Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-02-01
News Items. Gee.

Secesslonists that there are no forts in the
state Tor them to attack TO try their hand on
the Newport barracks.
The Mobile AdUertisor of the 18th says that
Judge Jones of the United States District
Court yesterday afternoon announced from the
windows of the Court Room in the Custom
House building, that the United State Court for
the Southern District Of Alabama was Ap-
JoURNED FoREvERp"
A Democratic editor tried for libel, got off by |
proving he was so notorious a liar that nobody |
believed anything he said, and therefore no in |
jury was done to the plaintiff.
The Cotton State Confederacy would at least |
be always free from national debt, for it would |
not have foreign credit to negotiate loan.
The Louisville Journal says that The Charles !
ton Mercury promises the leading revolutionists
that they viii have the qualification hereafter of
reading history of their deeds All yes, it
may perhaps be said of them in the words of AL |
exander Smith;
They'll sit pale ghosts upon the Stygean shore
And read their acts by the red light Of hell"
The Grand Jury in New York are busy in ex-
amining persons whose conduct has looked to-
wards secession. They will allow no traitors in
the camp if they can find them out. There is
much trepidation, in consequence, existing in
the city.
The Charleston Mrcury SAYS that aSouth Car
olina guns are all loaded" Yes, and she her
self is loaded-loaded down with debt When
will she be discharged?
Beautiful is the love, and sweet the kiss of
sister; but when you haven't sister handy try
} a cousin-or any other lady, so she is young and
pretty-tisn't much difference.
f The Louisville Journal says aWe don't believe
a brave man could fight well with stolen guns
loaded with stolen powder and ball"
The House has finally voted an appropriation
of 100000 to equip regiment in Texas We
trust the bill win be "choked" in the Senate as
we are opposed to the Government equiping men
TO fight against the stars and stripes as we be-
lieve will be the result in this case if they get
the money.
Mr.. Bigler's compromise speech, which Mr.
Cameron indorsed, had one auditor on the Dem
ocratic side of the Senate, and only five Repub-
licans on the other, and they were engaged in
writing and the galleries were nearly empty.
The New York Tribune says: "Fort Hamilton
and Bedloe's Island, hitherto deserted, have been
garrsoned, 30 men from Plattsburg having
been thrown into the former last night. The
only fort in the harbor now unprotected is Fort
Schuyler, at Throgg's neck"
The number of fires in the United States in
1860, at which the loss was $4,000 and upward
was 29S and the aggregate loss 900.
a special dispatch from Pensacola to the
Montgomery Advertiser on the 10th inst states
that forty marines had been sent North on the
United States steamer Wyandot as prisoners (?)
The SOuthernors threaten to confscate Sena-
ator Douglas plantation and negroes at the
South, unless he keeps still at Washington or
stands by them in their secession movements.
This explains his position against coercion.
The post-office at Warren, Trumbull county,
Ohio, was entered one night last week and rob-
bed of $500 in specie. No clue of the robber
has yet been obtained.
| n,ir;nO hn ,oot ,yo,r f,,,r o,to,;oJ, f.,~
comets were discovered. The number of aste-
RODS now discovered is sixty-two
The Fall River .Iourna! states that the long
5 pending boundary dispute between Rhode Is
4 land and Massachusetts has been settled by the
, acceptance of conventional line adopted by
the Rhode Island Assembly, v hich was confirm
ed on Thursday, by the Massachusetts, Council,
= and approved by Gov Banks.
+ An old author quantity remarks: "Avoid ar
J. gument with ladies. In spinning yarns among
il silks and satins man is sure to be wOrsted and
!, twisted. And when man is worsted and twist
y ed he may consider himself wound up.
j A catalogue of stars has been commenced at
G the Observatory in Cambridge, Mass. 1t will
n require five hundred years to complete it. Do
they pay in advance for counting? If so, we
should like the job. We hope they will have a
: good time counting the last thousand.--ProVi-
? dcnce journal.
If pants for the water brook-as the wild horse
y just captured pants to career once more in upfet-
y tered freedom DER his native plains--as the
l. Gagged lion pants to roam again, the monarch O
o the desert and the iungle-so have the Missis
n sippians painted to be free. Fellow citizens
N fellow Missssppians, the burning desire o
" your hearts snow realized-Y OU AREFREEl'
To which the Louisville JournG! replies: "Ol
yes, dear Misslssipplans, ye are free from bonds
as free as ye were when ye repudiated those o
J the Union Bank"
10 A correspondent calls attention to the follow
y ing words in Jackson's Proclamation to Soutl
Carolina in 1888, as expressing the determination
!, OF the people of the Union to-day: "My breth
p" ren, the disturbers of the Union you may be, bu
y its destroyers never"
g How brightly do little joys beam upon a sou
1t which stands on ground darkened by cloud
n of sorrow So do stars come forth from tn
- empty sky, when we look up to them from
VI deep we'll
'e The young Mems Republican Union of Ney
OF York city have passed resolutions recommend
Id ing the appointment of Oassius NJ Clay as Sc
70 cretary of War; by Mr.. Lincoln.
"a The white population of the seven Gulf State
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida. Alabama Lou
Ut isana, Mississippi and Texas, was by the censr
OF of 1850, ttOo millions and hdsf The seven 81
IL cession States being just aboutequal to the Sta
nc of Ohio
ma No man is perfect. The ideal man is the who
- Christian brotherhood. That alone presen
y Gods idea in the creation of man.
to A striking illustration of the brutality tn
th distinguishes the conduct of Southernors :
be wards Northeners has Just come to light
- Springfield, ILL., A box shipped from Charlie
"s ton, s. O., and directed to Mrs. Lincoln, W
m received there few days ago. On being ope
ea ed it was found to contain picture represen
II ing Mr.. Lincoln with rope around his nee
his feet manacled, and his back adorned with
nu coat of tar and feathers.
ss- The editor Of the Madison Ind) Bann
We says he has seen letter from young man,
ch resident Of that city, who had gone South on
-o trading boat stating that his boat was overhau
ed at Bolivar, Miss, by the Disunionists, al
'e- the crew arrested, and after hearing before
er- magistrate, the Disunionists finding nOthii
ne against them, they were permitted to depart.
The latter reports, also, that the entire popul
ton of that section are under strict drill and tn
every second man the writer meets is aan officer
eh The Mobile Register says; at is notewortl
re- fact that in the Episcopal churches of this ci
on Sunday last, the usual prayer for "the Pro
dent Of the United States and all others in a
ith thority," was changed so as to harmonize wi
,at the altered political relations of the State Il
~, change consisted in limiting the prayer simp
:" to thy servants in authority" The usual pra
ne er for Congress, when in session, was also a
lis propriately omitted.
to The New York Post says: "Since the decid