Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-04-12


cause he wasa Republican.
Thus far the revenues have reached within
thousand dollars of the estimates made soor
after Mr.. Chase came into the Department.
The steamship Great Eastern is appointed tc
sail for New York on May LIST, under the com.
mand Of Capt. Carnegie, r. N.
Nearly all the bees in the South Of England
have died this year A person in the new For
est who had l40 hives, lost every bee.
AT a recent ball in Recdsburg, Wis, the price
of tickets was a bushel Of wheat The farmers
attended in round numbers
There has been heavy April storm at the
East. On Monday foot of snow fell in New
Hampshire and Massachusetts,, and in Central
New York three or four inches.
An attempt is made IN the California Legisla-
ture to set aside the election of McDougal as
U. S. Senator on the ground of error in the
Clerks tally.
The rumors in relation to the Southern forts
continue to be contradictory, but all have war
like tone. Great activity exists among the
Government troops and war ships.
The town elections in Queens county, New
York, in several instances show Republican
gains. In Jamaica the Republican candidate
for collector was elected by majority of twelve.
Postmaster General Blair has a letter from
Governor Houston of Texas, urging the Admin
istration to stand by the Union, as the best
means of preserving it.
PRINTKRs.-T Vice President of the United
States, the late Postmaster General, the present
Secretary of the Interior, and the present Sec
retary of War, were all printers.
| have known good old man, Who when he
heard of any one that had committed a no
torious offense, was wont to say within him
sell, Gle fell to-day, 50 may Tomorrow. -
Bernard
Authentic assurances have been given to the
Government at Washington that the Home Gov
ernment of Spain..has not authorized the move
ment against st. Domingo, which was the act
alone Of the Governor General of Cuba.
A despatch to the New York Commercial
says the Secretary of the Interior has directed
that no more land warrants be issued from the
Pension offices to the citizens of the seeded
States.
The U. S. Government, it is said, have pur-
chased the steamers Atlantic and Pacific, and
intend converting them into men of war. The
Vanderbilt steamer Illinois has also been hired
for Government use.
A glorious answer was made by Mr. Sumner
when Mr.. Crittenden asked him if he had any
plan TO meet the present condition of the coun.
try. "Yes" says Sumner, "the Constitution as
administered by Washington.
A dispatch from the South states that an off.
Ger of the United States Army is in New Or.
leans, it is suspected as a spy, but the dispatch
says, the War Department of the Southern Con
federacy has sleepless eye on him. He is sup
posed to be a Pennsylvania.
1t was reported at Norfolk that a disturbance
had broken out among the worltmen there
and that they had raised the rebel flag, anC
dared the United States soldiers to take it down
The affair is probably greatly exaggerated by
these reports.
The telegraphic report from Augusta, Ga
would indicate some trepidation at the Soutl
ON account of the signs Of activity on the par
of the Administration, as touching treason anC
rebellion. They do not credit the reports fo
the reason that they do not want to credit them
Two hundred thousand cords of pine Woo
are annually brought to the New York market
of which 10000 cords are used by kindhnl
wood companies. In the transportation of thi.
material about 100 schOoners are employed. o
this enormous amount of pine wood, Virginit
| furnishes seven-eights, and New Jersey the re
| mainder.
1t is well understood at Washington that thu
main reason why the rebel shareholders press 81
urgently for the withdrawal of the garrison
| from Sumter is that the evacuation of that for
will enable them to send to Pensacola the force
now kept at Charleston. To evacuate Sumter
therefore, is to increase by several thousand mel
the means at the disposal of the rebels for tn,
attack on Fort Pickens.
The Memphis Appeal complains that that cit,
is overrun with swindlers, burglars and garro
ters who pursue their hellsh occupation with
out hindrance. They doubtless got their Gu
from the lawless .secessionists who seized til
United States property in the South, and rifle
the Mint at n 0@leans If Southern Statesmen
take to stealing and robbng, the vagabonds q
| hat hn bnrOn wifi in fbair urno
imitation of superors
The Detroit Tribune tells story for the au
thenticity of which it vouches: Twenty -fou
years ago a woman in ST. Louis had her infan
boy stolen from its cradle A young man, t
whom she had frequently told her loss, on NOV
ing further west, found a boy with an old trap
whom he suspected might be the abducte,
child. After long endeavoring to get at the sc
cret, the trapper not long ago confessed that h
had stolen the child, now young man, having
lost his own infant shortly before the theft. Tn
mother was sought for, and has just been fount
in Buffalo, New York.
Some queer stories are told of sharp practic
in connection with the recent throwing out O
Illinois banks. A Chicago banker, who was il
the secret, on Saturday morning gave som
sixty thousand dollars to a grain speculate
with which to "operate" He bought wheat t
the amount and told the sellers to call at hi
OliCS lOT luelr pd1S WHERE he detained tneIn O
various excuses until after bank hours and the
paid them in interior Illinois banks. On Mon
day morning the currency was "shut down
on leaving the wheat sellers out from fifteen
twenty cents on the dollar
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledge
writing on board the United States steame
Wyandotte, off Pensacola, makes a renarkabl
statement. He says: "Lieut. Slemmer, in com
mand of Fort Pickens has arrested eight slave
during the past week. The slaves were maxim
their way to the Fort to aid Lieut.. Slemmel
They report that they were told that there wa
going to be war, and they must fight The
preferred fighting under the stars and stripes
They report one hundred and fifty moro comm
to join them at Pickens. Captain Bergman,
our ship took them on board, and delivered tn
fugitives to the Marshal at Pensacola, to be SCI
to their masters.
!. Governor Moore of Alabama it is stated wi
shortly tender to President Davis of the Con
federate State 1000 men armed and equipped.
The Washington correspondent of th
Cincinnati T0zette saws.