Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1853-06-18

length secured by contract between the
Sandman Government and the Trans Allan
tic Company. The charter is to extend
twenty years. and the capital Of the Compa- !
ny is 100000.
They pledge themselves to run two lines
Of monthly steamers one between Genoa and
New York. and the other between Monte
yideo and New Yotk. In return, the Gov
eminent guarantees TO each line sum, E.
quail to $4,000 per voyage for carrying the
mails, besides other important privileges
The ships must be at least Of 1900 tons and
$50 horse power.
The Government required the subscription
of q sufficient amount to secure the building
of the vessel before the contract was signed.
Several large English houses took stock to the
amount Of 100000
We consider these items as the most impor
tant piece Of commercial and political news
we have had for many days.-T T. Times.
Our STEAM MARINE.-No portion Of the
trade of the United States have grown more
rapidly within few years than that connect
ed with the steam marine, The total numb
er of steam vessels now employed on our
coast is 625, with tonnage Of 2l2,500, and
employing / 40 men as officers and crew.
In the interior the number of steam vessels
is 765 with tonnage of 204,725, and en-
ploying 1907 men. Our whole steam ma
rne, therefore, amounts to /. 800 vessels with
tonnage of All, ,2o6, manned by 29,377 men,
and carrying, besides freight, about 100000
900 strangers every year.
1t appears that Louis Napoleon has once
more applied to the Austrian Government
for the remains of the Duke de Reichstadt.
His wish is that the remains of the Emperor
Napoleon and his son should be transported
at the same time to the Cathedral of ST. Den.
is. 1t is probable that this new request will
meet with the same fate as its predecessors.
The Austrian Government has steadily re-
fused to give up the body of the Duke de
Reichstadt which lies amidst the rest of the
imperial family of Austria in the Church of
st Augustine, at Vienna.
From the money article of Thursdays
New York Tribune, we extract the following
note of sales of railroad iron, which is worthy
ofremark:
1--WE notice sales of about ten thousand
tons of Rails within the last ten days at about
$40 for immediate delivery, and $65 for future
delivery"
The last deliveries of rails to the Ohio and
Pennsylvania Railroad, from the Great Wee-
tern Iron Works. were made at $75 per ton.
WHERE DO WE STAND ?-Well that is the
great paramount question which, of all Others,
we most desire to see answered just now.
Wher do we stand? Can anybody answer?
--Nat Democrat.
The Bible can "The wicked stand on
slippery places."- Cleveland Herald
DONALD G. MITCHELL, the author of "Rev
'eries of Bachelor" was, short time since,
married to MSS MARY F. PRINGIE, of Charl-
eston, S. c. Poor fellow. lie will have no
more reperieS of that sort.
Gg-A comet will make its appearance in
1856, whose period of revolution is three
hundred years, 1t was seen in the year,
l04, 392, 683, 1864, and the last time in
1856. 1t is remarkably brilliant
Ey' About eight hundred emigrants most
y from Pennsylvania bound to Illinois and
Iowa, many of them in Wagons, passed
through Wheeling last week.
One million Of dollars have been subscribed
by the city of Savnnah for the contemplated
railroad between that place and Pensacola,
Florida.
Ass- The New Haven Charter Election has
resulted in a whig triumph majority on May
,or $50. The wings have Aldermen, IL
'Councilmen, Sheriff. Collector, Treasurer and
Clerk; the Democrats one Alderman and
three Counclmen.
Ey-The Cleveland, PainesvilIe and Ashta-
bula Railroad Company have made dividend
OF five per cent for the last six months, ending.
July lst, 1858.
The value ofthe shad caught 10 New Y ork
Bay every season. is said to be s800,0oo
No bills are in future to be placarded in
Paris without Oise from the police.
Nearly all of the eighty four Italian exnes,
brought over in the San Giovanni, have been
provided with employment.
The colossal statue of Napoleon is to be
erected a. the Barriere du Trone in Paris
Eighty thousand frances have been spent for
the models alone
AN Edinburgh paper states that an Amer
lean has invented machine which is to be
driven by the force of circumstances.
The early closing on Saturday afternoon
movement is beginning to find favor among
the merchants of Birmingham, Manchester
and Liverpool.
A greater number of ships were wrecked
last year than in any previous one. On the
British coast alone, ono thousand one hundred
vessels were lest.
A small matter, but one of value to farmers,
is contained in tie following paragraph :-"If
you wish to drive acut nail into seasoned oak
timber, and not have it break or bend, lust
have small quantity of oil near by, and din
the nail before driving, and it win never fail
to 60.
Within about year eight steamships have
been lost on the Pacific coast These vessels
were valued at 81 800, ,oOo
A hundred mill girls selected by an Amer.
lean speculator in Glasgow, have sailed from