Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-09-20

"SeceSh prisoners JuhL arrived tnere, says "Ihe
prisoners were the raggedest, forlorn looking
'cusses that ever fought for their rights. Nei-
ther Of them had clothes enough on their per-
sons to wad gun.
The Seneca Adrcytiser saws: @The behavior Of
the 49th Regimei.S while eneamped at this city
was highly creditable. There was but little
drunkenness and rowdyism among the men,
who as class, appear to be highly genteel and
respectable"
Another comet is reported to have been OBJ
served in England, about the Doth Of August
and which, the London papers say, appears to
be rapidly approaching the earth
| Vote the Union ticket and you will insure the
speediest termination Of the war at the least
expense. "Yote the masked battery" ticket
and you will weaken the North and prolong
the war indefinitely.
The muster roll of the Tar River Rangers, ta-
ken at Hatteras Inlet contains the names Of
sixty -four men, only five of whom were able to
write their own names the rest all made their
marks. These are the cavaliers who sneer at
the Northern "mudsills."
]. L. Riddle, late Postmaster at New Orleans,
has paid all drafts and settled his accounts with
the Department in full He has been removed
by Davis.
| It is reported that thirteen regiments of the
rebel army have precipitately departed for their
| nOiueH, pitlCITlnk 10 pIOheCl lnelT own
rather than dance attendance upon Beauregard
The attack upon Hatteras alarmed them An
other victory of similar character would proba-
bly, set the whole party scampering.
| The Albany Evenipg Journal well says: "Tbe
| Union men of the South ask no EPeace" until
the rebels lay down their arms. Nor do Union
men of the North, Those who do, are either
traitors or cowards-or both.
Since his resent return from the Capital one
of his neighbors called upon Vice President
Hamln at his farm at Hampden, Maine, and the
Vice President came up to him out of the cell
lar, and excused himself from shaking hands,
renIarking at the same time that his hands were
dirty, for he had been picking over his potatoes.
The Grand Jury of Westchcster county, New
| York, have presented the Yonker Herald the
Hiland Democrat the Eastern State Journal
and the Stats Zeitung and National Zeitung,
as reasonable and incendiary organs.
Gen. Oass, in recent conversation with Pres
ident Fairchild, of Hilsdale College, Michigan,
said that though he had always been heretofore
opposed to abolition yet this was now the only
way to successfully and permanently end the
contest. without abolition if we had peace to-
day we should have war tomorrow. This is
saying considerable, for one W ho has always been
so conservative as the great Michigan statesman.
The New York Herald says that Capt Mea-
CHER is daily receiving hundreds Ofletters from
this city, and from Boston, Detroit and Phila-
delphia, rendering companies and regiments fol
the irish Brigade. The project is exciting the
greatest enthusiasm among the loyal States.
Under the late law of Congress ample provis.
ion is made for the pay of regimental bands, the
compensation of a leader being equal TO that O.
Lieutenant, and the pay of priyates the same
as members of the Engineer corps. 1t has
therefore, been determined TO organize full bands
for all the regiments a
The World says, a naval expedition will sal
from New York within the coming two weeks
which will no doubt have an important bearing
upon the progress of the present war. 1t viii
comprise large fleet of gunboats and trans.
ports and force of probably 10000 men, in
cluding some which will be taken from Fortress
Monroe. The destination is of course secret
all statements to the contrary Notwithstanding
but we can assure our readers that if successful
of which there is very little doubt it will be the
most terrible and effective blow yet dealt at the
rebels. +. .fs..# O. g.
The Secretary of the Treasury has addressed
n circular to the Assistant Treasurers, advising
them of the issue of five, ten, and twenty dolai
notes, and which will continue to be issued, re
deemable in coin at the Treasury offices in Bos
ton, New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, anC
st. Louis. These notes are intended as con
? venent medium of circulation and cannot fai
to have an Immediately good effect upon thu
: business of the country, and especially at thu
1 West. AS they will always be redeemable ir
, coin, they are as good as gold. d
| At the battle of Springfield, Missouri, tw,
! gentlemen of African descent we're cutting
/. . hemp near by. As soon as the artillery begal
! to open, they both started in alright for tn
{ bushes, and ran for dear life taking shelter un
der scrub oak. Says Jim TO Sam, "What'
| thatS' "DOnt know, says Sam, aspect it's tn
day of Judgment" "Don't think it's that,
I says Jim "but II tell you what-I was dow
j. in St. Louis two three years agwine, an
J. they'se all talking about the peal OBJ de 'Zoul
|. Compromise. Guess that's it.. 30, golly, CUES
u u that's um !" says Jim. and they concluded t
d wait developments.
y The Pittsburgh Post, a Democratic pape
says "The Dayton Empire publishes it's pro
l. gramme as peace, Prosperity and Low Taxes.
a Is the editor fool enough to believe that tn
people in the North viii ever enjoy either q
l. these blessings until this rebellion in the Sout
o is crushed out and the power of the Constitu
y tion, upon which peace, liberty and our yer
:. existence as a nation depend, is acknowledge
. by all the people. Peace on any other tern
! would be no peace. 1t would be the establish
Ir ment of a system of internal war of intermina
BILE continuance, and destructive of every intel
r est in the land.
: The Philadelphia Press says: "No man stand
than President LINCOLN. Amidst all the df
y traction and criticism which have been visite
y upon his counselors and agents, no word ha
!, been uttered against the President himself.
a possesses the confidence of the American pee
= pie more thoroughly than any other public ma
u since the days of ANDREW JACKSON. They fe
n, that he is an honest man, that he has the col
ID science of this fight and that he abors with b.
q single eye to the glory, the greatness, and Il
: perpetuity of this Republic. And, after a
u honesty is the soul Of public service--the soun
10 of the public welfare-for with purity at Il
OF head of the nation, the body is healthy ar
,e happy f
:. 1t is only portion, and we believe in the er
70 it will be very small portion, of the Dough
VI Democrats who support the 18th Of August Coz
d. ventiOn and its ticket The majority of tho
g. who honored him while living, are true to Il
i patriotic words which he uttered near the clio
= Of his life, aud are acting up TO than in this ca
p sis Of the Nation. They value country mo
y than party and are more patriotic than partiza
Or The attempt to bapt % that Convention and
=. ticket with the name of Democracy and to
nominate all who refuse to support II as ohtsii
barbarians, is a most impndent assumption.
" The great mass of the Democrats of the Sta
It those who supported Douglas in his last polit
;. cal contest are for the Union Of all the peoF
y Just as they are for Union OF all the States.
> They are for the country first, last aud all &
a. time, and for making common cause with ever
y body like minded, in putting down JEFF. Day
81 and hlsreballious crew. $500 Wal INV Y
Ie The New Haven Palladium says: rN
5, learn from friend recently from Hartfor
Dr. that SaeretarV Welles has been Of late