pro.
ducing 100000 bushels per week. with con,
sumption of 10000 cords of wood annually
Nearly million of barrels are used every
season for packing salt
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09

EE Business in Fremon. has been quite
brisk the past week. Considerable new
Wheat has been in market, which brings from
63 to 65 cts. per bushel. Rather low prices,
but we would not advise owners to hold on
for better. They may be worse. The grain
crop has been extraordinary heavy all over
the country this year.
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09

Eg "His course in this respect [to the
County printing! is understood and appreciat-
ed by sensible men even of his own party
Right, Mr.. orton, andi is beginning to be ap-
preciated even by good many Democrats if
we are to credit what they say to us Sew
eral have expressed themselves to us in terms
not to be misunderstood, of their appreciation
of our efforts to reduce the useless expendi-
ture of two or three hundred dollars per year.
for county printing. In two or three weeks,
we shall fulfil our promise to the readers Of
the Freeman, in giving an abstract of the cost
of the county printing in this county for the
last three or four years.
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-08-09
Exactly so!
The editor of the Democrat, In his mandate
to his party has the following:

The editor of the Democrat, In his mandate
to his party has the following:
I'VE have this fall a much larger supply Of
candidates for office than is usual, and an ex-
exciting contest for nominations is going on
We ask candidates and their friends to act
moderately and always with determination
to abide cheerfully the result of the County
Convention. In this way, we can disappoint
the hopes of our opponents. On this matter
of creating dissatisfaction, rests their only
hope
The above is very true. Although there
have been host of new offices created there
is not enough to fill the mouths of all the hun
CRY. But would it not be we'll to have the
Old Wire Pullers, who have been living of
the County for the past half dozen years, to
stand aside, and permit other and better men
to have "chance in.' True, we do not ex-
pect to see Wings elected to any Office in the
County, still we are Democratic enough, to
wish to see rotation in Office. When men are
in Office too long, they are apt ttoover estimate
their real standing, and naturally become cor
rupt. That is our experience of the Locofoce
party in this county. We make the above
suggestions gratis