Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-07-12

lI0I11S.
lfthe Missouri disunionists would only throw
down their arms they wouldn't have to throw
put their legs as they do.-L0u. Jour
The editor Of the Charleston Mercury COM
plains that his water pipe has been cut Pity |
i hadn't been his wnd-pipe.
The Democratic State Central COMMITTEES
have called a straight out party Convention TO
meet at Columbus and nominate party ticket
on the 7th Of August.
The Louisville Courier states on the authori-
ty nf private letter, that Louisiana has sent
twenty -one thousand men into Virginia.
The following are the names Of the States in
which elections will be held during the first
week in August: Tennessee, Thursday, August
l;-North Carolina Thursday, Augdst /; Ken
lucky, Monday August 5; Missouri, Monday,
August 8; Texas, August 5.
Edward Clark, the Secession Governor of
Texas, has issued proclamation. in which ne
says: "ro pay any debts now owing by him TO
a citizen Of either of the States or Territories
now at war with the ConfedPrated States of
America, is treason
Mecca, the great Headquarters of Oildom in
Ohio, IL is said Is almost deserted. There is
nothing left of it but few holes, and hero and
there grease spot Not one well out OF doz-
- %
New York State now has forty three regiments
in service, distributed as follows: Washington,
90; Virginia, 8; Fortress Monroe, 9; Annapolis
l; Annapolis Junction l; Baltimore, 2.
EAroS's GuN.-Tests made of Prof Eaton's
rihed cannon at an angle of five degrees show
range of 2l45 yards; 65 yards more than the
Armstrong gun. Every ball, after proper
sight was obtained, hit target IL feet square,
at the distance of 1000 yards. 1t is said to be
the best shooting on record
A detachment of the I'd Iowa Regiment ar
rived at Quincy on the Sd, with fifteen Seces-
sonist prisoners captured at st. Joseph, two OF
whom were State Senators, some Others editors,
and all of them prominent men,
Boy, running into drug store with dipper
| in his hand-"Doctor mother sent me down to
the shottcary-pop quicker'n blazes, coz bulbs
sick as the dickens with the picken chox, and
she wants thimble full of golly polite in this
dipper, cause we hain't bot no gottle and the
cint pups got bine Writers in it.
Brigadier- General E. w. Pierce, the hero of
| Big Bethel, will return to Freetown about the
! 18th instant. He was appointed to serve out
| the unexpired portion of the commission OF
Gen. Butler, which was three months service.
1t is not likely that the State will again send
him to the feld.-Boston Courier
NEw KIND OF FuGIrIvEs FROM SERvIcE.-The
Cincinnati Commercial says: "The active army
impressment which is going on to recruit the
rebel forces in Virginia, is creating new kind
| fugitives from service. They are white men
and slaveholdersl Thus does the everlasting
whirlgig of time bring about its revenges.
A ray of light reaches us from Texas. We
had supposed the Union sentiment had long
since been crushed out in that faithless State
but we now learn that the loyal men are moi
L xpVNg
the State threatens to follow the example o.
! Western Virginia and set up a government o
its own. Similar reports reach us from Nortf
Carolina.-Atbdry Jour
THE ENGLISH TuRF-At the June Cup Day
the ROYAL Ascot Plate of 200 sovereigns wa,
won by Mr. Ten Broecks Optimist, beating five
/ nags Mr.. Ten Broeck's Satellite, won plate
of 100 sovereigns at the same races. Optimis
beat Lady Ripon by two lengths, and Satellite
beat Gallus the same distance.
Thomas H. Clay, eldest son of Henry Clay
has written letter, in which he says that thu
} adoption of position of neutrality was mat
ter Of necessity in Kentucky. The State coulC
not have been preserved in the Union by any
other mode
ENFIELD RIFLEs.-It is stated on authority b,
one of the members of the Military Board tina
they have 10000 stand of Enfield rifles AM
rifled muskets now on hand, having been i'm
ported and that the regiments that have left her
with United States muskets will be supplie
with them. This accounts for the promise
which have been given to regiments, with re
gard to supplying them with Enfield arms.--N
Y. World,
James Redpath's paper gives the whereabout
of the five of John Browns men who escape
from Harper's Ferry. Owen Brown is in North
en Ohio The report that he had lost his han
in firing salute is incorrect. Tidd was in Ne'
York a few days ago; Merriam is in Haytk-
Coppic has joined one of the Iowa Militar
companies. Anderson, the only survivor of tn
negroes, is in Canada preparing to emigrate
AfricF.
Secretary Chase is continually applied to fo
permission for coal oil, drugs, bacon and com
modities of one sort or another, to pass into tn
insurrectionary States A uniform policy
pursued in reference to all such applications
ahc Secretary, in letter to citizens of Paducal
Kentucky, stated the unvarying policy of tn
department toward those States. "Let com
merce follow the flag" was his terse reply t
citizens of that town who complained ofres
tions upon their trade.
Probably the best office in the United State
about this time is that held by Auditor Dubois
of Illinois. Presuming that the banks in tn
State are wound up by the process of deliver
ing the bonds to the holders of the notes, h
will be entitled to not less than $60,O00 in fees
If the same banks are wound up by publ
sale of the bonds in New York, he will be enti
tied to no less than $4,000
4 The Louisville Democrat says: "We have re
ceved several letters from Georgia about ou
daily and weekly papers. They all express a
anxious wish for the reconstruction of the Union
We would gladly publish extracts from thes
letters, were it not that by doing SO we NIGH
prejudice our friends: but we feel assured q
this, that let the question be fairly put, and til
Empire State of the South will vote for a re
construction.
Col Butler, the brother Of the General. state
tSat there are about six hundred contraband ne
Rroes in the service of the Government at OIL
Point and vicinity. They are found TO b
highly useful as laborers as well as spies. TIL
prospect Of becoming free renders them equal
not superior, to white men in digging trenche
and in other severe labor; while their knOwl
! edge of the eountry-isnd aud water-as wei
as Of the people who inhahit it, renders them in
valuable as guides.
ABOUT LEARNING TO SRooT.-A Marylande
asserts that twenty years experience and Obser
vation have taught him that any person MAJ
become good shot by observing the following
directions: Allow the rifle to hang in TIE hand