Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-05-11

CorRfn ON the Democratic Ephrafrn.
The Boston Posts correspondent in New
Haven, expresses great admiration Of the
wit and eloquence Of Tom Corwin, who was
delivering speeches there, and gives the fol-
lowing as one Of his most telling hits:
While describing the doughfaceism of
the democracy, he said they reminded him
Of passage in the Scripture--"E "Ephraim
is cake unturned." "Oh Ephraiml dem
ocratic Ephraim" |" said he with an uimita-
bic look and manner, "poor democratic
Ephraim, for Gods sake turn over on the
pan and bake on the other sideP
: The California Pony Express is great
undertaking. One thousand eight hundred
miles across an unbroken country, surround
ed by-every danger, is trayersed in the short
space of ten days. There are nearly one
; hundred horses employed, aud only thirty
, six courers, each riding about so miles.
}, The Vanderbilt, which brought the news
Of the prize fight, made tn quickest western
passage on record-9 days, 2 hours and 80
minutes Severe southwesterly winds pre-
vented her landing the usual dispatches at
Cape Race.
The friend who pardons great wrong,
acquires superiority that wounds the self
love of the pardoned man; and, however
much the latter may admire the generosity
of the gver, he can love as he had previ-
ously done-no more.
A PAIR OF SNUFFERs.-A girl twelve
years of age, and having two separate and
distinct noses, landed ip Detroit on Satur-
day last, in company with her parents from
Scotland, on their way to the West.
The London Times, in its report of the
great prize-6ght, says: Authors, poets,
painters, soldiers, and even clergvmen were
present"
The Rev. Mr.. Worth, who was convicted
of selling Helpers book in N. c., and SEN
fenced to Jail has been released on bail of
$4,000, and is now in New York.
The Republican Convention at Chicago
: meets next Wednesday, the 10th. Dele
gates from five Slave States will be present,
viz: From Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia,
Maryland and Delaware. The recentevents
3 will prove instructive to the Delegates, and
E a sound Republican platform, with candi-
date, emuently fitted for the leader of the
hosts, will be the result.
The English scandal mongers say that
! the young Prince of Wales is coming to
Canada to escape the consequences of inju-
; dicious promises made to Lady c.
t v, She is about to commence a suit
against him, it said.
: A Mr.. Ever of Fayette, Miss, attempted
suicide, but his wife snatched the pistol
: The family physician was called in to treat
! the insane man, when Mrs E., while ex-
] planning the attempted suicide with the pis-
tol in her hand, accidentally discharged it,
killing the physician instantly.
Anamboo, an African prince, visiting
England, received so many attentions from
celebrated belle of London, that, in mo-
ment of tenderness, he could not refrain
from laying his hand on his heart and ex-
4, claiming: "Oh Madam, is heaven had only
made you negress, you would have been
y. irresistible !"
The Charleston Convention opened with
prayer, and during the session Isaiah Ryn-
ders, the Marshal of the Southern District
of New York, who was once turned out of
Tammany Hall for being a Free-soler, Of
t fered resolution to protect Monongahela
c whisky, and make it plank in the Demo
; cratic platform!
The son and heir to the deceased Count
Ceroni, aged l3, with coming fortune of
100000 Roman scudi, has been forcibly re-
moved from his mother and placed in a re-
ligious school, with the full appreciation of the
Pope, in the face of his mothers protest.
In 1871, two negroes, Vincent Oge, and
: Jean Baptiste Chavanne, were broken on
@ the wheel, and then left to die in the pub.
l. lie road, for having made an attempt to free
II the slaves in Hayti. A proposition is now
:, on foot to erect monument on the spot
II where these men were thus put to torture
i and death.
/ There is gas excitement in Mendoza
IS Illinois, rivaling the oil excitement of Penn
a. sylvania. People dig down fifteen or TWEEN
ty feet for water, and instead of that fluid
l. find combustible gas, apparently in
:, exhaustible in quantity.
In a cemetery near Buffalo, N. Y, is al
epitaph by friend, who held such goot
n opinion of the deceased that he had in
y scribed on the stone:
"Wth such as he may be saved o
j. damned"
= A young servant girl recently died a
n. Wednesday,, England, victim to singu
lar mania for swallowing needles. Up
wards of forty were taken from her bod!
70 before she died. She refused to give an,
g reason for her singular conduct.
Il Destructive fires are reported by tele
er graph One in Philadelphia, on the 9TH
I'd destroyed property valued at $4,000; an
ID other at Painted Post, Steuben county
N. Y, on the same day involved a loss o
100000; and there is a terrible fire raging
SIX in the forest on the New York and Massa
in chusetts line, north and east of Albany.
n' Forney's Press declares that il Dougla
rs is slaughtered at the second time of asking
X a nomination, his friends "will ayenge hi
to fall by such an appeal TO the ballot-boxes, a
- will be remembered for a century. The SO