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Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-04-11
Hon1eIr women.

We like homely women. We have nj
ways liked them. We do not carry the pc
culiarity far enough to include the hideous
or positive ugly, for since money and beauty
are the only capital the world will rccog-
nize in woman, they are more to be pitied
than admired, but we have ehivaric, en-
thusastie regard forplain women. We new
er saw one who was not modest, unassum-
ing and sweet tempered, and have seldom
come across one who was not virtuous, and
had not a good heart. Made aware early
in life of their want of beauty by the slight
cd attentions of the opposite sex, vanity
and affectation never take in their hearts
and in hope of supplying attractions which
a capricious nature has denied, they culti-
vate the graces of the heart instead of the
person, and give to the mind those accom-
plishments which the world so rarely ap-
preciates in women but which are more last
ing, and in the eyes of men of sense, more
highly priced than personal beauty. See
them in the street, at home or in church,
and they are always the same and the
smile which ever lives upon the face is not
forced ther2 t. fascinate, but is the spontane-
ons sunshine reflected from a kind heart
a flower which takes root in the soul and
blooms upon the lips inspiring respect in
stead of passion, emotions of feelings not Of
sensual regard. Plain women make good
wives, good mothers, cheerful homes and
happy husbands, and We never see one but
we thank heaven that it has kindly created
women of sense as well as beauty, for it is
indeed seldom female is found possessing
both. To homely women we, therefore,
lift our ''tile" in respect: the world will ex-
tend the same courtesy to beauty. San
Francisco has but few plain women, but all
such we intend to make life subscribers to
the Golden Era, in view of their worth to
society. So says the San Francisco Golden
Era.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-04-11

TURKEY.-The origin of the word "tur-
KEY" as applied to the well known bird, the
native of American forests, was recently Civ
en- by the Hon. Thomas Ewing, in his lee
ture. incidentally, in speaking of tie for
mer commercial power of Turkey, and Of
the fact that the greater portion of the fin
er and more elegant articles came from Tur-
key, and were designated by its name to
distinguish them from the ordinary produc-
tions of other countries, and to indicate
theirsuperiority, also, Seven the noble Amer
lean bird" he said, "when first taken tC
England, was called Turkey as it was the
best common term to express its beauty
and noble nronortions.n
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-04-11
Protective against Countcrfeiting.

Mr.. Christopher Seropyan, of New Ha-
ven, an Armenian by birth, native of Con.
stantinople, where he has lived till within
the past ten years, has recently invented s
process which furnishes a complete safe.
guard against counterfeiting, in any of its
forms.
The face of the bill is first covered with
chemical preparation of a light yellow tint
leaving the denomination of the bill in let
ters of the original color of the paper. The
plate printing isthen done with bluish-blacb
ink, which has the popularity of penetrat-
ing the paper, and of being translucent
when held between the eve and the light
The composition of this ink is known only
to the inventor, and prevents the possibility
of counterfeiting by means of new plate
The chemical contrast between the ink and
the surface of the bill is so destroyed as to
render photographing impossible, and nc
chemical agents can alter the denomination
without disfguring the bill. Neither can
the ingenious pasting process be made
available, as the denomination is visible on
the back as well as on the face of the bill
The process has been submitted to Pro
fessors Silliman and Porter, of Yale Col
lege, who pronounce it "peJect protective
against counterfeiting by photography, and
the anastatic process, and also against alter
alton by erasure, or otherwise" The New
Haven banks have already obtained the
right of issuing bills prepared on this plan
The inventor was n graduate at Yale Col
lego in 1852, where he has since been pur-
suiEg his studies in chemistry and medicine
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-04-11
Indian Legends,

No man can read the Indian legends,
collected by Schoolcraft, without being
struck with their general resemblance to
the supernatural tales of the he-Scandinavians,
the Arabs, and indeed all semi-civilized ma
tions. One of two things results from this
similarity. Either the Indian legends are
not Indigenous, but have arisen from the
contact of the red man with the Anglo Sax
on mind, or else substantially the same no
tions of the supernatural are common to the
childhood of all nations
The latter is doubtless the true explana-
ton. A belief in the supernatural, which
involves abehef in a spiritual existence, is
found among all races and people. 1t is,
indeed, said that tho Papuans, a degenerate
type of the negro race, had no idea, when
first discovered, of Supreme Being or of
a future state. But it is more probable that
ignorance of their language led to a mis-
conception of their notions, than that they
alone, of all races of men, had no idea Of a
God, of Eternity, of happiness hereafter.-
With this exception, the fercest savage,
who tatoos his skin or cats his enemies, bas
been found to share in the notion of a Deity
with the most intelligent and cultivated Of
our race.
It is impossible to recall this fact, without
belief in the unity of the race. So extra
ordinary a coincidence in belief points to a
common origin of all men; for it is a coinci-
dence, not only in the general idea, but in
many of its details, as the rcsemblanees be-
tween the Indian legends and those of the
Arabs and Scandinavians show. To believe
that mankind had common parentage, and
that their difference in color, language and
appearance result from diversity Of climate,
habits and other circumstances, demands less
icredulty than to believe that they started
from half a dozen different centres, and thaS
notwithstanding this, they hold substantial
" the same rudimental notions of the sr-
pernatural. 1t IS more rational to hold that
degraded lives, animal lives, sensual lives
lpersevered in, generation after generation,
have reduced some races almost to the level
of the brutes, than that an All-wise Creator
made certain races inferior from the first
and that he designed them forever to be
slaves to other races, as it Is the fashion to
teach in some quarters, now. No! We
all see that some men make themselves
more bestial in appearance yearly by in
dulging their apretites, while others become
more placid and benign, by practising self
denial, charity, and all Christian virtues
What is true of the individual is true of the
race. Nations and people fall or rise, be-
como degraded or spiritualized, in proper
ton as they do evil or good.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-04-11
The Arabs.

NJ Lamartine observes in the course of a
new work: "The Arabs, those eternal nav
igators of the sea of sand, have contracted
by similarity of manners, by inhabiting the
same spaces, and by the constant movement
of the same steps over similar sites, a
personal character analogous to the eharac-
ter of the desert; religious as the infdelity
that surrounds them, free as the cxpanse
open to their view; rowing as the horse, the
camel, or the herd of cattle, which carries
or follows them; hOspitable as the open tent
to the traveller bewildered in those vast sol
itudes; intrepid, as becomes men who owe
their safety to the strength of their own
arms, and who are ever compelled to be on
the watch to defend their wives, their chill
dren, their springs of fresh water, and their
pasture lands from the sudden incursions of
other tribes; fierce, unsettled and wandering
like themselves. Theyare habitually grave
and silent as the waste that surrounds them,
but sometimes loquacious and communica-
tive as men who hurriedly meet with men,
and who hasten to exchange mutual inquir-
les and to impart reciprocal information
They are as contemplative and poetical as
the nights, the days, the stars, the bound
less horizons which are invariably before
them. Finally, they are relaters of stories,
long as the slowly progressing, unemployed
hours, which can only be filled up by mar
vellous rccitations while they sit under the
shelter of the tent or round the margin of
the well or spring, to beguile the heavy
march of time.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-04-11

WOMAN AND PoRPosEs.-Well, its the
natur' of proposes, when a she one gets
wounded, that all the other porpoises, race
right arter her, and chase her to DEATH
They show her no mercy; human natur' is
the same as fish natur', in this particular,
and is as scaly, too. When woman gets
a wound from an arrow, shot ont by scandal,
or envy or malice, orfalsehood, for not keep
in her eye on the compass, and shapin' her
course as she ought to, men, women, boys,
meek parsons, and their tea-goin' gossipin'
wives, pious gals, and prim old maids, all
start out in full cry, like pack of blood of
blood-hounds, after her, and tear her to
pieces; and if she earths, and has the luck
to get safe into hole flst they howl and
yell round it every time she shows her nose,
like so many imps of darkness. It's the
race of charity to see which of the long
legged, billious-looBin' critter can be at the
death fust. They turn up the whites of
their eyes, like ducks in thunder, at a fox
hunt; it's so wicked; but a gal hunt they
love dearly-its serving the Lord.-Sam
Slick.
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Printers Proverbs.

Never enquire thou of the Editor the
news, for behold it is his business, at the ap-
pointed time, to give it unto thee without
asking. 1t is not fit that thou shouldst ask
him who is the author of an article, for his
duty requires him to keep such things to
himself.
When thou dost enter his office, take heed
unto thyself that thou dost not look at what
may be laying open; for that is not meet
in the sight of good breeding. Neither ex-
anime thou the proof-sheet, for it is not
ready to meet thine eye, that thou mayest
understand it.
Prefer thine own county paper to ary
other, and subscribe for it immediately
Pay in advance, and it shall be well with
thee and thy little ones.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-04-11

SUIc1DE.-On yesterday mornings down
train from Chicago-due here at 2 o'clock
"A melancholy case of suieide-took place.
A woman. namo unknown jumped from the
window of the saloon. The cars were in
full speed, and she was instantly killed
She had with her four children. At the
time she made the fatal jump the cars were
two miles west of Sturgis. From a strange
ness of manner exhibited by her during the
evening the passengers think she musthave
been insane. The children we are informed
have been properly cared for by the people
of this eity.-Toledo Com 2d
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-04-11

SINGULAR OCcURRENcE.-In clearing up
one of the rooms at Stanwix Hall, yesterday,
a waiter discovered a cat so crowded into a
boot that it was with difficulty she could be
extricated. Having got her out, the next
question in order was "How did she get in 2
This was leading to long-winded dispute,
when one of the by-standers took up the
boot, gave it a shake, and tossed a half
grown rat upon the floor. The discovery
of the rat solved the riddle. The rat, to
escape the cat, rushed into the boot; the
cat, to secure a game dinner, rushed after
him, and with such force that she could not
back out again. Learn wisdom from pus-
sy, and never ego it blind" even in good
cause.-Albany KRicker6ocker.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-04-11
Kansas Want.

A correspondent of the Hillsdalo Gazette
after mentioning rifles and some other things
which he says are not wanted in Kansas,
states a real necessity as follows:
A young Missourian came to my office
yesterday on business, having left his claim
about one hundred miles west, few days
since, where he had Eaen living about four
months. He said among other things
"There are plenty of men up there but
haven't seen woman for four months
There is an Illinois man up there who has
got woman's dress, and carries It around
for show and is getting rich at it"
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QOFtr1.
There,s No1hinr Lnst.

There's nothing lost-the tiniest flower,
That grows within the darkest vale,
Though lost to view, has still the power
The rarest perfume to eXhale;-
That perfume borne on zephyr's wings,
May visit some lone sick ones bed, ...r
And like the balm affection brings,
Twill scatter gladness round her head.
There's nothing lost-the drop ofdew,
That trembles the rosebuds breast,
Will seek its home Of either blue,
And falls again pure and blest;
Perchancc to revel in the spray,
Orrnoisten the dry, parchiug sod,
Or mingle in the f0untain's play,
Or sparkle in the bow as God.
There's nothing lost-the seed that's cast
By careless hand upon the ground,
VIII vet take root, and may at last
green and glorious tree be found;
Beneath its shade, some pilgrim may
Seek shelter from the heat of noon,
While in its boughs the breezes play,
And sOng-birds sing their sweetest tune.
There's nothing lost-the slightest tone,
Or whisperfrom loved ones voice,
Nav melt heart of hardest stOne,-
Audmale a saddened heart rejoice;
And then, again. the careless word,
0nr thOughtess lips too often speak,
May touch heart already stirred,
And cause that troubled heart to break.
There's nothing lost-the faintest strain,
or fbreathings from some dear ones lutte,
In memory's dream may come again,
Tho every m0urnful string he mute. ..-
The music of some happier hour
The harp that swels with loves own words,
Nav thrill the soul with deepest power,
When still the hand that swept its cords.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-04-11

ssTHE CAEELs ARE COMING. Tho cam
els and dromedaries, procured under the APP
preparation of the last session of Congress-
will soon arrive upon our shores, and the
fancif1l and foolish experiment of transport
ing goods upon their backs across the PLAINS
is to be tried The number of animals is
thirty-three, viz: 9 male and Is female
camels, 4 male and 5 female dromedaries.
They are to land at Indianola, Texas, about
tbs last of April. Several of the animals
are a present from the Viceroy Of Egypt.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-04-11
ED1roR1AL vALED1oronr-A westor

EDITORIAL VALED1cToRY-A Western
editor withdraws from his profession in the
following valodictory:
aThe undersigned retires from the edi-
torial chair with the complete conviction
that all is vanity From the hour he start
ed his paper to the present time, he has
been solicited to lie upon every given sub
ject, and can't remember having told a
wholesome truth without diminishing his
subscription list, or making an enemy. Un-
der these circumstances of trial, and having
a thorough contempt for himself, he retires
in order to recruit his moral constitution. /"
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-04-11

How GEN. PERCE's KANSAS Policy IS
VIEWED AT THE SoUTH.-The Mobile AID
vertiser, March 2O,) speaking of the recent
Free State Convention proceedings at Topo-
ka, in Kansas, says:
We really cannot see how the advocates
of squatter sovereignty can repudiate the
proceedings had under the Topeka eonyen-
tion. If that was not an assemblage oi
squatters and fair representation of squat
ter sovereignty, we don't know what would
be. 1t is reported that Gen. Cass so con
siders it, and that he has pledged himsei
to speak and vote for the admission of Kan.
sas as a State under that Constitution; and
Pierce and Douglass must also recognize
the new Legislature, or be false to theil
avowed principles.
Here is the doctrine of Gen. Pierce, as
written out and offered by himself, and
adopted at a meeting held in Concord in
1842-the occasion being the struggle ther
going on in Rhode Island, in which the New
Hampshire Democrats took the part Of Gov
Dorr:
ResolUed, That when the people act il
their original sovereign capacity in forming
new systems of government, they are nor
bound to conform to any rules or forms o
proceeding not instituted by themselves.
We submit it to every man of common
perception, if the doctrine of this resolution
does not cover the proceedings of the Tope
ka convention? How then will he repudi
ate them, except he repudiates his squatte
sovereignty heresies, thing which, in ou
opinion, he cannot do too quickly.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-04-11
NO. II.
NEore about the slave Case.

The Cincinnati Gazette of yesterday gives
a new ehapter-o on the late Cincinnati Slave
case, and unfolds tale about the Marshal
and Secret Service Money, and tho employ
ment of U. S. troops, which shows a settled
determination, as in the famous Boston case,
to ride down the State authorities at all haz-
ards. We give the facts as stated circum-
stantially, and with an apparent knowledge
Of what it is saying in the Gazette.
While the late Slave trial was progress
ing in this city, the United States Marshal.
H. H. Robinson, was in Washington, and
called on President Pierce for advice and
direction. The President told Mr. Robin
son (they were talking socially togethcr)
that the negroes must go back to Kentucky
at all hazards. He then patted the Mar
shal on the shoulder, and told him to take
just what steps were, in his view, necessary
to effect this objeet-to use sound discretion
and all would be right-that be PRESIDENT
had secret service money enough at his com
mand to pay all expenses
The Secretary of War, then, at the re-
quest of the President, gave Mr. Robinson
an order on the Commandant of the New
port Garrison for any troops he should re-
quiret to be marched over to Cincinnati.
Mr.. Robinson then came back TO Cinein-
matt with this order for soldiers from New
port in his pocket, and immediately great
number of additional special Marshals were
appointed so rs to swell the list to some
three hundred E
On the close of the trial, the certificate:
of these Marshals for their pay, were bought
up in great numbers, at about fifty per cent
discount, and most of them bought bv mer
who never had any money for such invest
ments before. One Deputy Marshal wh'
kept doggery within four doors of th'
Court room, had SIX hundred dollars to buy
up these certificates of his brother deputies
Who they operated for we do not know, bu-
we presume the person who furnished tn,
funds knew there was secret service money
enough to pay all the expenses.
In the terrible crisis that Mr. Robinson
apprehcnded, Immediately after his return
from Washington, every body seems to hay'
been appointed Deputy Marshal, tina
would or could serve, and some that coult
not. One man who drew warrant fol
twenty-eight days service, was out of tho
city full ten days of that time. What dis
count he made on his order VIC have moi
learned.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-04-11

The Bounty Land law will be so amend
ed as to give additional land to all who have
received less than one hundred and sixty
acres, and to all pensioners, with or without
"record evidences"
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-04-11

Human affections are the leaves the foil
age of our being-they catch every breath,
and in the burden and heat of the day they
make music and motion in sultry world.
Stripped or that foliage, how unsightly is
human nature,
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E5nnfroclI g. Price.
81 RnckIlnd q CO..

Attorneys at Law and solicitors IN ehan'eTy ole IL
sl,,rn & Shomos Block, Fremont, OHIO. = rprcr
: 7. p. FINEFROCk-
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G. G.. Eaton.

Appointments are to be renewed in March, next and
continued as heretofore They viii not be supplied by any
one else during his absence. Oct Id 1oo9'
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-04-11
Mist&llan&0ns.
mnrrled our Dress-lIa.ker.
BY MRS. V. F. TOWNSEND.

BY MRS. Y. F. TOWNSEND.
But the way is so loL lssMiss Scott ear
ncstly pleaded the pretty little dress maker,
and You know Iwould not have remained
so late, but YOU were so desirous that your
blue dress should be finished this evening.
If you will let Tom accompany me we'll
walk very fast and we can go and return in
twenty minutes
But Tom must be hero to wait on the
door. am expecting a gentleman who Is
not used to being announced by female
walters. You can stay all night if you
Ike said the young lady with an impatient
shvness, for they were standing in the hall
and the night air came coldly through the
half open door.
But nv mother is i'll, Miss Scott, and she
would be distracted if l did not return to-
night. Indeed, she will be worrying now
about my absence
well, don't see as 1 can help it, Miss
Willard Tom must be here, that's certain,
and YOU will have to run fast Nothing
will hurt You, guess. Don't forget to
come tomorrow; I'm in hurry, and you
must excuse me, and the young lady turned
away and swept gracefully into the parlor.
what shall l do? I'm such a coward,
too,' murmured the poor little dress maker,
as she stood on the broad step of the ele-
giant mansion, and gazed wistfully up the
broad street.
will you permit me to wait upon you
home, Miss
The young girl started with half sup
pressed shrek and fastening her half fright
ened eyes on the speaker. There was
something in his countenance as he came
out from the shadow of the portico and the
lamp light dropped on his face, which ire
sistably won her confidence. Still she hes
itated, and he answered the doubt which
he had read in her blue eyes.
4 accidently overheard the conversation
with Miss Scott; and he added with a
smile, 'as l came so near being the inno-
cent cause of your going home alone, it is
but fair should accompany you now
The little dress maker hesitated no longer.
Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-04-11

A writer on China, speaking of the apti-
tude for Christian civilization, of Juveniles
at Canton, says:
"The children are intelligent and sharp;
they pick up English easy. Almost all the
young blackgisrds about the place swear in
very good English"
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ATTORNEYS and oouusellors at Law, and solicitors IN
fancery viii attend to professional business ana lng
AGENCY ia Sandusky and adjoining eounties' Oh0e' ~
Efarr Bneland's Block, Fremont -,-,,,.--
r p BUCKLAND. HuMhN r A-i'-A =
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Orton & Fusselman,

r.,,e-s in Stoves Tin, SheetIron, Copperware, % Ms
80 plavs tc We have opened an entire new stoeA
i -isr Tocl, Corner Of Front and Croghsn Streel
and sha be constantly receiving additions. LALSM s - ~
attsn'ion on " WI - ~ s - April p, 1855.